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[[ | [[Image:PowerlessViper.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Starbuck's Viper plummets onto the Red Moon.]] | ||
The ''' | The '''Red Moon''' is a rocky, barren world, with no discernible life, vegetation, or water. Weeks after the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]], the moon is the site of a small [[Skirmish over the Red Moon|skirmish]] between several Cylon [[Raider|Raiders]] and a handful of [[nugget|Colonial pilots in training]]. After engaging the Raiders, pilot [[Kara Thrace|Kara "Starbuck" Thrace]] finds her fighter falling out of control into the moon's atmosphere. With the Viper's electronics failing, her transponder damaged, and the fighter in a unrecoverable flat spin, Thrace ejects from the fighter and parachutes to relative safety ([[TRS]]: "[[Act of Contrition]]"). | ||
The red moon's thick atmosphere is composed mostly of carbon dioxide, methane, with some argon. The clouds are composed of hydrocarbons and forms a thick opaque screen around the moon. On the ground with a moderate leg injury, Thrace quickly determines through an emergency oxygen-checking device in her survival kit that the moon's air is unbreathable. She is left with the emergency oxygen of her [[flight suit]], which will exhaust itself in 46 hours. | |||
Soon, a series of [[SAR]] missions are conducted by ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' to find Thrace. The Vipers are buffeted by high upper-atmosphere winds and damaged by the hydrocarbon-rich atmosphere, which leaves a residue that clogs thrusters and engines. The moon's mountains are hazardous as their lack of visibility makes for collision threats for the SAR teams. | |||
Eventually, Thrace encounters the last [[Cylon Raider]] that she shot and disabled. While her shot kills the Raider's autonomous bio-mechanical pilot-brain, the fighter otherwise soft-landed. Thrace removes the dead biological material from the Raider's interior, and, after some experimentation, flies the Raider to return to the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] ([[TRS]]: "[[You Can't Go Home Again]]"). | |||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
*One of [[Bear McCreary]]'s music tracks for "You Can't Go Home Again" is titled "Starbuck on the Red Moon. | *One of [[Bear McCreary]]'s music tracks for "You Can't Go Home Again" is titled "Starbuck on the Red Moon". | ||
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