Stargate SG-1 Ficlet: Night Full Of Stars
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badly_knittedTitle: Night Full Of Stars
Fandom: Stargate SG-1
Author:
badly_knittedCharacters: Jack.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 508
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: On an alien world far from earth, Jack keeps watch while indulging in a spot of stargazing.
Written For:
be_themoon’s prompt ‘any, any, i have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night’, at ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
threesentenceficathon.Disclaimer: I don’t own Stargate SG-1, or the characters.
Another mission, another trip through the ‘gate to another alien world somewhere in the universe, countless light years from home. It was routine, and at the same time it wasn’t, because they could never be sure what they would be facing each time they stepped through the Stargate, whether they’d encounter friendlies, or Goa’uld, or no one at all. If they already knew what they’d find, what would be the point of going?
They were explorers first and foremost, seeing what was out here, making friends, and influencing the universe’s other inhabitants. Forming alliances, acquiring technology, that was a big part of it too, but by necessity, the exploring had to come first, because first they had to find people and civilisations to befriend. There didn’t seen to be much hope of that here, but that was okay. It was a nice place, even if it was a bit on the uninhabited side. It reminded O’Neill a bit of camping trips with his folks when he was a kid, out in the wilderness.
Despite the earth-like foliage, grass, bushes, and trees, though, this obviously wasn’t earth. The night was too dark, the stars were far too bright, and the constellations were completely wrong, nothing like the ones O’Neill had looked at so many times through his telescope back home. He couldn’t pick out a single familiar star, which wasn’t surprising, since according to Carter, they were so far from earth that their sun was just one more tiny pinprick of light among the masses, indistinguishable from all the other stars without the kind of telescope you’d only find in an observatory.
Not that there were any observatories around here. No cities, no buildings of any kind, not even ruins for Daniel to poke around in… If there ever was a civilisation here, it was long gone, leaving no traces behind, or none that they’d found so far. But the UAV had spotted something that needed to be checked out, so, they’d have to take a look at whatever that was before heading back, and since it was over twenty kilometers distant from the gate, they’d be staying here at least overnight, which suited Jack just fine.
The darkness didn’t bother him, even on an unfamiliar, unexplored world like this one. With so many stars overhead it didn’t even seem that dark, and they’d seen no sign of animal life, not even birds or insects… The weather was mild, pleasant enough that they wouldn’t have needed a fire except that they’d wanted to heat their rations and make coffee.
Now that it was burning down to embers, O’Neill didn’t feel any pressing need to add more fuel, knowing that light pollution, even from a campfire, would dim the beauty of the night. He’d rather not do that, because right now, all he really wanted to do while he was on watch, just in case they weren’t as alone as they seemed, was to stare at the stars for a bit, and think about everything they had yet to see.
The End
They were explorers first and foremost, seeing what was out here, making friends, and influencing the universe’s other inhabitants. Forming alliances, acquiring technology, that was a big part of it too, but by necessity, the exploring had to come first, because first they had to find people and civilisations to befriend. There didn’t seen to be much hope of that here, but that was okay. It was a nice place, even if it was a bit on the uninhabited side. It reminded O’Neill a bit of camping trips with his folks when he was a kid, out in the wilderness.
Despite the earth-like foliage, grass, bushes, and trees, though, this obviously wasn’t earth. The night was too dark, the stars were far too bright, and the constellations were completely wrong, nothing like the ones O’Neill had looked at so many times through his telescope back home. He couldn’t pick out a single familiar star, which wasn’t surprising, since according to Carter, they were so far from earth that their sun was just one more tiny pinprick of light among the masses, indistinguishable from all the other stars without the kind of telescope you’d only find in an observatory.
Not that there were any observatories around here. No cities, no buildings of any kind, not even ruins for Daniel to poke around in… If there ever was a civilisation here, it was long gone, leaving no traces behind, or none that they’d found so far. But the UAV had spotted something that needed to be checked out, so, they’d have to take a look at whatever that was before heading back, and since it was over twenty kilometers distant from the gate, they’d be staying here at least overnight, which suited Jack just fine.
The darkness didn’t bother him, even on an unfamiliar, unexplored world like this one. With so many stars overhead it didn’t even seem that dark, and they’d seen no sign of animal life, not even birds or insects… The weather was mild, pleasant enough that they wouldn’t have needed a fire except that they’d wanted to heat their rations and make coffee.
Now that it was burning down to embers, O’Neill didn’t feel any pressing need to add more fuel, knowing that light pollution, even from a campfire, would dim the beauty of the night. He’d rather not do that, because right now, all he really wanted to do while he was on watch, just in case they weren’t as alone as they seemed, was to stare at the stars for a bit, and think about everything they had yet to see.
The End
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Date: 2025-08-10 12:24 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2025-08-10 10:38 am (UTC)Thank you!