Unsatisfactory Analysis by Rose

[rosewildeirish.livejournal.com]

Title: Unsatisfactory Analysis
Author: Rose Wilde-Irish
Challenge: Documentation Challenge
Rating: Teen
Summary: FIRST OBSERVER'S REPORT - NEW RACE ANALYSIS
Notes: Thanks to betas and soundboards kyrdwyn and mspooh. Wow, I learned stuff with this one; I've never actually used my webspace available before.



Alliance Report 279572.34

Hermiod blinked at the latest analysis from the Alliance, contemplating its findings. Try though he might, he could not find a way to disagree with the assessment. Truthfully, he sometimes wondered what Thor and the ruling council saw in the humans. And yet there was something compelling about the race. He was so lost in thought, he didn't hear Dr. Novak enter.

"Good evening, Hermiod. What are you working on?" she asked.

"Good evening, Dr. Novak," he greeted her. "I am working on nothing of great import; merely reviewing some correspondence and reports from home."

"Paperwork makes the world go round for you, too, huh? Funny how that works."

"Indeed," Hermiod said agreeably, and closed the file, encrypting it.

He would mull on the situation and file his own report later, he decided.

~fin~

Comments

[grey-bard.livejournal.com]

Iiiiiiiinteresting. I like it!

[rosewildeirish.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[fourteenlines.livejournal.com]

*blinks*

While as with the Ancients, extermination might be required

WHOA.

[rosewildeirish.livejournal.com]

:) Glad you caught that. I was trying for subtle.

[bruinsfan.livejournal.com]

The Era of Ancient Oppression comment made me raise an eyebrow, but the aforementioned little passage makes for quite a twist from the usual benevolent/protective view we have of the Asgard. So the plague that wiped out the Ancients wasn't just a random natural occurrence, eh?

It does open the door for viewing the combined human/Asgard efforts against the Replicators in a new light. We really only have Thor's word for them being a pervasive menace that's threatened the Agard home galaxy for ages, don't we? And Thor himself is the only member of his race whose personal involvement was seen firsthand...

Also interesting that the Ancients' technology has been mentioned as superior to even that of the Asgard, yet the latter were able to encase a time dilation device with an effective radius over a light year in the space of a room whereas in "Epiphany" the Sanctuary apparently needs a ZPM to power a field that envelopes a large valley.

[rosewildeirish.livejournal.com]

Wasn't the Asgard that wrote the report. ;)

What inspired the "Era of Ancient Oppression" comment is the fact that in some places in the South, the "Civil War" is the "War of Northern Aggression." History is written by the victors...but in this case, the victors didn't want the attention.

[bruinsfan.livejournal.com]

D'oh! I somehow managed to overlook the last sentence of the report.

[rosewildeirish.livejournal.com]

You're not the only one. *g*

[paranoidangel]

I like the Asgard interpretation of their missions.

[rosewildeirish.livejournal.com]

Thanks - but while the Asgard was reading the report, it wasn't the Asgard that wrote it. ;)

[paranoidangel]

Oh, you're right. Sorry, it's not you, it's me, I've got flu and therefore things aren't going through my brain properly :)

[rosewildeirish.livejournal.com]

Hopefully you're at least on the good drugs.

[jimandblair.livejournal.com]

there's a dark edge to this....

interesting look into an alien's mind

[rosewildeirish.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I was, indeed, kind of going for dark.

[(Anonymous)]

While as with the Ancients, extermination might be required,

Wow.

[(Anonymous)]

I just thought, that explains why they wanted to accend (spelling?) so badly.

[rosewildeirish.livejournal.com]

Thank you. :) I do have a backstory to the report (or rather, a larger one that the report fits into) but I don't know if it'll ever get written.

[nikej.livejournal.com]

*blinks* Oooh. I'm gonna have to read that one a few times. Very interesting. And, um, creepy.

[rosewildeirish.livejournal.com]

Yay! That was kind of the reaction I was going for. :)

[muppetk.livejournal.com]

Huh. Neat. Nice and un-fluffy. Interesting perspective!

I liked this an awful lot for something that isn't crackfic! (I have a bias towards things that make me giggle. But this showed imagination & made my brain work, which is something too rarely found in fic.)

[rosewildeirish.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I got to thinking that there's probably reports being filed on the Atlantis expedition from other people, and...then it just lead to this. :) Glad you enjoyed it!

[suaine.livejournal.com]

Oh, those Furlings!

But much love on Hermiod :D This was great.

[rosewildeirish.livejournal.com]

Yeah, they're sneaky little guys.

Thanks! But I don't know...we haven't seen what Hermiod is going to write, just yet.

[suaine.livejournal.com]

It probably depends on how much interaction he has with McKay as opposed to Novak ;)

[rosewildeirish.livejournal.com]

LOL!

[ceitie.livejournal.com]

Nice, and very subtly creepy.

[rosewildeirish.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :)

[roothekittykat.livejournal.com]

wow! very spiffy!

[rosewildeirish.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :)

[cetpar.livejournal.com]

A fantastic take on this challenge. And a very, very interesting report. The "extermination" option gives me the shivers. And, I had to go back and re-read the last sentence too. I first thought the Asgard had wrote it until I read some of the comments. Though, even if they didn't, the fact that they are reviewing it is kind of sinister enough. I hope Hermiod's report is more positive.

[rosewildeirish.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I did want things to be subtle, and yeah, the extermination option was meant to be a bit of a kicker. Putting "Furlings" in the afterword felt too much like giving it all away, though.

Re: Hermiod's report: me too, but I don't know. :)

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Very interesting...

[rosewildeirish.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :)

[mousewitchy.livejournal.com]

Era of Ancient Oppression

this supposed sanctuary of our one-time Allies.

While as with the Ancients, extermination might be required

*chokes*

Uh, yeah. Suddenly not so much with the wanting to meet the Furlings. Though I do think that's an interesting idea you've got there, what with the Era of Ancient Oppression.

I've never thought of the Ancients as anything other than every bit as flawed as their descendants, but *this*--this really made me wonder.

I loved the details like "in their vernacular", and the different planet names. As well as:

Seven krr'sh after the breaking of the alliance, the Wraith arrived and sterilized the planet.

about Hoff, and

It is this analyst's opinion that the subjects saved us the trouble in the future.

about Olesia.

I really loved this, thank you!

[rosewildeirish.livejournal.com]

...who says the Furlings are the bad guys? Heh.

Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it! :)

[aclarar.livejournal.com]

So, uhm...the alliance?
You mean other four races that some how got forgotten in nine years?

It’s quite an interesting view. Loved the comment about “while as with the Ancients, extermination might be required”.

[rosewildeirish.livejournal.com]

Weeeeeelll, the Nox and the Asgard have checked in. And we know about the Ancients. I just decided to go with the unknown.

Thanks! Twas fun working on it.