The Colony
Sector 5
12 light years from the Red line and 7 from the Ypsilon System (Colonial nomenclature)
The Cylons, as soon as the resurrected crew started to fill every resurrection facility, went panic. Several Basestars abandoned their positions and started to gather in their bases. But the worst was that three of the models just want to overthrow the rule of the Ones for good.
The biggest thing they saw as a threat to their plan was that these new enemies had energy weapons, so powerful that they could destroy a Basestar with a couple of shoots. The plasma pulses of the Earthers, with those huge ships full of cannons, or the unstoppable green beams of the Minbari cruisers made them to crumble in their schemes.
But the Ones won't fall back. At least not yet. Their superiority over the Colonials was undeniable, and this two new threats were far away. They decided it was time of double down and crush their former masters before the Earthers or the Minbari could do something.
After a short discussion, the consensus was reached. With the vote of the models One, Three, Four, Five and Six, the Cylons would strike the 12 Colonies in 36 hours.
Basestar Psi 14
System uncharted
-I dont like to be here, right in the middle of nowhere-said a Model Six.
-I guess now you feel that way because now you now there are more people out there-answered a Four.
-And they want us dead!
But suddenly a Five called their attention.
-Sorry for interrupt your wonderful thoughts but...there is something. There, 5 million clicks right in the asteroid field.
-Send a heavy Rider. Lets see what is that thing-Ordered a model One.
Drala Fi
Sharlin class warcruiser
Hyperspace
-Alyt, our scouts are almost finishing
-Excellent, i want all this sector charted. And deploy hyperspace beacons.
-Alyt, one of the scouts report that a small crescent like ship came out of nowhere and it's following them from the distance
-How far?
-0.67 Units, Alyt
-Ordered them to act like they never saw this small ship, and wait for orders. If these are those damned cylons, we will lure them to a trap.
Basestar Psi 14
-It must be a scout. The blue-fish aliens aree looking for us-said with anger the One. The rest of the crew started to panic.
-If there is a scout, there is a ship where it came from. We are alone here, we should get out before being detected-asked a 5, really nervous about what could happen.
-Their DRADIS must be short ranged, looks like they dont even know we are following them.
-Just good luck
-No, even our ships could not see anything from that far. Besides there is a lot of asterioids there, any signal can be distorted...
Drala Fi
Crommand chamber
-It's been 20 minutes and that scout vessel is still following, Alyt.
-Alyt, another scout, they report an star-like ship hidden in the...
-Prepare for an assault jump.
Basestar Psi 14
-It looks like a trap-said the Six model. The Five and the Three agreed with her, but Cavil needed more to make a decision. Finally DRADIS picked up something...
-DRADIS contact! Another Blue-fish scout! They have found us!
-Alright that's it. Prepare for jump, we will alert the rest those aliens are looking for us.
This time everyone agreed with the One model. In a couple of minutes they dissapear without a trace.
Battlestar Galactica
Sector 556
-Jump complete
-Report
-Nothing on DRADIS, we are alone sir.
-Ok, deploy raptors and explore the system. Mr.Tigh the CIC is yours-said Adama before going to the flying deck, but while he started to walk, the DRADIS operator screamed:
-Contact! A Huge ship, just in front of us! No IFF, it's not colonial!
-Of course it's not! We are the only crazy bastards in the area!
-Mr.Tigh, prepare our guns. Gimme a firing solution ASAP, and prepare the next jump.
-We will not fight?
-Only if they start shooting. We are in peac
remember?
-Weapons readay, main batteries ready to fire at your command.
-Excellent.
Drala Fi
Normal space
-Where are they? We destroy them?
-No, I'm sorry Alyt, there are gone. They leave before we jump to normal space.
-They can't be far. Jump to hyperspace, let's pursue them to the nearest system. And send a message to the Valen'tha, we will need reinforcements.
Basestar Psi 14
Sector 556
-Frak!
-The Galactica?! I thought it was a franking museum!
-Yes it was-answered the Six.
-What the Frak are they doing out here?
-Looking for the Thessalia. The Galactica it's an old ship, the fleet could risk losing it sending it beyond the Armistice line-said the Five, talking like if he were there with Adar when he ordered to deploy the Old Battlestar.
-What do we do now?
-We run, or we fight-answered Cavil.
EarthDome, Geneva
President Levy's office
-Mrs. President, you have to see this-said Gral. Leftcourt. The images of the data gathered by the Prometheus crew was on display. Photos of seven human bodies, two of them identical, and the DNA scan:97 % human. The mitochondrial DNA showed all of them came from the same egg cell, so they were most probably sinthetic clones.
-Oh my God, this looks like a sci-fi horror movie...
-Cap. Jankowski is going to meet the Minbari forces and share notes.
Tuzenor Warcruiser
Minbari border, near First Encounter Battle debris field
The Worker cast assistant assigned to the human visitors (Len'shok was his name) guided cap. Jankowski to the projection chamber. There were the three pilots rescued unharmed from the Thessalia's vipers, and a lot of Minbari. After the salutations, Len'shok started to show the Earth captain what they had found.
-This is the Cyrannus cluster, according the computers of the Vipers-said, showing the four star cluster, with all the planets and their names. Jankowski was amazed at how so many M class planets could be together, and also understood why this colonies remain in the dark so long, the gravitational disturbances in the hyperspace would be high.
-According to our charts, they are located there, 19 light-years away from our current location
The captain studied the holographic map, meanwhile the pilots thought they weren't that far from the space the earthers were exploring. If just the 12 colonies wouldn't be so reclusive in it's own system...
-Now, according to the information we could gather from the computers of some Cylon vessels, this are the location of their ships and outposts-and in that moment several red spots appeared in a dozen of systems surrounding the Cyrannus cluster. The Armistice line was clear between the two races.
-What our team discovered from the remains perhaps will shock you-said the earther to the colonials.-Your CMP software is compromised, looks like your coding ended somehow in their hands and they rewrite it to allow this virus to access your systems and disable them-explained, while the data code was being shown.
-And we may also have the way they adquired that code-stated the Minbari. In front of them the images of about 13 dead human corpses were shown but the interesting thing was half of the faces repeated.
-Those are bodies retrieved from the Cylon ships by our crews, and this others-and seven more appeared-by the Earth Alliance men. As you can see, this machines used human clones-stated and the colonials were shocked. Jankowski was really worried, a race of cyborgs with practically human members was something terrible it was obvious they were infiltrating the 12 colonies since who knows when.
-We need to warn the fleet, those two-said one of the pilots, pointing to a One and a Five-were on the Thessalia-
-And that one is that frakking reporter, I forgot her name-interrupted the Lt.
-So this Cylon human forms have successfully infiltrate your society. There is another thing, perhaps you can tell me which date is this-
-The 40th anniversary of the Armistice, in two days I think. Why?
-Well we have at least 25 comms talking about things like "prepare" "nuclear strike" "Delphi"-
-A main city in Caprica-interrupted again the Lt.
-Well, it is quite probable they will attack you in that date then
-Frak!
-Perhaps that's why they attacked our ship, they were afraid we had discovered their forces ready to strike-
-In my opinion they were just too paranoid, cause a few Cylon ships in their side of the line wouldn't mean a strike fleet or whatever.
-I think we should depart now and warn them
-From here we could reach Helios Gamma or Delta in less than 36 hours, but who knows if after having engaged us they postponed, or God forbids, forward the date of the strike. Perhaps we could get there too late...
-If I may, we have a small raecon force here. They could arrive in less of 12 hours, maybe less. We could send them with all the data we have and warn them.
-We could also include the message from our Government
-Yes and d we could provide our testimony, so they would believe you and not shoot
-Wise advice-answered the Minbari.
Drala Fi
Command chamber
-Alyt, an urgent message. Includes a data package of high compression.
-Show me
- Alyt Sorenn, greetings. It is urgent you depart to the following coordinates and delivered this data package. This is the four star system of the human colonists. The data shows the hatred Cylons murderers are about to attack them with all they have and this data is the only thing they need to avoid being disabled as it happened when Dukhat was killed.
-As you wish, we will go at once
-Just one thing, do not salute the humans with gun ports open, they are waiting for an attack and could kill you before you deliver the message. Do not do anything even if they shot you first, that is and order, and you don't need to understand why.
-As the Council commands me I will do.