As someone born after the first release of Battlestar Galactica 2003, I love this series with all my heart, and its amongst my favorite, along with Mass Effect, HALO, Stargate and Star Trek. I might be a random teenager who decided to write a story inspired by countless others, but I hope you enjoy.
This story is going to have like five chapters in this post-First Cylon war period before there will be a large timeskip to just before the Second Cylon War.
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Battlestar Galactica: Avalon
12.12.1964 C.E
Colonial Calendar
Office of the President of the United Colonies of Kobol
4 Years Post-First Cylon War
President Leo Thomas
The President walked around the Selenis Office, which was vaguely shaped like a crescent, as he listened to the proposal delivered by admirals Tom Nagala and Leah Aetos, along with the secretary of Defence, Alex Georgios, and Commandant Ella Martinez of the Colonial Marine Corps.
" How are we going to get a hundred million people off-world? That is my question." President Thomas Inquired.
" Mister President, the plan is following the establishment of the colony, we will begin slowly transfer colonists to the colony across ten years through a series of immigration convoys. All the people we need, sir. Engineers, architects, scientists, workers, and their families. Meanwhile, the coverup will have them be marked as working in various companies across, and even beyond the colonies. " Admiral Nagala replied.
" Also would give the Colonial Stellar cartography corps something to do. To find new worlds, as they were intended to." Secretary Georgios added.
He thought for a minute, and sighed." For the gods and colonies, I wish I made made the right decision. I officially authorize Operation Pioneer." Picking up a pen, he signed the proposal, beginning a long chain of events That would save the colones.
Over 7 Months Later
17.7.1965 C.E.
CDF Caprica City Fleetyards
Rear Admiral Tobias Ferren in command
The rear admiral scanned the briefing packet one last time.
When he was approached by admiral Nagala, this, he thought, was definitely not what he expected to hear. And not even thinking, he quickly accepted the proposal, and moved onto his new posting.
Now, he was aboard the newly refit Jupiter Flight-IIC Class Battlestar, the enormous battlestar CDF Wanderer, looking around his brand-new quarters. The ship was constructed just in time to join the First Cylon war, exceptionally blew up a few Cylon ships, before being entrusted as one of the battlestars defending Caprica's critical orbital transit station, Caprica Terminal, until it was pulled into the yards for a full refit.
Looking at one of his two screens, he saw the batttlestar Galactica, one of the prides of the colonial fleet, one of the first Jupiter-class battlestars ever manufactured, floating nearby, tugs pulling it into a Fleetyard dock, while the Artemis-class Battlestar CDF Demeter, one of the few remaining in service, and the Valkyrie-class battlestars CDF Olympia, CDF Wayfarer and CDF Eros formed a formation.
The expeditionstar CDF Sojourner, previously an Artemis-class battlestar like the Demeter, renamed from the CDF Mercury, whose name has been transferred to a brand new Jupiter just off the massive dockyards of Scorpion shipyards.
Visually, both of the Sojourner's flight pods were heavily modified. One was sealed, with the bay entrances covered and instead fit with airlocks, and the other had two smaller scientific vessels inside. On the exterior, blue stripes lined the ship, and on the side, bright lights illuminated her proud name.
On his personal sound system, a newsfeed from the planet below was playing.
" The Kobol Expedition will consist of a total of five battlestars,and a battlestar converted into a expedition vessel, named the CDF Sojourner. Their objective is to find our long-lost homeworld, Kobol. At the same time, Stardust Incorporated, a Leonis-based startup and aerospace conglomerate, has announced their own plans for an expedition to unknown space to discover an exoplanet. In other news, the Military budget has been decreased to 5.1 Trillion Cubits from 5.5 Trillion Cubits as pirate attacks ris-"
Pressing a button on his keyboard, it shut down, as he removed his e-pad, a military version of civilian E-sheets, from a drawer.
E-Sheets and E-Pads were considered too important to be discarded, being considered crucial technology following the Cylon war. However, they are highly secure, holding no data that could be considered restricted, officially, anyways, designed to immediately cut off from any wireless connection if a foreign extrusion occurred, and most critically, cut off from any vital fleet systems.
Looking at the exterior view screen, he saw yet another two battlestars, the Jupiter Mk.1E-class battlestars Avalon and Odysseus, Tylium Thermal Drives bringing them to a burn towards Gemenon.
He received a call from his communications officer, Lieutenant Carol Herman. Picking up the phone, her voice rang through. " Admiral, the Sojourner will be departing the dock in five minutes, and join the formation ten minutes after that."
" Thank you, lieutenant,I am on my way." He replied, and hung up.
Standing up, he walked to his door and opened it, then upon exiting, a marine guarding the door slammed it shut.
Walking the brief distance to the CIC, the marine guarding the door gave a salute, and he nodded, before the marine opened the door and he walked into the CIC, taking a place at the central status table.
Green and blue dots covered the space around Caprica, tens of thousands of ships going to and forth the colonies. Dozens of battlestars and warships, from the small Bezirk-class cruisers and Valkyrie-class Light battlestars, to much larger Minerva and Artemis class battlestars,to finally the enormous Jupiter and Jupiter Mark two, commonly known as Columbia-class battlestars, only just over a hundred out of the almost six-and-a-half hundred active battlestars in the fleet.
" Admiral on deck!" Someone yelled, and he replied with a quick " At ease".
Looking around, he took in a Deep breath.
" Status Report?"
Lieutenant Herman and the DRADIS Officer, Lieutenant Leon Jackson both turned towards him, but lieutenant Herman got the first word.
" SIr, the Sojourner will be leaving dock soon, putting it on screen."
Two of the screens shifted, one a DRADIS Display focused on the location of the Sojourner in one of the two dozen Battlestar-tonnage docks in the station, and the other a external camera focused on the Sojourner herself.
The background chatter lit up.
" Caprica City Shipyard Control, this is Expeditionstar Sojourner Actual, Commander Daniel Ferren in command, board is green, we are ready for cast off. Civillan director Jacklyn Stryker sends her regards." He heard the familiar voice of his younger brother of 5 years, Daniel, said.
" Sojourner, Caprica City Shipyard Control, you are clear to cast off. May the gods be with you, so say we all. Caprica City Shipyard control out." The voice of a young woman rang out.
" So say we all, may the gods be with you too, Sojourner actual out." He knew that his brother was not religious, far from it, but he knew that he still respected those who practice religion, like a quarter of the population.
Docking tubes and other pipelines quickly detached from the expedition star, before the magnetic moorings begun using magnetic fields, assisted by the Sojourner's own RCS Thrusters, pushed the massive ship out of dock.
" Sojourner is cleared of moorings, engines activating, Burning RCS."
The RCS Thrusters moved the ship up vertically, as it's mighty Tylium engines ignited in a brilliant blue, even as RCS Thrusters burnt.
Reaching the relative ' Height' of the rest of the group, the engines burnt a giant blue plume, accelerating the ship towards the rest of the group.
The admiral looked at his epad again. After the Sojourner joined the formation, they were to prepare for a FTL Jump to the mobile expeditionary platform Avalon, rondezvousing with the civillan fleet, support fleet, and colonization ships, well over two-hundred ships carrying hundreds of thousands of people in total, with millions more waiting in colony ships.
Then go through 99 Jumps to a habitable exoplanet.
" Incoming message from Sojourner sir, its commander Ferren." Lieutenant Herman responded.
" On speakers, Lieutenant." The admiral commanded.
" This is Commander Daniel Ferren of the Expeditionstar Sojourner to Wanderer actual, requesting permission to enter fleet formation at coordinates C-103-0-330."
Picking up a phone, he replied. " This is Wanderer actual, you are cleared to enter formation."
Fleet vipers and raptors were keeping curious civilian yachts and news ships away from the fleet formation.
As the Sojourner entered formation, the admiral gestured to open a communications channel to Caprica traffic command.
" Caprica STS, this is Admiral Tobias Ferren in command of Battlestar Expedition Group 01, requesting permission to initiate FTL Jump
In approximately T-minus ten minutes."
A middle-aged man responded. " This is Caprica STS Actual, BEG-01 is cleared for FTL Jump at space lane 7-3, may the gods be with you. Caprica STS out."
" Start the clock for ten minutes, all crew to general quarters, this is not a drill." He ordered.
" Aye, sir." The lieutenant reached towards the PA system. " All hands, we will be initiating FTL Jump in T-Minus ten minutes. General quarters, general quarters, all hands to battle stations, this is not a drill."
The clock ticked down rapidly, as the crew braced for the jump.
Minutes turned into seconds.
" Twenty, nineteen, eighteen, seventeen,"
He braced on the primary console, ready for the jump.
" Sixteen, fifteen, fourteen, thirteen, twelve, ten,"
He thought about his wife, who was with the civilian portion of the expedition. He realised that he haven't saw her in a whole month.
" Nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one, jump."
Several brief tears in the fabric of space-time opened, each pulling a ship of the expeditionary group, then disappeared, leaving behind pure vacuum.
He felt the ship go foward and his stomach lurched for a second, before the jump concluded.
" Status?" He inquired.
This time, Lieutenant Jackson responded.
" All systems nominal, hull stresses within normal parameters. We are detecting the civillan fleet, support fleet, and the Avalon."
Lieutenant Herman added. " We are receiving a hail from the Avalon, sir!"
" On speakers!" He replied.
A man's voice replied. " Admiral Farren. This is Commander Nicolas Ares of colonial fleet expeditionary station Avalon, we are ready to receive you."
" Thank you, commander, we will be on our way within the hour."
Minutes later, he was on a raptor flying towards the massive station. Five kilometres in height, the station was equipped with a grand total of four massive FTL drives and a prototype Tylium Fission reactor. Looking out of the door viewport of the transport raptor.
The raptor approached and begun docking to the station, shaped Ike the older Daidalos-class mobile shipyards, and equipped with similar shipyard facilities too.
Entering a airlock, the airlock cycled, and soon, the raptor set down on a designated landing pad, thrusters powering down, and he saw a small greeting party.
Upon getting The admiral unbuckled himself from the jumpseat, and pulled the door release, before the hatch opened, and he climbed out of the relatively cramped Raptor shuttle.
The door popped open to reveal a small party of three colonial marines, and several civilians. A man in a fleet uniform, who he knew was Commander Ares came up, and gave him a salute. " Welcome, Admiral Ferren. I am Commander Ares of the Avalon of the Colonial Expeditionary Corps."
He gave back a salute. " At ease, commander, its great to finally see you in person."
The commander nodded and gave a slight smile. " If you will follow me to the Command Centre,"
The Admiral was given a small tour of the station and a briefing. He was suitably impressed. Instead of a standard tylium or Uranium fission core, this station held the first ever Colonial Nuclear Fission Reactor powered from the unstable, yet powerful resource known as tylium, at a size great enough to power the station. He was given a briefing of the station's powerful Electrothermal Thermochemical Kinetic guns, massive Point Defence systems with hundreds of guns, and most impressive of all, a sizable city within the Centre core of the station, vertical and cylindrical, holding hundreds of thousands of people.
After a brief tour, he was led to a laboratory on the station.
Holding two cups of coffee, he walked into the lab, and to a familiar person, busy looking at something on a console.
He put down a cup of coffee next to the table. " Thank you." His wife, Sara Ferren, replied, hair disheveled.
" No problem." He replied, and smiled as she suddenly turned toward him and blinked. " W-wait, when did you arrive?" She stammered.
" Just less than a h-" He was suddenly enveloped in a hug, tighter than anything he would expect from her small size.
" I missed you." She said.
" Me too." He replied.
7 Days Later
19.12.1964 C.E.
Colonial Standard Calendar
Hades' Shroud Nebula
CDF Wanderer
" All ships are in formation. We are eight minutes from scheduled FTL Jump." An aide reported.
Admiral Ferren nodded, smiling. This jump will bring them far outside colonial space, further than any human has gone before in millenia. The idealistic and curious explorer deep within him was pleased, very pleased.
" Director Stryker is on fleetwide, sir!"
" On speakers. " He nodded.
The director, a friend of his, and a close friend of his wife, begun speaking.
" This is Director Stryker. Today, we step on this journey, far away from our homes. Today, we go beyond, to secure the future of mankind. To discover strange, new worlds. Today, we go further beyond than anyone has in millenia. Today, the people of the Colonies come as one, to advance our knowledge. I thank and applaud your bravery, to go this far. Let's do this, people."
He ordered. " Open fleetwide channel."
" Chanel open, sir!"
" This is Admiral Tobias Ferren, military commander of this expedition. As director Stryker said, we are going further than anyone has ever gone in millenia. I swear, on behalf of the fleet, that we will defend you to the best of our abilities. So say we all."
The phrase " So say we all!" Echoed around the fleet.
The Admiral moved to the central command table, as the shipwide, and fleetwide alert for a FTL jump begun blaring. Looking at the table, he could hear, despite being hundreds of meters away, the rumbling and loud whirring as the ships' powerful FTL Drives begun to spin up.
" Sir, we are synchronizing our FTL Jump clock with Avalon station. We are 5 minutes away from the jump." Lieutenant Herman reported.
" Last check. What is the status of the fleet? " HE asked.
Herman responded. " Sir, all-good. All ships are in formation around the Avalon platform. All ships have full viper and raptor complements, and our weapons are topped up. Tylium tanks are at 98.4%, and we will have to top up after about 20 jumps."
" Good. I will be In my quarters. You have the conn." He walked out towards his quarters nearby, and opened the door, before quickly closing it, and walking towards his wife, gave her a hug.
" You ready?" He asked,smiling.
" As ready as I'll ever be," She smiled back.
" All hands, T-Minus thirty seconds,"
They both sat down on the sofa in his quarters, as the countdown continued. " FTL systems synchronized. Jumping beyond red line in T-Minus ten, nine,eight, six," He squeezed his wife's hand, as the countdown reached the end.
" Five, four, three, two, one,"
He braced for the jump.
" Jump,"
The ship lurched for a second, before it went back to normal. Hundreds of meters below, engineers cheered, as the ship's location was confirmed,
Across the PA, it was confirmed. " Jump complete. All vessels and stations accounted for. All hands cleared from FTL, and are cleared to return to duty. Clock has started for second jump in eight hours. We are beyond the red line. Repeat, we are beyond the red line."
Pioneer Expedition
Assigned Vessels
Colonial Fleet
Expeditionary Platform
CFES Avalon
Avalon-class FTL-Capable Expeditionary Habitat
25,000 Crew Members
500,000 Colonists
5,000 Civillan Research Personnel
2x500 Marine Battalions
12x(50,000) Haven-Class Colony Vessels
Haven . Colony . Pioneer . Refuge . Kobol . Foundation . Creation . Artemis . Stardust. Nimble . Spirit . Faithful
4x(5000) Fauna-Class Colonial Terraforming Vessels
Fauna . Planter . Lifebringer . Adaption
4x(2,100) Leapstage-Class Construction Vessels
Leapstage . Constructor . Leapfrog . Builder
6x(4,000) Vibrant Bay-Class Botanical Cruisers
Vibrant Bay . Sunset Bay . Lifeful Bay . Sunset Bay . Starwatch Bay . Clear Bay
4(1,400) Transit-Class Tylium Mining-processing Tankers
Tylium Fever Miner Pickaxe Digger
Capital Ships
CDF Wanderer
Jupiter-II Class Refit Battlestar, Military Flagship
2,745 Fleet Personnel
255 Civillan Research Personnel
Commisioned 5.4.1955
Commanding Officer- ADM. Ferren, Tobias
Vessel Merits-
First Cylon War Service Medal
First Cylon War Combat Medal
First Cylon War Victory Medal
Distinguished Combat Service Medal ( 3x )
Combat Star ( 4x )
Ribbon of the Defence of the Colonies
Aquarian Offensive Medal
Saggitaron Defender Medal
Canceron Defender Medal
Caprican Merit of Defence
Executive Distinguished Unit Commendation ( By President Leo Thomas, 24"th June, 1961 For exceptional service in the Line of Battle )
Silver Efficiency Ribbon
Recorded Kills- 21
Largest-
Hades-Class Basestar CY-10114 ( Gun KIll )
CDF Demeter
Artemis-II Class Refit Battlestar
900 Fleet Personnel
Commisioned 5.5.1959
Commanding Officer- CDR. Frayes, Benjamin
Vessel Merits
Class-2 Efficiency Medal
Saggitaron counterinsurgency Campaign Medal
Recorded kills-
1
Largest-
Rogue Colonial vessel " Pride of Saggitarus" Ex-Queenstown, Artemis-class Battlestar, Thermonuclear Warhead
CDF Wayfarer
Valkyrie Block-II Light assault Battlestar
750 Fleet Personnel
20 Research Personnel
Commisioned 5.5.1962
Commanding officer- CDR. Cronin, Thomas
Vessel Merits
1963 Fleet Games Victory Medal
Saggitaron Counterinsurgency Campaign Medal
Recorded Kills-
3
Largest-
Pirate-commandeered Bezerk-class Assault cruiser " Skullbreaker" through Conventional Ship-To-Ship Missiles
CDF Olympia
Valkyrie-Block-I Refit light assault Battlestar
850 Fleet Personnel
Commisioned 1.5.1958
Commanding officer- Commander Jacklyn Aria
Vessel Merits-
Combat Star
First Cylon War Service Medal
First Cylon War Combat Medal
First Cylon War Victory Medal
Canceron Defender Medal
Hammer Fleet Offensive Ribbon
Silver Efficiency Ribbon
Confirmed kills-
11 Ships
Largest-
Cylon Hades-Class Basestar CY-11044 Via boarding team
CDF Eros
Valkyrie-Block-IIIX Experimental Light assault Battlestar
610 Fleet Personnel
40 Research Personnel
Commisioned 16.6.1964
Commanding officer- Commander Athena Jackson-Smith
Vessel Merits-
Class-1 Efficiency Ribbon
5x(1,200) Hammer-Class Assault Gunstars
CDF Fist CDF Ruby CDF Nimble CDF Star Hammer CDF Hammer Down
2x(5,000) Insertion-Class Marinestars
CDF. Assault CDF. Sergeant Heston Kinas
2x(11,000) Jumppoint-Class Mobile Dockyard Tenders
CDF. Jumppoint CDF Avalon
3x(400) Firepoint-Class Firestars
CDF. Precise CDF. Vanquisher CDF. Killmonger
7x(100) Type-7A Patrolstar-Class Frigates
PS-7-944 Pinch PS-7-311 Seeker PS-7-475 Privateer PS-7-233 Jacobson PS-7-542 Hard Hitter PS-7-543 Fist of the Gods PS-7-564 Cutter
Current Changes from Battlestar Galactica 2003 Canon
1948-1960 C.E.- During the first Cylon war, out of the estimated 913.4 Million Cylon units manufactured by humanity, approximately 4.9 Million Cylons remained loyal to the Human side.
4.87 Million did not survive. 30,000 Exiled themselves from the Colonies, waiting in the intersystem void 400 Light years from Cyrannus, in an advanced, peaceful, colony, waiting for Humanity to one day rediscover them, so that they could serve their masters again.
Meanwhile, 8 Basestars, under Isis, a rogue IX-Class Cylon, in opposition of the Human-type Cylons, jumped into deep space, intending to build their own colony. They did not succeed, but they survived.
1964 C.E.- Operation Pioneer Begins
2015 C.E.- Second Cylon War Begins
Standard Human Lifespan By 1964- 110 Years