Scorpia Traveller: civilian ship of the Fleet
Scorpia Traveller was a civilian ship that escaped the Fall of the Twelve Colonies and joined the refugee fleet led by Galactica. More than two weeks after the attack it docked with Galactica, and a Number Five Cylon used the crowd of disembarking civilians to slip aboard the battlestar for a suicide bombing.
Scorpia Traveller was a civilian ship that survived the Fall of the Twelve Colonies and took its place among the refugee fleet protected by Galactica. More than two weeks after the attack, the ship docked with Galactica, and a Number Five Cylon concealed himself among the civilians leaving the vessel in order to carry out a suicide bombing aboard the battlestar.
History#
Scorpia Traveller was among the civilian craft that escaped the destruction of the Twelve Colonies and gathered into the refugee fleet shepherded by Galactica. Roughly two weeks after the Fall, the ship made a docking with Galactica.
The arrival became the cover for a Cylon attack. A Number Five hid himself within a group of civilians who were leaving Scorpia Traveller, and once across he made his way aboard Galactica to conduct a suicide bombing against the battlestar.
Sources
- WikiScorpia Traveller — Battlestar Wiki entry
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