In going through stacks of old papers in a vain attempt to organize, I found my original 11 year old notes from my original story and found it interesting. It was not called Futures Past, but "Battlestar Alexia". That version of the story did not involve the Pegasus at all, but instead as well as the Galactica, the new battlestar Alexia that they had built in the shipyards of the Veearrgens. In that version of my story, Apollo commanded the fleet from the more advanced Alexia while Colonel Boomer commanded the Galactica at the rear of the fleet. At the time, it was my way of upgrading the design of the ships and vipers by throwing in the prior treaty with the Veeargens and the use of their shipyards, but I had basically kept the main characters (Apollo, Starbuck, Boomer) as the main part of the story while reducing the Galactica itself to secondary flagship status. So it was the Galactica which stayed behind (rather than the Pegasus) to rebuild the colonies while the Alexia continued leading the fleet to Earth. I am glad that I later changed my mind and maintained my love for the Galactica itself and kept it as central to the storyline, though I had sketched rough drawings of the battlestar Alexia and they were quite cool looking. I wonder if I'll find them again amid my messy world.
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