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Battlestar Galactica: A Lucky Miracle
Volume 1 of Wayward Family
A Battlestar Galactica and Macross Crossover Story
Written by,
William R. Woods
"Deathzealot"
Chapter BGM is All Along the Watchtower from the Battlestar Galactica Soundtrack
Part 08: All Quiet along the Homefront
During that small intermission after we destroyed the Cylon Resurrection Ship, we managed to get back onto our feet and with the help of the recovered Factory Ship Hephaestus start rebuilding our Fleet. This would have been a large mistake for the Cylons due to them letting us get back onto our feet with this small length time of uninterrupted peace. Eventually the Cylon Fleet would catch up to us but by then we could easily defend us ourselves against our enemies.
- Taken from Journal Entry of Admiral William Adama
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CIC
Battlestar Galactica
Beta Antini System
Bolo Sector
Day 162
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In the CIC of the large and immense warship known as the Battlestar Galactica its commander Admiral William Adama stood looking over the chamber as his crew went about their work as the day began early evening. While they where staying pretty stationary in a single place the crew continued to work as there were numerous fighters on patrol around the stationary fleet along with a few patrols in the nearby systems jumping back to the Fleet to report on their progress. Not mention the numerous repair operations going around the fleet with the two Flattops Class Repair ships of the fleet hard at work along with several military repair crews from the two Battlestars along the fleet. The Admiral was quite proud of his people, even the newer personal that transferred on board, as he watched them work. He was interrupted by his XO Colonel Saul Tigh who walked to his commander with reports in hand.
"Admiral I have the reports from the Mining Ships and their patrols of the nearby systems," the man reported standing next to his commander at the plotting table in the center of the CIC. He mentioned the various patrols looking through the nearby systems for further resources after the little resources in this system had been already mined. The Admiral turned his attention away from the crew and looked towards the man with a curious look on his face.
"Oh and what have they found Saul?" he asked hoping they did managed to find some resources to help in the repairs of the various ships in the fleet. Colonel Tigh looked down at the reports in his hands before shuffling through them before picking up one of them and reading it.
"Well here is an interesting one from Raptor 906 off the Monarch they managed to find a large nebula a few lightyears away that covers a few systems but hasn't investigated inside it as of yet. Another from Raptor 805 off the Refinery Ship Hitei Kan reports that System Alpha Ceti has a rich asteroid field that has plenty of resources but no Tylium as of yet. Then we have one from Raptor 819 off the Daru Mazu that says basically the same thing about System Epsilon Krau," he reports looking through the various reports noting that having Raptors on some of the ships had been a good idea. This is thanks to the Electronic Ship Striker being converted to construct Raptors for the Fleet earlier after the destruction of the Cylon Resurrection Ship and its support fleet. Therefore now the Fleets Three Mining Ships, two Tylium Refinery Ships, and two mineral refinery ships sported their own Raptors. The mining ships were able to squeeze two Raptors into its tiny shuttle hanger while each of the refinery ships could have two Raptors clamped down on the hull of each ship. Even then these reports made the Admiral frown for while finding some resources was a good thing, that they couldn't find any Tylium nearby was another matter.
"Very well have the Refinery Ships expand their search slightly for we will need Tylium eventually and it would good to stock up now. Since the Cylons have pretty much left us alone," the Admiral ordered making the Colonel blink in surprise at this before he started to shift slightly.
"What about protection for the patrols then Admiral. The Watcher can't handle an expanded search like without leaving a ship or two exposed," the Colonel mentioned with a frown eying his friend who only grunted before turning to look at him once more. The Watcher, the Fleet's sole Charger Class Sloop had been assigned to watch over the mining operations. An expanded search would be too much for the small ship.
"I shall send off the Pegasus to cover them then. We have to find a source for Tylium somewhere," the Admiral mentioned with a nod of his head. Since the Galactica was still undergoing some slight repairs it was logical for the larger and more powerful Battlestar to be sent on something like that.
"Understood sir," Colonel Tigh mentioned with a salute before walking off to relay the Admiral's orders. The Admiral himself took a looked at the time before sighing and starting to leave the CIC he had a meeting to attend.
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War Room
Battlestar Galactica
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In the War Room of the Battlestar Galactica the fleet's senior officers gathered to report their progress on various projects to the Admiral. The War Room sometimes doubled as a situation room but since the Galactica became the Flagship of the Fleet it had undergone a through refit to turn into a combined meeting room and flag-deck for the Admiral though the Admiral still often stays in the CIC during battle. With the Altair on its mission taking a few other officers with them there was less officers in the room to report to the Admiral on the projects. Once the last officer slipped into the room Admiral Adama nodded to the Marine guard at the door who closed the hatch.
"Alright everyone so far repair operations across the Fleet are coming along nicely and once we have that Factory Ship in our possession the rest of the repairs could be finished once we manage to convert the ship for our use. Even then I would like Commander Kronus report on the Academy and Colonel Tolan's report on Marine Training," the Admiral ordered looking around at the various officers gathered in the room. Colonel John Tolan was one of the Fleet's senior Marines only Brigadier Nathan Hayes was senior and was commander of the Marine Barracks Ship Tora Bashiri which currently was the home of a reinforced company of Marines. Tolan was the man in charge of training new Marines in the starboard pod of Galactica which had temporary been assigned as the training ground of the Marines.
"Well Admiral the refit of the Astradon is just about finished and should be done by the end of the day. We already have the first classes ready to be trained and shall start in the next few days," the elderly commander of the new Mobile Academy. One of the officers along the group looked over at him with a frown.
"Commander I thought you had already started training personal?" the officer asked making the other officers blink at this. Commander Kronus shook his head at this before turning to address the man.
"Not fleet personal we have been training pilots since we received the Viper-Ts and the Flight Simulators from the Pegasus along with new Raptor pilots for the new craft build by the Striker," he mentioned making the other officers nod at this in understanding. That done the group turned their attention to the Marine officer who was looking through his notes before looking up at the group of officers.
"So far we have a class about eighty or so volunteers and they are on their third day of training. I believe we can start pruning this class down to about thirty before the week is out. We also have recently started another class of twenty-five volunteers onboard the Tora Bashiri which shall give us plenty of Marines to replace some our losses," the Marine reported making more then a few of the Fleet officers blink in surprise that the marines were willing to go through with a training program that would cut more then half of their volunteers by the end of the program. However the few officers who understood the reasoning behind this only nodded for you couldn't make a Colonial Marine out of anybody after all.
"Thank you for your reports Commander Kronus and Colonel Tolan. Now with this new Factory Ship in our hands, myself and Secretary Cain along with a few notable others including the President herself have started coming up with plans on how we are going to use it. Well first we are going to see about getting this old girl back in full-service with both Flight Pods up and running along with getting her armored up with new armor. Next we are going to see about finishing the repairs on the Pegasus. Then we shall see about producing some sort of colony ship design so we move the civilians onto purpose-built ships instead of being squished into ships not designed to hold so many people for so long," the Admiral mentioned looking down at his notes before looking over at his officers.
"We are also planning on several other uses like using the ship's factory lines to start production of needed equipment for the civilians and the military. We could also build more defensive ships for the fleet later on once the civilians are settled down onto the new colony ships," the Admiral continued on before taking off his glasses and looking around at the officers once more seeing many of them nodding in agreement while a few others where frowning at this.
"Is there any questions, or suggestions?" the Admiral asked with a frown of his own as he eyed the few officers that looked unhappy with these decisions and plans for some reason or another. One of these officers stood forward and looked over at the Admiral.
"Yes sir. I would like to know how we are going to use the ship to repair the Battlestars, for if I remember right they won't fit into the two internal docks on the ship?" the man asked with a confused look on his face. The Admiral only nodded before shuffling through his notes and brought out a report.
"According to the report from Lieutenant McCall it looks like the Factory Ship sports a large external scaffold that be extended from the bottom of the ship. We don't know if it can fit either of the Battlestars but we are going to try," the Admiral mentioned with a nod of his head to the officer before tapping on the report he placed on the table in front of him. The officer blinked at this before nodding at the Admiral.
"Very well sir I don't remember that in the Lieutenant's earlier report. Thank you sir," the man mentioned before taking his place along the other officers.
"Anyone else along you have any questions or suggestions?" the Admiral mentioned with a look over at the officers to see some of the officers who had been confused or unhappy about the plans had been cut back to a handful.
"Yes Admiral I may have a suggestion," one of the officers mentioning leaning forward a bit. This was Captain Scott Lang one of Major Carter's engineers that had been left behind due to him overseeing a few of the repair operations along the fleet.
"Very well Captain, go ahead," Adama instructed looking over at the engineer who brought out a small memory disk and placing onto the main planning table.
"First I need to ask. Are there any plans for the Factory Ship's docks during the repair operations on the Battlestars? By that I mean are we immediately going to be building colony ships right off the bat or are we going to wait till after the repairs are done to the Battlestars?" the engineer asked with an amused look on his face. The Admiral looked at the engineer confused wondering where he was going with this.
"Well first we are going to finish refitting those two warships in the docks before we do anything else with the docks at all. However after that, no we don't have any plans for the use the docks. Any particular reason you asked that Captain?" the Admiral responded with a curious look wondering what that man had in mind. The engineer only chuckled before tapping the data disk he placed onto the table earlier with a finger.
"Basically sir after the original meeting about the Factory Ship I went snooping through some of the databases we have for any ship schematics that we could upload to the Factory Ship so we could build our own ships. After I talked with your Chief of the Deck about my search he suggested I go looking through the main computer of the Galactica since he knew that there are a few schematics there when it had been suggested after the First Cylon War to refit the Old Girl into a Mucliber Class Mobile Dock. I then found something very interesting," the engineer reported pausing briefly with a smile as he picked up the data disk once more. The officers around him looked interested in what he had found while the Admiral blinked in surprise at this but nodded knowing that it was true for Chief Tyrol had told him that after the discussion of transforming the starboard pod of the Galactica into its own dock.
"I basically found the schematics for the Flattop Class Repair and Salvage Ships along the data. I looked it over and I believe I can improve the original design slightly making our Flattops a bit better," the man continued before putting the disk back down onto the table with a large grin. The Admiral nodded at this for it would be good to make their Flattops better, not to mention they would be sure worn after being used for so long to repair the various ships of the Fleet along with a few major projects. Therefore it would be good to have those schematics to help repair those ships in the future.
"That is very interesting, but do you have anything else to add Captain?" the Admiral asked wondering if that was it or if the man had something else up his sleeve. He wasn't disappointed as the engineer nodded with that same large smile on his face.
"Yes Admiral. I propose that we build a few more Flattops to add to the existing two so it would be easier to keep the fleet in good repair in the future," the Captain replied making the other officers nod in understanding for it made sense. If the Fleet had a few more Flattops it would be far easier to keep the ships of the Fleet in good condition. Admiral Adama only nodded for it did make sense to him as well.
"Very well Captain I shall bring the topic up to Secretary Cain and the President the next time I meet with them. That said any other suggestions or questions about this plan before we continue this meeting?" the Admiral asked as Captain Lang took his place along the other officers. However to Adama's surprise no one else spoke up from along the various officers.
"Alright now I would like to go over the CAP rotations," the Admiral mentioned as the meeting continued onto other topics. However the excitement over the Factory Ship was over and the meeting went on without any other mention of the ship.
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Office of the President
Colonial One
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Elsewhere along the Fleet another meeting was going on, this time between the President and her closest advisors in the President's officer onboard the Colonial One. Along the advisors were the new Vice President Martina Balin, newly re-titled Secretary of Fleet Defense Helena Cain, the newly chosen Secretary of Education Donald Hoyt, Secretary of Fleet Commerce Wallace Gray, and several other minor advisors including Billy Keikeya the President's chief aide. The combination of these advisors and such made up the President's new Cabinet which had only recently put together after being delayed for a while.
"As you all know the Quorum has decided that it is time for an election due to myself having served the rest of President Adar's term, thankfully though my approval rating along the fleet is very high due to the combination of the arrival of the Pegasus Fleet along with its civilians, the announcement of the discovery of the Factory Ship, and the recent lull in Cylon Attacks. This shall hopefully allow me to be easily reelected," the President mentioned starting off the second part of the meeting. The others could only nod in agreement with their president. One of the advisors the elderly Secretary of Education Donald Hoyt turned to the young Press Secretary Tory Foster.
"Ms. Foster do you know who the other candidates are going to be?" the man asked with a frown making the others nod in agreement with the older man. The young Tory blinked at this before looking through her notes briefly before looking back up at the group.
"Yes sir apparently it will be Doctor Baltar, and Jacob Cantrell of Sagittaron," the young Press Secretary reported making a few of the gathered Cabinet nod in understanding while others blinked in shock. Secretary Hoyt himself frowned at this before looking over at the President.
"We can easily overcome Baltar, especially since he hasn't been very popular lately along the population. However I don't know about Cantrell, for I don't even know who that is," the man mentioned making the President nod in understanding before she looked over to her Aide and Chief of Staff Billy Keikeya.
"Billy what do we know about Cantrell? For Donald is quite right I don't even know who that is?" the president asked with a frown making the others in the Cabinet buzz in agreement with their president. The young Aide quickly looked through the various notes gathered before him before he found what he was looking for and quickly read through the report he had found before he looked up at his president with a frown.
"Well it looks like he had been part of the Sagittaron's Department of Transportation before the Fall and had been in the running for his Colony's Quorum Seat but got beat by Zarek," the young man reported faithfully making President Roslin nod in understanding at this before turning to look at Hoyt.
"That answers that but I wonder how many votes Cantrell would be able to get if he is that unknown along the population," the President mentioned with a thoughtful look on her face making the elderly Secretary of Education nod in agreement.
"Billy and Tory I would like the two of you to see about answering that question for it maybe important later on. Look through the voting records from the Quorum Elections and the opinion polls on the Fleet News Service," the president instructed the two young aides who could only nod in understanding of their orders. That done the President turned to other matters.
"That said I would like to see the reports from the Resource Commission Wallace?" the President went on as the meeting continued on as the issues of the Presidential Election were for the moment taken care of. As the meeting on life onboard the various ships of the Fleet went on.
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CIC
Battlestar Galactica
Day 163
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Back in the CIC of the Galactica the Admiral had just arrived after finishing a morning meeting with the President before taking the watch from Lieutenant Gaeta who went to get some rest after having the watch during the Admiral's meeting and earlier during the early morning watch. However before the younger man could leave the CIC the officer manning the small Tactical DRADIS Display called out as the display changed to show two new contacts appearing.
"DRADIS Contact! The IFF shows that one contact is Altair along with another unknown contact," the man reported making the gathered CIC crew cheer while the Admiral smiled and nodding to the watch's Communications Officer to get in contact with the Altair. It seemed like things were going to be a bit better now that ship was here. Their Lucky Miracle had arrived back at the fleet and things would start to look up for the refugee fleet.
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Post Chapter Notes:
This chapter happens to be the shortest of the story so far, and that is mostly thanks to my taking out the return of Starbuck's Rescue Mission from this chapter which I am going to delay for another day or two, due to some changes I am making to the mission. I know in canon the mission lasts only just over a day, but I am making some minor changes with it. Therefore the Rescue Mission won't return till after the end of the next chapter or the chapter after that.
Moving on, we get some good information here with a meeting between the senior military officers of the Fleet and a meeting of the civilian leadership. Basically since Adama is now an Admiral in charge of a few military ships including the military-run support ships he meets with a few of the officers about the various ongoing projects going on across the fleet. We also get a look into the new Cabinet for President Roslin since we know that a Cabinet was mentioned in conjunction with President Adar. I thought Roslin should have one as well and therefore I gave her one. Basically only a few names would be familiar but the extra names are names I created from a few characters from the Original Series with the new Vice President being an analog for Siress Tinia, and the new Secretary of Education based on Sire Domra. I also re-titled Cain's title due to the nature of the future plans of the Fleet and decided it would Fleet Defense rather then just plain Defense.
Another bit of info I put into this chapter is that Raptors have started to be operated off other ships of the Fleet. Since the Fleet has started to build new Raptors on the Electronic Ship Striker which is based on the Original Series Celestra, since the Celestra of the new series looks to be a Civilian Research Ship which I don't understand I decided to include a few ships based on the Old Celestra. Basically the two designs are similar and therefore look similar to one another. I decided that since the Fleet is now building new Vipers due to the Factory on the Pegasus that they should also be able to build new Raptors as well. Thanks to this you can expect to see Raptors in civilian service in future chapters and stories.
I have also started to put in a timeframe into the chapter via a day number which is based on the official timeline of the series which is counted by days after the Exodus from the Colonies. I know the day I put in is not the same one from the same timeframe of the series; this is because I don't agree with the timeframe around and before the arrival of the Pegasus to the fleet. So the timeline is bit different from the official one and I fully intend to post my own timeline soon once I work out a few bugs with it.
The chapter ends with the Altair returning to the fleet with the Hephaestus along with it which shall lead into the next chapter were the officers from the Mission are debriefed and later on a recount of the recent History of Earth from Komilia.
That said I believe that is it folks, and now it is time for the Omake which is another missing scene type, basically from slightly before the story starts. Enjoy!
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Omake 08: Enter The Blackbirds
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Day 139
With the Galactica getting several new personal from transfers from the Pegasus as well as some of the military support ships from the Pegasus fleet newly promoted Admiral Adama find himself in his quarters going over personal jackets for the new personal transferring over to his ship. However he was soon distracted at a knock at the hatch to his quarters. The Admiral frowned at this as he looked up at the armored hatch as he look over the tops of his reading glasses.
"Come in," he yelled out to the person on the other end of the hatch wondering why the Marine Guard at the hatch hadn't notified him about someone approaching him. He soon had his answer when the hatch opened and Chief Tyrol entered his quarters as the hatch closed not before the Admiral saw the Marine Guard standing by the hatch.
"What can I do for you Chief?" the Admiral asked the Chief of the Deck wondering why the younger man hadn't called him over the ship's wireless or send a message another way instead of coming to meet with him personal. It was then Adama noticed that the man was nervous and was shaking slightly.
"Sorry to disturb Admiral but I had an idea I wanted to pass by you before I went ahead and do it," the younger man mentioned as he stood in front of the small desk that served the Admiral as his little office. Adama frown up at the other man before putting the personal jacket he had been reading down on the desk as he turned his attention to Tyrol.
"What is this idea Chief? Is it another new fighter or something like that?" the Admiral asked curious what he had in mind.
"Interesting that you mentioned that Admiral for I wanted to know if we could start producing some new Blackbirds thanks to how useful the prototype had been during Pay Back," the Chief replied mentioning Operation Pay Back the operation to take out the Cylon Resurrection Ship as he looked down at the seated figure of his commander who blink in surprise at this before nodding in understanding.
"First let me say I approve of this since you are right the prototype was very useful during the battle, but I need to know how you intend to produce more fighters. Are you going to be constructing them on the deck or elsewhere?" the Admiral asked after a moment of thought looking up at the younger man with a nod of his head. Tyrol sighed in relief at this before placing a folder he had been carrying with him onto the desk.
"Well sir as you know the Electronic Ship Stalker has been restoring and repairing some of our more damaged and old Viper Mark IIs ever since we meet up with the Pegasus Fleet. However they have recently finished the last Viper and are looking for some more work to do and I believe they would be the best to construct new Blackbirds," he reported as he opened the folder and handed the Admiral his proposal in writing.
"Have you discussed this with the Captain of the Stalker?" Adama asked as he finished reading the proposal.
"Yes sir I talked with the Captain along his top techs when I went over to inspect the latest Vipers they had finished. They are quite excited about the project sir," Tyrol replied with a small smile on his face making the Admiral nod as he leaned back in his chair before he looked up at the Chief.
"Very well permission is given then Chief. I would for one would love to have some Blackbirds along our fighter compliments, but make sure you have those techs come up with a better weapon system for the fighter since I don't want anymore of my fighters blowing up from a faulty weapon system," the Admiral replied mentioning the incident where the Blackbird had been taken out after the battle to test out some improvements to the fighter and was destroyed thanks to the new missile launcher added to the design. The problem had quickly been found after the incident and basically the problem was how quick the team had placed the missile launcher onto the fighter. Tyrol flinched at the reminder but nodded before taking the folder back and tucking into one of his pockets of his jump suit.
"Then with your permission Admiral I shall get the Stalker started on the construction of the first new Blackbirds?" the Chief asked turning back to look at the Admiral who stood up from his chair and laid his glasses down onto the desk.
"Permission is given Chief," he replied with a salute which the other man returned before turning and knocking on the hatch which was soon opened. The Chief soon exited the room while the Admiral shook his head with a small smile his face before he went back to the personal jackets.
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Well basically this Omake is long time in coming and I thought of it after I re-watched that episode where the Blackbird was being constructed. I wondered why no more Blackbirds where constructed especially since they soon got access to the Viper Factory on the Pegasus granted it was only for building Vipers but it could be slightly modified to produce a few Blackbirds.
However in my version I changed it slightly and had a second Electronic Ship start building new Blackbirds. Basically like the original prototype the crew on the Stalker will have to build the fighter by hand though they would most likely build more then one at a time. That said you can expect to see Blackbirds being used by the Fleet in the near-future along with them mentioned in the background a few times. Also the Fleet will only have a small number of Blackbirds since they are stealth craft after all. I may write out another Omake about the introduction of the new Blackbirds later on.
That said I shall leave you all and start getting ready for my Camp NaNoWriMo Story which shall be started very soon. I would like to mention that when I have time during these next few weeks I will see about working on the next chapter so you don't have to wait an entire month for the next chapter. /chuckles/
