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{{disline|This article is about the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Re-imagined Series]] heavy raider. For other versions, see [[Cylon Raider]].}}
:''This article is about the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Re-imagined Series]] heavy raider. For other versions, see [[Cylon Raider]].''
 
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| image= Heavy Raider-Top Side.jpg
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| race= Cylon
| type= Military
| type= Military
| ftl= Yes
| ftl= Yes
| propol= * 8x sublight boosters <br /> * RCS thrusters
| crew= Holds approximately 10 [[Cylon Centurion|Centurions]]
| crew= Approx. 10
| role= Troop transport
| role= * Dropship <br /> * Gunship
| weapons= A 6-barrel [[Weapons in the Re-imagined Series#Viper and Cylon Raider|Kinetic Energy Weapon]] and at least one missile launcher
| arm= * 2x tri-barreled automatic cannons <br /> * Ship to ship missiles
| status= Unknown
| img= Y
| img= Y
}}
}}
A '''Heavy Raider''' is a [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]] dual purpose attack and transport spacecraft, analogous to the Colonial's [[Raptor]] vehicle. It is nicknamed a "[[List of terms (RDM)|turkey]]" by the surviving Colonial [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]]'s military units {{TRS|Maelstrom}}.


== Design ==
A '''Heavy Raider''' is a [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]] duel purpose attack and transport spacecraft, nicknamed "[[List of terms (RDM)|turkey]]" by the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]]'s military units ([[Maelstrom]]).
The Heavy Raider shares many design similarities with the rest of the Cylon fleet, featuring an autonomous bio-mechanical design. However, this craft is also easily piloted by [[Cylon Centurion|Centurions]] or [[Humanoid_Cylon#Significant_Eight|Humanoid Cylons]] if needed. The Heavy Raider has no windows, and any Cylon piloting the craft must rely on telemetry delivered to a [[Datastream]] inside the craft for operation {{TRS|The Farm|Deadlock}}.  
 
The main armament of the Heavy Raider seems to consist of a barbette of six cannons mounted under the cockpit area of the vehicle (as seen [[:Image:KEW_Heavy_Raider.jpg|here]]). These cannons are capable of an extremely high rate of fire ([[Scattered]]). The Raiders are also capable of launching missiles.
 
Not much is yet known about this craft. The Heavy Raider is likely autonomous, as evidenced by the Raider-style head/canopy. While Centurions have been seen exiting Heavy Raiders, there is no proof that they pilot it.
 
The first Heavy Raider is seen as part of a Cylon search party looking for [[Karl Agathon|Karl "Helo" Agathon]] and [[Sharon Agathon|Sharon Agathon ''née'' Valerii]] on Cylon-occupied [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] ([[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]). Further sightings in Season 1 are in "[[Colonial Day]]" with one craft landing near Agathon and Valerii, and in space over Caprica in "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]".
 
== Significant appearances ==


Heavy Raiders typically carries two tri-barreled automatic cannons capable of high rates of fire. These are further augmented with ship-to-ship missiles, which can be easily connected to the Raider's DRADIS dish and converted into anti-aircraft batteries for use on a planetary surface {{TRS|Fragged}}.
A Heavy Raider with a boarding party of five Centurions crash-lands into ''[[Galactica]]'s'' unused starboard [[flight pod]] ([[Scattered]]).


Typically, Heavy Raiders are tough targets, being able to withstand severe punishment, including crash landings {{TRS|Fragged|Razor}}.
[[Image:HR-Kobol-09-55.jpg|thumb|right|Heavy Raider on Kobol]]
After shooting down a Colonial scouting party over [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]], a force of five Centurions lands near the crash site of [[Raptor 1]] in a Heavy Raider. They proceed to dismantle its missile launcher and [[DRADIS]] assembly in an attempt to build a surface-to-air missile battery, intending to shoot down any [[SAR|search and rescue]] parties that ''[[Galactica]]'' sends to find the survivors ([[Fragged]]).


== History ==
The Heavy Raider is conclusively proven to be a troop transport in "[[The Farm]]" when [[Sharon Agathon|Sharon Agathon ''née'' Valerii]] commandeers one and uses it to evacuate the [[Caprica Resistance]] after they rescue [[Kara Thrace|Kara "Starbuck" Thrace]] from a Cylon hybrid "farm." That captured Heavy Raider is eventually used to jump to Kobol where Thrace, [[Karl Agathon|Agathon]] and Valerii finally hook up with the rest of the Fleet.
The Heavy Raider was developed sometime during the forty year Cylon exile from [[Twelve Colonies of Kobol|Colonial]] contact, and were used in combat during the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]]. Heavy Raiders delivered Centurions to the surface of Caprica and likely other Colonies as the start of the ground invasion {{TRS|The Plan}}. After the Fall, they continued to serve as troop transports for Centurions boarding the [[battlestar (TRS)|battlestars]] [[Pegasus (TRS)|''Pegasus'']] and [[Galactica (TRS)|''Galactica'']] {{TRS|Scattered|Fragged|Razor}} and entering battle on the [[Algae planet]] {{TRS|The Eye of Jupiter|Rapture}}. The Cylons deployed one for every ten or so autonomous Raiders when attacking space-based targets {{TRS|Resurrection Ship, Part I|Flight of the Phoenix}}.  They were also used to suppress human [[New_Caprica_Resistance|resistance]] fighters on the ground during the Cylon occupation of [[New Caprica]] {{TRS|Occupation}}.


Humans and their allies were able to take advantage of Heavy Raiders.  With the help of a [[Sharon Agathon|rogue Number Eight Cylon]], the [[Caprica Resistance]] stole a Heavy Raider to [[Skirmish at the Farm|rescue]] {{callsign|Starbuck}} from a Cylon [[farm]], evacuate the resistance fighters to their base, and allow Thrace, the Eight, and {{callsign|Karl Agathon}}  to jump to Kobol and reunite with [[Laura Roslin|Laura Roslin's]] [[Laura Roslin faction|faction]] ([[TRS]]: "[[The Farm]]". [[Home, Part I]]").  With the help of the same Eight, Thrace was later able to use the navigational computer of the Heavy Raider to jump a fleet of [[Raptor]]s to [[Caprica]] to [[Rescue on Caprica|rescue]] the remaining Caprica Resistance members ([[TRS]]: "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I]]," [[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]").  Heavy Raiders tow [[Viper (TRS)|Vipers]] into battle in order to catch [[Number One|Cavil's]] faction off-guard during the [[Battle of the Resurrection Hub]] {{TRS|The Hub}}.  Admiral [[William Adama]] reluctantly authorizes a Heavy Raider reconnaissance mission to the [[Colony]] as part of an attempt to rescue the kidnapped [[Hera Agathon]] {{TRS|Islanded in a Stream of Stars}}.
The Cylon attack fleet in "[[Flight of the Phoenix]]" includes a large amount of Heavy Raiders, which could indicate a planned boarding operation or merely the need for additional heavy firepower.


Heavy Raiders also served as transports for non-combatants {{TRS|Occupation|Exodus, Part II}}.
Months later, [[Felix Gaeta]] reveals that with Valerii's cooperation they are able to interface the navigational system of a captured Heavy Raider with a [[Raptor]]'s FTL drive, making it capable of farther and more accurate jumps than before (beyond Colonial FTL's [[Red Line]] limit) with significantly faster calculations (as previously determined from a captured [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Cylon Raider]]).  A search and rescue sortie is able to return to Caprica in less than ten jumps and successfully evacuate the [[Caprica resistance]] ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I]]).
[[File:TRS - The Farm - Heavy Raider Hold.jpg|thumb|[[Sharon Valerii (Caprica copy)|Caprica copy]] of {{callsign|Boomer}} arrives in a stolen Heavy Raider to ferry away the [[Caprica Resistance]] {{TRS|The Farm}}.]]
 
On [[New Caprica]], [[Galen Tyrol]] and [[Samuel Anders]] manage to blow up a landing pad after a Heavy Raider consisting of various [[humanoid Cylons]] lands ([[Occupation]]).
 
After New Caprica, Thrace believes she sees a Heavy Raider in the atmosphere of a nearby gas giant, although no one else can see it. Its appearance may somehow relate to her [[The Destiny|alleged destiny]] ([[Maelstrom]]).
 
More than two months after her miraculous return at the [[Ionian nebula]], during the last days of her command of ''[[Demetrius]]'', she and [[Brendan Costanza|Brendan "Hot Dog" Costanza]] come across a heavily damaged Heavy Raider with the copy of [[Leoben Conoy (New Caprica copy)|Leoben Conoy]] who imprisoned her on New Caprica ([[The Road Less Traveled]]).


==Notes==
==Notes==
*According to [[Eric Chu]], [[Richard Livingston]] designed the Heavy Raider. <ref>{{cite_web|url=http://www.mediablvd.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=8278&st=260|title=Mediablvd forum post|date=|accessdate=|last=|first=|format=|language=}}</ref>
*According to [[Eric Chu]], [[Richard Livingston]] designed the Heavy Raider. <ref>{{cite_web|url=http://www.mediablvd.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=8278&st=260|title=Mediablvd forum post|date=|accessdate=|last=|first=|format=|language=}}</ref>
*As of "[[Razor]]," a new [[:image:Retconned Heavy Raider.jpg|retconned exterior design]] for the Heavy Raider is in use. It is virtually identical to the previous incarnation save for a new head canopy&mdash;which matches that of the [[:image:Raider retcon.jpg|retconned standard Raider]]&mdash;and the addition of missile launcher (capable of propelling two missiles) superior to the forward battery.
*As of "Razor" and new [[:image:Retconned Heavy Raider.jpg|retconned exterior design]] for the Heavy Raider is in use. It is virtually identical to the previous incarnation save for a new head canopy&mdash;which matches that of the [[:image:Raider retcon.jpg|retconned standard Raider]]&mdash;and the addition of missile launcher (capable of propelling two missiles) superior to the forward battery.
*The production team never constructed the interior of the Heavy Raider, and its appearances are CG generated.


== Related Imagery ==
== Related Imagery ==


<gallery mode="slideshow">
<gallery>
File:HeavyC.jpg|alt=Heavy Raider over Kobol (TRS: "Home, Part I")|Heavy Raider over Kobol {{TRS|Home, Part I}}&nbsp; &nbsp;
Image:HeavyC.jpg|Heavy Raider over Kobol ([[Home, Part I]])&nbsp; &nbsp;
File:HR - Firing KEW.jpg|alt=Firing frontal 6-barrel KEW (TRS: "Scattered")|Firing frontal 6-barrel [[KEW]] {{TRS|Scattered}} &nbsp; &nbsp;
Image:HR - Firing KEW.jpg|Firing frontal 6-barrel [[KEW]] ([[Scattered]]) &nbsp; &nbsp;
File:KEW Heavy Raider.jpg|Forward [[Weapons in the Re-imagined Series|kinetic energy weapon]] cannons on the Heavy Raider {{TRS|The Farm}}.
Image:Heavy Raider Aft.jpg|Heavy Raider Aft (Scattered).
File:Heavy Raider Aft.jpg|Heavy Raider aft view (Scattered).
Image:Baseships over Caprica II.jpg|Deployed from a baseship ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]).
File:Baseships over Caprica II.jpg|Deployed from a baseship {{TRS|Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II}}.
File:HR-Kobol-09-55.jpg|Heavy Raider on Kobol.
File:Closeup Heavy Raider Cockpit Redesigned .png|Closeup of the head.
File:Heavy Raider Flying In Viper CAP.png|Flying joint CAP's after the mutiny.
</gallery>
</gallery>
== External links ==
* [http://www.modelermagic.com/?p=246 A collection of images of the Cylon Heavy Raider]


==References==
==References==
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