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[prog]

They had cheap and accurate FTL, but they didn't themselves establish additional sub-colonies all over everywhere? To say nothing of manned exploration and mapping missions in all directions, constantly active?

oh well. (If this gets explained after ep 3 I'll be fine with it.)

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[jtroutman.livejournal.com]

well, they never said it was cheap or really that accurate. There was the 'redline' of known jump distances, and they explictly were going "beyond the redline" in terms of safe jumps and knowledge of the world.

i also get the impression that the back story of the society is one in stagnation, and a lack of drive to explore and innovate. And don't forget that the 40 years previous cylon war set them back a lot, and also severely limited their computer capabilities (from fear of infection by the cylons).

But all that aside, I do wish the universe and the motivations for all of the actions of the players were more fully thought out and cohesive. But I enjoy it very much as a character driven "war story" that pulls few punches, rathern than as a Sci-Fi show.

on a similar note, I recently read the Dragon Riders of Pern series again (for the first time since high school), and I found the overall belivability of the universe to be lacking. The world is nearly as big as Earth, yet has small groups of a few thousand people scatted here and there, with what has to be thousands of miles between them. And a total planet-wide population that could not be more than 50-100k people. I can't imagine how any trade and contact would occur with the population being so small, and the distances so large between settlements..

[(Anonymous)]

That's because you aren't factoring in the long-haul taupe dragons, ferrying containers full of klah beans and exotic southern continent vegetables through the between.