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DESPERATE TIMES
He was desperate, and that creaky old warship still had some juice left in it. He was willing to roll the dice; it could be humanity's last chance. Commander William Adama, now the highest-ranking military officer on the Twelve Colonies, had no choice but to pin his hopes on the fleet's ragtag survivors aboard the Battlestar Galactica, a relic that was supposed to be mothballed to become a museum.
And who is humanity's last hope? Apollo? Adama's son is a straight arrow, a much needed voice of reason in the tumultuous times aboard the ship and especially in the power struggles between his father and President Roslin, who rose to her position by being the highest ranking surviving politician. Starbuck? Apollo's complete opposite, the cigar-chomping, defiant hell-raiser is the best pilot in the fleet, but her reckless abandon in action--and off-duty-- may lead to the entire ship's undoing. Some pin hopes on Gaius Baltar, an unparalleled genius . . . but he was personally responsible for betraying mankind, the one secret he may not be able to live with. And if humanity's chances weren't bad enough, one of the crew members could actually be a Cylon, without even knowing it.
Somehow, Adama has to find a way to keep the old rust-bucket Galatica in one piece, and humanity's hopes alive, or all its striving will have been in vain.