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|description=Battle of the Guardian Basestar | |description=Battle of the Guardian Basestar | ||
|conflict=[[Cylon Attack|Second Cylon War]] | |conflict=[[Cylon Attack|Second Cylon War]] | ||
|date=Roughly 9 months after the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]]<ref>"[[Razor]]" incorrectly implies 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]], | |date=Roughly 9 months after the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]]<ref>"[[Razor]]" incorrectly implies 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,70-80 [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] ,approx 30 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 | ||
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The '''Battle of the Guardian Basestar''' is an engagement between the battlestar '' | The '''Battle of the Guardian Basestar''' is an engagement between the battlestar ''[[Pegasus]]'' and the [[Guardian basestar]]. | ||
== Events leading up to the battle == | == Events leading up to the battle == | ||
When a [[Raptor]] with a civilian science team goes missing, Admiral [[William Adama]] orders a [[SAR|search and rescue]] mission - | When a [[Raptor]] with a civilian science team goes missing, Admiral [[William Adama|Adama]] orders a [[SAR|search and rescue]] mission - his [[Lee Adama|son]]'s first mission as commander of ''Pegasus''. After jumping to the Raptor's last known location, a Viper patrol encounters Cylon [[Raider (RDM)#Cylon War-era Raider|fighters]] of an unknown configuration. ''Pegasus'' fights off the attack and eventually jumps out again, but a Raider is shot down in one of the [[landing bay]]s. The wreck is discovered to be a Cylon War-era Raider crewed by [[Cylon Centurion Model 0005|Centurions]] from that time, its navigational records pointing to the possible location of their home base. | ||
Remembering Cylon [[Razor Flashbacks|experimentation on humans]] during the first [[Cylon War]], | Remembering Cylon [[Razor Flashbacks|experimentation on humans]] during the first [[Cylon War]], Adama transfers his flag to ''Pegasus'', hoping to rescue the missing people and maybe learn what exactly he witnessed over forty years ago. | ||
== Confronting the Cylons == | == Confronting the Cylons == | ||
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While this is happening, a Raptor - carrying a rescue team and a nuclear weapon - jumps past the advancing Raiders and heads for the basestar. When two enemy fighters spot the Raptor, the crew fakes an engine malfunction and abandons ship with the warhead in tow. The Raiders subsequently destroy the Raptor and break off their attack, believing the crew to be dead. No longer pursued, the team continues on its way by means of thruster packs. | While this is happening, a Raptor - carrying a rescue team and a nuclear weapon - jumps past the advancing Raiders and heads for the basestar. When two enemy fighters spot the Raptor, the crew fakes an engine malfunction and abandons ship with the warhead in tow. The Raiders subsequently destroy the Raptor and break off their attack, believing the crew to be dead. No longer pursued, the team continues on its way by means of thruster packs. | ||
Upon successfully boarding the basestar, the rescue team locates the room where the science team is being held | Upon successfully boarding the basestar, the rescue team locates the room where the science team is being held. While freeing the prisoners, the rescue party is ambushed by [[Cylon Centurion Model 0005|Centurions]], and [[Dasilva]] is critically wounded. As two Centurions drag him away, Major [[Kendra Shaw|Shaw]] shoots and kills him, believing that he would have been used by the Cylons for experimentation. Shaw is subsequently shot in the abdomen by one of the Centurions. | ||
The basestar begins jamming [[wireless]] communications, and not knowing if his boarding party is still alive, Commander Adama orders a [[Missile tubes|nuclear missile]] to be fired at the ship, but Admiral Adama countermands him. As the men attempt to determine a decisive plan of action, communications are restored, and | The basestar begins jamming [[wireless]] communications, 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, but Admiral Adama countermands him. As the men attempt to determine a decisive plan of action, communications are restored, and [[Kara Thrace|Starbuck]] reveals that the warhead's remote detonator was damaged in the firefight with the Centurions. The only way to set the warhead off is to do it manually. Lee suggests evacuating the rescue team and then launching the missile, but the admiral points out that the Raiders will destroy anything they fire at the basestar - ultimately, a member of the rescue team will need to stay back and detonate the warhead. Reluctantly, Lee orders Starbuck to fulfill this role, and she complies. | ||
''Pegasus'' immediately launches a second Raptor, getting it close enough to the basestar to land within a hangar bay and to evacuate the rescue team. | ''Pegasus'' immediately launches a second Raptor, getting it close enough to the basestar to land within a hangar bay and to evacuate the rescue team. Starbuck is ready to stay behind when Shaw orders her to leave at gunpoint, intending to detonate the warhead instead. The two argue, but Starbuck eventually concedes, boards the Raptor, and returns to ''Pegasus'' with the others. | ||
With blood streaming from her open wound, a delirious Shaw descends deeper into the basestar, eventually coming across the [[First Hybrid|Hybrid]]'s chamber. The Hybrid knows she wants redemption for her [[Scylla|past actions]] and tells her to come closer, as he has something he needs to tell her. He explains to her that | With blood streaming from her open wound, a delirious Shaw descends deeper into the basestar, eventually coming across the [[First Hybrid|Hybrid]]'s chamber. The Hybrid knows she wants redemption for her [[Scylla|past actions]] and tells her to come closer, as he has something he needs to tell her. He explains to her that Starbuck will [[The Destiny#The Warning from the First Hybrid|lead mankind to its end]], and that they must not follow her. Shaw attempts to contact ''Pegasus'' and warn them, but can't deliver the entire message due to Cylon jamming. As Shaw prepares to destroy the ship, the Hybrid calmly adresses 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 Centurion crew ([[Razor]]). | ||
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