There are many futures and many different visions of what that future will be like. Battlestar Galactica is no exception and during the course of it is life, it has spawned three official comic series and two major novel series.

Being written by seperate groups of people at different times, none of these visions actually mesh together to form one coherent look at what the future holds, and thus each is a new and exciting glimpse into what happens to the Colonials on their journeys.

As has been stated numerous times before, there are many contradictions between all these futures and the original television series. I am not about to go into them again here, and nor am I going to attempt to adapt the series to conform to the new future, or vice versa.

Instead, what you have here are some gaming notes in case you want to use these futures with the SFB conversion found on this site.

While there are several differing alternate future (Galactica: 1980, Marvel Comics, Realm Press Comics, Maximum Press Comics, the original Glen Larson novels and the Richard Hatch novels, the Tom DeSanto revival, the X-Box/Playstation 2 game and possibly even the new Sci-Fi mini-series), not all of them actually add anything new to the gaming world - no new ships or technology. Thus anything not listed is not meant to imply a lack of significance, just a lack of new gaming resources.

You will notice that there are things missing in the notes that follow. For example, not all the capital ships have SFB SSD's for them, but they do have Fleet Combat System stats. This is because I am not sure if people want the SSD's for them. you will have to give me some feedback on this. In addition, you will notice that some futures use X-Ship technology and some do not. This was determined by looking at the future and figuring out if the various races had had the time and resources to develop that technology. A ragtag fleet more intent on running than settling down might not develop at the same rate as a fleet that colonised a planet and started trying to defend itself.

Finally, for those who wish to have the Cylons as living reptiles as per the original novels, you can still use the standard Cylon stats for GURPS listed in the Role-playing section, after all, the robotic Cylons are based on the reptile ones, and they're about as useful as each other anyway...

Please note, that reading through these gaming notes will give SPOILERS in case you have not actually read the original source material. You have been warned.

In addition to this, you will notice some references from the Richard Hatch novels back to The Second Coming. This is intentional as I think that the novels are effectively a rewriting of the trailer in some respects.