Sequel to 7 Points
By Chaoseternus
johnlao2004: most of the background was covered in 7 Points.
as for Iblis, thst doesnt need explanation, I could have used any Goa'uld i wanted who is still alive but i chose Iblis as a nod to the original series. The name is unimportant, the fact that he is the cylon God or false god isnt.
buckeyebelle: thanks for the review
Chapter 6: Upgrades and Redesigns
Tyrol and Boomer left their quarters quickly, not commenting on the fact that General O'Neill had known enough to assign them a double, heading swiftly for the conference room.
Today was a big day, today Tyrol and Boomer, Mechanic and Flier determined Galactica's fate.
To put it mildly, they were nervous. Adama had entrusted them with the task of having his baby, his ship brought up to date in a manner that wouldn't compromise her past or her spirit.
They didn't want to fail Adama, he had done so much to keep them safe but the level of trust he had shown them, especially Boomer who had been compromised by the Cylons they found mind-blowing.
Pausing briefly, they strode into the conference room.
"Morning Tyrol, Boomer" Kalinda greeted them as they entered, "In case you don't know, I'm Kalinda, head of RSS Technical Services"
"Kalinda…?" Boomer asked.
Kalinda grinned, "Just Kalinda, now we need to get to work. The third Ha'tak bay has almost been completed and will be ready for the Galactica within two weeks, we need to have the refit designed out ready by then and approved"
Tyrol nodded, "Right, so speaking generally what's the plan?"
Kalinda nodded, agree on the broad strokes first, good idea, "Replace the current rail gun based CIWS and AA guns with the latest Pulse Laser batteries, same rate of fire, slightly higher damage from the mark IV's and no ammunition storage requirements along with increased reliability"
Tyrol nodded, "the no ammunition thing would have been useful a couple of times during our escape, but what about power requirements?"
"Roughly the same as the rail guns, the power is just used differently"
"What about the main guns?" Boomer asked.
"Those big guns would have to be swapped, the projectiles move to slow and around here, the surviving enemies are those who have figured out how to dodge. We will be replacing the four heavy rail guns and their three coils with four gauss rifles probably turret mounted so they have a greater range of fire"
Tyrol winched as he heard how Galactica was to be butchered but kept silent as Kalinda continued, he didn't really like it but he knew it would make Galactica a more formidable warship and their circumstances demanded that the Galactica become the deadliest warship ever entered into the colonial fleet.
"We will be adding at least one shield generator, possibly two. That combined with Galactica's heavy armour plate will mark her especially difficult for the enemy be they Goa'uld or Cylon to kill. However most of the space saved in dropping the ammunition bunkers for the CIWS array will be lost to the addition of a hyper drive"
"Wait a minute" Tyrol interrupted, "We have FTL drives installed, what would we need hyper drive for too?"
"Your jump drives are far more efficient at short jumps but as you increase the jump distance energy requirements tend to start to get prohibitive. Hyper drives are capable of jumping far greater distances than jump drives and with much lower energy requirements but tend to lose out on short range jumps"
Kalinda sighed, twiddling her biro in her hands, "that's the broad sweeps, anyone have a problem with them?"
"Yes" Boomer replied, "I have seen the specs for the pulse rifles, they rely on a network to work properly and Adama will not allow a network aboard the Galactica "
Kalinda nodded, "We were expecting that" she reached down, flicking through a sheaf of papers till with a satisfied gasp she found the one she wanted, "here, as you can see we don't intend to use a single network to cover the ships batteries instead each array of pulse lasers will be split into two separate networks, each network connected to the controls on the bridge and secondary command centre but not at any stage to each other. That way a successful attack on one network will just shut one quarter of Galactica's CIWS capability down and on the effected side, half the Pulse Lasers will still be effective"
Tyrol and Boomer looked swiftly at the diagrams, exchanged glances, then nodded, "We would have to check that with Adama but it looks a reasonable compromise between efficiency and safety"
"Right, now lets get down to the nitty-gritty…"
"Excuse me? The nitty-gritty?" Boomer asked.