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Old November 26th, 2004, 05:58 PM   #120
Eric Paddon
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"5) Delphian Empire on Gamoray. What do they look like? Maybe it could have been an idea to have Boomer and Starbuck find some prisoner cells during the fuel raid and rescue some Delphians who could have informed the colonials more about the Cylons and their activities. They also could have remained on the Pegasus after she disappeared?! (what would that do for fanfic writers eh?) "

There is one thing about the Delphians that I think can be extrapolated from this and subsequent episodes.

#1-Their civilization represents the far limits of known charted space from a Colonial standpoint. The planet Gomorrah (or Gamoray, whichever one prefers) is the last planet in the series actually known by name to the Colonials, and after that every new planet they come across in subsequent episodes represents something completely unknown to them. That the Delphians are at the very edge can be further gleaned from Adama being somewhat surprised at first to realize they're close to them, and thus it isn't a system instinctively familiar to most people.

#2-The Delphians may not have been the kind of civilization who believed in deep space travel of their own, at least certainly not going beyond their system as evidenced by the lack of what the Galactica comes across in subsequent episodes until "Greetings From Earth".

Whatever they look like is something the imagination can run with in all kinds of different directions!
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