02 - The Cylon Death Machine by Glen A. Larson & Robert Thurston

Author:Glen A. Larson & Robert Thurston [Larson, Glen A. & Thurston, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-09-29T23:50:02+00:00

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

After angrily receiving the report of his scouts that the Cylon patrol ship assigned to kill the human intruders had been itself shot down, First Centurion Vulpa sent out foot patrols, with orders to hunt down the humans and destroy them.

On one of the planets of the Cylon Alliance, there was a kind of insect—small, gray-bodied creatures with eight wirelike long legs and antennae that never ceased activity. They were not poisonous nor did they bite nor were they in any way destructive to the planet’s ecological systems. Their only drawback was that they were irresistibly attracted to the shininess of the metal in Cylon uniforms. All Cylons stationed on that planet, as Vulpa had been for a long time, came to hate these insects, because they were ingenious in finding ways to penetrate the Cylon covering and implant themselves upon Cylon skin, sometimes even shorting out a wire or two embedded in the middle layer of the uniform. Once on Cylon skin they became that terrible annoyance, an itch that could not be scratched. If several of them penetrated the uniform, even a normally unemotional Cylon could be driven mad. This expeditionary team of humans, Vulpa thought, seemed composed of that revolting kind of insect. They were making him itch considerably, and he wanted them exterminated immediately, so that he could transfer his attention away from this minor futile mission and back to the major goal of eliminating the Galactica and its fleet.

“We found the wreckage of the humans’ shuttle,” a foot-patrol leader reported in. “The rest escaped in a snow-ram. We found the vehicle, broken down and abandoned on the plateau.”

“You hunted them down?” Vulpa asked hopefully.

“No. But humanoids cannot survive the plateau.”

“I hope you are right.”

Vulpa felt annoyed. The humans should be dead. Then why did he feel they were still skittering around like those insects beneath Cylon metal?

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