Talk:Flight pod/Archive 1

The Starboard Pod's Hangar Deck

The flight-unusable hangar deck of the starboard flight pod was first used as the makeshift morgue for those killed in the nuclear strike aftereffects at the start of the Mini-Series. They couldn't be the regular hangar deck for the morgue--they're too busy retrieving the remains of two squadrons of Vipers at the time, and to have the bodies there would be cramped AND gross.

The starboard hangar is also in use at the end of the mini-series and seems to be used as an assembly area often (perhaps in "Home, Part II" as well. Unlike its port side, the starboard hangar deck is practically empty. Funerals were held here, probably in "Act of Contrition", and the bodies were buried in space through one of the launch tubes or Viper retrieval area of some kind as shown in that scene. --Spencerian 14:49, 13 December 2005 (EST)

Might be worth someone adding a section on Camp Oil Slick maybe? As a related but non-canon note, wouldn't it make more sense to put this flight pod into operational service now that Galactica has Pegasus' complement of Vipers? --Fordsierra4x4 02:20, 20 November 2006 (CST)

To add to this confusion about the starboard pod being used ... in Black Market when Racetrack is returning Apollo to Galactica, thy approach the starboard pod.--RUSnooky 23:59, 15 June 2007 (CDT)

A Measure of Salvation

Apollo mentions landing in the starboard pod in AMoS. On the Ragnar Anchorage forum someone claims that Raptors took off from it. But as far as I can see it, the only take off seen is around 35:25 and uses what looks like the port pod (cool shot btw). Can anyone confirm/deny that?

In any case I wouldn't draw too many conclusions from that. If it's indeed in an VFX shot, it could still be an error, but even the dialogue piece could be an error. It could be rationalized by saying that they wanted to land in an isolated place, as Cottle demanded a quarantine. Nearly all other evidence points to the hangar decks being relatively deserted, used for storage and for refugee camps (the pod is huge! Those aren't mutually exclusive) --Serenity 11:47, 5 February 2007 (CST)

"Since Galactica's landing bays don't seem to use artificial gravity.."

Surely Galactica's pods must use artificial gravity. It wouldn't be much use as a musum otherwise? FredTheDeadHead 11:57, 4 March 2007 (CST)

Well, that's a point, but that might have been installed later. In the Miniseries, there are spacesuited figures floating around in zero-g inside the active flightpod. --Serenity 12:26, 4 March 2007 (CST)

When does that happen? Could I have a rough timestamp please? FredTheDeadHead 14:04, 4 March 2007 (CST)

When Colonial One first docks to Galactica. At around 28:10. Look at the floor to the right of the ship. One of those workers is clearly floating. So in normal operation they don't seem to use AG. Maybe for they installed something into the floor for the museum... --Serenity 14:18, 4 March 2007 (CST)

Hate to be anal here...

... but which pictures are we talking about, exactly? Are we talking about the Nimitz comparison? If so, we need to make this far more clear and precise:

From comparing various graphics, it can be seen that the length of one of Galactica 's flight pods is around 660 metres long, 60 metres tall and 46 metres wide. Most of the internal space is taken up by the pod's enormous landing bay, giving it similar dimensions.

--Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate - Sanctuary Wiki — New} 21:16, 24 October 2007 (CDT)

I think analysis this detailed from a single picture that was only ever meant to be rough comparison isn't helpful anyways. I don't see how that narrows it down to one-meter precision. However, I really couldn't care less about such dimensions and can easily do without them. --Serenity 01:37, 25 October 2007 (CDT)

That's my feeling on the subject, to be honest. -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate - Sanctuary Wiki — New}

And being more objective: it say "various graphics". But what are these? I only see one. --Serenity 01:44, 25 October 2007 (CDT)

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