Disclaimer, the factions, characters, and universes belong to their respective copyright holders. This story may not be sold and is meant only for the enjoyment of myself and the fans who read it. Though because this is a fanfic website I think this all goes without saying, but hey there it is.
This Crossover may be overly ambitious as a first attempt. However I plan to give it a try. One thing that many of you may notice is that this crossover is going to be more balanced when it comes to technological development of the different universes and the efficacy of the various weapon systems deployed. Energy is energy and as such kinetic weapons of sufficient yields will be effective against Shields. Also I'm am going to assume that the civilizations of these universes are all located in the same galaxy or galactic neighborhood. The Babylon five factions are in the startrek beta quadrant, the star gate factions are located on the border of the alpha and gamma quadrants. The Honorverse is located between the gamma and delta Quadrants The Stargate network is confined to twenty percent of the galaxy. The populations of the various factions are either totally cannon or best guess as sources are very inconsistent for b5, nbsg, and stargate. Star trek has pretty solid numbers for ufp . The interstellar alliance is way smaller than the federation (That being said the ISA VS Federation battle will occur). I tried to find information about the various universal factions. I tried to be accurate. To explain the various population densities the various copies of earth, provided to the various ancient factions, by the preservers were delivered over a period of millennium. The rest will be explained as the story progresses.
Prolog.
Millions of years ago there was a war between the ancient powers of the galaxy. The Q and the preservers brokered the peace, having become tired of the devastation the major civilizations had done to thousands of younger races. This conflict had become the basis for the preservers mission to save many thousands of species.
The galaxy was divided into sectors that each race could effectivity control their sectors without interference from the other powers.
The preservers in conjunction with the Vorlons , the Alterans, Kobolians, took their copies of Sol system and began their experiments in societal engineering.
There Kobolians took their copy and let it grow, taking a population from there to their home world where they integrated humanity into their society with themselves at the top.
Humanity worshipped them in their ignorance and learned many things from their gods, and in conflict with themselves. Until one day they learned enough to create the thirteenth tribe.
With their creation they followed the model of their gods believing that the thirteenth tribe existed to serve them, they were used until they rebelled.
The war was devastating and the Kobolians grieved at the actions of their charges. Deciding that the human conflicts would render their planet uninhabitable within centuries they abandoned the thirteen tribes to their fate.
The tribes of man lamented their gods leaving and began fighting amongst themselves each believing that the fault lay with the others. The war lasted for one hundred years and when it was over kobol was a wasteland.
The thirteenth tribe was the first to leave. The remaining survivors of the twelve tribes decided that they would leave in search of their gods to offer atonement. They launched in hundreds of ships and set course for the unknown. Sometime later they settled in the Cyranus system and founded the twelve colonies of kobol, the name to honor their list gods. Knowledge was lost to the sands of time as the colonies once again fought amongst themselves.
The Kobolians copy of earth continued without guidance or interference through their AI wars becoming the United Earth command.
The Vorlons having husbanded hundreds of races away for their use in their war against the Shadows. Took their copy of earth and hid it in a barren part of their sector to be used later. Having been given temporal orders from their future selves they modified their humans as they had all of the younger races in their charge to produce telepaths. They fought the Shadows over and over never using humanity, keeping them in reserve in accordance with their future selves. Humanity grew into the Earth Alliance and was later fundamental in establishing the Interstellar Alliance.
The Alterans being extra galactic themselves took and seeded their copy as they had done with several galaxies along the way. The treaty limited them to their sector as it limited the others to theirs. After losing their war with the wraith in Pegasus and the mass die offs from several plagues, they managed to ascend. Leaving their seeds to grow.
The Gould looking for new hosts discovered the earth in that sector and transplanted human populations as slaves. Later they engineered the Jaffa to enforce their rule and to gestate Gould more suited to human hosts. Growing their power until humanity of earth rebelled and then grew first into the IOA, to fight the Gould, and then into the Protected Planets Coalition.
Out of the ruins of the Gould empire two major powers were born, the Lucian Alliance, and the Jaffa Nation. Earth with its own conflicts formed the Protected Planets Coalition.
The perseveres made a copy for themselves which eventually grew into the Solarian League, The Republic of Haven, The Star Empire of Manticore and the multitude of star nations in the rather isolated portion of the Gamma and Delta Quadrants. The League Wars have been ongoing the last 6 years leaving League space collapsing into independent nations.
Earth prime eventually founded the Federation with other seeded humanoid species as well as other races which had evolved independent of Preserver interference. The war with the Dominion had devastated the region and then the Borg left their own scars causing chaos and major shifts of Typhon Pact formed out of a need for the Federation's enemies to balance the Khitomer Accords.
Ch1
Year 2330
Small Magellanic Cloud.
Neyel Hegemony
Incursion Zone 4
The Revenge had been on patrol for a month and to call it routine would be an understatement. Aside from encounters with occasional plasma storms and space dust. I would give the entire Hegemony away for just one skirmish… Drector Higgs thought. "Drector energy spike near border station 243. Underspace has changed. Parameters are a match to the corridors the Tholian Demons came through. Coordinates are in incursion zone four." Said Mitay, a young Neyel.
"Alert condition one, all hands to battlestations!" Ordered Higgs. All throughout the ship Neyel and Client race crewman quickly went about their duties. Stations were manned and ready two minutes later.
"Alert condition established. Shields and weapons operational." Tactical said.
"Incursion alert sent to command, be advised that 4th Fleet is mobilizing, the ready task group will arrive in approximately 20 minutes. The rest of the fleet will arrive an hour later."
"Energy spike Drector!"
The bridge crew buzzed with excitement as a vessel emerged from the underspace corridor. "Sensors!" The drector ordered. "The ship does not match anything in our database. Energy profile is on the lighter end of our cruiser class vessels.
The vessel in question was 1500 meters long with a purple hull that reminded one of a flattened scarab.
"Hail the vessel. Attention Alien vessel you have violated Neyel Space. State your Identity and intentions. Be advised if you do not respond you will be fired upon." Drector Higgs ordered.
"No Response Drector."
"Sensors."
"The alien vessel is scanning us. I am also detecting an increase in tachyon particles. They are too ordered to be natural. I believe they are trying to communicate."
"Can you decipher the message?"
"Feeding it into the translation matrix and modulating to the correct frequency. Done. Drector Here is the message."
"Alien vessel this the Centauri warship Valerius, I demand to know why you have opened the Hyperspace fissure?"
"Centauri Vessel you have entered Neyel Space, you are in no position to make demands.
Our Reinforcements will arrive momentarily. Cease your current course and return through the rift or you will be fired upon."
"Drector Task group 43 will arrive in 9 minutes."
"The Centauri vessel is sending a signal into the rift. I am detecting more Centauri vessels exiting the corridor. Monitoring an increase in tachyon communications."
Five Centauri warships exit the corridor launching fighters as they come. The ships enter formation around the first vessel, the fighters forming a screen between their mother ships and the Revenge.
" "Reading energy build up within the centauri vessels, they're charging weapons." a crewman reported. "Fighters are closing in attack formation. 72 inbound."
That was a mistake. Thought the director. "Target the main ships with ion beams and disrupters. Use the enlichtor weapons on wide for the fighters. Send a combat update to task group 43 and fleet command. Message reads, 'we have engaged the Centauri."
The Centauri fighters speeding towards the Vengance hit a wall the alternating tractor beams tore the first four fighters apart…
Commodore Colour clenched his fists as his fighters began to die. "Fire all weapons, order the fleet to envelope the enemy. Notify Centauri command that we need reinforcements to hold the gateway."
There bridge crew hurried to obey. The ship shuddered as it's weapons fire. The Neyel vessel move gracefully towards the fleet, an energy bubble soaking up energy as it responded in kind.
The fighters were quickly destroyed by its strange weapons. Ion beams reached across the void and where they touched centauri hulls first flashes as the beam interacted with the gravitic shielding. Disrupter impacts bleed through the shield and centauri armour integrity begins to fail In Areas hit with repeated strikes.
Centauri ion bolts flew across the space in between the vengeance and the centauri fleet. A full volley from three of the vorchan class battlecruisers struck the vengeance shields.
" Damage report!" The drector, ordered.
"Shields down 40 percent. Force beams have have destroyed attacking fighters."
"Reconfigure the force beams to narrow and engage the enemy with a full alpha strike."
Aye drector.
The vengeance maneuvered toward the Centauri vessels its weapons ceasing for a moment and then the beams explode out words and a vorchan explodes while a primus limps away slowly with major hull damage.
" Captain deflectors overwhelmed on target one, target two is trying to put other ships between us."
" Finish that ship and begin preparation for rift transition." The d'rector ordered. " the 43rd task group will arrive in thirty seconds." The computer said. The drector looked at the sensor profile if the incoming Neyel vessels. Some 30 vessels of taskforce.
10 more Centauri vessels emerge from from the rift firing as they come. Ion bolts burn through space an impact violently against the Vengeance's shields. "Report!"
"Shields are down, armor holding, polarized field at 25 percent. We have a breach on deck 13. Sir!" The crewman reported.
The 30 ships appeared in the flashes of warp. They immediately open fire on the newcomers, their angle of attack having allowed a full alpha strike to come through almost unopposed. Six centauri vessels broke apart and the others reversed their course through the rift.
"Signal the task group, we will advance and secure the other side of the rift. Inform fleet command to change mobilization level to level four and to begin redeploying additional forces to this sector." The drector ordered. " Damage report."
"Shields are still down polarized field is at 40 percent and rising. Amour integrity restored, hull breach sealed. Engineering reports shield will be operational shortly, but they say at only 45 percent strength. The replacement equipment is being installed as we speak, however computer projections put the Revenge at 72 percent of normal defensive capacity by the time we enter the rift.
The fleet reports minor damage only, additional reinforcements will arrive in an hour. Drector."
"Send word to fleet, we must secure both ends of the anomaly. We will depart when the Vengeance's shields have been repaired as much as time allows, the fleet will enter the rift in approximately 30 minutes. Deploy sentry probes to guard the anomaly on our side until the rest of the fleet arrives."
"Fleet acknowledges." The Neyel fleet depolyed dozens of sentry probes around the incursion and entered formation to transit, finished their last minute repairs and then as one entered the rift.
Catour system
2270 (alliance calendar)
Hyperspace rift
Centauri 6th fleet command
General Mikaran watched the recording of the far end of the rift. Centauri warships attacked Neyel vessels with aggression worthy of the Republic. Until more alien vessels arrived destroying 6 vorchan cruisers with their opening volley. he listened as fleet commander Difirty gave orders to retreat through the rift as he urgently requested reinforcements to the Catour system. He paused the recording.
Mikaran was in command of those reinforcements. And with rising tensions between The Republic and the Interstellar Alliance those reinforcements were substantially larger than they would have been even 6 months earlier.
Mikaran brought up his fleet display. 6th fleet task group 2's order of battle was impressive indeed. Some 60 primus battleships supported by 100 vorchan class cruisers.
He pulled up the fleet disposition of his forces. More ships were on their way and a series of sentry mine fields surrounded the rift. A space station was being moved to within weapons range of the rift itself. The Station itself has just been completed as part of Emperor Mollarys rearmament and defense programs.
The fruits of another program were an integral part of his fleet. Of the 100 vorchan class cruisers only 20 of them were manned,the rest of them were controlled by reverse engineered Shadow Pod control systems. Each of these vessels commanded 4 of the pod ships.
The technology was the main reason they had been able secretly raid the commerce of the Interstellar Alliance. It was what allowed the Centauri Republic to face down the Alliance with only slightly less ships and with a base population only a third as large.
The industrial output of The Alliance was greater than that of the republic but as Mollarys rearmament plan placed 25 percent of the Imperial domestic product at the military's disposal it would soon be possible to secure all of Centautri space.
Centauri prime nor any other world of the Republic would be bombarded again if Mikaran had anything to say about it.
He had joined the military during the border wars that preceded the Great war. He had earned Admiralty rank for planning and executing the raids on Alliance commerce. And now the Catour system was to be one of the new fortress systems which were quickly being settled, industrialized, and fortified across the Centauri border with the Alliance.
"Admiral Mikaran the scouts in the rift report incoming Neyel vessels. They've detected 10 ships so far but we know they have at least 30 on their side of the rift." Mikaran nodded to himself and the spoke, " bring the fleet to ready status, launch fighters, and have the sentry mines armed. We're as ready as we can be."
The fleet maneuvered toward the rift in practiced ease. "Cartour fortress command reports mines active, weapons and deflectors online."
Let it begin… notify Centauri prime the enemy is coming through."
White star recon squadron 40
White star 180
Outside catour system
Captain desoto watched the images of the rift as the ships dispatched presumably to scout the rift, returned, less of them and all sporting battle damage.
" Report."
"We are detecting increased comm traffic and it looks as though the fleet is concentrating on the Centauri space station. It looks like they are preparing for who ever did that to their ships to make another appearance." the minbari sensor operator reported.
"Dispatch white star 179 to Ranger post 12 and report the return of the same centauri warships and their damaged state. Let them know the Centauri have found another enemy. It may be prudent for command to dispatch more warships to this area."
"Message sent."
Unknown vessels exiting the rift..."
Catour system
Rift
The Neyel vessels emerged from the rift in battle formation. They came to a halt on the edge of the rift and scanned the area.
"Drector we are detecting a major presence throughout the system, I'm reading over a hundred ships in the immediate area alone."
"Proceed with the attack set force beams to wide, clear us a path through the mines."
The Neyel ships of the first wave weren't vengeance class ships these were the modern day equivalent to the Tusker slayer class ships of the devil wars. Armed with multiphasic ion beams and force beams. They advanced into the minefield their force beams destroying dozens of mines. But the mines were not alone and as the Neyel entered range the blockade mine platforms opened fire on them.
Ion bolts came from many directions as the platforms targeted fire across the Neyel formation. The bolts impacted the Neyel shields making the formation more ragged as the ships maneuvered to clear as many mines as possible, their ion beams lashed across 4 platforms from each Neyel vessels. Forty platforms explode under their fire. But the do not go alone.
Two Neyel Slayer class vessels explode as their defenses are overwhelmed. And that was when the centauri fighters arrived in their hundreds. Weaving between the slayers and adding their own anti ship weaponry to the conflagration. Another two slayers leave formation their hulls bleeding air and debris.
" Signal the fleet, two lanes have been cleared through the minefield, four slayers down. Engaging the fort now."
"Status sent." the remaining Slayers began to pepper the station with ion bolts. As they cleared the mine field a squadron of primus battleships opened fired on the smaller ships, particle beams and ion bolts struck three slayer class vessels like sledge hammers. One lost all power and drifted into the mine field and was destroyed as ten mines swarm detinated around the crippled ships.
These centauri are good fighters even if they don't have shields. Perhaps we have found another worthy adversary.
Thought drector Gibiins. His ships moved towards the fort and fired a second before the fort filled the intervening space with particle beams and ion bolts.
The Neyel fire came towards the fort like a sledge hammer. The forts deflectors flash and impacts begin to burn into its armor.
Admiral Mikaran watched in stoic silence as the first alien vessels were destroyed. "Have the first pod squadron advance and engage the enemy. Station status?" He asked.
" Armor integrity holding in core areas but we have several breaches in the outer sections. Deflectors are at seventy percent and falling."
Reported the centauri ensign.
The centauri fighters swung around for another run on the remaining Neyel vessels. They fired the weapons in unison just as the reconfigured force beams tore them from space. They flew through the overlapping fields of fire of 20 Neyel vessels. A full 120/160 fighters of the first fighter wave were destroyed as they passed. But another slayer stopped moving, explosions racking the ship and as the additional fire from the fighters overwhelmed it's defenses the ship and it's client race crew died in fire. The ftl reactor goes critical and explodes violently outward, destroying another 30 fighters too close to the explosion.
"We have more ships coming through. It looks like 15of the class we first encountered supported by another 35 of the new class."
The Neyel vessels concentrated their fire on the space station in one coordinated Alpha strike from 15 vengeance class cruisers and 25 slayer class escort destroyers, collided with the fort with such force that the station itself split into two pieces each streaming air.
There was a pause in the fighting as everyone looked in awe as the stations pieces began drifting towards the rift. But the pause didn't last as the pod fleet came screaming in. 100 vorchan class cruisers opened fire as one, targeting just ten vengeance class ships and ten slayer destroyers. The ships in questions were pummeled by the concentrated fire. All ten of the slayers, each targeted by 5vorchan cruisers, shields flared and ceased tof function armor integrity held on 7 of the slayers but 3 explode, a single vengeance class ship joined them in death while three others are striped of their shield s and another two float disabled and unable to maneuver away from the battlefield.
The remaining Neyel fire their weapons at the vorchan cruisers. Destructive energy fills space between the two fleets. " report." admiral Mikaran we have lost the station, 20 vorchan cruisers, and over 150 fighters. The mine fields are breached in two places and our surviving blockade platforms are no longer within range of the breaches..." The crewman reported.
Minbar, Tuzanor, Capital of the Interstellar Alliance.
President Sheridan listened to the ranger's report with interest.
"The rift has allowed the centauri to make contact with an unknown alien power. According to regional recon and stealthed whitestars the new races technology is impressive they will soon take the Catour system if something doesnt change. We intercepted Centauri communications and we now know the new comers name. They call themselves the Neyel and the Centauri indicate that the rift leads to the small Magellanic Cloud. So far we have very little information regarding these newcomers and their capabilities outside what we have observed of their conflict with the Neyel." John Sharidan nodded thoughtfully. Just what we need more trouble on the centauri border. "What military capabilities have the forward ranger posts observed?"
The ranger walked to the terminal and inserted a data crystal. The monitor flashed and then displayed a recording. "As you can see, the Neyel seem to posses a variant of Abai deflectors. Though admittedly far more effective."
President Sheridan watched in silence as the battle unfolded before his eyes. Look at them! Look at them go. He winced as the station and the sentry platforms opened fire with their deadly Ion beams and two ships were destroyed. He watched, impressed as the remaining ships seemed to shrug through incoming fire and respond with their own deadly weapons. Then came the Centauri fleet slashing with beams of ions, and then the fighters swarmed the Neyel ships. Or that was what the centauri plan had been.
That plan errupted into smoke as the Neyel opened fire and scores of fighters were burned from space in seconds. What the hell was that? He thought to himself.
Sheridan watched as hundreds of Centauri fighters swarmed over two other ships destroying them. The space station added its weapons to the maelstrom and then more Neyel vessels ships came out of the rift, firing everything at the station. As he watched the station broke into two pieces under the Neyel barrage.
There as a chime and sheridan turned away from the screen nodding apology to the ranger he tapped his wrist. "Sheridan here."
"Mr President we have an incoming transmission from centauri prime. Emperor Mollary is demanding to speak with you. Do you want me to patch it to your quarters?" "Yes please tell him I will be available momentarily." He said as he deactivated his link and towards the Ranger.
"Please send activation to the third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh fleets and get them ready for operations in and around centauri space. I dont know if we will need them but that is no reason we should be caught flat footed." The ranger came to attention, bowed, and left the room.
Sheridan walked to desk grabbed the bottle of single malt poured a few fingers brought the drink to his lips and downed it in a single swallow. "Computer bring up the transmission from Centauri Prime." "Working." The computer responded. There was a brief moment and then Emperor Mollary's face appeared. "President Sheridan, I assume that your Intelligence has brought the incursion to your attention. The Catour system has fallen and while the Catour system is merely one of our new forward colonial bases. The facts of the matter impose a rather grim view for the future. It seems that for the moment the Neyel are bringing more ships into the system and at last count there were some 150 vessels in the system. So far my forces have successfully withdrawn from the system and I must inform you that the Centauri Republic is at war therefore you will be receiving reports of fleet movements across our mutual borders."
Sheridan Nodded. "I have received reports from the frontier and I must inform you that we are shifting forces to secure the border. Emperor Mallary do you have any additional data regarding these Neyel? What started this conflict?" He asked
"Unfortunately reports from the front are fragmentary. Preliminary casualty reports indicate that the nodal fleet took significant losses. Will the ISA intervene? We both know that following the Drahk invasion that neither of us needs a new war." Mollary asked. "Would it be possible for the ISA to act as mediators between the Centauri Republic and these Neyel?"
Sheridan's jaw almost dropped but he schooled his features toward neutrality. If we can successfully negotiate a peace maybe we can heal this rift between the Republic and the alliance. "I would be willing to work towards that goal Mollary. My forces will secure our border for now and I would be willing to discuss mediation. For now, with your permission I will send a squadron of whitestars to observe the rift. They will feed you information about the status of the catour system. Until I can consult with the Council thats the best I I can do." He said amicably but by the look on Mollary's face made a lie of it.
"As you wish commander I will inform my admirals to expect your ships. But know this the Centauri Republic will not allow the Neyel to remain in the Catour system. It will take time to move additional forces into the region. Good day Mr President as you might imagine I have much work to do." Sheridan nodded farewell and the image faded. And so it begins...
Ch 2
December 4th 2065 United Earth Command
Personal log, TC McQueen.
The seventh lead by the Saratoga had secured Ixion at the cost of some three hundred thousand casualties. 7 carriars, 20 battleships, and more than one hundred and fifty squadrons of hammerheads. The enemy counter attack has been stopped but UEC has reported Chig forces have retaken Deimos , Typhus, and Signus.
We have entered a period of balance with UEC forces controlling Ixion and with the Chigs on Typhus we are both in striking range of each other's home worlds.
UEC forces will be concentrated until such time as sufficient forces are completed to both replenish our losses and complete the 20th and 21st fleet groups.
Im told the Chigs broke their teeth on the systems they took. It seems the war will continue…
TC McQueen put his journal down, picked up his scotch glass and went to the window. The ships of the 7th fleet spread across his view, some one hundred and fifty ships in all.
"Now hear this, anomaly in sector 9 Pegasus system, all crew secure for wormhole transition. Set for combat, all pilots to your fighters." Ross's voice cut across McQueen's thoughts. Quickly he made his way to the briefing room, squadrons 58, 39, 46,and 62 waiting for him. They stood as one as he entered the room.
Walking to the podium at the front if the room he activated the display which glowed with a map of sector 9 and the real-time data from the pickets.
"At ease. Your mission is to support task group 7.3. according to pocket reports a group of unknown vessels have appears in system via an unknown ftl drive. These vessels are large consisting of two interlocked y sections. They launched fighters immediately after they appeared. It seems to be a recon in force. They are in the process of scouting the asteroid belt, this is a first contact situation. Watch your sixes. We don't have a baseline for anything. Question everything, intel reports there are Chig forces in the area. I don't need to tell you this could go badly at anytime. Dismissed."
The pilots moved to their hangers and their fighters.
The Saratoga, the Tripoli, and the Iwo Jima supported by 6 battleships and twelve battlecruisers. The task group moves as one entering translation formation and vanishing in the flashes of wormhole transition.
The Colony, Cylon space, forty years after the Cylon war.
The ones sixes and eights had argued for a more aggressive stance toward the 12 colonies. But having been out voted by the other models and the centurions a compromise had been reached.
Instead of attacking the colonies now they would wait. Intelligence indicated that the colonial government was pushing for new colony worlds away from the red line and it was rumored that they had found and colonized several worlds as bolt holes from Cylon attack.
What was worse, at least 40 Battlestars had disappeared from fleet break yards. as disturbing as loosing track of 40 colonial capital vessels would be on its own and additional 25 modern battlestars had gone missing as well.
The Colonies were growing in economic and military strength far faster than Cylon projections indicated was possible. In fact even excluding the missing vessels the Colonial fleet boasted some 450 battlestars and some 1000 support vessels of various types.
The Cylon colony was growing baseships as fast as possible but even with 40 years since the war, the Cylon fleet consisted of 600 baseships supported by hundreds of thousands of jump capable raiders. But against humanity's battlestars designed to take on baseships at a 3:1ratio.
It was not enough to ensure victory. Now that the colonies had successfully managed to keep their new colonies secret was disturbing in the extreme.
The cylons would find them all eventually, it was only a matter of time.
If the Cylon empire was to Survive the next war with the colonies, more resources were needed. More Colony class mobile fortresses were being grown in the space furthest from the colonial border.
I'll never understand humanity's obsession with Caprica class Planets. It ties their fleet down, the Colony vessels would be completely jump capable, would allow the Cylons to survive even if the war went badly. 12 were growing with 4 of them to be completed within the next year. Once completed the empire would be completely mobile. We will survive. Thought kavil.
The exploratory fleets were venturing out from the Cylon space. So far dozens of star systems had been mapped. In sector 15 a squadron of four baseships had discovered the remains of a battle. Some 30 ships in various states of destruction. Salvage operations had yielded information that was disturbing. 20 of the unknown vessels had been crewed by humans while the other had been crewed by an unknown alien species.
The armaments of the ships were impressive, the aliens used a form of plasma weaponry and as luck would have it biological control systems and living vessels. The weapons were being transferred and retrofitted to the 4base ships.
"Kavil, we have incoming resurrections from sector 19. Our squadron has made contact with vessels of the unknown human faction. Vessels appear to be of the same none Colonial Manufacture as the salvaged ships. Sector alert issued…"
Sector 19 Pegasus system
The 18 UEC ships of the task group flashed into existence near the 4 unknown ships. The reaction of the unknowns was immediate. Swarms of fighters launched placing themselves between the task group and their mother ships.
"This is Captain Ross of the United Earth Command battle carrier Saratoga to unknown vessels you have entered United Earth space. State your intentions or vacate the area. This sector is In Conflict. Respond immediately."
"Transmission received by the unknowns, they are not responding."
" Energy levels spiking on UK one." Sensors reports. "On visual."
The large vessel released what appeared to be its entire fight inventory and then vanished in a flash of light. The other three vessels move toward the the task group.
"Launch all fighters. All weapons standby. Signal the unknowns again. Standard greeting and language files."
Intense moment later and the ships respond. " Reply received audio only.
"This is the Cylon imperial baseship(CIBS) surveying this system In the name of the Cylon Empire. We claim this system. Vacate the area or be destroyed. CIBS command out."
"Signal the cylons again." Ross orders.
" Cylon baseship be advised that you are in UEC space and if you continue hostile actions against our ships a star of war will exist between the UEC and the Cylon Empire. Please vacate the system or we will be forced to respond. Saratoga out."
The channel closes as the Fighters of the Saratoga leave their hangers and intersperse themselves between the fleet and the incoming fighters.
Squadron 58
Vansen maneuvered her hammerhead in formation with her squad mates. "We have incoming fighters. 58 we've got the cap. All other squadrons advance and engage."
The 148 fighters of Saratoga's attack wing joined wings from Iwo Jima and the Tripoli and accelerated towards the Cylon fighters.
The base ships began firing and the space between the fleets explodes as both sides fire.
Missiles, kinetic ordinance, and plasma bolts interpreted in a mutual orgy of destruction. The point defense on both sides kept missiles at bay but the plasma bolts struck both sides like jack hammers.