It had not pleased anyone in the chain\nof command that Commander Lawson had ordered the ship yard moved. The\nlocation was picked to be convenient to the resources that were\nrequired to build ships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The :big three\u201d as Lawson, Ramirez\nand Cobb were referred to as were concerned that the Cylons had\nguessed the location of the shipyard by tracking the ships that\nbrought in raw materials for ship building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A worse possibility was that the Cylons\nwere tracking the mining ships and other cargo ships that routinely\nvisited the facility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What put fear in their hearts was the\npossibility the Cylons were tracking the station itself. This jump\nwas designed to eliminate some of the possibilities. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The facility has been designed to jump\nwith ships under construction. All material shipments were stopped\ntemporarily. Ship production suspended for a few days. Some retooling\nwas necessary because they wanted to build civilian transports. The\nidea was to get the population of the colonies mobile so they could\nbe moved out of the range of influence of the Cylon military.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The workers were happy for some time\noff building. They kept working but we’re dedicating themselves to\nmaintenance of equipment. It’s been almost 6 months since the\ncolonies have been destroyed and the shipyard have been running at\nfull tilt ever since it was assembled. The workers needed some time\nto work on their tools and complete deferred maintenance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The fleet that had beaten the Cylon\nforce designated as the virus fleet run through the shipyard for a\nquick repairs on armor and major issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Commanders Lawson and Ramirez took the\ntheir forces out of DRADIS range of the shipyard. Their intent was to\nambush the fleet that jumped in. For several days they continued\ndoing maintenance and repairs inside most of the ships. They\nmaintained a high level of readiness. Instead of the normal alert\nfive vapors maintain an entire squadron flying combat air patrol\nknown by the acronym CAP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Mercury and Saturn jumped away\nperiodically to take on ore and raw materials.Staffed by nearly two\nhundred unhappy civilian draftees, the ships Viper manufacturing\nfacilities were put to work, building Mark seven vipers for the\nentire fleet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When five days after arrival the DRADIS\nbegan to chip, announcing the arrival of the Cylons, they were ready.\nRamirez looked at her readiness screen, she had three Valkyrie class\nsupport battlestars and an aging Manticore in her fleet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lawson’s group consisted of the\nMercury, the Solaria Jupiter mk2 ship, a defender and two Celestra;s\nequipped with extra ammunition an drones to strengthen armor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lawson and Ramirez were on the wireless\nchatting on the DRADIS announce the arrival of the cylon fight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“That’s twice as big as the flight\nwe took last week,” Ramirez warned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Natural vipers order the shipyard\nto jump immediately.” The commander froze for a moment as if she\nwas not present. She quickly shook her head and she looked at Dr.\nFarragut who was in the CIC observing her price patient. “Second\nissue on throughout the fleet attack plan alpha. We’re gonna do this\nthe same way that we did last time. I set up a flak wall for they’ve\nnever imagined and let them waste their missiles on it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As well as their hair but they have the\nwireless transmission of the wipers and capital ships on speaker.\nThey heard the announcement of the Valkyries formed up and began to\ntarget incoming cylon Raiders and muscles with a very solid defensive\nflak field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At least 20 Salem squadrons what\nidentified. Missiles came in by the hundreds missiles came in by the\nhundreds. Several points over 1000 missiles were inbound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nearly a dozen nuclear weapons came in,\nbut with slight course corrections the colonial fleet managed to\ndetonate them with their flag fields.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The fight or battle continued until\nmost of the papers were out of ammunition. As planned they were\nrecalled and that relaunched as the remaining Cylon Raiders were easy\nto pick off with the point defense guns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Seven minutes into the battle one of\nthe Valkyries was hacked. She began to lose defensive systems in\nCommander Ramirez did not hesitate. \u201cHave that ship jump out of\nhere immediately\u201d she said emergency jump now!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
DRADIS operator reported. \u201cTwo Cratus\nships spotted. They are targeting the Solaria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Turning on them for 90\u00b0. Port\n90\u00b0 bring the fruit cans to bear switch to salvo mode.\u201d Lawson\nlooked little bit confused as she was having trouble focusing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Minutes later the Solaria it was\ntargeted. “Solaria reports heavy damage armor bravo in forward\nand several sections. There they believe they might lose the ship.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Execute emergency jump now.\nSolaria actual this is mercury actual jump now. Do not hesitate jump\nnow!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The commander began squeezing a pain in\nher right hand until it cracked in two pieces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The destruction of the first gigantic\nbase star was announced. Alone now Lawson ordered another gradual\nturn to meet the second beefy ship. She saw fire pouring in from the\nthree Valkyries and the Saturn as seconds later the second giant ship\nnot seen since the first Cylon war went up in a fireball.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Most of the Cylon fleet were out of\nmissiles now. Two ships continue to pump out missiles educational\nnuclear weapon. Commander Lawson marked those two ships on her\ndisplay. “Those would be Argos they seem to have a huge\nammunition supply. All ships concentrate your fire and the two\ntargets wee just designated. Priority one.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Splash Argos number one. “Someone\nin the CIC announced. A minute later at the second Argos and it’s\nseemingly inexhaustible supply of nuclear weapons and missiles ceased\nto be a threat.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“All we have left our Cerebes\ncarriers and base stars with no missiles. We’re taking heavy fire\nfrom the carriers sir. We’ve got a hull breach, scratch that several\nhull breach and internal casualties. Whole integrity 80% sir.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Commander Lawson glanced at where Dr.\nFarragut have been standing. She noted that the doctor had the good\nsense to get a sick day or a casualties would be coming in by the\ndozens and she would be needed to do triage and what was described by\nmany surgeons as a meatball surgery.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Suddenly as it began the battle was over. The Cylon fleet was devastated and completely destroyed. Casualty reports came in. They have lost a Defender class worship and one of the Celestras. A few minutes later the report came in that the Solaria had suffered over 200 casualties when its armor had been breached. The ship was saved and undergoing emergency repairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n