New verse with malcolmeffect

[danieljackson]

Daniel tossed his pencil at the mess on his desk with a frustrated sound. He leaned back in the chair with a sigh, running his hands through his hair. "I give up. I'm just not seeing it."

The it being a translation he'd been working on for about 36 hours straight. Which equaled out to about 15 cups of coffee and 5 pencils worth. Now the text was starting to look like a bunch of squiggles, no matter how often he adjusted his glasses.

The text had been found on a mostly deserted planet, PT-586. The building structures there seemed to say there had once been an advanced culture...but it seemed to have disappeared into thin air. All that was left was their writings. There was a pattern, but it just didn't follow any languages Jackson was familiar with. The letters were a collection of dashes, dots, and circles. More of a methodical code than anything...

Code...methodical...

"That has to be it," Daniel said aloud. "It's a math based language...which means I'm a bit out of my league." He picked up the phone, calling General Hammond. He was going to need help on this one.

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[stargatejackson.livejournal.com]

Daniel tried to watch what he was doing but it was a bit beyond him as an archeologist. But he tried anyway. "So...it's all one big math equation? This room is specific to this one equation..." That almost made sense.

"Ok, so...assuming that's right..." he had a flicker of an idea going. "This room could be representative of that idea. A sort of...display room?"

The door opened and the lieutenant came in and handed Dr. Jackson two papers. "Thank you! Finally." He slid over a non-disclosure agreement and pen. The paper states that the undersigned is sworn to never reveal the classified information he will be allowed access to, etc. etc. with a blank space for a signature.

[malcolmeffect.livejournal.com]

It seems to be from the pattern. Ian looked down at what he'd written. It might explain the size of the room being precisely 14.

Ian shrugged. The equation could be describing any object inside or outside of the room.

Ian looked up when the papers came. He'd seen these before. Like the last time he wasn't in a position where he could refuse to sign them. He signed the papers reluctantly before going back to the equation.

These need to be graphed in 3 dimensional space. The vectors might explain more once they are mapped.

[stargatejackson.livejournal.com]

"That's good! That's...that's brilliant." Daniel was estatic over this revelation.

It was a relief when he signed the papers, now he didn't have to feel like a heel for being so secretive.
"Sure, what do you need? A computer probably?"

[malcolmeffect.livejournal.com]

The only concern I have is the last set of symbols. Ian flipped the page over and looked at the last set of 9 symbols.

A computer with Origin.

[stargatejackson.livejournal.com]

Daniel gathered up the papers, "Hold that thought, let's get these to the Gate Room, they've got the best computers in there. With Origin and probably some better programs besides."

"Com'n, follow me," he headed out the door into the corridor.

[malcolmeffect.livejournal.com]

As long as someone knows how to put the numbers in. Ian got up and sighed when he realized he didn't have his cane. He followed Daniel slowly as he tried to work the stiffness out of his leg.

[stargatejackson.livejournal.com]

Daniel led him to the control room which had the usual military personell in it. Beyond it through the bullet proof glass was the gate room, the Stargate sitting quietly on it's mounts and the ramp underneath it.

Daniel of course had forgotten that he had yet to explain all of this, he was setting the papers along a small area next to a computer station and asking one of the techs to punch up Origin for Dr. Malcolm.

[malcolmeffect.livejournal.com]

Ian had stopped dead still when he first got a look at the Stargate through the glass. He hadn't seen anything like it and wondered what it was.

[stargatejackson.livejournal.com]

"Ok, um, this is Tasha, she's one of our techs and she's well versed in Origin so she can put in anything you need." Daniel saw that Ian's attention was elsewhere.
"Oh! Right, that. That is, um..." Daniel tried to think of the best way to put this. But he was saved by the bell.
Red lights started to flash and alarms going off. The tech behind the main desk spoke through the PA system while everyone started moving around faster. "Offworld activation! Incoming traveler!"

The Stargate was turning, lights turning on in the chevrons around the edges. It activated as the last one locked into place and the blue whoosh of the wormhole swooshed it's way through the gateroom and back into the circle, making a glowing blue pool.

A few seconds later, SG4 team came through on schedule from their mission.

[malcolmeffect.livejournal.com]

Ian was startled and fascinated in equal portions when the gate began to work. The scurrying people held almost as much interest as the mechanism itself. He wondered if that was a time traveling mechanism but didn't voice it. Instead he asked.

What is that?

[stargatejackson.livejournal.com]

"That is what we call a Stargate. It's a...sort of portal to other gates that are scattered around the galaxy. We use it to travel to other planets..." Time to let the cat out of the bag. "Which is where we found the buildings with the text I couldn't identify."

"This is the SGC or Stargate Command. You're actually under Cheyanne Mountain, the Norad project...or at least that's it's official purpose. Our project gets the much lower levels.
Sorry, this is probably alot to take in at once..."

[malcolmeffect.livejournal.com]

Malcolm listened but he was still looking out the glass at the Stargate. What planet is it from?

I work for Hammond. I'm used to..uh.. surprises. Ian finally turned away from the window to face daniel.

[stargatejackson.livejournal.com]

"Well, from here actually. At an archeological dig on the Giza plateau in Egypt in the '40s. We only just recently figured out that the 39 symbols around the edge were used in a 7 symbol sequence like an address to another gate."
Daniel quick drew a cube on a nearby whiteboard, dotting the sides. "6 symbols needed to locate a point in space and the 7th as the point of origin," he said, making another dot a distance away from the cube and drawing a line to it.

[malcolmeffect.livejournal.com]

Ian really didn't need the diagram but he joined Daniel at the wipe board nodding. This is very similar to what will come out of those equations.

[stargatejackson.livejournal.com]

Daniel turned to him, very interested. "Really? So these equations...might be related to the Stargate itself?"

[malcolmeffect.livejournal.com]

Ian picked up the other marker. Except they align this way.

He drew the same number of points on a cube but the points were connected in such a way that they formed a horizontal and vertical square whose corners were the center points of the cube's sides.

The last equation may be zero. If it is the point of relation is in the center of both squares and the cube.

Ian placed a dot in the center of the drawing.

[stargatejackson.livejournal.com]

"That's interesting...not exactly helpful yet but interesting. If we only knew what it meant..."

Daniel got a hunch and flipped through the pictures again, finding the one with the cube on the center of the floor in the room they had found and stuck it up next to the diagram. "You don't suppose they meant the center of this? They, whoever they are or were, devoted this whole elaborate thing to tell us there's a middle to this square?"

[malcolmeffect.livejournal.com]

Ian looked between the picture and the drawing. Are you sure the cube is solid?

It didn't seem likely to Ian but maybe there was something inside of it.

[stargatejackson.livejournal.com]

Daniel shrugged. "As far as we know...we didn't xray it or anything."

He considered. "We might have to go back there to find out."

[malcolmeffect.livejournal.com]

Ian shrugged too. We should graph the equations. If there is a connection..uh. it will be more apparent.

[stargatejackson.livejournal.com]

"Right, good idea." Daniel pointed at him as if to emphasize what he was saying as he backed up towards the door. "I'll let General Hammond know what we've got so far and you and Tasha can get those together. He'll probably want a meeting once we have them." He turned and exited the control room, heading towards the General's office.

[malcolmeffect.livejournal.com]

Ian nodded in understanding. Back in the conference room?

After Daniel left Ian took a seat beside Tasha to work on getting the graphs done. The more he saw the visualizations the more Malcolm understood what he was working with. It seemed to him that they were tracking something. What, Ian had no way of understanding.

[stargatejackson.livejournal.com]

Daniel returned a half hour later with the General following behind him. He'd wanted to see for himself what sort of breakthrough the two men had come up with.
"Dr. Malcolm, this is General Hammond. He's in charge of the SGC."
The General nodded and offered a firm handshake. "Glad to have you aboard." He indicated the screen that they were working on. "What am I looking at here?"

[malcolmeffect.livejournal.com]

Ian stood when the two men entered the room and shook the General's hand just as firmly before turning back to where he had taped the equation maps up to the windows in SGC.

These are the separate equations that the symbols seem to represent. Ian moved past the separate ones because he really didn't think either of these men would understand if he explained them in depth. The final one was all the graphs superimposed into one image. To most wit would probably look like a bunch of colored scribble.

When the equations are mapped together it describes the trajectory of a object moving in a regular pattern between the six points shown in black.

Ian looked down at the woman who had been working with him. He still didn't believe what she had explained but really, was it any more ludicrous than living dinosaurs?

If this is a planet and another gate it would be in a system with an irregular orbit. It follows very similar deviation to what you would expect from a twin star system that has a star of large, low density and one of small, high density. The variable oscillations in the equations is constant with the change in gravitational pull when the planet passes from the influence of the larger star to the smaller.

Ian smiled. Uh.. that is if these symbols represent these equations.

[stargatejackson.livejournal.com]

The General considered for a second, making sure he was following that complicated explanation. "So let me get this straight...the room is talking about a planet? With another gate on it? Is it this planet?"
Daniel shook his head. "No, this planet doesn't have a second star, just the one. And there's also the possibility that there might be something inside of this cube too." He pointed at the picture in question.

"Something useful?" General Hammond asked.
"Well, we don't know. Not till we get a chance to see it again. At least, that's my opinion."
The General hesitated for a second, making his decision. "Ok, SG3 can go with you, Dr. Jackson. Report back if you find anything. You leave at 1500 hours."

Daniel turned to Ian. "Would you come too? I'm not much of a mathe....chaotician and you do have clearance now."