Answered Questions from Season 1 (RDM)

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This is a list of answers to questions posed as a result of content from individual episodes from Season 1 of the Re-imagined Series. These questions are taken directly from the episode guides.

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• Billy Keikeya reports that the number of survivors is down by 300 as a result of some being lost through death from injuries, initial inaccurate counts, and others having "disappeared." How can people simply "disappear" in the Fleet?

Answer: At first glance, there appears to be an error with Billy Keikeya's math with the survivor count. The episode starts with the count being 50,298. He informs Roslin this is in error by 300, thus reducing this number to 49,998. When Olympic Carrier is destroyed (1,345 people), he reduces the total to 47,972—a reduction of 2026, or 681 people more than listed on Carrier. However, in deleted scenes from this episode, Keikeya is continually reducing the survivor count additional times set between the beginning of the episode and Olympic Carrier's destruction. Therefore, these other refinements just occur off-screen.

As for how people can simply "disappear," this can be attributed to many factors: deaths from injuries sustained during the attack, suicides, and miscounts due to the hectic nature of the flight from Ragnar Anchorage and the fatigue experienced by the ship's crews who were concerned more about survival than statistics at this juncture.

• Is Head Six actually in contact with other Cylons, and thus involved in the disappearance and reappearance of Olympic Carrier?

Answer: Head Six may be involved with the disappearance and reappearance of Olympic Carrier, however she herself is later revealed as an angelic force who merely appears in the form of Number Six. As this is the case, Six's objectives aren't necessarily in sync with the objectives of the Significant Seven.

• What happened to the group of survivors Karl Agathon was left with in the Miniseries?

Answer: According to "Battlestar Galactica: The Story So Far," radiation sickness kills a majority of these survivors, and Karl Agathon clearly separated himself from this group. His objective is to leave the planet and get back into the fight.

• Was the person speaking over the wireless when the Olympic Carrier returned really its captain, or a humanoid Cylon?

Answer: The voice does not correspond to any of the Significant Seven who are eventually revealed during the run of the series, nor any members of the Final Five. Therefore, the voice is human, as the presence of humans aboard Olympic Carrier is confirmed by the producers.

• Were there any people aboard Olympic Carrier when it was destroyed?

Answer: Yes.

• What is the Cylons' plan?

Answer: It's complicated.

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• Is Sharon Valerii completely unaware her Cylon personality, which planted the explosives?

Answer: As Sharon Agathon neé Valerii essentially tells Kara Thrace and Karl Agathon in "Resistance," Cylons can be programmed as sleeper agents unaware of their true nature. Valerii's programming, however, is not without faults of their own as evidenced by her conflicted nature throughout the series run.

• Is the wireless message picked-up by Karl Agathon on Caprica genuine, or a Cylon fake, designed to keep him on the planet?

Answer: It is a Cylon fake, designed to lure Agathon to a "honey trap."

• Do the Colonials have food recycling capabilities to match their water recycling capabilities?

Answer: Yes.

• Why do the Cylons want to keep Agathon on Caprica?

Answer: The Significant Seven Cylons—with the exception of John Cavil, who aims for the Seven to become the universe's most perfect machines as exemplified in his speech in "No Exit"—desire to reproduce biologically, believing it to be one of God's commandments. By pairing Karl Agathon with a Number Eight with the same memories as Boomer, the Seven hope to foster love, a pivotal component they believe necessary for successful procreation. See: "Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II," "The Farm."

Re-imagined Series definition: Colonial equivalent of radio