Bacho
January 13th, 2006, 09:03 PM
In the first episode, the cylons stage a massive attack and devistate the colonies. Okay, fine and dandy.
However, as a military historian, I find a few flaws in the premis.
1) All the colonial fleet battlestars are on crew standdown.
There are two flaws with this concept, except in port, no capital ship would be on full stand down. In the case of the battlestars, Vipers would be on ready 1, ready 5 and ready 15.
Plus, all the battlestars would have had full power available. Even discounting inertia, once you get the fleet moving, more than one of the battlestars would have escaped.
2) Military Ports within the Colonies
Example, Pearl Harbor, 1941. While most of the battleships were dead in the water, the Nevada did attempt to sortie. She almost made it.
Other smaller classes did actually break out and join up with a few heavy cruisers that were heading into the harbor.
Some of those ships would have sortied, and been able to escape the attack.
3) As the fleet of refugee ships gather, vipers on long range patrol could have been used to bring in the scattered military vessals.
Okay, the plot of one lone capital ship escorting a ragtag fleet is a great story line, not much would change if there were more military ships in the fleet.
So, I would have gone with that scenerio, adding a spin off series of 3 heavy ships, fast battle cruisers dispatched ahead of the main fleet searching for earth.
This series, "The search for Earth" deals with different situations, and finally, they discover Earth. The lost tribe. The monitor our television channals, catch the gameshows, sitcoms, soapoperas, CNN.......
And send down a medical team to pick up subjects to find a cure for the dreaded cylon virus that must be responsible for the mass insanity on the planet. :LOL:
However, as a military historian, I find a few flaws in the premis.
1) All the colonial fleet battlestars are on crew standdown.
There are two flaws with this concept, except in port, no capital ship would be on full stand down. In the case of the battlestars, Vipers would be on ready 1, ready 5 and ready 15.
Plus, all the battlestars would have had full power available. Even discounting inertia, once you get the fleet moving, more than one of the battlestars would have escaped.
2) Military Ports within the Colonies
Example, Pearl Harbor, 1941. While most of the battleships were dead in the water, the Nevada did attempt to sortie. She almost made it.
Other smaller classes did actually break out and join up with a few heavy cruisers that were heading into the harbor.
Some of those ships would have sortied, and been able to escape the attack.
3) As the fleet of refugee ships gather, vipers on long range patrol could have been used to bring in the scattered military vessals.
Okay, the plot of one lone capital ship escorting a ragtag fleet is a great story line, not much would change if there were more military ships in the fleet.
So, I would have gone with that scenerio, adding a spin off series of 3 heavy ships, fast battle cruisers dispatched ahead of the main fleet searching for earth.
This series, "The search for Earth" deals with different situations, and finally, they discover Earth. The lost tribe. The monitor our television channals, catch the gameshows, sitcoms, soapoperas, CNN.......
And send down a medical team to pick up subjects to find a cure for the dreaded cylon virus that must be responsible for the mass insanity on the planet. :LOL: