- For the second-season episode, see Pegasus (episode). For the Original Series Pegasus, see Pegasus (TOS).
Pegasus is a Mercury-class Battlestar commanded by Admiral Nelena Cain, that was stationed at the Scorpion Ship Yards during the Cylon attack. Presumed lost with the rest of the Colonial Fleet, the Pegasus actually managed to escape the destruction of the Colonies. It survived when Cain ordered a blind jump, but not before 700 of her crew died in the initial attack. While the Pegasus was advanced enough to have integrated networked systems and Baltar's virused Command Navigation Program, the Pegasus was in for maintenance at the time of the Cylon attack and, as such, its networked computer systems were offline
When the Cylons nuked the shipyard, Admiral Cain rounded up everyone she could from around the shipyard and ordered the Pegasus to make a blind FTL jump. At some point, a Cylon infiltrator was discovered onboard - a woman named Gina who had been "rescued" by the Pegasus during the attack. 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 executive officer expressed hesitancy to launch the ships' fighters against such odds, Cain publically executed him on the bridge and promoted Colonel Jack Fisk to replace him.
Some time later, as Pegasus tracked a Cylon fleet, it discovered that it was following a certain target. When Pegasus jumped ahead to scout it, it accidentally encountered the fleet led by Galactica. Cain assumed command and began transferring supplies and many personnel between the ships, including Captain Lee Adama and Lieutenant Kara Thrace.
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 killed Lieutenant 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")
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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, until later 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.
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- Pegasus (from Wikipedia)