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Timeline (RDM)

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This article attempts to plot the events illustrated or mentioned in the history and prehistory of the Twelve Colonies in the Re-imagined Series.

All dates use the day of the Fall of the Twelve Colonies as the central time marker for all events in the series. Items that occur before the Fall are marked as "BCH," or "Before Cylon holocaust."

Ancient History[edit]

  • 4,000 years BCH: The Thirteenth Tribe leaves the planet Kobol, later leaving a beacon in space and building the Temple of Five (The Eye of Jupiter)[1]
  • 3,600 years BCH: Pythia records her prophecies
  • 2,000 years BCH: The remaining Twelve Tribes leave Kobol
  • 2,000 years to 52 years BCH: The Twelve Colonies grow and prosper. Each colony acts as a sovereign nation, complete with inter-colonial wars

Recent Colonial History[edit]

Events of the Miniseries[edit]

  • Zero Hour:
    • The Armistice Station is destroyed by Cylon forces
    • Laura Roslin is diagnosed with inoperable breast cancer
    • Galactica is decommissioned
    • The Twelve Colonies are heavily bombarded by nuclear bombs
    • Picon Fleet Headquarters is destroyed
    • Galactica's last Viper Mark VII squadron is destroyed
    • A Colonial battle near Virgon ends with the total loss of the remaining Colonial Fleet
    • Battlestar Pegasus luckily escapes the destruction of the Scorpian Fleet Shipyards (Pegasus)
    • Galactica engages Cylon Raiders and survives with moderate damage and 85 dead
    • Last transmission from the Colonies received by Laura Roslin aboard Colonial Heavy 798 from a fellow secretary
    • Case Orange contingency mechanism assigns Roslin the office of the President of the Twelve Colonies
    • Roslin gathers stranded civilian and military ships around the vicinity of Caprica
    • Commander Adama assumes overall Fleet command and orders regroup at Ragnar Anchorage
    • Roslin's caravan survives two Cylon attacks and meets at Ragnar
    • Galactica changes from battle stance to civilian protection, escorts civilian fleet from Ragnar, towards the Prolmar Sector

Season 1[edit]

The timeline assumes that the days shown on Caprica with Helo corresponds to the timeline on Galactica. This is supported in the season 1 finale "Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II," when Starbuck travels from Galactica to Caprica and discovers Helo.

"33" through "Hand of God"[edit]

Colonial Day[edit]

  • Day 46 - 49:
    • Delegates selected for the Quorum of Twelve, including Tom Zarek
    • Gaius Baltar selected to represent Caprica
    • A victory party leads Baltar and Thrace to interact[2]
    • Helo and Caprica-Valerii infiltrate the spaceport. Helo discovers Valerii is a Cylon and flees

Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I[edit]

  • Day 50:
    • Boomer and Crashdown stumble upon Kobol
    • Roslin unsuccessfully petitions Commander Adama to send the Cylon Raider after the Arrow of Apollo on Caprica.
    • Scout party ambushed by a basestar at Kobol

Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II[edit]

  • Day 51:
    • Survivors of Raptor 1 escape the wreck
    • Adama terminates Roslin's presidency and arrests her
    • Starbuck absconds with the purloined Raider and arrives at Caprica, retrieving the Arrow of Apollo and meets up with Helo
    • Boomer successfully destroys basestar over Kobol
    • Boomer's Cylon programming activates and shoots Commander Adama at point-blank range

Season 2[edit]

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" through "The Farm"[edit]

  • Day 53:
    • Saul Tigh declares martial law after Roslin's arrest and attempts to commandeer supplies by force
    • The "Gideon massacre" takes place
    • Tyrol poisoned by Baltar to gain information from Boomer, but is revived
    • Starbuck and Helo meet the Caprica Resistance and Samuel Anders
    • Cally Henderson kills Boomer (Resistance (episode))
  • Day 61:
    • Laura Roslin takes refuge on Kimba Huta
    • William Adama resumes command of Galactica
    • Kara Thrace is captured by the Cylons and taken to a Farm
    • Cally Henderson is thrown into the brig for thirty days (The Farm)
  • Day 62:
    • Kara Thrace is rescued by the Caprica Resistance
    • Thrace, Helo, and Caprica-Valerii leave Caprica for Kobol
    • The doctor who tended to Thrace at the Farm is revealed to be a Cylon agent (The Farm)

Home, Part I[edit]

  • Day 64:
    • Roslin's expedition begins search on Kobol for the Tomb of Athena
    • Elosha dies
    • Adama decides to reunite the Fleet and begins preparations for searching Kobol for Roslin's party

Home, Part II[edit]

  • Day 65:
    • Commander Adama's party finds and joins with Roslin's party
    • Tomb of Athena is found and data gathered
    • Roslin reestablished as lawful President, Fleet reunified

Final Cut[edit]

  • Day 75: D'anna Biers produces a documentary aboard Galactica on the crew

Flight of the Phoenix[edit]

The events of this episode likely occur over several weeks with the construction of the Blackbird, and it was designed to have a vague timeline per the episode podcast. However, In "The Farm," Commander Adama gives Cally Henderson a 30 day sentence on Day 61, the same day he resumes command of the Fleet. It is likely that Henderson's release marks day 91. Date stamping is not possible.

Between Days 91 and 175[edit]

  • Laura Roslin is given a few weeks, a month at the most to live.
  • Traces of the Cylon virus (Valley of Darkness) reemerge as a logic bomb and begin to disable Galactica's systems
  • Tyrol begins construction of the Blackbird
  • Galactica routs hundreds of Cylon fighters
  • Cylon logic bomb purged from Galactica
  • The Laura, the completed Blackbird, is successfully tested

Prior to the episode, "Sacrifice"[edit]

Pegasus[edit]

The events in this episode create a timeline problem in season 2 events. As such, most events here are not timestamped as there is no information to discern a date.

  • Galactica encounters the battlestar Pegasus
  • Admiral Helena Cain assumes fleet command
  • Day ~175:
    • Tyrol accidentally kills Pegasus Lieutenant Thorne and is arrested together with Helo
    • A standoff between the two battlestars begins over the treatment of the arrested Galactica crew

Resurrection Ship, Part I[edit]

  • Day ~175:[3]
    • The standoff between the two battlestars ends
    • Starbuck returns from an unauthorized surveillance mission to the Cylon fleet with data on the Resurrection Ship

Resurrection Ship, Part II[edit]

  • Day ~177:
    • The Battle of the Resurrection Ship occurs. The Resurrection Ship is destroyed
    • The Blackbird is destroyed in the battle
    • Admiral Cain is killed
    • President Roslin promotes William Adama to Admiral

Epiphanies[edit]

  • Day 189:
    • President Roslin is near death
    • A Cylon peace movement arises in the Fleet
    • The Cylon fetus is spared
    • Cylon fetal stem cells used to cure President Roslin
    • Baltar gives his nuclear warhead to the Demand Peace movement

Black Market[edit]

No timeline markers are available for this episode.

Scar[edit]

No timeline markers are available for this episode.
  • Mining operations continue for over 28 days in an asteroid field
  • Starbuck and Kat destroy an ace Cylon Raider, nicknamed "Scar

Sacrifice[edit]

No timeline markers are available for this episode.

The Captain's Hand[edit]

No timeline markers are available for this episode.
  • Kara Thrace assigned to Pegasus as flight instructor
  • 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
  • Pegasus Commander Barry Garner dies during the Battle of the Binary Star System
  • Major Adama is promoted to Commander and given command of Pegasus
  • Roslin places a moratorium on abortion
  • Vice President Gaius Baltar announces his candidacy for president in the upcoming election

Downloaded[edit]

The originally aired episode contained an error which placed the events of the previous episode, "Resistance," ten weeks prior. This was corrected for the DVD release and subsequent airings.

  • Day 270:
    • Hera Agathon born, approximately one month premature[4]
    • President Roslin, in secret from Admiral Adama, has Hera's death faked and the child hidden as an adoption by Maya
    • Caprica-Six and Boomer are resurrected on Caprica
    • Caprica-Six and Boomer resolve to persuade the Cylons to adopt a new approach in dealing with the Colonials

Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I[edit]

Tom Zarek states that the Fleet has been "cooped up in metal boxes for nine months" the morning after the in this episode. 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.

  • 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 Henderson after being woken from a nightmare
  • c. Day 270:
  • c. Day 280: Final presidential debate
  • c. Day 283: Polls open (projected)

Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II[edit]

  • Day 281:
    • Thrace's SAR team and Anders' resistance are pinned down by a Cylon sneak attack and are under siege for 18 hours
    • The next morning, the rescue discover the Cylons have completely abandoned Caprica and encounter a Cavil
  • Day 282:
    • The SAR mission returns to Galactica
    • Cavil is revealed as a Cylon agent
  • Day 283:
    • The polls close and votes are tabulated; Baltar wins
    • Tory Foster conspires to rig the vote results to keep Roslin in power
    • The plan is revealed to Admiral Adama, who convinces Roslin to step down to let Baltar become president
  • Day 284:
    • Baltar is inaugurated President
    • Gina detonates the nuclear warhead given to her by Baltar and destroys Cloud 9 and several other nearby 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 c. Day 315:
    • Many of Galactica’s and Pegasus’s crew muster out of the Colonial Fleet to settle on New Caprica
    • Anastasia Dualla is promoted to Lieutenant and requests to transfer to Pegasus as Lee Adama's XO
    • Galen Tyrol and Cally Henderson marry. Cally Tyrol soon becomes pregnant
    • Felix Gaeta retires from military duty and becomes President Baltar's Chief of Staff
    • The Fleet begins the process of settling on New Caprica

Flashback events from "Unfinished Business"[edit]

  • c. Day 420: Four months or 120 days after settlement begins, assuming settlement began on Day 300:
The flashback sequences from "Unfinished Business" occurs 17 months prior to the present-day events of the episode, or 8 months prior to New Caprica's occupation by the Cylons.
    • Dualla's transfer to Pegasus is approved
    • Galen and Cally Tyrol retire from military service and settle on New Caprica
    • Gaius Baltar and his administration celebrate the groundbreaking of the settlement on New Caprica. An all-night dance and celebration is held
  • c. Day 421:
    • Admiral Adama and Laura Roslin find time together on New Caprica to smoke, drink and relax briefly
    • Kara Thrace and Lee Adama have sexual intercourse
    • Kara Thrace marries Samuel Anders, as a consequence Commander Adama and Captain Thrace avoid speaking to each other
    • Commander Adama proposes to Dualla
  • Between c. Day 421 and c. Day 660:
    • Lee Adama and Anastasia Dualla marry and remain on Pegasus
    • Sharon Agathon and Karl Agathon marry and remain on Galactica
    • Lee Adama takes to over-eating and gains significant weight between then and when the Cylons arrive
    • After settling on New Caprica, Tyrol becomes a union leader
    • James "Jammer" Lyman and Tucker "Duck" Clellan retire and settle on New Caprica
    • Former President Laura Roslin becomes a school teacher on New Caprica, with Maya as her teacher's assistant
    • Samuel Anders contracts pneumonia
  • c. Day 660, 360th day since settlement; assuming settlement began on day 300:
    • Admiral Adama discharges Saul Tigh from his duties aboard Galactica. He and Ellen Tigh settle on New Caprica
    • Galen and Cally Tyrol organize a general labor strike in protest of Baltar's poor leadership as President
    • Cylon forces arrive in orbit and occupy New Caprica
    • Galactica and Pegasus escape with the remains of the Fleet to parts unknown

"Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance"[edit]

  • Between Day 660 and Day 794:
  • Duck refuses to work with the resistance, choosing to spend more time with Nora
  • After some debate, the resistance leaders choose to hide weapons in the Temple of Artemis
  • During the night, Tigh, Tyrol, Jammer, and Barolay disguise the weapons in the temple's altar
    • Cally Tyrol and Nora are at the temple
    • The Cylons attack the temple, killing Nora
    • Duck is physically sickened by the news of Dora's death
    • 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
  • Nicholas Tyrol has his dedication ceremony
    • Tyrol and Tigh discuss the arrest of Jammer by the Cylons
    • Jammer is imprisoned in a Cylon detention center and is visited by a Number Five, who offers Jammer a key card and an implied invitation into the NCP

Season 3[edit]

  • Prior to the Season 3 premiere, after The Resistance:
    • Saul Tigh is captured by the Cylons and detained. One of his eyes is literally ripped out by the Cylons
    • Jammer and Duck enlist with the New Caprica Police

Occupation[edit]

  • c. Day 794 (494th day since settlement, 134th day of occupation):
    • Colonel Tigh is released from the detention center
  • c. Day 795:
    • Duck suicide-bombs a NCP ceremony
    • Felix Gaeta secretly provides the jamming frequencies to allow wireless communication to breech Cylon interference
    • The resistance establishes communication with Racetrack's Raptor
  • Sometime before the episode, "Precipice:"
    • Laura Roslin is arrested by the Cylons

Precipice[edit]

  • c. Day 796:
    • Leoben Conoy introduces Kacey to Kara Thrace
    • Another suicide bomber damages the power substation
    • The Cylons force Baltar to sign an execution order
    • Ellen Tigh steals a map marking the location for a secret rendezvous with Galactica's rescue coordination party
    • Roslin and others on the execution order are arrested and later driven to the Pergamus Flats
    • Sharon Agathon's coordination party lands, makes contact with Anders' party, and are soon attacked by Cylon forces
    • Shots ring out at the group execution site, where Jammer frees Cally Tyrol before the shooting begins

Exodus, Part I[edit]

  • c. Day 796:
    • Tyrol's group ambush the firing squad and save Laura Roslin, Tom Zarek and many others
    • Sharon Agathon's marines save Agathon and the resistance group
  • c. Day 797:
    • Number Three visits an oracle
    • The Cavil mortally wounded at Tyrol's ambush returns to Colonial One
    • Sharon Agathon infiltrates a Cylon facility and obtains the Colonial ships' launch keys
    • Ellen Tigh is exposed as a traitor
    • Admiral Adama initiates the New Caprica rescue

Exodus, Part II[edit]

  • c. Day 798:
    • Ellen Tigh is poisoned by her husband for her treason
    • The Battle of New Caprica begins; the Fleet is reunited and New Caprica is abandoned
    • Pegasus is sacrificed in the battle
    • Maya dies
    • Hera Agathon is found by the Cylons, who also abandon New Caprica

Collaborators[edit]

  • c. Day 800 (Day 3 of the Second Exodus):
    • James "Jammer" Lyman, and 12 others before him are executed by The Circle
    • Gaius Baltar awakens aboard a Cylon basestar for the first time three days after fleeing New Caprica
    • New President Tom Zarek names Roslin as his Vice President, and later resigns to return Roslin to power
    • Felix Gaeta is tried and convicted by The Circle but is spared by Col. Tigh and Chief Tyrol
    • President Roslin abolishes The Circle and immediately pardons all those suspected of collaboration

Between "Collaborators" and "Torn"[edit]

  • Lee Adama is demoted back to Major[6] and resumes his former position as Galactica's CAG
  • Helo serves as XO on Galactica

Torn[edit]

  • c. Day 850:
    • Felix Gaeta reveals Baltar's research on the road to Earth to President Roslin and Admiral Adama
    • Caprica-Six and Three begin inquiring about the location of Earth and debating Baltar's usefulness
    • Hot Dog christens Lieutenant Sharon Agathon with the callsign "Athena"
    • A Cylon basestar sent to investigate the Lion's Head Nebula is infected by a virus from an ancient probe
    • Kara Thrace and Saul Tigh sow dissent between the survivors of New Caprica and the crew that stayed behind on Galactica; Admiral Adama puts a stop to it
    • Athena and Racetrack find the Lion's Head Nebula and the dying basestar
    • Baltar returns to his basestar after his reconnaissance of the dying basestar, leaving out information on the probe, but his omission is uncovered

A Measure of Salvation[edit]

  • c. Day 851:
    • A Colonial boarding party investigate the derelict basestar, find the probe, and realize that all but a few Cylons aboard have died
    • The boarding party and some Cylon prisoners are en route back to Galactica when the basestar self-destructs
    • The medical investigation identifies a virus that can be treated, but not cured for Cylons
    • Lee Adama suggests a plan to eliminate the entire Cylon race by executing their prisoners in range of a Resurrection Ship
  • c. Day 852:
    • Galactica jumps to a Cylon supply line; the Battle of NCD2539 begins
    • Admiral Adama soon aborts the mission
    • Aboard a basestar, Baltar is interrogated and tortured by Three and Caprica-Six

Hero[edit]

  • c. Day 935:
    • President Roslin and Tory Foster draw up plans to honor Admiral Adama for his 45 years of service to the Colonial Fleet
    • Number Three begins experiencing strange visions
    • Galactica rescues Daniel Novacek, a prisoner-of-war of the Cylons for over two years
    • Adama confesses to his son about Novacek and possible culpability for the fall of the Twelve Colonies
  • c. Day 936:
    • Saul Tigh tells Novachek about Adama's action in his failed mission
    • Novacek attacks Adama and tries to kill him but Tigh intercedes
  • c. Day 937:
    • Number Three begins a series of suicides to experience visions about five figures in white robes
    • Adama submits his resignation to Roslin but she refuses to accept it
  • c. Day 938:
    • Novacek is sent off to a berthing and counseling on another ship
    • Tigh and Adama begin to reconcile

"Unfinished Business" Present day events[edit]

  • c. Day 950:

This section details the "current day" events aboard Galactica. Prior events recalled in the episode are documented in the timeline at Day 420.

    • Galactica's crew work out their aggressions in a boxing tournament
    • Admiral Adama resolves to begin treating his crew less like family and more like soldiers
    • Kara Thrace and Lee Adama fight each other in the ring and reconcile

The Passage[edit]

No timeline markers are available for this episode.
  • The Fleet's food supply is contaminated
  • Saul Tigh returns as Executive Officer on Galactica
  • Sharon Agathon returns from a recon mission through a dangerous star cluster with data on a planet loaded with edible algae
  • Galactica's Raptors successfully escort the Fleet in packs through the disorienting, radiation-laden star cluster, with some ship losses and casualties
  • Louanne Katraine dies

The Eye of Jupiter[edit]

No timeline markers are available for this episode.
  • Resupply mission day 14-15 (after the events of The Passage):
    • The Colonials are preparing to leave the algae planet
    • Tyrol finds the Temple of Five
    • A Cylon fleet arrives and attempts to negotiate for the Eye of Jupiter, but both sides are deadlocked; Adama threatens destruction of the Eye if the Cylons attempt to land
    • President Roslin's role in hiding Hera Agathon is revealed to Admiral Adama and Hera's parents
    • A secret Cylon Centurion landing party begins offensive operations
    • Starbuck is shot down by the Cylon's missile battery on the planet
    • A Heavy Raider group heads to the planet
    • Admiral Adama, in response to the Cylon incursion, prepares to destroy the planet's continent

References[edit]

  1. ↑ Galen Tyrol cites 4,000 years as the approximate age of the Temple. This is the oldest date noted in the Re-imagined Series timeline, but also conflicts with the prior date of Pythia and her works as described by Elosha in the season 1 episode, "Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I," where she notes that the exodus of all 13 tribes occurred 2,000 years prior.
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ The episodes "Resurrection Ship, Part I" and "Epiphanies" state that events in the episode "Pegasus" and the episodes immediately following it take place six months after the Cylon Attack. Ron D. Moore states in his podcast that it took Tyrol "weeks" to construct the Blackbird and a large amount of time passes in this episode as a result. While this figure was assumed to be 2 to 4 weeks, 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 Henderson'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
  4. ↑ The date of Valerii and Agathon's child is speculated from the events in Season 1 and during the events of "Resurrection Ship, Part I", assuming that the Cylon agents share the same gestation period that humans do, and that the birth of their hybrid daughter is not premature. It is later confirmed that Hera's birth occured on Day 270.
  5. ↑ While the time needed to get to Caprica may be considerable, the amount of fuel, rations and supplies would make it unlikely that the trip takes more than one-half day.
  6. ↑ This establishes that the rank of Major is the highest rank a Colonial soldier may have when not in command of a ship.

Re-imagined Series definition: denotes any time preceding the Fall of the Twelve Colonies, e.g. 40 BCH (see: Timeline (RDM))

Re-imagined Series definition: the process of using the FTL engines to make an near-instantaneous apparent faster-than-light transport of a ship from one point in space to another

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

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

Re-imagined Series definition: pseudo-civilian law enforcement agency overseen by the Cylon Occupation Authority on New Caprica, see: New Caprica Police (TRS: "Occupation")

Re-imagined Series definition: Colonial equivalent of radio

Re-imagined Series definition: a nickname used as a substitute for an aviator's given name in wireless communications and in conversation

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

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