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"Well," General Hammond asked. "How did we miss this, people?"

"Carter?" Jack said, gesturing to the Major.

"Well, sir," Carter said. "We think it's because there are no set physical links connecting Earth and either Asgard or Nifelheim. The residents simply travel themselves or craft a temporary gate. It would explain how those worlds were able to shut off all travel from the outside. Our explorations have been mostly through to places with a permanent link, most of which we've managed to reroute here."

"We do think we know how those links got there now," Daniel said.

"And how is that?" Hammond asked.

"The Gods and Demons seem to have a usual method of dealing with some enemies," Teal'c explained. "I believe O'Neil stated it best."

"Their SOP is the Sealed Evil in a Can, general," O'Neil said. "Someone comes across something they can't quite kill or aren't allowed to kill...so they put it in a box and hide the box."

"You're basically saying that a lot of the hidden places are forgotten prison colonies," Hammond said.

"That would account for most of them," Carter said. "Especially the small ones, but not all. However, when you start to include the human spellcasters that may have been using the same seal arts to make little private hide-aways for themselves..."

"Or not so little in the case of Atlantis," O'Neil said.

"There is another potential side to this," Teal'c said. "These individuals bare some apparent relationship to the Enki and the Yaron. The Demoness mentioned calling themselves Keepers, which is the meaning of Enki and there was some mention of 'singers' which relates to the meaning the Yaron."

"But neither of those species is anything remotely close to human in either appearance or thought," Hammond said.

"Or humility," Daniel added. "Well makes sense. Asgard and Nifelheim are lifeboats and you generally don't have just one lifeboat."

"So the freaks we all know and hate are the ones that went out and haven't completely found their way back yet and got cut off from everyone else," O'Neil said. "And these are the ones that stayed close to home and kept up with the new fads."

"Yeah, that's one way to put it," Carter said struggling not to correct the oversimplification. "The main problem on our end is what they said about weakening seals."

Divine Blood, Chapter 37

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