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|image=GuardianBasestarBattle.jpg | |image=GuardianBasestarBattle.jpg | ||
|description=Battle of the Guardian | |description=Battle of the Guardian basestar | ||
|conflict=[[Cylon Attack|Second Cylon | |conflict=[[Cylon Attack|Second Cylon war]] | ||
|date=Roughly 9 months after the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]]<ref>"[[Razor]]" incorrectly | |date=Roughly 9 months after the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]]<ref>"[[Razor]]" incorrectly infers this event to occur 10 months after. [[Tom Zarek]] talks about people being cooped up in ships for ''nine'' months at the beginning of "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I]]", which is after "Razor" in the [[Timeline - Season 3 (RDM)|timeline]].</ref> | ||
|place=In [[FTL|jump]] distance of a supernova event | |place=In [[FTL|jump]] distance of a supernova event | ||
|result=Colonial victory | |result=Colonial victory | ||
|combatant1=[[ | |combatant1=Battlestar ''[[Pegasus]]'' | ||
|combatant2=[[Guardians | |combatant2=[[Guardians]] | ||
|co1=Commander | |co1=Commander [[Lee Adama]]<ref>While Admiral [[William Adama]] transfers his flag to ''Pegasus'' for the operation, Lee Adama still has overall command.</ref> | ||
|co2=[[First Hybrid]] | |co2=[[First Hybrid]] | ||
|strength1=battlestar | |strength1=1 battlestar, [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] squadrons, Raptor, and strike team | ||
|strength2=[[Guardian basestar]]<br/>Unspecified number of Cylon War-era [[Raider (RDM)|Raider]]s<br/>[[Cylon Centurion Model 0005|Centurions]] | |strength2=[[Guardian basestar]]<br/>Unspecified number of Cylon War-era [[Raider (RDM)|Raider]]s<br/>[[Cylon Centurion Model 0005|Centurions]] | ||
|shiploss1= 1 Raptor | |shiploss1= 1 Raptor | ||
|shiploss2= Various Raider losses. Guardian basestar destroyed. | |shiploss2=Various Raider losses. Guardian basestar destroyed. | ||
|casualties1=[[Dasilva]] and [[Kendra Shaw]] | |casualties1=[[Dasilva]] and [[Kendra Shaw]] | ||
|casualties2=Various Centurions<br/>First Hybrid | |casualties2=Various Centurions<br/>First Hybrid | ||
|prev=[[Battle of the Binary Star System]] | |prev=[[Battle of the Binary Star System]] | ||
|next=[[ | |next=[[Battle of New Caprica]] | ||
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The '''Battle of the Guardian | The '''Battle of the Guardian basestar''' is an engagement between the battlestar ''[[Pegasus]]'' and the [[Guardian basestar]], in which the main goal is to rescue a captured civilian science team. | ||
''Pegasus'' jumps into the area of the basestar's location and launches an attack that draws off its Raiders. Additionally, ''Pegasus'' shuts down its [[FTL]] drive and simulates engine damage, ensuring a concentrated attack by the Raiders that leaves the basestar's immediate perimeter unguarded. A [[Raptor]] then jumps in behind the advancing Raiders, with a rescue team and a nuclear weapon to destroy the basestar. However, two nearby Raiders spot them and the crew fakes an engine malfunction and abandons ship. The Raiders destroy the Raptor and break off believing the crew to be dead. The team continues on its way by means thruster packs. Meanwhile ''Pegasus'' successfully fights off the Raiders, albeit taking some damage. | |||
Upon successfully boarding the basestar, the rescue team locates the room where the captured science team is held. In the process of freeing them, the rescue party is ambushed by [[Cylon Centurion Model 0005|Centurions]], and [[Dasilva]] is critically wounded. As Centurions drag him away, Major [[Kendra Shaw|Shaw]] shoots and kills him, thinking it will spare him inevitable suffering. Shaw is subsequently shot in the abdomen by an attacking Centurion. | |||
The basestar jams [[wireless]] communication, and not knowing if his boarding party is still alive, Commander [[Lee Adama]] orders a [[Missile tubes|nuclear missile]] to be fired at the ship. [[William Adama|Admiral Adama]] countermands the order and while the two are trying to figure out what to do, communications are restored and [[Kara Thrace|Starbuck]] reveals that the warhead's remote detonator is damaged. The only way to set it off is to do it manually. Lee Adama thinks of evacuating the team and then launching the missile, but his father points out that the Raiders will probably destroy anything they shoot at the basestar. He realizes that the someone will need to stay behind and detonate the nuke. Reluctantly, he orders Starbuck to fulfill this role and she complies. | |||
''Pegasus'' launches a rescue Raptor which jumps close enough to the basestar to land in its hangar bay. The team prepares to evacuate with Starbuck staying back, but Shaw forces her to leave at gunpoint, intending to remain in her place. The Raptor heads back to ''Pegasus'' as Shaw makes her way through the ship and comes across the Hybrid's chamber. The [[First Hybrid|Hybrid]] knows she wants redemption for her past actions and tells her to come closer as he has something he needs to tell her. He tells her that Starbuck will lead mankind to its end and they must not follow her. Shaw attempts to contact ''Pegasus'' and warn them, but can't deliver the entire message due to the Cylon jamming. As Shaw prepares to detonate the nuke, the Hybrid calmly states that "all this has happened before, and will happen again" repeating "again...again" over and over. Shaw detonates the nuke destroying the Guardian basestar along with herself, the Hybrid and the entire crew of Centurions ([[Razor]]). | |||
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