Homeworld Command CIC
The Pentagon
Washington DC
The effects of the pulse were worst than any threat analysis could have foreseen. All over the nation thousands of electric cars were exploding everywere, creating car accidents in streets and highways, generating miles of leaving millions stucked in traffic, cities isolated from the supply chain and making law enforcement agencies and first responders very difficult to get to the thousand places they were needed at the same time. Also, lots of personell were unable to reach their bases or precints because of that situation.
This scenario made looting very easy. Great places like Cotsco and Walmart were looted and sometimes burned with almost zero response. Prisons rebelled, and in most cases, the guards ended executing inmates in masse to avoid escapes.
And Europe almost destroys itself. The news of the pulse included the Korolev and with that triggered the anti Russian rethoric of the Ukrainan war multiplied. Panic ensued and all units in NATO's Europe went to full alert, while the Nordic nations declared the state of war and movilized to launch attacks in the Kola peninsula and the Russian Carelia. But worst was the order issued to the Prince of Wales and the Charles the Gaulle to search and destroy the Korolev. Obviously the Russians,tiredofthe Europe's position in Ukrane, decided end this before started and declared full movilization and deployment of nuclear weapons. In an attempt to stop all this, Ministry Lavrov tried to contact at least someone of the Foreign Office and offer a full ceasefire in Ukraine in exchange of time to avert this crisis, and instructions of threating nuclear strikes in Scapa Flow and NATO bases if the Europeans attacked.
From the Homeworld Command CIC O'Neill tried to convince NATO leadership of the real reason of the Korolev's attack, as well of ordering both 304s to remain in Earth's orbit, or be seized by the Hammond and the Odyssey, now aproaching Sol system at full speed.
After providing the full report of McKay and Zelenka from the Korolev itself, to both sides, a complete standoff and a ceasefire in Ukraine were declared for 48 hs. However, the night for Jack was just getting started.
An Airman, scorted by 4 MP soldiers with M4 carbines, run inside the CIC looking for the General.
-Sir, it's the ... the Pentagon has been breached by unknown forces. We need to evacuate. Now sir!
-What?! How...?-asked Jack but soon that question was postponed by the reality of the situation.
Suddenly the sound of distant firearms shooting, followed by a Fire Alarm, sounded in the whole recint.
-Get me Atlantis. Now.
Atlantis
San Francisco bay
- Colonel Sheppard. Homeworld Command is on the line.
- General, what's the stuation there? The whole country is dark and the Korolev...
-Forget the Korolev, the Pentagon is being overruned! Execute Camelot protocol. Now!
-But by who? Damn It! Confirm, executing now.
Initiate beaming of Homeworld Command personel, and move us to orbit. Now!-ordered Sheppard, everyone run for their stations and the speakers notified the crew. Teyla, Ronon and others leave their beds in panic while the city started to seal itself to prepare departure.
What's left of the ZPM energy started to be drained while the ancient powerful engines activated. The cloaking was still activated but the roaring and the movement of the water outside the San Francisco shoreline became to big to be confused with natural phenomena. However the disturbs and the fires in the city made most of the inhabitants ovblivious about the lift off of Atlantis.
One Hour later
Atlantis
Earth High orbit
-General, Seal Team 6 and 2nd Rangers are on board-informed Sheppard to Jack.
-Contact Olympus, tell them we are on our way-ordered to the Communications officer. Then turn around to both SGC colonels.
-Col. Sheppard, proceed with ST6 and retrieve the President and the Cabinet. Colonel Mitchell, proceed with the 2nd Rangers and retrieve the Congressists. At this hour most of them are sleeping so you get the biggest force.
-Rules of engagement?-asked Mitchell.
-Don't fire unless being fired upon. Lethal force autorized. And trust no one who's not from the military.
--Sir, yes sir!
-Are you sure those black suits don't get there yet?-asked O'Neill to Carter.
-Negative Sr., the life signs in Olympus are as usual. Eagle One and Two are already on the Oval Office waiting for ST6.
-Good. DC National Guard?
- Air National Guard:only half of the Sqn is in the air, the rest went fried by the PEM. The guardsmen are still gathering, many are stuck in the streets. Two airplanes crashed between DC and Bethesda, and one more was able to land in Eckington.
-Where exactly?
-Rhode Island Avenue NE sir-aswered a young airman-
First responders are there already. Aparently most of engines and ambulance went unscathed by the PEM. But the electric cars are exploding everywere.
-Tell all our forces, 1st responders included, I want all our roads wide open. Remove any stranded vehicles, and if some people is stupid enough to set an ambush or a roadblock to do some looting, considered them Jaffa colaborators.
-Understood sir.
Oval Office
The White House
Sheppard and the members of the Seal Team 6 materialized in the middle of the room with relaxed but on alert posture. So far the PEM effects don't affect the Presidential Residence, protected by a shield 24/7 since Obama administration. However Camelot protocol indicated the evacuation of the whole line of sucesion to Alpha Site until the crisis passes away.
What should have been a VIP escort mission, in friendly territory, changed as soon as they found themselves in the world renowned office. The President, Joe Biden, the Vice president, Kamala Harris, four West Wing staff members and two Secret Service agents were... Unconcious, with faces of terror, sit in their posts, with eyes wide open.
-What the heck...- exclaimed Sheppard, while the SEALs went to full combat mode drawing their weapons and starting to check the vitals of the people there or taking positions near the doors.
-I have pulse!- screamed Torrens, while checking the President's neck. Sheppard run to him and found a huge burning mark in his forehead.
-The only two cabinet members not here are Thomas-Greenfield and Burns.
-The US ambassador is in New York, I'm sending a team there. Burns... I can't locate his life sign.
-The CIA Director? Why I'm not surprised. Ok, we're leaving. 24 to Beam Up.
-Good, I contacted the DC National Guard, and WDCPD , they will storm the place in minutes. Get out of there before someone stops you.
As soon as they were beamed right to Atlantis infirmary, four M1A2 tanks aproached the White House, followed by dozens of light vehicles and Humvees. A minute later the MBTs brake thorough the walls surrounding the building and advanced right to it. Two Bell UH-1 of the DC Air Nationl Guard fly to the ceiling of the building and deploy two squads, after finding the Secret Service snipers were unconcious.
Atlantis
Infirmary
The Medical staff of Atlantis, heavily reinforced by doctors of the Bethesda Navy Hospital and others, were atending to the cathatonic personnel and political figures retrieved from the White House. Dr. Jennifer Keller was looking thru different scans trying to figure out what exactly was used to inflict such wounds. Teyla and Vala Mal Doran were there to help in anyway they can, also Vala was using her knowledge inherited of her former Goa'uld parasites to get some clues. After seeing a dozen of men and women retrieved from the White House, includying President Biden, she came to the conclusion easily.
-Dr. Keller, those are Kara Kesh wounds. I remember many cases it was used to actually leave a human brain completely... ruined. But I think it could be to fool our life sign sensors. To make us believe they-sad, pointing to every one of the former White House inhabitants- were all safe and sound in their work places.
-Pretty cleaver. According to my analysis they were...attacked at least 6 hours ago. That is 3 and a half hours before we send ST6 there.
-That gives us a time frame to search in the security cameras. I'l contact the DC National Guard.
The situation in the US was a complete disaster. The efforts of General O'Neill and the Homeworld Command aborted the full decapitation of the US Goverment, by a small margin. About 80 % of the Congress was sucesfully rescued from DC and surrounding areas,and now one of the many areas of Atlantis was designated as the de facto Congress. Everyone agree Atlantis was the safest place on Earth, or outside Earth, to keep the United States of America running. The Alpha Site was disregarded because it would look like the country and it's people was left behind.
But, first things first, a new President and Vicepresident should be nominated, as well as a full new cabinet. According to the Line of Succesion of the US, with both President and Vicepresident eliminated, the next person in line was the Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, republican.
Of course that Democrats in the Goverment and the whole country wouldn't be happy at all, but all the Congressman agreed it was not the time for partisan disputes, and they should present an united front to the nation, the world, and now the universe. War make people think their priorities, and being refugees in an Ancient cityship over Earth, while the country was in selfdestruction mode, made many to forget the last years of political divisions.
Surely for many of them it was just a truce until the crisis ended.
Mike Johnson became the 47th President of the USA, and Patty Murray, President pro tempore of the US Senate, democrat, and next in the sucession line, took her oath as Vicepresident. After all the ceremony, the next thing was asking the Congress to declare war on the Jaffa, invoke Article 5 of NATO, and also request help to all the US allies around the world, as well an Emergency meeting of the UN Security Council.
And last but not least, General O'Neill was promoted to General of the Air Force, and designated as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Daniel Jackson was designated as Secretary of State, and General Samantha Carter as Vice chairman.
With now all legalities settled, Presiden Johnson declared Martial Law and State of Emergency and Disaster, and ask Dr. Jackson for a virtual meeting with the Presidents of the UN Security Council members, NATO allies and IOA members, as well any other country he see fit to call.
Conference room
Several screen showed the Presidents of the Russian Federation, People's Republic of China, France, Mexico, Brasil, Turkiye, South Africa, Egypt, and the Prime Ministers of Japan, UK, Australia, Canada, India, the King of Saudi Arabia and the UN Secretary.
-Ladies and Gentleman, first of all I thank you for your trust,
-Your excellencies, I am sorry but I will skip to protocolary salutations and go straight to the point. The US has been overrun by alien coup d'etat, using a PEM strike by a nuclear misile from the hijacked RFS Korolev.
-Please, let me continue. Someone in our goverment has sided with the Jaffa and hijacked the Korolev to launch a nuclear attack over Northamerica and Europe and fry our electric grid and our military hardware just in time for the Jaffa invasion.
-How can you be so sure the Russian are innocent?-questioned French president, Emmanuel Macron.
- Mr. President, let me inform you the Korolev ask us for help when their weapons systems activated by itself, our experts from Atlantis Drs. McKay and Zelenka were in the ship trying to deactivate it,andwhen it failed, I override the US retaliatory strike my goverment was about to launch againt the Russians. Otherwise we be here talking so nicely.
Also the Homeworld Command and several members of the IOA and our Joint Chiefs were evacuated here, because the Pentagon and the White House were overruned by unknown human forces.
-ETA of alien fleet arrival?-asked the japanese Prime Minister.
-Unknown, hours, days. Our sensor array in Atlantis can detect any Jaffa or Goa'uld ship in 50 plus lightyears away. So far none has appeared nor our Jaffa allies have reported their departure.
-Ok, so far in the vicinity we have only the 304s of the French and the British, our hijacked Korolev and Atlantis to defend ourselves-interjected Putin in perfect english.
-Yes, Mr. President.
-No more- he said with a smirk, and then his face went off, being substituied by a live transmition of a security camera in some kind of facility. Said facility opened the floor, and from it... a Daedalus class Battlecruiser emerged. With all the other mandataries shooked or confused, President Putin's voice was heared during the live transmition.
-Your excelencies, Your Majesties, I present to you the 304R battlecruisers Donestk and Luhansk. Both are lifting up from the officialy abandoned Kamtchatka Shipyards right now. I won't say I'm sorry we don't tell you before General O'Neill.
O'Neill's face went to lifting an eyebrow, Teal'c's stylle, to a full smirk. He just loved the way his former antagonist from Cold War era had everything under control.
- I understand Mr. President. Thank you, for the ships. I assume nobody of you has any other 304 in a secret underground base. Anyone?
- Actually...-started President Xi Jinping -we have 4. Under construction, but we run out of naquadah and trinium, until this year we weren't able to get more. They would be ready in 3 months.-answered the chinese mandatary.
Now O'Niell went to full surprise.
-That's great. In fact I will just ignore US policy and send you all we have so you can finish them. As soon as we can of course.
-About the aliens, is there any chance of launching a preemptive strike and wipe them out their fleet before they depart?- asked Erdogan, President of Turkiye.
-It's a great idea Mr. President, we have located thier main bases, but from a political standpoint, until now the Jaffa are divided about attacking us, and we don't want to give them a reason to rally against us. If that happened,we would face a far larger invasion. And also they would strike all human worlds under our protection...
-Great, we don't have enough ships to defend ourselves, but we had the foolish audacity to put HUNDREDS of worlds under our protection. What a joke! That's what happens when you let the Americans in charge!-claim the South African Prsident, and many assented in agreement.
-I'm afraid I disagree-interjected Putin.-Jaffa's treason was an unexpected and improbable situation, and the Stargate Command destroyed the main alien powers enslaving mankind in three galaxies. Don't blame on them the lack of wisdom of their political leaders.
-Thank you Mr. President-was all Jack could say.
Hacienda El Dorado
Sinaloa, Mexico
The flat screen occupying the red brick wall caught Leutenant Arias attention. He usually got his bews from Telegram channels or mobile apps, but now he couldn't use half of his cell phone features. He droped the scarf that protect his identity from the narcos, he was so happy he could took it off in the heat of Sonora.
-In the local market the US dollar continues dropping, currently to 1 Mexican Peso = 120.5 USD and falling. In Ecuador the goverment has installed Martial Law and closed all banks because of the turmoil produced in a country who uses the US Dollar as it's currency.
But for the other hand until now 7 countries have fully paid their national debts in US dollars thanks to this unprecedent fall of the, until yesterday, global currency.
-Señor...
-Sargento... you could get some intel from him?
-After several attempts of bribe us, we start to laugh histerically and Rodriguez show him the current value of the dollar...he just couldn't believe it. Gomez start to kick him in the belly until he split some blood and finally we get a couple of names.
In other news the main social networks are still completely down. All Meta Corporation networks, Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are down, and others like Telegram have colapsed because of the sudden rise in users trying to keep connected, many trying to contact their loved ones in the US after the electromagnetic anomaly that shot down the North American continent...
-Señor- said Corporal Delgado, we have new orders.
-Ching.. su madre, we can't take all the cartels in a week! -cried Sargent Fernandez.
-Pinches politicos de mierd... now the narcos are penniless they want to erase all evidence.
Suddenly the cries for mercy were heared from the next room, follwed by 4 shots and a thump provoqued by the fall of a human body.
-Señor, we're going to Tijuana. But its not what we think. The gringos called, they need help. IOA kind of help.-continued the corporal, with complete desregarding of the fate of that human being.
-Seguro? let'me see that. Ching.. su madre, the Goa'uld, again!
Plaza de Toros Monumental
Tijuana
Baja California Norte, Mexico
The smoke was more and more turning to a permanent fog, diminishing the visibility to a 100 meters. Trucks and vehicles from the National Guard come and go, while the camp was builded outside the Plaza. From behind the Wall the shooting, the screaming and the sirens of the police and firemans were endless. At the begining the Mexican security forces were really depresed by what was happening to he other side,but after several hours the sounds became part of the background. A second "wall" was being erected to prevent people to reach the wall looking for their relatives, and after some comes and goes,the American side took the desicion of blowing apart a huge section to allow mexican citizens and other refugees cross the border to the mexican side.
Tijuana International Airport
To the already crowded airport, housing more than 20 international flights deviated or canceled because of the PEM, now several planes of the Mexican Air Force arrived.
The Brigada de Fusileros Paracaidistas, the airborne brigade of the Mexican Army, begun to deploy in the airport and taking over the infraestructure.
General Fernando Martinez was supervising everything from an office near the ... when a beam of light appeared in front of him.
-General Martinez, General Samantha Carter, United States Space Force, Homeworld Command.
-Un gusto, please, have a sit. We get the call and we're almost ready for deployment. Our Special forces were in Sinaloa fighting the cartels and they are on their way here.
-Excelent. Let's discuss the tactical display then.
North Island Naval Air Station
San Diego, California
-Finally some fresh air-said the Sheriff as soon as he enter the facility. The smoke from the fires in the city cover everything from the West Coast to the Mojave Desert.
The Sheriff Department, California National Guard, US Coast Guard, San Diego PD and FD were all toghether. Mexican autorities from Tijuana were inbound.
-Midtown District, Mountain View and Cortez Hill are burning. Most of the fires are there, we had to enter behind the tanks to not get shot!-comented Captain Delacroix of the San Diego Fire Department.
-East Village has been pacified at least-said Captain Hills from the Police. But suddenly the hosts of the meeting entered the room.
-Ok, thanks you all for coming. I know everything is going straight to hell right now so I will be brief.
From the Pentagon we receive a code Camelot. For those of you who never heard it before it means the US Goverment has been taken by... Ok, I will just say it. A local branch of an alien hostile faction.
-What? Alien? From Space?-screamed Hills.
-Are you serious?-interjected Captain Pollack from the Coast Guard.
-You have to be kidding me- said Sheriff Logan, but he was the only one who wasn't saying it because of unbelief. He was a former SG4 member, now retired.
-No. Look I have the time nor the patience to tell you the long story. The short version is we have contact aliens decades ago. Some friendly and some hostile. We developed our own space force, a real one. And now one of those friendly aliens became hostile and decide to put us out of the ecuation. They hijacked one of our one ships and lauched a nuclear attack.
Suddenly 2 beams of light appeared in the middle of the room, the Sheriff deputies officers draw their weapons, some of the National Guards and Marines were about to, but those beams turned into two humans. General Carter in DPU uniform, and Specialist Dex.
Everyone was stunned. Except the Sheriff.
-Hi everyone, I'm General Samantha Carter, United States Space Force, and with me is Specialist Ronon Dex, formerly member of the Satedan Armed Forces. We have just been beamed from the Atlantis Space Mothership.
Jaws dropped, eyes closed or wide opened, and some hands were at some mouths in surprise and unbelief.
-We thought our unconventional arrive would be enough to you believe in the Admiral's words about aliens and stuff. Also we have just downloaded some files to your mobile phones so you can see the main space stuff by yourselves-explained Ronon with a smile. His huge body frame made him look like some kind of gentle giant for many of the presents there.
-Before we leave we want to help you to strenght your position, because currently this is the only pacified area near our Nevada Installations with enough forces to help us defending it.
-Wait a minute, you expect us to help defend Area 51?-inquired Pollack.
-Exactly.
Battlestar Galactica
CIC
-Jump
-Jump complete
-Sitrep
-No contacts on DRADIS
-All stations report
-Initiate Recon Ops in the system and the systems nearby. Next jump in 24 hours.
System Beta Gamma Ipsilon
Raptor 343
-Ok, we made it. Helo, proceed with deep scan. We will jump to the 4th and 6th planets next.
-Sir, yes sir!
-You're a fraking clown you now that?
- That's why your sister loves me, Red Wing.
-Keep dreaming. What's that?
An alarm started to bleep in Helo's terminal.
-It reads "RE detected". That's new. Wait a minute-he said while he grabed the manual.
-I got it! A new feature, courtesy of Dr. Egghead himself
-You mean Baltar?
- The same. A Ring-element detector. The rare element of the Ring device has been detected... 45 million klics in two-zero-three carom 234.
-Ok, lets take a look, if we find something we jump back to Galactica ASAP.
- Be careful, we are too far for a better reading but is in the middle of debris, an asteroid field most likely.
-And what else could be out here, Helo? A shipwreck?
-Why not? Maybe the aliens who build the Rings-answered him, leaving the usually talkative Red Wing almost speechless.
-True-was the only comeback he could think of. A few months ago only colonials and Cylons could be found in the darkness of space, now the list of posibilities was increasing day by day.
After some minutes they jumped about 5 klicks from the element source. The blips in ECO sensors sounded.
-DRADIS contact!
-What?!
- It's a ship! Small, Gunstar size.
-Let me see-turning to see the DRADIS screen by himself. Once checked he accelerate the Raptor straight to the shipwreck.
-I have visual. Getting closer... distance to the object 1,5 klicks.
Look at that... its a ship, not Colonial Fleet nor Cylon, but definitely...
-Human. Looks like went to hell and back. Those things there- said while zooming in-canons. PEM cannons I'm sure.
-The 13th tribe?
-Maybe...
-Lords of Kobol! Let me see if I can find some markings... There, it's a red rectangle... with yellow stars. A flag!
-There... those are letters!Kobolian alphabet... "Sun Tzu"... and below some signs...
- It read's "People's Republic of China". That's Caprican.
- But Republic? of China?
-Take as many pictures and readings as you can. We jump to Galactica as soon as I finish spooling the drive.
Half an hour later
Battlestar Galactica
CIC
The return of the Raptor created a small crisis inside the Battlestar. The rumors of a possible 13th Tribe Warship crippled and abandoned in space went from the fly deck to the CIC in minutes. After a short but deep debriefing, Adama and Thig took all the data and started the analysisnof the situation at hand with the rest of the officers, includying Adama's son, Duala ad Gaeta.
Senior Adama was deep in thought. The images were clear as day. A human warship with Caprican marks but unknown nationality was floating dead in space, with clear signs of being crippled by a fierce battle.
-What's on your mind?- ask Tigh to his friend.
-Honestly I never ever thaught I would end stumbling upon a Thirteenth Tribe warship. To me even the gods were more real, and you know how much faith I have in the Lords of Kobol.
-Yeah, I know that.
-I want the eggheads, mostly Dr. Baltar, to go into that Earth Gunstar and check it up. We need to know who were fighting to, and most important, why did they lose. If those marks are similar to the ones we found in the human settlement...
-Our long lost cousins were fraked up...
-Lord's forbid, my friend.
System Beta Gamma Ipsilon
Sun Tzu Shipwreck
After the jump, Galactica's expedition deployed in defensive formation surrounding the 304 ship. The mobile shipyard of the expedition, the Argos, received in one of their 4 docks the Sun Tzu, and the Tethis on the one next to it.
The Thot remained "free" to suport further exploration but Baltar expend most of his time trying to obtain something useful from the human vessel.
After half a day trying to, at least, get the life support systems running, he was pleased the computers on board the ship didn't seem to trigger an autodestruction sequence. However, even when the display was pretty simple, the tech behind it run at least a decade ahead of the best colonial software created during the begining of the Cylon War.
Again the trick of looking for a password between the objects of the former crew worked, and now they had limited access to some of the functions of the ship.
Lt. Yuan Ho, a chinese male of 24 years old, was the weapons officer on the Sun Tzu bridge, and one of his notebooks had written the new password to access the systems. Baltar just smiled thinking how humans from differebt worlds and cultures do the same things, writing new passwords to not forget them was clearly universal.
After a couple hours of work, Adama senior went with him to see how much they were progressing.
-Dr., Any progress so far?
- Well, that ships consumes way more power than a dozen Battlestars that's for sure. I I couldn't activate most of its systems because of that. But I could access enough data. The Interfrates in two languages: standard Caprican, but they called it english, and other called mandarin chinese.
-"People's Republic of China" said the letters in the hull...-remmbered Adama.
-Yes. The computer says the current operator of this ship is said Republic of China, and before the ship was build by the United States of America, in the Area 51 shipyards, Nevada. All those places are on Earth.
-What? Are you sure?
-Yes. Congratulations Commander, we have found an Earth shipwreck. But, with zero bodies on board, so we can infere the ship was abandoned and the crew rescued by others...
-Or captured.
-Maybe, but there is no signs of struggle inside the ship. Anyway, someone recover the crew but left behind the ship. And never came back to retrieve it.
-I don't like the implications. If it was a Colonial ship we would retrieve the wreck for analysis or to avoid the cylons could get any of it, or destroy it entirely-thougth the Commander, trying to use his military way of thinking, hoping the earthers' warfare culture was, at least, pretty similar.
-Perhaps they can't. Maybe... maybe they don't have ships to do it anymore-said Baltar.
-How so?
-The Earth could have been... you know, defeated or even occupied.
The idea made Adama feel sick for a moment.
-Ok, keep searching and inform me anything you get about the status of Earth. Also, it would be great if you can find something that points out who are the enemies of Earth.
Battlestar Pegasus
Admiral Cain Quarters
After receiving the Raptor from Galactica, Cain immediatly prepare to departure with her escort, the Battlestar Caribidis, to the current position of Adama's fleet. The data package obtained from the Sun Tzu was copied and sended back to Picon for analysis, however she decided to keep another to herself, and her lover.
Gina, moved by curiosity, starts to read thru the files downloaded from Sun Tzu Weapons Terminal. Most of the files were of personal nature, more than half of them in the mysterious chinese alphabet founded in the Earth ship. But others were in Caprican.
One of them was a text file of some sort, titled HolyBible.pdf; having noted the world "Holy" she decided to take a look. Two hours later, now finishing a chapter called Psalms 150, tears run trough her cheeks. The 13th Tribe had a treasure, the Sacred Book of God! "The others need to see this, the 5 first of all" thought for herself. "This changes everything" said, and went running to her room. "This is God's doing. What are the odds of Galactica find this ship in the middle of nowhere?God send him right to it, so we, His beloved children, could get this book". She retrieved her comms device and started to transmitting.
Two hours later.
Presidential Crisis Room
Caprica
As soon as the news came in a courier Raptor, President Adar was taken by the Colonial Secret Service right to the Crisis Room.
The Joint Chiefs of the Colonial Armed Forces were discusing the reports, even looking through the files recovered from the ship. This was the discovery if the milennia, but they were very concerned about the turmoil it could erupt once this became public. Also it was just a year before elections year, and they were afraid President Adar tried to get some political profit from this discovery, with no regards of the religious chaos this could provoke.
They won't be dissapointed.
As soon as he was debriefed, he turn into a spiting orders machine. Adar called for an academic conclave to study these findings, and a fraking press conference. And to prepare for massive protests and disturbs mostly in Gemenon.
System Beta Gamma Ipsilon
Sun Tzu recovering site
Battlestars Pegasus and Charibidis jumped 5 kilometers outside the CAP perimeter of the Galactica's Vipers.
Helena and two members of her crew took a Raptor and went right to the Argos to see the ship.
After taking a look and a tour inside the ship, she went with the Tethis team.
Besides the files already sended by the Galactica's Raptor, the analists found what could be the last orders recieved from Earth.
-Ma'am, this what they could translate so far from the communications between the Sun Tzu and Earth Central
-Show me-ordered Helena.
Homeworld Command
Rezenvous USS Apollo
Proceed to the following coordinates
Wraith Super Hive ship inbound for Earth
No other ships available
Intercept and destroy
-That's It?-asked.
-Yes ma'am, the message is incomplete, some words were infered from the Chinese language because the Caprican is missing-aswered the computer specialist.
-These means the 13th tribe's fleet is depleted. This ship was one of the ir last two, most likely the other one, the Apollo, evacuate the Sun Tzu crew and leave. And of there is no other wreck, this Wraith Hive survived.
-Or the earthers were defeated and leave the battlefield, or they evacuate after these Wraith leave-suggested Lt. Shaw, her XO.
-If this ship was never recovered the Earthers maybe are still at war or with not available ships to salvage the Sun Tzu. Anyway they need help. Our help.
-Yes ma'am. Space is big, is no coincidence nor chance we found it, is a sign of the gods. They want we help them-claimed the specialist.
Lt. Valerii Quarters
Sharon suddenly turned into a frenzy of activity. She retrieved a small electronic device from inside a small pillow, stored at the back of her locker.
She typed as faster as she could. After a few minutes she pressed the Send button, and hide the device again. She took a shower, got dressed and went straight to bed. Four hours later she woke up, wondering when and why she came to sleep so early.
RFS Korolev
Outside Vega System
-Drs. I am sorry but I need to check upon your progress, again.
-We have made at least a dozen diagnostics on the ship systems, everything is woking as it should.
-In my opinion, this is not sabotaje, hijacking or malfunction, this ship was programmed to do just that.
-Can you reprogram the ship?
-Yes. We could, it will take some time but yes, we can.
-Alright, please do it-ordered the russian captain. He was already notified about how close they were of fighting both British and French 304s, and how bad would that ended with their systems compromised. He thanked God while walking to his quarters.
Spear of Chu'lak
Ha'tak class mothership
Hyperspace
-Master Dor'val, we are arriving to the coordinates.
-Excelent, as soon as we're back on normal space we tow the Tau'ri vessel back to our dockyard.
-But Master, are we certain they have not retrieve it already?
-Our source in the Tau'ri Homeworld told me they issue an order of destroy it with a Na'quadah bomb years ago, and it was reported as such. They don't know it's still there.
-So, our operatives fake the destruction of it?
-Not our operatives, Te'lec.
-And why we wait so long to retrieve it?
-Because we had to wait to have those Tau'ri lovers in our ranks out our ships and dockyards, otherwise they would tell their masters. The purge is almost complete, it took time, too much I'm afraid.
-Master, we are jumping.
-What in the heavens...
-Five Tau'ri ships detected, they are retrieving their vessel!