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Partially due to traditions started during the [[First Cylon War]], and partially to his own experience in the Cylon War, Commander [[William Adama]] maintains the order that no computers on ''Galactica'' may be networked at any time. This order surely saves ''Galactica'' and her crew when the [[Cylon Attack]] occurs. Although ''Galactica'' receives the tainted [[Command Navigation Program]] from [[Fleet Headquarters]] as did other Colonial units, ''Galactica'' cannot use it as the CNP requires a computer network; in fact, the CNP is never loaded into a computer at all<ref name="mini4">[[Felix Gaeta|Gaeta]]: "Well, you can see we do have [[Gaius Baltar|your]] [[CNP]] navigation program here on ''Galactica'', but it's never been loaded into primary memory or even test run." {{TRS|Miniseries}}</ref>. While Cylon electronic attacks disable entire Viper squadrons and damage or cripple battlestars during the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]], ''Galactica'' remains up and running. However, since her munitions are previously destroyed as part of her expected decommissioning, the battlestar is initially defenseless in the opening wave of the attack, calling on her Navigation computer to perform evasive manueuvers in the first attack {{TRS|Miniseries}}. | Partially due to traditions started during the [[First Cylon War]], and partially to his own experience in the Cylon War, Commander [[William Adama]] maintains the order that no computers on ''Galactica'' may be networked at any time. This order surely saves ''Galactica'' and her crew when the [[Cylon Attack]] occurs. Although ''Galactica'' receives the tainted [[Command Navigation Program]] from [[Fleet Headquarters]] as did other Colonial units, ''Galactica'' cannot use it as the CNP requires a computer network; in fact, the CNP is never loaded into a computer at all<ref name="mini4">[[Felix Gaeta|Gaeta]]: "Well, you can see we do have [[Gaius Baltar|your]] [[CNP]] navigation program here on ''Galactica'', but it's never been loaded into primary memory or even test run." {{TRS|Miniseries}}</ref>. While Cylon electronic attacks disable entire Viper squadrons and damage or cripple battlestars during the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]], ''Galactica'' remains up and running. However, since her munitions are previously destroyed as part of her expected decommissioning, the battlestar is initially defenseless in the opening wave of the attack, calling on her Navigation computer to perform evasive manueuvers in the first attack {{TRS|Miniseries}}. | ||
The evasive actions are not successful. ''Galactica'' suffers a kiloton nuclear missile strike on her forward port [[flight pod]]. The Damage Control computer determines the extent of fires and other damage, but luckily reports that very little radiation seeps through, thanks to ''Galactica''{{'|s}} thick outer hull<ref name="mini2">[[William Adama]]: "Radiation levels within norms | The evasive actions are not successful. ''Galactica'' suffers a kiloton nuclear missile strike on her forward port [[flight pod]]. The Damage Control computer determines the extent of fires and other damage, but luckily reports that very little radiation seeps through, thanks to ''Galactica''{{'|s}} thick outer hull<ref name="mini2">[[William Adama]]: "Radiation levels within norms -- the hull plating kept out most of the hard stuff." {{TRS|Miniseries}}</ref>. The Damage Control computer likely provides damage information to damage control crews in coordination or by instruction of [[CIC]] as many crewmembers don fire gear to battle the blazes. However, the blazes were too intense, worsened by damage to water mains normally used for damage control. The fires threaten to ignite the ship's fuel lines. Colonel [[Saul Tigh]] activates vents throughout the port flight pod from the CIC's damage control console, releasing its atmosphere into space to extinguish the fires. Sadly, this action also causes the deaths of 85 unprepared crewmembers. | ||
With no munitions, ''Galactica''{{'|s}} Tactical Officer plots a jump through the FTL computer to [[Ragnar Anchorage]], a Colonial munitions dump situated just inside the upper atmosphere of a large gas giant. Despite the ship not performing a Jump of any significance in 20 years<ref name="jump">[[Saul Tigh|Colonel Tigh]] tries to discourage Adama from a jump, stating that ''Galactica'' had not made a jump in over 20 years {{TRS|Miniseries}}.</ref>, the jump is successful, and ''Galactica'' offloads a large cache of ordnance from the station. | With no munitions, ''Galactica''{{'|s}} Tactical Officer plots a jump through the FTL computer to [[Ragnar Anchorage]], a Colonial munitions dump situated just inside the upper atmosphere of a large gas giant. Despite the ship not performing a Jump of any significance in 20 years<ref name="jump">[[Saul Tigh|Colonel Tigh]] tries to discourage Adama from a jump, stating that ''Galactica'' had not made a jump in over 20 years {{TRS|Miniseries}}.</ref>, the jump is successful, and ''Galactica'' offloads a large cache of ordnance from the station. | ||