Battle of New Caprica

Battle of New Caprica
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Summary
Conflict:	Second Cylon War
Date:
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Place:	Near New Caprica space
Result:	Successful retrieval of Fleet
Combatants Remnants of the Colonial Fleet Cylons Commanders William Adama (Unknown) Strength Battlestars Galactica and Pegasus Four basestars, associated Raiders, Heavy Raiders Materiel Losses Battlestar Pegasus At least three basestars Casualties Ellen Tigh, Maya
[[Colonial battles chronology ({{{series}}})|Battle Chronology]]
Previous Next Battle of the Binary Star System Battle of New Caprica (Unknown)

Battlestar Galactica launches a daring mission to occupy the Cylon force's attention as the majority of the Colonial citizens escape from Cylon occupation on New Caprica.

Outnumbered, Admiral William Adama begins an elaborate plan consisting of a squadron of Raptors and a Viper guard squadron. After the Vipers break off, the Raptors fire a series of swallows that form up to create EM signatures that mimic the presence of the Colonial's battlestars. The Raptors retreat, taking several Cylon Raiders with them in pursuit.

The Cylons believe the ruse, temporarily.

On New Caprica, Samuel Anders and the resistance team explode dozens of bombs as a feigned attack by Colonial forces. The people evacuate per their fire drill training, but in reality they escape to the various grounded ships of the Fleet and spin up their engines and FTL drives. Many, however, are pinned down by Cylon Centurion fire.

Admiral Adama performs an extremely risky move. He jumps to the planet and allows Galactica to freefall into the atmosphere, escaping the detection of the basestars. Moments before the battlestar would impact the surface, it launches all of its Vipers, which perform hit-and-run attacks on the Cylons on the ground and in observation towers.

Galactica performs an intraatmosphere jump back into space. The resulting reentry, however, heavily taxes the structure of the battlestar. Her FTL drives are disabled, weapons systems are offline, and four (instead of the two expected) basestars move in to dispose of Galactica.

But battlestar Pegasus arrives, its forward batteries blazing, with several missile hits that severely damages or destroys one basestar. Commander Lee Adama orders his battlestar towards the basestars to give time for Galactica to repair its FTL drive and escape. Other civilian ships perform intraatmosphere jumps to escape.

Admiral Adama knows that Pegasus is on a one-way trip, realizing that Commander Adama has left all his Vipers to guard the last of the Fleet in deep space. Commander Adama sets the ship to automatically fire its batteries and gives the order to abandon ship to evacuation Raptors.

The damaged, umanned Pegasus collides into one basestar, destroying it as it explodes. Debris from the exploding battlestar disables or destroys the remaining basestars.

Colonial One is the last ship to leave the planet, with Laura Roslin back in her old chair in place of the deposed president, Gaius Baltar (Exodus, Part II).

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

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