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The Cylons have a series of spacecraft with specific roles and tactical needs. | |||
==Raider== | |||
:''Main article: [[Cylon Raider (RDM)]]'' | |||
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The [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Raider]] is an autonomous attack fighter with a metallic carapace and a largely organic interior; it is the successor to the [[Galactica Museum|Piloted Raider]] dating from the [[Cylon War]]. | |||
[[Sharon Valerii]] describes the Raider's nature to [[Galen Tyrol]] as she examines the exterior of a captured Raider, unaware that she is, in fact, a sleeper [[Cylon agent]] with innate knowledge of the Raider ([[Six Degrees of Separation]]): | |||
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<blockquote>"It's not really a ''thing'', y'know? It's probably a Cylon itself. More of an animal, maybe, than the human models. Maybe they genetically design it to perform a task. To be a ''fighter''. [You] can't treat it like a ''thing'' and expect it to respond. [You] have to treat it like... a pet. At least that's my guess."</blockquote> | |||
Two Raiders are captured by the Colonials. The first is found and returned to the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] by [[Kara Thrace]] ([[Act of Contrition]]) and is later lost ([[Scattered]]). A second is used by [[Daniel Novacek]] to escape the Cylons and is currently in Colonial possession ([[Hero]]). | |||
==Heavy Raider== | |||
:''Main article: [[Cylon Heavy Raider]]'' | |||
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The [[Cylon Heavy Raider|Heavy Raider]] is a troop carrier spacecraft. It contains a crew compartment with life support sufficient for human comfort and room for at least ten [[Cylon Centurion]]s ("[[The Farm]]", "[[Scattered]]"). | |||
When the [[Caprica Resistance]] plans to capture a Heavy Raider in the episode "[[The Farm]]," [[Kara Thrace]] anticipates having to "blow its brain out" before it can be commandeered. No information has been provided in an episode (as of January 5, 2006) whether a Heavy Raider has autonomous components, or whether the Caprica copy of Valerii, who commandeers a Heavy Raider for herself, Thrace and [[Karl Agathon]], performs any procedure to disable any autonomous elements in the spacecraft or "persuade" the organics of the Heavy Raider to fly. | |||
A Heavy Raider crashes into ''Galactica's'' starboard [[flight pod]] and deploys Cylon Centurions. If the Heavy Raider is autonomous, it performed its mission in concert with the Centurions at the battle ("[[Scattered]]", "[[Valley of Darkness]]"). | |||
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==Reconnaissance Drone== | |||
:''Main article: [[Cylon Reconnaissance Drone]]'' | |||
No information has been given in any episode (as of January, 2006) on whether the Reconnaissance Drone is manned, autonomous, or intelligent. | |||
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==Freighter== | |||
:''Main article: [[Cylon freighter (RDM)]]'' | |||
These cargo or troop carriers are seen briefly in "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]." | |||
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==Basestar== | |||
:''Main article: [[Cylon Basestar]]'' | |||
[[Image:Basestar.jpg|left|200px]] | |||
A basestar (also called a baseship) is the Cylon's capital warship, counterpart to the Colonial's [[battlestar]], but partly of biological design. Basestars are commanded [[basestar command|by Cylon agents in a collaborative manner]]. It contains a landing bay large enough to accompany a [[Raptor]] with life support capable of sustaining [[Cylon agent]]s. Basestars can pommel a target with missiles but do not have gun batteries, leaving them vulnerable to close-fire from a prepared battlestar. | |||
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==Resurrection Ship== | |||
:''Main article: [[Resurrection Ship]]'' | |||
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Resurrection ships are large vessels containing the full apparatus necessary for resurrecting Cylon agents once their consciousness has left a destroyed body. The ship is created to allow humanoid Cylons to be reborn in new bodies when they are out of range from the Cylon homeworld ([[Resurrection Ship, Part I]]). A second Resurrection Ship resides with a Cylon fleet that leaves [[New Caprica]] ([[Torn]]). | |||
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