Battlestar Galactica: The Final Five 2

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Battlestar Galactica: The Final Five 2 An issue of the Dynamite series.
Issue No.	2
Writer(s)	Seamus Kevin Fahey David Reed
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Inker(s)	Nigel Raynor
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Cover Artist(s)	Mel Rubi
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Published	May 14th, 2009
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Summary

• The Thirteenth Tribe are growing increasingly aware of their finite food stores and frustrated that their leader, Michael Tigh, won't decide on a destination for their fleet. Head Six tells Tigh that he must follow Pythia's path to find Earth. Tigh and the other leading citizens are onboard the Resurrection Ship, which also serves as a command ship for the fleet.
• John Cavil says that any given system has a 4% chance of containing a planet able to support life, and they should check each system until they find one. Tigh insists they must find Earth, an ideal place to start over with a clean slate. Cavil dismisses Pythia's preachings and points out that the slate is already clean. They are onboard a relativistic ship, and decades have already passed on Kobol while they have experienced months. Cavil predicts that the humans will have found new scapegoats and wiped themselves out by now, and that even if there are survivors, Pythia will have been long forgotten. He criticizes Tigh for leaving beacons that could allow the other twelve tribes to follow them.
• A mysterious small ship appears on their sensors. One of the Thirteenth Tribe ships, the Anopheles, opens fire on it and follows it into the nearby globular cluster. Prompted by Head Six, Tigh gives the order for the Resurrection Ship to follow the Anopheles and the newcomer into the cluster, as its hull is shielded against radiation.
• Magnus Baltar, the hooded man who "killed" Tigh, killed Pythia, and stowed away aboard the Resurrection Ship before it left Kobol, sets off an explosion which cripples the resurrection matrix and causes the ship to crash on a planet within the cluster, killing several people.
• The survivors are pulling dead and injured people out of the wreckage. Baltar is among them. He has a change of heart after seeing the Thirteenth Tribe grieving. Tigh is blaming himself for the disaster and screams at Head Six that he's done with her. Cavil also blames Tigh and summarizes the situation: they can't resurrect and are cut off from the people on the other ships outside the cluster, who can't resurrect either, but at least there's an ocean of algae on this planet, so they won't starve.
• Tigh approaches one of the people who are digging graves outside the wreckage. It's Baltar. Tigh recognizes him as Pythia's murderer and attacks him, scarring him on the face with a shard of metal, despite Baltar's claim to be a changed man. The two continue to scuffle until Pythia appears and breaks it up by holding a gun on Baltar. She tells Tigh that she's been to Earth and is going to take them there.
• Head Six informs Tigh that it's not really Pythia, but instead one of her own kind, Aurora. She claims that Aurora is the only one of them that isn't content to just offer guidance, instead actively interfering by taking physical form. Tigh tells her that he doesn't care.
• With Pythia's help, the Resurrection Ship is rebuilt and the Thirteenth Tribe continue until they reach Earth, while Baltar is sent back to a war-ravaged Kobol to bring the twelve tribes the Book of Pythia.