Doomsday at Terra
Command Base Star 62
The Cylon IL in command of the task force examined his data.
He saw his own Base Ships and support ships were ready. 13000 raiders and 39000 centurions were ready to launch.
Cylon hadn't concentrated this much force since the conquest of the Human colonies.
They were on course for the area where scouts reported signs of human infestation.
Galactica and her fleet had been this way.
If the human colony was extensive as reported it could be a problem.
But orders were orders.
He sent a command to launch scouts.
Long range raiders would move well ahead of the fleet.
The base star was close enough to maintain control of the battle.
His fighter force was advancing in a phalanx of phalanx formations.
They approached the Terra System along the local plane of the ecliptic.
Currently they were penetrating the system's cometary halo.
Curiously advance centurions reported a high flux of pitchblende nodules.
It possibly meant an outer planet had been destroyed.
That would be determined by a later survey team.
"launch fighters" IL mephistopoles ordered 'bring Base Ships to dead slow."
the fighters would reach out far ahead . If they encountered anything it wouldn't get the Base Ships.
Not right off, anyway.
IL-Mephistophocles wasnt worried. Intelligence reported these humans were primitive next to the colonials.