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'''Peter Laird''' is a civilian aeronautical engineer pressed into service by order of Admiral [[Helena Cain]] after the [[Cylon attack]] on the Twelve Colonies. He is aboard the civilian transport ''[[Scylla]]'' when it, along with several other vessels, is found by the battlestar '' | '''Peter Laird''' is a civilian aeronautical engineer pressed into service by order of Admiral [[Helena Cain]] after the [[Cylon attack]] on the Twelve Colonies. He is aboard the civilian transport ''[[Scylla]]'' when it, along with several other vessels, is found by the battlestar ''[[Pegasus]]'' about a week after the attack. Admiral Cain places military priorities above all else and orders that the ships be scavenged for anything that would be of use to ''Pegasus'': supplies, weapons, parts and skilled civilian personnel. Laird, because his aeronautics background, becomes a selectee dragooned into ''Pegasus's'' crew along with 14 other people on board. | ||
Colonel [[Jack Fisk|Fisk]] and Lieutenant [[Kendra Shaw|Shaw]] take a team of Marines to the ''Scylla'' to carry out the order. Laird speaks as the passengers' representative and refuses to cooperate. When Fisk's show of intimidation fails to persuade the civilians, Cain orders that the selectees' families be shot to demonstrate the alternative. Fisk continues his threat to shoot them, but Shaw takes the initiative and shoots one woman in the head, triggering the Marines to kill nine more. Word spreads throughout the civilian vessels and breaks all resistance, and Laird and the others are transfered to ''Pegasus''. Laird's wife and family are likely among the dead, if not left behind {{TRS|Razor}}. | Colonel [[Jack Fisk|Fisk]] and Lieutenant [[Kendra Shaw|Shaw]] take a team of Marines to the ''Scylla'' to carry out the order. Laird speaks as the passengers' representative and refuses to cooperate. When Fisk's show of intimidation fails to persuade the civilians, Cain orders that the selectees' families be shot to demonstrate the alternative. Fisk continues his threat to shoot them, but Shaw takes the initiative and shoots one woman in the head, triggering the Marines to kill nine more. Word spreads throughout the civilian vessels and breaks all resistance, and Laird and the others are transfered to ''Pegasus''. Laird's wife and family are likely among the dead, if not left behind {{TRS|Razor}}. | ||