The last in this series, for now, is the Mercury-class battlestar. This is the newest, most powerful ship in the Colonial Fleet at the time of the Cylon attack. The onscreen example is Pegasus, and there is still a bit of speculation on her capabilities, but this is the best I could glean:
BATTLESTAR PEGASUS
SHIP DATA:
Class: Mercury Length: 5872′ Beam: 2187′ Draught: 1131′ Decks: 35 Scale: Spacecraft Crew: 1700 standard Passengers: up to 10,000 max
ATTRIBUTES:
Agility: d4 Strength: d12+d4 Vitality: d8 Alertness: d10 Intelligence: d10 Willpower: d10
Life Points: 28 Armor: 6W, 4S Initiative: d4+d10 Speed: 5 [SL/JC]
SKILLS: Heavy Weapons d6, Mechanical Engineering d4, Perception d6, Pilot d6
TRAITS: Construction Facilities (d4), Formidable Presence (d6), Tough (d4)
ARMAMENT: Heavy Skirmish Range Point Defense System (d12W Planetary-scale ), 34 Capital-Range Heavy Railguns (d12+d2W Spacecraft-scale), 24 Short Dradis-Range Heavy Missile Launchers (d12+d4W Spacecraft-Scale), 12 Short Dradis-Range Nuclear Missiles (d12+d8W Spacecraft-scale)
AUXILIARY VEHICLES: 200 (8 squadrons) Mk VII Vipers, 40 Raptors, 12 Marine Landing Shuttles, 6 standard shuttles, assorted work vehicles
Schematics courtesy of Starship Schematics Database, Jim Stevenson’s encyclopedic site.
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