INTRODUCTION

The following is a series of stories that have been written by either myself or Wes Imlay. They are a collection of one-shot stories set during the First Cylon War and cover various different subjects from angst to action to love and tragedy.

Below is a Contents section and a Timeline section. Both of these will be updated everytime a new story (chapter) is added.

We hope you enjoy the stories.

- Anthony Wilkins

"The Wilky Bar Kid"


CONTENTS

Escaping Hades by Wes Imlay

The lives of several different groups of people are about to change dramatically as news of an uprising by the Cylons reaches them and they have only one course of action left open to them; escape from the city of Hades on Canceron before it falls to the mechanical army.

Prisoner of War by Anthony Wilkins

A Cylon Centurion is captured intact just days before a major operation is about to be undertaken. Instead of trying to hack the Centurion's software for information the Colonial Fleet bring it aboard the Battlestar Galactica to be interrogated. What secrets will it reveal?

Life Tests by Anthony Wilkins

A wounded Colonial stumbles across a young woman who has been booby trapped but as he attempts to free her he finds himself being observed by a curious Cylon.


TIMELINE

Key; BTF – years Before The Fall
Source; Battlestar Wiki

58—52 BTF

With the use of a meta-cognitive processor stolen from Tauron rival Tomas Vergis, the Caprican tech CEO Daniel Graystone creates the first Cylons of the Twelve Colonies to aid in hard labor and warfare. A virtual copy of his dead monotheist daughter Zoe Graystone's consciousness is downloaded into one. Humanity is unaware that they are repeating the actions of their ancestors on Kobol.

52 BTF

The Cylons revolt and the First Cylon War erupts across the Twelve Colonies

Chapter 1 – Escaping Hades by Wes Imlay

Chapter 3 – Life Tests by Anthony Wilkins

50 BTF

The Battlestar Galactica is commissioned into the Colonial Fleet.

40 BTF

Mechanical Cylons begin experiments constructing humanoid forms of Cylon. They succeed in creating the First Hybrid and subsequent Hybrids, but no fully humanoid forms.

Chapter 2 – Prisoner of War by Anthony Wilkins

The Final Five arrive in the Colonial solar system in the waning days of the war.

Operation Raptor Talon conducted by the Colonial Fleet. Battlestar Columbia destroyed.

The Five meet the local Cylons and negotiate an end to the war. They will give the Cylons biological bodies complete with resurrection technology if the Cylons agree to end the war.

Armistice ends the Cylon War. Cylons exile themselves from the Twelve Colonies. The First Hybrid and his Guardians part company with the other Cylons.