After that initial launch, the days began to blur together. Life became simply a routine of jump, search, jump, repeat. The six Colonials barely had time to eat or sleep as they did their best to uncover the last remnants of humanity.
On Geminon, Boomer led them to the High Temple where they found twelve survivors. She claimed they were alive simply because the Cylons would not come into a house of false gods. It took Lee over five hours to convince the survivors that their best option was to abandon the house of worship to join with the Colonial Fleet. He found it ironic that he was the one speaking to them of the gods' plan for humanity. Kara had always been the religious one.
On Aquaria, Helo stumbled upon five survivors who had taken up residence in a cave down by the Seas of Poseidia. As they were leading them back to their ship, Kara and Lee fought about whether they had time to perform a sweep of the areas covered in water. She thought there might be a chance that some underwater facilities made it through the holocaust while he deemed there was no possible way. While they were arguing, a brigade of Centurians came upon them, and they were almost lost.
On Virgon, seventy-nine people were saved. Kara and Lee went through the whole operation without saying a word together. They simply worked as a seamless team.
On Leonis, they found only one survivor, a child hiding in the rough forest surrounding an abandoned school. The little girl never said a word to them.
On Tauron, they searched for three days without rest but did not come across one survivor. Instead they discovered farm after farm. Lee did his best to keep his troops moving without drawing attention to the fact that he was the only thing keeping Kara from collapsing under the strain of memories relived.
On Sagittaron, Anders risked his life to pull a family of six out of a minefield created by the Cylon bombs. They finished their survey of the planet in under two days and were able to blow up over twenty farms before jumping to FTL with the sixty-three survivors. Everyone turned their heads to the way Kara cried as she opened fire on the farms. Everyone ignored the way she fell into the comfort of Lee's arms as they stepped outside their Vipers when the offensive was over.
On Scorpion, they found the whole planet to be an ashy shell of what once was. The complete devastation brought on by the Cylons had killed every living person, animal, and plant. There was nothing to save.
On Canceron, through careful planning and execution, they somehow managed to squeeze one-hundred-fifty-two survivors onto their ship. No one would entertain the idea of leaving those who were worst off behind. While en route, two people succumbed to the nuclear radiation poisoning. Kara helped Lee quietly dispose of the bodies out the airlock. No one commented on the fact that Apollo and Starbuck were spending more and more time off on their own.
On Aerilon, one of the seventy-six survivors turned out to be Sharon Valerii's best friend from Academy. They had been roommates who bonded over their shared memories of the Troy mining colony. Lee managed to secure an empty storage locker on the ship to tell her that the woman she had loved so dearly was really a machine. Kara stood outside the door and did her best to ignore the sobs and cries coming from within.
On Libris, their ship broke down while they were jumping to FTL with the thirty survivors they found in the High Hills. Cally threw everything she had into the repairs as Kara and Lee did their best to protect the ship with only the weapons attached to their Vipers. The ship barely made it back to the Fleet before the main engine caught fire.
The survivor total stood at four-hundred-sixteen with one last colony to search.
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