"What?" Adama asked.

"We have a dozen Battlestars, over the last few weeks, I have ordered scouting missions to each of the colonies and the Cylons have a combined force of twenty two Basestars" Nagala explained "It is time to kick the toasters out of our homes"

"But isn't that sort of pointless, most of the colonies were nuked back to stone age" Adama replied.

"Yes, but some areas could still be inhabitable, the mountains and higher areas might not have been nuked"

"When do we launch this operation?" Adama asked.

"In six months, I have ordered the mobile construction platforms to start building Gunstars, they will take about two months to build the first four of them, in six months we will have twelve of them, in the meantime we will hide in the nebulae in which our civilian fleet currently is"

"Just by curiosity sir, how did you escape the attacks?" Adama asked.

"We didn't" Nagala replied coldly.


228 days earlier

Picon Orbit, Battlestar Atlantia, CIC

Day of the Attacks, 9:30, Caprica City Time.

Admiral Robert Nagala was completing his morning shift in CIC, he would stay until four pm. on Atlantia as he had a meeting with Fleet Admiral Richardson and President Adar.

"Anything interesting on the wireless?" Nagala asked to a young ensign which manned the Coms. station.

"Nothing sir, apart from housekeeping nothing important" the young ensign who was barely in his twenties replied.

"Okay, anything interesting comes up, I'll be in my quarters" Nagala replied and left the room.

Merely a moment after leaving CIC, Nagala felt the ship shake violently as three nukes slammed against Atlantia's bow, the explosion threw him and his two marine guards to the ground, he stood up and worked his way to CIC.

"What the frak was that?" Nagala yelled as he entered the CIC to no one in peculiar.

"Sir, according to our readings, three nuclear detonations, we are venting air through decks eight to fifteen, all computers are down except for the NAV and COMS" an Ensign with his face covered with blood replied.

Frak, Nagala thought, "It must be the Cylons, jump us out of here!" he ordered.

"Were to sir?" Lt. Johnson who was manning the DRADIS screen asked.

"Virgon" Nagala ordered, seconds later he felt the space around him fold and unfold as the ship jumped away from danger.


"¡Sitrep!" Nagala said looking at Cpt. Stevens mere seconds after the jump.

"Reported casualties are over four hundred sir" Cpt. Stevens said after taking off his headset.

"Sir, we just received a message from Picon Fleet HQ, it is in the clear" Lt. Johnson replied and handled the paper over to Nagala, before Nagala could start to read it, a blonde haired Ensign rose up from her station, took out her sidearm and shot Lt. Jonhson between the eyes as Nagala dived to the floor to avoid the bullet initially headed to him.

"Long live the Cylon!" the woman said as Marines subdued her.

"I want you to take that bitch and gag her to the ground on the brig" Nagala ordered to the Marine sergeant.

Seconds later, the Marines nearly kicked the Six out of CIC towards the brig, after the situation was under control; Nagala picked up the paper with the message and read it.

"TO ALL COLONIAL UNITS, CYLON ATTACK UNDERWAY, NUCLEAR DETONATIONS REPORTED IN CANCERON, PICON, AQUARIA AND CAPRICA, NO DRILL" Nagala read to his horror.

A thin tear left Nagala's cheek as he thought of his thirteen year-old son Dwight and his wife Sophia who were visiting one of Aquaria's underwater cities, they were probably dead now.

"I want you to ask for our combat assignment" Nagala ordered to the Lt. who was manning the COMS station after Cpt. Johnson died moments earlier, the young officer soon started typing the response.

"Sir, Weapons, Engines and COMS computers are back online" Mayor Stevenson said after resetting the computers which controlled the ship.

"Sir ¡DRADIS contacts!" Cpt. Stevens suddenly interrupted.

"How many and where?" Nagala asked.

"Sir, the Battlestar Group One, Eight and Four just jumped in bearing four eight karom two one two" Stevens said with a smile on his face.

"I want you to order them to form up on our flanks, broadcast orders for all Colonial Units to regroup here for a counterattack" Nagala ordered to the young Captain.

"Aye sir"

"¡DRADIS Contacts!, Forty two Basestars bearing six two one karom four eight six!" a young Petty Officer said to his horror as the DRADIS screen became full of red.

"Frak, launch All Squadrons, release of nuclear weapons is authorized!" Nagala ordered.

Seconds later, over a hundred nuclear missiles left the Battlestars and started moving towards the Basestars, only forty made it though and took out nearly three fourths of the Cylon force, the Cylons had deactivated their point defense because they were not expecting any resistance, however, Atlantia wasn't equipped with the CNP program, so she wasn't vulnerable to Cylon hacking efforts.

"Sir, we hit all but ten of them" the Petty Officer said with a smile on his face.

"¡FRAK!" Nagala exclaimed as he saw the DRADIS screen become full of red icons marked as "ENEMY BASESTAR".

"Reading two hundred plus Basestars, they are launching nukes, over six hundred of them!" Maj. Stevenson said with horror in his face.

"Sir, Athena just bought it!" Specialist Rihan exclaimed from her station.

"Order all remaining ships to jump away, just get us out of here!" Nagala ordered desperately.

"FTL Ready, jumping!" Maj. Stevenson said as he imputed a random set of coordinates and fourteen Battlestars jumped as one leaving the now covered of debris orbit of Virgon.


"Gods" that was the only word Adama could say after hearing Nagala explain what happened.

"Yeah, we lost eighty thousand souls in that battle" Nagala said with a sad tone on his voice.

"There is something we need to talk about Robert" Adama said addressing the Admiral by his name.

"Okay, go ahead" Nagala answered.

"Cain, what are we going to do about her?, word is she murdered civvies and shot her own X.O" Adama said.

"We will keep an eye on her, if anything consistent comes up, we will demote her to Commander" Nagala responded, he knew Cain had been an important member of the Admiralty before the attacks.

Suddenly the phone on Nagala's ready room beeped twice.

"Nagala…Yes….Okay….I'll talk to him…" Nagala said after taking to an ensign through the phone.

"There is a woman called Carolaine, she claims to be your wife" Nagala said to a shocked Adama.

"Frak" was all Adama could say.