Stargate Aschen by Kimberley Jackson

Stargate SG-1 Fanfic

Links:
Fanfiction.net: Stargate Aschen by Kimberley Jackson (edited to comply with FFN's rating guidelines)
Author's Website: Stargate Aschen (A Romance Based on Stargate SG-1)
Archive of Our Own: Stargate Aschen by Kimberley Jackson

Story Rating:
M, NC-17

Status:
In-Progress (as of June 2nd, 2014)

Pairing:
Sam/Jack

Fanfiction.net Summary:
Jack/Sam AU. Earth is an Aschen colony under strict reign by an Aschen government. Only a very small percent of humans are still fertile. Samantha Carter is a young woman living in this world oppressed by Aschen. When her father arranges her marriage with his friend Jack O'Neill to protect Sam from the system, Sam runs away to join the resistance, determined to liberate Earth...

Author's Website Summary:
This is an AU (alternate universe) version of Stargate – a spin-off in writing. In the year 799 (Aschen calender), Earth is a colony under strict reign by an Aschen government. Humanity is at the brink of extinction – only a very small percent of humans are so-called gifted ones; people, who are able to still conceive/father children. Strict rules apply to the gifted ones, as the Aschen government wants to make sure that a certain number of population is being upheld.

Samantha Carter is a young woman living in this restrictive world. She is 25 years old, and that means she has just come of age and undergoes her first fertility tests. When her tests turn out positive, her life is about to change dramatically, leaving her to be forcefully married to a genetically compatible male. Unwilling to accept that, she runs away from home to find the resistance and fight for her own freedom. Finally a member of the resistance, she is stationed at a small camp in Antarctica where a second Stargate was found almost a century before and kept secret from the Aschen. Camp leader is Colonel Jack O’Neill. Unaware of the fact that a coincidence has caused them to be more than soldiers in a war for Earth’s freedom, they start to fight to liberate their world from Aschen oppression together…

Archive of Our Own Summary:
In the year 799 (Aschen calender), Earth is a colony under strict reign by an Aschen government. Humanity is at the brink of extinction – only a very small percent of humans are so-called gifted ones; people, who are able to still conceive/father children. Strict rules apply to the gifted ones, as the Aschen government wants to make sure that a certain number of population is being upheld.

Samantha Carter is a young woman living in this restrictive world. She is 25 years old, and that means she has just come of age and undergoes her first fertility tests. When her tests turn out positive, her life is about to change dramatically, leaving her to be forcefully married to a genetically compatible male.


Unwilling to accept that, she runs away from home to find the resistance and fight for her own freedom. When she meets Jack O’Neill, camp leader of resistance cell 4, neither of them realizes that they share more than the mutual goal to free Earth from Aschen reign. Side by side, they start fighting to liberate their world from Aschen oppression using a second, secret Stargate, which was found almost a century before in the Antarctica forests…

Review: 
When I first started reading this, I was a bit hesitant because it was the first truly AU Stargate SG-1 fic that I had read. However, I'm very grateful that I did! It's one of those stories that I get excited about whenever I get an alert in my inbox. I love the way that the author manages to include bits from different episodes and incorporate them into the storyline. I think she's managed to keep true to all of the characters personalities, both from SG-1 and Atlantis. There are certain story arcs that are taking a bit longer than I want to be resolved, but she's definitely filling the time with interesting stories.

In terms of the maturity rating, there hasn't really been anything yet (as of June 2nd, 2014) that justifies it in my opinion, just a few scenes charged with sexual tension.

Favorite Aspect of Story (So far):
Difficult to say... I think it's probably the way she keeps tying in some of my favorite lines from the show into the story, especially since the setting is completely different.

Rating:
8/10