The Colony

The Colony
Race:	Cylon
Type:	Military
FTL:	Yes
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Crew:	Humanoid Cylons, Cylon Centurions
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Role:	Cylon Homeworld
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Additional Information

The Colony is a large biomechanical structure similar in composition to the Basestars. After the Cimtar Peace Accord, the Final Five and the Cylon Centurion Model 0005 units retreated to this place, a spaceborne Cylon homeworld (Islanded in a Stream of Stars).

History and Use

This structure was "home" to the humanoid and Centurion Cylons after the war. The eight numbered humanoid models were presumably developed by Samuel Anders, Tory Foster, Ellen Tigh, Saul Tigh, and Galen Tyrol here. Their original resurrection equipment is still on the Colony (No Exit).

The Colony fell into the hands of the Number Ones/Cavils after they boxed the Final Five. Prior to the Cylon Civil War, Cavil kept the Colony secret (No Exit). Cavil moved the Colony shortly before the start of the civil war, indicating that the structure is FTL-capable (Islanded in a Stream of Stars). It is positioned in a stable orbit inside the accretion disc of a naked singularity. (Daybreak, Part I)

The Colony is currently home base for the Ones, Fours, Fives, and Boomer. Hera Agathon has been brought to the Colony for experimentation, to determine what makes her a successful human-Cylon hybrid and replicate it (Daybreak, Part I). There are both original-model Cylon Raiders, mechanical fighter craft which are intended to piloted, and the newer autonomous Raider models inside the Colony (Islanded in a Stream of Stars).

Notes

Sources for this page may be located at: Sources:Cylon homeworld

• When Ron D. Moore was questioned why the "Cylon POV episode", "Downloaded", took place on Cylon-occupied Caprica instead of the Cylon homeworld in an interview with Now Playing Magazine on February 23, 2006, he stated that the series will probably not show that planet any time in the forseeable future, explaining that:

"That episode ("Downloaded") will not have that, and we still don’t have any plans to do that...My instinct is kind of not to go there. I feel like I don’t have a great clear vision of it; at this point if we tried to do something there it would look very familiar and not as interesting as it is in your imagination."

Moore goes on to say that he felt it was more exciting when left to the imagination, because "It still has to be a place where bipedal creatures can walk around and do things": Presumably, it has to be able to support the humanoid Cylons, who are near-human enough that their home environment would be fairly similar to a human one, and not drastically exotic.

Related Imagery

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  Older-model Raiders within the Colony (Islanded In A Stream Of Stars).