Top Ten Tips for Staying Alive in Pegasus for any length of time:
11. Learn as many skills as possible. The more you can do the better you can adapt. So learn how to fly a jumper, fix a jumper, and save those hurt in the back of a jumper. That way, you can pivot in most off-world mission situations.
10. Learn to blend in.
9. Take self-defense classes (Ronon's classes keep you alive in a fight).
8. Take meditation classes (Teyla's help keep your mental state happy).
7. Be careful what you eat off-world and in the city (Who really knows what's in Mystery Meat Monday?)
6. Don't make people mad at you that might hunt you down for retribution. (Or kill them off before they get a chance).
5. Make friends with the medical staff. It might just save your life in a pinch if they like you more.
4. Don't be a 'red-shirt.' (Even Weir didn't escape :( ).
3. Get good at running away. (The faster you run, the faster you get away.)
2. Don't touch strange objects that might blow up, or make you blow up, or mess with your DNA.
1. Talk to a therapist now about any suicide like tendencies or hero complexes you might possess early on. (It would be just your luck to learn all of the above only to mess it up yourself!)
Author's Note: Well, I happened to find this little list just rotting away in my documents. Tsk tsk, this should've been posted a while ago. Ooops.--Lemons