Flattop

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This page is about the ship Flattop. For information about the pilot with the callsign "Flat Top", see Dwight Saunders.

Flattop
Race	Colonial
Type	Civilian
FTL	Yes
Propulsion	sublight engines
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Role	Salvage and Repair
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Status	Destroyed, Cylon Holocaust, 0 BCH Surviving ships scuttled, circa 4 ACH
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A flattop is a type of salvage and repair ship in the Fleet, acting as a mobile spacedock. A Flattop-type ship is among the first vessels to join the Fleet (Miniseries). Later a flattop-type is among the ships with Galactica when New Caprica falls (Precipice).

There are at least two flattop-type ships in the Fleet: the Carina (lost during the passage through a star cluster) and the Virgon Express.

Notes

• "Flat top" is a slang term for an aircraft carrier (it is also a hairstyle).
• In the separate continuity of the Dynamite comics series, ships of the same design were used by the Caprican Expeditionary Fleet during the Third Colonial Conflict.
• The Flattop design in the Re-imagined Series is based on an Original Series ship design.