Jason was clearly out of his depth now. Oh, sure, he liked reading a good book now and then, but spending hours in a library wasn't his idea of a good time.

He was sure there was some potential threat in this one, but he couldn't fathom what it could be.

He glanced at the others, and saw Major Carter looking rather pensive.

"You're probably wondering why you were put on this team," he offered, as if reading her mind.

"That's an easy one. First of all, two heads are better than one. Just because McGeek there is a whiz-bang at something doesn't mean he knows everything. Or that he's infallible."

"Secondly, you're the interface between soldier and scientist. You know both sides, so you get to keep Major Dillon and McGeek honest... and in check when necessary."

"Please direct me to the material on mind-machine transfers," said Kyle, moving towards the middle of the library chamber, and wondering just how the library program would go about it.

On Kyle's request, the floor lights up creating a path to a crystal column three rows away.

As he looks at the column, a green ray shoots out into his eyes and he starts receiving data in his mind.

In reply to StarMaster (msg # 476):

"Thank you, Sargeant. I was feeling a bit like a third wheel. Not exactly how I thought I would feel when Professor Jackson and The General read me in. Oh, I must go with the Doctor McGuiness."

Jackie follows Kyle.

In reply to Jackie Carter (msg # 477):

Fox stands there watching the evolution of a group of people in to a unit.
And nods Commander we are going to need to contact base soon. We need a specialist team in here for three counts d now.
1/ The Gould problem or lack of. He definitely does not need to know what is here.
2/ The entity known as Solan and how to help him.
   Library can you help in that regard.
3/ This library
   Library have you means to defend your self with out destroying you self against
   attacks

Kyle is fascinated by the whole process, and does his best to understand what he is being told.

Does it appear that it will help in dealing with Sarnak's needs?
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The green ray that strikes Kyle lasts for several minutes, though Kyle realizes this is due more to his limits on assimilating the information.

When it finally stops, Kyle nearly slumps to the floor. His head feels like it was just used as a punching bag.

It will take him a few minutes to sort all of the knowledge into some semblance of coherency.

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"I do not have the knowledge to transfer Sarnak's mind out of the machine and into another receptacle. Perhaps if the machine was brought here and connected to my mainframe, he could become the Librarian," the Librarian answers Travis's first question.

"I have a certain amount of self-defense capability against moderate intrusion, first of which is that I am quite well hidden. However, any sufficient amount of force applied to overcome my defenses would result in the total destruction of the Library."

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Kyle slowly works his way through the data that's been jammed into his brain. He quickly finds that these people had no means of transferring a mind into a machine or out of a machine. It the case of the Librarian, it is an AI--a program. As such, it can be transferred to another computer. There was research done on the machine-mind theory, but no effort had been successful at the time of the Great Migration. The difficulty they'd run into was how to convert an analog memory into a digital representation. They'd just developed a quantum computer that might be able to do it, but it had been used to get the psi-ships operational.


After several minutes of processing the data, Kyle realizes that some of the data slowly starts to fade away, but the core information seems to be permanently 'stuck' in his head.

From this, he's able to deduce that if anyone else wants to know about a subject, they can get the Librarian to direct them to appropriate column, and get bombarded with new data!

If anyone wants to pursue this option, they can pick an INT-based skill and gain up to Rank 10 in it. As an alternative, they can choose 2 skills to gain Rank 5 in. This is not a bonus to that skill, but a fixed Rank. If you already have Rank 5, it can only increase it to Rank 10.
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Fox Rank 5 in Xeno cultures and Languages please

Fox to commander "sir I suggest we get word back to base fairly quickly"

He was rather dubious about this ability to learn something from the machine--it smacked too much of tanstaafl.

But seeing both Kyle and Travis go through the process without apparent problems, Jason gamely steps forward.

"I'm interested in electronics and mechanics," he addresses the unseen librarian.

The librarian directs him to two different areas, and he gets the green light treatment.
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In reply to Jason Bjorn (msg # 482):

Jackie walks up to the machine.

" I am interested in languages and cultures not of Terra."

Jackie can study the data on her own for as long as she wants, and see what she can retain, but otherwise she can get a focused data input of Xeno-Language-5 and Xeno-Cultures-5... she just has to specify which language and which culture.

Or she can go for a more broad-spectrum learning: 5 Xeno-languages at Level 1, and 5 Xeno-Cultures at Level 1. She just has to specify which ones.

In reply to StarMaster (msg # 484):

she would probably go broad. Ancient, Asgard, Go'auld, Ja'fa and hmm not sure?

So what Xeno-Culture and what Xeno-Language does Travis want to learn?


For Carter, the only other two Xenos would be Tok'ra and Reol, though there is Varani--the language of the lizard-Jaffa.


Jason gains Rank 5 in Mechanics and Electronics.


Kyle, when all the other data has faded away, has gained Rank 5 in computers, Rank 5 in Electronics, and Rank 4 in Cybernetics.


If the team heads back to the stargate, you can take the 'low road' and bypass having to go through the Otter-folk's cave system.

On the way back, you'll also pass close enough to the city again such that Travis will be able to 'hear' Sarnak's thoughts.
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"This place is fascinating... I could stay here for ages," said Kyle.

"I'd love to know more about who these people were, their culture and stuff. What made them tick."

"Commander do you have any message you wish left for Sarnak?"
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"Now that I've had a bit more time to think about it," the Major replies to Travis, "I don't think we can risk transferring Sarnak into Ru'tan. We've only got this Sarnak's word that he is what he says he is."

"He certainly doesn't sound like any Goa'uld we've ever heard of, but he could be some other species... someone who made the mistake of trying to use the device. While we trust Ru'tan, there is no guarantee that this other mind won't be able to take over Ru'tan's mind and pry out SG codes."

"A more neutral body I wouldn't object to."

"Tell Sarnak that we found the library. There is an AI there. It suggested he could be transferred into the library if we moved the chair there. I think that's beyond our capabilities. Perhaps, though, we could hook up a radio connection between the library and the mind-chair."

"Think you can do that, Carter?"

"I was about to say 'tell him we'll be back in 2 days', but if he doesn't have any sensors, how will he know a day passes? Okay, how about if we try this. When you contact him, count down 60 seconds. Tell him that's a minute. 60 minutes in an hour, 24 hours in a day. If he's in a computer, he should be able to initiate a counter for that."

"We'll let Hammond and the brains decide if we are willing to risk Ru'tan. I'm sure he'll understand passing the buck."

"Oh, one last thing. Kyle... can you get the library to download a history and culture of these people? Heck, we don't even know what they called themselves!"

"Carter, what about learning their language? Not that you'll ever have a chance to use it, but what the heck?"

I think the GM used the wrong name and I did not spot it
I was referring to the entity in the village not the Gould

My bad. The Goa'uld back in the village is named Crom.

The entity in the machine is Sarnak. I goofed at some point and started calling him Solon. When you first encountered him, he introduced himself as Sarnak.

"Yes, I can go and ask the Library about the history and culture..."

Kyle wandered off to make his enquiries and absorb the information that the Library could provide.

Kyle isn't going to be able to do more than learn some superficial knowledge about these people. The majority of the data will have to be downloaded to his computer.


Carter is able to rig up a radio at the library, tapping into the library's power source rather than depend on the batteries. When they go back past the village, she does the same in the building where they think Sarnak is trapped in the chair. The chair is getting power from solar energy.


Travis is able to communicate with Sarnak still and passes on the information. He is worried about the absence, but being able to communicate with the library allays his concerns.


As suggested, you traipse the long way around to the gate. Not unexpectedly, you are spotted by the otterfolk, and Crom meets you at the gate.


"Did you find anything in the ruins?" he asks.

Kyle is content to download material for later study, but leaves the place regretfully.

When they encounter Crom, he stands by ready to translate.

 Fox fades to the rear of the group keeping watch ready to fade to bush.
He is ready to take Crom out at the first need.
And is quite ready to Stay behind if needed as a blocker force.
He is wondering if this civilisation here is one of the ancient groups

"The peoples of one of the tribes on our world are very spiritual," the Major replies to Crom. "Travis here is one of those peoples. When we approached the village, he thought he could hear the spirits of the people that used to live there. He couldn't really understand them, but it's probably what your Cromans 'hear' when they go there."

"Personally, I think it's just the way the wind echoes through the structures. We have artisans that can carve holes in wooden blocks that makes sounds like speech when the wind blows through them. I suspect that's what happens here. Your Croman probably have keener hearing."

"We did manage to get into one of the buildings. Nothing but old machinery. No power even if any of them might work. It didn't look like they would; too long without maintenance."

"We can be rather stubborn, so we spent way too much time trying to get into other buildings. We need to report back to our commander. It'll be up to him whether to send anyone else back, but most likely he'll want to try to do a little trading, if there's anything you need. You have an intriguing culture here. Our... sages would be interested in learning about it."

Joshua didn't feel he could tell Crom all the details. He mentally shuddered at the thought of Sarnak being downloaded into Crom. So he skirted the truth as much as he could.

He gave the signal to Carter to dial the gate.

"But..."

Kyle looked a little surprised, then translated what Dillon had said word for word. Now didn't seem quite the time to ask him why he was being economical with the truth.

In reply to Kyle McGuinness (msg # 497):

Fox waits for the gould to finish with the team then sub vocally says to the commander " Sir do you wish me to go to bush and await the arrival of the next team"