Galactica (TOS-DE alternate)

Galactica is one of the warships built in direct response to the generational war with the .
== Abilities ==
In addition to support, Galactica defensive and offensive potential includes energy shields, a battery of laser turrets and fusion missiles ().
While Vipers are primarily used for reconnaissance patrols, Galactica also possesses unmanned probes, including those employing stealth ().
== Locations ==
=== Core Command ===
Referred to by multiple terms, including and , the central command nexus of Galactica coordinated not only internal ship operations but also the operations of the entire Fleet (, ).
The upper most tier of the command platform allows the operational commander to implement the ship's self-destruct sequence ()
=== Detention Chamber ===
As a military ship, Galactica features a capable of imprisoning s for interrogation, equipped with a gamma frequency field generator to cut off the enemy from access to the Cylon's network. The chamber is outfitted with a restraining chair capable of holding a typical Mark V Centurion.
A sole survivor from a Centurion stealth team detached to Burania is imprisoned in the detention chamber following a failed incursion into Galactica science deck, itself later destroyed — along with most of the chamber — after a test of the recovered nano-cybrid ().
=== Launch Bay ===
Galactica's has two launch bays, one port and one starboard, where the ship's various crafts are housed, maintained, launched and retrieved. The launch bays are accessible through one energy-shielded aperture aft of each pod.
Vipers are launched from tubes that egress from the outermost edge of the ship's flight pods for rapid deployment. 
=== Science Deck ===
Galactica science operations are established on a , where scientists like Dr. operate in various laboratories.
A surviving nano-cybrid sample from Burania is brought to Wilker's lab, leading to an incursion by a stealth team that breaches the hull connecting said deck in an attempt to recover the disastrous nano-cybrid from Colonial hands ().
=== Server Room ===
Galactica utilizes bubble memory in its server room in (). 
While works to decrypt McKintosh's data chip, destroys part of the server room to prevent this, as the data chip contains information that links Councillor into the (—).
=== Supply Vault ===
Galactica features a that can be defended against incursions. 
During the capture of Galactica by forces, instructs Dwyer to bring the civilians and children to the third hangarThe comic misspells hangar as hanger; the latter used in hanging clothes while the former holds ships. within the supply vault (). 
== History ==
=== The Thousand-Yahren War ===
As one of the many battlestars active during the Thousand-Yahren War, it saw action during multiple engagements, including the Hasari Routs and the Second Siege of the Cosmora Archipelago ().
By , commands Galactica, with his eldest son and daughter, and respectively, serving aboard. , and would later serve aboard the ship following their graduation in 7335 ().
=== Fleeing the Cylon Tyranny ===
Much of Galactica operational history is refocused around shepherding its from Cylons with strategically defensive and evasive postures, instead of offensive military operations. This is tested in the weeks following the exodus, particularly when dispatches his finest warriors to a hazardous mission to Maytoria that results in immediate failure; in other circumstances, Adama would have engaged in an offensive operation to recover his pilots, but is overruled by the greater mission of shepherding the human race ().
The events of Maytoria result in the first post-Cylon incursion of Galactica that, while ultimately thwarted, result in the deaths of numerous members of Galactica's crew ().
Following the Battle at Galaxy's Edge, the Fleet happens across the Canopus wormhole, a potential shortcut to the fabled . On the other side of this wormhole is a lone Cylon planet, consisting of a Cylon mainframe in a city known as Tessida. In order to make good on their escape from the Cylon tyranny, Adama makes use of Galactica formidable offensive potential to stage an attack against this installation, utilizing its rarely-used lightspeed potential in order to surprise the Cylons while Vipers bomb the city with weaponized missiles, whose warheads are outfitted with a destructive and pervasive nano-cybrid (—).
==A "Second" Galactica==
 was never commissioned in the alternate reality (), as the divergent alternate reality's creation sprung from an overloaded temporal battery, thus removing Galactica from all existence in a temporal storm that only and witness ().
However, Galactica from the primary reality was transported—sans crew—into the alternate reality, becoming an incongruous element. It is discovered by pirates lead by the privateer , who claim it as their own. Aboard her, Starbuck's crew of scientists and technicians acquire Cylon components, including an Imperious Leader, devising a variety of anti-Cylon technologies. 
Such discoveries include the defensive sensor shield, rendering Galactica invisible to Cylon scanning technologies (). 
Galactica becomes the last known battlestar that Baltifer hunts for and nearly succeeds in finding, resulting in the Battle of Cache. After the temporally displaced Starbuck influences his alternate, Galactica becomes the lynchpin that allows not only the Colonial Resistance to seize its first decisive victory, but to repair history by saving itself from the Nebula Ambush ().
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