Pegasus (TRS)

For the second-season episode, see Pegasus (episode). For the Original Series Pegasus, see Pegasus (TOS).

Pegasus (BS 62)
Race:	Colonial
Type:	Military
FTL:	Yes
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Crew:	Approximately 1,750
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CO:	Lee Adama
XO:	Anastasia Dualla
Role:	Carrier / Battleship hybrid
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Additional Information

Pegasus (BS 62) is a Mercury class battlestar which was docked at the Scorpion Fleet Shipyards for a scheduled overhaul during the Cylon attack. After escaping the destruction of the shipyards, Pegasus began tracking a Cylon taskforce which ultimately reunites them with a refugee fleet being guarded by battlestar Galactica, leaving Pegasus the only other battlestar besides Galactica known to have survived the destruction of the Twelve Colonies.

Pegasus commander Admiral Helena Cain is succeeded after her murder (Resurrection Ship, Part II) by Jack Fisk, who in turn is also murdered after running afowl with black marketeers in the Fleet (Black Market). Pegasus is briefly commanded by engineer-turned-commander Barry Garner, who is killed saving the ship during the Battle of the Binary Star System. Pegasus is currently commanded by Commander Lee Adama, son of the Fleet's supreme commander, Admiral William Adama.

Pegasus becomes unofficially known as "The Beast" amongst the Fleet, although it is not known if the nickname comes from her tenacity in combat or its sordid crew history (The Captain's Hand).

Fleet Details

Designation: warship, battlestar type, Mercury class battlestar
Deployment: Formerly an element of 62nd Battlestar Group
Current Status: One of two remaining Colonial military units. Currently under the command of Commander Lee Adama.

History

Presumed lost with the rest of the Colonial military fleet, Pegasus actually managed to escape the destruction of the Colonies when Admiral Helena Cain ordered a blind jump. While saving the battlestar, over 700 of her crew died in the initial attack.

Although Pegasus is advanced enough to have the Command Navigation Program installed, which the Cylons used as a backdoor, Pegasus had just checked in for a three-month refit at the time of the Cylon attack, and as such, almost all of its networked computer systems were offline. As a result, the Cylons were not able to immobilize the ship using computer infiltration. This, combined with the sheer luck of not being one of the first ships at the shipyards that the Cylons focused their attack on, the fact that the nuclear detonations temporarily blinded the Cylon Dradis and Admiral Cain's order to just randomly jump anywhere safe immediately, allowed Pegasus to escape.

Probably at the same time a Cylon - a woman named Gina - helped a boarding party of Centurions gain access to the ship and was uncovered during that action (Pegasus (Extended Version)). She killed seven men when apprehended, and was then incarcerated, brutally interrogated and gang-raped by many of the crew.

After the Fall of the Twelve Colonies, Pegasus occupied itself with hit-and-run attacks on various Cylon assets. It participated in a bold assault on a staging area filled with fifteen squadrons of Raiders. When Cain's long-time Executive officer expressed hesitancy to launch the ships' fighters against such odds, Cain publicly executed him on the bridge and promoted Jack Fisk to replace him. Fisk tells this story (and later recants it) while drunk to Colonel Tigh, which Tigh believed to be true when he recounts it in turn to Commander Adama.

Some time later, Pegasus discovered that a Cylon fleet it was tracking appeared to be jumping, not randomly, but to systems with natural resources. The battlestar accidentally encountered the Fleet led by battlestar Galactica when Pegasus jumped ahead to scout the Cylon target's projected next position (as it turned out, the Cylons were jumping to systems Galactica had passed through or explored). Cain assumes overall command of the Fleet and began transferring supplies and many personnel between the two battlestars, including Captain Lee Adama and Lieutenant Kara Thrace. Cain appeared unconcerned with the needs of the civilians and their ships, a problem noted to Commander Adama by President Laura Roslin.

Chief Tyrol mentioned during his interrogation by Colonel Saul Tigh that he served aboard a number of battlestars in his military career, including Pegasus (Resistance). If Admiral Cain ever knew him during this time, she made no mention of it, and had no reservations sentencing him and Karl Agathon to death when they inadvertently kill Lieutenant Alistair Thorne, Cain's chief "Cylon interrogator". William Adama, commander of Galactica, refused to permit the execution, precipitating an armed standoff between the two ships (Pegasus).

Pegasus Fleet

It was later revealed that Pegasus originally had its own small fleet of 15 civilian ships, found about a week after the Fall of the Twelve Colonies. The tiny caravan was equipped with FTL drives and weapons. Rather than defending them (as Galactica had at Ragnar Anchorage), Admiral Cain saw them as potential spare parts for Pegasus, and decided that Pegasus' military needs were a priority over them. The civilian ships were stripped for parts, including their weapons and FTL drives, marooning them and leaving them completely at the mercy of the Cylons when Cain left.

However not all of the civilians were left to die: after looking over the passenger lists, Cain selected those civilians who she thought would be of value (such as Peter Laird, an aeronautical engineer), forcibly drafting them into her crew. However, 15 'selectees' aboard the civilian transport Scylla were traveling with their families and refused to leave without them. Admiral Cain ordered her marines to kill two families (men, women, and children) to shock the rest into submission. Pegasus then abandoned the civilian ships to pursue Admiral Cain's campaign of hit-and-run attacks against Cylon forces. (Resurrection Ship, Part I)

Equipment

Pegasus taking heavy fire

In the Extended Cut of the episode "Pegasus" Admiral Cain states that the ship is nearly the twice the size of Galactica, but needs only half the crew. This probably refers to either the dual landing bays or the ship's volume, but not its length. The decreased manpower requirement stems from increased computerization and automation. This is also evident in the comparatively small size of the Pegasus CIC.

Pegasus firing her forward batteries

Pegasus operates at least four Viper Mark VII squadrons, all verbally identified in the episode "The Captain's Hand":

• Red Squadron
• Yellow Squadron
• Green Squadron
• Blue Squadron

It is possible that these designations are just wireless code names and not formal, standing squadrons. The colors and group leaders could be assigned on an ad-hoc basis, while a more formal structure exists in the background; such as the Vigilantes on Galactica.

Pegasus has Viper Mark VII production facilities (Scar). This is a capability that would allow the ship to be self sufficient on extended deployments, so long as the battlestar has sufficient means to gather the raw materials necessary for construction.

Crew

Senior Staff before the founding of New Caprica

• Commander Lee Adama - Commanding officer
• Lieutenant Hoshi - Communications or Tactical Officer

Former Members of the Senior Staff

• Admiral Helena Cain - Commanding officer (Killed by Gina)
• Commander Jack Fisk - Commanding officer (Killed by racketeers in the black market)
• Commander Barry Garner - Commanding officer (Killed in action)
• Captain Cole Taylor - Commander, Air Group (Demoted by Admiral Cain in "Resurrection Ship, Part I")
• Captain Kara Thrace - Commander, Air Group (Replaced Cole Taylor. Transferred to Galactica in "The Captain's Hand")
• Lieutenant Alistair Thorne - Cylon interrogator (Killed by Galen Tyrol)

Notes

• According to David Eick's video blog, it would have been impossible to afford creating new sets for the entire interior of Pegasus on the budget of an episodic television show. This expense was circumvented when a year beforehand Ron D. Moore and David Eick bought (for next to nothing) the abandoned sets of the failed pilot for the FOX network's "Lost In Space" remake, directed by John Woo. The production team then held onto the sets hoping to find some later use for them, eventually using them for Pegasus. The sets were then radically redesigned and painted to give them the aesthetic look of Galactica, but sleeker and more advanced.
• This ship is named after the winged horse from Greek mythology (see the Wikipedia article).

Related Imagery

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  Pegasus - Front view    
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  Pegasus - Vipers landing    
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  Pegasus - Gun batteries    
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  Pegasus - Next to Galactica    
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  Pegasus - Side angle    
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  Pegasus - Reverse side    

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

Re-imagined Series definition: nickname for Pegasus given by Galactica's crew (TRS: "The Captain's Hand")

Re-imagined Series definition: the process of using the FTL engines to make an near-instantaneous apparent faster-than-light transport of a ship from one point in space to another

Galactica 1980 definition: When John Steadman asks if the Warriors know anything about these creatures, Dillon looks this up ^{(1980: "Space Croppers")}