{"id":1319,"date":"2021-08-31T14:48:01","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T14:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1319"},"modified":"2023-02-16T10:55:54","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T10:55:54","slug":"chapter-59-the-battlestars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/battlestarmercury.com\/wordpress\/?p=1319","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 59: The battlestars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Heracles in the videos a gift from Joker of the BSG Deadlock discord,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Commander Maria Ramirez was looking\npositively thin in her blue day uniform. She was immaculate. Every\nbutton was polished, All her uniforms have been altered to her new\nmore svelte physique physique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">She knew the hallways of this\nBattlestar very well having served on it for a year under Admiral\nMueller before the fall of the colonies. She checked him in CIC I&#8217;ve\nbeen told the commander was in the Virtual Reality suite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Now I command are starting out the war as an information technology Lieutenant, she was remarkable and how she&#8217;s adjusted to a new role far above her former rank. Her CAG, call sign \u201csausage\u201d has been a malcontent Lieutenant disrupting his squadron commander on the mercury.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">With the responsibility of command and a promotion pressed upon him he had grown into the role immediately. He was flying sometimes 18 hours a day training as pilots. He gave individual attention to those that needed it and now have three other pilots doing flight training along side him. The Air wings performance in recent battles had been magnificent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">This Battlestar is hallways were long and monotonous. She found her legs were getting a little bit tired and she made her way to the VR section of the ship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Her mind wandered ass at the origin of\nher CAG call sign. She was pretty sure it was not because he like to\neat homemade sausage which was not available in the current climate\nof late. She wondered what was so special about him to get a call\nsign named after a part of his anatomy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;You&#8217;ve got to get yourself a\nman,&#8221; she said she reached \nCommander Eva Lawson&#8217;s location. She\ngently knocked on the door heard some kind of a noise from inside and\nthen announced her self.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Commander Lawson did not look like she\nbeen taking care of herself. \nHer hair was unkempt, she was in her\nundershirt with no rank inscription on display. She pulled her head\nout of the virtual reality computer and looked up at Commander\nRamirez.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;Good morning Commander Ramirez, &#8221;\nshe said. &#8220;What brings you to my neighborhood on this fine day.\nBored from the lack of activity except for those to Battlestar&#8217;s\nattacking remote outposts?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;Well actually your crew\nespecially your XO is very concerned about you. Looking at you I can\nsee why. What simulation are you running that it so important that\nyou don&#8217;t eat for three days?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cI&#8217;m trying to figure out how to take those Battlestar&#8217;s away from the Cylons. I am absolutely positively obsessed with this. If we can&#8217;t figure a way to take those Battlestar&#8217;s away from them we&#8217;re going to have to destroy them. That represents a doubling of our capital ships heavy fire power.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u001eIn spite of her physical condition,\ncommander loss and did not sound maniacal. She did not sound like she\nwas crazy or going mental. She was actually focusing very hard on the\nproblem and trying to solve it on her own without getting help. This\nwas her way throughout her career. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">There was a fight and over early in her\ncareer that was difficult to do correctly on the mark seven viper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">It was a difficult move and it was a\nrequirement to get advanced status and get promoted be on the rank of\nLieutenant. She spent hours upon hours in the simulator, trying to\nfigure out how to do the maneuver and continually lost control of her\nviper. She refused to reach out to other pilots for help and it\nwasn&#8217;t until she missed a rotation and CAP and the flight surgeon\ndecertifying her first flight status that her commander took her\naside and asked what she was doing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\nShe explained sheepishly he got into\nthe simulator with her and told her to maneuver in about 15 minutes.\nIt was a death when she learned the lesson to reach out for help.\nApparently as commander she had fewer resources so she could trust\nbut she has seemingly forgotten this important role that it saved her\ncareer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;Tell me how you&#8217;re trying to do\nthis,&#8221; Ramirez pressed. \u201cWhat fleet and tactics are you\nusing?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;Well you know only 4 Atlas carriers and I wanted to maximize the size of the marine force. I equip them at all Raptors. I have 4 Janus class cruisers because they have an amazingly large ammunition and fire capability.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;What&#8217;s the munitions loud I know\nJanus cruisers?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Dealerships are outfitted with mostly\nproximity mines and EMP minds. Each ship has at least one EMP\ngenerator. Dealerships have two EMP generators and one EMP mine load\nout.\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;What else?\u201d asked Amanda\nRamirez.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;The two air wings and both of our\nmercury glass Battlestar&#8217;s. We need the air power so it&#8217;s very\nproblematic to attack the vipers on the other side due to confusion\nand the fact that we&#8217;re having an air battle right within close range\nof their mercury class PDC&#8217;s\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;What does the other side have?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;Recent intelligence shows they stopped using the Heracles probably because our fleet that they massacred took out five of them. They using Minataur class cruisers. Looks like maybe eight. Great gunships.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\n&#8220;What happens when you run a\nsimulation?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;Most of the task force is\ndestroyed, usually the Battlestar&#8217;s are taken. But we lose either the\nmercury or the Saturn every time. I need a new tactic but I can&#8217;t\nthink of any other way to conduct a mission.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\n&#8220;All right I&#8217;m gonna go into the\nsecond suite and we&#8217;re going to do the simulation again you&#8217;re\nrunning the entire show I&#8217;m just watching and observing. Set up I&#8217;ll\ntake five minutes do you need a coffee break?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;My blood is 5% caffeine right now,&#8221; Lawson joked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>#####<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Failed battlestar grab simulation   HD 1080p\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/su2fgmmzPno?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Simulation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">After the exercise Ramirez gently took\nher former commander by the arm and walked her back to her quarters. \n&#8220;Dr. Farragut contacted me about you. You were going to sleep\nafter you eat a complete and balanced meal. If you do not I will talk\nto the doctor and get you relieved of duty until you do.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;Yes mother,&#8221; Commander\nLawson sat down at her desk and begin consuming the least spoiled\nfood trays left in her office area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Maria Ramirez did something she did\nwhen she was under Lawsons command, which was clean up this messy\noffice. \nShe got on the wireless and ordered a cart. She emptied all\nthe meal trays that it accumulated into the cart. She went through\nthe entire office and cleaned everything up while Lawson slowly\nconsumed her meal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\n&#8220;What next mom?&#8221; She\nstripped off her underwear and was completely naked in front of her\nlast senior officer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;You were going to get eight hours\nof sleep, 12 if you can. I&#8217;m going to take my crew and change the\nnature of this battle. I&#8217;ll be back to you with a new battle plan in\n12 hours. I will not discuss it with you until you have slept.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Lawson slipped on a nightgown and climbed into her bed. She pull the covers up to her chin and was in spite of the amount of caffeine in her bloodstream asleep within two minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The colonial fleet had realized there was a technology gap concerning the Cylons. During the war which it ended 40 years prior the best the colonials could do is put up strong firewalls. They never made a real attempt to hack the Cylons. What good would it do to try and out hack a machine?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The problem had vexed colonial admirals\nfor decades after the war. The Cylons have not made an appearance in\ndecades it seems to be an issue. But it was an issue, it was a\nproblem that needed to get solved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">In spite of the ban on artificial\nintelligence the cyber corps of the colonial fleet have been created\na decade earlier. It rained thousands of officers in the art of\ndefending information systems. It also trained in the art of\noffensive use of computer technology. In essence they were going to\ntry it out hack the Cylons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">During the shuttle ride back to the\nSaturn, Ramirez ponder the problem. Suddenly it was very simple. All\nthey have to do to change the course of the battle was take the\ncruisers out of the battle. The way to do that would be to take over\ntheir systems and crashed into each other at the exact opportune\nmoment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Her only other modification of commander Lawsons battle plan was too slow the rate in which they went into battle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">It was the 250th day since the\ndestruction of the colonies that Commander Maria Ramirez came back to\nthe mercury and showed her plan in a graphical slideshow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;I call it operation turn around. We turned around the tables on the enemies instead of waiting to get hacked by them we hack them. Since the toaters are using obsolete Colonial vessels, the hack is quite simple.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;I determined where the ships are coming from. As it turns out the Virgons had a contract to dismantle Colonial warships. For about 50 years they failed to fulfill the contract and sold parts from the systems on the black market. Some of the technology got back to the Cylons.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;Our enemy has been doing part of\nthe shipyards for decades. That&#8217;s how they mastered the technology of\nthe mercury Battlestar. The prototype, built before the ship for the\nclass got a name was dismantled. Except it was never dismantled.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;Operation turn around has two\ncomponents what is your conventional attack with 1000 Marines to take\nthose to Battlestar&#8217;s. The second equally important operation is\nwe&#8217;re going to go to the shipyard I&#8217;m gonna take as many steps as we\ncan out of there and we&#8217;re going to nuke the rest of them. Admiral\nCobb is going to lead that fleet.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;We already have the intelligence\nin our database that shows over 300 ships are nearly completely\nassembled at the junkyard. Our estimates as we have enough crew to\ntake out 100. The rest are going to mine and destroy. \u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;As far as the assault goes I have\nchanged a few things. We are going to put the marine Raptors in a\nfighting and vulnerable position above our fleet.  We&#8217;re going to use\nelectronic interference to mask the presence of Mark seven vipers in\nthe same formation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;We are going to slow our approach\nspeed slightly and when their writers engage we are going to ambush\nthem. The battle will occur within range of our point defense cannons\nnot theirs. During the ambush the Raptors bring 500 Marines each to\nthe Athena and the Acropolis.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;At the moment we enter optimum firing range, I take over the systems of the cruisers and they slam into each other with the mines we have laid in their path. Boom boom boom, the colonial three cats two new battle stars.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Lawson asked, &#8220;are you sure we can hack those cruisers?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;Before the war you were a fighter jock and he didn&#8217;t have much concern about information systems. My cyber team was a board the mercury figuring out how to defend it from the enemy. Further our mandate was to offensively use technology against the enemy. My crew did a demonstration for Admiral Mueller. With no route passwords or any other administrative access we want if we exercise against the mercury with three Artemis class battle stars.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;As a matter of fact I&#8217;ve already\ncut software on all the ships in the enemy fleet. Last night they\nattacked one of my remote listening stations. They hauled it right\ninto the landing being connected it to ship systems on the Acropolis.\nCNP was a very great accomplishment by the enemy. I&#8217;m going to give\nthem that back to the third power\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Commander Lawson&#8217;s eyes lit up like a\nkid on colonial day morning. Commander Ramirez had a self-satisfied\ngrin on her face. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;Commander Lawson,&#8221; Ramirez\nsaid \u201call you need to do is get the order and we jump off in six\nhours. We know exactly where the Cylons are. We&#8217;re going to take\nthose battle stars away from them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;Is the Admiral ready to go?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;Yes sir he is,&#8221; Maria\nRamirez clasped her hands and looked confident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;The order is given!&#8221;\nCommander at Lawson said emphatically. &#8220;I&#8217;m ready to sign the\ntactical orders.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;Admiral Cobb signed them while\nyou were sleeping sir.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">* * *<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The FTL jump went smoothly. The enemy\nships were in formation exactly where they were supposed to be. The\ncolonial fleet was clumped together in a way that protected the\nvaluable mercury glass ships from taking too much fire from the\ncruisers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;Everything shows green,&#8221;\nsaid major Simmons. &#8220;Shall we launch the vipers and raptors?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;Launch all aircraft,&#8221; Lawson\nordered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Her mind did not wander. Her\nconsciousness remained in the presence. She listen to the radio\nchatter as the mark 7 vipers launched and formed up with the Raptors\nhigh above the fleet. She gave the orders for the mines to be laid in\nfront of the enemy cruisers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Lawson watched the various camera feeds\nas the mines shut out and took a course tour the picket line of the\nenemy which was composed exclusively Minataur cruisers. The enemy\nknew how to fly the ships but was not completely familiar with some\nof the details of the process. Commander Ramirez&#8217;s virus reported\nback to settings of weapons and other important details through an\nencrypted channel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">A surprisingly detailed status report\nwas displaying based on the transmission sensor to the cylon command.\nThey were less than 200 centurions aboard each of the two massive\nBattlestar&#8217;s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The squadrons reported inbound enemy\naircraft and sprung their ambush. Crowded with Marines the colonial\nraptors went into maximum priced to close distance on the two mercury\nclass ships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The air battle was going well. It took\nless than three minutes to eliminate the mark seven vipers flown by\nthe cylon pilots which apparently were humanoid models.  \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Apparently they have not had sufficient\ntime to obtain their viper wings! \nThey were clearly skilled pilots,\nhowever they did not show the experience of having flown hundreds if\nnot thousands of hours on the colonial viper. It was a slaughter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\nWith the sound of bullets deafening in\nthe background there to Marine expeditionary forces an ounce that I\nhad control of one of the landing base of the target ships. There was\na shooting in confusion and the marine commander report he was going\nto blow the hatches and move into the battle star.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">This was the tenses portion of the\nbattle. If the Marines failed, hundreds would be killed and the\nmission would be a failure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Commander Ramirez&#8217;s voice appeared in\nthe chatter. Her words were crisp and clear. &#8220;&#8221;Operation\nturn around now now now.&#8221; There was an ominous pause and then\nshe spoke again. &#8220;Take over navigation systems is complete.\nChanging course of the cruisers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">A sea fire was displayed on the\nmonitors. Where they had once been eight cruisers, they were now\nthree badly damaged and burning ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;This is marine force Acropolis.\nWe have the CIC. We have the Battlestar Acropolis!\u201d \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;Prepared to jump to safety,&#8221;\nLawson ordered after pressing the microphone button on her wireless\nheadset.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;DRADIS five base stars jumping in\nad launching raiders. Radiological alarm nuke inbound to both\nBattlestar&#8217;s. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;This is Commander Hern\u00e1ndez on\nthe bridge of the Athena. The ship is ours. We are beginning jump\npreparation and we have inbound nukes!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;CAG! All vipers to intercept nuclear weapons. Priority One. Begin jump prep. We&#8217;re getting out of here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Lawson&#8217;s orders were confident. She\nstill out direct without the aid of a crutch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;Hit! It hit! Acropolis is hit. Fire warning! Armor bravo armor bravo! We have structural integrity. Jumping!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;This is Athena we have taken a nuclear hit on her forward armor. We have structural integrity and we are jumping now 3&#8230;.2&#8230;.1 jump!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Her voice sounded gravelly, as if of an older man. &#8220;Recall our birds. Combat landings are authorized!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cWe have lost a Janus!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;All birds are in. All birds are\non the deck. All lights are green ready to jump!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">As she spoke, Lawson heard Ramirez&#8217;s\nvoice on the wireless. &#8220;Jump!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">As the FTL affect gathered, she saw one of the atlas carriers explode under fire. The rest of the ship seesaw jump away before the Mercury was the last ship out. The mission has been successful. On day 250 at the second cylon war, a major victory has been achieved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Chapter 59 shipyard raid   HD 1080p\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ddbfj7vaor0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Raid on the Virgon ship junkyard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Chapter 59 The battlestars   HD 1080p\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/euXbEEdMy64?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Seizing the battlestars<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Two days after the battle: The model number one known as Cavil had a chain on his neck. His feet were shackled and he shuffle along very slowly. He was brought into the CIC in the Battlestar Athena to a strange looking device, filled with goo and lit up by red and white lights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The interrogator pointed to it and spoke roughly to the Cylon humanoid model. &#8220;What is this?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a hand\nsanitizer,&#8221; answer Cavil. &#8220;Your human ships are such a\ndisgusting germ factories we decided we needed to keep ourselves\nclean when we operated the ships.&#8221; He dipped his hands in to the\ngoo and demonstrated.  He made the motions with his hands as if he\nwas washing them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;You&#8217;re such a freaking liar,&#8221; the interrogator snarled. These are all wired into the communication network of the ship.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"> &#8220;You&#8217;re right you caught me,&#8221; the model one said. &#8220;I just transmitted our coordinates to the Cylon empire. They will be jumping to this location to destroy you as soon as they receive the signal.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;Frack you!&#8221; The\ninterrogator slapped the model one across the tour and ordered him\ndragged out of the room back to the detention center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;You neglected to tell\nhim that all the Communications gear on the ship is shut down,&#8221;\nthe engineer in charge of the refit smiled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;He thought he sent this message, and I got quite a confirmation that this is a Cylon data network. We are going to rip these out of both ships and take them to the lab for study.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">______________________________________________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The Cylon model number one was developing a very large bruise on his face when he was brought into the laboratory with Commander Lawson.  He smiled when he saw her enter the lab. For all these days she was still wearing the Cylon jewelry he called it. The metallurgy was beyond human science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"> &#8220;Can you take this off me?&#8221; She asked in a shaky voice and she commanded herself to remain calm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;What&#8217;s in it for me?&#8221; He asked with a sneer on his face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;We can improve your conditions in prison.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">He laughed hardly at that remark. How about this,&#8221; he continued He laughed hardly at that remark. How about this,&#8221; he continued &#8220;how about I get the Frack you again?&#8221;how about I get the Frack you again?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;As I&#8217;m sure you know your people fuck with my body and my mind quite enough. I moved on to other challenges in life.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;Well then we have an impasse. You could take me off suicide watch and let me kill myself and then I wake up in a new body full of intelligence for the Cylons.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;Does that process hurt?&#8221; She asked curiously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve been through it twice,&#8221; he said see me to be honest in his tone. &#8220;I was killed during war games preparing for the assault on the colonies. The process was pretty painful. Then I was unlucky during the attacks and killed again on Sagitarron. It felt like a white hot poker going through my skull. Why do you ask?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;I was wondering if it was more painful than if we tortured you do every day for 12 hours a day what kept you alive.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;We are programmed to resist such measures,&#8221; he said in a matter of fact tone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;Well we will be testing my theory very shortly if you don&#8217;t cooperate and get this freaking thing off me. We&#8217;ve studied it we know it&#8217;s got a thumbprint reader or fingerprint reader. Question is is a keyed to your fingerprint? I wonder if it works if we cut your fingers off?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;All right I&#8217;ll take better food and a larger cell if I take it off you right now. You were right it is key to my fingerprint only my model can release you. It&#8217;s also in collecting data all your conversations and transmitting it surreptitiously to the Cylon command.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;It did not seem to help you when we took those to Battlestar&#8217;s away from you.&#8221; That was looking pride on her face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;I want to get up slowly and reach up and put my finger on the fingerprint reader of the device. Please tell your goons not to shoot me.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">She motion to the Marines in the next room behind one way mirror to remain calm. &#8220;Do it slowly&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">He reached up and he put his finger print on a seemingly flat section of the metal of the collar. He held it there for five seconds and he put a second finger on the reader. The device made a noise and cracked open.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;Take your hand away,&#8221; she said sharply. He immediately withdrew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Completed the process of removing the device and laid it down on the table. &#8220;I don&#8217;t suppose you&#8217;ll tell us how this thing works?&#8221; He asked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;For that I&#8217;d have to get a promise of being resurrected back home. Not part of our initial deal here.&#8221; He moved his hand and touched her on the nape of her neck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The motion was so casual the Marines were not alerted until she collapsed onto the floor. Her eyes were vacant she look like she looked and we got PTSD flashback episode. Wislie put his hands in the air and step away from her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The Marines hit him in the face and shoulder with the rifle butts. In 30 seconds they tuned him up and broke his jaw. They were very protective of their commander.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Commander Lawson woke up in her quarters two hours later with Dr. Farragut by her side. Her voice , &#8220;what happened?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;Most likely some kind of post about suggestion program into you while you were in captivity. We can work on this together and find out what the trigger is what appears to be being touched in certain parts of your body.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;There may be some things I&#8217;m never going to enjoy again doc?&#8221; she asked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;Your work on it together&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>* * *<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Commander Lawson groused and she\nstruggled to get into her dress gray uniform. What possible reason\nthat the peoples counsel want her to testify. She made a request for\nadditional manpower to crew the ships that have been taken from the\nenemy. The word manpower was a phrase that had been dropped centuries\nago but that&#8217;s how she thought of it. It was the way they talked on\nTauron.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">She had asked Cory Brooks so she needed\nto bring a lawyer. The leader of the peoples counsel clearly had\nnegative thoughts about Lawson. But she just laughed laughed and\nsmiled and said just come and we will listen to your case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The lights were hot, and Commander\nLawson stood stiffly in her dress gray uniform at the podium. This\nwas her opening statement. &#8220;The capture of the two mercury class\nBattlestar&#8217;s, the Acropolis and the Athena along with nearly 100\nabandoned warships from the Virgon junk yards was a significant\nmilitary achievement.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;I would remind you though that\ndue to corruption and failure to fulfill military contracts\nstretching over five decades, these junkyards were available to us\ntogether in the warships. For decades they were being used by the\nenemy to collect information on our technology. Our corruption was\nbeing used to kill us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;The current colonial fleet\nconsists of 70 warships, and two mercury class battle stars. We have\napproximately 15,000 persons under arms. What we have taken from the\nenemy will double our firepower.  Our fire power will only be\nincreased if we find conscript the people we need to crew these\nships.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\nIt was then the commander Lawson\nrealized she was in a auditorium. This was not where Council meetings\nnormally occurred. There was an audience. She looked around and she\npaused and fumbled with her notes. There must be 10,000 people in\nthis room. That makes this room at target. His ideology idea was it\nassembled as many people in one place?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;It will take six months to get all the ships ready for battle. At that moment we need 15,000 or more likely 20,000 persons in the colonial fleet to crew ships. I urge this council to give appropriate funding and resources to the colonial fleet, and to extend the draft to give us the people we need to fly the ships. We have the opportunity to watch an offensive against the enemy and drive the Cylon from our home systems. I know these worlds are not habitable, but they belong to us!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The peoples council composed of 50\nrepresentatives chosen by population districts. The majority leader\nstood up spoke with Lawson concluded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">He was an older man, between 60 and 70\nyears old with a patricians look and snow white hair. &#8220;The\nCouncil has voted on extending the draft and has rejected it,\u201d he\nsaid. &#8220;The reason for rejection is a draft is no longer\nnecessary. I believe we have sufficient volunteers in the assembly\nHall. Well at least half of what we need.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">His gestures were grand, the consummate politician. &#8220;Do we have any volunteers to join the colonial fleet and win the war against the Cylons?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">One high voice from the bleacher seats\nrang out. It was a young woman perhaps twenty years old. &#8220;I\nvolunteer to fly wipers or do any jobs that the colonial fleet needs\nfrom me!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Another voice rang out, &#8220;I\nvolunteer to join the colonial fleet!&#8221; The second voice was that\nof a shockingly built middle-age man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Then the room shock as every other\nvoice chat in near unison. \u201cSo say we all!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Again. \u201cSo say we all!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Cory Brooks stood up and walked to her\nlectern. &#8220;I have reluctantly excepted the resignation of Admiral\nCobb due to health reasons.\u201d  \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cI am happy to announce on this the 283<sup>rd<\/sup> day of the second Cylon war the commander in chief position at the colonial fleet is being given to Commander Eva Lawson. 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