Waking to Another Sky
is a Sword Art Online and Stargate SG-1 crossover where Kayaba used alien technology to help him make Aincrad, and the surviving players wake up to find that they might have jumped out of the frying pan and into the fire.
Hasn't updated since April 7th 2017.
Waking To Another Sky contains examples of:
- Be Careful What You Wish For: The NID, with some input from the SGC, was backing Kayaba in the hopes of using Full Dive technology to create a training program to prepare people for the dangers of other planets. They got that... because he double-crossed them and used their help to create Sword Art Online, incorporating alien elements into the game and altering the physiology of the players as they gained levels.
- Exact Words: Kayaba delivered exactly what he said he would, to both the SGC and NID: training to create SGC teams and supersoldiers, respectively. The problem is that neither of his backers told him he couldn't perform these processes on civilian bystanders.
- Fling a Light into the Future: At least part of Kayaba's reason for altering the SAO players was to make a group able to create a functional settlement on another planet as a failsafe, in preparation for if/when the Goa'uld or another alien power attacks Earth.
- The Glomp: The first thing Kirito does after getting out of the game is to find Asuna and hug her like there was no tomorrow.
- Imported Alien Phlebotinum: As standard for Stargate. The main example is that Kayaba used alien tech and materials to make the batteries for the NerveGear smaller so he could fit nanites into the remaining space that would physically alter the players as they gained levels, allowing them to do things like use their skills in real life, and causing them to develop superhuman strength. He also used alien tech to reduce lag enough so that he could use the servers in Japan as a decoy for the authorities while the real servers for SAO were in America, and used alien creatures as the basis of some of the mobs, with Pina and some others being actual aliens in NerveGear.
- Leeroy Jenkins: Used in-universe by Thinker when Jack thinks that just hitting the SAO monsters hard enough would be a good strategy, due to lacking info on the game at the time.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: As Stargate Command transported SAO survivors in America, it caused lag in the game and led to several deaths. Asuna is deeply pissed over the matter.
- Not Quite Back to Normal: As it turns out, Kayaba had nanites altering the SAO players as they leveled up, making them able to do things like Scan in real life.
- Poor Communication Kills:
- Project Bluebook offered to take care of the SAO survivors, only for Japan to answer "it might be difficult". The Americans translated that as permission, only to learn after the survivors' waking that the Japanese actually were asking to be left alone and now are accusing them from mass-kidnapping. Whoops.
- The SAO survivors woke up in another country, surrounded by soldiers who won't tell them what's happening and refuse to let them contact their families. Stargate Command desperately wants to avoid several thousands genetically enhanced people rampaging through the countryside and accidentally cluing the civilians into the secret galactic war with megalomaniac alien overlords. It makes for tense relationships.
- Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure: Jack's references tend to be very outdated, so he doesn't get gaming culture and manages to insult the SAO survivors, prompting Thinker to label him a "Leeroy Jenkins" — a dire warning to stay away from the guy.
- Shout-Out: Jack makes a reference to Warhammer 40,000 early on. An annoyed Daniel threatens to point Sam at certain forums, with ideas on making chainswords.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: Kayaba trapped ten thousands people in Aincrad, forced them to go through survival training and genetic alterations to produce supersoldiers, all of that to produce the perfect society to colonize another planet and give mankind better odds to endure in spite of the looming galactic war.
