Editing Battlestar Galactica (Re-imagined Series) (section)

===='''BATTLE OF NEW CAPRICA'''====
Four months after their escape, Galactica's staff is still in the process of developing a rescue strategy with 16 training exercises having been completed and a 17th underway when an accident causes its early cessation ("Occupation"). This forces both a change in strategy and the reformulation of a rescue plan to deal with personnel who have not seen conflict in 16 months. While Galactica fights to liberate the Colonials on-planet, Pegasus is assigned to protect the remaining civilian fleet and continue its search for Earth ("Precipice", "Exodus, Part I").

After coordinating with the New Caprica Resistance, Galactica leaves Pegasus to guard the space-bound members of humanity while it uses a series of drones to misdirect the bulk of the Cylon Raiders and avoid immediate detection by baseships, thus allowing the civilians on the planet to escape to their ships and flee New Caprica. Galactica then jumps into low orbit, plummeting from an altitude of 100,000 feet. As the ship falls, Admiral Adama orders the launch of all remaining Vipers. Galactica then jumps back into orbit. In the subsequent battle with the orbiting basestars, Galactica is overtaxed, out-gunned, and faces destruction when Pegasus unexpectedly arrives. Pegasus's salvos draw the attention of the basestars away from Galactica, buying Galactica time to bring her FTL drives back on-line and escape, but at the cost of Pegasus's destruction ("Exodus, Part II").

Galactica bears the scars of the battle with significant scorching and dents to the hull. Nonetheless, the battlestar remains combat ready, holding off a superior Cylon force for a short duration in the Battle of NCD2539 ("A Measure of Salvation"), and threatening to use its nuclear arsenal twice after New Caprica ("The Eye of Jupiter", Crossroads, Part II"). Given the loss of Pegasus, Galactica now boasts a larger crew, Viper and Raptor complement, to the point where there are more pilots than there are ships to fly ("Torn"), although the training of new recruits is still ongoing ("Dirty Hands", Crossroads", "He That Believeth in Me"). Further, there are various redundancies between the two crews that are appropriately dealt with (e.g. Lee Adama in a deleted scene from "Exodus, Part II").

In "A Day in the Life", Colonel Tigh comments that Galactica took so much damage in this battle that it would "take six weeks in dry dock just to bang out the dents". This indicates that the damage is extensive enough to require a significant amount of time (probably months) for full repair, and would be unlikely to survive a massive battle again.