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Speculation on Battlestar Galactica (RDM)

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Plausible speculation

• It appears that, in season 3, everything that's happened to Baltar since his election has served (from a dramatic or storytelling perspective) to strip away his arrogance. Particularly the suicide attempt provoked by internal Six in Taking a Break From All Your Worries. -- 21:08, 30 January 2007 (CST)
• In Exodus, Part I it was mentioned that the Cylons are stretching their resources thin. I suspect that the Cylons are at either in a civil war (likely between the earlier and later models, although possibly between two divergent branches) or at war with some other civilization. I suspect that they destroyed the Twelve Colonies because they were paranoid about the possibility of fighting a war on two fronts. -- 21:56, 30 January 2007 (CST)
• The five priests of the One Whose Name Cannot be Spoken aren't the final five, but they may have been the previous cycle's equivalent of Cylons. -- 00:43, 1 February 2007 (CST)
• Apparently four of the final five will be revealed in the season finale. If Baltar is a Cylon, I strongly suspect that he will be convicted, executed and then wake up in a Cylon rebirthing tank surrounded by three other Cylon models. -- 02:00, 5 February 2007 (CST) false
  • If he is not a Cylon, Baltar will survive due to acquittal, a jailbreak, bribes or extortion. -- 02:21, 20 March 2007 (CDT) (true, except possibly the "not a Cylon" part)
• Although they can produce spare bodies, the humanoid Cylons lack the technology to produce new humanoid models, and may even be unable to make more copies of existing models. -- 16:10, 3 March 2007 (CST)
• Starbuck is a Cylon. -- 22:45, 6 March 2007 (CST)
• Based on his accent in the preview, Romo Lampkin is probably from Aerelon. -- 23:39, 10 March 2007 (CST)
• Ronald D. Moore has stated that there are already hints in aired episodes pointing to the last member of the final five. Based on this statement, I believe that, as of Crossroads, Part II, the only three remaining Cylon candidates are Gaius Baltar, Kara Thrace and Laura Roslin. -- 00:52, 28 March 2007 (CDT) (Roslin's been eliminated by the Frak Party podcast)
• If one of the Final Five dies, their consciousness will be transmitted to the nearest Resurrection Ship. It is likely that this will result in either transmission to the nearest resurrection facility with an appropriate body (either on the Cylon homeworld or in one of the hypothetical Final Five fleet's resurrection ships) or the boxing of the consciousness and an error message transmitted up the Cylon hierarchy. -- 01:23, 18 May 2007 (CDT)
• Gina's "Trust me, in the end, we're all just human" line from Razor is extremely significant. -- 00:57, 25 June 2007 (CDT)
• The Guardians are still around. -- 00:06, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
• The Ones, Fours and Fives will be boxed. -- 00:06, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
  • After the Threes are unboxed (which has already been revealed in spoilers), the other models may be unboxed due to Natalie's faction comprising a larger voting bloc. -- 00:06, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
• The Guardians are still around. -- 00:08, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
• Boomer will join Natalie's faction. -- 03:22, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
• One of the Final Five, probably Galen Tyrol, will make at least one suicide attempt. -- 23:27, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
• One of the Final Five will die. -- 23:27, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
• The Thirteenth Tribe is the tribe of Ophiuchus / Serpentarius. -- 04:32, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
  • There will be more serpent-related symbolism connected to the Thirteenth Tribe and / or Earth. -- 04:32, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Wild speculation

• If Baltar is not one of the Final Five then he's half-Cylon like Hera, which would push the origin of humanoid Cylons back by 2 or 3 decades. -- 00:43, 1 February 2007 (CST) (more plausible now that the origin of the humanoid Cylons has been pushed back to the Cylon war)
  • If Baltar is half-Cylon, the most likely candidate for his father is Saul Tigh, as he is old enough and from Aerelon. -- 04:14, 28 March 2007 (CDT)
• If the Cylons have an equivalent of the Imperious Leader, it is probably a network of Hybrids and similar Cylon supercomputers, however most short-term decisions are delegated to the humanoid models. -- 02:07, 6 February 2007 (CST)
  • The Cylons may also have a collective consciousness. A distributed network based on swarm intelligence, connected thorugh the datastream. The network as a whole may not be sane, and may not even be self-aware. Internal Six, Internal Baltar and Kara's dreams and hallucinations of Leoben may be subroutines of the Cylon network. -- 22:45, 6 March 2007 (CST) (more plausible after the events in Crossroads, which suggest some form of involuntary or subconscious communication)
• Baltar died in the nuclear blast on Caprica, got resurrected and subconsciously blocked out the memories which contradicted his cover identity. -- 01:38, 28 February 2007 (CST) (increasingly unlikely, but not quite ruled out yet)
• In at least some of the previous cycles the Cylons (or their conterparts) wiped out the humans of the Twelve Colonies (or their counterparts) and interbred with the humans of Earth. Every modern human has at least a small amount of Cylon (or Cylon counterpart) ancestry. -- 01:48, 28 February 2007 (CST)
• Of the Final Five, at least one is obvious (such as Baltar or Starbuck), one is unexpected (such as an Adama, Saul Tigh or Cally), one is unheard of (a new character) and one was presumed dead (such as Kat, Ellen Tigh or Billy Keikeya). There could be some overlap between the categories. -- 00:31, 2 March 2007 (CST) (so far we've got Saul Tigh, who is unexpected, and Galen Tyrol, who is both obvious due to The Eye of Jupiter and Rapture and unexpected because he has a child, if Kara Thrace is a Cylon she would count as both obvious and presumed dead)
• Maelstrom will have a scene in which Starbuck wakes up in a rebirthing tank and kills Leoben, although it may be in a dream. -- 00:34, 2 March 2007 (CST) False
• As the "chosen one", Baltar was destined to see the final five in the Temple of Five. Number Three managed to usurp his destiny, with significant consequences. This means that The Cycle of Time is not absolute and destiny can be resisted, although not without a cost. -- 00:52, 10 March 2007 (CST)
  • Fighting destiny will be a major theme of season 4. -- 23:04, 20 April 2007 (CDT)
    • Kara Thrace will ultimately reject her destiny. -- 02:14, 8 November 2007 (CST)
• There is at least one Saul Tigh copy in the fleet with a younger, more recently grown body. -- 04:14, 28 March 2007 (CDT)
• All twelve of the humanoid Cylon models were around during the Cylon War, and some or all of them may have been around earlier. Saul Tigh is part of the first "production run", most of the other copies we've seen (and most of the humanoid Cylon population) were "mass produced" a few years prior to the invasion, and Galen Tyrol, Samuel Anders and Tory Foster were created during or slightly before the pre-invasion "production run". These "Cylon elders" from the early production run(s) are likely candidates for the Cylon leadership. -- 04:14, 28 March 2007 (CDT)

Joke theories

• Although he is not aware of it, Gaius Baltar has the ability to cheat fate by injecting others with his bad karma. -- 01:37, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Virtual Six will go crazy if she hasn't already. -- 01:37, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Kara Thrace is safe from the Baltar curse, she already went crazy and died. -- 01:37, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
  • The unnamed female Baltar aide / intern / groupie from Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II is dead. -- 01:37, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Tracey Anne is doomed. -- 01:37, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Tory Foster is going to die and probably take out a lot of others with her. Fortunately for her, she'll probably get better. -- 01:37, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
• Galactica 1980 is canonically part of the previous cycle. -- 01:37, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
• Cally Tyrol is too cute to die. -- 01:37, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Cally is too cute to stay dead, therefore Cally is a Cylon, therefore Galen Tyrol cannot be Nicholas Tyrol's real father. Since she went crazy and then died horribly, the real father is probably Baltar. -- 03:00, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
    • Two words: virtual Cally. -- 01:12, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
• There will be a canonical pairing more creepy an twisted than the ones we've seen so far. -- 01:12, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Right now, the most likely candidate is Kara / Leoben. -- 01:12, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Caprica-Six / Tigh is also likely. -- 01:12, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

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