Battlestar Prometheus
Jupiter-class battlestar
Prometheus was one of the first twelve Jupiter-class battlestars built to counter the Cylon threat. Over her career she served alongside Battlestar Galactica and Battlestar Columbia in at least one joint operation.
Prometheus was one of the original twelve Jupiter-class battlestars laid down to counter the newly founded Cylon threat. During her career she participated in at least one joint operation with Battlestar Galactica and Battlestar Columbia.
Service history#
Prometheus was one of the first twelve Jupiter-class battlestars built to meet the emerging Cylon threat. The most detailed record of her career notes at least one joint operation conducted alongside Galactica and Columbia, placing her among the Colonial warships active in the same theater as those two ships.
Class and capabilities#
As a Jupiter-class vessel, Prometheus shared the design of Galactica, the most famous ship of the line. The class was armed with kinetic energy weapons scattered across the dorsal and ventral hull in groups of four, with two dozen batteries making the Jupiters among the heaviest hitters in the Colonial Fleet until the larger Mercury-class began to outshine them in the offensive role during the interwar period.
Twelve missile tubes carried both conventional and nuclear-tipped weapons, giving the class the ability to level entire cities. Defense came from hundreds of point-defense CIWS emplacements and two-layered armor plating effective against conventional and nuclear strikes. Large retractable flight pods supported a sizable complement of Vipers, Raptors, and shuttles, with the class's launch tubes suggesting a standard loadout of at least eighty fighters.
Like other Jupiters, Prometheus would have relied on primitive, unnetworked computers as a defense against Cylon hacking, a precaution that left such ships slower to compute faster-than-light jumps but far less vulnerable to infiltration than networked vessels.
Frequently asked questions
- What was the Battlestar Prometheus?
- Prometheus was one of the original twelve Jupiter-class battlestars laid down to counter the newly founded Cylon threat. She shared the design of Galactica, the most famous ship of the line.
- What operations did the Prometheus take part in?
- The most detailed record of her career notes at least one joint operation conducted alongside Galactica and Columbia, placing her among the Colonial warships active in the same theater as those two ships.
- What weapons did the Prometheus carry?
- As a Jupiter-class vessel, Prometheus carried kinetic energy weapons across her dorsal and ventral hull in two dozen batteries, plus twelve missile tubes with both conventional and nuclear-tipped weapons capable of leveling entire cities. Defense came from hundreds of point-defense CIWS emplacements and two-layered armor plating.
- Why did Jupiter-class ships use unnetworked computers?
- Like other Jupiters, Prometheus would have relied on primitive, unnetworked computers as a defense against Cylon hacking. The precaution left such ships slower to compute faster-than-light jumps but far less vulnerable to infiltration than networked vessels.
Sources
- WikiBattlestar Prometheus — Battlestar Wiki entry
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Related entries
Battlestar Columbia
The Columbia was a Jupiter-class battlestar and sister ship to Galactica, one of the most decorated warships of the First Cylon War. She was the last known Colonial ship lost in that conflict, destroyed shortly before the armistice.
Galactica
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Jupiter-class
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Mercury-class
The Mercury-class was the most advanced battlestar fielded by the Colonial Fleet, developed roughly two decades before the Fall to supplement and eventually replace the aging Jupiter-class. Its heavy networking proved its undoing when the Cylons attacked.
Prometheus: civilian freighter and black market hub
Prometheus was a civilian cargo ship that survived the Fall of the Twelve Colonies and joined the Galactica-led fleet. For a time it served as the fleet's black market hub, where illicit goods of every kind could be bought and sold.
Colonial Fleet
The Colonial Fleet was the naval arm of the military of the United Colonies of Kobol, founded during the Cylon War to unite the forces of the Twelve Worlds. At its height it numbered some 120 battlestars, yet a single Cylon exploit reduced it to two ships in the opening minutes of the Fall.
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