Galactica: The Next Generation
Prologue
Disclaimer: I do not own the rights to Battlestar Galactica or the Aliens Franchise. I only own original characters. Some characters are named after friends of mine however their lives in this story's universe are my invention.
This story takes place roughly 20 years after the Colonials arrived to an Earth in our future. Most of the characters from the series will be mentioned in passing only with the exception of Hera Agathon who is a now a young woman in her twenties.
There will be no Aliens and Predators running around in this story either. Weyland-Yutani "The Company" will play a part in this story.
The premise is simple. What if the Colonials had arrived on Earth without destroying the Cylon home world? They find a futuristic Earth where Weyland-Yutani acquires Colonial and Cylon technology and use it to defend against the Cylon menace. After two decades of skirmishes with the Cylons, the war between man and machines gets hot again.
Prologue
MEMORANDUM (SECRET)
FROM: ALLEN LARKIN, CAPTIAN USS WOODHAVEN
TO: CORPORATE HEADQAURTERS WEYLAND-YUTANI
CORPORATION LOS ANGELES
SUBJ: RECOVERY OF HUMAN LIFE FORM AND SPACE CRAFT NOT
EARTH ORIGIN.
1. USS WOODHAVEN WAS CONDUCTING MINING SURVEYS OF OUTER RIM SYSTEM WHEN A SPACE CRAFT OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN APPEARED TO COME OUT OF AN NEBULA IN SECTOR 6541.
2. THE SPACE CRAFT NEARLY COLLIDED WITH THIS VESSEL. UPON CLOSER INSPECTION IT APPEARED TO BE A SINGLE SEAT FIGHTER AIRCRAFT. INSIDE WAS A WHITE FEMALE AGE 25-30 YEARS OLD WHO WAS UNCONCIOUS. BOTH ON THE SIDE OF THE SPACECRAFT AND ON THE FEMALE'S FLIGHT SUIT WAS THE NAME "CAPTAIN KARA THRACE". THE FIGHTER-TYPE AIRCRAFT DOES NOT APPEAR IN ANY DATA BASE. THERE ARE NO MARKING INDICATING THE CRAFT WAS MANUFACTURED ON EARTH OR ONE OF ITS COLONIES. THUS FAR MARKINGS REFER TO A PLACE CALLED "SCORPIA" AND "GALACTICA BSG-75".
3. SPACECRAFT AND PILOT WERE RECOVERED BY THIS VESSEL. PILOT WAS REMOVED AND TAKEN TO MED-LAB. THE PILOT AT THIS TIME REMAINS UNCONSCIOUS. "KARA THRACE" AS THE FEMALE SUBJECT WILL BE REFERED TO FROM NOW ON WILL BE QUARANTINED. AS PER COMPANY ORDERS WE HAVE NOT NOTIFIED GOVERNMENT MILITARY AUTHORITIES UNTIL RECEIVING GUIDANCE FROM CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS.
4. SHIP IS CURRENTLY DOCKED AT MINING COLONY ORION 626.
FROM: WEYLAND-YUTANI RESEARCH DIVISION
TO: CAPTAIN LARKIN USS WOODHAVEN
FOR CAPTAIN'S EYES ONLY!!!
SUBJ: RECOVERED VESSEL.
1. RETURN TO EARTH IMMEDIATELY WITH SUBJECT. IF YOU HAVE NOT ALREADY DONE SO ENSURE SUBJECT IS NOT INFECTED WITH SPECIES THAT WAS FOUND ON PLANET LV 426.
2. GOVERNMENT HAS BEEN NOTIFIED OF SUBJECT BY CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS. ONCE SUBJECT REVIVES INITITATE CONTACT AND BEGIN INTERROGATION OF SUBJECT.
FROM: UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF HOMEWORLD SECURITY WASHINGTON D.C.
TO: UNITED NATIONS DEPARTMENT OF OFF-WORLD AFFAIRS
REPORT ON CONTACT WITH HUMANS FROM TWELVE COLONIES OF KOBOL
1. A MINING SURVEY SHIP UNDER CONTRACT WITH WEYLAND-YUTANI RESCUED A MEMBER OF A UNTIL KNOW HUMAN CIVILIZATION KNOWN AS THE TWELVE COLONIES OF KOBAL TWO MONTHS AGO.
2. THE SUBJECT KNOWN AS CAPTAIN KARA THRACE CLAIMS TO BE A MEMBER OF SAID CIVILIZATIONS'S MILITARY FORCE KNOWN AS COLONIAL FLEET.
3. ACCORDING TO CAPT. THRACE, THE TWELVE COLONIES WERE MADE UP OF HUMANS DIVIDED INTO TWELVE TRIBES EACH TRIBE CORRESPONDING TO THE TWELVE SIGNS OF THE ZODIAC. CAPT. THRACE WAS BORN AND RAISED ON THE PLANET CAPRICA, WHICH CORRESPONDS TO THE SIGN CAPRICORN.
4. THE TWELVE COLONIES HAVE HAD SPACE TRAVEL CABALIITY FOR CENTURIES. ABOUT 50 YEARS AGO THEY DEVELOPED AI ROBOTS TO ACT AS SOLDIERS IN INTER-COLONIAL FIGHTING. THESE ROBOTS WERE KNOWN AS CYLONS.
5. THE CYLONS REBELLED AND STARTED A 12 YEAR WAR AGAINST MAN KIND. EVENTUALLY A TRUCE WAS REACHED AND THE CYLONS LEFT HUMAN CONTROLLED SPACE.
6. FOUR YEARS AGO, THE CYLONS RETURNED TO THE TWELVE COLONIES AND ATTACKED THEM WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS. THE COLONIAL MILITARY FORCE WAS DESTROYED EXCEPT FOR ONE SHIP THE BATTLESTAR GALACTICA.
7. THE ONLY HUMAN SURVIVORS WERE THOSE WHO WERE TRAVELING ON SPACE CRAFT AT THE TIME OF THE ATTACKS. ROUGHLY 50,000 HUMANS SURVIVED AND FORMED A FLEET THAT WENT SEARCHING FOR WHAT WAS TO THEIR CULTURE A MYTH: THE THIRTEENTH TRIBE ON EARTH.
8. THE FLEET OF SURVIVORS HAS CONTINUED TO WAGE WAR AGAINST THE CYLONS WHO IT MUST BE NOTED NOT ONLY EXIST IN MECHANICAL FORM BUT HUMAN FORM AS WELL. THERE WERE SEVEN KNOWN MODELS (FOUR MALE, THREE FEMALE).
9. CAPT. THRACE IS REQUESTING A RESCUE EFFORT BE MADE HER PEOPLE. SHE SAYS THERE ARE AT ESTIMATED 40,000 HUMANS STILL LIVING ON SHIPS. USING NAVIGATION INFORMATION RECOVERED FROM HER SPACECRAFT (KNOWN AS A "VIPER") AND OUR OWN INFORMATION WE HAVE DETERMINED THE PROBABLE LOCATION OF THE COLONIAL FLEET.
10. THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT CALLS FOR THE UNITED NATIONS TO SUPPORT A RESCUE EFFORT TO MAKE FIRST CONTACT WITH THE FLEET OF REFUGEES FROM THE TWELVE COLONIES OF KOBOL.
11. SEE ATTACHED APPENDIX FOR TRANSCRIPT OF CAPT. THRACE'S DEBRIEF.
FROM: WEYLAND-YUTANI MILITARY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
TO: DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
SUBJ: CAPABILITIES OF COLONIAL MILITARY.
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1. BASED UPON PRELIMINARY STUDIES OF THE VIPER FIGHTER SPACECRAFT FLOWN BY CAPTAIN KARA THRACE REVEALS THAT COLONIAL MILITARY TECHNOLOGY WILL BE OF GREAT ADVANTAGE. IT IS HIGHLY ENCOURAGED THAT OUR GOVERNMENT MAKE INITIAL CONTACT WITH THIS CIVILIZATION.
2. RECOMMEND CANCELLATION OF BIO-WEAPONS DEVELOPMENT.
3. SEE ATTACHED APPENDIXES FOR DETAILS ON THE VIPER SPECIFICATIONS.
NOTE: THIS DEPARTMENT IS STILL ASSESSING THE CYLON THREAT. REPORT WILL BE COMING SOON.