Majestic Program, Project Stargate
Posted on March 27, 2009 | Posted By Skycast
Filed Under Capsule Setting | Tags: Majestic, Stargate | Leave a Comment
Something I’m working on for a play-by-post over at Roleplaying Online…
In the shadows of the great pyramids of Giza in 1928 Professor Paul Langford unearthed a strange artifact buried under a set of cover stones with unusual symbols. The circular device was unlike anything ever discovered; its composition defied explanation…while it contained Egyptian markings, it certainly was not ancient Egyptian in origin. Professor Langford took the artifact to the prestigious Egyptian Museum in Berlin for further study. In 1933 Adolf Hitler was elected Chancellor of Germany and shortly thereafter he became intrigued with the occult applications of the device; Professor Langford and his daughter, Catherine, fled Germany for the United States, leaving the artifact behind in Nazi hands.
Flash forward…1945, the closing days of World War II in the European theater; the Allied forces are sweeping Germany and ridding it of its last Nazi strongholds. A commando unit under the direction of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) discovers Nazi laboratories in a bunker complex in Berlin. Within the bunker they find the artifact hooked up to a power supply and other strange devices. The discovery is classified Top Secret by the OSS and whisked away to the United States where a program is initiated to study the artifact.
Flash forward…1950, you stand in a briefing room in the Pentagon. You have no clue why you have been summoned here…the eclectic mix around has no idea either. The lights dim and a projector flashes an image on a wall, a circular device with unusual symbols fills the wall. The door to the room opens and a man enters, you can make out his silhouette against the hallway light behind him. "Gentleman," he says, "what you are about to hear is classified as Top Secret…welcome to the Majestic Program…Project Stargate."