Battle of Ragnar Anchorage

2006-03-22T02:32:46Z

Galactica 242:

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|+ Battle before: [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]] <br>Battle after: [[Skirmish over the Red Moon]]
|colspan=2|[[Image:Ragnar Escape.jpg|center|300px|]] ''Galactica'' provides cover fire while the civilian Fleet escapes.
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!colspan=2 bgcolor=#aaaaee|Battle of Ragnar Anchorage
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|Conflict||[[Cylon Attack|Second Cylon war]]
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|Date||[[Re-Imagined Series Timeline|Days 1-6]]
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|Place||[[Ragnar Anchorage]]
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|Result||Successful escape from Cylon-occupied Colonial space
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!colspan=2 bgcolor=#aaaaee|Combatants
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| width=50%|Remnants of the [[Colonial Fleet]]
| width=50%|[[Cylon]]s
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!colspan=2|Commanders
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|Commander [[William Adama]]
|Unknown
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!colspan=2|Strength
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|One [[Battlestar (RDM)|battlestar]], 40 [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]]s, [[Raptor]]s
|Three [[Basestar (RDM)|Basestars]], associated [[Raider]]s
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!colspan=2|Casualties
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|1,345 civilians, approximately 4 Vipers
|At least 20 Raiders
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The successful breakthrough by ''Galactica'' of the Cylons' blockade around [[Ragnar Anchorage]] and escape of its armada after being tracked and attacked for 5 continuous days ([[Miniseries]], "[[33]]").

Battlestar ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' is the only [[Pegasus (RDM)|known]] surviving capital ship able to mount a counter-attack against the Cylons after the devastating attack that led to the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]]. After getting word that many battlestars, including flagship battlestar ''[[Atlantia]]'' and its fleet admiral, are destroyed, Commander [[William Adama]] assumes command of any remaining Colonial forces in the solar system and orders them over [[wireless]] to rendezvous with his ship at a munitions depot, Ragnar Anchorage, for counter-attack preparation. Orbiting within the tenuous upper atmosphere of the gas giant [[Ragnar]], the ammunition station held critical ordinance needed by ''Galactica'', which had destroyed its own munitions earlier as part of its scheduled decommissioning. The depot's location offers effective cover against Cylon attack as a particular form of electromagnetic radiation generated by the planet's upper atmosphere causes damage to Cylon technology with sufficient exposure, and also jams any [[DRADIS]] detection, making attacking within the cloud threshold problematic at best.

''Galactica'' is joined by a convoy of faster-than-light capable civilian ships rescued from throughout the spacelanes near [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]], led by new President [[Laura Roslin]]. Despite the overwhelming odds, Commander [[William Adama|Adama]] intends to proceed with a counter-offensive. However, after persuasion by Roslin, Adama realizes that the ship was in a no-win battle situation: the Colonies are destroyed, ''Galactica'' is massively outnumbered, the human race was near extinction, and he was surrounded by nearly 50,000 of the only known survivors. Adama decides to take the new [[The Fleet (RDM)|rag-tag fleet]] away from the home solar system of the Colonies, never to return.

Lt. [[Kara Thrace]] discovers at least two Cylon [[Basestar (RDM)|basestars]] and their fighters outside of the cloud during a reconnaissance mission. With an avoidance of attack made impossible since a Jump within the cloud would likely distort the FTL calculations with fatal results, ''Galactica'' leaves the storm and orients itself as a shield for the remainder of the Fleet to safely Jump from behind the battlestar and to its new coordinates. With her weapons now fully armed, ''Galactica'' creates a defense perimeter against two basestars while her Vipers engage any [[Cylon Raiders]] that attempt to move around ''Galactica'' and to her fleet. A third basestar later appears and threatens to pummel ''Galactica'' with successive missiles.

Once the last civilian ship is away and the last of the Vipers return to the flight pod, ''Galactica'' Jumps to escape the onslaught.

After the battle ends at Ragnar, approximately 1 day later, the Cylons continue tracking and pursuing the remnant of the Colonial Fleet, appearing every 33 minutes for five consecutive days and over 240 Jumps ([[33]]). A passenger liner, the ''[[Olympic Carrier]]'', fails to jump with the Fleet in a recent escape. The Cylons also fail to attack in the next 33-minute interval as well. When the ''Carrier'' reappears a a short time later, a suspicious Adama commands the 33-minute countdown to resume immediately. Adama's fears about the ''Carrier'' are confirmed when the Cylons appear 33 minutes after the ''Carrier's'' return, indicating the ''Carrier'' has been used to track the Fleet throughout that time. When ''Galactica'' detects a [[Radiological Alarm|radiological signature]] from the ''Olympic Carrier'', suggesting it was boarded by Cylons and now carries a nuclear warhead, Vipers are dispatched to destroy the ''Carrier''. After the Fleet Jumps once more, the Cylons can longer immediately track their movements.

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