Magellan, gateway to the Magellanic Clouds, the only known Stargate location that bridges our home galaxy and these twin dwarf galaxies within its orbit. Many refugees from recent and past galactic conflicts have fled through this world seeking refuge in the hope of peaceful worlds far removed from the recent upheavals in the Milky Way. These disparate groups have come together to survive, they scavenge and scrape together a living in the Clouds, these ‘Scrappers’ are an emerging faction in the Galaxy, their control of the Magellan bridge-world makes them of special importance for the SEF’s ongoing mission statement of exploration, as the Magellanic Clouds offer a whole new region barely investigated by the SEF.

First contact with these refugees happened nearly two years ago, when the SEF encountered them during a search and rescue operation which evolved into a confrontation with the fanatical ‘Crusade’. The SEF thwarted the Crusade, but at the cost of one of their own, Dr Alba Cross, who gave up her physical form to become one with an ancient machine of a forgotten race.

Now, the time has come to return to Magellan, not on a mission of mercy this time, but one of friendship. The ‘Scrappers’ have reached out to Earth and the Alliance, seeking aid in maintaining the stability brought about by the SEF’s intervention. Alliance forces have aided the Scrappers in the construction of an Outpost on Magellan, giving them a hub to train and control traffic through the bridge-world’s gate.

Nobody likes to work on Christmas, but the SEF have drawn the short straw, arriving to relieve the Alliance forces at the outpost on Magellan over the winter holidays, at a time where the locals are looking worriedly towards new challenges to their young faction.