SGA - The Chosen, by Sonny Whitelaw & Elizabeth Christensen
Time line: After The Storm/The Eye.
This book starts with the description of a scene we know from the series: Major John Sheppard has to make a big decision: Either he continues running away from his past, on Earth, or he does it in the Pegasus Galaxy. He flips a coin, and fate says it wants him to stay on Earth. Then he flips it again.
F.A.R.T.-1, or was it S.H.I.T.-1, goes on a mission to Dalera, a planet that seems to have a defense system against Wraith attacks in place. Naturally, team Sheppard needs to check it out. At first, there's a fake alarm being sound, announcing a Wraith attack that's not really happening (the defense system was spooked by the technology the Lanteans brought with them, I think). But of course, since it's a Wraith book, and stuff can go, and therefore will go, quite wrong in this society that exists out of a lot of very poor people, merchants, fishers, and "The Chosen", who remain locked up in their Enclave, you just know it will go wrong.
How? Simple. The Wraith are really attacking after all.
The problem? Not enough of "The Chosen", people with the Ancient Gene from Dalera, remain behind to transport the people of Dalera to the Citadel, a sort of stronghold that should protect them from the attacks.
The team offers to go back to Atlantis and get the ATA-treatment for some people, so there'll be enough persons to help protect everybody from the Wraith, but of course the society itself breaks at that moment. Betrayals happen, people with the Gene die by the hands of other people, who are sick and tired of their system, and in the middle is our team.
After getting away from those rebels, and after finding out that there's a lot of "Genes" in the population of Dalera, they set up some plans to rescue the villagers from the Wraith, face death several times, get miraculously good breaks - just like on the show! - and after getting the people to stop killing each other, and getting rid of the Wraith (which lasts a very large portion of the book), they are told that they aren't really welcome on Dalera any more, since their safety can't be secured, even though they saved the day.
Dalera goes back to its usual business, to their ridiculous faith in Dalera, and will probably have learned nothing from the entire ordeal. Or so Atlantis believes.
Conclusion: Very battle heavy book, and very much worth buying, if you like Stargate Atlantis. The reason why the Wraith were attacking was a very cool one, but I'm not going to mention that in here. Just read the book for yourself! ^^
This book starts with the description of a scene we know from the series: Major John Sheppard has to make a big decision: Either he continues running away from his past, on Earth, or he does it in the Pegasus Galaxy. He flips a coin, and fate says it wants him to stay on Earth. Then he flips it again.
F.A.R.T.-1, or was it S.H.I.T.-1, goes on a mission to Dalera, a planet that seems to have a defense system against Wraith attacks in place. Naturally, team Sheppard needs to check it out. At first, there's a fake alarm being sound, announcing a Wraith attack that's not really happening (the defense system was spooked by the technology the Lanteans brought with them, I think). But of course, since it's a Wraith book, and stuff can go, and therefore will go, quite wrong in this society that exists out of a lot of very poor people, merchants, fishers, and "The Chosen", who remain locked up in their Enclave, you just know it will go wrong.
How? Simple. The Wraith are really attacking after all.
The problem? Not enough of "The Chosen", people with the Ancient Gene from Dalera, remain behind to transport the people of Dalera to the Citadel, a sort of stronghold that should protect them from the attacks.
The team offers to go back to Atlantis and get the ATA-treatment for some people, so there'll be enough persons to help protect everybody from the Wraith, but of course the society itself breaks at that moment. Betrayals happen, people with the Gene die by the hands of other people, who are sick and tired of their system, and in the middle is our team.
After getting away from those rebels, and after finding out that there's a lot of "Genes" in the population of Dalera, they set up some plans to rescue the villagers from the Wraith, face death several times, get miraculously good breaks - just like on the show! - and after getting the people to stop killing each other, and getting rid of the Wraith (which lasts a very large portion of the book), they are told that they aren't really welcome on Dalera any more, since their safety can't be secured, even though they saved the day.
Dalera goes back to its usual business, to their ridiculous faith in Dalera, and will probably have learned nothing from the entire ordeal. Or so Atlantis believes.
Conclusion: Very battle heavy book, and very much worth buying, if you like Stargate Atlantis. The reason why the Wraith were attacking was a very cool one, but I'm not going to mention that in here. Just read the book for yourself! ^^