NOTE: This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title If an article link referred you here, you might want to go back and fix it to point directly to the intended page.
This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. If an article link referred you here, you might want to go back and fix it to point directly to the intended page. Also, if you wanted to search for the term "Moon", click here.
In more recent history, the Borays began raiding Serenity for food, supplies, and women when Sectar's orbiting satellite became fully visible in the night sky.
The Encyclopedia Galactica(a non-canonical piece of merchandise published in 1979) transposes Equellus for Sectar, and vice versa:
Equellus is a minor farming and ranching planet with few human settlements. Its original inhabitants, the Borays, a primitive but intelligent species, have had a hostile relationship with the human settlers. Grain is Equellus's principal export, but its economy is mainly geared to subsistence. There are no large cities. The small, widely scattered towns must be largely self-sufficient to survive.[1]
The red moon is a rocky and mountainous world with no discernible life or water. It orbits a gas giant located a considerable amount of jumps away from the Twelve Colonies. The moon's thick, frigid atmosphere is composed mostly of carbon dioxide and methane with a small amount of argon. Dangerous high velocity winds dominate the upper atmosphere, and hydrocarbon clouds form an opaque screen around the moon.
Weeks after the Fall of the Twelve Colonies, the moon is the site of a small skirmish between several Cylon Raiders and a handful of Colonial pilots in training. After engaging the Raiders, pilot Kara "Starbuck" Thrace finds her fighter falling out of control into the moon's atmosphere and ejects, parachuting to relative safety on the surface (TRS: "Act of Contrition"). As she struggles to maintain a limited oxygen supply and await rescue, she encounters the last Raider that she shot down during the battle. Thrace removes the dead biological material from the Raider's interior and manages to fly the Raider off the moon's surface and back into space (TRS: "You Can't Go Home Again").
Notes
One of Bear McCreary's music tracks for "You Can't Go Home Again" is titled "Starbuck on the Red Moon."
↑While subtitles note the name as J.T. Smith, sub-titles do not sync to the final dialogue, which makes it clear that the last name was changed sometime during production.
For direct navigation sans the tabbed navigational aid above, please select one of the following article links:
