Basestar (TOS)

2007-08-23T10:26:51Z

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:''This article is about the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]] basestar. For the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Re-imagined Series]] version, see [[Basestar (RDM)]].''
{{Ship Data
| image= BasestarTOS.jpg
| title= Basestar
| race= [[Cylons (TOS)|Cylon]]
| type= Military
| crew= [[Cylon Centurion Model 0005|Centurion troops]]
| co= [[Imperious Leader]], [[Baltar (TOS)|Lord Baltar]] or other commander, usually a [[Command Centurion]] or an [[IL-series]] Droid.
| role= Carrier / battleship hybrid
| weapons= Laser turrets, missiles, pulsar cannons, Raiders
}}
A '''basestar''' is a large capital warship of the [[Cylon Alliance]].

Basestars are immense vehicles that, like their Colonial counterparts, the [[Battlestar (TOS)|battlestars]], serve as a combination of aircraft carrier and capital warship. They are capable of carrying and supporting over three hundred [[Raider (TOS)|Raiders]]. Armed with missiles, over one hundred defensive laser turrets, and two long range mega pulsar weapons, the capital warship of the Cylon Alliance is more than a match for any unprepared or unaware battlestar ([[The Hand of God (TOS)|The Hand of God]]). Basestars are also designed for orbital bombardment of a planet, and, true to their name, also serve as a moving base of operations. Four complete squadrons of Raiders is the typical complement of a basestar ([[The Living Legend, Part II]]).

Basestars, and their fighters are the key in the Cylons' genocidal destruction of the Twelve Colonies and the battlestar fleet. To fool the Colonials, the Cylons split up their fleet into two destructive units: a massive Raider fleet is sent to the [[Cimtar Peace Accord]] rendezvous, while the basestars are deployed separately to attack the [[The Twelve Colonies (TOS)|Twelve Colonies]]. [[Apollo (TOS)|Apollo]] encounters a Cylon Tanker near a gas cloud, which had been used (in lieu of the elsewhere basestars) to give extended [[tylium|fuel reserves]] that enable the Raiders to reach [[Cimtar]]. Apollo finds the Raiders soon after discovering the tanker and unsuccessfully tries to warn the battlestar fleet in time.

Only the battlestar ''[[Galactica (TOS)|Galactica]]'' is initially known to survive the [[Battle of Cimtar|holocaust]] and gathers an odd assortment of civilian spacecraft with the remnants of Humanity, leaving the dead Colonies behind in search of the lost 13th Colony - [[Earth (TOS)|Earth]].

Following the flight from [[Battle of Carillon|the death trap at Carillon]], the succeeding [[Imperious Leader]] sends a basestar under [[Baltar (TOS)|Baltar]]'s command to seek out the Fleet. Baltar's basestar is able to follow the Fleet, yet stay outside ''Galactica's'' scanning range ([[Lost Planet of the Gods, Part I]]), suggesting that basestar scanners have a longer range than their Colonial counterparts.

==Notes==
* This basestar class existed in the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Re-imagined Series]] continuity, if only in appearance, and likely with a different command and crew structure. A model of an Original Series basestar is displayed in ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'''s new [[Galactica Museum|museum]] in the [[Miniseries]]. However, because the new series does not use the same [[Weapons in the Re-imagined Series|weapons]] as the Original Series, it is not really the same ship, at least insofar as the technologies are concerned.

It has been contended by some that the Hapan Battle Dragons design in the Star Wars Expanded Universe is in fact based off The Origional Series Basetar.

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