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{{disline|This article details how the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]] compromised [[Colonial Fleet (TRS)|Colonial Fleet]] defenses by cracking the Colonial flight operating system in the [[Re-imagined Series]].}} | {{disline|This article details how the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]] compromised [[Colonial Fleet (TRS)|Colonial Fleet]] defenses by cracking the Colonial flight operating system in the [[Re-imagined Series]].}} | ||
:''For other related computer or biological attacks, see [[Virus]].'' | |||
Installed in the central computers of [[Viper Mark VII|Vipers]] and [[Raptor]]s and in the [[Computers#Navigation computer|navigation computers]] of almost all battlestars, the CNP | Developed by computer scientist [[Gaius Baltar]], the '''Command Navigation Program''' (CNP) is an operating system<ref>The Command Navigation Program is an actual operating system (similar, after a fashion, to the Microsoft Windows, Linux and Mac OS X operating systems on today's personal computers) that works as designed. However, the work of Number Six adds the compromises that allows the Cylons to control it.</ref> utilized by the [[Colonial Fleet (TRS)|Colonial Fleet]] and some civilian spaceships in the [[The Twelve Colonies of Kobol|Twelve Colonies of Kobol]].<ref>[[Aaron Doral]] provides a requested report to [[Gaius Baltar]] in [[CIC]]: "You asked for a report on how many civilian ships had your CNP program?" {{TRS|Miniseries, Part II}}.</ref> | ||
Installed in the central computers of [[Viper Mark VII|Vipers]] and [[Raptor]]s and in the [[Computers#Navigation computer|navigation computers]] of almost all battlestars, the CNP was more than two years in the making. | |||
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[[ | [[Image:ViperMk7Avionics.jpg|left|thumb|The CNP managed the [[Computers in the Re-imagined Series#Avionics|avionics]] of [[Viper Mark VII]]s and almost all [[Mercury class battlestar|battlestars]] before the few fighters that survived were retrofitted after the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|attack]].]] | ||
Unbeknownst to Dr. Baltar, his lover and co-writer of the CNP turns out to be a version of the [[humanoid Cylon]] [[Caprica | Unbeknownst to Dr. Baltar, his lover and co-writer of the CNP turns out to be a version of the [[humanoid Cylon]] known as [[Caprica Six|Number Six]]. The Cylon infiltrator programmed backdoors into the CNP so that the Cylon attack forces could render any ships that use the operating system to shut itself down by a remote command. | ||
Battlestars and fighters begin to shut down during the Colonial defensive "as if a switch were flipped."<ref>The process is similar to how some home and business computers today can be [[w:Zombie computer|taken over secretly and remotely]] for use in nefarious purposes on the Internet, such as [[w:E-mail spam|email spamming]].</ref> Communications officer [[Anastasia Dualla]] describes reports of "system failures" throughout the Fleet and how at least one battlestar loses power when the attack begins {{TRS|Miniseries, Night 1}}. When the Cylon fleet jumps in during the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies | Battlestars and fighters begin to shut down during the Colonial defensive "as if a switch were flipped."<ref>The process is similar to how some home and business computers today can be [[w:Zombie computer|taken over secretly and remotely]] for use in nefarious purposes on the Internet, such as [[w:E-mail spam|email spamming]].</ref> Communications officer [[Anastasia Dualla]] describes reports of "system failures" throughout the Fleet and how at least one battlestar loses power when the attack begins {{TRS|Miniseries, Night 1}}. When the Cylon fleet jumps in during the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies], they use the CNP to take down an entire battlegroup over Caprica as well as the defense mainframe, leaving ships drifting out of control and easy targets {{TRS|The Plan}}. | ||
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