[Robert "Bobby" Oxford Jr]

1456
Stargate Command
Earth

Both of them could only stare as the gate dialled and established a wormhole or whatever the connection was called by the people here as it blasted before settling in water effect and gurgled. Matt was the first to snap out his zoning or the shock. There had been nothing moments before they had arrived, like an idiot he wanted to see if they were real, but didn't. Jamming his hands in his pocket he looked at Bobby, who's mouth was literally open, jaw dropped and all. "Alright, fine, you win. That damn thing is real enough."

Bobby looked at Law then at his cousin and blinked when the older Oxford spoke, "I was going to say, nice special effects but...." he trailed off and shook his head, "I think I need to cut down on my whiskey instead." And watch the blue stuff disappear in thin air, at best before titling his head towards the door where the team of men had exited to, then back at the gate. He rested his case regarding drinking.

With the look Bobby supported, Matt knew it was best to zip his lips for the moment. The man hadn't given up drinking in the years the Navy Officer had known him yet the chances now were slim, "Did you say this Wizard is a man?" he looked at Marah for the moment.

"Why would he recommend us?" He was grumbling to himself softly under his breath. That alone flabbergasted him. He could get Navy, but not the Coast Guards, since the latter were Feds, not military. He wasn't aware yet that SGC fell under the homeland security, and having the CG would be understandable.

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   1456
Stargate Command
Earth



    Fiala nodded as she was gestured in and deciding to stand over the chair . She had been on her feet since last night and wasn't even sure her legs even remembered how to sit at this stage in the day or night, you could never tell what time it was when you spend more than four four days underground with next to no sleep . But some times you had to give up the little things in the name of the mission, the good side was her daughter Zdenka had been over the moon everyday or night she had rung her . She had always loved her for that, before every mission Zdenka had always asked to ring . This would be the longest she had ever been away from her family as for all she knew and as command said . You may never come back .
    As for the mission, do to her been able to speak Russian she had been playing a big part in the back ground of the preparing for this mission, but the biggest problem was trying to juggle what the civ's and military wanted . The military she could handle, as for the civ's all she ever heard from them was complaints about how much ammo and guns they were taken . If they had there choice they'd run like hippies through the Stargate trying to spread love with flowers .
    She couldn't help but smile to the taught of running through the Stargate waving flowers to Zats .
    In all her life she had never had to do so much paperwork, paper work been the tip of the bullet and it wasn't something she would miss . The only thing left now was so get on with the mission .
As for now all she could do was wait for her next orders before this mission .

[Koren Telion]

1456
Stargate Command
Earth

The hand of ice released from his heart as he stepped out of the wormhole and back into the gateroom in the SGC.

About a month ago while working at the Delta site, Koren had been called into Travis' office and handed a thick folder with his name on it and the unexpected 'SGC: TOP SECRET' label on it. Koren had only seen that twice before, so he had a good idea what was inside before he opened it; reassignment. This was the third time Koren had been reassigned since joining the Stargate program, but after looking at the folders contents, it was clear to him that this was the first time he was being reassigned due to his merits. He was being transferred from SGD to 'Project Vedas,' a new colony project being launched from the SGC. While the news caught him completely by surprise, it filled him with a warmth; someone up the chain of command had noticed, and so, apparently, had Travis, who said the cliche (but not at all obligatory) 'I'm sad to lose you' and 'you're well deserving of it' comments, albeit in his own brash style, before sending Koren packing quite literally. Such sentimentality was not common in the man, so Koren knew it was genuine.

After returning to the SGC, he was assigned to various SG teams as support personnel to get some experience on gate travel, ground operations and 'foreign-distance diplomacy' before 'Vedas' was to get underway; there was no planned ETA for if/when a fighter squadron would be assembled at the new location. Koren was, apparently, being sent due to his 'leadership capabilities, attention to detail and knowledge of the technical specifications of SG vehicles and equipment, as well as possessing the gene,' and apparently he was 'an asset for the expedition.' Sounded like a lot of political bull- to him, but he appreciated the sentiment nonetheless, especially the final clause which stated that he was to be the 'first hands-on with any foreign aircraft after inspection.' Foreign aircraft; now that sounded fun.

After settling his breathing again, handing his borrowed equipment over to another member of SG-11 and shaking the hands of the men he'd just traveled with, a familiar face caught his eye in the control room. A very familiar face. It can't be... Koren's eyes shifted to the men standing next to her and finished locked on the distractingly red hair of a very wide-eyed, gaped-mouthed ginger standing beside them. Mariah Law, a fellow SGD vet; two clearly military men, also clearly unfamiliar with the stargate; and a completely baffled civvie. This was looking to be the beginning of the ingredients of a very specific potion the SGC like to call- (Koren checked the date-stamp on his watch, though he knew the date already) -the launch team for an expedition.

Koren checked his watch again, glancing once more up at the familiar face of Lt. Law. He honestly couldn't believe she was here, much less on the same expedition. He hadn't seen anyone from the Delta site since his departure, and he wasn't expecting anyone from Delta, much less Mariah, to be on the expedition as well. At least Travis hadn't told him anyone else was coming. Maybe her orders came in late, he pondered, looking back down at his watch. It would be good to have someone who'd been through the same hell he had on his first deployment with Delta; he'd never forget that day...

Sure enough, SG-11 had run behind schedule on gating back. He had orders to report to the control room upon arrival for his next assignment. Walking briskly down the ramp and out the door, he turned the corner and headed upstairs to the control room, mentally preparing himself for the bombardment of unfamiliar presences he was about to experience. Taking a deep breath, he turned the corner in stride and stopped just over the right shoulder of the red-head and snap-held into a salute and addressed Lt. Law with a calm but pointed tone.

"Second Lieutenant Koren Telion, reporting for duty, sir!"

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[James Calmara]

1456
Stargate Command 
Earth

Calmara raised a grin as Law and Skala entered, he knew Law a little better but still it was good to see few familer faces. The next person to enter raised another, she definitely fit the non-standard or new bracket. Not that he had anything against that, he did not share some of his fellow enlisted view that civilians were a nusance. He caught the last name MacCafferty from her intro and that she was from NASA, unsurprising consideing there line of work. "Ahh lucky me, I get to do paperwork I feel so lucky my second favourite thing after staff meetings." Calmara commented, with a slight hint of irony as the senior pair were led off, knowing full well what they were about to see would do the trick.

"Poruèík Skala, they snaged you for this little outting I see. Heres hoping for some more good times." He commeted towards the Czech officer, she was one who he'd seen around Delta but had only worked with once or twice, but those times had clearly worked out well enough.

Glancing over at MacCafferty he nodded towards the box on the table. "You mentioned something about technical equipment  Miss MacCafferty. Any new toys?"

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OOC: I'm back, really sorry for delays all.

[Robert "Bobby" Oxford Jr]

1457
Stargate Command
Earth

Bobby was watching the happenings that were around him as he failed to see another join the group, turning to see the face the Captain blinked, slightly baffled, before recognising the man to be from the group who came through the gate. "At ease," Booby felt a poke out his cousin and shrugged at the Navy Officer; what was he suppose say anyway.

Looking at Telion, Matt nodded, "I take it you are assigned to Project Vedas," he commented, but added noting more, since it seemed the man was addressing Law, or maybe in wasn't. "Your commanding officer happy to let you go?" He asked after a second.

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(( I'll post for Paul soon. By editing this post, otherwise he's NPC. Not my best post either, but it will do for now))

[Koren Telion]

1457
Stargate Command
Earth

"At ease," One of the new Officers said, catching Koren completely off-guard and making him almost lose his composure. He glanced quickly at the rank and name-badge on his shirt, and glanced back up at him, dropping his salute and going to an at ease position...

...but he almost didn't make it there, doing a quick double take that was not subtle at all; 'Cpt. Oxford,' read the name. Koren looked up at the man's face again, his expression barely changing with a raised eyebrow. No...the odds are crazy impossible... Just as he was about to excuse the coincidence, the officer standing next to him spoke up.

"I take it you are assigned to Project Vedas," Said the man. Just for kicks, Koren glanced down at his name badge. You've got to be kidding me, Koren thought, not able to conceal the smile spreading onto his face, this is just too good; 'Adm. Oxford.' Imagine if they were assigned on the same mission; you'd never tell the two apart! Now all they need is Travis to complete the trifecta...

"Yessir!" Koren spoke up, letting the smile lift his voice a little, "Proud to be of service!" Clearly one of these men was going to be the man giving the orders from now on, or else they wouldn't be touring the stargate; not just any soldier, Admiral or not, gets to see the Stargate.

"Your commanding officer happy to let you go?" The Admiral said.

"Of course not sir, but when the SGC says jump..." Koren said matter-of-factly, utilizing the old military colloquialism.

"Stargate Command," Koren said to clarify, "Every team, every fleet, every expedition leaves from and hopefully ends up here." Koren turned his head to look at the gate, "No matter how far away we go, we can always come back here. I suppose you'd call it-" Koren turned back to the admiral, the smile creeping in again, "-home."

Koren turned his attention to Marah. "I had no idea the Stargate program was a family business," Koren mused to his fellow lieutenant, trying to lighten the mood from his previous weighty comment, "What with Sergeant Kelly, his dog and girlfriend, and now these Oxfords-" turning once more to his superiors, "I am assuming correctly that they're related?" But hopefully not to Travis. That would be too impossible to believe...


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1457
Stargate Command
Earth

"Ahh lucky me, I get to do paperwork I feel so lucky my second favourite thing after staff meetings."

"Poruèík Skala, they snaged you for this little outting I see. Heres hoping for some more good times."

"You mentioned something about technical equipment Miss MacCafferty. Any new toys?"

With Calmara acknowledgement of her, if anything it came as a piece of pride, after all the time she had spend there, it was good to know she had't gone unnoticed and now it seemed they were pulling in some of the old crew from Delta . As for paperwork she could all but agree with him, she had been doing supply checks and paperwork for the supplies . Sometime she regretted been able to speak and read in Russian . The work had already pushed her to her limits, but she was a soldier with a order to carry out and orders were orders.

" Armed and ready sir . Looking forward to getting out of the trench " Thats what she wanted, to get back out there, to see some action and do what she was trained for .
" Pardon the interruption Miss MacCafferty, The last of the supplies sir should be here to night and they will be ready by morning ." The pain about working with suppplies was the number of times they had to be checked, over and over again . They had even gone to the stage of get the civs to allow their person items to be checked for any unwanted items that would harm the mission .

[James Calmara]

1457
Stargate Command
 Earth

Calmara grimised slighty before quickly turning his expression back to a grin, eight years ago he would have quickly and a little bluntly objcted, now he chose a different way, ignore it. "I got a feeling we'll be doing plenty of that, considering the track record from Delta and other expeditions, the wonders of the universe are wonders but best pack a rifle just in case." He mused, pausing for a moment, Skala's mention of supplies brought him back to reality. "Of course before that we got the back room logistic stuff, I guess that gives us our departure date." He comments, flicking open one of the folders in front of him. "So the Vedas galaxy, what sends us there? It would seem our standing orders are humanitarian." He commented as he read through the first page.

[Liam Kelly]

1457
Stargate Command
Earth


Sgt. Liam Kelly waited outside the room he was told to report to along with his girlfriend, Sgt. Sadie Lexington.  The two of them had no idea as to who they would meet or what they would find out.  Liam and Sadie sat next to each other as they waited, not holding hands as they were on duty.  Liam glanced around as he sat there, hearing the faint sounds of a conversation at the same time.  Liam looked down the hall to the room that the sound came from, then back at Sadie.  "Have any idea what this is about?" Sadie asked when Liam.  "No I don't" Liam said to her in reply, causing Sadie to nod a bit.  Liam watched her, then looked back to the door of the room that they would be going into soon.  Liam continued to think about what this could be about.  As he did, he looked at his German Shepard Shadow, who was laying at his feet.  Liam reached down and pet him, smiling a little as he did that.  Sadie watched him at the same time.

"From what I know, you two are the first human/K-9 team to be assigned here." Sadie commented, Liam looked Sadie when she said that, then nodded a bit.  At the same time, two of their friends, Army Specialist 5 Tiffany Cahill and Royal Australian Navy Petty Officer Sean Webber, walked over and sat across from them.  Liam nodded to the two as he sat there with Sadie and Shadow.  Tiffany and Sean nodded back as they sat down.  It was clear to Liam that they all were here for the same thing.

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Fee had stayed mostly quiet. She knew that if she could sit and keep her mouth mostly shut and make it through the meeting without saying something totally nerdy, she would be OK. She pushed some hair behind her ear, and doodled on the pad in front of her. She  was tapping her foot and wanted to play with the tablets in the box. She wanted to use the bathroom. Basically, she wanted to be ANYWHERE but there. 

A tall brunette man spoke to her. 

You mentioned something about technical equipment Miss MacCafferty. Any new toys? Fee nodded. She removed one of the tablet computer/personal data assitants from her box. 

Yes, sir. These. SHe made a concerted effort to control her accent and her vocabulary. She sounded helplessly Irish, but at least not as loud...and not as "Bog-trotter" as she normally felt. Her mum's family were from Cork, the heart of the backwoods Irish that media liked to portray as the fighting, drinking, potato-eating type. She extended the machine to the man. 

Tis a supercomputer. It's connect to the Stargate, as well as all law enforcement databases from every agency on Earth. She waited to see if he would pass it back. She sighed as more people came into the room-she hated repeating herself, mostly because it pained her to interact. 

Second Lieutenant Koren Telion, reporting for duty, sir! Fee startled. The man's voice was loud in her ears. She turned about, and a younger, good looking bloke stood there. She nodded, but didn't speak. She would answer him if he spoke to her, but she hardly ever iniatied conversation. She turned her attention to the two older men...she knew they were in charge, and she hoped that she would soon feel more comfortable with the military lark they all went on about. 

[Robert "Bobby" Oxford Jr]

This Post is Paul Davis as a character]ONLY!! And also watch the location stamps. Since Law, Oxfords and Kelion are in the control room


1457
Stargate Command
Briefing Room
Earth

Paul looked up to James's expression and chuckled at the words, "This way you won't have too much heavy load to look after. Easy task with your injury at hand." Facing Skala, "Assist him," And handed her the list of people he was expecting by the end of the day at most, "Between the two of you get as many transfer papers done. I'm going to hunt down, General Loveridge." It was not going to be easy for him to get Travis for a six month stint for this project. After all the man was busy playing Delta's acting expedition leader. Their double "T" duo were pretty well known for the way they worked together and Paul didn't doubt that Troy was not going let go of his second for any length of time.

Hearing voices on the other side of the door, Davis gestured Kelly and his small company to come in, then looked at his K-9. Another new twist for Vedas. "Sgt, you have been recruited for Project Vedas," Paul began, "Another expedition Stargate Command is launching in 48 hours. Make sure you have all you need. Your Commanding Officers are Admiral and Captain Oxford's of Navy and Coast Guards respectively." He was not yet going to mention that two men in question were yet to believe of the program. Or agree with take charge. "If you want to meet them they are in the control room down stairs." By gods he prayed that the two agreed, Travis won't have recommended them if they weren't reliable.

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[James Calmara]

1457
Stargate Command
Earth

Tis a supercomputer. It's connect to the Stargate, as well as all law enforcement databases from every agency on Earth

Taking holding the offered tablet/supercomputer, Calmara placed it down in front of him gently, performing a few experamental taps on the screen, plesently surprised by the results. The way the operated had a familerlity about it. "Fast, easy to use, I take it this owes some of its design to thing we brought via the stargate program?"He asked semi-retoricaly, he'd resigned himself to the fact the days of being solely a grease monkey were behind him. "now let me see, personnel files are hiding where," He looked up at Mccafferty with a smile, and asked. "This ones mine I hope? if not i'd like to clam it or put in requisition."

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He glanced back towards Col. Daves as he reiterated the need to sort out all things to do with the transfers of Vedas personnel, then to Skala with a slight applogetic shrug and then bobing his head at the pair of file boxes that sat on the table. "How about you take L to Z, while I take A to K? We should get through this lot a bit quicker that way."

He looked up as four member trooped in, he let out a little sigh, as he cast a glance over the ID tags of all four of them, more work to be done. He thought for a moment and then glanced back at Mccafferty and enquired as he passed the tablet/supercomputer back across. [b"Is there anyway we can use these tablets to get peoples orders signed off, might just speed things up?"[/b]

Looking back to the small group He leafed through the files in the box, "Sergeant Kelly, briefing packet. Specialist 5 Cahill, briefing packet, eyes only as usual, read and digest in the next 48 hours." He passed out two packed folders to the two who stepped forward. A though crossed his mind that a run down of the basic plan of action and their standing orders might be useful at this point. He glanced in Col. Davis direction for permission to start.

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[Liam Kelly]

1458
Stargate Command
Earth

Liam listened to Col. Davis and James Calmara as they spoke to him, taking the packet and nodding a bit at the same time.  Tiffany did the same as well.  Sadie and Sean watched at the same time, wondering what was in store for them.  "I will look this over and get my gear ready, sir." he said in reply, Tiffany did the same.  At the same time, Shadow looked at the people in front of him, it was clear he knew something was going on.  Sean scenced it as he stood there with him, waiting for what was coming next.

Sadie and Sean both had a feeling that they weren't selected and would be assigned to the base and not to an off world team.  Sean had the same feeling, however, both him and Sadie knew that it would be best if they weren't on the same team, as it would distract them and put their teammates in danger.  They both put those thoughts out of their minds and refocused on why they were in the room.  Tiffany had a feeling that Liam was a bit upset that Sadie wouldn't be on the team with them, but knew that he wasn't letting it show.  Her and Sean had started to grow close since they met after arriving on base.  Sean looked at Tiffany as he stood there, then back at the people in front of them.


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[Marah Law]

1458
Stargate Command
Gate Room
Earth

"Did you say this Wizard is a man?" he looked at Marah for the moment.

Marah smiled at the two Oxfords with a neutral but pleasant smile. She actually had just had a slip of the tongue there and really didn't know who this wizard the men were speaking of, but she was saved in an answer as another joined their group.

"Second Lieutenant Koren Telion, reporting for duty, sir!"

Marah was taken a back from this, Another Delta personnel she thought as she snapped a salute back to the man. They must be wanting some experience with this lot she continued saying in her head as she nodded to the man to stand at ease. Her charges answered first though, she assumed Matt and Bobby where used to fast reactions. She waited for Koren's reply before saying anything though as she was only a lieutenant compared to the admiral she was escorting.

"At ease," Booby felt a poke out his cousin and shrugged at the Navy Officer; what was he suppose say anyway.

Looking at Telion, Matt nodded, "I take it you are assigned to Project Vedas," he commented, but added noting more, since it seemed the man was addressing Law, or maybe in wasn't. "Your commanding officer happy to let you go?" He asked after a second.

"Yessir!" Koren spoke up, letting the smile lift his voice a little, "Proud to be of service!" Clearly one of these men was going to be the man giving the orders from now on, or else they wouldn't be touring the stargate; not just any soldier, Admiral or not, gets to see the Stargate.

"Your commanding officer happy to let you go?" The Admiral said.

"Of course not sir, but when the SGC says jump..." Koren said matter-of-factly, utilizing the old military colloquialism.

"Stargate Command," Koren said to clarify, "Every team, every fleet, every expedition leaves from and hopefully ends up here." Koren turned his head to look at the gate, "No matter how far away we go, we can always come back here. I suppose you'd call it-" Koren turned back to the admiral, the smile creeping in again, "-home."

Koren turned his attention to Marah. "I had no idea the Stargate program was a family business," Koren mused to his fellow lieutenant, trying to lighten the mood from his previous weighty comment, "What with Sergeant Kelly, his dog and girlfriend, and now these Oxfords-" turning once more to his superiors, "I am assuming correctly that they're related?" But hopefully not to Travis. That would be too impossible to believe...

Marah almost spat out a small chuckle at seeing the other lieutenant grilled by his two new bosses but then quickly regained herself as he turned back to her. "I would say no to that Koren, My younger brother isn't here and never will be if I had something to say about it" She didn't know many of the others on this experdition and looked blank slightly at the mention of a seargent Kelly and his relations but then Koren asked the question Marah already had figured out her self. She just shook her head at the question asked at the pair of Oxfords and then looked up, The move was a bit quicker than she had liked and showed the scaring on her neck which her hair had been hiding. With sudden realiaziton of this she intently moved her hair back to hide it again while the oxfords answered and added to the conversation hoping no one had seen. "Koren, How long have you been with SG - 11 ?"

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[Koren Telion]

1459
Stargate Command
Gate Room
Earth

"Koren," Marah said, turning back to him, "How long have you been with SG - 11 ?"

"Only the past two months," Koren said, pleasantly surprised that they were on first name basis, but catching up would have to wait; "I received orders to report to the control room as soon as I reached the base and give this-" Koren produced a sealed envelope with a stamp reading 'TOP SECRET - SECURITY CLEARANCE 7' and handed it directly to Admiral Oxford, "-to the highest ranking officer present."

Koren was especially curious to see what was inside. Though Koren had been reassigned three times in his years as part of the Stargate Program, never had he been reassigned without knowing what his role was as part of the expedition or operation. Koren suspected that his new orders were enclosed, but who knows? Maybe it was just a message meant for the Admiral from someone upstairs, someone who wasn't available to make the hand-off themselves...

...or someone who wanted to cover up whatever was in the message with a good cover story. Whatever the contents, Koren had followed his orders and was happy to once again feel like he played an important role in Stargate operations. It was clear to Koren from Marah's presence that this 'Project Vedas' was of high importance to the SGC, or else they wouldn't assign two 8+ year veterans to the expedition. Whatever this 'Vedas' was, be it a world or a base they would either occupy or conquer or explore, it meant a lot to the SGC and they were dipping their hands in every possible pool to get the best and most qualified to concoct just the right potion for whatever it was they were to be doing. Scanning the crowd gathered before him again, Koren was becoming increasingly interested in what that was.


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