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== Featured Article Archive ==
== Featured Article Archive ==
This is the archive that is for the dates of May 2006 - December 2006.
This is the archive that is for the dates of January 2007 - present.


== [[Gaius Baltar]] - May 2006 ==
== [[Battle of the Resurrection Ship]] - January 2007 ==
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== [[Galactica (RDM)]] - June 2006 ==
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== [[History of the Twelve Colonies]] - July 2006 ==
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== [[Colonial One]] - August 2006 ==
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== [[Computers]] - September 2006 ==
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== [[William Adama]] - October 2006 ==
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== [[Adama (TOS)]] - November 2006 ==
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== [[Religion in the Twelve Colonies]] - December 2006 ==
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Revision as of 14:21, 8 January 2007

Featured Article Archive

This is the archive that is for the dates of January 2007 - present.

Battle of the Resurrection Ship - January 2007

Galactica and Pegasus engage a basestar.
Galactica and Pegasus engage a basestar.

The Battle of the Resurrection Ship is Galactica's second offensive against the Cylons. Aided with a second battlestar, they attack the Cylon Resurrection Ship in the hopes of causing the Cylons to rethink their plans for chasing the Fleet.

The strategic impact of the Battle of the Resurrection Ship marked the first time since the beginning of the Second Cylon War that multiple Colonial battlestars engaged multiple Cylon basestars in battle. The Fall of the Twelve Colonies had been less a battle and more a one-sided slaughter of the Colonials by the Cylons.

The Battle of the Resurrection Ship has many similarities to the Battle of Midway.

Colonial forces suffered approximately four casualties, as well as the loss of the Blackbird and at least one Raptor. Cylon forces lost over ten thousand, as well as at least one base ship and the titular Resurrection Ship. The result was a decisive Colonial victory, both tactically as well as strategically. ...continued...