Agro Ship

The three Agro ships of the fleet.

Agro Ship is the common classification for spacecraft capable of the growing of any edible agro foodstuffs needed in any sort of convoy or Fleet for long periods of time. These crafts have translucent hull plates interconnected in a structural enforcement grid of a type, which allow the plants to receive the necessary sunlight from a nearby star or some other stellar formation to achieve the state of photosynthesis. Of course, artificial lighting is, apparently, also an important function of these agro ships (The Magnificent Warriors).

Agro ships are unarmed, but can withstand an assault for some period of time (The Magnificent Warriors).

Galactica's Fleet has three such agro ships; two of which are destroyed by the Cylons and the third one (the Agro Ship 9) experiences a hull breach via a destroyed airlock (The Magnificent Warriors).

Notes

• The agro ships are reuses of the spacecraft from Silent Running, a Universal/MCA movie that special effects guru John Dykstra worked on a few years prior to Battlestar Galactica.

• The same exact shots of the agro ships destructions in "The Magnificent Warriors" were reused in the Galactica 1980 episode, "Space Croppers". Thus continuing Battlestar's regrettable tradition of continual reuse of stock footage.

Original Series definition: agriculture (TOS: "The Magnificent Warriors")

Original Series definition: agriculture (TOS: "The Magnificent Warriors")