| Fall of the Scorpion Fleet Shipyards | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Conflict: | Second Cylon war | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Date: | Zero Hour, concurrent with Fall of the Twelve Colonies | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Place: | Scorpian Fleet Shipyards | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Result: | Decisive Cylon victory | ||||||||||||||||||||
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This surprise rout was a Cylon attack on the Scorpian 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 computers, with the possible exception of the FTL computer, were taken offline, but most importantly the computer network linking all computers on the ship was 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 as she could. 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.
At the same time, a young woman named Gina helped a Cylon boarding party gain access to the ship. She was presumably uncovered as a Cylon Agent during that action. The Cylon Centurions' actions and damage from the Cylon vessels, which lead to exploding fuel and ordnance on the hangar decks, caused over 700 casualties.
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.
This was aided by the electro-magnetic pulse from the nuclear detonations that blinded the Cylon Dradis and made them oblivious of Pegasus` survival.
The random jump was successful in that Pegasus escaped both the Cylon attack as well as the chance of colliding with celestial bodies.
Pegasus also learned of the tainted CNP and its infiltration vulnerability from the Cylons from wireless chatter (as Petty Officer Anastasia Dualla learned in communications with the dying battlestar fleet), and summarily made essential modifications to all of her remaining military fighters and battlestar computers to avoid the threat.
Notes[edit]
- The electro-magnetic pulse mentioned is, as is noted on its article, not really an EMP. See the article for further details.