The Fleet (TOS-DE alternate)

After the destruction of the in a devastating genocidal attack on the Colonial worlds, Commander orders all survivors to find what operational ships that remain on their shattered worlds and fly them towards , the sole surviving battlestar after her sister warships are also in the two-prong attack. With nowhere else to call home, Adama decrees that the remnants of humanity will search for the on a planet called .
Under the guardianship of Galactica, the Fleet comprises of 220 civilian ships. With the exception of Galactica, the ships are not capable of lightspeed flight. The Fleet's overall speed is limited to that of the slowest ship within the group. As all ships in the Fleet were filled to (or over) capacity, removing the slower ships from the caravan is not an option.
==Events==
Before setting out on the long journey to Earth from , Commander orders a mission to recover a possible source of information regarding Earth from the planet Maytoria. This leads to a brief incursion and take-over of Galactica that would have doomed the Fleet, were it not for the strategic yet desperate actions of a few ().
Yahrens following the Battle at Galaxy's Edge in , the Fleet finds itself continually harassed and fleeing from the Cylon fleets, even after abandoning Baltar on a planet ().
Galactica itself is nearly destroyed, but due to the deployment of temporal weapons is able to find assistance from an alternate reality in the Nebula Ambush ( & ).
Following that encounter in , the Fleet is pushed into an unnamed storm zone by the Cylons, nearly losing an ailing ship, the pleasure liner Ariadna (). While in this storm zone, various persons in the Fleet are subject to dreams of , ultimately found to have originated from flight engineer Xam. Xam uses his psionic powers to project a large fleet of s, which force the pursuing Cylon fleet to leave the storm zone, thus allowing the Fleet itself to escape (—).
The reprieve is temporary, and the Fleet's sole protector, Galactica, is forced to fend off a Cylon basestar. While its weapons are not enough to damage the basestar while shielded, Colonel and his repair crew use the ailing Ariadna in a suicide run. Ariadna overloads, eliminating the basestar's shielding, and allowing Galactica the final coup de grâce ().
At a later point, Count creates a "black hole" that transports the Fleet into a realm separate from the known universe. A few of the ships are destroyed during transit, and other ships are damaged; an explosion of a tanker knocks Adama unconscious, making him susceptible to outside influence ().
Ironically, the Cylon fleet pursuing them sues for peace, and 's Cylons aid the Colonials against the Meclons ().
The Fleet finds a reprieve from Cylon pursuit between to , during this time creating a super basestar that would be used as a Fleet-killing ship later deployed against the Fleet during an ambush. While many of the Fleet's ships are damaged or destroyed, the Fleet-killer is dispatched and humanity survives this renewed aggression ().
==Known Ships ==
===Active===
Name 	Ship type / function 	Appearance Summary 	Additional
 	Agricultural supply craft	Greenbean briefly follows this ship after the Okaati hijack it (). 	
 	Cargo hauler (presumably)	Ship that Major directs to pull in tighter while overseeing inter Fleet operations during the Ambush by the Super Basestar (). 	Mentioned Only
 	Freighter / cargo hauler 	Bojay briefly follows this ship after the Okaati hijack it (). 	
 	Fuel tanker 	Ship responsible for underway replenishment of ships in the Fleet (). 	Mentioned Only
 	 	Believed to be the last surviving battlestar in following the . It became the sole defender of the Fleet, shepherding the survivors of the holocaust in its long and arduous search for . 	A temporal battery explosion duplicates Galactica, sending it into an alternate reality where Galactica was never commissioned ().
Gemonese freighters	Freighters 	Various freighters of Gemonese registry comprise the Fleet; Sheba has her squadrons pursue them after the Okaati hijack them (). 	
 	Unspecified 	Ship that Major (with the help of ) moves from grid four into grid six while overseeing inter Fleet operations (). 	Mentioned Only
 	Unspecified 	Ship that Captain directs coverage for during the Ambush by the Super Basestar (). 	Mentioned Only
Taurella 	Diplomatic transport 	Believed lost in when it fell behind the convoy. Reintegrated in when discovered by Xam's psionic divination. At the time of the Exodus, it conveys Countess Sephoni of and her court (-).	Only appears in series.
 	Unspecified 	Ship that Major clears for refueling while overseeing inter Fleet operations (). 	Mentioned Only
===Destroyed===
Name 	Ship type / function 	Appearance Summary 	Additional
Ariadna	Civilian pleasure liner	Aging ship in with a deteriorating drive, which is later used by Colonel and his engineering team as a bomb during Adama's Gambit ().	
 	Unknown 	First ship destroyed in the ' opening salvo in the ambush by the super basestar (). 	
 	Unknown 	Destroyed by in the Ambush by the Super Basestar (). 	Presumably of registry. Mentioned only.
== Notes ==
* As with other Dynamite installments, the Fleet is depicted with a mix of ships and visual elements originating from the Re-imagined Series depending on the comic book series. Notable ships included from the Re-imagined Series are those mimicking the designs of Cloud 9, Zephyr, and Olympic Carrier.
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