StarGate SG-1
StarGate SG-1 ; Mission Account 32; Skullduggery
[Ninth Cheveron Nth Dimension]
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~ δ γ Δ √ ∞ ≡ ⃜ ℜ Å ≡ ℷ ~ ℷ General O'Neill, Commander in Chief of The SGC, requires acute adherence to the time scale set for receipt of a series of Reports, Briefs and Debriefs he demand scheduled. In response to the General's demands, concerted efforts are underway to gather concise intel on the 'Mayan Pyramid'. The Giant inside. And the unexplained appearance of a bloodied Nicolas Ballard. The drive is being lead by Doctor Daniel Jackson. Assisting him are the other members of SG-1. Teal'c, who is currently concerning himself with linguistics, translations, interpretations and decipherment and who also separately, privately, is working on General O'Neill's 'personal problem'. And Colonel Carter who is presently involved with geochemical and x-ray analysis of the Golden Crystal Skull and who has also undertaken to determine the galactic origin of the 'Mayan' Giants. The alien foe. The Nebulium. Also assisting are specialist personnel drafted in from Area 51, and Doctor Lee. In depth analysis of the P7X 377 samples and the U.A.V. footage obtained by order of General O'Neill, delivered SG-1 a copious prolificacy of intels. The 'Mayan Pyramid' on P7X 377, it seems, is not strictly Mayan architecture. The finishing glory, the temple altar crowning the structure, as Dr Daniel Jackson so rightly assumed is most certainly of Mayan design. But the overall assemblage of this megalithic structure, the reels and reels of U.A.V. footage reveal, is in fact a cocktail of engineering by various ancient human civilisations. The pyramid was constructed by hand, slave hand, over a period of between two thousand eight hundred to three thousand four hundred years. An estimated approximation sets the completion of the outside structure of the pyramid, 'Mayan Pyramid', around six hundred years into the first millennium. Building began, Doctor Jackson said, in the post sub-boreal days of the Olmec, the early formative years and building appears to have ceased late pre classic, classic times. One of the details General O'Neill is particularly interested in is that of the Giant SG-1 encountered as part of first contact on P7X 377. The portfolio SG-1 are now able to compile on this matter forms the basis of SG-1's, and General O'Neill's, final explosive mission to P7X 377. Tentative supposition. Teal'c has found evidence that the Giants, the Nebulium of the 'Mayan Pyramid', were at some time in contact with the Goa'uld. He believes the Nebulium may had been using Goa'uld symbiotes in experiments on longevity, trying to lengthen the time for which they themselves could inhabit the human 'shell'. Again from their investigations, examination of samples brought back from P7X 377, along with previous work carried out by Doctor Jackson, SG-1 yield the ground breaking discovery that there are not one but two species of Goa'uld. A detail it seems the Giants, the Nebulium, were unaware. One species of Goa'uld has the element naquadah in its chemical makeup, the other does not. The system lords are of the first species. Teal'c believes that a known faction of Gao'uld, the Xi'Linvris, were of the latter group. Of their number only two remain. Nine of the Xi'Linvris, along with two minor Goa'uld were killed by a lethal contraption designed by the fugitive, the ailing genius Ma'chello. There has been no soundings of the remaining two Linvris (Xi'Linvris) who may, Teal'c suggests, after having been totally diminished by the Ma'chello machine, have fled the galaxy, perhaps to regroup and build their numbers, of the non naquadah kind. Magnification of various stages of the Mayan civilisation reveals that it prospered two thousand years ago and that same prosperity was brought to an abrupt end. Huge sections, the majority, of the overall population became extinct. In contrast to the Aztecs, they were a relatively peaceful and spiritual people and their sudden disappearance can not necessarily be attributed to warfare. There is no explanation as to why this event occurred. There is though, historical evidence that round about the same time, and also before, other civilisations also 'disappeared'. Drafted to the P7X 377 Pyramid, Doctor Jackson believes. It was established during SG-1's first contact that these Giants, Nebulium, live out of phase. Further investigation provides.. ..out of phase in catacombs within the gigantic human slave built pyramid structure. They are an alien race. They broadcast a huge holographic image of themselves into the pyramid cavern, from within the catacombs. The atmosphere in the pyramid is breathable though eventually toxic and it is saturated with metals and minerals including the metal elements sodium and naquadah and the compound niquadria. The air in the pyramid becomes toxic to humans within a relatively short period of time, though presumably the atmosphere in the out of phase domain is much more conducive to human, slave, continuance. A deliberate attraction to radiation of heavy fermions has somehow been artificially created inside the cavern. Colonel Carter believes that the pyramid was deliberately flooded with the contained atmosphere at a time after the pyramid's construction had been completed. A sort of no go buffer zone. Which would doubtless also serve to restrict the remaining slave's movements to within the out of phase environment. Although the guinea pig Goa'uld had all fled, such an atmosphere would help to prevent further escape by the remaining slaves. Colonel Carter and Teal'c went on to conclude that the Nebulium, Giants, may well have miscalculated and experimented on the wrong species of Goa'uld, those with naquadah content. Given their propensity to megalomania and evil doing, and their pre existing chemical makeup, further exposure to the metal elements and compounds would have produced exceptionally nasty, nastier, Goa'uld. Their breed, the Goa'uld, it seems contributed to the Nebulium, Mayan Giants, 'laying low' for over a thousand years. Aware that many of the ancient civilisations worshiped icons, the Nebulium, Giants, planted teleportation crystal devices in the shape of human skulls in the hope that they would appeal to curious worshipers. The plan was extremely successful and over the duration grand numbers of humans were teleported into the P7X 377 pyramid. The Goa'uld symbiotes, those being subjected to longevity experiments, blended with some of the Giant's slave work force to escape from the Mayan Pyramid using the StarGate to clear the planet. This Goa'uld exodus must have taken place at least before the end of the first Common Era millennium, before the pyramid was flooded with the toxic atmosphere. The Nebulium, Giants, may not have been aware of the symbiote's ability to blend with humanoids.. ..and humans. These fleeing Goa'uld, all the more mentally unstable by the high concentrations of naqaudah and niquadria they had been exposed to in the pyramid, made it their first top priority to seek out and destroy the Crystal Skulls that had been planted in many places throughout universe by the Nebulium. Eventually without their crystal method of transport and an ever greatly declining number of 'shells', human slave hosts in which to traverse the StarGate system, the Nebulium, Giants, became trapped in the pyramid. Practically cut off from their strength, their supply of slaves and their method of travel. They've spent the last thousand and more years trapped deep inside the cavern, whiffing in the naquadah-niquadria-weighted atmosphere.. ..Psycho!! When Nicolas Ballard transported into the Pyramid on P7X 377, they had not had a 'visitor' for more than a thousand years. The second time he arrived in the cavern with more people, SG-1, the Nebulium interest was awakened. They have since drained Ballard for knowledge of modern times in the human world called Earth. The SGC, The Alpha Site and The Atlantic Site now fall under the judicial auspices of TIGETS (Trans Global Extra Terrestrial Security -Inter Alia-), a newly assigned force appointed by the US President and seated at the Pentagon. This new force is responsible, as its designation holds, for the Trans-Global Extra Terrestrial Security of not only the human home world Earth, but the entire planetary system space of which Earth is a part. The Commanders of the Satellites, SGC, Alpha and Atlantic, report directly to the Commander of TIGETS, who in turn reports directly to the President. The Commander of The SGC also has a direct line to the President. And General George Hammond, Commander in Chief of TIGETS is in daily contact with General Jack O'Neill, Commander in Chief of The SGC.
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Its completely dark. About three a.m. in the morning. Theres ever such a faint noise in the distance. Fading in and out. Louder, slowly louder. It's the distant ringing of a telephone. Its coming this way and its getting louder. In the early morning night, a tired arm stretches out and a fumbling hand picks up the telephone. "Yes I'm Doctor Daniel Jackson. Excuse me. Ballard! Are you sure, Ballard? The where?" Daniel jumped out of bed. Snapped the light on and hurriedly got dressed. As he was dressing he quickly searched for his mobile phone and speed dialled. "Jack!" Oh, and also, his Ancient attachments are beginning to Åscend with intensifying mysticus. General Jack O'Neill pulled up his four-wheel drive outside the Smithsonian museum, Washington, D.C. He and Daniel raced up the steps to the main doors. The police, security men and SFs ushered them inside. At the far side of the auditorium a security guard was waving his torch at them, beckoning them. Daniel hurried over. The General was slower behind him, whilst getting a breakdown of the situation from the on site security guards and the Air Force representatives as he went. As General O'Neill rounded the corner he saw Daniel stopped in his tracks, staring straight ahead. O'Neill looked passed Daniel at the narrow upright glass cabinet. He saw a Crystal Skull, the Ballard Skull, on a pedestal inside the cabinet and behind that he saw the semi-naked body of Nicolas Ballard, Daniel's grandfather. Nick looked in an awful bad way. He was folded up and shaking. Propped up against the glass. His arms were blooded. In his hand he clutched a golden coloured Crystal Skull. He had blood streaming down from his right eye. He was just conscious. "They're coming. They are coming! My name is Nicolas Ballard. They're coming. They are going to make us.. ..My name is Nicolas Ballard. I am a human being. Xibalbah is not my home, its not my home. I do not belong here. My name is.." Daniel began shouting at the security guards. "Get him out of there!" O'Neill pushed passed Daniel. He tried to open the cabinet. It wouldn't open. He used the butt end of his revolver to smash the glass. The glass wouldn't smash. "We need a torch, now! Do you have cutting equipment?" The guards were unsure. General O'Neill stepped away from them, the SFs stepped with him. He flipped open his mobile phone. Action! Daniel, horrified by what he saw, was banging on the glass cabinet. "Nick! Nick!" All to no avail. Jack put his hand on Daniel's shoulder. "Its okay Daniel, we'll have him out of there and safe pretty soon." General O'Neill began checking around the glass display case. It was fused solid and he determined the glass had been galvanised. "An incoming traveller." He gently whispered to Daniel. ~ δ γ Δ √ ∞ ≡ ⃜ ℜ Å ≡ ℷ ~ Back at The SGC, 0 five forty hours. General O'Neill called General Hammond at home. "Well Sir as yet we've not been able to get anything out of the babbling Ballard. Daniels with him in the infirmary right now. Poor Nick hes had it rough Sir." "Jack do you have any idea of what this is all about?" "At this stage Sir I have to say no. Nicks Calmed down now and hes going to have to sleep off the gaseous sedation before we can piece together whats happened. But judging from what I've seen I don't think we're going to get a lucid account out of him for quite some time. He doesn't look good George." "'They're coming.' What do you make of that? Who do you think 'they' are?" "Well, I don't think it's the Giants, for a start they weren't even corporeal and at a guess I don't think they'd travel very well." "This could be serious Jack. Do you think these Giants could be a threat after all?" "Don't know, but ering on the side of double yes and absolutely." "What about this other Skull, where does that fit in?" "Hes obviously teleported himself from the Mayan Pyramid by way of the Skull. I've already called Carter and Teal'c in and put them on the case. Carter seems to think this Skull, gold in colour, was a designated teleportation device specifically from the Mayan cavern back to Earth." "And the other ones, the one at the Smithsonian and the one we left in the Mayan pyramid, they work in the opposite direction?" "Not entirely General. The one in the pyramid was only ever used inside the actual pyramid itself, sending out and then back into phase, we used the StarGate to get there and back. And the Ballard Skull, well thats been shaken upside down and back to front and its still not ticking. Its not worked for over thirty years, and then only once with Ballard's round trip to the pyramid and back." "Jack, I take it you'll be dealing with this one yourself.. ..as a matter of urgency." "Urgent and on it George. I'm getting a P7X 377 Fact Finding Mission underway. We'll review the samples and images just as soon as they come in." "Who are you having dealing with this?" "I'm running this one through SG-1. I'll let you know." "Take care Jack." "And you George." He put the red phone down and sat back in his chair, viewing his office. And you George old friend
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"O'Neill, Sealed in a glass cabinet?" "Completely sealed." "Sir wheres Daniel now?" "Infirmary, hold on. Yes?" One of the General's aides lightly knocked on the closed office door. He entered to find the General, Colonel Carter and Teal'c all standing restlessly about the office. "General O'Neill Sir, Critical Care Nurse Kensington, she has a verbal Report for you." "Show her in Lieutenant." "Sir." "Sir Nurse Kensington reporting as ordered." "At ease Kensington. Take a seat Lieutenant," Only General O'Neill and Critical Care Nurse, Lieutenant Kensington sat down. "Thank you Sir." "Hows he doing?" "We've not managed to stabalise him yet Sir. There are complications." "I see Nurse Kensington, um. Okay then, for our benefit why don't you give us what you have so far." He gestured to his two.. ..friends. They all leaned in for a summary on Nick's condition. "Yes Sir. Nicolas Ballard was brought into the infirmary at 0 five thirty one hours. As soon as we got him into bed his confusion gave way to a catatonic posture. I'm attributing this to the sheer drop in his blood pressure. Hes suffering from extremely abnormal levels of sodium and potassium, both of which are involved in the conduction of nerve impulses to and from the brain, as well as localised transmissions. His system is sodium saturated and he also has hyperkalaemia. Taken together, his overly high levels of both potassium and sodium are causing abnormal heart arrhythmia along with muscular spasms and a degree of muscular paralysis and he is also dangerously close to kidney failure. And is exhibiting respiratory difficulties. Within the first four minutes of receiving the patient we administered a treatment of nitrates to widen the arteries and veins. We are maintaining
a high oxygenated air circulation to temper his respiratory intake. A toxicology Report is being compiled as we speak. Because of the unusual nature of the patient's condition, his near internal systems collapse and the metal mineral poisoning, Mr Ballard is to be subjected to intense diagnostic imaging. General, at this time all the tests that can be carried out are being prepare for." "His eye?" "Sir, Mr Ballard's right eye. Again thats an assessment Doctor Carmichael will inform you of, however General I can confirm that we were able to save his eye. There is tremendous inflammation to the ocular cavity, Sir, Doctor Carmichael will advise you further." "Have you any idea as to what caused such an injury?" "Sir, as horrific as it is, this type of assault to the ocular cavity has never before been recorded. And none of the staff have ever seen this amount of trauma to an eye without any resulting loss of tissue, or sight for that matter. Doctor Carmichael will be more specific General" "Prognosis?" "Sir I'd.." "Its alright Kensington. Thank you for your Report. And Doctor Jackson?" "Sir hes still with the patient." "That will be all Lieutenant, thank you." "Sir." Nurse Kensington left General O'Neill's office and went straight back up to the infirmary. To join the Critical Care Team attending to Nick, Daniel's Grandfather. The General sat back in his red leather executive chair. He looked at Colonel Carter. She looked a little tired, and very troubled. He looked at Teal'c, he knew what was on Teal'c' mind. "You thinkin' the Giants in the Pyramid T? "I am." "Colonel, comments." "Shock for one." "Shocked we are, what else?" "The Giants Sir." "Indeed." "Me thinks so too." There was another light knock on the door. "Yes?" The door opened and the General's aide brought in a tray of coffee, cream, cups and biscuits. They all looked grateful. Teal'c poured for all of them. The aide closed the door on his way out. "This is serious. Very very serious." "Sir?" "Well lets examine the facts. A severely traumatised Nicolas Ballard materialised inside a locked glass cabinet in the Smithsonian Museum. And after closing hours to boot." "A fused Cabinet." "Yeah Carter what was that?" "Sir, he had
hold of the Golden Skull, the transmitter, which as I said he must
have used to transport here, back to Earth. The Ballard Skull must
be the receiver. He materialised out of the Ballard Skull and into
the confinement of a glass cabinet. There was only limited space
within the cabinet to absorb any resulting excess energy produced
by the teleportation process. "How come the Skull came with him? Our experiences have involved the Skull staying put." "An educated guess Sir. From what you described, he seemed to have an unyielding grip on the Skull. I presume he had taken hold of the Skull in the P7X 377 pyramid and failed to let go of it as it began it's transportation process." "Um." "He sustained his injuries before he took hold of the Skull." "Good point Teal'c and the question is how." "And why Sir." "And why Carter." "He found himself no longer in the company of friends O'Neill?" "The Giant's have fallen out with us." "If it was them Sir." "Well Carter I'm pretty sure that even if there are other.. ..things, living in that place, them Giants are gonna be the ones with the upper hand." "Indeed." "I agree Sir." "Which brings us back to the fact that this serious." "A threat Sir?" "Angry giants on our tail, that's serious Carter. And threatening." "Colonel Carter, an attack against Nicolas Ballard must be construed as an attack against The SGC. Was not Nicolas Ballard, after all, representing us in the exchange of knowledge between ourselves and a new ally." The General made a powerful narrow stretch, bringing his clenched fists up to his shoulders and isometrically, strenuously tensing and after a few moments flexing and then shrugging off the stretch. Refreshed, he stood up and slowly refilled their cups. "We never did establish they where allies did we!" He stated that as a matter of fact. They all looked at each other. No they hadn't done that. It hadn't been easy talking to those big floaty bilingual Giants. No, no real contact had been made. That's what Daniel's grandfather had been working on. And relations somehow seem to have broken down. Badly!! "Sir the enemy of my enemy.." "And why exactly was it they were enemies with the Goa'uld? I didn't quite catch that bit." "Neither did I Sir." "Neither me." "I can't imagine what Nick could possibly have done to provoke an arrival back here in that state, and by that method." "A quick get away Sir?" "Seems so Carter." "O'Neill can we assess any of their abilities." "Well heres one to assess. They're not incorporeal!" "A real threat Sir." "Very real Colonel and capable of moving about, throwing stones and opening doors." "Indeed." "Sir they're giants, must be awkward.." "Carter I've been giving that a lot of thought since I spoke to George earlier on." "Yes Sir?" "I don't think they're giants." "But O'Neill, Colonel Carter, Doctor Jackson and yourself.." "Yeah yeah, I know what we saw T but I'm not convinced. Lets face it, I've had a pretty good taste of Asgard holographic technology by now." "You believe they may be humanoids masquerading as powerful beings O'Neill?" "That sums it up." "General this changes things." "More our size Carter?" "Yes Sir." "Right, Colonel, can you rustle up Major Lyon's, I want him in the Briefing Room in fifteen minutes. Notify him that SG-14 will be leaving for P7X 377 within the hour. I want this Fact Finding Mission co-ordinated through SG-1. Bring Siler to the table with you. We're gonna want to launch U.A.V.s for coverage before SG-14 go through. Teal'c can you go by the infirmary, I think Daniel will want to attend this briefing." "Sir is Siler in this early?" "Should be, he got the call along with Harriman and Medical." "On it Sir. O six fifteen hours." "Yes. I will be back shortly with Daniel Jackson O'Neill." "Okay." As the majority of SG-1 were stepping out of the General's office, an aide with a file folder full of officialdom was heading in. "Good morning General O'Neill. I have your messages Sir." "Um."
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"Okay what have we got?" "Daniel do you want to go first?" "Yeah thanks Sam. Okay, around a quarter to seven this morning Sergeant Siler launched two U.A.V.s through the Gate to P7X 377, erm, they took separate flight paths around the 'Mayan Pyramid'. The whole of the external structure of the pyramid has been covered. They made a gradual sweep upwards towards the pinnacle. The U.A.V.s took in details from the ground up. I have to say Jack, we found some very very interesting stuff. All the footage, the U.A.V's.. ..Siler concentrated the erm, surveillance, inwards to the pyramid. Its all high resolution stuff. We've got some excellent images. I'll tell you what, its weaving a story that.. ..its just unbelievable." "That's nice Daniel. What do we have?" "Oh, erm yeah, sorry Jack, I'm going a little bit off the beat and track here." "Its alright Daniel take you're time. We all know what you've got to deal with." "Thanks Jack. Erm okay, what have we got. Well we've got clues, a lot of clues. Erm.. ..Teal'c. Oh, yes, Teal'c, erm.. ..right, okay. Teal'c your turn." "Yes Indeed. Some very interesting clues O'Neill. Perhaps Colonel Carter would first like to Report." "People, the suspense is killing me.. ..come on, someone, anyone, what we got?" "Sir its very interesting." "Alright! Earth to SG-1, I'm keen. I'm interested. I've got bureaucrats a scratchin' at mi door. What we got?" SG-1 were in conference with General O'Neill in Level twenty-seven's Briefing Room. The Fact Finding Mission to P7X 377 was being discussed. And the direction of the Ballard incident response was being established. "Firstly General, on studying the video footage from the surveillance vehicle we find early Mesoamerican glyphs and symbols around the outside base of the pyramid structure. These are recognisable as being classic and pre classic, and some markings Daniel dates around the Archaic high 2000's BCE. We're surmising that the 'Mayan Giant' who first appeared to us speaking a Maya language was merely reflecting the language of the last civilisation he had been in contact with." "That would mean Jack, that we can approximate the last known contact between these aliens and a human civilisation on earth to round about 600 CE, coinciding with the decline of the greater Mayan civilisation." "Daniel what brings you to this conclusion by the way?" "Well the languages, no, the markings, symbols and signs that we've captured on film are all indicative of erm, civilisations that existed before the Mayans, including the Maya and before the Mayan civilisation. Theres no markings of any kind made after the Mayans, which lead us to conclude that theres been no contact with any human civilisation since those times." "Carter, Teal'c?" "I concur with Daniel Jackson's findings." "General Sir, given that much of early human history has been traced through an assortment of elaborate syllabic and hieroglyphic scripts, along with signs, symbols and pictographs, and given that basic writing systems were in place at the beginning of the common era, Daniel's conclusion that lack of evidence of these writing systems is proof positive of the absence of social presence at the pyramid beyond a certain time scale, is definitely accurate." "Interesting. So we're assuming, at a push, that these Giants have been out of contact with human society for fourteen hundred years?" "Yes O'Neill, that is correct." "Well done Daniel, you've handed us a nice advantage." "Great. Really?" "How so O'Neill?" "General?" "If we've been off the radar for that long they have no idea of our current capabilities. And things have changed an awful lot since the days of the bow and arrow." "Sir that's an excellent point." "Have we got anything else to score with?" "Indeed. Something extremely interesting O'Neill." "Go on T." "Just before you tell him the news Teal'c, Jack by the same token, we also don't know their capabilities." "That's very true Daniel, but if they were gigantically powerful I think we would have gotten a heads up by now." "Hes right Daniel. One of our allies would have had something to say about them." "But Sam we've been off their radar the same way they've been off everyone else's. That amount of time passing without a word. Maybe they've simply been forgotten about." "Well at this stage folks we have to consider everything, so that will need to be tied into your final Mission Report. You will make a list of who you contact won't you?" The General was smiling with a friendly air of success at that nice piece of delegation. Querying the allies on a matter regarding floaty fluffy cloud like giants.. ..I think not. "Teal'c?" "Daniel Jackson is correct that many clues have been revealed to us. O'Neill you may recall a number of years ago we came upon a symbol. A Goa'uld symbol. A warning sign." "Oh erm, yeahhh, that scary looking thing on P3R 233?" "Indeed. The symbol of Korosh-Ni." "Yeah yeah, I remember that. What you telling me, you found that symbol here at the pyramid?" "Yes we have. Yes." "Well that doesn't make sense. We know.. .. well I mean it has.. ..there is a problem of radiation but we know the ground hasn't been decimated so to speak. So whats that about then T?" "The U.A.V. video footage discloses the symbol of Korosh-Ni near by to the entrance to the pyramid. We did not become aware of it on our visit because the symbol has become much faded in addition to being marked on a stone block high above the ground level. The symbol is not complete and has only been partially etched into the stone." "Is there any significance to it only being partial?" "No. No O'Neill I do not believe so. Once the symbol is made clear and viewable whether partial or complete it will have the same impact and the warning will be apparent. It seems the designator did not have time to finish his work." "But it is still a warning T, to other Goa'uld?" "Most certainly O'Neill. It is a warning to other Goa'uld to beware of the pyramid. Not to enter the pyramid." "The hows, whos and wherefores?" "Not at this time O'Neill, but Daniel Jackson, Colonel Carter and myself are considering all of the angles of vision and examining all of the possibilities." "Okay nice work. Nice work. Erm what else?" "Oh yes Sir. The altar at the top of the pyramid, the apex, its smashed." "Bad weather?" "Think not Sir. Looks deliberate." "Suggestions Daniel?" "The locals weren't offering up anymore sacrifices." "Sounds reasonable. Wouldn't need the altar then would they." "No Sir, wouldn't need it." "Okay. Okay?" "Right Jack, erm we've found a.. ..oh by the way, SG-14 have brought back quite a lot of samples. Rock samples and some organic stuff and photographs of, of erm.. ..they've explored the inner chamber of the pyramid." "I know. Did you come up with anything from their examination of the entrance to the pyramid?" "Yep we did Jack. Its all being... ..its interesting, its very interesting and its all being analysed. And even more interesting is they've found a couple of skeletons." "Skeletons?" "Goa'uld skeletons O'Neill!" "What?? Now.. ..now we're talking. Yah, we're definitely talking. In fact the pyramids talking, pretty loud at that." "General with what Siler reeled in and the samples brought back by SG-14, we've got a heck of a lot to go on. We're confident we can come up with some answers for you." "I like it. Keep talking." There was a pause while General O'Neill answered his internal line. "Put him through. Yes. Go on. Um. I agree. Leave it with me." The General pressed two buttons in quick succession. One to disconnect Doctor Carmichael the other to speak to one of his aides. "Lieutenant get on to Sergeant Siler now. Tell him to report to Doctor Carmichael in the Infirmary, tell him I'm okaying it. No that's all." Whilst he had been talking he patted the air towards Daniel, quelling his fear. General O'Neill hung up the telephone and winked at his friend. "Daniel everythings just fine. Well no change. Carmichael wants to run a series of tests and is requesting some special equipment. Nick's.. ..hes being made as comfortable as possible." The room had gone quite. They were all waiting for Daniel to say something. He didn't, just shrugged. "Anything else?" Daniel snapped out of his worried and thoughtful stupor. "Yes Jack, theres more." "General, Sergeant Siler programmed the U.A.V.s to closely circle the structure one storey per sweep. We've got the entire structure on tape." "How much of the video footage have you reviewed?" "Well I've shot through all of it, and of course we'll all go back and erm, examine it frame by frame. Even at a glance Sir its revealing an awful lot of information. Theres a fair amount of abstract design as well." "Its abstract to us but it was probably all perfectly plain and simple to who ever left it there. Work on it and get some sense out of it. Every peanut counts on this one Colonel." "On it Sir." "Daniel?" "Jack, like Sam mentioned, the Giant spoke in a Mayan language, this is why we coined the pyramid, the 'Mayan pyramid', well apart from the fact that its got Mayan influences in the design. That aside, Teal'c' fished out of the footage markings, glyphs obviously from the Mayans, as well as Symbols, what is that Teal'c?" "The symbol of Korosh-Ni." "No accounting for the date that partial symbol was etched. Erm we've got traces of the Isthmian script which we probably won't be able to decipher. We've also got markings which could be exceptionally telling, erm Sam's got some theories on those. I'd say they're Epi-Olmec daubs, taking us back at least a couple of thousand years. Theres some more findings round the back of the pyramid. There are some petrographs which may well be further back than Epi-Olmec, having said that, they may also not be. I'll have accurate chronology on all the markings for you by noon today Jack." "Splendid. Okay Daniel, lets dig, deep." "I welcome the opportunity Jack, keeps my mind off other things." Colonel Carter, Teal'c and the General were all supportively and sympathetically nodding at Daniel. "Daniel we're all with you." "Thanks Sam." "Colonel, theories?" "Sir some of these markings that Daniel's attributed to the Olmecs, who were a Mesoamerican civilisation existing in the late sub-boreal period, erm they, oh actually later than that, middle formative years, mid pre-classic you said that didn't you Daniel? Sorry not the Olmecs later still, the Epi-Olmecs Sir, just going into the Common Era. I think the markings are a type of Dot and bar method of calculation." "What like a number system Carter?" "Yes Sir, exactly so. I think theres going to be something of value in this. You can clearly see from Siler's footage that theres some regular pattern trying to be established. There were other marks, lots and lots of marks some in particular looked like Runic inscriptions, which would be utterly out of place, or they could just simply be marks. We're going to be working through all of this as soon as we get back to the lab, see what we come up with." "Yeah Carter thank you. See what we come up with.. .. as a matter of urgency." "Sir." "I've already Debriefed with SG-14 and they're satisfied theres been no stirrings, no movements of the Giants. As yet. We're in the clear up to now but we just need to make every effort to get a head start in this situation, this worrying situation." "Yes Sir." "I agree with that Jack. We'll do everything we can to get on top of this." "Indeed we must prepare ourselves and we must discover what it is we need to prepare for." "That sums it up Teal'c." "Colonel Carter, would it be possible to precisely locate the planet from which the Giant aliens originate?" "What Teal'c you don't think they are indigenous to P7X 377? "I do not Daniel Jackson. Were they, why would it then be necessary to further manufacture artificial atmosphere?" "Teal'c I think that atmosphere is not for them but for other.. ..visitors to the pyramid, to possibly keep them out." "Yes, I agree Colonel Carter. However, they would have no need to keep people out, if they themselves did not have to remain in, confined within the pyramid." "Yep. Okay Teal'c you're right. They're not indigenous. Strange." "Strange Daniel?" "Yeah its strange Jack that I would completely overlook such an obvious fact." "I don't think so Daniel. Not today." "I second that Daniel." "Thanks Sam." "Indeed your mind is unequally divided today Daniel Jackson." "Err yes, I think so. Is it? Thanks Teal'c." "Carter, can we find it?" "Possibly yes Sir. In fact Teal'c it's an excellent suggestion. Knowing where they come from will tell us a great deal about them and what we're up against. As a start point I will run a full analysis on the dot, bar configurations in the video footage." "Addresses?" "Sir, that would be very very lucky." "Lets see. Okay, have we more to go on?" "Yep.. ..Jack we found different colour stones, stone slab blocks, all over the pyramid. On different storeys. Its difficult to pick up on at first because the colours are almost washed out but with Siler's high resolution rigging we've got good shots of these stones dotted around the place, all forming part of the structure. Mixed in with the other stone slabs." "What do you think?" "Erm unsure, could have run out of brick, erm unsure at this point Jack but.." "We're all over this one Sir. There may well be significance to attach because the stones are different, seemingly unrelated colours, though may be able to detect some kind of constructive formation. I'll be preparing a P7X 377 Fact Finding Mission summary for you within the hour." "Excellent People. Daniel don't over do it please. You've not had much sleep and you're under a lot of strain with Nick.." "Well you've had as much sleep as I have Jack so don't you over do it either." "Thank you Daniel." "Thanks Jack." "Erm, any other facts, findings, fishes, figures, anything to go on?" "Yes, yes! I almost forgot, well not forgot.." "Daniel?" "Among the digital photographs SG-14 brought back. Taking these marks to be phonetic Mayan glyphs and using a reading order of left to right and top to bottom, a name can be spelt out. Its written to the right of the pyramid entrance, foyer. It spells one word, 'Xibalbah'." "That's one of the words Nick was muttering whilst he was inside the glass cabinet. Go on." "It means Hell, or something much worse." "As Teal'c was saying, we need to prepare. And quickly people." "On it Sir. We'll have a full appraisal for you, tomorrow p.m. with interim summaries within the hour and a chronological account by noon." "We'll get through it by then Sam." "Thanks Daniel." "O'Neill, another important fact has emerged." "Whats that T?" "The name the Giant claimed to possess, Quetezalcoatl." "Yeah, what about it?" "The literal translation of the name means, Winged Serpent." "Holy hell." "That sums it up Jack." "Jumping monkeys." "I agree Sir." "Hells bells. Flying snakes." "Indeed." ~ ≈ Δ ± Ξ Σ Φ Ψ Δ ≈ µ Π ~ ~ ≈ Δ ± Ξ Σ Φ Ψ Δ ≈ µ Π ~
Um.. ..General O'Neill stirred. Oddish because it felt like morning, but it was still quite dark. It was obviously very late, or very early if you like, depending on which way you looked at it. He yawned. He stretched.. ..The General was beginning to come out of his much needed slumber. Funny though he didn't feel rested, he had gone to bed early enough. He felt light headed and cool. It was as though there was e'er so slight a breeze interfering with the whole of him. Making him feel non to comfortable and altogether chilly. And he felt a little dampish.. ..um. He began waking up even more, breathing in and stretching out to gain his bearings. Bearings.. ..he lost those quickly as he plummeted down to Earth with an almighty crash. He fell down on to the soft moist lawn of his secluded back garden, bouncing a little as he landed. "Aaahhhhh!! Holy heaven. What!!" He'd fallen, stark naked, out of the big oak tree at the bottom of his garden. He was now lying face up on the springy, nicely mowed green grass, under a dark and starry sky. All naked and confused he was. And covered in goose bumps all over. He sat for the quickest moment on the grass, shocked, yawning and gulping for breath. Leaning over his legs with his hands rubbing his eyes and face. His mouth was open and his mind was empty. What?? He let his hands slip apart while he focused his sight on the grass beneath him and his nakedness which began at his feet. He shakily turned his head and spotted his house, his home, just there where it should be. He didn't look around, just maintained his position on the grass whilst he sensed the situation. Um.. ..sitting in mi back garden on the moist grass in the dark early hours of the morning after just having fallen completely naked out of a tree.. ..Um. All clear! He quickly jumped up on to his feet and walked, not ran, to his house and went inside. He stood in the kitchen for a time unable to quite elucidate the event. He was having trouble with where to begin. In the tree. In bed last night. Just now here in the kitchen, in his birthday suit. Poison, no he very much doubted that. Thor, no way. Sleep walk, no never did. All things being equal, yeah right. He surveyed his home. Everything was just the same, the way he had left it before going to bed last night. He was back in the kitchen again. He opened the back door, left it open and stood back in summation. He'd left The SGC at a fairly decent time. The day had been normal, relatively. An absolute cascade of Briefings and Debriefings, all in order. The main concern for the day, a part from everything, was the as yet unquantified situation emanating from the 'Mayan Pyramid, noted and underway. Other than his trips to the infirmary, regarding Nick, he hadn't been in any of the other labs. He hadn't handled any of the artefacts brought back from off world. Today he'd not been in physical contact with any off world personnel. Apart from Major Lyons who'd been cleared, he'd had no physical contact with any teams returning from off world Missions. And he also hadn't been in contact with any extra terrestrial visitors. All in all everything was in order. A part from what just happen that is. Oh, his dinner earlier on. No, nothing exotic, usual food. Erm coffee, to much. No, he drank coffee but only in moderation. He enjoyed the odd beer but rarely bothered with alcohol. Erm, the drive home, he'd drove himself and it was clear all the way. He'd been listening to no loud music. And he'd been subjected to no flashing lights. And yet, um.. ..A naked General up in a tree. Damn and double drat. It made no sense. No sense at all. Sore and bruised, oh yeah, you betcha, big time, big fall. But forget about that, any pain he may have felt was way superseded by the manner, the means and the wherefore. Concerned, nah, he was waaay to worried for that. He picked up the telephone in the kitchen and speed dialled. "Teal'c where are you?" "In my quarters O'Neill." "T buddy come and pick me up." "O'Neill it is only 4 a.m. should not you now be sleeping?" "T." "I am on my way O'Neill." Dreaming, nnno. Sure, no way.. .. right. I'm not dreaming, right. Well I'll see soon enough. Teal'c sprang into the house through the open kitchen door. Before entering the General's house he'd conducted a provisional quick sweep of the grounds bringing him round to the back door. No, not dreaming. "Thanks for getting here so fast T." Teal'c was a picture to look at. He had all the kindness and caring for his friend written across his face. He was listening with the attention of someone extremely observant and acutely astute. The puzzlement dancing on his brow was not that he didn't believe what the General was saying, because he did believe, every single word of it. Both men had total respect and admiration for each other. True brotherly love. They also each had an unshakeable trust in the other. No, the puzzlement was the manner, the means and the wherefore. Teal'c went back out into the grounds of the General's home. He scouted and came back. O'Neill put hot drinks on the breakfast bar. "On what are your thoughts O'Neill?" "Firstly I can't think straight at this hot second. Mi minds a heck of a lot busy with a trifling amount. I can't focus properly T. Crikey, I've just fallen out of a tree, hows that. Shock, do ya think?" "I do think shock O'Neill. What else?" "Well how come I went to sleep in a bed and woke up falling out of a tree." "Yes." "Yes?" "Indeed. What else O'Neill?" "Okay, when I came out of the tree and hit the deck, hard, and got back inside the house, the only possibilities I came up with and subsequently ruled out were poison, sleep walking and Thor." "The First is impossible O'Neill. All your people are loyal." He thought for a moment and added with stalwart earnestness, "extremely loyal." "Yeah I know T. I ruled that out straight away." "Sleep walking O'Neill, this would more closely suit your condition. The shamans of long lost civilisations did especially believe in the transformation of man into animal who could then take flight and traverse great distances in the quest for answers.." "T.. ..when I went to bed last night I had no questions on my mind.. .. well okay maybe one or two, but nothing which would require me to take flight." "But flight you did take O'Neill. I have searched the grounds of your home and I find no clue as to how you got up into the tree. If you made the climb unaided I would at least discover your footprints. There are also no imprints from any type of support which would have assisted you in such a high climb. I did however find all the impressions of your fall to Earth and also your barefoot walk back to the house." "Teal'c this is a real serious problem." "Yerrss." Teal'c was in full agreement with his friend but as yet they were unable to exchange constructive explanation. "Right now I would prefer we solve this ourselves." "O'Neill, we will solve this problem together. But I fear first we must gather more facts.. ..and more evidence." "More evidence! What you think its going to happen again?" "Yes O'Neill I do." Gawd no, not without a seatbelt or a parachute, something. The General looked a little drained. Seeing this his friend commented. "Thor." "Thor's a good pal. He wouldn't leave me stuck up in a tree." "Indeed he would not O'Neill." "Sleep walking T, what do ya think?" "No. Your personality, nature, even in the sleeping state is much to calm for an activity such as that. Your subconscious would prevent it. We must devote a great deal of thought and meditation to solve this serious matter." "Thanks Teal'c buddy. That really would be a great help." "You are most welcome O'Neill." "I need you to take some blood." General O'Neill offered Teal'c his arm and a small field medical kit. "Take your blood O'Neill. I can not." "Teal'c you're not spilling my blood you're draining it, just a tiny bit. Beside I'm asking you to and plus its an emergency. Come on heres the needle." "No! I will help you O'Neill but I will not take blood away from you." "Come on T, it's a favour, like a gift." "No O'Neill, not! We must ask Colonel Carter to take a tiny bit." "No! Absolutely not. No way! This stays between you and me. Not a word." "She would want to know." "Absolutely she would want to know. Teal'c we don't know what we're dealing with. Its sent me for six. You know, confusing. She'll be jumping all over it. Tests, more tests and super tests. She won't rest until shes fixed me." "Indeed O'Neill you are correct." Teal'c began laughing, imagining Colonel Carter fussing over the General. "Ah discretion." "Yes T, sub rosa, si vu plait." "O'Neill, if you yourself can find away to extract your own blood, I will take it off base, a non military establishment. They can analyse it quickly." "Takes about one or two weeks in those private places." "No O'Neill, they will do it immediately." "Good one T. Right, now come and hold my arm straight while I jam this needle in to draw blood." "No!"
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"I would like Major Griff to assist me in obtaining test results on these fluids O'Neill." "I don't have a problem with that. Griff's the soul of discretion." "Indeed he holds his own council extremely well. He also will not require that I disclose the precise object of my quest. Our serious matter will therefore remain private." "Sounds good to me. Surprised you didn't want to take Daniel along." "I wish to take Daniel Jackson along with me. But you already know why I can not." For a moment they were like little kids, both of them giggling and grinning in the elevator. Teal'c disembarked to return to his quarters. General O'Neill continued on to Level twenty-seven. "Good morning General. Sir I'll just collect your messages." "Thank you Lieutenant." ~ Ψ Γ √ χ Λ Φ Ω Δ √ ∞ ≡ ~ It was near to 0 seven hundred hours. Teal'c phoned Griff on base. He arranged to meet in the gymnasium. Most of The SGC personnel found time to work out on a regular basis. Peak physical condition was also a service requirement. "Major Griff there is a laboratory in Salt Lake City. I need to go there so that they can conduct a defined job for me." "I've been to Salt Lake City before Teal'c, it's a nice place, can't be more than twelve hundred miles round trip. How you planning on getting there?" "Conventional land methods." "Well you talking, gotta be a full days drive." "Indeed." "When are you planning on going?" "Within the hour. They may be reluctant to complete the specified job and provide the results immediately thereby foregoing the usual lengthy waiting period of one to two weeks." "They won't be reluctant Teal'c." "Indeed." "Teal'c let me speak to Pierce." "Major Pierce is not on base until Thursday." "I know, lucky guy. SG-15 are on a three day stand down. All that hard work paying off. I'm pretty sure he'll come in. Yeah he'll definitely cover for me, stand in for me, hes a good guy. I'll just have to owe him an extra day." "Very good. Thank you Major Griff." "Sure thing Teal'c. Okay I'll call him now. Give him twenty, twenty five minutes to get here. Shall we call it thirty minutes in the motor pool?" "Indeed. Yes." "I'll have to get authorisation from General O'Neill on the stand in with Pierce. It should be okay because my Team aren't on ready status. Em he should allow it. If I get knocked back by the General I'll let you know.. ..I'll call you straight away." "Thank you. Major Griff?" "What?" "I was thinking perhaps to wear civilian clothing." "Special Ops?" Teal'c said nothing but politely nodded. "I understand." ~ ζ λ μ π γ χ ψ Γ Ξ ζ μ ~ "I don't understand. Has there been any complaints?" "We're not at liberty to say Sir." "Well where did you get our address? Are we being targeted? Are we on a list? Is this a state wide check?" "Ma'am we're not at liberty to say. My colleague and I are merely here to establish that the criteria set by NAH is being met. Theres nothing to worry about. Theres no complaints and all results collected will not be published." "But why weren't we notified?" "To be notified Sir would likely produce false positives, effectively rendering the survey null and void." "What? I beg your pardon." "Well put it this way ma'am, if you knew we were coming you'd have time to prepare and the results that we subsequently collected would not necessarily reflect the true state of affairs in this laboratory." "Oh. And who did you say you were with again?" "..Doctor.. ..Chisholme, as I've explained, we are with the NID. "You mean the NIH don't you?" "No ma'am I don't. We are with the NID. I'm Agent Griffin, this is Agent Tango. Now I suggest you set to work and lets get this over as quickly as possible, so that we can all go about our normal business." "Very well then Agent Griffin. If you could please wait in the outer office, we'll deal with your follicle and fluids chemistry panelling trial as a matter of priority." Teal'c de Chulak, human of old. Manful indeed, outstretches attire and a scowl that deceives, both fire and desire. At a hundred and much odd hes wisdom and wise and hes also got big tighs. A thing about Teal'c and it comes a surprise is the dimension he can take you when he uncrunches his eyes. Hes strong, hes powerful, he can mete adament reprise. But when he lights up a smile it twinkles in your eyes. Teal'c hadn't said a word but inside he was very happy. He was fully confident that he would have the test results on his friend's fluids within the hour. He had left all the talking to the 'eloquent' Major Griff. He was a capable man, an acquirer. If you wanted results acquiring Major Griff would acquire those results. He had worked for many years under General Hammond's and now General O'Neill's command at The SGC. His time with General O'Neill extended further back, before The SGC. He also was an ex-Special Ops man, although, ex and Special Ops rarely went together. Teal'c had a feeling that not only himself, but O'Neill as well, was sure the answers to the General's early morning flight path would not be found in the hair and fluids he had provided. After fifty minutes of relative silence the door opened and the two doctors entered the room. "Well this is everything. You have the entire referencing range here for all samples. Em, theres both written and graphical representation. Now will there be anything else? Do we need to take any type of exam, questionnaires, anything?" She was making it obvious that they were very put out. "No ma'am that won't be necessary and I'd like to say you've been very co-operative and just as a hint I can tell you that the time its taken for you to run these tests is pretty high up there. An impressive response." "Oh well that's definitely something. I take it we'll be hearing from you?" "No ma'am you won't. Only the ones who don't reach the required standards receive notification." "Oh well then I suppose I should say thank you." "No ma'am, thank you." "Indeed." As soon as they got inside the car Major Griff handed Teal'c the envelope Doctor Chisholme had given to him. "Teal'c do you wanna check it out?" "No.. ..no thank you. The important issue was to obtain the results." "Okay then. Lets get gone. Em theres a place on the way back to base about two hours from here. We can stop and get something to eat there if you like." "Yes that would be very nice thank you." "Okay lets go Teal'c." "Yes Major Griff lets go. You have admirable style. I'd like to thank you for your assistance in acquiring the results." "Sure thing Teal'c. You're welcome." ~ ζ λ μ π γ χ ψ Γ Ξ ζ μ ~ "Teal'c Sir. They've finished." "Thank you Lieutenant." Teal'c was in the Control Room talking to Sergeant Harriman. The General's aide had trod halfway down the staircase. The General had been Debriefing with one of his Teams and was now free for a short time before he was engaged again with the next crucial matter of this and that. Teal'c dashed up the stairs. General O'Neill was still in the Briefing Room. He was being handed a folder full of pages by one of his aides. "Ah Teal'c, how goes it?" "Very well thank you O'Neill. Very good journey thank you." "Take a seat." "Yes I will, thank you." They both sat down at the conference table. "Well?" "I have something to show you General O'Neill." Teal'c glanced at the General's office and then looked back at the General and didn't speak. The General stood up, picked up his folder and headed towards his office. "Err Teal'c have you got a moment." Teal'c stood up and followed the General through, closing the door behind him. He took out the folded envelope from his jacket pocket. Unfolded it, flattened it and presented it to the General. "As we suspected O'Neill, there is no anomaly to be found in your bio-samples." "Yeah I guess it was to much to hope it would be that easy." "Yes this is not an easy problem." "Whats next?" "Colonel Carter?" "No! No.. ..no T. Its this damn deuced flying feathered snake bother. Theres something coming out of that pyramid and its not gonna be nice. She needs a clear head." "I agree O'Neill. I agree." "So whats next?" "We must wait and watch." "I feel a bit.. ..I feel a bit.." "You feel a bit afraid O'Neill?" "Maybe.. ..yes, may be. T its em, theres no control involved. You can't predict.. ..maybe it won't happen again." "May be." "You don't think so?" "I do not. We must wait and watch O'Neill." "That's the worst part.. ..Okay T do what you can." "I will. And you do what you can. But most of all O'Neill do not become apprehensible." "Hows that?" "Like Colonel Carter and Daniel Jackson and myself, you too must have a clear head. As like all of us, you have much to do. You have more to do than all of us. If you become apprehensive in your wait, you will spoil your sleep which will spoil your waking time. You will not be relaxed and you will become tense." "Um yeah, I get your point.. ..I know what you mean. Well okay, okay T lets see what happens." "Indeed O'Neill, I am on your six." "Thanks buddy, thanks." There was a knock on the door. "General O'Neill your next appointment Sir." "Just a minute, thank you just a minute." "Sir." "That's me up again T. Erm okay I'll speak to you later, gotta blaze." "Yes, I must now report to Colonel Carter. Together with Daniel Jackson we are working on the P7X 377 Fact Finding Mission." "Okay Teal'c see ya." "O'Neill."
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"Oh hi there Teal'c. Can I just introduce you to Doctor Emilia Grange, shes an epigraphist, and Professor Eamon Heslop, hes an expert in Mesoamerican.. ..hes an ethnologist, eh yeh. The specialists drafted in from Area 51.. ..here to assist us on.. ..so we can get through this as quick as possible. Yep, given General O'Neill's concerns we need to get through this ASAP so we can present him with our findings." "Indeed Daniel Jackson, General O'Neill is extremely concerned with everything related to P7X 377. It is a great pleasure to meet you both. Have you had time to inspect any of the samples recovered?" "No, as yet we haven't had time to go through any samples Mr Teal'c. We've been concentrating on the video footage, that's whats going to give us the overall picture of what we're dealing with. Get the macro.. ..the macro view so to speak." "Yes, I see Professor Heslop. Daniel Jackson, Colonel Carter is not here?" "No, she just took a few of the samples down to her lab, well, up. Shes running a few chemical analysis tests, she'll be back in a little while." "Doctor Grange have we not meet before now?" "No I don't think so. No I'm quite sure. I'm sure I would have remembered you. No I don't think we have. Perhaps I've got one of those familiar faces." "Indeed." "Hey Teal'c, see you've met Doctors Grange and Heslop." "Yes Colonel Carter. Yes, we have been speaking." "Good." "Colonel Carter, your findings? Daniel Jackson tells me you have been in your lab conducting tests on some of the samples found." "Yeah Teal'c, I'm running a number of consecutive programs. Zvi, Mr, Doctor Equalsee, you've met him haven't you? The Geochemist brought in from Groom Lake. Hes taken the organic matter off to research and hes telling me they'll let us have the results back, the earliest they can do it is tomorrow post meridian, which is cutting it close because I want the Reports ready for the General no later that O fifteen hundred hours. Anyway, em, as for the rock samples, obsidian," "Really Sam?" "Yeah its em, they're just little pieces of obsidian." "Obsidian, Doctor Carter, was widely, extensively, used throughout ancient Mesoamerican civilisations. Its been used for tools, weapons, its also been used to manufacture icons. It was one of the more favoured materials." "Well now that is interesting Doctor Heslop. Because the rock is foreign to P7X 377, so it does perhaps indicate that we're on the right track. Daniel believes that the Mayans and the peoples before them, we're sort of kidnapped if you like, rounded up and transported into the pyramid to form work forces." "At this stage Doctor Carter, taking in to account the evidence of obsidian along with the images of the glyphs that we've seen up to now, I would say that is a very fair assumption." "The main thing is is that we're building a picture. We're going to have to work hard and fast on this one. We need to publish a Mission Report for General O'Neill's attention.. ..as a matter of urgency." "Doctor Carter, Doctor Jackson was informing us that you've suspicions about the markings that appear in the shapes of dots and bars. He said you feel that this could well be a numbering system." "Yes Professor.. ..Doctor Heslop, I've been thinking about that and I am convinced that's just what it is." "In that case Colonel maybe that's a place where I could begin my studies." "Well yeah okay then, because if we can come up with numbers from the numbers we might be able to educe names and or addresses." "StarGate addresses Colonel Carter?" "That's right Teal'c, that would be a scoop." "I'll begin on this immediately Colonel." "Doctor Grange, Doctor Jackson will provide you with the frames you need. Daniel have you got the heating turned up in here? Seems quite hot." "Erm no.. ..no not that I've noticed. Maybe its just you, you've been dashing about all over the place." "Yeah could be." "Eh Doctor Heslop what do you make of this?" "Whats that Doctor Jackson?" "The em, these different colour masonry blocks. Seem to be dotted around over the pyramid. Sort of washed out now but you can vaguely see some kind of colouration in them. Does this mean anything?" "Well not to me, no. But that doesn't necessarily mean to say its irrelevant, its just that I can't see any significance in it." "Oh. Its just that they've obviously gone to the trouble of painting them. Erm, I thought maybe it meant something." "Well I've never seen the likes of it in any of the pyramids throughout the ancient Mid Americas." "Oh eh, none?" "None, non.. ..I mean a lot of the societies where tremdously artistic but they just didn't really apply it to the temples, pyramids. I suppose they felt the structures themselves were demonstrative enough. No Doctor Jackson, I'm afraid I've never come across this before." "Oh well em, it was worth a try." "From the sounds of it Doctor Jackson we need to go through this with a fine tooth comb." "Thanks Doctor.. ..Professor." "Your welcome Doctor." "Colonel Carter do we have a carbon date on the skeletons?" "No we don't Teal'c, nothing yet but, oh that's coming as well tomorrow, afternoon. We'll be getting near enough all the results back tomorrow afternoon. Have you got any guesses on age?" "No I have no guesses. We have no clues as yet." "Okay, well hopeful we'll get the info tomorrow." "Very good." "Doctor Grange do you have any preliminary conclusions on the frames you've looked at so far?" "Not really Colonel, I'd say not. Though you were correct in you approximation. Usage of dot and bar system began around the beginning of the first common millennium. I'm starting to think that perhaps these particular markings are more a show of decoration." "Have you not noticed that there seems to be a regular pattern formation emerging?" "I wouldn't attribute to much importance to that. Its common when we're dealing with peoples who had limited access to expression, the written expression. You tend to get an awful lot of regularity in the markings, this phenomena does point to some type of pattern formation but it lacks intelligent meaning." "Rrright.. ..Daniel while you're at it could you run me off a copy of the same set of frames that you've given to Doctor Grange." "No Colonel that won't be necessary, I'll save you the work, its quite alright, I'll get through this speedily. I'll be able to work through this, so theres no need for repetitiveness, especially since we're all working to deadline." "Rrright.." Daniel noticed Sam flinching as Doctor Grange spoke. It seemed the two ladies were not getting off to a good start. Strange though, Sam was usually very welcoming of visiting specialists. "Yeah Sam I'll run you off a copy." "Thanks Daniel." "You're welcome Sam." "Em, Daniel I'll just pop up to my lab, see if the last series of tests are completed. See if the computers finished analysing the rock sample I fed it. Teal'c do you fancy a walk." "Yes I do." The Colonel and Teal'c left Daniel's laboratory and headed to the elevator bay. ~ ζ λ μ π γ χ ψ Γ Ξ ζ μ ~ "What do you think about them Teal'c?" "I have not been thinking about them Colonel Carter." "Well do me a favour and think about them now. Give me your opinion." "Doctor Heslop is very amicable." "Yeah hes lovely isn't he. Hes a Professor Emeritus. Daniel tells me hes one of the top experts in his field." "Yes I assumed he would be a top expert. Area 51 seems to employ only the best experts in each field." "Oh yeah good point, that's true. What do you think of Grange?" "Um." "Um? Um good or um bad?" "Neither. I have seen her before, although she denies ever having met me." "What you think you've met her before?" "No I do not. However I am sure I have seen her somewhere in the past. "Under what circumstances?" "I do not know Colonel Carter, but I will pay attention and endeavour to recall." "Yeah, please do, that will be interesting Teal'c. I'd like to know where you've seen her before. Was it in.. ..well just keep thinking on that one." "I will." "What do you think about what she said?" "I do not believe she is correct." "Ah but Teal'c you did just say she was a top expert in her field." "Yes, but Colonel Carter, even top experts can make incorrect assumptions." "Well yeah that's true. Whats she not right about?" "I believe your conjecture that the circle and line markings are a number system, is correct and I also believe as you do, that in that system is to be found areas of significance." "Thank you Teal'c, and that is exactly what I think. I'll tell you something, theres a very interesting and possibly menacing P7X 377 picture evolving." "Indeed there is." "The General's concerns?" "I think he most correct to be concerned." "Yeah so do I.. ..so do I. And the more we find out about Nick's condition, the more that concern is being replaced with a disturbing amount of anxiety. We really need to get on with this Teal'c, get to the bottom of it." "We do. Daniel Jackson and myself intend to work throughout the night." "Well I might leave you to that. I'm stuck waiting for the test results, I also need to conference with a few of the SG Team leaders. Yeah I need to see where Doctor Lee is with the Golden Skull as well." "Perhaps Colonel Carter, Doctor Grange will not discover an intelligent out come from her study of the circles and lines." "You noticed that too. I've got that covered Teal'c. Daniel's run me off an exact copy of the frames hes given her. I'll examine it myself, work in my lab. She doesn't need to know." "Yes she may not feel comfortable knowing that her project is being duplicated." "Well shes not going to find out. Why do you think she was so negative about it?" "She was extremely negative, though I believe she attempted to shield the negativity, her motive, I am unaware" "Hey Teal'c what do you think about these samples. Look this is the obsidian." "They're shinny." "They are aren't they, glassy looking. Have you seen obsidian before?" "Yes." "Oh.. ..I haven't." "Colonel Carter what is this? Some of the rock has signs of life." "I noticed that as well, looks like it was green moss, its almost moist, perhaps it was moss but I don't think its alive anymore Teal'c, its more of a powdery residue now." "Indeed there is little sign of life being able to exist in the P7X 377 pyramid." "In phase theres no life signs, we need to discover whats in there out of phase. Yeah, okay, the computers nowhere near finished. I suppose we'd better get back down to the twentieth." "Yes there is much to do." "You're right about that Teal'c, heaps to do." ~ ψ җ Π Λ Φ π ∑ ≍ ∁ ℑ ~ "Daniel Jackson it does seem very warm in your office today." "Oh not you as well. First Sam and now you. What is it, working under pressure getting' to you, ha ha." Daniel was laughing at his own joke. Funny or not Teal'c was scowling, which made Daniel laugh even more. "It simply appears to be more warm than usual Daniel Jackson." "Well Teal'c the heatings not on. If you want I can turn one of the fans on. How about you Doctor Heslop are you feeling hot?" "No actually quite the opposite. We're use to working in a different room temperature. Perhaps it's the stone walls of this place, not use to them." "Em Doctor Grange are you hot, to hot?" "No, same as Professor Heslop. I find it fairly cool in here." "Oh sorry about that." "Can't be helped." "Well actually it can if we put the heating on." "No really Doctor Jackson we'll manage." "Sorry about this Teal'c and you Sam." "I will be fine Daniel Jackson. Thank you." Teal'c peeled off his jacket. "Okay Daniel I'm going to call it quits here for now, I'll carry on up in my own lab. I'll ring through later and see how you're doing." "Oh okay then Sam, em yeah okay, if theres anything interesting or urgent I'll give you a bell straight away." "Okay see you later. Teal'c." "Colonel Carter." "Doctor Heslop, Professor, very nice to meet you. And Doctor Grange its also nice to meet you, and I'll be back later to discuss our findings." "Before you leave Colonel, on my arrival I had a brief meeting with General O'Neill in his office. He did mention the Redderain System may be a possible location of the 'Mayan Giants' home world." "Really the Redderain galaxy, oh well that's definitely a start. Thank you for that Doctor Grange, I'll get on to that immediately." "Yes you're welcome Colonel Carter."
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Colonel Carter was at home. Clean combed, brushed, washed up and pampered in a lacy number and just about to go to bed. She sat on the edge checking the time. She pulled the covers back and began to sink into comfort. "What!! What?" She went out through the glass double doors and up three steps to the lower rooftop veranda. "Watch your step there Carter, Ix, you'll send that extragalactic nebula spiralling out of control." "Oh come on Cauac, you can still control it when its skidding." "Yeah Kan, you
can control it into an even bigger spin." "What Daniel?" "Come and join me up here Carter, Ix." "Is? Do you mean Ms Sir?" "Ix I think he said kidding not skidding. Carter, red errant, are you kidding me?" "Sir she said the Redderain system. Am I dreaming?" "No Colonel Ix, I believe he said kidding not skidding." "What Teal'c? Am I dreaming?" The General had his back to Colonel Carter. He was standing on the upper veranda at his house, leaning into what looked like the Hubble Telescope, or something bigger. She began laughing. The sight was creasing her up. "Sir where did you get that from? Its bigger than your house. Where did you get it from? How did you get it up the steps? Whats holding the roof up?" The General turned round and eyed her up. Literally. He was wearing a red eye patch over his right eye. But what made it even more strange was that the patch wasn't down on his eye, it was raised up and ajar from his eye, sticking out and open, probably for a dual view through the binoculars. "There you are me dear Ix." "Sir you don't need an eye patch." In his hands he was holding a pair of high powered binoculars. "Sir why on earth are you using binoculars to look through a telescope? That's got to be the most powerful telescope I've ever seen." "Um, all the better to see you with me dear. I say there um. All the better to see with. Get in the whole picture hey what. Take a look if you like Ix, just as soon as I've finished. Yes I'll just have another look, stand away Ix." "What? What Sir? Sir why are you talking like that? Is this some kind of a joke?" He sounded like an
English aristocrat. And he was dressed like an American fighter
pilot from the early 1920's. He was wearing jodhpurs, a vintage
leather flight jacket and old leather aviation headgear, a fighter
pilot's leather flying helmet. His goggles, which were resting on
his headgear, were fitted with tinted red filters. And unkempt,
he still had about a weeks worth to shave off his chin. "Sir what are you looking for?" He was using the binoculars to look through the telescope lenses. "Herring me dear. Red herring, hey what." "What Sir?" Colonel Carter heard a motor bike rolling up to the General's house. "Siler! Sergeant how did you get here?" He was in the driveway below the General's veranda sitting on Colonel Carter's Harley Davidson. "I'm not here Colonel. I'm just running a few errands." "What Sergeant?" "Here we are Ix, your turn to take a look me dear." "What General? Sir, Sir are you in my house? Are we on your roof? Are you in my dream Sir? Where are we? Who's is that sunrise behind you? Its beautiful Sir." "Oh don't mind Cauac, hes not got his bearings. Hes looking in the wrong field. I've been trying to tell him. I've been taking measurements." "Daniel? What on earth are you wearing?" "What am I wearing, on Earth? What am I wearing on the Earth? You do realise Ix that at this very moment we are in fact on Cauac's veranda. We're rapidly rotating towards Cauac. We're suspended above the Earth." "What! What?" "Ix we are no longer on the Earth itself." Daniel Looked like Copernicus carrying a sextant or some type of instrument. "Daniel whats that?" "Whats what?" "Whats that you're holding?" "It's the tide." "What?" "The tides coming in." "What?" "Its Time. Running out of time." "What? Daniel?" "Ix kidding or skidding?" "What General? Sir am I dreaming. This doesn't feel like a dream but.." "Ix you've got to be able to see the truth of a situation. The truth me dear, is an entirely separate entity." "Sir, you mean right now, here, right here?" "Just redding a few errants Colonel Carter Ma'am." Siler was firing the Harley up. "What? Wait. Sergeant wait, wait!" Sergeant Siler was ridding Colonel Carter's motor bike. Throwing it full speed into burning skids. "I'll just be over the sky." "What Sergeant?" "Errants to run Ma'am." "What?" "Colonel Ix, It still hasn't dawned." Teal'c was dressed liked Isaac Newton and he was wearing one of those old fashioned powdered wigs. And he was chewing on an apple and at the same time he was repeating something. "Has it not yet dawned upon you that he said kidding and not skidding. Colonel Ix, it does not appear to have dawned upon you that he said kidding and not skidding." "Teal'c oh my goodness. Teal'c what are you doing? You're floating!" "Go on Mulac tell her." "Teal'c you're floating!!" "Colonel Ix, I am in fact standing on the shoulders of giants. I am standing on the shoulder's of many." "Standing on the shoulders, Teal'c, you mean like.. ..like.." "Like Oss. Just like Oss." "Oz Sir?" "If Colonel Ix, you were to observe my method more closely.." "Oh don't mind Mulac, floating. Floating indeed. Ha!" "General?" "Oss! Hes talking
about Oss, Ix." "That damned damnable bloody Ossiferous, little minky. Always up to his tricks. You take a good look. Floating, ha! Ha!" "What, who?" "Whato. There there mon chère, penny not quite dropped has it. Non to worry it will all be come clear just as soon as you.." "Red Cauac, looks shifty to me." Daniel had been looking around the Milky Way through the binoculars, through the high powered telescope. "Ix come look!" "Daniel I can't
use those things to look through a powerful telescope." "Um to bad. Blue dandy! A beautiful big red sssmoky smmmoky, smoooky smokey cloud. Nebula, nebulae, nebulus, nebulium. Um! Smokey!! Blue dandy! What say you Kan?" "Um. Cauac, to far a field I say." "What say you
Mulac?" "Teal'c do you mean Oz?" "Oz? Ossiferous." "I am definitely dreaming aren't I Sir? Its just that I think I'm awake." She turned to watch Teal'c floating along the veranda, bobbing up and down slightly as he glided by. General O'Neill came back into her view. Not with an eye patch. Not with binoculars. Immaculately dressed in a beautifully cut suit, like an aristocrat. He was standing on the roof top pointing up at the sky. He spoke in an Archaic language and then after in English but he offered no interpretation of his words. "Ini Imi imi ixci ici a soo as'su du'uresh jarmse'ci. Ix, red sky at night is truly my delight. Red sky towards morning, its got to be some kind of warning." He turned to Colonel Carter who was still dressed in her lacy nighty. He was smiling at her. He was now clean shaven with his arms folded and speaking in his usual voice. "Red sky in the morning. Ix, is it dawning!" "Am I dreaming? Am I.. ..are you in my dream Sir? I think I'm awake! Sir where is this place? Its beautiful. Its absolutely beautiful. I've never seen, I've never seen a sun raise like this before. How can we still be here on your roof? I don't think we're here Sir. Sunset was only a few hours ago. How can it be sun raise already? Behind the General the most spectacular, beautiful dawn was coming up on them. "Ix listen. Vush vush yerrhu vush vush yerr. Vush vush yerrhu vush vush yerr. Go on Ix you say it. It'll keep you safe. Say it!" "Okay Sir. Vush vush yerrhu vush vush yerr. Vush vush yerrhu vush vush yerr." "Now remember
those words for me when you have to. Just repeat it again for me." "Chombejerran, chombejerr." The General winked at Colonel Carter and smiled. "Ix, watch this!" "Watch what Sir?" "Shuush, trust me Ix. Just watch." "I trust you Sir." "I know it. Shushh." He smiled at Colonel Carter. "Ix its time." The General, Teal'c and Daniel were now all wearing the same impeccably cut suits. They looked at each other and smiled. They all stretched massively yoga chi towards the open sky. They smiled again and bowed to each other. "Cauac." "Kan." "Mulac." "Cauac." "Kan." "Mulac." "Kan." "Cauac." "Cauac." "Mulac." "Mulac." "Kan." Still on the veranda they turned away from each other and slowly began to walk in opposite directions. They all began to stretch out again as if reaching up towards heaven. Colonel Carter began to stretch and yawn. She heard a loud bang. A seismic shock. It woke her up. "What? Vush vush yeah, yeah, yeah hu yeah, what!! Vush vush yerrhu vush vush yerr. What?" She hurriedly leaped out of bed and for no apparent reason jumped up in the air. Sort of like a star jump. Shock! She wasn't tired in the least. Not in the least. Wide awake. "Sir? Sir?" She was shouting for the General. He wasn't there. "Vush vush yeah hu, yeah vush vush, what?. Why had she woken up? That bang had woken her up. It somehow.. ..somehow someone wanted to.. ..wanted for her to wake up. "Sir? Daniel?" She peered into the living room. Daniel, Dan, Kan, wasn't there either. She ran through to the open plan kitchen half expecting to see Teal'c go floating by. "Teal'c? Teal'c?" Teal'c wasn't there or Meal'c ha! There was no Teal'c floating around. The General wasn't there and Daniel wasn't there. She was on her own. Vush vush yeah wu yeah vu. She ran to the back door, unlatched it and swung it open and stepped out onto the porch. Yeah it was dawn alright. But not a red one. And not the most beautiful one she'd ever seen, nowhere near. Her friends, her colleagues were nowhere to be found. She was grossly over stunned. It didn't feel like she'd been to sleep and woken up. She was sure she hadn't slept. It felt like she'd been somewhere, outside. Perhaps in the stars, somewhere. Been there and come back, but was still expecting to actually be there, where ever it was she'd been. Vush vush, why? Remember why? Safe. How? Is that why she'd been woken up. Who made that bang? Seismic event. That's what had woken her up. What was it yeah, vush vush yerrhu vush vush yerr. Oh this was to weird, much to weird. Double weird and scrambled pegs. She came back into the house, latched and locked the door. And went to get a coldish shower. She put the kettle on first and went into the bedroom, the en suite. A tepid shower, that was the order of the morning. Vush vush yerr. Um!! Ope..
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"Daniel are you sure the heatings not on in here, have you checked it out?" "No Sam, I told you yesterday, its definitely not on. In fact its not even that warm." "Teal'c you feel it don't you?" "No I do not Colonel Carter. Although I did for a time find it quite warm, hot, yesterday. Today I find the temperature as usual." "Oh. Well it just feels really hot." "Sam are you alright? Is there a chance you could be getting a slight fever?" "No way. I feel fine Daniel. Em, actually no I don't feel very fine. I feel a bit spaced out really." "Colonel Carter, please sit down." "No, I'm fine. I'm alright Teal'c." "Yes you are alright but please sit down." "Okay." Samantha, Samantha, Samantha. A beauty in boots. Mad scientist at large, harsh. She counts up to twenty, unaided, quite quickly too, as a rule geniuses usually do. She can spell her name without lookin', build a bomb while shes cookin'. Hot, its that sun, she'll get rid of that too. Ships nearly fixed, oops, timers, Colonel Carter's been through. Give her a gun she'll get the job done. Give her some men she'll take over the den. Point, six all the clicks. Carter Carter Carter. An amazing Star Charter. "How come you're spaced out Sam, whats up?" "Ooou, you will not believe the dream that I had last night. You will not believe it. I.. ..well I can't really call it a dream." "Colonel Carter you suffered a nightmare?" "No, no, no it was nothing like that Teal'c, it, no it wasn't.. ..phew, it wasn't anything like that." "Was it one of those waking dreams Sam?" "Well I definitely felt awake. It just didn't feel like a dream at all. It felt as real as we are in this room.. ..And it was the strangest, strangest dream I've ever had in my life." "Sounds interesting." "You said it Daniel." "Well come on then out with it." "Well alright but only if you get me a cold drink. I'm absolutely burning up here. Are you sure you don't feel hot?" "There is no increase in temperature and no reason for us to feel extra hot." "No Sam, I told you, its you." "Yeah, must be." Daniel took three cold bottles of water out of his mini refrigerator. "Okay Sam, the floors yours. Don't be to long though, the others are in at nine." "Oh yeah they're time keepers at Area 51." "Yeah, by the booko." "Okay it.. ..right, okay. Err, I went to bed and it felt like before I even got to sleep I was awake again. I was on the General's veranda, and you know his telescope?" "Yeah." "Okay, ha ha ha, wait for it, ha, okay, that was the size of the Hubble telescope." "What on his house, on Jack's house. That would bury his entire house." "I know it was so strange. You were all in the dream. Daniel you was dressed like Copernicus." "Colonel Carter, this is not an ordinary dream. I am most surprised that it features Daniel Jackson wearing copper nickers, this is indeed a most strange affair." "Ha ha ha .. ..come on Teal'c gimme a break. I don't wear copper nickers, not even in other peoples dreams." "But.." "Teal'c, Nicolaus Copernicus, koh pern nee kus, he was a famous astronomer in the fifteen hundreds." "Yes indeed Colonel Carter, yes, I believe I have heard of him. I apologise Daniel Jackson." "Don't mention it Teal'c. Again. Ever, thank you." "Do you two wanna hear this or not?" "Yes." "Yes." "Okay, Daniel you was dressed like a well known astronomer, circa early sixteenth C. Famous for his theories on a Solãris system. Teal'c you was dressed like Isaac Newton and the General was dressed like a nineteen twenties fighter pilot. It was so damn weird, I can remember every single detail of it. It was so completely real. Em, okay Jack was looking up at the sky. He was wearing an eye patch. And erm, yeah he was looking through the telescope using binoculars, which is the strangest thing I've ever seen." "O'Neill likes to be thorough Colonel Carter." Daniel and Sam burst out laughing. "Teal'c you should have been there." "He was wasn't he Sam." "Shush, erm, you were all talking to each other, oh gawd yeah, erm.. ..you.. ..were.. ..talking.." "Sam? Sam? Are you alright?" "Yeah I'm fine." "No, no Colonel Carter you are not fine. You are unwell." "No honestly Teal'c I'm fine." "No, I insist, you are not fine." "Sam hes right, you look pale. How are you feeling?" "No I feel fine Daniel. I just feel very hot. Em actually do you know something, I could do with a little bit of a sleep." "No, no erm, no don't, don't sleep. Erm, em.." Teal'c jumped up, picked up Daniel's phone and speed dialled straight through to General O'Neill's private line. "O'Neill, Colonel Carter is unwell. We are in Daniel Jackson's office." "On my way." Teal'c put the phone down again. General O'Neill cut short his meeting and excused himself. Colonel Carter wasn't objecting. She was now beginning to feel quite faint. "Daniel em, have you got some ice. Maybe you could just put some ice on the back of my head." "Yes Sam no problem just hold on a minute." Daniel made a leap and dive for the freezer. He grabbed his ice pack out of the mini fridge, wrapped it in his jacket sleeve, and place it on the nape of the Colonel's neck and then brought it round to her forehead, and then wiped it across her forehead and began pressing it on either cheek. "Sam how you feelin'?" "I don't know I feel a bit weak. I feel fine.. ..I feel fine, but I just feel a bit weak. Erm I think I'll be alright in a minute, actually the ice is helping." "Oh that's good, that's good." Daniel put his ice pack back on the Colonel's nape and held it there. General O'Neill barged into the office. "Carter whats wrong?" "Don't know Sir.. ..its just.. ..I was feeling fine but I just felt a little bit over heated. Erm, I actually feel fine. Just a little bit weak." "A little bit weak is not fine Carter." He peered into her eyes, looking for something, anything. He put his hand to her forehead. Yeah shes hot. And she looks pale. He looked round the room and gestured. 'Okay go on, tell me'. "O'Neill, Colonel Carter had a most unusual experience last night." "Excuse me?" "Yeah it was actually General. It was a very very exceedingly strange dream, it wasn't like a dream at all. Em.." "Yah, a dream, enchanting. Swinging Carter, but lets forget about that for now, just tell me how you feel." "No its alright General, I've em, this ice pack that Daniel's administering seems to be doing the trick. I was just feeling very hot and over heated." "Oh, is that right Daniel?" "Yeah.. .. I think, yeah yeah she'll be fine." "Well that's Dandy. Stop by the infirmary, just have a check up. You know the drill." "No Sir I feel fine." "Colonel." "Yes General." "Just a minute.. ..just a minute. Jack, just a minute.. ..just hold on." "Holding. Daniel, we're all holding." "Yesterday." "Right okay, yesterday?" "Yesterday Sam was fine, she left my office and she came back. When she came back she began commenting about the heat. There was no heat. It wasn't switched on and it was cool, but she was complaining about the heat. Teal'c left my office, he came back and he too began complaining about the heat. So.." "Oh yeah, big so right now Daniel?" "When Teal'c left my office he went with Sam to her lab and when he came back it was like the first time Sam came back, he too was complaining about the heat." "Yes Daniel, point being?" "Jack the first time Sam left my office she took the samples from P7X 377 with her." "Yeah that's right Daniel I did." "You wasn't wearing gloves." "No I wasn't wearing gloves, but it was just.. ..um.." "Colonel Carter you did examine a particular rock fragment that showed traces of life, dead life." "Yeah that's right Teal'c, that green moss, the em.. ..ope." "Yes ope. Yes Carter?" "Green moss Sam? I don't think you'd find any moss in the pyramid, how could it survive in that atmosphere. Are you sure it was moss?" "No I'm not sure Daniel. I just presumed." "You should know better than that Carter. We can't presume anything in our line of work." "Yes, absolutely Sir. I should know better." "So Daniel?" "Can we just hear a little more about your dream, I've got an idea." "Yeah okay, as I said you were all in it." "Really, was I in it as well?" "Yes General, you was in it. You was definitely in it." "Oohkay. Right so we all visited you last night then?" "Oh yes, and what a party you all had." "Go on Sam." "Well as I said you were all in it and we was on the General's roof. And em, there was a big telescope. General O'Neill was looking through the telescope. Oh goodness yeah. You, Sir you kept calling me is, I think you was trying to say Ms but you were calling me is, and you had an English accent like one of those aristocratic English men. And em, oh no, that's it. Very very strange. Em Daniel, Teal'c and General O'Neill called you Can instead of Dan. It was like a big joke and instead of calling General O'Neill Jack you and Teal'c were calling him Quack and instead of calling Teal'c, Teal'c, you were both calling Teal'c Meal'c, Milk or something." "Really?" "Yeah really, but I mean it doesn't matter it was just a dream." "Really?" "Yeah Daniel she just said, its just a dream. No offence meant, ha.." "No Sam really, are you sure?" "Well of course I'm sure it was my dream wasn't it?" "No Sam this is extremely important, are you absolutely sure?" "Daniel I'm sure." "Just hold on one minute, just one minute, just hold on." Daniel passed the ice pack to the General and ran out of his office. He shouted back to his friends that he wouldn't be a minute. "Daniel Jackson appears to have made a discovery." "Yeah hes definitely hot on the heels of something T, looks promising. Carter?" General O'Neill was standing behind Colonel Carter. He had one hand pressed against her forehead and with the ice pack in his other hand was gently pushing against the back of her neck. "Thanks Sir, I'm feeling much better." Daniel ran down to his private quarters, collected a reference book and quickly returned to his office. "Okay.. ..okay, hold on to your hats party people." "Lets have it Daniel." "The names that Sam's just quoted, in ancient Mesoamerican mythology are the exact names of the Bacabs." "Indeed Daniel Jackson." "Oh yes really Teal'c, don't you know, we're the bob cats." "No Jack, the Bacabs. According to ancient Mesoamerican mythology, they were, are, the four Canopic g_ds who held up the sky at the cardinal points of the Earth." "Well now thats what I call a promotion. Holding up the sky, easy peasy. Nice dream you were having there Carter." "You have no idea Sir." "No really come on.. ..I'm serious. This is very important. Sam what else was in your dream?" "Lots Daniel." "Go on, tell us some more." "Well part of it was about looking up in the sky. There was a bit of a fuss going on. I don't know what General O'Neill was looking for but you were saying he didn't have his bearings, he was looking in the wrong field or something, but he wasn't looking in a field, he was looking in the sky. Oh and Teal'c ha, you were floating." "Indeed, floating Colonel Carter?" "What you mean floating like the Giants, the Giant in the pyramid?" "Never thought about that. He wasn't smoky cloudy like that but you were floating Teal'c. And em oh speaking about clouds at one point the General was saying, blue Dandy, em, smoky clouds.. nebu.. ..nebula I don't know. Teal'c was floating and he kept saying about Oz. He was standing on the shoulders of Oz. No, oh em he was standing on the shoulders of many and em something about Oz and I said the wizard of Oz and the General said Oss.. ..Ossi, Ossiferous." "Good grief. Ossiferous. Standing on the shoulders of Ossiferous?" "More or less Daniel." "Wow, strike big lucky!" "Daniel what have you got?" "I think we may have a lot Jack, an awful lot. This is really really weird. I think, em, Jack can I just tell you in a minute. Sam just.. ..what else was there?" "Well the General gave me some strange words to remember, he said about keeping us safe." "Carter do you remember the words?" "Every word Sir." "Well you're gonna have to let me have it in a Report, a written Report, every single word, detail, verbatim, transcript of your.. ..dream Carter. That is, if as Daniel says, its relevant." "Sir you and Daniel were saying I'm not ready. Teal'c was saying that something hasn't dawned on me. General you were saying the penny's not dropped for me. Actually I think you were ganging up on me, ha ha." "It does sound like that Colonel Carter." "It does doesn't it. Mind you though I was having a bit of fun. It was all so amazing. Oh yes, General there was a red sky, like dawn, red dawn and you were warning me, no you were saying that a red dawn is a warning." "There was no red dawn this morning though Carter, you know that yeah?" "Yes Sir that occurred to me." "Anything else Sam?" "Oh yeah there was something really strange, something else really strange I should say. Towards the end of my dream General O'Neill changed his clothes." "What I changed my clothes in front of you?" "No Sir, it was more like magic." "Oh, okay, just checking." "Yeah em, you, and you lost your English accent. Oh and at one point you spoke some language, I don't recognise it." "Do you remember the words?" "Yes Sir, I can phonetically recall them yeah. And then you were saying about the red dawn, the red sky warning. But something really strange.." "What something even more strange Carter, astounding." "Gotcha. You change and you sort of.. ..actually you were immaculately dressed and then a few moments after Teal'c and Daniel also changed their clothes.." "Magically Carter?" "Abara Cadabara Sir. You were all wearing the same style suit. You all looked really smart. And you starting saying each other's name sort of acknowledging each other and em, oh yeah, you all stretched really amazing stretches like up towards the sky and after you all acknowledged each other you nodded to each other, smiled and then you sort of walked away from each other. And then you all started stretching again as if reaching up towards the sky.." "You mean reaching up towards the heavens to hold the sky up Sam?" "Oh, I see what you mean Daniel. That's exactly what it was, well that's exactly what it seemed to be. Gawd it wasn't a dream. This is very very creepy." "Okay now Sam I don't want to freak you out but in ancient times the high priests, they would use hallucinogenic drugs." Colonel Carter looked unwell. She remained quiet, presumably considering Daniel's words. "Yes Daniel Jackson the Shamans." "What!!" The General shot a worried glance at Teal'c who discretely disagreed with the General's thoughts. "Yeah exactly Teal'c. Jack, they would use these hallucinogenic drugs, apparently to enter the spirit realm." "So Daniel are you saying that's where Carter went last night. Lifted into the next world by hallucinogenic drugs?" "I'm definitely saying that Jack, definitely. I mean those names, the Bacabs, you couldn't dream them up. You couldn't invent them." "Yeah, actually they did seem like pretty unusual names to me." "See, where could Sam have known those names from, where?" "Indeed." "Sam your dream is turning out to be of monumental significance." "Mental." "Well more supernatural
really Jack. I think Sam visited the spirit realm where the samples
were actually discovered." "Yes Teal'c." "What you mean the spirits of the pyramid, P7X 377?" "It does seem to be the case, yeah. In which case a whole new light is cast over our research into the Mayan pyramid situation." "Theres a lot of cases here Daniel. What, so you're telling me we're taking our intel from spirits and ghosts now, is that what we're doing?" "Well Sir, those Bacabs did seem to have a good grasp of the situation and something hair raising which I don't want to go into right now, they, actually you Sir, mentioned the Redderain system, how could you, Quack, know that?" "Indeed Colonel Carter the Bacab g_ds made many relevant references to our current situation. If as Daniel Jackson has observed, you did in fact travel to the spirit realm, these Canopic g_ds would doubtless know a great deal about many things, past and present." "I don't know people, I need convincing. Is.. ..are you, three.. ..what are you actually telling me?" "Jack at this very point in time, after Sam's revelation, I'm telling you we've just be given an helping hand, a giant helping hand. Jack I think we can crack this open. If I can just have a couple of hours with Sam and Teal'c in my office I think we can evaporate the Giant's smoke screen. Nail the Giant's behind. Theres other things that Sam's mentioned but we need time to reference it." "Okay Carter we're going to need that full account of your .. ..experience, word for verbatim word, can you manage that?" "Be glad to Sir. Although you were.. ..there, it's a pity you weren't actually.. ..there." "Jack I don't think this was any dream. I think this was a full blown hallucination and I think it was brought about by handling the samples with the green slim thing on it." "You think contamination Daniel Jackson?" "Absolutely. In fact we need to get that stuff in for further analysis but not looking for toxins, just list all organics. Sam what else?" "You're telling me I've been drugged?" "I think so Sam. It sounds like you were exposed to residue which hadn't entirely oxidised. The traces must have been minute and slow acting. Any more than that Sam and you could have ended up like the Shamans of old. They would take hallucinogens in order to leave their body's and soar the skies." "Yeah right okay Daniel, heaven forbid anyone should go off flyin' and leave their body behind. Any side effects. Is she in any danger?" "No, no danger. In the ancient times the shamans would induce hypnotic type hallucinogenic states by ingesting various types of organic compounds. There was a strongly held belief that the combined ingestion and hypnotic state would ferry them across the gateway into the spirit world. What Sam's describing here sounds like a visit to that very same realm. Teal'c had a dose of it but his tretonin substitutes the healing effects of the symbiote. The substance would have been neutralised the moment it entered his system." "You are correct Daniel Jackson. I did feel the effects for a short period immediately after having come into contact with the residue on the obsidian fragment, presumably that is why I too became over heated. The effect did not last." "So no interesting dreams last night T?" "None!" "To bad. Okay I get your point Daniel. This is.. ..interesting.. ..okay extremely fascinating. The first thing I want is for Carter to go by the infirmary. And that would be a now thank you." "Yes Sir." "I will escort Colonel Carter one level down to the infirmary." "Okay Teal'c thanks. Phone it through." "Indeed O'Neill." "Right Daniel whats going on?" "Jack I'm absolutely convenience about this, as bizarre as it is. I think we've just been handed an alphabetised honey pot. Beyond a shadow of a doubt its all tied in with the pyramid, I'll guarantee it. If it wasn't for the fact the Sam's so shaken by it I'd say its an amazing piece of luck that she handled those samples." "That's not what I call it!" "I know, sorry. Anyway if Sam can produce that Report you asked for." "I think not. Not right now Daniel." "No, no shes alright. I think shes just a bit.. ..she might actually be a bit overwhelmed you know with the experience. I think the effects of those hallucinogens wear off quickly. She only had traces." "You mean otherwise she'd be flying high." "Yep." "Well lets see what the Doctor says. Regardless I'm gonna have her pack up and get some rest." "Okay Jack. I know she'll insist on giving us an account first." "Well if shes up to it, fair enough. I'll tell you what, give it two hours and then report in." "I'll do that. I can't get over it Jack. I've never ever heard of anyone having gone through this experience." "No neither have I Daniel, but that's a good thing isn't it. Why would she handle the things without gloves. Oddish don't you think?" "Well the samples had been processed and sorted. I know she was running a couple of tests on the rock. The only thing I can think is that its inorganic, well the rock is, so theoretically it posed no direct threat." "Yeah, right. Marvellous. Okay Daniel, set to it if you will, full steam ahead. My office two hours!" "That's enough time, thanks Jack. I think Sam and Teal'c will want to attend." "I know."
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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 alarmcustomermail2.easily.co.uk 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." "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." "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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"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." "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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"Is it ready yet?" "We're going live in three, two, one, General." "Hi there George, hows the weather?" "Well its uncloudy and bright here Jack but I believe you're about to change all that." "Sorry about that George can't be helped. I've got SG-1 here with me, all lined up to say hello, and we've also got Professor Heslop with us, temporary secondment from the scary Lake. Walters here in a minute making capacity, he'll wire you a hard copy as soon as.." "Heloo people, very nice to see you all. I'm hoping we're going to be able to find a way to neutralise General O'Neill's worst fears. What have we got so far?" "Good morning Sir, its lovely to see you." "Likewise Colonel. General O'Neill, General Greer, Major Davis and myself have been discussing your Interim P7X 377 Fact Finding Mission Report." "What do you think Sir?" "Interesting. Several interesting things Colonel Carter. A decision has been made in accord with General O'Neill's concerns and we are now elevating the status of the Base to Ready Status, DEFCON Four." "Yes Sir, I understand General. General O'Neill notified his senior staff at O seven fifteen hundred hours. We have a Directional assembly later in the day." "I see Doctor Jackson and Teal'c are there with yoou, and hello to yoou too Eamon, its been a long time." "Okay folks lets get down to it. Firstly George, you're aware we're awaiting the Skullduggery and the Nebulium home world Statements." "Yes Jack and lets hope together they're going to deliver us a defensive capability." "Hope so General. Right then Daniel, floors yours." It was ten o'clock in the morning. General O'Neill had spent the previous evening at the home of his friend General George Hammond. It had been his second trip to Washington, D.C. in almost as many days. The Meeting between the Generals, O'Neill, Hammond and Greer had produced the unprecedented tactic of pre-emptive defence against an unknown enemy. It was left to General O'Neill to determine the nature of the defence. "Well first off I'd just like to say hi, its really good to see you General, you're looking well." "You too son. And I'm sure everything will work out just fine." "Thank you General, that means a lot. Okay. Quetezalcoatl. We've come across something, humanoid as far as we can tell, occupying the pyramid on P7X 377, in an out of phase environment. Its.. ..they've been hibernating for over a fourteen hundred years. If not, then we have to beg the question, what have they been eating in an environment non conducive to vegetation. That's where it starts to get a bit gruesome. Sam!" "Thanks Daniel. General, General. Sirs we've contacted all our allies, most have gotten back to us, with negatives. However we are still waiting to hear from the Asgard. Teal'c believes the Asgard are simply not talking. For reasons Daniel will go into a little later, we can tie two of the Great Races, the Asgard and the Ancients, as well as the Goa'uld to the 'Mayan Pyramid'. As yet my father's not been able to get anything out of the Minor Goa'uld except to say there is recognition of the Nebulium foe. The one Minor Goa'uld hes certain knows something of the Nebulium is entirely reluctant to disclose a single detail. Hes working on it. Apparently it's a very sore subject." "Yeah Carter on that one, Thor's still out of town, still, but I've left my name and number and he will get back to me." "Yes Sir." "Colonel Carter you think the Asgard know these Nebulium?" "General the Asgard use holographic projection technology, seems the Nebulium do as well. A sharing of similar technology usually suggests a crossing of paths at some stage. In addition to which, as Daniel will brief you, we've found text references as well as Runic markings with Asgard orthology." "I See." "Daniel, Quetezalcoatl?" "Thanks Sam. Generals. Okay we've managed to dig up, so to speak, a lot of information from the little we initially had to go on. I think a suitable ground to consolidate to is Quetezacoatl, the name, the meaning and the man.. ..humanoid we think. The Nebulium we're sure." "Go on." "Thanks Jack. Okay Quetezalcoatl a well know g_d amongst the Mesoamerican classic pantheon. Its got to be one of the longest names I know." "Really?" "Yeah. Oh apart from one of his other names, avatars, Tlahuixcalpantecuhtli" "So how many letters is that?" "Don't know err.. ..twenty one. "Ah not even close Daniel." "Whats that Jack?" "supercalerfradgerlisticexpiallerdoscious." "Longer? Is that even a real word." "You betcha." Daniel was giggling. Colonel Carter and Teal'c sat open mouthed listening to the exchange. You could tell General Hammond would have told Jack off, if only he wasn't so far away. Professor Heslop found it real funny. "Fascinating gentlemen, Daniel, General, however, when you're ready please." "Go ahead Colonel." "Thank you Sir." "Professor Heslop's provided us with a low down on the various avatars attributed to Quetezalcoatl. Professor." "Thank you Doctor Carter. Its long been accepted in ancient Mesoamerican mythology that extraterrestrial g_ds came down to earth to exert their power and influence over man. Its not an altogether stretch of the imagination to find ourselves with an ambitious extraterrestrial who having familiarised himself with local custom could then used that custom to acquire all that he needed. Be that need worship, riches, and as seems the case in this instance, a slave population." "Déjà vu." "You agree Eamon, with Doctor Jackson's conclusions?" "I do George, wholeheartedly. The young Doctor's examined every aspect of this project and his conclusions appear sound." "Very good, that's just swell, we're making headway. Its not usual to have more than one scientist agreeing at the same time." Everyone in the Briefing Room laughed including Major Davis who was just in screen, far left. "References to Quetezalcoatl are extremely frequent in the codices we have been studying, additionally the name is to be found in Sumerian, Atlantian, Egyptian and Peruvian texts. Mr Teal'c would you be so kind to read off my notes." "Indeed Professor Heslop. Yes I will. Quetzalcoatl. Gukumatz. Nine Wind. Nine Snake. Kukulcan. Kulkulcan. Ehecatl. Tlahuixcalpantecuhtli and Ce Actal. "Good grief Teal'c, all these names belong to one g_d and you say no ones talking. Someones got to know something." "Yes General Hammond, your postulation is accurate. And to that end General O'Neill and Jacob Carter are conspiring to make someone talk." "Very good son." "Thank you General Hammond." "Now then, a particular Quetzalcoatl manifestation, one in which Doctor Jackson has been eager to pursue is that of Ce Actal, the Morning Star, aka Venus, interestingly here we have a g_d of the dawn and Venus as the morning star. Doctor Jackson?" "Thank you Professor. So now as well as the general consensus that extra terrestrials were brought down, beamed down to Earth, with the Nebulium we have more astronomical and cosmological associations. Venus was considered to be the patron planet of warfare. People believed light from Venus could cause terrible harm. In short the ancient Mesoamericans were greatly influenced by observable celestial events." "So how come the bad light from Venus Daniel? Light, you can see, even when its dark, but bad light, that's not something you can observe, unless of course we're talking meteor showers, pretty lights in the sky but we all know how bad and harmful they can be." "Right Jack. Bad light but not meteors, which leads us to believe that this particular bad light was nothing at all to do with the planet Venus, but all to do with the threat from Quetezalcoatl." "The Harvesting of Human slaves." "Without a doubt Sam." "Doctor Jackson are you referring to bad light emanating from the Crystal Skulls? You believed the people were cottoning on to the Skulls as a teleportation device.. ..a harvesting device?" "Yep. That's it General." "The locals had worked out that the g_dly icons, the Skulls, were some form of quantum teleportation unit. I guess knowing that they'd have a lot to be afraid of. Especially when the things start to fire up, all bright lights and glowy. Do you think Venus was the name they gave to the Skulls?" "I never considered that Jack but it really fits the bill." "The text references to Venus could support your observation General O'Neill." "Really? That makes sense does it Professor?" "Yes it makes an awful lot of sense to me." "O'Neill, it is understandable that once having discovered the true nature of the Skulls, the population would indeed come to fear their presence." "Mr Teal'c you have something there. We do know the Mesoamericans built but later abandoned a great many majestic pyramids. There was a specific pyramid, the pyramid of the sun, built in Ce Actal's.. ..Quetezalcoatl's honour, however that too was duly abandoned. The Skulls were doubtless placed in the pyramids." "Which supports your theory George, the locals cottoned on and split. Are we all agreeing on this" Oh yes, everyone was agreeing with the General. But what was next, because these fluffy floaty friendly enemy of our enemies were rapidly becoming, sneaky, calculating, lying, kidnapping, extra galactic fishy foes and good gad Ossiferous, what had they been living off for the last fourteen hundred years.. ..stuck in a pyramid and with no late night shopping! "Okay Daniel, Teal'c, Professor Heslop, tie in the Asgard and the Ancients. You can go first though Carter, with the Goa'uld." "General. Sirs. Professor. Teal'c can we just hear Professors Heslop's notes on the Goa'uld connection." "Yes Colonel Carter, I have them here. Quetezalcoatl literally means Quetzal-bird-snake. Coatl in the old Olmec language means serpent. Taken per se we have, serpent with feathers of the quetzal bird." "There you go again with that deuced snake bother. I can sniff a Goa'uld lurking somewhere here." "Indeed O'Neill, Professor Helop's notations provide alternative, proven names, Feathered Serpent, Winged Serpent. Feathered Snake." "Feathered hey, well I suppose they do have an elaborate arrangement of fin work. Flying fins.. ..feathered snake." "Yes, quite." "Right then, wings, feathers, it slithers, it slides, we've got a snake and it flies. A flying feathered snake. Doesn't that tell us something, have we got ourselves a smoky cloudy phasing Goa'uld roaming the pyramid?" "Erm, maybe not exactly Sir." "Yeah Jack, maybe at one time definitely, not sure about the phasing bit though, unless it was Annubis, doubt it. Anyway it seems that the Goa'uld have long since flown the coop." "Are you saying the flying snake bird flew away Doctor Jackson?" "Eh, the snake fled General but not with feathers and not with wings. From what Teal'c and Sam have come up with, it transpires the Nebulium were experimenting on the Goa'uld. We've recovered skeletons from the pyramid and Sam informs me their condition was tantamount to having endured physical and chemical trauma in keeping with prolonged experimentation." "To what end? Was it something like the Pangaron episode?" "It was not General Hammond. We speculate that the Nebulium were interested in the Goa'uld ability to occupy the human body over an extended period. It is this ability alone that has afforded them an existence of unlimited power. Defeating all who oppose them and enslaving whole worlds to appease themselves. In their natural snake form they would be able to do none of these things." "Yeah, good point T, they wouldn't be able to talk either, that'd be nice." "Jack?" "Oh sorry George, thinking out loud. So you're saying snakes in the Mayan Pyramid?" "Yes Sir but something went wrong because we end up with a badly corroded, but nevertheless evident, half etched symbol of korosh-Ni on the outside entrance to the pyramid. Teal'c, Daniel and Professor Heslop have now translated the Goa'uld glyphs set close to the Goa'uld warning symbol." "Yeah that's right Sam we've come up with a list of what we can only guess are names. The interesting thing here is that taken by itself you can't pronounce the names but when Professor Heslop applied a particular Isthmian character, the same one in all cases, we've come up with a list of nine names." "Daniel any idea of whose names they are?" "Not a clue Jack but Professor Heslop has mentioned that there are nine levels of the underworld. By the way, when Jack and I found Nick in the Smithsonian he was repeating the name of the underworld. Xibalbah." "An addendum I'd like to mention. I have failed to enter one, possibly significant, detail in my notes. In Xibalbah, the underworld, one g_d was assigned to each of its nine levels." "Well that's a curious coincidence. Lets hear those names, see if we recognise anyone." "Of course General O'Neill, if Mr Teal'c could do the honours." "Thank you Professor. Kuuslel. Ingsa Vas. Nscek Khying. Na Dthu. Janganah. Colingg. Gensa Vas. Chengisa. Ou Nee." "Anyone?" No one. No comment. Not a jot. A new faction, living in a niquadria weighted atmosphere, possibly named after levels of the underworld. Known, non mobis. Allies, non nobis. Enemies, non nobis, as yet. "Goa'uld?" "Highly unlikely Sir. Daniel's Chronology Statement specifies a date on those glyphs of at least two thousand years before the symbol of Korosh-Ni." "What about those Xi'Linvris?" "Jack are those the ones without the naquadah content?" "That's right General. A known faction as Teal'c describes them, whats left of them, but they are the only ones we know about up to now without the naquadah." "I'd still say a no on that Sir." "Okay Colonel. Teal'c, if those names are scribed in Goa'uld.. ..letters, mainly Goa'uld, and then a Goa'uld warning symbol is later placed next to those names, do ya think the warning applies to the names as well as the place?" "Indeed I do O'Neill. This would also account for the symbol being placed so high above the ground. So it can also draw attention to the names." "Nebulium?" "Don't think so Jack, they seem to be going for the more influential names." "Gotcha. Another set of Goa'uld enemies in.. ..or out, of the pyramid." "Doctor Jackson do you think this could be an entirely different group? Colonel Carter's Interim Report stated that apart from the Nebulium the presence of other.. ..beings, either human or humanoid is inconclusive." "Yes General these names do indicate that, but still as yet inconclusive, on going Sir. Em, I can say though that expounders of the Archaics, Isthmians and Olmecs claimed the dead souls who went to Xibalbah or Mictlan, the underworld, returned to Earth every so often." "How often?" "No records of that General." "I see, thank you." "Carter, draw conclusions if you will." "Sir. Professor Heslops provided us with the fact that Mesoamerican cultures held the belief that certain g_ds were carried down from the heavens to Earth within the vessel of a great serpent. We are supposing that that is a metaphor for the attempted either blending or experimentation of the Goa'uld by the Nebulium. Searching for a better vessel, a longer lasting body possession. From that we then have the surveillance of the outer pyramid structure, revealing a partly etched petrogylph of the symbol of Korosh-Ni. Indicating the end of relations between the Nebulium and the Goa'uld. Daniel's date approximation is mid first millennium. Moving us on to conclude three things.. One. The Nebulium were in contact with human civilisation and the Goa'uld, during the three thousand years up to but not exceeding 600 Common Era. Two. At some point before that time, approx. 400 CE, Gao'uld symbioses blended with human slaves and fled P7X 377. In addition, three, the fact that there is evidence of a symbol of Korosh-Ni indicates that whilst the Goa'uld were almost certainly in contact with the Nebulium that contact was soured and unwilling on the part of the Goa'uld. They became firm enemies." "Jack, could these Nebulium have intended to team up with the Goa'uld?" "Well it sure looks that way, but then something went wrong. That'd be right though, making deals with the Goa'uld 'll only get ya dead. Must have been the experiments, obviously did take to kindly to it." "I agree with that Sir. Lastly, less of a conclusion and more of an observation, is the fact that the Nebulium kidnapped whole populations over time. These people were enslaved, never to be seen again. Sergeant Siler's video footage showed a total lack of surface water resources. And studies carried out inside the pyramid proves no sustainable development. The observation is that the captured humans would have to eat to survive, as would the Nebulium.." "Begad Carter, imagery! Inspiring terror an'all." "Sir we have to examine all the possibilities." "Yes we do Colonel. Even the unimaginable ones." "Yes Sir." "Colonel Carter that's a supposition we will not draw on until we have proof." "Of course Sir. Moving on if I may Sirs?" "Sure, carry on Colonel." "Thank you Sir. Okay Daniel I think the Generals want the Asgard and the Ancients next." "Theres much erroneous interpretation in relation to the g_ds, extra terrestrials, who came down from the sky. Luckily Professor Heslop has identified the material directly relevant to our current knowledge of precisely what can and can not.. ..come down from the sky. "Em, the Sun Pyramid, the one dedicated to Quetezalcoatl on Earth. A number of theorists are ascribing it as the work of the last of the Atlantians. Others say it's the work of the lost tribes of Israel. Yet others have it as Egyptian, we have however certified that its not Goa'uld. The Phoenicians are mentioned and so are the ancient Orientals." "So basically what you're saying is they don't have a clue who built it?" "Yep Jack that's it. Theres no deeds on the place. But we do have an identical outer structure intact as in the P7X 377 pyramid. So we now believe that the texts regarding the Quetezalcoatl pyramid on Earth to be true." "Whoa there Daniel, slow down. For all of us in this room and those in another room far from here and in a sunny place, lets have that again, because I'm sure you just said no one knows who built the place." "Yeah I did. Oh yeah, sorry about that. I should put it in another way. The fact that there is no false information, no misinfo on the pyramid leads on to the conclusions we've made on the issue at hand." "Pray do tell." "Thanks Jack. Erh Professor would you mind." "Delighted dear boy. Thank you Doctor Jackson. As my colleague informs you, we take the basis of the next issue to be as fact. However there is no record of the interpretation we offer since no one before has ever been privy to the informational knowledge archives housed here at The SGC. We are able to take ancient records, verbal and textual, and apply our SGC knowledge base, thereby elucidating a plausible description of events surrounding the Nebulium's occupation of the P7.. ..seven et al pyramid. At a time approximately 400 common era. I have not had the privilege of meeting the Asgard High Commander Thor but I do know he is a good friend of yours General O'Neill. Perhaps when you speak to him next you can confirm our theories." "I'll do that Professor. Its been suggested the Asgard are being slow in giving us their take on this situation but just as soon as he gets back to me I'll let you know, you can meet him if you like." "That would be the highlight of my year General, thank you. As Doctor Jackson outlined earlier, the Mesoamerican Sub-Boreal period yields the first signs of static social living. All the peoples before that time were nomadic, the Archaics and the Paleo Indians before them. The Sub-Atlantic period commencing later, say 2700 BCE provides real signs of society. It also provides the means for a predatory foe such as the Nebulium, to abduct members of that society on a regular basis. Now with the formation of a stable society comes a method of written communication, firstly through pictures, later in their development we have the glyphs and later still we find the written word. 400 BCE was a time when the Mesoamerican written word was used. We therefore have accurate records of the following. A story, legend of two brothers, twins, Xbalanque and Hunahpu. They defeated the evil enemy leaving the Earth safe and fit for humankind. The significance of this is that these twins are said to have ascended into the heavens, the records go on to say that the twins became the sun and the moon, that could well be based on unseen celestial events." "Yeah a number of things could account for that belief. The ships could have looked like a dark round.. ..globe, something moonlike. The propulsion systems must have released massive fire sparkage, glowing like a sun.. But the essence of the story is the hero twins." "And?" "And Jack.. ..the Asgard and Ancients, one or the other ..possibly both. They are part of the same alliance." "Daniel all the members of the four Great Races are Non interventionists." "Well we know that's what they are now.. ..but Sam, someone dropped by and from all accounts dealt with the Nebulium, sent them packing. It was round about the time of the collapse of the great Mayan civilisation." "Carter even non interventionists are gonna feel forced to do something, intervene perhaps, if they see an entire peaceful race being decimated. Maybe just two of the four decided not to sit back and doing nothing. The Asgard I can understand but whys your money on the Ancients Daniel?" "Well you know how you recognised the holographic technology of the Asgard, and by the way we've found some Asgard lettering at the P7X 377 pyramid, haven't verified the Asgard put it there though. Anyway the Ancients phase shift, just like the Nebulium, well not exactly like them but it's a method of getting around. From our experiences phasing is something that can be learnt." "Doctor Jackson you believe one learnt the ability from the other?" "I think so. Very similar abilities, what sets them apart is that the Nebulium are confined, due to their atmospheric requirements. Jury's still out on that General but I think so. Oh as well, we've eliminated the Nox." "Understandable. Hey what about the Furlings." "Whether they would ever intervene is something we simply can't assess." "Daniel do you think the Nebulium could be the Furlings?" "Colonel Carter,
it was a practice among some ancient civilisations for rulers and
high priests to take on the name of a deity. In this way we rationalised
that the alien Nebulium acquired the name Quetezalcoatl and was
not the g_d Quetezalcoatl himself. "Thanks Teal'c, that sounds about right." "Thank you Mr Teal'c. there is one final linkage to other powerful races and the Nebulium. One we assume describes the exodus of the Goa'uld from the pyramid on P7X 377. A legend exists, in fact it is well documented that Quetezalcoatl was exiled by yet another g_d. He was sent into exile on a raft of snakes vowing to return for revenge." "The Goa'uld shipped them off." "That matches the legend perfectly General O'Neill. Exiled could imply that the Goa'uld hunted the many systems in search of the Crystal Skulls and destroyed all they found. That would some what cut the Nebulium off, a type of exile." "And the revenge, Eamon?" "George we can only conjecture but that does appear to be something they have not, as yet, taken." "What I'm hearin' is that this enemy is looking to take revenge, against the Goa'uld?" "Revenge has many faces General Hammond." "Yes it does son, and non of them nice." "Indeed." "Yes Indeed.. ..they're vengeful and awake. I don't like this George, really don't." "I'm with you Jack. We need to act." "That we do. Professor, anything else?" "A fair amount General O'Neill. As you can see Colonel Carter's made an excellent presentation in the Mission Report." "Always a good read Carter, thanks." "Sir." "General O'Neill, the other part of the linkage between the Nebulium and other.. ..extra terrestrials, is just this. The codices talk of another deity, Ahmakiq, who would lock up, restrain, the wind, Nine Wind, Quetezalcoatl, when he was causing to much destruction." "As in a foul wind a blowing." "Vile and foul General O'Neill. Which gives us a third extra terrestrial opposing the Nebulium." "Teal'c, ideas?" "Not the Nox and not the Furling O'Neill, but more than likely the Asgard." "Not the Ancients?" "No. A wind force against a wind force although creating much resistance would cause no restraint." "That sounds reasonable Mr Teal'c." "Thank you for your confidence Professor Heslop." "Professor I think we have one last link. Not local legend but according to Norse mythology, Asgard, the place of the g_ds, could be entered by a rainbow, by travelling a rainbow." "Eh not linking Daniel, at least to P7X 377." "Asgard transporter technology." "Yeah Sam, transporter process. From a distance it certainly could appear to be a rainbow, especially to uneducated older civilisations." "And the link?" "General O'Neill please allow me to clarify. I should have been more specific. The link is in the description of the hero twins ascending to the heavens. The bright lights, rainbow, can be attributed to both the Ancient's method of ascending and also to the Asgard method of transportion." "Clearly a link then." "Jack we've always suspected the Asgard had been responsible for helping us out in the ancient past." "True George, and I don't know how but they definitely have. They refuse to discuss these matters. But it seems we've now got something to pin on them." "It sounds as though the Asgard are enemies of the Nebulium." "Wasn't those the exact same words the Queticoti giant came out with when we first met." "Indeed O'Neill, 'the enemy of my.." "I think we jumped the gun by presuming they we're talking about the Goa'uld." "Sir you mean only the Goa'uld, sounds like they've chalked up quite a number of enemies." "And Nick's proof they've added us to the list Carter." "Yes Sir." "Regarding the Nebulium home world Colonel Carter, do we have anything at this stage?" "Yes we do Sir. We're following a dichotomy of interests. Tracing the Stella co-ordinates is a time consuming process but we are covering a lot of ground. Sergeant Harriman has been extremely helpful in that area. The search will be completed within eighteen hours. Secondly we are exploring the possibility of lifting StarGate addresses from the markings on the pyramid. To that end Sir we made a tremendous break through early this morning. Briefly General the background is, the full details of which appear in the Mission Report General O'Neill gave to you, markings could be seen on two of the pyramid masonry blocks, front, ground level. At first we suspected they were just groves in the rock but high resolution has revealed them to be a series of bars and dots. We now know from Professor Heslop that the Olmecs introduced a numeric system for recording dates. The break through came when Professor Heslop informed us that the Olmecs did not employ any of the available systems but rather went for a vigesimal system. It's a twenty base system Sir. Using this information we are now in the process of deciphering what appears to be a seven, eight or even nine digit recording. I think General, Sirs, we may actually be looking at a StarGate address. An extra-galactic StarGate address." "You could have discovered the Nebulium's home address?" "We're hoping so Sir. In context with the nature of the other glyphs, signs and symbols scattered around the pyramid, its very likely." "Excellent show Colonel, keep it up." "Thank you Sir." "Well I think that about wraps it up for now. Good to see you Davis. Drop by any time." "Thank you General. After today's Briefing I expect I'll be taking you up on your offer fairly soon. Thank you Colonel Carter, Teal'c, Doctor Jackson. Professor Heslop, have a good trip back to Area 51." Major Davis left the room and the General's aides withdrew leaving General Hammond alone and on air. "Professor you'll be joining us for lunch before you leave?" "That will be my pleasure, thank you." Professor Heslop and Walter left the Briefing Room, leaving SG-1 alone with General O'Neill and General Hammond. "Right, now that we're altogether, Colonel I understand you've had one heck of an experience this week?" "Yes Sir. I'm still reeling from it. Have you read the Report Sir." "General O'Neill relayed the gist to me." "Theres only one Report floating around, lets keep it that way Carter." "Yes Sir, thank you. Very grateful." "So Colonel it seems you and your Team have placed a good deal of stock in your.. ..Report." "General Hammond Sir, because the contents of my.. ..experience so closely relate to the current P7X 377 situation, we've fully investigated all the.. ..messages, for want of a better word. Sir what these Canopic g_ds told me has actually transpired into a handle on the Nebulium rising." "I believe so. In fact General O'Neill has let me know that it was on account of your.. ..Report that we where in a position to stand at DEFCON Four, giving us at least a degree of readiness." "Yes Sir, I'm actually delighted about that. I don't mean being on alert." "Its alright Colonel, I know what you mean. Where do we go from here Jack?" "Well George as you know two of the essential aspects of SG-1s extensive P7X 377 Fact Finding Mission are yet to be fulfilled. Carter informs me that we will have the complete analysis of the Golden Crystal Skull in two days time and about the same time Carter?" "Yes Sir." "About the same time we'll have positive ID on the Nebulium's home world. Carter?" "Ever sooner Sir, if the Asgard get back to us." "Same time George. Two days. As soon as I Brief on that we'll have our direction. In the meantime we're standing at DEFCON Four." "Jack this is one time we've got early warning, we have to be ready." "Tout à fait mon Jen´ êr ål. Tout à fait.
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Deep, deep down in the cavern, in phase in the out of phase domain, the air was fine but thick. Heavy laden with the persistent ionic charge from the metal mineral rock structure. All but the most resilient of them had been driven insane. Those that had not succumbed were lead by a group of nine. The D'jinn. Like the Nebulium the D'jinn are humanoid. The D'jinn were humans, originally. And like the Nebulium the D'jinn's life time has been preserved and elongated by a combination of factors existing within the P7X 377 pyramid. The Nebulium, in initio, had not considered that the biochemistry of their slaves would adapt to the living conditions within the pyramid so thoroughly. An adaptiveness which made them completely unsuitable for internal occupation. During four thousand years of evolvement deep within the catacombs, the Earthling's physiology found a way to process the heavy metal content of their environment. One of the by-products of this survival seems to be have been insanity. All but a small number of slaves managed to harness the savage wildness that afflicted their population. The Nebulium name for these practically inept slaves is D'jinn. Most of the D'jinn are incapable of work. And their metal sodden chemistry makes them unusable as shells within which the Nebulium can traverse the StarGate's exotic object, its wormhole. The D'jinn nine, leaders of the insane, although seemingly controlled are actually quite psychotic. Despite their highly advanced technology, were it not for the Nebulium' ability to phase, the D'jinn, living in such close quarters, would by now have defeated them with violence and bloody murder. The Nebulium are now well aware that it was the continuous exposure to the metal weighted atmosphere thats all but demolished their work force. Rendering them useless but for one thing, food. The D'jinn have no knowledge as to the operation of the StarGate and the Nebulium are no longer able to use the bodies, shells of the D'jinn. Both groups are stranded in the pyramid. The Nebulium influence is eminently strongest through the use of militia technology and an unsavoury feeding program. Although the Nebulium are solid state humanoids, they're capable of phase shifting. An ability they shared with the Ancients. However whereas the Ancient's ability came about from the natural evolution of their mental capacity and capability, the Nebulium are able to shift purely due to their chemical makeup. Like the Ancients, the Nebulium can utilise the StarGate system. However because the Nebulium originate from a planetary system well outside our own Galactic Supercluster, they do have problems when it comes to the internal combustibleness of the properties of our breathable air. The Nitrogen content is much to high for them and over a period of not much time their internal systems become poisoned. It was a good few thousand years before the Ancients, as a race, completely mastered their new ability, phase shifting. It was the natural progression of the human condition. Their condition. It arose as they, a peaceful, non aggressive race of humans, began to expand their minds literally. Presently the humans on Earth use a pitiful pittance of their available brain power. The Ancients on the other hand were charging their brain organs up at around eighty percent of available power. Their deployment of greater brain power unleashed a perception of the universe that as yet we, their progeny, can only but wonder. The Ancients new
ability was quite uncontrollable at first. They had no authority
over when and where they would begin to phase shift. The Ancients found
a way to address this. They had already assigned an Eighth Chevron
to allow them to travel extra galactically. By adding a further,
a Ninth Chevron, they could adjust the conditions within the forming
subspace corridor, essentially creating a corridor within a corridor.
Ripping a tare. In this way should a travelling Ancient begin to
phase shift mid Gate, whilst their demolecularised energetic signature
would be altered, as they reached the destination white hole horizon,
their altered signature would be rematerialised not to the initial
code (which would neglect to take account of the altered state)
that had been translated as they entered the StarGate, but instead
they would in fact be reconstituted to the state they existed in
as they entered the Ninth Chevroned corridor, this would account
for any changes in signature that had occurred en route, and only
then would they be remolecularised to the initial code that had
registered as they entered the StarGate. Travel via a Nine Chevron wormhole involves only one criterion. In order to get to where you're going you must first leave the system, the Milky Way, going extra-galactic via the Eighth Chevron (as incorporated in a Nine Chevron address) and then Gating back into the system to the original destination. The return journey would need to be just as round. Ah, obviously two criterion. You need to have to hand an exceptionally rare Nine Chevron StarGate address. All StarGates can
be accessed via the Ninth Chevron. All StarGates have a Nine Chevron
address. Only two races are known to have deployed the Ninth Chevron.
The Ancients and the Nebulium. No such protection is to be had during transportation, whilst occupying a shell, travelling via the Crystallo-system. E.g. Crystal Skull. If an infected human uses the Skull to transport, as in the case of Nicolas Ballard, the purifying properties of the crystallic system filter out everything except the natural atomic structure trying to pass through its faces. The Nebulium refer to this as 'low pass'. Presumably because the crystal acts as a low pass filter, allowing little to no superimpossed molecular impurities to pass through its system. The Nebulium can of course travel via the Crystallo-system in their raw state. However once at the destination, intergalactic destination, unless they quickly find a shell to occupy (infect) they will fall victim to a lethal atmosphere. Air. Nicolas Ballard unwittingly offered the Nebulium hope. When they first came to Earth, peoples were extremely isolated. Having exhausted the local populations the prospect of an alternative easy supply was not apparent. The resistance they met from other powerful races, along with a lack of easy supplies, convinced the Nebulium that Earth was not a resourceful asset. The information that the Nebulium have extracted from Nicolas Ballard shows them that the planet Earth is now heavily infested with Homo sapiens and once again a ready supply of human shells is to be had. They also feel that the defeat they suffered on Earth more than a millennium ago is good reason to revisit the planet. The Nebulium are an exceedingly wicked and vindictive race. "One of our fold, Wah Dar shigarom, is gone. Critically lost to us. Damaged by the low pass crystallo of a Crystal Skull. The Ballard will suffer. As will those around him." "The Ballard spoke, their StarGate is very new." "The Ballard spoke. Their StarGate is not new. It is old. Those humans, their intelligence is new." "Perhaps they do not know how make it function it." "Perhaps they do know. They brought themselves to us. Perhaps they do not know how to use it properly. That would take a long time." "At when can we start to bring them? We need workers and we need food. This is what we need. It is a developing detriment." "No it is not a developing detriment. We will start to bring them now. We can use them to replace the D'jinn." "Perhaps to eliminate the D'jinn." "Perhaps not to eliminate the D'jinn. We have been unable to eliminate their number. It is unlikely that beings of low intelligence will prosper where we have failed." "It is unlikely." "We are the strongest we have been since we left our home world." "We are the strongest we have been since we left our home world. But because of the D'jinn's ability to completely assimilate into this environment, we are now without shells in which to traverse the StarGate system. Our access to other worlds is now extremely limited." "Perhaps it is time to locate crystallo-systems on the human world Earth, through which we can gain entry. From the Ballard's words we will have unlimited shells to collect." "Begin to locate crystallo-systems on the human world Earth. But ensure that the crystallo access is within a populated area, though not a directly populated area. If we transport into an area with few or no shells we will become trapped and we will be unable to survive, becoming victim of their inadequate atmosphere. If you locate a suitable access I will forward an advance squad to locate their centres of power and identify targets who may attempt to oppose our harvest." "The Ballard's words told us that they have ships." "The Ballard's words told us that they have ships. But these ships are inappropriate for us. The crawl along the gravity barrier. The ships we require must be suitable to travel within and without the galactic system in which we are confined." "Perhaps the humans of Earth world will by now have advanced. Perhaps they will oppose us strongly." "They will by now have advanced, but only in number. When we last harvested shells from that place it was evident that they would need a great many millennium in which to advance to a more intelligent degree." "But what of the Engineers?" "The Ballard's mind was vacant of the Engineers. The Engineers exist but they had already vacated that world so much farther before our last encounter." "But they left their travel system in tack there. And they also returned to oppose us." "They leave their travel system in tack everywhere. But they do not return everywhere. And they opposed us, but they did not oppose us alone. They have little interest in that place except to recognise it as their origin." "As before they will be watching." "As before they will be watching. But that place is their origin, they are always watching, but they do not watch very well. We will harvest." "What of the Grey Hammer?" "The Ballard one had no words of that one. The Grey Hammer exists but he has no interest in the human world." "But he had interest when last we harvested." "He had interest, but not in the humans. He had interest in our slaughtered, the Niflheim, and in ourselves." "He may by now have interest in the human world." "We are stronger now than ever before, since leaving our home world. We have made a great many developments. And much progress. Our confinement has concentrated our efforts on technical development. If the Grey Hammer appears we will break that one." "What of the feathered Snake?" "I am that one the Earthlings call feathered snake." "What of the one that escaped? The Ballard did not make voice of that one." "The snake that escaped was without feathers. The Zapoci. Those snakes will suffer much more greatly than previously. The one that escaped without feathers, all that kind, they will die. They isolated us, we will isolate them, from existence." "The Ballard brought us good news. We will make ready to harvest."
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"Off world activation, should be SG-14 Sir." General O'Neill was in the Control Room talking to Sergeant Siler. It was very late and the night staff were on duty. The General was discussing the logistics of the micrometer mechanical re-calibration of the Iris settling that Sergeant Siler was currently supervising. It was a very detailed and excessively important procedure. And although it did not take long to complete, the early hours were the most appropriate time to carry out the work. "Chevron seven locking. Sir?" The Duty Sergeant shouted excitedly to General O'Neill. "Sir still engaging!!" General O'Neill came about and rushed at the console. As did Siler. SGC history was in the making. And the Iris, being off line, played no part in it. The General shouted at Siler. "Cancel the assignment. Flip to the last known.. ..work it out later, get that thing back on line now!! "Done Sir, four and a half minutes and I'll have it closed." "Good man." Sergeant Siler fled to the Gate Room and got his team fast into action. "Lieutenant get me Colonel Carter immediately. Contact Doctor Jackson and Teal'c they're working up on Level twenty." "Yes Sir." "General, Chevron Eight engaged and starting to lock." "Sergeant?" "Sir, Chevron Eight locked." All the Control Room staff and those from Level twenty-seven had crowed around General O'Neill, who was intently observing the Dialling console. And the StarGate's still spinning inner wheel. The StarGate's inner Ring was still locating. Twirling with that somewhat pleasant grating sound. Tracking the outer Chevron housing, looking for a place to dock. Without a moments hesitation General O'Neill sounded the alarm. "This is General O'Neill. This is not a drill. I say again, this is not a drill. All Gate Room Defence Teams to the ready!! SGs 3 and 5 battle dress and Gate Room. Lock down Levels sixteen and above! No surface access!! Standby!!" "Sir the computers saying em, I think its saying, Sir? Chevron Nine locking, Chevron Nine locked." "What in gad.." Whoosh! A normal looking unstable vortex. Usual length. Seemingly all the usual properties. It retracted itself to be assimilated back into subspace, leaving an even looking event horizon in its wake. Everything appeared normal. There was no accounting for the Ninth Chevron lock. "Receiving I.D.C.. General, its SG-14." "Send it!" ~ Д Ψ Ψ μ ∑ µ ≈ Ξ ≠ Φ π ∑ ≍ ∁ ~ Zero five hundred hours on Base. Its completely dark. Theres a faint noise in the distance, fading in and out. Its getting louder, slowly louder. It's the harsh persistent ringing of an internal phone line. In the dark a tired arm stretches out and a sleepy hand grabs the telephone. "Yes this is Colonel Carter. Thats alright. Excuse me. Eight! Are you sure Lieutenant, Eight? Oh you're calling from the Control Room. Wheres General O'Neill? I'm on my way." Just then the alarm system flared up. It had been a long time since battle stations had been called before the day had even begun. Daniel and Teal'c reached the Control Room moments before Colonel Carter. SG-14 exited the event horizon into a Gate Room full of cocked weapons. The StarGate disengaged and the Iris, un-recalibrated and back on line, wrapped up behind them. All normal. Apart from the weapons. And apart from the two extra Chevrons. Colonel Carter along side the night Duty Operator began frantically analysing the entire Gate output regarding the latest wormhole establishment. The Ninth Chevron wormhole. "Sir we have nothing. Nothing out of the ordinary." "How about out of the extraordinary Colonel?" "Yes General of course. Its just that we have no trace of unusual activity. Sir I can't explain it. There wasn't even an extra power drainage." "So the whole operation has been powered off world?" "Sir. Our Gate also didn't consume any power from the remote supply. We'll keep working on it General because sure as anything somethings up and I'm inclined to proceed with extreme caution Sir. We know for a fact that deployment of the Eighth Chevron gives us extra-galactic bearings. The Ninth Chevron as yet no comment, but its engagement would imply at least an extra-galactic wormhole connection." "What not from P7X 377?" "No Sir." "What about them?" Without looking the General indicated the men in the Gate Room, SG-14. "No comment Sir, if that's acceptable." "For now Colonel, but set to it." "Setting Sir." General O'Neill spoke down to the Gate Room. "Stand down Airmen. SG-14 Debrief in one hour! Wait there!" "Sir if its alright I'd like to attend the Debrief." "Colonel. SG-1. Something to do with the Nebulium?" "I'm not really sure Sir." "Well put it this way Carter, out of yes or no are you saying yes or are you saying no?" "O'Neill, It would seem improbable that the return of SG-14 through a Nine Chevroned wormhole and the rising of the Nebulium, are unrelated." "Jack I'd have to agree with Teal'c, its just to much of a coincidence." "So how we thinking they're related? The men look fine." "O'Neill the Nebulium by now must be alerted to Nicolas Ballard's departure. They may also be aware of our reconnaissance and Fact Finding. It is possible that they could have someway tampered with the StarGate Dialling sequence." "Well Sir that's a very good explanation. Em, but then it doesn't actually account for our men getting back here safe and sound." "No it doesn't does it Sam. Em, um." "There seems little advantage in the Nebulium activating the Ninth Chevron, as you say everything appears as normal." "Carter any unusual signals, spikes, energy drains, things that can't be accounted for?" "No Sir everything, at this time, appears in order. There wasn't even greater power consumption. It just seems more or less the same as any other Dial.. ..Dial process." "Daniel you're quiet?" "Actually Jack I think the word is stunned. It's a difficult one. Like Teal'c says there doesn't really seem to be any advantage here. Em.." "You mean in which case why would they?" "Well for a start yeah why would they? "Why would they Carter?" "Em, em, em, Sir can I think about that one." "Well think hard and fast Carter. We're on DEFCON Four here and you know how that usually pans." "Yes Sir, three, two and hopefully not one. Actually Sir I'd like to go up to the infirmary, see what the medical scans are showing." "Please do Colonel. I'd like to know that myself, but before you go lets check this out." General O'Neill, Colonel Carter, Teal'c and Daniel went down to the Gate Room. ~ Д Ψ Ψ μ ∑ µ ≈ Ξ ≠ Φ π ∑ ≍ ∁ ~ "Is there a problem General?" "Yeah theres a problem Major, you've just come through a Nine Chevroned wormhole, care to tell me what that's about." "Sir I've no idea. We Dialled the correct address." "What so you're saying on your side everything was in order. No change in routine. No added digits. You didn't let your fingers do the walking. You just Dialled the usual address?" "Yes Sir. Everything was normal. We collected the rest of the samples, we've brought them back for analysis. We Dialled the usual address. That's it Sir." "Okay Lyons, you and your Team report to the infirmary. Debrief at O six hundred. Carry on." "Yes Sir." General O'Neill shouted up to the Control Room. "Sergeant any sign of Sergeant Harriman?" "Not as yet Sir, hes had the call." "Keep on it Sergeant and have Harriman report upstairs as soon as he comes in." "Yes Sir." "Come on, my office, lets go." ~ Д Ψ Ψ μ ∑ µ ≈ Ξ ≠ Φ π ∑ ≍ ∁ ~ SG-1 and General O'Neill made their way up to Level twenty-seven. "You know what I'm thinking don't you?" "Nebulium Sir. Sir I've instigated a full Gate diagnostic, I'll put Walter on it as soon as he reports. Until we get the stats back I can't really draw any accurate conclusions, but off the bat, I can not imagine any scenario whereby having Dialled a Seven Chevron address the Eighth and Ninth Chevron would also lock into place." "So you're saying that they didn't Dial a Seven Chevron address?" "No Sir I'm not saying that. I mean Major Lyons has just said that's exactly what they did. Em, no Sir, I think what it is is that we have absolutely no idea of how the Ninth Chevron operates. We're presuming its.. ..we're presuming its based on the functioning of the other Seven, Eight Chevrons, in which case going off em, Ancient engineering, you would have to Dial it to lock it. But simce Major Lyons said they did not in fact Dial it.. ..but then it did lock though didn't it? No explanation at this moment Sir, but I have it in hand." "Keep on this Carter because pound for penny, its something to do with the rising snakiness, oh sorry, em what is it, the rising feather, floating feather. Anyway dollars in the hand its something to do with that pyramid." "To big a coincidence not to be Sir." "Yes, but its not just that Carter.." "Understood Sir."
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"Oh hi Colonel Carter." "Walter." Colonel Carter entered the Control Room via Level twenty-eight. With her was Sergeant Siler and two Logistics staff. They were on their way up to the General's offices. They had all been in the Gate Room assessing the mechanical, micro re-calibration of the Iris. Although the Base was on a heightened state of alert, because of the utter necessity of a fully functioning Iris, this specific works order, which would take the Iris off line, was deemed necessary to ensure it would continue to function. A function which was crucially significant to the safety of The SGC. And for that matter, Earth. The Team responsible
for the maintenance of the StarGate included Master Sergeant Siler
who dealt with the electrical, electronic and mechanical aspects.
Master Sergeant Harriman who was responsible for the StarGate's
soft operations. Lieutenant Hibbert from Logistics, he was responsible
for the StarGate's hardware Jobs management. And Colonel Carter
who essentially liased between the Maintenance Team of which she
was Chief, and The SGC commander in Chief, who at this moment in
time was in the Control Room with Daniel, Teal'c, Doctor Brigham,
Master Sergeant Harriman and now Colonel Carter, Sergeant Siler,
Lieutenant Hibbert and one of his staff. Along with Control Room
personnel. "I can but its probably not what you're looking for. They are all clear, everythings coming back clear Colonel. Are there doubts?" "Can't say." "Its alright Colonel Carter I do understand." "No, no its not that Doctor Brigham, I really can't say. Not sure, but at least you've eliminated the usual suspects." "I'm sorry I couldn't be more helpful. Having said that, it is always a relief and a pleasure to clear a patient though." "Thanks Doctor. Sir I recommend we hold the men for observation." "What hold them in the infirmary?" "Yes Doctor Brigham. I would like for them to be confined for the.. ..for now. Sir its unprecedented. A whole new chapter of our StartGate history has just begun. General I really don't want to be pessimistic but I do think it might be best not to let them off Base.. ..just yet." "That's fine by me Colonel, absolutely fine.. ..for now. To it." "Thank you Sir." "O'Neill I request that armed guards are posted in the infirmary." "May I ask on what grounds? My patients have been given the all clear and no reasonable explanation for such measures has been put forward. Guns and hospitals are not a good mix Teal'c." "Indeed so Doctor Brigham. However we are standing in readiness at DEFCON Four. One of our most senior officers has voiced grave concerns regarding the status of identified members of this facility. It should follow therefore that the necessary precautions are set in place until the situation is resolved." "You're all correct! Colonel how about if we have SG-14 confined to their own private quarters, placed under a precautionary watch." "Yes Sir that will do it." "Indeed." "General if I'm not needed I would like to return to my infirmary. We're working our way through Colonel Carter's request and considering the Colonel's priority stipulation I'd like to get back there ASAP. I appreciate the concerns you all have regarding the health of the men. General O'Neill, Colonel Carter, we'll be in a position to return a Report within twelve hours." "Carry on Doctor." "Thank you Brigham." "General." "Err, what time is the Gate scheduled to be fixed?" "Its not actually broken Doctor Jackson. We were on our way to speak to General O'Neill about that very same matter." "Yeah, Hibbert, em.. ..Siler?" "Two hours forty Sir." "Walter?" "Fifty minutes General. Involves updating the secondary system as well, and they have to be done separately." "Of course they do. Colonel?" "Sir, if everything goes according to plan, No more than four hours tops." "Not according to plan?" "Sir that would only happen if the Iris's mechanical and electronic movements were not precisely synchronised with the soft pulse lead-time incorporated to compensate for the time it takes the operating gear to receive a signal from the Dialling console." "Lead-time.. ..we are talking teeny weeny nanonuts?" "Hopefully Sir, but if the Dialling computer is tasking a heavy load when we send the signal to close the Iris, that load could well cause a slight, micro minuscule delay. Given the purpose of the Iris.. ..without that compensating lead-time, it could mean the difference between something getting through.." "Or not getting through?" "Big yes! Not according to plan, Sir we'd have to redo the job, start to finish, in which case say eight hours." "Gad damn, between the dog and the wolf. Whos out of town?" "Sir 6 with 15, Belize. 11, 7, 9, 4s with 9, all on off world Missions. 19, 19s at the Alpha Site. 20 and 21, training at the Beta Site." "Okay. Hibbert, Lieutenant, we'll do it this evening. Colonel, Gate Room defence Teams in the Gate Room as you work. And you're gonna have to call the rest of the combat Teams in, lets have them geared and at the ready." "Taking no chances Sir?" "None!" "Sir I'll go and inform my men." "Sure thing Hibbert." "Colonel I'll come by your laboratory with the finished job sheet in about an hour." "Thanks Lieutenant, be ready to go at twenty hundred hours. Sir eight?" "Eights good. Good to go. Green!" Lieutenant Hibbert and his assistant left the Control Room. Everyone else was huddled around the Dialling console. "So Walter what have you found?" "General it's a strange one, with a capital S. The Colonel and I have been through these readings time and time again. Theres nothing out of the ordinary. Which I'm sure Colonel Carter has told you, is extremely extraordinary." "So Walter you say no difference for all the Nine Chevrons, its the same as the Seven Chevron readout?" "Yes Sir that's
right. That's actually the first thing Colonel Carter pointed out.
The readings are exactly the same as the Seven Chevron worm.. ..readout.
There was no increase in power consumption. There was no off world
power drainage, no variation in amplitude ranges, everything, all
exactly the same as a Seven Chevron wormhole." "Yes you would Sir. I mean for a start off Eights closer to Nine. But you would also think so because what.. ..what we've taken to be a shared characteristic, that both Eight and Nine Dial sequences, both Eight and Nine Chevrons take you out of the galaxy.. ..so at least they've got that in common. So if anything, we would, even if only based on their shared, unique extra-galactic distancing vector protocol, have expected the Nine Chevron readout to be similar, though not identical, to the Eight Chevron readout. But as I say General, the readings are the same, exactly, as the Seven Dial in sequence. Strange Sir." "Seems so." "We're still working on it. Colonel Carter's building a theory but I'll take the back seat on that and em.. ..I think you've got the Debrief on that later in the day General. We'll have knocked these numbers into something intelligent by then Sir." "Good work Harriman. Siler what have you got to say on your front?" "Apart from the Iris reset, it was a smooth run Sir. Like Colonel Carter said earlier, its totally unprecedented, all in all the first Nine Chevron Dial in we've ever had went off without a hitch. It's the very bottom Chevron, six o'clock position, well twenty five to seven really, anyway its actually out of view, the ramps in the way so you can't see it engaging from here, but just the same everything's in order Sir. With us having this recalibration works order we've only just, within the last twenty four hours, completed a full StarGate hardware diagnostic, again everything's in order. Colonel Carter's since launched an entire baseline diagnostic and we'll have those stats back fairly soon, we've been monitoring the run, its all looking in order Sir. No accounting for the Nine Chevron lock, not on my side of the system. Hardware equipment is all clear General." "All clear, um. Thanks Siler. Teal'c, answers, explanations. Can you shed any light on this, even a dim watt will do?" "Only a dim and distant memory O'Neill. In the days of my youth there were vague rumours. As I grew I suspected it was nothing more than a tale with which to frighten young children into not exploring the D.H.D. device found on my home world. The tale implied that should ever a young child enter a Nine Chevroned wormhole he would be transformed into a cloud of smoke, never to be seem again." "So don't go into a Nine Chevroned wormhole." "Indeed." "Teal'c were there stories about any of the other Chevrons?" "No Daniel Jackson, not to my knowledge." "That's interesting." "Oh." "Whats that Daniel?" "Well the fact that there was no stories about the other Chevrons. Why would they target the Ninth Chevron, the last Chevron, to scare the children. Why use it to scare children with, especially given that technically the Jaffa don't even use the Ninth Chevron in their Dialling scheme." "Yes Daniel why would they?" "I don't know Jack, why would they?" "Carter, why
would they?" "Perhaps because they believed the warning." "What you mean your ancestors though you would turn into a cloud of smoke if you used the Ninth Chevron?" "Yes." "Um.. ..I see, em, um. Walter, SG-14 claim they didn't Dial Nine Chevrons. They say they only Dialled Seven Chevrons?" "Sir can I speak off the record here?" "Off the record Harriman, everyone. Go on." "Sir I'm sure I'm not the only person here who believes the StarGate system is an exceptionally finely tuned piece of engineering. Its extremely unlikely that you could Dial an address for a set of co-ordinates, thereby invoking the specific parameters and protocols related to that particular Dial sequence, but in reality be fed back a completely different set of protocols with their governing parameters. Its the system Sir, it provides for micro variations but that's about it. Nothing close to flipping Chevron deployment." "We've seen it before though where the Goa'uld have manipulated the calibrations." "You're right on that score Doctor Jackson, we have seen that before, but that didn't actually tap into a whole new set of Dial sequence protocols. That was still dealing with the Seven Chevron wormhole. I mean with this, although not registered on our instruments, the Ninth lock will have invoked new parameters with their associated protocols. As far as I'm concerned General O'Neill, the only way to get Nine Chevrons is to Dial them. I'm pretty certain its something that can't just kick in on its own. Not the way these em.. ..ancient aliens, not the way these ancient beings, em, Ancients, have engineered this system, you're not gonna get that Sir." "So they didn't Dial a Seven Chevron address?" "Sir I'm not saying they didn't." "So they did Dial a Seven Chevron address?" "I don't think so Sir." "Anyone?" "Well Jack I can't vouch for what they Dialled, but I can back up Sergeant Harriman and say the Ancients are extremely brilliant engineers. They wouldn't make a sloppy job. I don't think you can get crossover. Sam crossover, Dial the Seven and you get the Nine?" "No Daniel, no Sir, no crossover. Not in our experience. Apart from which I'd say no anyway." "Teal'c?" "O'Neill, after thousands of years worth of experience in StarGate travel, if, if it were possible to program the D.H.D. to switch over to a Nine Chevron Dial sequence after having keyed in only Seven Chevrons, then the Goa'uld would most certainly have, by now, found a way to use that to their advantage. Perhaps in tricking their enemies or in some other way. But it is a facility that the Goa'uld would have exploited, were it possible." "General, come to think of it, a couple of times you've needed to connect Generators up to the StarGate to carry out a direct Dial. Even then you still couldn't get to the Ninth Chevron without actually having Dialled it first. You also couldn't get to the Eighth Chevron if you only Dialled Seven, so.. ..theres no crossover from the hardware circuitry. But theres also no direct link to hardware activation without first engaging a particular Chevron, it won't just lock by accident, it has to be Dialled. And even then, only that particular Dialled Chevron will engage. And it will only engage providing the preceding Chevron has been engaged and locked before hand. Chevron One, Chevron two.. ..Chevron three.. and so on, as we all know. Em, General Sir, the only way to lock the Ninth Chevron is to engage it, and the only way to do that is to Dial it, either manually or as we do, electronically. The power source, electric, nuclear.. ..fusion, naquadah, whatever, as long as its sufficient, has no bearing on the Dial sequencing." "Well put. Point
taken Siler. So basically what we have here, every which way, the
Ninth Chevron wormhole our guys came through would have had to have
been Dialled up?" "Anyone?" No one but SG-14, presumably, could give an accurate account of events leading up to their arrival in the Gate Room. Nevertheless the consensus of opinion was unanimous. Dialled, engaged and locked, yes Sir! SG-14 returned through a Nine Chevroned wormhole and that wormhole had been Dialled up. A mightily essential detail it seems SG-14 were bent on concealing. Strange with one of Walter's capital S's. "So we're getting your medical results back in twelve hours then Colonel?" "Sir." "What about a psyche evaluation?" "Done it Sir, well not done it, ordered it." "Good one. Good one Carter." "Jack whats your take on all of this?" "My take, my take on this historical misnomer, at this stage, dark and dismal Daniel. You could call it a bit of a giant headache." "Yep." "Yes O'Neill." "No comment.. ..as yet." "Oh its definitely worrying alright General." "I agree with Colonel Carter, we can't comment until we process the baseline stats. But its all very strange." "Okay then, err.. ..right lets get that work done as soon as we can. Twenty hundred. I don't.. ..don't take the Iris off line, lets not have the Iris off line without the alternative defence measures in place. Colonel, Siler's already run through a live last known reset, if the StarGate so much as vibrates scrap the job and reset immediately. Siler you did well on the timing with that one, you got it back on line PDQ." "Thanks Sir." "Check Sir." "Splendid. Daniel I'll be getting on to TIGETS in about fifteen minutes. I think George would like to hear how Nick's doing so maybe you could join me." "Thanks Jack. I'd like to tell him myself, thanks." "I'll be em.. ..I've got a meeting later. Carter I'll be off Base at Eight o'clock, I'd appreciate a running commentary on the re-cal work." "I'll see to that Sir. Will you be on sat or cell?" "Cell Carter, I won't be going that far." "Right Sir, on it." "Thanks everyone, ciao! Err SG-1, hold up." "Whats up Jack?" "Really don't know.. ..as yet, but I'm convinced its serious. T while Carter's working on the Gate can you sort of check up on SG-14. Maybe not let them know eh. Daniel can you link up with Pierce, find out where they're up to, see what you can get. And friends, dear friends, will you please do me the honour of staying on Base with me until we get passed this." "Absolutely General." "With you Jack." "O'Neill."
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In the dark a tired arm stretches out and its hand reaches for the telephone, finding and punching a speed dial button. "General." "Where are you Carter?" "In my quarters Sir. I'm sleeping." "But you are awake right?" "Yes Sir, wide awake." "Tell me." "It's the men. Sir its got to be the men." "You've obviously been sleeping on this." "As requested by you Sir." "Okay. Explain yourself Colonel." "Sir I fully understand the gravity of the situation we're in. Facing an unknown quantity and we're not yet prepared. General even as a scientist I'm in a very difficult position, I'm basing my ideas on unquantifiable theories. Em mind you there is a branch of my field, em particle.. ..high energy physics. Well mechanical.. ..quantum mechanics, which does this very same thing, principles based on unquantifiable supposition, but its not really helping us here Sir and I do appreciate that." "Oh.. ..elementary.. ..particles. Carter you are awake yes?" "Just now Sir. Anyway I was thinking." "Dreaming?" "Thinking, I think. May be dreaming. I am awake now Sir. Em.. ..em, your storm Sir, I can already feel the beginnings of a cold wet wind but I'm still not able to give you concrete evidence. Err, Walter and I finished all the comparatives. We.. ..we used, we finished all the comparatives using my new baselines and Silers diagnostics, yesterday, day before.. ..his recent diagnostics. Whichever way we approach it Sir we're drawing a blank. Our allies can't help. The only allies we have who can help us in this area are three of the four great races and again we're drawing a blank. Two of them are uncontactable and the third are avoiding our calls. A blank Sir." "That's two negatives Carter." "Well Sir I suppose there is one good thing to come out of that." "Really?" "Well Sir, two negatives do make a positive." "Ha ha.. ..hahh, yeah right Carter. Well unfortunately in this case we've got three negatives because we've also got the readings on the men. And in terms of.. ..in terms of the Ninth Chevron we're drawing a negative on that because they're all happy and healthy, and still confined to quarters, so that's pretty awkward. Daniel tells me hes on standby with Pierce." "Yes Sir, he is. Nothings come through as yet." "So that's not quite a negative then is it?" "No Sir." "But we've got absolutely nothing.. ..concrete?" "That's.. ..thats affirmative Sir." "Right. So tell me again why its got to be the men." "Sir its based on wormhole physics." "Yah Carter, wormhole physics on a wormhole connection we've never ever had before, on a subspace tunnel.. ..a subspace tunnel that can't be measured and it can't be quantified in any way, shape or form, so what kind of physics are we basing on? "Em, theoretical Sir." "Go on I'm listening." "General its SG-14. It has to be the men." "Does it?" "Yes Sir it does. The Gate's comparative data recordings should not have been identical, but they are. If the StarGates not producing any kind of variable diagnostic results between a Seven and Nine Chevron Dial sequence, then the only other possibility is that the anomaly, variation, associated parameters, must have existed within the subspace wormhole itself. We can't detect it." "I'll have that. But what kind of a variation are we talking Carter?" "General Sir, we're not equipped to make such observations. That goes way beyond the technology of The SGC, Earth for that matter Sir." "Well Colonel the readings and the formation and disengagement of the wormhole were all normal. Ninth Chevron incoming and we're told it went off without a hitch." "True Sir. But to my mind the activation of the Ninth Chevron, since as you say everything appeared normal, must somehow have affected conditions within the subspace corridor, its not affected the StarGate or it's output readings, but it has to have affected the condition of the wormhole, and therefore all things within the wormhole, i.e. Sir, the men themselves. SG-14." "You're a heavy sleeper Carter." "Yes Sir." "Any sign of Mo, Larry and Curly." "That'd be you, Teal'c and Daniel. The Canopic g_ds. No, no sign. Sir can we quarantine the men, or place them in the brig and also for the time being at least, place them under strict armed guard." "Jeez Carter! Completely, apparently, groundless, absolutely no evidence.. ..concrete, whatsoever, and a clean bill of health on all of them to boot. What?" "Sir?" "Aarrr. Its alright Colonel, I'll take it under advisement. In the meantime I advise you to get dressed and report to my office. Why don't you give it an hour, take it easy, freshen up or coffee something. And bring Daniel and Teal'c along with you. Early morning Debrief. Sounds like you have a lot to say Carter." "Yes Sir." "Sir?" "..I am with you on this, I know theres somethin' seriously up." "Thank you General. O five hundred Sir." "Zulu."
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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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In the Briefing Room Colonel Carter looked tired but excited. Teal'c was wondering when the General would arrive and Daniel was anxious and slightly impatient, standing next to the observatory watching the activity in the Gate Room below. "Hes definitely on Base isn't he? He wouldn't have left without telling us would he? I know hes extremely busy all the time now." "Daniel Jackson there are no circumstances under which O'Neill would leave his people behind." Daniel looked at Teal'c. He was completely taken aback. Colonel Carter was laughing. "Teal'c he doesn't mean it like that. He just.. ..we just, we've got a heck of a lot of information. We've really made progress. I think Daniel's just anxious to speak to the General." "Yeah thanks Sam. I'm sorry about that Teal'c. I'm just.. ..its just with Nick you know. And Jack, hes head of the Base now, you never know where he is from one moment to the next." "O'Neill will be here quite soon Daniel Jackson. Of this I am certain." "Thanks Teal'c." Just then they all heard the sound of the running feet of General O'Neill heading toward the Briefing Room with Doctor Carmichael in tow. "Sorry about that kids. I've just been up checking on Nick. Lets get under way shall we. Okay Carmichael full Report if you will." Daniel walked over to his chair and sat down. He admired the General greatly. Over the years there had been occasions when they'd squabbled and disagreed but a deep bond had been cast on them. Just then, upon hearing Jack's words, a truck load of thankfulness flowed through his veins, absorbing his anxiety. He sat back in his chair and paid attention. "Em yes General, my Report. Well as you've just seen for yourself the patient, Nicolas Ballard, remains in a grave condition. Physically, outwardly, cuts and bruises to the radial arms and the phalanges, also hairline facture to the femur. Extensive injury, cuts, to both hands, em actually looks as though hes crawled out of something or dug his way out of something. Forensically, em, samples of the material found underneath his finger nails have been sent for analysis, we should be getting the those back, the results, later on this morning. His bruising, general bruising around the torso and lower legs, the shape and size and positioning of the bruising, together with the injuries to his knees and hands are consistent with someone who has endured a climb of soft to medium hard ground at an upward angle. There is extensive injury to his right ocular cavity. The eye itself is still functioning and will not need to be removed but there is serious damage to the ligaments and tissues all around the eye and there are lacerations on the cornea. There is also a good deal of trauma and inflammation to the auditory nerve towards the medulla junction. The most troubling aspect of Mr Ballard's condition is the chemical imbalance. Theres toxic levels of both potassium and sodium and a manageable amount of naquadah poisoning. As we are already faced with potential renal failure we're having a great deal of difficulty in neutralising and filtering out the toxic excesses, which is entirely compounding his critical condition. We've discovered a worrying count on elongated corpuscles and as yet have found no indication as to whats caused the elongation. An oxygen tent has been erected around Mr Ballard's bed. This may help to temper his circulatory and respiratory difficulties. Neurologically there is no evidence of trauma. There are abrasions to the back of the cranium which we attribute to his climb. Apart from the swelling there is no further damage in this area. As far as his brain is concerned we have given the all clear. We can elicit no verbal response and he has fallen in to a semi catatonic state." "How about his white cell count?" "That's normal Colonel, however, worryingly, his lymphatic system seems to be barely functioning. Effectively hes drowning internally in a potassium-sodium wash. He is being kept comfortable. Hes on a plasma drip and we're strictly controlling his intake. Doctor Jackson I'd just like to assure you that we're doing everything we can for your grandfather. Although things may sound negative providing we manage to re-establish his chemical levels theres no reason why eventually he can't make a full recovery. Its just that currently with his renal state.. ..we're doing our best Doctor." "Right, em, thanks Doctor Carmichael, thanks, very kind of you." "And SG-14?" "General, regarding SG-14, we've run all the tests Colonel Carter requested. We've made all the comparisons with the readings we have on record for each member of the Team, up to this point I can state categorically that those men in the infirmary are SG-14." "So they have no sign of injury or abnormality whatsoever?" "Well not quite
Colonel, they do all each have slight inflammation around the eyes." "Actually Colonel just one eye, the right in all cases." "What they've all got swelling to just one eye, the same eye in each case, wouldn't you say that was significant?" "No Colonel
I would not. They reported that they had all used the same microscope
and I'm assuming that one of them passed on a mild conjunctivitis." "I did verify that they each have it, but I didn't think it was relevant to determine the source as its quite a common symptom which clears up in only a matter of days. Its hardly what I would call an abnormality Colonel." "I'm not so sure about that Doctor Carmichael. Doesn't it strike you as an unusual coincidence that both SG-14 and Nicolas Ballard have been in the Pyramid on P7X 377 and now all of them have an unexplained injury to the right ocular cavity?" "Colonel Carter, in the case of SG-14 the injury is explained. I've just told you it was a mild case of conjunctivitis." "Yes, well even so Doctor Carmichael, perhaps you could run further tests to see if they also have any inflammation to the auditory nerve." "Colonel Carter, just how many tests do you insist we run? All the readings match. The bios, all the fluids, all the samples we've taken. The hair, the cells, the DNA, the retinal scans. All conducted at your request, and it all matches, perfectly. I don't know what you're looking for Colonel, but I can only say I haven't found it. They are definitely SG-14, the members of SG-14 that we have on file anyway." "Right then Carmichael, good work, thanks for that. That'll be all. Report as soon as you've run those extra tests, on that eye nerve. Dismissed." The General gave him an altogether appreciative smile. Without objection of not being allowed to attend the remainder of the Debriefing Doctor Carmichael picked up his folders and left the area. "Daniel are you okay, that couldn't have been easy?" "Thanks Jack. He thinks theres a chance. Have to wait and see. Nicks very stubborn. I think hes going to pull through." "That's what we're counting on Daniel. Okay. Right, where we up to?" "O'Neill, we are able to traverse a Seven and Eight Chevron wormhole but not a Nine Chevron wormhole." "Sir SG-14 currently comprise the same composition in our fourth dimension as they did in the Ninth Chevron Nth dimension sub-space wormhole they occupied to get here, back to The SGC. Therefore whoever, whatever they are, they are now beings that can exist outside of our own time-space created sub-space." "That makes sense Carter." "Really Sir?" "Phased Carter." "Yes Sir." "What you've never had a problem travelling Jack?" "Not in this dimension Daniel." "Touché." "Daniel Jackson, I believe O'Neill is meaning that members of SG-14 are phased. According to Colonel Carter, at the atomic platform." "Its bad isn't it?" "I think so Daniel. Sir is this what you meant by a storm coming our way?" "These are just the clouds Colonel." "That bad Sir?" General O'Neill pressed his head into his open palm. His elbow was leaning on the conference table. "Colonel do me a favour." "Of course Sir." "Put them on a lie detector." "Sir that's brilliant." "It happens." "I've been trying to detect physical anomalies, I've been looking in the wrong place." "Lets see shall we." "Sam, Jack, why the lie detector?" "Okay, I've not been able to determine any physical alterations, and listening to Doctor Carmichael's Report, all members of SG-14 are complete and in tact, there is no change." "Oh, you're saying they haven't been altered?" "No Daniel, I'm saying the opposite. I'm suggesting that they have been altered but that I can't find any evidence of that alteration." "Please continue Colonel." "Thank you Sir." "Yes do." Colonel Carter smiled at Daniel. "Sir, I maintain that the fact that there is no evidence, in this instance, proves not that there is no change, but that there is no known method for me to detect the change." "So this is all purely speculation?" "No Sir. Based upon my perception of the dynamics of wormhole physics and subspace travel I insist that SG-14 can not possibly be the same SG-14 that left The SGC for P7X 377. I am absolutely certain about that General." "Yeah you mentioned that earlier Carter." "Sir I'm even more convinced now." "And the lie detector Sam?" "That's the brilliant thing about it all Daniel. As General O'Neill recommended, conducting a lie detector test would serve to ascertain the possibility of change." "How so Colonel Carter?" "Well Teal'c, if they have been possessed by some force that has caused this alteration we will detect it in their neurological monitor output readings." "Indeed. But have we not previously witnessed that bodily possessions, for instance by a Goa'uld, leave the host no longer possessing the ability to respond, having been completely subdued by the presence of the symbiote." "Yeah Teal'c that's true but it was demonstrated by the Tollan device used on Skaa'ra, even when possession occurs something of the host survives. In the case of SG-14, they most certainly have been changed anatomically, even though we've not as yet been able to pick it up. They must have been in order for them to have transited a Nine Chevron wormhole. I'm hoping something of them, the host, their psychological self, has survived. We can detect that with this machine." "But Sam, what if the possessing entity lies, apart from which, people have been known to beat the lie detector before." "Daniel we only need to weight the probability towards my theory. If there is something of the host in there we will find it." "You are referring to the device lodged at Area 51 are you not Colonel Carter?" "Yes I am Teal'c." "Ah juicy. That thing, that should do the trick Carter." "Yes Sir." "Do I know about this?" "You do Daniel but you may have forgotten. I mentioned it to you about a year and a half ago." "Yeah vaguely, its coming back to me now." "Well they've been working on a way to encompass our latest, more sophisticated lie detector model with the technology of the Zatag detector. Mixed in with that are those principles we could glean from the Tollan's emotions monitor." "And what if nothing of the host has survived Colonel, and as Daniel said the possessor lies?" "Sir in using the Area 51 creation we should be able to detect even that via the emotional responses." "Emotional responses. You can't mimic those can you Carter?" "No General. I don't believe you can." She didn't look at him. "Quite." "Indeed." "Well I for one love the truth. No amount of deceit or disguise can alter it. Its so honest and simple. Resistant to all efforts of subdefuge and lie. It can not be hidden. Its an entity reliant only upon its own existence and if you know how to greet it it will always, always, be plain to see." "Indeed." "Quite." Colonel Carter stared at the General, speechless. She was frowning. He'd sounded exactly like the Canopic g_d Cauac. How strange, she thought. "Carry on Colonel. Expedience is priority in this instance. These men have got families and I would like to offer them explanations or solutions, preferably both, as soon as possible." "Yes Sir, thank you. Sir that was very profound, passionate." "What?" "Sam can I assist you?" "I'm glad you asked Daniel." "Colonel Carter, perhaps I too can be of some assistance?" "Oh definitely Teal'c, thanks." "T, I want SG-14
sectioned, discretely. And have the guard doubled down there. No
contact. Carter I don't want any of them leaving quarters so testing
will need to be conducted in lock up. Armed guards present." "Debrief, ten thirty hundred." "Yes Sir, full Report." "What are you going to be doing now Jack?" "My rounds." "I thought you did those earlier." "I did, these are different rounds." "What? Just how much work have you got to get through? You've been up since who knows." "A lot Daniel, a real lot. I never knew George had such a good poker face. Bingo. See yous later." "General." "Jack." "O'Neill." The General left the Briefing Room and walked through a flock of waiting administrators. They all took off after the General. Suddenly General O'Neill turned and rushed back into the Briefing Room catching SG-1 before they left. "Jack if you're that allergic to paper pushers you can always apply to join SG-1, we've got an opening you know." The General smiled at Daniel. "On second thoughts.." O'Neill indicated for everyone to sit back down. "Theorise Carter! I believe we've got ourselves a very serious situation unfolding here. I think we may well be under attack. We simply don't have available time to throw on tests with untried instruments. And I also don't want you exposed to SG-14." He looked directly at Colonel Carter. "Well Sir in view of Doctors Brigham and Carmichael's lack of findings, the closest explanation I can put forth is that each member of SG-14's physical anatomical structure has been mimicked and then the true anatomical changes that would need to be in place in order for the men, SG-14, to now exist in our time-space continuum have been mapped over." "Sort of like using ship cloaking technology inside the body." "Precisely General, exactly so Sir. Their original molecular code is being used to cloak, mask, the culprit, the possessing entity. Shielding its presence." "Yeah but Sam it doesn't make sense, I mean we know the Goa'uld are parasitical but they have an advantage from their blending. These things in SG-14 apart from the fact that we now know they're there, they seem to be completely dormant. Seems a bit pointless." "Daniel I think they possess the body for travel purposes." "Yeah, that
makes sense." "A sub-sub-space Colonel Carter?" "Yes Teal'c, definitely. Chevron Eight guarantees that this Ninth Chevron wormhole has the extended parameter of distances beyond our galaxy." "You said all this already. Trans-galactic Sam sure but I'm still not seeing how." "Okay, if we can for a moment, imagine opening up a suitcase and placing an apple pie inside, flying to Texas, opening the suitcase again and taking out the pie. Providing the rides not been to bumpy the pie's gonna be just fine." "Sam are you saying SG-14 are like the apple pie." "No Daniel shes saying they're the suitcase." Colonel Carter was facing the room and nodding and looking extremely discomposed." The Briefing Room was filling up with tension. And an uncomfortable feeling of impending danger. A storm. "Carter your theory indicates something has possessed each member of SG-14 in order to travel through the StarGate." "Unfortunately yes Sir." The General took a very deep breath and slowly quietly exhaled. He was drumming two of his fingers on his teeth. He had his eyes closed. The room was silent apart from the drumming noise the General was making. He stopped drumming and slowly swept his forehead. It was obvious to SG-1 the General had just made a series of decisions. He would let them know accordingly. "Okay Carter give me more, lets have it. Nutshell please." They were all now deadly serious and gravitating towards battle mode. "Why not just use the normal Seven Chevron lock?" "At this stage General I can only guess it has something to do with the uncontrollable phasing possibility provision the Ancients incorporated into the Ninth Chevron parameters. Sir as with our suitcase analogy, the apple pie would survive a plane journey, Ninth Chevron, but not a train journey, Seven Chevroned and altogether to bumpy a ride to retain integrity." "Gotcha. So then Carter based on this theorem of yours.. ..hypotheorem even, the possessor, Nebulium or whatever, should be due to disembark, get out of the suitcase, when it reaches its destination, the other side of the wormhole." "O'Neill, the destination you refer to, the other side of the wormhole is indeed, here, The SGC!!" The General practically knocked his chair over jumping up to sound high alert. He shouted at Teal'c. "Get those men separated!! Iso Unit Level thirty-one A." "Yes." Teal'c quickly picked up the telephone and spoke to a security officer on Level thirty. "Level thirty-one A, Jack we don't have a Level.." "Let it go Daniel." The General nodded to Daniel. He was still doling out orders to Teal'c who was still on the phone to lower Base security. "T, two armed guards per man! No contact! Cut the surface off! Seal off Sixteen and above." "Sir the lie detector?" "Forget that Carter, you've more than proved your point. Colonel, elevate to Code Seventeen." "Jack, Nick?" "I know Daniel, hes going to have to be taken out of the infirmary, down to Level thirty-one A with SG-14. Don't worry Daniel he'll be well taken care of." "Jack I don't think hes.." "Daniel please." "Teal'c with me. Carter you know what to do, and Colonel, enforce a standby to move up to Code Nine. Daniel contact General Hammond, Brief him. Set up a conference." "On it Sir." "Done." The General and Teal'c began to run through the level twenty-seven corridors. He shouted back to the aide trying to keep up. "You wait there."
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"Yes Sir. Yes Sir. No. No I'm not doing that. No its not. Yes I agree with that Sir. Not strictly. Not strictly. No. Yes I do. Yes. Seventeen. Colonel Carter's standing by to implement a Code Nine. No I'm not doing that. Yes I do. Yes Sir. With TIGETS. Em, well that would be about thir.. ..ty six hours ago. I was in D.C.. Yes we did. Hannah Greer. DEFCON Four. Um. George. Yes. No its not usual procedure. Erm, I'm more concerned about my Teams. Keeping them clean. Keeping them clear. Its the nature of it that's the.. ..absolutely. Oh it is a possession. From what we've gathered its em.. ..no, not established Sir, but there does seem to be a relation to the motor functions. Yah, inflammation to the auditory nerve. We're presuming that's the point of conjunction. No, contamination seems to be through the eye. No, the ocular cavity to be specific. No, no evidence of that Sir. Well providing a Recall to the Alpha Site they will be in the clear. Um. Thank you. I will. Yes Sir.. ..Mr President." "Lieutenant come in 'ere." "Sir?" "Em, get me.. ..just hold on a minute. Right okay, get me Colonel Carter and have Major Griff up here in twenty minutes. That'll be all, thank you." "Sir." "Hey. Take a seat. Okay this is the situation. Am going to Recall all the Teams. But I'm gonna have them.. ..I want them Recalled into the Alpha Site, and they're to standby on full alert. We need them ready, we need them ready as reinforcements. I'm going to send Griff and his Team out to the Alpha Site to Brief the incoming Teams. What I'm thinking Carter is perhaps Teal'c could go with them and square everything up. I then want Teal'c to move on to the Beta Site, take Griff's Team with him. I want him to sort something out with Brewster, liase with Colonel Brewster, see what they need. I'm planning to set up a quarantine installation. Carter because of the infectious nature of this.. ..foe, together with our lack of defence and understanding, off world isolation guarantees us at lease a degree of contamination control. We don't want any of this getting off the Base and we also don't know as yet how difficult these Nebulium are to neutralise." "Sir off world quarantine is a good step in containing a further spread.. ..infection. As you say we're opposed, as yet, against an unknown quantity." "Okay. We'll have Nick and SG-14 transferred as soon as its all set up. I'm gonna need you to get Walter contacting all the Teams, apart from the ones you've assigned to the Fact Finding Mission. Lets have them all back to the Alpha Site, ASAP." "You Recalling everybody in Sir?" "Everybody Carter. Now as soon as Teal'c and Griff get back we can ship the infected out. By the way Carter, elevate to Code Nine would you." "I'll do that now Sir." "Hold on till we've finished here. Carter look, I'm actually thinking of having the em, we still calling them SG-14.. ..okay, SG-14, I'm actually thinking of having them sedated, heavily. Speak to Carmichael about that will you. Not Nick though.. ..they're still struggling with keeping him stable, sedation will just complicate things for him. See to it. If its feasible lets do it. We still don't know the true nature of these things we're dealing with, which is putting us in an altogether sorry position. Sedation, speak to Carmichael, let me know." "On it Sir. Elevating now?" "Standby.. ..hold on. Hey help yourself." "Thanks Sir. You?" "Sweet. Yes? Put him through. Carter I need to take this, its George. Just instruct Walter while I'm on will you. Hi. Yah. Yeah. Em, going into Nine. Now. Um. Teal'c's taking SG-2, um.. ..Alpha then Beta. Um. No, em thirty-one A. Yeah. Yeah. Unfortunately. Um, okay. Yeah about twenty minutes ago. Yeah he said that. Okay. Thanks George." "General, Walter's sending the signals right now." "Has to be done. Hows Daniel?" "He em.. ..hes very focused. Have you noticed Sir, he seems to sleep a great deal less since he got back." "Since he got back. Hes been on Base." "No I mean since he got back." "Oh since he got baaacck.. ..down to Earth. Yeah I noticed. How is he, with Nick an'all?" "Hes focused. Extremely focused. Seems to help keep his mind off upsetting issues." "Gotcha." "Anyway he and Teal'c have got some pretty constructive ideas on the pyramid, lets see." "Lets. You've got Walter on the Recall to Alpha. You need to speak to Carmichael. Is em, is Griff there?" "Yeah hes sitting at the conference table. " "Wheres Teal'c?" "Teal'c's still with Daniel. Does he know?" "No. I've not spoken to him about it. Can you.. ..thought I'd speak to you first. See if its alright to take one of your Team." "Well I am getting him back though, ha ha, because theres no way, theres no way hes going on anyone else's Team, General." "No you're getting him back, don't worry. He shouldn't be gone more than ten hours. No more than half a day at the most." "Sir I'll go elevate to Nine, after which I'll speak to Carmichael and then Brief Teal'c. What time are they leaving?" "Well lets do it within the hour. As soon as the off world Teams get the Recall they'll return immediately, so lets get them off within the hour. Can you tell my aide to get Brewster on Comms, and I'll speak to you in a little while." "Okay Sir, General." "Colonel?" "Sir?" "Send Griff in." "Okay Sir." "Carter, tell Teal'c I'll be down.. ..up to Daniel's office in about twenty minutes." "Yes Sir. We'll all be there." After Briefing Major Griff, General O'Neill made his way to the elevator bay via the Control Room. "Walter?" "Everyones acknowledged the Call back. All quite General." "Wheres Siler?" "Hes in the Gate Room Sir." "Where?" "Err, oh, oh there he is, hes just popped up behind the Gate. Far left Sir, at the back there." The General called down to the Gate Room. "Siler?" Sergeant Siler stood up and gave the okay sign joining his forefinger to his thumb. "Excellent. Nice work Siler." General O'Neill set off to level twenty.
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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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