Before but also during the Cylon War, the humans of the Twelve Colonies would carry on enjoying the realms of commercial space travel where they could, and what better way for them to begin their vacations than boarding the beautiful and luxurious
Rising Star passenger vehicle, which, with the original TV series pilot launcher, would become a home to women and children refugees for the most part. It would ultimately return back to a more leisure-related existence with the regular series, once the
Galactica's Rag-Tag fleet had become more organised and efficient for its surviving peoples.
Enjoy these behind the scenes images from the Apogee filming for Saga of a Star World in Summer, 1978.
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| Concept design. |
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| Jon Erland works on the model at Apogee. |
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| Model filming. |
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| Photographed by Richard Edlund with the Dykstraflex camera. Interesting that the model is quite small but looks bigger on screen. The same visual trick was used with the original Star Destroyer model used with the beginning of the first Star Wars movie of 1977. |
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| Rear view of the impressive model ultimately sold at auction. |
