Editing Skirmish at the Farm

{{Battle Data
|name=Skirmish at the Farm
|image=
|conflict=[[Cylon Attack|Second Cylon War]]
|date=Shortly after the [[Battle of Kobol (RDM)|Battle of Kobol]]
|place={{RDM|Caprica}}
*Cylon [[Farm]]
|result=[[Colonial]] victory
*[[Kara Thrace]] rescued
*Farm destroyed
*Theft of a [[Heavy Raider]]
|combatant1=Remnants of the [[Colonial Fleet (TRS)|Colonial Fleet]]<br>[[Caprica Resistance]]
|combatant2=[[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]]
|co1=[[Samuel Anders]]<br>Lieutenant [[Kara Thrace]]
|co2=[[Number Six]]
|strength1=Lieutenant [[Kara Thrace]]<br>Lieutenant [[Karl Agathon]]<br>[[Sharon Agathon|Caprica-Valerii]]<br>[[Caprica Resistance]]<br>1 captured [[Heavy Raider]]
|strength2=2 [[Number Four]]s<br>1 [[Number Six]]<br>Several [[Cylon Centurion]]s
|shiploss1=None
|shiploss2=All [[Centurion]]s<br>Cylon farm
|casualties1=[[Sue-Shaun]]<br>Other women captured for experimentation
|casualties2=1 [[Number Six]]<br>2 [[Number Four]]s<br>All [[Centurion]]s
|prev=[[Battle of Kobol (RDM)|Battle of Kobol]]
|next=[[Great Cylon Turkey Shoot]]
|series=RDM
}}

The '''Skirmish at the Farm''' was an engagement between the [[Caprica Resistance]] aided by Lieutenant [[Kara Thrace|Kara "Starbuck" Thrace]] Lieutenant [[Karl Agathon|Karl "Helo" Agathon]], and a [[Cylon (TRS)|Cylon]] defector against Cylon forces at a breeding [[Farm|farm]].

==Background==
After being sent to {{RDM|Caprica}} by President [[Laura Roslin]] to retrieve the [[Arrow of Apollo]], Lieutenant Thrace met up with long-missing Lieutenant Agathon and his lover, [[Sharon Agathon|an apparent copy]] of Kara's friend [[Sharon Valerii]]. When Thrace repeatedly threatened to kill her, Caprica-Valerii fled in Thrace's stolen Cylon [[Raider (RDM)|Raider]], leaving Thrace and Agathon stranded on Caprica. Sometime afterwards, the two met up with the Caprica Resistance and as they were planning an assault to steal a [[Heavy Raider]], the group was ambushed and Thrace and [[Sue-Shaun]] were captured by Cylon forces and taken to a breeding farm. While Sue-Shaun was attached a "baby machine" along with other women, Thrace was experimented on directly by a [[Number Four]] going by the name of Simon under the guise of treating her injuries from the ambush. During this time, at least one of her ovaries were removed. However, the Number Four accidentally broke his cover to the suspicious Thrace by calling her by her call-sign of Starbuck which she hadn't told him. After seeing him discussing his plan to remove her ovaries completely with a [[Number Six]], Thrace realized that Simon was actually a Cylon agent and she had to escape.

At the same time, the Caprica Resistance returned to the ambush point to look for clues to Thrace's location. Caprica-Valerii, who had been tracking Agathon for days, appeared and offered her help to rescue Thrace. With the help of Valerii, the Caprica Resistance stole a Heavy Raider and launched a rescue mission for Thrace ([[TRS]]: "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]," "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]," "[[Scattered]]," "[[Resistance]]," "[[The Farm]]").

==Skirmish==
Needing to escape, Thrace breaks a bedside mirror and waits for Simon to return. When he does, she reveals her suspicions to him and then proceeds to kill the Cylon by stabbing him in the neck with the mirror shard. Sneaking her way through the facility, Thrace spots a [[Number Six]] and kills her by smashing her head in with a fire extinguisher. To Thrace's horror, she finds Caprica Resistance member Sue-Shaun and other women hooked up to "baby machines." Not wanting to live like this and unable to be unhooked without being killed, Sue-Shaun asks Thrace to destroy the machines and mercy-kill the women. Thrace reluctantly smashes the machines, ending the women's suffering. Getting outside the facility, Thrace is confronted by another Number Four who greets her. Before Thrace or the Four can do anything, the Caprica Resistance and Lieutenant [[Karl Agathon]] arrive and kill the Four. As Thrace attempts to escape to the Resistance, [[Centurion]]s on higher levels of the facility open fire, pinning her and the Resistance down, but [[Sharon Agathon|Caprica-Valerii]] arrives in a captured [[Heavy Raider]] and destroys the Centurions. The Cylon forces and their farm destroyed, the Resistance retreats in the Heavy Raider before anymore Cylons can arrive. {{TRS|The Farm}}

==Aftermath==
Having identified their doctor as a copy of Number Four, [[Samuel Anders]] dispatches [[Jean Barolay]] to get rid of the Cylon agent, not aware that there is also a [[Number One]] in the Resistance's midst. At their [[Delphi Union High School|base]], Lieutenant Kara Thrace interrogates the Number Eight about what was done to her at the farm. Eight explains that the Cylons are unable to have children naturally which they attribute to a lack of love and along with the experiment to impregnate her, they are using the farms to attempt to artificially impregnate human women. She is unaware of exactly what was done to Thrace, though. Hearing about the farms and angry about what was done to her, Thrace proposes that the Resistance use their captured Heavy Raider to destroy all of the farms. However, Anders tells her she has a mission to complete and gives her the Arrow of Apollo. Anders tells Thrace to find [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]], and the Resistance will destroy all of the farms they can. Thrace agrees and after promising [[Rescue on Caprica|to be back to rescue him]], she, the Eight, and Agathon leave in the Heavy Raider to return to [[The Fleet (TRS)|the fleet]]. The three [[FTL|jump]] the Heavy Raider to {{RDM|Kobol}} where they meet up with the [[Laura Roslin faction]] ([[TRS]]: "[[The Farm]]," "[[The Plan]]," "[[Home, Part I]]," "[[Home, Part II]]").
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