The Colony
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| Race: | Cylon | ||
| Type: | Military | ||
| FTL: | Yes | ||
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| Crew: | Humanoid Cylons, Cylon Centurions | ||
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| Role: | Cylon Homeworld | ||
| Weapons: | Raiders, Cylon War-Era Raiders | ||
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| Additional Information | |||
The Colony[1] is a large biomechanical structure similar in composition to the Basestars. After the armistice, the Final Five and the Centurions retreated to this place, a spaceborne Cylon colony (Islanded in a Stream of Stars).
It is also the place where Ellen Tigh supposedly stored her resurrection research equipment (No Exit).
Prior to the Cylon Civil War, Cavil kept the Colony secret (No Exit). Cavil moved the Colony shortly before the start of the civil war, indicating that the structure is FTL-capable (Islanded in a Stream of Stars). It is positioned in a stable orbit inside the accretion disc of a naked singularity. (Daybreak, Part I).
History and Use
The colony was used by Ellen Tigh and the rest of the Final five to travel from Earth to the colonies in hopes of preventing another nuclear holocaust like the one that they escaped from on earth. When the final five traveled in the colony, the colony was not FTL capable and was only equipped with relativistic sublight engines. Because the colony was traveling slower than light, the journey took about 2,200 years to complete, but because of the relativistic speed the time that passed for the inhabitants of the colony was only a few years. When the final five reached the 12 colonies the Cylons and humans were already fighting each other. In order to stop the fighting, the final five agreed to give the Cylons resurrection technology, and so the war was stopped. The colony was set down on the surface of an unknown planet and the final five worked for over 20 years on making the first humanoid Cylons inside the colony. The Cylons then overthrew the final five, gave them false memories, and placed them in the 12 colonies to live like normal humans. In the interim between the attacks on the colonies the cylons outfitted the colony with an FTL drive, as it was FTL capable as of No Exit. After the attack on the 12 colonies the colony remained on the unknown planets surface because there was no use for it except as a repository for the final fives resurrection laboratory and equipment. However, the colony was moved off the planets surface when the Cylon Civil War started. The Colony was moved into a close orbit with a black hole and is currently being used by Cavil and the Cylons to try and find a way that the Cylon race can reproduce or resurrect.
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- When Ron D. Moore was questioned why the "Cylon POV episode", "Downloaded", took place on Cylon-occupied Caprica instead of the Cylon homeworld in an interview with Now Playing Magazine on February 23, 2006, he stated that the series will probably not show that planet any time in the forseeable future, explaining that:
- "That episode ("Downloaded") will not have that, and we still don’t have any plans to do that...My instinct is kind of not to go there. I feel like I don’t have a great clear vision of it; at this point if we tried to do something there it would look very familiar and not as interesting as it is in your imagination."
- Moore goes on to say that he felt it was more exciting when left to the imagination, because "It still has to be a place where bipedal creatures can walk around and do things": Presumably, it has to be able to support the humanoid Cylons, who are near-human enough that their home environment would be fairly similar to a human one, and not drastically exotic.
Related Imagery
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Older-model Raiders within the Colony (Islanded In A Stream Of Stars).
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References
- ↑ Jane Espenson referred to this place as "The Colony" in an interview with the Chicago Tribune, and hinted that it is not necessarily a literal colony.