Enough build-up - Time to go to space! Explore! Fight Goa'uld! But in order to do that, one needs spaceships, and weapons. Not just Precious, which is, let's be frank here - a 5000 YO, POS of a ship. The world is also in need of saving from time to time, otherwise we will all need to depend on SGC, and all. It's generally a good idea to read a story from the beginning.