Unrealized Peacekeeper
| Fanfiction | |
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| Title: | Unrealized Peacekeeper URPK or UPK |
| Author(s): | OneEye the DRD |
| Date(s): | 24 September 2002 - 2008 |
| Length: | 174,098 words |
| Genre(s): | AU, WIP |
| Fandom(s): | Farscape |
| Relationship(s): | |
| External Links: | Unrealized Peacekeeper (Prologue-16) (Fanfiction.Net) Unrealized Peacekeeper (Prologue-14) (Leviathan Automated Archive) Unrealized Peacekeeper (Prologue-14) (Terra Firma Farscape Forum) Unrealized Peacekeeper series on Ao3 http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/oneeyes_fanfiction/ (Yahoo! Group) oneeyethedrd (LiveJournal)  Story banner by kazbaby (2006) |
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Unrealized Peacekeeper (URPK) is an epic length Farscape story by OneEyetheDRD. This is a canon divergent AU that splits from the TV show canon in episode 1. In Unrealized Peacekeeper, lost Earth astronaut John Crichton is taken in by the Peacekeeper Forces following his escape from the Leviathan Moya with Peacekeeper pilot Aeryn Sun.
From the FF.net summary, "In the fourth season episode "Unrealized Reality", we saw an alternate John Crichton who became a Peacekeeper captain. This is the story of how that might have happened..." Unrealized Peacekeeper was a very popular and widely recced story in the fandom. It pairs John/Gilina and later John/Aeryn.
Unrealized Peacekeeper was posted on the author's Yahoo!Group, Fanfiction.net, Terra Firma and Leviathan, and much later, it was also archived on Ao3. The story is split into three main parts, the author calls them 'books' or 'seasons'. Part 1 contains the Prologue and Episodes 1-8, part 2 contains Episodes 9-14, and part 3 was due to run from Episode 15 until the end of the story, which was estimated at one time at Episode 22.[1] The first part was posted in 2002 and the most recent update, Episode 16, was in 2008.
This is an abandoned story. When archiving their story on Ao3, OneEye included a final chapter entitled The Rest of the Story, which was a basic outline of events which were due to occur in the final part of the series. The summary chapter was also added to the FFN version of the story
Unrealized Peacekeeper has been credited with introducing the fanon term monen, similar to an Earth month, to the Farscape lexicon.[2]
Author's Notes
The following series of stories was born from a single scene in the 4th season Farscape episode, "Unrealized Reality", one which I couldn't get out of my mind afterwards: John Crichton as a Peacekeeper captain, with Braca at his side as a loyal first officer.
I started thinking about that scene afterwards, and wondering what small change in the past might have led John Crichton down that road, to become that man. The answer I ended up with was simple: the wormhole that brought him to the UTs deposited him about ten feet to the right of his original exit point. That's all.[3]
Reviews
This AU is inspired by the scene in the Farscape episode Unrealized Reality in which we glimpse the possibility of Crichton as a Peacekeeper captain. It's a very plausible background for how that could have come to pass through just a small change, i.e. what if the wormhole that brought him to the UTs deposited him about ten feet to the right of his original exit point. And this works actually without making Crichton not like himself in any way, nor does the story gloss over the Peacekeeper's ideology and actions we see in canon. Besides it is a great action-adventure that incorporates a lot of elements and events from the episodes.[4]
This is a multi-part, in-progress AU spinoff from Unrealized Realities, exploring how John Crichton might have come to be a Peacekeeper Captain. Although it's unfortunately not finished yet, the first two seasons (up until When the Chips are Down) are complete, and the latest update (The Devil You Know) was posted March 22, 2008, so it's still being updated! In Unrealized Peacekeeper, Tauvo Crais manages to avoid a collison with John's module, so the escaping prisoners on Moya don't bother to recapture John and Aeryn. Instead, John is put to work on wormhole tech by Captain Crais. I love this story so much. The characterizations are wonderful, and so is the plot. It manages to be faithful to the big events of Farscape canon, while still telling its own story. If it's ever complete, it may rival In the Company of Ghosts as my favourite Farscape story.[5]
First of all, OneEye, let me thank you for creating this saga in the first place. I'm such a sucker for massive, AU fanfic. Your universe is both orignal and familiar. I get my Farscape fix while at the same time getting to experience new directions of character evolution. So fresh. I love your John and the way he garners respect from others one inch at a time. I love your Aeryn and her burgeoning sense of individuality. I love your Scorpius that invokes both trust and disdain in me. But most of all, I love the way my mind tries to predict the directions the story is going as you write it. Your plot definitely has a current and I'm riding it hard.[6]
This is an amazing story. Creative, and well written. John Aeryn's voices are so clear and believable. I was a bit nervous about going so far away from the show's original supporting cast, but I'm not missing them at all.[7]
References
- ^ OneEye in Terra Firma. Unrealized Peacekeeper, Part 2: Hanging By A Thread (PG-13), 07 August 2005. (Accessed 06 January 2011)
- ^ Lexikon: Glossary of Farscape Terms, Slang, and Swear Words by Mingo at SpaceBattles.com, Jan 22, 2023. "Monen: Unit of time measurement. A little longer than an Earth month. It's not canon but is fanon. Taken from Unrealized Peacekeeper by OneEye." Accessed Jun 6, 2024.
- ^ OneEye in Terra Firma. Unrealized Peacekeeper, Part 1: Learning The Ropes (PG-13), 07 August 2005. (Accessed 06 January 2011)
- ^ RatCreature. Through the Looking Glass - Alternate Universe Recs - Farscape. (Accessed 06 January 2011)
- ^ Templum Bellonae - Unrealized Peacekeeper (Accessed 06 January 2011)
- ^ Chapter 16 of UPK at Terra Firma, comment by 2bones, April 8 2008. Accessed 6 June 2024.
- ^ Chapter 16 Announcement by oneeye, comment by gail19, April 17 2008. Accessed 6 June 2024.
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