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I think the "fan estimate" of 6-8 Viper squads is off. According to http://galactica.tv/colonials/galacticatv.shtml, the Galactica had only 2 Viper squadrons. Since it was a museum ship, it's possible this is less than the usual complement.
-- John Reese
Hi John,
Thanks for contributing! It's nice to see that the site's picking up now!
Actually, there are bits of information on the Galactica.tv (or Galactica2003.tv) website that are suspect, such as Tigh's first name being "Paul", as opposed to the canonized "Saul". We mainly use the episodes for canonical information; the Zoic, as the Colonial Archivist (Ernestborg9) can tell you, is mainly conjecture unless canonical info shows up to disprove it.
However, Battlestars in general carry 6-8 sqads; Galactica does carry two. (Or did, as I'm sure that the Galactica is now left with, at most, one full squadron of Mark IIs from the Mini-Series, over the course of the series.)
- Joe
Other Battlestars
Since the encounter of the Pegasus we have learned of another type of Battlestar, will this page be edited in regard of this?
Another point is the appearence of the Galactica before the ship has been refitted after the war. Is it clear that it had the appearance of the orginal show or is this unclear?
Hardwing
- I've updated the page to reflect that this page deals primarily with the original battlestar class, of which Galactica is a member. I added a note on Pegasus and her class. There is a page for the Mercury-class battlestar, which could be edited and updated as this one as we get more technical information on that ship class. Note that only battlestars mentioned in an episode are canon; the rest technically may be made-up until then. Spencerian 19:00, 26 September 2005 (EDT)
Armament Details
- With 512 Point-Defense Turrets, thats 1024 PD Guns, and from onscreen evidence, the Rounds Per Minute is atleast 90 or more. (fan estimation.)
- Assuming a firing rate of 2 rounds per second, thats 120 rounds per minute, and from all turrets equates to 122,880 rounds per minute. 2048 rounds per second. Thats alot. (fan estimation.)
- Considering a raider has been shown to be destroyed with around 4-10 direct hits, this means that should raiders enter the firing solution, would take only a few seconds to get blown up. If targetted by the PD turrets, less then a second. It would take a single turret 1 second to destroy a raider. That isn't accounting for maneuverability of the raider however. (fan estimation.)
- Also, with 24 Rail gun turrets, thats, 48 rail gun , Barrels, if you will. Atleast 960 Rounds per minute (1 round per 3 seconds)
- Onscreen evidence shows around 1 round firing per 2-3 seconds (please correct if wrong). Going with the 1 round-2 seconds, you get a single turret firing in a minute, 60 rounds. times that by 24 and you come to 1,440 rounds per minute.
- Due the turrets being "rail guns", the rounds go much faster then the rounds fired from the PD turrets. This means that a single hit to a raider should destroy it due to the kenetic energy imparted to the raider. If this is true, then a battlestar, with accurate aiming, could take out 1,440 raiders in a minute. Thats like, double the estimated capacity of a basestar! Thats if every shot is a direct hit.
This is interesting. Do you have a source for: the number of point-defense turrets, the number of rail guns, and the existance of rail guns (on-screen evidence indicates a three-rail design, which is inconsistant with the physics of a rail gun)? I don't think any of those things have been shown or mentioned on screen yet.
This line of inquiry might enable us to speculate on the Battlestar's total ammo store, if we can derive our estimates from good data. However, the concept of a Basestar sending two raider wings directly into Galactica's firing solution is a little silly. Galactica's firing solution has been used to provide cover for vipers and screen the ship from nukes, not to target enemy fightercraft directly. --Peter Farago 11:55, 28 September 2005 (EDT)
- Aramaments - Defensive
- 24 x primary railgun turrets (mounting 2 guns apiece)
- 512 x point-defense turrets (mounting 2 guns apiece)
- Aramaments - Defensive
- according to the wiki entry.
- also pictures on there show the existance of the rail guns. 8 ontop. 8 on the under side of the 'crocodile head', and 8 on the underbelly.
- the Rate of Fire is all my doing however.
- can someone get me a short video of when the ship actually fires? cuz im actualy needing this much detail for something im doing (and using this wiki as a reference for).
- its guessing though i counted erm, 498 turrets myself.
- and worked out for that too , ive got those calculations somewhere.
- keeping in mind some of the personnel guns they have, that fire ate more-then-1-round-per-second (in some cases. for instance a gattling gun, while not seen onscreen they likely have one, what with theyre parralels with earth tech)..
- its more then realistic RoF for each turret no?
- asfor the rail gun RoF
- on second thought,
- ill need to re-examine the footage of the rail guns firing.
- theyre not said to be rail guns but theres a shot somewhere of 4 turrets , that resemble the rail guns, firing.
- ok ill stop now.
- thx for the, well, not going mad :)
- edit - oh sos forget this: --Alex mcpherson 12:26, 28 September 2005 (EDT)
- Be careful when citing unsourced fan-estimates in your calculations. I don't think those stats on turret count should even be there without a source. This article needs some serious cleanup in that regard. As for rate of fire, that can probably be estimated by frame-stepping through the relevant effects scenes in the miniseries. --Peter Farago 12:39, 28 September 2005 (EDT)
- Shall I upload my modified pics of the underbelly, top and side somewhere and link them in here for others to count? i can link to both the unmodified and the modified versions so people can compare each individual one. and asfor the frame-stepping, is there a scene of the galactica firing, upclose in the first 5 episodes? --Alex mcpherson 14:04, 28 September 2005 (EDT)
- I think it would be better for you to upload it to your own web space if possible and then post links here, if that's possible. It would be interesting to see. Close-ups on Galactica's guns firing can be found in the mini-series, and I believe the footage was reused in "33". --Peter Farago 16:57, 28 September 2005 (EDT)
- I just wanted to point out that the Galactica has 20 heavy turrets, not 24. There are eight on each of the dorsal and ventral sides and four under the nose of the fore-section. You can see these on the Zoic high-res pictures of the Big G. --Talos 19:53, 28 September 2005 (EDT)
- I uploaded a picture to show what I mean.
- I uploaded a picture to show what I mean.
- I just wanted to point out that the Galactica has 20 heavy turrets, not 24. There are eight on each of the dorsal and ventral sides and four under the nose of the fore-section. You can see these on the Zoic high-res pictures of the Big G. --Talos 19:53, 28 September 2005 (EDT)
- I think it would be better for you to upload it to your own web space if possible and then post links here, if that's possible. It would be interesting to see. Close-ups on Galactica's guns firing can be found in the mini-series, and I believe the footage was reused in "33". --Peter Farago 16:57, 28 September 2005 (EDT)
- Shall I upload my modified pics of the underbelly, top and side somewhere and link them in here for others to count? i can link to both the unmodified and the modified versions so people can compare each individual one. and asfor the frame-stepping, is there a scene of the galactica firing, upclose in the first 5 episodes? --Alex mcpherson 14:04, 28 September 2005 (EDT)
- Be careful when citing unsourced fan-estimates in your calculations. I don't think those stats on turret count should even be there without a source. This article needs some serious cleanup in that regard. As for rate of fire, that can probably be estimated by frame-stepping through the relevant effects scenes in the miniseries. --Peter Farago 12:39, 28 September 2005 (EDT)
This Article Needs Work
Who will join me in stripping this article of non-canon information and clearly labelling sources? --Peter Farago 19:07, 28 September 2005 (EDT)