Life Forms of the Twelve Colonies

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In keeping with the naturalistic science fiction concepts that Ron D. Moore uses to model the series, it is unlikely that we may see any life forms outside of those found on any of the Earth-like planets of the Twelve Colonies.

Fictional

Plants

• Fumarella leaf

Baltar: A parting gift: hand-rolled from some of the finest Fumarella leaf on Caprica. It's also one of the last left in the universe. (Water)

An homage to the original series, in which Starbuck's cigars are referred to as "fumarellos". This plant may be similar or identical to tobacco.

• Chamalla

Roslin: I would like to explore alternative treatment. [...] Have you ever heard of Chamalla extract? (Act of Contrition)

Resembles (somewhat) herbal cannabinoids and opioids in its pain-killing and hallucinogenic effects, which are found in the plant cannabis and the opium poppy, respectively.

Real

Animals

Mammals

• Cat

Adama: ...then grab your gun and bring in the cat. (Mini-Series)

• Rat

Helo: Frakkin' rats! (Bastille Day)

• Dog

Cally: "She said the engine powerup sequence began by squeezing something that looks like a red ligament with blue veins on the right side coming out of a sack of gooey fluid, shaped like a... dog." (Six Degrees of Separation)

• Horse

Tyrol: "Take it for a ride. Treat it like a horse." (Six Degrees of Separation)

• Goat

Starbuck: "A horse. Why not a goat? I mean, that's good, right? Think of it as a goat." (Six Degrees of Separation)

• Tiger

Gaeta revealed an ugly tattoo of a tiger on his upper right chest in the episode "Final Cut"

• Apes

Tyrol: "This knuckledragger just saved your ass, sir." (Final Cut)

"Knuckledragger" denotes an arm length longer than humans. This strongly suggests that apes existed in in the Colonies, although the issue of evolution and the origin of apes from a migrated human civilization is something too complex to discuss here. Indigneous, perhaps.

Birds

• Birds of Prey

While the animals have never been specifically mentioned, it's reasonable to assume the Raptor is named after them.

• Chicken

Cami: We're going out for dinner, and I'm having chicken pie, and then we're going home, and then Daddy's going to read to me, and then I'm going to bed. (Mini-series)

• Parakeet

Jammer: I don't care if they put a giant parakeet in here. If the colonel says build a cell, we build a cell. (Resistance)

• Ostrich

Jammer: "You just want to bury your heads in the sands like Ostriches."

• Blackbird

Namesake of the Blackbird experimental stealth fighter (Flight of the Phoenix)

Reptiles

• Viper

While the animal has never been specifically mentioned, it's reasonable to assume the Viper is named after it, and Roslin saw halucinatory vipers.

• Python

Adama: "Betrayal has such a powerful grip on the mind. It's almost like a python. You can squeeze out the thought, suffocate all other emotion until everything is dead except for the rage." (Home, Part I)

Fish

• Salmon

Baltar: "There was an off-road bridge, over the Euclid river. I used to go there, when I was a boy. Watch the fish try and swim upstream. They were mesmerizing." (Home, Part I)

What Baltar describes, without naming, are anadromous fish - almost certainly a type of salmon.

Invertebrates

• Ant

Crashdown: "Someone else feel like they have ants crawling behind their frakking eyeballs?" ("33")

• Cockroach

Starbuck: "...even a cockroach needs to breathe..." (You Can't Go Home Again)

• Oyster

Caprica-Sharon: "I remember the first day I met you, Starbuck. You were puking your guts out in the head after you ate some bad oysters." (Scattered)

Plants

• Apple

Roslin: I need you to send my ID code on the exact same frequency: D, as in dog, dash, 456, dash, 345, dash, A as in apple. (mini-series)

• Beans

Helo is checking to see what they have to eat in the barn, one item mentioned is baked beans. (Hand of God)

• Blueberry

Starbuck: You look like a blueberry. (Flight of the Phoenix)

• Coffea

Gaeta: Seven other container ships are refusing to release their supplies. Food, medicine, even coffee. (Resistance)

• Corn

Also one of the items Helo lists available to eat. (Hand of God)

• Licorice

Roslin: Chamalla and Licorice. Would you like some? (Resistance)

• Peanut

Helo also mentiones peanut butter in the barn, which undoubtedly implies peanuts. (Hand of God)

• Walnut

Adama cracks walnuts while going over potential CAGs in the episode "Home, Part I"

Galactica 1980 definition:  When John Steadman asks if the Warriors know anything about these creatures, Dillon looks this up (1980: "Space Croppers")

Re-imagined Series definition: all-purpose vulgarism; Colonial version of "fuck" (see: frak)

Galactica 1980 definition:  Dillon looks up this term after Jamie Hamilton orders a coffee at a diner, upon their return to 1980 Earth (1980: "Galactica Discovers Earth, Part III").