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Talk:Mercury class battlestar/Archive 1

Discussion page of Mercury class battlestar/Archive 1
Revision as of 00:16, 16 October 2005 by David Templar (talk | contribs) (Age of class, armaments)

Class Name

So was this actually mentioned in the episode, or is it officially heresay? --Peter Farago 03:01, 24 September 2005 (EDT)

RDM officially christens Pegasus a Mercury-class vessel in the blog for the episode. --Watcher 04:29, 24 September 2005 (EDT)

Specs

Tomorow ill add to this for basic specs. (ill have to borrow the Battlestar page for a template. ill start one the template in notepad here however. when i put it up, please be gentle :)

oh and ill add in a section for fan-fiction if you want.. --Alex mcpherson 12:24, 28 September 2005 (EDT)

No fan fiction, please. Sourced comments from Zoic (the effects guys) would be useful, and if you think you can count the armament emplacements yourself, that would be fine (although I don't think that's possible given the shots we see in "Pegasus"), but unfounded guesses don't belong here. --Peter Farago 12:42, 28 September 2005 (EDT)

Ok. and no i wasnt going to count the guns. and also i was just going to give a fair idea. and im glad i asked about fan fiction first ;) cheers for your advice. --Alex mcpherson 12:45, 28 September 2005 (EDT)

erm, could you post places i can go for sources , ill look on zoic but i dont know any others, i dont even know where RDM's blog is. (-embarrased-). I am quite new here, though. --Alex mcpherson 13:16, 28 September 2005 (EDT)

My Part..

What do you think? When changing part of it, please post here what your changing and to what so i know, as i have well, bad memory for details after reading new ones lol. but seriously, what do you think? --Alex mcpherson 13:59, 28 September 2005 (EDT)

It would be nice to have an article here summarizing what is known, but I think it's lengthy and too heavy on speculation at the moment. I will try to slim it down to a more manageable size soon. I would point out that in my opinion, Battlestar is one of our worst articles, not not a good one to emulate here. --Peter Farago 16:55, 28 September 2005 (EDT)

Age of class, armaments

Would it be fair to say that the Mercury class is at least 12 years old, since Tyrol claimed to have served onboard battlestars such as the Atlantia, the Columbia and the Pegasus since he was 18? It could be that one or more of the ships he mentioned was still the Cylon War-1 battlestar, but considering that there were 120 battlestars by the time of Cylon War-2, and if Galactica was to be the last of her class, it'd seem likely that the Mercury class has been around for over a decade.

The Pegasus appeared to have weapons similar to those of the Galactica's main batteries mounted along side the ship on the flight pods, in a fashion very much like the battlestars of TOS. You can see the mounts swinging into action as the Pegasus alert fighters were launching against Galactica.