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Resurrection Hub

2016-04-24T14:23:53Z

Frylock86: Title card

:''For information on the episode where this ship appears, see "[[The Hub]]."''
{{Ship Data
| image=Resurrection Hub - profile.jpg
| title= Resurrection Hub
| race= [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]]
| type= Military
| ftl= Yes
| role= Cylon resurrection command & control
| weapons= None
| status= Destroyed, [[Battle of the Resurrection Hub]], Approx. 3 ACH
| img=
}}
The [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]] '''Resurrection Hub''' is a space-borne facility which coordinates the [[Resurrection (RDM)|resurrection process]] among all of the Cylon [[Resurrection Ship|resurrection ships]] and downloading facilities, with what appears to be a substantial operational range between itself and the rest of the Cylon fleet. It was designed by the [[Final Five]] ([[TRS]]: "[[No Exit]]").

Additionally, the Hub itself functions as a resurrection facility, containing [[resurrection tank]]s and a large number of spare bodies. As the control center of all resurrections, it is vital to Cylon society. As a safeguard, the Hub periodically jumps to new locations and relays its position to the baseships' [[Hybrid]]s once completed. The Resurrection Hub is also where [[Boxing|boxed]] Cylon consciousnesses are stored.

The fact that several Cylons such as [[Gina Inviere]] face permanent death in the absence of a Resurrection Ship before the Hub's destruction, suggests that the Resurrection Ships act as a kind of 'booster' for the Hub's downloading effect, and the Hub's range and ability to download Cylons' consciousnesses on its own is limited; otherwise no Cylon would have died permanently before this point. Indeed, after obtaining information from Inviere, [[Gaius Baltar]] stated that the Resurrection Ships were created for the purpose of extending the range of the normal downloading process ([[TRS]]: "[[Resurrection Ship, Part I]]").

At the start of the [[Cylon Civil War]], [[Natalie]] plans to unbox [[Number Three (Downloaded copy)|D'Anna Biers]] in the hopes of learning the identities of the [[Final Five]] ([[TRS]]: "[[The Ties That Bind]]"). However, the [[Cavil]] faction retains possession of the Hub. When ''[[Demetrius]]'' returns to the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] with the renegade [[Basestar (RDM)|baseship]], Natalie offers Admiral [[William Adama|Adama]] and President [[Laura Roslin|Roslin]] the chance to destroy the Hub in return for their help unboxing D'Anna. Before the plan is carried out, Natalie is shot by [[Sharon Agathon]] and the basestar jumps after Roslin, determined to get some answers about her visions, has the Hybrid reconnected ([[TRS]]: "[[Guess What's Coming to Dinner?]]").

The Hybrid follows the Hub, jumping ever closer to it, and eventually catches up. In the ensuing [[Battle of the Resurrection Hub]], an uneasy alliance of Cylons and Colonials attack the Hub, with rebel humanoid Cylon pilots towing powered-down Colonial Vipers behind [[Heavy Raider]]s in order to conceal them. Once untethered, the Vipers attack the Hub's FTL drives, stranding it. As the rebel baseship and Heavy Raiders engage the two defending baseships, Karl Agathon and a [[Number Eight]] board the Hub to retrieve the restored D'Anna Biers. Once their Raptor clears the Hub, the Vipers fire nuclear missiles, destroying the Hub and at least one of the nearby basestars ([[TRS]]: "[[The Hub]]").

With the Hub's destruction, the Cylons can no longer resurrect and will know permanent death. The Significant Seven are unable to replace the Hub because it is the Final Five's technology and only they knew how it worked. The Cavil/Simon/Doral faction now faces extinction because they cannot resurrect or reproduce ([[TRS]]: "[[No Exit]]"). Thanks to the destruction of the Hub and resurrection, Cavil's faction is finally destroyed by ''Galactica'' along with [[The Colony]] in the [[Battle of The Colony]] and they can't resurrect to come back for revenge. Among the confirmed dead from that battle are Cavil, [[Sharon Valerii|Boomer]], and [[Tory Foster]]. Later [[Samuel Anders]] dies as well. Those deaths are permanant due to the loss of resurrection and with Tory and Anders' deaths, there is no way for resurrection to be rebuilt. If any Cylon survived that cataclysmic battle, they eventually died out of natural causes without the Hub around to resurrect them in new bodies ([[TRS]]: "[[Daybreak, Part I]]", "[[Daybreak, Part II]]").

== Related imagery ==

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Image:Resurrection Hub, Basestar guard.jpg|Hiding out in a nebula.
Image:The Hub up close.jpg|Up close.
Image:Hub FTL drive..jpg|FTL drive.
Image:The Hub receives critical damage.jpg|The Hub is hit by Viper-launched nukes...
Image:The Hub blows...jpg|...and takes out a basestar as it blows.
Image:411 Hub chamber.jpg|[[Number One|Cavil]] and [[Sharon Valerii|Boomer]] resurrect [[D'Anna]].
Image:Hub interior 2..jpg|[[Karl Agathon|Helo]] and a [[Number Eight]] observe the main resurrection chamber.
Image:Hub interior breached..jpg|A hallway.
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Triton

2014-08-02T13:37:50Z

Frylock86: Changed RDM to TRS

Please choose a specific reference for the name, '''Triton''':

*For information on the battlestar from the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Re-imagined Series]], see [[Triton (TRS)]].
*For information on the battlestar from the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]], see [[Triton (TOS)]].
*For information on the ship in the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] where [[Romo Lampkin]] lives, see [[Triton (civilian ship)]].

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Loki type heavy cruiser

2014-02-28T02:01:37Z

Frylock86: Fixed reference error preventing bottom gallery/references being shown.

{{Ship Data
|image= Loki.png
| title= ''Loki'' type heavy cruiser
| race= Colonial
| type= Military
| ftl= Yes
| propol= 9x sublight engines
| crew= Unknown
| role= Heavy cruiser <br /> Fleet support ship
| arm= 35x guns
| def= Unknown
| aircraft= Unknown
| facilities= 2x landing bays
}}
The ''' ''Loki'' type heavy cruiser''' is a lightly armed support ship in service with the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Colonial Fleet]] during the [[First Cylon War]], where two or three of these ships would be assigned to a [[battlestar group]] at any given time.

The ships are designed to receive goods and munitions, and transfer them to combat ships underway (''[[Blood & Chrome]]'').

==Design==
The heavy cruiser features a unique tri-hull design, joined by a massive domed structure on the dorsal side, and an "alligator head" on the front side. The alligator head contain all thirty-five of the ship's guns, with fifteen along the dorsal side, twelve along the ventral side, and four along both the port and starboard sides of the hull. The head also contains two landing bays along the sides of the hull, and communications antennas on the front. The massive tri-hulls contain a combined total of eighty-one cargo holds, and feature movable cranes along the top to assist with the transfer of goods and munitions.

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== Ships In Class ==

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! Name !! Number !! Status !! Last Seen
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| ''[[Loki]]'' || Unknown || Active, part of "Ghost Fleet", YR58 (42 BCH) || ''[[Blood & Chrome]]''
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| ''Cyclops'' || FCS-73 || Active, part of "Ghost Fleet", YR58 (42 BCH) || ''[[Blood & Chrome]]''
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| Unknown || Unknown || Active, part of "Ghost Fleet", YR58 (42 BCH) || ''[[Blood & Chrome]]''
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| Unknown || Unknown || Active, part of 75th battlestar group, YR58 (42 BCH) || ''[[Blood & Chrome]]''
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| Unknown || Unknown || Active, part of 75th battlestar group, YR58 (42 BCH) || ''[[Blood & Chrome]]''
|}

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== Notes ==
*The design was created by Richard Livingston.
*The CGI model used for production is labeled ''Cyclops'' (FCS-73) <ref>[http://www.deg3d.biz/featured_work/featured_work.html Deg3D]</ref>, which is barely legible in the header image for this article, despite the ship in reference referred as ''Loki''.
* Concept art indicates a length of ~{{Meters2Feet|719.32}} <ref>Cyclops concept art from Richard Livingston: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10202818626416714&set=p.10202818626416714&type=1&theater</ref>

==Gallery==
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Image:Heavy Cruiser Stich.png|Composite shot of the "alligator head" of a unnamed heavy cruiser.
Image:HC Aft.png|Aft view of a heavy cruiser hiding with the ghost fleet.
Image:HC Main Hull.png|Closeup of a heavy cruiser's main hull (lower right). Note the primary cannons.
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Colonial Fleet (TRS)/old

2014-02-09T21:39:28Z

Frylock86: /* Ships of the Colonial Fleet */ New layout.

:''This article discusses the military defense ships of the Twelve Colonies of Kobol in the [[Battlestar Galactica (TRS)|Re-imagined Series]] prior to their destruction. For information on the civilian ships that comprise the remains of humanity, see [[The Fleet (TRS)]].''

The '''Colonial Fleet''' is the primary armed service branch of the Colonial Forces<ref>In the episodes "[[Maelstrom]]" and "[[The Son Also Rises]]", official documents written for [[Socrata Thrace]] and [[Kara Thrace]], respectively, also name the armed services of the Colonies as the Colonial Forces.</ref> under the jurisdiction of the [[Ministry of Defense]] of the [[Twelve Colonies of Kobol]] prior to the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|fall of the Colonies]].

The Colonial Fleet operates in tandem with other branches of the Colonial Forces, like the [[Colonial Marine Corps]], and is augmented by a reserve, of which [[Lee Adama]] (CFR) is a member ([[TRS]]: "[[Final Cut]]"). A government military academy<ref>
The military academy was probably similar to [[Wikipedia:United States Naval Academy|Annapolis]] or [[Wikipedia:Britannia Royal Naval College|the Royal Naval College]].</ref> appears to be the primary training faculty and commission source for the fleet's officers. Many characters, including [[Saul Tigh]], [[Kara Thrace]], and [[Sharon Valerii]] attended (or claim to have attended) this academy. Moreover, a [[War College]] existed for more extensive education, which Lee Adama attended. The training of new recruits was under the Colonial Forces Training Command <ref>The letterheads in Kara Thrace's personnel file in "[[The Son Also Rises]]" show two documents issued by this command, each while she was in training status.</ref>.

Other identified Fleet installations include the [[Scorpion Fleet Shipyards]], the [[Caprican Colonial Forces Veteran's Hospital]], [[Ragnar Anchorage]], and [[Armistice Station]]. The Colonial Fleet was based at [[Picon Fleet Headquarters]].

==Fleet Status==
At the time of the Cylon holocaust, the Colonial Fleet includes approximately 120 battlestars<ref>In the [[Miniseries]], [[William Adama]] tells Lieutenant [[Kara Thrace]] when she's released from the brig, "We lost 30 battlestars in the opening attack." She responds, "That's a quarter of the fleet." This establishes that there were approximately 120 active battlestars in the Colonial Fleet at the time of the attack.</ref>, thousands of smaller vessels<ref>The A to Z of Battlestar Galactica, "Battlestar Galactica: The Official Magazine," June/July 2006, page 51.</ref>, numerous squadrons of [[Viper Mark VII|Vipers]] and [[Raptor]]s assigned to each, and various support ships <ref>According to Admiral [[Helena Cain|Cain]], two unnamed battlestars and three other ships (type unknown, but presumed military vessels) were destroyed at the [[Scorpion Fleet Shipyards]] ([[TRS]]: "[[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]"). This establishes the existence of non-battlestar support ships that would likely be assigned to a [[battlestar group]]. The support ships' roles can be presumed to be similar to those in an [[Wikipedia:aircraft carrier battle group|aircraft carrier battle group]]. The episode "[[Razor]]" shows [[Berzerk|one such ship]], but its exact role is unknown.</ref>. The Colonial Fleet also included modified [[Space Park]] vessels (although the single Space Park liner in ''Galactica''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> [[The Fleet (TRS)|civilian Fleet]] is very likely a civilian liner) <ref>Information formerly available on the [http://www.scifi.com/battlestar SciFi Channel Battlestar Galactica web site]. Some information on the official site has conflicted with aired content, so readers are warned that inconsistencies can occur.</ref>.

The Colonial Fleet was regarded by the Cylons to be a decisively superior force in a direct engagement. Therefore, the Cylons returned to a variation of their [[Cylon War]] [[Cylon Tactics|tactics]] by undermining the Colonial Fleet's [[CNP]] to attack ships equipped with the software from within ([[TRS]]: "[[Downloaded]]").

Battlestars mentioned destroyed in the Cylon attack include ''[[Triton (TRS)|Triton]]'', ''[[Solaria]]'', ''[[Columbia (TRS)|Columbia]]'', and ''[[Atlantia (TRS)|Atlantia]]'' (Admiral [[Nagala]]'s flagship). Upon Nagala's death, Commander [[William Adama]] of ''[[Galactica (TRS)|Galactica]]'' assumes command of the remains of the Colonial Fleet, ordering them to regroup at [[Ragnar Anchorage]] for a counter-attack. However, [[Pegasus (TRS)|virtually]] all capital ships of the Colonial Fleet are destroyed, leaving Commander Adama (after consultation with new President [[Laura Roslin]]) to choose retreat from the Cylons, opting instead to protect the surviving members of humanity.

Approximately a year after the Cylon destruction of the Twelve Colonies, the remnants of mankind colonize the world of [[New Caprica]] on orders of new President [[Gaius Baltar]]. The two remaining battlestars of the Colonial Fleet, ''Galactica'' and ''Pegasus'' (both manned by skeleton crews), orbit the planet and monitor for Cylon activity. A year after colonization, a Cylon fleet comprised of dozens of basestars finds the settlement. Unable to fight off an invasion of such magnitude, ''Galactica'' and ''Pegasus'' retreat to safety, leaving most of the civilian fleet under Cylon occupation on the surface of New Caprica ([[TRS]]: "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]").

In the [[Battle of New Caprica]] four months later, ''Galactica'' is severely damaged while escaping with the liberated civilians. ''Pegasus'', however, is destroyed after taking significant damage and ramming a [[Basestar (TRS)|basestar]] ([[TRS]]: "[[Exodus, Part II]]"). ''Galactica'' constitutes the only surviving vessel within the Colonial Fleet until it is destroyed ([[TRS]]: "[[Daybreak, Part II]]").

==Limits of Authority==
The Colonial Fleet is aware that they are a military force, not a police force. Commander [[William Adama]] warns new President [[Laura Roslin]] that mixing the two roles can turn the military against its own citizens. Acting commander [[Saul Tigh]] ignores this principle when attempting to stop an supply boycott in the [[The Fleet (TRS)|civilian Fleet]], leading to the deaths of four civilians aboard the ''[[Gideon]]'' ([[TRS]]: "[[Resistance]]").

Biological warfare is restricted in the Twelve Colonies, requiring presidential authorization ([[TRS]]: "[[A Measure of Salvation]]"). However, battlestar commanders have battlefield authority to use nuclear weapons ([[TRS]]: "[[The Eye of Jupiter]]").

==Ships of the Colonial Fleet==
===Battlestars===
Battlestars are the capitol ships of the Colonial Fleet. Introduced prior to the First Cylon War, they operate like an aircraft carrier in space, designed to launch a fighter screen, and then defend against an aggressor.
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! Image !! Class !! Description
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| [[File:Battlestar Galactica - Blood And Chrome Appearence.png|right|150px]] || [[Galactica type battlestar|''Galactica'' type]] || The ''Galactica'' type battlestar combines the functions of an aircraft carrier and a battleship. It was designed and deployed after the outbreak of hostilities between the Cylons and Colonials. A few ships of this class remain in service over 40 years after the end of the Cylon War; however, most were retired.
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| [[File:Pegasus High Res.jpg|right|150px]] || [[Mercury class battlestar|''Mercury'' class]] || Introduced some years after the First Cylon War, the ''Mercury'' class was designed to replace the aging ''Galactica'' type battlestars. It featured newer technologies, more automation, and could carry more Viper and Raptor support ships than its older predecessors.
|-
| [[File:Valkyrie CNP Virus Transmission.png|right|150px]] || [[Valkyrie type battlestar|''Valkyrie'' type]] || The ''Valkyrie'' type was deployed alongside a ''Galactica'' type battlestar nearly fifty years before the Fall of the Colonies during the First Cylon War. At the time, they appeared to function as a support vessel in battlestar groups, and not as flagships. In the years since, the type has become a forerunner in the Colonial Fleet, apparently outnumbering the Mercury class and remaining Galactica type battlestars.
|-
| [[File:Osiris Prep to Jump.png|right|150px]] || [[Orion Class Battlestar|''Orion'' class]] || The ''Orion'' class battlestar was first developed and deployed sometime before or during the First Cylon War. Also known as a "Pocket Battlestar" or "Half-Pint," the class appears to be among the smaller ships in the Colonial Fleet, dwarfed even by the ''Valkyrie'' type. It may be the smallest battlestar class to see service.
|}

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===Support Ships===
The Colonial Fleet has employed numerous combat and non-combat support ships to supplement the battlestar capitol ships. These include fleet tenders, escorts, cruisers, fuel tyliers, hospital ships, and various other specialized vessels.
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| [[File:HC Aft.png|right|150px]] || [[Loki type heavy cruiser|''Loki'' type heavy cruiser]] || The ''Loki'' type heavy cruiser is a lightly armed support ship in service with the Colonial Fleet during the First Cylon War, where two or three of these ships would be assigned to a battlestar group at any given time. The ships are designed to receive goods and munitions, and transfer them to combat ships underway.
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| [[File:Berzerk Thumb.png|right|150px]] || [[Berzerk type cruiser|''Berzerk'' type]] || The ''Berzerk'' type served as escorts for their respective battlestar groups. They first entered service circa the First Cylon War, and were a mainstay in the fleet nearly 40 years later.
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| [[File:Unknown Wedge Vessel.jpg|right|150px]] || [[Wedge-shaped vessel|"''Defender''" type]] || The "''Wedge''" type also known as a "''Defender''" type is a support vessel in service with the Colonial Fleet by the tenth year of the First Cylon War.
|-
| [[File:Catamaran.png|right|150px]] || [[Unnamed_battlestars#.22Catamaran.22_type|"''Catamaran''" type]] || The "''Catamaran''" type was a support ship in service during the First Cylon War. It shared many design similarities with the ''Orion'' class battlestar.
|-
| [[File:White ship.png|right|150px]] || [[Unnamed_battlestars#.22Watersled.22_type|"''Watersled''" type]] || The "''Watersled''" type was a support ship in service during the First Cylon War. It featured two large pods on either side of the ship.
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| [[File:Virgonexpressdock 102 1080i.jpg|right|150px]] || [[Flattop|"''Flattop''" type]] || The "''Flattop''" type was a mobile recover/repair facility. During the First Cylon War, they were attached to battlestar groups when needed and provided rescue and salvage to stranded vessels, along with firefighting assistance. Nearly 40 years after, they are still in service with the Colonial Fleet, and have been used by the civilian sector.
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| [[File:Refinery Ship.jpg|right|150px]] || [[Refinery Ship|Tylium refinery ships]] || The Colonial tyliers provide fuel to deployed Fleet ships underway, as well as to their assigned aircraft. Tyliers and the ships they refuel sail side by side as fuel hoses are extended across guide wires.
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| [[File:Striker cropped 1080i.jpg|right|150px]] || [[Celestra type|''Celestra'' type]] || Celestra type ships are a class of ship used in the Twelve Colonies at least as early as the First Cylon War, during which they served an unknown role assisting battlestar groups.
|}

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===Auxiliary Vessels===
Auxiliary vessels played an important part in the Colonial Fleet, and were pivotal in keeping capitol ships protected during combat. They had a multitude of functions from assault to recon, and no one fleet would survive without them.
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| [[File:MkIIFire.jpg|right|150px]] || [[Viper Mark II]] || The Viper Mark II is a single seat fighter aerospace craft used by the Colonial Fleet during the First Cylon War. The fighter served with distinction, proving to be a capable fighting vehicle and winning renown across the Twelve Colonies; the Mark II is regarded as instrumental in ensuring that the Colonials did not lose the original Cylon War.
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| [[File:Viper-mark-III2.png|right|150px]] || [[Viper Mark III]] || The Viper Mark III is a fighter craft used by the Colonial Fleet in the latter part of the Cylon War. The Mark III retains the same shape and layout as the Mark II, however is slightly larger than the predecessor. It featured a drab grey paint scheme with red accents along the wings and nose, and identification numbers printed along the front side and along the vertical stabilizer.
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| [[File:Mk VII, stalking asteroid field.jpg|right|150px]] || [[Viper Mark VII]] || The Viper Mark VII is the Colonial Fleet's latest update to the venerable Viper Mark II primary space superiority fighter / attack craft. Capable of atmospheric flight, the Mark VII is the front-line variant of the Viper design, retaining the Mark II's general layout but adding fully integrated avionics that provide superior battle management and flight information for the pilot.
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| [[File:Raptor Armed.jpg|right|150px]] || [[Raptor]] || The Raptor is a vehicle utilized by the Colonial military. A versatile craft, it is designed to perform multiple roles, but the Raptor most commonly takes part in reconnaissance and scouting operations. There have been at least two variants of this design in use by the Colonials since the outbrake of hostilities with the Cylons.
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| [[File:Stealth Star profile.jpg|right|150px]] || [[Stealthstar]] || The Stealthstar is a specialized Colonial recon craft used prior to the Fall of the Colonies. It takes its design from the Viper Mk. VII.
|-
| [[File:Shuttle.png|right|150px]] || [[Atmospheric_shuttle|Atmospheric Shuttles]] || Atmospheric shuttles are smaller vessels employed by the Colonials for ship to ship, ship to planet, and planet to ship transport. There are at least two different models, with one dating back to the First Cylon War.
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| [[File:Troop Transport.PNG|right|150px]] || Troop Transports || Troop transports were modified heavy cargo ships meant for transporting large numbers of Colonial servicemen to their assignments.
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** Military Ranks (RDM)|Colonial Fleet Ranks
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Osiris

2014-01-26T16:50:01Z

Frylock86: Minor adjustments.

{{Ship Data
| image= Osiris Prep to Jump.png
| title= ''Osiris'' (0913)
| race= Colonial
| type= Military
| co= Commander [[Ozar]] (At time of loss)
| crew = ~150 (minus pilots)
| ftl= Yes
| propol = 2x fuselage housed sublight engines <br /> 2x nacelle housed sublight engines
| role= Battleship / Carrier <br> Stealth recon
| arm= 12x [[Battery#Gun_Clusters|primary guns]] <br> ~32x missile-[[Battery#Close-in_Weapon_Systems|CIWS]] <br> ~4x [[missile tubes]]
| def= Flak <br /> DRADIS absorbent hull plating
| aircraft= Small Viper [[Viper Mark III|Mk. III]] detachment <br /> Small [[Raptor]] detachment
| facilities= 1x flight deck <br /> Viper launch tubes
| status= Destroyed, [[Battle of Djerba]], YR58 (42 years [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|BCH]])
| patch= Osiris Gold.png
}}

'''''Osiris''''' (0913) was an [[Orion Class Battlestar|''Orion'' class "pocket battlestar"]]<ref>Designation revealed on the ship's patch.</ref> in the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Colonial Fleet]], during the First [[Cylon War]]. It served in a semi-secretive role during the war, having been hidden away by Colonial admiralty. At the time of its destruction, ''Osiris'' was attached to the 54th [[Battlestar Group]].

==History==
''Osiris'' first entered service sometime before the tenth year of the First Cylon War, but was reported as destroyed in an earlier engagement with Cylon forces. However, in reality the ship was hiding in Cylon-held space as part of a secret "ghost fleet" the Colonial admiralty was assembling as part of an effort to strike at the Cylons.

Sometime after being hidden away, ''Osiris'' is tasked by the admiralty for a combat jump to [[Djerba]], as part of a mission to deliver false intelligence to the Cylons in preparation for a new Colonial [[Ghost Fleet Offensive|offensive]].

==Battle of Djerba==
:''Main article: [[Battle of Djerba]]''

''Osiris'' successfully completes its jump to Djerba, but a Cylon basestar jumps in shortly afterwards. Initially the Cylon DRADIS cannot detect the ship due to its hull DRADIS-absorbing qualities, but the ship is eventually located when Commander Ozar pushes ahead with the mission, and powers up for attack.

The ship is quickly overwhelmed by the more powerful basestar, and suffers numerous hits in the initial assault. Commander Ozar gives the order to launch the nuclear warheads, but the missile launch systems were compromised by a prior hit. In order to protect those on the planet, Ozar gives the order to charge the basestar, and requests manual control of the warheads. Not long after, a massive burst of radiation was detected, and [[DRADIS]] contact with both vessels was lost. Days later, a Colonial [[SAR]] mission located two survivors, Raptor pilot Ensign [[William Adama]], and his ECO, Junior Lieutenant [[Coker Fasjovik]], who were assigned to the mission on the surface of Djerba (''[[Blood and Chrome]]'').

== Crew ==
*Commander [[Ozar]] - Commanding officer
* Unnamed Executive Officer played by [[Ty Olsson]]
* Unnamed [[Marine]] played by [[Leo Li Chiang]]

=== Detached crew ===
*Lieutenant [[Zachary Elias]] - Viper pilot, battlestar ''[[Valkyrie]]''
*Lieutenant [[Jim Kirby|Jim "Sunshine" Kirby]] - Viper pilot, battlestar ''[[Valkyrie]]''

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== Related Imagery ==

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Image:Osiris 1.png|[[Raptor 909]] approaches ''Osiris''.
Image:Osiris 2.png|''Osiris'' among the "ghost fleet."
Image:Djerba 2.png|''Osiris'' approaching Djerba.
Image:Osiris 4.png|''Osiris'''s point defense batteries.
Image:Osiris 3.png|''Osiris'' CIC.
File:Battlstar_Osiris_patch.png|''Osiris'' uniform patch.
Image:Osiris Firing Point Defense Guns.png|''Osiris'' fires its CIWS.
Image:Osiris Pummeled.png|''Osiris'' taking heavy damage from Cylon missile attacks.
Image:Osiris Loses An Engine.png|''Osiris'', after loosing its starboard engine nacelle.
Image:Osiris Suicide Run.png|''Osiris'' maneuvering through flak and missiles on one engine. Even damaged, it is nimble.
Image:Osiris Crash.png|''Osiris'' crashes into a basestar...
Image:Osiris Final Resting Place.png|...comes to a stop...
Image:Osiris Nuke Detonation.png|...and triggers its nuclear warheads...
Image:Osiris BOOM.png|...taking the basestar with it.
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The Twelve Colonies of Kobol

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:''This article discusses the Twelve Colonies of the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Re-imagined Series]]. See [[The Twelve Colonies of Man]] for information on the Colonies of the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]].''

[[File:Colonialseal.png|210px|right|[[Colonial Seal|Seal]] of the Twelve Colonies.]]
'''The Twelve Colonies of Kobol''' are twelve distinct worlds, located in a remote part of our Galaxy. For 2,000 years they were home to the descendants of humans participating in the exodus of [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]].<ref>Mentioned at [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/11953827897 Serge's twitter account], given that Serge's account corresponds to 58 years before [[The Fall]].</ref> For most of the two millennia that these worlds were inhabited, the Twelve Colonies consisted of multiple sovereign states, but during the final fifty-two years leading up to the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]], all twelve comprised a single state known as the United Colonies of Kobol ([[TRS]]: "[[Colonial Day]]")<ref>The formal "United Colonies of Kobol" was never used on-screen, and appears only on the [[Battlestar Galactica Map of the 12 Colonies]].</ref>.

After the settlement, the colonies slowly began to prosper and eventually gave birth to a race of cybernetic lifeforms, known as [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]]. Only a few years after their creation, the Cylons raged a devastating war on their creators' home planets, which ultimately led to the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]]. Wasted and in ruins, the once prosperous homeworlds of humanity were finally abandoned by both humans and Cylons.
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==Star System==
:''Note: A portion of the information listed below is taken from the [[Battlestar_Wiki:Canon#Official|official]], "quasi-canon" [[Battlestar Galactica Map of the 12 Colonies]]'' <ref name="io9">{{cite_web|url=http://io9.com/5742034/a-detailed-map-of-battlestar-galacticas-twelve-colonies?skyline=true&s=i|title=Detailed Map Of Battlestar Galactica's Twelve Colonies|date=24 January 2010|accessdate=29 January 2011|last=Anders|first=Charlie Jane|format=|language=English}}</ref>.

The Twelve Colonies are situated within the star system Cyrannus, located some 2,000 light years from Kobol, where humanity presumedly first evolved. All in all, Cyrannus is a vast and complex system, comprised of four <ref>In [[TRS]]: "[[The Plan]]," a Cylon [[Hybrid]] indicates that the Colonies orbit three stars. </ref> stars: Helios Alpha, Helios Beta, Helios Gamma, and Helios Delta. Each star is orbited by its own family of planets and other astronomical bodies. The stars come together to form two binary systems (Alpha/Beta and Gamma/Delta). Both pairs of stars then orbit each other around a third, central [[w:Barycentric coordinates (astronomy)|barycenter]] every 546,892 years. Both binary systems are separated by 0.16 [[w:Light-year|light years]] or 10,091 Stellar Units, shortened to SU (In this case, 1 SU being equal to the average distance between Helios Alpha and the barycenter of the Caprica-Gemenon binary, roughly 150 million km).

===Helios Alpha===
Helios Alpha is a [[w:Main sequence|main sequence star]] of spectral class G2V and has a [[w:Solar mass|mass]] of 1.0, and was the first system settled by the Colonials after the exodus from Kobol, having first set foot on Gemenon. It shares its orbit with Helios Beta at a distance of 63 SU. The pair complete an orbit once every 373 years.

* Planets and Other Astronomical Bodies
** Icarus - A small planet located close to the star. It has a molten surface which makes mining and exploration impossible.
** Picon - This colony has an inclined orbit.
** [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] and Gemenon - These two colonies form a binary planet.
** [[Tauron (RDM)|Tauron]] - One of only three colonies to feature a moon, named Minos. It is the only moon with a ring, and home to several mining and scientific outposts.
** Erebos asteroid belt - This asteroid belt is rich in minerals, which were mined by Tauran prospectors for hundreds of years.
** Zeus - A gas giant located at the outer edge of the system. This gas giant is the largest planet in the four systems, with a diameter of 153,000 km at the equator. The planet has 74 moons, the largest of which are Nike and Hebe. Constant upper atmosphere lightning creates an aurora effect that can be seen with the naked eye.
** Persephone - Classified as a dwarf planet, Persephone is the outermost planet in the system and features an inclined and eccentric orbit. Colonial scientists believe this planet could be an escaped moon of Zeus.

This system is unique in the fact that Caprica and Gemenon share an orbit around a common barycenter. According to the Colonial map, the planets orbit each other once every 28.2 days, and are separated by a distance of 493,000 km. Based on these numbers, [[w:Kepler%27s_laws_of_planetary_motion#Third_law|Kepler's Third Law]] learns us that the combined mass of these colonies is about twice that of Earth.

===Helios Beta===
Helios Beta is a main sequence star of spectral class K1V and has a mass of 0.79. It was the second system settled by the Colonials after the exodus from Kobol. It shares its orbit with Helios Alpha at a distance of 63 SU. The pair complete an orbit once every 373 years.

* Planets and Other Astronomical Bodies
** [[Troy (RDM)|Troy]] - A small, metal-rich planet, mined extensively by Virgon and Leonis since the founding of those two colonies.
** Leonis - The largest inhabited planet of the Twelve Colonies.
** [[Pallas]] - A small world with an inclined orbit once believed to hold a life sustaining atmosphere. It is no longer tectonically active. However, the Colonials have set up several small colonies and a military research station on the planet. Efforts to [[w:Terraforming|kobolform]] the planet have failed.
** Ouranos asteroid belt - This dense asteroid belt separates long-time rivals Leonis and Virgon, and has been a source of minerals for both colonies.
** Virgon - One of only three colonies to feature a moon, named Hibernia, and the only naturally habitable moon in the 12 Colonies. It was settled several centuries ago by the Celtans, an ethnic group opposed to Virgon rule.
** Hera - A gas giant, approximately 75,000 km in diameter, and the third largest planet in the Cyrannus system. It has 29 moons, the largest of which are Iris and Eubora.

===Helios Gamma===
Helios Gamma is a main sequence star of spectral class G9V and has a mass of 0.89. It was presumably the third system settled by the Colonials. Helios Gamma shares its orbit with Helios Delta at a distance of 70 SU, and completes an orbit once every 456 years.

* Planets and Other Astronomical Bodies
** Thanatos - This planet, named after the god of death, has a corrosive 'sulphur' dioxide atmosphere and is tidally locked to its star.
** Acheron asteroid belt - A broad asteroid belt, named after Sagittaron's largest river.
** Libran - Features two small moons, Herse and Pandrossos, which are thought to be captured asteroids. The moons orbit so close to each other, they periodically swap positions.
** Scorpia - Home to the Scorpia Fleet ship yards. The planet features a half ring, thought to be a moon that broke apart nearly 100,000 years ago.
** [[Sagittaron|Sagittaron]] - A barren, mountainous world.
** Ophion - A frigid gas giant with a diameter of 51,000 km, and an inclined orbit. The planet has 14 moons, all smaller than 10 km in diameter. Studies on the planet have Colonial scientists thinking that Ragnar was originally a member of the Helios Gamma system, while Ophion was not. Scientists think that Ophion was a rogue planet that passed close to Ragnar and was caught by the star, pushing Ragnar into its current orbit around the entire Gamma/Delta system.

===Helios Delta===
Helios Delta is a reddish main sequence star of spectral class K2V and has a mass of 0.74. It was the last of the four systems to be settled by the Colonials. Helios Delta shares its orbit with Helios Gamma at a distance of 70 SU, and completes an orbit once every 456 years.

* Planets and Other Astronomical Bodies
** Phoebe - A small world with a high surface temperature and thin atmosphere.
** Styx - A planet with a dense, reducing atmosphere of carbon dioxide and sulfides.
** Aeolus asteroid belt - This asteroid belt features 'gaps', likely caused by tidal influences with Hestia and its two orbital companions.
** Aerilon, Hestia, and Canceron - These planets share the same orbit.
*** Hestia - The smallest gas giant in the Cyrannian star system, Hestia only has a diameter of 47,000 km. It has 17 moons, the largest of which, Kronos and Rhea, share the same orbit.
** [[Aquaria (RDM)|Aquaria]] - An arctic world, with the most inclined orbit of all the Twelve Colonies.

This system is unique in the fact that Aerilon, Hestia, and Canceron share the same orbit. The two colonies are positioned at Hestia's [[w:Lagrangian_point|Lagrangian points]], meaning that the gravitational pull of Helios Delta and Hestia are balanced, allowing two smaller bodies (Aerilon and Canceron) to share the same orbit in a "fixed" position, maintaining the same distance apart at all times. Aerilon sits at the (leading) L4 point, and Canceron at the (trailing) L5 point.

* [[Ragnar]] - A gas giant with a diameter of 138,000 km, orbits the entire Helios Gamma and Delta system in a 899.75 year period. It is about 110 SU away from the central barycenter. The Colonials use the planet as host to [[Ragnar Anchorage]], an orbital refueling station and naval armory that distills hydrocarbons from the planet's upper atmosphere. It has one moon, Sigurd. During the Fall of the Colonies, Ragnar was used as cover by the battlestar ''[[Galactica]]'', and later her [[The Fleet (RDM)|fleet]], after escaping the destruction of Caprica. It would be the last world of the Cyrannian system that most of the surviving Colonials would lay eyes on. Hours after arriving, ''Galactica'' took the gathered fleet, [[Battle_of_Ragnar_Anchorage|and fled the system]], never to return.

===Notes===
* The fact that the Colonies are located within one system originates from a [http://web.archive.org/web/20080620084336/http://blog.scifi.com/battlestar/archives/2005/01/#a000016 blog entry] by Ronald D. Moore.
* Jane Espenson revealed on Twitter that the Colonies are within a star cluster and share some orbits. The latter fact was finally shown to be true in the TV version of the [[Caprica pilot#Differences between the DVD and TV Cut|series premiere]] of ''Caprica''.
* The configuration of the Twelve Colonies was inspired by the real world star system [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epsilon_Lyrae Epsilon Lyrae], a famous "double-double" star system located ~162 light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Lyra. <ref>[http://io9.com/5742034/a-detailed-map-of-battlestar-galacticas-twelve-colonies?skyline=true&s=i io9 - A Detailed Map of Battlestar Galactica's Twelve Colonies]</ref>
* Before the semi-canonical figure mentioned on the map, the original [[Miniseries]] script stated a pre-Fall population of about 12 billion. The webisodes "[[The Resistance]]" stated the death of 20 billion people caused by the Cylons.
*Serge's twitter [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/17543741200 mentions] that the exodus from Kobol is believed to be true by the inhabitants of the Twelve Colonies and it was from them that animals such as cats as well as dogs came to the Colonies. Furthermore, the [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/13899240134 twelve planets] are populated with a few other worlds in the star cluster, with the settled colonies [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/12891949300 already] possessing some animal as well as plant life. Furthermore, Serge [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/17543813025 states] that not all the colonies are democracies, but rather each has their own style of government. ([[TRS]]: [[Serge's Twitter]])
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==History==
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[[Image:Home pt1-Kobol.jpg|thumb|[[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]], the ancient homeworld of humanity.]]
About 2,000 years prior to the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]], the last twelve tribes of [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]] left their planet<ref>According to dialogue from "[[Torn]]", "[[A Measure of Salvation]]" and "[[The Eye of Jupiter]]", the [[Thirteenth Tribe (RDM)|Thirteenth Tribe]] left Kobol some 2,000 years ''before'' the twelve tribes. The Scroll of [[Pythia]] is dated as written 3,600 years before the last exodus of Kobol, and chronicles the Thirteenth Tribe's exodus.</ref> over conflicts with their [[Religion in the Twelve Colonies#The Lords of Kobol|gods]], as well as some sort of calamity ([[TRS]]: "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]").

The tribes settled on twelve worlds some distance away ([[TRS]]: "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]"). The tribes' namesakes and icons originally corresponded to the twelve signs of the ancient tribes, although these [[wikipedia:Zodiac|names]] drifted over time ([[TRS]]: "[[Home, Part II]]").<ref>Flag matches with Colonies from "Encyclopedia Galactica." ''[[Battlestar Galactica: The Official Magazine]]''. Feb./Mar. 2006: 50-55.</ref>

The early Colonies lived (and fought) more as sovereign nations. Some (particularly [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]]) prospered, while others (such as [[Sagittaron]] and [[Aerilon]]) were often considered lessers. For labor forces as well as wars fought among each other, humanity created the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]]. When these [[Cylon Centurion Model 0005|early models]] rebelled, the Colonies unified their governments under the [[Articles of Colonization]] at some point during the [[Cylon War]] into a federal republic known as the '''Twelve Colonies of Kobol'''.

The official symbol of the Twelve Colonies was the [[Colonial seal]]. The nation also had a distinctive [[Colonial anthem|anthem]].

===Downfall===
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[[Image:Bsyashuman.jpg|thumb|[[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]], shortly before its downfall.]]
40 years after the end of the devastating war, the Cylons return and sow destruction among the worlds of their creators ([[TRS]]: [[Miniseries]], "[[The Plan]]"). For some time the Twelve Colonies remain occupied by Cylon forces and a [[Caprica resistance|small group of human survivors]]. After nine months, humanity and the Cylons leave the Cyrannus system forever ([[TRS]]: "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]").

Out of all Colonial inhabitants, only about 55,000 survive the first days of the holocaust. Most of them leave the Colonies behind in two small [[The Fleet (RDM)|fugitive fleets]]. The fleet of the [[Battlestar (RDM)|battlestar]] ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' eventually encounters both [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]], as well as the original Thirteenth Colony [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]]. Some time after that, and after the destruction of the [[The Colony|the Cylon home world]], they settle on a [[Earth (RDM)#A New Earth|beautiful, rich world]], leaving behind the baggage of their Colonial heritage. ([[TRS]]: [[Miniseries]], "[[Razor]]", "[[Daybreak, Part II]]")

===Fate===
The ultimate fate of the Twelve Colonies 150,000 years after [[The Fall]] is unknown. Presumably, after several hundred years, their climates and surfaces would degrade until they resemble the original [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]].

It can be presumed that by present-day radiation levels would have lowered to a point where life would be allowed to flourish once again. But few, if any, traces would remain of the human civilizations that once thrived upon them, excluding remains in space, such as the remnants of [[Scorpion Fleet Shipyards]] or [[Ragnar Anchorage]].
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==Aerilon==
{{mainarticle|Aerilon}}
[[Image:Aerilon.jpg|right]]
'''Ancient Name''': [[wikipedia:Aries (constellation)|Aries]]

'''Alternative Name''': Aerelon

'''Population''': 1.2 billion

'''Patron God''': Demeter

'''Capital''': Gaoth

'''Major Cities''': Gaoth, Promethea

'''Attractions''': University of Aerilon, Promethea A & M

'''Pyramid Teams''': Aerilon Threshers, Promethea Golden Horns

Aerilon was primarily an agricultural world. It was considered to be the "food basket" of the Twelve Colonies and ranked among its poorest members ([[TRS]]: "[[Dirty Hands]]"). The planet shares an orbit with the gas giant Hestia and Canceron, sitting in Hestia's leading (L4) libratian point in the Helios Delta system.

About all of the planet's landmasses are situated in the temperate zones, featuring open and rolling landscapes offering little variation in altitude. There are few inland waterways, and the shorelines consist mostly of rocky bluffs with only mangrove swamps breaking the monotomy near the equador. To top it the planet offers hostile seas with no useful harbors at its coasts.

Aerilon has a mild climate and reliable seasons, with plentiful rain so catch basins and wells are sufficiently filled so fresh water is readily available despite the lack of rivers and lakes.

==Aquaria==
{{mainarticle|Aquaria (RDM)}}
[[Image:Aquaria.jpg|right]]
'''Ancient Name''': [[wikipedia:Aquarius (constellation)|Aquarius]]

'''Alternative Name''': Aquarion

'''Population''': 25,000

'''Patron God''': Hermes

'''Capital''': None

'''Major Cities''': Heim

'''Attractions''': Kyros Summerfest

'''Pyramid Teams''': None

Aquaria, the outermost planet in the Helios Delta system, follows a highly inclined orbit around its sun, establishing an arctic climate on this world. The planet's summer lasts only a few pleasant weeks around the time of closest approach to Helios Delta.

The planet surface is about entirely covered by vast, frigid oceans, punctuated with violently erupting volcanoes breaking through the sea surface. Only one land mass, named Kyros, is large enough to sustain human habitation. Volcanoes occupy each end of this crescent-shaped continent, which consist mostly of volcanic tephra covered in moss and dotted by exotic native plantlife.

Most people live in Heim, a town at the centre of the island facing what would be the harbor if the seas weren't so frigid. Only a few people live outside the town, tending the infrastructure needed for survival, like windmills, hydroponics, and solar panels. Due to the lack of wood, most structures are made of tin or stone.

==Canceron==
[[Image:Canceron.jpg|right]]
[[Image:Canceron.png|thumb|right|Canceron from orbit.]]
'''Ancient Name''': [[wikipedia:Cancer (constellation)|Cancer]]

'''Population''': 6.7 billion

'''Patron God''': Hephaestus

'''Capital''': Hades

'''Major Cities''': Hades, Prommos, Mangala

'''Attractions''': Prommos, Ruby Range, Kor Yaz Glacier

'''Pyramid Teams''': Canceron Hydras, Hades Vice, Mangala Krill

Canceron is the most populous planet in the twelve worlds. It is located in the Helios Delta system, sharing its orbit with two other planets, one of them being Aerilon. The planet was well known for its beaches and had at least one large coastal metropolis ([[TRS]]: "[[The Plan]]"). The capital was Hades.<ref name="capitals1">[http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/ Serge's twitter account] mentioned the capitals of Gemenon, Virgon, Leonis, Sagittaron, Scorpia, Canceron and Aerilon in [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/10545377704 this tweet].</ref>

Prior to the [[First Cylon War]], Canceron was a very overpopulated and poor colony. Canceron's major cities such as Hades and Mangala were known to have large slums. Its large population earned Canceron the nickname "The Largest Democracy" within the colonies, though some believed the government was nothing more than a corrupt Oligarchy.<ref>[http://showblogs.syfy.com/caprican/sports/canceron-wants-a-fourth-pyramid-team.php ''The Caprican'' article: "Canceron Wants a Fourth Pyramid Team"].</ref> <ref>[http://showblogs.syfy.com/caprican/opinion/just-wondering-about-that-military-roadblock-thing.php ''The Caprican'' article: "Just Wondering About That Military Roadblock Thing"]</ref>

During the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attack]], Canceron is hit with at least three nuclear devices. One of the [[Luxury liner | passenger liners]] within [[The Fleet (RDM)|the fleet]], ''[[Pyxis]]'', is one of the last ships that escapes this world when the attack began. Aboard is the [[Number Six]] copy [[Shelly Godfrey]] ([[TRS]]: "[[The Plan]]").

[[Robin Wenutu]] is the Canceron delegate to the first [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]] after the Fall.

===Natives===
*[[Lexon]]
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==Caprica==
{{mainarticle|Caprica (RDM)}}
[[Image:Caprica.jpg|right]]
[[Image:Caprica from Orbit.jpg|right|thumb|[[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] from orbit.]]
[[Image:Caprica City, The Plan.jpg|thumb|right|Caprica City.]]
[[Image:Gemenon from Caprica City.jpg|thumb|right|The view of Gemenon from Caprica City.]]
'''Ancient Name''': [[w:Capricornus|Capricorn]]

'''Population''': 4.9 billion

'''Patron God''': Apollo

'''Official Language''': Caprican

'''Capital''': [[Caprica City]]

'''Major Cities''': Caprica City, [[Delphi]], Phoebus

'''Attractions''': [[Delphi Museum of the Colonies]], [[Atlas Arena]], [[Caprica_Interplanetary_Spaceport|Caprica Interplanetary Spaceport]], [[Graystone Industries]], Apollo University, [[Pantheon_Bridge|Pantheon Bridge]], Ionian Islands, Orpheus Park

'''Pyramid Teams''': [[Caprica City Buccaneers]], Delphi Legion, Phoebus Suns

Caprica was a lush blue-green planet, covered by large oceans and continents. It shares its orbit with Gemenon around a common barycenter, and can often be seen in the skies above the Caprican landscape. Depending on its orbit, the Caprican night can almost be negated by intense planetshine from Gemenon, although not as bright as the Caprican sun, there is enough light reflected back to effectively turn night into day ([[TRS]]: [[You Can't Go Home Again]], [[Litmus]]). Of curious note, Caprica features landmasses similar to a world the Colonials would eventually settle and come to call Earth.

Caprica was regarded as the center of Colonial civilization, even long before the [[First Cylon War]]. [[Graystone Industries]] was one of the Colonies' most influential technology developers and had a hand in creating the very [[U-87|first Cylons]]. Some 60 years before [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|the Fall]], Caprica was also plagued by [[Soldiers of the One | religiously]] motivated terrorism ([[CAP]]: [[Caprica pilot|Pilot]]). After the war, the planet was once again the seat of politics, culture, art, science, learning and even the Colonial government. It was also one of the wealthiest colonies ([[TRS]]: "[[Epiphanies]]", "[[Dirty Hands]]").

During the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attack]], Caprica and it's surrounding airspace, played host to numerous skirmishes, one of which would eventually determine the outcome of the war. Caprica herself, comes under heavy attack from Cylon forces right from the start. With numerous basestars jumping directly into orbit, they are quickly able to gain the upper hand. At least four [[Battlestar (RDM)|battlestars]], including the ''Yashuman'' and ''Valkyrie'', are quickly dispatched, and numerous targets, including the once proud Caprica City, are annihilated from orbit by nuclear weapons ([[TRS]]: [[Miniseries]], "[[The Plan]]"). The attacks leave the civilian shipping lanes in the vicinity of Caprica/Gemenon shut down, but the civilian ships are relatively ignored in the opening moments of the attack, in favor of military targets. This gives them time to gather and flee the area, picking up other survivors along the way. Eventually the fleet amasses over 100 ships of all kinds, both civilian and homeless military support craft. However, only 75 FTL capable ships are able to flee Caprican airspace, leaving the sub-lights, and their passengers, at the hands of the Cylons.

At the time of the attack, the ''Galactica'' was positioned 3 hours away, and was not able to partake in the defense of its home planet. It wasn't long, however, before the Cylons located its position, and attempted to take it out. After being struck by a nuclear warhead, suffering major damage, and not having anything to shoot with, but still in one piece, the ''Galactica'' had no choice but to retreat to the relative safety of the gas giant, [[Ragnar]] ([[TRS]]: [[Miniseries]]), leaving Caprica, and the remaining survivors, completely defenseless and on their own.

After the space-faring Colonials flee, Caprica is occupied by [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon forces]], attempting to undo the damage they've done, and colonize the planet themselves. They often clash with [[Caprica resistance|human survivors]] within the Colonies, and fight on this world for several weeks. The occupation and resistance both end roughly nine months after the attack and the planet is left for good ([[TRS]]: "[[33]]", "[[Resistance]]", "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]", "[[The Plan]]").

6,250 people from Caprica join the [[Laura Roslin faction]] over [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]] ([[TRS]]: "[[Home, Part I]]"). The overall Caprican survivor population, possibly significantly greater, is unknown (see analysis [[The Fleet (RDM)#Demographics|here]]). An attempted settlement by the survivors of the holocaust is named [[New Caprica]] in honor of the original colony ([[TRS]]: "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]").

The first [[Quorum of Twelve (TRS)|Quorum of Twelve]] delegate after the Fall is [[Gaius Baltar]]. Years later this spot is taken by [[Lee Adama]], the last Quroum delegate from that colony before Delegate Adama establishes the [[Quorum of Ship's Captains]] in the wake of the mass-execution of the Quorum during [[Gaeta's Mutiny]] ([[TRS]]: "[[Islanded in a Stream of Stars]]").

===Natives===
* [[William Adama | William]], [[Tamara Adama|Tamara]], [[Zak Adama|Zak]] and [[Lee Adama]]
* [[Richard Adar]], presumed as he was also the mayor of Caprica City at one point
* [[Daniel Graystone|Daniel]], [[Amanda Graystone|Amanda]] and [[Zoe Graystone]]
* [[Lacy Rand]] and her family
* [[Laura Roslin | Laura]], [[Cheryl Roslin|Cheryl]] and [[Sandra Roslin]], as well as their parents
* [[Ben Stark]] and his mother, [[Natalie Stark|Natalie]]
* [[Kara Thrace|Kara]], [[Socrata Thrace|Socrata]] and (presumably) [[Dreilide Thrace]]

===Notes===
* Caprica was and continues to be the world most prominently depicted in the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|re-imagined series continuity]]. Until "[[Razor]]", none of the other eleven Colonies was verifiably depicted on screen.
*Serge's Twitter account [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/11920922009 states] that Caprica had a number of unique lifeforms on its surface, though transplantation by early Colonists spread them to the other planets.
*Serge's Twitter account also [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/11861670347 notes] that Caprica spends the most on Colonial defense in the years prior to the First Cylon War.
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==Gemenon==
[[Image:Gemenon.jpg|right]]
'''Ancient Name''': [[wikipedia:Gemini (constellation)|Gemini]]

'''Population''': 2.8 billion

'''Patron God''': Hera

'''Official Language''': Old Gemenese

'''Capital''': [[Oranu]]<ref>{{cite_web|url=http://showblogs.syfy.com/caprican/opinion/gemenon-the-evil-twin-of-caprica.php|title=Gemenon: The (Evil) Twin of Caprica|date=24 Aprilis YR42|accessdate=10 November 2011|last=Sinclair|first=Ralston|format=|language=English}}</ref>

'''Major Cities''': Oranu, Illumini

'''Attractions''': Kobol Colleges, Illumini Pantheon, Gramada Mountains, Spatiu Gol Plateau, Pustiu Desert

'''Pyramid Teams''': [[Gemenon Twins]], Illumini Vipers

[[Image:Gemenon.JPG|thumb|right|Gemenon and the distant Helios Delta seen from orbit.]]
Gemenon was the first world colonized by the humans of Kobol. It shares its orbit around Helios Alpha with Caprica, completing an rotation once every 28.2 days. Its status as a twin planet gives it its name<ref>[http://files.meetup.com/405090/Serge%20Graystone's%20Twitter%20Feed.pdf Serge Graystone's Twitter feed]</ref>. Its climate can vary wildly, featuring frozen plateaus, and searing deserts, which can make life difficult for its inhabitants.

It was one of the poorer colonies and its people, the Gemenese, were known for their religious fundamentalism ([[TRS]]: "[[Scattered]]", "[[Dirty Hands]]").<ref> Despite this fundamentalist approach to the polytheistic Colonial religion, the Gemenese were known to be tolerant of all forms of worship, including monotheism. In fact, the monotheist movement is said to have begun on Gemenon.

The people of Gemenon are consistently referred to as "Gemenese" in both the [[Re-imagined Series]] and [[Caprica (series)|Caprica]].</ref>

Before the [[First Cylon War]], Gemenon was home to the Kobol Colleges and a monotheistic cult called "[[Soldiers of the One|The Soldiers of the One]]" ([[TRS]]: [[Miniseries, Night 2]]; [[CAP]]: [[Caprica pilot|Pilot]]). Gemenon's second-largest city, Illumini, was built around a large Pantheon complex, composed of buildings intended to worship and celebrate every deity in the [[Sacred Scrolls]].<ref name="capricanvacations">[http://showblogs.syfy.com/caprican/lifestyle/top-5-off-beat-vacation-destinations.php ''The Caprican'' article: "Top 5 Off-Beat Vacation Destinations"].</ref>

The Gemenese were known for their literal interpretations of the [[Sacred Scrolls|Scrolls]] ([[TRS]]: "[[Fragged]]"). Most of the population of Gemenon was apparently very strongly opposed to the federal laws legalizing abortion ([[TRS]]: "[[The Captain's Hand]]").

The planet also had either an old or disused language, known as [[Language in the Twelve Colonies|Old Gemenese]] ([[TRS]]: "[[Razor]]").

[[Image:GemenonCityscape.jpg|thumb|left|A city on Gemenon.]]
During the [[Fall_of_the_Twelve_Colonies|Cylon attack]], Gemenon comes under heavy assault by Cylon air and ground forces, completely obliterating one city with a high-yield nuclear device, and causing extensive damage to another with conventional means. At least one ship, the ''[[Cybele]]'', is able to escape the destruction of its port and occupying Cylon forces, and find Roslin's fleet ([[TRS]]: "[[The Plan]]").

Three months after the attacks, approximately 9,500 Gemenese break away from the main fleet, and join the [[Laura Roslin faction]] over [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]] ([[TRS]]: "[[Home, Part I]]"). The large and devoted Gemenese population continues to be an important political factor within the [[The Fleet (RDM)|fugitive fleet]] ([[TRS]]: "[[The Captain's Hand]]").

===Natives===
*[[Adrien Bauer]]
*[[Jurgen Belzen]] and his family
*[[Rya Kibby]]
*[[Romo Lampkin]]
*[[Sarah Porter]], former delegate to the [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]]
*Corporal [[Venner]]

===Notes===
* If the word "Inviere" (meaning "Resurrection") is any indication, Old Gemenese was probably similar to the Romanian language of [[Earth (RDM)#A New Earth|our Earth]].
* According to [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/8705440343 Serge's Twitter account], Gemenon is the planet that shares its orbit with [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]]. This planet is seen at the beginning of the aired ''Caprica'' pilot, but is not clearly identified as such until [[CAP]]: "[[The Heavens Will Rise]]" in a visual transition from Caprica to Gemenon.
* As an Easter Egg in ''[[The Plan]]'', the building on the lower left of the screen is the same one where the [[memoryalpha:Romulan Senate|Romulan Senate]] assembles in ''[[memoryalpha:Star Trek Nemesis|Star Trek Nemesis]]''. A detailed picture of this building is available [[memoryalpha:File:Romulan senate building, 2379.jpg|here]].
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==Leonis==
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[[Image:Leonis.png|thumb|right|A Leonan thoroughfare under Cylon assault.]]
'''Ancient Name''': [[wikipedia:Leo (constellation)|Leo]]

'''Population''': 2.6 billion

'''Patron God''': Artemis

'''Official Language''': Leonese

'''Capital''': Luminere

'''Major Cities''': Luminere, Hedon

'''Attractions''': Royal Palace of Leonis, Hedon Grand Casino

'''Pyramid Teams''': [[Leonis Wildcats]], Hedon Suns

Leonis is the second planet in the Helios Beta system, and was geographically known for its open plains ([[TRS]]: "[[The Plan]]"). The planet itself has no axial tilt, which supports a mild and predictable climate. It was a major hub for both education and industry, and despite Colonial unification, was able to maintain its own language and culture.

In the era prior to the [[First Cylon War]], Leonis produced and exported a popular energy drink named "Leonis Red".<ref name="capricanvacations">[http://showblogs.syfy.com/caprican/lifestyle/top-5-off-beat-vacation-destinations.php ''The Caprican'' article: "Top 5 Off-Beat Vacation Destinations"].</ref> [[Leonis Estates Sparkling Wine]] was a type of alcohol produced on this colony ([[TRS]]: "[[Flight of the Phoenix]]").

During the final Cylon [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|attack]], Leonis is struck with at least one, low-yield nuclear device, that was able to stun its residents and disable any means of escape. Those who survived the blast, are then seen being systematically eliminated by both ground and air forces ([[TRS]]: "[[The Plan]]"). It is unknown if any are collected and used in the Four's various [[farms]].

[[Safiya Sanne]] is the Leonan representative on the first [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]] after [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|the Fall]].
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==Libran==
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[[Image:Libran.gif|thumb|right|The courthouses of Libran.]]
'''Ancient Name''': [[wikipedia:Libra (constellation)|Libra]]

'''Alternative Name''': Libris

'''Population''': 2.1 million

'''Patron God''': Athena

'''Capital''': None

'''Major Cities''': Themis

'''Attractions''': Supreme Hall of Justice, Themis Arena

'''Pyramid Teams''': None

Libran was known for its courthouses and lawyers ([[TRS]]: "[[The Plan]]"), and was the home of the [[Inter-Colonial Court]] ([[CAP]]: "[[Gravedancing]]"). The planet had no official capital.<ref name="capitals3">[http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/ Serge's twitter account] stated in [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/10545438632 this tweet] that Aquaria and Libran "don't have official capitals".</ref>

A major city on Libran was called [[Themis]] which had a large, modern [[pyramid]] arena built sometime before the First Cylon War. Yet at this time Libran had no official pyramid team.<ref>[http://showblogs.syfy.com/caprican/sports/libran-needs-a-pyramid-team-statim.php ''The Caprican'' article: "Libran Needs a Pyramid Team Statim"].</ref>

After the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]], [[Oswin Eriku]] is chosen to be this colony's representative to the [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]].

''[[Zephyr]]'', a passenger liner in the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]], is of Libran registry.<ref>This was stated in a Fleet overview on scifi.com. This section of the site has long been shut down.</ref>

===Notes===
* The Colony's actual name, '''Libran''', was not heard on screen until "[[The Plan]]" but could already be seen on a name plate in "[[The Ties That Bind]]" and "[[A Disquiet Follows My Soul]]". Before that it was often called '''Libris''' in secondary publications.
* The city that is seen when Libran is mentioned in the "Caprica is burning" monologue in "[[The Plan]]", bears a striking resemblance to [[Tauron City]], as seen in "[[Know Thy Enemy]]".
*Serge's twitter account [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/15877355213 says] that the Libran court system served as a body through which trade disputes and legal matters were capable of being sorted amongst the colonies. He also [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/15877298276 states] that it is a high earning colony but is not regarded as a desirable place to live, and he [https://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/8751959730 states] that the planet is "largely a wildlife reserve".
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==Picon==
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[[Image:Picon.png|thumb|right|Picon from orbit.]]
'''Ancient Name''': [[wikipedia:Pisces (constellation)|Pisces]]

'''Population''': 1.4 billion

'''Patron God''': Poseidon

'''Capital''': Queenstown

'''Major Cities''': Perkinston, Queenstown, Pailyn

'''Attractions''': Colonial Fleet Headquarters, Penrose Harbor

'''Pyramid Teams''': [[Picon Panthers]]

Picon was a turquoise planet, containing 75% water, and famous for its harbors ([[TRS]]: [[The Plan]]). The capital city was Queenstown, which started as a relatively small fishing village.<ref name="capricanpicon">[http://showblogs.syfy.com/caprican/lifestyle/p-is-for-paradise-p-is-for-picon.php ''The Caprican'' article: "'P' Is for 'Paradise, 'P' Is for Picon"].</ref><ref name="capitals2">[http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/ Serge's twitter account] mentioned the capitals of Caprica, Tauron and Picon [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/10545200174 this tweet].</ref>

During the planet's off-season, most of the landscape became cold and rugged.<ref name="capricanpicon">[http://showblogs.syfy.com/caprican/lifestyle/p-is-for-paradise-p-is-for-picon.php ''The Caprican'' article: "'P' Is for 'Paradise, 'P' Is for Picon"].</ref> The planet was often used as a substitute for [[Caprica City]] in Caprican films and TV series.<ref name="capricanvacations">[http://showblogs.syfy.com/caprican/lifestyle/top-5-off-beat-vacation-destinations.php ''The Caprican'' article: "Top 5 Off-Beat Vacation Destinations"].</ref>

After the Unification of the Twelve Colonies this world was the location of the [[Picon Fleet Headquarters|Colonial Fleet Headquarters]] ([[TRS]]: [[Miniseries]]). Picon was also the home of [[Picon Laboratories]], located in Pailyn, Muritolan ([[TRS]]: "[[Faith]]").

The colony came under heavy attack during the early stages of the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attack]]. One of the last ships to leave the planet was the ''[[Rising Star (RDM)|Rising Star]]'', carrying many wounded people including an unconscious [[Ellen Tigh]] ([[TRS]]: "[[The Plan]]").

The destruction of Picon's Fleet Headquarters caused President [[Richard Adar]] to offer a complete and unconditional surrender to the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]]. This offer was ignored by the invading forces ([[TRS]]: [[Miniseries]]).

===Natives===
* [[Asha Janik]]
* [[Billy Keikeya | Billy Keikeya's]] family
* [[Playa Palacios]]

===Publications===
*''[[Picon Star Tribune]]''

=== Notes ===
*Picon's destination as a substitute for Caprica in films and series is likely a reference to Canada, and particularly Vancouver, where both the [[Re-Imagined Series]] and ''[[Caprica (series)|Caprica]]'' were filmed.
*[http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/12144717655 According] to Serge's twitter account, Picon has the most efficient, cooperative and responsive democracy in the colonies.
*In one [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/10988850734 post], it's said that Picon offers tax incentives for production of TV programs on the planet though Caprica remains the leading producer of such shows.
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==Sagittaron==
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'''Ancient Name''': [[wikipedia:Sagittarius (constellation)|Sagittarius]]

'''Alternative Name''': Sagittarion

'''Population''': 1.7 billion

'''Patron God''': Zeus

'''Capital''': Tawa

'''Attractions''': Acheron River

'''Pyramid Teams''': [[Sagittaron Archers]]

Sagittaron was one of the poorest worlds of the Twelve Colonies ([[TRS]]: "[[Bastille Day]]"). The capital of this planet was Tawa.<ref name="capitals1">[http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/ Serge's twitter account] mentioned the capitals of Gemenon, Virgon, Leonis, Sagittaron, Scorpia, Canceron and Aerilon in [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/10545377704 this tweet].</ref>

The Sagittarons were traditionalists who practiced a different form of religion from the other Colonials. They distrusted modern medicine and were generally unsupportive of the military ([[TRS]]: "[[The Woman King]]").

The Planet endured centuries of exploitation at the hands of the other Colonies. Eventually, [[Tom Zarek]] led an organized series of terrorist acts against the established government there, many years before the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Fall of the Colonies]] ([[TRS]]: "[[Bastille Day]]").

A few days after the Cylon attack, 5,251 people from this world reside within [[The Fleet (RDM)|the Fleet]] ([[TRS]]: "[[33]]").

===Natives===
* [[Jacob Cantrell]]
* [[Anastasia Dualla]]
* [[Portia King | Portia]] and [[Willie King]]
* [[Clarice Willow]]
* [[Tom Zarek]]

===Notes===
* The colony's name was originally spelled as "Sagittar'''i'''on" in the [[Miniseries]], but this changed to '''Sagittaron''' when the regular series began.
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==Scorpia==
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[[Image:ScorpionFleetShipyards1.jpg|thumb|right|Scorpia and its shipyards from orbit.]]
'''Ancient Name''': [[wikipedia:Scorpius|Scorpio]]

'''Population''': 450 million

'''Patron God''': Dionysus

'''Capital''': Celeste

'''Major Cities''': Celeste, Argentum

'''Attractions''': Argentum Bay, Guardian Mountains, Scorpia Shipyards

'''Pyramid Teams''': Scorpia Stingers, Celeste Storms, Celeste Lightning, Argentum Bay Silverstars

Scorpia was known for its lush jungles and hot temperatures ([[TRS]]: "[[The Plan]]"). Scorpia's capital was Celeste.<ref name="capitals1">[http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/ Serge's twitter account] mentioned the capitals of Gemenon, Virgon, Leonis, Sagittaron, Scorpia, Canceron and Aerilon in [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/10545377704 this tweet].</ref>

Before the [[First Cylon War]] one of the major leisure spots of the world was Argentum Bay, despite the colony's trashy reputation.<ref>[http://showblogs.syfy.com/caprican/entertainment/argentum-bay-the-ultimate-vernal-break.php ''The Caprican'' article: "Argentum Bay: The Ultimate Vernal Break"].</ref>. The Planet was also apparently well-known for its [[Scorpia Paragliding|Paragliding]] ([[TRS]]: "Razor").

After the Unification, Scorpia was home to the [[Scorpion Fleet Shipyards|Scorpion Fleet Shipyards]].

During the initial [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attack]], Scorpia falls victim to numerous massive nuclear attacks, destroying much of the population. Cylon forces also focus on the orbiting ship yards, obliterating the structure, destroying numerous Battlestars and support ships, and causing [[Pegasus (RDM)|another one]] to risk a blind jump in order to escape ([[TRS]]: "[[Razor]]").

[[Eladio Puasha]] serves as the planet's delegate to the first [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]] assembled after the Fall.
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===Notes===
* In an [http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2010/01/caprica-countdown-paula-malcolmsons-moving-away-from-deadwoods-trixie.html LA Times article], Scorpia is described as having a "scorpion tail-like half-ring".
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==Tauron==
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[[Image:Tauron.png|thumb|right|[[Tauron (RDM)|Tauron]] from orbit, and under Cylon assault.]]
[[Image:TauronCity.JPG|thumb|right|Pre-Cylon War Minos (Tauron City).]]
[[Image:TauronTwinPlanet.JPG|thumb|right|Tauron's moon, Minos, in the evening sky.]]
'''Ancient Name''': [[wikipedia:Taurus (constellation)|Taurus]]

'''Population''': 2.5 billion

'''Patron God''': Ares

'''Official Language''': Tauron

'''Capital''': [[Hypatia]]

'''Major Cities''': Hypatia, [[Tauron City]] (Minos)

'''Attractions''': Minos, Olympia Hippadrome, Great Tauron Plains

'''Pyramid Teams''': Olympia Stallions, Tauron Bulls

Tauron was a barren, arid planet that lacked any kind of flowers. However, it was well-known for its agriculture ([[CAP]]: [[Caprica pilot|Pilot]]). Its capital was [[Hypatia]]<ref name="capitals2">[http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/ Serge's twitter account] mentioned the capitals of Caprica, Tauron and Picon [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/10545200174 this tweet].</ref>, another large city was [[Tauron City]]. The planet shared its orbit with another ringed world ([[CAP]]: "[[Know Thy Enemy]]" - see notes).

Taurons were known to be very traditional people, even speaking a very old and distinctive [[Language in the Twelve Colonies|language]] ([[CAP]]: [[Caprica pilot|Pilot]]).

Some 800 years before [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|the Fall]] Tauron was colonized by [[#Virgon|Virgon]] and [[#Leonis|Leonis]]. The people of Tauron liberated themselves and ever since this world has been known for its troubled and violent history.<ref>[http://showblogs.syfy.com/caprican/opinion/racism-an-unacceptable-aspect-of-caprican-life.php ''The Caprican'' article: "An Unacceptable Aspect of Caprican Life"].</ref>

Nearly a century before its Fall, Tauron was one of the poorer colonial worlds and the center of a [[Tauron Civil War|civil war]]. A few years before the [[First Cylon War]], the crime syndicate [[Ha'la'tha]] had enormous influence over the planet, which even extended to other colonies, such as [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] ([[CAP]]: [[Caprica pilot|Pilot]]).

During the War, [[Hypatia]] was was the location of a [[Battle of Tauron|fierce and lossy battle]] against [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon forces]] ([[TRS]]: "[[Razor]]", extended Edition).

After the War, Tauron was known to be a somewhat troublesome colony within the [[Government of the Twelve Colonies|federal system]] of the Colonies, often disobeying directives decided by the colonies and pushing their luck with the admiralty ([[TRS]]: "[[Hero]]"). Yet this world was counted among the wealthier of the twelve worlds ([[TRS]]: "[[Dirty Hands]]").

===Natives===
* [[Joseph Adama | Joseph]] and [[Sam Adama]]
* [[Shannon Adama]] and her mother, [[Ruth]]
* [[Helena Cain]] and her murdered family
* [[Tomas Vergis]]

===Notes===
* The language of Tauron is remarkably similar to Ancient Greek that, thousands of years later, was spoken on [[Earth (RDM)#A New Earth | a planet]] on the other side of the galaxy.
* According to [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/10335013016 Serge's Twitter Account] Tauron only has a moon.
* Serge's Twitter account also [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/10545200174 stated] Tauron's capital to be [[Hypatia]].
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==Virgon==
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'''Ancient Name''': [[wikipedia:Virgo (constellation)|Virgo]]

'''Population''': 4.3 billion

'''Patron God''': Hestia

'''Capital''': Boskirk

'''Major Cities''': Boskirk, Blaustad, Hadrian

'''Attractions''': House of Parliament, Tower of Virgon, Petrus Palace, Virgon Universities

'''Pyramid Teams''': Virgon United, [[Boskirk All Reds]]

Virgon was well-known for its forests ([[TRS]]: "[[The Plan]]") and considered to be one of the wealthier colonies ([[TRS]]: "[[Dirty Hands]]"). The capital of Virgon was Boskirk.<ref name="capitals1">[http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/ Serge's twitter account] mentioned the capitals of Gemenon, Virgon, Leonis, Sagittaron, Scorpia, Canceron and Aerilon in [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/10545377704 this tweet].</ref>

Virgon had a declining monarchy and a strong national parliament, at least 58 years before the Fall of the Colonies.<ref>Mentioned by [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/statuses/10937229785 Serge's twitter account].</ref>

[[Virgon Brew]] was a beer produced on the planet and exported to other Colonies ([[TRS]]: "[[Maelstrom]]").

Soon after the beginning of the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attack]], the Colonials launch a counter-attack over Virgon. The battle ends with the destruction of the flagship battlestar ''[[Atlantia (RDM)|Atlantia]]'' and the resulting death of [[Nagala|Fleet Admiral Nagala]] ([[TRS]]: [[Miniseries]]).

[[Marshall Bagot]] is the Virgon delegate to the first [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]]. He nominates [[Tom Zarek]] for the vice-presidency ([[TRS]]: "[[Colonial Day]]"). In public ceremonies, the Virgon delegate wears a light blue sash.

===Notes===
*Serge's Twitter Account [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/10937229785 states] that Virgon has a declining monarchy with a strong parliament.
*Virgon draws many parallels with present-day Earth's Britain; a declining monarchy, birthplace of Colonial language, coloniser of other planets (comparable to countries) and 'Virgon United' and 'Boskirk All Reds' are similar to Manchester United, a prominent English football team, also known as the Red Devils.

== See Also==
*[[Ithaca]]

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:''This article discusses the Twelve Colonies of the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Re-imagined Series]]. See [[The Twelve Colonies of Man]] for information on the Colonies of the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]].''

[[File:Colonialseal.png|210px|right|[[Colonial Seal|Seal]] of the Twelve Colonies.]]
'''The Twelve Colonies of Kobol''' are twelve distinct worlds, located in a remote part of our Galaxy. For 2,000 years they were home to the descendants of humans participating in the exodus of [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]].<ref>Mentioned at [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/11953827897 Serge's twitter account], given that Serge's account corresponds to 58 years before [[The Fall]].</ref> For most of the two millennia that these worlds were inhabited, the Twelve Colonies consisted of multiple sovereign states, but during the final fifty-two years leading up to the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]], all twelve comprised a single state known as the United Colonies of Kobol ([[TRS]]: "[[Colonial Day]]")<ref>The formal "United Colonies of Kobol" was never used on-screen, and appears only on the [[Battlestar Galactica Map of the 12 Colonies]].</ref>.

After the settlement, the colonies slowly began to prosper and eventually gave birth to a race of cybernetic lifeforms, known as [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]]. Only a few years after their creation, the Cylons raged a devastating war on their creators' home planets, which ultimately led to the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]]. Wasted and in ruins, the once prosperous homeworlds of humanity were finally abandoned by both humans and Cylons.
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==Star System==
:''Note: A portion of the information listed below is taken from the [[Battlestar_Wiki:Canon#Official|official]], "quasi-canon" [[Battlestar Galactica Map of the 12 Colonies]]'' <ref name="io9">{{cite_web|url=http://io9.com/5742034/a-detailed-map-of-battlestar-galacticas-twelve-colonies?skyline=true&s=i|title=Detailed Map Of Battlestar Galactica's Twelve Colonies|date=24 January 2010|accessdate=29 January 2011|last=Anders|first=Charlie Jane|format=|language=English}}</ref>.

The Twelve Colonies are situated within the star system Cyrannus, located some 2,000 light years from Kobol, where humanity presumedly first evolved. All in all, Cyrannus is a vast and complex system, comprised of four <ref>In [[TRS]]: "[[The Plan]]," a Cylon [[Hybrid]] indicates that the Colonies orbit three stars. </ref> stars: Helios Alpha, Helios Beta, Helios Gamma, and Helios Delta. Each star is orbited by its own family of planets and other astronomical bodies. The stars come together to form two binary systems (Alpha/Beta and Gamma/Delta). Both pairs of stars then orbit each other around a third, central [[w:Barycentric coordinates (astronomy)|barycenter]] every 546,892 years. Both binary systems are separated by 0.16 [[w:Light-year|light years]] or 10,091 Stellar Units, shortened to SU (In this case, 1 SU being equal to the average distance between Helios Alpha and the barycenter of the Caprica-Gemenon binary, roughly 150 million km).

===Helios Alpha===
Helios Alpha is a [[w:Main sequence|main sequence star]] of spectral class G2V and has a [[w:Solar mass|mass]] of 1.0, and was the first system settled by the Colonials after the exodus from Kobol, having first set foot on Gemenon. It shares its orbit with Helios Beta at a distance of 63 SU. The pair complete an orbit once every 373 years.

* Planets and Other Astronomical Bodies
** Icarus - A small planet located close to the star. It has a molten surface which makes mining and exploration impossible.
** Picon - This colony has an inclined orbit.
** [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] and Gemenon - These two colonies form a binary planet.
** [[Tauron (RDM)|Tauron]] - One of only three colonies to feature a moon, named Minos. It is the only moon with a ring, and home to several mining and scientific outposts.
** Erebos asteroid belt - This asteroid belt is rich in minerals, which were mined by Tauran prospectors for hundreds of years.
** Zeus - A gas giant located at the outer edge of the system. This gas giant is the largest planet in the four systems, with a diameter of 153,000 km at the equator. The planet has 74 moons, the largest of which are Nike and Hebe. Constant upper atmosphere lightning creates an aurora effect that can be seen with the naked eye.
** Persephone - Classified as a dwarf planet, Persephone is the outermost planet in the system and features an inclined and eccentric orbit. Colonial scientists believe this planet could be an escaped moon of Zeus.

This system is unique in the fact that Caprica and Gemenon share an orbit around a common barycenter. According to the Colonial map, the planets orbit each other once every 28.2 days, and are separated by a distance of 493,000 km. Based on these numbers, [[w:Kepler%27s_laws_of_planetary_motion#Third_law|Kepler's Third Law]] learns us that the combined mass of these colonies is about twice that of Earth.

===Helios Beta===
Helios Beta is a main sequence star of spectral class K1V and has a mass of 0.79. It was the second system settled by the Colonials after the exodus from Kobol. It shares its orbit with Helios Alpha at a distance of 63 SU. The pair complete an orbit once every 373 years.

* Planets and Other Astronomical Bodies
** [[Troy (RDM)|Troy]] - A small, metal-rich planet, mined extensively by Virgon and Leonis since the founding of those two colonies.
** Leonis - The largest inhabited planet of the Twelve Colonies.
** [[Pallas]] - A small world with an inclined orbit once believed to hold a life sustaining atmosphere. It is no longer tectonically active. However, the Colonials have set up several small colonies and a military research station on the planet. Efforts to [[w:Terraforming|kobolform]] the planet have failed.
** Ouranos asteroid belt - This dense asteroid belt separates long-time rivals Leonis and Virgon, and has been a source of minerals for both colonies.
** Virgon - One of only three colonies to feature a moon, named Hibernia, and the only naturally habitable moon in the 12 Colonies. It was settled several centuries ago by the Celtans, an ethnic group opposed to Virgon rule.
** Hera - A gas giant, approximately 75,000 km in diameter, and the third largest planet in the Cyrannus system. It has 29 moons, the largest of which are Iris and Eubora.

===Helios Gamma===
Helios Gamma is a main sequence star of spectral class G9V and has a mass of 0.89. It was presumably the third system settled by the Colonials. Helios Gamma shares its orbit with Helios Delta at a distance of 70 SU, and completes an orbit once every 456 years.

* Planets and Other Astronomical Bodies
** Thanatos - This planet, named after the god of death, has a corrosive 'sulphur' dioxide atmosphere and is tidally locked to its star.
** Acheron asteroid belt - A broad asteroid belt, named after Sagittaron's largest river.
** Libran - Features two small moons, Herse and Pandrossos, which are thought to be captured asteroids. The moons orbit so close to each other, they periodically swap positions.
** Scorpia - Home to the Scorpia Fleet ship yards. The planet features a half ring, thought to be a moon that broke apart nearly 100,000 years ago.
** [[Sagittaron|Sagittaron]] - A barren, mountainous world.
** Ophion - A frigid gas giant with a diameter of 51,000 km, and an inclined orbit. The planet has 14 moons, all smaller than 10 km in diameter. Studies on the planet have Colonial scientists thinking that Ragnar was originally a member of the Helios Gamma system, while Ophion was not. Scientists think that Ophion was a rogue planet that passed close to Ragnar and was caught by the star, pushing Ragnar into its current orbit around the entire Gamma/Delta system.

===Helios Delta===
Helios Delta is a reddish main sequence star of spectral class K2V and has a mass of 0.74. It was the last of the four systems to be settled by the Colonials. Helios Delta shares its orbit with Helios Gamma at a distance of 70 SU, and completes an orbit once every 456 years.

* Planets and Other Astronomical Bodies
** Phoebe - A small world with a high surface temperature and thin atmosphere.
** Styx - A planet with a dense, reducing atmosphere of carbon dioxide and sulfides.
** Aeolus asteroid belt - This asteroid belt features 'gaps', likely caused by tidal influences with Hestia and its two orbital companions.
** Aerilon, Hestia, and Canceron - These planets share the same orbit.
*** Hestia - The smallest gas giant in the Cyrannian star system, Hestia only has a diameter of 47,000 km. It has 17 moons, the largest of which, Kronos and Rhea, share the same orbit.
** [[Aquaria (RDM)|Aquaria]] - An arctic world, with the most inclined orbit of all the Twelve Colonies.

This system is unique in the fact that Aerilon, Hestia, and Canceron share the same orbit. The two colonies are positioned at Hestia's [[w:Lagrangian_point|Lagrangian points]], meaning that the gravitational pull of Helios Delta and Hestia are balanced, allowing two smaller bodies (Aerilon and Canceron) to share the same orbit in a "fixed" position, maintaining the same distance apart at all times. Aerilon sits at the (leading) L4 point, and Canceron at the (trailing) L5 point.

* [[Ragnar]] - A gas giant with a diameter of 138,000 km, orbits the entire Helios Gamma and Delta system in a 899.75 year period. It is about 110 SU away from the central barycenter. The Colonials use the planet as host to [[Ragnar Anchorage]], an orbital refueling station and naval armory that distills hydrocarbons from the planet's upper atmosphere. It has one moon, Sigurd. During the Fall of the Colonies, Ragnar was used as cover by the battlestar ''[[Galactica]]'', and later her [[The Fleet (RDM)|fleet]], after escaping the destruction of Caprica. It would be the last world of the Cyrannian system that most of the surviving Colonials would lay eyes on. Hours after arriving, ''Galactica'' took the gathered fleet, [[Battle_of_Ragnar_Anchorage|and fled the system]], never to return.

===Notes===
* The fact that the Colonies are located within one system originates from a [http://web.archive.org/web/20080620084336/http://blog.scifi.com/battlestar/archives/2005/01/#a000016 blog entry] by Ronald D. Moore.
* Jane Espenson revealed on Twitter that the Colonies are within a star cluster and share some orbits. The latter fact was finally shown to be true in the TV version of the [[Caprica pilot#Differences between the DVD and TV Cut|series premiere]] of ''Caprica''.
* The configuration of the Twelve Colonies was inspired by the real world star system [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epsilon_Lyrae Epsilon Lyrae], a famous "double-double" star system located ~162 light-years away from Earth. <ref>http://io9.com/5742034/a-detailed-map-of-battlestar-galacticas-twelve-colonies?skyline=true&s=i</ref>
* Before the semi-canonical figure mentioned on the map, the original [[Miniseries]] script stated a pre-Fall population of about 12 billion. The webisodes "[[The Resistance]]" stated the death of 20 billion people caused by the Cylons.
*Serge's twitter [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/17543741200 mentions] that the exodus from Kobol is believed to be true by the inhabitants of the Twelve Colonies and it was from them that animals such as cats as well as dogs came to the Colonies. Furthermore, the [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/13899240134 twelve planets] are populated with a few other worlds in the star cluster, with the settled colonies [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/12891949300 already] possessing some animal as well as plant life. Furthermore, Serge [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/17543813025 states] that not all the colonies are democracies, but rather each has their own style of government. ([[TRS]]: [[Serge's Twitter]])
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==History==
{{mainarticle|History of the Twelve Colonies}}
[[Image:Home pt1-Kobol.jpg|thumb|[[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]], the ancient homeworld of humanity.]]
About 2,000 years prior to the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]], the last twelve tribes of [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]] left their planet<ref>According to dialogue from "[[Torn]]", "[[A Measure of Salvation]]" and "[[The Eye of Jupiter]]", the [[Thirteenth Tribe (RDM)|Thirteenth Tribe]] left Kobol some 2,000 years ''before'' the twelve tribes. The Scroll of [[Pythia]] is dated as written 3,600 years before the last exodus of Kobol, and chronicles the Thirteenth Tribe's exodus.</ref> over conflicts with their [[Religion in the Twelve Colonies#The Lords of Kobol|gods]], as well as some sort of calamity ([[TRS]]: "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]").

The tribes settled on twelve worlds some distance away ([[TRS]]: "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]"). The tribes' namesakes and icons originally corresponded to the twelve signs of the ancient tribes, although these [[wikipedia:Zodiac|names]] drifted over time ([[TRS]]: "[[Home, Part II]]").<ref>Flag matches with Colonies from "Encyclopedia Galactica." ''[[Battlestar Galactica: The Official Magazine]]''. Feb./Mar. 2006: 50-55.</ref>

The early Colonies lived (and fought) more as sovereign nations. Some (particularly [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]]) prospered, while others (such as [[Sagittaron]] and [[Aerilon]]) were often considered lessers. For labor forces as well as wars fought among each other, humanity created the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]]. When these [[Cylon Centurion Model 0005|early models]] rebelled, the Colonies unified their governments under the [[Articles of Colonization]] at some point during the [[Cylon War]] into a federal republic known as the '''Twelve Colonies of Kobol'''.

The official symbol of the Twelve Colonies was the [[Colonial seal]]. The nation also had a distinctive [[Colonial anthem|anthem]].

===Downfall===
{{mainarticle|Fall of the Twelve Colonies}}
[[Image:Bsyashuman.jpg|thumb|[[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]], shortly before its downfall.]]
40 years after the end of the devastating war, the Cylons return and sow destruction among the worlds of their creators ([[TRS]]: [[Miniseries]], "[[The Plan]]"). For some time the Twelve Colonies remain occupied by Cylon forces and a [[Caprica resistance|small group of human survivors]]. After nine months, humanity and the Cylons leave the Cyrannus system forever ([[TRS]]: "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]").

Out of all Colonial inhabitants, only about 55,000 survive the first days of the holocaust. Most of them leave the Colonies behind in two small [[The Fleet (RDM)|fugitive fleets]]. The fleet of the [[Battlestar (RDM)|battlestar]] ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' eventually encounters both [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]], as well as the original Thirteenth Colony [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]]. Some time after that, and after the destruction of the [[The Colony|the Cylon home world]], they settle on a [[Earth (RDM)#A New Earth|beautiful, rich world]], leaving behind the baggage of their Colonial heritage. ([[TRS]]: [[Miniseries]], "[[Razor]]", "[[Daybreak, Part II]]")

===Fate===
The ultimate fate of the Twelve Colonies 150,000 years after [[The Fall]] is unknown. Presumably, after several hundred years, their climates and surfaces would degrade until they resemble the original [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]].

It can be presumed that by present-day radiation levels would have lowered to a point where life would be allowed to flourish once again. But few, if any, traces would remain of the human civilizations that once thrived upon them, excluding remains in space, such as the remnants of [[Scorpion Fleet Shipyards]] or [[Ragnar Anchorage]].
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==Aerilon==
{{mainarticle|Aerilon}}
[[Image:Aerilon.jpg|right]]
'''Ancient Name''': [[wikipedia:Aries (constellation)|Aries]]

'''Alternative Name''': Aerelon

'''Population''': 1.2 billion

'''Patron God''': Demeter

'''Capital''': Gaoth

'''Major Cities''': Gaoth, Promethea

'''Attractions''': University of Aerilon, Promethea A & M

'''Pyramid Teams''': Aerilon Threshers, Promethea Golden Horns

Aerilon was primarily an agricultural world. It was considered to be the "food basket" of the Twelve Colonies and ranked among its poorest members ([[TRS]]: "[[Dirty Hands]]"). The planet shares an orbit with the gas giant Hestia and Canceron, sitting in Hestia's leading (L4) libratian point in the Helios Delta system.

About all of the planet's landmasses are situated in the temperate zones, featuring open and rolling landscapes offering little variation in altitude. There are few inland waterways, and the shorelines consist mostly of rocky bluffs with only mangrove swamps breaking the monotomy near the equador. To top it the planet offers hostile seas with no useful harbors at its coasts.

Aerilon has a mild climate and reliable seasons, with plentiful rain so catch basins and wells are sufficiently filled so fresh water is readily available despite the lack of rivers and lakes.

==Aquaria==
{{mainarticle|Aquaria (RDM)}}
[[Image:Aquaria.jpg|right]]
'''Ancient Name''': [[wikipedia:Aquarius (constellation)|Aquarius]]

'''Alternative Name''': Aquarion

'''Population''': 25,000

'''Patron God''': Hermes

'''Capital''': None

'''Major Cities''': Heim

'''Attractions''': Kyros Summerfest

'''Pyramid Teams''': None

Aquaria, the outermost planet in the Helios Delta system, follows a highly inclined orbit around its sun, establishing an arctic climate on this world. The planet's summer lasts only a few pleasant weeks around the time of closest approach to Helios Delta.

The planet surface is about entirely covered by vast, frigid oceans, punctuated with violently erupting volcanoes breaking through the sea surface. Only one land mass, named Kyros, is large enough to sustain human habitation. Volcanoes occupy each end of this crescent-shaped continent, which consist mostly of volcanic tephra covered in moss and dotted by exotic native plantlife.

Most people live in Heim, a town at the centre of the island facing what would be the harbor if the seas weren't so frigid. Only a few people live outside the town, tending the infrastructure needed for survival, like windmills, hydroponics, and solar panels. Due to the lack of wood, most structures are made of tin or stone.

==Canceron==
[[Image:Canceron.jpg|right]]
[[Image:Canceron.png|thumb|right|Canceron from orbit.]]
'''Ancient Name''': [[wikipedia:Cancer (constellation)|Cancer]]

'''Population''': 6.7 billion

'''Patron God''': Hephaestus

'''Capital''': Hades

'''Major Cities''': Hades, Prommos, Mangala

'''Attractions''': Prommos, Ruby Range, Kor Yaz Glacier

'''Pyramid Teams''': Canceron Hydras, Hades Vice, Mangala Krill

Canceron is the most populous planet in the twelve worlds. It is located in the Helios Delta system, sharing its orbit with two other planets, one of them being Aerilon. The planet was well known for its beaches and had at least one large coastal metropolis ([[TRS]]: "[[The Plan]]"). The capital was Hades.<ref name="capitals1">[http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/ Serge's twitter account] mentioned the capitals of Gemenon, Virgon, Leonis, Sagittaron, Scorpia, Canceron and Aerilon in [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/10545377704 this tweet].</ref>

Prior to the [[First Cylon War]], Canceron was a very overpopulated and poor colony. Canceron's major cities such as Hades and Mangala were known to have large slums. Its large population earned Canceron the nickname "The Largest Democracy" within the colonies, though some believed the government was nothing more than a corrupt Oligarchy.<ref>[http://showblogs.syfy.com/caprican/sports/canceron-wants-a-fourth-pyramid-team.php ''The Caprican'' article: "Canceron Wants a Fourth Pyramid Team"].</ref> <ref>[http://showblogs.syfy.com/caprican/opinion/just-wondering-about-that-military-roadblock-thing.php ''The Caprican'' article: "Just Wondering About That Military Roadblock Thing"]</ref>

During the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attack]], Canceron is hit with at least three nuclear devices. One of the [[Luxury liner | passenger liners]] within [[The Fleet (RDM)|the fleet]], ''[[Pyxis]]'', is one of the last ships that escapes this world when the attack began. Aboard is the [[Number Six]] copy [[Shelly Godfrey]] ([[TRS]]: "[[The Plan]]").

[[Robin Wenutu]] is the Canceron delegate to the first [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]] after the Fall.

===Natives===
*[[Lexon]]
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==Caprica==
{{mainarticle|Caprica (RDM)}}
[[Image:Caprica.jpg|right]]
[[Image:Caprica from Orbit.jpg|right|thumb|[[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] from orbit.]]
[[Image:Caprica City, The Plan.jpg|thumb|right|Caprica City.]]
[[Image:Gemenon from Caprica City.jpg|thumb|right|The view of Gemenon from Caprica City.]]
'''Ancient Name''': [[w:Capricornus|Capricorn]]

'''Population''': 4.9 billion

'''Patron God''': Apollo

'''Official Language''': Caprican

'''Capital''': [[Caprica City]]

'''Major Cities''': Caprica City, [[Delphi]], Phoebus

'''Attractions''': [[Delphi Museum of the Colonies]], [[Atlas Arena]], [[Caprica_Interplanetary_Spaceport|Caprica Interplanetary Spaceport]], [[Graystone Industries]], Apollo University, [[Pantheon_Bridge|Pantheon Bridge]], Ionian Islands, Orpheus Park

'''Pyramid Teams''': [[Caprica City Buccaneers]], Delphi Legion, Phoebus Suns

Caprica was a lush blue-green planet, covered by large oceans and continents. It shares its orbit with Gemenon around a common barycenter, and can often be seen in the skies above the Caprican landscape. Depending on its orbit, the Caprican night can almost be negated by intense planetshine from Gemenon, although not as bright as the Caprican sun, there is enough light reflected back to effectively turn night into day ([[TRS]]: [[You Can't Go Home Again]], [[Litmus]]). Of curious note, Caprica features landmasses similar to a world the Colonials would eventually settle and come to call Earth.

Caprica was regarded as the center of Colonial civilization, even long before the [[First Cylon War]]. [[Graystone Industries]] was one of the Colonies' most influential technology developers and had a hand in creating the very [[U-87|first Cylons]]. Some 60 years before [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|the Fall]], Caprica was also plagued by [[Soldiers of the One | religiously]] motivated terrorism ([[CAP]]: [[Caprica pilot|Pilot]]). After the war, the planet was once again the seat of politics, culture, art, science, learning and even the Colonial government. It was also one of the wealthiest colonies ([[TRS]]: "[[Epiphanies]]", "[[Dirty Hands]]").

During the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attack]], Caprica and it's surrounding airspace, played host to numerous skirmishes, one of which would eventually determine the outcome of the war. Caprica herself, comes under heavy attack from Cylon forces right from the start. With numerous basestars jumping directly into orbit, they are quickly able to gain the upper hand. At least four [[Battlestar (RDM)|battlestars]], including the ''Yashuman'' and ''Valkyrie'', are quickly dispatched, and numerous targets, including the once proud Caprica City, are annihilated from orbit by nuclear weapons ([[TRS]]: [[Miniseries]], "[[The Plan]]"). The attacks leave the civilian shipping lanes in the vicinity of Caprica/Gemenon shut down, but the civilian ships are relatively ignored in the opening moments of the attack, in favor of military targets. This gives them time to gather and flee the area, picking up other survivors along the way. Eventually the fleet amasses over 100 ships of all kinds, both civilian and homeless military support craft. However, only 75 FTL capable ships are able to flee Caprican airspace, leaving the sub-lights, and their passengers, at the hands of the Cylons.

At the time of the attack, the ''Galactica'' was positioned 3 hours away, and was not able to partake in the defense of its home planet. It wasn't long, however, before the Cylons located its position, and attempted to take it out. After being struck by a nuclear warhead, suffering major damage, and not having anything to shoot with, but still in one piece, the ''Galactica'' had no choice but to retreat to the relative safety of the gas giant, [[Ragnar]] ([[TRS]]: [[Miniseries]]), leaving Caprica, and the remaining survivors, completely defenseless and on their own.

After the space-faring Colonials flee, Caprica is occupied by [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon forces]], attempting to undo the damage they've done, and colonize the planet themselves. They often clash with [[Caprica resistance|human survivors]] within the Colonies, and fight on this world for several weeks. The occupation and resistance both end roughly nine months after the attack and the planet is left for good ([[TRS]]: "[[33]]", "[[Resistance]]", "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]", "[[The Plan]]").

6,250 people from Caprica join the [[Laura Roslin faction]] over [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]] ([[TRS]]: "[[Home, Part I]]"). The overall Caprican survivor population, possibly significantly greater, is unknown (see analysis [[The Fleet (RDM)#Demographics|here]]). An attempted settlement by the survivors of the holocaust is named [[New Caprica]] in honor of the original colony ([[TRS]]: "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]").

The first [[Quorum of Twelve (TRS)|Quorum of Twelve]] delegate after the Fall is [[Gaius Baltar]]. Years later this spot is taken by [[Lee Adama]], the last Quroum delegate from that colony before Delegate Adama establishes the [[Quorum of Ship's Captains]] in the wake of the mass-execution of the Quorum during [[Gaeta's Mutiny]] ([[TRS]]: "[[Islanded in a Stream of Stars]]").

===Natives===
* [[William Adama | William]], [[Tamara Adama|Tamara]], [[Zak Adama|Zak]] and [[Lee Adama]]
* [[Richard Adar]], presumed as he was also the mayor of Caprica City at one point
* [[Daniel Graystone|Daniel]], [[Amanda Graystone|Amanda]] and [[Zoe Graystone]]
* [[Lacy Rand]] and her family
* [[Laura Roslin | Laura]], [[Cheryl Roslin|Cheryl]] and [[Sandra Roslin]], as well as their parents
* [[Ben Stark]] and his mother, [[Natalie Stark|Natalie]]
* [[Kara Thrace|Kara]], [[Socrata Thrace|Socrata]] and (presumably) [[Dreilide Thrace]]

===Notes===
* Caprica was and continues to be the world most prominently depicted in the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|re-imagined series continuity]]. Until "[[Razor]]", none of the other eleven Colonies was verifiably depicted on screen.
*Serge's Twitter account [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/11920922009 states] that Caprica had a number of unique lifeforms on its surface, though transplantation by early Colonists spread them to the other planets.
*Serge's Twitter account also [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/11861670347 notes] that Caprica spends the most on Colonial defense in the years prior to the First Cylon War.
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==Gemenon==
[[Image:Gemenon.jpg|right]]
'''Ancient Name''': [[wikipedia:Gemini (constellation)|Gemini]]

'''Population''': 2.8 billion

'''Patron God''': Hera

'''Official Language''': Old Gemenese

'''Capital''': [[Oranu]]<ref>{{cite_web|url=http://showblogs.syfy.com/caprican/opinion/gemenon-the-evil-twin-of-caprica.php|title=Gemenon: The (Evil) Twin of Caprica|date=24 Aprilis YR42|accessdate=10 November 2011|last=Sinclair|first=Ralston|format=|language=English}}</ref>

'''Major Cities''': Oranu, Illumini

'''Attractions''': Kobol Colleges, Illumini Pantheon, Gramada Mountains, Spatiu Gol Plateau, Pustiu Desert

'''Pyramid Teams''': [[Gemenon Twins]], Illumini Vipers

[[Image:Gemenon.JPG|thumb|right|Gemenon and the distant Helios Delta seen from orbit.]]
Gemenon was the first world colonized by the humans of Kobol. It shares its orbit around Helios Alpha with Caprica, completing an rotation once every 28.2 days. Its status as a twin planet gives it its name<ref>[http://files.meetup.com/405090/Serge%20Graystone's%20Twitter%20Feed.pdf Serge Graystone's Twitter feed]</ref>. Its climate can vary wildly, featuring frozen plateaus, and searing deserts, which can make life difficult for its inhabitants.

It was one of the poorer colonies and its people, the Gemenese, were known for their religious fundamentalism ([[TRS]]: "[[Scattered]]", "[[Dirty Hands]]").<ref> Despite this fundamentalist approach to the polytheistic Colonial religion, the Gemenese were known to be tolerant of all forms of worship, including monotheism. In fact, the monotheist movement is said to have begun on Gemenon.

The people of Gemenon are consistently referred to as "Gemenese" in both the [[Re-imagined Series]] and [[Caprica (series)|Caprica]].</ref>

Before the [[First Cylon War]], Gemenon was home to the Kobol Colleges and a monotheistic cult called "[[Soldiers of the One|The Soldiers of the One]]" ([[TRS]]: [[Miniseries, Night 2]]; [[CAP]]: [[Caprica pilot|Pilot]]). Gemenon's second-largest city, Illumini, was built around a large Pantheon complex, composed of buildings intended to worship and celebrate every deity in the [[Sacred Scrolls]].<ref name="capricanvacations">[http://showblogs.syfy.com/caprican/lifestyle/top-5-off-beat-vacation-destinations.php ''The Caprican'' article: "Top 5 Off-Beat Vacation Destinations"].</ref>

The Gemenese were known for their literal interpretations of the [[Sacred Scrolls|Scrolls]] ([[TRS]]: "[[Fragged]]"). Most of the population of Gemenon was apparently very strongly opposed to the federal laws legalizing abortion ([[TRS]]: "[[The Captain's Hand]]").

The planet also had either an old or disused language, known as [[Language in the Twelve Colonies|Old Gemenese]] ([[TRS]]: "[[Razor]]").

[[Image:GemenonCityscape.jpg|thumb|left|A city on Gemenon.]]
During the [[Fall_of_the_Twelve_Colonies|Cylon attack]], Gemenon comes under heavy assault by Cylon air and ground forces, completely obliterating one city with a high-yield nuclear device, and causing extensive damage to another with conventional means. At least one ship, the ''[[Cybele]]'', is able to escape the destruction of its port and occupying Cylon forces, and find Roslin's fleet ([[TRS]]: "[[The Plan]]").

Three months after the attacks, approximately 9,500 Gemenese break away from the main fleet, and join the [[Laura Roslin faction]] over [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]] ([[TRS]]: "[[Home, Part I]]"). The large and devoted Gemenese population continues to be an important political factor within the [[The Fleet (RDM)|fugitive fleet]] ([[TRS]]: "[[The Captain's Hand]]").

===Natives===
*[[Adrien Bauer]]
*[[Jurgen Belzen]] and his family
*[[Rya Kibby]]
*[[Romo Lampkin]]
*[[Sarah Porter]], former delegate to the [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]]
*Corporal [[Venner]]

===Notes===
* If the word "Inviere" (meaning "Resurrection") is any indication, Old Gemenese was probably similar to the Romanian language of [[Earth (RDM)#A New Earth|our Earth]].
* According to [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/8705440343 Serge's Twitter account], Gemenon is the planet that shares its orbit with [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]]. This planet is seen at the beginning of the aired ''Caprica'' pilot, but is not clearly identified as such until [[CAP]]: "[[The Heavens Will Rise]]" in a visual transition from Caprica to Gemenon.
* As an Easter Egg in ''[[The Plan]]'', the building on the lower left of the screen is the same one where the [[memoryalpha:Romulan Senate|Romulan Senate]] assembles in ''[[memoryalpha:Star Trek Nemesis|Star Trek Nemesis]]''. A detailed picture of this building is available [[memoryalpha:File:Romulan senate building, 2379.jpg|here]].
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==Leonis==
[[Image:PlanetLeonis.jpg|right]]
[[Image:Leonis.png|thumb|right|A Leonan thoroughfare under Cylon assault.]]
'''Ancient Name''': [[wikipedia:Leo (constellation)|Leo]]

'''Population''': 2.6 billion

'''Patron God''': Artemis

'''Official Language''': Leonese

'''Capital''': Luminere

'''Major Cities''': Luminere, Hedon

'''Attractions''': Royal Palace of Leonis, Hedon Grand Casino

'''Pyramid Teams''': [[Leonis Wildcats]], Hedon Suns

Leonis is the second planet in the Helios Beta system, and was geographically known for its open plains ([[TRS]]: "[[The Plan]]"). The planet itself has no axial tilt, which supports a mild and predictable climate. It was a major hub for both education and industry, and despite Colonial unification, was able to maintain its own language and culture.

In the era prior to the [[First Cylon War]], Leonis produced and exported a popular energy drink named "Leonis Red".<ref name="capricanvacations">[http://showblogs.syfy.com/caprican/lifestyle/top-5-off-beat-vacation-destinations.php ''The Caprican'' article: "Top 5 Off-Beat Vacation Destinations"].</ref> [[Leonis Estates Sparkling Wine]] was a type of alcohol produced on this colony ([[TRS]]: "[[Flight of the Phoenix]]").

During the final Cylon [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|attack]], Leonis is struck with at least one, low-yield nuclear device, that was able to stun its residents and disable any means of escape. Those who survived the blast, are then seen being systematically eliminated by both ground and air forces ([[TRS]]: "[[The Plan]]"). It is unknown if any are collected and used in the Four's various [[farms]].

[[Safiya Sanne]] is the Leonan representative on the first [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]] after [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|the Fall]].
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==Libran==
[[Image:PlanetLibran.jpg|right]]
[[Image:Libran.gif|thumb|right|The courthouses of Libran.]]
'''Ancient Name''': [[wikipedia:Libra (constellation)|Libra]]

'''Alternative Name''': Libris

'''Population''': 2.1 million

'''Patron God''': Athena

'''Capital''': None

'''Major Cities''': Themis

'''Attractions''': Supreme Hall of Justice, Themis Arena

'''Pyramid Teams''': None

Libran was known for its courthouses and lawyers ([[TRS]]: "[[The Plan]]"), and was the home of the [[Inter-Colonial Court]] ([[CAP]]: "[[Gravedancing]]"). The planet had no official capital.<ref name="capitals3">[http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/ Serge's twitter account] stated in [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/10545438632 this tweet] that Aquaria and Libran "don't have official capitals".</ref>

A major city on Libran was called [[Themis]] which had a large, modern [[pyramid]] arena built sometime before the First Cylon War. Yet at this time Libran had no official pyramid team.<ref>[http://showblogs.syfy.com/caprican/sports/libran-needs-a-pyramid-team-statim.php ''The Caprican'' article: "Libran Needs a Pyramid Team Statim"].</ref>

After the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]], [[Oswin Eriku]] is chosen to be this colony's representative to the [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]].

''[[Zephyr]]'', a passenger liner in the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]], is of Libran registry.<ref>This was stated in a Fleet overview on scifi.com. This section of the site has long been shut down.</ref>

===Notes===
* The Colony's actual name, '''Libran''', was not heard on screen until "[[The Plan]]" but could already be seen on a name plate in "[[The Ties That Bind]]" and "[[A Disquiet Follows My Soul]]". Before that it was often called '''Libris''' in secondary publications.
* The city that is seen when Libran is mentioned in the "Caprica is burning" monologue in "[[The Plan]]", bears a striking resemblance to [[Tauron City]], as seen in "[[Know Thy Enemy]]".
*Serge's twitter account [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/15877355213 says] that the Libran court system served as a body through which trade disputes and legal matters were capable of being sorted amongst the colonies. He also [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/15877298276 states] that it is a high earning colony but is not regarded as a desirable place to live, and he [https://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/8751959730 states] that the planet is "largely a wildlife reserve".
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==Picon==
[[Image:PlanetPicon.jpg|right]]
[[Image:Picon.png|thumb|right|Picon from orbit.]]
'''Ancient Name''': [[wikipedia:Pisces (constellation)|Pisces]]

'''Population''': 1.4 billion

'''Patron God''': Poseidon

'''Capital''': Queenstown

'''Major Cities''': Perkinston, Queenstown, Pailyn

'''Attractions''': Colonial Fleet Headquarters, Penrose Harbor

'''Pyramid Teams''': [[Picon Panthers]]

Picon was a turquoise planet, containing 75% water, and famous for its harbors ([[TRS]]: [[The Plan]]). The capital city was Queenstown, which started as a relatively small fishing village.<ref name="capricanpicon">[http://showblogs.syfy.com/caprican/lifestyle/p-is-for-paradise-p-is-for-picon.php ''The Caprican'' article: "'P' Is for 'Paradise, 'P' Is for Picon"].</ref><ref name="capitals2">[http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/ Serge's twitter account] mentioned the capitals of Caprica, Tauron and Picon [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/10545200174 this tweet].</ref>

During the planet's off-season, most of the landscape became cold and rugged.<ref name="capricanpicon">[http://showblogs.syfy.com/caprican/lifestyle/p-is-for-paradise-p-is-for-picon.php ''The Caprican'' article: "'P' Is for 'Paradise, 'P' Is for Picon"].</ref> The planet was often used as a substitute for [[Caprica City]] in Caprican films and TV series.<ref name="capricanvacations">[http://showblogs.syfy.com/caprican/lifestyle/top-5-off-beat-vacation-destinations.php ''The Caprican'' article: "Top 5 Off-Beat Vacation Destinations"].</ref>

After the Unification of the Twelve Colonies this world was the location of the [[Picon Fleet Headquarters|Colonial Fleet Headquarters]] ([[TRS]]: [[Miniseries]]). Picon was also the home of [[Picon Laboratories]], located in Pailyn, Muritolan ([[TRS]]: "[[Faith]]").

The colony came under heavy attack during the early stages of the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attack]]. One of the last ships to leave the planet was the ''[[Rising Star (RDM)|Rising Star]]'', carrying many wounded people including an unconscious [[Ellen Tigh]] ([[TRS]]: "[[The Plan]]").

The destruction of Picon's Fleet Headquarters caused President [[Richard Adar]] to offer a complete and unconditional surrender to the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]]. This offer was ignored by the invading forces ([[TRS]]: [[Miniseries]]).

===Natives===
* [[Asha Janik]]
* [[Billy Keikeya | Billy Keikeya's]] family
* [[Playa Palacios]]

===Publications===
*''[[Picon Star Tribune]]''

=== Notes ===
*Picon's destination as a substitute for Caprica in films and series is likely a reference to Canada, and particularly Vancouver, where both the [[Re-Imagined Series]] and ''[[Caprica (series)|Caprica]]'' were filmed.
*[http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/12144717655 According] to Serge's twitter account, Picon has the most efficient, cooperative and responsive democracy in the colonies.
*In one [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/10988850734 post], it's said that Picon offers tax incentives for production of TV programs on the planet though Caprica remains the leading producer of such shows.
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==Sagittaron==
{{mainarticle|Sagittaron}}
[[Image:PlanetSagittaron.jpg|right]]
'''Ancient Name''': [[wikipedia:Sagittarius (constellation)|Sagittarius]]

'''Alternative Name''': Sagittarion

'''Population''': 1.7 billion

'''Patron God''': Zeus

'''Capital''': Tawa

'''Attractions''': Acheron River

'''Pyramid Teams''': [[Sagittaron Archers]]

Sagittaron was one of the poorest worlds of the Twelve Colonies ([[TRS]]: "[[Bastille Day]]"). The capital of this planet was Tawa.<ref name="capitals1">[http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/ Serge's twitter account] mentioned the capitals of Gemenon, Virgon, Leonis, Sagittaron, Scorpia, Canceron and Aerilon in [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/10545377704 this tweet].</ref>

The Sagittarons were traditionalists who practiced a different form of religion from the other Colonials. They distrusted modern medicine and were generally unsupportive of the military ([[TRS]]: "[[The Woman King]]").

The Planet endured centuries of exploitation at the hands of the other Colonies. Eventually, [[Tom Zarek]] led an organized series of terrorist acts against the established government there, many years before the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Fall of the Colonies]] ([[TRS]]: "[[Bastille Day]]").

A few days after the Cylon attack, 5,251 people from this world reside within [[The Fleet (RDM)|the Fleet]] ([[TRS]]: "[[33]]").

===Natives===
* [[Jacob Cantrell]]
* [[Anastasia Dualla]]
* [[Portia King | Portia]] and [[Willie King]]
* [[Clarice Willow]]
* [[Tom Zarek]]

===Notes===
* The colony's name was originally spelled as "Sagittar'''i'''on" in the [[Miniseries]], but this changed to '''Sagittaron''' when the regular series began.
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==Scorpia==
[[Image:PlanetScorpia.jpg|right]]
[[Image:ScorpionFleetShipyards1.jpg|thumb|right|Scorpia and its shipyards from orbit.]]
'''Ancient Name''': [[wikipedia:Scorpius|Scorpio]]

'''Population''': 450 million

'''Patron God''': Dionysus

'''Capital''': Celeste

'''Major Cities''': Celeste, Argentum

'''Attractions''': Argentum Bay, Guardian Mountains, Scorpia Shipyards

'''Pyramid Teams''': Scorpia Stingers, Celeste Storms, Celeste Lightning, Argentum Bay Silverstars

Scorpia was known for its lush jungles and hot temperatures ([[TRS]]: "[[The Plan]]"). Scorpia's capital was Celeste.<ref name="capitals1">[http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/ Serge's twitter account] mentioned the capitals of Gemenon, Virgon, Leonis, Sagittaron, Scorpia, Canceron and Aerilon in [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/10545377704 this tweet].</ref>

Before the [[First Cylon War]] one of the major leisure spots of the world was Argentum Bay, despite the colony's trashy reputation.<ref>[http://showblogs.syfy.com/caprican/entertainment/argentum-bay-the-ultimate-vernal-break.php ''The Caprican'' article: "Argentum Bay: The Ultimate Vernal Break"].</ref>. The Planet was also apparently well-known for its [[Scorpia Paragliding|Paragliding]] ([[TRS]]: "Razor").

After the Unification, Scorpia was home to the [[Scorpion Fleet Shipyards|Scorpion Fleet Shipyards]].

During the initial [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attack]], Scorpia falls victim to numerous massive nuclear attacks, destroying much of the population. Cylon forces also focus on the orbiting ship yards, obliterating the structure, destroying numerous Battlestars and support ships, and causing [[Pegasus (RDM)|another one]] to risk a blind jump in order to escape ([[TRS]]: "[[Razor]]").

[[Eladio Puasha]] serves as the planet's delegate to the first [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]] assembled after the Fall.
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===Notes===
* In an [http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2010/01/caprica-countdown-paula-malcolmsons-moving-away-from-deadwoods-trixie.html LA Times article], Scorpia is described as having a "scorpion tail-like half-ring".
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==Tauron==
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[[Image:PlanetTauron.jpg|right]]
[[Image:Tauron.png|thumb|right|[[Tauron (RDM)|Tauron]] from orbit, and under Cylon assault.]]
[[Image:TauronCity.JPG|thumb|right|Pre-Cylon War Minos (Tauron City).]]
[[Image:TauronTwinPlanet.JPG|thumb|right|Tauron's moon, Minos, in the evening sky.]]
'''Ancient Name''': [[wikipedia:Taurus (constellation)|Taurus]]

'''Population''': 2.5 billion

'''Patron God''': Ares

'''Official Language''': Tauron

'''Capital''': [[Hypatia]]

'''Major Cities''': Hypatia, [[Tauron City]] (Minos)

'''Attractions''': Minos, Olympia Hippadrome, Great Tauron Plains

'''Pyramid Teams''': Olympia Stallions, Tauron Bulls

Tauron was a barren, arid planet that lacked any kind of flowers. However, it was well-known for its agriculture ([[CAP]]: [[Caprica pilot|Pilot]]). Its capital was [[Hypatia]]<ref name="capitals2">[http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/ Serge's twitter account] mentioned the capitals of Caprica, Tauron and Picon [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/10545200174 this tweet].</ref>, another large city was [[Tauron City]]. The planet shared its orbit with another ringed world ([[CAP]]: "[[Know Thy Enemy]]" - see notes).

Taurons were known to be very traditional people, even speaking a very old and distinctive [[Language in the Twelve Colonies|language]] ([[CAP]]: [[Caprica pilot|Pilot]]).

Some 800 years before [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|the Fall]] Tauron was colonized by [[#Virgon|Virgon]] and [[#Leonis|Leonis]]. The people of Tauron liberated themselves and ever since this world has been known for its troubled and violent history.<ref>[http://showblogs.syfy.com/caprican/opinion/racism-an-unacceptable-aspect-of-caprican-life.php ''The Caprican'' article: "An Unacceptable Aspect of Caprican Life"].</ref>

Nearly a century before its Fall, Tauron was one of the poorer colonial worlds and the center of a [[Tauron Civil War|civil war]]. A few years before the [[First Cylon War]], the crime syndicate [[Ha'la'tha]] had enormous influence over the planet, which even extended to other colonies, such as [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] ([[CAP]]: [[Caprica pilot|Pilot]]).

During the War, [[Hypatia]] was was the location of a [[Battle of Tauron|fierce and lossy battle]] against [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon forces]] ([[TRS]]: "[[Razor]]", extended Edition).

After the War, Tauron was known to be a somewhat troublesome colony within the [[Government of the Twelve Colonies|federal system]] of the Colonies, often disobeying directives decided by the colonies and pushing their luck with the admiralty ([[TRS]]: "[[Hero]]"). Yet this world was counted among the wealthier of the twelve worlds ([[TRS]]: "[[Dirty Hands]]").

===Natives===
* [[Joseph Adama | Joseph]] and [[Sam Adama]]
* [[Shannon Adama]] and her mother, [[Ruth]]
* [[Helena Cain]] and her murdered family
* [[Tomas Vergis]]

===Notes===
* The language of Tauron is remarkably similar to Ancient Greek that, thousands of years later, was spoken on [[Earth (RDM)#A New Earth | a planet]] on the other side of the galaxy.
* According to [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/10335013016 Serge's Twitter Account] Tauron only has a moon.
* Serge's Twitter account also [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/10545200174 stated] Tauron's capital to be [[Hypatia]].
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==Virgon==
[[Image:PlanetVirgon.jpg|right]]
'''Ancient Name''': [[wikipedia:Virgo (constellation)|Virgo]]

'''Population''': 4.3 billion

'''Patron God''': Hestia

'''Capital''': Boskirk

'''Major Cities''': Boskirk, Blaustad, Hadrian

'''Attractions''': House of Parliament, Tower of Virgon, Petrus Palace, Virgon Universities

'''Pyramid Teams''': Virgon United, [[Boskirk All Reds]]

Virgon was well-known for its forests ([[TRS]]: "[[The Plan]]") and considered to be one of the wealthier colonies ([[TRS]]: "[[Dirty Hands]]"). The capital of Virgon was Boskirk.<ref name="capitals1">[http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/ Serge's twitter account] mentioned the capitals of Gemenon, Virgon, Leonis, Sagittaron, Scorpia, Canceron and Aerilon in [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/10545377704 this tweet].</ref>

Virgon had a declining monarchy and a strong national parliament, at least 58 years before the Fall of the Colonies.<ref>Mentioned by [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/statuses/10937229785 Serge's twitter account].</ref>

[[Virgon Brew]] was a beer produced on the planet and exported to other Colonies ([[TRS]]: "[[Maelstrom]]").

Soon after the beginning of the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attack]], the Colonials launch a counter-attack over Virgon. The battle ends with the destruction of the flagship battlestar ''[[Atlantia (RDM)|Atlantia]]'' and the resulting death of [[Nagala|Fleet Admiral Nagala]] ([[TRS]]: [[Miniseries]]).

[[Marshall Bagot]] is the Virgon delegate to the first [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]]. He nominates [[Tom Zarek]] for the vice-presidency ([[TRS]]: "[[Colonial Day]]"). In public ceremonies, the Virgon delegate wears a light blue sash.

===Notes===
*Serge's Twitter Account [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/10937229785 states] that Virgon has a declining monarchy with a strong parliament.
*Virgon draws many parallels with present-day Earth's Britain; a declining monarchy, birthplace of Colonial language, coloniser of other planets (comparable to countries) and 'Virgon United' and 'Boskirk All Reds' are similar to Manchester United, a prominent English football team, also known as the Red Devils.

== See Also==
*[[Ithaca]]

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Valkyrie

2014-01-11T20:51:09Z

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| title= ''Valkyrie''
| race= Colonial
| type= Military
| ftl= Yes
| crew=
| status= Destroyed, [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Zero Hour]], 0 BCH
| patch= Valkyrie Gold.png
| co= Commander [[William Adama]] (Last Known)
| xo= Colonel [[Saul Tigh]] (Last Known)
| role= Carrier / battleship
| arm= 20x light batteries <br /> 33x heavy batteries <br /> Tube-launched ship-to-ship missiles
| aircraft= Small Viper compliment <br /> Small Raptor compliment
| facilities= 2x flight pods <br /> 2x flight decks <br /> 6x Viper launch tubes
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'''''Valkyrie''''' was a veteran [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Colonial]] [[battlestar (RDM)|battlestar]] of an [[Valkyrie Type Battlestar|unnamed class]], built around the start of the [[First Cylon War]]. It played a crucial role in eliminating the Cylon's edge, and turning the favor of the war to the Colonials. The ship was still in service nearly 40 years later, serving on the Colonial front lines with its sister ships, where it was stationed over Caprica. ''Valkyrie'' is later destroyed by Cylon forces in an act of [[Command Navigation Program|subterfuge]] during the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Fall of Caprica]]. Prior to its destruction, ''Valkyrie'' was attached to the 41st [[Battlestar Group]] ([[TRS]]: "[[The Plan]]").

== History ==

=== First Cylon War ===
Approximately ten years into the first [[Cylon War]], ''Valkyrie'' was involved in a battle with Cylons near [[Canceron]] Prime, in which the ship took major damage, and was presumed destroyed. In truth, Colonial Admiralty saw an opportunity to trick the Cylons, and the ship had become part of a secret Colonial "ghost fleet" hiding in Cylon-held space, where several pilots and their planes were on detachment to the battlestar ''[[Osiris]]''. ''Valkyrie''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> crew at the time were made to witness their own death certificates.

After the Cylons were fed more false information, ''Valkyrie'', along with the rest of the "Ghost Fleet," participated in the successful [[Ghost Fleet Offensive]] campaign against Cylon forces, striking every Cylon base in five sectors (''[[Blood and Chrome]]'').

=== Inter-War Period ===
Approximately six years<ref name="hero">While dialogue from "[[Hero]]" places these events at 1 BCH, this contradicts previously established dates about the time Adama and others served on ''Galactica''. See [[Hero#Analysis]] for a detailed explanation why ''Battlestar Wiki'' chooses to treat this as a continuity error.</ref> before the Cylon attack, ''Valkyrie'' had been ordered by Admiral [[Peter Corman]] to deploy a [[Stealthstar|stealth recon ship]] over the [[Armistice Line]] to test [[Cylon (RDM)|Cylon]] resolve and gather intelligence on Cylon activities. During the mission, an unidentified [[DRADIS]] contact (presumed to have been a spacecraft) entered the area of the stealth ship piloted by Lieutenant [[Daniel Novacek]] and damaged the Stealthstar's engines before jumping away.

Two further (presumed Cylon) contacts were detected on an intercept course with the stealth ship. Rather than attempt a rescue of the disabled craft, Commander Adama ordered the stealth ship to be destroyed to prevent its discovery and capture.

In the days and years following the incident at the Armistice Line, and in particular after the Cylon attack on the Colonies, Adama came to believe that his actions had provoked the Cylon assault, having proven to them that humanity was aggressive and not to be trusted ([[TRS]]: "[[Hero]]").

=== Return of the Cylons ===
During the initial Cylon assault on the Twelve Colonies, ''Valkyrie'', alongside battlestar ''[[Yashuman]]'', moves in to engage the Cylons over [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]]. Both battlestars move to weapons-free status, only to be disabled by the [[Command Navigation Program|CNP]]'s backdoors before any shots could be fired. ''Valkyrie'', ''Yashuman'', a third battlestar of the same class, and their deployed Viper squadrons are destroyed shortly after ([[TRS]]: "[[The Plan]]") <ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmAEmuwZY5Q Watch in high definition and pause at 1:18 and 1:43]</ref>.

==Notes==
* The ship's hull number cannot be seen. It is thus not known if it is identical to its battlestar group.
* The ''Valkyrie'' CIC insignia adorned [[David Eick]]'s production office wall in the Vancouver Film Studios where ''Battlestar Galactica'' was produced.<ref>{{cite_web|url=http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/video/index.php?cat=videoBlog&vid=51390|title=Video Blog: Taking A Break From All Your Worries|date=|accessdate=|last=|first=|format=|language=}}</ref>
* In mythology, a ''[[Wikipedia:Valkyrie|Valkyrie]]'' is a minor female deity who chose the most heroic fallen warriors to ascend to Valhalla where they would await [[Wikipedia:Ragnarok|Ragnarok]]. Valkyrie is the third (second onscreen) instance of Norse mythology being used, the first being [[Ragnar Station]], which is a reference to Ragnarok, the Norse "twilight of the gods" ([[Miniseries]]).
** Interestingly, the story of Ragnarok parallels with the career of William Adama, the one-time commander of ''Valkyrie''. Adama, considered a fallen hero by the admiralty, is transferred from the advanced ''Valkyrie'' to command the aging ''Galactica'' about a year before the Cylon attack. Later, with the fall of the Colonies, he finds himself in the [[Battle of Ragnar Anchorage]], the last battle within Colonial space.

== Related Imagery ==
<gallery>
Image:Valkyrie close up.jpg|Closeup of a ''Valkyrie'' type battlestar.
Image:Battlestar Valkyrie The Plan.png|''Valkyrie'' among it sister ships above Caprica.
Image:Valkyrie CNP Virus Transmission.png|''Valkyrie'' under attack.
Image:Battlestar Valkyrie CNP Hack.png|''Valkyrie'' after being disabled by the Cylons.
Image:ValykrieFlightPod.jpg|One of the ship's flight pods.
Image:Valkyrie Missile Tube.png|A closeup of a battery.
Image:Valkyrie bridge.jpg|The CIC.
Image:Valkyrie CIC.jpg|Full view of CIC.
Image:3x8-Adama-and-Valkyrie-insignia.jpg|''Valkyrie'' insignia.
Image:Valkyrie patch.jpg|''Valkyrie'' armpatch.
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Galactica (TRS)

2014-01-05T20:16:49Z

Frylock86: minor formatting.

:''This article discusses the [[Re-imagined Series]] battlestar. For other meanings of '''''Galactica''''', see [[Galactica (disambiguation)]].''
{{Ship Data
| image= Battlestar Galactica - Blood And Chrome Appearence.png
| title= ''Galactica'' (BS 75)
| race= Colonial
| type= Military
| ftl= Yes
| crew= Approximately 5,000
| length= {{Meters2Feet|1438.64}}<ref name="dim">These dimensions (in meters) were derived from the CG model and posted by [[Lee Stringer]] on the StarshipBuilder.com forums, which are no longer available. They are the most precise so far. The width with pods extended and the height are quoted here verbatim; the length was calculated by adding the posted dimension for the front of the ship (766.04m) to the posted dimension for the back (672.6m). The full set as provided by Lee Stringer is as follows: "Width (Pods out) 536.84m (Pods In) 352.34m
Engines Max 359.38m Head Max 334.58m
Length: Front (Main body) 730.65m (Antenee) 766.04m Back 672.6m
(using the center of the two arms as the middle)
Height (Armor/Mainbody) 181.825m (Details) 183.315m".</ref>
| width= {{Meters2Feet|536.84}}<ref name="podtopod">This is from flight pod to flight pod while they are extended.</ref>
| height= {{Meters2Feet|183.315}}
| otherdi= The dimensions above are from [[Lee Stringer]], who built the ''Galactica'' CG model. VFX Sequence Designer [[Adam "Mojo" Lebowitz]] gave the length as {{Feet2Meters|4740}}.<ref>[http://darthmojo.wordpress.com/2009/04/05/how-big-was-the-colony/#comment-2193 Blog comment] by [[Adam "Mojo" Lebowitz]].</ref> The reason for this twenty-foot discrepancy is unknown.
| co= Commander [[Silas Nash]] (Circa YR58)
| xo= Unknown
| role= Command and Control <br /> Carrier / battleship
| arm= ~600x dual point-defense [[Battery#Close-in_Weapon_Systems|CIWS]] <br /> ~40-50x Primary [[Battery#Gun_Clusters|guns]]
| def= Flak
| aircraft= Full Viper Mk. II compliment <br /> Full Viper Mk. III compliment <br /> Full Raptor compliment
| facilities= 2x [[Flight pod|flight pods]] <br /> 2x [[Landing bay (RDM)|flight decks]]: 617 m (2,025 ft) each <br /> 2x [[Hangar deck|Hangar facilities]] <br /> 80x Viper [[Launch tube (TRS)|launch tubes]]
| patch= Galactica Gold.png
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Built during the early days of the [[Cylon War]], '''''Galactica'' (BS 75)''' is a [[Galactica type battlestar|veteran battlestar]] and was the last of her kind still in service, prior to her decommissioning by the Colonial Fleet. Officially decommissioned, ''Galactica'' was transformed into a museum ship as a memorial to the Cylon War, fought nearly forty years prior. Before decommissioning, ''Galactica'' was part of the 75th Colonial Battlestar Group.

== Construction and First War Service (YR48-YR60) ==
''Galactica'' was one of the first twelve ''Galactica'' type battlestars to be constructed by the Colonials, each representing one of the twelve colonies; ''Galactica'' represented [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]]. While solidly built, various factors during ''Galactica's'' construction led to the shipyard "cutting corners" when she was originally built, with various components not completed to spec ([[TRS]]: "[[No Exit]]").

These battlestars were all designed with non-integrated computer systems to avoid the Cylons' demonstrated ability to override or subvert networked command and control systems early in the war ([[TRS]]: "[[Miniseries, Night 1]]"). Rather than technological sophistication, the battlestar depended on its sheer bulk and defensive / offensive capabilities to ward off any threats to itself or the Colonies.

Entering service sometime prior to the tenth year of the War, ''Galactica''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> primary duties included planetary defense, and border patrol. It is unknown if the ship took part in any major engagement prior to this point, however it is known that the Colonials were facing heavy losses in the wake of Cylon advancements (''"[[Blood & Chrome]]"'').

Two years later ''Galactica'' participated in [[Operation Raptor Talon]], along with ''[[Columbia (RDM)|Columbia]]'' and one other battlestar of her class. She was successful in inflicting major damage to Cylon forces, but not before they were able to destroy ''Columbia''. The battle ended in a draw, when it was announced the Cylons had signed an armistice agreement (''"[[Razor]]"'').

=== Gallery ===
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Image:Galactica Refit.png|''Galactica'' sporting new primary cannons in place of point defense KEWs.
Image:Galactica Viper Launch.png|A Viper launches from ''Galactica''.
Image:CIC.png|''Galactica's'' CIC in its original configuration during the Cylon War.
Image:CIC 2.png|''Galactica's'' CIC in its original configuration during the Cylon War.
Image:CIC 3.png|''Galactica's'' CIC in its original configuration during the Cylon War.
Image:Hangar.png|''Galactica's'' hangar deck in its original configuration during the Cylon War.
Image:Galactica Hangar Deck.png|''Galactica''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> hangar deck during the War.
Image:Cable Car.png|A cable car used to transport personnel through the ship.
Image:Galactica Infirmary.png|''Galactica''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> infirmary during the First Cylon War.

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=== Notes ===
* In ''"[[Blood & Chrome]]"'', ''Galactica'' is depicted with larger flight facilities than in the TRS series, however her overall flight pod design doesn't change, creating a continuity error. Since the pods do not change, [http://www.flickr.com/photos/lee_stringer/8738268186/ it is impossible] for the larger hangar deck to fit inside the pods, without a change in elevation of the above flight deck.
* Also in ''"Blood & Chrome"'', ''Galactica''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> cannons change position from the beginning of the production to the end. It is assumed this is a production mixup, and that two different models were produced, and both accidentally used. The second model used at the conclusion of the production is incomplete, and does not feature lightmaps.

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== Modern Service and Decommissioning (YR80-YR00) ==
{{Ship Data
| image= Galactica Overview.jpg
| title= ''Galactica'' (BS 75)
| race= Colonial
| type= Military
| ftl= Yes
| crew= Approximately 2,900
| length= {{Meters2Feet|1438.64}}<ref name="dim">These dimensions (in meters) were derived from the CG model and posted by [[Lee Stringer]] on the StarshipBuilder.com forums, which are no longer available. They are the most precise so far. The width with pods extended and the height are quoted here verbatim; the length was calculated by adding the posted dimension for the front of the ship (766.04m) to the posted dimension for the back (672.6m). The full set as provided by Lee Stringer is as follows: "Width (Pods out) 536.84m (Pods In) 352.34m
Engines Max 359.38m Head Max 334.58m
Length: Front (Main body) 730.65m (Antenee) 766.04m Back 672.6m
(using the center of the two arms as the middle)
Height (Armor/Mainbody) 181.825m (Details) 183.315m".</ref>
| width= {{Meters2Feet|536.84}}<ref name="podtopod">This is from flight pod to flight pod while they are extended.</ref>
| height= {{Meters2Feet|183.315}}
| co= Admiral [[William Adama]]
| xo= Colonel [[Saul Tigh]]
| role= Command and Control <br /> Carrier / battleship
| arm= ~514x dual point-defense [[Battery#Close-in_Weapon_Systems|CIWS]] <br /> 24x primary [[Battery#Gun_Clusters|guns]] <br /> ~12x [[missile tubes]]
| def= Flak <br /> Non-networked computer systems
| aircraft= ~80x Viper Mk. II's <br /> Full Raptor compliment <br /> Atmospheric shuttles
| facilities= 1x active [[Flight pod|flight pod]] <br /> 1x active [[Landing bay (RDM)|flight deck]]: 617 m (2,025 ft) <br /> 1x active [[Hangar deck|Hangar facility]] <br /> 40x active Viper [[Launch tube (TRS)|launch tubes]]
| status= Decommissioned, YR00 <br /> Scuttled, YR04
| patch= Galactica Gold.png
| img= Y
}}

=== Post War Service ===

Even before the end of the War, ''Galactica'' undergoes a refit that sees the removal of much of her armor, removal of the Viper stacks, and many of her primary batteries. Changes to the layout of the CIC, hangar decks and infirmary are delivered at this point as well ([[TRS]]: "[[Razor Flashbacks]]"). <ref>The reasons for this are unknown, however it can be surmised that the highly successful Ghost Fleet Offensive, and advancements in technology allowed the Colonials to scale back massive deployments. The massive redesign of CIC and the hangar decks is likely to streamline operations.</ref> This would be ''Galactica'' <nowiki>'s</nowiki> last major refit prior to her decommissioning nearly 40 years later. ''Galactica'' never receives the networked computer or Baltar's CNP upgrades like her sister ships do.

Following the armistice, the ''Galactica'' is regulated to intra-system duties, and has been known to take on "Coast Guard" roles involving the shipping sector, which limits the use of the ship's two FTL drives. Prior to ''Galactica''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> FTL jump to [[Ragnar Anchorage]], her drives weren't utilized in nearly twenty years ([[TRS]]: "[[Miniseries]]").

=== Decommissioning ===
:''Main article: [[Galactica Museum|Battlestar Galactica Museum]]''
With her active career drawing to a close, a decision was taken to retire ''Galactica'' and decommission her from service. The Colonial Fleet chose not to scrap her, but to turn her into a combination of living museum to the original Cylon War and an educational center, with her conversion being overseen by her final commander, [[William Adama]].

At the time of her formal decommissioning ceremony, ''Galactica'' is stripped of all but one of her operational [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] Mark VII squadrons, her munitions are destroyed, and her starboard landing pod is converted into a pressurized museum which houses various items from the Cylon War. The museum was about to open when the Cylons brake the Armistice, and renew their hostilities with the Colonials.

== Cylon Attack and Post-Fall Exodus (YR00-YR04) ==
=== Surprise Attack ===
[[Image:Mini side fleet.jpg|thumb|left|200px|''Galactica'' and the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]].]]
With the renewed and unexpected Cylon hostilities, ''Galactica'' is quickly brought back to combat condition and sorties a squadron of Mark IIs retrieved from her museum, engaging in her first battle with the Cylons in over forty years (all but one last Mark VII squadron were sent to Caprica for reassignment). She survives a direct hit by a tactical nuclear missile, and later [[FTL|jumps]] successfully to [[Ragnar Anchorage]] to replenish her empty ammunition stores at this strategic depot.

''Galactica'' emerges from the anchorage and engages one [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]] with her gun batteries, providing cover for [[The Fleet (RDM)|a fleet of 75 civilian ships]] harboring survivors of the Twelve Colonies. Once the entire civilian fleet successfully jumps away, and as a second basestar approaches to join the battle, ''Galactica'' recovers her remaining Vipers and jumps to the rendezvous point beyond the [[Red Line]], never to return to Colonial space ([[TRS]]: "[[Miniseries]]").

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=== Leading a Ragtag Fleet ===
[[Image:Ep212battle.jpg|200px|left|thumb|''Galactica'' and ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' work together during the [[Battle of the Resurrection Ship]].]]
Since the exodus of the Colonials from their overrun homeworlds, ''Galactica'' becomes both protector and provider for the Fleet. She provides covering fire for the Fleet during Cylon attacks no fewer than 240 times ([[TRS]]: "[[33]]": "[[Act of Contrition]]"). The battlestar provides much of the Fleet with recycled water ([[TRS]]: "[[Water]]") and she is the primary source of medical care, where groups of civilians are periodically brought aboard for check-ups and treatment ([[TRS]]: "[[Litmus]]"). ''Galactica'' also undertakes internal policing duties within the Fleet ([[TRS]]: "[[Water]]"; "[[Bastille Day]]").

''Galactica'' successfully goes on the offensive against the Cylons, after the capture of a [[tylium]] fuel mining and processing plant in the process. This plant is able to provide enough fuel for ''Galactica'' and the fleet for years ([[TRS]]: "[[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]").

The [[Mercury class battlestar|advanced battlestar]] ''Pegasus'', commanded by Rear Admiral [[Helena Cain]], joins ''Galactica'' approximately 6 months into their exodus ([[TRS]]: "[[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]"). While integration into the fleet is far from smooth, the two battlestars work in unison to destroy two Cylon [[Basestar (RDM)|basestars]], as well as a critical Cylon support ship known as a [[Resurrection Ship]] ([[TRS]]: "[[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]").

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===New Caprica===
Following the founding of [[New Caprica]], ''Galactica'' is assigned to the orbital defense force that protects the planet. During this time the majority of her crew are allowed to the surface in an effort to populate the planet and restore the human race, a majority of whom are seemingly convinced that the Cylons will never find New Caprica. The diminished crew inevitably results in standard maintenance becoming overlooked or ignored; basic military responses, such as the launching of alert fighters and routine training exercises become difficult to execute. One year following the founding of New Caprica, a fleet of Cylon ships jump into orbit of the planet. Severely limited in their abilities, Admiral Adama orders the defense fleet to jump away from New Caprica along with a handful of civilian ships still in orbit of the colony. ([[TRS]]: "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]").

[[Image:BONC.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''Galactica'' takes a pounding during the [[Battle of New Caprica]].]]
Four months after their escape, ''Galactica'''s staff is still in the process of developing a rescue strategy with 16 training exercises having been completed, and a 17th underway when an accident causes its early cessation ([[TRS]]: "[[Occupation]]"). This forces both a change in strategy and the reformulation of a rescue plan to deal with personnel who have not seen conflict in 16 months ([[TRS]]: "[[Precipice]]"; "[[Exodus, Part I]]").

After coordinating with the [[New Caprica Resistance]], ''Galactica'' leaves ''Pegasus'' to guard the space-bound members of humanity, while it initiates the [[Battle of New Caprica]]. In the subsequent battle, ''Galactica'' is overtaxed, out-gunned, and faces destruction when ''Pegasus'' unexpectedly arrives. ''Pegasus''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> salvos draw the attention of the basestars away from ''Galactica'', buying her crew time to bring her [[FTL|FTL drives]] back on-line, recover her planes, and escape ([[TRS]]: "[[Exodus, Part II]]"). ''Galactica'' bears the scars of the battle with significant scorching and dents to the hull. Repairs continue on the journey through the Ionian nebula, with heavy damage to secondary storage, and damage to one particular airlock nearly causing the deaths of Galen and Cally Tyrol during what they expected to be a quick repair of a hull micro-fracture ([[TRS]]: "[[Blood on the Scales]]", "[[A Day in the Life]]").

Given the loss of ''Pegasus'', ''Galactica'' now boasts a larger crew, Viper and Raptor complement, to the point where there are more pilots than there are ships to fly ([[TRS]]: "[[Torn]]"), although the training of new recruits is still ongoing ([[TRS]]: "[[Dirty Hands]]"; "[[Crossroads, Part II]]"; "[[He That Believeth in Me]]"). Further, there are various redundancies between the two crews that are appropriately dealt with ([[TRS]]: [[List of Deleted Scenes - Season 3 (RDM)|deleted scene]] from "[[Exodus, Part II]]").

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=== Resuming the Search for Earth ===
''Galactica'' takes aboard a significant quantity of civilians following the exodus from New Caprica, as several civilian ships are lost during the escape from the failed colony. Cramped conditions increase as crew and civilians struggle to adapt to life back aboard a ship. The civilians reside on the refurbished starboard hangar deck as a refugee camp nicknamed "[[Camp Oil Slick]]" and later "Dogsville" ([[TRS]]: "[[Torn]]"; "[[The Woman King]]").
[[Image:BOTIM.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''Galactica'' is outnumbered during the [[Battle of the Ionian Nebula]].]]
During a [[The Passage|food shortage crisis]] caused by contamination of the Fleet's food processing systems, ''Galactica'' (along with her Raptors acting as pilot ships) guides the civilian Fleet through an area of intense heat, light and radiation caused by a [[Passage (star cluster)|dense star cluster]] to reach edible resources on the [[algae planet]]. ''Galactica''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> heavy armor and radiation shielding protect her from the intense effects of the cluster, but the ship still suffers hull damage and numerous decompressions.

When the Fleet reaches the [[Ionian Nebula]], four Cylon baseships are detected following an unexplained power outage. With the entire Fleet powered down and unable to escape, ''Galactica'' scrambles her Vipers and prepares for a lopsided fight, outnumbered and outgunned ([[TRS]]: "[[Crossroads, Part II]]"). During the [[Battle of the Ionian Nebula|following battle]], ''Galactica'' manages to hold off the main attack of the massive Cylon attack force. Despite the damage suffered in previous engagements, the old warship wields her main guns and point defense batteries effectively again in defense of the Fleet. Despite having the advantage, and managing to destroy or damage several civilian ships, the Cylons retreat in the middle of the battle, after detecting one of the [[Final Five]] among the Colonials. ''Galactica'' takes minor damage in the battle, loosing a battery, and contributing to further weakening of her overall structure ([[TRS]]: "[[He That Believeth in Me]]").

After three years of searching, ''Galactica'' and her Fleet locate Earth. The fleet enters orbit, and immediately launch ground teams who quickly determine that the planet is uninhabitable, having suffered a cataclysm sometime prior. A short time after, ''Galactica'' takes her fleet, and returns to the stars ([[TRS]]: "[[Revelations]]", "[[Sometimes a Great Notion]]").

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=== Post-Earth ===
[[Image:Damaged Galactica.jpg|thumb|right|200px|A heavily damaged ''Galactica''.]]
With ''Galactica's'' advanced age, the corners cut during construction, and the abuse it has been put through since the war started all have contributed to deteriorating conditions. A structural survey of the ship finds several torn supports and weakened areas in the hull, and a more in-depth examination finds endemic metal fatigue throughout the ship, with virtually every part of the hull riddled with small cracks and fissures. A plan is proposed to treat the damaged parts of the ship with an [[Cylon organic resin|organic Cylon resin]] from the [[Rebel Baseship]], which would fill the cracks and bear the stresses, which Adama at first refuses. However, Adama finally appreciates ''Galactica's'' dire condition when he finds a tear in a bulkhead in his quarters, and orders Tyrol to carry out his plan to repair the ship ([[TRS]]: "[[No Exit]]"). Despite the resin, ''Galactica'' is dying of old age and accumulated battle damage.

Despite repairs, the ship continues to accrue damage, and the order is given to abandon ship. Command will be transferred to the Cylon baseship once supplies and personnel have been offloaded ([[TRS]]: "[[Islanded In a Stream of Stars]]").

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=== Battle of The Colony ===
[[Image:Battleofthecolony.jpg|thumb|left|200px|''Galactica'' takes massive hits seconds after jumping to [[The Colony]].]]
With a skeleton crew and a frail battlestar, Admiral Adama executes a daring mission to rescue Hera Agathon.

''Galactica'' jumps to the Colony at point-blank range. Besieged by the Colony's gun batteries at first, the ship is pummeled relentlessly (destroying the dorsal Colonial roundel) until the Hybrid Anders manages to take them and the Colony's Hybrids offline. As ''Galactica's'' Vipers engage incoming Raiders, her Raptors jump directly from their berth in the starboard [[flight pod]], causing the destruction of the pod, and maneuver to board the Colony. ''Galactica'' is then used to ram the Colony, providing an entry and exit point for assault teams.
As the battle wages on, Cylon Raiders swarm ''Galactica'', destroying at least one of its remaining heavy gun batteries. Platoons of enemy Centurions swarm into the ship, and are held back by marines firing squads, despite inflicting heavy casualties. After a brief cease fire, the ship comes under enemy fire once more, in one final push by Cylon forces. After the Colony is hit with nuclear-tipped missiles launched by Racetrack's drifting Raptor, both ''Galactica'' and the Colony begin falling into the black hole the Colony was orbiting.

===Journey's End===

[[File:Battlestar Over Africa.jpg|thumb|right|200px|right|A crippled ''Galactica'' over Earth.]]

Pummeled by interstellar debris, ''Galactica'' is successful in escaping her position via a blind FTL jump (though Starbuck inputs coordinates she extrapolated from the Music). The ship however does not retract its flight pods before executing the jump. This and the accumulated stresses of the past four years turn out to be the nail in the coffin for the old battlestar. Emerging from the jump, ''Galactica'' suffers a series of catastrophic structural failures. Her lateral structural members give way, which causes the hull to visibly flex and twist, so much so that hull breaches and explosive decompression rock the ship. Several Vipers are in turn tossed from the port flight deck. Despite the damage, the hull remains in one piece thanks to the Cylon organic resin, and other vital ship systems like life support and sublight propulsion are online. However, the ship's FTL is unusable due to structural failures. The fear of being stranded in space is short lived as it revealed the ship jumped into a system containing a habitable planet: Earth.

When the Colonials decide to colonize the world, ''Galactica'' and her fleet are scuttled, piloted directly into the system's star, by [[Samuel Anders]] ([[TRS]]: "[[Daybreak, Part II]]"). Admiral Adama is the last soul to leave the ship, departing in his Viper Mark II from the Cylon War era.

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== Crew ==
:''For information on Senior Staff, see : [[Senior Staff of Galactica]]''
:''For a list of pilots, see: [[List of Pilots]]''
:''For a list of deckhands, see: [[List of deckhands]]''
:''For a list of marines, see: [[Colonial Marine Corps]]''

Before the attack, ''Galactica'' has approximately 2,900 crewmen. By the time of the arrival of ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'', attrition has reduced this number to about 2,660. (c.f. [[Crew tally]])
It is unknown whether the Colonial Marines account for members or not.
*Between "[[Act of Contrition]]" and "[[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]" ''Galactica''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> offensive capability is also greatly hampered by the number of [[List of Pilots|qualified pilots]] available, and their lack of flight simulators with which to train more. Since ''Galactica''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> reunion with ''Pegasus'', this has ceased to be an issue ([[TRS]]: "[[Scar]]").

==Related Imagery==
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Image:BSG Ortho Top & Bottom.jpg|''Galactica'' - [[Zoic]] rendering    
Image:BSG Ortho Front, Back & Starboard.jpg|''Galactica'' - Zoic rendering    
Image:Galactica's top side.jpg|''Galactica'''s top side.
Image:Kg cg ns galactica-049.jpg|''Galactica'''s front - Zoic
Image:Battlestar stern.jpg|''Galactica'''s stern.
Image:Galactica retraction.jpg|Flight pod retraction area.
Image:Galactica's bottom-023b.jpg|''Galactica'''s bottom.
Image:Bsg damaged.jpg|''Galactica'' with battle damage. (High Res)
Image:Cylon War-era Galactica, "Razor" Flashback 1.jpg|''Galactica'' in the [[Razor]] Flashbacks.
Image:Galactica - flight pods retracted.jpg|''Galactica'' with flight pods retracted.
Image:BSG landing alcove.jpg|''Galactica'' landing alcove.
Image:Kg cg ns galactica-037.jpg|A cluster of rail guns.
Image:Battered Battlestar.jpg|Bow view of ''Galactica''.
Image:GalPeg.png|''Galactica'' overlooking the ''[[Pegasus]]''.
Image:Pointdefence2 101 1080i.jpg|''Galactica''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> point defense batteries in action    
Image:Galactica fights off missile salvos.jpg|''Galactica'' establishes a defense perimeter.
Image:Raptor scramble.jpg|''Galactica'' scrambles [[Viper]]s and [[Raptor]]s.
Image:Colony Breech.jpg|''Galactica'' rams herself into [[The Colony]].
Image:Img0059.jpg|''Galactica'''s main batteries.
Image:Galactia's end.jpg|''Galactica'' and the Fleet depart for the sun, with the African continent in the background.

Image:CIC Overview 1.jpg|''Galactica'''s CIC.
Image:Cicweaponscontrol1.jpg|Weapons control.
Image:Cictacticalstation1.jpg|Tactical station.
Image:Cic commstation.jpg|Communications.
Image:The Mess.jpg|The Officers' mess hall.
Image:Cicdmgcontrol.jpg|Damage control.
Image:Ftl2.jpg|FTL Drive.
Image:Bsg-1-10.jpg|The "War Room".
Image:Porthangardeck.jpg|The port hangar bay on ''Galactica''.
Image:DutyLocker.jpg|Crew quarters.
Image:GalacticaInterior Sickbay1.jpg|Sickbay
Image:Galactica Museum, "Daybreak, Part II".jpg| The ''Galactica'' museum in the starboard flight pod.
Image:Galactica corridor.jpg|The "A-shaped" corridors.
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== See also ==
*[[Galactica crew facilities (RDM)|Galactica crew facilities]]
*[[:Category:Galactica Areas (RDM)|Galactica Areas]]

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:''This article discusses the [[Re-imagined Series]] battlestar. For other meanings of '''''Galactica''''', see [[Galactica (disambiguation)]].''
{{Ship Data
| image= Battlestar Galactica - Blood And Chrome Appearence.png
| title= ''Galactica'' (BS 75)
| race= Colonial
| type= Military
| ftl= Yes
| crew= Approximately 5,000
| length= {{Meters2Feet|1438.64}}<ref>These dimensions (in meters) were derived from the CG model and posted by [[Lee Stringer]] on the StarshipBuilder.com forums, which are no longer available. They are the most precise so far. The width with pods extended and the height are quoted here verbatim; the length was calculated by adding the posted dimension for the front of the ship (766.04m) to the posted dimension for the back (672.6m). The full set as provided by Lee Stringer is as follows: "Width (Pods out) 536.84m (Pods In) 352.34m
Engines Max 359.38m Head Max 334.58m
Length: Front (Main body) 730.65m (Antenee) 766.04m Back 672.6m
(using the center of the two arms as the middle)
Height (Armor/Mainbody) 181.825m (Details) 183.315m".</ref>
| width= {{Meters2Feet|536.84}}<ref name="podtopod">This is from flight pod to flight pod while they are extended.</ref>
| height= {{Meters2Feet|183.315}}
| otherdi= The dimensions above are from [[Lee Stringer]], who built the ''Galactica'' CG model. VFX Sequence Designer [[Adam "Mojo" Lebowitz]] gave the length as {{Feet2Meters|4740}}.<ref>[http://darthmojo.wordpress.com/2009/04/05/how-big-was-the-colony/#comment-2193 Blog comment] by [[Adam "Mojo" Lebowitz]].</ref> The reason for this twenty-foot discrepancy is unknown.
| co= Commander [[Silas Nash]] (Circa YR58)
| xo= Unknown
| role= Carrier / battleship
| arm= * ~600x dual point-defense [[Battery#Close-in_Weapon_Systems|CIWS]] <br /> * ~40-50x Primary [[Battery#Gun_Clusters|guns]]
| def= * Flak
| aircraft= * Full Viper Mk. II compliment <br /> * Full Viper Mk. III compliment <br /> * Full Raptor compliment
| facilities= * 2x [[Flight pod|flight pods]] <br /> * 2x [[Landing bay (RDM)|flight decks]]: 617 m (2,025 ft) each <br /> * 2x [[Hangar deck|Hangar facilities]] <br /> * 80x Viper [[Launch tube (TRS)|launch tubes]]
| status= Active
| patch= Galactica Gold.png
}}

Built during the early days of the [[Cylon War]], '''''Galactica'' (BS 75)''' is a [[Galactica type battlestar|veteran battlestar]] and was the last of her kind still in service, prior to her decommissioning by the Colonial Fleet. Officially decommissioned, ''Galactica'' was transformed into a museum ship as a memorial to the Cylon War, fought nearly forty years prior. Before decommissioning, ''Galactica'' was part of the 75th Colonial Battlestar Group.

== Construction and First War Service (YR48-YR60) ==
''Galactica'' was one of the first twelve ''Galactica'' type battlestars to be constructed by the Colonials, each representing one of the twelve colonies; ''Galactica'' represented [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]]. While solidly built, various factors during ''Galactica's'' construction led to the shipyard "cutting corners" when she was originally built, with various components not completed to spec ([[TRS]]: "[[No Exit]]").

These battlestars were all designed with non-integrated computer systems to avoid the Cylons' demonstrated ability to override or subvert networked command and control systems early in the war ([[TRS]]: "[[Miniseries, Night 1]]"). Rather than technological sophistication, the battlestar depended on its sheer bulk and defensive / offensive capabilities to ward off any threats to itself or the Colonies.

Entering service sometime prior to the tenth year of the War, ''Galactica''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> primary duties included planetary defense, and border patrol. It is unknown if the ship took part in any major engagement prior to this point, however it is known that the Colonials were facing heavy losses in the wake of Cylon advancements (''"[[Blood & Chrome]]"'').

Two years later ''Galactica'' participated in [[Operation Raptor Talon]], along with ''[[Columbia (RDM)|Columbia]]'' and one other battlestar of her class. She was successful in inflicting major damage to Cylon forces, but not before they were able to destroy ''Columbia''. The battle ended in a draw, when it was announced the Cylons had signed an armistice agreement (''"[[Razor]]"'').

=== Gallery ===
<gallery>
Image:Galactica Refit.png|''Galactica'' sporting new primary cannons in place of point defense KEWs.
Image:Galactica Viper Launch.png|A Viper launches from ''Galactica''.
Image:CIC.png|''Galactica's'' CIC in her original configuration during the Cylon War.
Image:CIC 2.png|''Galactica's'' CIC in her original configuration during the Cylon War.
Image:CIC 3.png|''Galactica's'' CIC in her original configuration during the Cylon War.
Image:Hangar.png|''Galactica's'' hangar deck in its original configuration during the Cylon War.
Image:Galactica Hangar Deck.png|''Galactica''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> hangar deck during the War.
Image:Cable Car.png|A cable car used to transport personnel through the ship.
Image:Galactica Infirmary.png|''Galactica''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> infirmary during the First Cylon War.

</gallery>
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=== Notes ===
* In ''"[[Blood & Chrome]]"'', ''Galactica'' is depicted with larger flight facilities than in the TRS series, however her overall flight pod design doesn't change, creating a continuity error. Since the pods do not change, [http://www.flickr.com/photos/lee_stringer/8738268186/ it is impossible] for the larger hangar deck to fit inside the pods, without a change in elevation of the above flight deck.
* Also in ''"Blood & Chrome"'', ''Galactica''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> cannons change position from the beginning of the production to the end. It is assumed this is a production mixup, and that two different models were produced, and both accidentally used. The second model used at the conclusion of the production is incomplete, and does not feature lightmaps.

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== Modern Service and Decommissioning (YR80-YR00) ==
{{Ship Data
| image= Galactica Overview.jpg
| title= ''Galactica'' (BS 75)
| race= Colonial
| type= Military
| ftl= Yes
| crew= Approximately 2,900
| length= {{Meters2Feet|1438.64}}<ref>These dimensions (in meters) were derived from the CG model and posted by [[Lee Stringer]] on the StarshipBuilder.com forums, which are no longer available. They are the most precise so far. The width with pods extended and the height are quoted here verbatim; the length was calculated by adding the posted dimension for the front of the ship (766.04m) to the posted dimension for the back (672.6m). The full set as provided by Lee Stringer is as follows: "Width (Pods out) 536.84m (Pods In) 352.34m
Engines Max 359.38m Head Max 334.58m
Length: Front (Main body) 730.65m (Antenee) 766.04m Back 672.6m
(using the center of the two arms as the middle)
Height (Armor/Mainbody) 181.825m (Details) 183.315m".</ref>
| width= {{Meters2Feet|536.84}}<ref name="podtopod">This is from flight pod to flight pod while they are extended.</ref>
| height= {{Meters2Feet|183.315}}
| co= Admiral [[William Adama]]
| xo= Colonel [[Saul Tigh]]
| role= * Command and Control <br /> * Carrier / battleship
| arm= * ~514x dual point-defense [[Battery#Close-in_Weapon_Systems|CIWS]] <br /> * 24x primary [[Battery#Gun_Clusters|guns]] <br /> * ~12x [[missile tubes]]
| def= * Flak <br /> * Non-networked computer systems
| aircraft= * ~80x Viper Mk. II's <br /> * Full Raptor compliment <br /> * Atmospheric shuttles
| facilities= * 1x active [[Flight pod|flight pod]] <br /> * 1x active [[Landing bay (RDM)|flight deck]]: 617 m (2,025 ft) <br /> * 1x active [[Hangar deck|Hangar facility]] <br /> * 40x active Viper [[Launch tube (TRS)|launch tubes]]
| status= * Decommissioned, YR00 <br /> * Scuttled, YR04
| patch= Galactica Gold.png
| img= Y
}}

=== Post War Service ===

Even before the end of the War, ''Galactica'' undergoes a refit that sees the removal of much of her armor, removal of the Viper stacks, and many of her primary batteries. Changes to the layout of the CIC, hangar decks and infirmary are delivered at this point as well ([[TRS]]: "[[Razor Flashbacks]]"). <ref>The reasons for this are unknown, however it can be surmised that the highly successful Ghost Fleet Offensive, and advancements in technology allowed the Colonials to scale back massive deployments. The massive redesign of CIC and the hangar decks is likely to streamline operations.</ref> This would be ''Galactica'' <nowiki>'s</nowiki> last major refit prior to her decommissioning nearly 40 years later. ''Galactica'' never receives the networked computer or Baltar's CNP upgrades like her sister ships do.

Following the armistice, the ''Galactica'' is regulated to intra-system duties, and has been known to take on "Coast Guard" roles involving the shipping sector, which limits the use of the ship's two FTL drives. Prior to ''Galactica''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> FTL jump to [[Ragnar Anchorage]], her drives weren't utilized in nearly twenty years ([[TRS]]: "[[Miniseries]]").

=== Decommissioning ===
:''Main article: [[Galactica Museum|Battlestar Galactica Museum]]''
With her active career drawing to a close, a decision was taken to retire ''Galactica'' and decommission her from service. The Colonial Fleet chose not to scrap her, but to turn her into a combination of living museum to the original Cylon War and an educational center, with her conversion being overseen by her final commander, [[William Adama]].

At the time of her formal decommissioning ceremony, ''Galactica'' is stripped of all but one of her operational [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] Mark VII squadrons, her munitions are destroyed, and her starboard landing pod is converted into a pressurized museum which houses various items from the Cylon War. The museum was about to open when the Cylons brake the Armistice, and renew their hostilities with the Colonials.

== Cylon Attack and Post-Fall Exodus (YR00-YR04) ==
=== Surprise Attack ===
[[Image:Mini side fleet.jpg|thumb|left|200px|''Galactica'' and the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]].]]
With the renewed and unexpected Cylon hostilities, ''Galactica'' is quickly brought back to combat condition and sorties a squadron of Mark IIs retrieved from her museum, engaging in her first battle with the Cylons in over forty years (all but one last Mark VII squadron were sent to Caprica for reassignment). She survives a direct hit by a tactical nuclear missile, and later [[FTL|jumps]] successfully to [[Ragnar Anchorage]] to replenish her empty ammunition stores at this strategic depot.

''Galactica'' emerges from the anchorage and engages one [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]] with her gun batteries, providing cover for [[The Fleet (RDM)|a fleet of 75 civilian ships]] harboring survivors of the Twelve Colonies. Once the entire civilian fleet successfully jumps away, and as a second basestar approaches to join the battle, ''Galactica'' recovers her remaining Vipers and jumps to the rendezvous point beyond the [[Red Line]], never to return to Colonial space ([[TRS]]: "[[Miniseries]]").

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=== Leading a Ragtag Fleet ===
[[Image:Ep212battle.jpg|200px|left|thumb|''Galactica'' and ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' work together during the [[Battle of the Resurrection Ship]].]]
Since the exodus of the Colonials from their overrun homeworlds, ''Galactica'' becomes both protector and provider for the Fleet. She provides covering fire for the Fleet during Cylon attacks no fewer than 240 times ([[TRS]]: "[[33]]": "[[Act of Contrition]]"). The battlestar provides much of the Fleet with recycled water ([[TRS]]: "[[Water]]") and she is the primary source of medical care, where groups of civilians are periodically brought aboard for check-ups and treatment ([[TRS]]: "[[Litmus]]"). ''Galactica'' also undertakes internal policing duties within the Fleet ([[TRS]]: "[[Water]]"; "[[Bastille Day]]").

''Galactica'' successfully goes on the offensive against the Cylons, after the capture of a [[tylium]] fuel mining and processing plant in the process. This plant is able to provide enough fuel for ''Galactica'' and the fleet for years ([[TRS]]: "[[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]").

The [[Mercury class battlestar|advanced battlestar]] ''Pegasus'', commanded by Rear Admiral [[Helena Cain]], joins ''Galactica'' approximately 6 months into their exodus ([[TRS]]: "[[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]"). While integration into the fleet is far from smooth, the two battlestars work in unison to destroy two Cylon [[Basestar (RDM)|basestars]], as well as a critical Cylon support ship known as a [[Resurrection Ship]] ([[TRS]]: "[[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]").

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===New Caprica===
Following the founding of [[New Caprica]], ''Galactica'' is assigned to the orbital defense force that protects the planet. During this time the majority of her crew are allowed to the surface in an effort to populate the planet and restore the human race, a majority of whom are seemingly convinced that the Cylons will never find New Caprica. The diminished crew inevitably results in standard maintenance becoming overlooked or ignored; basic military responses, such as the launching of alert fighters and routine training exercises become difficult to execute. One year following the founding of New Caprica, a fleet of Cylon ships jump into orbit of the planet. Severely limited in their abilities, Admiral Adama orders the defense fleet to jump away from New Caprica along with a handful of civilian ships still in orbit of the colony. ([[TRS]]: "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]").

[[Image:BONC.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''Galactica'' takes a pounding during the [[Battle of New Caprica]].]]
Four months after their escape, ''Galactica'''s staff is still in the process of developing a rescue strategy with 16 training exercises having been completed, and a 17th underway when an accident causes its early cessation ([[TRS]]: "[[Occupation]]"). This forces both a change in strategy and the reformulation of a rescue plan to deal with personnel who have not seen conflict in 16 months ([[TRS]]: "[[Precipice]]"; "[[Exodus, Part I]]").

After coordinating with the [[New Caprica Resistance]], ''Galactica'' leaves ''Pegasus'' to guard the space-bound members of humanity, while it initiates the [[Battle of New Caprica]]. In the subsequent battle, ''Galactica'' is overtaxed, out-gunned, and faces destruction when ''Pegasus'' unexpectedly arrives. ''Pegasus''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> salvos draw the attention of the basestars away from ''Galactica'', buying her crew time to bring her [[FTL|FTL drives]] back on-line, recover her planes, and escape ([[TRS]]: "[[Exodus, Part II]]"). ''Galactica'' bears the scars of the battle with significant scorching and dents to the hull. Repairs continue on the journey through the Ionian nebula, with heavy damage to secondary storage, and damage to one particular airlock nearly causing the deaths of Galen and Cally Tyrol during what they expected to be a quick repair of a hull micro-fracture ([[TRS]]: "[[Blood on the Scales]]", "[[A Day in the Life]]").

Given the loss of ''Pegasus'', ''Galactica'' now boasts a larger crew, Viper and Raptor complement, to the point where there are more pilots than there are ships to fly ([[TRS]]: "[[Torn]]"), although the training of new recruits is still ongoing ([[TRS]]: "[[Dirty Hands]]"; "[[Crossroads, Part II]]"; "[[He That Believeth in Me]]"). Further, there are various redundancies between the two crews that are appropriately dealt with ([[TRS]]: [[List of Deleted Scenes - Season 3 (RDM)|deleted scene]] from "[[Exodus, Part II]]").

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=== Resuming the Search for Earth ===
''Galactica'' takes aboard a significant quantity of civilians following the exodus from New Caprica, as several civilian ships are lost during the escape from the failed colony. Cramped conditions increase as crew and civilians struggle to adapt to life back aboard a ship. The civilians reside on the refurbished starboard hangar deck as a refugee camp nicknamed "[[Camp Oil Slick]]" and later "Dogsville" ([[TRS]]: "[[Torn]]"; "[[The Woman King]]").
[[Image:BOTIM.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''Galactica'' is outnumbered during the [[Battle of the Ionian Nebula]].]]
During a [[The Passage|food shortage crisis]] caused by contamination of the Fleet's food processing systems, ''Galactica'' (along with her Raptors acting as pilot ships) guides the civilian Fleet through an area of intense heat, light and radiation caused by a [[Passage (star cluster)|dense star cluster]] to reach edible resources on the [[algae planet]]. ''Galactica''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> heavy armor and radiation shielding protect her from the intense effects of the cluster, but the ship still suffers hull damage and numerous decompressions.

When the Fleet reaches the [[Ionian Nebula]], four Cylon baseships are detected following an unexplained power outage. With the entire Fleet powered down and unable to escape, ''Galactica'' scrambles her Vipers and prepares for a lopsided fight, outnumbered and outgunned ([[TRS]]: "[[Crossroads, Part II]]"). During the [[Battle of the Ionian Nebula|following battle]], ''Galactica'' manages to hold off the main attack of the massive Cylon attack force. Despite the damage suffered in previous engagements, the old warship wields her main guns and point defense batteries effectively again in defense of the Fleet. Despite having the advantage, and managing to destroy or damage several civilian ships, the Cylons retreat in the middle of the battle, after detecting one of the [[Final Five]] among the Colonials. ''Galactica'' takes minor damage in the battle, loosing a battery, and contributing to further weakening of her overall structure ([[TRS]]: "[[He That Believeth in Me]]").

After three years of searching, ''Galactica'' and her Fleet locate Earth. The fleet enters orbit, and immediately launch ground teams who quickly determine that the planet is uninhabitable, having suffered a cataclysm sometime prior. A short time after, ''Galactica'' takes her fleet, and returns to the stars ([[TRS]]: "[[Revelations]]", "[[Sometimes a Great Notion]]").

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=== Post-Earth ===
[[Image:Damaged Galactica.jpg|thumb|right|200px|A heavily damaged ''Galactica''.]]
With ''Galactica's'' advanced age, the corners cut during construction, and the abuse it has been put through since the war started all have contributed to deteriorating conditions. A structural survey of the ship finds several torn supports and weakened areas in the hull, and a more in-depth examination finds endemic metal fatigue throughout the ship, with virtually every part of the hull riddled with small cracks and fissures. A plan is proposed to treat the damaged parts of the ship with an [[Cylon organic resin|organic Cylon resin]] from the [[Rebel Baseship]], which would fill the cracks and bear the stresses, which Adama at first refuses. However, Adama finally appreciates ''Galactica's'' dire condition when he finds a tear in a bulkhead in his quarters, and orders Tyrol to carry out his plan to repair the ship ([[TRS]]: "[[No Exit]]"). Despite the resin, ''Galactica'' is dying of old age and accumulated battle damage.

Despite repairs, the ship continues to accrue damage, and the order is given to abandon ship. Command will be transferred to the Cylon baseship once supplies and personnel have been offloaded ([[TRS]]: "[[Islanded In a Stream of Stars]]").

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=== Battle of The Colony ===
[[Image:Battleofthecolony.jpg|thumb|left|200px|''Galactica'' takes massive hits seconds after jumping to [[The Colony]].]]
With a skeleton crew and a frail battlestar, Admiral Adama executes a daring mission to rescue Hera Agathon.

''Galactica'' jumps to the Colony at point-blank range. Besieged by the Colony's gun batteries at first, the ship is pummeled relentlessly (destroying the dorsal Colonial roundel) until the Hybrid Anders manages to take them and the Colony's Hybrids offline. As ''Galactica's'' Vipers engage incoming Raiders, her Raptors jump directly from their berth in the starboard [[flight pod]], causing the destruction of the pod, and maneuver to board the Colony. ''Galactica'' is then used to ram the Colony, providing an entry and exit point for assault teams.
As the battle wages on, Cylon Raiders swarm ''Galactica'', destroying at least one of its remaining heavy gun batteries. Platoons of enemy Centurions swarm into the ship, and are held back by marines firing squads, despite inflicting heavy casualties. After a brief cease fire, the ship comes under enemy fire once more, in one final push by Cylon forces. After the Colony is hit with nuclear-tipped missiles launched by Racetrack's drifting Raptor, both ''Galactica'' and the Colony begin falling into the black hole the Colony was orbiting.

===Journey's End===

[[File:Battlestar Over Africa.jpg|thumb|right|200px|right|A crippled ''Galactica'' over Earth.]]

Pummeled by interstellar debris, ''Galactica'' is successful in escaping her position via a blind FTL jump (though Starbuck inputs coordinates she extrapolated from the Music). The ship however does not retract its flight pods before executing the jump. This and the accumulated stresses of the past four years turn out to be the nail in the coffin for the old battlestar. Emerging from the jump, ''Galactica'' suffers a series of catastrophic structural failures. Her lateral structural members give way, which causes the hull to visibly flex and twist, so much so that hull breaches and explosive decompression rock the ship. Several Vipers are in turn tossed from the port flight deck. Despite the damage, the hull remains in one piece thanks to the Cylon organic resin, and other vital ship systems like life support and sublight propulsion are online. The ship's FTL is however unusable due to structural failures. The fear of being stranded in space is short lived as it revealed the ship jumped into a system containing a habitable planet: Earth.

When the Colonials decide to colonize the world, ''Galactica'' and her fleet are scuttled, piloted directly into the system's star, by [[Samuel Anders]] ([[TRS]]: "[[Daybreak, Part II]]"). Admiral Adama is the last soul to leave the ship, departing in his Viper Mark II from the Cylon War era.

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== Crew ==
:''For information on Senior Staff, see : [[Senior Staff of Galactica]]''
:''For a list of pilots, see: [[List of Pilots]]''
:''For a list of deckhands, see: [[List of deckhands]]''
:''For a list of marines, see: [[Colonial Marine Corps]]''

Before the attack, ''Galactica'' has approximately 2,900 crewmen. By the time of the arrival of ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'', attrition has reduced this number to about 2,660. (c.f. [[Crew tally]])
It is unknown whether the Colonial Marines account for members or not.
*Between "[[Act of Contrition]]" and "[[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]" ''Galactica''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> offensive capability is also greatly hampered by the number of [[List of Pilots|qualified pilots]] available, and their lack of flight simulators with which to train more. Since ''Galactica''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> reunion with ''Pegasus'', this has ceased to be an issue ([[TRS]]: "[[Scar]]").

==Related Imagery==
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Image:BSG Ortho Top & Bottom.jpg|''Galactica'' - [[Zoic]] rendering    
Image:BSG Ortho Front, Back & Starboard.jpg|''Galactica'' - Zoic rendering    
Image:Galactica's top side.jpg|''Galactica'''s top side.
Image:Kg cg ns galactica-049.jpg|''Galactica'''s front - Zoic
Image:Battlestar stern.jpg|''Galactica'''s stern.
Image:Galactica retraction.jpg|Flight pod retraction area.
Image:Galactica's bottom-023b.jpg|''Galactica'''s bottom.
Image:Bsg damaged.jpg|''Galactica'' with battle damage. (High Res)
Image:Cylon War-era Galactica, "Razor" Flashback 1.jpg|''Galactica'' in the [[Razor]] Flashbacks.
Image:Galactica - flight pods retracted.jpg|''Galactica'' with flight pods retracted.
Image:BSG landing alcove.jpg|''Galactica'' landing alcove.
Image:Kg cg ns galactica-037.jpg|A cluster of rail guns.
Image:Battered Battlestar.jpg|Bow view of ''Galactica''.
Image:GalPeg.png|''Galactica'' overlooking the ''[[Pegasus]]''.
Image:Pointdefence2 101 1080i.jpg|''Galactica''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> point defense batteries in action    
Image:Galactica fights off missile salvos.jpg|''Galactica'' establishes a defense perimeter.
Image:Raptor scramble.jpg|''Galactica'' scrambles [[Viper]]s and [[Raptor]]s.
Image:Colony Breech.jpg|''Galactica'' rams herself into [[The Colony]].
Image:Img0059.jpg|''Galactica'''s main batteries.
Image:Galactia's end.jpg|''Galactica'' and the Fleet depart for the sun, with the African continent in the background.

Image:CIC Overview 1.jpg|''Galactica'''s CIC.
Image:Cicweaponscontrol1.jpg|Weapons control.
Image:Cictacticalstation1.jpg|Tactical station.
Image:Cic commstation.jpg|Communications.
Image:The Mess.jpg|The Officers' mess hall.
Image:Cicdmgcontrol.jpg|Damage control.
Image:Ftl2.jpg|FTL Drive.
Image:Bsg-1-10.jpg|The "War Room".
Image:Porthangardeck.jpg|The port hangar bay on ''Galactica''.
Image:DutyLocker.jpg|Crew quarters.
Image:GalacticaInterior Sickbay1.jpg|Sickbay
Image:Galactica Museum, "Daybreak, Part II".jpg| The ''Galactica'' museum in the starboard flight pod.
Image:Galactica corridor.jpg|The "A-shaped" corridors.
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== See also ==
*[[Galactica crew facilities (RDM)|Galactica crew facilities]]
*[[:Category:Galactica Areas (RDM)|Galactica Areas]]

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Loki type heavy cruiser

2014-01-03T21:25:20Z

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{{Ship Data
|image= Loki.png
| title= ''Loki'' type heavy cruiser
| race= Colonial
| type= Military
| ftl= Yes
| propol= 9x sublight engines
| crew= Unknown
| role= Heavy cruiser <br /> Fleet support ship
| arm= 35x guns
| def= Unknown
| aircraft= Unknown
| facilities= 2x landing bays
| length= ~{{Meters2Feet|719.32}} <ref>Cyclops concept art from Richard Livingston: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10202818626416714&set=p.10202818626416714&type=1&theater </ref>
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The ''' ''Loki'' type heavy cruiser''' is a lightly armed support ship in service with the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Colonial Fleet]] during the [[First Cylon War]], where two or three of these ships would be assigned to a [[battlestar group]] at any given time.

The ships are designed to receive goods and munitions, and transfer them to combat ships underway (''[[Blood & Chrome]]'').

==Design==
The heavy cruiser features a unique tri-hull design, joined by a massive domed structure on the dorsal side, and an "alligator head" on the front side. The alligator head contain all thirty-five of the ship's guns, with fifteen along the dorsal side, twelve along the ventral side, and four along both the port and starboard sides of the hull. The head also contains two landing bays along the sides of the hull, and communications antennas on the front. The massive tri-hulls contain a combined total of eighty-one cargo holds, and feature movable cranes along the top to assist with the transfer of goods and munitions.

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! Name !! Number !! Status !! Last Seen
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| ''[[Loki]]'' || Unknown || Active, part of "Ghost Fleet", YR58 (42 BCH) || ''[[Blood & Chrome]]''
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| ''Cyclops'' || FCS-73 || Active, part of "Ghost Fleet", YR58 (42 BCH) || ''[[Blood & Chrome]]''
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| Unknown || Unknown || Active, part of "Ghost Fleet", YR58 (42 BCH) || ''[[Blood & Chrome]]''
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| Unknown || Unknown || Active, part of 75th battlestar group, YR58 (42 BCH) || ''[[Blood & Chrome]]''
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| Unknown || Unknown || Active, part of 75th battlestar group, YR58 (42 BCH) || ''[[Blood & Chrome]]''
|}

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== Notes ==
*The design was created by Richard Livingston.
*The CGI model used for production is labeled ''Cyclops'' (FCS-73) <ref>[http://www.deg3d.biz/featured_work/featured_work.html Deg3D]</ref>, which is barely legible in the header image for this article, despite the ship in reference referred as ''Loki''.

==Gallery==
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Image:Heavy Cruiser Stich.png|Composite shot of the "alligator head" of a unnamed heavy cruiser.
Image:HC Aft.png|Aft view of a heavy cruiser hiding with the ghost fleet.
Image:HC Main Hull.png|Closeup of a heavy cruiser's main hull (lower right). Note the primary cannons.
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Loki type heavy cruiser

2014-01-03T21:14:19Z

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{{Ship Data
|image= Loki.png
| title= ''Loki'' type heavy cruiser
| race= Colonial
| type= Military
| ftl= Yes
| propol= 9x sublight engines
| crew= Unknown
| role= Heavy cruiser
| arm= 35x guns
| def= Unknown
| aircraft= Unknown
| facilities= 2x landing bays
| length= ~{{Meters2Feet|719.32}} <ref>Cyclops concept art from Richard Livingston: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10202818626416714&set=p.10202818626416714&type=1&theater </ref>
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The ''' ''Loki'' type heavy cruiser''' is a lightly armed support ship in service with the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Colonial Fleet]] during the [[First Cylon War]], where two or three of these ships would be assigned to a [[battlestar group]] at any given time.

The ships are designed to receive goods and munitions, and transfer them to combat ships underway (''[[Blood & Chrome]]'').

==Design==
The heavy cruiser features a unique tri-hull design, joined by a massive domed structure on the dorsal side, and an "alligator head" on the front side. The alligator head contain all thirty-five of the ship's guns, with fifteen along the dorsal side, twelve along the ventral side, and four along both the port and starboard sides of the hull. The head also contains two landing bays along the sides of the hull, and communications antennas on the front. The massive tri-hulls contain a combined total of eighty-one cargo holds, and feature movable cranes along the top to assist with the transfer of goods and munitions.

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== Ships In Class ==

{|class="messagebox sortable" style="width:100%" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" align="center"
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! Name !! Number !! Status !! Last Seen
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| ''[[Loki]]'' || Unknown || Active, part of "Ghost Fleet", YR58 (42 BCH) || ''[[Blood & Chrome]]''
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| ''Cyclops'' || FCS-73 || Active, part of "Ghost Fleet", YR58 (42 BCH) || ''[[Blood & Chrome]]''
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| Unknown || Unknown || Active, part of "Ghost Fleet", YR58 (42 BCH) || ''[[Blood & Chrome]]''
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| Unknown || Unknown || Active, part of 75th battlestar group, YR58 (42 BCH) || ''[[Blood & Chrome]]''
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| Unknown || Unknown || Active, part of 75th battlestar group, YR58 (42 BCH) || ''[[Blood & Chrome]]''
|}

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== Notes ==
*The design was created by Richard Livingston.
*The CGI model used for production is labeled ''Cyclops'' (FCS-73) <ref>[http://www.deg3d.biz/featured_work/featured_work.html Deg3D]</ref>, which is barely legible in the header image for this article, despite the ship in reference referred as ''Loki''.

==Gallery==
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Image:Heavy Cruiser Stich.png|Composite shot of the "alligator head" of a unnamed heavy cruiser.
Image:HC Aft.png|Aft view of a heavy cruiser hiding with the ghost fleet.
Image:HC Main Hull.png|Closeup of a heavy cruiser's main hull (lower right). Note the primary cannons.
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The Fleet (TRS)

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Frylock86: /* Notes */ - There is no Death Star in the Miniseries.

:''This article involves the fleet of [[FTL|faster-than-light]]-capable civilian ships in the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Re-imagined Series]]. For information on its [[Sublight Propulsion|sublight]] counterpart in the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]], see [[The Fleet (TOS)]]. For general information on other articles pertaining to fleets, see: [[Fleet (disambiguation)]].''

'''The Fleet''' is the convoy of ships sheltering the human survivors of the renewed [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attacks]] against the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Colonies]]. Alternatively, it can also be used to describe the surviving population.

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==Overview==

[[Image:The Fleet.png|thumb|right|400px|''Galactica'' leads the Fleet.]]

* "The Fleet" originates as a convoy of about 60 commercial and civilian ships in the space surrounding [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]]. [[Laura Roslin]], with the aid of [[Sharon Valerii]], initiates the clustering of stranded vessels in the aftermath of the Cylon invasion of the Twelve Colonies, thus forming the convoy. Around twenty of these ships are abandoned to a squadron of attacking [[Raider (RDM)|Raiders]] because they either lack [[FTL]] drives, or are damaged, like the sublight ''[[Botanical Cruiser]]'' and ''[[Gemenon Liner 1701]]''. The remaining vessels join the battlestar ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' - the only Colonial warship [[Pegasus (RDM)|known]] at the time to have survived the Cylon attack - in the upper atmosphere of the gas giant [[Ragnar]]. From this point on, ''Galactica'' shoulders the role of the Fleet's protector ([[TRS]]: [[Miniseries]]).
** [[Anastasia Dualla|Petty Officer Anastasia Dualla]] explains that 53 ships jumped away from an attacking Cylon baseship, with 10 still reporting trouble with their FTL drives. Adding ''Galactica'' to this tally, the total number of ships is 64 ([[TRS]]: "[[33]]").
** [[Saul Tigh|Colonel Saul Tigh]]'s first statement that the 24 ships departing with the [[Laura Roslin faction]] represent "almost a third of the Fleet" implies that the number of ships in the Fleet is approximately in the mid-70's. However, Tigh later responds to the number of civilians joining Roslin by saying, "That's over a third of the people in the Fleet." Since the term "Fleet" is used interchangeably to describe both the ships and the civilian populace, this could imply that Tigh's previous statement was an estimate of the people who left and not the number of ships lost ([[TRS]]: "[[The Farm]]", "[[Home, Part I]]").

* As an indicator of the crew and passengers aboard the ships, the phrase "the Fleet" also represents all of humanity. Usage of the term "the Fleet" has not gained more than an informal acceptance, as can be seen by President Roslin's continued use of the term ''President of the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]]''.<ref>This may be interpreted either as an expression of hope that the people of the Fleet will re-establish themselves on a new world, or a psychological inability to accept the Fleet as the only home that humanity will know for a long time.</ref>

* The Fleet is joined by rebel Cylons, after their numbers are devastated in an ambush by forces loyal to the [[Number One]] model. The rebel basestar is later admitted into the Fleet, with a [[Number Six|Six]] named [[Sonja]] joining the new [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum]] comprised of ship captains ([[TRS]]: "[[Someone to Watch Over Me]]").

* The ships of the Fleet would eventually be abandoned by the survivors four years after being forced to flee their homes. By this point the Fleet has fallen into disrepair, with ''Galactica'' no longer able to protect them. The stresses of combat - especially the [[Battle of New Caprica]] - and years spent in space without proper maintenance have taken their toll. Ultimately, the decision is made to abandon ''Galactica'' for the basestar, but it takes part in [[Battle of The Colony|one last operation]] against loyal Cylon forces. Afterwards, the Fleet is directed to their new home, a lush [[Earth_(RDM)#A_New_Earth|planet]] suitable for their needs that is unknown to any remaining loyal Cylons. Shortly after, the Fleet is abandoned and flown into Earth's star. ([[TRS]]: "[[Daybreak, Part II]]").

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==Ships==

==== Seen ====

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| ''[[Astral Queen]]'' || Prisoner transport || [[The Plan]], [[Daybreak, Part II]] || Transporting 1,500 prisoners to [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] for parole hearings at the time of the Cylon attack. Later the lead ship in [[Laura Roslin]]'s [[Laura Roslin faction|faction]].
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| [[Botanical Cruiser]] || Agricultural ship || The Plan, Daybreak, Part II || An FTL-capable agricultural ship. A sublight version of this ship is destroyed in the [[Miniseries, Night 2|second night]] of the Miniseries.
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| ''[[Celestra (RDM)|Celestra]]'' || Scientific research || The Plan, Daybreak, Part II|| Seen in various fleet shoots.
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| ''[[Chrion]]'' || [[Luxury liner]] || [[The Passage]] || Successfully shepherded to the [[algae planet]].
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| ''[[Colonial One]]'' || Transport ship, government || The Plan, Daybreak, Part II || Formerly ''Colonial Heavy 798''. Renamed after hosting surviving Colonial Government.
|-
|''[[Cybele]]'' || Cargo transport || [[The Plan]] || Escorted by [[Raptors]] through a very dense star cluster to the [[algae planet]] ([[TRS]]: "[[The Passage]]"). A copy of Simon refuses to blow up this ship and airlocks himself instead ([[TRS]]: "[[The Plan]]").<br/>Named for the [[w:Cybele|"Earth Mother" goddess]] of ancient Asia Minor.
|-
| ''[[Daru Mozu]]'' || [[Refinery Ship]] || Guess What's Coming to Dinner? || Somehow, the ship's refineries are lost to the Colonials.
|-
| ''[[Demetrius]]'' || Sewage recycling || Daybreak, Part II || Given to [[Kara Thrace]] and a select crew to try to find Earth. Later returned to the fleet.
|-
| ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' || [[Battlestar (RDM)|Battlestar]], military || The Plan, Daybreak, Part II || This is the last remaining [[Galactica type battlestar|original battlestar]] dating back to the [[Cylon War]]. It is the main protector and flagship of the Fleet, under direct command of [[William Adama]].
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| ''[[Gemenon Traveler]]'' || Freighter || The Plan, [[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]] || A copy of [[Leoben Conoy]] is captured and held here for interrogation and, later, executed.
|-
| ''[[Gemini (RDM)|Gemini]]'' || Freighter || The Plan, Daybreak, Part II || Used as a decoy in the [[Battle for the Tylium Asteroid]]. Joins Laura Roslin's separatist fleet. Is later part of the so-called defense fleet over [[New Caprica]]. Later escorted through the star cluster.
|-
| ''[[Gideon]]'' || Supply ship || [[The Son Also Rises]] || A supply ship involved in an incident where four civilians are killed by ''Galactica'' [[Marines]]. Survives after [[New Caprica]].
|-
| ''[[Hitei Kan]]'' || [[Refinery ship]] || Daybreak, Part II || The ship is the site of the worker's strike in the episode "[[Dirty Hands]]" and a mutiny authorized by [[Tom Zarek]] in [[A Disquiet Follows My Soul]].
|-
| ''[[Kimba Huta]]'' || Cold storage vessel || Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II || Featured in "[[The Farm]]" where Tom Zarek, Laura Roslin and Lee Adama hide out after Roslin's escape from ''Galactica''.
|-
| ''[[Majahual]]'' || [[Mining ship]] || [[Scar]] || Mines crucial metals needed to build [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]]s.
|-
| ''[[Monarch]]'' || Mining ship || [[Collaborators]] || A mining ship that joins the [[Laura Roslin faction]]. Mentioned in "Collaborators".
|-
| ''[[Prometheus (ship)|Prometheus]]'' || Freighter || The Plan, Daybreak, Part II || Commanded by [[Doyle Franks]], ''Prometheus'' has a reputation as an "off the grid" freighter involved in the [[black market (organization)|black market]].
|-
| ''[[Rebel Basestar]]'' || [[Basestar (RDM)#Modern Basestar|Basestar]], military|| Daybreak, Part II || Basestar of the Rebel Cylons that joins the Fleet as part of an alliance against Cavil's forces, later officially joining the Fleet after the Quorum of Twelve is dissolved and the Quorum of Ships' Captains is created.
|-
|''[[Rising Star (RDM)|Rising Star]]'' || Medical transport || The Plan, Daybreak, Part II || A medical ship similarly named and visually similar to the [[Original Series]] [[Rising Star (TOS)|ship of the same name]] is seen in Season 4 and "[[The Plan]]". It is not mentioned on either ''Colonial One'' or ''Galactica'''s tally boards in "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II".
|-
| ''[[Striker]]'' || Scientific research || [[Home, Part II]] || Damaged in a refueling operation overseen by Captain [[George Birch]].
|-
| ''[[Thera Sita]]'' || Freighter || The Plan, Daybreak, Part II || Ship is successfully shepherded to algae planet and later temporarily transfers refugees to ''Galactica'' in "The Woman King".
|-
| ''[[Triton_(civilian_ship)|Triton]]'' || Civilian transport || [[Sine Qua Non]] || Home "with a view" of [[Romo Lampkin]]. The ship's name is absent from both ''Galactica''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> and ''Colonial One''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> tally boards.
|-
| ''[[Virgon Express]]'' || Salvage and repair || The Plan, [[Downloaded]] || First introduced in "[[Water]]" as it undergoes underway water replenishment from ''Galactica'' <nowiki>'s</nowiki> stores. Seen in fleet until [[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]].
|-
| ''[[Zephyr]]'' || Passenger liner || The Plan, Daybreak, Part II || Arguably the easiest identifiable civilian ship due to its large ring. It is severely damaged during the [[Battle of the Ionian Nebula]], and is repaired en route to Earth.
|}

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==== Mentioned Only ====

Unless otherwise mentioned, the following ships are only listed on the [[:Image:Tally chalkboard.jpg|voting tally board]] in "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]".<ref>Note that the tally board in question contains inaccuracies regarding the number of votes, and thus should not be used to determine the population aboard each vessel.</ref> Many of these ships are mentioned or featured again, as the production generated a master list for reference.

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|''{{inlineref|bold=N|Adrasteia}}'' || In Greek mythology, [[w:Adrasteia|Adrasteia]] (also spelled Adrastia, Adrastea, Adrestea, and Adastreia) was a nymph who was charged by Rhea to raise the infant Zeus in secret to protect him from his father Cronus (Krónos) in the Dictaean cave.
|-
|''{{inlineref|bold=N|Amduatey}}'' || The ship is named after the [[Wikipedia:Ancient Egypt|Ancient Egyptian]] [[Wikipedia:Amduat|Amduat]], which literally means "That Which is in the Afterworld". It was an important funeral text usually inscribed in the tombs of pharoahs. The Amduat told the story of the sun god [[Wikipedia:Ra|Ra]], who set in the evening and traveled through the underworld at night, only to rise again in the morning. It was understood that the dead pharaoh was taking the same journey, through the underworld, only to rise again with Ra as an immortal in the morning.
|-
|''{{inlineref|bold=N|Aether}}'' || In Greek mythology, [[w:Aether (mythology)|Aether]] is one of the Protogenos (first-born). He is the personification of the "upper sky," space, and heaven, and the elemental god of the "Bright, Glowing, Upper Air." He is the pure upper air that the gods breathe, as opposed to regular air, the gloomy lower air of the Earth, which mortals breathe.
|-
|''{{inlineref|bold=N|Argo Navis}}'' || Captained by [[Simpson Markson]], who is selected to be a judge at Gaius Baltar's trial <ref>The name and the ship are noted in the [[Sources:The Son Also Rises|script]] for "[[The Son Also Rises]]", but not mentioned on screen.</ref>. <br> [[w:Argo Navis|Argo Navis]] was a large southern constellation representing the Argo, the ship used by Jason and the Argonauts in Greek mythology.
|-
|''[[Aurora (ship)|Aurora]]'' || A ship in the fleet that was home to a friend of [[Emily Kowalski]] ([[TRS]]: "[[Faith]]"). <br>
In Roman mythology, [[w:Aurora (mythology)|Aurora]] is the goddess of dawn. This [[Aurora, Goddess of the Dawn|goddess]] also exists within the series's own mythology.
|-
|''{{inlineref|bold=N|Azimenarius}}'' || ''Azimenarius'' is noted on the whiteboard voting tracker on ''Colonial One'', but is not on the master voting tally board on ''Galactica'' in "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]".
|-
|''[[Baah Pakal]]'' || The XO of the ship was a friend of [[Saul Tigh]]'s. They held a pair of DDG-62 engines that would be used in the [[Blackbird]]'s construction ([[TRS]]: "[[Flight of the Phoenix]]"). Later appeared on the master voting tally board on ''Galactica'' in "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]".
|-
|''{{inlineref|bold=N|Boreas}}'' || Named for the [[w:Boreas|god of the north wind]] in Greek mythology. <br> ''Boreas'' is noted on the whiteboard voting tracker on ''Colonial One'', but is absent from the master tally board on ''Galactica'' in "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II".
|-
|''{{inlineref|bold=N|Breton}}'' || On the voting tally boards on both ''Colonial One'' and ''Galactica'' in "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II".
|-
|''{{inlineref|bold=N|Carillon Trader}}'' || In the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]], [[Carillon]] is the infamous "casino planet" from "[[Saga of a Star World]]".
|-
|''{{inlineref|bold=N|Cassandra}}'' || Named for the [[w:Cassandra|daughter]] of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy who had the power of prophecy, but was cursed so that no one believed her.
|-
|''{{inlineref|bold=N|Coba}}'' || ''Coba'' is noted on the master tally board on ''Galactica'', but not on the whiteboard voting tracker on ''Colonial One'' in "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II".
|-
|''{{inlineref|bold=N|Clymene}}'' || ''Clymene'' is noted on the whiteboard voting tracker on ''Colonial One'', but is absent from the master tally board on ''Galactica'' in "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II". <br> Several women and deities in Greek myth are named [[wikipedia:Clymene|Clymene]].
|-
|''{{inlineref|bold=N|Dahshur}}'' || ''Dahshur'' is noted on the master tally board on ''Galactica'', but not on the whiteboard voting tracker on ''Colonial One'' in "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II".
|-
|''{{inlineref|bold=N|Diomedes}}'' || ''Diomedes'' is noted on the master tally board on ''Galactica'', but not on the whiteboard voting tracker on ''Colonial One'' in "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II". <br> Presumably named for the ancient hero of the Trojan War of the [[w:Diomedes|same name]].
|-
|''{{inlineref|bold=N|Embla Brokk}}'' || The name ''Embla Brokk'' may be derived from the names of two figures in Norse mythology: Embla, the first woman, and [[w:Brokkr|Brokkr]], a dwarf who helped create Draupnir (a magical ring) and [[w:Mjolnir|Mjolnir]] (Thor's hammer). <br> ''Embla Brokk'' is noted on the master tally board on ''Galactica'', but not on the whiteboard voting tracker on ''Colonial One'' in "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II".
|-
|''{{inlineref|bold=N|Enkidu}}'' || Among the first ships to navigate the star cluster to the [[algae planet]] ([[TRS]]: "[[The Passage]]"). <br/>
Named after the [[wikipedia:Enkidu|Enkidu]] of the [[wikipedia:Sumerian mythology|Sumerian mythological]] [[wikipedia:Epic of Gilgamesh|epic of Gilgamesh]].
|-
|''{{inlineref|bold=N|Epheme}}'' || The Epheme may be named for a minor character in Greek mythology who was nurse to the [[w:Muse|Muses]].
|-
|''[[Faru Sadin]]'' || Successfully guided through the [[Passage (star cluster)|star cluster]] to the algae planet by [[Louanne Katraine|Captain Louanne "Kat" Katraine]], who sacrifices her life in the process (The Passage).
|-
|''{{inlineref|bold=N|Freighter 212}}'' || A ship on which Lieutenant (later Captain) Louanne "Kat" Katraine apparently has some "buddies" ([[TRS]]: "[[Final Cut]]"). <br>
Indications are that "Freighter 212" is merely the hull number for the ship, as this name is not written on either tally boards during the election in "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II".
|-
|''{{inlineref|bold=N|Galatea}}'' || Probably named for a main character in the Greek myth of [[w:Pygmalion (mythology)|Pygmalion]]. Pygmalion, a sculptor, creates a statue of a woman, which is so beautiful that he falls in love with it, and the gods reward him by bringing her ([[w:Galatea (mythology)|Galatea]]) to life.
|-
|''[[Greenleaf]]'' || A freighter mentioned several times in the series ("[[Epiphanies]]", "[[Sacrifice]]", "[[Crossroads, Part I]]").
|-
|''{{inlineref|bold=N|Harrak}}'' || On the voting tally boards on both ''Colonial One'' and ''Galactica'' in "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II".
|-
|''{{inlineref|bold=N|Hexare}}'' ||On the voting tally boards on both ''Colonial One'' and ''Galactica'' in "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II".
|-
|''{{inlineref|bold=N|Inchon Velle}}'' || When [[Kara Thrace]] has disturbing dreams about [[Leoben]] and the [[Eye of Jupiter|mandala]] in her apartment, [[Karl Agathon]] suggests that she see a psychiatrist on ''Inchon Velle'' ([[TRS]]: "[[Maelstrom]]"). Also where a [[Gerard|brain surgeon]] was brought over from to oversee [[Samuel T. Anders]]' brain surgery ([[TRS]]: "[[No Exit]]").
|-
|''{{inlineref|bold=N|Kara Nixal}}'' || On the voting tally boards on both ''Colonial One'' and ''Galactica'' in "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II".
|-
|''{{inlineref|bold=N|Kiya}}'' || ''Kiya'' is noted on the master tally board on ''Galactica'', but not on the whiteboard voting tracker on ''Colonial One'' in "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II".
|-
|''{{inlineref|bold=N|McConnell}}'' || Commander [[Jack Fisk|Fisk]] made runs to this ship in order to build up a stock pile of supplies for the [[black market (organization)|black market]] ([[TRS]]: "[[Black Market]]"). The ship is on neither ''Colonial One'' nor ''Galactica'''s tally boards in "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II".
|-
|''{{inlineref|bold=N|Mutem Wia}}'' || ''Mutem Wia'' is noted on the master tally board on ''Galactica'', but not on the whiteboard voting tracker on ''Colonial One'' in "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II".
|-
|''{{inlineref|bold=N|Odysseus}}'' || Named for the [[w:Odysseus|hero]] in Greek mythology who fought in the Trojan War and was the subject of Homer's epic ''[[w:Odyssey|The Odyssey]]''.
|-
|''{{inlineref|bold=N|Persephone}}'' || ''Persephone'' is noted on the master tally board on ''Galactica'', but not on the whiteboard voting tracker on ''Colonial One'' in "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II". <br/> [[w:Persephone|Persephone]] is the daughter of the goddess [[w:Demeter|Demeter]]. She is forced to marry the god of the underworld, [[w:Hades|Hades]], but Demeter works out a compromise where Persephone is allowed to return to the world of the living for a portion of the year.
|-
|''[[Picon 36]]'' || Presumed to have jumped away with the FTL-capable ships in the [[Miniseries]]. Chances are, this is just a hull number for another ship in one of these lists.
|-
|''{{inlineref|bold=N|Picon Princess}}'' || On the voting tally boards on both ''Colonial One'' and ''Galactica'' in "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II".
|-
|''{{inlineref|bold=N|Rhadamanthys}}'' || On the voting tally boards on both ''Colonial One'' and ''Galactica'' in "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II".
|-
|''{{inlineref|bold=N|Salpica}}'' || In the [[Unfinished Business (Extended Version)|extended cut]] of "[[Unfinished Business]]", ''Salpica'' is mentioned as the ship [[Samuel Anders]] lives on after the escape from New Caprica and before moving permanently to ''Galactica''.
|-
|''{{inlineref|bold=N|Sargon}}'' || May be named after either [[w:Sargon I (Assyrian king)|Sargon I]] or [[wikipedia:Sargon II|Sargon II]], ancient Assyrian kings on Earth. <br> Seen only on the voting tally boards in "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II".
|-
|''{{inlineref|bold=N|Scorpia Traveller}}'' || After disembarking from ''Scorpia Traveller'', a copy of the humanoid Cylon [[Aaron Doral]] evades security checkpoints, nearly succeeding in the assassination of [[William Adama]] in a suicide bombing ([[TRS]]: "[[Litmus]]"). The ship is not on either tally board in "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II".
|-
|''{{inlineref|bold=N|Swordfish}}'' || On the voting tally boards on both ''Colonial One'' and ''Galactica'' in "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II".
|-
|''{{inlineref|bold=N|Tarbadek}}'' || On the voting tally boards on both ''Colonial One'' and ''Galactica'' in "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II".
|-
|''{{inlineref|bold=N|Tauranian Traveller}}'' || Mentioned in a deleted scene in "[[33]]". Later, its name is on the voting tally boards on both ''Colonial One'' and ''Galactica'' in "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II".
|-
|''{{inlineref|bold=N|Tora Bashiri}}'' || "Tora bashiri" is Japanese for "tiger's run." It is a term used in [[wikipedia:Iaido|Iaido]], a Japanese martial art. <br> The ship's name is on the voting tally boards on both ''Colonial One'' and ''Galactica'' in "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II".
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|''{{inlineref|bold=N|Vena Capa}}'' || ''Vena Capa'' is on the master tally board on ''Galactica'', but not on the whiteboard voting tracker on ''Colonial One'' in "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II".
|-
|''{{inlineref|bold=N|Virga}}'' || ''Virga'' is on the voting tally boards on both ''Colonial One'' and ''Galactica'' in "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II".
|-
|''{{inlineref|bold=N|Ziusudra}}'' || On the voting tally boards on both ''Colonial One'' and ''Galactica'' in "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II".
|}

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==== Destroyed Before Reaching Earth ====

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| ''[[Adriatic|Adriatic]]'' || Unknown || [[The Passage]] || A member of the Roslin faction armed with ship-to-ship missiles ([[TRS]]: "[[Home, Part I]]"). Lost in transit in a [[Passage (star cluster)|star cluster]].
|-
| ''[[Carina]]'' || ''[[Flattop]]''-type salvage and repair ship || The Passage || Lost in transit in a star cluster.
|-
| ''[[Cloud Nine]]'' || [[Luxury liner]], civilian/government || [[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]] || The ship is destroyed by a nuclear warhead detonated by [[Gina Inviere]], resulting in the destruction of at least three other ships.
|-
| ''[[Olympic Carrier]]'' || Luxury liner || [[33]] || Destroyed by [[Lee Adama]] and [[Kara Thrace]] after an apparent Cylon takeover.
|-
| ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' || [[Battlestar (RDM)|Battlestar]], military || [[Exodus, Part II]] || Surviving crew and planes absorbed by ''Galactica''.
|-
| ''[[Pyxis]]'' || Luxury liner || [[He That Believeth In Me]] || Commanded by Captain [[Jules Tarney]], this ship is successfully shepherded to the [[algae planet]], but later destroyed in the [[Battle of the Ionian Nebula]] resulting in 600 deaths.
|-
| {{inlineref|bold=N|Unknown}} || Colonial Movers || [[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]] || One of three known ships destroyed in the ''Cloud Nine'' disaster.
|-
| {{inlineref|bold=N|Unknown}} || Yellow Vessel || [[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]] || Two of three known ships destroyed in the ''Cloud Nine'' disaster.
|-
| {{inlineref|bold=N|Unknown}} || Long-necked Vessel || [[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]] || Three of three known ships destroyed in the ''Cloud Nine'' disaster.

|}

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==== Ships Not Part of ''Galactica'''s Fleet ====

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| ''[[Botanical Cruiser]]'' || Agricultural and transport vessel || [[Miniseries]] || A sublight-only vessel that is destroyed by the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]] after the Fall, before Roslin's fleet rendezvous with ''Galactica'' at [[Ragnar]].
|-
| ''[[Diana]]'' || Gemenese civilian transport || Mentioned only || First Cylon War. Ship's crew and passengers were abducted by the Cylons for experimentation.
|-
| ''[[Gemenon Liner 1701]]'' || Civilian transport || [[Miniseries]] || Abandoned after the passengers and crew are evacuated to ''Colonial One'', an unnamed flat top, and an unnamed transport.
|-
| ''[[Scylla]]'' || Civilian transport || [[Razor]] || One of a small fleet of ships encountered by the [[Mercury class battlestar|battlestar]] ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]''.
|}

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==Population Demographics==
A few points of information are available concerning the demographics of the Fleet. In "[[33]]", before the destruction of the Olympic Carrier, there are 5,251 survivors from Sagittaron and 49,998 total survivors. In "[[Home, Part I]]", the [[Laura Roslin faction]] leaves the Fleet with 18,000 individuals, of which 9,500 ware Gemenese and 6,250 were Capricans. At that time the total population of the Fleet is 47,857.

This information is sparse, but it gives a general idea of the population breakdown of the Fleet if a few assumptions are made for the sake of argument.
*Note that Gemenon and Caprica have more citizens in the Roslin faction alone than Sagittaron has in the entire Fleet. The Twelve Colonies are clearly not represented in equal proportion.
*Before the destruction of ''Olympic Carrier'', Sagittaron natives make up 10.50% of the Fleet. Solely for the purpose of argument, it is assumed that ''Olympic Carrier'''s population breakdown was identical to the rest of the Fleet's and that Sagittaron continues to make up 10.50% of the Fleet's total population.
*The figures from the Roslin faction can be interpreted in several ways:
<div style="float:right; margin:10px">[[Image:Demographics1.png]]</div>
:*ASSUMPTION 1: All Gemenese and Capricans jump to Kobol with the Roslin faction.
::*Caprica: 6,250 persons (13%)
::*Gemenon: 9,500 persons (20%)
::*Sagittaron: 5,026 persons (11%)
::*Others: 27,081 (57%)<br clear="both">
<div style="float:right; margin:10px">[[Image:Demographics2.png]]</div>
:*ASSUMPTION 2: All Gemenese jump to Kobol with the Roslin faction, lured by the "religion card", but the Caprican portion of the Roslin faction is representative of the Fleet.
::*Caprica: 28,204 persons (59%)
::*Gemenon: 9,500 persons (20%)
::*Sagittaron: 5,026 persons (11%)
::*Others: 5,127 persons (11%)<br clear="both">
<div style="float:right; margin:10px">[[Image:Demographics3.png]]</div>
:*ASSUMPTION 3: Caprican and Gemenese portions of the Roslin faction are representative of the Fleet.
::*Caprica: 16,617 persons (35%)
::*Gemenon: 25,258 persons (53%)
::*Sagittaron: 5,026 persons (11%)
::*Others: 956 (2%)<br clear="both">
*Although it is plausible that the Caprican population is substantially larger than the other Colonies, as ''Colonial Heavy 798'' is in the vicinity when the attack begins, and is the nucleus around which the Fleet rallies, it is unlikely that the populations of each colony are grossly unequal, or else the [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]] would be a very poor system of government. The likeliest scenario is therefore somewhere in between assumptions 1 and 2, with nearly all of the Gemenon population (drawn by the "religion card") and a large portion of the Caprican population leaving with Roslin.
*Alternatively, it is possible that the population of the Colonies are grossly unequal. Although the structure of the Quorum of Twelve appears to maintain at least a fiction that the Colonies are roughly equal, next to nothing is known about how the [[Government|governmental]] system of the Colonies was established or how it evolved over time. Indeed, the United States Senate, for example, by design expressly assumes that the various states constituting it are 'equal' even though this is clearly not the case in terms of their respective populations. Furthermore, the fact that a system of government is 'poor' or else not representatively proportional does not mean it cannot actually be implemented and even survive for long periods of time.
*In the [[Caprica pilot|''Caprica'' pilot]], it is revealed that Caprica and Gemenon are in very close proximity. Since the Fleet formed up around ''Colonial One'', which was in the vicinity of Caprica at the time of the attack, the over-representation of the Caprican and Gemenese portion of the Fleet is now explained.

As for the population distribution, the population of several ships is known: ''Galactica'' (2,693 as of "[[Water]]"), ''Olympic Carrier'' (1,345 as of "[[33]]"), ''Astral Queen'' (1,500 as of "[[Bastille Day]]", [[List of retcons (RDM)|retconned]] up from 500 in the Miniseries) and ''Pyxis'' (600 when destroyed in "[[He That Believeth In Me]]"). There are 176 civilians in the cargo hold of ''[[Colonial One]]'' in "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]". The Fleet is stated at about 75 ships in "[[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]", retconned up from 40 in the Miniseries.
*Going by the 75 ship count, the remaining ships besides ''Galactica'' and ''Astral Queen'' each carry about 600 persons on average.
*The 23 ships that leave with the [[Laura Roslin faction]], apart from ''Astral Queen'', would have an average population of about 720 persons per ship.

The Fleet's population has declined by about 8,000 since the above.

== Analysis ==

* By the time of Felix Gaeta's and Tom Zarek's mutiny aboard ''Galactica'' ([[TRS]]: "[[Blood on the Scales]]"), dialogue indicates that the Fleet is down to the very low figure of 35 civilian ships, a surprising loss of about half the initial ships from "[[33]]". Most of these losses remain unaccounted for, as very few civilian ships have been seen or heard to be actually lost on screen. Given that the human population has only declined by about one fifth at this point rather than a similar half, this could be a continuity error or retcon, or the remaining ships would have had to nearly double the number of civilians aboard to compensate. It is possible in the context of the dialogue in the episode that the figure of 35 referred only to the number of ships initially loyal to the mutineers.
* The political and social troubles befalling the Fleet as it wanders through space, serve as a metaphor for all of humanity, since the Fleet literally ''is'' what is left of humanity in the television series.

==See Also==
* [[Gemon Liners]]
* [[Pan Galactic]]
* [[Saggitarian Spaceways]]
* [[Five-engined vessel]]
* [[Wedge-shaped vessel]]
* [[Tubed vessel]]
* ''"[http://cnc.wikia.com/wiki/Kodiak Kodiak]"'' - The ship itself is unnamed, but clearly identifiable as ''Kodiak'', the command ship of the GDI faction from ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_%26_Conquer:_Tiberian_Sun Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun]''.

==Notes==
*Unofficially, many viewers refer to the Fleet as the "RTF"; "Rag-Tag Fleet", or more fully, "RTFF." These nicknames come from the term "Rag-Tag Fugitive Fleet," a name used in the closing credits voice over of the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]] (performed by series star [[Lorne Greene]]), describing the [[The Fleet (TOS)|civilian refugee fleet]].
* In the [[Miniseries]], astute viewers may recognize three spacecraft with notable resemblances of ships from other SF universes. The first two of these ships aren't considered a [[Canon|canonical]] part of the series or the Fleet, but their appearance adds a bit of humor, and pays homage to other notable science fiction and their creative staff.
:* ''Serenity'', the central ship from the TV series ''[[Wikipedia:Firefly (TV series)|Firefly]]'' and the motion picture ''[[Wikipedia:Serenity (film)|Serenity]]'', [[:md:Image:SerenityBSGMini.JPG|appears briefly in the sky]] outside the window of a doctor's office where viewers first see [[Laura Roslin]]. The ship does not appear in the Fleet.
:* The original USS [[MemoryAlpha:USS Enterprise (NCC-1701)|''Enterprise'' (NCC-1701)]] from the original ''[[MemoryAlpha:Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek]]'' TV series makes a cameo in the [[:md:Image:Enterprise in fleet.jpg|last shot of the Fleet]] as [[Elosha]] chants a prayer in the memorial service near the end of the Miniseries. Look to the upper right corner for the ship in a still frame. All Season 1 [[opening credits]] use this shot, so ''Enterprise'' makes a very quick appearance with each of the first 13 episodes (This is best viewed from the [[Season 1 DVD]] set).
:*The ill-fated [[Botanical Cruiser]] in the Miniseries was added in homage to the [[Agro Ship]] from the Original Series, which in turn were the re-used models from the SF film ''[[Wikipedia:Silent Running|Silent Running]]'', a Universal/MCA movie that special effects guru [[John Dykstra]] worked on a few years prior. At least one FTL-capable version of this ship survives and exists in the Fleet ([[TRS]]: "[[The Passage]]").

* [[Battlestar Galactica Blue Prints|A list of blueprints]] of ships in the Fleet is available.
** These are considered non-canon.
* In a deleted scene from [[Litmus]], the ''Coronis'', as a ship carrying people who are unhappy about being last in food ration distribution, is mentioned. However, it is not present on either the master tally board on ''Galactica'' or the whiteboard tracker on ''Colonial One'' in "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II". As ''Coronis'' has not been mentioned in any canonical capacity, it is considered totally abandoned by the producers.
** In Greek mythology [[w:Coronis (Greek mythology)|Coronis]] is the name of several figures.

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The Twelve Colonies of Kobol

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:''This article discusses the Twelve Colonies of the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Re-imagined Series]]. See [[The Twelve Colonies of Man]] for information on the Colonies of the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]].''

[[File:Colonialseal.png|210px|right|[[Colonial Seal|Seal]] of the Twelve Colonies.]]
'''The Twelve Colonies of Kobol''' are twelve distinct worlds, located in a remote part of our Galaxy. For 2,000 years they were home to the descendants of humans participating in the exodus of [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]].<ref>Mentioned at [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/11953827897 Serge's twitter account], given that Serge's account corresponds to 58 years before [[The Fall]].</ref> For most of the two millennia that these worlds were inhabited, the Twelve Colonies consisted of multiple sovereign states, but during the final fifty-two years leading up to the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]], all twelve comprised a single state known as the United Colonies of Kobol ([[TRS]]: "[[Colonial Day]]")<ref>The formal "United Colonies of Kobol" was never used on-screen, and appears only on the [[Battlestar Galactica Map of the 12 Colonies]].</ref>.

After the settlement, the colonies slowly began to prosper and eventually gave birth to a race of cybernetic lifeforms, known as [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]]. Only a few years after their creation, the Cylons raged a devastating war on their creators' home planets, which ultimately led to the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]]. Wasted and in ruins, the once prosperous homeworlds of humanity were finally abandoned by both humans and Cylons.
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==Star System==
:''Note: A portion of the information listed below is taken from the [[Battlestar_Wiki:Canon#Official|official]], "quasi-canon" [[Battlestar Galactica Map of the 12 Colonies]]'' <ref name="io9">{{cite_web|url=http://io9.com/5742034/a-detailed-map-of-battlestar-galacticas-twelve-colonies?skyline=true&s=i|title=Detailed Map Of Battlestar Galactica's Twelve Colonies|date=24 January 2010|accessdate=29 January 2011|last=Anders|first=Charlie Jane|format=|language=English}}</ref>.

The Twelve Colonies are situated within the star system Cyrannus, located some 2,000 light years from Kobol, where humanity presumedly first evolved. All in all, Cyrannus is a vast and complex system, comprised of four <ref>In [[TRS]]: "[[The Plan]]," a Cylon [[Hybrid]] indicates that the Colonies orbit three stars. </ref> stars: Helios Alpha, Helios Beta, Helios Gamma, and Helios Delta. Each star is orbited by its own family of planets and other astronomical bodies. The stars come together to form two binary systems (Alpha/Beta and Gamma/Delta). Both pairs of stars then orbit each other around a third, central [[w:Barycentric coordinates (astronomy)|barycenter]] every 546,892 years. Both binary systems are separated by 0.16 [[w:Light-year|light years]] or 10,091 Stellar Units, shortened to SU (In this case, 1 SU being equal to the average distance between Helios Alpha and the barycenter of the Caprica-Gemenon binary, roughly 150 million km).

===Helios Alpha===
Helios Alpha is a [[w:Main sequence|main sequence star]] of spectral class G2V and has a [[w:Solar mass|mass]] of 1.0, and was the first system settled by the Colonials after the exodus from Kobol, having first set foot on Gemenon. It shares its orbit with Helios Beta at a distance of 63 SU. The pair complete an orbit once every 373 years.

* Planets and Other Astronomical Bodies
** Icarus - A small planet located close to the star. It has a molten surface which makes mining and exploration impossible.
** Picon - This colony has an inclined orbit.
** [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] and Gemenon - These two colonies form a binary planet.
** [[Tauron (RDM)|Tauron]] - One of only three colonies to feature a moon, named Minos. It is the only moon with a ring, and home to several mining and scientific outposts.
** Erebos asteroid belt - This asteroid belt is rich in minerals, which were mined by Tauran prospectors for hundreds of years.
** Zeus - A gas giant located at the outer edge of the system. This gas giant is the largest planet in the four systems, with a diameter of 153,000 km at the equator. The planet has 74 moons, the largest of which are Nike and Hebe. Constant upper atmosphere lightning creates an aurora effect that can be seen with the naked eye.
** Persephone - Classified as a dwarf planet, Persephone is the outermost planet in the system and features an inclined and eccentric orbit. Colonial scientists believe this planet could be an escaped moon of Zeus.

This system is unique in the fact that Caprica and Gemenon share an orbit around a common barycenter. According to the Colonial map, the planets orbit each other once every 28.2 days, and are separated by a distance of 493,000 km. Based on these numbers, [[w:Kepler%27s_laws_of_planetary_motion#Third_law|Kepler's Third Law]] learns us that the combined mass of these colonies is about twice that of Earth.

===Helios Beta===
Helios Beta is a main sequence star of spectral class K1V and has a mass of 0.79. It was the second system settled by the Colonials after the exodus from Kobol. It shares its orbit with Helios Alpha at a distance of 63 SU. The pair complete an orbit once every 373 years.

* Planets and Other Astronomical Bodies
** [[Troy (RDM)|Troy]] - A small, metal-rich planet, mined extensively by Virgon and Leonis since the founding of those two colonies.
** Leonis - The largest inhabited planet of the Twelve Colonies.
** [[Pallas]] - A small world with an inclined orbit once believed to hold a life sustaining atmosphere. It is no longer tectonically active. However, the Colonials have set up several small colonies and a military research station on the planet. Efforts to [[w:Terraforming|kobolform]] the planet have failed.
** Ouranos asteroid belt - This dense asteroid belt separates long-time rivals Leonis and Virgon, and has been a source of minerals for both colonies.
** Virgon - One of only three colonies to feature a moon, named Hibernia, and the only naturally habitable moon in the 12 Colonies. It was settled several centuries ago by the Celtans, an ethnic group opposed to Virgon rule.
** Hera - A gas giant, approximately 75,000 km in diameter, and the third largest planet in the Cyrannus system. It has 29 moons, the largest of which are Iris and Eubora.

===Helios Gamma===
Helios Gamma is a main sequence star of spectral class G9V and has a mass of 0.89. It was presumably the third system settled by the Colonials. Helios Gamma shares its orbit with Helios Delta at a distance of 70 SU, and completes an orbit once every 456 years.

* Planets and Other Astronomical Bodies
** Thanatos - This planet, named after the god of death, has a corrosive 'sulphur' dioxide atmosphere and is tidally locked to its star.
** Acheron asteroid belt - A broad asteroid belt, named after Sagittaron's largest river.
** Libran - Features two small moons, Herse and Pandrossos, which are thought to be captured asteroids. The moons orbit so close to each other, they periodically swap positions.
** Scorpia - Home to the Scorpia Fleet ship yards. The planet features a half ring, thought to be a moon that broke apart nearly 100,000 years ago.
** [[Sagittaron|Sagittaron]] - A barren, mountainous world.
** Ophion - A frigid gas giant with a diameter of 51,000 km, and an inclined orbit. The planet has 14 moons, all smaller than 10 km in diameter. Studies on the planet have Colonial scientists thinking that Ragnar was originally a member of the Helios Gamma system, while Ophion was not. Scientists think that Ophion was a rogue planet that passed close to Ragnar and was caught by the star, pushing Ragnar into its current orbit around the entire Gamma/Delta system.

===Helios Delta===
Helios Delta is a reddish main sequence star of spectral class K2V and has a mass of 0.74. It was the last of the four systems to be settled by the Colonials. Helios Delta shares its orbit with Helios Gamma at a distance of 70 SU, and completes an orbit once every 456 years.

* Planets and Other Astronomical Bodies
** Phoebe - A small world with a high surface temperature and thin atmosphere.
** Styx - A planet with a dense, reducing atmosphere of carbon dioxide and sulfides.
** Aeolus asteroid belt - This asteroid belt features 'gaps', likely caused by tidal influences with Hestia and its two orbital companions.
** Aerilon, Hestia, and Canceron - These planets share the same orbit.
*** Hestia - The smallest gas giant in the Cyrannian star system, Hestia only has a diameter of 47,000 km. It has 17 moons, the largest of which, Kronos and Rhea, share the same orbit.
** [[Aquaria (RDM)|Aquaria]] - An arctic world, with the most inclined orbit of all the Twelve Colonies.

This system is unique in the fact that Aerilon, Hestia, and Canceron share the same orbit. The two colonies are positioned at Hestia's [[w:Lagrangian_point|Lagrangian points]], meaning that the gravitational pull of Helios Delta and Hestia are balanced, allowing two smaller bodies (Aerilon and Canceron) to share the same orbit in a "fixed" position, maintaining the same distance apart at all times. Aerilon sits at the (leading) L4 point, and Canceron at the (trailing) L5 point.

* [[Ragnar]] - A gas giant with a diameter of 138,000 km, orbits the entire Helios Gamma and Delta system in a 899.75 year period. It is about 110 SU away from the central barycenter. The Colonials use the planet as host to [[Ragnar Anchorage]], an orbital refueling station and naval armory that distills hydrocarbons from the planet's upper atmosphere. It has one moon, Sigurd. During the Fall of the Colonies, Ragnar was used as cover by the battlestar ''[[Galactica]]'', and later her [[The Fleet (RDM)|fleet]], after escaping the destruction of Caprica. It would be the last world of the Cyrannian system that most of the surviving Colonials would lay eyes on. Hours after arriving, ''Galactica'' took the gathered fleet, [[Battle_of_Ragnar_Anchorage|and fled the system]], never to return.

===Notes===
* The fact that the Colonies are located within one system originates from a [http://web.archive.org/web/20080620084336/http://blog.scifi.com/battlestar/archives/2005/01/#a000016 blog entry] by Ronald D. Moore.
* Jane Espenson revealed on Twitter that the Colonies are within a star cluster and share some orbits. The latter fact was finally shown to be true in the TV version of the [[Caprica pilot#Differences between the DVD and TV Cut|series premiere]] of ''Caprica''.
* Before the semi-canonical figure mentioned on the map, the original [[Miniseries]] script stated a pre-Fall population of about 12 billion. The webisodes "[[The Resistance]]" stated the death of 20 billion people caused by the Cylons.
*Serge's twitter [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/17543741200 mentions] that the exodus from Kobol is believed to be true by the inhabitants of the Twelve Colonies and it was from them that animals such as cats as well as dogs came to the Colonies. Furthermore, the [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/13899240134 twelve planets] are populated with a few other worlds in the star cluster, with the settled colonies [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/12891949300 already] possessing some animal as well as plant life. Furthermore, Serge [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/17543813025 states] that not all the colonies are democracies, but rather each has their own style of government. ([[TRS]]: [[Serge's Twitter]])
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==History==
{{mainarticle|History of the Twelve Colonies}}
[[Image:Home pt1-Kobol.jpg|thumb|[[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]], the ancient homeworld of humanity.]]
About 2,000 years prior to the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]], the last twelve tribes of [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]] left their planet<ref>According to dialogue from "[[Torn]]", "[[A Measure of Salvation]]" and "[[The Eye of Jupiter]]", the [[Thirteenth Tribe (RDM)|Thirteenth Tribe]] left Kobol some 2,000 years ''before'' the twelve tribes. The Scroll of [[Pythia]] is dated as written 3,600 years before the last exodus of Kobol, and chronicles the Thirteenth Tribe's exodus.</ref> over conflicts with their [[Religion in the Twelve Colonies#The Lords of Kobol|gods]], as well as some sort of calamity ([[TRS]]: "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]").

The tribes settled on twelve worlds some distance away ([[TRS]]: "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]"). The tribes' namesakes and icons originally corresponded to the twelve signs of the ancient tribes, although these [[wikipedia:Zodiac|names]] drifted over time ([[TRS]]: "[[Home, Part II]]").<ref>Flag matches with Colonies from "Encyclopedia Galactica." ''[[Battlestar Galactica: The Official Magazine]]''. Feb./Mar. 2006: 50-55.</ref>

The early Colonies lived (and fought) more as sovereign nations. Some (particularly [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]]) prospered, while others (such as [[Sagittaron]] and [[Aerilon]]) were often considered lessers. For labor forces as well as wars fought among each other, humanity created the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]]. When these [[Cylon Centurion Model 0005|early models]] rebelled, the Colonies unified their governments under the [[Articles of Colonization]] at some point during the [[Cylon War]] into a federal republic known as the '''Twelve Colonies of Kobol'''.

The official symbol of the Twelve Colonies was the [[Colonial seal]]. The nation also had a distinctive [[Colonial anthem|anthem]].

===Downfall===
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[[Image:Bsyashuman.jpg|thumb|[[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]], shortly before its downfall.]]
40 years after the end of the devastating war, the Cylons return and sow destruction among the worlds of their creators ([[TRS]]: [[Miniseries]], "[[The Plan]]"). For some time the Twelve Colonies remain occupied by Cylon forces and a [[Caprica resistance|small group of human survivors]]. After nine months, humanity and the Cylons leave the Cyrannus system forever ([[TRS]]: "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]").

Out of all Colonial inhabitants, only about 55,000 survive the first days of the holocaust. Most of them leave the Colonies behind in two small [[The Fleet (RDM)|fugitive fleets]]. The fleet of the [[Battlestar (RDM)|battlestar]] ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' eventually encounters both [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]], as well as the original Thirteenth Colony [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]]. Some time after that, and after the destruction of the [[The Colony|the Cylon home world]], they settle on a [[Earth (RDM)#A New Earth|beautiful, rich world]], leaving behind the baggage of their Colonial heritage. ([[TRS]]: [[Miniseries]], "[[Razor]]", "[[Daybreak, Part II]]")

===Fate===
The ultimate fate of the Twelve Colonies 150,000 years after [[The Fall]] is unknown. Presumably, after several hundred years, their climates and surfaces would degrade until they resemble the original [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]].

It can be presumed that by present-day radiation levels would have lowered to a point where life would be allowed to flourish once again. But few, if any, traces would remain of the human civilizations that once thrived upon them, excluding remains in space, such as the remnants of [[Scorpion Fleet Shipyards]] or [[Ragnar Anchorage]].
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==Aerilon==
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[[Image:Aerilon.jpg|right]]
'''Ancient Name''': [[wikipedia:Aries (constellation)|Aries]]

'''Alternative Name''': Aerelon

'''Population''': 1.2 billion

'''Patron God''': Demeter

'''Capital''': Gaoth

'''Major Cities''': Gaoth, Promethea

'''Attractions''': University of Aerilon, Promethea A & M

'''Pyramid Teams''': Aerilon Threshers, Promethea Golden Horns

Aerilon was primarily an agricultural world. It was considered to be the "food basket" of the Twelve Colonies and ranked among its poorest members ([[TRS]]: "[[Dirty Hands]]"). The planet shares an orbit with the gas giant Hestia and Canceron, sitting in Hestia's leading (L4) libratian point in the Helios Delta system.

About all of the planet's landmasses are situated in the temperate zones, featuring open and rolling landscapes offering little variation in altitude. There are few inland waterways, and the shorelines consist mostly of rocky bluffs with only mangrove swamps breaking the monotomy near the equador. To top it the planet offers hostile seas with no useful harbors at its coasts.

Aerilon has a mild climate and reliable seasons, with plentiful rain so catch basins and wells are sufficiently filled so fresh water is readily available despite the lack of rivers and lakes.

==Aquaria==
{{mainarticle|Aquaria (RDM)}}
[[Image:Aquaria.jpg|right]]
'''Ancient Name''': [[wikipedia:Aquarius (constellation)|Aquarius]]

'''Alternative Name''': Aquarion

'''Population''': 25,000

'''Patron God''': Hermes

'''Capital''': None

'''Major Cities''': Heim

'''Attractions''': Kyros Summerfest

'''Pyramid Teams''': None

Aquaria, the outermost planet in the Helios Delta system, follows a highly inclined orbit around its sun, establishing an arctic climate on this world. The planet's summer lasts only a few pleasant weeks around the time of closest approach to Helios Delta.

The planet surface is about entirely covered by vast, frigid oceans, punctuated with violently erupting volcanoes breaking through the sea surface. Only one land mass, named Kyros, is large enough to sustain human habitation. Volcanoes occupy each end of this crescent-shaped continent, which consist mostly of volcanic tephra covered in moss and dotted by exotic native plantlife.

Most people live in Heim, a town at the centre of the island facing what would be the harbor if the seas weren't so frigid. Only a few people live outside the town, tending the infrastructure needed for survival, like windmills, hydroponics, and solar panels. Due to the lack of wood, most structures are made of tin or stone.

==Canceron==
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[[Image:Canceron.png|thumb|right|Canceron from orbit.]]
'''Ancient Name''': [[wikipedia:Cancer (constellation)|Cancer]]

'''Population''': 6.7 billion

'''Patron God''': Hephaestus

'''Capital''': Hades

'''Major Cities''': Hades, Prommos, Mangala

'''Attractions''': Prommos, Ruby Range, Kor Yaz Glacier

'''Pyramid Teams''': Canceron Hydras, Hades Vice, Mangala Krill

Canceron is the most populous planet in the twelve worlds. It is located in the Helios Delta system, sharing its orbit with two other planets, one of them being Aerilon. The planet was well known for its beaches and had at least one large coastal metropolis ([[TRS]]: "[[The Plan]]"). The capital was Hades.<ref name="capitals1">[http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/ Serge's twitter account] mentioned the capitals of Gemenon, Virgon, Leonis, Sagittaron, Scorpia, Canceron and Aerilon in [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/10545377704 this tweet].</ref>

Prior to the [[First Cylon War]], Canceron was a very overpopulated and poor colony. Canceron's major cities such as Hades and Mangala were known to have large slums. Its large population earned Canceron the nickname "The Largest Democracy" within the colonies, though some believed the government was nothing more than a corrupt Oligarchy.<ref>[http://showblogs.syfy.com/caprican/sports/canceron-wants-a-fourth-pyramid-team.php ''The Caprican'' article: "Canceron Wants a Fourth Pyramid Team"].</ref> <ref>[http://showblogs.syfy.com/caprican/opinion/just-wondering-about-that-military-roadblock-thing.php ''The Caprican'' article: "Just Wondering About That Military Roadblock Thing"]</ref>

During the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attack]], Canceron is hit with at least three nuclear devices. One of the [[Luxury liner | passenger liners]] within [[The Fleet (RDM)|the fleet]], ''[[Pyxis]]'', is one of the last ships that escapes this world when the attack began. Aboard is the [[Number Six]] copy [[Shelly Godfrey]] ([[TRS]]: "[[The Plan]]").

[[Robin Wenutu]] is the Canceron delegate to the first [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]] after the Fall.

===Natives===
*[[Lexon]]
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==Caprica==
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[[Image:Caprica.jpg|right]]
[[Image:Caprica from Orbit.jpg|right|thumb|[[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] from orbit.]]
[[Image:Caprica City, The Plan.jpg|thumb|right|Caprica City.]]
[[Image:Gemenon from Caprica City.jpg|thumb|right|The view of Gemenon from Caprica City.]]
'''Ancient Name''': [[w:Capricornus|Capricorn]]

'''Population''': 4.9 billion

'''Patron God''': Apollo

'''Official Language''': Caprican

'''Capital''': [[Caprica City]]

'''Major Cities''': Caprica City, [[Delphi]], Phoebus

'''Attractions''': [[Delphi Museum of the Colonies]], [[Atlas Arena]], [[Caprica_Interplanetary_Spaceport|Caprica Interplanetary Spaceport]], [[Graystone Industries]], Apollo University, [[Pantheon_Bridge|Pantheon Bridge]], Ionian Islands, Orpheus Park

'''Pyramid Teams''': [[Caprica City Buccaneers]], Delphi Legion, Phoebus Suns

Caprica was a lush blue-green planet, covered by large oceans and continents. It shares its orbit with Gemenon around a common barycenter, and can often be seen in the skies above the Caprican landscape. Depending on its orbit, the Caprican night can almost be negated by intense planetshine from Gemenon, although not as bright as the Caprican sun, there is enough light reflected back to effectively turn night into day ([[TRS]]: [[You Can't Go Home Again]], [[Litmus]]). Of curious note, Caprica features landmasses similar to a world the Colonials would eventually settle and come to call Earth.

Caprica was regarded as the center of Colonial civilization, even long before the [[First Cylon War]]. [[Graystone Industries]] was one of the Colonies' most influential technology developers and had a hand in creating the very [[U-87|first Cylons]]. Some 60 years before [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|the Fall]], Caprica was also plagued by [[Soldiers of the One | religiously]] motivated terrorism ([[CAP]]: [[Caprica pilot|Pilot]]). After the war, the planet was once again the seat of politics, culture, art, science, learning and even the Colonial government. It was also one of the wealthiest colonies ([[TRS]]: "[[Epiphanies]]", "[[Dirty Hands]]").

During the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attack]], Caprica and it's surrounding airspace, played host to numerous skirmishes, one of which would eventually determine the outcome of the war. Caprica herself, comes under heavy attack from Cylon forces right from the start. With numerous basestars jumping directly into orbit, they are quickly able to gain the upper hand. At least four [[Battlestar (RDM)|battlestars]], including the ''Yashuman'' and ''Valkyrie'', are quickly dispatched, and numerous targets, including the once proud Caprica City, are annihilated from orbit by nuclear weapons ([[TRS]]: [[Miniseries]], "[[The Plan]]"). The attacks leave the civilian shipping lanes in the vicinity of Caprica/Gemenon shut down, but the civilian ships are relatively ignored in the opening moments of the attack, in favor of military targets. This gives them time to gather and flee the area, picking up other survivors along the way. Eventually the fleet amasses over 100 ships of all kinds, both civilian and homeless military support craft. However, only 75 FTL capable ships are able to flee Caprican airspace, leaving the sub-lights, and their passengers, at the hands of the Cylons.

At the time of the attack, the ''Galactica'' was positioned 3 hours away, and was not able to partake in the defense of its home planet. It wasn't long, however, before the Cylons located its position, and attempted to take it out. After being struck by a nuclear warhead, suffering major damage, and not having anything to shoot with, but still in one piece, the ''Galactica'' had no choice but to retreat to the relative safety of the gas giant, [[Ragnar]] ([[TRS]]: [[Miniseries]]), leaving Caprica, and the remaining survivors, completely defenseless and on their own.

After the space-faring Colonials flee, Caprica is occupied by [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon forces]], attempting to undo the damage they've done, and colonize the planet themselves. They often clash with [[Caprica resistance|human survivors]] within the Colonies, and fight on this world for several weeks. The occupation and resistance both end roughly nine months after the attack and the planet is left for good ([[TRS]]: "[[33]]", "[[Resistance]]", "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]", "[[The Plan]]").

6,250 people from Caprica join the [[Laura Roslin faction]] over [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]] ([[TRS]]: "[[Home, Part I]]"). The overall Caprican survivor population, possibly significantly greater, is unknown (see analysis [[The Fleet (RDM)#Demographics|here]]). An attempted settlement by the survivors of the holocaust is named [[New Caprica]] in honor of the original colony ([[TRS]]: "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]").

The first [[Quorum of Twelve (TRS)|Quorum of Twelve]] delegate after the Fall is [[Gaius Baltar]]. Years later this spot is taken by [[Lee Adama]], the last Quroum delegate from that colony before Delegate Adama establishes the [[Quorum of Ship's Captains]] in the wake of the mass-execution of the Quorum during [[Gaeta's Mutiny]] ([[TRS]]: "[[Islanded in a Stream of Stars]]").

===Natives===
* [[William Adama | William]], [[Tamara Adama|Tamara]], [[Zak Adama|Zak]] and [[Lee Adama]]
* [[Richard Adar]], presumed as he was also the mayor of Caprica City at one point
* [[Daniel Graystone|Daniel]], [[Amanda Graystone|Amanda]] and [[Zoe Graystone]]
* [[Lacy Rand]] and her family
* [[Laura Roslin | Laura]], [[Cheryl Roslin|Cheryl]] and [[Sandra Roslin]], as well as their parents
* [[Ben Stark]] and his mother, [[Natalie Stark|Natalie]]
* [[Kara Thrace|Kara]], [[Socrata Thrace|Socrata]] and (presumably) [[Dreilide Thrace]]

===Notes===
* Caprica was and continues to be the world most prominently depicted in the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|re-imagined series continuity]]. Until "[[Razor]]", none of the other eleven Colonies was verifiably depicted on screen.
*Serge's Twitter account [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/11920922009 states] that Caprica had a number of unique lifeforms on its surface, though transplantation by early Colonists spread them to the other planets.
*Serge's Twitter account also [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/11861670347 notes] that Caprica spends the most on Colonial defense in the years prior to the First Cylon War.
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==Gemenon==
[[Image:Gemenon.jpg|right]]
'''Ancient Name''': [[wikipedia:Gemini (constellation)|Gemini]]

'''Population''': 2.8 billion

'''Patron God''': Hera

'''Official Language''': Old Gemenese

'''Capital''': [[Oranu]]<ref>{{cite_web|url=http://showblogs.syfy.com/caprican/opinion/gemenon-the-evil-twin-of-caprica.php|title=Gemenon: The (Evil) Twin of Caprica|date=24 Aprilis YR42|accessdate=10 November 2011|last=Sinclair|first=Ralston|format=|language=English}}</ref>

'''Major Cities''': Oranu, Illumini

'''Attractions''': Kobol Colleges, Illumini Pantheon, Gramada Mountains, Spatiu Gol Plateau, Pustiu Desert

'''Pyramid Teams''': [[Gemenon Twins]], Illumini Vipers

[[Image:Gemenon.JPG|thumb|right|Gemenon and the distant Helios Delta seen from orbit.]]
Gemenon was the first world colonized by the humans of Kobol. It shares its orbit around Helios Alpha with Caprica, completing an rotation once every 28.2 days. Its status as a twin planet gives it its name<ref>[http://files.meetup.com/405090/Serge%20Graystone's%20Twitter%20Feed.pdf Serge Graystone's Twitter feed]</ref>. Its climate can vary wildly, featuring frozen plateaus, and searing deserts, which can make life difficult for its inhabitants.

It was one of the poorer colonies and its people, the Gemenese, were known for their religious fundamentalism ([[TRS]]: "[[Scattered]]", "[[Dirty Hands]]").<ref> Despite this fundamentalist approach to the polytheistic Colonial religion, the Gemenese were known to be tolerant of all forms of worship, including monotheism. In fact, the monotheist movement is said to have begun on Gemenon.

The people of Gemenon are consistently referred to as "Gemenese" in both the [[Re-imagined Series]] and [[Caprica (series)|Caprica]].</ref>

Before the [[First Cylon War]], Gemenon was home to the Kobol Colleges and a monotheistic cult called "[[Soldiers of the One|The Soldiers of the One]]" ([[TRS]]: [[Miniseries, Night 2]]; [[CAP]]: [[Caprica pilot|Pilot]]). Gemenon's second-largest city, Illumini, was built around a large Pantheon complex, composed of buildings intended to worship and celebrate every deity in the [[Sacred Scrolls]].<ref name="capricanvacations">[http://showblogs.syfy.com/caprican/lifestyle/top-5-off-beat-vacation-destinations.php ''The Caprican'' article: "Top 5 Off-Beat Vacation Destinations"].</ref>

The Gemenese were known for their literal interpretations of the [[Sacred Scrolls|Scrolls]] ([[TRS]]: "[[Fragged]]"). Most of the population of Gemenon was apparently very strongly opposed to the federal laws legalizing abortion ([[TRS]]: "[[The Captain's Hand]]").

The planet also had either an old or disused language, known as [[Language in the Twelve Colonies|Old Gemenese]] ([[TRS]]: "[[Razor]]").

[[Image:GemenonCityscape.jpg|thumb|left|A city on Gemenon.]]
During the [[Fall_of_the_Twelve_Colonies|Cylon attack]], Gemenon comes under heavy assault by Cylon air and ground forces, completely obliterating one city with a high-yield nuclear device, and causing extensive damage to another with conventional means. At least one ship, the ''[[Cybele]]'', is able to escape the destruction of its port and occupying Cylon forces, and find Roslin's fleet ([[TRS]]: "[[The Plan]]").

Three months after the attacks, approximately 9,500 Gemenese break away from the main fleet, and join the [[Laura Roslin faction]] over [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]] ([[TRS]]: "[[Home, Part I]]"). The large and devoted Gemenese population continues to be an important political factor within the [[The Fleet (RDM)|fugitive fleet]] ([[TRS]]: "[[The Captain's Hand]]").

===Natives===
*[[Adrien Bauer]]
*[[Jurgen Belzen]] and his family
*[[Rya Kibby]]
*[[Romo Lampkin]]
*[[Sarah Porter]], former delegate to the [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]]
*Corporal [[Venner]]

===Notes===
* If the word "Inviere" (meaning "Resurrection") is any indication, Old Gemenese was probably similar to the Romanian language of [[Earth (RDM)#A New Earth|our Earth]].
* According to [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/8705440343 Serge's Twitter account], Gemenon is the planet that shares its orbit with [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]]. This planet is seen at the beginning of the aired ''Caprica'' pilot, but is not clearly identified as such until [[CAP]]: "[[The Heavens Will Rise]]" in a visual transition from Caprica to Gemenon.
* As an Easter Egg in ''[[The Plan]]'', the building on the lower left of the screen is the same one where the [[memoryalpha:Romulan Senate|Romulan Senate]] assembles in ''[[memoryalpha:Star Trek Nemesis|Star Trek Nemesis]]''. A detailed picture of this building is available [[memoryalpha:File:Romulan senate building, 2379.jpg|here]].
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==Leonis==
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[[Image:Leonis.png|thumb|right|A Leonan thoroughfare under Cylon assault.]]
'''Ancient Name''': [[wikipedia:Leo (constellation)|Leo]]

'''Population''': 2.6 billion

'''Patron God''': Artemis

'''Official Language''': Leonese

'''Capital''': Luminere

'''Major Cities''': Luminere, Hedon

'''Attractions''': Royal Palace of Leonis, Hedon Grand Casino

'''Pyramid Teams''': [[Leonis Wildcats]], Hedon Suns

Leonis is the second planet in the Helios Beta system, and was geographically known for its open plains ([[TRS]]: "[[The Plan]]"). The planet itself has no axial tilt, which supports a mild and predictable climate. It was a major hub for both education and industry, and despite Colonial unification, was able to maintain its own language and culture.

In the era prior to the [[First Cylon War]], Leonis produced and exported a popular energy drink named "Leonis Red".<ref name="capricanvacations">[http://showblogs.syfy.com/caprican/lifestyle/top-5-off-beat-vacation-destinations.php ''The Caprican'' article: "Top 5 Off-Beat Vacation Destinations"].</ref> [[Leonis Estates Sparkling Wine]] was a type of alcohol produced on this colony ([[TRS]]: "[[Flight of the Phoenix]]").

During the final Cylon [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|attack]], Leonis is struck with at least one, low-yield nuclear device, that was able to stun its residents and disable any means of escape. Those who survived the blast, are then seen being systematically eliminated by both ground and air forces ([[TRS]]: "[[The Plan]]"). It is unknown if any are collected and used in the Four's various [[farms]].

[[Safiya Sanne]] is the Leonan representative on the first [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]] after [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|the Fall]].
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==Libran==
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[[Image:Libran.gif|thumb|right|The courthouses of Libran.]]
'''Ancient Name''': [[wikipedia:Libra (constellation)|Libra]]

'''Alternative Name''': Libris

'''Population''': 2.1 million

'''Patron God''': Athena

'''Capital''': None

'''Major Cities''': Themis

'''Attractions''': Supreme Hall of Justice, Themis Arena

'''Pyramid Teams''': None

Libran was known for its courthouses and lawyers ([[TRS]]: "[[The Plan]]"), and was the home of the [[Inter-Colonial Court]] ([[CAP]]: "[[Gravedancing]]"). The planet had no official capital.<ref name="capitals3">[http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/ Serge's twitter account] stated in [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/10545438632 this tweet] that Aquaria and Libran "don't have official capitals".</ref>

A major city on Libran was called [[Themis]] which had a large, modern [[pyramid]] arena built sometime before the First Cylon War. Yet at this time Libran had no official pyramid team.<ref>[http://showblogs.syfy.com/caprican/sports/libran-needs-a-pyramid-team-statim.php ''The Caprican'' article: "Libran Needs a Pyramid Team Statim"].</ref>

After the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]], [[Oswin Eriku]] is chosen to be this colony's representative to the [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]].

''[[Zephyr]]'', a passenger liner in the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]], is of Libran registry.<ref>This was stated in a Fleet overview on scifi.com. This section of the site has long been shut down.</ref>

===Notes===
* The Colony's actual name, '''Libran''', was not heard on screen until "[[The Plan]]" but could already be seen on a name plate in "[[The Ties That Bind]]" and "[[A Disquiet Follows My Soul]]". Before that it was often called '''Libris''' in secondary publications.
* The city that is seen when Libran is mentioned in the "Caprica is burning" monologue in "[[The Plan]]", bears a striking resemblance to [[Tauron City]], as seen in "[[Know Thy Enemy]]".
*Serge's twitter account [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/15877355213 says] that the Libran court system served as a body through which trade disputes and legal matters were capable of being sorted amongst the colonies. He also [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/15877298276 states] that it is a high earning colony but is not regarded as a desirable place to live, and he [https://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/8751959730 states] that the planet is "largely a wildlife reserve".
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==Picon==
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[[Image:Picon.png|thumb|right|Picon from orbit.]]
'''Ancient Name''': [[wikipedia:Pisces (constellation)|Pisces]]

'''Population''': 1.4 billion

'''Patron God''': Poseidon

'''Capital''': Queenstown

'''Major Cities''': Perkinston, Queenstown, Pailyn

'''Attractions''': Colonial Fleet Headquarters, Penrose Harbor

'''Pyramid Teams''': [[Picon Panthers]]

Picon was a turquoise planet, containing 75% water, and famous for its harbors ([[TRS]]: [[The Plan]]). The capital city was Queenstown, which started as a relatively small fishing village.<ref name="capricanpicon">[http://showblogs.syfy.com/caprican/lifestyle/p-is-for-paradise-p-is-for-picon.php ''The Caprican'' article: "'P' Is for 'Paradise, 'P' Is for Picon"].</ref><ref name="capitals2">[http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/ Serge's twitter account] mentioned the capitals of Caprica, Tauron and Picon [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/10545200174 this tweet].</ref>

During the planet's off-season, most of the landscape became cold and rugged.<ref name="capricanpicon">[http://showblogs.syfy.com/caprican/lifestyle/p-is-for-paradise-p-is-for-picon.php ''The Caprican'' article: "'P' Is for 'Paradise, 'P' Is for Picon"].</ref> The planet was often used as a substitute for [[Caprica City]] in Caprican films and TV series.<ref name="capricanvacations">[http://showblogs.syfy.com/caprican/lifestyle/top-5-off-beat-vacation-destinations.php ''The Caprican'' article: "Top 5 Off-Beat Vacation Destinations"].</ref>

After the Unification of the Twelve Colonies this world was the location of the [[Picon Fleet Headquarters|Colonial Fleet Headquarters]] ([[TRS]]: [[Miniseries]]). Picon was also the home of [[Picon Laboratories]], located in Pailyn, Muritolan ([[TRS]]: "[[Faith]]").

The colony came under heavy attack during the early stages of the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attack]]. One of the last ships to leave the planet was the ''[[Rising Star (RDM)|Rising Star]]'', carrying many wounded people including an unconscious [[Ellen Tigh]] ([[TRS]]: "[[The Plan]]").

The destruction of Picon's Fleet Headquarters caused President [[Richard Adar]] to offer a complete and unconditional surrender to the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]]. This offer was ignored by the invading forces ([[TRS]]: [[Miniseries]]).

===Natives===
* [[Asha Janik]]
* [[Billy Keikeya | Billy Keikeya's]] family
* [[Playa Palacios]]

===Publications===
*''[[Picon Star Tribune]]''

=== Notes ===
*Picon's destination as a substitute for Caprica in films and series is likely a reference to Canada, and particularly Vancouver, where both the [[Re-Imagined Series]] and ''[[Caprica (series)|Caprica]]'' were filmed.
*[http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/12144717655 According] to Serge's twitter account, Picon has the most efficient, cooperative and responsive democracy in the colonies.
*In one [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/10988850734 post], it's said that Picon offers tax incentives for production of TV programs on the planet though Caprica remains the leading producer of such shows.
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==Sagittaron==
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'''Ancient Name''': [[wikipedia:Sagittarius (constellation)|Sagittarius]]

'''Alternative Name''': Sagittarion

'''Population''': 1.7 billion

'''Patron God''': Zeus

'''Capital''': Tawa

'''Attractions''': Acheron River

'''Pyramid Teams''': [[Sagittaron Archers]]

Sagittaron was one of the poorest worlds of the Twelve Colonies ([[TRS]]: "[[Bastille Day]]"). The capital of this planet was Tawa.<ref name="capitals1">[http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/ Serge's twitter account] mentioned the capitals of Gemenon, Virgon, Leonis, Sagittaron, Scorpia, Canceron and Aerilon in [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/10545377704 this tweet].</ref>

The Sagittarons were traditionalists who practiced a different form of religion from the other Colonials. They distrusted modern medicine and were generally unsupportive of the military ([[TRS]]: "[[The Woman King]]").

The Planet endured centuries of exploitation at the hands of the other Colonies. Eventually, [[Tom Zarek]] led an organized series of terrorist acts against the established government there, many years before the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Fall of the Colonies]] ([[TRS]]: "[[Bastille Day]]").

A few days after the Cylon attack, 5,251 people from this world reside within [[The Fleet (RDM)|the Fleet]] ([[TRS]]: "[[33]]").

===Natives===
* [[Jacob Cantrell]]
* [[Anastasia Dualla]]
* [[Portia King | Portia]] and [[Willie King]]
* [[Clarice Willow]]
* [[Tom Zarek]]

===Notes===
* The colony's name was originally spelled as "Sagittar'''i'''on" in the [[Miniseries]], but this changed to '''Sagittaron''' when the regular series began.
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==Scorpia==
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[[Image:ScorpionFleetShipyards1.jpg|thumb|right|Scorpia and its shipyards from orbit.]]
'''Ancient Name''': [[wikipedia:Scorpius|Scorpio]]

'''Population''': 450 million

'''Patron God''': Dionysus

'''Capital''': Celeste

'''Major Cities''': Celeste, Argentum

'''Attractions''': Argentum Bay, Guardian Mountains, Scorpia Shipyards

'''Pyramid Teams''': Scorpia Stingers, Celeste Storms, Celeste Lightning, Argentum Bay Silverstars

Scorpia was known for its lush jungles and hot temperatures ([[TRS]]: "[[The Plan]]"). Scorpia's capital was Celeste.<ref name="capitals1">[http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/ Serge's twitter account] mentioned the capitals of Gemenon, Virgon, Leonis, Sagittaron, Scorpia, Canceron and Aerilon in [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/10545377704 this tweet].</ref>

Before the [[First Cylon War]] one of the major leisure spots of the world was Argentum Bay, despite the colony's trashy reputation.<ref>[http://showblogs.syfy.com/caprican/entertainment/argentum-bay-the-ultimate-vernal-break.php ''The Caprican'' article: "Argentum Bay: The Ultimate Vernal Break"].</ref>. The Planet was also apparently well-known for its [[Scorpia Paragliding|Paragliding]] ([[TRS]]: "Razor").

After the Unification, Scorpia was home to the [[Scorpion Fleet Shipyards|Scorpion Fleet Shipyards]].

During the initial [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attack]], Scorpia falls victim to numerous massive nuclear attacks, destroying much of the population. Cylon forces also focus on the orbiting ship yards, obliterating the structure, destroying numerous Battlestars and support ships, and causing [[Pegasus (RDM)|another one]] to risk a blind jump in order to escape ([[TRS]]: "[[Razor]]").

[[Eladio Puasha]] serves as the planet's delegate to the first [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]] assembled after the Fall.
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===Notes===
* In an [http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2010/01/caprica-countdown-paula-malcolmsons-moving-away-from-deadwoods-trixie.html LA Times article], Scorpia is described as having a "scorpion tail-like half-ring".
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==Tauron==
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[[Image:Tauron.png|thumb|right|[[Tauron (RDM)|Tauron]] from orbit, and under Cylon assault.]]
[[Image:TauronCity.JPG|thumb|right|Pre-Cylon War Minos (Tauron City).]]
[[Image:TauronTwinPlanet.JPG|thumb|right|Tauron's moon, Minos, in the evening sky.]]
'''Ancient Name''': [[wikipedia:Taurus (constellation)|Taurus]]

'''Population''': 2.5 billion

'''Patron God''': Ares

'''Official Language''': Tauron

'''Capital''': [[Hypatia]]

'''Major Cities''': Hypatia, [[Tauron City]] (Minos)

'''Attractions''': Minos, Olympia Hippadrome, Great Tauron Plains

'''Pyramid Teams''': Olympia Stallions, Tauron Bulls

Tauron was a barren, arid planet that lacked any kind of flowers. However, it was well-known for its agriculture ([[CAP]]: [[Caprica pilot|Pilot]]). Its capital was [[Hypatia]]<ref name="capitals2">[http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/ Serge's twitter account] mentioned the capitals of Caprica, Tauron and Picon [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/10545200174 this tweet].</ref>, another large city was [[Tauron City]]. The planet shared its orbit with another ringed world ([[CAP]]: "[[Know Thy Enemy]]" - see notes).

Taurons were known to be very traditional people, even speaking a very old and distinctive [[Language in the Twelve Colonies|language]] ([[CAP]]: [[Caprica pilot|Pilot]]).

Some 800 years before [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|the Fall]] Tauron was colonized by [[#Virgon|Virgon]] and [[#Leonis|Leonis]]. The people of Tauron liberated themselves and ever since this world has been known for its troubled and violent history.<ref>[http://showblogs.syfy.com/caprican/opinion/racism-an-unacceptable-aspect-of-caprican-life.php ''The Caprican'' article: "An Unacceptable Aspect of Caprican Life"].</ref>

Nearly a century before its Fall, Tauron was one of the poorer colonial worlds and the center of a [[Tauron Civil War|civil war]]. A few years before the [[First Cylon War]], the crime syndicate [[Ha'la'tha]] had enormous influence over the planet, which even extended to other colonies, such as [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] ([[CAP]]: [[Caprica pilot|Pilot]]).

During the War, [[Hypatia]] was was the location of a [[Battle of Tauron|fierce and lossy battle]] against [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon forces]] ([[TRS]]: "[[Razor]]", extended Edition).

After the War, Tauron was known to be a somewhat troublesome colony within the [[Government of the Twelve Colonies|federal system]] of the Colonies, often disobeying directives decided by the colonies and pushing their luck with the admiralty ([[TRS]]: "[[Hero]]"). Yet this world was counted among the wealthier of the twelve worlds ([[TRS]]: "[[Dirty Hands]]").

===Natives===
* [[Joseph Adama | Joseph]] and [[Sam Adama]]
* [[Shannon Adama]] and her mother, [[Ruth]]
* [[Helena Cain]] and her murdered family
* [[Tomas Vergis]]

===Notes===
* The language of Tauron is remarkably similar to Ancient Greek that, thousands of years later, was spoken on [[Earth (RDM)#A New Earth | a planet]] on the other side of the galaxy.
* According to [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/10335013016 Serge's Twitter Account] Tauron only has a moon.
* Serge's Twitter account also [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/10545200174 stated] Tauron's capital to be [[Hypatia]].
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==Virgon==
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'''Ancient Name''': [[wikipedia:Virgo (constellation)|Virgo]]

'''Population''': 4.3 billion

'''Patron God''': Hestia

'''Capital''': Boskirk

'''Major Cities''': Boskirk, Blaustad, Hadrian

'''Attractions''': House of Parliament, Tower of Virgon, Petrus Palace, Virgon Universities

'''Pyramid Teams''': Virgon United, [[Boskirk All Reds]]

Virgon was well-known for its forests ([[TRS]]: "[[The Plan]]") and considered to be one of the wealthier colonies ([[TRS]]: "[[Dirty Hands]]"). The capital of Virgon was Boskirk.<ref name="capitals1">[http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/ Serge's twitter account] mentioned the capitals of Gemenon, Virgon, Leonis, Sagittaron, Scorpia, Canceron and Aerilon in [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/10545377704 this tweet].</ref>

Virgon had a declining monarchy and a strong national parliament, at least 58 years before the Fall of the Colonies.<ref>Mentioned by [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/statuses/10937229785 Serge's twitter account].</ref>

[[Virgon Brew]] was a beer produced on the planet and exported to other Colonies ([[TRS]]: "[[Maelstrom]]").

Soon after the beginning of the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attack]], the Colonials launch a counter-attack over Virgon. The battle ends with the destruction of the flagship battlestar ''[[Atlantia (RDM)|Atlantia]]'' and the resulting death of [[Nagala|Fleet Admiral Nagala]] ([[TRS]]: [[Miniseries]]).

[[Marshall Bagot]] is the Virgon delegate to the first [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]]. He nominates [[Tom Zarek]] for the vice-presidency ([[TRS]]: "[[Colonial Day]]"). In public ceremonies, the Virgon delegate wears a light blue sash.

===Notes===
*Serge's Twitter Account [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/10937229785 states] that Virgon has a declining monarchy with a strong parliament.
*Virgon draws many parallels with present-day Earth's Britain; a declining monarchy, birthplace of Colonial language, coloniser of other planets (comparable to countries) and 'Virgon United' and 'Boskirk All Reds' are similar to Manchester United, a prominent English football team, also known as the Red Devils.

== See Also==
*[[Ithaca]]

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Observation deck

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[[Image:Obs Deck Ex.jpg|thumb|right|A Cylon Raider zeros in on the observation deck.]]
The '''observation deck''' is a recreational room located on the bow of ''[[Galactica]]'', which is one of the few locations in the vessel which has windows to view the surrounding space outside the ship. When the room is not in use, large doors protect the bay window from being shattered by battle damage, and space debris.

[[Image:GalacticaInterior ObservationDeck.jpg|thumb|left|Vipers maneuver in front of the bay window.]]
Following the Fall of the Twelve Colonies, the room is largely used by couples for courting purposes. Because of the high demand for this room, officials on ''Galactica'' have had to impose time limits on each group that enters.

Occasionally, Viper pilots on [[CAP]] duty like to dazzle spectators, and perform maneuvers in front of the large bay window.

The observation deck was ultimately destroyed following the [[Battle of the Colony]], after ''Galactica'' was used to ram the Colony, which resulted in the collapse of many of the forward compartments in the bow section, as a result of the impact ([[TRS]]: "[[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]", "[[Daybreak, Part II]]").

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==Notes==
In the "Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down" podcast, executive producer Ron Moore explains how the observation deck highlights one of the [[naturalistic science fiction]] style of the Re-imagined Series:

:"There really aren't any windows aboard ''Galactica'', it's not really a traditional sort of sci-fi spaceship where you get to look outside and see space all the time. It's not like the bridge of the ''[[MemoryAlpha:Enterprise|Enterprise]]'' where there's a giant viewscreen where you're always looking at stars and looking at space. And aboard ''Galactica'', which is really a warship, the idea that there would be big places of windows was sort of ridiculous. But it did feel right that perhaps there was one place, that perhaps there was one area of the ship which accepted a window, a port, to look out, and that it would be a fairly confined space for the crew on these very deep space missions that probably last months, if not years, and that there might be a place where they could go and just stargaze for a little bit. And in this situation, it seemed like there would be a lot of people lining up to try to look at the stars and— y'know, a break from the monotony of staring at metal walls and the claustrophobia of being onboard a spaceship out in the vacuum of space."

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Viper (TRS)

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: ''This is an overview page on the subject of Viper fighter craft. For detailed information, see [[Viper Mark II]] and [[Viper Mark VII]].''
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The '''Viper''' is the primary attack/interceptor vehicle in use on the [[Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]] with a wide range of both atmospheric and space capable craft dating back to before the [[First Cylon War]].

== Pre-Cylon War ==
::''See also [[Caprican Viper]] and [[Vintage Viper]]''
[[File:Vintage Viper.jpg|thumb|left|Early Vipers fly in formation.]]
The history of the Viper can be traced back to before the Cylon war, where propeller powered, and later, jet engine powered Vipers were utilized by colony based air force organizations, prior to the unification of the Colonies.

Digital representations of these early Vipers are popular with [[holoband]] users, available for flight simulations in the [[virtual world]] ([[CAP]]: "[[The Imperfections of Memory]]"). Earlier Vipers are also appear in the popular hacked environment, [[New Cap City]] ([[CAP]]: "[[There is Another Sky]]", "[[The Imperfections of Memory]]", "[[Ghosts in the Machine]]").

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== Cylon War ==
[[Image: Viper Mk II atmospheric flight.jpg|thumb|left|A Viper Mark II in atmospheric flight.]]
After the outbreak of the Cylon War, and the unification of the Colonies, the [[Viper Mark II|Viper Mk. II]] became the colony-wide service plane of choice, serving with distinction throughout that conflict. By the end of the war, the Mk. II was being phased out in favor of the [[Viper Mark III|Mk. III]], however the Mk. II still continued to see action, even up until the [[Cimtar Peace Accord|Armistice]]. The Mk. II is later chosen for preservation in the Battlestar Galactica Cylon War Museum, following its decommissioning nearly 40 years since the end of hostilities ([[TRS]]: [[Miniseries]]).

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== Post-Cylon War ==
[[Image:Mk VII with Mk II, patrol.jpg|thumb|right|A Viper Mk. II and a Mk. VII on patrol ([[33]]).]]
By the time of the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]], the [[Viper Mark VII]] has taken up the mantle of the Mark II. However, due to its advanced construction and [[Computers in the Re-imagined Series|computer system]], the standard Mark VII is vulnerable to the [[Cylon (RDM)|Cylon]] [[Cylon computer virus|computer virus]]. Most of these are destroyed by the Cylons, who break in, and shut the Viper's computers off. A few remain with the fleeing Colonials, only after having their computer systems purged of the offending software ([[TRS]]: [[Miniseries]]).

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== Flight Regimes ==
The Viper is designed to operate in both space and atmospheric conditions.

In space flight, the Viper is highly maneuverable, dangerously so in inexperienced hands. [[Navigation in the Re-imagined Series|Reaction control system]] (RCS) thrusters for rapid and flexible attitude control, a cluster of 3 main thrusters for high acceleration, and retractable reverse thrusters housed in both port and starboard cowlings for some degree of deceleration can subject the pilot to punishing [[w:g-force|g-forces]]. Its retractable landing struts can be magnetized to secure the Viper on metal decks and surfaces in zero gravity.

In atmospheric flight, Vipers consume more [[Tylium]] fuel than in the vacuum of space. Once in an atmosphere, the engines must run continuously to maintain sufficient airflow over the wing lifting surfaces. Depending on the composition of the atmosphere itself, this can place severe strain on the Viper's engines ([[TRS]]: "[[You Can't Go Home Again]]"). In addition to greater fuel consumption, the high wing load (i.e. small wing area relative to weight) may compromise the Viper's overall maneuverability. Because the smaller wing surfaces generate less lift, higher speeds are needed to stay aloft. The fighter's RCS thrusters might partially compensate for this.

=== Life Support ===
Viper cockpits are pressurized and heated, and pilots wear [[flight suit]]s which, along with a breathing pack housed within the back, provide full life support should ejection be required ([[TRS]]: "[[You Can't Go Home Again]])". In atmospheric ejections, the seat jettisons automatically once clear of the Viper, exposing a parachute which is deployed at a safe altitude ([[TRS]]: "[[Act of Contrition]]", "[[Razor#William Adama|Razor]]").

Viper cockpits are also hardened against radiation, including a canopy made of a radiation-resistant glass and is capable of protecting a pilot against radiation levels that would kill a healthy human in 30 seconds (''[[Blood and Chrome]]'')

Because of the stamina required to operate Vipers, battlestars have a specialized [[weight room]] where the pilots maintain their physical condition.

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* See Also
** Viper Mark II|Mark II Viper
** Viper Mark VII|Mark VII Viper
* Other Series
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** Viper (1980)|Galactica 1980 Viper
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Talk:Loki type heavy cruiser/Archive 1

2013-12-23T02:04:14Z

Frylock86:

==Images==

Just for reference, the images can be accessed directly from here: http://www.deg3d.biz/featured_work/images/550/

[[User:Phalanx-a-pedian|Phalanx]] 18:36, 22 December 2013 (EST)

* Higher resolution (1956x1100px) images can be downloaded from here, as well: http://www.deg3d.biz/desktops_08.html

[[User:Frylock86|Frylock86]] 21:02, 22 December 2013 (EST)

Talk:Loki type heavy cruiser/Archive 1

2013-12-23T02:03:13Z

Frylock86:

==Images==

Just for reference, the images can be accessed directly from here: http://www.deg3d.biz/featured_work/images/550/

[[User:Phalanx-a-pedian|Phalanx]] 18:36, 22 December 2013 (EST)

* Higher resolution images can be downloaded from here, as well: http://www.deg3d.biz/desktops_08.html

[[User:Frylock86|Frylock86]] 21:02, 22 December 2013 (EST)

Talk:Loki type heavy cruiser/Archive 1

2013-12-23T02:02:29Z

Frylock86:

==Images==

Just for reference, the images can be accessed directly from here: http://www.deg3d.biz/featured_work/images/550/

[[User:Phalanx-a-pedian|Phalanx]] 18:36, 22 December 2013 (EST)

* Higher resolution images can be downloaded from here, as well: http://www.deg3d.biz/desktops_06.html

-- [[User:Frylock86|Frylock86]] 21:02, 22 December 2013 (EST)

Loki type heavy cruiser

2013-12-22T21:43:43Z

Frylock86:

{{Ship Data
|image= Loki.png
| title= ''Loki'' type heavy cruiser
| race= Colonial
| type= Military
| ftl= Yes
| propol= 9x sublight engines
| crew= Unknown
| role= Heavy cruiser
| arm= 35x light guns
| def= Unknown
| aircraft= Unknown
| facilities= 2x landing bays
}}
The ''' ''Loki'' type heavy cruiser''' is a lightly armed support ship in service with the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Colonial Fleet]] during the [[First Cylon War]], where two or three of these ships would be assigned to a [[battlestar group]] at any given time (''[[Blood & Chrome]]'').

==Design==
The heavy cruiser features a unique tri-hull design, joined by a massive domed structure on the dorsal side, and an "alligator head" on the front side. The alligator head contain all thirty-five of the ship's guns, with fifteen along the dorsal side, twelve along the ventral side, and four along both the port and starboard sides of the hull. The head also contains two landing bays along the sides of the hull, and communications antennas on the front. The massive tri-hulls contain a combined total of eighty-one cargo holds, and feature movable cranes along the top to assist with the transfer of goods and munitions.

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== Ships In Class ==

{|class="messagebox sortable" style="width:100%" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" align="center"
|- class="infoboxheader"
! Name !! Number !! Status !! Last Seen
|-
| ''[[Loki]]'' || Unknown || Active, part of "Ghost Fleet", YR58 (42 BCH) || ''"[[Blood & Chrome]]"''.
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| ''Cyclops'' || FCS-73 || Active, part of "Ghost Fleet", YR58 (42 BCH) || ''"[[Blood & Chrome]]"''.
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| Unknown || Unknown || Active, part of "Ghost Fleet", YR58 (42 BCH) || ''"[[Blood & Chrome]]"''.
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| Unknown || Unknown || Active, part of 75th battlestar group, YR58 (42 BCH) || ''"[[Blood & Chrome]]"''.
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| Unknown || Unknown || Active, part of 75th battlestar group, YR58 (42 BCH) || ''"[[Blood & Chrome]]"''.
|}

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== Notes ==
*The design was created by Richard Livingston.
*The CGI model used for production is labeled ''Cyclops'' (FCS-73) <ref>[http://www.deg3d.biz/featured_work/featured_work.html Deg3D]</ref>, which is barely legible in the header image for this article, despite the ship in reference referred as ''Loki''.

==Gallery==
<gallery>
Image:Heavy Cruiser Stich.png|Composite shot of the "alligator head" of a unnamed heavy cruiser.
Image:HC Aft.png|Aft view of a heavy cruiser hiding with the ghost fleet.
Image:HC Main Hull.png|Closeup of a heavy cruiser's main hull (lower right). Note the primary cannons.
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== References ==
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Loki type heavy cruiser

2013-12-22T16:45:38Z

Frylock86: Updated with new information

{{Ship Data
|image= Loki.png
| title= ''Loki'' type heavy cruiser
| race= Colonial
| type= Military
| ftl= Yes
| propol= 9x sublight engines
| crew= Unknown
| role= Heavy cruiser
| arm= 35x light guns
| def= Unknown
| aircraft= Unknown
| facilities= 2x landing bays
}}
The ''' ''Loki'' type heavy cruiser''' is a lightly armed support ship in service with the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Colonial Fleet]] during the [[First Cylon War]], where two or three of these ships would be assigned to a [[battlestar group]] at any given time. It is unknown what becomes of this class after the war, however it can be presumed they are either retired from service or destroyed by the Cylons during the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]] (''"Blood & Chrome]"'').

==Design==
The heavy cruiser features a unique tri-hull design, joined by a massive domed structure on the dorsal side, and an "alligator head" on the front side.

The alligator head contain all thirty-five of the ship's guns; with fifteen along the dorsal side, twelve along the ventral side, and four along both the port and starboard sides of the hull. The head also contains 2 landing bays along the sides of the hull, and communications antennas on the front.

The massive tri-hulls contain a combined total of eighty-one cargo holds, and feature movable cranes along the top to assist with the transfer of goods and munitions.

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{|class="messagebox sortable" style="width:100%" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" align="center"
|- class="infoboxheader"
! Name !! Number !! Status !! Last Seen
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| ''[[Loki]]'' || Unknown || Active, part of "Ghost Fleet", YR58 (42 BCH) || ''"[[Blood & Chrome]]"''.
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| ''Cyclops'' || PCS-73 || Active, part of "Ghost Fleet", YR58 (42 BCH) || ''"[[Blood & Chrome]]"''.
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| Unknown || Unknown || Active, part of "Ghost Fleet", YR58 (42 BCH) || ''"[[Blood & Chrome]]"''.
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| Unknown || Unknown || Active, part of 75th battlestar group, YR58 (42 BCH) || ''"[[Blood & Chrome]]"''.
|-
| Unknown || Unknown || Active, part of 75th battlestar group, YR58 (42 BCH) || ''"[[Blood & Chrome]]"''.
|}

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== Notes ==
*The design was created by Richard Livingston.
*The CGI model used for production is labeled ''Cyclops'' (PCS-73) <ref>[http://www.deg3d.biz/featured_work/featured_work.html Deg3D]</ref>, which is barely legible in the header image for this article, despite the ship in reference referred as ''Loki''.

==Gallery==
<gallery>
Image:Heavy Cruiser Stich.png|Composite shot of the "alligator head" of a unnamed heavy cruiser.
Image:HC Aft.png|Aft view of a heavy cruiser hiding with the ghost fleet.
Image:HC Main Hull.png|Closeup of a heavy cruiser's main hull (lower right). Note the primary cannons.
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Loki

2013-12-22T16:45:13Z

Frylock86:

{{Ship Data
|image= Loki.png
| title= ''Loki''
| race= Colonial
| type= Military
| ftl= Yes
| propol= 9x sublight engines
| crew= Unknown
| role= Heavy cruiser
| arm= 35x light guns
| def= Unknown
| aircraft= Unknown
| facilities= 2x landing bays
}}

'''''Loki''''' is a [[Loki type heavy cruiser‎|heavy cruiser]] in service with the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Colonial Fleet]] during the First [[Cylon War]].

At some point, it was engaged in combat with Cylon forces, and was reported by the Colonial Fleet to have been destroyed. This report was only a cover story, meant to protect ''Loki'' and other ships hiding in Cylon held space as part of a secret "ghost fleet". ''Loki'' later jumps away with the fleet to strike every Cylon base along the border as part of a successful [[Ghost Fleet Offensive|Colonial campaign]] to put the Cylons on the defensive (''[[Blood and Chrome]]'').

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Valkyrie

2013-12-21T02:01:12Z

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| image= 3x8-Valkyrie-Firing.jpg
| title= ''Valkyrie''
| race= Colonial
| type= Military
| ftl= Yes
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| status= Destroyed, [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Zero Hour]], 0 BCH
| patch= Valkyrie Gold.png
| co= Commander [[William Adama]] (Last Known)
| xo= Colonel [[Saul Tigh]] (Last Known)
| role= Carrier / battleship
| arm= 20x light batteries <br /> 33x heavy batteries <br /> Tube-launched ship-to-ship missiles
| aircraft= Small Viper compliment <br /> Small Raptor compliment
| facilities= 2x flight pods <br /> 2x flight decks <br /> 6x Viper launch tubes
| img= Y
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'''''Valkyrie''''' was a veteran [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Colonial]] [[battlestar (RDM)|battlestar]] of an [[Valkyrie Type Battlestar|unnamed class]], built around the start of the [[First Cylon War]]. It played a crucial role in eliminating the Cylon's edge, and turning the favor of the war to the Colonials. The ship was still in service nearly 40 years later, serving on the Colonial front lines with its sister ships, where it was stationed over Caprica. ''Valkyrie'' is later destroyed by Cylon forces in an act of [[Command Navigation Program|subterfuge]] during the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Fall of Caprica]]. Prior to its destruction, ''Valkyrie'' was attached to the 41st [[Battlestar Group]] ([[TRS]]: ''"[[The Plan]]"'').

== History ==

=== First Cylon War ===
Approximately ten years into the first [[Cylon War]], ''Valkyrie'' was involved in a battle with Cylons near [[Canceron]] Prime, in which it went missing and was presumed destroyed. In truth, the ship had become part of a secret Colonial "ghost fleet" hiding in Cylon-held space, where several pilots and their planes were on detachment to battlestar ''[[Osiris]]''.

''Valkyrie'' later participated in the successful [[Ghost Fleet Offensive]] campaign against Cylon forces (''[[Blood and Chrome]]'').

=== Inter-War Period ===
Approximately six years<ref name="hero">While dialogue from "[[Hero]]" places these events at 1 BCH, this contradicts previously established dates about the time Adama and others served on ''Galactica''. See [[Hero#Analysis]] for a detailed explanation why ''Battlestar Wiki'' chooses to treat this as a continuity error.</ref> before the Cylon attack, ''Valkyrie'' had been ordered by Admiral [[Peter Corman]] to deploy a [[Stealthstar|stealth recon ship]] over the [[Armistice Line]] to test [[Cylon (RDM)|Cylon]] resolve and gather intelligence on Cylon activities. During the mission, an unidentified [[DRADIS]] contact (presumed to have been a spacecraft) entered the area of the stealth ship piloted by Lieutenant [[Daniel Novacek]] and damaged the Stealthstar's engines before jumping away.

Two further (presumed Cylon) contacts were detected on an intercept course with the stealth ship. Rather than attempt a rescue of the disabled craft, Commander Adama ordered the stealth ship to be destroyed to prevent its discovery and capture.

In the days and years following the incident at the Armistice Line, and in particular after the Cylon attack on the Colonies, Adama came to believe that his actions had provoked the Cylon assault, having "proved" to them that humanity was aggressive and not to be trusted ([[TRS]]: "[[Hero]]").

=== Return of the Cylons ===
During the initial Cylon assault on the Twelve Colonies, ''Valkyrie'', alongside battlestar ''[[Yashuman]]'', moves in to engage the Cylons over [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]]. Both battlestars move to weapons-free status, only to be disabled by the [[Command Navigation Program|CNP]]'s backdoors before any shots could be fired. ''Valkyrie'', ''Yashuman'', a third battlestar of the same class, and their deployed Viper squadrons are destroyed shortly after ([[TRS]]: "''[[The Plan]]''") <ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmAEmuwZY5Q Watch in high definition and pause at 1:18 and 1:43]</ref>.

==Notes==
* The ship's hull number cannot be seen. It is thus not known if it is identical to its battlestar group.
* The ''Valkyrie'' CIC insignia adorned [[David Eick]]'s production office wall in the Vancouver Film Studios where ''Battlestar Galactica'' was produced.<ref>{{cite_web|url=http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/video/index.php?cat=videoBlog&vid=51390|title=Video Blog: Taking A Break From All Your Worries|date=|accessdate=|last=|first=|format=|language=}}</ref>
* In mythology, a ''[[Wikipedia:Valkyrie|Valkyrie]]'' is a minor female deity who chose the most heroic fallen warriors to ascend to Valhalla where they would await [[Wikipedia:Ragnarok|Ragnarok]]. Valkyrie is the third (second onscreen) instance of Norse mythology being used, the first being [[Ragnar Station]], which is a reference to Ragnarok, the Norse "twilight of the gods" ([[Miniseries]]).
** Interestingly, the story of Ragnarok parallels with the career of William Adama, the one-time commander of ''Valkyrie''. Adama, considered a fallen hero by the admiralty, is transferred from the advanced ''Valkyrie'' to command the aging ''Galactica'' about a year before the Cylon attack. Later, with the fall of the Colonies, he finds himself in the [[Battle of Ragnar Anchorage]], the last battle within Colonial space.

== Related Imagery ==
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Image:Valkyrie close up.jpg|Closeup of a ''Valkyrie'' type battlestar.
Image:Battlestar Valkyrie The Plan.png|''Valkyrie'' among it sister ships above Caprica.
Image:Valkyrie CNP Virus Transmission.png|''Valkyrie'' under attack.
Image:Battlestar Valkyrie CNP Hack.png|''Valkyrie'' after being disabled by the Cylons.
Image:ValykrieFlightPod.jpg|One of the ship's flight pods.
Image:Valkyrie Missile Tube.png|A closeup of a battery.
Image:Valkyrie bridge.jpg|The CIC.
Image:Valkyrie CIC.jpg|Full view of CIC.
Image:3x8-Adama-and-Valkyrie-insignia.jpg|''Valkyrie'' insignia.
Image:Valkyrie patch.jpg|''Valkyrie'' armpatch.
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Stealthstar

2013-12-19T22:47:02Z

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{{Ship Data
| image= Stealth Star profile.jpg
| title= Stealthstar (7746VA)
| race= Colonial
| type= Military
| ftl= No
| propol= 3x sublight engines
| crew= 1 pilot
| role= Stealth recon
| arm= 2x autocannons
| status= Destroyed, circa several years BCH
| img= Y
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'''Stealthstar''' 7746VA was a designation used for a Colonial stealth craft.

Lieutenant [[Daniel Novacek|Daniel "Bulldog" Novacek]], from the [[battlestar (RDM)|battlestar]] ''[[Valkyrie]]'', piloted this craft across the [[Armistice Line]] in order to determine whether or not the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]] were performing a military buildup.

During the mission, the Stealthstar had open comm channels, and was actively monitoring [[DRADIS]], perhaps in an attempt to lure the Cylons with the intent of going silent at the first sign of trouble. Its position was clearly visible to ''Valkyrie's'' DRADIS. However, the Stealthstar was interdicted by a craft of unknown designation (presumably Cylon) which quickly jumped in and out. In an attempt to conceal the mission, ''Valkyrie'''s CO, Commander [[William Adama]], attempted to destroy the craft before the Cylons found it. This resulted in severe damage before its stealth functions were fully utilized ([[TRS]]: "[[Hero]]").

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==Notes==
* The Stealthstar utilized the [[Viper Mark VII]] cockpit.
* On ''Valkyrie'''s [[DRADIS]], the ship was designated as "S-Star".
* The Stealthstar is a redress of the [[Blackbird]]. <ref name="podcast">{{cite rdm podcast| episode = Hero | act = 2 | id =stealthredress| timestamp = 00:25:14 | totalrunning = 00:47:05 }}</ref>

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Image:3x8-Stealth-Star-7746VA (2).jpg|Clearly showing the ship number as 7746VA
Image:3x8-Stealth-Star-Cockpit.jpg|Cockpit view
Image:3x8-Stealth-Star-Winged.jpg|Winged and spiraling out of control
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Viper Mark II

2013-12-12T18:58:36Z

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:''This article discusses the older, generally obsolete Viper-class fighters seen in the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Re-imagined Series]]. For information on the late [[First Cylon War]] Viper Mark III from [[Blood and Chrome]] see [[Viper Mark III]]. For information on the advanced Viper Mark VII from the same series, see [[Viper Mark VII]]. For the Viper used in the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]] and in [[Galactica 1980]], see [[Viper (TOS)]].''

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| image= Bsg-viper-1.jpg
| title= Viper Mk. II
| race= Colonial
| type= Military
| ftl= No
| propol= 1x Voram VM2-D15 upper turbo-thrust engine <br /> 2x Voram VM3-D22 turbo-thrust engines <br /> 2x reverse thrust motors <br /> [[RCS]] points <ref name="armprop">Propulsion and weapon details from David Bassom's ''[[The Official Companion|Battlestar Galactica: The Official Companion]]''.</ref>
| crew= 1 pilot
| role= Space superiority fighter/interceptor
| arm= 2x 800 rd. Thraxon MEC-A6 30mm [[Weapons in the Re-imagined Series#Viper and Cylon Raider|Mass Accelerator Cannons]] (MECS) <br /> Dorsal storage bay for 8x HD-70 Lightning Javelin missiles (optional 50 megaton nuclear warhead)<ref name="armprop"/> <br /> Weapon hardpoints for mounting missiles / munitions pods, etc. under the wings
| def= Chaffs <br /> Flares
| status= Retired from service, succeeded by Viper Mark III
| length= 27.6 feet (~8.4m)<ref name="di">Dimensions provided by [http://www.leestringer.com/ Lee Stringer], one of the VFX Animators of the miniseries. These are for the CGI models, which are based on but not identical to the fullsize props. Source: [http://www.starshipbuilder.com/ubb/Forum4/HTML/000012.html Starshipbuilder.com forums]</ref>
| height= 8.9 feet (~2.7m)<ref name="di"/><ref name="inflight">In flight, without landing gear. Landing gear adds approximately (0.5m)</ref>
| wingspan= 15.5 feet (~4.7m)<ref name="di"/>
| img=Y
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The '''Viper Mark II''' is a single seat fighter aerospace craft used by the [[Colonial Fleet]] during the [[First Cylon War]]. The fighter served with distinction, proving to be a capable fighting vehicle and winning renown across the [[Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]]; the Mark II is regarded as instrumental in ensuring that the Colonials did not lose the original Cylon War <ref>Its iconic status is not unlike that of the real world [[wikipedia:Supermarine_Spitfire|Supermarine Spitfire]], which is held in great esteem in the countries where it served - particularly Great Britain. Many Spitfires are preserved today as museum pieces, just as the Mk. II Vipers were aboard ''Galactica''.</ref>. Eventually, the Mark II was succeeded in service by the larger, and more advanced [[Viper Mark III]] (''[[Blood & Chrome]]''), in the later years of the War, however, the Mark II was still utilized by the military up to and following the [[Cimtar_(RDM)|Armistice]] ([[TRS]]: "[[Razor Flashbacks]]"). Owing to the iconic status that the Mark II achieved during its operational years, a squadron of 40 planes are chosen for preservation in the Battlestar [[Galactica Museum|''Galactica'' History Museum]]. These Vipers are later brought back online to defend ''Galactica,'' and later its civilian fleet, following the sudden [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attack]] on the Colonies ([[TRS]]: [[Miniseries]]).

== Overview ==
[[Image:Viper Mk II orthos.jpg|left|thumb|Fore, side, top and aft views of the Mark II]]
The Mark II is a long, sleek vehicle with specialized features for zero-g and atmospheric combat, and reconnaissance.

The fore section comprises the nose back to the cockpit. Located there are the forward [[RCS]] systems for maneuvering the craft; the forward landing gear; the main [[avionics]] and sensor packages and the single-seat cockpit.

The stern comprises the main engines, numerous RCS maneuvering jets, fuel tanks, wings and vertical stabilizer. The wings themselves contain the kinetic energy weapons, their munitions storage and feeds. Mounting points beneath the wings allow missiles, munitions pods and other items to be rack-mounted ([[TRS]]: "[[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]").

The wing's roots contain the main landing gear, retracted during flight. The Mark II's shape is distinctive because of the offset "intakes" mounted just behind the cockpit. The port / starboard "intakes" incorporate small but powerful reverse thrust engines that can quickly counter a Viper's forward momentum in an emergency ([[TRS]]: "[[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]").

=== Avionics ===
:''Main article: [[Computers in the Re-imagined Series#Vipers and Raptors|Computers in the Re-imagined Series]]''

[[Image:Vipermk2interior3 104 1080i.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Mark II main instrument panel]]
The Mark II is equipped with a Milso Delta-G Intrepid guidance system. The quad mounted gyroscopic ACRS is hot-linked to the cockpit instrument package and all RCS ports for enhanced performance <ref name="chart">[https://scontent-a-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash2/185723_204520102894533_5923811_n.jpg Viper Mark II layout chart]</ref>. <br>
As part of its use in the [[Cylon War]], the Mark II was initially designed to resist Cylon attempts at disabling or damaging its flight controls <ref>The joystick used in the Mark II is a replica of real-life F/A-18 Hornet and F-15 Eagle</ref>. Given the number of analog gauges and controls, its likely that the Mark II was intended to be flown entirely without computer assistance in fear of compromise by an electronic attack. Nevertheless, a simple computer to manage the flight systems is present in the cockpit, assisting the pilot's [[Mark One Eyeball]]. Some gauges, such as the altimeter, are used only in atmospheric flight.
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=== Armament ===
:''Main article: [[Weapons in the Re-imagined Series#Viper and Cylon Raider|Weapons in the Re-imagined Series]]''

The Mark II is equipped with two 800 rd. Thraxon MEC-A6 30mm Mass Accelerator Cannons (MECS), as it's primary weapon. These cannons are capable of firing 20 rounds per second and are augmented with orange tracers, which enable the pilot to see where the rounds are going, and adjust their aim accordingly <ref name="chart"/>.

These cannons are supplemented with a storage bay capable of holding up to eight Lightning Javelin missiles capable of carrying conventional or up to 50 megatons of nuclear tipped warheads <ref name="chart"/>.

=== Performance ===

The Mark II is as "nimble as a jackrabbit," and can rotate 180 degrees vertically in .35 seconds ([[TRS]]: "[[Act of Contrition]]"). It accelerates at six to seven G's, or 60 to 70 m/s² ([[TRS]]: "[[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]").

==Surviving Mark IIs==
:''Main article: [[List of Vipers]].''

Following the decommissioning of the battlestar ''Galactica'' 40 years after the Cylon War ended, and its transformation into a museum, a squadron Mark IIs are chosen for preservation and display on the port flight deck. Following the sudden Cylon attacks, these Vipers are brought back to working order and used to defend the ship as it made its way to [[Ragnar Anchorage]] to refit. Eventually, these Vipers are used to defend the 50,000 survivors of the attacks as they flee the Colonies into deep space ([[TRS]]: "[[Miniseries]]").

They served with distinction up until the end of the Fleet's journey, however not without losses. The few remaining Mark IIs are eventually destroyed after ''Galactica'' is flown into a star following the Colonial's settlement of a new world ([[TRS]]: "[[Daybreak, Part II]]").

== Related Imagery ==
<gallery perrow="4">
Image:Bsg-viper-2.jpg|The rear of a pristine Mk II.
Image:Viper Mark II Damaged.jpg|Viper Mark II with visible battle damage.
Image:Starbuckmk2disintegrate 104 1080i.jpg|Burning up in an atmosphere (Act of Contrition)
Image:Viper Mk II atmospheric flight.jpg|Viper in atmospheric flight (Razor)
Image:Viper Mk II Hit and Run.jpg|Destroying a Cylon guard tower
Image:7242 Mini.JPG|Viper in perfect condition (Miniseries)
Image:1104Tube Mini.JPG|Viper in launch tube (Miniseries)
Image:Scifichannel-137.jpg|Viper in maintenance
Image:MkIICAP.jpg|A pair of Mk. IIs fly CAP
Image:MkIICombatOP.jpg|A squadron of Mk. IIs fly in formation during the Battle for the Tylium Asteroid
Image:MkIIRaiderDance.jpg|A pilot in a Mk. II Viper stares down an enemy Raider
Image:MkIIFire.jpg|A Mk. II fires its main 30mm guns
Image:Viper 8757 Inlets Maelstrom.jpg|A Mk. II flies in the upper atmosphere of a gas giant
Image:MkIIMainPower.jpg|A pilot powers up the Mk. IIs instrument panel
Image:Vipermk2interior 104 1080i.jpg|Main display configured for a landing
Image:Gunsarmed 206 1080i.jpg|Guns armed
Image:Radio_magnetic_indicator.JPG|Instruments: radio-magnetic indicator
Image:Vipermk2interior5 104 1080i.jpg|Instruments: altimeter
Image:Viper Attitude Indicator 1.jpg|Instruments: attitude indicator
Image:Torque Percent Indicator.JPG|Instruments: torque indicator
Image:MkIIWireless.jpg|Instruments: wireless receiver
‎</gallery>

== References ==
<div style="font-size:85%"><references/></div>

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Viper Mark II

2013-12-12T18:27:09Z

Frylock86:

:''This article discusses the older, generally obsolete Viper-class fighters seen in the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Re-imagined Series]]. For information on the late [[First Cylon War]] Viper Mark III from [[Blood and Chrome]] see [[Viper Mark III]]. For information on the advanced Viper Mark VII from the same series, see [[Viper Mark VII]]. For the Viper used in the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]] and in [[Galactica 1980]], see [[Viper (TOS)]].''

{{Ship Data
| image= Bsg-viper-1.jpg
| title= Viper Mk. II
| race= Colonial
| type= Military
| ftl= No
| propol= 1x Voram VM2-D15 upper turbo-thrust engine <br /> 2x Voram VM3-D22 turbo-thrust engines <br /> 2x reverse thrust motors <br /> [[RCS]] points <ref name="armprop">Propulsion and weapon details from David Bassom's ''[[The Official Companion|Battlestar Galactica: The Official Companion]]''.</ref>
| crew= 1 pilot
| role= Space superiority fighter/interceptor
| arm= 2x 800 rd. Thraxon MEC-A6 30mm [[Weapons in the Re-imagined Series#Viper and Cylon Raider|Mass Accelerator Cannons]] (MECS) <br /> Dorsal storage bay for 8x HD-70 Lightning Javelin missiles (optional 50 megaton nuclear warhead)<ref name="armprop"/> <br /> Weapon hardpoints for mounting missiles / munitions pods, etc. under the wings
| def= Chaffs <br /> Flares
| status= Retired from service, succeeded by Viper Mark III
| length= 27.6 feet (~8.4m)<ref name="di">Dimensions provided by [http://www.leestringer.com/ Lee Stringer], one of the VFX Animators of the miniseries. These are for the CGI models, which are based on but not identical to the fullsize props. Source: [http://www.starshipbuilder.com/ubb/Forum4/HTML/000012.html Starshipbuilder.com forums]</ref>
| height= 8.9 feet (~2.7m)<ref name="di"/><ref name="inflight">In flight, without landing gear. Landing gear adds approximately (0.5m)</ref>
| wingspan= 15.5 feet (~4.7m)<ref name="di"/>
| img=Y
}}
The '''Viper Mark II''' is a single seat fighter aerospace craft used by the [[Colonial Fleet]] during the [[First Cylon War]]. The fighter served with distinction, proving to be a capable fighting vehicle and winning renown across the [[Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]]; the Mark II is regarded as instrumental in ensuring that the Colonials did not lose the original Cylon War <ref>Its iconic status is not unlike that of the real world [[wikipedia:Supermarine_Spitfire|Supermarine Spitfire]], which is held in great esteem in the countries where it served - particularly Great Britain. Many Spitfires are preserved today as museum pieces, just as the Mk. II Vipers were aboard ''Galactica''.</ref>. Eventually, the Mark II was succeeded in service by the larger, and more advanced [[Viper Mark III]] (''[[Blood & Chrome]]''), in the later years of the War, however, the Mark II was still utilized by the military up to and following the [[Cimtar_(RDM)|Armistice]] ([[TRS]]: "[[Razor Flashbacks]]"). Owing to the iconic status that the Mark II achieved during its operational years, a squadron of 40 planes are chosen for preservation in the Battlestar [[Galactica Museum|''Galactica'' History Museum]]. These Vipers are later brought back online to defend ''Galactica,'' and later its civilian fleet, following the sudden [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attack]] on the Colonies ([[TRS]]: [[Miniseries]]).

== Overview ==
[[Image:Viper Mk II orthos.jpg|left|thumb|Fore, side, top and aft views of the Mark II]]
The Mark II is a long, sleek vehicle with specialized features for zero-g and atmospheric combat, and reconnaissance.

The fore section comprises the nose back to the cockpit. Located there are the forward [[RCS]] systems for maneuvering the craft; the forward landing gear; the main [[avionics]] and sensor packages and the single-seat cockpit.

The stern comprises the main engines, numerous RCS maneuvering jets, fuel tanks, wings and vertical stabilizer. The wings themselves contain the kinetic energy weapons, their munitions storage and feeds. Mounting points beneath the wings allow missiles, munitions pods and other items to be rack-mounted ([[TRS]]: "[[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]").

The wing's roots contain the main landing gear, retracted during flight. The Mark II's shape is distinctive because of the offset "intakes" mounted just behind the cockpit. The port / starboard "intakes" incorporate small but powerful reverse thrust engines that can quickly counter a Viper's forward momentum in an emergency ([[TRS]]: "[[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]").

=== Avionics ===
:''Main article: [[Computers in the Re-imagined Series#Vipers and Raptors|Computers in the Re-imagined Series]]''

[[Image:Vipermk2interior3 104 1080i.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Mark II main instrument panel]]
The Mark II is equipped with a Milso Delta-G Intrepid guidance system. The quad mounted gyroscopic ACRS is hot-linked to the cockpit instrument package and all RCS ports for enhanced performance <ref name="chart">[https://scontent-a-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash2/185723_204520102894533_5923811_n.jpg Viper Mark II layout chart]</ref>. <br>
As part of its use in the [[Cylon War]], the Mark II was initially designed to resist Cylon attempts at disabling or damaging its flight controls <ref>The joystick used in the Mark II is a replica of real-life F/A-18 Hornet and F-15 Eagle</ref>. Given the number of analog gauges and controls, its likely that the Mark II was intended to be flown entirely without computer assistance in fear of compromise by an electronic attack. Nevertheless, a simple computer to manage the flight systems is present in the cockpit, assisting the pilot's [[Mark One Eyeball]]. Some gauges, such as the altimeter, are used only in atmospheric flight.
<br />
<br />
=== Armament ===
:''Main article: [[Weapons in the Re-imagined Series#Viper and Cylon Raider|Weapons in the Re-imagined Series]]''

The Mark II is equipped with two 800 rd. Thraxon MEC-A6 30mm Mass Accelerator Cannons (MECS), as it's primary weapon. These cannons are capable of firing 20 rounds per second and are augmented with orange tracers, which enable the pilot to see where the rounds are going, and adjust their aim accordingly <ref name="chart"/>.

These cannons are supplemented with a storage bay capable of holding up to eight Lightning Javelin missiles capable of carrying conventional or up to 50 megatons of nuclear tipped warheads <ref name="chart"/>.

=== Performance ===

The Mark II is as "nimble as a jackrabbit," and can rotate 180 degrees vertically in .35 seconds ([[TRS]]: "[[Act of Contrition]]"). It accelerates at six to seven G's, or 60 to 70 m/s² ([[TRS]]: "[[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]").

==Surviving Mark IIs==
:''Main article: [[List of Vipers]].''

Following the decommissioning of the battlestar ''Galactica'' 40 years after the Cylon War ended, and its transformation into a museum, a squadron Mark IIs are chosen for preservation and display on the port flight deck. Following the sudden Cylon attacks, these Vipers are brought back to working order and used to defend the ship as it made its way to [[Ragnar Anchorage]] to refit. Eventually, these Vipers are used to defend the 50,000 survivors of the attacks as they flee the Colonies into deep space ([[TRS]]: "[[Miniseries]]").

They served with distinction up until the end of the Fleet's journey, however not without losses. The few remaining Mark IIs are eventually destroyed after ''Galactica'' is flown into a star following the Colonial's settlement of a new world ([[TRS]]: "[[Daybreak, Part II]]").

== Related Imagery ==
<gallery perrow="5">
Image:Bsg-viper-2.jpg|Zoic CGI model
Image:Viper Mark II Damaged.jpg|Viper Mark II with visible battle damage (high res)
Image:Starbuckmk2disintegrate 104 1080i.jpg|Burning up in an atmosphere (Act of Contrition)
Image:Viper Mk II atmospheric flight.jpg|Viper in atmospheric flight (Razor)
Image:Viper Mk II Hit and Run.jpg|Destroying a Cylon guard tower
Image:7242 Mini.JPG|Viper in perfect condition (Miniseries)
Image:1104Tube Mini.JPG|Viper in launch tube (Miniseries)
Image:Scifichannel-137.jpg|Viper in maintenance
Image:Vipermk2interior 104 1080i.jpg|Main display configured for a landing
Image:Gunsarmed 206 1080i.jpg|Guns armed
Image:Radio_magnetic_indicator.JPG|Instruments: radio-magnetic indicator
Image:Vipermk2interior5 104 1080i.jpg|Instruments: altimeter
Image:Viper Attitude Indicator 1.jpg|Instruments: attitude indicator
Image:Torque Percent Indicator.JPG|Instruments: torque indicator
‎</gallery>

== References ==
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Talk:Viper Mark III/Archive 1

2013-12-12T04:38:22Z

Frylock86: /* Size */

==Proof These are MKIII's===

I've been searching for sources that say the vipers of B&C are infact MKIII's, but I can find none. I do know, however, that Adama has to fly a Viper MKII at some point in time during the war, and that he is shown doing so in the Razor flashbacks, during Operation Razor Talon. This occurs after the events of B&C. I strongly believe that the facts indicate the vipers of B&C are MKI's, not MKIII's as everyone seems to assume. [[User:Kodiakus|Kodiakus]] 14:58, 7 December 2012 (EST)

: Watch the scene where Ozar ([[Osiris]]' commander) instructs her officers to requisition the "new Mark IIIs" to aid Kelly's mission (she's climbing down a latter after Coker, Adama, and Kelly first arrive). Also, Doug Drexler (CG Supervisor for the show) made the point of saying that there were Mark IIIs and Mark IIs throughout the fleet at this point. -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]]</sup> 15:03, 7 December 2012 (EST)
:Yea they are deffinately Mark IIIs. Its very common in wartime for older models to be still fully in service when new models are already being produced. If there is a Mark I in this series its similar in design to the TOS viper and thats just since the TOS is briefly seen in the museum during the miniseries in one shot. [[User:VARGR|VARGR]] 09:08, 8 December 2012 (EST)

==Size==
Those numbers seem big! Surely you can't just read them off the scale off the graph as that's for the "ground" level, while in the top down view the Vipers we see are several meters up, and so closer to the viewer, so perspective would inflate the apparent size. [[User:Phalanx-a-pedian|Phalanx-a-pedian]] 17:35, 14 November 2012 (EST)

:I thought the same thing, but that's the math. The top-down view is an orthographic projection taken directly from Lightwave, so there isn't any perspective distortion make the Vipers look bigger than the floor (the bottom Viper has another one below and slightly ahead of it. You can see the nose and forward wingtips peaking out, and they're exactly the same size as the one above it, proving there's no perspective). I also scaled a Mark II orthographic publicity render to it for comparison, and the cockpits are the same size (and from the shots in B&C, the III seems to be using the same physical cockpit set as the II did). [[http://www.gian-cursio.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Viper237.jpg See for yourself.]] -- [[User:David cgc|David cgc]] 18:27, 14 November 2012 (EST)

::That is a HUGE Viper! Why would that make it so big? I mean, I know Vipers are pretty damn small compaired to modern aircraft but.. would that even still fit in an unmodified launch tube? [[User:Phalanx-a-pedian|Phalanx-a-pedian]] 04:37, 16 November 2012 (EST)

:::Shall we add the length and wingspan back in, then? -- [[User:David cgc|David cgc]] 17:57, 27 November 2012 (EST)

No. At that width the Viper would not even fit into the tubes (approx 6 to 6.3 meters wide). It seems that they shrunk it down in size for B&C. Until an official source shows otherwise, we cannot rely on the diagram, or Drolet's site. Given that the model used in the diagram is far less detailed then the one in the show it could be that it is inconsistent. [[User:Phalanx-a-pedian|Phalanx-a-pedian]] 14:42, 10 March 2013 (EDT)

:I'm not so sure, take a look at the photo on the main page of the Viper [[http://en.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/File:Vipers_in_Hangar.jpg|Viper in the hanger deck]], I think the sizing is spot on. Would we not be able to determine a size with the people standing next to it?

:- [[User:Frylock86|Frylock86]] 10:13PM, 03/10/13 EST

::Without knowing the exact size of the people and how the perspective & their pose effects the measurements the error margin would be too large. If they are the size that Drolet wanted them, they would not fit in the launch tubes. [[User:Phalanx-a-pedian|Phalanx-a-pedian]] 05:42, 12 March 2013 (EDT)

::: Maybe the launch tubes were larger? But that wouldn't make much sense, then again what in B&C does? :-/
:::- Frylock 06:19PM, 03/12/13 EST

::::You can check the final shot of Adama launching but I do not think that is possible unless the entire ship were bigger. There really [http://www.gian-cursio.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Launch_Tube_Ext.jpg isn't any wiggle room] between the tubes and the ribs. [[User:Phalanx-a-pedian|Phalanx]] 14:27, 11 December 2013 (EST)

:::::Welcome to the impossible world of B&C. :) -- [[User:Frylock86|Frylock86]] 23:38, 11 December 2013 (EST)

==update picture==

This page should update it's main picture as in episode 5 of Blood and Chrome there are much clearer shots of the Viper IIIs that show the whole Viper without obstruction. Tried adding this myself, but unfortunally was not able to include pictures on this Wiki. [[User:VARGR|VARGR]] 14:33, 23 November 2012 (EST)

Heres a couple of pictures I took of it you can use. http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh49/_VARGR_/Viper-mark-III.png http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh49/_VARGR_/Viper-mark-III2.png

::Tried myself. Didn't work. I don't think it like the dashes (-) you have in the file names. - [[User:Frylock86|Frylock86]]

Well if you're able to upload pictures yourself just take one of these and save it onto your computer then upload to the wiki and hopefully that will work. [[User:VARGR|VARGR]] 19:32, 26 November 2012 (EST)

: Looks like these were already uploaded by Frylock. -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]]</sup> 01:04, 27 November 2012 (EST)

== Orthographic images ==

This popped up via Doug Drexler if anyone wants to make an edited version:

[http://www.modelermagic.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Blood-Chrome-Viper-Mark-3.jpg]

[[User:YIIMM|YIIMM]] 18:56, 30 January 2013 (EST)

Yea the perspective view of the MK III would be perfect for a main picture for this page. The current pics from onscreen aren't nearly as clear as this. [[User:VARGR|VARGR]] 17:12, 1 February 2013 (EST)
*Done and done. How does it look? --[[User:Talos|Talos]] 14:44, 2 February 2013 (EST)
**Looks great.

Some new images of the Viper III model have been shown. One of these might suit for the main picture better.
[http://sci-fi-museum-pierre-drolet-com.webs.com/viper-mark-ii-and-iib] [[User:VARGR|VARGR]] 15:17, 6 March 2013 (EST)

Viper Mark II

2013-12-11T18:20:04Z

Frylock86: Cleanup + Refresh

:''This article discusses the older, generally obsolete Viper-class fighters seen in the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Re-imagined Series]]. For information on the late [[First Cylon War]] Viper Mark III from [[Blood and Chrome]] see [[Viper Mark III]]. For information on the advanced Viper Mark VII from the same series, see [[Viper Mark VII]]. For the Viper used in the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]] and in [[Galactica 1980]], see [[Viper (TOS)]].''

The '''Viper Mark II''' is a single seat fighter aircraft used by the [[Colonial Fleet]] during the [[First Cylon War]]. The fighter served with distinction, proving to be a capable fighting vehicle and winning renown across the [[Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]]; the Mark II is regarded as instrumental in ensuring that the Colonials did not lose the original Cylon War <ref>Its iconic status is not unlike that of the real world [[wikipedia:Supermarine_Spitfire|Supermarine Spitfire]], which is held in great esteem in the countries where it served - particularly Great Britain. Many Spitfires are preserved today as museum pieces, just as the Mk. II Vipers were aboard ''Galactica''.</ref>. Eventually, the Mark II was succeeded in service by the larger, and more advanced [[Viper Mark III]] ("''[[Blood & Chrome]]''"), in the later years of the War, however, the Mark II was still utilized by the military up to and following the [[Cimtar_(RDM)|Armistice]] ([[TRS]]: "[[Razor Flashbacks]]"). Owing to the iconic status that the Mark II achieved during its operational years, a squadron of 40 planes are chosen for preservation in the Battlestar [[Galactica Museum|''Galactica'' History Museum]]. These Vipers are later brought back online to defend ''Galactica,'' and later her civilian fleet, following the sudden [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attack]] on the Colonies ([[TRS]]: "[[Miniseries]]").
{{Ship Data
| image= Bsg-viper-1.jpg
| title= Viper Mk. II
| race= Colonial
| type= Military
| ftl= No
| propol= 1x Voram VM2-D15 upper turbo-thrust engine <br /> 2x Voram VM3-D22 turbo-thrust engines <br /> 2x reverse thrust motors <br /> [[RCS]] points <ref name="armprop">Propulsion and weapon details from David Bassom's ''[[The Official Companion|Battlestar Galactica: The Official Companion]]''.</ref>
| crew= 1 pilot
| role= Space superiority fighter/interceptor
| arm= 2x 800 rd. Thraxon MEC-A6 30mm [[Weapons in the Re-imagined Series#Viper and Cylon Raider|Mass Accelerator Cannons]] (MECS) <br /> Dorsal storage bay for 8x HD-70 Lightning Javelin missiles (optional 50 megaton nuclear warhead)<ref name="armprop"/> <br /> Weapon hardpoints for mounting missiles / munitions pods, etc. under the wings
| def= Chaffs <br /> Flares
| status= Retired from service, succeeded by Viper Mark III
| length= 27.6 feet (~8.4m)<ref name="di">Dimensions provided by [http://www.leestringer.com/ Lee Stringer], one of the VFX Animators of the miniseries. These are for the CGI models, which are based on but not identical to the fullsize props. Source: [http://www.starshipbuilder.com/ubb/Forum4/HTML/000012.html Starshipbuilder.com forums]</ref>
| height= 8.9 feet (~2.7m)<ref name="di"/><ref name="inflight">In flight, without landing gear. Landing gear adds approximately (0.5m)</ref>
| wingspan= 15.5 feet (~4.7m)<ref name="di"/>
| img=Y
}}

== Overview ==
[[Image:Viper Mk II orthos.jpg|left|thumb|Fore, side, top and aft views of the Mark II]]
The Mark II is a long, sleek vehicle with specialized features for zero-g and atmospheric combat, and reconnaissance.

The fore section comprises the nose back to the cockpit. Located there are the forward [[RCS]] systems for maneuvering the craft; the forward landing gear; the main [[avionics]] and sensor packages and the single-seat cockpit.

The stern comprises the main engines, numerous RCS maneuvering jets, fuel tanks, wings and vertical stabilizer. The wings themselves contain the kinetic energy weapons, their munitions storage and feeds. Mounting points beneath the wings allow missiles, munitions pods and other items to be rack-mounted ([[TRS]]: "[[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]").

The wing's roots contain the main landing gear, retracted during flight. The Mark II's shape is distinctive because of the offset "intakes" mounted just behind the cockpit. The port / starboard "intakes" incorporate small but powerful reverse thrust engines that can quickly counter a Viper's forward momentum in an emergency ([[TRS]]: "[[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]").

=== Avionics ===
:''Main article: [[Computers in the Re-imagined Series#Vipers and Raptors|Computers in the Re-imagined Series]]''

[[Image:Vipermk2interior3 104 1080i.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Mark II main instrument panel]]
The Mark II is equipped with a Milso Delta-G Intrepid guidance system. The quad mounted gyroscopic ACRS is hot-linked to the cockpit instrument package and all RCS ports for enhanced performance <ref name="chart">[https://scontent-a-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash2/185723_204520102894533_5923811_n.jpg Viper Mark II layout chart]</ref>. <br>
As part of its use in the [[Cylon War]], the Mark II was initially designed to resist Cylon attempts at disabling or damaging its flight controls <ref>The joystick used in the Mark II is a replica of real-life F/A-18 Hornet and F-15 Eagle</ref>. Given the number of analog gauges and controls, its likely that the Mark II was intended to be flown entirely without computer assistance in fear of compromise by an electronic attack. Nevertheless, a simple computer to manage the flight systems is present in the cockpit, assisting the pilot's [[Mark One Eyeball]]. Some gauges, such as the altimeter, are used only in atmospheric flight.
<br />
<br />
=== Armament ===
:''Main article: [[Weapons in the Re-imagined Series#Viper and Cylon Raider|Weapons in the Re-imagined Series]]''

The Mark II is equipped with two 800 rd. Thraxon MEC-A6 30mm Mass Accelerator Cannons (MECS), as it's primary weapon. These cannons are capable of firing 20 rounds per second and are augmented with orange tracers, which enable the pilot to see where the rounds are going, and adjust their aim accordingly <ref name="chart"/>.

These cannons are supplemented with a storage bay capable of holding up to eight Lightning Javelin missiles capable of carrying conventional or up to 50 megatons of nuclear tipped warheads <ref name="chart"/>.

=== Performance ===

The Mark II is as "nimble as a jackrabbit," and can rotate 180 degrees vertically in .35 seconds ([[TRS]]: "[[Act of Contrition]]"). It accelerates at six to seven G's, or 60 to 70 m/s² ([[TRS]]: "[[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]").

==Surviving Mark IIs==
:''Main article: [[List of Vipers]].''

Following the decommissioning of the battlestar ''Galactica'' 40 years after the Cylon War ended, and its transformation into a museum, a squadron Mark IIs are chosen for preservation and display on the port flight deck. Following the sudden Cylon attacks, these Vipers are brought back to working order and used to defend the ship as it made its way to [[Ragnar Anchorage]] to refit. Eventually, these Vipers are used to defend the 50,000 survivors of the attacks as they flee the Colonies into deep space ([[TRS]]: "[[Miniseries]]").

They served with distinction up until the end of the Fleet's journey, however not without losses. The few remaining Mark IIs are eventually destroyed after ''Galactica'' is flown into a star following the Colonial's settlement of a new world ([[TRS]]: "[[Daybreak, Part II]]").

== Related Imagery ==
<gallery perrow="5">
Image:Bsg-viper-2.jpg|Zoic CGI model
Image:Viper Mark II Damaged.jpg|Viper Mark II with visible battle damage (high res)
Image:Starbuckmk2disintegrate 104 1080i.jpg|Burning up in an atmosphere (Act of Contrition)
Image:Viper Mk II atmospheric flight.jpg|Viper in atmospheric flight (Razor)
Image:Viper Mk II Hit and Run.jpg|Destroying a Cylon guard tower
Image:7242 Mini.JPG|Viper in perfect condition (Miniseries)
Image:1104Tube Mini.JPG|Viper in launch tube (Miniseries)
Image:Scifichannel-137.jpg|Viper in maintenance
Image:Vipermk2interior 104 1080i.jpg|Main display configured for a landing
Image:Gunsarmed 206 1080i.jpg|Guns armed
Image:Radio_magnetic_indicator.JPG|Instruments: radio-magnetic indicator
Image:Vipermk2interior5 104 1080i.jpg|Instruments: altimeter
Image:Viper Attitude Indicator 1.jpg|Instruments: attitude indicator
Image:Torque Percent Indicator.JPG|Instruments: torque indicator
‎</gallery>

== References ==
<div style="font-size:85%"><references/></div>

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Berzerk

2013-12-10T19:53:29Z

Frylock86:

{{Ship Data
| image= Berzerk.png
| race= Colonial
| type= Military
| ftl= Yes
| propol= 5x sublight engines
| role= Fleet escort
| aircraft= Unknown
| facilities= 1x flight pod
| status= Destroyed, [[Fall of the Scorpion Fleet Shipyards|Zero Hour]], 0 BCH.
}}

'''''Berzerk''''' is a [[Berzerk type cruiser‎|support ship]] in service with the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Colonial Fleet]] sometime prior to the Fall of the Twelve Colonies.

The ship was docked near the battlestar [[Pegasus (RDM)|''Pegasus'']] (BS 62) at the [[Scorpion Fleet Shipyards]] when the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]] struck as part of their attack on the Colonies. It is destroyed by multiple [[Raider (RDM)|Raider]] squadrons after the Cylons shut down the ship's systems by exploiting a backdoor in the [[Command Navigation Program]] ("''[[Razor]]''").

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==Notes==

* The name is most likely derived from ''Berserker'' [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berserker], Germanic warriors who, according to Norse Mythology, fought in a nearly uncontrollable, trance-like fury.

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Berzerk

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| role= Fleet escort
| status= Destroyed, [[Fall of the Scorpion Fleet Shipyards|Zero Hour]], 0 BCH.
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'''''Berzerk''''' is a [[Berzerk type cruiser‎|support ship]] in service with the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Colonial Fleet]] sometime prior to the Fall of the Twelve Colonies.

The ship was docked near the battlestar [[Pegasus (RDM)|''Pegasus'']] (BS 62) at the [[Scorpion Fleet Shipyards]] when the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]] struck as part of their attack on the Colonies. It is destroyed by multiple [[Raider (RDM)|Raider]] squadrons after the Cylons shut down the ship's systems by exploiting a backdoor in the [[Command Navigation Program]] ("''[[Razor]]''").

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==Notes==

* The name is most likely derived from ''Berserker'' [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berserker], Germanic warriors who, according to Norse Mythology, fought in a nearly uncontrollable, trance-like fury.

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Scylla

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| title= ''Scylla''
| race= Colonial
| type= Civilian logistical
| role= Freighter
| ftl= Yes (forcibly removed)
| propol= 14x sublight engines
| status= Abandoned by battlestar ''Pegasus'', circa days 7-8
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The '''''Scylla''''' was a trans-colony freighter that was part of a small group of vessels discovered by the [[Mercury class battlestar|battlestar]] ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' a week after the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attack]] on the Colonies ([[TRS]]: "[[Resurrection Ship, Part I]]").

[[Peter Laird]] was aboard the ''Scylla'' and acted as the ship's spokesperson in conversations with Colonel [[Jack Fisk|Fisk]] and Lieutenant [[Kendra Shaw|Shaw]]. After informing the passengers about Admiral [[Helena Cain|Cain]]'s intentions to strip the ships of their resources, he and the passengers initially refused and became agitated; in part because taking the ships' [[FTL]] drives would leave them dead in space, and because all of them traveled with their families. When Cain heard of the civilians' resistance, she ordered Fisk to shoot the families of the people to be recruited, who in return started to attack the Marines. The standoff was ended by Shaw by shooting a woman in the head—an act that Cain believed to make Shaw a "razor." Shaw's action resulted in the deaths of nine other civilians after ''Pegasus'' Marines massacred them, among them being two families of the selectees.

After the civilian uprising was put down, Laird and other selectees from the ''Scylla'' and other ships were quickly drafted into Colonial service by Cain and stationed aboard ''Pegasus''. The ''Scylla,'' and it's remaining passengers, were then left for dead after being abandoned by the ''Pegasus'' ([[TRS]]: "[[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]", "''[[Razor]]''").

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==Notes==
* The ship's name (and the fate of its passengers) is a faint reference to a story from Homer's ''[[w:Odyssey|The Odyssey]]''. The hero's ship is trapped between the [[w:Scylla|Scylla]] and [[w:Charybdis|Charybdis]], a group of monsters that attack Odysseus's ship and crew. The phrase "between the Scylla and Charybdis" is an expression denoting a situation where moving from one danger places one closer to another danger. The battlestar ''Pegasus'' serves as the "Charybdis" in the story of the ''Scylla'''s passengers, who cannot escape from either ship, either being pressed into service on the battlestar or left stranded and lost on the civilian ships.

* High resolution images of the model can be found here: [http://www.meshweaver.com/portfolio/Battlestar_Galactica_Razor.htm www.meshweaver.com].

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Prometheus (ship)

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: ''For the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]] [[battlestar (TOS)|battlestar]] of the same name mentioned in ''[[Encyclopedia Galactica]]'', see: [[Prometheus (TOS)]].''

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| title=''Prometheus''
| race= Colonial
| co = [[Doyle Franks]]
| type= Civilian logisitical
| ftl= Yes
| propol= 3x sublight engines
| role= Freighter
| status= Scuttled, circa 4 ACH
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'''''Prometheus''''' is a freighter in the [[the Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] rumored to be so rife with illicit activity, it is "off the grid". It serves as the base of operations for the ex-mercenary [[Phelan]] and is the main trading hub for the Fleet's [[black market (organization)|black market]] ([[TRS]]: "[[Black Market]]"). A closeup of the hull reveals ''Prometheus'' flies the flag of [[Scorpia]]. <ref>[http://www.meshweaver.com/portfolio/Battlestar_Galactica_Modelling.htm Battlestar Galactica Modelling]</ref>

During refueling operations over a gas giant, a valve failure requires a restart of the [[List of terms (RDM)#Military Jargon|unrep]] maneuver with ''Galactica'' ([[TRS]]: "[[Maelstrom]]").

She is captained by [[Doyle Franks]], who is selected as one of five judges at [[Gaius Baltar]]'s trial ([[TRS]]: "[[Crossroads, Part I]]")<ref>The [[:Image:PatchPrometheus.jpg|patch]] on her dress uniform establishes her as a crewmember of ''Prometheus''.</ref>. After the trial, ''Prometheus'' jumps into the [[Ionian nebula]] and loses power before a [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]] attack on the Fleet ([[TRS]]: "[[Crossroads, Part II]]").

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== Notes ==
*The freighter is named from the [[Lords of Kobol (RDM)|Lord of Kobol]] [[Prometheus]]. The deity Prometheus is noted for taking fire from the Gods and giving it to the humans against [[Zeus]]'s wishes. Given [[Tom Zarek]]'s continual referencing of Admiral [[William Adama|Adama]] as Zeus, and the fact that ''Prometheus'' is the hub of the [[black market (organization)|black market]], an organization which seeks to redistribute goods from the military to the civilians, the parallel is very apparent.

==Related Images==
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Image:Prometheus refueling.jpg|''Prometheus'' during an orbital refueling maneuver.
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== References ==
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Cybele

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| race= Colonial
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| propol= 14x sublight engines
| role= Cargo transport
| status= Scuttled, circa YR04 (presumed)
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'''''Cybele''''' is a cargo transport operating out of [[Gemenon (RDM)|Gemenon]] at the time of the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attacks]]. The ship manages to escape a Raider assault on its shipyard and join President [[Laura Roslin]]'s fleet prior to their rendezvous with the battlestar [[Galactica (RDM)|''Galactica'']] at [[Ragnar]]. At the time of the attacks, ''Cybele'' was ferrying cargo for Aerilon Express and Colonial Movers ([[TRS]]: "[[Miniseries]]", ''[[The Plan]]'').

Unbeknownst to the fleet, a copy of [[Number Four]] sought refuge aboard the ship, and following the Exodus, he along with his wife, [[Giana O'Neill]], and daughter, [[Jemmy]], made the ship their permanent residence. Following contact with a [[Number One]] aboard ''Galactica'', he is ordered to sabotage the ship and destroy it, however he refuses, and instead commits suicide by blowing open an airlock (''[[The Plan]]'').

''Cybele'' is presumed to have been scuttled circa 4 ACH following the Colonial's permanent settlement of [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]] ([[TRS]]: "[[Daybreak, Part II]]")

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Hitei Kan

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| title= ''Hitei Kan''
| race= Colonial
| type= Civilian industrial
| ftl= Yes
| propol= 2x sublight engines
| role= Tylium [[refinery ship]]
| status= Scuttled, circa 4 ACH
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'''''Hitei Kan''''' is a [[tylium]] [[refinery ship]] in the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]].

The vessel is the site of a short-lived, but large labor strike threatening to spill over to other vessels in the Fleet. The strike is later resolved when a union, originally based on [[New Caprica]], is reinstated to aid with worker needs ([[TRS]]: "[[Dirty Hands]]").

The ship's unique radiation signature is used by the Cylons to track the Fleet to the [[Ionian nebula]]. The signature is described as "a leak" and, after its discovery, used to lead the Cylons away from the rest of the Fleet ([[TRS]]: "[[Crossroads, Part I]]"). During the [[Battle of the Ionian Nebula]], ''Hitei Kan'' gathers near ''Astral Queen'', ''[[Zephyr]]'', and ''Cybele'', to escape oncoming Cylon Raiders ([[TRS]]: "[[He That Believeth In Me]]").

=== Mutiny ===
During the [[FTL]] upgrades with [[Cylon]] technology the crew of ''Hitei Kan'' mutinied, killing one Cylon and two [[Marines]], causing ''[[Galactica]]'' to scramble the [[mardet|MARDET]] alert team.

Communications office [[Louis Hoshi]] tapped into wireless communications between the refinery ship and [[Tom Zarek]] aboard ''[[Colonial One]]'', linking Zarek to the takeover. After Zarek is arrested, Admiral [[William Adama|Adama]] succeeds in getting the coordinates of the missing ship and to dispatch more Raptors to return it to the Fleet ([[TRS]]: "[[A Disquiet Follows My Soul]]")

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== Notes ==
*''Hitei Kan'' is not identified by name in "[[Dirty Hands]]", but only referred to as "refinery ship". However, Chief Tyrol names the ship in a [[Dirty Hands#Bonus Scene|deleted scene]]. Moreover, it is identified in the episode's script.
*The ship is almost identical to ''[[Daru Mozu]]'' except that the bridge of ''Hitei Kan'' has a neck sticking out from the main hull with wing-like structures going from side to side. What appears to be the bridge that is almost identical to the one on ''Daru Mozu'', which has just the bridge-like structure extending from the main hull.
* In "[[Home, Part I]]" a refinery ship is referred to as "[[refueling tanker]]", but the configuration of the ship is identical to ''Daru Mozu'' and ''Hitei Kan''.
*In "[[A Disquiet Follows My Soul]]" as the ship jumps away from the Fleet, [[Saul Tigh]] laments of the ship's disappearance "Taking all our fuel with them." Unless this is a [[Continuity errors (RDM)|continuity error]], this may suggest that ''Hitei Kan'' is the only tylium ship left within the Fleet, and that ''[[Daru Mozu]]'' was either abandoned or destroyed, perhaps in the [[Battle of New Caprica]].
** However, in [[Guess What's Coming to Dinner?]], in a scene showing the Rebel Basestar jumping away, both Tylium refinery ships can be seen together in the fleet, suggesting Colonel Tigh's dialog could have been a continuity error, or suggesting that ''Daru Mozu'' is no longer able to refine Tylium for use in the fleet, possibly due to battle damage. The shot can be seen [[:Image:Rebel Baseship Jumps Away From Fleet.png|here]].

== Related Imagery ==

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Image:DirtyHands - Daru Mozu top.jpg|Top view ([[TRS]]: "[[Dirty Hands]]")
Image:RefineryInside.jpg|Inside one of the storage rooms (Dirty Hands).
Image:Rebel_Baseship_Jumps_Away_From_Fleet.png|''Daru Mozu'' and ''Hitei Kan'' flying formation with [[the Fleet]].
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Colonial One

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| race= Colonial
| type= Civilian commercial
| ftl= Yes
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| crew= Unknown At least 2 Pilots Flight Crew
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'''''Colonial One''''', formerly ''Colonial Heavy 798'', is an [[Eversun]] starliner now used as the seat of government for the President of the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies of Kobol]]. ''Colonial One'' is the civilian counterpart to the military leadership aboard the battlestar ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]''.

== Background ==
[[Image:Colonialheavy798 001 720p.jpg|left|thumb|Departing Caprica]]
Prior to the Fall, the Colonial [[Government]] chartered the starliner for ferrying Secretary of Education [[Laura Roslin]], her staff, and members of the [[Fleet News Service|Colonial press]] to and from the decommissioning ceremonies for the [[Galactica type battlestar|battlestar]] ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]''.<ref>The ship's original designation as "Heavy" is perhaps similar to that of Earth aircraft; jets weighing over 255,000 pounds are called "Heavy" in air traffic control communications to alert other aircraft of possible wake turbulence from the named airplane. The proper usage is to append the word "Heavy" ''after'' the flight number and the incorrect usage is probably an error by the writers. If following the Earthly convention the ship would be referred to as ''Colonial 798 Heavy''. This designation may also imply that the ship's sub-light or FTL technologies could create hazards for other ships especially smaller ones.</ref> Roslin departs the pre-attack seat of Colonial power, [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]], shortly after her briefing on the teachers' strike with President [[Richard Adar]] ([[TRS]]: "[[Epiphanies]]").
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== History ==
=== ''Galactica's'' Decommissioning Ceremony and Destruction of the Colonies ===

''Colonial Heavy 798'' arrives and lands aboard ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' a few hours before the ceremonies. After the ceremonies, the transport begins its return to [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]] with Captain [[Lee Adama]] escorting the starliner in [[Viper 7242|his father's old Viper]], carrying ''Galactica's'' old [[EMP]] coils in her hangar bay for return to Caprica.

Approximately 3 hours from Caprica, the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attack]] commences. ''Colonial Heavy 798'' and Colonial press members hear of news that Caprica has been nuked along with three other Colonies. Secretary Roslin, as the highest government official on board, takes charge of the situation by setting up ''Colonial Heavy 798'' for long term use. Shortly after this news, a single [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Raider]] attacks ''Colonial Heavy 798''. Lee Adama is able to decoy a missile that targets the starliner and shoots it down. His Viper is damaged in the process, but ''Colonial Heavy 798'' recovers the Viper into its cargo bay ([[TRS]]: "[[Miniseries]]").

=== Case Orange ===

[[Image:Roslin_swearing_in.jpg|150px|right|thumb|Roslin being sworn in]]
A [[Case orange|special automated government broadcast]] prompts Laura Roslin to send her government ID ("D-456-345-A") number to locate surviving officials. With no more senior Colonial government officials apparently left alive, Laura Roslin is quickly sworn-in as the new President of the Colonies aboard<ref name="sworn">[[Wikipedia:Lyndon_B._Johnson#Assassination of President John F. Kennedy|U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson]] was quickly sworn-in aboard [[Wikipedia:SAM_26000|SAM 26000 (callsign ''Air Force One'')]], the Presidential air transport, immediately after President [[Wikipedia:John F. Kennedy|John F. Kennedy]] was assassinated in Dallas, Texas in November 1963. Roslin's swearing-in scene in the Miniseries was deliberately staged to mirror this event.</ref>, and ''Colonial Heavy 798'' is re-designated ''Colonial One'', in recognition of its status as the President's spacecraft.
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=== Rescue Operations ===

With nowhere else to go, ''Colonial One'' engages in rescue missions under the direct orders of the new President. ''Colonial One'' locates and gathers other civilian vessels marooned in space around the vicinity of [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]]. During their rescues, ''Colonial One'' receives a message from ''Galactica'': Regroup at [[Ragnar Anchorage]]. Roslin attempts to countermand Commander Adama, ordering his battlestar to aid in rescue operations instead. Before the situation can be resolved, another Cylon Raider jumps in and launches nuclear missiles at the small gathering of ships where ''Colonial One'' is assisting. Lee Adama saves the day once more using ''Galactica's'' old [[EMP]] coils to disable the missiles and fool the Cylons in thinking the small fleet was destroyed. Faced with the threat of further Cylon forces coming, Laura Roslin is forced to order all ''FTL'' capable vessels to jump to Ragnar Anchorage, leaving the sublight vessels behind where they are destroyed by the Cylons. The exact number of casualties from this action is unknown, but believed to be in the several thousands.

=== President Roslin's First Administration ===
While this ordinary starliner probably lacks many of the facilities and systems the original ''Colonial One'' would have boasted, President Roslin nevertheless made it her base of operations during her term as Colonial President as did her successor President [[Gaius Baltar]]. Locating the administration aboard a civilian craft and not the arguably more logical choice of the battlestar ''Galactica'' helps to keep the civilian administration figuratively distinct as well as physically separate from [[William Adama]]'s military leadership. As well, ''Colonial One's'' security is handled by the [[Presidential security service]], which is independent of the military leadership.

=== President Baltar's Administration ===
[[Image:Colonial1onnewcaprica.jpg|thumb|150px|right|Colonial One on New Caprica]]

Baltar continued to use ''Colonial One'' as base of operations for his administration, even going so far as to land ''Colonial One'' on the surface of [[New Caprica]] on a hilltop overlooking the new settlement. From here he could oversee the colonization of the planet, while the ship itself could act as a visual symbol of the presidency and de facto office building for the administration.

=== Settlement of New Caprica ===
A year after his election, President Baltar had all but done away with the modesty of Roslin's office on the ship. He remade it to resemble his old house on Caprica, replacing Roslin's simple desk with an extravagant wood desk, her office chair with a decorated leather seat, and her back office with an apparent sleeping chambers for his harem. He removed the white board with its population-count as well as the [[Lest We Forget|image of a rescue worker]] given to Roslin following the exodus. The white board was replaced with a picture of himself (in a sense symbolically laying his own ego over his responsibility to protect the people).

=== The Occupation of New Caprica ===
A year after the discovery of the planet, [[New Caprica]] is detected and occupied by the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]] ([[TRS]]: "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]"). A [[Cylon Occupation Authority|Cylon "advisory committee"]] made up of representatives of each of the revealed Cylon models join Baltar aboard ''Colonial One'', although it's unclear whether they physically live aboard the vessel (more likely they lived in the Cylon-built administration and jail complex nearby). The Cylon committee forms the real government of New Caprica while Baltar's administration is reduced to no more than a puppet regime maintained to put a human face on increasingly horrific Cylon actions. These actions force many to resist the administration, including [[Felix Gaeta]] who uses his access to ''Colonial One'' to acquire information that can aid the growing [[New Caprica Resistance|human insurrection movement]]. Eventually the resistance stages a series of major strikes that, with the aid of Admiral Adama and the battlestars ''Galactica'' and ''Pegasus'', force the Cylons and Baltar to abandon the colony during the [[Battle of New Caprica]].

During the operation, the deserted vessel is boarded by former president Laura Roslin and a small force under her command as Roslin claims the ship as hers (probably due both to how long she'd lived there, and her leadership of the resistance; Vice President Zarek tacitly acknowledges her ''de facto'' supremacy by not contradict her and by assigning Jammer to protect her while wishing her good luck). Utilizing launch keys covertly obtained by Sharon Agathon, the force are able to re-activate ''Colonial One's'' launch thrusters and [[FTL|FTL drive]] and flee from New Caprica along with the remaining colonists. ''Colonial One'' is the last human ship to leave the planet.

=== There and Back Again: President Roslin's Second Administration ===
With President Baltar having either died or abandoned his office, Vice President Tom Zarek assumes the presidency and reigns briefly aboard ''Colonial One''; whether or not Laura Roslin resided in the ship during the interim Zarek presidency is unclear. Zarek knows that he lacks the military's allegiance and that the will of the people is for Roslin to govern. The principal activities of the Zarak's caretaker administration appear to be effecting a smooth and legal transition to second Roslin administration and the swift and secret [[The Circle|adjudication of a number of collaboration and treason cases]], claimed to save Roslin and the population from months of painful and divisive "witch hunts". Laura Roslin, through an appointment-and-succession deal with Tom Zarek, once again takes office as Colonial President with Zarek as her Vice President. The ship is subsequently re-established as the center of the civilian government and resumes its fleet position traveling near ''Galactica'' ([[TRS]]: "[[Collaborators]]"). With ''[[Cloud Nine]]'' destroyed, [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum]] meetings are held aboard ''Colonial One'' from there on.

When redecorating and cleaning the office after Baltar's opulent reign, Roslin and Foster joke about hanging Baltar's portrait in the bathroom over the toilet as they feel that this is the only place where it belongs ([[TRS]]: "[[Hero]]").

During a routine patrol around the Fleet, a Raptor manned by [[Margaret Edmondson]] and [[Hamish McCall]] loses flight control due to impurities in its [[tylium]] fuel. Unable to regain control and on a collision course with ''Colonial One'', the two pilots are forced to eject from the Raptor, which impacts the larger vessel near Roslin's office. The accident results in several injuries, but no fatalities. The hull damage forces Roslin and her staff to move to another part of the ship until repairs can be made ([[TRS]]: "[[Dirty Hands]]").

During the [[Battle of the Ionian Nebula]] ''Colonial One'' is nearly destroyed by a Cylon missile. The missile is intercepted moments before impact by a quick-thinking [[Seelix]], who is taking part in active combat for the first time ([[TRS]]: "[[He That Believeth in Me]]").

In the weeks preceding [[Gaeta's Mutiny]], Roslin used ''Colonial One'' less and less, in part due to the necessity of being aboard ''Galactica'' for medical treatment. Following the mutiny, during which a massacre of the Quorum of Twelve had occurred on ''Colonial One'', and with her own health deteriorating, Roslin effectively moved government operations to ''Galactica'' ([[TRS]]: "[[Deadlock]]", "[[Islanded in a Stream of Stars]]"). Despite this, there is no indication that ''Galactica'' has adopted the ''Colonial One'' call-sign, nor is there any indication that the [[Rebel Basestar]] adopted the call-sign when President [[Romo Lampkin|Lampkin]] and Admiral [[Louis Hoshi|Hoshi]] move the fleet leadership there. ''Colonial One'', along with all the surviving ships in the fleet is later flown via remote control by [[Samuel Anders]] into the [[New Earth]]'s sun. ([[TRS]]: "[[Daybreak, Part II]]").

== Size and Configuration ==
[[Image:ColonialOneDocking Water.JPG|right|thumb|Docking in ''Galactica''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s port flight pod]]
''Colonial One'' is small enough to fit inside of ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica's]]'' flight pod ([[TRS]]: "[[Water]]"). This makes ''Galactica'' a "safe haven" and also reduces contact with outsiders who would otherwise have the chance to make a move on the important visitors that frequently come and go from ''Colonial One''.

A large main cabin aboard the ship provides seating accommodation for dignitaries and [[Fleet News Service|press]] alike, while forward of this are small, more personal quarters reserved for ministers and their guests. Despite its conversion for government use, ''Colonial One'' retains its own docking bay, large enough to take a Colonial shuttle, and also boasts a cargo hold big enough to house a [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]]-sized craft. Additionally, the ship boasts at least four cargo bays, three of which were converted to hold passengers ([[TRS]]: "[[Miniseries]]").

Following the destruction of the Colonies, the ship's normal passenger capacity was reduced to accommodate the offices and cabins required by government personnel. Civilian passengers on ''Colonial One'' resided in converted sections of the liner. However, the configuration of passenger accommodations seems likely to have changed following the events of the ''Battle of New Caprica'' and the abandonment the human colony there. ''Colonial One'' appears to be carrying a larger complement of civilians, just as ''Galactica ''is carrying a larger crew of military personnel (from the destroyed ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'') mixed with civilians. For example, as Roslin negotiates with [[Tom Zarek]] over his future role in the presidential administration, two children are playing in a corner of the President's office. This overcrowding is presumably due to the loss of several ships [[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II|before]] and [[Exodus, Part II|during]] the evacuation of New Caprica, as well as the need to spread out the remaining population among the existing ships.

== Notes ==
[[Image:ColonialOneSeal.jpg|right|thumb|''Colonial One'' sporting the Colonial seal in "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]".]]

* The practice of redesignating the president's spacecraft ''Colonial One'' mirrors real-life practice in the United States, in that any U. S. Air Force aircraft carrying the president is automatically given the call-sign ''Air Force One'' (Marine, Navy and civilian craft use the call signs "Marine One", "Navy One" and "Executive One", respectively). Correctly, the designation is only used when the president is on board. As ''Colonial One'' continues to be referred to as such even without the president aboard suggests the Colonies, or at least the Fleet, follow a different protocol. Despite President Roslin being based aboard ''Galactica'' for much of the time since the discovery of Earth, and with her effectively moving government and Quorum operations there (as indicated in "[[Deadlock]]") there appears to have been no attempt at following the naming protocol with regards to the battlestar, which otherwise should now be known as ''Colonial One''. This could also reflect Galactica's role as a naval carrier and not a mere passenger ship.

* In seasons 1 and 2, the ship is always seen flying next to ''Galactica'' either for best protection or convenience when the President needed to board. (Visually, having the two ships close in a shot also played well to the challenges in the separation of civilian and military authority.) During several episodes of Season 4 this was taken one step further by having ''Colonial One'' actually parked inside one of ''Galactica's'' landing bays.

* After "[[Exodus, Part II]]", rust can be seen between the outer hull plates of ''Colonial One'', reflecting weathering from resting over a year on [[New Caprica]].

* The ship is intermittently seen closely escorted by several Vipers.

* In a pre-fall flashback ([[TRS]]: "[[Daybreak, Part I]]"), multiple ships of the same type and color scheme as ''Colonial One'' are shown for the first time, docked near the water in [[Caprica City]]. The ship type is one that has seen decades of service, going back at least 58 years before the fall ([[CAP]]: "[[Retribution]]").

== Cinematic Trivia ==
* The cockpit of ''Colonial One'' (seen only in the [[Miniseries]]) was a redressed original Space Shuttle Orbiter cockpit simulator. (The current Orbiter fleet have since been refurbished with [http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/sts101_new_cockpit.html newer cockpits.])

*''Colonial One'''s cargo bay (seen only in the [[Miniseries]]) was actually the car deck of a [[w:BC Ferries|BC Ferries]] [[w:V class ferry|V Class]] car and passenger ferry.

* The passenger area of the ship is modeled after the interior of the Pan Am ''Clipper Orion'' space shuttle seen ferrying Dr. Floyd into orbit in the movie ''[[w:2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|2001: A Space Odyssey]]''. The defunct airline, and perhaps the ''2001'' movie, is also given homage with the [[Pan Galactic]] spaceline.

* In order to contribute to the series' "real world" feel, the ship was intentionally painted in a livery based closely upon that of the [[w:1st Airlift Squadron|1st Airlift Squadron]]'s executive transport fleet such as the principal [[w:Air Force One|''Air Force One'']] aircraft.

* Half way through Season 1, the ''Colonial One'' CG model was updated and the [[Colonial seal]] was added to the dorsal "hump" at the bow of the ship. The reuse of stock footage from early in season one and the Miniseries, however causes the seal to continually appear and disappear at random intervals.

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Dreadnaught

2013-12-02T23:27:54Z

Frylock86: Minor infobox fix.

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| image= New Cap dirigible, 1x05.jpg
| title= New Cap City Dreadnaught
| race= Colonial
| type= Virtual military
| propol= 10x diesel internal combustion engines
| role= Virtual aircraft carrier/battlewagon
| arm= 15x 15<nowiki>"</nowiki> guns <br /> 10x 5.9<nowiki>"</nowiki> guns <br /> 36x 2.95<nowiki>"</nowiki> guns
| aircraft= Virtual [[Vintage Viper]]s <br /> [[Autogyro]]s
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The '''Dreadnaught''' (or '''Dirigible''') is an airship or lighter-than-air aircraft that patrols the skies of the [[virtual world]] environment known as [[New Cap City]].

Outfitted with an array of weapons, the dirigible is seen as a real threat by gamers in New Cap City - including [[Tad Thorean|Tad "Heracles" Thorean]], who warned [[Joseph Adama]] about its danger shortly before being derezzed himself ([[CAP]]: "[[The Imperfections of Memory]]"). Carrying a number of assault vehicles, the dirigible is capable of launching [[Vintage Viper|vintage Viper]]s and [[autogyro]]s to strafe the streets of New Cap City ([[CAP]]: "[[There is Another Sky]]", "[[Ghosts in the Machine]]").

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==Notes==
*The name Dreadnaught is never spoken on screen, but is derived from materials prepared by [[Doug Drexler]] for 2010 [[Wikipedia: Creative Arts Emmy Award|Emmy Awards]] voters. In them, Drexler described the dirigible as:
::''The imposing New Cap City dreadnaught is a rigid airship serving as a flying aircraft carrier/battlewagon. Trolling the concrete canyons like some airborne leviathan, the ship is outfitted with a formidable array of weaponry including fifteen 15'' guns, ten 5.9'' guns, thirty six 2.95'' guns, all propelled by ten enormous diesel internal combustion engines. All guns, engines and radar masts are articulated. The dreadnaught is 5244775 [[Wikipedia:Polygon (computer graphics)|polygons]].'' <ref>http://drexfiles.wordpress.com/2010/09/12/caprica-2010-emmy-presentation-book/</ref>
*The dirigible first appears in the ''[[Caprica (series)|Caprica]]'' opening title sequence which premiered in episode 2, "[[Rebirth]]". It was, however, not featured in an episode until "There is Another Sky", "The Imperfections of Memory" and "[[Things We Lock Away]]". It also appears in "Ghosts in the Machine" which reuses footage from "There is Another Sky".

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Dreadnaught

2013-11-25T13:03:50Z

Frylock86:

{{Ship Data
| image= New Cap dirigible, 1x05.jpg
| title= New Cap City Dreadnaught
| race= Colonial
| type= Virtual military
| propol= 10x diesel internal combustion engines
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| arm= 15x 15 inch guns <br /> 10x 5.9 inch guns <br /> 36x 2.95 inch guns
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The '''Dreadnaught''' (or '''Dirigible''') is an airship or lighter-than-air aircraft that patrols the skies of the [[virtual world]] environment known as [[New Cap City]].

Outfitted with an array of weapons, the dirigible is seen as a real threat by gamers in New Cap City - including [[Tad Thorean|Tad "Heracles" Thorean]], who warned [[Joseph Adama]] about its danger shortly before being derezzed himself ([[CAP]]: "[[The Imperfections of Memory]]"). Carrying a number of assault vehicles, the dirigible is capable of launching [[Vintage Viper|vintage Viper]]s and [[autogyro]]s to strafe the streets of New Cap City ([[CAP]]: "[[There is Another Sky]]", "[[Ghosts in the Machine]]").

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==Notes==
*The name Dreadnaught is never spoken on screen, but is derived from materials prepared by [[Doug Drexler]] for 2010 [[Wikipedia: Creative Arts Emmy Award|Emmy Awards]] voters. In them, Drexler described the dirigible as:
::''The imposing New Cap City dreadnaught is a rigid airship serving as a flying aircraft carrier/battlewagon. Trolling the concrete canyons like some airborne leviathan, the ship is outfitted with a formidable array of weaponry including fifteen 15'' guns, ten 5.9'' guns, thirty six 2.95'' guns, all propelled by ten enormous diesel internal combustion engines. All guns, engines and radar masts are articulated. The dreadnaught is 5244775 [[Wikipedia:Polygon (computer graphics)|polygons]].'' <ref>http://drexfiles.wordpress.com/2010/09/12/caprica-2010-emmy-presentation-book/</ref>
*The dirigible first appears in the ''[[Caprica (series)|Caprica]]'' opening title sequence which premiered in episode 2, "[[Rebirth]]". It was, however, not featured in an episode until "There is Another Sky", "The Imperfections of Memory" and "[[Things We Lock Away]]". It also appears in "Ghosts in the Machine" which reuses footage from "There is Another Sky".

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Blackhawk

2013-11-25T05:08:20Z

Frylock86:

{{Ship Data
| image= Caprican Marine Aircraft.jpg
| title= Blackhawk
| race= Colonial
| type= Military
| ftl= No
| propol= 2x pivotable jet engines
| role= Troop transport
| arm= 2x munitions hardpoints <ref>http://www.pierre-drolet-sci-fi-museum.com/blackhawk-marine</ref>
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The '''Blackhawk'''<ref>{{bsgwiki term}}</ref> is a twin-engine [[Wikipedia:VTOL|VTOL]] aircraft employed by the [[Caprican Marine Corps]] in the years prior to the [[First Cylon War]].

Fifty-eight years before the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]], the Caprican Marines dispatch one of these aircraft to pursue an escaped [[Cylon (RDM)|Cylon]] [[Zoe-R|prototype]] from [[Graystone Industries]], alongside a [[Caprican Air Force]] [[Phoenix]]-type jet ([[CAP]]: "[[End of Line]]").

Some months later, a squadron of [[U-87 Cyber Combat Unit]]s operate several Marine Blackhawks in an assault on [[Soldiers of the One]] terrorists, landing on the field of [[Atlas Arena]] and engaging the attackers in a [[Battle of Atlas Arena|firefight]] ([[CAP]]: "[[Apotheosis (episode)|Apotheosis]]").

These vehicles employ [[DRADIS]] technology ([[CAP]]: "[[End of Line]]", "[[Apotheosis]]").

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==Notes==
*The Blackhawk appears to be comprised of elements of modern military aircraft including the [[Wikipedia: Sikorsky SH-60 Seahawk|SH-60 Seahawk]] and the [[Wikipedia: Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey|Boeing V-22 Osprey]].

*Pieces of the Blackhawk CG model were used to create the Cylon War era Raptors in ''[[Blood and Chrome]]'', specifically, the engine pods, and rear tail assembly were pasted onto the extended Raptor model. <ref>http://www.pierre-drolet-sci-fi-museum.com/blackhawk-marine</ref>

*The name "Blackhawk" originates from CG modeler [[Pierre Drolet]] who describes the aircraft on his personal website:

:''I had already built a highly detailed Seahawk, so I gave her a second life and makeover by adding on some Caprica[n] technology. This aircraft was also an alternative to the other aircraft called the Phoenix Air Force, but we end up using both of them in the same scene during a car chase.''<ref>http://sci-fi-museum-pierre-drolet-com.webs.com/blackhawk-marine</ref>

*These aircraft are marked with the distinctive pentagonal shape seen on the [[Caprican Viper]] in "[[The Imperfections of Memory]]", the [[Raider (TOS)|Cylon Raider]] of [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|The Original Series]] and the similar [[Raider (RDM)#Cylon War-era Raider|Cylon War-era Raider]] in the [[Battlestar Galactica (TRS)|Re-imagined Series]] and ''[[Blood and Chrome]]'', suggesting a link between Caprican technology and that of Cylons in the [[Cylon War]].

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Phoenix

2013-11-25T04:55:45Z

Frylock86:

{{Ship Data
| image= Phoenix Jet.jpg
| title= Phoenix
| race= Colonial
| type= Military/Civilian
| ftl= No
| propol= 4x jet engines (military) <br /> 2x jet engines (civilian)
| role= Interceptor (military) <br /> Troop transport (military) <br /> VIP transport (civilian)
| arm= 4x auto-cannons (military) <br /> 5x munitions hardpoints (military) <ref>http://www.pierre-drolet-sci-fi-museum.com/phoenix-air-force</ref>
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The '''Phoenix''' is a vehicle utilized by civilians and military personnel in the [[Twelve Colonies of Kobol|Twelve Worlds]], including [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] and [[Gemenon]] in the years before the [[Cylon War]]. A progenitor to the [[Colonial Fleet (TRS)|Colonial Fleet]]'s [[Raptor]], the Phoenix is a mainstay in [[Caprica City]] where it can frequently be seen flying above the skyline. The Phoenix is driven by maneuvering [[Propulsion in the Re-imagined Series#Sublight propulsion|thrusters]] and features [[DRADIS]] capabilities ([[CAP]]: "[[Know Thy Enemy]]", "[[End of Line]]", "[[Things We Lock Away]]", "[[Blowback]]").

Following its escape from [[Graystone Industries]]' labs in Caprica City, a [[Caprican Air Force]] Phoenix is dispatched to pursue a rogue [[U-87 Cyber Combat Unit]] [[robot]]. Ordered not to engage the prototypical [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]], the Phoenix chases the Graystone Industries van carrying the robot out of Caprica City and into the outlying mountain region. Unlike its civilian counterpart, this Air Force Phoenix is armed and intended for use as a troop transport ([[CAP]]: "[[End of Line]]").

[[Image:Graystone Industries Phoenix, 1x12.jpg|thumb|left|A Graystone Industries Phoenix on the company's landing pad.]]

Graystone Industries itself possesses Phoenix aircraft for use as private transports by the company's CEO, painted white and blue and bearing the Graystone "G" logo, the Phoenix can land atop the Graystone tower in downtown Caprica City ([[CAP]]: "[[Things We Lock Away]]").

When Doctors [[Amanda Graystone|Amanda]] and [[Daniel Graystone]] are falsely accused of being members of the [[Soldiers of the One]] terror organization by corrupt [[Global Defense Department]] director [[Gara Singh]], the husband and wife duo escape their home in Graystone's Phoenix jet. Taking off from a landing pad at the front of the [[Graystone Estate]], the Phoenix is piloted through Caprica City by [[Sean]], landing in a clearing in [[Caprica City#Orpheus Park|Orpheus Park]] ([[CAP]]: "[[Apotheosis (episode)|Apotheosis]]").

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==Notes==
*The Phoenix jet first appears in the opening credits of ''[[Caprica (series)|Caprica]]''. According to materials created by [[Doug Drexler]] and provided to the 2010 [[Wikipedia: Creative Arts Emmy Award|Emmy Awards]] voters:

::''Sleek and smart, the elegantly streamlined Graystone Aerospace business jet seen in Caprica is terrestrially rooted in the [[Wikipedia:Bell-Boeing V-22 Osprey|Bell Osprey V-22]], and shares bloodlines with [[Galactica (TRS)|Galactica]]'s own Raptor scout ship. The Phoenix model is an impressive construct of carefully designed compound curves including a completely realized instrumented cockpit. The model is fully functional with all flight surfaces articulated. It is a carefully considered 285877 [[Wikipedia:Polygon (computer graphics)|Polygon]]s.

*According to the same materials, the Phoenix possesses a length of 67 feet and a wingspan of 44 feet. <ref>http://drexfiles.wordpress.com/2010/09/12/caprica-2010-emmy-presentation-book/</ref>

*VFX modeler [[Pierre Drolet]] stated on his personal website that the Phoenix jet was the first model he created for the production at a time when the producers were unsure as to the extent it would appear in the series. <ref>http://sci-fi-museum-pierre-drolet-com.webs.com/phoenix-cj55</ref> Drolet describes the Air Force Phoenix as "an upgrade of the Pheonix private jet, which turned into a military troop carrier" with the addition of guns and a new paint job.<ref>http://sci-fi-museum-pierre-drolet-com.webs.com/phoenix-air-force</ref>

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Air Force Viper

2013-11-25T04:27:13Z

Frylock86:

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| image= Pre-Cylon War Vipers.jpg
| title= Air Force Viper
| race= Caprican
| type= Military
| ftl= No
| propol= 2x jet engines
| crew= 1 pilot
| role= Air superiority fighter
| arm= 2x auto-cannons <br /> 7x munitions hardpoints <ref>http://sci-fi-museum-pierre-drolet-com.webs.com/viper-air-force</ref>
| status= Retired
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The '''Air Force Viper'''<ref>{{bsgwiki term}}</ref> is a [[Caprican Air Force]] aircraft used for atmospheric flight on [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] in the years prior to the [[Cylon War]]. It follows an earlier [[Vintage Viper|model]] and predates those [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]]s used by the [[Colonial Fleet (TRS)|
Colonial Fleet]] in the first and [[Second Cylon War|second]] Cylon engagements.

A Viper flight simulator featuring these single-pilot fighter jets is available through the [[virtual world]] interface for [[holoband]] users. Fifty-eight years before the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]], [[Zoe Graystone]] and her date [[Philomon]] fly atmospheric Vipers over a simulated sea and oil rigs. Unfamiliar with the controls, Zoe accidentally collides with Philomon's fighter, sending both jets crashing into the water ([[CAP]]: "[[The Imperfections of Memory]]").

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==Notes==
*Like the Marine [[Blackhawk]] [[Wikipedia:VTOL|VTOL aircraft]] seen in "[[End of Line]]" and "[[Apotheosis]]", the Air Force Viper seen in "The Imperfections of Memory" is marked with the pentagonal shape seen on the [[Raider (TOS)|Cylon Raider]] of [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|The Original Series]] and the similar [[Raider (RDM)#Cylon War-era Raider|Cylon War-era Raider]] in the [[Battlestar Galactica (TRS)|Re-imagined Series]] and ''[[Blood and Chrome]]''.

*Interior shots of the Viper in "The Imperfections of Memory" feature several cuts to existing footage from episodes of ''Battlestar Galactica'', including one from "[[Razor]]" that features the cockpit and [[DRADIS]] console of the [[Viper Mark II]]. <ref>http://www.syfy.com/_cache/assets/assets/caprica_episode107_commentary.mp3</ref>

*The Air Force Viper appears to be a marriage of components from existing military aircraft like the [[Wikipedia: McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet|F-18]] and [[Wikipedia: Grumman F-14 Tomcat|F-14]].

*On his personal website, VFX modeler [[Pierre Drolet]] describes this Viper as a "Caprica[n] Air Force fighter jet (not a star fighter)."<ref>http://sci-fi-museum-pierre-drolet-com.webs.com/viper-air-force</ref>

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Vintage Viper

2013-11-25T04:26:50Z

Frylock86:

{{Ship Data
| image= Vintage Viper.jpg
| title= Vintage Viper
| race= Caprican
| type= Military
| ftl= No
| propol= 2x propellers
| crew= 1 pilot
| role= Air superiority fighter
| arm= 4x auto-cannons <ref>http://www.pierre-drolet-sci-fi-museum.com/viper-wwii</ref>
| status= Retired prior to YR42
}}

The '''Vintage Viper''' was a military aircraft used for atmospheric flight on [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]], predating the [[Air Force Viper]] used by the Caprican Military, as well as those used by the [[Colonial Fleet (TRS)|Colonial Fleet]] in the [[Cylon War|first]] and [[Second Cylon War|second]] Cylon engagements.

In operation some time prior to the introduction of a later jet engine-propelled [[Caprican Viper|Viper]], the "vintage" Viper was a single-pilot, fixed-wing propeller aircraft. It was distinguished by twin aft propellers, a camouflage paint scheme that featured a shark face at the nose. Despite no longer being in service in the year 42, a painting of these Vipers in flight hangs in the executive boardroom of [[Graystone Industries]] in [[Caprica City]], Caprica ([[CAP]]: "[[Things We Lock Away]]").

In the [[virtual world]], these vintage Vipers are still in operation, launched from the [[Dreadnaught]] to strafe the streets of [[New Cap City]], derezzing users at random ([[CAP]]: "[[There is Another Sky]]", "[[The Imperfections of Memory]]", "[[Ghosts in the Machine]]").

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==Notes==
*In materials prepared by [[Doug Drexler]] for 2010 [[Wikipedia: Creative Arts Emmy Award|Emmy Awards]] voters, the New Cap City Viper is referred to as the "Vintage Viper" and described as:
::''Careering through the noir canyons of New Cap City, these wild street strafing aircraft are launched from a monster dirigible. A spin on the [[Wikipedia: Curtiss P-40 Warhawk|P-40 Tomahawk]], these retro Vipers take center stage while raining chaos upon the denizens of this neon festooned urban underbelly. Like the [[Phoenix]], this vintage Viper CG model is fully functional and rigged. A calculated economical [[Wikipedia:Polygon (computer graphics)|poly]] count of 169109.'' <ref>http://drexfiles.wordpress.com/2010/09/12/caprica-2010-emmy-presentation-book/</ref>
*The Vintage Viper sported paint schemes similar to those used by the [[Wikipedia:Flying Tigers|Flying Tigers]] fighting squadron during [[Wikipedia:World War II|World War II]].

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Cylon Refinery

2013-11-25T01:24:47Z

Frylock86:

{{Ship Data|
image= CTR.jpg
| title= Cylon Tylium Refinery
| race= Cylon
| type= Militarized industrial
| ftl= No
| crew= Unknown
| role= Tylium mining and production
| def= SAM missile batteries <br /> Small caliber guns <br /> Raider squadrons
| status= Destroyed, [[Battle for the Tylium Asteroid]], Day 36
}}

The '''[[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]] Refinery''' is a base located on an asteroid rich in [[tylium]] ore, whose main purpose was to mine and refine tylium for the Cylons. Built some time prior to the Fall of the Colonies, it is unknown whether the base was established out of necessity, or merely to eliminate possible resources for any escaping [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Colonials]].

Prior to Day 36, the base is discovered by [[Galactica|''Galactica'']] pilots [[Sharon Valerii]] and [[Alex Quartararo]], while doing reconnaissance to find any tylium deposits for the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]].

Despite being extremely well guarded, the [[You Can't Go Home Again|fuel shortages in the Fleet]] leave the Colonials no option but to destroy the Cylon base. Using recon photographs, Doctor [[Gaius Baltar]] identifies devices on the base's surface that will destroy the base while leaving the tylium undamaged.

[[Image:Cylonminegoboom_110_1080i.jpg|thumb|left|Destruction of the base]]
The [[Battle for the Tylium Asteroid|base is attacked in an elaborate plan]] by several [[Viper Mark II|Viper]] squadrons, but the base's anti-aircraft defenses allow it to remain undamaged. Captain [[Lee Adama]] takes on an alternate path to enter from under the base. With a clean shot to the location pointed out by Dr. Baltar, L. Adama succeeds in destroying the refinery ([[TRS]]: "[[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]").

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Cylon Refinery

2013-11-24T22:29:02Z

Frylock86:

{{Ship Data|
image= CTR.jpg
| title= Cylon Tylium Refinery
| race= Cylon
| type= Militarized industrial
| ftl= No
| crew= Unknown
| role= Tylium mining and production
| arm= SAM missile batteries <br /> Small caliber guns
| status= Destroyed, [[Battle for the Tylium Asteroid]], Day 36
}}

The '''[[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]] Refinery''' is a base located on an asteroid rich in [[tylium]] ore, whose main purpose was to mine and refine tylium for the Cylons. It is unknown whether the base was established out of necessity, or merely to eliminate possible resources for any escaping [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Colonials]].

Prior to Day 36, the base is discovered by [[Galactica|''Galactica'']] pilots [[Sharon Valerii]] and [[Alex Quartararo]], while doing reconnaissance to find any tylium deposits for the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]].

Despite being extremely well guarded, the [[You Can't Go Home Again|fuel shortages in the Fleet]] leave the Colonials no option but to destroy the Cylon base. Using recon photographs, Doctor [[Gaius Baltar]] identifies devices on the base's surface that will destroy the base while leaving the tylium undamaged.

[[Image:Cylonminegoboom_110_1080i.jpg|thumb|left|Destruction of the base]]
The [[Battle for the Tylium Asteroid|base is attacked in an elaborate plan]] by several [[Viper Mark II|Viper]] squadrons, but the base's anti-aircraft defenses allow it to remain undamaged. Captain [[Lee Adama]] takes on an alternate path to enter from under the base. With a clean shot to the location pointed out by Dr. Baltar, L. Adama succeeds in destroying the refinery ([[TRS]]: "[[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]").

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Battle for the Tylium Asteroid

2013-11-24T22:25:26Z

Frylock86:

{{Battle Data
|image=Cylonminegoboom_110_1080i.jpg
|description=[[Lee Adama|Apollo]] flying away from the Cylon tylium mine as it begins to explode
|conflict=[[Cylon Attack|Second Cylon War]]
|date=[[Re-Imagined Series Timeline|Day 36]]
|place=Asteroid field in interstellar space
|result=Colonial victory
* Resupply of [[tylium]] ore for fuel reserves.
|combatant1=Remnants of the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Colonial Fleet]]
|combatant2=[[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]]
|co1=Commander [[William Adama]]
Lieutenant [[Kara Thrace]]
|co2=Unknown †
|strength1= 1 battlestar
* ''[[Galactica]]''
** ~19 [[Viper (RDM)|Vipers]]
** 2 [[Raptor|Raptors]]
3 civilian transports
|strength2=140 [[Raider|Raiders]] <br /> Fixed anti-aircraft emplacements
|shiploss1=At least 4 Vipers
|shiploss2=Complete destruction of Cylon forces
|casualties1= ~6 pilots dead
* [[Fireball]]
* [[Stepchild]]
* Sgt. [[Donald Perry]]
* 3 other pilots
|casualties2=Unknown, high
|prev=[[Skirmish over the Red Moon]]
|next=[[Battle of Kobol (RDM)|Battle of Kobol]]
|series=RDM
}}
The '''Battle for the Tylium Asteroid''' takes place when ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' attacks a Cylon [[Cylon Refinery|tylium ore refinery]]. Additionally, it marks the first time that ''Galactica'' makes an offensive strike against Cylon forces in nearly 40 years.

After exhausting much of its fuel reserves fleeing from Cylon forces ([[TRS]]: "[[33]]") and rescuing [[Kara Thrace]] after she crash-lands on a moon ([[TRS]]: "[[You Can't Go Home Again]]"), ''Galactica'' sends [[Raptor]]s to outlying star systems in search of [[tylium]]; a fuel source used by all ships in the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]].They locate an asteroid saturated with the mineral, but also occupied by Cylons and fortified with [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Raider]] squadrons. Commander [[William Adama|Adama]] decides to take the asteroid with a daring plan, utilizing the unconventional thinking of Kara Thrace to draft the attack strategy and Captain [[Lee Adama]] to implement it.

''Galactica'' pulls a double-feint; using a cargo freighter to lure away patrolling Raiders, the battlestar deploys a Viper squadron to approach the unprotected asteroid. The Cylons deduce the freighter to be a diversion and turn their fighters on the approaching Viper squadron. Additionally, they release all of their base's reserve Raiders to make a run at ''Galactica''. With all Cylon craft engaging either the Vipers or ''Galactica'', a second squadron of Vipers emerges from inside the cargo freighter and heads for the now unguarded Cylon base.

As the squadron reaches the surface of the asteroid, guided anti-aircraft missiles are launched and [[Fireball]] is killed in his Viper - while [[Kat]] and [[Stepchild]] launch their guided missiles, a powerful jamming signal appears and causes the Colonial missiles to lose guidance and veer away from the refinery

Captain Adama determines that any attacks they attempt will have to be completed manually. For that to be possible they must be able to approach the base at a close range - something which the anti-aircraft artillery makes unattainable.

As the remaining 4 Vipers approach the refinery, they encounter heavy anti-aircraft fire that destroys two more Vipers, including [[Chuckles]] in [[Viper 4267]] and [[Stepchild]] in her assigned [[Viper]]

Captain Adama orders the other fighters to pull back as he searches for an alternative way of approaching the refinery. He finds a conveyor duct that runs from an un-defended canyon adjacent to the base, and ends below a tank storing highly unstable tylium precursor. After successfully maneuvering [[Viper 2220]] through the duct, Adama detonates a pair of explosive charges underneath the tank, then makes his escape.

The ignition of the tylium-precursor results in a chain-reaction that destroys the refinery with a force equivalent to that of a three kiloton nuclear warhead yet leaves the underlying tylium unaffected. Moreover, the force of the explosion heavily disorients the overflying Raiders, leaving them unable to re-arm or refuel. With no means by which to escape the space surrounding the asteroid, the scattered fighters are destroyed by ''Galactica'' and her Vipers.

==Aftermath==
Shortly after ''Galactica's'' victory over the enemy, ships from the civilian fleet mine a large quantity of tylium from the asteroid (gathered by the mobile [[mining ship]]s and processed on a [[refinery ship]]). The mining yields enough tylium reserve to last the Fleet for several years.

Extraordinarily, this battle was prophesied in the [[Sacred Scrolls]], which mention a victory "led by serpents numbering two and ten" (the twelve Vipers). The scrolls warn, however, that "though the outcome favored the few, it would lead to a [[Battle of Kobol (RDM)|confrontation]] at [[Kobol (RDM)|the home of the gods]]" ([[TRS]]: "[[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]").

==Impact==

Without the replenishment of the tylium, it is highly probable that the Cylons would have caught up with the Fleet and destroyed it. As of "[[Dirty Hands]]", nearly three years later, tylium ore was still in supply. Hence, the success of this battle removed what would have been a major concern for the Fleet for several years. Although further resupply is possible, it is not mentioned during the time between this battle and the events of "Dirty Hands".

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Battle for the Tylium Asteroid

2013-11-24T22:24:57Z

Frylock86:

{{Battle Data
|image=Cylonminegoboom_110_1080i.jpg
|description=[[Lee Adama|Apollo]] flying away from the Cylon tylium mine as it begins to explode
|conflict=[[Cylon Attack|Second Cylon War]]
|date=[[Re-Imagined Series Timeline|Day 36]]
|place=Asteroid field in interstellar space
|result=Colonial victory
* Resupply of [[tylium]] ore for fuel reserves.
|combatant1=Remnants of the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Colonial Fleet]]
|combatant2=[[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]]
|co1=Commander [[William Adama]]
Lieutenant [[Kara Thrace]]
|co2=Unknown †
|strength1= 1 battlestar
* ''[[Galactica]]''
** ~19 [[Viper (RDM)|Vipers]]
** 2 [[Raptor|Raptors]]
3 civilian transports
|strength2=140 [[Raider|Raiders]] <br /> Fixed anti-aircraft emplacements
|shiploss1=At least 4 Vipers
|shiploss2=Complete destruction of Cylon forces
|casualties1= ~6 pilots dead
* [[Fireball]]
* [[Stepchild]]
* Sgt. [[Donald Perry]]
* 3 other pilots
|casualties2=Unknown, high
|prev=[[Skirmish over the Red Moon]]
|next=[[Battle of Kobol (RDM)|Battle of Kobol]]
|series=RDM
}}
The '''Battle for the Tylium Asteroid''' takes place when ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' attacks a Cylon [[Cylon Refinery|tylium ore refinery]]. Additionally, it marks the first time that ''Galactica'' makes an offensive strike against Cylon forces.

After exhausting much of its fuel reserves fleeing from Cylon forces ([[TRS]]: "[[33]]") and rescuing [[Kara Thrace]] after she crash-lands on a moon ([[TRS]]: "[[You Can't Go Home Again]]"), ''Galactica'' sends [[Raptor]]s to outlying star systems in search of [[tylium]]; a fuel source used by all ships in the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]].They locate an asteroid saturated with the mineral, but also occupied by Cylons and fortified with [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Raider]] squadrons. Commander [[William Adama|Adama]] decides to take the asteroid with a daring plan, utilizing the unconventional thinking of Kara Thrace to draft the attack strategy and Captain [[Lee Adama]] to implement it.

''Galactica'' pulls a double-feint; using a cargo freighter to lure away patrolling Raiders, the battlestar deploys a Viper squadron to approach the unprotected asteroid. The Cylons deduce the freighter to be a diversion and turn their fighters on the approaching Viper squadron. Additionally, they release all of their base's reserve Raiders to make a run at ''Galactica''. With all Cylon craft engaging either the Vipers or ''Galactica'', a second squadron of Vipers emerges from inside the cargo freighter and heads for the now unguarded Cylon base.

As the squadron reaches the surface of the asteroid, guided anti-aircraft missiles are launched and [[Fireball]] is killed in his Viper - while [[Kat]] and [[Stepchild]] launch their guided missiles, a powerful jamming signal appears and causes the Colonial missiles to lose guidance and veer away from the refinery

Captain Adama determines that any attacks they attempt will have to be completed manually. For that to be possible they must be able to approach the base at a close range - something which the anti-aircraft artillery makes unattainable.

As the remaining 4 Vipers approach the refinery, they encounter heavy anti-aircraft fire that destroys two more Vipers, including [[Chuckles]] in [[Viper 4267]] and [[Stepchild]] in her assigned [[Viper]]

Captain Adama orders the other fighters to pull back as he searches for an alternative way of approaching the refinery. He finds a conveyor duct that runs from an un-defended canyon adjacent to the base, and ends below a tank storing highly unstable tylium precursor. After successfully maneuvering [[Viper 2220]] through the duct, Adama detonates a pair of explosive charges underneath the tank, then makes his escape.

The ignition of the tylium-precursor results in a chain-reaction that destroys the refinery with a force equivalent to that of a three kiloton nuclear warhead yet leaves the underlying tylium unaffected. Moreover, the force of the explosion heavily disorients the overflying Raiders, leaving them unable to re-arm or refuel. With no means by which to escape the space surrounding the asteroid, the scattered fighters are destroyed by ''Galactica'' and her Vipers.

==Aftermath==
Shortly after ''Galactica's'' victory over the enemy, ships from the civilian fleet mine a large quantity of tylium from the asteroid (gathered by the mobile [[mining ship]]s and processed on a [[refinery ship]]). The mining yields enough tylium reserve to last the Fleet for several years.

Extraordinarily, this battle was prophesied in the [[Sacred Scrolls]], which mention a victory "led by serpents numbering two and ten" (the twelve Vipers). The scrolls warn, however, that "though the outcome favored the few, it would lead to a [[Battle of Kobol (RDM)|confrontation]] at [[Kobol (RDM)|the home of the gods]]" ([[TRS]]: "[[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]").

==Impact==

Without the replenishment of the tylium, it is highly probable that the Cylons would have caught up with the Fleet and destroyed it. As of "[[Dirty Hands]]", nearly three years later, tylium ore was still in supply. Hence, the success of this battle removed what would have been a major concern for the Fleet for several years. Although further resupply is possible, it is not mentioned during the time between this battle and the events of "Dirty Hands".

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2013-11-24T21:20:57Z

Frylock86:

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'''Ancient Kobolian:''' [[Galleon|''Galleon'']]
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<center>Colonial Military</center>

'''Battlestar Classes:''' [[Mercury class battlestar|''Mercury'' class]] | [[Galactica type battlestar|''Galactica''-type]] | [[Valkyrie type battlestar|''Valkyrie''-type]] | [[Orion Class Battlestar|''Orion'' class]]

'''Battlestars:''' [[Galactica (RDM)|''Galactica'']] | [[Pegasus (RDM)|''Pegasus'']] | [[Valkyrie|''Valkyrie'']] | [[Columbia (RDM)|''Columbia'']] | [[Archeron|''Archeron'']] <br/> [[Osiris|''Osiris'']] | [[List_of_battlestars_(TRS)#Yashuman|''Yashuman'']] | [[Triton (TRS)|''Triton'']] | [[List of battlestars (TRS)|All Named]] | [[Unnamed battlestars|All Unnamed]]

'''Support Ship Types:''' [[Loki type heavy cruiser |''Loki'' type]] | [[Berzerk type cruiser|''Berzerk'' type]] | [[Wedge-shaped vessel|''Defender'' type]] | [[Unnamed_battlestars#.22Catamaran.22_type|''Catamaran'' type]] | [[Unnamed_battlestars#.22Watersled.22_type|''Watersled'' type]]

'''Support Ships:''' ''[[Loki]]'' | ''[[Berzerk]]'' | ''[[Brenik]]'' | [[Unnamed battlestars|All Unnamed]]

'''Auxiliary Craft:''' [[Viper Mark II]] | [[Viper Mark III]] | [[Viper Mark VII]] | [[Stealthstar]] | ''[[Blackbird]]'' | [[Raptor]] | [[Atmospheric_shuttle|Atmospheric Shuttle]]<br/>

'''Colonial Stations:''' [[Armistice Station]] | [[Colonial Fleet Headquarters]] | [[Ministry of Defense]] | [[Ragnar Anchorage]] <br> [[Scorpion Fleet Shipyards]]
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<center>Colonial Civilian</center>

'''Pre-Cylon War:''' [[Air Force Viper]] | [[Blackhawk]] | [[Graystone blimp]] | [[Jump ship]] | [[Phoenix]]

'''Virtual aircraft:''' [[Autogyro]] | [[Dreadnaught]] | [[Vintage Viper]]

'''Post-Fall Civilian Fleet:''' ''[[Astral Queen]]'' | ''[[Cloud 9]]'' | ''[[Colonial One]]'' | ''[[Daru Mozu]]'' | ''[[Demetrius]]'' | ''[[Gemenon Traveler]]'' | ''[[Gideon]]'' <br/> ''[[Olympic Carrier]]'' | ''[[Prometheus (ship)|Prometheus]]'' | ''[[Rising Star (TRS)|Rising Star]]'' | ''[[Scylla]]'' | ''[[Zephyr]]'' | [[The_Fleet_(TRS)#Ships|List of all civilian ships]]

'''Civilian Ship Types:''' [[Luxury liner|Passenger liners]] | [[Mining Ship|Mining ships]] | [[Flattop|Repair ships]] | [[Refinery Ship|Tylium refinery ships]] | [[Celestra type|Research ships]]

'''Civilian Operators:''' [[Gemon Liners]] | [[Pan Galactic]] | [[Saggitarian Spaceways]] | [[Eversun]]
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<center>Cylon</center>

'''Basestar Types:''' [[Basestar_(RDM)#Cylon_War-era_basestars|Cylon War Era basestars]] | [[Basestar_(RDM)#Modern_basestar|Modern basestar]] | [[Guardian basestar]] | [[Rebel basestar]]

'''Support Ships:''' [[Resurrection Ship]] | [[Cylon reconnaissance drone|Reconnaissance Drone]] | [[Cylon freighter (RDM)|Freighter]]

'''Auxiliary Craft:''' [[Cylon_Raider_(RDM)#Cylon_War-era_Raider|Cylon War Era Raider]] | [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Modern Raider]] | [[Heavy Raider]]

'''Cylon Stations:''' [[Cylon Refinery]] | [[The Colony]] | [[Resurrection Hub]]
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Fall of the Scorpion Fleet Shipyards

2013-11-24T02:35:09Z

Frylock86:

{{Battle Data
|image=Fall of the Scorpion Fleet Shipyards.jpg
|description=Fall of the Scorpian Ship Yards
|conflict=Second Cylon War <br /> [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]]
|date= YR00 <br /> Approx. 40 years after the end of the First Cylon War
|place=[[Scorpion Fleet Shipyards]]
|result= Cylon victory
* Destruction of harbored Colonial Fleet
* Destruction of the yards
* ''Pegasus'' escapes
|combatant1=[[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Colonial Fleet]]
|combatant2=[[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]]
|co1=Rear Admiral [[Helena Cain]]
|co2=[[Basestar command]]
|strength1= 5 battlestars<ref name="numbers1"> In "[[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]", Cain says "Five ships, two of them battlestars, they were destroyed right there." In "[[Razor]]" two battlestars can be clearly seen in the establishing shot of the shipyard, and 3 ships of ''[[Valkyrie]]'s'' design are destroyed later. Together with [[Unnamed battlestars#Unknown-class battlestars|the unknown vessel]] above ''Pegasus'', this makes at least four initial losses, which makes it likely that Cain's comment is an estimate.</ref> <br /> 2 fleet escorts<ref name="numbers2">It is unknown whether [[Unnamed battlestars#Unknown-class battlestars|the large vessel]] above ''Pegasus'' is a designated as a battlestar by the Colonial Fleet.</ref>
* Vipers
* Raptors
|strength2=Unknown number of [[Basestar (RDM)|basestars]] and associated [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Raiders]]
|shiploss1=
Shipyards, as well as:
*At least 3 battlestars and 3 other military vessels.
*12 Vipers and 2 Raptors from ''Pegasus's'' air wing. 12 further craft beyond repair. That brings Pegasus's air wing down to approx 180 Vipers
|shiploss2=Unknown, minimal
|casualties1=~723 dead on ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' <br /> Untold overall casualties
|casualties2=Unknown, minimal
|prev=[[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]]
|next=[[Battle of Ragnar Anchorage]]
|series=RDM
}}
The '''Fall of the Scorpion Fleet Shipyards''' is an attack launched by the [[Cylon (RDM)|Cylons]] as part of their of their overall [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|attack on the Twelve Colonies]]. With numerous [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Raider]] squadrons armed with nuclear missiles, the Cylons destroy the [[Scorpion Fleet Shipyards]] as well as at least three battlestars and several support vessels ([[TRS]]: "[[Razor]]").

The Cylons achieve complete surprise upon jumping to the shipyards, and the Colonials have little time to put up any defense. At least one battlestar is immediately destroyed after being struck by a missile, and rows of the shipyard's [[Viper]]s and [[Raptor]]s are destroyed before taking off. In conjunction with the attack, the Cylons initiate a nuclear strike on the surface of [[Scorpia]] ([[TRS]]: "[[The Plan]]").

The battlestar ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'', commanded by Admiral [[Helena Cain]], is docked at the shipyards in order to undergo a three-month systems overhaul when the attack occurs. In preparation for the refit, all computer networks are shut down, leaving the battlestar largely unaffected by Cylon-infiltrated [[Command Navigation Program]]. During the attack, Colonel [[Jurgen Belzen|Belzen]] reports that all computers are down and that the crew must perform all functions manually.

Tethered to its dock, ''Pegasus'' is swarmed by Raiders and struck by several missiles. Fuel and ordnance ignite on the battlestar's hangar decks, causing explosions that cause over 700 casualties. Cain orders a hasty departure from the dock, and the ship fires its reverse thrusters and tears itself free from the burning shipyard's umbilicals.

With ''Pegasus'''s defenses still down, and two nuclear missile inbound, Cain orders the [[CIC]] crew to spin up the [[FTL]] drive and to perform a [[blind jump]] on her command, despite the risk of reemerging inside a celestial body. The nuclear detonations throughout the shipyard create bursts of [[EMP|electromagnetic radiation]] that mask the jump and fool the Cylons into believing that the ship is destroyed ([[TRS]]: "[[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]"; "[[Razor]]").

== See also ==
*[[Scorpion Fleet Shipyards#Docked vessels|Scorpion Fleet Shipyards]], for information on the ships present at the shipyard.

== References ==
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Fall of the Twelve Colonies

2013-11-22T23:06:27Z

Frylock86:

:''This article details the destruction of the Twelve Colonies in the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Re-imagined Series]]. For information on the fall of the Twelve Colonies in the Original Series, see [[Battle of Cimtar]].''
{{Battle Data
|image=Nukes in Miniseries.jpg
|description=Cylon nuclear bombs detonating on Caprica
|conflict=Second Cylon War
|date= YR00 <br /> Approx. 40 years since the end of the First Cylon War <br /> Concurrent with [[Fall of the Scorpion Fleet Shipyards]]
|place=[[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]] of [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]]
|result=Cylon victory
* Devastation of the Twelve Colonies
* Destruction of the Colonial Fleet
* Forced exodus of ~50,000 survivors
|combatant1=[[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]] of [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]]
|combatant2=[[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]]
|co1=Admiral [[Nagala]] †<br>Commander [[William Adama]]<br>Rear Admiral [[Helena Cain]]
|co2=[[Basestar command]]
|strength1=Approx. 120 [[Battlestar (RDM)|battlestars]] <br /> Numerous fleet [[Berzerk type cruiser|escorts]]
* Vipers
* [[Raptor]]s
|strength2= ~100+ [[Basestar (RDM)|basestars]]
* [[Raider (RDM)|Raiders]]
* [[Heavy Raider]]s
|shiploss1=Virtual destruction of the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Colonial Fleet]]
|shiploss2=Unknown, minimal
|casualties1=Estimated 50 billion dead
|casualties2=Unknown, minimal
|prev=[[Battle of Tauron]]
and
[[Operation Raptor Talon]] (First Cylon War)
|next=[[Fall of the Scorpion Fleet Shipyards]] (concurrent)
|series=RDM
}}

The '''Fall of the Twelve Colonies''' (also known as The Fall, the Cylon attack, Cylon holocaust or Second Cylon War) is a devastating, genocidal attack by the Cylons, designed by [[John Cavil]] to eliminate the human race, and seek revenge on the [[Final Five]] for creating the humanoid Cylons in their image.

==Before the Fall==
The events leading up to the attacks go back at least a few years, when the Cylons (now in human form) begin infiltrating Colonial society. One such Cylon, a [[Number Six]], is involved with Dr. [[Gaius Baltar]], a famed computer scientist living on [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]]. Together, they develop [[Command Navigation Program|system upgrades]] for the [[Colonial Fleet]], which gives Six access to the [[Colonial Defense Mainframe]]. There she is able to covertly install backdoors into the new software which the Cylons will later use to shut down Colonial defenses ([[TRS]]: "[[Miniseries]]").

Six years prior to the attacks, Commander [[William Adama]], aboard the battlestar ''[[Valkyrie]]'', is tasked by Colonial admiralty to launch a [[Stealthstar|stealth plane]] across the [[Armistice Line]] into Cylon held space. Piloted by [[Daniel Novacek]], the bird is discovered by an unknown contact, and is shot down by Adama to prevent his pilot from being potentially captured by Cylon forces. The plan fails, and Novachek is captured anyway after he ejects from the Stealthstar, and remains in Cylon custody for at least eight years (including two years post-fall), until he is deliberately released by the Cylons in the hopes that he will kill Adama for his actions. Adama spends the next few years feeling guilt over the incident, which has him thinking it caused the Cylon attacks ([[TRS]]: "[[Hero]]").

In the final weeks before the attacks, copies of the Cylon [[John Cavil]] visit the Colonies in order to ensure everything is set. One copy meets with the Number Six on Caprica, passing details about the Colonial computer systems from her to the Cylon fleet, while another meets [[Ellen Tigh]] at a bar on [[The_Twelve_Colonies_(RDM)#Picon|Picon]] minutes before the attack begins, to see if she has changed at all. This copy is visibly upset when he discovers she has not ([[TRS]]: "[[The Plan]]").

==It Begins…==

Prior to the attacks, the Cylon fleet is amassed around the [[The Colony|Colony]], the Cylons' "homeworld." When the command is given, the basestars jump to their targets before striking. It takes the Cylons all but three minutes to access the defense mainframe and shut it down, leaving the Colonies and the Colonial Fleet defenseless ([[TRS]]: "[[The Plan]]"). This infiltration of Colonial systems combined with the "complete surprise" that the Cylons achieve enables them to sweep the Colonial Fleet aside with minimal losses, a triumph beyond their most optimistic projections ([[TRS]]: "[[Downloaded]]").

===Armistice Station===
The Cylons begin their attack by first jumping to the [[Armistice Station]]. The [[Armistice Officer|Colonial officer on duty]] is shaken when a vessel docks with the station and two Centurions enter the meeting room, followed by a Number Six model. The Six approaches the officer and begins to kiss him passionately. A nearby basestar opens fire at that moment, destroying the station.

===The Colonial Fleet===
:''See also: [[Fall of the Scorpion Fleet Shipyards]]''
Having received the CNP “upgrades”, the Colonial Fleet is easily shut down by attacking Cylon Raiders. The fleet loses at least 30 battlestars (Among these, ''[[Yashuman]]'' and ''Valkyrie'') in the opening wave, which according to Kara Thrace, is a quarter of the fleet. After this news is broadcast, Admiral Nagala takes command of the battlestar ''[[Atlantia (RDM)|Atlantia]]'', and begins a counter attack near Virgon’s orbit, as per a system plot by Lt. Gaeta aboard the battlestar ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]''. The battle doesn’t last long, and ''Atlantia'' is lost along with the battlestars ''Triton'', ''Solaria'', ''Columbia'', and others, prompting ''Galactica'' commanding officer William Adama to take command of the Fleet, and ordering remaining forces to [[Ragnar Anchorage]] for regrouping.

The battlestar ''Galactica'', approximately 300 million miles from Caprica at the time<ref>See [[Science in the Re-imagined Series]] for this calculation, based on data from the Miniseries.</ref>, is largely unprepared for the attacks, having just been decommissioned and transformed into a museum. It dumps its munitions as part of the decommissioning ceremony<ref>This event occurs in a deleted scene of the Miniseries.</ref>, and has lost its primary fighter wing. However, as part of the museum, it has a handful of older [[Viper Mk II]]'s aboard, which Commander Adama has put to use, as ''Galactica'' is attacked herself. Here, the attacking Raiders try to shut down ''Galactica'' and her Vipers, but since she has no networks, the shutdown command has no effect. The handful of planes are enough to hold off the attacking Raiders, however, not before a Raider fires off her nuclear tipped missiles in a last ditch attempt to destroy the battlestar. Out of three missiles fired, ''Galactica'' pilot [[Kara Thrace]] manages to shoot down two, before the last one strikes the battlestar. ''Galactica'' comes out relatively unscathed, with the ship's armor plating keeping out the hard radiation. After the blast clears, the ship's port stern thrusters get stuck on, pushing the battlestar into an uncontrollable lateral counterclockwise spin. The port flight pod suffers the most damage, with violent decompressions along the forward sections. 85 crew members are lost when damage to the fire suppression system necessitates the venting of the pod's atmosphere to prevent the fuel lines from igniting, thus preventing the destruction of the ship. From here, Adama takes command of the fleet, and orders the ship to prepare for an FTL jump to Ragnar to re-arm ([[TRS]]: "[[Miniseries]]").

The battlestar ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'', under the command of Rear Admiral [[Helena Cain]], is docked at the [[Scorpion Fleet Shipyards]] at the onset of the attacks undergoing a system refit, which left its computer networks offline. Most of the crew is about to take shore leave when the Cylons strike the shipyards. The battlestar is heavily damaged in the opening salvo and there are many casualties, however, thanks to DRADIS interference, the Cylons were not able to confirm its destruction, and continued their assault on the other battlestars and support ships docked at the yards. Not wanting to give the Cylons time to realize their mistake, Cain orders a [[blind jump]] away from the combat zone. The ship re-emerges several plotted jumps away from the Colonies. After sending a recon Raptor back to the colonies to confirm their destruction, the crew begins to make repairs, while Cain plots her next move ([[TRS]]: "[[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]", "[[Razor]]").

===The Colonies===

* '''Caprica''': The bulk of the Cylon Fleet jumps directly to Caprica. After shutting down, and destroying at least four battlestars and their fighter escorts, the baseships begin assaulting the planet with nuclear MIRVs, while simultaneously landing Centurions at various points for ground assaults. [[Caprica City]] is struck with a detonation approaching the 50 megaton range, followed by other strikes on other cities. One of the targeted cities was in view of the [[Caprica City Buccaneers]], who were involved in high altitude training at the time, a slight oversight on attacking forces, since [[Samuel Anders]] was with his team, and out of range of the bombs. Also on Caprica at the time of the attacks was [[Tory Foster]], who was struck by a blast wave while driving her car down a Caprican street. She is found, and brought to Roslin's fleet by a rescue Raptor. After the Colonials flee, Cylon forces work to clear the planet by burning the remains of those who died on the planet, and rounding up survivors for their experimental [[farms]].

* '''Picon''': Picon is struck just as hard as Caprica, with the Cylons completely annihilating [[Picon Fleet Headquarters]] in the first few minutes of the attacks. In a bar, Cavil moves to protect Ellen Tigh from one of the exploding bombs. He moves her to a rescue Raptor, which takes the both of them to the ''[[Rising Star (RDM)|Rising Star]]'', before rendezvousing with ''Galactica'' at Ragnar. Picon's major attraction, its harbors, are the main target of the attacking Cylon forces, and are the first struck upon jumping in orbit of the planet ([[TRS]]: "[[The Plan]]").

* '''Scorpia''': Scorpia is struck by numerous nuclear weapons, as the shipyards in orbit are overrun by Raiders. Several battlestars and support ships are destroyed, and the shipyard itself is left a burning wreck.

* '''Leonis''': Leonis is struck by nuclear warheads as well, and invaded by ground troops, who systematically begin murdering the survivors of the bombings.

* '''Canceron'''. Some detonations are seen on the colony's surfarce from the starliner ''[[Pyxis]]'' while this ship is near the planet.

With these Colonies struck, the Colonials are defeated. After losing the Fleet Headquarters, President [[Richard Adar]] offers the Cylons a complete and unconditional surrender. However, the gesture is ignored by the Cylons, and they continue their assault. Adar and his administration are presumed killed a short time later, and Secretary of Education [[Laura Roslin]] is sworn in as successor aboard ''[[Colonial Heavy 798]]'' after [[Case Orange]] is broadcasted.

===Civilians Under Attack===
At the onset of the attacks, there were many civilian transports and passenger liners in the space lanes near Caprica. After the Colonial Government shut down these lanes, these ships became trapped and were attacked as they were found by the Cylons. It's not long before Roslin takes the effort to round up the survivors and form a caravan to help get the civilians out of harms way, and sends out [[Sharon Valerii]] in search of more ships. Valerii is able to recover at least three homeless Vipers, and numerous transports, her last being a [[tylium]] transport, before the Cylons jump in and scan their caravan. At this point, Roslin makes the decision to abandon the sublight only ships, and orders the remaining FTL capable ships to jump to Ragnar to rendezvous with ''Galactica''. Among chaotic comm chatter, prayers, and spite, the fleet jumps away just as a Raider Squadron jumps in. Around 20+ sublight ships, including a ''[[Botanical Cruiser]]'' are left behind, and destroyed ([[TRS]]: "[[Miniseries]]").

An additional small caravan of civilian ships, led by the transport ''[[Scylla]]'', are able to survive on their own for a few weeks after the attacks. The Cylons are the first to find them, and attack. The ''Scylla'' and a handful of others are able to escape the attack, and survive on their own until being found by the wandering ''Pegasus''. The civilians are thrilled to see friendly forces, however, their joy is short lived. After taking the fleet by force, Admiral Cain strips the ships of crucial parts (including [[FTL]] drives), abducts many of the civilians for service aboard ''Pegasus'', and leaves the rest to their fates ([[TRS]]: "[[Razor]]").

==Rendezvous at Ragnar==
:''Main article: [[Battle of Ragnar Anchorage]]''
''Galactica'' successfully completes its jump to Ragnar, despite not having made an FTL jump in over 20 years. the ''Galactica''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> crew immediately sets out to re-arm the ship, not wasting time. However, the specialists run into a sickly looking man pointing a rifle at them. As the CO is questioning him, a fallen charge detonates, trapping the two behind a now fused hatch. As the two seek an alternate route back to the ship, Adama's First War experiences, and the man's remarks reveal his true nature: he is a Cylon. The radiation surrounding the station has affected his silica pathways which leave him dying a slow and permanent death, however, Adama soon finishes the job after the Cylon, [[Number Two|Leoben]], is able to throw Adama to the ground. Conoy's body is transferred to the ''Galactica'' for further study.

Meanwhile, the civilian fleet arrives in orbit of Ragnar, giving the crew of ''Galactica'' a slight scare as they move down through the cloud layers. President Roslin comes aboard and asks for ''Galactica''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> protection, a notion Adama later strikes down, still hoping and preferring to take the battlestar into combat, until he realizes the Cylons followed them to Ragnar, and are now waiting for them to re-emerge from the gas giant. After deliberating with the President and his executive officer, [[Saul Tigh]], Adama orders the fleet to prep for a jump to the [[Prolmar Sector]], far beyond the [[Red Line]], where he hopes the civilians will be safe.

''Galactica'' is able to emerge from the cover of Ragnar's atmosphere long enough to calculate a jump, [[Battle of Ragnar Anchorage|and defend the fleet as they jump away]]. Just as the Cylons are sending in a new wave of Raiders, the battlestar recovers its birds, and jumps to join the fleet ([[TRS]]: "[[Miniseries]]").

==Aftermath==
While ''Galactica'' and its fleet are momentarily able to escape the Anchorage, they are constantly tracked by the Cylons who jump to the fleet's location every 33 minutes. This incurs a cat and mouse game that lasts a few weeks after the Cylons attacked, and the Colonials are unable to figure out why, until one ship in the fleet fails to make the rendezvous at an emergency jump location. The ''[[Olympic Carrier]]'' is nowhere to be seen, and is presumed to have been left behind, until approx 35 minutes after the last jump, the ship reappears, to everyone's joy. However, Adama quickly orders action stations, and wants the CAP to isolate the ship. Soon after jumping back, the passenger liner makes a move for the fleet, triggering radiological alarms. The ship is shot down by [[Lee Adama]] shortly after, and the Cylon pursuit comes to an end ([[TRS]]: "[[33]]").

The Cylons choose to occupy the Colonies for up to nine months after the attacks. During that time, they start removing the bodies left behind, and attempt to capture healthy females for experimentation in farms. Other models choose to replant cities, and run normal lives much as the Colonials did before the attacks ([[TRS]]: "[[Downloaded]]"). This experiment failed, and the Cylons abandoned the Colonies shortly after.

Some surviving Colonials even waged successful resistance movements on Caprica, led by Sam Anders of the C-Bucks ([[TRS]]: "[[The Plan]]"). The resistance ends when the survivors are evacuated to the fleet ([[TRS]]: "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]").

Overall, the attacks are a success and a failure at the same time; as a Cavil later remarked, they "had their foot on the throat of humanity" but "failed to step down hard enough." Also, the attacks failed to kill any of the Final Five as Cavil hoped it would do. Eventually, the Five were unknowingly reunited in the Fleet. Cavil gradually came to look upon the attacks as a "mistake" just as he was about to be flushed out of a ''Galactica'' airlock. Four years later, the surviving Colonials would [[Battle of the Colony|launch a direct assault on the heart of Cylon society]], before settling [[Earth (RDM)|a newly discovered planet]] and eventually abandoning the last heritage of Colonial Civilization ([[TRS]]: "[[Daybreak, Part II]]").

The ultimate fate of the Twelve Colonies 150,000 years later is unknown. Presumably, after several hundred years, their climates and surfaces would degrade until they resemble the original Earth. It can be presumed that by present-day radiation levels would have lowered to a point where life would be allowed to flourish once again.

== Related Imagery ==
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Image:Cylon Fleet Surrounding The Colony.png|Cylon fleet gathered around the [[The Colony|Colony]] before jumping to the Twelve Colonies
Image:Basestar FTL Jump The Plan.png|Basestars jumping in over the Colonies
Image:Cylon Fleet Surrounding Twelve Colonies.png|Cylon fleet surrounding the Twelve Colonies
Image:Battlestar Valkyrie The Plan.png|''Valkyrie'' among its sister ships above Caprica
Image:Valkyrie CNP Virus Transmission.png|Cylon commands being transmitted
Image:Battlestar Valkyrie CNP Hack.png|''Valkyrie'' after being disabled by the CNP's backdoors
Image:Basestars Entering Caprica Atmosphere.png|Basestars entering Colonial atmospheres
Image:Closeup Basestar Missle Launcher.png|Basestar prepares to launch nukes
Image:MIRV Spoilers Deployed.png|Cylon MIRV
Image:Individual MIRV Nukes.png|Individual nuclear warheads
Image:Impending Doom.png|Warheads deploy...
Image:Nuclear Detonation Colonial Destruction.png|...and detonate
Image:Nuclear Shockwave Expansion.png|Another view
Image:Terror On The Streets.png|Cylons wreak havoc on the surviving populace
Image:Complete Devastion.png|Destruction
Image:Glorious Demise.png|Caprica City, shortly before being struck with a 50 megaton nuclear device
Image:Death Nuclear Blast.png|Death from incineration
Image:Roslins Fleet.png|Roslin's convoy
Image:Civilians Attacked.png|A Raider Squadron destroys the sublight ships left behind
Image:Galactica Hit.png|''Galactica'' is hit by a Cylon missile
Image:Galactica Damage 1.png|''Galactica'' suffers crucial damage to the port flight pod...
Image:Galactica Damage 2.png|... leaving the crew no choice but to vent the pod to fight the fires

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Battle of NCD2539

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{{Battle Data
| name= Battle of NCD2539
| image= 3x7-BattleOfNCD2539.jpg
| description=
| conflict=[[Cylon Attack|Second Cylon War]]
| date= c. [[Timeline (RDM)|Day 851]]
| place=The region of [[NCD2539]], above/north
| result= Tactical draw
* ''Galactica'' withdrawl
* [[The Fleet (RDM)|Colonial]] objective to infect [[Resurrection Ship]] failed
* Death of Cylon hostages by suffocation outside of downloading range
| combatant1=Remnants of the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Colonial Fleet]]
| combatant2=[[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]]
| co1=Admiral [[William Adama]]
| co2=[[Basestar command]]
| strength1=1 battlestar
* ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]''
** [[Vipers]]
** [[Raptors]]
| strength2=4 [[Basestar (RDM)|basestars]]
* [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Raiders]]
* [[Heavy Raider]]s
1 [[Resurrection Ship]]
| shiploss1= None
| shiploss2= Unknown
| casualties1=None
| casualties2=Unknown, dozens of Raiders
| prev=[[Battle of New Caprica]]
| next=[[Battle of the Algae Planet]]
| series=RDM
}}

The '''Battle of NCD2539''' occurs when the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]], having recently taken several infected humanoid Cylon prisoners from an [[Torn|epidemic]] basestar, attempts to rid itself of the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]] threat through the use of a virulent biological weapon.

President [[Laura Roslin|Roslin]] provides the presidential authorization required for the use of biological weapons. ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'', leaving all civilian ships at a safe location, jumps to a location in open space near [[NCD2539]], where a known Cylon supply route lies. Admiral [[William Adama|Adama]]'s intent is to lure Cylon forces, including coverage by a [[Resurrection Ship]], into the area so that when the Colonials execute their infected Humanoid Cylon prisoners, [[Resurrection (RDM)|download]] of their consciousnesses would infect the Cylon populace with a [[Lymphocytic encephalitis|human virus with a bioelectric pathogen]] that could eventually annihilate the Cylon race.

Shortly after ''Galactica'' arrives, two scouting [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Raiders]] jump into the vicinity, then jump away after observing ''Galactica''. Four basestars and a Resurrection Ship appear within minutes. As part of their feint, ''Galactica'' launches multiple Vipers and Raptors, with the latter firing an open salvo of missiles into the Cylon Raider swarm.

No one in [[CIC]] knows that ''Galactica'''s prisoner compartment is vented as an act of mission sabotage (the saboteur being [[Karl Agathon|Karl "Helo" Agathon]]), asphyxiating the prisoners before the Resurrection Ship is in range. With the Cylons now nearby, Admiral Adama orders the execution of the Cylon prisoners. Attempting this, the prisoners are found to already be dead.

With the objective no longer possible, Admiral Adama aborts the mission, ordering his pilots to land and returning his battlestar to the Fleet ([[TRS]]: "[[A Measure of Salvation]]").

==Analysis==

[[Image:3x7-BattleOfNCD2539RaptorsFiring.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Raptors firing missiles.]]

In this engagement, [[Raptors]] are shown loaded to the teeth with weapons systems. In the past ([[TRS]]: [[Miniseries]], "[[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]"), Raptors have rarely been depicted in actual combat, preferring instead to hang back while coordinating battlefield logistics. They have been shown armed in a few prior episodes ([[TRS]]: "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]", "[[Fragged]]"), and this is their most prominent combat role to date. The Raptors are using the external missile pods and cannons introduced in "[[Exodus, Part I|Exodus, Part I]] & [[Exodus, Part II|II]]" and engage in the same maneuver used to launch the decoy drones during the [[Battle of New Caprica]].

Despite the damage inflicted during the Battle of New Caprica, ''Galactica'' shows her durability here by engaging in combat operations, successfully holding off a Cylon fleet for a short duration without suffering damage. At least some of the ship's [[Weapons in the Re-imagined Series|point defense guns and main batteries]] appear functional.

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