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The Image above was acquired via Battlestar Galactica Deadlock.
Disclaimer: The information below is not to be considered canon in Battlestar Galactica Lore and represents part of a "what-if" head canon scenario in my mind for an alternate universe, similar to the one created as the backstory for the "Battlestar Galactica: War of the Colonies" mod.

The 2CW Universe (Second Cylon War) is a what-if scenario where the initial surprise attack on the Colonies is mostly thwarted but not enough to prevent certain events from happening, like Laura Roslin becoming President via succession for example. The universe uses information from the series, Blood & Chrome, and Deadlock as well as several other fan works for inspiration.

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Class: Mark I Jupiter Class Battlestar
Colloquially: Jupiters, Big Js
Designer: Sinon Quade
Function: Command and Control Carrier/Battleship
Armaments: 16x Heavy Battlestar Artillery Batteries, 488x Dual Point Defense CIWS, Flak Batteries, 8x Missile Tubes
Compliments: 260 Vipers, 24 Raptors
Crew (Aprox): 5000, 300 Pilots
Status: RETIRED

"These are the ships that will change the face of interstellar warfare as we know it. The Artemis might've served as a great proof of concept, but the Jupiter will perfect it." - Sinon Quade

History:
Often considered the ship class that helped unite the Twelve Colonies, the Jupiter Class was the largest and most ambitious ship design to come from the twelve colonies, surpassing the nearly as large Atlas Class Carriers in size and mass. As part of a means of uniting the Twelve Colonies during the First Cylon War, the Jupiter Class was originally intended to be built in a batch of twelve, one Jupiter for each of the Twelve Colonies, with Galactica being the first, representing Caprica. The Twelve Original Jupiters were each built at the Daidalos Mobile Shipyards during the height of the First Cylon War and would serve to change the tide of the war, enabling the Colonials to mount effective defenses of the Twelve Colonies. Once the first twelve Jupiters had been constructed, and the Articles of Colonization signed, regular commissions for Jupiter Class Battlestars began, allowing more than the original twelve to be constructed.

However the Jupiter Class would soon be succeeded by the Mark II variant, an upgrade that addressed many of the design flaws and shortcomings of the original Jupiters. By the end of the First Cylon War, only three of the surviving Jupiter Class Battlestars would still be in its Mark I configuration, only one of them being one of the Original Twelve. The rest had all been either upgraded to Mark IIs or destroyed. Over the course of the forty year Armistice, the number of Jupiter Class Battlestars would fall, with the Mark I Jupiters becoming extinct within ten years of the Armistice beginning, with the Mark II Jupiters remaining in service until all that remained was the original Jupiter, the Battlestar Galactica, which was scheduled to be decommissioned into a museum but later recommissioned back into service with the outbreak of the Second Cylon War.

Technical Information:
The Mark I Jupiter Class Battlestar represents a massive step forward in the evolution of Colonial Military Tech. The Jupiter Class is unique in that it was explicitly designed to combat the Cylons and features older technologies such as non-networked computer systems, wired telephone receivers, and more as a means of minimizing the Cylons' abilities to remotely hack into Colonial vessels. This did indeed help to baffle and slow down the Cylons' hacking efforts, forcing them to focus on individual systems rather than being able to hack multiple systems at once. The Mark I Jupiter Class is armed with sixteen Heavy Battlestar Artillery Batteries, with eight located on its dorsal spine in two groups of four batteries, six located on its ventral side with three situated near the bow and the remaining three evenly spaced down its ventral frame. The final two batteries were located beneath the Mark I's prow. Additionally the Mark Is were equipped with eight missile tubes, located in a pair of "eyeballs" on the port and starboard sides of the forward hull. The Mark Is were also equipped with over four-hundred-eighty-eight dual point defense CIWS batteries and flak batteries.

The Mark I Jupiters were well armored, much like their Mark II successors, but sported a thicker forward hull section. The Mark Is also sported an experimental feature that would be exclusive to the Jupiter Class: retractable flightpods. The Flight-pods on a Jupiter Class was designed to be retracted into the main hull. This was intended to allow Jupiters to safely ferry smaller craft in its hangars for FTL jumps or to safely nestle these craft within the Battlestar's armored hulls.

However this design did have a drawback. The design left the Battlestar's dorsal spine weaker than most and required that the pods be retracted to enable the Jupiters to execute an FTL jump. Performing the jump without retracting the pods could cause massive structural failures down the Battlestar's spine, effectively "breaking her back." This weakness would persist even into the Mark II design, but was not readily exploitable by the Cylons in combat save for, perhaps, forcing the Battlestar to remain in combat a little longer while it retracted its pods before jumping away. This problem could be remedied though by locking the pods in their extended position and structurally re-enforcing the open spaces. Such refits would require a long period in dry-dock though so such plans were shelved during the War and the Jupiter Class as a whole was largely retired before the outbreak of the Second Cylon War.

The Mark I Jupiter Class however would set a record for the largest crew requirement of any vessel utilized by the Twelve Colonies, requiring 5000 crewmen to operate at its peak, with a skeleton crew at just under one-third that number. Later Battlestar models, including the Mark II Jupiters, would have far smaller crew compliments, with the Mark IIs shaving the compliment down to 3000.

Description
The Image above was acquired via Battlestar Galactica Deadlock.
Disclaimer: The information below is not to be considered canon in Battlestar Galactica Lore and represents part of a "what-if" head canon scenario in my mind for an alternate universe, similar to the one created as the backstory for the "Battlestar Galactica: War of the Colonies" mod.

The 2CW Universe (Second Cylon War) is a what-if scenario where the initial surprise attack on the Colonies is mostly thwarted but not enough to prevent certain events from happening, like Laura Roslin becoming President via succession for example. The universe uses information from the series, Blood & Chrome, and Deadlock as well as several other fan works for inspiration.

...

Class: Mark I Jupiter Class Battlestar
Colloquially: Jupiters, Big Js
Designer: Sinon Quade
Function: Command and Control Carrier/Battleship
Armaments: 16x Heavy Battlestar Artillery Batteries, 488x Dual Point Defense CIWS, Flak Batteries, 8x Missile Tubes
Compliments: 260 Vipers, 24 Raptors
Crew (Aprox): 5000, 300 Pilots
Status: RETIRED

"These are the ships that will change the face of interstellar warfare as we know it. The Artemis might've served as a great proof of concept, but the Jupiter will perfect it." - Sinon Quade

History:
Often considered the ship class that helped unite the Twelve Colonies, the Jupiter Class was the largest and most ambitious ship design to come from the twelve colonies, surpassing the nearly as large Atlas Class Carriers in size and mass. As part of a means of uniting the Twelve Colonies during the First Cylon War, the Jupiter Class was originally intended to be built in a batch of twelve, one Jupiter for each of the Twelve Colonies, with Galactica being the first, representing Caprica. The Twelve Original Jupiters were each built at the Daidalos Mobile Shipyards during the height of the First Cylon War and would serve to change the tide of the war, enabling the Colonials to mount effective defenses of the Twelve Colonies. Once the first twelve Jupiters had been constructed, and the Articles of Colonization signed, regular commissions for Jupiter Class Battlestars began, allowing more than the original twelve to be constructed.

However the Jupiter Class would soon be succeeded by the Mark II variant, an upgrade that addressed many of the design flaws and shortcomings of the original Jupiters. By the end of the First Cylon War, only three of the surviving Jupiter Class Battlestars would still be in its Mark I configuration, only one of them being one of the Original Twelve. The rest had all been either upgraded to Mark IIs or destroyed. Over the course of the forty year Armistice, the number of Jupiter Class Battlestars would fall, with the Mark I Jupiters becoming extinct within ten years of the Armistice beginning, with the Mark II Jupiters remaining in service until all that remained was the original Jupiter, the Battlestar Galactica, which was scheduled to be decommissioned into a museum but later recommissioned back into service with the outbreak of the Second Cylon War.

Technical Information:
The Mark I Jupiter Class Battlestar represents a massive step forward in the evolution of Colonial Military Tech. The Jupiter Class is unique in that it was explicitly designed to combat the Cylons and features older technologies such as non-networked computer systems, wired telephone receivers, and more as a means of minimizing the Cylons' abilities to remotely hack into Colonial vessels. This did indeed help to baffle and slow down the Cylons' hacking efforts, forcing them to focus on individual systems rather than being able to hack multiple systems at once. The Mark I Jupiter Class is armed with sixteen Heavy Battlestar Artillery Batteries, with eight located on its dorsal spine in two groups of four batteries, six located on its ventral side with three situated near the bow and the remaining three evenly spaced down its ventral frame. The final two batteries were located beneath the Mark I's prow. Additionally the Mark Is were equipped with eight missile tubes, located in a pair of "eyeballs" on the port and starboard sides of the forward hull. The Mark Is were also equipped with over four-hundred-eighty-eight dual point defense CIWS batteries and flak batteries.

The Mark I Jupiters were well armored, much like their Mark II successors, but sported a thicker forward hull section. The Mark Is also sported an experimental feature that would be exclusive to the Jupiter Class: retractable flightpods. The Flight-pods on a Jupiter Class was designed to be retracted into the main hull. This was intended to allow Jupiters to safely ferry smaller craft in its hangars for FTL jumps or to safely nestle these craft within the Battlestar's armored hulls.

However this design did have a drawback. The design left the Battlestar's dorsal spine weaker than most and required that the pods be retracted to enable the Jupiters to execute an FTL jump. Performing the jump without retracting the pods could cause massive structural failures down the Battlestar's spine, effectively "breaking her back." This weakness would persist even into the Mark II design, but was not readily exploitable by the Cylons in combat save for, perhaps, forcing the Battlestar to remain in combat a little longer while it retracted its pods before jumping away. This problem could be remedied though by locking the pods in their extended position and structurally re-enforcing the open spaces. Such refits would require a long period in dry-dock though so such plans were shelved during the War and the Jupiter Class as a whole was largely retired before the outbreak of the Second Cylon War.

The Mark I Jupiter Class however would set a record for the largest crew requirement of any vessel utilized by the Twelve Colonies, requiring 5000 crewmen to operate at its peak, with a skeleton crew at just under one-third that number. Later Battlestar models, including the Mark II Jupiters, would have far smaller crew compliments, with the Mark IIs shaving the compliment down to 3000.