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* The ''[[Pegasus (TOS)|Pegasus]] briefly joined the Fleet in [[The Living Legend, Part I]] and [[The Living Legend, Part II|Part II]]
* The ''[[Pegasus (TOS)|Pegasus]] briefly joined the Fleet in [[The Living Legend, Part I]] and [[The Living Legend, Part II|Part II]]
* The ''Comp-Tel ship'' is mentioned by [[Chameleon]] in [[The Man with Nine Lives]].   
* The ''Comp-Tel ship'' is mentioned by [[Chameleon]] in [[The Man with Nine Lives]].   
* The ''livestock ship'' is mentioned in [[The Man with Nine Lives]].
* The freighter ''Delphi'' is shown in the [[Galactica 1980]] episode [[The Super Scouts, Part I]], and is the fleet's schooling ship.
* The freighter ''Delphi'' is shown in the [[Galactica 1980]] episode [[The Super Scouts, Part I]], and is the fleet's schooling ship.



Revision as of 04:36, 12 August 2006

This article involves the caravan of sublight-speed civilian ships in the Original Series. For information on its faster-than-light capable counterpart in the Re-imagined Series, see The Fleet (RDM).

A shot of the "rag-tag fugitive fleet".

After the destruction of the Twelve Colonies in a devastating genocidal attack on the Colonial worlds, Commander Adama orders all survivors to find what operational ships that remain on their shattered worlds and fly them towards battlestar Galactica, the sole surviving battlestar after her sister warships are also destroyed in the two-prong Cylon attack. With nowhere else to call home, Adama decrees that the remnants of humanity will search for the Thirteenth Tribe on a planet called Earth.

Under the guardianship of Galactica, the Fleet comprises of 220 civilian ships. With the exception of Galactica, the ships are not capable of lightspeed flight. The Fleet's overall speed is limited to that of the slowest ship within the group. As all ships in the Fleet were filled to (or over) capacity, removing the slower ships from the caravan is not a option.

Ships in the Fleet include: