What is "Team" Star Angel? Team Star Angel is more than the books or the story, and the idea for the Team grew out of a simple chain of events.
To start, here's a quote directly from the site (TeamStarAngel.com):
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"Star Angel is entertainment, pure and simple. It's a five volume epic (we're calling it a pentalogy), filled with sci-fi action, adventure, ancient mysteries, romance -- even a little of the fantastic. In that sense there is no "mission". Star Angel is just books and was never intended to be anything more than something fun to read.
Within the books, however, there's a theme at work. One we could adopt in our own lives. And so the idea of Team Star Angel was born. What's Team Star Angel? Team Star Angel is about making it better. It's an approach, maybe even an ideal, modeled on the action in the story. The main character, Jessica Paquin, is an average girl in an average town who, when challenged, rises above her fears, not only to survive but to unite worlds.
Each of us have that spirit within us.
So, the mission of Team Star Angel is to encourage an environment of prosperity through intention, starting with our own lives and spreading a positive force into the world. In short, the mission of the Team is to make it better."
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So where did the idea come from? Not, at first, from any particularly noble impulse. I was simply looking for a web address, one that was easy to remember yet relevant to the site. All good names were taken, of course, and as I was thinking of ideas and combinations I recalled the old Twilight camps, where there was a Team Jacob and a Team The Other Guy. I'm drawing a blank at the moment, but you get the idea. I thought, "Team Star Angel". Great idea. Better still, the web address was available.
Only ... what exactly did that mean? In Twilight "Team" had relevance because you were either pro one guy or pro the other. In Star Angel there really isn't any such division.
Then it struck me. The true meaning of a team. And that cascaded further to the common theme running through all the Star Angel books, that of doing the right thing no matter how hard, of not giving up and, ultimately, fighting to make the world a better place. Thus the idea of an unofficial "team", anyone who upheld those values and worked to push positive effects into their environment and into the world, took hold. And Team Star Angel was born.
As it says on the site, there is no official membership. There are no dues. Being a part of the Team is a decision someone makes for themselves. Others may know it or not. Actions will speak to the support of the mission. Actions will make it better.
So the Team Star Angel site is kind of a twofold affair. It definitely has lots to do with the books, lots of extra info on the story, including links for this blog and a Tumblr blog with cool art, an upcoming video channel and even, one day, gear you can buy, plus it stands as the embodiment of an ideal. A mission, really, to take action and make the world a better place. Participation in that mission is entirely up to you.
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