ships of the fleet....

How Many Battlestars Were There?

Originally 12, one per planet. Later it looks like there were ten per planet/colony, and thus a total of about 120. Considering that there were about 25 billion people on 12 planets, there should have been AT LEAST that many...Personally if I were trying to defend planets from a real enemy, I would be shooting for 100-1000 per planet...Not at all unreasonable considering the large populations and nearly unlimited resources. I do remember hearing the number of 70 at one time too, but I have no idea what episode that was on, or if it was original or re-imagined BSG. ALSO...I'm SURE some were mothballed or on patrol or exploring the universe, so there HAD to be others that survived but never hooked up with the Galactica fleet...Thus...SURELY there are other Colonists hidden away in astroid fields, moons, remote and hostile planets, etc., secretly building and propagating, and waiting for the chance and opportunity to retake the homelands! :o)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlestar_(fictional_spaceship)

List of Battlestars

Out of about 120 battlestars (Kara Thrace described a loss of thirty as being "almost a quarter of the fleet"), relatively few are known. The Galactica is a model from the Galactica class of battlestar. The Pegasus is from the newer Mercury class of battlestar.

Galactica
Pegasus
Columbia (two battlestars bearing this name are known to have existed)
Atlantia
Triton
Valkyrie
Mercury
Solaria
Athena
Yashuman
Vortex (seen on a report given by Dualla to Gaeta during the attack)
Uned (seen on a report given by Dualla to Gaeta during the attack)
Erasmus (seen on a report on Adama's desk when searching for a new CAG)
Night Flight (seen on a report on Adama's desk when searching for a new CAG)

Of these the first Columbia was destroyed during Operation Raptor Talon at the close of the First Cylon war. Yashuman was disabled by the CNP backdoor in the first minutes of the Fall of the Twelve Colonies and was presumably destroyed along with most of the rest of the Fleet (these events occurred off screen). The Pegasus just escaped the Fall of the Scorpion Ship yards by a blind jump and was destroyed around two years later at the Battle of New Caprica. The Galactica escaped the Fall and spent the next four or so years protecting the civilian fleet. Badly crippled while destroying the Cylon colony, Galactica and its fleet were piloted into the Sun after the survivors landed on Earth.

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Maj. Juan (blindsword) Lopez July 23, 2012 at 6:27pm

I saw somewhere that there were 77 battlestars and 22 basestars at the time of the fall
RADM Keith "Leonidas" Ranson July 23, 2012 at 6:21pm

AWESOME!
Maj. Juan (blindsword) Lopez July 23, 2012 at 4:06pm

Totally agree or at least a better obital defense system to support the battlestars
John David "Buzzsaw" Feagin July 23, 2012 at 3:53pm
How Many Battlestars Were There?

Originally 12, one per planet. Later it looks like there were ten per planet/colony, and thus a total of about 120. Considering that there were about 25 billion people on 12 planets, there should have been AT LEAST that many...Personally if I were trying to defend planets from a real enemy, I would be shooting for 100-1000 per planet...Not at all unreasonable considering the large populations and nearly unlimited resources. I do remember hearing the number of 70 at one time too, but I have no idea what episode that was on, or if it was original or re-imagined BSG. ALSO...I'm SURE some were mothballed or on patrol or exploring the universe, so there HAD to be others that survived but never hooked up with the Galactica fleet...Thus...SURELY there are other Colonists hidden away in astroid fields, moons, remote and hostile planets, etc., secretly building and propagating, and waiting for the chance and opportunity to retake the homelands! :o)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlestar_(fictional_spaceship)

List of Battlestars

Out of about 120 battlestars (Kara Thrace described a loss of thirty as being "almost a quarter of the fleet"), relatively few are known. The Galactica is a model from the Galactica class of battlestar. The Pegasus is from the newer Mercury class of battlestar.
- Galactica
- Pegasus
- Columbia (two battlestars bearing this name are known to have existed)
- Atlantia
- Triton
- Valkyrie
- Mercury
- Solaria
- Athena
- Yashuman
- Vortex (seen on a report given by Dualla to Gaeta during the attack)
- Uned (seen on a report given by Dualla to Gaeta during the attack)
- Erasmus (seen on a report on Adama's desk when searching for a new CAG)
- Night Flight (seen on a report on Adama's desk when searching for a new CAG)
Of these the first Columbia was destroyed during Operation Raptor Talon at the close of the First Cylon war. Yashuman was disabled by the CNP backdoor in the first minutes of the Fall of the Twelve Colonies and was presumably destroyed along with most of the rest of the Fleet (these events occurred off screen). The Pegasus just escaped the Fall of the Scorpion Ship yards by a blind jump and was destroyed around two years later at the Battle of New Caprica. The Galactica escaped the Fall and spent the next four or so years protecting the civilian fleet. Badly crippled while destroying the Cylon colony, Galactica and its fleet were piloted into the Sun after the survivors landed on Earth.

http://forum.gateworld.net/threads/41166-How-many-Battlestars-were-...
John David "Buzzsaw" Feagin July 23, 2012 at 7:31am

Here are some blue print designs you can look through too.

Good hunting!

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Battlestar+Galactica+Ship+Bluep...

:o)

JDF
John David "Buzzsaw" Feagin July 23, 2012 at 7:23am

Here’s a good list of ships from both original and re-imagined versions of BSG:

http://en.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/Portal:Ships

More Info:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ships_in_Battlestar_Galactica_(2004)

http://www.shipschematics.net/bsg/
http://www.tecr.com/galactica/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlestar_(fictional_spaceship)
Also…There are LOTS of schematics and comparisons on this search:
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Battlestar+Ship+Designs%2c+orig...
I hope this is helpful to you…It should keep you busy for a while!
:o)
JDF

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