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*'''20 years BCH:'''
*'''20 years BCH:'''
**Last significant [[FTL]] jump recorded in ''[[Galactica]]'s'' logs.
**Last significant [[FTL]] jump recorded in ''[[Galactica]]'s'' logs.
**[[Tom Zarek]] imprisoned for blowing up a government building on [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Sagittaron|Sagittaron]] ([[Bastille Day]])
**[[Tom Zarek]] imprisoned for blowing up a government building on [[Sagittaron]] ([[Bastille Day]])
**[[William Adama]] and [[Saul Tigh]] first meet ([[Scattered]], podcast) <ref>This is contradicted in "[[Torn]]" where Adama claims to have known Tigh for 30 years. Writer, [[Bradley Thompson]] [[Battlestar Wiki:Official Communiques#Adama/Tigh Meeting|stated]] that Adama is exaggerating, thus indicating that 20 years (22-23 years by the time Adama makes the statement) is correct.</ref>
**[[William Adama]] and [[Saul Tigh]] first meet ([[Scattered]], podcast) <ref>This is contradicted in "[[Torn]]" where Adama claims to have known Tigh for 30 years. Writer, [[Bradley Thompson]] [[Battlestar Wiki:Official Communiques#Adama/Tigh Meeting|stated]] that Adama is exaggerating, thus indicating that 20 years (22-23 years by the time Adama makes the statement) is correct.</ref>
*'''17 years BCH:''' William Adama reinstated in the Colonial Fleet at the rank of Major ("[[Scattered]]", "[[Hero]]")
*'''17 years BCH:''' William Adama reinstated in the Colonial Fleet at the rank of Major ("[[Scattered]]", "[[Hero]]")

Revision as of 16:02, 29 June 2007

For information on the specific dating system in the Re-imagined Series, see Colonial calendar.


This article attempts to plot the events illustrated or mentioned in the history and prehistory of the Twelve Colonies in the Re-imagined Series.

All dates use the day of the Fall of the Twelve Colonies as the central time marker for all events in the series. Items that occur before the Fall are marked as "BCH", or "Before Cylon holocaust".

Ancient History[edit]

  • Over 17,000 years BCH: A supernova creates the Ionian nebula.
  • 4,000 years BCH: The Thirteenth Tribe reportedly leaves the planet Kobol, later leaving a beacon in space and building the Temple of Five (The Eye of Jupiter)[1] At some undated point, something travels from Earth to Kobol, passing on information about Earth, including a map of its night sky.
  • 3,600 years BCH: Pythia records her prophecies
  • 2,000 years BCH: The remaining Twelve Tribes leave Kobol
  • 2,000 years to 52 years BCH: The Twelve Colonies grow and prosper. Each colony acts as a sovereign nation, complete with inter-colonial wars

Recent Colonial History[edit]

Events of the Miniseries[edit]

  • Zero Hour:
    • The Armistice Station is destroyed by Cylon forces
    • Laura Roslin is diagnosed with inoperable breast cancer
    • Galactica is decommissioned
    • The Twelve Colonies are heavily bombarded by nuclear bombs
    • Picon Fleet Headquarters is destroyed
    • Galactica's last Viper Mark VII squadron is destroyed
    • A battle near Virgon ends with the total loss of the remaining Colonial Fleet
    • The battlestar Pegasus luckily escapes the destruction of the Scorpian Fleet Shipyards (Pegasus)
    • Galactica engages Cylon Raiders and survives with moderate damage and 85 dead
    • Last transmission from the Colonies received by Laura Roslin aboard Colonial Heavy 798 from a fellow secretary
    • Case Orange contingency mechanism assigns Roslin the office of the President of the Twelve Colonies
    • Roslin gathers stranded civilian and military ships around the vicinity of Caprica
    • Commander Adama assumes overall Fleet command and orders regroup at Ragnar Anchorage
    • Roslin's fleet survives two Cylon attacks and meets at Ragnar
    • Galactica changes from battle stance to civilian protection, and escorts the civilian fleet from Ragnar towards the Prolmar Sector

Season 1[edit]

See Timeline - Season 1 (RDM)

Season 2[edit]

See Timeline - Season 2 (RDM)

Season 3[edit]

See Timeline - Season 3 (RDM)

Season 4[edit]

See Timeline - Season 4 (RDM)

References[edit]

  1. Galen Tyrol cites 4,000 years as the approximate age of the temple. This is the oldest date noted in the Re-imagined Series timeline, but also conflicts with the prior date of Pythia and her works as described by Elosha in the season 1 episode "Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I," where she notes that the exodus of all 13 tribes occurred 2,000 years prior.
  2. This is contradicted in "Torn" where Adama claims to have known Tigh for 30 years. Writer, Bradley Thompson stated that Adama is exaggerating, thus indicating that 20 years (22-23 years by the time Adama makes the statement) is correct.