Troy

Task force 2-4

+4 days

(5 warships 2 royal virgon navy frigates Prince Dalyn Princess Bethany Terphe escort carrier Windowmaker. Medusa heavy cruiser Scylla eversion starliner/colonial one/)

(10 civilian ships 6 cruise liners /Olympic carrier/ 4 cargo ships)

His father His Majesty had given him orders directly from the council of four as the leaders of the alliance of survivors had dubbed their leaders. Crown Prince Caleb Dalyn serving as a Rear Admiral aboard his flagship the Medusa class heavy cruiser Scylla along with four other warships and twice that in large passenger and cargo ships. The first group of nearly two hundred raptors had jumped away doing recon on hundreds deep space stations, depot's and rally points that survivors may have gathered their mission however was more dangerous. Their orders were to check the armistice line fleets.

At anytime over the last thirty eight years there are always fourteen entire Battlestar Battle groups patrolling the line. Each battlegroup centered around three Battlestars, six escort carriers and twelve to fifteen escorting cruisers or destroyers with the attack being such a surprise if these new cylons follow first war protocols those ships could have been powered down and left to drift in case they needed them seeing as they could use colonial equipment. And with the lack of any sort of alarm from early warning satellites positioned along the border it is doubtful any nukes were used to annihilate ships. They could be sitting there Crew imprisoned aboard their own disabled ships.

They departed 15 minutes after the departing flash of the raptors. For their first location the last reported patrol route for BSG-72. Three jumps and fifteen minutes afterward they appeared and the escort carrier Widowmaker dived as the severed duel flight pod of the Nova class Battlestar liberation came tumbling in bouncing off the underslung hanger pod causing secondary explosions as the CAP vipers already in their tubes to explode as their fuel cells were ruptured.

All around the task force death greeted them pieces of human ships floated the cylons had boarded the ships opened the airlocks and emptying the crews to space. However the number of wrecks didn't match the ships supposed to be here. The three Battlestars were here the cylons must of concentrated on the largest ships first five of the six carriers could also be seen drifting in pieces as we're eight or nine destroyers or cruiser sized ships or as the crown prince looked at the dradis screen pieces of ships so that left a carrier and four to five of the cruisers or destroyers that are still active.

"Major prepare a boarding party for the Battlestar Kobol" the prince looked to the commander of the marines deployed with his task force "according to our records she was the flagship we need to find out what happened. Also prepare survey crews for salvage focus on the armories this is the reason we offloaded most of ours before we left so we could grab as much as we could." It was true too they had less then fifty missiles across the entire fleet most of the kinetic cannons had less then fifteen percent every sailor had a pistol as did every marine in addition to their rifles but their small arms lockers were also empty.

As dozens of shuttles headed out to ships throughout the battle zone blasted vipers and raptors were everywhere. Within twenty minutes the first overloaded shuttles were on their way back to reload the ships magazines and armories. The prince however was watching only one bird bypassing wrecks heading right for the split in half Kobol as they docked he listened to the marines

"Airlock secure no activity"

"Looks like the toasters boarded I've got several new model centurions. The crew gave one hell of a fight"

"Moving to the bridge no survivors detected"

"The bridge is sealed from the inside"

"We don't have the code to open it attaching breaching charges stand back"

A series of explosions could b heard "bridge is open"

"Lords there is no survivors everyone has been shot some of them many times"

"Checking bridge security system"

As the marines try to gain access to the recordings Prince Dalyn checks over the rest of the fleet and repair work on the Windowmaker and salvage efforts looking over the status every ships is full up on missiles including over three dozen nukes. Kenetic rounds were nearing 97% ninety six vipers and fourteen raptors had been found intact and undamaged that were damaged are left behind if they need more they can come back. No survivors however the cylons had boarded and slaughtered everyone he was about to skim recovered small arms when the marines started talking again

"We are in Sir, as we watch we are also recording."

No one speaks as the footage rolls fast forwarding until the bridge doors slammed and locked nothing happens for a few minutes until "What the Frakk" one of the marines start to talk only to have the corporal in command slap him down

"Sir requesting private your ears only" confused but accepting his mans gut feeling he nods a second later with a series of audible clicks signaling active security as well as shifting to headphones only the corporal continued "Sir the cylons look like us now I don't see any other possibilities that two of the bridge crew to suddenly kill their crew mates forwarding pictures of the two skinned chrome heads now" as he looks at his personal tablet he sees two dead humans? No if that the marine said is true….his blood turns cold the young blond woman and the shaggy short haired man he recognized looking over at the navigation station at the blond woman sitting there he silently showed the tablet to the XO and pointed at the Nav as they move forward pistols drawn she must of sensed something that she turns around with a pistol in each hand the crown Prince and hit the XO don't even wait as they pull the trigger repeatedly the blonde woman falls on her console covered in blood as she lays there dying she smiles as the light fades from her eyes

The crown Prince with a sinking feeling ordered the marines to board the other Battlestars to see if the same thing had happened within a hour every ships is overflowing in salvaged weapons, munitions and anything else they could grab as well as pictures of five different cylons human models quietly distributing the five images as well as his former navigation officers picture across the ships within minutes they receive reports of fourteen others eight men and six woman being found and shot.

With their original mission complete and with vital information they abandon their work and jump back. The moment they arrive the crown prince has a high priority message go to every ships commanding officer "This is a high priority message from Crown Prince Caleb Dalyn during the process of salvage work at Battlestar group 72 my Marines made a haunting Discovery aboard the Kobol the bridge had been secured before the cylons boarded however unknown to them there were human form cylons among them attached is security footage from the bridge of the Kobol as three of her crew immediately turned upon their comrades executing them in Cold blood upon Discovery our ships purged 14 others identical to the two found on the Kobol it is recommended to handle them with extreme caution attached are also images of the fourteen corpses" as word spread of the new threat men and women from hundreds of ships are found to be identical and either executed as they resisted arrest or taken into custody in a short time it is discovered that over four dozen of the five known models were killed as they resisted three others however gave up to Marines without a fight and were taken prisoner