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2012-09-04 - MKVIIE Strike Viper
newman:
--- Quote from: crizza on September 13, 2012, 07:14:31 am ---Tyrrel build a stealth Viper from scratch...
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Chief Tyrol cobbled together a ship from parts found on deck. Carbon plating.. uhhh... made it stealthy. Yea, sure, whatever. But it's still a far cry from having the specialized targeting instrumentation and sensors for a strike fighter. Unless you have spare FLIR/sensors/whatever complex electronic equipment lying around on deck, good luck making it up from nothing.
..but the point isn't in arguing about plot devices, the point is it's possible to come up with one to explain why we didn't see them in the show :)
David cgc:
--- Quote from: newman on September 13, 2012, 04:37:04 am ---2) The Pegasus was equipped with a limited number of strike vipers. These were either used very sparingly since it couldn't rebuild them, or they were all gone by the time we see it in the show.
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I don't have a problem with there being a handful of strike vipers just off-screen. There's enough precedent in the show for it. Galactica's Mark VIIs disappeared between "You Can't Go Home Again" and "Flight of the Phoenix." Assault Raptors popped up half a season after the Pegasus showed up, at which point they started using them almost as much as they used vanilla Raptors (so there goes the excuse that there just wasn't an applicable mission in season 2 to show them off). The in-flight refueling tanker was never actually seen. No one said what happened to the bulk of the Pegasus's Vipers, though logic suggests that her compliment combined with Galactica's would be more than Galactica could carry so they had to put the rest somewhere.
There's enough stuff that was introduced late, retconned, forgotten, or left to the tender mercies of fanwank that I can certainly get behind the idea that the Pegasus carried a handful of oddball Vipers. Heck, sometimes I'd even go so far as to argue the Defender-style ship actually was a military vessel, and even though they never counted it as an asset, its the reason they never really worried about leaving the Fleet totally vulnerable while going off to attack the Cylons. I do not have an issue with this level of gap-filling, especially if it leads to more fun missions down the line.
newman:
--- Quote from: David cgc on September 13, 2012, 09:39:36 am ---I do not have an issue with this level of gap-filling, especially if it leads to more fun missions down the line.
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That's exactly our philosophy on this :)
crizza:
--- Quote from: newman on September 13, 2012, 10:23:22 am ---
--- Quote from: David cgc on September 13, 2012, 09:39:36 am ---I do not have an issue with this level of gap-filling, especially if it leads to more fun missions down the line.
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That's exactly our philosophy on this :)
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Holy, guess you know this site, but thats a...jackpot o.O
http://ravensbranch.allen.com/colonialshipdescriptions.html
CaptHunt:
well, in any case, I would pay good money for a conversion kit to make this out of the Mobius Mk VII
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