Re: OU ships and a hunt for some Battlestar Galactica "ish" fighters

Michael T Miserendino wrote:

> >>> owner-gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU at internet 01/12/00 04:21AM
> >> (After the battle where the 10 battlestars were nuked, they had 67
> >>fighters aboard... I wonder what their normal complement was?) <<
>
> Phillip Atcliffe wrote:
> >Minor nit-pick: there were only 5 battlestars at Cimtar, IIRC, and 4
> >got fragged. The others (from a non-canonical but generally accepted
> >total of 12) had been destroyed over the years or were off raiding
> >Gammoray <g>.
>
> (snipped)

> In one report (alternate script) there was a sixth
> battlestar that was not stationed with the five shown.  It was
attacked
> first and destroyed before the others could be warned.  Some Vipers
(very
> few) escaped and came back to warn the fleet.
>

Alternate script?  Where did you find this?  I would love to read it. 
Is it an
official script? (ie by the show producers?)

>
> In total there was one battlestar for every colony, so that makes
twelve of
> the original colonies.  In potential ideas for a new BG movie, a 13th
> battlestar might exist that was called the Atlantis...a link to Earth,
the
> supposedly 13th colony.
>

Mr Thurston during an interview stated that there was no mention
anywhere of how
many battlestars there were supposed to be.  The show only states that
there was
12 colonies.  Most "12 battlestar fleet" rumors can be traced back to a
list
that Gary was running past someone else (I forget who)	that just
happened to
have 12 names for consideration.  (To name the other ships at the peace
conference.)

>
> >We have reason to believe that the Galactica can carry 150 fighters,
> >but that's including a squadron from another ship. From that, and on
> >admittedly skimpy evidence, I've concluded that the standard
>complement of
> a Battlestar was around 120, in 4 squadrons of thirty -- >with a large
> margin of error.
>

My friend and I have guessed that a "battle" squadron was about 25
fighters
(give or take) And that the Galactica carried 6 squadrons -- we think
two were
in storage/training.

>
> I have seen a variety of specs on this as well, from less than 100 to
a
> little over.	All the specs for the basestars seem to show, Raider
> complement at nearly 2x to 3x a battlestars fighter complement.  I
just
> model the number of squadrons in FT by one of these ratios.
>

According to the show, a Cylon Baseship could carry 400 Raiders...In the
"Living
Legend" episode Baltar has three baseships, with the equivalent of 1
more --
fighters stationed on Gamoray (however you spell it...)  He expected to
crush
the Galactica until the Pegasis showed up.

>
> Interesting note: The battlestars are supposedly over a hundred years
old...
> that's some service record, eh?
>

Really cool.  That indicates that their technology was built to last.

(snipped)

>
> Mike
>
> Michael Miserendino
> Senior Software Engineer
> Lincoln Re
> mtmiserendino@lnc.com

Donald Hosford