51 days 2nd cylon war

Battlestar Galactica

Reunited fleet area

Colonel Saul Tigh leaned forward watching Commander Bill Adama the steady beeping of the heart monitor the only sound in sickbay. The influx of dozens of experienced doctors and nurses had relieved the overworked medical teams of the galactica and near continuous raptors and shuttles of supplies including coffee and real meat as the Galactica's nearly empty hull was filled with supplies and personnel.

The near constant ring of engineers and electricians repairing battle damage was a normal background noise to him now Geata had brought a brief update a few hours ago that helped his weary mind relax. The port half of the Galacticas hangar originally set to be a flight museum had been returned to full active status. While there weren't enough Vipers to bring the air wing back to full strength it was made up by a single squadron of first war raiders.

Saul looked at the face of his old friend and was about to delve into his memories of the past again when Starbuck and Rear Admiral Robin Huey came in. the Admiral wave his attempt to jump to attention off with a shake of her head "no rank in the medbay Col….Mr Tigh"

Tigh stopped his instinctual rise and slowly lowered himself back into his seat "Yes Ma'am"

Robin looked over at the Commander "how is he doing?"

Saul breathed " better now our stockpiles of painkillers and antibiotics were nearly gone before you arrived Ishey is a da… darn fine paramedic but she isnt a doctor." he looked over the teams of doctors and nurses doing inventory and insuring the medbay was as stocked as a fully stocked warships medical bay should be.

Robin followed his gaze and smiled "come there is something i wish you to see." her gaze drifted back to the Commander "he will be fine the medical personnel have everything in hand."

Saul seeing that she was right nodded and stood to follow her "so Starbuck wasn't exactly clear when she was explaining who your people was." he said as they wormed their way through the crowded corridors towards CIC "she mentioned Scorpia somehow repelled the cylons and you have even recaptured Picon. How? Our networks were full of ships declaring emergencies, ships powering down before combat, airlocks opening venting ships to space. How?..."

Robin nodded "we have and elements of the Virgon royal navy have liberated their home as well give another month or two and we will be pushing into cylon space." her grin was bright with the thought or retribution "as to how we did it…."

They stood outside the CIC hatch as the reinforced squad of Marine guards saluted. Robin and Saul returned the salute as the marines opened the door and they stepped through "we had some help."

Saul looked at her "help?" he asked "from who? Aside from the colonial military the only colonies to invest much into their own separate force were the Leonis and their Republican Navy…"

Before Robin could say something Lieutenant Gaeta walked up "sorry to interrupt Admiral, Colonel." he said looking between them "we haven't heard anything from the landing party on Kobol."

Robin looked at the lieutenant "Landing party?"

Saul nodded "a raptor scout arrived in orbit of Kobol and detected ancient ruins. So we ordered a survey team down to check them out, three raptors and thirty five men. They were not gone even ten minutes before a lone raptor returned with news a cylon baseship with escorts were over Kobol." his fist clenched "we lost one raptor to a collision and the lead raptor took damage. A plan was formed to use Starbucks Raider and a nuke but she left, forcing a secondary plan. Where that thing was given a raptor with a nuke and an experimental cylon IFF transponder to destroy the baseship. She….it was successful but before we could jump in for a rescue it shot the Commander the fleet was…separated."

"And that's when we arrived." said Robin

"Yes Ma'am" said Saul simply

"Once our friends arrive we will head to Kobol to check for Survivors." said Robin.

Saul was about to ask friends? When alerts sounded Lieutenant Geata called out "DRADIS contacts…Multiple UNKNOWN DRADIS contacts Barring 010 Karrom 998 twelve contacts…."Geata paused "Receiving IFF ... Colonial ?" he said confused

"I've never heard of them notify the fleet and launch alert Vipers" begins Saul "Order…"

Robin stopped him "stand down Colonel these are the friends we have been expecting." she picked up the wireless "Mr Geata put me on fleet wide."

It only took a second before the line was ready and Robin spoke to the mass fleet surrounding the Galactica and her Civilian charges. "This is Rear Admiral Robin Huey the ships arriving within DRADIS range are Friendly i say again Friendly, Arriving UNSC ships welcome."

"Task force Revenge this is Captain Jackson of the UNSC Able, glad to be here request a flag officer meating aboard the… Botanical cruiser Eden with command staff and Miss Laura Roslin the President of the Colonies Elizebth Horner would like to welcome your survivors back to human controlled space.

Saul over the next hour watched the hordes of repair personnel shuttle around the civilian fleet checking their FTL systems making repairs as needed before sending them under the escort of Battlegroup Revenge. And five of the twelve UNSC ships head to Kobol, one of them the Colonial Frigate Minotaur.

Botanical cruiser Eden

Saul Tigh walked along the sidewalk in the primary dome to the sound of birds from all over the colonies chirping and tweeting as he approached the amphitheater the meeting would be held at.

Looking around he saw Laura Roslin and her aid Billy and that bastard Apollo he ground his teeth as he remembered the boarding of Colonial one how Apollo pointed his side arm right in between tigh's eyes. Saul took a deep breath and continued looking. There were eight men and two women wearing strange uniforms. On the other side close to them were another two men wearing Colonial fleet uniforms with the rank of Commander with them was a colonial Marine with the rank of Major.

A man wearing a strange set of armor and carrying an even stranger rifle stopped him before he could progress. "Excuse me Colonel, I'll need to scan you before you can join the others in the meeting." the mechanical voice coming from a speaker on his shoulder followed a moment after the man spoke in a language Saul couldn't understand

"Oh of course son, go ahead." said Saul after a moment "what are you scanning for?"

The marine began waving a machine over Sauls legs and he answered "the human form cylons emit a low frequency encrypted channel. We discovered it about a month ago when body collection brought forth hundreds of cloned individuals with biotech augmentation" the marine said.

Saul watched as the scanning device made it up one leg and down the other slowly "really? We uncovered six models already." Saul's eyes felt drawn to the device but doesn't know why.

The marine said "yes the one you have in your brig you know as Boomer is what we have taken to calling a military sleeper as far as our code monkeys can figure from the cylon code they are programmed with artificial memories and serve in military roles to activate and destroy from within." the wand made its way up Sauls torso.

"So were there any cylons among the civilian ships?" asked Saul

"From what I heard six were found, all models we knew of" said the marine

Feeling a surge of anxiety as the device neared his neck Saul pushed it down "what about the Military and civilian crew of Galactica?"

The marine nodded "we found thre…."as the device passed over Sauls Neck it beeped causing him to stop midword.

Saul looked around seeing a half dozen marines nearby bring their weapons up slowly towards him he kept his hands away from his pistol hands open wide "what's going on son?"

The marine didn't say a word as Saul turned to look at him he felt something against the small of his back. And then his whole body was electrified.

—-POV change Laura Roslin

Laura was sitting in the Amphitheater of the botanical garden ship Eden awaiting Colonel Tigh to represent the Galactica crew in the coming meeting. As she looked around her mind was still swirling that she wasn't technically the president anymore since news had come out that the secretary of the interior had survived and been sworn in. Elizebith Horner was eighth in line versus her own sixteenth position.

And the fact that they no longer carried hopes and future of the human race on her shoulders she smiled slightly, feeling the physiological ripple of her breast cancer laugh in her mind if it wasn't for the cancer this story could end on a happy note for her.

She wondered exactly how many people had survived. Over the forty three thousand eight hundred and sixty four in the fleet of refugees.

How were the colonies in the wake of the attacks?

Who were these strange UNSC people Rear Admiral Huey had introduced and could they be trusted?

Further questions bouncing around in her head paused.. Hearing a familiar voice she looked up and saw Colonel Tigh being scanned just like her and billy had been she smiled anxious to learn about how well the people back home were doing when billy nudged her "Madam President, look"

"I'm not the president any more bi…" her words died as she watched the marines turn and lift their weapons towards the Colonel .."what is…" her words were taken from her again as the Colonel went rigid and fell to the ground "WHAT is the meaning of this!" she called out as loudly and as forcefully as she could. Billy and her four man security detail, surrounded her hands on their holstered pistols.

"It appears the Colonel.." said a voice behind her causing her to spin, almost losing her balance before Billy steadied her "..is a cylon." the tall man wearing a strange uniform with several soldiers following him said.

Authors note

Hello sailors and defenders of humanity, how was that figured the final five was going to be revealed sooner rather than later. Hopefully it felt realistic and lore accurate. Hope you guys continue to enjoy.

—- reviews

Guest not technically ancient human survivors just an AI not sure if i'll have surviving ancient humans. The Halo array would of wiped life clean in our galaxy the ancient human OCs i wrote knew that so yes i figure it's the outer Gasruk arm of the Andromeda galaxy the thirteenth tribe is still there remember what the ancient scrolls say over and over again "this has all happened and will happen again if the human-forerunner-flood war was 110,000 years ago the trek could've happened multiple times look at halo level of tech 2552 (fall of reach) it would take 43 and change times from 0 AD to that point to equal that time frame..

Helljumper I know it felt rushed but I'm like 70% happy with it. I must have erased and rewrote it half a dozen times in the hope of making it better before settling on this. And it makes sense that the ancient humans were only a century or so behind the forerunners in my research. They allied with the ancient Prophets as well as other species combining their tech as well as reverse engineering forerunner and precursor tech.

27mad call it author magic or a combined factor of all the cylon nukes and ftl drives interfering with the fabric of the universe who knows maybe it's a effect of ancient human and forerunner weapons on reality those people wielded weapons we couldn't even begin to understand who's to say they didn't have reality bending weapons if we could get some more lore on the ancient wars it would be for colonial ftls and ancient slipspace who knows maybe the colonial blink drive was a stealth version of FTL we know UNSC ships who carried nuked made released a burst of hawking's radiation when they emerged maybe it was a short ranged tactical or stealth option?..

North I believe with the threat of the Halo arrays the ancient humans who got out would have gone to a nearby galaxy rather than risk being unable to shield themselves from the halo activation. So I made it the outer edge of the Gasruk arm of the Andromeda galaxy which is why the unsc navigational computers couldn't get an accurate star reading. I'm thinking Kobol is the first or last system of the arm on the very edge of the Andromeda galaxy.

As always guys enjoy and let me know what you think.. See you next time