Galleon
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Galleon is the name used to describe the "great ship" that carried the 12 tribes from Kobol, during the Exodus, to the Twelve Colonies. The ship left from Galleon Meadow on Kobol some 2,000 years prior to the events of the re-imagined series (Home, Part I).
The true nature of the ancient vessel is not known at this time.