Talk:Battlestar Galactica Role Playing Game

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So I managed to see a copy uploaded to Scribd the other day and here are some notes I picked up from it, aside from the Colonies descriptions.

• Socinus' first name: Pieter.
• James "Jammer" Lyman is a Leonid (from Leonis) with a Gemenese mother. He was also assigned to Galactica from Battlestar Orion two weeks before the attacks.
• Donald "Chuckles" Perry (though they use the first name Jeremy) was from Caprica City, Caprica and escaped the Fall of the Twelve Colonies aboard the Elegant Dream.
• Elosha was born on Libran (written as Libris).
• Diana Seelix is from Virgon.
• Dwight "Flat Top" Sanders is half-Virgon, half-Picon.
• Fireball's name and rank are: Lieutenant Jaco Gwinn, from Sagittaron. He was assigned to Valkyrie and escorted civilian ships to Roslin's location.
• AU = 93 million miles.
• Galactica was 300 million miles from Caprica at the time of the attacks.
• One of the refinery ships is called Tauranian, which I believe is from the Miniseries novelization as well.
• Nearly every botanical ship in the fleet is either owned or run by Aquarians.
• Phelan spent time at a penal colony on Canceron.
• Zephyr (identified as Space Park) is a cruise ship/passenger liner built by the Librans, something from the old website.
• There are several merchant ships in the fleet.
• A ship in the fleet is a processing vessel called Mekata.
• A ship in the fleet is called Picon Dreamer and its skipper is Captain Mayra Shane.
• An Aquarian delegate is named Shandra White (Miksa Burian is the most common one, though considering the mixed make-up of the Quorum of Twelve unless you had a speaking role and unlikelihood they could retain extras for beyond an episode it wouldn't be a surprise if there was a secondary delegate to appear when necessary).
• The Colonial Marine Corps was led by the Chief of Marine Corp Operations (CMCO).
• The CAP consisted of 2 Vipers scouting the edge of the fleet with an occasional Raptor added, likely defunct by the time Pegasus appeared.
• The Colonial Fleet military is led by an Admiral of the Fleet followed by a Fleet Command Staff in charge of dozens of installations, institutions, outposts and facilities. The fleet make-up consists of battlestars, gun platforms, support ships, tankers, tenders and fast-strike fighters divided in 120 battlestar groups.
• Cimtar is identified as a small moon.
• The government chain is led by a democratically-elected president and under him are the Cabinet of Ministers (Defense, Education, Justice, others) and the Quorum of Twelve - responsible for confirming cabinet ministers and nominating/confirming the Vice President (when they are squabbling with each other). There is also the People's Council and a Lord's Council consisting of Priests and Oracles who's power seems to lie in justice and legislature.
• Ship data:
• Galactica: 4,593 x 1,275 x 739 feet, crew compliment (standard): 3,100, passenger compliment (standard): 7,000, support craft complement (standard): 80 Vipers, 20 Raptors, 12 assorted or 132 Vipers, Raptors and other support craft (Note: Galactica functions at a third of this strength at the time of the Fall of the Twelve Colonies).
• Colonial One: 277 x 49 x 72 feet, crew compliment (standard): 15, passenger compliment (standard): 150, evacuation compliment (standard): 500.
• Astral Queen: 846 x 321 x 209 feet, crew compliment: 14, penal custodians: 10, convicts: 1,500
• Cloud Nine: 3,428 x 3,618 x 1,012 feet, crew compliment: 800, staff: 400, passengers: 1,000
• Gemenon Traveller: 197 x 58 x 71 feet, crew compliment: 30, passengers: 200 (using emptied cargo holds)
• Olympic Carrier: 825 x 130 x 75 feet, crew compliment: 25, passengers (standard): 500, evacuation compliment (standard): 1,500.
• Viper Mark II: 27.5 x 8.8 x 15.4 feet.
• Viper Mark VII: 32.4 x 9.7 x 18.4 feet.
• Raptor: 28 x 9.5 x 18 feet.
• Basestar: 4,500 x 2,250 x 625 feet.
• Raider: 29.3 x 18 x 5 feet.
• Heavy Raider: 35 x 11 x 10 feet. Passenger compliment: 12.
• Also Ranks data (Fleet / Marine):
• Admiral / Marine Admiral
• Commander / Marine Commander
• Colonel / Marine Colonel
• Major / Marine Major
• Captain / Marine Captain
• Lieutenant / Marine Lieutenant
• Lieutenant junior grade / Marine Lieutenant junior grade
• Ensign / Marine Ensign
• Master Chief Petty Officer / Sergeant Major
• Chief Petty Officer / Gunnery Sergeant
• Petty Officer 1st Class / Staff Sergeant
• Petty Officer 2nd Class / Sergeant
• Specialist / Lance Corporal
• Deckhand / Private First Class
• Recruit / Private

There was quite a bit of the Twelve Colonies history and what each of the Colonies resemble that no longer matches what was later shown on screen and now we use with the quasi-canon map (though if I was on the Map I'd have swapped Tauron and Virgon because of Gaeta's dialogue suggesting Caprica and Virgon shared the same system without using FTL).

Hope this helps a little. - Corey "Shadow" Danian (talk) 03:42, 23 October 2026 (UTC)

While this is all great information, none of it should be taken for canon as the creatives had very little input in these products. Definitely worth adding, just with the proper context. Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate} 14:37, 23 October 2026 (UTC)