Cubits

As Alec is away at the Las Vegas Star Trek con, I’ve been working on inventorying and scanning the production artwork we sorted through yesterday.

While sorting through two binders of CDs we were given as well—which consist of reference materials for the art department, such as the light panels, monitor screens, and “gack” (or “gak”)—I came across two variant designs of the Colonial cubit. Taking a cue from the old show, Battlestar Galactica calls its money the “cubit“, which appears as both paper and coin, as shown in the screen shot below.

Now, since there’s never really been a clear shot of the cubit—except for a scene where Kara Thrace is tearing one apart in front of Valance in Season 1’s “Colonial Day” Here is the actual art from the various designs of the cubit. The last batch at the end are the revised versions. (Presently, I don’t know whether these are the “actual” prints that are on the props, since I haven’t yet seen the prop versions.)

As you can see, the reference to the “Seventh Millennium” of time is a nod to the old series, which opened at the dawn of the seventh millennium of time. Also, the variant of the Colonial “phoenix”/”bird” in the background of the cubit is from concept art, possibly done by Ken Rabehl.

Oh, and I’d like to release the PSDs for these cubits, but… need to check on that first. (Not gonna happen. Yet.) Talk about swapping out all that boring Monopoly money with cubits! Not even your boring Monopoly game comes with a 1000 dollar bill.

More cool stuff coming… Tell your friends.

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