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10- 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.
- AdrasteiaAdrasteia was a civilian ship that escaped the Fall of the Twelve Colonies as part of the ragtag fleet. It was still listed among the fleet's ships at the first presidential election after the Fall.
- AdriaticAdriatic was a civilian ship that escaped the Fall of the Twelve Colonies with the Fleet. The only civilian vessel known to carry weapons, it sided with Roslin at Kobol and was later lost in the radiation-soaked star cluster on the way to the Algae planet.
- Aether: civilian ship of the ragtag fleetOne 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.
- Alert-typeThe Alert-type was a Colonial escort warship design of the First Cylon War, seen in Blood & Chrome. A close relative of the Hornet-type, refitted Alert-type ships sailed with the Ghost Fleet during the Ghost Fleet Offensive.
- Argo Navis: refugee ship of the fleetThe Argo Navis was a civilian ship that escaped the Fall of the Twelve Colonies and joined the refugee fleet. The script for The Son Also Rises names its captain as Simpson Markson, who was chosen to serve as a judge at the trial of Gaius Baltar.
- Armistice StationArmistice Station was a Colonial space station built on the Colonial-Cylon border after the Cylon War to host yearly diplomatic meetings. For forty years the Cylons sent no ambassador, and when they finally came the station was destroyed as the opening move of the attack on the Colonies.
- Astral QueenThe Astral Queen was a former starliner converted into a Colonial prison transport that survived the Fall of the Twelve Colonies. Its inmates rallied under Tom Zarek, kept control of the ship and made it a power base within the fleet.
- 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.
- Aurora: civilian ship of the FleetAurora was an FTL-capable civilian vessel that survived the Fall of the Twelve Colonies and joined the refugee fleet led by Galactica. It shared its name with Aurora, the Colonial goddess of the dawn.
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17- Baah Pakal: civilian ship of the refugee FleetThis civilian ship of the refugee fleet carried two old DDG-62 engines, which were later built into the stealth fighter Blackbird.
- Basestar Type-D: the modern Cylon baseshipThe Basestar Type-D, also called the Modern Basestar, was the primary Cylon capital ship at the Fall of the Twelve Colonies and through the war that followed. Partly organic and run by a Hybrid, it served as a fleet carrier and missile platform in the mould of a Colonial battlestar.
- BattlestarThe battlestar was the Colonial Fleet's capital ship, an armoured battleship and carrier hybrid. The wartime battlestars relied on unnetworked computers, carried squadrons of fighters, and were armoured to survive nuclear blasts.
- Battlestar ArcheronThe Battlestar Archeron was a Jupiter-class battlestar of the Colonial Fleet during the First Cylon War. Sent to Sector 12 on a covert operation, she was destroyed by the Cylons before her passenger ever arrived.
- Battlestar AthenaBattlestar Athena was a Jupiter-class battlestar of the Colonial Fleet during the First Cylon War. In Battlestar Galactica Deadlock she is built for Picon and makes her maiden voyage to clear Cylon ships from her sponsor world.
- Battlestar AtlantiaThe Atlantia was a Colonial battlestar that became the flagship of the Fleet during the Cylon surprise attack, when Admiral Nagala took personal command aboard her after the loss of Picon Fleet Headquarters. She was destroyed over Virgon, a victim of the Cylon backdoors in the Command Navigation Program.
- Battlestar ChronosThe 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.
- Battlestar ColumbiaThe Columbia was a Jupiter-class battlestar and sister ship to Galactica, one of the original twelve battlestars of the First Cylon War. She was among the last Colonial ships lost in that conflict, destroyed shortly before the armistice.
- Battlestar Columbia (Second)The second Battlestar Columbia was a warship of the Colonial Fleet at the time of the Fall of the Twelve Colonies. She shared her name with the Columbia lost in the First Cylon War, and was reported destroyed in the opening hours of the Cylon attack.
- Battlestar PrometheusPrometheus was a battlestar of Galactica's type that fought in the First Cylon War. She is named in the pre-production script of Blood & Chrome as one of Galactica's sister ships, alongside the Columbia.
- Battlestar Solaria: the networked warship lost in the opening hours of the FallSolaria was a Colonial battlestar fitted with integrated command and control and Gaius Baltar's Command Navigation Program. It was reported destroyed alongside Columbia and Triton during the Cylon attack, in the news of the Fleet's losses that reached Galactica.
- Battlestar TritonTriton was a Colonial battlestar that served after the First Cylon War and was destroyed during the opening engagements of the Fall of the Twelve Colonies.
- Battlestar ValkyrieThe 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.
- Battlestar YashumanThe Yashuman was a Valkyrie-class battlestar of the Colonial Fleet that led the battlestars guarding Caprica at the time of the Fall of the Twelve Colonies. She spotted the incoming Cylon basestars but was shut down by the Command Navigation Program backdoors before she could engage.
- Berzerk-classThe Berzerk-class was a Colonial fleet escort seen at the Scorpion Fleet Shipyards when the Cylons attacked. The Fleet Escort Berzerk was shut down through the Command Navigation Program and destroyed by Cylon Raiders.
- Botanical CruiserThe Botanical Cruiser was a civilian liner of the Colonies, built around a central hull ringed with bio-domes. Laura Roslin visited one during the Fall, but it had no FTL drive and was left behind when the Cylons arrived.
- Brenik: the Cylon War boarding action Saul Tigh remembered but never livedBrenik was a Colonial ship boarded by Cylons in the second year of the Cylon War, where 55 of 75 crew died fighting hand to hand over the ammunition magazines. Saul Tigh told the story as his own, and the memory had been written into him by Cavil before his resurrection.
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11- Caprica ClipperCaprica Clipper was a Pan Galactic passenger liner of the same design as the Gemenon Liner 1701. She joined the ragtag fleet after the Fall and survived years of flight before being sent into the Sun with the rest of the Fleet.
- Carillon Trader: civilian ship of the refugee FleetCarillon Trader was a civilian ship that escaped the Colonies and flew with the Fleet, its name chalked up on the tally boards of the New Caprica election.
- CarinaCarina was a civilian flattop that survived the Fall of the Twelve Colonies and joined the refugee fleet led by Galactica. It was lost during a hazardous transit of a radiation-filled star cluster.
- CelestraCelestra was a Colonial deep space research vessel that carried human refugees away from the Cyrannus star system after the Fall of the Twelve Colonies.
- ChrionChrion was a civilian luxury liner that survived the Fall of the Twelve Colonies in the fleet led by Galactica. It was guided through the passage to the Algae planet by Captain Louanne Katraine.
- Cloud 9Cloud 9 was a luxury liner that survived the Fall of the Twelve Colonies and became an entertainment hub and meeting place for the Quorum of Twelve. It was destroyed by a nuclear blast over New Caprica, taking several other ships with it.
- Clymene: civilian ship of the FleetA civilian ship of the refugee Fleet whose people voted in the presidential election held among the survivors. No passenger count survives for it.
- Colonial OneColonial One was a civilian passenger liner that became the official residence and workplace of the President of the United Colonies of Kobol after the Fall of the Twelve Colonies. Formerly Colonial Heavy 798, it served as the seat of the surviving government throughout the search for Earth.
- 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.
- Cybele: the freighter that fled GemenonThe Cybele was a Colonial freighter that survived the Fall of the Twelve Colonies. Escaping Gemenon in the opening hours of the attack, it joined the fleet that gathered near Caprica and carried among its passengers a hidden humanoid Cylon.
- Cylon TransportThe Cylon Transport was an obelisk-shaped Cylon ship glimpsed near a basestar orbiting occupied Caprica. Its role is never spelled out on screen, but its shape suggests a freighter or transport.
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6- Daru MozuDaru Mozu was a civilian tylium refinery ship that escaped the Fall of the Twelve Colonies with the Galactica-led refugee fleet. Critical to the fleet's fuel supply, it survived a terrorist bombing, though by the later seasons the Hitei Kan was called the fleet's only refinery.
- Dashur: civilian ship of the refugee FleetA civilian ship of the refugee fleet whose passengers voted in the Colonial presidential election about a year after the Fall.
- Defender-classThe Defender-class is the name given to a wedge-shaped Colonial ship design seen in the First Cylon War and again among the refugee ships after the Fall of the Twelve Colonies. The series never names it on screen.
- 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.
- Demeter-typeThe Demeter-type is a Colonial warship design glimpsed in Blood & Chrome during the First Cylon War. The film never names it or explains its role, so little about it is certain.
- DemetriusDemetrius was a sewage recycling ship in the refugee fleet that Admiral Adama quietly assigned to Kara Thrace for her mission to find a route back to Earth.
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2- Embla Brokk: civilian ship of the FleetRefugees aboard this civilian vessel cast ballots in the presidential election contested between Laura Roslin and Gaius Baltar.
- EnkiduThe Enkidu was a civilian ship of the refugee fleet. It appears on the fleet's election tally boards and was among the first ships led through a radiation-soaked star cluster to reach an algae planet during a food shortage.
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2- Faru SadinThe Faru Sadin was a civilian vessel that escaped the Fall of the Twelve Colonies and the Exodus from New Caprica, remembered as the last ship guided through a deadly star cluster, a passage that cost the pilot Kat her life.
- Freighter 212: home ship of the pilot KatFreighter 212 was a civilian ship that survived the destruction of the Twelve Colonies of Kobol by the Cylons. It was the home vessel of Louanne Katraine, the pilot known as Kat, before she joined the Galactica Combat Air Group.
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7- GalacticaGalactica 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.
- 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.
- Gemenon Liner 1701Gemenon Liner 1701 was a civilian cruiser operated by Gemenon Liners and the namesake of her type. After the Fall she drifted powerless until Colonial One found her and her passengers were rescued.
- Gemenon TravelerThe Gemenon Traveler was a bulk cargo vessel that escaped the Fall of the Twelve Colonies as part of the Fleet. She is best remembered as the ship aboard which the Cylon infiltrator Leoben Conoy was found, interrogated, and finally ejected into space.
- Gemini-typeThe Gemini-type was a large Colonial container freighter that joined the refugee fleet after the Fall of the Twelve Colonies. A long central hull hung with external cargo pods, it survived the passage to the Algae Planet before being scuttled.
- GideonThe Gideon was a civilian cargo ship that escaped the Fall of the Twelve Colonies by joining the refugee fleet under Galactica's protection. It became the site of the Gideon Massacre, when a confrontation with troops sent to confiscate its cargo turned deadly.
- GreenleafGreenleaf was a freighter that fled the Cyrannus star system with the refugee fleet. A Cylon attack that breached its hull set in motion the hostage crisis aboard Cloud Nine.
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4- Heavy RaiderThe Heavy Raider was an FTL-capable Cylon craft introduced with the renewed war on humanity, combining the roles of troop transport and gunship. Armored, windowless, and brain-piloted, it ferried Centurions to the colonies and later carried both Cylon assaults and a rebel alliance with the Colonial fleet.
- Hexare: civilian ship of the refugee FleetRoughly four hundred and thirty one refugees flew aboard this civilian ship and voted in the Colonial presidential election a year after the Fall.
- Hitei KanHitei Kan was a Daru Mozu-type tylium refinery ship that escaped the Fall of the Twelve Colonies and became vital to the fuel supply of the refugee fleet led by Galactica.
- Hornet-type: the Colonial escort warshipThe Hornet-type was a class of warship used by the Colonial Fleet during the First Cylon War. A sister design of the Alert-type, it carried a pair of delta wings and an open flight deck for Raptors, and was more heavily armed than its sister class.
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5- MajahualMajahual was a Monarch-type mining vessel that joined the Galactica-led fleet after the Fall of the Twelve Colonies. While mining a tylium-rich asteroid field, it was terrorized by the lone Cylon Raider known as Scar.
- McConnell: supply ship raided for the black marketMcConnell was a supply ship within the refugee fleet. Commander Jack Fisk made runs to it to build up a stockpile of supplies for the Fleet's black market.
- Mercury-classThe Mercury-class was the most advanced battlestar fielded by the Colonial Fleet, developed in the years after the first Cylon War to succeed the aging Jupiter-class. Its heavy networking proved its undoing when the Cylons attacked.
- 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.
- MonarchThe Monarch was a mining vessel that joined the Galactica-led ragtag fleet after the Fall of the Twelve Colonies, surviving the long exodus until it was scuttled in the Sol System.
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3- Olympic CarrierThe Olympic Carrier was a civilian passenger liner that escaped the Fall of the Twelve Colonies with the refugee fleet, only to be destroyed on suspicion of carrying a Cylon nuclear device five days after the exodus began.
- Orion-classThe Orion-class was a class of small Colonial warships of the First Cylon War. Armed with battlestar weapons on a compact hull and built for stealth, it earned the nickname "pocket battlestar" and served chiefly on special operations and covert missions.
- OsirisThe Osiris was an Orion-class "pocket battlestar" of the Colonial Fleet during the First Cylon War. Part of the secret Ghost Fleet, she sacrificed herself to destroy a Cylon basestar over the ice moon Djerba.
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7- 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: Helena Cain's battlestarPegasus 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.
- 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.
- Perseus-typeThe Perseus-type was a Colonial freighter that operated during the interwar period and the Second Cylon War. At least two ships of the type joined the Galactica-led refugee fleet after the Fall of the Twelve Colonies.
- Picon 26: ship of the refugee convoyPicon 26 was a colonial ship that survived the initial Cylon attack during the Fall of the Twelve Colonies and joined President Roslin's refugee fleet. Its captain protested the decision to abandon the ships that lacked faster than light drives.
- Prometheus: civilian freighter and black market hubPrometheus 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.
- PyxisPyxis was a Gemenon Liner 1701-type civilian cruiser that escaped the Fall of the Twelve Colonies in the fleet led by Galactica. It was destroyed in a Cylon ambush in the Ionian Nebula when a Raider crashed into its sublight drive.
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6- Ragnar AnchorageRagnar Anchorage was a Colonial Fleet supply depot in orbit of the gas giant Ragnar. Semi-abandoned by the time of the Fall, it became the rallying point where Galactica and the civilian fleet rearmed before fleeing into deep space.
- Resurrection HubThe Resurrection Hub was the central computer processing facility of the Cylon Fleet, the installation that made resurrection technology work. Every resurrection ship depended on its signal, so its destruction ended Cylon immortality for good.
- Resurrection ShipA Resurrection Ship was an FTL-capable Cylon vessel that extended the reach of the resurrection network, downloading the consciousness of dying Cylons into new bodies far beyond the range of the Resurrection Hub.
- Rising StarThe Rising Star was a Colonial hospital ship that escaped the Fall of the Twelve Colonies in the ragtag fleet led by Battlestar Galactica, serving as the convoy's principal medical vessel.
- 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.
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5- Salpica: civilian ship of the FleetThe civilian ship of about 475 refugees that Samuel Anders called home before he moved aboard Galactica. Its people voted in the Fleet's presidential election.
- Scorpia Traveller: civilian ship of the FleetWhen this civilian ship docked with Galactica in the weeks after the Fall, a Number Five Cylon crossed with the disembarking passengers and bombed the battlestar.
- SCT-typeThe SCT-type was a series of standardized Colonial transport ships developed during the First Cylon War. At least three SCT-type vessels survived the Fall of the Twelve Colonies and joined the refugee fleet led by President Roslin.
- ScyllaThe Scylla was a civilian freighter, lead ship of the Scylla-type, picked up by the Battlestar Pegasus after the Fall of the Twelve Colonies. Admiral Cain stripped it for spare parts, drafted its useful crew, and abandoned the hull as she pursued the Cylons.
- StrikerStriker was a Colonial Celestra-type research vessel that traveled with the refugee fleet. It collided with a fuel tanker shortly after the fleet discovered Kobol.
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6- Tauranian TravellerThe Tauranian Traveller was a civilian ship in President Laura Roslin's refugee fleet. In a deleted scene set in the days after the Fall of the Twelve Colonies, its captain tries to abandon the fleet, only to be forced back into formation by Galactica's Vipers. It survived to take part in the election that led to New Caprica.
- The ColonyThe Colony was a massive space station the Cylons built around the original ship of the Final Five after the First Cylon War, serving as their de facto homeworld. It was destroyed when Galactica raided it to recover the child Hera and it was driven into the accretion disc of a naked singularity.
- Thera SitaThera Sita was a civilian SCT-type shuttle that survived the Fall of the Twelve Colonies and joined the Galactica-led refugee fleet. It took part in the New Caprica elections, and after the fleet's passage through a deadly star cluster hundreds of its passengers were rehoused aboard Galactica.
- Tora Bashiri: civilian ship of the FleetA civilian ship of the refugee fleet whose name appears on the tally boards of the presidential election held among the survivors.
- Transport 06: the shuttle that carried Adama to GalacticaTransport 06 was a military SCT-type shuttle of the Colonial Fleet. It carried the young Ensign William Adama to his first assignment aboard the battlestar Galactica.
- 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.
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3- Valkyrie-classThe Valkyrie-class was one of the oldest classes of battlestar in Colonial service, a small and versatile warship believed to have served as a light strike and reconnaissance vessel from the Cylon War until the Fall of the Twelve Colonies.
- Virgon ExpressThe Virgon Express was a maintenance vessel that joined the refugee fleet led by Galactica before it left the Cyrannus Star System. It survived an early Cylon sabotage of Galactica's water tanks and remained a regular presence in the fleet for years.
- Virgon Express-typeThe Virgon Express-type was a class of flattop maintenance vessel that traveled with the refugee fleet after the Fall of the Twelve Colonies. A ship of the class was among the first vessels found by President Roslin's Colonial One.