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Battlestar Galactica 2004 Continuity
Battlestar Galactica 2004, Caprica and Blood & Chrome

The Viper Mk. VIIa[2] was a space-superiority fighter used by the Colonial Fleet in the years prior to the Fall of the Twelve Colonies. It was the seventh generation of Viper, a series of fighters which had been in production since before the Cylon War.

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The Mark VII was designed at a time when the Colonial Fleet was becoming increasingly more generous with the computer technology that could be used. As part of an initiative set forth by President Richard Adar, the Mark VII's computer components were networked and included the "Command Navigation Program". During the Fall of the Twelve Colonies, Cylon forces were able to remotely shut down Mark VIIs through wireless access of their CNPs, resulting in almost all Mark VIIs being destroyed without firing a shot at the Cylons. The Battlestars Galactica and Pegasus possessed a number of Mark VIIs, which were unnetworked and their CNP erased to prevent further hackings. With Galactica retaining Mark VIIs in more limited numbers, the ships were typically reserved for veteran pilots, officers, and CAGs while the rest of their flight groups used the older (yet still formidable) Viper Mark IIs. Pegasus on the other hand, having been a Mercury-class battlestar, had an on-board foundry capable of manufacturing new Mark VIIs using resources gathered from asteroids.

Notes[]

  • Viper Mk. VIIa was designed by Eric Chu
  • Lee Adama piloted Mk. VIIa up until episode Battlestar Galactica 2004, episode: "Maelstrom", where he switched to Mk. VIIb

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  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Measured from the original CGI/VFX model; authenticity of which was verified by the Battlestar.Wiki team.
  2. Wiki Descriptive Term (In the absence of official sources, a descriptive term may be used).
  3. Galactica2003.net
  4. Galactica2003.net
Colonial Fleet
Battlestar Classes Artemis-class · Chronos-type · Jupiter-class · Mercury-class · Valkyrie-class · Zodiac-type
Battlestars Archeron · Athena · Atlantia · Bellerophon · Columbia · Columbia II · Chronos · Erasmus · Galactica · Night Flight · Pegasus · Prometheus · Ramses · Solaria · Triton · Uned · Universal · Valkyrie · Yashuman
Escort Ship Classes Alert-type · Berzerk-class · Defender-class · Demeter-type · Hornet-type · Orion-class · Ramses-class · Ranger-class · Tiger-type
Escort Ships Alert · Berzerk · Osiris
Support Ship Classes Caprica-class · Loki-type
Support Ships Cyclops · Loki
Fighters Viper (Mark I · Mark II · Mark III · Mark VIIa · Mark VIIb) · Stealthstar
Transports Raptor (Mark I · Mark IIa· Mark IIb · Mark IIb Heavy) · Shuttle (Mark I · Mark II)
Installations Armistice Station · Colonial Fleet Headquarters · Colonial Fleet Hub · Fuel Depot 576 · Ragnar Anchorage
Shipyards Daidalos Mobile Shipyard · Scorpion Fleet Shipyards · Tauron Shipyards
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