Chapter 8
8 Days after the Fall
Baker Alpha Baker
"Admiral Sherman," Commander Hennessy stated, knocking on his door.
"Enter," Sherman replied.
"Sir, all ships in the fleet report that all necessary repairs are completed. They also reported that there are severe cases of radiation poisoning. They have no clue what is causing it. They have sent all cases to the medical bay aboard our ship. Once aboard, we ran scans on all of them and drew blood for testing. The result came out minutes ago," Hennessy stated, handing Admiral Sherman the report.
"By god, there are seven strands of identical DNA in 320 patients. Let me see the photos," Sherman ordered.
Handing him the photos, Hennessy stated, "I noticed that as well. I have reason to believe that they may be Cylon agents as only Cylons would suffer radiation poisoning in this nebula."
"Quarantine them and post marine guards at the entrance to the quarantined area. Place one of each in a separate cell. I want to question them one at a time," Sherman ordered.
"Yes Sir" Hennessy responded and left.
Reaching the Con line, "CIC, get me a direct line to Admiral Nagala."
"Nagala, here" Nagala replied.
"Its Richard, we have quarantined the agents we predicted we may receive. Want to question them?" Sherman asked.
"Yes, I will meet you in 30 minutes," Nagala answered.
30 minutes Later, Nagala arrived at the brig. "Good Afternoon, Nagala," Richard stated.
"Yes, good afternoon, Richard. Let us get this investigation started," Nagala replied, entering the cell. "Hello, may I know who you are?"
"My name is Andrew Nixon." He replied.
"I know that is a fake. What is your real name?" Nagala asked again.
"What are you talking about, my name is Andrew Nixon. I come from Picon. Why are you asking me this?" he questioned.
"I ask because you have at least 30 clones of yourself and we have all seven identical strains of DNA in a total of 320 people. So once again, who are you?" Nagala ordered.
"Hmm. It is probably this so-called radiation that is causing us to deteriorate. So we have been found out. Not that you can be able to do anything about us. My name, hmmm, is Joseph. There's no reason to give you anything else," Joseph replied.
"Well Joseph, I want to know why you decided to try and annihilate the twelve colonies" Sherman asked.
"Well, you were an eyesore with all you corrupt ways. It was god's plan to wipe you out and start anew. All we did was implementing it," Joseph stated, haughtily.
"So you didn't have any other plan?" Nagala asked.
"Nope, just to destroy you and take over," He replied.
"Great, we can just toss you out the airlock. Guard, toss him out airlock 2," Sherman ordered.
As Joseph was going out the door, he began cracking up in laughter. "'Beware of the future as Cylons will rule. Hahahahahahahaha…."
"What a crackpot. Let us examine the rest and if they are like him, we can toss them out the airlock as well," Nagala stated.
Many of the same faced characters that they examined were pretty much saying the same things. One by one, they were thrown out the airlock until there was no one left of the Joseph line. They went to the next one who called himself Aaron and he was much the same, only wanting to experiment on others. His line was also tossed one by one until there was no one else. A third line just didn't say anything and didn't react to torture. It was like they were mute. His face was recognized by a soldier from the Caprica battles as the historian in charge of turning the Galactica into a museum. He too was tossed one by one. The next line was a female line.
"What is your name?"
"DeAna."
"Are you a Cylon?"
"Yes."
"Why did you attack the colonies?"
"We wanted to fufill God's plan. You are an inferior species."
"If you weren't successful with the attack, what was the plan?"
"We would continue to hunt you down and attack until you were no more."
"What makes us inferior?"
"You are genetically inferior and you have an inferior attitude. You are a corrupt society that needs to be purged. God has made us perfect and wants us to clear the worlds' for god's new people."
"So you intend to continue to destroy us?"
"Yes."
"Throw her out the airlock."
One by one, her line was thrown out after questioning. The next group was another line of men who kept spewing out nonsense. He kept saying that our gods were stupid and that he was a prophet towards the gods. He also gave misleading information. He too was tossed out the airlock. The next line was another female line.
"What is your name?"
"I don't have a name. We are sixes."
"Why is your name six?
"We are the sixth line to be created."
"Why did you attack the colonies?"
"We were following god's plan," she said with hesitation.
"Did you agree with it?"
"Yes with protest because we needed to have a democratic vote."
"Why did you not stop the attack if you protested it?"
"It was not my place. However, we knew you were building new vessels but turned a blind eye to them. That is why our current ships had little defense against them."
"Why did you help us?"
"We, my line, thought that some of humanity was worth saving. We understood that everyone was different and that society needed to change one step at a time."
"What did you do to help the attack?"
"We were information seekers. We sometimes seduced people to get the necessary information we needed. However, one of the things we kept secret was the place that cadets went to for training. None of the other Cylons ever knew of the new requirement when cadets were training. Another was the issues with the new ships."
"If we spared you, would you help us to protect the people?"
"What do you mean?"
"We would be able you around with us so that you can live a peaceful life. In exchange, we would like you to help us develop firewalls that would prevent any Cylon virus from entering our computers. You could also be able to plan devices under the supervision of our chief of R&D. Other place that you could help would be in the Library, under supervision of course, where you would have unlimited access to the available books and entertainment. Other types of arrangement could also be made."
"That seems okay but I would have to ask the others in my line. We didn't want the atrocities to happen but we used a democratic process that in turn led us to attack."
"Guards, take her back to her bed and make sure they have guards posted. Next bring in one from the last line."
She turned out to have the same conclusion as the six. She decided that she would ask her line if they wanted the same thing.
Of all the questioned Cylons, only 60 of the original 320 were made up of the two lines that had potential. They all also decided that they wanted to help and as part of their amnesty, they would receive a one unit apartment near a military complex. This complex would be guarded by Marines at the front desk and have only one entrance to the building. They would be able to go to the library next door or would be escorted to the R&D department when they would help either with designing new firewalls or other items. They would also be allowed to enter shopping markets with an escort as well as other non-restricted areas. Eventually, they will be able to go without escorts once they have been found trustworthy.
After the interrogations were complete, Admiral Sherman received a full report on the cataloging process which at this point in time was 96% complete and should be 100% complete in 5 hours. Current census had current count of 54,320,254 citizens comprised of 20,342,287 men, 22,431,276 women, and 11,546,691 children. They have a wide variety of background skills and have been able to choose between one of the planets or staying on a colony ship. Many of the skilled workers were asked if they would like to help with the construction or the other tasks that were necessary to the workforce. This included teaching, retail, professionals, and many others. Those that did not have much in an education could either return to education via college or technical learning, or were paid to help in the food industry. Given the numbers of people wanting to work, we could expand the number of shifts on many of the projects that we are currently working on as well as start new projects with a quicker time table. About 1 million construction workers and their families were being sent to Omega on four colony & 2 agro colony ships within the hour to help. BSG 111 would be going with them for protection.
The next report was the finalized details on all Prometheus, Zeus, and Apollo class damaged vessels. Most of them had temporary docked into an infinity shipyard for repairs. Some only needed a day while others need three. To make room, they decided to move uncompleted Zeus class ships and towed them into a parked zone for the duration of the repairs. They would be moved back into their docks within the hour.
The last report was from R&D regarding the new design of a domed transport. It would comprise of a circular ring with inner docking ports. The diameter of the ring would allow for seven domed cities to be docked one next to each other. On the ring itself, there would be 40 retractable landing pads that would allow 2 squadrons of the excelsior class to be based for protection of the cities. There would also be 600 defense lasers as well as two flight bays installed below and above the engines. The engine block would have 8 sub-light engines as well as 2 jump engines and 1 warp engine. Each flight bay would be able to hold 5 squadrons of vipers. There would also be two auxiliary docking ports on either side of the transport for Prometheus, Apollo, or Zeus class vessels to link up. The transport itself would be protected by numerous layers of shields. One of the good things about it is that they would be a significant military presence on any of these transports as it takes a good 300 personnel in each Excelsior ship. Just military personnel would number almost 15,000. This transport would also be one of the first new projects to start especially since I now have the personnel. I hope to have the first one built in the next three months.
Sherman also mused about where to put the Cylons defectors. I should probably put them in temporary housing for now before transferring them to one of the domed cities reserved for military personnel and families on one of those new transports I want built. This way, we can keep an eye on them without being to suspicious since most of the people at the location will be military. It would be good as well as I want to get R&D transferred onto one of these cities as well.
Let us build towards a new future.
