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*As the fleet undergoes [[w:Underway replenishment|Underway Replenishment Refueling]] in orbit of a planet, [[Starbuck]] while flying CAP has an alleged hallucination and sees a Cylon [[Heavy Raider]]. She becomes target fixated and pursues it into a planetary [[w:maelstrom|maelstrom]] deep into the planet's crushing atmospheric pressures and fires on it and it allegedly fires on her, damaging her. She finally obeys the orders of Major [[Lee Adama]] to break off pursuit and resume orbit. [[Chief Tyrol]] found no damage to Starbuck's Viper. No other pilot sees the Cylon vessel nor was it picked up on any [[DRADIS]] or Starbuck's Gun Camera footage.  
*As the fleet undergoes [[w:Underway replenishment|Underway Replenishment Refueling]] in orbit of a planet, [[Starbuck]] while flying [[w:Combat Air Patrol|Combat Air Patrol]] (CAP) has an alleged hallucination and sees a Cylon [[Heavy Raider]]. She becomes target fixated and pursues it into a planetary [[w:maelstrom|maelstrom]] deep into the planet's crushing atmospheric pressures and fires on it and it allegedly fires on her, damaging her. She finally obeys the orders of Major [[Lee Adama]] to break off pursuit and resume orbit. [[Chief Tyrol]] found no damage to Starbuck's Viper. No other pilot sees the Cylon vessel nor was it picked up on any [[DRADIS]] or Starbuck's Gun Camera footage.  


*Over a course of time Starbuck has increasing visions of [[Leoben]] and representations of the [[Eye of Jupiter]] [[w:mandala|mandala]] in the [[Temple of Five]] and as she sketched as a child and adult. She also has visions of her childhood abuse by her mother. The crew notes Starbuck's increasing instability and depression.
*Over a course of time Starbuck has increasing visions of [[Leoben]] and representations of the [[Eye of Jupiter]] [[w:mandala|mandala]] in the [[Temple of Five]] and as she sketched as a child and adult. She also has visions of her childhood abuse by her mother [[Socrata Thrace]]. The crew notes Starbuck's increasing instability and depression.


*After debate as to her suitability fly, [[Apollo]] gives her a vote of confidence and allows her to fly a CAP mission with himself as her wingman. Once again she sees the phantom Heavy Raider and pursues it into the atmosphere. Again the alleged Heavy Raider damages her and she is rendered unconscious. She has visions and memories of Leoben and her painful past of her mother. It is cathartic and in her mind reconciles with a her dead mother and her fears.
*After debate as to her suitability fly, [[Apollo]] gives her a vote of confidence and allows her to fly a [[CAP]] mission with himself as her wingman. Once again she sees the phantom Heavy Raider and pursues it into the atmosphere. Again the alleged Heavy Raider damages her and she is rendered unconscious. She has visions and memories of her painful past with her mother with the image of Leoben as her therapeutic guide. It is cathartic and in her mind reconciles with a her dead mother and her fears.


*After coming to terms with her past and her fears Starbuck deliberately dives her Viper to atmospheric crush depth and it explodes, allegedly killing her.   
*After coming to terms with her past and her destiny Starbuck deliberately dives her Viper to atmospheric crush depth and it explodes, allegedly killing her.   


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Revision as of 07:41, 7 March 2007

For the timeline overview see Timeline (RDM). For the rest of the series see Timeline - Season 1 (RDM) and Timeline - Season 2 (RDM)


"Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance"[edit]

  • Between Day 660 and Day 794:
    • Nicholas Tyrol is born
    • Kara Thrace is kidnapped and forced into a marriage-type arrangement with Leoben Conoy, whom she kills at any opportunity (Occupation)
    • A resistance movement is formed and led by Saul Tigh and Galen Tyrol
    • The Cylons form the New Caprica Police
    • Duck refuses to work with the resistance, choosing to spend more time with his wife Nora
    • After some debate, the resistance leaders choose to hide weapons in the Temple of Artemis
    • The Cylons attack the temple, killing Nora
    • Duck is physically sickened by the news of Nora's death
    • The general population has started to side with the resistance and 1,000 people protested outside Colonial One over the attack on the temple
    • Nicholas Tyrol has his dedication ceremony
    • Jammer is imprisoned in a Cylon detention center and is visited by a Number Five, who offers Jammer a key card and an implied invitation into the NCP

Prior to the Season 3 premiere, after The Resistance[edit]

  • Saul Tigh is captured by the Cylons and detained. One of his eyes is literally ripped out by the Cylons
  • Jammer and Duck enlist with the New Caprica Police

Occupation[edit]

  • c. Day 794 (494th day since settlement, 134th day of occupation):
    • Colonel Tigh is released from the detention center
  • c. Day 795:
    • Duck suicide-bombs a NCP ceremony
    • Felix Gaeta secretly provides the jamming frequencies to allow wireless communication to breech Cylon interference
    • The resistance establishes communication with Racetrack's Raptor
  • Sometime before the episode, "Precipice:"
    • Laura Roslin is arrested by the Cylons

Precipice[edit]

  • c. Day 796:
    • Leoben Conoy introduces Kacey to Kara Thrace
    • The Cylons force Baltar to sign an execution order
    • Ellen Tigh steals a map marking the location for a secret rendezvous with Galactica's rescue coordination party
    • Sharon Agathon's coordination party lands, makes contact with Anders' party, and are soon attacked by Cylon forces
    • Roslin and others on the execution order are arrested and later driven to the Pergamus Flats to be executed. Before the shooting begins, Jammer frees Cally Tyrol

Exodus, Part I[edit]

  • c. Day 796:
    • Tyrol's group ambushes the firing squad and save Laura Roslin, Tom Zarek and many others
    • Sharon Agathon's marines save Anders and the resistance group from a Cylon ambush
  • c. Day 797:
    • Number Three visits an oracle
    • Sharon Agathon infiltrates a Cylon facility and obtains the Colonial ships' launch keys
    • Ellen Tigh is exposed as a traitor
    • Admiral Adama orders Galactica to jump to New Caprica

Exodus, Part II[edit]

  • c. Day 798:
    • Ellen Tigh is poisoned by her husband for her treason
    • The Battle of New Caprica begins. The settlers are successfully retrieved from the planet.
    • Pegasus is destroyed during the battle
    • Maya dies
    • Hera Agathon is found by the Cylons, who also abandon New Caprica and take Baltar with them

Collaborators[edit]

  • c. Day 800 (Day 3 of the Second Exodus):
    • James Lyman, and 12 others before him are executed by the Circle
    • Gaius Baltar awakens aboard a Cylon basestar for the first time three days after fleeing New Caprica
    • New President Tom Zarek names Roslin as his Vice President, and later resigns to return Roslin to power
    • Felix Gaeta is tried and convicted by the Circle but is spared when incontrovertible proof of his innocence emerges just in time.
    • President Roslin abolishes the Circle and immediately pardons all those suspected of collaboration

Between "Collaborators" and "Torn"[edit]

  • Lee Adama is demoted back to Major and resumes his former position as Galactica's CAG
  • Karl Agathon serves as XO on Galactica

Torn[edit]

  • c. Day 850:
    • Felix Gaeta reveals Baltar's research on the road to Earth to President Roslin and Admiral Adama
    • Caprica-Six and Three begin inquiring about the location of Earth and debating Baltar's usefulness
    • A Cylon basestar sent to investigate the Lion's Head Nebula is infected by a virus from an ancient beacon
    • Athena and Racetrack find the Lion's Head Nebula and the dying basestar
    • Baltar returns to his basestar after his reconnaissance of the dying basestar, leaving out information on the probe, but his omission is uncovered

A Measure of Salvation[edit]

  • c. Day 851:
    • A Colonial boarding party investigates the derelict basestar, find the probe, and realizes that all but a few Cylons aboard have died
    • The boarding party and some Cylon prisoners are en route back to Galactica when the basestar self-destructs
    • The medical investigation identifies a virus that can be treated, but not cured for Cylons
    • Lee Adama suggests a plan to eliminate the entire Cylon race by executing their prisoners in range of a Resurrection Ship
  • c. Day 852:
    • Galactica jumps to a Cylon supply line. the Battle of NCD2539 begins
    • The plan fail to due to the intervention of Karl Agathon
    • Aboard a basestar, Baltar is interrogated and tortured by Three and Caprica-Six

Hero[edit]

  • c. Day 935:
    • President Roslin and Tory Foster draw up plans to honor Admiral Adama for his 45 years of service to the Colonial Fleet
    • Number Three begins experiencing strange visions
    • Galactica rescues Daniel Novacek, a prisoner-of-war of the Cylons for over two years
    • Adama confesses to his son about Novacek and possible culpability for the fall of the Twelve Colonies
  • c. Day 936:
    • Saul Tigh tells Novacek about Adama's action in his failed mission
    • Novacek attacks Adama and tries to kill him but is stopped by Tigh
  • c. Day 937:
    • Number Three begins a series of suicides to experience visions about five figures in white robes
    • Adama submits his resignation to Roslin but she refuses to accept it
  • c. Day 938:
    • Novacek is sent off to a berthing and counseling on another ship
    • Tigh and Adama begin to reconcile

"Unfinished Business" Present day events[edit]

This section details the "current day" events aboard Galactica. Prior events recalled in the episode are documented in the timeline at Day 420.
  • c. Day 950:
    • Galactica's crew work out their aggressions in a boxing tournament
    • Kara Thrace and Lee Adama fight each other in the ring and reconcile

The Passage[edit]

No timeline markers are available for this episode.
  • The Fleet's food supply is contaminated
  • Saul Tigh returns as Executive Officer on Galactica
  • Sharon Agathon returns from a recon mission through a dangerous star cluster with data on a planet loaded with edible algae
  • Galactica's Raptors successfully escort the Fleet in packs through the disorienting, radiation-laden star cluster, with some ship losses and casualties
  • Louanne Katraine dies

The Eye of Jupiter[edit]

No timeline markers are available for this episode.
  • Resupply mission day 14-15 (after the events of "The Passage"):
    • The Colonials are preparing to leave the algae planet
    • Tyrol finds the Temple of Five
    • A Cylon fleet arrives and attempts to negotiate for the Eye of Jupiter, but both sides are deadlocked; Adama threatens destruction of the Eye if the Cylons attempt to land
    • President Roslin's role in hiding Hera Agathon is revealed to Admiral Adama and Hera's parents
    • A Heavy Raider makes it to the planet deploying a ground party of Centurions. Starbuck's recon Raptor is shot down
    • Admiral Adama, in response to the Cylon incursion, prepares to destroy the planet's continent

Rapture[edit]

No timeline markers are available for this episode.
  • This episode commences immediately after the final scenes in "The Eye of Jupiter":
    • Five of the six Heavy Raiders heading toward the algae planet turn back.
    • In response Admiral Adama stands down from the threatened nuclear strike in an unspoken compromise.
    • Baltar, D'Anna Biers and a Cavil land on the planet in the sixth Heavy Raider.
    • Athena persuades her husband Helo to shoot her. She downloads into the Cylon fleet to reclaim Hera. Boomer threatens to kill Hera. Caprica Six kills Boomer and escapes with Hera and Athena to Galactica. Caprica Six is taken prisoner.
    • Dualla makes contact with Starbuck. They repair the Raptor and both return to Galactica.
    • Lee Adama and Samuel Anders fail to prevent Baltar, D'Anna and Cavil from entering the Temple of Five.
    • D'Anna has a vision in which she sees the Final Five and dies.
    • Tyrol captures Baltar and returns to the Galactica with him.
    • The start goes nova and destroys the algae planet. Galactica jumps and rejoins the fleet.
    • The entire Three line is boxed, including D'Anna.
  • Sometime between "Rapture" and "Taking a Break From All Your Worries":
    • Joe's bar is established on an unused stretch of one of Galactica's hangar decks.

Taking a Break From All Your Worries[edit]

No timeline markers are available for this episode.
  • While there are no objective time indicators as to specifically how much time after "Rapture" has elapsed, Baltar's beard has grown longer and Starbuck's burns on her hands are completely healed. This suggest that at least a few weeks have elapsed between "Rapture" and "Taking a Break From All Your Worries".

The Woman King[edit]

No timeline markers are available for this episode.
  • Three hundred refugees from the civilian vessel Threa Sita, including 51 Sagittarons board Galactica. They are housed in the unused starboard landing bay with the preexisting residents in an area nicknamed "Dogsville".
  • Captain Karl Agathon and Doctor Michael Robert detect that refugees boarding the Galactica have brought along a contagion. This malady is later diagnosed as Mellorak sickness.
  • Doctor Michael Robert, due to his racism against the Sagittarons, kills a few of them with lethal injections.
  • Karl Agathon detects and halts the killing of the Sagittarons and bring Doctor Robert to justice. Admiral Adama apologizes for not supporting his earlier suspicions.

A Day in the Life[edit]

This episode takes place 49 days after the events in "Rapture". No contact with the Cylons has occurred since then.
  • Admiral Adama has daydreams about his long divorced and dead wife Carolanne through out the day of his anniversary of their wedding. Lee Adama and his father air out some issues regarding Carolanne's treatment of Lee and his brother Zak growing up with a single alcoholic mother.
  • Admiral Adama and President Laura Roslin discuss the problems of legal protocol and logistical difficulties in the upcoming trial of Gaius Baltar. Roslin request that Admiral Adama ask his son Lee to head a steering committee to hash out the legal issues.
  • During a maintenance job on an airlock, a leak in the hull and a malfunction of the airlock traps Galen and Cally Tyrol in the depressurizing airlock.
  • They are freed by the deliberate use of explosive decompression through the outer airlock door and making a quick jump through the vacuum of space without pressure suits into a waiting Raptor. Afterwards, they recover in sickbay from Decompression Sickness.

Dirty Hands[edit]

No exact date is available, but according to Roslin, Baltar's lawyer has been smuggling manuscripts out of his cell for several weeks.
  • A Raptor piloted by Racetrack and Skulls has an engine malfunction as the result of poorly refined tylium fuel, prompting the crew to eject. The Raptor collides with Colonial One which suffers minor damage, causing several injuries on board, including Tory Foster. President Roslin escaped unharmed.
  • A strike on a tylium refinery ship leads Galen Tyrol to recognize the bad working conditions in the Fleet himself. He ultimately takes up the cause and extends the strike to Galactica's deckhands. After a standoff with the Fleet leadership he stands down, managing to negotiate improvements.
  • Baltar managed to smuggle an agitating book out of his cell and got it published, provoking further unrest in the Fleet.
  • Seelix is promoted to Ensign and accepted as pilot in training.

Maelstrom[edit]

No timeline markers are available for this episode. However, it begins on day four of Fleet Refueling operations
  • As the fleet undergoes Underway Replenishment Refueling in orbit of a planet, Starbuck while flying Combat Air Patrol (CAP) has an alleged hallucination and sees a Cylon Heavy Raider. She becomes target fixated and pursues it into a planetary maelstrom deep into the planet's crushing atmospheric pressures and fires on it and it allegedly fires on her, damaging her. She finally obeys the orders of Major Lee Adama to break off pursuit and resume orbit. Chief Tyrol found no damage to Starbuck's Viper. No other pilot sees the Cylon vessel nor was it picked up on any DRADIS or Starbuck's Gun Camera footage.
  • Over a course of time Starbuck has increasing visions of Leoben and representations of the Eye of Jupiter mandala in the Temple of Five and as she sketched as a child and adult. She also has visions of her childhood abuse by her mother Socrata Thrace. The crew notes Starbuck's increasing instability and depression.
  • After debate as to her suitability fly, Apollo gives her a vote of confidence and allows her to fly a CAP mission with himself as her wingman. Once again she sees the phantom Heavy Raider and pursues it into the atmosphere. Again the alleged Heavy Raider damages her and she is rendered unconscious. She has visions and memories of her painful past with her mother with the image of Leoben as her therapeutic guide. It is cathartic and in her mind reconciles with a her dead mother and her fears.
  • After coming to terms with her past and her destiny Starbuck deliberately dives her Viper to atmospheric crush depth and it explodes, allegedly killing her.