Battlestar Prometheus "The Story ...

The President smiled. “Good hunting.”
COMBAT INFORMATION CENTER
BATTLESTAR PROMETHEUS
IN ORBIT OF Caprica
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Chapter 2
WAR DRUMS
A shimmering in the fabric of space and a brilliant flash of light heralded the
arrival of the Battlestar Prometheus as she appeared over the southern pole of Caprica.
Inside the Colonial Fleet Flagship, her crew felt a brief wave of nausea pass
through them, a side effect of the jump process. You see, the human body isn‟t fond of
having its molecules compressed and transported over one hundred S.U. in a microsecond
and it registered it‟s disapproval by attempting to convince the stomach to heave the
remnants of a persons last meal at high velocity from the mouth.
Normally, most people were able to suppress the urge. There were a few,
however, who had messes to clean up afterwards.
Lieutenant Raine Arispe, the Prometheus Operations Officer, was one of them.
“You ok Lieutenant?” Colonel Hohensee asked with a smile as Arispe finished
chucking her lunch into the waste receptacle next to him.
“Just... fine... sir.” The lieutenant that everyone called „Flame‟ because of her
fiery attitude said.
“Good. I‟d hate to have to send you to the doc just because of some jump
sickness.”
“Not a chance in hell sir.”
“Admiral on deck!”
Hohensee turned to see Fleet Admiral Gastineau enter the C.I.C. with Commander
Tajalle at his side.
“Report.” The Commander ordered.
“Jump complete sir. We‟re right where we wanted to be.” Hohensee reported.
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