For use with my Battlestar Galactica game, I wanted to run battles that happened during the 1000 yahren war as I felt that this gave a good basis for variety and interesting scenarios.
Without wishing these battles to be the standard "I'll take a Baseship vs your Battlestar and Destroyer" type affairs, I wanted something with a bit more flesh to it. And thus the historical background has been developed.

The series was notorious for not giving real details instead relying on the odd comment and hint about things, so I have had to extrapolate a lot of this through careful research and educated guesses.

With my imagination I have tried to remain faithful to what I believed was the premise of the series, but I hope people will correct me if strayed from the path.

The following were used to determine the history and facts used in this venture, and in the following order:

Film and Television

• Battlestar Galactica, the television series
• Unfilmed scripts and missing scenes



Novels and Other:

• Battlestar Galactica and the novels, both old and new ^*A
• 1978 Encylopedia Galactia ^*B
• 1979 Battlestar Galactica Annual
• An Analytical guide to Television's Battlestar Galactica ^*C
  [John Kenneth Muir, by McFarland & Company Inc, 1999]
• Colonial Warriors Technical Manual ^*F
• The Comics ^*D
• Various Magazine Articles ^*E


• My imagination

The information that I have collected is also used in the order above when it came to contradicting facts - the series over rode everything else if there was a conflict of interests.

[If you are interested, my entire Battlestar Galactica collection is listed here.]

What I have not used includes fan fiction (although some fan ships do appear in the conjectural ship area)

While I use a lot of sources for information, it is important to remember that the Television series won out over any contradictions - and there are a lot of them when you compare the series to the books.

Differences between the series and the original novels:

The books are good, and show a much better insight into the Galactica Universe than the series alone does. However it has many differences to make things interesting and to make sure that it can never be used as a stand-alone source of information for the series.

Changes include:

• Cylons are living beings, they are not robots at all.
• There are different types of Battlestars.
• There are more and different types of Colonial warships.
• Battlestars are a lot bigger than 2,000 feet.
• Civilian ships are not all unarmed, and some can be quite useful.
• The 'ragtag' fleet initially numbers some 22,000 vessels!
• Earth is a possible origin of mankind, not just a lost colony.

However, it is a good yarn and does supply a lot of 'missing gaps' information that can be adapted for use with the series.

To sum up:

At the end of the day, you can not please everyone. What one person sees as a hint that something was done this way, is complete rubbish to someone else. What someone likes, another person is bound to hate. With this is in mind, everything here is my own personal view, and no ones else's. I am happy with the result, and a lot of hard work has gone into this (literally hundreds of hours of watching the series again and again and again, reading the books, doing research etc.), which I hope you will enjoy too. I feel that I think I know a bit about Battlestar Galactica now, and I'll happily engage anyone in friendly discussions about almost any topic of the series that they disagree with me with if they like.

However, as with anything fan or game related, if you really do not like something, just do it your way and keep the enjoyment alive. that is it, go to it...