Battlestar Chronos
the bait in the Cylon trap
The Chronos was a battlestar of the Colonial Fleet in Dynamite's Battlestar Galactica: Pegasus comic. Sent to investigate a distress signal near the Armistice Line about a year before the Fall, she was wrecked by the Cylons and her hull turned into bait for the Pegasus.
The Chronos was a battlestar in service with the Colonial Fleet in the years before the Fall of the Twelve Colonies, seen in Dynamite Entertainment's one-shot comic Battlestar Galactica: Pegasus. Sent to investigate a distress signal near the Armistice Line, she was attacked by the Cylons, and her wreck became the bait in a trap that nearly claimed the Pegasus. The comic sits outside the on-screen continuity. (Battlestar Galactica: Pegasus)
Class#
The comic never names the Chronos's class. Helena Cain calls her a sister ship, but the vessel drawn isn't a Mercury-class battlestar like Pegasus and looks closer to the Valkyrie. (Battlestar Galactica: Pegasus)
The distress signal and the trap#
About a year before the Fall, the Chronos, under Admiral Tong, was sent to investigate a distress signal near the Armistice Line and did not return. Unknown to the Fleet, the Cylons had attacked her, killing more than 1,500 of her crew. A handful of survivors, Tong among them, managed to escape. (Battlestar Galactica: Pegasus)
Admiral Rohner sent Cain and Pegasus to find the missing ship. They found her all but destroyed, the wreck left in place to draw in more Colonial ships. Four Raiders emerged from the wreckage and attacked Pegasus with nuclear missiles, badly damaging her. As the outgunned Pegasus traced a second distress signal to a distant fuel depot, the Raiders used their nukes to obliterate what was left of the Chronos. (Battlestar Galactica: Pegasus)
Frequently asked questions
- What was the Battlestar Chronos?
- The Chronos was a Colonial battlestar commanded by Admiral Tong, which appears in Dynamite Entertainment's 2007 one-shot comic Battlestar Galactica: Pegasus. The story is set about a year before the Fall of the Twelve Colonies.
- Is the Chronos in the TV series?
- No. She appears only in the Pegasus comic, which tells a story from before the Cylon attack and isn't part of the on-screen continuity.
- What was the Chronos's final mission?
- She was sent to investigate a distress signal near the Armistice Line and never came back. The Cylons attacked her, killing more than 1,500 of her crew, though a handful of survivors, Tong among them, got away.
- How was the Battlestar Chronos destroyed?
- The Cylons left the wreck in place as bait. When Pegasus arrived, four Raiders came out of the wreckage and hit her with nuclear missiles, and as Pegasus pulled away the Raiders used their nukes to obliterate what was left of the Chronos.
- How did the Pegasus become involved in the Chronos's fate?
- Admiral Rohner sent Helena Cain and Pegasus to find the missing ship. They found her all but destroyed and walked into the trap the Cylons had built around her.
Sources
- ComicBattlestar Galactica: Pegasus, Brandon Jerwa and Jonathan Lau, Dynamite Entertainment, 2007
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Battlestar Valkyrie
The Valkyrie was a Valkyrie-class battlestar of the Colonial Fleet. A veteran of the First Cylon War, she was later commanded by William Adama and was destroyed over Caprica in the opening hours of the Fall.
Pegasus: Helena Cain's battlestar
Pegasus survived the Fall because an overhaul had taken parts of its Command Navigation Program offline. It was lost ramming a basestar to cover Galactica's escape from New Caprica.
Colonial Fleet: 120 battlestars
The navy of the Twelve Colonies, which fought the Cylon War. One software exploit cut it to two surviving battlestars on the day of the Fall.
Cylon Raider: the living fighter
The modern Raider was a living organism fused to a metal exoskeleton, able to plan and to refuse orders. Killed Raiders resurrected into new ships.
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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