Battlestar Galactica (Re-imagined Series)

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  THE GALACTICA (Reimagined Series)
• Craft: Battlestar Galactica (BSG-75)
  Type: Colonial war-era class battlestar carrier/battleship
  Scale: Capital
  Dimensions:
  -Length: 1438.64m (4720ft)
  -Width: 536.84m (1762ft)
  -Height: 183.32m (602ft)
  Skill: Capital ship piloting: battlestar
  Crew: 3,500 (approximate)
  -Gunners: 1,124
  -Troops: 500
  -Skeleton: 800/+10
  Crew Skill: Astrogation 9D, capital ship piloting 8D+1, capital ship
  gunnery 7D, sensors 6D, starship gunnery 7D
  Passengers: 100 (roughly standard; can carry hundreds more in emergencies)
  Cargo Capacity: 50,000 metric tons
  Consumables: 5 years
  Cost: N/A
  FTL Capable: Yes (Colonial, see below)
  Nav Computer: Yes
  Maneuverability: 1D+2
  Speed:
  -Space: 6
  Hull: 8D
  Defenses:
  -Ablative Armor: 1D (see below)
  -Reactive Armor: 1D (see below)
  -Shields: N/A
  Sensors:
  Passive: 50/1D
  Scan: 100/2D
  Search: 200/3D
  Focus: 5/3D+2
• SHIPS:
  -Vipers: 20/40
  -Raptors: 5/30
  -Shuttles: 6
• WEAPONS:
  24 Primary Dual Kinetic Energy Weapons
  Location: Mounted on upper and lower portions of the hull
  Fire Arc: turrets
  Crew: 4
  Skill: Capital ship gunnery
  Scale: Capital
  Fire Control: 3D
  Space Range: 3-12/25/50
  Atmosphere Range: 300-1.2/2.5/5km
  Damage:
  -Flak Rounds: 6D+2 (Blast Radius: 0D/-1D/-2D)
  -High-Explosive Rounds: 8D+2
  Ammo: 200 (reloadable magazines)
  Rate of Fire: 1 (fire-linked, full damage); 2 (not fire-linked,
  -2 damage)
• 514 Dual Point-Defense Kinetic Energy Weapons
  Location: Scattered about the hull
  Fire Arc: 100 front, 150 right, 150 left, 50 rear, 64 turrets
  Crew: 2
  Skill: Starship gunnery
  Scale: Starfighter
  Fire Control: 3D
  Space Range: 1-3/12/24
  Atmosphere Range: 50-300/1.2/2.4km
  Damage:
  -Flak Rounds: 5D (Blast Radius: 0D/-1D)
  -High-Explosive Rounds: 6D
  Ammo: 1,000 (reloadable magazines)
  Rate of Fire: 1 (fire-linked, full damage); 2 (not fire-linked,
  -2 damage)
• 12 Missile Tubes
  Location: Mounted in the forward hull
  Fire Arc: "turret"
  Crew: 1 (bridge crew)
  Skill: Capital ship gunnery
  Scale: Capital
  Fire Control: 2D+2
  Space Range: 1/3/7
  Atmosphere Range: 100/300/700
  Damage: Varies by warhead type
  -Conventional: 9D
  -Nuclear: 10D (Blast Radius: 0D/-1D/-2D/-3D)
  Ammo:
  -Conventional: 100 (per launcher)
  -Nuclear: 5 to 7 (varies, see below)
  Rate of Fire: 1 (takes a full round to reload)
• DESCRIPTION:
• Galactica (BSG-75) is a veteran battlestar and the last of her kind
  still in service with the Colonial Fleet at the time of the
  destruction of the Twelve Colonies. Built during the early days of the
  Cylon War, she remains the only military vessel without integrated
  computer networks. Without networked computers, Galactica never
  upgrades to the new integrated defense system software developed by
  Dr. Gaius Baltar and his team. Because of this and other factors, she
  becomes one of only two known battlestars (the other being Pegasus) to
  survive the renewed Cylon attack on the Twelve Colonies. At the time
  of this attack, she was part of the 75th Battlestar Group (BSG-75).
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• GAME NOTES
• Before getting into the in-depth specifics of the Galactica, I
  wanted to take a moment to explain some key game rule material I've
  added to her for the purposes of gameplay. A while back, I did up
  some stats for the Andromeda, a mighty ship in its own right from a
  series of the same name. This ship had no actual 'shields' like in
  Star Wars, but it did have many different defensive systems that
  nevertheless gave it amazing survivability, even when the odds were
  vastly against it. I have adapted a couple of those systems here for
  the Galactica (and probably any future vessels related to it), to
  reflect how it relied on sheer bulk and heavy armor to defend it
  against the massive amounts of damage it soaked from many battles
  against the Cylons.
• ARMOR:
  -Ablative Armor: The hull is designed to deflect incoming weapons fire
  away from it when it connects with the outer surface. Enemy shots lose
  1D of Fire Control to land a hit on this ship's hull.
  -Reactive Armor: The hull is designed to 'react' to incoming hits when
  they connect, blowing specially designed panels of itself off to keep
  damage from scoring deep into the ship. When a damaging hit is scored
  against this ship, instead of taking what is rolled on the Starship
  Damage Chart, it can instead reduce it's Hull Dice by one 'pip' per
  category of damage rolled on the chart (1 for Light Damage; 2 for
  Heavily damaged; 1D for Severly Damaged; 1D+1 for Destroyed; +1 pip
  for every 5 rolled past Destroyed result). It can do this for a
  maximum of 2D, then takes damage as normal.
  NOTE: The Galactica also seems to be missing many panels of its armor
  since day one of the Fall of the Twelve Colonies, and later iterations
  (such as "Razor") show other vessels of her class with complete armor
  during the original Cylon War when these battlestars were first
  introduced. The Galactica lists above as having 1D in each of these
  defensive systems, but if it or similar ships like it have their full
  plating, then these would be 1D+2, or perhaps even more.
• NUCLEAR WARHEADS: The Galactica's missile launchers are nuclear-
  capable, though she seemed to never have very many of these. These
  are the most powerful weapons in the arsenals of most ships in
  Battlestar Galactica. Aside from packing major damage (10D!), they
  also have a blast radius (0D/-1D/-2D/-3D) like grenades and other
  explosives, though the range is in space units (100m/space unit)
  instead of meters. They also have an EMP effect (electromagnetic
  pulse) that works like ion weaponry from the Star Wars setting. The
  rules for this work just like ion weapons do in the WEG Star Wars RPG
  rulebook, except that it's a blast radius affect. Also, the nuclear
  blast damage is completely adjustable and can have less blast radius
  AND/OR Damage (to a minimum of 0D/-1D range and/or 5D damage), and the
  EMP effect is twice the Damage blast radius, with the damage's
  strength in dice (again, 0D/-1D/etc.). The ability to adjust the
  stats of these missiles is similar to current nuclear weapons
  technology, as they may be adjusted to take out a hardened target,
  while trying to preserve surrounding terrain or allied forces. Like
  using flak rounds in the KEWs, nukes may be fired first to destroy or
  weaken a target, then sending in fighter craft after the initial impact.
• KINETIC ENERGY WEAPONS (KEEs): These are the Galactica's main weapons,
  powerful guns that use highly advanced technology to produce effects
  similar to older firearms and cannons, but with much more deveatating
  effect befitting a large spacecraft like a battlestar. They can fire
  different forms of ammunition, such as high-explosive for penetration,
  or flak rounds for airbursting purposes like saturation fire to take
  out incoming fighters or cause havoc along the hulls of other capital
  ships. These guns come in two types; the main guns used for capital
  scale combat, and the lighter versions used against smaller craft.
  The Galactica has been seen on multiple occassions using these weapons
  in tactical engagements, including saturation fire where it's guns
  choose a direction (fire arc) and saturate it with flak rounds. This
  is preferably used when enemy fighters are coming in from a specific
  direction. The sensor operators give firing solutions to the gunnery
  crews, who adjust their aim and open up with their guns. This makes
  the entire fire arc deadly to pass through, even to Galactica's own
  fighters, who are ordered to steer clear from the affected area to either take out fighters that are not taken out by the saturation fire, or are engaging the enemy capital ship itself.
  -Saturation Fire: A Sensors roll of the range Difficulty Level is needed, made before the guns fire. The weapons then open up on the desired fire arc with all guns, saturating the arc with flak rounds. Any space craft caught in the affected fire arc must roll against that range's Difficulty every round while they fly through it under fire. The Difficulty is Difficult at long range, Very Difficult at medium range, and Heroic at short range. Failure means they take fire and are hit (GM's discretion on how to work out damage!).
• HACKING IMMUNITY: The Galactica is a Colonial War-Era battlestar, one of the first twelve ever produced. They were made with none-networked computer systems which make the Cylon's wireless hacking abilities less of a concern, as this had caused so much easy destruction to the Colonials before the battlestars were introduced. The battlestars need computers to run what sophisticated systems are needed to make the ships work, but they are not linked together as any advanced computer systems should be, and they require much more raw manpower to operate. But this gave the Colonials the edge they needed to presevere in the original Cylon War. This hacking immunity is rendered useless if the crew ever network their systems for higher computing speed and ability, as was shown when Tigh and Gaeta did so to find the rest of the Fleet when they lost contact once before, leaving the ship open to Cylon hacking.
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• HISTORY:
• THE FIRST CYLON WAR
• Galactica was one of the first twelve battlestars to be
  constructed by the Colonials, each representing one of the twelve
  colonies; Galactica represented Caprica. As such, she is some 50 years
  old. While solidly built, various factors during Galactica's
  construction led to the shipyard "cutting corners" when she was
  originally built, with various components not completed to spec ("No
  Exit"). Following the outbreak of Cylon hostilities several more
  battlestars were built. Galactica's first commander was named Nash.
• The original battlestars were all designed with non-integrated
  systems to avoid the Cylons' demonstrated ability to override or
  subvert networked command and control systems early in the war
  (Miniseries). Rather than technological sophistication, the battlestar
  depended on its sheer bulk and defensive/offensive capabilities to
  ward off any threats to itself or the Colonies.
• After the rather mysterious Cylon armistice, and their withdrawal
  from Colonial space, Galactica and her sister ships served the Twelve
  Colonies in a variety of roles. While her surviving sister ships were
  scrapped or upgraded to match the systems capabilities of newer
  Colonial vessels, Galactica continued in service without her systems
  being fully networked or integrated, making her unique among Colonial
  military vessels. Galactica was relegated to intra-system duties for
  at least 20 years prior to her decommissioning.
• DECOMMISSIONING
• With her active career drawing to a close, a decision was taken to
  retire Galactica and decommission her from service. Colonial Fleet
  chose not to scrap her, but to turn her into a combination of living
  museum to the original Cylon War and an educational center, with her
  conversion being overseen by her final commander, William Adama.
• At the time of her formal decommissioning ceremony, Galactica is
  stripped of all but one of her operational Viper Mark VII squadrons,
  her munitions are destroyed, and her starboard landing pod is
  converted into a pressurized museum which houses (among other things)
  a full squadron of Mk. II Vipers as well as a Viper model that appears
  older than the Mark II (Miniseries, also in deleted scenes).
• RETURN OF THE CYLONS
• With the renewed and unexpected Cylon hostilities, Galactica is
  quickly brought back to combat condition and sorties several Mark IIs
  retrieved from her museum, engaging in her first battle with the
  Cylons in over 40 years (all but one last Mark VII squadron were sent
  to Caprica for reassignment). She survives a direct hit by a tactical
  nuclear missile, and later jumps successfully to Ragnar Anchorage to
  replenish her empty ammunition stores at this strategic depot.
• Galactica emerges from the anchorage and engages one basestar with
  her gun batteries, providing cover for a fleet of 75 civilian ships
  harboring survivors of the Twelve Colonies. Once the entire civilian
  fleet successfully jumps away, and as a second basestar approaches to
  join the battle, Galactica recovers her remaining Vipers and jumps to
  the rendezvous point beyond the Red Line, never to return to Colonial
  space (Miniseries).
• LEADING A RAGTAG FLEET
• Since the exodus of the Colonials from their overrun homeworlds,
  Galactica becomes both protector and provider for the Fleet. She
  provides covering fire for the Fleet during Cylon attacks no fewer
  than 240 times ("33", "Act of Contrition"). The battlestar provides
  much of the Fleet with recycled water ("Water") and she is the primary
  source of medical care, where groups of civilians are periodically
  brought aboard for check-ups and treatment ("Litmus"). Galactica also
  undertakes internal policing duties within the Fleet ("Water",
  "Bastille Day").
• Galactica successfully goes on the offensive against the Cylons,
  capturing a tylium fuel mining and processing plant in the process
  ("The Hand of God").
• The advanced battlestar Pegasus, commanded by Admiral Cain, joins
  Galactica approximately 6 months into their exile (See the series
  timeline for special information about this milestone). The two
  battlestars destroy two basestars as well as a critical Cylon support
  ship known as the Resurrection Ship. After Admiral Cain's death,
  President Roslin promotes William Adama to Admiral, restoring him to
  overall Fleet command, but now with two battlestars at his disposal
  ("Resurrection Ship, Part II").
• NEW CAPRICA
• Following the founding of New Caprica, Galactica is assigned to
  the orbital defense force that protects the planet. During this time
  the majority of her crew are allowed to the surface in an effort to
  populate the planet and restore the human race, a majority of whom are
  seemingly convinced that the Cylons will never find New Caprica. The
  diminished crew inevitably results in standard maintenance becoming
  overlooked or ignored; basic military responses, such as the launching
  of alert fighters and routine training exercises become difficult to
  execute. One year following the founding of New Caprica, a fleet of
  Cylon ships jump into orbit of the planet. Severely limited in their
  abilities, Admiral Adama orders the defense fleet to jump away from
  New Caprica along with a handful of civilian ships still in orbit of
  the colony. They vow to eventually return to New Caprica and liberate
  it from the Cylon invaders ("Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II").
• BATTLE OF NEW CAPRICA
• Four months after their escape, Galactica's staff is still in the
  process of developing a rescue strategy with 16 training exercises
  having been completed and a 17th underway when an accident causes its
  early cessation ("Occupation"). This forces both a change in strategy
  and the reformulation of a rescue plan to deal with personnel who have
  not seen conflict in 16 months. While Galactica fights to liberate the
  Colonials on-planet, Pegasus is assigned to protect the remaining
  civilian fleet and continue its search for Earth ("Precipice",
  "Exodus, Part I").
• After coordinating with the New Caprica Resistance, Galactica
  leaves Pegasus to guard the space-bound members of humanity while it
  uses a series of drones to misdirect the bulk of the Cylon Raiders and
  avoid immediate detection by baseships, thus allowing the civilians on
  the planet to escape to their ships and flee New Caprica.
• Galactica then jumps into low orbit, plummeting from an altitude
  of 100,000 feet. As the ship falls, Admiral Adama orders the launch of
  all remaining Vipers. Galactica then jumps back into orbit. In the
  subsequent battle with the orbiting basestars, Galactica is overtaxed,
  out-gunned, and faces destruction when Pegasus unexpectedly arrives.
  Pegasus's salvos draw the attention of the basestars away from
  Galactica, buying Galactica time to bring her FTL drives back on-line
  and escape, but at the cost of Pegasus's destruction ("Exodus, Part
  II").
• Galactica bears the scars of the battle with significant scorching
  and dents to the hull. Nonetheless, the battlestar remains combat
  ready, holding off a superior Cylon force for a short duration in the
  Battle of NCD2539 ("A Measure of Salvation"), and threatening to use
  its nuclear arsenal twice after New Caprica ("The Eye of Jupiter",
  Crossroads, Part II"). Given the loss of Pegasus, Galactica now boasts
  a larger crew, Viper and Raptor complement, to the point where there
  are more pilots than there are ships to fly ("Torn"), although the
  training of new recruits is still ongoing ("Dirty Hands", Crossroads",
  "He That Believeth in Me"). Further, there are various redundancies
  between the two crews that are appropriately dealt with (e.g. Lee
  Adama in a deleted scene from "Exodus, Part II").
• In "A Day in the Life", Colonel Tigh comments that Galactica took
  so much damage in this battle that it would "take six weeks in dry
  dock just to bang out the dents". This indicates that the damage is
  extensive enough to require a significant amount of time (probably
  months) for full repair, and would be unlikely to survive a massive
  battle again.
• RESUMING THE SARCH FOR EARTH
• Galactica takes aboard a significant quantity of civilians
  following the exodus from New Caprica, as several civilian ships are
  lost during the escape from the failed colony. Cramped conditions
  increase as crew and civilians struggle to adapt to life back aboard a
  ship. The civilians reside on the refurbished starboard hangar deck as
  a refugee camp nicknamed "Camp Oil Slick" and later
  "Dogsville" ("Torn, "The Woman King").
• During a food shortage crisis caused by contamination of the
  Fleet's food processing systems, Galactica (along with her Raptors
  acting as pilot ships) guides the civilian Fleet through an area of
  intense heat, light and radiation caused by a dense star cluster to
  reach edible resources on the algae planet. Galactica's heavy armor
  and radiation shielding protect her from the intense effects of the
  cluster, but the ship still suffers hull damage and decompressions.
• The ship confronts a Cylon fleet and barely escapes a nova during
  the events over the algae planet, jumping out at the last moment after
  recovering its ground teams and additional data on a way-point to
  Earth known to the Colonials as the Ionian Nebula ("The Eye of
  Jupiter", "Rapture"). Repairs continue on the journey to the Ionian
  nebula. Damage to one particular airlock nearly causes the deaths of
  Galen and Cally Tyrol during what they expected to be a quick repair
  of a hull micro-fracture ("A Day in the Life").
• When the Fleet reaches the nebula, four Cylon baseships are
  detected following an unexplained power outage. With the entire Fleet
  crippled and unable to escape, Galactica scrambles her Vipers and
  prepares for a lopsided fight, outnumbered and outgunned ("Crossroads,
  Part II"). During the following battle, Galactica manages to hold off
  the main attack of the massive Cylon attack force. Despite the damage
  suffered in previous engagements, the old warship wields her main guns
  and point defense batteries effectively again in defense of the Fleet.
  During the battle Galactica takes many hits while covering the Fleet
  although without crippling damage. Despite having the advantage, and
  managing to destroy or damage several civilian ships, the Cylons
  retreat in the middle of the battle, after detecting one of the Final
  Five among the Colonials ("He The Believeth in Me").
• Galactica is once forced to prepare for a battle against the rebel
  Cylon basestar, but the Demetrius arrives to defuse the situation. In
  the wake of the basestar disappearing from the Fleet ("Guess What's
  Coming to Dinner?"), Saul Tigh assumes command of Galactica, jumping
  along with the Fleet ("Sine Qua Non").
• After Kara Thrace picks up a strange signal in her Viper, the
  Colonials have a direct bearing towards Earth. Shortly later, after
  several years of searching, Galactica and her Fleet finally make the
  last jump to Earth ("Revelations").
• POST-EARTH
• After discovering Earth is a nuclear wasteland, discipline and
  morale on Galactica fall dramatically and the overall cleanliness of
  the ship suffers, e.g. outside CIC, the words "Frak Earth" are spray-
  painted on the walls ("Sometimes a Great Notion"). When former deck
  chief Galen Tyrol disables the FTL drive, foiling the mutineers'
  escape with the ship, he discovers multiple tears in the chamber's
  walls, a sign that the aging battlestar's structural integrity is
  faltering ("Blood on the Scales").
• A structural survey of the ship finds several torn supports and
  weakened areas in the hull, and a more in-depth examination finds
  endemic metal fatigue throughout the ship, with virtually every part
  of the hull riddled with small cracks and fissures.
• Galactica's advanced age, the corners cut during construction and
  the abuse it has been put through since the war started contributed to
  its condition. Tyrol suggests treating the damaged parts of the ship
  with an organic Cylon resin from the Rebel Baseship, which would fill
  the cracks and bear the stresses, which Adama at first refuses.
  However, Adama finally appreciates Galactica's dire condition when he
  finds a tear in a bulkhead in his quarters, and orders Tyrol to carry
  out his plan to repair the ship ("No Exit"). Tyrol later says that the
  resin will buy more time but the ship's integrity has been
  fundamentally weakened and it might not survive more FTL jumps - it is
  impossible to say how long she can hold. Galactica is dying of old age
  and accumulated battle damage.
• Later Galactica is damaged even further when Boomer jumps away
  very close to the hull. The resulting spatial distortion of her
  Raptor's FTL jump causes what appears to be buckling and explosive
  decompression in several sections of the alligator head of Galactica
  on her port side ("Someone to Watch Over Me"). This causes a chain
  reaction of explosions, structural failures and power outages
  throughout many parts of the ship including CIC.
• At first refusing to accept the reality of the ship's fate,
  Admiral Adama gives the emotionally painful order to stop the repairs
  and begin the process of abandoning ship, moving to the Rebel Baseship
  as the Fleet's new flagship ("Islanded In a Stream of Stars").
• As the ship is slowly offloaded of parts and personnel, the
  Admiral relents one last time, stops the scrapping of the battlestar,
  and calls for volunteers for what will likely be Galactica's final
  mission - to get the kidnapped Hera back from Cavil's Cylon colony
  ("Daybreak, Part I").
• ENDGAME: BATTLE OF THE COLONY
• With a skeleton crew and a frail battlestar, Admiral Adama
  executes a daring mission to rescue Hera Agathon.
• Galactica jumps to the Colony at point-blank range. Besieged by
  the Colony's gun batteries at first, the Hybrid Anders manages to take
  them and the Colony's Hybrids offline. As Galactica's Vipers engage
  incoming Raiders, her Raptors jump directly from their berth in the
  starboard flight pod (causing extensive damage to it) and maneuver to
  board the Colony.
• Adama does the unbelievable: he rams Galactica's bow into the
  Colony, forming not only a second breech for his search teams to
  enter, but also forming an alternate escape route.
  The rescue is successful thanks to Boomer's help (before Athena kills
  her), but Galactica is far from safe. The Raiders are still attacking
  the ship, destroying at least one of its remaining heavy gun
  batteries. The rescue teams are pursued back to Galactica by Cavil and
  his troops, determined to recapture Hera. Platoons of enemy Centurions
  swarm into the ship. Cavil personally leads an attack on CIC but is
  foiled.
• Things appear to settle down after Cavil and Adama call a
  ceasefire. Cavil agrees to let Galactica leave with Hera in exchange
  for the information needed to bring back resurrection technology. Part
  of the deal is that Cavil will leave humanity alone forever as well.
  The Raiders return to the Colony, while the Vipers return to Galactica.
• Unfortunately, as the Final Five begin to download their knowledge
  into the Colony, they are exposed to each other's secrets; Galen Tyrol
  learns that Tory Foster murdered his wife Cally Tyrol ("The Ties That
  Bind"). Tyrol flies into a rage and kills Foster, severing the
  download. Chaos ensues and the ceasefire ends. The Raiders renew their
  attack on the ship. In the CIC Simon, Doral and Cavil open fire but
  Apollo and Starbuck kill Doral and Simon while Cavil, realizing the
  hopelesness of the situation, kills himself.
  Meanwhile Racetrack's Raptor, drifting in space after all aboard were
  killed, is hit by a stray asteroid, causing the Raptor to launch its
  nuclear missiles into the Colony. The Colony's orbit immediately
  decays, pulling it into the black hole--threatening to take Galactica
  with it. But Kara Thrace jumps the ship, using coordinates she had
  extrapolated from The Music at the last second.
• JOURNEY'S END
• The jump proves to be too much for the heavily weakened
  battlestar. Galactica experiences a series of fatal structural
  failures, permanently losing her FTL ability. But fears of being
  stranded in space are short-lived as Galactica arrives in the vicinity
  of a lush, blue-green habitable world, already populated by tribes of
  primitive humans who naturally evolved there.
• The population of the Fleet, arriving later, agree to leave their
  technology behind and start new lives on the planet they decide to
  call "Earth". The Rebel Cylons also decide to stay on the planet. With
  this decision, the Rebel Baseship is left to the Centurions, who leave
  to seek out their own destiny. Anders, still acting as Galactica's
  Hybrid, brings the battlestar's adventures to a close as he pilots
  Galactica and the last ships in the Fleet into the Sun, destroying
  Galactica and her Fleet.
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• EQUIPMENT
• Apart from any technological upgrades that may have been made to
  her sister ships, Galactica was built to the general technical
  specifications of her class.
• STARBOARD FLIGHT POD
• The starboard landing bay is eventually restored to usable
  condition, evidenced when Major Lee Adama lands his Raptor in the
  starboard pod. However, it is possible that this is due to a
  previously issued quarantine order and not because the flight pod is
  in regular use ("A Measure of Salvation"). The starboard hangar deck
  is designated an area of refuge for civilians displaced from lost
  ships (The Woman King).
• During the last mission of Galactica, this pod held a number of
  Raptors ready for launch, these deployed out of the pod by FTL jump
  with the result that the shock waves fatally weakened the pods
  structure and the pod blew open to space ("Daybreak, Part II").
• Strangely at least part of the museum setup survives all the way
  to Daybreak part 2, despite a hull breach and part of it being
  flattened by a heavy raider ("Scattered"). It's unclear why the museum
  was kept intact and/or repaired, though it's possible it was put right
  during the year on New Caprica before the Cylons found the planet,
  since this is probably the only period when the crew would have any
  spare time to fix it. This serves as a minor plot hole that may never
  be resolved.
• The museum would certainly have been destroyed in the jump shock
  wave from the Raptors leaving the pod during the Battle of the Colony
  or the decompression immediately after that point, any remains were
  sent into the sun with the rest of the ship.
• NUCLEAR WARHEADS
• Galactica has five nuclear warheads as of "Bastille Day".
  Commander Adama uses one warhead to destroy the Cylon basestar
  orbiting Kobol ("Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II"), and Dr. Baltar
  cannibalizes one to use in his Cylon detector. He later gives the
  warhead to Gina Inviere, who detonates it aboard Cloud Nine.
• It is unknown how many nuclear warheads Pegasus has when it
  encounters Galactica, but the two ships pool their nuclear ordnance
  stockpiles after that. As of "The Eye of Jupiter", Galactica possesses
  at least seven warheads ("missile tubes 4 through 10").
• The yield of these weapons is unknown. It is likely they are of the
  "dial-a-yield" design which is common in real-life nuclear weapons.
  Because the physics of nuclear weapon design is a measurable science,
  and based on the size of the weapons seen on screen, the yield of
  Galactica's weapons may lie between 5 and 150 kilotons.
• VIPERS
• Early in the flight of the fleet, Galactica carried "40 Vipers and
  21 pilots" ("Act of Contrition"), of which at least six were Mark
  VIIs. Following the advent of Pegasus, Galactica receives supplies
  that aid in the repair and refurbishment of her initial fighter
  complement ("Pegasus"). Some time later, new Mark VII Vipers are
  constructed at Pegasuss' Viper construction facilities utilizing the
  raw ore mined in an asteroid belt ("Scar"), and several of those are
  assigned to Galactica.
• With Pegasus destroyed at the Battle of New Caprica, Galactica
  absorbs the former's fighter squadrons and personnel, and her Viper
  complement now counts approximately 80 planes.
• RAPTORS
• The number of Raptors available to Galactica is portrayed
  inconsistently. The assumption prior to joining up with Pegasus is
  that the battlestar has at least five Raptors, having left Ragnar
  Anchorage with at least eight. After the Battle of New Caprica,
  Galactica takes on Pegasus's Raptors. The subsequent number of
  available craft is unknown, but is at least 30, considering how many
  Raptors are deployed to rescue to the resistance fighters on Caprica
  ("Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II") and still have enough to move
  people from ship to ship through out the fleet.
• OTHER CRAFT
• Galactica possesses two Heavy Raiders. One is hit by Galactica's
  defensive fire and crashes into the starboard flight pod with unknown,
  but probably extensive, damage ("Scattered"). The other returns in
  operational status from Caprica ("Home, Part I"). One of these Heavy
  Raiders is relieved of its FTL navigation system for use on the rescue
  mission to Caprica ("Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I").
• A Raider from the first Cylon War may be on board Galactica after
  one follows Starbuck into one of Pegasus's landing bays and is shot
  down ("Razor"). A Cylon War era Raider, or at least a replica of one,
  was present in then Galactica Museum, but has not been mentioned since.
• A second Raider comes into Galactica's possession after Daniel
  Novacek's "escape" from a basestar, replacing the one retrieved by
  Kara Thrace and lost during the quest for the Arrow of Apollo ("Hero").
• An experimental stealth fighter, the Blackbird, is constructed
  using spare parts ("Flight of the Phoenix") and used in a critically
  successful reconnaissance mission to explore the nature of what comes
  to be known as the Resurrection Ship. The Blackbird is destroyed after
  completing its first combat mission ("Resurrection Ship, Part II").
• Galactica possesses fuel tankers used to supply fuel to Vipers and
  Raptors in flight without the need to dock with the ship. These may be
  dedicated craft or specially fitted shuttles or Raptors ("Occupation").
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• CREW
• Before the attack, Galactica has approximately 2,900 crewmen. By
  the time of the arrival of Pegasus, attrition has reduced this number
  to about 2,660. (c.f. Crew tally) It is unknown whether the Colonial
  Marines account for members or not.
• Between "Act of Contrition" and "Resurrection Ship, Part II",
  Galactica's offensive capability is also greatly hampered by the
  number of qualified pilots available, and their lack of flight
  simulators with which to train more. Since Galactica's reunion with
  Pegasus, this has ceased to be an issue ("Scar").
  Galactica type battlestar
• OVERVIEW
• The first twelve battlestars were laid down in the early days of
  the Cylon War. Each of these twelve battlestars represented one of the
  Twelve Colonies of Kobol (Miniseries).
• The original battlestars were space-going leviathans of more than
  4700 feet (1400 meters) in length, housing at least 4 squadrons of 20
  Viper space superiority fighters apiece and nuclear warheads. A fully-
  armed battlestar is capable of a wide range of offensive actions,
  while her defensive armaments ensure she is fully capable of both
  protecting herself from attack and engaging an enemy at close quarters.
• Following the end of the war, the original battlestars remained in
  service and many newer battlestars were built. At the time of the Fall
  of the Twelve Colonies, the newer Mercury class represented the top of
  the line. Ships such as these and the Valkyrie type battlestars have
  nearly completely replaced the original battlestars, making Galactica
  the last of this unnamed class still in its original condition. A few
  other ships of the class remained in service, although it is likely
  that these battlestars shared only their external configuration with
  Galactica, and were upgraded and thus more technologically advanced.
• LAYOUT
• The design common to Galactica and her sister ships can be broken
  down into two main sections: the main hull, and the twin flight pods.
• MAIN HULL
• This comprises the bulk of a battlestar and can itself be divided
  into three sections:
  The "alligator head" contains water storage tanks (Water) and the CIC.
• The midships area contains the pod retraction mechanisms and
  crossways linking the hangar decks for the transfer of equipment and
  personnel (Miniseries).
• The stern section contains sublight engines, FTL drives, etc. Four
  of the sublight engines are in engine pods, and two more are between
  the pods.
• FLIGHT PODS
• The flight pods are mounted on either side of the hull and contain
  a battlestar's Vipers and Raptors. During normal operations, they are
  extended away from the main hull. During FTL jumps, the pods are
  retracted against the hull, concealing their open ends and making
  launches and landings impossible, not including Viper launching;
  however, this would prevent the return of those Vipers. Each pod
  comprises two main decks for flight operations: the upper landing bay,
  which extends the full length of the pod, and the lower launch bays,
  which provide some 40 launch tubes per pod.
• Landing approaches are made from the stern. The preferred approach
  is a slow run into the landing bay, prior to making a vertical landing
  on a defined landing area (Act of Contrition). However, in
  emergencies, combat landings can be made, in which a craft approaches
  and lands at high speed on its landing skids (Miniseries).
• The hangar deck is used for maintenance, repair, refueling,
  rearming, and launch operations and runs the length of the flight pod.
  Specifications
• PROPULSION
• Despite their massive size, battlestars are extremely maneuverable
  and can dock with space stations such as Ragnar Anchorage. Battlestars
  are not designed for atmospheric flight, although their hulls can
  manage a tenuous upper atmospheric storm like that surrounding the gas
  giant Ragnar (Miniseries) and can survive a jump and subsequent
  freefall into the atmosphere of a habitable planet (Exodus, Part II).
  A battlestar's FTL systems are capable of accurate jumps, able to
  place them in synchronous orbit above a relatively close planet and of
  placing them safely in the midst of an asteroid field (The Hand of
  God), a dense fleet of ships (Scattered), or a planetary atmosphere.
  However, they are grossly inferior to Cylon systems in terms of safe
  range (Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I).
• ENDURANCE
• Battlestars are intended to operate for long periods without re-
  supplying. Their water purification capabilities alone are so
  efficient that, barring an emergency or unforeseen event, a battlestar
  can operate "for several years before replenishing" (Water). They also
  appear capable of undertaking large-scale repairs following battle
  damage (Miniseries, "Water"). They have ammunition assembly
  capabilities in the armory (Epiphanies) and may have small general
  fabrication facilities (Litmus). Vegetable stores and canned goods are
  kept in titanium lockers (Final Cut). Battlestars are capable of
  continuing combat operations despite suffering massive damage, as
  evidenced by Galactica's continuing effectiveness at defending the
  fleet years after the first Cylon attack and following several
  punishing engagements (He That Believeth In Me).
• COMPUTER SYSTEMS
• The original battlestar vessels deliberately avoided the use of
  networked primary computer systems during the Cylon War, as Cylon
  forces were adept at infiltrating and subverting such systems
  (Miniseries).
• On Galactica, in the post-Cylon War era, these primary computers
  remained isolated by practice on order of its last pre-Holocaust
  commanding officer, William Adama. This no-networks practice saved
  Galactica from the fate of its sister battlestars in the Fall of the
  Twelve Colonies as Galactica's no-network order meant that the CNP,
  installed in almost all Colonial Fleet vessels at the time, could not
  be used aboard Galactica as the CNP was designed for use with a
  computer network.
• In one dire instance in the early months of their exodus,
  Galactica networks its primary computers temporarily to aid in
  computation speeds for jump calculations needed to find the missing
  civilian Fleet (Scattered), but it is not without consequence. One or
  more computers are cracked during a Cylon attack with a Cylon virus,
  which proves resistant to removal and (weeks later) threatens the
  operation of the battlestar until the computers' hard drives are
  erased and restored from pre-Fall backup sets (Flight of the Phoenix).
• ARMAMENT
• -24 Large Antiship Gun Turrets (mounting 2 guns apiece): These are
  mounted on the dorsal and ventral surfaces of the main hull and the
  ventral surface of the bow. The two guns on each turret fire in
  tandem. They have been shown to be quite effective against targets
  like basestars (Resurrection Ship, Part II). These large guns are able
  to use both flak ammunition and high-explosive anti-capital ship
  shells. Additionally, the guns are able to engage in coordinated
  barrage strategies, such as salvo (and presumably, volley) fire.
• -514 Smaller Point-Defense Turrets (mounting 2 guns apiece): These are
  mounted on the flight pods and other surfaces. Each barrel fires
  explosive rounds in bursts.
• -Multiple Nuclear Warheads: Deployed from 12 launch tubes mounted in
  the main hull (The Eye of Jupiter).
• -At least 4 squadrons of 20 Viper Space Superiority Fighters: Even the
  latest Mk. VII Vipers remain compatible with this class's launch and
  recovery facilities.
• -Numerous Raptor multi-role vehicles.
• CREW
• Galactica's crew complement prior to her scheduled decommissioning
  was approximately 2,800. This figure is almost certainly higher for a
  fully staffed, operational battlestar.
• LIFE SUPPORT
• Approximately twelve oxygen recirculation units are mounted
  throughout the ship, which replenish oxygen as well as remove
  ("scrub") carbon dioxide from the air. These devices work continuously
  (Final Cut).
• All text provided by FreddyB of rpggamer.org
  Images stolen from an unknown website at some remote time in the past.