Editing Hitei Kan

{{Ship Data
|italic=y
| image= RefineryBottomView.jpg
| title= Hitei Kan
| race= Colonial
| type= Civilian industrial
| ftl= Yes
| propol= 2x sublight engines
| role= Tylium [[refinery ship]]
| status= Scuttled, circa 4 ACH
| img= Y
}}

'''''Hitei Kan''''' is a [[tylium (RDM)|tylium]] [[refinery ship]] in the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]].

The vessel is the site of a short-lived, but large labor strike threatening to spill over to other vessels in the Fleet. The strike is later resolved when a union, originally based on [[New Caprica]], is reinstated to aid with worker needs {{TRS|Dirty Hands}}.

The ship's unique radiation signature is  used by the Cylons to track the Fleet to the [[Ionian nebula]]. The signature is described as "a leak" and, after its discovery, used to lead the Cylons away from the rest of the Fleet {{TRS|Crossroads, Part I}}. During the [[Battle of the Ionian Nebula]], ''Hitei Kan'' gathers near ''Astral Queen'', ''[[Zephyr]]'', and ''Cybele'', to escape oncoming Cylon Raiders {{TRS|He That Believeth in Me}}.

=== Mutiny ===
During the [[FTL]] upgrades with [[Cylon]] technology the crew of ''Hitei Kan'' mutinied, killing one Cylon and two [[Marines]], causing ''{{RDM|Galactica}}'' to scramble the [[mardet|MARDET]] alert team. 

Communications office [[Louis Hoshi]] tapped into wireless communications between the refinery ship and  [[Tom Zarek]] aboard ''[[Colonial One]]'', linking Zarek to the takeover. After Zarek is arrested, Admiral [[William Adama|Adama]] succeeds in getting the coordinates of the missing ship and to dispatch more Raptors to return it to the Fleet  {{TRS|A Disquiet Follows My Soul}}

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== Notes ==
*''Hitei Kan'' is not identified by name in "[[Dirty Hands]]," but only referred to as "refinery ship". However, Chief Tyrol names the ship in a [[Dirty Hands#Bonus Scene|deleted scene]]. Moreover, it is identified in the episode's script.
*The ship is almost identical to ''[[Daru Mozu]]'' except that the bridge of ''Hitei Kan'' has a neck sticking out from the main hull with wing-like structures going from side to side. What appears to be the bridge that is almost identical to the one on ''Daru Mozu'', which has just the bridge-like structure extending from the main hull.
* In "[[Home, Part I]]" a refinery ship is referred to as "[[refueling tanker]]," but the configuration of the ship is identical to ''Daru Mozu'' and ''Hitei Kan''.
*In "[[A Disquiet Follows My Soul]]" as the ship jumps away from the Fleet, [[Saul Tigh]] laments of the ship's disappearance "Taking all our fuel with them." Unless this is a [[Continuity errors (RDM)|continuity error]], this may suggest that ''Hitei Kan'' is the only tylium ship left within the Fleet, and that ''[[Daru Mozu]]'' was either abandoned or destroyed, perhaps in the [[Battle of New Caprica]].
** However, in [[Guess What's Coming to Dinner?]], in a scene showing the Rebel Basestar jumping away, both Tylium refinery ships can be seen together in the fleet, suggesting	Colonel Tigh's dialog could have been a continuity error, or suggesting that ''Daru Mozu'' is no longer able to refine Tylium for use in the fleet, possibly due to battle damage. The shot can be seen [[:Image:Rebel Baseship Jumps Away From Fleet.png|here]].

== Related Imagery ==

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Image:DirtyHands - Daru Mozu top.jpg|Top view {{TRS|Dirty Hands}}
Image:RefineryInside.jpg|Inside one of the storage rooms (Dirty Hands).
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