Battlestar Galactica, BSG-75, 120su's from Caprica.
Commander William Adama was at his cabin, looking at a picture of both his sons that was taken fifteen years earlier, where eight-year old Lee and Zak, merely three were with him at the front of one of the old Viper MkII's on a Caprican Defense Command airbase.
Suddenly the phone buzzed and he answered it.
"Adama" he said.
"Sir, we just received a message from Fleet HQ, priority one in the clear" Lt. Gaeta could be heard though the wireless.
"What does it say?" Adama said and the Lieutenant's voice said shakily "Attention all Colonial Units, Cylon attack underway, this it not a drill, all fleet units are to report combat preparedness to Fleet Command in order to be assigned respective roles".
Suddenly Adama's heart skipped a beat, one of his worst nightmares was that the Cylons came back, but this time they would win this war.
"Okay, set condition one around the ship".
Fifteen minutes after the initial attacks
CIC, Galactica
"Sitrep" Adama said as he entered CIC.
"Condition one confirmed sir, all decks ready for tasking" Gaeta responded calmly.
"Good, XO, we're on a shooting war and need ammunition, what are our options?" Adama asked to Col. Tigh.
"Remember Fleet HQ ordered us to take all available ammo" Adama said.
"I'l check fleet inventory to see if there are any ammo depots near" Tigh said.
"And please, get Kara Thrace out of the brig" Adama ordered
Half an hour later
"There is a fleet depot ten SU's from here, inventory check says it is loaded with 720 16- round tungsten pallets for the main railguns, 64 packs of 20mm rounds for the Vipers, two hundred AA missiles, twelve Shipbuster tactical nukes, and five 50kt nukes" Tigh suddenly stopped.
"Oh boy, you gotta' be kidding me on this one" Tigh said impressed.
"What?" Adama asked
"Inventory said they have a dozen Reaper gunships, twelve MkVII's and eight F-64A atmo. fighters".
The Reaper gunship was an enlarged version of a Raptor, had more powerful engines and had a crew of three instead of two, the pilot, ECO and weapons officer, they were made during the First War in order to assist Close Air Support when launched from Battlestars, and carried two 35mm chain guns, four HD-70 Lighting air-to-air missiles, two Picon Deliverer Tylium warheads, which were designed to penetrate thick hulls and explode, destroying internal sections and the armor plating of the enemy ship.
The F-64A was a fighter design which was being implemented by the Caprican Air Force, they were designed for extreme maneuverability and could handle 16g's and achieve Mach 5, they had two Pulse Detonation engines and were made to fight Cylon Raiders in atmospheric conditions, they carried six AA-69 anti-air missiles and had two 20mm RCW-2b chain guns and could carry a wide variety of air-to-ground ordnance.
"Good gods, that's a lot of punch" He turned to Lt. Gaeta and asked "How far are we from the fleet depot?"
"Twelve hours at full sublight" Gaeta said.
"Too slow" Adama said.
"Bill, you don't wanna' do this" Tigh said already knowing what Adama was thinking about.
"Nav, start prep for an FTL jump" Adama said.
"Emm…Yes sir, right away" Said an already nervous Lt Gaeta.
"What do we do now?" Tigh asked to Adama.
"We rearm, take everything out of that depot and we jump to Virgon" Adama said.
"Then what?" Tigh asked.
"We give them' hell" Adama said grinning.