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BATTLESTAR GALACTICA (1978)


In the 1978 series, the Battlestar ''Pegasus'' spent her earlier life patroling the edges of colonial space under Commander Cain . Cain was a noteworthy warrior and was referred to often as "the living legend." Later, the ''Pegasus'' took part in the battle of Jol'Trata in which she was badly damaged. After the battle she was found by the Battlestar ''Athenia'' and towed back to Caprica for repair and re-fitting. Two yahren before the destruction of the Twelve Colonies the ''Pegasus'' was involved in the battle of Molecay with the Cylon forces. The battle was a complete disaster for the colonial forces and the entire fifth fleet, except the ''Pegasus'', was destroyed. The ''Pegasus'' managed to slip away from the battle and, realising that the route back home would be crawling with Cylons, made its way into deep space.

as Commander Cain ]]
After the destruction of the Twelve Colonies, two of the ''Galactica'''s vipers were discovered while on patrol by the ''Pegasus'', the two battlestars met and took part in a fierce battle against the Cylons . Toward the end of the battle, the ''Pegasus'' moved into point-blank range of two Cylon base stars and managed to destroy them. After the dust had settled from the attack there was no sign of the ''Pegasus'' and although it could have slipped away from the battle in the confusion, it was more than likely destroyed with the Cylon Basestars.

Commander Cain's daughter, Lieutenant Sheba , was a pilot on the ''Pegasus'' and remained with the ''Galactica'' after the ''Pegasus'' disappeared.





BATTLESTAR GALACTICA (2003)


The Battlestar ''Pegasus'' is a Mercury Class Battlestar assigned to Battlestar Group 62 of the Colonial Fleet, and originally commanded by Admiral Helena Cain . Thought to have been destroyed during the Cylon attack on the Twelve Colonies , ''Pegasus'' encountered the Battlestar ''Galactica'' and the last surviors of the colonies about six months after their escape from Ragnar Anchorage .

Prior to the fall of the Twelve Colonies , the ''Pegasus'' had just docked at the Scorpion Fleet Shipyards where it was due for a three-month overhaul. Many of her systems were offline, including the command navigation program that the Cylons used to disable Colonial defenses during their attack. The Cylons' opening wave hit the shipyard with several Nuclear warheads, destroying five ships, including two battlestars. The ''Pegasus'' lost 700 crew members. ''Pegasus'' only survived the attack on the shipyards because she performed a blind FTL jump, a jump in which the ship's FTL drive was activated without inputting any coordinates. This blind jump resulted in the ship escaping immediate destruction, but risked the battlestar's reappearance inside a Star or Planet ary Atmosphere at the end of the jump.

as Helena Cain ]]
As a result of the Cylon's devastating attack on the Twelve Colonies , Admiral Cain become increasingly iron-fisted. ''Pegasus''' Executive Officer , Colonel Jack Fisk , once told his ''Galactica'' counterpart Colonel Tigh of an incident when Admiral Cain shot the original XO in the head in front of the entire crew for refusing to implement her order to attack a heavily-defended Cylon base.

It was later revealed that ''Pegasus'' had acquired her own small civilian fleet, which Cain subsequently cannibalized for spare parts. She also Impressed civilians into her crew at gunpoint, which lead to two families being murdered under Cain's orders. Eventually, she abandoned the fifteen-ship fleet to fend for itself.

After her escape from the shipyards and prior to meeting the ''Galactica'', the ''Pegasus'' had been performing repeated hit-and-run attacks upon Cylon forces. ''Pegasus'' had trailed a large Cylon fleet which jumped between systems with natural resources. In one of these jumps, ''Pegasus'' discovered the escaping fleet of Colonial ships protected by the ''Galactica''. The ship is more powerful than the Galactica and has four landing bays, two per nacelle pod. It uses artifical gravity to allow the Vipers to land both in the "upper" pod "upside-up" or in the "lower" pod "upside-down", even though up and down have little meaning in Space . In addition, the ''Pegasus'' has on-board Viper production facilities and manages to acquire enough resources to construct two Viper squadrons.

The initial rejoicing in the rag-tag fleet following the ''Pegasus'' meeting with the ''Galactica'' did not last long. As the senior surviving Colonial officer, Admiral Cain assumed command of the fleet, replacing ''Galactica'''s Commander William Adama . While at first assuring Adama that she would not interfere with ''Galactica'''s operations, Cain soon ordered crew reassignments, withheld the delivery of supplies to the civilian fleet and sent her so-called "Cylon interrogator", Lieutenant Thorne, to question ''Galactica'''s Cylon prisoner. Lt. Thorne's interrogation and attempted rape of the Cylon known as Sharon "Boomer' Valerii resulted in his accidental death after he was interrupted and attacked by two of the ''Galactica'''s crew, Chief Petty Officer Galen Tyrol and Lieutenant Karl "Helo" Agathon , both of whom had had relations with Cylon copies of Boomer.

Tyrol and Agathon were arrested by ''Pegasus'' Marines and charged with killing Lt. Thorne. Cain sentenced both to death after a summary trial. After receiving the news of his men's death sentences, Commander Adama ordered a strike team of Colonial Marines to be sent to the ''Pegasus'' to retrieve his crew. An armed standoff between ''Pegasus'' and her Mark VII Vipers against ''Galactica'' and her own Mark II and Mark VII Vipers ended when Lieutenant Starbuck reappeared from her recon mission aboard the Stealth Blackbird with photos of a mysterious Cylon ship being guarded by two basestars. Interrogation of the ''Pegasus''' Cylon prisoner (a Number Six model named Gina) revealed that the mysterious ship was a "resurrection ship", with the role of giving dead Cylons new bodies, giving the Cylons a lack of fear of death. Although Adama and Cain declared a truce in order to coordinate an attack on the Cylons, they made plans to assassinate each other, which were called off after the resurrection ship was destroyed. The Cylon Gina, however, escaped with the help of Baltar and assassinated Cain before escaping ''Pegasus''.

Colonel Jack Fisk was named Commander of the ''Pegasus'' after Cain's death; he was murdered himself by members of a black market mafia shortly thereafter. Engineering chief Barry Garner replaced Colonel Fisk as Commander of the ''Pegasus''. Commander Garner allowed the ''Pegasus'' to be drawn into an ambush by three Cylon Basestars. The ''Pegasus'' suffered damage to her jump drive cooling system, thus preventing her from making an FTL jump to safety. Commander Garner sacrificed his life to repair the damage, allowing the ''Pegasus'' to escape to safety.

Admiral Adama promoted his son and Garner's Executive Officer, Major Lee Adama to the rank of Commander, and gave him command of the ''Pegasus''. Soon after, the fleet discovered a habitable world and began to colonize it, naming their new home New Caprica. The ''Pegasus'' and the ''Galactica'', with skeleton crews, formed an orbital defense network over the new colony, but when the colony was discovered and attacked by a superior Cylon force, they were forced to abandon the colony and jump to safety.


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