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Do the Indomitable-class ships qualify as battlestars? Alex Goodwin (08 Jun 2020 14:10 UTC)
Re: [TML] Do the Indomitable-class ships qualify as battlestars? Kurt Feltenberger (09 Jun 2020 02:46 UTC)
Re: [TML] Do the Indomitable-class ships qualify as battlestars? Kurt Feltenberger (09 Jun 2020 06:06 UTC)
Re: [TML] Do the Indomitable-class ships qualify as battlestars? Kurt Feltenberger (10 Jun 2020 01:43 UTC)
Re: [TML] Do the Indomitable-class ships qualify as battlestars? Kurt Feltenberger (10 Jun 2020 01:41 UTC)
Re: [TML] Do the Indomitable-class ships qualify as battlestars? Kurt Feltenberger (09 Jun 2020 02:40 UTC)
Re: [TML] Do the Indomitable-class ships qualify as battlestars? Kurt Feltenberger 10 Jun 2020 01:42 UTC 
On 6/9/2020 7:06 AM, Phil Pugliese - philpugliese at yahoo.com (via tml
list) wrote:
> The pilot episode of the original (70's) BSG also had a successful
> Cylon kamikaze attack upon the Colonial Flagship.
> As I recall it flew in thru one of fighter launch bays & the resulting
> explosion was quite spectacular.
> Good thing they didn't do that again as it probably could've finished
> the ol' Galactica  & then "that's all she wrote"!

If you have a chance to read the novelizations that were published back
then, that was acknowledged as the one weak point on a battlestar due to
the fuel lines.  This was hinted at in, IIRC, the mini-series where they
had to void spaces to stop the fires or they'd reach the lines.

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