Heavy Raider

Cylon Heavy Raider
Race:	Cylon
Type:	Military
FTL:	Yes
Propulsion:
Crew:	Holds approximately 10 Centurions
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Role:	Troop transport
Weapons:	A 6-barrel Kinetic Energy Weapon and at least one missile launcher
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Additional Information

A Heavy Raider is a Cylon attack spacecraft.

The main armament of the Heavy Raider seems to consist of a barbette of six cannons mounted under the cockpit area of the vehicle (as seen here). These cannons are capable of an extremely high rate of fire (Scattered). They are also capable of launching missiles.

Not much is yet known about this craft. Unlike the standard Raider, the Heavy Raider does not appear to be autonomous, instead requiring a pilot to operate the controls, although Starbuck anticipated having to "blow its brain out" in order to commandeer it.

The first Cylon Heavy Raider is seen landing near Helo and Sharon Valerii near the end of Season 1 (Colonial Day) on Cylon-occupied Caprica. A Heavy Raider is also the craft that crash landed into Galactica's unused starboard flight pod (Scattered), after which a boarding party of Centurions emerged to attack Galactica.

After shooting down a Colonial scouting party over Kobol, a force of five Centurions landed near the crash site of Raptor 1 in a ship that is either a Heavy Raider or an (at the time) unidentified Cylon craft. They proceeded to dismantle its missile launcher and DRADIS assembly in an attempt to build a surface-to-air missile battery, intending to shoot down any search and rescue parties that Galactica would send to find the survivors (Fragged).

The Heavy Raider was conclusively proven to be a troop transport in "The Farm" when Sharon Valerii commandeered one and used it evacuate the resistance movement after they rescued Starbuck from a Cylon hybrid "farm."

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

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

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

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