The Fleet

2004 Continuity

The Fleet

The Fleet sometimes also called "refugee fleet" or "the ragtag fleet", was a caravan of ships carrying refugees from the Cyrannus Star System after the Fall of the Twelve Colonies. The Fleet was formed by President Laura Roslin out of civilian ships near Caprica, and soon after saw the addition of the Battlestar Galactica at Ragnar. Over the next four years, The Fleet traveled through space in search of Earth, the mythological thirteenth colony settled on by the people of Kobol. When Earth was found to be inhospitable, The Fleet settled on another planet nearby, and the ships were flown into its sun to mark the abandonment of technology and a new beginning.

Fleet Population

Before it departed from space around Caprica, the fleet of survivors gathered around two dozen sub-FTL ships. Some 75 ships gathered under the leadership of President Laura Roslin, amassing over 50,000 souls on board. Before the fleet could transfer all passengers from sublight ships, the Fleet was found by a Cylon raider, who immediately alerted the Cylons to the gathering fleet. To avoid a potential decapitation strike by the Cylons, the sublight ships were left behind, just as the Cylons jumped into DRADIS range, with the FTL-capable ships rendezvousing with the Battlestar Galactica at Ragnar Anchorage.

Little under 50,000 people left the Cyrannus System in search of Earth. Over the next four years, a further 10,000 people would perish, either due to Cylon attacks, suicide, environmental damage, or sickness. The following graph shows the decline in population throughout the series:

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Ships

The Fleet consists of dozens of ships, with the exact count being impossible to determine. In the Miniseries, Night 2, the entire fleet consists of "More than 50 ships + Galactica herself). By episode 33 the count was refined to 64, but by episode The Farm, 24 ships consisted "almost 1/3 of the fleet", meaning the fleet would have to consist at least of at least 72 ships. By Season 2, the ship count steadily decreased, going as low as 35 ships in episode Blood On The Scales. We only hear vessels being lost in a handful of episodes, meaning most ships were destroyed or scuttled offscreen. Considering the timeline, a boat was damaged or scuttled on average, give or take, every two weeks.

Considering there is no on-screen evidence of ships being destroyed every couple of weeks, it's reasonable to presume that the bulk of the losses was in huge chunks rather than spread out through the 4-year journey. The most likely candidates for such losses would be Exodus for New Caprica and the Nebula Passage.

• Individual Ships
• Ship Types

Name	Class	Type	Fate	Comment
Adrasteia	Unknown	Unknown	Destroyed or Scuttled
Adriatic	Unknown	Unknown	Destroyed in ~3 ACH	Armed with Ship-To-Ship missiles
Aether	Unknown	Unknown	Destroyed or Scuttled
Amduatey	Unknown	Unknown	Destroyed or Scuttled	High passanger count
Argo Navis	Unknown	Unknown	Destroyed or Scuttled
Astral Queen	Astral Queen-type	Prisoner Transport	Scuttled in ~4 ACH	Carries flare countermeasures
Aurora	Unknown	Unknown	Destroyed or Scuttled
Azimenarius	Unknown	Unknown	Destroyed or Scuttled
Baah Pakal	Unknown	Unknown	Destroyed or Scuttled	Source of the engines used in the Blackbird
Boreas	Unknown	Unknown	Destroyed or Scuttled
Botanical Cruiser	Botanical Cruiser-type	Passenger Liner	Scuttled in ~4 ACH
Breton	Unknown	Unknown	Destroyed or Scuttled
Carillon Trader	Unknown	Unknown	Destroyed or Scuttled
Carina	Virgon Express-type	Maintenance Ship	Destroyed in ~3 ACH
Cassandra	Unknown	Unknown	Destroyed or Scuttled
Celestra	Celestra-type	Research Ship	Destroyed or Scuttled
Chrion	Olympic Carrier-type	Passenger Liner	Scuttled in ~4 ACH
Cloud 9	Cloud 9-type	Passenger Liner	Destroyed in ~2 ACH
Clymene	Unknown	Unknown	Destroyed or Scuttled
Coba	Unknown	Unknown	Destroyed or Scuttled
Colonial One	Colonial Heavy 798-type	Passenger Liner	Scuttled in ~4 ACH	Seat of the government
Cybele	Scylla-type (Modified)	Freighter	Scuttled ~4 ACH
Dashur	Unknown	Unknown	Destroyed or Scuttled
Daru Mozu (Refinery 322)	Daru Mozu-type	Refinery Ship	Scuttled in ~4 ACH
Demetrius	Demetrius-type	Sewage Recycling Ship	Scuttled in ~4 ACH
Diomedes	Unknown	Unknown	Destroyed or Scuttled
Embla Brokk	Unknown	Unknown	Destroyed or Scuttled
Enkidu	Unknown	Unknown	Destroyed or Scuttled
Epheme	Unknown	Unknown	Destroyed or Scuttled
Faru Sadin	Unknown	Unknown	Destroyed or Scuttled
Galactica	Jupiter-class	Battlestar	Scuttled in ~4 ACH
Galatea	Unknown	Unknown	Destroyed or Scuttled
Gemenon Traveler	Kimba Huta-type	Unknown	Destroyed or Scuttled
Gemini	Gemini-type	Freighter	Destroyed or Scuttled
Gideon	Gideon-type	Unknown	Scuttled in ~4 ACH
Greenleaf	Unknown	Freighter	Destroyed or Scuttled
Harrak	Unknown	Unknown	Destroyed or Scuttled
Hexare	Unknown	Unknown	Destroyed or Scuttled
Hitei Kan	Daru Mozu-type	Refinery Ship	Scuttled in ~4 ACH
Inchon Velle	Unknown	Unknown	Destroyed or Scuttled
Kara Nixal	Unknown	Unknown	Destroyed or Scuttled
Kimba Huta	Kimba Huta-type	Freighter	Destroyed or Scuttled
Kiya	Unknown	Unknown	Destroyed or Scuttled
Majahual	Monarch-type	Mining Ship	Scuttled in ~4 ACH
McConnell	Unknown	Unknown	Destroyed or Scuttled
Monarch	Monarch-type	Mining Ship	Scuttled in ~4 ACH
Mutem Wia	Unknown	Unknown	Destroyed or Scuttled
Odysseus	Unknown	Unknown	Destroyed or Scuttled
Olympic Carrier	Olympic Carrier-type	Passenger Liner	Destroyed in 0 ACH
Pegasus	Mercury-class	Battlestar	Destroyed in ~2 ACH
Persephone	Unknown	Unknown	Destroyed or Scuttled
Picon 26	Unknown	Unknown	Destroyed or Scuttled
Picon Princess	Unknown	Unknown	Destroyed or Scuttled
Prometheus	Prometheus-type	Freighter	Scuttled in ~4 ACH
Pyxis	Olympic Carrier-type	Passenger Liner	Destroyed in ~4 ACH
Rebel Basestar	Basestar-type	Basestar	Active
Rhadamanthys	Unknown	Unknown	Destroyed or Scuttled
Rising Star	Rising Star-type	Hospital Ship	Scuttled in ~4 ACH
Salpica	Unknown	Unknown	Destroyed or Scuttled
Sargon	Unknown	Unknown	Destroyed or Scuttled
Scorpia Traveller	Unknown	Unknown	Destroyed or Scuttled
Striker	Celestra-type	Research Ship	Destroyed or Scuttled
Swordfish	Unknown	Unknown	Destroyed or Scuttled
Tarbadek	Unknown	Unknown	Destroyed or Scuttled
Tauranian Traveller	Unknown	Unknown	Destroyed or Scuttled
Thera Sita	Kimba Huta-type	Freighter	Scuttled in ~4 ACH
Tora Bashiri	Unknown	Unknown	Destroyed or Scuttled
Vena Capa	Unknown	Unknown	Destroyed or Scuttled
Virga	Unknown	Unknown	Destroyed or Scuttled
Virgon Express	Virgon Express-type	Maintenance Ship	Destroyed or Scuttled
Zephyr	Zephyr-type	Passenger Liner	Scuttled in ~4 ACH	Largest civilian ship
Ziusudra	Unknown	Unknown	Destroyed or Scuttled

Image	Number of Ships	Type
	1	Aligator Head
	2	Astral Queen-type
	1	Beak Ship
	1	Big-Engine Ship
	1	Blockade Runner
	4	Botanical Cruiser-type
	1	Bulbous Ship
	1	Bulk Freighter
	2	Celestra-type
	1	Cigar Ship
	1	Cloud 9-type
	2	Colonial Movers-type
	1	Colonial Heavy 798-type
	1	Covenant Vessel
	2	Daru Mozu-type
	2	Defender-type
	1	Demetrius-type
	1	Federation Yacht
	1	Five-Engined Vessel
	1	Flaming Vagabond
	1	Gemini-type
	1	Gideon-type
	1	Jupiter-class
	1	Kodiak
	1	Mercury-class
	2	Monarch-type
	5	Gemenon Liner 1701-type
	1	Omega Ship
	1	Prometheus-type
	1	Rising Star-type
	1	Scylla-type
	2	Perseus-type
	3	SCT-type
	1	Squared-Bow Freighter
	1+	Shuttle Mk. I
	8+	Shuttle Mk. II
	1	Squared-Engine Freighter
	1	Tube Ship
	1	Twin-Engined Freighter
	1	Ulysses
	2	Virgon Express-type
	1	X-Freighter

Gallery

• Behind the Scenes
• Wiki Files

Behind the Scenes ship sizes.