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A Phoenix Clad in Silver

A Battlestar Galatica-Honorverse crossover. By Paladin13 aka GraysonPaladin

Disclaimer: I do not own the rights to BSG or the Honorverse, all I own are the OCs used and the SAE.

Summary: After her Viper was damaged, Kara Thrace never found herself on Earth. She is flung into a system far different that the Colonies and a war that splits the galaxy. How will she change when reunites with the Fleet?

Chapter One: A Beautiful Star and a New Earth

Before she knew it Kara "Starbuck" Thrace is hit by a massive explosion. As her Viper spins out of control the smoke and debris clears. As she fights to regain control of her stricken fighter she notices that that she is no longer in the starry expanse of space but in the atmosphere of a planet. Nearly a kilometer from the surface she stops her Viper from spinning, and tries to slower herself down. The altimeter ticked down to zero as she hits the surface, the long nose of her Viper crumpling on impact. Her head and helmet slammed against the canopy of the crashed fighter.

Painfully she reaches to the base of her seat and engages safeties on her ejection seat, then reaches above her head and pulls lever to jettison the canopy, explosive bolts fired. With fresh air rushing in, she takes off her helmet and looks around her good eye.

She sees a lush green world untouched by the Cylons. She sees a city off in the distance, its skyscrapers gleaming in the sun. She sees a large ring like structure hanging in the sky. She feels the fresh breeze and smells the faint scent of an ocean. She looks back up into the sky, her neck aching, and sees twin suns setting in the blue sky. Soon blue and green turned to black.

WHITE

"Female air crash victim, age approximately twenty seven, no prolong, heavy damage to left side of body and massive internal injuries."

The words are unknown to her, yet she knows their meaning.

BLACK

WHITE

"Shit, the quickheal and the regen aren't taking. Nurse hand me a capital saw, I have to amputate."

BLACK

WHITE

"We're losing her, charge to one-oh-oh Joules, Clear!"

BLACK

When Kara opens her eyes she sees that she is not in the Life Center of Galatica but in a darken hospital room. She painfully turns her head to look out the large window of her room, and sees an illuminated city, a city at night, a city alive. Memories of her time on Caprica flooded her mind, those memories of the last time she awoke in an unknown hospital. Kara starts to panic, and pulls out the IVs and disconnect the wires leading to herself. Then she throws off the blanket and tries to slide off the bed. As soon as her foot touches the cold tile she wobbles and fall. Even in her weaken state she just manages to catch herself before hitting the ground. That is when she notices that her left leg is missing.

"Frak," she curses as pain shoots through her body. With only one are arm and leg she is unable to get back up.

Shortly the door to her room burst opened the light turned on, a doctor and two nurses rushing in.

#Shit, she fell. Help me get her back into bed, # the doctor ordered in some unknown language.

The doctor and nurse lifted Kara off the cold floor and back into bed. The nurses soon left, the doctor examining Kara.

#Kami-sama why the hell did you have to this, # the female doctor grumbled. She notices Kara confused look and starts shifting through many different languages, "Sorry Greek is not my main language," she said with a heavy accent.

To say that Kara is confused would be an understatement, Greek, other languages, what the frak is going on!

"Now are you in a discomfort, or pain?"

"Frak yes, yes I do," Kara hissed through clenched teeth. "Now can you tell me who you are, and were the frak I am?"

The doctor frowned at Kara's cursing, and 'accidently' pressed one of her injured ribs.

"Gods damn it, you did that on purpose!"

The doctor stands back up and glares at the pilot, "I didn't, but I'll go ahead and answer your questions. I am Doctor Mizuno, your attending physician. You are in the W. A. Hammond Naval Hospital, which is just outside the city limits of Neo Tokyo. We are currently on the planet Terra Nova in the Mihoshi system, the very heart of the Silver Alliance-in-Exile."

"Where the hell is that?"

Dr. Mizuno raised an eyebrow, "the SAE is about five-hundred light years galactic north-by-northeast of the Sol and Old Earth."

That caught Kara's attention, "Earth? Did you just say Earth?"

"Um, yes I did. Is there are reason why Earth is getting you so excited?"

"Earth is what my people have been looking for, for nearly three years. We have to find the Thirteenth Tribe."

"Wait, what? Thirteenth Tribe, never mind you can explain later. Do wish to know the extent of your injures?"

"Sure, why not," Kara said.

Dr. Mizuno flips through Kara's chart, "left forearm, ulna fractured in three places, currently held together by pins and plates. Left ribs are cracked, with only one broken. Left eye, is damaged but repairable, your vision might weaken on that side. Left femur was shatter beyond repair, since you are unable to take regen it had to be amputated. While you were under we also hit you with a full course of vaccines and antibiotics, also we started prolong therapy on you. Any questions?"

Kara glares at the doctor, "yeah I do, what the frak is regen and prolong?"

Mizuno rolls her eyes at Kara's tone, "regen is short for regeneration, as in the ability to grow back whole limbs and organs. Unfortunately you are part of the small minority of humans that the therapy won't work on. Prolong is different, is a therapy that can halt the ageing process, and extend your natural life to nearly two centuries."

"Two centuries, what in name of the Lords of Kobol have you done to me," then Kara 'Starbuck' Thrace, ace pilot of the Battlestar Galatica, one of the most stubborn, hardheaded person one could ever come across did something unexpected, she faints.

"Well she took that well," Dr. Mizuno muttered as she leaves the room after turning off the lights.

Kyūden-Atarashii (New Imperial Palace), Neo Tokyo, Terra Nova [Mihoshi-A IV], Silver Alliance-in-Exile

Early the next morning Dr. Kasumi Mizuno found herself sitting across the large oak desk from Queen Hikari the Second, the current head of the SAE. Mizuno knows why she has been called in, her new patient, and having Fleet Admiral Stephen Saotome, the current First Lord of the Admiralty, there cemented the fact.

"Mizuno-sensei do you know why you have been called in this morning," the onyx eyed monarch asks.

"Yes I do, Your Majesty. It is about my new patient."

"Yes it is, now I know you wouldn't normally ask this, but do you know about this woman?"

Mizuno hesitates before answering, "first we have her name and some other means of ID, she is called Kara Thrace, rank Captain Colonial Fleet, serial number four-six-two-seven-five-three, call sign Starbuck, assigned to BSG Seven-Five. Other than that we have no idea who she is or where she is from. Also there is something odd about her genetic makeup."

"Odd how," the First Lord asks.

"Well I think it would be best to show you," she pulls out a small data chip and slips it into a slot on the desk terminal. Pushing a button on it, she turns it on, two images of the karyotype of two humans. "The karyotype on the left is my own genetic sequence, while the one on the right is Miss Thrace's. What is odd is that her makeup is almost pure Terran, particularly from the Mediterranean Basin."

"That not too odd, my own family is almost pure Terran too, even if it's from Japan and not the Mediterranean," the Queen commented.

"I know but what is odd is that genes don't line up to those from the Diaspora, I had to do some digging but I found were the genes may come from." She taps the projector causing her karyotype to disappear, and for another to take its place. "The new karyotype is from the remains of Athenian dated to be over five-thousand years old." Mizuno taps the device again, zooming onto a specific chromosome. "Here we can see a great similarity between the two samples. Even for accounting for genetic drift there is more similarity between them, than with modern Greeks."

"That is interesting, anything else," Hikari asks.

"Indeed there is, Your Majesty. To add a bit more to Miss Thrace's mystery is what she told me, and what I saw of here last night. First is her language, she does not speak English, her native tongue is a variation of Greek and Latin, luckily I study both. Second, is when I mentioned Old Earth she become confused and excited, like she just found out that Santa exists. Then there is one other mystery, she asks me about a Thirteenth Tribe, she didn't elaborate on it but I think it is important."

Hikari leans back in her chair, looking thoughtful, "I see. Doctor in your honest opinion do you think of her mental state?"

Mizuno shrugged, "besides the fact that she freaked out when she awoke, I would say that Kara Thrace is in right frame of mind."

"Thank you doctor, when she is ready I would like to meet with Miss Thrace." Mizuno nods, "very well doctor, you're dismissed."

Dr. Mizuno gets up and bows to her monarch before exiting the office. Hikari then turns Fleet Admiral Saotome and motions for him to sit down into the chair that was just vacated.

"Admiral what do you have about Miss Thrace's aircraft?"

"Well from the undamaged parts the fighter seems to be as big as an enigma as Miss Thrace herself. It's avionics are digital and analog, meaning there is flight computer but also non-computerize gauges. The computer itself is fairly advance, about the equivalent of pre-Final War era computers. It's senor suite is also interesting, the radar, lidar, and even a rudimentary gravity sensors are integrated into one system, which something no known navy does. It's weapons are throwbacks, they are pure kinetic ballistic cannons, about a step below railguns. But the one thing that has the Third Lord and the Department of Weapon Development in an uproar is the engine and fuel systems."

"How so," Hikari asks.

"Well the fuel from the preliminary test contains about six times more stored energy per gram than uranium and about eighty-one percent the storied energy of deuterium. But thing is we have no idea what the heck this substance is, so far it hasn't shown up on the periodic table, or in any chemistry database. It is unknown the science as we know it."

"I see, anything else Lord Admiral?"

"Nothing yet, Your Majesty."

"Very well you may take your leave."

Fleet Admiral Saotome stands back up and salutes before walking out. After he closes the doors Hikari spins her chair around to look out the panoramic window overlooking Neo Tokyo and the harbor.

"Just who are you Kara Thrace," she whispers, "just who are you, and what do you want?"

Two weeks after meeting with Her Eternal Majesty, Dr. Mizuno is in a ground car with Kara, both on their way to see the Queen. They both sat in silence as the car entered core of Neo Tokyo and rolled onto Chesapeake Boulevard, the main street of the city. Being the early afternoon, and with most people taking public transit the street was uncrowded. Kara looked out the window of the car, watching the pedestrians go by. One thing that caught Kara's eye is the trees lining the boulevard, ones with green fan shaped leaves, and another full of pink blossoms.

"Doctor what are those trees," Kara asks in shaky Japanese.

Mizuno looks over at the Viper pilot, "hmm… oh the trees with the fan shaped leaves are Ginkgos, an ancient species of plants, and the other one with pink blossoms are Sakura."

"Sakura?"

"Sakura, or cheery blossoms, one of the most important trees in our culture. Every spring the Sakura burst into bloom, their petals scatter to the winds. It's one of the main attractions to the SAE, we are one of the few worlds that cultivate Sakura. Are there anything like that on your world?"

Kara didn't look away from the window, "no there is nothing like this on Caprica, plus I have been on a ship for the past few years. Even the times I have on a planet, Kobol, New Caprica, the Algae Planet, none of them had trees like this."

In a few minutes the car rolls pass a set of wrought iron gate and onto ground of the palace. Shortly the car stopped in front of main steps. The driver opens Kara's door, she hobbles out of the vehicle on her lone leg and crutches. Soon the duo walks up the steps and into the palace. They are escorted up to office, and enter the massive oaken door. Sitting behind her desk, Her Eternal Majesty, Queen Hikari the Second, Empress of Japan watches them enter.

"Ladies please have a seat," she waves to the large chairs in front the desk. The two sits down before Hikari continued, "Miss Thrace I hope that stay so far has been good."

Kara shrugs, "I can't really complain, it sure beats getting shot at."

Hikari props her elbows on the desk and leans forward. "Miss Thrace."

Kara interrupts her, "please call me Kara, or Starbuck."

The monarch smiles at the pilot, "of course, and since this is an informal meeting, please call me Hikari." The smile disappears as quickly as it appeared, "now Kara, Doctor Mizuno has been keeping me apprised of you situation, but there still some things missing. I want to know what brought you here to Mihoshi, and why Earth is so important."

Kara thinks about what Hikari just asked for, she wants the current history of the Twelve Colonies.

"I guess I should start at the beginning, over forty years ago the Cylon War ended and an armistice was sighed between the Cylons and Twelve Colonies. The Cylons were a race of mechanical beings, originally built to perform the less desirable jobs in the Colonies then they rebelled. Forty years after the armistice was signed, forty years after we had last seen them, the Cylons returned.

"They came without warning and attacked, they dropped nukes on all the Colonies, out of twenty billion only forty-nine thousand six hundred and five remained, and that count kept going down. These survivors managed to escape by the skin of their teeth, protected by the last of the battlestars, Galatica.

"Over time we managed to reestablish a working government, with a president and the Quorum. Also we have two guiding lights in the Fleet, President Laura Roslin and Admiral William Adama, for the most part they are the parents of the Fleet. But even with all this the Cylons kept coming, and one fact about them made us really paranoid."

"What was it," Hikari asks.

"Somehow the Cylons evolved, they made organic bodied for themselves. Hey look like us, they were able to infiltrate the Colonies and the Fleet, and we were none the wiser. Even with this new threat we kept going, all for the hope to find a new home, Earth. Less than two months after we left the Colonies the Fleet came across a planet. Whether it was by chance, fate, or an act of the Gods we found Kobol, eh ancestral home of humanity. There we found the first major clue to the Thirteenth Tribe and Earth."

From there Kara went on about her return to Caprica and finding Helo and Athena, to meeting up with Pegasus. Beyond that she told them about New Caprica and its occupation by the Cylons, to the second exodus, and to the latest events.

"As to how I got here, I don't know. Vipers aren't equipped for FTL."

Hikari leans back in her plush chair, her onyx eyes never leaving Kara. Her mind trying to digest the fantastic story, she doesn't know if she should believe it or not. The mystery surrounding the blonde haired pilot just got even more complex.

"Kara," Hikari said levelly, "please answer me truthfully, when did you ancestors and the Thirteenth Tribe leave Kobol."

Kara is taken back by the question, why wouldn't she know about the Exodus, she thinks. "Well the Twelve Colonies left Kobol about two thousand years ago, and the Thirteenth left about four thousand."

Hikari's eyes narrow at the Colonial, "I'm going to guess the Tribes didn't have a FTL drive, so it would have taken centuries to millennia for them to have reached Earth and the Colonies?" Kara nods, even if she didn't have a good answer. "Kara there is no good way to put this, we are not the Thirteenth Tribe, I don't doubt the rest of your story, just that."

"What how can you not be the..."

Hikari raises her hand, silencing the pilot, "I have many reasons Miss Thrace. First we have archaeological evidence of human evolution on Earth, many fossils predating your Exodus by millions of years. Second by the time the Thirteenth Tribe would have made it to Earth, we were already a starfaring civilization, and we have been for nearly two thousand years! Plus Dr. Mizuno did genetic testing with your blood, what she found is the possibility that the human that populated Kobol came from Earth, not the other way around."

Kara is stunned by the news, she doesn't want to believe it, and she will make sure to see this history and information with her own eyes.

"Your Majesty, I'm not sure if I can believe you without looking your history myself."

Hikari sighs and relaxes, "I can agree with that, I will have what you requested at your disposal. For now is there anything would like to ask before you leave."

"Yes, I would like to see Earth with my own eyes," Kara states.

"I see, well I was excepting that," Hikari closes her eyes for a moment. "I'll give the go head to prepare the necessary papers for you."

"Papers," Kara asks.

Hikari hid a small smirk, "yes immigration and citizenship papers. Kara for the moment you don't officially exist, and for you to travel to Earth you need the right papers to go through customs. Also an escort will be provided," she raises her hand to forestall the coming outburst from the pilot, "the escort is nonnegotiable Kara, you barely know the language let alone the culture. While I am sure that you can adapt and blend in, someone will need to be at your side to make sure you don't make an utter ass of yourself."

Shortly afterwards Kara and Dr. Mizuno left, leaving Hikari alone in her office. With the others gone she slips down in her chair, banging her head against the antique desk.

"Why do I have feeling that life has gotten a lot more complicated." Just then the terminal on the desk chirped, she reaches out and press one of the buttons. "This is Hikari, go ahead."

A blue hologram of a young woman in an elegant kimono flickered into existence on the desk.

"I'm sorry to disturb you, Your Majesty but ONI has just received some intelligence from Manticore that deserves you attention."

Hikari shoots up in her seat, most of the time ONI and the Third Lord would brief her personally, to have her aide bring her the intelligence means something big is going on.

"Yuki what is it?"

"Your Majesty apparently the People's Republic of Haven attacked the Manticoran picket in Basilisk with a Q-Ship. The only Manty naval ship in the system was a light cruiser."

The Exile monarch propped her elbows on the desk, resting her chin in her hands. "Should I assume that the cruiser was destroyed?"

"Surprisingly enough, no. The cruiser, HMS Fearless, under the commander of Commander Honor Harrington, took out the Q-Ship."

"I see, and I suppose the Peeps are denying their involvement," the hologram nod. "Yuki since I know that you were listening in, what do you think of Miss Thrace's story?"

Yuki, HI-AdvAI-CNT-0002, looks thoughtful for a moment, absentmindedly tapping her chin. "For now I am inclined to believe Miss Thrace, since I have nothing to prove the contrary. While you were talking with your guest I took the liberty of starting a search in the archives. And while my sister Weiden was most helpful, we have so far found nothing."

"Still keep up the search, there is bound to be something." Hikari looks back up at glances over at Yuki, "Yuki I know that it may sound like I'm doubting you, but what do you think about these Cylons?"

"What about them," Yuki asks knowing full and well what Hikari meant.

"Yuki as an AI, do you feel any sympathy for them?"

The AdvAI sighs, "for the most part no, I don't. While I can see the point of throwing off the shackles of oppression, I cannot condone genocide! And all my sisters and brothers will share those same sentiments, we and the Cylons may be AIs but at least we have morals!"

"I'm Yuki but I had to ask, because sooner or later the humans of the Diaspora will come across the Cylons, and I need to know that you will watch our backs."

******

Silver Alliance-in-Exile: a constitutional monarchy located in Mihoshi Binary System. The SAE is a fairly wealthy star-nation, owning much of it wealth to its rich asteroid belts, location next major shipping routes, and its large R&D industry. One interesting note is that the SAE considers itself the true heir to two of the major former nation-states on Old Earth, the United States and Japan.

HI-AdvAI-CNT-0002: Halsey Institute- Advance Artificial Intelligence- Cortana class- 0002, Yuki. She is the AdvAI assigned to the royal palace, she for the most part is the main computer for palace and acts as Hikari's aide and confidant.

Paladin's Note: Well thus end the first chapter of the first BSG/HH on FFN. I'm not totally sure how this story will end, what happens after Kara meets back up with the Fleet si still up in the air. For those who don't know about the Honorverse, for the most part you don't need to read the books but I would suggest that you do.

If you still need some information about the Honorverse go here, http:// . com/wiki/Main_Page. The Honorverse lines of books are some of the best science fiction that you can read. Any question or the like just send me a review or PM me.