While they waited for one of the battlestars to arrive Slammer flew over the drifting battlestar in an attempt to identify it. "Slammer I am getting a lot of life signs and I do mean a lot."
Lieutenant Johan said. Slammer turned to him "how many and can you tell if the ships weapons are active I don't want to get blown out of the sky here you know." Lieutenant Johan smirked
"from what the scans are telling me the battlestar is adrift and it looks like it has taken a beating I am reading multiple hull breaches although they appear to be under repair I don't think they know we are here" Just as he said that the Battlestar Intrepid arrived.
The com crackled to life "raptor 024 report in" the voice of Commodore Makay said. Slammer immediately responded on the com "This is Raptor 024 we have scanned the vessel and are transmitting the most recent scans taken as of 1 minute ago."
with a nod Johan Transmitted the information to the Intrepid. By now the space around them was filling up with Vipers and Raptors. Lieutenant Morvin spoke up "commodore from the scans that the raptor has taken coupled with what we have scanned I report that the battlestar is adrift with all of her weapons save 2 or 3 have been taken out both of her launch bays have been severely damaged.
And life sign readings are over 8527 we are continuing to scan the vessel." Commodore Makay turned to Lieutenant Morvin. "have you identified the Battlestar yet?" He asked Lieutenant Morvin glanced at the screen then looked back at him.
"yes the vessel has been identified as that of the Battlestar Prilith." Commodore Makay grimaced then turned to the com. "Hail them on Fleet Com Beta Ensign. Ensign Brant nodded then opened the com frequency to the other Battleship.
"This is Commodore Stephen Makay of the Battlestar Intrepid to the Battlestar Prilith please respond." After several moments the com crackled to life. "Commodore Makay this is Captain Todd Brant of the Battlestar Prilith please send the identification signal or I will open fire with what weapons I have left."
Meanwhile over at his station Ensign Brant had paled and looked ready to faint. The XO seeing this hurried over and steadied him. Commodore Makay typed in the recognition code into the com and transmitted it. He then Looked at Ensign Brant. "who is he to you ensign?" Makay asked.
"He is my big brother sir I thought he was dead" After a few minutes Captain Brant responded with the second code and then asked for help as his ship was disabled and without power. After a few minutes of discussion the Vipers and Raptors were recalled and then Makay looked at ensign Brant.
"ask your brother something only you two would know I will say that you are here then you ask the question" Makay whispered. Once he was done he turned back to the com "Captain Brant I have someone who wishes to talk to you"
A moment later Captain Brant responded. "Who wishes to speak to me Commodore?" Then Ensign Brant spoke up. "Hey big Brother its me Twerpo." that was followed by a momentary silence then Captain Brant Spoke. "Cail is that you little brother?" there was a tremor in Captain Brant's voice when he asked.
"yea hey remember back when we were kids on Caprica that girl we peeked on?" he asked. As Ensign Brant was speaking Makay nodded at the weapons officer to watch Ensign Brant closely. She had been briefed that if Ensign Brant shook his head she was to fire but if he nodded she was to power down all weapons.
A moment later Ensign Brant got the response he wanted. "that girl was Melinda Thaeron and my wife Twerpo." A big grin crossed Ensign Brant's face and he nodded vigorously at the weapons officer who then powered down all weapons.
Once that was done Commodore Makay ordered the Hyperlite Tug Rosario to the area to help get the Battlestar Prilith to the fleet and eventually to the Crats. When the news of the discovery of the Battlestar Prilith reached the fleet the rejoicing was just as wild as when the small fleet of civilian ships had been discovered on the planet a few months back.
When the Rosario had arrived it it found a scene of organized chaos as raptors from the Intrepid flew to and from the Prilith. Food and supplies were going over to the Prilith while refugees that had crowded onboard the Prilith were transferred to the intrepid to help lighten the strain on the wearied Battlestar.
After it arrived it immediately hooked up all the lines and cables to the Battlestar and then after all the raptors and fighters were back onboard the two battlestars the two ships jumped back to the fleet.
Ensign Brant had been given permission to go over to the Prilith to meet with his brother and Sister in law.
Apparently on the day of the attack the families of the crew of the Prilith had all come onboard for a day of relaxation. Ensign Brant got to meet his little Nephew and 2 Nieces whom he had never gotten the chance to meet.
After the two Battlestars Arrived Shuttles started to transfer the Civilian and wounded to the fleet and what ships had room for them. When Ensign Brant returned to the Intrepid he was congratulated by his friends for having found some of his family.
Once the Prilith was down to a skeleton crew the Prilith was then towed into the Crats Secondary Repair bay as the first was currently occupied with a freighter whose engines had broken down a few days earlier.
The crew of the Prilith were given leave and sent to the Carnival ship for 2 week R&R sessions. That and they could spend time with their families instead of just trying to survive.
Of course unknown to them while they were on R&R each of the crew and civilian personnel from the Prilith was being matched up against the list of known Cylon Replicator agents and if they were a Cylon Replicator Agent they were quietly taken aside and arrested.
When the complete report on the damages and how long it would take to fully repair the Prilith was put together it was then taken by hand to the Battlestar Intrepid and then directly to the Second in Command of the fleet who then took it to Commodore Makay.
When Captain Pyrite arrived outside the Commodores office he paused for a second then knocked on the door. "come in" the Commodore answered. When Captain Pyrite walked into the room he saw that the temporary leader of the Civilian government and every senior captain from around the fleet including Captain Brant was assembled.
"I have the Crats report on the Prilith here commodore." he announced. "give it here and lets see what the report says" Commodore Makay said. After Captain Pyrite gave the report to the commodore he sat down on one of the last empty chairs in the room.
"it says here that only 2 PDT turrets (Point Defense Turrets) 3 of the Turbo Laser cannons and 1 Nuke launcher are operational and the rest have either been destroyed or need repairs. The estimated repair time for those is 3 months."
he looked at captain Brant "we did the best with what we had sir we were constantly on the run and looking for food and supplies from what ever planet we came across."
Captain Brant explained. "the report also says that only the 1st launch bay is operational and the second was damaged severely a few weeks ago due to a cylon attack. The repair estimate for the launch bays is 2 months with an additional month for excess repairs so thats 3 months total for them.
The armor on the hull is almost completely gone and the estimated time to replace and repair the armor is 1 month."
Commodore Makay then looked at Captain of the Crats I want your men Working on the Crats day and night. I give you authorization to strip the fleet of workers and engineers to help you get the Prilith back into working order."
The Captain of the Crats nodded and made a note on his padd. Commodore Makay then turned his attention back to the report.
The repairs inside the Prilith are pretty good so it will take 3 weeks to fully repair most of the minor damages inside the Prilith as well as a full month for the major damaged sections.
The total Raptor and Viper count is 7 Vipers and 2 Raptors so I will have the extra Vipers taken from the freighters and transferred to the Prilith when it comes time for the ship to depart from the Crats."
he then looked at Captain Pyrite. Send a memo to the captain of the training ship that he is to rush the current class of military graduates through training I want them ready to take up station on the Battlestar Prilith when it is ready for them
I also want you to send a memo to the Olympus that they are to select a few veterans to transfer to the Prilith as well as those on the Intrepid. I want a solid core of Viper Pilots ready to go when the Prilith is out and ready for them."
Captain Pyrite and the Captain of the Crats both nodded. "so the estimated total repair time for the Prilith is 9 months.
Swell have the crew of Raptor 024 report to me immediately dismissed." with that the military occupants of the room saluted and left followed by the Civilian captains all headed back to their own ships.