Editing SG/tg/ (section)

== The basic premise ==

There is a little bit of writefagging to back this up at the moment, but I do intend to follow the fluff with some crunch - a short version of the backhistory is thus:

=== Pre-gate activation/discovery ===

* The campaign starts in a post 9/11 and Afghan/Iraq war world, where the first gate had been dug up, but never used.

* The second, Antarctic gate was then discovered, complete with DHD after testing with the Hadron supercollider caused a few side effects.

* With CERN in possession of the gate and unlocking its secrets, the UN stood in as each nation presented their interests in the gate and what it had too offer.

* The U.S was then forced to deal its hand, and revealed the gate it already had in its possession.

=== Post-gate activation/discovery ===

* With the U.N directing the operation as a multi-national interest - each nation contributed soldiers, vehicles, scientists and materials to the Stargate program as a group interest rather than an Air-force operation.

* With this in mind, a twin-gate base was set up - using each gate as a tandem in/out system (with a GDO and address for each) a plan was devised for the first gate address, Abydos.

=== First gate mission ===

* Abydos was reconed as the first gate operation - a combined arms ground team from each nation, counting up as 300 troops and vehicles all together (consisting of Strykers/Humvees/Mastadons and various other APC/IFV forces).

* The locals were contacted and Ra was alerted to an alien (read; human) presence on his world - he launched an all out attack.

* Unaware of the forces and tactics he faced, Ra's forces were utterly destroyed, and his own vessel taken, Ra himself was killed in a bloody firefight on the bridge of his starship, which was caught before it could be launched.

* The mission ended a success, with contact made with off-world humans, and new technology within the multi-national teams of Earth.

=== Post first mission ===

* Despite all of this, technology is still difficult to reverse engineer. Teams of scientists have been crawling over Ra's ship for months with no real progress other than identifying low-level systems and technologies roughly analogous to our own.

* The locals of Abydos have been uplifted with technologies from Earth, such as water reclamation and aide in growing foods and crops in harsh desert environments. This opening of hearts and minds lead to the discovery of the Gate repository on Abydos - and the real beginning to Earths mission in the greater galaxy.

At this point - I would start the campaign.