The Cylons' Secret: Battlestar Galactica 2 by Gardner Craig Shaw

Author:Gardner, Craig Shaw [Gardner, Craig Shaw]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2010-03-31T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER

15

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA

They were sending the Vipers to explore a world full of Cylons. Captain Tigh had mixed feelings about all this. He walked quickly to the flight deck, where both Viper pilots and deck crew were waiting.

He would do a good job. They would all do a good job. Many back home thought this mission—this exploration of the edges—was going to be easy. Sure, they might find some leftover mining sites where equipment had grown dangerously fragile with age, or have to fire across the bow of a couple of raiders to keep those scum off their tail. But mostly, he knew the fleet sent them out there to train someplace safe and far away from Colonial politics, a place where all the green recruits could learn their way around a Viper, just in case they were ever needed if things came to a head between a couple of the worlds back home.

That might have been one of the reasons Bill convinced the higher-ups to hire Saul Tigh. This was supposed to be light duty. Ease him into the job and see how he handled it, find out whether he was ready for some real work in the fleet.

He stepped out onto the deck, and Athena called the crew to attention. Tigh snapped off a salute as he continued to approach. Twenty-four pilots and close to a dozen flight crew returned his salute.

Well, the real work had shown up, right here, right now, out on the edge of frakking nowhere. And he had to take his green recruits straight into what might be one hell of a battle.

Tigh knew it could be worse. All of them knew their way around a Viper by now. But only four of his two dozen pilots had any substantial flying under their belts, and only two of those showed a real aptitude for battle.

Well, he guessed that made it easy for him to choose who was going to go along on this little mission. He just hoped this assignment didn’t explode into something much bigger. His green recruits would have to gain a lot of experience in a hurry.

He stopped some twenty paces away from his assembled troops. Everyone waited expectantly, at attention, for what he had to say. “At ease!” he called. They all relaxed, but only a bit. It was best to get this over with.

“Well, this is it, boys and girls,” he called out in a loud voice. “The big time. Just like back in the war, we’re going out there to face the unknown. As Viper pilots, we are always the first line of defense. We are fast and deadly. We get in there, take a look around, and hop back out before anybody even knows we’ve been there.”

A few of the pilots laughed. They were trying to release the tension. He knew just how they felt.

“Of course,” he continued as he walked down the line, looking straight at each of the pilots in turn, “it all depends on just what we find down there when we go sightseeing.

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