Agro Ship

Agro Ship
Race:	Colonial
Type:	Civilian
FTL:
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XO:	{{{xo}}}
Role:	Agricultural ship for growing foodstuffs
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Armaments:	{{{arm}}}
Defenses:	{{{def}}}
Aircraft:	{{{aircraft}}}
Aviation facilities:	{{{facilities}}}
Fate:	Almost all destoryed by Cylons (The Magnificent Warriors)
Emblem:	[[Image:{{{patch}}}|175px|Ship's patch]]
Other Images:	Gallery
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Game Information
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Additional Information

Agro Ship is the common classification for spacecraft capable of growing any edible agro foodstuffs needed in a convoy or Fleet for long periods of time. These crafts have translucent hull plates interconnected in a structural enforcement grid, which allow the plants to receive the necessary sunlight from a nearby star or some other stellar formation to achieve the state of photosynthesis. Artificial lighting is, apparently, also an important function of these agro ships.

Agro ships are unarmed, but can withstand an assault for some period of time.

Galactica's Fleet has three such agro ships; two of which are destroyed by the Cylons and the third, the Agro Ship 9, experiences a hull breach via a destroyed airlock (The Magnificent Warriors).

Count Iblis also visits the Agro Ship 9 with Lieutenant Sheba during his time with the Fleet ("War of the Gods, Part I & II").

Notes

• The agro ships are reuses of the spacecraft from Silent Running, a Universal/MCA movie that special effects guru John Dykstra worked on a few years prior to Battlestar Galactica.

• The same shots of the agro ships destructions in "The Magnificent Warriors" were reused in the Galactica 1980 episode "Space Croppers". This continued Battlestar's regrettable tradition of continued reuse of stock footage, which occurred due to the length of time special effects shots took to prepare for and produce in that television era, in combination with the hectic shooting schedule. As a side effect of this, a continuity error is also created, as by the time the Fleet heads to Earth, they should have only one agro ship left.

• The Botanical Cruiser in the Re-imagined Series is an homage to this ship.