Operator by Salieri (PG-13)
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stargateficrecShow: Stargate SG-1
Rec Category: Jack O'Neill/Daniel Jackson
Characters: Daniel Jackson, Jack O'Neill, Sam Carter
Pairing: Jack O'Neill/Daniel Jackson
Het/Slash/Gen: slash
Warning: none
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
troyswann
Author's Website: Outside the Box
Link: Operator
Why This Must Be Read: Salieri writes fabulous crossovers. One of my favorites is this 26,000-word alternate universe crossover with The Matrix. Instead of being team members at the SGC, Jack and Daniel bring their competence to running one of the ships rebelling again the machines and rescuing people from the matrix. Their latest assignment is to rescue a brilliant analyst from the matrix before Agent Maybourne gets to her.
Salieri creatively weaves Stargate characters in and builds a plot that fits the Matrix universe (with a touch of Stargate), while developing her own original touches for it. (It's probably best if you've seen at least the first, and maybe second Matrix movies, otherwise you'll get spoiled for certain aspects of them.)
There's also a really cool trailer bywyomingnot here.
Excerpt:
Daniel's back in the operator's seat, traced by the rain-light of trickling code. He taps keys, refines the search query, and the code shifts. They've been at broadcast level too long. Any minute now, a sentinel's going to come squidding by and open them up like a can of beans. But orders are orders.
"If she keeps on like this she's going to get noticed."
"Probably," Jack agrees. He stands behind Daniel and looks through the streaming code at the digital dream Sam Carter thinks of as herself. Like everyone in the matrix, she's asleep. Unlike them, she almost knows it.
"And if they get to her first?"
The system will reintegrate her and she won't be Jack's problem anymore. Schizophrenia, maybe, or incarceration for some kind of crime against the state. Loony bin or penitentiary. There are all kinds of quarantine boxes, most of them impenetrable, at the farthest reaches of the matrix, in the interstitial zones between the fake world and the machine world, where people like Jack won't be able to get to her. People can live a long time, even if they're nuts (Jack is proof of this), and there's no sense flushing a good body if it still generates a current. If nothing else, the machines are reasonably good at animal husbandry.
Jack watches Sam Carter's code drip down the screen, deformed slightly, just a bit askew. The matrix is trying to compensate, though, translating her unconscious resistance into some kind of phantasmatic symptom. She's having a panic attack, or a waking nightmare. It's not the world that's broken, the matrix is telling her. It's you. Jack winces. Been there. Done that. "Maybe she'll get lucky and they'll flush her."
Rec Category: Jack O'Neill/Daniel Jackson
Characters: Daniel Jackson, Jack O'Neill, Sam Carter
Pairing: Jack O'Neill/Daniel Jackson
Het/Slash/Gen: slash
Warning: none
Author on LJ:
troyswannAuthor's Website: Outside the Box
Link: Operator
Why This Must Be Read: Salieri writes fabulous crossovers. One of my favorites is this 26,000-word alternate universe crossover with The Matrix. Instead of being team members at the SGC, Jack and Daniel bring their competence to running one of the ships rebelling again the machines and rescuing people from the matrix. Their latest assignment is to rescue a brilliant analyst from the matrix before Agent Maybourne gets to her.
Salieri creatively weaves Stargate characters in and builds a plot that fits the Matrix universe (with a touch of Stargate), while developing her own original touches for it. (It's probably best if you've seen at least the first, and maybe second Matrix movies, otherwise you'll get spoiled for certain aspects of them.)
There's also a really cool trailer by
wyomingnot here.Excerpt:
Daniel's back in the operator's seat, traced by the rain-light of trickling code. He taps keys, refines the search query, and the code shifts. They've been at broadcast level too long. Any minute now, a sentinel's going to come squidding by and open them up like a can of beans. But orders are orders.
"If she keeps on like this she's going to get noticed."
"Probably," Jack agrees. He stands behind Daniel and looks through the streaming code at the digital dream Sam Carter thinks of as herself. Like everyone in the matrix, she's asleep. Unlike them, she almost knows it.
"And if they get to her first?"
The system will reintegrate her and she won't be Jack's problem anymore. Schizophrenia, maybe, or incarceration for some kind of crime against the state. Loony bin or penitentiary. There are all kinds of quarantine boxes, most of them impenetrable, at the farthest reaches of the matrix, in the interstitial zones between the fake world and the machine world, where people like Jack won't be able to get to her. People can live a long time, even if they're nuts (Jack is proof of this), and there's no sense flushing a good body if it still generates a current. If nothing else, the machines are reasonably good at animal husbandry.
Jack watches Sam Carter's code drip down the screen, deformed slightly, just a bit askew. The matrix is trying to compensate, though, translating her unconscious resistance into some kind of phantasmatic symptom. She's having a panic attack, or a waking nightmare. It's not the world that's broken, the matrix is telling her. It's you. Jack winces. Been there. Done that. "Maybe she'll get lucky and they'll flush her."
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