The Starboard Pod's Hangar Deck[edit]
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)
A Measure of Salvation[edit]
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.."[edit]
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)