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The Basestars were developed at some point after the end of the Cylon War,
and replaced earlier ships of the same name. Unlike Cylon War-era
Basestars or previous Cylon technology in general, these Basestars were
constructed with hardened organic matter, and were operated by an
organic Cylon called a Hybrid rather than a crew.

As with most Cylon technology following the Cylon War, the Basestar
is organic in origin, and damage can be repaired like a wound
regenerating. Within the central section of the Basestar is habitation
for Humanoid Cylons and their Centurion servants, with a computer room
housing the Hybrid, a Cylon integrated into the ship’s mainframe and essentially the personification of the ship.

Above and below this section of the ship are rotating
sections, each with three wings coming out in a Y-shape. These sections
are the ship’s hangar decks. Raiders are embedded within the wings to
await launch. These wings can also be entered to reach the hangar deck,
which is pressurised. These inner parts of the ship have the organic
elements exposed; during a Colonial mission to destroy a Basestar with a
nuclear bomb, a Raptor had to land on the flesh. Another bay for Heavy
Raiders may also exist, as this flesh was not encountered by Colonial
officers during preparation for the Battle of the Resurrection Hub.

While Basestars are heavily armed and can fire a multitude of
missiles of different types, from conventional missiles to nuclear
missiles to MIRVs, they are not nearly as armoured as their Colonial
counterparts, though their regenerative abilities excel a damaged
battlestar’s requirement for several months of drydock.^[1]

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