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Columbia (TOS)

Columbia is the name of a destroyed Colonial battlestar.
When Cadet Cree is interrogated by Vulpa, he claims to be from Columbia. Vulpa claims this is impossible, as the Columbia had been destroyed at the peace conference. Vulpa then orders a brain probe rather than try to get him to freely cooperate .
==Notes==
* Columbia is perhaps the most unlikely name for a space vessel developed by a wholly "alien" culture, being a derivation of the 15th Century Genoan explorer Christopher Columbus. However, much like having the characters speak English, this may be a contrivance. The name may simply derive from the Latin word for "dove" or "pigeon" (columba).
* Columbia is not named as one of the five battlestars present at the Battle of Cimtar, so it is unknown if Vulpa was just referring to the entire ambush (including the actions against the Colonies) as the "peace conference". 
* Many fans consider Columbia to be the battlestar class name. However, this is fan fiction: no substantiated class name has been given to the Original Series battlestars by official sources.
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Columbia (TRS)

At least two battlestars in the Colonial Fleet have been named Columbia.
== Columbia (Galactica type) ==
Columbia is one of the original twelveIn the first night of the Miniseries, Aaron Doral mentions that there were twelve Galactica type battlestars created during the Cylon War. Columbia is clearly of the same class as Galactica, and thus belongs to this type. battlestars created during the Cylon War, in operation as of .
During the twelfth year of the war, it is assigned to Operation Raptor Talon along with at least two other battlestars, including Galactica, where they attempt to attack a Cylon post on an ice planet in or near Colonial space. Halfway through the operation, Columbia mid-ship defense zone fails, and it is targeted by Cylon forces. Despite attempts by Colonial Viper pilots to fend off the attacks, Columbia, on fire and adrift in space, is destroyed a short time later. Someone on the ship has enough time to send out a warning for pilots to clear its airspace before an explosion tears through its hull. Columbia is one of the last ships lost during the war, with the Cylons signing an armistice shortly after the ship's destruction. 
It resembles other battlestars of its class during the war, with hull plating covering its ribbing and the Colonial seal and hull number printed on the side of the "alligator head" forward section. However, it is finished with blue paint rather than red, as seen on Galactica hull (TRS: "Razor Flashbacks").
===Gallery===
image:Columbia On Fire.png|Columbia under attack by Cylon Raiders.
image:Columbia Death.png|Columbia death.
== Post-War Columbia (unknown type) ==
Columbia is a battlestar in service with the Colonial Fleet circa . It featured integrated command and control systems, along with Dr. Gaius Baltar's Command Navigation Program (CNP). It is reported as lost, along with Solaria and Triton, during the initial moments of the Fall of the Twelve Colonies .
==Notes==
* The name Columbia is a derivation of the name of fifteenth century Genoan explorer Christopher Columbus, which itself is derived from the Latin columba, meaning "dove" or "pigeon." While at first glance such an Earth-based name seems an unlikely choice for an "alien" culture, it might hint at a different version of the Twelve Colonies' ancient history. 
* It is erroneously believed that Galactica is a Columbia class battlestar. However, this is not supported by official sources in either the Original or the Re-imagined Series. For the battlestar type Galactica belongs to, see Galactica type.
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Combat Air Patrol

A Combat Air Patrol, or "CAP," is a part of a battlestar's early response and Fleet defense posture.
 
CAPs typically consist of two Vipers (lead and wingman) flying a designated pattern in and around the Fleet, providing an immediate spaceborne response to incoming threats. More than one CAP may be flown at a time, with Vipers positioned at different distances and "orbits" around the Fleet. CAP flights can be reinforced by a battlestar's alert fighters .
CAPs sometimes include Raptors in a support role.
Despite the 40 Vipers at her disposal, Kara Thrace finds mounting full CAPs difficult in the episode "Sine Qua Non". It may be that on high alert Galactica mounts multiple simultaneous CAPS, along with the 2 Vipers sometimes seen on screen escorting Colonial One. Flying continuous CAP shifts with alert fighters on standby could explain this strain on pilots and planes.
Later in the series, it becomes even more difficult to keep up a full CAP. Casualties, the mutiny, and a rebel Cylon baseship joing the Fleet result in a joint CAP being flown including both Colonial Vipers and Cylon Heavy Raiders .
==See Also==
*List of terms in the Re-imagined Series
== Notes ==
*On Earth, the term "combat air patrol" is most frequently applied to fighter aircraft patrols guarding a carrier battle group; however, it applies equally to flights guarding a fixed land target, other vessels at sea, and (least commonly) slower, more vulnerable aircraft. Series information notes the existence of battlestar groups, which are analogous to carrier battle groups, so the use of CAPs in the series likely a parallel to real CAPs.
*There are two other, less common, standard names for types of air patrols which may have parallels in the series:
**BARCAP or BARrier Combat Air Patrol: a patrol flown between the guarded and the likely origin of an attack
**TARCAP or TARget Combat Air Patrol: a patrol flown near a target to protect the attack aircraft from air-to-air attacks
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Combat jump

A combat jump is an FTL jump in which the exit co-ordinates are likely to put the jumping vessel in harm's way, with a high probability of an armed exchange directly following or soon after the jump. Preparation for a combat jump involves different procedures than a standard jump. These are likely to include things such as:
*Arming and posting of Marine defense teams in order to repel potential boarding parties
*The loading of additional s to supplement the alert fighters
The vessel's Commanding Officer will also likely order Condition One to be set, readying the ship for an immediate engagement following the jump. 
==Notes==
* The battlestar Pegasus makes a combat jump shortly before Battle of the Resurrection Ship and the Battle of the Binary Star System. makes a combat jump to initiate the Battle of New Caprica. It should be noted, however, that in the latter two instances, the jump is not immediately followed by combat.
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Combat landing

A combat landing is performed in combat situations where retreat is necessary and a battlestar must leave the combat zone immediately. A combat landing is a drastic form of a non-combat hands-on approach.
Combat landings are usually performed for speed with less emphasis on safety. During a combat landing, fighters do not care about where they land in the landing bay, as long as they can set down on it. The pilots will activate their magnetic clamps and try to skid along the landing bay until the clamps catch and halt the ship. Divots and dents are knocked into the landing bay deck by the skidding undercarriage, and they later need to be pounded out.
Combat landings can be very risky for pilots since only the port landing bay is available; the starboard pod was being converted into a pressurized museum at the time of the Cylon Attack. Combat landings by a full squadron may make it very cramped for parking within the pod and increase the likelihood of collisions. Further, Galactica may begin retracting her flight pods early, requiring a pilot to fly as accurately as they can to enter the landing pod without colliding with the ship .
On the other end of the spectrum, combat landings on a Mercury class battlestar such as Pegasus are a much more orderly affair, thanks to having four times the landing space of Galactica . 
For 239 of the 240 jumps that and the Fleet make to escape the Cylons after the initial Battle of Ragnar Anchorage, combat landings are used to the point that the pilots must check their undercarriages before each launch to check for structural problems because of the stress placed on the fighters .
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Comitat frigate

Comitat frigates are a class of spacecraft built by The Comitat for defensive and offensive purposes. Offensively, frigates deploy bladeship fighters and various energy weapons that overwhelm their targets, with the intent of disabling them. 
Numerous frigates patrol the Expanse and are commanded by Thanes from a central operations post (). These frigates then dock with a central mothership called the Node ().
Additionally, frigates are deployed during reconnaissance operations in the Empyrean Expanse in their quest to search for their mortal enemy, the Okaati, as well as any that assist them (—). 
== Notes ==
* During Captain Apollo's incarceration aboard the Node, at least 23 frigates were either docked or on patrol near the aforesaid mothership ().
* The Comitat races involved with the creation and manufacture of these frigates are never specified. 
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Comitat troop lander

Comitat troop landers are a class of spacecraft built by The Comitat for deploying ground troops. 
In the Battle at Gehenna Prime, troop landers land in between the force of Cylon Centurions and the grounded Colonials (along with their Okaati hijackers) and deploy Comitat troops lead by Captain Apollo (). 
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Command (disambiguation)

Please choose a specific reference for the term Command:
* Basestar command, the command group of a basestar in the Re-imagined Series.
* Command Centurion, a high-ranking Centurion denoted by its gold plating in the .
* Command Information Center, the nerve center of a battlestar in the Re-imagined Series.
* Command Navigation Program, the program written by Gaius Baltar and Caprica-Six, which was used by the Cylons to thwart any effective, coordinated offense by the Colonial Fleet during the Fall of the Twelve Colonies.
Command Centurion

Command Centurions are analogous with commanders in the Colonial Military. They typically command basestars and military outposts . Command are visually distinguished from regular Centurions by their gold plated armor. The voices of Command Centurions are known to have a lower pitch than the typical Cylon Centurion. 
Command Centurion Vulpa commands the remote outpost on Arcta . An unnamed Command Centurion announces the arrival of the Imperious Leader on Gamoray, and several are seen standing guard in the presence of the Cylon leader . Another Command Centurion commands the basestar that engages in battle .
== Notes ==
* Both the Gold Command Cylon Centurions and the Silver Cylon Centurions were voiced with an EMS Vocoder 2000 (verified in the book 'How to Wreck a Nice Beach' by Dave Tompkins) by voice-actor Michael Santiago.
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Command Navigation Program

Developed by computer scientist Gaius Baltar, the Command Navigation Program (CNP) is an operating systemThe Command Navigation Program is an operating system akin to the Microsoft Windows, Linux and Mac OS X operating systems on today's personal computers. However, Number Six's additions integrate backdoor access points that allow the Cylons remote access. utilized by the Colonial Fleet and some civilian spaceships in the Twelve Colonies of Kobol.Aaron Doral provides a requested report to Gaius Baltar in CIC: "You asked for a report on how many civilian ships had your CNP program?" .
Installed in the central computers of Vipers and Raptors and in the navigation computers of almost all battlestars, the CNP's development began around .
==Backdoors==
Unbeknownst to Dr. Baltar, his lover and co-writer of the CNP turns out to be a version of the humanoid Cylon Number Six. The Cylon infiltrator programmed backdoors into the CNP so that the Cylon attack forces could render any ships that use the operating system to shut itself down by a remote command.
Battlestars and fighters begin to shut down during the Colonial defensive "as if a switch were flipped."The process is similar to how some home and business computers today can be taken over secretly and remotely for use in nefarious purposes on the Internet, such as email spamming. Communications officer Anastasia Dualla describes reports of "system failures" throughout the Fleet and how at least one battlestar loses power when the attack begins . When the Cylon fleet jumps in during the Fall of the Twelve Colonies, they use the CNP to take down an entire battlegroup over Caprica as well as the defense mainframe, leaving ships drifting out of control and easy targets .
==Usage of the CNP on Galactica==
The CNP was previously received by , but the program was never loaded into the primary memory of the ship's navigation computer. Galactica itself is spared from Cylon computer attacks as the CNP is not loaded on any of its computers, nor were its computer systems networked, sparing the ship from any backdoor or cracking attempts. However, Galactica supports a modern squadron of Viper Mark VII fighters, which received the upgrade. As a result, the squadron is massacred by two Raiders on their way back to .
Lieutenant Felix Gaeta has the CNP source code purged from the mainframe on Baltar's instruction. The program is also retrograded on the flight systems of surviving Mark VII Vipers, Raptors, and civilian ships .
== Notes ==
*The CNP is not a virus, nor is it a worm or Trojan Horse, but an example of backdoor exploitation of a secured computer system through a secreted password or other hidden access in order to gain command privileges.
*The backdoor tactic differs from the Cylons' older infiltration tactics used in the first Cylon War of using their computers to seek exploits within and forcibly enter ("crack") a Colonial computer, whereby the attacked computer is infected with a virus that causes havoc on the Colonial computer.
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Command chamber

: For the chamber where the Imperious Leader and sat majestically in the beginning of the , see: Throne room. For the Re-imagined Series counterpart on their basestars, see Basestar command.
The command chamber is a basestar's command and control center, or bridge. 
The command center is the analogue to a battlestar's Core Command , of which two variants exist.
One variant contains two consoles manned by seated Centurions and contains a throne chair, similar in design to the one in the Imperious Leader's throne room. Notably, a spotlight in front of the chair lights up to illuminate the subject's face upon being seated . 
Both variants contain a single hallway, which is lined with computers ("The Young Lords," "The Hand of God").
== Related imagery ==
Image:Cylon corridor.jpg|The corridor outside of the command chamber.
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Commandant

The CommandantIn absence of a designation, Battlestar Wiki refers to this character by its title during its oversight of Cygnus. is a Command Centurion of the . 
During its occupation of Cygnus, betrays his father's plan to destroy the mine to this Cylon in exchange for his freedom. After verifying the veracity of this information, Commandant honors the pact and permits Baltar's escape in a shuttle headed towards .
Over 30 yahrens later, the Commandant re-approaches Baltar on , offering Baltar the chance to "be set from the limitations" of humanity—and dominion over both Cygnus and Picon—in exchange for extending the false peace proposal to the Colonials. 
A yahren after Baltar's exile promised by following the Battle at Galaxy's Edge, Commandant later returns to Baltar's planet and recovers Baltar ().
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Commander Air Group

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The Commander, Air Group (CAG) is the senior pilot aboard a battlestar, responsible for Air Wing operations and personnel. The billet is filled by the senior flight officer with a rank of captain or higher.
==Commander, Air Group battlestar Galactica==
:For a complete list of all Galactica CAGs, see: Senior Staff of Galactica
*Captain Armin Diaz (Blood and Chrome)
*Major Jackson Spencer 
* Captain ("Miniseries" to "Pegasus")
* Captain Kara "Starbuck" Thrace ("Downloaded" to "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II")
* Major ("Torn" to "The Son Also Rises")
* Captain Karl "Helo" Agathon ("The Son Also Rises" to "Six of One")
* Captain Kara "Starbuck" Thrace ("Sine Qua Non" to "Daybreak, Part II")
==Commander, Air Group battlestar Pegasus==
* Captain Cole "Stinger" Taylor (Relieved by Admiral Cain in "Resurrection Ship, Part I")
* Captain Kara "Starbuck" Thrace (Replaces Cole Taylor, but transfered back to Galactica by "Epiphanies". Temporarily transferred to Pegasus in "The Captain's Hand" and re-assigned to Galactica after "Razor")
* CAG at the time of destruction unknown
==Notes==
* CAGs have normally been captains throughout the series, but always senior to all other pilots. Captain is initially appointed CAG by virtue of his rank, and eventually is promoted to major with several captains serving under him as squadron commanders. Subsequent CAGs (Kara Thrace, George Birch, Louanne Katraine) are captains when appointed. In Thrace's case in "Pegasus," Lee Adama is demoted to Lieutenant under her.
*"CAG" is a US Navy term that has gained widespread recognition through films and television series such as "Top Gun" and "JAG". The term "CAG" is obsolete as Air Groups are now known as Air Wings and the position is "Commander, Air Wing" (CAW), but it is still used, especially on an informal level. The term "Air Wing" is also used on Battlestar Galactica .
*The CAG's rank and place in the ship's hierarchy is one area where Battlestar Galactica diverges from the US Navy. In the real world, the CAG is a captain (O-6) of equal seniority to the ship's captain (or skipper), with both under the command of an admiral who commands the Carrier Strike Group. Battlestar Galactica places the CAG under the ship's commander, and at major or even captain he or she holds a relatively low rank.
==See Also==
*List of terms in the Re-imagined Series
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Common mistakes

When dealing with or discussing Battlestar Galactica, fans tend to make or repeat one or more pieces of erroneous information. While the Wiki has corrected these assertions in their respective articles, this page serves as a central point of reference. Ok, so it's a cheat sheet. Deal with it. 
== Errors with numbers ==
* There were never only twelve battlestars in the Original Series. We don't know where this came from and Glen Larson put this one to rest a long time ago, in an interview somewhere far, far away.
* Nowhere is it said that there are twelve Lords of Kobol in the Re-imagined Series.
== Errors with names ==
* There was never a battlestar named Solaria in "Saga of a Star World". The error appears in the novelization, which is not canon. However, this erroneous fact lives on in the Miniseries, as a ship with that name is destroyed in the Fall of the Twelve Colonies.
* None of the Imperious Leaders in the series were named. "Barkol" is a mishearing of the word "debacle" in the dialogue.
== Galactica 1980 ==
* Galactica 1980... is a big mistake. There's no really disputing that. It was a horrible experience for everyone concerned.
* 1980 was not made on the cheap. It still cost over a million dollars to produce. 
== Spellings ==
* battlestar: The "S" in "battlestar" is not capitalized.
* "frack" vs. "frak"
*# Frack with a "C" is the spelling from the Original Series. And it never meant "fuck". It means shit. 
*# Frak (with no "C" to be seen) does mean "fuck". Further, when spelling "frakker," use two "K"s. 
* Galactica: Galactica is spelled with only one "L". It is not spelled with two, like Gallactica.
* Laura Roslin: Roslin's last name is spelled with an "I". The "I" is not a "Y". Ergo, "Roslyn" and "Rosalyn" are incorrect.
== And finally... ==
* The Last MotherfuckingYes, children use "frak"; grownups use "fuck". Cylon... is who ever Ron Moore and crew decide he or she should be. If it works in the context of the story, all the better.
* Also, let's remember that it's a fucking television show. If you do not like it, do not watch it.See, Data is not the only one that doesn't use contractions. The only difference is between us and "him" is the fact that we have the ability to use them. Haha! There are 500 other channels on the boob tube. And certain channels even show boobs
boob noun - def. a stupid awkward person and tubesSuch as those in science labs containing liquid or possibly life saving cures. Or not.. Cool, eh? 
* And if you don't like what else is on television, read a book.Ignore what Grace Park said. It was only a joke on a third-rate talk show.
* Oh, and a word of advice, if you see anyone claim to have complete knowledge of anything (encyclopedic or otherwise)... use a flashlight and enlighten them.
* Further, ego will get you nowhere... but a bad end.
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* "Battlestar Names" by John Larocque
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Communication

Please select a specific reference for the term communication, as well as like terms:
* Barge's communications officer, an unnamed character from the -based Realm Press comics who is responsible for communications on the Prison Barge.
* Battle of the Communications Relay, the first engagement of Pegasus after the Fall of the Scorpion Fleet Shipyards.
* Communications officer, a role on battlestars in the Re-imagined Series.
* Communication relay, a space-station that relays communications between units. The Cylons have such an asset that Pegasus engages after the Fall.
* Personal communicator, a communications device employed by Colonial Warriors in the Original Series.
Communication drone

:For information on the decoy drones deployed during the Battle of New Caprica, see Swallow.
: For other types of electronic drones, see: Drone.
A communication drone extends or augments the range or clarity of wireless communication between ships. Communication drones apparently carry a combustible solid-fuel engine to propel itself.
Lieutenant Sharon "Boomer" Valerii uses a communication drone to send a distress call to other Colonial civilian or military ships as her Raptor, carrying refugees from , begins to drift with little fuel remaining. The drone successfully glides away from Cylon communication jamming in the area, and Boomer's ship is found by Colonial One .
A communication drone accidentally ignites in port hangar deck where 19 pilots were celebrating Flat Top's 1,000th landing. The drone strikes the group, killing 13 and injuring 7 .
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