Rising Star (TOS alternate)

For other subjects with the same name, see: Rising Star.

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Rising Star
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Rising Star in the primary continuity

Rising Star is a civilian pleasure liner of the Twelve Colonies of Man. In the aftermath of the Battle of Cimtar, the ship holds refugees fleeing the Cylon tyranny in the rag-tag fugitive fleet.

In the separate continuity

Berkley Novelizations

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Rising Star is a civilian vessel within the Fleet that operates casino facilities. The ship serves as a destination for gambling and entertainment, where individuals can accumulate debts in cubits that exceed their credit accounts.

The ship's casino operations are significant enough that those who "get in a bit over their heads" owing "the casino more cubits than our credit account showed" may need to "skip out" rather quickly to avoid consequences. This has led to the Rising Star serving as a source of refugees who flee to other ships in the Fleet to escape their gambling debts, with some seeking sanctuary aboard vessels like Broadside where they can hide from Fleet authorities.

Broadside's Captain Ironhand notes that many of his crew come from "trouble" and that some are "fugitives from justice who've heard this is a safe ship for escapees from anything," including those fleeing gambling debts from Rising Star.

Marvel Comics

Rising Star is a pleasure liner under Sire Uri's command and ownership. During the exodus, he has food freighted to Rising Star from his private estate for him and guests, primarily women and people of influence. During the flight from the Colonies, he has various persons transported to other lesser ships in the fleet, such as the freighter Gemini. Upon discovering this, Captain Apollo has the food seized and distributed to the less fortunate, particularly in the face of reduced food stores due to pluton poisoning. Serina and Boxey have billets aboard Rising Star, and Dr. Wilker has a maintenance lab aboard where he develops the first robotic daggit, Muffey II ^{(Comics: Exodus!)}.

Dynamite Entertainment comics

Parrin's Harvester attached to Rising Star (^{(Comics: Battlestar Galactica Classic #4)}).

After entering the Empyrean Expanse sometime circa 7358, Rising Star is hijacked by the Okaati with the entirety of the Fleet's civilian ships. Among those aboard are Colonel Tigh, Lieutenant Starbuck, and Cassiopeia and the Okaati Grust, who has a change of heart and aids the Colonials in fighting back against their hijackers. As with the other ships, Rising Star is brought to land inside a large crater on Gehenna Prime to await redemption by the Cylons, who are subsequently thwarted ^{(Comics: Battlestar Galactica Classic #3 — 5)}.

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