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In Season 4 (or 4.5) of Battlestar Galactica, Ellen Tigh and Boomer escape from the Cylon Baseship in a stolen Raptor and head towards the fleet...

From the end of No Exit:

As they make their way down a corridor, Ellen asks Valerii if she has thought through taking part in John's plans. Valerii responds that she has — and surprises Ellen by bringing her to a waiting Raptor. Valerii then races the Raptor out of the baseship, which launches pursuing Raiders. Dodging their gunfire, the Raptor jumps away.

From the beginning of Deadlock:

In CIC, Louis Hoshi detects the Raptor that Sharon "Boomer" Valerii and Ellen Tigh are on, reporting that it (Raptor 702) was logged as missing over a year ago.

So between the two episodes they made their way to the colonial fleet.

My question is: How did Boomer and Ellen know where to find the fleet?

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Those episodes were written after the Writers Strike, so I would personally attribute it to laziness on the writer's part... (It's been too long for me to recall an in-universe reason) – Izkata Nov 24 '12 at 16:27
So going on strike made the writers lazy...? – Django Reinhardt Nov 24 '12 at 17:58
More specifically, there was (for me, at least) a noticeable decline in the show's quality immediately following the strike, and the large gap probably made them want to just finish the series, as opposed to giving it the better ending that the entire 3rd and beginning of 4th season appeared to be leading up to... (All this has happened before, and all this will happen again; all the pieces were in place to turn the Reimagined series into a sequel to the original series, not to mention Starbuck and the mysterious Cylon named Daniel...) But, I'm sort of starting to rant now, so I'm off! – Izkata Nov 24 '12 at 18:12
Ha! Personally I thought the beginning of a season 4 was a mess. It didn't seem to know where it was going. They actually worked during the strike (not sure where you got the idea that they no longer cared!), figuring out what they were going to do for the ending. They realised what they had planned wasn't going to work, so they came up with a new ending. Personally I think 4.5 was a huge improvement over 4.0, but each to their own :) – Django Reinhardt Nov 25 '12 at 9:29

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