Basestar (TOS)
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This article is about the Original Series basestar. For the Re-imagined Series version, see Basestar (RDM).
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| Race: | Cylon | ||
| Type: | Military | ||
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| Crew: | Centurion troops | ||
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| CO: | Imperious Leader, Lord Baltar or other commander, usually a Command Centurion or an IL-series Droid. | ||
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| Role: | Carrier / battleship hybrid | ||
| Weapons: | Laser turrets, missiles, pulsar cannons, Raiders | ||
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A basestar is a large capital warship of the Cylon Alliance.
Basestars are immense vehicles that, like their Colonial counterparts, the battlestars, serve as a combination of aircraft carrier and capital warship.
Armed with missiles, over one hundred defensive laser turrets, and two long-range mega pulsar weapons, the capital warship of the Cylon Alliance is more than a match for any unprepared or unaware battlestar (TOS: "The Living Legend, Part II", "The Hand of God").
Basestars are also designed for orbital bombardment of a planet, and, true to their name, also serve as a moving base of operations. Four complete squadrons of Raiders comprise a typical basestar's complement, totaling 300 Raiders (TOS: "The Living Legend, Part II", "The Hand of God").
Basestars also possess life-support equipment that supports human life with the proper heat and atmospheric tolerances (TOS: "Saga of a Star World", "The Hand of God").
Destruction of the Colonies
editBasestars and their fighters are the key in the Cylons' genocidal destruction of the Twelve Colonies and the battlestar fleet. To fool the Colonials, the Cylons split up their fleet into two destructive units: a massive Raider fleet is sent to the Cimtar Peace Accord rendezvous, while the basestars are deployed separately to attack the Twelve Colonies. Apollo encounters a Cylon Tanker near a gas cloud, which had been used (in lieu of the elsewhere basestars) to extend fuel reserves to enable the Raiders to reach Cimtar. Apollo finds the Raiders soon after discovering the tanker and unsuccessfully tries to warn the battlestar fleet in time.
Only the battlestar Galactica is initially known to survive the holocaust and gathers an odd assortment of civilian spacecraft with the remnants of Humanity, leaving the dead Colonies behind in search of the lost 13th Colony, Earth.
Following the flight from the death trap at Carillon, the succeeding Imperious Leader sends a basestar under Baltar's command to seek out the Fleet. Baltar's basestar is able to follow the Fleet, yet stay outside Galactica's scanning range (TOS: "Lost Planet of the Gods, Part I"), suggesting that basestar scanners have a longer range than their Colonial counterparts.
General Layout
editThe basestars are interconnected with a main vertical passage way known as the core, the bottom to which contains the command center. Connecting the bottom of the core to the command center is a corridor lined with computer banks, which are tied into the basestar's scanners (TOS: "The Hand of God").
Aside from the command center, a larger chamber is set aside for the Imperious Leader to establish its presence, featuring a chair atop a tall column and a large audience area, from which its subjects present various updates and persons of interest (TOS: "Saga of a Star World"). It has a single main entrance, itself connected to a corridor lined with computer banks. For a time, Baltar made use of this room on his basestar for his own purposes, but later establishes himself in a command center (TOS: "Lost Planet of the Gods, Part I", "The Young Lords").
As Cylons administrate a considerable empire of various subjugated species, basestars feature a section to house guests, where Starbuck is remanded his capture and "made comfortable" (TOS: "Lost Planet of the Gods, Part II"). Baltar himself was formerly remanded to a brig following the Battle of Cimtar to await public execution before being spared following the Battle of Carillon (TOS: "Saga of a Star World", "Lost Planet of the Gods, Part I").
It is further implied that basestars have some form of life sciences care facility aboard, as Baltar is tended to following his rescue from Kobol (TOS: "The Gun on Ice Planet Zero, Part I").
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editNotes
edit- This basestar class existed in the Re-imagined Series continuity, if only in appearance, and likely with a different command and crew structure. A model of an Original Series basestar is displayed in Galactica's new museum in the Miniseries, as well as appearing in flashbacks in Razor. However, because the new series does not use the same weapons as the Original Series, it is not really the same ship, as the the basestars in the Re-imagined Series rely on missiles for defensive and offensive engagements.
- According to Encyclopedia Galactica, a non-canonical piece of merchandise published in 1979:
- The basestar is modeled after the Colonial battlestar, however they are not highly maneuverable and thus rely on their shields and Raiders for defense. The shields themselves are incapable of withstanding repeated strikes from laser torpedoes, which can be delivered by a squadron Vipers, should they break through the Raider's defense.[1] Furthermore, the ship is armed with turbo-lasers and nutron cased laser torpedoes for space warfare and wide-angle space-to-ground laser generators for planetary bombardment.[2]
- The core of a baseship is said to be "specifically sealed and shielded"[1], as it is the location from which IL series Cylons, in addition to the Imperious Leader, command from. The core can be jettisoned from the ship in case of severe hull damage and can travel up to ten light-yahren.
- A third of the basestars are dedicated to the repair and maintenance of Centurions, but are not constructed aboard ship unless circumstances require it. The section is also dedicated to recycling parts from Cylons who are irreparably damaged; such parts are melted down and forged into all new parts.
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editReferences
edit- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kraus, Bruce (1979). Encyclopedia Galactica, p. 17.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Kraus, Bruce (1979). Encyclopedia Galactica, p. 19.