Great Cylon Turkey Shoot

Battle before: Battle of Kobol
Battle after: Not yet determined

Great Cylon Turkey Shoot
Conflict	Second Cylon war
Date	Day 89
Place	Interstellar space, specific location unknown
Result	decisive Colonial victory
Combatants Remnants of the Colonial Fleet Cylons Commanders Commander William Adama Unknown Strength Battlestar Galactica 34-42 Vipers Over 200 Raiders dozens of Heavy Raiders, exact number unknown Casualties None whatsoever Complete destruction of entire Cylon force

Battle in which the Battlestar Galactica turned the Cylon's own logic bomb computer virus against them to completely power down a massive fleet of hundreds of Raiders and Heavy Raiders in a reverse of the Cylon's use of it in the Fall of the Twelve Colonies. Many Cylon ships after losing control were destroyed simply by crashing into each other. Commander Adama and Col. Tigh then ordered the Galactica's Vipers (all flyable Vipers had been deployed because the attack was anticipated) to kill them all. The Galactica's Vipers proceeded to tear through the jumbled Cylon formations, destroying the entire disproporationately larger Cylon force while not losing a single Colonial ship in the process ("Flight of the Phoenix").

Notes

• The term "Turkey Shoot" scene was first mentioned in installment five of David Eick's second-season Video Blog. With that in mind, the article title "Great Cylon Turkey Shoot" is a reference to the famous "*Great Marianas Turkey Shoot" of World War II, a decisive and incredibly lopsided American victory over the Japanese carrier fleet, in which four Japanese planes were destroyed for ever one American plane.
• Number of Cylon Raiders present was given on the Scifi.com official site's episode description.
• Visually, there are at least 42 Vipers on screen, but there is a strong possibility that this is a visual effects mistake: Apollo said in "Act of Contrition" that there were only 40 Vipers left. On top of this, several Vipers have been lost since then (see Galactica). The current count leaves only 34 Vipers: 1 lost in "Act of Contrition", 4 lost in "The Hand of God", and 1 lost in "Final Cut". This doesn't take into account Tyrol's retirement of unserviceable craft, worn down by ware and tear. Furthermore, Galactica is severely limited by the number of pilots they have on hand - in this episode, no more than 25.

Re-imagined Series definition: used to signify a civilian transport vessel over a certain gross weight/mass, i.e. Colonial Heavy 798