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Chapter 20

"Goodbye sir" Sam said as she hugged General Hammond, this could quite possibly be the last time she ever saw him. He smiled at her before moving on to Janet who also hugged him.

"It has been a pleasure serving with you all, you are the most incredible people I have ever known. Take care of yourselves. Goodbye"

They all smiled as they said their last goodbyes and walked up the ramp in the SGC gate room possibly for the last time. She was going to miss this place, it had been an important part of her life for a very long time and now she was leaving it behind, along with a lot of things, including her brother.

Jack stepped out of the stargate into the gate room on Kalena, his new permanent home. They all ran into the control room and Jack activated the base wide intercom.

"Attention everyone, the President of the United States has ordered us to turn over all the advanced technology that we have obtained from the Myenans"

Jack looked around at the stunned faces of the control room personnel and heard their gasps. He had a feeling there was a similar reaction going on all over the base.

"As I am sure you are all aware that is in breech of the agreement with the Myenans. The command team have decided that we cannot comply with the Presidents orders and to prevent the technology being taken by force we will be cutting the base off from earth. There will be no more shipments of supplies, no more travelling to and from earth and no more communication with earth. Anyone who wishes to return to earth should pack their things immediately and report to the gate room in one hour. After that there will be no more contact with earth. I'm sorry"

Jack turned to the others who nodded their heads, they were all thinking the same thing. If too many people wanted to go home they would not be able to run the base. It was a risk they had all considered back on earth and a risk they had all decided to take. Sam walked up to Jack's side and he put his arm around her.

"At least we don't have to decide which planet to have the wedding on" she said and he tightened his hold on her.

"Cassie" Janet said t her daughter "I know you heard the message and you know what's going on"

"Yeah I can't believe the President ordered you break the agreement with the Myenans" Cassie said.

"Now my place is here on Kalena but if you want to back through the gate to earth" Janet felt Daniel put his hand on the small of her back in silent support for which she was grateful. "You can go"

"I think I'll stay, I'll miss everyone back on earth but I'm want to stay"

"Are you sure? There's no changing your mind later"

Cassie just shrugged her shoulders and smile "I prefer it here anyway"

"Okay" Janet said relieved.

Cassie kissed her on the cheek and then turned back down the corridor her mother had found her in and wondered off again. Janet let out a deep breath she hadn't realised she was holding and turned to Daniel.

"Are you okay?"

"Relieved but I'll be much better after we find out who is leaving"

Daniel put his arms around her and held her for a moment "Everything will be fine"

Daniel was holding Janet's hand as he walked into the gate room along with the rest of the team. Looking around them there were a lot less people here than they had expected, in fact there were only about a twenty people. That meant the base could remain fully operational. The gate was dialled and they took down the names of everyone who was leaving as they went through the gate.

Twenty minutes later and the gate was shut down.

"So this is it" Sam said as she stared at the gate.

"This is it" Daniel replied

"We should contact the Tok'ra and inform them of the situation" Jack stated as he turned and headed to the control room, after a few seconds the others followed.

"Unscheduled off world activation"

The announcement brought everyone's attention to the stargate, the command team had decided to stay in the control room waiting for this inevitable moment. They had ordered all the control personnel to take the next few hours off. This left just Jack, Sam, Daniel, Janet and Teal'c sitting there.

"Receiving transmission, it's earth" Teal'c said

"Do not answer it and close the iris" Jack said

"Send our message through" Sam said as she walked up beside him

"Done"

"Let's hope they take it seriously" Daniel stated from behind them. Jack and Sam turned around to look at Daniel and Janet.

"Let's hope so"

They had decided to record a message that they could send through the gate when earth made its first attempt to gain access to Kalena. This way they could inform earth that they would not open the iris or respond to any transmissions now or in the foreseeable future. It also meant that they could get their message across without having to actually speak directly to anyone. The message and been short and precise and all five members of the command team had voiced their agreement with the decision. They all waited nervously, all praying that they didn't hear the thudding sounds that would mean earth hadn't taken the message seriously and had sent the task force through anyway.

"The transmission just stopped" Daniel said as he sat at the computer a minute later. They all looked up as the stargate shut down and Jack took a deep breath.

"Guess they took it seriously"

It had been two weeks since they had been cut off from and earth and the affects were starting to show. There were less supplies and everyone had a little more work to do to compensate for the people who had left. Fortunately there had been only a few people from each department that had left so there wasn't too much more work to do. However it was causing nasty headaches for the heads of departments and the bases command team. Since Janet was both a department head and a member of the command team she had twice the headache. Sam, Daniel and Jack were all suffering similarly and Teal'c was as usual relatively unaffected, if a little tired.

Cassie had had no problem adjusting to their life on Kalena when she had first got here and seemed to be accepting that they wouldn't see earth again. Life was starting to settle down once again and for that Janet was thankful.

She sat at the briefing table next to Daniel, Jack sat at the head of the table and Sam and Teal'c were sitting opposite her.

"Resource has found another planet where they can gather food, between that and the food we grow here on base we now have a surplus" Sam said

"What about the other resources?" Jack asked

"For the most part we have a surplus of everything however there are a few things we're only just have enough off but nothing to worry about"

"Production and Manufacture are having no problems meeting the higher requirements we now have" Teal'c added.

"How are we doing in the medical department?" Jack asked turning to Janet

"We have everything we need, there's no problems there"

"And the research departments?"

"Science is fine" Sam volunteered

"Archaeological good too" Daniel added.

"So two weeks in and everything seems to be okay"

"A lot of the things we use on this base, chemicals, medicines, materials and equipment is Myenan and they picked this planet for their base because a lot of the raw material that they use occur naturally on this planet"

"Bashenne is working with the resource department to locate more deposits of the raw material we need" Janet added. After they had informed the Myenans of the situation with earth Bashenne and a few other Myenans had come back to Kalena to help them adjust. The Myenans had been impressed by the decision they had made to cut themselves off rather than break their agreement. They had managed to completely gain their trust and they had agreed that once things settled down once more they would share more of their advancements with Kalena.

"And it would seem Earth has finally stopped trying to gain access to Kalena" Jack said "The last time they attempted to dial in was four days ago"

"Well considering that before that they were dialling in every couple of hours that's great" Daniel stated.

"Okay then" Jack said "Sam I want you to take SK1 on a mission through the gate tomorrow, it's about time things settled back into a routine again. We need to start sending teams through the gate for something other than searching for resources"

"I agree" Sam said with a smile.

TBC