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Chapter 14 – Trap is Strung
The military had all agreed to the rescue operation and a plan had been devised, Telmaya would get in close to the planet to draw the attention of the planet's defenders while using its EMP Cannon to give the landing ground forces some assistance by firing on the Cylon compound to dehabilitate the centurions. The ground forces would FTL jump into the upper atmosphere and land, then they would get the civilians into the ships impounded near the prison complex.
While the largest warship in the fleet was doing this the others would take on the 4 baseships defending the planet and Vipers would launch to intercept Raiders and support ground forces
As the different fleet leaders left Seth stood looking over the reconnaissance information and he called out
"Colonel Shaw, Colonel Ishii a moment please" and the two female officers stopped walking towards the door and came to his side
"Twenty thousand civilians, with the means to evacuate them nearby" he said as the two women looked at the charts and maps
"Lucky" Ishii said while she seemed to get what he was getting at by the sort of very serious tone of her
"Trap" Kendra said
"Trap" Seth said confirming that he thought the same
"Why don't they see it?" Ishii asked
"They don't want to; so many of out kind to save blinds them to the obvious especially now that the Cylons will know that we're coming after the battle earlier" Seth said and silence gripped the trio of officers
"So are we going to help them?" Kendra asked and Seth nodded
"Why if we know its a trap?" Ishii asked, Seth turned to face her
"Because given there are now so few of us we need the numbers, but we are not going blind. If the mission looks like its going south worse than anticipated we abort" he told his two highest officers
"And the civilians on the planet?" Ishii asked
Seth nodded "If we can by all means but we have to think about the fleet"
The solemn attitude fell upon the three considering that they might not able to rescue the civilians on the planet surface
The time eventually came for the operation to begin, all the pilots were waiting in their vipers and raptors, ordinance was locked and loaded, all crews were at their combat stations and the civilian fleet took refuge inside an asteroid belt at low power to confuse Cylon dradis
But there was a last minute crew rooster change, the Vulcan's chief engineer was still unconscious in the ship's medical bay so Major Sheba Cain was temporarily filling in
Then it was time for battle and Telmaya jumped away to begin stage one
The Cylon Baseships around the planet were moving in a diamond formation around the planet, so if a ship approached from a distance or jumped in between two of the ships then the ships could easily converge on the target
Telmaya did something however that was near completely unexpected, due to her Cylon FTL upgrades she managed to jump right close into the upper atmosphere
In the CIC the ship shook as the air currents battered the ship, everyone was clinging to their stations
Seth and Kendra braced themselves against the center console and Seth ordered
"Target the compound, fire the cannon"
"Aye sir" the tactical officer said
The front of Telmaya started to glow a bright blue and then a huge blast of blue light erupted from the same area, it struck the Cylon compound, shutting the centurions down and waking the prisoners as they heard the roar of the mighty ships engines as she passed over head before vanishing in a flash of light
The mighty ship then reappeared in orbit of planet, vipers suddenly started to emerge from the pontoons on the side of the ship as the baseships closed in
One of the pilots who was the first out was Captain Serina otherwise known as Siren
Then the other colonial military vessels jumped in, the marines into the planet's atmosphere and the big military ships jumped in
Only for a another group of flashes appear behind them
On the Telmaya CIC everyone looked in horror as a new group of unfriendly contacts appeared on the dradis
"How many?" Seth asked in a voice without emotion Amelia
She looked at her console and said in a solemn tone "Eleven Baseships"
Seth gritted his teeth, five on eleven this was going to be a very interesting fight
Till next time
Next time the real fight begins and not everyone will be coming home