The Colony
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| 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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The Colony[1] 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 built around the original ship of the Final Five (Islanded in a Stream of Stars podcast). The vessel was used by Samuel Anders, Tory Foster, Ellen Tigh, Saul Tigh, and Galen Tyrol to travel to the Twelve Colonies from the devastated remains of Earth, backtracking the path their ancestors had taken from Kobol and then following the path of the twelve tribes of humanity. At one point, the ship stopped at the Temple of Hopes.
The expanded structure was "home" to the humanoid and Centurion Cylons after the war. The eight numbered humanoid models were presumably developed by Anders, Foster, the Tighs, and Tyrol here. Their original resurrection equipment is still on the Colony (No Exit), as is their original sublight starship.
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).
Speculation and Questions
- Since the colony is in a close orbit with a black hole, how are the colonies biological components affected by the massive amount of radiation put out by it?
- When the colony was shown in one scene in Daybreak, Part I, it appeared to be anchored to an asteroid. What function does this serve.
- Although the colony must have had obsolete technology and served no purpose but to be a storage facility for the final fives' lab, why was the colony moved at the beginning of the Cylon Civil War?
Notes
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- 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.
- In the podcast for Islanded in a Stream of Stars Moore states that originally the writers had an idea that the Cylons had a homeworld they informally called 'Cylonia' but, for the reasons mentioned above, they decided not to visit it. The notion for the Colony as the Cylon homeworld instead came up during the writing of Season 4.
Related Imagery
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Older-model Raiders within the Colony (Islanded In A Stream Of Stars).
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References
- ↑ Jane Espenson referred to this place as "The Colony" in an interview with the Chicago Tribune, and hinted that it is not necessarily a literal colony.