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Thirteen
Chapter Ninety-Three
In At The Death
It took two months to properly prepare for the final assault on the Cylon homeworld. A lot would have to be done before the allies were ready to move on to the final objective of Operation Supernova. They knew where the homeworld of the enemy was, but they had to wait to find out just what they would be facing when they jumped into the system and launched their offensive.
They also had to have enough of a force to defend the twelve homeworlds that made up the Colonies. Though they were not populated at the moment, the Cylons had the capabilities of jumping in and using nukes on the worlds, which would hinder their progress. The Cylons were depleted, but still a very capable force.
The Quorum had decided to leave the issue of repopulation up to the people on Kobol. While there were plenty of arguments heard towards repopulation, the opposition dried up in the face of the fact that it would be decades at best before the radiation levels were acceptable enough for proper habitation. While giving the worlds to the humanoid Cylons split the Colonists, eventually they voted to allow them to have the worlds by a significant margin.
The human Cylons, thanks to technology developed by the Interstellar Alliance, were now able to conceive their own children, so the first three generations were able to prepare themselves to move onto the worlds. The fourth generation would have to be fully gestated before being allowed to enter the new human Cylon society.
For them, this battle was the last chain binding them with their past. Once freed of the influence of the Cylon programming, the humanoid Cylons looked upon their creators with revulsion and despised them for what they had done to the original Colonists. This view was almost universal among them, and through their work during the years between the battle at Earth and the launching of Operation Supernova, they had worked with the Colonials and the Interstellar Alliance on their new ships and new weaponry.
The humanoid Cylons had decided on a new name for their race, taking on the name of Gaians in reference to the ancient Greek goddess Gaia, which represented the personification of Earth. The decision was made to honor those from Earth who had helped them achieve their independence from the Cylons. The decision was met with mixed reactions from the Colonials, who were still a little uneasy about what they had decided.
The Colonials had built up what they were calling New Kobolopolis into a thriving community, and the feeling over the eight years that they had resided there was that while it would have been preferable to re-colonize their lost worlds, practicality said that they would be better off staying on the planet which was once home of their Gods.
The Gaians would maintain an embassy on Kobol as well as in Geneva and Tuzinor. The Colonists on Kobol had decided to be an independent member of the Earth Alliance, and, like Mars, would have representation in the Interstellar Alliance. Laura Roslin was the Colonial representative to Tuzinor, while Tom Zarek went to Geneva to serve the Colonists in Geneva.
While the war still remained to be won, the post-war galaxy was starting to take form. The Centauri, with the help of the Earth Alliance as well as the Interstellar Alliance, were laying waste to the Drakh, depriving Vacit of his once key ally in his war on the Colonial-EA-ISA alliance. Emperor Vir Cotto had pledged a few ships to the fight against the Cylons, but the bulk of his fleet, still under the command of General Rhys, went relentlessly after the former servants of the Shadows.
Galen, Alwyn, and Andromeda used their ships for intelligence gathering missions to the Cylon homeworld. Vacit, despite his advanced telepathic abilities, was unable to detect them scanning his world, and neither were the mechanical Cylons able to see them either. Through their work, a picture emerged of what they would face when they finally launched the last phase of the operation.
The machines had gone into overdrive in building Centurions. Probes indicated that the Cylons were skipping steps in order to speed production. These made the Centurions less effective in the field, but the Cylons were banking on numbers to stem the rising tide of defeat they were facing.
All throughout the operation, the Gaians had fought alongside their human counterparts from Earth as well as the Colonies. They had fought and died for these worlds, and were ready to move onto the world where they were defeated and break the final chains linking them with their creator.
Kevin Vacit knew that the storm was coming. His mood was dark these days, and his dealings with the Cylons were harsh indeed these days. Their view of him remained the same, so they felt that their failures were a mark against them and not of the man that they had adopted as their God. Vacit hadnt welcomed that designation, but he tolerated it so that he could achieve his objective of conquering Earth and bringing the telepaths to power and mastery of the human race.
He thumbed the Holy Bible that had been taken from one of the people he had based the first generation human Cylons on. He didnt know what had become of Shelly Godfrey, nor did he care. All he cared about was holding off the allies from taking his world from him and defeating the Cylons once and for all. He still had visions of coming back and defeating them all, and the Cylons shared those dreams with him despite the bleak outlook.
However, he treated Talia Winters as gently as he could. She was the only human telepath here, and she had stood by him ever since she came here long ago. The Vorlons had abducted her while she was being transferred from one Psi Corps facility to another, which led the Corps to make up the story that she had been killed and dissected. They had brought her to him so that he could breed with her and create stronger telepaths, as well as to find out what the gift was that Talias former lover, Jason Ironhart, had left with her.
Vacit had laid Bester to rest near the ocean in an unmarked grave. Despite his anger at the supposed betrayal, he had come to realize that Bester had just been Hollifields unwitting pawn in this battle. When he saw the corpse of his grandson, he realized at that moment that it no longer mattered to him if they won or lost, just as long as his other grandson died.
Hollifield had betrayed all telepaths, which, in Vacits eyes, was an unforgivable sin. He had kept them under the reins of the mundanes, and his hatred for the former Earth Alliance president was greater than it had ever been for anyone else in his entire life. He wanted him dead anyway possible, but preferably at his own hands. Then, and only then, could he die in peace.
Garrison Hollifield knew he didnt have a lot of years left. He was getting very close to his seventy-fifth birthday, and even with his health in excellent condition, he realized that his days were numbered. The aches and pains of old age were becoming ever more present with each passing month, and he had to reluctantly hand over the reins of responsibility to others.
He sat down at the table with his trusted associate, Dan Tanner, who had been with him ever since the Earth-Minbari War and the Babylon project that had followed thereafter. Dan Tanners brows were gray these days but he still looked as young as he was back when they first met.
They were in the last planning meeting before the launch of the offensive. Aboard the EAS Independence, now being helmed by Captain Naoko Juzikuro, they met to go over Starbucks plan one last time and make the last minute refinements if they were needed.
Starbuck was now in her early thirties and had been aching to get this over with. Her soulmate, Samuel Anders, was aboard one of the Whitestars that would assist in the initial landings on the Cylon homeworld. She had talked about settling down in Tuzinor, marrying Anders and having kids so she could have a family life to balance out the responsibilities of being second to the Entilzha.
Sitting next to her was her de facto boss, Entilzha Susan Ivanova. Shed seen so much ever since she had become executive officer on Babylon 5 some thirty years before. She still had many years ahead of her, but fewer ahead than she had in her past. Like him, she was growing old as well.
General Nelena Cain was there as well, sitting to the opposite side of Ivanova. Scuttlebutt was that the two were romantically involved, but no one dared say it out in the open because both women had a reputation of making fools suffer. Hollifield hoped, in a way, that it was true, because both women had been lost for so long before they found one another. Even though homophobia was not nearly as bad as it had once been, tolerance of it remained non-universal on Earth and throughout the Earth Alliance.
Admiral William Adama sat beside his son, Lee Apollo Adama, who had finally recovered from the gunshot wound he received in combat on Aerelon. Once split apart because of the death of Zak Adama, they had managed to bridge the gap between them and strengthen the bonds between them. Apollo would be part of the combat team that would head down to the planet, and Adama would worry about his son while still managing to perform his duties to the best of his abilities.
Also in the room were the twelve humans who had been used against their will by Vacit to help create the human Cylons. Dr. Shelly Godfrey was still shabbily dressed to this day, although she wore her hair shorter than Six had or that Gina wore these days as the Gaian representative on Kobol. Danna Biers, Hollifields sister-in-law, was still shy and timid, unlike her sister Twanissa. General Sharon Valerii commanded the Earthforce portion of the allied fleet, and was particularly looking forward to this battle.
Dr. Leo Conoy and Aaron Doral were seated beside one another, discussing sports and other various subjects to kill time before the meeting began. Simon Powell, the now-retired coach of the University of Kentucky Wildcats, was looking over a day old copy of Universe Today and reading a couple of articles about two of his former players. William Keikeya had mellowed a bit, but still was a bit of a pain in the ass to those in Hollywood, while Felix Gaeta had put aside his distrust of the government long enough to join them in this last campaign. Adam Valance, Adrianna Davis, and Lauren Ross joined them at the table and were too taken with being in the same room as these dignitaries again.
The final person came into the room, and Hollifield acknowledged her with a nod. Clarissa Cally, after being defeated for the American presidency in 2284 after Hollifield had defeated her a year earlier for the EA presidency, had left politics and become a professor of intergalactic relations at Georgetown. They had managed to put aside their differences and be friendly with one another. She sat down three chairs from him and looked at Starbuck, who got up and started the meeting.
The meeting was perfunctory, as the last little details of the battle plan were worked out. All that remained was to jump in and begin the attack. The chess game was nearing an end, and Hollifield was closing in on checkmate on Vacit.
Chapter Ninety-Three
In At The Death
It took two months to properly prepare for the final assault on the Cylon homeworld. A lot would have to be done before the allies were ready to move on to the final objective of Operation Supernova. They knew where the homeworld of the enemy was, but they had to wait to find out just what they would be facing when they jumped into the system and launched their offensive.
They also had to have enough of a force to defend the twelve homeworlds that made up the Colonies. Though they were not populated at the moment, the Cylons had the capabilities of jumping in and using nukes on the worlds, which would hinder their progress. The Cylons were depleted, but still a very capable force.
The Quorum had decided to leave the issue of repopulation up to the people on Kobol. While there were plenty of arguments heard towards repopulation, the opposition dried up in the face of the fact that it would be decades at best before the radiation levels were acceptable enough for proper habitation. While giving the worlds to the humanoid Cylons split the Colonists, eventually they voted to allow them to have the worlds by a significant margin.
The human Cylons, thanks to technology developed by the Interstellar Alliance, were now able to conceive their own children, so the first three generations were able to prepare themselves to move onto the worlds. The fourth generation would have to be fully gestated before being allowed to enter the new human Cylon society.
For them, this battle was the last chain binding them with their past. Once freed of the influence of the Cylon programming, the humanoid Cylons looked upon their creators with revulsion and despised them for what they had done to the original Colonists. This view was almost universal among them, and through their work during the years between the battle at Earth and the launching of Operation Supernova, they had worked with the Colonials and the Interstellar Alliance on their new ships and new weaponry.
The humanoid Cylons had decided on a new name for their race, taking on the name of Gaians in reference to the ancient Greek goddess Gaia, which represented the personification of Earth. The decision was made to honor those from Earth who had helped them achieve their independence from the Cylons. The decision was met with mixed reactions from the Colonials, who were still a little uneasy about what they had decided.
The Colonials had built up what they were calling New Kobolopolis into a thriving community, and the feeling over the eight years that they had resided there was that while it would have been preferable to re-colonize their lost worlds, practicality said that they would be better off staying on the planet which was once home of their Gods.
The Gaians would maintain an embassy on Kobol as well as in Geneva and Tuzinor. The Colonists on Kobol had decided to be an independent member of the Earth Alliance, and, like Mars, would have representation in the Interstellar Alliance. Laura Roslin was the Colonial representative to Tuzinor, while Tom Zarek went to Geneva to serve the Colonists in Geneva.
While the war still remained to be won, the post-war galaxy was starting to take form. The Centauri, with the help of the Earth Alliance as well as the Interstellar Alliance, were laying waste to the Drakh, depriving Vacit of his once key ally in his war on the Colonial-EA-ISA alliance. Emperor Vir Cotto had pledged a few ships to the fight against the Cylons, but the bulk of his fleet, still under the command of General Rhys, went relentlessly after the former servants of the Shadows.
Galen, Alwyn, and Andromeda used their ships for intelligence gathering missions to the Cylon homeworld. Vacit, despite his advanced telepathic abilities, was unable to detect them scanning his world, and neither were the mechanical Cylons able to see them either. Through their work, a picture emerged of what they would face when they finally launched the last phase of the operation.
The machines had gone into overdrive in building Centurions. Probes indicated that the Cylons were skipping steps in order to speed production. These made the Centurions less effective in the field, but the Cylons were banking on numbers to stem the rising tide of defeat they were facing.
All throughout the operation, the Gaians had fought alongside their human counterparts from Earth as well as the Colonies. They had fought and died for these worlds, and were ready to move onto the world where they were defeated and break the final chains linking them with their creator.
Kevin Vacit knew that the storm was coming. His mood was dark these days, and his dealings with the Cylons were harsh indeed these days. Their view of him remained the same, so they felt that their failures were a mark against them and not of the man that they had adopted as their God. Vacit hadnt welcomed that designation, but he tolerated it so that he could achieve his objective of conquering Earth and bringing the telepaths to power and mastery of the human race.
He thumbed the Holy Bible that had been taken from one of the people he had based the first generation human Cylons on. He didnt know what had become of Shelly Godfrey, nor did he care. All he cared about was holding off the allies from taking his world from him and defeating the Cylons once and for all. He still had visions of coming back and defeating them all, and the Cylons shared those dreams with him despite the bleak outlook.
However, he treated Talia Winters as gently as he could. She was the only human telepath here, and she had stood by him ever since she came here long ago. The Vorlons had abducted her while she was being transferred from one Psi Corps facility to another, which led the Corps to make up the story that she had been killed and dissected. They had brought her to him so that he could breed with her and create stronger telepaths, as well as to find out what the gift was that Talias former lover, Jason Ironhart, had left with her.
Vacit had laid Bester to rest near the ocean in an unmarked grave. Despite his anger at the supposed betrayal, he had come to realize that Bester had just been Hollifields unwitting pawn in this battle. When he saw the corpse of his grandson, he realized at that moment that it no longer mattered to him if they won or lost, just as long as his other grandson died.
Hollifield had betrayed all telepaths, which, in Vacits eyes, was an unforgivable sin. He had kept them under the reins of the mundanes, and his hatred for the former Earth Alliance president was greater than it had ever been for anyone else in his entire life. He wanted him dead anyway possible, but preferably at his own hands. Then, and only then, could he die in peace.
Garrison Hollifield knew he didnt have a lot of years left. He was getting very close to his seventy-fifth birthday, and even with his health in excellent condition, he realized that his days were numbered. The aches and pains of old age were becoming ever more present with each passing month, and he had to reluctantly hand over the reins of responsibility to others.
He sat down at the table with his trusted associate, Dan Tanner, who had been with him ever since the Earth-Minbari War and the Babylon project that had followed thereafter. Dan Tanners brows were gray these days but he still looked as young as he was back when they first met.
They were in the last planning meeting before the launch of the offensive. Aboard the EAS Independence, now being helmed by Captain Naoko Juzikuro, they met to go over Starbucks plan one last time and make the last minute refinements if they were needed.
Starbuck was now in her early thirties and had been aching to get this over with. Her soulmate, Samuel Anders, was aboard one of the Whitestars that would assist in the initial landings on the Cylon homeworld. She had talked about settling down in Tuzinor, marrying Anders and having kids so she could have a family life to balance out the responsibilities of being second to the Entilzha.
Sitting next to her was her de facto boss, Entilzha Susan Ivanova. Shed seen so much ever since she had become executive officer on Babylon 5 some thirty years before. She still had many years ahead of her, but fewer ahead than she had in her past. Like him, she was growing old as well.
General Nelena Cain was there as well, sitting to the opposite side of Ivanova. Scuttlebutt was that the two were romantically involved, but no one dared say it out in the open because both women had a reputation of making fools suffer. Hollifield hoped, in a way, that it was true, because both women had been lost for so long before they found one another. Even though homophobia was not nearly as bad as it had once been, tolerance of it remained non-universal on Earth and throughout the Earth Alliance.
Admiral William Adama sat beside his son, Lee Apollo Adama, who had finally recovered from the gunshot wound he received in combat on Aerelon. Once split apart because of the death of Zak Adama, they had managed to bridge the gap between them and strengthen the bonds between them. Apollo would be part of the combat team that would head down to the planet, and Adama would worry about his son while still managing to perform his duties to the best of his abilities.
Also in the room were the twelve humans who had been used against their will by Vacit to help create the human Cylons. Dr. Shelly Godfrey was still shabbily dressed to this day, although she wore her hair shorter than Six had or that Gina wore these days as the Gaian representative on Kobol. Danna Biers, Hollifields sister-in-law, was still shy and timid, unlike her sister Twanissa. General Sharon Valerii commanded the Earthforce portion of the allied fleet, and was particularly looking forward to this battle.
Dr. Leo Conoy and Aaron Doral were seated beside one another, discussing sports and other various subjects to kill time before the meeting began. Simon Powell, the now-retired coach of the University of Kentucky Wildcats, was looking over a day old copy of Universe Today and reading a couple of articles about two of his former players. William Keikeya had mellowed a bit, but still was a bit of a pain in the ass to those in Hollywood, while Felix Gaeta had put aside his distrust of the government long enough to join them in this last campaign. Adam Valance, Adrianna Davis, and Lauren Ross joined them at the table and were too taken with being in the same room as these dignitaries again.
The final person came into the room, and Hollifield acknowledged her with a nod. Clarissa Cally, after being defeated for the American presidency in 2284 after Hollifield had defeated her a year earlier for the EA presidency, had left politics and become a professor of intergalactic relations at Georgetown. They had managed to put aside their differences and be friendly with one another. She sat down three chairs from him and looked at Starbuck, who got up and started the meeting.
The meeting was perfunctory, as the last little details of the battle plan were worked out. All that remained was to jump in and begin the attack. The chess game was nearing an end, and Hollifield was closing in on checkmate on Vacit.
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