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{{Ship Data | {{Ship Data | ||
| image= BotanicalInFleet.jpg | |||
| image= | |||
| race= Colonial | | race= Colonial | ||
| type= Civilian | | type= Civilian | ||
| ftl= Some models | | ftl= Some models | ||
| crew= | | crew= | ||
| role= | | role= Vacation ship, greenhouse | ||
| status= Destroyed | | status= All Destroyed [[Daybreak, Part II]] Flown into the sun | ||
| img=Y | | img=Y | ||
}} | }} | ||
'''Botanical Cruisers''' are ships with | '''Botanical Cruisers''' are ships with domes that may serve as space-borne vacation ships, or are used as greenhouses for specialty food or plant-matter production. | ||
At least two Botanical Cruisers escape the initial [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attack on the Colonies]]. | |||
=== | ==Sublight-capable ''Botanical Cruiser''== | ||
{{Ship Data | |||
| image= Bsg-botanical-cruiser-01.jpg | |||
| race= Colonial | |||
| type= Civilian | |||
| ftl= no | |||
| crew= | |||
| role= Vacation ship, greenhouse | |||
| status= presumed destroyed [[Miniseries, Night 2]] | |||
| img=Y | |||
}}Newly-inaugurated President [[Laura Roslin]] visited the sublight-capable ''Botanical Cruiser'' while gathering a caravan from surviving civilian ships surrounding the colony of [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]]. A young girl named [[Cami]] and her grandmother are on this Botanical Cruiser with many other survivors. Most of the passengers aboard were from Picon or Gemenon. | |||
However, the ship that Roslin visits lacks an [[FTL]] drive, and the light-speed-enabled part of President Roslin's caravan of refugee ships are forced to leave that Botanical Cruiser and many other [[Propulsion in the Re-imagined Series#Sublight propulsion|sublight]] ships behind when [[Raider (RDM)|Cylon Raiders]] discover the fleet of ships and is presumed destroyed by the Cylons ([[Miniseries]]). | |||
==FTL-capable ''Botanical Cruiser''== | |||
{{Ship Data | |||
| image= Botanical Cruiser HTBIM.jpg | |||
| race= Colonial | |||
| type= Civilian | |||
| ftl= yes | |||
| crew= | |||
| role= Vacation ship, greenhouse | |||
| status= Destroyed [[Daybreak, Part II]] Flown into the sun | |||
| img=Y | |||
}} | |||
An FTL-capable ''Botanical Cruiser'' exists in the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] ([[33]]). | |||
Several months following the escape from New Caprica, it is successfully escorted to the [[algae planet]] through a dangerous star cluster on the fifth and final jump, although it appears the biota did not fare so well in the presence of so much ionizing radiation | Several months following the escape from New Caprica, it is successfully escorted to the [[algae planet]] through a dangerous star cluster on the fifth and final jump, although it appears the biota did not fare so well in the presence of so much ionizing radiation ([[The Passage]]). | ||
It would survive the [[Battle of the Ionian Nebula]] and later jumped away when the [[Rebel | It would survive the [[Battle of the Ionian Nebula]] and later jumped away when the [[Rebel Basestar|Rebel baseship]] jumped in ahead of the sewage recycling freighter ''[[Demetrius]]'' ([[He That Believeth In Me]], [[Guess What's Coming to Dinner]]). | ||
The vessel would still remain with the fleet until the finding of Earth, where it, along with the other remaining vessels in the fleet would be sent into the sun | The vessel would still remain with the fleet until the finding of Earth, where it, along with the other remaining vessels in the fleet would be sent into the sun ([[Daybreak, Part II]]) | ||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
*The Botanical Cruiser was an homage to the [[Agro Ship]]s from the original '' | *The Botanical Cruiser was an homage to the [[Agro Ship]]s from the original ''[[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Battlestar Galactica]]'', which themselves were re-used models from the botanical spacecraft from the movie ''[[IMDB:Silent Running|Silent Running]]'', a Universal/MCA movie that special effects guru [[John Dykstra]] worked on a few years prior to the Original Series. | ||
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