Sam and Alisana were working in the lab trying to unlock the Stargate operating code, they reached a block when a chunk of code was proving impossible to decipher and appeared foreign like it did not belong with the rest of the code. They were eventually able to unlock it using the Ancient gene but what they discovered was far from what they were expecting, the code activated a galactic chart of the Milky Way showing every Stargate in the galaxy.
General Landry walks in to the lab towards Sam, Alisana and Jack who are standing staring at the large screen on the wall, "Colonel.", he shouts, getting their attention.
"General." replies Jack, turning for a moment to acknowledge him.
Landry approaches and stands with the others looking curiously at the display in front of them, "What's all this?."
"This is amazing, it's a map charting every Stargate in the galaxy. We just discovered it embedded within the gate code." says Sam.
"This is what activated the Stargate and caused the power surge?" asks Landry, pointing at the screen and looking for answers.
"It could have been.." says Alisana, glancing over at Sam and then facing Landry looking apologetic, "..sorry Sir."
"What do you mean activated the Stargate?" interjects Sam.
"Before the power surge that shut down my base the Stargate activated and then..." says Landry, shrugging his shoulders, "..went off."
"Sorry Sir, I don't understand how that could have happened." says Sam.
"The surge came from this lab, whatever you were doing down here had something to do with it." says Landry, he interrupts Sam before she can respond, "Briefing room one hour, you can fill me in then." he then turns and heads towards the door.
"But General we need to.." says Sam.
"One hour!." shouts Landry over his shoulder as he exits the lab and heads out of sight.
Briefing room
Sam and Alisana spent the last hour going over the code they unlocked and analyzing the data to try and determine what caused the power to go out on base and why this specific piece of code was in the gate code.
They enter the briefing room carrying folders and looking excited as they sit around the table where the rest of SG-1 have been sitting for the past twenty minutes, General Landry is by the top of the stairs speaking with Siler, the chief technical engineer.
"All equipment is functioning normally again Sir, no lasting damage." says Siler.
"Thank you Sergeant." replies Landry, he then turns and heads towards the table as Siler makes his way down the stairs, "All right, what do you have for me?." he asks as he takes his seat.
Sam bites her lower lip before replying, "Sorry Sir, I'm afraid it was our fault Sir after all."
"You don't need to apologize, Colonel. The blackout didn't cause any damage and no one was injured, however, I would appreciate it if you let me know in advance the next time you plan on doing something that could potentially cripple the base." says Landry.
"I thought it was rather exciting, Daniel and I got stuck in the elevator for two whole minutes." says Vala, smiling and winking at Daniel.
Daniel rolls his eyes.
"Well we had no idea that was going to happen when the code was activated." says Sam.
"What exactly did happen?." asks Jack.
Alisana stands over by the monitor and brings up a series of files and images as she talks, "The code we unlocked was in Surillic, it's a very old form of code used only by the Ancient council. When it was activated it some how manage to connect directly to the dialling computer and activated the Stargate and some moments later we got this map on screen."
"Those are Stargate's right?." asks Daniel.
"Yes." replies Sam, "It's a map of the gate network in the Milky Way galaxy, we think the code dialed the gate to get an outgoing connection to somehow get the location and status of every gate in the galaxy, similar to how the DHD's dial near-by Stargate's periodically for the correlative updates."
Mitchell stares at the screen, "So each of those white markers indicate the presence of a Stargate?"
"Yes exactly." says Sam.
Mitchell points to the screen, "So what does the orange one indicate?"
Alisana returns to the table and sits next to Sam and share a short look at each other and smile, "We don't know." says Sam.
"Then why are you smiling?" asks Jack.
"Because we don't know what it is, the map isn't showing the presence of a planet or moon so we don't think it's a Stargate." says Alisana.
"If it is not a Stargate then what is it?" asks Teal'c.
"We don't know." says Sam, she can see Jack and Landry looking a little frustrated at this point so continues, "..but whatever it is the Ancient council felt it was important enough to be displayed on the map. We should at least check it out." she adds.
"We?" moans Jack.
"Yes, I'm going with you." replies Sam.
"I admire your enthusiasm, Colonel, but I can't give you permission to go off world in your present condition." says Landry.
"You know how long I've been working on this and I want to be there to see what you find." says Sam.
"It's in an isolated region of space and there's no near-by Stargate's so we'll need a ship to get there anyway, she'll be fine." says Alisana, arguing Sam's case because she knows how much she wants this.
"I'll stay on the ship the entire time no matter what." says Sam, "..come on, you have to let me go."
Landry looks at Jack for his opinion, "Fine...but you're not getting off the ship, I don't care what's out there." says Jack.
"Deal." says Sam.
"The Daedalus is in Pegasus at the moment so I'll contact the Alliance, they can give you a ride." says Landry.
"Thank you, Sir." says Sam.
Onboard the USS Alliance
SG-1 prepared for their new mission to discover what the mysterious blip was on the gate map, Sam was reluctantly given the all clear to travel from Dr Lam and they're all now on board the Alliance under the command of Captain Swanson.
Their destination is the outer edge of the Milky Way and they have been in hyperspace for several days mostly just laying back and kicking their heels over the long journey until they finally reach the coordinates and the ship drops out of hyperspace and slowly comes to a stop and SG-1 are called to the bridge.
"What's up?" asks Mitchell.
"We're here." says Sam, sitting at the control station at the front of the ship.
Looking out of the bridge window they see an extremely large cluster of broken rocks of varying sizes, gently swirling and twisting in the darkness of space.
"This doesn't make any sense, there should be something here." says Alisana, leaning over Sam at the station.
"Does anyone else just see rocks?" says Jack, standing on the bridge with his arms folded.
"Can we get any closer?" asks Alisana.
Sam looks at Swanson who gives her a nod to move the ship forward, "Just don't get too close, I don't want those rocks hitting my ship.", as the ship approaches closer and closer and the rocks become larger and slowly drift out of the way, they see an object within the cluster.
"It's a ship." says Vala.
Daniel sees the battered and broken ship, "What's left of it."
Jack slowly unfolds his arms and walks closer to the window, "Destiny." he says softly as he stares.