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

>>> 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>.

That was what was displayed on screen.	After researching what's out
there, 
I found several missing links in the chronological order of events from 
various BG sources. 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.

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.

>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.

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.

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

I will be running two BG events this year at GenCon.  Both are based on
the 
The Great War, where the Colonials first go to war with the Cylons.  I
will 
also be running more BG events at PentaCon with perhaps macrotures like
what 
the Sci-Supply group did with Star Wars at GenCons past...should be very

exciting.

Mike

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