Personally, I don't feel to comfortable with this. Now I admit I haven't been around in a while, but to throw my two cents in from what I remember when I first joined, the point was to keep the canons in canon.

You could pick up Sues or Minor Characters in fan fics for agents if you wanted to, or just create someone, but canons were off limits for a variety of reasons.

One of those being Lust Object. Throwing a canon into a room full of crazed agents who may lust after them is begging for trouble. It's bad enough that the agents have to deal with their lust objects in the Fics, but to tempt them with a canonically acting canon? It's not fair.

But this is just my two cents.

~Kips

About the alternate universe characters- those of you who have played Kngihts of the Old Republic will recognize this name- I suggest one of the million and something versions of Revan running around, whether from a specific fanfic or the author's imagination.

Basically, Knights of the Old Republic is a role playing game set 4,000 years pre-Star Wars movies. If you want a more detailed explanation of the plot, you can look it up, but Revan is an ex-Sith Lord who gets captured by the Jedi, mind-wiped, and sent to defeat his/her apprentice Malak.

The canon has Revan being lightside and male, but for the alternate universe side of it, there are all sorts of weird options. You can make Revan female or a dark sider in the game, not to mention messing around with his/her assumed name, but for the purpose of being really AU, it would also be possible to give him/her his/her memories back, or somehting. Anyone else like this idea?(Please, let not the overuse of slash marks by for nothing)

We need to be really, really careful about how we do this. There is Canonical precedent, IIRC, we've got a copy of Voyager's Doctor working in medical (from TOS, actually). However, I would like to set some ground rules for borrowing Canonical characters (debate is welcome, of course).

First, and most importantly, we can't take characters out of the main continuity of their universe. We're here to protect the Canon, and that definitely includes the characters therein. Rescuing Wash, for instance, was rather borderline - I'm willing to let it stand as Canon, (and keep Wash around), but please, don't do it again?

Effectively, this limits us to pulling characters from AUs - while I'm no expert on alternate universe physics, I would suggest that the AU both has to be rather drastically different from the main Canon, and have been running for a long time - enough time and difference to (metaphysically) separate them from their Canonical counterparts.

The second rule I would suggest is that ex-Canons shouldn't be field agents. Mentioning that Sam is now working for DoSAT is fine, writing one-shots about her getting used to the job and her new co-workers is fine, stealing Luke Skywalker to kill 'sues with is definitely not.

Ultimately, the rule is "write maturely". This is the PPC - we're a band of crazy people going crazier while fighting the growing flood of badfic. We are not an insert-your-favorite-character sitcom.

That's my take, anyways. Discussion is welcome.

You are so much better at this sort of thing than me. I like the idea, but you knew that already.