For quite some time now, I've been willing to find a way to bring the Fremen and the Tok'ra to a common ground, and have a part of the Stargate mytho affecting Dune.
Here is it:
A group of a thousand Tok'ra, led by Selmak, have been fleeing Apophis' forces with a fleet of a hundred tel'taks (cargo ships), transporting large quantities of weapon grade naqahdah, and were accompagnated by sixty (armored) troop transports (half of them transporting as much WG naqahdah as they could, the other either transporting most of the Tok'ra and all their equipment), and by fifty al'keshes (bombers), all of them tugging four goa'uld containers each (1, 2), all filled with weapon grade naqahdah as well.
They also had a cloakable ha'tak, transporting thirty death gliders, plenty of WG naqahdah and two hundred more Tok'ra.
They jumped into hyperspace near some mysterious sun, but rushed into a vortex of conveniently unstable quadriphased plot energy, and jumped out in an alternate reality, hundreds of centuries in the future, in orbit of Arrakis.
All of the ships were there, safe the ha'tak.
The Tok'ra immediately scanned the surface and the nearby space to know where they were, but locate themselves. Noticing human activity and ships on the surface of the planet, they immediately cloaked the whole fleet, and decided to fly towards the surface of the barren world, to settle in a random chain of mountains, avoiding the hazardous sand deserts stretching over the horizon.
They started growing tunnels in the rock, until one of them opened straight inside a network of very old tunnels.
Reacting quick to this unnatural discovery, Selmak sent a dozen armed Tok'ra to check out the surrounding zone.
The first contact between the Tok'ra and Fremen couldn't have started worst than that. All the Tok'ra were attacked by surprise by extremely skilled warriors, who defeated them with hand combat techniques. They were captured, heavily injuried, and brought before the local figure, a Naib as they said, named Stilgar.
They were told that they were in the secret Sietch of Tabr, were only Fremen were allowed to move and breathe.
However, their lives were spared as the Fremen were puzzled about the origins and motives of those strange people. Seeing the Tok'ra heal on their own baffled them even more.
Stilgar did't know what to do right then, while Selmak decide to send a recon squad.
The captured Tok'ra managed to convince the Naib to listen, and organized an encounter with their wise leader, Selmak. Stilgar was feeling unconfortable, but finally accepted to move. His men opened the way to the Tok'ra tunnels, just in time as they met the other Tok'ra coming for rescue, with heavier equipment.
Months later...
Despite strikingly disagreeing on theological concepts, both sides helped out each other.
Some of the Fremen thought one of those visitors could be the foretold voice from out there. Others believed those men were demons of some sort, powerful and dangerous if you dared provoke them, but honorable and kind if you treated them with respect. Stilgar and Selmak learned to trust each other, and both races have quickly became allies.
The Tok'ra fleet was placed inside several large caverns created with the crystals, in the vicinity of the sietch Tabr. The Tok'ra accepted to learn the Fremen ways, be trained and housed by them, and vowed to protect the Fremen as best as they could. However, they still were extremely reluctant to share their technology, but this never was a problem as the Fremen were largely unwilling to use those machines either.
But things changed with time, and the Fremen accepted to employ some of the most basic tech, like communicators, tok'ra crystals, memory devices and even energy weapons.
Although the Tok'ra had no symbiote queen, they had brought with them over a hundred of healthy mature symbiotes, waiting in stasis jars.
All of them were transfered into willing Fremen hosts. However, the Fremen refused the Naib status to any host, to be sure to keep control over their culture's dignitaries.
Those "hybrids" became the voice of reason between both parties.
Over time, the Tok'ra realized that the spice slightly increased the bond between themselves and their hosts, giving them the ability to hasten their own reactions with even more efficiency.
They also became extremely skilled in the Weirding Ways, so each Tok'ra got a crysknife.
The Tok'ra's exceptionnal physical strenght, stamina, ability to withstand the harsh environment of a desert planet and enter a deep meditation state by lowering their host's metabolism, had them become powerful warriors and respected allies of the Fremen.
Then one day, immense ships entered the system, spilling fleets of smaller spacecrafts, which were headed for Arrakeen.
The Fremen were told that the Atreïdes arrived, replcaing the hated Harkonnen, and advised the Tok'ra that there may be a way for them to leave this planet if they wanted to.
The Tok'ra definitely considered this possibility, and planned to send emissaries.
But time played against them, and preemptively, a menacing strike force flying under the banner of the Harkonnen House moved in, assaulting the city of Arrakeen.
Contrary to what the prophecies suggested, no Atreïde survived the insidious attack. Leto's family was completely destroyed, as well as all of his allies.
Three years after the attack...
The Harkonnens are governing Dune, brutalizing the local populace more than ever, and killing as much Fremen as they can, even if Fremen generally remain victorious in most small scale conflicts.
The Fremen keep attacking the spice harvesters, much to the wrath of the Baron.
The frequency of battles has increased, and the Baron has became relentlessly concerned about the destruction of the Fremen lice.
Stilgar knows this can't last forever, as one day or another, the Baron will launch a full scale attack over all of Dune, and will eventually be helped by the Emperor himself, considering the importance of.
The Tok'ra offered the Fremen a chance to free Dune from the Harkonnen grasp two years back, and Stilgar refused to engage his people into a full and frontal war against the Harkonnen House, but the fatal fate became more and more obvious to him.
Spies have revealed that the Baron explicitely asked Shaddam IV, the Padishah Emperor of the Imperium, to dispatch ten legions (3,000,000 soldiers) to Dune, with enough aerial support for recon mission, aerial bombardment and fast troop deployment. That is, all of which is necessary to deploy so many soldier at once, and over a hundred small and armed flying vessels.
The future is in motion, and the inevitable is about to come.
Today, the Fremen and the Tok'ra will fight together, and destroy the spoilers of Arrakis, turn their bones to dust, spill their blood over the sand of this barren land, and bury their skulls deep under the impassible dunes of this world.
Shaddam IV is in Arrakeen, supervising the assault with the help of the Baron, sending the legions of Sardaukars into the deepest lairs of those wretched Fremen, to annihilate them once for all.
Can the Fremen and the Tok'ra, using all of their ressources, technology and warriors, defeat the Emperor's legions and the Harkonnen troops?
If this alliance survives, if Dune is freed and the Emperor destroyed, what could occur then regarding the balance of the Imperium?
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The lost ha'tak will arrive through the same space distorsion three months after this battle.
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List of equipment brought by the thousand Tok'ra, in addition to what the Fremen use by default:
100 Tok'ra possess kara'keshes (ribbon devices, also simply known as hand devices).
400 other Tok'ra possess the za'tarc weapon (another pic, this weapon fires red beams and can self destruct) and an ash'rak ring (tortures and can kill with longer use).
All of them possess at least one zat and a staff weapon each, and enough shock grenades so each Tok'ra could have two.
Plus there's 100 heavier portable cannons.
They possess tens of dozens of taks.
By default, the Tok'ra have one unit of each Tok'ra made device they were shown possessing since their introduction, up to the end of season four.
However, they have large amounts of communication spheres (small portable ones and the long range ones), memory devices, brainwashing devices, tunnel crystals (enough to circle an Earth-like planet twice), vo'cuums, datapads, communicators, bio-sensors, holographics projectors and za'tarc detectors.
However, for example, they do not own atoniek armbands, since they were alien tech.
They have a dozen of healing rings and twice this number of those bigger healing devices, half a dozen of goa'uld bombs inside arks. They can produce more if needed.
They also own ten cubic forcefields.
They have no sarcophageus.
The Tok'ra also brought with them twenty stargates (five of them equipped with activable forcefields), with their associated DHDs, all reprogrammable, and two dozens of platform rings and of course transport ring remotes, 20 of them.
Finally, the Tok'ra can install a maximum of fifty cannon towers.
The Fremen have access to this tech if necessary.
Sidenote: Blue in blue eyes will turn green when Tok'ra will do their glowing eyes thing.
