BSG

The doctor has regenerated as Peter Capaldi Chief Galen Tyrol, repairer of worlds! Hi, honey, I'm home. What's been going on?

BSG (Starbuck)

Hmm, a married couple.

BSG

Welcome, President Galen Tyrol! Loyalty and trauma have been sent. Meanwhile, the body of your predecessor, Prince Falls-Like-Autumn-Leaves Cottle, has been Scanned. Does he feel good about being dead? No, of course not, and from beyond the grave he demands that you avenge his death! Cottle is Antagonistic - Order an Attack! The jump track increases by 1, and the eight raiders all attack Galactica one more time:

Raider 1: 7. Miss.
Raider 2: 1. Miss.
Raider 3: 6. Miss.
Raider 4: 3. Miss.
Raider 5: 5. Miss.
Raider 6: 5. Miss.
Raider 7: 6. Miss.
Raider 8: 8. Hit!

One more hit! Will this be the shot that takes out Fuel? The damage is:

FTL Control! Hey, Cally was in there! Report to Sickbay, Cally. Sorry Cottle's no longer available to look after you, but there's this very friendly doctor name of Simon O'Neill who assures you he'll take excellent care of your ovaries you.

Everyone's Crossroads card has now been resolved. Next up: the Trauma. Will anyone be booted from the game?

BSG

Dagnabbit, my trauma post just got eaten! You're getting the summary version. Humans first:

Chief: 3 trauma, B B B. Chief Tyrol returns to you mellow and chill.

Cally: 2 trauma, A B. A bit crabby that she's been trying to save humanity and her hubby's apparently been holed up somewhere getting his 4:20 on, but they can work it out.

Starbuck: 2 trauma, B B. Well, isn't humanity just sunshine and puppies today? They all live!

Now it's time to check our Cylon, Roslon. She went into Crossroads with 3 trauma. She played one on her card. She then had to pick up 2 trauma from Starbuck's card, which became 3 after she drew a Disaster. She also had to pick up 2 trauma from her own card, which again became 3 after drawing a Disaster.

Roslon: 8 trauma, A A A A A B B B. She can discard all her Antagonistic trauma and two of her Benevolent trauma, but that still leaves her with one lone Benevolent trauma. he is overcome with remorse fot the assassination of God-Emperor Cottle! Cottle, who had sent her a steady supply of really good drugs all the time she was President! The other Cylons find this all unseemly.

Roslin is boxed!

There it is, our first Crossroads elimination, and it falls on our lone Cylon. Your work here is done, P-C. time to kick back and see if the humans can make it those last few steps to their final jump.

BSG

First, administrative note: Cally's card draw exhausted the Tactics deck. I've reshuffled the discards.

With Roslon's boxing, she discards:

Consolidate Power 1
Preventative Policy 4
At Any Cost 5
Launch Scout 1
Evasive Manoeuvre 1
Evasive Manoeuvre 1
Full Throttle 2
Calculations 4
Special Destiny 2
Sabotage 3

Meanwhile, from her sickbed, Cally pens the seedy tale of a Cylon hell-bent on her own destruction! Ripped from the Headlines! But is it accurate? Cally's crisis card (that's right, after all that we still have a crisis card) is:

Controversial Manuscript
President's Choice

Chief Tyrol, as your first action and when you're ready, please post your choice.

BSG (Chief)

Dude. Crossroads is crazy.

Omnis gets a prize for surviving the longest, yeah?

BSG (Starbuck)

As long as humans win, that's all I want.

So? Who is what title now? Chief is President???

Who knew today was December 26th. (Boxing day!)

BSG

Omnis gets a prize for surviving the longest, yeah?

At this point, yes. And the prize is: Starbuck's still alive, what more does she want?

Option 2 of the Controversial Manuscript would raise Morale but damage Galactica twice. There are three damage tokens left, one of which is the Fuel token. If that gets drawn, the humans lose on Fuel! If the other two tokens are drawn instead, Galactica is destroyed! Therefore, there is no way in which the humans could survive option 2. I assume that the Chief picks option 1. Morale falls to 1 (yes, again) as the Cylons vow to pursue vigorous legal action against Cally! By which I mean they activate raiders again to fire on Galactica:

Raider 1: 8. Hit!
Raider 2: 5. Miss.
Raider 3: 3. Miss.
Raider 4: 6. Miss.
Raider 5: 5. Miss.
Raider 6: 1. Miss.
Raider 7: 2. Miss.
Raider 8: 5. Miss.

Ouch, one more damage. In this one turn, Galactica has been fired upon no less than 32 times. And the damage is:

Fuel.

It was 21 turns ago that we first saw a resource drop to 1, when Roslin executed the prisoner Adama. The fleet has held on desperately for all that time, almost half of the entire game. But now, with this last barrage, Fuel finally drops to 0.

CYLONS WIN!

BSG (Commander in Chief)

Yeah, let's do the thing that doesn't immediately doom us even though it bums us out. Option 1

Lets hope those raiders haven't gotten better at aiming...

BSG

Wow, that was amazing!

Good game, y'all.