Fic help.

[Falcon Horus]

They wouldn't keep the gateway hanging about, risking anyone to figure it out on their own and coming through.

[BruTak]

Thinking of giving my OC a hobby.

Does the team think that visiting war memorials and taking pictures of them would be considered weird/creepy?

[iiradned]

If part of the hobby is military history, then not at all. I would imagine that your OC would research what battles the memorials commemorate as well as any significance that particular battle had on the larger conflict it was a part of.

[BruTak]

Partly it's military history, and partly it's to see if he can find any obscure family members.

It's kind of based on something my late father would do (much to mum's annoyance) when we went on holiday. He'd wander round old churchyards and cemeteries etc. looking for people who we may or may not be related to.

[Falcon Horus]

Does the team think that visiting war memorials and taking pictures of them would be considered weird/creepy?

If that's considered weird and/or creepy then I'm in big trouble... cause I do that all the time when I'm on holiday. Especially when I see beautiful tombstones or engravings on tombstones.

I mean I have a whole album on the war memorials and commonwealth graveyards around Ypres.

[Seaboe Muffinchucker]

Geneology & military history are both common hobbies, as is taking rubbings (photos being a modern version?) of interesting tombstones. I don't think most people would find them creepy.

Seaboe

[BruTak]

Supplementary question for the military history buffs (which only just occurred to me, and is useful background for my OC's family) - at any point during the WWII campaign in Normandy did the 101st Airborne come into contact with any Scottish Infantry Regiments?

[iiradned]

As far as I can research the 101st did not meet up with any British Army units during combat operations of its Normandy campaign. The 101st after D-Day were primarily involved in battles around the town of Carentan after which they were withdrawn to England to prepare for what would become Operation Market Garden.

There is a small window of opportunity that as the 101st withdrew from the front lines to a secure area by the beach they may have come across some freshly landed British units sent to reinforce/relieve units which took part in Operation Overlord.

[BruTak]

Does anyone know what the procedure is for an officer resigning their commission?

[Sealurk]

My stargate canon knowledge has failed me! Is anybody aware of any instance in any of the three shows when a stargate was taken offline and could not be dialled but was not damaged or buried?

EDIT: BruTak, did you find what you needed about resigning a commission? What I've found suggests that basically the officer must have met the minimum service requirement for his commission unless he is resigning for religious reasons or under some circumstances can pay back the cost of training him, then gives a letter of resignation to his commander stating why he is resigning his commission.

[Falcon Horus]

Stargates have been covered with a stone cover in order to make dialling in impossible. Technically that's not burying it. Any other instance, I know that in Atlantis they took the dialing chrystals from the DHD so that dialing out became impossible to do.

[Britta]

In Deadman Switch Aris Boch claims to have disabled the DHD.

[BruTak]

One for the Trekkies - Supposing that when she grew up, Molly O'Brien joined Starfleet. Would she be an engineer like her father, a botanist like her mother, or would she follow her own path?

[Sealurk]

Stargates have been covered with a stone cover in order to make dialling in impossible. Technically that's not burying it. Any other instance, I know that in Atlantis they took the dialing chrystals from the DHD so that dialing out became impossible to do.

In Deadman Switch Aris Boch claims to have disabled the DHD.

My mistake, I should have specified dialling in. Can a stargate basically be taken offline as far as the rest of the network is concerned without burying or covering it?

For plot purposes it seems I'm probably going to have to write this in anyway as I can't find a way around it, I was just really hoping there was a precedent in canon.

[neela]

My mistake, I should have specified dialling in. Can a stargate basically be taken offline as far as the rest of the network is concerned without burying or covering it?

For plot purposes it seems I'm probably going to have to write this in anyway as I can't find a way around it, I was just really hoping there was a precedent in canon.

I suppose it is possible to fiddle with the crystals in the DHD, whether it be reconfiguring the stargate to take it out of the network for a while, or - as Falcon Horus states above - removing one or more crystals in order to disable the gate. Cannot recall the specific episodes, but I believe both McKay and Carter have changed the configurations of various stargates.

EDIT: Depending on your story angle and what kind of access to technology the characters have, it should also be possible to simply move the stargate so that the gate coordinates won't match. Also, you have the Avenger virus that the SGC sent to Ba'al's planet in 7x09 that scrambled the DHD. Maybe it's possible to modify it?