When he said, “I forgot the most amazing thing”, I was hoping for him to say “ IT HAS CUP HOLDERS”

I love the idea that the compressed ship cubes are used to build up the shipyard lol

As an old Grunt type, my 'most impressed' point with the new BSG series was the following. They were on some planet, and about to raid a Cylon city/depot/facility. Before they headed out, the 'Chief' (who apparently was some sort of grunt, as well as being a mechanic) briefed the mission on an honest to god sand table. Yes, they briefed the mission on a sand table. I do not think I have ever seen a sand table, properly used, in any other 'military' tv show or movie. That was impressive.

The Raptor is the BSG equivalent of a UH-1 Huey during Vietnam. It was a major workhorse. It was a Gunship, Transport, Recon Vehicle, more or less every role the Huey filled, the Raptor did it, and then some

I absolutely love the Raptor, shame we never really got to see the Gunboat versions properly in use.

This thing is like the ugly duckling that you have to love. It an enduring little craft that has been the centerpiece for many great moments in the series. Fun fact, if you look at the BSG Pegasus, one of the newest Battlestars in the new BSG universe before the Cylons decided to go Skynet on everyone for the second time, has several launch tubes on each wing pod shaped specifically to launch Raptors! Cool little feature that the designers added but was never use in the show.

The Colonial Raptor, for when you need ten separate roles done at the same time but only have one ship.

"Eat this, toaster fucker." Ah, someone's at war with the Mechanicus.

I believe the raptor doesn’t have the ability to do all these things at once, but can be equipped as needed for certain missions. For instance, if you want to do EW, you don’t have space for marines. But remove the EW stuff and boom, you have marine transport space.

The reason why we haven't done this "Jack of all trade" vessel type, I would guess, is because you usually get more milage out of your military spending budget by buying specialised assets and have them work together in combined arms warfare. The "combined" and "work together" usually is where the teething troubles show. But that isn't something the money we saved can't fix! Right? As a side note, I recently came across this most fascinating debris field. Don't mind the owners of whatever is parked bay 24, 47, 285, 333, 345 and 402. They are more then likely not gonna arrive within 24 hours. However, I have a signed dataslate that says I can have what was parked there. Free of charge!

The Raptor also apparently served as a mini-AWACS, at least according to the pilot miniseries: Boomer and Helo were out with _Galactica's_ original Viper complement to act as sensor support and fighter direction. I don't know exactly how they were supposed to control two dozen or so fighters with just two crew aboard, one of whom was a pilot, but that seemed to be what they were trying to do.

i never questioned the raptor's design until this video, that's how good BSGs suspension of disbelief is

As I understand things the Raptor was supposed to be a variable payload vessel where you installed the module to suit the role. AWACS/EW? Slap that module in. Gunboat? Rip out that one, add a payload bay. Transport? Take the expensive gubbins out and put on a box for squishies. It's still *far* too small for everything they said it could do but it at least makes a little more sense. I believe a similar idea was originally put forward for the Osprey but that got ditched. Shame really as being able to swap out a mission module would be a sweet option.

I kinda love how this episode devolved into...... why don't you make your APCs guns bigger and harder and have minivan capabilities?

And if you play BSG Deadlock, you love them for even more reasons. Assault Raptors (missile pod variant) has an in-game "paint target" ability that drastically increases the hit probability for Colonial ships when firing on that target. With Battlestar Artillery, long range gunnery against fast targets (in game) is frustrating given the relatively low hit probability. But with raptors lasing your target? Battlestar artillery is terrifying even at medium-long range against fast movers, and can even hit fighters at medium range. Meanwhile, the more standard raptor can land marines to assault enemy ships or reinforce another ship's marines. They can disarm mines, boost the cyber warfare defense of friendly ships, and even carry four powerful unguided rockets. Of course, their enhanced DRaDis range coupled with quick speed (compared to escort and capital ships) allows for rapid target identification of enemy assets. In game terms, this identification of the target allows for positive missile locks and increases gunnery accuracy. Raptors are super useful and I keep a couple squads of each types in my fleets whenever possible.

The 1st War Raptor variants are easily my favorite, in particular the default variant. It’s real chonky in comparison to 2nd war raptors, and DO look like they can hold 13 people, if only barely. Plus, that toaster slayer gun, while it does have its primary firing arc defaulted aft, that doesn’t really matter in space, and it really super doesn’t matter when you can turn the engines around to fly backwards, because the 1st war Raptor has vectored thrusters.

I always had the impression that the Raptor in the show was actually performing more roles than it was intended to have. Because after the Fall of the Colonies, the Raptors were what the Galactica had, and bigger better ships like actual troop transports and personnel shuttles had been blown up or left behind in the Colonies. In terms of design, the Raptor is probably closer to a Bell Huey or a Blackhawk helicopter outfitted with EW gear than a jet fighter. Because when you have BSG style antigravity tech, there is NO FUNCTIONAL DIFFERENCE between a plane and a helicopter. Hence why the Raptor can do things like transport people and mount weapons even if that wasn't its primary job. So IMO, aside from not being able to use the Viper launch tubes, the Raptor is a damn good design. And given the Raptor's frontal profile, it looks like the designers TRIED to make it fit the launch tubes before giving up because the Raptors had to carry so much stuff.

We don't do anything amazing like that anymore because we're not in a wartime condition where we have to scrounge and improvise to make things that shouldn't work but do, like in WWII, when the US Marine Corps decided it was a good idea to put the 75mm cannon from a Sherman tank in the nose of a B-25 Mitchell, along with adding an extra 4 Browning M2's above the cannon. The Marines really put the "gun" in gunship. For something more similar to the Raptor, we have Hueys in Vietnam, which could be equipped with up to 4 miniguns along with rocket tubes.

A suggestion for a planet-bound current-day technology analog to FTL: transoceanic flight. If it can't cross the Pacific Ocean in one go without re-fueling mid-flight, its space-future equivalent doesn't have FTL.

It's more Huey mixed with Blackhawk but with an ecm suite attached. You should see what the Spirit Of Fire in Halo Wars 2 did to a pelican, they made Vtol AC-130s out of them.

Hearing the Dockmaster fanboying over the Raptor was absolutely beautiful.

Raven 1 by Kevin Miller has a scene that explains the Growler (aside from the logistics logic of it), the Prowler is slow, subsonic, vulnerable. Someone either has to stay behind to protect it, it has to leave early, or you have to leave it with its pants down after a strike. It was good when the strike aircraft is assisted were also based off the same airframe. But when the self-escorting strike aircraft became faster, it became obsolete.

Ironic, one of THE most useful crafts to come out of the BSG universe; and yet I rarely see the need for it while playing BSG Deadlock. I guess, we should of shown the devs this video before the game was released? Btw, you know something is truly a masterpiece when a shipyard AI gets excited about putting big guns on it. ^^

Trying to make a small workhorse ship can be more difficult than a big do-everything ship - with a ship that doesn't have a size restriction you can just add more stuff to it. _[It's like a sculpture, it's what you take away that makes it art.]_ That's what makes the Raptor so successful. They took a good rugged versatile frame, and bolted on what was needed for _that_ mission profile. In a way it's not so much a Type 4 shuttle, as more of a Roundabout or a Moonbase Alpha Eagle Transporter.

there might be a term in german for the raptor. our military often imagines equipment that can do basically everything. hence, instead of buying already existing stuff, they spend years searching or kitbashing something new together. the mocking name for the impossible piece they want is "eierlegende wollmilchsau" roughly translated: "egg-laying wool-milk-pig" thats what the raptor is

I for one love the new intro with the elite dangerousesque station, it's just so fitting for your channel.

Love the new intro. Welcome back. I believe that one arm of the US military is working on equipping Ospreys with a belly mounted retractable gatling.

I always thought the Raptor has an EW variant that had the electronics console, and transport variant that replaced the EW console with seats. That or the Raptors were designed in a way that the interior layout of the cabin aft of the pilots could be reconfigured depending on the mission. Much like the way they could mount rocket pods, gatling guns, and missile pylons to the exterior.

Loving the new intro and will definitely be watching it again!

The visualization of your closing motto was most exhilarating. Quite interesting to finally see what you frequently reference. Good stuff. Thank you.

It is a very cool intro.

great vid love that ship and love the new intro as well

That’s an awesome intro! That’s an upgrade for sure!

Welcome back, love the intro.

HOLY SHIT! That intro is SICK!!! Love it. I LOVE the Raptor. My favorite Cylon piloted one, Boomer! She was amazing, she even crossbred with a full hummie to make the first hybrid! Talk about making some toast! Back to the Raptor. I guess the showrunners didn't get the scale right for the landed prop unit. It always seemed smaller than the CG model used for everything else. Then again the cramped space made everything feel more visceral. I think the concept of a can or sardines with 13 soldiers crammed into that boat was taken to the extreme and used appropriately to great effect. Down to hummie world. Yes that cross of a Prowler, Osprey and Spooky sounds EPIC! Way to go Chief, how have we hummies not considered this before!? Tis is my favorite episode! KEHEHEH

Yeah more intro please! Also thank you for all the Dockyard explanations!

Sick intro! Love the touch of imprinting the Chanel logo onto the formerly-ship-shaped cube

I mean I could see it being used as a chassis to do all of these tasks just not all at once you know there should be some compromise like the EW suite might reduce the crew capacity and any kind of FTL drive would also reduce capacity for carrying troops

That new intro is kickass... I love it!!!!

Great vid on these And brings to mind the "Puddle Jumers" of the Star Gate universes as well

Man, that is a beautiful new intro!

"What do you hear out side? " "Nothing but the rain sir!" --the rain outside goes BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

Fun Fact: Mercury-class Battlestars (i.e. the Pegasus) did have Raptor launch tubes.

Apart from the EW capabilities (EDIT: there do appear to be EW Black Hawks), this is basically a Black Hawk in space (which is pretty handy to have around).

I been digging the new intro... also, I DID read that far, already, so... KEEP KICKING ASS!

Thanks for sharing this with us.

Raptors, something to be feared... "The Large Birds o’ Prey / They will carry us away, / An’ you’ll never see your soldiers any more!" (As someone on my planet once wrote.) I want to cross a Warthog with a Firefly. Four tiltable turbofan engines for vertical takeoff, with the wing and tail surfaces also somewhat tiltable to allow horizontal flight with the nose angled somewhat down when such an attitude might prove advantageous.

I was very confused when i hit your show and put the phone down to wash dishes. Its good!

Intro - That sound design really sells it well.

Oh, goody, a proper intro. Look at you, moving up in the YTuniverse. Whats next? A discord or a steam community? A lets play channel?

With sufficiently good writing, one can overlook otherwise head scratching technical details!

That intro was worth everything put into it and then some. I put it on a loop

Great new intro!

I adore channels that have custom video intros

something i absolutely loved Anthony Bourdain for, was in the first season of no reservations, he said he was going to milk the show for all it was worth. 9 seasons later, we were still wanting more. and you could see how few fucks he gave about the show. he was out having fun, and the film crew were along for the ride. yes, the producers told him where to go, but he never did what they wanted him to, where they went :P go have fun. film it. we will enjoy.

Like the new intro, It's dope

Awesome intro!

Raptor! Hell yeah! Aw man I love those dumb little kites! Winged Potato is the best description of them I've ever heard! For real though, in what I do related to Sci-fi, Raptors and just BSG TRS has made me consider so many more things like EW and Damage Control, even down to like, crew comfort on ships, I want a plushie Raptor so bad. Also bit of a note, the Mercury-class Battlestars actually had dedicated catapults and landing docks for Raptors along the sides of the flight pods! Also I think I'd personally call the Raptor a sort of uh, Specialist Utility Transport, but that's thinking of it like it's a Huey or something :T Very happy video :D

Wait, if I recall correctly the Osprey really did have a gatling gun that can be mounted under it, it's "only" a 50 cal but you know it's there I guess. So it's still only kind of a cross between a prowler and an osprey.

"Why don't you guys do anything awesome anymore?" A very important question. Also one with very depressing answers.

love the new intro

Don’t forget it also served as a taxi, taking VIP’s from ship to ship.

Nice intro man it was absolutely amazing 🤩😎😎😎

BSG stole the Time Lord Tech. "it's bigger on the inside."

AAAHh! now that threat of cubing ships has mass to it and im loving the intro for it now on with the show post vid: *sounds of just dying of laughter from the end rant* ok ya no this channel for now just CANT ever get old because ya can find some of the most intresting but logical shit to just lose the rock off to XD good job SCS. oh and i hope the yards got space for a flotilla fleet im needing repairs on mostly my hanger bays and my fighter factory plants (dont question to much being from the avorion galaxy things can get strange) and i dont got were ever ya areas galactic standard yet but im hoping you can take some bulk shipments of specialized but vary multi use metals? (from making really good batteries that feed entire subsystems for months to armor that can eat both strain of space traval to heavy repeted battles)

I just thought of something that is never brought up. When Lost in Space, Gilligan's Isle and many many others switched to filming in color, ALL the scripts had to be re-shot. 4 seasons in, and re-rack, re Act every episode to date. I wonder if the Screen Actors' Guild signed off on it? Awesome intro btw, and yes I watched it twice to spare myself some wrath. And because it's cool and funny.

You forgot the ultimate poster-child for a space ship with too much interior volume for it's exterior dimensions... The Tardis.

That's a fantastic intro

Love the intro

love your into

1:20 I can't revel because watching more than once per episode may result in mind blowing

That was a pretty nice intro to be honest, sums up the channel in a nutshell. I suppose if you had to label the Raptor as something it would a "utility" craft since its multipurpose.

Best vid in ages. Partly due to the new intro

Funi dockmaster robot wants humies to add more guns on top of guns. He has been converted :D

The Shipyard is back. Yay

I liked the video for the intro alone. But sure, I'll go Wayfinder it again

Love the new opening. The Raptors are a great utility craft.

Sounds cool, we could call it the AC 1 Owl (ER) complete with oversized cup holders and air horn’s that play anchors away or La Cuckaracha, pilots choice.

That intro now just makes me feel like I'm going to try to take off at 23:59:59 before my ship that I'm in gets compressed to a cu- AHHHHHHHH

As a note, you can actually see Raptor launch tubes on Pegasus so it could launch one or 2 that way with each wave of fighters being launched.

Wait until this guy hears about the fold out mini gun they put on the crew killer 9000. I mean v-22 osprey

Nice new intro :D

There was once a proposed design called the Common Support Aircraft. It was suppose to replace the S-3, E-2, KA-6B, and EA-6B. It was not built. Mid range ASW has been abandoned, E-2Ds came online, buddy tanking replaced a dedicated refueling aircraft, and EA-18s replaced the EA-6Bs.

SCS: Why can't you do anything cool anymore? US Military: Monmons, we need more monmonsssssssss

One thing that the BSG reboot did so well was choosing a setting that gave the writers the benefit of the doubt in most situations. With the Raptor for example, I like to think of it like a Ute. It's not the best solution to every problem, there are better things, but if it's all you have you'll make it work. Because Galactica was an outdated, underequipped, and isolated vessel, it made sense that it might not be doing things "correctly", because they just did what they could. Think I'll have to re-watch BSG again. It's been nearly 10 years since I last saw it, and it really is one of the best sci-fi shows that actually got an ending.

The intro is great

Nice new digs : )

The Raptor is truely a character in itself.

OH SHIT LOOK WHO'S BACK. (The Algorithm failed to notify me. Frustration.) Das a fine intro. And a better video, because I am forever down for any insightful talk about the genre that gave us all this ridiculous awesome stuff.

Fun fact, the BSG Pegasus actually has a couple of Raptor launch tubes!

The transport thing kinda pushes it But the concept of light EW/recon craft is amazing

I thought I was the only one that loved the raptor, it's the BSG equivalent of the LAAT which is essentially a scifi attack helicopter. Except it does almost everything of course.

That's a hell of an intro

AWESOME INTRO

Damn that is a cool intro

Hey! The Spooky is amazing!!

Those who march beneath the raptors wings. Oh wait, wrong universe.

Great opening.

Love ❤️ that intro video, keep it around until someone compresses that cube into an event horizon. 😆

The Growspreyler. That’ll cover it. And then, perhaps, “Puff the Confusing Growspreyler.” I think you hit upon some of the genius of “2001: A Space Odyssey”. The Discovery is a functionally realized ship with a logic to its design and layout. And, as far as I know, the first time that was done in popular culture Sci-Fi.