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| Capture of Galactica | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| The Maytorian IL leads a platoon of Command Centurions into Galactica's core command (Classic Battlestar Galactica Vol. 1 #5). | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Conflict: | Thousand-Yahren War | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Date: | Between the Battle of Carillon and the Battle of Otarsis Quadrant | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Place: | Near Maytoria | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Result: | Decisive Cylon victory, destruction of the Twelve Colonies | ||||||||||||||||||||
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The capture of Galactica is a near-catastrophic event during the early days of the rag-tag, fugitive fleet.
Planning and Preparation[edit]
Following Apollo's mission failure at Maytoria, resulting in the crash of both Lieutenants Boomer and Starbuck, the Maytorian IL's forces capture Boomer and determines that it can use the misbegotten Colonial Warrior as a means to root out the Sagittaron forces from the planet.
Planting a tracking bug on the Warrior's jacket, Boomer is subsequently allowed to be rescued by Stadra Ah Mun's resistance force, who bring their injured compatriot to the resistance's stronghold: the basement of a bombed-out trade center (Classic Battlestar Galactica Vol. 1 #2).
After the Cylons subsequently storm the stronghold and the resistance force learns the breadth and depth of humanity's fate, Ah Mun and Galactica's Warriors lead a perilous attack on the Central Command, finding a Cylon personnel carrier being loaded and ready to launch. Led by Captain Freg and Lieutenant Boomer, the resistance forces storm the hangar and take the ship, despite seemingly heavy resistance.
Unbeknownst to them, the Maytorian IL and platoons of Command Centurions lay hidden aboard, making the personnel carrier—with its less than 200 Maytorian survivors—a Cylon Trojan horse, not only routing out the Sagittarons, but conceivably Commander Adama's Fleet (Classic Battlestar Galactica Vol. 1 #3—#4).
Execution and Subsequent Failure[edit]
During celebrations in honor of the new survivors and the returned Warriors, the Maytorian IL and his troops board Galactica through the docked personnel carrier. Their first victim, Stadra Ah Mun, is shot in the back and dies in Starbuck's arms (Classic Battlestar Galactica Vol. 1 #4).
Starbuck escapes the ambush in the corridor and returns to the lounge, informing Commander Adama and Captain Apollo that the ship has been boarded.
In core command, Colonel Tigh is shocked to learn that the Cylons have quickly and effectively targeted the main areas of Galactica. The Maytorian IL, accompanied by a legion of Command Centurions, demands Tigh to order a "communciation's daggit" to open a communication's channel to the Cylons on Maytoria, killing an officer to make its point.