Zephyr

Zephyr
Race:	Colonial
Type:	Civilian
FTL:	Yes
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Role:	Passenger liner
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Fate:	Scuttled, circa 4 ACH
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Length:	4000 feet (1219.2m)
Width:	1250 feet (381m)
Height:	1250 feet (381m)
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Additional Information

Zephyr is a FTL-capable civilian passenger liner that manages escape the destruction of the Twelve Colonies to join the Fleet (TRS: Miniseries). After the destruction of Cloud 9, it acts as the Fleet's rest and recreation vessel.

Layout

Zephyr has many noticeable and unique features that sets it apart from other fleet ships.

The Ring

The most noticeable feature, is the ships ring. Spinning counter-clockwise to "create" its own gravity, the ring is home to a biological habitat, populated with trees, water, and buildings for visiting Colonials to utilize and enjoy. The habitat is enclosed by a glass facade, which leaves an interesting view of the aft end of the ship, and on to the other side of the ring to anyone looking up. The ring is supported by four main pylons which connect the ring to the rest of the ship.

During the Cylon siege in the Ionian Nebula, the ring is struck by two Cylon missiles, and severely damaged with great loss of life. After making an escape, crews begin to repair the damage, and within two months, the ring was back in working order (TRS: "Six of One" "Guess What's Coming to Dinner?").

Sublight Engines

The second noticeable feature is the ship's sublight engines. Compared to the more traditional chemical thruster boosters of other fleet ships, Zephyr has an engine assembly which closely resembles that of an electric powered drive.

Fleet Career

Zephyr has played an important role in the fleet, since the Fall of the Twelve Colonies. During the events of President Laura Roslin's incarceration, the ship hosted the Quorum of Twelve (TRS: "Fragged").

Lt. Felix Gaeta discovers fraudulent ballots for President Roslin in Zephyr's ballot box during her ill-fated re-election attempt versus Vice President Gaius Baltar. The ballots are later rejected and Baltar is declared the winner (TRS: "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II").

Zephyr is among the first ships taken through the star cluster towards the algae planet (TRS: "The Passage"), and is home to Baltar's first lawyer, Alan Hughes, as Baltar was previously recaptured on the algae planet. Racetrack complains that she has to shuttle him between there and Galactica (TRS: "The Son Also Rises").

As the Cylon rebels begin integrating with the surviving Colonials, Junior Lieutenant Felix Gaeta is on his way to the Zephyr for some R&R along with two Number Eights, Specialist Brooks, Lt. J. "Shark" Finnegan and "Easy" Esrin when an emergency jump and a malfunction separate their Raptor from the rest of the Fleet, with deadly consequences (TRS: "The Face of the Enemy").

As Galactica prepared for one last fight, the ship was left with the rest of the fleet with the Rebel Basestar, the new flagship of the fleet. After Galactica returned, the ship jumped to what would become the Colonial's new home, Earth. After the population is offloaded the ship is later guided by Anders into Sol. (TRS: "Daybreak, Part II").

Additional Information

The following information was previously available on the SciFi Channel website. It should be noted that information from that website, while being official, is unreliable and may be contradicted on screen:

• The Zephyr, referred to as the Space Park, is of Libran registry.
• Its enormous ring section was designed in the days when artificial gravity was too expensive to utilize on a commercial ship of that size.
• This passenger liner design was so successful that it was adapted for scientific and military uses by replacing passenger accommodation with laboratories, auxiliary power generators, and computer cores.

Notes

• The ship is likely named after the Greek god of the western wind, Zephyrus.
• The repair of the Zephyr is the first time that large scale repair operations to the outside of a ship within the Fleet can be seen on screen.
• It appears that the Zephyr is one in a series of ships that has undergone a design retcon (others include the Viper Mark VII, the Cylon basestar and the Cylon Raider/Heavy Raider) in the third season. The new version appears the be more weathered - with far fewer "clean" lines than the original model - and bears a thickened neck section and a jagged antenna-like device that replaces the needle nose of the original.

Related Imagery

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  Aft view
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  In a small fleet preparing to traverse a star cluster (The Passage)
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  Ring section close-up (Crossroads, Part II)
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  Bow close-up (Crossroads, Part II)

Re-imagined Series definition: Commanding Officer; e.g. William Adama

Re-imagined Series definition: Executive Officer, e.g. Saul Tigh

Re-imagined Series definition: denotes any time following the Fall of the Twelve Colonies, e.g. 1 ACH (see: Timeline (RDM))

Re-imagined Series definition: technology enabling travel across distances faster than the speed of light would permit, see: FTL

Re-imagined Series definition: the process of using the FTL engines to make an near-instantaneous apparent faster-than-light transport of a ship from one point in space to another