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:''See also the [[Timeline (RDM)|Re-Imagined Series Timeline]] for an approximate chronology of the history of the Colonies and ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' itself from the [[Miniseries]] and regular series.'' | |||
{{ | {{Twelve Colonies Series}} | ||
==Pre-History== | |||
The | |||
In the burial scene of the 2003 miniseries, Adama states "Life here began out there," reminding the assembly that this was the first line of the sacred scrolls, told to them by the [[Religion in the Twelve Colonies#The Lords of Kobol|Lords of Kobol]] uncounted centuries ago. Per the sacred scrolls and the history known to the Twelve Colonies, the human race was not originally native to Kobol. | |||
Circumstantial evidence appears to indicate that the humans of [[Kobol]] actually originated from the planet [[Earth]]. Although, for the most part, correspondences between the culture of the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]] and Earth (three piece suits, [[Wikipedia: Humvee|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. | |||
When a ground team from [[The Fleet (RDM)|the Fleet]] enters the [[Tomb of Athena]], they find a map room in the form of a planetarium, depicting constellations in Earth's night sky. [[Laura Roslin]] identifies the actual star patterns, not their symbols, as the original flags of the Twelve Colonies. These patterns are only visible from Earth, which implies that the creators of the map had some prior knowledge of their destination before setting out ([[Home, Part II]]). | |||
This is also consistent with the [[Sacred Scrolls#The "Three Exodi" Interpretation|Triple-Exodus interpretation]] of those portions of the Sacred Scrolls revealed to us thus far, and the veneration of the [[Religion in the Twelve Colonies#The Lords of Kobol|Lords of Kobol]], whose resemblance to the [[Greek Gods]] cannot otherwise be easily accounted for. The Colonial [[Life Forms of the Twelve Colonies|ecosystems]] are also identical to Earth's, with very few exceptions. | |||
In the DVD commentary for the [[Miniseries]], Ron Moore and David Eick expressed that it is meant to be a deliberatly unanswered question whether the series takes place in the past, present, or future relative to Earth. | |||
==Kobol== | ==Kobol== | ||
Approximately 3,600 years before the events in the [[Miniseries]], the oracle [[Pythia]] recorded her [[Sacred Scrolls#The Book of Pythia|prophecy]] of the exile and rebirth of the human race ([[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]). | |||
While on Kobol, the thirteen tribes apparently lived in an idyllic utopia with their Gods, but roughly 1,600 years later (2,000 years before the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]]), this coexistence was ended as Pythia's prophecy came to fruition ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]). The prophecy alludes to a "Blaze" which descended on the thirteen tribes and against which the Lords of Kobol were powerless to intervene ([[Home, Part I]]). In a [http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/episodes/season01/112/mov/bsg_del_112_regret.mov scene] [[Deleted scenes|cut]] from the episode "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]", [[Elosha]] states that the exodus from Kobol was precipitated when "one jealous god began to desire that he be elevated above all the other gods, and the war on Kobol began." In another [http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/episodes/season02/203/deleted1.html deleted scene] cut from the episode "[[Fragged]]," Roslin states that humanity wasn't "exiled" from Kobol, but that the Sacred Scrolls say that "there was some sort of battle among the Gods, and when it was over we ''chose'' to leave." | |||
==Exodus== | ==Exodus== | ||
In despair, [[Athena, Lord of Kobol|Athena]] threw herself from the [[Gates of Hera]], to her death. The leaders of the tribes were [[Tomb of Athena|interred with her]], and the populace of the tribes were taken in a "Galleon" (a spacecraft) to their places of refuge. Twelve tribes find and occupy a solar system with at least 12 habitable worlds, while a thirteenth tribe locates a world they named [[Earth]]. [[Zeus, Lord of Kobol|Zeus]] warned the survivors that any return to Kobol "would exact a price in blood." | |||
==Settlement== | ==Settlement== | ||
After settling on their new homes, another cataclysm befell the twelve tribes (perhaps simply order breaking down amongst the handful of refugee survivors that fled Kobol with only what supplies they could carry). This resulted in the destruction of much of their knowledge base and sent the colonies into a dark age ([http://blog.scifi.com/battlestar/archives/2005/01/index.html#a000016 RDM, January 30, 2005]). (On the real-world Earth, similar dark ages occurred after the falls of [[Wikipedia:Dark Ages|Rome]] and [[Wikipedia:Greek Dark Ages|Mycenaean Greece]], and lasted for centuries). It is possible that much of their technological knowledge of interstellar spaceflight was lost after the escape from Kobol. | |||
After their | |||
Various shifting alliances and attempts at unified government came out of these conflicts, which would later form the bedrock of the [[Articles of Colonization]], but it would still be some time before a practical | After their return to space, the Colonies established many observatories, listening posts, research stations and armories in their system. Inequity and war were common between the Colonies for most of this time period. By the end of the strife, [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Sagittaron|Sagittaron]] had been exploited for centuries ([[Bastille Day]]). Various shifting alliances and attempts at unified government came out of these conflicts, which would later form the bedrock of the [[Articles of Colonization]], but it would still be some time before a practical colonies-wide government was established ([http://blog.scifi.com/battlestar/archives/2005/04/index.html#a000025 RDM, April 11, 2005]). | ||
The Colonials also created robots, called [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]], to do work which they found unpleasant, including | The Colonials also created a line of robots, called [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]], to do work which they found unpleasant, including mining (Miniseries, early draft) and serving as soldiers in their civil wars ([http://blog.scifi.com/battlestar/archives/2005/01/index.html#a000016 RDM, January 30, 2005]). | ||
==The Cylon War== | ==The Cylon War== | ||
:''Main article: [[Cylon War]]'' | :''Main article: [[Cylon War]]'' | ||
At its darkest hour, the Cylon War came very close to wiping out the Colonies. | Such was the extent to which the Colonies had invested their military power in the Cylons that when they chose to rebel against their masters, the Colonials found themselves well-matched. With their mastery of Colonial technology, the Cylons were able to infiltrate nearly all networked devices. The Colonials were forced to abandon networked computers and wireless devices in favor of more secure and durable technologies, able to withstand both Cylon infiltration and the powerful nuclear weapons used by the warring parties ([http://blog.scifi.com/battlestar/archives/2005/01/index.html#a000013 RDM, January 19, 2005]). Twelve [[Galactica type battlestar|battlestars]] built in the opening years of the war best exemplified these principles, including ''[[Galactica]]'' ([[Miniseries]]). In response to the great threat posed by the Cylons, the Twelve Colonies formed a unified federal [[Government]] for the first time, at the beginning of the war ("[[Colonial Day]]"). | ||
At its darkest hour, the Cylon War came very close to wiping out the Colonies ([http://blog.scifi.com/battlestar/archives/2005/01/index.html#a000016 RDM, January 30, 2005]). This outcome of the war likely developed, among other practices, the [[Case Orange]] contingency government succession protocol as well as the re-buildup of the Colonial Fleet in the Federal Era. | |||
==Armistice== | ==Armistice== | ||
After the Cylon War ended | After the Cylon War ended, a long and bloody struggle of approximately 12 years, an armistice was declared, and the Cylons departed for a [[Cylon homeworld|world of their own]]. The Colonials established a neutral meeting place, [[Armistice Station]], and made diplomatic overtures for Cylons and Colonials to meet annually. However, these overtures were continually ignored. | ||
After the war, the military went through a Reduction in Force, resulting in the discharge of many of the war's veterans. | After the war, the military went through a Reduction in Force, resulting in the discharge of many of the war's veterans. | ||
==Federal Era== | ==Federal Era== | ||
With their military assets now concentrated in a central government under the [[Articles of Colonization]] ([[Epiphanies|with Caprica City as the | While the Cylon War had a lasting effect on the government of the Twelve Colonies, the population as a whole, much of it born after the war, had relegated it to a historical note in textbooks (much as real-world Earth citizens regard their second World War). The now-united government continued to maintain a large standing military, which, forty years after the war, had grown to include 120 battlestars ([[Miniseries]]), most apparently more advanced than those of the original battlestar class ([[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]). This buildup apparently began about twenty years after the war, around the time [[Saul Tigh]] and [[William Adama]] rejoined the military ("[[Scattered]]" and its [http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/201/bsg_ep201_FULL.mp3 podcast]). | ||
With their military assets now concentrated in a central government under the [[Articles of Colonization]] ([[Epiphanies|with Caprica City as the capitol]]), the new government of the Twelve Colonies was able to maintain peace among its members ([[Water]]). Now presumably free of the Cylon threat, technologies which could not be used during the war were redeployed throughout the fleet, increasing its effectiveness against more mundane opponents ([[Miniseries]]). | |||
This new era of federalism was not without considerable opposition. Dissidents on Sagittaron lead by [[Tom Zarek]] took arms against the government | This new era of federalism was not without considerable opposition. Dissidents on Sagittaron lead by [[Tom Zarek]] took arms against the government ([[Bastille Day]]), supplied by arms dealers like [[Leoben Conoy#Ragnar Anchorage Copy|Leoben Conoy]] ([http://blog.scifi.com/battlestar/archives/2005/01/index.html#a000016 RDM, January 30, 2005]). Regardless of these localized attempts at insurrection, on the whole the Twelve Colonies faced no major military threats, with the loss of contact with the Cylons. The [[Colonial Fleet]]'s standing numbers were actually kept disproportionately high relative to their common uses, in fear that one day the Cylons might return. Day-to-day work for the Fleet consisted of handling the small-scale brush fire attempts at rebellion such as on Sagittaron, but these were all light peacekeeping actions rather than actual fighting. Prior to the Cylon attack, none of ''Galactica's'' younger-generation crew had ever seen any real combat. | ||
==Fall of the Twelve Colonies== | ==Fall of the Twelve Colonies== | ||
:''Main article: [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]]'' | :''Main article: [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]]'' | ||
The arrogance of the Colonials in re-equipping their military with technologies vulnerable to Cylon interference proved to be their undoing. Forty years after the first Cylon War, [[Cylon agent|Cylon infiltrators]] subverted Dr. [[Gaius Baltar]]'s [[Command Navigation Program]], allowing an advanced Cylon armada to destroy the Colonial fleet with impunity. | |||
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The attack resulted in the nuclear bombardment and occupation of the Colonies and the enslavement of most of the few isolated survivors in a series of [[Farms]]. Altogether, less than one hundred ships (mostly civilian) survived the attack, including only two battlestars - the nearly obsolete ''[[Galactica]]'' and the [[Mercury class battlestar]] ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]''. The survivors abandoned the Colonies and formed a convoy in search of the thirteenth colony, [[Earth]], where they hope to find refuge. | |||
== | ==Note== | ||
In an early draft manuscript of the [[Miniseries]], Secretary [[Laura Roslin]] notes that the Ministry of Defense conducts the government census. The last count was 12,254,197,512 Colonial citizens. While this number is not wholly [[Canon|canonical]], it suggests the magnitude of the genocide. | |||
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