3rd BRIEFING ; SPTIAL INTERGER STELLAR COORDINATES, GALAXIES AND BASE SECURITY

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"We have them?"

"Yes."

"Yes?"

"Indeed. O'Neill, we know where they were, we know where they've been, we know where they are."

"Splendid. Lets 'ear it then."

"We have found the Nebulium home world."

"I see from Colonel Carter's interim Report that the Nebulium home world is not in our local galactic system Teal'c."

"That is correct General Hammond. We can now verify that the Nebulium home world is indeed far away from both our 10 million light year Local galactic group and also our Virgo supercluster."

"That's quite a distance son."

"Yes."

"Super far."

"Yes."

"And we can be sure we have the right location?"

"We are Certain General Hammond."

"Checked and double checked George, I'm satisfied."

"Colonel Carter worked long hours to decipher the faded arrangement of line and circle markings found on specific stone blocks outlining the P7X 377 pyramid. Colonel Carter?"

"Teal'c, yeah. Yes Sir we're positive about the location of the Nebulium home world. Sirs the markings Teal'c referred to are a series of dots and bars comprising a basic vigesimal, twenty base counting system. Professor Heslop assured us that this numeric system was in use at the start of the common millennium. Using as translation of one dot equal to decimal five and the line marking to decimal one, we we're able to glean an intentionally scribed range of integers. General's we discovered a Nine Chevron sequence."

"I might add the first in Star Gate Command history, well done everyone and congratulations General O'Neill."

"George."

"Thank you Sir!!"

"Sirs, Sergeant Harriman tested the sequence and we established a lock and engaged a wormhole. Knowing the address was live we plotted the celestial coordinates and charted a course to the Nebulium home planet now designated P7E 323.

We had already been searching the southern regions of outer space but had not yet reached that precise location. The images you're seeing on the screen behind me are whats left of the Nebulium multiple star system. The greenish planet.. ..this one, corresponds to the StarGate address."

"Carter are there any Nebulium minkies on the planet?"

"No Sir. Deep space scans show lightwaves emitted from the Nebulium galaxy are shifted towards low frequencies, red shifted. Analysing the light energy emitted by the galaxy can at least give us an indication of its age and size.

For us to determine whether or not theres a hostile environment on the Nebulium home world we conducted a spectragraphical study. Elements each have their own unique spectrum, by studying the colours that were not present in our spectrograph, along with those that were present we've been able to construct a chemical composite of the Nebulium home world.

Sir even for these oxygen shy Nebulium their atmosphere is shot to bits. The gravity is so heavy, we simply wouldn't be able to walk on their planet. Judging from the speedometer reading we took on Level thirty-one A, these humanoids are used to a gravity even heavier than our own. Nitrogen and methane content are very high, but the metal count is low. The planets core temperature is excessively low and the upper atmosphere is carbon dense.

The Nebulium system seems adrift in space. It looks as if the system has entered one of the arms of it's galaxy's spiral and consequently the planet.. ..and planetary system, has become uninhabitable."

"So you're saying no one lives there anymore?"

"Yes Sir I'm saying that."

"Colonel Carter are you saying the reason the Nebulium left their planet is because of some astronomical phenomenon?"

"Well from this distance Major Davis I can't be a hundred percent certain exactly whats happened. There are a number of reasons why a system and a planet within a system would become uninhabitable.

A hyper nova could have clapped out. When a hyper nova kicks off it outputs, for a second or two, more radiation than everything existing in the universe. One of the solar objects in the system, close to the planet in hand, could have entered the final stages of its evolution throwing off a hyper burst, this again would render organic existence mute. Another instance, an entirely unpredictable happening, would be whereby the planet is in the path of a gamma burst, this would take out all life as we know it. "

"What do you think was more likely Colonel?"

"From the data we have collected Major, it does seem as if their star system has entered into the system galaxy's radial arm and that arm is passing through a dense region of space which in turn renders everything in it uninhabitable. Organic life would be unable to survive the encounter. There is the belief that supermassive black holes, invisible stars, exist at the cores of many galaxies. The Nebulium entire system, if in a vulnerable position along the spiral arm, could be in danger of being sucked in."

"Carter is there a chance their home world will pass through this dense region, so they can all go back home."

"General, the time duration in particular depends mainly on two conditions, the smaller the galaxy the quicker it will pass through that region of space. And secondly, relevantly, the size of the area of space yielding the excessive density. Sir our readings show the Nebulium system to be very large, added to which the dense area of space is huge."

"So they won't be going home anytime soon?"

"Doubt it Sir, not in the next million or so years."

"Um, that long. Carter.. ..our solar system's in a spiral galaxy isn't it?"

"Yes General but thankfully our solar system is happily safe from these type of misfortunes."

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"Okay if you say so. Carter how about the Runic Nine Chevron address. Appraise please."

"Yes Sir, Dialled, locked, engaged and established. Em, we sent the M.A.L.P. through, you've seen the footage and readings. SGs 16, 24 and 25 have been on site, we intended to use the location as a transfer station moving infected personnel via Nine Chevron Dial sequences to Beta Site quarantine.

Sirs its not just the address on this one. Daniel and Teal'c have been quite busy working on an inscription, a Runic inscription.. ..and they've pieced it together. Bottom line General's, they've discovered a new race of Asgard, the Niflheim. They've also managed to tie these Asgard in with the Nebulium. A war-like tie in.

Daniel can you go through this."

"Yeah Sam happy to.

Em yep, as Sam said Teal'c and I have been working on a Runic inscription. Em, its found front pyramid face, ground level. The lower part of the inscription, the signature end, comprised a Nine Chevron StarGate address to the planet Nifla. Nifla is in the Ida galaxy so its not only one of the Asgard protectorates, it is actually an Asgard world. Or should we say it was an Asgard world.

We've been through the M.A.L.P. feedback for this planet Nifla, we've also studied the Reports provided by the SG teams stationed there. They're all back now. I think we can safely say the planet is deserted and destroyed.. ..surface level."

"Daniel the last time we spoke on this you weren't sure the Asgard themselves left the inscription?"

"That's right Jack, err, we weren't sure for a couple of reasons. One was simply because we weren't sure. The other one, curious one, as Teal'c was quick to point out, the upper section of the inscription, an Asgard wouldn't actually have been able to reach up that far. The inscription, its been worked into stone, it covers an area of three and a half square feet worth of face. Its set about two feet of the ground which means that the top of the inscription starts about five and a half feet off the ground. As Teal'c said, an Asgard wouldn't be able to reach that high to legibly scratch into the stone."

"So we can rule the Asgard out Doctor Jackson?"

"We've not been so quick to do that General. I wasn't myself there, but he rest of SG-1 and General Jack as well, saw a big piece of the Asgard genetic past. It wasn't an Asgard as we know them, but Heimdall said it was an Asgard that had been preserved for thirty thousand years. This Asgard stood about two or three feet higher than the Asgard we're use to. It was a clear sign that there maybe different off shoots, different races of the Asgard, some maybe taller, and if that's the case then an Asgard could have scribed this inscription.. ..as a warning."

"A warning?"

"Oh I would say so yeah. It warns of a ghost like plague upon a nation. Oh actually it's a curse."

"Yes Daniel Jackson, it is indeed a curse. The StarGate address was disclosed for all to discover. If one wishes to witness the devastation, the destruction caused by this cloud like plague then they should visit the coordinates."

"But they're Nine Chev coordinates T?"

"They are O'Neill. It seems this branch of the Asgard credited other races with a far greater knowledge of StarGate travel then they in fact do have. Any race with good knowledge of StarGate travel would be aware that inverse operation of the Dial sequence calculation reveals not only the Eight but also the Seven Chevron dial sequence for any StarGate in the StarGate System."

"Yeah, okay, we know.. ..now."

"Doctor Jackson are you saying that we do believe the Asgard, these Nifla, I mean Niflheim, left this message?"

"Well apart from the height factor we do Major Davis. Em, we've got evidence of the Goa'uld here, we've got physical evidence on that as well. Also we've got the symbol of.."

"Korosh-Ni Daniel Jackson."

"Thanks Teal'c. we've also got the Goa'uld glyphs. We've got pictographs, the nature of which indicate it was actually the slaves themselves who put them there. And also we've got the other Nine Chevron address which has been carved into the stone in a system used by the Epi-Olmecs.

We just simply can not account for this Runic inscription. It's the Urnordiska Futhark alphabet, it uses all the twenty four characters, the exact same alphabet that the Asgard use. Theres also never ever on Earth been any traces of this alphabet west or east of a wider old Europe I suppose you could say. Its just that who else could have left it."

"The Nebulium?"

"Major Davis it is unlikely that the Nebulium would wish to brag and leave traces of their devastation. It would make further initial contacts difficult to establish."

"But Teal'c the Goa'uld go around everywhere boasting about how evil they are."

"Yes, they do Major Davis. However the Nebulium do not go anywhere. Being tantamount to sitting targets it would be more prudent to keep as quite as possible about their cruel intentions."

"Okay T, good point. Continue Daniel."

"Sure Jack. If it was someone else who'd left if, after ruling out the Nebulium, how on Earth could they know the address of a planet in the Asgard galaxy, they tend to keep their celestial locations very quite."

"So Doctor Jackson we believe the Asgard, this new race of them, were the ones who left the Runic StarGate address?"

"Yes General. It has to have been left there by one of the older, more technically sophisticated races. The other thing is theres only two signs of evidence of knowledge of the StarGate system apparent amongst all the markings found on the pyramid structure. The Goa'uld and Runic symbols and glyphs. All the other markings we've come across show no knowledge of the StarGate travel. None of this is indicative of Nebulium source.. ..but then theres actually no trace whatsoever of the Nebulium either inside or outside of the structure.. ..none at all."

"But they are they're?"

"Oh yes George, they are definitely there. So now it seems that we've got ourselves a bunch of tallish Asgard.."

"Yeah Jack, tall and possibly aggressive."

"Indeed O'Neill, very aggressive. The curse refers to the Asgard intentions against the Nebulium. It is most unpleasant."

"Teal'c in all the SGC Reports I've read, I've never come across the planet Nifla or the Neb, I'm sorry is it.. ..oh here it is, the Niflheim."

"Neither have I Major Davis. I myself have never heard of this group of Asgard. Asgard has always been meant as a place to aspire to, a place of the G_ds. However Niflheim seems to be a place of hell. A race of hell."

"And why do we know the Nebulium were at this Nifla planet son?"

"Because General Hammond, the Niflheim Asgard have said so in their inscription in their description of the terror and decimation brought forth by the Nebulium."

"Right, right I see."

"So that's that then, there we have it."

"Jack has Thor still not gotten back to you?"

"Not yet General. Seems like hes err, still out of the office."

"I find that very unusual Jack. I've never known Thor not to reply, not to respond to one of your calls."

"Well theres always a first time George.. ..I suppose."

"Jack did you read copies of the messages we've sent out to the Asgard?"

"Yeah I did, I did Daniel. Yah, I know you mentioned P7X 377 in your transmissions. And I know you described the Nebulium. They will get back to us but.. ..I think you were right Teal'c, about them avoiding us on this one."

"General O'Neill do the Asgard know we've had SG Teams stationed on the planet Nifla?"

"Yeah they do Davis. I sent a personal message to Thor to let him know on that score. So um.."

"Colonel Carter has General Carter been back in contact with us regarding the Nebulium?"

"No hes not Major. The last time we spoke, which was a couple of days ago, he was still waiting to meet with this Minor Goa'uld who seems to know something of the Goa'uld's history with the Nebulium. They think my father's a Minor Goa'uld so he may well be able to get the information we're after. Hes been treading very carefully because apparently this subject is an extremely sore point. He'll get back to us as soon as he can."

"Okay, Thank you."

"So we've got two races, possibly three with this Asgard off-shoot, who've been in contact with the Nebulium, and they're refusing to talk about it, um."

"Were there any other StarGate addresses on the pyramid?"

"There were none Major Davis. There were a great many markings to be found around the structure face. Master Sergeant Siler has collected images of all the markings. Careful consideration of these images has revealed only two number sequences. Two Nine Chevron StarGate addresses."

"You must excuse me Teal'c but I can't quite see how from this we're suddenly able to Dial any place in the galaxy using a Nine Chevron address, or outside the galaxy for that matter, using a Nine Chevron address, especially since we've only got two addresses."

"Indeed Major Davis it may not be immediately clear to you. We do now have the ability to locate and engage StarGates both intra galactic and extra galactic using Nine and Eight Chevron StarGate addresses."

"Yeah Teal'c but how?"

"Major Davis, Colonel Carter has been arranging the numbers of both the Nine Chevron addresses and also the Eight Chevron address in our possession. She has been very keen in her equations and unravelling of a particular polytope, the tesseract. It is these equations that yield to us the ability to Dial many more locations around the universe."

"Fantastic. Thanks Teal'c."

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"And we use this tessa what?"

"Tesseract Jack."

"We use that one to bring up the Eight Chevron Gate addresses?"

"No sir, absolutely not. Sir I obtained the three dimensional tesseract by unravelling a four dimensional hypercube, hyperflatting it's.."

"Jeepers creepers Carter, I tell ya, your starting to unravel me with all of this.. ..come on lets skip to the juicy bits."

"Summary Sir. We're using the tesseract in order to engage a sub-space from the already created subspace of the Seven Chevron sequence. The Eighth Chevron deals with coordinates of the already establish Seven Chevroned wormhole.

The Eight Chevron StarGate addresses are based around the same formula used for Seven Chevron addresses."

"Colonel Carter I thought when you plot a location you use the six sides of a cube?"

"That's right Major, of course along with the point of origin. We take the six stellar coordinates, StarGate glyphs, and translate them to represent spatial integers. We set those integers to the six sides of a three dimensional object, the cube."

"But wouldn't you need an extra side to the cube? An Eight Chevron address needs seven sides of a cube. Seven points."

"Well Major that would be a funny looking cube, but I understand what you mean. In this case we plot all seven integers to the eight vertices of the three dimensional cube."

"Leaving one vertex free?"

"Em, actually no. As well as retaining its position outside the equation, the integer representing the point of origin is mapped to the seventh vertex. Its necessary to extend the wormhole beyond a galactic gravity.

So to complete the calculations we weigh in the seventh point, the eighth integer, the Eighth Chevron, which will influence the point of destination. In this way we can cut into subspace and establish a wormhole in any location in or out of our galaxy. That is, any location capable of forming a white hole, the back end of the wormhole. A receiving StarGate. A StarGate."

"So if we use this formula to create StarGate addresses, providing theres a StarGate at the location we'll be able to establish a wormhole?"

"Yes Major."

"Jack you never said anything about this."

"Wanted to surprise you George."

"Surprised, I'm knock out. This is like having the golden key to the door."

"Theres a little bit more George, then we can all calculate ourselves to the mess."

"You do realise you've just thrown tremendous weight behind our organisation. I'll have General Greer report this to Mr Senior as soon as I get back."

"You know George, somehow I thought you'd enjoy this Brief."

"Very much General."

"Great. Thanks Colonel, carry on."

"Thank you Sir.

Now to form a Nine Chevron wormhole we have an additional integer to work into the calculations. In this instance we're not only directing the wormhole's destination, we're also directing a subspace created from a four dimensional point in space time into an Nth dimensional subspace creation.

Essentially we're incorporating the parameters of the Ninth Chevron by dropping the established Seven Chevron wormhole out of a four dimensional established subspace and into an Ninth Chevron Nth dimension sub subspace."

"I'll just take a few notes here Colonel. Let me just verify with you Carter, you can work out Nine Chevron StarGate addresses?"

"Yes sir, yes we can."

"Sweet."

"Generals, the way in which we calculate the Nine Chevron addresses is based on the master mathematics of the Ancient's. We set the celestial location coordinates for all eight points to the hyperplanes of the tesseract. The ninth point, the seventh integer, point of origin, remained measured out of the tesseract but was incorporated into mathesis on the four dimensional cube.. ..polytope, hypercube."

"Yah, as I said Colonel, notes, short version if you would."

"But Colonel what if you don't actually have a Nine Chevron address?"

"Well General at this time we have two Nine Chevron addresses for extra galactic locations. But every single StarGate in the system has a Nine Chevron address."

"New discovery George, sweet isn't it?"

"Pure honey Jack."

"In answer to your question General, we can derive the address with inverse operation. We back step through the equations used to verify the two addresses we have. For the Niflheim and also the Nebulium home worlds. By inverse operation we were able to apply the same arithmetic procedure to the addresses we have listed in our Dialling computer.

Walters been inputting that data in to a special program. Hes been running a Dial sequencer on all the addresses we've so far managed to calculate. Sirs in every case we've establish a lock."

"Wow..!"

"Colonel this is excellent news. Exceptional!"

"Thank you Sir. SG-1 and the StarGate Diagnostics and Maintenance Teams have worked extremely hard on this one. We can't actually travel by Ninth Chevron, yet, but there may be a way to use this knowledge to our advantage."

"How?"

"Don't know yet Sir."

"Cater I take it every StarGate has an Eight Chevron address as well?"

"Yes Sir it does. Every StarGate has a Seven, Eight and Nine Chevron address. To use both the Nine and the Eight Chevron addresses you have to Dial out of the galaxy and once outside you then Dial back into the destination.

We've calculated a number of Eight Chevron addresses based on random sets of celestial coordinates, converted into spatial integers. Walters worked those addresses into the special program that was created to handle this task, hes running it all off a stand alone. These new Eight Chevron addresses have been tested and I'm happy to report that they to are coming up as wormhole established."

"Ninth Chevron mathesis eh, Carter whats the implications of this?"

"Well Sir it could have tremendous implications for us.."

"Really?"

"How so Colonel?"

"Well not so much with the Ninth Chevron itself. But with Eight Chevron travel, which we are free to do.. ..Sir, we now know basically how to find planets, moons etc that have a StarGate, anywhere in the universe, providing we can first gather the celestial coordinates. Sirs who knows what resources are out there. What societies."

"And you think there may be something out there Colonel?"

"Well yes hopefully Sir. Up to now all the three proven extra galactic StarGate addresses we possess have lead to either nowhere as in the case of Othalla, or to desolate wastelands as in the case of Nifla and the Nebulium home world."

"Ah so, not such a good start eh Carter. Look on the bright side will you, you've succeeded in opening up a heck of a lot of doors.. ..Gates."

"Thanks Sir. I'm confident theres something out there."

"As am I Colonel Carter."

"I agree Sam."

"Given the size of the universe, and all the things I've read in your Reports, I definitely second that Colonel, theres got to be something alive outside our known galaxy."

"I'm sure you're right Colonel, we're not alone."

"Something, out there. Some one I hope Carter."

"Yes sir. Some one.. ..out there."

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"Yah.. ..in the meantime we have to take measures in case someone out there wants to come in here without an appointment. Teal'c, Siler, hows the oxygen delivery system in the Gate Room?"

"It is constructed O'Neill. Sergeant Siler and his Team have affixed a number of high pressure nozzles onto the walls of the Gate Room. Sergeant Siler can inform you in more detail."

"Oh yeah Teal'c, thanks. Sir we've got a little system of twenty two jets, nozzles, which will give us almost two dozen jet streams of oxygen, all flying in the direction of the StarGate. It will only be activated after the subspace vortex has retracted itself. Its got to be a manual engagement.

We considered the speed of these creatures. I haven't seen the footage myself yet but both Teal'c and Doctor Jackson provided the figures for the speed of these aliens, em what we've worked out is that they wouldn't be able to jump more than twenty feet high into the air. Em, therefore we've put a couple of nozzles higher up to cover an area of up to about twenty six feet from the floor of the Gate Room. The delivery's rapid. Yes Sir it will do its job.

If we have any Eight or Nine Diallings the system will be activated and also if we have anyone coming in without a standard code the system will be activated. If the base goes into Active Status Code, as we are now, the system is activated with every incoming wormhole. Its all in hand General."

"Thanks Siler nice one. Teal'c how are we doing with this Griff machine?"

"Because the Gate Room has to be kept clear at all times we've stored the devices within easy access in the Gate Room annex. We have six Griff devices ready for immediate use, located to the left as you enter the annex from within the Gate Room. With an incoming wormhole two members of the Gate Room Defence Team will stand attention at the Griff device location, it is their duty to quickly distribute the devices should they be required."

"Good."

"Jack can I help, do you need anything."

"Thanks George, after this last run in we've got things knuckled down round here. As you've seen we've still got the Code Seventeen perimeter locked down. Those minkies aren't getting in.. ..or out of here."

"Whats your next step?"

"Lets discuss it over lunch, my shout."

"Delighted Jack!"

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