Cylon Heavy Raider

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Cylon Heavy Raider

A Cylon Heavy Raider
First appearance Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down
Affiliation Cylon
General Characteristics
Armaments Six KEWs

The Cylon Heavy Raider is a heavy fighter used by the Cylons, in the television series Battlestar Galactica.

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[edit] History

The first Heavy Raider ever encountered crash landed into Galactica's non-operational starboard hangar bay, and a boarding party of Cylon Centurions exited the wreck to begin their assault.

Little is known about this type of space vessel. It is primarily used for transporting troops, boarding enemy ships and assaulting planetary surfaces. It is capable of FTL jumps and may have a capacity for ten or more Cylons.

On Caprica, Boomer managed to acquire a Heavy Raider, which she used to evacuate a resistance movement team rescuing Starbuck from a Cylon "hybrid farm". However, the interior was not seen.

[edit] Technical specifications

A Heavy Raider fires KEWs
A Heavy Raider fires KEWs

[edit] Propulsion

  • 8 sublight engines and an advanced FTL drive system.

[edit] Armaments

  • 6-barrel KEW (Kinetic Energy Weapon) mounted under cockpit capable of extreme firing rates.

[edit] Original continuity analogue

In the original continuity, Galactica 1980 featured the "AB Raider", which was a large and more advanced Cylon Raider, instead of the new continuity troop transport.

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