[b]Sep & Ellri | Lawson & Ingrid Berg[/b]

That was when Lawson noticed Dr. Berg. He waved her over, she was the one assigned to deciphering the data from the Ancient Facility after all and she may find the topic of conversation rather interesting. Most people who had not been on the Icarus project often did find it interesting, he still didn't know whether he was happy or not to have been outside the base and thus beamed up to Hammond rather than inside the base and had to leave through the Stargate. There were benefits on both sides of the line, however right now he was more or less in the same situation however instead of having to use the Stones to take time off he simply had to step through the gate and be there. Not that he took a lot of time off really. "Well, technically it ended in two catastrophes. Icarus was the whole idea off dialing the ninth chevron, eight dials another galaxy however nine we never knew until we found the address in the Atlantis database. The problem was that we didn’t have enough power to dial the address.”

“There are several planets with cores of Naquadah, naturally throughout the galaxy. However some planets have been experimented on by a Goa’uld and the Naquadah has been made slightly more… unstable however vastly more powerful into an element called Naquadria. So far we have only found three planets with these properties. Icarus became unstable partially due to the equations secondly due to the fact that Alliance was attacking the planet. The second time it was pretty much the same however we were attacking the Alliance attempting to prevent them from reaching Destiny. Langara is the third planet and it is inhabited, we have a deal to protect them from the Alliance and they have taken it in an attempt to dial Destiny. We need to remove the Gate from the facility that draws power from the core, before they dial the gate.”

Ingrid listened as Dr. Lawson explained, ready to break in if he made too many mistakes, which he thankfully did not. Other than knowing of the presence of Naquadria in the core of Langara, she did not know much about the planet. They were less developed than Earth, but advanced compared to many peoples of the Milky way. Especially following their being conquered by the Ori in 2006, for though the Ori were now gone, there was no telling what technology their followers might have left behind. Whereas Tau’ri, Jaffa & Tok’ra forces have had pretty free access to most planets not directly under the Lucian Alliance (though access to a few of those too has been possible), The Langaran government have proven several times that they are capable of hiding much from those not of their world. 

“I think what he’s saying is that he’d like us to figure out how to build a transmitter strong enough and portable enough to be attached to the stargate so we can move it through whatever jamming tech the Alliance has installed in the facility they’re using. Isn’t that right, Doctor?”

“Actually, not really. Though improving on the transmitter might be a good idea at some point I can’t deny that. That was something you missed actually, we’ve got a weak backpack transmitter that helped us off the planet. I was really just bringing her up to speed on what is going on, the [i]Langford[/i] is going to have enough problems getting us down to the planet, as if the ship is under fire she needs to drop her shields to beam us down which is a risky move. We’re more likely to simply stop the dialing if it is in process, find a way to power down the facility and disconnect the gate. The real issue is the fact that we can’t use explosives on the facility due to the possibility of hostages and the fact that Langara has a very unstable core from the incident with the Naquadria bomb several years ago now.”

“Hmm… right. I skimmed that report, but now that you mention it, I do vaguely recall something about a transmitter. But if it is backpack-based, then I am sure it can be improved. Made both smaller, stronger and more reliable.” Ingrid did not think much of half-hearted solutions, so she intended to find some way to improve that transmitter no matter what. It ought to be easy enough.