OK folks, this is the first episode of Galactica 6551, a fan fiction by RF. 
To know more about this project please read this thread:
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Episode 1. The Present of the Gods
Synopsis
During a heavy Cylon attack Apollo gets blind and the Galactica loses nearly all of her ammuniton depots. Searching for suitable raw materials to restore the firepower Commander Adama and his away team walk into a trap set up by Kommandant Leiter from the Terran Eastern Alliance. He seizes control of Galactica and forces the crew to conquer the base the Cylons used to attack from. Adama has no chance but to comply but soon finds out that Leiter has a hidden agenda.
Behind the scenes
This is the "pilot episode" I wrote for "Galactica 6551" which sets up the stage and general conditions determining the course of the virtual second season of "Battlestar Galactica". The events take place after the episode "The Hand of God". Apollo coping with a severe injury and the fleet suffering from a shortage of ammunition are two of the main themes and a first try to depict the wagon trek in space in a more realistic fashion. Lloyd Bochner returns as Kommandant Leiter. I was deeply impressed by his portrayal of the character in the episodes "Greetings From Earth" and "Baltar's Escape" and thought he was fairly under-used as a villain. He deserved more screen time and the audience desperately needed to know more of the political circumstances and motifs. To do so I changed the tone of the Eastern Alliance a bit and turned them from the established allegory of the Warsaw pact to - yep, sorta space Nazis. We will meet the Alliance again in later episodes.
This was the first episode I tackled in comic strip form. I had to come up with many little things, the general layout and the way to present the story graphically. After a few pages I stopped working to tackle other episodes and then returned to it, which explains the improved artwork in the latter panels. Page 8 needs to be inked and will be displayed later (it deals with a hull breach and depicts people saving invaluable components; when the hull breaches a man is pulled through the hole into deep space).
So far I have translated the comic pages, the rest of the story will follow once it is ready. Till then, have fun and enjoy!
To know more about this project please read this thread:
GALACTICA 6551: A fan-made virtual 2nd season of BSG by Revell-Fan
Hello dear fellow warriors, I'd like to introduce you to a fan project I started almost 20 years ago: A virtual season 2 of the classic "Battlestar Galactica" TV show. As you might already know, I have been a huge BSG and Buck Rogers fan since the early 1980 when both shows premiered on Dutch...
www.zealot.com
Episode 1. The Present of the Gods
Synopsis
During a heavy Cylon attack Apollo gets blind and the Galactica loses nearly all of her ammuniton depots. Searching for suitable raw materials to restore the firepower Commander Adama and his away team walk into a trap set up by Kommandant Leiter from the Terran Eastern Alliance. He seizes control of Galactica and forces the crew to conquer the base the Cylons used to attack from. Adama has no chance but to comply but soon finds out that Leiter has a hidden agenda.
Behind the scenes
This is the "pilot episode" I wrote for "Galactica 6551" which sets up the stage and general conditions determining the course of the virtual second season of "Battlestar Galactica". The events take place after the episode "The Hand of God". Apollo coping with a severe injury and the fleet suffering from a shortage of ammunition are two of the main themes and a first try to depict the wagon trek in space in a more realistic fashion. Lloyd Bochner returns as Kommandant Leiter. I was deeply impressed by his portrayal of the character in the episodes "Greetings From Earth" and "Baltar's Escape" and thought he was fairly under-used as a villain. He deserved more screen time and the audience desperately needed to know more of the political circumstances and motifs. To do so I changed the tone of the Eastern Alliance a bit and turned them from the established allegory of the Warsaw pact to - yep, sorta space Nazis. We will meet the Alliance again in later episodes.
This was the first episode I tackled in comic strip form. I had to come up with many little things, the general layout and the way to present the story graphically. After a few pages I stopped working to tackle other episodes and then returned to it, which explains the improved artwork in the latter panels. Page 8 needs to be inked and will be displayed later (it deals with a hull breach and depicts people saving invaluable components; when the hull breaches a man is pulled through the hole into deep space).
So far I have translated the comic pages, the rest of the story will follow once it is ready. Till then, have fun and enjoy!
(To be continued)
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). Several ideas (a crashed freighter in the desert, the time travel episode and a moon out of control) originated from that project. Again, it was rather created just for fun and a first try to create single episodes with self-contained story lines. The "Galactica 6551" project was developed after watching "Galactica 1980" and brought me to another level (which you may see when I post the panels for the vampire episode). I had no art teacher who taught me anything, what you see here was completely self-educated.
