Fall of the Scorpion Fleet Shipyards

Concurrent battle: Fall of the Twelve Colonies
Battle after: Battle of Ragnar Anchorage

Fall of the Scorpion Ship Yards
Conflict	Second Cylon war
Date	Zero Hour
Place	Scorpion Fleet Shipyards
Result	Cylon victory
Combatants Colonial Fleet Cylons Commanders Admiral Helena Cain Unknown Strength at least 3 battlestars (including Pegasus, 3 support cruisers, associated Vipers, Raptors Unknown number of Basestars, associated Raiders Casualties at least 2 battlestars and 3 other military vessels (presumed). Destruction of Scorpion Fleet Shipyards. Approx. 700 crewmen lost aboard Pegasus. Unknown--few if any

This one-sided surprise rout was a Cylon attack on the Scorpion Fleet Shipyards during the Fall of the Twelve Colonies. The Scorpion Fleet Shipyards are hit with three, possibly four nuclear weapons. Five ships, including two battlestars, are destroyed instantly. Admiral Cain orders battlestar Pegasus to make a blind jump, and luckily manage to survive the risky jump manuever unharmed.

Pegasus was in dock in preparation for an overhaul scheduled over three months. Most of the ship's comnputers, with the possible exception of the FTL computer, were taken offline. Therefore Pegasus was unaffected by Cylon infiltration of the Command Navigation Program. Admiral Helena Cain was preparing for shore leave, as had many of her crew. She had planned to visit family and friends on Tauron when the attack commenced.

Cain retrieves as many civilian and military staff from the shipyard into the relative safety of her battlestar. Since the attack and defense computers were offline for the refit, it is presumed that, in the heat of battle, there was insufficient time to restart them to aid in a counterattack. Unfortunately, over 700 of her crew had been killed in the shipyard attack.

With no defensive options, and destruction imminent, Cain orders the CIC crew to activate the FTL system and make a Jump--"Wherever. Anywhere. Just Jump," she recalled to Commander Adama and President Laura Roslin in a conversation shortly after battlestar Galactica encountered Cain's battlestar months later.

The random Jump is successful in that Pegasus escaped both the Cylon attack as well as the chance of colliding with celestial bodies through random FTL flight.

Pegasus also learns of the tainted CNP and its infiltration vulnerability from the Cylons from wireless chatter (as Petty Officer Anastasia Dualla learned in communications with the dying battlestar fleet), and summarily makes essential modifications to all of her remaining military fighters and battlestar computers to avoid the threat.