New Caprica
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New Caprica is the fictional name given to a relatively desolate but habitable planet in the reimagined Battlestar Galactica series. The capital of New Caprica is New Caprica City.
New Caprica is named in honor of Caprica, one of the original Twelve Colonies. It was accidentally discovered when a ship received incorrect jump coordinates. It is located in a region of space whose electromagnetic radiation makes surveying difficult.
Later, the planet was settled by the civilian population of the fleet under the leadership of President Gaius Baltar. It became the key issue during the election. Although many people in the military and incumbent government had reservations about doing so, the civilian population desired to land. Baltar used this to win the election.
Although things appeared to be going well at first, problems began to develop as time went by. There were medicine shortages, and many were growing sick. There were labour problems, and strikes. Baltar became depressed and resorted to alcoholism.
Just over one year after settlement, a Cylon fleet who had, over a light year away, detected signs of a nuclear explosion (itself actually a Cylon suicide bombing) arrived at the planet and promptly occupied it (the military patrol guarding New Caprica, undermanned and heavily outnumbered, chose to jump away rather than attempt a suicidal defense).
Baltar surrendered to the Cylon forces, who occupied the human settlements with a strong military presence.
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[edit] Occupation
[edit] New Caprica resistance
The Resistance was led by Colonel Saul Tigh, former XO aboard the Battlestar Galactica and right hand man to Admiral Adama. Tigh's most important lieutenants are Galen Tyrol and Samuel Anders, who personally oversee the planning and execution of strikes against the Cylons.
After Tigh's release from a Cylon detention facility, he has ordered an increase in violence against the Cylons in the form of suicide-bombings. Among the most notable of these bombers is Duck, a resistance fighter who successfully infilitrated the New Caprica Police.
The Resistance also routinely performed stikes against the Cylons with the hopes of destroying supply chains, damaging Cylon spacecraft, and killing as many Humanoid and Centurion Cylons as possible.
The main source of information to The Resistance had been someone deep within the Cylon infrastructure. Unknown to them, this informant was Felix Gaeta, another former officer aboard the Galactica. He provided useful information that led to critical strikes against the Cylons. Most importantly, however, Gaeta provided The Resistance with information that enabled them to make contact with the Colonial Fleet led by Admiral Adama and his son Lee Adama.
With their goals in mind, The Resistance successfully rendezvoused with marines from the Colonial Fleet.
In the episode Exodus Part II, the Resistance successfully oversees the evacuation of New Caprica. They initiate firefights and explosions across the city, distracting the Cylons and giving pilots time to get their ships off the ground and escape.
[edit] New Caprica Police
The New Caprica Police Academy and Police Headquarters are located in New Caprica City. The NCP police recruit program was infiltrated by Duck, whom turned suicide bomber and killed 30 recruits.
Members of the NCP are regarded as traitors to the human cause and have to hide their identities when dealing with fellow humans.
The captain of the NCP is Jammer a member of the New Caprica Resistance. He hides his collaborationist activities from the Resistance while he hides Resistance activities from the NCP.
[edit] Battle of New Caprica
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 Pegasus rams a Basestar and is destroyed. |
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| 1 Battlestar | 3 Basestars | ||||||
The Battle of New Caprica was fought by the Battlestars Galactica and Pegasus to rescue the 39,000 human survivors that had settled on New Caprica and later fallen under Cylon occupation during the episode "Exodus, Part 2".
The battle began as Colonial Raptors launched decoy drones to simulate the appearance of the Battlestars on DRADIS to draw Cylon forces away from New Caprica. At this point the Galactica performed an intra-atmospheric FTL jump in order to launch Viper squadrons to fight Cylon Raiders and eliminate ground targets. The Galactica fell for several thousand feet before performing another FTL jump into low orbit and began to engage the two Cylon Basestars. Their chances at winning were dashed, however when two more Basestars unexpectedly jumped into the system. Added to this, damage from the drop had damaged the Galactica's FTL and conventional engines.
Meanwhile, the inhabitants of New Caprica, having recovered the launch keys to their spacecraft, boarded them and began to lift off and performed FTL jumps to pre-arranged coordinates.
All four Basestars began bombarding the Galactica with missiles, seriously damaging it, but damage to its FTL drive and the fact that several of the civilian vessels on New Caprica had yet to jump to safety, forced the ship to remain. The Galactica was saved from destruction by the intervention of the Pegasus (its commander, Lee Adama, having defied an order to stay with the Fleet) turned the tide of battle. The Pegasus engaged the attacking Basestars, destroying one with it's forward batteries. The Pegasus then put itself in between the Cylon ships, diverting their attention and buying the Galactica precious time to recover its Vipers and jump to safety. The Pegasus, having left its own fighters behind to guard the civilian fleet, began to take serious damage. Commander Adama then had the ship locked onto a collision course with a Basestar and its main guns set to auto-fire, while the skeleton crew abandoned ship on several Raptors. After the Pegasus' main engines exploded, the starboard flight pod was thrown by the blast into a nearby basestar, destroying it.
[edit] External links
- New Caprica at the Battlestar Galactica wiki.
