Talk:Battlestar (reimagining)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 05:48, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Battlestar armor

The following paragraph about armor on battlestars is inaccurate and/or misleading:

"A Battlestar is armoured with plate over a rib structure. The Pegasus, which had just arrived in dry dock for maintenance, has a full complement of armour. The miniseries shows Galactica withstanding a direct nuclear detonation with little apparent damage to its command structure and fighter bays.[3] The Mercury class Battlestar Pegasus has full armour plates and withstands at least five nuclear hits while still remaining operational to inflict heavy damage to a Cylon Basestar with a salvo from its bow battery. While Galactica loses 85 lives during damage control operations after being hit by a single nuclear missile, Pegasus loses fewer than six lives during its battle with three Basestars while bombarded with missiles."

Battlestars do not have any ribbing underneath their armor plating, and this paragraph implies that Galactica has had armor plating removed.

Galactica's ribbing is on top of her armor plating. Ronald D. Moore has stated that it is designed to catch and detonate incoming ordnance hitting the ship from an angle before it strikes the armor plating (hence attenuating the blast over a wider area of armor plating). Galactica has always had this configuration, as can be seen during the Razor flashbacks taking place during the First Cylon War.

Further, the paragraph implicates that armor has been removed and thus the Galactica is less well protected because of it, in comparison with the newer Pegasus. While the newer technology of the Pegasus likely makes it more resilient, the 85 deaths on Galactica were not due to armor failure but rather mostly a result of damage control crewmen not wearing breathing equipment when the compartments were depressurized, unlike the crewmen on Pegasus, only one of whom suffocated in a depressurized compartment (Cmdr. Barry Garner).

I'll edit the paragraph to fix it. JDS2005 (talk) 09:32, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

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