Battlestar Prometheus "The Story ...

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EPILOGUE
IMMORTALS
Not long after the Fifth Fleet arrived, the remaining Cylon Basestars fled. Only
two of them survived to jump out.
The Galactica was rescued from her decaying orbit by the Battlestars Aries and
Olympus. She was towed back to the Thermopylae shipyards where she underwent
extensive repairs for the next three months. Twice, the Quorum of Twelve tried to have
her scraped for economy‟s sake and both times Fleet Admiral Gastineau refused, telling
them that if they wanted to scrap one of the greatest ships in Colonial History, they would
do it over his dead body.
Needless to say, the Quorum relented.
Lieutenant William Adama led his twenty four Cadets against a force of forty
Cylon Raiders and two troop transports. He lost no one and totally destroyed the
invaders. Had those two transports touched down, they would have had enough Cylon
Centurions to over run the ground defenses of Caprica City two times over.
The fighter attack plan devised by Captain Guill worked perfectly. Of the three
hundred Colonial Vipers dispatched to Thermopylae, one hundred and ten returned. Not
one of the Cylon Raiders made it out intact.
The Battle of Caprica was the turning point in the Cylon War. Within six months
of the victory, The Colonials had recaptured all of their worlds but Sagitaron. Eighteen
months after the Battle of Caprica, the Armistice was signed that finally restored peace to
the Colonies.
The Cylons left human space and would not be seen again for another forty years.
CDR Dwanah Tajalle was promoted to Rear Admiral three months after the Battle of
Caprica. She commanded the Colonial Thirteenth Fleet from the C.I.C. of the Battlestar
Persephone in the Battle of Tauron. It was there that, battered and beaten, she drove her
dying Battlestar into the Cylon Basestar known as Zero One, destroying the Cylon
Command Council. This was the battle that convinced the Cylons that the war could not
be won. This was the battle drove them to the peace table and ended the war.
Admiral Tajalle was awarded the Presidential Medal of Distinction posthumously for her
actions at Tauron. Her body is interred in the Hall of Heroes in Caprica City.
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