b>Carter and Kyle</b>

So far, all you've managed to do is wake it up from 'sleep' mode to 'stand-by' mode, but that was simply by accessing it. In 'stand-by' mode, all it seems to be doing is displaying its monitor input. It isn't actually doing anything. In some way, it has to be able to control a lot, if not all, of the tower's systems.

It's going to take several skill checks to get up and operational again.

Full activation: DC 25 for Carter, DC 20 for Kyle (because he speaks the language).

Gain access to master control: DC 30 for Carter, DC 25 for Kyle.

Bypass damaged auxiliary computer so it doesn't shut down again: DC 20

After that, it depends on what you want to do or want the computer to do.

"Had another thought... well, an observation, too," Jason adds.

"You want to haul this robot out of here and take it back with us to the SGC and then attempt to power it up or something? Besides the incredibly insane idea of doing that, has anybody tried to lift it yet? It looks like it's going to be pretty heavy. But, then again, with all this alien tech, maybe not. Anyway, how were you planning on carrying it back with you?"

"Which brings me to my observation: there are no ramps that lead down here. I just realized that because I thought of putting it on one of those go-cart thingies we were retrieving unconscious Minotaurs with."

"It clearly won't fit in one of the elevators. Unless maybe we can stand it on end. So would be get it down here?"

"Also, we're not quite sure how it works. What if it has something to do with the floor? Would that mean it can't leave the structure? Wouldn't help us haul it back to SGC then, would it?"

"Which brings up another point: we haven't seen any other types of vehicles. Were there any that could be used to travel or transport between the towers?"

"All good points, though I doubt anyone was planning on just powering up what appears to be a Terminator; probably something more like taking it apart to study.

We'll figure out logistics for moving this robot body once we're actually ready to do so, I guess; after all we haven't even finished sweeping this floor.

As for travel between towers, it seems like they woul have wanted a way to move heavy things between the towers, but it is entirely possible that any such vehicles have been lost to time, erosion, and the gremlins that seem to dominate the outdoors here now."

With quite a lot of head-scratching and muttering under his breath, Kyle managed to activate the computer fully.

"Let's see what it is doing..."

While little of the data displayed on the screens changes, Kyle quickly finds he can manipulate the screens now just by touch. If he wants a particular column in front of him, he just slides them over until the one he wants is in front of him. Likewise, by touching a screen, he can enlarge it. In the enlarged state, more data is displayed.

Kyle is like a big kid, playing with the screens and finding out what he can do, what he can discover.

Jackie works on the computer and does everything but full activation.


" It is always that last line of code"




18:32, Today: Jackie Carter rolled 11 using 1d20+9 with rolls of 2.

18:32, Today: Jackie Carter rolled 25 using 1d20+9 with rolls of 16.  Computers.

18:32, Today: Jackie Carter rolled 29 using 1d20+9 with rolls of 20.  Computers.

18:32, Today: Jackie Carter rolled 29 using 1d20+9 with rolls of 20.  Computers.

"Do you want a hand, Jackie?" asked Kyle.

" Of Course. "

"Shall we continue sweeping the area? It seems that this body is no current threat, so we should make sure there's nothing else."

Karen nods and continues down the hallway.

 Lizzy smiles has her sidearm at the ready and will go with Karen to search the Hallway.

Kyle flexed his fingers and looked at Jackie.

"What do you want to do?"

" Hmmmm? Let's try and keep and eye on the others while digging through the archives. More info about their history can only help. "

The hallway is circular, and you encounter nothing else of interest before you complete the circle and find yourself back with Kyle and Carter at the computer.


Kyle hasn't made much progress by the time the others rejoin him. He's gotten a bit more familiar with the displays such that he's pretty sure that if there is something that needs immediate attention, an alert will display.

He does manage to pull up the data logs about the vats, but it's mostly technical data that he doesn't understand. He can pinpoint when things start going wrong, which was about 200 years ago. The computer on the upper level went offline about the same time.

It takes a little while to wade through the directories to find the archives. It starts 1,110 local years ago.

 Lizzy walked with Karen and checked out the rest of the area, they made it all the way back to Jackie and Kyle and the computer without finding anything. She reports, " All is clear nothing else of interest Sir."

Coleman looks to Jackie and Kyle; "You guys got anything yet? Should we go prep that robot body for transport, or is there any way we can assist you?"

Jackie spends a few seconds in a daze, between the cute doctor and the over a thousand years of knowledge.

" So there is a heaven. "

"So, what are we doing now, Colonel?" Jason asked.

"Got any clever ideas on how we're going to haul the robot back to the gate?"

"You know, we should probably try to lift it now to see how heavy it is. It's bound to be denser and therefore heavier than a regular person. Will we be able to carry it ourselves? Or should be consider making some sort of sling? Two poles and a blanket might be sufficient. Think there's anything like that around here?"

"Easy, Sargeant, the answer is we have a Malp tow it. Or we just pull it over the Malp and tie it down, so the Malp can carry it in.

Jackie shakes her head.

Kyle is lost in the wealth of historical data, but drags himself out long enough to say "We have over a thousand years of their historical records here... it's going to take some time to read."

He thought for a moment.

"Jackie, do you think you can interface to this thing, copy it across to our systems?"

In reply to Kyle McGuinness (msg # 711):

" Working on it. "
Jackie begins interfacing.

"Yeah, let's go ahead and try lifting the thing; if we can handle it, then it'll be easy. If it is heavier, well, it depends on how heavy, so we'll burn that bridge when we come to it.

So... let's go try it out. Stewart and McKeon; feel free to come help us, or to stay here and help these guys, whichever seems more interesting. Maybe Kyle can locate some kind of medical information about the Minotaurs; that could be extremely useful. And, of course, humanoid-form androids are always cool."

With that Coleman heads towards the android so they can figure out how to get it out of here.

Carter doesn't get very far in interfacing the Alteran computer with her Earth devices. The systems are totally incompatible. Not only that, her computer doesn't even close to having enough memory. It's about an exabyte of information, and it's only that small because it's hard data, not like it's being filled up with social media exchanges.

Her computer only has one terabtye of memory, and that's if it had no other programs or files in memory.

The hard way to do some of it is to use the computer's camera to take a picture of each screen, or possible video record it on a cell phone as a screen scrolls up, down or across. Then you'd have to convert the image to text in order to search or index it.



Coleman and Jason attempt to lift the android body. It turns out that they can, but just barely. If weighs approximately 400 pounds. The steel (or whatever) armor is much denser and heavier than normal skin or clothing. The main reason they can make an effort to lift it is simply by leverage. At no point do they have to dead lift it completely.

They do discover, though, that the joints are locked in place, so they can stand it up.

"Well, seems like we can maneuver it. Do you think we could get one of those carts down here and use that to move it around easier? Or should we just grunt it over to the elevator?

Oh, I got an idea; maybe we could throw it on a tarp and drag it that way; less friction or whatever. Unless you have a better idea, let's just get this thing to the elevator. Maybe the Minotaurs will have some folk tales about it or something that could be enlightening."

Coleman digs into his pack for a tarp while he listens to Jason's reply.