#sg-16

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Meet Gate-team 16; a new generation of gaters in the Stargate Universe!

Top left is our cool, calm, and professional commanding officer, Colonel Lionel Gomez. A career military officer with a daughter waiting for him at home, Colonel Gomez doesn't have time for any of the universe's shit and remains mostly unphased by anything the galaxy can throw at him.

Top middle meet our cheerful, questioning, free-spirited certified genius of a scientist, Stephen Thornton. Considering struggle to be part of life, Stephen, a civilian, tried to avoid being recognized for his genius until he was lured into the Stargate program with the promise of adventures and puzzles that could stump even him.

Top right meet the brilliant, driven, but judgmental, engineer Major Lin Marks. An Airforce engineer newly in from Area 51, Major Marks carries the name of a traitor, fighting a distrustful military hierarchy tooth and nail for the security clearance to join the Stargate program, and does not plan to let it go to waste.

Bottom left is our bubbly, equally fierce and friendly combat specialist, Lieutenant Kristina Mandrakes. Lieutenant Mandrakes is a graduate of Teal'c's experimental joint US-Jaffa training program, and is steeped in Jaffa culture ready to take on whatever is out in the stars be it friends or foes.

Bottom right meet our empathetic, philosophical, just-happy-to-be-here linguist and historian, Lieutenant Benjamin Hermalin. One of the Airforce cadets groomed into the Stargate Program straight from the Academy, Lieutenant Hermalin is a Stargate fanboy, bringing along extensive knowledge of the program's past and idolization of Dr. Danial Jackson.

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Episode 35: Alternatives

In quantum theory, there are infinite universes full of infinite possibilities; sometimes those universe's crash into each other. That's how the SGC ends up hosting an odd team from another timeline.

In this alternate timeline, Earth fell to Apophis 20 years ago and only a few pockets of human rebels escaped. Now the humans, led by Cassandra Fraiser and Charlie O'Neil, host of Lantash, the Tok'ra, led by Queen Siri, hosted by Tirzah, and the Jaffa, lead by Ry'ac, are fighting to free the galaxy from goa'uld rule.

Unfortunately, these four leaders are now trapped in the SGC of this universe, unable to lead their rebel forces during what could be the final battle for the fate of their universe. And they are willing to do whatever it takes to get back to where they belong as quickly as possible, regardless of the damage it might cause here.

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Episode 31: Breaking Point (Part 2)

As his physical condition worsens, Stephen faces off with the strongest fragment of his psyche, struggling to overcome this final obstacle to reclaiming himself.

Meanwhile, as other problems come to a head in the SGC, its up to Lin Marks to make decisions on Stephen's behalf as well as figure out what to do about their daughter as further legal issues arise. As Marks grapples with figuring out what Stephen would have wanted, Stephen grapples with figuring out who he is.

Even when he finally wakes from his coma, it quickly becomes clear that things will never be the same again. And solving the problems waiting for him in the waking world just became a lot more complicated.

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Episode 30: Breaking Point (Part 1)

With SG-16 grounded for a time, Dr. Thornton decides to turn his attention to his long-running project, attempting to find a way to make humans unviable as hosts for the goa'uld. When he makes a breakthrough after an argument with Lin marks, he decides to push forward, burying himself in the distraction.

Unfortunately, the alien tech he's using has unexpected consequences when he skips the required safety testing, trapping him in his own mind to fight through a hundred versions of his own psyche for control of his body. Meanwhile, in the SGC he lays in an unexplained coma as the problems he was ignoring start to come to a head.

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Episode 28: The Hunter

As Colonel Gomez begins to seriously consider retirement after seeing the effect of his months long disappearance on his daughter, he discusses the possibility with his team.

Then everything gets worse when a group of jaffa supremists capture the colonel during a mission. As a demonstration of jaffa superiority, the supremists outfit the colonel with a goa'uld hunting chip and begin an interplanetary hunt with him as the prey.

As SG-16 and Ry'ac's jaffa race to find him, Kristina Mandrakes also takes on the responsibility of watching over Jessica Gomez as she waits for her father to be found. Meanwhile Colonel Gomez must use all his training, experience, and grit to survive his hunters and turn the tables on them.

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Episode 27: Roleplay

Nearly a year after SG-16 disappeared on a random, uninhabited planet, never to be heard from again and declared MIA, SG-27 stumbles across familiar faces on a developed planet on the other side of the galaxy. Even more mysteriously, the reappeared members of SG-16 seem to have no memory of the SGC, the Stargate program, or who they are, folded into lives among the community on the planet as if they have always lived there.

SG-27 must figure out what is actually going on beneath the facade of this seemingly ideal community and how to return SG-16 to their old selves. An issue made more pressing by the fact that Major Marks, in her new role, is now pregnant, an extremely dangerous condition for a host.

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Episode 26: Collection

The bounty lords have become a major thorn in the SGC's side as they try to help create a free galaxy without the goa'uld or Ori. Despite their best efforts, the money continues to flow and crime lords are starting to emerge at the heads of powerful fleets and coalitions.

This becomes an even more immediate problem when a crime lord known for her menagerie of unique specimens from across the galaxy sets her sights on a specimen that is the only one of his kind; the half-ascended Lieutenant Hermalin. When she finally gets ahold of her prize, SG-16 must dive into the heart of the crime empires to get him back.

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Episode 24: The Queen (Part 1)

Continuing their objective of checking in on on former Goa'uld planets and ensure they aren't being threatened by the new system lords or the bounty lords, SG-16 discovers a planet under the rule of a young woman, named Tirzah, who apparently freed them from the Goa'uld as a child a decade ago.

Impressed by the story, SG-16 looks further into it, but begins to suspect that something is wrong and that the goa'uld might not have been overthrown at all. Natish and Marks determine that Tirzah is herself a host and SG-16 prepares to take down this secret goa'uld ruler.

Only for Tirzah to preemptively surrender to SG-16, claiming that she is a willing host and that her symbiote, Siri, is fighting for the good of her people.