Greetings from CDF Fleet Command Headquarters,
 

I hope everyone is having a good time at the Starfest Convention, and at the treaty banquet tonight. For those of you who do not know me, my name is Nathan Gastineau. I am the Fleet Admiral and founder of the Colonial Defense Forces. I cannot be here tonight for I am currently on a leave of absence while I tend to personal matters, so please allow for Gene and Jesse to speak on my behalf.
 
Over a year ago, I approached Dan Allen from the BFC and later Shawn O'Donnell about forming an alliance between our 2 organizations. The CDF was well off on the military side of the coin, however the civilian aspect was missing. We had tried over the years to form a civilian structure and Quorum however the draw for membership was elsewhere.
 
Knowing the BFC had an established president and the structure I was looking for and that the BFC had been talking about forming Battlestar chapters, I thought this was the perfect time to form an alliance that would be benefit both organizations.
 
Weeks of working out the details, keeping our separate names and identity, etc I made an announcement along with Dan Allen. Some, not all, CDF members flipped out. "What are you thinking?" was at the top of the questions to me at last years Colonial Conference. After much talk, deliberation, and understanding, everyone was on the same page.
 
So began the quest which has lead us here tonight. There was always a side of the CDF and I think any Galactica fan club that gets over looked. In the Star Trek world many times Klingons fall into the same category. The Cylons. For months I had envisioned, talked about, and tried to put into place The Cylon Alliance within the CDF. A rouge group of Baseships that allied themselves with the Colonials. We were simi-sucesssful. As interest grew on there was always one man I knew who good lead the toasters. Gene Hagerty. With the same thoughts, Gene was well on his way to already creating the Colonial Cylon Alliance. A mirror organization to the CDF with Baseships as chapters, Cylon platoons, raider squadrons, etc. This is exactly what needed to happen.
 
So here we are, over a year later and the parent organizations CDF, BFC, and the CCA are leading the way to welcome in any and all BSG fan clubs. I have felt this way from day one. BSG fandom will only survive if we unite and keep the torch lit together. We are stronger as an alliance, assisting each other in various needs, finding a place for each new recruit, and standing behind Galactica in any form.
 
Now, as an alliance we represent just more than one group. Always remember what lead us here tonight. The love for a show called Battlestar Galactica. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for following through with my vision and keeping the dream alive. Raise your glasses and make a toast! To the Tweleve Colonies, to BSG, and to The Alliance! So Say We All!
 
Fleet Admiral Nathan "INDY" Gastineau
The Octagon, Picon

Chief Petty Officer Galen Tyrol: How'd you land this thing, Captain? 
Captain Kara 'Starbuck' Thrace: Pointed it toward the deck and stopped when I got here. 

=] I'm doing a Galacticathon! :D

"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return."

Hoping people will see the BF2142 mod, is a really good thing for BSG! I just pray and hope to the Lords of Kobol that it goes well, Colonials v Cylons on big battle maps, In Space for you Viper/Raptor jocks and on the ground for all you Colonial Marines out there!

So Say We All

Hello Colonials,

You will all note that I just posted a trailer from the film "Titanic".

Today marks the 100th Anniversary of course of the day that the ship struck an iceberg in the North Atlanic...NOT however the 100th Anniversary of the sinking (technically)...the actual collision happened late in the evening of April 14th 1912...the ship itself sank in the early morning hours of April 15th.

A little later in the day to add to the tribute for Titanic I will post the full-length version of James Cameron's "Ghosts of the Abyss" in HD.

Very informative & very interesting...

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On April 6, 2012 the Quorum voted of 8 yes to 0 No. Rick Reichard has been confirmed by the Quorum of the Tweleve as a new Quorum member.

G'day all

Is there anyone who knows where I can order Original BSG uniforms

Shamus Melbourne Australia

To check out the lates issue of the Colonial Alliance News Corps newsletter click on the link below.

Colonial%20Alliance%20News%20Corps%20April%20Issue.pdf

Hot off the press, well more like Microsoft Publisher 2007, ArcSoft WebCam Companion 4, and Paint.Net version 3.5.10, a three fonts called Caprica, Barcode, and Lucid Handwriting.

Pretty nifty, right? How did I accomplish this using Microsoft Publisher? Quite simple actually. All I did was use a blank business card size of 2 X 3.5" and selected the page setup to be portrait. You'll get a listing of different sizes of business card type in Microsoft publisher 2007 look for the one that is 2 X 3.5" and set in portrait.

First thing I did was to select the autoshape and then basic shapes and choose rounded rectangle. drew this into the work space and resized it as I needed. Then I clicked on the insert dropped down to picture and selected file and began to look for the colonial seal here on my laptop. Sized it to fit into the frame that I just created then added the text and selected the font size to be 12 (I originally started out at 36).

Next I choose autoshape again and this time i selected the hexagon shape and drew it onto the work space. I then create a text box and wrote in it "photo" then created three more text boxes one I label "Name" the second "Colony" both of these I selected the caperica font and the third I labeled "Colonial President" and selected the lucid handwriting front. Under this I selected the line and drew a straight line as I possible could then created a text box and typed in Colonial President.

The barcode font I did not have when I first began this project so I have to do a Google search to find it. It's located at http://www.dafont.com/barcode-font.font the Caprica font can be found at 

http://www.fonts101.com/fonts/view/Serif/56754/Caprica.aspx and the Lucid Handwriting font you should all ready have on your PC since it is part of your Windows Operating system. If you do not have it you can get it at http://www.ascendercorp.com/font/lucida-handwriting/

The only font I had to install was the barcode font and that's simple enough to do. Since my laptop has the Windows 7 Operating System here all I had to do was extract the font from the zip file into a folder on the external hard drive here ( I highly recommend that you utilize an external hard drive for saving the fonts you collect off from the web as well as any photos and graphic work that you do.). ONce unzipped I open the folder that contained the barcode font right clicked on it and selected install.

A the bottom of where I had written "Colonial President i created another text box and selected the barcodde font. For the code I choose to the abberveration of the country I live in, the state, county, city,the first three number of my home address followed up by the last four digits of my phone number. Before I went any further I saved what I had just done onto the external hard drive. Then I went up to here I had the text box with the word "Photo" in it and deleted it. I selected insert moved down to picture and over to file and searched for the photo that I just edited after taking a picture of myself from my laptop and sized it to it into the hexagon. When that was done I save my work under a different name. 

Hello Everybody,

Eric Chu here (designer on the new BSG), I've just joined the Battlestar Fanclub. Chime in and say hi. Who knows, maybe I'll even make it to Galacticon next year!

For the up coming second issue of the Colonial Alliance News Corps Newsletter there will be a classifieds page in the April issue. The areas of the classifieds are annououncements, help wanted, for sale, services offered, and lost and found. You can send your classified ad to jcecil922930@att.net 

All,

Some exciting news on the horizon, I am happy to announce:

By Your Command: The Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide To Battlestar
Galactica: Volume 1: The Original Series and Galactica 1980
by Fiona Moore and Alan Stevens

The publication date will be June 30th of this year.

Marcel Damen of GalacticaTV (and a Battlestar Galactica Fan Club member) & I have been working with Fiona Moore to get this out.

Marcel was instrumental in bringing a lot of archived information to the fore & help the authors make it accurate.

This book will be published in the United Kingdom, but I will provide a link for everyone to order from here.

Though some months away, I'm sure that all of you will want to include it in your libraries of BSG reference.

So Say We All!

PS: They do from my understanding plan on following up on with a sequel featuring the Re-Imagined series....also they have a forward to the book by someone we all know...but I ain't tellin' just yet.

That's that, you gotta buy the book!

Hello everyone,

If you are all interested in viewing the trailer for Blood & Chrome please click here.

The video that was quickly put up on youtube was just as quickly brought down due to copyright issues, those being either NBC's issues or youtube's own internal ones.

You CAN still see the video by clicking the above link.

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how many members are from ohio?

My rendention of the planet Caprica firing off a missile to intercept a Cylon nuclear ware head during the first wave of the Cylon attacks again the Twelve Colonies of man.

Basically all I did was find an image of the DRADIUS console display erased what was in the center and saved the image as a gig file. Next I looked through Yhaoo news photographs and found one of an Isreali missile being launched and right clicked on the photo and slected copy.

Next I opened up MS Publisher selected blank page and size then clicked on edit highlighted paste and the missile photo was placed on the page. Then I clicked on insert and selected picture and from that selected image from file and prceeded to look for the new DRADIUS image I just saved earlier. All I would have to after this was a bit of resizing of both the missle image and the DRADIUS imge to get the final result as you see here. My first atempt was using Paint.net and the result that I was getting wasn't what you see here. I was left with alot of coloring in to do and that was what I was not wanting to do. By me just erasring what was all ready there in the center of the DRADIS and saving the converted image as a gif there by making the center part tranparant enough to allow me to place the DRADIS image over the missile photograph and end up with a great looking Dradius screen. Who knows maybe this exact image is what the crew of the Galactica saw when the reports of the Cylon Invasion started to come in from all over the colonies.

Yes folks this was my first time to try out Battlestar Galatica Online today. At first I didn;t even get the online game to work here on my laptop. Oh what a shame!  Well I did not excatully exclaim that I much more said, "Frack!". Luckly I checked out the Battlestar Galactica Online forums boards for the reason as to why the online game did not work. Took me a couple of microns to find the exact problme that I was having and that was that my laptop was missin one key element. It was missing the Web Unity Player to make the game load up and all.

I had to go to the Unity web site at http://unity3d.com/webplayer/ and download the webplayer then install it and ACTIVE STATIONS! ACTIVE STATAION! SET CONDITION ONE THOUGH OUT THE SHIP! THIS IS NOT A DRILL!   Yeah! I was in business! The game loaded up right from the main screen and at once I was on the Galactica on the flight deck looking at Viper Pilot waiting for me to mold into what I want him to look like, For the ladies out there you can change the sex from male to female just look to you upper left there on the screen and you'll see the female/male symbols there. At this character screen you get to pick the face, hair, glasses, helmet, and uniform. once you've done that you get to pick rather you want to be in a Viper or Raptor.

Myself I choose the viper. Your first time out you'll be going through training. Gotta learn how to fly that Viper first. Don't worry you've got a good instructor Starbuck will be flying around tell ya how to handle your craft. I went to far out and missed getting back to the Galactica. Yeah the red line beynd no return, LOL. Any ways the game was enjoyable for me I'll definately will return and try my hand at flying my viper again and hopefully will not end up red lineing myself off the game board. ;)

The Quorum of the Tweleve has approved Rob Tipton as the Aquarian Delegate to the Quorum of The Tweleve by voting 7 (Yes) to 0 (No). Myself and the other Quorum membership welcomed Rob to the Quorum.

Does The Battlestar Vakyrie Have A Nickname? Galactica Was The"Bucket", And Pegasus Was The "Beast".

That's right everyone the frist edition fo the Colonial Alliance New Corps newsletter has been offically published. Where can you go to get it? You can get a PDF Copy of the Colonial Alliance News Corps newsletter at My Caprica website by clicking on the Colonial Alliance News Corps button on the bottom right of the web site right next to the T-Shirt button.

Hey I missed out on the first publication how can I get in on the next issue?

Good question there my Colonial friend. You can get in on the next issue by simplely e-mailing me by placing in your subject of your e-mail client "Colonial Alliance News Corps Issue 2" and send it to my e-mail address of jcecil922930@att.net

That's good and dany but what about those of us who are not as techsavy as our fellow Colonials?

Not a problem. Just address your envelope as follows:

Colonial Alliance News Corps

C/O: James Cecil

        511 Letcher Ave.

        Richmond, Ky. 40475

While doing a web search for some funny BSG cartoons, of which there are not that many of, I came across web site that had various wall paper images  realted to BSG. One of these images cought my eye simplely because it had the Coloinal Goverment seal on it.

That's right I did what every does clicked on the image to get a bigger picture of the thumb nail then right clicked and copied the bigger image. After that I started up Paint.net and pasted the copied image as a new image and began to crop the one part of the image that I really wanted from the oiginal image. This too me a while to do til I got what you have see here in my photoes section of my page. I'm quite pleased with what I found. And who knows, you might see it on some offical Alliance papers one day.