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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Karl Green" data-source="post: 1799645" data-attributes="member: 1467">As the group files into the room they find that it is almost completely empty, only General George Hammond standing with his hands behind his back waiting for you. After returning your salutes he says "Gentlemen, at ease. This way please. We have an emergency situation on our hands and not much time..."A large door at the back of the office open into an elevator that General Hammond directs you all to enter. When you are in, he hits sublevel 11. The whole time, the General does not speak and simply looks at each of you and waits…A few moments later you are at sublevel 11, Water-Purification. The General says "This way…" and leads you down a long hallway. Around two more corners the group comes upon a Security checkpoint…with 8 fully battle dressed and armed soldiers. This is not an area most of you have ever been too, so what is check-point here doing here? After checking everyone's ID's, two Air Force Security officers go to opposite sides of the wall and insert keys into locks set there (about 20ft apart from each other). Another elevator opens on the back wall and again you are directed to enter.General Hammond then hits level the button for sublevel 27 (27! this base is only suppose to have 11 sublevels?) and very quickly arrives at the level. More Air Force Security greets you and salute General Hammond. You are then escorted into a large conference room, with a table and seats for about 10 people and large LCD screen on the back wall with a USAF symbol. Quickly you all file in and sit around the table. As you do the General clears his throat and says " Now I don't have to explain to you but I will say again that this meeting is a matter of National Security and the information that you are about to receive is Top Secret. Also, I want you all to understand that the information you are about to see is understandably… unbelievable. But it is true, so try and keep and open mind and remain quite until we get through it and then you will be see you the proof you will need. Gentlemen, the United States of America has just suffered an invasion of its sovereign soil by a hostile, outside force." General Hammond types quickly onto the laptop and the LCD screen at the back of the room comes to life, showing a large, odd-looking circular device near a ramp (Major Torie and Lt. West recognize it instantly of course). Suddenly there is a strange burst of energy that comes from within the 'circle' and then a shimming watery like field is visible within the circle. Also a simmering picture within the hollow central circle shows a desert like field, simmering in and out of focus. "This gentlemen is what is referred to as a 'Stargate'. Found in Gaza in 1928, it was theorized that it was some kind of 'gateway' between worlds. Four years ago we figured out how to open it and sent a Recon patrol through the gate to find out what was on the other side. Major Torie and Lt. West where the only two survivors of that mission. It was believed that this 'gateway' was to only one other world… we were wrong. Seven days ago it opened by itself and we were attacked."      Typing another key, the LCD display shifts to a strange beautiful woman striding down a hallway. The picture if black and white, and looks like a wall security camera mounted on a wall. The woman is wearing furs of some kind and something like chainmail armor and carrying a large sword of some kind. Behind her are two… well they must be men in costumes, for they look like big pole bears, walking on two legs and carrying large axes and something like musket pistols. They are also wearing primitive like armor or leather and maybe chain. More pictures show Air Force security personal exchanging weapons fire with more of the men in bear suits. One shows the woman again pointing at a group of soldiers under cover and they some "special effect" like wind and snow crashing into them and they fly back. General Hammond continues talking and the camera angle changes to different scenes. General Hammond types an additional command and a number of screen turns to still photos of the woman, from different angles. "This woman, and we believe as many as 20 of these… 'hybrids', somehow activated the gate from a different world then our own, stepped through and attacked the research facility below this base. 19 Air Force security personal and 5 civilian contractors were killed in the assault. More disturbing, 14 civilian contractors and 12 Air Force security personal were kidnapped by these invaders and taken back though the gateway to their world.""Gentlemen, we found a way to re-open this gateway back to the world were these…beings came through. You sirs, have been …drafted… by Executive Order, to assess the treat that this woman and the others pose to the U.S.A. and if possible to rescue those personal kidnapped during this raid. Some of them were in position of information that is sensitive to the defense of this nation."General Hammond is silent for moment, looking at you all with deadly seriousness. But he gives you no time to ask questions… or laugh. Emergency lights and horn activates and the back wall behind the LCD starts to raise… standing many of you get your first look at it… the device…Stargate! Its' huge, at least 25 or 30 feet across, hollow in the center… A older man wearing a lab coat and looking like a civilian contactor steps forward "When the gate was opened last week, we were able to get a reading from a…well scroll that we had recovered and were studying… that allows us to open the gateway between Earth and the world were we believe the… invaders came from. We can re-open the gate and send someone through to the other side…" General Hammond speaks up and says "I know that this is a lot for some of you to take in, but we have little time, so please follow me. Security managed to kill one of the… hybrids, and we capture the beings weapons. Then we will have to discuss the details of your mission. We don't have much time. The President gave the go ahead for this mission only this morning, and you don't have much time."Around the corner and a bit down the hall, you come into a room that has been set up as an emergency medical facility. There is only room for one bed… and on the bed is something straight out of a low-budget sci-fi…and yet, it looks so real! The creature really does look like a polar bear that could walk around on two legs, and must have stood at least 8 feet tall and weigh in around 500 pounds. It fur is white, except for where the chest cavity has been opened. Internal organs are in a number of trays set up near the bed; a heart, liver, a lung… A woman in medical scrubs looks up and responding to General Hammond's nod she looks to you and says "Ah well, yes. If you want to know if this is just some large man in a bear suit, I can tell you right now that this… being was alive and was no man. Yes it had a heart, lungs, all the other organs that you would expect a living creature to have. At least one living on Earth, and I guess we can surmise on other worlds also. We have been slowly examining the being, and while I can not match its DNA with any known Earth based animal, this creature was a warm blooded mammal…"General Hammond looks at you all "W have a mission for you all, and no matter how unbelievable it may seem, it is real and is a matter of National Security. The President has giving us one week. If we cannot resolve the situation and assess the situation to bring it to a safe solution, we will be burying the Stargate and the lower levels of this base under thousands of tons of concrete. We don't have much time…"At this point, General Hammond looks at you and says nothing more…waiting for your replies.</blockquote>

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