Part 6 Battlestar Galactica: Back To The Colonies,: War On The Mountain

Prologue

Prologue

Earth Date April 2053, Above The Colony Of Caprica

The meeting aboard the Battlestar William Adama had been planned a few weeks before. It wasn't like any other meeting since the first United Earth Defense Fleet had arrived at The Twelve Colonies in early 2049. The four-year mission to scout the twelve worlds, that had been all but destroyed over thirty Earth years ago during The Holocaust, was wrapping up. All twelve worlds had been reconnoitered. Governor Justin Bond was in the process of finishing up his final recommendations for the next steps in bringing the twelve worlds back to life.

Only two problems of significance had arisen in their almost four-year stay here: the first was the lingering situation on Caprica, where a group of people had holed up in the Caprican Mountain Range, who had set up shop about a dozen years before.

The other was on Canceron, where tensions had been high in the city of Hades after UED scouts had arrived and laid out plans for the future of that city and planet. Two years later, there had been no trouble, only an uneasy calm from the surface.

This meeting was about the situation on Caprica. Admiral Lee Adama had spelled out in no uncertain terms to the shadowy figure known as The Crown, who was apparently the leader of this fiefdom, that his little empire would not be tolerated when the serious attempts to start the first stages of re-colonization were begun.

The second fleet that had left Earth was now only six months away. With scout teams in place on all the planets, and with the Governor's recommendations ready to be sent back to Earth, it was time to think about one matter before that fleet arrived.

It was time for Lee to back up his threat to get those people off the mountain so that Caprica could be restored.