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Distance Learning for fun and profit...

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Just about to go to bed and update notice pops up. I just had to start reading, finish reading and notice time shift has occured. Well one good thing, I don't have to work tomorrow. Good chapter.
 
About the only thing I think Taylor did wrong, though understandably so, was not informing SG-1 of the improvised chamber pot in the room.
 
I don't think the sphere was the EDM camera from the Taylor Varga/SG-1 omakes. Wrong shape, for one thing. I think it was the device from later seasons that sent Danial Jackson's consiousness across the universe and attracted the Ori's attention.

EDIT: Remember, the EDM camera was large enough that it took several people to move it. This orb, Taylor was able to pick up just fine.
 
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This was great, and I haven't watched any Stargate at all. But what I've picked up by osmosis from various fanfics was enough to easily follow this.

I'm amazed and deeply impressed by your ability to incidentally knock out a 15k word superb quality omake just for fun. Not that TV isn't impressive on its own 😀
 
I can just see a Distance Learning/SG 1/Taylor Varga triple crossover.


"Yeah, you're pretty smart, Sauriel. But you ought to meet this girl we ran into, Taylor Hebert. Now she's really clever."

"Oh, really?"

"Yeah. Oh, she said to tell you you're 'Doing EDM wrong', whatever that is, and left us a bunch of notes..."
 
...Does anyone else get the distinct impression that if this Taylor and Saurial were to meet, the local reality segment might just implode? Or possibly the universe will just throw up its hands and go get very, very drunk.
 
Dis Lexic said:
...Does anyone else get the distinct impression that if this Taylor and Saurial were to meet, the local reality segment might just implode? Or possibly the universe will just throw up its hands and go get very, very drunk.
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I'd say you get a higher-level big bang. Now, that multiverse there - that would make the Far Realm seem tame and logical, but that's just because normal people are so restricted ...
 
Gets notified of new post by author of 15k words.
"Oh sweet! New chapter of Distance Learning!"
mp3.1415player said:
This comment sparked a silly omake idea and I had to bang it out before I could get anything else done... :)​
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Well F*#$, just an omake.
Reads quote that inspired Omake.
"Hmm... Possible SG1 cross? I'll give it a go."
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"OK, definite SG1 cross."
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"OK, that just happened."
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"Did she really?"
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"Hmm... That's bound to play out interesting."
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"Nooooo!!!! I don't want my omake to end! I need MOAR!!!!"

Yea.... I'm kinda hoping for more Distance Learning x SG1 shenanigans now. I can think of several ways to do it, though I think the most logical is Taylor stops by the SGC, with permission from her military (and likely a bodyguard or ten), probably through making a new gate (made properly this time!) and arranging things via radio through the portal ahead of time.
Her visit would serve 2 purposes:
1: Give the SGC a copy of all the math she's done so far, along with working prototypes of several devices. So her antigrav tech, her Tinker-derived stealth tech, and all that fun stuff. With both the math and functional prototype pieces built from the math, the SGC would actually accomplish its main goal of acquiring advanced tech, and wouldn't even need to reverse engineer it.
2: Allow Taylor to study more alien tech, thus building up her repertoire of useful gadgets that could be contributed to the Earth-Bet side of things, possibly even something useful against the Endbringers, given the alien weapons the SGC has to study.

And mayhap Thor shows up while Taylor's there, and Taylor asks him about their little cloning problem... :drevil:

Or maybe the military isn't willing to risk the Primary Asset, and instead they work out a deal where the SGC sends tech they find through the portal to Taylor, who works out how it works, writes up all the info about it, fixes it, then sends the info and 'fixed' devices back to the SGC. Possibly with Carter going over Earth-Bet side to drop tech off and pick things up, allowing Taylor and Carter interactions, which will be fun after the way this omake ended.
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Probably the same thing that is in ours and SG1s, NORAD...
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Fun fact: In the depths of NORAD in Cheyenne Mountain, there is a door labeled "StarGate Command". And if you open that door you find.... A broom closet, lol.

Yes, this is actually true. It was put up by a security guard who got tired of people asking him where the SGC was. The higher-ups decided to keep it.
 
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I was a bit disappointed she just got to freely run rings around them. I also wondered, when she started charging things, why they didn't spot the power consumption.
mp3.1415player said:
locate a room with higher power consumption than it should have..."
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I was happy when that's exactly what they did.

I *think* there should have been an alarm for airflow obstruction of her showing up in and traversing the vents, though?
 
This might be before some of the various events that would have alerted them to the issue. On the other hand, if it's post Hathor then not having such sensors could be considered a security precaution too, in case of another Foothold situation where the command staff are compromised.

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On the other hand, after this and Taylor's notes on how she bypassed all the security, they may well be adding such sensors in the future.
 
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edale said:
Fun fact: In the depths of NORAD in Cheyenne Mountain, there is a door labeled "StarGate Command". And if you open that door you find.... A broom closet, lol.

Yes, this is actually true. It was put up by a security guard who got tired of people asking him where the SGC was. The higher-ups decided to keep it.
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Funner 'fact' – that closet is actually a secret elevator to the real stargate command. Double bluff × refuge in audacity FTW.
 
I don't have any ideas about how to fix the Asgard's genetic degradation now that it's occurred, but I 100% know how to both prevent it in the first place and cease it where it is, and so should they! Same for the Furons and anyone else with stupid 'copy of a copy' clone genetic drift issues, as well as the Kaminoans' 'one master copy that is required for the Republic's entire army, original DNA plz donut steel' issue. Digitise the damn thing with bog-standard DNA-sequencing stuff that you have to have anyway to have gotten this far, securely back it up everywhere, and then protein-fold yourself a goddamn fresh exact copy of the master whenever you have to! We can do this now, it's just hard and generally not worth the effort compared to traditional methods. But when the gene-sample is vital to your entire interstellar civilisation, you fucking make the effort. Even if they didn't realise it would be a problem originally, when you do realise, take a sample of the current state and do what you should have in the first place, and voila! No further degradation, while you work to reverse what has already occurred without a ticking clock!
 
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