Editing Earth

''Mostly harmless''

== In the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Re-imagining]] ==

Earth is the alleged location of the [[13th Colony]], destination of the 13th tribe of [[Kobol]], as related in the [[Sacred Scrolls]]. 

[[Adama, William|Commander Adama]] uses the legend of Earth to give his people hope following the devastating [[Cylon attack]] on the Twelve Colonies, claiming that it is no myth and that its location was a closely-guarded secret among the senior military leaders - himself included. 

While she is initially sceptical - going so far as to rebuke Adama for his lies to his crew, [[Roslin, Laura|Laura Roslin]] nevertheless becomes the most fervent believer in Earth. This transition is apparently due to her use of the hallucinogen [[Chamalla]] to treat her breast cancer, whose side-effects she attributes increasingly to prophetic vision. For Roslin, these begin with a dream about [[Conoy, Leoben|Leoben Conoy]] before he is discovered hiding in the fleet ([[Flesh and Bone]]) - and who first gives them a clue that they will find Earth; and they culminate with visions of the [[Tomb of Athena]] on [[Kobol]] and the [[Arrow of Apollo]] ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]), both of which set her at odds with Adama, and result in her arrest and removal from office on Adama's orders ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]).

In [[Home, Part II]], Starbuck quotes the [[Sacred Scrolls]] and says that Earth is the place where the people of the [[13th Colony|Thirteenth Tribe]] could look into the sky and see their twelve brothers.  Judging from her expression, the interpretation of this passage had previously been ambiguous, at least until the events of the episode made the literality of the passage clear.

== In the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]] ==

Earth is the [[13th Colony|Thirteenth Colony]]; its settlers having departed long ago from [[Kobol]] after the same environmental cataclysm which caused the [[History of the 12 Colonies|Exodus]] of the Twelve Tribes and made Kobol uninhabitable.  As stated in the [[Book of the Word]], the [[13th Tribe|Thirteenth Tribe]] left opposite the other [[Twelve Colonies|Twelve Tribes]], the information of their destination residing in the tomb of the [[Ninth Lord of Kobol]].  ([[Lost Planet of the Gods]])

Transmissions from Earth -- i.e. the [[Apollo Moon Landing]] -- were picked up by [[Apollo (TOS)|Captain Apollo]] in the [[Celestial Temple]] on an obsolete [[Gamma Frequency]], though the copy of the transmission was destroyed in the attack on the [[Cylon basestar (TOS)|Cylon basestar]].  ([[The Hand of God (TOS)|The Hand of God]])

== Notes (Non-Canonical) ==

In the nefarious <i>[[Galactica 1980]]</i>, Earth was discovered.  Much to the dismay of Adama and the survivors, the humans on Earth were underdeveloped and would not be able to defend themselves from the [[Cylons (TOS)|Cylons]].  

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+== In the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Re-imagining]] ==
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+Earth is the alleged location of the [[13th Colony]], destination of the 13th tribe of [[Kobol]], as related in the [[Sacred Scrolls]].
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-|subtab2_1=Conquest of Earth (VHS)
+[[Adama, William|Commander Adama]] uses the legend of Earth to give his people hope following the devastating [[Cylon attack]] on the Twelve Colonies, claiming that it is no myth and that its location was a closely-guarded secret among the senior military leaders - himself included.
-|subtab2_2=Galactica Discovers Earth
-|subtab2_3=Galactica Discovers Earth (book)
+While she is initially sceptical - going so far as to rebuke Adama for his lies to his crew, [[Roslin, Laura|Laura Roslin]] nevertheless becomes the most fervent believer in Earth. This transition is apparently due to her use of the hallucinogen [[Chamalla]] to treat her breast cancer, whose side-effects she attributes increasingly to prophetic vision. For Roslin, these begin with a dream about [[Conoy, Leoben|Leoben Conoy]] before he is discovered hiding in the fleet ([[Flesh and Bone]]) - and who first gives them a clue that they will find Earth; and they culminate with visions of the [[Tomb of Athena]] on [[Kobol]] and the [[Arrow of Apollo]] ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]), both of which set her at odds with Adama, and result in her arrest and removal from office on Adama's orders ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]).
-|subtab2_4=Greetings From Earth
-|subtab2_5=Greetings From Earth (book)
+In [[Home, Part II]], Starbuck quotes the [[Sacred Scrolls]] and says that Earth is the place where the people of the [[13th Colony|Thirteenth Tribe]] could look into the sky and see their twelve brothers.  Judging from her expression, the interpretation of this passage had previously been ambiguous, at least until the events of the episode made the literality of the passage clear.
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+== In the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]] ==
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-|subtab3_2=Terra
+Earth is the [[13th Colony|Thirteenth Colony]]; its settlers having departed long ago from [[Kobol]] after the same environmental cataclysm which caused the [[History of the 12 Colonies|Exodus]] of the Twelve Tribes and made Kobol uninhabitable.  As stated in the [[Book of the Word]], the [[13th Tribe|Thirteenth Tribe]] left opposite the other [[Twelve Colonies|Twelve Tribes]], the information of their destination residing in the tomb of the [[Ninth Lord of Kobol]].  ([[Lost Planet of the Gods]])
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+Transmissions from Earth -- i.e. the [[Apollo Moon Landing]] -- were picked up by [[Apollo (TOS)|Captain Apollo]] in the [[Celestial Temple]] on an obsolete [[Gamma Frequency]], though the copy of the transmission was destroyed in the attack on the [[Cylon basestar (TOS)|Cylon basestar]].  ([[The Hand of God (TOS)|The Hand of God]])
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-|subtab4_3=Earth (1980 alternate)
+== Notes (Non-Canonical) ==
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+In the nefarious <i>[[Galactica 1980]]</i>, Earth was discovered.  Much to the dismay of Adama and the survivors, the humans on Earth were underdeveloped and would not be able to defend themselves from the [[Cylons (TOS)|Cylons]].
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