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| {{Character Data|
| | #REDIRECT [[User:Homeworld]] |
| |'''THIS SPACE FOR RENT'''
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| |age= 16
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| |colony= The Homeworld
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| |birthname= Kevin...
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| |callsign= Invader616
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| |death=Fall of the Twelve Colonies
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| |parents= Mom and Dad
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| |siblings= I am an only child
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| |marital status=It would be illegal to marry at my age
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| |children=If I had some, that would be wrong
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| |role= Colonial Researcher/Historian
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| |rank=Member
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| |actor= Good question
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| |name= Kevin Who?
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| }}
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| == WELCOME TO THE HOMEWORLD ==
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| [[Image:Home pt1-Kobol.jpg]]
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| === An Announcement From the Department of Random Public Announcements (Commercial Division) ===
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| '''THIS SPACE FOR RENT'''
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| ...
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| '''YOU HAVE ARRIVED AT THE HOMEWORLD. YOU ARE CLEARED FOR LANDING.'''
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| == Introductory Wireless Broadcast ==
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| '''BROADCASTED TO:''' Whoever cares to listen
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| '''ORIGIN:''' The Homeworld
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| Hello, fellow Battlestar Galacitca fans. I am Homeworld616. Allow me to drop some quick facts about myself to you.
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| * '''Real Location:''' Connecticut, United States of America
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| * '''Areas of Expertise:''' World History, American Literature, Christian Theology
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| * '''Stuff I'm Learning:''' Modern and American History, British Literature
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| * '''I Like:''' Battlestar Galacitca 2003, Code Lyoko, Dr. Who, Sim City 3000, Halo Trilogy, writing novels, science-fiction, food (all international cuisines), travel (internationa and domestic), high adventure, theme parks, and going on Wikipedia.
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| * '''I Don't Like:''' Americans who hate their country, Europeans who think the USA is more dangerous than Iran, populists, American politics, paparazzi, bad Hollywodd movies, bad American humor, self-congratulating journalists, and extremitsts of any creed, from Militant Atheist to Rabid Christian and all points in between.
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| * '''I am on Friendly/Business Terms With:''' Sauron18, Mercifull, Steelviper, Spencerian, Peter Farago, The Merovingian and Talos.
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| == Editing Philosophy ==
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| Over the months I've been on Wikipedia and affilitated sites, I've developed a philosophy for editing that works well for me, and hopefully me fellow editors and SysOps. I attempt to put this into practice every time.
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| * I assume good faith.
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| * I condemn all personal attacks, and will remove them if they are too offensive.
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| * I have a Zero Tolerance Policy on Vandalism.
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| * I prefer to discuss large-scale changes (i.e. content additions) to articles on the talk page before changing anything.
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| * I respond to EVERY message I get on my talk page, although not necessarily right away. You can be safe knowing that ANYTHING you write will be answered at some point in time.
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| * I prefer communication and friendliness with other users.
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| * I am bold...with typo correction and small omissions.
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| == Caveat ==
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| I'm going to come right out and tell you my blind sides, so that you can help me correct them and make me grow into a better user. Here are some problems I've encountered. I will also give credit to the various other users who helped me identify these problems.
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| * I tend to be zealous with detail when I get excited about an article. An excellent example (to which [[User: Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] and [[User: The Merovingian|The Merovingian]] can attest) is the Architecture section of the Arts and Lit article, which I and they corrected massly. ''(Problem identified by the two SysOps above)''
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| * Certain wiki guidelines (i.e. the various naming conventions of [[Sharon Valerii]]). ''(Problem identified by [[User:Spencerian|Spencerian]])''
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| * Figuring out who's who here (SysOp vs. member). ''(Problem identified by [[User: Steelviper|Steelviper]])''
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| * I go nuts with trivia and notes. An excellent example would be the Notes section of [[Unnamed Cities of Caprica]]. ''(Problem identified by The Merovingian and myself)''
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| * BSG is filmed in Vancouver, and that city and its landmarks are featured in Colonial scenes. I try to base theories off of those screenshots, which is bad. ''(Problem identified by The Merovingian)''
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| * I like to talk to people I'm friendly with here. To become wikifriends with me, you simply have to leave a note of any sort on my talk page. I will often contact you after that, and if I accidentally spam you or say something offensive, please correct me! ''(Hasn't happened yet, but just in case it does)''
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| * I get the feeling that I'm not bold enough (see Editing Philosophy section above). Tell me where the line between being bold and being reckless is if I goof up. ''(Problem identified by myself)''
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| * I can't figure out how to upload images. ''(Problme identified by myself)''
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| == Statement of My Mission on Battlestar Wiki ==
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| I am mainly interested in the Twelve Colonies of Kobol, their history, civilization, trivia, etc. On this wiki, I plan
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| to contribute and edit articles relating to the colonies on a regular basis and perhaps create a few. I also know some trivia that I do not see listed here. I plan to fix that. I also want to be extremely helpful to my fellow editors and administrators and not be a time waster or a pain.
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| == Articles I Have Created/Edited for Battlestar Wiki ==
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| Sadly, most of what I write are stubs. This is due to the fact that I am interested in Colonial instutions/creations and the writers really don't go into those too much. The only true articles I've written are ''Unnamed Cities of Caprica'' and ''Cities of Caprica'', one of which has been deleted. It should also be noted that any images you find in these articles weren't uploaded by me, but by other users, most particularly [[User: Mercifull|Mercifull]].
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| === Directory of My Work ===
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| * [[Unnamed Cities of Caprica]]
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| * [[Cities of Caprica]] (Has since been deleted)
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| * [[Caprica 7]] (Deleted on my recommendation)
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| * [[Caprica Beach]]
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| * [[Caprica 5]]
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| * [[Channel 7 News]]
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| * [[The News-Review]]
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| * [[Gemini Freight]] (Turned into a redirect for ''Gemini'')
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| === Statistics ===
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| In order to keep a track record of how I'm doing, I'm going to tally statistics of my articles that are kept and deleted.
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| '''Total Number of Articles Created'''
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| * 8
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| '''Number of Articles Deleted'''
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| * 2
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| '''Number of Articles Redirected'''
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| * 1
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| '''Number of Articles Safe and Sound'''
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| * 5
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| === Articles I Have Edited ===
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| * [[Caprica City]]
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| * [[Delphi]]
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| * [[Twelve Colonies (RDM)]]
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| * [[New Caprica City]]
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| * [[Arts and Literature of the Twelve Colonies]]
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| == The Homeworld ==
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| '''CAUTION:''' THIS WILL BE RATHER SILLY
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| [[Image:Railgun.jpg|thumb|right|We have BIG GUNS on this Colony]]
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| [[Image:BSGToaster.jpg|thumb|right|We like toast on The Homeworld (with butter and fruity preserves, of course)]]
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| [[Image:Cylonattack.jpg|thumb|right|Take that Speilberg!]]
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| [[Image:CapricaMessage.jpg|thumb|right|Oh George Lucas. You poor, poor fool for sueing BSG.]]
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| I suppose you are all wondering what this planet is, so I will tell you. The Homeworld is the fourteenth colony of Kobol that everyone forgot about. At least that is what we like to think. There was no fourteenth tribe of man, and our actual history was quite a bit less romantic. We were originally an out-system colony of Virgon, but moved to the jurisdiction of Sagittaron after a particularly embarrasing stint involving the leaders of both Colonies betting on a Pyramid game while strung out on green alcohol, and a semi-tamed mongoose whose involvement in the proceedings is questionable. We quickly became a source of cheap labor for a Colony that was adoringly referred to by the other Eleven worlds as "Our b**ch." The Sagittarians tried to make life good for us, and for Godsmas they built us a wonderful new professional Pyramid court and gave us our own minor league team. Unfortunately, on the opening day and premier game, the court, team and a promising group from the Society of Junior Executives Who Wear Three-Piece Suits and Golf on Sundays were vaporized by an almost, but not completely, unexpected volcanic eruption.
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| The Homeworld became industrialized and, lucky us, we got to do the jobs Sagittarians didn't want to do. Our colony became the proud home of several almost-but-not-quite-so-venerable worker's organizations, including the Royal Crap Movers Society, the Imperious Paper and Other Desktop Implement Pushers Union, the Order of Bueraucratic Red Tape and Fondue Stirrers, the Association of Gatherers and Collectors of Very Small Rocks, and ENRON. A backwards economy and dictatorial rule ruined us, and the richer Colonies gave us aid money out of some sense of obligation or pity. We did what any third-world planet would do with over 700 million cubits: Blow it all on cockfights.
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| When the Cylons attacked and smoked the Twelve Colonies, they actually missed us. Didn't even come close, actually. Not by a long shot. We had some feeling that they knew about us though, since we received an encrypted message telling us that our planet was so pitiful not even Satan would go there, so they had no reason for wasting perfectly good nukes on us. Besides, they assumed we would go insane and gnaw our legs off partly from the highly toxic industiral fumes we had breathed in over the past few milennia, and partly from the Cylon's bad humor.
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| Nope, the Cylons didn't destroy us, but we were annihilated anyway. In a wholly unexplained cosmic event, a wormhole opened up and deposited a single Number 2 pencil into our orbit. It hit an orbital defense satellite, which happened to be carrying a large assortment of improperly programmed Daleks (we thought the Cylons weren't cool enough, so we made our own robots). The pencil, for some reason, released the Daleks who had been cyberhibernating. Robots don't like to be awoken from cyberhibernation, and did what any Asimovian robot would do: Blow up the nearest population of humans and then take a relaxing nap. The Daleks went on a rampage and we were all destroyed, making humanity very unhappy. Another equally unhappy person in some other area of the Multiverse was the high school student who lost his pencil to the vortex, and consequently could not finish his SAT and was then barred from the college he wanted to go to, depriving his planet of another professional pastry chef. Fortunately for humanity, another random worm hole opened up and sucked all the Daleks to the beginning of time. Unhappy about being deprived of their post-apocalyptic nap, they began shooting at the nearest cosmic beings, subsequently staring an intertemporal war whose result was a number of highly popular British television shows starring a Doctor who asked "Would you like a Jelly Baby?".
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| That's pretty much it. The Fleet accidentally stumbled upon The Homeworld during its exodus from the Prolmar Sector, but that was cut out due to time constraints. This history of The Homeworld is also being cut off, due to the fact that this page is silly and I am being watched by users who almost, but not quite, entirely disprove of silliness on a canon website. Have a nice day!
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| == Next Projects ==
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| * I would like to make a directory of Colonial corporations and possibly add it to the Twelve Colonies series under the label "Economy." However, I'd like to hold off on that until the next season comes, as well as the new prequel, Caprica, where some more companies may be revealed.
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| * When the prequel ''Caprica'' is released, I will watch it with my laptop close at hand. As they come up, I will mercilessly write articles about any company/city with a proper noun in the name. I can take care of the urban and corporate portions of the prequel, while other users can write about the various new characters, technologies, etc.
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