Recent content by MW Turnage

82,800 LY is almost certainly a misprint. The maps shown in the War Room (which seemed to cover most of known space, or at least the important parts) in Season 3 couldn't have been more than a thousand or so LYs across. Even as area or volume, the numbers don't jibe with given maps. Also, why...

RE: slugthrowers as weapons of choice: I'd have to do some hunting, but JMS specifically mentioned (I believe it was around the timeframe of 'GROPOS' first airing) that slugthrowers were in fact the primary weapons of the infantry. PPGs were primarily for sidearms and shipboard work. As for...

Why would there be a DR-ignoring capability? They're simply a different propulsion method. That said, odds are that by the 2250's all conventional weapons are ETC (electrothermal-chemical) rounds. Much safer and with much better performance (not to mention more reliable in non-Earth standard...