I do not own Battlestar Galactica; this is not intended to make money
This is a small spin-off of my Telmaya Story
Tragedy of the Colossus
The Tragic tale of the Colossus is a tale that still affects old war veterans; a tale of a ship, the ship was the representative of the planet Picon.
The Battlestar was much like her sister the Galactica and newly commissioned. Her mission under Commander Paul Jeffs was to destroy a Cylon Shipyard facility inside a field of spatial distortions known as the Shredder's Field.
The field was made up of many tears in space, what caused them was never established but some think that they might have been caused by the 12 Tribes arriving with their ancient FTL Drives.
The distortions act like gravity wells that can collectively tear a ship to pieces; there is only one clear path in or out, a perfect defence wall like a moat around an ancient castle. There was a small corridor normal space through to the 'eye of the storm' where the shipyard was around.
The Colonials could only spare the Colossus, their other ships where needed elsewhere.
So alone the lone Battlestar sallied forth to meet its enemies; the single Base ship that was guarding the shipyard was sitting just inside the safe corridor but it soon moved along the narrow corridor to intercept the Battlestar. The Battlestar started towards the corridor and when in range launched some nuclear missiles to destroy the Base ship or at least damage it, so they could destroy it with their other weapons.
The Base ship was half way down the passage when the nukes reached it, but when they detonated they caused an explosion that expanded into the distortion field and its release of energy started a violent reaction.
The distortions started to expand and combine. Even the safe corridor and the eye of the storm were consumed. So were the Base ship and the shipyard.
Soon a massive orange vortex was swirling and sucking in everything within its reach.
Including the Battlestar Colossus
The massive thrusters of the great ship strained as the Battlestar tried to escape the gravity well, but there wasn't enough power, to stop the Battlestar from falling into the vortex.
The Battlestar was dragged further and further towards the centre of the orange whirlpool.
And then she was gone.
The whirlpool continued to swirl for three days after the incident and then simply closed, growing smaller and smaller till it was gone.
It was the first time that a Battlestar was lost to a spatial anomaly
The Colonial Military listed as the ship as Destroyed
Every year after the incident the families of the Battlestar's crew hired a ship to place a tribute to their lost loved ones on the day when the ship was lost.
That day ironically fell on the Day fell on the day when 43 years later the Colonies would fall. The ship carrying the families of those lost would become part of the Battlestar Telmaya's fleet.
That should have been where Colossus's tale ended
It merely took a different turn.