"Receiving identification codes.One System Commonwealth, one will not identify calling themselves Wraith and the third to identify itself as... Earth Alliance Fleet..." There was pause around the room as everyone looked at the commander. "Recheck." The Petty Officer at the communication station began typing again on the console on front of him. "Confirmed. That is what they're sending to us." Phillips looked at him. "It's a cylon trick, it has to be.""We've never seen a ship of that size belonging to cylon forces, or that configuration. So far they haven't strayed from the design they stole when the war broke out." He rubbed the stubble on his chin, preparing for the upcoming battle had him working almost around the clock and he hadn't had time to shave yet. "Comms.""Sir?""Route the channel from the Earth Alliance ship through my console. Offer our assistance from the commonwealth ship on the condition we can send a small team to ascertain it is not a cylon trick first.""Yes sir."

He picked up his speaker and nodded at Phillips. "Launch Red and Blue squadron, have them set up a Cap around the Columbia, stand down to condition two."[i]"All hands, this is the XO. Stand down to condition two, repeat stand down to condition two."[/i] He waited and looked at the comm officer, who nodded when it was through. "Channels open sir.""This is Commander Alexander Lorne of the Battlestar Columbia. We hail from the other Twelve Colonies of Kobol and are currently meant to be engaged against Cylon Forces. We respectfully ask for your assistance in ascertaining our location and if possible your assistance to help the twelve colonies against our enemy." He wrote down a note and slid it across to the XO, needing astrometics to try and find out where they were and where the twelve colonies were. They needed to get back, there was no way the Galactica and Atlantia could manage against the Cylon forces even with escorts without the Columbia as well. This very battle could turn the tide of the war.

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[b]On Coruscant[/b]

Origin was spreading like a plague. Never in the Oris wildest dream could they never find somewhere so filled with hate, corruption and disarray that people were more than willing to take on the way of origin, assisted by the fact that the once senators were now priors and spreading the message ahead of everyone else, showing the power that only once the Sith or the Jedi once held. Allowing people to become more powerful than they ever imagined. The fact that it was senators pushing the message forward gave it extra merit, these were people that had never been seen to have such power. If it was the Jedi they would simply be ignored. In fact the Jedi assisted the Oris power grab, many always felt sour at them hording such power and not allowing others to have it.

Soon, soon they would have converted or killed everyone on the planet and they could go out on the Galaxy and take it all for themselves.