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The algae planet is an unnamed, habitable world possessing a debris ring, and oceans and seas on its surface. It is almost surrounded by an intense, blinding and highly-radioactive star cluster.

In "The Passage", the Fleet discovers its food stores are contaminated and sends out scouts to search star systems to find a new food source before the population starves. Sharon Agathon returns from her recon of the planet and confirms that edible, protein-rich algae grows there, but that the star cluster cannot be navigated around in time before food runs out; the Fleet must navigate through it. Using the radiation-hardened Raptors as guide ships, all but a few of the civilian ships manage to cross the star cluster and reach the planet. Once there, stations are set up on the planet to harvest and process the algae to resupply the Fleet.

After two weeks later, as harvesting is wrapping up, Galen Tyrol is inexplicably drawn to a mysterious structure, the "Temple of Five", which was built by the Thirteenth Tribe approximately 4,000 years before. The Sacred Scrolls describe this as the location of the Eye of Jupiter, an artifact that points the way to the Thirteenth Tribe's destination, Earth. Shortly afterwards, a Cylon fleet appears over the planet, also seeking the Eye, resulting in the Battle of the Algae Planet (The Eye of Jupiter).

As predicted by Lieutenant Gaeta, the planet's unstable sun eventually goes nova. The Colonials evacuate the planet and both fleets jump away just as the nova's shockwave reaches and consumes the planet. The nova itself turns out to be the Eye of Jupiter, and a similar nova, which occurred around the time of the first exodus, gives the Colonials their next clue to the way to Earth (Rapture).

Notes

Algae are simple aquatic organisms. Many are actually processed on the real-world Earth for use, among other things, as nutritional additives or foods.

The algae planet parallels New Caprica as an intermediate home on the journey to Earth and appears to be a much more hospitable environment for human life. It's suitability as a permanent home, though, is rendered moot by the status of its sun, coupled with the fact that, like Kobol, it offers no protection from the Cylons.

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-[[Image:3x11 Fleet above Algae planet.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The Fleet above the Algae planet]]
+[[Image:3x11 Fleet above Algae planet.jpg|thumb|right|200px|The Fleet above the algae planet.]]
-An unnamed '''algae-bearing planet''' is the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet's]] destination after its main food stores are contaminated and its population left in a starvation state.
+[[Image:Algae planet base camp.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Colonial base camp on the surface.]]
-The planet has a debris ring, likely created from the disintegration of a small planetoid such as a moon or asteroid. The planet also appears to have seas or oceans based on its blue-green appearance. An extremely large radiation contaminated star cluster is located at least on one side of its surrounding space.
+The '''algae planet''' is an unnamed, habitable world possessing a debris ring, and oceans and seas on its surface. It is almost surrounded by an intense, blinding and highly-radioactive [[Passage (star cluster)|star cluster]].
-The planet has edible, protein-rich algae on the planet, as scouted by [[Sharon Agathon|Athena]].
+In "[[The Passage]]", the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] discovers its food stores are contaminated and sends out scouts to search star systems to find a new food source before the population starves. [[Sharon Agathon]] returns from her recon of the planet and confirms that edible, protein-rich algae grows there, but that the star cluster cannot be navigated around in time before food runs out; the Fleet must navigate through it.  Using the radiation-hardened Raptors as guide ships, all but a few of the civilian ships manage to cross the star cluster and reach the planet.  Once there, stations are set up on the planet to harvest and process the algae to resupply the Fleet.
-After the Fleet manages to bring almost all of its ships through the almost-unnavigable and deadly star cluster cloud, harvest of the algae and processing begins to resupply the Fleet ([[The Passage]]).
+After two weeks later, as harvesting is wrapping up, [[Galen Tyrol]] is inexplicably drawn to a mysterious structure, the "[[Temple of Five]]", which was built by the [[Thirteenth Tribe (RDM)|Thirteenth Tribe]] approximately 4,000 years before. The [[Sacred Scrolls]] describe this as the location of the [[Eye of Jupiter]], an artifact that points the way to the Thirteenth Tribe's destination, [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]]. Shortly afterwards, a [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]] fleet appears over the planet, also seeking the Eye, resulting in the [[Battle of the Algae Planet]] ([[The Eye of Jupiter]]).
-Two weeks later, as harvesting is wrapping up, [[Galen Tyrol]] mysteriously detects the presence of the [[Temple of Five]], built by the [[Thirteenth Tribe]] approximately 4,000 years before. The Temple is supposedly where the [[Eye of Jupiter]] is stored. The artifact is believed to point the way to the Thirteenth Tribe's destination, [[Earth]].
+As predicted by [[Felix Gaeta|Lieutenant Gaeta]], the planet's unstable sun eventually goes nova. The Colonials evacuate the planet and both fleets jump away just as the nova's shockwave reaches and consumes the planet. The nova itself turns out to be the Eye of Jupiter, and a [[Ionian system|similar nova]], which occurred around the time of the first exodus, gives the Colonials their next clue to the way to Earth ([[Rapture]]).
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-Shortly after [[Galen Tyrol|Chief Tyrol]] discovers the Temple of Five, the Cylons appear over the planet, seeking the Eye.
+== Notes ==
+*[[w:Algae|Algae]] are simple aquatic organisms. Many are actually processed on the real-world Earth for use, among other things, as nutritional additives or foods.
-A standoff ensues as [[William Adama|Admiral Adama]] threatens to bombard the planet with ''Galactica''’s remaining nuclear warheads if the Cylons attempt to explore the planet. In turn, [[Number Three]] and [[Cavil]] threaten to destroy any craft that attempts to return to ''Galactica'' from the surface.
+*The algae planet parallels [[New Caprica]] as an intermediate home on the journey to Earth and appears to be a much more hospitable environment for human life. It's suitability as a permanent home, though, is rendered moot by the status of its sun, coupled with the fact that, like [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]], it offers no protection from the Cylons.
-The planet orbits a star on the verge of going supernova. [[Felix Gaeta|Lt. Gaeta]] estimates the star could nova at any time with little warning ([[The Eye of Jupiter]]).
-==Notes==
-*[[w:Algae|Algae]] are simple aquatic organisms. Many are actually processed on the real-world Earth for use, among other things, as nutritional additives or foods. Despite Tyrol's wistful commentary, however, it is unlikely that there is a hot fudge planet.
-*This planet, located near a star cluster, is the same one that [[Gaius Baltar]] and [[Number Three]] discern as the source of an artifact in determining the identities of the last five [[Cylon agent]]s, or a clue to Earth.<ref name="podcast">{{cite rdm podcast| episode =  The Passage| act = 1 | id =algaeplanet| timestamp = 00:09:11  | totalrunning = 00:45:25 }}</ref>
-== References ==
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+== See also ==
+*[[Battle of the Algae Planet]]
+*[[Temple of Five]]
+*[[Eye of Jupiter]]
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