10 Fastest Ships In Battlestar Galactica

The Cylon Raider is the pinnacle of intergalactic warfare. A Cylon Raider is fully automated, being controlled by the organic brain that is grafted into its metallic shell, giving the Cylon Raider its iconic red eye scanning from side to side.

The crescent-shaped ship can turn at high velocities, can carry a payload of several thousand armor-piercing bullets as well as dozens of missiles. Cylon Raiders can even deploy small nuclear warheads. This, coupled with the fact that every single Cylon Raider has a miniature FTL drive, and you have the deadliest and fastest ship in the Cylon Armada.

Even when a Cylon fighter is blown up in combat, which is difficult enough as the ships have self-healing capabilities, its consciousness just moves into another pre-made Raider, meaning that destroying a Cylon Raider amounts to nothing more than delaying the inevitable in terms of Humanities extinction.

Yet even with this fact, one can't help but feel slightly optimistic for humanity's chances every time one of these chrome batarangs goes up in flames during combat against the Galactica's fighter craft.