Battle of the Communications Relay

This page contains possible spoiler information! This page contains spoilers regarding an unaired episode or published work, which may have an effect on your viewing. Please DO NOT read any content from this article if you wish to avoid knowing events before they are aired or published. Also keep in mind that information based on preliminary reports is subject to change and may differ from what is aired later.

Battle of the Communications Relay
[[Image:|center|300px|Battle of the Communications Relay]]
Battle of the Communications Relay
Summary
Conflict:	Second Cylon war
Date:	Shortly after the Fall of the Twelve Colonies
Related Episode(s):
Place:	Unspecified Cylon staging area
Result:	Pyrrhic Colonial victory
Combatants Battlestar Pegasus Cylons Commanders Admiral Helena Cain Unknown Strength 1 battlestar and assorted Viper squadrons At least 15 squadrons of Raiders and Heavy Raiders Centurions Materiel Losses 32 Vipers destroyed, 61 damaged Relay station destroyed. Boarding party defeated. Likely severe ship losses. Casualties Approximately 100 crewmen One Number Six Centurion boarding party
[[Colonial battles chronology ({{{series}}})|Battle Chronology]]
Previous Next Fall of the Scorpion Fleet Shipyards Battle of the Communications Relay Battle of Ragnar Anchorage

Shortly after the destruction of the Scorpion Fleet Shipyards, Pegasus attacks a Cylon communications relay, which is believed to be lightly guarded.

After jumping into the area and DRADIS picking up twelve enemy contacts, Admiral Helena Cain gives the order to launch Blue Squadron. Immediately after that, the Cylons jump in 15 full squadrons of Raiders, after which Cain realizes that the installation is not a simple communication station, but a staging ground for Cylon forces.

Colonels Fisk and Belzen recommend to recover the Vipers and retreat from the superior enemy forces. However, Cain orders to launch the remaining Vipers instead. At the same time Gina takes the weapons grid offline, which is switched to manual control. Belzen is convinced that they were lured into a trap and urges Cain to retreat, reminding her that she promised that such actions would not happen. When Belzen officially refuses to carry out her orders, she asks him to hand over his sidearm and shoots him in the head with it. She then turns to Colonel Fisk who orders the reserve Vipers to be launched.

Cylon Heavy Raiders land in the port flight pod and land a Centurion boarding party, which gains access to the ship with the help of Gina. Kendra Shaw goes there to investigate and finds a Number Six entering the corridor, thus realizing that Gina is a Cylon agent. After shooting her, she returns to CIC and unmasks Gina by showing everyone a security camera feed of the dead Six. When Marines try to apprehend Gina, she breaks the neck of one and uses his sidearm to shoot one other, before Shaw knocks her unconscious with a rifle .

The exact details of the rest of the battle are unknown, but the communications station is presumably destroyed, and Pegasus escapes with severe losses. 32 Vipers are destroyed and 62 badly damaged. The acting chief believes that the crew does not possess enough resources to repair them all. While Cain seems to realize her error when she hears of the losses, Shaw thinks that they "put the enemy on notice" ("Pegasus", "Razor").

Notes

• Gina is mentioned as having been vital in discovering the communications relay. Since it later appears to be a trap by the Cylons, it is possible that she intentionally lured the battlestar into it.