Battlestar Galactica
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August
Metanoia
Colonial Warship, Battleship, Colonial Fleet, Colonial Remnant Force
Columbia-class Battleship (D33)
Image Credit CanisD
The Columbia-class battleship was a Colonial Warship that was active within the Colonial Reserve Fleet and The Remnant Fleet after the Second Cylon War. Known as the precursor to modern battlestars, the Columbia-class battleship was put into service twelve years before the First Cylon War.
Columbia-class battleships became mainstays within the poorer Colonies' fleets. Tauron and Sagittaron were two prime examples of Colonies that used the Columbia-class battleships in their space navies. When the First Cylon War broke out and the Colonies that utilized the Centurion Model 005 Cylons and Mark I Basestars, such as Caprica and Picon, found themselves without a capable space navy to defend themselves. This led to increased demand for the Columbia-class battleships and, eventually, the Galactica-class battlestars, which were direct ancestors of the Columbia-class battleship. After the war, however, these ships were already twenty four years old and considered heavily outdated. They were put into the Reserve Fleet and mostly forgotten. Nemesis was one of three Columbia-class battleships in the Reserve Fleet before the Second Cylon War.
The battleship has an armament of twenty eight heavy anti-ship dual mounted turrets and two hundred and eighty six point defense weapons. Sixteen of her anti-ship turrets are mounted on either side of the ship class as to inflict serious broadside damage. Can hold 60 Vipers and has a maximum crew complement of 5,230 (numerous crew due to the class's large dependency on manual systems).
Columbia-class Battleship (D33)
Image Credit CanisD
The Columbia-class battleship was a Colonial Warship that was active within the Colonial Reserve Fleet and The Remnant Fleet after the Second Cylon War. Known as the precursor to modern battlestars, the Columbia-class battleship was put into service twelve years before the First Cylon War.
Columbia-class battleships became mainstays within the poorer Colonies' fleets. Tauron and Sagittaron were two prime examples of Colonies that used the Columbia-class battleships in their space navies. When the First Cylon War broke out and the Colonies that utilized the Centurion Model 005 Cylons and Mark I Basestars, such as Caprica and Picon, found themselves without a capable space navy to defend themselves. This led to increased demand for the Columbia-class battleships and, eventually, the Galactica-class battlestars, which were direct ancestors of the Columbia-class battleship. After the war, however, these ships were already twenty four years old and considered heavily outdated. They were put into the Reserve Fleet and mostly forgotten. Nemesis was one of three Columbia-class battleships in the Reserve Fleet before the Second Cylon War.
The battleship has an armament of twenty eight heavy anti-ship dual mounted turrets and two hundred and eighty six point defense weapons. Sixteen of her anti-ship turrets are mounted on either side of the ship class as to inflict serious broadside damage. Can hold 60 Vipers and has a maximum crew complement of 5,230 (numerous crew due to the class's large dependency on manual systems).
nivek
As Above So Below
It appears a new Battlestar Galactica series is coming...
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Sam Esmail’s Idea for Releasing New ‘Battlestar Galactica’ Is Unlike Anything Else on TV
With NBC’s streaming service Peacock running smoothly for the last several months, many have wondered about the big projects it announced back when it was starting out. One of them was an ambitious retread of the popular science-fiction series “Battlestar Galactica,” to be produced by “Mr. Robot” creator Sam Esmail.
In a recent interview with Collider, Esmail gave some insight into how he plans to approach the series. He said he specifically reached out to Ronald D. Moore, the helmer of the 2004 reboot of “Battlestar” that became a groundbreaking show in its own right, in order to secure his blessing.
“I spoke to him before I even took on the project to make sure that it’s all kosher with him, because the last thing I want to do is step on his toes, and the one thing we both agreed on is that it won’t be a reboot of what he did,” said Esmail.
Esmail said they’re still in the planning stages for the pilot, but one thing audiences can expect is a release strategy unlike other shows, in that it could be one episode a week or several depending on the mandates of the story.
“For me, it was like, ‘Let’s get in there and tell the right story and it will tell us how many episodes.’ We may dump three episodes in a row because it’s a three-episode-long battle sequence that needs to be dropped in a row even though they’re three signifying chapters, and maybe each chapter is switching a point of view within that battle sequence. There may be a 20-minute episode that’s the backstory of one of the characters that gets dropped right after that,” Esmail said.
He said the show will see a lot of experimentation and go from there, especially once they enter the writers’ room. Esmail himself will not head the series, but said he is open to possibly directing some episodes down the line.
“Battlestar Galactica” originated in 1978 and told the story of a fugitive fleet looking for Earth after the destruction of the Twelve Colonies of Mankind. Ronald D. Moore’s incarnation, running from 2004 to 2009, extrapolated on that plot, infusing it with a stark allegory on America post-9/11.
When Esmail’s “Battlestar Galactica” will premiere on Peacock has yet to be announced.
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Sam Esmail’s Idea for Releasing New ‘Battlestar Galactica’ Is Unlike Anything Else on TV
With NBC’s streaming service Peacock running smoothly for the last several months, many have wondered about the big projects it announced back when it was starting out. One of them was an ambitious retread of the popular science-fiction series “Battlestar Galactica,” to be produced by “Mr. Robot” creator Sam Esmail.
In a recent interview with Collider, Esmail gave some insight into how he plans to approach the series. He said he specifically reached out to Ronald D. Moore, the helmer of the 2004 reboot of “Battlestar” that became a groundbreaking show in its own right, in order to secure his blessing.
“I spoke to him before I even took on the project to make sure that it’s all kosher with him, because the last thing I want to do is step on his toes, and the one thing we both agreed on is that it won’t be a reboot of what he did,” said Esmail.
Esmail said they’re still in the planning stages for the pilot, but one thing audiences can expect is a release strategy unlike other shows, in that it could be one episode a week or several depending on the mandates of the story.
“For me, it was like, ‘Let’s get in there and tell the right story and it will tell us how many episodes.’ We may dump three episodes in a row because it’s a three-episode-long battle sequence that needs to be dropped in a row even though they’re three signifying chapters, and maybe each chapter is switching a point of view within that battle sequence. There may be a 20-minute episode that’s the backstory of one of the characters that gets dropped right after that,” Esmail said.
He said the show will see a lot of experimentation and go from there, especially once they enter the writers’ room. Esmail himself will not head the series, but said he is open to possibly directing some episodes down the line.
“Battlestar Galactica” originated in 1978 and told the story of a fugitive fleet looking for Earth after the destruction of the Twelve Colonies of Mankind. Ronald D. Moore’s incarnation, running from 2004 to 2009, extrapolated on that plot, infusing it with a stark allegory on America post-9/11.
When Esmail’s “Battlestar Galactica” will premiere on Peacock has yet to be announced.
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JahaRa
Noble
Thanks. Now Richard Hatch's attitude in 2004 makes more sense. I spoke to him about the new Sci Fi channel show and he seemed disgruntled, though he was promoting the show he just seemed to be unhappy about the way the story was being written. I thought it was because he was cast as a villain, but now I see he had other plans.
nivek
As Above So Below
The video should have had someone reading the huge block of text in the beginning, its kind of asinine to make viewers read a bunch of text in a video instead of a narrator reading it for the viewers...I can see a sentence or two but this was a bit much lol...
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