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CCCC+1 Contingent C (Contingency?)
You hire Bruce North, a native Australian and a brilliant materials scientist with a reputation for valuing results and speed over proper lab safety and experimental protocols. He'll be contacted immediately, and should arrive at the SGC building in a week or two.
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The away team checks in as normal, but reports that they're still analyzing the object. Further gate exploration yields nothing of particular interest.
Late June5*
The SG teams investigating the signal (Planet P-4Y-J886) report back that they've narrowed down the purpose and method of the object to a limit subset of possibilities. The object isn't generating the ELF signal, per se, instead it's generating a phased EM beam which aimed directly upwards, striking a very local section of the ionosphere. The ionosphere vibrates like a struck drumhead and creates the ELF signal you've detected, which explains how the device can generate such low frequency signals without a wire many kilometers in length. That's the why of it. How it's generated the phased EM beam is still unknown.
As to the purpose, the scientific leads on the SG teams are divided. One believes the ELF waves are acting as a ground penetrating scanner, with the specific pulsed frequency being used to detect something beneath the surface of the planet -such as an oil deposit or a certain kind of ore- and represents a revolutionary breakthrough in how we could image the deeper layers of the earth's crust. The second believes the ELF signal on the planet surface is a byproduct of the interaction between the planet's ionosphere and the device, and that, from space, it's very likely to create a very noticeable distortion. It could be a navigation buoy, a warning beacon, or a thousand other things, but he believes it's primarily mean to create a space visible signal.
Either way, it warrants further study. The first scientist wants to establish a field base around the device, perhaps even deploy a light mining rig to test his hypothesis about mineral detection. The second wants to transfer the device back to the SGC for study in a controlled environment, and believes that he can deactivate it, but is unsure if he can reactivate it or what that would even do back on Earth.
A- Exert some funds and people to establish a forward base on P-4Y-J886, with the intention of testing the hypothesis that it is indeed a mining tool.
B- Deactivate the device and haul it back to the SGC to be studied there.
C- Exert some funds and people to establish a forward base on P-4Y-J886, with the intention of creating a controlled environment so that additional testing can be done while the device is still active.
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