EPISODE 10
ENTERPRISE VS ATLANTIA
BATTLESTAR ENTERPRISE BS65A
DEEP SPACE
In deep space, the Battlestar Enterprise continued its course through the stars, great distances between stars and the huge size of the ship disguised her true speed.
It had been several days since they had found the remains of civilian ships that were destroyed by colonial military aircraft, there were no survivors, and only corpses could be found in the wreckage of twisted metal and charred.
According to the autopsy most people died from decompression to the vacuum of space, they had a quick death as their lungs exploded by explosive decompression.
A few were killed by explosions or by fragments fired from the walls of the buildings to explode.
The crew of the Enterprise had to work fast to avoid detection by the Colonial Fleet around the system.
In the following days they monitored the communications in the Colonial, but attacks continued in the following days military aircraft had no mercy against civilian ships, the first attack ceased to be an isolated event.
At the Bridge, Woods was having a cup of coffee, the communication was following very carefully, because the situation of the colonies was very disturbing, but given a chance, and that could put people on their side.
Cross entered the bridge and then she asked:
"That news of a new attack?"
Woods took a sip of his coffee, and then said:
"No, nothing yet"
"And what will you do when a new attack? Intervene, we can not get into the middle, you remember what happened the last time we made a mistake"
Woods nodded and then said.
"I know, but this is a great opportunity to put people on our side"
"I know, but we must be cautious because it could be another trap"
Woods nodded, Cross was right about it, because they could not have the luxury of falling into another trap, he could not afford to make another mistake that would jeopardize the lives of his crew.
Suddenly the officer on the communication console interrupted his conversation, he looked at Woods Cross and then he said:
"Sir, we're getting another transmission for help, then another attack in progress"
Woods Cross exchanged a look, it was time to act or not.
Cross asked.
"Now what you going to do now?"
Woods looked at the official communication console and then asked:
"What is the position of the transmission?"
"In the Planet Aerilon"
Woods gave a sigh, I really did not like the idea of doing nothing, but if this was a trap they were going to fall right in it.
Woods Cross looked at with a serious look, she asked:
"What you going to do, we will try to save them or not?"
Woods under his shoulders, he could not sit still without doing anything if the military were attacking civilians, they had to move.
Woods Cross ordered:
"Everyone to their battle stations," he paused and then said. " Rear Admiral I want a FTL jump immediately to Aerilon"
"Yes, sir," said Cross.
The crew began to get moving, they really did not know what awaited them on the other side, but they needed to be ready when the time came.
With it the Battlestar Enterprise crossed the dark, cold space, and then disappears in a flash of light.
PLANET AERILON
DELTA SYSTEM
Aerilon planets was one of the poorest of the Twelve Colonies, together with Geminon and Sagittaron was one of the poorest, but despite this, Aerilon had plenty of fertile land that was used for large areas of plantations throughout the world and cities, the planet was known in the as the food source of the Twelve Colonies and their inhabitants were classified as nothing more illiterate farmers.
Although that was not completely true, most Aerilon resources were devoted to agriculture, the provincial government on the planet spent little budget to social assistance and education, although unlike Sagittaron and Geminon, Aerilon was quite secular, residents were non-dogmatic respect for religion.
The planet was in the second orbiting Helios, sharing the orbit with a gas giant called Hestia, and other Cologne, called Canceron, thanks to their positions in the orbit causing great gravitational forces that caused the asteroid belt Aeolus had three rings.
Some twenty thousand miles of the planet, there was a flash of light and then the Enterprise came into the abyss of space while the ship propelled headed Aerilon.
At the Bridge, Woods looked at the planet in the distance through the windshield; he looked at the radar console and then ask.
"Radar, what's our status?"
The officer looked at the console and then Woods said:
"As yet there is nothing sir" but as soon as he said these words, I look at the screen and on the edge of the radar screen appeared five points.
"Excuse me, Admiral," the official said. "On the radar are five signals, four of which correspond to civil aircraft and one of them a military ship Colonial"
"Very well," Woods said looking at the planet as they approached.
Officer Woods looked worried and then he said:
"Sir, I must say that the military ship is huge, the configuration of the ship is unknown"
Woods nodded, looked forward, they were slowly approaching the orbit of Aerilon in the distance you could see the military aircraft, whether it was huge, she was chasing the civilian ships that were more girls.
Woods Cross and then looked at her command:
"Contact Carlos, to put the Raven in the launch tubes, maybe we will need"
Cross agreed, they were going to face a giant ship.
BATTLESTAR ATLANTIA BS 66
PLANET AERILON
The CEC of the Battlestar Atlantia was much activity; they had done this exercise the last few months trying to draw the attention of the alien ship that was destroying the bases and other military aircraft throughout the Colonies.
Negala was very anxious to see the results of their little plan, and they spent many human resources and ships to reach this moment, to pretend that there was a coup in the Colonies and the military were attacking civilian ships.
They were forcing the alien craft appear and leave the protection of deep space.
"Contact DRADIS" said communications officer "IFF is unknown, although the configuration is a Class Mercury, it is approaching the planet from port"
Negala nodded and then looked at his XO, he said:
"Okay, alert civilian ships, which they jump out of the system"
He looks at the communications officer then ordered him:
"Contact the Gunstars and other Battlestars, they are needed here"
"Yes, sir"
Negala looks at the officer who was in the Tactical console and then the command:
"Lieutenant, Action Stations, Condition One throughout the ship"
The Lieutenant nodded, and then everyone around her began to move, Negala smiled, the hunt had begun.
BATTLESTAR ENTERPRISE BS65A
PLANET AERILON
Woods Cross could see perfectly the five ships in the upper orbit Aerilon, civilian ships really looked like he was dressed for the giant military aircraft, and they had never seen such a large ship, even when the Colonials Earth attacked six years ago.
The ship was the classic configuration of a Battlestar, with a head bow, two capsules on both sides with two flight decks each and four engines in his back could be noticed in the distance six huge batteries that overshadowed in size to others.
Woods look at Cross and then she whispered:
"By God, that ship is huge"
Woods Cross looked at with a confident smile and then said:
"And we're going to bring down"
He looked at the officer in Weapons console and then the command:
"Mass Drivers Prepare to be fired"
The officer nodded, Cross asked looking at the small fleet in front of it:
"What are you doing civilian ships?"
Woods looked ahead and suddenly realized what she was talking about civilian ships started to disappear one after the other giving flashes of light, then the huge military ship leaned in his direction and began moving toward them.
Suddenly, the communications officer said:
"Sir, they are sending us a greeting"
Woods looked at the communications officer and Cross then exclaimed:
"This is a trap! And we fell into it again!"
Woods Cross and then look at the communications officer, then the command:
"Put it in the speakers'"
Suddenly the voice of Negala was heard across the bridge, he said:
"Here speaks Duras Admiral Negala of the ship Battlestar Atlantia unknown ship, identify your self"
Woods Cross exchanged glances, Cross shook his head, and Woods himself said:
"Here speaks the Admiral Kyle Woods of the Battlestar Enterprise"
Negala then said:
"Admiral Woods was ordered to surrender or be destroyed"
Before Woods could answer, the officer told Radar:
"Sir, nine ships more than jumped into the orbit of the planet, all of which are military aircraft, Gunstar and Battlestars"
The nine ships moved from the top of the planet orbits around the Enterprise, the official said Radar:
"Sir, they are taking place around us, we are wavering"
"Damn!" Cursed Woods.
The Enterprise was stopped in front of Atlantia, the ship was right in the middle of the ten ships, Cross look at the ships that were in front of them, now they were surrounded, she looked at Woods, and then she asked:
"And what do we do now? We can not fight; we will end up destroying them."
Woods looked at the ships that were in front of them, they had to do something, because if they stayed still they would be destroyed in one way or another, Woods looked at the console of Armament and then the command:
"Weapons shoot the two Mass Drivers to the Atlantia"
The officer nodded, Woods looked at the Helmsman and then ordered him:
"Navigation, turned around, we are going escape from here"
Cross looked Woods like he was crazy, then Woods said:
"Sarah, I want gunners give us space to get out of here"
Cross nodded, she had no idea of what Woods was planning, but expected to be a good idea, but all were dead.
The Enterprise shot two Mass Drivers to the Atlantia forcing the ships to act, while the ships were put into position to attack, the Enterprise turned around and went propelled in the opposite direction.
Before the Mass Drivers will impact the Atlantia, a Gunstar stood in front of the line of fire and then it exploded into pieces when the two Mass Drivers crashed into it.
Meanwhile the ships began firing their artillery against the Enterprise, the violent impact against the outer armor of the ship causing the ship rocked violently inside.
The bridge is trembling slightly and impacts with a hollow sound reverberated in the walls, Woods and Cross could see the two ships in front of them who were firing on them all, a ship had been destroyed, but there were still nine.
Woods order:
"Weapons shoot another round of Mass Drivers, let us room to escape"
The Enterprise two Mass Drivers shot that struck violently against one of the Battlestar causing a large explosion in the hull, causing it to tilt to one side, making way for Enterprise to escape.
The ship continued to move higher by the orbit of the planet with the remaining eight ships following her from behind, Woods Cross looked at and then said:
"Contact Carlos, orders that are ready to launch their squads, we expected an ugly battle ahead"
Cross look at Woods and then asked:
"What are you planning?"
Woods did not say anything; he hopes they have enough distance between themselves and the enemy fleet behind them, then the command:
"Navigation, total stop, turns of the round and advance directly to the Atlantia"
The helmsman looked as if Woods was crazy, and he obeyed it.
The ship stopped in the middle of the leak and turned around, its structure groaned at the pressure they were putting, then ship directly advance their attackers getting all the punishment of his artillery slammed into the outer hull of the Enterprise.
Inside the nave, the aisles were shaken violently by the impact caused that several officers fell to the ground, several openings in the hull were reopened by the force of impact.
At this point the Enterprise and was responding with its own artillery, as she was moving directly toward them, the ships had to be out of the way, while they were still firing their guns into the Enterprise.
Radar officer exclaimed:
"Sir, the ships are launching their squads Vipers"
Woods was holding the Helms seat by strong shocks in the bridge, look at Cross and then ordered:
"Sarah, please contact Carlos, to launch all the squads, its main objective is to destroy the big guns of Atlantia before they get to shoot at us"
Cross nodded, she touched his earpiece while the bridge was shaking violently.
The squadrons of fighters darted Raven II launch tubes of the two capsules of the Enterprise and they mingled among the Viper Mark VII that were around the Enterprise.
Then the fierce battle had begun, the shells were from the Enterprise to the enemy ships and enemy ships to the Enterprise, between the cross fire fighters were small they were fighting each other and were trying to dodge gunfire between ships.
In one of the fighters Raven II, was Rear Admiral John "Demon Lord" Carlos, who was the CAG of Enterprise, was a man in his forties, blond and blue eyes, and the pilot wore a dark green suit, with gloves and boots.
In front of him was Battlestar Atlantia, he said its handset:
"Here speaks the CAG, the squadrons Demon, Angel and Reapers try to get the Viper Mark VII of the way, the rest of the squad come with me, we have to get the tiger claws"
Split squads, while some were fighting the Viper Mark VII, the rest of the squad headed for the Atlantia and then began to fly by into the pit from the back of the huge ship, the towers were moving toward the Enterprise was receiving tremendous punishment in the distance.
The Raven II fired their missile batteries to the huge double-barrel, hitting the area between the two guns in the cockpit where the gunner was causing it to explode into a thousand pieces, one by one, the towers were destroyed.
Meanwhile on the bridge of the Enterprise that was shaking violently from the constant impact, the communications officer yelled to Woods:
"Sir, Admiral Carlos and the rest of the squad managed to destroy the turrets of Atlantia"
"Very good, ordered them to return to base, combat landing granted"
"Yes, sir"
Woods Cross and then looked at her command:
"Sarah, I want an emergency break out of here as soon as the Raven II touched the covers"
Sarah nodded, the ship was shaking violently from the constant impact of the shells, around the Enterprise antiaircraft batteries that unlike other batteries were non-conventional energy weapons fired in all directions destroying the Vipers who got too close.
Among all the chaos of battle, the Raven II squad sailed between the Vipers, some fell by the wayside and artillery fire of the colonial ships to head for the port and starboard caps, they entered into the capsules and then extended its landing gear, and then without bothering for the protocol them landed violently on the deck.
The communications officer looked at Woods, and then said:
"Sir, all the fighters have landed"
"Okay," She looked at Cross. "Admiral take us out of here"
Suddenly at the height of the battle, while enemy ships were firing at her and Atlantia weapons had been neutralized, the Enterprise firing four nuclear missiles in all directions, causing four huge nuclear explosions and blinding which wreaked havoc on the DRADIS screens of ships, when explosions were dispelled, the Enterprise had been destroyed.
HELIOS STAR
DELTA SYSTEM
Near the orbit of Planet Phoebe was in the orbit closest to the star Helios in the Delta system, there was a flash of light and then came the Enterprise, the ship was badly damaged, was now much more damaged than when she had fallen in the first ambush, but the ship had survived, now the crew had to count the wounded and dead, then regroup, they had survived another battle to fight another day, the battle with the Colonies had only begun.
Neither Admiral Woods nor the Rear Admiral Cross were to pay in order to force the colonies to make peace with the Earth, they had survived another battle, but there was still much time left for this conflict was over.
Now they had to repair the Enterprise return to Earth to replenish their supply of Raven II, to return to fight again.
They were not going stop; they had a mission to accomplish, since it was his mission to save the remnants of the Earth.
END