Spaceport

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Spacedrome

A spacedrome is a launch field used by land-capable starships such as shuttle craft, typically located on planets.

On Caprica, Cylons manage to capture many humans who are fleeing from the Cylon attack. Centurions report to Baltar regarding prisoners that they captured at the spacedrome, as well as their willingness to offer information on Galactica's newly created rag tag, fugutive fleet in exchange for their lives ^{(TOS: "Saga of a Star World")}.

The Imperious Leader lands at the spacedrome on Gamoray before coming to the dedication ceremony ^{(TOS: "The Living Legend, Part II")}.

Delphi

For other items with the name Delphi, see: Delphi (disambiguation).

A binocular view of Delphi, with the Telamont Building in center.

Delphi was a large city on the planet Caprica, situated in the same general region as Caprica City.

Urban Center

The heavily-damaged Delphi Museum, repository of an important artifact.

Delphi was encircled by a rolling temperate rain forest and was located fairly close to a mountain range. Before the Fall of the Twelve Colonies, the city boasted a large spaceport and a military base. One of the tallest structures in Delphi was the Telamont Building. Another major landmark was the Delphi Museum of the Colonies; among the items at the museum was the Arrow of Apollo, an artifact that held clues to the general whereabouts of Earth, home of the legendary Thirteenth Tribe ^{(TRS: "Colonial Day" and "Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I")}.

In the less urbanized outskirts of the city, the Delphi Convalescent Institute served patients suffering from mental illness for more than sixty years prior to the fall of the Colonies ^{(CAP: "The Imperfections of Memory")}. The Delphi Union High School was also located in this more forested area ^{(TRS: "Resistance")}.

Delphi was home to the Delphi Legion pyramid team ^{(CAP: "Apotheosis")}.

Prior to the attack, Kara "Starbuck" Thrace owned a studio apartment in Delphi. Overlooking a parking lot, the apartment was in complete disarray, having inoperative air conditioning, faulty heating, and a broken toilet. The living room was littered with paintings of her own creation, including a particular wall painting accompanied by a poem, and a tiny cache of cigars. Thrace was not very enthusiastic about the apartment ^{(TRS: "Valley of Darkness")}.

After the Fall

Centurions serving as landscaping workers ^{(TRS: "Downloaded")}

A Cylon breeding farm in Delphi ^{(TRS: "The Farm")}.

Following the Cylon attack, Delphi, which was not directly targeted by nuclear weapons and therefore remained mostly intact, was used by the Cylons as a base of operations. The Cylons gradually re-settled Delphi: the humanoid Cylons appropriated apartments, restored the landscaping, and opened a restaurant and other facilities. The Delphi Convalescent Institute was temporarily converted into a farm for reproductive procedures with human women ^{(TRS: "The Farm")}. After being resurrected, Sharon Valerii returned for a time to the apartment she had lived in prior to the fall of the Colonies ^{(TRS: "Downloaded")}.

The Caprica Buccaneers pyramid team survived the Cylon attack while undertaking high-altitude training near Delphi. They relocated to the Delphi Union High School and operated a resistance to the Cylon occupation from that location ^{(TRS: "Resistance" and "The Plan")}.

A Cylon posing as Sharon Valerii and Karl "Helo" Agathon reached Delphi after two months of traveling the surrounding countryside, intending to steal a ship and leave Caprica ^{(TRS: "Flesh and Bone", "The Hand of God" and "Colonial Day")}.

After seeing visions of a city on the planet Kobol, President Laura Roslin overrode Commander William Adama's plans and persuaded Kara Thrace to take a captured Cylon Raider to Delphi in order to recover the Arrow of Apollo. Successfully jumping to Caprica, Thrace landed near the Delphi Museum and managed to retrieve the artifact ^{(TRS: "Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I" and "Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II")}. Temporarily stranded on Caprica, Thrace returned to her old apartment with Agathon to collect an old jacket, a personal memento, and keys to her old military truck ^{(TRS: "Valley of Darkness")}.

Delphi, as with the rest of the Colonies, was allegedly abandoned as the Cylons left to find the last remnants of humanity in order to find a way to co-exist with them ^{(TRS: "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II")}.

Notes

• The location of Delphi is one of many of the series’ influences by ancient Greek mythology and history. In antiquity, the Greek city of Delphi was home to the Delphic Oracle, a Sibyl who made predictions, delivered in song or verse, which may have been inspired or influenced by the breathing of vapors emitted from the ground. The Oracle was originally a Pythian priestess (named for the python, killed by Apollo). Over time, she became known as The Pythia.

• Initially, the Oracle was associated with Gaia, who became the foundation of the Olympian Gods. However, with the founding of a temple to the god Apollo, Delphi became more closely associated with him. This relationship between Delphi and Apollo is reflected in Delphi on Caprica being the home of the Arrow of Apollo.

• The University of British Columbia's Koerner Library was used as the Delphi base on Caprica in the episode "Colonial Day" (Source: The Official Companion).

External Links

• Spaceport article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Caprica Interplanetary SpaceportGemenon Interplanetary Spaceport

The Caprica Interplanetary Spaceport at night.

The Caprica Interplanetary Spaceport, also known as Trojan Spaceport, is a facility located within Caprica City, Caprica. It provides off-world flights to locations within the Twelve Worlds including destinations to Picon, Gemenon, and Tauron. The spaceport's official abbreviation is CCX ^{(CAP: "End of Line" and "Retribution")}.

In 58 BCH (42YR), members of a Soldiers of the One cell led by Barnabas Greeley, including Pann, Hippolyta and Lacy Rand, attempt to bomb the facility. The terror attack, however, is botched when Rand is caught by a spaceport security guard who is promptly shot by Pann. Unable to plant their explosives in time, the three STO flee in a getaway car driven by Keon Gatwick. The Caprican Global Defense Department is tasked with investigating the incident, with Agent Jordan Duram suspecting Sister Clarice Willow's involvement ^{(CAP: "Retribution")}.

Olaf Willow drops off Lacy Rand here for her flight to Gemenon ^{(CAP: "Things We Lock Away" and "Blowback")}

Notes

• The Caprica Interplanetary Spaceport was filmed at Simon Fraser University in Surrey, British Columbia. Photos of the location show set dressings labeling the port as "Caprica Inter-Colonial Spaceport".[1] The computer-generated exterior included architecture from the Incheon International Airport in South Korea.

• Several ships bearing identical or near-identical configurations to ships seen in Battlestar Galactica appear docked at the spaceport. Among them are luxury liners of the same design as the Olympic Carrier and a passenger ship bearing a striking resemblance to Colonial One. A Phoenix-type jet, unique to Caprica, is also visible in the exterior shot of CCX.

The Gemenon Interplanetary Spaceport (Gemonese: Portul Spațial Gemenon), also known as Oranu Spaceport, is a facility located within Oranu, Gemenon. It provides off-world flights to locations within the Twelve Worlds including destinations to Picon, Caprica, and Tauron. The spaceport's official abbreviation is UTGX ^{(CAP: "Blowback")}.

In 58 BCH (42YR), Lacy Rand and Odin Sinclair arrive here from their respective colonies. They are met by Diego, who leads them to the jump ship headed to the Monotheist Church enclave ^{(CAP: "Things We Lock Away" and "Blowback")}.

Notes

• The Gemenon Interplanetary Spaceport interiors were filmed at the Vancouver Public Library in Vancouver, British Columbia.
• While not stated in dialogue, the spaceport's name, Oranu Spaceport, is seen on the flight notice boards in "Blowback." Furthermore, in the podcast commentary for "Blowback," the spaceport is mentioned as the arrival point for Lacy Rand on Gemenon before she takes a connecting flight to the Soldiers of the One training retreat. Caprica executive Tom Lieber reaffirms the spaceport's location in Oranu, supporting the brief on-screen evidence.

References

Caprica City Spaceport

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The spaceport prior to the Fall of the Twelve Colonies.

Caprica City Spaceport is a spaceport located in Caprica City.

After returning from Aerilon, Gaius Baltar and a stewardess from an Aerilon Lines' flight and head towards his house for a sexual encounter prior to the Fall of the Twelve Colonies (Battlestar Galactica: Origins 4).

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