a shrine of insignificance

So I’m thinking about BSG and I wonder, “How many Cylons are there?” We know about 120 battlestars was sufficient to force a cease-fire. So we can guess at the time of the cease-fire there was about the same strength of Cylons.. 120 baseships. We know Colonial forces declined while Cylons increased. We also know the Galactica and the Pegasus could destroy a force of 4 battlestars. And that a loss of a resurrection ship was a gigantic loss. I would bet there are no more than 500 baseships and the Cylons act as if they have no worlds, only small outposts. Sci-Fi channel gives an estimate of more than 400 raiders on a baseship. So to overestimate let’s say there are 500 raiders. We have only seen a handful of heavy raider and no more than ten centurions at a time.. So let’s assume 100 (which I think is liberal) of the Raiders are the heavy-type. They which can hold about 10 centurions. So there is minimally 1000 centurions more but double that to get 2000 to be safe. So 10mil centurions, and from what we have seen no more than 10% of the Cylons are skin-jobs. So this is a total of approximately 14 million Cylons. With a population of one thousandth the humans had before the attack it makes sense that the Cylons would revert to subterfuge and sabotage to disable the the colonial fleet and that they would feel humanity was a threat. This is all conjecture but if anyone can give me better numbers I would be glad to revise my estimates.

plb

Filed under: General, Rambling on December 21st, 2006