The Fleet (TOS)

This article involves the caravan of sublight-speed civilian ships in the Original Series. For information on its faster-than-light capable counterpart in the Re-imagined Series, see The Fleet (RDM). For general information on the military of the Twelve Colonies in both series, see Colonial Fleet.

A shot of the "rag-tag fugitive fleet".

After the destruction of the Twelve Colonies in a devastating genocidal attack on the Colonial worlds, Commander Adama orders all survivors to find what operational ships that remain on their shattered worlds and fly them towards battlestar Galactica, the sole surviving battlestar after her sister warships are also destroyed in the two-prong Cylon attack. With nowhere else to call home, Adama decrees that the remnants of humanity will search for the Thirteenth Tribe on a planet called Earth.

Under the guardianship of Galactica, the Fleet comprises of 220 civilian ships. With the exception of Galactica, the ships are not capable of lightspeed flight. The Fleet's overall speed is limited to that of the slowest ship within the group. As all ships in the Fleet were filled to (or over) capacity, removing the slower ships from the caravan is not a option.

Known Ships

Active

Name	Ship type / function	Last Seen	Notes
Agro Ship 9	Agro Ship / food supplier, civilian	War of the Gods, Part II	Last surviving agro ship after an extremely successful Cylon attack against both her and her sister ships.
Astradon	Freighter, civilian	Lost Planet of the Gods, Part II	A dejected Apollo tells an equally-dejected Starbuck that he found a little place on board the freighter that "with a little paint, and some nice curtains, it's so cozy".
Celestra	Electronics ship, civilian	Take the Celestra	Formerly commanded by Commander Kronus. This is the "command ship" for a small group of ships Adama assigns him to command.
Edina	Civilian ship	Lost Planet of the Gods, Part II	According to Colonel Tigh, this ship almost goes astray when in the Magnetic void en route to Kobol.
Galactica	Colonial battlestar, military escort	The Hand of God	Last known surviving battlestar, roughly 500 yahren old.
Gemini	Gemonese freighter, civilian	War of the Gods, Part I	Freighter with indigent and disaffected refugees; the "Borays of humanity" reside here.
Prison Barge	Prison ship, civilian	Baltar's Escape	Operated by members of Council Security.
Rising Star	Luxury liner and chancery, civilian	The Man With Nine Lives	Formerly operated by Trans Stellar Spacelines. Used to evacuate children and their caretakers off Caprica during the Cylon attack.
Tip Barge	Refuse ship, civilian	Lost Planet of the Gods, Part II	Mentioned by Apollo while engaging in mock stereotypical feminine conversation with Starbuck; Apollo claims that he procured valcron from this ship.

Destroyed

• At least two agro ships (The Magnificent Warriors).

Unknown

• Battlestar Pegasus briefly joins the Fleet in "The Living Legend, Part I" and "Part II", but loses contact with the Fleet during the Battle of Gamoray.

Other ships

• Colonial Movers freighters
• An unnamed Flattop ship

Galactica 1980

• The freighter Delphi is shown in the "Galactica 1980" episode "The Super Scouts, Part I", and is the Fleet's schooling ship.
• Interestingly, in "Space Croppers", the Galactican Fleet is shown to have three agro ships, despite the fact that two were destroyed nearly three decades before.

Other

The Fleet is also comprised of shuttles and Colonial Vipers, which are likely not indicated in the "220 ship" figure given in "Saga of a Star World". It is indicated that there are non-military shuttles that ferry people and, possibly, supplies throughout the Fleet. One such craft is the shuttle Canaris (The Man with Nine Lives), in addition to the shuttle piloted by Aurora of the Celestra (Take the Celestra).

In addition to their ship compliment, the Colonials have at least one Cylon Raider in their possession, as a result of their victory at Galaxy's Edge (The Hand of God).

Original Series definition: agriculture ^{(TOS: "The Magnificent Warriors")}

Galactica 1980 definition: a member of the Fleet; Hamilton first uses the term when replying to Stockwell's question regarding Xavier's affiliation ^{(1980: "Galactica Discovers Earth, Part II")}