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| The Cylons have a series of spacecraft with specific roles and tactical needs.
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| ==Raider==
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| :''Main article: [[Cylon Raider (RDM)]]''
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| [[Image:Bsg-raider-A.jpg|left|200 px]]
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| The [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Raider]] is an autonomous attack fighter with a metallic carapace and a largely organic interior; it is the successor to the [[Galactica Museum|Piloted Raider]] dating from the [[Cylon War]].
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| [[Sharon Valerii]] describes the Raider's nature to [[Galen Tyrol]] as she examines the exterior of a captured Raider, unaware that she is, in fact, a sleeper [[Humanoid Cylon]] with innate knowledge of the Raider ([[Six Degrees of Separation]]):
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| <blockquote>"It's not really a ''thing'', y'know? It's probably a Cylon itself. More of an animal, maybe, than the human models. Maybe they genetically design it to perform a task. To be a ''fighter''. [You] can't treat it like a ''thing'' and expect it to respond. [You] have to treat it like... a pet. At least that's my guess."</blockquote>
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| Two Raiders are captured by the Colonials. The first is found and returned to the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] by [[Kara Thrace]] ([[Act of Contrition]]) and is later lost ([[Scattered]]). A second is used by [[Daniel Novacek]] to escape the Cylons and is currently in Colonial possession ([[Hero]]).
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| ==Heavy Raider==
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| :''Main article: [[Cylon Heavy Raider]]''
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| [[Image:HeavyC.jpg|left|200 px]]
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| The [[Cylon Heavy Raider|Heavy Raider]] is a troop carrier spacecraft. It contains a crew compartment with life support sufficient for human comfort and room for at least ten [[Cylon Centurion]]s ("[[The Farm]]", "[[Scattered]]").
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| When the [[Caprica Resistance]] plans to capture a Heavy Raider in the episode "[[The Farm]]", [[Kara Thrace]] anticipates having to "blow its brain out" before it can be commandeered. No information has been provided in an episode (as of April 14, 2007) whether a Heavy Raider has autonomous components, or whether the Caprica copy of Valerii, who commandeers a Heavy Raider for herself, Thrace and [[Karl Agathon]], performs any procedure to disable any autonomous elements in the spacecraft or "persuade" the organics of the Heavy Raider to fly.
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| A Heavy Raider crashes into ''Galactica's'' starboard [[flight pod]] and deploys Cylon Centurions. If the Heavy Raider is autonomous, it performed its mission in concert with the Centurions at the battle ("[[Scattered]]", "[[Valley of Darkness]]").
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| ==Reconnaissance Drone==
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| :''Main article: [[Cylon Reconnaissance Drone]]''
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| No information has been given in any episode (as of January, 2006) on whether the Reconnaissance Drone is manned, autonomous, or intelligent.
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| ==Freighter==
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| :''Main article: [[Cylon freighter (RDM)]]''
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| These cargo or troop carriers are seen briefly in "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]".
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| ==Basestar==
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| :''Main article: [[Cylon Basestar]]''
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| [[Image:Basestar.jpg|left|200px]]
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| A basestar (also called a baseship) is the Cylon's capital warship, counterpart to the Colonial's [[battlestar]], but partly of biological design. Basestars are commanded [[basestar command|by Humanoid Cylons in a collaborative manner]]. It contains a landing bay large enough to accompany a [[Raptor]] with life support capable of sustaining [[Humanoid Cylon]]s. Basestars can pummel a target with missiles but do not have gun batteries, leaving them vulnerable to close-fire from a prepared battlestar.
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| ==Resurrection Ship==
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| :''Main article: [[Resurrection Ship]]''
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| Resurrection ships are large vessels containing the full apparatus necessary for resurrecting Humanoid Cylons once their consciousness has left a destroyed body. The ship is created to allow humanoid Cylons to be reborn in new bodies when they are out of range from the Cylon homeworld ([[Resurrection Ship, Part I]]). A second Resurrection Ship resides with a Cylon fleet that leaves [[New Caprica]] ([[Torn]]).
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