Wow two chapters aka story's at once I've never done that before xD this story isn't a crossover just an au of Battlestar Galactica calling this story Battlestar Galactica- the power of a Paranoid Admiral
If you asked anyone what they thought about Admiral Hutson they would say that he was a paranoid old fossil past his time. But none the less he was brilliant he happen to command the Battlestar Pacifica during the first Cylon war so his paranoia was understandable. He had also come from Scorpia with strong ties to the ship construction industry. And ever since the Valkyrie's mission to cross the red line into Cylon territory. Hutson had push thought a few projects to strengthen the fleet while trying to keep as few as possible ship's getting any network upgrades that he thought could be hacked with in this was the CNP program.
Using his considerable influence he had constructed a design he had made himself. Only two had been made for testing like with the Battlestar being meant to be able to take over any ship based combat role the Constructionstar was meant to take over all support roles as such it had hydroponics labs, science labs, a large medical bay and many manufacturing and refinery plants to be able to create any current device in the colonies along with mining facilities to be able mine on asteroids or land on a planet and mine ore from their it also has the ability to constructed up to two Mercury class Battlestars at a time along with it's vipers and raptors. It is also able to create more Constructionstars. The ship looks like the old first Cylon war Basestar it class name is the Hephaestus however for all the functions put into the Constructionstar their isn't to many weapons it has a complete CIWS but it's anti capital ability is limited to it's 16 heavy missile launchers. Only two had been made so far the Hephaestus it's self and the Vulcan (which is just another name for Hephaestus).
He also using his influence when the idea of turning Galactica into a museum he manage to push thought that to include the Pacifica and Athena that where going to be scrapped and he added the Columbia as a demonstration of the Construction star's ability. The four Battlestars where going to be restored to their original specification and have a once over to try and find any problems that needed to be fixed. However he added a viper construction facility so they would be able to replace any of the Viper Mk II and Mk III they had been supplied with. Along with viper simulation facility so that those who come to the museum could experience what it was likes to be in an Mk II or Mk III during the first Cylon war. At least that was the reason Admiral Hutson used to vindicate the inclusion.
He also manage to have the Mercury class Battlestars Pegasus and the Mercury it's self along with the Valkyrie class Battlestars Valkyrie, Ares, Prometheus and the Cerberus along with their vipers and raptors thou he wished the bean counter had taking his idea to improve the Valkyrie class by basically just gluing two together bottom to bottom that take away a massive weakness in the class and double the amount of vipers and raptors and even if they didn't put in the new side wards facing launch tubes and only did the easy to do thing of add three each on the back 12 tubes instead of six would still increase launch rate . Thou also double class cost and volume. None of which had been refit with the CNP yet with Admiral Hutson delaying the upgrade as much as possible. And this is state of things when the 40th anniversary of the end of the first Cylon war rolled around. And the beginning of the second Cylon war began.
This start of a story is kind of short but I wasn't able to think of anything else that was needed for the start of the premises that wouldn't take away creativreative direction to who ever adopts the story.