Whoops! Small editing mistake in the factsheet, the ship is 1789 meters long not 11789! My bad. :)

People in the comments compare the Mercury class and valkyrie but the point of this giant was to not to act alone but to support a fleet of smaller vessels. The Valkyrie and Mercury classes were meant to compliment each other. The leaner and more flexible ships flanking an enemy while the sheer brute power of the command ships tied up baseships in a slugging match. With the Mercury ability to replenish lost Vipers such a battle group could tear across Cylon space, wrecking havoc far beyond the range of the old Olympia class Battlestars.

Yea lets just destroy the ship thats perfectly suited to our current situation

What the most people don’t know, this shipclass even had 2 raptor magnetic launch tubes

God i love Pegasus, never has a ship gone out with more style, swining til the end with the icing on the cake being the baseship taking a flightpod to the face. I did love the fact that Lee thanked the ship before abandoning her.

Still mad at Lee Adama for getting the Pegasus destroyed.

0:25 ah the Battlestar Susagep, the most powerful battlestar of them all.

A beast armed to the teeth and built for war. Imagine the whole fleet of Mercury Class Batllestars intact and unleashing their wrath upon the fragile Cylon Basestars. They would chew them up within hours. An easy and decisive victory for the Colonial Forces.

They may not have the best technology in all of sci-fi universes, but for me, the Battlestars, specifically the Jupiter and Mercury class Battlestars, are the best ships in all of sci-fi

Enjoyed the nod to the original series with this design. Unfortunate that the writers felt they needed to include the ship for half a season only to write it out the way they did. Cant blame the Lee Adama character for following the script, but people will.

Perhaps the thing I most greatly admire about these ships is they're more realistic than spacecraft from other shows. These ships look as spacecraft should look. Powerful, durable and slightly ominous.

God I love bsg

I waited a long time for this. There she is, the called her the beast and the name fits but she is also a beauty. Easly my favourite bsg design.
Like David i am mad at lee for wasting that powerfull ship but your last line helped me to make peace with that. Going down saving all humanity is not that bad of an end for the last of her kind.

When I see this I just think, "dam you, Lee"

This is Pegasus-Actual .

Probably the best looking starship design in sci-fi!

By far one of the best designed ships in science fiction

Pegasus was lost... #BlameLeeApolloAdama

I think the BSG battlestars, especially Pegasus and Valkyrie, are the most beautiful science fiction ships I have seen in a while.

I still love these old videos.