Geek Item Of The Week - 07/16/09

 

Lithograph of The First Cylon War

 

According to the modern remake of Battlestar Galactica, the current conflict with the Cylons depicted in that show wasn't the first time man and machine had fought.  40 years earlier in the show's history is when the Cylons originally rebelled against the 12 Colonies and what became known as the Cylon War began. 

 

The war raged for 12 years and it was a period of brutal and bloody combat.  Admiral William Adama, the man in charge of the Battlestar Galactica during the new war with the Cylons, was a soldier in that war back when he was a young pilot known by the call sign Husker.  As a cool little piece of mythology building within the show, the now older Admiral Adama had a painting hung on the wall of his private quarters aboard the Galactica which depicted one of the larger battles from that First Cylon War.  It was a large oil painting entitled First Cylon War.

 

Now, you too can own a copy of this very same piece of amazing sci-fi art.  ThinkGeek is now selling 22" by 17" lithographs of First Cylon war for only $14.99.  The image on the lithograph was painstakingly scanned into archival resolution from the original painting itself which had been commissioned for the show when it began.  That literally makes this lithograph a perfect copy of the original painting which actually hung on Admiral Adama's wall.

 

That's pretty frakking cool if you ask me.