Chapter 1
Beep, "Hey John, how it's going. I just got in from the Aries 2 settlement after spending three weeks as a temporary administrator of the accelerated academy. I have to tell you that it was a blast to see the next generation of children beginning their pace to surpass our generation. I saw at least a class of 20 students calculate simulated FTL jumps from one end of the nebula to the other without issues and they are 11. I know it's been 10 years since we graduated from the academy at 16 but these students may be finished at 14 by the way they have been going. Anyway, I'll try to call back tomorrow and have a good night. Benson." Yes I know that these children are good. They have been learning at an accelerated pace since they were 4. He should know this since we also started the same path when we were 5. At twenty six years old, I feel old when I look at them but I realize that we still have a large future ahead of us. My father's vision was the safety and security of our people while striving for advancement and defense. It's kind of why we are here.
Thirty years ago, my father was disgusted by the way the government was taking to colonial security. He saw the beginning of the collapse of our world based on three things: the direction of the military, the lack of security, and the increase in piracy. The first thing that he saw was the lack of security. He saw that people were easily getting into areas supposedly only for high level security access. Things were getting stolen and reports were leaked. This led to more piracy acts which caused the military to begin turning into a pirate hunting force. This left the military focus not on the Cylons or trying to get our technology to higher levels where we could get closing to defending against the Cylons.
My father was disgusted by all of this. His name was James London II and he was decently wealthy with some land. Most of his family was killed in the Cylon War including his five brothers and sisters along with his wife, parents, and then his only son, James III. He had grown up in Picon where his father was a military contractor. He himself followed in his father's footsteps and eventually rose to lead contractor in one of the busy companies. He had been away on Caprica when the Cylons up rose and destroyed his home. Upon his returned and burying his slaughtered family, he decided to join the military where he became a distinguished soldier and leader eventually becoming a major. After the war, he returned home to repair what he could. After ten years, he had made a decision based on everyday events. That decision was that he needed to build a society where the ideals of the world were true and devoid of corruption that was defended by the best the world could provided. It was then that he made his plan.
Over the next six months, he recruited a small force of people that didn't like what was happening. They planned to travel to several places and steal several military vessels, vital supplies, and more importantly, kidnap many child bearing females as well as small orphans. In the course of 5 nights, he and his team secured and repaired two older model gunstars, one patrolstar, and one battlestar from one of the reserve depots. He had paid three people to turn a blind eye to this theft. Taking several raptors and several vipers in launch bays, he prepared a small journey to an uncharted nebula that he knew wasn't on military maps. It was here that he wanted to start a new society on a habitable planet they named New Aries. In the next three months, he had taken his raptors to strategic locations and taken two Agro ships, three mining ships, two refinery ships, and four medium size liners along with six more patrolstars, 12 gunstars, 4 warstars, 3 dreadnoughts, and 6 battlestars. He also kidnapped 500 females from orphanages as well as 200 female runaways. He stole enough tylium for 3 years and food for 5 years along with seeds and grazing animals.
In the colonies, people were just beginning to see a trend on the kidnapping but were still wondering who was taking them. The military had yet to discover their missing ships. After a cooling period, his small population began the beginnings of a settlement called Aphrodite. The planet was gifted with metals so creating the city wasn't an issue. The area was also fertile for farming and as the first settlement, the fertile nature and the nature of the city led them to name it after the goddess of fertility. It was this time period where many of the females were seduced and began a new generation for our world. I was the first to be born from my father's seed. Over the next year, 1025 children were born from 700 females more than doubling our population. Our society needed to grow and as such, new homes were built, new farms were made, and schools were beginning to be built. By the time I was four, there were three other generation of siblings. Our initial population of 950 became a growing population of over 5,400 with most of them children. It was at this point where my father held the next stage of our society.
At age 5, all of us eligible children started the academy. We spent the first two years learning everything an elementary school would teach up to 6th grade. The next 4 years, we were drowned in higher level studies such that at the end, we were eventually filtered into several different categories. That year, 100 children at the age of 12 began learning trade skills like refining, mining, agriculture, and manufacturing. They spent the next year apprenticing under a master where they help to increase the amount of raw supplies. 200 others began military training where they learned to be marines. Skills such as marksmanship to artillery were gained as they spent 3 years understanding the new structure of the military. 300 also attended the military academy but they were taught to be fleet personnel also in a 3 year period. Many trained to be viper and raptor pilots while others became ship crew. 250 were transitioned into higher education where they spent the next 5 years learning to advance our society. The final 75 spent six years learning to be leaders in different fields. I was one of those 75 in our first year along with my friend Benson.
At the age of 16, I had graduated first in my class and quickly became a leader in the military especially with military advancement. Three years after I graduated, I became a colonel in charge of the battlestar development. It was the department's ideals to increase the efficiency of our forces' vessels as well as ensure the safety of our fleet and population. Although our previous head had through increase the efficiency of our current vessels to combat the latest Valkyrie class Battlestar, we believe that we could increase it further. In my first year as head, we had started to improve functions one step at a time from the drawing board. The first thing we enhanced was power generation. Base on our experiments we were able to increase our power generation by ten-fold in our secondary energizers and fifteen-fold in our primary energizers. The energizers were also made more efficient through a three chamber matter recycling rotation. Matter used in one chamber was rotated into another chamber which when a small amount of additional matter was added allowed for further usage of used matter. This reduced the amount of waste which was then used to produce agricultural fertilizer. The size of the energizers was reduced by 40% which allowed for greater efficiency. Power transfer was enhance by the redesigning the conduits to allow more power to flow while increasing the safety features to avoid hazards. Power generation and transfer led to the redesign of the engines to allow for greater thrust and engine efficiency. The engines were reduced in sizes and when simulations were done, the engine showed a 250% increase in thrust and had a max velocity of .4 the speed of light. Reductions in size, increases in power and power transfer, and better mobility gave rise to new ideas.
One idea was better fuel storage. Fuel was currently stored in tanks that could be ruptured and destroyed which posed as a hazard. One group was able to design a small movable storage case designed to be stackable which reduced the need for a large tank. The group later enhanced the durability of the case and added a micro filtration system which further enhanced the fuel for better efficiency. The next feature made it refillable which reduced waste. Finally, with the efficient engines, you only needed four fuel containers a day. This also allowed for better water storage. A second idea was a better jump system with added navigation. Like the engines, a team took it apart and enhanced the features of the jump engine to be able to jump anyway and at any time. The charging time was eliminated through the use of a dual jump system where power was consistently supplied from the better power transfer conduits and storage in a battery. Amounts of power reduced the battery based on the distance on a jump. Base on simulations, the jump engine's max jump was 12 light years. This was better than the original engine by 2.4 times. The engines could also micro-jump within a battle which allowed for better offensives. With the new engine came the need for a better navigation system.
Software engineers were able to take everything and create a well designed program which connected all systems but simplified the ships processes. A massive adaptive firewall was added to ensure software security. The firewall would be monitored as well to ensure nothing got past our networks. A safety feature was added to ensure that in the event something did get past, they would automatically disconnect. The next improvement was the need for better armor. Through testing and simulations, new lighter weight armor was made with the features of increased durability. The same armor was used on fuel storage. The next feature on the ship was a layer of dampening armor which spread the damage over a larger area but reduced force of the damage. Finally, test were accomplished that showed the effect of polarization. The effect of polarizing another layer of armor made the ship ten times more like to last in a battle. Finally, weapons were upgraded. Better kinetic weapons were developed that increase both damage ability and weapon speed which made them less defensible. Other weapons were enhanced like point defense and new technology weapons like light rail-guns which were like point defense but added in quick pulses for increased damage and accuracy. Unfortunately, we didn't have any nuclear weapons. All of these enhancements allowed us to develop new classes of vessels.
The first class was the redesigned attack fighters that would replace a viper. Shaped like arrow at 4 meters long, 3 meters tall, and 2 meters across, the attack fighter Cobra, which had room for three in a small cockpit, was a much better armored fighter and carried two rail-guns, two light KEWs, and 6 point defense batteries. The second class was a better light transport carrier called Spear. Spear is a heavily armored vessel shaped like a cylinder and with a diameter of 4 meters and a length of 8 meters, carries 16 point defense weapons, 4 from light KEWs, and 4 rear rail-guns and can transport a max of 26 people including 2 pilots.
The next vessel is the Lightning class designed to be more mobile than a Gunstar and armored like a dreadnought. At 80 meters in length, 40 meters in width, and 25 meters in height at the extreme points, the vessel is layered in triangular sections with shielded docking bays for one squadron of 16 Cobras and 4 Spears. The ship is so efficient that it can be sufficiently operated by a crew of 40 but has a max capacity of 300. It has 4 engines, one jump engine, 1 primary energizer, 2 secondary energizers, 24 Light KEWs, 12 Heavy KEWs, 12 Rail-guns, 48 point defense weapons, and like everything else, heavy armor. It has a two rear launch bays capable of holding two cobras or a spear for repair. The ship also has two storage bays capable of holding two months supply of fuel containers. The three classes had a working prototype by the end of the second year of design and our government approved the construction of 40 lightning class vessels each taking a total of 3 months to build and 2 months to assemble. At the end of my third year as department head, I stepped down and allowed a new person to take over while I transferred to operational strategic command where I began to learn more about our society's goals and ideals.
That was four years ago and I am now a Commander of a small fleet of Lightning class with my flag ship being the Doubtless class Troy. The Doubtless class is a battlestar designed two years ago measuring at 640 meters in length 120 meters in width, and 100 Meters in height. There are docking bays of 6 squadrons of Cobras and 6 launch bays capable of holding four spears each. Minimum crew is 300 with a maximum of 2,250. With heavy armor, the Troy, and others like her, carries 72 Light KEWs, 36 Heavy KEWs, 36 Rail-guns, and 144 point defense batteries. It is powered by 3 primary energizers, 6 secondary, and 2 Tertiary energizers with a fuel supply capacity of 8 months spread over 4 storage bays. A third class was the Admiralty class which was double the size of the Doubtless with triple the power and weapons as the Doubtless but doesn't have any fighter support. Each fleet was designed with one Admiralty, 4 Doubtless, and 32 Lightning class vessels along with its squadrons of Cobras and Spears. Our military capacity is currently at two fleets. The two fleets protect our planet, the nebula, and all of our civilian operations within two light years. The planet's population is currently at 112,737 since our population has grown at a birth rate increase of 10% per year from the prior year's total. This year, we had over 11,000 children being born. We have our capital city of Aphrodite along with ten other towns. Three others are being built due to our drive to the betterment of the colonies. We are all free and we will continue to be free.
A/N: I had this crazy idea and I used a couple of elements from Star Trek philosophy. Please note that I do not own Battlestar Galactica and I take no profit from this story. This story is unedited and may have lots of grammatical errors. Please feel free to leave any reviews. Any feedback is appreciated.