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From the Storythread The Forgotten Ones
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By Author Xerxezz

As seen from the last one
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The Fifth Fleet Caprican Centurions have been scouting and scouring the space lanes among the last known Caprican space control zones for any contact with their former commanders to return back to Caprica to report back for duty or for de-commission as per Caprican Naval Regulations..

They have finally come across a military starship that appears to be Caprican in origin.

Yet to be known to them... they have come across the Colonial Battlestar Galactica, the first of the Battlestars that had fought during the First Colonial Cylon War and is now heading back to Caprica for De-commision duties herself...

CINO 162-01 is evaluating the Tactical Situation so as to avoid Blue-on-Blue incidents that has happened during between the various Independent Kobollian Colonies own Fleets before the avent of the establishment of the Colonies tho Colonial warships still occasionally shot each other warships in error due to communication error or mis-identification with pirate ships pretending to be registered Colonial war vessels..

--Excerpt--

“Analysis?” CINO asked and tactical answered almost immediately.

“Hull a 94% match to the proposed Columbae-program. Columbae was a new class of ship designated as “battlestar”. Heavily armed and armored, designated for frontline combat, design specifications indicated that it was supposed to be able to engage and destroy two Sleipnir-class strikestars in direct ship to ship combat, while capable of launching and retrieving upwards of 240 strike craft in combat, consisting mostly of the proposed replacement to the Viper space superiority fighter. Estimated threat: High.” Tactical answered, already busy placing the information on the main dradis display.

The proposed Columbae program was Caprican in origin, meant to replace the fleet of ageing warstars with a carrier capable of prolonged frontline combat. With the refinement of FTL-drives and the increased computer ability, FTL attacks had become more prominent, making thin-skinned and fragile warstars easy targets. No place was really safe anymore.

The data available to him showed that warship design had moved towards adding more and better armour to all warships, making a vast array of weapon systems obsolete. Lasers hadn’t been used for a hundred years, with the discovery of advanced and cheap composite ceramics, the firepower of the lasers couldn’t keep up with the defensive capabilities of the armour.

Even the best armour had problems with sufficiently large pieces of metal fired at high velocities though, and ballistic kinetic rounds and missiles with kinetic kill vehicles were the standard weaponry used by starships. Unless CINO had missed something that wasn’t readily apparent, like the holy grail of starship weaponry, cheap and accurate FTL missiles, the strikestars of Fifth Fleet were still viable weapon-platforms.

The massive ship on the dradis, temporary designated as a “battlestar”, a ship easily twice the Aurora’s tonnage would if it proved hostile be tough but not impossible to destroy. Hopefully it didn’t come to that, it was a Caprican design, now CINO hoped it was a Caprican ship.

Recon flights made by Sceiron-class firestars with purpose built stealth systems had jumped into Cyrannus long before the main elements of Fifth Fleet arrived in system, they were still doing those flights, but the data collected had proven inconclusive. Caprica still existed, and it was in human hands, which meant that the subverted defence systems had been destroyed.

The problem was the fact that there had been no signs of the Caprican Union, apart from some mentions on newscast talking about the former Caprican Union. The wireless bands used by the Caprican fleet were silent, apart from the band that had been used by the primary long range strategic network. That one was broadcasting music.

Two weeks had been spent observing, and a contact mission had been ordered. The lone warship on dradis had been designated as the primary point of contact. The size and military nature of the ship guaranteed that an officer of sufficiently high rank was present, important when contact was established. The fact that the “battlestar” was by itself made sure that if the ship proved hostile they would be able to disengage without suffering unacceptable casualties, the various task-force sized naval groups prowling the system and local star cluster were considered to dangerous to approach. The final reason for contact with this particular ship was because the ship was travelling in what once had been exclusively Caprican space.

“Comms?” CINO

“We are broadcasting our cipher-prefix on tac-band five, still no response.” The centurion at the com station answered.

It was standard procedure when two warships met to broadcast a cipher-prefix, detailing exactly which encryption among thousands the wireless was using. It was done automatically by the computers, and allowed secure communications between ships.

The Aurora had been broadcasting her cipher on the usual band for the last few minutes, but the other warship had so far been unable to sync with each other. The Aurora was probably using outdated codes. They could start communications in the clear, but CINO wanted to avoid that as anyone with a receiver would be able to listen in.

“Broaden prefix specifications, add Caprican Navy and exact cipher-block.” CINO ordered, lone eye firmly focused on the massive yellow contact on the dradis. So far it had taken no threatening action apart from redirecting its CAP into a defensive perimeter.

--End Except--

Art © Me
Characters © NBC/Universal
Commission - kclcmdr

Description
From the Storythread The Forgotten Ones
forums.spacebattles.com/thread…
By Author Xerxezz

As seen from the last one
lexikimble.deviantart.com/art/…

The Fifth Fleet Caprican Centurions have been scouting and scouring the space lanes among the last known Caprican space control zones for any contact with their former commanders to return back to Caprica to report back for duty or for de-commission as per Caprican Naval Regulations..

They have finally come across a military starship that appears to be Caprican in origin.

Yet to be known to them... they have come across the Colonial Battlestar Galactica, the first of the Battlestars that had fought during the First Colonial Cylon War and is now heading back to Caprica for De-commision duties herself...

CINO 162-01 is evaluating the Tactical Situation so as to avoid Blue-on-Blue incidents that has happened during between the various Independent Kobollian Colonies own Fleets before the avent of the establishment of the Colonies tho Colonial warships still occasionally shot each other warships in error due to communication error or mis-identification with pirate ships pretending to be registered Colonial war vessels..

--Excerpt--

“Analysis?” CINO asked and tactical answered almost immediately.

“Hull a 94% match to the proposed Columbae-program. Columbae was a new class of ship designated as “battlestar”. Heavily armed and armored, designated for frontline combat, design specifications indicated that it was supposed to be able to engage and destroy two Sleipnir-class strikestars in direct ship to ship combat, while capable of launching and retrieving upwards of 240 strike craft in combat, consisting mostly of the proposed replacement to the Viper space superiority fighter. Estimated threat: High.” Tactical answered, already busy placing the information on the main dradis display.

The proposed Columbae program was Caprican in origin, meant to replace the fleet of ageing warstars with a carrier capable of prolonged frontline combat. With the refinement of FTL-drives and the increased computer ability, FTL attacks had become more prominent, making thin-skinned and fragile warstars easy targets. No place was really safe anymore.

The data available to him showed that warship design had moved towards adding more and better armour to all warships, making a vast array of weapon systems obsolete. Lasers hadn’t been used for a hundred years, with the discovery of advanced and cheap composite ceramics, the firepower of the lasers couldn’t keep up with the defensive capabilities of the armour.

Even the best armour had problems with sufficiently large pieces of metal fired at high velocities though, and ballistic kinetic rounds and missiles with kinetic kill vehicles were the standard weaponry used by starships. Unless CINO had missed something that wasn’t readily apparent, like the holy grail of starship weaponry, cheap and accurate FTL missiles, the strikestars of Fifth Fleet were still viable weapon-platforms.

The massive ship on the dradis, temporary designated as a “battlestar”, a ship easily twice the Aurora’s tonnage would if it proved hostile be tough but not impossible to destroy. Hopefully it didn’t come to that, it was a Caprican design, now CINO hoped it was a Caprican ship.

Recon flights made by Sceiron-class firestars with purpose built stealth systems had jumped into Cyrannus long before the main elements of Fifth Fleet arrived in system, they were still doing those flights, but the data collected had proven inconclusive. Caprica still existed, and it was in human hands, which meant that the subverted defence systems had been destroyed.

The problem was the fact that there had been no signs of the Caprican Union, apart from some mentions on newscast talking about the former Caprican Union. The wireless bands used by the Caprican fleet were silent, apart from the band that had been used by the primary long range strategic network. That one was broadcasting music.

Two weeks had been spent observing, and a contact mission had been ordered. The lone warship on dradis had been designated as the primary point of contact. The size and military nature of the ship guaranteed that an officer of sufficiently high rank was present, important when contact was established. The fact that the “battlestar” was by itself made sure that if the ship proved hostile they would be able to disengage without suffering unacceptable casualties, the various task-force sized naval groups prowling the system and local star cluster were considered to dangerous to approach. The final reason for contact with this particular ship was because the ship was travelling in what once had been exclusively Caprican space.

“Comms?” CINO

“We are broadcasting our cipher-prefix on tac-band five, still no response.” The centurion at the com station answered.

It was standard procedure when two warships met to broadcast a cipher-prefix, detailing exactly which encryption among thousands the wireless was using. It was done automatically by the computers, and allowed secure communications between ships.

The Aurora had been broadcasting her cipher on the usual band for the last few minutes, but the other warship had so far been unable to sync with each other. The Aurora was probably using outdated codes. They could start communications in the clear, but CINO wanted to avoid that as anyone with a receiver would be able to listen in.

“Broaden prefix specifications, add Caprican Navy and exact cipher-block.” CINO ordered, lone eye firmly focused on the massive yellow contact on the dradis. So far it had taken no threatening action apart from redirecting its CAP into a defensive perimeter.

--End Except--

Art © Me
Characters © NBC/Universal
Commission - kclcmdr