(http://spaceships.me/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Pegasus2.jpg)<br/><br/>Vessel:   Battlestar<em>Ares</em><strong>BS-69</strong>(<em>Mercury</em>-class Battletar)<br/>Vessel Disposition:  Returning from final shakedown cruise through lower frontier space.<br/>Vessel status:  All ships' systems running nominally.  All consumables at 95 - 97% of capacity (Food, fuel, parts and ammunition)<br/><br/>The<em>Mercury</em>-class battlestar<em>Ares</em>, last of the<em>Mercury</em>-class battlestars to be built, is currently returning from a two month shakedown cruise that followed her initial star trials.  She is under orders, at this time, to proceed to Colonial space under onventional sublight drives so that an evaluation of those drives can be performed.<br/><br/>Presently,<em>Ares</em>is under the command of Jacob Heller (Commander, CF), and upon her return, she'll be turned over to Admiral Nagalla, as the Admiral's new flagship, and the center of BSG-77.<br/><br/><hr/><br/>Roughly two weeks from Colonial space on sublight drives, the crew of the<em>Ares</em>starts to pick up messages sent during the final moments of the Cylon attack on the Colonial Homeworlds.  Some messages are scattered, some messages are confusing, but some can be read.<br/><br/>'Admiral Nagalla has taken over the fleet.'<br/><br/>'Admiral Nagalla is dead, and Commander Adama has taken over.  Surviving fleet assets to rendesvous at Ragnar Anchorage.'<br/><br/>No other transmissions after that.  Adama, and his ship<em>Galactica</em>, can only be presumed to have been destroyed at Ragnar.<br/><br/>This is where I plan to start the story.  What do you think?