# Stories of Peace – Conclusion

Published February 28, 2024 by Funcracker.

The year 2023, or rather 2623, marked a major milestone in the history of Star Atlas! That year, the Galia Expanse celebrated [100 years of peace](https://medium.com/star-atlas/a-reflection-on-the-100th-anniversary-of-the-signature-of-the-treaty-of-peace-d237dd6af592) between the three major factions, the MUD, the ONI, and the Ustur.

You can read the official address by _Vaor Scarka_ (Ruling Secretary of the Council of Peace) to the citizens of those factions [here](https://medium.com/star-atlas/a-reflection-on-the-100th-anniversary-of-the-signature-of-the-treaty-of-peace-d237dd6af592).

To celebrate this anniversary, we organized a [short story writing competition](https://aephia.com/star-atlas/a-merry-christmas-star-atlas-writing-competition/) in December, themed the fruits of this century of peace, nicely in line with the spirit of Christmas.

The objective was to write a story that would celebrate this peace. It could be an anecdote of something that could only have happened due to the peace treaty.

A total of [12 stories](https://aephia.com/star-atlas/twelve-stories-of-peace-in-the-galia-expanse/) were submitted, and members of the Star Atlas team, under the leadership of the chief Noot, _José_ (aka _ZeSKK_) himself, spent the last few weeks reviewing each and every one of them!

And they have come to a conclusion!

> I was baffled by the Star Atlas community’s passion and writing skills! It feels reassuring to have so many talents dreaming and writing their own stories in Galia Expanse. It won’t be long before they can manifest them in reality as well.
> 
> José, the noot of lore

![Signing](https://assets.aephia.com/wp-assets/94ec586c1447e0631b98cbb4e57c323b5a7d3afe26f2c1ac3b8f1bd87b9347c9.jpg)

The signing of the Treaty of Peace \[from the COP archives\]

## Winners

Without further ado, here are the winners of the 100-Years of Peace Short Story Writing Competition:

1. 🥇 **Krigs** – with [The Safe Harbour](https://medium.com/the-hologram/the-safe-harbour-597ad851d603)
2. 🥈 **Boen** – with [Peace, Mixed and Different](https://medium.com/@boenw/peace-mixed-and-different-4b2906130a11)
3. 🥉 **MrBakisha** – with [Outpost 39 Trio](https://medium.com/@mrbakisha2023/outpost-39-trio-eed8e0b963fd)

Finally, we have two honorable mentions:

* 🏅 **Trebel** – with [Misjudged Situations](https://timanrebel.medium.com/misjudged-situations-4dc166c71333)
* 🏅 **Kenny Dovahkiin** – with [Peace of Art](https://medium.com/@kennydovahkiin/peace-of-art-98665639999c)

Looking at the prizes, this means that:

* Krigs will take home **2x ALFs** ([AEP Life Forms](https://aephia.com/star-atlas/the-story-of-aep-life-form/)) & **2x Fimbul Lowbies**
* Boen and MrBakhisha both take home **1x ALF** each and **1x Fimbul Lowbie**, or **1x Fimbul ECOS Unibomba**, respectively

_To the winners: Please contact Funcracker through DMs and let us know where we should send the prizes._

## Thanks

We want to thank José and his team for all of their great work on directing and writing the lore of Stars Atlas! And all the more for reading through all the stories and then having several sleepless nights trying to figure out the winners. The fact that we have 2 honorable mentions shows that this was a tight race!

We also want to thank the team for kindly offering some Fimbul Lowbies as prizes! You guys rock!

Last but not least, we want to thank all the participants for sitting down and writing amazing fan fiction in the setting of the Galia Expanse! Thanks for giving us wonderful tales to read over the Christmas holidays!

If you want to read these stories for yourself, then you can! We’ve [compiled all 12 stories](https://aephia.com/star-atlas/twelve-stories-of-peace-in-the-galia-expanse/) for you!