J is for Just a Bit Off Base, by Thothmes (G)

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Show: SG-1

Rec Category: Original Character
Characters: Jack O'Neill, original character
Categories: gen, episode related
Author on LJ: thothmes
Author's Website: fic tag
Link: J is for Just a Bit Off Base

Why This Must Be Read: This fic is a real treat: an entertaining, likeable original character and his outside perspective on Jack O'Neill and the insane goings-on underneath Cheyenne Mountain. Covering events from Stargate: the Movie through the beginning of S8, this is a great look at what it's like to watch the SGC from the outside. Wonderful stuff!


He thought he was going to be spending his time securing the entrance to NORAD, the aerospace defense command facility headquartered in the nuclear defense bunker at Cheyenne Mountain, with other facilities at nearby Peterson AFB, and in other bases around the U.S. and Canada, and at first that was exactly what he did. Then they started some kind of top secret project down in the lower levels under NORAD, and the steady stream of Air Force officers and support staff was suddenly swollen with an odd collection of scientists and scholars. What they were up to down there, Sgt. Jefferson was never quite able to figure out, but he listened hard, at first just because the things the folks downstairs talked about among themselves were just plain more exciting than anything the NORAD folk had to say. Their conversation was all about radar frequencies, alert protocols, and test results. The folk downstairs were talking about massive power requirements and how to translate Egyptian hieroglyphs. It was weird, and not a little intriguing.