SerinaI want to know where you were as well! All of you! We waited, we watched and prayed, and you never came!
Most of us are dead. The Fleet is all but destroyed.
Serina
But you're here.
From the Battlestar Galactica.
Serina
It survives?
Serina
But what of the President and the Council of Twelve and...and all the other Colonies?
Serina
Commander Adama.
Serina
It's true, then. We are defeated. Doomed.
BBoxey
Can I ride in your ship, sir?
Fighter planes are no place for little boys.
Serina
They're going to have to be if our people are going to survive. We must fight back.
Yes, we are going to fight back. But not here, not now, not in the Colonies. Not even in this star system. Let the word go forth to every man, woman and child who survived this holocaust; tell them to set sail at once in every assorted vehicle that will carry them.
We gather here as representatives of each ship in our fleet to answer that single question: Where will we go? Our recorded history tells us that we descended from a mother civilization, a race that went out into space to establish colonies. Those of us assembled here now represent the only known surviving colonies, save one. A sister world, far out in the universe, remembered to us only through ancient writings. It is my intention to seek out that remaining colony, that last outpost of humanity in the whole universe.
Serina
Commander Adama? This thirteenth colony, this other world. Where is it and what's it called?
I wish I could tell you that I know precisely where it is, but I can't. However, I do know that it lies beyond our star system, in a galaxy very much like our own. On a planet called... Earth.
[Commander Adama, Captain Apollo and Serina are exploring the ancient ruins on the planet Kobol]
Serina
I wonder what the city was called.
There were many cities here on Kobol. Eden was the largest. It was the first to fall. This... this might be it. I don't know.
I know. It's difficult. But I've been spending so much time with the old records. For example, that... that refers to the ninth Lord of Kobol. That's his seal. He was the last ruler before the thirteen tribes migrated to the stars.
Serina
Twelve to settle our Colonies.
That's why you entered the void. You think you can find a clue to where the Thirteenth Tribe went!
I know exactly how you feel, old friend.
Baltar. [rushes at Baltar, puts his hands around his neck and tries to strangle him]
[comes between Baltar and Commander Adama and separates the two] No, Father! Leave him to the Council!
You almost killed me! What is this madness?
[removes Baltar's pistol] You need to ask?! Selling out your own flesh and blood?!
Selling out?!! What has he told you? What great truths has Adama spoken to my back?
You mean to say you didn't arrange the destruction of our Fleet, our cities, almost every living thing in the Colonies?!
Are you completely mad?! What sane human being would do a thing like that? Adama, surely you could not have supported such lies! How could you think of me so evil? I, too, hold the seal of the Lords, and a member of the Council of Twelve! I was as much a victim as any of you. I lost everything. My family, my people. I was trapped between the President's Battlestar and my own. Captured by the Cylons, taken away like an animal, to face trial!
Serina
Apparently, they found you innocent. A friend of the Cylons!
No. I was spared to lure you into another trap through a message of peace from some new benevolent Cylon ruler.
Adama, wait! You must hear me out. I have been to the Cylon seat of power. It is in chaos. The Cylon forces are searching for you throughout the star system. The route back into the Cylon Empire is barely defended. One single Battlestar could take control of the Empire and bring it to its knees!
You have the tongue of an angel and the soul of a serpent!
I can prove my good intentions, that I have the power to lead you back into Cylon, supposedly as my prisoners, but, in actuality, to launch a counterattack against those demons.
The release of one of your officers. Lieutenant Starbuck.
Serina
He's alive!
At what price? Remove him, Apollo!
Father, what if he can prove what he's saying?
If they've sent him, then it is a trap.
Then why haven't they attacked?!
I cannot tell you. But our safety is not behind us with you or the Cylons. It lies somewhere out there along the path taken by the Thirteenth Tribe. The tribe that colonized the planet Earth.
Earth?! You can't be serious. That's nothing but a fable.
I believe it is as real as the existence of the Thirteenth Tribe. And the key to that tribe is here in this place, locked away somewhere. I'm certain of it.
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