Ship of Lights
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The Ship of Lights is an advanced spacecraft from the original Battlestar Galactica, first seen in the episode "War of the Gods". The ship is neither a product of the Colonies, the Cylons, nor the Terrans, (a minor spacefaring human race introduced late in the series who had no connection to the Colonies or Earth.)
The Ship of Lights is vastly faster than any known spacecraft, and appears to have the ability to simply show up wherever needed instantly. Its drive system emits an extremely loud sound which somehow travels through the void of space and can be heard by people in nearby spaceships. The sound of this drive system is sufficient to render any human nearby unconscious. The Ship of Lights also carry an unspecified number of smaller craft which appear as mere balls of light. These smaller craft move so quickly that they can outrun laser blasts fired directly at them. The Ship of Lights itself is quite large, comparable to the size of a Battlestar or Cylon Basestar, though its exact size, crew compliment, and capabilities are largely unknown.
The ship is crewed by an apparently-humanoid race who are never expressly referred to by name in the series, but who are called "Seraphs" in the scripts for the episodes in which they appear. The Seraphs appear to be noncorporeal sentients, and claim rather ambiguously to have once been more traditionally mortal, but evolved to their present state.
