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[[Image:Ragtagfleet.jpg|thumb|right|The rag tag fleet of the Original Series traveling at sublight ([[Saga of a Star World]]).]]
'''Sublight''' propulsion is the opposite of the apparent faster-than-light propulsion used by many Colonial military and civilian vessels. Essentially, the term "sub-light engines" refers to a ship's conventional drives used for leaving and attaining planetary orbits or traveling short distances. All ships have some manner of sublight flight ability, but any ship that cannot perform a [[FTL|Jump]] has sub-light flight ability only. Sublight propulsion is convenient for intra-solar system travel (such as to or from the planets that comprise the [[Twelve Colonies]]), but cannot be used for travel outside of a solar system as the time to arrive at a destination may exceed the fuel supply of the ship or the lifetime of the crew that fly the ship.

==Sublight Spacecraft in the Re-Imagined Series==

Spacecraft in the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|re-imagined Battlestar Galactica]] universe with sub-light flight ability include the [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] fighter craft, and shuttles. There were also many other sublight vessels gathered by President [[Laura Roslin]] in the midst of the [[Cylon Attack]] in hopes of evacuating them to other civilian vessels with FTL ability. Unfortunately, an imminent Cylon attack did not allow such a transfer in time, and sublight ships such as the [[Botanical Cruiser]] were left behind to their doom as the FTL-capable ships made a rendezvous with [[Galactica type battlestar|battlestar]] ''[[Galactica]]'' at [[Ragnar Anchorage]].

==Sublight Spacecraft in the Original Series==

In the Original Series, [[Battlestar (TOS)|Battlestar]] ''[[Galactica (TOS)|Galactica]]'' was the only spacecraft in the refugee Colonial fleet with FTL (or "lightspeed") ability. Normally, ''Galactica'' would only travel as fast as the slowest sublight vessel in the rag-tag fleet.

==Fuel==

Ships in both Original Series and Re-imagined Series use the refined material known as [[tylium]] as fuel.

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