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Battlestar Galactica
Resurrection by Richard
Hatch
PROLOGUE
The void is full of death and dying.

A stinger from the great Chitain warship, easily twice the size of a
battlestar, whips past Apollo's Viper, just missing him and destroying
two other fighters. He prays to the spirit of his father and he prays to
the Lords of KobolтАФhe prays to anyone who will listenтАФto just see them
through this massacre, because he knows it's going to take a stack of
miracles to survive this day, much less win it.

As he thinks that, the tip of the stinger glows ruby-red and discharges
a deadly laser blast, vaporizing half a dozen Vipers; the brightness of the
blast is imprinted on his retinas, even though his Warrior's helm
automatically opaques when the flash of laser fire is too bright, and for a
moment, Apollo is blind. In battle, a moment is all it takes to end up
dead.

He knows his Viper is in the sighting hairs of a Chitain fighter, and
his vision is coming back, but slowly. Too slowly. He's going to have to
fire blind. Apollo remembers the position of each of the nearest fighters,
Viper and Chitain alike, before the searing light from the laser
temporarily stole his sight, and he trusts to his senses. He's a Warrior,
after all, and he has been trained all his life for every eventuality. All of
this races across his mind in a micron, and his thumb stabs the
turbolaser.

In his shimmering, dancing vision, the Chitain craft erupts in a
fire-flower, and Apollo offers a quiet prayer of thanks.

But this battle has been raging on and on for what feels likeтАФmay
well heтАФcentons, and there seems no end in sight. They've never faced
anything quite like the Chitain before: a race so alien and warlike and
fearsome as to make the Cylons seem civilized. Like the Cylons, the
Chitain want to become the only sentient lifeform in their sector, even if
that means eliminating everyone and everything else.

If not for the intercession of the colonials' valiant ally, the Sky, this
story may end quite differently; even so, it still ends badly.