NeoBSG 2010

[drakensis]

The concept is to try to take the one point I liked about the old BSG spinoff and for NeoBSG make it into something worthwhile: The Galactica finds Earth but Earth is not capable of dealing with the Cylons... and isn't exactly welcoming the Colonials with open arms.

Not necessarily that Earth can't have some space ability but that they are liable to get curbstomped if they get involved in a fight. They may have the basic idea of hyperdrives and so forth, but the Galactica is 40 times as big as anything they have in space and outweighs everything Earth's ever put in orbit.

Add in some sort of absurdly socialist anti-tech peace-at-any-price government set up and Cylons who are actually making pretty serious diplomatic inroads with them.

Opinions?

 

[Prince Charon]

Interesting concept.

 

[SotF]

I seriously doubt that Galactica outweighs everything people have put into orbit, there is a heck of a lot of junk up there as it is and with more space tech there will be even more junk abandoned up there.

 

[Prince Charon]

I seriously doubt that Galactica outweighs everything people have put into orbit, there is a heck of a lot of junk up there as it is and with more space tech there will be even more junk abandoned up there.

Well, maybe if you change 'everything' to 'anything', or say 'everything we've put up in the last twenty years', the statement would work. The fleet probably out-ways everything, though.

 

[SotF]

I seriously doubt that Galactica outweighs everything people have put into orbit, there is a heck of a lot of junk up there as it is and with more space tech there will be even more junk abandoned up there.

Well, maybe if you change 'everything' to 'anything', or say 'everything we've put up in the last twenty years', the statement would work. The fleet probably out-ways everything, though.

probably

 

[Xerxezz]

What would happen if the neoBSG colonials arrived in on present day earth? And with present day Earth I mean no Stargate or anything of the sort.

Just say for arguments sake that instead of discovering New Caprica the raptor patrol appeares in Earth orbit.

Pegasus, Galactica and the rest of the fleet follows and makes contact. After the panic and riots calms down what would happen? For arguments sake say that it takes the Cylons a year or a year and a half to discover Earth, and that during that time the colonials has managed to convince the world how deep in shit we really are.

I seriously doubt that we would be able to field our own space-forces as in RL it takes years of research, development and construction before you launch a new space-craft.

What I do see is the colonial crew being augumented by Earth forces, Pegasus reciveing raw materials from Earth and churning out vipers as fast as they can. Who knows, Galactica might even recive an overhaul and new armor, as well as a complete stock of nukes.

But that is if Earth actually manages to agree on something.

 

[Oni_kawaii]

Given the most likely reaction Earth will be is that First the people will Panic,
then they do one of these.

1: Attempt Diplomatic contact with the fleet and have the various nations
try to gain Exclusive access to there tech.

2: Give the Colonials more Nukes, by blasting them out of the sky
with our ICBM's

3: Trigger another war. those nations that welcome the fleet VS. those that don't.

4: have the Various religious fundementalist side with the Cylons to purge
the Heritic colonials. see option 3

I'm sure theres more I just seem to be drawing a blank right now. :mellow:

 

[Lord Raine]

4: have the Various religious fundementalist side with the Cylons to purge
the Heritic colonials.

I don't see this one happening.

With some cults, maybe. But not actual mainstream religions.


You're vastly exaggerating the stereotype of 'Religious Person'.

Or you've been reading too much manga, where every person who's 'got religion' is also a psychotic zealot who wreaks havoc on their off days when they aren't sowing discord and general mayhem.

 

[SotF]

It would also be possible that the right amount of suprise from earth takes down Galactica (ICBM right into one of the hangars...). If so the Cylons come to find an earth that has prepared for war with as many ICBM's as we can get our hands on and probably even some launch facilities on the moon while the Colonial survivors end up in internment camps after we drag every bit of information we can from them.

If so the Cylons would probably decide to blockade rather than coming close...

 

[cilrais]

I'm a big fan of Earth siding with the Cylons, because I despise the majority of the Colonials.

 

[Oni_kawaii]

Or you've been reading too much manga, where every person who's 'got religion' is also a psychotic zealot who wreaks havoc on their off days when they aren't sowing discord and general mayhem.

Not Manga, CNN

and I said "fundementalist" which sadly these days fundementalist=psychotic zealot.
I know that's not Entirely True but as I said Too much CNN.

 

[B.B. Rain]

So...Say we actually end up working with the BSG like Xerxezz said. And, you know...Put all our current and brewing conflicts on hold, in the face of Orbital Thermonuclear Bombardment.

We can't build more spacecraft, but, well...Depending on the sophistication we're attributing to their weapons (KEW vs. Railguns vs. Chamical Propelled Projectiles), we should be able to supplement the secondary (And possibly main) weaponry of the Battlestars, not just replacing damaged/destroyed guns, but adding additional guns to available spaces, or building "snap-on" spares an EV team could replace during battle, should the ship get a few saconds/minutes of cover/breathing room.

We may be able to arm up & armor the Civilian fleet, and replace the crews with military (Navy/Submarine, followed by regular-Navy and Air Force. Borrowed from AJT), not to mention work at creating ground-based Anti-Raider/Spacecraft weaponry. Or how about Honor Harrington-style Missile Pods? Basic ones, with some nukes, loads of EW, ECM, Anti-Raider (High fuel, high speed, high explosive non-nuke), and decoys? Remote-controlled or small-crewed, they could pack a useful punch, if positioned well and guarded against infiltration.

Plus, we could probably augment the supply of Anti-Cylon munitions onboard the ships, not to mention the size of the Marine detachments.

As for the Viper thing...Good for dogfighting, but how dangerous would a fleet of combat-configured, nuke-armed Raptors be, augmented by Blackbird spotters (Assuming Pegasus could make them...)?