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[[Image:Pythia.jpg|none|100px|Book of Pythia]]
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Where did the colonists come from? How did they get to the point that they are at in the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|re-imagined series]]? '''History of the Twelve Colonies''' examines evidence that appears to indicate that the humans of [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]] may have actually originated from the planet [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]]. Although, for the most part, correspondences between the culture of the [[Twelve Colonies]] and [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]] (three piece suits, Humvees, military jargon,  [[Kinetic Energy Weapon|firearms]], etc.) are presumably dramatic conceits intended to help the audience identify with the characters of the show, there is evidence of a connection beyond these superficial similarities that is difficult to ignore. In the DVD commentary for the [[Miniseries]], Ron Moore and David Eick expressed that it is meant to be a deliberately unanswered question whether the series takes place in the past, present, or future relative to Earth.  '''[[History of the Twelve Colonies|...continued...]]'''
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