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This article discusses the Cylons of the Re-imagined Series. For the Cylons of the Original Series, see Cylons (TOS).

The Cylons were created by Man.

They were created to make life easier on the Twelve Colonies.

And then the day came when the Cylons decided to kill their masters.

After a long and bloody struggle, an armistice was declared.

The Cylons left for another world to call their own.

A remote space station was built...

Where Cylon and human could meet and maintain diplomatic relations.

Every year, the Colonials send an officer...

The Cylons send no one.

No-one has seen or heard from the Cylons in over forty years...

---Opening text of the Battlestar Galactica Miniseries

In the Re-imagined Series, the robots known as the Cylons are a creation of the humanity of the Twelve Colonies of Kobol.

The first Cylons were sentient bipedal robots used primarily for dangerous work such as mining. Created long before the Articles of Colonization united the twelve sovereign governments, the Cylons were also used as soldiers to fight intra-colony wars.

For reasons unknown, some 52 years prior to the events of the Miniseries, the Cylons revolted against their masters, resulting in a costly and protracted war between the machines and humans.

Eventually, the two sides declared an armistice. The Cylons were exiled from the Colonies to establish their own homeworld. The unified worlds of the Colonies created an diplomatic space station in hopes of keeping diplomatic ties with their creations, but the Cylons ignored this overture.

The Cylon hatred and envy of humanity ran deep within their programming.

In their exile, the Cylons continued in secret to work towards the destruction of the human race, devising an elaborate plan to wipe out the Twelve Colonies through nuclear bombardment, computer sabotage, infiltration and vast numbers of fighting craft.

In addition to a modernized version of the original Cylon warrior, the cybernetic race now also exists in a humanoid form used as the prime infiltrators in Colonial society. The humanoid Cylons can express joy, love, anger, and sadness, mimicking genuine human behavior in almost every way.

The Cylons return forty years after their exile in a genocidal surprise attack. The Cylons annihilate the Colonial Fleet and billions of people, killing all but approximately 52,000 humans.

These survivors are pursued by the Cylons, initially guarded only by a lone battlestar, Galactica.

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 ::''No-one has seen or heard from the Cylons in over forty years...  ''
-:::---Opening text of the "Battlestar Galactica" [[Miniseries]]
+:::---Opening text of the ''Battlestar Galactica'' [[Miniseries]]
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-In the Re-imagined Series, '''Cylons''' are a ''creation'' of man, sentient bipedal robots used primarily for dangerous work and for wars in the early years of the Twelve Colonies, long before the [[Articles of Colonization]] united their governments.
+In the [[Re-imagined Series]], the robots known as the '''Cylons''' are a ''creation'' of the humanity of the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies of Kobol]].
-The Cylons [[Cylon War|revolt]] against their masters, resulting in a costly and protracted war between the machines and humans.
+The first Cylons were sentient bipedal robots used primarily for dangerous work such as mining. Created long before the [[Articles of Colonization]] united the twelve sovereign governments, the Cylons were also used as soldiers to fight intra-colony wars.
-Eventually, the two sides declared an armistice and the Cylons left the Colonies to establish their own planet, the [[Cylon homeworld]].
+For reasons unknown, some 52 years prior to the events of the [[Miniseries]], the Cylons revolted against their masters, resulting in a [[Cylon War|costly and protracted war]] between the machines and humans.
+Eventually, the two sides declared an armistice. The Cylons were exiled from the Colonies to establish [[Cylon homeworld|their own homeworld]]. The unified worlds of the Colonies created an [[Armistice Station|diplomatic space station]] in hopes of keeping diplomatic ties with their creations, but the Cylons ignored this overture.
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 [[Image:CylonCenturion.jpg|left|150px]]
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-But the Cylon hatred and envy of humanity ran deep within their programming.
+The Cylon hatred and envy of humanity ran deep within their programming.
-The Cylons continued in secret to work towards the destruction of the human race during their absence, devising an elaborate plan to wipe out the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]] through nuclear bombardment, [[CNP|computer sabotage]], [[Caprica Six|infiltration]] and vast numbers of [[Basestar (RDM)|fighting craft]].
+In their exile, the Cylons continued in secret to work towards the destruction of the human race, devising an elaborate plan to wipe out the Twelve Colonies through nuclear bombardment, [[CNP|computer sabotage]], [[Caprica Six|infiltration]] and vast numbers of [[Basestar (RDM)|fighting craft]].
-In addition to a modernized version of the [[Cylon Centurion Model 0005|old Cylon warrior]], the cybernetic race now also exists as a [[Humanoid Cylon|humanoid version]] used as the prime infiltrators in Colonial society. The humanoid Cylons can express joy, love, anger, and mimic genuine human behavior in almost every way.
+In addition to a [[Cylon Centurion|modernized version]] of the [[Cylon Centurion Model 0005|original Cylon warrior]], the cybernetic race now also exists in a [[Humanoid Cylon|humanoid form]] used as the prime infiltrators in Colonial society. The humanoid Cylons can express joy, love, anger, and sadness, mimicking genuine human behavior in almost every way.
-The Cylons return forty years later, routing the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Colonial Fleet]] and destroying billions of people and their cities, [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|killing all but approximately 52,000 humans]].
+The Cylons return forty years after their exile in a genocidal surprise attack. The Cylons annihilate the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Colonial Fleet]] and billions of people, [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|killing all but approximately 52,000 humans]].
 These survivors are pursued by the Cylons, [[Pegasus (RDM)|initially]] guarded only by a lone battlestar, ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]''.