Terrahawks Masterlist
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keaaluUpdates:
18/11/2024 – Chapter 5 of Meteoric! (Yes I am still working on it.).
10/11/2024 – added a reference to "Ghosts", and link to "Sundew".
21/10/2024 – chapter 2 of Kestrel Kestrel.
10/10/2024 – started posting Kestrel Kestrel.
05/10/2024 – posted! (I always have these great ideas for keeping things up to date in a central place but end up forgetting about them, so please take an ample portion of salt when interpreting all of this…)
Intro
Terrahawks (https://fanderson.org.uk/productions/terrahawks-series-two/) holds a special place in my heart; as an 80s baby, I define this as “my” Gerry Anderson show. (Although arguably I remember the re-runs of Captain Scarlet better? And probably cut my teeth on Scarlet fanfiction before finding out that was even a thing, when I was about 10.) One thing I do remember in a vague sort of way are the zeroids, who are probably at least partially responsible for my lifelong love of sentient machine-based life, and of course most ridiculously-human robots.
It took me a little while to get back into it. Much as I enjoyed it as a four-year-old, I think Terrahawks was seen by many as “the least-good Gerry Anderson series”, so it hasn't had the repeated showings (and repeated surges in popularity) that Thunderbirds, Stingray and so on all understandably got. I mean, I remember there being Thunderbirds comics in the shops, in the 1990s? Terrahawks only usually got mentioned as an afterthought, and I mooossstly forgot it existed.
Fast forward to early 2000s when I started Uni, and I partially rediscovered it! (While noodling around at the fringes of the Captain Scarlet fandom, writing a lot that I never finished or got brave enough to share anway.) But the internet was not the place it is today, and there was still almost nothing to find except a couple of brief descriptions and an audio recording or two (and that theme tune! Amazing). I properly re-rediscovered the series in late May 2005 when I found a DVD boxset had been launched! (And yep, I still have it – also yep, I still watch it.) And oh my gosh I was in love.
I wrote the bones of a few stories but got disheartened by the fact that a) I had nowhere really to share them except my Livejournal, where I had maybe just into double-digits of followers because I was too shy to really comment much on anything; b), no-one knew what the hell it was, because almost everyone I interacted with was USAmerican; and c) I couldn’t find anywhere else outside of that website, really. I quietly put it aside and found another fandom I loved as well (G1 TFs), and which actually got some readership, where I ended up staying.
Recently I’ve spent a few years in a weird phase of “I really want to write, I have a load of ideas and a tonne of things to finish, but I can’t find the energy or oomph to do it”. (It probably didn’t help that I was depressed by the fact I was terrible at self-promotion, and for someone writing TF fanfics, which is SUCH a huge fandom, I had very few actual readers – and next to zero interactions. (Although that itself doesn’t seem uncommon, these days, in a world where you're not a writer, you're a "content creator", which is just... ugh.))
For reasons unknown to me, in April 2024, I abruptly went “let’s check out my old Terrahawks stories” and WHOA BABY I actually got back into writing! And I’ve been the most prolific I have in years, ever since. (Thank you 101 for being adorable and making me want to write about you a lot.)
I think going into it with zero expectation of anyone reading it helped, because I was expecting to be writing it solely for me – so an enormous thank you to the few people who’ve commented and are reading!
(Addendum: Yes I am slightly annoyed that I missed the 40th Anniversary last year. ¬__¬)
I’m not so good at the comedic style, so my fiction tends to be somewhat more conventional/serious, although I do love a good pun and/or silly element and they’re always sneaking in anyway.
Note: Yes, I have a lot of loose ideas that don't ultimately go anywhere. But I looove sharing, so unfortunately you get to hear about them even if they stay just loose bones in the background.
Fiction list
Sunshine and Flowers - complete
on AO3 or on ff.net
When they spot what looks like a big garbage can tumbling through space, on a trajectory directly towards the Terrahawks' orbital battleship, Lieutenant Hiro makes the fateful decision to take just a quick look at it before letting Space Sergeant 101 destroy it. What they inadvertently unleash on Spacehawk is rather considerably worse than either of them could have imagined.
(I actually started this one in 2005! But never finished it until this year (2024). Inspired by an unfilmed script for the original series, which I found on my DVD 20 years ago and then absolutely could not find again and assumed I must have seen it online somewhere? Until I unexpectedly found it again and realised it just… wasn’t listed on the case. *facepalm* That script itself has since been produced in real life by the Big Finish audiodrama company! My take is a little more serious, but it does also have a giant spider that wasn’t in the original…)
Meteoric - in progress (44,934 words)
on AO3 or on ff.net
“One of ouraircraft zeroids is missing.”
After accidentally getting shot down out of orbit, 101 is lost in... well no-one is entirely sure. Best the Terrahawks can make out is “southern England, prrrobably London”, but that’s a best guess based on conjecture and meteorite reports.
Incurring damage in the fall, with no functional memory of who he actually is any more, 101 can’t exactly help get himself “un-lost”. Fortunately, he ends up in the company of a group of students, who are more than happy to give him a place to stay while everyone figures it all out.
Unfortunately, some people have their own agendas, and “help the little lost guy get home” isn’t one of them.
And did anyone mention that the Martians know about it, too?
(This one also started in 2005, called “Falling Star”, but I never got far with it, and the plot is nothing like the old version. I jokingly took to calling it “One of ouraircraft zeroids is missing” after the war movie, after I noticed that the overarching plot was actually somewhat similar…)
Unintended Consequences
If you build your little robots such that they're designed on a learning model, to figure out how to carry out their duties for themselves, it probably shouldn't have come as a surprise that most of the zeroids have turned out at least a teensy tiny little bit idiosyncratic.
...some perhaps a little more than others.
Just a small collection of silly shorts.
Unintended Consequences (Based slightly off the original series episode “The Gun”) - on AO3
By Any Other Name (aka “I found a place for the silly parrot joke”) - Poor Ninestein is getting overruled by Mary (and the resident fleet of little chaos gremlins) again. Funny how something as simple as giving someone an emergency nickname can cause so much drama. Those students have a lot to answer for... on AO3 or ff.net
Sundew - Zelda sends a predatory alien plant to earth. We pick up after it's already caught Captain Falconer... Also on AO3
Square Pegs – in progress (11,574 words)
Sergeant Major Zero's “genius plan” to help Space Sergeant 101 get over his newfound fear of heights could have ABSOLUTELY done with a lot of finessing before he put it into action. But it's finally got 101 off Spacehawk, so that's a good thing!
Right?
Unfortunately, what came back... wasn't 101.
Tickets – complete
(on AO3 or on ff.net)
It wasn't that Hiro didn't believe them, as such, when his friends all told him that it looked like Space Sergeant 101 was in love with him. It was just that 101 was a robot, so why would he be? And the other human officers in the organisation didn't work with the little bot as often as Hiro did.
So this must all just be observational bias.
Mustn't it?
Thankfully Kate is on hand with some theatre tickets, which prove most helpful in getting certain people talking.
(Just some silly self-indulgent fluff. I mean these two are practically canon and if there's anything I'm a sucker for, it's adorable little ridiculously-human robots in love. ^_^ )
A Hundred and One Ways – in progress (7991 words)
This got a bit dark ¬_¬ I haven't pinned down the nitty-gritty yet but suffice to say it involves parasitic alien mind control, woooo~~
Sphered – in progress (1168 words)
It felt like a very boring and ordinary day, with another boring and ordinary attack by Zelda, and another boring and ordinary response from the Terrahawks, easily repelling her. So Hiro had REALLY not been expecting it to result in him experiencing such a "unique perspective" on the world the zeroids on Spacehawk inhabited...
Well, I've had fun turning nonhuman characters human (or at least humanOID), so why not swap the process around? You can see where I'm going with this...
Going Viral – in progress (2345 words - nice)
Treehawk goes momentarily off-air while her senior crew are in transit, which everyone initially puts down to just a blip in the system as everyone seems fine.
…until Spacehawk turns her nose to the stars and thunders off into the void without a single word to anyone, and refuses to respond to hails.
And that’s only half the problem, when Zelda sends a dragon to Earth.
Ghosts – in progress (13241 words)
Mirrorverse story! Everything is opposites. Our heroes end up in a parallel universe, where Zelda is good, and the Terrorhawks are a capitalist military expeditional force, expanding humanity's territorial interests in the universe.
Good queen Zelda has taken it upon herself to keep the humans limited to their own solar system, but there's not that many martians, and a whole planet full of humans - and their slaves.
Kestrel Kestrel – in progress (26103 words)
Kate was suspicious of the gift from the very instant she saw it – for someone who was supposedly “her greatest fan”, they didn’t even spell her name right!
But it was only when things started to change that she realised it wasn’t just a broken, badly-made statuette of a bird that she’d been sent.
To be fair, she’d always dreamed of flying under her own power.
Just not as an actual kestrel.
And knowing the Martians as well as they all do… this surely can’t be the whole thing. Surely.
This started out as a single word concept – “werekestrel” – that has since then absolutely taken up permanent residence in my brain.
I looove werewolf stories, and was coming home from work on the bus one day when I realised I hadn’t got any in this universe, apart from Square Pegs/“were-cube” which felt like I was cheating slightly. And who to pick on because I can’t target the same poor sods EVERY time… Then I thought "well of course it has the be the character whose name IS an animal”, and “tiger” felt too obvious. So… this happened!
18/11/2024 – Chapter 5 of Meteoric! (Yes I am still working on it.).
10/11/2024 – added a reference to "Ghosts", and link to "Sundew".
21/10/2024 – chapter 2 of Kestrel Kestrel.
10/10/2024 – started posting Kestrel Kestrel.
05/10/2024 – posted! (I always have these great ideas for keeping things up to date in a central place but end up forgetting about them, so please take an ample portion of salt when interpreting all of this…)
Intro
Terrahawks (https://fanderson.org.uk/productions/terrahawks-series-two/) holds a special place in my heart; as an 80s baby, I define this as “my” Gerry Anderson show. (Although arguably I remember the re-runs of Captain Scarlet better? And probably cut my teeth on Scarlet fanfiction before finding out that was even a thing, when I was about 10.) One thing I do remember in a vague sort of way are the zeroids, who are probably at least partially responsible for my lifelong love of sentient machine-based life, and of course most ridiculously-human robots.
It took me a little while to get back into it. Much as I enjoyed it as a four-year-old, I think Terrahawks was seen by many as “the least-good Gerry Anderson series”, so it hasn't had the repeated showings (and repeated surges in popularity) that Thunderbirds, Stingray and so on all understandably got. I mean, I remember there being Thunderbirds comics in the shops, in the 1990s? Terrahawks only usually got mentioned as an afterthought, and I mooossstly forgot it existed.
Fast forward to early 2000s when I started Uni, and I partially rediscovered it! (While noodling around at the fringes of the Captain Scarlet fandom, writing a lot that I never finished or got brave enough to share anway.) But the internet was not the place it is today, and there was still almost nothing to find except a couple of brief descriptions and an audio recording or two (and that theme tune! Amazing). I properly re-rediscovered the series in late May 2005 when I found a DVD boxset had been launched! (And yep, I still have it – also yep, I still watch it.) And oh my gosh I was in love.
I wrote the bones of a few stories but got disheartened by the fact that a) I had nowhere really to share them except my Livejournal, where I had maybe just into double-digits of followers because I was too shy to really comment much on anything; b), no-one knew what the hell it was, because almost everyone I interacted with was USAmerican; and c) I couldn’t find anywhere else outside of that website, really. I quietly put it aside and found another fandom I loved as well (G1 TFs), and which actually got some readership, where I ended up staying.
Recently I’ve spent a few years in a weird phase of “I really want to write, I have a load of ideas and a tonne of things to finish, but I can’t find the energy or oomph to do it”. (It probably didn’t help that I was depressed by the fact I was terrible at self-promotion, and for someone writing TF fanfics, which is SUCH a huge fandom, I had very few actual readers – and next to zero interactions. (Although that itself doesn’t seem uncommon, these days, in a world where you're not a writer, you're a "content creator", which is just... ugh.))
For reasons unknown to me, in April 2024, I abruptly went “let’s check out my old Terrahawks stories” and WHOA BABY I actually got back into writing! And I’ve been the most prolific I have in years, ever since. (Thank you 101 for being adorable and making me want to write about you a lot.)
I think going into it with zero expectation of anyone reading it helped, because I was expecting to be writing it solely for me – so an enormous thank you to the few people who’ve commented and are reading!
(Addendum: Yes I am slightly annoyed that I missed the 40th Anniversary last year. ¬__¬)
I’m not so good at the comedic style, so my fiction tends to be somewhat more conventional/serious, although I do love a good pun and/or silly element and they’re always sneaking in anyway.
Note: Yes, I have a lot of loose ideas that don't ultimately go anywhere. But I looove sharing, so unfortunately you get to hear about them even if they stay just loose bones in the background.
Fiction list
Sunshine and Flowers - complete
on AO3 or on ff.net
When they spot what looks like a big garbage can tumbling through space, on a trajectory directly towards the Terrahawks' orbital battleship, Lieutenant Hiro makes the fateful decision to take just a quick look at it before letting Space Sergeant 101 destroy it. What they inadvertently unleash on Spacehawk is rather considerably worse than either of them could have imagined.
(I actually started this one in 2005! But never finished it until this year (2024). Inspired by an unfilmed script for the original series, which I found on my DVD 20 years ago and then absolutely could not find again and assumed I must have seen it online somewhere? Until I unexpectedly found it again and realised it just… wasn’t listed on the case. *facepalm* That script itself has since been produced in real life by the Big Finish audiodrama company! My take is a little more serious, but it does also have a giant spider that wasn’t in the original…)
Meteoric - in progress (44,934 words)
on AO3 or on ff.net
“One of our
After accidentally getting shot down out of orbit, 101 is lost in... well no-one is entirely sure. Best the Terrahawks can make out is “southern England, prrrobably London”, but that’s a best guess based on conjecture and meteorite reports.
Incurring damage in the fall, with no functional memory of who he actually is any more, 101 can’t exactly help get himself “un-lost”. Fortunately, he ends up in the company of a group of students, who are more than happy to give him a place to stay while everyone figures it all out.
Unfortunately, some people have their own agendas, and “help the little lost guy get home” isn’t one of them.
And did anyone mention that the Martians know about it, too?
(This one also started in 2005, called “Falling Star”, but I never got far with it, and the plot is nothing like the old version. I jokingly took to calling it “One of our
Unintended Consequences
If you build your little robots such that they're designed on a learning model, to figure out how to carry out their duties for themselves, it probably shouldn't have come as a surprise that most of the zeroids have turned out at least a teensy tiny little bit idiosyncratic.
...some perhaps a little more than others.
Just a small collection of silly shorts.
Unintended Consequences (Based slightly off the original series episode “The Gun”) - on AO3
By Any Other Name (aka “I found a place for the silly parrot joke”) - Poor Ninestein is getting overruled by Mary (and the resident fleet of little chaos gremlins) again. Funny how something as simple as giving someone an emergency nickname can cause so much drama. Those students have a lot to answer for... on AO3 or ff.net
Sundew - Zelda sends a predatory alien plant to earth. We pick up after it's already caught Captain Falconer... Also on AO3
Square Pegs – in progress (11,574 words)
Sergeant Major Zero's “genius plan” to help Space Sergeant 101 get over his newfound fear of heights could have ABSOLUTELY done with a lot of finessing before he put it into action. But it's finally got 101 off Spacehawk, so that's a good thing!
Right?
Unfortunately, what came back... wasn't 101.
Tickets – complete
(on AO3 or on ff.net)
It wasn't that Hiro didn't believe them, as such, when his friends all told him that it looked like Space Sergeant 101 was in love with him. It was just that 101 was a robot, so why would he be? And the other human officers in the organisation didn't work with the little bot as often as Hiro did.
So this must all just be observational bias.
Mustn't it?
Thankfully Kate is on hand with some theatre tickets, which prove most helpful in getting certain people talking.
(Just some silly self-indulgent fluff. I mean these two are practically canon and if there's anything I'm a sucker for, it's adorable little ridiculously-human robots in love. ^_^ )
A Hundred and One Ways – in progress (7991 words)
This got a bit dark ¬_¬ I haven't pinned down the nitty-gritty yet but suffice to say it involves parasitic alien mind control, woooo~~
Sphered – in progress (1168 words)
It felt like a very boring and ordinary day, with another boring and ordinary attack by Zelda, and another boring and ordinary response from the Terrahawks, easily repelling her. So Hiro had REALLY not been expecting it to result in him experiencing such a "unique perspective" on the world the zeroids on Spacehawk inhabited...
Well, I've had fun turning nonhuman characters human (or at least humanOID), so why not swap the process around? You can see where I'm going with this...
Going Viral – in progress (2345 words - nice)
Treehawk goes momentarily off-air while her senior crew are in transit, which everyone initially puts down to just a blip in the system as everyone seems fine.
…until Spacehawk turns her nose to the stars and thunders off into the void without a single word to anyone, and refuses to respond to hails.
And that’s only half the problem, when Zelda sends a dragon to Earth.
Ghosts – in progress (13241 words)
Mirrorverse story! Everything is opposites. Our heroes end up in a parallel universe, where Zelda is good, and the Terrorhawks are a capitalist military expeditional force, expanding humanity's territorial interests in the universe.
Good queen Zelda has taken it upon herself to keep the humans limited to their own solar system, but there's not that many martians, and a whole planet full of humans - and their slaves.
Kestrel Kestrel – in progress (26103 words)
Kate was suspicious of the gift from the very instant she saw it – for someone who was supposedly “her greatest fan”, they didn’t even spell her name right!
But it was only when things started to change that she realised it wasn’t just a broken, badly-made statuette of a bird that she’d been sent.
To be fair, she’d always dreamed of flying under her own power.
Just not as an actual kestrel.
And knowing the Martians as well as they all do… this surely can’t be the whole thing. Surely.
This started out as a single word concept – “werekestrel” – that has since then absolutely taken up permanent residence in my brain.
I looove werewolf stories, and was coming home from work on the bus one day when I realised I hadn’t got any in this universe, apart from Square Pegs/“were-cube” which felt like I was cheating slightly. And who to pick on because I can’t target the same poor sods EVERY time… Then I thought "well of course it has the be the character whose name IS an animal”, and “tiger” felt too obvious. So… this happened!