New Galactica Series - Page 8

Azselendor · #71 January 19th, 2005, 07:00 PM

That's entirely possible too. There may also be others kinds of colonial craft on the galactica. One thing I'm certain she has is nukes. That one has to be a given.

Raging Deadstar · #72 January 19th, 2005, 07:25 PM

If I recall correctly in the Mini Series 2 parter the Cylon Basestar attacked with nuclear Missiles, or some sort of missile based weapon.

The Cannons seemed to be for shooting down Fighters and Incoming Missiles. It makes sense that the Galactica would just weather it. Either its Military Capital Ship Ordinance was stripped when it was about to be decommissioned, or perhaps they know they have a limited amount and can't use them frivolously.

Nodachi · #73 January 19th, 2005, 08:32 PM

The Galactica does have nuclear missiles.

It would seem that the military doctrine being used by both sides is that of air (or in this case space) superiority. I would theorize that fighters are just more cost effective than big capital ships.

Azselendor · #74 January 19th, 2005, 11:14 PM

Naturally it would be in space. Take a battlestar, fill it with 300 fighters and you can move it across a starsystem easier than 30 capital ships.

Starhawk · #75 January 19th, 2005, 11:56 PM

Actually it would be 80 fighters as they have stated they have a compliment of 4 fighter squadrons:
Red
Blue
Yellow
Green
Of 20 fighters each which means 80 fighters.

Okay the estimated total military strength of the Colonial Fleet is as follows:
120 Battlestars (confirmed)
9,600 Fighters (80 fighters per battlestar assuming the new battlestars have the same compliment as the Galactica Class)
480 Raptors (assuming 1 raptor per squadron)
Each fully manned battlestar let's say 5,000 people times 120= 600,000 persons.

All in all a small military navy for 12 worlds each with populations numbering in the billions.

gregebowman · #76 January 20th, 2005, 12:09 AM

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Raging Deadstar said:
If I recall correctly in the Mini Series 2 parter the Cylon Basestar attacked with nuclear Missiles, or some sort of missile based weapon.

The Cannons seemed to be for shooting down Fighters and Incoming Missiles. It makes sense that the Galactica would just weather it. Either its Military Capital Ship Ordinance was stripped when it was about to be decommissioned, or perhaps they know they have a limited amount and can't use them frivolously.

For those of you who haven't bought the dvd, there is a deleted scene in which they show the Galactica dumping all of her munitions as part of her retirement. When it was a safe distance away from the ship, they blew it all up. Don't you know they must have regretted that once the war started. I think the only reason they don't have missiles is that the supply station where they resupplied must not have had any. Or not enough to blow up a Cylon baseship.

As far as Boomer, I think she's fighting her sleeping cell side, and will eventually resolve her conflict and be with the good guys. There's at least 2 of them, and I think they'll both do the same thing. Although one might have to be sacrificed. I wonder if Baltar will really work on a Cylon detection system, or just fake it like he has been doing?

I'd love to see Dirk Benedict and Richard Hatch both appear on the show. Maybe they can reprise the episode where Starbuck finds her dad (in the original episode, it was Fred Astaire). I'm still wondering why Kara is so mad at Colonel Tighe. Someone mentioned awhile back that he could be her father. It's either that, or it could be they had an affair. The reference to his wife doesn't really clear it up. It could mean that Tighe remarried after divorcing Kara's mother, and she took her name. Or it could mean that's why their affair ended, because he married someone who he wasn't supervising (that's why there's rules against fraternization).

Azselendor · #77 January 20th, 2005, 02:21 PM

I think that right there suggests the colonial navy has to be much larger than we thought with many more sizes of ships in additional to battlestars.

Other option is that since the galactica is an older ship, newer battlestars may have larger compliments of fighters and such.

Starhawk · #78 January 20th, 2005, 03:20 PM

Either that or it sugjests a different mentallity about warfare then what modern Earth humans consider to be "proper" warfare.

Azselendor · #79 January 20th, 2005, 11:45 PM

could be, we simply don't know enough about the structure of the galactica universe in this series.

Makinus · #80 January 21st, 2005, 07:14 AM

WARNING - POSSIBLE SPOILER

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gregebowman said:
I wonder if Baltar will really work on a Cylon detection system, or just fake it like he has been doing?

he will create one but it have a catch: it takes (IIRC) around 9-10 hours to test the blood sample of 1 person... and only one can be tested at the same time... and only Baltar seems to know how to operate the machinery (he needs to operate himself the detector) - so with rougly 48.000 humans in the fleet you can do you own math to calculate how much time it will take to test everyone... (3 or 4 years i believe, and this without counting sleep periods for Dr. Baltar)