The following paragraphs are for your informational use. All words following are purely to help you understand this series, if you want to read the story this is connected too, skip to the next chapter.
This story is written as a tribute to some of the best science fiction characters not fully recognized for their talents, or the role they play. Now that I've said that, let's talk some about this. This story takes place in fictional world where I have combined some of my favorite science-fiction shows/movies for an epic protagonist vs antagonist spat, this means Imperials versus the Battlestar Galactica, Cylons versus a Miranda-class cruiser, Destiny versus the Wraith, and Rogue Squadron versus a Go'uld mothership. I will take the moment to put in facts about the different franchises I've decided to use.
I've probably a smaller selection than I could, I have not seen many shows, but I intend to include the TV series Battlestar Galactica, Stargate (SG-1, Atlantis, and Universe), a small hint of Firefly, and elements of Star Trek expressed through the game Star Trek Online, as well as Doctor Who. I have recently chosen to include Star Wars, I will mainly use some backup characters as well as a semi-original storyline. I know that my selection is indeed small and limited in scope, I feel that these are some of the best science-fiction series ever made.
Nothing much has changed in Battlestar Galactica, this series will still use most of it's original characters from before the season 2.0 finale, the episode Pegasus. I will, however, use some of the secondary characters to a greater extent, one of my favorite will probably be Lt. Margaret 'Racetrack' Edmonson.
In Stargate I'll have a lot of fun: Atlantis had been sent back to Pegasus with a brand new crew and a military mission, she also has a civilian element and does conduct research operations. With the Wraith suddenly at large in the Milky Way, alongside the Lucian Alliance, and Replicators old and new, not to mention a doubly evil system lord calling himself Lucifer (coincidence? I think not!) the Stargate Program finally went public. This means funding for the program is much greater, military involvement from all nations is common, and the fleets are growing. The most well known ships, Odyssey, Apollo, and Daedalus are on a mission to Pegasus, where Replicators new and the Wraith are screwing people over, to assist the Travelers and the Genii in a joint operation against a Wraith-Hybrid colony. After rendezvousing with the fleet on the edge of Pegasus, the entire group, three BC-304s, once Ancient battleship, and three Traveler Generational ships with a BC-303 (Prometheus-class), jumped towards their target. While en route all ships had managed to travel down the same pathway when they suddenly dropped out two hours too soon. They were the foreign group in what we will call the Great War Space. Minutes later BS-75, Galactica, jumped out and almost collided with Daedalus. This begins our story.
Later the group meets up with 25th Century Starfleet and Romulan Republic, along with an admiral of a group called the Independent Orions, not long after meeting themselves. The Star Trek characters are of my own creation in an attempt to break away from the classic Star Trek fan lore, I have preferred to create my own characters for that branch of the series. These character's lives are all based off the 2012 game Star Trek Online, which is basically the continuation of the original series after J.J. Abrams brought Spock over into a new universe.
Finally we meet Destiny, which had succeeded in it's three year loop and was exploring far off galaxies while the computed how to use the wormhole drive back to Earth. And not long after Destiny we run into the infamous Serenity being chased down by a massive group of Reavers.
During the battle with the Reavers another group jumps into War Space, these are the Rebels in their early stages. While Luke Skywalker was off becoming a Jedi, Wedge Antilles and Rogue Squadron are assigned to a Mon Calamari Cruiser that is doing hit and run with a small fleet of corvettes. This means we got X-wings, A-wings, Y-wings, B-wings and what not without the problem of self-righteous Jedi!
Anyway you get the point, lots of fun stuff. Basically these groups have to get along while fighting their enemies, who are much better at getting along, while dealing with problems they must face. The biggest is the fleet Galactica is escorting, they must accept their new allies, as well as the aliens among them, and soon that becomes more difficult when Pegasus arrives. They must now establish themselves and work together, it was going very nicely, and soon ally with something a little crazy.
They're final universe to encounter is a crazy time shifting one that focuses on a man in a blue box. You know who it is. It appears that there were problems and suddenly 10th, 11th, and 12th Doctors all happen to have shown up in the same place, at the same time. Along with some of their companions, Clara Oswald, Amy Pond, and Donna Noble, these three are an annoying trio of trouble. There are no pacifists in war, thus working with the Doctors is very hard.
I added the Doctor(s) in the story to include some of his best enemies, Daleks and Cybermen are the biggest reason. But tensions are high between these attempted men of peace and the commanders surrounding them, it is a mystery that men with such powerful blue boxes can't do anything and now spend their days trying to remedy the TARDIS of it's problems.
For your own convenience I will now speak of the commanders in the fleet:
Commanding Officer Military Forces, Colonial Fleet: Commander (Cmdr) William Adama "Old Man" Executive Officer: Colonel Saul Tigh
Commanding Air Group, BS-75 Galactica, Military Liaison Colonial Fleet: Captain (Cpt.) Lee "Apollo" Adama
Commander of Operations, Taur'i, Traveler, Genii Pegasus Task Force: Colonel (Col.) Evan Lorne (Commanding Officer: Daedulus), Seconded by Lieutenant Colonel John Sheppard (Commanding Officer: Apollo).
Commander Traveler Detachment Group Leader: Larrin (Commanding Lantean Aurora-class battleship) Seconded by Aiden Ford (Second in Command on Larrin's ship.)
Commanding current Genii Army units, succeeding lost commander: Commander Sora Tyrus
Commander Alliance Fleet Duty Force: Commander Ell Shareen (Commander Mon Calamari battleship Alderaan), Seconded by Commander Wedge Antilles (Rogue Squadron Leader).
Commander all Starfleet forces (It's one ship): Captain Jacey Sellers (Commanding Officer U.S.S. Exeter)
Commander all Romulan Republic Forces (three Warbirds, all T'varo): Subcommander (S'Cmdr) Bekia-Abat
Commander all Independent Orion Forces, operating with funding from the house of Martog: Lieutenant General (LtGen.) Kathy Newman (Orion KDF officer, name was controversial as she was a war hero and a Orion.)
That about sums this massive fleet up, or as Laura Roslin would put it: Our collective asses. . . .
As we know, each of these franchises has their own way of doing combat, as well as scientific thoughts to travel and building their ships. Now I could have said that all ships have shields, their weapons are the same, or all ships do not have shields, and weapon power is simply changed, because of this I have had to strike a compromise.
Basically, the armor of ships is energy absorbent, this makes it where projectiles and energy weapons are equally damaging to Galactica, yet how each weapon acts is different. Projectile weapons ignore shields, cannons, guns, missiles, all the same. And again, armor absorbs energy.
The situation with fighters is about the same as well: Galactica's fighters are very maneuverable, others are less and use an entirely different function of propulsion. If an X-wing and a Viper get in a fight, the odds in the favor of the Viper if it has the chance maneuver, but if the Viper is at range, running or going head on, it is suddenly screwed as the superior range of an X-wing's weapons. Are we at an understanding? Excellent!
Finally about modes of travel. As we know, Galactica uses a FTL that jumps you instantaneous between two points, I've devised that this is a very accurate short range jump, attempting to jump a very long range where variables are great, can result in a fault and coming out in the middle of nowhere. Thus hyperspace used by the characters of Star Wars is a long range form of transportation, the same for Stargate, leaving Star Trek being more of a cruising speed at about ¾ the speed the Star Wars ships travel. Once I begin to write the story, that's not this story!, I will see that it is explained and will add a link somewhere in this intro.
I do feel that I have summed the entire technical elements of this story up, now on to the precise points of this particular story.