no i mean grab 1 curious little girl , 1 infinately variable magical reptile, throw in some shiny new tech, and tell them to go frighten some idiots while pointing at the citadel
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If anyone could understand Family MathTM...
i expect Varga to have some connection to sub space as well and the dimensional folding needs to pull energy from somewhere to remain stable so if anyone would figure it out it would be the little girl who made scanning tech for it
the rest of the family devices is edm physics and biology
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There's a decent chance that this Taylor would find Family Math absolutely fascinating, and learn it better than any non-Family person ever could 
But yes, she'd undoubtedly find aspects of the whole thing extremely irritating. Right up to when she found that Family Tinkers™ actually know what they're doing.
That's the bit she finds more annoying than anything else; pseudo-tech that the inventor can't explain. A Tinker that can explain it is an engineer. She likes engineers
But yes, she'd undoubtedly find aspects of the whole thing extremely irritating. Right up to when she found that Family Tinkers™ actually know what they're doing.
That's the bit she finds more annoying than anything else; pseudo-tech that the inventor can't explain. A Tinker that can explain it is an engineer. She likes engineers
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Have you considered a 'Crisis of Infinite Taylors' of a few or all of your Taylors in the same vein as 'Taylor's Alternate' but with DOOM Queen, Learning Taylor, Insect Outside, Taylor Varga, and Dinochrome Taylor?
Have you considered a 'Crisis of Infinite Taylors' of a few or all of your Taylors in the same vein as 'Taylor's Alternate' but with DOOM Queen, Learning Taylor, Insect Outside, Taylor Varga, and Dinochrome Taylor?
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I have.
Then I had a rare bout of common sense and stopped considering it. The omniverse is more fragile than you'd think...
However the Varga could explain, with the math to prove it, exactly how it was made. The fact that no one who isn't a Greater Demon can actually make it isn't really relevant as far as it being explicable
Then I had a rare bout of common sense and stopped considering it. The omniverse is more fragile than you'd think...
However the Varga could explain, with the math to prove it, exactly how it was made. The fact that no one who isn't a Greater Demon can actually make it isn't really relevant as far as it being explicable
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I would imagine Science! Taylor might explore the multiverse the same way Lizard Taylor will do, but probably not for quite some time; there's all of these shards that need a good learning because they're doing it wrong, and plenty of Science! to do.
I expect that exploring the multiverse wouldn't be on the cards until after developing a theory of everything, and wanting to do field tests to see if it's a theory of everything, or just part of a theory of everything.
I could see visiting SG to help out once she's figured out and solved the local alien infestation.
I expect that exploring the multiverse wouldn't be on the cards until after developing a theory of everything, and wanting to do field tests to see if it's a theory of everything, or just part of a theory of everything.
I could see visiting SG to help out once she's figured out and solved the local alien infestation.
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I'm just saying, it's a good thing Linda already has that new face and identity. Introducing her as Squealer would not go down well.
"On a scale of ground level to Lunar orbit, just how high were you when you made those cloaking devices!?"
Likely answer: Oort cloud.
Yep, that would be 'par for the course' for this story. Any guesses as to what would happen when Taylor turns on her cloaking device and sets it to its maximum setting if the upper limit of the device is in fact the Oort Cloud?
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They probably made the corner FOR physics to go cry in.
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To be fair the Goa'uld really destroyed themselves. it was just the SGC kept killing the most important guy leading to the rest killing each other to become top dog. And the Jaffa rebellion + replicators invasion is what really kills them off. Also there reverse engineer is much more plausible than most settings really. Also Anubis and the Lucian Alliance do make sense since they were probably lurking in the background waiting for an opportunity to come along.Stargate is an interesting verse to dip ones toes in every once in a while, but by its more episodic nature, it's plot is made to suffer too much without resorting to making it an AU.
For one, alien species deal with the SGC as if it represents the entirety of Earth, when for various reasons it doesn't. Oh, sure, there's the IOA, but that organization was clearly a patch job to lend airs of planetary legitimacy to SG-1 and the SGA's activities. They were, more often than not a source of episodic or mini-arc/recurring conflicts, much like the Senate and NID were to supposed to take the weight of interplanetary military and exploartion off of the USAF's shoulders as such was not their intended remit earlier on in the series. And we saw where those led (Kinsey and the Trust rather thoroughly ruined both).
There was no massive true behind the scenes unification of Earth's interests, or even public reveal to lead to some new global governing entity (Because somehow that for a single planet is beyond the scope for a series that ends up dealing with Pan-galactic upsets to status quo and entire collapses of various multi-centennial/millennial societies/governments). Either Apophis' or Anubis' violation of Terran Space could have been the impetus for a great public reveal, nevermind the Wraith Superhive Ship. That's just not what the series was truly about.
Honestly, it would have been better if the SGC had a lesser overall impact, galactically. They were not set up to be a massive interstellar infantry, and even the Tok'Ra were better suited for Geurilla and long term tactical warfare than the Tau'ri. Push the advent of the F-302 back another season and a half, and let the Prometheus be the ultimate product of Earth's innovation and engineering, with the initial BC-304 being revealed at the end of Atlantis' run. Don't overcome the entirety of the System Lord's, and instead be a victory over a faction of the Goa'ould while creating the seeds for a greater rebellion (free Jaffa and greater latitude/opportunities for the Tok'ra, along with uniting other galactic powers that were otherwise separate such as the Orbanians, the Tollan and the Hebredian to name a few). Sure you might find a Humans-Hell-Yeah story more engaging, but it could have been written so humanity and the SGC were the glue that stuck them together.
As a result, the plucky group of Stargate/Homeworld Command quickly (far more so than should have been possible) overturned all the Apple carts which necessitated plot devices or cloning and scaling various threats. Shatter the unity/effectiveness of the System Lord's, Anubis crawls out of his hole. Break the control of the snakes over the galaxy, the hydra that is the Lucien Alliance comes into play. Defeat the primary distraction of the Asgard? Well now we have to keep the Roswell Grays out of the picture as we wrote them in to be too overpowering otherwise. Oh, and we'lljust reintroduce more advanced versions of those replicators later in the Pegasus galaxy (*thumbs up Lanteans* Good job!). It honestly seemed to begin to suffer from "Next time on DBZ..."-itis.
To fix the problems with the SG series, its growth would have had to be capped, and quite frankly it would have needed to be more like Babylon 5 rather than Stargate. Frankly, I would much prefer to pick up my sack of salt, employ the use of a construction crane to hold my disbelief up and just enjoy the fun that was MGM's/Sci-fi Channel's last real pride and joy.
That said, having other world's mix with Stargate for too long, or mesh too much, really ends up distracting from the story that could otherwise be enjoyed with it in moderation or nearly entirely ignored. So, occasional omakes with the SGC wouldn't be too distracting, one or two bits of SG tech or lore ending up in the main story could still work, but anything else I suspect would be more likely to sour the pot without a serious retooling of both ends of the plot thread. Which is a shame.
Besides, ignoring all of the above, the real charm of the story is a teenage Super Genius using alien science lessons on an intergalactic/dimensional kid/educational show to provide a starting point and occasional direction for her Genius to be exercised in. Limiting Taylor by outright giving her fully functional and complete real alien tech (of which I don't consider Tinker Tech as functional/real given Shard black boxing) just puts a sour taste in my mouth for some reason. Maybe another story it would fit better, but not here.
But yeah the show really kept escalating by adding new threats to prevent the status quo from changing which was really annoying. I also do dislike how they were so willing they were to make binding treaties in Earth's name.
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Oh yes, it's at the intersection of seven vectors, all 90° from each other, with no other crossings.
Yeah, I mean they never even went back to Ernest's Planet (Heliopolis) once they had starships, otherwise they could probably have recovered the Four Great Races Treaty records etc.
I do not know these Taylors, can I haz link plez?
They are briefly refrenced by Kid Win in she summons sea things by the sea shore
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Insect Outside is in the snippets thread and Dinochrome is the Bolo Taylor. Look at @mp3.1415player 's signature
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Just got around to reading the Omake, so a bit late in the comment.
I don't recall ever seeing that, but there was a room for the AT&T contractors that had a Stargate delta symbol sticker on the door.
I don't recall ever seeing that, but there was a room for the AT&T contractors that had a Stargate delta symbol sticker on the door.
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I have stargate stuff showup on my youtube recommendations a fair amount, so I've watched more than one video about behind the scenes stuff, and that nugget was buried in one of the cheyenne mountain base air force personnel interviews (the air force cooperated quite a bit with the Stargate series). Don't ask me to find the video I got that from though, I don't even recall what the main focus of it was.
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It's still alive, all my stories are until I take them around the back of the barn and do them execution style
Beautiful plumage, though...
Too bad your pissed-off Missy took those rounds. I mean, sure, I have the taken-down chapter in my e-mail archives, but there was room for SOOOO much more Piggot-breaking!
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Normally I wish for MPPI to work on existing stories and not invent new ones, but there is one casually mentioned Taylor that I would love to see developed more, and that is of course Taylor the Papercut Empress.
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