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Battle of the Guardian Basestar
	Battle of the Guardian basestar
	Battle of the Guardian basestar
Summary
Conflict:	Second Cylon war
Date:	Roughly 9 months after the Fall of the Twelve Colonies
Related Episode(s):
Place:	In jump distance of a supernova event
Result:	Colonial victory
Combatants
Battlestar Pegasus	Guardians
Commanders
Commander Lee Adama	First Hybrid
Strength
1 battlestar, Viper squadrons, Raptor, and strike team	Guardian basestar; Unspecified number of Cylon War-era Raiders; Centurions
Materiel Losses
1 Raptor	Various Raider losses. Guardian basestar destroyed.
Casualties
Dasilva and Kendra Shaw	Various Centurions; First Hybrid
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The Battle of the Guardian basestar is an engagement between the battlestar Pegasus and the Guardian basestar, where the main goal is to rescue a captured civilian science team.

Pegasus jumps near the basestar's location and launches an attack that draws off the vessel's Raiders. The battlestar then shuts down its FTL drive and simulates engine damage, ensuring a concentrated attack by the Raiders that leaves the basestar's immediate perimeter unguarded. Pegasus successfully combats the fighters, taking only minor damage in the process.

While this is happening, a Raptor carrying a rescue team and a nuclear weapon, jumps past the advancing Raiders and heads for the basestar. When two enemy fighters spot the Raptor, the crew fakes an engine malfunction and abandons ship, taking the warhead with them. The Raiders subsequently destroy the Raptor and break off, believing the crew to be dead. No longer pursued, the team continues on its way by means thruster packs.

Upon successfully boarding the basestar, the rescue team locates the enclosure where the science team is being held. In the process of freeing them, the rescue party is ambushed by Centurions, and Dasilva is critically wounded. As the Centurions drag him away, Major Shaw shoots and kills him, thinking it will spare him inevitable suffering. Shaw is subsequently shot in the abdomen by one Centurion.

The basestar begins jamming wireless communications, and not knowing if his boarding party is still alive, Commander Lee Adama orders a nuclear missile to be fired at the ship, but Admiral Adama countermands him. As the men attempt to figure out a decisive plan of action, communications are restored and Starbuck reveals that the warhead's remote detonator was damaged in the firefight with the Centurions; the only way to set the warhead off is to do it manually. Lee suggests evacuating the rescue team and then launching the missile, but Adama points out that the Raiders will destroy anything they fire at the basestar. Ultimately, a member of the rescue team will need to stay back and detonate the nuke. Reluctantly, Lee orders Starbuck to fulfill this role and she complies.

Pegasus launches a second Raptor, getting it close enough to the basestar to land within a hangar bay and evacuate the rescue team. Starbuck is ready to stay behind when an armed Shaw orders her to leave, intending to detonate the warhead instead. The two argue but Starbuck eventually concedes, boards the Raptor, and returns to Pegasus with the others.

With blood streaming from her open wound, a delirious Shaw descends deeper into the basestar, eventually coming across the Hybrid's chamber. The Hybrid knows she wants redemption for her past actions and tells her to come closer as he has something he needs to tell her. He explains to her that Starbuck will lead mankind to its doom and they must not follow her. Shaw attempts to contact Pegasus and warn them, but can't deliver the entire message due to Cylon jamming. As Shaw prepares to destroy the ship, the Hybrid calmly states that "all this has happened before, and will happen again" repeating "again...again" over and over. Shaw detonates the nuke, destroying the Guardian basestar along with herself, the Hybrid and the entire Centurion crew (Razor).

References

↑ "Razor" incorrectly infers this event to occur 10 months after. Tom Zarek talks about people being cooped up in ships for nine months at the beginning of "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I", which is after "Razor" in the timeline.
↑ While Admiral William Adama transfers his flag to Pegasus for the operation, Lee Adama still has overall command.

[1] "Razor" incorrectly infers this event to occur 10 months after. Tom Zarek talks about people being cooped up in ships for nine months at the beginning of "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I", which is after "Razor" in the timeline.

[2] While Admiral William Adama transfers his flag to Pegasus for the operation, Lee Adama still has overall command.

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-The '''Battle of the Guardian basestar''' is an engagement between the battlestar ''[[Pegasus]]'' and the [[Guardian basestar]], in which the main goal is to rescue a captured civilian science team.
+The '''Battle of the Guardian basestar''' is an engagement between the battlestar ''[[Pegasus]]'' and the [[Guardian basestar]], where the main goal is to rescue a captured civilian science team.
-''Pegasus'' jumps into the area of the basestar's location and launches an attack that draws off its Raiders. Additionally, ''Pegasus'' shuts down its [[FTL]] drive and simulates engine damage, ensuring a concentrated attack by the Raiders that leaves the basestar's immediate perimeter unguarded. A [[Raptor]] then jumps in behind the advancing Raiders, with a rescue team and a nuclear weapon to destroy the basestar. However, two nearby Raiders spot them and the crew fakes an engine malfunction and abandons ship. The Raiders destroy the Raptor and break off believing the crew to be dead. The team continues on its way by means thruster packs. Meanwhile ''Pegasus'' successfully fights off the Raiders, albeit taking some damage.
+''Pegasus'' jumps near the basestar's location and launches an attack that draws off the vessel's Raiders. The battlestar then shuts down its [[FTL]] drive and simulates engine damage, ensuring a concentrated attack by the Raiders that leaves the basestar's immediate perimeter unguarded. ''Pegasus'' successfully combats the fighters, taking only minor damage in the process.
-Upon successfully boarding the basestar, the rescue team locates the room where the captured science team is held. In the process of freeing them, the rescue party is ambushed by [[Cylon Centurion Model 0005|Centurions]], and [[Dasilva]] is critically wounded. As Centurions drag him away, Major [[Kendra Shaw|Shaw]] shoots and kills him, thinking it will spare him inevitable suffering. Shaw is subsequently shot in the abdomen by an attacking Centurion.
+While this is happening, a [[Raptor]] carrying a rescue team and a nuclear weapon, jumps past the advancing Raiders and heads for the basestar. When two enemy fighters spot the Raptor, the crew fakes an engine malfunction and abandons ship, taking the warhead with them. The Raiders subsequently destroy the Raptor and break off, believing the crew to be dead. No longer pursued, the team continues on its way by means thruster packs.
-The basestar jams [[wireless]] communication, and not knowing if his boarding party is still alive, Commander [[Lee Adama]] orders a [[Missile tubes|nuclear missile]] to be fired at the ship. [[William Adama|Admiral Adama]] countermands the order and while the two are trying to figure out what to do, communications are restored and [[Kara Thrace|Starbuck]] reveals that the warhead's remote detonator is damaged. The only way to set it off is to do it manually. Lee Adama thinks of evacuating the team and then launching the missile, but his father points out that the Raiders will probably destroy anything they shoot at the basestar. He realizes that the someone will need to stay behind and detonate the nuke. Reluctantly, he orders Starbuck to fulfill this role and she complies.
+Upon successfully boarding the basestar, the rescue team locates the enclosure where the science team is being held. In the process of freeing them, the rescue party is ambushed by [[Cylon Centurion Model 0005|Centurions]], and [[Dasilva]] is critically wounded. As the Centurions drag him away, Major [[Kendra Shaw|Shaw]] shoots and kills him, thinking it will spare him inevitable suffering. Shaw is subsequently shot in the abdomen by one Centurion.
-''Pegasus'' launches a rescue Raptor which jumps close enough to the basestar to land in its hangar bay. The team prepares to evacuate with Starbuck staying back, but Shaw forces her to leave at gunpoint, intending to remain in her place. The Raptor heads back to ''Pegasus'' as Shaw makes her way through the ship and comes across the Hybrid's chamber. The [[First Hybrid|Hybrid]] knows she wants redemption for her past actions and tells her to come closer as he has something he needs to tell her. He tells her that Starbuck will lead mankind to its end and they must not follow her. Shaw attempts to contact ''Pegasus'' and warn them, but can't deliver the entire message due to the Cylon jamming. As Shaw prepares to detonate the nuke, the Hybrid calmly states that "all this has happened before, and will happen again" repeating "again...again" over and over. Shaw detonates the nuke destroying the Guardian basestar along with herself, the Hybrid and the entire crew of Centurions ([[Razor]]).
+The basestar begins jamming [[wireless]] communications, and not knowing if his boarding party is still alive, Commander [[Lee Adama]] orders a [[Missile tubes|nuclear missile]] to be fired at the ship, but [[William Adama|Admiral Adama]] countermands him. As the men attempt to figure out a decisive plan of action, communications are restored and [[Kara Thrace|Starbuck]] reveals that the warhead's remote detonator was damaged in the firefight with the Centurions; the only way to set the warhead off is to do it manually. Lee suggests evacuating the rescue team and then launching the missile, but Adama points out that the Raiders will destroy anything they fire at the basestar. Ultimately, a member of the rescue team will need to stay back and detonate the nuke. Reluctantly, Lee orders Starbuck to fulfill this role and she complies.
+''Pegasus'' launches a second Raptor, getting it close enough to the basestar to land within a hangar bay and evacuate the rescue team. Starbuck is ready to stay behind when an armed Shaw orders her to leave, intending to detonate the warhead instead. The two argue but Starbuck eventually concedes, boards the Raptor, and returns to ''Pegasus'' with the others.
+With blood streaming from her open wound, a delirious Shaw descends deeper into the basestar, eventually coming across the Hybrid's chamber. The [[First Hybrid|Hybrid]] knows she wants redemption for her past actions and tells her to come closer as he has something he needs to tell her. He explains to her that Starbuck will lead mankind to its doom and they must not follow her. Shaw attempts to contact ''Pegasus'' and warn them, but can't deliver the entire message due to Cylon jamming. As Shaw prepares to destroy the ship, the Hybrid calmly states that "all this has happened before, and will happen again" repeating "again...again" over and over. Shaw detonates the nuke, destroying the Guardian basestar along with herself, the Hybrid and the entire Centurion crew ([[Razor]]).
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