What is "battlestar"

Battlestars are capital ships from the science fiction universe of Battlestar Galactica, depicted in the original Battlestar Galactica movie and series, the Galactica 1980 spinoff, and the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica series.

Battlestar and similar may refer to:

• Battle star, an award issued to U.S. Navy ships for participation in battles.
• Battlestar (fictional spaceship), a type of spaceship in the original and new television series Battlestar Galactica
• Battlestar (reimagining), spaceship in the reimagined Battlestar Galactica
• Battlestar (comics), a superhero in the Marvel Comics universe
• Battlestars: Return of Convoy, the penultimate part of the Japanese Transformers continuity
• Battlestars (game show), an American game show that aired on two separate runs on NBC during the early 1980s
• Battlestar (computer game), "a stellar-tropical adventure game" originally written for the PDP-11/70
• Battlestar (Intergalactic Warrior), a type of crime fighting superhero in the television series Vallator: Defender of the Future

Battlestar (Lemar Hoskins), who was also the fifth Bucky, is a fictional character, a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He was created by Mark Gruenwald and Paul Neary in Captain America #323 (November 1986).

A battlestar is a battleship/carrier hybrid starship in the reimagined science fiction television series Battlestar Galactica. The reimagined series' battlestars and the series' other visual effects were designed and created by Zoic Studios for Battlestar Galactica.

The battlestars Galactica, Atlantia, Triton, Solaria and Columbia were named in the miniseries; battlestars Pegasus and Valkyrie were seen during the subsequent television series. Twelve battlestars were built at the start of the first Cylon War, one for each of the Twelve Colonies, Galactica represented the colony of Caprica. The fleet had grown by the time of the miniseries, as over thirty were confirmed to be destroyed during the opening wave of the Cylon attack, a loss which Kara Thrace describes as "a quarter of the fleet".