Let's Be Brief(ed)
Who: Daniel Jackson
When: Wednesday, May 15, approximately One hour after Stargate Activation
Where: General Jack O'Neill's office
Invited: O'Neill, Sam, Elizabeth, anyone and everyone on a 'gate team, medical personnel with updates
Status: Complete
The hour passed quickly. Daniel spent it in his office, going back over what little information they had about Tau site, PXQ-TY65, or [planet name] as the natives called it. There wasn't much: the culture and people were agricultural, and the planet itself had little to interest the Goa'uld, therefore it had never been a Goa'uld stronghold. Its one saving grace, and Daniel suspected the reason that the SGC and the Powers That Be had taken an interest in it at all had been its potential as a bread basket for earth, and later the other lifeboat sites.
The advantage that was now shattered, represented only by the rag-tag group of refugees who spilled through the stargate.
"What the hell is going on out there?" Daniel asked no one in particular as he found the listing of those whom the [planet namers] considered allies. They would leave no stone unturned in their investigation and the allies might turn out to be wolves in sheep's clothing. Though what they hoped to gain by turning on an agricultural community, Daniel couldn't fathom.
(The 'gate?) His brain supplied. (Access to a lifeboat site? Access to technology via the other lifeboat sites?) They had no way of knowing, and Daniel didn't wish to waste time in idle speculation. Hopefully they would receive more answers when they spoke with the leaders of the refugees.
It didn't stop his mind from returning to the question of "What the hell is going on out there?" For years they dealt with the Goa'uld and the Replicators, and then once the Goa'uld were vanquished, things really started to get ugly. The attacks on earth and other planets prompting the loss of interstellar travel, loss of contact with Alpha and Beta, now this attack on Tau. Had the destruction of the Goa'uld, the Replicators and the departure of the Asgard and the Tok'ra returning their heads to the sand created a power vacuum? Or had the loss of "in-fighting" left someone more powerful now feeling threatened?
His books, his computer data and the empty room did not supply an answer.
Gathering all his materials, Daniel headed to the administration building. It took only a few minutes to copy the contents of his binder, bind it into presentation folders with the help of two young corporals who were far too eager to help out Dr. Daniel Jackson. After that, it was to Jack's office, and for a change he was one of the earlier arrivals, if not the first.
"Hey Jack, Captain Harkness," Daniel greeted, followed by, "It's going to get crowded," Daniel pointed out. He dropped his briefing materials on the surface of the one table, leaving two packets to personally hand off to Jack and the Captain.
"Standing room only," Captain Harkness agreed, "I think we're up for the task."
When: Wednesday, May 15, approximately One hour after Stargate Activation
Where: General Jack O'Neill's office
Invited: O'Neill, Sam, Elizabeth, anyone and everyone on a 'gate team, medical personnel with updates
Status: Complete
The hour passed quickly. Daniel spent it in his office, going back over what little information they had about Tau site, PXQ-TY65, or [planet name] as the natives called it. There wasn't much: the culture and people were agricultural, and the planet itself had little to interest the Goa'uld, therefore it had never been a Goa'uld stronghold. Its one saving grace, and Daniel suspected the reason that the SGC and the Powers That Be had taken an interest in it at all had been its potential as a bread basket for earth, and later the other lifeboat sites.
The advantage that was now shattered, represented only by the rag-tag group of refugees who spilled through the stargate.
"What the hell is going on out there?" Daniel asked no one in particular as he found the listing of those whom the [planet namers] considered allies. They would leave no stone unturned in their investigation and the allies might turn out to be wolves in sheep's clothing. Though what they hoped to gain by turning on an agricultural community, Daniel couldn't fathom.
(The 'gate?) His brain supplied. (Access to a lifeboat site? Access to technology via the other lifeboat sites?) They had no way of knowing, and Daniel didn't wish to waste time in idle speculation. Hopefully they would receive more answers when they spoke with the leaders of the refugees.
It didn't stop his mind from returning to the question of "What the hell is going on out there?" For years they dealt with the Goa'uld and the Replicators, and then once the Goa'uld were vanquished, things really started to get ugly. The attacks on earth and other planets prompting the loss of interstellar travel, loss of contact with Alpha and Beta, now this attack on Tau. Had the destruction of the Goa'uld, the Replicators and the departure of the Asgard and the Tok'ra returning their heads to the sand created a power vacuum? Or had the loss of "in-fighting" left someone more powerful now feeling threatened?
His books, his computer data and the empty room did not supply an answer.
Gathering all his materials, Daniel headed to the administration building. It took only a few minutes to copy the contents of his binder, bind it into presentation folders with the help of two young corporals who were far too eager to help out Dr. Daniel Jackson. After that, it was to Jack's office, and for a change he was one of the earlier arrivals, if not the first.
"Hey Jack, Captain Harkness," Daniel greeted, followed by, "It's going to get crowded," Daniel pointed out. He dropped his briefing materials on the surface of the one table, leaving two packets to personally hand off to Jack and the Captain.
"Standing room only," Captain Harkness agreed, "I think we're up for the task."