BSG, Caprica, Blood and Chrome series topic discussion - May Contain Spoilers

[RCgothic]

Are we sure it's a new form of Base ship?  I thought it was just some pretty awesome close ups.

[Mark]

theyve definatly added detail since the mini series

[Weasel]

I thought so too, but maybe it's because you rarely ever get to look at a basestar at clse range, or for very long?

Anyway, I agree. I too am noticing a much greater emphasis on detail in these new episodes.

[MickJo]

The basestars do look a lot better, also the quality of the version i saw wasn't up to much, , but from the exterior shots how did the Galactica look this week?.

[Master Thief]

Galactica was looking pretty damned good considering the pounding it took from those Basestars in the rescue mission.


Also, a lovely few gifs of BSG. There's a couple of good ones of the Pegasus' last moments :mrgreen:


EDIT: God damnit, forgot to add the link :roll:

http://www.randomtuesday.com/pictures/bsg/

[Pegasus]

Is it just me or do the Basestars seem smaller compared to earlier in Season1 and the miniseries?

I always saw them as being absolutely massive, but now i'm thinking they seem a whole lot smaller, even compared to the battlestars.

[MickJo]

Agreed, the Pegasus must have been 3 times a Basestar's mass.

[Shinzon]

off-topic: man the margins on this page are huge...

kind of on-topic: Love the avatar Neel... uh... Master Thief...

ON-TOPIC: It was cool they had a raptor with them... of course, if they have colonial vessels with them, why can't they use them as some sort of a surprise attack on the fleet, considering they can just put a nuke on it, and set it to collide with some ship?

[RCgothic]

Do you not think teh CAP would instantly intercept a ship on autopilot?

Plus, I don't think the skin jobs would particularly relish the idea of personally piloting a viper against galactica's aces.

[Master Thief]

No doubt about it, it'd be pointless flying a raptor into the fleet carrying a nuke. It'd be intercepted by Vipers well before it could do any damage.

I'm with you on the basestars Peg, they definetely seem a bit smaller. A good way to realise some of the sizing, is when you compare it to the size of the Raiders docked on the inner-sides of the arms.

[Shinzon]

they could send a decoy which the vipers would intercept, while they jump in with the real one right near galactica (or another ship) and collide with it.

[Phaser]

Agreed, the Pegasus must have been 3 times a Basestar's mass.

Whoa.  I never noticed that.  Even with the size difference between Galactica and Pegasus, you're right.  The Basestars are diffinitely far smaller than they used to be.  Huh.

[Nebula]

heh heh that is interesting. However, Could they have two classes of Basestars? The smaller versions could be used for recon duty and escort while the larger ones stay near the Cylon home world for protection, and are only sent out for large scale invasions where numbers count (given that these ships are just flying hangers).

[Weasel]

Shades of Occam's razor...
It would seem that Nebula's hypothesis is the most logical one.

[MickJo]

heh heh that is interesting. However, Could they have two classes of Basestars? The smaller versions could be used for recon duty and escort while the larger ones stay near the Cylon Home World for protection, and are only sent out for large scale invasions where numbers count (given that these ships are just flying hangers).

Quite possible, if Battlestars can have classes, like the Pegasus being a Mercury Class. I dont see why Basestars cant...

Pretty feasible hypothesis.

[Pegasus]

I can live with that

Lokoing forward to see what galactica finds on their new abandoned basestar ;)

[Master Thief]

Neb's idea makes even further sense, since they are pretty damned far out from the Homeworld, and you would send recce ships out there before sending out the big guns.

Also, i'm looking forward to seeing how the crew react to the Hybrid. And how the hybrid reacts to them actually, if she does at all...

Also, i can't help but wonder how that virus can affect Cylons when there was no Cylons around during the time of the 13 Tribes for it to be engineered against. I could understand a computer virus to an extent, but a biological virus which would affect only Cylons?

[Nebula]

Lokoing forward to see what galactica finds on their new abandoned basestar ;)

hmm like supplies to repair the Galactica??

[Tuskin38]

Neb's idea makes even further sense, since they are pretty damned far out from the Home world, and you would send base ships out there before sending out the big guns.

Also, I'm looking forward to seeing how the crew react to the Hybrid. And how the hybrid reacts to them actually, if she does at all...

Also, i can't help but wonder how that virus can affect Cylons when there was no Cylons around during the time of the 13 Tribes for it to be engineered against. I could understand a computer virus to an extent, but a biological virus which would affect only Cylons?

that is a good theory.

[Shinzon]

heh heh that is interesting. However, Could they have two classes of Basestars? The smaller versions could be used for recon duty and escort while the larger ones stay near the Cylon home world for protection, and are only sent out for large scale invasions where numbers count (given that these ships are just flying hangers).

perhaps, but dont the raiders already do that?