Heavy Raider
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- This article is about the Re-imagined Series heavy raider. For other versions, see Cylon Raider.
| Heavy Raider | |||
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| Race: | Cylon | ||
| Type: | Military | ||
| FTL: | Yes | ||
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| Crew: | Holds approximately 10 Centurions | ||
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| Role: | Troop transport | ||
| Weapons: | A 6-barrel Kinetic Energy Weapon and at least one missile launcher | ||
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| Emblem: | [[Image:{{{patch}}}|175px|Ship's patch]] | ||
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Overview[edit]
A Heavy Raider is a Cylon duel purpose attack and transport spacecraft, nicknamed "turkey" by the Fleet's military units (Maelstrom).
The main armament of the Heavy Raider seems to consist of a barbette of six cannons mounted under the cockpit area of the vehicle (as seen here). These cannons are capable of an extremely high rate of fire (Scattered). The Raiders are also capable of launching missiles.
Not much is yet known about this craft. The Heavy Raider is likely autonomous, as evidenced by the Raider-style head/canopy. While Centurions have been seen exiting Heavy Raiders, there is no proof that they piloted it.
The first Heavy Raider is seen as part of a Cylon search party looking for Helo and Sharon Valerii on Cylon-occupied Caprica (Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down). Further sightings in Season 1 are in "Colonial Day" with one craft landing near Helo and Sharon, and in space over Caprica in "Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II".
Significant appearances[edit]
A Heavy Raider with a boarding party of five Centurions crash-lands into Galactica's unused starboard flight pod (Scattered).
After shooting down a Colonial scouting party over Kobol, a force of five Centurions lands near the crash site of Raptor 1 in a Heavy Raider. They proceed to dismantle its missile launcher and DRADIS assembly in an attempt to build a surface-to-air missile battery, intending to shoot down any search and rescue parties that Galactica sends to find the survivors (Fragged).
The Heavy Raider is conclusively proven to be a troop transport in "The Farm" when Sharon Valerii commandeers one and uses it to evacuate the Caprica Resistance after they rescue Starbuck from a Cylon hybrid "farm." That captured Heavy Raider is eventually used to jump to Kobol where Starbuck, Helo and Sharon finally hook up with the rest of the Fleet.
The Cylon attack fleet in "Flight of the Phoenix" includes a large amount of Heavy Raiders, which could indicate a planned boarding operation.
Months later, Felix Gaeta reveals that with Sharon Agathon's cooperation they are able to interface the navigational system of a captured Heavy Raider with a Raptor's FTL drive, making it capable of farther and more accurate jumps than before (beyond Colonial FTL's Red Line limit) with significantly faster calculations (as previously determined from a captured Cylon Raider). A search and rescue sortie is able to return to Caprica in less than ten jumps and successfully evacuate the Caprica resistance (Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I).
Notes[edit]
- According to Eric Chu, Richard Livingston designed the Heavy Raider. [1]
Related Imagery[edit]
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Heavy Raider over Kobol (Home, Part I)
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Heavy Raider Aft (Scattered).
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Deployed from a baseship (Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II).
References[edit]
- ↑ Mediablvd forum post (backup available on Archive.org) (in ).