The Quartermaster's Gift by Adina_Atl (Superpower Challenge)

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Title: The Quartermaster's Gift
Author: Adina_Atl
Pairing: Gen
Rating: G
Spoilers: First season, maybe.
Disclaimer: Not mine.

Summary: Few people understand logistics.


Only the quartermaster knew how much flour or beans they brought from Earth. It never ran out, so no one paid any attention. Coffee and chocolate were rationed, carefully counted; they were gone in due time. But if he found an extra case of sugar or MREs in a supply room no one remembered checking, who would ever notice?

Few people did the math: two hundred people, one to three pounds of food a day depending on whether it was dried or fresh. A hundred tons of food and other supplies, all passed through the iris in thirty-eight minutes?

Right.

Comments

[lurksnomore]

That's wonderful! I sometimes wonder how the expedition was able to bring enough food to last a week when they first went Atlantis.

[adina-atl.livejournal.com]

Glad you liked it.

It would be easy enough to stock Atlantis if we'd ever seen the mountains of pallets being pushed through the stargate. But we saw them come through and we saw them after the gate closed, and unless someone inexplicably hid the pallets before O'Neill's farewell champagne came through there just wasn't enough stuff.

[aithine]

LOL Good answer. *vbg*

[adina-atl.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Someone must have that superpower.

[teaphile.livejournal.com]

That's clever.

[adina-atl.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

[teand.livejournal.com]

Oh well done!

::applauds::

[adina-atl.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

hhmm......very cool. :D

[adina-atl.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

[percysowner.livejournal.com]

Very Good, and it explains so much!

[adina-atl.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

[jade-dragoness.livejournal.com]

Hah! I wondered about this. Great answer!

[adina-atl.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

[fairestcat]

Ooh, clever! I like.

[adina-atl.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

[buddleia.livejournal.com]

Ahaaha! Logistics have no place in the Pegasus Galaxy!

[adina-atl.livejournal.com]

Neither logistics nor logic, alas.

[skeddy-kat.livejournal.com]

As the WWII general (or admiral depending on your source) said, "I don't know what this 'logistics' is, but I want some of it." Beans and bullets both seem magically replenishing in the Pegasus Galaxy. Nice call.

[adina-atl.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

Beans you can get away with, just call them Athosian jumbily beans. But for peaceful explorers who didn't know the Wraith were out there they sure brought a lot of ammo!

[delurker.livejournal.com]

Ooh, nice.

[adina-atl.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

[thepouncer.livejournal.com]

So terrific! I think about the logistics of their first year *all the time*

[adina-atl.livejournal.com]

Clearly I think about the logistics too much too. Star Trek Voyager was that way for the short period when I actually watched it. How many shuttle craft did they crash?

[lunasky.livejournal.com]

Wonderfully done! And really, it explains so much about all the quatermaster's or supply techs I've ever known. They're all a special bunch. :)

[emeraldteal.livejournal.com]

Ahaha, of course. :)

Thanks for pointing this out. I always thought they had all their supplies magically shrunk or something ;)

[scifi-lemon.livejournal.com]

Well THAT explains a lot. Great fic!

[adina-atl.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Someone's got to have been pulling supplies out of thin air, otherwise they would have starved to death.