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{{quote|''"A clash of ideologies will cause widespread death and destruction for two races both alike and strange to the other."''|FF.net story summary}}
What happens when [[Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)|the Twelve Colonies of Kobol]] and [[Stargate Verse|the Tau'ri]] meet? Well, in the universe of this fanfic, there's only one thing that can happen: they go to war. [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3546854/1/Reunions_are_a_Bitch ''Reunions are a Bitch''] by [http://www.fanfiction.net/u/52257/Bob_Regent Bob Regent] is [[Exactly What It Says
The backstory: two years ago, the ''Prometheus'' was on a shakedown run when it ran into the Colonials. Things soon fell off the deep end, and the ''Prometheus'' was forced to make a shooting retreat. Now the Colonials have returned, this time in the Solar System with 200 warships and the unmitigated desire to see the Thirteenth Tribe brought back into the fold of their government. A great battle ensues, and that's when things get interesting.
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''Reunions'' is famous on Fanfiction.net for these reasons:
# It [[Trope Maker|popularized]] the idea of the Colonials of ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]'' being driven by religious fanaticism to conquer the Earth. Or them just being evil, period, despite little info on whether that's true or not.
# It is pretty decently written despite countless grammatical errors [[
# It is one of the more realistic fics on the 'net -- relatively speaking, given the existing ''BSG'' and ''SG'' canons being worked with.
It has reached 26 chapters, 349,784 words and 976 reviews. It is currently a [[Dead Fic]]; its 27th chapter is an author's note from November 2013 blaming months of inactivity on a chronic illness.
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* [[Alternate Universe Fic]]: The big differences between the two universes are solved by Vala never showing up in ''[[Stargate SG
** This fanfic actually has an alternate universe of
* [[Apocalypse How]]: The Colonials ''really'' like to use nuclear weapons, but still wet themselves at the thought of the Tau'ri using theirs.
* [[Armchair Military]]: The IOA does is this.
* [[Badass Boast]]: A pilot with the RAF proudly and excitedly predicts the Colonials' imminent demise when he finds out {{spoiler|that they've been infected with a mild case of Earth influenza and don't have an immunity to it}}.
* [[Blatant Lies]]: Adar, along with a lot of the top-tier Colonial leadership, ''
* [[Cool Ship]]: For the Colonials, the Warstar ''Zeus,'' a massive ship of incredible strength. For the Tau'ri, the newly christened DSC-304 ''General George Hammond.''
* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: The battle over Earth in the prologue. The Colonials lose 137 ships out of 200 while Earth loses 1 ship out of six.
** Thor bitchslapping the Wraith hive ship definitely counts as this.
** The battle above Picon, for the Tau'
* [[Death From Above]]: The debris raining down on Picon from the destroyed orbital facilities.
** The nukes that impacted Earth.
* [[
** The author
* [[Dude, Where's My Respect?]]: The [[America Saves the Day|Americans saved the world from being enslaved by an alien power]], so what's the world gonna do now? Why, put the American General who commanded their space forces on trial for war crimes, of course!
** [[Fridge Brilliance|Which makes sense.]] The Earth defense fleet was made up of mostly American and Russian built ships since those nations knew about the Star Gate first, and people are looking for a scapegoat.
{{quote|"People hate the United States on principal. You're just the most visible member of the armed forces. You knew you would get this kind of thing when you took the job. It's not like being on SG1 anymore."|Daniel Jackson (to Gen. O'Neil)}}
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* [[Elaborate Underground Base]]: The Crucible is one. The Colonial Presidential Bunker on Caprica, and the Colonial Military HQ on Picon.
* [[Enemy Mine]]: The Tau'ri and some of their Colonial POWs {{spoiler|team up to fight the Wraith}}.
* [[EMP]]: A probe's detonation causes this over Caprica
* [[Energy Weapon]]: The Daedalus, Odyssey, Korolev, and Ajax get Asgard weapons. Felger also perfects his plasma cannon, last seen in "Avenger 2.0."
* [[False Reassurance]]: Adar mentions that the battle over Earth cost the Tau'ri 40 percent of their fleet. He
** Also, only one Earth Ship, the ''Apollo,'' was destroyed, so it was more like only 16 to 17 percent. To make matters worse, the main reason it was destroyed (or rather, the Colonials' attempts to destroy it were successful) was because it was incomplete. One of the other seriously damaged ships was also incomplete, and suffered much of its damage because of that. Adar later states that, in the
* [[Government Conspiracy]]: Adar, the religious leaders, military leaders, and industrialists all support taking Earth for various reasons that they don't wish to disclose including lying about what happened at the Katlean Base. {{spoiler|Adar and company stated that the Prometheus destroyed the base, however it actually suffered a life support failure two weeks before the Prometheus even showed up in the Cyrannus system.}}
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* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: {{spoiler|Flight Lieutenant Fitzgerald does this so that the French F-302 pilot can make it back to the ''Odyssey''.}}
* [[Hero
* [[Humans Through Alien Eyes]]: [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3546854/16/Reunions_are_a_Bitch Chapter 16] could be considered an essay on the subject, and is downright hilarious, as the Colonials are mainly basing their speculation and conclusions off of fictional material, and are incapable of distinguishing fiction from nonfiction. In particular, they believe the events of ''[[Star Trek]]'' (the original series and ''Next Generation'', at least) as likely accurate, and Earth's present lack of colonies and ships is because they were nearly wiped out, or devastated, sometime in the past.
* [[Follow the Leader]]: This fic has kicked off a multitude of different stories involving the Colonials before the BSG miniseries being complete [[Jerkass
* [[Intercontinuity Crossover]]: the ''[[Stargate Verse]]'' and ''[[Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)|Battlestar Galactica]]''.
* [[Jerkass]]: How do you know when a Colonial is a sympathetic character? When they hate Adar. How do you know when Adar is a sympathetic character? When he hates someone who's an even bigger wanker then he is.
* [[Knight Templar]]: A lot of the Colonials could qualify as this, or at least the guys in charge. Also, to no one's surprise, Admiral Helena Cain.
* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]
* [[Mid
* [[Misguided Missile]]: In Chapter 5, a colonial nuclear missile is headed to Virginia, however it gets damaged and detonates over Memphis.
* [[Moral Dissonance]]: The Colonials' idea of liberation [http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=206 is a little bit different] from that of most people. In particular, they seem to think that a great way to liberate the population of Earth is by launching hundreds of large nukes at its surface. And when that doesn't work very well, ''do it again.''
* [[Naming Your Colony World]]: Planet Helo.
* [[Normal Fish in
** The Tau'ri, actually, to the Colonials. However, countering the typical effects of this trope is the fact that Earth has so little of their high tech assets, and little capability to make more of it quickly. For a little while, at least.
* [[Nuke
* [[Ramming Always Works]]: A battlestar rams the incomplete ''Apollo'', after said ship had already taken dozens of nuclear detonations to its incomplete shielding and hull, destroying it. The ''Dionysus'' rams a Wraith cruiser and destroys it in Chapter Fourteen.
* [[Reality Ensues]]
* [[Shown Their Work]]: The authors actually did quite a bit of work studying in preparation for what was being written in story... [[Did Not Do the Research|usually.]] In particular, badly damaged nuclear missiles don't go nuclear, especially not at full yield. And the effects of the four nuclear warheads that hit Earth in the first battle
* [[Tear Jerker]]: General Hammond's {{spoiler|funeral.}}
* [[Villain
* [[War Fic]]: Considering that the story kicks off with a massive space battle, this is pretty much a given.
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