Viper 8737

Viper 8737 in Galactica's port hangar deck (Miniseries).

Viper 8737NC is one of the Viper Mark IIs taken from Galactica's museum. It was originally piloted by Steady (Miniseries).

Captain Kara Thrace pilots 8737 on a Combat Air Patrol during fleet refueling operations. She pursues what she believes to be a Cylon Heavy Raider in this Viper and both are nearly lost when she dives deep into the gas giant's atmosphere. The Viper is lost during a later CAP along with Thrace when it is crushed by the intense atmospheric pressure of the planet after Thrace descends below the so-called "hard deck" (Maelstrom).

Re-imagined Series definition: standard deployment of craft on defense posture, an anachronistic colloquialism used to refer to patrols in space

Re-imagined Series definition: the threshold in a massive gas planet's dense atmosphere below which the atmospheric density and pressure becomes too great for a Viper to be able to reach orbit again and maintain structural integrity ^{(TRS: "Maelstrom")}; adapted from the original definition of minimum safe altitude