Talk:Saul Tigh/Archive 1

Age?

The profile states that he is in his "50s" and the article says that he is

"A veteran in his mid-40s to early 50s"

In the commentary for Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down, Ron Moore states that Adama is younger than Tigh, and in addition to this, the fact that the Cylon War took place 40 years ago would obviously mean that he's probably not in his 50s, and definitely not in his mid-40s. Unless someone can argue against it, I'm changing these portions of the article. --Palpatine 22:26, 26 October 2005 (EDT)

We're probalby going to get around to removing age information from most of the character articles soon. See Battlestar Wiki talk:Citation Jihad. --Peter Farago 00:31, 27 October 2005 (EDT)

Even after completely discounting Adama's supposed age of 61 as a reference point, it's still reasonable to assume that both of them are in their 60s, due to reasons I already went into. --Palpatine 23:49, 27 October 2005 (EDT)

Well. Remember that the war lasted for about 12 years (the Articles of Colonization were signed 52 years ago, which Moore says is coincident with the outbreak of hostilities, the war explicitly ended 40 years ago). If we guess that the age to enlist in the colonial military is 18, and Adama enlisted at the start, that would make him at most 70. If Tigh enlisted in the war's last year, that would make him at least 58.

Beyond that, I'm not sure what we can say with much certainty. --Peter Farago 05:26, 28 October 2005 (EDT)