SAM, DANIEL & TEAL'C, FACT FINDERS EXTRAORDINAIRE

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"Keep quiet. Don't say another word. You're not invited in this conversation"

"But Sam this is my office."

"Daniel not another word."

"Saammm, you can't do this. Its my office. Come on.. ..be reasonable."

"You are incorrect Daniel Jackson. Colonel Carter out ranks you in all matters related to The SGC.. ..and the United States Air Force."

"Teal'c its not the point. I'm a civilian and this is my office."

"Indeed you are a civi, a civi subordinate."

"What, a silly subordinate?"

"Well sometimes Daniel."

"Civilian."

"Hey Sam how you feelin'?"

"I've had a couple of hours sleep and I had a very early lunch. So you could say I'm feeling fine and westerly thank you very much."

"You are feeling as magnificent as Ix the Goddess of the West, the Western sky Colonel Carter?"

"Oh well that's just super dooper Sam."

"Okay you guys cut it out. Where we up to?"

"Well we've managed to get through an awful lot Sam, its coming together. Its not coming together quite as fast as we'd like, we're running a half speed right now. We could really do with Pierce's findings, but em since hes not actually left yet.. ..its definitely coming together."

"Teal'c?"

"Indeed Colonel Carter, we have made great progress and we will be in a position to Brief O'Neill on the Quetezalcoatl being.. ..the Nebulium situation, the markings and indeed your hallucination."

"Right, sounds good. I'll need to pop up to level eighteen and have a chat with Doctor Prof Heslop before I begin my write up."

"Sam how about Emilia, shes done a fair amount of work."

"Okay Daniel stop talking. I mean it."

"Na ah, I wanna take part in your conversation."

"I mean it Daniel."

"Oohhww. Alright Sam I'll keep quiet. Go on, carry on, carry on, I won't say another word."

"Right then, you're my witness Teal'c, you heard him."

"Indeed Colonel Carter I did hear him. And he consents to be silent."

"Have you recalled anything yet?"

"I have not."

"You have to work on it.. ..it could be important."

"That is also the direction of my thoughts on the matter."

"Well I'm glad we agree then, unlike some I could mention."

"Quite, quite Colonel Carter."

"I don't know Teal'c, it doesn't make any sense at all. I mean why would she tell us to look in the Redderain System, I mean it.. ..it, its just, it makes no sense. And it was an absolute massive time waster as well."

"I'm not saying a word."

"Perhaps she misunderstood O'Neill's meaning."

"You mean really shes a rank idiot, disguised as an Epigraphist?"

"No, she is well respected in her field of expertise. Perhaps being new to this facility with the pressure of undertaking an important study to be completed in a very short period of time, misunderstanding could have prevailed."

"Teal'c come on, its just a thing you can't do. How can you misunderstand the General. Hes very.. ..hes always very precise, well direct.. ..in everything he says and does. Especially Mission related, come on hes double barrelled about those things. You know how clear and succinct he is on Martial matters. No, you're not gonna mistake what he says and especially when hes leaving a message with someone he barely knows. He would have specified.. ..and he would have satisfied himself that she understand what he was saying.

I mean for heavens sake shes a specialist, shes an acclaimed specialist. How can she mistake the two. Ones a definite, described system, close to us by the way, and the one General O'Neill said, well put it this way, looking for a stray red, an errant galaxy is going to involve looking for an isolated system very very far away from here. It doesn't even involve the same search methods to boot."

"You are correct Colonel Carter. I myself am indeed becoming perplexed to learn that she has so deliberately misled you."

"So you think it was deliberate then Teal'c?"

"I do not think she misunderstood O'Neill's Meaning."

"So it was deliberate?"

"Misdirection!"

"Daniel?"

Daniel sneezed. The force of which took him off his stool.

"Wow."

"I can tell you want to say something. But unless you're supporting us it may.. ..it may be prudent for you to continue remaining silent."

"Well in that case Sam I can say something. Its not actually about Doctor Grange.. ..although I do think shes highly proficient. And of course I wasn't there when Jack left the message. Okay, okay I won't say anything.

No, what I wanted to ask is em, how are we doing with the field em, searching for the field galaxy, hows it going. Can I have a brief update on that, I mean do you need any help with that Sam, is it going alright?"

"Well thanks for asking Daniel, and offering, em, its going alright, its going slow. Actually this really is a bit of a nightmare, a real one this time. We're looking well beyond our forty kilo-parsecs of space. More help would be good. We've already lost a full two days work, spent fishing around the Redderain System. Lets not go there, for now.

Anyhow, slowly but surely. I'm actually starting at the furthest edge of what we can measure and sweeping inwards. The search is being made easier now by the fact that we're taking your, Kan's advice."

"You're concentrating the search in the Southern regions of space?"

"Yep, that's what we're doing now. Its an elimination process."

"Daniel Jackson, I understand evidence of hyper novae and also proto-stars to be amongst the search metrics."

"Really? Sam?"

"Daniel, like Teal'c observed, these Gian.. ..Nebulium are confined to the pyramid. It seems like they didn't have time to find a better, more suitable home. Why?"

"Ah, I'm with you. You think they may have had to evacuate their own planet rather quickly."

"Guessing. It wouldn't hurt to figure this factor into the search."

"Am buying that. So what can I do?"

"Well you know the message we relayed to Heimdall.. ..maybe chase it up. I'm positive they'll have something to say on this."

"I think Heimdall will come through for us Sam. I wasn't around when you all met but from what Teal'c' told me he probably will be grateful for the chance to help us out."

"Daniel Jackson, Heimdall has sophisticated equipment. Should he so wish, he could pinpoint the location we seek in a matter of minutes and hours. Rather than days and days. I feel quite sure were O'Neill himself to contact the Asgard they would be much more efficient in their response action."

"Your right about that Teal'c. That goes without saying. But em, I think for now we'll sit tight. I mean he delegated the.. ..contacting the allies to us so lets just see how we do, erm, if it comes down to it, if we don't have answers by the time the extra-galactic spatial.. ..celestial co-ordinate Reports due, we'll em, have to ask him. See what he can do."

"Sam when is the Report due on the Gi.. ..Nebulium's home world location?"

"Good question Daniel, and a good time to review the progress of the Fact Finding Mission. Lets get our findings in order. And come up with the Reports schedule."

"We must first confirm the Mission Statement."

"Yeah Teal'c. That's a good start point. Daniel do you want to summarise."

"Thank you very much Sam. Me again, talking, and in my own office as well. Nice."

"Oh come on Kan, you can say whatever you like, as long as its not even more complementary chit chatter about Emmy.. ..your new best friend."

"Oh you're sooo funny."

"Aren't I just.."

"Colonel Carter, you and I and O'Neill are Daniel Jackson's best friends."

"Thank You. You tell him Teal'c."

"Okay, friends.. ..best friends, lets em, get our findings in order. What are we looking for.

One, we want the Skull to work. Em, two, we want to discover where the Nebulium's home world is. Ideally we'd like to know why they attacked Nick but at this time only Nick can tell us, so that's on hold, okay. Three, we need to find a way to get into the out of phase domain in the pyramid, possibly without being detected. We need to find out the nature of these Nebulium, what they're capable of and what they want. We need to assess the threat. Em what else. Oh that was four by the way. We need to really account for anybody else, any other.. ..whatevers, whoevers, in the pyramid. Unless its only the Nebulium. And five, we need to find out if they can travel. If they can't travel they're no threat."

"No direct threat."

"Yeah okay. Em, oh yeah Sam, Professor Heslop is seventy percent sure those other series of marks are Runic. Yeah six, we need to basically find out whether theres any messages written in and around the pyramid, try and decipher them."

"Yes. Indeed we must pay particular attention to any addresses, any StarGate addresses that are capable of ascertainment. This information in itself may help us in determining many aspects of the Nebulium."

"Yeah the location of their home world for one."

"Indeed Colonel Carter, that would be very helpful."

"If we can suss out a way to fire the Skulls up, we may be able to travel into the pyramid, into the out of phase domain and back out again, undetected."

"Optimistic Sam but definitely worth a shot. There may be more than one way to get in and out, we'll see."

"We have Mr Equalsee, Doctor, and Doctor Lee along with SGs 6 and 15 endeavouring to ignite the Golden Crystal Skull. The Ballard Skull remains situated at the Smithsonian Institute."

"Yeah Jack left it there when he realised Nick travelled back with the Golden Skull. He said to work on one at a time."

"Colonel Carter is presently engaged in educing an intelligent sequence of numbers from the circle and line markings. In addition to charting the precise extra-galactic star co-ordinates of the Nebulium's original home world. I believe Sergeant Harriman is assisting you in that task Colonel Carter."

"Yeah, Walters scanning as we speak."

"Okay then, well em.. ..as you know Sam, and I'm not causing trouble when I say this, but Grange is also looking into the number system. The Epi-Olmec stuff. Doctor Heslop's looking into the glyphs and hes trying to come up with any other useful information. Teal'c and I are working on.. ..other things.. ..Examining your hallucination actually."

"Indeed we are."

"What aspects Daniel. What are you talking about. What are you working on?"

"Well em, I don't want to say right now."

"Daniel come on don't mess about. This is urgent. What are you working on?"

"No seriously Sam, I'd just rather not say."

"Teal'c what are you working on?"

".. ..Um. Daniel Jackson has asked me.."

"Teal'c?"

"As I was saying Colonel Carter, Daniel Jackson has requested that I investigate some of the markings that Sergeant Siler's video footage has revealed."

"Right. And is this anything to do with what Daniel's working on?"

"Daniel Jackson assigned the work to me so it must be related to something he himself is working on."

"Teal'c is it or isn't it?"

"Indeed it is. But the details of which Daniel Jackson himself will avail you.. ..Now!"

"Look Sam put it this way, when I asked Professor Heslop about the stone slabs, the different coloured stone slabs dotted about the pyramid, well he didn't know anything about it. I don't know anything about it either but after listening to your dream and the Canopic's involvement in it, the fact that you were visited by the Canopic g_ds, I've got suspicions about something and I just want to follow through. Em, besides, even if its a dead end I'm still actually examining the footage we've got so technically I'm not wasting time."

"No now come on Daniel, I didn't say that. Its just, you know I need, I need to em.. ..the General said he wants a handle on this immediately so we just need to speed up a bit that's all."

"Oh okay then, I'll be quick."

"Thanks Daniel I knew I could count on you."

"You're welcome Sam."

"Yes Colonel Carter, we will go as quickly as possible."

"Thanks Teal'c because I count on you as well, you know that don't you."

Teal'c bowed to Colonel Carter. Yes he knew that. Together the three of them made a great team. And although the General was now Chief in charge, they still counted him in their number.

"Sam what about the allies?"

"Well out of all the ones who've got back to us non of them have ever heard of these Giants.. ..Nebulium. They've got no idea about them, they don't know them. Some of the key figures we're still waiting to here from, so we're on standby for that. And of course my father said he will try to put the feelers out amongst the minor Goa'uld, the problem here is when."

"Colonel Carter I believe Jacob Carter may have a degree of success in learning something of this unknown enemy. There is now little doubt that the Goa'uld and Nebulium have had prior contact. However as you say we must wait for your father to be in a more favourable situation with some of his minor Goa'uld contacts."

"I can't wait to hear about it. Jack thinks some of the System Lords or those close to System Lord status are the ones who fled the pyramid. Either way he reckons they're serious enemies."

"I agree Daniel Jackson. And the Goa'uld have exceedingly long memories for revenge."

"That's something that could work to our advantage."

"That's exactly what Jack said Sam."

"I am investigating the markings allotted to me by Daniel Jackson. These pictographs are in the form of an ancient weather report."

"I'm sorry Teal'c but what?"

"Yeah Sam we're just.. ..it all ties in. On your dream again. Just give me a few more hours. I think we have something. Come on Sam."

"Okay Daniel you've got the same amount of time to come up with something as we can devote to any of the other issues. Deadlines two p.m., which will only give me an hour to feature your findings into the Mission Report."

"Okay that's fair. Em.. ..well we'll summarise.. ..we'll summarise erh.. ..right when we summarise, thanks."

Daniel and Teal'c were working hard to find a date, a time, a meaning and now a direction. They we're sure they'd made a significant discovery, a way into the pyramid, undetected. However as yet they were unable to present their findings in an acceptably intelligent way.

"Okay, full recap please. I'm submitting the Report to the General at three p.m. so lets just check over everything."

"Yes Colonel Carter the majority of the statements are now complete. We are only without the Crystal Skull and the Field Galaxy accounts, the delay of these O'Neill is aware."

"Sam, Medical?"

"Yep we've got that, General O'Neill's already got a copy of that statement. Hes not said anything but hes been monitoring Nick's condition."

"I know, I'm really grateful to him for that. He doesn't know I know. Erh, right. Yeah hes also got the Chronology statement, that covers all Siler's footage of the symbols, glyphs, scripts, dot and bar and pictographs, as well as the colour slabs. And other unspecified marks, possibly Runic.. Hes also got your Interim Report, yesterday, oh and the hallucination account, don't worry, that's separate, its not forming part of the over all P7X 377 Fact Finding Mission Report."

"We now are in possession of the geochemical analysis of the organic samples and we have the carbon dating on the skeletons. I believe Colonel Carter, that a verbal account of the up to date findings regarding the Golden Skull will be delivered at four p.m."

"Yeah Teal'c, Zvi, Doctor Lee, the General and us, Briefing Room O sixteen hundred hours. Right, okay I'll spend the next two hours writing this up and then we'll be ready."

"Yes, O'Neill is extremely eager to receive this Report."

"I know Teal'c, after the Quetezalcoatl Briefing tomorrow he'll determine the direction we take."

"Indeed."

"I think we already know the direction he'll take Sam."

"You are correct Daniel Jackson."

"I hope so Daniel."

"So do I."

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