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Old September 25th, 2004, 08:55 PM   #76
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In the pilot, Apollo says "Just fighters. Maybe a thousand." Thus the number. A thousand fighters would be sufficient to do the job, given the fact that almost no one was ready to launch interceptors. At 200 fighters to each Battlestar, that should do it. And, even if more Battlestars had survived Cimtar, the Cylons had done their job. Kept them tied up, and unable to defend the Colonies. Aftgerwards, shot-up nearly wrecked ships will present no serious threat.
(As an aside, imagine this. It is 1945, and a group of 5 American carriers are moving through the Pacific. The enemy has sued for peace, and no one is expecting treachery. Suddenly, radar picks up over 1,000 enemy planes. 50 miles and closing. Your pilots are either asleep or off-duty. Your planes are mostly unfueled, and on the hangar decks. You have to turn the ships into the wind to launch, and to top it off, no one is manning the anti-aircraft batteries. By the time you can get planes and pilots together, gassed up, armed and on the elevators....)
Now, after they flee the Colonies, Apollo saya to Jolly "chances are some of it was shielded enough from the bombs to be saved." Jolly tells him that they checked "for radiation. Yes." So we can assume that some form of nuclear weapons were used on the Colonies. Remember the picture of one of the planets as the ships leave? We see masses of fire where cities used to be. Why the straffing? It would make sense that the Cylon would not nuke every Human settlement. One, they may not have that many bombs. Two, their BaseShips can bombard from orbit. Three, the Cylons want the Human cities, as they did those of the Delphians. And four, too much radiation can be as harmful to electronics as to living tissue.
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