Questions from mistersmith_tm
1) What's a Wraith and why are they all taller than, say, me?
You don't know what a Wraith is? I thought everybody in this galaxy knew the Wraith. Hey! Will you look at that? Six months in and I'm already sounding like a Pegasus native! That's... actually kinda freaky.
If you've never heard of the Wraith then, trust me on this, you should stay right wherever you are. The Wraith, they're the only ones to have ever challenged the power of the Ancients - and we're talking the 'Gate-builders here: wormholes, timeships, stealth technology, entire cities capable of space flight... I think that on its own says enough. But simply put, they're a highly-advanced hive-based species that feeds on the life forces of humans. They think of people as their crops, and any time a civilisation looks like it's getting too advanced... Well, they harvest.
You don't really fit the profile 'cause, typically, the Wraith all look pretty much the same - sunlight-deprived, dentally-challenged, white-haired, really tall.
2) What do you like to do to keep boredom away?
Boredom's one thing I don't actually have a whole lot of trouble with around here, most of the time at least. Work's something that always keeps me on my toes, whether we're offworld or here in Atlantis. We've barely even scraped the surface of what this city's holding and how it functions, and finding out is an incredible adventure. Out of the job - well, the thing about living in your workplace is that the line between work and play can get a little indistinct, at best. But I'm lucky to be able to call a good number of my colleagues friends, so they help to keep things interesting.
And, if all else fails, I can always submit to Adam's pushes for a game of cricket.
3) Why are you bored right now, anyway?
We're in an automated lockdown. That's not so dramatic as it sounds, it actually happens a lot more than you'd think. We've got a jumpy little mainframe, as it turns out - you should have seen the place in flu season. One person gets a little sniffle and, bang, the entire city's in quarantine mode. It happened nine times in a week before Dr. Z and I managed to make the right modifications to the systems. I don't think many Ancients got the sniffles.
What makes this time around particularly boring is the fact that I was in the laundry room when we went down. Fascinating as the cleaning processes of Ancient top-loader equivalents are, there are only so many different settings you can experiment with.
4) If you could visit any historical event, what would it be?
Are you kidding me? I'd want to see Atlantis in its glory days. Back before the Wraith were around, maybe even before it ended up here in Pegasus - back when it was in Antarctica, and the Ancients were the dominating power in the Milky Way galaxy. The chance to speak with real, live Ancients and to see the city functioning at full power... wow. That'd be something to show up for.
5) What's the first thing you'd like to hear God say when you reach heaven?
I should warn you, I'm really not good at this religion stuff. I've always thought that I ask way too many questions to have any true faith. And, well, in my line of work you tend to develop a kind of wariness around anyone who goes around calling himself an all-powerful god and demanding praise and worship. The Goa'uld have been behind practically every other religion in our history - Sokar took on the persona of Satan, for crying out loud! So who's to say that "God" isn't just another guy with a snake in his head, and heaven's not just a Goa'uld stronghold somewhere?
I don't know. Maybe I just look too much into these things. Perhaps it's because my mind keeps falling back on Jaffa, and the way they'll blindly follow after their Goa'uld enslaver because of the faith they've had pounded into them... Working at the SGC, I've seen the worst side of religion, and that's a hard sight to shake.
But, uh, that hasn't answered your question at all. So, hypothetically, were I to die and go to heaven and were a symbiote-free God to meet me there... I guess I'd like him to say something like, "Congratulations! You are the nth person to be admitted into Heaven! Please proceed to collect your prize..."
...then again, maybe not. But it'd be kind of amusing.
Your turn, folks! Leave a comment if you'd like to be interrogated by me.
You don't know what a Wraith is? I thought everybody in this galaxy knew the Wraith. Hey! Will you look at that? Six months in and I'm already sounding like a Pegasus native! That's... actually kinda freaky.
If you've never heard of the Wraith then, trust me on this, you should stay right wherever you are. The Wraith, they're the only ones to have ever challenged the power of the Ancients - and we're talking the 'Gate-builders here: wormholes, timeships, stealth technology, entire cities capable of space flight... I think that on its own says enough. But simply put, they're a highly-advanced hive-based species that feeds on the life forces of humans. They think of people as their crops, and any time a civilisation looks like it's getting too advanced... Well, they harvest.
You don't really fit the profile 'cause, typically, the Wraith all look pretty much the same - sunlight-deprived, dentally-challenged, white-haired, really tall.
2) What do you like to do to keep boredom away?
Boredom's one thing I don't actually have a whole lot of trouble with around here, most of the time at least. Work's something that always keeps me on my toes, whether we're offworld or here in Atlantis. We've barely even scraped the surface of what this city's holding and how it functions, and finding out is an incredible adventure. Out of the job - well, the thing about living in your workplace is that the line between work and play can get a little indistinct, at best. But I'm lucky to be able to call a good number of my colleagues friends, so they help to keep things interesting.
And, if all else fails, I can always submit to Adam's pushes for a game of cricket.
3) Why are you bored right now, anyway?
We're in an automated lockdown. That's not so dramatic as it sounds, it actually happens a lot more than you'd think. We've got a jumpy little mainframe, as it turns out - you should have seen the place in flu season. One person gets a little sniffle and, bang, the entire city's in quarantine mode. It happened nine times in a week before Dr. Z and I managed to make the right modifications to the systems. I don't think many Ancients got the sniffles.
What makes this time around particularly boring is the fact that I was in the laundry room when we went down. Fascinating as the cleaning processes of Ancient top-loader equivalents are, there are only so many different settings you can experiment with.
4) If you could visit any historical event, what would it be?
Are you kidding me? I'd want to see Atlantis in its glory days. Back before the Wraith were around, maybe even before it ended up here in Pegasus - back when it was in Antarctica, and the Ancients were the dominating power in the Milky Way galaxy. The chance to speak with real, live Ancients and to see the city functioning at full power... wow. That'd be something to show up for.
5) What's the first thing you'd like to hear God say when you reach heaven?
I should warn you, I'm really not good at this religion stuff. I've always thought that I ask way too many questions to have any true faith. And, well, in my line of work you tend to develop a kind of wariness around anyone who goes around calling himself an all-powerful god and demanding praise and worship. The Goa'uld have been behind practically every other religion in our history - Sokar took on the persona of Satan, for crying out loud! So who's to say that "God" isn't just another guy with a snake in his head, and heaven's not just a Goa'uld stronghold somewhere?
I don't know. Maybe I just look too much into these things. Perhaps it's because my mind keeps falling back on Jaffa, and the way they'll blindly follow after their Goa'uld enslaver because of the faith they've had pounded into them... Working at the SGC, I've seen the worst side of religion, and that's a hard sight to shake.
But, uh, that hasn't answered your question at all. So, hypothetically, were I to die and go to heaven and were a symbiote-free God to meet me there... I guess I'd like him to say something like, "Congratulations! You are the nth person to be admitted into Heaven! Please proceed to collect your prize..."
...then again, maybe not. But it'd be kind of amusing.
Your turn, folks! Leave a comment if you'd like to be interrogated by me.