[b]Episode 1: Lost in Sand.[/b]
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Ignore the people.
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The heat difference was one of the most annoying things about gate travel and the Asgard beaming technology. One moment he was in the nice regulated temperature of the ship and the next he was in the boiling heat of a desert standing on a rocky outcropping. Behind him was the ruined city and on front of him what had been detected as a lone structure in the sand, which is why he had chosen this beam sight. He moved over and took of his sunglasses slightly. "Holy Crap, and I thought we were having a bad day." Inside a sand dune, sticking out into the air was the hull of a ship. If what was visible it was far larger than the tempest, slightly curved and what appeared to be some form of an array on the front of the vessel. It was a mighty impressive design he had to admit, he didn't particularly like the idea of it though on the fact that shortly after they checked it out a science team would be all over it but whatever worked. 

He turned to Neilson. "Neilson you take Thomas, Jones and Hobart and head toward the city. Check it out, keep in contact with the ship and I want check ins every hour. Radio anything you find back to me." Neilson saluted before turning around and walking away. "All right, rest of you. We're going to check out that thing, whatever it is." He walked forward and into the sun, out of the shade. "Wow, I'm glad I packed sunscreen. I knew this place was going to be hot but jeez." He turned to Araiadne/Idalia pointing his thumb at the ship. "So, you're our alien expert, you recognize this ship? It isn't what I've seen of the Goa'uld, Asgard or Ori and it certainly isn't Wraith. I'd rather know if we know what it is before I call it in. If it is a design we know about we can bring down a science team first, if not we have to check it out."

He took out a binocular and began looking at the ship in closer detail. [i]19[/i] Was that the ships name? Class? Number? He hoped it wasn't the number of vessels the thing was huge, larger than anything he had seen or heard off. Equally the same size as a regular hive, as it probably managed to reach 2km in length, though there was really no way in telling until they went down there.

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~Bob Bishop~

Bishop sighed as he got the call from Ishpetyr. "On my way." He then turned to his research team returning to his lab. "Work on the sensor package for the new recon F-302, see how much it will take to get it working without over extending from out budget. I'll be back later after we've had some time to look at debris." He passed down to the hanger showing his pass to the guard on duty, who nodded and let him through the door into the bay. Typically no-one except deck crew and pilots were allowed in but on occasions scientists could get passes, as could anyone else. Purely out of the sake of security anyway.

He walked over to Dr.Ishpetyr who was standing beside a chunk of metal, burn and scorch marks all over it with no discernible writings. "Well Doctor. This looks like we'll learn a lot from it. I have a PhD in studying pieces of burnt metal you know..." He chuckled slightly, however with the number of Doctorates he had done he was essentially multi-purpose on the ship. While his primary field was most things physics related he had dabbled slightly in the areas of biology and chemistry.