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Fall of the Twelve Colonies

2006-12-28T09:34:38Z

Psyckosama:

:''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 Scorpian Fleet Shipyards]]
|place=[[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]] of [[Kobol]]
|result=Total Cylon victory, destruction of the Twelve Colonies
|combatant1=[[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]] of [[Kobol]]
|combatant2=[[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]]
|co1=Admiral [[Nagala]] †<br>Commander [[William Adama]]<br>Many other commanders
|co2=[[Basestar command]]
|strength1=Approx 120 [[Battlestar (RDM)|battlestars]], [[Viper (RDM)|Vipers]], [[Raptor|Raptors]], associated support cruisers
|strength2=Massive number of [[Basestar (RDM)|basestars]], [[Raider|Raiders]], [[Heavy Raider|Heavy Raiders]]
|shiploss1=Virtual destruction of the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Colonial Fleet]]
|shiploss2=Unknown, minimal
|casualties1=Destruction of major Colonial cities, almost all of the civilian population
|casualties2=Unknown, minimal
|prev=First [[Cylon War]]
|next=[[Fall of the Scorpian Fleet Shipyards]]
|rdm=y
}}
The '''Fall of the Twelve Colonies''' (also called the '''Cylon Attack''' or '''Cylon Holocaust''') is a devastating, genocidal attack which marks renewed conflict between the humans of the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies of Kobol]] and their robotic Cylon creations, after a cessation of contact between the two, for forty years.

The Cylons soften 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]], seduces the brilliant Dr. [[Gaius Baltar]], fooling him into contract work that gives her access to the [[Colonial Defense Mainframe]]. Six's work compromises Baltar's [[Command Navigation Program]], writing in many programmer [[backdoor]]s.

After Baltar's CNP is sufficiently distributed throughout the [[Colonial Fleet]], the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]] return from their [[Cylon War|forty-year exile]] with a vengeance. The backdoors in the CNP enable the Cylons to use various electronic attacks that completely bypass Colonial electronic defenses<ref>Contrary to popular opinion, the Cylons did ''not'' transmit a virus through the CNP, but could electronically command any CNP-equipped ship to shut itself down.</ref>.

Entire Viper squadrons lose power upon engaging the enemy, while the Cylons are able to virtually shut down the Colonial Defense network "without firing a shot." The great battlestars suffer 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 achieve, enable them to sweep the Colonial Fleet aside with minimal losses.

Battlestar ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'', approximately 300 million miles from Caprica<ref>See [[Science in the Re-imagined Series]] for this calculation, based on data from the miniseries.</ref> is the only Colonial ship unaffected by the Cylon's computer infiltration as its computer systems were never networked, and as such, could not use the network-dependent CNP. This anti-infiltration policy, used in the First Cylon War, was maintained by all of ''Galactica's'' commanders, including [[William Adama]], through peacetime and despite the advances in Colonial technology.

The Cylons proceed to bombard each of the Twelve Colonies' population and strategic centers with nuclear bombs, including [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]]. The attack succeeds beyond even the Cylons' most optimistic projections ([[Downloaded]]).

[[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Picon|Picon]] [[Fleet Headquarters]] is destroyed in the opening wave of the attack, as are 30 battlestars<ref>According to Kara Thrace in the miniseries, the number of battlestars lost to this point was "a quarter of the Fleet."</ref>. Admiral [[Nagala]] is reported to have taken command of the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Colonial Fleet]] aboard battlestar ''[[Atlantia (RDM)|Atlantia]]''.

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

While the primary fight against the Cylons centers 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|Gaeta]], ''Galactica'' itself prepares for possible incoming enemies, despite two major problems. First, ''Galactica'' had earlier destroyed its own large munitions as part of its decommissioning ceremony<ref>This event occurs in a deleted scene of the Miniseries.</ref>. Second, the battlestar had plenty of pilots, but practically no Vipers left to fly. Its last Viper Mark VII squadron left the battlestar after the decommissioning ceremonies and are soon destroyed in a Cylon attack.

Fortunately, the battlestar held 40 [[Viper Mark II]]s onboard as part of its recent decommissioning ceremony and [[Galactica Museum|expected conversion into a museum]]. These Vipers were an old but robust design that were resistant to infiltration and were never equipped to use the Command Navigation Program that dooms other Colonial fighters.

''Galactica'' re-arms, deploys the fighters and repels several attacking squadrons of [[Cylon Raider]]s in her first sortie of the new war. The battlestar survives 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 damage to the fire suppression system necessitated the venting of the pod's atmosphere to prevent the battlestar's fuel lines from igniting and destroying the ship.

''Galactica'' soon receives word that battlestar ''Atlantia'', as well as many more battlestars, are lost in the fighting. Commander Adama assumes command of whatever is left of the Colonial Fleet, and sends a [[wireless]] transmission to any surviving Colonial forces to rendezvous at [[Ragnar Anchorage]] to prepare for counterattack.

Ragnar Station holds desperately needed munitions for the battlestar's point-defense batteries and more ammo for her fighters. ''Galactica'' successfully [[FTL|Jumps]] to Ragnar, skipping past the bulk of the Cylon fleet that stood in her way near Virgon.

After Picon was nuked, the Colonial [[Government]], headed by President [[Richard Adar]], broadcast an unconditional surrender, which the Cylons completely ignore. President Adar and all senior Colonial government officials, save for spacebound Secretary of Education [[Laura Roslin]], are presumed killed or missing. The [[Case Orange]] contingency mechanism activates to seek out any remaining government officials, a signal of which only Roslin apparently acknowledges. Sworn in on the government-chartered passenger liner ''[[Colonial Heavy 798]]'', Roslin becomes the new President of the Twelve Colonies.

Roslin immediately begins locating other stranded Colonial civilian and military vessels and forms a caravan. Roslin's caravan efforts also retrieve at least three [[Viper Mark VII]] fighters and finds Lt. [[Sharon Valerii|Sharon "Boomer" Valerii]] and her [[Raptor]], the only survivor of ''Galactica's'' last fighter squadron. Valerii is tasked with and successfully locates additional civilian craft before a Cylon Raider scout finds the convoy.

Fearing imminent attack but unable to rescue any passengers from the convoy's [[Sublight Propulsion|sublight]] ships in time, Roslin orders the FTL-capable ships to Jump to Ragnar and to ''Galactica's'' safety. The sublight ships and their passengers are destroyed by at least six Raiders armed with nuclear missiles.

''Galactica'' is not the only battlestar to escape the attacks. An attack at the Fleet Shipyards at Scorpia destroys two battlestars, but battlestar [[Pegasus (RDM)|''Pegasus'']], only partially operational at the time, [[Fall of the Scorpian Fleet Shipyards|manages to escape]] but doesn't know of ''Galactica's'' fate until [[Pegasus (episode)|months later]].

==References==
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Fall of the Twelve Colonies

2006-12-28T09:34:14Z

Psyckosama:

:''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 Scorpian Fleet Shipyards]]
|place=[[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]] of [[Kobol]]
|result=Total Cylon victory, destruction of the Twelve Colonies
|combatant1=[[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]] of [[Kobol]]
|combatant2=[[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]]
|co1=Admiral [[Nagala]] †<br>Commander [[William Adama]]<br>Many other commanders
|co2=[[Basestar command]]
|strength1=Approx 120 [[Battlestar (RDM)|battlestars]], [[Viper (RDM)|Vipers]], [[Raptor|Raptors]], associated support cruisers
|strength2=Massive number of [[Basestar (RDM)|basestars]], [[Raider|Raiders]], [[Heavy Raider|Heavy Raiders]]
|shiploss1=Virtual destruction of the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Colonial Fleet]]
|shiploss2=Unknown, minimal
|casualties1=Destruction of major Colonial cities, almost all of the civilian population
|casualties2=Unknown, minimal
|prev=First [[Cylon War]]
|next=[[Fall of the Scorpian Fleet Shipyards]]
|rdm=y
}}
The '''Fall of the Twelve Colonies''' (also called the '''Cylon Attack''' or '''Cylon Holocaust''') is a devastating, genocidal attack which marks renewed conflict between the humans of the [[Twelve Colonies of Kobol|The Twelve Colonies (RDM)]] and their robotic Cylon creations, after a cessation of contact between the two, for forty years.

The Cylons soften 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]], seduces the brilliant Dr. [[Gaius Baltar]], fooling him into contract work that gives her access to the [[Colonial Defense Mainframe]]. Six's work compromises Baltar's [[Command Navigation Program]], writing in many programmer [[backdoor]]s.

After Baltar's CNP is sufficiently distributed throughout the [[Colonial Fleet]], the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]] return from their [[Cylon War|forty-year exile]] with a vengeance. The backdoors in the CNP enable the Cylons to use various electronic attacks that completely bypass Colonial electronic defenses<ref>Contrary to popular opinion, the Cylons did ''not'' transmit a virus through the CNP, but could electronically command any CNP-equipped ship to shut itself down.</ref>.

Entire Viper squadrons lose power upon engaging the enemy, while the Cylons are able to virtually shut down the Colonial Defense network "without firing a shot." The great battlestars suffer 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 achieve, enable them to sweep the Colonial Fleet aside with minimal losses.

Battlestar ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'', approximately 300 million miles from Caprica<ref>See [[Science in the Re-imagined Series]] for this calculation, based on data from the miniseries.</ref> is the only Colonial ship unaffected by the Cylon's computer infiltration as its computer systems were never networked, and as such, could not use the network-dependent CNP. This anti-infiltration policy, used in the First Cylon War, was maintained by all of ''Galactica's'' commanders, including [[William Adama]], through peacetime and despite the advances in Colonial technology.

The Cylons proceed to bombard each of the Twelve Colonies' population and strategic centers with nuclear bombs, including [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]]. The attack succeeds beyond even the Cylons' most optimistic projections ([[Downloaded]]).

[[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Picon|Picon]] [[Fleet Headquarters]] is destroyed in the opening wave of the attack, as are 30 battlestars<ref>According to Kara Thrace in the miniseries, the number of battlestars lost to this point was "a quarter of the Fleet."</ref>. Admiral [[Nagala]] is reported to have taken command of the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Colonial Fleet]] aboard battlestar ''[[Atlantia (RDM)|Atlantia]]''.

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

While the primary fight against the Cylons centers 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|Gaeta]], ''Galactica'' itself prepares for possible incoming enemies, despite two major problems. First, ''Galactica'' had earlier destroyed its own large munitions as part of its decommissioning ceremony<ref>This event occurs in a deleted scene of the Miniseries.</ref>. Second, the battlestar had plenty of pilots, but practically no Vipers left to fly. Its last Viper Mark VII squadron left the battlestar after the decommissioning ceremonies and are soon destroyed in a Cylon attack.

Fortunately, the battlestar held 40 [[Viper Mark II]]s onboard as part of its recent decommissioning ceremony and [[Galactica Museum|expected conversion into a museum]]. These Vipers were an old but robust design that were resistant to infiltration and were never equipped to use the Command Navigation Program that dooms other Colonial fighters.

''Galactica'' re-arms, deploys the fighters and repels several attacking squadrons of [[Cylon Raider]]s in her first sortie of the new war. The battlestar survives 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 damage to the fire suppression system necessitated the venting of the pod's atmosphere to prevent the battlestar's fuel lines from igniting and destroying the ship.

''Galactica'' soon receives word that battlestar ''Atlantia'', as well as many more battlestars, are lost in the fighting. Commander Adama assumes command of whatever is left of the Colonial Fleet, and sends a [[wireless]] transmission to any surviving Colonial forces to rendezvous at [[Ragnar Anchorage]] to prepare for counterattack.

Ragnar Station holds desperately needed munitions for the battlestar's point-defense batteries and more ammo for her fighters. ''Galactica'' successfully [[FTL|Jumps]] to Ragnar, skipping past the bulk of the Cylon fleet that stood in her way near Virgon.

After Picon was nuked, the Colonial [[Government]], headed by President [[Richard Adar]], broadcast an unconditional surrender, which the Cylons completely ignore. President Adar and all senior Colonial government officials, save for spacebound Secretary of Education [[Laura Roslin]], are presumed killed or missing. The [[Case Orange]] contingency mechanism activates to seek out any remaining government officials, a signal of which only Roslin apparently acknowledges. Sworn in on the government-chartered passenger liner ''[[Colonial Heavy 798]]'', Roslin becomes the new President of the Twelve Colonies.

Roslin immediately begins locating other stranded Colonial civilian and military vessels and forms a caravan. Roslin's caravan efforts also retrieve at least three [[Viper Mark VII]] fighters and finds Lt. [[Sharon Valerii|Sharon "Boomer" Valerii]] and her [[Raptor]], the only survivor of ''Galactica's'' last fighter squadron. Valerii is tasked with and successfully locates additional civilian craft before a Cylon Raider scout finds the convoy.

Fearing imminent attack but unable to rescue any passengers from the convoy's [[Sublight Propulsion|sublight]] ships in time, Roslin orders the FTL-capable ships to Jump to Ragnar and to ''Galactica's'' safety. The sublight ships and their passengers are destroyed by at least six Raiders armed with nuclear missiles.

''Galactica'' is not the only battlestar to escape the attacks. An attack at the Fleet Shipyards at Scorpia destroys two battlestars, but battlestar [[Pegasus (RDM)|''Pegasus'']], only partially operational at the time, [[Fall of the Scorpian Fleet Shipyards|manages to escape]] but doesn't know of ''Galactica's'' fate until [[Pegasus (episode)|months later]].

==References==
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Fall of the Twelve Colonies

2006-12-28T09:33:29Z

Psyckosama:

:''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 Scorpian Fleet Shipyards]]
|place=[[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]] of [[Kobol]]
|result=Total Cylon victory, destruction of the Twelve Colonies
|combatant1=[[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]] of [[Kobol]]
|combatant2=[[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]]
|co1=Admiral [[Nagala]] †<br>Commander [[William Adama]]<br>Many other commanders
|co2=[[Basestar command]]
|strength1=Approx 120 [[Battlestar (RDM)|battlestars]], [[Viper (RDM)|Vipers]], [[Raptor|Raptors]], associated support cruisers
|strength2=Massive number of [[Basestar (RDM)|basestars]], [[Raider|Raiders]], [[Heavy Raider|Heavy Raiders]]
|shiploss1=Virtual destruction of the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Colonial Fleet]]
|shiploss2=Unknown, minimal
|casualties1=Destruction of major Colonial cities, almost all of the civilian population
|casualties2=Unknown, minimal
|prev=First [[Cylon War]]
|next=[[Fall of the Scorpian Fleet Shipyards]]
|rdm=y
}}
The '''Fall of the Twelve Colonies''' (also called the '''Cylon Attack''' or '''Cylon Holocaust''') is a devastating, genocidal attack which marks renewed conflict between the humans of the [[Twelve Colonies of Kobol|12 Colonies of Kobol]] and their robotic Cylon creations, after a cessation of contact between the two, for forty years.

The Cylons soften 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]], seduces the brilliant Dr. [[Gaius Baltar]], fooling him into contract work that gives her access to the [[Colonial Defense Mainframe]]. Six's work compromises Baltar's [[Command Navigation Program]], writing in many programmer [[backdoor]]s.

After Baltar's CNP is sufficiently distributed throughout the [[Colonial Fleet]], the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]] return from their [[Cylon War|forty-year exile]] with a vengeance. The backdoors in the CNP enable the Cylons to use various electronic attacks that completely bypass Colonial electronic defenses<ref>Contrary to popular opinion, the Cylons did ''not'' transmit a virus through the CNP, but could electronically command any CNP-equipped ship to shut itself down.</ref>.

Entire Viper squadrons lose power upon engaging the enemy, while the Cylons are able to virtually shut down the Colonial Defense network "without firing a shot." The great battlestars suffer 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 achieve, enable them to sweep the Colonial Fleet aside with minimal losses.

Battlestar ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'', approximately 300 million miles from Caprica<ref>See [[Science in the Re-imagined Series]] for this calculation, based on data from the miniseries.</ref> is the only Colonial ship unaffected by the Cylon's computer infiltration as its computer systems were never networked, and as such, could not use the network-dependent CNP. This anti-infiltration policy, used in the First Cylon War, was maintained by all of ''Galactica's'' commanders, including [[William Adama]], through peacetime and despite the advances in Colonial technology.

The Cylons proceed to bombard each of the Twelve Colonies' population and strategic centers with nuclear bombs, including [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]]. The attack succeeds beyond even the Cylons' most optimistic projections ([[Downloaded]]).

[[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Picon|Picon]] [[Fleet Headquarters]] is destroyed in the opening wave of the attack, as are 30 battlestars<ref>According to Kara Thrace in the miniseries, the number of battlestars lost to this point was "a quarter of the Fleet."</ref>. Admiral [[Nagala]] is reported to have taken command of the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Colonial Fleet]] aboard battlestar ''[[Atlantia (RDM)|Atlantia]]''.

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

While the primary fight against the Cylons centers 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|Gaeta]], ''Galactica'' itself prepares for possible incoming enemies, despite two major problems. First, ''Galactica'' had earlier destroyed its own large munitions as part of its decommissioning ceremony<ref>This event occurs in a deleted scene of the Miniseries.</ref>. Second, the battlestar had plenty of pilots, but practically no Vipers left to fly. Its last Viper Mark VII squadron left the battlestar after the decommissioning ceremonies and are soon destroyed in a Cylon attack.

Fortunately, the battlestar held 40 [[Viper Mark II]]s onboard as part of its recent decommissioning ceremony and [[Galactica Museum|expected conversion into a museum]]. These Vipers were an old but robust design that were resistant to infiltration and were never equipped to use the Command Navigation Program that dooms other Colonial fighters.

''Galactica'' re-arms, deploys the fighters and repels several attacking squadrons of [[Cylon Raider]]s in her first sortie of the new war. The battlestar survives 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 damage to the fire suppression system necessitated the venting of the pod's atmosphere to prevent the battlestar's fuel lines from igniting and destroying the ship.

''Galactica'' soon receives word that battlestar ''Atlantia'', as well as many more battlestars, are lost in the fighting. Commander Adama assumes command of whatever is left of the Colonial Fleet, and sends a [[wireless]] transmission to any surviving Colonial forces to rendezvous at [[Ragnar Anchorage]] to prepare for counterattack.

Ragnar Station holds desperately needed munitions for the battlestar's point-defense batteries and more ammo for her fighters. ''Galactica'' successfully [[FTL|Jumps]] to Ragnar, skipping past the bulk of the Cylon fleet that stood in her way near Virgon.

After Picon was nuked, the Colonial [[Government]], headed by President [[Richard Adar]], broadcast an unconditional surrender, which the Cylons completely ignore. President Adar and all senior Colonial government officials, save for spacebound Secretary of Education [[Laura Roslin]], are presumed killed or missing. The [[Case Orange]] contingency mechanism activates to seek out any remaining government officials, a signal of which only Roslin apparently acknowledges. Sworn in on the government-chartered passenger liner ''[[Colonial Heavy 798]]'', Roslin becomes the new President of the Twelve Colonies.

Roslin immediately begins locating other stranded Colonial civilian and military vessels and forms a caravan. Roslin's caravan efforts also retrieve at least three [[Viper Mark VII]] fighters and finds Lt. [[Sharon Valerii|Sharon "Boomer" Valerii]] and her [[Raptor]], the only survivor of ''Galactica's'' last fighter squadron. Valerii is tasked with and successfully locates additional civilian craft before a Cylon Raider scout finds the convoy.

Fearing imminent attack but unable to rescue any passengers from the convoy's [[Sublight Propulsion|sublight]] ships in time, Roslin orders the FTL-capable ships to Jump to Ragnar and to ''Galactica's'' safety. The sublight ships and their passengers are destroyed by at least six Raiders armed with nuclear missiles.

''Galactica'' is not the only battlestar to escape the attacks. An attack at the Fleet Shipyards at Scorpia destroys two battlestars, but battlestar [[Pegasus (RDM)|''Pegasus'']], only partially operational at the time, [[Fall of the Scorpian Fleet Shipyards|manages to escape]] but doesn't know of ''Galactica's'' fate until [[Pegasus (episode)|months later]].

==References==
<div style="font-size:85%"><references/></div>

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[[de:Fall der Zwölf Kolonien]]

Fall of the Twelve Colonies

2006-12-28T09:32:55Z

Psyckosama:

:''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 Scorpian Fleet Shipyards]]
|place=[[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]] of [[Kobol]]
|result=Total Cylon victory, destruction of the Twelve Colonies
|combatant1=[[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]] of [[Kobol]]
|combatant2=[[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]]
|co1=Admiral [[Nagala]] †<br>Commander [[William Adama]]<br>Many other commanders
|co2=[[Basestar command]]
|strength1=Approx 120 [[Battlestar (RDM)|battlestars]], [[Viper (RDM)|Vipers]], [[Raptor|Raptors]], associated support cruisers
|strength2=Massive number of [[Basestar (RDM)|basestars]], [[Raider|Raiders]], [[Heavy Raider|Heavy Raiders]]
|shiploss1=Virtual destruction of the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Colonial Fleet]]
|shiploss2=Unknown, minimal
|casualties1=Destruction of major Colonial cities, almost all of the civilian population
|casualties2=Unknown, minimal
|prev=First [[Cylon War]]
|next=[[Fall of the Scorpian Fleet Shipyards]]
|rdm=y
}}
The '''Fall of the Twelve Colonies''' (also called the '''Cylon Attack''' or '''Cylon Holocaust''') is a devastating, genocidal attack which marks 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 soften 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]], seduces the brilliant Dr. [[Gaius Baltar]], fooling him into contract work that gives her access to the [[Colonial Defense Mainframe]]. Six's work compromises Baltar's [[Command Navigation Program]], writing in many programmer [[backdoor]]s.

After Baltar's CNP is sufficiently distributed throughout the [[Colonial Fleet]], the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]] return from their [[Cylon War|forty-year exile]] with a vengeance. The backdoors in the CNP enable the Cylons to use various electronic attacks that completely bypass Colonial electronic defenses<ref>Contrary to popular opinion, the Cylons did ''not'' transmit a virus through the CNP, but could electronically command any CNP-equipped ship to shut itself down.</ref>.

Entire Viper squadrons lose power upon engaging the enemy, while the Cylons are able to virtually shut down the Colonial Defense network "without firing a shot." The great battlestars suffer 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 achieve, enable them to sweep the Colonial Fleet aside with minimal losses.

Battlestar ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'', approximately 300 million miles from Caprica<ref>See [[Science in the Re-imagined Series]] for this calculation, based on data from the miniseries.</ref> is the only Colonial ship unaffected by the Cylon's computer infiltration as its computer systems were never networked, and as such, could not use the network-dependent CNP. This anti-infiltration policy, used in the First Cylon War, was maintained by all of ''Galactica's'' commanders, including [[William Adama]], through peacetime and despite the advances in Colonial technology.

The Cylons proceed to bombard each of the Twelve Colonies' population and strategic centers with nuclear bombs, including [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]]. The attack succeeds beyond even the Cylons' most optimistic projections ([[Downloaded]]).

[[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Picon|Picon]] [[Fleet Headquarters]] is destroyed in the opening wave of the attack, as are 30 battlestars<ref>According to Kara Thrace in the miniseries, the number of battlestars lost to this point was "a quarter of the Fleet."</ref>. Admiral [[Nagala]] is reported to have taken command of the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Colonial Fleet]] aboard battlestar ''[[Atlantia (RDM)|Atlantia]]''.

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

While the primary fight against the Cylons centers 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|Gaeta]], ''Galactica'' itself prepares for possible incoming enemies, despite two major problems. First, ''Galactica'' had earlier destroyed its own large munitions as part of its decommissioning ceremony<ref>This event occurs in a deleted scene of the Miniseries.</ref>. Second, the battlestar had plenty of pilots, but practically no Vipers left to fly. Its last Viper Mark VII squadron left the battlestar after the decommissioning ceremonies and are soon destroyed in a Cylon attack.

Fortunately, the battlestar held 40 [[Viper Mark II]]s onboard as part of its recent decommissioning ceremony and [[Galactica Museum|expected conversion into a museum]]. These Vipers were an old but robust design that were resistant to infiltration and were never equipped to use the Command Navigation Program that dooms other Colonial fighters.

''Galactica'' re-arms, deploys the fighters and repels several attacking squadrons of [[Cylon Raider]]s in her first sortie of the new war. The battlestar survives 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 damage to the fire suppression system necessitated the venting of the pod's atmosphere to prevent the battlestar's fuel lines from igniting and destroying the ship.

''Galactica'' soon receives word that battlestar ''Atlantia'', as well as many more battlestars, are lost in the fighting. Commander Adama assumes command of whatever is left of the Colonial Fleet, and sends a [[wireless]] transmission to any surviving Colonial forces to rendezvous at [[Ragnar Anchorage]] to prepare for counterattack.

Ragnar Station holds desperately needed munitions for the battlestar's point-defense batteries and more ammo for her fighters. ''Galactica'' successfully [[FTL|Jumps]] to Ragnar, skipping past the bulk of the Cylon fleet that stood in her way near Virgon.

After Picon was nuked, the Colonial [[Government]], headed by President [[Richard Adar]], broadcast an unconditional surrender, which the Cylons completely ignore. President Adar and all senior Colonial government officials, save for spacebound Secretary of Education [[Laura Roslin]], are presumed killed or missing. The [[Case Orange]] contingency mechanism activates to seek out any remaining government officials, a signal of which only Roslin apparently acknowledges. Sworn in on the government-chartered passenger liner ''[[Colonial Heavy 798]]'', Roslin becomes the new President of the Twelve Colonies.

Roslin immediately begins locating other stranded Colonial civilian and military vessels and forms a caravan. Roslin's caravan efforts also retrieve at least three [[Viper Mark VII]] fighters and finds Lt. [[Sharon Valerii|Sharon "Boomer" Valerii]] and her [[Raptor]], the only survivor of ''Galactica's'' last fighter squadron. Valerii is tasked with and successfully locates additional civilian craft before a Cylon Raider scout finds the convoy.

Fearing imminent attack but unable to rescue any passengers from the convoy's [[Sublight Propulsion|sublight]] ships in time, Roslin orders the FTL-capable ships to Jump to Ragnar and to ''Galactica's'' safety. The sublight ships and their passengers are destroyed by at least six Raiders armed with nuclear missiles.

''Galactica'' is not the only battlestar to escape the attacks. An attack at the Fleet Shipyards at Scorpia destroys two battlestars, but battlestar [[Pegasus (RDM)|''Pegasus'']], only partially operational at the time, [[Fall of the Scorpian Fleet Shipyards|manages to escape]] but doesn't know of ''Galactica's'' fate until [[Pegasus (episode)|months later]].

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Botanical Cruiser

2006-12-25T11:31:26Z

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| race= Colonial
| type= Civilian
| ftl= Some models
| crew=
| role= Vacation ship, greenhouse
}}
'''Botanical Cruisers''' are ships with domes that may serve as space-borne vacation ships, or are used as greenhouses for specialty food or plant-matter production. After the abandonment of [[New Caprica]], they are the fleets sole source of [[New Caprican loco weed|Fleet Wheat.]]

At least two Botanical Cruisers escape the initial [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attack on the Colonies]].

New President [[Laura Roslin]] visits this ship while gathering a caravan from surviving civilian ships surrounding the colony of [[Twelve Colonies#Caprica|Caprica]]. A young girl named [[Cami]] and her grandmother are on this Botanical Cruiser with many other survivors.

Unfortunately, the particular ship that Roslin visits lacks an [[FTL]] drive, and the light-speed-enabled part of President Roslin's caravan of refugee ships are forced to leave that Botanical Cruiser and many other [[sublight]] ships behind when [[Cylon Raider]]s discover the fleet of ships. This ship and others without FTL drives are presumed destroyed by the Cylons ([[Miniseries]]).

[[Image:BotanicalInFleet.jpg|right|thumb|An [[FTL]]-capable Botanical Cruiser in the Fleet.]]
At least one other Cruiser exists in the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]]. A FTL-capable Cruiser is successfully escorted to the [[algae planet]] through a dangerous star cluster ([[The Passage]]), although it appears the biota did not fare so well in the presence of so much ionizing radiation.

[[Image:3x11 Fleet above Algae planet.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Botanical cruiser with significantly less foliage]]

== Notes ==

*The Botanical Cruiser was an homage to the [[Agro Ship|Agro Ships]] from the original ''[[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)]]'', which themselves were re-used models from the botanical spacecraft from the movie ''[[IMDB:Silent Running|Silent Running]]'', a Universal/MCA movie that special effects guru [[John Dykstra]] worked on a few years prior to the Original Series.
*The episode, "[[The Passage]]," confirms that another Botanical Cruiser exists in the Fleet. Previously, it was believed that the use of the Cruiser in shots of the Fleet was a continuity error.

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Botanical Cruiser

2006-12-25T11:30:51Z

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| race= Colonial
| type= Civilian
| ftl= Some models
| crew=
| role= Vacation ship, greenhouse
}}
'''Botanical Cruisers''' are ships with domes that may serve as space-borne vacation ships, or are used as greenhouses for specialty food or plant-matter production. After the abandonment of [[New Caprica]], they are the fleets sole source of [[Fleet Whead|New Caprican loco weed]]

At least two Botanical Cruisers escape the initial [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attack on the Colonies]].

New President [[Laura Roslin]] visits this ship while gathering a caravan from surviving civilian ships surrounding the colony of [[Twelve Colonies#Caprica|Caprica]]. A young girl named [[Cami]] and her grandmother are on this Botanical Cruiser with many other survivors.

Unfortunately, the particular ship that Roslin visits lacks an [[FTL]] drive, and the light-speed-enabled part of President Roslin's caravan of refugee ships are forced to leave that Botanical Cruiser and many other [[sublight]] ships behind when [[Cylon Raider]]s discover the fleet of ships. This ship and others without FTL drives are presumed destroyed by the Cylons ([[Miniseries]]).

[[Image:BotanicalInFleet.jpg|right|thumb|An [[FTL]]-capable Botanical Cruiser in the Fleet.]]
At least one other Cruiser exists in the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]]. A FTL-capable Cruiser is successfully escorted to the [[algae planet]] through a dangerous star cluster ([[The Passage]]), although it appears the biota did not fare so well in the presence of so much ionizing radiation.

[[Image:3x11 Fleet above Algae planet.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Botanical cruiser with significantly less foliage]]

== Notes ==

*The Botanical Cruiser was an homage to the [[Agro Ship|Agro Ships]] from the original ''[[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)]]'', which themselves were re-used models from the botanical spacecraft from the movie ''[[IMDB:Silent Running|Silent Running]]'', a Universal/MCA movie that special effects guru [[John Dykstra]] worked on a few years prior to the Original Series.
*The episode, "[[The Passage]]," confirms that another Botanical Cruiser exists in the Fleet. Previously, it was believed that the use of the Cruiser in shots of the Fleet was a continuity error.

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Toaster

2006-12-15T05:39:58Z

Psyckosama:

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{{Character Data|
|photo= BSGToaster.jpg
|age=About 2-8 weeks once purchased
|colony=[[Earth]]
|birthname="My New Toaster!"
|callsign=[http://www.proctorsilex.com/products/toasters_2slice/22450.html Cool-Touch]
|death=When pushed aside by child, the ne'er-do-well bagel-size slotted toaster, trashed.
|parents=[http://www.dualit.com/content.asp?page=/catalogue/productRange.asp?categoryCode=15 Dualit], Perhaps other [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]]
|siblings=Gas Oven, Blender, Microwave Oven (adopted), Toaster Oven (despised)
|children=Bagel-Sized Slotted Toasters (estranged)
|marital status=Single (but usually double-slotted)
|role=Maker of the quintessential breakfast food, or Destroyer of the Human Race
|rank=
|actor=ToastMaster
|cylon=y
|name=
}}
'''The Toaster''' is a device on Earth reknowned for its ability to make the popular breakfast food served with butter, jelly, eggs, or other confection. Toasters come in two, four, or even six-slot models.

[[Image:Centurion_armor_old.jpg|thumb|left|A Cylon Centurion, which technically cannot make toast, but is known for toasting Colonies.]]
The laudable term is also used as the nickname that the Colonials have for the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]], due to the fact that the original models resembled "walking chrome toasters" because of their highly reflective metal bodies ([[Miniseries]]). [[Cylon-Related_Hallucinations#Baltar.27s_Internal_Six|Number Six]] and [[Helo]] have both expressed that they consider "Toaster" to be an offensive racial epithet ([[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]], [[Flight of the Phoenix]]).

The reference implies that toasting bread and other foods was just as enjoyable on the [[Twelve Colonies]] as on Earth.

Ironically enough, it was the use of a toaster to make breakfast that drew the Cylon "toasters" attention to Helo's fallout shelter ([[You Can't Go Home Again]]).

It can also be said that the Colonials enjoyed the act of shopping for toasters. [[CAG]] [[Lee Adama]] enthusiastically made a point about shopping for toasters on [[Original Battlestar (RDM)|battlestar]] ''[[Galactica]]'', after the electricity (an important element for any toaster) went haywire ([[Valley of Darkness]]).

It should also be noted that a few [http://www.hammacher.com/publish/72500.asp# elite model] toasters have been known to communicate by sending or receiving "waves."

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talkie_Toaster#Talkie_Toaster Other] [http://www.geocities.com/realm_of_toast/ modeles], usually produced by the Taiwanese company Crapola Inc, are well known for their [http://www.geocities.com/realm_of_toast/sounds/talkie_toaster.wav infamous greatings], and unhealthy toast obsessions, that are all but guaranteed to drive their owners 'spare'. This condition often leads to an act of 'first degree toastercide', usually involving a 14lb lump hammer.

==See Also==
*[[List of terms (RDM)|List of terms in the Re-imagined Series]]

== External Links ==

*[http://www.fandomfilms.com/player/player.php?id=110 The anthem of toast lovers everywhere,] by Earth resident Heywood Banks.
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Toaster

2006-12-15T05:39:17Z

Psyckosama: formatting error

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{{Character Data|
|photo= BSGToaster.jpg
|age=About 2-8 weeks once purchased
|colony=[[Earth]]
|birthname="My New Toaster!"
|callsign=[http://www.proctorsilex.com/products/toasters_2slice/22450.html Cool-Touch]
|death=When pushed aside by child, the ne'er-do-well bagel-size slotted toaster, trashed.
|parents=[http://www.dualit.com/content.asp?page=/catalogue/productRange.asp?categoryCode=15 Dualit], Perhaps other [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]]
|siblings=Gas Oven, Blender, Microwave Oven (adopted), Toaster Oven (despised)
|children=Bagel-Sized Slotted Toasters (estranged)
|marital status=Single (but usually double-slotted)
|role=Maker of the quintessential breakfast food, or Destroyer of the Human Race
|rank=
|actor=ToastMaster
|cylon=y
|name=
}}
'''The Toaster''' is a device on Earth reknowned for its ability to make the popular breakfast food served with butter, jelly, eggs, or other confection. Toasters come in two, four, or even six-slot models.

[[Image:Centurion_armor_old.jpg|thumb|left|A Cylon Centurion, which technically cannot make toast, but is known for toasting Colonies.]]
The laudable term is also used as the nickname that the Colonials have for the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]], due to the fact that the original models resembled "walking chrome toasters" because of their highly reflective metal bodies ([[Miniseries]]). [[Cylon-Related_Hallucinations#Baltar.27s_Internal_Six|Number Six]] and [[Helo]] have both expressed that they consider "Toaster" to be an offensive racial epithet ([[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]], [[Flight of the Phoenix]]).

The reference implies that toasting bread and other foods was just as enjoyable on the [[Twelve Colonies]] as on Earth.

Ironically enough, it was the use of a toaster to make breakfast that drew the Cylon "toasters" attention to Helo's fallout shelter ([[You Can't Go Home Again]]).

It can also be said that the Colonials enjoyed the act of shopping for toasters. [[CAG]] [[Lee Adama]] enthusiastically made a point about shopping for toasters on [[Original Battlestar (RDM)|battlestar]] ''[[Galactica]]'', after the electricity (an important element for any toaster) went haywire ([[Valley of Darkness]]).

It should also be noted that a few [http://www.hammacher.com/publish/72500.asp# elite model] toasters have been known to communicate by sending or receiving "waves."

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talkie_Toaster#Talkie_Toaster Other] [http://www.geocities.com/realm_of_toast/ modeles], usually produced by the Taiwanese company Crapola Inc, are well known for their [ http://www.geocities.com/realm_of_toast/sounds/talkie_toaster.wav infamous greatings], and unhealthy toast obsessions, that are all but guaranteed to drive their owners 'spare'. This condition often leads to an act of 'first degree toastercide', usually involving a 14lb lump hammer.

==See Also==
*[[List of terms (RDM)|List of terms in the Re-imagined Series]]

== External Links ==

*[http://www.fandomfilms.com/player/player.php?id=110 The anthem of toast lovers everywhere,] by Earth resident Heywood Banks.
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Toaster

2006-12-15T05:37:55Z

Psyckosama:

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{{Character Data|
|photo= BSGToaster.jpg
|age=About 2-8 weeks once purchased
|colony=[[Earth]]
|birthname="My New Toaster!"
|callsign=[http://www.proctorsilex.com/products/toasters_2slice/22450.html Cool-Touch]
|death=When pushed aside by child, the ne'er-do-well bagel-size slotted toaster, trashed.
|parents=[http://www.dualit.com/content.asp?page=/catalogue/productRange.asp?categoryCode=15 Dualit], Perhaps other [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]]
|siblings=Gas Oven, Blender, Microwave Oven (adopted), Toaster Oven (despised)
|children=Bagel-Sized Slotted Toasters (estranged)
|marital status=Single (but usually double-slotted)
|role=Maker of the quintessential breakfast food, or Destroyer of the Human Race
|rank=
|actor=ToastMaster
|cylon=y
|name=
}}
'''The Toaster''' is a device on Earth reknowned for its ability to make the popular breakfast food served with butter, jelly, eggs, or other confection. Toasters come in two, four, or even six-slot models.

[[Image:Centurion_armor_old.jpg|thumb|left|A Cylon Centurion, which technically cannot make toast, but is known for toasting Colonies.]]
The laudable term is also used as the nickname that the Colonials have for the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]], due to the fact that the original models resembled "walking chrome toasters" because of their highly reflective metal bodies ([[Miniseries]]). [[Cylon-Related_Hallucinations#Baltar.27s_Internal_Six|Number Six]] and [[Helo]] have both expressed that they consider "Toaster" to be an offensive racial epithet ([[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]], [[Flight of the Phoenix]]).

The reference implies that toasting bread and other foods was just as enjoyable on the [[Twelve Colonies]] as on Earth.

Ironically enough, it was the use of a toaster to make breakfast that drew the Cylon "toasters" attention to Helo's fallout shelter ([[You Can't Go Home Again]]).

It can also be said that the Colonials enjoyed the act of shopping for toasters. [[CAG]] [[Lee Adama]] enthusiastically made a point about shopping for toasters on [[Original Battlestar (RDM)|battlestar]] ''[[Galactica]]'', after the electricity (an important element for any toaster) went haywire ([[Valley of Darkness]]).

It should also be noted that a few [http://www.hammacher.com/publish/72500.asp# elite model] toasters have been known to communicate by sending or receiving "waves."

[Other | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talkie_Toaster#Talkie_Toaster] [modeles | http://www.geocities.com/realm_of_toast/], usually produced by the Taiwanese company Crapola Inc, are well known for their [infamous greatings | http://www.geocities.com/realm_of_toast/sounds/talkie_toaster.wav], and unhealthy toast obsessions, that are all but guaranteed to drive their owners 'spare'. This condition often leads to an act of 'first degree toastercide', usually involving a 14lb lump hammer.

==See Also==
*[[List of terms (RDM)|List of terms in the Re-imagined Series]]

== External Links ==

*[http://www.fandomfilms.com/player/player.php?id=110 The anthem of toast lovers everywhere,] by Earth resident Heywood Banks.
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Toaster

2006-12-15T05:37:12Z

Psyckosama: Obligitary Talkie Toaster Refrence added

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{{Character Data|
|photo= BSGToaster.jpg
|age=About 2-8 weeks once purchased
|colony=[[Earth]]
|birthname="My New Toaster!"
|callsign=[http://www.proctorsilex.com/products/toasters_2slice/22450.html Cool-Touch]
|death=When pushed aside by child, the ne'er-do-well bagel-size slotted toaster, trashed.
|parents=[http://www.dualit.com/content.asp?page=/catalogue/productRange.asp?categoryCode=15 Dualit], Perhaps other [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]]
|siblings=Gas Oven, Blender, Microwave Oven (adopted), Toaster Oven (despised)
|children=Bagel-Sized Slotted Toasters (estranged)
|marital status=Single (but usually double-slotted)
|role=Maker of the quintessential breakfast food, or Destroyer of the Human Race
|rank=
|actor=ToastMaster
|cylon=y
|name=
}}
'''The Toaster''' is a device on Earth reknowned for its ability to make the popular breakfast food served with butter, jelly, eggs, or other confection. Toasters come in two, four, or even six-slot models.

[[Image:Centurion_armor_old.jpg|thumb|left|A Cylon Centurion, which technically cannot make toast, but is known for toasting Colonies.]]
The laudable term is also used as the nickname that the Colonials have for the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]], due to the fact that the original models resembled "walking chrome toasters" because of their highly reflective metal bodies ([[Miniseries]]). [[Cylon-Related_Hallucinations#Baltar.27s_Internal_Six|Number Six]] and [[Helo]] have both expressed that they consider "Toaster" to be an offensive racial epithet ([[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]], [[Flight of the Phoenix]]).

The reference implies that toasting bread and other foods was just as enjoyable on the [[Twelve Colonies]] as on Earth.

Ironically enough, it was the use of a toaster to make breakfast that drew the Cylon "toasters" attention to Helo's fallout shelter ([[You Can't Go Home Again]]).

It can also be said that the Colonials enjoyed the act of shopping for toasters. [[CAG]] [[Lee Adama]] enthusiastically made a point about shopping for toasters on [[Original Battlestar (RDM)|battlestar]] ''[[Galactica]]'', after the electricity (an important element for any toaster) went haywire ([[Valley of Darkness]]).

It should also be noted that a few [http://www.hammacher.com/publish/72500.asp# elite model] toasters have been known to communicate by sending or receiving "waves."

[Other|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talkie_Toaster#Talkie_Toaster] [modeles|http://www.geocities.com/realm_of_toast/], usually produced by the Taiwanese company Crapola Inc, are well known for their [infamous greatings|http://www.geocities.com/realm_of_toast/sounds/talkie_toaster.wav], and unhealthy toast obsessions, that are all but guaranteed to drive their owners 'spare'. This condition often leads to an act of 'first degree toastercide', usually involving a 14lb lump hammer.

==See Also==
*[[List of terms (RDM)|List of terms in the Re-imagined Series]]

== External Links ==

*[http://www.fandomfilms.com/player/player.php?id=110 The anthem of toast lovers everywhere,] by Earth resident Heywood Banks.
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Number One

2006-11-15T11:07:42Z

Psyckosama: /* Analysis */

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|seen= Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I
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|role= Cylon Infiltrator, Priest
|rank=
|actor= [[Dean Stockwell]]
|cylon= y
|name= Cavil ?
}}

'''Cavil''' is a [[Cylon agent]] who, prior to being discovered, posed as a [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Colonial]] [[Religion in the Twelve Colonies#The Clergy|priest]].

While other Cylon agents have a number associated with their model, such as [[Number Six]] and [[Number Three]], the number designation for the Cavil model is currently unknown.

==''Galactica'' Copy==

On ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'', the first viewed copy of Brother Cavil provides counsel for [[Galen Tyrol|Chief Tyrol]] after Tyrol's maddened attack against [[Cally]]. Cavil identifies the source of Tyrol's anxiety as arising from the fear that he could be a [[Cylon agent|Cylon sleeper agent]]. This Cavil seems to be personally very familiar with Tyrol and is apparently aware that [[Cally]] harbors romantic feelings for him ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I]]). The significance of Cavil's interest in Tyrol's personal affairs, if any, is unknown.

A somewhat eccentric figure, Cavil is a surprisingly harsh critic of prayer for a priest, but claims to have been preaching "longer than you [Tyrol] have been sucking down oxygen" ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I]]). This interesting claim, if true, implies that the humanoid [[Cylon agent]]s came into existence no later than approximately ten years after the end of the [[First Cylon War]] (assuming that Tyrol is approximately 30 years old). Whether Cavil is being truthful cannot be determined at this time.

Despite his cynicism, Cavil prays with [[Laura Roslin]] for her re-election to the presidency to be successful ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]).

==Caprica Copy==
[[Image:Cyca2.jpg|left|thumb|Caprican Cavil]]
A second copy of this model emerges from the crew of resistance members rescued by the Caprica [[SAR]] team, telling them that the Cylons had left the Colonies. What he does not tell them — until Tyrol blew his cover upon his arrival at ''Galactica'' — is that he is a Cylon.

Due to this copy's discovery, the Fleet copy is arrested as well and thrown in ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'''s brig. Laura Roslin orders them ejected into space after Caprica-Cavil informs her and Admiral Adama that the Cylons had made two mistakes: the attack on the Colonies and the pursuit of [[the Fleet (RDM)|the Fleet]] ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]). Though their execution was not shown, a later conversation indicated that they were executed ([[List of Deleted Scenes (RDM)#Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II|Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II, deleted scene]]).

Like his Fleet counterpart, the Caprica copy also expresses doubt in the active involvement of divine forces in the real world, although he focuses his contempt on the Cylon religion. He says that "There is no God", something that the Cavils have been telling the other Cylons for years, though he acknowledges that God's existence or nonexistence can't actually be proven. Based on his conversation with the Fleet copy, this viewpoint appears to be shared between at least these two copies, and possibly across the entire model.

==New Caprica Copies==
[[Image:Cavz.jpg|thumb|right|A Cavil on New Caprica]]

At least two copies of Cavil are present in the invasion fleet on New Caprica, as seen in [[Occupation]] and [[Precipice]], though there are probably a lot more. They have some authority over humans in detainment, as [[Ellen Tigh]] is able to use sexual favors to bribe another into releasing [[Saul Tigh]]. This may have been a self-serving ruse, because after a second sexual encounter, Cavil says to her of Saul, "When's his next meeting with the insurgents?" and "we know he's their leader - why do you think we let him out of detention?". Ellen replies, "I thought it was because of the 'twist'", referring to a sex act, and Cavil says, "oh, yes, that too."

Two copies, possibly those same two, are also involved in the Cylon leaders' discussions such as whether to kill [[Gauis Baltar]].

Another copy (or perhaps one of the previous two) also acts as a type of liaison between the [[New Caprica Police|NCP]] and their Cylon masters. He gives [[Jammer]] the list of Colonials to detain, and later accompanies the NCP to the site of a mass execution of Colonial Detainees ([[Occupation]]).

The NCP liasion version is critically wounded during an attack by the Resistance movement. Cavil is left with a bullet wound to the stomach and is left to die after the detainees are liberated. Cavil resorts to suicide by severing his [[w:carotid artery|carotid artery]] with a spent casing. He downloads into a new body for the third time — an experience that, as he explains, is similar to having a white hot poker slammed through his skull ([[Exodus, Part I]]).

Shortly before her death [[Ellen Tigh]] descibes the Cavil copy she seduced as the one "in charge" of the Detention Facility([[Exodus, Part II]]).

==Analysis==
The Cavils appear to be very radical thinkers, and demonstrate a unity among the model not seen in any other. Copies appear to have a well-developed sense of sardonic humor and are given to making jokes in even the most awkward, dangerous, and heightened circumstances ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]], [[Occupation]], [[Precipice]]). They seem to have discovered many revelations that [[Caprica-Six]] realized through her "virtual" Baltar ([[Downloaded]]). Judging by this, the Cavil copies are probably among the first to flock to Caprica's banner.

In [[Occupation]] and [[Precipice]], the Cavils are the most ''outwardly'' ruthless and cruel to humans. Perhaps even more troubling, the Cavils appear to take pleasure (or at least a noticeable level of amusement) in their own acts of psychological and physical cruelty. ([[Occupation]], [[Precipice]]). The Cavils like toying with the idea of liquidating the human population on New Caprica as a solution to the Resistance, to "Perhaps a more managable number. Say, less than a thousand." Viewers can infer (correctly or not) from the New Caprica detention scene between a Cavil and [[Saul Tigh]] that a Cavil is significantly involved in the brutal, months-long interrogation (in response to Tigh's terrorist attacks against the Cylons and the [[New Caprica Police]]). In conversation with the other Cylons, Cavils are vocal and callous proponents of harsh measures against the [[New Caprica Resistance]] and are strong advocates of mass executions.

It is ironic that the first two known copies of this apparently atheistic or agnostic model pose as clergymen. This may be an intentional mockery of religion on their part, or a mockery of the Cavils by whomever assigned them their roles as infiltrators.

With the Cylons apparently occupying [[New Caprica]] at the end of the [[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II|episode]], it appears that the Cavils on ''Galactica'' are either lying about the Cylon change of heart or the Cylon plans changed after the second Cavil was captured on ''Galactica''.

In "[[Exodus, Part I]]" it is learned that at least one Cavil unit, the leader of the execution squad intercepted by the Resistance and who died there (his third death), experienced increasing head pain with each resurrection. This could involve all humanoid Cylon models or be unique to the Cavil model due to apparent age. Their appearance is of a man in his early 60's to early '70s.

The word ''cavil'' is a noun and verb involving an irrelevant or trivial point made during an argument or discussion; synonyms include ''quibble'' and ''carp.'' (<span class="plainlinks">[http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=cavil Dictionary Reference]</span>)

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