New Crew Members

Well, it's been I while since I posted here last...

Anyway, I thought I might bring you up to speed on what's been going on with our staff lately. As you all know, Terminus left the SGD staff several weeks back, as EAG mentioned in the last article here. But no sooner than he left, did we get another crew member, followed by another! Our first addition to the team is Brian, who is known on the forum as Samuels. He is our newest writer, and will be writing episode 1.06, as well as edit several other episodes. The second addition to the team is Phil, who, on the forum, is known as Disarray. He's our newest concept artist, bringing our art department to two people! His first project is a technical drawing and action shot of one of the fighters that will be seen throughout the series: the F-308 Space Superiority Fighter.

In other news, I recently spoke with Adrian (esquin), and he will be finishing episode 1.04, but doesn't plan to write any more episodes, but would like to stay on the team as an advisor and idea pitcher. EAG will be doing some more work on 1.05 this weekend, and so far, it looks to be a very interesting episode. I myself have been going over 1.01, and have been making some great progress on 1.02. I'm currently on page 53, and I really like how it's turning out!

As far as other, personal things, I recently purchased the DVD of Star Wars: Episode III, and I've watched it about 10 times now :) . Although it will probably mean very little to most of you, I am now sitting concertmaster (first chair) of the orchestra I play in (the Portland Metropolitan Youth Symphony), and I must say, I rather like it. Just think... if I had that position in the New York Philharmonic, I'd be making close to $500,000 a year.

Well, not much else going on, but I must say, that SGD has made tremendous progress over the past few weeks, and currently, we are aiming for a release in early January. Once I finish up 1.02 here, I'll begin on 1.03 (that's a no-brainer), and then we'll have started or finished episodes 1.01 - 1.06!

Well, time for me to be signing off, but until then...

Geoff

Long time....

...no see. Sorry there have been no posts in a while, but Geoff has been busy and I forgot I could post here. Well I thought I'd bring us all upto date on whats been happening behind the scenes at everyones most anticipated series, Stargate Destiny.

Unfortunetly, one of our staff writers, Terminus upped and left. He left the community as well, due to family issues among other things. Here is his goodbye to us all:

"I'm pulling away from the StarGate fanfiction community as of this date - there's a lot of stuff going on in my life at the moment that I'm struggling to get a handle on and I need to figure out how to cope with that before I can reimmerse myself back in fanfiction circles.

I apologise to many of you for this - but it is necessary. I've just been very depressed lately and I need to sort myself out"

While it does set one of our episodes back, we are sad to see Terminus go, and we wish him the best of luck in wherever he ventures next. But onto a brighter side, Samuels joined us as a proof-reader, and maybe writer. This was to fill in the void left by Terminus, as he was also the series' proof-reader and an editor along side myself.

Erm, well, onto myself. Unfortunetly I hadn't got around to writing too much of 1x05 - Treasure Trove lately due to writing Valiant, the sixth episode of the fully running Stargate virtual series, Stargate Horizon. But since that has now been released, I'm back to work on Treasure Trove. It's a pretty interesting episode actually. The Destiny crew find a planet with an abandoned ancient city on it, a really trashed and wrecked city. Of course, our heroes suspect the shows bad guys, the Malecathi, did this but.....well, I'll just let you wait.

There is a few interesting moments in that episode, what would be really cool shots and a funny Jonas moment. This episode deals with how the situation in this new galaxy effected the Alterans that travelled there. It's something I don't think we've seen before on Stargate, to see some an advance race turn to such intense and unlikely measures. Anyway, I've send to much. Onto other things.

Providence (Part One) is soon to be entering editing. Samuels is going to be going through it, making sure everything is correct and spelt properly. After that comes the removal of scenes, and changing of dialogue and such things. Not that anything needs to be removed. It's just some scenes are too long, too much detail or iffy dialogue here or there.

Geoff is working hard on the second part of Providence. Unfortunetly it's been a bit tight due to personal lifes, but with a release date in 2 months, we're now cracking on to get everything done. I haven't heard from Esquin, but he's really have fun with Behemoth, which is going to be a fantastic and big episode...involving asteroids.

There has also been a chance in our cast. We previously had Catherine Bell as Col. Hemmingway. It has just recently been decided to change that actress to Evangeline Lilly. She plays the character, Kate, on the hit show Lost. Which I might add, I have recently gotten around to watching. I got the first part of the first season on DVD. It only just recently came out on DVD in the UK.

So anyway, that's all from me for the moment. Be sure to drop by our forums and have a look around: http://stargatedestiny.proboards55.com/index.cgi