Prologue

So i was in home and due to some things i was left for a whole week without internet. So i played some singleplayer games. One of which was Battlestar Galactica Deadlock. So it kind of clicked in me to start writing this story. Don't Expect it to be update with any kind of schedule.


You awake in the middle of a field. It stretches on forever. The night sky is above you. You sit down and watch the stars. They twinkle with life each shining with excitement waiting for something.

"It's beautiful, isn't it?"- came an ethereal voice.

You look around trying to find the source of the voice.

"Don't try to find me, it has been a long time since I last had a physical body. Do you know how you got here?"

You shake your head in a negative.

"It's alright, sometimes people come here by accident. You are not dead just so you know."

Relief washes over your body. It would have been a pretty boring afterlife if this was it.

"You are most likely asleep and your mind wondered here. You corporeal beings do the silliest things without knowing."-the voice said with evident amusement

The voice is weird it both female and male at same time. You think about it being male and it is then you think about it being female and it is.

"Did you assume my gender? Sorry I couldn't help it. Hehehe no need to be embarrassed. You humans would argue over the weirdest things. Did you know there are species with over 16 genders? Try explaining that to your kind. Or better yet to a mono-gendered species. I am pretty sure they thought I was insane."

Silence falls between you and the voice.

"Would you like to hear a story? I usually listen to them myself but having company makes everything so much better. Come on…it's not like you have something else you can do here…it would be a pretty boring dream."

You concede. Nothing wrong with a story to pass the time. So you nod.

"Excellent. Oh it's been so long since I had company. I love stories if you haven't guessed. There are so many of them and each and single one of them will teach you something. There are those with a happy ending, sad ending, weird ending, surprising ending and everything else in between. I love them all. So what kind of story do you want to hear?"

You shrug.

"Well then…Just look up to the sky and find one."

You look to the sky. It's incredible. It's like every star is alive just waiting to tell its story. A small flash draws your attention. It was so quick you question whether it was real or not.

"Ah that one. Yes I like that one. It's a good story let me tell you that. At least I hope you like it. It is a story of struggle against the impossible, a story of a crazy idea that turned in to a reality, a story of greatness appearing in the unlikeliest of places. A story of a ship, a crew and a captain, who after a horrible tragedy had such a ridiculous idea, an idea so impossible that it might actually worked. But their road wasn't an easy one. They had to pick up the piece of broken worlds and make the choices that nobody else wanted to make. There will be pain, there will be happiness, there will be grief and by the gods there will be swearing, so much swearing. And at the end there just might be a happy ending. Would you like me to tell you that story?"

It sounds interesting so why not? You nod again.

"I knew I had you hooked. So let us go and see it."

And suddenly you are lifted from the ground and fly straight up. You are in space. Stars fly by you. And just like that you stop.

"Do you know the story of the twelve colonies of Kobol?"

You nod.

"Good it would have been an extremely confusing story without context. Everybody knows the story of the Galactica, of the Pegasus, of Blood and Chrome, of Caprica. But this one very few people have even heard of. Look over there you see that? It's a colonial ship. But unlike every other story this ship is not some super ship. A superstar or a gigastar, or a technostar, or a prototype battlestar in fact it's not a battlestar at all. It is not some ship that can challenge the gods. No no no. It's a frigate. Okay it's a heavy frigate. Small and cheap, dependable and expendable. That's what frigates are, aren't they? Something to beef up a fleet without spending too much. And just like that our ship is not much. But greatness can be found even in it. "

You look at the frigate. Heavy frigate. In all honesty the voice was right it is not much. It has a big turret at the bow. Broadside turrets on each side above the viper launchers, they looked like the kind that were built for more dakka rather than big dakka. Its shape is a perfect representation of colonial design philosophy. 800 meters in length with four massive engines. Those colonials sure do build big. A single flight pod for returning vipers and raptors on its belly. On the sides of the front of the ship in big white letters it read "Elpis".

"Come on the story has almost started. I will be quiet from now on. Don't want to ruin everything. He he."

You follow the invisible voice into the ship. You do not question how you followed something invisible. And thus…the story begins.


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