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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 3134589" data-attributes="member: 20741">As for the Why was the Pegasus destroyed instead of Galactica?Ron Moore answers this in his podcast:1 - The show is called Battlestar Galactica, not Battlestar Pegasus. Peggy was always going to have to go down, but the writers wanted it to mean something. Saving the human race from New Caprica, saving the Galactica and destroying three base stars in the fight (well, one in the fight and two in her death throes) was as dramatic as it got.And of course one base star survives. That's the one Dann'a, Caprica Six, Boomer and Baltar get away to, presumably.2- As for why destroy it now Ron Moore explained in his podcast,  again it was largely a practical decision as much as a dramatic one:Production needed the space on the soundset where they film as there was no more large space available. There were only ever 4 internal sets for the Pegasus. The Commander's ready room, the CIC, a corridor and a multi-purpose room they used for a number of purposes depending on how they dressed it up (brig, pilot's ready room, etc).The show is soon going to shift and use Baltar to give us a window into what the interiors of the Basestars look like. In order to build those sets, they needed the space being taken up by the Pegasus sets.Out with the old, in with the new.</blockquote>