![]() ![]() As Captain Apollo attempts to manage the problem of imminent starvation, he learns that Sire Uri, a member of the governing Council of the Twelve, has hoarded considerable food supplies himself and his compatriots and are gorging on it in private. The worse of which is that much of its foodstuffs are found contaminated by pluton bombs during the Cylon attack. Meanwhile, the assembled refugee fleet is having serious problems of its own. The Cylon Imperious Leader, determined that no human at all shall survive, orders Baltar's execution after his usefulness is over, but (as retro-actively revealed in the television series version of the film) he is spared at the last moment in order to help the Cylons hunt down the human fleet. Helping Adama in the quest for Earth are his son, Captain Apollo, commander of the Galactica's strike wing Lieutenant Starbuck, the Galactica's best fighter pilot and Apollo's best friend Lieutenant Boomer and Colonel Tigh, Adama's second-in-command. It is called Earth, but the location of this lost colony is known only to the last lord of Kobol, the planet which was the original home of Man, but which was abandoned thousands of years earlier, when the Thirteen Tribes migrated to the stars. The survivors hope that the Galactica can protect this ragtag fleet long enough to find the legendary thirteenth human colony. The human race might have one more chance, but first it would have to survive the alliance, the elements and the unknown dark and sinister threats that would lie ahead." -Adama In all, two hundred and twenty ships, representing every colony, color and creed in the star system. " And the word went forth to every outpost of humanity, and they came – the Aries, the Gemons, the Virgos, the Scorpios, the Pisceans and the Sagitarrans. With the Colonies in ruins, Adama collects as many survivors as possible, and orders every intact civilian ship to take survivors and follow the Galactica. He orders the Galactica to withdraw and protect the planet Caprica, Adama's homeworld, but they are too late, as the Cylon fleet has launched simultaneous massive assaults on all the Colonies at the very same time the attack on the battlestars has commenced. Apollo informs Adama that the Cylons were accompanied by refuelling tankers, and Adama realizes that this would allow the fighters to operate far from their mother Basestars, which must be operating somewhere else. The Atlantia, with President Adar aboard, is destroyed, as are apparently the other battlestars Galactica alone survives the Cylon assault. Frustrated, Adama orders the Galactica's Viper squadrons be placed on full alert with their fighters ready to launch, disguising it as a Battlestations drill. As the Cylons attack, the Galactica is able to launch its fighters first, while the other battlestars are caught off-guard. Zac's Viper is destroyed by the Cylons just before he reaches the fleet.īaltar manipulates President Adar into prohibiting the launch of fighters as the Cylons close in on the fleet. This forces Apollo to leave him behind, so that the fleet can be warned. Cylon fighters pursue the two Vipers, and Zac's fighter is hit. The patrol discovers a vast Cylon armada waiting in ambush behind a moon named Cimtar, but the Cylons jam their communications. Adama's younger son, Zac, convinces Starbuck to let him go in his place. Only Commander Adama, of the battlestar Galactica, suspects that the Cylons are planning a trap, and orders a recon patrol, consisting of his two best pilots: his eldest son, Apollo, and Lieutenant Starbuck. ![]() But it is all a deception – Baltar has betrayed humanity for personal gain, and the Cylons have no intention of making peace. The powerful " Battlestars" are assembled for armistice talks with Humanity's age-old robotic enemy. The human leaders, called the Council of the Twelve (with one representative from each colony), and the commanders of their military fleet are all too pleased by the Cylon offer of peace, which ends so many years of warfare. The Cylons have unexpectedly sued for peace, through the diplomatic agency of a human, Count Baltar. Twelve colonies of humans, living on different worlds, have been fighting a 1,000 year war against the robotic race of Cylons, who seek to exterminate all of humanity. The following is taken from Wikipedia, and can be found here.
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