Once the room was quiet Stephen leaned back in his chair and started working on the reports from the various raptor and viper pilots during the latest operation.

A few 2 months later one of the scout ships detected a habitable planet on their scanners and then relayed the information to the fleet. Taking the opportunity to gather food and construction material from the planet the fleet jumped into orbit.

During one of the scans of the surface the Voyager detected signs of Colonial and Cylon activity as well as a set of ruins that was familiar to the Colonials. An armed recon team was send down to the planet to investigate the ruins. After a few hours of exploration the bodies of several colonials was discovered.

The bodies were taken to the medical bay on the Intrepid for dissection. It was during this time that the Identity of the planet was known. "are you sure that the planet is Kobol?" Makay asked shocked.

"yes sir aside from some geographical changes and the redirection of the water ways the planet meets the criteria of the Planet Kobol by 97 percent" the scientist answered.

"coupled with what you just told me and the fact that some of the bodies of the dead colonials on the planet had insignia that identified them as being from the galactica means that she was here. But the question is how long ago was it."

Makay said. The medical officer spoke up. "Actually sir we do know when the Galactica was here." Makay looked at the man and nodded for him to continue.

"Remember the bodies we brought up from the surface well from the decomposition I would estimate that the bodies have been dead for 3 months give or take a few days."

The man finished. "so the galactica was here around 3 months ago. That means that we have either fallen behind or are catching up which ever is the truth." After a few minutes of other business the room emptied. Leaving the Commodore to his thoughts.

"hmm Adama I wonder what your thinking right now" he mused. "I wonder if you have encountered the cylons since you left here. I wonder what will happen when we catch up with you its been almost 2 years."

he then stood up and left the office. The scavenging and gathering of food and supplies continued for several days before Commodore Makay ordered the fleet to continue on its way. He was determined to catch up with the Galactica as soon as possible.

Admiral Searman on the Helios was not in a good mood. For the past few months he had been trying to track down the Battlestars Intrepid and Olympus in an effort to add them to his fleet but due to the Cylons and their continual attacks and increased presence the fleet was not having much success in its efforts.

Which led Admiral Searman to suspect that the Intrepid and the Olympus might be escorting a refugee fleet of there own and if that was true that created a whole new set of problems for him.

One of which was you never put all your eggs in one basket. If they caught up and discovered that the other Battlestars were indeed escorting a refugee fleet.

Then that would mean that there was a huge gathering of Human survivors in one fleet and if they were ambushed by a sufficiently large cylon fleet it might lead to a massacre as the warships attempted to hold off the Cylons while the Civilian ships made their escapes.

He also had the Battlestar Galactica to consider. She was one ship protecting a refugee fleet and for all he knew they might have been destroyed but somehow he did not think so. For some reason he had the feeling that the Galactica was still out there and still running.

As for the Cylons their attempts to make a trap for the humans was not meeting much success at all. The Alliance of light had reappeared and had just wiped out every basestar that was attempting to track the colonials. But there was a piece of good news.

A large Cylon fleet had penetrated deep into Alliance territory and was wreaking total havoc on the hated Alliance.

As time went by for the Intrepid and its fleet of warships and Civilian ships. Things were starting to get a little out of control. The Civilians were getting restless the doctors were advocating a major effort to find a planet so that the people could get out and stretch their legs and breath some non recyclable air for a change.

The Scouts were working overtime sometimes jumping 5 to 6 times ahead of the fleet. The Crats was starting to run low an supplies and and the Argon 7 had a major disaster happen in the domes that had wiped out a lot of the food crops on the Agro ship.

The disaster was further compounded by an epidemic that seemed to be raging throughout the fleet. The doctors were swamped with cases and people were dying all the time.

In short the fleet was starting to fall into chaos as disasters cropped up. It was at that point when Disaster struck several days later. The first sign of trouble was when a lone Cylon Raptor buzzed the fleet then escaped.

While the fleet was getting ready to emergency jumped a large Cylon fleet of 3 basestars appeared in a triangle formation around the fleet. The alarms began to blare across the fleet as Vipers and Scimitar fighters engaged in desperate combat in an attempt to allow the fleet to escape.

Three cylon fighters evaded the Vipers and point defense turrets and launched nukes at several civilian vessels and the Crats.

The Crats Jumped just in time to avoid the incoming nuke although the Destroyer that was on the other side of it took the full brunt of the hit and was severely damaged.

The Scimitar fighters were quickly taken out by Vipers launched from the Destroyers and Cruisers. Several Nukes hit the Agro Ship Natures Bounty and was completely destroyed.

One solitary nuke hit a civilian liner and detonated destroying the ship and killing everyone inside. By now most of the refugee fleet was gone including several of the destroyers and one of the Heavy Cruisers.

The battlestars closed to Point Blank range of the basestars and opened fire. The destroyer that had been damaged had had its FTL taken out so it closed to within weapons range of the last basestar and opened fire.

The two ships exchanged fire. Viper and Scimitar fighters few about in a deadly dance with tracer rounds, missiles, and Major weapons fire flying all over the place.

2 more Destroyers flew into range just as the first destroyer was destroyed. Raptors flew about picking up escape pods and Pilots who had gone EVA.

When they were full they folded to the emergency jump coordinates to offload passengers and then returned to the battlefield. The Battlestar Intrepid finished off the Basestar it had engaged then turned ponderously around and headed to reinforce the destroyers.

By this time every refugee ship had either escaped or been destroyed in the ambush. The Battlestar Olympus having taken a lot of damage Jumped away but not before destroying its targeted Basestar.

The last basestar having suffered a lot of damage jumped away now that the civilian ships had escaped. What few Scimitar fighters that remained also jumped away. And the task of gathering the Escape pods and EVA pilots that were still out there began.