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[[File:Gamoray.jpg|thumb|right|A commando team prepares to parachute to the surface of Gamoray {{OS|The Living Legend, Part II}}.]] | [[File:Gamoray.jpg|thumb|right|A commando team prepares to parachute to the surface of Gamoray {{OS|The Living Legend, Part II}}.]] | ||
{{disline|For the battle in which ''{{TOS|Pegasus}}'' tackles two [[basestar (TOS)|basestar]]s, please see: [[Battle of Gamoray]].}} | {{disline|For the battle in which ''{{TOS|Pegasus}}'' tackles two [[basestar (TOS)|basestar]]s, please see: [[Battle of Gamoray]].}} | ||
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During the [[Battle of Gamoray]], two [[Basestar (TOS)|basestars]] are destroyed—but ''Pegasus'' herself is presumed lost {{OS|The Living Legend, Part II}}. | During the [[Battle of Gamoray]], two [[Basestar (TOS)|basestars]] are destroyed—but ''Pegasus'' herself is presumed lost {{OS|The Living Legend, Part II}}. | ||
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* ''According to ''[[Encyclopedia Galactica]]'' (a non-canonical piece of merchandise published in 1979):'' | * ''According to ''[[Encyclopedia Galactica]]'' (a non-canonical piece of merchandise published in 1979):'' | ||
: Gomoray was a prosperous industrial world whose population and economy swelled with [[Colonial Fleet (TOS)|Colonial military]] demands during the [[Thousand-Yahren War|Great War]]. The [[Final Destruction]] took a particularly brutal form on Gomoray. Since the [[Cylons (TOS)|Cylons]] wished to take the planet's sophisticated industrial plant intact its human population of over fifty million was exterminated entirely by Cylon death squads. As a Cylon outpost, Gomoray's [[solium]] refineries became a target of the harassment tactics of the ''[[Pegasus (TOS)|Pegasus]]''. In [[6572]], the [[Battlestar (TOS)|Battlestars]] ''[[Galactica (TOS)|Galactica]]'' and ''Pegasus'' combined to destroy the Cylon presence there and sack its vast solium refinery of its reserves. The fuel obtained in that raid was sufficient to power the [[The Fleet (TOS)|fleet of survivors]] for [[yahren]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Kraus|first=Bruce|authorlink=|authorlinkurl=|coauthors=|year=1979|title=[[Encyclopedia Galactica]]|publisher=|location=|id=|pages=37}}</ref> | : Gomoray was a prosperous industrial world whose population and economy swelled with [[Colonial Fleet (TOS)|Colonial military]] demands during the [[Thousand-Yahren War|Great War]]. The [[Final Destruction]] took a particularly brutal form on Gomoray. Since the [[Cylons (TOS)|Cylons]] wished to take the planet's sophisticated industrial plant intact its human population of over fifty million was exterminated entirely by Cylon death squads. As a Cylon outpost, Gomoray's [[solium]] refineries became a target of the harassment tactics of the ''[[Pegasus (TOS)|Pegasus]]''. In [[6572]], the [[Battlestar (TOS)|Battlestars]] ''[[Galactica (TOS)|Galactica]]'' and ''Pegasus'' combined to destroy the Cylon presence there and sack its vast solium refinery of its reserves. The fuel obtained in that raid was sufficient to power the [[The Fleet (TOS)|fleet of survivors]] for [[yahren]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Kraus|first=Bruce|authorlink=|authorlinkurl=|coauthors=|year=1979|title=[[Encyclopedia Galactica]]|publisher=|location=|id=|pages=37}}</ref> | ||
==Notes== | == Notes == | ||
* Fans of the Original Series prefer to believe that ''Pegasus'' survived the encounter at Gamoray, and would have returned to the series at some point in the future, had it been renewed. | |||
* Some of the scenes on the ground at the Gamoray base were filmed at night on the campus of the University of California at Northridge [http://www.csun.edu/]. | * Some of the scenes on the ground at the Gamoray base were filmed at night on the campus of the University of California at Northridge [http://www.csun.edu/]. | ||
==References== | == References == | ||
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