I've been thinking a lot lately. If you haven't read the notice on my profile, all of my stories are effectively dead in the water since I just lack the motivation to continue, and the workload being dropped on me is substantial. This story is no exception, I've got a lot of postive reception, but some constructive negative criticism, which I have thought about and taken on board. I got to about half way through writing the next chapter over the final months of last year and I just...gave up. This story, in it's current form, is just unworkable in my opinion.

For instance, I really went overboard with the fleet size in this story and the whole first contact insurance thing. In hindsight, I really don't know what I was thinking. The time frame was all wrong too, it was only months after the Reaper Invasion. I failed to deduce the obvious reality about just how desructive the Reapers were (or would be), and this was shown in Mass Effect 3 brilliantly. Drawing the fleets together, as I did here, could have never happened this long after the Reaper invasion, Mass Relays or no Mass Relays. Playing ME3 has highlighted this to me. It almost embarrasing reading it again.

Therefore, I have decided to completely rewrite it in light of recent events in the Mass Effect series. I'm not going to factor in all elements of the ending, I may just ignore most of it so that the Mass Effect universe actually survives. That means no Commander Shepard or Team Normandy, sorry folks. He (or she) had their time in the spotlight. In my ideal ending, he is MIA after supposedly sacrificing himself valliantly to destroy the Reapers after resisting a sustained indoctrination attempt. No corpse was ever found. He became a legend in the galacitc community, and left a greiving Tali to build her own house on Rannoch with the help of Garrus and a few Geth.

With the idea that I am currently working on, the rewrite of First Contact will take place several years after the end of Mass Effect, the galaxy is still very much in the middle of rebuilding after the Reaper War. It will mainly focus on Human and Turian forces and their inter-racial cooperation after the war. I have also decided to toy around with the timeline of BSG. I am considering having the Pegasus, and possibly several more warships left over from it's Battlestar Group (BSG 62), encounter the Galactica much earlier in the series, during Season 1, while they are searching for Kobol, which may be very important for both universes. Since I wouldn't want to see Cain taking command of the Fleet, perhaps Adama is promoted to Rear Admiral after their Escape at Rangar Anchorage or otherwise during the series. I have also devised a solution to the Thirteenth Colony problem that I have been whining about while writing this story.

I don't know, these are ideas that I am toying with. I'd also like to thank everyone for their support and critique. I had no idea that a ME/BSG crossover was so sought after. This has been by far my most popular story even if it was lackluster and over the top in my own opinion and in hindsight. While I did say before that I had no motivation, looking at the total stats for this story while writing this note has changed this a bit.

However, as you all know, I am a pretty slow writer, so don't expect to see this rewrite for several months, possibly during the summer. I will also try to write several chapters at first and release them slowly, just to gauge reactions. On naming it, it will either be called Second Contact, which actually make much more sense than First Contact, or Diaspora since I love the word, and it fits perfectly with BSG (Diaspora Oratorio from the BSG OST is fantastic, by the way)

If you have any ideas or suggestions for the rewrite, I would love to hear them.

Thanks,

c0H.