Cylon Basestar

Basestar

Basestars in a typical three-ship formation.
First appearance	"Saga of a Star World"
Affiliation	Cylon Alliance
General characteristics
Fighters	Cylon Raiders
Armaments	Laser turrets Mega-Pulsars Missile turrets
Propulsion	Reactionless drive

Cylon Basestar

Fleet of Basestars from "The Ties That Bind"
First appearance	Mini Series, Part 1
Affiliation	Cylons
General characteristics
Fighters	Cylon Raiders Cylon Heavy Raiders
Armaments	Nuclear missiles Conventional missiles

The Basestar is the capital ship of the Cylons in the 1978 science fiction television series and movie Battlestar Galactica along with its re-imagining in the 2003 miniseries and 2004 television series.

The Basestar is the Cylon counterpart of the Colonial Battlestar. The Basestar has also been called a Baseship and a Cylon Battlestar in one episode but "Basestar" conforms to the Colonial ship naming system.

The Cylon Basestar is a superior warship to a Colonial Battlestar in a technological respect as it carries stronger weapons in greater quantity and carries a greater fighter complement as well (Basestars can hold up to 300 Cylon Raiders). Because of this, the Galactica and her crew prefer to avoid combat with them as much as possible. They are propelled by a reactionless drive that appears to make the ship spin slowly on its axis while engaged.

Basestars are considerably larger than Battlestars.

A basestar's shape is that of two saucers joined to each other at their axis. The saucers are externally identical and some of the functions that they house are redundant of each other. Each saucer contains a hangar deck at its center, accessible from five large hatches distributed across the top of the cone. Unlike a battlestar, a basestar's hangar is closed with a hatch when not in use. All decks are connected by the Core, which allows access to any deck via a ladder. The Control Center or bridge is at the bottom of the core; the Control Center suite also includes the ship's sensor control computers.

The Basestar, or Baseship is the primary capital ship of the Cylons within the re-imagining of the science fiction mini-series and television series Battlestar Galactica. They are different in appearance and function from the Basestars of the 1978 TV series.