History FanficRecs / BattlestarGalactica2003

Proof that [[SturgeonsLaw some fanfics are worthy of survival]] here.

* ''Comments'': Dead Fic, unfortunately, and pretty short. But a very well-written story, nonetheless. A semi-crossover between VideoGame/{{Homeworld}} and Battlestar Galactica 2003, the story stars a group of space pirates that were originally exiled from the 12 colonies. Ever since the [[RobotWar First Cylon War]], they've been in a civil war with rouge factions, but now they have their stuff together again and are ready to begin preying on the colonies once more. Unfortunately, they arrive at the same time as the Cylons, which they consider as being a good thing, as that means more ships to plunder. Only about five chapters, most of which is space battles between the pseudo-Vaygr and the Cylons, but if you're looking for a good fight scene between an evenly matched alien fleet and the cylons, this is it. I'd recommend it, but with a grain of salt.

* ''Synopsis'': The scrolls tell that 13 tribes left the birthplace of humanity on Kobol, 12 went one way and the other Earth went another only to lose all contact with their cousins. It is written that one day they would reunite but when they Earth meets their cousins it is not what they expected and it would cost both sides in blood. (Stargate SG-1/Battlestar Galactica)

* ''Synopsis'': A Stargate: [=SG1=]/Battlestar: Galactica crossover. It begins 34 years after the First Cylon War with Commander Adama in command of BS-41 Valkyrie. The Colonies have been in a state of undeclared Cold War with the Cylons. After being snubbed thirty-four times at the Cenotaph Armistice Station Admiral Corman, Commander of Sixth Fleet, tasked with border patrol and expeditionary activities, dispatches Commander Adama to investigate a series of anomalous DRADIS signals on the extreme edge of explored space. They believe the Cylons are testing a stealth ship. Due to the story taking place years before the series there are many original characters. Series characters such as Kara Thrace and Karl Agathon will be introduced as they progress through the Fleet Academy and Lee Adama as he begins Viper training, as well as his brother, Zak. The story is told mainly from the Colonial POV.

* ''Synopsis'' A President and an Admiral walk into a bar...a drabble that grew! A cancer-free AU finds Bill Adama and Laura Roslin in 1879 Deadwood post-Hearst amongst the Gem folks. Rating for language, adult themes. Spoilers for Season 3 Deadwood.

* ''Comments'': Creator/JamieBamber was once informed by his fans that they liked to live in a fantasy world where Archie had not in fact die, and he was asked about his theory on how Archie had survived his seemingly-fatal wound. He replied: "So when they carried his corpse away, aliens came down and resuscitated him, and now he's living on Astra Major in some other galaxy. And maybe Lee Adama will come across him, and asks: 'What the hell is going on with you, Arch?'" This answer inspired the author to write her story. Several readers expressed its affinity to ''Theatre/WaitingForGodot'', which she originally had not read and was later freaked out by the similarity.

* ''Synopsis'': A Stargate: [=SG1=]/Battlestar: Galactica crossover. It begins 34 years after the First Cylon War with Commander Adama in command of BS-41 Valkyrie. The Colonies have been in a state of undeclared Cold War with the Cylons. After being snubbed thirty-four times at the Cenotaph Armistice Station Admiral Corman, Commander of Sixth Fleet, tasked with border patrol and expeditionary activities, dispatches Commander Adama to investigate a series of anomalous DRADIS signals on the extreme edge of explored space. They believe the Cylons are testing a stealth ship. Due to the story taking place years before the series there are many original characters. Series character such as Kara Thrace and Karl Agathon will be introduced as they progress through the Fleet Academy and Lee Adama as he begins Viper training, as well as his brother, Zak. The story is told mainly from the Colonial POV.

* ''Comments'': katamarann is one of the most amazing fanfic writers in the BSG fandom, and this is just one of many that she has posted and is famed for. The fic isn't just the two respective characters as the same people with the expection of their occupations, but she also goes into detail about how the two characters got into the positions that they have and the changes in their worlds because of the different choices they've made, and how these changes have affected the rest of the series as a whole, which leads to some pretty awesome and jaw dropping moments. Overall amazing, and still ongoing and katamarann is just amping up the JustForFun/HolyShitQuotient.

''[[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/the-hunted-nbsg.245504/ The Hunted]]'' by Stephen T. "master arminas" Bynum ([[Fanfic/MasterArminasTheHunted TVTropes page]])

''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11126728/1/Contact-at-Kobol ContactAtKobol]]'' by wilkins75.

* ''Status'': Complete

* ''Comments'': katamarann is one of the most amazing fanfic writers in the BSG fandom, and this is just one of many that she has posted and is famed for. The fic isn't just the two respective characters as the same people with the expection of their occupations, but she also goes into detail about how the two characters got into the positions that they have and the changes in their worlds because of the different choices they've made, and how these changes have affected the rest of the series as a whole, which leads to some pretty awesome and jaw dropping moments. Overall amazing, and still ongoing and katamarann is just amping up the HolyShitQuotient.

* ''Status'': Ongoing

''[[https://archiveofourown.org/series/41303 Ephemerides]]'' by Saathi1013

''[[http://workerbee73.livejournal.com/129076.html The Road Not Taken]]'' by [[http://workerbee73.livejournal.com [=workerbee73=]]]

''[[http://workerbee73.livejournal.com/126643.html Best Laid Plans]]'' by [[http://workerbee73.livejournal.com [=workerbee73=]]]

''[[http://workerbee73.livejournal.com/111947.html A Dangerous Game]]'' by [[http://workerbee73.livejournal.com [=workerbee73=]]]

The works of [[http://www.fanfiction.net/~caffeinechic [=CaffeineChic=]]].
* Recommended by AcrossTheStars
* ''Pairing'': Roslin/Adama
* ''Comments'': She's brilliant. Seriously, seriously brilliant. She writes in this chaotic, tumbly style that would give English teachers a heart attack but that miraculously conveys ''feelings''... the true, deep, magical feelings Mary [=McDonnell=] and Edward Olmos brought so vividly to life. Her spelling is flawless, her characterization perfect, and best of all, she's written nearly fifty stories for the pairing, all over a thousand words. It's a treasure trove, I tell you... a treasure trove of two people united body and heart and mind and soul.

''Through A Glass Lightly'' ( [[http://katamarann.livejournal.com/tag/fanfic:%20bsg:%20through%20a%20glass%20lightly [=here=]]] ) by katamarann

* ''Synopsis'': What if Adama and Roslin were in opposite positions when they met at the decommisionning ceremony? Roslin as the Commander of the Galactica and Adama as the Secretary of Education.
* ''Comments'': katamarann is one of the most amazing fanfic writers in the BSG fandom, and this is just one of many that she has posted and is famed for. The fic isn't just the two respective characters as the same people with the expection of their occupations, but she also goes into detail about how the two characters got into the positions that they have and the changes in their worlds because of the different choices they've made, and how these changes have affected the rest of the series as a whole, which leads to some pretty awesome and jaw dropping moments. Over all amazing, and still ongoing and katamarann is just amping up the HolyShitQuotient.

* ''Sypnosis'': This will start as just a short story told from the Caprican perspective of the end of the Fifth Colonial Conflict and the start of the Cylon War. The Cylons have been the robotic servants and soldiers of the Colonies for nearly thirty years. For the past four years the Fifth Colonial Conflict has raged across eight worlds and dozens of moons and planetoids. Four hundred million Colonial citizens are dead, thousands of warships destroyed, and two alliances ready to slash the throat of the other. Caprica plans a major offensive to sieze Tauron's most important tyllium mine. Admiral Kessandra Makos, the high commander of Caprican/Scorpion/Picon forces begins her assault on the planetoid Corvus in the Cyrannus System. Unfortunately half of her fleet, ships crewed and designed for the robotic Cylons, have other plans.

* ''Synopsis'': A mature FasterThanLightTravel-capable civilisation is harder to exterminate than one thinks. Certainly, the Cylons made that mistake. One of these surviving bands is led by an engineering track commodore and his fleet support ship rather than the combat veteran Adama was, one who has his own perspective on survival.

* ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5803565/1/Going_Forward Going Forward]]''
** ''Synopsis'': A few years later, the Colonials are settling into new lives in the Federation. Then the Dominion invades the Alpha Quadrant, and all hell breaks loose.

** @/{{Night}}: This story works. It really, really works, it makes great sense and it presents everyone's characters sharply, clearly, and faithfully. Definitely worth a read.

* ''Synopsis'': The good ship ''Galactica'' and her fleet encounter the far-flung remnants of the ''Forward Unto Dawn'', around 80 years after the events of ''Halo 3''. In relation to ''Galactica'', this seems to be set some time in Season 2 after the arrival of the ''Pegasus'' and before the discovery of New Caprica.

* ''Sypnosis'': A Stargate: [=SG1=]/Battlestar: Galactica crossover. It begins 34 years after the First Cylon War with Commander Adama in command of BS-41 Valkyrie. The Colonies have been in a state of undeclared Cold War with the Cylons. After being snubbed thirty-four times at the Cenotaph Armistice Station Admiral Corman, commander of Sixth Fleet, tasked with border patrol and expeditionary activities, dispatches Commander Adama to investigate a series of anomalous DRADIS signals on the extreme edge of explored space. They believe the Cylons are testing a stealth ship. Due to the story taking place years before the series there are many original characters. Series character such as Kara Thrace and Karl Agathon will be introduced as they progress through the Fleet Academy and Lee Adama as he begins Viper training, as well as his brother, Zak. The story is told mainly from the Colonial POV.

* ''Synopsis'' A President and an Admiral walk into a bar...a drabble that grew! A cancer-free A/U finds Bill Adama and Laura Roslin in 1879 Deadwood post-Hearst amongst the Gem folks. Rating for language, adult themes. Spoilers for Season 3 Deadwood.

* ''Sypnosis'':While on missions of discovery, two cultures meet and must face the challenges of their enemies and their pasts together. A Battlestar Galactica/Stargate crossover.

* ''Synopsis'': As the Cylons ravage the Colonies and exterminate the human race, they will find themselves at odds with an ancient menace, whose destiney is intertwined with that of the Galactica and her fleet of survivors. Homeworld 2 influences.
* ''Comments'': Dead Fic, unfortunately, and pretty short. But a very well-written story, nonetheless. A semi-crossover between VideoGame/{{Homeworld}} and Battlestar Galactica 2003, the story stars a group of space pirates that were originally exiled from the 12 colonies. Ever since the [[RobotWar First Cylon War]], they've been in a civil war with rouge factions, but now they have their stuff together again and are ready to begin preying on the colonies once more. Unfortunately, they arrive at the same time as the Cylons, which they consider as being a good thing, as that means more ships to plunder. Only about three chapters, most of which is space battles between the pseudo-Vaygr and the Cylons, but if you're looking for a good fight scene between an evenly matched alien fleet and the cylons, this is it. I'd recommend it, but with a grain of salt.

''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5120954/1/Jupiter_Brains_All_Over_The_Walls Jupiter Brains All Over the Walls]] by Alyak.

* ''Comments'': A ''Franchise/MassEffect''[=/=]''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'' crossover, where the cylons survived into the far distant future, into the twenty second century, where the galaxy is united via the power of Mass Effect. They were reawakened by Shepard, who was scanning giant, buried supercomputers known as Jupiter Brains before he was called away. These "Jupiter Brains," are actually Cylon ships, who dispatch a Six to check out the galaxy, and to determine how humanity is doing. In the process, however, she saves a colony and gains the ire of Shepard and the Illusive Man. Personally, I really like Six, the main character in this story, as she seems to take pride in standing up to Shepard and other powerful entities, which is a refreshing change of pace from where people fall all over themselves trying to get on Shepard's good side, as is so common in many stories. If for no other reason, read it for the characters, who are amazingly good.

* ''Synopsis'': A mature FasterThanLightTravel-capable civilisation is harder to exterminate than one thinks. Certainly, the Cylons made that mistake. One of these surviving bands is led by an engineering track commodore rather than the combat veteran Adama was, one who has his own perspective on survival.

* Comments: This is awesome. I particularly recommend it to those... dissatisfied with the ending of BSG, which the author has clearly set out his intent to avoid. I even recommend it to those who don't particularly like ''Halo''. It's been mentioned elsewhere on TV Tropes, I just thought I'd better put in a recommendation here. Spoilers for ''Halo'' and post-season 2 ''[[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined Battlestar Galactica]]''.

* ''Comments'': A ''Franchise/MassEffect''/[[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined Battlestar Galactica 2003]] crossover, where the cylons survived into the far distant future, into the twenty second century, where the galaxy is united via the power of Mass Effect. They were reawakened by Shepard, who was scanning giant, buried supercomputers known as Jupiter Brains before he was called away. These "Jupiter Brains," are actually Cylon ships, who dispatch a Six to check out the galaxy, and to determine how humanity is doing. In the process, however, she saves a colony and gains the ire of Shepard and the Illusive Man. Personally, I really like Six, the main character in this story, as she seems to take pride in standing up to Shepard and other powerful entities, which is a refreshing change of pace from where people fall all over themselves trying to get on Shepard's good side, as is so common in many stories. If for no other reason, read it for the characters, who are amazingly good.

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