3rd DEBRIEF ; NINTH CHEVRON Nth DIMENSION

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"Okay Carter I'm listening, but if you give it to me again, I'll listen even harder."

"Sure Sam, hanging on by a thread, a string."

"How exactly could they have been affected Colonel Carter?"

"Well at this point Teal'c its absolutely impossible to say, but I'm suspecting its going to be something on the physical, anatomical level. I believe their molecular framework could in someway now be a manipulated version of their former pre demolecularized complexity."

"Go on."

"Sir, we know a normal Seven Chevron Dial creates a subspace tunnel. We know the Eighth Chevron deals with distance vectoring. The Ninth Chevron displays no apparent characteristic in our own space-time. Therefore considering the StarGate was built by beings who actually achieved the ability to phase into Nth dimensions, I believe the Ninth Chevron gives the connecting StarGates the means to alter the very fabric of the time space continuum of the subspace that the StarGate creates when initialised by a Nine Chevron Dial sequence.

Sir, the demolecularized members of SG-14 must have been subjected to a transit which transgresses all our understanding of StarGate wormhole physics. Taken that that actually only deals with the subspace pathways outside of our own four-dimensional space-time which have been created as an effect of a four dimensional catalytic inversion. What I'm suggesting is that the activation of the Ninth Chevron creates a condition inside the extra fourth dimensional subspace tunnel, thus creating a sub-subspace tunnel which is then outside of the space-time of the sub-space tunnel created by the StarGate's Seven Chevrons.

"Come on Carter."

The General stood up stepped around to the back of his chair. He rested on the headrest.

"You woke up just to lay this on me, at least lets have it in English eh?

"But Jack think about it. It sounds a little outrageous but what you're saying Sam is sort of like a tunnel within a tunnel right?"

"That's it exactly Daniel. I mean the extra Chevrons really only add more parameters, we've already created the wormhole with the first Seven Chevrons."

"So you're sayin' Eight and Nine are more or less steering and smoking or non smoking."

"I believe so Sir."

"What is the meaning of this Colonel Carter?"

"It means, possibly, that something, someone, who cannot for whatever reason, travel through a Seven Chevron wormhole, can traverse the StarGate system via a Nine Chevron wormhole. And we, human.. ..oids, who can travel a Seven Chevroned subspace corridor, cannot also travel the Nine Chevron wormhole. Not unless our physical molecular structure undergoes a profound change."

"Colonel Carter we do become changed in the event horizon encoding process."

"We do Teal'c. But that change pertains directly to the specific Dial sequence. You enter a Seven Chevroned horizon, it breaks you down and packages you up for travel through a Seven Chevron wormhole. The same can be said for entering a Nine Chevroned horizon. However the packaging process will be different in each case.

I do imagine that the one dimensional horizon of a Nine Chevroned wormhole handles the de and remolecularisation process differently. It is this difference that determines the suitability for travel via that particular wormhole. Without a doubt, in all certainty, there will be some observable difference in the anatomical structure of an organic person.. ..thing, travelling through a Nine Chevroned wormhole, with that of a person travelling via a Seven and Eight for that matter, Chevroned wormhole. General I am absolutely positive about this."

"I can see that Carter."

"Oh, Sam, you mean like Shifu and Oma Desala turning to a ball of glowing light."

"Well that definitely constitutes a profound change Daniel."

"Yeah Jack. They've both travelled through Seven Chevroned wormholes."

"If I'm getting this right, according to Colonel Carter, your friends, Daniel, could be classified as organic personages capable of travelling through both a Seven and Nine chevroned wormhole."

"Yes Sir, that's right. They would be able to do that."

"I don't get that Sam."

"Well from what we know Oma Desala is capable of two states. Like us the solid state, a Seven Chevron traveller. And for her the other state, what was it, the ball of glowing light state, and that profound change is gonna get her through a Nine Chevroned wormhole."

"But not us right?"

"Not through a Nine Chevroned wormhole. Not without undergoing the profound change Daniel."

"Colonel Carter are you asserting that SG-14 have been altered at the anatomical level thereby undergoing a profound change?"

"Yeah Teal'c, I'm asserting that."

"Carter, they've been given the all clear by Carmichael. Correct me if I'm wrong Colonel but you did say observable difference."

"General."

Colonel Carter was frustrated. Sleep on it.. ..she'd slept on it, she'd factorised, theorised and extrapolated. It didn't added up but she knew she had to be right.

"Its okay Carter, continue Colonel, you have our full attention."

The General sat back in his Briefing Room chair, held up his arm, and jiggled his hand. Soon after, a pot of hot morning coffee arrived on a tray for four.

"Breakfast General?"

"No thanks. Food?"

Nobody wanted food. This was waaay to intense to be eating over.

"Sir we've always measured the property of a wormhole by obtaining calculations from its outside events and surrounds. Its beginning and end. The transmitting and receiving StarGates. We are, at our level of technology, incapable of taking any measurements of the time and space existing within the subspace wormhole from within the dimension in which we exist."

"Standard. Go on."

"Colonel Carter, there is one measurement we can be certain of, that of the fact that conditions within the formed wormhole must always remain constant. Otherwise travellers, even inorganic matter, would not arrive in order at the destination, they would not sequentially reintegrate at the receiving StarGate."

"Good point Teal'c. We can be certain of a great many of the parameters of an establishing Seven and from our experience Eight Chevroned wormhole. In part due to the StarGate's buffer mechanism and also to the stable condition of the wormhole, what we send down that corridor invariably rematerialises on the other side.

Sir I believe that this extra point, Ninth Chevron, shifts the dimension of the subspace in which the wormhole exits to some other dimension, Nth dimension. A dimension in which a stable wormhole can be formed and through which certain types of energetic matter, fluxing, phasing matter, can safely flow through.

Sir in this way the Ancient's would have been able to use the StarGate. Were they to begin transforming, phasing, during their microscopically short journey through the wormhole, they would be assured of a complete reintegration at the receiving end."

"Yeah I like it Carter. And I take it we're talking about a time before the Ancients had learnt to master their ability to ascend."

"Precisely Sir."

"Daniel, Teal'c?"

"Indeed O'Neill it is a likeable theory."

"Thanks Teal'c."

Teal'c smiled at Colonel Carter. He had more than a century's worth of stellar travel experience.

"Sam question please."

"What is it Daniel?"

"If what you're saying is true, then how do you account for the members of SG-14? Physically they appear to be fine and they've been given the all clear."

"Oh yeah Daniel, Sir, this is my point. They could not possibly be fine. In order for them to have come through a Nine Chevroned wormhole they must have been altered. Profoundly altered."

"But Carter they're not altered. I've had Brigham and Carmichael re-screen their DNA. So if they're what you call solid state, travelling by a Nine Chevroned track, they won't come out the same as they went in. Basically it sounds like what you we're saying is they'd come out of the StarGate a mangled mess, you know, head on backwards and all that."

"That's right Sir."

"Pardon?"

"Sir if SG-14 are internally cloaked to a degree we cannot detect, they could have been altered before they entered the wormhole, the black horizon on P7X 377, altered in such a way that their physical composition would survive the properties of the Ninth Chevron Nth dimension in which they were about to travel through, in this case Sir they would come out of the receiving StarGate exactly the same way they'd entered the transmitting Gate."

"Altered?"

"Altered Sir."

"Colonel Carter, Daniel Jackson is correct, SG-14 look no different now than when they left The SGC, and they have been given medical clearance."

"Yeah I know Teal'c, I can't explain it just now, but I guarantee that whoever comes through a wormhole on the Ninth Chevron will not, can not possibly have the same anatomical composition as a human being. That is a human being incapable of Ascension, phasing.

Trust me, there is something very wrong with the members of SG-14 but we don't have the instruments to detect this sort of anomaly. Nevertheless there is definitely something seriously wrong with the men who came through that NineGate. I can't necessarily even recognise what the problem could be, but its bound to be atomic.. ..subatomic."

"Colonel if you can't find anything I'm going to have to release the men."

"General Sir, I know I'm asking you for a lot of faith here but I know there is something wrong. Very.. ..wrong!"

"Well Carter if its faith you need you've got mine. I have faith in your judgement Colonel, I'm sure you know that by now."

"Thank you Sir, that means a lot."

"You've got my faith to Sam."

"Thanks Daniel."

"I have great faith in your abilities Colonel Carter."

"I know Teal'c, thank you."

"So we're saying SG-14 is not SG-14?"

"Yes General."

"Okay. T, Daniel, softly softly approach on SG-14, confined to quarters, armed guards in adjacent corridors. Carter I can give you two. Is that enough?"

"Yes Sir. If we work on it together we can present a Report to you at O eight hundred hours."

"Colonel, keep digging. Extra thorough. We've got men depending on your findings. I do believe theres a storm heading our way. O eight hundred kids."

The General left the Briefing Room to attend to his rounds. Night or day there was rounds to be rounded. He was shadowed by a cadre of administrators all awaiting to administrate the General's administrations.

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