[Steve Hamrick]

0945
South Wing Laboratories
Vedas Base

It was base exploration. Which should have been safe but between the base almost blowing up, losing his mental filter and squirrel rodent things, Steve didn't consider this the cake walk he might have only a year ago.

He had the door, touching nothing except his weapon as he kept Cooper near him and examined the room. It wasn't like the other lab spaces they'd been cataloging. A circle of seven chairs took up the majority of the room, with a table in the middle that bore what had to be a quarter inch of dust. The back wall, opposite the door bore what seemed to be just one computer, silent and obviously off. The table had a fixture on it, maybe a very intricate lamp about two feet high with curling projections of off-white metal decoration. And he wasn't going to touch it, nope. He'd already had two different pieces of 10,000 year old equipment burn out when he'd tried turning them on today.

Sure they'd all had that run in with the virus trying to re-write DNA, but he was the only one who'd been ATA before that incident and despite the docs saying nothing about his DNA had changed after Huntley's cure, Steve thought differently. Nothing he could prove as he examined the table and chairs. "Looks like a Devas hookah circle to me. Or a book club round table."

He went to that one computer, studying the Hindi characters on the keys. Okay, yeah, he wanted to see if the computer would boot up, but not until they had a translation. He opened a side panel to examine the internal crystals, looking for any that would overload and shatter when powered on but both the more Ancient crystals and the physical wires looked to be intact. He closed the panel and got back up off his knees. "I think this one is undamaged. It shouldn't fry when it boots anyway."

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[Isabelle Cooper]

0945
South Wing Laboratories
Vedas Base

Another day, another dusty filled empty room to investigate, in another mostly unexplored wing of the Base. It was always an interesting way to spend the day, exploring the place they had learned to call home and figuring out how the previous occupants lived. When she was in school she never thought about being an archaeologist, yet here she was being one, kind of. 

Col. Hamrick made sure the room was clear before allowing anyone to enter, inside the room was more dust and ancient technology that had been sitting unused for years. "Looks like a Devas hookah circle to me. Or a book club round table." the Colonel said as he looked around the room.  Isabelle walked around his side to get a better look at the table, making sure to not move to far away from the man, "Parliament...board room..." she replied as she kept looking around. "Discussions took place here, in some shape or form." Iz added, as Steve was investigating the computer system, she walked around the table away from him, the fingers of her right hand lightly trailing over the table top just enough to draw faint lines in the dust. "I think this one is undamaged. It shouldn't fry when it boots anyway." she looked at her fingers and then quickly wiped the dust off on her pants. "How about this time we wait for tech support before trying anything....like we probably should have done with the last two items.." she said as she looked back to Steve. 

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[Billie Jean Witwer]

0945
South Wing Laboratories - Level 2
Vedas Base

"So," Billie's voice broke into the air, "the point of this happens to be?" She itched the base of her neck after shifting her weapon. It did baffle her that they were send to explore the base. Granted only a fraction of the labs had been explored and still there were numerous amounts left to take a peek in. She had to wonder just much they needed to see.

Looking over at their new member, she grinned, "Don't worry," she told him, "you will get used to the Oxford craziness. Especially the Colonel's." Colonel Travis "Wizard" Oxford's crazy ideas had no limits, the man was partly insane anyway. And so was that cousin of his. By walking into the Stargate Program, one had to be weee bit crazy, otherwise surviving out here was going to be harder, "Forty bucks says that Captain is likely want to punch him. Why can't he just do it and get it over with?"

"How are you fitting into this crazy world, Stonebridge?" She then lifted her gun, aimed and walked into the room, when it opened, keeping her ears open for a reply till she was out of the earshot. Swinging her flashlight all over the room, one thing that struck her as it had when they had gated into this planet that there was practically no dust anywhere.

"All CLEAR!!" her voice bellowed into the radio and room, she could have sworn that her voice bounced in the room. If Az had been here, she would have loved it. While she had made new friends here, she still missed her bestie. At least Des being around had been a little comfort, now even she had gone back to Earth.

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[Stephanie Martin]

0945
South Wing Laboratories
Vedas Base

Stephanie was with Cooper on this on. The last two items they had touched had made rather large messes. Though she was fairly certain her training and Steve's were there for a reason. Though she kept her mouth shut. Though her direction was trained on Steve. Then there was one of the executive barbie doll from SV-1 shooting her mouth off. Stephanie was mostly ignoring her yapping. Stephanie tried to stay out of the Oxford's bickering. To be honest, she had her own theories and kept them to herself. Mostly because she liked to keep her job. Why everyone else felt like they had to jump in was beyond her.

Battling again with some of her past was already starting to take it's toll again. Though she had still be cleared for duty she was momentarily lost in her own head as the group tried to figure out what they were doing. Huntley wasn't here to just go randomly playing with objects and Stephanie wasn't about to be the one who broke something. Though she studied it carefully trying to come to some sort of decision about it.

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[Makes-Eternal-Everlasting]

0945
South Wing Labs
Vedas Base

After spending about a month after returning and also speaking with her peoplese beloved Lord of Tests only days before Makes had grown more relaxed around the humans and allowed to leave her holographic hardlight disguse off more often than using it. However she had it up when she entered behind Steve. In her slender appearing hands a black energy pistol scanned the room, noticing the 4cm thick dust in the room on the table she stared at it.

Why did it feel so familar ? "Looks more like one of our Dreamshaed Libraries on Fijitia Prime...." The Snow Leopard mused before going towards a nearby wall lined with bars of when lit, pale blue and gray. This was interesting. She touched nothing yet examined everything staying closer to Steve mostly for the Mans safety, she herself never got to explore the base fully and had no idea what to expect execept for the power grid system '[/What is here ?' Makes mentally asked

[/Unknown Came the reply from her Ancilla, Madromas appeared on Makes HUD, her face a mixture of confusion and concern which was, for the Ancilla, not exactly easy to provide any form of concern for anyone outside of Makes, her paired Mind so to speak[/I cannot access any nural net however based upon appearance alone it may be a Dreamshaed system, but without interaction with the device I cannot be sure

Makes grunted something and motioned to Steve to keep his distance from the device contral panel, if that was what it was that he'd just dusted off. She heard something powering up somewhere as the lights came on, though still very dimly allowing them to see easier, her ears Steve could see clearly flattened to her skull when someone nearby shouted that the room was clear. Did humans HAVE to do that ?

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[Robert "Bobby" Oxford Jr]

0945
South Wing Laboratories - Level 2
Vedas Base

How long did it take to find a light switch? Bobby wondered as his leg bumped into another object, at this rate he was sure that he was going to have a damaged knee, by the time he left the room. He wondered if the Ancients had a technology to repair the damage, without any surgeries. Something he was sure would benefit a lot. He was waiting on Harper to make a all clear. Down the hall he would hear the tiny Witwer screaming, in what appeared to be on top of hers. Shaking his head he waited, when the man finally gave him what he was waiting for, Bobby wasted no time entering.

"You might wanna take a cue from Witwer," the Guards Officers tone was humorous, "she's faster for a cookie eating monster." He envied her, the young woman ate cookies like there was no tomorrow and still not gain weight. He remembered being her age once and years ago. "What to we have here?" He asked as seconds later the room was lit. The tech needed some dusting up. It was after all years old technology around them. Oxford wasn't going to deny that it was much more advanced then what Earth had currently.

These people had technology that humans today had was just barely hitting the mark on what the civilization before them had achieved. They had many years to go before reaching such levels of tech he was seeing. Chances were, he was not going to be around to see human even scratch to this degree of it. Sighing he waited for someone to speak up.

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[Nick Harper]

0945
South Wing Laboratories - Level 2
Vedas Base

Nick hit his kneecap against something hard yet again, swearing under his breath he moved his flashlight around the room again, trying to find anything that would turn on the lights. Why did the people who used to live in the base have to make things so hard, he was starting to wish that he had his cousins gene abilities, or better yet Col. Hamricks skills. Rumor had it that the man could just walk into a room and whatever Ancient tech was inside would just turn on.

"You might wanna take a cue from Witwer," Nick paused in his movements and glanced back to Bobby, "she's faster for a cookie eating monster." Nick rolled his eyes, "She also has an ATA Gene positive CO who could probably help figure out how to turn the lights on...Sir." it was rare that the Captains snark got to him, but that did not mean he did not notice it. "What to we have here?" Nick winced as the sudden brightness hurt his eyes, clicking his flashlight off he rubbed his eyes, "You could not have found that sooner?" Nick asked, he looked around the room and shook his head, "Oh look....more dust...just what my allergies wanted." 


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[Kata Harris]

0946
South Wing Laboratories - Level 2
Vedas Base

"So....the point of this happens to be?"

It was another day and another series of labs to explore and dust off. Besides taking routine jaunts through the Gate, exploring the base was a huge part of their day, if it could be rather boring at times. Then again she had done the same thing for hours on end back on Atlantis, except she did not remember as much dust being everywhere...

"Forty bucks says that Captain is likely want to punch him. Why can't he just do it and get it over with?"

Kata rolled her eyes, "Because he already is on thin ice for busting a rather high ranking IOA members nose...so he'd be stupid to add another assault charge to the list." she replied. Everyone knew the Oxfords could be at each others necks at times, it happened with all families. As Witwer finally gave the all clear, Kata walked into the room, "Remember folks, don't touch anything, we don't need any more fried tech." she called as she moved her flashlight around the room. After a moment she found the light switch for the room and turned it on, the room her team was in appeared mostly empty except for the random bits of furniture and file cabinet looking devices. "So we found another file room....great..." she muttered.  


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[Billie Jean Witwer]

0947
South Wing Laboratories - Level 2
Vedas Base

Billie looked at Harris and blinked, “Still?” she asked, “I thought the Admiral let it …you know let it slide.” On the other hand, their giant head could be a hard on anyone and that was to be expected. “Not that I would want him to be let loose, but on the other hand…why not? I mean everyone would have wanted to punch an IOA at some point in their lives.”

Billie laughed, “I doubt that the Colonel would even mind expect give him a punch of his own. They all kinda strike me as, if one starts a fight, all will join in. Dunno, could be something do with their southern-ness.” She looked over at Stonebridge who was still yet to speak, the man was a little too quiet for her liking, “We don’t bite, I can’t vouch for the Captain, but most of us don’t bite.”

Opening the file drawer, she pulled out one file, could understand a little, “Not just any file room,” she was grinning like a child in a candy store, “Geological file room. Data on the planet’s eco-system and possibly other planets.” She added with an afterthought, “Might help us understand the planet’s seasons.” They were mostly protected by the shields surrounding the base, as well the dense forest. Who knew there could more data on the other continents of this planet.

“If this contains all the data from over the years, we might need a team to go through it,” she mumbled, “I doubt we will be able to get a team for this.” Especially after the last possible budget cuts, they just might need to make some noise for this.

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[Robert "Bobby" Oxford Jr]

0947
South Wing Laboratories - Level 2
Vedas Base

He threw Harper a look, “Yea and my ATA gene is out of whack.” The statement did make him wonder why the room hadn’t sensed his gene, as if on cue, the room lit, “Slow pokes.” He muttered at the technology. Most tech around the base was supposed to be advanced then the ones they had brought. Looking around, he realised that the room was likely to be older than others that surrounded it. On the other hand, it could have been designed in such way on purpose. Only question was: what purpose?

Whatever Makes-Eternal-Everlasting was doing caught his attention; he wasn’t sure what to make of the feline member of their group, never had been able to figure her out. Perhaps it might be wise to leave that aside, “Have you found anything?” He asked her.

Oxford chuckled, “Dust allergies will be the least of our worries if this room turns out to be empty.” If, Wizard was behind this crappy suggestion of the exploring, Bobby would really hurt him where it counted, the candy stock Travis had, since he couldn’t afford to have Matt breathing down his neck more. The old dog still wasn’t happy about him breaking Cowden’s nose. But Bobby regretted nothing about his actions. He was only safe for the moment, as it was hard to take the XO of an expedition away for a long period of time. “Matt….I mean the Admiral can’t me blame this one me.”

He opened on cupboard and sneezed hard, “Damn the dust,” he sniffed his nose, “I thought these guys had an anti-dust technology at work!” And sneezed again, “Not a word Harper.”

He did not want a ‘I told you so’ from his XO.

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[Nick Harper]

0947
South Wing Laboratories - Level 2
Vedas Base

“Dust allergies will be the least of our worries if this room turns out to be empty.”

They would just end up being added to the list of empty rooms...the very long list that seemed to be growing more and more each time they went on a little exploration adventure. “Matt….I mean the Admiral can’t me blame this one me.” each time they entered a dark room, it was like a game of Russian Roulette, you didn't know if you would find anything or not. He heard Bobby sneeze, “Damn the dust,” Nick turned and looked at his CO with an amused look, trying his best to not laugh. “I thought these guys had an anti-dust technology at work!” mhm...the Captain did not want to admit that Nick had been right about the allergies. There was another sneeze, “Not a word Harper.”  

Nick just shrugged, like he was not guilty of thinking of saying something, "Wouldn't dream of it Captain Sniffles.." he replied as he looked around the room again, "Anti-dust tech has to stop working after a while, especially when there is no one around the clean out the dust collectors." Nick replied. 

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[Steve Hamrick]

0948
South Wing Laboratories - Level 1
Vedas Base

"Please, I am tech support, Cooper." Steve leaned experimentally on one of the chairs, then pulled it out from under the table and sat, awkwardly due to gear. "Well, it's not uncomfortable, but not exactly a La-Z-Boy either. Like the kind of chair in a doctor's waiting room. What do you think, Martin?"

He looked at where Makes had entered the room. He hadn't had much chance to work with the Fijitian woman before this, but at least working with Kana and Aear had mostly inured him to Vedas's cat people. "Or Earth group therapy. Form a circle, smoke the hookah lamp there and spill your guts." She clearly didn't like it, reminding him of an college ex's Maine Coon cat, when Witwer called a room clearance over the radio.

He reached for the lamp, seeing if it was attached to the table or not while maintaining a deliberate withdrawn mindset. It didn't move, clearly built in to the tabletop. "What do your libraries do exactly?"

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[Blake Warren]

0948
South Wing Laboratories - Level 2
Vedas Base

Blake was hanging behind Oxford and Harper as they went through the rooms, as the lights came up in their latest room. "For the significant number of 'geek' checklist boxes I hit on a daily basis, at least allergies aren't one of them."

Stepping out around Harper, Blake was looking for inscriptions to work on. When Harper mentioned tech ceasing to work. "Actually, without regular maintenance most anything man-made will deteriorate fairly quickly. Shows like 'Life After People' do exaggerate but not by much."

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[Makes-Eternal-Everlasting]

0948
South Wing Labs level 1
Vedas Base

Makes looked towards Steve, a smirk on her otherwise feline face, over time she had gotten used to the human visitors noew living on that planet to the point where she for the most part, had forgone her holographic human desguise software. Allowing her fur to be seen as she stepped towards a nearby wall with glowing points of light. "Something like that" She said. her voice a low growl as her ears perked up a bit after the womans voice screamed the room was clear.

Humans were strange creatures

Had they let her hook Madromas into the system they might have know the place was clear already.

Even so the area was cleared it was, as far as she could see, two levels with the table in the center adn the rest of the room with a ringlike balcony on the sceond level. When Steve asked how the libraries workedon Fijita Prime she smirked again, almost like John McClane type of smirk too. "Most of the time our libraries contain memories of those before, each generation records their memories in something similar to this...." She then went quiet as Steve touched the thing her HUD lit up as she raised a hand as if to say wait dont touch. [/Madromas ?

[/Energy signature of unknown orgin, it began upon touch to the device. It isnt a Dreamshaed Library, this is something else. If I can connect to it I can find out more

[/Understood Makes mentally replied as she watched the energy readings carefully out of the corner of her eyes, even keeping an eye on Steves fitals, it was a habit really. Find a guy or girl or whatever, tag team with them in a pair, scan for vita signs to keep track of. "I think you just activated something, I'm getting a power surge" She told him Of all the humans on the base, the one who seemed to understand her fully, at least to the point where she could speak a dialect he could understand well enough, was Steve. Out of all the base personell there, only Steve, and that one other guy who seemed to be rather busy lately

She gave Steve a look as if asking "What now ?"

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[Steve Hamrick]

0948
South Wing Laboratories Level 1
Vedas Base

"Well, sh!t." Steve thought about 'off' but the feedback was strange, a refusal but a gentle one. He looked at the alien woman. "Off's not working." And then things changed.

Loading memory file, ther**eutic

1300
January 1997
Woodlawn Cemetery
Colma, California

The first thing Steve noticed was the drizzle of cool rain. The second thing was the sprawling expanse of green dotted with rows and rows of headstones.

Steve checked himself, he had all the gear and clothes he'd been wearing as part of base exploration. "Okay, what just happened?"

A few rows away, a funeral procession was unloading a dark wood casket from a hearse. All the pallbearers were in military uniforms, but five of them were Royal Marines with Warrant Officer 1 and 2 insignia and appropriate age, and the sixth wore the uniform of a US Marines midshipman and was a good twenty years younger than any other pallbearer, being all of eighteen.

Steve started walking that way, but nobody reacted to him as he realized where and when he was. "No. No, no, no."

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