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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 3182716" data-attributes="member: 710">Well, I don't know, but according to the mini-series, it seemed they were pretty well prepared - they had possibly 120 Battlestars for 12 Colonies in a single solar system. Sounds pretty impressive to me, even if not all of the Battlestars were of Pegasus' calibre. Their whole fleet was in the middle of upgrading to a new, safer and more advanced computer system that was supposed to resist Cylon computer manipulations. Unfortunately, thanks to enemy spies and a (unwitting) human collaborator , this program was sabotaged and, instead of improved performance and safety, disabled their main defence line. So, their main problem was the lack of knowledge about the Cylon plans and their newest technological (or evolutionary) advances. Which ended pretty badly for them. Still, you can't say they didn't try to prepare themselves. It just didn't work out. Indeed. At least TNS Baltars life offers a few fun moments, unlike TOS Baltar who had only hear about failures after failures and had to work with walking chrome toasters or robots-with-exposed-brains. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> But, considering the tortures, in the end it all evens out - life on a Basestar is probably not worth it, at least for human traitors. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I agree, that seemed a bit overreacting. Though, it also is understandable, I think. He lead a mission that broke the treaty, and nobody can really say how much this affected the Cylon plans - even if they were pretty certain about launching an attack, a breach of the treaty by the humans certainly didn't weaken their resolve.</blockquote>

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