Aft damage control

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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. It is likely that this room is used only if the command crew in CIC are dead or incapacitated, or unable to perform the D.C. task from CIC's Damage Control station.

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. The Cylons would also attempt to control Auxiliary Fire Control to use the battlestar's own gun batteries against other Colonial ships--in this case, to fire on the civilian Fleet.

Captain Lee Adama and others are able to stop two Centurions from accessing Aft Damage Control while other crew stop the assault on Auxiliary Fire Control (Valley of Darkness).

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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.