Talk:Galactica (TRS)/Archive 1

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.

There are clearly twenty vipers on screen in Ripper's squadron. Galactica is then able to sortie a combined squadron of (roughly) 40 Mk. VIIs and Mk. IIs. This makes perfect sense if Galactica has two squadrons of Mk. VIIs based in its active (port) flight pod, and one squadron of Mk. IIs in the museum (starboard) flight pod.

As for pilots, presumably the ones with ships had something better to do than be "climbing the walls down here". It's fairly typical for a military operation to have more pilots than craft in any case, so that's not an issue. --Peter Farago 18:47, 4 December 2005 (EST)

Well if there was another squadron of MVII's available at the time Starbuck mentions the 20 odd pilots in the ready room, where is that second squadron? If they are sortied after Ripper's mission, they would have been destroyed by the virus. If they're in the tubes waiting for a mission, why didn't they sortie to defend the ship?

This second squadron is never seen onscreen or mentioned in dialogue in the miniseries. It's more likely it didn't exist and the later MKVII's are refugees. Those vipers are at least seen on screen once, and later in the series its mentioned that there are some pilots from other battlestars flying off Galactica. (Crashdown is described as a refugee from "Triton", for example.)

Crashdown was a Raptor pilot; Raptors have FTL and could go to another system, but I don't think Vipers could easily escape to Ragnar that well (unless, like Apollo, they landed on a nearby Civilian ship with Jump engines then escaped aboard that, but that seems unlikely).--Ricimer 17:50, 7 December 2005 (EST)

Didn't Doral say during the flyby at the museum that it was performed by the last Galactica squadron. Since this was the squadron led by Ripper, it pretty much precludes a second squadron. Also, there could have been several Mk VIIs in storage, for spares or down for repairs. Maybe there were extra Mk IIs stored in the starboard hanger. --Talos 17:57, 7 December 2005 (EST)