Editing Cyrannus (TOS)

:''For other uses, see [[Cyrannus]].''

The '''Cyrannus galaxy''' is the location of the [[Twelve Colonies of Man]]. 

{{TOS|The Fleet}} passes through a swath of [[asteroid dust]] during its exodus from the Colonies in [[7348]], separating the outer periphery of the Cyrannus galaxy from other regions disconnected from the Colonies during the [[Thousand-Yahren War]] {{OS|The Long Patrol}}.

Prior to about [[6848]], the Colonials had formerly established extra-galactic settlements, including the penal planetoid of [[Proteus]] {{OS|The Long Patrol}} that had been abandoned and forgotten about during the last yahrens of the Thousand-Yahren War. Additionally, Colonials had knowledge of other locales, including [[Gamoray]] that, in 7348, became the "outer capital" of the [[Cylon Empire]] after the fall of the [[Delphian Empire]] to the Cylons {{OS|The Living Legend, Part I}}.

== Planets and Locales ==

The following planets and locales within the Cyrannus galaxy are organized in order of their being encountered by the Fleet on its outward flight:  

* [[Nova of Madagon]] {{OS|Saga of a Star World}}
* [[Carillon]]† {{OS|Saga of a Star World}}
* [[Arcta]] {{OS|Gun on Ice Planet Zero}}
* [[Otarsis]] {{OS|Lost Planet of the Gods, Part I}}
* [[Magnetic void]], an astral phenomenon {{OS|Lost Planet of the Gods, Part II}}
* {{TOS|Kobol}}, home of the human race {{OS|Lost Planet of the Gods, Part II}}
* [[Equellus]], an outer outpost of the Colonies {{OS|The Lost Warrior}}

Nearest to the Colonies were:

* [[Cimtar]], location of the [[Battle of Cimtar]] {{OS|Saga of a Star World}}
* [[Borallus]] {{OS|Saga of a Star World}}
* [[Borella]], home of [[Borellian Nomen]] ({{OS|The Man with Nine Lives}}

== Notes ==
 
=== Astral Semantics vis-à-vis "Galaxy" ===

Opinion is divided whether the Colonies lie in the same galaxy as {{TOS|Earth}}, which—given numerous references (particularly in "[[Greetings from Earth]]") that the Earth sought after by the Colonials is our Earth—would have to be identical to our "Milky Way galaxy." 

Opponents of such an identity can point to Commander {{TOS|Adama}}'s clear statement in "[[Saga of a Star World]]," that Earth is located "in a galaxy similar to our own."

Proponents of the identity of the two galaxies argue that it is less improbable that {{TOS|the Fleet}} could traverse a large span of several thousand light-years within the Milky Way galaxy (approx. ‎170,000 – 200,000 light-years in diameter) than to make a journey from one galaxy to another, as it implies a journey of two million light-years or more.  

Note that both explanations automatically assume that the "galaxy" term means the same thing to the Colonials as it does to us, i.e. a massive system of millions or billions of individual star systems orbiting a common center of mass.  This is not necessarily the case (see e.g. [[micron]] and [[parsec]]). 

=== The ''Galactica 1980'' Postulate ===

If viewing both the [[Original Series]] and its spinoff ''[[Galactica 1980]]'' in a holistic way, statements such as "[Earth's] proximity to the sun provides the only climate in the galaxy comfortably able to support life as we know it" {{G80|Galactica Discovers Earth, Part I}} suggests a Colonial's "galaxy" may in fact be the same thing as a star system. Thus the Cyrannus "galaxy" may in fact consist only of a handful of stars and planets orbiting each other, broadly similar to our own solar system.

In the [[spin-off]] series ''[[Galactica 1980]]'', the Fleet reaches 30 years after the [[Battle of Cimtar]]. The {{TOS|Battlestar Galactica|Original Series}} neither defines the [[Propulsion (TOS)|nature of propulsion]], outside of vague terms like "[[lightspeed]]" in "[[The Living Legend, Part II]]," nor does it provide sufficient information to determine if intergalactic travel is in use.

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