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Welcome to Pegasus B
Okay, once upon a time I was writing SGA fic but I felt bad that I was abandoning my old friends, SG-1, and then my brain did this weird thing where it said, "What if Daniel never got involved with the Stargate Program? What if he only got involved when Dr. Weir was putting together the Atlantis Expedition?" And that got me thinking about how Jack would be without Daniel to see him through "Abyss." And that got me thinking about McKay and Daniel and Shep and Jack hanging out in Atlantis and then some crazy people on my flist said, "Yeah, write that," so I did and thereby and forsooth, Pegasus B was born.
Then people starting having these really interesting conversations in the comments as I posted snippets: speculation, suggestions, wishlists, what have you.
"Hey," sez me, a commie pinko Canadian at heart, "If you want to play in Pegasus B, go ahead! Wonder what happened while Jack was arguing with Daniel in the hallway? Wonder how Jack got out of Ba'al's prison without Daniel's help? Wonder what happens if 'Character A' turns left instead of right? Think a het spin is better than the slash thread? Want some good gen? Want to talk about the dynamics of writing crossovers? Sure! It's all yours. Play."
So some people did. They took me up on it.
And then someone said, "It would be easier to keep track of this if it were a community." And that someone made this community.
So, if you want to play in Pegasus B, c'mon in. You can stick to the outline and parameters set by the "pilot." You can extrapolate or deviate or parallel park or head for the hills. You can pick someone else's snippet and extrapolate, continue or backstory it. AU the AU if ya wants.
The KEY is this:
Nobody owns Pegasus B. If you contribute--snippets, stories, comments--you are giving permission to anybody else to riff off of your contribution. If you comment and ask a question or make a suggestion or dream wistfully "what if?" you do so knowing somebody might use that as the germ for a snippet or story or whatever.
Who knows where it will go? Ideally? Someday it'll leave the original Pegasus B universe behind completely and become an experiment in joint-writership. That would be awesome.
Sal
It's open to all, anyone may join. Non-members are screened so we don't have weird spam stuff. I'm not in charge because. Ha! But I will sorta keep track of it all. Please note: the majority of the stories have slash. It just sort of worked out that way. It is not a plan, it is not a requirement. If you wish to write het/gen here, go ahead. If you simply want to kvetch the lack of gen/het, or the existence of slash? Take it elsewhere.
B
NOTE: The original "Pilot" for Pegasus B written by Salieri is linked to in this LJ group's Memories Section. Here they are: http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=pegasus_b&keyword=%2A&filter=all
Snoopygirll is keeping a running list of all works in Pegasus B: http://www.livejournal.com/users/snoopygirll/81272.html?mode=reply
orca_girl has done a list of how certain fics connect and link and chain and offshoot. It's here:
http://www.livejournal.com/community/pegasus_b/35705.html#cutid1