2nd DEBRIEF ; ACCOUNT OF SAM'S.. ..DREAM

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"Sit down. How you feeling?"

"Thanks for asking Sir. I feel fine. I've been given the all clear by the way."

"I already know that Carter."

"Yeah I guessed you would Sir."

"You're definitely fine then?"

"Yes Sir."

"Did Daniel tell you I want you to knock off after this?"

"Yeah he did Sir."

"Okay. And you don't mind sitting through this again? Hearing about your.. ..what did you call it.. ..strange dream. Haaa.."

"Sir if you can bear to listen to it again, so can I."

"Well said Carter. How we doing Daniel?"

"Its all here Jack, in black and white. We've pulled a Report for you. Its em.. ..its surprising to say the least."

"Daniel Jackson is correct O'Neill. From Colonel Carter's descriptions of her encounter last night, we are able to relate many aspects directly to the Mayan Pyramid. And it has enlightened us to many of the features of the occupants inside."

"Well then, lets have it."

"Okay, categorically, Sam?"

"Ah, you're not bringing in Professor Heslop? Hes the big brain on that part of the world, where the first Skull was found."

"Actually no Sir. Not on my dream if you don't mind. Groom Lake Sir."

"Oh, not playing nice Carter?"

"Not playing at all Sir."

"How about em.. ..whats her name, the em.."

"O'Neill she is called Doctor Grange."

"Yah. Well Grange is not on the range. Is she not coming?"

"Not invited Sir."

"Carter? ..That's fine."

"Thank you Sir."

"Okay just before we go into this, hows Doctor Lee doing with the Golden Skull?"

"Yeah, hes em, shaking and stirring Sir. Hes working with Zvi Equalsee on that one. The results, X-rays etc, will be in this afternoon."

"Anything to report now?"

"Um, not quite yet Sir."

"Do you think they'll get it fired up?"

"O'Neill, we have a theory about the operation of the Crystal Skulls."

"Yeah we do Sir. I was actually going to save that one for later.. ..err.."

"Now Carter!"

"Sir. We have a theory and there is a way we can test that theory."

"Theory and way Carter?"

"Yes Sir. The theory is that in order to make the Skull operate there has to be some, as yet unknown, environmental factor present in the immediate surrounds. Some condition or element that possibly, I don't know how, reacts with the properties, the as yet undetermined properties, of the Skull. And em, we get a catalytic up link. Basically its as simple as that."

"Voila. Acceptable theory. Proof?"

"Yeah Jack, okay, it's a bit radical."

"More radical than the contents of Cart.. ..never mind, go on."

"Okay, my em.. ..Nick, he found the Skull in Cuello. It's a dig site in Belize. Reported to be imbued with supernatural em, ha, don't shake your head. Its em, anyway theres some idea that the whole area has supernatural.. ..whatever. If we were to go to Belize, or if someone was to go to Belize and dig amongst the ruins, collect samples, we could possibly build in scenarios of what conditions where like thirty years ago. We could test the site. Check the conditions, check the chemistry em, yada yada."

"That does stand to reason because theres definitely some conditions going on in the pyramid and the Skull in there works. We've never been able to get Nick's Skull to work, so you're saying that we need something, some condition to spark it off, get it powered up and running?"

"In a nutshell Jack."

"And you think we might be able to find whatever it is we're looking for in the ruins of the pyramid your grandfather found the Ballard Skull in?"

"Yeah that's it Jack. I mean it did work in there so whatevers in there that made the Skull work, it could very well still be there."

"And who do you suggest we send because I can't release any of you, not now, not in this climate."

"Doctor Lee O'Neill."

"Not so sure about that Teal'c, Sir. Perhaps not a good part of the world to send him to."

"Indeed Colonel Carter, I did not consider he may be reluctant to return."

"Have you spoken to him Teal'c?"

"No O'Neill, not regarding an expedition to a ruined pyramid in Middle America."

"You're right Carter. Probably not the best place to send him back to. But we do need to get that thing fired up. I wanna be on top of all this before our flying feathered friends decide to come a callin'.

Carter, rally SGs 6 and 15. Put them on it, let me know. And have Lee and Equalsee here at sixteen hundred, full Skullduggery Report."

"Yes Sir. Sir, Major Pierce's Team are on stand down until tomorrow."

"They'll be reporting in then just in time to fly out, a.m. tomorrow. Lets have them there and back, double quick time Carter please."

"On it Sir."

"Okay now kids, come on. Dream on?"

"Sir Daniel, Teal'c and I have picked apart my.. ..okay, piece by piece. In the Report we've listed a number of things we think are directly related to our current situation. It seems that most of the points mentioned go quite a way to enhancing our Fact Finding results."

"The first thing Jack, or should I say, one eyed Jack, ha, is more an observation. We can't necessarily find relevance except to say it firmly ties you to the Canopic g_d Cauac."

"Should I be worried?"

"Don't think so Sir. After all it was just a.. ..dream."

"Um."

"Jack, Cauac, the Canopic g_d Cauac, was wearing our insignia, space-time accord, on his flying jacket. Sam's certain it was exactly the same as the patch we wear. It had the open triangle, specifying the three vectors of our space dimension, and situated on top was the added dimension, the unbroken continuous circle, the infinite measurement, loop of time, which represents our world."

"Um, the pyramid and the sun, he works for us."

"He did appear to be toiling quite effectively to relay information to us O'Neill."

"Um."

"Sir, its about the Redderain system."

"Whats that Carter?"

"Sir was there a particular reason you said the Giants home world could be located in the Redderain system."

"Carter I know I was in your dream and all, but in spirit only, trust me theres no accounting for what I might have said or done last night."

"Sir I'm not talking about my dream. I'm talking about the message you left with Doctor Grange. You said the Giant's home world might be in the Redderain system. Sir we've already begun a spectragraphical sweep of the system."

"You're kidding me right? Carter I don't know any red rain system. I said it may be best to treat it as a separate red errant. Look for a red errant galaxy."

"Sir that's what you said in my dream."

"What! Carter what you talking about. You just said.. ..never mind."

"Yes Sir. Actually everythings being to make a whole lot of sense."

"Indeed Colonel Carter it is."

"Really?"

"Oh yes Sir, big really. It's a red shifting. Blue dandy.. ..blue shift.. ..red shift.. a double red shift.. ..a double Doppler.. ..it's a galaxy, twice as far away, it's a field galaxy, hes looking in the wrong field, it's a field galaxy."

"You've lost me Sam."

"Don't worry Daniel you're not lost, you're with me."

"Sir just to finish on this point until we do a more in depth search. These Canopic g_ds, you lot, we're squabbling about not having bearings, looking in the wrong field. Yous were saying I'm not ready, red, blue Dandy, Sir you yourself was wearing a red eye patch when you were looking through the telescope."

"You've figured something out haven't you Sam?"

"Oh yeah, bearings Daniel. From what you've just said now Sir I think what we should be looking for is an errant spiral extra-galactic nebula."

"A cloud?"

"No Daniel, it's the old name for galaxy."

"Go on Carter."

"Sir, a spiral field galaxy at that. A field galaxy is one that does not form part of a group of galaxies. Its.."

"Carter I know what it is, after all, I am the one with the big telescope."

"General, now, considering the red spin theme that was put on my dream, I'm going to take the next logical conclusion and say we're searching for a Redding, meaning a Redding galaxy. One further away from us. A lot further. And considering what you said Sir, what Cauac said, about supper duppler double do, then taking into account a double Doppler shift effect, I'd say this galaxy, the Giant's galaxy, is definitely not part of our galactic cluster."

"A field galaxy outside of our super system Colonel Carter?"

"Yep, yes Teal'c, very extra-galactic. In which case we're talking about Eight Chevron Gate travel. Oh and by the way, Hubble's law specified that the amount of a galaxy's Redshift indicates how fast its moving away from us."

"Sam, you said the telescope on Jack's house looked like the Hubble telescope."

"Ouch, out of towners. Do you believe any of this Carter."

"I do Sir. Very red and very shifty."

"As do I O'Neill."

"Don't you Jack?"

"Do you?"

"We've still got a lot of research to do, but Kan sounds like a good guy."

"He was Daniel, really friendly, all of you were. Sir?"

"I'll let you know after I've read the full Report Carter. So this field galaxy, do you think that accounts for them breathing a different atmosphere to us?"

"I believe so Sir, yes."

"Hold on a minute Sam, the Asgard originally come from a different Galaxy system as well. But they breathe in the same mixture as we do."

"They do Daniel but they come from the same.. ..basically we breathe the same air and although they weren't located in our galactic local group their galaxy did form part of our supercluster."

"Ah okay, got ya."

"From your description Colonel Carter it appears the Giant's come from a galaxy very far from here. A lot further than our known systems?"

"Very far a field, very, I would say Teal'c.. ..I just want to say I still can't quite get over it. It was so incredibly real. Surreal. I keep getting flash backs."

"But you're all right though aren't you Carter?"

"Oh yes Sir, thank you. Its just that its all so.. ..so.."

"Overwhelming Carter?"

"Yes General, very."

"Understandable Colonel."

"Sam its not everyday we get a visit from the up yonder."

"It is indeed an exceptionally rare privilege Colonel Carter."

"I think it might feel a little like that Teal'c, may be."

"Yes."

"While we're talking about red, its just occurred to me, Sam you described in your dream Jack referring to the red dawn as a warning. Right now okay, with the dawn comes the rising of the morning star, see!"

"See and hear Daniel, clocks a ticking."

"Right, well hows this, the name the Giant took as Teal'c mentioned earlier, Quetezalcoatl, means Feathered Snake."

"Ooh don't forget the flying bit Daniel. Nuts."

"Right, the thing is this g_d, Quetezalcoatl, has many avatars, a list of which will be included in the Fact Finding Mission Report, the point here is that Morning Star, Venus, is one of those avatars. Now if Jack, Cauac was warning of a red dawn, that's a warning of the rising of the Morning Star."

"Quetezalcoatl, the Giant?"

"Indeed O'Neill. You, your avatar has now warned us against the rising Giant."

"Nuts. And worrying, deeply worrying."

"I agree Sir."

"I think we all agree Sam."

"Indeed."

"Daniel, Kan did say we we're running out of time."

"Well Colonel, considering the urgency with which Nick returned himself to us, I'd second that opinion."

"Indeed."

"Thanks Jack."

"Speaking about running out of time, just an observation but I do feel as though we're not moving forward as quickly as we should be. Don't get me wrong, I know the Fact Finding Mission is being aggravated by the fact that we're having to draw information from so many different sources, even sources of the mystical kind, and I'm well aware of the fact that we've got an initial basis of next to nothing to go on, but musts must, we need to put a wiggle on it people. We're in a flying rush here to get an upper handle. Please!"

"Sir it is quite frustrating but thankfully we'll be getting the majority of the statements in em, this afternoon. I'll have the.. ..I think we'll be able to put the Mission Report together by, three p.m. today. Yeah, we'll have the Report ready for you by 3 p.m. And we'll be in a position to do a full Debrief thereafter. If you'd schedule a Debrief anytime after that Sir.

As for the findings regarding the Skull, you'll get an update at sixteen hundred hours but more than that I'm afraid we're going to have to wait, at least seventy two hours."

"Noted. Noted and accounted Colonel. Okay where we up to."

"Okay, going straight into it, as I said before, the four characters in Sam's dream, that'll be us, were the four Canopic g_ds. The Bacabs. Now what I didn't say is which corners, which cardinal locations each of them, us, occupy. Occupied. Supposedly they supported the world, held up the sky by its four corners, the four cardinal points of the globe."

"So in a sense we're talking true azimuths. Longitudes, latitudes, east, north, south and west. I also take it we're talking about a time when the world was flat? What, you know, with corners an'all."

"Yes Jack. Corners. Right. Teal'c, Mulac, you're North. Ix, Sam, erm, your pillar is West. I'm East and Jack, Cauac, you hold up the Southern corner of heaven, the South. I've read through Sam's summary of the dream.. ..the hallucination, and she mentions that I, Kan, says that we're rotating, or we're rapidly rotating to Cauac, Jack.

Now if we are to take these to be signs from the g_ds, or messages, if we're rotating.. ..well put it this way, the Earth rotates rapidly towards the East, so if we're rotating, we're rotating towards Cauac, that'll be towards the South. Now given the context of em, the things that were said, Sam do you think it might be worth looking for this field galaxy in the South?"

"Oh gawd, Daniel that's brilliant. And that's where we'll turn our attentions. As you know I've been looking in a completely different direction."

"Yes, Indeed. The Redderain system as directed by Doctor Grange."

"Yeah Teal'c. Yeah okay, I'll move to the South, see what we come up with, thank you."

"Well don't hesitate to let me know Carter."

"I won't hesitate Sir. As soon as we find it."

"Teal'c have you heard of these Babcabs.. ..Bacabs before?"

"No O'Neill I have not. I know nothing of them. However there are some Goa'uld legends which I am now coming to realise may have bearing on our researches, and upon Colonel Carter's vision."

"Let me know as and when."

"Indeed I will."

"And the Giant?"

"O'Neill we are still fishing"

"With very little bate I know but give mi what you've got so far."

"Can I take this one?"

"Yes. Thank you Daniel Jackson."

"Be my guest Daniel."

"Ossiferous!"

"Isn't that what you was sayin' last night T?"

"Yes, indeed, my avatar of Colonel Carter's waking sleep spoke that word."

"Yeah you did Teal'c. Two things, Ossiferous and shoulder's. I've been talking to Doctor Heslop about this. Don't worry Sam, I didn't say its something you dreamt up, which I think he'd be most impressed to discover by the way. Okay shoulders.."

"To what avail Daniel Jackson?"

"Jack was right Teal'c, I don't think these.. ..Giants are giants."

"Yes Daniel I agree. Theres something in the back of my mind about this, something Jack, Cauac, said. I just can't quite capture it, but I think its something very important, very pertinent."

"As pertinent as the possibility that they may not be Giants Carter. Just little guys hiding, hiding behind curtains?"

"Something like that Sir. Oh that's it, Teal'c was floating."

"I can see how that would be important."

"Jack!"

"Well it's a handy thing to be able to do."

"You're not taking this serious?"

"Well now Daniel lets just see about that. I'm here with.. ..Kan, Mulac and Issy, holding up the sky dividing the heavens from the world below and underworld beneath that. Sounds serious to me."

"Jack! Personally I can hear alarm bells screaming."

"I hear them Daniel, okay, sorry. Come on lets push on, shoulder on."

"O'Neill I believe a great opportunity has been bestowed upon us by heavenly guardians allowing us, if we accept their gift, to take possession of the facts and thereby suitably prepare ourselves for attack from an emerging enemy."

"I'm gonna say something which doesn't leave this room. Teal'c I agree with you! Go on Daniel."

SG-1 seemed mightily relieved that their Commander in Chief, their friend, was indeed accepting of the.. ..revelations. As yet, their only lead.

"Sir Teal'c was floating about like a genie. I asked him what he was doing and he said he was standing on the shoulders of many. He added that he was standing on the shoulders of giants and then you said, Cauac said, Oss is up to his old tricks again."

"Tricks, I said that?"

"Your spirit realm avatar O'Neill."

"As a kid I suppose I did feel tricked by that bloody Oz when little toto pulled back the curtain. Shocker."

"O'Neill I do not understand your meaning."

"Teal'c the Wizard of Oz, it was a film on television."

"Oh, I see Colonel Carter."

"In the film T, Oz was a giant almighty powerful wizard very much like the Queticoti guy we saw in the Mayan pyramid. A huge smoky cloudy thing. Only he wasn't, that was the trick. Turned out to be a holographic projection.

There was a tiny dog in the film, toto, he ran round and pulled back this curtain and there was this little guy standing next to this massive machine which was producing the holographic projection. A whole heap of trickery. Whole heap of trickery, didn't like it."

"There was no powerful gin."

"Little guy."

"There was no mighty giant?"

"Tiny little guy."

"So O'Neill, effectively the giant was standing on the shoulders of many."

"Precisely."

"Thanks for that Jack. That's the shoulders part. Now for Ossiferous."

"Sir are you buying this?"

"Lets ask Nick shall we."

"Point taken."

"A cave full of bones!"

"What?"

"May not apply, but Ossiferous is a place where the bones of many are housed."

"So standing on the shoulders of many could actually translate to.."

"To standing on a load of old bones Carter."

"That's what I'm thinking Jack. We've not seen whats at the bottom of that pit. The cavern inside the pyramid."

"Daniel you think it could be full of bones?"

"Colonel Carter, if as we suspect, the pyramid was constructed over a lengthy period of time by many members of various ancient civilisations, they themselves must still exist in some form and in some place."

"Bone form T?"

"Yes O'Neill. Perhaps their remains litter the bottom of the cavern."

"which brings me back to Ossiferous and standing on the shoulders of many."

"And Giants, tiny little giants. Could Siler rig something to go down there, take a look in the abyss?"

"On it Sir."

"ASAP Colonel."

"Sir."

"And you dreamt all this last night Carter?"

"Yes Sir."

"You know, my dreams.. ..my dreams are a lot different. But they're getting interesting of late."

"Colonel Carter are you fully recovered from your experience?"

"That's a negative Teal'c. To be honest it was so unbelievable, I'm still tingling from the sensation. How can I explain it, mind blowing, the scary thing is, it all felt so completely real."

"Carter did you feel afraid or anything, are you alright?"

"I'm fine Sir. Not afraid Sir, at no time. You see I was with the three of you. If you three hadn't been there then we'd be talking something altogether different."

"Nightmare?"

"Yes sir, very much so."

"But you're alright now?"

"Completely."

"Carter about those, em, vush ush things, foreign words you mentioned?"

"Sir I've entered them in my Report. My off the Record Report?"

"Don't worry Carter. Strictly between the people in this room.. ..and George."

"Thank you Sir. Its all in there."

"Go over it again for me. How did ya spell that, vush Carter or whush?"

"You're writing it down Sir?"

"Well put it this way, if I, my dream like g_dly I, told you to remember the words and they'd keep us safe, well I guess they might be worth remembering, don't you think. Just want to make a note of it. So is that with a ve or is it with a we, easy spell Carter, just wanna be able to say the words not aquatint myself with a new language.

"Okay, phonetically Sir."

"Sure or easy spell."

"Here you are Sir."

"Oh thanks. Right, vush vush.. ..um."

"I've looked at the all the foreign words Sam recalled but I have to say I've not come across them."

"Heslop?"

"No."

"T?"

"No O'Neill."

"Okay, you'll work on it though Daniel."

"Oh yep Jack. Fine tooth comb."

"Excellent. So then, what are we calling these little extra-galactic minkies? Nebula, nebulae, nebulus, nebulium?"

"What??"

Colonel Carter was astonished.

"What Sir?"

She stared at him. At the mystery that had just overlaid him.

"Whats up Carter, its only a name. You can come up with something if you like. Of course old Nick's not been able to tell us a thing. Sorry about that Daniel, I mean Nick. We're going to have to call them something. Come up with something?"

"Nebulium. Sir that does seem to sum them up. And its the exact same word you, Cauac, used last night. He called them Nebulium."

"So we have a contender then, a name for these minkies."

"Yes sir."

"Daniel, Teal'c any thoughts?"

"Sounds good to me Jack. Well not good.. ..appropriate."

"T?"

"The Nebulium are our enemy."

"Nebulium it is then."

Colonel Carter was becoming quite overwhelmed and emotional. She was being to realise the magnitude of the event. Her previous nights visitors, the Canopic g_ds, really had been the Canopic g_ds. And they really had visited her. She was sincerely overwhelmed.

"I can't believe it. Every single word they said. Everything they said it, it means something. It means something highly relevant. Theres significance in all they told me. I can't believe it, everything they said its turning out to be true. Erm, okay, Sir can I be excused please. Think I'll head off."

"Good work Colonel, excellent, well done. Sure, sure we're finished for now. Erm head off, okay. Carter, lets have you on Base this evening though. A sleep over. In fact people, why don't we make it a slumber party. Lets all stay on Base tonight, just in case Carter decides to take us on walk about again.. ..sounds like we could all do with a rest."

"Thank you Sir. General, I'll be in my quarters."

"Fair enough Carter, get some rest. That's an order."

"Yes Sir. I'll have those Reports sent through by three p.m. Sir. Daniel, Teal'c."

"Colonel Carter, if you need any assistance, anything, I shall be with Daniel Jackson in his office."

"Thanks Teal'c. I'll call you if I need anything."

"You'll call me as well won't you Sam?"

"Ha, of course I will. See you all later."

"Wow, chatting with the g_ds."

"A new one on me Daniel."

"Yeah I've never come across it before either, theres rumours in some old texts.."

"Colonel Carter still seems a little unwell O'Neill."

"Yeah, no, its not that Teal'c. Its not everyday you get a visit from a bunch of g_ds. She'll be okay. Just let her get her head round it, collect her thoughts, she'll be fine."

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