{"id":10900,"date":"2026-05-13T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=10900"},"modified":"2026-02-16T13:20:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T13:20:23","slug":"book-4chapter-26-big-game-solaria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=10900","title":{"rendered":"Book 4:Chapter 26 “Big Game-Solaria”"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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CO:<\/span><\/p>

\u201cAll right Major Welsh. Sit rep.\u201d<\/span><\/p>

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\u201cAs best as we can, all the nav computers are running. We have information Sierra from the flag ship. We are way behind with armor patching. The pilots and deck gangs are either whining about having nothing to do when we halt flight ops for major repairs. They also complain bitterly when the work load is too high.\u201d<\/span><\/p>

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\u201cFairly typical. If the pilots need something to do when flight ops are shut down, they can help the deck gang with repairs.<\/span><\/p>

All right then. We make the jump and will work our standard pattern. S turns to avoid too many hits reaching the interior of the ship through gaps in the armor coverage.\u201d<\/span><\/p>

\u201cPretty much Sir.\u201d<\/span><\/p>

\u201cJump complete Commander. Mercury is reporting the expected size and disposition of Cylon forces.\u201d<\/span><\/p>

\u201cLaunch the airwing and the munitions against the pair of freighters.\u201d<\/span><\/p>

\u201cHelm\u00a0 implement our first turn. Break left. Starboard.\u201d<\/span><\/p>

\u201cHelm is answering commander.<\/span>
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\u201cBreak right.\u201d<\/span><\/p>

\u201cHelm hard to starboard.\u201d<\/span><\/p>

\u201cWe have a firing solution to starboard commander.\u201d<\/span><\/p>

\u201cHelm crash, turn starboard. Batteries switch to salvo mode.\u201d<\/span><\/p>

XO:<\/span><\/p>

\u201cStarboard flight pod reporting gunfire hits on the armor.\u201d<\/span><\/p>

\u201cHeavy missile fire front and starboard.\u201d<\/span><\/p>

XO:<\/span><\/p>

\u201cFlagship is signalling for an S turn in 30 seconds.\u201d<\/span><\/p>

CO:<\/span><\/p>

\u201cAcknowlege and execute!\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

\u201cAnother salvo hit front and starboard.\u201d<\/span><\/p>

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\u201cStarboard pod reporting heavy bombardment. Armor state uncertain.\u201d<\/span><\/p>

\u201cMercury is permitting us to break formation to crack this task force.\u201d<\/span><\/p>

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CO: \u201cAll right Major Welsh. Sit rep.\u201d \u00a0 \u201cAs best as we can, all the nav computers are running. We have information Sierra from the flag ship. We are way behind with armor patching. The pilots and deck gangs are either whining about having nothing to do when we halt flight ops for major repairs. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001880,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[259],"tags":[264],"class_list":["post-10900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prophecy","tag-prophecy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1001880"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10900"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10933,"href":"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10900\/revisions\/10933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}