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New Caprica is a cold, barely habitable world discovered and colonized by the Fleet of human survivors escaping the Fall of the Twelve Colonies. Located within a nebula that significantly hinders DRADIS abilities, the planet is seen as a safe haven from the marauding Cylon enemy. It is only after the luxury liner Cloud 9 is destroyed in a nuclear explosion that the Cylons detect the resulting radiation signature and track it to New Caprica, where an unprepared military and civilian population awaits. Four months after the Cylon occupation of New Caprica, the remaining Colonial military attempts to liberate the colony, leading to the Battle of New Caprica.

Discovery

Lt. Margaret "Racetrack" Edmondson discovers the planet later known as New Caprica after her Raptor accidentally jumps to the wrong coordinates while on a rescue mission to Caprica. Ground surveys reveal that New Caprica is a cold world with a harsh climate, and that only about twenty percent of the surface - a small temperate band around the equator - is habitable. The planet is located in a system enshrouded by a dense nebula that renders DRADIS all but useless. This makes the planet strategically appealing; theoretically, it would protect a settlement from Cylon detection indefinitely.

Excited by her discovery, Racetrack returns to the battlestar Pegasus with sensor readings she has gathered. The mere prospect of setting foot on a planet causes great debate within the human Fleet, quickly dividing it into two factions: those who wish to stop running from the Cylons and colonize the planet, and those who want to continue their search for Earth (TRS: "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I").

Colonization

Given the harsh climate of the planet, President Laura Roslin writes off colonization as unrealistic. However, the discovery of New Caprica happens to coincide with an impending presidential election (TRS: "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I"). Presidential candidate Gaius Baltar and running mate Tom Zarek seize upon colonization as their wedge issue, offering the Fleet the prospect of settlement under the presumption that the Cylons will be unable to penetrate the nebula. Roslin disagrees with this assessment, but the majority of the travel- and war-weary survivors of the Fleet find the idea of colonizing the planet favorable. Baltar and Zarek win a decisive mandate, and Roslin is voted out of office. President Baltar's first executive order is to begin settlement, bringing an end to the Fleet's search for Earth.

Shortly after Baltar's inauguration, a nuclear warhead smuggled onto Cloud 9 is detonated, destroying it and several other ships orbiting New Caprica. The incident proves to have a devastating impact on the human settlers one year later (TRS: "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II").

One Year Later

New Caprica City, complete with tents and a basic road infrastructure.

The population of New Caprica is concentrated in a small settlement called New Caprica City. The climate proves unforgiving, and there are major shortages of medical supplies and basic living materials. Most of the 39,192 settlers continue to live in canvas tents, with the rest using grounded ships for shelter. Many, including Galen Tyrol and the workers' union which he leads, blame President Baltar and his lack of leadership for the majority of economic and social problems facing the settlers.

Three hundred and eighty days after settlement, Cylon forces over a light year away discover New Caprica after detecting the radiation signature of the nuclear warhead detonated on Cloud 9 and tracing it back to its source. The Cylons jump into New Caprica's orbit with a fleet of basestars and descend upon the settlement. The battlestars Galactica and Pegasus are caught by surprise and are vastly outnumbered. With both ships at a fraction of their full crew strength, Commander Lee Adama persuades Admiral William Adama to escape along with two thousand humans (TRS: "Occupation") aboard the few civilian ships still orbiting the planet.

On New Caprica, President Baltar is confronted by a Cylon delegation in his office aboard Colonial One. Left with no choice, Baltar surrenders to the Cylons (TRS: "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II").

Cylon Occupation

The Cylon forces are initially led by Caprica-Six and Boomer with the sincere intention of establishing peace between the Cylons and the human race. However, they quickly lose their influence to the more militaristic Cylon models \{\{TRSPrecipice|Exodus, Part II}}. The Cylons become an occupying force on New Caprica, with President Baltar and his staff reduced to a puppet administration. Vice President Tom Zarek refuses to cooperate from the start of the occupation and is immediately sent to a detention center (TRS: "Precipice").

A band of human resistance fighters regarded by the Cylon occupiers as insurgents begin to strike back. Ironically the three resistance leaders are three of the Final Five Cylons. The resistance is significantly aided by an unknown inside source that passes them classified information from the Cylon government, allowing the resistance to wreak considerable havoc on the occupying force. In turn, the Cylons establish the New Caprica Police (NCP), a group of human volunteers who work for the Cylon authority to establish order within the colony. Considered to be collaborators, the NCP is regarded with both disgust and disdain by the majority of the New Caprica’s human population. This forces members of the NCP to wear black masks that conceal their identity, and protect them and their families from potential reprisals.

The Battle of New Caprica and the Second Exodus

Main article: Battle of New Caprica

Based on a contingency plan developed prior to colonization by Saul Tigh and William Adama, a Raptor regularly jumps into the nebula surrounding New Caprica in an attempt to contact the humans left behind. Four months after the start of the occupation, contact with the resistance movement is established. Admiral Adama and his military personnel devise a plan to evacuate the human population. However, the plan's success hinges on the retrieval of the planet-bound ships' launch keys. Confiscated by the Cylons, these keys are necessary to activate the FTL drives on the grounded ships.

Admiral Adama deploys a team led by newly commissioned Sharon "Athena" Agathon that covertly lands on New Caprica in order to coordinate with the resistance. Agathon is also able to locate and retrieve the hidden launch keys. With the evacuation plan under way, Galactica jumps into the nebula, leaving Pegasus behind to protect the free civilian fleet and continue the search for Earth if the plan fails. Raptors launched from Galactica deploy decoys, creating illusory targets that trick the Cylons into believing they are chasing two battlestars, scattering the basestars. The admiral takes advantage of the confusion by jumping Galactica directly into New Caprica's lower atmosphere, deploying Blue Squadron and then jumping back into higher orbit. With Blue Squadron providing air cover, resistance fighters who have been attacking Cylon ground forces liberate the New Caprica Detention Center and escort civilians to their designated ships. One by one, the ships begin to launch and jump to the rendezvous point.

Back in orbit above New Caprica, a heavily damaged Galactica is surrounded by four basestars. With its FTL drive offline and without enough time to fix it, the basestars pummel Galactica - until his son, having ignored his father's order to stay behind, arrives with Pegasus, destroys a basestar, and diverts the remaining Cylon attackers. The crew of Galactica hurriedly brings their FTL drive back online, gathers the ship's Viper squadron, and jumps away. Having left its own Vipers to guard the civilian ships at the rendezvous point, Pegasus has no fighter cover and succumbs to the Cylon assault. Commander Adama and his skeleton crew are forced to abandon ship. Seconds after they escape, Pegasus collides with a second basestar, obliterating both vessels, and inadvertently destroys a third that is struck by debris from the battlestar \{\{TRSExodus, Part I|Exodus, Part II}}.

Aftermath

Although the rescue mission is considered a success, approximately two thousand humans die during the escape and the preceding four-month occupation.^[1] Among the dead are Tucker "Duck" Clellan, one of Galactica's Viper pilots, who is driven to despair by the murder of his partner (TRS: "Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance") and conducts a suicide attack on the NCP (TRS: "Occupation"); Ellen Tigh, who is poisoned by her husband Saul Tigh for collaborating with the Cylons; and Maya, who is killed while attempting to board an escape ship with her adopted baby daughter, the human/Cylon hybrid Hera Agathon.

Hera survives, but without the protection of her mother, she is left behind and recovered by the Cylons. With the humans gone and the child Hera in their possession, the Cylons see no logical reason to remain on the planet. Knowing he cannot escape with the rest of the human population, President Baltar elects to leave with the Cylons, at the invitation of the Number Three copy D'Anna Biers.

Valuable equipment and supplies are left on the planet in the evacuation, along with several ships. This forces Galactica to take on civilians to help alleviate cramped conditions within the Fleet. With Pegasus destroyed, Galactica once again becomes the Fleet's only protection. The damage endured by Galactica is only partially repaired, and it is felt for the rest of the ship's life, contributing to the decision to abandon Galactica a little over eighteen months later.

The Cylons also gain an unexpected prisoner: after being poisoned, Ellen Tigh downloads into a new body on a nearby Resurrection Ship, and regains her memory of being one of the Final Five.

References

↑ This number is calculated from all available population data. See the "Precipice" and "Collaborators" section of Survivor count for the details. Cassidy cites over 5000 deaths in "Crossroads, Part I," but this does not fit with previously established figures.

[1] This number is calculated from all available population data. See the "Precipice" and "Collaborators" section of Survivor count for the details. Cassidy cites over 5000 deaths in "Crossroads, Part I," but this does not fit with previously established figures.

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-:''For information on the Video Game's "New Caprica", see [[New Caprica (Video Game)]]. For information on the [[SDS|failed Singer/DeSanto continuation series]] colony, see [[New Caprica (SDS)]].''
+{{disline|For information on the video game "New Caprica," see [[New Caprica (2003 Video Game)]]. For information on the [[SDS|failed Singer/DeSanto continuation series]] colony, see [[New Caprica (SDS)]].}}
+[[File:NewCaprica.jpg|thumb|right|New Caprica, as seen from space.]]'''New Caprica''' is a cold, barely habitable world discovered and colonized by the [[the Fleet (RDM)|Fleet of human survivors]] escaping the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]]. Located within a nebula that significantly hinders [[DRADIS]] abilities, the planet is seen as a safe haven from the marauding [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]] enemy. It is only after the luxury liner ''[[Cloud 9]]'' is destroyed in a nuclear explosion that the Cylons detect the resulting radiation signature and track it to New Caprica, where an unprepared military and civilian population awaits.  Four months after the Cylon occupation of New Caprica, the remaining [[Colonial Fleet (TRS)|Colonial military]] attempts to liberate the colony, leading to the [[Battle of New Caprica]].
+==Discovery==
+Lt. [[Margaret Edmondson|Margaret "Racetrack" Edmondson]] discovers the planet later known as New Caprica after her [[Raptor]] accidentally jumps to the wrong coordinates while on a [[Caprica Resistance|rescue mission]] to {{RDM|Caprica}}. Ground surveys reveal that New Caprica is a cold world with a harsh climate, and that only about twenty percent of the surface - a small temperate band around the equator - is habitable.  The planet is located in a system enshrouded by a dense nebula that renders DRADIS all but useless. This makes the planet strategically appealing; theoretically, it would protect a settlement from Cylon detection indefinitely.
-==The Discovery==
+Excited by her discovery, Racetrack returns to the [[Mercury class battlestar|battlestar]] ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' with sensor readings she has gathered.  The mere prospect of setting foot on a planet causes great debate within the human Fleet, quickly dividing it into two factions: those who wish to stop running from the Cylons and colonize the planet, and those who want to continue their search for [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]] {{TRS|Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I}}.
-[[Image:NewCaprica.jpg|thumb|right|'''New Caprica''', as seen from space]]
+==Colonization==
-Lt. Margaret "[[Racetrack]]" Edmondson discovered the planet that would come to be known as '''New Caprica''' after her [[Raptor]] accidently [[FTL|Jumped]] to the wrong coordinates while on a [[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I|rescue mission]] to the original planet [[The Twelve Colonies#Caprica|Caprica]].  Excited by her discovery, "[[Racetrack]]" returned to the Battlestar ''[[Galactica]]'' with information and sensor readings on the planet.
-'''New Caprica''' was surrounded by a dense nebula that rendered [[DRADIS]] all but useless.  This made the planet an appealing strategic discovery, for theoretically, this would also hide the planet from [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]] detection. Ground surveys conducted of the planet revealed plant and animal life confined to a temperate belt near the planet’s equator. Because the planet was capable of sustaining human life, and because of its "protection" by the nebula,  many of the travel- and war-weary survivors of [[The Fleet (RDM)|the Fleet]] found the idea of colonizing the planet very enticing.
+Given the harsh climate of the planet, President [[Laura Roslin]] writes off colonization as unrealistic. However, the discovery of New Caprica happens to coincide with an impending presidential election {{TRS|Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I}}.  Presidential candidate [[Gaius Baltar]] and running mate [[Tom Zarek]] seize upon colonization as their wedge issue, offering the Fleet the prospect of settlement under the presumption that the Cylons will be unable to penetrate the nebula. Roslin disagrees with this assessment, but the majority of the travel- and war-weary survivors of the Fleet find the idea of colonizing the planet favorable. Baltar and Zarek win a decisive mandate, and Roslin is voted out of office.  President Baltar's first executive order is to begin settlement, bringing an end to the Fleet's search for Earth.
-The planet became the galvanizing issue that [[Tom Zarek]] believed would swing the presidential election in [[Gaius Baltar]]'s favor ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I]]). The gamble was successful.  President [[Laura Roslin]] was voted out of office and Baltar won he election, with his vice presidential running mate, [[Tom Zarek]].  Narrowly, they had been able to convince the population of the fleet to elect Baltar into office on a platform of colonizing the newly discovered planet. Baltar's first executive order was for immediate colonization.  The Fleet's search for the planet Earth came to an end.
+Shortly after Baltar's inauguration, a [[Cylon detector|nuclear warhead]] [[Epiphanies|smuggled onto ''Cloud 9'']] is detonated, destroying it and several other ships orbiting New Caprica. The incident proves to have a devastating impact on the human settlers one year later {{TRS|Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II}}.
+==One Year Later==
-==The Colonization==
+[[File:NewCapricaCity.jpg|thumb|left|New Caprica City, complete with tents and a basic road infrastructure.]]The population of New Caprica is concentrated in a small settlement called [[New Caprica City]]. The climate proves unforgiving, and there are major shortages of medical supplies and basic living materials. Most of the 39,192 settlers continue to live in canvas tents, with the rest using grounded ships for shelter. Many, including [[Galen Tyrol]] and the [[Workers Union|workers' union]] which he leads, blame President Baltar and his lack of leadership for the majority of economic and social problems facing the settlers.
-The population center on New Caprica became [[New Caprica City]].  The city was inhabited by 39,192 human refugees of the [[Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]].  Life on the planet was not easy.  There were major shortages of basic living materials and medical supplies. Most of the population lived in canvas tents.  Many among the population of [[New Caprica City]], including [[Galen Tyrol]] and the workers' union which he led, blamed President [[Gaius Baltar]] and his lack of leadership for the vast majority of the economic and social problems facing the settlers on [[New Caprica]] ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]).
+Three hundred and eighty days after settlement, Cylon forces over a light year away discover New Caprica after detecting the radiation signature of the nuclear warhead detonated on ''Cloud 9'' and tracing it back to its source. The Cylons jump into New Caprica's orbit with a fleet of [[Basestar (RDM)|basestars]] and descend upon the settlement. The battlestars ''[[Galactica (TRS)|Galactica]]'' and ''Pegasus'' are caught by surprise and are vastly outnumbered. With both ships at a fraction of their full crew strength, Commander [[Lee Adama]] persuades Admiral [[William Adama]] to escape along with two thousand humans {{TRS|Occupation}} aboard the few civilian ships still orbiting the planet.
+On New Caprica, President Baltar is confronted by a Cylon delegation in his office aboard ''[[Colonial One]]''. Left with no choice, Baltar surrenders to the Cylons {{TRS|Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II}}.
- [[Image:NewCapricaCity.jpg|thumb|left|New Caprica City, complete with tents and a basic road infastructure]]
+==Cylon Occupation==
-On the 380th day of New Caprica's colonization, the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]] discovered the planet by tracing the energy signature caused by the detonation of the nuclear warhead that had destoyed the luxury spaceliner ''[[Cloud 9]]'', a ship that had been orbiting New Caprica prior to the colonization.  Upon their discovery of the planet, the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]] [[FTL|Jumped]] into New Caprica's orbit with a fleet of [[Basestar (RDM)|Basestars]].  The remains of the Fleet that had not permanently stationed their vehicles on New Caprica, including the Battlestars ''Galactica'' and ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'', orbiting the planet and unable to mount any kind of defense against the invading [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]],  were forced to [[FTL|Jump]] away.  Feeling he had no choice, President Baltar surrendered to the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]] ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]) on behalf of what remained of the human race, now trapped on New Caprica.  Those left behind on New Caprica included former President [[Laura Roslin]], Vice President [[Tom Zarek]], Colonel [[Saul Tigh]] and his wife [[Ellen Tigh|Ellen]], Major [[Cottle]], Captain [[Kara Thrace]] and her husband [[Samuel Anders]], Chief [[Galen Tyrol]] and his wife [[Cally]], Presidential aide [[Felix Gaeta]], [[Maya]] and her adopted daughter, the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]]-human hybrid [[Isis]].
+[[File:NCapricaMarch.jpg|thumb|Cylons march into New Caprica City.]]
-==The Occupation==
+The Cylon forces are initially led by Caprica-Six and Boomer with the sincere intention of establishing peace between the Cylons and the human race. However, they quickly lose their influence to the more militaristic Cylon models \{\{TRSPrecipice|Exodus, Part II}}. The Cylons become an occupying force on New Caprica, with President Baltar and his staff reduced to a puppet administration. Vice President Tom Zarek refuses to cooperate from the start of the occupation and is immediately sent to a [[New Caprica Detention Center|detention center]] {{TRS|Precipice}}.
-Under the guise of trying to establish co-existence with the human race, the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]] instead became an occupying force on New Caprica;  President Baltar and his staff were reduced to nothing more than a puppet administration controlled by Cylon rule.
+A band of human [[New Caprica Resistance|resistance]] fighters regarded by the Cylon occupiers as insurgents begin to strike back. Ironically the three resistance leaders are three of the [[Final Five]] Cylons. The resistance is significantly aided by an unknown [[Felix Gaeta|inside source]] that passes them classified information from the Cylon government, allowing the resistance to wreak considerable havoc on the occupying force. In turn, the Cylons establish the [[New Caprica Police]] (NCP), a group of human volunteers who work for the Cylon authority to establish order within the colony. Considered to be collaborators, the NCP is regarded with both disgust and disdain by the majority of the New Caprica’s human population. This forces members of the NCP to wear black masks that conceal their identity, and protect them and their families from potential reprisals.
-Because the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]] occupation led to numerous security restrictions and heightened levels of control and repression on the planet, a band of human resistance fighters, regarded by the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]]-occupiers as insurgents, began to strike back against the occupying [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]] army.  This led to the formation of The [[New Caprica Police]], humans who either volunteered or were coerced into working for the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]] authority.  Wearing black ski masks, blue body armor, and green uniforms with white armbands, The New Caprica Police were regarded with both disgust and disdain by the majority of the planet’s human civilization. [[Image:New Caprica (Wide Shot).jpg|thumb|200px|New Caprica during the [[Battle of New Caprica]]]]
+== The Battle of New Caprica and the [[Second Exodus]]==
-Led by [[Saul Tigh|Colonel Tigh]], the human resistance began construction of a hidden, underground [[wireless]] communications center.  Unknown to most of the human population on the planet, prior to the colonization Admiral [[William Adama|Adama]]  and [[Saul Tigh|Colonel Tigh]] had developed a contingency plan in the event that the Battlestars ''[[Galactica]]'', ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' and the rest of the orbiting fleet were forced to abandon the colony.  Each day, a [[Raptor]] protected from [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]] detection by the planet’s nebula, [[FTL|Jumped]] from the Battlestar ''[[Galactica]]'' into the far orbit of New Caprica, scanning for any contact from those left behind on the planet.  Once the communications center was completed, the resistance was able to successfully contact this [[Raptor]].  The [[Raptor]] returned to ''[[Galactica]]'' with the news that the remaining human survivors on New Caprica were ready to begin organizing for an evacuation.  [[Admiral Adama]] deployed a two-[[Raptor]] team, led by [[Sharon Agathon]], to aid the resistance ([[Precipice]]).  Though Sharon is a [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]], [[Admiral Adama]] had grown to trust her while she was imprisoned on ''[[Galactica]]''.  He assigned her the rescue attempt’s most important mission:  to retrieve the [[launch key]]s for those ships still on New Caprica.  These [[launch key]]s, removed from their ships by the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]], are needed for ships to successfully travel at faster-than-light speed.
+{{mainarticle|Battle of New Caprica}}
-== The Battle of New Caprica and The Second Exodus==
+[[Image:Battle of New Caprica - Initiation.jpg|thumb|left|200px|New Caprica during its liberation.]]
+Based on a contingency plan developed prior to colonization by [[Saul Tigh]] and William Adama, a Raptor regularly jumps into the nebula surrounding New Caprica in an attempt to contact the humans left behind. Four months after the start of the occupation, contact with the resistance movement is established. Admiral Adama and his military personnel devise a plan to evacuate the human population. However, the plan's success hinges on the retrieval of the planet-bound ships' [[launch key|launch keys]].  Confiscated by the Cylons, these keys are necessary to activate the FTL drives on the grounded ships.
-The [[launch key]]s were successfully retrieved by [[Sharon Agathon]] and returned to their ships ([[Exodus, Part II]]).  [[Admiral Adama]] then launched a full scale rescue mission with the Battlestar ''[[Galactica]]''.  Prior to the start of the rescue mission, [[Admiral Adama]] ordered his [[Lee Adama|son]], [[Lee Adama|Captain Lee Adama]] to [[FTL|Jump]] away with the ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' and the remaining [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] to a pre-arranged rendezvous point.
+Admiral Adama deploys a team led by newly commissioned {{callsign|Athena}} that covertly lands on New Caprica in order to coordinate with the resistance. Agathon is also able to locate and retrieve the hidden launch keys. With the evacuation plan under way, ''Galactica'' jumps into the nebula, leaving ''Pegasus'' behind to protect the free civilian fleet and continue the search for Earth if the plan fails.  Raptors launched from ''Galactica'' deploy [[swallow|decoys]], creating illusory targets that trick the Cylons into believing they are chasing two battlestars, scattering the basestars. The admiral takes advantage of the confusion by jumping ''Galactica'' directly into New Caprica's lower atmosphere, deploying [[Blue Squadron (RDM)|Blue Squadron]] and then jumping back into higher orbit. With Blue Squadron providing air cover, resistance fighters who have been attacking Cylon ground forces liberate the [[New Caprica Detention Center]] and escort civilians to their designated ships. One by one, the ships begin to launch and jump to the rendezvous point.
-As the [[Battle of New Caprica]] began, [[Admiral Adama]] [[FTL|Jumped]] the ''[[Galactica]]'' into New Caprica’s inner-atmosphere, successfully launched the ship’s fleet of [[Viper (RDM)|Vipers]], and then [[FTL|Jumped]] back into the planet’s outer orbit.  The [[Viper (RDM)|Vipers]] were able to eliminate strategic targets and barriers that prevented the human population from reaching their assigned escape ships.  The [[Viper (RDM)|Vipers]] also created the chaos and havoc needed to confuse the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]] thus allowing the escape ships to execute their own inner-atmosphere [[FTL|Jumps]] to the rendezvous point.  While rescue operations were conducted on the ground, the Battlestar ''[[Galactica]]'' tried valiantly to stave off an attack by four [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]] [[Basestar (RDM)|Basestars]].  Just before the ''[[Galactica]]'' was about to be destroyed, [[Lee Adama|Captain Adama]] , ignoring the order of his Admiral and [[Admiral Adama|father]], returned with the ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' and was able to divert the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]] attack on ''[[Galactica]]'' to his own ship.  Thus, upon the successful return of the ship's [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] squadron, ''[[Galactica]]'' was able to escape by [[FTL|Jumping]] to the rendezvous point.  However, the ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' was mortally damaged and [[Lee Adama|Captain Adama]] and his crew were forced to abandon the ship.  The surviving ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' officers escaped from the damaged Battlestar to the rendezvous point in a small fleet of [[Raptors]].  When the ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' finally exploded, it destroyed three of the four [[Basestar (RDM)|Basestars]] that had attacked ''[[Galactica]]''.  With the remains of the Fleet now safely reunited at the rendezvous point, the search for Earth continued.
+Back in orbit above New Caprica, a heavily damaged ''Galactica'' is surrounded by four basestars. With its FTL drive offline and without enough time to fix it, the basestars pummel ''Galactica'' - until his son, having ignored his father's order to stay behind, arrives with ''Pegasus'', destroys a basestar, and diverts the remaining Cylon attackers. The crew of ''Galactica'' hurriedly brings their FTL drive back online, gathers the ship's Viper squadron, and jumps away. Having left its own Vipers to guard the civilian ships at the rendezvous point, ''Pegasus'' has no fighter cover and succumbs to the Cylon assault. Commander Adama and his skeleton crew are forced to abandon ship. Seconds after they escape, ''Pegasus'' collides with a second basestar, obliterating both vessels, and inadvertently destroys a third that is struck by debris from the battlestar \{\{TRSExodus, Part I|Exodus, Part II}}.
-While the rescue mission was considered a success, not everyone was able to escape the planet.  [[Ellen Tigh|Ellen Tigh]] was poisoned and killed by her husband, resistance leader [[Saul Tigh|Colonel Saul Tigh]], for collaborating with the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]].  [[Maya]] was killed while attempting to make it to her assigned escape ship.  [[Gaius Baltar]] was left behind.  It was he, along with [[Caprica Six]], who discovered Maya’s adopted daughter, the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]]-human hybrid-child [[Hera]], alive and unharmed next to Maya’s body.
+==Aftermath==
-With the humans gone, and with their possession and control of the hybrid-child finally realized, the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]] saw no strategic or logical reason to remain on the planet.  It is assumed, that like the humans, they abandoned New Caprica.
+Although the rescue mission is considered a success, approximately two thousand humans die during the escape and the preceding four-month occupation.<ref>This number is calculated from all available population data. See the "Precipice" and "Collaborators" section of [[Survivor count]] for the details. [[Cassidy]] cites over 5000 deaths in "[[Crossroads, Part I]]," but this does not fit with previously established figures.</ref> Among the dead are [[Tucker Clellan|Tucker "Duck" Clellan]], one of ''Galactica''{{'|s}} Viper pilots, who is driven to despair by the murder of [[Nora Farmer|his partner]] ([[TRS]]: "[[Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance]]") and conducts a suicide attack on the NCP {{TRS|Occupation}}; [[Ellen Tigh]], who is poisoned by her husband Saul Tigh for collaborating with the Cylons; and [[Maya]], who is killed while attempting to board an escape ship with her adopted baby daughter, the human/Cylon hybrid [[Hera Agathon]].
+Hera survives, but without the protection of her mother, she is left behind and recovered by the Cylons. With the humans gone and the child Hera in their possession, the Cylons see no logical reason to remain on the planet. Knowing he cannot escape with the rest of the human population, President Baltar elects to leave with the Cylons, at the invitation of the [[Number Three]] copy [[D'Anna Biers]].
+Valuable equipment and supplies are left on the planet in the evacuation, along with several ships. This forces ''Galactica'' to take on civilians to help alleviate cramped conditions within the Fleet. With ''Pegasus'' destroyed, ''Galactica'' once again becomes the Fleet's only protection. The damage endured by ''Galactica'' is only partially repaired, and it is felt for the rest of the ship's life, contributing to the decision to abandon ''Galactica'' a little over eighteen months later.
+The Cylons also gain an unexpected prisoner: after being poisoned, Ellen Tigh downloads into a new body on a nearby [[Resurrection Ship]], and regains her memory of being one of the [[Final Five]].
+== See also ==
+* [[Battle of New Caprica]]
+* [[New Caprica City]]
+* [[Breeders Canyon]]
+* [[Pergamus Flats]]
+* [[New Caprica Detention Center]]
+* [[New Caprica Police]]
+* [[The Mutiny|The Mutiny (TOS)]]
+==References==
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