![]() It's meant for long term deployments where it can resupply any fleet group it is a part of. Most of the ships interior space is automated factories to build new fighters and whatnot. Yes, the Mercury class is supposed to be the new big and bad kid on the block but now that I think about it, it's main purpose seems to be more for fleet support. With what we know of the ship, what you've said in this post, and information about this ship sprawled over the internet, it seems like the ship while yes in can be in combat, that's not it's main purpose. It’s entirely possible the crew used the time at New Caprica to finally build turrets that should have always been there OR this was one of the retractable turrets and was always there.Īnyway, anyone have a better explanation or did Colonial military doctrine assume an enemy would oblige by staying still and in range. In BSG: Exodus part 2 we see a ventral turret on Pegasus which was not shown in any prior shot. Retractable heavy turrets are actually seen on screen - Galactica has at least 4 (BSG: ‘33’) Retractable flak guns must be the case - and would make sense as they are smaller and less armoured. In BSG: Deadlock and BSG: Blood and Chrome we see space frames are designed so huge numbers of guns can be added and removed. There’s a potential explanation however - the Mercury DOES have substantial more guns - some of which retract (and are thus typically not visible) and/or the Pegasus was in dock to have them installed and left in an incomplete state. I’m not entirely clear what the designers were thinking here. Overall, an enemy can - seemingly- easily out-manoeuvre a Mercury class and, against multiple enemies, the Mercury would have to pick a single target. In my head canon a Mercury class would carry such a number when prepped for war, with a smaller load out normally. At 1,700+ it should be able to carry thousands of fighters - the ship is bigger than a Jupiter for a reason, right? It wasn’t to carry more crew. They are densely packed on the alligator head and then spread out on the flight pods.Ĩ) While we’re bitching, the ship is vastly bigger than Galactica and needs half the crew. The guns are tiny and the ship could carry atleast 100 guns of that size (BSG: Blood and Chrome). ![]() BSG: Deadlock (being ‘canon’) has separate non retracting flak guns, but as the gun layout is intentionally different to the ship seen on screen this doesn’t settle anything.Ģ)The Mercury class has no dorsal gun coverageģ)The turrets provide limited ventral coverageĤ) The port and starboard guns can’t point up, meaning a ship slightly above the Mercury can’t be hitĥ)The forward guns also can’t point up and have limited ventral coverageĦ) The ship might appear to be designed to charge an enemy but as with (1) the forward turrets would be tied up in flak mode - so the ship is either raining down death or soaking up missiles.ħ) 34 guns on a mile long+ frame is far too low. If so, then the ship can attack or defend, but not both (while Galactica can do both). The BSG: Deadlock version has about 24.ġ) Onscreen evidence suggests the Mercury class has flak guns, but the cgi team forgot to add them to the model OR they retract OR the turrets have a flak mode. The Mercury is understood to have 34 guns - 12 forward guns (4 fixed, 4 on the alligator head, 2 on each flight pod), 4 rear guns and the rest along the alligator head and flight pods). Not much has been officially confirmed about the weaponry in the show - I believe the writers never even settled on whether ships have rail guns or not. It’s guns are all in the wrong places, so much so that in the game BSG: Deadlock, the game designers had to move them! However, atleast Cylon basestars work in theory. >!Battlestar Galactica! Message the Moderators <-Īs much as I love BSG, they do seem to have started filming before figuring out how combat works.Ĭylon basestars and missiles are so ineffective that despite years of maintenance issues (pre and post war) and more than 100 attacks (in week 1 alone) they don’t slow Galactica down. To tag a comment as a spoiler, use the following markup: Link to wiki page with 2014 rewatch threads SPOILERS This also included the classic series from 1978. We watched the entire re-imagined series, the prequel series Caprica, and one-off prequel movie Blood & Chrome. In 2014, we watched and discussed one episode per week, starting from the very beginning. Link to wiki page with 2022 rewatch threads. ![]() In 2022 r/BSG started a new weekly rewatch and discussion. WHERE TO WATCH:īattlestar Galactica is available for streaming on these services. Confused on which episode to watch first? Click here for proper viewing order. Catch an unmarked spoiler or another user intentionally spoiling? Report the post and select "breaking BSG Rules - Spoiler" so the mods can take appropriate action.
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