move. You think they'll be covering that blind spot with recon patrols? I would, if I were them. What we need to do is make their patrols part of our plan, you know? Make their tactics work for us. Here's what I would do: [Rhythmic drumbeat] At position code Deacon... we'll need three civilian freighter ships to use as decoys. Which means those passengers will have to be relocated to other ships... which are already overcrowded. Yes, if you approve. STARBUCK: The decoy ships will jump into the enemy star system... at extreme radar range from the Cylon asteroid. Galactica will jump here... close enough to launch its Vipers at the base. Soon as the decoy freighters arrive in the system, they'll break wireless silence. They'll be posing as a mining fleet coming after the tylium... and pretend to be unaware of the Cylon presence. STARBUCK: The Cylons will hear the messages... and send a force of Raiders after them. This will leave the base relatively undefended. We'll have Raptors pre-positioned to keep an eye on the Cylons. STARBUCK: When the Cylons move toward the decoys... Galactica's Vipers will come in from behind, and obliterate the base. APOLLO: Without the base, they'll be unable to rearm, refuel. We'll mop them up, and then we'll take the tylium. What happens to the crews on the civilian decoy ships? They'll keep their FTL drives spooled up, and jump clear the first sign of trouble. How many casualties do you anticipate? lt'll cost us. [Rhythmic drumbeat continues] If you succeed, what's to prevent the Cylons from coming back with reinforcements? ADAMA: Nothing. ADAMA: But if we get a chance to knock out that base... it will buy us some time. ROSLIN: Why? If you keep running from the schoolyard bully... he keeps on chasing you. But when you turn around and stop... and you punch him really hard in a sensitive spot... he'll think twice about coming back again. So it's either this, or run out of fuel and be annihilated. Sometimes you have to roll the hard six. Well, the freighters are yours. Good hunting, everyone. ADAMA: Operation starts in 48 hours. TIGH: This is our target. BALTAR: A Cylon base? And you're the Cylon expert. TIGH: We need to destroy their military facilities. Without harming the tylium ore under the surface. TIGH: Exactly. A nuke would destroy the Cylons. But the radiation would render the ore inert, unusable. I see your dilemma. Well, you're in luck, you know. BALTAR: Refined tylium contains tremendous enthalpy... to the order of half a billion mega joules per kilo. Subjected to right heat and compression, say, from a conventional warhead... you should get a suitably devastating explosion... without the radioactive fallout. All we have to do is hit the right spot. Specifically, you must hit the staging tanks for the refined tylium precursor. It's a lot more unstable than the fuel itself. And where would they be? [Dramatic instrumental music] I need your advice on this one. I'm flattered, Gaius... but I don't know the first thing about tylium refineries. Neither do I. Oh, come on, you must have an inkling... - where I should tell them to bomb? - No. NO. 6: But God does. BALTAR: Oh, good. I suppose God doesn't want me to destroy the base... because he's the Cylon God. Right? God doesn't take sides. He only wants your love. NO. 6: Open your heart to him, and he'll show you the way. It'd be a lot simpler if he came out and told me. You must remember to surrender your ego. Remain humble. BALTAR: If you ask me... God could do with cleaning his ears out. Then he'd hear what I have to say. - Relax your neck. - Why? What are you going to do? NO. 6: I said relax. BALTAR: All right, but please don't... STARBUCK: Where would the staging tanks be, Doctor? [Exclaiming dreamily] There. Right there. BALTAR: Hit any ------------------------------ Читайте также: - текст Хорнблауэр: Бунт на английском - текст 16 кварталов на английском - текст Космические яйца на английском - текст Новый Вавилон на английском - текст Торпедоносцы на английском |