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Cleaning Up After The Ancients (Stargate SI)

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Vaermina said:
Author's Notes: Jokes on Eventus, the IOA went into this expecting a short and boring meeting where both sides would basically just exchange meaningless platitudes and at the end agree that they were more or less on the same page of discussing things further at some nebulous point in the future.
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The IOA correctly planning to not have any ability or need to try and get something out of the Lantean. Needing to have today be a boring "get on the same page" briefing to catch Eventus about the Milky Way and the like.

Turns out, Eventus spent time catching up on it all and is 100% down to do the next five meetings worth of progress today.
 
Vaermina said:
It was nearly five minutes before Tucker returned with a thin pamphlet in hand, time Eventus spent browsing the nascent version of youtube and wondering if it would be too much to upload a short low quality video of a proailurus chasing a laser dot.
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Oh he needs to do this. The comments arguing about what breed of cat it is will be glorious!

It'll tweak the IOAs' noses just right too. "What are you even upset about? That's a feline native to Earth, I'm pretty sure you have laser pointers figured out, and the video file is firmly within normal standards for that website. You're acting like I came on camera and said 'hi I'm an alien, ask me anything'."
 
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Ah, mid-character development Woolsey. Better than where he started but before he got tossed into the deepend of the Atlantis expedition and prove his worth and capabilities. I hated him when he was first introduced but he had one hell of a redemption arc.

Helps that he was played by one of my favorite actors.
 
You know, Evan could almost certainly create & upload a 'Wormhole X-Treme!' cartoon-style animation (in anime style?) which has just about any content he likes... No, of course, he wouldn't blow the whole 'secret alien mind-slavers', or the 'space vampires', or the 'alien demonic cultists', secrets wide-open. :)

But, there's no reason he couldn't have some fun. He could even throw in a mysterious race of space elves! *

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The space elves could even be inclined to comment that people keep mistaking them for Vulcans! But, they live much longer, make far better use of their ears, and know how to enjoy life!

(Of course, he wouldn't dare to animate anime-style alien cat-girls. Who could believe those existed! Nyah! :) )

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Why no cat-girls? Because the Furlings. What? The Furlings went sideways, via Quantum Mirror style tech. And, they blocked access to the places they moved to, from the standard QM tech. So, are the Furlings cat-girls? That's a secret. :)
 
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MrRobot said:
Correct me if im wrong but wi-fi was a thing during SGA?
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Wi-fi has been around since the late 1990s, and the UN HQ is likely to be pushing the available tech. Timescale looks reasonable for SG:A, but it's not going to be fast...

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If the IOA are sensible, then they'll be asking for gravity tech they can reproduce themselves, without off-world materials. Why? Because zero-G manufacturing, maybe in vacuum chambers, actually on Earth, is likely needed for a great number of 'interesting' materials processing. Odds are those fancy crystals Carter keeps juggling need to be grown in zero-G...

Also? Allows training space-construction workers, on-planet. Better chance of them surviving something going badly wrong if close to the good medical facilities?
 
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IOA should start with asking for things that can be build with Earth native materials. Like fusion reactors, batteries and stuff that can clean greenhouse gasses and other pollutants from that air and water.

But they were never smart enough to ask for such civillian quality of life tech on the show. So why would they start now?
 
Vaermina said:
Author's Notes: Jokes on Eventus, the IOA went into this expecting a short and boring meeting where both sides would basically just exchange meaningless platitudes and at the end agree that they were more or less on the same page of discussing things further at some nebulous point in the future.
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To be fair, that is how meetings with high-level leaders are supposed to be. The leaders meet, exchange pleasantries and agree that a future agreement is potentially possible with absolutely no detail. Then they leave and all the mid-level bureaucrats from each side talk to each other to hammer out what is actually possible over the course of many meetings over a long period of time. High level leaders normally don't do that because their time is too valuable, they can't spend months working out the details of a specific diplomatic engagement when they've got multiple diplomatic engagements (and other concerns) per month. Unfortunately for Eventus, he is the only mid-level bureaucrat and needs to do that role himself (and pretty much every role in government except what Shepard has, and as High Councilor he probably has to sign off on that too).
 
Eventus: "Okay, so what's on your Christmas lists?"
IOA: "Pardon?"
Eventus: "Your wish lists of all the things you've dreamed about getting from alien Santa Claus someday — what's on those lists? I'll tell you what we can get you and what we'd want for it, and then we'll dicker about it until everyone is convinced they're the one getting the better deal, or everyone is convinced they're the one getting screwed. Same difference really."
 
Zulaq said:
To be fair, that is how meetings with high-level leaders are supposed to be. The leaders meet, exchange pleasantries and agree that a future agreement is potentially possible with absolutely no detail. Then they leave and all the mid-level bureaucrats from each side talk to each other to hammer out what is actually possible over the course of many meetings over a long period of time. High level leaders normally don't do that because their time is too valuable, they can't spend months working out the details of a specific diplomatic engagement when they've got multiple diplomatic engagements (and other concerns) per month. Unfortunately for Eventus, he is the only mid-level bureaucrat and needs to do that role himself (and pretty much every role in government except what Shepard has, and as High Councilor he probably has to sign off on that too).
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Thankfully, he a) has AI to help him, and b) is in a position of such tremendous abundance that his primary concern is usually going to be "not accidentally screwing over the humans by wrecking their economy or giving the wrong guy power", rather than anything on his end. Which presumably helps a lot.
 
Hen_Den said:
I was kinda hoping we will hear them argue with each other while Eventus just listened in like a troll...
Great update regardless
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No, No, No!

That's next chapter. :D

(Note: I am an Author, I am not your this story's author, check with your this story's author regarding actual chapter contents)
 
Ace Dreamer said:
You know, Evan could almost certainly create & upload a 'Wormhole X-Treme!' cartoon-style animation (in anime style?) which has just about any content he likes... No, of course, he wouldn't blow the whole 'secret alien mind-slavers', or the 'space vampires', or the 'alien demonic cultists', secrets wide-open. :)

But, there's no reason he couldn't have some fun. He could even throw in a mysterious race of space elves! *

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The space elves could even be inclined to comment that people keep mistaking them for Vulcans! But, they live much longer, make far better use of their ears, and know how to enjoy life!

(Of course, he wouldn't dare to animate anime-style alien cat-girls. Who could believe those existed! Nyah! :) )
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Ah, so that's where Stargate Infinite came from.
 
Captain Dodgers said:
IOA should start with asking for things that can be build with Earth native materials. Like fusion reactors, batteries and stuff that can clean greenhouse gasses and other pollutants from that air and water.

But they were never smart enough to ask for such civillian quality of life tech on the show. So why would they start now?
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The one time they would have gotten that stuff, it was the fucking Eurondans, and they didn't end up getting the Eurondan database home. Though they probably could have managed things differently and gotten the Eurondan database back to Earth, but they still would have needed time to get anything out of it, much less everything.

They probably could have gotten at least some of that from the Tollans, maybe. Or one or more of the advanced Protected Planets they had made contact with. But at the time, they were also putting a higher priority on getting technologies they could readily use to defend Earth against Goa'uld attack, which meant they were asking for things the Tollans were never going to give them (planetary defense ion cannons).


The real answer is that on Earth, Status Quo is God, was the rule the writers were sticking to. At least mostly. No open changes to the public Earth Status Quo, though slipping in various background advances did happen, and a bit more in the area of cutting edge prototype advances.
 
Vaermina said:
It was nearly five minutes before Tucker returned with a thin pamphlet in hand, time Eventus spent browsing the nascent version of youtube and wondering if it would be too much to upload a short low quality video of a proailurus chasing a laser dot.
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The desire for more cat videos is universal.

I wonder if its some innate trait of theirs, a psychic field of some kind, that brings forth this desire.
 
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