[Black Wolf]

Are you sure it's meant to have all its panels though? I've always thought of the armour as just protecting the key areas of the ship.

[Roanoke]

Seems unlikely a ship missing so much of it's intended armour would actually be useable in a fight.

[Unknown Target]

Maybe it's a sort of reactive first - defense armor. Like the ship is obviously armored, but maybe this was a new kind of armor that was being retrofitted to it.

[WMCoolmon]

I think it's more likely that armor was being removed

Possibly the outside armor is some kind of 'first-defense' armor, designed to detonate warheads and deflect light ammunition, while the inner armor is meant to absorb severe hits. Hence the ribs and the space in between the first and second layers of armor, this would allow some kind of structure to be put in place to absorb any initial explosive force that got through, or just serve as an open space.

However I think the reason for the Galactica's mottle appearance is most likely because it looks cooler.

[NGTM-1R]

However I think the reason for the Galactica's mottle appearance is most likely because it looks cooler.

Good old BILC.

[Omniscaper]

Idk, the Pegasus looked awefully cool and BEEFY herself, and she is supposed to be a more advanced Battlestar. But I still prefer Galactica's curvy sleekness. It will be interesting to see a ribless design variation of the BSG.

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[Mefustae]

In regards to the Armour and  Ribs, they are meant to be like that. Look at the symmetry of the scarce plating on either side of Galactica. More poigniently, there are guns inside the ribbed indentations, had they been covered by armour, these guns would have been covered. Trust me on this one, it is highly unlikely that any armour once covered the 'ribs', and highly unlikely that an overhaul was in progress to either remove or add armour plates.

[WeatherOp]

In regards to the Armour and  Ribs, they are meant to be like that. Look at the symmetry of the scarce plating on either side of Galactica. More poigniently, there are guns inside the ribbed indentations, had they been covered by armour, these guns would have been covered. Trust me on this one, it is highly unlikely that any armour once covered the 'ribs', and highly unlikely that an overhaul was in progress to either remove or add armour plates.

What I was thinking.

Also, the ribs would make it harder to disarm the Galactica, you would have to shot the guns one by one, instead of cleaning of the whole side with one nuke.

[Sandwich]

...guns inside the ribbed indentations...

Can you post screenies to back this up? I tend to agree that they are in between the ribs, but I've got a feeling that that didn't mean the rest of the ship wasn't covered in armor.

EDIT: Oops, hey - bump.

[Bobboau]

yeah, there could have been gun ports or something.

[deep_eyes]

i read an article regarding the look of pegasus.... and from what i remembered, the design for the BSG was drawn up to be like the modern new age look of a battlestar, but when season 2 was being written and the episode was being drawn up, it was decided to make pegasus, although more advanced than the galactica, to have a more retro-new age look. it resembles the classic battlestars from the 70s, with a modern touch....

the ribbs on the bsg however to me i think was either having to do with the decomisioning, however why would a military start removing armor off a carrier if its still in service?

[Mefustae]

I have .avi files of every single Battlestar Galactica episode on my HDD, and I know exactly where the guns inside the indentations are shown, but i've no idea how to actually get a screenie of this. If anyone would like to inform me as to how I can take a screencap off an .avi movie file, i'd be greatly appreciated, as I could end this insipid misconception once and for all...

[Singh]

Use Virtualdub, forward to your frame of choice, go to the edit menu (i think), click 'copy frame file to clipboard' and then paste into pain and save.

Run a google search on Virtualdub - it'll be the first hit on the list.

[Sandwich]

"Pain"?

EDIT: Oh, Paint! Here I was, trying to think of some "Photoshop Ain't Image N-something" acronym....

[Mefustae]

Okay, here it is...



While it may be small, and the quality leaves much to be desired, you can plainly see that those guns are in between the ribs meaning that any armour over them would have covered those guns. These guns also appear to be dedicated fighter suppression weapons, rapidly firing slugs at Raiders/Missiles/whatever, while the main guns (pictured below) I would surmise as being interchangable between larger projectiles or flak, but that's just my guess.



On that note, is it possible to have the main guns rise out of the hull a lá when Galactica first 'opens up' it's armament at Ragnar?

[StratComm]

Extremely difficult with the current code implimentation of submodel animation.  If translation were supported it would be a lot easier, but without it I'm not sure there's any good way to do it.