It's the start of a new day at the SGC and everyone is going about their business, personnel on the surface at the the main gates are checking paperwork and searching trucks as they arrive to deliver supplies to the base, maintenance staff are cleaning the halls and offices, kitchen staff are preparing meals to be distributed throughout the day, technicians are making sure everything on base is running smoothly and SG-Teams are once again preparing for their next mission through the gate.
Up in the security room, Barry and Gordon have got the day shift monitoring the many cameras on base to ensure everyone is safe and the base is secure, they're both sat in comfortable leather chairs at the security console watching the screens in front of them.
Barry leans back and stretches out his arms with a yawn.
"Rough night huh?" says Gordon.
"Oh you wouldn't believe it mate, because the Mrs is away visiting her mother, I had to take the kids to some prearrange concert, four hours it went on for." says Barry.
"Four hours?. Haha." says Gordon, "Rather you than me." he adds.
"The music was so loud we could have just stayed at home, we could've probably heard it from her house, and the flashing lights were crazy, I'm still seeing spots now." says Barry, "I tell ya, I'm really starting to feel my age." he adds.
Gordon laughs and pats him on the shoulder as he stands up, "You want some coffee?" he asks, heading for the coffee pot behind them.
Barry turns and stretches, "No thanks." he says, then as he turns back to face the screens he sees something strange walking down the hall, he looks closer and squints his eyes, then closes them and shakes his head thinking he's halucinating, when he opens his eyes again he doesn't see it anymore, "Erm, on second thoughts I think I will have some of the coffee...make it a strong one." he says.
General O'Neill and most of SG-1 are in the briefing room waiting for Daniel to arrive, apparently he's made a discovery, Carter is explaining her progress on the next generation of Naquadah generators.
"...so yes I think we've made amazing progress, the power output could potentially be more than 500% greater than our current models." says Carter.
"500% you say?" says O'Neill.
"Yes Sir. We should be ready to test it soon." says Carter.
O'Neill doesn't have a clue about most of what she's been saying for the last 20 minutes, "Good news, keep me posted." he says.
"Yes Sir." says Carter.
Alisana comes in to the briefing room, as bubbly and bouncy as ever, "Morning." she says joyfully as she takes her seat at the table.
Everyone stopped talking as they saw her enter the room, they stare at her with strange looks on their faces, "Did I miss anything?" says Alisana, looking around at them all.
"Carter was just explaining about Naquadah generators." says O'Neill, he speaks slowly while still staring at Alisana, not quite sure what he's seeing.
"Oh, did you get it working yet?" asks Alisana, with interest.
Carter shakes her head slowly, "Not yet." she says.
The room is silent for a few moments, "So listen..here's a question for ya." says O'Neill, "...What are you wearing?" he asks.
"Oh, they call it a onesie." replies Alisana, with a smile on her face, she's wearing a bright pink onesie with round ears on it's hood, it's in the style of a mouse, "Do you like it?" she asks.
"A what?" asks O'Neill.
"A onesie." says Teal'c.
O'Neill looks at Teal'c and then at Alisana, "I see. Why are you wearing it?" he asks.
"Its comfortable, and its cold in this place." replies Alisana.
"They're considerably warm." says Teal'c, turning his head and smiling.
Everyone turns and looks at Teal'c, O'Neill does a double take looking at Teal'c then leans forward with his hands clasped on the table, "They're considerably warm?" asks O'Neill, "And you know this...how?" he adds.
Alisana turns in her seat, "Do you have one too?" she asks, looking at Teal'c.
Teal'c was about to reply when he notices everyone staring at him, he turns his head away, looking a tiny bit embarrassed and remains silent.
"I love it. Where can I get one?" says Vala.
At this point Daniel walks in to the room, hes holding a book and has his head down looking at it, "Hi guys, sorry I was just making sure I had everything." he says as he makes his way to the other end of the room towards a projection screen.
"I have some more in my room, I'll get you one later." whispers Alisana to Vala.
"So err..OK." says Daniel, placing the open book down on the table and stepping back holding the projector remote, "The reason I asked you all to be here today is because I think I've..." he says, he stops talking when he sees Alisana.
"It's a onesie." says O'Neill.
"Oh." says Daniel, he shakes his head trying to get back his thoughts, "As I was saying I asked you all here today because I think I've found something very important." he says.
"How important?" asks Vala.
"Very." says Daniel, he then turns off the lights and displays an image on the projection screen, it's an image of a stone slab with Ancient text on it.
Daniel explains...
"We all know the story of the Ancients, who they are and where they came from. We don't know exactly when, but 10's if not 100's of millions of years ago due to the war with the Ori they left their home galaxy in search of a new home, after thousands of years travelling through space they eventually ended up here in the Milky Way, or Avalon as the Ancients called it.
When they arrived here they settled on the planet we now know as Dakara, from there they set out and explored the galaxy and after meeting the various races that inhabited the galaxy they formed an alliance with them, they lived peacefully together until the unfortunate events surrounding the disappearance of the Novum and Alisana at the hands of the Verdain.
Obviously as we know, the alliance continued but all the races were a bit withdrawn after that. The Ancients, for reasons I'm not quite sure about just yet, left Dakara and resettled on Terra...here on Earth. Probably due to their growing population, they eventually built themselves a city, Atlantis, and shortly after that they were infected with the Ori plague and they left Earth, taking Atlantis with them to the Pegasus galaxy...and we all know the rest."
"Fascinating." says O'Neill, "But like you said when you first starting talking...we already know this story." he adds.
"I know." replies Daniel.
O'Neill waves his hands slightly in a confused manner, "So what's so important?" he asks.
Daniel steps forward, "I found this when..." he says as he pick up the book he left on the table, he pauses talking again when he hears a strange sound, once again everyone turns and stares at Alisana.
While Daniel was telling the story, Alisana quietly got up from her seat and went over to the small refreshment table, she picked up a box of donuts and took it back with her to the table, the strange sound everyone hears is Alisana sucking the jelly out of a donut.
Alisana finishes extracting the jelly and moves the donut away from her mouth and starts licking the sticky tips of her fingers, she looks up and sees everyone staring at her again in silence, she wipes the powdered sugar off her face, "Oh I'm sorry did you want one?" she asks, holding out the open box of donuts.
"Yeah" says O'Neill, as his strange expression changes to one of pleasure, he reaches out and happily grabs a donut.
"I'll take one of those." says Carter.
"Do you have chocolate frosting?" asks Teal'c, leaning over and peering in to the box.
"Sure" says Alisana, passing him the chocolate frosted donut.
Daniel lowers his head in disbelief, "Seriously?" he says, sounding a little bit frustrated.
"Sorry, Daniel. Go ahead." says O'Neill, cramming the cream filled donut in to his mouth.
"You're sure...you don't want a coffee to go with that?...anyone need a bathroom break or anything?." says Daniel, sarcastically, "Alright then, as I was saying." he adds.
Daniel continues...
"During the war with the Verdain, Alisana took us to the Yaculum, while we were there we found a room filled with books, scrolls and stone tables, we didn't have much time to look at them but on my way out this book caught my eye and I brought it back with me.
The book is journal kept by an Alteran called Calius, he was the captain of a ship. I've gone through the whole thing and it's basically a daily account of the Alterans journey to the Milky Way from their home galaxy."
"...and?" says O'Neill.
"Well as I explained, the Ancients came here from their home galaxy in a ship, through all our years of travelling to other planets and everything we've found, we haven't seen or found any reference to that ship...until now." says Daniel.
"Lantis." says Alisana.
"What?" asks Carter.
"The name of the ship, it was called the Lantis." replies Alisana.
Daniel looks at her, "Yes...wait...you...you know about this ship?" he asks.
"Yes." says Alisana.
"Well why didn't you say anything?" asks Daniel, "You didn't ask." she replies.
"I've never seen it, I was told about it when I was little." says Alisana.
"Do you know where it is?" asks Mitchell.
Alisana shakes her head, "No" she says.
"It's right here." says Daniel, pointing his fingers down.
"On the floor?" asks O'Neill.
"No, here...here on Earth." says Daniel.
"Well where is it?" asks an excited O'Neill.
Daniel lowers his head for a moment, "I have no idea. Calius's final entry says that it was moved to Terra, so I'm pretty sure it's still here." he says, he opens the book and turns it around so they all can see, "I found this on the back page, I believe they're instructions on how to find or access the ship...but it doesn't make sense yet...its just a bunch of drawings and random numbers." he adds.
"Let me see." says Carter, leaning across the table, Daniel passes her the book.
Carter examines the back page, "These are frequencies." she says with confidence.
"Frequencies, are you sure?" asks Daniel.
"Positive." says Carter, "Look here, these drawings look like wavebands or sound waves and the numbers they must represent a specific frequency." she adds.
"For what, a radio?" asks Vala.
"A tracker maybe." says Alisana.
"Possibly." says Carter, "Sir, I'd like to run these through my computer and see what I can come up with." she says.
"Go" says O'Neill.
Alisana gets up, looking excited and follows Carter out, Daniel pursues.
"An Ancient ship right under our noses." says Mitchell, "Do you think they'll find it?" he asks.
"Knowing Carter, I think she just might." replies O'Neill with a smile, everyone is excited about the prospect of getting their hands on an Ancient ship.