It was two jumps between the battle with the first Cylon fleet and the supply depot. The crews had trained so intensively that the turnaround time was reduced to all of five minutes. Damage control parties did what they could in a short period of time. All vipers and raptors were in the launch tubes ready to go four minutes and 30 seconds after that first jump was complete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
All ships in this 10 ship task force had made it to the second round of battle alive. There was armor damage, even some internal damage. The level motivation what is high is it and ever been in the 695 days of the second war against the Cylons..<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Commander Maria Ramirez stood in her combat information center in silence. Her executive officer call sign Wild Bill was running the show. He went down the checklist carefully. Every ship was called out again. Each ship read off its jump coordinates into the encrypted battle channel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Commander,” the executive officer reported. “All ships show FTL ready. The board is green on all ships. The fleet shows ready for combat jump in 15 seconds.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
695 days ago, Ramirez, a mere lieutenant was the head of the IT department on the battlestar Mercury. Her team has cracked the back door, built into the central navigation program, known as CNP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She had been dragged kicking and screaming up the rungs to the executive officers position. Major Eva Lawson had taken off of the Mercury’s flight deck as commander air group, CAG. She had landed as acting commander.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Admiral, Samuel Mueller, and his executive officer had been killed in the strike that had caused the decompression of the starboard flight pod. Neither Lawson, nor Ramirez felt qualified for their jobs. Colonial law required the commander of a Battlestar be a pilot or former pilot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ramirez had taken that requirement seriously and found time in her schedule to learn how to fly to Viper Mark seven after being appointed commander of the Battlestar Saturn. She could barely maintain her flight certificate. But she had been able to maintain it for well over a year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now she was the head of a large task force, with eight warships and two supply ships that jumped in the battle as a single unit. Their target was the largest undefended Cylon supply depot in the sector. They had located the Cylon fleet that was intending to ambush them at that location and managed to ambushed it instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Brave men and women had died in the first battle. When she gave the order, she knew she had to give that would end the lives of more brave men and women. The loss of any member of her crew wrenched her stomach. Yet somehow she found the courage to give the order again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Saturn Actual: \u201cImplement combat jump when the clock hits zero.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
XO McCormick: \u201cThis is the XO! Jump in 5……4……3……2….1 Jump!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n