Long, well-plotted Sheppard/McKay. For some reason, the characters didn't *really* click with me, but they are still recognisably John and Rodney, and it's well-written. With ancient toys! Always a kink
Everytime Rodney entered the recreation hall, he saw 'it'.
Every time Rodney entered the recreation hall, he saw 'it'
"It'll be like climbing Mt. Everest," John says. "It'll be an adventure, and it's just the high tower. It's right in our own backyard, so to speak. How can you say no?"
It was beautiful, a perfect economy of motion, and maybe this was why he'd avoided the place, so that he wouldn't have to see this."
There's a vast ocean surrounding the lost city of Atlantis...and we can go there.
"Yes, I think one telepath per Atlantis is enough," Elizabeth said. One too many, she murmured internally.
Strange things keep happening to Rodney's reality, and not all of them are called John Sheppard.
When he'd picked it up, it had lit up faintly and his first thought had been that it was an Ancient PDA. The reality of it turned out to be much, much cooler.
The closed-circuit cameras in Atlantis really are astonishing marvels of technology.
The closed-circuit cameras in Atlantis are astonishing marvels of technology.
When Rodney and Zelenka finally turned on the Ancient sex-toaster, John was on the other side of the planet in a jumper. It was just him, Markham and a couple of geologists, who were charting the far side of the mainland, which was, well-- pretty *far*--
"I... I think we might have a problem here."
The moment he sets foot on Atlantis, he knows he is home. Everything is familiar, perfectly calibrated to his internal senses and his aesthetic taste. He sees his own profound shock mirrored on the faces of everyone around him, and for a while he deludes
: She's been abandoned before; she, who'd been mother and father, teacher, and even lover to the lives she'd once held.
The Genii do something really stupid with Ancient technology
Ford figured that it was about time Ancient technology proved *useful*.
John dives right in.
He could make a fortune with this technology back on Earth. Of course, it would probably bring about the fall of western civilization at the same time, but who the hell cared?
As Major Lorne tells it, John had stayed behind to buy them time and defuse the bomb—it had been Ancient, and thus of *course* he'd assumed that it would do whatever he told it to.