Post by Jason Conway on Sept 5, 2007 10:35:14 GMT
This is the back story - the set up to the Meropis Expedition.
In 2004 Dr. Daniel Jackson discovered the location of the lost city of Atlantis. After Anubis' fleet had been destroyed over the battle of Antarctica the Atlantis Expedition, led by Dr. Elizabeth Wier, was launched.
When cross referenced with ancient mythology Meropis is described as "the island-city beyond the oceans". Also described as similar to Atlantis in many ways. In some ways the city was described as even a copy or a mock up of Atlantis. Of course, that means there was the possibility of there being another city built by the ancients. And it was not beyond the ocean, it was beyond the Stargate. The gate co-ordinates found in the ancient repository lead to a new galaxy. One apparently named the Triangulum Galaxy by the ancients.
Four years later, 2008. The Atlantis expedition seems to be doing well and bringing back various technologies useful for the defense of Earth including puddle jumpers and life-signs detectors. It is reported that in the ancient database there is record of a similar city located in another galaxy on the far side of the Pegasus Galaxy. Another galaxy of opportunity and wonders. The IOA & Joint Chiefs of Staff discuss the situation and decide to give the go ahead to send a second international expedition, this time to the Triangulum Galaxy. Earth has no ZPM so the fifth Daedalus-class ship, the Chinese funded Sun Tzu, currently being built at the time, is to be commissioned to serve the Triangulum project and to carry the expedition over.
It is now the present day. Stargate Command have only recently recovered from the Ori invasion on the Milky Way. The Icarus Project has lost contact with Earth after informing them that the crew will be placed into stasis aboard the Destiny. The Atlantis Expedition has recently found themselves back on Earth following a Wraith incursion and the Meropis Expedition has launched. After a two year selection process, The Sun Tzu took an expedition to the planet on which the gate address lies and the story began unfolding from there. The Meropis Expedition's primary objectives are to gather technology and information for the use in defending Earth, to find and make contact with any possible allies and to establish an outpost in a neighboring galaxy to Pegasus. After some encounters with Earth's latest enemy, the Etruscans, the Meropis outpost is successfully established. This, is where your story begins.
In 2004 Dr. Daniel Jackson discovered the location of the lost city of Atlantis. After Anubis' fleet had been destroyed over the battle of Antarctica the Atlantis Expedition, led by Dr. Elizabeth Wier, was launched.
When cross referenced with ancient mythology Meropis is described as "the island-city beyond the oceans". Also described as similar to Atlantis in many ways. In some ways the city was described as even a copy or a mock up of Atlantis. Of course, that means there was the possibility of there being another city built by the ancients. And it was not beyond the ocean, it was beyond the Stargate. The gate co-ordinates found in the ancient repository lead to a new galaxy. One apparently named the Triangulum Galaxy by the ancients.
Four years later, 2008. The Atlantis expedition seems to be doing well and bringing back various technologies useful for the defense of Earth including puddle jumpers and life-signs detectors. It is reported that in the ancient database there is record of a similar city located in another galaxy on the far side of the Pegasus Galaxy. Another galaxy of opportunity and wonders. The IOA & Joint Chiefs of Staff discuss the situation and decide to give the go ahead to send a second international expedition, this time to the Triangulum Galaxy. Earth has no ZPM so the fifth Daedalus-class ship, the Chinese funded Sun Tzu, currently being built at the time, is to be commissioned to serve the Triangulum project and to carry the expedition over.
It is now the present day. Stargate Command have only recently recovered from the Ori invasion on the Milky Way. The Icarus Project has lost contact with Earth after informing them that the crew will be placed into stasis aboard the Destiny. The Atlantis Expedition has recently found themselves back on Earth following a Wraith incursion and the Meropis Expedition has launched. After a two year selection process, The Sun Tzu took an expedition to the planet on which the gate address lies and the story began unfolding from there. The Meropis Expedition's primary objectives are to gather technology and information for the use in defending Earth, to find and make contact with any possible allies and to establish an outpost in a neighboring galaxy to Pegasus. After some encounters with Earth's latest enemy, the Etruscans, the Meropis outpost is successfully established. This, is where your story begins.
