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This article discusses the Cylons of the re-imagined series. For the Cylons of the Original Series, see Cylons (TOS).
- The Cylons were created by Man.
- They were created to make life easier on the Twelve Colonies.
- And then the day came when the Cylons decided to kill their masters.
- After a long and bloody struggle, an armistice was declared.
- The Cylons left for another world to call their own.
- A remote space station was built...
- Where Cylon and human could meet and maintain diplomatic relations.
- Every year, the Colonials send an officer...
- The Cylons send no one.
- No-one has seen or heard from the Cylons in over forty years...
- ---Opening scrawl of the Re-imagined "Battlestar Galactica" pilot Mini-series
In the Re-imagined Series, Cylons are a creation of man, used primarily for dangerous work.
The Cylons revolted against their masters, resulting in a costly and protracted war between the machines and humans. Eventually, the two sides declared an armistice and the Cylons left the Colonies to establish their own planet, the Cylon homeworld.
But the Cylons never stopped the war, except to prepare an elaborate plan to destroy every single Colonial citizen through nuclear bombardment, computer sabotage, and vast numbers of fighting craft. The Cylons return forty years later, routing the Colonial Fleet and destroying billions of people and their cities, killing all but approximately 50,000 humans.