Operation Exodus

3:1 Arriving to a New Home

Mobile Shipyard Eternity – En Route to Avalon

Admiral's Log

It's been almost eleven months since our journey from the colonies started. Many months have passed now since my last update and many things have happened. I'll start at the beginning.

After we started our long journey to Avalon following the battle on Picon, we found out that someone was transmistting our location using a signal burst that after almost an entire month of searching was found on board one of our transport ships. Things were even weirder when we found the machine that created the signal bursts was operated by a man, from all the Cylon profiles we've collected he was not a cylon, however there was something strange about him. We put him in one of the cells on board Eternity and convinced one of our cylon guests to see if she could help us with identifying the unknown man. She didn't recognize him, but she warned us that existing cylon models may have used surgical changes to themselves to blend in with humans; since we know all of their models faces except the final five which are believed to be with Galactica's fleet, something that we didn't know when we sent Commander Belzen on his journey.

After a series of scans we finally found proof that it was a Cylon, more precisely one of the number five copies. No doubt his mission was to transmit the signal burst so a Cylon ship would follow us at a safe distance to find Avalon. I dispatched the Stealth ship Banshee to find and destroy ship the ship that was following us. It didn't take them long to find a Cylon patrolstar, and the ship was destroyed, but I was still not convinced that the Cylons sent only a single ship to follow us. There had to be more I thought, but the Banshee was unable to find any. For now I have ordered her to stay in stealth mode and scout behind us in search of more Cylon ships.

There were a few other things that I should have added a long time ago to this log, but with all the work and recovery therapy I've had, I haven't had time so I made notes to put it all in order now.

Work on the Atlantis is going so nicely that I can barely recognize her, and once finished she will be one hell of a ship to take on. All other ships that were damaged have been repaired and put back into service. Battlestar Trinity's repairs, Battlestar Phoebe's refit, and Battlestar Sleipnir's construction were completed. The six Destroyers reclaimed just before Operation Firestorm being repaired aboard Eternity were completed, and they were put into the fleet shortly after. Of the salvageable wrecked Battlestars from Caprica and Picon; 9 battlestars were completely repaired, with the others being scrapped and used to repair and refit our other Battlestars. Using the scrapped Battlestars, several Battlestars had their armaments doubled in cannons, point defense, and missle launchers; Battlestars Pleiades, Poseidon, Caprica, Independence, Titan, and Rycon. Of the remaining salvaged wrecks of miliatary ships from Caprica and Picon; 10 gunstars, 5 destroyers, 5 heavy cruisers, 5 battlecruisers, 5 lightcruisers, 4 strikestars, 4 firestars, and 4 escortstars were completely repaired and crewed – with the remainder being scrapped from heavy damage and used to repair the others. Thousands of recruits from volunteers in the fleet have been trained and mixed among veteran personnel throughout the fleet. All viper and raptor wing squadrons have been replenished along with the latest load of pilot recruits, though the pilots will still need extensive training with veteran pilots in order to to take on an actual combat situation.

Unity and Eternity's main docks are almost finished with the two new heavy Battlestars. However construction of those two ships hasn't passed without problems; Delegate Campus as usual tried to convince the general public that the military was spending too many resourcess building new ships for the fleet and that the civilians were getting nothing. There were reports of multiple thefts, beatings, robberies, and other forms of crime rising on ships to the point that the military was forced to intervene. We created a police force consisting of civilians who had military or any other kind of professional experience that allowed them to carry and use firearms.