Battlestar Galactica: Homecomings

by Treadstone17

A year after arriving at the Twelve Colonies, the first-ever fleet of ships from Earth are reconnoitering the worlds in an attempt to bring the planets and mankind back to their glory. Yet on the most pivotal planet of them all, The Fleet is on the brink of war.

4. Chapter III

III

Admiral Caprica Baltar was in CIC aboard the Laura Roslin with Commander Chase Carrico. She had stayed true in letting Chase run the fleet, even though she was in Command while Kara was a way. But she wanted to watch and learn more about the beginning of an operation down to a planet. She had several reasons for that.

First, she hoped to command her own Battlestar someday. She didn't care really if it was a Terran or a Colonial, she wanted to take her devotion and loyalty to Humanity to its logical next step, which was commanding a Battlestar. She needed to be versed on such maneuvers if she were to fulfill that goal.

The next reason felt kind of corny to her, but she had felt the need to be here, on the Roslin, showing support to the XO while he began the Canceron Operation. Even though they were on the other side of the System, nerves and emotions were raw after the attack that had taken down the Fleet CAG on Caprica.

It was doubly hard for her, as Judith Bond was perhaps her best friend in the Universe. When Judith was First Lady of The United States, she had gone out of her way to befriend the Cylons who had stayed with humanity. They became fast friends, and she adored Judith's family, from the Governor all the way to Abby. She was heartsick over the news that Nick Bond had gone down. She genuinely had affection for the Captain, and had shed her own tears in private on hearing the news.

Caprica felt helpless on the Helios Delta side of the System, but knew she also had a job to do, and the best way she could help Justin, Judith, Kara and Abby was to do her job. If needed, she knew she'd go over there and pick up a weapon to get Nicholas Bond and the other two back.

Caprica had let Chase concentrate on the first mission, while she stayed in the background and monitored the communications channels for any news.

"CAG, Roslin Actual, your Raptors are cleared to launch to the surface. Standard dispersal."

The plan was to land about thirty Raptors about fifteen miles South of Hades, in the Norther Continental Mass, and about twenty about fifteen miles South of Prommos, which lay on the coast of the Canceron Ocean.

Captain Cory Mathers was doing her best to concentrate on getting her forces to the Norther Continent, but it wasn't easy. Like everyone else in The Fleet, the attack on the Fleet CAG, Nick Bond and his two companions had hit a raw nerve with her. She knew Nicholas Bond-not very well, but he had always treated her well in the times they met as she was coming through the ranks. She had told him-probably too many times-how he idolized his older sister Kara.

Part of her wished she was in Caprica, just for the chance to pop one of the fuckers who had shot that Raptor down. But this was her job today, heading for Hades. They really need to change the name of this city, she thought crossly, thinking of the Earthly connotation of the word. Maybe they would when they changed this place from what it used to be.

Her group was on the ground in under thirty minutes, and like before, General Seth Trevor was the Ground Commander once they had landed. Unlike on Aerilon, they expected some trouble on the Norther Continent. The feeling was that some of the old criminal's who had been sent here were loose, or perhaps their offspring by this time. They weren't expecting a joyous welcome in Hades.