Colonial One

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Colonial One
Colonial One, formerly Colonial Heavy 798
First appearance	Mini series, part 1
Affiliation	Colonial Fleet
General Characteristics
Class	Luxury liner

Colonial One is a civilian starship in the science fiction television series Battlestar Galactica. Colonial One serves as the headquarters for President of the Twelve Colonies.

Colonial One is a small, FTL-capable ship that is dwarfed by the Battlestar Galactica: the ship can easily dock within one of Galactica's flight pods. Colonial One can also land on and take off from a planetary surface.^[1]

Prior to the Cylon attack, Colonial One was a Caprican civilian starliner known as Colonial Heavy 798. The ship had been chartered by the Colonial government to transport then-Secretary of Education Laura Roslin and her staff to Battlestar Galactica's decommissioning ceremony.

Following the Cylon attack, along with the elimination of most of the government, Laura Roslin became President of the Twelve Colonies. The ship took on the call sign Colonial One, and was used to co-ordinate the collection and organisation of the civilian refugee fleet. After leading the 50,000 survivors to rendezvous with Galactica, which had also survived the attack, Colonial One became the residence and de facto capital of the Fleet government.

After the discovery and colonisation of New Caprica, Colonial One was landed on the planet and served as the residence and office of the Gaius Baltar, who became president just prior to the colonisation. As such, it was captured in the Cylon occupation. During the liberation of New Caprica and the evacuation of its human population, Colonial One was recaptured from the Cylons and left the planet with Laura Roslin on board. Gaius Baltar was left behind with the Cylon occupation forces.

[edit] Notes

• Colonial One was originally designed to be analogous of modern commercial airliners. To make the vessel immediately distinguishable from the rest of the Fleet, an easily recognisable colourscheme was decided upon; one which resembles Air Force One, the series of aircraft used to carry the President of the United States.^[2] Roslin's inauguration on board closely resembled that of Lyndon B. Johnson on board Air Force One after President J. F. Kennedy's assassination.
• The cockpit of Colonial One is a redressed original Space Shuttle Orbiter cockpit simulator.
• After Exodus, Part 2, rust can be seen between the outer hull plates of Colonial One, reflecting more than a year on the surface of New Caprica.

[edit] References

[edit] External link

• Colonial One at the Battlestar Wiki, a Battlestar Galactica wiki.

Battlestar Galactica spaceships
Colonial Military
Battlestars		Military Vessels
Galactica | Pegasus | Valkyrie		Viper | Raptor | Blackbird | Stealthstar
"The Fleet"
Astral Queen | Colonial One | Cloud 9 | Olympic Carrier | other..
Cylon Vessels
Basestar | Raider | Heavy Raider | "Resurrection Ship"