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"Destiny, the design is clearly ancient. Launched hundreds of thousands of years ago."
"Where the hell are we?"
"Several billion lightyears from home."
"We are on a ship, but we have no idea where we are in relation to Earth."
"This ship could be the most important discovery mankind has made since the Stargate itself."
"These are the wrong people, in the wrong place."
"We got a lot of wounded, we need to get home."
"We barely have enough power to operate the main systems, this ship simply doesn't have the capability to dial Earth."
"We got a situation here, there was a tremor and Scott fell through the snow into a crevasse."
"He's fine, but he's just out of reach."
"Yeah, this could be a problem." said Lieutenant Matthew Scott strugglingly as he examined the sturdy wall of ice that now separated him from the Stargate.
"Scott; Lieutenant, Do you copy!" Exclaimed the echoed voiced of Colonel Everett Young. It took almost a minute for the disorientated Lieutenant to situate where the feeble sound of Young's voice had come from. He soon discovered a radio located near his mangled arm. The radio was crushed halfway underneath a large piece of the frigid ice that covered Scott and the Gate, and he was unable to reach it.
Roughly 5 Hours and 34 Minutes Earlier:
"OK everyone, fan out." Announced Lieutenant Scott as the small team he commanded, made up of Greer, Johansen, Volker and himself, exited the Stargate. They had entered a small cave on a cold planet, seen previously by them on the Kino that Eli had sent through before them, now lying on the floor; Eli had flown it too fast through the Gate and had hit the broad, icy wall just in front of the Stargate.
"Ow!" Burst out Volker as he reached over to collect the Kino.
"What is it?" Johansen uttered as she walked over to Volker and started examining his hand, now looking frostbitten.
"The Kino is freezing cold." Announced Volker while holding his ice lined hand with the other.
Greer responded in his usual manner. "Yeah, tell us something we already wouldn't have figured out."
"No, I mean really cold."
"He's right" Explained Johansen. "This kind of frost couldn't have been caused by the Kino sitting normally on the ice."
"It doesn't look like Volker's hand is hurt as much as it could have been, but we should get him back to Destiny as soon as possible." The medic continued.
"Okay, dial the gate." Scott ordered as they all moved to the tunnel leading out of the cave in order to get out of the way of the Gate's unstable vortex. The small cavern they were in was roughly the same size as the Kawooshes the Stargates generate, this seemed to indicate that the Gate had been buried in the ice with a small gap between the covering snow and the place where the event horizon would form.
The radio in Johansen's hand started to crackle and Colonel Young's voice came from it. "How's it going out there?"
"We're fine, but I'm taking Volker back through."
"What happened?"
"He touched the Kino and his hand now looks like it's frostbitten."
"That doesn't make any sense, it couldn't have been sitting on the ground for more than a few minutes." Eli interjected, sounding skeptical.
"I don't want to take any chances though." In a few moments Johansen had gone through the gate with Volker and handed the radio to Scott.
"Anything else otherwise." Young's voice crackled over the radio.
"Though the planet has plants, it looks similar to the ice planet we were on sir." The Lieutenant answered, looking around the cavern. He was amazed at how glassy the walls of the cavern were that were formed by the unstable vortex. Another thing he seemed to pick up on was how lucky it was that there was a small entrance leading away from the gate-sized mound of snow that they were currently occupying.
The Colonel replied sarcastically. "Oh yes, I remember that fondly."
"Well at least nobody has to wear space suits here." Scott answered joyfully, as he had not enjoyed wearing the uncomfortable, claustrophobic and ancient (in both meanings of the word) spacesuits. Besides that, it was lucky that they didn't need them, as they only had three that they knew of and they needed at least four people on the planet in order to get as much of the plants, for food, as possible.
"We'll send Franklin and Eli through also; we need to get as much vegetation as we can."
"Oh, come on!" Eli complained quietly at his name being selected to go through to the planet. He obviously did not like planets with climates that were either very cold, very hot, as in the case of the desert planet, or extremely humid.
"You've only got six hours until Destiny jumps back into FTL." Rush interjected suddenly, previously unnoticed. "You should focus on getting as much vegetation as possible."
"I still don't know how any plants could be living on this rock." Replied Eli questioningly.
"We need to replenish our food supplies." Stated the Colonel.
"Okay, shut 'er down Riley and dial it up."
In a few moments the glow of the event horizon went away and the Gate started spinning. When the outgoing wormhole connected, Eli and Franklin were sent through; Eli though was persistently reluctant at going through to a cold rock, patched with sparse greenery.
"We'll dial every hour, stay in radio contact." Young stated to Scott over the radio.
"Will do, Scott out." Scott replied as the Gate deactivated (Eli had finally gone through to the cave).
"Okay everyone, let's go." Scott announced as they began to move out of the icy cave which they and the Gate were in.