Scylla

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Scylla
[[Image:|275px|Scylla]]
Race: Colonial
Type: Civilian
FTL: Yes, later removed by Pegasus technicians
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Fate: Abandoned, believed to be destroyed by Cylons
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The Scylla was a civilian transport ship picked up by battlestar Pegasus a week after the Cylon attack on the Colonies (Resurrection Ship, Part I).

Peter Laird was aboard the Scylla (Pegasus) and acted as the ship's spokesperson in conversations with Colonel Jack Fisk and Lieutenant Kendra Shaw. After informing the passengers about Admiral Helena Cain's intentions, he and the passengers initially refused, going as so far as to attack Pegasus Marines. The civilians' resistance was put down by Shaw by shooting a woman in the head—an act that Cain believed would make Shaw a "razor". Shaw's action resulted in the deaths of nine other civilians after Pegasus marines massacred them (Razor), among them being two families of the selectees (Pegasus).

After the civilian uprising was put down, he and other selectees from the Scylla and other ships were quickly drafted into Colonial service by Cain and stationed aboard the battlestar Pegasus. Once word of the massacre on the Scylla was put down The Scylla was left for dead after being abandoned and stripped of parts by the Pegasus crew; ergo, the ship is believed to be destroyed by the Cylons ("Pegasus", "Razor").

Notes[edit]

  • The ship's name (and the fate of its passengers) is a faint reference to a story from Homer's The Odyssey. The hero's ship is trapped between the Scylla and Charybdis, a group of monsters that attack Odysseus' ship and crew. The phrase "between the Scylla and Charybdis" is an expression denoting a situation where moving from one danger places one closer to another danger.
  • The battlestar Pegasus serves as the "Charybdis" in the story of the Scylla's passengers, who cannot escape from either ship, either being pressed into service on the battlestar or left stranded and lost on the civilian ships.