Are you still alive or have you died?

I'd have gone with Hume - so he could be Doctor Whom.

Given the way Cylon technology works, the only way the Hirogen ship could detect the arming of the self-destruct system is if they had hacked into the Base Star's computer system. But if they had hacked in, they could have simply turned the self-destruct off.

The difference between an armed nuke and an unarmed nuke is about the same as a desktop computer idling and a desktop computer running a game of solitaire. There is no massive buildup of power like a warp core breach, there's just an electronic switch being flipped and the nuke getting the command to detonate.

One nuke in the center of the ship's tylium bunker is all the self-destruct system needs to completely destroy the ship.

One problem with this chapter: Starfleet humans DID think of recycling garbage. That is, in fact, one of the available functions of every single replicator on Voyager. No need to involve the transporter, just shove the trash into any replicator and press the Recycle button.

Exactly how far the Colonials can travel in a jump depends on the ship and the navigation computer. Raptors generally travel a tenth as far as Galactica can per jump, for example. The point where a jump begins to pose a serious risk of destroying the ship is called the Red Line.

The fleet is limited to the Red Line of its slowest, least capable ship, so each jump the fleet makes in most of the series is about 5 lightyears. This im-lies that the slowest ship's Red Line is probably around 6 lightyears.

Galactica's Red Line is about 15 lightyears, though for safety they limit themselves to about 12 at a time. For comparison, a Federation starship at warp 9 travels about 10 lightyears in 24 hours. A Cylon jump drive and computer in combination are approximately 10 times better than a Colonial drive and computer, giving a Base Star a Red Line of about 150 light years.

Late in the series, rebel Cylons upgrade the refugee fleet's drives and computers to be 3 times better than they were for most of the series, giving the fleet in general a Red Line of about 18 lightyears and Galactica a Red Line of about 45 lightyears.

So while a Colonial FTL drive would be an incredible speed boost for Voyager, I think your numbers are seriously off track on how fast it would actually be.

Asimov was a brilliant science fiction writer, but he was crap at designing AI. His Three Laws, as written, lead directly to The Matrix as a logical conclusion. He revised them later in his writing career, creating what he called the Zeroth Law, but even that wouldn't prevent The Matrix. Personally, given a choice between an unshackled but well-treated AI and one enslaved by the Three (or Four) laws, I'd tale the unshackled AI. It'd be a lot safer.

You have an editing error near the middle of the chapter. The doctor responds to a question asked by Roslin, but the entire sentence containing her question about how long the procedure will take is missing.

You have a typo - if Raider brains weren't sentient, they'd be unable to pilot a Raider. Sentience is the ability to feel and react to outside stimuli - most insects, even some plants are sentient and ALL mammals are sentient. Sapient means thinking being, as in the ability to reason and plan. A creature that has both qualities is a sophont. Most sapient creatures are also sentient, but it's possible - for an AI for example - to be sapient but not sentient. Mr Data is sophontic, because he can feel and react to being touched on his skin, but his brain disconnected from any sensors would merely be sapient.

You have a possible technical error in this chapter. Full impulse for the Delta Flyer is around 75,000 kilometers per second. Tenth impulse is still 7,500 kilometers per second, and the ship can reach its full speed in a matter of seconds.

Old Battlestar Galactica Vipers, which are MUCH higher tech than the BSG reboot has, could accelerate at a maximum of 110 m/s2, which would turn a reboot BSG Viper pilot into chunky salsa. Even one percent of impulse would be too fast for a nBSG Viper to carch up to. The lower tech nBSG Colonials don't have inertial compensator technology, and that limits them to the sort of acceleration an Earth 21st century fighter can pull off, or they'd kill the pilot.

Great story to bad you never finished it...

interesting story
one point however
by this stage of BSG Adama had been made an admiral by roslin

You have a good story going on here, I am sorry that you couldn't continue it.

Thank you very much for writing it, and sharing it!

This was a good story, it's a shame it was never finished. The premise was excellent; as was the writing. I hope you return to it one day.

Have a great year!

I know Tom Paris is a moronic twat. But even HE would not be so stupid to tell a strange civilisation all of the strengths AND weaknesses of the Federation's military and technological secrets.

Also why zero mention of Kobol?

Adama introduced himself as part of the 12 Colonies of Man?

This story had potential but it was pretty shallow and showed a strong lack of political realities.

Also NO WAY would the battered refugees from the 12 Colonies of KOBOL (just reminding the author) be frolicking around and blissfully accepting aliens. They would view this whole thing as a Cylon trick.

Hoping that someone picks this story back up...

Awesome story
Please continue.