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This article is about the novel. For other uses, see Stargate: Rebellion (disambiguation).
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Stargate: Rebellion is a novel by Bill McCay. It is the first in a series of novels by the same author, continuing the story of the original film. The novel was also adapted into a comic book mini-series, the Stargate: Rebellion trilogy by Entity Comics. The novel also shares continuity with some of the comics by that publisher.

Publishers Summary[]

Ra is dead! Long live freedom!

When the crack team of scientists and soldiers entered the Stargate, armed rebellion on a planet millions of light-years away was the last thing on their minds. Now that it's started, no one can ignore it; not commando Jack O'Neil, not renegade Egyptologist Daniel Jackson, and most of all not the newly freed people of Abydos. But both the U.S. Army and Ra's vicious successor, Hathor, have other ideas for the...

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The German cover.

Plot[]

In the wake of Ra's death, his former lieutenants jockey for power to fill the void. Thoth secretly revives Hathor, who has been in stasis for 8000 years.

On Earth, General West sends Colonel Jack O'Neil back to the planet Abydos, in order to acquire more of the Quartz-like mineral mined there. He hopes to use it to develop new technologies, which the U.S. would have a monopoly on. O'Neil takes a mining executive from the Universal Mining Consortium named Walter Draven and an engineer named Martin Preston through the StarGate. When they arrive, they are greeted by Skaara and his friends, who have mobilized into a local militia using weapons left behind by O'Neil's team. With Jackson acting as a translator, Draven negotiates with Kasuf and the elders in the city of Nagada to employ the Abydonians as miners in exchange for American Susan B. Anthony coins and 20th century conveniences.

On Tuat, Hathor consolidates her power over the other contenders for the throne. She kills Seket, the crocodile headed-god and takes control of his forces. She then meets up with Ptah, and engineer and her former husband now turned cyborg, and gains his support. She orders Ptah to rebuild a space fleet decomissioned by Ra while she slept.

The mining operation falls under command of Eugene Lockwood who overestimates the amount of ore that can be mined. He arranges for heavy construction equipment to be sent through the gate and the pyramid to be demolished and widened, which irritates Daniel and the Abydons. Over the next few weeks, Lockwood's tough business style causes tension with the Abydons, especially when he and his men start referring to them as "Abbadabbas."

O'Neil and Kawalsky and Ferreti, having no sympathy for Lockwood's management style, begin training Skaara's militia in more formal exercises, tactics, and marksmanship. In response, Lockwood contacts General West. West sends Brigadier General Francis Keogh of the U.S. Army to take take control. Keogh increases the troop security, brings in tanks and helicopters, as well as ordering Kawalsky and Feretti to stop training the militia. Skaara tells Daniel he wants to liberate other worlds in Ra's empire. Daniel says it would be hard since they don't know the coordinates.

On Tuat, Hathor turns many of her challengers against each other and swells her own forces, consolidating her power. Eventually, the last challenger is Khum the ram-headed god. She dispatches him with the use of Ra's hand device.

Under Lockwood's orders, the UMC restrict access to the mining base camp known as the "tent of rest" but when a worker dies as a result, Daniel leads the workers on a strike and refuses any further trade for food with the UMC staff. Draven returns from Earth to try to re-negotiate with Kasuf and the elders. Kasuf and Daniel ask for more control of the mining operation. Draven returns to the camp and plots to overthrow the Nagadan elders, as he had done with other third world governments. He approaches Skaara's militia, unaware that he is Kasuf's son, and offers weapons in exchange for his cooperation.  Skaara reveals his parentage and refuses by threatening with an energy lance.

On Tuat, as Hathor tests her new battleship, the followers of Sebek attempt to assassinate her. She recovers and kills the conspirators, but they manage to kill Thoth in the battle, damaging his head so he can't be revived by sarcophagus. She gathers a small force aboard the newly relaunched ship, Ra's Eye, to head to Abydos and determine Ra's fate.

Upon learning the Abydons have advanced energy weapons, General Keogh sends O'Neil to demand they surrender them. While O'Neil is meeting with them, Keogh mobilizes a force of tanks, helicopters, and infantry and leads them to take the city. As his forces arrive, Hathor's ship appears overhead.

From the ship's scanners, Hathor correctly deduces that Keogh's troops are humans from Earth who killed Ra. She destroys all the helicopters and most of the tanks, killing Keogh in the process. She takes her ship to the pyramid and lands. The vessel's bulk covers up the entrance, cutting the Earthlings off from the Stargate. She sends Horus guards to secure the gate. They kill Lockwood and Ballard. They then head through the StarGate to Earth, attacking Creek Mountain base. The mountain defenders drive them back through the gate, both sides taking heavy casualties.

O'Neil takes command of Keogh's remaining troops. He, Skaara, his militia, Daniel and Shau'ri head to the pyramid to meet up with Kawalsky, who takes command of the remaining UMC security at the pyramid. He breaks out the Stinger missiles O'Neil had insisted on bringing from Earth. His and O'Neil's forces use them to shoot down half of Hathor's udajeets.

Surprised at the enemy resistance, Hathor recalls her remaining gliders, but Kawalsky's men ambush them as the come in for landing. The crashing gliders cause damage to Hathor's ship. When the surviving udajeet pilots try to retreat inside the ship, Kawalsky and his men ambush them and block the door open. They, along with O'Neil board the ship.

Hathor, realizing her position untenable, tries to take off, but damage from the battle and the rushed construction cause power to fail. Hathor blames Ptah, and orders her remaining crew to evacuate through the matter transporter to the StarGate. She gets a glimpse of Daniel before she escapes.

With the enemy defeated, O'Neil returns to Earth and reports the successful capture of an enemy spaceship to General West.

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