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[[Image:Caprican Marine Aircraft.jpg|thumb|Two Caprican Marine aircraft outside Caprica City.]] | [[Image:Caprican Marine Aircraft.jpg|thumb|Two Caprican Marine aircraft outside Caprica City.]] | ||
The | The [[Caprican Marine Corps]] employs various aircraft in the years prior to the [[First Cylon War]], including [[Viper (TRS)|Viper]]s and [[Wikipedia:VTOL|vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft]]. | ||
Fifty-eight years before the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]], the Caprican Military dispatch two of these aircraft to pursue an escaped [[Cylon (RDM)|Cylon]] prototype from [[Graystone Industries]], among them a [[Phoenix]]-type jet ([[CAP]]: "[[End of Line]]"). | Fifty-eight years before the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]], the Caprican Military dispatch two of these aircraft to pursue an escaped [[Cylon (RDM)|Cylon]] prototype from [[Graystone Industries]], among them a [[Phoenix]]-type jet ([[CAP]]: "[[End of Line]]"). | ||
Revision as of 23:41, 25 March 2012
The Caprican Marine Corps employs various aircraft in the years prior to the First Cylon War, including Vipers and vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft.
Fifty-eight years before the Fall of the Twelve Colonies, the Caprican Military dispatch two of these aircraft to pursue an escaped Cylon prototype from Graystone Industries, among them a Phoenix-type jet (CAP: "End of Line").
Some months later, a squadron of U-87 Cyber Combat Units operate several Marine aircraft in an assault on Soldiers of the One terrorists, landing on the field of Atlas Arena and engaging the attackers in a firefight (CAP: "Apotheosis").
These vehicles employ DRADIS technology (CAP: "End of Line", "Apotheosis").
Notes
- The Caprican Marine Viper appears in the episode "The Imperfections of Memory" in a virtual world flight simulator.
- One of the Caprican Marine Aircraft seen in "End of Line" is identified in materials created by Doug Drexler for 2010 Emmy Awards voters as a Phoenix jet, which also appears in Caprica as several civilian aircraft. [1]
- The second VTOL has gone unnamed, but can be seem in "End of Line" and "Apotheosis". It appears to be comprised of elements of modern military aircraft including the SH-60 Seahawk and the Boeing V-22 Osprey.
- Each of these aircraft is marked with the distinctive pentagonal shape seen on the Cylon Raider of The Original Series and the similar Cylon War-era Raider in the Re-imagined Series, suggesting a possible link between Caprican technology and that used by the Cylons in the First Cylon War.