Fall of the Scorpion Fleet Shipyards

Concurrent battle: Fall of the Twelve Colonies
Battle after: Battle of Ragnar Anchorage

Fall of the Scorpion Ship Yards

Conflict

Second Cylon war

Date

Zero Hour

Place

Scorpion Fleet Shipyards

Result

Cylon victory

Combatants
Colonial Fleet	Cylons
Commanders
Admiral Helena Cain	Unknown
Strength
at least 3 battlestars (including Pegasus, 3 support cruisers, associated Vipers, Raptors	Unknown number of Basestars, associated Raiders
Casualties
at least 2 battlestars and 3 other military vessels (presumed). Destruction of Scorpion Fleet Shipyards. Approx. 700 crewmen lost aboard Pegasus.	Unknown--few if any

This one-sided surprise rout was a Cylon attack on the Scorpion Fleet Shipyards during the Fall of the Twelve Colonies. The Scorpion Fleet Shipyards were hit with three, possibly four nuclear weapons. Five ships, including two battlestars, were destroyed instantly. Admiral Cain ordered battlestar Pegasus to make a blind jump, and luckily managed to survive the risky jump manuever unharmed.

Pegasus was in dock in preparation for an overhaul scheduled over three months. Most of the ship's comnputers, with the possible exception of the FTL computer, were taken offline. Therefore Pegasus was unaffected by Cylon infiltration of the Command Navigation Program. Admiral Helena Cain was preparing for shore leave, as had many of her crew. She had planned to visit family and friends on Tauron when the attack commenced.

Cain retrieved as many civilian and military staff from the shipyard into the relative safety of her battlestar. Since the attack and defense computers were offline for the refit, it is presumed that, in the heat of battle, there was insufficient time to restart them to aid in a counterattack. Unfortunately, over 700 of her crew had been killed in the shipyard attack.

With no defensive options, and destruction imminent, Cain ordered the CIC crew to activate the FTL system and make a Jump--"Wherever. Anywhere. Just Jump," she recalled to Commander Adama and President Laura Roslin in a conversation shortly after battlestar Galactica encountered Cain's battlestar months later.

The random Jump was successful in that Pegasus escaped both the Cylon attack as well as the chance of colliding with celestial bodies.

It is presumed that Pegasus also learned that vessels using the tainted CNP could be infiltrated by the Cylons from wireless chatter (as Dualla did in the Mini-series), and summarily made essential modifications to any of her remaining military fighters to avoid the threat.