Since no one has reviewed and told me which style they prefer I shall write the next chapters in a combination.

The model 7 in charge of the Cylon patrol checked the scanners 4 times then ordered the basestars to open fire. "By your command" "Report Centurion" "we are to close to use the missile batteries without causing significant damage to our own basesars" "then use the rail guns and the fighters" "the rail guns are designed as anti figh……"

" I SAID OPEN FIRE!" "By your command"

Aboard the Vengeance Captain Sumpter recovered quickly. "Sarah contact Freedom tell them attack pattern Omicron (Oh-Mi-Cron). Don't launch fighters at this range they'll be destroyed, AFW's (Anti Fighter Weapons) full enemy suppression barrage, CSK's (Capital Ship Killers) take down the closet three of those Baseships!"

One of the great benefits of the combined tech was increased anti missile/fighter weapons, increased armour and increased speed with devastating close in armaments, though the stand off capability was reduced the greater speed and protection made this on minimal importance. The Cylons learnt this within the first few seconds.

The Scimitars flew out of there Baseships intent on blasting these human warships that had been foolish enough to return… and were promptly turned into a firework display by the AFW suppression batteries. The model 7 watched in horror as his fighters disappeared and the rail guns shots bounced off the human ships armour but not for long as his base ship was soon to die.

The base ships were not designed for close quarters combat and it showed as the CSK's on the Vengeance and the Freedom opened fire. The baseships in front of them immediately died as the laser cannons lanced out, cutting through the base ship from the top severing the arms it looked as though they might slice them into three, until the beams hit the central section that held the two parts together. The reactor breached and the base ship blew apart closely followed by its sister ship.

The proton batteries were also baking short work of the Baseships to port and starboard three were reduced to twisted wrecks with gaping holes. The final baseship was trying to escape but the aft proton cannons of the Freedom managed to score a direct hit on one of the fighter bays. The end of the arm exploded and flame shot out of gashes in the hull then there was another explosion further up the arm and another and another increasing in speed the fuel dumps along the arm went up one after the other Boom…Boom…Boom as gravity aboard the Baseship finally gave out the fire swept down the corridors like water someone has just pored down a gutter scorching and burning the reddish flesh of the basestar until it reached the bottom of the central core where the fuel for the main engines was stored, the Basestar died in a orange fireball that soon died because of the lack of oxygen, and there was nothing larger than a hand span left of the once mighty ship.

Take that you metal basterds. "Lieutenant Colver, damage report please" "Yes captain the Cylons rail guns managed to take out 5 of our suppression batteries, the backups will cover that area with no impact on combat performance, and the port hull has taken minor damage from the explosions of the Basestars. Sir Captain Smith is hailing" "put him through" "Jeremy how's Vengeance?" " not to bad, only minor damage, Freedom?" "Same here. Thank God for model sevens." "How do you know which model it was?" "Simple, any commander with half a brain would have tried to get far enough away to use missiles but whoever was commanding that patrol didn't. only one Cylon model has that sought of incompetence and that's the model sevens" "Why are they so bad?" "Imagine putting a mid level bureaucrat in charge on an Omega" "Well at least we know the jamming works" "How so Jeremy" "well that last Basestar tried to escape and warn the others. If they had been able to transfer to new bodies then there would be no need" "Well it looks like the tech boys got it right for once, lets go and check out Aires. Even if the Cylons couldn't transfer it won't be long before they miss that patrol."

Cylon Occupied Caprica…..

"Have we received any news on that missing patrol" the model 6 in charge of Caprica asked the model 1 "Boomer". "A Centurion is brining the report from the fighter sent to investigate now." "By your command" "report Centurion" "The patrol has been destroyed" "Six Basestars destroyed!" Six was quickly going into one of rages so One intervened "are the weapons used to destroy the patrol known to us?" "Yes. The Scimitars were destroyed by colonial suppression batteries while the basestars were destroyed by laser beams and proton cannons belonging to the Earth Alliance.

The scream echoed around Caprica. It was the scream of a child whose parents have just come home… and decided it's time they were grounded.