MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE - Eposode #28
The SG-1 team bring back a mysterious orb from an abandoned world, hoping it will be a source of technology to fight the Goa'ulds. What the orb turns out to be is nothing like they'd thought. In fact, the orb ends up taking complete control of the SGC, and all its occupants, O'Neill in particular.
NOTES OF INTEREST:
- Tal mak: Jaffa term for a world that once supported life that is now extinct
- Millennia ago, P5C-353 was dying. The organisms created the orb where they slept for 100,000 years, waiting for someone to take them through the stargate. Once exposed to the atmosphere of a living world, they went forth and multiplied. So it was written on the orb.
- The orb is made from several unknown materials including two new elements and a non-terrestrial alloy shell several hundred times stronger than steel. It maintains an interior temperature of 33 degrees Fahrenheit, generates an electromagnetic field, and emits small amounts of alpha, gamma, and delta radiation, using an advanced power source that lasts for thousands of years. In a living environment, alpha particle generation increased, and the temperature rose to 149 degrees.
- The organism is mobile like a bacteria, small like a virus, slightly radioactive, bonds in chains, and causes an infection and high fever which responds temporarily to antibiotics. It reproduces exponentially, needs oxygen but goes dormant in an anaerobic environment, feeds on energy, and metabolizes virtually any substance as if it were living tissue, similar to necrotizing fasceitus, or flesh-eating disease. It is capable of communicating through others once reaching critical mass.
- The organism identifies itself only as "We".
- Hammond initiates a Wildfire Directive (authorization code red dash beta), requiring level 4 quarantine, internal power and life support, and nothing in or out of the mountain. In the event of containment failure, Wildfire kicks in automatically.
- The SGC sent the orb and the organisms to P4G-881, a primordial world.
Injuries:
- O'Neill: impaled through the left shoulder by the orb, infected by the organism, high fever, and pulse stopped before channeling the organism
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