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Before you all start reading the next chapter I have a slight announcement, I am going to do something I have never done before. Two of my coworkers whom I bounce stories ideas off have come up with two stories they want me to do. Now I tend to get a PM from a different person every week with a story idea that they want me to do. Generally refuse to take other people's stories because I want them to do it but I liked these ideas a lot. Since I am considering breaking this self-imposed rule, I decided to open the floor to multiple ideas. Now before anyone with ideas for stories they would want me to write rush to send me a message I do have some rules.

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Early November 2016 I will pick 5 to 10 story ideas that I like and post them up in a poll so everyone can vote to see what they want. However I will have the final say and any winning story will not likely be started until 2017.

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Chapter 54 In a Letter

President Richard Adar sat down in front of a news reporter in the Presidential suit of a hotel, the curtains where drawn so that no one could use the skyline through the window to spot where the President was staying. He took one last drink before turning to the reporter.

"Are we ready?" inquired Adar, that was code to the reporter that it was time to get this show on the road.

"Yes, Mr. President." said the reporter as he turned toward the camera, which was over Adar's shoulder and began to speak to it. Another camera was over the reporters shoulder so that each one of them had a camera on their face, it would be up to the producer to determine who was shown when. Either way the cameras where in just the right position to get the shot but not in the shot of the other camera.

"Mr. President you announced that you will hold a peace conference with our rebellious cousins from Earth, do you think this is a wise move?" inquired the reporter.

"Mike, we have to try to make peace we have all seen the destruction caused by the bombing of Aquaria. We have damaged the Tau'ri with the destruction of some of their ships and both sides know that the other side can hurt them." explained Adar "Why waste human blood in a pointless war when we can come together and work out our differences?"

"The people of Aquaria and the people dealing with the strange green fires on Aerilon would disagree." stated Mike "How are we coming in dealing with those fires, they are spreading and reports are already coming in that prices for basic food such as bread will go up because of the destroyed harvest?"

"That is a major concern for us and we have found a way to put the fire out, however that method requires putting salt on the fire and is almost as bad when it comes to destroying the field." Explained Adar, he didn't say that reports where that while their wouldn't be starvation in the colonies the destruction would cause food prices to rise by between 150 and 200%. "We are currently attempting to contain the fires by burning areas around the fire and containing the fire until they burn out."

"Well let's hope that works," stated the reporter "Now who is all going to attend this peace conference?"

"We had multiple people who would have done a great job in this meeting however we have narrowed it down to four people who will help me make peace." explained Adar "For military advice Admiral Adama who has severed the colonial people for most of his life and Secretary of Defense Helena Cain will advised me on military issues."

Adar smiled even if while he trusted Adama he had no real faith in Cain, however she was a favorite of the hardliners in the Quorum and he would need her and Vice President Spiro help to settle any peace deal.

"For helping me understand the needs of the faith, Priest Spiro head of the holy order of Zeus will advise me." explained Adar as he smiled at the surprise look on the reporter face. Priest Spiro who was the elder brother to the vice president was the head of the Holy Order of Zeus that order was the largest single religious order in the colonies and was respected in every other one. "Lastly to advise me on legal issues Judge Varvara Delis who is the elder judge of the Supreme court of the Colonies will play both hostess and advisor."

"A very well rounded group of advisors Mr. President, do we know who our cousin's are sending to this conference?" inquired the reporter as Adar shook his head. "Since they haven't done that can we trust them?"

"Trust is a two way street and they have expressed multiple concerns over us." explained Adar "They have even sent inquiries about moving the location to a different location because of worries that we would betray them."

"Like we would do that." Said the Reporter as Adar put on a false smile, the public didn't know about the last attempt by the Tau'ri to make peace and how the vice president had pulled a knife on the alien.

"All true but they remember how we held one of their officers Colonel O'Neill and while it followed the ruling of the court it concerns them. They offered to hold the conference on the Cylon space station but with the Cylon fleet sitting right there on their side of space we can't risk sending a delegation to that location and they wouldn't allow us to travel to Kobol."

"Why not?" inquired the reporter

"They don't want us to spy on them." answered Adar "That left Libran as the only option however the Tau'ri have shared some worrisome warnings. They have informed us that anything that happens to their delegation will be answered with a nuclear strike or strikes on Libran."

"That is indeed concerning considering all the horrible things that they have done with their terrorist attacks on the people," stated the reporter

"I do have good news we have already reached a deal with the Tau'ri." Said Adar as the reporter looked at the president. "We have agreed to a prisoner exchange for the Tau'ri terrorist we have in custody. We will be giving them their man back and in return we will get 24 of the POW they hold two from each world."

"That is good news Mr. President do we know who will be released?" inquired the reporter

"Yes and no, the Tau'ri didn't want us to pick whoever we wanted from the POWs they have so instead they will pick two randomly and we will pick two from each world. Then the four POW will draw lots to decide who goes home." Explained Adar, drawing lots has been an accepted way to settle issues for decades. Even the Lords of Kobol drew lots to decide who would rule what after the defeat of the Titans, Zeus drew the short lot and became ruler of heaven while Hades drew the long lot and became the ruler of the underworld. This was accepted even by the Lords because it was in the hands of the fates and even the Lords of Kobol had no power over them. "On a lesser note we have also agreed on an exchange of the dead from both sides, so that families can have their loved ones returned. I will be putting this before the Quorum in a few hours and hopefully they accept it before the start of the conference with these small issues aside we can work on the larger issues."

"Such as getting Kobol back and united the tribes of men?" inquired reporter

"I think we need to be honest that we will have to wait for our cousins to return to the faith on their own however on the Kobol issue much can be done." explained Adar "They claim to have control over 20% of the galaxy they don't need Kobol. What is one world compared to the peace that can be made. We will of course make arrangements to allow the people who have already settled and the cities they have built to be removed but we are willing to make that deal. We may not get Kobol right away but we will have it, hopefully in a peaceful way."

On a distance planet Colonel Jack O'Neill walked down the hallway of his new assigned base, beside him walked the third highest ranking officer in the Tau'ri military, his old friend General Samantha Carter. The soldiers and other personal in the corridor snapped to attention as they walked past but Carter didn't return the salute, instead a simple nod was enough for most. The multiple scientist and engineers who saw the two of them also watched them pass.

"So you think you can trap the Colonials in a time dilation field?" inquired Jack "Wouldn't the power needs be over the top?"

"Yes, but we have been studying how the ORI got the power for their supergate from a black hole and we have done it on a small scale already in lab tests." explained Carter as Jack nodded his head. Both of them knew that they were looking into generating power on that scale to build a Supergate in Pegasus, that way ships wouldn't have to travel the void between galaxies.

"Alright but why not trap Valhalla in a time field, that could allow us to build a fleet in seconds because years could pass for people in the field," advised O'Neill

"And all those millions people have families, we can't ask them to be separated for years and that goes for all our outposts across the entire galaxy and Atlantis." explained Carter with a shake of her head. "That will not work."

"I guess that makes sense." admitted Jack "I wouldn't want to be separated from my family for years, the thing is wouldn't this plan of yours do the same thing to the POWs?"

"That is a major down side but they are POWs, we can think of something to do with them." admitted Carter "The befits of doing this outweigh the costs."

"I guess, POWs in wars have spent years imprisoned in the past." confirmed Jack "Maybe we could put them into a time dilation field which matches their families back home."

"That is a possibly." Admitted Carter "One I hadn't thought of."

"But that would just make the task of making a machine capable of doing the whole time dilation field harder because you will have to do two." stated Jack as Carter shook her head.

"Actually the design the Asgard used against in their war will be enough to do the job. They did design it to effect a smaller area but with a much greater slowdown in time, so that seconds inside are hundreds of years outside. What we are doing is making the effective area larger but not slowing down time as much," explained Carter. "It should work in theory but I need to check my math."

"Well your math is normally good," confirmed Jack as they walked past four guards standing in front of a door. Each of the figures where in full body armor with weapons ready if needed. Everyone knew that it was not needed but they were standing in front of the room where the two ZPMs that they were studying in hopes of finding out how to make more where being studied. They had replaced the 12 nearly full power ZPMs that the Colonials had with fakes and now those ZPMs where being split up across multiple galaxies. Personally Jack would have put the other ten on their battleships and used them to blast the colonials but it wasn't his call, the powers that be didn't want to risk them being destroyed by putting them on a warship.

Of the ten others, four of them where going to Earth and possibly Mars and Venus when they got fully terraformed. Another two were going to Valhalla and another one was likely going to Langara if the home world of Jonas Quinn voted to join the Tau'ri alliance. Atlantis did not have need of any of the ZPMs because they had kept all three that Todd had given them when they brought down the super hive ship. That accounted for 9 out of the 12, the other three where being kept in storage to be used on future projects.

"We should use those ZPMs to crush the Colonials," stated Jack outload to his old friend.

"I pushed for that and so did General O'Neill, but they want to start building city ships in a decade or two and they need the ZPMs for them," explained Carter before laughing. "They are even considering making a city ship and using it as a Capital city for the Tau'ri on Earth and then fly it to off the coast of whatever nation currently holds the office of the president."

"All these big projects going at the same time, I don't think that is wise." Admitted Jack before shaking his head. "I take that back, we had multiple projects going on in WW2 and we got a lot done in those years."

The crack of bullets and the deafing roar of explosions filled the air of a normally peace mountain meadow on Sagittaron. A squad of twelve colonial soldiers where in the fight of their lives, too bad they were fighting shadows. Dark figures appeared from behind trees only to disappear into mist as bullets hit them. Moments after that would happen another shadow or two would appear behind a different tree and the process would go on.

"Kept the fire going!" yelled the young squad leader as he fired at a shadow, which came close to him. The twelve man where firing as fast as they could and the shell casings from their weapons where covering the ground.

Behind the group watching the entire battle from a safe distance sat Todd, he chuckled to himself as the mental shadows which all Wraith could send out to herd humans into a single spot for feeding was just as effective in this galaxy as back in the Pegasus. He took a drink of wine and waited as the Colonials kept firing away at nothing, all the while recording it. He had no idea why the Tau'ri wanted the video but considering the video camera did not pick up the shadows it was kind of funny to see these soldiers freak out over nothing because.

Finally Todd was getting board as he placed his wine glass down and stood up. He stretched a bit before pulling his pistol from his hostler. It was time to eat and now that the Colonials had used up almost all their ammo fighting nothing and were at their mental breaking point, they would be easy to capture for food.

Space ripped open as a single vortex opened up just outside the orbit of Pluto, out of that vortex came the HMS Ark Royal. The crew was more than happy to be back home on Earth even if it would take slightly longer then they would like to reach Earth itself. Due to worries about ships coming out of hyperspace around Earth and attacking, all ships had to exit hyperspace around Pluto and journey under sub light engines toward Earth and ship that did not would find themselves locked on if not fired upon the moment they came out by the ships and defense satellites. That was not always the case in the past but that was in the past, another issue was that in time Earth would become a major traffic point for ships and they didn't want ships hitting each other as came in toward the inner system.

With powerful sub light engines it didn't take long for the Ark Royal to move into the system, it passed by multiple large defense satellites each one of them capable of cutting a Wraith Hive Ship or even an Ori mother ship in half with a single strike. Earth was the most heavily defended place in the known Galaxy. The only two that came close being Valhalla, which had fallen victim to an attack because Colonial FTL didn't work like any other races and the joint defense line set up by all the Free Jaffa, Lucian Alliance and the Tau'ri around the ORI Supergate to make sure nothing came in that way.

Lt. Rose Ryan looked out the window from the gallery as planets she never thought she would see as a child in person with her own eyes passed by. There was Jupiter and its red dot now with the addition of a defense satellite in orbit with all its moon. As they passed through the asteroid belt, she saw something she had not expected to see, Mars. The planet was not a surprise but the fact that the red planet was not very red anymore, patches of green could be seen on the planet even some blue could be seen.

"What the hell?" inquired Lt. Ryan "What is going on with Mars?"

"I am not surprised you didn't know with the war and Valhalla they haven't focused much on what they are doing back here." laughed a nearby sailor "They are using Asgard Terraforming to make Mars habitual, something to do with special fungus to make an atmosphere and melting the ice to bring following water to the surface."

"Why terraform Mars?" inquired Lt. Ryan "We have the Stargate and countless habitual worlds why mess with turning Mars habitual?"

"And Venus." added the Sailor as the American pilot looked at the British sailor "They are terraforming both of them but that doesn't answer your main question does it?"

"No." growled Lt. Ryan

"Well I would have to guess it is because even with the Stargate people still want to be near Earth, near everything they had ever known. With the Stargate you could walk from Vahalla to Earth but from Mars or Venus you can see Earth in the sky every night." explained the Sailor as Lt. Ryan nodded her head conceding the point. "Also it is something people have wanted to do for a very long time to Mars more than Venus and now with Asgard and Ancient technology we can have three worlds right here in the system. On a more practical side both planets have resources that aren't on Earth."

"I see." confirmed Lt. Ryan as suddenly the load speaker began to calling her name and ordering her to get to her fighter bomber. It did not take long for her to reach the flight ready room and to change to leave, once that was done she walked into the hanger to see that the doors where open and she could see Earth partly hidden by the moon on one side. She could see North America, her home for the most part cloud cover prevented her from seeing her native Texas well.

"Lt. Ryan, thank you for everything you have done here." Said Captain Taylor as both of them shook the other hands.

"Permission to leave the ship?" inquired the US navy pilot to the Royal Navy Captain.

"Permission granted." Confirmed Taylor as Lt. Ryan got into the Taita fighter bomber. Within a couple of moments she flew off the Ark Royal and into the void of space, four Eagle fighters waited for her and formed up around her two on each side so that they made a V with her on point.

The flew past the moon and that is when she saw something else she hadn't seen the last time she was on Earth. There over the Pacific ocean something was being constructed, it didn't look like a ship but instead looked like a larger version a defense station only it lacked the long main ancient beam cannon and was rounded in the center. It was see through like a building that only had the wood or metal frames up but it was clearly to be enclosed.

"What the hell is that?" inquired Lt. Ryan

"What…that?" inquired a pilot on the radio as the fellow pilot gave the radar location of the structure.

"Yes." confirmed Lt. Ryan

"That is the unfinished Neil Armstrong Space Port." stated the pilot "In the future that will be where all the civilian ships coming and leaving Earth will dock there."

Lt. Ryan was about to point out why waste time traveling across the stars in a ship when the Stargate made it so much easier. But she stopped herself, the gate would be pure military for a while, yes they would allow people to go to Valhalla on mass but Valhalla was a single point. In the future when they had worlds spread out over multiple systems the gate would not be able to be used just for civilian transport they needed ships. Also some items where too large to go through the gate and they would have to be transported by ships.

The Taita bomber rocked a bit as it entered the atmosphere and descended toward the Eastern coast of the United States. She knew the plan and even so she was amazed as she descended her aircraft to only a couple hundred feet off the ground and slowed down.

She looked out the cockpit as the spire of the Washington monument and the dome of the US capital building came into view. She and the flight had been given a green light to fly over the airspace and the people knew she was coming. She could see the crowds of people gathered on the mall waving at her as she flew overhead. She circled the mall allowing the people to see the bomber which had destroyed a world before making the turn and landing at Andrews Airforce base outside of Washington DC. As she brought her bird in for a landing she saw the blue and white painted Air Force One sitting in it's hanger beside it was a smaller modified Condor bomber designed for passenger transport. The Condor was painted the same colors marking it as the new Airforce One, beside it were Owls marked in the same paint colors as Marine One.

"The World has changed." Stated Lt. Ryan as she got out of her bomber and was greeted by the general in charge of the base who informed her a car was waiting to take her to a hotel where she could rest before going to the ceremonial at the Capital.

The President of the United States along with Dr. Richard Woolsey had watched the fighter-bomber fly over the Capital building and the Washington Mall from the Rose Garden. With that done they had walked back in and sat down in the Oval office.

"So when do you head to the colonies?" inquired the President

"I will head to Valhalla in a few hours and then it is only three ours to get to the Colonies." Stated Woolsey, both of them knew that the instruction given by the rest of the governments of the Tau'ri. They would not be handing over Valhalla like the colonials believed they would be willing to do. Valhalla had too many resources in large amounts that was key to the new technology they had gotten from the Stargate. Even if Valhalla did not have it they would not hand over the planet, the colonials had no rights to Kobol it was abounded for 2,000 years and was originally held by the Goa'uld not the human slaves.

"You do have permission to offer the Colonials Nysa back and we will even allow them to build a temple to their lords of Kobol on Valhalla as long as they understand that their faith will be treated as an equal and they have to follow our laws." stated the President

"They will not likely go for that, we are dealing with a situation similar to the Israeli Palestine issues more extremely." Stated Woolsey "It is worth a shot but it is unlikely, what about the colonial nuclear weapons, fleet size and charging their political leaders for attacking Valhalla."

The President thought for a moment.

"We are willing allow them to keep the ships they have but not building any more for a few years. We will let you settle that number but at least 10 years." explained the President as Adar nodded his head. "As for the nuclear, limit their number and the like. The political leaders are a more complex issue, the public wants them hung which is why they are massively behind this Lt. Ryan and her bombing of the colonial world. But their leaders will not hand themselves over to us because they know what will likely happen to them. Push for that at first but then offer them to have the Nox hear them out and settle the case, we can sell that to the public."

"Alright." confirmed Woolsey as he looked down at the list of the others who would be taking part in the talks with him. He would be leading the talks for the Tau'ri nations with the help of Doctor Daniel Jackson, his old partner Fang Gang from the Chinese government, General Leang the new commander of Valhalla will make up the official Tau'ri citizens. The final member would be a Tau'ri in all but name, Jonas Quinn who was a high ranking official from Lanagara who would be holding their vote to join the Tau'ri in two weeks. A vote that looked like it was going to be a landside vote to join the Tau'ri.

Night was falling over Libran as President Richard Adar sat up in bed watching the news broadcasts from the main news stations. The news was generally against him, the public wants revenge for what the Tau'ri had done. He was about to turn in and get some sleep when a knock at the door caused him to look away from the TV.

"Enter." Said the President as he got out of bed as the Sectary of Justice walked into the room with a peace of paper in his hands, the look on his face caused a chill to run down his spin as he handed the President the paper. He scanned the paper and instantly let it drop to the floor. "By the Lords of Kobol, they have just killed all hope for peace. Is there anything we can do?"

"Not unless we can change a 75 years of law," stated the Secretary of Justice. "The Quorum has had the final say in releasing prisoners because of past presidents letting out men and women who broke laws under their orders. They can also do this if a president refuses to carry out the mandatory sentence and that is what he is guilty of under colonial law."

"Frak, the Tau'ri will be here in a few hours and they want me to hold talks with them after this! Fraken idiots!" cursed the President as he tried to figure out his next move. The paper landed in a position so that both men could look down and see the writing, it was an order form the Quorum. They had answered the president offer to confirm the deal for the prisoner exchange with an order of their own, an order of execution for the Tau'ri "Terrorist" to be carried out within hours. "They have just signed the death order for both this Russian we hold and any hopes for peace with the Tau'ri in the near future."

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