Editing Eastern Alliance destroyer

[[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 ''{{TOS|Galactica}}''.  Commandant [[Leiter]] commands the destroyer that is captured by the [[The Twelve Colonies of Man|Colonials]]. [[Lanceman]] and [[Donner]] are crewmen aboard the destroyer {{OS|Greetings From Earth}}. The destroyer manages to escape from ''Galactica'', and returns to Terra with the Colonials on its trail {{OS|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 {{TOS|Adama}} that many of these destroyers could take on ''Galactica'' like a wolf pack takes on its prey {{OS|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 {{OS|Experiment in Terra}}.

== Related imagery ==

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File:Eastern Alliance destroyer control.jpg|The submarine-like control center of the destroyer {{OS|Baltar's Escape}}.
File:EA destroyer warbook entry.jpg|A [[warbook]] entry and scan of the destroyer {{OS|Experiment in Terra}}.
File:TOS - BE - Alliance Destroyer in Landing Bay.jpg|Destroyer in its landed position in ''[[Galactica (TOS)|Galactica]]'''s [[launch bay]] {{OS|Baltar's Escape}}.
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