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The Olympic Carrier was a civilian passenger liner in the reimagined Battlestar Galactica series.

The ship appeared in the episode "33".

The Olympic Carrier was a fish-shaped passenger vessel, typical of many such ships used by the people of the Twelve Colonies. The ship managed to unite with the refugee fleet after the Cylon attack on the Colonies, and was supposedly carrying 1300 Colonial refugees, one of which was Dr. Aromak, a colleague of Dr. Baltar, who may have known that he was involved with helping the Cylons.

After the Cylon attack, the ship was somehow compromised by the Cylons, who placed a tracking device aboard to pinpoint the fleet's location everytime they an made FTL jumps. Over the next few days, the fleet would be attacked by Cylon Basestars every 33 minutes to the exact second (which was the length of time the tracking signal took to reach the pursuing Cylon fleet after each jump). The crews of the Colonial fleet were fighting fatigue and ready to crack under the stress.

Later however, the Olympic Carrier falls behind during a jump and doesn't return for several hours. In the meantime, the Cylons did not attack. Suddenly, the Olympic Carrier reappears; the crew claiming they had a problem with their FTL. When asked over radio how they escaped the Cylons, they give unconvincing excuses that they were "let go" and "just lucky".

When they fail to follow an order by Commader Adama to stop their engines and not approach the fleet, Adama sends Raptors to scan the ship, where Capt. Apollo detects the presense of a nuclear weapon onboard. Adama, with President Roslin's hesitant approval, orders Apollo and Lt. Starbuck to destroy the Olympic Carrier, killing all aboard. This is all to the relief of Baltar, as Aromak may have been able to point him out as a traitor.

Thirty-three minutes after the reappearance of the Olympic Carrier, the Cylons attack once again. After another jump, the Cylons do not return.

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