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Re: BSG what the ****!? /*yeah spoilers probly*/
I get the horrible feeling deep down in the depths of my perverted heart that we might just see the Pegasus going, uhm... nose to waist with a Basestar at some point, seeing who is built tougher... :nervous:
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Re: BSG what the ****!? /*yeah spoilers probly*/
im supprised that the peggy has lasted nearly as long as it has. i honestly didnt think it would last very long, a few episodes tops and certainly not this long. but i do have the feeling the liberation effort will cost them a few ships. id send in a wave of raptors with nukes, soften them up abit, and then bring the battlestars in to finish the job.

i just watched the fanalie again, damn baltar pisses me off.
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Re: BSG what the ****!? /*yeah spoilers probly*/
So Baltar just managed **** up everything really bad. He single handedly managed to hand over most of humanity to the Cylons in one move.

I really didn't see a lot of these plot twists coming. Al being a Cylon? The reaction was funnier than hell.

Still, the next season should be interesting.
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Re: BSG what the ****!? /*yeah spoilers probly*/
im supprised that the peggy has lasted nearly as long as it has. i honestly didnt think it would last very long, a few episodes tops and certainly not this long. but i do have the feeling the liberation effort will cost them a few ships. id send in a wave of raptors with nukes, soften them up abit, and then bring the battlestars in to finish the job.

i just watched the fanalie again, damn baltar pisses me off.

Apparently, the Pegasus survives largely to throw off fan expectations.  I think it survives at least the 1st half of S3 (unconfirmed); but it's pretty valuable for the story, I think, and I wouldn't be surprised if it survives much much longer because of the opportunities it gives.

 

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Re: BSG what the ****!? /*yeah spoilers probly*/
yea, the way it was before peggy you really couldnt do anything about basestars, save nuking them. but as we know galactica's warhead supply is short. peggy gives em that assault ability. otherwise galactica is just a defensive platform.
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Re: BSG what the ****!? /*yeah spoilers probly*/
Of course, we don't know for sure that Galactica doesn't have the same anti-cap torpedoes that the Pegasus has.
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Re: BSG what the ****!? /*yeah spoilers probly*/
Of course, we don't know for sure that Galactica doesn't have the same anti-cap torpedoes that the Pegasus has.

Has some rather large main guns on the front, for one thing, which I'm sure are for anti-Basestar use.  I think they were shown used in the miniseries (just before Tigh gives a warning to Gaeta? that one of the ammo hoists is red or similar).

 

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Re: BSG what the ****!? /*yeah spoilers probly*/
That's in "33", and I think it was for the upper main battery guns. Galactica's main battery is more flexible then Pegasus', mounted upper (presumably lower too, but there's never been a good shot of the underside of the ship AFAIK) in full turrets rather then forward-mounted fixed. Less rate of fire, but twice as many guns (not counting the underside ones which may or may not exist). It probably all works out to about the same. And Galactica's main battery capable of damaging a Basestar; witness the salvo fire it put out in "Resurrection Ship, Part II".
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Re: BSG what the ****!? /*yeah spoilers probly*/
That's in "33", and I think it was for the upper main battery guns. Galactica's main battery is more flexible then Pegasus', mounted upper (presumably lower too, but there's never been a good shot of the underside of the ship AFAIK) in full turrets rather then forward-mounted fixed. Less rate of fire, but twice as many guns (not counting the underside ones which may or may not exist). It probably all works out to about the same. And Galactica's main battery capable of damaging a Basestar; witness the salvo fire it put out in "Resurrection Ship, Part II".

So it was.  Just started watching it from scratch again, got them mixed up; I'm sure there's some large turrets mounted in the 'nose' section, I'll see if I can work out some way to get a shot of it.  Resurrection (1 & 2) isn't on over here until next Tuesday, though.

EDIT; ok, the shot I'm thinking of isn't in 33.  I think it's in the miniseries; not sure how I got it and that line from 33 mixed up.
EDIT2; ok, have absolutely no idea where it is.  Distinctly remember it, it's a cutshot to the sort of gap in the bow, which shows 2 large guns firing away.
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Re: BSG what the ****!? /*yeah spoilers probly*/
I remember it as well, it's right before the Galactica jumps out.

Galactica does have big guns, but are apparently nowhere near as powerful as Pegasus' - or they make less of a boom.
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