Coming Soon: Battlestar Galactica Online

Well, it's about time someone gets the ball rolling on a massively multiplayer online role-playing game based on the Battlestar Galactica series. Tentatively called Battlestar Galactica Online, the game is said to be the brainchild of NBC Universal and Bigpoint.

"Overheard" at gaming site Gamers Daily News, Battlestar Galactica Online will be a tactical space combat and adventure MMOG based on Syfy's Battlestar Galactica series. The tentative date of release for the game that is inspired by one of the most popular—and successful, I might add—science fiction series in television history is Fall 2010.

Oh, and there's a teaser website for Battlestar Galactica Online already up and running.



For those who are unaware of what the fuss is over a Battlestar Galactica MMO, let me explain:

Battlestar Galactica is a franchise of science fiction television series and films spanning several generations. The franchise started with a 1978 television show created by Glen Larson and was followed by a television series, several book adaptations, comic books and video games. The television series was revived via a miniseries developed by Ronald Moore and David Eick that aired in 2003.

So you see what I'm getting at when I say it spans several generations. I watched the original show and the series that followed. I watched it again in 2003, although I didn't like it.

Here's Wikipedia's take on Battlestar Galactica:

All of the Battlestar Galactica productions share the same premise: In a distant part of the universe, a civilization of humans lives on a series of plants known as the Twelve Colonies. In the past, the colonies have been at war with a cybernetic race known as the Cylons. With the help of a human traitor named Baltar, the Cylons launch a sudden ambush on the Colonies, laying waste to the planets and devastating their populations.

The human survivors flee into space aboard any spacecraft they can reach. Of all the colonial fleet, the Battlestar Galactica appears to be the only military capital ship that survived the attack (later, it is learned that the Battlestar Pegasus also survived the attack). Under the leadership of famed military leader Commander Adama, the Battlestar Galactica and its crew take up the task of leading the small fugitive fleet of survivors into space in search of the fabled thirteenth colony known as Earth.

A bit of warning, though. I hear Battlestar Galactica Online is a browser-based MMO. How that will work out is beyond me, but I'll be sure to watch out for it.