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[Good evening, Tranquility. Or perhaps it's mid-morning, or the day hasn't been particularly good. Either way, there's a Wraith - or at least a Wraith from mid-chest and upward - staring down his nose at the comm device's camera.]
[Try not to panic. It's too much of a hassle to deal with.]
It would seem that even though so many humans here are of Earth, so few of you are familiar with each other. As an outsider, I can only wonder why this is. Even if your histories have branched out into several different timelines, there should be a common thread, a shared event in the distant past. There should be something that you share besides your humanity.
I cannot possibly imagine what this event is, especially if it occurred after the Lanteans returned to your planet ten thousand years ago. I do, however, know of one kind of device that they left behind on a number of planets in your galaxy and in mine. We call it the Portal, and some humans know it as the Ring of the Ancestors. The humans of Earth prefer to call it the Stargate. It is a standing ring made of metal - I believe it is called naquadah in your tongue - two times the height of a man, with thirty-six symbols around its inner edge. Two Stargates may link with one another, allowing one to cross great distances - even the expanse between galaxies - in mere seconds.
[It's a rather simple explanation, but it works well enough to just describe the device. Anyone who's seen it should know exactly what he's talking about.]
In my reality, Earth possessed a Stargate. I must wonder if, in these separated timelines, that other Earths also possessed Stargates. If so, perhaps that common thread among separate realities will have been found.
[Try not to panic. It's too much of a hassle to deal with.]
It would seem that even though so many humans here are of Earth, so few of you are familiar with each other. As an outsider, I can only wonder why this is. Even if your histories have branched out into several different timelines, there should be a common thread, a shared event in the distant past. There should be something that you share besides your humanity.
I cannot possibly imagine what this event is, especially if it occurred after the Lanteans returned to your planet ten thousand years ago. I do, however, know of one kind of device that they left behind on a number of planets in your galaxy and in mine. We call it the Portal, and some humans know it as the Ring of the Ancestors. The humans of Earth prefer to call it the Stargate. It is a standing ring made of metal - I believe it is called naquadah in your tongue - two times the height of a man, with thirty-six symbols around its inner edge. Two Stargates may link with one another, allowing one to cross great distances - even the expanse between galaxies - in mere seconds.
[It's a rather simple explanation, but it works well enough to just describe the device. Anyone who's seen it should know exactly what he's talking about.]
In my reality, Earth possessed a Stargate. I must wonder if, in these separated timelines, that other Earths also possessed Stargates. If so, perhaps that common thread among separate realities will have been found.