Tau'ri-Furling: Pegasus Galaxy Collaborative Effort
A/N: I saw I could utilise the Furling characters further in my Atlantis fanfic. I plan to do my best to give the Furling characters a distinct '[Stargate Atlantis]-ish feel' to them.
A marvelous, elegant beam of pale golden-yellow light descended down into the embarkation room. A Furling who Elizabeth Weir could only recognize immediately to be Althidon himself stood in palce of the now-vanished beam, beaming with great contentment and excitement. He smiled with a slight bow of his head at Elizabeth Weir, who he had respected to the utmost as a fellow diplomat.
Elizabeth Weir bowed back slightly and smiled the characteristic 'Weir-style-smile' she displayed for when she saw an old friend and ally after ages. "Althidon, great to be meeting face to face again and working with and learning with you."
The soon-to-be Furling Assisting-Delegatory-External-Affairs Executor, who was about Elizabth's age in human years, looked Elizabeth in the eye with a bright sparkle and a look of agreement. "Elizabeth, I am no less than equally thrilled that your United Nations of Earth organization has allowed me, as well as my Pegasus Galaxy Objective Collaboration Contingent to reside in and study in this marvelous city of the Alterrans. I hope our peoples, in the spirit of friendship and cooperation, will experience a most fulfilling time spent together and end with much-enriched knowledge of each others' cultures. My senior staff should be beamed down any moment now."
"Splendid, Althidon. May I introduce you to my highly-capable expedition second-in-command, Colonel John Sheppard? There's no lieutenant specification in his military rank anymore, since we received news from Earth , just yesterday, that he's being promoted to a Full-Ranked Colonel."
"Hello to you, Colonel Sheppard. I'm very pleased to meet Dr. Weir's highly competent second-in-command finally. When Dr. Weir was away helping to negotiate with the Erri, in as much as nations may actually be able to, she left you in charge of the city and expedition and you performed phenomenally during her absence. You clearly highly-earned this recent promotion."
John Shephard, not having such a large ego, begged to differ. "Well, thanks, Althidon but Dr. Weir tends to be pretty generous in dishing out praise sometimes. I just try very hard at my career and am not competent, so I tend to do fairly well in my job. "
"Are we actually speaking of the same Elizabeth Weir, you and I Colonel Sheppard?" Althidon refuted Shephard's praise-diminishing argument with an amused chuckle, intending to refute him and make him take the credit. We both know the lady has quite high standards for leadership for herself, so perhaos she was ony being an infinitesimally small bit generous."
Sheppard non-verbally conceded he should take at least some credit for his good work.
A larger-sized luminous beam appeared instantaneously to deposit a group of important-looking Furlings all dressed in what looked like some form of military garb. Sheppard being foremostly in his career path a military man, ventured the guess they were most likely from different services or sub-services of the Furling armed forces.
"Ah, and now the tardy ranking military officers have arrived-wonderful"Althidon commented with a not-unkind smirk. "Well, it's an opportune time to for me to make some introductions amongst all of our peoples who will be working together in this city."
Before the diplomatic leader could begin to acquaint Furling and Earthan/ Pegasus Natives, another equally large group of Furling appeared in front of them.
A certain Earthan personnel didn't spare his Furling counterpart the unpleasantness of having to experience the self-promotion alleged greatness of his self-evaluated professional ability. "Rodney MacKay, head of the overall scientific department, MIT physics Ph.D. graduate summa cum laude, one of the most skilled if not the most skilled Earth scientists, expert in all natural sciences and technologies ancient, especially those found in the Pegasus Galaxy."
Arindol smiled politely, because that's what he thought everyone would expect him to do, following the protocols of politeness which he was feeling it very prudent to follow right now. "Pleased to make your acquaintance, Dr. McKay. I look forward to working with you and learning from your great wisdom developed over all these years about the Pegasus galaxy's scientific and technological wonders."
"Rodney-I go by just Rodney, well I mean at least I do for those who are as equally prominently prominent in a scientific field or their own field. And that includes you, I'm assuming—because this is such a mission of atronomically magnitudinous importance that the Furling wouldn't exactly send their most incompetent scientist to head their scientific compnonent, don't you think?"
"I'm inclined to agree, Rodney"[[ Arindol]] replied very tongue-in-cheek. "And thank you for the great compliment as well." Inwardly though, he'd thought up of a much less polite response which he felt this arrogant physicist named Rodney McKay deserved to hear. To his credit, he refrained from using it though.
