Chapter 3

Colonial Stealthstar Alpha 1

"Alpha 1, to all alphas. Target is in sight. All fighters stand by to deliver the package." The package was the 30 of the most expensive missiles the colonies had ever produced. In the 7 years that they had been using the ring of the gods they had heard much about the so called tau'ri. One of the things they had learnt was that earth had very advanced ships with a powerful energy shield. So regular missiles would not do. That's where the element came in. no one knew what its true name was, what was know was the fact that it increased the power of nuclear by an order of ten. So a 5 megaton warhead became a 50 megaton warhead. And with 30 of them not even the tau'ri could shrug that off. Or the Cylons for that matter, if they ever came back they would find the colony's more than prepared.

"10 seconds to firing range, 15 until we fire" He said while double checking the targeting solution, at 3 million a Missile they literally could no afforded to miss.

"In range." He said removing the safety key from the Missile launch control. All three of the Missiles in the fighters bomb bay were

"3..2..1….Fire." He made a quick prayer of forgiveness to the Gods before pushing down the fire button

From beneath the body of the 10 stealth stars came 30 missiles all bearing down on there target. HMS Royal Sovereign.

HMS Royal Sovereign

"CIC, Sensors. Vampire, Vampire! Missiles incoming 40 plus."

" Shields up, Weapons free. Launch all fighters. Activate the Beacon." The officer of the watch hurriedly shouted. He quickly palmed the control to activate the shield and automated defence systems. Simultaneously a Loud Klaxon blared throughout the ship summoning the crew to action stations.

Across the hull of the mighty warship dozens of rail guns opened up on the incoming missiles. And from across 4 points on the hull SpaceDart anti-missiles missiles left there launchers all heading for the swarm of nukes. The first to hit were the rail gun rounds destroying 7 missiles in their first salvo but after this the enemy missiles started jinks and evade. The railguns were still getting kills but it was harder now. Then the SpaceDarts hit 12 missiles fired, 12 kills.

But that still left 6 missiles coming straight at the hull, one of the fighters managed to get a lucky kill but the remaining 5 hit. 2 hit at the front of the ship the Asgard designed shields just holding one hit on top port launch tube taking the shields down to 20%. The next one went right behind conning tower taking the shields to 5%. Then the last hit right on the starboard launch bay. The shield gave in and the blast completely destroyed nearly the entire bay and what was not destroyed was ripped off the hull.

After seeing the destruction on their mother ship the 8 remaining fighters – the 8 other fighters of red squadron were destroyed with the launch bay – they immediately went after the stealth stars which were destroyed in their own missile storm of 16 missiles.

The colonial vipers that had been launched had no idea what do as they could not detect the stealthstars it seemed like the missiles just appeared.

The decision of what to do was made up for them when 3 new ships jumped in. two mercury class Battlestars and one Marinestar.

SGC,NORAD

Sgt Siler looked at the data link he had just received from HMS Royal Sovereign and decided that it was going to be a long day. The ship had been crippled by a nuclear weapon and was now in the process of being boarded by the colonial marines. He quickly bounced the transmission to HMS Dreadnought and he then went off to find Gen Landry.

It would be A long day indeed.

HMS Dreadnought BC-304. On maneuvers in Sol system

" Admiral Sheridan" a young seaman came running into his office carrying a peace of paper " priority one dispatch from Royal Sovereign, sir" he said out of breath as he put the paper on the admiral's desk .

Sheridan quickly became angry as he read through the dispatch. So the colonials had double crossed them waiting until the captain was onboard there ship then attacking without warning. And now after criperling the ship they were trying to board it. Well he was going to give the colonials a lesson in why you don't mess with the royal navy.

"Seaman" he growled. The young man snapped automatically to attention "order the Task Group to form up. Are going to get are ship back."

Outside of the ship the rest of the Group formed up the 2 Royal navy BC-303 escorts HMS Battleaxe and HMS Renown as well as the American BC-304 Olympia, Independence and Freedom. As well as the French SCV-01 carrier Fosh.

Every ship had received the message of what had happened so it was with a grim determination that they formed up into battle formation and set off onto hyperspace ready to do what ever it takes to get there lost ship back.

This still left 6 reaming defending earth 2 American Battlecruisers, 2 Russian Battlecruisers, 1 Chinese Dreadnought and Finally 1 EU Carrier in case they were needed.