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| {{Battle Data | | {| border=1 width=300 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 align=right style="margin-left:1em;margin-bottom:1em" |
| |image=PowerlessViper.jpg | | |+ Battle before: [[Battle of Ragnar Anchorage]] <br>Battle after: [[Battle for the Tylium Asteroid]] |
| |description=Starbuck's damaged Viper and the Cylon Raider are caught in the Red Moon's gravity field | | |colspan=2| |
| |conflict=[[Cylon Attack|Second Cylon War]] | | |- |
| |date=[[Re-Imagined Series Timeline|Day 14]] | | !colspan=2 bgcolor=#aaaaee|Skirmish over the Red Moon |
| |place=An unnamed [[Red Moon|red moon]] | | |- |
| |result=[[Colonial]] victory, Patrol destroyed, Capture of a Cylon Raider | | |Conflict||[[Cylon Attack|Second Cylon war]] |
| |combatant1=Remnants of the [[Colonial Fleet (TRS)|Colonial Fleet]] | | |- |
| |combatant2=[[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]] | | |Date||[[Re-Imagined Series Timeline|Day 14]] |
| |co1=Lieutenant [[Kara Thrace]] | | |- |
| |co2=None | | |Place||The Red Moon |
| |strength1= 2 [[Viper Mark II|Mark II Viper]]s | | |- |
| |strength2=8 Cylon [[Raider (RDM)|Raiders]] | | |Result||marginal Colonial victory |
| |shiploss1=1 Viper destroyed, 1 Viper damaged | | |- |
| |shiploss2=7 Raiders destroyed, 1 disabled and captured | | |colspan=2| |
| |casualties1=None | | {| border=1 width=300 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 |
| |casualties2=8 Cylon Raiders | | |- |
| |prev=[[Battle of the Communications Relay]]
| | !colspan=2 bgcolor=#aaaaee|Combatants |
| |next=[[Battle for the Tylium Asteroid]]
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| |series=RDM
| | | width=50%|Remnants of the [[Colonial Fleet]] |
| }} | | | width=50%|[[Cylon]]s |
| The '''Skirmish Over the Red Moon''' takes place when eight [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Cylon Raiders]] surprise a group of [[nugget]] [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] pilots being instructed by Lt. [[Kara Thrace|Kara "Starbuck" Thrace]] above an unnamed [[Red Moon|red moon]] circling a gas giant.
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| | !colspan=2|Commanders |
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| | |Lieutenant [[Kara Thrace|Kara "Starbuck" Thrace]] |
| | |Unknown |
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| | !colspan=2|Strength |
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| | |2 Vipers |
| | |8 Raiders |
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| | !colspan=2|Casualties |
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| | |1 Viper destroyed, 1 damaged |
| | |7 Raiders destroyed, 1 captured |
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| ==Background==
| | A skirmish that occured when a scouting group of 8 Cylon Raiders surprised a group of [[nugget]] Viper pilots being instructed by Lt. Kara "Starbuck" Thrace in the orbit an unnamed Red Moon orbiting a gas giant. Starbuck ordered the trainees to leave while she took on all 8 at once, but Cadet [[Hotdog]] disobeyed and followed her to cover her wing. This succeeded in dividing the Raiders enough between them that Starbuck now had a chance to take them down. Hot Dog succeeded in destroying one Raider (his first kill in a Viper) before suffering damage from incoming fire and having to pull back from the engagement. By this point all but one Raider had been destroyed, and Starbuck and it made a run at each other. |
| After an accident on the flight deck of the battlestar [[Galactica (TRS)|''Galactica'']], Lieutenant Thrace is assigned to train [[nuggets|new pilots]] to replace those killed in the accident. Although she at first allows [[Zak Adama|her feelings]] to get in the way of training, she eventually reinstates the pilots and takes them on a training flight. During the flight, a patrol of Cylon Raiders are detected.
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| ==Skirmish==
| | Both the Raider and Starbuck's Viper were critically damaged as a result; the Raider was shot in it's bio-mechanical brain and Kara's Viper was bady damaged. Both spiraled out of control descending through the Red Moon's orbit and crashed onto the moon, though Starbuck was able to eject from her Viper first. |
| Upon coming into contact with the patrol, Thrace ([[Viper 4077]]) orders her squad to return to ''Galactica'' while she engages all eight enemy combatants simultaneously. Disobeying direct orders, and adhering to the general rule that a pilot must always have a wingman, Cadet [[Brendan Costanza|Brendan "Hot Dog" Costanza]] ([[Viper 1104]]) reverses course, and follows her into combat. His tactics disorient and scatter the enemy, opening a window for Lt. Thrace to shoot down six Raiders. Additionally, Costanza manages to destroy one Raider (his first kill in a Viper) before suffering damage from incoming fire, forcing him to pull back from the engagement. His Viper gives out shortly after.
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| With only one Raider remaining, Lieutenant Thrace re-orients herself into a combat position and charges the enemy. As the two combatants close in on each other, Lieutenant Thrace's Viper experiences sudden electrical problems that cause her communications and transponder to go off-line. Nevertheless, she manages to exchange fire with the Raider and finishes it off with a direct hit to the head-canopy.
| | Hot Dog and his Viper were soon after recovered by repair crews from the [[Galactica]] (his damaged Viper was later repaired). |
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| The disabled craft immediately spirals out control, and eventually collides with the Viper. Damage inflicted by the Raider's impact disables the Viper's flight controls, and both fighters tumble into the gravity well of the nearby red moon. The Raider crashes intact on the moon, but Thrace is forced to eject from her Viper after it goes into an uncontrollable [[W:Spin (flight)|flat spin]] towards the satellite's surface and disintegrates {{TRS|Act of Contrition}}.
| | Meanwhile, Starbuck's Viper was a total loss. After ejecting she wandered on the moon until she found the crashed Cylon Raider, braindead from its wounds. Starbuck was then able to find a way inside, and discovered for the first time the bio-mechanical nature of the new generation of Raiders. Inside, Starbuck had enough oxygen to stay alive, and began figuring out how to control the Raider by manipulating its internal organic actuators (aided by the fact that Starbuck used to be a flight instructor and could determine the basic mechanics of flying a craft fairly well). Starbuck sealed up the hole the Raider received when she shot it by using her emergency kit, then flew it off of the moon, and returned to the ''Galctica''. |
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| ==Aftermath==
| | The was the first time that Colonial forces were able to capture a Cylon Raider, and begin to examine it. Chief [[Tyrol]] and his deck crew spent the next several weeks analyzing it, eventually returning it to flight status. ("[[Act of Contrition]]"), ("[[You Can't Go Home Again]]"), ("[[Six Degrees Of Separation]]"), ("[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]"). |
| After successfully ejecting, Thrace parachutes onto the moon, but is injured. As this is happening, a [[SAR|search and rescue]] [[Raptor]] deployed by ''Galactica'' recovers Costanza and his critically damaged Viper in the moon's orbit. SAR teams are sent out to retrieve Thrace, but the moon's thick atmosphere prevents them from making contact, and buildup of organic deposits from the air in fighter and Raptor engines cut short the rescue effort. On the moon's surface with a broken [[wireless]] handset and no other means of establishing communication, Thrace comes across the downed Raider, replenishes her own oxygen from the Raider's supply, and eventually flies the Raider off the moon and into open space. Thrace is able to avoid being shot down and lands aboard ''Galactica'', giving the [[The_Fleet_(TRS)|surviving human Fleet]] its first captured enemy spacecraft {{TRS|You Can't Go Home Again}}.
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