Galactica (2003 Video Game)

Battlestar Galactica from the Video Game

The battlestar Galactica' is the central ship in the video game "Battlestar Galactica", released in 2003 by Vivendi Universal Games.

The setting of this game depicts Galactica as a veteran battleship in a setting that makes it a "prequel" of the events of the Original Series and the Miniseries by approximately 35-45 years, but with significant differences to both.

The player takes on the role of "William Adama", a character that shares the name of his Re-imagined Series character, but whose history and continuity, and space fighter follows more of the Original Series. As such, the battlestar Galactica shown in the game seems mostly integrated in the Original Series continuity, but not fully.

The young Adama grows into leadership throughout the course of the game. Confirming Adama's growth is the character page of the Imperious Leader Erebus, which speaks of the young Adama in the game as the one that, according to "sacred prophesies," will "lead the last surviving humans to the location of the 13th tribe." If the game is taken as canonical, Galactica is eventually fully refitted to the status seen at the start of the Original Series, without alien technology needed to aid it. The age of the battlestar as stated in the game implies that Galactica has fought for at least half of the Thousand Yahren War.

The Galactica of this video game is predominantly based on that of the Original series, but with notable changes designed to reflect her 500-yahren service and the fact that she has had to rely on alien technology for upgrades and refits. Text from the game notes:

"The Battlestar has been repaired often and parts of its structure are clearly newer or are made of stranger, alien materials. Parts of the huge engine nacelles are broken and partly scaffolded, the repairs half-complete, the exposed structures vast and skeletal."

Given the ship is based on the original, it is logical to assume her displacement, capabilities and dimensions mirror those of the Original Series Galactica, and its design.

Galactica's commander in the game is Magus, a character not mentioned in the Original Series.

Five battlestars are mentioned in the game:

• Battlestar Atlantia
• Battlestar Columbia
• Battlestar Galactica
• Battlestar Pegasus
• Battlestar Rycon

Notes

This game debuted in stores on November 18, 2003. The Miniseries of the Re-imagined adventures of a new Galactica premiered on the Sci-Fi Channel less than a month later, on December 8, 2003. Despite suggestions that this game was based more on elements from the defunct Singer/DeSanto revival project, it was in fact created to encompass elements of both the 1978 and 2003 shows. An earlier incarnation of the game based on the Singer/DeSanto project was scripted but never produced.

See Also

• Adama, William (Video Game)
• Battlestar Galactica (Video Game)
• Video game information from The official game site

Original Series definition: unit of time akin to a "year" (see: Yahren)