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Chapter 2 – The Return
43 years later…
The Battlestar Galactica and her civilian fleet were cruising through space at sublight speed, the military and the civilian government had just reunited and there was a lull between the Cylons attacks at the moment.
On the bridge of the Galactica the crew were engaged in the normal procedures of running a ship the size of Galactica and keeping an eye out for the Cylons.
In the war room Laura Roslin the President of the Colonies and Commander William 'Bill' Adama the highest ranking military officer were meeting to discuss whether or not the engineers of Galactica should form some kind of engineering core by taking in civil engineers from across the fleet and any one else with technical expertise. The group would train new members and handle the technical problems across the fleet. Laura had come up with the plan but William didn't think it was a good idea. Right now there were few available technicians and that most of the ships were in reasonable shape.
Right now he suggested that new recruits are sent to Galactica where they could learn from the Galactica's staff.
Their discussion was called short however when the alarm klaxon started and the voice of Saul Tigh was heard
"All hands Condition 1, Cylon Baseship coming into combat range. Repeat" and the voice of Saul repeated the previous statement while Bill and Roslin headed for CIC.
"XO sit rep" Bill ordered when he entered the CIC, Saul Tigh turned to face his best friend and senior officer.
"One Cylon Baseship with 3 squadrons of Raiders 15 minutes out with Baseship coming into firing range"
"Our Batteries? Our Vipers" Bill asked
"Already locked and ready, Vipers already into the air" Saul reported
"Execute firing solution, order all Vipers to engage Raiders only leave Baseship to us. How long before fleet jumps out?" Bill ordered his crew carrying them out with the model of efficiency as he had come to expect of them and was proud of
"5 minutes sir" Lieutenant Gaeta answered while he plotted Galactica's own jump
"Execute Enemy suppression barrage" Bill ordered and the great batteries of Galactica let rip sending ordinance towards the Baseship, destroying missiles and raiders as they approached the Battlestar.
Meanwhile outside in the cockpits of the Vipers, the pilots were pitting their battered Mark 2's and modified Mark 7's against the robotic Raiders that escaped Galactica's firing solution.
Back on CIC Bill turned to face the President "Well Madam President it appears you're stuck here till we jump"
Laura smiled "Right now I'm in the best place on our strongest warship"
Bill despite himself said back a smile forming "Our only warship"
Laura just continued to smile at him; Gaeta broke into the moment with a report
"Sir the civilians are jumping away while we hold off the Cylons. But sir about 700 metres off our starboard side there is an anomaly similar to the Shredder's Field anomaly"
Both Bill and Tigh looked very uneasy.
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And their unease was well founded as the Baseship launched a nuke at the Galactica, them being too far away to see the new Shredder's Field.
As the dangerous projectile spent towards Galactica a fault developed. This nuke hadn't had a very good guidance module installed and now it was online the missile somehow dodged the firing solution of Galactica, Vipers trying to shoot it down, completely miss Galactica, zoom 700 more metres before exploding in the anomaly.
And as 43 years before, back in the colonies the reaction began again….
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From the cockpit of his Viper; Captain Lee Adama watched as the Shredder's field began to expand in a swirling mass of orange and white vortexes, they combined and formed into a massive orange vortex. Both Cylons and Humans stopped fighting, totally entranced by the spectacle in front of them.
Then something started to emerge…
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Galactica's Dradis suddenly alerted its crew to a new contact.
"What is it?" Tigh asked
"Unconfirmed sir…wait I' am getting a transponder signal" Dee said
"Identify" Bill ordered
"I've got the signal, its Colonial" Dee stopped talking as she ran it through the database and got the results
"Impossible" Dee said almost out of breathe as if the shock had robbed it from her
"What?" Tigh asked annoyed at her hesitation
"According to that ship's IFS signal that ship is…" Dee said
"Is what Dee?" Bill asked
"The Battlestar Colossus" Dee managed to get out
The silence in CIC was deafening
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The pilots of the Vipers watched in awe as the great Battlestar Colossus rise from the vortex like some creature rising from the sea.
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