The Sim
Stepping through the Stargate, visitors can see on the stairs on the opposite side detailed under each step, Ancient script.
GM note: It will soon be translated in-character, but for you the readers and our player's metaknowledge.
The translation (the highest step to the lowest step) reads:
(02) A HEARTY WELCOME TO THOSE OF OTHER WORLDS
(03) VISITING OUR HOME FOR THE FIRST TIME (W)ELCOME AGAIN
(05) TO THOSE RETURNING YOU HAVE BEEN GONE TOO LONG AND YOUR
(04) ABSENCE HAS WEIGHED HEAVILY ON OUR SOULS WE ARE
(07) WHOLE AGAIN THAT YOU ARE AMONG US AND WE CELEBRATE YOU BEING HERE AGAIN
(06) AS WE LEAVE FOR DISTANT WORLDS WE PLEDGE TO RESPECT THE LANDS OF
(08) OUR NEIGHBOURS AND TO ACT WITH INTEGRITY AS AMBASSADORS IN PEACE TIME
(09) OF OUR PEOPLE TRAVELLERS WITH OPEN HEARTS WILL ALWAYS BE WELCOME REFUGEES
(11) FROM TYRANNY MAY SEEK SHELTER UNDER OUR ROOF AND KNAT OUR PEOPLE WILL LAY
(12) DOWN THEIR LIVES TO PROTECT THE WEAK AND THE JUST LET THIS BE OUR PLEDGE TO THOSE
(10) INHABITANTS OF THIS WORLD AND ALL WE MAY EVER KNOW WE WILL ALWAYS STRIVE TO
(13) COME IN PEACE AS WE GO IN PEACE AND YOU WILL BE WELCOME ON OUR SHORES FOREVERMORE
GM note: I bring you the timeline for the start of this Stargate Atlantis RPG nicknamed Rebirth.
This RPG starts in the year 2004 which coincides with SG-1 Season Eight.
Timeline: (Anything in ~~ symbols was could have happened if the First Pegasus Expedition survived).
Having survived the destruction of his ship in Earth orbit, Anubis' energy essence transfers into Russian cosmonaut Anatole Konstantinov with the intention of escaping through the S.G.C. Stargate.
The System Lords travel to Earth to ask for assistance in destroying Baal.
The Replicators are loosed from their time dilation prison. Fifth captures and tortures Samantha Carter.
A viable means of combating the Replicators is developed into a weapon.
The Asgard once again erase the knowledge of the Ancients from Jack O'Neill's mind in order to save his life.
Elizabeth Weir steps down as leader of Stargate Command. Jack O'Neill is promoted to Brigadier General and appointed leader of Stargate Command. Samantha Carter is promoted to Lieutenant Colonel.
Fifth fabricates a Replicator duplicate of Samantha Carter.
Elizabeth Weir leads an expedition to Atlantis in the Pegasus Galaxy.
The Pegasus expedition is lost when the shield fails and the city of Atlantis is utterly flooded. It is possible some survived in sealed off sections of the city but time was against them.
~~John Sheppard inadvertently awakens the Wraith from their millennia-long hibernation when he kills the Wraith Keeper.~~
Anubis is imprisoned on KS7-535. He eventually finds a means of escaping.
Camulus is captured by Baal.
Tegalus nations Rand and Caledonia declare war.
Pete Shanahan proposes marriage to Samantha Carter.
~~Carson Beckett and Perna develop the Hoffan drug.~~
Colson Industries declares bankruptcy.
~~Atlantis and the Genii develop a tenuous relationship.~~
The Goa'uld Moloc is killed.
Teal'c's son Rya'c marries Kar'yn.
Members of the rogue N.I.D. set off into the galaxy aboard Osiris's abandoned al'kesh vessel.
~~The Genii attempt to seize Atlantis during a hurricane.~~
Replicator Carter becomes impervious to the Replicator disruptor technology. Fifth is destroyed.
Vala Mal Doran attempts to sell the Prometheus to the Lucian Alliance.
~~The Atlantis expedition locates the last remaining Ancient satellite in the Lantean System.~~
~~Elizabeth Weir Prime is revived from her stasis chamber and, before she dies, tells the story of how she saved the city.~~
The Replicators enter the Milky Way Galaxy and declare war on the Goa'uld. The Goa'uld are all but defeated. The Dakara super-weapon is reconfigured to destroy the Replicators.
SG Team finds 3 ZPMs at various stages of use and in the middle of a Replicator/Goa'uld skirmish retreat back to Stargate Command.
Oma Desala saves Daniel Jackson from death at the hands of Replicator Carter by ascending him.
With the Goa'uld dynasty in ruins, Baal enters hiding on Earth.
~~Three Wraith hive ships begin their journey to Atlantis.~~
~~The Quindosim refuse to hand over their Zero Point Module to the Atlantis expedition.~~
Jacob Carter and Selmak die.
Samantha Carter breaks her engagement to Pete Shanahan.
Realizing Anubis cannot be killed, Oma Desala occupies him in a direct confrontation for all eternity.
Daniel Jackson returns to Stargate Command.
Stargate Command dial Atlantis for updates, supplies and additional personnel transfer but find from MALP footage the gateroom flooded and bodies floating around just before the MALP failed.
~~Atlantis transmits messages to Stargate Command.~~
The Daedalus, stocked with supplies, a new Pegasus expedition roster, new gear and equipment and various classified stuff, is launched as Earth's third deep-space carrier, and sets out for Atlantis.
Meanwhile the Atlantis Advanced Party of 5 teams are geared in deep sea equipment and sent through the gate with much waterproof stuff. They get the city back up and running.
~~The Ancient satellite disables one Wraith hive ship before it is destroyed, killing Peter Grodin.~~
~~The Wraith lay siege to Atlantis from space.~~
The Daedalus arrives at Atlantis.
~~Aiden Ford leaves Atlantis.~~
~~Atlantis conceals itself from the Wraith, making it appear as though the city has been destroyed.~~