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   Beth Smarr  did so declare   
   (news:_Qb2f.9863$Tn5.5032@trnddc08) :   
      
   > Andrew Venor wrote:   
   >> Chris < wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>> After Boomer shot Adama, Tigh had   
   >>>> flashbacks to meeting Adama on a space   
   >>>> freighter and they plan to return to the   
   >>>> fleet. Huh? What is the story here? After   
   >>>> the First Cylon War, were they mustered   
   >>>> out?   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>> It's doubtful that either Tigh or Adama fought in Cylon War I. Both   
   >>> would have been teenagers when it ended.   
   >>>   
   >>> I got the impression Tigh was kicked out of the Fleet due to his   
   >>> drinking, and his longtime friend Adama got him back in.   
   >>>   
   >>> --   
   >>> "I reject your reality and substitute my own" - Adam Savage   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> Much of this was covered in several of Ron Moore's Podcasts and the   
   >> flashback scenes this season.   
   >>   
   >> Tigh started out the first war as a Chief Petty Officer who got his   
   >> commission after he was the senior surviving NCO on a ship that was   
   >> boarded by the Cylons.  After receiving his commission he was trained   
   >> as a Viper pilot.  It was Tigh's experiences fighting a long bloody   
   >> war that led him to try and find some comfort in the bottle.   
   >>   
   >> Bill Adama entered the Fleet as a Viper pilot late in the war and was   
   >> serving on the Galactica at the end of the conflict.   
   >>   
   >> After the war both men were discharged, along with many other   
   >> servicemen, from the Colonial military during a general down sizing   
   >> of the forces.  It was after the war while serving on a merchant ship   
   >> that Tigh and Adama met for the first time.   
   >>   
   >> Adama used his wife's family connections to get reinstated in the   
   >> Colonial forces.  And then after getting settled back in used his   
   >> connections to get Tigh back in as well.   
   >>   
   >> ALV   
   >   
   > Thank you :)  I missed a whole lot coming into viewership late, didn't   
   > I.   
   >   
      
   Not really, there's a huge backstory that Moore and Co. have worked out   
   in their pencil sketches of the characters but we see very little of it   
   onscreen, the content is really just reference material to help the   
   writers.   
      
      
      
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