Butterflies Suck

Although it aired to positive feedback, "The Wings of a Butterfly" was such a chore for me to write. It was the episode I disliked the most - and I was the one who pitched it. At first I thought it'd be cool because of all the different things an alternate universe episode would allow me to do but in the end it was that aspect that turned me off.

In the end, I didn't like that nothing I did in this episode mattered. For the most part this episode forshadowed the rest of the season and that's all it really did. As much as I'd love to go into details, I'd rather not spoil you.

One thing which was fun was that I got to include the Atauians (originally the Steruc, who you'll see next week :-P). So far, no-one seems to have picked up on the Atauians being back. They were in "I Think, Therefore...".

Anyway, with 1x15 we finished our third quarter. I think it's fantastic, my episode ended the third quarter and another of mine will start the fourth. That's quality entertainment. I think our comeback from our looooonnnnnggggggg hiatus has been excellent. "The Vennix" was an excellent return which also spread out new story branches. "What's In A Name" was a lovely Destiny debut for Harry Martin who provided us with an entertaining stand alone episode.

And of course, "Lonely Echoes". I think I'll take a moment to brag about that. I'm so glad that people loved it, it was the sort of script that made me really love writing. Not only was it enjoyable but it got tones of feedback and that made me smile. And of course, Adrian Curtis, a fan favorite returned with "Belly of the Beast" another of those Malecathi episodes he so often writes.

Overall, the third quarter was fantastic and our second half has been so much stronger than the first, not only because we've learnt the ropes but because of the sort of storytelling you'll notice popping up once the season ends. We've managed to interlink alot of the episodes throughout the season which I really think helps bring the episodes together. It gives it that connected feel that Atlantis and DS9 had.

I'm dying to spoil the fourth quarter for you but Boss would kill me. Just look forward to enjoying Josh's debut episode and Adrian's whumping heavy episode. This is Aaron Percival, signing off.

Long time...

...No see. I know, it's been a while but here I am, back to tell you all about the upcoming episodes of Stargate Destiny. First off, I'd like to appologise for the really long hiatus. It took alot longer than we thought it would to get the episodes done, plus we had other real life commitments and so such. But I'm really happy to say that our third quarter is complete with the 4th well underway.

For those who have yet to see our schedule listing, here it is:

September 5th, 2006
1x11 - The Vennix
By Geoff Hill

September 12th, 2006
1x12 - What's in a Name
By Harry Martin

September 19th, 2006
1x13 - Lonely Echoes
By Aaron Percival

September 26th, 2006
1x14 - Belly of the Beast
By Adrian Curtis

October 3rd, 2006
1x15 - The Wings of a Butterfly
By Aaron Percival

October 10th, 2006
1x16 - Orion Twilight
By Aaron Percival

October 17th, 2006
1x17 - Lifeline
By Geoff Hill

October 24th, 2006
1x18 - Unsung Heroes
By Harry Martin and Joshua Achiam

October 31st, 2006
1x19 - Weakness
By Adrian Curtis

November 6th, 2006
1x20 - Alliances, Part One
By Geoff Hill

I thought it'd be nice to come here and tease you about the upcoming episodes. We start back this coming Tuesday with Geoff's episode, The Vennix. I have to say, I'm glad he had troubles with this episode. And by troubles, I mean he couldn't condence the script so you guys are in for a nice 110 page treat on Tuesday.

I'm afraid I can't say much about What's In A Name as I haven't read it all. But I can certainly do some self pimping with Lonely Echoes. I had such a blast writing it. It's heavily character orientated and we even see an old SG-1 friend. Adrian comes back with another Malecathi episode, The Belly of the Beast. Might we be seeing a special Malecathi we saw before in 1x06?

And finally, The Wings of a Butterfly. An interesting episode that is filled to the brim with action. All this and more coming soon, to an internet site near you. :-) I hope you're all excited for this. We certainly are!

Until next time.

Long Time, No Post

Well guys, it's been a while since this blog as updated. But that's only because we've been so busy behind the scenes. Actually, that's a lie. All we've been doing it having a big party. You see Geoff has gone and done the craziest thing. He brought a yaht and you know the international waters laws...anything goes. Well Geoff and Adrian have some crazy hobbies....ok, I lied. The truth is, we are busy behind the season.

The first half of season one has finished. A couple of weeks ago in fact. After a rocky start, we've started to find our bearings and the fans to go with the stories. In fact, we've even managed to make a fan out of Lt. Colonel Ryu Gaia, one of the toughest readers to please. Our second quarter was full of strong episodes, which include fan favorites. It's very evident, to the writers as well as the readers than we're improving and greatly for that matter.

We're currently in our mid-season hiatus, which is giving us the chance to write the next set of episodes before we release them. Don't worry though, we will have some awesome gifts for you while you wait. Can anyone say CG images? Tommy, a fantastic CG artist happened across the site and volunteered to help us out. So far we have an F307 model which is just being touched up, and an Onslaught Cruisers which is in developement. Expect to see some of those soon.

Titles and synopsis' have been released for the 3rd quarter, as well as titles for the 4th quarter. For those who haven't seen them:

111-The Vennix
With the majority of the Destiny's crew trapped on what they had believed to be a paradise planet, the remaining crew onboard the Destiny must find a way to take back the ship. But it is on the planet that the rest of the crew learns a secret about the people who stole the ship.
Written by Geoff Hill

112-What's In A Name
Arriving on a planet embroiled by a religous war, Orion-1's Puddlejumper is shot down when trying to get in for a closer look. However, when they crash, the team is separated, and taken by the two warring sides.
Written by Harry Martin

113-Lonely Echoes
The Destiny arrives in a solar system with the intent to test out a new energy based weapon on the asteroids that fill the system. However, when the weapon malfunctions, one of the observing X09 is left damaged and adrift.
Written by Aaron Percival

114-Belly of the Beast
A salvage operation discovers a crashed Malecathi cruiser. When Orion-1 goes to investigate they find a powerful creature lurking in the ships depths, and must find a way to escape before one of their own is lost.
Written by Adrian Curtis

115-The Wings of a Butterfly
An attack on the Destiny leaves General Barrows dead and Colonel Hemmingway in a coma from the attack. Waking up, Hemmingway finds herself in the middle of a choas torn vessel with many dead. Not only that, but she also finds she has a strange new ability.
Written by Aaron Percival

116-Lifeline
Written by Geoff Hill

117-Unsung Heroes
Written by Harry Martin

118-Orion Twilight
Written by Aaron Percival

119-Weakness
Written by Adrian Curtis

120-Alliances, Part One

There we are. I think I'll just talk a little about the upcoming episodes. Geoff is finishing off the mid-season 2 parter with "The Vennix". We get introduced into a new enemy, how cool? "What's In A Name" is written by our new staff writer, Harry Martin. He herolds from over at SG Genesis. He's set to write two episodes this season, "What's In A Name" and "Unsung Heroes", an episode which he pitched.

Adrian will be writing "Belly of the Beast", another Malecathi related episode. Adrian seemed to have been labeled out Malecathi guy since he has done some the more popular episodes which revolve around the Malecathi.

I'll be writing two episodes this quarter, both of which I pitched. "Lonely Echoes" is a very character orientated episode. And I mean very. Flashbacks, for two characters. You'll be getting lots of character development in that episode. Also, who can say guest appearance by Richard Dean Anderson? I'm about half way through this episode.

"The Wings of a Butterfly", as been guessed will be an AU episode. I pitched it way back when I first joined the series, and it's gonna be fun, but also quite tricky.

Onto a personal note. Just watched Mr and Mrs Smith which I borrowed off a fabulous and sexy friend. I've become addicted to a series called My Name is Earl. Thats on the "to-buy list". But that's all for now really. Keep reading. Elite Anubis Guard.

PS-Oh and Esquin says hi.

Well...long time

I know, it's been quite a long time since Geoff or I actually posted here. We've been busy with writing and various other things. Don't worry though, I'm back and here to talk. So basically, Destiny has been out for a month and a half now. We're currently in the first quarter hiatus. So before I talk about the new episodes, hows about I talk about the old ones? How do ya think that sounds?

Well "Providence" opened to some varried criticism. Some liked it, some didn't. There has been quite a bit of positive reactions to the episode, but also negative. The negative however is being taken into account as Geoff will be re-released "Providence" (I think) later on during the mid-season hiatus with new edits. "Friendly Fire" followed after. Reactions to this were not many, but good. This episode had some interesting impliciations for Hemmingway and was a nice stand alone episode.

"Behemoth", written by Adrian Curtis was quite a ride of an episode. Reader reaction to this has been amazing. Practically everyone who commented on this loved it. It is IMO the best episode of the first four (Five really). It has the smartest and definetly unpredicatable conclusion to the episode and was also a fantastic episode which showed this is also a ship based series so expect ship episodes.

My episode, "Treasure Trove" was the last to air. I have enjoyed reading the reactions to this, they mostly seem positive. But will we see the Faerek again? Who knows. Just be sure to keep reading.

We (Geoff, Adrian and myself) are all hard at work on our next set of episodes. I am currently somewhere near the end of the 3rd act of "The Farm" which is currently slated for 1x08. It's another dark episode which I am really enjoying writing. Look for another Tenyris/Morgami moment. Adrian is working on "Lost But Not Forgotten". I haven't read much, but from what I read of the outline, it's gonna be an interesting episode.

Geoff's current endevour has me foaming at the mouth. He is currently writing "I Think, Therefore...". It is looking to be his best episode and is a fantastic episode. I really can't wait to read this one in its entirety. Myself and Geoff will also be writing 1x09, "Pathogen", which is now being outlined.

We've also been having problems with the website. Bandwidth problems to be exact. Seems we have more viewers than I thought. Geoff will be upgrading our host soon so we'll have lots more bandwidth. Not only this, but I'll also be able to add new features to the website, including a Wikipedia. Yay.

We've been releasing concept art over the last couple of weeks as well. We've got some really cool artwork for the F308 and the Malecathi. Look for more when the website comes back online. Phil, our concept artist, should be hard at work on a Destiny one now. So look forward for some CG images soon.

Well I guess I'll move onto the personal stuff now. I just finished reading the Season 2 finale of Star Trek Frontiers. That was pretty dam awesome. Quite an amazing series with really awesome ideas. I've also been reading other Trek virtual series such as Discovery. It isn't as good as Frontiers, but it's only been out a couple of weeks and has 2 episodes out (3 if you count the pilot as 2). Don't fret though, I'm not an entire Trekkie, I've also been reading Gods. All these are worth checking out.

I'm just re-reading some Horizon while I wait for them to come back off of the mid-season hiatus. Why am I complaining? Being a fan since the start, I should be used to hiatus' by now. I certainly remember the murderous mid-season hiatus in Season 1, that almost killed my.

Well I think that's it for now. No, actually, I'm going for my college interview tomorrow. I'm applying for a media course, so I've gotta talk down some work of mine from Destiny. Wish me luck.

Until next time, Aaron Percival.

Long time....

...no see. Sorry there have been no posts in a while, but Geoff has been busy and I forgot I could post here. Well I thought I'd bring us all upto date on whats been happening behind the scenes at everyones most anticipated series, Stargate Destiny.

Unfortunetly, one of our staff writers, Terminus upped and left. He left the community as well, due to family issues among other things. Here is his goodbye to us all:

"I'm pulling away from the StarGate fanfiction community as of this date - there's a lot of stuff going on in my life at the moment that I'm struggling to get a handle on and I need to figure out how to cope with that before I can reimmerse myself back in fanfiction circles.

I apologise to many of you for this - but it is necessary. I've just been very depressed lately and I need to sort myself out"

While it does set one of our episodes back, we are sad to see Terminus go, and we wish him the best of luck in wherever he ventures next. But onto a brighter side, Samuels joined us as a proof-reader, and maybe writer. This was to fill in the void left by Terminus, as he was also the series' proof-reader and an editor along side myself.

Erm, well, onto myself. Unfortunetly I hadn't got around to writing too much of 1x05 - Treasure Trove lately due to writing Valiant, the sixth episode of the fully running Stargate virtual series, Stargate Horizon. But since that has now been released, I'm back to work on Treasure Trove. It's a pretty interesting episode actually. The Destiny crew find a planet with an abandoned ancient city on it, a really trashed and wrecked city. Of course, our heroes suspect the shows bad guys, the Malecathi, did this but.....well, I'll just let you wait.

There is a few interesting moments in that episode, what would be really cool shots and a funny Jonas moment. This episode deals with how the situation in this new galaxy effected the Alterans that travelled there. It's something I don't think we've seen before on Stargate, to see some an advance race turn to such intense and unlikely measures. Anyway, I've send to much. Onto other things.

Providence (Part One) is soon to be entering editing. Samuels is going to be going through it, making sure everything is correct and spelt properly. After that comes the removal of scenes, and changing of dialogue and such things. Not that anything needs to be removed. It's just some scenes are too long, too much detail or iffy dialogue here or there.

Geoff is working hard on the second part of Providence. Unfortunetly it's been a bit tight due to personal lifes, but with a release date in 2 months, we're now cracking on to get everything done. I haven't heard from Esquin, but he's really have fun with Behemoth, which is going to be a fantastic and big episode...involving asteroids.

There has also been a chance in our cast. We previously had Catherine Bell as Col. Hemmingway. It has just recently been decided to change that actress to Evangeline Lilly. She plays the character, Kate, on the hit show Lost. Which I might add, I have recently gotten around to watching. I got the first part of the first season on DVD. It only just recently came out on DVD in the UK.

So anyway, that's all from me for the moment. Be sure to drop by our forums and have a look around: http://stargatedestiny.proboards55.com/index.cgi

The Stargate Destiny Forum

Well the past week or so, myself and Geoff have been working on the Stargate Destiny Forum. This contains information on Destiny, as well as boards for you to ask questions about it and to comment on other posts. The forum has been customised and features a blue, black and purple theme with custom background, banner and buttons. You aren't requires to register to the forum to post but I have added 29 avatars for registered users to choose from, all off the actors we have in mind to play our characters. So make sure to vist the forum and remember to register if you.
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Right thats all for now, I shall post up another article on the progress of the website and how I'm making it soon.
-Aaron Percival

Creating the Destiny Website

Hey guys, Aaron Percival here. I'm the guy responsible for designing and creating the website among other jobs but I'm here to talk to your about creating the website today. The first thing I had to do when designing the layout for the site was to take in acount what the website was to be about and since it was to be about a spin-off to Stargate SG-1 basically, I design it with that in mind.

The menu needed an episode guide, information about the crew and I just add on the relivate information like information on the characters, links to forums and this blog. Once I have decided what links to use I set about creating the images. All my websites have the same sort of ideas like those menu images and I just used the blogs banner to create those, the main hassle I had was creating the banner to fit the layout all together as I had all the coding done.

Well that's it for the moment as I'm tired but I'll explain more later.
-Aaron Percival