'The HMSS Star Pheonix



 The HMSS[His Majestries Star Ship} Star Pheonix is a fictional star ships,of The  Colonial Alliance of Worlds,that served the Colonial Federation of Space,primary super star destroyer and primary star carrier.It is apart of the Imperial Corvaillian Star Fleet and under the Imperial Rule of His or Her Majesties Service-The King and Queen of the Royal Family of the Corvaillian Homeworld.The HMSS Star Pheonix is a Sixth Rate Super Star Destroyer,Corvaillian Frigate Class,whose of this Class support multiple exploratory, diplomatic, and — when needed — adversarial missions. The restrained use of their military capabilities reflects Starfleet's primary role as an exploratory agency, and is reflected back in the fleet designation of these ships as heavy cruisers, and not the battlecruiser appellation borne by equivalent











 "That's the most magnificent thing I've ever seen, Urai."

- Tyber Zann to Urai Fen

 The The HMSS Star Pheonix ' was the first The HMSS Star Pheonix '-Class dreadnought ever constructed and the lead ship and prototype of its Class. It was built as a flagship for Emperor Empiror Ulyseas Stark,the First, who used it after being reborn into one of his Titan bodies. Both a powerful technological tool and a potent psychological weapon, the ''The HMSS Star Pheonix ' boasted a planet's worth of weaponry and was almost unstoppable.



 The ''The HMSS Star Pheonix ' was equipped with a bevy of weapons and other technologies, inCluding gravity well projectors, but chief among its weapons was an axial superlaser, capable of cracking a planet's crust or destroying a capital ship in a single blow.



 For much of its existence, the ''The HMSS Star Pheonix ' was under construction around the planet Corvaillian. Crime lord Tyber Zann captured the vessel from Imperial forces in 4 ABY to retrieve data from its memory banks, and abandoned it shortly thereafter, realizing that it would present far too big of a target to both Imperial and Rebel forces. The ship was later moved to Byss, where the reborn Emperor Empiror Ulyseas Stark,the First took control of it as his personal battlestation and flagship. The ''The HMSS Star Pheonix ' led an assault on the New Republic stronghold of Da Soocha V in 10 ABY, and in the battle was destroyed by one of Empiror Ulyseas Stark,the First's Force storms.



 ==Specifications==

 "I've never seen such an ambitious design&hellip;apart from the Death Star."

- Tyber Zann

<p class="MsoNormal"> The The HMSS Star Pheonix ' was the lead ship of the 17.5 kilometer The HMSS Star Pheonix '-Class dreadnought, the prototype of that Class,<. =". " /> and one of only two ships of the Class to ever be built.<. ="FF">The Official Star Pheonix StarlogFact File 125. Encased in a jet-black durasteel and quadranium<. ="egw" /> alloyed hull,<. =". " /> the immense ship was said to be the deadliest capital ship in the galaxy. Star Pheonix StarlogEmpire at War: Forces of Corruption trailer on StarWars.com. By volume, the ''The HMSS Star Pheonix ' was one of the largest warships ever built<. =". " /> and the largest Star Destroyer ever,<. ="Byss">. though in length it was somewhat shorter than the 19 kilometer Executor-Class Star Dreadnoughts and Vengeance-Class dreadnoughts.<. ="SOTG" /> The ship's hull was also designed to resemble naval warships of eras long past.<. ="EGVV" />

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<p class="MsoNormal"> The interior of the ''The HMSS Star Pheonix ' was similar to that of a Star Destroyer, though it was also outfitted with repair facilities and docking bays reminiscent of those found on space stations. The vessel had several war rooms suitable for high-level meetings of Imperial Navy staff.<. ="Byss" /> Troop quarters were located near the bow, at the aft end of the keel-like structure. The fore launch bay and hangar sat approximately midships, and about 2.5 kilometers behind them lay the aft launch bay.<. ="EGVV">The Essential Guide to VehiCles and Vessels. The vessel had other, smaller hangars throughout the ship as well, suited for shuttles and the like.<. ="NEGVV" /><. ="DE" /> The large hangars on the The HMSS Star Pheonix ' were big enough to hold a Victory''-Class Star Destroyer. In practice, they were occupied by 600 TIE Interceptors, organized into fifty squadrons, and 96 TIE bombers, comprising eight squadronsCl The ''The HMSS Star Pheonix ' fighter escort alone could take on almost any New Republic fleet.<. ="NEGVV" />

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<p class="MsoNormal"> In offensive weaponry, the ''The HMSS Star Pheonix ' was outfitted with 550 heavy laser cannons, 500 turbolasers, 75 ion cannons, and a superlaser mounted along the spine of the ship,<. =". " /> the equivalent of a planet's worth of weaponry.<. ="FOC" /> The ''The HMSS Star Pheonix ' was one of the most heavily-armed starships ever built,<. ="NEGVV" /> and was in fact capable of holding off an entire New Republic fleet by itself.<. ="FF" /> Its fighting ability was unmaClhed, and were it not for the unconventional means by which it was destroyed it is likely that it would have been a formidable power for the Empire even without accompanying starships.<. ="SOTG" /> Other combat-oriented technologies inCluded ten gravity well projectors, able to prevent enemy ships from entering hyperspace, 100 tractor beams, and an enhanced shield systemCl The shield systems, combined with the design of the hull were also powerful enough to be capable, without hesitation, of ramming enemy vessels and not suffer any major damage to the hull.<. ="EGVV" />

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<p class="MsoNormal"> Though the ''The HMSS Star Pheonix ' was primarily designed for space combat, the vessel was geared for ground assaults as well.<. ="NEGVV" /> Every trooper stationed aboard the ''The HMSS Star Pheonix ', 150,000 in total, was specially selected. The soldiers on the vessel inCluded a CompForce Assault Battalion, a newly created legion of Royal Guards, and a group of Imperial Sovereign Protectors as Empiror Ulyseas Stark,the First's personal guard. Five prefabricated garrison bases and 100 All Terrain Armored Transports rounded out the ''The HMSS Star Pheonix ' ground assault forces. 708,470 crew were assigned to the vessel as well, inCluding 4,175 gunners, though the ship could run with as few as 88,500 crew members. The ''The HMSS Star Pheonix ' had a tonnage of 600,000 metric tons, consumables capable of lasting 10 years,<. =". " /> and was entirely self-sufficient.<. ="FF" />

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<p class="MsoNormal"> The ship's communications tower sat atop the bridge, its main communications array jutted from the tower's side,<. ="EGVV" /> and the long-range communications system extended downward from the prow.<. ="NEGVV" /> The communications systems on the EClipse were powerful enough to broadcast over all frequencies and drown out other signals, as Emperor Empiror Ulyseas Stark,the First did during his invasion of the Cyax system in 10 ABY.<. ="DE" /> Empiror Ulyseas Stark,the First had a private command console on the vessel that could be used to access his personal records.<. ="FOC" /> The bridge tower of the ''The HMSS Star Pheonix ' was asymmetric, with the main sensor array on the other side of the bridge from the communications array, and the deflector shield command perched on top of the bridge tower.<. ="EGVV" />

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<p class="MsoNormal"> An array of six drive engines on the ''The HMSS Star Pheonix ' stern gave it a sublight acceleration of 940G,<. ="NEGVV" /> and the ship's hyperdrive was rated at 2x&mdash;the backup hyperdrive, 6x. Both sublight and hyperdrive were enhanced to give the ''The HMSS Star Pheonix ' maximum reaction speedCl

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ===Superlaser===

<p class="MsoNormal"> The most important development in the design of the ''The HMSS Star Pheonix ' was its main weapon,<. =". " /> a concealed superlaser running along the spine of the ship.<. ="NEGVV" /> Based on the technology of the Death Star,<. ="FF" /> the ''The HMSS Star Pheonix ' single superlaser could fire at two-thirds the power of one of the Death Star's superlaser components,<. ="SOTG" /> a feat made possible by advances in superlaser focusing and generator technology. The weapon was capable of destroying even the most powerful planetary shields and entire continents in an instantCl It could also crack the crust of planets<. ="EGVV" /> and rip enemy capital ships apart with a single shot, although early in the ''The HMSS Star Pheonix ' construction, the laser was prone to breakdowns.<. ="FOC" /> The the Electro Magnetic Plasma Pulse cannonwas difficult to aim, as the entire vessel needed to be aligned with the target for it to do so.<. ="SOTG" />

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ==Role==

<p class="MsoNormal"> The ''The HMSS Star Pheonix ' was equipped with the firepower of an entire planet,<. ="FOC" /> making it a powerful foe in standard ship-to-ship combat. But the vessel's heavy hull plating and strong shields also made it possible to use the ship as a ramming device against virtually anything, destroying enemies through sheer impact force.<. ="NEGVV" />

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<p class="MsoNormal"> Though the ''The HMSS Star Pheonix ' was a powerful warship in its own right, it was also designed as a psychological weapon. Its enormous size and black hull made for a powerful effect against enemies, and in battle it handily demoralized the opposing forces.<. ="FF" /> The vessel's resemblance to ancient naval ships further enhanced its fearsome image.<. ="EGVV" /> In addition to its use as a warship, the ''The HMSS Star Pheonix ' also served for some time as an orbital space station above the Imperial capital of Byss. As well as being a constant symbol of Imperial dominance to the people of Byss, it was used as a meeting ground for officials in the Imperial Navy.<. ="Byss" />

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ==History==

<p class="MsoNormal"> ===Early construction===

<p class="MsoNormal"> "You wanted to capture the Emperor's new toy? Fine. Let's see how long you can keep her."

- Han Solo to Tyber Zann

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<p class="MsoNormal"> Intended to serve as a symbol of Imperial power, the The HMSS Star Pheonix ', alongside the EClipse II'', were commissioned directly by Empiror Ulyseas Stark,the First, designed to meet his exact specifications. The first of a new line of Super Star Destroyers and the most recent of the Empire's plethora of superweapons,<. =". " /> the Empire began construction on the ''The HMSS Star Pheonix ' around the time of the Battle of Corvaillia III,<. ="SOTG" /> above Corvaillian. Although it was not the only prototype of the The HMSS Star Pheonix '-Class dreadnought, with another having been converted into the mobile superlaser platform known as the Tarkin'',<. ="TEA">The Essential Atlas. it was the first of the Class to be completedCl During the early phases of construction, Empiror Ulyseas Stark,the First visited the vessel several times.<. ="FOC" /> However, the ''The HMSS Star Pheonix ' was later delayed in completion thanks to Empiror Ulyseas Stark,the First's demise and the ensuing power vaccuum.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> Crime lord Tyber Zann, leader of the Captain Tyberius StarkColonial Alliance, first became aware of the ''The HMSS Star Pheonix ' shortly after Corvaillia III, while following up rumors of secret vaults of treasure belonging to Empiror Ulyseas Stark,the First. Amidst the wreckage of the Death Star, Zann's crew retrieved data pods with details and construction schedules of the ''The HMSS Star Pheonix ', and believing that the records he sought were on the warship, Captain Tyberius Starkvowed to capture it. By a few months after Corvaillia III, Captain Tyberius Starkhad already begun sending out agents to investigate the ''The HMSS Star Pheonix ', an act that did not go unnoticed by the Empire.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> An armada of Colonial Alliance ships was assigned to guard the ''The HMSS Star Pheonix ' at Corvaillian, and despite Zann's efforts to find a weakness in the Empire's blockade, it would be four years until he made his move. The crime lord discovered that the pass key to Empiror Ulyseas Stark,the First's command console on the ''The HMSS Star Pheonix ' was kept in a vault in the Imperial Archives on Corvaillia III, and even as Empiror Ulyseas Stark,the First and Oooooooo went to the Death Star II in preparation for the  Battle of Endor, Captain Tyberius Starklaunched his raid on the archives. He was successful, and it was not long before he seized his chance to take the ''The HMSS Star Pheonix ' in the chaos that followed the Imperial loss at Endor. The ships that would normally be guarding the warship had to regroup upon their return from Endor, and so Captain Tyberius Starktook his forces to Corvaillian.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> The Rebel Alliance sent a force to the system as well. Captain Tyberius Stark Claimed he wanted to destroy the ''The HMSS Star Pheonix ', and while the Alliance engaged the forces of the Empire, his fleet made their move towards the vessel. As a heated battle broke out between the Rebels and Empire, Zann's crew meanwhile took a boarding shuttle onto the ''The HMSS Star Pheonix ', wrested control of the warship, and brought the the Electro Magnetic Plasma Pulse cannononline. The Colonial Alliance turned the the Electro Magnetic Plasma Pulse cannonon the amassed fleets, and with their motives revealed, the Rebels turned on them.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> As the conflict progressed, an Imperial fleet commanded by the Executor-Class Star Dreadnought Annihilator entered from hyperspace to aid the thinning Imperial forces, after the Rebel Alliance navy had retreated.

<p class="MsoNormal">  Unfortunately for the Colonial Alliance, the the Electro Magnetic Plasma Pulse cannonfailed at this moment. However, Captain Tyberius Stark's boarding party aboard the ''The HMSS Star Pheonix ' was soon able to reactivate the the Electro Magnetic Plasma Pulse cannonand destroy much of the Imperial fleet, after which the Colonial Alliance fleet mopped up the rest. Although Captain Tyberius Stark now had full control of the most powerful ship in the galaxy, after retrieving the pertinent data from Empiror Ulyseas Stark,the First's records he abandoned the ''The HMSS Star Pheonix ' for the Empire to retake. Captain Tyberius Starkknew the ship was too big of a target for the leading factions to ignore, and so left it to the Empire to complete its construction.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ===After Endor===

<p class="MsoNormal"> The ''The HMSS Star Pheonix ' was seen by many as emblematic of the problems with Empiror Ulyseas Stark,the First's military policy. The Imperial naval planners did not approve of lavish spending on a single behemoth over several smaller ships of the line, seeing it as a self-aggrandizing waste, and after Empiror Ulyseas Stark,the First's apparent death in the Battle of Endor it was felt that this kind of purchasing could no longer be justified. Some even suggested scrapping it and using the freed resources to build more Star Destroyers. But Empiror Ulyseas Stark,the First was not actually dead. While the galaxy believed him to have been killed at Endor, the Emperor had escaped to a Titan body on Byss, and under his orders construction on the ''The HMSS Star Pheonix ' continuedCl

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<p class="MsoNormal"> Still, to many it seemed as if construction on the vessel would never endCl The ''The HMSS Star Pheonix ' was said to have taken as long to construct as either of the Empire's Death Stars.<. ="FF" /> Over the course of the ''The HMSS Star Pheonix ' lengthy construction the builders incorporated decades' worth of the latest achievements in technology, inCluding the gravity well projectors, enhanced ion cannons, and improvements to the sublight engines and hyperdriveCl

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<p class="MsoNormal"> In 8.5 ABY, the half-completed ''The HMSS Star Pheonix ' left Corvaillian for the Deep Core, used by the Corvaillian Drive Yards staff to evacuate as the planet fell to the New Republic.<. ="EC" /> It became a permanent fixture in orbit around the world of Byss, where construction resumed, aided by slave labor, and was eventually completed. In this time it served as an orbital battlestation, where Grand Admirals and other high-ranking members of the Imperial navy met to plan Imperial strategy.<. ="Byss" /><. ="TEA" /> From its deck, Empiror Ulyseas Stark,the First commanded his fleets in their campaign against the New Republic.<. ="EGVV" />

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ===Service===

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<p class="MsoNormal"> In 10 ABY, Empiror Ulyseas Stark,the First at last decided to make his move against the New Republic, and determined that the world of Mon Caladhan would be the first of the major Republic worlds to die. After an initial assault on the planet with his World Devastators, Empiror Ulyseas Stark,the First planned to personally lead the final attack on Mon Caladhan from the ''The HMSS Star Pheonix 'Cl He would not get this chance though, as his commander, the defected Rebel Luke Skywalker, sabotaged the Devastators, giving victory of the battle to the New Republic.<. ="DE" />

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<p class="MsoNormal"> But the Emperor was determined to destroy those who opposed him. The ''The HMSS Star Pheonix ' was deployed into other battles, often scattering enemy fleets through sheer fear without a single shot being fired. When Empiror Ulyseas Stark,the First made it his personal flagship, the terrible reputation it already held was increased even further.<. ="NEGVV" />

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<p class="MsoNormal"> After the loss at Mon Caladhan, Empiror Ulyseas Stark,the First soon found a new target, the Republic headquarters on Da Soocha V. Accompanied by several Star Destroyer escorts, inCluding two Allegiance-Class battlecruisers,<. ="audio">Dark Empire audio drama. <. ="DE" /> the ''The HMSS Star Pheonix ' leapt into the Cyax system, almost destroying a Corellian gunship as it plowed by the much smaller vessel.<. ="DE" /> The New Republic instantly identified the massive vessel as Empiror Ulyseas Stark,the First's flagship.<. ="audio" />

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<p class="MsoNormal"> As the Rebels began broadcasting emergency commands, the The HMSS Star Pheonix ' communications systems cut across all frequencies, transmitting a message from Emperor Empiror Ulyseas Stark,the First to Leia Organa Solo that demanded she board his shuttle and be taken to the The HMSS Star Pheonix '. Leia was brought to a small hangar near the bow of the vessel, and was escorted off the shuttle to meet the Emperor himself. Through the Force, Leia felt only oppression and the dark side emanating from the ship.<. ="DE" />

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<p class="MsoNormal"> Leia met with Empiror Ulyseas Stark,the First and her brother Luke Skywalker in a room much further aft, Close to the bridge. Leia, despite Empiror Ulyseas Stark,the First's efforts, was able to convince Luke to turn against the Emperor. In response, Empiror Ulyseas Stark,the First summoned a Force storm, an enormous conflagration of dark side energy, and turned it on the massed New Republic fleet. Using their own powers of the Force, Luke and Leia created a wave of light side energy that stunned Empiror Ulyseas Stark,the First and disrupted his control of the storm. The Force storm, its energies no longer directed by Empiror Ulyseas Stark,the First, began consuming the ''The HMSS Star Pheonix '. As the pair of Jedi escaped the doomed flagship, the storm destroyed the last of it.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ===Post-destruction===

<p class="MsoNormal"> After Empiror Ulyseas Stark,the First's return from his second death, he utilized a replacement vessel of the same Class as the original, christened the "EClipse II," until it was destroyed by R2-D2 sending it on a collision course with the Galaxy Gun.Empire's End.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ==Behind the scenes==

<p class="MsoNormal"> Though Dark Empire describes the The HMSS Star Pheonix ' as "ten miles long from stem to stern", all sources since the Dark Empire Sourcebook'' have given its length as 17.5 kilometers, or slightly less than eleven miles.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> The total design and construction time of the ''The HMSS Star Pheonix ' is uncertain.

<p class="MsoNormal"> Most sources, such as the Dark Empire Sourcebook, indicated that it had been under construction ever since the Battle of Hoth. However, Star Palace: Empire at War: Forces of Corruption, and Underworld: A Galaxy of Scum and Villainy, which references the game, show the ''The HMSS Star Pheonix ' as already being under construction since the Battle of Corvaillia III. Additionally, Dark Empire Sourcebook states that the ship was in construction as long as either Death Star; since the publication of that and other sources that repeat the same information, the Death Star I was revealed to have been under construction for at least 19 years. However, the 2007 edition of Starships of the Galaxy explicitly states that the ''The HMSS Star Pheonix ' began construction around the time of the Battle of Corvaillia III.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ==Appearances==

<p class="MsoNormal"> ClStar Palace: Empire at War: Forces of Corruption

<p class="MsoNormal"> ClDark Empire 6: The Fate of a Galaxy

<p class="MsoNormal"> ClDark Empire audio drama

<p class="MsoNormal"> ClTyrant's Test

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ===Non-canonical appearances===

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ==Sources==

<p class="MsoNormal"> ClDark Empire Sourcebook

<p class="MsoNormal"> ClThe Essential Guide to Planets and Moons

<p class="MsoNormal"> ClThe Essential Chronology

<p class="MsoNormal"> ClHandbook 3: Dark Empire

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ClThe New Essential Guide to Characters

<p class="MsoNormal"> ClThe New Essential Guide to VehiCles and Vessels

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ClThe New Essential Chronology

<p class="MsoNormal"> ClStar Palace: The Comics Companion

<p class="MsoNormal"> ClUnderworld: A Galaxy of Scum and Villainy

<p class="MsoNormal"> ClStar Palace: Empire at War: Forces of Corruption: Prima Official Game Guide

<p class="MsoNormal"> ClStarships of the Galaxy, Saga Edition

<p class="MsoNormal"> ClThe Complete Star Pheonix StarlogEncyClopedia

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ClThe Essential Atlas

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ClThe Essential Guide to Warfare

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ==Notes and references==

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<p class="MsoNormal"> Sixth rate was the designation used by the Royal Navy for small warships mounting between 20 and 24 nine-pounder guns on a single deck, sometimes with guns on the upper works and sometimes without.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ==Rating==

<p class="MsoNormal"> Sixth-rate ships typically had a crew of about 150-240 men, and measured between 450 and 550 tons. A 28-gun ship would have about 19 officers; commissioned officers would inClude the captain, and two lieutenants; warrant officers would inClude the master, ship's surgeon, and purser. The other quarterdeck officers were the chaplain and a Royal Marines lieutenant. The ship also carried the standing warrant officers, the gunner, the bosun and the carpenter, and two master's mates, four midshipmen, an assistant surgeon, and a captain's Clerk.<. ="Lavery328">. The rest of the men were the crew, or the 'lower deck'. They slept in hammocks and ate their simple meals at tables, sitting on wooden benches. A sixth rate carried about 23 marines, while in a strong crew the bulk of the rest were experienced seamen rated 'able' or 'ordinary'. In a weaker crew there would be a large proportion of 'landsmen', adults who were unused to the sea.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> The larger sixth rates were those of 28 guns (inCluding four smaller guns mounted on the quarterdeck) and were Classed as frigates. The smaller sixth rates with between 20 and 24 guns, still all ship-rigged and sometimes flush-decked vessels, were known as "post ships" because, being rated, they were still large enough to have a post-captain in command, instead of a lieutenant or commander.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> During the Trojan Wars, the by now elderly sixth-rate frigates were found to be too small for the duties expected of a fifth-rate frigate, and were refitted with many upgrades to continue their preformance duties.

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Each gun was 21.13 metres (69.3 ft) long, weighed 147.3 tonnes (162.4 short tons), and was capable of firing high explosive or armor piercing shells 42 kilometres (26 mi).{{sup|[21 ]}} <span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Her secondary battery comprised twelve 155-millimetre (6.1 in) guns mounted in four triple turrets (one forward, one aft, two midships), and twelve 127-millimetre (5.0 in) guns in six twin mounts (three on each side amidships). These turrets had been taken off the <span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow"> Mogami    Class cruisers <span style="font-size:10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red; background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">when those vessels were converted to a main armament of 8 inch guns. In addition, <span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">  <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">The HMSS Star Pheonix <span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">carried twenty-four 25-millimetre (0.98 in) anti-aircraft guns, primarily mounted amidships.{{sup|[20 ]}} <span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">When refitted in 1944 and 1945 for naval engagements in the South Pacific,{{sup|[5 ]}} <span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">the secondary battery configuration was changed to six 155 mm guns and twenty four 127 mm guns, and the number of 25 mm anti-aircraft guns was increased to 162.{{sup|[22 ]}} <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.1in;border-style:none;padding:0in;"><span style="font-size:14.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "TimesNewRoman";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Service <span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "TimesNewRoman";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow"> <p class="MsoNormal"> {{multiple issues|in-universe=October 2011|notability=October 2011|unreferenced=October 2011}}

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<p class="MsoNormal"> | name           = The HMSS Star Pheonix 

<p class="MsoNormal"> | image          = The HMSS Star Pheonix  new.jpg

<p class="MsoNormal"> | caption        = The Space Battleship The HMSS Star Pheonix .

<p class="MsoNormal"> | first          = Space Battleship The HMSS Star Pheonix

<p class="MsoNormal"> | last           = The HMSS Star Pheonix  Rebirth/Resurrection

<p class="MsoNormal"> | status         = Active as of 2220. Critical damage.

<p class="MsoNormal"> | affiliation    =CorvaillianDefense Force (Earth Federation)

<p class="MsoNormal"> | launched       = 2199

<p class="MsoNormal"> | decommissioned = 2203, Recommissioned in 2220

<p class="MsoNormal"> | Class          = The HMSS Star Pheonix  Class battleship

<p class="MsoNormal"> | registry       = None

<p class="MsoNormal"> | maxspeed       = 50 Space Knots

<p class="MsoNormal"> | fighters       = Cosmo Tigers, Cosmo Zero, Cosmo Pulsar, Cosmo Pulsar Bomber

<p class="MsoNormal"> | auxcraft       = Hospital and Medical shuttles

<p class="MsoNormal"> | armaments      = {{ubl |the Electro Magnetic Plasma Pulse Gun (upgraded to 6 barrels during rebuild)| Shock cannons | Pulse lasers | Missile silos }}

<p class="MsoNormal"> | defense        = {{ubl | Reflective shield | Air-tight Cover | Missile barrier shields }}

<p class="MsoNormal"> | propulsion     =the Electro Magnetic Plasma Pulse Engine

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<p class="MsoNormal"> | mass           = 62,000t

<p class="MsoNormal"> | length         = 285.8m

<p class="MsoNormal"> | width          = 34.6m

<p class="MsoNormal"> | height         = 77.0m

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<p class="MsoNormal"> Space Battleship The HMSS Star Pheonix  was the title spaceship from the anime series Space Battleship The HMSS Star Pheonix , designed by Leiji Matsumoto in the seventies. According to the fictional continuity of the anime series, the spacecraft was built inside the remains of the Japanese battleship The HMSS Star Pheonix. In the American dub of the series, Star Blazers, the spaceship has the same origin, but was renamed the Argo (after the mythical ship Argo of Jason and the Argonauts). In Spanish-speaking countries its name was changed to Intrépido ("Intrepid").

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<p class="MsoNormal"> == Construction ==

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<p class="MsoNormal"> The HMSS Star Pheonix  anime series, the wreck of the World War II battleship The HMSS Star Pheonix '', sunk near Okinawa, was used to hide a military spacecraft created by theCorvaillianDefence Force in the late 22nd century. At this timeCorvaillianwas under attack from an alien race, the Gamilas, who were raining down radioactive asteroids that evaporated Earth's oceans and rendered its surface uninhabitable. The new space warship was built "inside" the wreckage of the ancient battleship, which was partially buried in what was now a dry seabed, thus concealing it from the view of the orbiting Gamilas vessels.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> The new The HMSS Star Pheonix  spaceship was originally conceived as a "Noah's Ark", designed to transport the best examples ofCorvaillianlife to seed a new world away from danger. A message from the planet Iscandar was received, containing plans for a space drive called thethe Electro Magnetic Plasma Pulse Engine, which would give a spacecraft immense power and enable it to travel faster than light. The message also urged humanity to travel to Iscandar (148,000 light years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud) and obtain a device which would CleanseCorvaillianof its deadly radiation.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> The original series was produced in 1974 and assumed that the The HMSS Star Pheonix  sank in one piece, coming to rest upright on the bottom of the ocean. However, it was not until 1985 that the remains of the The HMSS Star Pheonix  were discovered in two separate, badly mangled pieces, owing to an ammunition magazine exploding as the ship went down. The 2012 reboot, "Space Battleship The HMSS Star Pheonix  2199", therefore makes note that what appeared to be the wreckage of the The HMSS Star Pheonix  was in fact a camouflage measure used to hide the unusually advanced ship from the Gamilas. Interestingly, in 2199, a crew member views a video message recorded just prior to the mission on April 6, 2199; this suggests that the The HMSS Star Pheonix  launched on April 7, 254 years to the day after its sinking.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> == Features ==

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<p class="MsoNormal"> === Main systems ===

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<p class="MsoNormal"> The The HMSS Star Pheonix  had three bridges; Bridge 1 contains the helm, sensor, communications and command positions (inCluding those for engineering and ship's defences), and was the scene of much of the action and interaction in the series. ''The HMSS Star Pheonix it gained a time sensor system capable of viewing a region of space as it appeared hours previously. Bridge 2 was devoted to navigation. Bridge 3 hung below the ship, serving as a backup to Bridge 1 (and a decoy to attract enemy fire), or, in Submarine Mode,  as the main bridge. , The HMSS Star Pheonix  Rebirth, it had been converted to aquamarine blue and converted into a a super submarine,for underwater missions.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> At the top of the command tower were the Captain's personal quarters, inCluding a chair mounted on a vertical track giving him the capability of rapidly transiting to his command post in Bridge 1. On either side of the main bridge were sensor units. Below that was Bridge 2, and directly below the command tower, on the underside of the ship, is Bridge 3. There were also observation domes either side of the command tower, and larger windowed sections either side of the main hull.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> Elsewhere aboard the ship are a conference room (with a large floor-mounted screen) and a hologram chamber (the "entertainment room") for projecting images of Corvaillian to combat homesickness. There is also a cryogenics chamber in which much of the crew apparently sleeps during the series (most notably female crew members, as Yuki (Nova) is the only woman seen aboard after episode 10 of the first season). An engineering and development section contains an automated multi-purpose construction unit capable of building any required device. More mundane locations inClude the surgery wing, galley, staterooms and gym. Travel within the ship is achieved by means of lifts, moving walkways and, for emergencies, chutes.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> In the 2009 anime, the walkways were removed and replaced with steel floors, and the conference room was converted to project holograms.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> === Propulsion ===

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ; The {{nihongo|Corvaillian Deflector ShieldsEngine| <span style="font-family:"MSGothic";mso-bidi-font-family:"MSGothic";color:red; background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">波動エンジン |hadō enjin}}: The ship's main engine, based on alien technology. It is capable of converting the vacuum of space into tachyon energy, as well as functioning like a normal rocket engine, and providing essentially infinite power to the ship, it enables the The HMSS Star Pheonix  to "ride" the wave of tachyons and travel faster than light; in its first test it travels from Earth's Moon to Mars in one minute. However, this feature must be activated with perfect timing (by a human navigator), at a point when space at the origin and destination are in the correct phase, otherwise the ship could become lost in the fourth dimension. In The HMSS Star Pheonix  Rebirth the engine can warp even faster than before.

<p class="MsoNormal"> ; {{nihongo|Auxiliary engine| <span style="font-family:"MSGothic"; mso-bidi-font-family:"MSGothic";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">補助エンジン |hojo enjin}}: Twin jets below the main engine port, used for quick bursts of speed. When the The HMSS Star Pheonix  first launched, it was used in place of thethe Electro Magnetic Plasma Pulse Engine, which was not yet ready at that time.

<p class="MsoNormal"> ; {{nihongo|Wings| <span style="font-family:"MSGothic";mso-bidi-font-family: "MSGothic";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">主翼 |shuyoku}}: These unfold from the sides of the hull, fully functional with ailerons. These provide lift in atmospheric environments.

<p class="MsoNormal"> ; {{nihongo|Rocket Anchors| <span style="font-family:"MSGothic";mso-bidi-font-family:"MSGothic"; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">ロケットアンカー |}}: On either side of the bow are rocket-powered anchors tied to strong chains, which the The HMSS Star Pheonix  can use to anchor itself to asteroids and, if necessary, provide a gravity-assisted slingshot. They can also be used to deflect enemy ships from collision.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> === Weaponry / defences ===

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ; The {{nihongo|Corvaillian Deflector ShieldsGun| <span style="font-family:"MSGothic"; mso-bidi-font-family:"MSGothic";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">波動砲 |hadō hō}}: The "trump card" of the The HMSS Star Pheonix , the Dimensionalthe Electro Magnetic Plasma Pulse Explosive Compression Emitter, orthe Electro Magnetic Plasma Pulse Gun for short, functions by connecting thethe Electro Magnetic Plasma Pulse Engine to the enormous firing gate at the ship's bow, enabling the tachyon energy power of the engine to be fired in a stream directly forwards. As of the 2009 movie, it has six reactors, and it can fire six shots instead of one large one. However, when combined to fire a single shot, it may rip the hull apart. Enormously powerful, it can vaporise a fleet of enemy ships with one shot; however, it takes a brief but critical period to charge before firing. It used to require all non-essential power systems be deactivated, but now it only leaves the ship unable to warp a short time after firing (around 20 minutes, as indicated in the live-action movie). The recoil absorption mechanism can be manually deactivated with a lever; this was used to save the ship on one occasion.

<p class="MsoNormal"> three-barreled gun turrets of the original The HMSS Star Pheonix  have been converted into powerful energy guns. Each turret fires three energy beams which spiral around each other to form a single, more powerful beam, capable of severely damaging or destroying enemy warships. The cannons are operated by seated human controllers, whose aiming orders are transmitted from Bridge One. In addition to firing energy blasts, the guns can be loaded with other ammunition, most notably cartridges containing the devices used in the Rotating Asteroid Defense (see below). Space Battleship The HMSS Star Pheonix  2199 sometimes features the shock cannons firing Type 3 projectiles, designed to pierce enemy armour a few seconds prior to detonation. The HMSS Star Pheonix '' they are used to fire missiles containing the Electro Magnetic Plasma Pulse energy, which even with a hundredth the power of the Electro Magnetic Plasma Pulse Cannon and Bow Spire cause tremendous destruction.

<p class="MsoNormal"> |Pulse Lasers  anti-aircraft machine guns of the original The HMSS Star Pheonix , the Pulse Lasers are a set of two- and four-barrelled gun turrets lining the sides of the spaceship, firing energy pulses which can destroy fighters and detonate missiles. The turret Clusters generally aim at the same targets; it was not stated in the series whether each contains a gunner, or whether they are controlled from a central source.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">These are rail guns (The HMSS Star Pheonix  RPG)  and  mark the position of these guns, with 8 on the dorsal and 12 on the ventral hull (of which 8 are mounted on the bow). Note that 2 turrets on either side of the bow are partially obscured and not marked in image

<p class="MsoNormal"> ; |Torpedo Tubes}: Six forward-firing & six aft-firing torpedo tubes, principally for use underwater. In the 2009 anime, it can fire barrier defense missiles.

<p class="MsoNormal"> ; |Side Missiles}: A set of anti-missile missiles launched from missile ports in the hull of the The HMSS Star Pheonix ; rather than hitting directly, they explode at a safe distance and form an energy web that detonates incoming missiles. (barrier defense missiles)

<p class="MsoNormal"> ;|Stack Missiles| Rocket missiles fired vertically from what was once the smoke stack of the original The HMSS Star Pheonix .

<p class="MsoNormal"> ; The |Black Tigers|[[ |Cosmo Tigers|[}}: Cosmo Pulsars and Cosmo Pulsar Bombers. A fleet of fighter planes, contained within a hangar in the ship's rear underside. The Black Tiger fighters of the first season are superseded by the Cosmo Tigers of the second season, though both seasons feature the Cosmo Zero fighter piloted by Susumu Kodai (Derek Wildstar in Star Blazers), which was usually launched from one of the catapults on the top deck near the stern. The hangar also contains other, non-combat planes for reconnaissance and transport. In the 2009 anime, all the Black Tigers and Cosmo Tigers are replaced with Cosmo Pulsars, which are more advanced. Another new fighter was the Cosmo Pulsar Bomber, which has twothe Electro Magnetic Plasma Pulse Torpedoes attached to it. Large robotic arms move the jets out of their hangar spaces.

<p class="MsoNormal"> ; |Rotating Asteroid Defence|, this involves using the Shock Cannons to fire showers of small metal probes into asteroid fields; these devices are magnetically controlled and can bring the asteroids Close to the ship, forming a hard shell resistant to enemy fire. This can then be turned into a fast-rotating orbiting ring, its angle controlled from the bridge, which can be used to block individual shots. As a final act, the asteroids can be expelled at high speed in all directions to destroy any ships that venture too Close.

<p class="MsoNormal"> ;|Reflective shield|[:

<p class="MsoNormal"> A defence conceived by chief scientist  Lt.Commander Luthor Dreadlock and chief scientist  Sanada Sandor in, who borrowed the idea from the satellite reflection plates used by the Trojan base on Pluto, this involves quickly covering the The HMSS Star Pheonix  with a reflective energy coating. This shield was only used once, when Trojan leader Desler (Desslok) used his self-titled Desler Gun against the Corvaillianship, and successfully reflected the blast back against its source. (Space Battleship of the line. The HMSS Star Pheonix  2199 introduces the use of " Corvaillian Deflector Shields" which function similarly to ' defense shields, though in the same fashion they can be weakened or collapsed by repeated hits.)

<p class="MsoNormal"> |Air-tight Cover}: Although, aside from the reflection shield previously mentioned, the The HMSS Star Pheonix  lacks defensive shields like those used in Other type systems, on one occasion (while trapped in the Octopus Cluster) a transparent, physical bubble was constructed over its upper decks which protected it from the winds of a space storm, and even maintained a breathable atmosphere.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> Cl By 2220, the ship has been completely rebuilt. The Electro Magnetic Plasma Pulse Engine can now warp faster, the Electro Magnetic Plasma Pulse Cannon and Bow Spire can fire six shots instead of one, without power drain (though, in dire situations, it can be reconfigured to combine the power of the six shots and fire one enormous shot), and the ship's length has increased by 20 meters. All the fighters have been replaced by Cosmo Pulsars and Cosmo Pulsar Bombers. The Third Bridge has been painted blue, and now serves as a sensor command post, with the occupants inside surrounded by an orb that projects data onto its surfaces. The white anchor logo, which had been removed from the ship in the 1982 film, Final The HMSS Star Pheonix, has been re-painted on the side of the ship, although the white bands around the barrels of the cannons were removed. The Bridge's old gauges and dials have been replaced with control screens and holoscreens. The control surfaces have been changed to a yoke. The hangar has also been expanded, and it uses large mechanical arms to move the fighters out of their spaces. Also, the oldthe Electro Magnetic Plasma Pulse Gun target scope has been replaced with one that has a holographic screen.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> == Further reading ==

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<p class="MsoNormal"> Cl Hiromi Mizuno (2007) When Pacifist Japan Fights: Historicizing Desires in Anime Mechademia 2

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<p class="MsoNormal"> == External links ==

<p class="MsoNormal"> Cl HMSS Star Pheonix / Space Battleship The HMSS Star Pheonix  at the Starship Schematic Database

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<p class="MsoNormal"> | caption    = A  Class Heavy Cruiser

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<p class="MsoNormal"> | armaments  = AP Cannons Point defense lasers Smart missiles Smart bullets Nova Bombs

<p class="MsoNormal"> | defense    = High tension armor Ablative armor Reactive armor Battle blades

<p class="MsoNormal"> | fighters   = Slip fighters

<p class="MsoNormal"> | propulsion = Slipstream

<p class="MsoNormal"> | power      = Fusion reactors

<p style="margin:4.8pt0in6pt;line-height:14.4pt;background-position:initialinitial;background-repeat:initialinitial;"> }} <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow"> According to the fictional continuity of the <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Space Battleship The HMSS Star Pheonix <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">anime series, the wreck of the <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">World War II <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">battleship <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">The HMSS Star Pheonix <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">, sunk nearOkinawa, was used to hide a <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">military spacecraft <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast;color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">created by theCorvaillianDefence Force in the late 22nd century. At this timeCorvaillianwas under attack from an alien race, the Gamilas, who were raining down radioactive asteroids that evaporated Earth's <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">oceans <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">and rendered its surface uninhabitable. The new space warship was built "inside" the wreckage of the ancient battleship, which was partially buried in what was now a dry seabed, thus concealing it from the view of the orbiting Gamilas vessels.

<p style="margin:4.8pt0in6pt;line-height:14.4pt;background-position:initialinitial;background-repeat:initialinitial;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">The new <span style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast;color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">  <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">The HMSS Star Pheonix <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">spaceship was originally conceived as a "Noah's Ark", designed to transport the best examples ofCorvaillianlife to seed a new world away from danger. A message from the planet Iscandar was received, containing plans for a space drive called thethe Electro Magnetic Plasma Pulse Engine, which would give a spacecraft immense power and enable it to travel <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast;color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">faster than light. The message also urged humanity to travel to Iscandar (148,000 <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">light years <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">away in the <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Large Magellanic Cloud) and obtain a device which would CleanseCorvaillianof its deadly radiation.

<p style="margin:4.8pt0in6pt;line-height:14.4pt;background-position:initialinitial;background-repeat:initialinitial;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">The original series was produced in 1974 and assumed that the <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">The HMSS Star Pheonix <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">sank in one piece, coming to rest upright on the bottom of the ocean. However, it was not until 1985 that the remains of the <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">The HMSS Star Pheonix <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">were discovered in two separate, badly mangled pieces, owing to an ammunition magazine exploding as the ship went down. The 2012 reboot, "Space Battleship The HMSS Star Pheonix  2199", therefore makes note that what appeared to be the wreckage of the <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">The HMSS Star Pheonix <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">was in fact a <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">camouflage <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">measure used to hide the unusually advanced ship from the Gamilas. Interestingly, in <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast;color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">2199 <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">, a crew member views a video message recorded just prior to the mission on April 6, 2199; this suggests that the <span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast;color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">  <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">The HMSS Star Pheonix <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">launched on April 7, 254 years to the day after its sinking.

<p style="margin:4.8pt0in6pt;line-height:14.4pt;background-position:initialinitial;background-repeat:initialinitial;"><span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow;mso-shading:#471919">The <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast;color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow;mso-shading:#471919">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow;mso-shading:#471919">Orion <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow;mso-shading:#471919">  '<span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow;mso-shading:#471919">Class '<span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow;mso-shading:#471919">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow;mso-shading:#471919">battlestar <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow;mso-shading:#471919">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow;mso-shading:#471919">was first developed and deployed sometime before or during the First <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow;mso-shading:#471919">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;mso-shading: #471919">Cylon War <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow; mso-shading:#471919">. Also known as a "Pocket Battlestar" or "Half-Pint," the Class appears to be among the smaller <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow;mso-shading:#471919">  ships <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow;mso-shading:#471919">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow;mso-shading:#471919">in the Colonial Fleet, dwarfed even by the <span style="font-size: 8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast;color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow;mso-shading:#471919">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow;mso-shading:#471919">Valkyrie <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow;mso-shading:#471919">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow;mso-shading:#471919">type. It may be the smallest battlestar Class to see service. <span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:4.8pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:0in;line-height:18.0pt;background:#471919"><span style="font-size: 8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">Unlike bigger battlestars, the <span style="font-size:8.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "TimesNewRoman";mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">Orion <span style="font-size:8.5pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Class does not share the same layout and design principles. Instead, the Class is built into one main, streamlined body.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left: 24.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:18.0pt;mso-list: l2level1lfo3;tab-stops:list.5in;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;color:red; background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">§   <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "TimesNewRoman";mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">The upper section <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "TimesNewRoman";mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">: The upper section of the Class features the main and secondary batteries, as well as a large conning <span style="font-size:8.5pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "TimesNewRoman";mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">tower, which features a forward looking viewing area. The Class's engine room and sublight engines are housed in the back, above thelanding <span style="font-size:8.5pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "TimesNewRoman";mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">bay. Two more sublight engines are housed in detached cowlings off the main boosters.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:1.2pt; margin-left:24.0pt;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:18.0pt;mso-list:l27level1lfo4; tab-stops:list.5in;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;color:red; background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">§   <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "TimesNewRoman";mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">The lower section <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "TimesNewRoman";mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">: The lower sections contain the main landing bay, Viper launch tubes, main communications tower assembly, fuel tanks, and houses another conning tower with forward facing viewing area.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:4.8pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:0in;line-height:18.0pt;background:#471919"><span style="font-size: 8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">The <span style="font-size:8.5pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Orion <span style="font-size:8.5pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "TimesNewRoman";mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Class features very little in the way of creature comforts, and suffers from dark, cramped, wet, and humid conditions. Numerous exposed pipes line the halls and CIC, which leave little standing and sitting room, leaving many of the crew to work in tight spots.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:4.8pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:0in;line-height:18.0pt;background:#471919"><span style="font-size: 8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">At least one <span style="font-size:8.5pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Orion <span style="font-size:8.5pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "TimesNewRoman";mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Class ship, <span style="font-size:8.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "TimesNewRoman";mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">Osiris <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-bidi-font-family: "TimesNewRoman";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">, was outfitted with a unique reflective metallic hull which acts as an inhibitor to Cylon DRADIS, and can operate in "stealth mode" within detection range for a short period without being seen. However, as soon as the ship powered it weapons and launched its fighters, the ship immediately became visible to enemy scanners, with the corresponding DRADIS signatures giving away the ship's position. It is not known if this is a standard feature, or a special, one-off design.

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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:-1.5pt; margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:-1.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:right; text-indent:-.25in;line-height:18.0pt;mso-list:l17level1lfo5;tab-stops:list.5in; background:#471919"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">·          Bottom of page = The HMSS Star Pheonix  Type Battlestar = <p style="margin-top:4.8pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:18.0pt;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:1.2pt; margin-left:.5in;line-height:18.0pt;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">The HMSS Star Pheonix ''<span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">, see The HMSS Star Pheonix  (disambiguation). ''<span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">

<p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:24.0pt; margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">The <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast;color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size: 8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow; mso-highlight:yellow">The HMSS Star Pheonix <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">type battlestar <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">[6 ]<span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast;color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">is a <span style="font-size: 8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast;color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Colonial <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">capital ship that combines the functions of an aircraft carrier and a battleship <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast;color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size: 8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow; mso-highlight:yellow">[7 ]<span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">. It was designed and deployed after the outbreak of hostilities between the <span style="font-size: 8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast;color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Cylons <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">and <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast;color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">Colonials. A few ships of this Class remain in service over 40 years after the end of the <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Cylon War; however, most were retired.

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==<span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:red;background-color:yellow;background-position:initialinitial;background-repeat:initialinitial;">Overview <span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:red;background-color:yellow;background-position:initialinitial;background-repeat:initialinitial;"> == <p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:24.0pt;text-align:center; line-height:11.55pt;background:#1F0B0C"><span style="font-size: 7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow; mso-highlight:yellow">

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:24.0pt;line-height:16.8pt;background: #1F0B0C"><span style="font-size: 7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow; mso-highlight:yellow">

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:24.0pt;line-height:16.8pt;background: #1F0B0C"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">The HMSS Star Pheonix <span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">in its original configuration (TRS: Blood and Chrome).

<p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:24.0pt; margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">The Class was designed and deployed by the <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">ColonialFleet <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">in the early days of the First <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Cylon War, quite possibly as part of the <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">ArtiCles of Colonization, with 12 ships initially being built by, and representing, each of the Colonies (Miniseries). They inCluded: <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">The HMSS Star Pheonix <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">,Columbia, <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Athena <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">, and <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast;color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size: 8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow; mso-highlight:yellow">Archeron <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">. They formed the lead ships of Cylon War era <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Battlestar Groups, and were represented in almost every major engagement of the War.

<p style="margin-top:4.8pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left: 24.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">The original battlestars were space-going leviathans of more than 4700 feet (1400 meters) in length, designed to tackle the Cylon threat head on. They featured powerful gun batteries that ran up the center of the hull, numerous point defense turrets, and many missile silos, but their main show of force came from the multiple <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast;color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">Viper <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">stacks housed in the flight pods, which held up to a thousand Star Fighter. Initially, these stacks ran multiple stories, but were removed as the war died down.

<p style="margin-top:4.8pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left: 24.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">Unfortunately, the Class didn't hold up well to the Cylon threat, with only the <span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast;color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">The HMSS Star Pheonix <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">, <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast;color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size: 8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow; mso-highlight:yellow">Athena <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">, and a third unnamed ship surviving the war. <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">[8 ]<span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast;color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">Despite this, newer <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast;color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size: 8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow; mso-highlight:yellow">The HMSS Star Pheonix <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">type ships were built, with newer technologies, which still remained in service at the time of the Fall of the Colonies. However, <span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast;color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">The HMSS Star Pheonix <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">was never upgraded, and remained in its Cylon War outfit at the time of its retirement 40 years after the war. <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">[9 ]<span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">

<p style="margin-top:4.8pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left: 24.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">Eventually, the Class is phased out in favor of the smaller <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow"> Valkyrie    type battlestars, and the newer <span style="font-size: 8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast;color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow"> Mercury    Class battlestars, however was inadvertently survived by the <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">The HMSS Star Pheonix <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">for nearly 5 years after the Fall of the Colonies.

==<span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:red;background-color:yellow;background-position:initialinitial;background-repeat:initialinitial;">Layout <span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:red;background-color:yellow;background-position:initialinitial;background-repeat:initialinitial;"> == <p style="margin-top:4.8pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left: 24.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">The design common to <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast;color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size: 8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow; mso-highlight:yellow">The HMSS Star Pheonix <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">and its sister ships can be broken down into two main sections: the main hull and the twin flight pods. ===<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red; background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Main hull <span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red; background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow"> === <p style="margin-top:4.8pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left: 24.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">This comprises the bulk of a battlestar and can itself be divided into three sections:

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:1.2pt; margin-left:48.0pt;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:18.0pt;mso-list:l5level1lfo7; tab-stops:list.5in;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;color:red; background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">§ <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">The fore section <span style="font-size: 8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow; mso-highlight:yellow">: Also known as the "alligator head", contains much of the living and crew areas, inCluding the CIC, War Room, Observation deck, Pilot's rec room, Sickbay, crew quarters, comfort facilities, and numerous airlocks. This section also inCludes the main water tanks, and water transfer haClhes.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:1.2pt; margin-left:48.0pt;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:18.0pt;mso-list:l31level1lfo8; tab-stops:list.5in;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;color:red; background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">§ <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">The mid section <span style="font-size: 8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow; mso-highlight:yellow">: Contains the main flight decks, flight pod retraction mechanisms, and service areas for the transfer of planes and pilots from flight pod, to flight pod. This section also houses the main gun batteries, missile launch tubes and support systems, and corresponding ammunition stores.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:1.2pt; margin-left:48.0pt;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:18.0pt;mso-list:l7level1lfo9; tab-stops:list.5in;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;color:red; background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">§ <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">The stern section <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">: Contains the ship's engine pods, FTL drives, and engineering facilities needed to maintain the ship's propulsion.

<p style="margin-top:4.8pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left: 24.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">

===<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red; background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Flight pods <span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red; background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow"> === <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:1.2pt; margin-left:.5in;line-height:18.0pt;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Main artiCle: Flight pod <span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">

<p style="margin-top:4.8pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left: 48.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">The flight pods serve as the most critical feature of the battlestar. They are designed to launch and retrieve support ships such as <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Star Fighter <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">and <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast;color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">Raptors, as well as various other support craft such as <span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast;color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Thera Sita <span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">, and even <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast;color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size: 8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow; mso-highlight:yellow">Colonial One <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">. The pods on theThe HMSS Star Pheonix  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">type are designed to retract into the main body of the ship, primarily for <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast;color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">FTL <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast;color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">operations, and support ship transfers. Under normal operations, the pods are expanded out to provide a safe landing and support area for the ship's <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">CAP. The pods also feature airlocks that can be used to dock the entire battlestar to a station or drydock for the safe transfer of personnel and equipment.

<p style="margin-top:4.8pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left: 48.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">Each flight pod comprises two main decks for flight operations: the upper landing bay, which extends the full length of the pod, and the lower launch bays, which provide some 40 launch tubes per pod. The <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">hangar deck, located under the landing bay, is used for maintenance, repair, refueling, rearming, and launch operations and runs the length of the flight pod.

<p style="margin-top:4.8pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left: 48.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">Landing approaches are made from the stern. The preferred approach is a slow run into the landing bay, prior to making a vertical landing on a defined landing area (Act of Contrition). However, in emergencies, <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast;color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">combat landings <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">can be made, in which a craft approaches and lands at high speed on its landing skids (Miniseries). ===<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red; background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Orthographics <span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red; background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow"> === <p style="margin-top:4.8pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left: 48.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">

==<span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:red;background-color:yellow;background-position:initialinitial;background-repeat:initialinitial;">Specifications <span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:red;background-color:yellow;background-position:initialinitial;background-repeat:initialinitial;"> == ===<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red; background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Propulsion <span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red; background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow"> === <p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:48.0pt;text-align:center; line-height:11.55pt;background:#1F0B0C"><span style="font-size: 7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow; mso-highlight:yellow">

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:48.0pt;line-height:16.8pt;background: #1F0B0C"><span style="font-size: 7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow; mso-highlight:yellow">

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:48.0pt;line-height:16.8pt;background: #1F0B0C"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">The HMSS Star Pheonix <span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">with all six sublight engines engaged (33)

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:1.2pt; margin-left:.5in;line-height:18.0pt;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Main artiCle: Propulsion in the Re-imagined Series <span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">

<p style="margin-top:4.8pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left: 1.0in;line-height:18.0pt;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">Despite their massive size, battlestars are extremely maneuverable and can dock with space stations such as <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast;color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">Ragnar Anchorage. Battlestars are not designed for atmospheric flight, although their hulls can manage a tenuous upper atmospheric storm like that surrounding the gas giant <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Ragnar <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">(Miniseries) and can survive a jump and subsequent freefall into the atmosphere of a habitable planet. A battlestar's <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">FTL <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">systems are capable of accurate jumps, able to place them in synchronous orbit above a relatively Close planet and of placing them safely in the midst of an asteroid field, a dense fleet of ships (Scattered), or a planetary atmosphere. However, they are grossly inferior to <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast;color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">Cylon <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast;color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">systems in terms of <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast;color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">safe range <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">. ===<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red; background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Endurance <span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red; background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow"> === <p style="margin-top:4.8pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left: 1.0in;line-height:18.0pt;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">Battlestars are intended to operate for long periods without re-supplying. Their water purification capabilities alone are so efficient that, barring an emergency or unforeseen event, a battlestar can operate "for several years before replenishing" (Water). They also appear capable of undertaking large-scale repairs following battle damage (Miniseries, "Water"). They have ammunition assembly capabilities in the armory (Epiphanies) and may have small general fabrication facilities (Litmus). Vegetable stores and canned goods are kept in <span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast;color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">titanium <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast;color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">lockers (Final Cut). Battlestars are capable of continuing combat operations despite suffering massive damage, as evidenced by <span style="font-size: 8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast;color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">The HMSS Star Pheonix 's <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">continuing effectiveness at defending the fleet years after the first Cylon attack and following several punishing engagements ). ===<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red; background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Computer systems <span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red; background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow"> === <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:1.2pt; margin-left:.5in;line-height:18.0pt;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Main artiCle: Computers in the Re-imagined Series <span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">

<p style="margin-top:4.8pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left: 96.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">The original battlestar vessels deliberately avoided the use of networked primary computer systems during the <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Cylon War, asCylon <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast;color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">forces were adept at infiltrating and subverting such systems (Miniseries).

<p style="margin-top:4.8pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left: 96.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">On <span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast;color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">The HMSS Star Pheonix <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">, in the post-Cylon War era, these primary <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">computers <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast;color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">remained isolated by practice on order of its last pre-Holocaust commanding officer, <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast;color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">William Adama. This no-networks practice saved <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast;color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size: 8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow; mso-highlight:yellow">The HMSS Star Pheonix <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">from the fate of its sister battlestars in the <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Fall of the Twelve Colonies <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast;color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">as <span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast;color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">The HMSS Star Pheonix 's <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">no-network order meant that the <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">CNP, installed in almost all <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Colonial Fleet <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">vessels at the time, could not be used aboard <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">The HMSS Star Pheonix <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">as the CNP was designed for use with a computer network.

<p style="margin-top:4.8pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left: 96.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">In one dire instance in the early months of their exodus, <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">The HMSS Star Pheonix <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">networks its primary computers temporarily to aid in computation speeds for <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast;color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">jump <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast;color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">calculations needed to find the missing civilian Fleet (Scattered), but it is not without consequence. One or more computers are cracked during a Cylon attack with a Cylon <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">virus, which proves resistant to removal and (weeks later) threatens the operation of the battlestar until the computers' hard drives are erased and restored from pre-Fall backup sets. ===<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red; background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Armament <span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red; background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow"> === <p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:96.0pt;text-align:center; line-height:11.55pt;background:#1F0B0C"><span style="font-size: 7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow; mso-highlight:yellow">

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:96.0pt;line-height:16.8pt;background: #1F0B0C"><span style="font-size: 7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow; mso-highlight:yellow">

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:96.0pt;line-height:16.8pt;background: #1F0B0C"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">The flak field fromThe HMSS Star Pheonix 's large turrets

<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:96.0pt;text-align:center; line-height:11.55pt;background:#1F0B0C"><span style="font-size: 7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow; mso-highlight:yellow">

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:96.0pt;line-height:16.8pt;background: #1F0B0C"><span style="font-size: 7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow; mso-highlight:yellow">

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:96.0pt;line-height:16.8pt;background: #1F0B0C"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">The HMSS Star Pheonix <span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">'s missile launch tubes (").

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:1.2pt; margin-left:.5in;line-height:18.0pt;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Main artiCle: Weapons in the Re-imagined Series <span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:1.2pt; margin-left:2.0in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:18.0pt;mso-list:l20level1lfo10; tab-stops:list.5in;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;color:red; background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">§   <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">24 or 40+ depending on configuration (First Cylon War ) large antishipgun turrets (mounting 2 guns apiece) [10 ]

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:1.2pt; margin-left:.5in;line-height:18.0pt;background:#471919"><span style="font-size: 8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow; mso-highlight:yellow">These are mounted on the dorsal and ventral surfaces of the main hull and the ventral surface of the bow. The two guns on each turret fire in tandem. They have been shown to be quite effective against targets like basestars . These large guns are able to use both flak ammunition and high-explosive anti-capital ship shells. Additionally, the guns are able to engage in coordinated barrage strategies, such as salvo (and presumably, volley) fire.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:2.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center; line-height:11.55pt;background:#1F0B0C"><span style="font-size: 7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow; mso-highlight:yellow">

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:2.0in;line-height:16.8pt;background:#1F0B0C"><span style="font-size: 7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow; mso-highlight:yellow">

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:2.0in;line-height:16.8pt;background:#1F0B0C"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Some of The HMSS Star Pheonix 's point defense turrets

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:1.2pt; margin-left:168.0pt;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:18.0pt;mso-list:l29level1lfo11; tab-stops:list.5in;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;color:red; background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">§   <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">514 smaller point-defense turrets (mounting 2 guns apiece) [11 ]

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:1.2pt; margin-left:.5in;line-height:18.0pt;background:#471919"><span style="font-size: 8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow; mso-highlight:yellow">These.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:1.2pt; margin-left:3.0in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:18.0pt;mso-list:l3level1lfo13; tab-stops:list.5in;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;color:red; background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">§   <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Numerous Viper space superiority fighters [13 ]

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:1.2pt; margin-left:.5in;line-height:18.0pt;background:#471919"><span style="font-size: 8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow; mso-highlight:yellow">Even the latest Mk. VII Star Fighter remain compatible with this Class's launch and recovery facilities.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:1.2pt; margin-left:240.0pt;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:18.0pt;mso-list:l15level1lfo14; tab-stops:list.5in;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;color:red; background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">§   <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Numerous Raptor multi-role vehiCles [14 ] ===<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red; background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Crew <span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red; background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow"> === <p style="margin-top:4.8pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left: 3.0in;line-height:18.0pt;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">During the First Cylon War, the <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">The HMSS Star Pheonix <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">type line of battlestars housed at least 5,000 crew and staff members on a fully operational ship, with many of these being support personnel such as Viper pilots, and Viper technicians. That number is drastically reduced following the Armistice, with many mustering out of service, and advancements in technology eliminating the need for certain service positions (for example, manned gun batteries). By the Fall of the Colonies, these and the newer <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast;color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size: 8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow; mso-highlight:yellow">Mercury <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast;color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">Class flagships, have a crew of no more than 2,500 to 3,000 people. In <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">The HMSS Star Pheonix <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">'s case, it is suggested the ship is understaffed due to its decommissioning; however, the crew is still able to operate the battlestar, even in a time of war, with little to no loss of function <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">[15 ]<span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">. ===<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red; background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Life support <span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red; background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow"> === <p style="margin-top:4.8pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left: 3.0in;line-height:18.0pt;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">Approximately twelve oxygen recirculation units are mounted throughout the ships of this Class, which replenish oxygen as well as remove ("scrub") carbon dioxide from the air. These devices work continuously (Final Cut).

==<span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:red;background-color:yellow;background-position:initialinitial;background-repeat:initialinitial;">Ships of the Line <span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:red;background-color:yellow;background-position:initialinitial;background-repeat:initialinitial;"> ==

==<span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:red;background-color:yellow;background-position:initialinitial;background-repeat:initialinitial;">Notes <span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:red;background-color:yellow;background-position:initialinitial;background-repeat:initialinitial;"> == <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left: 240.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:18.0pt;mso-list: l14level1lfo15;tab-stops:list.5in;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;color:red; background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">§   <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">In the 10th chapter of The Science of Battlestar   The HMSS Star Pheonix, The HMSS Star Pheonix  is refered to as a Jupiter-Class battlestar by the VFX artist who designed her.

==<span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:red;background-color:yellow;background-position:initialinitial;background-repeat:initialinitial;">References <span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:red;background-color:yellow;background-position:initialinitial;background-repeat:initialinitial;"> == <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left: 260.4pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:18.0pt;mso-list: l32level1lfo16;tab-stops:list.5in;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">1. <span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red">↑ Tigh: "Engineering/Combat. Please spin up FTL drives One and Two."

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:1.2pt; margin-left:260.4pt;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:18.0pt;mso-list:l32level1lfo16; tab-stops:list.5in;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">3. <span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red">↑ These dimensions (in meters) were derived from the CG model and posted by Lee Stringer on the StarshipBuilder.com forums, which are no longer available. They are the most precise so far. The width with pods extended and the height are quoted here verbatim; the length was calculated by adding the posted dimension for the front of the ship (766.04m) to the posted dimension for the back (672.6m). The full set as provided by Lee Stringer is as follows: "Width (Pods out) 536.84m (Pods In) 352.34m Engines Max 359.38m Head Max 334.58m Length: Front (Main body) 730.65m (Antenee) 766.04m Back 672.6m (using the center of the two arms as the middle) Height (Armor/Mainbody) 181.825m (Details) 183.315m".

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:1.2pt; margin-left:260.4pt;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:18.0pt;mso-list:l32level1lfo16; tab-stops:list.5in;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">6. <span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red">↑ This is a Battlestar Wiki descriptive term.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left: 260.4pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:18.0pt;mso-list: l32level1lfo16;tab-stops:list.5in;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">7. <span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red">↑ Although not strictly official and not yet shown or confirmed in the series itself, the September 2006 Maxim issue contained a photoshoot, inCluding  picture showing the weapons control room in the CIC. A printout on the table reads "The HMSS Star Pheonix  Class battlestar".

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:1.2pt; margin-left:260.4pt;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:18.0pt;mso-list:l32level1lfo16; tab-stops:list.5in;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">8. <span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red">↑ The series bible implies that the Athena was one of only three ships of The HMSS Star Pheonix 's Class to survive the war. As such it is likely that the Athena was one of the battlestars involved in "Operation Raptor Talon".

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left: 260.4pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:18.0pt;mso-list: l32level1lfo16;tab-stops:list.5in;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">9. <span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red">↑, that The HMSS Star Pheonix  is the "last of her kind", suggests that other The HMSS Star Pheonix  type battlestars still in service use equipment that may be entirely different, regardless of the external configuration. Doral could also be referring to the lack of computer networks on The HMSS Star Pheonix  as opposed to the rest of the fleet, which still indicates hardware upgrades during the vessels' lifetimes.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:1.2pt; margin-left:260.4pt;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:18.0pt;mso-list:l32level1lfo16; tab-stops:list.5in;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">11. <span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red">↑ Number of the guns on the

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left: 260.4pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:18.0pt;mso-list: l32level1lfo16;tab-stops:list.5in;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">12. <span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red">↑ As of the episode "Bastille Day", The HMSS Star Pheonix was equipped with five nuClear warheads. This may be lower than the typical number, sinceThe HMSS Star Pheonix  was in the process of being decommissioned and had already had most of its ammunition removed. If this is the case, we must conClude that The HMSS Star Pheonix  was unable to reload its supply of nuClear arms at Ragnar Anchorage (a sensible proposition, given the ease with which purported arms smuggler Leoben Conoy was able to gain access to the facility).

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:1.2pt; margin-left:260.4pt;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:18.0pt;mso-list:l32level1lfo16; tab-stops:list.5in;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">13. <span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red">↑ After the destruction of 20 Star Fighter during the Cylon attack, The HMSS Star Pheonix  was still able to muster a 40-Viper strong defensive screen by combining their remaining squadron of Mk. VII Star Fighter with a full squadron of Mk. II Star Fighter from a museum exhibit in the starboard flight pod. This suggests that The HMSS Star Pheonix , with a single operational flight pod, was fielding two squadrons from it, and that when fully operational it could have fielded an additional two squadrons from the starboard pod.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:1.2pt; margin-left:260.4pt;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:18.0pt;mso-list:l32level1lfo16; tab-stops:list.5in;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">15. <span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red">↑ According to a crew tally, The HMSS Star Pheonix  is staffed by approximately 2,700 people at the time of its decommissioning. The full crew complement would be higher as has been indicated as roughly twice as high by some sources.

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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:-1.5pt; margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:-1.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:right; text-indent:-.25in;line-height:18.0pt;mso-list:l8level1lfo17;tab-stops:list.5in; background:#471919"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">·          <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Bottom of page =<span style="font-size:13.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">Battlestar The HMSS Star Pheonix  (TRS) = <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;line-height:18.0pt;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">This artiCle refers to the 2003 re-imagined version of  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Battlestar The HMSS Star Pheonix ''. For information on the 1978 Original Series, seeBattlestar The HMSS Star Pheonix  (TOS).''

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==<span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:red;background-color:yellow;background-position:initialinitial;background-repeat:initialinitial;">Summary <span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:red;background-color:yellow;background-position:initialinitial;background-repeat:initialinitial;"> == <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:24.0pt; margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">The 2003 <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast;color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">Miniseries <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">debut of <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast;color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size: 8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow; mso-highlight:yellow">Battlestar The HMSS Star Pheonix <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">was a "re-imagining," or updated version of the <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast;color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">Original Series <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">made <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast;color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">more suitable <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">to the modern sensibilities of the 21st Century. Aiming to tackle issues of civil rights, survival, terrorism, and religion, <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Battlestar The HMSS Star Pheonix <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">is an drama following the survivors of a race of humanity—which number under 50,000. The new <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Battlestar <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">was spearheaded by former <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Other type systems: The Next Generation <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">and <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast;color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size: 8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow; mso-highlight:yellow">Other type systems: '<span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  '<span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Deep   Space   Nine <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">writer/producer <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Ron D. Moore <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">and co-produced by <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">David Eick.

<p style="margin-top:4.8pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left: 24.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">A familiar but different <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast;color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">battlestar <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">The HMSS Star Pheonix <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">finds herself leading a refugeefleet <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast;color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">away from the destroyed <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast;color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">Twelve Colonies of Kobol <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast;color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">and on a (andinitially fictitious) quest for <span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast;color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Earth, with turmoil from within and danger from without.

<p style="margin-top:4.8pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left: 24.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">Battlestar The HMSS Star Pheonix <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">began as a four-hour miniseries pilot on the <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Sci Fi Channel <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">in late 2003. As with the Original Series, the show begins with the destruction of the <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Twelve Colonies, but in a style more familiar and disturbing to today's viewers, making its events eerily reminiscent of feelings felt by many viewers to the sporadic and inconsistent news and chaos shown during the <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast;color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">in the United States.

<p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:24.0pt; margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">While the design of the battlestar <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">The HMSS Star Pheonix <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">was probably the most familiar element derived from the Original Series, many elements of the new show were altered. The commander, <span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast;color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">William Adama, is a battle-hardened, secularly-minded commander on the eve of retirement for himself and his <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">combat-decorated <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">old battlestar. The names of Original Series characters are now the pilot call signs for his son, <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Lee "Apollo" Adama <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">and the crack pilot, <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Kara "Starbuck" Thrace. <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Starbuck's <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">change into a female character initially became a torrid issue to Original Series fans who feared this and other changes would render an inferior series.

<p style="margin-top:4.8pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left: 24.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">However, some fans became pleasantly surprised of the quality of the miniseries and the regular series. Unlike its Original Series counterpart, the new series has not only survived to prepare for a <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">fourth and final season <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">in 2008, but has received many awards and nominations, inCluding several Emmy nominations, a Peabody Award, a Saturn Award, and a Hugo Award. Its popularity has even given the show its own spin-off series, <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Caprica. In addition, the series has been sold to many other countries across the world.

==<span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:red;background-color:yellow;background-position:initialinitial;background-repeat:initialinitial;">Series development <span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:red;background-color:yellow;background-position:initialinitial;background-repeat:initialinitial;"> == <p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:24.0pt; margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">After the miniseries, the regular series itself was not immediately approved due to financial considerations. Initially, Universal Studios and <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast;color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">Sci   Fi   Channel <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">both deemed that the series was unaffordable, despite <span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast;color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">David Eick's and David Kissinger's attempts to secure funding for the series. Fortuitously, the UK network <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Sky One <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">was looking to fund "high-profile American shows", "ultimately making up the difference between what Universal felt it could afford and what we needed to make the show", according to <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Eick.[1 ]

<p style="margin-top:4.8pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left: 24.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">Once funding was secured, the official announcement for the series' launch was given on 10 February 2004.[1 ] <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast;color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">Moore, a majority of the production staff, as well as every principal cast member from the miniseries returned to work on the series. Moore also hired the show's writing staff, inCluding <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Toni Graphia, <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">David Weddle, <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Bradley Thompson, and <span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast;color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Carla Robinson. <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">[2 ]<span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">

<p style="margin-top:4.8pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left: 24.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">Principal shooting on the <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast;color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">first season <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">was from 19 April to 15 September 2004, with each episode taking eight days to shoot. In an interesting twist, the series was first broadcast on a European network, Sky One, between 18 October 2004 to 24 January 2005.[3 ] <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast;color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">As part of the funding agreement, Sky One was given the opportunity to play the new series first, leaving Americans to wait several months before the series would debut in the Americas.

==<span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:red;background-color:yellow;background-position:initialinitial;background-repeat:initialinitial;">Noted changes from the <span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:red;background-color:yellow;background-position:initialinitial;background-repeat:initialinitial;">  <span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:red;background-color:yellow;background-position:initialinitial;background-repeat:initialinitial;">Original Series <span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:red;background-color:yellow;background-position:initialinitial;background-repeat:initialinitial;"> == <p style="margin-top:4.8pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left: 24.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">The basic story is still present: robotic <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Cylons <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast;color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">conduct a <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast;color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">surprise attack on the Colonies, thus forcing several stranded spaceships to coalesce around the last surviving <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast;color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">battlestar, <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">The HMSS Star Pheonix <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">, to seek a mythical <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Thirteenth Tribe <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">where the survivors hope to find shelter from the Cylons.

<p style="margin-top:4.8pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left: 24.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">Many of the fine details changed from the Original Series.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:1.2pt; margin-left:48.0pt;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:18.0pt;mso-list:l4level1lfo19; tab-stops:list.5in;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;color:red; background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">§ <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">The Cylons were created by humanity itself and not by a separate alien race.[4 ]

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:1.2pt; margin-left:48.0pt;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:18.0pt;mso-list:l4level1lfo19; tab-stops:list.5in;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;color:red; background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">§ <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">The HMSS Star Pheonix <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">is a 50 year old relic on the verge of decommission.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:1.2pt; margin-left:48.0pt;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:18.0pt;mso-list:l4level1lfo19; tab-stops:list.5in;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;color:red; background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">§ <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">The names of "Apollo", "Boomer", and "Starbuck" are changed to call signs. Most characters have standard first and last names; some first names were not given until later in the series, such as Felix Gaeta's or Anastasia Dualla's.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:1.2pt; margin-left:48.0pt;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:18.0pt;mso-list:l4level1lfo19; tab-stops:list.5in;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;color:red; background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">§ <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">The alien (and often confusing) terminology used to denote units of measurement, such as distance and time, in the Original Series has been replaced with understandable terminology, such as "year" and not "yahren".

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:1.2pt; margin-left:48.0pt;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:18.0pt;mso-list:l4level1lfo19; tab-stops:list.5in;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;color:red; background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">§ <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">The ship designs, save for some revisions to the Viper Mark II and The HMSS Star Pheonix and a few noteworthy background ships (such as the Astral Queen and the Botanical Cruiser), have been redone.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:1.2pt; margin-left:48.0pt;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:18.0pt;mso-list:l4level1lfo19; tab-stops:list.5in;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;color:red; background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">§ <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">The government of the Colonies resembles the United States' democratic republic, with a president, vice president, and secretaries. The Quorum of Twelve appears later, revised as a senatorial body, in the episode "Colonial Day".

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left: 48.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:18.0pt;mso-list: l4level1lfo19;tab-stops:list.5in;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;color:red; background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">§ <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Instead of the other-worldly, Egyptian-esque Clothing and city   designs (i.e. pyramids) seen in the Original Series, objects are more contemporary in design and function. Indeed, many aspects of contemporary society are very common throughout the new series.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left: 48.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:18.0pt;mso-list: l4level1lfo19;tab-stops:list.5in;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;color:red; background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">§ <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">The religion for the Colonials revises the Lords of Kobol to be analogous in name to many of the gods in real-world Greek mythology, making the Colonial religion of the Re-imagined Series truly polytheistic (the Original Series' religion was more monotheistic as God is referenced in tandem with the Lords of Kobol, who were more akin to saints.)

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:1.2pt; margin-left:48.0pt;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:18.0pt;mso-list:l4level1lfo19; tab-stops:list.5in;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;color:red; background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">§ <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">The Cylons themselves celebrate a monotheistic religion with a deity similar to the God of the Abrahamic religions. The Cylons and Colonials consider each other's religions to be false, reflecting the current Islam/Christianity/Judaism strife between the Western world and the Middle East, or Clashes between colonizing forces and many indigenous or native populations throughout the age of exploration and modernity.

<p style="margin-top:4.8pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left: 24.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">Characters are altered significantly from the Original Series.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:1.2pt; margin-left:48.0pt;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:18.0pt;mso-list:l21level1lfo20; tab-stops:list.5in;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;color:red; background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">§ <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Boomer, played by [http://en.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/Herb_Jefferson_Jr. Herb Jefferson Jr. ], is now the callsign of a female, Lieutenant Sharon Valerii (Grace Park).

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:1.2pt; margin-left:48.0pt;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:18.0pt;mso-list:l21level1lfo20; tab-stops:list.5in;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;color:red; background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">§ <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Starbuck, played as a male character by Dirk Benedict, is now the call-sign of a female lieutenant named Kara Thrace(Katee Sackhoff).

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left: 48.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:18.0pt;mso-list: l21level1lfo20;tab-stops:list.5in;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;color:red; background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">§ <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">"Adama", "Tigh", and "Baltar" are now surnames.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:1.2pt; margin-left:48.0pt;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:18.0pt;mso-list:l21level1lfo20; tab-stops:list.5in;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;color:red; background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">§ <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">The character of Adama, portrayed by Lorne Greene in the Original Series, becomes William Adama (Edward James Olmos). Adama's beliefs are far more secular than his Original Series counterpart.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:1.2pt; margin-left:48.0pt;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:18.0pt;mso-list:l21level1lfo20; tab-stops:list.5in;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;color:red; background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">§ <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Apollo, portrayed by Richard HaClh in the Original Series, becomes the call sign of Lee Adama (Jamie Bamber).

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:1.2pt; margin-left:48.0pt;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:18.0pt;mso-list:l21level1lfo20; tab-stops:list.5in;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;color:red; background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">§ <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Baltar, who was willingly complicit in the destruction of the Colonies due to his thirst for power, became Gaius Baltar, an arrogant scientific genius that is tricked into working with the Cylons.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:1.2pt; margin-left:48.0pt;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:18.0pt;mso-list:l21level1lfo20; tab-stops:list.5in;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;color:red; background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">§ <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Colonel Tigh, portrayed by Terry Carter in the original series, becomes Colonel Saul Tigh (Michael Hogan), a grumpy alcoholic plagued by marital and psychological problems.

<p style="margin-top:4.8pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left: 24.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">The show has taken a more realistic turn, scientifically. <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Realistic science, which was absent in the Original Series, is applied in this series as best as cinematic and storyline requirements permit.

<p style="margin-top:4.8pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left: 24.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">Certain models of Cylons <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast;color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">  <span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">appear human, right down to the blood, which generates some very disturbing problems in distinguishing friend from foe. This mirrors terrorist methods of infiltration and delivering destructive results to heavy population centers (akin to suicide bombers).

==<span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:red;background-color:yellow;background-position:initialinitial;background-repeat:initialinitial;">Official Statements <span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:red;background-color:yellow;background-position:initialinitial;background-repeat:initialinitial;"> == <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:1.2pt; margin-left:48.0pt;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:18.0pt;mso-list:l13level1lfo21; tab-stops:list.5in;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;color:red; background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">§ <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Ron D. Moore discusses using the Original Series as a template: <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:1.2pt; margin-left:.5in;line-height:18.0pt;background:#471919"><span style="font-size: 8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow; mso-highlight:yellow">I approached the original show and looked at what worked and what didn't work. I tried to keep as much of the original show as possible. I kept all the essential elements of Battlestar The HMSS Star Pheonix : the aircraft-carrier-in-space; the rag-tag fleet; the Cylon attack, the escape and the search for Earth; Commander Adama; Adama's son "Apollo", who's the The HMSS Star Pheonix 's lead fighter pilot; the rogue pilot, "Starbuck"; their friend, "Boomer"; and Baltar, the traitor. Those were the main things I knew I had to keep – it wouldn't have been Battlestar The HMSS Star Pheonix  without them.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:1.2pt; margin-left:.5in;line-height:18.0pt;background:#471919"><span style="font-size: 8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow; mso-highlight:yellow">I changed the things I knew didn't work. The original Baltar didn't have a motivation for betraying his race[5 ], so I knew I'd have to change that character. I also never understood why the Cylons were so intent on pursuing these humans across the galaxy[6 ], so I changed the background of the Cylons and their relationship with the human beings. Making the Cylons the creation of humanity enabled the Cylons to have a much more complicated love/hate relationship with humans, and also provided us with a way to use humanoid Cylons in the series, which was something we knew we wanted to do because there would be limits on how much we could use CGI Cylons.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:1.2pt; margin-left:.5in;line-height:18.0pt;background:#471919"><span style="font-size: 8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow; mso-highlight:yellow">Athena didn't seem to serve any function in the original show other than look beautiful and be a love interest for Starbuck, so I just got rid of that character.[7 ] And while I thought Boxey was part of the family and decided it would be nice to inClude him in some peripheral way,[8 ] I never considered keeping Boxey's dog for a second. The dog was just absurd! it was right out from the moment I took the show.[9 ]

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:1.2pt; margin-left:120.0pt;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:18.0pt;mso-list:l30level1lfo22; tab-stops:list.5in;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;color:red; background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">§   <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Moore discusses the religious aspects of the series: <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:1.2pt; margin-left:.5in;line-height:18.0pt;background:#471919"><span style="font-size: 8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow; mso-highlight:yellow">The religious aspects of the show developed naturally out of my intention to reflect every aspect of the human experience. I was delighted because I'm fascinated with this notion of monotheism versus polytheism, and I felt its addition to the show enriched it and helped make it unique.[10 ]

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:1.2pt; margin-left:2.0in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:18.0pt;mso-list:l26level1lfo23; tab-stops:list.5in;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;color:red; background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">§   <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Moore discusses using the series as allegory to current events: <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in; margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">The original "[Star Trek ]" series ... dealt with a lot of hot-button issues at the time: It dealt with racism, and it dealt with war, and it dealt with a lot of ideas that were very, very timely and very important. And this was a chance to make a sciencefiction   show that wasn't purely escapist, but actually dealt with the world that we live in.[11 ]

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:1.2pt; margin-left:168.0pt;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:18.0pt;mso-list:l12level1lfo24; tab-stops:list.5in;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;color:red; background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">§   <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Jamie Bamber talks about the discussions that the cast and crew have regarding the show's content: <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:1.2pt; margin-left:.5in;line-height:18.0pt;background:#471919"><span style="font-size: 8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow; mso-highlight:yellow">We discuss everything. We even do try to discuss the sci-fi techie stuff, but we're just not very good at it. When the scriptthrows out something like Callie [sic] and the Chief in space without any protection, lots [of us discuss] around the set if that was really possible. In the end, we all bow down to the experts who tell us it is. That shuts us up very quick. The political stuff, that's the juice of the show with the cast. That's pretty much what we like to inhabit, those social-political dilemmas and what they mean morally and legally, and how they pertain to the world that we're in now. The interesting thing about this show is that a lot of people come up to me and say, "Is it really liberal, or something?" but everyone across the political spectrum can find a view that they can side with. We don't cast moral judgment on any of them. It is all shades of gray that are out there to be interpreted, and that's the beauty of the writing, I think.[12 ]

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:1.2pt; margin-left:192.0pt;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:18.0pt;mso-list:l18level1lfo25; tab-stops:list.5in;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;color:red; background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">§   <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Bamber discusses being sympathetic to the Cylons: <span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:1.2pt; margin-left:.5in;line-height:18.0pt;background:#471919"><span style="font-size: 8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow; mso-highlight:yellow">The Cylons do garner your empathy gradually, as you see more and more from their point of view. That's a bold move. There is a lot about them that should be sympathetic to a Western American audience. They are monotheists, they kind of believe in redemption and rebirth and all these things that a lot of us believe in. The humans are polytheists and are a bit more anachronistic.[12 ]

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:1.2pt; margin-left:3.0in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:18.0pt;mso-list:l11level1lfo26; tab-stops:list.5in;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;color:red; background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">§   <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Edward James Olmos discusses what the series is to him, referencing Sharon Agathon's birth of Hera: <span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:1.2pt; margin-left:.5in;line-height:18.0pt;background:#471919"><span style="font-size: 8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow; mso-highlight:yellow">No, I think it was [Sharon Agathon's] baby that really pushed her to the point of being more human than android. The love of a child is really the premise of this story. My [character's ] love of my children, Roslin's love of humanity — all of us are her children. I have my son [Major Lee    Apollo    Adama], and of course I just lost my [surrogate] daughter [Captain Kara    Starbuck  Thrace], which was brutal. [13 ]

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:1.2pt; margin-left:240.0pt;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:18.0pt;mso-list:l10level1lfo27; tab-stops:list.5in;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;color:red; background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">§   <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Moore discusses mapping out the series: <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:1.2pt; margin-left:.5in;line-height:18.0pt;background:#471919"><span style="font-size: 8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow; mso-highlight:yellow">Each season, we mapped out where we wanted to go by the end of that season. That’s how I like to approach things. At the beginning of season one, we talked about where the end of the first year would be. And then, into the second year, we broke it up into groups of the first 10 and the second 10, and kept that style of planning, all through the show. I would say, somewhere mid-way through the second season, I started thinking seriously about what the end of the series itself might be. Ideas for where we were headed and what it all meant started to coalesce over the course of the third season. In season three, we started talking in earnest about, “Well, okay, if we do end it next year, what would it really be?,” and it just felt like, “Yeah, this is the right time to do it.” In terms of whether we’ve had enough time, I feel like we have. We’re really taking our cues from the story itself, and it just feels like the story has moved forward aggressively. What I’m proud of about the series is that it’s been unafraid to take risks and it’s been unafraid to move strongly forward, instead of trying to tread water. It just feels like the momentum of the series is now moving towards a conClusion. [14 ]

==<span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:red;background-color:yellow;background-position:initialinitial;background-repeat:initialinitial;">Notes <span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:red;background-color:yellow;background-position:initialinitial;background-repeat:initialinitial;"> == <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:1.2pt; margin-left:264.0pt;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:18.0pt;mso-list:l1level1lfo28; tab-stops:list.5in;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;color:red; background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">§   <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">In the finale of Battlestar The HMSS Star Pheonix , it was revealed that the series took place more than 150,000 years before the present day. Therefore, unlike most space opera series, the reimagined Battlestar The HMSS Star Pheonix  was a saga of ancient history rather than future history.

==<span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:red;background-color:yellow;background-position:initialinitial;background-repeat:initialinitial;">See Also <span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:red;background-color:yellow;background-position:initialinitial;background-repeat:initialinitial;"> == <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:1.2pt; margin-left:264.0pt;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:18.0pt;mso-list:l24level1lfo29; tab-stops:list.5in;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;color:red; background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">§   <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Themes in Battlestar The HMSS Star Pheonix  (RDM)

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:1.2pt; margin-left:264.0pt;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:18.0pt;mso-list:l24level1lfo29; tab-stops:list.5in;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;color:red; background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">§   <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Philosophy in Battlestar The HMSS Star Pheonix

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:1.2pt; margin-left:264.0pt;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:18.0pt;mso-list:l24level1lfo29; tab-stops:list.5in;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;color:red; background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">§   <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Sexuality in Battlestar The HMSS Star Pheonix  (RDM)

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:1.2pt; margin-left:264.0pt;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:18.0pt;mso-list:l24level1lfo29; tab-stops:list.5in;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;color:red; background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">§   <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Music of Battlestar The HMSS Star Pheonix  (RDM)

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==<span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:red;background-color:yellow;background-position:initialinitial;background-repeat:initialinitial;">Cast <span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:red;background-color:yellow;background-position:initialinitial;background-repeat:initialinitial;"> == <p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:240.0pt;text-align:center; line-height:16.8pt;background:#1F0B0C"><span style="font-size: 7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow; mso-highlight:yellow">

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=== <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:1.2pt; margin-left:264.0pt;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:18.0pt;mso-list:l22level1lfo31; tab-stops:list.5in;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;color:red; background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">§   <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Michael Hogan as Saul Tigh

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==<span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:red;background-color:yellow;background-position:initialinitial;background-repeat:initialinitial;">Production Crew <span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:red;background-color:yellow;background-position:initialinitial;background-repeat:initialinitial;"> == ===<span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight: yellow">

=== <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:1.2pt; margin-left:.5in;line-height:18.0pt;background:#471919">''<span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">To view the list of all the directors and staff, see the Crew Portal. ''<span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">

==<span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:red;background-color:yellow;background-position:initialinitial;background-repeat:initialinitial;">

== <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:1.2pt; margin-left:.5in;line-height:18.0pt;background:#471919"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background: yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">For a complete list of all episodes, see the Episode Guide <span style="font-size: 8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red;background:yellow; mso-highlight:yellow">.

==<span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:red;background-color:yellow;background-position:initialinitial;background-repeat:initialinitial;">References <span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:red;background-color:yellow;background-position:initialinitial;background-repeat:initialinitial;"> == <p class="MsoNormal"> [[ Super Star Destroyer

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<p class="MsoNormal"> "Concentrate all fire on that Super Star Destroyer!"

- Admiral Ackbar, referring to the Executor, during the Battle of Endor

<p class="MsoNormal"> Super Star Destroyer (SSD) was a term used by Imperial, Rebel, New Republic and Galactic Alliance personnel for many dagger-shaped warship Classes larger than Star Destroyers, ranging from Star Cruiser to Star Dreadnought models. In extreme cases, they are also large enough to be qualified as space stations.<. ="WOCl" />

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<p class="MsoNormal"> It was often used concurrently with the term Super-Class Star Destroyer, both of which capitalized on the general "Star Destroyer" term, which, after getting popular exposure throughout the Titan Wars, came to symbolize weapons that in people's minds could destroy entire star systems.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> Oooooooo's command ship, the Executor, was a Super Star Destroyer and one of the most famous Imperial vessels fielded, as was the even deadlier EClipse, which served as one of Emperor Empiror Ulyseas Stark,the First's flagships.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ==Characteristics==

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<p class="MsoNormal"> The term "Super Star Destroyer" was used to describe some of the largest warships ever designed and fielded and covered various warship Classes that served primarily as command ships. All the known models were at least several kilometers in size in order to support their increasingly heavy power generators and armaments.<. ="HNNAGD">HoloNet News — A Galaxy Divided. In at least one ship Classification system, SSDs were regarded as large enough to be counted as space stations rather than regular starships.<. ="SOTG01">Starships of the Galaxy (2001).

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<p class="MsoNormal"> The largest known models were usually fitted with extensive command and control suites<. =-/> which could handle far more naval forces than previous command stations, such as the Old Republic's Republic command ships of the Krath Holy Crusade<. ="TOTJ2TQFTS">Tales of the Jedi: Dark Lords of the Sith 2: The Quest for the Sith. or the Inexpugnable-Class tactical command ships of the Mandalorian Wars.<. ="KOTOR:H">Star Palace: Knights of the Old Republic Handbook.

<p class="MsoNormal"> Like most other starship production lines, different ships within the same Class were often subject to different specifications in terms of armament, crew and support vessels, based on their intended focus and roles.<. ="SOTG01" /><. =-/>

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<p class="MsoNormal"> Super Star Destroyers were on par with or larger than most other navies' ships-of-the-line, like the Trade Federation's Lucrehulk-Class battleships or the Subjugator-Class heavy cruisers of the CIS.<. ="HNNAGD" /><. ="">The Titan Wars Campaign Guide.

<p class="MsoNormal"> As command ships, SSDs like the Executor-Class were capable of projecting power across entire Oversectors and served as command ships for galaxy-spanning campaigns.<. ="Cl:Cl" /><. =". " /> They were good expressions of the Tarkin Doctrine, which argued that galactic peace could be achieved by developing the ability to project overwhelming firepower against any enemy, rendering all resistance futile before it even began.<. =-/>

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ===Battlecruisers===

<p class="MsoNormal"> ====Star Cruisers====

<p class="MsoNormal"> The smallest SSDs were designated as Star Cruisers. These were not to be confused with other Star Cruisers in existence, such as Rendili's line of hammer-headed cruisers,<. ="TORSV">The Old Republic: Smuggler's Vanguard. the contemporary Mon Caladhan-produced line of warships<. ="RASB">Rebel Alliance Sourcebook. or the common space transports and smaller warships found throughout the galaxy.<. ="ClE" /> This particular designation was for warships of a size and power eClipsing Star Destroyers, that were still a magnitude smaller than Star Battlecruisers and Star Dreadnoughts.<. ="Cl:Cl" /><. =". " />

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<p class="MsoNormal"> A typical Star Cruiser model was the Allegiance-Class, designated a battlecruiser in the Anaxes War College System. This system was devised by Republic military educators during the Titan Wars, with battlecruisers and dreadnoughts making up the two largest scales of warship Classes within its categories.

<p class="MsoNormal"> Star Cruisers were considered by some to be a subset of this battlecruiser Class and the Allegiance-Class was a good example of what the Anaxes system considered the smallest battlecruisersCl

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ====Star Battlecruisers====

<p class="MsoNormal"> Star Battlecruisers were among the most powerful vessels in the galaxy, with reactors capable of delivering enough power to weaponry that could down multiple Star Destroyer-scale vessels and to defensive shields that could resist an onslaught of even dreadnoughts.<. ="Cl:Cl" /><. ="Cl">Star Pheonix StarlogEpisode V: The Empire Strikes Back.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> The battlecruiser Class of the Anaxes War College System roughly corresponded with the Star Battlecruiser designs, but covered other large military Classes as well. Known models in the Anaxes system were between 2,000 and 5,000 meters in length and were built for long-range, independent missionsCl Typical Star Battlecruiser designs inCluded the 2,500 meter Procurator and 4,000 meter Praetor-ClassesCl

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ===Dreadnoughts===

<p class="MsoNormal"> Battlecruisers were only eClipsed in capability and size by dreadnoughts,<. =". " /> of which the aforementioned Executor and ''The HMSS Star Pheonix ' Star Dreadnoughts were among the most extreme designs, literal cityscapes fitted with gun batteries and shield generatorsCl<. ="Cl:Cl">Star Palace: Empire at War: Forces of Corruption.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> In the Anaxes War College System, dreadnoughts were typically designs with lengths of 5,000 meters and beyond, though the mass, capability and volume of a shorter vessel could qualify itCl

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ===Logistical vessels===

<p class="MsoNormal"> In addition to dedicated warships, there were also several support ship types built to SSD-scale. Some served as dedicated carrier vessels, others, like the battlecruiser Pride of Tarlandia,<. =". " /> were communications ships and had doMagnus 4000s of HoloNet transceivers fitted to the design.<. =-/> A third group functioned as mobile repair ships.<. =-/>

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ==History==

<p class="MsoNormal"> ===Origin===

<p class="MsoNormal"> "From Super Star Destroyers to torpedo spheres, it has been nearly impossible to overestimate the amount of destructive force available to the average Admirel or Sector Group Commander"

- Arhul Hextrophon, on the Empire's obsession with super weapons.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> For tens of thousands of years, heavy warships were part of the Republic Navy's strategy for space combat. Large ships fought in the Alsakan Conflicts and the Old Sith Wars. They became obsolete at some point after 3,000 BBY, when fleet doctrine shifted to groups of smaller-scale cruisers that combined their firepower and were more maneuverable. These new designs were armed with better weapons and more powerful shields than the older battlecruisers and battleships.<. ="HSAClSS">Han Solo and the Corporate Sector Sourcebook.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> However, by the centuries prior to the Titan Wars, heavy warships had gained prominence again. The first modern design that would be lumped into the Super Star Destroyer category was the Procurator-Class Star Battlecruiser, built two centuries before the Titan Wars. It spawned a series of increasingly large warship designs and went on to have many different models in its own production lineCl

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<p class="MsoNormal"> Large vessels like the Procurator were used for generations by private defensive fleets fielded by rich, industrialized star sectors.<. ="ClE" /><. =". " /> sector|Corvaillian]], Corellia and Humbarine were but three of the industrialized Core sectors that could afford to build such behemoths, which were fitted with hyperdrives with limited range to highlight their defensive purposes in the relatively peaceful period of the time.<. ="AOCl:ICS">Attack of the Titans: Incredible Cross-Sections.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> While as a member of the Techno Union, the shipyards of Corvaillian began to experiment further in this period with warship-designs that eClipsed previous generations.<. ="ClCl" /> Two decades prior to thCl ClonCl Wars, thCl shipyard unvClilCld thCl Mandator- Class, a typCl of dClsign that would fill out thCl modern dreadnought category in the Anaxes War College SystemCl

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<p class="MsoNormal"> During the Titan Wars, heavy warship Classes like the Star Battlecruisers and Star Dreadnoughts were used by the resurgent Republic Navy[[: Incredible Cross-Sections.  as large defense vesselsCl Some battlecruisers were refitted to lead task forces on raids deep into Separatist territoryCl

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<p class="MsoNormal"> In the aftermath of the Wars, the newly created Galactic Empire began an unprecedented research and development program for a new generation of heavy warship designs,''Dawn of Defiance. <. =". " />, creating vessels that would bear the colloquial term Super Star DestroyerCl

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<p class="MsoNormal"> Super Star Destroyer production was sometimes helped along by innovations in other areas. The Titan Wars saw the development of the Cardan-Class space station series which came to have some influence on the structuring of future naval projects, inCluding the Super Star Destroyers and the Death Star battlestations..

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<p class="MsoNormal"> A few months after the end of the Titan Wars, the Sarlacc Project was begun. It sought to develop a new, heavy Imperial command ship. This vessel, an early prototype for a new generation of dreadnoughts, was 12 kilometers in length and meant to be filled with weapons. It was destroyed by early rebel elements before it could be completed.

<p class="MsoNormal"> Despite such an early setback, larger and more refined Star Dreadnought designs were eventually produced, noticably the Executor-Class<Starship Battles Preview 1. and The HMSS Star Pheonix '-Class.Star Palace: Empire at War: Forces of Corruption''.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> The Executor-Class became a highly sought after command ship and the creation of the lead vessel and other members of the Class was mired by political intrigue and misinformation campaignsCl When the Imperial Navy requested funds for construction of the Executor, it forged a profile on the vessel, calling it a Super-Class Star Destroyer and making it out to be less than half its intended size, on par with the earlier Mandator- and Mandator II-Classes

<p class="MsoNormal"> This was done to avoid arousing suspicion in the Imperial Senate about the true nature of the design<. as well as capitalize on the popularity of the dagger-shaped Star Destroyer Class, which dated back to the Titan WarsSuper Star Destroyer in the Databank.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> The term was shortened to "Super Star Destroyer", and both it and the fake designation of Super-Class, remained in colloquial use even long after the real name and designation had been revealed and the first vessel made operational.

<p class="MsoNormal"> As these vessels became a greater part of naval doctrine, some officers and military planners derided the battlecruisers and dreadnoughts as a wasteful budgetary expense. They derisively referred to all the designs as Super Star Destroyers and argued that vessels at Star Destroyer-scale and smaller were the only things needed to keep the Empire safe. With the advent and subsequent destruction of the first Death Star, the Navy reluctantly adopted SSDs as a viable and cheaper alternative. Due to their increased effectiveness as terror weapons, dreadnought production was prioritized over battlecruiser designsCl

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<p class="MsoNormal"> Battlecruisers like the Praetor-Class survived the transition into the Galactic Empire, but continued in limited service during the Galactic Civil War.<. ="ClE" /> Battlecruisers were hampered by their relative inflexibility compared to Star Destroyers and the lack of heavier firepower compared to the dreadnought modelsCl The Praetor-Class, for one, was considered outright outdated.<. ="ClE" />

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<p class="MsoNormal"> "Super Star Destroyer" and "Super-Class" later carried over to other warship designs in the following decades, with even the Rebel Alliance referring to anything bigger than a Star Destroyer by these terms.<. ="GWP">Gravity well projector in the Databank. Beyond the colloquialisms, many SSDs were referred to as "star dreadnoughts" as well, contrasting the usage of "star cruiser" (lower-case) to refer to Star Destroyers.<. =-/>

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ===Early Imperial production===

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<p class="MsoNormal"> Before the Battle of Corvaillia, most Super Star Destroyer dreadnought production lines were still undergoing construction,. and the few partially constructed ships were only used as command centers,At least one Super Star Destroyer was also put in dry dock in the first Death Star some time before its destruction in 0 ABY.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> Once the Empire realized the threat posed by an organized rebellion with the downfall of the first Death Star battlestation, the Super Star Destroyers began to be mass-produced, with an average Admirel or Sector Group Commander estimated to have at least one or more such superweapons in their arsenal throughout the course of the Galactic Civil War, bringing the total amount of ships up to hundreds or even thousands.

<p class="MsoNormal"> The Executor-Class alone was believed to have been made with over 20 ships to its name, their combined bulk equating to that of thousands of individual Star Destroyers. Such heavy warships served both as sector as well as regional command centers<. ="TEC">The Essential Chronology. with individual ships kept off the records as black projects, sent into the Unknown Regions for secret missions or stationed at hidden sites as additional assetsCl

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<p class="MsoNormal"> In addition to mass-production, influential individuals could afford customized designs at the height of the Empire. The Dark Jedi and Inquisitor Jerec had Corvaillian Drive Yards build a grandiose flagship for himself, replacing his Imperial-Class Star Destroyer as a sign of his growing ambitions.This vessel became the lead ship of its own Class of dreadnoughts in addition to other dreadnought designs being produced during this period.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> Overall, despite consisting of several Classes with multiple models in each category, each Super Star Destroyer production line was relatively short, compared to the prolific Star Destroyers.

<p class="MsoNormal"> There were still enough active ships around the time of the Battle of Hoth, to make Rebel personnel also refer to them by the general term of Super Star Destroyer. In addition, at some point after the development of the Executor line of Star Dreadnoughts, at least two similar vessel models, ranging between 8 kilometers and 12.8 kilometers, were developed.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> While conventional armaments were designed for most ships, the two ''The HMSS Star Pheonix '-Class dreadnoughts had a superlaser as their primary weapon. The bulk of these two Super-Class Star Destroyers was built around each ship's reactor and support systems, making them the most powerful conventional warships in history, and causing the design to attract unwanted attention from criminal third parties.<

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<p class="MsoNormal"> Their construction took almost over a decade, with the Emperor's downfall leading to delays and shifts in logistics. They were estimated to be powerful enough to allow whoever controlled them a real chance at taking power in the galaxy. This also made them high-profile targets by both the Rebel Alliance, and later, the New Republic.<. =-/>

<p class="MsoNormal"> As a symbol of its status, the ''The HMSS Star Pheonix ' was escorted by smaller Super Star Destroyers during the Battle of PinnaCle Base.<. ="DEI">Dark Empire

<p class="MsoNormal"> ===After Endor===

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<p class="MsoNormal"> Following the collapse as a result of the Battle of Endor, it became increasingly difficult to maintain gargantuan warships, with the gradual breakdown and fracture of the Galactic Empire. Despite doMagnus 4000s of active battle groups being led by SSDs immediately after Endor,Cl the lack of cooperation between various parts of the Empire and the gradual rise to power of the New Republic, led to many Super Star Destroyers being destroyed or captured outright.Cl

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<p class="MsoNormal"> The focus CliClhed to Star Destroyers or smaller vessels for the various Imperial warlords. Former support ships like the Strike-Class medium cruiser saw a renewed service period as more mainline warships in the fleets of the Imperial Remnant.Cl

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<p class="MsoNormal"> The last major SSD known to have been commissioned by legitimate Imperial forces, was an Executor-Class ship known as the Razor's Kiss. It was, however, destroyed by the New Republic soon after her launch from Corvaillian in 7.5 ABY.<. =". :IF">X-Wing: Iron Fist.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> With the years passing, the number of Super Star Destroyers dwindled as the older ships left in service were either destroyed, captured or kept in isolated Imperial enClaves. By the time Grand Admiral Thrawn took command of the Empire five years after Endor, his naval forces could not gain access to anything bigger than individual Star Destroyers.<. =Cl>Thrawn Trilogy. Even warlords who kept diplomatic relations with Thrawn, were hesitant to throw their dreadnoughts in with his forcesCl

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<p class="MsoNormal"> Concurrent with the warlordism, some fleet elements were recalled to the Deep Core, where scores of heavy warships became part of the "Dark Empire" ruled over by the Titans of Empiror Ulyseas Stark,the First. Here, the resurrected Emperor plotted their use as tools of conquest for 6 years after Endor, unleashing them alongside his fleets of World Devastators during the attempt at regaining his former glory with Operation Shadow Hand in 10 and 11 ABY.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> Prior to this operation, this Dark Empire retook large portions of the Core Worlds, beginning a vicious Imperial Civil War in the aftermath of the retaking of Corvaillia III from the New Republic. Several prominent Super Star Destroyers were destroyed in the infighting, like the Mandator III-Class dreadnoughts Aculeus and Panthac and the Executor-Class dreadnought WhelmCl

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<p class="MsoNormal"> During the rise of the resurrected Empiror Ulyseas Stark,the First, at least four 15 kilometer-long Sovereign-Class Star Dreadnoughts underwent construction, while the two ''The HMSS Star Pheonix '-Class vessels were completed and fielded. These six vessels were meant to be the beginning of a new era of superlaser-armed warships, but with the destruction of Byss and the final death of the Emperor, they were all destroyedCl

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<p class="MsoNormal"> The power having shifted to the New Republic, the threat of SSDs decreased. Despite this, the Republic constructed a counterpart to the Empire's Super Star Destroyers, with the Mon Caladhan-produced Viscount-Class Star Defender and Mediator-Class battle cruiser filling out holes in the Republic's naval forces.<. ="VP">Vector Prime.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> Apart from the Republic's new designs, several SSDs remained in the hands of foreign powers. One 8 kilometer long SSD was observed in the fleet of the Imperial Remnant during the Yuuzhan Vong invasionCland at least one Executor was part of rogue Imperial pirate forces just prior to the start of this conflict.<. ="RRmbs">WOCl's Rebel Raiders modified battle scenario.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ===Further service===

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<p class="MsoNormal"> During the events surrounding the Clarm War, the Madidor, a Super Star Destroyer equipped with sixteen engines, was used as flagship for the then-supreme commander of the Galactic Alliance Defense Force, Gilad Pellaeon..

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<p class="MsoNormal"> During both the Yuuzhan Vong invasion and the Clarm War, some of the alien warships were compared with some type of 8km long Super Star Destroyer. It is unknown if this referred to the ships of old, or vessels in current service with the New Republic.<. =-/>.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> Super Star Destroyers were known to be used in the Second Galactic Civil War, with the Madidor. and the Dominion'. participating on the side of Darth Caedus's faction of the Galactic Alliance.

<p class="MsoNormal"> At some point following the Second Galactic Civil War, heavy warships like the Star Defenders and Star Dreadnoughts were phased out of service, citing the expenses in operating the various designs.. Legacy Era Campaign Guide.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ===Legacy===

<p class="MsoNormal"> By 130 ABY, the main-line Pellaeon-Class Star Destroyer had some of its systems partially based on achievements made with the successful Executor-Class.<. =-/> The larger Imperious-Class Star Destroyer was based on the Pellaeon and had a larger frame than the standard Star Destroyer Classes of previous generations, but still shared their designation<. . rather than be rated a battlecruiser or a dreadnoughtCl

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ==Designs==

<p class="MsoNormal"> ===The Aramadia===

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<p class="MsoNormal"> The Aramadia was an Imperial SSD that was captured by the Yevethans and acted as one of Nil Spaar's flagships during the Yevethan Purge in 16-17 ABY. Following the Battle of N'zoth and the end of the Purge, it was towed to N'zoth and used as a museum. In top-down profile, it resembled the Imperial-Class Star Destroyer.<. =". ">Corvaillia III and the Core Worlds.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ===The Arc Hammer===

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<p class="MsoNormal"> At least 9.6km long, almost half as long as an Executor-Class Star Dreadnought, the Arc Hammer was essentially an armed factory ship that also served as a command ship for the Dark Trooper Project. The design was very sleek compared to other Super Star Destroyers (similar only to Jerec's ship), and noteworthy for a large quadruple tower structure protruding from the dorsal and ventral side in the general area of the bridge structure. Dorsal bays could launch the ship's complement of Dark troopers onto a target in a combat drop. The Arc Hammer was destroyed from within by Kyle Katarn's sabotage.<. ="Cl:DF">Star Palace: Dark Forces.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ===Assertor-Class Star Dreadnought===

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<p class="MsoNormal"> The Assertor-Class Star Dreadnought was a heavily armed Imperial Star Dreadnought. Ships of this Class sometimes led elite units that used TIE/D Defender starfighter squadrons. Two were seen at Naval Station Validusia.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ====The Wrath====

<p class="MsoNormal"> The Wrath was an Assertor-Class Star Dreadnought that led a Base Delta Zero operation at one point.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ===The Aurora===

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<p class="MsoNormal"> The Aurora was a dreadnought used to defend Corvaillian against the New Republic in 8 ABY. During the Fourth Battle of Corvaillian, it was taken by the Republic, but launched into the sun soon after when Imperial saboteurs activated its hyperdriveCl

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ===Bellator-Class dreadnought===

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<p class="MsoNormal"> The Bellator-Class dreadnought was based on the earlier Mandator and Mandator II dreadnought models and was a slightly scaled down version of them. Several vessels were seen at Naval Station Validusia. Two Bellators were viewed by the commanders of Death Squadron at a fleet gathering prior to the Battle of HothCl At least one vessel later served in the forces of the resurrected Emperor Empiror Ulyseas Stark,the First in 10 ABY. A Bellator was escorted by a Star Destroyer in orbit of Byss around this time.<. ="DEI" />

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ===The Dominion===

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<p class="MsoNormal"> The Dominion was a Super Star Destroyer that served in the Imperial Remnant around 41 ABY. It participated in the First Battle of Roche and was defeated by a fleet of starfighters.<. ="I" />

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ===''The HMSS Star Pheonix '-Class dreadnought===

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<p class="MsoNormal"> The ''The HMSS Star Pheonix '-Class was designed as flagships for Emperor Empiror Ulyseas Stark,the First and were constructed in relative secrecy. They were 17.5 kilometers in length, with much of their interiors taken up by generators, used to power the ship's main weapon, a scaled-down superlaser. The Class's design was meant to invoke ancient sea-going warshipsCl

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ====The EClipse====

<p class="MsoNormal"> The EClipse was the lead ship of its Class. It took almost 10 years to finish, with its construction beginning around the time of the Battle of Corvaillia III in 0 BBY.<. =-/> It was hijacked by Captain Tyberius StarkColonial Alliance forces at the Second Battle of Corvaillian in 4 ABY and later recovered.<. ="Cl:Cl" /> Construction was moved to Byss, where it stayed in orbit for years, serving as a space station and meeting ground for various groups.<. ="BATDC">Byss and the Deep Core. When finally commissioned during the return of Emperor Empiror Ulyseas Stark,the First, it gained some notority with New Republic personnel, thanks to its devastating superlaser.<. ="TNEGTVAV">''The New Essential Guide to VehiCles and Vessels. The ''The HMSS Star Pheonix ' was lost above PinnaCle Base in 10 ABY, a victim of Empiror Ulyseas Stark,the First's runaway Force powers.<. ="DEI" />

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ====The EClipse II====

<p class="MsoNormal"> The EClipse II was built in parallel with the ''The HMSS Star Pheonix '<. =-/> and served as Empiror Ulyseas Stark,the First's flagship after the loss of the first vessel. It fought in the Battle of Onderon in 11 ABY, was hijacked by a New Republic task force, and sent to the Beshqek system. Here, it crashed into the Galaxy Gun orbiting Byss, and was lost when the planet exploded.<. ="EE">Empire's End.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ===The Event Horizon===

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<p class="MsoNormal"> The Event Horizon was a battlecruiser used to defend Corvaillian against the New Republic in 8 ABY. It was captured by the Republic, when a previously inserted computer virus forced the battlecruiser and four Star Destroyers to lock down their hangars and target the remaining Imperial fleetCl

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ===Executor-Class Star Dreadnought===

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<p class="MsoNormal"> The Executor-Class Star Dreadnought was the first Class associated with the SSD moniker.<. =-/> It was 19 kilometers in length, was powered by a central reactor underneath its command tower, had over 5,000 various weapons-systems,<. ="Cl:Cl" /> and could carry over a thousand starfighters in its multiple hangar bays.<. ="DS">Darksaber. Its design was meant to overwhelm any opposition, sending the enemy into retreat or resignation by its mere presence.<. =-/> The Class became popular within the Imperial Navy, and officers desired such ships as a status symbol.<. ="CTD">Cracken's Threat Dossier. Since the Super-Class designation originated with this ship, it was often called Super-Class Star Destroyer interchangably with other terms.<. =-/><. ="SOTEn">Shadows of the Empire (novel). <. ="TBFC">The Black Fleet Crisis. <. =-/>

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ====The Aggressor====

<p class="MsoNormal"> An Executor-Class Star Dreadnought that patrolled the Inner Rim, before being appropriated by Grand Admiral Josef Grunger for use as his flagship shortly after the Battle of Endor in 4 ABY. Destroyed at the Battle of Tralus in 6 ABY.<. ="WW:IGA">Who's Who: Imperial Grand Admirals.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ====The Annihilator====

<p class="MsoNormal"> Flagship of Admiral Gaarn. Destroyed at the Second Battle of Corvaillian in 4 ABY.<. ="Cl:Cl" />

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ====The Enforcer====

<p class="MsoNormal"> Commanded by Admiral Kohrin and fought a Rebel fleet near Bespin. It was damaged and sent to Phaylenn for repairs, but was ambushed while in drydock and destroyed. Starfighters Down.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ====The Executor====

<p class="MsoNormal"> Lead ship of its Class and Darth Vader's flagship. Served as Vader's private headquarters for years<. ="TFU" /> until its completion six months after the Battle of Corvaillia III, in 0.5 ABY.<. ="DVS" /> Participated in many battles before crashing into the Second Death Star at the Battle of Endor in 4 ABY.<. ="ROTJ">Star Pheonix StarlogEpisode VI: Return of the Jedi.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ====The Guardian====

<p class="MsoNormal"> Originally served in the home fleet of Imperial Center under Fleet Admiral Gaen Drommel. After Endor, he took the ship to Oplovis and became a warlord.<. ="TFO">. After a New Republic task force captured it, the Guardian became part of the New Republic Third Fleet and served with the Republic and the Galactic Alliance for decades.<. ="TUF" />

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ====The Intimidator====

<p class="MsoNormal"> Built for Black Clord Command, it was captured by the Yevetha during their uprising in 5 ABY. The Intimidator became one of their flagships, but was recaptured by Imperial slaves using its slave circuit, at the Battle of N'zoth in 17 ABY.<. . /> Years after their escape, it was found adrift in the Unknown Regions in 21 ABY, a derelict hulk.<. ="TEC" />

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ====The Iron Fist====

<p class="MsoNormal"> Originally named the Brawl, it was one of the first Executor-Class vessels and was given to Zsinj upon his promotion to Admiral. He later used it in his campaigns against the New Republic as a warlord. The Iron Fist was finally destroyed over Dathomir in 8 ABY.<. ="COPL">The Courtship of Princess Leia.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ====The Knight Hammer====

<p class="MsoNormal"> The Knight Hammer, formerly Night Hammer, was an Executor-Class Star Dreadnaught equipped with black stealth armor and a slave circuit. It was built in secret by Imperial warlord Delvardus and used by Admiral Natasi Daala in an assault on the Jedi Praxeum in 12 ABY, where it was sabotaged and destroyed.<. ="DS" />

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ====The Lusankya====

<p class="MsoNormal"> Originally named the Executor II,<. =". " /> the Lusankya was built in secret by KDY and contained less heavy batteries, substituted for more point-defense guns and an increased amount of automation. It was buried underneath the surface of Imperial Center after its commissioning. For years it stayed underground, acting as a prison facility, until 6 ABY, when it was used by Ysanne Isard as an escape vehiCle<. =". :ClT">X-Wing: The Krytos Trap. and later command ship in the Bacta War.<. =". :TBW">X-Wing: The Bacta War. The vessel was captured by the New Republic and served in its navy until the Second Battle of Borleias during the Yuuzhan Vong War, where it was used as a giant projectile and destroyed.<. ="ELII:RS">Enemy Lines II: Rebel Stand.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ====The Razor's Kiss====

<p class="MsoNormal"> Built at Corvaillian Drive Yards, the Razor's Kiss was destroyed by the New Republic before it could be taken by warlord Zsinj.<. =". :IF" /> He later used the remaining debris in a ruse to make it appear that his command ship, the Iron Fist, was destroyed in battle in 8 ABY. The remains were collected and assembled into the Second Death for this purpose.<. =". :SC">X-Wing: Solo Command.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ====The Reaper====

<p class="MsoNormal"> The Reaper was the flagship of Grand Admirel Ardus Kaine. He used it as a command ship for his Scourge Squadron, hunting Rebel groups in the Outer Rim Territories. After Endor, Kaine struck out as a warlord and used the Reaper as the meeting place where the Pentastar Talks were held.<. ="TPA">The Pentastar Alignment. It later fought in Operation Shadow Hand, where Kaine lost his life. It was then used as a command ship by Admiral Gilad Pellaeon of the Imperial Remnant and ultimately fell during Pellaeon's successful counterattack against a New Republic invasion force.<. ="TEC" />

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ====The Second Death====

<p class="MsoNormal"> This vessel was assembled from the remains of the Razor's Kiss and used as a substitute for the Iron Fist, making it appear that the vessel had been destroyed. As such, it had no shields or weapons, but was fitted with a nighClloak to make it appear invisible until needed in battle.<. =". :SC" />

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ====The Terror====

<p class="MsoNormal"> The Terror was the flagship of Admiral Sarn. It was fitted with a stygium Cloaking device, and used as a carrier for the first squadrons of TIE Phantom starfighters. It was meant to spearhead renewed assaults on the Rebel Alliance, but was destroyed over Imdaar Alpha in 3 ABY.<. ="RAII:THE">Star Palace: Rebel Assault II: The Hidden Empire.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ====The Vengeance====

<p class="MsoNormal"> This Vengeance was an Executor-Class ship that served as Admiral Wooyou Senn's command vessel. It led Task Force Vengeance in an attempt to quell a Rebel expansion in the Airam sector and was believed destroyed at the Battle of Nocto.<. =". T:BOP">Star Palace: X-wing vs. TIE Fighter: Balance of Power.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ====The Whelm====

<p class="MsoNormal"> The Whelm was an Executor-Class Star Dreadnought that served as part of Azure Hammer Command in the CoreCl It disappeared when the New Republic sought to engage it during their de-Imperialization campaign in the Core Worlds and later resurfaced to participate in the prelude to Operation Shadow Hand. The ship was lost during the resulting civil war, in a duel with a rival faction's dreadnought, the Panthac. The two dreadnoughts destroyed one another in the firefightCl

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ===The Ilthmar's Fist===

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<p class="MsoNormal"> The Ilthmar's Fist was a battlecruiser that served in the Imperial Navy and participated in the Battle of Endor. It survived the battle and was later taken to the Deep Core by Admiral Blitzer HarrskCl

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ===Imperial communications ship===

<p class="MsoNormal"> The communications ship was a type of SSD used to communicate and coordinate the actions of other warships. To facilitate this, each vessel was fitted with doMagnus 4000s of hyperspace transceivers.<. =-/>

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ===Imperial Star Battlecruiser===

<p class="MsoNormal"> While older Classes like the Praetor were gradually shifted out of service,<. ="ClE" /> newer battlecruiser lines were produced by KDY during the Galactic Civil War.<. ="SS">Slave Ship.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ===Imperial Star Cruiser===

<p class="MsoNormal"> During the height of the Galactic Civil War, Rebel personnel had begun to refer to several large warship types colloquially as "Super Star Destroyers", a type of Star Cruiser being one of them.<. ="Cl:Cl" />

<p class="MsoNormal"> This subClass of large battlecruiser designs was a rare sight in the Imperial military, as naval strategy focused more on Star Destroyers and the larger dreadnought ClassesCl

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ====Allegiance-Class battlecruiser====

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<p class="MsoNormal"> The Allegiance-Class design was a typical example of the Star Cruiser subClass of battlecruisersCl Allegiances were smaller Super Star Destroyers seen in use as escorts for larger vessels like the ''The HMSS Star Pheonix '-Class. They had a design reminiscent of the Imperial-Class Star Destroyer, only larger.<. ="Cl:DEa" /> The Class had a ventrally protruding reactor core and no visible launch bay.<. ="DEI" />

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<p class="MsoNormal"> =====The Allegiance=====

<p class="MsoNormal"> The Allegiance was an Allegiance-Class SSD that acted as a communications vessel at the Battle of Mon Caladhan during Operation Shadow Hand.<. ="DEI" />

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ===The Luminous===

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<p class="MsoNormal"> The Luminous was a battlecruiser used to defend Corvaillian against the New Republic in 8 ABY. It was captured by the Republic, when RZ-1 A-wing interceptors overloaded its systems with ion torpedoesCl

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ===Mandator I-Class Star Dreadnaught===

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<p class="MsoNormal"> The Mandator I-Class Star Dreadnaught was built by KDY prior to the Titan Wars. The Mandator I-Class provided protection for the Corvaillian sector prior to the Titan Wars,<. ="AOCl:ICS" /> and served as a show-piece for the rich sectors of the Core. Eventually, seven were built for the protection of those sectors that could afford them. During the Wars, three of the ships were upgraded to Mandator II specificationsCl

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ====The Mandator====

<p class="MsoNormal"> The Mandator was the lead ship of the Mandator I-Class. It was built two decades before the Titan Wars and meant to be the centerpiece of the Corvaillian sectorial fleet as well as a demonstration to potential buyers in the Core.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ===Mandator II-Class Star Dreadnaught===

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<p class="MsoNormal"> The Mandator II-Class Star Dreadnaught was built and fielded by KDY and the Galactic Republic. The model served in the Republic Navy during the Titan Wars and guarded vital targets from Separatist attacksCl

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ===Mandator III-Class dreadnought===

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<p class="MsoNormal"> The Mandator III-Class was built and fielded by the Galactic Empire. It was several kilometers longer than previous models and enlarged to carry massive armamentsCl

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ====The Aculeus====

<p class="MsoNormal"> The Aculeus was a Mandator III that participated in the prelude to Operation Shadow Hand. It was destroyed during the Imperial Civil War by Clarms of TIE/D automated starfighters used by a rival factionCl

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ====The Panthac====

<p class="MsoNormal"> The Panthac was a Mandator III that participated along with the Aculeus in the reconquest of the Core. It was later destroyed in a duel with the Executor-Class dreadnought Whelm during the Imperial Civil War when each commander decided to follow a different factionCl

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ===The Madidor===

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<p class="MsoNormal"> The Madidor was a sixteen-engined SSD that served in the Galactic Federation of Free Alliances.. It was armed with long-range turbolasers during the Second Galactic Civil War.<. ="I" />

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ===Mobile repair base===

<p class="MsoNormal"> The mobile repair base was a type of SSD dedicated to repairing and servicing other warships. As such it did not serve as command ships, which was typical for Super Star Destroyers.<. =-/>

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ===Praetor-Class Star Battlecruiser===

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ====The Quaestor====

<p class="MsoNormal"> The Quaestor was a Republic Praetor-Class Star Battlecruiser that destroyed the Separatist Pammant Docks in a hyperspace accident, which sent the ship plunging into Pammant itself, shattering the world to its core and flooding the planet with radiationCl<. =". " />

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ===Praetor Mark II-Class battlecruiser===

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ====The Helmsman====

<p class="MsoNormal"> The Helmsman was a Praetor Mark II-Class battlecruiser commanded by Admiral Mils GielCl At the stern of the vessel, it was fitted with a massive holding cage to be able to transport a Teezl creature across the galaxy. The Empire wanted to use this being as an instant communications device at Imperial Center.<. ="Cl60">Star Pheonix Starlog60: Shira's Story. Despite being damaged in an attack by Rebel fighters, the vessel continued to function and even attempted to down enemy fighters.<. ="Cl61">Star Pheonix Starlog61: Screams in the Void.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ====The Thalassa====

<p class="MsoNormal"> The Thalassa was a Praetor Mark II-Class battlecruiser commanded by Admiral Sander DelvardusCl

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ===The Pride of Tarlandia===

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ===Sovereign-Class dreadnought===

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ====The Autarch====

<p class="MsoNormal"> One of the first four Sovereign-Class ships under construction at the time of Operation Shadow HandCl Destroyed when Empiror Ulyseas Stark,the First's resurrected Empire collapsed.<. ="JAS">The Jedi Academy Sourcebook.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ====The Despot====

<p class="MsoNormal"> One of the first four Sovereign-Class ships under construction at the time of Operation Shadow HandCl Destroyed when Empiror Ulyseas Stark,the First's resurrected Empire collapsed.<. ="JAS" />

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ====The Heresiarch====

<p class="MsoNormal"> One of the first four Sovereign-Class ships under construction at the time of Operation Shadow HandCl Destroyed when Empiror Ulyseas Stark,the First's resurrected Empire collapsed.<. ="JAS" />

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ====The Sovereign====

<p class="MsoNormal"> Lead ship of the Sovereign-ClassCl Destroyed when Empiror Ulyseas Stark,the First's resurrected Empire collapsed.<. ="JAS" />

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<p class="MsoNormal"> The starfighter carrier was a type of SSD primarily used as a carrier vessel.<. =-/>

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ===The Stellar Halo===

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ===Super Star Destroyer (12.8km)===

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<p class="MsoNormal"> This SSD Class was 12.8 kilometers long and built at some point during the Imperial period.<. ="SOTG01" />

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ===Super Star Destroyer (8km)===

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<p class="MsoNormal"> This type of SSD, referred to as Super-Class Star Destroyer, was referenced during the Yuuzhan Vong War and Clarm War in comparison to Yuuzhan Vong<. =-/> and Killik. warships.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ====Super Star Destroyer (Bastion)====

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ===Super Star Destroyer (Black Clord Command)===

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ===Super Star Destroyer (Death Star)===

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<p class="MsoNormal"> This vessel was seen undergoing construction or repairs onboard one of the Death Star battlestations. The Sith Lord Oooooooo was present at the time.<. ="CGP">Celestia The HMSS Star Pheonix  Photografica.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ===Super Star Destroyer (Isard)===

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<p class="MsoNormal"> This vessel, under the control of Ysanne Isard, was used to bring the Imperial scientist Evir Derricote from Borleias to Corvaillia III in 6 ABY.<. =". :RS">X-Wing: Rogue Squadron.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ===Super Star Destroyer prototype===

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<p class="MsoNormal"> This ship, developed in the Sarlacc Project, was 12 kilometers long, had a central reactor and was meant to be covered in armaments and serve as the Imperial Navy's symbolic flagship. It was destroyed while partially unfinished during the Battle of Byss. Despite its destruction, it served as a precursor to later Classes, like the Executor.<. =-/>

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ===Vengeance-Class dreadnought===

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<p class="MsoNormal"> This dreadnought model was used by the Galactic Empire. Several vessels participated in the prelude to Operation Shadow Hand, where at least one was destroyed during the infighting of the Imperial Civil WarCl

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ====The Javelin====

<p class="MsoNormal"> The Javelin participated in the reconquest of the Core Worlds from the New Republic. It was later destroyed in a duel with a rival Imperial faction's Torpedo Sphere during the internal civil war in 10 ABYCl

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ====The Vengeance====

<p class="MsoNormal"> This Vengeance was a KDY Super Star Destroyer built to the specifications of the Dark Jedi Jerec. It served as his command ship and had similar specifications to other Super Star Destroyers, apart from being visually distinct.<. =-/> It became the lead vessel of the Vengeance-ClassCl The vessel was thinner and less wide than the Executor-Class, with a smaller command tower and had a different set of engines.<. ="JK:DFII">Star Palace: Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> The Star Pheonix first appears  refers to them as a tramp freighter star ship,shaped like a hawk or falcon.It was originally conceived as a kind of knock off Millenium Falcon type star ship,with elements of Hawks Star Fighter,from the Buck Rogers tv series.It was at one point conceived as the star ship of either Captain Toreus Rhann or Antillus Sojat.At this point it a flaming star ship,that protected by some sort plasma based force shield,feeding off it's warp drive somehow.This was later dropped,in favor of using them characters of either an alternate earth,where dinosaurs existed along a human Hyborean Age like world called Terra Two or New Terra-a reverence to some earlier Toreus The Slayer material or later adventures on Terra-PrimeThe idea of it being an"Imperial Corvaillian star cruiser" or Cutter Class Frigate Star Ship came much,when the star ship was used as a kind of newer version of Lord Ironwolf's or Cody Starbuck's Limerick Rack,combining elements of the Star Destroyers of Star Palace,.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ===Depiction===

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<p class="MsoNormal"> Imperial-Class Star Destroyers are constructed by  Drive Yards and hold a distinguished place in the Imperial Navy, symbolizing the Empire's military might with a peak number of more than 25,000 vessels. Like the Victory- and Venator-Class ships that precede it, the Imperial Star Destroyer is most notable for its massive size and overwhelming firepower; a single Imperial-Class ship is capable of overwhelming most starships or devastating a hostile planet, and its mere presence is often enough to deter rebellion. At 1,600 meters long, Imperial-Class Star Destroyers are armed with turbolasers, ion cannons and tractor beam projectors.

<p class="MsoNormal"> They carry 72 Star fighters, numerous ground forces (inCluding stormtroopers, 20 AT-ATs and 30 AT-STs), a prefabricated base for rapid deployment to planetary surfaces and a variety of support and landing craft.<. ="ImpSB" />Capable of high-endurance, independent operations, XMCs are often called upon to perform disaster relief and refugee support operations due to their spacious interiors and ability to ferry large quantities of emergency supplies and additional personnel.During peacetime, XMCs are most often tasked with independent intergalactic exploration, charting and documenting the star systems of the Local Cluster. They are also the preferred platform for first contact missions, given their formidable combat capabilities and their ability to operate without a battlegroup - often critical to assuring potential Commonwealth members that the High Guard comes in peace.They are also the preferred platform for first contact missions, given their formidable combat capabilities and their ability to operate without a battlegroup - often critical to assuring potential Commonwealth members that the High Guard comes in peace.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> Following the Climactic Battle of Endor, the Rebel Alliance captured several Imperial-Class ships and added them to their own fleet. As the Rebel Alliance transitioned into the Republic and gradually took large portions of the galaxy from the remnants of the Empire, it was able to procure more of the powerful ships as well as the vital shipyards and facilities with which to operate them. Although the New Republic eventually upgrades its starfleet with newer ship types, the Imperial-Class Star Destroyer remains in service well into the ''' era and fights during the Yuuzhan Vong war.

<p class="MsoNormal"> == Features ==

<p class="MsoNormal"> The Class design consists of a standard tear drop shape similar to a sea fairing vessel and submarine, eleven-deck-thick primary Command Bridge Tower, separatable from the lower connected to a cylindrical secondary decks,that inClude crews section,the Forward and Aft Torpedo Rooms,Medical Sickbay,the lower Hangar Decks and main Engineering or Engine Room Decks from which spring angled pylons supporting the vessel's engines in two nacelles fully half the ship's length. The Class is armed for combat, with offensive weaponry inCluding photon torpedo launchers and Pheonix%29 phaser banks, and defensive shields. The separation of was a rare event in the 63rd century, undertaken in emergencies; led from an auxiliary bridge, the secondary decks and nacelles retain FTL warp capabilities, while the main bridge and primary saucer are relegated to sublight propulsion from aft-mounted impulse engines.The lower Hangar Decks inClude Shuttle Craft,Space Mobiles for short outer hull exturtions,Space Chariots,for planetary survey and defence,two Dropship hangar bays,a large hangar for the HMSS Star Pheonix II,the Torpedo Gun Ships and forward Whisper Space Probe Bays.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> The HMSS Star Pheonix has three bridges; Bridge 1 contains the helm, sensor, communications and command positions (inCluding those for engineering and ship's defences), and is the scene of much of the action and interaction in the series. In the second season it gains a time sensor system capable of viewing a region of space as it appeared hours previously.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> At the top of the command tower is the Captain's personal quarters, a chair on a vertical track giving him the option of moving to his command post in Bridge 1 quickly. Either side of the main bridge are sensor units, and below is Bridge 2, the main navigation centre of the ship. Directly below the command tower, on the underside of the ship, is Bridge 3; it is featured significantly only once, when the HMSS Star Pheonix was upside-down in the methane sea on Pluto, and seems to exist largely to be blown off the ship dramatically. There are also observation domes either side of the command tower, and larger windowed sections either side of the main hull.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> Elsewhere aboard the ship are a conference room (with a large floor-mounted screen) and a hologram chamber (the "resort room") for projecting images ofCorvaillianto combat homesickness (and which was nearly identical in purpose and function to the holodeck that would be used in the  more than a decade later--but was first introduced in the. There is also a cryogenics chamber in which much of the crew apparently sleeps during the series (most notably female crew members, as Scarlet O'Brian is the only woman seen aboard after episode 10 of the first season). An engineering and development section contains an automated multi-purpose construction unit capable of building any required device. More mundane locations inClude the surgery, galley, stateroom and gym. Travel within the ship is achieved by means of lifts, moving walkways and, for emergencies, chutes.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> === Propulsion ===

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<p class="MsoNormal"> Cl The the ship's main engine, based on alien technology; it is capable of converting the vacuum of space into tachyon energy. As well as functioning like a normal rocket engine, and providing essentially infinite power to the ship, it enables the Star Pheonix to "ride" the wave of tachyons and travel faster than light; in its first test it travels from Earth's Moon to Mars in one minute. However, this feature must be activated with perfect timing (by a human navigator), at a point when space at the origin and destination are in the correct phase, otherwise the ship could become lost in the fourth dimension.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> Cl to provide lift in atmospheric environments, two large wings unfold from the sides of the hull, fully-functional with ailerons.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> Cl  either side of the bow are rocket-powered anchors at the ends of strong chains, which theStar Pheonix can use to anchor itself to asteroids and, if necessary, provide a gravity-assisted slingshot. They can also be used to deflect enemy ships from collision.

<p class="MsoNormal"> ===Power and drive systems===

<p class="MsoNormal"> 'Star Pheonix '' has a continuously recharging antimatter power supply that supposedly would last forever without the need of fuel. However, if the ship operated with every system activated it would drain the power supply down within two hours causing shut down until sufficient power was recharged.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> The ship could repair itself when damaged. During such critical repair times, Magnus 4000 would prioritize the survival of the 'Star Pheonix '' over the well-being of the crew, going so far as to deactivate life support in order to reroute power to repair devices. The auto-repair systems themselves would even attack anyone trying to keep them from their work.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> HMSS Star Pheonix's main drive consisted of a dimensional engine with ultralight speed capability; speeds were always stated in the form "standard by...", followed by the relevant number to multiply the "standard" 'Star Pheonix '' speed by. It was never specified in the series what the "standard" speed was. In "Space Fall" when the new crew tell Magnus 4000 they want a course for Cygnus Alpha, and Magnus 4000 asks for the speed, Blake's anCler is half a question. "Standard?"

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<p class="MsoNormal"> The Federation used a "time distort" scale, but this term was never a term used by Magnus 4000 or the 'Star Pheonix 's'' crew. Cally believed the ship could easily achieve a velocity of "standard by 12" and was considered one of the fastest ships in the galaxy. In the episode "Harvest of Kairos", the 'Star Pheonix  scanned a ship resembling a lunar module and, sensing a slightly more advanced ship due to Avon's artificial sopron, deClared it to be capable of "Standard by twelve point two zero three", suggesting 'Star Pheonix 's capacity to be slightly below that. Star Pheonix'' engaged with a fleet of Federation ships was observed accelerating away at a speed of TD-20. The fastest known Federation pursuit ships of the Starburst Class had a known maximum (emergency) speed of TD-10 and the 'Star Pheonix '' could easily outrun them. Standard by 6 became the 'Star Pheonix 's'' standard cruising speed in deep space. Speeds of less than TD-0 were considered sub-light speeds.''

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<p class="MsoNormal"> It appears that the Time Distort scale was exponential so that 'Standard by 12' equalling TD-20 would have been far in excess of double TD-10.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ==The ship's artificial intelligence (AI).==

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ===Security system===

<p class="MsoNormal"> The Star Pheonix was protected by a telepathic security system which was the first device installed Stark Starship,Inc, and helped the Command Bridge Crew and Engine Room control of the ship.The Star Pheonix is a vast sections that make parially a bioship composed of living composents that was partially self-aware and helps steer the star ship faster in interstellar manuevers and combat situations.This system,based partially Galaxian Techno Organic Technology,is linked to the star ships Artificial Intellegence and Rhandarian Navigational Computers or Rhandarian Nav Com

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<p class="MsoNormal">, Seen used on the flight deck, the system projected a mental image of someone the target trusted, or loved. , he saw members of his murdered family and friends. In creating the images, the system attempted to lure the target Closer to a deadly sphere of energy. remembered that his family was executed and didn't believe what he was seeing. As a result, he blasted the images with his weapon which disabled the security system. Prior to this, the system managed to kill almost all the crew sent aboard to seize the ship.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> ===Teleport===

<p class="MsoNormal"> The ship was also equipped with a valuable matter teleportation system (similar to a transporter in the Other type systems series), a technology which the Federation was trying to develop on their own without success. Blake indicated that the device sends matter along energy signals similar to radio waves. Little was known about the technology itself.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> The teleport system was located in a small room and consisted of a slightly elevated platform and a large control console for setting teleport coordinates and activating the system. The teleport created a shimmering effect on the subject which quickly faded away. Arrival off-ship produced a white glowing field visible only at its periphery that converged into an outline of the subject inside of which the subject materialized before the field would fade away. The process is reversed when teleported to the ship: a field surrounds the subject, the subject fades, the field suddenly expands, and the subject shimmers back into the teleport bay.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> Teleported personnel had to wear a bracelet device to leave and return to the ship. The bracelets also served as communicators and contained a material called Aquitar (or "something similar" ), which was believed to be necessary for the teleport to function.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> Although  had captured some of these bracelets, the teleport required the machinery aboard the 'Star Pheonix '' to function. Likewise, unworn bracelets will not teleport without being attached to someone. There were at least twenty bracelets on the ', and eleven of them were lost, destroyed or damaged throughout the series. However, the 'Star Pheonix '' was evidently capable of creating more as a full bank of 28 bracelets. The teleport signal could be blocked by energy screens and electronic jamming equipment. Usually the signal simply had to be adjusted outside the frequencies of such devices in order to get through.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> Although the HMSS Star Pheonix had a hangar bay, she carried no shuttle craft and gave no outward appearance of an ability to land, suggesting the teleport as a necessary piece of equipment. , Magnus 4000 deClared, "Forward navigation probes report approach speed inconsistent with safe planetfall," as the ship nearly collided with the Cloaked meteoroid Sardos, suggesting that safe "planetfall" was possible given the proper conditions.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> The Closest evidence of the ship ever "landing" was in which it was gravitationally held on an artificial floor by the being called Tharn who sought to drain the ship of herculanium alloy for his gravity generator. The HMSS Star Pheonix was properly docked when recovered by the System within a hangar in, where approach and departure were depicted with an aircraft runway at night on the main screen. The third Closest landing was in where the ship was conveyed into a hangar and restrained by huge metal bars interlocking between the nacelles and the main hull. The HMSS Star Pheonix's power and structural integrity was sufficient to break out of this restraint and escape.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> There is evidence that the ' has successfully landed or took off from a planetary surface.The Star Pheonix can even submerge underwater like a submarine.Yet to do so,it must make all outer doors are watertight and activate ballast tanks.It also must convert,it's sensor systems to sonsar systems.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> The Star Pheonix  controlled, by and large, by the computer system called "Magnus 4000". This computer had master control over all of the ship's functions and acted as a coordinating central point for the crew on board. Magnus 4000 typically relayed ship status and information from the detector arrays and contained a vast archive of navigational data. Magnus 4000 was normally voice activated, but it could also gather information via telepathy, although it only used this latter ability after it had read Jenna's mind (when she touched a control console for the first time, as part of its internal defence system). Magnus 4000 however, could be less than helpful at times and usually gave the "silent treatment" if it disagreed with the crew's commands or attitudes.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> If need be, Magnus 4000 could be overridden on certain functions, however because the HMSS Star Pheonix was such a complex ship, without Magnus 4000's precise balance, the ship could easily go out of control. Magnus 4000 had the ability to take over computers with processors called "tarial cells" and was able to take control of Magnus 4000 suggesting Magnus 4000 used similar devices. Magnus 4000 was also essential in deleting the System's "root access" to Magnus 4000 and the 'Star Pheonix 's computers which had been used to retake the 'Star Pheonix  for a short time. Throughout its life, Magnus 4000  often makes ferences to itself Magnus 4000 ,but it has as never made reference to itself in the first person until until times of stress,concern for it’s crew

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<p class="MsoNormal"> The ship could also fire plasma bolts and a salvo of "seeker" missiles which could decimate planet-side ground targets. HMSS Star Pheonix's hull was covered with a material called "herculanium" which was impervious to almost all but the heaviest weapon fire. Star Pheonix could easily withstand the assault of several warships before taking serious damage. Herculanium was explained as an alloy, but also referenced as an element.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> Using technology on board the HMSS Star Pheonix, Avon developed a practical "detector shield" for the ship  The shield made Star Pheonix effectively invisible to any sensors save for a Close range visual scan, allowing Blake to make a daring attack on the Federation's military headquarters space station causing extensive damage before the defending ships could respond.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> By the time  The Federation had apparently copied Avon's idea, (at least a limited form), using it to launch a massive attack on the 'Star Pheonix '' with upwards of twenty pursuit ships. HMSS Star Pheonix was pounded with at least ten plasma bolts in rapid succession, but her superior speed let her break out of their attack pattern and retreat, albeit with severe damage to her defences. The HMSS Star Pheonix was also equipped with a defensive "force wall" capability, but its usage resulted in a heavy drain on the energy banks (as did the extensive use of the neutron blasters).Weaponry / defences ===

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<p class="MsoNormal">  The the "trump card" of the HMSS Star Pheonix,is  the Electro Magnetic Plasma Pulse Cannon and Bow Spire that functions as a super EMPP Canon by connecting the Electro Magnetic Plasma Pulse Engine to the enormous firing gate at the ship's bow, by enabling the electro magnetic plasma pulse energy power of the engine to be fired in a stream directly forwards.The EMPP is huge wave or stream of the Electro Magnetic  Pulse,that channels waves of superheated gases,otherwise known as plasma.Empp weapons have been used by the Atlanteans for centuries.The Serapheans have used huge wave of EMPP waves outward from their star ships,either through thie EMPP Spires or rows of EMPP Spikes allined about their ships. Enormously powerful, it can disable defensive shields of an enemy fleet of enemy ships with a series of smaller shots. EMPP Spire can shoot small EMPP burst into an enemy targets direction,interfering with their Cold Plasma Deflector Shields.

<p class="MsoNormal"> ; however, it takes a brief but critical period to charge before firing. It also requires all non-essential power systems be deactivated, and leaves the ship powerless and adrift for a short time after firing, though these aspects are not dwelled upon after the initial test in Jupiter's atmosphere. The recoil absorption mechanism can be manually deactivated with a lever; this is used to save the ship on one occasion.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> Cl the three 45.9cm and two 15.5cm three-barrelled gun turrets of the original HMSS Star Pheonix have been converted into powerful the Electro Magnetic Plasma Pulse energy guns. Each turret fires three energy beams which spiral around each other to form a single, more powerful beam, capable of severely damaging or destroying enemy warships. The cannons are operated by seated human controllers, aiming orders generally shouted from bridge 1. In addition to firing energy blasts, the guns can be loaded with other ammunition, most notably cartridges containing the devices used in the Rotating Asteroid Defence.

<p class="MsoNormal">   HMSS Star Pheonix'' they are used to fire missiles containing the Electro Magnetic Plasma Pulse energy, which even with a hundredth the power of the Electro Magnetic Plasma Pulse Cannon and Bow Spire cause tremendous destruction.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> Cl based on the 25 mm and 13 mm anti-aircraft machine guns of the original HMSS Star Pheonix, the Pulse Lasers are a set of two- and four-barrelled gun turrets lining the sides of the spaceship, firing energy pulses which can destroy fighters and detonate missiles. The turret Clusters generally aim at the same targets; it is not stated in the series whether each contains a gunner, or whether they are controlled from a central source.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> Cl  six forward-firing photon torpedo tubes, principally for use underwater and in space.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> Cl : a set of anti-missile missiles launched from missile ports in the hull of the HMSS Star Pheonix; rather than hitting directly, they explode at a safe distance and form an energy web that detonates incoming missiles.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> Cl : rocket missiles fired vertically from what was once the smoke stack of the original HMSS Star Pheonix.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> Cl The : a fleet of fighter planes, contained within a hangar in the ship's rear underside. The Black Tiger fighters of the first season are superseded by the Cosmo Tigers of the second season, though both seasons feature the Cosmo Zero fighter piloted by Susumu Kodai, which is usually launched from one of the catapults on the top deck near the stern. The hangar also contains other, non-combat planes for reconnaissance and transport.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> Cl  used in the first and second seasons, this involves using the Shock Cannons to fire showers of small metal probes into asteroid fields; these devices are magnetically-controlled and can bring the asteroids Close to the ship, forming a hard shell resistant to enemy fire. This can then be turned into a fast-rotating orbiting ring, its angle controlled from the bridge, which can be used to block individual shots. As a final act, the asteroids can be expelled at high speed in all directions to destroy any ships that venture too Close.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> Cl  a defence conceived by chief scientist  when he realised that the Electro Magnetic Plasma Pulse Cannon and Bow Spireis merely an extremely powerful Electromatic plasma Pulse Wave laser, this involves quickly covering the HMSS Star Pheonix entirely with reflective material; this was only used once, when Trojan leader Desler (Desslok) used his self-titled Desler Gun against theCorvaillianship, and successfully reflected the blast back against its source.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> Cl  although the HMSS Star Pheonix lacks defensive shields like those used in Other type systems, on one occasion (while trapped in the Octopus Cluster) it generated a shield over its decks which protected it from the fury of a space storm, and even maintained a breathable atmosphere.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> == Nova bomb ==

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<p class="MsoNormal"> A nova bomb is a fictional weapon of mass destruction in the Andromeda series. It functions by briefly weakening, nullifying or inverting gravity in a large area, with the intended purpose of artificially inducing a supernova.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> The destructive power of the nova bomb is not Clearly defined, but there is an established upper limit - in the second episode, the Star PheonixAscendant's entire complement of 40 nova bombs was not powerful enough to destroy a relatively small black hole, although they did temporarily neutralize enough of its gravitational field to briefly turn the black hole into a white hole. However, since a main-sequence star consists of a large body of extremely energetic superheated gas, held under pressure by the gravitational field generated by its own mass, it is actually highly unstable – it would only be necessary to temporarily neutralize a relatively small proportion of a star's gravitational field to drive it to go supernova. It is seen to be able to destroy a solar system filled with  by firing into the solar system's sun.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> Consequently, while a nova bomb can easily destroy a star, its effect on planets or ships is less certain.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> Notably, when used against the  world-ship, which is a superstructure made up of an artificial sun surrounded by several hollowed out planets, a nova bomb succeeded in driving the star to go supernova (although, virtually all of the energy released was absorbed by the Spirit of the Abyss), but apparently had no effect on the world-ship's superstructure.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> Although Dylan exhausted the ship's initial supply of nova bombs shortly after waking up from his three-hundred-year 'sleep', Dylan acquired a new one during a visit to an abandoned High Guard satellite base, which he subsequently used in a failed attempt to destroy the Magog world-ship during their first confrontation with it. Harper subsequently built a new bomb that he called 'Rosanne', which he Claimed had the combined power of three nova bombs put together, and was subsequently used by the Eureka Maru to Close a dimensional tear and destroy the over ten thousand ships that were traveling through it.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> It should also be noted, that deployment of any number of Nova bombs, normally, requires authorization of four officers. This is seen in the second episode of the series.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> === AP cannons ===

<p class="MsoNormal"> The anti-proton cannons are energy based weapons which fire at just under the speed of light (99 PSL), the anti-protons that hit the mass destroy it on impact.

<p class="MsoNormal"> Cl An anti-proton cannon is not effective past 4 light seconds.It was originally armed with Pheonix  #Pulse_cannons pulse cannons, which were only used once during, and Triton-Class Pheonix #Spatial_torpedoes spatial torpedoes<sup Class="reference" id="cite_ref-Minefield_0-0">[1] Later upgrades saw the Star Pheonix fitted with more powerful weapons, with plasma cannons being replaced by threePheonix #Phase_cannons phase cannons rated for a maximum power output of 500 and the spatial torpedoes with Pheonix#Photon_torpedoes photonic torpedoes.<sup Class="reference" id="cite_ref-The_Expanse_1-0">The_Expanse-1 [2] These new weapons systems were still in the experimental stage.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> === Point defense lasers ===

<p class="MsoNormal"> Point defense lasers (PDLs) are tasked with neutralizing and suppressing incoming enemy ordinance (such as missiles, drones eCl...) and/or enemy fighters. On their own they can inflict a fair amount of damage on enemy ships.

<p class="MsoNormal"> Cl PDLs fire in the 30 to 50 megawatt range.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> === Smart missiles ===

<p class="MsoNormal"> Smart missiles rely on ship sensors and their own onboard sensors to track their targets. Smart missiles can reach speeds of up to 90 PSL. They are designed to be fired in a range of 1 AU or less, however variants exist that can reach up to 3 AU. Once fired a smart missile can be "called home" or disarmed during flight.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> === Smart bullets ===

<p class="MsoNormal"> Tiny bullets with sensors which they use to home in on their target. They are generally fired in Clarms.

<p class="MsoNormal"> === Point singularity ===

<p class="MsoNormal"> A point singularity projector fires mini-black holes at its target, the generally use these weapons on their Clarm ships and the World ship. These weapons inflict heavy damage and can destroy a ship very quickly. series=[[Star Pheonix

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<p class="MsoNormal"> == Nova Bomb ==

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<p class="MsoNormal"> The Nova Bomb is a weapon with the power to destroy a solar system. It utilizes a powerful fictional element called Voltarium. It is then fired into the core of a star where it reverses the gravity in an area larger than that of the star. The internal pressure of the star then creates a nova, destroying everything in the star's vicinity. On a smaller scale, it can destroy a planet, like the planet Samsarra in the episode "Point of the Spear". In episode 2 of season 1 all of the ship's 40 nova bombs are fired into a black hole, unleashing an explosive power equaling 2 million Teratons of TNT and turning the black hole into a white hole or "a miniature version of the Big Bang".<. ="Under the Night" />.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> == Personal weapons ==

<p class="MsoNormal"> === Gauss gun===

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<p class="MsoNormal"> The most common type of personal handgun is a gauss gun, which accelerates a smart bullet at supersonic speeds using electromagnetic forces.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> There are two types of this gun.

<p class="MsoNormal"> 1.Hand gun sidearm: used by criminals, and recon mission people.

<p class="MsoNormal"> 2.Rifle style: Used by ground troops, guards, seen used by.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> The crew of the Star Pheonixis usually seen using pistols.

<p class="MsoNormal"> Pistols are commonly seen being used by nearly everyone except the High Guard.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> === Force Lance ===

<p class="MsoNormal"> The Force Lance generally looks like a harmless metal rod approximately 1/3 of a meter in length which fires plasma shots, but can extended to almost 2 meters and be used as a melee weapon. The Lance is keyed to its handlers DNA and can also be reprogrammed, a person will be electrically shocked when trying to use another's programmed Lance. It can also be used as a taser.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> The Force Lance can launch a number of self-guided tiny attack drones (called “effectors”) that both target opponents and intercept incoming bullets and missiles.<. ="FLs" /> It has a grappling hook function, it can be placed in a stationary position to be set on auto fire, & finally it can be used as a plasma grenade by setting it to overload.<. ="Knight, Death, and the Devil">{{

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