Signups for Off-Screen Missions Alphabet Soup

This will be Alphabet Soup #24. Because I apparently have the eternal optimism of the shameless SG-1 fangirl. :)

Not sure what I'm talking about? Visit the Alphabet Soup index for past anthologies.

Our theme this time is Off-Screen Missions. These are missions that are either referenced or clearly implied in SG-1 canon as taking place off-screen. It does not include missions that are created out of whole cloth, although I tend to be pretty generous in my interpretations. If you can find a hook via a throwaway line of dialogue, I will accept it.

This is how it works, and read through carefully, please, because this one is a little different has changed:

Under the cut, I've listed episodes and the implied/referenced missions that are suggested by the episode. If inspiration strikes, comment and ask me for a letter, which I will assign randomly. By making such a claim, you are commiting yourself to writing at least 100 words of gen fic. It could be in the form of a report, a single snippet of a scene from the mission, the briefing afterwards - or, of course, a multi-chapter epic of the mission that we all wish we could have seen on screen... :)

If you have an idea for a mission that's not on the list, go right ahead and do it!

Once an actual fic has been posted, I will strike out that particular prompt on the list. (This is because, sadly, many prompts were claimed and ultimately never filled.)

Signups will last until all 26 letters are claimed. Stories may be posted as soon as they're written, although they will be officially due by August 1st. [Edit: ::cough:: yes, that was more than eight months ago.] [Edit again: yeah, this is going to keep going until we're done...] [Edit in 2021: GOOD GRIEF PEOPLE LET'S FINISH THIS THING.] Stories can be posted anywhere the author pleases, although they must be open to the public without requiring a login or password. If one of your posting sites is AO3, please add your story to the Off-Screen Missions Alphabet Soup collection.

Authors who want to cook a second helping may come back and claim a second mission as soon as their first is posted.

There are only a few rules: your fic must be at least 100 words, although there is no maximum limit; it must have some connection to a mission referenced or implied in SG-1 canon, however you choose to interpret that; the fic should be canon compliant, although it does not have to reference canon specifically; and it should be gen. There are many, many ficathons out there to accomodate ship; please don't sneak in references to your favorite OTP. Canon ships may be referenced, but they should not be the focus of the story.

Please note that I will no longer be asking writers to send me a full copy of the text of their fic, as I am not going to collect all 26 stories into a single-entry anthology. The table of contents will be the one-stop shopping place for all stories in the anthology, with links going to the authors' journal. It is therefore even more important that each author sends me a detailed entry for the TOC. You can find complete instructions at this entry.

Here's to SG-1. And gen squee. And Alphabet Soup!

( episodes and suggested missions under the cut )