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Propulsion (TOS)

In the Original Series, the Fleet moves seemingly only at sublight speeds. There are inferences to FTL use though, even if sporadic and uncertain.
Lightspeed is the term for a Colonial battlestar accelerating to the speed of light or faster. Galactica is one of the few ships in the rag-tag Fleet that have lightspeed ability, so normally the battlestar moves no faster than the slowest ship in the Fleet during its exodus from the destroyed Twelve Colonies .
It is rarely mentioned, but beyond the following references, FTL is implied several times in the original Battlestar Galactica. Even just the mention of leaving star systems (possibly mentioned inaccurately as 'galaxies') and showing up in other star systems within short periods of time, lead one to suspect that some form of superluminal propulsion is employed.
* Commander Cain brings to lightspeed in order to outflank 's attack force, though Cain earlier commented that such a maneuver would result in using half of Pegasus's fuel .
* Commander orders Colonel to take to lightspeed, despite Tigh's objections that suggest that it had been some time since the battlestar was ordered to accelerate that fast .
* and Lucifer have a conversation in which Lucifer states that the Cylons could easily catch up to the slowly moving rag-tag Fleet if they used lightspeed .
* Starbuck's Viper "Recon 1" could be inferred to be able attain this lightspeed as well, as it has to drop to sub-light when it detects a freighter and fighter .
Other than these oblique references, there is nothing that would substantiate how the ships achieve this form of propulsion other than by just accelerating until they reach their top speed.
== Observed Properties ==
Propulsion systems of spaceships in the Original Series exhibit a number of characteristics, including --
* Slow relative movement near planets or other spacecraft, in interplanetary space. The approximate distance between Colonial Vipers and Cylon Raiders in space battles can be estimated since the sizes of both are known. The range is typically a few tens of meters (<100 feet) and the relative velocities only ~100 meters/second (240 mph) or comparable to WW II fighter aircraft. Colonial Battlestars and Cylon Basestars also move slowly during space battles.
* Extremely rapid acceleration in deep space, or otherwise the Battlestars could never achieve near-lightspeed within a matter of minutes or hours in the episodes "The Living Legend, Part I" and "Experiment in Terra". This requires some sort of acceleration damping forcefield or else the crew would be crushed out of existence. A ship constantly accelerating at one Earth gravity (9.81 meters per second) would need more than a year to achieve light speed, clearly ruling out missions to other star system in next week's episode even when relativistic time dilation is factored in.
== Novelizations ==
In the Galactica Discovers Earth novelization, FTL technology is described as being driven by tachyon particles..
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Propworx

Propworx, Inc. was an auction house specialising in the sale of science fiction memorabilia, run by Alec Peters, a noted American memorabilia collector of the genre. 
Propworx was founded in in 2008 when Peters was given the exclusive rights to facilitate the sale of the production assets of the Battlestar Galactica franchise. The two auctions held in 2009 were well received and Propworx was later commissioned to facilitate the sales of other genre franchises such as Caprica, Iron Man, and Stargate. 
Propworx, later handled the sale of the larger set pieces of the defunct Las Vegas Star Trek: The Experience exhibition in April 2010. This was a prelude to Propworx' first specialised Star Trek auction.
In August of 2012 Propworx announced via the RPF that it was closing its doors and subsequently filed for bankruptcy.
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*Propworx website (defunct)
*Propworx Battlestar Galactica Auction web catalogue.
Prosna

Specialist Prosna is a deckhand on Galactica prior to the Cylon attack on the Twelve Colonies.
== Decommissioning and Fall ==
A friend to Cally Henderson and Socinus, Prosna is late in wrapping one the flight deck crew's two surprise gifts for the retiring Commander William Adama — a photo of young Adama and his two sons, Lee and Zak found by Prosna in the Fleet archives. When Adama runs into them while working on his decommissioning ceremony speech, Socinus covers up their nervousness in hastily hiding the gift by complaining about the leaks they finished patching to the windows that cover the now-pressurized starboard flight pod, which houses a museum of relics from the Cylon War.
As with other members of the deck crew, he attends the decommissioning ceremony, and sits with Henderson, just behind Tyrol.
En route to their final berth, Prosna mops the hangar bay when Galactica is unexpectedly brought to Condition One. As he runs to stations, he comments to Henderson how the battlestar wasn't supposed to fight at all: Galactica destroyed her remaining battery munitions as part of her decommissioning ceremony earlier that day (deleted scene), and her last squadron of Mark VII Vipers left for as well.
== Last Acts ==
Prosna is part of a damage control team when the port flight pod is struck by a nuclear missile in the battlestar's first Cylon sortie in over 40 years. Prosna calls for help to Tyrol, who manages to get to CIC's damage control station. However, the fires are advancing too fast, and Galactica's water mains are offline, leaving the D.C. parties to fight the fires with hand-held gear. Worse, the fires are coming too close to fuel lines for the battlestar; if the fire reaches them, the ship could be lost.
In CIC, Colonel Saul Tigh directs the venting of the specific frames in the port flight pod to space to quickly extinguish the fires. Tyrol manages to get a warning message to the D.C. party and Prosna, who warns as many people as he can that the compartment is about to be vented.
Prosna himself cannot or does not properly prepare for the venting action. He dies, possibly as part of the venting.
Henderson finds his badly burned body and holds him, crying, until Chief Tyrol helps her away. Prosna becomes one of the first 85 people to die on Galactica in the second Cylon War .
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*Prosna is the name of a river in central Poland.
*Michael Eklund reentered the Re-imagined Series universe following Prosna's death, first reprising his role (uncredited) in a deleted scene from "Daybreak" where the deck gang throw pillows at Sharon "Boomer" Valerii and Karl "Helo" Agathon's Raptor to soften the landing, given Boomer's penchant at rough landings. As with other Re-imagined Series actors, Eklund later entered Caprica as Waylon in the episode "Rebirth."
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Proteus

Proteus is a prison planetoid established by the Colonies circa 6648, located outside the periphery of . A world forgotten by Colonials by 7348, criminals and their descendants serve their time making munitions and ambrosa. When the raw goods for the manufacturing of munitions became depleted, the prisoners continue to create ambrosa, believing that they were helping the Colonies in the war effort against the Cylons. 
Prisoners are named for their crime (Embezzler, Forger, Adulteress, Assault) as well as a number for identification purposes. The prisoners originally sentenced to the prison were known as the Original Sinners. Their descendants inherit the crime of their parents as their name, but increment the number, which itself is placed on a colored armband.
The prison is overseen by a line of enforcers, descendants of the staff originally charged with overseeing the Original Sinners hundreds of yahrens past .
== Notes ==
* The planet also appears in the series.
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Proteus (1880)

: For the prison planetoid from the Original Series, see: Proteus.
Proteus is a Cylonic aetherprison ship.
Crown Prince Apollo is brought before Imperious Leader Baltar while Proteus orbits Helia, and is given his sentence of hard labor prior to Baltar's plan to use Apollo's mind as the basis of a new iteration of Cylonic Knight.
While aboard Proteus, Apollo encounters two former Warriors of the Colonial Empire, Boomer and Jolly (Steampunk Battlestar Galactica 1880 1). 
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Proteus enforcers

The Proteus enforcers are the guards in charge of overseeing the prisoners of the Proteus prison planetoid.
The enforcers are the descendants of the original prison guards (just as the prisoners are the descendants of the original prisoners).
The generations of status quo left the enforcers with little actual training, since the prisoners stay in their cells voluntarily. The enforcers mainly serve to distribute and store the Ambrosa produced by the prisoners .
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Proteus prisoner

Prisoners on the Proteus prison planetoid, who are either criminals themselves or the descendants of the first batch of criminals, known as the "Original Sinners". 
When is brought to Proteus, he encounters the descendants of the Original Sinners, finding that these descendants are named for the crime they (or their Original Sinner) committed, as well as a number .
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Psionic

Psionic abilities within the Original Series are understood but not often utilized by most human denizens of the Twelve Colonies of Man.
== Abilities ==
=== Telekinesis ===
Commander trained in the use of telekinesis at the Colonial Military Institute, bending silverware much to the annoyance of his wife, Ila .
=== Telepathy ===
Telepathic communication, otherwise known as mind reading, is also known to the Colonials. Following the exodus from the Colonies, the human survivors happen across Count Iblis, who uses his power to acquire information and reinforce his will upon those who freely give themselves to him.
As part of the Colonial Military Institute training, Adama is briefly able to fend off Iblis' mental probing by filling his head with thoughts .
== Separate Continuity ==
=== Psionics in Humans ===
Psionics can either be a naturally-developed characteristic or one activated by extreme outside stimuli. In extreme cases, psionics can be used to impress ideas or beliefs in others, and can also affect machinery (). 
For naturally-developed psionics, such as Countess Sephoni of , is able to command respect in her colony. Sephoni survives the Cylon attack aboard the ambassadorial ship Taurella and, using her power, is able to follow—but never catching up—for the better part of ten yahren. (—). 
For those unnaturally developed, such as 's engineer Xam who is struck by void lightning generated by an unnamed storm zone, the resulting strike elevates him to a delta-class telepath: provisioning the ability to project ideas and beliefs into the minds of others, including non-organic life such as the (—). 
Despite demonstrable results, psionics are a hotly debated subject, with some ferociously disbelieving in the power and the efficacy of divination (). 
==== Disadvantages ====
A deleterious effect to psionic use, particularly in extreme circumstances, leads to mental damage of the user. In Xam's case, use of his psionic powers to fool the Cylons during the Battle of the Storm Zone results in a persistent coma that lasts for seven yahren (, ). 
Also disadvantageous is the Cylons' mastery of psionics: Sephoni is tricked by the Cylons into believing that she has divined the location of the fabled , as the Cylons are able to generate their own robotic form of sympathetic psionic communication ()
==== Sympathetic Communication ====
In , Xam is able to divine Sephoni's presence and communicate her grid reference via a touch-tablet, thus reuniting Taurella and its survivors with the Fleet. Further, despite being disconnected from the outside world by standard means, he is able to communicate Apollo's survival—and, later, his death—via divination ( & ).
Starbuck later solicits Sephoni into reading Xam, confirming that the message regarding Apollo's survival is genuine and not machine generated. She notes that the divinations have a purity to them and are not as stilted as the Cylon psionic machinations ().
==== Technology ====
Sephoni is able to use her psionics to secure access codes and other information from the Cylons' network (—).
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Psycho-electron recall

A psycho-electron recall may be a special scan to aid a human in recalling lost or repressed memories.
Understanding that their rescued guest has no memory of the crash that stranded him on a habitable but lifeless planet, Adama orders that Iblis be given a cranial probe and psycho-electron recall after his rescue by the Colonials .
== Notes ==
* The Cylons have a similar technology, introduced in "The Gun on Ice Planet Zero, Part I" as the brain probe. In addition, the Marvel comic series has a device named the memory inducer, which allows for the retrieval of old memories, or memories that are not otherwise retrievable.
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Puck

Puck is a member of the Quorum of Twelve at the time of 's death, after which he is later killed by Count Iblis on Agro-3 so that the entity may assume his identity and form. 
Previously, he held the post as Scorpius' Ambassador to Caprica, and later retains the title, despite his ascension to the Quorum.
He is described as a man who has not aged well. He has an unhealthy pale complexion, his stance is stooped, and he is pink-eyed. In attempt to distract people from his appearance, he wears brightly colored valcron garments; his manner of dealing with people was dismissive and insulting. He views President and Adama's surviving family contemptibly.
== Sinister Simulacrum ==
In the form of Puck, Iblis places himself as a candidate to become the Fleet's commander during the debates surrounding Adama's replacement as the Fleet's commander. 
Despite the ersatz Puck's play for power over the humans, he is later outed by Cassiopeia, who determines that the previously unrecognizable remains on Agro-3 were Puck's .
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Pulse generator

A pulse generator is a component of a 's engines, which permit the ship to obtain fast speeds.
A second pulse generator is added to the Recon Viper called Starchaser in all three of her engines, which makes the ship twice as fast. Consequently, the laser generators had to be removed from the Viper in order to maintain the size of the craft as well as the weight .
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Puppis

Puppis is the only son of Vella on planet Equellus.
His father was a marooned Colonial Warrior called Martin, killed by the Cylon "Red-Eye" when Puppis was barely a yahren old. He is raised by his widowed mother, Vella, with the help of Vella's brother, Bootes.
Puppis is fond of numos and is an oviner on his family's farm. His attitude reminds very much of . 
== Father Figure in Apollo ==
Shortly after Apollo's arrival, Puppis sneaks out of his room at night to chase the lupus who tore their sheep. Apollo rides after the boy and spots him shortly after Puppis kills the lupus with his numo. The two then ride back to the farm and talk about growing up.
Puppis is present when his uncle, Bootes, is shot by Red-Eye in a duel at the saloon. In his anger, Puppis shoots Red-Eye with his numo; Apollo intervenes in Red-Eye's retaliation by smashing Puppis' numo, saving the angry boy's life in the process. 
Later, after Apollo discovers Red-Eye's origins from Macy, Apollo duels the menace and vanquishes it from the town, forcing Lacerta and his sycophants to flee. Following this showdown, Puppis revises his opinion of Apollo, excitedly re-enacting the laser duel much to the horror of both Vella and Apollo. When Puppis expressed the wish to become a "hero" like Apollo, the latter explained to him that his actions were not heroic: they were borne from necessity and the overcoming his own fears.
After Apollo's return to the , Puppis remains on Equellus with his mother, hoping to see Apollo again... .
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Puppis (TOS alternate reality)

Puppis is an oviner on his mother, 's farm, located upon the planet .
In the alternate reality, the forcibly cull Equellus in search of subjects for 's experiments. Puppis is separated from his mother and is marked for relocation in Zee's experimentation camps by , the leader of the invasion. 
 leads members of the Colonial Resistance in an assault against Red-Eye's raiding party, saving Puppis, his mother, and fellow Equellusians from their Cylon fates. With these survivors, Puppis escapes to Cache so that they may to aid in the fight against the Cylons (). 
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Purdue

Warden Purdue is in charge of the Luna Three prison work camp at the time Tom Zarek, Benedict Mason and Duby are incarcerated there.
Purdue tends to use his authority harshly only when necessary, leaving the internal matters to his guards and the alpha male of the prisoners, such as Jason Melton and, later, Zarek. After Zarek has Melton killed, Zarek and Purdue come to an agreement: in return for increased labor output, Purdue will give the prisoners better health care, food, and education opportunities so that they don't have to return to prison (Battlestar Galactica: Zarek 3).
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Pyramid Tonight

Pyramid Tonight is a CAP Sports program circa YR42 featuring on-air commentators Abasi Lowe and Steve Bahara. 
They typically broadcast from Atlas Arena, the home court of 's team, Caprica Buccaneers .
A sign of "Pyramid Tonight" logo hangs in the background of the studio, featuring a version of the "cut corner" pyramid game symbol in its center.
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Pyramid Trade Requests Are High Treason!

Pyramid Trade Requests Are High Treason! is a The Caprican Sports article written by Ralston Sinclair. It was printed in Februarius 16, YR42.
== Story ==
Traitors. That's what you are, and that's all there is to it. And I'm not going to name names, you know why? That would be too easy. You know who you are. And you should be ashamed of yourselves. You've betrayed your team, and you've betrayed the game. 
I speak, of course, about the handful of Buccaneers that have requested they be traded to some other Pyramid team upon hearing the news that the late Zoe Graystone was involved in the recent MAGLEV bombing. Zoe Graystone being, of course, the daughter of Daniel Graystone, the owner of the Bucs (and their number-one frakkin' fan, I might add). Seems some Bucs don't want to be associated with a team that's owned by a guy who spawned a terrorist. 
You fools. Really? Daniel Graystone, who's stood by you, who's believed in you and the game even though you go out there night after night and embarrass him with your losing streak, he who has stood by you through thick and thin, you're going to abandon him because of something his daughter did, that was out of his control? You ingrates. Daniel Graystone needs you now more than ever. needs you now more than ever. Let the mighty cities quake and explode, do you know what there will always be after the dust settles? 
Pyramid. 
Now stop your whining and your self-righteous posturing and stand tall and be proud, damn proud, that you're a Buccaneer. 
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Pyxis

Pyxis is an orange-colored passenger liner in the Fleet that survives both exoduses. Its last captain is Jules Tarney.
During the attack on the Colonies, Pyxis was in orbit of Canceron, before eventually joining up with the rest of the surviving ships near (TRS: "The Plan," Miniseries)
Pyxis is one of the many ships that are escorted by raptors through a very dense star cluster to the Algae Planet .
The ship is lost in the Battle of the Ionian Nebula when a spiraling Cylon Raider, damaged by Viper fire, impacts near the engines, resulting in catastrophic damage. The resulting explosion destroys the ship with 600 people aboard .
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*The ship can first be seen joining Laura Roslin's convoy in the Miniseries. However, the name Pyxis is first introduced on the voting tally board in "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II," and the ship is not identified as such until "He That Believeth in Me."
*It appears to be of very similar design to the ill-fated Olympic Carrier, and could possibly be another ship of the same class.
*The interior of Pyxis is shown in "The Plan" and in two deleted scenes from the two-part series finale. The inside of this ship has orange walls with seats identical to those inside Colonial One, with one set of top-facing windows and one set facing the side, also similar to Colonial One. However, the exterior of the ship features only one set of windows, creating a design goof, likely created through the redressing and reuse of Colonial One's interior sets.
*Pyxis is a minor southern constellation introduced by Nicolas Louis de Lacaille under the name Pyxis Nautica. It is perhaps supposed to represent the compass of Argo Navis.
==Related Images==
image:Bsg-01-48-46.PNG|Pyxis rescued during the fall of the Colonies .
image:Space Park-Pixis-Colonial One.jpg|Pyxis at the Ionian Nebula .
Image:Canceron.png|Pyxis in orbit of Canceron during the Cylon attack .
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Q-Cache

A Q-Cache is a military storage depot in use by the during the final stages of the Thousand-Yahren War with the .
Information regarding Q-Caches were programmed into s and other military crafts, so that they may resupply as needed (). 
Known Q-Caches include:
* #2702
* #7202 (alternate reality)
== Notes ==
* The "Q" in "Q-Cache" remains unspecified, although it may mean "Quartermaster."
Q-Cache 2702

Q-Cache #2702Due to technical limitations, this article title and link omit the # sign. is the identification given to the ammo and resupply dump set up by the during the Thousand-Yahren War.
A and fly to the coordinates in the database, unawares that they are in an alternate reality and that the cache is home to the last surviving humans resisting the (). 
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Qualai

Qualai is a small coastal town on and the birthplace of Graystone Industries scientist Philomon , and is erroneously noted as William Adama's birthplace in Billy Keikeya's dossier on battlestar Galactica commander .
== Notes ==
* The reference to William Adama's hometown being Qualai is derived from the Adama's dossier prop from "Hero." However, both and Blood and Chrome later cement Adama's birthplace as being in Caprica City.
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