52 days cylon war
Empty space
Botanical cruiser Eden
President Elizbeth stood next to Captain Jackson and Pope Titus in shock of his words. Off to one side Laura Roslin stood "that's outrageous Colonel Tigh can't be a Cylon he has been with us from the beginning if he wanted to kill us he could have done so at any time!"
"Be that as it may Madam secretary" Brian said "the detection device is accurate has uncovered nearly three thousand cylon agents.
"It has never messed up?" said Billy, still holding Roslin, "surely there is some room for error?"
"It hasn't failed us yet but we are always careful of the fact of false positives." said Jackson "that's why we don't kill them instead we take them into custody until they are tested with more obvious methods."
"What kind of test?" ask Laura
An hour later aboard Laura finds herself stepping off the raptor into the landing bay aboard a warship unlike any other she had ever seen. She had during her time as Secretary of education seen hundreds of ships, some meant for war and others meant to help and teach. But this one was dizzyingly different, Captain Jackson had called it Hawaii. Named for a small island cluster in the Pacific Ocean on Earth.
One thing that shocked her almost as much as the information regarding Hawaii and their origins was the fact the moment he stepped off of his transport the Arrow of Apollo blinked into existence and flew to his palm.
Laura had shook it off after almost collapsing between the Arrow and news of Earth, finding out Brian even called Earth home a small state called Arkansas. Even now as they walked the corridors towards the brig she had trouble not looking at everything and everyone. Including the arrow. Here were the descendants of the thirteenth tribe of humans who fled Kobol.
—-Pov shifts to Captain Jackson.
Brian saw the former president in exile Laura Roslin looking at every light fixture and door interface and cleared his throat "Miss Roslin it will be about a ten minute walk to the brig, perhaps i…a friend of mine can clear something up. Genesis would you mind showing yourself?"
The arrow he held carefully in his hand started to glow before the hologram of the AI Genesis appeared wearing the light blue UNSC naval uniform "Of course Captain."
Brian watched as Laura stiffened at the arrows glow and holograms sudden appearance one of her bodyguards caught her before she fell.
Genesis took a step forward and began to apologize "I'm so sorry I did…." but stopped as the other two bodyguards drew their pistols and aimed at her, causing the two Marines to aim their assault rifles at the bodyguards.
Before brian could order everyone to stand down Laura spoke up "stand down im not hurt." She gently pushed her way back to her own feet, the bodyguard helping her steady herself. "Put your guns down!"
The guards slowly lowered their pistols and the marines likewise lowered theirs. Brian took a breath. "I'm sorry Miss Roslin, I should've warned you."
She chuckled in a way that makes brian think of his 5th grade teacher Mrs Garner. With a small smile he says "I guess a teacher's chagrin can be seen no matter where the teachers are from."
Laura laughs softly before coughing her aid. Billy snaps out of it and goes to her side "breath madam President."
"I'm not the president anymore billy." Laura says as she catches her breath.
Brian looks to Roslin and Billy "Is she alright?" he ask "if she is feeling unwell the ships medical officer can take a look"
Billy starts to say something but stops as Laura places a hand on his arm "i have terminal breast cancer the best doctors on Caprica gave me six months to live." she said matter of factly
"Oh is that all?" Brian chuckled "we cured cancer what was it Aaron?""
Aaron chuckled, "2150 I believe."
"That sounds about right." said Brian "we will make a stop after we leave the brig."
The rest of the walk was in silence brian could see Laura processing being on the verge of death only to be told there was a solution. They entered the brig to see fifteen people sitting in the reinforced titanium of them shared the three faces.
The two older men the younger man still in his flight line uniform as well as two women in a separate cell looked up as the group entered the room
"My son." said an older man wearing the broad collared overcoat with a brimmed hat in his hands "there must be some mistake im but a humble preacher of the gods."
Brian smiled "of course you think you are." to Laura he said "the one thing our device cannot differentiate is whether they know or they are sleepers programmed to think they are human."
Laura looked at the priest "you must be joking i have prayed with this man several times aboard the galactica. If he was a cylon why pretend why not just kill us with the rest of humanity? Why the games?"
Brian held out a tablet loaded with hundreds of the model one cylons "see he is one of the first we discovered in our rescue missions so we already knew he was the primary model our designation was "Alpha" and according to our code monk….specialist we have extracted quite a bit of coding for this model. Isn't that right Alpha?"
The confused eyes of the priest flickered for a moment and brian smiled before turning to look at the woman's cells and "another of the unknowns we nicknamed "Epison"." a tan woman in a torn business suit glared at him "This one killed one of my marines before she was stunned i believe the human name you used was Tori Foster is that right? A member of the Caprican Gazette she was stowed away on Colonial one with the rest of the press."
Brian looked at Laura and said "you may be wondering how we know these are all cylons. It was discovered they communicate over a low level channel that our radios can pick up and even transmit on." Brian turned to a marine and nodded.
The marine hit a control on his helmet and all seven of them started screaming, clasping their heads falling against the floor or wall. After less then a second the marine released the switch and the transmission stopped allowing the biomechanical cylons to recover.
"Even as we speak around reconquered colonies our analist have been hard at work picking the cybernetic brains of the cylons and we discovered something." brian said looking to the female cylon known as "Boomer" "some of them during the opening assaults redirected their missiles to avoid population centers and even ships in dock. Before the war some of you opposed the genocide of the colonials."
Brian held out a necklace to "Boomer" "we also looked inside your programing boomer." for both the sabotage of Galactica's water tanks and the shooting of Commander William Adama, an outside signal seized control of your programing."
Boomer looks shocked and hurt as the memories of what happened flood her processors and her eyes narrowed as she looked at the old priest.
"I'LL FRAKKING KILL YOU!" she screamed slamming herself against the bars reaching for the old man. She slammed again and again until she paused for a second, her eyes glazing over. Brian looked at the Priest who stared at her eyes wide and unblinking.
Brian nods and the marine activates the pulse again breaking the link. Brian again holds out the necklace "this is a narrow bandwidth jammer while you're wearing it no outside force can try to seize control."
Boomer's eyes lock on the necklace and nods her thanks as she puts it on. Still staring murderously at the priest.
Turning to Tyrol and the Colonel "seeing as you two seem to be the only ones of your kind and since the attacks you have done your best to protect human lives i propose this." Brian holds out two beaded chains with tags not all that different from colonial and for that matter UNSC dog tags. "Same thing with the Colonel, his wife and Deck Chief Tyrol. Continue your service if you'd like. We can even deploy coding to block out the knowledge that your cylons."
To the others "Alpha, Bravo,echo and Delta Bravo's and Delta's excuse me since there are three of you. We have found you all to be ring leaders and guilty of war crimes: targeting civilians, the use of weapons of mass destruction on civilian targets as well as genocide." Brian tapped the tablet in his hands and the door opened.
Two platoons of Marines entered with heavy restraints "your punishment shall be decided by the primary victims of your crimes" Brian watched as each of the marines used tasers on the guilty skinjobs and then chained them with their hands cuffed behind their back.
As they were pulled to their feet a metallic headband was placed over their heads "now these wonderful fashionable items are the same as the necklaces however instead of blocking inbound signals they physically copy your memories and code to be looked at later they also block the download to your resurrection ships." Brian smiles as he continued " or the Colony
The cylons eyes practically bug out of their skulls at those words the humans knew of the Colony!
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Authors note the modern phonetic alphabet Alpha Bravo Charlie etc can be applied to the cylons numbers so Alpha is the 1 series and so on. Also hope you enjoyed how I feel the UNSC would have handled the cylons. The add in of the signal from the Model one is my own touch because you can see the switch flip in boomer in my opinion just before she shot Adama and the moment it was done she flipped back to her old self and started freaking out. So a signal from one to seize control of the other human models makes sense…
REVIEWS
Guest yes id say the wounded guy survives with UNSC combat medic help id say UNSC medicine is much more advanced than Colonial medicine which i would compare to modern day earth.
The next chapter will follow the splitting of UNSC and colonial forces after the tomb of Athena tells its story and the UNSC goes to look at the Relay station.
Yes they have uncovered way more than just Tighs memories i'd say the code monkeys/specialists are good at their jobs and hundreds of human models have been captured at this point so it would make sense for them to know almost everything the cylons know.
Hope you continue to enjoy.