nBSG Season opening roundup(Spoilers, Damnit)

[Dr Strangelove]

I think you'll find that most modern ships have less armor than WW2 or WW1 era ships, largely because modern designers felt that they couldn't design armor to defeat a nuclear blast. Modern designers have placed more reliance on anti-missle and anti-aircraft systems than on armor. Maybe the colonials did the same.

[Nubclear]

The next person who talks about this subject (technical specifications of Colonial armour) will be banned.
Thank you.

-The Administration

[Dr Strangelove]

Colonial armor am pretty nifty. There, happy?

[Lonestar]

Wow, once more Adama show's he's a bit more savy than the Prez. To quote Superman from Kingdom Come:

There is Right and there is Wrong and it isn't hard to tell the difference between the two

I'm glad Adama basically told the President that the matter is dropped and will not be pursued any further after Helo did what he had to do.

Also, Gaius seems to be officially creeping out Lucy Lawless-bot.

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Genocide

Lack of it

[Lonestar]

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[Lord Avalon]

Hey, the toasters were committing genocide on the humans, so there was no "lack of it."

Even if the humans had killed the infected cylons at the "right" time, it would have only infected the few base ships and the resurrection ship in that area. I presume there's a lot more of them out there - they would just have to avoid the area like the plague. But the ones there would die multiple times - until the resurrection ship ran out of new bodies.

But it wouldn't make for much of a series if it were a simple thing for the humans to fight off the cylons (if they could somehow manufacture virus-loaded weapons).

[Dr Strangelove]

There was an alternative way for the writers to handle this. The Cylons have a half-human baby, who presumably still had the gene for immunity to the plague. The Colonials might have carried off the operation causing an outbreak in the resurrection ship, then Balthar could have suggested harvesting the cure from the baby, thus restoring him to the good graces of the Cylons.

[Lonestar]

Originally posted by Lord Avalon
Hey, the toasters were committing genocide on the humans, so there was no "lack of it."

Even if the humans had killed the infected cylons at the "right" time, it would have only infected the few base ships and the resurrection ship in that area. I presume there's a lot more of them out there - they would just have to avoid the area like the plague. But the ones there would die multiple times - until the resurrection ship ran out of new bodies.

Yeah, I was wondering why everyone was ass-u-meing that the virus would wipe out the Cylons, instead of, you know, just causing them to isolate that part of the population. Then be really pissed off at the Fleet and presumably send everything they have after them.

[Whoha]

They shouldn't have used the bio weapon. The Doc was able to cure/treat it in how many hours? Sharon has a natural immunity. Hera, and the original machine cylons would also be immune, and the next round of skin jobs would be given an immunity to it.

because of its one shot nature the virus could have been used to threaten the cylons. Since they were frightened of it the humans could have virtually enslaved the cylons. Alternatively they could have just said that they would do this if the cylons interfered with them again. Show is over, humanity won

Is the virus gone? presumably they should still have samples of it and be able to infect cylons again. They should have a powerful tool to ferret out the unknown cylons.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by Lonestar
Yeah, I was wondering why everyone was ass-u-meing that the virus would wipe out the Cylons, instead of, you know, just causing them to isolate that part of the population. Then be really pissed off at the Fleet and presumably send everything they have after them.

If it infected the entire resurrection ship, it'd be hard to 'isolate' that part of the population. Unless they decommission that resurrection ship and build a new one from scratch instead.

the original machine cylons would also be immune

I believe they said the Centaurions were also affected by the virus.

[Lonestar]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui


If it infected the entire resurrection ship, it'd be hard to 'isolate' that part of the population. Unless they decommission that resurrection ship and build a new one from scratch instead.

the original machine cylons would also be immune

I believe they said the Centaurions were also affected by the virus.

Why would they not have several other Ressurection ships? All the virus would affect is everything in range of that Rez ship, in fact, intially it would only affect that rez ship. You don't think the Cylons will notice that 5 skin jobs from the "sick" Basestar suddenly woke up in the Rez ship when it's in range of the Galactica?


Unless the Cylons are particularly stupid,it'll be child's play to just isolate that rez ship and/or blow it out of the water.


Incidently, someone on another board commented the mindset of the Colonials in regards to Genocide as this: "If you were a Jew in Poland in 1943, and you suddenly had the ability to kill every German man woman and child, would he do it?" Probably yes. And the surviving Human population is in much more dire straights than the Jewish one in 1943.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Unless the Cylons are particularly stupid,it'll be child's play to just isolate that rez ship and/or blow it out of the water.

Of course, but the question is whether their "God" would allow that. With the wacked out Cylon religion, who knows?

[Dr Strangelove]

I can't believe that the Godwin rule involves even this thread. How dare you pollute the image of nBSG?