VIDEO CONFERENCE WITH GENERAL HAMMOND AND GENERAL O'NEILL
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"Jack the ensuing situation, what have you come up with?"
"Well General its certainly not looking good. You already
know about Carter's Ninth Chevron Nth Dimension theory. And the
as yet undetectable infection amongst the members of SG-14. I take
it Daniel notified you of our Code status?"
"Just now. Jack how dangerous do you estimate these Nebulium
to be?"
"Well if they can take over a body and make that body go through
a wormhole or where ever they want.. ..I'd say extremely dangerous.
We know they have the ability to phase shift, they also have the
ability to infect, possess the body, 'shell' as Carter calls it."
"This possession, is like that of the Goa'uld?"
"Seems not. Carter believes they actually use us to travel
in. A suitcase if you will."
"To travel through the StarGate?"
"Yeah, but only a Ninth Chevron connection. Something to do
with their Nth dimension plain of existence Carter said. We've got
them, well SG-14, confined and up to now they shouldn't be aware
that we're aware of their presence."
"The medical tests didn't tip them off?"
"No reason why they should have, just routine check ups, but
with added, hidden oomph."
"Yes of course. Are you planning to make contact with these
beings?"
"Well George they're here for a reason. If they don't want
to tell us what that reason is we can only assume it's a threat.
Contact? We will. Lets arm ourselves a little better first and try
and get the jump on it, on them. Daniel, Teal'c and Carter have
all been going at it. From the sound of it these Nebulium are responsible
for a heck of a lot of people going missing."
"Whats your plan of action Jack?"
"Get them off world ASAP."
"You think the transfer to the Beta Site will avoid further
elevation?"
"Has to. The thing about invoking a Code Five or being backed
into the Wildfire Directive, is that it also cuts us off from the
Gate, safe reinforcements. And that just ain't gonna happen."
"General it seems like rather a bold move."
"Bold as brass George, and it has to be done now before the
need to elevate. You know theres no provisions for leaving the Base
once we go passed a certain ready status. My first port of call
right now is to clear the decks at home. They can get to Earth through
our facility, so all in all we need to get them off site, get them
off world and deal with the problem there."
"Smart move. I'm right behind you on that General."
"Thank you George."
"Has he got back to you yet?"
"Oddish, no soundings. I'll tell you what though George, I
think theres something in what Teal'c had to say. He does seem to
be dragging his little grey heels quite a bit. And its unusual wouldn't
you say, especially since we've attached urgent to the flag."
"And Heimdall hasn't answered Colonel Carter's call either?"
"As I said George, oddish. Along with the latest revelations,
what Daniel and your friend Professor Eamon's come up with. You
know Carter was saying those particular markings could be a series
of Runic.. ..em, what do you call them, runic, runics, anyway, Daniel
and Professor Heslop has had all sorts of fun and games with those
little markings. And they've come up with something rather interesting..
..By the way you are coming. As soon as Pierce's group gets back,
you're coming over for the key Debriefs, the Nebulium Home-World
and the Skullduggery?"
"Wouldn't miss it Jack. We've got a superb opportunity here.
I can't remember a time when we've been able to get such a handle
on things before actually being dragged into whatever we've been
faced with. Yes I'll definitely be there. Major Davis here has been
keen to get over to The SGC so he'll be accompanying me. What have
they found, have they managed to get a StarGate address?"
"Oh we've got two Gate addresses now George. That'll be two
Nine Chevron StarGate addresses. From completely different sources.
Ones from these Runic efforts and the other one is what Carter's
gleaned off these bar and dot things shes been examining. Strange
wouldn't you say? The first time we've ever come across a Nine Chevron
address and we've got two of them all at once."
"We've had a lot of firsts with this em.. ..with this incident
Jack."
"Yeah we have that haven't we. All new on me though."
"Me too. Jack, theres a lot of eyes on you for this one."
"Well.. ..well as you know I spoke to the President earlier,
I seem to have his blessing."
"Oh yes you do. Yes you definitely do General. Its not just
that though Jack. You may not have had wind yet but the NID have
been sniffing around."
"What?? Whats that? Sniffing. NID. Sniffing around what?"
"At this stage I don't know, but thats one of the advantages
of being situated in the Pentagon. You do tend to get wind of things
a lot earlier than usual."
"You're telling me. Keep abreast of that one for me George,
anything to do with them. Tut.. ..you know, it always stiffens your
back when you hear their name mentioned. Something to do with knives,
pointed!"
"Sharp and pointed. I hear you Jack. I'll see what I can find
out."
"Thanks."
"How about the Beta Site?"
"Teal'c's on his way there now with Griff. I think it should
be more or less straight forward. The emphases is on isolation and
guarding the infected. The Beta Site, layout wise, is a damn good
place to achieve that."
"I follow you on that score."
"I'll be getting a Report through soon from Colin. He'll let
me know if theres any extra materials to be sent through."
"And by fantastic coincidence we already have a S.O.W. situated
at the Beta Site."
"Double event. Nice bit of forward planning there George.
Mind you I bet when we first decided to establish the Special Ops
wing at the Beta Site you never thought they'd be lording shotgun
over an isolation installation."
"No I didn't foresee this one."
"Eagan's liasing with Teal'c and Colin. Special Ops are riding
pony on this."
"Moving the infected men to the Beta Site was a good idea
Jack. Sounds as though its going to work quite nicely. You'll have
no trouble nailing that place down."
"Hoping so George."
"How are you handling the Transfer?"
"WelI.. ..I've actually got in mind to sedate them. Put them
under heavy sedation. You know so we don't get any trouble from
them. Its tough on our men but its gotta be done. Carmichael's given
the okay for that. Obviously Nick's being treated as a separate
case."
"I understand theres no sign of infection in him."
"True.. ..given that we can't actually detect the infection.
I know what you mean though. Carter has it that the extreme chemical
imbalance is the result of a break down of the Nebulium, apparently
due to the fact that it can't travel through the Crystal Skull whilst
occupying the body. She said in Nick's case the Nebulium being wasn't
able to maintain its structural integrity as it was filtered through
the crystal system during transportation."
"So we know one thing that gets rid of them?"
"One thing up to now George. Anyway he is practically stable
but I don't like the idea of adding anything else to over tax his
system. Given that Carter feels confident hes not infected, he'll
be left to be transferred as is.. ..and under heavy guard. Just
as soon as Colonel.. ..Colin Brewster gets back to me with his requirements
and I get the okay from Teal'c and Major Eagan, we'll start shipping
them through."
"Very good on that, very good. Jack whats your threat assessment
on my side of the fence."
"That's just it George, if we can get this transfer to off
world quarantine completed, we will sort of em, have essentially
neutralised the present threat to Earth. But then we are still left
with the problem to deal with, but not on our home turf. We've got
the Iris in place for incoming Nine Chevron wormholes. We're waiting.
And watching. We need to see what the situation is with the Nebulium
themselves. You know, what they're actually capable of..
..If they're actually capable of anything, I think we might get
some kind of tell tale signs when we go in to sedate our boys. I'll
keep you informed on that one. As for Trans Global ET-I, I'd just
say hold your horses for now. I locked down the upper levels as
soon as Carter identified the threat. We've gone into Code Nine
now. The next step for us may well be Code Five. We're hoping that's
not gonna happen but if it has to it will do. Essentially nothings
getting out.. ..from here. Which of course puts you in the clear,
for now."
"Unless they've got ships Jack."
"This is something we're still trying to assess General. Again,
as came up a few days ago, if they had this kind of capability surely
by now we would have gotten a heads up."
"Lets hope so on that front Jack. But it does seem as though
the heads up wouldn't be coming from the Asgard, for some unknown
reason. I have to say that's an interesting one."
"Very curious. You can bet we'll get to the bottom of it though."
"I'm confident about that Jack. Okay now, I'll keep monitoring,
if anything goes awry with the transfer try to alert me if you can
before you deploy a Directive. If theres anything I can do."
"Thanks for that George, will do."
"Good luck down there Jack."
"Dum spiro spero Jen´ êr ål. Ciao"
"Capital. General. Hammond out."
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