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Where are all the warships in BSG
Matthew
Earthforce Officer
in Zocalo v2.0
All this BSG talk as well as the game BtRL has reminded me of a glaring fact.
Mainly that there insufficient number of war ships shown in the show. Despite all the lip service paid about other types of ships in the fleet we have only seen battlestars. It really strikes me what a grand acheivement B5 was in comparsion even by season2 B5 had heaps of ships displayed by comparison.
My main beef is back in the introductory movie the shows writers kept to the original series history by saying there were on 12 battlestars. I dont know about you but if theres 12 planets loaded with people where a small percentage serve in the military I don't think you could squezze all the military personnel available aboard those 12 ships. So by logical extrension there must be a massive number of additional/supporting ships. The bare minimum ships needed would be some sort of destroyer/cruiser.
I accept that production emphasis would shift to battlestars but it doesn't makesense to abandon building a smaller war ship. I don't see current navies building only carriers. Also you want your cmdrs to have experience commanding smaller crews before you let them loose on a battlestar.
Plus a cruiser/destroyer would make a excellent escort ship much better than a few vipers ignoring the fact such a ship could FTL jump with the ship its protecting.
The whole thing seems to be a cost cutting exercise.
Mainly that there insufficient number of war ships shown in the show. Despite all the lip service paid about other types of ships in the fleet we have only seen battlestars. It really strikes me what a grand acheivement B5 was in comparsion even by season2 B5 had heaps of ships displayed by comparison.
My main beef is back in the introductory movie the shows writers kept to the original series history by saying there were on 12 battlestars. I dont know about you but if theres 12 planets loaded with people where a small percentage serve in the military I don't think you could squezze all the military personnel available aboard those 12 ships. So by logical extrension there must be a massive number of additional/supporting ships. The bare minimum ships needed would be some sort of destroyer/cruiser.
I accept that production emphasis would shift to battlestars but it doesn't makesense to abandon building a smaller war ship. I don't see current navies building only carriers. Also you want your cmdrs to have experience commanding smaller crews before you let them loose on a battlestar.
Plus a cruiser/destroyer would make a excellent escort ship much better than a few vipers ignoring the fact such a ship could FTL jump with the ship its protecting.
The whole thing seems to be a cost cutting exercise.
Comments
Well, mostly. A fan design, the "Defender" was slipped into the Fleet on the show (minus an underslung flightpod on the original design). It's speculated that it was an older warship that was demilitarized and sold to on civilian entity or another.
Remember in Star Trek, anything larger than a runabout is a starship, from the Defiant to the Enterprise-E.
Worf
This post evolved from a argument I had with a unpleasent person who indicated that with 120 battlestars they was no need for any other ship. Plus it didn't matter as the fleet was destroyed.
Unfortunately they will probably do a Star Trek and label anything battlestar. It just as I like to see something different.