Numo

Puppis kills a lupus with a numo ^{(TOS: "The Lost Warrior")}.

A numo is a weapon similar to an air gun, operating on compressed air. It is a mainstay weapon on Equellus, and is unable to penetrate the armor of Cylon Centurions.

Puppis claims that a numo can kill a lupus from 10 metrons. Before that claim however, Puppis claimed that his mother, Vella, was unable to hit the side of a granary with a numo.

Bootes attempts to use a numo pistol against the Centurion Red-Eye, but fails to do so. Others have previously attempted this, some succeeding in denting Red-Eye's armor before being dispatched by the Centurion ^{(TOS: "The Lost Warrior")}.

Tie-in Material Information

• According to Encyclopedia Galactica (a non-canonical piece of merchandise published in 1979):

The Numo is a primitive hand weapon that uses compressed air to propell a small projectile. It can injure or kill small game or unshielded humans at short ranges. Numo guns were common during the Late Era of Darkness, but they are found in common use only on backward planets like Equellus.

Note

• Like many other terms in the Original Series, the naming of this weapon is derived from a real-world term. "Numo" is a sound-alike for a pneumatic gun, another word for a type of "BB" gun.

• Apollo's comment about never seeing a numo suggests that the Twelve Colonies of Man primarily uses energy weapons against the heavily armored Cylons during the Thousand Yahren War. This is supported in the events of this episode as many gunfighters fall to Red-Eye because their projectiles cannot pierce the Cylon's armor, while Apollo's laser pistol takes down the Cylon in one shot.

• The weapons of the Re-imagined Series, in contrast, are all projectile-based or use a form of conventional and nuclear explosives. This episode is one of the few instances where projectile weapons are seen, aside from those of Earth depicted in Galactica 1980.