Aft damage control

The door of Aft Damage Control.
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The Aft Damage Control room presumably controls shipboard bulkheads, vents, and other life-sustaining aspects of the battlestar Galactica. In the event of fire or other hazards, the room could be used to adjust controls that manage fires or prevent smoke and other toxins from permeating the remainder of the ship.

Colonel Saul Tigh knew from experience that the use of such damage control rooms was a Cylon Centurion boarding tactic (Valley of Darkness). By gaining control of these rooms, a Cylon could vent the atmosphere of a battlestar into space, suffocating the crew, or open bulkheads and airlocks to eject the crew into space.

Captain Lee Adama and others were able to stop two Centurions from accessing Aft Damage Control (Valley of Darkness).

Note

If there is an Aft Damage Control, it may be safe to presume that a Forward Damage Control room is also available on the ship.

William Adama, in an exchange of war stories with Saul Tigh in a deleted flashback scene from "Valley of Darkness", tells the furloughed, younger Tigh of a time in the Cylon War when Cylons boarded Galactica while he served there as a Viper pilot to perform the same tactic that Tigh directly experiences while he is in command of the same battlestar, over 40 years later.

Re-imagined Series definition: generally related to the CIC station and related locations