Battle of Kobol (TRS)
| Battle of Kobol | |||||||||||||||||
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| Conflict | Second Cylon war | ||||||||||||||||
| Date | Day 50 (Battle not completed) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place | Kobol, nearby interstellar space | ||||||||||||||||
| Result | To be determined. | ||||||||||||||||
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This battle is not yet completed and follows over several episodes at this time.
Battlestar Galactica stumble upon the mythological human homeworld of Kobol and attempt to use its secrets or resources. (Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I)
During a reconnaissance flight, pilots Sharon Valerii and Crashdown return to Galactica with information on an unusual habitable planet. Investigation of the ruins and features of the planet confirm that the Galactica had discovered, by accident, the original homeworld of Kobol, detailed extensively in the scriptures from the Lords of Kobol. Adama directed three Raptors to conduct a thorough surface survey of the planet, particularly to note whether the fleet should settle there.
As the Raptors complete their jump near Kobol, they are attacked by Raiders. One Raptor is destroyed and a second jumps away to safety. A third is shot and crash-lands on Kobol.
Before a rescue could be done of the surviving crashed Raptor crew, Kara Thrace suggests the use of the captured Raider (You Can't Go Home Again) to sneak near the Basestar with a nuclear warhead, leaving it there to destroy the capital ship and as many Raiders as possible. Adama agrees to the plan. However, intervention by President Laura Roslin with Thrace leads the pilot to disobey orders and to divert the Raider while on a test flight to Caprica to seek an artifact known as the Arrow of Apollo. This change requires Adama to direct Valerii to fly a Raptor with a Cylon IFF device to the Basestar (Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II).
The Raptor successfully entered the occupied zone as the IFF device indicated that the Raptor was another Cylon-occupied vessel. A problem with weapon deployment forced the crew to land within the Basestar in a habitable area to manually deploy the weapon. The Basestar was completely destroyed a short time later.
Valerii encountered other Humano-Cylon copies of herself while in the Basestar, which apparently activated more of her latent Cylon programmiing. As Adama congratulated Valerii, she pulled her pistol and fired on the Commander twice at point-blank range, severely injuring Commander Adama. Colonel Saul Tigh assumed command of Galactica at this time while medical staff attended to the seriously-wounded Adama.
In the immediate chaos to attend to Adama after the shooting, two Cylon basestars suddenly appear to attack. Caught by surprise, Galactica orders the fleet to immediately jump to its contingency location pre-planned by standard procedure by Lieutenant Gaeta. However, Galactica herself had incorrect jump coordinates and finds herself separated from the rest of the fleet (Scattered). The ship cannot return to their original location to obtain the fleet location by conventional procedure; this would take hours, and the Basestars would likely destroy the ship in far less time. Gaeta devises a way to determine the fleet location faster by temporarily networking several ship computers to process data faster. Knowing that the Cylon virus would attempt to inflitrate the network, Gaeta places four software firewalls in place to slow the progress of the expected infection.
The downed Raptor crew on Kobol, lead by Crashdown attend as best they can to their injured. They are later attacked by Cylon Centurions and flee to the woods for cover.
Galactica returns to its previous location and is immediately attacked by the waiting Cylon fleet. Galactica deploys a squad of Vipers to aid in holdiing off the attack. During the attack, a new Cylon ship, the Heavy Raider, heads for Galactica. Lee Adama attacks the craft, which veers out of view of the Vipers and crash-lands in the starboard flight pod, depressurizing it (it was converted as a museum area in preparation for the ship's expected decommissioning and was unused for flight operations). Gaeta successfully obtains the fleet coordinates, but not before some of the Cylon virus infects one of the networked systems, a fact of which the command staff is not yet aware. He disconnects the network a moment later. Galactica jumps to reunite with the remaining fleet.
The Heavy Raider deploys 10 specially-armored Cylon [[[Centurion]]s, which can only be destroyed by explosive rounds. At the same time, the Cylon virus infects other systems of the ship and shuts down parts of the CIC's control. Tigh orders a counterattack, wary that the Cylons will attempt to vent the ship's crew to neutralize them and turn the ship's guns on the unarmed fleet to destroy them. Ship Marine forces and other crew manage to destroy all but two Centurions, which were eventually destroyed by a squad commanded by Lee Adama.
Lee Adama begins preparations to rescue the downed Raptor crew from Kobol, and leads a team with two Raptors as part of the rescue team.
Shortly after their two most seriously wounded teammates have died, Crashdown and the Raptor team scout and locate a group of three Cylons building an anti-aircraft battery using parts from their downed Heavy Raider (or variant) to order to destroy any Galactica rescue craft (Fragged). The battery is linked to a DRADIS disk set up slightly away from the battery. Crashdown develops a plan to distract the Centurions while a smaller group destroys the DRADIS dish, rendering the battery tactically worthless. As the team prepares their attack, they discover there were five Centurions and not the 3 expected. The team also hears the distinct sonic booms caused by Raptors, indicating their rescue would be arriving soon. Specialist Cally is ordered to create the distraction by Crashdown any way, but refuses in fear. When Crashdown threatens to kill Cally for disobeying a direct order, he is shot in the back and killed instantly by Gaius Baltar.
The team is immediately attacked by the Centurions and flee. The battery fires on the incoming Raptors, but Chief Galen Tyrol successfully destroys the DRADIS dish, which breaks the missile's lock on the Raptors. The Centurions are destroyed by a Raptor missile from Lee Adama's Raptor.
Kara Thrace successfully lands in Delphi on Caprica and locates the Arrow of Apollo, and after dispatching a Number Six copy, encounters Helo and the Caprica-bound copy of Sharon Valerii. Thrace believes this was a Cylon copy and tries to shoot her, but is stopped by Helo. Valerii escapes using Thrace's captured Raider. Helo and Thrace locate ground transport and encounter a resistance of humans. After an incident where Thrace was shot and captured by Cylons in a hospital (The Farm), Thrace escapes with the help of the resistance. Caprica Valerii returns to aid Helo and the resistance. She steals a Heavy Raider to fend off Centurions as Thrace escaped from the Cylon birth farm. The Heavy Raider later departs, taking Helo, Thrace, Caprica Valerii and several Caprica resistance members back to the Galactica.
The Galactica based Valerii is interrogated, along with Tyrol, who is also suspected as a Humano-Cylon (The Farm). Baltar manages to prove Tyrol's innocence while coerciing Valerii to tell him that there are eight remaining Cylon operatives in the fleet. As the Galactica Valerii is moved to a new holding location, she is shot and killed by Cally.