The following pages are my attempt at creating a role-playing supplement for GURPS to allow playing in my take on the Battlestar Galactica universe. Now you can finally have the chance to get in a Viper and take the fight to Cylons on a personal level. No more hiding between giant spaceships in the vacuum of space, now you can slug it out toe-to-toe.
The following rules and supplements should be found useful for this supplement.
Only GURPS Prime Directive or one of the main rules is considered essential, the others are just 'nice'.
While this section is a fully-fledged role-playing section, it does not have a lot of background and historical information contained within its pages. This was done to avoid duplication with the main background section of the overall Battlestar Galactica site. The background section can be found here and the all-important lexicon of words is there as well. Where possible, I have used BSG terms rather than our more mundane terminology for things.
Where possible, GURPS Battlestar Galactica has been updated to go with the 4th Edition rules. However, as not all of the relevant GURPS books have been updated to use the latest rules, some sections of this website are still 'stuck in the past' as it were. Predominately this only applies to GURPS Vehicles 2nd Edition. I have listed any pages that uses these 'older' editions clearly so that players will know what has been updated and what has not, and when new editions of these books appear, I shall update the rest.
Because of the differing scales with GURPS and Battlestar Galactica I have made a decision to adopt the GURPS scale for this site. This means that you will need some slight conversion notes, and these are as follows.
| BSG Measurement | GURPS Measurement |
| 1 Metron | 1.094 yards |
| 1 Micron | 0.622 miles |
| 1 Maxim | 6.214 miles |
| 1 Laxar | 2.205 pounds |
| 1 Megon | 2204.623 pounds |
Thus, just remember that all weights are in pounds, a yard is effectively a metron, and anything else that might be different I will make clear.
As always I couldn't do this alone, and leaping to my rescue with their invaluable knowledge of the GURPS system, and especially the GURPS Vehicles 2nd Edition system, was Rob Garita. Rob designed the first draft of the space vehicles used here.
Many thanks!
Star Fleet Battles, SFB, Federation & Empire, Star Fleet Missions, Prime Directive, and all contents thereof are copyright (C) by Amarillo Design Bureau. Elements of the Star Fleet Universe are the property of Paramount Pictures Corporation.
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Battlestar Galactica is a trademark of Universal Studies and is used herein without permission.
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