AN: next chapter: counterstrikes, I hope you like it. Please R&R, it is very useful and also good to know someone appreciates what I do.

Cylon command baseship

Libra orbit

T plus 54 hours

The command baseship was larger than normal baseships, it had increased defenses but no increased offensive measures. Its policy was to jump rather than fight, for now it resided over Libra, one of the first colonies to be attacked. The colony's surface had been nuked; the initial plan was to just destroy any military targets so they could capture most of the civilians to start several projects on them. Because the heavy resistance the number one that was in charge of the fleet had taken revenge on the people of Libra by destroying virtually every city and town on the planet.

The seven models were discussing what had to be done next. After only two days they had sustained high losses. The ones, fours and fives were pushing for a new offensive to take down Picon Fleet Headquarters. The two's, Sixes and Eights were against. The last one, the number three had a whole other plan; she wanted to hold all attacks and plan them carefully and try to capture one of those new battlestars by using their undercover operatives.

"The only way we can defeat the enemy is by destroying or capturing those new ships. If we capture them we can study their technology and maybe reverse engineer it." The three said.

"That's nonsense, those ships are so powerful that no matter what we throw at them we will lose them and just like six said before we don't have any operatives on those ships." the number one said. He was getting mad for things not going his way. Even now, after the loss of so many ships the other models wouldn't go with his plan. He was number one; they were supposed to follow his lead, as he was the first who was created.

"For the first time since the start of the war we agree on something. You bet your ass that they have several of those new battlestars at Picon Headquarters, so it doesn't matter what we do, we are screwed no matter what." Six said.

"We should…" the number two started but he was interrupted by the alarm of the baseship. Immediately they all stuck their hand into a sort of interface and they all got a view of the space around Libra.

"Three vessels have exited some sort of FTL; they are taking up position just outside missile range." The four said.

"Launch all fighters and arm all missiles, if they want a fight they can have it." The number one said.

"Also spool up all the jump drives, just in case we need to jump out." Six said.

"There is only one battlestar out there, its Valkyrie class. The other two are unknown to us; they must be those filthy Colonial allies." The Five said. A screen close by showed a blurry image of the unknown ships.

"We are receiving a message." The three said. She laughed when she saw the message. "They want us to surrender or we will be destroyed."

"I think we all know the answer to that." Six said. "Tell all the ships to start maneuvering, just as we practiced for, tell them to jump if necessary."

The Cylon raiders had now formed up into attack squadrons; the hostiles hadn't launched any fighters. The baseships started to move around the battlefield while only staying at what they thought to be the limit of the energy weapons.

Bridge, Odyssey

Libra

The battle cruiser had just exited hyperspace and sent a message to the Cylons, even though they knew it was not necessary they had to send it.

"Major Marks prepare all railguns for anti-fighter duties, hold fire on the missiles; they aren't of use any ways. Power up the beam weapons." Emerson said. The Major had already started all the procedures and now finished them. The Korolev and Valkyrie were also doing the same. In the briefing it was decided not to use the mark eights and F-302's. Instead they were left behind at Picon to aid in their defense. The F-302 pilots were given some instructions on space combat. Only puddle jumpers and Raptors were launched but because of their stealth systems they were not discovered, they had now taken up position around the battlefield.

"Colonel, the Cylons haven't responded to our message, instead they have launched fighters, primed their missiles and spooled up their jump drives. They are now circling around." Marks said.

"Chekov, Commander Shawk, are your ships ready?" Emerson asked. He knew that they were ready but still had to ask. When the replies came in he ordered the fleet to move in and open fire at any targets.

At first it went well, raiders were taken out quite easily while they did little to no damage to the three ships. The baseships were another thing, they had chosen a new tactic, jump in, launch a few dozen missiles and jump out before any beams could target them. The shields of the Odyssey and Korolev were strong enough to withstand a thousand missiles before showing any sign of combat. The shields of the Valkyrie however were of weaker design, even though that was compromised by an increase of CIWS weapon systems and of course the old fashioned FLAK cannons, the Cylons seemed to target the Valkyrie.

CIC, Valkyrie

"Sir shields at 78 percent, we've only destroyed two baseships and the raiders are also launching missiles." A lieutenant yelled from his station.

"Ask, the Korolev to cover our six, it's the least protected part and the Cylons know it." Shawk ordered.

"Sir, the Korolev acknowledges the request and is taking up position at our six." The communications officer reported.

"Shields are still dropping, now at 65 percent." The lieutenant said.

"Yeah, that's a kill." A lieutenant suddenly yelled.

"Lieutenant?" Shawk asked.

"Sorry sir, we just took out a baseship that jumped in behind our range of fire, these energy weapons can fire further than advertised." The lieutenant said.

"That's great, now target the rest of those baseships or we'll be toast." Shawk said. The man could be happy about the kill he just made but there were still a lot of Cylons out there and they were doing a great job in wearing their shields down.

"Engineering reports that they have adjusted the power flow for the shields a bit, it should be holding steady for now." The tactical officer said.

"Sir, engineering just called in, the FTL drive is busted; it'll take them about twenty minutes to fix it." The XO said.

"What! How the hell is that possible?!" Shawk was getting quite pissed, with no FTL to jump out as planned this battle might end in a catastrophe. "Contact Emerson and inform him of or current condition, ask him to send over some marines just in case we get boarded."

The battle outside the CIC was still undecided; the Cylons kept jumping in and out but the Tau'ri battle cruisers were quickly adapting to it. The Korolev had abandoned its position to chase down Cylon ships hiding behind weapons range while the Odyssey was circling around the Valkyrie destroying everything that got in its path.

"Sir, hostile transports are jumping inside our shields, some of them are destroyed by the atmospheric shields around the hanger bays but some of them are heading for auxiliary airlocks." A captain said.

"Spool up the fast response teams, direct them to the enemy." Shawk replied.

"Sir, why the hell aren't they nuking us like they did with the Samantha Carter?" her XO asked. Word about the attack on the Samantha Carter had gotten around quick.

"They want the ship and the technology." Shawk concluded. "Have Engineering set the scuttle charges; if necessary we will destroy the ship, we cannot let it fall into enemy hands."

After a few more minutes gunfire could be heard outside the CIC, more marines ran by and several were beamed in by the Odyssey and Korolev, due to the different languages it was difficult to direct the Russian marines.

"Sir, shields are now at 45 percent and the enemy has stopped firing on us." The tactical officer reported. More baseships had jumped in to fill in the ranks of those that were destroyed.

"They really want to take the ship, we have over a hundred centurions heading for engineering and CIC." The XO said. More and more gunfire could be heard as more and more marines and centurions joined the battle just outside CIC. "They are pretty close as you can hear; we have to consider setting the charges."

"Connect me to the Odyssey." Shawk said while she picked up the phone, she had already taken her key and prepared the self destruct console at the map table. When she was connected she asked for Emerson. "Paul, we are unable to keep the ship, I am initiating the self destruct, bea…" was all she could say before she was cut short by an exploding wall that made her duck behind the table, her XO joined her and a third person fell down with a large piece of shrapnel sticking out of her chest.

Shawk quickly pulled out her sidearm, it was a special one made for the officers of battlestar group 16. Her XO did the same. She quickly looked over the edge of the table and she saw about a dozen centurions pour through the destroyed wall. All across the room people were stunned, those that weren't quick enough to take cover were gunned down by the centurions.

Shawk looked at her XO and counted to three; she then gave her XO a nod and raised herself just enough to be able to take aim at the centurions. When she had the first in her sights she pulled the trigger, the bullet hit the centurion dead centre in the red eye kind of thing. The centurion fell immediately. She quickly changed target and fired at the second centurion. The shots seemed to pull the other people in the CIC out of their daze and they started firing at the centurions. They were not resistant to that much firepower and soon they started to fall, first one then two and more and more fell to the bullets. The last two were gunned down by marines who were quickly clearing the CIC.

Shawk stood up and recognized the uniforms, they were from the Korolev and she noted to herself that she needed to send a few cases of Ambrosia over to the Korolev later. She walked over to the one that seemed to be in charge and thanked him. The reply however she could not understand. She looked at him and a soldier behind the commander answered in English with a heavy Russian accent that they were lost and returned to the CIC to receive new orders and maybe a map of the ship.

"Thank you again, now we need some extra security for that hole, which will be your new mission, thank you." Shawk said. The marines saluted and took up position at the hole in the wall.

"Sir, we are picking up three additional vessels, according to the computer they are the Earth battle cruisers Phoenix, General Hammond and Normandy, they are rounding up the remaining Cylons, we've won this fight." An ensign said. He had taken over as the sensor officer was killed by the Cylons.

"They are beaming in reinforcements, they are dispatching of the centurions as we speak." The XO reported.

"The last of the baseships are jumping out!" the ensign at the sensor console yelled.

"Get me Colonel Emerson." Shawk said. When she was connected she continued. "Colonel, we'll need some time to repair our damage and replace our losses. We were lucky colonel, if they wanted they could have blown us up with nukes but they wanted the ship."

"We'll have to be happy they didn't do that." Emerson said. "Why don't you jump back to Picon to get the repairs started while we'll finish this."

"Roger that." Shawk said. She turned to her crew and continued. "Alright get that jump drive working and prepare to jump to Picon."

Gods room, Colonial SGC

Andara system

T plus 62 hours

Admiral Baker had left the Mercury's Gods room for the more extensive gods room at their home base in the Andara system. After he received word from Picon about the damage done to the Valkyrie he had ordered her back to the shipyard to repair it completely. Currently the Asgard ship McKay was attempting to wipe the harmful parts of the captured Cylons' memory.

"Admiral Baker we have an incoming call from the McKay." An ensign said.

"Put it through." Baker ordered.

Admiral Baker this is Tjolver of the Asgard, we have detected a Cylon ship in the vicinity." The Asgard aboard the McKay said.

"We know that, we've been tracking them for the last eighteen hours, they're only going through the neighborhood, they won't get to close." Baker said.

"I am afraid you are mistaken, moments ago the ship changed course and it is now heading straight for Andara." Tjolver said.

Baker looked at his sensor officer and received a nod from him; they now also had it on screen. "Thank you Tjolver, we see them now, do you have any idea why they are heading straight for us?"

"My guess is that the captured Cylons sent out a signal to the ship, they might have done it without their own knowledge." There was a pause and Tjolver continued. "My scans reveal that a low amount of exotic radiation is being emitted by each Cylon, individually it is harmless and almost undetectable but together it is strong enough to be noticed several systems away."

"Is there any way we can disarm that signal?" Baker asked. In the meantime the XO had started to put the base on full alert.

"I do not think so. Even if we could it would be of no use as the Cylons already know our position."

"Alright thank you, we'll just have to intercept them before they get here and before they call for backup." Baker replied. He already walked over to a board listing all available ships.

"With what ships would you want to attack them, I must remind you that I am not allowed to enter a fight." Tjolver said.

"I am going to arrange that right now." Baker said while he motioned the communications specialist to cut the connection. "Connect me with the Mercury." Baker waited while the specialist contacted the Mercury. After a minute or so he got a nod from the specialist. "Mercury this is Andara, I need to speak with Admiral Nagala right away." Baker again waited to be connected.

"Admiral Baker, what do you need?" Nagala asked.

"There is a Cylon baseship moving towards us and we need to take it out. Unfortunately the Valkyrie is in no shape and the Asgard vessel McKay has said not to initiate hostilities." Baker paused for a moment to let it sink in. "I need the Atlantia to take out that baseship, it should be more than capable to do so and it needs to look like it was just a battlestar looking for an easy kill."

"Alright, you can have the Atlantia for the next two days, after that she is required to take on the defense of Caprica." Nagala said. "Don't break it." He added.

"Thank you admiral. You'll get her back in one piece." Baker terminated the connection. He then turned to the communications specialist and told him to send a message to the Atlantia detailing the position of the baseship and all other relevant information.

CIC, Battlestar Atlantia

Not far from the Cylon baseship

T plus 62.5 hours

Commander Kretz was one of the best commanders in the fleet, besides that he was politically reliable; something that was required to be the commander of the battlestar that normally transported the president of the twelve colonies. For now his ship was on a roving patrol. Once in a while they would get information about a target that was under protected, now was nothing different. A battlestar versus a baseship was an easy one.

"Commander, we've received a message on the secure band, it's from Andara command with the authority from admiral Nagala himself." The communications specialist reported.

"Then it must be important. Put it on the DRADIS console." The specialist manipulated his console and sent the information to the DRADIS officer who put it on the DRADIS console. "This is easy, one baseship, no extra support that the usual raiders and no other forces in the area. We are to protect the secrecy of one of our bases, they may not escape."

"Can't be that difficult. What are you thinking?" the XO asked.

"Jump in at close range heading straight for the ship, firing main weapons at them. As soon as they return fire we come about and show them our top side so our flak weapons are most effective. Also immediately after the jump we launch four squadrons with two others in the tubes and the rest on standby."

"Sounds like a plan to me." The XO replied. "When do you want to leave?"

"In half an hour. Prepare the ship, let's kick some Cylon ass." Kretz said.

"So say we all." The XO replied.

T plus 63 hours

The CIC was combat ready as was the rest of the ship. All guns had been readied and were preparing to fire.

"Jump in 5 seconds." The jump officer reported. The jump officer counted down and when he reached zero the ship jumped.

The moment the ship jumped it was rocked with impacts, dozens of regular missiles and even several nukes. After a few seconds the viper pilots had overcome the dizziness that was a trademark of the jump and launched their birds. The weapons on the front of the ship that weren't disabled also started to fire as did the rest of the armament.

"What the hell happened?!" Kretz yelled.

"DRADIS shows one baseship and two shieldstars. We've been hit by two nukes, half our front batteries are not responding. I am also reading hull breaches on A, B and C decks. Damage control teams are not responding to our calls." The XO reported. A shieldstar was an old design from the first war; it had huge amounts of defensive weaponry but little amounts of offensive weapons.

"Launch all vipers and prepare the Raptors for missile barrage duties." Kretz ordered. The XO took the phone and ordered the CAG to launch all his birds.

Outside the ship Lieutenant Porter brought her viper about after the launch, she was with the first assault wave but immediately after the jump things had gone astray, instead of finding an unsuspecting baseship they found a baseship and two shieldstars which were all very prepared for them.

"Lieutenant Porter, take your wing and clear a path for the missile raptors to the nearest shieldstar." The voice of the CAG said through her headset.

"Red wing, you've heard the CAG, let's smash a hole straight through these Cylon motherfrackers." Porter told her wing. She flicked off her safeties and the rest of her wing formed up on her while the raptors were also forming up in a second formation behind them. In the few seconds it took her wing to form up a squadron raiders had noticed them and was coming straight for them. At maximum range the vipers let loose a stream of bullets destroying over half the raiders, the others were destroyed by another wing that was supposed to protect the raptors up close. "Like that." She yelled to no one in particular. "Raptors, the road is clear, fire your missiles as soon as we are out of the way." She then turned her viper away and moved out of the line of fire, the rest of her wing followed. When the vipers were clear the raptors fired eight missiles each totaling sixty-four. The shieldstar's defenses were unable to adjust in time to intercept the missiles and all sixty-four missiles hit their mark. Although they were all conventional they were the best and strongest the colonial fleet had. They tore a hole straight through the armor of the shieldstar and detonated fuel storages and munitions storages alike and turned the entire shieldstar in a giant fireball. Several large pieces slammed into the other Cylon ships doing moderate damage. Miraculously no pieces impacted the Atlantia. Porter's viper was not so lucky though, a piece the size of a pistol impacted the engine and caused fatal damage, within moments the onboard computer realized the ship was doomed and auto-ejected the pilot moments before the viper exploded. The automated emergency signal activated itself and a few minutes later a raptor took her aboard and brought her back to the Atlantia, she had a broken arm and some bruises, mostly due to her ejection seat.

Inside the CIC things started to look better again, the destruction of the shieldstar made the Cylons redeploy, this gave the Atlantia enough time to do an old fashioned broad side on the baseship blowing two out of six arms clean off.

"Sir, we've been boarded, Cylon centurions are pouring in at platoon strength at F deck, fast respond teams are already engaging but are having a hard time holding the centurions back." The XO reported after he put the phone down.

"Send the reserves in." Kretz ordered. the Atlantia had a larger than normal complement of marines and special forces on board due to the fact that the ship sometimes was the home of the president.

"Sir the enemy is spooling up their FTL drives." An ensign reported from his station.

"Damn, we can't let them leave. Priority target for all units and guns, target the FTL drives of the Cylons." Kretz ordered.

Immediately weapons fire striked the battlestar itself as its batteries changed from defensive to offensive fire. Instead of firing exploding grenades it fired regular grenades that exploded on impact. Mere moments after the first Cylon missiles hit the battlestar the first of the grenades hit the FTL drives of the two Cylon vessels completely destroying them. In the case of the baseship it also destroyed its regular engines making any kind of action impossible and making it a sitting duck.

"Sir, the FTL drives have been destroyed as well as the sub light drive of the baseship." The XO reported.

"Have the fighters intercept the baseships' missiles. Tell the even gun batteries to target the shieldstar while the uneven gun batteries target the incoming missiles from the shieldstar." Kretz ordered.

"Sir, the shieldstar is changing course." An ensign yelled.

"Where to?" Kretz asked.

"They are coming straight for us sir, they are on a collision course, they are goanna ram us." The ensign replied.

"Priority fire for all units and batteries, they are to target the shieldstars' engines and try to stop it. XO get us the hell out of their course."

The XO started barking orders to the crewmen who were responsible for propulsion while the CAG redirected his vipers and raptors to the shieldstar.

The shieldstars' engines were pretty good protected and turned away from the battle the entire time. The colonial units tried their very best to stop the shieldstar while the Atlantia was also trying to dodge the ship. It was no good; even if the engines were destroyed the ship would still have to much speed to be stopped. The Atlantia made a last ditch roll bringing most of the ship out of harm's way but it was not enough, the shieldstar impacted the starboard hanger bay. Two out of three connections immediately snapped while the other was smashed by the huge amounts of shieldstar that impacted it. The hanger bay was ripped off; it drifted into space with over eight hundred people on board. Thanks to safety measures the fuel did not ignite.

"Sir, we lost the starboard hanger bay, it's been ripped off." The XO reported in shock.

The commander looked at him in disbelieve, so did the entire CIC crew. Than the damage control officer confirmed the message. "I am not getting any readings from it sir." The CAG soon followed with the report from one of his viper pilots who reported that it was ripped off but that it did not yet explode.

"How about the shieldstar?" Kretz asked.

"Destroyed, the baseship has set its self destruct and has also been destroyed." The DRADIS officer reported.

"Divert all raptors to the starboard hanger bay to evacuate it before it explodes. Send an emergency message to Andara detailing them of our situation and request aid."

The crew went to do their jobs, the infirmary prepared for a huge amount of wounded and the vipers were being recovered by the deck crews who also prepared all the raptors.

"Sir, Andara is sending several shuttles to take on the most critical wounded to take them to the medical facilities on Andara." An Ensign reported.

"XO, damage report." Kretz demanded.

"Besides the torn of starboard hanger bay the other one has sustained light damage. We've lost nine turrets and we took a direct blow to the FTL drive, it is only working at 58 percent capacity. We have ninety dead so far, forty five in medical but we haven't seen anyone from near the starboard hanger bay, the emergency bulkheads closed and some are twisted. We have some fires but nothing we can't manage. Our bow took some moderate damage. Over all not counting the loss of the hanger bay we did pretty well considering we were facing more than we expected and were ambushed." The XO reported.

"Make sure you send a list of all wounded and dead to Andara and ask them to transfer it to Picon." Kretz said.

Starboard hanger bay

24 kilometers from Battlestar Atlantia

The hanger bay was a mess, there were several hull breaches and only four out of twelve lifts were operational. The flight deck itself had sustained quite some damage and there were several holes in it. It was a chaos, wounded and dead were brought into the hanger bay for evacuation while fire equipment was brought to combat the many fires. The first of the rescue raptors were just arriving. The first raptor also carried the Chief engineer; he was to oversee the evacuation and was to make sure no one would be left behind.

"Crewman, who is in charge here?" he asked the first person he found.

The reply that the crewman gave wasn't good. "No one sir, it's a chaos down here."

The Chief as he was usually called started giving orders. The first of the wounded were placed in the raptors and flown out to the Atlantia.

"Raptors are underway; we need to get everyone out of this pod ASAP!" The Chief yelled over all the noise.

Cylon command baseship

Cylon Home Colony

T plus 65 hours

The Command Baseship at Libra had jumped away safely, it had little damage. The new strategy was working. All over the colonies it was used to fight Colonial and Tau'ri units. The new tactic did require a lot of fuel, therefore baseships were sent out to find additional sources of Tylium. During a search a baseship was attacked. They were investigating a strange energy reading that was consistent with multiple Cylons being on close proximity to each other. The Cylons aboard the attacked baseship had been downloaded and were just arriving to brief the leaders in person. They were sitting in a large conference room; the leaders were sitting a one side of the table while the survivors were seated on the other side.

"What Happened?" A one asked.

"We were investigating the signal we informed you about. Two jumps away we were attacked by the Atlantia, we know that they were on a roving mission. Fortunately we had two shieldstars who were preparing to refuel. We engaged them and for some time it was an even fight. Until they launched some of their strongest missiles at one of the shieldstars, they completely destroyed it. Several pieces of the shieldstar impacted the baseship and the other shieldstar damaging them. After that we tried to jump out but our engines were destroyed. The shieldstar still had sub light engines and rammed the battlestar, they tore of a hanger bay, shortly after that they destroyed our baseship." The Six of the baseship said.

"We've sent a raider to check it out; they evacuated the hanger bay and ignited the fuel and ammunition storages. We couldn't find any trace of them." The other Six said.

"We must send out a fleet to those signals, they might be of some secret colonial base, maybe the base of those advanced battlestars." A Three proposed.

"We must vote about it." The Cavil model said. They voted and it was unanimous, they all voted to search for the signals. A few hours later seven baseships, eleven shieldstars and four patrolstars converged not that far from the place where the battle with the Atlantia took place.

Lead Cylon Baseship

T plus 69 hours

The strike force was a quickly assembled force, they hadn't trained but were ready nevertheless as they were Cylons. It was a strong fleet that was supposed to be able to take on several upgrades battlestars, they just hoped there were no surprised when they reached Andara, they hadn't done any Intel gathering.

"Prepare to jump the fleet, launch all raiders and a first missile barrage as soon as you have confirmed targets." The six that leaded the fleet ordered.

Five minutes later 22 flashes signed the start of the Battle of Andara.

AN: Please R here are some of my responses to the reviews.

Oberon

Yeah... no...

Earth wouldn't give away technology especially Asgard technology even if it's to other humans. Hell, the entire galaxy is littered with other human civilization and guess what the SGC calls them.
Aliens.
That's right. Aliens. It's unrealistic for Earth to share technology with the Colonials when every tom dick and harry can claim they're related to Earth in some way.

It isn't completely giving away; they traded it for the FTL drives and probably other things like designs for the vipers. The technology is nowhere near Asgard based, the original shields of the Prometheus are Goa'uld based and other systems are either acquired from the free Jaffa nation or are Goa'uld based, no Asgard based technology has been given to the colonials. The SGC for a change has some benefit from trading with these people, they are advanced as well and the only reason why we are more advanced is because of the stargate. Oh, probably every human looking civilization in Milky Way has ties to Earth as the Goa'uld took them as slaves and hosts from Earth or they were spread by the Ancients.

Gaby

Great

Cane got hers.
Will Earth and Colonials discover more Infiltrators?

Maybe who can show some more on Stargate,s Gang.

Hope you update soon

This is more about the universe it is set in and BSG 16, that being said, I haven't chosen a commander for the general Hammond or Phoenix. It is safe to say that they won't be returning as SG-1, rather as individuals doing something they are good at.

Reagan

Atlantis not in an ocean seems wrong. Have we seen the last of Cain? On Earth she could conceivably be shot for her actions. Would the Colonials do the same?

As for the cylons, rather than going and licking their wounds when the tide turns against them they keep pushing. That seems almost aggressively stupid. They still may outnumber the Colonials but have found themselves at a serious technological disadvantage. Seems like a foolish rush towards death.

The fact that the Cylons are machines doesn't mean they can't be foolish, we've seen the skinjobs show emotions and act stupid on more than one occasion, Athena and Boomer being a great example for it.

JC

Great story.

Will more about the Cylons be discover in Chapter 4?

Will you show the view point of both Sg1,s and Galactica,s crew?

Hope you update soon.

Maybe someone can make a crossover that happed in the first Cylon War.

Won't be much from SG-1 as a whole but more separated, possibly Carter or Mitchell and maybe Teal'c, Jack and Daniel. About Galactica, they are currently being refitted with advanced weapons so for now not so much but maybe later.