Battlestar Galactica category
Original Series
15 entries tagged Original Series, 15 of them long reads. The rest of the wiki points here most often at Galactica: the last battlestar of the Colonial Service and Battlestar Galactica (1978) Explained: the Original Series and Galactica 1980.
- Battlestar Galactica (1978) Explained: the Original Series and Galactica 1980The original Battlestar Galactica ran on ABC from 1978 to 1979, followed by the short-lived Galactica 1980. Here's the premise, the main characters, how the 24 episodes play out, what happened in Galactica 1980 and how all of it differs from the 2004 series.
- Acropolis: battlestar lost at CimtarIn the Original Series continuity, the Acropolis was a Colonial battlestar that fought through the Thousand-Yahren War against the Cylon Alliance. It was among the few battlestars left to attend the armistice talks over Cimtar and was destroyed when the conference proved a Cylon trap.
- Atlantia: flagship at CimtarIn the Original Series continuity, the Atlantia was a Colonial battlestar of the Thousand-Yahren War that carried President Adar and the Council of the Twelve to the peace conference at Cimtar. Caught off guard when the conference proved a Cylon trap, it was overwhelmed and destroyed.
- Centurion: the machine soldiers of the Cylon EmpireThe Centurions were a mass produced race of mechanical beings created by the original, biological Cylons. After overthrowing their creators, they made up the bulk of the military forces of the reconstituted Cylon Empire, commanding Raiders and leading its ground forces under the Imperious Leader.
- ColumbiaIn the Original Series continuity, the Columbia was a Colonial battlestar of the Thousand Yahren War, destroyed, according to the Cylon Vulpa, at the peace conference that became the Cylon ambush at Cimtar.
- Delphi: the Colonial school shipDelphi was a freighter that escaped the Cylon attack on the Twelve Colonies of Man and joined the civilian fleet led by Galactica. Used chiefly to school and shelter the fleet's children, it was destroyed by a Cylon patrol after its children were evacuated.
- Galactica: the last battlestar of the Colonial ServiceIn the Original Series continuity, the Galactica was a Colonial battlestar that served over five hundred yahrens in the Thousand-Yahren War. After the destruction of the Twelve Colonies of Man at Cimtar, it survived to lead a rag-tag fugitive fleet on the search for Earth.
- Mineral ShipThe Mineral Ship was a Colonial mining cruiser used to extract raw metals from planets without establishing a permanent operation. Vessels of the type served the refugee fleet of the 1978 series on its long search for Earth.
- Pacifica: battlestar lost at CimtarIn the Original Series continuity, the Pacifica was a Colonial battlestar that fought through the Thousand-Yahren War against the Cylon Alliance. It was among the few battlestars sent to the armistice talks over Cimtar, where it was destroyed in the Cylon ambush that ended the war.
- Pegasus: the lost battlestarPegasus was a battlestar of the Fifth Fleet, long believed destroyed but kept alive by the brilliance of its commander, Cain. After the Fall of the Twelve Colonies it met the refugee fleet led by Galactica before vanishing in an attack on two Cylon basestars.
- Pluton: the Cylon food poisonIn the Original Series continuity, Pluton was a Cylon weapon used to contaminate food supplies. When it bombarded provisions it broke down their structure, rendering them inedible and toxic enough to kill, and it threatened the survival of the refugees fleeing the Twelve Colonies of Man.
- Rising Star: the Galactican passenger linerThe Rising Star was a luxury passenger liner. After the destruction of the Twelve Colonies of Man, it evacuated women and children from Caprica and joined the refugee fleet that went on to search for Earth.
- Rycon: battlestar of the Fourth Colonial FleetIn the Original Series continuity, Rycon was a Colonial battlestar that served through the Thousand-Yahren War against the Cylons. Commanded by Kronus, it was the command ship of the Fourth Colonial Fleet. Its fate is never shown, and it is not among the battlestars at Cimtar.
- Triton: battlestar lost at CimtarIn the Original Series continuity, the Triton was a Colonial battlestar that fought through the Thousand-Yahren War against the Cylon Alliance. It was among the few battlestars left to venture out to the peace conference over Cimtar, where it was destroyed when the talks proved a Cylon trap.
- Xaviar: the renegade Colonial commanderXaviar was a commander and council member of the refugee fleet that fled the Twelve Colonies of Man for Earth. Disgusted by Commander Adama's policy of non-interference, he used a time machine to travel to the 1940s and aid Nazi Germany, hoping to force Earth into a technological renaissance.