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Originally Posted by Damocles
Some questions.
How many Raiders can you send through a tanker-inflated wormhole?
How big was that wormhole each tanker opened?
Note that the freighters/tankers shown were NOT carriers and could not ferry aboard a hundred Raiders each..
Those Raiders had to get to their IPs under their own power.
That means something had to get them there either as a carrier or as an escort that could operate the "tramline".
Now I have a very good idea of just how much negative entropy it would take to transmit a man(if it was even possible) through a wormhole. A tanker, even a military tanker full of TYLIUM would not have the power to do that designed into it.
Therefore; I propose that the Cylons built special prepositioned wormhole inflation machines(Call these devices, "Jumpgates", at their end of the the wormhole tramline.)
That might explain the low number of tankers seen, and the lack of basestars(carriers).
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Well, there's a great deal of "handwavium" involved in any discussion like this; we can't realistically say that we can even predict how a given FTL system will work, be it a wormhole, jump-point, warp, hyperspace or whatever.
Recall that the tankers from LL were "en route" to Gamoray; that means that the tankers themselves must be FTL-capable. My thinking is that any military vessel should be able to generate at least double their normal jump/displacement-field to envelope another vessel[s], and likely triple it. Because the tankers did not withdraw prior to the attack, I'm guessing that they exhausted their organic fuel load getting into the Cimtar system; the fuel in their bunkers was reserved for the Raiders.
From my estimated size of the tankers vs the Raiders, I think that the tankers could have safely "towed" about 100 raiders each, then topped off their tanks as their sensors picked up the Colonial Fleet arriving in-system.
As for the surviving Raiders at Cimtar, after the last battlestar there is destroyed, they likely broke and ran, trying to hide, until the Cylon SAR(Search And Rescue) groups could show up -- no sense in leaving perfectly good Raider craft and Centurion crews to float off into Eternity...
