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Battle before: Galactica vs. Pegasus
Battle after: Battle of the Binary Star System

Galactica and Pegasus engage a basestar

Battle of the Resurrection Ship

Conflict

Second Cylon war

Date

Likely less than 48 hours after the end of "Resurrection Ship, Part I"

Place

Interstellar space, specific location unknown

Result

Decisive Colonial victory

Combatants
Remnants of the Colonial Fleet	Cylons
Commanders
Admiral Helena Cain, Commander William Adama	Unknown†
Strength
Battlestar Galactica, Mercury-class Battlestar Pegasus Approx. 80-90 Vipers, the Blackbird, associated Raptors	The Resurrection Ship, two Cylon Basestars, possibly some support vessels, associated Raiders, Heavy Raiders
Casualties
The Blackbird, at least one Raptor, additional unknown losses. Total Survivor Count decremented by 4, excluding two non-combat related fatalities.	One, possibly two Basestars, one Resurrection Ship, and "tens of thousands" of Cylons

Battle to destroy the Cylon Resurrection Ship in the hopes of causing the Cylons to rethink their plans for the Fleet.

When battlestar Pegasus reunites with the larger remnant of humanity led by the battlestar Galactica, its commanding officer, Admiral Cain reveals that Pegasus has been tracking a Cylon fleet, and upon reviewing Galactica's logs surmises that this same Cylon fleet has followed Galactica, possibly for months. Earlier long-range reconaissance missions by Pegasus revealed that the Cylon fleet consisted of 2 basestars, roughly a dozen support ships, and one unidentifiable vessel, much larger than a basestar, which the Cylon fleet appeared to be protecting. Admiral Cain and Commander Adama realize a potential value of the ship to the Cylons, and begin planning an operation to pool their resources to attack the Cylon fleet.

Starbuck returns from an illicit recon mission to the Cylon fleet, using the Blackbird stealth fighter to get dramatically detailed photos of the unknown ship. The name of the ship, the Resurrection Ship, is discovered by Dr. Gaius Baltar through the captive Cylon agent, Gina. Captain Kara Thrace, Admiral Helena Cain and Commander William Adama determine that the Resurrection Ship is a safety net for the Cylon infiltrators operating in the Fleet. With this safety net removed, the Cylons will seriously reconsider their actions. If an Cylon agent's body were to die without another body to store their transmitted consciousness, not only would the Cylons lose vital intelligence on Fleet operations, but the agent's consciousness would be permanently lost.

Pegagus CAG Captain Thrace taps once more into her unconventional military thinking in formulating an effective attack plan, which draws the Cylons to the battlestars and a trap, rather than the other way around. In the plan, the Fleet, consisting only of Galactica and her original civilian ships, congregate near a handful of ships that appear to be managing mining operations. When the Cylons engage, the Fleet will Jump away. but a few civilian ships will appear to have problems engaging their FTL drives and attempt to escape at sublight speeds, holding the Cylon fleet in place as their Raiders are drawn away from their basestars. Moments later, Galactica and Pegasus Jump in to attack both basestars. Meanwhile, Lieutenant Lee Adama uses the Blackbird to sneak up upon the Resurrection Ship to destroy her FTL drive with a missile to prevent its escape, while the entire complement of fighters from both battlestars, led by Thrace, pummel the Resurrection Ship and destroy it (Resurrection Ship, Part I).

The attack plan is successfully implemented with minimal losses on the Colonial side. Without their fighter complements, the basestars are no match for the combined gun batteries of Galactica and Pegasus, which tear both basestars apart.

Moments after disabling the Resurrection Ship's FTL drive, the Blackbird stealth fighter collides with a downed Raptor after Adama's attack, destroying the fragile fighter. Lee Adama ejects and, in the process, suffers a puncture in his flight suit. He is successfully rescued by a Raptor from Galactica doing SAR and recovers from hypoxia.

Shortly after the destruction of the Resurrection Ship and at least one basestar, surviving Cylon forces jump away, marking a significant Colonial victory (Resurrection Ship, Part II).

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-Battle to destroy the [[Cylon]] [[Resurrection Ship]] in the hopes of causing the Cylons to rethink their plans for the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]].
+Battle to destroy the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]] [[Resurrection Ship]] in the hopes of causing the Cylons to rethink their plans for the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]].
-When the battlestar ''Pegasus'' reunited with [[The Fleet (RDM)|the fleet]] led by the battlestar ''Galactica'' its commanding officer, [[Helena Cain|Admiral Cain]] revealed that she had been tracking a Cylon fleet, and upon reviewing ''Galactica's'' logs surmised that this same Cylon fleet had been following Galactica (possibly for months).  Sketchy long-range reconaissance surveillance missions by ''Pegasus'' had revealed that the Cylon fleet consisted of 2 basestars, roughly a dozen support ships, and one unidentifiable vessel, much larger than a basestar, which the fleet appeared to be protecting.  Admiral Cain and Commander Adama realized that it must be valuable to the Cylons, and began planning an operation to pool their resources to attack the Cylon fleet and destroy it.
+When battlestar ''Pegasus'' reunites with the larger remnant of [[The Fleet (RDM)|humanity]] led by the battlestar ''Galactica'', its commanding officer, [[Helena Cain|Admiral Cain]] reveals that ''Pegasus'' has been tracking a Cylon fleet, and upon reviewing ''Galactica's'' logs surmises that this same Cylon fleet has followed ''Galactica'', possibly for months.  Earlier long-range reconaissance missions by ''Pegasus'' revealed that the Cylon fleet consisted of 2 basestars, roughly a dozen support ships, and one unidentifiable vessel, much larger than a [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]], which the Cylon fleet appeared to be protecting.  Admiral Cain and Commander Adama realize a potential value of the ship to the Cylons, and begin planning an operation to pool their resources to attack the Cylon fleet.
-However, in the meantime Admiral Cain began re-assigning valuable ''Galactica'' personnel to ''Pegasus'', such as CAG Captain [[Lee Adama]] and Lt. [[Kara Thrace]], and Lt. [[Karl Agathon]] and Chief [[Galen Tyrol]] were arrested for killing Lt. [[Alistair Thorne|Thorne]] of ''Pegasus'' when he attempted to rape a Cylon prisoner to torture it.  When Cain decided to subject them both to summary executions without court martial, Commander Adama ordered Vipers and a Raptor to go to Pegasus and take them back, resulting in a tense standoff.
+[[Kara Thrace|Starbuck]] returns from an illicit recon mission to the Cylon fleet, using the [[Blackbird]] stealth fighter to get dramatically detailed photos of the unknown ship. The name of the ship, the [[Resurrection Ship]], is discovered by Dr. [[Gaius Baltar]] through the captive [[Cylon agent]], [[Gina]]. Captain [[Kara Thrace]], Admiral [[Helena Cain]] and Commander [[William Adama]] determine that the Resurrection Ship is a safety net for the [[Cylon agent|Cylon infiltrators]] operating in the Fleet.  With this safety net removed, the Cylons will seriously reconsider their actions. If an Cylon agent's body were to die without another body to store their transmitted consciousness, not only would the Cylons lose vital intelligence on Fleet operations, but the agent's consciousness would be permanently lost.
-At that moment, Starbuck returned from an illicit recon mission to the Cylon fleet.  With the knowledge and reconnaissance obtained on the [[Resurrection Ship]] by Dr. [[Gaius Baltar]] (through [[Gina]]) and Captain [[Kara Thrace]] respectively, Admiral [[Helena Cain]] and Commander [[William Adama]] know that the Resurrection Ship is a safety net for the [[Cylon agent|Cylon infiltrators]] that may be operating in the Fleet.  With this safety net removed, the Cylons must seriously reconsider their actions that are made against the Fleet. If an Cylon agent's body were to die without another body to store their  transmitted consciousness, not only would the Cylons lose vital intelligence on Fleet operations, but the agent's consciousness would be permanently lost.
+''Pegagus'' [[CAG]] Captain Thrace taps [[The Hand of God (RDM)|once more]] into her unconventional military thinking in formulating an effective attack plan, which draws the Cylons to the battlestars and a trap, rather than the other way around. In the plan, the Fleet, consisting only of ''Galactica'' and her original civilian ships, congregate near a handful of ships that appear to be managing mining operations. When the Cylons engage, the Fleet will [[FTL|Jump]] away. but a few civilian ships will appear to have problems engaging their FTL drives and attempt to escape at sublight speeds, holding the Cylon fleet in place as their Raiders are drawn away from their basestars. Moments later, ''Galactica'' and ''Pegasus'' Jump in to attack both basestars. Meanwhile, Lieutenant [[Lee Adama]] uses the [[Blackbird]] to sneak up upon the Resurrection Ship to destroy her [[FTL]] drive with a missile to prevent its escape, while the entire complement of fighters from both battlestars, led by Thrace, pummel the Resurrection Ship and destroy it ([[Resurrection Ship, Part I]]).
-''Pegagus'' [[CAG]] Captain Thrace taps [[The Hand of God (RDM)|once more]] into her unconventional military thinking in formulating an effective attack plan, which draws the Cylons to the battlestars and a trap, rather than the other way around. In the plan, the Fleet, consisting only of ''Galactica'' and her original civilian ships, congregate near a handful of ships that appear to be managing mining operations. When the Cylons engage, the Fleet will Jump away. but a few of civilian ships will appear to have problems engaging their FTL drives and attempt to escape at sublight speeds, holding the Cylon fleet in place while their Raiders are drawn away from their basestars. Moments later, ''Galactica'' and ''Pegasus'' Jump in and begin attacking both basestars. Meanwhile, Lieutenant [[Lee Adama]] uses the [[Blackbird]] to sneak up upon the Resurrection Ship and destroy her [[FTL]] drive with a missile  to prevent its escape, while the entire complement of fighters from both battlestars, led by Thrace, pummel the Resurrection Ship and destroy it ([[Resurrection Ship, Part I]]).
+The attack plan is successfully implemented with minimal losses on the Colonial side. Without their fighter complements, the basestars are no match for the combined gun batteries of ''Galactica'' and ''Pegasus'', which tear both basestars apart.
-The attack is successfully implemented with minimal losses on the Colonial side. The Blackbird stealth fighter collides with a downed [[Raptor]] after Adama's attack, destroying the fragile fighter. Lee Adama ejects, puncturing his [[flight suit]], and is successfully retrieved by a [[Raptor]] from ''Galactica'' doing [[SAR]]. He recovers from oxygen deprivation.
+Moments after disabling the Resurrection Ship's FTL drive, the Blackbird stealth fighter collides with a downed [[Raptor]] after Adama's attack, destroying the fragile fighter. Lee Adama ejects and, in the process, suffers a puncture in his [[flight suit]]. He is successfully rescued by a [[Raptor]] from ''Galactica'' doing [[SAR]] and recovers from hypoxia.
 Shortly after the destruction of the Resurrection Ship and at least one basestar, surviving Cylon forces jump away, marking a significant Colonial victory ([[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]).