Basestar (TOS)
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ŚThis article is about the Original Series basestar. For the Re-imagined Series version, see Basestar (RDM).
| Basestar | |||
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| Race: | Cylon | ||
| Type: | Military | ||
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| Crew: | Centurion troops | ||
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| CO: | Imperious Leader, Lord Baltar or other commander, usually a Command Centurion or an I-L Series Droid. | ||
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| Role: | Carrier / battleship hybrid | ||
| Weapons: | Laser turrets, missiles, pulsar cannons, Raiders | ||
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A basestar is a large capital warship of the Cylon Alliance.
Basestars are immense vehicles that, like their Colonial counterparts, the battlestars, serve as a combination aircraft carrier and capital warship. They are capable of carrying (and supporting) over three hundred Raiders. Armed with missiles, over one hundred defensive laser turrets, and two long range mega pulsar weapons, the capital warship of the Cylon Alliance is more than a match for any unprepared or unaware battlestar (The Hand of God). Basestars are also designed for orbital bombardment of a planet, and, true to their name, also serve as a moving base of operations.
Basestars, and their fighters were key in the Cylon's genocidal destruction of the Twelve Colonies and the battlestar fleet. To fool the Colonials, the Cylons split up their fleet into two destructive units: a massive Raider fleet is sent to the Cimtar Peace Accord rendezvous, while the basestars are deployed separately to attack the Twelve Colonies. Apollo encounters a Cylon Tanker near a gas cloud, which had been used (in lieu of the elsewhere basestars) to give extended fuel reserves that enable the Raiders to reach Cimtar. Apollo finds the Raiders soon after discovering the tanker and unsuccessfully tries to warn the battlestar fleet in time.
Only battlestar Galactica initially is known to survive the holocaust, and gathers an odd assortment of civilian spacecraft with the remnants of Humanity, leaving the dead Colonies behind in search of the 13th Colony--Earth.
Continuity Note
This basestar class existed in the Re-imagined Series continuity, if only in appearance, and likely with a different command and crew structure.
A model of an Original Series basestar is displayed in Galactica's new museum in the Miniseries. Because the new series does not use the same weapons as that in the Original Series, viewers are left to guess what the Re-imagined basestars from the Cylon War used to fight the Galactica type battlestars.