Good news everybody! The best space opera television show since…well..EVER is coming back. An online series, titled Blood & Chrome is in the pipeline. The series would follow the experiences of a young William “Husker” Adama in the first Cylon War. Mark Stern, Syfy’s executive vice president of original programming and the co-head of original content for Universal Cable Productions told The Chicago Tribune “Battlestar Galactica” and “Caprica” co-executive producer Michael Taylor will write the the script. “Blood & Chrome” is “about a young man’s initiation into war: both the realities of war as fought by soldiers on the ground (and in Battlestars and Vipers), and the somewhat less real version portrayed in the media,” Taylor said to the Tribune.

The production is basically going to be a movie cut into 9 or 10 web episodes. We can probably expect a DVD release with some nifty special features. The series will be shot using digital sets, scan directly from BSG’s sets. Apparently, if”Blood & Chrome” is successful, it could be the first a series of similar webseries projects. Even better yet, if it’s very successful, it could even act as a backdoor pilot for a prequel television show.

While the series will probably be extremely cool, I have a slight concern on the fact that Ron D. Moore doesn’t appear to be attached to this particular production. I’ve always been a huge fan of his work, ever since his days at Deep Space Nine, and I know that he’d do a fantastic job on a BSG prequel. Without him involved, we’ll just have to wait and see.