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| <div style="float:left;margin-right:0.9em">[[Image:Redeye1.jpg|175px|Toasters]]</div><div style="float:right;margin-left:0.9em">[[Image:Doral.jpg|103px|Number Five]]</div>What is a '''[[Cylon]]'''? | | <div style="float:left;margin-right:0.9em">[[Image:Redeye1.jpg|175px|Toasters]]</div><div style="float:right;margin-left:0.9em">[[Image:Doral.jpg|90px|Number Five]]</div>What is a '''[[Cylon]]'''? |
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| It depends on how and from what series you view it. To our left we have our typical "[[toaster]]" Cylon Centurion from the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|original ''Battlestar Galactica'']]. To our right we have a new and improved Cylon that takes the [[Cylon agent|form of a human being]] from the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Re-imagined Series]]. There still are big and intimidating [[Cylon Centurion (RDM)|Cylon Centurions]] kicking around, also new and improved, but it's the humanoid models which are the biggest threat to the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]]. | | It depends on how and from what series you view it. To our left we have our typical "[[toaster]]" Cylon Centurion from the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|original ''Battlestar Galactica'']]. To our right we have a new and very different Cylon that takes the [[Cylon agent|form of a human being]] from the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Re-imagined Series]]. There still are big and intimidating [[Cylon Centurion (RDM)|Cylon Centurions]] kicking around, themselves new, but it's the humanoid models which are the biggest threat to the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]]. |
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| True, the original Centurion might look intimidating with its chrome armor and red eye, and [[Number Five]], as this model is called, doesn't seem too fearsome. In the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]], the Cylons were a near-extinct reptilian race that created robotic soldiers to fight the humans for a thousand years. In the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Re-imagined Series]], the Cylon robots were created by man for war and labor. The Cylons later rebelled, with a bloody war with the humans that lasted for years. Disappearing after an [[Armistice Station|armistice]], the Cylons reappear 40 years later and launch a [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|devastating sneak attack]]. In both series, the remains of humanity are on the run.
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| It was easy for the Original Series characters to know the good guys and how to identify (and shoot) the bad guys. However, the Re-imagined Series, with their humanoid Cylons that live covertly within the Fleet, makes knowing friend from foe much more difficult. There [[Humanoid Cylon speculation|are many suspects]] as to who is and is not a Cylon agent.
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| The new Cylons repeatedly blur the line between man and machine, Cylon and human. Their [[Cylon Spacecraft]] are living beings in their own right, with [[Basestar (RDM)|basestars]] controlled by strange beings known as [[Hybrid|hybrids]]. Furthermore, there are now two examples of human-cylon interbreeding, resulting in the half-blood [[Hera]] and [[Nicholas Tyrol]].
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What is a Cylon?
It depends on how and from what series you view it. To our left we have our typical "toaster" Cylon Centurion from the original Battlestar Galactica. To our right we have a new and very different Cylon that takes the form of a human being from the Re-imagined Series. There still are big and intimidating Cylon Centurions kicking around, themselves new, but it's the humanoid models which are the biggest threat to the Fleet.
