Comments on: how big was the colony?

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 06:27:09 +0000

We take a CD and place a dot on it with a Sharpie pen. That dot represents our planet, the cd our solar system. Now imagine the rest of the planet in relation to this CD. That is our galaxy. One of billions in the universe which is constantly expanding. Now that’s big.

By: Tar-Minyatur

Tar-Minyatur — Mon, 04 May 2009 22:40:27 +0000

Wow, the scale is horrendously off…remember that galactica fits snugly in one of the tiny “docking areas” in the side of one of the arms. The width of each arm would at least be 40-60 km wide, since the basestar is 2 km and galactica is 1.4 km. Here are images you can use to correct the scale:

http://media.battlestarwiki.org/images/7/76/Battleofthecolony.jpg
http://ideas.4brad.com/files/colony3.jpg
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c111/ReddyRedWolf/CylonColonyGalactica.jpg

By: Eze

Eze — Fri, 01 May 2009 05:05:43 +0000

Any one else notice how the colony looks a lot like a shadow ship from B5?

By: Galacticadude

Galacticadude — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 17:55:09 +0000

To darthmojo: Hey, do you know the width and height of the Pegasus? Oh and do you have any idea about how large the Pegasus’s flight pods are?

By: Fan Railer

Fan Railer — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:25:56 +0000

any word on pegasus’s weapons info? and Valkyrie. love the Valkyrie!

By: YIIMM

YIIMM — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:23:09 +0000

“There are dimensions other than length. “Twice the size” could be referring to total volume…”

That was always my take on it.

A while back I took the dimensions of both ships and checked the ratio between Galactica and Pegasus’s length, width and height. I know it’s not going to be exact, because their shapes are different, but they’re similar enough to make it work roughly.

Each of Peggy’s measurements was about cuberoot2 times greater than Galatica’s or more, which would result in roughly twice the volume :)

By: Adam Whitehead

Adam Whitehead — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 01:53:49 +0000

Yup, Galactica is fairly sleek whilst Pegasus is much boxier and ‘taller’ than Galactica. It also looks a lot wider. That’s where the extra space would come from.

By: Grand Moff Melch

Grand Moff Melch — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:35:33 +0000

There are dimensions other than length. “Twice the size” could be referring to total volume…

By: Tauron Civilian

Tauron Civilian — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:03:44 +0000

Oh yeah and Filipe Freitas, the reason it was “so fragile when it was hit by nukes” was because it was in orbit around the black hole. The structure itself was probably very strong but once blown out of orbit it just fell into the black hole… and gods know what happened after that!

This was also the reason the Galactica broke it’s back after jumping because the gravity pull of the black hole’s force being released after the jump was like a slingshot to it’s entire structure.

By: Tauron Civilian

Tauron Civilian — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 19:56:54 +0000

Someone made a stupid rookie mistake. The second image is nearly twice as big as the first image of the colony.

That or the Galactica is incorrectly portrayed in one of them.