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After you get the bodies (and bits of bodies) cleaned out of the control room you order Dr. North to get cracking on trying to analyze the damage the alien energy weapons did to concrete and kevlar in order to come up with a material that can hopefully be slightly more effective than wet tissue paper.
You also purchase several high caliber automatic turrets in order to provide saturation fire on the gate if needed, and a pair of precision turrets mounted into the ceiling that should allow for more precise support of retreating troops.
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Cleanup goes as well as expected, and the fortifications are begun quickly. Dr. North is initially skeptical of being asked to design armor to stop a weapon that he's never seen, and for which he has only blast impacts and wounds to provide clues as to its process. However, he seems quite intrigued by the project and, after a few days of looking over burned kevlar, blasted concrete, and melted armor plates, heads off to his lab muttering something about shaped plasma toroids.
Hopefully he'll come up with something soon.
Mid-August, 20176,5*
Your receive good news from both Dr. North and from the research site on P-4Y-J886. The scientists on P-4Y-J886 are now certain the alien device a sub-surface surveying tool. The lead has achieved some limited success in using the machine to provide scan information, and has been able to successfully shut down and restart the device. He's still puzzled by exactly how it's capable of generating such an enormously powerful signal over a sustained period of time, and he's not sure exactly what the device is detecting. He has scan information which appear to reveal large deposits of... something, but he's tested dozens of ores, crystals, and other compounds naturally occurring on earth. To that end, he'd like additional funding to deploy a mining rig and sample one of the scanned deposits.
Dr. North, meanwhile, has a prototype ceramic plate, quite similar the ones worn by infantry. The early prototype has significantly less ability to stop small arms far than a normal armor insert, but, if Dr. North is correct, has the potential to absorb multiple energy blasts of the type that killed the rescue mission and some of the men in the gate room. He believes the alien weapon acts similar to a modern
PEP weapon, but instead of firing a laser, it launches some manner of plasma toroid. This toroid hits the target and rolls into it, dispensing its energy as a focused spear, instead of modern PEP weapons which release it all in a single burst. In essence, it's a plasma shaped charge. The ceramic plate is designed to disrupt the plasma geometry and cause the entire blast to collapse immediately. The resulting impact will definitely knock the wearer on their ass, but should be capable of stopping two to four direct hits before failing.
It's with a heavy heart that you realize your four month report to the board of directors is at the end of next month. They'll want results.
As for P-4Y-J886...A- Get the mining rig out there as soon as possible.
B- Break down the research base and tow the artifact back to the SGC.
C- Tow the artifact back to the SGC, but begin mining using the scan data extracted so far.
As for the Armor...A- Make it the mandatory insert for the armor of all SG teams and get Dr. North to immediately work on production for infantry.
B- Get Dr. North to work on upscaled plating for the Hawkei vehicles.
C- Push to only create enough armor to outfit a second team to go back to the Aztec planet.
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