{"id":6626,"date":"2023-06-02T10:37:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T10:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=6626"},"modified":"2023-06-02T11:23:20","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T11:23:20","slug":"battlestar-mercury-book-1-second-war","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=6626","title":{"rendered":"Book 1 \u201cSecond War\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"6626\" class=\"elementor elementor-6626\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-273b5f1 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"273b5f1\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-5fc6ccf\" data-id=\"5fc6ccf\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-66 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-07bb856\" data-id=\"07bb856\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-36ef2a5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"36ef2a5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h1>Battlestar Mercury \u201cSecond War\u201d<\/h1>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-0f2210e elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"0f2210e\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-976a399\" data-id=\"976a399\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ad02451 elementor-widget elementor-widget-shortcode\" data-id=\"ad02451\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"shortcode.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-shortcode\"><ul class=\"display-posts-listing\"><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1434\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Pegasus3-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1434\">Chapter 69: The standoff<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Chapter 69: Stand off. \u201cGet raptors out to task force Saturn,\u201d Admiral Lawson barked. \u201cFigure out how we are going to fill in the gaps the Cylons just tore in this task force. \u201cWe have an encrypted communication from Cory Brooks of the Peoples Council.\u201d The comms officer looked down and read carefully. \u201cCylon ships [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1412\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ScorpionFleetShipyards-Close-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1412\">Chapter 68: The Shipyard<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">The mutiny story was a suggestion of Mullroy234 from the BSG Deadlock discord. Solaria:Commanders Quarters Lockheart, Ward, Wilson and the representatives of six other ships all agreed that Zack \u201cSniper\u201d Anthony should be their leader. His record with the Colonial fleet was not tainted like the others. He was on leave the day the Cylons [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1409\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/6-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1409\">Chapter 67: The Cylons have a plan<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Chapter 67: Fleet Headquarters Battelestar Solaria Ready Room Herman Wilson&#8217;s grandfather had commanded a battlestar in the first Cylon war. He had fought under the command of Eva Lawson&#8217;s grandmother, also Eva Lawson. Also an Admiral by the end of the war. She had used several flagships, the most famous of which was named Mercury, [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1376\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Pegasus3-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1376\">Chapter 66: Economy of War<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Chapter 66: After the attempted ambush of the Mercury the Cylons pulled all their forces away from the human colonies. It was obvious to them that Admiral Lawson was taking a confrontational approach hoping that a major battle would wake up the government. It was important to build enough ship capacity to take the population [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1357\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/pegasus_by_diston-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1357\">Chapter 65: Quiet interrupted.<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Day 463 after the fall Admiral Lawson had been having trouble sleeping for many months now. She knew today was the 463 days since the fall of the colonies. She is just re-qualified on the mark seven viper. Finding time to fly the minimum hours has been very difficult for her. The Cylons had not [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1353\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/cropped-7f76e1b31d18d7c3d2896deb84487679-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1353\">Chapter 64: Rolling the hard six<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Previous Chapter Next Chapter Day 402 after the fall. As a Major and then a Commander, Eva Lawson did not like morning meetings. No amount of coffee could get the fog out of her mind before 9 am. As an admiral she despised early morning meetings. This one was in a particularly obnoxious time 5:30 [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1349\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Flakfield-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1349\">Chapter 63: Skirmish<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Day 381 after the fall Admiral Lawson was in a temporary office in the fleet HQ. Normally she kept her office hours on the Battlestar mercury. However for the past week and a half to ship a been in for repairs and she was forced to use this small office. The office had a window [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1339\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/1280x720-NUS-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1339\">Chapter 62: The last Anabasis run.<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Chapter 62: Lawsons Anabasis run Day 1 Day 341 after the fall. Admiral Lawson vlog. \u201cI hate these new digital logs,\u201d Lawson said. \u201cI have to have my hair done just to record the musings of my fraked up mind for the sake of history. Anyway, we are at Picon, assembling a refugee fleet with [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1336\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/217b-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1336\">Chapter 61: Hell or Anabasis mission 2. 10 more jumps.<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Chapter 61 They got ten days \u201coff\u201d between missions. Admiral Lawson led a huge fleet to make the next run to the old colonies as they were now often referred to as. It took seven days for Rose Carey&#8217;s team to get through the viper and raptor repair backlog. Then there were three days of [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1330\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/pegasus-05-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1330\">Chapter 60: 10 jumps through hell<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Chapter 60: The Cylon \u201cPeace\u201d The day after she was promoted to Admiral Commander Lawson, rather Admiral Lawson was greeted with a wireless call in her office on the Mercury. The buzzing was annoying so she answered it immediately.It was her executive officer Major Simmons. &#8220;Do you have a conference call with Commander Ramirez and [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1319\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/78613585_82c2d24d36_o-150x150.webp\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1319\">Chapter 59: The battlestars<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Heracles in the videos a gift from Joker of the BSG Deadlock discord, Commander Maria Ramirez was looking positively thin in her blue day uniform. She was immaculate. Every button was polished, All her uniforms have been altered to her new more svelte physique physique. She knew the hallways of this Battlestar very well having [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1314\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/screenshot2-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1314\">Chapter 58 Resume the war<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">It had not pleased anyone in the chain of command that Commander Lawson had ordered the ship yard moved. The location was picked to be convenient to the resources that were required to build ships. The :big three\u201d as Lawson, Ramirez and Cobb were referred to as were concerned that the Cylons had guessed the [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1310\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Pegasus3-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1310\">Chaper 57: Cease fire? Ends?<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">The admiral argued against it, Commander Ramirez argue against it. Nothing could stop Cory Brooks in her desire to go forward with the cease fire. Truth be told the colonial fleet, disorganized and undermanned needed some time off. They need to repair their ships. More than that they needed to train their people. The heavy [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1307\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Battlestar_Valkyrie_CNP_Hack-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1307\">Chapter 56: Decisive battle?<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">The meeting gave new relevance to the word clandestine. Admiral Cobb had to take two raptors in order to get to the meeting Place and a dark wind swept plain on a forgotten world that no one had bothered to chart. Walking with a cane he slowly exited the raptor and shuffled up along path [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1301\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Flakfield-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1301\">Chapter 55: Saturn Trials<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Admiral Andrew Cobb sat in his office staring at the report of the recent battle. He did not know what to do about the situation. Cory Brooks had pressured him into launching the attack before he was ready. The intelligence and I&#8217;ve been verified thoroughly. Although he had come out of the Battlestar before his [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1291\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Modeling_BNA1963-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1291\">Chapter 54: PTSD<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Chapter 54: PTSD Secure communications: From: Colonial Fleet Headquarters. Admiral Andrew Cobb To: Commander Maria Ramirez. Commander Battlestar Saturn Re: Status Commander Eva Lawson We are in receipt of the debriefing of the Commando force. We have received nothing on the status of Commander Lawson. Please send complete medical and psychological profile to this office [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1283\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/78613585_82c2d24d36_o-150x150.webp\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1283\">Chapter 53: Come on home.<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Major Maria Ramirez looked totally different that she had the day of the attacks on the colonies. She had lost a lot of weight and had finally had a new uniform issued to her. She looked good in the immaculately pressed blue uniform. She waited for the Admiral&#8217;s secretary to escort him into his tiny, [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1282\">Chapter 52: A better rescue plan<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Chapter 52: Operation misdirect. Admiral Cobb sat in a chair at a rectangular table with six of his \u201csenior\u201d commanders. Though Major Maria Ramirez did not feel senior, she was there because se was he XO and temporary commander of the most powerful warship in the fleet. When he cleared his throat to speak, everyone [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1279\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Pegasus3-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1279\">Chapter 51: The simulation<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Andrew Cobb was an older man, the years had taken their toll on him. He was tall, with an athletic build. What little hair he had on the sides of h is head were white. He stood up when Major Ramirez walked into his office at the busy mobile shipyard. He moved slowly, as if [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1276\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/BSG303_A-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1276\">Chapter 50: Rescue attempt<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">\u201cWe are at the communications hub Major,\u201d the technician who was a glorified geek that used to work for her when she was head of IT. \u201cBreak in,\u201d she ordered. The man, in his early twenties with a non-regulation earring in his left ear lobe, was typing for about 55 seconds before he leaned back [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1273\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/cropped-1280x720-NUS-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1273\">Chapter 49: The prisoner<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Commander Eva Lawson as a little disoriented when she awoke in the bedroom section of the commanders quarters. Her left hand reached to the other side of the bed, which she had shared with Cavil the Cylon. This was the attractive, handsome older man with a rugged intellectual look who gave her everything she needed. [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1262\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/screenshot2-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1262\">Chapter 48: Hope in the ashes of victory.<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Chapter 48: Hope in the ashes of victory. Cory Brooks, Executive of the Peoples Council sat in Major Martin\u2019s office on the largest of the shipbuilding platforms. It was a giant office with a humongous wide window overlooking half the shipyard platform.&nbsp; Commander Eva Lawson had not invited her. Major Martin had tendered the invitation. [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1172\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/battlestarpegasus1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1172\">Chapter 47: The M stands for mobile<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Video credit: BSG Deadlock player Lochdanon &#8211; he helped shoot a lot of the footage. Commander Eva Lawson was on a tour of the secret shipbuilding facility with Major Martin. Since the Mercury was still not considered clean from the standpoint of CNP related software, the tour was conducted on the Valkyrie class vessel, the [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1164\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/scorpion-shipyards-04-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1164\">Chapter 46: Recon<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Cavil was probably clinically depressed if not psychotic. His military campaign against the colonies was going poorly. The Galactica was leading a government taking 47,000 civilians into an exile, pursued by thousands of Cylon forces. The fleet of 1000 ships that wiped out the colonies was now spread across the galaxy looking for Galactica. A [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1160\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ScorpionFleetShipyards-Close-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1160\">Chapter 45: Data Transfer<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Lieutenant Arthur Garner was the first appointment for Major Ramirez and Major Martin, the commander it turned out of Battlestar Group 34. They were quite short of bodies if they could not find a combat commander. Garner was tasked to make all the systems of all of the ships in the Lawson fleet as it [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1157\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Pegasus3-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1157\">Chapter 44: Brother John the Cylon<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">It was bizarre the way Brother John the Cylon was taken into custody. After weeks of quarantine Commander Lawson had bent the rules to have him in her quarters supposedly for a booty call. Instead of that thirty minutes after his arrival John the Cylon was arrested for being a Cylon agent. Fortunately for the [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1155\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/pegasus-battlestar-galactica-windows-theme-themes-579831191-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1155\">Chapter 43: Meets and Planning<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Major Rick Martin was on a secure video link with Commander (acting) Eva Lawson. She had a curious look on her face as she went through the thick paper file she was delivered from decontamination. \u201cWe have to get a few things straight before we make the final jumps to our hidden shipyard. First we [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1150\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/cropped-battlestar-galactica-razor-unrated-extended-2007-dvdrip-xvid-wat-avi_000571321-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1150\">Chapter 42: Jump 7<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">The Solaria was barely keeping up. The outbreak was much less contained there and the population was mostly civilian. Gun crews infected or not isolated themselves by living in their stations. It had taken six jumps to get where they thought the civilian convoy might be. Lawson was alone in the commander&#8217;s quarters looking at [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1148\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screenshot_2021-12-07_00-20-46-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screenshot_2021-12-07_00-20-46-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screenshot_2021-12-07_00-20-46-45x45.png 45w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1148\">Chapter 41: Trail gets hot!<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">A conference call was set up with the department heads who were involved in the search for the second force, the remnants of Battlestar Group 34. CIC was represented by Major Maria Ramirez Lieutenant Arthur Garner a thin, soft-spoken 29-year-old from Scorpia. He spent 12-hour shifts In CIC before the virus outbreak. Since they were [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1146\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/cropped-cropped-battlestar-galactica-razor-unrated-extended-2007-dvdrip-xvid-wat-avi_000571321-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/cropped-cropped-battlestar-galactica-razor-unrated-extended-2007-dvdrip-xvid-wat-avi_000571321-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/cropped-cropped-battlestar-galactica-razor-unrated-extended-2007-dvdrip-xvid-wat-avi_000571321-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/cropped-cropped-battlestar-galactica-razor-unrated-extended-2007-dvdrip-xvid-wat-avi_000571321-1-270x270.jpg 270w, https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/cropped-cropped-battlestar-galactica-razor-unrated-extended-2007-dvdrip-xvid-wat-avi_000571321-1-192x192.jpg 192w, https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/cropped-cropped-battlestar-galactica-razor-unrated-extended-2007-dvdrip-xvid-wat-avi_000571321-1-180x180.jpg 180w, https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/cropped-cropped-battlestar-galactica-razor-unrated-extended-2007-dvdrip-xvid-wat-avi_000571321-1-32x32.jpg 32w, https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/cropped-cropped-battlestar-galactica-razor-unrated-extended-2007-dvdrip-xvid-wat-avi_000571321-1.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1146\">Chapter 40: The hunt for the second force.<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">\u201cMajor Ramirez,\u201d commander Lawson asked, \u201cwhat have we got off the Valkyrie class Battlestar\u2019s computer.\u201d \u201cWell they made an effort to keep the toasters from doing what I have tried to do,\u201d Ramirez answered. \u201cI\u2019m having to correlate some video data from their telescope observatory with some very heavily encrypted information on that computer. I [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1139\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/20220128231448_1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1139\">Chapter 39: Command Training<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Chapter 39: Command Training It took quite a lot of preparation midst of a virus outbreak to make the scenario of training happen. The virtual reality suites at themselves with disinfectant and irradiated to make sure nothing could live. The hallways from the commander and executive officer Quarters work patrol by Marines. Every bit of [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1115\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/BSG303_A-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1115\">Chapter 38: The fight goes on!<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Chapter 38: Alternate title. Recovery and Discovery Plano and Jaybird were together again, both infected with the Sunspot virus, both asymptomatic. It was a pleasure to get out of isolation and back into space flying. The mission was extremely dangerous. They were to jump 4 plotted FTL jumps back to Caprica.&nbsp; They were based on [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1099\">Pre-story Chapter 1<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(11\/30\/2022)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Colonial fleet headquarters after a computer simulated exercise. Admiral Taylor was a short, hunched man with a bald head. He was 80 years old and was a young commander of the viper wing and then a Battlestar in the first colonial war. He was the fleets foremost living expert on the tactics of the Cylons. [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1096\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/pegasus-03-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1096\">Chapter 37<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Major Ramirez was on a video screen from her quarters. The virus outbreak had reached every corner of the Battlestar. The small, cramped but well protected CIC did not allow for the social distancing necessary to prevent the spread of the virus.&nbsp;&nbsp;Fortunately, the ship had a robust network that allowed people to work from any [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1094\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/pegasus-05-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1094\">Chapter 36: Pandemic Outbreak<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Karla \u201cBlondie\u201d Knox had the sniffles. She knew exactly where she had gotten them. Five days ago she had volunteered to co-pilot a raptor sortie because she thought the pilot was hot and she had wanted to have a chance to talk to him. Her interest was quashed when gentle probing made the man speak [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1089\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/78613585_82c2d24d36_o-150x150.webp\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1089\">Chapter 35: Viral Spread(Pandemic)<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">The Benson Family had survived the attack on the colonies because they were on a vacation trip from their home on Scorpia to Caprica. Their transportation had been damaged by a cylon raider before meeting up with seven other ships and beginning the monthlong journey to join up with Mercury and Solaria, nicknamed the Battlestar [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1085\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/whoughpeg03-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1085\">Chapter 34: Evidence<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Lieutenant Joe \u201cSquirrel\u201d Davis&nbsp;&nbsp;was 40 years old and still a lieutenant. This was not due to a lack of skill as a Viper pilot, it was due to misbehavior off duty. He was in fact an exceptional pilot who held a type rating on different types of raptor, as well as every Viper ever flown, [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1082\">Chapter 33: Overload!<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Commander Eva Lawson walked into CIC more relaxed than she ever remembered. All her career she had been fracking up due to her strong sex drive when she could have just had a civilian relationship. This was so much easier if the fracker would stop showing up in her quarters unannounced. When she saw Major [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1080\">Chapter 32: Damage<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Eva Lawson and Maria Ramirez were sitting together in the pilots ready room, some papers strewn on a portable table. Battle damage had shattered glass in the commander\u2019s quarters and office so Commander Lawson was temporarily homeless. \u201cSo how bad is it XO?\u201d She steeled herself for the news which she already knew would not [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1076\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/217b-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1076\">Chapter 31: Jump!<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">The Mercury CIC was on edge, having attempted to jump directly into  a firing position that provided a targeting solution for the main guns. The current thinking on tactics was the Mercury\u2019s forward facing guns were so devastating the preferred tactic was to charge targets at high speed and aim at the enemy ships enter axis and cut her in two on the first pass.<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1072\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/cropped-Pegasus3-1-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1072\">Chapter 30: Solaria<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Captain Brad \u201cReptile\u201d Adkins settled in to the commanders office on the Solaria with a frown on his face. The desk nameplate from the previous occupant, Commander Jesse Green was still on the desk. None of the crew had survived and that meant there would be ghosts on this ship.\u2019\u2019<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1069\">Chapter 29: Waiting<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(1\/20\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">James \u201cJaybird\u201d Thompson had been given secondary missions ever since the fall, which was only a month ago. Today he was on primary with a mission to do a micro jump and take out the refinery. His new electronic warfare officer, \u201cPlano\u201d was strapped in because they were in a raptor launch tube. He looked a fat stuffed bear in his seat belts. There were only a few of these on a Mercury class Battlestar. They were dedicated for special missions.<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1065\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Kg_cg_ns_pegasus-016-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1065\">Chapter 28: 20 minutes later &#8230;<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Twenty minutes later Commander Eva Lawson strode in to the command ready room. She was showered and her uniform was perfectly pressed straight from the cleaners. There was a spring to her step and she was ready for the first big operation in three weeks. It was well planned and would be a devastating surprise [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1063\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/cd0d0904f5873f4608f570561fd72f6a-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1063\">Chapter 27: Commanders quarters (warning explicit)<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">The Cavil pinned her arms above her head as he thrusted in to her. She felt a familiar feeling in her lower parts as a wonderful feeling built up toward climax. He was a skilled lover as he grunted and increased the pace of his thrusts. She cried out as her climax crashed into her [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1061\">Chapter 26<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Cylon mobile command center A Cavil and a six stood in a room with a three-dimensional map of the twelve colonies and several surrounding systems. There were dozens of red dots scattered around the system some near asteroids or space stations. The Cavil looked particularly vexed, upset about something. With a flick of his finger [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1057\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/1280x720-MwJ-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1057\">Chapter 25: A new phase<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">The hiding place where they had discovered the Battlestar Solaria Museum turned out to be a good one. It seemed to be well off the Cylon patrol routes. Raptor recon showed that activity of the enemy forces was much reduced. The intelligence weenies guessed that this was because of the gigantic raid on fuel resources. [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1054\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Pegasus3-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1054\">Chapter 24: Aftermath<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Commander Eva Lawson was sitting in her quarters with the lights turned down. A battle plan designed to be grand and deprive the cylon fleet of fuel had done massive damage, but the price had been high. The former viper pilot and CAG had a bitter taste in her mouth. Her dinner sat besides the [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1050\">Long version of the rpg PR video<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(1\/11\/2023)<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1048\">Promotional video from the rpg<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(1\/11\/2023)<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1044\">Chapter 23: From Mercury CIC<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(1\/20\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Lawson&#8217;s eyes bugged out for a brief moment. &#8220;Another three hundred civilians?&#8221; Ramirez nodded in the affirmative. &#8220;We have no place to put them,&#8221; the commander noted. &#8220;Our marine quarters are full.&#8221; &#8220;One hundred twenty percent,&#8221; the XO replied. &#8220;We&#8217;ll deal with it after the strike,&#8221; Commander Lawson said. &#8220;Make sure we cull these civilians [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1042\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/battlestar-galactica-razor-unrated-extended-2007-dvdrip-xvid-wat-avi_000571321-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1042\">Chapter 22: Port flight pod<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">The mission of the squadron was to keep cylon raiders off the raptor force assigned to hit a large cylon military base. Hector &#8220;Cookie&#8221; Fishman was fresh out of viper school, having done nothing other than fly CAP since his assignment to this batttlestar. He was a line pilot, nothing special. His viper was in [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1037\">Chapter 21: Striking Back raptor force foxtrot<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Heather &#8220;Runner&#8221; Osinas checked her coordinates for the fifth time sinch launch from the Mercury. Her right seater was new and the pair had only flown together for two sorties supporting the CAP(Combat Air Patrol). She didn&#8217;t trust Sam &#8220;Jaybird&#8221; Garret. The two were getting to understand each others habits and eccentricities. Both were wearing [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1030\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screenshot_2021-12-07_00-20-27-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screenshot_2021-12-07_00-20-27-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screenshot_2021-12-07_00-20-27-45x45.png 45w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1030\">Chapter 20: Pre-strike<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Commander Eva Lawson paced outside the pilots ready room, awaiting her invitation to speak. She was vary familiar with this room, but not her role. She could not overstep boundaries and act like the CAG. She had a CAG, though she barely knew the man, he had planned the strike details. She went over the [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1014\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/screenshot2-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1014\">Chapter 19: Planning<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">The new senior staff of the Battlestar mercury were assembled around a map of table. On the table was a small model of the Battlestar itself, several vipers and raptors representing the squadrons that were now able to fight. Commander Eva Lawson stood in her ill fitting blues uniform looking over the map. To her [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1008\">Chapter 18: Deadline<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Joint task force base gamma was one of a dozen bases built in astroids around the solar system containing the 12 colonies. The point of these bases was the act as a tripwire in case of a cylon invasion. They were supposed to make enough noise so that the fleet come in will become aware [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1003\">Chapter 17: Recon<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Being the best bus driver Lieutenant Olivia &#8216;falcon&#8217; Volker Was always a bus driver during her career in the colonial fleet. She never had any interest in flying vipers. She preferred the company of a weapons officer and the size, bulk, and sturdiness of the the raptor. The day the second cylon war had started, [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=997\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/kg_cg_ns_pegasus-029-2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=997\">Chapter 16: Commanders log<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Battlestar Commanders log: day four of the second cylon war. Commander Jesse green recording. We have picked up over 400 souls as we stealthily move about the battle wreckage Of what was once the colonial fleet. Where there was once 120 battle stars there are now fewer than two. We may be the last Battlestar. [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=994\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Pegasus-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=994\">Chapter 15: Command<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Burden of command As she leaned back in a chair that was much too big for her, acting commander Eva Lawson ponder her fate. She was in command of a powerful warship. She did not think of herself as a commander. In her own self image she was still a pilot, a major in the [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=992\">Chapter 14: The End<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Command is passed The rescue crews wore breathing gear due to the hull breach. Automatic doors had shut when the nuke hit. Automated systems had closed blast doors to try and minimize the loss of life. The weapon had been carefully aimed to do the maximum damage and cause the highest possible casualties. The Cylons [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=987\">Chapter 13<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">CIC: Battlestar Mercury Eva Lawson looked around the combat information center look of disbelief on her face. This scenario was something that every officer trained for. Normally it was a mere theoretical exercise. It took place in a classroom with unrealistic rules.&nbsp; This was a classic situation from a textbook that no one believed could [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=985\">Chapter 12: On the run.<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Commander Green&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Commander Jesse Green felt the deck shutter slightly as somehow shockwave came through.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;He walked over to the long-range strategic map.&nbsp;&nbsp;Half the time display was dark, showing no information at all.&nbsp;&nbsp;He looked at the planet Picon,&nbsp;&nbsp; It was a radiological alarm. That was a little unusual, even if nuclear weapons or mishandled they were [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=973\">Chapter 11 : Action Stations!<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">CIC Battlestar Mercury The CAG stood near the center of CIC. She was on the phone barking orders at her air wing. She still near the center, the normal place of the Battlestar commander. She was oblivious to anything other than orders she was giving. She had a mental picture in her mind. This was [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=968\">Chapter 10 : Cylon Base Star near the armistice line.<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">The Cylon hybrid stood up a little straighter and it\u2019s tub. Water splashed. It looked a little more alert, a little more lucid than usual. Most of the time and spoke gibberish and none of the humanoid Cylons paid it much attention. \u201cThe final test is within range. Is the moon at the right height? [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=966\">Chapter 9: Exploring inner cyberspace<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Weaponized: Life of a network router Chaoter 8 seems to be MIA! Read on I will find it if its important. The computer program ran very few cycles per hour. However it managed to remotely wake up every network device on the battlestar. The process hit only taken a few milliseconds. Install the tiny program, [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=963\">Chapter 7 : Lighting the flame!<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">9 hours before the attack. Eva \u201cYevka\u201d Lawson, call sign Joker was used to picking fights with LSO\u2019s and winning. Pilots look down I\u2019m these important officers. If they were real officers they will be flying not directing traffic. This was the attitude throughout the fleet.&nbsp; LSO stood for landing signals officer. These officers with [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=961\">Chapter 6 : Checking the box<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">12 hours before the attacks Peter Finch was an enlisted man from Aerilon. Not highly educated, he had joined the fleet to escape poverty and a possible criminal conviction. He was a mechanic. He followed instructions. Sometimes they were complex script sometimes not. He walked into the maintenance shop in the morning and picked up [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=959\">Chapter 5 :  14:32 before the attacks.<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">On patrol 100 km from the Cylon frontier. Lieutenant Maria Ramirez was an IT specialist assigned to the Mercury. She was about 80 kilos, medium height with straight black hair, streaked with splashes of white. She stood up straight outside the Admiral\u2019s office. She was bringing the ships commander bad news and that would never [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=957\">Chapter 4 : Attention on Deck<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">\u201cAttention on deck,\u201d said the pilot at the podium.\u201d Over three hundred viper and raptor pilots dressed in flight suits stood up in theater seating. \u201cCommander Air Group on deck.\u201d Eva Lawson was dressed in a perfectly pressed blue uniform. Her black hair was tied into a tiny knot behind her head. She moved with [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=955\">Chapter 3 : Eva Lawson<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Eva \u201cYevka\u201d Lawson was piloting a raptor, something she deemed a necessary evil. A 41 year old viper pilot she had done this one job all of her career. She had been removed as Commander Air Group of the Atlantia the flagship of the colonial fleet for getting drunk and sleeping with Admiral Nagama\u2019s son, [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=953\">Chapter 2,: Solaria Museum<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">In a Mk.7 Viper \u201cViper niner one niner you are cleared to land on the port pod. Manual landing, call the ball.\u201d Of course the Admiral remembered that they were no auto landings on the Battlestar Solaria museum. In spite of a shaky right hand, Samuel Mueller expertly piloted his Mark VII viper. Having his [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-66 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-5601c21\" data-id=\"5601c21\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f8f1171 elementor-widget elementor-widget-shortcode\" data-id=\"f8f1171\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"shortcode.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-shortcode\"><ul class=\"display-posts-listing\"><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1434\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Pegasus3-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1434\">Chapter 69: The standoff<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Chapter 69: Stand off. \u201cGet raptors out to task force Saturn,\u201d Admiral Lawson barked. \u201cFigure out how we are going to fill in the gaps the Cylons just tore in this task force. \u201cWe have an encrypted communication from Cory Brooks of the Peoples Council.\u201d The comms officer looked down and read carefully. \u201cCylon ships [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1412\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ScorpionFleetShipyards-Close-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1412\">Chapter 68: The Shipyard<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">The mutiny story was a suggestion of Mullroy234 from the BSG Deadlock discord. Solaria:Commanders Quarters Lockheart, Ward, Wilson and the representatives of six other ships all agreed that Zack \u201cSniper\u201d Anthony should be their leader. His record with the Colonial fleet was not tainted like the others. He was on leave the day the Cylons [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1409\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/6-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1409\">Chapter 67: The Cylons have a plan<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Chapter 67: Fleet Headquarters Battelestar Solaria Ready Room Herman Wilson&#8217;s grandfather had commanded a battlestar in the first Cylon war. He had fought under the command of Eva Lawson&#8217;s grandmother, also Eva Lawson. Also an Admiral by the end of the war. She had used several flagships, the most famous of which was named Mercury, [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1376\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Pegasus3-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1376\">Chapter 66: Economy of War<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Chapter 66: After the attempted ambush of the Mercury the Cylons pulled all their forces away from the human colonies. It was obvious to them that Admiral Lawson was taking a confrontational approach hoping that a major battle would wake up the government. It was important to build enough ship capacity to take the population [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1357\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/pegasus_by_diston-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1357\">Chapter 65: Quiet interrupted.<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Day 463 after the fall Admiral Lawson had been having trouble sleeping for many months now. She knew today was the 463 days since the fall of the colonies. She is just re-qualified on the mark seven viper. Finding time to fly the minimum hours has been very difficult for her. The Cylons had not [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1353\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/cropped-7f76e1b31d18d7c3d2896deb84487679-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1353\">Chapter 64: Rolling the hard six<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Previous Chapter Next Chapter Day 402 after the fall. As a Major and then a Commander, Eva Lawson did not like morning meetings. No amount of coffee could get the fog out of her mind before 9 am. As an admiral she despised early morning meetings. This one was in a particularly obnoxious time 5:30 [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1349\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Flakfield-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1349\">Chapter 63: Skirmish<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Day 381 after the fall Admiral Lawson was in a temporary office in the fleet HQ. Normally she kept her office hours on the Battlestar mercury. However for the past week and a half to ship a been in for repairs and she was forced to use this small office. The office had a window [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1339\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/1280x720-NUS-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1339\">Chapter 62: The last Anabasis run.<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Chapter 62: Lawsons Anabasis run Day 1 Day 341 after the fall. Admiral Lawson vlog. \u201cI hate these new digital logs,\u201d Lawson said. \u201cI have to have my hair done just to record the musings of my fraked up mind for the sake of history. Anyway, we are at Picon, assembling a refugee fleet with [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1336\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/217b-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1336\">Chapter 61: Hell or Anabasis mission 2. 10 more jumps.<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Chapter 61 They got ten days \u201coff\u201d between missions. Admiral Lawson led a huge fleet to make the next run to the old colonies as they were now often referred to as. It took seven days for Rose Carey&#8217;s team to get through the viper and raptor repair backlog. Then there were three days of [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1330\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/pegasus-05-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1330\">Chapter 60: 10 jumps through hell<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Chapter 60: The Cylon \u201cPeace\u201d The day after she was promoted to Admiral Commander Lawson, rather Admiral Lawson was greeted with a wireless call in her office on the Mercury. The buzzing was annoying so she answered it immediately.It was her executive officer Major Simmons. &#8220;Do you have a conference call with Commander Ramirez and [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1319\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/78613585_82c2d24d36_o-150x150.webp\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1319\">Chapter 59: The battlestars<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Heracles in the videos a gift from Joker of the BSG Deadlock discord, Commander Maria Ramirez was looking positively thin in her blue day uniform. She was immaculate. Every button was polished, All her uniforms have been altered to her new more svelte physique physique. She knew the hallways of this Battlestar very well having [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1314\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/screenshot2-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1314\">Chapter 58 Resume the war<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">It had not pleased anyone in the chain of command that Commander Lawson had ordered the ship yard moved. The location was picked to be convenient to the resources that were required to build ships. The :big three\u201d as Lawson, Ramirez and Cobb were referred to as were concerned that the Cylons had guessed the [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1310\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Pegasus3-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1310\">Chaper 57: Cease fire? Ends?<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">The admiral argued against it, Commander Ramirez argue against it. Nothing could stop Cory Brooks in her desire to go forward with the cease fire. Truth be told the colonial fleet, disorganized and undermanned needed some time off. They need to repair their ships. More than that they needed to train their people. The heavy [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1307\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Battlestar_Valkyrie_CNP_Hack-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1307\">Chapter 56: Decisive battle?<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">The meeting gave new relevance to the word clandestine. Admiral Cobb had to take two raptors in order to get to the meeting Place and a dark wind swept plain on a forgotten world that no one had bothered to chart. Walking with a cane he slowly exited the raptor and shuffled up along path [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1301\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Flakfield-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1301\">Chapter 55: Saturn Trials<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Admiral Andrew Cobb sat in his office staring at the report of the recent battle. He did not know what to do about the situation. Cory Brooks had pressured him into launching the attack before he was ready. The intelligence and I&#8217;ve been verified thoroughly. Although he had come out of the Battlestar before his [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1291\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Modeling_BNA1963-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1291\">Chapter 54: PTSD<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Chapter 54: PTSD Secure communications: From: Colonial Fleet Headquarters. Admiral Andrew Cobb To: Commander Maria Ramirez. Commander Battlestar Saturn Re: Status Commander Eva Lawson We are in receipt of the debriefing of the Commando force. We have received nothing on the status of Commander Lawson. Please send complete medical and psychological profile to this office [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1283\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/78613585_82c2d24d36_o-150x150.webp\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1283\">Chapter 53: Come on home.<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Major Maria Ramirez looked totally different that she had the day of the attacks on the colonies. She had lost a lot of weight and had finally had a new uniform issued to her. She looked good in the immaculately pressed blue uniform. She waited for the Admiral&#8217;s secretary to escort him into his tiny, [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1282\">Chapter 52: A better rescue plan<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Chapter 52: Operation misdirect. Admiral Cobb sat in a chair at a rectangular table with six of his \u201csenior\u201d commanders. Though Major Maria Ramirez did not feel senior, she was there because se was he XO and temporary commander of the most powerful warship in the fleet. When he cleared his throat to speak, everyone [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1279\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Pegasus3-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1279\">Chapter 51: The simulation<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Andrew Cobb was an older man, the years had taken their toll on him. He was tall, with an athletic build. What little hair he had on the sides of h is head were white. He stood up when Major Ramirez walked into his office at the busy mobile shipyard. He moved slowly, as if [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1276\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/BSG303_A-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1276\">Chapter 50: Rescue attempt<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">\u201cWe are at the communications hub Major,\u201d the technician who was a glorified geek that used to work for her when she was head of IT. \u201cBreak in,\u201d she ordered. The man, in his early twenties with a non-regulation earring in his left ear lobe, was typing for about 55 seconds before he leaned back [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1273\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/cropped-1280x720-NUS-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1273\">Chapter 49: The prisoner<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Commander Eva Lawson as a little disoriented when she awoke in the bedroom section of the commanders quarters. Her left hand reached to the other side of the bed, which she had shared with Cavil the Cylon. This was the attractive, handsome older man with a rugged intellectual look who gave her everything she needed. [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1262\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/screenshot2-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1262\">Chapter 48: Hope in the ashes of victory.<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Chapter 48: Hope in the ashes of victory. Cory Brooks, Executive of the Peoples Council sat in Major Martin\u2019s office on the largest of the shipbuilding platforms. It was a giant office with a humongous wide window overlooking half the shipyard platform.&nbsp; Commander Eva Lawson had not invited her. Major Martin had tendered the invitation. [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1172\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/battlestarpegasus1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1172\">Chapter 47: The M stands for mobile<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Video credit: BSG Deadlock player Lochdanon &#8211; he helped shoot a lot of the footage. Commander Eva Lawson was on a tour of the secret shipbuilding facility with Major Martin. Since the Mercury was still not considered clean from the standpoint of CNP related software, the tour was conducted on the Valkyrie class vessel, the [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1164\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/scorpion-shipyards-04-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1164\">Chapter 46: Recon<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Cavil was probably clinically depressed if not psychotic. His military campaign against the colonies was going poorly. The Galactica was leading a government taking 47,000 civilians into an exile, pursued by thousands of Cylon forces. The fleet of 1000 ships that wiped out the colonies was now spread across the galaxy looking for Galactica. A [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1160\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ScorpionFleetShipyards-Close-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1160\">Chapter 45: Data Transfer<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Lieutenant Arthur Garner was the first appointment for Major Ramirez and Major Martin, the commander it turned out of Battlestar Group 34. They were quite short of bodies if they could not find a combat commander. Garner was tasked to make all the systems of all of the ships in the Lawson fleet as it [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1157\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Pegasus3-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1157\">Chapter 44: Brother John the Cylon<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">It was bizarre the way Brother John the Cylon was taken into custody. After weeks of quarantine Commander Lawson had bent the rules to have him in her quarters supposedly for a booty call. Instead of that thirty minutes after his arrival John the Cylon was arrested for being a Cylon agent. Fortunately for the [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1155\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/pegasus-battlestar-galactica-windows-theme-themes-579831191-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1155\">Chapter 43: Meets and Planning<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Major Rick Martin was on a secure video link with Commander (acting) Eva Lawson. She had a curious look on her face as she went through the thick paper file she was delivered from decontamination. \u201cWe have to get a few things straight before we make the final jumps to our hidden shipyard. First we [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1150\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/cropped-battlestar-galactica-razor-unrated-extended-2007-dvdrip-xvid-wat-avi_000571321-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1150\">Chapter 42: Jump 7<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">The Solaria was barely keeping up. The outbreak was much less contained there and the population was mostly civilian. Gun crews infected or not isolated themselves by living in their stations. It had taken six jumps to get where they thought the civilian convoy might be. Lawson was alone in the commander&#8217;s quarters looking at [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1148\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screenshot_2021-12-07_00-20-46-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screenshot_2021-12-07_00-20-46-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screenshot_2021-12-07_00-20-46-45x45.png 45w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1148\">Chapter 41: Trail gets hot!<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">A conference call was set up with the department heads who were involved in the search for the second force, the remnants of Battlestar Group 34. CIC was represented by Major Maria Ramirez Lieutenant Arthur Garner a thin, soft-spoken 29-year-old from Scorpia. He spent 12-hour shifts In CIC before the virus outbreak. Since they were [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1146\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/cropped-cropped-battlestar-galactica-razor-unrated-extended-2007-dvdrip-xvid-wat-avi_000571321-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/cropped-cropped-battlestar-galactica-razor-unrated-extended-2007-dvdrip-xvid-wat-avi_000571321-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/cropped-cropped-battlestar-galactica-razor-unrated-extended-2007-dvdrip-xvid-wat-avi_000571321-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/cropped-cropped-battlestar-galactica-razor-unrated-extended-2007-dvdrip-xvid-wat-avi_000571321-1-270x270.jpg 270w, https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/cropped-cropped-battlestar-galactica-razor-unrated-extended-2007-dvdrip-xvid-wat-avi_000571321-1-192x192.jpg 192w, https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/cropped-cropped-battlestar-galactica-razor-unrated-extended-2007-dvdrip-xvid-wat-avi_000571321-1-180x180.jpg 180w, https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/cropped-cropped-battlestar-galactica-razor-unrated-extended-2007-dvdrip-xvid-wat-avi_000571321-1-32x32.jpg 32w, https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/cropped-cropped-battlestar-galactica-razor-unrated-extended-2007-dvdrip-xvid-wat-avi_000571321-1.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1146\">Chapter 40: The hunt for the second force.<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">\u201cMajor Ramirez,\u201d commander Lawson asked, \u201cwhat have we got off the Valkyrie class Battlestar\u2019s computer.\u201d \u201cWell they made an effort to keep the toasters from doing what I have tried to do,\u201d Ramirez answered. \u201cI\u2019m having to correlate some video data from their telescope observatory with some very heavily encrypted information on that computer. I [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1139\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/20220128231448_1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1139\">Chapter 39: Command Training<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Chapter 39: Command Training It took quite a lot of preparation midst of a virus outbreak to make the scenario of training happen. The virtual reality suites at themselves with disinfectant and irradiated to make sure nothing could live. The hallways from the commander and executive officer Quarters work patrol by Marines. Every bit of [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1115\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/BSG303_A-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1115\">Chapter 38: The fight goes on!<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Chapter 38: Alternate title. Recovery and Discovery Plano and Jaybird were together again, both infected with the Sunspot virus, both asymptomatic. It was a pleasure to get out of isolation and back into space flying. The mission was extremely dangerous. They were to jump 4 plotted FTL jumps back to Caprica.&nbsp; They were based on [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1099\">Pre-story Chapter 1<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(11\/30\/2022)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Colonial fleet headquarters after a computer simulated exercise. Admiral Taylor was a short, hunched man with a bald head. He was 80 years old and was a young commander of the viper wing and then a Battlestar in the first colonial war. He was the fleets foremost living expert on the tactics of the Cylons. [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1096\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/pegasus-03-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1096\">Chapter 37<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Major Ramirez was on a video screen from her quarters. The virus outbreak had reached every corner of the Battlestar. The small, cramped but well protected CIC did not allow for the social distancing necessary to prevent the spread of the virus.&nbsp;&nbsp;Fortunately, the ship had a robust network that allowed people to work from any [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1094\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/pegasus-05-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1094\">Chapter 36: Pandemic Outbreak<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Karla \u201cBlondie\u201d Knox had the sniffles. She knew exactly where she had gotten them. Five days ago she had volunteered to co-pilot a raptor sortie because she thought the pilot was hot and she had wanted to have a chance to talk to him. Her interest was quashed when gentle probing made the man speak [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1089\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/78613585_82c2d24d36_o-150x150.webp\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1089\">Chapter 35: Viral Spread(Pandemic)<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">The Benson Family had survived the attack on the colonies because they were on a vacation trip from their home on Scorpia to Caprica. Their transportation had been damaged by a cylon raider before meeting up with seven other ships and beginning the monthlong journey to join up with Mercury and Solaria, nicknamed the Battlestar [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1085\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/whoughpeg03-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1085\">Chapter 34: Evidence<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Lieutenant Joe \u201cSquirrel\u201d Davis&nbsp;&nbsp;was 40 years old and still a lieutenant. This was not due to a lack of skill as a Viper pilot, it was due to misbehavior off duty. He was in fact an exceptional pilot who held a type rating on different types of raptor, as well as every Viper ever flown, [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1082\">Chapter 33: Overload!<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Commander Eva Lawson walked into CIC more relaxed than she ever remembered. All her career she had been fracking up due to her strong sex drive when she could have just had a civilian relationship. This was so much easier if the fracker would stop showing up in her quarters unannounced. When she saw Major [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1080\">Chapter 32: Damage<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Eva Lawson and Maria Ramirez were sitting together in the pilots ready room, some papers strewn on a portable table. Battle damage had shattered glass in the commander\u2019s quarters and office so Commander Lawson was temporarily homeless. \u201cSo how bad is it XO?\u201d She steeled herself for the news which she already knew would not [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1076\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/217b-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1076\">Chapter 31: Jump!<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">The Mercury CIC was on edge, having attempted to jump directly into  a firing position that provided a targeting solution for the main guns. The current thinking on tactics was the Mercury\u2019s forward facing guns were so devastating the preferred tactic was to charge targets at high speed and aim at the enemy ships enter axis and cut her in two on the first pass.<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1072\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/cropped-Pegasus3-1-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1072\">Chapter 30: Solaria<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Captain Brad \u201cReptile\u201d Adkins settled in to the commanders office on the Solaria with a frown on his face. The desk nameplate from the previous occupant, Commander Jesse Green was still on the desk. None of the crew had survived and that meant there would be ghosts on this ship.\u2019\u2019<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1069\">Chapter 29: Waiting<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(1\/20\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">James \u201cJaybird\u201d Thompson had been given secondary missions ever since the fall, which was only a month ago. Today he was on primary with a mission to do a micro jump and take out the refinery. His new electronic warfare officer, \u201cPlano\u201d was strapped in because they were in a raptor launch tube. He looked a fat stuffed bear in his seat belts. There were only a few of these on a Mercury class Battlestar. They were dedicated for special missions.<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1065\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Kg_cg_ns_pegasus-016-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1065\">Chapter 28: 20 minutes later &#8230;<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Twenty minutes later Commander Eva Lawson strode in to the command ready room. She was showered and her uniform was perfectly pressed straight from the cleaners. There was a spring to her step and she was ready for the first big operation in three weeks. It was well planned and would be a devastating surprise [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1063\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/cd0d0904f5873f4608f570561fd72f6a-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1063\">Chapter 27: Commanders quarters (warning explicit)<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">The Cavil pinned her arms above her head as he thrusted in to her. She felt a familiar feeling in her lower parts as a wonderful feeling built up toward climax. He was a skilled lover as he grunted and increased the pace of his thrusts. She cried out as her climax crashed into her [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1061\">Chapter 26<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Cylon mobile command center A Cavil and a six stood in a room with a three-dimensional map of the twelve colonies and several surrounding systems. There were dozens of red dots scattered around the system some near asteroids or space stations. The Cavil looked particularly vexed, upset about something. With a flick of his finger [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1057\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/1280x720-MwJ-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1057\">Chapter 25: A new phase<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">The hiding place where they had discovered the Battlestar Solaria Museum turned out to be a good one. It seemed to be well off the Cylon patrol routes. Raptor recon showed that activity of the enemy forces was much reduced. The intelligence weenies guessed that this was because of the gigantic raid on fuel resources. [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1054\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Pegasus3-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1054\">Chapter 24: Aftermath<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Commander Eva Lawson was sitting in her quarters with the lights turned down. A battle plan designed to be grand and deprive the cylon fleet of fuel had done massive damage, but the price had been high. The former viper pilot and CAG had a bitter taste in her mouth. Her dinner sat besides the [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1050\">Long version of the rpg PR video<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(1\/11\/2023)<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1048\">Promotional video from the rpg<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(1\/11\/2023)<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1044\">Chapter 23: From Mercury CIC<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(1\/20\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Lawson&#8217;s eyes bugged out for a brief moment. &#8220;Another three hundred civilians?&#8221; Ramirez nodded in the affirmative. &#8220;We have no place to put them,&#8221; the commander noted. &#8220;Our marine quarters are full.&#8221; &#8220;One hundred twenty percent,&#8221; the XO replied. &#8220;We&#8217;ll deal with it after the strike,&#8221; Commander Lawson said. &#8220;Make sure we cull these civilians [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1042\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/battlestar-galactica-razor-unrated-extended-2007-dvdrip-xvid-wat-avi_000571321-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1042\">Chapter 22: Port flight pod<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">The mission of the squadron was to keep cylon raiders off the raptor force assigned to hit a large cylon military base. Hector &#8220;Cookie&#8221; Fishman was fresh out of viper school, having done nothing other than fly CAP since his assignment to this batttlestar. He was a line pilot, nothing special. His viper was in [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1037\">Chapter 21: Striking Back raptor force foxtrot<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Heather &#8220;Runner&#8221; Osinas checked her coordinates for the fifth time sinch launch from the Mercury. Her right seater was new and the pair had only flown together for two sorties supporting the CAP(Combat Air Patrol). She didn&#8217;t trust Sam &#8220;Jaybird&#8221; Garret. The two were getting to understand each others habits and eccentricities. Both were wearing [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1030\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screenshot_2021-12-07_00-20-27-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screenshot_2021-12-07_00-20-27-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screenshot_2021-12-07_00-20-27-45x45.png 45w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1030\">Chapter 20: Pre-strike<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Commander Eva Lawson paced outside the pilots ready room, awaiting her invitation to speak. She was vary familiar with this room, but not her role. She could not overstep boundaries and act like the CAG. She had a CAG, though she barely knew the man, he had planned the strike details. She went over the [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1014\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/screenshot2-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1014\">Chapter 19: Planning<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">The new senior staff of the Battlestar mercury were assembled around a map of table. On the table was a small model of the Battlestar itself, several vipers and raptors representing the squadrons that were now able to fight. Commander Eva Lawson stood in her ill fitting blues uniform looking over the map. To her [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1008\">Chapter 18: Deadline<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Joint task force base gamma was one of a dozen bases built in astroids around the solar system containing the 12 colonies. The point of these bases was the act as a tripwire in case of a cylon invasion. They were supposed to make enough noise so that the fleet come in will become aware [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1003\">Chapter 17: Recon<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Being the best bus driver Lieutenant Olivia &#8216;falcon&#8217; Volker Was always a bus driver during her career in the colonial fleet. She never had any interest in flying vipers. She preferred the company of a weapons officer and the size, bulk, and sturdiness of the the raptor. The day the second cylon war had started, [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=997\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/kg_cg_ns_pegasus-029-2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=997\">Chapter 16: Commanders log<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Battlestar Commanders log: day four of the second cylon war. Commander Jesse green recording. We have picked up over 400 souls as we stealthily move about the battle wreckage Of what was once the colonial fleet. Where there was once 120 battle stars there are now fewer than two. We may be the last Battlestar. [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=994\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Pegasus-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=994\">Chapter 15: Command<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Burden of command As she leaned back in a chair that was much too big for her, acting commander Eva Lawson ponder her fate. She was in command of a powerful warship. She did not think of herself as a commander. In her own self image she was still a pilot, a major in the [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=992\">Chapter 14: The End<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Command is passed The rescue crews wore breathing gear due to the hull breach. Automatic doors had shut when the nuke hit. Automated systems had closed blast doors to try and minimize the loss of life. The weapon had been carefully aimed to do the maximum damage and cause the highest possible casualties. The Cylons [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=987\">Chapter 13<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">CIC: Battlestar Mercury Eva Lawson looked around the combat information center look of disbelief on her face. This scenario was something that every officer trained for. Normally it was a mere theoretical exercise. It took place in a classroom with unrealistic rules.&nbsp; This was a classic situation from a textbook that no one believed could [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=985\">Chapter 12: On the run.<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Commander Green&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Commander Jesse Green felt the deck shutter slightly as somehow shockwave came through.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;He walked over to the long-range strategic map.&nbsp;&nbsp;Half the time display was dark, showing no information at all.&nbsp;&nbsp;He looked at the planet Picon,&nbsp;&nbsp; It was a radiological alarm. That was a little unusual, even if nuclear weapons or mishandled they were [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=973\">Chapter 11 : Action Stations!<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">CIC Battlestar Mercury The CAG stood near the center of CIC. She was on the phone barking orders at her air wing. She still near the center, the normal place of the Battlestar commander. She was oblivious to anything other than orders she was giving. She had a mental picture in her mind. This was [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=968\">Chapter 10 : Cylon Base Star near the armistice line.<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">The Cylon hybrid stood up a little straighter and it\u2019s tub. Water splashed. It looked a little more alert, a little more lucid than usual. Most of the time and spoke gibberish and none of the humanoid Cylons paid it much attention. \u201cThe final test is within range. Is the moon at the right height? [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=966\">Chapter 9: Exploring inner cyberspace<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Weaponized: Life of a network router Chaoter 8 seems to be MIA! Read on I will find it if its important. The computer program ran very few cycles per hour. However it managed to remotely wake up every network device on the battlestar. The process hit only taken a few milliseconds. Install the tiny program, [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=963\">Chapter 7 : Lighting the flame!<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">9 hours before the attack. Eva \u201cYevka\u201d Lawson, call sign Joker was used to picking fights with LSO\u2019s and winning. Pilots look down I\u2019m these important officers. If they were real officers they will be flying not directing traffic. This was the attitude throughout the fleet.&nbsp; LSO stood for landing signals officer. These officers with [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=961\">Chapter 6 : Checking the box<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">12 hours before the attacks Peter Finch was an enlisted man from Aerilon. Not highly educated, he had joined the fleet to escape poverty and a possible criminal conviction. He was a mechanic. He followed instructions. Sometimes they were complex script sometimes not. He walked into the maintenance shop in the morning and picked up [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=959\">Chapter 5 :  14:32 before the attacks.<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">On patrol 100 km from the Cylon frontier. Lieutenant Maria Ramirez was an IT specialist assigned to the Mercury. She was about 80 kilos, medium height with straight black hair, streaked with splashes of white. She stood up straight outside the Admiral\u2019s office. She was bringing the ships commander bad news and that would never [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=957\">Chapter 4 : Attention on Deck<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">\u201cAttention on deck,\u201d said the pilot at the podium.\u201d Over three hundred viper and raptor pilots dressed in flight suits stood up in theater seating. \u201cCommander Air Group on deck.\u201d Eva Lawson was dressed in a perfectly pressed blue uniform. Her black hair was tied into a tiny knot behind her head. She moved with [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=955\">Chapter 3 : Eva Lawson<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Eva \u201cYevka\u201d Lawson was piloting a raptor, something she deemed a necessary evil. A 41 year old viper pilot she had done this one job all of her career. She had been removed as Commander Air Group of the Atlantia the flagship of the colonial fleet for getting drunk and sleeping with Admiral Nagama\u2019s son, [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=953\">Chapter 2,: Solaria Museum<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(2\/16\/2023)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">In a Mk.7 Viper \u201cViper niner one niner you are cleared to land on the port pod. Manual landing, call the ball.\u201d Of course the Admiral remembered that they were no auto landings on the Battlestar Solaria museum. In spite of a shaky right hand, Samuel Mueller expertly piloted his Mark VII viper. 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