EarthMan
By ChaosEternus

Rankukon alpha: thats a practical impossibility unfortunately, making a roving shipyard, especially when you conisder Galactica's current situation.also, whilst galactica could in thoery create ships inside her landing bays, those bays are now fully in use and it would require a lot of resources and personnel which arent readily available. the refit to the transporter of the books alone was pushing this boundary quite a bit.

Chapter 20: A New Hope

This morning, at 0215 I was tossed out of bed by five anxious guards and hurried through Galactica's corridors to the cells, in particular, to the cell of a cylon we all knew as Sharon ‘Boomer' Valerri.

There, I found something or rather someone that would energise me again and remake my old research back into a priority one project.

I met Boomer.

Not the Cylon that had been controlling her for months now, but ‘Boomer' herself. She wasn't exactly stable, in fact she was damn near psychotic, raving about how she must regain control, how she must force the demon out of her mind, how she had to be herself again but considering her mind and body had been the pawn of another for months, that was understandable.

But still, it was totally unexpected, a real visit from the left field and yet, as far as we could tell it was her. Of course, there was no way to be absolutely certain, after all the Cylon within her had managed to remain hidden for years but there was somewhat limited proof. The readouts of the EEG we hooked her up to nearly matched those on record for when Boomer was in control, a record taken prior to the fall last time Boomer had a concussion from a training accident, the difference between that record, what we were seeing now and the EEG we had taken during one of the Cylons rants was stark and clear.

Of course, the cylon may have been deliberately masking their brain wave pattern but frankly, I couldn't even theorise as to how that might be possible, in fact, everything I had seen in my research up till then suggested the concept was almost laughable for a human. But then again, Boomer wasn't exactly human.

Still, even if the encounter did only last two hours before a rather unhappy Cylon managed to reassert control, it did give us hope that those who had been taken as Cylons could be released.

Of course, the Colonials reason for wanting the cylons released wasn't altruistic. They quite clearly showed that they never intended to trust any who had been taken again, even if they did use to call them friend, comrade. No, they wanted all the intelligence, all the information the Cylons had looked up in their minds, they were hoping that the possessed humans could access that knowledge or at least have memorised details themselves which could help in the inevitable coming confrontation between the humans and the cylons.

That was of course, assuming that all the Cylons of the same model were identical. We didn't know if we had struck gold with our Boomer, getting the original unit all the other Boomers were based on, in which case it was very possible that because the Boomer personality belonged their, was original, that that was why she was slowly learning the way to take back her own mind.

Of course, if our Boomer wasn't the original, then it raised another, almost better question. If she could override the Cylon when she was meant to be the secondary personality, did it mean any of the Cylons could be potentially overridden by the human within?

Militarily speaking the potential was huge, and speaking as a human, it was fair turnabout, using the cylons out infiltration and fifth column tactics against themselves, creating havoc within their lines whenever the final Human/Cylon war began.

That would be a war to the end, whatever happened one entire race would be wiped out, exterminated to the very last being. An Armageddon war. Neither side could afford to let the other survive and perhaps come back one day to finish what they started.

Still, all this didn't answer one fundamental question, why had Boomer been able to override the Cylon, even if it was for such a relatively short period of time? Was there some weakness in the cylon control we could potentially use?

Only time, luck and a lot of work would answer that question, and time was most certainly not on our side.