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Haven't been feeling very creative recently, so I thought I'd throw together a render with a few of my ships.
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This gave me such an idea;

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In the First Cylon War, the Colonial kill ratio was 50-to-1; for every Colonial fighter the Cylons destroyed, we destroyed fifty of theirs. Though that is averaged over twelve years of attrition and experience - starting as low as us losing fifty fighters to every one of theirs - this was the result of having to abandon BVR(Beyond Visible Range) weapons. Any and all autonomous systems could be hacked by the Cylons, so we stopped depending on missiles and instead refined the individual skills of our pilots to razor-keen.

During the Exodus from the Old Twelve Colonies of Kobol, that ratio rose even higher; we had no large populace to replace pilots lost in combat, so we drilled around-the-clock. We got better or we died.


However, once we reached Federation space, we learned exactly how good we were; Starfleet could easily destroy Basestars with their advanced weapons technology, but they possessed no dedicated anti-fighter weaponry or even tactics. Their flagship suffered nearly crippling damage from Cylon Raiders before the Battlestar Galactica's Viper squadrons destroyed them.

In later battles, the Cylons refused to enter photon torpedo range, and found themselves able to destroy Federation starships with Raider squadrons as small as twenty.


The Cylons were ultimately defeated over the course of the next decade, but the impact was permanent; every stellar nation in the Alpha Quadrant now flies hundreds of thousands of single-pilot space fighters.


Thus we Colonials were given a lush star system to colonize, specifically to create the New Twelve Colonies of Kobol and its single greatest source of revenue; Fighter Weapons Academy.

Our purpose; to teach SCM. Space Combat Maneuvering. Someone dug a term out of Earth's history; dogfighting.


They also gave the Academy a name we bear with honor;


TOPGUN.

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(imagine Michael Ironside voice-acting)