Scorpia Traveller: civilian ship of the Fleet
When 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.
A Number Five walked onto Galactica in a crowd of refugees, and the crowd came off Scorpia Traveller. That docking, in the weeks after the Fall of the Twelve Colonies, is what the ship is remembered for. (Battlestar Galactica, "Litmus")
The docking#
Scorpia Traveller was one of the civilian craft that got clear of the destruction of the Twelve Colonies and took its place in the refugee fleet. Some weeks into the flight, it made a docking with Galactica. (Battlestar Galactica, "Litmus")
What came across with the passengers#
The Cylon used the transfer as cover. A Number Five, a copy of Aaron Doral, put himself among a group of civilians leaving Scorpia Traveller, slipped past the security checks with them, and once he was aboard the battlestar he set off a suicide bomb close to Commander Adama, who survived. The ship itself survived too. (Battlestar Galactica, "Litmus")
Sources
- EpisodeBattlestar Galactica, "Litmus", Season 1, Episode 6 (2005)
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