Basestar (TOS)

This article is about the Original Series basestar. For the re-imagined version, see Basestar (RDM).

A group of Cylon Basestars

A basestar is a large capital warship of the Cylon Alliance.

Basestars are immense vehicles that, like their Colonial counterparts, the battlestars, serve as a combination aircraft carrier and capital warship. They are capable of carrying (and supporting) over three hundred Raiders. Armed with missiles, over one hundred defensive laser turrets, and two long range mega pulsar weapons, the capital warship of the Cylon Alliance is more than a match for any unprepared or unaware battlestar (The Hand of God). Basestars are also designed for orbital bombardment of a planet, and, true to their name, also serve as a moving base of operations.

Basestars, and their fighters were key in the Cylon's genocidal destruction of the Twelve Colonies and the battlestar fleet. Only battlestar Galactica was known to have survived the initial holocaust, and gathered an odd assortment of civilian spacecraft with the remnants of Humanity, leaving the dead Colonies behind in search of the 13th Colony--Earth.