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Battlestar Argo

by AJ Marks

Part 66: Promotions

Troy walked onto the bridge of the Argo noticing the amount of destruction appeared less than he thought it would’ve. Ares stood off to the side going over reports of the damage. He glanced up as Troy approached.

“Looks better than I thought,” Troy said observing a slight cut on Ares’ forehead.

“We got lucky,” Ares replied. “It’s mostly light casualties, but we did have one fatality.”

“Who,” Troy asked. He glanced around looking noticing that Rebecca was seated at her station. From the looks of the conversation she appeared to be talking to Nall.

“We lost Colonel Aaron,” Ares said.

Troy nodded remembering the man. He’d been a good leader and would have made a great battlestar commander. Continue reading…

Battlestar Argo

by AJ Marks

Part 65: Cylons Attack

Pratt looked around the bridge of the current flagship of the Earth fleet, the Daedalus. President Chang had asked about any latest updates from the fleet and the Galactica. The last news had been the Argo had encountered the fleet from the Colonies as a devastating Cylon attack had occurred. Now they were waiting for any word on what the next step would be. The long distance made the communications hard.

“Sir, incoming message from the Argo,” the communications officer said. Pratt sighed a bit knowing that now they’d have news, but the next thing would be what type of news.

“Put it up here,” Pratt said waiting for the data to be placed on the screen. A few seconds later he had the information he needed. The Argo and her fleet had successfully helped defend against the Cylon attack. However it now appeared that the fleet was dangerously low on supplies. A few of the empty ships were to be sent ahead back to Earth for resupply. They’d send a list of supplies needed for the fleet. Continue reading…

Battlestar Argo

by AJ Marks

Part 64: Reunions

The captain walked down the hallway of the ship. His ship had been one of the better ships in the fleet so he had the feeling he’d be there for a while longer, not that he minded, it was his home, had been for yehrens before the Cylons had destroyed the Colonies. Now he finally had a chance to repair battle damage down during attacks on the fleet.

“What’s the report,” he asked as his second walked up to him.

“We did as you asked, and found only a few major problems. We could use some new parts for the engines, especially these parts.”

The captain glanced down looking over the list. Many components were normal wear and tear on the engines. Once they were replaced the engines would be running better once again. “All right, I’ll let the commander know.”

“So is this true, those ships are from Earth?” he was asked. Continue reading…

Battlestar Argo

by AJ Marks

Part 63: Beginning Voyage

Troy looked around the bridge of the Argo for the commander. Ares currently stood near Rebecca talking about something he couldn’t hear from this distance. He walked over to Ares stood.

“Relay the information to Commander Adama and Gunther as well. They should have this information and a war council needs to be called,” Ares said.

Troy watched as Rebecca relayed the information to the other battlestars. A war council would bring in all commanders of the fleet together for a conference. They would need a large room for that. Perhaps a hanger bay might be the best spot for such a meeting.

“Troy, glad you’re here, I need you to coordinate with Captain Apollo with patrols. I’d like to use our vipers for long patrols and the Galactica’s vipers for CAP,” Ares said.

“I think I understand. I’ll talk to him, and I think I can get him to agree with that,” Troy replied. “I think he’s still on board the Argo somewhere.” Continue reading…

Battlestar Argo

by AJ Marks

Part 62: The Argo Tales

Apollo turned his viper in line with the other vipers. They were headed towards the Argo. The Galactica’s landing bays had been damaged in the attack. Now that he could finally see the other vipers they were a grey color, not black. The ships had a sleeker appearance than the vipers did.

“I must be dreaming,” Starbuck’s voice said breaking Apollo’s inspection of the vvipers. He turned looking forwards. There he could see two battlestars. One looked very much like the Galactica, the other a sleeker design.

“Galactica squadron, you are cleared to begin landing in bay beta,” a female voice said to him.

“Acknowledge core command,” Apollo said. “I’ll go first.” Apollo said. He didn’t want to risk anyone else.

Microns later he touched down in the landing bay with the same ease as he would any other battlestar. Continue reading…

Battlestar Argo

by AJ Marks

Part 61: Battlestar Galactica

Two vipers prepared for launch. The pilots sat waiting for the permission to launch.

“Core command to viper patrol, launch when ready,” the female voice said.

Within seconds both vipers streaked out of the launch tubes forming up then headed out away from the fleet. They had to make sure that the Cylons didn’t know where they were, or if there were any more out there. Continue reading…

Battlestar Argo

by AJ Marks

Part 60: Contact

“Commander, we have a message,” Rebecca said.

“Message,” Ares said, glancing over at Troy and Bri who were with him on the bridge. “From who?”

“It’s from the Colonial Bound,” Rebecca replied.

“All right, put it though,” Ares said, wondering what Captain Scott wanted.

He glanced down quickly reading though the message. The scout ship had spotted a Cylon basestar and kept track of it. Now it appeared a couple of Colonial vipers had appeared. That meant that the Galactica and the fleet had to be nearby.

“Change course,” Ares said. The Pegasus and London had already left for Earth, and now he had a good lead as to exactly where the Galactica was. Continue reading…

Battlestar Argo

by AJ Marks

Part 59: Consequences and War

Ares glanced out across the deck of the hangar at survivors of the Pegasus. They looked a bit rough, but he couldn’t blame them. He also wasn’t about to take over their ship, but he wanted to help.

“Colonel Ares,” a voice said causing Ares to turn to towards the voice. A black-haired man looked back at him. He thought the face looked familiar to him somehow. “It’s me, Colonel Markus,” the man said.

Ares realized who the man was, one of the chief engineers of the Pacifica when he’d been the second in command.

“Of course, sorry, its been a long time,” Ares said walking over to him. “You haven’t changed much.”

“Neither have you, well you have but you haven’t. That same steel determination that we all saw so long ago. What happened to you?” Continue reading…

Battlestar Argo

by AJ Marks

Part 58: Old Friends

Ares walked back into the meeting room aboard the Argo. President Chang, Pratt, Pakrov, Robert, and Sam were all waiting for him. The meeting with the Arbus had gone better once Senator Sam had been able to talk with just the Arbus. He didn’t think the Galaxy Council posed any threat, they just wanted to be included in things. They also thought they were more powerful than they were. If the Arbus had been able to keep the council at bay then the Earth military would be able to keep them at bay as well.

“Gentlemen, we have a problem,” Ares said sitting down. He didn’t have to explain, they all understood what it was.

“I’ve taken the liberty to send the Colonial Bound to the Colonies to assess the situation,” Xai stated.

Ares sat back knowing that something was being done. He also knew that the scout ship wouldn’t have the supplies to make it back. Continue reading…

Battlestar Argo

by AJ Marks

Part 57: Message of Disaster

Ares sat on the shuttle that headed towards the Warspite. It was the ship he had decided to engage in talks with the Arbus, and this council. He hoped that by a show of force things would settle down. The Skartians would also be in attendance, as Allies of Earth. He still wondered just who this ‘council’ was. He had talked to Reejo who seemed to barely know of them.

The only thing Reejo could tell him, they were a group of races that lived beyond the Arbus Empire, who tried to push into Arbus territory several times trying to expand their influence. Their weapon were inferior to the Arbus, not to mention the Colonial or Cylons.

Next to him Bri and Troy were watching as the shuttle made its way over to the Warspite. Senator Sam sat a bit further away being the only government member in the fleet. They had decided to have him aboard to begin the process of ending the war between the Arbus and Earth.

“Did Nall really take Rebecca and Mary down to the planet’s surface?” Ares asked.

“Yeah, I thought it might be dangerous, but Reejo said it would help relations out,” Troy replied, causing Aries to think. Continue reading…