Operation Exodus Strongly Considered or Initiated
Intro
Operation Exodus
(by that name, by other names, or by implication)
is strongly considered or put into action
on several occasions.
Though every encounter with a promising-looking planet
does imply Operation Exodus is a desired outcome,
this entry will only list (by season/other) those occasions where
they were close to starting it or did start it.
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Year One
- "Breakaway":
Considered, with Main Computer being ordered to compute it,
but too many new factors and changing factors leave
Computer unable and insisting "Human Decision Required."
The decision is to stay with the Moon rather than risk
the likely impossible return.
- MOLAD:
Early stages are started,
but the operation is cancelled before
actual evacuation commences.
- ATAP:
there are actually
two cases
presented in this episode.
- "Guardian of Piri":
The Guardian, already influencing most Alphans,
instructs an initiation of Operation Exodus,
and subsequently, through Main Computer,
controls the details.
Operation Exodus is completed, shoddily.
On Piri, there is no attempt to take equipment off
the Eagles and start a settlement,
for that has little to do with the Peace of Piri
(the people are in an almost catatonic, drug-like stupor).
Once the Guardian is destroyed, the Eagles
hastily leave, thus reversing Exodus.
- "Collision Course":
Atheria is so large that the
Alphans wonder if they might
survive the collision if they are on the far side of the planet.
The "Operation Exodus" name itself is not mentioned.
- DOD?
- "War Games":
After a battle which is disastrous for Alpha,
the survivors complete the evacuation of Alpha,
for the planet, but are turned back when it is clear
settlement is not possible.
Then the entire episode is
reset:
most of the episode was days-in-a-moment warning
scenario presented by aliens.
Thus, the evacuation never really happened.
- TOA: Initiated but soon aborted?
Year Two
- "Journey to Where" (arguable):
Earth of
2120 makes contact with Alpha,
tries to set up a means of evacuating the Alphans to Earth,
but only three make it there (and in the wrong century),
and they can only be returned back to Alpha before
contact ceases.
However, this would not have been a full Operation Exodus,
as presumably only the people and perhaps some
computer/paper records and some personal effects
would have been taken,
not all the supplies needed to survive in space or a new planet.
- "AB Chrysalis"?
- BOW (arguable):
Apparent Earth people come to Alpha,
indicating they can evacuate the Alphans to Earth,
and three Alphans even appear to make it to Earth.
However, the Terrans turn out to be aliens masquerading
as Alphans' friends/relatives,
prompting the Alphans into actions that
will destroy the Alphans.
The plan is unraveled.
No Alphans actually make it to Earth.
However, even if it had been real and not an alien deception,
it would have been more like JTW,
an external rescue mission of the Alphans.
- "The Seance Spectre":
Eagles become lifeboats,
including major equipment,
in case diversion around Tora
fails to occur
(or presumably due to the possibility of Alpha
taking severe damage).
Helena worries about this option
and people being "at each others' throats" if it happens,
but John compares it to words said after Breakaway.
Year Three
- MFMBA:
Operation Exodus to Terra Alpha is nearly complete,
Sandra completing a message to be
transmitted towards Earth,
while Alan waits for her in an Eagle,
to be the last to leave Alpha.
NOT
- "The Metamorph":
Implied by orders given by (an under-pressure) Koenig,
during which the
first officer protests the abruptness,
allowing Koenig to add
Directive Four,
a clear (to Tony only) contradiction of evacuation.
No steps are taken to follow Koenig's false order.