Post by Matthew on Mar 11, 2006 5:28:30 GMT -5
yorick said:
mcamason said:
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They aren't attacking.. they are occupying. This was their plan, this is why Sharon gave the wrong jump coordinates to the last raptor.
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Oh bantha crap. The odds of them being exactly one light-year away at exactly the right time... They were SET UP.
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A very interesting idea--the idea that GalacticaSharon intentionally gave them the wrong coordinates does make a whole lot of sense.
However, in that case I have to wonder why the Cylon envoy would lie about how they found the planet? Personally, I'd think they'd want the humans to know that the entire occupation had been orchestrated--further proof that the Cylons really do know best. The only reason I can think of is in order to protect GalacticaSharon from being exposed as a mole, and the only reason they'd need to do that is if she was still on Galactica.
No, wait--even that doesn't seem like reason enough. After all, as Greg just pointed out we have to presume they brought another resurrection unit, so why would it matter if GalacticaSharon was found and executed? They'd just pop out another one. True, they'd lose their mole--but why would a mole even be necessary when you have the fleet outnumbered and well outgunned?
And why did the Cylons not come in with guns blazing in the first place? Why give the remnants of the fleet that chance to escape?
So many questions, so many freakin' months to wait...
The biggest reason I can figure that they did not reveal it as a setup would be because it would indicate some communications capability between cylons that is not jammed by locking them in a private cell. That Sharon got her orders on where to send them, from elsewhere.
That if the humans know that the humaniform cylons were capable of remote communication of some sort, all by their lonesomes, they'd be revealing a heretofore unknown advantage. I think the Dean Stockwell priest knew the other one was there long before he saw him.
And besides, it's so much cooler if it's all "god's plan" and "god's will"
I also think they know exactly what shape the fleet would be in, to fight: ie, NONE, after a year of Baltar's rule on New Craprica.
Of course, I think this is because Baltar's THE cylon..
Occupation and assimilation of humanity and cylonity! Sentient critters of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but... well, pretty much everything other than being one of twelve limited-edition collector's items. Maybe.