[Kata Harris]

1530-1536
Briefing Room

While just about everyone else was off exploring the rest of the base and most likely finding some pretty awesome things. She was sitting in a briefing listening two of the three Oxfords bicker "discuss" how Captain Oxford ran the base while Admiral Oxford was away. Apparently the Admiral was not to fond of how the Coastie did things, yet he was fine with leaving Bobby in charge while Matt was away. The three of them loved to squabble. And it did not help that Travis seemed to enjoy it, even more so when he instigates things. 

Kata leaned back in her chair and glanced down at her watch, "Admiral...while Captain Oxfords methods are a little...interesting.." she said looking back up and looking down the table. "I have witnessed crazier things happening when other Oxfords are in command. At least the base is still standing" Yes Travis was crazy, but you had to be a little crazy to even consider joining an expedition that was halfway across the galaxy. While she had been sitting there she had made sure to keep her radio on, though turned down so the various voices coming thru her ear piece wouldn't distract her much. This allowed her to still listen in to the comm. chatter from her team who was off having fun and not sitting listening to the Oxfords.  

She tuned out of the conversation going on in the room when she heard Col. Hamrick of SV3 requesting Dr. Pratt, a member of her own team, this was quickly followed by Dr. Cross being requested. From the bits and pieces of the conversation it sounded like SV3 might have found something interesting. 

Tag: Robert "Bobby" Oxford Jr, Travis "Wizard" Oxford, Victoria Palmazio, Matthew Oxford

[Javan Huntley]

Javan blinked several times. "I appreciate the compliment. I think I know what's going on though, but we have a bigger issue than a case of turrets syndrome. I suggest everyone take a chill pill and ignore anything that doesn't have to do with the current situation." He pulled out one of the incredible new medical scanners he had been trained on before leaving for the mission. He pressed the sample collection apparatus to his arm and activated the device.

He looked at he results, most of the things in his body were to be expected, some standard Rhinovirus, and a couple of common viral agents that almost every human had. But one thing stuck out. "Unknown Viral sample. I need to test everyone, anyone who isn't doing anything right now please line up. And no one go into the bio-lab across the hall, that is most likely the origin of the virus. Anyone who starts to feel unwell please let me know right away, we have no idea what this virus does." He waited for the first person to come to him for testing.

[Stephanie Martin]

1535
Unexplored Laboratory, East Wing
72 Hours on Clock

Stephanie glared at Javan. "We have more important things than virus' Huntley. Get your priorities straight" she mused at Javan. She rubbed her face. Then she listened to Pratt and the others discuss their options and she had no input. Honestly she had no snarky comments at the moment either. Luckily for her, her mind was pretty much blank to the situation at the moment.

Her mind was blank until she heard Evan and she started laughing uncontrollably. "Press two if you want English" she shot out as she started trying to look at what they had in front of them. Right 3 day countdown and they had no idea what was going to happen. "Do we even know what this countdown means?" she blurted out. It could be anything. More release of this awful thing that made them spew their minds? Something worse that could kill them all?

<Tag: Steve Hamrick, Javan Huntley, Isabelle Cooper, Henry Pratt, Evan Cross>

[Henry Pratt]

1537
Unexplored Laboratory, East Wing
[ 3 days until Overload ]

“We were only reading what was on the screens,” Henry explained to Doctor Cross as he entered the room. It was good to now have the engineering expert on deck. Henry and Blake could translate the Hindu text all day long, explaining the horrors that were about to befall the base, but neither of them could honestly be expected to stop these events coming to fruition. “So far we’ve surmised that the Devas were running an experiment, possibly with geothermal energy,” the archaeologist added. “Nothing yet beyond that, except importantly, it seems to be on the path to an overload.”

Pratt continued to examine the information on the screen, being careful not to touch any of the controls. The last thing he wanted to do was hasten the countdown or cause the overload to take place prematurely.

From what he was seeing, the experiment had been under the direct control of Indra, who for lack of a better term, was the king of the Devas, and one of the species most powerful members. While the expedition hadn’t encountered him yet, there was enough in the Hindu mythology to paint a picture of him. He was said to be arrogant, self entitled, and prone to carrying out acts of mischief, which didn’t sound like a good combination for a powerful being that was meant to be a good guy. He called the heavens above his home, and had an interest in the weather.

What connection this had to current events Henry wasn’t sure, but his experience with the expedition had been that mythology and the real world seemed to always collide in the end.

“As Doctor Warren said, the countdown is, well, counting down, to an overload,” Henry explained to Captain Martin, who on reflection was acting a little peculiarly. Pratt hadn’t worked with her before, but in light of that, she seemed to be voicing her concerns with little thought of consequence. It was unusual behaviour, as he found the military members of the expedition were often trained to keep their thoughts to themselves unless asked. Actually, all of SV-3 were acting in such a manner. Was this Colonel Hamrick’s new leadership style. “I’m only guessing here, but an overload could be an explosive event, given that I imagine geothermal power operates under very high pressure.”

Captain Huntley, who Henry was led to believe had some sort of medical experience, had been playing with a small scanner throughout the exchange. Without warning, he declared that he had detected an unknown virus among the members of SV-3.

Henry stood back suddenly from the console, aware that someone from SV-3 may had touched it before him. Then he looked around, and retreated to the corner of the room furtherest from the members of the team, taking an handkerchief from his pocket and covering his mouth. He may have already been infected, but it not, these were the best precautions he could take until a decontamination team arrived.

“Is the virus airborne?” he asked, dreading what the answer might be. “Are any of you suffering from any symptoms?”

< Tag Evan Cross , Nick Harper , Kata Harris , Stephanie Martin & Javan Huntley >

[Javan Huntley]

Laboratory, East wing
1538

Javan looked at Pratt. "It may be, the scanner only tells me about contagions it knows about, but far the only symptoms are paranoia and an inability to keep you thoughts to yourself. Really don't need this crap, like I don't have enough to del with trying to get a message to my sister telling her I'm alr-" he cut himself off with a firm snap of his jaws. He closed his eyes and counted to ten.

"I do not believe the virus is fatal, if it had anything in its make up dangerous to humans the scanner would alert me to it. So far it just seems to make us all say things we would rather not say. I hate to say it, but until further notice everyone in this room is under quarantine. No contact with other teams, we have to deal with the current situation, but we will have to do it without much help. I need to return to the medical lab and start working on a vaccine to keep other people from getting it, but I need someone who can read this damned himbu chatter in the biolab across the hall to get an idea of what the virus is made up of and what it does."

[Steve Hamrick]

1538
Unexplored Laboratory, East Wing

Steve looked at Pratt's points and translation, then reluctantly removed the sticky energy bar from his mouth to speak. "We're going down there, aren't we?"

He flicked through more of the files. "I think there's something big and explosive going on with the planet's core on this screen? Seismic events, that kind of thing?"

And Cross got there. Steve rubbed his head, with a low moan. "Just turned on the computer, and it was already running. When I saw it looked like a power generator I thought of you for the technical aspect, Cross, even if you think Stanford has a good team and have you been working out, and," Steve groaned in exasperation as he caught himself and shoved the rest of the Clif bar back in his mouth as Huntley gave his medical conclusions. He certainly hoped everybody took the medic's advice, otherwise he was going to get hurt by someone before this thing stopped.

Not wanting to speak again but having to, he reluctantly removed the food. "Do what you have to, I agree that if this was deadly, Vedas' quarantine protocols would have activated, I tweaked them myself to match Dr. Mckay's adjustments on Atlantis. Maybe this is the intended effect, God knows why the Vedics would have wanted this. But the planet might be about to blow up, so we have to put together what's going on with this generator. Just saying the last Ancient geothermal experiment I read about involved the planet blowing up and the people only surviving because their butts were saved while the planet disintegrated in volcanic eruption."

He sighed and looked at Pratt and let himself speak. "Well, I normally don't say what I'm thinking about straight guy's looks for fear of having my nose broke by one of you, but no paranoia here. Except my normal survival wariness, so not feeling any additional paranoia. I'll swing back in there with a video camera and you can try to translate the recording."

<<Tag Javan Huntley , Henry Pratt , Stephanie Martin , Evan Cross , Isabelle Cooper >>

[Evan Cross]

1539

Unexplored Laboratory, East Wing

With Doctor Pratt retreating across the room, taking every available precaution from a virus that SV-3 had contracted, Evan stood frozen. It wasn't that he was worried; not precisely, anyways. Rather, he knew that, should he do nothing, he wasted valuable time and manpower, both of which might prove costly. He needed to act, but he risked infection himself. "Oh, screw it. Should I just get started on sharing my deepest, darkest thoughts with you now?"

Evan stopped at the console Steve occupied, just as Hamrick flipped past a screen that had caught his attention. "Move, please." He reached across to swipe back, doing his best to stay focused, but Steve was making that very difficult for him. "Best I can tell, it looks like we're drawing more and more geothermal power for… whatever this is." He tapped a couple of words in Hindi and gave an embarrassed shrug, as if to say he couldn't do everything. "What? My languages are limited to English and French."

And that's when he saw it, bringing up a more detailed cross-section. "Uh-huh. Yeah. Okay. So that's definitely not good." 

<Tag: Henry Pratt , Steve Hamrick , Stephanie Martin , Javan Huntley , Isabelle Cooper  >

 

[Henry Pratt]

1539
Unexplored Laboratory, East Wing
[ 3 days until Overload ]

Henry looked at the blueprint and nodded in reply to Hamrick. “I have a feeling that before all this is over, someone is going to have to go down there and get a closer look.” The archaeologist wasn't about to volunteer himself or his team, but he knew that his translation skills would be useful to whoever was sent down the tunnel to the experiments control room.

Captain Huntley explained that he didn't believe the virus to be fatal, but that time was of the essence to get work started on a cure or vaccine. Without any idea how it was spread, there was the possibility that the rest of the base could be exposed to it if untreated.

“How about you take SV-3 with you, might help finding a cure or vaccine,” Henry suggested. He was a civilian, and outside the military chain of command here. However, the Admiral had appointed him to deputy team leader of SV-2, which had to stand for something. He couldn't be sure, but he imagined that he could argue some sort of authority given that the three officers assigned to SV-3 were now 'compromised' in one way or the other due to the virus. Besides, Oxford didn't seem like the type of leader who would want a team suffering from an unknown alien virus to wander around the base.

“We'll keep you informed of our progress,” he added. “We've got three days to work with. If you can't find a cure by then, we might have bigger problems to worry about.”

Doctor Cross, while not knowing the language the computer system was coded in, skilled located a cross section of the base and pointed out something which alarmed him.

“Is that what I think it is?”

0447
Briefing Room
[ 2.5 days until Overload ]

“And that,” Henry explained. “Is just the start of it. Doctor Cross found something just as alarming when he examined the main console.”

Henry, together with other members of the team which had been examining the laboratories in the east wing - minus SV-3 - were gathered around the table of the base briefing room. Pratt hadn't heard any updates from the efforts to cure the alien virus SV-3 was suffering from, but he was keeping his fingers crossed for them.

The two Oxfords - Admiral and Colonel - were listening as the team relayed what they had learned so far from studying the computers in the lab, which arguably, hadn't been much. Firstly, they knew they were dealing with an experiment in energy or power the Devas had been conducting. Secondly, they knew there was a connection to Indra, the leader of the Devas.

As thirdly, they knew that if they didn't do something in the next few days, the base would be in serious trouble.

< Tag Matthew Oxford , Evan Cross , Robert "Bobby" Oxford Jr , Nick Harper & Kata Harris >

[Matthew Oxford]

1530-1536
Briefing Room

Travis let out a snicker at Harris's words, but schooled his face when Matthew glared at him, "Interesting?" he asked, "I don't agree with turning the base almost upside down as interesting." When she mentioned other Oxfords, he eyed Travis, "If he wasn't running the base like a madman, then we have something to worry about."

Offended Travis pulled a face, "Hey," he sounded defended, "I ran Delta just fine thank you. I just love how much trust you have in me." He added sarcastically, "And I didn't hear you complain," he told Harris. He had backup for his leadership stuff. Next time he was taking over.

"Hmmmmm," Matt voiced, "I read Colonel. Now what trouble do we have at hand?"

0447
Briefing Room
[ 2.5 days until Overload ]

Travis sighed as Pratt finished his tale. It was deja vu all over again. When Frank had been in charge, explosives had been planted around the base and Alph site in a futile attempted at getting rid of them. Heck that hadn't worked, expect make the Delta Expedition more eager to get rid off the enemy over the coming months. He was hoping it was not going to repeat history again at any cost. "Evacuate," he ordered, "Harris, oversee this." Shifting to his feet, he faced Matt, "If this planet goes, you don't want anyone here. There is time, we roll out everything out of here and to Alpha site."

"Original Delta base blew, cos one of our enemy pretend to be a ally," he started, "we had little time, if we start now, we can transfer a good chunk personals and paperwork." He still would have swapped places with Troy for the courtroom. Matt opened his mouth to speak, "I don't care how big the blast will be. It's not a risk I'm willing to take or let you take it. IOA will chew you out." And Rubin Barker, Travis mentally shuddered at the name alone. Nope, he was not touching that one.

"Fine," he knew when he was being defeated or having arm twisted, "Start the evacuation, Colonel." The Army officer had a point that hadn't crossed his mind. In and outs of the SGC was big jigzaw puzzle to him.

<<Tag: Henry Pratt , Evan Cross , Kata Harris , Steve Hamrick , Javan Huntley /everyone else>>


(( Read 1st Operations Building , Read 2nd Science/Engineering Labs Delta blowing up Travis is talking about. I'm going to try looking for S2 ep 16 to link.))

[Victoria Palmazio]

0447
Briefing Room
[ 2.5 days until Overload ]

Great. No sleep for the weary. She hadn't slept and had been listening to the Oxfords argue for who knew how long. It wasn't her place to interfere so she didn't. Though there were some amusing comments in her head. Though when she heard the evacuation ordered she looked between the two. "Where can I help?" she decided to finally speak up.

Whichever Oxford wanted to address her, she wasn't going to be picky. Right now, at the rate they were bickering the last thing she wanted to do was step on toes. She saw Stephanie biting her tongue. She had no idea what the Captain was about to say but everyone knew she didn't get along well with Travis, and well right now with SV-3 spitting their mind. The Captain hadn't stopped biting the inside of her cheek the entire time they had been in the briefing room. Vicki noticed the little things like that.

<Tag: Steve Hamrick, Stephanie Martin, Travis "Wizard" Oxford, Robert "Bobby" Oxford Jr, Henry Pratt, Evan Cross, Kata Harris and whoever else I missed>

[Vanessa Whitmore]

0447
Briefing Room
[ 2.5 days until Overload ]

Evacuation? Oh yeah because those were so much fun. Though she remembered the Delta expedition well, the explosion was well before her time. Then again she had heard things about that. It was hard not to as she listened to her brothers bicker with each other. No way was she going to get herself involved in that one. Travis' oversight the first time, she knew he learned from his mistakes but this.. Right.

Though this wasn't Delta but she did know a lot of what happened on Delta stayed with those that came from it. CHENN was her demon. This was similar in ways to her. A timer for one and a threat of imminent harm. "I really hate timers" she grumbled under her breathe. She didn't want it to be audible and it was more to herself than anything; but she was getting nervous. "Just let me know what you need Admiral" she stated as she looked to Matt. Vanessa always tried to stay professional (well unless toga's or strange dreams in the desert were involved) despite her free spirited attitude.

<Tag: All the people>

[Javan Huntley]

Javan looked at the Admiral. "I've managed to get a vaccine for the virus, everyone who hasn't already been infected has already been inoculated. But in order to find a cure I need some help, I simply can't monitor all the different machines, and I am using the existing information and systems, so someone fluent in Hindu will be needed to help. I'm half way there, I just need help to pull it off in the amount of time we have. And I cant leave with the evacuation, we can't risk bringing this virus back to Earth or the ship. It could mutate and become deadly with exposure to just the right conditions." He leaned back. "If anyone infected wants it I have a temporary measure that works for three hours."

[Evan Cross]

0447
Briefing Room

Evan had remained silent until now, but as the order to evacuate the base was given, he added his voice to the growing list of them. "As Doctor Pratt explained, the device is causing the instabilities in the planet's core, but we have another small problem." Like being faced with your impending death in a galaxy far from home wasn't bad enough. "This was a viable, working source of power for the Devas. I brought up a cross-section of that part of the base; it shows the main conduits have been damaged, probably thousands of years ago. Right now, they're having to draw more power to compensate… to make sure enough 'juice' gets through, which has led us, at least partially, to our current predicament. It's not going to be as easy as just going down there, tapping a button, and turning it off. Theoretically, a failsafe should have kicked in and shut the device down. That it didn't… something else is wrong."

 
He let that sink in for a moment with a suitably dramatic pause. "I can fix this."

I think.

"Could use some help. Anyone with engineering experience that wants to stay, definitely. Someone that reads Hindi, I'll take." Evan looked directly at the admiral. This made – what? – the second time today he was willing to disregard his safety? Who said a position, working predominately out of a lab, in another galaxy was going to be easy? "You have PhDs here for a reason. Just say the word. But the sooner I get there and start working the better."

<Tag: Robert "Bobby" Oxford Jr , Travis "Wizard" Oxford , Nick Harper , Blake Warren , Kata Harris , Henry Pratt , Vanessa Whitmore , Steve Hamrick , Stephanie Martin , Javan Huntley , Isabelle Cooper , Matthew Oxford , Victoria Palmazio >

[Steve Hamrick]

1539
Unexplored Laboratory, East Wing

Steve went for the wall, mostly to have the solid surface at his back as Cross spoke. "For what it's worth, if you don't go in the room down the way we went in, you should be good."

"I don't like that concerned expression on your face." As Pratt politely suggested they hit up medical due to after all, a little too much honesty. "It might just run its course? Probably too optimistic, right?"

"You're right about the bigger problem, and if all else fails, Doc, we're going, saying way more than I intend to when I open my mouth or not."

0430
Infirmary

"No, I am going to the briefing, Ashley." Steve went to sit up as Doctor Tulas moved to block him.

"Not with the way you managed to hit on two of my orderlies before you realized you spoke out loud, Colonel." Ashley Tulas got in his way, to think "friend" wasn't really appropriate but she was friends with both halves of the couple.

"Then give me that viral suppressant Huntley was working on." He stared her down, as Ashley didn't budge.

"We both know why this kind of thing is more of a problem for you."

"Because straight guys are pussys who can't stand hearing the same risque comments directed at themselves they're thinking about women all the time?" And he didn't realize he'd talked until Ashley smirked.

"Precisely. You aren't leaving, Colonel. Do not make me go get your boyfriend."

Steve put the pillow over his own face firmly and muttered indistinctly into it. "Quicker way to die than what someone on this base is gonna do to me if I keep opening my mouth."

He was still using the pillow as an improvised gag when Tulas approached with the syringe. "If it doesn't work, I want you back here for your own safety, Colonel."

0447
Briefing Room

Steve focused on tabletop, his elbows on it and his hands placed to quickly either bite or cover his mouth with, but so far, no stray thoughts had come out. But he hadn't opened his mouth the whole way from the infirmary either.

As the decision to prepare for evacuation was made, Steve nodded when Huntley mentioned his need to work out a cure. "And so far, the temporary seems to work."

He let himself think about the fact the Admiral Oxford really was a good-looking man for his age and thank God the thought did not come out his mouth when he spoke again. "Don't you love it when fail-safes go and fail?"

As for both of them needing someone who knew the language, he looked at Blake.

<<tag Stephanie Martin , Javan Huntley , Isabelle Cooper , Henry Pratt , Matthew Oxford , Evan Cross >>

[Blake Warren]

0447
Briefing Room

Blake sighed from where he sat and looked back at Steve before speaking to Cross and Huntley. "I can only go with one of you, and barring another decision on the Admiral's part," he nodded toward the expedition leader, he knew where their urgency had to be, "I'm staying to help Dr. Cross, no engineering experience, sorry about that, but I know the language perfectly."

Brown eyes turned to blue and Blake didn't have to speak to get his message across to Steve. 'Not evacuating.' "I've been working some of the translation for both situations before we convened and I think at least SV-3's debacle was a very early and aborted project toward ascension or enlightenment. By 'speaking your mind.' Of course we've seen the downside of a little too much speaking your mind and it was scrapped, but that was just the project notes, I didn't get through all of the medical details."

One more thought occurred to Blake at Cross's explanation. "If we shut it down completely, how much less power will we have around here?"

<<tag Robert "Bobby" Oxford Jr , Nick Harper >>