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*[[File:TRS - Miniseries - Haphazard Material Handling at Ragnar Anchorage.jpg|thumb|Generators in the background while material handling goes awry on [[Ragnar Anchorage]] {{TRS|Miniseries, Night 2}}.]]These devices are probably standard equipment aboard ships such as battlestars, given Lee Adama's knowledge about the electric pulse generators. The [[Ragnar Anchorage]] also has this equipment available in their inventory, suggesting wider-spread use. | *[[File:TRS - Miniseries - Haphazard Material Handling at Ragnar Anchorage.jpg|thumb|Generators in the background while material handling goes awry on [[Ragnar Anchorage]] {{TRS|Miniseries, Night 2}}.]]These devices are probably standard equipment aboard ships such as battlestars, given Lee Adama's knowledge about the electric pulse generators. The [[Ragnar Anchorage]] also has this equipment available in their inventory, suggesting wider-spread use. | ||
*Such devices might have been part of a battlestar's fighting tactics against Cylon attacks in the first [[Cylon War]], but [[Humanoid Cylon|not in the second]], since Cylons were [[Cylon Centurion Model 0005|purely mechanical]] at the time and their circuits were vulnerable to EMP attacks unless shielded. Given that a non-military craft such as ''Colonial One'' recovers very shortly after the pulse, the EMP may not be an effective ship-disabling weapon. Lee Adama mentions that simulations performed at [[War College]] resulted in low probabilities that a generated EMP would fool Cylon forces, suggesting that EMP's are a defense and deception tool rather than a weapon {{TRS|Miniseries, Night 2}}. | *Such devices might have been part of a battlestar's fighting tactics against Cylon attacks in the first [[Cylon War]], but [[Humanoid Cylon|not in the second]], since Cylons were [[Cylon Centurion Model 0005|purely mechanical]] at the time and their circuits were vulnerable to EMP attacks unless shielded. Given that a non-military craft such as ''Colonial One'' recovers very shortly after the pulse, the EMP may not be an effective ship-disabling weapon. Lee Adama mentions that simulations performed at [[War College]] resulted in low probabilities that a generated EMP would fool Cylon forces, suggesting that EMP's are a defense and deception tool rather than a weapon {{TRS|Miniseries, Night 2}}. | ||
*During the [[Fall of the Scorpion Fleet Shipyards]], the battlestar ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' gains valuable time to escape by a [[blind jump]] when the radiation from the Cylons' nuclear weapons temporarily blinded their own DRADIS {{TRS|Pegasus}}. <ref>Admiral [[Helena Cain|Cain]] says "the blast blinded the Cylon DRADIS, | *During the [[Fall of the Scorpion Fleet Shipyards]], the battlestar ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' gains valuable time to escape by a [[blind jump]] when the radiation from the Cylons' nuclear weapons temporarily blinded their own DRADIS {{TRS|Pegasus}}. <ref>Admiral [[Helena Cain|Cain]] says "the blast blinded the Cylon DRADIS", making it unclear to which physical phenomenon she refers to exactly. This effect is not an EMP in the strictest sense, since a significant EM field is only created when a nuclear detonation's gamma-ray emissions interact with the matter in an atmosphere and produce free electrons through [[w:Compton scattering|compton scattering]], which in turn interact with a planet's magnetic field. There are no nuclear EMPs in the vacuum of space. The gamma radiation generated by an explosion alone can nonetheless disrupt DRADIS and [[wireless]] communications, as they rely on a form of EM radiation as well. Another possibility is the interaction of the gamma radiation with vented atmosphere or the outer layers of the planet's atmosphere.</ref> | ||
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