![]() ![]() In the heat of the moment, the ship's Executive Officer, Colonel Belzen, refused an order to launch the reserve Vipers, protesting it as a suicide run. Its Vipers were overwhelmed by fifteen squadrons of Raiders and suffered severe casualties. Gina Inviere, a Cylon agent, manipulated Admiral Cain into jumping the ship into the vicinity of a Cylon staging post masquerading as a lightly-defended communications relay. When a Raptor reconnaissance mission sent to investigate the silence in com traffic confirmed the destruction of the colonies, Pegasus took part in a series of guerrilla attacks, jumping wherever Cylon forces were massing and engaging them before abandoning the area. Among its craft, twelve Vipers had been totally destroyed along with two Raptors, and a further seventeen undefined vehicles declared irreparable. Following the escape, a ship-wide assessment found some 723 crewmen had perished in the attack. Pegasus found itself past the red line, four or five jumps away from its last position. Cain rushed to the CIC and ordered an immediate decoupling and blind jump to escape the combat area. A heavily-armed Cylon squadron jumped in range of the shipyards and fired nuclear missiles at it and the ships docked, destroying two battlestars and three other ships in the opening minutes. The Command Navigation Program was disabled, and nonessential crewmen were allowed to disembark to see their families in a three-month-long extended shore leave. ![]() In the moments before the Cylon attack, Pegasus docked at the Scorpia Fleet Shipyards for a refit. Pegasus venting atmosphere just behind the head following a nuclear strike. Galen Tyrol also served on board this ship as a deck hand as his job in the Colonial Fleet. In the years prior to the Fall of the Twelve Colonies, Pegasus was under the command of Rear Admiral Helena Cain. ![]()
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