"As the Specialist said," Caine responded pointing to Gwyn. "We consider a races humanity - how it treats other sentiants to be important. To many of us it is the most important factor in race relations. I am sure you will learn about this, as you add knowledge of us to your Library."

He scanned the room then pulled out his camcorder.

"I would like to record this for posterity and the knowledge of my People."

The Librarian's didn't seem to have any issues with Caine's recorder, if anything they seemed to become just a touch more friendly. "That is a very odd device, how does it function and in what way does it record?" All of the seven who were present seemed quite curious although it was Three that spoke.

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Four looked at Livy an cocked his head in curiosity. "This entire edifice is to one degree or another a testament to and record of Lord Ra's greatness. I am afraid you must be more specific on what you wish to read about."

"It transfers the visual and auditory image onto a solid state/non-crystal file storage device that then can be read by a different device that takes the imputted date and recreats the sound and image of what we see down to high resulotion. I'm sure it appears primative to you, but our recording technology remains behind yours."

"From our experiences your techology can be adapted to ours, so you should have no technical difficulties having information transfered to whatever means you require."

Technically it was true. Technically they could record thier informatin. Getting permission from General O'Neil on the other hand ...

Seeing as they seem happy about the camcorder's, Gwyn get's one of his out and pages through the book they supplied him to effectively get a copy of it while they wait. As he does so he looks out to see if it is in the 'modern' form of Goa'uld or one of the more ancient dialects that he has seen in Daniel's and Tealc's reports.

"Alright," Olivia said, nodding. "That's fair. I'd like to see the book or books regarding the reseeding of the humans across the galaxy. That's where we all come from, at the root of things."

It was a chance to see some of Earth's history, from a totally different point of view.

Gwyn finds that the dialect is a bit out of date, but perhaps not as much so as some of the earliest things Daniel had found.

Meanwhile preparations proceeded at what appeared to be a snails pace, but that was due mostly to everything being automated. All the many things were being done by the machines and devices. In all there just wasn't that much to see and record before the implantation itself.

When the time came it was fairly anticlimactic. Seven, took a Goa'uld larva from a stasis jar and placed it in a vat of fluid for a few minutes to let it get it's bearings then pressed a few buttons on a console. One of the horizontal tubes drained of fluid and opened. Seven took the larva in hand and walked over to the body and opened it's mouth and the larva slid inside. A few seconds later the eyes lit up in the way Goa'uld do and the body started breathing on it's own.

One looked to Caine, "You may stay further if you wish, but our brother will need to clean himself and attend to other bodily functions. Otherwise I can show you to Lord Ra's chambers."

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Olivia's wish was granted and she and Cam were shown to another section of the massive library. "This is the history of the early seeding of your race among the stars."

The room was easily fifty feel long and 15 wide and both walls were floor to ceiling books. The ceilings were 10 feet tall as well. There were hundreds of books in this section alone. Luckily the librarian pointed to one end at the top. "There you will find the book regarding the discovery of the Tauri homeworld and the books follow mostly chronological order from there. Toward the end much of the information was given second or third hand after the Tauri revolt. Lord Ra was very disappointed with the Tauri and what we know from that point was a result of his spies reports from among the other System Lords who made occasional visits by ship to cull more slaves."

Gwyn turned to One as his 'brother' collected himself, "Do you take turns in stasis, or do you only re-activate one of your brothers when there is a need for further man-power?"

"There has never been a need to awaken one of our brothers before. We seven have been the guardians of the works of Ra since the library was first built. Every few hundred years we do switch bodies to avoid the side effects of the resurrection process, but that takes only minutes."

Olivia reverently took the book from the shelf and found a place to sit down. Cam, the goa'uld and her situation were forgotten. Hatchins himself could have walked by her and she wouldn't have noticed. She was far too engrossed in the earliest recorded history of her planet to notice something as mundane as the man she'd once feared more than anything else.

His first sensation was of being wet. He had been so before, but it was different through the skin of his host. As his body began to expand, to dig out and take over the nerves of the body he had found himself in, Eight learned more and more. He was the first Eight, which made him two numbers. His brother were many, and had been two numbers many times.

These thoughts were unhelpful, he decided. Too complicated, without any real meaning. He resolved to think of something else. He turned his attention to the information waiting for him and he began to Learn.

Learning would always be capitalized, to him. It was important. It was his mission. His brethren collected and he Learned. He would share what he Learned to them, to add to their collecting. Someday, he might be here to help them. But Learning would always be his mission.

Sitting up for the first time, with his new back, he considered the way that this body folded and moved, shifted and slid. Skin caught against itself and pulled, but instead of adjusting himself, Eight let himself feel the sensation of discomfort. His brothers waited patiently for him, letting him get used to the strange sensations of his body.

When he was ready, they took him to the baths. He washed, becoming even more familiar with his body, with its strengths and limits. There were clothes waiting for him, and as he dressed, his brothers told him more about the strange visitors.