Stargate Etheria
is a Stargate SG-1 and She-Ra and the Princesses of Power crossover taking place after the Grand Finale of the latter show, where SG-1 ends up stranded on Etheria.
It can also be read on SpaceBattles.com here and Archive of Our Own here.
This fanfic contains examples of:
- Alien Arts Are Appreciated:
- Aliens Love Human Food:
- Catra loves salmon and croissants.
- Entrapta likes soda and canape.
- Inverted; SG-1 likes Etheria's kitchen.
- Always Chaotic Evil: Discussed; All universe thinks (albeit justifiably) that every and all Goa'uld are born evil and cannot change. Etherians believe that everyone can change, even Goa'uld.
- Awful Truth: The Best Friends Squad (except Catra and Entrapta) badly reacted to the revelation that their people are the result of genetic experiments conducted by the First Ones; thousands of years ago the First Ones had found Etheria ripe with magic and began experimenting on the ancient Etherians, thus creating Etheria's non-human and hybrid population and allowing humans to wield magic such as Queen Angella.
- The Princesses are especially concerned that their powers are not chosen by magic but came from First One experiments, which put their legitimacy to rule into question.
- Catra, however, is not too distressed of the revelation, as she believes that the Etherians' ancestors doesn't define who they are, but by their actions.
- Jack is very unhappy to learn that he is a descendant from a First Ones colonial family as revealed by Alpha.
- On Cimmeria, Stargate Command and the BFS learned from Thor that the Horde were created from Asgardian science, and the Horde clones have Asgard DNA. Hordak and Thor are left very disturbed by this discovery. Hordak is later not happy to learn that Loki was responsible for creating Horde Prime.
- Buffy Speak: When Jack bluntly sums up Daniel's explanation about technophobia on Earth.Jack: Yes, yes. Computer bad, parchment good. Television bad, books good. But those people aren't going to demand that engineers are burnt at the stake. They won't be a problem when we arrive on Earth with magical princesses in tow.
- Culture Clash: Played for Laughs. Earthlings are flabbergasted because all Etherians have Meaningful Names and Etherians are flabbergasted by Non-Indicative Names of Earth and its inhabitants.
- Cutting the Knot: SG-1 and the BFS acquires the Ancient healing device without being exposed to it and threatened by armed zombies by using Emily, a robot, to recover it.
- Deliberate Values Dissonance: There's a not insignificant amount of this between the Etherian and American cultures present, Jack in particular gets rather hung up over Etheria being monarchical as opposed to democratic, among other things. For the Etherians, they are appalled of learning Earth’s sexism. Even SG-1 admits that not everyone on Earth would approve of Catra and Adora’s relationship (since this crossover is set in 1998 homosexuality is not yet widely tolerated).
- Teal'c is left flabbergast and dismissive over America’s policy of releasing known homosexuals from the military, stating that "a warrior’s gender or taste in mates does not affect their effectiveness in battle” and that those who think otherwise are fools "who deserved to be ignored."
- When told about Earth's homophobia, the Etherians have trouble even comprehending that someone could hate a person for who they loved, discarding jealousy.
- Didn't Think This Through: Discussed and Played for Horror. The Goa'uld's main flaw is their short-sightedness and how they want to save their status as Gods and pleasures that come with it. So they sacrifice their slaves for building luxury palaces for themselves (which is their first priority) and making sure that they didn't become a threat. As a result, they eventually die after that themselves.
- Divine Right of Kings: Referenced by Daniel when talking with the Best Friend Squad about the differences between Earth and Etherian governments.
- Evil-Detecting Dog: Melog can sense the presence of a Goa'uld inside a host.
- Eviler than Thou: Adora and others outright states that Goa'uld are worse than Horde Prime.
- First Contact: With the arrival of the Etherian fleet in the solar system, there is a first official contact between the nations of Earth and a civilization from another world. Although, for Earth, it is not the first real contact with beings from another world, it is the first not to be hidden from the population.
- The Fog of Ages: According to Micah, despite Angella's longevity, her memory was far from perfect (regardless of what Glimmer might think). She had forgotten much of the preceding centuries, forcing her to rely on her notes and archives.
- Forever War: Etheria's Age of War which happened eight centuries ago when every kingdom was pitted against every other kingdom. This long conflict caused the destruction of the Kingdom of the Forest and the Serpent Empire; the latter became the Crimson Waste. The Age of War ended in fifty years with the Treaty of Bright Moon, which started the Princess Prom to settle conflicts diplomatically.
- For Want Of A Nail: The BFS used Darla to scan Earth for signs of naquadah and discovered the Ancient healing device, the Stargate's DHD in Russia, the Cult of Setesh, and a sunken ship containing the sealed Goa'uld Osiris.
- Fusion Fic: Fuses the worlds of Stargate and She Ra, with the Ancients and First Ones apparently becoming one and the same, though there are some In-Universe inconsistencies with when each supposedly disappeared.
- Loki is directly responsible for creating Horde Prime as part of his project to create an Asgardian variant that doesn't suffer from genome degradation. Horde Prime was not very happy being Loki's science experiment and violently defected while also stealing Asgardian technology and using them to create the Horde, and thus becoming the feared tyrant known to Etheria and the Goa'uld.
- A God I Am Not: In contrast to the Goa'uld, the Etherian Princesses don't like the idea of insinuating that they're divine like the snakes do, especially Adora, who has to deal with the unwanted worship of Priest.
- Hope Spot: When the group finds a downed Goa'uld ship with a Stargate in the cargo hold, it briefly looks like the SG-1 crew can use it to get to Earth, but the D.H.D. was rendered inoperable in the crash.
- Hostage Situation: Two Jaffa has Lenkova and a Russian soldier as hostages and demand SG-1 and the BFS a ship in exchange for the hostages. However, Catra learns from Melog that Lenkova is possessed by a Goa'uld, and therefore they are only holding one hostage that matters and cannot risk harming their lord who is inside Lenkova. Catra tells Adora to quickly take out and literally disarm the Jaffa holding the other soldier. The other Jaffa, who drops Lenkova and tries to shoot back, has his throat ripped out by Catra who then knocks out the Goa'uld possessed-Lenkova.
- Innocently Insensitive: SG-1 watched the Star Wars with Etherians. It hits buttons for them (except Entrapta and possibly Hordak).
- Adora takes deeply when someone calling her a witch or mentioning Shadow Weaver around her.
- Interservice Rivalry: The US Air Force and Navy get into an argument over which service branch has the right to run America's first space fleet. Jack and Sam, who are in the USAF, are unsurprisingly in favor of the USAF being in charge.
- Irony: Carter very jealous of Entrapta as the latter is in a relationship with Hordak. It's ironic because Entrapta is a Cloudcuckoolander and can be very tactless at times while Carter is close to Earth and very social.
- It's All About Me: Played for Horror. Every Goa'uld cares only for themselves and without a problem, and even eat their own relatives.
- Lazy Alias: It's mentioned that Seth wasn't very creative with his aliases with his cults if he was really that worried about retribution from Ra.
- Mirror Character: Catra shares much in common with Jack and Teal'c. She and Jack are experienced soldiers and both possess a blunt, cautious and wry attitude. Catra had fought for a tyrannical empire before ultimately defecting to the heroes much like Teal'c, who is understandable of Catra's situation.
- Entrapta and Carter are both scientists who can be unpredictable.
- Modest Royalty: After dealing with the self-styled God Kings of the Goa'uld, SG-1 finds Queen Glimmer approachable even where they disapprove of the Absolute Monarch aspect in principle.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Even though it was necessary to prepare Earth against the Goa'uld threat, the Etherians are horrified by the rioting and deaths the reveal of the Stargate Program and their existence caused. Adora is feeling particularly guilty, not to mention frustrated by how she cannot help with the chaos.
- Non-Heteronormative Society: As in canon, Etheria. When the Etherian delegates learn about homophobia on Earth, the very concept of being discriminated against for one's orientation is entirely foreign to them.
- "Not So Different" Remark: Seth points out to the BFS that the Etherian Princesses are no different from the Goa'uld as they are both powerful beings for having magic and very advanced technology, respectively, and used their powers as justifications for ruling over their subjects. The Etherians are not pleased with the comparisons in which they and Daniel state what makes the Etherians different from the Goa'uld is that they use their power for helping people. Although Adora is left stricken by Seth's words to wonder if any future Princesses will grow corrupt and become tyrannical despots.
- Spared by the Adaptation: The Goa'uld Seth is captured by SG-1 and the BFS during the raid on his compound.
- Stop Worshipping Me: Apparently about half of the freed Horde Prime clones on Etheria have shifted their devotion to She-Ra after Adora helped take him down. Adora isn't very happy about this, as you can imagine. This proves a point in her favor in the eyes of SG-1.
- Stupid Evil: The Goa'uld's actions are considered both atrocious and downright stupid: for example, they let the Jaffa die in hopeless battles even if it's time to retreat to save their reputation. This not only costs them soldiers but damages their reputation and turns their soldiers against them even more easily because a single rumour from outsiders can easily make them distrustful of the Goa'uld. Horde Prime was not only more kindly than them but also more pragmatic.
- There Are No Coincidences: A Christian reverend speak out against the Etherians on live television that almost risk having Priest asking Adora permission to attack the aforementioned reverend. After the BFS brought their concerns with an American representative, the reverend is later arrested for "financial crimes and child pornography". Both the BFS and SG-1 strongly suspected that the US government/NID have framed him. Not too long afterwards, some Christian fundamentalists and conservative politicians who are opposed to the Etherians are convicted for crimes such as embezzlements or resigning from their office.
- Tomato in the Mirror: Colonel O'Neil was shocked when he realised that he's a descendant of a First Ones colonial family.
- The Unmasqued World: Before the imminent arrival of the representatives of Etheria on Earth, the United States government reveals to the entire world the truth about space travel through the Stargate and the existence of the Goa'uld. As a consequence of this, riots take place in various parts of the world, which includes the compromise of security in Area 51 and the United States faces a great diplomatic conflict, with rivals and allies criticizing the American government for keeping everything in secret.
- We Have Reserves: Discussed; SG-1 has told Etherians many times that Goa'uld sacrifice their slaves with pleasure.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Catra in particular is rather flabbergasted at how SG-1 is keeping the knowledge of the Goa'uld threat secret from Earth's population at large, and haven't started gearing up for war.
- Wide-Eyed Idealist: The Etherians, or at least specifically the BFF (except Catra and Hordak), are seen in the eyes of non-Etherians as too idealistic and optimistic.
- The World Is Not Ready: SG-1, especially Jack, discussed the potential negative fallout of Earth's people learning the existence of aliens, the Stargates, and magic after the Etherians are unwilling to keep Earth in the dark about the wider universe and the war against the Goa'uld.Jack: If all that is revealed at once, the backlash will be terrible. Religious nutcases will be screaming their heads off, people will be calling each other's god a Goa'uld, half the world will be either starting a witch hunt or trying to recruit witches, there'll be panic about being bombed from orbit by alien invaders, and people will claim their neighbours are snakes.
- You Can't Go Home Again: Etheria's Stargate is missing it's control system, stranding SG-1 on-world for the time being.
- You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: Jack O'Neil's reaction to meeting Thor for the first time and finding out that he, and the Asgard, are stereotypical grey aliens.
