For several generations now, science fiction, speculative fiction, and other fantastic genres have raised important questions of what it means to be a human and a person; the ways in which these questions are presented vary widely in style, approach, and intended audience. Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF. Skip to main content. This service is more advanced with JavaScript available. Advertisement Hide. Authors Authors and affiliations Sabrina Weiss. Chapter First Online: 01 October Abstract For several generations now, science fiction, speculative fiction, and other fantastic genres have raised important questions of what it means to be a human and a person; the ways in which these questions are presented vary widely in style, approach, and intended audience.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in to check access. Akasaka, K. Battlestar Galactica: A Retrospective. Namespaces Page Discussion. Views Read View source View history. Navigation Main page Recent changes Random page Help. This page was last modified on 30 April , at Privacy policy About Battlestar Wiki Disclaimers. Galactica type. The Galactica type battlestar combines the functions of an aircraft carrier and a battleship. It was designed and deployed after the outbreak of hostilities between the Cylons and Colonials.
A few ships of this class remain in service over 40 years after the end of the Cylon War; however, most were retired. Mercury class. Introduced some years after the First Cylon War, the Mercury class was designed to replace the aging Galactica type battlestars.
It featured newer technologies, more automation, and could carry more Viper and Raptor support ships than its older predecessors. Valkyrie type. The Valkyrie type was deployed alongside a Galactica type battlestar nearly fifty years before the Fall of the Colonies during the First Cylon War. At the time, they appeared to function as a support vessel in battlestar groups, and not as flagships. In the years since, the type has become a forerunner in the Colonial Fleet, apparently outnumbering the Mercury class and remaining Galactica type battlestars.
The Orion class battlestar was first developed and deployed sometime before or during the First Cylon War. Also known as a "Pocket Battlestar" or "Half-Pint," the class appears to be among the smaller ships in the Colonial Fleet, dwarfed even by the Valkyrie type. It may be the smallest battlestar class to see service. Loki type heavy cruiser. The Loki type heavy cruiser is a lightly armed support ship in service with the Colonial Fleet during the First Cylon War, where two or three of these ships would be assigned to a battlestar group at any given time.
The ships are designed to receive goods and munitions, and transfer them to combat ships underway. The Berzerk type served as escorts for their respective battlestar groups. They first entered service circa the First Cylon War, and were a mainstay in the fleet nearly 40 years later. The " Wedge " type also known as a " Defender " type is a support vessel in service with the Colonial Fleet by the tenth year of the First Cylon War.
At the onset of the attacks, there were many civilian transports and passenger liners in the space lanes near Caprica. After the Colonial Government shut down these lanes, these ships became trapped and were attacked as they were found by the Cylons. It's not long before Roslin takes the effort to round up the survivors and form a caravan to help get the civilians out of harms way, and sends out Sharon Valerii in search of more ships.
Valerii is able to recover at least three homeless Vipers, and numerous transports, her last being a tylium transport, before the Cylons jump in and scan their caravan. At this point, Roslin makes the decision to abandon the sublight only ships, and orders the remaining FTL capable ships to jump to Ragnar to rendezvous with Galactica.
Among chaotic comm chatter, prayers, and spite, the fleet jumps away just as a Raider Squadron jumps in. An additional small caravan of civilian ships, led by the transport Scylla , are able to survive on their own for a few weeks after the attacks.
The Cylons are the first to find them, and attack. The Scylla and a handful of others are able to escape the attack, and survive on their own until being found by the wandering Pegasus. The civilians are thrilled to see friendly forces, however, their joy is short lived. After taking the fleet by force, Admiral Cain strips the ships of crucial parts including FTL drives , abducts many of the civilians for service aboard Pegasus , and leaves the rest to their fates TRS : " Razor ".
Galactica successfully completes its jump to Ragnar, despite not having made an FTL jump in over 20 years. However, the specialists run into a sickly looking man pointing a rifle at them. As the CO is questioning him, a fallen charge detonates, trapping the two behind a now fused hatch. As the two seek an alternate route back to the ship, Adama's First War experiences, and the man's remarks reveal his true nature: he is a Cylon.
The radiation surrounding the station has affected his silica pathways which leave him dying a slow and permanent death, however, Adama soon finishes the job after the Cylon, Leoben , is able to throw Adama to the ground.
Conoy's body is transferred to the Galactica for further study. Meanwhile, the civilian fleet arrives in orbit of Ragnar, giving the crew of Galactica a slight scare as they move down through the cloud layers. President Roslin comes aboard and asks for Galactica 's protection, a notion Adama later strikes down, still hoping and preferring to take the battlestar into combat, until he realizes the Cylons followed them to Ragnar, and are now waiting for them to re-emerge from the gas giant.
After deliberating with the President and his executive officer, Saul Tigh , Adama orders the fleet to prep for a jump to the Prolmar Sector , far beyond the Red Line , where he hopes the civilians will be safe. Galactica is able to emerge from the cover of Ragnar's atmosphere long enough to calculate a jump, and defend the fleet as they jump away. Just as the Cylons are sending in a new wave of Raiders, the battlestar recovers its birds, and jumps to join the fleet TRS : " Miniseries ".
While Galactica and its fleet are momentarily able to escape the Anchorage, they are hounded by the Cylons, who jump to the fleet's location every thirty-three minutes. This incurs a cat and mouse game that lasts for days after the fall, until the passenger vessel being tracked by the Cylons is destroyed TRS : " 33 ".
The Cylons occupy the Colonies for up to nine months after the attacks. During that time, they start removing the bodies of the dead, and attempt to capture healthy females for experimentation in farms. Other models choose to replant cities and live life much as the Colonials did before the attacks. During the occupation, a few surviving Colonials wage a resistance movement on Caprica, led by Samuel Anders of the Caprica Buccaneers and unknowingly one of the Final Five Cylons.
The Cylon experiment fails, and they abandon the Colonies. Overall, the attack is a success and a failure at the same time; as a Cavil later remarked, the Cylons "had their foot on the throat of humanity" but "failed to step down hard enough.
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