Battlestar Wiki:Original Series Article Development Project

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The Original Series Article Development Project is a long-winded title for a fairly large project to develop articles relating to the original Battlestar Galactica.

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Saga of a Star World

A transcript of the episode can be found here.

Relevant Articles	Article Creation
Saga of a Star World Battle of Carillon Battle of Cimtar
Character Expansion	Fact Checking/Expansion/Pics

Verification

Articles that have been worked on, but need verification before crossing out as completed.

• Arts and Entertainment of the Twelve Colonies (TOS) - tucana singers, gambling
• Blonde Taurus - seems pertinent enough for an article of her own...
  • Added bit about "most practical form" as well as the "bigger, stronger, interchangable parts"
• Evolution - the "actor" who portrayed Muffit II
  • Back issue of TV guide with possible Evie info has been ordered.

• Fashions of the Twelve Colonies (TOS) - more screencaps and descriptions of carillon patrons, maybe add the council's dress (especially the more diverse opening council)
• Gold Cluster - to be awarded to Apollo, Starbuck, and Boomer by Sire Uri, the military's highest honor
• Government of the Twelve Colonies (TOS) - government, Quorum of Twelve (TOS), concept of referendum on Carillon (disarmament issue)
• Imperious Leader - one of the main eps for this character
• Society of the Twelve Colonies (TOS) - society, such as religion (Otori sect)
• Technology of the Twelve Colonies (TOS) - Languatron, etc.

Lost Planet of the Gods, Part I

Relevant Articles	Article Creation
Lost Planet of the Gods, Part I
Character Expansion	Fact Checking/Expansion/Pics

Verification

• ale - swiped for the party
• Cylon listening post - needs a second verification
  • Some confusion on the raider count.
• Imperious Leader - at the beginning (should we note the peace offer discrepancy between the epilogue and this ep?)
• Lucifer - first mission

Lost Planet of the Gods, Part II

Relevant Articles	Article Creation
Lost Planet of the Gods, Part II
Character Expansion	Fact Checking/Expansion/Pics

Verification

• Adama's Medallion: noted its use in the marriage ceremony
• Intercept 1, Intercept 2, and Intercept 3
• seal: a description of the ceremony
  • Could Talk:Seal be used as a start?

Needs audio capture (according to talk page). --Steelviper 12:47, 16 January 2007 (CST)

The Lost Warrior

Relevant Articles	Article Creation
The Lost Warrior
Character Expansion	Fact Checking/Expansion/Pics

Verification

• bachelor officer's quarters
• Hatari sector
• Red-Eye
• Vi
• Lacerta
• Macy
• Bootes
• Puppis
• Strider
• Marco
• Jason
• Vella
• vignon
• layers
• nightflyer
• numo
• oviner
• ovines
• lupus
• Equus
• Recon Probe 3

The Long Patrol

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The Long Patrol
Character Expansion	Fact Checking/Expansion/Pics

Verification

• Aerian merchant code - used by Robber, Cassie recognizes it
• Alpha Six quadrant - mentioned by CORA?
• asteroid dust
• Crodan - where the "agro parts" were going to
• Deathstone - terminology (instead of own page), tombstone
• Frodo system - Where Frodo moved from after the Shire became a boring place for him... it is now filled with some "nasty buggers"
• Laser generator - Viper part that makes the lasers go, removed from the Recon viper
  • Could possibly be merged with Laser pump. See talk page.
• Maitre d' - added pic and added a reference to his explaination of the "before the war" comments
• Pulse generator - Viper part related to engines, extra one added to Recon viper
• Quintara - the star cluster mentioned in a deleted scene
• Sanitation ship - spoils the view (but not really)
• short range marker beacon - used to track the Recon viper without breaking comms blackout
• Starchaser - name painted on the side of the Recon viper

The Gun on Ice Planet Zero, Part I

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The Gun on Ice Planet Zero, Part I	t
Character Expansion	Fact Checking/Expansion/Pics

Verification

• 7-11: a game that Boomer mentions that Cree's instructor may be playing back on Galactica
  • Would be better as redirect to Arts and Entertainment of the Twelve Colonies (TOS) --Serenity 13:06, 16 January 2007 (CST)
    • Agreed. -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate} 17:03, 16 January 2007 (CST)
• Arcta - spellcheck of aricle name against subtitles, concordance says Arkta
• armament room
• Barge Lice - reference points to Baltar's escape, but may be from Gun (I or II)
• Grid Rats - see above
  • See Talk:Grid Rats for my merge proposal of these terms. -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate} 21:12, 12 January 2007 (CST)

Moved to Prison Barge inmates, with redirects.

• computer room
• Diethene - scary gas on Arcta
• Deathpoint - temperature at which diethene-rich air turns liquid
  • Simply redirected to di-ethene. -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate} 22:03, 14 January 2007 (CST)
• Kalpa snow garrison
• Killian - viper pilot who gets iced by the big gun when he escorts the shuttle
  • Needs a pic. -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate} 22:03, 14 January 2007 (CST)
• Komma
• Cree
• Hand mine - cats
• Shields
• Kalpa
• Ice Station Thula - Boomer served here
• Medical analyzer - device Leda asks for after crash to check wounded
• Mount Hekla - where the big gun is
• Sector Hekla - where the shuttle crashes on Arcta
• Sector Sigma - space location of Arcta
• Solonite - spellcheck against subtitles
  • Done. Spelling A O.K. -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate} 22:03, 14 January 2007 (CST)

The Gun on Ice Planet Zero, Part II

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The Gun on Ice Planet Zero, Part II
Character Expansion	Fact Checking/Expansion/Pics

Verification

• energy exchange pump - widget destroyed to have the pulsar destroy itself

The Magnificent Warriors

Relevant Articles	Article Creation
The Magnificent Warriors	Constable - poor sap that gets killed by the Borays periodically Forced nitron field - terminology? bogus line fed by Starbuck to Bogan Lord of Bellarium - title claimed by Adama Orion - as origin of the energizer Orion checks - currency Starbuck had in reserve Quantum - unit of currency on Sectar Zeta Quadrant - location of Sectar
Character Expansion	Fact Checking/Expansion/Pics

The Young Lords

Relevant Articles	Article Creation
The Young Lords
Character Expansion	Fact Checking/Expansion/Pics
	Adama's quarters - needs a pic

Verification

• Ariadne
• Attila - spellcheck, I've seen Attila, Antilla, etc.
  • Attila is the correct spelling, per the DVD subtitles. This is also reinforced by the book relating to it, apparently. -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate} 23:08, 25 January 2007 (CST)
• Canus patrol - the patrol that attacks Starbuck and Boomer
  • Should we even bother to note the Cylon, identified as "Canus patrol leader", who survives the dogfight with Starbuck and Boomer? -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate} 23:08, 25 January 2007 (CST)
• Command chamber
• Delta-class planet - Description of the planet
• IL-series
• Kyle
• Megan
• Metron bomb - Lucifer says Specter's getting an awful lot
• Miri
• Nilz
• Omega sector - location of the planet
• Petro - another suspicious horde item, possibly petroleum reference?
• Robus
• Scorched planet policy - variation on "scorched Earth" developed by Specter
• Specter
• Tin cans - terminology, euphemism for Centurions/Cylons (is a redirect to Centurions (TOS))
  • This is also listed on both List of terms (TOS) and Cylons (TOS) pages.
• Worship bell - rung by the Cylons to indicate agreement with the exchange of prisoners

The Living Legend, Part I

Relevant Articles	Article Creation
The Living Legend, Part I
Character Expansion	Fact Checking/Expansion/Pics

Verification

• Apollo (TOS)
• Baltar (TOS)
• Battle of Molecay
• Bojay
• Cain
• Cassiopeia
• Fifth Fleet
• Molecay
• Starbuck (TOS)
• Uniforms (TOS) - just to see if anything cosmetic was missed

The Living Legend, Part II

War of the Gods

• Iblis' ship - Picture and article done. Verification needed.

Fire in Space

• Uniforms (TOS) - Need to add the fire clothing and space suits depicted in this ep.
• Galactica (TOS) - We can use some of the info in this episode to expand a bit on the layout.

General

We should probably do a series of articles similar to the RDM "Twelve Colonies" series that Peter started. Here's an idea:

• Fashions of the Twelve Colonies (TOS) - Covers the clothing and other "bling bling", since it's pretty unique.
• Arts and Entertainment of the Twelve Colonies (TOS) - Good place for triad, pyramid, and minor games we see in the series (in particular this would be a great place for those games we see in "Fire in Space")
• Technology of the Twelve Colonies (TOS) - tech and all that
• Government of the Twelve Colonies (TOS) - government, Quorum of Twelve (TOS), and all that jazz
• Society of the Twelve Colonies (TOS) - society, such as religion
• Life Sciences of the Twelve Colonies (TOS) - Covers the medical and psychological aspects of the Colonies, in progress

Additionally...

• List of Warriors - analog to List of pilots (created 1/16/07, but sorely needing an update)
• Unnamed Battlestar Galactica personnel (TOS) - analog to Unnamed Battlestar Galactica personnel

I'll start this one as named... do we want to port it over to unnamed characters like the RDM version is now? --Steelviper 08:14, 17 January 2007 (CST)

Pictures needed for...

• Blue Squadron

Maybe the big blue squadron/galactica logo that's up in the officer's club? --Steelviper 08:14, 17 January 2007 (CST)

• Military Ranks (TOS) - could use some color
  • What exactly do we have in mind? -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate} 18:06, 17 January 2007 (CST)

Original Series definition: a title of nobility akin to "Sir," typically ascribed to a civilian of the male gender (e.g. Sire Uri, Sire Solon)

Original Series definition: an all-purpose term for Colonial soldier and Viper pilot (see: Warrior)

Original Series definition: Computer, Oral Response Activated; an artificial intelligence capable of operating a Viper ^{(TOS: "The Long Patrol")}

Original Series definition: agriculture ^{(TOS: "The Magnificent Warriors")}

Original Series definition: a title of nobility (e.g. Lord Baltar)

Galactica 1980 definition: a power source (see: energizer); Dillon voices his concern that the energizer feeding power to the invisibility field hiding their Vipers needs to be recharged before the ships are rendered visible ^{(1980: "Galactica Discovers Earth, Part I")}