Battlestar Wiki:Featured articles/Archive/History of the Twelve Colonies - July 2006
When you think of the History of the Twelve Colonies you try to imanage what it was like for the colonitis before any of the wars that took place in their system. But from only the evidence that we have from the screen 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 Twelve Colonies and Earth (three piece suits, Humvees, military jargon, 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 deliberatly unanswered question whether the series takes place in the past, present, or future relative to Earth. ...continued...