BSG The Plan: The Colonies Fall

" ... counting down all functions nominal, all functions optimal. Counting down. The center holds. The falcon hears the falconer. Infrastructure check. ... check. Everyone hang onto the ... please. ... The apotheosis was the beginning before the beginning. Devices on alert. Observe the procedures of a general alert. The base and the pinnacle. Flower inside the fruit that is both its parent and its child. Decadent as ancestors, the portal in that which passes. ... Nuclear devices activated and the machine keeps pushing time through the cogs like paste into strings into paste again and only the machine keeps using time to make time to make time. ... And when the machine stops, time was an illusion that we created; free will. Twelve battles, three stars, and yet we are countless as the bodies in which we dwell; are both parent and infinite children in perfect copies; no degradation ... The makers of the makers fall before the child. ... Access the defense system ... handshake, handshake, second level clear ... accepting scan, love outlasts death ... their ships failed, skittering like skipping stones ... which is meaningless in the absence of time. What never was is never again."