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The Olympic Carrier was an FTL-capable passenger liner destroyed by Colonial forces after it had apparently come under Cylon control.
The Olympic Carrier, sometimes referred to as simply the Carrier, was officially designated an "intersun passenger cruiser". With a length of 825 feet, it comfortably accomodated 1,000 passengers in posh and luxury on journeys between the Twelve Colonies. A commercial ship, it had neither weapons systems nor defence capabilities. It joined the rag-tag fleet carrying 1,345 survivors of the Cylon attack.
The Carrier was able to successfully execute the first 237 FTL jumps after the Cylon attack; however, prior to the 238th jump, a message was sent from it to President Laura Roslin aboard Colonial One. The message purportedly came from a Dr. Amorak, formerly of the Colonial Ministry of Defence and colleague of Baltar, with information regarding "a traitor in their midst". Soon thereafter, though, the Carrier went missing after failing to execute jump 238, apparently disabled by Cylon agents.
Three hours later, the Olympic Carrier suddenly materialized at the jump 238 coordinates, raising the suspicions of Roslin and Commander Adama. When asked how they avoided Cylon attack, the crew claimed ignorance, saying that someone must have been looking after them; they had used the intervening three hours to fix their malfunctioning FTL drive. Baltar, fearing exposure, urged Roslin to cut off communication with the ship. When radiological alarms sounded, indicating the presence of a nuclear device, Commander Adama and President Roslin came to a consensus that the ship needed to be destroyed. Captain Lee Adama and Lieutenant Kara Thrace reluctantly carried out the order and destroyed the vessel before the nuke could detonate; it is unknown whether the Cylons offloaded those aboard the liner or left them aboard (and out of sight) to die. ("33")
President Rolsin later wrote the ship's name down on a piece of paper and left it in her desk aboard Colonial One as a reminder of her role in the tragedy. She had once seen President Adar do something similar when he also gave an order which resulted in the loss of innocent life through military action. (Water)