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* [[Cylon data port]], an access point to the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]]' network in the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Re-imagined Series]].
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* [[Datacord]], a form of networking cable in the Re-imagined Series.
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* [[Data disc]], a storage medium for computers, similar to a compact or digital versatile disc.
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* [[Datastream]], the name for the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]] computer network in the Re-imagined Series.
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* [[Gemenon Data Processing Complex]], the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Colonial Fleet]] high-security node containing sensitive information in ''[[Battlestar Galactica: Zarek 4]]''.
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Dualla handling datacord.
Datacord (also called generically as data cabling) is a form of networking cable[1] presumably used in modern Colonial military ships.
Datacord is used in Raptors as part of its avionics, particularly its fly-by-wire flight controls.[2]
After Starbuck's Raptor crashes from Cylon fire during a reconnaissance run on the algae planet, Lieutenant Anastasia Dualla manages to use datacord from the ship's communication system to repair the flight control console (TRS: "Rapture").
↑In the real-world Earth, networking cable is also used in avionics, which usually consists of twisted-pair Ethernet cabling or other advanced and military-hardened technology.
↑It is probable that the datacord in a Raptor also has a fiber-optic element to aid in its radiation-hardening, as established in the episode "The Passage".
Technologies such as computers have been mostly bane and less of a blessing to the Colonials of the Twelve Colonies, despite the obvious conveniences that technology brings. It was computer technology that led to the creation of the Cylons for household to warfare use. These intelligent machines rebelled. To counter their creation's ability to hack into computers, the Colonial defenses, particularly the first battlestars, used computers but did not network them to all but eliminate Cylon infiltration.
Over 40 years after that first Cylon War and with the Cylons apparently long gone, the Colonials slowly returned to technological conveniences. When the Cylons began planning a second war against the Colonials, they chose to infiltrate the Colonial military through yet another program installed throughout fighters and battlestars that was designed to add more convenience: the Command Navigation Program. This program, thanks to Cylon agents disguised as humans who infiltrated Colonial life and sought out people who had access to Colonial computer defense technologies, contained a "backdoor" that allow the Cylon forces to damage or disable any Colonial vessel with this program. Only non-networked ships (such as most civilian ships or Galactica herself) or those with comparatively primitive computers (such as the Viper Mark II) are all-but-immune to the new Cylon menace.
As he tours Galactica, Doral comments that her computers "hardly deserve the name" (TRS: "Miniseries, Night 1"). Ronald Moore has stated that the computers are actually less powerful than those of contemporary Earth [1].
Not much is known of this system other than its existence and the roles they played in the destruction of the Twelve Colonies. This central computer housed key Colonial Fleet logistical information, such as fleet deployment and tactical plans, and was the central system used by Gaius Baltar to create and distribute the Command Navigation Program to all advanced ships and fighters in the Colonial Fleet (TRS: "Miniseries"). Tampering with the mainframe was considered treason and was punishable by death. It was located within the Ministry of Defense on Caprica (TRS: "Six Degrees of Separation"), since Number Six produced credible-looking footage showing Baltar attaching a bomb to it.
Lee "Apollo" Adama performed simulations of Cylon attacks in War College to test Colonial defense tactics. One such defense involves the use of EMP devices to fool Cylon forces into believing a nuclear device detonated where no explosion took place. Adama successfully used the electric pulse generators that were offloaded onto Colonial Heavy 798 from Galactica to successfully fool two Cylon Raiders into concluding that their nuclear missile attack on Colonial Heavy 798 was successful, while also disabling the warheads of the missiles aimed at the starliner. Adama was amused that this trick actually worked in reality, for in the War College simulations the Cylons were not fooled and destroyed the Colonial targets anyway (TRS: "Miniseries").
Galactica loses many pilots to Cylon attack or accident in the first weeks of exodus from the Colonies. Lieutenant Kara "Starbuck" Thrace is ordered to become flight instructor to train nuggets as new pilots. Normally, pilots are trained on simulators, presumably on one of the Colonies or a more advanced battlestar, which used complex computers to immerse a trainee into the feel of Viper combat. Unfortunately, Galactica does not have simulators aboard, so Thrace teaches the new pilots using actual Vipers (TRS: "Act of Contrition"). Months later, the advanced battlestarPegasus joins the Fleet. The modern resources of this battlestar include flight simulators. Rookie pilots BB and Jo-Jo arrive on Galactica to begin their tour after training with these simulators on Pegasus(TRS: "Scar").
In preparation for converting Galactica into a museum and education center, then-Secretary of Education Laura Roslin pleads unsuccessfully to then-Commander William Adama to allow installation of a network for personal computers to be used for teaching and information by students and visitors (TRS: "Miniseries").
Terrorist Sesha Abinell uses a personal laptop computer[2] in her quarters as she compiles and gathers information on Cylon and Colonial conspiracy theories (TRS: "Sacrifice").
Network administrator Gina Inviere uses a tablet personal computer in her work upgrading Pegasus's computers. Like the other computers on Pegasus, the tablet computer accepts inputs via a touchscreen (TRS: "Razor"). Galactica also has older versions of these tablet personal computers, as Felix Gaeta uses one to diagnose the problem with Anastasia Dualla's workstation in CIC (TRS: "Flight of the Phoenix").
Standalone computers are also present in sickbay and Dr. Baltar's laboratory.
The New Caprica Resistance has a computer in its underground tunnels, which is used to communicate with Raptors dispatched by Galactica ("Occupation," "Precipice").
In the extended version of "Pegasus," Lieutenant Gaeta receives a copy of Pegasus's digital library on such dics. The case also contains a spindle of round discs.
The Cylon are a cybernetic race. As such, everything is computer-based by nature. To avoid confusion between differentiation of the cybernetic physiology of the humanoid Cylon, only the non-sentient or quasi-sentient computer systems of the basestar are noted here.
The Hybrid is a special variety of non-autonomous humanoid Cylon that rests in a pool of water near or in a basestar's command and control center. Because of its connection to many, if not all, of the basestar's systems, it in effect is the basestar. Functions such as Cylon Centurion and Cylon Raider access and deployment appear to be controlled by the Hybrid, as well as navigation control. Whether there is more than one Hybrid model is unknown.
The datastream is the central network within a basestar. It appears to use a liquid as a data transmission medium, a storage medium, or both. The datastream is suceptible to corruption by certain organic pathogens that can also infect the sentient humanoid Cylons. The liquid also appears as waterfalls and pools within a basestar's command and control center, which may also serve as access nodes[4] (see Data port interfaces below).
While not computers in themselves, humanoid Cylons, which are more biological than cybernetic, have devised a remarkable manner to interface with computer systems with an optical interface. On a basestar, Cylons can access their datastream by placing their arm on an illuminated panel that's covered by a thin layer of liquid. This activates the data port, an optical interface incorporated within their arms that's otherwise disguised as ordinary human tissues. These interfaces are transceivers that can also be configured for visual data such as photography.
A battlestar has several computers dedicated to many critical ship functions. Several specific computers have been mentioned or seen during the series. This list is not inclusive; an original battlestar like Galactica is still a very complex spacecraft. On advanced battlestars such as Pegasus, the highly networked computers theoretically allow the crew to control any system from any location, if one possesses the correct passwords (TRS: "Razor"). However, it is likely that after the Fall of the Twelve Colonies, Pegasus is not as strongly networked as before, in order to create similar defenses against Cylon intrusion as its predecessors.
Although the battlestar normally does not have a central computer network in place, Galactica does possess a gateway, which, in Galactica's case, is likely managed within the mainframe itself and not as a larger network topology. The mainframe's normally-isolated gateway can be linked to the other computers (as Gaeta does in "Scattered").
NAV Computer Display of Galactica(TRS: "Miniseries")
Also known as the "NAV" or "NAVCON" computer, it tracks the battlestar's position and handles sublight travel and RCS translations. It is very likely that DRADIS sensor information is obtained and managed by the Navigation Computer then passed on to the Tactical Officer and the Command & Control Center in the CIC.
The DRADIS system, while having digital controls, is an analog instrument (utilizing EM radiation), which protects it from direct external infiltration by Cylon electronic attack. As shown in "Flight of the Phoenix," the navigation computer hardware, as with practically every other computer system, is subceptible to internal compromise by Cylon viruses or logic bombs already present in the battlestar's other systems.[5]
Pegasus's navigation computer is off-line during the Cylon attack, forcing Admiral Cain to order a risky blind jump without any navigational data fed to the FTL drive (TRS: "Razor").
The FTL computer manages the complex calculations necessary for an FTL jump. Information for these jumps on a more advanced battlestar such as Pegasus are probably transmitted from the Navigation Computer by the battlestar's network.
On Galactica, however, the FTL computer receives the spatial coordinates manually from the Tactical Officer or its Communications Officer. The FTL computer also manages the star fixes of the jump coordinates to compensate for inertial drift that naturally occurs over time. The Tactical Officer generates a series of emergency jump coordinates for the Fleet with the FTL computer. This information is relayed to other ships regularly. It is likely that the flight pods are also controlled through the FTL computer as they must be retracted prior to a jump.[6]
The Damage Control computer relays information to the CIC on malfunctioning or damaged areas of the battlestar, presumably from various sensors throughout the ship. It also has access to radiation sensors in the event of nuclear attack to warn against dangerous radiation levels that could harm the crew.[7] The DC computer's function can be compromised by a hostile force through places such as Aft Damage Control, as was threatened in "Valley of Darkness". If these locations are compromised, the computer's safeties can be overridden and various life-support controls, such as bulkheads and atmospheric controls, could be altered, venting the ship's air (and crew) into space.
The Fire Control computer manages a battlestar's primary offensive weapons, the central flak turret and smaller port and starboard turrets along the length of each side of the ship. It is presumed that the Fire Control computers report to crewmembers responsible for the upkeep of ammunition on the guns when to reload an particular turret. The Fire Control computer can target individual bogeys with the flak turret guns, which, in tandem with the smaller turrets, make even Galactica, an old original battlestar from the first Cylon War, a formidable foe to encounter. Like the DC computer, there are control rooms on Galactica where the ship's computerized gun control can be overriden.[8]
This computer likely manages secondary functions of the ship, such as communications. The mainframe likely provides extra calculating power for other ship tasks when required, and may also serve as the ship's library for tactical information.[9] Of all the computers on Galactica, this computer is likely very resistant by design to infiltration since it controls communication traffic (and thus is accessible to Cylon external intrusion by wireless). The mainframe likely possesses a basic gateway, but, per Galactica's no-networks edict, it is typically unused.
The communications elements of the mainframe, while having digital controls, are analog instruments, which make them highly resistant to external Cylon electronic attack as they do not transfer digital signals. As with other battlestar systems, the mainframe hardware remains susceptible to internal Cylon electronic attacks (viruses and logic bombs that infect and transfer from other systems).[5]
The environmental computer is likely connected to the nearly one-dozen carbon dioxide air scrubbers throughout Galactica, which remove the excess levels of the gas before it reaches toxic levels (TRS: "Final Cut").
The computer systems found on fighters and support aircraft of a capital ship are generally described by the term avionics (AVIation electrONICS). In the world of Battlestar Galactica, aircraft terminology is intermixed with spacecraft terminology--note the use of "CAG" and Commander Adama's use of the word "planes" to Chief Galen Tyrol to describe the Viper space fighter (TRS: "Litmus"). As the term "avionics" is used in the episode "Flesh and Bone" to describe the flight electronics on the captured Raider, despite its aeronautical connotation, it will be used here.
The Colonial Fleet relied initially on primitive, hard-wired avionics in its early fighters, but later reverted to more "fly-by-wire" technologies, one of which sealed the doom of billions of citizens.
A view of the manual "8-ball" landing software on a Viper Mk. II.A view of a Mk. II secondary display below the primary display, currently using DRADIS.
The avionics found on modern Vipers and Raptors are complex systems that combine fly-by-wire technology with computer systems.
In the case of Raptors, datacord is used for networking subsystems. This wiring makes Raptors more radiation-hardened and thus useful in high-radiation conditions [10].
Viper Mk. II cockpit avionics, resistant to Cylon infiltration.
The older and generally-obsolete Viper Mark II fighters have a more primitive avionics package, but unlike CNP-equipped Viper Mark VIIs and Raptors, these old-style Viper systems (a design similar to that used in the Cylon War) appear to combine hydraulics [11] with a basic computer and DRADIS subsystem that is effectively immune from Cylon electronic counterattack.
Both Vipers are equipped with a multi-functional display that can can be set to various modes, such as DRADIS, navigation, engines, system status and weapons.
The flight systems of these systems also likely include these components, which vary in availability or degrees of complexity depending on the craft's age or purpose:
A non-directional medium-range wireless communications for ship-to-ship and ship-to-planet contact
DRADIS hardware for enemy targeting, squadron formation flight maneuvers, etc.
A Colonial transponder for IFF "friend or foe" identification
Stellar positioning system for proper sublight or FTL navigation
Larger craft such as Raptors can manage FTL jumps and so come equipped with more advanced avionics to handle jump computations
Instrument Landing Systems (ILS), an automatic ("hands-off") landing system guidance package
Viper Mk. VII cockpit avionics, vulnerable if the CNP is installed.
In the case of modern (pre-holocaust) spacecraft, many of these systems were likely tied into (either as a software or firmware component) the tainted Command Navigation Program. Evidence for this is strong as Jackson Spencer's Mark VII Viper loses power, communications, flight control, DRADIS, and apparently ejection control after Cylon fighters "rooted," or counter-commanded his Viper to shut down, thanks to the backdoors installed in these modern avionics packages (TRS: "Miniseries").
Galactica prohibits computerized landings, so all pilots perform manual approach and landings in non-combat situations. No information has been given in the series if Mark II Vipers are capable of auto-landings in the manner that Mark VIIs demonstrate (TRS: "Miniseries").
Cylon Raiders contain some level of avionics that co-exist amidst the biological components that form the "pilot" within the fuselage of the fighter. Kara Thrace identifies the mechanical linkage within a captured fighter, and Galen Tyrol's team identifies the fire control, navigation, and FTL drive components in addition to an actual avionics package (TRS: "Flesh and Bone"). Galactica flight crews later rigged a flight control console that mated with the Raider's avionics for human readability.
The Cylons moved to biomechanical pilots rather than using Centurions or other robotic pilot for three probable reasons:
The Cylons' monotheistic belief in God and their belief in procreation (machines cannot procreate, but living organisms can) suggest that they believe a biological pilot would be more effective. A Raider pilot is programmed with a basic personality akin to a predatory animal. Unlike the logic of a Centurion, a Raider pilot is capable of improvements in its programming--it can learn and anticipate changes in battle ("Six Degrees of Separation," "Scar").
Colonial forces may attempt to use electronic countermeasures that could affect the performance or operation of a fully-mechanical Cylon Raider or a craft piloted by autonomous Cylon Centurions. Biological pilots cannot be easily disabled by ECM.
A Raider's personality, like a humanoid Cylon, is downloadable and transferable should the fighter be destroyed. This provides the Cylons a dramatic tactical advantage over the Colonials since the knowledge of a Raider isn't lost in death, allowing it to improve its fighting as well as allowing riskier tactics (such as ramming) without permanent loss of self, provided a Resurrection Ship or the Cylon homeworld is sufficiently close to retrieve a signal (TRS: "Scar").
Raiders are capable of independent thought, which is demonstrated during the Battle of the Ionian Nebula, where one identifies Samuel Anders as a humanoid Cylon. This causes all other Raiders to break off the attack and forces the Cylon fleet to retreat (TRS: "He That Believeth in Me").
The interior of a Heavy Raider, or its cockpit, have not been revealed. While no information is available as to the nature of their avionics and piloting requirements, events suggest that the Heavy Raider is not an autonomous or quasi-autonomous vehicle (Fragged," "The Farm," "Home, Part I") .
Cylon spacecraft avionics can be affected by infiltration with the right methods. The cooperative Cylon infiltrator copy of Sharon Valerii used herself as a backdoor to send a version of a Cylon virus to shut down power to a massive Cylon fleet en route to attack Galactica(TRS: "Flight of the Phoenix"). It was not shown whether the biologics of the Cylon Raiders are themselves affected by this unexpected infiltration from Valerii.
The organic nature of most Cylon cybernetics is also susceptible to classic human pathogens, which can cause massive and catastrophic system failure. The infection that caused a basestar to succumb (TRS: "Torn"), according to other Cylons investigating the incident, has a bioelectric nature that could cause it to behave more like programming, allowing the downloaded personalities of infected agents to infect the entire Cylon race via the Resurrection Ship.
Colonial aesthetics often eschew right angles, instead using octagons. Many computer programs also follow this design by having windows, menus or buttons with angled corners.
↑In an amusing props gaffe, fans of the show may notice that the mouse she used is an actual product manufactured by the Microsoft Corporation, which may mistakenly suggest to fans that Microsoft's sales model truly is universal.
↑One of Gaeta's responsibilities is to monitor DRADIS contacts. To navigate, a battlestar must use some way to determine its location relative to other objects, so the Navigation and DRADIS connection must exist.
↑While Colonel Tigh was on a handset ordering the retraction of the pods as the battlestar began its escape from Ragnar Anchorage, many events within the ship must be coordinated (bulkheads closing, motors for the pod movement activated, etc.) While there was likely a person in CIC or elsewhere that flips a switch or types in a computer command, there must still be a computer used to coordinate these events as they are too many to manage in a limited amount of time (TRS: "Miniseries").
↑Caprica-Valerii: "Mr. Gaeta, can you set me up with a fiber-optic com link? I need broadcast to all frequencies and direct link to the mainframe." (TRS: "Flight of the Phoenix")
↑Raptors are used as pilot ships in the episode "The Passage".
↑Note the leaking fluid on Viper 289 in the episode "Flight of the Phoenix," strongly suggesting a hydraulic flight control system on these fighters.
The data-font glows when activated (TRS: "Rapture")
A data-font is a form of optical computer interface used by Cylons to access information in their datastream, as well as control various other Cylon technologies. Humanoid Cylons need only to place their palm on the illuminated port to instantly access the data stream (TRS: "Exodus, Part I").
Caprica-Valerii performs a rough version of this technique with Colonial technology by inserting a fiber optic cable (which uses light as a data carrier) into an incision in her left arm to connect to Galactica's computer mainframe(TRS: "Flight of the Phoenix"). Another Eight interfaces with a Raptor's computer in the same manner (TRS: "The Face of the Enemy"). These abilities, including other observed interactions or reactions such as glowing spines[1] and photo-sensitive eyes[2] shows that many cells in their bodies are photo-sensitive and/or bio-luminescent.
A data-font screen featuring imagery of the Lion's Head beacon beneath the surface of water (TRS: "Torn").
Data-fonts are found on basestars in the ship's command and control center for data access and other ship functions. These data ports have a layer of water over the interface, which may have an aesthetic or functional purpose.
Production designer Richard Hudolin explained that water serves as a communications conduit in Cylon technology, functioning as a transfer medium for data streams rather than relying on traditional switches and screens.[production 1] The data-fonts utilize screens made of monofilament with water droplets flowing down them, enabling image projection onto the liquid surface.[production 1] This technology also allows Cylons to project images directly onto themselves as a method of transferring data or communicating.[production 1]
These data-fonts (and the database circuitry used throughout the ship) are at least partially organic[3] in design, as they are damaged after an infection kills or shuts down almost every Cylon entity and device on the basestar (TRS: "A Measure of Salvation").
The term "data-font" comes from Ron D. Moore, who calls these devices as this in a forum post on SCIFI.com [4]. It is also used by the Hybrid in the episode "Six of One".
The Merriam-Webster definition of font (aside from its modern usage as an element of a printed typeface) is a receptacle for baptismal water, such as those touched by members of the Roman Catholic church as they arrive and leave Mass.
↑ 1.01.11.2Tom Reeve (October/November 2006). "Base of Operations: Production Design". Battlestar Galactica: The Official Magazine (7): 22.
Information and ciphers comprising the datastream.
Datastream is a component of computer technology dating back to Caprica before the Fall. It is later utilized by the Cylons as the primary computer network of their installations and baseships. It is usually represented by pixelated icons flowing on computer readouts or projected onto walls or bulkheads.
In the years leading up to the Cylon War, the datastream is common in computers and technology created, utilized, marked and sold by Graystone Industries. The datastream appears to make up the structure of the virtual world and is experienced as a tunnel or gateway by holoband users when transitioning into the digital realm. The datastream also appears in the holoband welcome screen, flowing below images of virtual destinations ((CAP: "Pilot", "Rebirth" and "Know Thy Enemy").
Following the death of his daughter and the discovery of her living avatar in the virtual world, Daniel Graystone attempts to resurrect Zoe Graystone in the body of one of his company's U-87 Cyber Combat Units. The datastream facilitates the integration of the meta-cognitive processor with the U-87 chassis. During the transfer, however, the datastream is lost, corrupting the chip and seemingly deleting Zoe's virtual consciousness ((CAP: "Pilot")").
Zoe Graystone's avatar is in fact not deleted and continues within the prototypical Cylon, experiencing the world through the eyes of her father's robotic creation. This includes datastream symbols and information entering her vision, dreams and memories (CAP: "Rebirth").
Production designer Richard Hudolin explained that in Cylon technology, water functions as a communications conduit, serving as the primary means of data transfer throughout the basestar rather than relying on traditional switches and screens.[production 1] The data-font interfaces utilize screens made of monofilament, with water droplets flowing down them to enable image projection onto the liquid surface.[production 1] This technology also allows the datastream to project images directly onto the Cylons themselves as a method of transferring data or communicating.[production 1]
Several humanoid Cylons are seen using interfaces in a basestar's command and control center that consist of a illuminated panel covered by a thin layer of water, suggesting that the liquid may serve as both display and input device as a Cylon interfaces the datastream. This behavior is reinforced by the comparative lack of visual displays throughout the command and control center. All information appears to come from these liquid data interfaces.
The interfaces are normally used by the Cylons by placing their hand on the interface, making contact with the illuminated base and the thin liquid layer, which activates the data ports within their arm. The interfaces can also be configured to show visual information such as still photography, such as the photos taken by Gaius Baltar during his exploration of a dying basestar that makes a reconnaissance mission to the Lion's Head Nebula(TRS: "Torn"). Sections of these pictures can be enlarged and sharpened.
The basestar's central computer, the Hybrid, rests within a pool of liquid, connected to many conduits below the surface. Clear liquid drips on the Hybrid from above the pool, suggesting that data might be relayed to and from the Hybrid through the liquid surrounding and falling upon her in some fashion.
Athena accompanies fellow members of a Colonial boarding party that investigates a basestar that is found disabled in space. She instructs others to place "SSR leads" in a pool of water as she attempts to access the basestar's computer database, hoping to make a data dump from the basestar to a Colonial data storage device.
Datapoints[2] are either database records or specific subdatabases in the datastream. On New Caprica, Sharon Agathon tells the resistance that the datapoints indicated that the launch keys she retrieved were not damaged. Some time later, on a disabled basestar, she attempts to access the basestar's datastream and finds its datapoints severely corroded, suggesting that the datastream (and datapoints) have an organic element that is as equally susceptible to viral damage as the humanoid Cylons.
After living humanoid Cylons are found and information on the ship's infection is discovered, the boarding team appears to abort their information gathering attempt (TRS: "A Measure of Salvation").
When a team of Colonials including Sharon Agathon and a Leoben prisoner boarded the Rebel basestar, Agathon connected to the datastream to learn about what shape the ship was in and what they needed to do to repair the FTL drives. The datastream apparently showed her what she needed to know and she was able to come up with a way to use the Raptor they arrived on to patch the FTL drive so they could escape. Samuel Anders, who had recently learned of his true nature as a Final Five Cylon, reached for the datastream to see what effect it would have if he interacted with it. He never got the chance to see what effects it would have as Starbuck interupted him to get his help, but given the Five's interaction with the datastream in Anders' Hybrid tank in Daybreak, it probably would have been the same as any other Cylon that interacted with the datastream (TRS: "Faith").
When the rebel Hybrid panicked and repeatedly jumped the ship, a Number Eight copy was apparently able to gain some insight into what happened by entering the datastream in the Hybrid's chamber. She wasn't able to determine what caused the Hybrid to panic, but determined that that was the reason for the jumping and determined that they seemed to be following the jumps of the Resurrection Hub and would thus still get the chance to complete their mission. Later, after D'Anna Biers was unboxed and resurrected by Cavil and Boomer, Boomer interacted with the datastream and detected the arrival of the rebel baseship and was confused as it was unscheduled, not realizing exactly which basestar it was at the time. Using the datastream, Boomer was apparently able to tap into the Hub's sensors and detected the Heavy Raider and Viper attack force which caused her to realize that it was the Rebel Basestar and that it was about to launch an attack to destroy the hub which frightened Cavil (TRS: "The Hub").
When a Cylon is resurrected, they apparently end up in a datastream given that when Ellen Tigh was resurrected after her husband killed her, she was shown in what seemed to be a datastream before she finally downloaded into a new body and resurrected (TRS: "No Exit").
During the Battle of The Colony, the Final Five use the datastream in Anders' Hybrid tank to combine the parts of resurrection technology they each posses and transmit it to The Colony. It works at first, but apparently as a result of connecting to the datastream like that, a side-effect is that everything about each of the Five is exposed to each other and they each see flashes of each other's memories. It's through this that Galen Tyrol finally learns the truth of his wife's death from Tory Foster's memories: she murdered her to protect her secret and in a rage, Tyrol breaks the link and kills Tory by snapping her neck. Breaking the link causes pain for the Hybrids recieving the data, but doesn't seem to cause the Five any discomfort aside from their shock at what the memory revealed (TRS: "Daybreak, Part II").
↑Sharon Agathon identifies the fluid as water in the episode "A Measure of Salvation": "If I get a connection, put the SSR leads in the water over there."
↑ 1.01.11.2Tom Reeve (October/November 2006). "Base of Operations: Production Design". Battlestar Galactica: The Official Magazine (7): 22.
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The Gemenon Data Processing Complex is an installation in Colonial space in orbit around a green-hued planet [1].
According to its caretaker, Anna Bazinet of Colonial Intelligence, it contains sensitive, classified information of the highest level.
At the time of the Cylon attack, she awaits for a detachment of personnel to help her in the maintenance of the installation. However, they are reassigned to Pegasus during the attack [2].
