Colonials

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Colonials are a race of homosapiens that inhabit the universe of Battlestar Galactica.

Original Series

According to the Book of the Word, a religious text of the Kobollian faith, Humanity began on a planet called Kobol. After an ecological disaster purported to be created by technology, the tribes of humanity fled outward to the stars. Twelve tribes of man eventually passed through a magnetic void and settled on a star system of 12 planets, which would be later known as the Colonies. (Lost Planet of the Gods) A thirteenth tribe made another Exodus to a planet known as Earth.

One thousand yahren prior to the destruction of the Colonies, the Colonials interferred with the Cylon's attacks on an alien species called the Hasari. This began the Thousand Yahren War, which ended upon the final sneak attack at the Battle of Cimtar, destroying a portion of the fleet led by President Adar. (Saga of a Star World)

Several planets, moons and asteroid colonies throughout the portion of the galaxy familiar to the Colonials boasted small croppings of Colonials. Some who were well aware of the Colonies and the war with the Cylons, others who knew nothing of them.

Each of the twelve colonies boasted its own race and dialect as to distinguish itself from the others.

It is unknown if the remaining surviving colonists on the homeworlds re-grouped to fight another day and push back the Cylon's or if the Cylons defeat on the twelve colonies was total and no colonists live still on the original twelve worlds.

Re-imagined Series

According to religious texts, the race of man and their Gods lived together in harmony on the planet Kobol. After a God became jealous and attempted to wield more power, the gods and man parted ways. Twelve tribes left Kobol to settle what would be known as the Twelve Colonies of Man. During their reign on the Colonies, the 12 tribes warred and fought for resources; eventually, they created the Cylons, a race of mechanical creatures with a humanoid form. By eventual design, the human race became dependant upon these mechanised creations for manufacturing, maintenance, and servitude of the human race -- the Cylons were even used to war against their fellow man.

Until the Cylons, through means unknown, systematically attacked Humanity, slaughtering humans and controlling military ships until the humans as a whole shed their technology, reverting to an age of pre-wireless and pre-network technologies. This began the Cylon War, a long and bloody struggle which created an Armistice in the form of the Cimtar Peace Accord and the creation of a unified government under the Articles of Colonization.

Forty years after the Peace Accord, the humans began to believe that they had rid themselves of the threat they created. The civilian and military populations began adapting wireless and network technologies, which were aimed to unify the colonies in a new "information age". While some segments of the human population, notably veterans of the Cylon War (William Adama and Saul Tigh), rejected networked technologies, the human race found itself brought to its knees. With the introduction of backdoors to the Command Navigation Program devised by Dr. Gaius Baltar, the Cylons disabled Colonial defensive systems, including the Colonial astral forces (battlestars and Viper/Raptor squadrons) and committed a mass genocidal attack on the human race using nuclear warfare (Mini-Series).

Since then, the human race has been reduced to under 50,000 people onboard a fleet comprised of the battlestar Galactica and some 70 FTL-capable ships, fleeing from their homeworlds, only to stumble over the alleged birthplace of mankind -- Kobol. (Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I).