p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;"They met in the commissary since the team needed to eat and this was as good as the meeting room they used earlier to strategize. The remainder of SG-1 plus Mac and Pendergast were all happy to meet there to discuss their next move./p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""The mission wasn't a complete scrub." Daniel said quickly. "We know who we're up against." He revealed as he busily shovelled a mouthful of mac and cheese into his mouth. "Anat."/p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;"Jack and Mac shared the same confused look, but Jack remained silent. They stared at each other for a brief moment as if in conversation. Mac sighed and said, "As in Anat, daughter of Ptah?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;"Daniel looked at Mac with a slightly shocked look. Mac knew ancient history. Who knew? Daniel shook his head slightly as if he had to clear that piece of information. "She actually goes further back then the Egyptian depictions of her. Like Ba'al, she's been found in texts dating back to the Ugaritic language. Basically, wherever you find whisperings of Ba'al, she's also present."/p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""How is this helpful, Daniel?" Jack asked him as he shovelled a forkful of what appeared to be chicken into his mouth./p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""Anat, an older sibling to Ba'al, can only be described as an under lord to Ba'al and is usually depicted as a woman. That's the good news. The bad news is that every text available which mentions Anat describes her as violent and someone who delights in war. In these texts, Anat appears as a fierce, wild, and furious warrior in a battle, wading knee-deep in blood, striking off heads, cutting off hands, binding the heads to her torso and the hands in her sash, driving out the old men and townsfolk with her arrows, her heart filled with joy." Daniel described. "She's actually featured in the bible as Shamgar, a warrior, who was noted as being her son in Judges."/p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""The ancient Jews knew about these gods?" Mac asked./p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""Likely forced or otherwise worshipped them in Egypt as slaves. Of course, here she has had mortal offspring, but it's certainly not the last time a god had a part mortal child." Daniel nodded. "Of course, we always had the problem of identifying each one of these Goa'uld as they come to us, and so many of them were merged or written as folklore to appease different religious factions of the reigning religion at the time, even the area." Daniel shrugged. "The things I've brought up are the things which are individual to her name and not later incarnations. I'm pretty sure it's one and the same."/p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""She and Murdoc should get along just fine." Mac said sarcastically./p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""Well yes they should, but the longer we leave them together as host and symbiont, the harder the fallout if we manage to extract it." Daniel admitted. "What's funny is that she usually takes a female host so that she would be able to, umm, bear Ba'al's children."/p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;"Jack's head shot up. "Wait one minute… you said they were siblings." /p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;" "Yeah, it was an incestuous relationship." Daniel nodded./p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""I knew Ba'al was creepy!" Jack exclaimed./p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""So where is this Ba'al?" Mac asked. "Can't we just reunite them?" /p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""No god, no!" Jack objected./p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""They won't just run away with their tails tucked between their legs, even now we don't have all the Ba'al's-"/p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""All?" Mac asked./p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""Yeah, he cloned himself... a lot." Daniel admitted./p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""Ah!" Mac exclaimed./p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""The point is we're barking up the wrong tree." Jack told his cousin. "We need to focus on getting Sam and Maria back."/p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""I'm thinking something a little more organized than the information gathering." Daniel said with a nervous look to Pendergast. /p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""How many?" He asked without hesitating. /p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""Are your men good out on the field?" He asked Pendergast./p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""Yes, sir." Pendergast nodded. "Two teams? Six total?" /p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;"Jack nodded. "Did the download prove helpful for anything else?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""An inventory of the ship, both cargo and crew."/p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""Crew?" Jack asked./p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;"Daniel shrugged. "Anat doesn't have any Jaffa of their own yet, possibly after this they may go looking for reinforcements. But I did find two things of interest." Daniel said, flipping through a folder. "The first is they have an ancient puddle jumper." /p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;"Jack looked up interested. "They do?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""What's a puddle jumper?" Mac asked./p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""It's a ship designed by the ancients to go through the gate. They're extremely rare; at least in this galaxy they are." Daniel said./p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""Well, can't they just fly it instead of their broken ship?" Mac asked./p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""Actually no, these ships were designed to only work with people who have the Ancient gene." Daniel answered, giving Jack a pointed look./p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""Does that mean I have the ATA gene too?" Mac asked./p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""It's possible." Daniel nodded. /p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""So, you can fly that ship?" Mac asked Jack./p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""Among other things." Jack grinned./p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""You said two interesting things, Doctor Jackson?" Pendergast asked during the pause in conversation./p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""Yeah, Anat isn't the only one on board." Daniel said, bringing up the ship's schematics on a tablet. "We can assume that's Sam and Maria." Daniel pointed out at two dots close together. "And that is Anat," he said pointing to another dot, then pointed to another room, "And twelve human lifeforms."/p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""Who?" Mac asked./p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""Well, he's only been to earth lately so I'm guessing here but-"/p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""Members of the Trust." Jack ended for him. "Making sure their experiment works out."/p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""They do not know the danger they are in." Teal'c acknowledged./p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""Or don't believe they are in danger. That emit /emwill be faithful to them." Jack theorised./p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""Or they underestimate Anat, yeah." Daniel stated./p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""This is a search and recovery then," Jack nodded. "Briefing for the whole team now and ready to go in ten." /p
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p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;"Jack watched as Mac pulled a Military cap on, Jack gave him a grin. "Looks good on ya." /p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;"Mac shrugged as he turned away from his cousin. "I had a pretty reliable mirror." /p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;"Jack saw the concerned look on Mac's face. It was funny, Jack thought. He was younger than Mac, but he always felt a responsibility to protect Mac. He stepped forward and said quietly. "Mac." His cousin continued to avoid eye contact, making himself busy organizing his bag. "Angus." He tried to reel him in using his given name and still had no response. So, he knelt down and reached out and grabbed him by the neck almost forcing him to look up. "Bub?" He finally tried which made Mac look up and at his cousin. "We'll get 'em, huh?" Jack told him. Mac gave him a pained look. Jack realized that he was obviously desperate to save Maria. "It's us, just one of our missions like when we were kids, remember?" He grinned which made Mac smile a little and nod. Jack let go of his neck. "Let's head out."/p
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p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""Are we any making any progress?" Maria asked her./p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""I'll get to the door in a few minutes. I wanted to see if we could find more intel into what we were up against." Sam told her. "This console is old, out of date with the rest of the ship but I managed to bring up the ship schematics and sensors."/p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;"Maria looked at the schematics. "The dots are lifeforms?" She asked Sam./p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""Yeah." Sam confirmed./p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""We're not the only ones on board." /p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""Nope." Sam agreed./p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""So, who are they?" Maria asked./p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""You ever heard of the NID?" Sam asked./p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""The National Intelligence Department?" Maria asked./p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""That's the one. They had access to these symbionts I talked about before and ways of tracking down basically anyone."/p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""And they know about this program?" Maria asked./p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""Yes, and this particular rogue section, 'the Trust' have a grudge against us." Sam nodded, carefully choosing her words./p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""You think that's them?" Maria asked./p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""It would be logical." Sam observed./p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""So why do we go down there? Why not go along here and up? We'd only have to face one bad guy."/p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""Because of this." She said, bringing up a screen of the bay holding the Jumper. "This ship is a highly sophisticated piece of technology, not to be left in the hands of the Goa'uld. An alien race we now call 'The Ancients' are one of the races humans evolved from. Some humans carry a gene we call an ATA gene, making it possible for them to fly these ships."/p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""You can't do it without the gene?" Maria asked and somehow wasn't too surprised when where Sam shook her head. "Amazing!" She looked at Sam. "Do we know someone who does?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""Yes, and if I'm not mistaken, he'll be mounting a rescue as we speak." She told Maria with an amused smirk. "We need to arm ourselves."/p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""The mission wasn't a complete scrub." Daniel said quickly. "We know who we're up against." He revealed as he busily shovelled a mouthful of mac and cheese into his mouth. "Anat."/p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;"Jack and Mac shared the same confused look, but Jack remained silent. They stared at each other for a brief moment as if in conversation. Mac sighed and said, "As in Anat, daughter of Ptah?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;"Daniel looked at Mac with a slightly shocked look. Mac knew ancient history. Who knew? Daniel shook his head slightly as if he had to clear that piece of information. "She actually goes further back then the Egyptian depictions of her. Like Ba'al, she's been found in texts dating back to the Ugaritic language. Basically, wherever you find whisperings of Ba'al, she's also present."/p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""How is this helpful, Daniel?" Jack asked him as he shovelled a forkful of what appeared to be chicken into his mouth./p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""Anat, an older sibling to Ba'al, can only be described as an under lord to Ba'al and is usually depicted as a woman. That's the good news. The bad news is that every text available which mentions Anat describes her as violent and someone who delights in war. In these texts, Anat appears as a fierce, wild, and furious warrior in a battle, wading knee-deep in blood, striking off heads, cutting off hands, binding the heads to her torso and the hands in her sash, driving out the old men and townsfolk with her arrows, her heart filled with joy." Daniel described. "She's actually featured in the bible as Shamgar, a warrior, who was noted as being her son in Judges."/p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""The ancient Jews knew about these gods?" Mac asked./p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""Likely forced or otherwise worshipped them in Egypt as slaves. Of course, here she has had mortal offspring, but it's certainly not the last time a god had a part mortal child." Daniel nodded. "Of course, we always had the problem of identifying each one of these Goa'uld as they come to us, and so many of them were merged or written as folklore to appease different religious factions of the reigning religion at the time, even the area." Daniel shrugged. "The things I've brought up are the things which are individual to her name and not later incarnations. I'm pretty sure it's one and the same."/p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""She and Murdoc should get along just fine." Mac said sarcastically./p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""Well yes they should, but the longer we leave them together as host and symbiont, the harder the fallout if we manage to extract it." Daniel admitted. "What's funny is that she usually takes a female host so that she would be able to, umm, bear Ba'al's children."/p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;"Jack's head shot up. "Wait one minute… you said they were siblings." /p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;" "Yeah, it was an incestuous relationship." Daniel nodded./p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""I knew Ba'al was creepy!" Jack exclaimed./p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""So where is this Ba'al?" Mac asked. "Can't we just reunite them?" /p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""No god, no!" Jack objected./p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""They won't just run away with their tails tucked between their legs, even now we don't have all the Ba'al's-"/p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""All?" Mac asked./p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""Yeah, he cloned himself... a lot." Daniel admitted./p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""Ah!" Mac exclaimed./p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""The point is we're barking up the wrong tree." Jack told his cousin. "We need to focus on getting Sam and Maria back."/p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""I'm thinking something a little more organized than the information gathering." Daniel said with a nervous look to Pendergast. /p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""How many?" He asked without hesitating. /p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""Are your men good out on the field?" He asked Pendergast./p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""Yes, sir." Pendergast nodded. "Two teams? Six total?" /p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;"Jack nodded. "Did the download prove helpful for anything else?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""An inventory of the ship, both cargo and crew."/p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""Crew?" Jack asked./p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;"Daniel shrugged. "Anat doesn't have any Jaffa of their own yet, possibly after this they may go looking for reinforcements. But I did find two things of interest." Daniel said, flipping through a folder. "The first is they have an ancient puddle jumper." /p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;"Jack looked up interested. "They do?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""What's a puddle jumper?" Mac asked./p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""It's a ship designed by the ancients to go through the gate. They're extremely rare; at least in this galaxy they are." Daniel said./p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""Well, can't they just fly it instead of their broken ship?" Mac asked./p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""Actually no, these ships were designed to only work with people who have the Ancient gene." Daniel answered, giving Jack a pointed look./p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""Does that mean I have the ATA gene too?" Mac asked./p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""It's possible." Daniel nodded. /p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""So, you can fly that ship?" Mac asked Jack./p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""Among other things." Jack grinned./p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""You said two interesting things, Doctor Jackson?" Pendergast asked during the pause in conversation./p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""Yeah, Anat isn't the only one on board." Daniel said, bringing up the ship's schematics on a tablet. "We can assume that's Sam and Maria." Daniel pointed out at two dots close together. "And that is Anat," he said pointing to another dot, then pointed to another room, "And twelve human lifeforms."/p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""Who?" Mac asked./p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""Well, he's only been to earth lately so I'm guessing here but-"/p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""Members of the Trust." Jack ended for him. "Making sure their experiment works out."/p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""They do not know the danger they are in." Teal'c acknowledged./p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""Or don't believe they are in danger. That emit /emwill be faithful to them." Jack theorised./p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""Or they underestimate Anat, yeah." Daniel stated./p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""This is a search and recovery then," Jack nodded. "Briefing for the whole team now and ready to go in ten." /p
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p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;"Jack watched as Mac pulled a Military cap on, Jack gave him a grin. "Looks good on ya." /p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;"Mac shrugged as he turned away from his cousin. "I had a pretty reliable mirror." /p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;"Jack saw the concerned look on Mac's face. It was funny, Jack thought. He was younger than Mac, but he always felt a responsibility to protect Mac. He stepped forward and said quietly. "Mac." His cousin continued to avoid eye contact, making himself busy organizing his bag. "Angus." He tried to reel him in using his given name and still had no response. So, he knelt down and reached out and grabbed him by the neck almost forcing him to look up. "Bub?" He finally tried which made Mac look up and at his cousin. "We'll get 'em, huh?" Jack told him. Mac gave him a pained look. Jack realized that he was obviously desperate to save Maria. "It's us, just one of our missions like when we were kids, remember?" He grinned which made Mac smile a little and nod. Jack let go of his neck. "Let's head out."/p
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p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""Are we any making any progress?" Maria asked her./p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""I'll get to the door in a few minutes. I wanted to see if we could find more intel into what we were up against." Sam told her. "This console is old, out of date with the rest of the ship but I managed to bring up the ship schematics and sensors."/p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;"Maria looked at the schematics. "The dots are lifeforms?" She asked Sam./p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""Yeah." Sam confirmed./p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""We're not the only ones on board." /p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""Nope." Sam agreed./p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""So, who are they?" Maria asked./p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""You ever heard of the NID?" Sam asked./p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""The National Intelligence Department?" Maria asked./p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""That's the one. They had access to these symbionts I talked about before and ways of tracking down basically anyone."/p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""And they know about this program?" Maria asked./p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""Yes, and this particular rogue section, 'the Trust' have a grudge against us." Sam nodded, carefully choosing her words./p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""You think that's them?" Maria asked./p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""It would be logical." Sam observed./p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""So why do we go down there? Why not go along here and up? We'd only have to face one bad guy."/p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""Because of this." She said, bringing up a screen of the bay holding the Jumper. "This ship is a highly sophisticated piece of technology, not to be left in the hands of the Goa'uld. An alien race we now call 'The Ancients' are one of the races humans evolved from. Some humans carry a gene we call an ATA gene, making it possible for them to fly these ships."/p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""You can't do it without the gene?" Maria asked and somehow wasn't too surprised when where Sam shook her head. "Amazing!" She looked at Sam. "Do we know someone who does?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;""Yes, and if I'm not mistaken, he'll be mounting a rescue as we speak." She told Maria with an amused smirk. "We need to arm ourselves."/p