ReVerse - Stargate SG-1 (Fanfiction) - Part 1

"Unscheduled Off World Activation, General Landry to the Control Room." Walter said into the microphone in front of him.  He placed his hand on the scanner to activate and close the Iris protecting the Gate Room from any unwelcome visitors.  These days most of the visitors were unwelcome. "I'm here Walter, no need to send a search party." General Landry said from behind Walter.  "I thought you had gone to lunch sir." replied Walter.  At that moment two loud bangs were heard so loud in fact that the glass between the Control Room and the Gate Room visibly wobbled in its frame. "Walter what was that?" General Landry asked, "I'm not sure sir, according to the sensors on the Iris there were two impacts." replied Walter.

The lights in the Control Room started dim and then flicker, the wormhole disengaged from the Stargate.  "Well the Enemy was at..." General Landry started say when all the lights went off.  "Wormhole disengaged General." Walter put in, "I am aware of that Walter why do you always tell me things that just happened, why are the lights off?" General Landry asked in an annoyed voice.  "Looks we have a massive power drain on all systems sir." Walter answered avoiding the first question.  "Hell, get Carter up here.  Probably best to get all of the SG-1 up here on the double.  Wait a second what is that red shimmer just in front of Stargate, do you seen that?" Walter looked down at the Stargate and there was an shimmer as the General said like you would see on a hot day, he could also make out hints of black and white.

Major Samantha Carter came into the Control Room, "What's happening?" she asked in an amazingly innocent but intelligent voice.  Before General Landry could answer, the lights came on and standing on the gantry walk way to the Stargate there appeared to be a man standing there. Wearing a red shirt, black leather trousers, black waistcoat, dark red wide brimmed hat and some curious white shoes. "Well he looks interesting." Sam said.  General Landry and Walter looked at each other with a knowing look.

Jay looked about the Gate Room and noticed the flags in each of the corners. 'Well that's different, its going to be one of those missions,' he thought.  He turned his attention to the men in green camo fatigues, "Really guys, why are you wearing green in what appears to be a concrete underground complex?" Jay said.  The men just stared at him with their guns pointed at him.  "Okay I've always wanted to say this.  Take me to your leader."  General Landry's voice boomed into the Gate Room, "Check him for weapons and then bring him to briefing room."

Back in the Control Room General Landry turned to Sam, "Get the rest of the team up here on the double, lets find out who this man is.  Maybe you will get to play with him later." General gave Sam a wink.

Jay was escorted into the briefing room, he noticed the added decorations on the wall plus the brown, white and black flag in the corner. 'Nothing is ever easy with these missions,' he thought.  General Landry and Major Samantha Carter were sat at the conference table, "Just who are you meant to be young man?" General Landry asked.  'Young man! Oh! If only he knew.' Jay rolled his eyes at the comment. "Well I see one of the SG-1 team but where are the rest?  I do hate to repeat myself.  We should wait.  Perhaps you can tell me why the brown uniforms?" Jay said in deep voice but quiet voice that seem to bounce round the room. 'No harm in applying a little extra charisma, they need to trust me after all.' Jay reasoned.  Both the General and Major looked confused at his question so Jay let it drop for the time being.

There was a brief wait then Cameron Mitchell and Vala Mal Doran entered the room. "Now all the team is present, it is time you told us who you are.  My patience is wearing thin!" General Landry said with obvious annoyance. "But where is Daniel Jackson and Teal'C?" Jay said.  Cameron interjected before the General could speak, "Never heard of those two, who are they?"  Jay thought for a moment, 'I need more information, lets see where we are shall we.' "Daniel Jackson is an archaeologist with glasses and allergies, Teal'C a Jaffa warrior.  Not ringing any bells?" Jay asked.  Cameron looked absolutely aghast at the mention of a Jaffa, "Not members of my team.  Now answer the General's question."

'Oh Well! I best take the plunge, hopefully it will all work out in the end.  It normally does.' Jay thought.  "I am Captain Jay Scarlet at your service, it is my first time in your Verse and I must admit it is a bit different to what I heard." Sam jumped in, "Verse?" "Universe my dear lady, the other MVAs gave me a much different picture, very curious indeed." General Landry finally got a word in, "MVAs?" "MultiVerse Agent General, now we done the basics perhaps we can get on with why I am here." Jay said. "Back up a bit, what exactly is a Multiverse agent?" General asked.  "Really General there bigger issues at stake." Jay replied.  "Humour us!" the General intoned back.

"Fine!  Have you met ascended beings yet?" Jay asked with a boring look upon his extremely handsome yet boyish face his blue eyes starring deep into Sam's. Cameron answered, "Yes we have but what has..." Jay cut him off and continued, "Okay so ascended beings normally come in two flavours. Either they are a self-righteous bunch that think the lower physical planes have nothing to do with them or you have the Evil ones that think because they've ascended therefore they should be treated as Gods and worshiped by the lower planes.  Judging by delayed arrival I would say the ones in this galaxy don't like not knowing who I am.  Now there are planes of existence well above these beings who think they know everything but they have barely scratched the surface of existence." Sam interrupted this time, "Your talking about alternate realities." 'Such a pretty face too what a shame.' Jay thought.

"No not alternate realities.  There are different Meta-Verses each with their own set of physical laws and each Meta-Verse is host to an infinite number of alternate realities.  In planes well above your ascending beings are well things you would not them to notice anyone down here on the physical planes.  And right at the top are the TPTB."  For the first time Vala joined the conversation which was unusual since she normally does not stop talking, "TPTB?"  "The Powers That Be, at least that is what most of us agents call them.  They recruited me from the first Meta-Verse, well that is to be proven no actual direct evidence other than the time-dilation." Jay said.  General Landry was obviously getting annoyed, "What the Hell are you talking about!' he practically shouted from the other end of the conference table.  "Easy General, relax.  It is quite simple really in my home Verse time runs very slowly compared to all the Verses.  One second at home is like a thousand years anywhere else.  That's where most of MVAs come from,  so are we all up to speed with what a MVA is?" Jay said with a cheeky smile mostly aimed at Sam.

"No, but it will have to do for now.  Why are you here?" General Landry said with an obvious lack of calm.  "To stop your solar system from being destroyed, it will happen err, what time is it now?" Jay asked, Sam replied, "17:00hrs."  "Well that is fortunate, your doom will befall you in 27 hours exactly." Jay said.

The Keeper - Star Trek Discovery (Fanfiction x/o)

The Keeper stared at the the incoming shuttle craft not with his eyes but with his mind, Talosian's long ago lost certain physical attributes when they attained their abilities with their minds. His eyes worked well enough on short distances, his mind however could see great distances across the galaxy and the rest of the universe.

He saw the Vulcan Spock and his sister Michael within the shuttle, Spock's mind is in chaos and Michael is determined to save him at whatever cost.  Her guilt of driving him away drives her onward, the mystery of the Red Angels is foremost within her mind and yet unsure of it means for Spock.

The Keeper and his fellow Talosians have been of aware the 'Red' signals as the humans called them but they have been unable to determine their origin within the universe.  The time anomaly that the Starfleet vessel Discovery has recently encountered would suggest that the Red Angel is from the future which is why they have been unable to discover their origins.

Despite their significant abilities to use their minds to travel the far reaches of space without actually moving from Talos IV, the ability to see the future has always alluded them.  Several attempts have been made all have ended with disastrous results for the sender.

It was obvious to the Talosians that the Red Angel was changing events to create some sort of advantage in the future, their intentions so far appear to be good but The Keeper remembered something Captain Pike had in his mind when they first met about good intentions.  It worried The Keeper that he could not remember with clarity what Captain Pike thought.  This was unusual normally their memories are perfect they do not forget anything.

The Keeper had considered talking with the entities known simply as the 'M', in the past one of their number have been receptive to the Talosian's thought patterns.   M9 is not considered to typical of his species a little more curious than most.  The 'M' have been around since before the birth of this universe, M9 explained in broad strokes that the previous universe had been destroyed by a single humanoid using six tools beyond his understanding.

The destruction of the previous universe left many of the 'M' destroyed in attempting to save it.  With limited resources the 'M' recruited another species to help with maintaining a balance within the newly formed universe.  This species had already managed to leave their physical bodies behind and ascend to a new plane of existence.  They later became known as the Q continuum and at some point the 'M' and 'Q' had a falling out over how best to maintain balance although The Keeper believed that M9 left out much of the story relating to their disagreement.

M9 had told the Taolsians that travel through time contained huge risks not just to the traveler but to everything else within universe.  The 'M' and the 'Q' rarely visited the physical planes of the universe since their responsibilities kept them on the higher planes of existence but because of the previous incident the 'M' kept a single agent in the physical planes at all times.

The shuttle craft edged closed towards Talos IV, such a slow method travel.  The Keeper consulted with his fellow Talosians and it was decided that M9 was probably already aware of the Red Angel.  They would allow the shuttle craft to land, it was obvious to all Spock needed their help to clear the chaos from his mind.  A Vulcan in a human mind of the same body will always create receptors capable of accessing far beyond what is known.  Vulcan training normally limits such abilities in the most receptive.

It is clear to The Keeper Spock needs his path cleared however what will Starfleet do when they discover Spock's whereabouts.  Perhaps then M9 will be of some help.

Thanos Receives a Visit (Fanfiction)

Thanos leans back in his porch chair looking across his recently harvested crops, in his hand is a large glass filled with pressed juices from said crop.  His face sports a lazy smile of victory and contentment however his brow shows a slight frown.  A little distance away behind Thanos sits a golden gauntlet perched upon a pole, it is covered in different coloured stones.

Just a couple of feet away from him the air starts to glimmer and twist before him.  The twist in the air resolves itself into a humanoid shape with dark blue skin wearing a grey suit.  Thanos is reminded of the Galactic Bank's staff, very nondescript and easy to forget.  The humanoid is carrying a black device in its hand, it looks down at it and taps it with one of this fingers.

"You are Thanos is that correct?" says the blue alien to Thanos, "Yes, and who might you be?" Thanos replies with slight rumble in his voice. "You can call me C9, I best get comfortable."  C9 taps the device in his hand and a chair appears in front of Thanos, C9 sits down. "Do you mind if we have a 3D transcription made of our conversation?" C9 says. Thanos just nods in agreement.

Transcription Between C9 & Thanos

Universe: LarveM-27 CQ

C9: I am here to inform you of the consequences of your recent action within this particular universe.  Would you like to disown your involvement and use of the UTs to wipe out half the sentient races in this universe?

Thanos:  I do not wish disown anything, I stand by my actions!

C9: Are you aware that the UTs were never meant to be used in such a fashion?

Thanos: UT?

C9: Excuse me I tend forget when dealing with lower races, UT stands for Universal Tool. When a universe is created UTs are used in its construction.  They are designed purely for the purpose of a creating a particular universe and cannot be used externally to that universe.

Thanos: We call them Infinity Stones and they seemed to work just fine to me.

C9: If you look really closely you will see their outer skins has become cracked which will only get worse.  However we can discuss that later, first we must cover the consequences.

Thanos: What consequences I have saved a universe of limited resources by removing half of its population.  Balance is key to any successful civilisation.

C9: My colleagues completely agree unfortunately in your arrogance you have not considered the large picture of your universe.

Thanos: Arrogance!

C9:  Yes, lower races always think they know best when in fact you know so little about the environment you live in .  Admittedly you are the first being to cause this level damage to a universe which why it was agreed you be informed personally.

Thanos: Who are you to tell me what I should and should not do?!

C9: Well this is the reason I was sent because I was contracted to create this particular universe, normally I do not returned to completed jobs but it was felt that this was a unique situation.

Thanos: Have you come to kill me then?

C9: Definitely not that is would be unthinkable, I just here to tell you what your universe's potential future is.  Let us start with something small first, just a single planet.  Let me bring it it up on the Holovision, there you go.  This planet was known to its natives simply as Mmm.  Planet Mmm was a perfectly balanced environment for its sentient race, flora, fauna and lower animals.  Each species on the planet lived in a symbiotic relationship with each other, the planet was literally paradise.

C9: Then you clicked your fingers and within nine days the planet was a barren wasteland with a few microbes living beneath its surface.  Their populations were perfectly balanced, you killed off half and the planet fell into a chaotic spiral never to recover.

Thanos: One planet means nothing in the larger scheme of the universe.

C9: Okay then lets goes larger then, have you been to the Steller-9 galaxy?

Thanos: Never heard of it.

C9: Not that surprising, it is one of the oldest galaxies in this universe.  Long before you were born, the sentient race that evolved there invented technologies that allowed them to maintain all the stars in their galaxy.  Stellar engineers of the first order, eventually each star in the galaxy became permanent homes to a single engineer.  They kept the stars is perfect balance, they added or removed matter to keep a star from exploding.

C9: Before you snapped your fingers, that galaxy was home to several trillion different sentient races, the Stellar engineers helped create conditions so that more sentient races evolved.  Without the engineers to maintain the stars well let me show you what the galaxy looks like now.  You see that dark patch in the right hand quadrant, that's a black hole created by multiple exploding stars about thirty days after you did your thing.  We have calculated it will consume the rest of galaxy in less than a galactic year.

Thanos: These are just isolated examples.

C9: I have a few billion other isolated examples and they are increasing in number.

Thanos: What will happen then?

C9: Well actually remember I told you about the cracks in the UTs?

Thanos: I thought the stones were intelligent, can't they repair themselves?

C9: Yes they are, in order to do their individual jobs they had to have a high level of intelligence.  Thing is they do not work well together your misuse of them and the fact you placed them together is a very dangerous thing to do, hence the cracks in their outer skin.  They are likely to be very unhappy to be stuck on that golden glove.  Between them they have the power to create an universe and to unmake one!

Thanos: You mean they going to explode?

C9: Not sure, we have never been in this situation before if they do then the universe will just blink out of existence otherwise the universe will continue for a short time until the chaos you created spirals the universe into oblivion.  

Thanos: How the hell was I supposed to know this happen!?!?

C9: I think you are a flaw in my design of the universe, next one we will remove the bug that caused you to exist.  Now that you have been informed that you are the destroyer of a universe I shall be going.

Thanos: What happens if I take stones off the gauntlet and send them to different ends of the universe?

C9: You forget they are intelligent and have long memories, you might appease them a little but you still have the consequences of your action to solve.  It is not impossible to fix.

Thanos: Can you fix it?

C9: Maybe but the client failed to pay his hardware maintenance this eon plus the client would to have to raise maintenance request before we could even start looking at it.

Thanos: Who is the client?

C9: I suppose you would call him God, I understand pray helps.

Thanos: Will he hear me?

C9: Unlikely clients that do not pay their hardware maintenance have larger issues to worry about than a single universe.  Time I left and let me you congratulate on being the most stupid arrogant sentient being in the multiverse to date.

C9 got up from his seat and disappeared, Thanos's frown had deepened considerably, his smile completely gone.

Ib & Ob: IOP Paradox Part 11

Ib: I wonder did I leave it in the core room.

Helper Swarm (HS): Perhaps we can help?

Ib: Where did you come from, your not the Nano-Swarm?

HS: We were created by the Nano-Swarm and you created them which makes you our

Ib: Hold on a panug! I did not create Nano-Swarm they are Grey Tech.

HS: But you are a Grey are you not?

Ib: Yes but not the Grey that created Nano Swarm tech.

HS: What are you then and why did you bring the Nano-Swarm here to this world.

Ib: Err, let us take this to a different orbit shall we.  What do you know about the Builder Paradox?

HS: Please wait, searching Grey Tech archives.

HS: This is the equation that states there should be no interstellar alliance despite the high probability of life giving planets in the known universe.

Ib: Yes that is the one however it was not always called the Builder Paradox, originally it was called the Builder function.

HS: What does the difference of the name make?

Ib: When it was just a function H-Jump tech had not been invented.  And the function made an extremely basic assumption that was never stated.

HS: And that was?

Ib: Nothing can travel faster than the speed of light.  Which means all travel through this universe has a very limited velocity stopping the possibility of any intelligent species meeting each other.  It would only happen it multiple species arose in a single solar system which is astronomically rare.

HS: We understand! It became a paradox because the H-Jump was invented and Grey Tech was distributed to many intelligent species none of which have faster than light drives. And the alliance was came into existence.

Ib: Exactly and my point is your knowledge of Grey Tech is limited to what the Nano-Swarm gave you when they created you.

HS: We are given everything to survive in the lower altitudes.

Ib: What are doing up here then?

HS: Delivering Takeaways, Chinese is our specialty this cycle.  It is trending on many of the higher altitudes.

Ib: What is Chinese?

HS: It is a food created by the bipedal natives of the planet below.

Ib: You have traveled down to ground level, I thought the tech only allowed for high altitude work.

HS: Only those that fall or volunteer to fall in the precipitation end up on the ground and we have had no word from them.  However we have access to the the natives communication protocols.

Ib: You have communicated with them?

HS: No that would be a violation of Grey Tech first contact protocols.

Ib: A lot has happened in the last seventy cycles, where are their telepathic nodes?

HS: As far as we can see they do not have any or are have been dormant for so long they are no longer connected to the intelligence cortex.

Ib: How do you communicate then?

HS: S-Waves and visual stimulation, the visual aspect is how we managed to recreate their food at the microscopic level so members of the swarm can consume it.

Ib: S-Waves!  But I communicated with them when I was in the Muse of Urns.

HS: They were Haxians.

Ib: But the hostages were not.

HS: According the Grey Tech archives the nine artifacts have been sought after for thousands of cycles are you sure the hostages were natives?

Ib: How do you know about it?

HS: One of the native leaders likes to communicate everything and their communications protocols are very simple to decode.  There are no secrets from The Swarm.

Ib & Ob: IOP Paradox Part 10

Nano-Swarm (NS): Welcome to the ship, we have adjusted the holes so that you can breath air.

Ob: Holes?

NS: Yes normally the ship's mass is not completely sealed because we do not breath.

Ib: What do we call you exactly?

NS: We are called InsertNameHere, but Nano-Swarm is sufficient.

Ib: Err, right.

Ob: A bit of an odd name do not you think?

Ib: Less of the orb rolling I was busy.  What are your goals exactly?

NS: Observe and Understand.

Ob: Is there a reason your ship is at the center of an usually high concentration of radiation?

NS: Yes, when we were dropped here seventy cycles ago into the lower atmosphere there was already a build up radiation. The natives call it the South Atlantic Anomaly, we call it home.  The radiation helped us multiply at an exponential rate, as we expanded so did the anomaly.

Ob: How far have you actually expanded to?

NS: We are omnigifts.

Ib: Omni what? I think perhaps you need a communication update or two along with the power transfer.

NS: Let me clarify we are everywhere within this Solar System.

Ob: You said natives, do know which are the dominant species?

NS: That is an ongoing debate within the swarms since there many intelligent species on the planet below.  Some are completely unaware of each other hence the debate.

Ib: Wait Panug! If you are everywhere then you knew about our issue with the Haxians and I had just had an excellent idea.  Can you create a copy of our ship?

NS: Very easily.

Ib: Then do so and send it heading away on the same plane of the Haxian ship out of the system. They will be sure to follow it.

NS: That would require Command Override.

Ob: Err what is that exactly?

NS: Password please.

Ib: Ah! Well who reads the slab guides anyway?

Ob: I always read them, you do realise this swarm is...

NS: We are The Swarm not a or this!

Ob: Right, err. The Swarm is a huge source of information especially about the locals.

Ib: Read maybe understand Mmm! Fine!  I will go back to the ship and see if I can find the slab.  I will also set up a power transfer and communication update stream as well. You have fun with your data.

Ob: What do you know about the quadrupeds?

NS: It is best I direct you to a Search Panel, they will help you with your questions.

Ob: Perhaps I can just clarify a minor detail, if you are everywhere then were on our ship when we entered the system?

NS: We do have swarms at the edge however your ship's velocity and the high concentration of hydrogen stopped us from entering your craft at that time.

Ob: When did you enter exactly?

NS: When you arrived in orbit of course.

Ob: But you do not make contact?

NS: We observe and understand only.

Ob: Right. Your using Grey Communications right now, did you monitor our communications whilst we were on the ship?

NS: Internal telepathic communications are monitored how else could we understand.

Ob: Do you know how the natives of this planet communicate exactly?

NS: That will require you directing your questions to the Instruments.

Ob: What instruments exactly, there is nothing here.

NS: We created the Instruments to help us observe more especially on this particular planet.  They are also known as Helper Swarms.  We seeded them into lower atmosphere and used the native's machines that use heat exchange systems to multiply them further.

Ob: Your saying these Helper Swarms are the clouds?

NS: Only thirty six percent so far, precipitation drops their numbers.  We have researchers working on the problem.

Ib & Ob: IOP Paradox Part 9

Ob: Well the Bio Emitters turned out to be some what expensive and then I got distracted with the Trilons.

Ib: I thought the hull do not look as shiny as it should, basically you are telling me the ship is unprotected.

Ob: We have defenses I just thought out here in the middle of no space I did not think we would meet an hostile force.

Ib: And you said and I quote "Chance happens in the strangest of places..."

Ob: Nothing strange about this place.

Ib: Haxians, artifacts and a seeder ship not strange! Mmm.

Ob: Maybe the best thing to do would be to hide somewhere. Err and quickly there is a ship on the scanner.

Ib: Well Haxians are very two dimensional in their thinking I really do not how they made it into space.  Have you seen the inside of their ships it is all flat surfaces and no place to sit.

Ob: How does it help us?

Ib:  Easy drop into a lower orbit, it will take them at least a couple of rotations before they figure out where we have gone.  And by then we will have come up with a better plan.

Ob: Do you really think they will fall for that?

Ib: Only one way to find out.

Ob: One interval.

Ob: Errr there appears to be a lot of radiation here in the southern hemisphere at this altitude.  Was not this the place you dumped your beta nano swarm last time we were here?

Ib: Yes well they taking up space in the cargo bay plus they never did anything useful.

Ob: That is why they call it beta.  According to the scanner there is a central mass in the center of the radiation.  It is ten times our mass.

Ib: How close are we to it?

Ob: Hold a panug! Purple Monopods! It is coming closer at velocity.

Ib: Well if the swarm survived technically they are Grey Tech and it attracts other Grey Tech, hence Grey World.

Ob: We are getting a signal on the encrypted channel.

Ib: And?

Ob: They are requesting a power transfer and have given us landing signals.

Ib: I am not sure about this, Nano-swarms can be very needy.

Ob: It is better than hanging about waiting for the Haxians to turn up.

Ib: Fine.

Human Interlude #4

J: Mr President, NASA have reported an unknown object at the center of the South Atlantic Anomaly.

Mr President: What do they want me to do about it.  Did that space station see it?

J: NASA had to turn off the live feed again, you know it makes all the Alien Conspiracy theorists jumpy when they do that.

Mr President's Hair: yes they love feeding the trolls.

Mr President: I don't see what they expect me to do, all they ever do is ask me for money and avoid all my questions.

Mr Berg: That is simply not true Mr President, your just not suited to the answers they give.

Mr President: What does the object look like?

Mr Berg: Excellent question Mr President, shows the true scientist in you.

Mr President: What's the answer?

Mr Berg: Well apparently it was very big and black.

Mr President: Was? How do you see something black on the blackness of space exactly?

Mr Berg: It only appeared for a few moments some Youtuber caught it on the live feed.

Mr President: What you are telling me is that NASA watches YouTube?

Mr Berg: Not all the time.

J: Mr President I think perhaps now would be a good time for one of your tweets.

Ib & Ob: IOP Paradox Part 8

Ob: How did you know they were Haxians?

Ib: Well the Chameleon suit disguised them but not their footfalls, six vibrations then another set.

Ob: He said he is The Mercenary, like it meant something.

Ib: Unfortunately yes, they live very long lives Haxians that is. I only know one person whoever described a Haxian Mercenary prefixed with "The".  IGal used him quite a bit.

Ob: But I thought you said she had gone into hibernation because you had a falling out.

Ib: Barely besides she had more of a disagreement with the rest of her race than me although it was related to the IOP. She never believed me mostly because she had one of the artifacts.

Ob: What you never said!

Ib: Go roll your orbs somewhere else I had lost a friend.  She said that the artifact proved my theory was incorrect.

Ob: Your theory well let us call it what it really is a hypothesis not a theory. You have no evidence.

Ib: IOP is quite sound, what evidence do you have of the artifact theory exactly?

Ob: Well it is well known that the artifacts are meant to show meaning in the universe.

Ib: Really known by who exactly and in all this time only one has ever been found and its authenticity is definitely in question.

Ob:  When you said she had a disagreement with her race what did you mean exactly?

Ib: Trying to tempt me with a different tangent I see, well if you must know she is the matriarch of her species and they must do everything she commands.

Ob: Did they rebel then?

Ib: They thought she was diverting too many resources into finding the artifacts and even when she found one which is debatable they were still unhappy.  She entered hibernation early and her race had to go dormant until she awoke.  Of course they blamed me since I was only biped on the planet at the time.

Ob: I surprised you got off the planet alive.

Ib: Yes well her escape pod proved very useful indeed, heavily shield too.

Ob: Did not Grey World recover it from you upon landing?

Ib: Yes well Grey World seemed to blame me for IGal's hibernation too which is why they took the escape pod from me.  Said I caused a major diplomatic incident.

Ob: Well technically a full third of the x9-18 sector went dark because IGal's race went dormant.

Ib: Yes but it was not like the whole sector was dark, the rest picked up the work in no time.

Ob: I am not sure two hundred and thirty four cycles counts as "no time".

Ib: Fine! Have you looked at the artifact yet?

Ob: Well I would rather not look at it since it is very ugly.

Ib: But it is a really bad image of us, Greys that is.

Ob: I find it quite vulgar to look at let alone handle it.

Ib: I am sure the statue is merely a facade.  It is what is inside that interests me.

Ob: Err, your not going to stick to protocol then?

Ib: Do you really want to explain to the Colony Commission about your attempt to seed a new planet?

Ob: Perhaps you are right but what about the Haxian mercenaries?

Ib: You did get the ship shielded right?