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Originally Posted by Eric Paddon
And some other points in an adaptation that will need elaborating on is just where did Dr. Ravashol come from, and what was his connection if anything to Colonial Civilization before he found himself on Arcta? In the past, I had sort of envisioned him as someone from the Colonies who fell out of favor in the scientific community because of objections to his concepts in cloning (perhaps for reasons not dissimilar from what we see in the whole cloning debate today) and thus, he just took all his research and escaped to someplace where he could do his experiments in peace.
Another point that has to be settled is, just what does Ravashol mean when he says at episode's end that he hadn't told the Cylons everything about the technologies he's created, which is supposed to be the convenient plot device of explaining how he can keep his people safe after the Galactica leaves, but at the same time it raises the question of this. If Ravashol has technology that can drive back the Cylons, what is it, and why doesn't Adama ask him for the formula in how to duplicate that technology so the Galactica can have better weaponry with which to fight back against the Cylons? Or perhaps Ravashol *did* give them such blueprints, and it had yet to be developed by the time of HOG?
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My take was that Ravishol probably had developed some sort of deflection system, which if used against them, could repel the Cylons from Arcta. While Adama might appreciate the blueprints, something like that would probably requires hideous amounts of power to be effective. The Pulsar canon was likely powered, at least in part, by geothermal energy from the planet itself. Even a Battlestar would not be able to crank out that kind of power.
No doubt he had other interesting doohickeys up his sleeve, but that's what FanFic is for.
