Stargate Wars

Stargate Wars is an upcoming fan-made 2d/3d hybrid comic book series based on the original Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis TV-series created by Brad Wright and Robert C. Cooper. It has been under development for several years.

It is a sequel to Stargate SG-1, continuing the adventures of SG-1, while introducing new elements. The SG-1/Atlantis/Universe canon is part of the Wars canon, but several elements have been altered in some way.

It also builds upon concepts of the canceled Stargate: Extinction and Stargate: Revolution movies and involves the Destiny in some way.

Overview
So far, several concept ideas were devised for the three main elements of the story: time, narrative and enemy.

Time
The first idea involved the original series. The story takes place in present day and evolves with the world, combining the sci-fi elements with real-world events.

The second idea sets the timeline in the near future, giving the opportunity to expand the story slightly. This, however, prevents it from using real-world events.

A new third idea sets the timeline one year in the past. The stories are then told from the reports about the events, like historical records, and allows us to accurately merge real-world with fictional events.

Narrative
The first idea sets the narrative style as in the original series; focusing on a single team or group of people. Using only a few main characters and several recurring characters, the plot expands.

The second idea uses a narrative similar to Star Wars: The Clone Wars, focusing on the bigger picture and multiple characters that are not in the same place or on the same side. This opens up the opportunity for much more complex story arcs.

The enemy
Like with any of such series, having an enemy is a must. The good guys need to fight against someone, or something. The original idea was to have a civilization from the Ori galaxy to have conquered the galaxy. After a while, they discovered the Supergate and traveled to our galaxy.

The second idea was to have a completely new enemy from an unknown galaxy which stumbled on our galaxy, possibly due to some other, yet to be determined, cause.

Synopsis
The storyline takes place in the near future, beginning in 2009, with the backstory occurring during Stargate Universe and with a possible tie-in with fan-made versions of Stargate: Revolution and Stargate: Extinction. It sequels Stargate SG-1 and focuses more on the bigger picture of the war, rather than a specific team or group of people.

During a major overhaul, the main storyline is no longer suitable. Therefore, most of the information regarding the pilot is removed.

Production
Production on the pilot episode has seen many issues, and still does. The main concern is the development of the concepts and storyline as well as setting up the development environment.

Two years ago, it was proposed to produce the series similar to Star Wars: The Clone Wars, by using a more stylized look rather than a photo-realistic one, with the exception that the characters do not have a puppet-style like Thunderbirds, where the style of The Clone Wars was based on, but a more realistic look.

Whether the animations will be rendered using the Unreal Engine or doing it the "old-fashioned way" inside Autodesk Maya, is still up for debate.

So far, a large part of the storyline has been finished, as well as ideas for future episodes. For now, the series runtime will be around 20 minutes with 20 episodes for the first season. The pilot episode will be build as a movie, and divided into three episodes for "broadcast".

When the decision was made to change the animated series into a comic book series, it did not change the overall concept, nor the series "runtime". A single comic book issue has around 40 pages, matching a standard forty minute episode, while a "season" has twenty issues or "episodes". It will follow the same format as the original series.

Currently, a full-length graphic novel titled Stargate: The 20th Anniversary SG-1 Edition is being produced, which will also set the benchmark for this series.