need help with canon

[fai_dust]

I am trying to polish up a very late gift for a friend and I'm stuck on an Stargate Atlantis thing. (The problem isn't directly 'shipper or even Sheppard-related, but I promise the fic sort of is.)
 
The question: Is there a basic naming system for 'Gate teams on Atlantis? The SGC has it simple; SG-(#), but I've asked two friends, as well as gone over every potentialy relivent page on both gateworld.net and the SG Wikia site, and I still don't have an answer. And if there isn't a naming system in canon, is there a generally accepted on in the fandom?

(Sorry that this is my first post to the comm, but I don't have anywhere else to go. I can, however, promise that a very silly fic will follow.)

Comments

[fai_dust]

Okay, thanks. My bet is the last one, concidering it's Sheppard we're talking about. ^_^

Specifically, if I wanted to refer to Cadman's team 3 or 4 times in an (aprox) 750 word fic, how would I go about it do you think?

[bluflamingo]

I'd probably just call them Cadman's team. Unless it's really formal (if they're reporting to someone extremely senior like Landry, maybe?) because I suppose they might, technically, have officialy designations that no-one uses.

[fai_dust]

Woolsey, not Landry. But it's still the formal thing. And I don't think Cadman ever really had a team leader named, either, otherwise, I could just go with that.

[bluflamingo]

Ah ok. I've never heard Woolsey refer to a team by a number - I think he calls John's team Colonel Sheppard's team, for example - so you could probably go with Rank Lastname's team. If Cadman's not the TL, then the name of whoever is, either from canon, or someone you make up, since a random name won't mean anything more or less than a random number since Cadman never belonged to a specified team anyway.

[fai_dust]

Thanks so much. You've helped me more then I can say.