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1010102: So do you want to discuss Columbia?
Onboard Battlestar Columbia - Initial Cylon Attack
"Gods damn it!"
Commander Adam Mitchell, Commanding Officer of the Battlestar Columbia, was bloody furious. Just an hour before, the battlestar among others had escorted the flagship Battlestar Atlantia from the presidential parade on Picon for Colonial Day, when the Cylons suddenly attacked them right when they got to Fleet HQ. The entire base was wiped out within sixteen minutes, and the only reason Columbia had escaped was because of a pleading, abeit forceful order from President Adar, saying quite honorably, "Our so-called cloak of invincibility has fallen. Go forth now into the stars, Commander, and pray that the Gods be with you." Then the President's transmission suddenly cut off as the Atlantia enacted its self-destruct protocols, turning everything around them into a nuclear fireball. An equally honorable death.
Still, Commander Mitchell still couldn't help thinking Adar was a fool.
"Where are we? How much longer until the drive is online? The Cylons will surely find us here soon!" The questions was directed to Colonel Maxwell, senior officer of the current watch.
"The Cylon virus ravaged through everything, sir - all intel is compromised, including the network drive for the engine cores. We're lucky we got out of there alive."
"As if our luck will hold," Mitchell muttered. It was true - even the CIC was down, sparks still flying and instruments still showing static. And yet, the oxygen supply and auxiliry power held, meaning damage control was also still in the fight. Good, he thought. We'll need everything we have.
Suddenly some power flared and the tac board flickered to life.
"NAV coordinates! And get me a power report!" he barked at anyone near. Maybe they could find out where the hell they jumped.
"Yes, sir," Maxwell answered, rushing to the station. He pressed a few buttons, and, after a pause, "We're near Caprica, sir. Colonial transponders active."
Commander Mitchell had a sigh of relief. This was good - now they could get some relief and find out what the hell happened over at Picon.
Suddenly, klaxons blared. "Report now! All stations!" he was yelling, trying to compete with the alarms. "DRADIS contact!" Maxwell yelled back. "Cylons at... perimeter... firing.. tac nukes?" Maxwell's voice and the other sounds were fading out. "Report!" he started screaming. He began to lose oxygen, breathing shallow. "Anyone?!"
Someone dragged him into the cooridor just as he began to lose consciousness. "Sir? Sir?!" It was one of the Petty Officers on the deck, he couldn't remember her name. "Sir, can you hear me?" Now he remembered, barely. Lt. Irene Lorenzo. "Lorenzo.. report.." Maxwell managed. "Sir," she started, but she had a loss too, but she quickly regained strength. "Sir, the Cylons fired one of their tac nukes at us, just as we detected them. They fired the rest at Caprica..." Mitchell made a whine. Billions dead on Caprica. "Ship status?" he asked hoarsely, trying to stand up. Blood was streaming from his head, looking at her.
"Sir, all outer hulls are leaking air, and damage control is compromised. Second Command has been set up over here in COR." He followed her to the room. Everyone saluted as the door opened. "Stand.. stand down." He muttered.
"We've got a detect!" Lieutenant Maxwell had made it back, and he was at the other board."It's a... it's Battlestar Galactica!"The crew assembled let out a weak cheer. "Communique them this; Picon and outer colonies compromised. Move to Code Orange and evacuation procedures if any civilians present." "Yes, sir," Maxwell responded, typing on the board. Then beeps. And he typed again, with more beeps. "Lieutenant?" Mitchell asked. "COM down, sir," Maxwell said quietly. "Our transponder's also disabled."
Great. No identfication tags. If they go near the Galactica, they'd probably shoot them down. Then an idea formed up in his mind, abeit a sad one. "Cylon Basestars still in the area?" Mitchell asked.
"Yes, sir," Maxwell said quietly. "... we're reading twelve Basestars taking firing position at the Galactica..." He suddenly stood up from his chair, active as ever. "Navagational control active?" he asked. "Yes, sir, NAV control active."
"Plot collision course for the nearest Basestars. Arm all ordinance."
They were going out with a bang.
"Sir!" Maxwell yelled back in response, abeit too strong. Klaxons roared so loud now. He knew his duties, though. The Galactica was ancient, commanded by Commander Adama, if things didn't go too south. The first Battlestar was the most agile with Basestars, and if anyone would survive this holocaust, it would be rather them than... us.
"Collision in one minute," Maxwell reported. "All weapons armed! He turned to Mitchell.
"Fire all weapons Colonel and pray to the Gods."
"So say we all," they said holy. Silence covered the small room as launches were heard through the bulkheads. "Collison in sixteen seconds." Mitchell remembered something, that number sixteen, but it took him fifteen seconds to realize it.
"So say we all," he said one last time.
please explain how you survived this
The outline of that post: Columbia along with other Battlestars where escorting the flagship Battlestar Atlantia to the presidential parade on Picon for Colonial Day, when the Cylons suddenly attacked them. Picon, Colonial Fleet HQ, was destroyed. The Columbia had escaped because President Adar had ordered them too. They jumped away from Picon in a hurry. Found themselves around Caprica, where they found the Galactica fending off twelve Basestars. At this point the Columbia had been damaged and the thought process of Commander Mitchell was since the Galactica had a better chance of survival the Columbia would give it a chance to escape by distracting the lead Cylon Basestar by ramming them. With full weapons trained and firing on that Basestar the Columbia rammed it. The Basestar was clearly damaged itself. The Columbia went through it. Was unbelievable damaged. But FTL was established and they blind jumped out of the system (Since they had survived the Collision).
"So say we all," he [Mitchell] said one last time. This was written when I hadn't decided to take control of it. It was specifically written to give good RP Background to the thread.
I'm busy trying to save chan chubar.
No you got me there! chan chubar?
its a young nation about to be swallowed up by Taledonia's so called repuplic.
Interesting enough......Good luck!
Amicus Favus
26-03-2006, 20:05
And so, after many centuries the johnites can rise again. I n the name of Isis the sacred feminine shall find force and motion to submerse all in its pure and life - loving glory.
Amicus Favus!!!!!!!!!!!!
Amicus Favus: Okay..... Are you here to sign up to the thread or to babble on about the sacred feminine?
1010102: So are we settled with Columbia? She will not be the Pegasus. Will not rival Adama's command. She will only have a background similar to pegasus. Well kinda....
Spizania
26-03-2006, 20:29
We are going to have a Pegasus though?
Yeah sure! Has anyone decided to do it?
Needs that require resolving:
Our storyline is fraked up. People are going off and begining new storylines without having resolved the previous ones, Including myself. We where at this point at the weekend:
The Cylons had launched a raid. A few Basestars. We where engaging them. Had a bit of tactica converasation. The Galactica was left to keep them usy while a few other vessels prepared to jump back into close-quaters with the basestars and destroy them. Good. Then I posted about Columbia and we started to discuss it. (My sidetrack here) And then before we finished the engagement Ebedron jumped storyline, probably thinking it was over, and we have another conflict of interest. And the Discussion Thread (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=474752) was born.
So can we clear this up?
We need to rectify the Basestar battle.
We need to discuss the begining of a new storyline, Ebedron - Water etc...
We need to discuss Columbia.
sorry, i thought we beat the Cylons. I will delete my post and repost.
I'll hold off with Columbia until we deal with the impending battle.