Cyrania
Half Pint
Sadu
Captain Uni
IAmTheIsland
Cyberlad
SONIC
mickilennial
King Kindred
Lunamaria Hawke"The Stargate can take anything a million lightyears from home, but what will it bring back?"
The discovery of the Earth Stargate near Giza prompted the US military along with some of their greatest scientific minds to determine the purpose of the Stargate and how to activate it. This eventually led to the Abydos Mission, which ended with Colonel Jack O'Neill killing the Goa'uld Supreme System Lord, Ra with a Naquadah enhanced nuclear bomb. After what was essentially a failed mission to Abydos and without the help of Daniel Jackson, who remained on Abydos but was officially labelled "K.I.A.", the program was shut down. The gate was then moved and eventually stored in Cheyenne Mountain.
In February 1997, the Goa'uld System Lord, Apophis, one of Ra's many rivals ended up dialing Earth which saw him and his Serpent Guard troops coming through the previously dormant Stargate and landed the Goa'uld team into the empty Embarkation room. After a short battle, in which several US Military officers were killed or captured, the Stargate Program was reactivated, this time on a permanent basis and on the orders of the President of the United States, Major General George S. Hammond became the new commanding officer of Stargate Command.
To help defend the Earth from any future attacks, new teams associated with Stargate Command were also created, composed of numerous military personnel and civilians with the head team being designated SG-1 which was placed under the command of Colonel Jack O'Neill who had been called back to active duty in the aftermath of the attack. SG-1 although originally composed of Jack, Captain Samantha Carter and later Dr. Daniel Jackson who joined the team after Apophis kidnapped Daniel's wife, SG-1 later grew to have four members as Apophis's former First Prime, Teal'c of Chulak who had defected from Apophis and also successfully helped SG-1 escape later joined SG-1 on a permanent basis as the fourth and final member, Teal'c having proven that he had truly changed and that his loyalty now lay both with the Tau'ri and SG-1 with Teal'c also hoping that they could help free his people, the Jaffa, from the control of the Goa'uld.
The SG teams have had many run-ins with the Goa'uld System Lords, including foiling an invasion of earth by Apophis, making alliances with the Goa'uld's swarn enemies, the Tok'Ra (Rogue Goa'uld that wish to transition their parasitic overtaking of humans into a symbiotic coexistence with them) and The Asgard (a race of ancient aliens that wish Humanity to thrive and potentially join them as one of the great races of the universe.) as well as recently killing System Lord Sokar.
However, a new enemy has dawned upon humanity. A scourge of machines called "The Replicators" which not even the Asgard are able to defeat in a straight fight. After they recently nearly took over a Russian Submarine, but were destroyed, the decision was made by the US Government to finally scale up the project. The UN Security Council was brought in and made aware of the Stargate program, in order to secure better funding and allow the establishment and maintenance of more SG teams. With the urging of the Asgard, the UN have agreed to allow General Hammond to remain in charge of the Stargate Program, but there has now been a large influx of personnel to pick up the slack.
So, where does the RP come in?
The idea of this RP would be a re-imagining of the Stargate Saga, with each RPer taking command of their own SG team. You will go on missions against the Goa'uld, or Replicators, or whatever enemy you so choose. I have seen a lot of RP's of this style going around recently, where this is less of an RP in which players interact with each other and more akin to a group writing project. Feel free to tell your stories, make your characters that can interact with each other in interesting ways, as well as kick some ass in the name of humanity. I really like this type of RP if for no other reason than, most RP's bog down when someone loses interest and the rest of the group has to randomly accomodate for that happening. This kind of RP is one where that isn't really a problem.
