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* At least three [[Agro Ship|agro ships]], including one named ''[[Agro Ship 9]]''
* At least three [[Agro Ship|agro ships]], including one named ''[[Agro Ship 9]]''
* Battlestar ''[[Pegasus (TOS)|Pegasus]]'' briefly joins the Fleet in "[[The Living Legend, Part I]]" and "[[The Living Legend, Part II|Part II]]"
* Battlestar ''[[Pegasus (TOS)|Pegasus]]'' briefly joins the Fleet in "[[The Living Legend, Part I]]" and "[[The Living Legend, Part II|Part II]]"
* The ''[[Comp-Tel Ship]]'' is mentioned by [[Chameleon]] ([[The Man with Nine Lives]])
* The ''[[Comm-Tel Ship]]'' is mentioned by [[Chameleon]] ([[The Man with Nine Lives]])
* The ''[[Orphan Ship]]'' is a ship designated to handle orphans in the Fleet ("[[The Man with Nine Lives]]", "[[Baltar's Escape]]")
* The ''[[Orphan Ship]]'' is a ship designated to handle orphans in the Fleet ("[[The Man with Nine Lives]]", "[[Baltar's Escape]]")
* The ''[[livestock ship]]'' is mentioned in "[[The Man with Nine Lives]]".
* The ''[[livestock ship]]'' is mentioned in "[[The Man with Nine Lives]]".

Revision as of 14:02, 4 December 2007

This article involves the caravan of sublight-speed civilian ships in the Original Series. For information on its faster-than-light capable counterpart in the Re-imagined Series, see The Fleet (RDM). For general information on the military of the Twelve Colonies in both series, see Colonial Fleet.

A shot of the "rag-tag fugitive fleet".

After the destruction of the Twelve Colonies in a devastating genocidal attack on the Colonial worlds, Commander Adama orders all survivors to find what operational ships that remain on their shattered worlds and fly them towards battlestar Galactica, the sole surviving battlestar after her sister warships are also destroyed in the two-prong Cylon attack. With nowhere else to call home, Adama decrees that the remnants of humanity will search for the Thirteenth Tribe on a planet called Earth.

Under the guardianship of Galactica, the Fleet comprises of 220 civilian ships. With the exception of Galactica, the ships are not capable of lightspeed flight. The Fleet's overall speed is limited to that of the slowest ship within the group. As all ships in the Fleet were filled to (or over) capacity, removing the slower ships from the caravan is not a option.

Known Ships

Other

The Fleet is also comprised of shuttles and Colonial Vipers, which are likely not indicated in the "220 ship" figure given in "Saga of a Star World". It is indicated that there are non-military shuttles that ferry people and, possibly, supplies throughout the Fleet. One such craft is the shuttle Canaris (The Man with Nine Lives), in addition to the shuttle piloted by Aurora of the Celestra (Take the Celestra).

In addition to their ship compliment, the Colonials have at least one Cylon Raider in their possession, as a result of their victory at Galaxy's Edge (The Hand of God).