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Battle before: Battle of Ragnar Anchorage
Battle after: Battle for the Tylium Asteroid

Starbuck leads Vipers near the red moon and its gas giant primary

Skirmish over the Red Moon

Conflict

Second Cylon war

Date

Day 14

Place

An unnamed red moon

Result

Marginal Colonial victory

Combatants
Remnants of the Colonial Fleet	Cylons
Commanders
Lieutenant Kara "Starbuck" Thrace	Unknown †
Strength
2 Vipers	8 Raiders
Casualties
1 Viper destroyed, 1 damaged	7 Raiders destroyed, 1 captured

A skirmish that occurs when a scouting group of 8 Cylon Raiders surprises a group of nugget Viper pilots under instruction by Lt. Kara "Starbuck" Thrace in the orbit of an unnamed Red Moon orbiting a gas giant. It was the first time the Cylons are able to find battlestar Galactica after it's escape in the Battle of Ragnar Anchorage (and subsequent chase in "33").

Starbuck orders the trainees to return to Galactica while she engages all eight Raiders at once. However, Cadet Hot Dog disobeys and follows her to cover her wing. This succeeds in dividing the Raiders enough between the two Vipers that Starbuck has a chance to shoot them down. Hot Dog succeeds in destroying one Raider (his first kill in a Viper) before suffering damage from incoming fire, pulling back from the engagement. By this point Starbuck destroys all but one Raider, and the two fighters make a final run at each other.

Both the Raider and Starbuck's Viper exchange fire and are critically damaged. Both fighters tumble out of control and descend into the Red Moon's gravity well. The Raider softly crash-lands onto the moon, but Starbuck ejects from her Viper after she could not break it out of its flat spin towards the moon's surface. Galactica recovers Hot Dog and his Viper.

Starbuck lands by parachute on the moon, severely injuring her knee after being dragged by her parachute toward boulders on the moon's surface. She wanders on the moon until she finds the crashed Cylon Raider, braindead from its wounds but otherwise intact. Starbuck is able to find a way inside, and discovers for the first time the bio-mechanical nature of the new generation of Raiders.

Inside, Starbuck finds oxygen to stay alive after she exhausts her flight suit's life support, and determines how to control the Raider by manipulating its internal organic actuators. Starbuck's strong flight instructor skills and test-pilot savvy allows her to determine the basic mechanics of new spacecraft quickly.

Starbuck seals up the damage that the Raider received after Starbuck's Viper shot it by using a portion of her flight suit to repressurize the interior of the fighter. Starbuck flies the Raider off the moon and returns to Galactica once Apollo successfully identifies her as the pilot of what would normally be an enemy target.

This is the first time Colonial forces are able to capture and examine the new Cylon Raider version. Chief Galen Tyrol and his deck crew spend the next several weeks analyzing the fighter and eventually returns it to flight status with significant internal modifications for effective human control ("Act of Contrition", "You Can't Go Home Again", "Six Degrees of Separation", and "Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II").

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-A skirmish that occured when a scouting group of 8 Cylon [[Raider]]s surprised a group of [[nugget]] [[Viper]] pilots being instructed by Lt. Kara "Starbuck" Thrace in the orbit an unnamed Red Moon orbiting a gas giant.  It was the first time the Cylons were able to find [[Battlestar]] ''[[Galactica]]'' again after it's escape in the Battle of Ragnar Anchorage (and subsequent chase in "[[33]]").  Starbuck ordered the trainees to leave while she took on all eight at once, but Cadet [[Hot Dog]] disobeyed and followed her to cover her wing.  This succeeded in dividing the Raiders enough between them that Starbuck now had a chance to take them down.  Hot Dog succeeded in destroying one Raider (his first kill in a Viper) before suffering damage from incoming fire and having to pull back from the engagement.  By this point all but one Raider had been destroyed, and Starbuck and it made a run at each other.
+A skirmish that occurs when a scouting group of 8 Cylon [[Raider]]s surprises a group of [[nugget]] [[Viper]] pilots under instruction by Lt. Kara "Starbuck" Thrace in the orbit of an unnamed Red Moon orbiting a gas giant.  It was the first time the Cylons are able to find [[Original battlestar (RDM)|battlestar]] ''[[Galactica]]'' after it's escape in the Battle of Ragnar Anchorage (and subsequent chase in "[[33]]").
-Both the Raider and Starbuck's Viper were critically damaged as a result; the Raider was shot in it's bio-mechanical brain and Kara's Viper was bady damaged.  Both spiraled out of control descending through the Red Moon's orbit and crashed onto the moon, though Starbuck was able to eject from her Viper first.
+Starbuck orders the trainees to return to ''Galactica'' while she engages all eight Raiders at once. However, Cadet [[Hot Dog]] disobeys and follows her to cover her wing.  This succeeds in dividing the Raiders enough between the two Vipers that Starbuck has a chance to shoot them down.  Hot Dog succeeds in destroying one Raider (his first kill in a Viper) before suffering damage from incoming fire, pulling back from the engagement.  By this point Starbuck destroys all but one Raider, and the two fighters make a final run at each other.
-Hot Dog and his Viper were soon after recovered by repair crews from ''Galactica'' (his damaged Viper was later repaired).
+Both the Raider and Starbuck's Viper exchange fire and are critically damaged.  Both fighters tumble out of control and descend into the Red Moon's gravity well. The Raider softly crash-lands onto the moon, but Starbuck ejects from her Viper after she could not break it out of its [[Wikipedia:Spin (flight)|flat spin]] towards the moon's surface. ''Galactica'' recovers Hot Dog and his Viper.
-Meanwhile, Starbuck's Viper was a total loss.  After ejecting she wandered on the moon until she found the crashed Cylon Raider, braindead from its wounds.  Starbuck was then able to find a way inside, and discovered for the first time the bio-mechanical nature of the new generation of Raiders.  Inside, Starbuck had enough oxygen to stay alive, and began figuring out how to control the Raider by manipulating its internal organic actuators (aided by the fact that Starbuck used to be a flight instructor and could determine the basic mechanics of flying a craft fairly well).  Starbuck sealed up the hole the Raider received when she shot it by using her emergency kit, then flew it off of the moon, and returned to ''Galactica''.
+Starbuck lands by parachute on the moon, severely injuring her knee after being dragged by her parachute toward boulders on the moon's surface. She wanders on the moon until she finds the crashed Cylon Raider, braindead from its wounds but otherwise intact.  Starbuck is able to find a way inside, and discovers for the first time the bio-mechanical nature of the new generation of Raiders.
-This was the first time that Colonial forces were able to capture and examine a Cylon Raider.  Chief [[Tyrol]] and his deck crew spent the next several weeks analyzing it, eventually returning it to flight status.  ("[[Act of Contrition]]"), ("[[You Can't Go Home Again]]"), ("[[Six Degrees of Separation]]"), ("[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]").
+Inside, Starbuck finds oxygen to stay alive after she exhausts her flight suit's life support, and determines how to control the Raider by manipulating its internal organic actuators. Starbuck's strong flight instructor skills and [[Flight of the Phoenix|test-pilot savvy]] allows her to determine the basic mechanics of new spacecraft quickly.
+Starbuck seals up the damage that the Raider received after Starbuck's Viper shot it by using a portion of her [[flight suit]] to repressurize the interior of the fighter. Starbuck flies the Raider off the moon and returns to ''Galactica'' once [[Lee Adama|Apollo]] successfully identifies her as the pilot of what would normally be an enemy target.
+This is the first time Colonial forces are able to capture and examine the new Cylon Raider version.  Chief [[Galen Tyrol]] and his deck crew spend the next several weeks analyzing the fighter and eventually returns it to flight status with significant internal modifications for effective human control  ("[[Act of Contrition]]", "[[You Can't Go Home Again]]", "[[Six Degrees of Separation]]", and "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]").
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