Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 From: P-ATCLIFFE@wpg.uwe.ac.uk Subject: Ship size... - Reply Mark asked: >How big is the Galactica anyway? (When asked this >question, my usual response is "Bloody huge!") Ah, yet another of the great UTQ's (Unanswered Technical Questions) crops up again. We really ought to put this in the FAQ, and I would suggest that the answer ought to go something like this: "There was never an exact length quoted for the Galactica on screen, in Colonial _or_ Earth units. Various fan and modelling publications have quoted lengths of 2000 feet or "one mile", but these have no firm basis in the series. Recently, [forgotten his name], one of the three men who own the Galactica Archives, a collection of BG props, costumes and related material, wrote in a British modelling magazine that he estimated the scale of the original 76-inch Galactica miniature to be around 1/960, based on the size of the landing bay entrance. This would make the full-size ship 6080 feet (1853 metres) long -- by coincidence, exactly (pre-SI) one nautical mile. This is as definitive a value as we are likely to get, barring pronouncements from Glen Larson." >Is it bigger than the Enterprise-D? Is it smaller >than Red Dwarf? For comparison, the E-D is supposedly 2100 feet (640.1 metres) long. I'll have to defer to our resident Dwarf experts (Michele? Liz? Cat?) regarding the Vertically-Challenged, Rouge-Coloured Mining Ship(tm), but ISTR a figure of 3 miles cropping up somewhere? >Is it bigger than a breadbox? Well, I know it's >bigger than a breadbox.. Ah, but _Whose_ breadbox? "Battlestar Red" readers might wonder about the size of Baltar's by the end of the story... Phil Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 15:37:36 -0600, MDT From: Eugenia Horne Subject: The Galactica's size Am reposted the information given by the British BSG Annual (licensed by Universal Studios and published circa the network airing (1979)). "THE STARSHIP GALACTICA Class: Battlestar Length: 0.264 miles (2000 feet) Fuel: Tylium/Energy conversion drive Crew: 496 Armament: 75 viper fighters 12 Scarab (Landrams) fighters Numerous laser cannon (intelligence reports incomplete at this point) Max speed: Light velocity, though hyperspace travel possible. "VIPER FIGHTERS Class: Starhound Length: 30 feet Fuel: Tylium/Energy conversion drive Crew: 1 Armament: Twin turbolaser cannon Max speed: Light velocity, though hyperspace travel possible."