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Chapter 29 – A Measure of Salvation

The night watch of Telmaya and its normally quiet infirmary was disturbed by the increasingly loud screams of a woman in labour. The woman in question was Selena, a blonde Number Six Cylon frantically grasping the hand of her cloned sister Gina as the Doctor, Tally Forego did her best to help the poor woman through her labour.

"GOD DAMN IT!" Selena screamed as another contraction hit, damn her husband Stefan Demetrius for going on some training course and not here with her tonight. The bastard had been contacted but had yet to appear, but Gina was doing her best to comfort her sister, moping her brow and holding her hand although if she had not been a Cylon too, Selena would have probably crushed it by now.

"Where is that bastard?" Selena screamed at Tally and Gina who grimaced at the sheer volume of her yelling which they were sure was close to bursting their ear drums. But at last after an 11 hour long labour Selena finally managed to deliver her baby, a tiny baby girl. All the pain of the last few hours was suddenly forgotten by all and both Selena and Gina marvelled at the tiny life that Tally had just wrapped up in blankets and placed in her mother's arms.

"Oh Selena she's beautiful" Gina said as her hand gently stroked the girl's small head with as much care as if it was spun glass. Both women looked into the eyes of the girl and were hypnotised, Tally smiled at the maternal gesture and hated to intrude but had to ask

"Have you thought of a name?" And Selena almost dazed looked up still in the baby's thrall to say

"Lilian Rose"

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While this was going on in the infirmary, on the CIC the crew watched as four raptors approached the wrecked Baseship they had just discovered. Apprehensively raptors from Galactica, Pegasus, Telmaya and Vulcan flew into the chaotic mess of raiders that where floating all around the ruined base ship.

"Hang on guys this might get a little bumpy" Lieutenant Sharon Agathon 'Athena' said to her passengers as they led the way into the chaotic jumble. Gunnery Sergeant Erin Mathias sat up front with her as they peered into the disabled fighters, pushing their way carefully through. In the back was Hotdog and his wife Cally, Kat who was leading the mission, and a company of Marines. The messages that they were receiving from the mother ships all advised caution while Sharon felt a very cold feeling going up her spine. She turned to Erin and said with a slight tremor in her voice having never seen such a site before "this is all wrong"

Erin who was equally disturbed to see the base ship and its raiders in such a state when the base ship was an equivalent to their own Battlestar had to ask Sharon

"Have you ever seen anything like this?" And Sharon could only shake her head

They pushed forward and then after considerable piloting from Sharon and the other pilots aboard the raptors managed to get inside the launch bay of the base ship. All dressed and equipped in combat gear toting assault rifles and sub-machine guns they disembarked and linked up. Captain Louanne Katraine 'Kat' turned to her group now including Amelia Adama, Marcia Case and other soldiers and told them

"Alright let's keep it tight, we get to the command centre we get the intel and then we get the hell on home. Let's go" Kat stepped back to allow Sharon to lead the way.

The corridors were bathed in a sick-ish yellow and green light and the temperature was unbearably hot so they were all sweating like hell. They didn't see any sign of either centurions or skin jobs until they got to the command centre, all the monitors were flashing wildly but their immediate attention was grabbed by the large number of bodies covering the nerve centre of the ship.

Kat reached for a com link and reported to the ship

"Galactica this is Kat we are seeing at least 30 or 40 dead skin jobs, no sign of movement anywhere" she heard back from Colonel Tigh telling her

"Roger that Kat, stay sharp" Amelia Adama looked around her and remarked out loud in surprise

"What the hell happened here?"

Erin Mathias looked at all the bodies and told her "I don't know but their Resurrection ship is going over heat"

Sharon tried her best to ignore her feelings of grief at all the dead Cylons around her and focus on the job as she made her way to the centre of the room and placed her hands in the special gel to try and access information in the ship's computer but when she was opening the pathways she was astonished and gasped as she broke the connection the corrosion of the data points. The ship was doomed, the hybrid was dead and they had maybe half an hour before the ship went critical and exploded as its reactor breached. But before she could tell anyone of her discovery they were interrupted by coughing and spluttering as five of the skin jobs woke up from their near deathlike sleep and sent the colonials into a panic

"FRAK THEY'RE ALIVE!" Erin shouted as she backed away from the now moving Cylons and place her gun sights firmly on the enemy. The five sickly looking skin jobs all began crawling towards a clear space in the middle of the room and as tightly as they could grasped each other's hands and began muttering in prayer. The Marines and other personnel from the room pointed their guns at the skin jobs and Amelia Adama asked Kat

"Sir do we have a kill order?" Looked at them for a second before shouting loudly so everyone would hear clearly

"Everyone stand down, stand down" and with some not considerable reluctance the soldiers lowered their weapons to witness what the skin jobs were doing. Sharon almost a trance leaned down to the model eight and as gently as possible turned her face which was a mirror of Sharon's own to face her.

"Sister?" Sharon asked with concern written on every feature of her face, eyes looking almost in tears to see one of her own model in this condition. The eight looked up and seemed dazed possibly by her condition or to see Sharon there and said simply

"Traitor" Sharon reacted badly at the words looking very hurt but the eight warned her "you have to get out of here"

"Why?" Sharon asked horrified that anything could have done this to a Cylon

"The Beacon" the model six told them from Sharon's right with great strain overcoming the pain that she was in to talk "we brought it on board, it carried a disease we're infected"

Sharon looked around, fear creeping into her features as she absorbed those words as did those around her.

"Infected?" Sharon said her voice tense

"Son of a bitch" Erin said, cocking her gun as she got ready to shoot the Cylons but Kat stopped her and took in the looks of the people around her and reported on the radio to her mother ship

"Galactica this is Kat, confirm virus is aboard the ship we have all been exposed, repeat we've all been exposed"

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Doc Cottle was rushed to the CIC wearing instead of his doctor's coat as usual but his full military uniform, telling everyone especially Admiral Adama what needs to be done

"Everyone will have to be quarantined until we can clear them, once we get the labs back on the virus will we can hopefully begin synthesising and antivirus. The hangar bay and the raptors will have to be sterilised, the corridors as well once they've passed through" he explained to them all and Kat asked on the radio should they bring the alien Beacon with them? Cottle told Adama that it is always better to have the source of the contagion when making a cure for a virus but Adama told him that the Beacon was to stay on the ship and they were all to come straight to Galactica.

Carrying the immobilised skin jobs with them, the colonial personnel all double timed it back to the raptors and took off heading straight for the flagship and quarantine. Just as they were out of range, the base ship suddenly exploded that they didn't suffer any damage and made their way even faster to the flagship.

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D'Anna Biers now with her belly swollen with a six-month pregnancy directed from the sound booth on board the Queen Astra how the characters the actors were playing needed to be in this particular scene. After being freed from confinement she had been appointed given her media experience to head up the new Fleet Entertainment Network. It sounded more impressive than it was but with most ships in the fleet not having video communication and the wireless radio being available to everyone it had been decided that an audio entertainment network should be set up on the Queen Astra to make audio dramas to provide some relief in the otherwise leisure deprived members of the fleet. She was finding it very stressful as the actors they had managed to find where not exactly A-list or even the best trained, or even trained at all and needed her help to get any kind of performance without sounding wooden. Given that it was audio drama rather than television you needed a lot more depth to the voicing and sound effects to make up for the lack of visual input. And the fact that she didn't have any decent writers wasn't helping either and was having to write and direct a lot of the production herself. She just looked up from her sound desk when the door opened and in walked a very cute blonde in colonial military uniform carrying the rank of lieutenant. She had nice straight blonde hair and the pixie like face and was nearly a foot shorter than D'Anna herself but the skin job couldn't help but think that with looks like that she would have been a star on television.

The young woman in uniform came over and smiled at D'Anna before she introduced herself

"Hello D'Anna my name is Lieutenant Gabrielle Zelkis I've been assigned as your new handler" and D'Anna nodded somewhat grimly. Every Cylon that was living free in the fleet was assigned a handler that served a dual purpose; firstly of course to report on their activities to make sure that they weren't some sort of double agent and the second was to potentially deal with any problems that arose regarding their nature with the fleet's population. Her last handler had been a Marine Sergeant who was ineffective as a handler to say the least, spending far too much time staring at her body, missing reports, and almost allowed her to be lynched by a mob that formed after the renewed attack a few weeks ago. So Gabrielle had replaced him but D'Anna wasn't sure that this new handler wouldn't be as bad as the last one so she decided to ask Gabrielle

"Well if you're going to be looking after my well-being can I know something about you?" And Gabrielle smiled even more brightly before answering

"Certainly I was raised on a farm on Gemenon, not exactly comfortable but we were happy my family and I. My mother, my father, my sister and my brother-in-law all ran the farm together but I loved stories that I heard and even started making up my own, my father always ruffles my hair telling me that his little angel had one hell of an imagination" she laughed before continuing to speak "anyway when the Cylons invaded the farm became the headquarters for the local resistance. My niece Sarah was born there before we were rescued by the fleet last year when they sent Telmaya back to the colonies and they noticed I had a talent for reading people, a natural talent for psychology and behavioural analysis so they recruited me into the military and assign me to create behavioural profiles on the various Cylon models and counselling fleet personnel. I'm not a trained professional but I have a sympathetic ear and sometimes all people need is to vent their feelings to someone"

D'Anna was perturbed by the fact they had assigned a psychologist albeit an untrained one as her handler but then she latched onto something that Gabrielle had said earlier in their conversation

"You write stories?" She enquired thinking that maybe Gabrielle might be more useful to her and she had originally thought. Gabrielle looked slightly surprised that was what D'Anna was asking about but nodded and now with a smile on my face D'Anna asked her "Have you ever thought about writing professionally for radio?"

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A couple of hours passed for the personnel who had boarded the base ship before they were finally declared clear of infection although Sharon was forced to stay quarantined until they could be sure that she wasn't carrying the infection and accidentally pass it onto the other Cylons as it turns out that humans were immune. In a meeting in the Admiral's quarters Doctor Cottle told them his findings.

"Its Lymphocytic encephalitis, a pathogen usually carried by rats that about a century ago humanity developed an immunity too. Now I can create a cure that will ease the symptoms but the Cylons have an antibody that breaks down the RNA of the vaccine. Now I'm hoping to analyse Hera Agathon's blood to create a cure that can trick the antibody into not reacting to the vaccine until its work is done but I can't be sure of success just yet. I've got Doctor Forego on the Pasteur working on the vaccine now but without Hera Agathon's blood I won't be able to do it."

Helo looked almost apocalyptic the idea of someone taking blood from his child but knowing that it could save his wife and that there shouldn't be any harm to Hera he didn't feel he had any choice but to accept and decided to allow Cottle to do it but then Lee Adama who had joined Admiral Adama, Rear-Admiral Trakiss and Commander Ishii as well as the representative from the assembly Laura Roslin in the briefing asked a question

"I know it's a bad question but, why are we keeping them alive?" Lee asked and his father shook his head at his own son's short-sightedness and told him

"Information, we need up-to-date Intel on what the Cylons were doing this far out and if they have some means of tracking the fleet that we don't know about"

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Meanwhile on Telmaya a drug dealer called Enzo had been caught by the now Colonel Tyber Jones having been picked as one of the new officers of Colonial Marine command. Enzo had been trying to peddle some of his very dangerous narcotics on board the military ships but had done a poor job of disguising his illegal substances and being caught almost immediately. Jones had just finished giving him the riot act for trying to sell dangerous hallucinogenic drugs to military personnel when they were at war and was about to pass him along to the Astral Queen prison ship when Enzo suddenly got up from his chair and shouted desperately, sweating profusely as he did so

"I've got information to trade right that can help right?" And Jones looked at him which suspiciously and disbelievingly

"And just what have you got that so valuable that it would get you out of trouble?"

Enzo smirked thinking that he now had something that he could use to get himself out of some jail time and told him "I know something about Captain Louanne Katraine or as I have always known her Sasha"

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After questioning the model four, dangling the vaccine in his face they made several discoveries which were a cause for concern. Namely that the Cylons were looking for Earth hoping to take it for themselves and also that the virus could be transmitted via Resurrection. That they have been abandoned and the other Cylons in an attempt to prevent the infection from spreading further. In the meanwhile Cottle's idea of making a vaccine for the Cylons from Hera's blood had paid off, like he had predicted Hera had her father's immunity but with unique chemical signatures that tricked the antibody which she had inherited from the mother into not attacking it. Already Cottle was planning to vaccinate all the Cylons in the fleet that were not immune as Sharon was apparently because she had carried a half human child but then Laura Roslin in a meeting with Hal Forrest and the admirals of the fleet put forward a very controversial proposal; using the virus as a weapon. Killing infected Cylons within range of a Resurrection ship to ensure the infection reached the rest of the Cylon race and wiped them out forever.

Lee Adama and Laura Roslin thought it was a great idea but Hal Forrest and Seth looked extremely uneasy while William Adama looked impassive to say the least, uncaring either way. Seth spoke to Lee and Laura

"If you cross that line, casually signing off on genocide using a weapon like a virus you're crossing a line that you can't come back from. Insidiously promoting genocide in the name of righteousness and survival. And none of us have the authority to launch that virus anyway only the assembly could have authorise such an undertaking."

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It would take time for the assembly to gather and for each side to prepare an agenda so they each returned to their respective jobs and Admiral Adama was confronted by Colonel Shaw giving him a file after she came over from Telmaya.

"According to Enzo, her real name is Sasha" Shaw told him, tapping her finger on Captain Louanne Katraine's picture "she worked with him as a drug runner, moving things around the colonies that the authorities wouldn't allow. He even implied that the Cylons used them to get around the colonies undetected which of course we know is not true" Shaw added thanks to Selena they knew that the Cylons were carefully inserted by FTL jumps and computer hacking not using such means which would possibly allow them to be caught and risk exposure by authorities looking into criminal enterprises.

Admiral Adama looked at the file and thought for quite some time. Kat was one of his favourites, he really did like her. When he had been married despite having to go away on long tours he had always dreamed of a large family and up until his discovery of his own daughter Amelia had always wanted a girl but Caroline had never agreed to try for one after Lee and Zak. If indeed they had had a girl that he'd known about he would've wanted someone like Kat; brash, brave, clever and loyal. Disciplinary problems aside but that was part of the course with Viper jocks she had impressed him with her service since she'd joined even inspiring him to make her an officer from enlisted which was extremely rare in the colonial military even given the current situation. He didn't want to lose that till he had heard her side of the story before he made a judgement. He turned Colonel Shaw and told her

"I'll deal with it" and Shaw nodded before asking

"What do I do with Enzo?" And Adama gave her a look before saying

"What else; lock him up. He's a drug runner who sold out one of his old associates to save his own skin without us even asking after being caught trying to sell the exceedingly dangerous narcotics to military personnel in wartime. Send him to the Astral Queen and let him rot there."

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The assembly gathered the big meeting hall on Telmaya where Doc Cottle gave them an overview of the virus and the general situation before handing over to the chairman Hal Forrest. Hal looked at the faces of the people around him, many of them working class people like himself and a lot of them if not all of them had lost family and dear friends as well as their homes to the Cylons. The chance for revenge was a very strong motive to do this but although he was on the opposition he still had to introduce it on both sides

"Well you all see the situation that we now find ourselves in; do we use the virus potentially wiping the Cylons out forever or do we save our souls and not use this diabolical weapon" looking around him he saw some faces that were distinctly uneasy, many it seemed felt a similar way to him although they want the Cylons gone, using such weapons was crossing a line and each of them would be signing off on genocide. Not an easy decision for any right minded person to make. Hal then made the motion to Laura Roslin to step forward and present her case. Laura immediately without hesitation began

"This virus is a blessing" she said "a viral weapon that does not harm humans, but will annihilate the Cylon race forever. We are at war, we have to think of the survival of our species, of everything we hold dear. Sometimes we have to make decisions that may haunt us for the rest of our lives but we have to make them to let us see another day and maybe a better future"

Laura stepped back knowing she'd made a point, but Rear Admiral Trakiss stepped forward to present the opposition's argument. He and Hal had gotten together beforehand to plan what he was going to say, both men felt that this was its huge mistake and had to somehow convinced these desperate people not to take what seemed like the perfect way out their current dilemma. Seth cleared his throat and began to speak

"Members of the assembly, you all know situation I will not rehash it. Yes times are desperate, we are at war but for the moment our hands are clean" he said and they all looked at him and to be clear as to what he meant he continued to explain "none of us have ever committed genocide, cold-blooded murder, just strike the pen against paper and signed the order for mass extermination just like the Cylons did to us. We can sleep at night knowing that we are not as bad as them, that we value life and integrity. When I look in my children's eyes I do so with a clear conscience knowing that I have done nothing that they may be disgusted by the future, that I will not see myself reflected in their eyes. Some of you have families, children of your own, can you really say that you would be able to sign off on the annihilation of the entire species and then look them in the eye knowing that you have killed so many people and still be the same and that in the future they may judge you for it. If we use this weapon we may survive, but survive as what? What would we become if we cross that line, a line from which there is no return? What legacy do we want to pass on to our children? Viral weapons do not make peace, they don't even make war they make mass devastation, a slow painful death without discrimination, without pity and possibly without end. Be mindful of what you do here today, it will be remembered by our people from many generations to come I should hope when they look back on this moment they will want to know they are made of, the stock they come from and what they will think about us will be defined by the decision you are about to make"

The silence in the hall was absolute, no one move and no one spoke. Even Laura Roslin's smile at the thought of an easy victory over this virus was gone as she thought about what he'd said and looked around to see everyone else thinking about it too. Hal knew that it would take some time before decision could be made and decided to declare a four-hour recess for everyone to think what they were about to do and make a decision as to whether or not they could do this.

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In the difficult hours as the assembly members all thought deeply on what they were about to do, Admiral Adama sat opposite Kat and reported to her what Enzo had implied. Her face was for once not impassive nor arrogant instead it was fallen like her world was ending and she knew it and was powerless to stop it. The Admiral stared at her waiting for her to talk and she couldn't work up the nerve to even look him in the eye so instead he decided to make its position clear

"We all have pasts captain. Did you know that my father was a ranking member of the Ha'la'tha crime syndicate?" He said looking into her surprised eyes before continuing "he is responsible for deaths, he was involved in gunrunning, smuggling early model Cylons to the rebels on Tauron and a lot of actions that haunted him throughout his life. But he decided to atone for what he'd done by becoming a very well-known civil liberties lawyer and being the best possible parent he could to me so I could avoid his mistakes. And that's just my father, every single person around here has demons Kat parts of ourselves are not proud of. I don't care what you did before you joined us, you have proven to me that you are a loyal and capable officer and one of the best Viper pilots I've ever seen enough to give even Starbuck a run for her money." He said ringing a small smile to her face before continuing "I would have picked you regardless of what you'd have been before and if it makes you feel guilty that you may have transported Cylons which you didn't by the way the Cylon prisoners we have confirmed that no drug runner like Enzo were used to get them around and feel the need to pay any kind of penance then continue doing what you're doing, serving, protecting and being the best that you can possibly be. Do you understand?"

Kat finally looked up at him with eyes that shone with a range of feelings; relief that he wasn't going to judge her, some shame but above all joy that she was being given another chance and that he wasn't going to punish her. Although she would blatantly deny this later, some moisture collected in her eyes as they began to well up and one tear slid gently down her cheek which the Admiral with the cuff of his sleeve carefully wiped away. He stood up which she quickly copied and he said gently "you're dismissed, now go get yourself cleaned up you have a cap to run in 30 minutes."

Kat smiling with tears of joy in her eyes saluted and quickly made her way out of the Admiral's quarters as he smiled at her.

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Four hours had passed the assembly was once again back in their seats. Not only did Laura Roslin, Seth and Hal hold their breath but also the Cylons in the fleet knowing that the fate of their entire race was about to be decided. Hal once again took centre stage and asked the assembled representatives

"You have all had time to think, I don't any more time could prepare us for whatever decision is about to be reached so using the display before you" he said referring to the digital screens that each of them had in front of them "vote yes or no."

Slowly and with some uncertainty each member of the assembly tapped one of the buttons on the display in front of them. The result wouldn't be known until the last person had voted and only Hal could see which side had triumphed. It took almost 10 minutes for everyone to vote, but at last the representative from Cloud 9 pressed the display in front of him and in moments it tallied. Hal looked at the result and announced gravely

"With the result of 60/40, one of the closest votes with ever had in this assembly, the majority have decided… Not to use the virus"

The atmosphere inside the room was mixed but the dominant feeling was of relief not only from those would have voted against using the virus but those who had voted to use it but did it with a heavy conscience and now relieved that it wouldn't be a burden forever. Some did look angry but the anger was slight even Laura Roslin didn't look upset that she had been defeated and immediately with his relief palatable on his face, Hal made his own decisions about where to go from here

"Right all samples of the virus will be destroyed, it's a simple bacteria we don't need to keep it. All Cylon defectors in the fleet will be vaccinated in case of us encountering this pathogen again. We will cure the current prisoners in the hope of gaining valuable Intel from them to aid in the current war. Any objections?" And the murmur was supportive, agreeing with his proposals.

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All the Cylons in the fleet drew a sigh of relief as their faith in humanity was rewarded. On the Queen Astra, D'Anna read the scripts Gabrielle had submitted with a wide grin not just because they were far better than the scripts she had been submitted before but that she was genuinely happy to see her. Young blonde was quickly getting under her skin, charming her and relaxing her when the strain got too much. Selena, Gina, Sharon Agathon and Boomer all tackled their jobs with renewed vigour and greeted their human co-workers warmly while Caprica 1 in his meditation room/cell saw even more clearly why his parents loved humanity more than they had their own creations and knew that they would have been proud.

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As Doc Cottle and Nurse Islay accompanied by Marines gave the cure to the infected Cylons, the relief on their faces was almost immediate. The six, the eight and two all basked in their new-found health, the relief of being well again filling them up. But when Cottle turned to leave after curing the four and five he was suddenly grabbed by the five with his renewed strength holding the doctor in a choke hold while four grabbed Islay. The Marines instantly went to their guns pointing straight at the two Cylons but weren't able to shoot because of the hostages that were being used as human shields and the other three Cylons looked up horrified to see what their brethren were doing

"Right we want a raptor away from this fleet now" and when the Marines were about to rebuke them the four increased his grip on Islay who gasped for breath. Neither of the skin jobs who were holding hostages wanted to take the chance that they might be killed despite the fact that the colonials had just cured them with no Resurrection ship in range this death could be final and they wanted to return to their people with news of the cure. But before either of them could get any further in their attempt to escape, they were surprised from behind when six and two leapt up with their own strength renewed and grabbed the heads of the offending Cylons and with a quick twist snapped both their necks causing four and five to drop to the ground dead. The Marines pointed their guns at the other three Cylons with suspicion but they did relax their aim somewhat and quickly removed Cottle and Islay from the room before dragging the bodies of the Cylons out and closing the cell door. The debriefing for the other three Cylons would be held soon enough.

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A week later a raptor piloted by Lieutenant Hamish McCall 'Skulls' and his co-pilot Ensign Maddy Callas 'Rigel' was doing a long-range patrol and scouting ahead of the fleet. It was a long patrol that was boring as hell but important so they did it. Rigel was a fresh recruit, a nugget who was as nervous as hell on her first patrol which amused Skulls no end. He couldn't remember ever being that green and was constantly having to reassure her that she was doing a good job

"Now just relax and check your dradis for what's out there" he said and through her flight helmet she said looking at screen

"Err there's three planets all class D, uninhabitable one moon and that's class D is well." She said filling a bit more calm now she could do something easy and routine but then a sudden alarm sounded and she looked anxious and told him what she could see "I've…er… I've got two IFF both Cylon, multiple detonations. I'm spinning up the FTL" and she started making the appropriate calculations but Skulls told her as he stared out at the window in front of him

"I don't think I'll be bothering us" and Rigel looked up to see what he meant and question him when she saw what he was seeing now they were cleared one of the planets and both were rendered speechless.

Two baseships were pounding each other with missiles while the Raiders duelled in a frenzy of dogfighting. Skulls suddenly came to his senses and realised what a dangerous position they were in and quickly took as many pictures as he could before turning back to Rigel

"Spin up the drive, get us out of here"

They returned double-time to Galactica once the raptor had jumped and presented the pictures to the Admiral who was as mystified by this as they were. News of what had happened spread quickly through the fleet as everyone was confused as to what was going on now. And in the cell where Caprica 1 sat reading his books he looked up to see the six in the red dress that no one but him could see who had been visiting him for the last year on and off and she told him in a grand and excited voice with a big smirk

"It has begun"

"What has?" One asked as he put down his copy of Theories of the Soul by Milton Smith

"The beginning of the end" she told him and he couldn't help feel a chill run down his spine

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Sorry it took so long to get this chapter out, I hope you enjoy it

P.S. Thought given there are more Military Ships now, another list might help

Military Ship Roll Call =

Battlestar Galactica – Columbia class. CO – Fleet Admiral William Adama, XO – Colonel Saul Tigh. Flagship of the fleet

Battlestar Telmaya – Mercury class. CO – Rear Admiral Seth Trakiss, XO – Colonel Kendra Shaw

Battlestar Pegasus – Mercury class. CO – Commander Sheba Cain, XO – Captain Louis Hoshi

Battlestar Artemis – Mercury class. CO – Commander Lee Adama, XO – Major Margaret Edmondson

Battlestar Colossus – Columbia class. CO – Commander Miranda Colchester, XO – Major Samantha Freeman

Battlestar Rycon – Valkyrie class. CO – Commander Beatrix Ishii, XO – Major Quintus

Battlestar Vulcan – Valkyrie class. CO – Commander Russell O'Donnell, XO – Lieutenant Colonel Gary Morris

Battlestar Astoria – Valkyrie class. CO – Commander Maureen Epps, XO – Colonel Roger Mauler

Dreadnaught Achilles – Mars class. CO – Commander Paula Yates, XO – Major Severin Marino

Long range Missile cruiser Ulysses – Ulysses class. CO – Abby Brant, XO – Major Daryl Yantos

5 Aether-class Destroyers = Loki, Osiris, Delphi, Pythia & Brawler