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Starbuck's Viper plummets onto the Red Moon.

The red moon is a rocky and mountainous world with no discernible life or water. It orbits a gas giant located a considerable amount of jumps away from the Twelve Colonies. The moon's thick, frigid atmosphere is composed mostly of carbon dioxide and methane with a small amount of argon. Dangerous high velocity winds dominate the upper atmosphere, and hydrocarbon clouds form an opaque screen around the moon.

Weeks after the Fall of the Twelve Colonies, the moon is the site of a small skirmish between several Cylon Raiders and a handful of Colonial pilots in training. After engaging the Raiders, pilot Kara "Starbuck" Thrace finds her fighter falling out of control into the moon's atmosphere and ejects, parachuting to relative safety on the surface (TRS: "Act of Contrition"). As she struggles to maintain a limited oxygen supply and await rescue, she encounters the last Raider that she shot down during the battle. Thrace removes the dead biological material from the Raider's interior and manages to fly the Raider off the moon's surface and back into space (TRS: "You Can't Go Home Again").

Notes

One of Bear McCreary's music tracks for "You Can't Go Home Again" is titled "Starbuck on the Red Moon."

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 [[Image:PowerlessViper.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Starbuck's Viper plummets onto the Red Moon.]]
-After a [[Skirmish over the Red Moon|Cylon attack]], [[Viper Mark II|Viper]] pilot [[Kara Thrace|Kara "Starbuck" Thrace]] finds her fighter falling out of control into the atmosphere of an unnamed '''red moon''' ([[Act of Contrition]]).
+The '''red moon''' is a rocky and mountainous world with no discernible life or water. It orbits a gas giant located a considerable amount of jumps away from the Twelve Colonies. The moon's thick, frigid atmosphere is composed mostly of carbon dioxide and methane with a small amount of argon.  Dangerous high velocity winds dominate the upper atmosphere, and hydrocarbon clouds form an opaque screen around the moon.
-With the Viper's electronics failing, her transponder out of commission, and the fighter in a unrecoverable flat spin, Starbuck ejects from the fighter and parachutes to safety.
+Weeks after the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]], the moon is the site of a small [[Skirmish over the Red Moon|skirmish]] between several Cylon [[Raider_(RDM)#Modern_Raider|Raiders]] and a handful of [[nugget|Colonial pilots in training]]. After engaging the Raiders, pilot [[Kara Thrace|Kara "Starbuck" Thrace]] finds her fighter falling out of control into the moon's atmosphere and ejects, parachuting to relative safety on the surface {{TRS|Act of Contrition}}. As she struggles to maintain a limited oxygen supply and await rescue, she encounters the last Raider that she shot down during the battle. Thrace removes the dead biological material from the Raider's interior and manages to fly the Raider off the moon's surface and back into space ([[TRS]]:  "[[You Can't Go Home Again]]").
-The red moon is a rocky, barren world, with no discernable life, vegetation, or water.
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-The red moon's thick atmosphere is composed mostly  of carbon dioxide, methane, with some argon. The clouds are composed of hydrocarbons and forms a thick opaque screen around the moon. On the ground with a moderate leg injury, Starbuck quickly determines through an emergency oxygen-checking device in her survival kit that the moon's air is unbreathable. She is left with the emergency oxygen of her [[flight suit]], which will exhaust itself in 46 hours.
-A series of [[SAR]] missions are conducted by ''[[Galactica]]'' to find Starbuck. The Vipers are buffeted by high upper-atmosphere winds and damaged by the hydrocarbon-rich atmosphere, which leaves a residue that clogs thrusters and engines. The moon's mountains are hazardous as their lack of visibility makes for collision threats for the SAR teams.
-Eventually, Starbuck encounters the last [[Cylon Raider]] that she shot and disabled. While her shot kills the Raider's autonomous biomechanical pilot-brain, the fighter otherwise soft-landed. Starbuck removes the dead biological material from the Raider's interior, and, after some experimentation, flies the Raider to return to the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] ([[You Can't Go Home Again]]).
 == Notes ==
-*One of [[Bear McCreary]]'s music tracks for "You Can't Go Home Again" is titled "Starbuck on the Red Moon".
+*One of [[Bear McCreary]]'s music tracks for "You Can't Go Home Again" is titled "Starbuck on the Red Moon."
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