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Chapter 7: Lifting the veil
Location: Corusca Galaxy
Coruscant
Emperor Anakin was eating dinner when a high ranking imperial officer addressed him "What is it?"
"I'm sorry to interrupt your meal your highness but we are receiving a priority one encoded message from Yavin 4."
"Put it on immediately!"
The HoloProjector displayed the image of Tenel Ka followed by pictures and animations showing the details of what had been discovered so far, everybody in the room was agape from the amazing findings.
Tenel Ka proceeded to expand on the subject "Given the nature of the discovery I had to inform you as quickly as possible, and it obvious that we wont be able to hold it a secret for long anyway!"
"You did right Tenel Ka, don't worry about it, what else can you tell us.
"I think the head researcher here is best suited to explain."
The Mon-calamari began to speak on cue "Yes, your highness first of all we could not only reverse engineer the device to create an artificial wormhole network within our galaxy but if we start working on 2 separate teams working on both galaxies we could built a device big enough to get ships from one galaxy to the other, we are calling it the ship's gateway."
"How exactly would that be accomplished?"
"One team on our galaxy would built the device in orbit around Yavin 4 and the other would built its counterpart in orbit around the planet that we dialed in."
"How long would all this take?"
"If we begin making preparations now within a month we could be ready to begin, once we do if we work around the clock. We could finish the project within 2 or 3 weeks tops!"
"Excellent work you all, and you have the green light to commence the project, carry on!"
"Yes your highness!"
The imperial officer finally broke his silence " Your highness are you sure this is wise? I mean the peasants are not very already with the tax burden on them and this would only increase such burden."
"Are you kidding General? Once the word is out that a whole new galaxy full of resources and in the future is open for business and exploration every civilized world in Corusca will be wanting to get a piece of it. Its the boost we just needed!"
"I see your point, your Highness I hope you are right."
"I am General, don't you forget about it!"
"Yes sir!"
Location Corusca Galaxy
Super Imperial Destroyer Harbinger in orbit around Tattoine
Jacen got himself in a hurry to the bridge where he and his crew saw the whole contents of the message, for a while nobody uttered a word digesting what they had just seen.
Tarkin began to speak " Amazing a whole new galaxy and in the future no less..."
Jacen regarded him for a moment and added "Indeed this is absolutely perfect, break out of orbit and prepare to jump to hyperspace set a course for the Naboo system and while you're at it send this encoded message to Kamino."
Jacen handed the encoded message to Tarkin and returned to his quarters."
Location: Milky Way galaxy
Earth, Colorado U.S, Cheyenne Mountain Complex, SGC.
The official ceremony for Carter's rise in rank from Major to Colonel had just about ended and now Samantha Carter was officially a U.S.A.F lieutenant Colonel or just colonel for short.
Carter approached an hugged Hammond "I'm so happy to see you here!"
"I wouldn't have missed this for the world."
"Thanks sir!"
"You are welcome colonel!"
O'Neil shouted to everybody " Come on people this little sandwiches and cakes here are not gonna go by themselves so dig in. that's an order!
Hammond looked on in amusement "It sure is different from when I was in charge!" to which Carter added "Tell me about it sir!"
All of a sudden the alarm claxons sounded with the all familiar message "Unauthorized off-world activation!"
The iris had been previously closed, since they were no off-world teams at the time and because of the ceremony at hand, still everybody hurried to their posts like clockwork.
Gen. O'Neal got into the control room "Anything yet?"
"Nothing sir, Wait! We are getting a signal, its the Tokra!"
"Open the Iris, send the all clear signal!"
As the Iris opened Jacob and Anisse stepped out of the gate, O'Neal along with all the of the officials and the SG-1 team went down to meet them.
Carter moved ahead of the group and gave her dad a hug "I'm so glad to see you, I've missed you a lot!"
"Same here, sweetie pie, same here"
"Are you here for the ceremony?"
"I wish I could say I'm honey, but the truth is we came here because we received intelligence that may concern us all!"
O'Neal asked feeling a little uncomfortable at what Jacob had said " What? more bad news?"
"We are not sure at this point, to be honest Jack!"
"Oh! Ok! Well lead on"
They moved into the conference room where the tokra unveiled a portable holoprojector. The simbiont within Jacob began to speak "A few days ago a tokra scout monitoring ashen activity recorded this on an uninhabited world with an active Stargate."
The holorecording showed a strange group of what appeared to be humans and aliens coming out of the Stargate."
Jacob went on "This strange group came out of the stargate, we have never seen the aliens that are accompanying the humans, clearly they are not from this galaxy.
Lt. Hailey all of a sudden commented "Holy smokes that alien looks just like Ackbar!"
Everybody's eyes set on Lt Hailey and O'Neal finally interjected "I'm sorry Lt.! What did you just said?"
"Oh I'm sorry, but it's that alien looks just like one of the characters from the Star Wars films, Return of the Jedi to be precise, in the movie he was the commander of the rebel fleet."
"So I take it you really like that stuff?"
"It's what inspired me to become an astrophysicist in the first place sir!"
"Anything else?"
"Well that other one actually looks like Darth Maul from the Phantom Menace."
"Darth who? the Phantom what? I don't remember that one, wasn't the revenge of the Jedi the last one?"
"The Return of the Jedi Sir, and yes that was the last one of the first trilogy."
"There was another?"
"Yes Sir. There was, well actually they have made 2 more prequels. I take it you are not up to date in this sir?"
"Nope, fighting real space bad asses and monsters has taken most of my time. So let me get this clear. Characters from a scifi movie are coming from another galaxy through the Stargate! Have I gotten it right?"
"I'm just saying that there incredibly similar not that they are sir."
"But still they do look like from the Star Wars movie."
"Pretty much!"
Jacob's simbiont interrupted the discussion "That's highly improbable.", O'Neal persisted "But not impossible?"
"As I said highly improbable, lets go on with the projection shall we?"
"Oh! By all means."
The holoprojection went on until it showed the strange group rigging some kind of power unit to the Stargate and dialing out as the gate went active Carter yelled "Freeze that!"
Jacob smiled "You saw it at first glance, did you not?"
O'Neal getting increasingly curious and feeling left behind asked "Saw what?"
Carter responded "When they dialed out all 9 chevrons went active sir!"
"All of them?"
"Yes sir!"
Jacob picked up the rest of the conversation "Sam is absolutely correct! It's an unprecedented event, as you know usually 7 chevrons are used for travel within the network of our own galaxy, the 8th chevron is for either Point A to Point A time jumps or intergalactic travel within the same timeline. So although we were never able to pull it off we always though the 9th chevron would be to create a stable wormhole for a time jump from point A to point B."
O'Neal interrupted "So what does that mean? That they may have come from the future?"
Carter added "Or from the past, it could be either way."
"So they could from the past and from a galaxy far away, does that sound familiar anyone?"
"It's still improbable unless they came from an alternate quantum reality."
"What?"
"Like the realities from the quantum mirror."
"Oy! That thing again?"
Jacob responded "No, the planet and location is near a known ancient AsGard crash site, the AsGard left monitoring equipment there and we contacted them. Their readings indicate that they have the same quantum signature as ours, so they are very much from our universe, just another galaxy."
O'Neal once again cut in "Could you translate all that to English please."
Jacob explained "Every universe has like its own fingerprint, they have the fingerprint that belongs to our universe."
"Oh, see why didn't you say that in first place. So were back to square one, how can any body explain that beings that look almost exactly from a movie are coming through the gate?
Carter spoke "Well there is a theory regarding the possibility that though and consciousness transcend space & time and if that's so it could happen that somebody could have picked in his or her mind memories of events that took place long ago, but he or she would also probably fill whatever blank with their own imagination as well."
"So we would not know by looking at the movies what their real capabilities are?
"Not likely sir."
"Ok this is what I'm gonna do. I'm going to go to my office, think for at least 20 minutes about what exactly if anything I'm to tell to Washington, because sure as hell, I'm not gonna called them and tell them that the galaxy is being invaded by a Scifi convention from another galaxy!"
Chapter 7: Lifting the veil
Location: Corusca Galaxy
Coruscant
Emperor Anakin was eating dinner when a high ranking imperial officer addressed him "What is it?"
"I'm sorry to interrupt your meal your highness but we are receiving a priority one encoded message from Yavin 4."
"Put it on immediately!"
The HoloProjector displayed the image of Tenel Ka followed by pictures and animations showing the details of what had been discovered so far, everybody in the room was agape from the amazing findings.
Tenel Ka proceeded to expand on the subject "Given the nature of the discovery I had to inform you as quickly as possible, and it obvious that we wont be able to hold it a secret for long anyway!"
"You did right Tenel Ka, don't worry about it, what else can you tell us.
"I think the head researcher here is best suited to explain."
The Mon-calamari began to speak on cue "Yes, your highness first of all we could not only reverse engineer the device to create an artificial wormhole network within our galaxy but if we start working on 2 separate teams working on both galaxies we could built a device big enough to get ships from one galaxy to the other, we are calling it the ship's gateway."
"How exactly would that be accomplished?"
"One team on our galaxy would built the device in orbit around Yavin 4 and the other would built its counterpart in orbit around the planet that we dialed in."
"How long would all this take?"
"If we begin making preparations now within a month we could be ready to begin, once we do if we work around the clock. We could finish the project within 2 or 3 weeks tops!"
"Excellent work you all, and you have the green light to commence the project, carry on!"
"Yes your highness!"
The imperial officer finally broke his silence " Your highness are you sure this is wise? I mean the peasants are not very already with the tax burden on them and this would only increase such burden."
"Are you kidding General? Once the word is out that a whole new galaxy full of resources and in the future is open for business and exploration every civilized world in Corusca will be wanting to get a piece of it. Its the boost we just needed!"
"I see your point, your Highness I hope you are right."
"I am General, don't you forget about it!"
"Yes sir!"
Location Corusca Galaxy
Super Imperial Destroyer Harbinger in orbit around Tattoine
Jacen got himself in a hurry to the bridge where he and his crew saw the whole contents of the message, for a while nobody uttered a word digesting what they had just seen.
Tarkin began to speak " Amazing a whole new galaxy and in the future no less..."
Jacen regarded him for a moment and added "Indeed this is absolutely perfect, break out of orbit and prepare to jump to hyperspace set a course for the Naboo system and while you're at it send this encoded message to Kamino."
Jacen handed the encoded message to Tarkin and returned to his quarters."
Location: Milky Way galaxy
Earth, Colorado U.S, Cheyenne Mountain Complex, SGC.
The official ceremony for Carter's rise in rank from Major to Colonel had just about ended and now Samantha Carter was officially a U.S.A.F lieutenant Colonel or just colonel for short.
Carter approached an hugged Hammond "I'm so happy to see you here!"
"I wouldn't have missed this for the world."
"Thanks sir!"
"You are welcome colonel!"
O'Neil shouted to everybody " Come on people this little sandwiches and cakes here are not gonna go by themselves so dig in. that's an order!
Hammond looked on in amusement "It sure is different from when I was in charge!" to which Carter added "Tell me about it sir!"
All of a sudden the alarm claxons sounded with the all familiar message "Unauthorized off-world activation!"
The iris had been previously closed, since they were no off-world teams at the time and because of the ceremony at hand, still everybody hurried to their posts like clockwork.
Gen. O'Neal got into the control room "Anything yet?"
"Nothing sir, Wait! We are getting a signal, its the Tokra!"
"Open the Iris, send the all clear signal!"
As the Iris opened Jacob and Anisse stepped out of the gate, O'Neal along with all the of the officials and the SG-1 team went down to meet them.
Carter moved ahead of the group and gave her dad a hug "I'm so glad to see you, I've missed you a lot!"
"Same here, sweetie pie, same here"
"Are you here for the ceremony?"
"I wish I could say I'm honey, but the truth is we came here because we received intelligence that may concern us all!"
O'Neal asked feeling a little uncomfortable at what Jacob had said " What? more bad news?"
"We are not sure at this point, to be honest Jack!"
"Oh! Ok! Well lead on"
They moved into the conference room where the tokra unveiled a portable holoprojector. The simbiont within Jacob began to speak "A few days ago a tokra scout monitoring ashen activity recorded this on an uninhabited world with an active Stargate."
The holorecording showed a strange group of what appeared to be humans and aliens coming out of the Stargate."
Jacob went on "This strange group came out of the stargate, we have never seen the aliens that are accompanying the humans, clearly they are not from this galaxy.
Lt. Hailey all of a sudden commented "Holy smokes that alien looks just like Ackbar!"
Everybody's eyes set on Lt Hailey and O'Neal finally interjected "I'm sorry Lt.! What did you just said?"
"Oh I'm sorry, but it's that alien looks just like one of the characters from the Star Wars films, Return of the Jedi to be precise, in the movie he was the commander of the rebel fleet."
"So I take it you really like that stuff?"
"It's what inspired me to become an astrophysicist in the first place sir!"
"Anything else?"
"Well that other one actually looks like Darth Maul from the Phantom Menace."
"Darth who? the Phantom what? I don't remember that one, wasn't the revenge of the Jedi the last one?"
"The Return of the Jedi Sir, and yes that was the last one of the first trilogy."
"There was another?"
"Yes Sir. There was, well actually they have made 2 more prequels. I take it you are not up to date in this sir?"
"Nope, fighting real space bad asses and monsters has taken most of my time. So let me get this clear. Characters from a scifi movie are coming from another galaxy through the Stargate! Have I gotten it right?"
"I'm just saying that there incredibly similar not that they are sir."
"But still they do look like from the Star Wars movie."
"Pretty much!"
Jacob's simbiont interrupted the discussion "That's highly improbable.", O'Neal persisted "But not impossible?"
"As I said highly improbable, lets go on with the projection shall we?"
"Oh! By all means."
The holoprojection went on until it showed the strange group rigging some kind of power unit to the Stargate and dialing out as the gate went active Carter yelled "Freeze that!"
Jacob smiled "You saw it at first glance, did you not?"
O'Neal getting increasingly curious and feeling left behind asked "Saw what?"
Carter responded "When they dialed out all 9 chevrons went active sir!"
"All of them?"
"Yes sir!"
Jacob picked up the rest of the conversation "Sam is absolutely correct! It's an unprecedented event, as you know usually 7 chevrons are used for travel within the network of our own galaxy, the 8th chevron is for either Point A to Point A time jumps or intergalactic travel within the same timeline. So although we were never able to pull it off we always though the 9th chevron would be to create a stable wormhole for a time jump from point A to point B."
O'Neal interrupted "So what does that mean? That they may have come from the future?"
Carter added "Or from the past, it could be either way."
"So they could from the past and from a galaxy far away, does that sound familiar anyone?"
"It's still improbable unless they came from an alternate quantum reality."
"What?"
"Like the realities from the quantum mirror."
"Oy! That thing again?"
Jacob responded "No, the planet and location is near a known ancient AsGard crash site, the AsGard left monitoring equipment there and we contacted them. Their readings indicate that they have the same quantum signature as ours, so they are very much from our universe, just another galaxy."
O'Neal once again cut in "Could you translate all that to English please."
Jacob explained "Every universe has like its own fingerprint, they have the fingerprint that belongs to our universe."
"Oh, see why didn't you say that in first place. So were back to square one, how can any body explain that beings that look almost exactly from a movie are coming through the gate?
Carter spoke "Well there is a theory regarding the possibility that though and consciousness transcend space & time and if that's so it could happen that somebody could have picked in his or her mind memories of events that took place long ago, but he or she would also probably fill whatever blank with their own imagination as well."
"So we would not know by looking at the movies what their real capabilities are?
"Not likely sir."
"Ok this is what I'm gonna do. I'm going to go to my office, think for at least 20 minutes about what exactly if anything I'm to tell to Washington, because sure as hell, I'm not gonna called them and tell them that the galaxy is being invaded by a Scifi convention from another galaxy!"