Feeling marginally better

So, me dearies... First and foremost, many, many thanks for the good thoughts and the well-wishes. I feel better now that the fever is gone and with it the cold shivers, the nausea and the dizziness. I still bark like a dog, but I'll likely do so for the next three weeks, so it's a condition rather than an illness at this stage.
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In any case, I put the last two days to good use, planning out the second part of Torchwoodgate Year One as well as Year Two and Year Three to a certain detail and doing some research for it. That's the advantage of an iPad; it enables you to work in bed. The disadvantage is the dratted autocorrect, but that's not something we can help.

Tomorrow I'll go back to the doctor and see if she lets me go back to work on Monday. Not that I'd be that eager, but the colleagues are run ragged, too, and will be especially after the ball, so if I'm okay, I will go.

And since I'm in a chatty mood already - Omegaverse

I'll be writing it in Torchwoodgate, Year Two. But no worries, not the usual, pr0ny and rapey-i version but the "aliens made them do it" version.

Remember the 2nd Season SGA-episode "Condemned"? Where a planet live reasonably in peace from the Wraith, because they simply handed over their criminals to the monsters to eat? Until they started to accuse innocent people of crimes, too, just to fulfil their quota?

Well, I got the following idea: what if it weren't the criminals? What if the Wraith, long time ago, did genetic experiments on the Olesians, just like they did in canon on Teyla's people, and created a third gender, in order to increase the numbers of their herds? This third gender would be the Omegas, where the females are incredible fertile, bearing litters every time and held secluded like broadmares, while the males are hermaphrodites, capable of siring and bearing offspring in equal measure.

An unfortunate side effect of the experiments would be that approx 1/3 of the population would be born infertile (speak about backfiring, big deal). It would be these infertile Betas who are handed over to the Wraith, while Alphas are the families whose genetic heritage hasn't been tampered with, basically the original Olesian genom, on which basis they have all the power and influence on the planet. Of course, Omegas would be handed over as food as soon as they're beyond breeding age as well.

I think it would be more interesting than just handing over the criminals. Or, at least, more sci-fi, since the original concept was actually good.