Well, guys, everyone here knows about the series I’ve attempted to make possible as a machinima comic book fan fiction series. I’ve decided to do a summary of the whole series, from start to finish. So far, I am posting “Season 1” for this, but will post the later “seasons” as I get them done. Enjoy!
Battlestar Galactica: Odyssey
Series Treatment
by CB2001
Prequels:
For the characters of John and Kate, the prequel story that involved them is called, “Brother’s Keeper.” Set only a year before the attacks, the story involves them visiting the southern continent of Tauron, where John is from. We discover that it’s the northern continent that garners the planet’s popular misconception of being “dirty,” as the area John grown up in is more of woods than dirt. They visit John’s parents due to the death of Darrin Coba, John’s older brother. Kate, under the guise of Sharon ‘Boomber’ Valerii, finds out that Darrin died saving several of his shipmates from a fire that broke out aboard. She becomes familiar with John’s past and comes to discover that human beings do care about life (which was one of the misconceptions by the Cylons, as she was taught to believe that they didn’t care about life).
For Rollin and Selena Phoebus, their story titled “The Way We Were, Are, Will Be.” It involves Rollin Phoebus in his mid-20s, attending Caprica University and being the roommate of a young man name Gaius Baltar. Being pressured into going to a lecture of the psych students by Baltar, Rollin becomes interested in Selena Pygmalis as she presents her thesis on what would become her field of expertise. After flubbing up his first attempt to talk to her, he manages to convince her to go out for dinner. As a result, they end up hooking up and staying with each other for years after that. It also shows some of their sexual practices.
Capt. Christine “Sheba” Malfi gets her story told in a short piece simply called, “Sheba’s Story.” The story covers what Sheba was doing on Picon when the attacks occurred. Set one day prior to the attacks, Sheba is on trial for charges of sexual harassment by the Colonial Fleet’s Judge Advocate General group due to a deckhand on the Solaria claiming that she came on to him while she was drunk on her downtime. She recalls her first assignment, training new recruits. One of them happens to be Kara “Starbuck” Thrace. Due to Starbuck’s hardheaded actions, Sheba gives her the callsign and even challenges her to become one of the top 20 graduates of her class. Her story finishes with her coming across a bar that had not been damaged during the attacks. She fixes herself a few drinks when a Cavil comes in. After a brief discussion, they are joined by two Centurions. Her story ends with one last question: “Can I have another round before we go?”
In “Life’s Downgrade,” we follow Glen Norme as his marriage ends and he throws himself into his work. Other than seeing how he works, not much there to see.
Season 1:
The first story covers the capture of the majority of the group. It starts off with John Coba as he heads to Zoya University, being interrupted by Kate, under the guise of Sharon ‘Boomer’ Valerii as she tries to convince him to leave Providence with her to go to his grandfather’s cabin. He survives the initial blast because the computer lab he is working in was a former fallout shelter. He is introduced to Fred Cryas after he comes around. He then discovers his girlfriend of one and a half years is a Cylon after spotting two copies of her while being lead to a holding area. We see Glen Norme being kidnapped by a Three and a Five one hour before the bombs drop after he gets off of work for the night on Virgon. Rollin and Selena Phoebus are starting their normal morning routine when they begin hearing reports over the radio about the attacks on Caprica. We already got Sheba’s capture in her prequel, but we have a replay of her being found at the bar. And we get to see Kate’s side of the story, where she tries to convince John to leave Providence to go to his grandfather’s cabin, where she has supplies ready to keep them alive and with plans to go against her kind. Unfortunately, she is unable to convince him to go with her. She allows herself to be caught in the blast of a nuke, knowing that John’s computer lab was a fallout shelter once upon a time. She downloads into a new body, hours going by since all 12 Colonies being destroyed. She is informed that John inadvertently discovered the truth about her and that due to the discovery, his point of view may be tainted due to the discovery. As a result, the project she was involved with is to be reassigned to another Model Eight on Caprica, due to the fact that the real Boomer’s ECO survived the initial attacks and may be useful in exploiting an already existing relationship.
As the story continues forward with Sheba being the last tossed into the containment area (formerly an underground Colonial Fleet base, a relic from the previous war), we are introduced to Juno, a Model Six with black hair who is in charge of the group. She informs them not to attempt any kind of escape and that it’d be beneficial for them to just follow instruction and share the knowledge they have with the Cylons. The group make a vote that the order of command in the group should be the order in which the group arrived at the containment area, leaving Fred in charge at first with John as second in command. They begin to develop an escape plan, Kate offering to help out and offering them a chance to get to the cabin that belonged to John’s grandfather (stating that she remembers about the cabin, but set a block in the download routine to delete the information on its location when she downloaded into a new body to keep its location safe). Though despite the objections from John about her trustworthiness, the group outvotes him. Over the next two months, the group tries to develop an escape plan. Thanks to Kate, the group discovers a passage in the elevator shaft that is not present in any of the up-to-date blueprints but is present in the original. The passage leads from the elevator shaft to an empty store a few yards away from the containment area. John, being familiar with the city of Providence recommends heading East after the escape, as the closest exit out of the city is the bridge over the River Styx. With information from Kate, they discover that the subway system has been restored back to full operation. John develops a virus that would be able to be passed from all systems to the Centurions, so that all can shutdown within a five minute timeframe to allow for them to get out of their main room of occupation to the elevator shaft and into the passage.
At the start of “The Great Escape” three-parter, the group succeeds in the escape. They go to a shop nearby John’s apartment to stock up on supplies. John take it upon himself to head to his apartment alone to gather some items, including his portable electronics tool kit, a solar-powered modified PDA device, his photo album, his brother’s dogtags, a journal and his personal defense weapon: a baseball bat. The group almost come close to being caught in their attempt to get to the subway, but are subsequently separated into three groups at a stop prior to Union Central, the main hub of the entire subway system, when the Cylons find out they’ve escaped. Fred and Glen end up discovering a small group of women who are on their own. They soon discover that the women have been killing men and manage to escape before they could be killed and eaten. Rollin, Selena and Sheba proceed ahead to the bridge over River Styx, only to discover that the Cylons are ahead of schedule, working on clearing the bridge to the halfway point (the group having to plan using the abandoned vehicles as cover all the way across). John and Kate get chased by a pack of Model Sixes but manages to escape. Despite Kate’s attempts to try to explain her actions and how she still loves him, John blows her off, saying that he doesn’t care about how she “feels” if she does and that his main concern is to get to Union Central to meet with the others. He even tells her to go back to wherever she came from, to which she doesn’t. The group meet up at Union Central and then go to a nearby City Transit Bus depot, trying to figure out how to get across the bridge. They finally come to the idea of using a City Bus re-enforced with some scrap metal. John, having to learn from his grandfather years ago, constructs several home-made explosives using various cleaning supplies. In their attempt to escape, they make it half way across the bridge and abandon the bus due to the rest of the way being filled with vehicles. In the process of completely escaping, Fred Cryas is killed and John is shot in the leg. With is dying breath, Fred tells John to “keep them moving.” John rigs a tanker truck marked gasoline with one of the explosives and gets out of there with the help of Kate. The tanker explodes, damaging the bridge to the point where the Cylons cannot pursue. Sheba hotwires an SUV, everyone piles up and flees.
