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| [[Image:|250px|Prison of Souls, Part 2]] | ||
| Prison of Souls, Part 2 An issue of the Realm Press series. | ||
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| Issue No. | 4 | |
| Writer(s) | Chris Scalf and James Kuhoric | |
| Illustrator(s) | {{{illustrator}}} | |
| Penciller(s) | Robert Scott and Chris Scalf | |
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| Letterer(s) | Tanja Scalf | |
| Editor(s) | Steve Atwell | |
| Collection Design | {{{designer}}} | |
| Cover Artist(s) | Chris Scalf | |
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| Published | June 1998 | |
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| ISBN | [[Special:Booksources/|]] | |
| Population | 0 Survivors | |
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Plot Synopsis
Summary
Prelude to Invasion
- Commander Adama awakens, with a vision that a reptilian creature is breaking up Galactica in its claws, realizing that, much to his horror, the Somnians have arrived to their universe.
- Shuttle Alpha lands on Galactica with its Blue Squadron escort, returning from the derelict mothership. Greeting them upon landing is Lieutenant Sheba and Captain Apollo's stepson, Boxey (with Muffit II); the recovered Lieutenant Starbuck assures Apollo that he must have had "a relapse from all that (sic) fumarelleas".
- Sheba hugs Apollo, telling him that she and Boxey were worried about him, after hearing that Doctor Wilker was attacked; Salik, who examines Wilker, says that he is uncertain as to his condition and will run tests. He asks Starbuck that he would "appreciate it" if Starbuck went to the lab as well.
- Boxey inquires as to whether or not the aliens were like the "creepy Ovians (sic) that tried to eat them back on Carillon". Apollo replies that they were nothing like the Ovions or anything they had encountered before. Concerned on the matter of the incident in progress on the Prison Barge, Apollo tells Boxey to go with Cassiopeia and reports with Starbuck to core command.
- On the Prison Barge, Krolis enters Baltar's cell with his laser pistol drawn. Baltar attempts to tell Krolis about his experience with the Somnian's manifestation of Adama, the latter of which tells Baltar that it's "time to die like the filthy daggit you are!"
- On Galactica's bridge, Colonel Tigh briefs Apollo, Boomer, Sheba and Starbuck on the situation at the Prison Barge. Starbuck snidely asks Boomer "are we supposed to stop them or help them take out Baltar?", earning castigation from Tigh, who says that they will defend every life in the Fleet, no matter how despicable that person is. Tigh thus orders both Starbuck and Boomer to infiltrate the Prison Barge.
- In the life science center, Salik discusses Wilker's condition with a nurse. He notes that his body is "almost" acting like a receiver "picking up old Gamma waves", and his body is being overridden by an outside source. Wilker, whose eyes glow a golden color, awakens and reaches out for Salik.
The Invasion Begins
- Vulpa Six's basestar is approaching the rag tag, fugitive fleet's position. A Centurion reports to Vulpa that a "neural wave of an indefinite nature" is being directly beamed into the brain stem of their human captives, a wave that, while too complex for Cylon understanding, is causing their surviving human captives to become dangerously violent.
- On Galactica, Apollo and Sheba enter the life science center, discovering that Wilker is missing and that Salik and his nurse have been attacked, but are otherwise alive. As he and Sheba go to sound the alarm, Adama appears before them, his eyes glowing red an crackling with energy. He encases both of them in an energy field and walks away.
- In another area of the ship, Wilker constructs a machine that creates synthetic lifeforms to be the host bodies for the Somnians, as the human body cannot sustain their form. The Somnian that controls Wilker jumps into the newly created host bodies, which become alive.
- Omega reports to Tigh that an energy storm has shown up on their scanners, and is rapidly expanding. Tigh is about to dispatch a squadron when a Somnian enters core command. Warriors attempt to fight the creature with laser pistols, which prove ineffective. The Somnian then pulls a pod from its body, unleashing "thousands of glowing parasites" that fly about until attaching to all the men on the bridge, and summarily spread throughout the ship.
- In a corridor, Boxey and Muffit see the parasites attach themselves to a crew member; they flee, pursued by the parasites, into a decontamination chamber. Boxey seals the chamber in time to prevent the parasite from infecting him.
- In another corridor, still surrounded by the energy field that the possessed Adama erected around them, the parasites attempt to attach themselves to Sheba and Apollo. They die upon touching the field.
- The possessed Adama returns, removing the field around them. The unidentified energy being possessing Adama tells Apollo that "we will return this body to the one to whom you speak soon" and instructs the two Warriors to follow him.
- Boxey leaves the confines of the decontamination chamber, avoiding the possessed crew personnel and head into Launch Bay Alpha.
- Starbuck and Boomer land on the Prison Barge with the help of an "inside man" loyal to the Colonials. Upon landing, Starbuck asks Boomer how they manage to land these "bug hunt jobs", to which Boomer replies that it's because Starbuck seems to open his "big mouth at the wrong time".
Notes
- The comic mentions that Adama "endured" the destruction of the Fifth Fleet, yet Adama had no involvement at the Battle of Molecay other than hearing about it.
- Ovians, a misspelling of Ovions, occurs on page 3.