Sequel to 7 Points
By Chaoseternus
Rankokun: Information about the Red Line fleet can be found in JPMwycombes Red Line, its at the official Thundersdawn archive 9thundersdawnDOTcoDOTuk) under backstories/mtb tales
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Chapter 21: Warriors Reborn
Hel'tec looked back anxiously, seeking the approving gaze of Kara as she stood at the door of the Free Jaffa Al-kesh. She had made her decision; she could no longer pretend loyal service to the Goa'uld. Now, she had an out and a reason to take it, family.
For what stronger reason could their be than a family to come home too, a family that needed protection from the Goa'uld and all they stood for.
A family that needed time to learn to stand on their own again.
For whilst Kara was the only biological family she could claim, be it by a rather unusual fashion, both Adama's had welcomed her with open arms when they realised who she truly was, she was their Kara, just one that had taken a different path in life.
She was welcome here, here she had family and that was the most humbling and yet most warming, most safe feeling thing she had ever known.
But yet, her big question was unanswered.
Why was she here? What was her purpose? Why had she been created?
#You know your purpose# the voice of her sister rang inside her head, #you just need to realise it#
#Where are you?#
A roar made Hel'tec look up as a pair of Vipers flashed by, low overhead, #Where do you think? Do you really thing we were going to let you go without an escort?#
Hel'tec laughed, realising who was in the Viper II's, #You and Lee I presume?#
#Who else?# Starbucks laugh rang through her head, #now get your arse into gear, we're waiting#
Laughing, Hel'tec dived into the Al-kesh, grabbing the pilot's station before Bra'tac could, rolling his eyes he just moved to one side, he had already seen enough to know that if Hel'tec wanted to pilot, you just let her. It was safer, in more ways than one.
Adama watched with a smile out the window of his transport, a Paladin that had been blocked from the Edonia Convoy mission by mechanical failure in the hyperdrive, as a lone Al-kesh was escorted out of the planets atmosphere by two Vipers. He didn't need to ask to know who was in the Al-kesh and the fighters, only one Al-kesh was scheduled and the escort could only be Kara and Lee.
Lee... he was proud of him for the way he just accepted Hel'tec as being a member of this family, just on Kara's word, just on Kara's trust.
How he had made a place so quickly for Hel'tec, just because Kara, whom he regarded as a sister despite her confession over Zak's death, wanted it.
Adama sighed, as the Al-kesh vanished into hyper, his thoughts going back to the meeting with General O'Neill.
It had gone as well as could be expected, he had, as expected, lost Atlantis and several smaller ships to the Tau'ri but the refits of vessels for the Colonial Fleet were assured. He hadn't managed to completely pay for the Colonial Shipyard, that would have taken far more of the Colonial Warship hulls then he was willing to sacrifice but he had managed to set a down payment as it were, and construction would start once Edonia was secured.
He would just have to figure out a way for the Colonials to pay out on the mortgage, as it were.
He would keep his promise though, for the Tau'ri were certainly keeping theirs. When they said they would rush the construction of the MTBs he had negotiated for at the time of their arrival, he hadn't totally believed them.
But he had seen the evidence for himself, the two under construction on Alpha Prime were almost complete and he was assured the two on Thundersdawn and on Earth herself, being constructed by far more experienced crews were even closer to construction.
And would launch for trials within the week.
Then the Colonial Military would actually have the power to protect their own people at last, six Blastboat class Patrol Type MTBs, the only pure Tau'ri design they had bought and the only one they intended to buy.
They were Colonials, not Tau'ri. They needed to remember that.
Which was why the first of their new warships, minor though they might be already had names, they would be commissioned as the Caprica, the Picon, the Virgon, the Libra, the Gemon and the Aries. They would be named after six of the twelve colonies, and the next six new warships they constructed, whenever that time came, would take the names of the over six. And as long as their was a Colonial Military, their would be twelve ships bearing those names, the names of the lost colonies of Kobol.
One week, then they would have four operational modern warships, another week and they would have six. Adama frowned; a lot could happen in a week. He just hoped they were given the time they needed.