Battle of the Colony

Battle of the Colony
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Summary
Conflict:	Battle of The Colony
Date:	Approximately 4 years after the Fall of the Twelve Colonies
Related Episode(s):
Place:	The Colony
Result:	The Colony destroyed Cavil and Boomer killed Hera rescued Enemy Cylons destroyed End of Human-Cylon War as well as Cylon Civil War
Combatants Galactica and her crew Caprica Six Gaius Baltar Rebel Centurions Cavil and his forces Commanders Admiral William Adama Cavil Strength Galactica and the people that volunteered to crew her Rebel Centurions The Colony Raiders Cylon War era Centurions and current era Centurions Materiel Losses Heavy damage to Galactica 4 Vipers destroyed 7 Raptors destroyed The Colony destroyed total Raider losses Casualties Heavy including Racetrack and Skulls Cavil, Boomer and the rest of their forces
Battle Chronology
Previous Next Battle of the Resurrection Hub Battle of the Colony None

The Battle of The Colony is the final battle in the war between the humans and Cylons as well as the final battle of the Cylon Civil War. It is a rescue mission to rescue Hera Agathon who was kidnapped by Boomer and taken to The Colony to be experimented upon by Cavil and his forces.

Prelude

After the Battle of the Resurrection Hub, the Cylons lose the ability to resurrect forever as only the Final Five know how to rebuild resurrection. Cavil has Ellen Tigh captive ever since she downloaded into a new body after her husband killed her, but she only holds part of the secret to resurrection so he apparently comes up with a plan: he pretends he's going to have Ellen's head cut open to view her memories of how to build resurrection technology and has Boomer pretend to have a change of heart and let's Boomer help Ellen escape on a Raptor to Galactica. In truth its all part of a ploy of his to get Boomer onto Galactica so she can kidnap Hera Agathon so Cavil can disect her in order to determine how she came into being so the Cylon race can continue. Boomer manipulates Tyrol using his feelings for her so he helps her escape and she beats and ties up Athena, seduces Helo and kidnaps Hera. Boomer steals a Raptor and although she is discovered, manage to get out of the hanger bay and jump away, causing damage to Galactica due to how close she was when she jumped. Boomer makes over a dozen jumps to get to The Colony as for some reason her stolen Raptor wasn't upgraded with Cylon FTL drives like the rest of the ships in the Fleet and along the way, she bonds with Hera. She eventually reaches The Colony and turns Hera over to Cavil, but shows remorse for her actions.

On Galactica, the Rebel Cylons convince Admiral Adama to allow a mission to check out The Colony, but when it comes back empty as Cavil moved The Colony just before the civil war, Adama refuses any further attempt to rescue Hera. After seeing her picture on the memorial wall however, Adama changes his mind and gets the location from Anders who has basicaly become Galactica's Hybrid. Adama gives a speech about the rescue mission and calls for volunteers warning that the mission will likely be one way. However many people volunteer including Lee, Kara, Saul, Ellen, Tory, Tyrol, Hotdog, Racetrack, Skulls, Helo, Athena, Hoshi, Cottle (who Adama sends back), Ishay, Caprica Six and Roslin. Racetrack and Skulls are sent on a reconissance mission and find The Colony in orbit of a black hole and also find the only place that a ship can jump in and out safley: within a kilometer of The Colony, point-blank range for The Colony's weapons. The crew comes up with a plan and Admiral Adama turns over command of the Fleet to Hoshi while Romo Lampkin is made the new President. Hoshi is ordered to wait for their return for 12 hours and is told if they aren't back after that, they're not coming back. Once she's ready, Galactica jumps to The Colony.

Battle

Galactica jumps in directly in front of The Colony and The Colony opens fire with its gun batteries as it's too close for missiles or nukes for both sides. Galactica takes a pounding until Anders manages to hack into The Colony and shut down its Hybrids and weapons. Once that's done Galactica immediatly launches her Vipers to engage The Colony's Raiders while her Raptors FTL jump out of the starboard hanger bay, ripping open the side of the bay, but safely and quickly arriving at the battle. Galactica's gun batteries start firing at The Colony's gun batteries and Raiders and Galactica herself rams The Colony, punching a hole in the side which Galactica's nose rests inside. This allows a strike force made out of marines and Rebel Centurions to enter The Colony through one of Galactica's airlocks while another strike force led by Starbuck and including Helo and Athena cuts their way in from the Raptors. Racetrack and Skulls arm their nukes wanting to be weapons hot, but are killed when an asteroid hits their ship punching a hole in the window and puncturing their helmets.

Inside The Colony, both strike forces meet oposition but make progress. Simon still intends to disect Hera, but Boomer makes a choice and kills him and picks up Hera and carries her away. Starbuck's group encounters Boomer who gives up Hera to them without a fight saying she made what is likely to be her last choice and she owed the Admiral one. She also warns them that their Raptors have been destroyed so they can't get out that way. Athena then shoots and kills Boomer. Starbuck's team meets up with Lee's and they retreat to Galactica's airlock to get out of The Colony. Cavil, Simon and Doral discover the dead Simon and decide to go on the offensive and lead a platoon of old Cylon War era Centurions and current era Centurions in a boarding attack on Galactica. Baltar and Caprica Six help defend the ship from the boarders. Helo is wounded by a Doral and Hera runs away and Athena goes after her at Helo's request. Roslin, working in sickbay, senses Hera's return and chases after her as well in what becomes a parellel of the Opera House Prophecy. Caprica Six and Baltar find Hera and take her with them to CIC which is the parellel to the room they entered in the vision and saw the Final Five. In CIC, the Final Five are on the CIC balcony in similar posistions to the vision and Doral and Simon are dead while Cavil has been captured. During an explosion, Cavil takes Hera hostage and plans to leave with her as he sees her as the only hope for his kind. Baltar tries to talk him down during the standoff, trying to end the cycle of violence and Cavil finally agrees when Tigh offers resurrection in exchange for Hera and Cavil leaving humanity alone permanantly. Cavil calls off his forces and the battle seems to end.

Unfortunatly things start up again when Tyrol breaks the download of the resurrection specs in order to kill Tory Foster after he learns she killed Cally. Believing themselves to have been betrayed, the Cylons restart their attack, but after the Doral and Simon that joined them in CIC are killed, Cavil swears and kills himself. Meanwhile another asteroid hits Racetrack's Raptor and causes her dead hand to accidentaly hit the launch button for her nukes and they fire into The Colony, badly damaging it and knocking it out of its orbit, causing it to start to be sucked into the black hole. Admiral Adama orders Starbuck to jump the ship and she uses the numbers she assigned to The Music as the coordinants as she doesn't know the rendevous point, and Galactica jumps away as The Colony is sucked into the black hole and destroyed.