SEE CYLON, SHOOT CYLON

[winegums.livejournal.com]

Watching Kara gets even more jaw-droppingly spectacular if one realizes the fact that this is the first time she's ever seen a Cylon* outside of a flight simulator, and very possibly also her first time in actual combat.

Not that you'd know it, looking at her...


* the kind she knows are Cylons, that is!

Comments

[winegums.livejournal.com]

Pretty sure you're right taragel, a 40-year peace wouldn't leave younger pilots any opportunities for combat since the Colonies' only enemies were the Cylons and they'd stopped fighting each other after unification.

I only added the "possibly" bit re: Kara's combat experience on the off chance that there were rioting civilians/terrorist groups like Zarek's big enough for the military to worry about them (don't really think so), and that Kara might have been involved in one of those. I doubt it, though - in my head the miniseries really is the younger gen's first combat. And boy, they learned quickly...

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

Yeah I could easily see her having some ground combat/marine-type situations maybe. She was the best shot in or out of the cockpit after all.

[winegums.livejournal.com]

I could see that happening, but considering that Galactica was mainly a PR ship by the time she ended up on it, and flight school wouldn't have given her any chance at combat, the only thing that's left is her stint on Triton which didn't last very long. So it's theoretically possible, but like you said extremely unlikely.

[deborah-judge.livejournal.com]

there were rioting civilians/terrorist groups like Zarek's big enough for the military to worry about them (don't really think so), and that Kara might have been involved in one of those.

That sounds like a very promising premise for fic, whether or not it's likely. Hm.