July 2011 Old Earth Calendar Atlantis “David, I need you to actually listen to me before we head out. I know that you’re normally not a part of an exploration team, but you’ve been off-world enough to know the rules. Well those rules definitely apply for this afternoon.”…
October 2011 Antarctic Outpost Earth One of the few good things you could say about the Ancients was that they had built things to last. While his current posting wasn’t exactly his idea of an ideal climate – being damn near freezing all the time, the structure…
May 2011 Old Earth Calendar Atlantis Sitting at her desk sipping her first cup of coffee, Elizabeth paged through her morning memos. Thanks to the pictures being circulated throughout Pegasus, most of the senior Gate team members had decided to confine themselves to the City. That wasn’t to…
Earth Chapter One – Not Quite As Things Seem May 2011 Colorado Springs, CO O’Neill-Jackson Residence “Jack, you always throw the best barbeques. Thanks for inviting my crew.” Handing over one of the beers in his hands, Jack nodded in thanks as he looked Steven Caldwell over.…
Chapter One – Getting Started April 2011 Old Earth Calendar While John was being taken down to the infirmary to recover from his second trip through the Chair, Elizabeth pondered the next round of decisions that needed to be made. Chuck had notified her that the City had…
April 2011 Old Earth Calendar “Look, all our ATA positive personnel who know how to fly a jumper have been cycling through the Chair for the last week. And thanks to the vote we just held, we are apparently going to be staying out here ‘in the black,’”…
Flipping the pages of his copy of Caldwell’s after-action report from one point to another, Balok looked at the officer in front of him. “Colonel, you and your crew spent a little less than two weeks on Atlantis after your rescue. Is that correct?” Sitting straight in his chair,…
“Unscheduled off world activation. Unscheduled off world activation!” Despite having been in command of the SGC for just over a year, General James Balok knew he was never going to get used to hearing those words sung out several times a week. He also didn’t think he was…
Two and a half days of frantic packing, endless Jumper flights, last minute innovations and never-ending worry later, Atlantis and her citizens were as ready to leave Lantea as they ever would be. The freshwater tanks where Atlantis stored desalinated sea water were full and the waste treatment…
The Jumper loads of wounded were gone, and only the dead remained behind. Snorting softly to himself, Radek shook his head. He really wasn’t that much of a romantic, and but while the thought was unpleasant there was still an element of truth to it. The only people from…
