Code Name: "Vampires of the Hole"
Mission Type: Delta Nine - Emergency action clause
Mission Report
Stargate depowered until further notice
Portion filed by - Lt Harry Miles (Lermac), SG-A Military
I was just about to go off shift for a while, having been working on the Dialing computer for a few hours, when the Stargate dialed up. According to the log SG-15 was due back from their first mission together. General Hammond managed to turn up in time to witness Major Trasen fall out of the Stargate.
As he collapsed Trasen was calling for the IRIS to be closed. I did do this as the Stargate began to missfire. Something very large sounding impacted on the IRIS just after we got it closed, then the Stargate shut down. Radiation teams reported that whatever it was, hadn't been dangerous in any way they could detect.
Dr Frasier was called down from the Infirmary to deal with Trasen. He was badly cut and bruised in places. He was also babbling something about tentacles. We managed to calm him down enough to find out that they'd been attacked whilst inside the wormhole.
Dr Mackenzie arrived almost instantly, suggesting delusions brought on by something he wasn't willing to think about which happened on the far side of the Stargate. Major Carter and Machello backed this up saying that nothing could exist within the Wormhole that could attack them.
We were willing to agree on this line, until Charlie O'Neill turned up, claiming that he'd felt the presense of an Idornagon, something that clarified everything for me.
Portion Filed by - Col. Jack O'Neill, SG-A Military
Charlie had apparently been in the middle of a PE lesson when he'd felt the Stargate open and a Idornagon begin feeding. Apparently his species have never encountered these things but they have come across rumors of them. They apparently exist in Hyperspace, the same space that we travel through whenever we go through the Wormhole.
These things look like big green things which are described by the few who survive as being teeth, mouth, tentacles and nothing else. They seem to latch onto Wormholes between Stargates as a source of food, the same way that 'a highwayman might hang around the end of a gorge to ensure that people can't get past him' (Daniel).
When we questioned Charlie about it, he claimed that some of the minor System Lords had been wiped out by these things latching onto the Stargate on their world and then they hadn't been able to use the Gate again. These things apparently live for centuries in Hyperspace, but only a few hours in (what Sam termed) Realspace (what we live in).
Hammond ordered that the Stargate be locked out, meaning that no one could dial in and we could only dial out when the destination module was replaced.
We were worried about whether this one had locked onto our gate or the one on R59-F8Q. No one could work out what to do to find out. Daniel seemed to think a bit then suggested that we simply dial the Stargate out and stick a camera through the Event Horizon (the surface) of the Wormhole then look through that.
Portion filed by Major Samamtha Carter, SG-A Stargate Sciences
The idea of a species that lives in Hyperspace is amazing. That they can force their way through the 'wall' of a Wormhole and simply pick up anyone travelling using a Stargate is worrying. Basicly these things would be great for study, just not yet. Even I have to admit that we need to get rid of it soon.
Daniel's idea of using a camera was great. General Hammond approved of it, but insisted that we stick the camera on the MALP and that the Gate room be evacuated. The shields were also charged to full power and kept active. At the time I couldn't understand this; it would be an outgoing Wormhole, nothing could come back through it.
When everything was rigged up we set the MALP moving forwards until the camera was just sticking over the Event Horizon. We caught a brief glimpse of the Idornagon before a massive tentacle came out of the Wormhole and smashed the MALP to pieces. As the tentacle began to flail at the shields around the room, General Hammond ordered the Stargate to be deactivated.
It took a couple of goes as the Idornagon seemed to be keeping the Stargate open somehow. When we got it closed, we were left one piece of thirty metre long and another piece of five metre long tentacle spread around the Gate room.
Machello and I wanted to study it, both the tentacles and the creature itself, after all it wouldn't have what we would recognise as a biology. Charlie advised against this.
We're left with a bit of a problem. The Stargate can't be used unless we want to let a huge tentacled thing in and no one can dial in. We managed to send a transmission to all offworld teams indicating that they can't dial back to the Earth but couldn't explain the situation in case any of the Goa'uld have broken our encryption codes.
We've made contact with the Alliance, hoping that someone will be able to come up with a solution to this problem. As yet we don't have one.
Mission Notes
Casualties or physical injuries to SG-A personnel:Lt. Harrison SG-15 (KIA)
Cpt. Johnson SG-15 (KIA)
LT. Aferson SG-15 (KIA)
Casualties or physical injuries to off-world inhabitants: None
Other notes (submitted by Major General George Hammond):
- The Stargate will remain shut down until such time as we can be certain that the Idornagon will have left. This thing has proven the ability to attack SG personnel as they are passing through the Wormhole and as we attempt to dial out.
- No offworld travel will be possible unless it is via the Dreadnaught being used as a transport or another ship. Attempts have been made to bring in other vessels for transport purposes however given the distance to our colony worlds this has yet to prove practical. No one shall, unless it is the direst of circumstances, attempt to use the Stargate to travel to another world.