"Off world activation"

The announcent came as a welcome relief to Jack, even more so when it was followed immediately by "It's SG-1, sir". Jack walked down to the gate room to greet them and couldn't help smiling at the excited look on Sam's face.

"I'm guessing good news?", he asked.

"We have retrieved information about a formidable weapon that could help us to combat the Gou'auld.", Teal'C replied. "If we can determine the whereabouts of its location.", he added.

"We picked this up from some of Ba'al's Jaffa.", Sam said holding up the device and projecting the image. "It appears to be a mix of both Gou'auld and Ancient technology."

"Gou'auld and Ancient?", Jack asked

"Yes, sir. It's an interesting combination."

"Our guess is that Ba'al thinks that if he can get his hands on it he'll have a weapon capable of defeating our new weapon.", Daniel said.

"You mean the one we can't seem to get to work? Why is it that whenever we bluff the snakes seem to take it as an invitation to make things worse. Couldn't they cut us some slack."

"I think our only option is to find this weapon before Ba'al does.", Daniel said, as usual ignoring Jack's sarcasm.

"Great, we'll just start randomly searching around. There's only a few thousand places it could be. And that's only counting the worlds we can actually gate to."

"Actually, sir, along with the designs for the weapon Ba'al also has a list of four possible locations."

"Okay, let's say we find this weapon. What is it and what can we do with it?", Jack asked.

"I'm not sure yet. I need time to analyze this data."

"Daniel Jackson suggested that you could speak with Camulus about this. As a former system he should know about this weapon.", Teal'C commented.

"Yeah well, I needed to talk to him anyway. Someone really needs to come up with a no snake policy.", Jack grumbled.

Twenty minutes later SG-1 had completed their briefing. Sam went to her lab to try to determine the most likely planet of origin, Daniel went to work on translating some of the text that came with the device, and Teal'C was catching up on some Kel nor'eem

That left a less then happy Jack to deal with the resident Gou'auld. He groaned aloud and continued walking down the hall until he arrived at the room. One of the airmen standing guard opened the door and Jack reluctantly went in.

Camulus was sitting on the bed meditating. He looked up as Jack walked in the room.

"General O'Neil.", he acknowledged the man coldly. "I suppose you've come to question me about all the knowledge of the system lords?"

"Well, yeah, eventually. But for right now I want to talk about this weapon I've heard about. Really weird looking thing. Made from Gou'auld and Ancient technology. Ringing any bells?", Jack asked sitting down across from him.

"I believe I know of what you speak. But it is only a legend."

"Oh it's real. Trust me on this. This legend of yours say anything about it?"

"It was a weapon created by a Gou'auld who left the system lords thousands of years ago. He allied himself with an Ancient and together they created a powerful weapon called the Ker'Shal. Occording to legend this weapon was more powerful than even the weapons of the Ancients."

"So basically you're saying if Ba'al got a hold of this weapon it would be bad."

"Not only for the people of the Tau'ri. If Ba'al were to take this weapon neither the system lords nor the Asguard would have the power to oppose him." Camulus leaned forward. "You know where it is."

"Yeah.", Jack said casually, "but so do you right? I mean you know the legend. You must know where it was."

Camulus regarded Jack with contempt. "If I knew where it was do you think Ba'al would have been able to destroy my ships and armies. I would have destroyed him and used the weapon to become leader of the system lords."

"So ya don't even have a hunch.", Jack pressed.

"No, the weapon was hidden someplace that is inaccessible by anyone seeking to claim it.", Camulus replied. His gaze narrowed. "You do not know where it is either. You came here to learn this information from me."

Jack sighed. "We have an idea of where it is. We just wanted to know if knew of anything that could help us. Guess not." He stood up and walked slowly and deliberately towards the door. Paused and waited.

"General O'Neil."

Jack smiled to himself as he turned around.

"The Tau'ri do not have the knowledge necessary to understand this weapon. If you are able to locate it, I could be of assistance."

"Glad to hear it.", Jack replied before leaving the room.

A/N: Here's Chapter 2. And with everyone's favorite new Gou'auld. Please R&R