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2006-10-07T19:32:48Z

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'''[[Galen Tyrol]]''': This is crazy. You know, we'll need to figure out whose side we're on?<br/>
'''[[Saul Tigh]]''': Which side are we on? We're on the side of the demons, Chief. We an evil men in the gardens of paradise, sent by the forces of death to spread desperation, devastation, and destruction where ever we go. I'm surprised you didn't know that.<br/>
--''[[Precipice]]

Fall of the Twelve Colonies

2006-07-10T14:32:27Z

Carnifex: fixed typo

:''This article details the destruction of the Twelve Colonies in the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Re-imagined Series]]. For information on the fall of the Twelve Colonies in the Original Series, see [[Battle of Cimtar]].''

{{Battle Data
|image=Nukes in Miniseries.jpg
|description=Cylon nuclear bombs detonating on Caprica
|conflict=[[Cylon Attack|Second Cylon war]]
|date=[[Re-Imagined Series Timeline|Zero Hour]], concurrent with [[Fall of the Scorpion Fleet Shipyards]]
|place=[[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]] of [[Kobol]]
|result=Decisive Cylon victory, occupation of the Twelve Colonies
|combatant1=[[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]] of [[Kobol]]
|combatant2=[[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]]
|co1=Admiral [[Nagala]] †<br>Commander [[William Adama]]
|co2=Unknown
|strength1=Approx 120 [[Battlestar (RDM)|battlestars]], [[Viper (RDM)|Vipers]], [[Raptor|Raptors]], associated support cruisers
|strength2=Unknown number of [[Basestar (RDM)|Basestars]], [[Raider|Raiders]], [[Heavy Raider|Heavy Raiders]]
|shiploss1=All but 2 Battlestars
|shiploss2=Unknown, minimal
|casualties1=Near-total devastation of Colonial Fleet and civilian population
|casualties2=Unknown, minimal
|prev=First [[Cylon War]]
|next=[[Battle of Ragnar Anchorage]]
}}
The '''Fall of the Twelve Colonies''' (also called the '''Cylon Attack''' or '''Cylon Holocaust''') was the devastating, genocidal attack which marked renewed conflict between the humans of the Twelve Colonies of Kobol and their robotic Cylon creations, after a cessation of contact between the two for forty years.

The Cylons softened up the Twelve Colonies for attack by infiltrating their military and civilian society with new [[Cylon agent|human-appearing models]] of Cylon. One such copy, [[Caprica-Six|Number Six]], seduced the brilliant Dr. [[Gaius Baltar]], fooling him into giving her access to the [[Colonial Defense Mainframe]], allowing her access to crucial information such as Fleet deployments. Baltar also let Six rewrite many of the algoritms in his new [[Command Navigation Program]], writing in many programmer backdoors. After Baltar's CNP was sufficiently distributed throughout the [[Colonial Fleet]], the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]] returned from their forty-year exile with a vengeance. The backdoors installed in the CNP enabled the Cylons to use various electronic attacks that improved Colonial electronic security had prevented in the past. Entire Viper squadrons lost power upon engaging the enemy, while the Cylons were able to virtually shut down the Colonial Defense network "without firing a shot." The great battlestars suffered an abnormally-high number of "equipment malfunctions," up to and including total power loss. Cylon infiltration of Colonial systems, when combined with the "complete surprise" they had achieved, enabled them to sweep the Colonial Fleet aside with minimal losses and devastate the [[Twelve Colonies]].

The attack succeeded beyond even the Cylons' most optimistic projections ([[Downloaded]]).

[[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Picon|Picon]] [[Fleet Headquarters]] was destroyed in the opening wave of the attack, as were 30 battlestars, noted to be "a quarter of the Fleet" according to [[Kara Thrace]]'s comment to Commander [[William Adama]] in the opening minutes of the attack. Admiral Nagala subsequently took command of the [[Colonial Fleet]] aboard battlestar ''[[Atlantia]]''. The primary Colonial effort at mounting a stand against the Cylons centered around the orbit of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Virgon|Virgon]], according to a tactical plot of all ships in the solar system by Lieutenant [[Felix Gaeta]] while ''Galactica'' prepared for possible incoming enemies.

On news of the attack, to protect its people as well as for military readiness, the Colonial [[Government]] ordered an full stop on hundreds of civilian vessels in the solar system, leaving them stranded in space around the various colonies.

Battlestar ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' was the only Colonial ship unaffected by the Cylon's computer infiltration, because its computer systems were never networked--an anti-infiltration tactic used in the First Cylon War that Adama adhered to on ''Galactica'', even in peacetime and despite the advances in Colonial technology. Although ''Galactica'' lost her last squadron of [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] Mark VII's in their first sortie against two Cylon [[Raider]]s because their networked computers were vulnerable to infiltration, the battlestar also held 40 Viper Mark II's board as part of its recent decommissioning ceremony. The Viper Mark II's were an old but robust design that were resistant to infiltration and were never equipped to use the [[Command Navigation Program]] that doomed other Colonial fighters. Unaffected by the Cylon computer infiltation and the backdoor commands or viruses they could spread, ''Galactica'' was able to re-arm and deploy its Mark II's, repelling several attacking squadrons of [[Cylon Raider]]s, even surviving a direct hit from a Cylon tactical nuclear warhead, but not without a loss of 85 of its ship's crew in the port [[flight pod]] when a fire caused by the nuke necessitated the venting of the pod's atmosphere, and some internal damage.

Soon after, ''Galactica'' received word that battlestar ''Atlantia'', as well as many more battlestars, were lost in the fighting. [[William Adama|Commander Adama]] assumed command of whatever was left of the Colonial military fleet, and sent a [[wireless]] transmission to any surviving Colonial forces to rendezvous at [[Ragnar Anchorage]] to prepare for a counterattack. Ragnar Station also held desperately needed munitions for the battlestar's gun batteries and her fighters. ''Galactica'' had destroyed its own munitions as part of its decommissioning earlier. ''Galactica'' successfully Jumped to Ragnar, skipping past the bulk of the Cylon fleet that stood in her way.

The Cylons proceeded to bombard each of the Twelve Colonies' population and strategic centers with nuclear bombs, including [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]]. After Picon was nuked, the Colonial [[Government]] broadcasted an unconditional surrender, which was completely ignored by the Cylons. President [[Richard Adar]] and all senior Colonial government officials, save for spacebound Secretary of Education [[Laura Roslin]], were presumed killed or missing. The [[Case Orange]] contingency mechanism activated to seek out any remaining government officials, a signal of which only Roslin apparently acknowledged. Sworn in on the government-chartered passenger liner ''[[Colonial Heavy 798]]'', Roslin became the new President of the Twelve Colonies.

Roslin immediately began locating other stranded Colonial civilian and military vessels to form a convoy. Roslin's convoy efforts also retrieved at least three Viper Mark VII fighters and found Lt. Sharon Valerii and her Raptor, the only survivor of ''Galactica's'' last fighter squadron. Valerii was tasked with and successfully located additional civilian craft before a Cylon Raider scout found the convoy. Fearing imminent attack but unable to rescue any passengers from the convoy's sublight ships in time, Roslin ordered the FTL-capable ships to Jump to Ragnar and ''Galactica's'' safety. The [[Sublight Propulsion|sublight]] ships and their passengers were destroyed by at least six Raiders armed with nuclear missiles.

Near the colony of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Scorpia|Scorpia]], battlestar ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'', commanded by Admiral [[Helena Cain]], also escaped certain destruction by the Cylons at the [[Scorpion Fleet Shipyards]] by making a [[Blind jump|blind jump]] into space. Most of the battlestar's networked computer systems were offline for an overhaul except for her navigation computer, which fortunately could execute a Jump. With the "fog of war" and the desperate manner of their escape, ''Pegasus'' was apparently unaware of ''Galactica's'' survival and proceeded to conduct attacks on Cylon forces it encountered as it, too, left the solar system of the Colonies. However, ''Galactica'' had no knowledge of this other battlestar as the control over the Colonies disintegrated and communications between other Colonial forces fade into static.

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2006-07-07T01:12:17Z

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2006-07-07T01:08:58Z

Carnifex: Added news about Emmy Nominations. First Edit for me!

*Battlestar Galactica is [http://emmys.org/downloads/images/2006emmys/PrimetimeNoms.php nominated] for three Emmy Awards by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Nominated categories are Outstanding Costumes (for [[Lay_Down_Your_Burdens%2C_Part_II|Lay Down Your Burdens, Part 2]]), Outstanding Single-Camera Sound Mixing For A Series (for [[Scattered]]), and Outstanding Special Visual Effects For A Series (for [[Resurrection_Ship%2C_Part_II|Resurrection Ship, Part 2]]).
*SCI FI Announces a BSG spin off prequel series called [[Caprica (series)|Caprica]]. Check the story out [http://www.scifi.com/sfw/news/sfw_news_20060501.html here]. (You have to scroll down a little to get to the story).
*[[Jane Espenson]], a regular writer on [[Wikipedia:Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]] who also wrote an episode for [[Wikipedia:Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|Star Trek:Deep Space Nine]], will write an episode in season 3.
*The web-series spin-off will be called ''[[Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance]]'', and will last ten episodes. <ref name="ignnews">[http://tv.ign.com/articles/709/709633p1.html IGN: TV Online: Battlestar Galactica Webseries Announced, May 22, 2006]</ref>
*James Callis talks to Sci-Fi Wire about the third season. <ref name="dark">[http://www.darkhorizons.com/news06/060521d.php Dark Horizons: "''Galactica'' Goes Much Darker", Garth Franklin, May 21, 2006]</ref>
*The Sci Fi channel has ordered a 20-episode third season, which will premiere both the US and UK in October 2006. There will be no "split" between Episode 10 and Episode 11. Production began in April 2006 in Vancouver, British Columbia.<ref name="gateworld">[http://www.gateworld.net/galactica/news/2006/03/igalacticaisetforoctoberse.shtml GateWorld: "Galactica set for October season premiere", March 8, 2006]</ref>

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