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| ==Overview== | | ==Overview== |
| | [[Image:Enterprise in fleet.jpg||right|thumb|A screenshot from the [[Miniseries]] highlighting the in-joke appearance of the [[:Wikipedia:Starship Enterprise|USS ''Enterprise'']] in the rag-tag fleet.]] |
| "The Fleet" begins as a convoy of about sixty stranded commercial and civilian ships around the area of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]] assembled by new President [[Laura Roslin]] in the immediate aftermath of the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon Attack]] ([[Miniseries]]). Of these ships, only a handful were Colonial military craft, such as [[Raptor 478]] and three [[Viper (RDM)|Viper Mark VII]] fighters. One [[ECO]], [[Crashdown]], is called a "refugee from [[Triton]]," suggesting that he escaped that battlestar's destruction with Roslin's convoy. | | "The Fleet" begins as a convoy of about sixty stranded commercial and civilian ships around the area of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]] assembled by new President [[Laura Roslin]] in the immediate aftermath of the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon Attack]] ([[Miniseries]]). Of these ships, only a handful were Colonial military craft, such as [[Raptor 478]] and three [[Viper (RDM)|Viper Mark VII]] fighters. One [[ECO]], [[Crashdown]], is called a "refugee from [[Triton]]," suggesting that he escaped that battlestar's destruction with Roslin's convoy. |
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| ====Civilian Vessels==== | | ====Civilian Vessels==== |
| * ''[[Astral Queen]]'', prison ship noted for carrying 1500 prisoners, including [[Tom Zarek]] ([[Bastille Day]]) | | * ''[[Astral Queen]]'', prison sh |
| * ''[[Botanical Cruiser]]'' (While the original was destroyed in the [[Miniseries]], various background shots have placed an [[FTL]]-equipped Botanical Cruiser in the Fleet.)
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| * ''[[Daru Mozu]]'', a [[tylium]] refinery ship. Damaged by a suicide bomber ([[Epiphanies]])
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| * ''[[Gemini]]'', a freighter ([[Miniseries]])
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| * ''[[Gideon]]'', a supply ship involved in an incident where four civilians were killed by ''Galactica'' marines ([[Resistance]])
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| * ''[[Prometheus]]'', an "off the grid" freighter and den of mercenary-turned-crime boss [[Phelan]]
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| * ''[[Space Park]]'' (Identified on official Sci-Fi Channel web site but not yet seen in aired episode)
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| * 3 ''[[Colonial Movers]]'' heavy transports
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| ** At least one destroyed in the ''Cloud 9'' disaster.
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| =====[[Intersun Passenger Cruiser]]s=====
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| * ''[[Olympic Carrier]]'', destroyed in "[[33]]" after an apparent Cylon takeover.
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| * ''[[Gemenon Liner 1701]]'', found by ''Colonial One'' shortly after Laura Roslin's hasty inauguration ([[Miniseries]])
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| * Unnamed [[Orange Passenger Cruiser]] ([[Miniseries]])
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| * An unnamed ''[[Pan Galactic]]'' spaceliner ([[Miniseries]])
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| =====Celestra Type=====
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| * ''[[Celestra]] (Identified on official Sci-Fi Channel web site but not yet seen in aired episode)
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| * ''[[Striker]]'', damaged in a refuelling operation overseen by Capt. [[George Birch]] ([[Home, Part I]])
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| =====[[Gemenon Traveler]] type=====
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| * ''[[Gemenon Traveller]]'', a civilian ship where a copy of [[Leoben Conoy]] is captured ([[Flesh and Bone]])
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| * ''[[Kimba Huta]]'', a cold storage vessel on which exiled President Roslin hides from Commander Adama and Colonel Tigh ([[The Farm]])
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| =====Flattop Type=====
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| * ''[[Flattop]]'', a [[salvage and repair]] ship (Identified on official Sci-Fi Channel web site but not yet seen in aired episode)
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| * ''[[Virgon Express]]'' ([[Water]])
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| =====[[Mining Ship]]s=====
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| * ''[[Majahual]]'', a mining ship digging for crucial metals ([[Scar]])
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| * ''[[Monarch]]'', a mining ship that joined the [[Laura Roslin faction]] ([[Home, Part I]])
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| =====Mentioned Only=====
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| * ''[[Adriatic]]'', a member of the Roslin faction armed with ship-to-ship missiles ([[Home, Part I]])
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| * ''[[Baah Pakal]]'', a ship carrying unused [[DDG-62]] engines onboard ([[Flight of the Phoenix]])
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| * ''[[Coronis]]'' ([[Litmus]], [http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/episodes/season01/106/deleted1.html deleted scene])
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| * ''[[Demetrius]]'', visible on vote tally boards in "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]".
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| * ''[[Diomedes]]'', visible on vote tally boards in "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]".
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| * ''[[Embla Brokk]]'', visible on vote tally boards in "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]".
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| * ''[[Enkidu]]'', visible on vote tally boards in "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]".
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| * ''[[Epheme]]'', visible on vote tally boards in "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]".
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| * ''[[Fanu Sadin]]'', visible on vote tally boards in "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]".
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| * ''[[Freighter 212]]'', a ship [[Louanne Katraine]] apparently has some "buddies" on ([[Final Cut]])
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| * ''[[Galatea]]'', visible on vote tally boards in "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]".
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| * ''[[Greenleaf]]'', a freighter where [[Asha Janik]] and [[Ray Abinell]] were maintenance workers.
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| * ''[[Harrak]]'', visible on vote tally boards in "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]".
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| * ''[[McConnell]]'', a supply ship frequented by Commander [[Jack Fisk]]
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| * ''[[Mutem Wia]]'', visible on vote tally boards in "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]".
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| * ''[[Odysseus]]'', visible on vote tally boards in "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]".
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| * ''[[Persephone]]'', visible on vote tally boards in "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]".
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| * ''[[Picon 36]]'', [[Miniseries]]
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| * ''[[Rising Star (RDM)|Rising Star]]'', mentioned frequently but as yet unseen.
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| * ''[[Salpica]]'', visible on vote tally boards in "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]".
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| * ''[[Sargon]]'', visible on vote tally boards in "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]".
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| * ''[[Scorpia Traveler]]'', a civilian ship that carried a suicide bomber copy of [[Aaron Doral]] ([[Litmus]])
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| * ''[[Swordfish]]'', visible on vote tally boards in "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]".
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| * ''[[Tarbadeck]]'', visible on vote tally boards in "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]".
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| * ''[[Tauranian Traveler]]'', mentioned in a deleted scene in "[[33]]" and visible on vote tally boards in "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]".
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| * ''[[Zephyr]]'' ([[Fragged]])
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| In the episode "[[The Farm]]", 24 ships leave the Fleet to return to Kobol. [[Anastasia Dualla|Dualla]] provides the following breakdown:
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| *12 transports - incl. the ''Astral Queen'', and the ''Gemenon Traveller''
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| *7 freighters
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| *3 construction platforms
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| *1 private cruiser
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| *1 mining ship - the ''Monarch''.
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| ==Demographics==
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| A few points of information are available concerning the demographics of the Fleet. In "[[33]]", before the destruction of the Olympic Carrier, there were 5,251 survivors from Sagittaron and 49,998 total survivors. In "[[Home, Part I]]", the [[Laura Roslin faction]] left the Fleet with 18,000 individuals, of which 9,500 were Gemenons and 6,250 were Capricans. At that time the total population of the fleet was 47,857.
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| This information is sparse, but it gives a general idea of the population breakdown of the Fleet if a few assumptions are made for the sake of argument.
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| *Note that Gemenon and Caprica had more citizens in the Roslin faction alone than Sagittaron had in the entire Fleet. The Twelve Colonies are clearly not represented in equal proportion.
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| *Before the destruction of the ''Olympic Carrier'', Sagittaron natives made up 10.50% of the fleet. Solely for the purpose of argument, we assume that the ''Olympic Carrier'''s population breakdown was identical to the rest of the fleet's and that Sagittaron continues to make up 10.50% of the Fleet's total population.
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| *The figures from the Roslin faction can be viewed in several ways:
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| <div style="float:right; margin:10px">[[Image:Demographics1.png]]</div>
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| :*ASSUMPTION 1: All Gemenons and Capricans jumped to Kobol with the Roslin faction.
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| ::*Caprica: 6,250 persons (13.06%)
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| ::*Gemenon: 9,500 persons (19.85%)
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| ::*Sagittaron: 5,026 persons (10.50%)
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| ::*Others: 27,081 (56.59%)<br clear="both">
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| <div style="float:right; margin:10px">[[Image:Demographics2.png]]</div>
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| :*ASSUMPTION 2: All Gemenons jumped to Kobol with the Roslin faction, lured by the "religion card", but Caprican portion of the Roslin faction was representative of the Fleet.
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| ::*Caprica: 28,204 persons (58.93%)
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| ::*Gemenon: 9,500 persons (19.85%)
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| ::*Sagittaron: 5,026 persons (10.50%)
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| ::*Others: 5,127 persons (10.72%)<br clear="both">
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| <div style="float:right; margin:10px">[[Image:Demographics3.png]]</div>
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| :*ASSUMPTION 3: Caprican and Gemenon portions of the Roslin faction were representative of the fleet.
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| ::*Caprica: 16,617 persons (34.72%)
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| ::*Gemenon: 25,258 persons (52.78%)
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| ::*Sagittaron: 5,026 persons (10.50%)
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| ::*Others: 956 (2.00%)<br clear="both">
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| *Although it is plausible that the Caprican population is substantially larger than the other colonies, as ''Colonial Heavy 798'' was in the vicinity when the attack began, and was the nucleus around which the fleet rallied, it is unlikely that the populations of each colony are grossly unequal, or else the [[Quorum of Twelve]] would be a very poor system of government. The likeliest scenario is therefore probably somewhere in between Assumptions 1 and 2, with nearly all of the Gemenon population (drawn by the "religion card") and a large portion of the Caprican population leaving with Roslin.
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| *Alternatively, it is in fact possible that the populations of the colonies were grossly unequal. Though the structure of the [[Quorum of Twelve]] appears to maintain at least a fiction that the colonies were roughly equal, we know next to nothing about how the governmental system of the colonies was established or evolved over time. Indeed, the United States Senate, for example, by design expressly assumes that the various states constituting it are 'equal' even though this is clearly not the case in terms of their respective populations. Furthermore, the fact that a system of government is 'poor' or else not representatively proportional does not mean it cannot actually be implemented and even survive for long periods of time.
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| As for population distribution, we know the population of ''Galactica'' (2,693 as of [[Water]]), the ''Olympic Carrier'' (1,345 as of [[33]]) and ''Astral Queen'' (1,500 as of [[Bastille Day]], [[List of retcons (RDM)|retconned]] up from 500 in the Miniseries). There are 176 civillians in the cargo hold of [[Colonial One]] in "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]". The fleet is stated at about 75 ships in "[[Resistance]]", retconned up from 40 in the mini.
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| *Going by the 75 ship count, the remaining ships besides ''Galactica'' and the ''Astral Queen'' each carry about 600 persons on average.
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| *The 23 ships that left with the [[Laura Roslin faction]], apart from the ''Astral Queen'', would have an average population of about 720 persons per ship.
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| ==Notes==
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| In the [[Miniseries]], astute viewers may recognize three spacecraft with notable resemblances of ships from other SF universes. These ships aren't considered a [[Canon|canonical]] part of the series or the Fleet, but their appearance adds a bit of humor and pays homage to other notable science fiction and their creative staff.
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| * ''Serenity'', the central ship from the TV series "[[Wikipedia:Firefly (TV series)|Firefly]]" and the motion picture, "[[Wikipedia:Serenity (film)|Serenity]]", [[:Image:SerenityBSGMini.JPG|appears briefly in the sky]] outside the window of a doctor's office where viewers first see Laura Roslin.
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| * The original USS [[Wikipedia:USS Enterprise (NCC-1701)|''Enterprise'' (NCC-1701)]] from the original ''[[Wikipedia:Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek]]'' TV series makes a cameo in the [[:Image:Enterprise in fleet.jpg|last shot of the Fleet]] as [[Elosha]] chants a prayer in the memorial service near the end of the Miniseries. (Look to the upper right corner for the ship in a still frame.)
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| *The ill-fated [[Botanical Cruiser]] was added in homage to the [[Agro Ship]] from the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|original ''Battlestar Galactica'']] TV series, which in turn were the re-used models from the SF film ''[[Wikipedia:Silent Running|Silent Running]]'', a Universal/MCA movie that special effects guru [[John Dykstra]] worked on a few years prior to the Original Series.
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