Aether: civilian ship of the ragtag fleet
One of the many civilian hulls that reached the ragtag fleet after the Fall of the Twelve Colonies. The record gives it no complement and no incident.
Aether is a hull and a name. It was one of the many civilian vessels that got away from the Cylon assault on the Twelve Colonies and was counted among the ships of the surviving fleet, but the series gives it no complement and no incident. (Battlestar Galactica, "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II")
One of the many#
The ship fled with the rest and took its place in the ragtag fleet that formed around Galactica, carrying its refugees into the long flight through deep space. Its name turns up only among the ships listed for the presidential election, and that is the extent of what is recorded. (Battlestar Galactica, "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II")
Frequently asked questions
- What was the Aether in Battlestar Galactica?
- Aether was a civilian ship that escaped the Fall of the Twelve Colonies as part of the ragtag fleet of survivors that gathered under the protection of Galactica.
Sources
- EpisodeLay Down Your Burdens, Part II, Season 2, Episode 20 (2006)
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Galactica
Galactica was a Jupiter-class battlestar that served the Colonial Fleet from the Cylon War until the discovery of Earth. Never networked, it survived the Fall of the Twelve Colonies and shepherded the last fifty thousand humans across uncharted space before being scuttled into the sun.
Cylon
The Cylons were a race of sentient machines created as military robots by Graystone Industries on Caprica. Built from research into artificial consciousness, they rebelled against their human masters, fought a long war, and forty years later returned to annihilate humanity.
Fall of the Twelve Colonies
A single day of Cylon attack killed billions of people across Colonial space. Barely fifty thousand escaped in a refugee fleet.
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