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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 2603857" data-attributes="member: 14159">Wow, just wow.An unanswered question, how did Pegasus and its flight compliment avoid the CNP virus that destroyed the entire Colonial fleet?  It was setting in for an overhaul, perhaps it was being implimented then?Well, we know the details of the Cylon fleet that is following Galactica.  Two Base Stars, about a dozen support ships, and some mysterious super-ship.  Personally, I suspect the super-ship might be a colonization ship, for when the Galactica finds Earth, the Cylons want to land.  Or as was noted, it could be a factory ship to keep rebuilding the Cylon fleet, or some form of super-base-star that might even be a flagship of the entire Cylon race.I would ask why the President wouldn't just relieve Cain of command (or immediately pardon Tyrol and Helo), as the President, but she probably doesn't know she can do that, but Cain appears to not recognize her as the legitimate President (as she noted that Cain wasn't returning her calls, and seemed openly dubious of her status).  At best it would give legal weight to Adamas actions, but as has been shown before, Adama is willing to disregard the law to do what he thinks is right, for better or worse.They did a good job at making the Pegasus crew look more inhuman, heartless and outright evil than the Cylons, and that's pretty tall task.  If most of the Colonial fleet was like Pegasus, we should be cheering for the "More human than human" Cylons.Cain is a bloodthirsty *****: she shot her own XO in the CIC (instead of relieving him of his position), and her own marines have shot 7 crewmen since the Cylon Holocaust.  They are already losing well more than one crewman a month just from being executed, that is utterly insane.  Since the Pegasus has fewer crew than Galactica (only around 1000) and Galactica was already on a skeleton crew, how long could this even hold up before they were running out of qualified crew?In its own way, this really is a dark mirror of the Original Series episode that inspired it "The Living Legend", where Galactica finds Pegasus and the two Battlestar crews and commanders don't mix well.  However, instead of teaming up to take on a major Cylon base, they end up with guns pointed at each other.  It's pretty crystal clear that Cain isn't going to last (if nothing else, the dramatic structure of the show and her billing as a guest star indicate that).  Whether she gets fragged by her own officers, shot by Pegasus-6 or Boomer.  When Original Series Cain was believed dead (the end made it ambiguous if Pegasus was destroyed or made an FTL jump at the last moment), it was a moment of sorrow.  When Admiral Cain dies, it will be a moment of relief.It is possible that Cain could die, but Pegasus survive (or most of its crew and craft compliment at least) and its crew and equipment be integrated with Galactica.  Definitely be a little harsh to blend the two highly disparate groups, but it would provide a nice answer to the low Viper supply, and if it survived a second Battlestar could make for some interesting combat options (being able to have one Battlestar escort the fleet, while the other harries the Cylons).  In original Galactica, when they encountered the Pegasus it was a chance to bring on new crew and a way to introduce new cast members, but nobody (except the engineer) from Pegasus seemed like anybody who would fit in on the show.</blockquote>

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