STARGATE SG-1 Relativity by Relativity (SG1–10)

Author:Relativity (SG1–10) [Retail]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fandemonium Books
Published: 2020-06-20T13:29:49+00:00

Chapter EIGHT

“Who is this woman?” Doctor Lee ran the hand-held scanner over the overnight bag on the dresser beside the unkempt bed. His voice had an air of awe to it. “And where did she get all these wonderful toys?”

Sam Carter glanced up at him from across the small room. “She tried to use those ‘wonderful toys’ to blow up the SGC, Bill. Try to keep that in mind.”

Lee grinned sheepishly. “Yeah. Sorry. It’s just that… Well, this technology, it’s more advanced than anything I’ve seen in a long time.”

The Major had to admit that the scientist had a point. The search of Wells’ room in the base officer’s quarters had already turned up a handful of items of decidedly unusual hardware. It was Lee who had detected the presence of an exotic device attached to the inside of the room’s door, and thanks to his quick thinking Sam had been able to deactivate it with a low-range pulse from a zat. She cast a careful eye over the device; it was Goa’uld, made in the shape of a scarab beetle, with an emitter spot where the insect’s head would have been. If they had forced open the door, a DNA scanner on the device would have registered an intruder and unleashed a single-shot, high-band energy discharge that would have reduced everything in the room to ashes.

The scarab-guard lay on the room’s bed along with all the other pieces of kit they’d found so far. There was a pistol, a construct of glass and lightweight silver alloy, probably some kind of coherent-energy weapon. A device that resembled the wireless datapads used at some Air Force research centers, only much smaller; Sam had toyed with it a little, but there were encryptions blocking access to the pad’s memory and she didn’t want to chance triggering any security programs that might wipe it. There was the sensor-baffle from the woman’s bag, which steadfastly blanked the attempts by every scanner they had to penetrate it. Then the vials of thick, mercury-like liquid. Carter picked one up and held it to the light. The fluid inside moved sluggishly, glittering. At least she could be sure of what this was; the tubes contained a suspension of inert nanites, the tiny molecule-sized robots floating in a processor matrix awaiting commands to activate them. They bore some resemblance to Replicator design, but not enough to convince Sam that those artificial beings were behind this. Rather, the nanites looked like a back-engineered copy of Replicator tech, but how they’d been made was beyond her.

“Reloads,” offered Lee. “Wells must have been planning to use them to top up her nanite stores when she went off shift.” The scientist had already tested the remains of the micromachines that had eaten Carter’s P90 and determined that they were the same strain as those in the vials.

“Lucky for us we caught her before that.” Sam frowned. “If she’d had a full tank there’s not telling what she could have done.” She thought

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