Madronas
Summary
Madronas was a peaceful, advanced society with the resources to accept several thousand refugees. The planet was proposed by the SGC as a possible location for evacuees of Langara (Jonas Quinn's homeworld) when it was at risk of destruction by the unstable transformation of naquadah into naquadria below the surface of Kelowna. Madronas was 14,000 light years away...but it is unclear whether this distance was measured from Langara, or from Earth.
The Langaran delegation at first rejected this possibility and proposed separate uninhabited planets for refugees of each of the three countries of Langara: Kelowna, Tirania, and Andari. This counter-proposal was rejected by the SGC as impractical. Going to a world with the resources to help them, such as Madronas, was the best way to save as many people as possible. The delegation finally agreed to send a Langaran three person team to Madronas to investigate its potential as an evacuation site.
However, their continued bickering over how the evacuees from the three countries would be determined frustrated the SGC too much. Jack O'Neill and General Hammond eventually stated that the offer of Madronas was rescinded. As O'Neill put it. "Well, you see, we actually like the Madronans. They're nice people. And we've decided, there's no way we'd subject them to the likes of you. Deal's off. You're toast." Luckily for the people of Jonas's homeworld, the attempt to stop the naquadria transformation on Langara was successful, so evacuation was unnecessary.
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--Aurora 07:22, 6 July 2006 (PDT)