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[[ | [[Image:ead.jpg|thumb|External view of an Eastern Alliance destroyer.]] | ||
The '''Eastern Alliance destroyer''' is a spacecraft used by the [[Eastern Alliance]] of [[Terra]]. An Eastern Alliance destroyer tracks the ''[[Lunar Avion]]'' from [[Lunar Seven]] to [[Paradeen]] where it eventually encounters the '' | The '''Eastern Alliance destroyer''' is a spacecraft used by the [[Eastern Alliance]] of [[Terra]]. An Eastern Alliance destroyer tracks the ''[[Lunar Avion]]'' from [[Lunar Seven]] to [[Paradeen]] where it eventually encounters the [[Galactica (TOS)|''Galactica'']]. Commandant [[Leiter]] commands the destroyer that is captured by the [[The Twelve Colonies (TOS)|Colonials]]. [[Lanceman]] and [[Donner]] are crewmen aboard the destroyer ([[Greetings from Earth]]). The destroyer manages to escape from ''Galactica'', and returns to Terra with the Colonials on its trail ([[Baltar's Escape]]). | ||
The Eastern Alliance destroyer was repeatedly noted to be far smaller that a battlestar and non-threatening as a contender. In fact, a captured destroyer was briefly impounded aboard ''Galactica'' and appeared to be comparable in size to a Colonial shuttle. However, Commandant Leiter confidently boasts to Commander | The Eastern Alliance destroyer was repeatedly noted to be far smaller that a battlestar and non-threatening as a contender. In fact, a captured destroyer was briefly impounded aboard ''Galactica'' and appeared to be comparable in size to a Colonial shuttle. However, Commandant Leiter confidently boasts to Commander [[Adama (TOS)|Adama]] that many of these destroyers could take on ''Galactica'' like a wolf pack takes on its prey ([[Baltar's Escape]]), though this has never been proved nor disproved. | ||
After Leiter's destroyer escapes, a Viper squadron is dispatched to pursue the destroyer. However, the conclusion of the war between the Eastern Alliance and the [[Terra]]n [[Nationalists]] presumably rendered both the Viper squadron's mission, and the mission of the destroyer itself, unnecessary | After Leiter's destroyer escapes, a Viper squadron is dispatched to pursue the destroyer. However, the conclusion of the war between the Eastern Alliance and the [[Terra]]n [[Nationalists]] presumably rendered both the Viper squadron's mission, and the mission of the destroyer itself, unnecessary ([[Experiment in Terra]]). | ||
== Related imagery == | == Related imagery == | ||
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Image:Eastern Alliance destroyer control.jpg|The submarine-like control center of the destroyer. | |||
</gallery> | </gallery> | ||
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