Nice Work!
I enjoy reading about the new Galactica starship and look forward to more details as the series progresses...and to adding my own edits, too.
Keep up the good work on this page.
- On behalf of the rest of the team, thanks! This wiki has grown a lot from the work of a few hundred people and a lot of readers! Spencerian 22:44, 13 October 2005 (EDT)
- I am here, I make the edits. There was little choice in the matter. --Ricimer, October 13, 2005
Formatting Question
When formatting the "full name" of Galactica is it:
- ...the Battlestar Galactica
- ...the Battlestar Galactica
or
- ...the battlestar Galactica?
It seems to me that it should be the second.
- "Galactica" or "the battlestar Galactica"; never "the Galactica". Battleship and aircraft carrier are not proper nouns, so battlestar isn't either. See Battlestar wiki:Standards and Conventions#Ships. --Peter Farago 20:56, 17 October 2005 (EDT)
Tallies
FYI, I'm working on a fairly major revamp of these, using MASON and Joe's source page idea. --Peter Farago 20:59, 17 October 2005 (EDT)
Why does it state that Galactica had 2 squadrons of MKVII's on board the ship at the begining of the series? This would be a big inconsistancy with what we saw in the miniseries.
At the decommisioning ceremony we see one squadron of vipers led by Apollo doing a flyby. This squadron leaves the ship for Caprica after the ceremony and is rerouted to engage the cylons.
When Starbuck is released from the brig she reports 20 pilots available but no vipers. Adama then orders the MKII's in the museum pressed into service.
The squadron of MKVII's led by 'Ripper' is then destroyed by the cylon virus.
IF there were 2 squadrons of MKVII's on the ship, where is that second squadron during all of this? It didn't launch with Ripper's squadron and it wasn't available for Starbuck and the other stranded pilots to use. (They didn't know the MKVII's were useless until after the first squadron was destroyed.)
It's more likely that the MKVII's we see at Ragnor and later in the series are made up from homeless vipers that were carried to Ragnor with Roslin's fleet, plus a few spares put together from storage aboard Galactica.