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Dynamite Entertainment’s Battlestar Galactica series is set during the continuity of the re-imagined SCI FI Channel series. The initial storyline takes place specifically after Episode 207 (“Home, Part 2”) and before Episode 210 (“Pegasus”).
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The story begins onboard a ship identified as Medivac 12 of the Caprican Expeditionary Fleet. Several sleeping human passengers are awakened by smoke. They appear confused and disoriented; one begins to ask “where the hell is this place” but he is interrupted by the arrival of Cylon Centurions. A violent explosion is seen on the outer hull of the ship as it floats amid a sea of destroyed spacecraft.
Onboard the Battlestar Galactica, President Laura Roslin is giving a press conference in front of an older model Cylon Centurion in a glass case. There are civilians present at this conference, and one young girl asks the President if Commander Adama is her boyfriend. Roslin says, “He’s a boy, and he’s my friend. But he’s not my boyfriend.”
We cut to Adama and Roslin, sitting together in the commander’s office. Roslin inquires about Adama’s recent strained interactions with Apollo and Starbuck, acknowledging that her own actions may have helped create such discord. Adama deflects the line of questioning for the most part.
Accompanying Adama to an observation deck, Laura is taken aback by the fleet’s current surroundings—the long-forgotten scene of a large space battle that appears to take place in the same area of space that the Medivac ship was in. Adama explains that this is not the aftermath of a Cylon attack, but rather the site of a Colonial civil conflict from sixty years prior. The ships likely miscalculated their jumps and found themselves doing battle in uncharted space with no hope of assistance.
Elsewhere onboard the ship, Kara “Starbuck” Thrace is on her way to see Adama, muttering to herself in an effort to prepare for an apology of some kind. She knocks on the commander’s door and finds it open, though Adama himself is absent. She lets herself in and finds a private journal with the words “Dear Zak” written on the cover, obviously referring to the Commander’s late son, who died in a flight accident a few years prior. Kara is interrupted by the commander himself, and finding her with his journal doesn’t help bridge the gap in their relationship. Adama is called to the CIC before Kara can finish apologizing to him.
Out in space, Apollo has located an old Medivac ship that is currently on fire and transmitting a distress signal. Adama and Tigh suspect a trap, and Apollo is ordered to assume attack formation while the fleet prepares to jump. Apollo questions this, but his father’s curt reply proves that this is no time for an argument.
The humans onboard the Medivac ship are in grave danger. As smoke pours into another cabin, a young man makes contact with the Galactica, asking for CPO Dualla. The Galactica’s communications officer is shocked to hear the man identify himself as her dead brother Darrin.
Adama and Roslin quickly discuss the options, agreeing to send a single pilot to investigate the ship and gather the names of the passengers for cross-referencing. Starbuck volunteers herself for the mission, receiving only a cold acknowledgment from Adama. A journal entry serves as brief narration, revealing that Adama writes to his late son Zak as if in confessional, noting that he is proud of Apollo and Starbuck but he still thinks “everything would be right again” if Zak were still alive.
Meanwhile, Starbuck has boarded the Medivac ship. She fights off Cylon Centurions and starts relaying the names and home planets of the passengers to a research team. Every name they double-check belongs to someone who has been confirmed as dead in the Colonial records, some as long ago as twenty years.
Adama orders jump prep, but six ships in the fleet are suddenly reporting sabotaged FTL drives. When Adama tells Starbuck to pull out of the Medivac, she argues, as does Apollo when the Commander tells him to prepare to fire on the ship.
As Starbuck reaches the cockpit of the Medivac, she is startled to find herself face-to-face with Zak Adama . . .
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