Introduction

Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome is a prequel to the 2003-2009 re-imagined Battlestar Galactica series.

A web-series that became a pilot for a possible series chronicling the early adventures of a young William Adama, but the series was not picked up.

It stars Luke Pasqualino, Ben Cotton, and Lili Bordán.

Michael Taylor wrote the teleplay from a story by Taylor, David Eick, Bradley Thompson and David Weddle, with Jonas Pate as director.

Distribution of Blood & Chrome began as a 10-episode online series in conjunction with Machinima.com on 09 November 2012, and also aired as a television film on 10 February 2013 on Syfy.

Outline (General)

Set in the tenth year of the First Cylon War, the story follows William Adama, a young pilot just graduated from the Academy, assigned to one of the battlestars in the Colonial fleet: the Galactica.

The series provides a very basic frame of reference to the events that ensued in the time between the prequel series Caprica, and the basis series Battlestar Galactica.

Outline Series 01, Episode 05

The basestar and the Osiris exchange fire as the Wild Weasel and its Viper escorts, one of whom is Kirby, fly toward Djerba.

They are pursued by three Cylon raiders which the Colonials manage to destroy, though Kirby deserts midway through the battle to go home to see his family. (This desertion did not occur in the televised movie.)

Meanwhile, the Osiris is heavily outnumbered by the Cylon basestar and raiders. When its nuclear weapons jam, the commander decides to fly it into the basestar and manually detonate the weapons, destroying both the Cylon ships and the Osiris.

The Wild Weasel crash-lands onto the surface of Djerba.

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Trivia

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Production & Filming Details

• Creators: Michael Taylor and David Eick.
• Producers: David Eick, Jonas Pate, Paul M. Leonard, and Michael Taylor.
• Music: Bear McCreary.
• Production: Universal Cable Productions.
• Distributor: NBC Universal Television Distribution.
• Original Network: Machinima.com
• Release Date: 23 November 2012.
• Running Time: 12 minutes.
• Country: US.
• Language: English.

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