Being defined by their genes wasn’t what they wanted. They wanted to be known by what they could *do*. 1. The Unlikely Guide There was just no way that he was a Guide. Really. 2. The Unwilling Sentinel John wasn’t willing to give up the sky. Not even for the…
New Lantea July 2012 – Old Earth Calendar Personal Quarters “Carson? You have something you want to talk to us about?” John asked as he let his Scottish friend into the main room of their quarters. “Aye, I do. Is Rodney in?”, John thought Carson was looking a bit nervous,…
June/July 2012 StarGate Command, Earth Level 27, General O’Neill’s Office Despite all protestations to the contrary, Jack O’Neill knew the value of paperwork and routinely managed to get his daily dose of it done and done on time. He had just never found a way to actually enjoy…
New Lantea May 2012 – Old Earth Calendar Main Science Lab “John, there is no reason for me to go on this foray into the bosom of Mother Nature with you. I have a lot of work to do here and precious few people to do it with.”…
Atlantis May 2012 – Old Earth Calendar Main Conference Room “Finally we’ve started planting the second level of the greenhouse with Pegasus exotics and some of the quick growing varieties of fruit. I would like to request that the Teams bring back samples of any new fruit or vegetable…
December 2011 Oval Office Washington, DC “I would appreciate it, gentlemen, if someone could tell me why our allies weren’t present at our most recent battle with the remaining Ori fleet? If I remember correctly, we are allied with the Free Jaffa Nation, the Asgard, and the…
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…
Shortly after Jumper One had ditched them to check out the space station, Jumpers Two and Three had received a weak distress signal from the wreck of the Daedalus. Listening to the voice of an unknown Lieutenant describe the numbers of dead and wounded, Lorne swallowed hard, more than…
They were right outside the asteroid belt before the location of the space station was finally pinpointed. Unfortunately it wasn’t found due to Rodney’s efforts at the sensors, it was found because the station lit up its own sensor array and painted the incoming Jumpers. Each of the Jumper…
Because he was watching the long ranged sensors that were normally trained on the Daedalus, Chuck was the only one to really see the icon that represented the ship stop and then wink out. Staring at the screen in shock for a moment he blinked. Then with a…
T minus four days They got the communication burst from the Daedalus when she was a little over two days out, basically stating that she was on time with a rough manifest and passenger list attached. Reviewing the lists of supplies and personnel, Elizabeth was reminded that if everything…
The meetings were over; the time had come to put the plans into action. ************************************* Daedalus left Atlantis on time, each of her crew convinced that this was to be the last time they would see the City, the last time they would see their friends. Knowing that…
