"The Cylon ship is heading for the planet, not for us," Anderson finally reported. "But Captain? There's something in orbit, several somethings, and they're not Cylons."
"Another species?" Someone asked. "Or a lost colony?"
"Could be almost anything," Starbuck said. "Question is, are they friendly?"
"How's the Cylon responding to them?" Lee asked. That was the crucial question, because they really didn't need another enemy. The Cylons were quite bad enough.
"Hold on a momen... the Cylons are close... the Cylons have opened fire." The battle was far distant and showing only dimly on most of the scopes, and the Federia wouldn't even be seeing that much, since it was an old cranky ship without modern equipment or anything even close to it. "Whoa! The Cylon ship was just destroyed."
"What, just destroyed? Just like that?"
"Evidently, sir," Anderson said.
"Well, that was... unusual," Starbuck said. Even the entire squadron would have been hard-put to do that kind of damage in ten times the time.