Pre-Blood & Chrome:
Battle of Caprica |
Fall of Djerba |
Operation Clean Sweep
Blood & Chrome: Battle of Sector 12 |
Battle of Djerba |
Ghost Fleet Offensive
Final Day:
Operation Raptor Talon |
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Fall of the Scorpion Fleet Shipyards | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Conflict: | Second Cylon war | ||||||||||||||||||||
Date: | Zero Hour, concurrent with Fall of the Twelve Colonies | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Place: | Scorpion Fleet Shipyards | ||||||||||||||||||||
Result: | Decisive Cylon victory | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Sometime during the Fall of the Twelve Colonies the Cylons attack the Scorpion Fleet Shipyards. They launch several nuclear weapons and utilize numerous Raider squadrons in the attack. Five Colonial Fleet ships, including two battlestars, are destroyed at the onset of the struggle.
Pegasus is dry docked at the shipyards when the attack occurs, having been scheduled to undergo a three month systems overhaul. With all of its computer networks taken off-line in preparation for the refit, the battlestar is largely unaffected by Cylon infiltration of the Command Navigation Program; only the defense grid and navigational computer are compromised.
Pegasus is struck by multiple Cylon batteries during the attack. The damage is severe enough to initiate an explosion of fuel and ordnance on the hangar decks, causing over 700 casualties.
With no defensive options, and destruction imminent, Admiral Cain orders the CIC crew to activate the FTL system and engage in a blind jump: "Wherever. Anywhere. Just jump", Cain recalls to Commander Adama and President Laura Roslin in a conversation shortly after Galactica encounters her battlestar months later. The blind jump is successful in that Pegasus escapes both the Cylon attack and the chance of collision with a celestial body. Additionally, Pegasus's escape is aided by an electro-magnetic pulse that blinds the Cylon DRADIS and makes them oblivious to the battlestar's survival.
According to ("Pegasus") Cain attempted to retrieves as many civilian and military staff from the shipyard as possible. However, in ("Razor"), Cain was away from CIC when the Pegasus was first struck and her first order when she returned was to get the ship underway.