Word Count: 220
Date: November 2004
Series: Mini
Rating: K+
Category: Character
Pairing/Focus: William
Warnings:
Summary:
Spoilers/Disclaimers: Battlestar Galactica 2003 is the creation
of Glen A. Larson and Ronald Moore. The characters in the story are the property
of Glen A. Larson and Ronald Moore and the filming companies that produce
(Universal and the SciFi ?). No copyright infringement intended. No profit is
gained by this work.
Diary of Commander William Adama, a month after The Destruction
“For the last forty years in most places of the twelve colonies food had been in abundance. There had been temporal shortages, unforeseen meagre harvests at times, but overall, everyone was fed – or could have been fed. Behind the scenes, there were still people who had lacked in food and clothing, those that had fallen through the net, but general social standards were higher than they had ever been before.
Water had been a different matter. Abundant on worlds like Piscia, it was always short on, say, Scorpia. Scorpians had adapted by strict rationing.
Now after The Destruction abundance is a concept that belongs to the past. Fruits, vegetables and diary products were gone fastest, normal meals followed. Everyone - women, men and children - lives off emergency rations and water rations, their consumption stretched to the limits possible. The use of water for personal hygiene had to be forbidden yesterday. It’s only a matter of time until sickness will spread. Undernourished as everyone currently is, germs will fall on rich ground.
And soon there won’t be enough rations to sustain live. Soon there‘ll be murder about the few ones left.”
Adama sighed and looked out into space, where a blue world circled an orange sun.
“But there is hope.”