Editing Battlestar Galactica: Cylon Apocalypse 4

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| image =BSGCylonApoc4GoldenCover.jpg
| title=Issue 4
| series=Dynamite
| issueno=4
| episode=
| writer=[[Javier Grillo-Marxuach]]
| penciller=[[Carlos Rafael]]
| inker=
| colorist=[[Carlos Lopez]]
| letterer=
| editor=
| cover=[[Michael Golden]], [[Pat Lee]], [[Carlos Rafael]], [[Stephen Sadowski]]
| published=May, 2007
| collects=Virgin Michael Golden Cover
| collected=[[Battlestar Galactica: Cylon Apocalypse (Trade Paperback)|Trade Paperback]]
| reprints=
| reprinted=
| isbn=
| tfaw=457271066
| prev=[[Battlestar Galactica: Cylon Apocalypse 3]]
| next=(''End of limited series'')
}}

: ''{{alt|Starbuck|TOS}} races to flee the doomed {{TOS|Cylons|Cylon}} homeworld as {{alt|Adama|TOS}} and  ''{{alt|Galactica|TOS}}'' fight off a last-ditch Cylon counterattack.''

==Summary==
*With over fifteen percent of the {{TOS|Cylons|Cylon}} population on [[Tessida]] overcome by the weaponized [[nano-cybrid]], ''{{TOS|Galactica}}'' leaves orbit, to [[Apollo (TOS)|Apollo's]] objection, as {{TOS|Starbuck}} is missing on the planet.
*Starbuck safely ejects from his {{TOS|Viper|Viper}}, but his emergency transponder does not operate. He finds himself in the Cylon mainframe building when {{TOS|Centurion|Centurions}} try to enter the room. Starbuck uses his grappling device to escape.
*As Apollo eulogizes Starbuck in the officer's quarters, a red-alert klaxon sounds throughout the ship. Adama briefs his son: A Cylon fleet of four {{TOS|basestar|basestars}} is approaching, and will arrive in 24 [[centar]]s. {{TOS|Tigh|Colonel Tigh}} warns that, even with the nano-cybrid weapons they have left, they aren't up to the battle.
*When Apollo suggests getting the {{TOS|The Fleet|Fleet}} through the [[Canopus wormhole]] to escape, Adama agrees, but wants to close the wormhole behind them with a gravitic warhead to avoid pursuit, indicating that, if the mysterious message they received through the wormhole was from the {{TOS|Thirteenth Tribe|Thirteenth Tribe}}, Adama does not want to greet  his lost brothers with a Cylon fleet on their doorstep.
*As Starbuck flees through the city, he encounters many infected Cylons that attack him. Improvising with blaster and acquired Cylon sword, the [[Colonial Warrior]] hacks and blasts his way to find a Cylon communications array.
*Viceroy [[Abbadon]] receives a message from [[Imperious Leader]] [[Barkol]], but orders the transmission ignored. He, too, knows of the Cylon fleet's imminent arrival, and realizes they aren't coming to defend Tessida, but to destroy it and the nano-cybrid. When a [[Command Centurion]] questions Abbadon's motives, the [[IL-series]] Cylon explains himself, then orders an escort to the mainframe's fusion core, where the infection is apparently in check until the seals of the chamber are opened.
*Starbuck manages to boost his transponder to get an automated distress signal to the Fleet. His blaster pack charge is running low.
*As infected Cylons attack him, one careens into the communications dish, destroying it and cutting off his transponder's message.
*At the fusion core, Abbadon initiates a self-destruct sequence that, when it detonates, will destroy the entire planet.
*Just as Starbuck is overwhelmed by Cylons, Apollo, {{TOS|Jolly}} and {{TOS|Athena}} emerge from a [[Colonial shuttle]] and rescue the stranded Starbuck.
*{{TOS|Boomer}}, piloting the shuttle, realizes that the power grid on the planet is dangerous unstable, as if it was about to blow. Apollo orders him to launch and return to ''Galactica''.
*Starbuck awakens to find the face of [[Cassiopeia]] over him on the shuttle. Starbuck's courage to ask Cassie to marry rises and wanes again.
*''Galactica'' and her Fleet escape to fight and survive another day, with Adama carefully considering the ramifications of unleashing the destruction on the Cylons with that of saving a sizeable part of humanity.

==Analysis==

==Questions==


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== Alternate covers ==

<gallery mode="slideshow">
Image:BSGCylonApoc4GoldenCover.jpg|[[Michael Golden]] cover.
Image:BSGCylonApoc4GoldenVirgCover.jpg|Michael Golden virgin cover.
Image:BSGCylonApoc4RafaelCover.jpg|[[Carlos Rafael]] cover.
Image:BSGCylonApoc4SadowskiCover.jpg|[[Stephen Sadowski]] cover.
Image:BSGCylonApoc4SadowskiCoverTemp.jpg|Sadowski preliminary cover.
</gallery>

== External links ==

* [http://www.dynamiteentertainment.com/htmlfiles/p-C107137.html ''Battlestar Galactica: Cylon Apocalypse 4'' - Regular Edition]

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