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Timeline (RDM)

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Dates use the day of the Cylon Holocaust as a baseline. See also Survivor Count, History of the Twelve Colonies.

Ancient History[edit]

  • -3600 Years: Pythia records her prophecies.
  • -2000 Years: The thirteen tribes leave Kobol: twelve for the star system containing the Twelve Colonies, the other for Earth. The Twelve Colonies are first settled. As a result of their exodus, the refugee settlers enter into a new dark age during which much of their past knowledge of history and technology is lost.
  • ~2000 Years to -52 Years: Over the next few centuries the Twelve Colonies recover, then thrive, and eventually start competing with each other in various wars and shifting alliances, which had been going on since several hundred years before the Re-Imagined Series begins.

Recent Colonial History[edit]

Season 1[edit]


Colonial Day[edit]

  • Day 47 - Morning: Colonial Day. Delegates arrive on Cloud Nine. Roslin addresses the Quorum. Baltar eyes Playa Palacios. Zarek moves to elect a vice president and is nominated by Marshall Bagott. Motion passes, chair to remain open 72 hours for nominations.
  • Day 47 - Afternoon: Roslin asks Wallace Gray to run for the vice presidency. Zarek expounds on his reform agenda. Valence scuffles with Apollo and Starbuck and is jailed. Helo and Caprica Valerii arrive at a spaceport in the vicinity of Delphi.
  • Day 47 - Evening: Starbuck and Apollo interrogate Valence to no effect.
  • Day 48 - Morning: Grey addresses the Quorum. Safiya Sanne changes Picon's vote to Zarek, bringing his total to 5 of 12.
  • Day 48 - Afternoon: Zarek serves Ellen Tigh a drink and inquires after the whereabouts of Valence. Baltar interviewed by James McManus. Valence found dead. Tigh, Apollo and Starbuck consult with Roslin on security.
  • Day 48 - Evening: Roslin travels to Cloud Nine and asks Grey to drop out of the race and recruits Baltar to replace him, interrupting his "exclusive" with Palacios. Apollo and Starbuck flirt in the bunk on Galactica.
  • Day 49 - Morning: Baltar elected Vice President, with Roslin casting the tie-breaking vote.
  • Day 49 - Evening: Victory party for Baltar. Roslin dances with Adama, Ellen with Saul Tigh, Billy with Dualla, Starbuck with Apollo and Baltar.
  • Day 49 - Night: Helo and Caprica Valerii infiltrate the spaceport. Helo discovers Valerii is a Cylon and flees.

Note: Roslin states that the chair will remain open for nominations for 72 hours on the morning of Day 47, but the next episode clearly takes place the day after the victory party, and is stated to take place on Day 50. Perhaps the Quorum moved to close the nomination period early after the nomination of a strong candidate.

Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I[edit]

  • Day 50 - Early Morning: Apollo and Adama spar. Baltar and Starbuck have sex. Caprica Valerii catches up with Helo at Delphi, and he shoots her. Galactica Boomer contemplates suicide. Cottle examines Roslin and gives her "six months, at the outside".
  • Day 50 - Morning: Starbuck and an (already) drunken Baltar exchange innuendos over the officer's card game.
  • Day 50 - Afternoon: Roslin briefs Baltar on her economic agenda. Six warns him that "it's not safe to remain on Galactica". Galactica Boomer and Crashdown stumble upon Kobol. Helo holds Caprica Valerii at gunpoint. Apollo and Starbuck exchange blows.
  • Day 50 - Evening: Roslin examines an orbital photograph of Kobol and has a vision of the City of the Gods. Adama decides to send an expedition, which Baltar demands to accompany. Galactica Boomer shoots herself on Baltar's advice. In private, Roslin unsuccessfully petitions Commander Adama to send the Cylon Raider after the Arrow of Apollo on Caprica.

Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II[edit]

  • Day 51 - Early Morning: Survivors of Raptor 1 escape the wreck. Baltar passes out. Adama terminates Roslin's presidency. Apollo and Tigh plan an assault on Colonial One. Adama dispatches the wounded Boomer to take out the basestar. Caprica Valerii leads Helo to Delphi Museum of the Colonies.
  • Day 51 - Morning: Starbuck arrives at Caprica, retrieves the Arrow of Apollo, kills a copy of Six and meets up with Helo. Galactica's marines board Colonial One. Apollo mutinies, Roslin stands down. Baltar has a vision of the shape of things to come. Galactica Boomer confronts other Valerii copies on the basestar. She returns from her mission and shoots Commander Adama.

Season 2.0[edit]

Note: Season 2 dates are rough guesses at best, and are complicated by the season two timeline discontinuity. Dates for the first half of the season are based on the last dates given at the end of season one.

Scattered[edit]

Valley of Darkness[edit]

Fragged[edit]

Resistance[edit]

  • Day 53 - Morning: Cally blackmails Baltar into running his Cylon test on Tyrol. Baltar notes to Tigh that he should assume Roslin's duties; he invites Baltar to join her in the brig. Aturian stops refining Tylium in protest of Martial law. Apollo briefs pilots in the ready room. Dualla checks out his ass. On Caprica, Starbuck and Helo meet Samuel Anders's resistance movement.
  • Day 53 - Afternoon: Tigh deploys troops to vessels refusing to supply Galactica. The Gideon Massacre takes place. Roslin is chagrined. Apollo initiates his escape plan.
  • Day 53 - Evening: Saul and Ellen Tigh argue and have sex. Baltar poisons Tyrol and interrogates Boomer. Starbuck and Helo arrive at the Resistance HQ with Anders.
  • Day 54 - Morning: Apollo delivers briefing, orchestrates Roslin's escape. The deck gang begin construction of a new brig cell for Cylon agents.
  • Day 54 - Afternoon: Apollo & co. disembark at the Cloud Nine and link up with Tom Zarek. Starbuck and Anders flirt.
  • Day 54 - Evening: Commander Adama wakes up. Cally kills Galactica-Boomer.

The Farm[edit]

  • Day 61: - Laura Roslin & co. take refuge on Kimba Huta. William Adama resumes command of Galactica.

Home, Part I[edit]

  • Day ?? - Morning: Kara Thrace's captured Heavy Raider jumps into orbit around Kobol. Tom Zarek attempts to have it shot down because it's not the same Raider that Thrace departed in. Thrace lands her Heavy Raider aboard the Astral Queen and is reunited with President Roslin and Lee Adama. Lee learns that in addtion to Karl Agathon, Thrace brought back the Caprican copy of Sharon Valerii, whereupon Lee pulls a gun on Sharon. After defusing the situation with words, Roslin orders Valerii thrown out the airlock, but relents and has her thrown into the brig instead, after hearing both Thrace and Agathon's protest. Commander Adama promotes Captain George Birch to be the new Galactica CAG.
  • Day ?? - Afternoon: Commander Adama holds a press conference regarding the escape of President Roslin from his custody and the ensuing martial law. Adama adjourns the press conference when the questions become increasingly pointed.
  • Day ??+1 - Morning: Cpt. Birch on his first mission as CAG is responsible for an accident that nearly kills Kat. Zarek and his trusted lieutenant Meier plot to overthrow Roslin and take command of the fleet.
  • Day ??+1 - Afternoon: Cpt. Birch oversees his second flight mishap as CAG when two ships he's supposed to be guiding collide with one another during a routine refueling operation.
  • Day ??+2 - Morning: Roslin's party, made up of Thrace, Cpt. Adama, Elosha, Zarek, Meier, Agathon, Boomer, two Zarek red-shirts, two Roslin red-shirts and Rolsin herself land on Kobol. Using Valerii as their guide they set out in search of the Tomb of Athena.
  • Day ??+2 - Afternoon: The party is ambushed by Cylon Centurions after Elosha accidentally trips a "bouncing betty" land mine and it blows up in her face, killing her. The surviving party is saved when Valerii uses an RPG launcher to destroy the last remaining Centurion.
  • Day ??+2 - Evening: Adama makes the decision to put the fleet back together after a long and heartfelt talk with Dee.

Home, Part II[edit]

  • Day ??: - Raptor 1 lands on Kobol with William Adama and his contingent. Tomb of Athena found.
  • Day ??: - Roslin reestablished as lawful President; martial law ends. Fleet reunification.

Final Cut[edit]

  • Day ?? D'anna Biers produces a documentary aboard the Galactica about the "Gideon massacre". It is a generally positive documentary broadcast to the fleet. Unknown to the fleet, it is also surveillance by the Cylons into the status of the Colonial fleet.

Flight of the Phoenix[edit]

  • Day 84 - Cally is released from the brig; a welcome back party is thrown for her by the deck crew.
  • Day ?? - Laura Roslin is given a few weeks, a month at the most to live.
  • Day ?? - Chief Tyrol begins construction of the Blackbird prototype stealth fighter.
  • Day ?? - Galactica routs hundreds of Cylon fighters without a casualty while dispatching a Logic bomb from their ship computers.
  • Day ?? - The Blackbird prototype stealth fighter is completed by Chief Tyrol and a team of Galactica crewmembers. Lt. Thrace flies it on its first test flight, quickly proving its value as a stealth craft.

Pegasus[edit]

  • Day ?? - Galactica encounters battlestar Pegasus. Admiral Helena Cain assumes fleet command.
  • Day ??- Tyrol accidentally kills Pegasus Lieutenant Thorne and is arrested with Helo.
  • Day ?? - A standoff between the two battlestars begins over the treatment of the arrested Galactica crew.

Season two timeline discontinuity[edit]

Main article: Season two timeline discontinuity

Based on various evidence, the end of "Resistance" can be very firmly dated to Day 54. This puts Cally's release at Day 84, and in turn means that as of "Flight of the Phoenix", Roslin was not expected to live past day 114. Corroborating this, Sharon Valerii does not appear visibly pregnant in "Pegasus".

However, in the following episode, Admiral Cain states offhandedly that it has been about six months since the fall of the colonies. This is further corroborated in "Epiphanies", which we learn takes place 189 days after the holocaust (a full 75 days longer than Roslin's most favorable prognosis). Additionally, Valerii now appears to be well into her second trimester, and elections have been put off by 75 days from their first-season projections.

There is apparently no way to reconcile this discrepancy. Even under the most liberal assumptions, the first half of the second season timeline cannot accommodate more than about three additional days.

Consequently, there is a 75-day discontinuity between the fist and second halves of season two. The second half of the season is dated from the firm dates given in "Resurrection Ship, Part I" and "Epiphanies", but be aware that dates throughout the remainder of season 2 are likely to contradict those from earlier in the series.

Season 2.5[edit]

Dates not specific to episodes[edit]

Resurrection Ship, Part I[edit]

  • Day ~175 - The standoff between the two battlestars ends in an uneasy truce, and a tense summit aboard Colonial One, after Lt. Thrace returns from an unauthorized surveillance mission to the Cylon fleet, where she gains critical evidence on a Cylon ship. Dr. Baltar is able to determine from Gina that this is the Resurrection Ship that cylons need to resurrect so far from the Cylon homeworld.

Resurrection Ship, Part II[edit]

  • Day ~177 - The Battlestars Galactica and Pegasus together engage the Cylon fleet in the Battle of the Resurrection Ship, where they achieve an overwhelming victory with relatively light casualties, destroying not only the Resurrection Ship, but at least one other Cylon base star. The Blackbird is destroyed in the battle, although Lee Adama manages to eject successfully. At least one Raptor is also lost in the battle. Admiral Cain is killed by Gina, after Baltar helps her escape captivity. He then proceeds to hide her in the fleet.

Epiphanies[edit]

  • Day 189 - President Roslin near death; orders death of Cylon fetus. A Cylon peace movement begins to pose as a threat to the Fleet. The Cylon fetus is eventually spared, when Dr. Baltar determines how to use Cylon fetal stem cells to treat Roslin's cancer. Dr. Baltar smuggles the nuclear weapon that he was provided with for work on his Cylon detector to the Cylon peace movement aboard Cloud Nine.

Black Market[edit]

  • Day ??? - Commander Fisk is murdered aboard the Battlestar Pegasus. Lee Adama begins an investigation into the matter.
  • Day ??? - Lee Adama kills Phelan, leader of the Black Market crime syndicate.
  • Day ??? - Lee Adama is debriefed on the entire incident regarding the murder of Fisk and the Black Market.

Scar[edit]

  • Day ??? - After 29 days in an asteroid field (putting us at Day 218 or later), the Majahual's mining operation has produced enough raw materials for the construction of two new Viper squadrons using the fabrication facilities aboard the Battlestar Pegasus. Attacks on the operation continue by the ace Cylon raider known as Scar, making it the source of a heated competition between Lt. Katraine and Cpt. Thrace.

Sacrifice[edit]

  • c. Day 210 - Three men and a woman named Sesha Abinell lay siege to bar onboard Cloud 9, taking the guests hostage, and sealing the area off from the rest of the ship. Abinell's husband was killed aboard the Greenleaf when the Cylons attacked it ten weeks ago, and she decides to exact vengeance. Lee Adama is wounded as a result of a failed rescue attempt by Kara Thrace

Backdated from "The Captain's Hand" and "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I"

The Captain's Hand[edit]

  • c. Day 236 - Kara Thrace assigned to Pegasus as flight instructor.
  • Day ?? - Almost one month after the events of "Sacrifice", Lee Adama has been promoted to Major and temporarily assigned to Pegasus. Rya Kibby arrives on Galactica seeking a clandestine abortion from Dr. Cottle and requests asylum.
  • c. Day 240 - Pegasus Commander Barry Garner dies during the Battle of the Binary Star System. Adama is promoted to Commander and given command of Pegasus, with Thrace replacing him as CAG of Galactica. In response to heavy lobbying from Gemenon delegate Sarah Porter over the Kibby incident, Roslin places a moratorium on abortion. In protest, Vice President Gaius Baltar announces his candidacy for president in the upcoming election.

Backdated from "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I".

Downloaded[edit]

  • Day 270 (Zero Hour + 9 months) - Hera born. This episode claims that the previous episode "Resistance" took place "10 weeks before" Day 270. However, 10x7 = 70 and 270 - 70 = 200, this would put Cally's shooting of Galactica-Boomer after "Epiphanies" which was stated to take place on Day 189. Even a very liberal estimate could not possibly place "Resistance" more than a week or two after "Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II", when it was stated on screen that it was Day 51. This reference to "10 weeks" is a mistake, which will be corrected in the DVD and international releases of "Downloaded".

Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I[edit]

  • c. Day 256 - Galen Tyrol begins a series of recurring suicidal nightmares.
  • c. Day 269 - Presidential debates begin. Kara Thrace, Felix Gaeta and Lee Adama brief pilots on Caprica SAR mission on Pegasus. Tyrol attacks Cally after being woken from a nightmare.
  • c. Day 270 - Media reports on first debates. SAR team departs; Margaret "Racetrack" Edmondson and crew accidentally discover a habitable planet and return to the Fleet. Tyrol begins counseling with Brother Cavil.
  • c. Day 280 - Final presidential debate. SAR team arrives at Caprica and meets with Samuel Anders's Resistance.
  • c. Day 283 - Polls open (projected).

Tom Zarek states that the fleet has been "cooped up in metal boxes for nine months" the morning after the debates. This date is roughly taken as Day 270, with an implied give-or-take of a couple weeks. The surrounding events noted above can, however, be placed relative to this point with a good degree of certainty based on episode dialogue.

Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II[edit]

  • Day 281 - Thrace's SAR team and Anders' resistance are pinned down by a Cylon sneak attack. They are under siege for 18 hours, the next morning they awake to find the Cylons have completely abandoned Caprica.
  • Day 282 - The SAR mission returns to Galactica, Cavil is discovered to be a Cylon when a second copy steps off a Raptor.
  • Day 283 - The polls open, Baltar wins. Tory Foster conspires with Col. Tigh and Dualla to rig the vote results to keep Roslin in power. Their plan is found out by Lt. Gaeta and Admiral Adama convinces Roslin to let the people's will prevail and let Baltar become president.
  • Day 284 - Baltar is inaugurated President. A distraught and emotionally bankrupt Gina detonates the nuclear warhead given to her by Baltar and destroys Cloud 9 and several other near-by ships.
  • c. Day 285 - Adama visits President Baltar aboard Colonial One and questions him about the Cloud 9 disaster. A defiant Baltar rebukes all his questions and accusations.
  • Between c. Day 285 and 660 - The fleet settles on New Caprica. Kara Thrace and Samuel Anders marry. Galen Tyrol and Cally marry, Cally becomes pregnant, Tyrol becomes a union head. Dualla transfers to Pegasus. Most of Galactica and Pegasus crews retire from active military duty. Dualla becomes Lee Adama's Tactical Officer on Pegasus. Felix Gaeta retires from military duty and becomes President Baltar's aide, Karl Agathon replaces him in the CIC. Former President Laura Roslin becomes a school teacher on New Caprica, Maya, Hera's adoptive mother, is her teacher's assistant. Lee Adama and Kara Thrace have fallen out of favour with one another, while Thrace and Col. Tigh appear to have mended fences.
  • c. Day 660 - Admiral Adama discharges Col. Tigh from his duties aboard Galactica. Tyrol and Cally organize a general labor strike in protest of Baltar's poor leadership as President. Cylon forces occupy New Caprica.

Prior to Season 3.0[edit]

Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance[edit]

  • Day 727 - Evening: - It has been 67 days since the Cylons occupied New Caprica. Tyrol and Tigh have been organizing a budding resistance movement, but they find recruiting new soldiers is becoming dangerous and difficult. New Capricans are shot on the spot if weapons are found in their tents. The Cylons are also setting up a human police force to take over for the Cylon Centurions, who are doing most of the police work.
  • Day 728?: - Due to personal reasons Duck has refused to work with the resistance, much to the ire of Tyrol. A ritual for protection of the crops from blight is said in the temple. As the priestess leaves, Jean Barolay abruptly shifts the conversation to the movement of the weapons stash into the temple; Jammer strongly objects, but he is overruled by Tigh. Later in the day, Duck tells Nora his decision about joining the resistance. She is pleased that he refused Tyrol. During the night, Tigh, Tyrol, Jammer, and Barolay move the weapons into the temple disguising them.
  • Day 729?: - Nora wakes Duck saying he will be late to work. She tries to convince him to go to temple after work with her. He refuses, saying he talks to the gods in his own way. Later in the day, Cally and Nora are visiting the temple. A Number Five announces that he will enter the temple with several Cylon Centurions. Several men try to block them, but the Cylons force their way in and gunfire can be seen and heard. While trying to run away Cally falls to the ground protecting her baby, but Nora is shot and killed when she tries to retrieve her bag. Afterwards Tyrol, Cally and Jammer return Nora's bag to Duck, and inform him about the death of Nora. Duck is physically sickened by the news. He becomes angry and demands to know if there were weapons in the temple. Tyrol tries to avoid the question, but Duck doesn't relent until Tyrol admits the truth. At that point, Duck orders them out of his tent.
  • Day 732?: - Tigh, Barolay, and Jammer discuss the effects of the attack, which has brought about positive effects for the resistance. The general population has started to side with the resistance and 1,000 people protested outside Colonial One over the attack on the temple. Since the attack, recruitment has become easier with 150 Colonials signing up. Tigh thinks that this was a good deal because the loss of a few weapons was worth the propaganda victory. However, Jammer is upset that the loss of 10 lives was not worth it. Tigh comes down hard on Jammer, stating that people die in war, nice people, and the resistance has no room for crybabies.
  • Day 73_?: - Tyrol and Tigh discuss the arrest of Jammer by the Cylons. Tyrol insists that Jammer won't reveal the work of the resistance. Jammer is imprisoned in a Cylon detention center and is visited by a Number Five. Number Five proposes to Jammer that the massacre at the temple may have been planned by the Resistance. Number Five offers Jammer the chance to stop further bloodshed by informing him of potentially life-threatening actions by the Resistance. Jammer balks at becoming a traitor to the Resistance, but accepts an unidentified Cylon device which will let him enter the Cylon base to report any secret plans of the Resistance.


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Season 3.0[edit]

Future Events[edit]

Notes[edit]

  • The above day listings use a simplistic calendar system with 30 day months and no leap years. The colonial calendar may be more sophisticated.
  • The date of Valerii and Agathon's child is speculated, assuming that the Cylon agents share the same gestation period that humans do, and that the birth of their hybrid daughter is not premature.
    • Date of Hera's birth is now confirmed at Day 270.
  • Later episodes in "Season 2.5" such as "Resurrection Ship, Part I" and "Epiphanies" state clearly that "Pegasus" and the episodes immediately following it take place six months after the Cylon Attack. Ron D. Moore did state that it took Tyrol "weeks" to construct the Blackbird and a large amount of time passes in this episode as a result. BattlestarWiki originally assumed this meant at most 2-4 weeks. However, the only plausible way that Pegasus and Resurrection Ship, Part I can take place six months after the attack is if "Flight of the Phoenix" actually lasted three months from beginning to end. Roslin was told in this episode that her cancer had accelerated, and she had only one month to live. As Cally's "welcome back" party happened earlier in the episode, when she was released from the brig around Day 86, a considerable period of time (several weeks at least) pass between these two scenes.

Re-imagined Series definition: technology enabling travel across distances faster than the speed of light would permit, see: FTL

Original Series definition: the equivalent of saying "objection" in a Colonial Tribunal (TOS: "Murder on the Rising Star")

Re-imagined Series definition: used to signify a civilian transport vessel over a certain gross weight/mass, i.e. Colonial Heavy 798

Re-imagined Series definition: the senior pilot on a battlestar

Re-imagined Series definition: in military parlance, directive to continue the attack; otherwise used to refer to journalists (TRS: "Maelstrom")

Re-imagined Series definition: the act of finding missing persons in the hopes of their rescue, see: SAR (TRS: "Fragged")

Re-imagined Series definition: nerve center or "bridge" of a battlestar, see: Combat Information Center

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