Battle at Galaxy's Edge

Battle at Galaxy's Edge
	Galactica exchanges fire with the basestar.]]
	Galactica exchanges fire with the basestar.]]
Summary
Conflict:	Thousand-Yahren War
Date:
Related Episode(s):
Place:	Planetary system at the edge of the galaxy
Result:	Colonial victory
Combatants
The Rag-tag Fleet of Colonial Survivors	Cylons
Commanders
Commander Adama	Command Centurion
Strength
Battlestar Galactica, two squadrons of Vipers	One Basestar, ~300 Cylon Raiders
Materiel Losses
Unknown number of Vipers.	Basestar and all Raiders
Casualties
Unknown	Heavy losses
[[Colonial battles chronology ({{{series}}})\|Battle Chronology]]

Battle to escape the Galaxy without any further Cylon pursuit.

While scouting for the source of a Gamma frequency transmission, a patrol of Vipers stumbled across a Cylon basestar. The patrol managed to escape without directly being detected, and reported back to Galactica.

Rather than force the fleet to make a lengthy detour, and tired of running, Commander Adama ordered an attack on the basestar. Adama believed that Galactica would need the element of surprise in order to succeed, so Apollo proposed a plan to blind the basestar's long range scanners by sneaking aboard using Baltar's captured Cylon Raider. Adama made a deal with Baltar in order to obtain more information about the basestar, in exchange for leaving Baltar behind on a habitable planet.

Apollo and Starbuck stumbled into a returning patrol of Cylon Raiders as they approached the basestar, which helped conceal their landing on the basestar. The basestar detected Galactica's Viper squadrons while Starbuck and Apollo were still on board, and scrambled all Raiders to engage. Boomer and Sheba led the Viper squadrons as they faced two to one odds, tying up the Raiders and drawing them away from the basestar. Apollo and Starbuck succeeded in their objective, and the basestar's long range scanners are blinded.

Galactica completed its flanking maneuver. Thanks to the basestar's disabled scanners Galactica got the first shots in the exchange, severely damaging the basestar. The capital ships exchanged fire, but Galactica's early advantage proved decisive and the basestar was destroyed.

Galactica suffered severe damage during the battle, including the loss of Dr. Wilker's lab, but reports seemed to indicate that the damage was under control. The remaining Cylon Raiders, lacking enough fuel to reach any assistance, made suicide runs towards Galactica only to be destroyed by her defensive weapons. Apollo and Starbuck returned to Galactica in Baltar's Raider, narrowly avoiding being destroyed for appearing to be another of the suicidal Cylon stragglers. With the basestar destroyed, Galactica was able to leave the galaxy without Cylon pursuit (The Hand of God).