Editing Earth

=== [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Battlestar Galactica, 2003]] ===

Earth is the alleged location of the [[13th Colony|Thirteenth Colony]], destination of the [[13th Tribe|Thirteenth Tribe]] of [[Kobol]], as attested in the [[Sacred Scrolls]].  Earth is first mentioned by [[Adama, William|Commander Adama]] during a speech made after funeral services in the wake of the devastating [[Cylon attack]] on the Twelve Colonies, claiming that it is a real place and that top military leadership knew its location (see [[Mini-series]]).  In a private conversation with newly-appointed President [[Laura Roslin]], Adama admits that he has no clue where Earth may be if it exists.  His true motivation was inspirational; he intended to bolster the morale of the population (especially his beleaguered crew) in the aftermath of the [[Cylon attack|near-annihilation]] of humanity.

While she is initially skeptical, going so far as to rebuke Adama for his dishonesty, [[Laura Roslin|Roslin's]] faith grows perceptibly throughout the events of the first season. This transition is at least partly due to her use of the hallucinogen [[Chamalla]] as an alternative treatment to her terminal breast cancer, whose side-effects she increasingly  interprets as prophetic vision.  These visions start in the episode [[Flesh and Bone]] with a portentious dream in which she sees [[Leoben Conoy]] before he is discovered hiding in the fleet.  She experiences a more disturbing vision in [[The Hand of God]], when imaginary snakes covering her pulpit disturb her during a press conference on the [[Colonial One]].  During this same episode, she confides in [[Elosha]] the priestess of her previous vision concerning Corben.

Her visions continue as the Fleet actually finds the legendary Kobol in [[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]], leading ultimately to her temporary [[Laura Roslin#Visions and Insurrection|deposition]].  Eventually, the [[Arrow of Apollo]] is recovered from [[Caprica]], the [[Tomb of Athena]] is opened, and clues to the location of Earth are discovered in [[Home, Part II]].  In a mysterious chamber, the stars of the Twelve Colonies are represented in the twelve [[Wikipedia:Zodiac|Zodiacal]] constellations, as viewed from Earth, recognized by Roslin as the shapes of the original flags of the Twelve Colonies.  The chamber itself was intended by its builders to be a stylized replica of the night sky of the Earth, from which all twelve Colonies could be seen.  This is corroborated by [[Kara Thrace|Starbuck]], who quotes [[Sacred Scrolls|scripture]], saying that Earth was the place where the people of the Thirteenth Tribe could look up into the sky and see their twelve brothers.  [[Lee Adama|Captain Apollo]] also visually recognized the [[Wikipedia:Lagoon Nebula|Lagoon Nebula]], also represented in the ''night sky'' of the mystery chamber.  Apparently this astronomical object is very well known to Fleet personnel, since [[William Adama|Commander Adama]] remarked that this celestial body would take some time to reach.

=== [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Battlestar Galactica, 1978]] ===

Earth is the [[13th Colony|Thirteenth Colony]]; its settlers having departed long ago from [[Kobol]] after the same environmental cataclysm which caused the [[Kobol#Great_Exodus|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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+Earth is the alleged location of the [[13th Colony|Thirteenth Colony]], destination of the [[13th Tribe|Thirteenth Tribe]] of [[Kobol]], as attested in the [[Sacred Scrolls]].  Earth is first mentioned by [[Adama, William|Commander Adama]] during a speech made after funeral services in the wake of the devastating [[Cylon attack]] on the Twelve Colonies, claiming that it is a real place and that top military leadership knew its location (see [[Mini-series]]).  In a private conversation with newly-appointed President [[Laura Roslin]], Adama admits that he has no clue where Earth may be if it exists.  His true motivation was inspirational; he intended to bolster the morale of the population (especially his beleaguered crew) in the aftermath of the [[Cylon attack|near-annihilation]] of humanity.
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+While she is initially skeptical, going so far as to rebuke Adama for his dishonesty, [[Laura Roslin|Roslin's]] faith grows perceptibly throughout the events of the first season. This transition is at least partly due to her use of the hallucinogen [[Chamalla]] as an alternative treatment to her terminal breast cancer, whose side-effects she increasingly  interprets as prophetic vision.  These visions start in the episode [[Flesh and Bone]] with a portentious dream in which she sees [[Leoben Conoy]] before he is discovered hiding in the fleet.  She experiences a more disturbing vision in [[The Hand of God]], when imaginary snakes covering her pulpit disturb her during a press conference on the [[Colonial One]].  During this same episode, she confides in [[Elosha]] the priestess of her previous vision concerning Corben.
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+Her visions continue as the Fleet actually finds the legendary Kobol in [[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]], leading ultimately to her temporary [[Laura Roslin#Visions and Insurrection|deposition]].  Eventually, the [[Arrow of Apollo]] is recovered from [[Caprica]], the [[Tomb of Athena]] is opened, and clues to the location of Earth are discovered in [[Home, Part II]].  In a mysterious chamber, the stars of the Twelve Colonies are represented in the twelve [[Wikipedia:Zodiac|Zodiacal]] constellations, as viewed from Earth, recognized by Roslin as the shapes of the original flags of the Twelve Colonies.  The chamber itself was intended by its builders to be a stylized replica of the night sky of the Earth, from which all twelve Colonies could be seen.  This is corroborated by [[Kara Thrace|Starbuck]], who quotes [[Sacred Scrolls|scripture]], saying that Earth was the place where the people of the Thirteenth Tribe could look up into the sky and see their twelve brothers.  [[Lee Adama|Captain Apollo]] also visually recognized the [[Wikipedia:Lagoon Nebula|Lagoon Nebula]], also represented in the ''night sky'' of the mystery chamber.  Apparently this astronomical object is very well known to Fleet personnel, since [[William Adama|Commander Adama]] remarked that this celestial body would take some time to reach.
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+Earth is the [[13th Colony|Thirteenth Colony]]; its settlers having departed long ago from [[Kobol]] after the same environmental cataclysm which caused the [[Kobol#Great_Exodus|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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+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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