After launching their BSG license with a yearlong series written by Planet Hulk's Greg Pak that took place during the show's second season, Dynamite apparently decided that it was easier to tell stories without having to worry about fitting in between the show's tight continuity; Battlestar Galactica: Season Zero is set during the first missions of the Galactica crew, Battlestar Galactica: Origins tells the backstory of the show's main characters, one by one (So far, we've seen the rise of Baltar and the secret origin of Bill Adama), and launching in September, Battlestar Galactica: Ghosts will focus on a group of all new characters - A lost squadron of Viper pilots, abandoned when their Battlestar is destroyed during the destruction of the Twelve Colonies.

Ghosts writer Brandon Jerwa explains:

"Ghosts” refers to the Ghost Squadron, a black-ops Viper team. But it also refers to all of our lead characters and the life they’re forced into after the Cylon attack. They are spirits in the material world, to quote one of my favorite songs: lifeless entities searching for something to ground them to reality again.

Boy, does that sound like some writer’s B.S. – but I swear, it’s all true!

And will we have seen any of the Ghost Squadron before?

The human characters are all new and unrelated to anyone. No cousins of Starbuck here, no tenuous connections to major characters. The Cylons will be very active in this story, but we’ll see them in relation to these completely different characters and a slightly different situation from the one presented in the show.

Well, that's very clear... except, wait, the human characters?

Lt. Dozil Pennit...oh, he’s just a Leoben-model human Cylon. Does he know what he is? Guess you’ll have to read the book to find out.

Okay, so this might be fun after all.

Jerwa: The Ghosts of Battlestar Galactica [Newsarama]

According to http://roadrunnerdm.livejournal.com/84288.html">Roadrunner's LiveJournal:

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• Starbuck will be locked up in the brig for "some time." Not exactly the sort of reception you'd expect for returning from the dead.
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• Leoben will be back in Starbuck's life, and they'll be spending some quality time together on a beach... on Earth. At least they won't have to jockey for a good spot on the sand.
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• Starbuck will have a lot more scenes with Laura Roslin, and with the Cylon ladies as well. One thing Starbuck has never really done is have a girl's night out.
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• Starbuck believes that she is a Cylon, although Katee herself doesn't buy it. One thing is for sure, if Starbuck turns out to be a Cylon, half the audience will have expected it, and the other half will be searching for Ron Moore's house with torches.
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• Kate Vernon will be reprising her role as Ellen Tigh, although she's not the 12th Cylon. Since Saul has always been torn up about having to kill her, this will most likely be some sort of guilty flashbacks coming from the bottom of a bottle.
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• Lee Adama is still a civilian in season four, although it's unclear if that means for the whole season or not. After the way he resigned last season, it's hard to see him putting a uniform back on. Of course, that doesn't stop him from hopping into a Viper whenever he feels like it and taking off.
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• She also made it fairly definitive that she won't be coming back to Bionic Woman at all, strike or not. Apparently there is no love lost between her and series star Michelle Ryan.

• News dump from Burbank conventions [Roadrunner]