While they were preparing for the jump, in a barren galaxy 2,400 light-years away from the Budapest, a fugitive fleet of dozens of ships of different sizes was holding a long-lost carnival.

It was a human fleet of mixed formations and formations, with two large warships of similar size guarding the perimeter, and the other ships appeared to be civilian ships, unarmed, and generally small.

Due to the defeat in the previous war, the fugitive fleet had been hunted down by the rival race of the Therons, so the atmosphere within the fleet had been low for a long time. Black often erupts into civil strife for various reasons.

But that is not the case today, as almost all the crews of the ships in the fleet, both military and civilian, are holding parties to celebrate their hard-won reunion.

It turned out that there was only one battleship in the fleet, the Galactica, which was responsible for protecting everyone, and a few hours earlier, they had reunited with the Pergasus, a battleship that was thought to have been destroyed.

In the large battle aircraft carrier Galactica, the celebratory atmosphere of the officers and men was particularly enthusiastic. Because the officers and men on the ship had been mistakenly believing that all other friendly ships had been wiped out. The fugitive fleet itself is also in a military predicament, and can only rely on the strength of its own single warship to protect the safety of more than 40 civilian ships in the escape.

And now, with the sudden addition of the battle carrier Pegassos, their combat effectiveness has increased dramatically, and the chances of survival of the fleet have also increased significantly. People reveled in this long-lost joy, unbelieving. In the captain's chamber of their battleship, a silent war was going on between several of the most powerful men in the fleet.

Although the reunited fleet leaders were very amicable when they met during the celebration ceremony that had just taken place, in the sealed captain's room of the Caracica, the lights were dim, and the atmosphere of the conversation was almost frozen with the conversation between the two sides.

There are only three people sitting in the captain's room, which is not very large. Exactly the three people with the highest positions in the entire fleet. One of them, a man and a woman, dressed in senior officers' uniforms, was Commodore Addama, the captain of the Caracica, and Admiral Kane, the female captain of the Pegasos.

The middle-aged woman sitting next to them, dressed in professional attire, was a career politician who unexpectedly inherited the presidency after the war began. Rosslyn". Such a bizarre combination, coupled with the fact that the two parties have just reunited after a long absence, so the mutual trust in the house is very low.

Especially Madam President, who only recently reached a consensus with Commodore Adama, the captain of the USS Galactica, on an effective separation of powers. In the middle of the conversation, though, she said that she welcomed the Pegassos to join. But she kept worrying that the reunion with the Pegasus would break the power-sharing consensus she had reached with Adama.

As the pre-war Minister of Education and the 44th in line to the presidential throne! Laura. Roslyn's presidency within the fleet has never been recognized by everyone. Her authority was constantly challenged, sometimes to the point of the Brigadier General Adama with whom she collaborated.

Although this fleet has a population of just over 50,000, it is equivalent to an ordinary town on the main plane. But this small society has inherited the poor characteristics of its own pre-war colonial society.

Fortunately, after a lot of things in the past year. President Rothling has built up a certain level of mutual trust with many social groups within the fugitive fleet. He also reached mutual trust and understanding with Commodore Adma, the captain of the Caracica.

On a lot of issues. Brigadier General Adama had become accustomed to consulting with her to jointly exercise the wartime management rights that should belong to the army. It is because of this military support and personal understanding with the commander that she has been able to hold the presidency for the past few months. Not pulled down by other careerists.

But with the addition of the Pegasos, this hard-won balance of power was upset. The future became uncertain in an instant, and as if God had worked against her, the situation turned in a direction she didn't want to see while she was distracted from the conversation and considering a new balancing act.

The commander of the Galactica, the man she thought she knew very well, suddenly surrendered power to Admiral Kane, whom she had just met, during the conversation! It is to hand over all the military command of the fleet, and theoretically it is equivalent to handing over the fate of the Calacica, where they are now located, and the entire civilian fleet!

Although she knew that Admiral Kane was Admiral Adama's titular commander just a few dozen minutes ago, the moment the fleet and the Pegasos reunited, Adama's sudden handover of power still made the president's brain, who was proficient in political games, almost short-circuit!

It is not surprising that Commodore Adama is twice as old and military as Admiral Kane, who does not look very old on the other side, and he himself is also a famous combat hero in the first war of mankind against Theron, coupled with the strong command of Adama who rescued the fleet from dangerous situations again and again, Rothlin and everyone in the fleet have long developed the habit of treating Adama as the only supreme military commander.

And Adama's sudden handover of power was obviously a bit unexpected by the young Admiral Kane on the other side, but despite this, she still accepted Adama's handover of power very naturally and gracefully, and her behavior lowered the already low conversation heat in the room to freezing.

At this time, Ms. Luo Silin, who was "guiwei" president, no longer knew what to think, and she was almost stunned to see the qiē happening in front of her. She could hardly believe that the Adama in front of her, who had worked with her for a year and had experienced many ups and downs, still had such a strange side to her.

And Admiral Kane was able to take over the command of the fleet so indifferently. This made her feel more threatened and powerless than ever, because this strange sense of discipline and strict military handover procedures were completely contrary to the muddy way of power that she had become accustomed to over the past year.

At a time when his own political power is threatened, Rothlin's mind is full of Adama's "betrayal" of him and Admiral Kane's "trouble". So, in order to avoid being completely out of control in the rest of the conversation, she made an excuse for herself to leave the scene quickly.

And after she left, the atmosphere in the captain's room finally returned to normal levels. After confirming that she had indeed left, Admiral Kane was finally able to take off the superficial disguise that he was not good at, and turned to Adama next to him, who was also a professional soldier, and complained: "The Minister of Education is the president? Really? ”

She still couldn't accept the "president" she had only met today, because a bureaucrat in charge of education before the war was too different from the wartime leadership she had envisioned. For Admiral Kane, who still sees himself as a soldier of the colonial government, Rothlin and the so-called government of this fugitive fleet are like a big joke played on her.

How many times has her Pegasus been in danger in the past year? She couldn't remember anymore. But every time she was in danger, she recalled the prosperity of human civilization in the pre-war colonies, and used it to cheer herself and her crew up.

In nostalgia for the past and anger at the enemy, the crew of the Pegasos overcame one danger after another under her leadership. Now, after a long year, when they finally meet other humans, what they see is actually this scene, a runaway fleet, and the shadow of a zombie-like pre-war government in the fleet.

What's even more amazing is that in this small society of only 50,000 fugitive fleets, there seems to be chaotic power and responsibility debates and various infighting, which is incompatible with her disciplined and orderly Pegasos.

The only thing to be thankful for is that the commander of the Calacica, Adama, is still the reliable elder and war hero she remembers. Without taking the initiative to mention it, she gave the command to herself, and Adama's move made her very happy, and she could almost offset her bad feelings for the female president!

Thinking of this, Kane also wanted to take this opportunity to say something, it was best to persuade Adama to destroy this zombie-like pre-war government with him, and quickly impose military control on the fleet. But Adama stopped her in time as if he saw her intentions, and instead persuaded her: "She has not come all the way, Admiral. Give her a chance to show herself, and you'll understand......" The exhortation in her tone was obvious.

In response to Adama's words, Admiral Kane decided not to take over the day-to-day affairs of the civilian fleet for the time being, nor to leave politicians like Rothlin alone for the time being, but to take some time to get to know the fugitive fleet and their experiences over the past year, which were undoubtedly no less polished than those of the Pegasos.

"Okay, I'll keep an eye on it. Admiral Kane shrugged in response. In response to Adama's request, she decided to agree to it for the time being. With that, Admiral Kane ended her first conversation since joining the fleet and returned to study his ship with the logbook of the Calacica.

But what all of them, and even the Therons who were still hunting them, didn't know was that thousands of light-years away, a new powerful force had joined their ongoing war with the Therons, and would soon cross paths with the fate of their fugitive fleet. (To be continued......)

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