From: daviderl31@yahoo.com
"cloud dreamer" wrote in message
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> On 4/9/2010 7:52 PM, David Milligan wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> The battlestars have not been built yet. There is no council at the
>>>>> time
>>>>> of Caprica. The colonies don't unite until the cylon war
>>>>> starts...which
>>>>> is
>>>>> when the battlestars are built.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> As large and a complicated as the batlestars are, to start
>>>> building
>>>> them ONLY when the war begins is pretty much a suicide plan. Maybe they
>>>> were
>>>> just orbiting around the planets with skeleton crews (much like the USA
>>>> before Pearl Harbor)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> There are no battlestars. The first twelve were built at the start of
>>> the
>>> war. That was indicated in the miniseries.
>>>
>>> ..
>>
>> That's not entirely true (not any more). Just watched the third
>> season episode "Hero." Adama was commander of the Battlestar Valkyrie.
>> He
>> sent Bulldog in a Raptor (or Viper) across the Armistice Line to see what
>> the Colons were up to. He had to shoot Bulldog down to keep Cylon raiders
>> from finding out he had crossed into their space. Later Adama was
>> assigned
>> to the Galactica as a kind of punishment for almost being found out (as I
>> understand it). If there were two battlestars, I'm sure there were more.
>>
>
> You have the wars mixed up. Adama was commander of Valkyrie and Galactica
> before the SECOND Cylon war. The one that destroyed the colonies. (BSG
> Miniseries)
>
> The battlestars were built at the start of the FIRST Cylon war, six years
> from the time of the Caprica pilot, 52 years before the SECOND Cylon war.
>
> At the time of the Caprica pilot, there are no battlestars in existence.
> (The original post I replied to wondered why we hadn't seen any
> battlestars during Caprica and I replied that they weren't built yet...and
> they hadn't been built).
>
> Timeline:
>
> Caprica: Pilot. Today. No battlestars. No united colonies.
>
> Caprica + 6 years: start of FIRST Cylon War. Union of 12 colonies,
> creation of Council of Twelve, construction on battlestar fleet begins.
> Galactica completed two years later. Adama joins the military near the
> end.
>
> Caprica + 18 years: The FIRST Cylon War ends after Final Five show up and
> promise the Cylons resurrection in return for ending the war.
>
> Caprica + 58 years: The SECOND Cylon War starts.
>
> ..
I'm glad somebody's keeping the timeline straight -- I stand
corrected.
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