Battlestar Galactica Mystery Cache

Battlestar Galactica (BSG) je sci-fi serial, ktery se vysila od roku 2004 a jedna se o zasadni pocin celeho zanru. Vychazi z puvodniho serialu z roku 1978 (a do znacne miry jej kopiruje). Zacina trihodinovou dvoudilnou miniserii, ktera nas zavede do sveta 12 kolonii a pokracuje prvni serii, ktera ma nestandardne "pouze" 13 dilu.

Lidstvo se vyvinulo na myticke planete Kobol. Zde vzniklo 13 kmenu, ktere spolecne verily v recke bozstvo a s temito bohy zily v utopii. Ovsem priblizne pred 2000 lety deje serialu doslo k exodu, ktery vsech 13 kmenu vyhnal. Dvanact kmenu se vydalo na jednu stranu Galaxie, kde postupne kolonizovaly stejny pocet planet. Z pocatku se mezi nimi odehravaly ruzne valky, ale nakonec zalozily federaci Dvanacti kolonii Kobolu. Trinacty kmen se podle legend vydal na opacnou stranu Galaxie a dle vestkyne z dob osidleni Kobolu objevil mytickou planetu jmenem Zeme... (Takze recka mytologie a bozstvo ve svete serialu neni produktem starovekych Athen a okoli, ale puvodniho 13. kmene. Je nutne rict, ze o osudu 13. kmene, resp. Zeme se dovidame velmi malo.) Soucasti vesmirnych ozbrojenych slozek Dvanacti kolonii Kobolu je lod nazyvana Battlestar Galactica. (Battlestar je pojmenovani druhu lodi, takze samotny nazev je spis Galactica.) K usnadneni vlastnich zivotu vyvinuli lide Dvanacti kolonii roboty a nazvali je Cylony. Ti se ale casem vzbourili a po dlouhe valce uzavreli s lidmi primeri s urcenymi hranicemi, ktere trvalo zhruba 40 let.

Serial zacina ceremonialem, kdy je BSG vyrazena ze sluzby a promenena na muzeum valecnictvi. Bohuzel ve stejny okamzik Cyloni bez varovani zautoci na vsech 12 kolonii a vyvrazdi cele lidstvo v teto casti Galaxie. Jedinou prezivsi valecnou lodi zustava Battlestar Galactica pod vedenim Williama "Billa" Adamy, stareho valecnika, ktery uz jednou odesel z armadnich sluzeb. Vedle vojaku na BSG prezije z celeho lidstva pouhych cca 50 000 lidi, kteri v dobe utoku byli na ruznych vesmirnych lodich.

Co je ovsem na tomhle serialu tak zasadni? Za prve je to stavba scenaru. Autori skoro pokazde bouraji klise sci-fi zanru (i kdyz sami se par z nich neubrani) a dokazi divaky prekvapit naprostymi zvraty v deji. Dalsi dulezitou devizou pak je to, ze dej neni idealisticky. Lide umiraji, zasoby dochazeji, delaji se chyby, ktere stoji lidske zivoty. Nemluve o nescetnych prohrach. Ale take se zde resi politika (volba noveho prezidenta), ekonomika (cerny trh), opozicni hnuti (nekteri z clenu flotily si mysli, ze se Cylony by se melo vyjednavat) atd.

I kdyz je otazka, jak moc se daji posuzovat herecke vykony v serialech, troufneme si tvrdit, ze tyto daleko presahuji standard. Pripomeneme-li si napr. Patricka Stewarta v roli startrekovskeho kapitana Picarda a prirovname ho k mastku, pak herecke vykony v BSG jsou rovny vybrousenemu diamantu. Skvele vykony hercu navic podporuje naprosto zasadni vec v reziserske oblasti - dokumentarni kamera. Ta byla sice ve sci-fi pouzita jiz v kratkem serialu Firefly, ale v Battlestar Galactice je dovedena k dokonalosti. Zvlaste co se vesmirnych bitev tyka, neposkytuje nam jediny bod pohledu, ale sama proletava mezi letouny, otaci se a rotuje. Jenze ani zde se autori nezastavili a pouzivaji ji naprosto vsude - na palube lodi, na planetach, v soukromych rozhovorech, na mustku BSG... Pro sci-fi fanouska zvykleho na statickou kameru, ktera se zachveje maximalne, kdyz je "jeho" lod zasazena, je to naprosto fantasticka zkusenost. Vedle toho nemuzeme opomenout ani v pripade BSG skvele zvladnutou standardni vybavu sci-fi serialu - vizualni efekty a vytvarnou stranku veci, kdy si autori davaji praci s nejmensimi detaily (napr. format papiru nebo datovych medii, svitilny atp.).

Proto patri-li nekteri z Vas ke sci-fi fanouskum, kteri jsou touto klasikou nepolibeni, pak nevahejte. A ti, kteri naopak sci-fi "nemusi", nedaji nic za to sehnat si a shlednout trihodinovou miniserii (natozpak trinact dilu prvni serie), kdyz se nase televize nerozpakuji produkovat nebo vysilat mnohem delsi hlouposti.

Autor puvodniho textu: Jan Haisman

INFORMACE O KESI:

Na vychozich souradnicich muzete zaparkovat sve geovozidlo. Pokud mate dobrou fantazii, muzete zkusit hledat v okoli i bez lusteni souradnic.

A) Kolik let pred Cylonskym utokem vznikla federalni republika "Dvanact kolonii Kobolu"? [Vlada]
B) Prvni pismeno ve jmene prorotkyne, ktera predpovedela "Vse, co se uz stalo, stane se i znovu." (poradi pismene v anglicke abecede) [Nabozenstvi]
C) Pocet pismen ve jmene udajne 13. kolonie Kobolu [listing]
D) Na kolik minut musi byt FTL pohon kolonistu odstaven mezi jednotlivymi skoky? (FTL = Faster Than Light) [Technologie]
E) Pocet KEW kulometu na kolonialni lodi Viper Mk. II (na obrazku) [Lode]
F) Oznaceni (cislo) cylonky, jejimz hlavnim ukolem bylo svest dr. Baltara a tim ziskat pristup k obranym systemum Dvanacti kolonii. [Postavy]

Doporucuji potrebne informace hledat v Encyklopedii na webu www.bsg.cz v kategoriich, ktere jsou uvedeny v hranatych zavorkach.

FINAL: N 50° [ 2 * F - 1 ] . [ D + B - C ] [ ( D - B ) / 2 ] E 015° [ A - E ] . [ A - C ] [ B / ( E + F ) ]

Pri odlovu prosim dbejte zvysene opatrnosti, je to pomerne frekventovane misto a navic je dobre viditelne z okolnich domu.

Good hunting!

Viper Mark II. at launch bay
 

Battlestar Galactica is a serial drama television program created by Ronald D. Moore that first aired as a three-hour miniseries in December 2003 on the Sci Fi network and ran for four seasons thereafter, ending its run on March 20, 2009. The series featured Emmy Award-winning and Oscar-nominated Edward James Olmos and Oscar-nominated Mary McDonnell and garnered a wide range of critical acclaim, including Emmy nominations for its creative works, writing and directing.

The world ended with no warning, and all that was left … was hope.

The Cylons were created by the people of the Twelve Colonies. Intelligent robots, they were used as slaves and soldiers to fight humanity's wars. But the Cylons became sentient and they rebelled. Man and machine fought to a bloody stalemate, then the Cylons withdrew to a remote region of space. A truce between the Twelve Colonies and the Cylons lasted for 40 tense and silent years. Each year, on the anniversary of the treaty-signing, humanity sent an envoy to the neutral ground of Armistice Station to meet with a Cylon envoy. For 39 years, no Cylon envoy came. Then, on the 40th anniversary, a stunning blonde — a Cylon in human form — met the human envoy … moments before the Cylons vaporized the station and launched a genocidal attack on the Twelve Colonies. In one devastating day, billions of human lives were consumed by nuclear fires. Only those souls fortunate enough to be aboard starships were able to band together and escape and flee into deep space, led by the sole surviving Colonial warship, the battlestar Galactica.

The Galactica and its crew seemed to be unlikely saviors for humanity's fewer than 50,000 desperate survivors. The ship was old and had been about to be decommissioned and turned into a museum when the Cylon attack occurred. In the aftermath its commanding officer, William Adama, found himself responsible for safeguarding the last remnants of the human race. Meanwhile, the annihilation of the Colonial government on Caprica resulted in the succession of Laura Roslin, the Secretary of Education, to the presidency. Driven by prophetic visions and political necessity, she set the fleet upon a quest that will take it into the farthest reaches of unexplored space … in search of the mythical, lost "13th colony" - Earth.

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At original coordinates you can park your car. You might find the location with a bit of imagination without solving following puzzle.

G) How many years before Cylon attack were signed the Articles of Colonization, which formed the united government of the Twelve Colonies of Kobol?
H) First letter in name of oracle, who foretold "All this has happened before. All this will happen again." (numerical order in alphabet)
I) Number of letters in name of the lost 13th colony of Kobol.
J) Number of KEW twin turrets on Mercury class battlestar Pegasus.
K) Number of KEW MEC-A6 30mm guns on colonial attack fighter Viper Mark II. (on picture)
L) Designation number of Cylon, who seduced Dr. Gaius Baltar into unwittingly betraying the Twelve Colonies by giving her access to the Colonial defense mainframe.

Recommendation: Seek answers at Battlestar wiki.

FINAL: N 50° [ 2 * L - 1 ] . [ J + H - I - 1 ] [ ( J - H ) / 2 ] E 015° [ G - K ] . [ G - I - 1 ] [ H / ( K + L ) ]

Cache requires stealth mode, this place is quite frequented, and furthermore you can be nicely seen from above.

Good hunting!

Viper Mk.II. at launch bay - view from above