The Dressage Ring

so while i was being completely useless at work today, i wrote this little snippet:

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you can see by the names that this little idear started out as a stargate sg-1 idea, but now i'm wondering if it might work as an original short-story fic. or even a multi-book series of originals. the theory for connor's culture is:

1) they're all shapechangers - right now i'm thinking all leopards.
2) they've got a technology level currently roughly equivalent to ours
3) their base culture is a mix of Celtica and standard werewolf type stuff

i was basically thinking it would be interesting to have a culture that was heavily mercenary and to explore how geeks get along in that society. not well, i'd think. i thought the best way to do that would be to portray a situation where there's tension in one of the mercenary households due to bias and succession issues, and how introducing people unfamiliar with the culture would upset the status quo and force a confrontation.

i wanted to tell the story from the newcomer's point of view, because i want the whole shapechanging issue to be one i work up to - it's important because it influences the undercurrents of the story, but it's not something that's either immediately obvious or revealed.

anyway, if it reads a little clunky, it's because of the changing canvas thing. and i'm still not sure - should i leave it as sg-1, or try to work it into an original short story?

-bs, pondering