Disclaimer: I do not own Battlestar Galactica. Nor do I own Starfire, or the Starfire books by David Weber, upon which some of the Terran technology is based.
In the Eye of the Storm Prologue
In 2153, humanity first made it to another star. The revolutionary new technology that allowed this, the foldspace drive, was pioneered by Dr Kyoko Matshushimi, and came to be known as the Matshushimi drive. Soon after, the inertia less drive, product of decades of development by the largest global corporations, opened space to anyone and everyone, for although it was an expensive device to buy, it required no reaction mass, and thus quickly repaid the initial investment. Humanity, ever curious, had expanded out from Sol like a tsunami. Colonies had sprung up thick and fast, and wealth was everywhere.
It was in these first days of interstellar expansion that humanity had encountered its first alien races: the Naduk, peaceful and friendly, the Chen, aloof and isolationist, and the Ascellians, violent and hateful. The dream had shattered when the first attempt was made to contact the Ascellians. Ships sent near them were instantly fired upon and destroyed, and it was only luck, along with the timely intervention of the Naduk that saved Humanity from enslavement. The First Interstellar War had seen the creation of the Terran Royal Navy, and when the second war with the Ascellians came, that navy had beaten them back from the worlds that had been lost in the first conflict.
It was during this war that the first ruins were discovered. They were ancient. When Alexander the Great had been besieging Tyr, these aliens had been in their final decline, and many new technologies had been procured from their ancient cities, along with mountains of electronic data. To the shock of the technicians assigned to discover what those records held, a project was discovered that dwarfed anything man had ever undertaken. Contained in those ancient data crystals had been the records of the greatest social experiment in history. Hundreds of thousands of humans had been abducted from Earth and transplanted onto other planets, so that their development could be observed without outside influences. Expeditions dispatched to the planets on record found evidence of long dead human habitation more often than not, but occasionally a living human world was found. Such worlds were quickly integrated into the Empire, so as to protect them from outside threats like the Ascellians.But there were several that remained unexplored, sometimes because the records of their location were lost or corrupted, sometimes because the distances involved were too great. These worlds were left to their own devices.
It is now 2467, and The Terran Empire has just emerged victorious from another war with the Ascellians, albeit with heavy casualties. With the end of the war, a large surplus of survey ships has become available, and parliament has decided to authorize exploration and colonization missions to the edges of Imperial space. Survey Flotilla 27, TRN, has completed its prejump checks, and is preparing to enter a previously unexplored system. It is there that they will discover something truly unexpected, and something truly dangerous.
AN: Only a short intro. Please any feedback is welcome, provided that it is constructive, and not just a flame.