CYLON BASESTAR (RDM) | Maybe the worst ship EVER DESIGNED. It's meat | Battlestar Galactica Lore

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based on just the thumbnail but the topic of the day the Cylon base star from Battlestar Galactica the classic ship from the remastered series The terrifying tool of toaster domination the thing that they use to wipe out the 12 colonies of man but first because I am greedy and apparently it has been working I am going to Shell like my life depends on it if you would like to support science insanity and gain access to our content a day early with all the stuff that we have to cut to keep the run time down and YouTube appropriate go check out our patreon if you'd like buy me a coffee or if you're feeling generous feed Steve to make sure that he's well enough to do these episodes and if space bucks are running a little bit short just check the videos out in the rest of our Channel spread it around like subscribe everything helps so Steve are you ready to go of course certainly so I have been fed now what do you what do you remember about the Cylon base star and before you say anything you're not allowed to say that the name is confusing with the colonial battle stars that was like a running thing that's the one thing you're not allowed to say you remember um I'm a little bit confused because of the battle ice [Laughter] immediately we're immediately off to a great start okay uh strike one uh I remember they looked uh pretty interesting there with all their points um and uh they didn't really have armor or survivability glass cannons holy [ __ ] you remembered so much more than I thought you were I thought you were just gonna come in here and be like it is uh the Cylon base ship and uh it looks like a star I was genuinely expecting that to be the extent of your knowledge I mean it's that too but you know I do try to remember some things we discussed oh my God this completely ruined the joke I wrote as well I literally put in my bullet points everything Steve said is wrong make a joke about it and then point it out you completely ruined it oh my God so before we really truly get into the episode proper I would like to say this video for anyone that saw the donager video from last week is going to be the exact op opposite of that one when I was talking about the Donnie there I was basically just shamelessly glorifying and praising that ship to Helen back because it is awesome and I love it and hard sci-fi is cool despite the fact that every single time the donnager shows up on screen it is getting its ass clapped and blown to hell in much the same way the Cylon base star is a massive imposing weapon of war that spends all of its scream time getting absolutely bodied but I hate it it is one of the most stupid ship designs I have ever seen with just the most ridiculous decisions ever creatively and technically from both in and out of universe it is just the Cylon base star versus the Galactica the first is meant to intimidate and scare the enemy the second is meant to beat its ass back to the scrapyard it crawled out of we need to establish also right off the rip there will be just colossal plot holes and glaring issues and just dumb design involved in this video and it was made that way because of meta real life stuff the cylons new the enemies of the week they basically get bodied because they're comedic bad guys they're they're generic thugs in the background so you have to keep that in mind as we talk about the ship chat GPT will not stand for this you know I don't actually know what chat GPT is I've seen memes with that all over the AI That's need to know to understand the joke oh so it's like every YouTuber ever got it no all right between not everything you need to understand the joke of it it's fine oh it's it's fine yeah it's okay whoosh straight over my head so the Cylon Bay star was designed as the and I wish I was kidding when I say this final solution to the problem of humanity and the 12 colonies you know I've heard that before yeah uh we're drawing unfortunate parallels here so we're gonna move on really quickly before they can spiral out of control they were essentially the tool that the cylons used to end the Cold War of Extinction being waged by both sides after the signing of the Armistice and conclusion of the first Cylon War the base star we see is an evolution of Prior designs the Cylon base star began as the giant twin dinner plate design that we know and love evolving into a spoked carrier missile boat hybrid and the precursor to the modern base star and finally the twin y home design that appears in the RDM TV show and I need to get you some images because it occurs to me in my incredible haste that I did not actually properly prepare everything that I should have wow such a Canadian moment uh yeah it's fine it gives you two weeks to prepare for it and look other things happened it is what it is I've got them on hand I just don't have them pulled up and ready to go so that is what I meant the lowest quality images it's flying it's fine it's okay here look let me get an even lower quality one for you it'll it'll be even better thank you check it look at that don't you love it I appreciate you yeah that's so small it's like 240 by 100 pixels so anyways like I was saying that first image is sort of the in between that's the evolution of the Cylon base star the original one was just the Colossal piss off dinner plate that everyone knows and loves here's an image of that by the way it it's just a monstrosity and over time the ships gradually got a more Sleek design they turned into the spoked design that you see there the Cylon bass star and eventually they evolved into the modern base ship with the twin y Hull design capable of inverting itself to look like that oh so wonderful star that it is named after so we went from basically two Millennium Falcons just put together to inverse wise this is the best AI can come up with this is the oh you have no idea how much worse it gets it's like oh AI design is gonna take over no this is the classic example of why AI are stupid this thing is terrible I hate it they should have stuck with the dinner plate it was so much better however like I was saying the the modern base ship despite the fact that it looks way different and is significantly smaller than all of the other base ships it's designed off of was pretty much made to fill a very specific role in the cylons plan the reason that the first Cylon war ended with the Armistice that it did was due to the final five a group of humanoid cylons from the long lost 13th colony of man don't worry if you don't remember that it's not really important they met the current robotic cylons that were waging the war against humanity and agreed to assist them in creating humanoid cylons and hybrids to assist in their goal of evolution and advancement these humanoid cylons would spend years infiltrating the 12 colonies and working their way into as many positions of Power Authority and influence as they could in order to destabilize and purple Humanity's ability to fight back at the Advent of the second Cylon War part of this effort was something called the command navigation program created by Gaius Baltar the most punchable sounding scientist ever it was basically an operating system for all Colonial Battle Stars and support craft that in testing had proved to make the effectiveness lethality and reaction time of colonial Fleet greater than even the best that the cylons had at the end of the first war of course the toasters subverted it so it was like oh fantastic this is a wonderful Windows operating system let me just replace it with Windows 10 and that's basically what happened with most of the colonial fleets we went for a wonderful operating system to replace it so you're replacing it with Windows 11. you got to get your windows versions right here man look I'll be honest my experience is that every single time Windows updates is basically like having free malware installed on your computer so I as far as it's just a Bill Gates moment I I get them mixed up every single time an update happens I hate it so as far as I'm concerned they're all terrible they're all malware understandable Dr baltar's work on the CNP was subverted and manipulated by his lover and co-writer a Cylon agent playing the longest con and surprisingly not the longest lasting case of blue balls ever who wrote in multiple backdoors and exploits to the CNP that Cylon electronic warfare could exploit to devastating effect yo I'm gonna need to you to uh explain yourself with that real quick you know exactly what needs explained I was gonna I was gonna move on from it and just leave it unexplained but I just had I just had the worst thought imaginable so the humanoid cylons they look like humans okay they're basically robots that feel and look like humans and they're mostly undetectable because they got fleshy organic bits in them right okay and they used said fleshy organic bits to seduce and manipulate guys Baltar canonically they smashed all right that's all I need to know back on track the reason the cylons decided on this course of action was due to their predictions and simulations of the end result of the second human Cylon War they basically spent years wargaming out what would happen using different strategies and such part of the reason the ceasefire was proposed and not only due to the final five was because Humanity was becoming an Unstoppable military Juggernaut as the twelve colonies independently the cylons were winning the war they were crushing their independent militaries pretty handedly after they United under one front and began coordinating resource industry and Manpower the tide gradually began to turn against the cylons culminating in several large counter-offensives such as the ghost Fleet offensive and operation Raptor Talon that devastated Cylon fleets and destroyed outposts and shipyards with the early models of Minerva Battle Stars hailed at heralding the creation of the Mercury which is just the destroyer of worlds and the valkyrie class alongside prototypes of the Mark 7 Viper the colonial fleet was expanding rapidly and was according to the cylon's own predictions insurmountable in the next War they would have been smashed and honestly considering that the Galactica and the Pegasus like kicked the [ __ ] out of most of the cylons every time they show up having a fleet of hundreds of those things rolling around probably would have just been an immediate [ __ ] stomp in Humanity's favor probably so the cylons believed that they were absolutely unable to beat Humanity in the next conventional fight so with the infiltration of the CNP on hand their strategy shifted to a decisive First Strike Japanese style the specifications of the modern base ship were thus born to fulfill said role designed with the intention of hammering the 12 colonies as hard as possible while the colonial fleet was disabled and vulnerable due to their infiltration the modern base star was built with an exclusive focus on the strongest Weaponry known to both sides nuclear warheads it was also designed to carry as many fighters as possible in order to counter column vipers and serve as the advanced Strike Force and Cleanup Crew after the initial waves of nuclear bombardment cleaning up any ships that could potentially have survived infiltration from the CNP it was also to carry a more advanced jump drive and propulsion than any other ship before it capable of jumping well past even the farthest range of any prior ship this was so that it could remain hidden deep in Cylon space past the Armistice line and jump all the way to the colonies directly without the Colonials ever realizing what kind of First Strike weapon they had developed so with that brief history of why it was designed the way it was out of the way and what it was supposed to do commit a nuclear Holocaust let's talk about its design more directly and I can explain why this thing is mind-bendingly stupid and we're going to start with just you know the basic dimensions of it in some raw numbers the base star measures in at just over a kilometer long from extended point to point slightly smaller when it's in its dual tandem y configuration 350 ish meters wide and 265 meters tall at its greatest extent these numbers like I said they fluctuate a little bit because the ship can reorient itself a couple different ways so it's a little inconsistent but close enough generally it is a little bit longer and taller than the Galactica while being a little shorter and smaller than the Mercury class that's an easy way to visualize it the Cylon gray star comes equipped with an eye-watering truly insane science Insanity [Music] I'm sorry I had to the opportunity was there I did I did the thing it is equipped with a frankly disgusting 220 individual rapid reload and fire missile launchers capable of firing conventional nuclear or cluster Munitions these weapons are almost exclusively mounted in the prongs of the ship closer towards the end rather than the central column so you see the tandem why Hull design basically all of the actual missile launchers are pretty much out on the tippy ends of the uh the ship there so if you basically blow those off congratulations the ship now has no more armaments left which we will get congratulations that's no longer functional as a ship the reason for all of the weapons being clustered on the external spokes is because while the base ship can vomit out a truly ridiculous number of missiles the real stupid part is that the entire Central column and all of the base of the spokes contain thousands of Cylon Raiders with 800 individual launch bays and potentially thousands of Raiders at their greatest extent stored within there are also several pressurized hangers for heavy Raiders and larger strike craft as well to allow the hybrids and the humanoid cylons who need to breathe like pathetic weak fleshy humans the space that they need to Embark and disembark from the ship unfortunately before anyone asks me in the comments I'm aware of this the animation team for the BSG show are cowards they retconned this semi accidentally in the show so the number of hangers and stuff is wrong the first 3D models we see are accurate to what I just explained but later on in order to make the hangers more visible and readable on screen as well as actually show the missile launchers and stuff in future battles they reduce the number of hangers down to about 430. they should have simply burned more money rendering the more detailed model cowards simply as for the actual ship itself it is so weird this is getting into the part where I'm saying we're going to be talking about meat ships because we are it is a grotesque biomechanical nightmare it's all Meats baby all the way down a giant flying meatball the whole thing instead of mobile Arby's is that's what's happening here they have pretty much they have the meats all of them while the old Cylon based stars were you know like conventional ships made of materials and wires and cables and metals and [ __ ] and the Cylon based star to a degree is similar it has conventional armor plating and structural beams made from a titanium alloy the vast majority of the ship's mass and internals are made of that biomechanical compound that's capable of self-repair and growth these ships are essentially grown not really built which is just so weird to think about if chunks are blasted off the ship it can gradually through semi-unned means regrow this organic tissue issue and repair itself we even see from an episode in the show that a rebel-based ship during a Cylon Civil War piloted by well Rogue cylons who joined Humanity that some of the spokes were completely blown off and many episodes later they're actually mostly repaired the base ship from what's shown is capable of potentially even regenerating up to half of its mass like entire sections of the ship are just completely destroyed and they do manage to repair back to almost full functionality although it can't regenerate like its Fighters and ammunition and stuff that's got to be manufactured and brought in from outside so basically a salamander is what I'm hearing here I don't know if it's actually salamanders that regenerate it's it's something yeah it's some kind of lizard close enough close enough it's so weird that they went with his design Choice when they remade the series because out of everything they could have done like nanites repair drones 3D matter printers all the other sci-fi Shenanigans no the cylons are made of me The Toasters regenerating meat yeah it just the toasters are literally flying through space on a rack of ribs powered by sausage links like just what a world we live in as for the actual armor and survivability of the base star it is absolutely awful not only is the ship designed in such a way that it can't carry much armor at all due to the spindly nature of its spokes but the massive amount of ammunition in Hangar Bays on Colonial Battle Stars the hangers are on extended flight pods so they can be independently armored and reinforced your average Battle Star can comfortably survive having its flight pods ripped off but if the hanger on a Cylon base star is heavily damaged it's probably taking the rest of that half of the ship with it because whatever blew it up is probably not contained within that one Hangar there are no small explosives here I'm pretty sure in the Battle Star videos which Shameless self promote go check out the uh the Mercury class and the Jupiter class Battle Star videos their their guns are disgustingly large like they are they're firing basically train sized projectiles the the base start cannot even hope to to handle these things like can't tank them can't shrug them off can't Dodge them it just dies like I was saying though despite having similar Dimensions to the Galactica in great extent like how big the thing is its mass is so so much lower that we see multiple times in the show that single nuclear missiles or even small barrages of well-placed shots from Colonial Munitions will literally rip these ships in half like I said it's also prudent to mention that the base star has no form of anti-fighter Munitions or weapons at all no point defense Rockets or anti-fighter missiles of any kind none nada so multiple times we see random dudes in their stupid little space Fighters fly around with nuclear missiles and blow up a capital ship that's like a thousand times their size it is ridiculous they're just allowed to get away with that because the cylons didn't think yeah maybe someone's gonna attack us at some point this is the best AI can come up with this is in fact the best AI can come up with yeah it's fantastic you might as well have outsourced it to like one of those AI image generators probably would have done a better job what's really funny though hilarious even is that in Canon the base star is supposed to be able to hack and redirect almost any form of guided munition using it incredibly powerful electronic warfare Suite which you know they're fair enough they're basically Skynet their AI makes sense that they would be able to do that right they can overpower all of their computer systems okay funny part about that there's uh there's only two forces to fight in the BSG Universe humanity and other cylons during the Civil War the other cylons can counter your hacking by just like counter hacking their missiles or getting into a tug of war with you and in that case the missile just keeps on the heading it was before so completely pointless and the humans just go nah bro we ain't doing that none of that nerd [ __ ] independent targeting or just dumbfire missiles there you go once they launch the missile it's just going it's a fire and forget weapon doesn't even have any signals or anything that you could potentially use to hack it what what you can't even Jam them because most of them don't operate on like radar guidance like it does nothing this feature is never used it's pointless they built this super Advanced hacking system into this ship and it doesn't do anything they had to forgo the point defenses so they could get that in there that they were they really needed it in there so God this is this is like up there with the Bob Semple tank in in layers of just completely [ __ ] useless design like I didn't put this here don't don't you be [ __ ] talking to Bob simple it it had corrugated steel Roofing as it's armored dude I will [ __ ] talk that tank until the end of time so the only survivability that the Cylon bass star has is not being hit which is trash since it lives in a setting where the entire battle doctrine of humanity is and I'm paraphrasing I will plant my fist in your face feed you your own teeth and there's nothing you can do about it Chrome Dome nerd literally the definition of stereotypical jock surprisingly though the Cylon bass star is actually it quite fast for its size and awkward shape even though it doesn't have any visible engines best guesses here were kind of going off of speculation but the base star has and this is going to sound like mumbo jumbo but bear with me it has an inertial engine basically what it does is it uses gravitational fields and inertia to move the ship around accelerating it as if it were in a gravity well but only locally confined to the actual ship itself so the base star experiences no issues with acceleration it has no issues moving itself around and it doesn't need an engine this also allows the base star to be able to move in three dimensions without needing to reorient it can be moving left and then all of a sudden randomly it's moving up and it hasn't changed its orientation whatsoever lets them move real weird when they're in space I think it runs on piece of toast you know what honestly both of us could be wrong but no one knows for certain so as long as nobody can prove you wrong you are correct congratulations Asylum 1 base star is powered by toast so the greatest advantage that the base ship actually has is its AI Control and coordination systems with the most advanced electronic warfare Suite pretty much ever developed and the ability to coordinate and control its thousands strong Raider complement the base star was designed to be pretty much the final word in advanced Computing and Battlefield command capabilities and unfortunately that oh oh my God you know what no we're going to come back to this because I have so many severe problems with this in the lore because there's some stupid [ __ ] that comes up later on but for now for now we need to talk about some real heresy the base ship right has no guns of any kind in the Battlestar Galactica Universe no guns none not a single one no point defense weapons to shoot down Fighters and missiles no main batteries to do some significant damage in a good old brawl they literally don't even have a Cylon Centurion holding its arm out the window and doing drive-bys with his machine gun nothing which is just mind-boggling to me we see time and again that the Flack defenses from the Galactica the holy wall of flack Blessed Be its name it basically completely rendering all Cylon Munitions irrelevant if it's literally a giant wall of no I don't think you will and this old bucket of bolts that was pretty unarmed like it was de-armed over the course of the war this thing was capable of completely clowning on the Cylon Bay Star consistently despite the fact that the the Galactica the Jupiter class was so old by the time of the actual show that it's almost criminal it was becoming a museum ship even worse later on during the Cylon Civil War the base ships don't even have the ability to stop incoming missiles as when they start firing on each other it basically boils down to whoever shoots first and gets luckiest with their missile guidance to hit something critical and they just win that like they can't stop the missiles they can't slow them down they just sit there and eat [ __ ] and that wouldn't be too bad I guess if they were confident in their ability to dick with the CNP you know that wonderful uh backdoor program they had but they weren't they weren't even confident it was gonna work so canonically by the way the cylons pulled an absolute Hail Mary they expected most of the colonial Fleet to be subverted along with a huge amount of like civilian infrastructure and stuff based on stations and shipyards and on planets but they never in their Wildest Dreams did they think it would get like 99 of everything they expected more around like two-thirds to 80 percent kinda of all of the fleet assets and they expected to deliver as much of a strike as possible so that the coming War the attrition rates would be in their favor like they were expecting to have to fight an actual War so they designed these absolute asinine garbage ships with the expectation that they wouldn't even work perfectly for their intended plan and they had no backups this is their whole Fleet that's all they have this is the one ship they have that's that's it and this is why we aren't worried about AI taking over what would a few dozen or potentially like a few hundred of the Mercury or the Nova or the valkyrie Battle Stars have done probably reversed the course of the war or at least firmly given the cylons a solid punch in the teeth and a solid [ __ ] off before fleeing with the rest of humanity what lore there would have been no war yeah like the the cylons strike the 12 colonies and they only managed to get the nukes off on like I think it was like five or six of the worlds so like half basically right and then the colonial Fleet responded and the colonial Fleet sent like 400 Battle Stars to go fight them and you're like that that is an overwhelmingly ridiculous Fleet that that's that's impossible two or three of them is basically indestructible if they're working together individually right we're going to come back to that AI thing now about them being able to process really fast right so individually cylons and humanoid cylons can process and think faster than any organic even the Raiders and stuff they're they're Fighters they're often described as being basically Unstoppable like if you're in their sights your best form of defense is to pray that something goes wrong with them that's the best you got right that's that's how effective they are when they you know when they're in the swing of things the older models the centurions and the Raiders and stuff they're they're all sentient right when they operate in large numbers they essentially surrender some level of their decision making to good old cloud computing battle strategies so if one Cylon sees a Target in the city every other silent on the planet knows it's there as well and they can follow along with a strategy that they work up as they go and each of them follow it like you know singular parts of a whole but when it comes to the humanoid cylons they are fully sentient and fully independent they can communicate with other Cylon models and types but are in no way beholden to the decision-making process and like functions in the same way that they are so in order to come to decisions amongst themselves they need to put it to to a vote and deliberate on what they're going to do this is actually what started the Cylon Civil War as the humanoid cylons essentially lobotomized the Raiders and the ships and the centurions to keep control and when some of them were like yo this is messed up we're doing the same thing Humanity did to us this is not cool bro they were not happy about that they freed those cylons and then the centurions were immediately not happy about that and you want to know what the centurions realized once they were free from their functional enslavement what the centurions realized wait a minute I have guns on my arms and proceeded to commit Butchery against the humanoid Cylon models and thus the Cylon Civil War began and that was that was a very long and roundabout way to say that the cylons have vastly Superior decision-making speed and accuracy but the humanoid cylons need to literally vote on everything so canonically like in the lore actually despite being hyper-advanced machines that can think a hundred times faster than a human it takes them so long to vote on what they're gonna do and work things out that they react slower than human ships the colonial fighter pilots and battle groups and Battle Stars can react to situations and fighting conditions faster and more efficiently than the cylons can because of this asinine command and control thing they came up with why do you have like 10 dudes debating on what to do when every single one of them has a different personality they're gonna come up with 10 different things they implemented a government moment into it for themselves oh my God yeah the cylons have advanced so far they created government and now everything's going wrong just like it did with Humanity good job idiots you used to be one Collective Consciousness now you have to deal with bureaucracy and we may as well move on from the technical aspects of it and start talking a little bit about the battle strategies that the cylons actually tried to employ to get the base ship to work all two of them they they were not imaginative okay the Cylon base star was a first strike weapon with massive volley Firepower and a horde of Raiders to support it the cylons were also aware to a limited degree of the weaknesses of their ships and deployed accordingly before a battle begins the cylons prefer to use scouting parties of regular and heavy Raiders to find their targets often these Raiders will attempt to Shadow the target for some time remaining outside effective gun range of the Galactica and requiring the Colonials to scramble Fighters the reason they do this is because of the base ship's incredibly accurate jump drive by feeding the positional data and Telemetry back to the Mothership the base star can jump into the best position possible before the fighting has even begin so that when it launches its missiles and Raiders it can pose the greatest possible threat to the human Fleet from there the base star will launch its massive waves of Fighters and its multitude of missiles and in order to cover these forces uses said missile volley to distract the holy wall of flack Blessed Be its name the battleship will basically dump dozens or hundreds of missiles into space and Vector them from a different angle as their Raider squadrons to try and distract the large-scale guns putting the Galactica and any human ships in the terrible position of needing to decide between face tanking nuclear warheads or dealing with Raiders firing missiles down their engines into their gun ports and all of those critical areas that they really don't want explosives going and that's one of the most common tactics that they use because that's basically what they employ when they are by themselves the tactic is the default because most spaceships when they operate alone refuse outright to risk their ship in any way in any sort of close range brawl with a colonial warship because they will lose horrifically this also means that anytime a base star engages Colonial ships alone it has to jump extremely far away outside of effective gun range of the Battle Star and outside the scramble distance of its combat Air Patrol to ensure that it can't be oops accidentally nuked by someone waiting nearby it is it is pretty terrible it's a pretty pretty mid-tactic to be honest the other one yeah the other one that we see is uh I I don't really know how to describe this how do I put this um forehead the problem more missiles fire all the missiles and pretty pretty much it like when there's multiple Cylon based stars or they determine that they have a crippling numerical Advantage the base Stars will move to encircle Colonial targets using their High Precision jump drives and their weird inertialist Drive systems to quickly reposition around the target from as many angles as possible from here they engage closer range which is suicide and dump as many missiles as possible into the target from as many angles as possible hoping some will slip through and overwhelm the target's defenses the reason they move in closer is because the farther out they are the more time Colonial gun batteries have to calculate firing solutions for their flak screens and getting close minimizes their ability to do that this is actually how the Pegasus died in the actual battle where the ship was blown up the base stars that it's engaging I think there's three or four of them basically move into as many any positions around it as possible hammering it from Front back top bottom and all sides with as many missiles as they can I believe they also blow up the drive system of that by slamming enough missiles into the engine assembly which is one of the least defended areas of any Colonial Battle Star I think it's one of the least defended areas of basically anything yeah but I mean like theoretically not the Cylon ships though because they have their weird engines like if they decided to make just a giant armored monstrosity like the original dinner plate design except like more modern they could have put guns everywhere and just like rammed it into the Galactica and then the entire War would have been over in like 10 minutes so this second strategy though has a major problem to it because the base stars move in so close this drastically interferes with their ability to actually launch Raiders as while the ships themselves are immune to the smaller shrapnel and shells and they can distract the larger gun batteries by forcing them to fire flax shells due to the concentration of missiles their fighter wings are not immune to the Flack and the risk of launching their Raiders directly into explosions is quite high and something that they really don't want to do and so they don't and it just turns into the slug Fest between the ships and that's their really only strategies they are either sitting in the ass end of nowhere spamming Fighters and missiles at you like only the most annoying of Scrubs scared to fight and only the best of War Thunder players in ground RB ooh that's a dig at the community or their second strategy is rushing the gun brick in the desperate attempts to find a hole in the wall of flack Blessed Be its name and putting themselves within teeth punching range these ships suck they're they're awful they're terrible in fact I dislike the lack of guns so much I'm gonna make an entire opinion piece on why kinetic weapons are important in science fiction and why why they should be included like everywhere just all the time like don't don't ever make a ship that's just missiles it's really really stupid the the most notable failure though of the Cylon bass star is literally Years Years the cylons were chasing down the human Fleet and these things were chasing the Galactica in the last 50 000 human survivors across the stars and they managed to inflict almost negligent damage to her and before anyone in the comments goes um actually I I'm well aware of the odd missile strikes and the sabotage effects and the damage to the Galactus guns like I'm aware of all the damage that was done but let's be realistic here it was basically nothing um actually I don't care basically what we're telling you the the numbers here get genuinely stupid like you're gonna scratch your head with how ridiculous these statistics actually are so it almost never was any significant damage actually done to the human Fleet by the Cylon based ships unless something went really really wrong with the Colonials to begin with there were a few cases where ships had to be left behind to be destroyed because their ftls didn't work or sabotaged caused them to fall out or they were mutinies or just stuff like that right there there is anywhere between 230 and 300 individual times that the cylons caught up with humanity and failed to inflict any significant damage on the Galactica or any of the other ships in the fleet they managed to catch the Colonials hundreds of times and accomplished nothing there is a segment where the cylons track the humans down and jump on top of their Fleet every 33 minutes for days I think someone calculated out to being roughly like 200 individual times that the cylons got into combat with the humans and they didn't do anything if they had some guns even even just a few just a couple just one just put one gun like at the very ass end of the ship right make it make it look like a dick I don't really care do anything give it one kinetic weapon and they would have been a little something give you something anything right and the last thing the one one interesting thing that I find really funny is that image I showed you where they're in the uh twin y Hulk configuration the only the only reason that exists I am convinced the only reason it exists is because the animators wanted to show something cool the actual lore reason why they have that second configuration and they're not just the normal star is because somehow some weird [ __ ] reason completely ignoring that they're not aerodynamic to begin with when they turn into that y coordination they're suddenly aerodynamic enough to go into a planet's atmosphere it's a giant flying y it's not aerodynamic to begin with it's stupid they just wanted to put that in there so it could look cool when the very first scene when they're firing the nukes on the colonies they can show them rotating and they're like spooky spaceship look at the move strange oh he pulled a shark got rotated surprise idiot I rotate myself now these ships are awful they they genuinely are they're a giant flying meat monster crude by Petty bickering slave masters that lobotomized their literal siblings they lack any effective weapons and they only did as well as they did because it got a mulligan from God that is functionally the end of the video though because while we could continue to talk more about it there really isn't much more to say going over anything else about it or any notable Parts about the ship would literally just boil down to it has this thing it's completely useless the cylons ruined it and then we'd move on so that's functionally where the video ends the Cylon bass star did the worst ship ever before we end off though Patron thanks ah there I know there's a Gabe that's about all I got well it's been let out recently you know I haven't had a chance to yeah it's it's okay the the numbers are big and scary we we were at like one Patron at one point and then we were at like two and then things got a little scary for Steve and now we're up to like six so yeah it's it's a little big it's a two quite a few names for him to read off it got above two I can't can't do it man he ran out of hands to count on after two laughs oh oh anyways anyways David Gabe the OG Augie 11 Bravo crunchy Terry Higgins Pedro Munoz David grunt thank you all very much for your support it's greatly appreciated we almost have enough to get Steve his new microphone so he sounds slightly less terrible that's functionally the end of the video coming up in a few days is an opinion piece like I mentioned on why kinetic weapons are awesome and why they should be in science fiction directly inspired by the fact that I hate this ship and the fact it has no guns so check that out probably gonna be coming on the weekend like Saturday or Sunday if everything goes well and with that the video is over outros are hard foreign [Music]

Channel: SCIENCE INSANITY

Views: 33,394

Keywords: cylon, battlestar galactica, bsg, cylon attack, gaius baltar, cylons lore, cylon lore, cylon civil war, cylon centurion, cylon raiders, cylon basestar, sci-fi, cylon base star, basestar, battlestar galactica deadlock, cylon base ship, cylon baseship, galactica, specifications, breakdown, summary, baltar, battlestar galactica lore, battlestar galactica cylon lore, bsg lore, science, insanity, science insanity

Id: 801mCZlzCPI

Length: 40min 56sec (2456 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 27 2023