We're forgetting the extremely popular Colonial harvest celebrations/festivities aboard the agro ships during the events of "The Magnificient Warriors." And when the Cylons swooped in and destroyed one of them, there were heavy, HEAVY losses.
All kidding aside, that's a good question, Bijou88. The original series definitely lacked of a solid writer's bible, as Jim Carlson and Terry McDonnell have commented. Sometimes things were made up or simply winged, due to lack of specific background info. One of my favorites was the naming of the Battle of Molecay, similarly named after the Hawaiian island of the same name (Molokai), as mentioned in "The Living Legend."
According to what I've heard, Mr. Larson was vacationing in the Hawaiian Islands at the time the script was coming together. Coincidence?
Michael
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