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Battle for the Tylium Asteroid
	Apollo flying away from the Cylon tylium mine as it begins to explode
	Apollo flying away from the Cylon tylium mine as it begins to explode
Summary
Conflict:	Second Cylon war
Date:	Day 36
Related Episode(s):
Place:	Asteroid field in interstellar space, specific location unknown
Result:	Colonial victory. Resupply of Tylium ore for fuel reserves.
Combatants
Remnants of the Colonial Fleet	Cylons
Commanders
Commander William Adama	Unknown †
Strength
Battlestar Galactica; 2 Raptors, pilots Boomer, Stubbs; Strike Force One: At least 7 Vipers, incl. Fireball, Deadbolt, Spinner, Buzzer, Hot Dog; Strike Force Two: Viper 2220, Viper 7961, 10 other Viper Mk IIs	140 Raiders; Fixed anti-aircraft emplacements
Materiel Losses
4 Vipers, incl. Viper 7961 and those piloted by Fireball and Stepchild	Complete destruction of Cylon forces
Casualties
Fireball, Stepchild and 4 other pilots	Unknown, high
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The Battle of the Tylium Asteroid occurs as Battlestar Galactica and her fleet liberate a tylium ore refinery from the Cylons, marking the first time that Galactica makes an offensive strike against Cylon forces (The Hand of God).

After exhausting much of its fuel reserves from its initial fleeing from the Cylon forces (33) and after a difficult rescue of Kara Thrace (You Can't Go Home Again), Battlestar Galactica sends Raptors to outlying star systems in search of the mineral tylium, used as a fuel for all ships in the Fleet.

They locate an asteroid rich with tylium, but also occupied by Cylons and fortified with Raider squadrons defending it. Commander Adama decides to take the asteroid with a daring plan, utilizing the unconventional thinking of the recovering Kara Thrace to lead the attack plan and pilot Lee Adama to lead the Viper crews.

Galactica pulls a double-feint; it first uses a cargo freighter to lure away the Raiders, which soon see a squad of Vipers that approach the asteroid from the opposite location. The Cylons believe the freighter to be a diversion and turn the Raiders away from the freighter to descend on Galactica, as well as releasing all of their base's reserve Raiders to attack Galactica as well.

Shortly after they broke off their approach to the freighter and turn to engage the first wave of Vipers, a second squad of Vipers emerge from hiding from inside the freighters to attack the base. As the fighters reach the surface and begin their approach, the Vipers encounter heavy anti-aircraft fire that destroy three Vipers. Captain Lee "Apollo" Adama commands the other fighters to hold back as he successfully flies through the refinery processing area to destroy an unstable tylium-precursor container on the refinery's surface.

The destruction of the tylium-precursor container ignites the refinery's stores and destroys the entire Cylon base with an explosion equivalent to a three kiloton nuclear warhead in magnitude. The base's destruction heavily disorients the Cylon Raiders, and also leaves them unable to re-arm or refuel. Galactica and her Vipers destroy the remaining Raiders before they could alert reinforcements.

Subsequently, ships from the civilian fleet mine a large amount of tylium from the asteroid (gathered by the mobile Mining Ship and processed on a Refinery Ship). The mining yields enough tylium fuel reserve to last the Fleet for several years.

As the entire first season of "Battlestar Galactica" actually took place in less than two months, and subsequent space travel between this episode an the colonization of New Caprica lasted less than 8 months, this means that that Fleet probably won't run into another fuel shortage for the rest of the series' run (barring some form of accident or multi-Jump chase as seen in "33").

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-The '''Battle of the Tylium Asteroid''' was a battle which occured when Battlestar ''Galactica'' and her fleet were in desperate need of refueling and liberated a tylium ore refinery from the Cylons, marking the first time that ''Galactica'' stopped simply running from the Cylons, but turned around to make an offensive strike ([[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]).
-After exhausting much of its fuel reserves from its initial fleeing from the Cylon forces ([[33]]) and after a difficult rescue of [[Kara Thrace]] ([[You  Can't Go Home Again]]), Battlestar ''[[Galactica]]''  sent its Raptors to outlying star systems in search of the mineral [[tylium]], used as a fuel for all ships in the fleet.
+The '''Battle of the Tylium Asteroid''' occurs as Battlestar ''Galactica'' and her fleet liberate a [[tylium]] ore refinery from the Cylons, marking the first time that ''Galactica''  makes an offensive strike against Cylon forces ([[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]).
-They located an asteroid rich with tylium, but also occupied by the Cylons and fortified with Raider squadrons to defend it. Adama decided to take the asteroid with a daring plan, utilizing the unconventional thinking of the recovering Kara Thrace to lead the attack plan and pilot [[Lee Adama]] to lead the Viper crews.
+After exhausting much of its fuel reserves from its initial fleeing from the Cylon forces ([[33]]) and after a difficult rescue of [[Kara Thrace]] ([[You Can't Go Home Again]]), Battlestar ''[[Galactica]]'' sends [[Raptor]]s to outlying star systems in search of the mineral [[tylium]], used as a fuel for all ships in the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]].
-''Galactica'' pulled a double-feint; it first used a cargo freighter to lure away the Cylon Raiders, which soon saw a squad of Vipers that were approaching the asteroid from the opposite location. The Cylons believed the freighter to be a diversion and turned the Raiders away from the freighter to descend on ''Galactica'', as well as releasing all of their base's reserve Raiders to attack ''Galactica'' as well.
+They locate an asteroid rich with tylium, but also occupied by Cylons and fortified with [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Raider]] squadrons defending it. Commander [[William Adama|Adama]] decides to take the asteroid with a daring plan, utilizing the unconventional thinking of the recovering Kara Thrace to lead the attack plan and pilot [[Lee Adama]] to lead the Viper crews.
-Shortly after they broke off their approach to the freighter and turned to engage the first wave of Vipers, a second squad of Vipers emerged from hiding from inside the freighters to attack the base. When they reach the surface and began their approach of the refinery, the Vipers encountered heavy anti-aircraft fire that destroyed 3 of the fighters. Lee Adama commanded the other fighters to hold back as he successfully flew through the refinery processing area to destroy the unstable tylium-precursor container on the refinery's surface.
+''Galactica'' pulls a double-feint; it first uses a cargo freighter to lure away the  Raiders, which soon see a squad of Vipers that approach the asteroid from the opposite location. The Cylons believe the freighter to be a diversion and turn the Raiders away from the freighter to descend on ''Galactica'', as well as releasing all of their base's reserve Raiders to attack ''Galactica'' as well.
-The destruction of the tylium-precursor container ignited the refinery's stores and destroyed the entire Cylon base with an explosion equivalent to a three kiloton nuclear warhead in magnitude.  This made the Cylon Raiders incredibly disoriented and directionless, as well as unable to re-arm or refuel.  ''Galactica'' and her Vipers proceeded to destroy any remaining [[Cylon Raider]]s with ease, before they could alert reinforcements.
+Shortly after they broke off their approach to the freighter and turn to engage the first wave of Vipers, a second squad of Vipers emerge from hiding from inside the freighters to attack the base. As the fighters reach the surface and begin their approach, the Vipers encounter heavy anti-aircraft fire that destroy three Vipers. Captain [[Lee Adama|Lee "Apollo" Adama]] commands the other fighters to hold back as he successfully flies through the refinery processing area to destroy an unstable tylium-precursor container on the refinery's surface.
-Subsequently, ships from the civilian fleet mined a large amount of tylium from the asteroid (gathered by the mobile [[Mining Ship]] and processed on a [[Refinery Ship]]).  This resulted in the remnant of the Colonial fleet led by the ''Galactica'' gaining enough tylium fuel reserves to last for several years.
+The destruction of the tylium-precursor container ignites the refinery's stores and destroys the entire Cylon base with an explosion equivalent to a three kiloton nuclear warhead in magnitude. The base's destruction heavily disorients the Cylon Raiders, and also leaves them unable to re-arm or refuel.  ''Galactica'' and her Vipers destroy the remaining Raiders before they could alert reinforcements.
-''As the entire first season of "Battlestar Galactica" actually took place in [[Re-Imagined Series Timeline|less than two months]], and subsequent space travel between this episode an the colonization of [[New Caprica]] lasted less than 8 months, this means that that Fleet probably won't run into another fuel shortage for the rest of the series' run (barring some form of accident).''
+Subsequently, ships from the civilian fleet mine a large amount of tylium from the asteroid (gathered by the mobile [[Mining Ship]] and processed on a [[Refinery Ship]]).  The mining yields enough tylium fuel reserve to last the Fleet for several years.
+''As the entire first season of "Battlestar Galactica" actually took place in [[Re-Imagined Series Timeline|less than two months]], and subsequent space travel between this episode an the colonization of [[New Caprica]] lasted less than 8 months, this means that that Fleet probably won't run into another fuel shortage for the rest of the series' run (barring some form of accident or multi-Jump chase as seen in "33").''
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