OPENING LOG

[geniusatmmos]

Who: Eli Wallace and OPEN
What: Welcome to Destiny
Where: Stargate Room
When: One lonely night...
Warnings: None yet!

It had been a long week and a half.

Eli had spent most of it on the bridge, trying various calculations, trying to get the last stasis pod working, or, even better, find a way to extend life support or increase power to last the next three years.

It isn't looking hopeful.

When the all-too-familiar feeling of the ship shuddering out of FTL happens, he can't really believe it. Why? Why now? He's been monitoring the power consumption so carefully! And then he notices the indicator. The monitor belonging to Stargate Operations. He stares at it.

"...Incoming Wormhole?"

His voice is incredulous. No... Why now? Why?! There weren't any planetary Stargates in range, so that meant someone had dialled the Nine Chevron code from a non-Destiny-style Stargate.

They can't take on any more people. This screws everything over...

He sets a Kino off to go investigate the Gate Room, snatching up a remote, before heading to the armoury.

He jogs into the Gate Room just as the Wormhole connects, the familiar "ka-woosh" of the unstable vortex, before it settles into the event horizon. Eli takes up position at the console, a rifle under an arm... Just in case.

Comments

[thevoidsdarkhorse]

Roxy shook her head. "Not it's NAME, it's name ain't gonna mean shit to me, I dun even recognize what alien species any of this tech is. I mean what theory does it work on? Is it folding space, does it hit 'nother dimension, does it go to void? Omg, please say it's void, I can work with void, all the other shit takes so much LONGER."

She paused, thrown off a moment because, well, she's never had that question asked of her. Not since she was like eight and that was only twice. "Roxy Lalonde."

[most_qualified]

"Sorry, of course." Amanda stated surprised by her enthusiasm and narrowing it down that she had never seen a Stargate before. "It's Ancient technology. I've never traveled though it," she informed. "But it goes to various places and planets depending on certain parameters. Not exactly void as you would say."

Curiosity firmly held her.

"Roxy, are you a scientist?"

[thevoidsdarkhorse]

"Ancient? Wow, is that their name or human's name for 'em 'cause that is supes uninspired." It didn't matter she was on the verge of another freak out, Roxy always made time to make wholly unnecessary comments. Well, as long as they're not personally hurtful comments.

She frowned at the description. "I figured out the places and planets thing, though I'm more interested in how it crosses universes. Esp if it ain't going through void, but I guess the transportalizers go through universes too. Fuck, why didn't I study those while I had the chance?" She scowled to herself, glaring at some random spot on the floor. "How does someone go through a gate? How does it usually work?" There is a pause, before she quickly added another question. "Can they go through time and space at the same time?"

She looked at Amanda again. "Yeah, I am," she said, simple statement of fact, casual as can be. Of course, she made for an odd scientist. Being sixteen is odd enough, but considering she's also dressed more like a superhero than anything, well...

[most_qualified]

"It's what we call them." she informed. Not that she was aiming to impress with that name. It was just what had been given to the race of people that were highly advance despite their name. They were still a mystery even to her.

"We have FTL drives for that." Hyperdrives but from what she was sensing they were now down. Everything else was hard to grasp. She had to focus on the person in front of her.

"There's symbols on the gate and a point of origin. It's like an address. Once you dial in and it settles, you just step through and travel faster than the speed of light until you are on the other side." She explained as best as she could from what she had gathered during her original connection. She couldn't speak from experience. And oh how she wished that she could have experienced gate travel and see a different planet.

"Space yes, depending on the gates within range. Time..." Her voice trailed off, if only she had clearer access. "That's relative."

She was interested to know what specialty she specialized in.

"What is your main field?"

[thevoidsdarkhorse]

"Omg, humanity, were you even trying? Smh," she said, and actually shaking her head with a sigh.

Roxy frowned at that. "FTL drive? Dude, that would take forever and the Condesce would have shot you dow-wait. No, no, I dun mean GALAXY. I meant UNIVERSE. Whole of an existence with the same laws of time and space and all that. I want to know how you ganked me from the one I was in, because this sure as hell ain't it, and I really doubt ya picked me up from that clusterfuck all normal ship like." Even if she was on the edge of the medium, the Condesce would notice a whole spaceship and would have probably pursued. She went to a lot of trouble getting Roxy godtierred, not to mention the shot to her pride.

Hell, the pride would have been reason enough to wreck the ship.

"Gate still makes more sense if its got a connecting point. Which is....also a question to where the fuck it connected if this was built by some old race," she frowned. The Medium was both always there, but only there because they existed. Could aliens have dropped off a gate? It didn't seem likely. Perhaps something on the Condesce's ship? Or maybe it went haywire and connected to similar, there were enough traveling devices.

"..." She snorted and laughed. "But possible, I take it? Yeah, okay, that I can work with." If it could time travel, then she didn't have to be too late.

"Dark Fenestrology, Appearification, and Ectobiology. Esoteric sciences mostly."

[most_qualified]

"What is that supposed to mean?" Amanda asked curiously. She had been to wrapped up in the science and finding more about her that the superhero outfit had completely gone over her head. The attire was certainly different. A far cry from military uniforms and the comics that she used to read. It was not scientist attire.

"And your clothes...do all scientists wear those where you are from?" It was a valid questions after all.

She appeared even more perplexed as the other woman went on. Condesce?

"I am sorry but I have never heard of the Condesce or really explain how you were pulled. I didn't do it." she answered truthfully still looking very confused.

Clearly she must have come from a very advance time with the manner in which she was almost laughing off her explanation of things and technology.

"Interesting fields..." she commented. "Not too familiar with those."

[thevoidsdarkhorse]

"Oh come on, dun you know sci-fi? Okay, okay, I'll make it simple," Roxy said. "Now, citing 'existence is vast and huge and it stands to reason everything exists somewhere' because explaining how it exists is this whole big story, I was in a micro universe. More like ultra pico, because the whole of it was 'bout the size of a small solar system. That's why I know this ain't the universe I was in because that one?" She pointed out the window, at the view of space. "Didn't have STARS." Which, you know, brings up a whole lot of questions of how the planets even existed in the Medium, but Roxy really had more important things to do at the time. "And the void between universes ain't exactly easy or quick to travel through if you dun got a shortcut. Portals are more likely to key into 'em than norm space travel."

It really was. Roxy was almost tempted to say yes because, well, she WAS the only scientist where she was from. Dirk was really more of an engineer, but funny aside, that brought up questions she didn't want to answer. "These? Nah, this ain't anything to do with me being a scientist, this is Grade A Shenanigans outfit. Has to do with that whole long story thing, but fuck it, they're self cleaning, comfy, and got shit to do, I'll go 'round in the pjs."

There was a bit of a....stutter to her form as Amanda said she never heard of the Condesce. A sort of tension, confusion flickering across her face as she quickly glanced around the ship. Then....it all melts away and there is almost relief. She smiled a bit crookedly and shrugged. "All the better for ya, I guess. She's kind of a megaseabitch. Dun play nice with others."

Well, come on. She said time travel was relative. How can Roxy not laugh at a science joke like that? "Ya didn't? Weird, would think the computers would be keyed into that. Or ya don't monitor the systems? Sorry, Lil Hal just always did, kept him from going stir crazy. Fuck, is that racist against computer peeps? That might be racist. Sorry."

"Not surprised. Two are heavily involved with time travel, and the other is void work. Both of which are headache inducers to the extreme, and takes a bit too much intuition than I think most science would like to do? Shit's hard if you're not willing to trust your gut."