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|description=Starbuck's damaged Viper and the Cylon Raider are caught in the Red Moon's gravity field | |description=Starbuck's damaged Viper and the Cylon Raider are caught in the Red Moon's gravity field | ||
|conflict=[[Cylon Attack|Second Cylon | |conflict=[[Cylon Attack|Second Cylon war]] | ||
|date=[[Re-Imagined Series Timeline|Day 14]] | |date=[[Re-Imagined Series Timeline|Day 14]] | ||
|place=An unnamed [[Red Moon|red moon]] | |place=An unnamed ''[[Red Moon|red moon]]'' | ||
|result=[[Colonial]] victory | |result=Marginal [[Colonial]] victory | ||
|combatant1=Remnants of the [[ | |combatant1=Remnants of the [[Colonial Fleet]] | ||
|combatant2=[[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]] | |combatant2=[[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]] | ||
|co1=Lieutenant [[Kara Thrace]] | |co1=Lieutenant [[Kara Thrace|Kara "Starbuck" Thrace]] | ||
|co2= | |co2=Unknown † | ||
|strength1= | |strength1=[[Viper 1104]], 1 other [[Viper Mark II|Viper MkII]] | ||
|strength2=8 | |strength2=8 [[Raider|Raiders]] | ||
|shiploss1=1 Viper destroyed, 1 | |shiploss1=1 Viper destroyed, 1 damaged | ||
|shiploss2=7 Raiders destroyed, 1 disabled and captured | |shiploss2=7 Raiders destroyed, 1 disabled and captured | ||
|casualties1=None | |casualties1=None | ||
|casualties2=8 Cylon Raiders | |casualties2= (8 Cylon Raiders) | ||
|prev=[[Battle of | |prev=[[Battle of Ragnar Anchorage]] | ||
|next=[[Battle for the Tylium Asteroid]] | |next=[[Battle for the Tylium Asteroid]] | ||
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The '''Skirmish | The '''Skirmish over the Red Moon''' is a battle between eight [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Cylon Raider]] that surprise a group of [[nugget]] [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] pilots under instruction by Lt. [[Kara Thrace|Kara "Starbuck" Thrace]] in the orbit of an unnamed reddish moon orbiting a gas giant. | ||
Starbuck orders the nuggets to return to ''Galactica'' while she engages all eight Raiders at once. However, Cadet [[Brendan Constanza|Hot Dog]] disobeys and follows her general order of always having a wingman. | |||
Hot Dog succeeds in dividing the Raiders enough between the two Vipers long enough for Starbuck to shoot down six fighters. Hot Dog destroys one Raider (his first kill in a Viper) before suffering damage from incoming fire, pulling back from the engagement. | |||
Starbuck destroys all but one Raider, and the two remaining fighters make a final run at each other. | |||
Both the Raider and Starbuck's Viper exchange fire. The Raider's "pilot" is hit, but the ship remained intact. Starbuck's Viper experiences [[Computers#Avionics|electrical problems]] during the battle, which first causes her fighter's communications and transponder to go offline. Damage inflicted later by the Raider disables the Viper's flight controls. | |||
Both fighters tumble out of control and fall into the [[Red Moon|red moon's]] gravity well. The Raider softly crash-lands onto the moon, but Starbuck must eject from her Viper after it goes into an uncontrollable [[Wikipedia:Spin (flight)|flat spin]] towards the moon's surface. ''Galactica'' recovers Hot Dog and his critically damaged Viper. | |||
Starbuck lands by parachute on the moon, severely injuring her knee after being dragged by her parachute toward boulders and a cliff on the moon's surface. | |||
With a broken [[wireless]] handset, she wanders on the moon looking for higher ground to await rescue. In her travels, she finds the crashed Cylon Raider she had fought earlier. Starbuck finds a way inside the Raider and discovers the bio-mechanical nature of the new generation of Raiders. Starbuck's attack of the Raider had left the "pilot" of the Raider shot in its "head," leaving it brain-dead. | |||
Inside, Starbuck finds oxygen to stay alive after she exhausts her [[flight suit]]'s life support, and determines how to control the Raider by manipulating its internal organic actuators. Starbuck's strong flight instructor skills and [[Flight of the Phoenix|test-pilot savvy]] allows her to determine the basic mechanics of the new spacecraft quickly. | |||
Starbuck repairs the damage she inflicted on the Raider by using a portion of her [[flight suit]] to seal the hole and repressurize the interior of the fighter. Starbuck flies the Raider off the moon and returns to ''Galactica'' once [[Lee Adama|Apollo]] successfully identifies her as the pilot of what would normally be an enemy target. | |||
This is the first time Colonial forces are able to capture and examine the updated Cylon Raider. Chief [[Galen Tyrol]] and his deck crew spend the next several weeks analyzing the fighter, eventually returning it to flight status with significant internal modifications for effective human control ("[[Act of Contrition]]", "[[You Can't Go Home Again]]", "[[Six Degrees of Separation]]", "[[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]", and "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]"). | |||
The Raider is later lost on [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]] during the events to retrieve the [[Arrow of Apollo]], when [[Sharon Agathon|Caprica-Valerii]] steals it from Starbuck at the [[Delphi Museum of the Colonies]]. | |||
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