Cylon Airlocks

[buerger23]

In the last episode is it just me or have we found out more about Cylon technology than another episode? So the Airlock system on the Basestar seems to be very organic. The effects were bad! It looked like an episode of Stargate to me!:lol:!

[Sparrow]

In the last episode is it just me or have we found out more about Cylon technology than another episode? So the Airlock system on the Basestar seems to be very organic. The effects were bad! It looked like an episode of Stargate to me!:lol:!

That is an airlock?

because they were allready out of the Raptor when it was closing.. so that compartment was preusuriced ..
Also i wonder if Cylon BaseStars have some short of air magnetic retention system.. because all we have seen suggest this..

in Kobol's last gleaming 2 and in A measure of salvation we see Raptors entering the BaseStar (the second case one with no control) directly and people going out of the Raptor without enviromental suits

[Leroy Morte]

Are you talking about the weird looking pink organic webbing stuff that was moving? That seemed to me like some kind of musculature, moving stuff. Anyone else want to hazard a guess?

[aylinn]

To me it looked like veins and fibers with some kind of organic membrane. It was kinda cool.

[Leroy Morte]

I know, I really liked it too.

[pagad]

Yeah, I think that scene was the equivalent of a battlestar's landing bay's elevator, or something.

[Dzonatas]

They could have used better sound effects for the airlock. The sound of tearing plastic threw off the sight of it.

[ShadowEnigma]

Really? The sound effect didn't bother me, I thought it kind of fit.

[pagad]

Really? The sound effect didn't bother me, I thought it kind of fit.

Yeah, I liked it. A nice nod to the quasi-biological nature of the basestar. Makes sense that "moving parts" could be "muscle", so to speak.

[eps200]

i think one of the crew said somewher those places that the ships enter through are like ventricles in a heart they act like big airlocks

[genji2000]

What's the relationship between where they landed and where Boomer and Marv landed at the end of Season One?

[Sgt Teta]

I think where the rapor is now is more of a maintainance area, the other was a landing bay. Much like that found on galactica.

Talking of airlocks, and doors, am i the only one who thinks a lot of problems on galactica would be solves with a couple of Yale locks on the more important doors, say, CIC. And insted of a little glass door, perhaps a big metal one infront of aux damage+fire control!!

[BSGfan-atic]

Sgt. Teta,

I have to agree with you - having the glass panels shattering during battle would be unnecessarily hazardous, and the maintenance crews would get really annoyed at having to replace those panels after each battle. You would think that a nice solid, armored door would make more sense. Maybe with a small, bullet-proof window in it. At the Ragnar Anchorage though, at the end of the miniseries, the Centurions blew right through the door with their built-in firearms. Maybe the Colonists thought that the Cylons would just blow through the doors anyway, so why not save some money by using cheap materials.

In "A Mote in God's Eye," by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle had something like what was mentioned above by Sparrow - an air magnetic retention system. In this book, there was basically an invisible field that kept pressure and atmosphere in, yet allowed ships to pass through without any doors, or airlock-type structure.

I love how the Cylons blend technology and biology to create their ships. We are just now beginning to be able to do similar things, like with drugs that target certain specific organisms or tissues. Amazing stuff!

[Sgt Teta]

In "A Mote in God's Eye," by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle had something like what was mentioned above by Sparrow
In this book, there was basically an invisible field that kept pressure and atmosphere in, yet allowed ships to pass through without any doors, or airlock-type structure.


These have been used extensively in sci-fi, practically every problem in every sci-fi show is solved with forcefields.
But we've seen no example of working forcefields in BSG so far, cylon or colonial.
Such technology has so many applications, if it existed, we'd see it all the time surely.

[BSGfan-atic]

Such technology has so many applications, if it existed, we'd see it all the time surely.

Good point. But if it were technology that only the Cylons had, the Colonials wouldn't know anything about it, or have had a chance to learn anything about it. As the Colonials found out to their infinite pain and sorrow, the Cylons knew much more about them than the Colonials knew about the Cylons.

[Sgt Teta]

This is true, this is true. But if you can create a forcefield to hold back an atmosphere, its only a question of power before you have a forcefield to defend you ship, compartmentalise, etc etc, we've never seen it in such applications, surely their basestars, obvsiouly inferior defensively to battlestars, would want any defensive edge they could get, yet they dont.

[buerger23]

Maybe the problem with it is power. They may not have technology to develop a power source so vast.