Cloud 9

2007-04-13T18:47:40Z

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| status= Destroyed by [[Gina]] in "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]"
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'''''Cloud 9''''' was a massive, [[FTL]]-capable luxury liner within [[The Fleet (RDM)|the Fleet]]. Extensively damaged during the [[Cylon Attack]], she had to be evacuated while repairs were made. Following the repairs, she is returned to full service within the Fleet, and provides a venue for the first sitting of the interim [[Quorum of Twelve]] convened by [[Laura Roslin|President Roslin]] ([[Colonial Day]]).

The ship is unique in that as well as traditional living and working space on board, ''Cloud 9'' incorporates a huge pressurized dome, that provides a realistic simulation of a planetary surface, including gardens, buildings, trees - even an artificial holographic sky.

After her flight from captivity in ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica's]]'' brig, President Roslin, along with Captain [[Lee Adama]] and priest [[Elosha]], flee in a Raptor to ''Cloud 9'' in order hide from Colonel [[Saul Tigh|Tigh]] and Commander [[William Adama|Adama]]. The group is taken in by [[Tom Zarek]], who meets with them on in a hangar on the ship. ''Cloud 9's'' high volume of intraship traffic makes it virtually impossible for ''Galactica'' to track their final hiding place ([[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]).

[[Image:Cloud9Destroyed.jpg|thumb|left|''Cloud 9'''s destruction.]]
''Cloud 9'' also has a swimming area. Commander Adama's orders shore leave for Colonel Tigh, advising him to take a swim and relax from his unexpected command duties when Adama was injured. Colonel Tigh never leaves ''Galactica'' to enjoy it as his Raptor is [[Joe Palladino|sabotaged]] in an assassination attempt ([[Final Cut]]).

Many of ''Cloud 9's'' accommodations are more like hotel rooms than bunks or seats, pointing to its original purpose as a luxury liner. A passenger, [[Shevon]], lives in one such room, where Captain Adama visits her for intimate moments. Shevon is removed from her room by [[Phelan]]'s thugs, and Captain Adama later finds the killer of Commander [[Jack Fisk]] in the room, dead of a gunshot to the head ([[Black Market]]). The Cylon sympathizer/terrorist group [[Demand Peace]] also operates out of a suite located onboard ''Cloud 9'' ([[Epiphanies]]).

A bar on the ship is the scene of a hostage crisis in which a disgruntled [[Sesha Abinell]] holds many people hostage including [[Lee Adama]], [[Anastasia Dualla]], [[Billy Keikeya]] and [[Ellen Tigh]]. With the help of several gunmen, she demands that she is handed over [[Sharon Valerii (Caprica copy)|Sharon Valerii]] in order to take revenge on her for an earlier Cylon attack on the Fleet which left her [[Ray Abinell|husband]] dead. She and her co-conspirators are ultimately killed when the lounge is stormed by Colonial Marines ([[Sacrifice]]).

''Cloud 9'' and several smaller ships are destroyed by [[Gina]] just after the presidential election using a nuclear device that was given to her by [[Gaius Baltar]] ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]).

== Related Imagery ==

<gallery>
Image:Cloud 9 Ballroom.jpg|''Cloud 9'' - Ballroom  
Image:Cloud 9 - Gardens.jpg|''Cloud 9'' -- Garden  
Image:Cloud 9 - Horizon.jpg|The "horizon" of ''Cloud 9''  
</gallery>

==Notes==
* The origin of the term "cloud nine" is curious in that it is an American expression popularized in the 20th Century as a term describing euphoria or higher state of bliss. The term appeared to originate from the 1896 edition of the International Cloud Atlas, where the cumulo-nimbus cloud was given the designation of nine, which was the highest altitude that a cloud could be, according to information from the [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cloud_nine Wiktionary]. However, it is just one of many terms of Earth-origin used on the show.
* Cloud Nine was filmed on location at the University of British Columbia's Chan Centre.
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