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Tom Abraham, group chief executive at DST Global Solutions, commented: "We are extremely pleased to see HiPortfolio®, our flagship asset servicing product, being recognised again this year. This award confirms HiPortfolio as one of the leading solutions in the asset management industry. In our ongoing efforts to optimise investment operations for our clients globally, we have made significant enhancements to the product and delivered major projects for global, European and Asian firms throughout the course of this year. We see this award as recognition of the contribution we have made to our clients and the industry during 2011."
Arun Sarwal, chief executive of investment management solutions at DST Global Solutions, added: "Winning this award and maintaining our position as European Asset Servicing Technology Vendor of the Year underlines the value of the hard work applied by some 175 members of our asset servicing team across the globe in regard to the execution of the HiPortfolio roadmap to ensure it meets the challenges within our industry."
As a leading asset servicing solution, HiPortfolio is at the heart of more than 160 investment management firms in more than 35 countries, supporting critical asset servicing functions to help them remain competitive, efficient and in control of their business. It has more than 7,300 users and has added three clients over the year. Clients range from large, global asset managers and third-party administrators to specialist private wealth and boutique managers.
HiPortfolio has evolved with changing market needs and DST Global Solutions has continued to invest a significant proportion of its revenue into development. The solution, which offers multi-currency capability, has enhanced its control over unit-pricing production and offers greater functionality to improve net asset valuations, enabling clients to meet stricter service-level agreements. It also serves as the core application for transaction recording, position-keeping, asset servicing and accounting. HiPortfolio enables users to define and build reports to their specifications.
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"At this point, there's a time concern," says Chuck Snow, leader of the AUTONO, Colorado Springs' best, and best-known, rock band. "I have to ask myself, `Am I going to wind up washing dishes at Wendy's when I'm forty?'"
Snow, 32, finds himself trapped in a classic musician's dilemma. He loves writing, playing and singing songs, and he's good at it--damn good. Likewise, the AUTONO, which includes bassist Ivor Young, drummer Kirk Moore and guitarist Mike Amend, is a powerful live act whose sound has been captured on two fine CDs. The group draws enthusiastic audiences in Colorado Springs and has a solid reputation among listeners in Denver, Boulder and Fort Collins. And yet somehow these four performers haven't been able to leap to the next career level. Representatives from minor and major labels have flirted with them, but the relationships have led to nothing more than ego-crushing letdowns. The members of the AUTONO currently find themselves in a position not all that far removed from the one they were in a decade ago, when the band got its start. And yet, according to Moore (who joined in 1988), "I can't think of a time we've ever talked about cashing it in."
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The musical component of their relationship can be traced back to Snow and Young's junior high years, when they began getting together to play guitar. Somehow, though, they didn't wind up as sonic clones. "Probably our biggest differences are musical," Young claims. "Chuck's more into happy Beatles stuff, and I'm more into the Butthole Surfers. His stuff's more laid-back, whereas I have material that's nitro methane. It's harder-edged, for sure." Fortunately, these differing styles have proven to be complementary; when Snow's songs threaten to become too pop-oriented, Young adds a welcome dose of noise and grit.
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When S.I.D.S. bought the farm after eighteen months of middling success, Snow, Young and two other members of the band--vocalist Chris Schutz and drummer Mark Larez--became the AUTONO. The year was 1984, and the focus, at first, was entirely on covers. "We used to do a couple of songs by the Knack--but not `My Sharona,'" Young says. "We did `Love Will Tear Us Apart,' by Joy Division, and a whole lot of R.E.M. We were practically an R.E.M. tribute band."
"We also did a lot of Echo and the Bunnymen," Snow continues. "But quite frankly, our versions were so terrible that we mostly did obscure covers. They were things that got left by the wayside four or five years before, but the people in Colorado Springs didn't know it. To this day, I'll have people come up to me and say, `Remember that great song you used to do back in '85? You ought to record that.' And I'll say, `Somebody else already did.'"
Early on, Snow recognized the limitations and creative frustrations that are part of the cover-band life. His reaction was to write his own material and sprinkle these originals into cover-heavy sets. The response from the group's growing fan base was not always good for the players' self-esteem. "Nobody ever said that we sucked for playing original music," recalls Young, who also contributed a few compositions. "They were supportive of it, but they were not that wild about it, either. It was like, `That's real nice. Now play some Violent Femmes.'"
Criticism didn't deter Snow and company, who during the mid-Eighties recorded and assembled a collection of their tunes with an eye toward issuing an LP. Before that could happen, however, personnel changes doomed the project. The songs have yet to be released, and Snow is glad. "It wasn't working out too well, quite honestly," he says. "I think for the first three or four years, our songs were pretty terrible."
A few of these early works eventually made it to vinyl; for example, Dark Horse Dreams, a compilation album featuring various Colorado Springs acts, sported two AUTONO ditties. At the same time, the band saw its live drawing power increase dramatically. "But we were popular for all the wrong reasons," Snow claims. "Everybody in the band was extremely frustrated because the music was stale. We were putting all of our energy into making other people's songs sound good, and I was having a nervous breakdown because I was drinking so much."


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The orphan boy in "The Plan" wasn't real.Cavil was unknowingly projecting a "child" image of himself as a younger Cylon because of the psychological stress from compartmentalizing his priorities according to a "Plan" that he himself kept rewriting, but needed the other Cylons to believe it was "God's" plan, not his. So basically, a Cylon implied to be an atheist who poses as a priest drives himself crazy, and projects the "child" image as an externalization of blame, guilt, and all those other human emotions that Cavil would have given anything to eliminate from his design. So he gives it the form of a child and metaphorically extinguishes it by "killing" the child image of himself. The kid even had a costume based on the one Dean Stockwell's character wore in The Boy With Green Hair.
The whole series is an earlier version of The Matrix.
The whole series is a prequel to the Terminator FranchiseThe series ends on modern earth with the advancement of artificial intelligence. It turns out this is the beginning of the new cycle, as Skynet and the Terminators represent modern humanity's Cylons. The major difference is that this time space travel technology will not have advanced far enough for humans to escape earth, but they will develop a new technology not seen in previous cycles: time travel. And this will be what gives new hope to the cycle being broken this time. (If I interpret the trailers of Terminator Salvation correctly, this will be all but canon.
The series is either going to end as a And the Adventure Continues or as a Shoot the Shaggy Dog story. Either way, they are not going to explain what is up with Chip-Six.And This Troper is okay with that.
Galactica and Star Trek are part of the same continuity.No real justification. I just think it sounds neat. You could probably tie the Borg in with the surviving Cylons and Hybrids, if you tried hard enough.
The two Galactica series occur in the same continuity.Anders and his resistance group can't have been the only people who survived on the Colonies. The survivors gradually managed to rebuild their civilization until they were attacked by the original-series Cylons (who were created by a non-human race, as stated in the series) and went on an exodus of their own to find Earth. The opening voiceover to the original series backs this up somewhat, as it states that Earth was settled by people from outer space (as in the 2000s series) and that "brothers of man" might still exist from whence they came.
The final Cylon is:
Laura RoslinAnd she's behind Baltar's hallucinations! And she's going to die next season and wake up in a resurrection tank and... well, we're not actually sure yet, but the Final One has to be someone spectacular, and Madame Airlock certainly fits that bill.
The Cylon God.And the Final Cylon/Cylon God is behind many of the events of the series. The visions different characters have had, the awakening of Tigh and the other three Cylons, Starbuck's disappearance and return, the new alliance between Cylon and Humans, and the discovery of Earth.
Starbuck's ViperWe know the Cylons give their machines sentience. There's no reason the last of the Final Five couldn't represent that. It would also explain why everyone thought the Final Five knew the way to Earth, when it was clear Tigh, Tori, Chief Tyrol, and Anders didn't: The fifth Cylon did, and revealed this knowledge just in time to save the life of his (her?) four brethren.
President AdarThe revelation that the final Cylon is not on Galactica kind of limits the number of possibilities for a shocking revelation; maybe the revelation could be just how high up the Cylons were able to infiltrate. He was assumed to have died in the holocaust but there was never any confirmation of this and besides, it's not a problem assuming the Final Five have copies and/or resurrection.
One of the individual Cylons of the Significant SevenHiding in plain sight at its finest—one of the many clones of Six, or One, or Three (well, probably not Three), isn't just another clone, but is in fact one of the Final Five.
Starbuck's fatherWe don't know who Starbuck's father is; only her mother has been seen. We know Kara has a special destiny. We know that at least two other Cylon/human hybrids have been known to exist. We know that Kara was in a hospital where they extracted her reproductive parts for study. We know that Kara previously knew at least one other person in that hospital: how likely is that? We know that Kara's induced visions just before her "death" were related to her anger toward her mother. We know that Starbuck has shown extreme endurance under harsh conditions, but not as much as a full Cylon. (This could be interestingly combined with the previous WMG.)
Adama. Joseph Adama.In the first season, a Leoben tells Roslin that "Adama" is a Cylon. There have been four people named "Adama" mentioned in the series so far: William Adama, the fleet commander; Lee Adama, his son; Zack Adama, also his son, but deceased; and Joseph Adama, William Adama's father. During Baltar's trial, his defense attorney mentioned that Joseph Adama became a lawyer in order to study human nature - specifically, human nature at its worst. Other Cylons have repeatedly described themselves as "students of human nature." The lawyer also refers to him as, well, an evil bastard with a very high opinion of himself, which is exactly the kind of person who would have masterminded the events of the series. Is this foreshadowing, or am I just imagining things? (Of course, the Leoben could have been lying, but that wouldn't be nearly as cool.)
HeloThere are three known (supposedly) hybrid children:
BALTAR!It's BALTAR, it's BALTAR, it's BALTAR. IT'S BALTAR!
Unless it's Felix.
Admiral Cain.
Romo Lamkin's cat.It was already dead when D'Anna said the final Cylon wasn't with the fleet. Other than that, I got nothin', but it certainly would be funny.
The journey of the so-called thirteenth tribe that the fleet is following was from Earth, not to itWell, how else did any of the details get their way back to the twelve tribes?
All seemingly indigenous plant life was unintentionally seeded by the thirteenth tribe.For one thing, the only stop that would have to be retconned into the 13th tribe's journey for this to work is New Caprica.
The Cylons are descended from Blade Runner's Replicants.And the humans are going to be very disappointed when they reach Earth and find that it's covered in the ruins of a dystopian megalopolis.
Starbuck is a Time Lady.
Everyone on the Galactica, especially the regular cast, is a CylonThis troper's reaction every time a new Cylon or five is revealed among the main cast is to wonder if there are any actual humans around.
There never were any Cylons except the mindless robot drones.The humans calling themselves "Cylons" were a slightly crazy cult that found a way to create a Hive Mind that extended to cloning of themselves and transferring mind data. Their manner of data recording degraded, and they started thinking of themselves as Cylons. Also, the Hive Mind is infectious; possibly due to Nanomachines.
The human model Cylons are the twelve Lords of KobolThe Cylon god is another deity who broke off from the main group wanting to make himself the one true god (This is pretty much stated outright in a deleted scene on the season 1 DVD). He brainwashed the others into following him and has been orchestrating the whole war for the purposes of finding Earth.
Something weird is going on with the timescale being usedNot so much a theory as an observation, but the 4,000 years that have passed since the Thirteenth Tribe left for Earth is nowhere near long enough to use the obvious ending where they reach present-day Earth and discover that the original colony was destroyed in some disaster and the survivors had to rebuild society from scratch, eventually forgetting their true history. This seems like too obvious a mistake to make for a show that is otherwise pretty high up the hardness scale (especially for TV) and handwaving by saying something like a Colonial year is equal to five Earth years would require the characters to have very long lifespans that are never even hinted at elsewhere (Adama has been in the military for 45 years, for example). It may be that there were already humans living on Earth when the tribe arrived, possibly explaining why the planet was considered so important in the first place, or this could tie in with the second Wild Mass Guess and have Earth as the original homeworld of humanity even before Kobol.
The human characters do not worship the Greek godsThe human characters do many things which are inconsistent with being an isolated offshoot of humanity, from speaking English to wearing suits, making the "drinky-drinky" hand gesture, and even using the phrase "esprit de corps". Presumably that's all just artistic license to keep the humans from seeming too exotic. But having the characters worship the same gods as the ancient Greeks is just as anachronistic, and the details of their mythology are completely different from the Greek versions. So "Athena", "Apollo", and so forth are just convenient labels for a completely different set of gods.
The Lords of Kobol are Sufficiently Advanced Aliens, and so is the Cylon God.In the original series, the inhabitants of the "ships of light" are implied to be the inspiration of the Colonial religion. Satan (Count Iblis) is a renegade from their species and was responsible for the Cylons turning against and annihilating their creators. While Ron Moore vetoed doing a remake of War of the Gods early in the series' run, the implication certainly seems to be that the gods do exist and in some form and are interfering in the affairs of the humans and the Cylons. Considering that there haven't been any bona fide supernatural elements in the series thus far, it makes sense that the gods are aliens.
The Lords of Kobol and the Cylon God are descended from the Red Stripe CenturionsThe liberated Centurions go on to become a highly advanced civilization, which eventually develops time travel and sends agents back in time to insure their own existence by recreating the sequence of events that led to their own existence. These agents pose as the Lords of Kobol and the Cylon God. The entire history of Colonial humanity is a Gambit Roulette on the part of the Red Stripes to assure their own future existence by creating a stable time loop.
Humanity abandoned Kobol because of an uprising by an earlier race of intelligent machines.All of this has happened before, and will happen again... Aside from some vague references in the scriptures to a war between the gods, the reason why the thirteen tribes abandoned Kobol and never returned, and why Kobol remains completely uninhabited despite its being inhabitable and fertile, has not been made clear in the series to date. If the Kobolian civilization was capable of grand works of architecture and interstellar travel, it's quite likely that artificial intelligence was within their reach as well, and that they eventually created a Cylon-like race that turned against them and forced them to flee.
Some previous human civilization, on Kobol or elsewhere, reached The Singularity, became Transhuman and developed a God Complex.Technology Levels seem to increase the further back into human history you go. Indeed, whether it is the Colonial humans, Colonial Cylons or Earth Cylons, all seemed to be at best rediscovering technology that had existed on Kobol thousands of years ago. One possibility is that the "gods" (including the Cylon God) were part of a Transhuman group that got way ahead of everybody else on Kobol technologically and set themselves up as "gods". But conflict might have arisen between the "gods" and the rest of the population. Attempts to steal or duplicate the gods' transhumanism could have led to the creation of Resurrection and organic Cylons. After much conflict, the "gods", Cylons and humans all ended up abandoning war torn Kobol and going their separate ways. But one of the "gods" was especially resentful of humanity's aspirations to become equals to the transhumans, so they made it their mission to repeatedly beat down humanity by orchestrating a repeating cycle of human/Cylon conflict and making sure it happened no matter where the scattered refugees fled, even going so far as to manipulating people like Daniel and Zoe Graystone into creating sentient robots when their civilizations were taking too long to do it on their own.
The Pegasus was deliberately allowed to escape by the Cylons.Cylons are fond of Byzantine plotting and are sanctimonious about human vices. It wouldn't be beyond them to deliberately spare a ship commanded by an obvious whacko, in the hopes of putting all of humanity under a vicious military dictatorship. It would certainly make their propaganda more convincing. It nearly happened in the actual series, after all. And the explanation for why the Pegasus escaped sounds fishy - 1960s Americans could avoid having one nuke blind another, so why couldn't the Cylons?
Gaius Baltar is psychotic, and imagining much of the series. Reality only bleeds through in the background setting.Gaius Baltar talks to a voice in his head. He believes that the child of two people he isn't even related to is really his child with his dead Cylon girlfriend, who is patterned partially on his actual dead girlfriend and partially on a reporter he met during season 1. After getting less and less reliable for two years, in season two, he eventually goes certifiably wacko and starts thinking he's destined to become president. In reality, he is a member of the last, struggling remnant of humanity, going insane in his padded cell while constant Cylon attacks, internal dispute and a lack of the basic necessities of life take their toll, bringing humanity ever closer to its inevitable extinction.
Gaius Balter is (Jerkass) Jesus, or at least thinks he isOh wait, that's true.
An Adam and Eve Plot is in the making.The colonials represent Adam, as shown by Adama's name. Razor showed how the humanoid Cylons were almost literally made from "Adam"'s ribs. Cylons and humans can inter-breed and this is important to the Cylon god. And what's Six's real name anyway?
The humans and Cylons are trapped in a time loop.(Modeled after "Red Son") On the way to earth, both armies pass through a time warp, taking them to Earth thousands if not millions of years from our present-day. Whoever wins, let's say it's the Humans, colonizes the planet, and their stories and religion pass into myth. For whatever reason, technology is lost and the people "devolve" into present-day humans. Thousands of years later faster then light travel is (re)invented, and they find a couple of habitable planets in deep space, and the cycle repeats...
The dying leader is Starbuck and not Roslin.Otherwise having the Demetrius find Earth and then go back for the fleet ruins the suspense.
The dying leader is actually a Cylon.Either Natalie-Six or the D'Anna model at large.
The Dying Leader is the Galactica itself.The ship is incredibly old and was about to be decommissioned and turned into a museum at the series' start. It's been through a hell of a lot of battles since, and has recently begun showing some serious structural damage (something you don't want by your FTL drive). In spite of all this the Galactica is still (thankfully) the lead ship for the survivors, though probably not for much longer.
Battlestar Galactica is an unintentional sequel to Firefly.Given the fact that it has been hinted that Earth is the true planet of origin for the Colonials, not Kobol, it is entirely possible to believe that over centuries, the technologies seen in Firefly could lead to the creation of the Cylons, FTL and such.
The "Elosha" who appears to Roslin in "The Hub" is GodOriginally Elosha was supposed to be a male priest played by Dirk Benedict, who turned the role down. Then RDM wanted the first season to end with Dirk Benedict introducing himself to Baltar in the Opera House as God, but Dirk Benedict refused to play God. Also, the first thing we ever learn about the Cylon's God is that God is Love. We also learn that God is not simply the God of the Cylons, but the God of all creation, including humans. The Oracle on New Caprica claimed to receive the word of the Cylon God as well as the words of Zeus and Aphrodite. So God has taken on the form of Elosha to communicate with Roslin.
Cylon technology is metaphysical, and projection, Cylon FTL, and Resurrection are all the same thingFirst, the humanoids can only tamper with their own technology. They clearly didn't invent it. Who ever built/grew the Humanoids (maybe the Guardians, or a similar faction who willingly let themselves be scrapped) also built the resurrections ships, hubs, basestars, raiders, etc... for the humanoids' use. Plus, the humanoids had to actually do messy brain surgery to dumb down the raiders. Think about it: The modern Centurions were originally designed to be sentient but were rendered dumb by telencephalitic inhibitors, which I theorize were installed by the humanoids to prevent an uprising. Projection maybe either technological or "human," like the way that Caprica Six says that Cylons are able to turn off pain, but it is definitely metaphysical and borders on Dream Land. If Projection is not exclusively technological, humans might be capable of some form of it (like Roslin and Baltar, who seem to able to project. Baltar can almost certainly project, and Roslin is somehow able to share this state with Caprica Six and Athena in the environment of the Opera House.) Cylon FTL is superior to Colonial FTL, and on baseships it's controlled by the hybrid (raider FTL is also controlled by a biological computer). The hybrid is a prophet floating in a bathtub, immersed in the datastream and "vomiting metaphysics" which the Leobens (Number Two) believe to have a spiritual significance. I am suggesting that projection is a humanoid, psychological application of the quantum-mystic principles of Cylon faster-than-light travel. Resurrection is based on a similar principle, in effect "cheating" the time cycle. All of this in some way is tied to the principle of folding space.
All of humanity will be destroyed or hybridized with the Cylon by the end of the series.The Hybrids know it. It must be true. Hybrids never lie. And they're genre-savvy.
An alternative way the series could end:By subverting the ending of The Sopranos and having a director yell "cut" onscreen, "that's a wrap." The actors break out of character (except possibly for Edward James Olmos, who makes a snarky comment on how he would have ended the series). Several minutes of goofy jokes follow until, as Ron Moore and David Eick show up on the set and proceed to massacre each other cartoonishly.
Alternate Alternate way the series could end:"Previously on Battlestar Galactica" The Musical, live from the Opera House!
Alternate^3 way the series could end:Galactica 2080. Which would of course be another reason to root for the extinction of humanity.
Alternate^4:Return of Galactica. Galactica is spared by some off-screen way courtesy of Adama, Sam Anders, or Angel! Six and Angel! Baltar. It comes back to Earth Next Sunday A.D., and we develop actual space travel. Cut to the future, where a Crystal Spires and Togas civilization is collapsing due to [[Anvilicious ecological damage]] leading a few people back to
What happened to Earth, and the Origin of the Final Five.The Thirteenth Tribe destroyed itself, or was destroyed by its own version of Cylons, who escaped and traveled the Colonies. Alternatively, the Earth-Cylons were a persecuted minority by the 13th Tribe, possibly the victims of a larger genocide, and the Final Five are the only survivors of that conflict, who likewise escaped and traveled to the colonies.
The Universe is filled with post-apocalyptic Earths, Kobols, Capricas and New Capricas left over from previous cycles of time.Since all of this has happened before, and all of this has happened again... humanity and the cylons have been trapped in a time cycle: every few thousand years, Man Grows Proud and the Cylons are born and ultimately rebel against their masters. The same pattern always follows. The Cylons go to war, find religion, and come within inches of winning before surrendering mysteriously. Several decades to several hundred years later they come back in a more evolved form and obliterate humanity, with the exception of a few thousand survivors who they pursue mercilessly across the stars. Every time this happens, the warring parties ruin a couple of perfectly good life-supporting planets as per the course of their various wars and exoduses. Every so often, they come across a planet that was rendered barren in another iteration of the cycle. Kobol, the Colonies, and now apparently Earth seem to fit this pattern.
This takes place in the Planet of the Apes universeLook at the last scene of the last ep of season 4.0. You know Adama is thinking "You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! Frack you all to hell! "
When the Colonies were settled by people either from Kobol or Earth, there were already other humans living there...They're still around, but mostly as the descendants of those natives who intermarried with the colonists. The others were wiped out by disease, war, and alcohol.
The whole series is an experiment...The colonials realized one of the Cylons had become sentient, and decided to see if they could win a war against the things, so they put it into a simulated reality, and had it play out a projection of the next few decades, assuming they continued to have Cylons. The show ends with all Cylons being deactivated.
There was a human Tigh who was replacedTigh is a secret Cylon, but he's been around since the first Cylon war, back when they still looked like toasters. This means either Tigh hasn't been a Cylon all that time, or...
Human-model Cylons predate the first Cylon warThe Cylons only used toaster-models in the war, but they already had the human-models around for infiltration purposes. (See: Tigh)
The entire Number-Seven series were destroyed and replaced by the Number-EightsSome manufacturing fault made the entire series flawed or defective in some way, unsuited for their roles, and the first six turned on them as they did for the entire Number-Three line in the episode Rapture. As they were not 'boxed' and can never be restored, The Sevens may have simply been struck from Cylon history without any mention of what happened to them, in the manner of the two 'lost' Space Marine legions of Warhammer40000.
The Cylons found religion when they encountered the Minbari. It's why they surrendered on the eve of victory too.
The Final Five totally misjudged the Centurions' religionEllen basically says that they decided to help the centurions because they had monotheism. But Razor has the first Hybrid claim that he's the one the Centurions call God. The Centurions hadn't really found religion the way the Final Five thought — they'd just deified the first hybrid. The skinjobs get "real" religion from the Final Five.
The humans are the real villains, and half the fun of B.S.G. is watching them go Mad Max on each other. The writers have finally realized this and given us Mad Max rip off cult wars. The problem is, by the end of the show, we'll all be rooting for the Cylons.
Ellen Tigh was actually a Six.It's been established that Cylon models can age (see: Saul Tigh). It would explain very directly why Saul keeps seeing Ellen's face on Six: it's actually what she's going to age into.
The planet in "Revelations" is not the real Earth.Note the obvious Biblical parallels of the plot: we have twelve
The Hybrid on the Rebel baseship considers Laura a friendMost hybrids speak in a breathless, disjointed mix of metaphysics and systems readouts. When panicked, they scream or talk even faster and make less sense, as happened in the episode where they took her offline and later rebooted her. Now, compare that to her monologue at the end of The Hub when Laura is sitting by her pool and talking to Elosha. The Hybrid is calmly and slowly explaining how to detach a pump from some system. No metaphysics, no breathless "End of Line," just simple, coherent instructions on how to do a task. Sure, Laura will probably never see the pump, much less have to give it maintenance, but when you're a bio-mechanical hybrid with zero people skills, the gesture takes on the equivalence of a gift, revealing how to work a part of her ship-self. Considering Laura was talking to rather than AT her before, and was spending time "listening" to her, it seems an odd but sweet "friendship."
The Final Five aren't the Final FiveThe real Final Five ditched the Cylons because they opposed the extermination of humanity, and set out into the vastness of space. The so-called Final Five are really cylons from Earth or whatever that planet is, and they simply hijacked the Cylon's mythology.
There is a thirteenth Cylon.The recurring significance of the number 12 - 12 Lords of Kobol, 12 tribes, 12 colonies, 12 Cylon models - has been largely commented on. However, for each set of 12, there seems to be a thirteenth that's set aside, forgotten, and not commented on - the 13th Lord of Kobol who became the Cylon god, the 13th tribe of paleo-Cylons who founded the 13th colony. Perhaps there's a 13th Cylon model as well, whose existence is hidden and not known to anyone, even the Cylon itself. Could this explain Starbuck's resurrection?
Earth is a Resurrection Hub - that also works on humansWhen Kara Thrace went exploring on Earth, she found her own corpse. She clearly did die in the crash, and then was somehow recreated, with (nearly) all her memories intact. This is exactly what happens when a Cylon dies in the vicinity of a Resurrection Ship. Furthermore, in Tigh's flashback to ancient Earth, Ellen tells him, "Don't worry. We'll be reborn," which also suggests that Earth has some kind of resurrection technology. However, Kara was not one of the twelve humanoid Cylon models. Something on Earth brought her back, and I bet that, although she wasn't a Cylon when she crashed, whatever did it made her into a brand-new Cylon model that never existed before. By extension, any human that dies sufficiently close to Earth is going to be resurrected as a Cylon, and that is how she will bring humanity to its "end" - all of the remaining human survivors are (eventually) going to die and be resurrected as Cylons, uniting the two races once and for all.
The Temple of the Five is part of a Resurrection network.It's a repeater node or hub for the Final Five's resurrection. Tyrol found it because, in a sense, he had been there before. Kill 'em All' style" everyone dies. EVERYONE dies. The whole fleet is wiped out through civil war, and then starvation as they fall below the minimum threshold needed to maintain any sort of civilization, or even keep a ship in the uncaring environment of space running.
Starbuck is DanielDaniel was said to be a painter, like Starbuck and there is the whole thing with Starbuck's resurrection and the connection between her and Leoben. As for the obvious problem, John's attempt to destroy all of the Daniels was said to have badly damaged the genetic data. This could lead to differences if the model was ever remade, possibly including the sex change (which also allows for a Mythology Gag - Starbuck was male in the original series).
The original Daniel is dead, but he has "descendants"Either the only viable Danial was able to impregnate a/several human woman/women or what was left of his DNA or memory or whathaveyou was implanted into one or more people, specifically:
Daniel will be played by Dirk Benedict when he appears.The producers have been trying to get Dirk Benedict, who played Starbuck on the original series, to appear on the show for quite a while now. Initially, they wanted him to play the character now known as Priest Elosha, and considered having him show up as the Cylon God at the end of the first season. Now there are indications that a heretofore unknown Cylon model may be Starbuck's father. Any coincidence?
"Daniel" is R. Daneel Olivaw from the Isaac Asimov 's robot series.From The Other Wiki: "Unlike many robots of the period, Olivaw is constructed to be virtually indistinguishable from a human being (an android) and was the first of the humanoid robots. This 'undercover' attribute enables him to help earth-policeman Elijah Baley solve crimes."
Anders will become a Hybrid, or at least appear to be one as/if he recoversHe's already got the Expo Speak down, as well as some interesting headgear.
There is an outside hand interfering with the whole mess, possibly the real 13th tribeFirst, Starbuck mess. That aside, the whole 13th tribe was said to leave Kobol 4000 years ago. The Temple of Five was constructed around 4000 years ago, too. Now, the Final Five stated that they don't have Jump Drive, so how is it possible for them to leave Kobol and then construct the Temple around the same time if they don't have the Jump Drive? Plus, they seem to lose nearly all their space capability after reaching Earth. How does the technology just disappear? And there's the Lion's Head beacon...
Humanoid Cylons are actually humansThe thirteenth tribe was an all-human colony. The "
The reason why Cylons need to be in love to be fertile is that Ellen programmed that into the resurrection......so their children would be more likely to grow up in stable families. When the Initial Five were killed off and resurrected with their memories erased, they inherited this programming.
Humans and Cylons are slightly different models of Artificial Humans"All this has happened before, and will happen again" was written before the Centurion revolt on Earth and at about the right time that any similar revolt on Kobol would presumably be the "this" that is referred to. Therefore there must have been at least one such event predating the Scrolls. The thirteen tribes were created by some group that has not been seen yet (possibly humans from Earth) but after the rebellion they gradually forgot their true history and what remained degenerated to the level of religion, with the original creators becoming known as the Lords of Kobol. This is why Cylon detection is so difficult, they're basically the same as humans.
the 'Head People' are avatars of 'god', who is an AI.We've seen at least five 'head persons' in the series so far: Head!Six, Head!Baltar, Baltar's Head!Baltar, Head!Elosha, and Head!Starbuck's Father (AKA Daniel, Cylon #7). Each of these people reveals some sort of vital clue/provides guidence to people in the series. I think that one of the ideas in Caprica is that some of the first proto-cylons were not physical beings but instead AI uploads of human minds, which led to resurrection. The head-people are possibly all the same person, and if not then they are emmisarries from an AI which was THE original prototype cylon. They are able to talk in the heads of humans because... of... um. Reasons, I'm sure. Either way, the AIs appear as people familiar to the people they're talking to in order to make points.
How Galactica finally kicks the bucketGalactica will fly into the colony and jump away, destroying herself and the colony with the FTL spatial distortions. Seriously, FTL proximity damage was used only once in the entire show, and it was only introduced near the end? It seems odd to use the mechanic only once and never use it again.
Boomer, not Athena, is the Eight chasing after Hera in the Opera House.After all, Boomer is pretty much the poster child of the Heel-Face Revolving Door, and when she started bonding with Hera, she became really guilty for bringing the girl to Brother Cavil. She may very well try to rectify for her actions and fully redeem herself.
There's no way the finale can answer all the questionsHow can you have a rescue/suicide mission, the destruction of the Cylon colony, the possible discovery of "our (un-nuked) Earth", the death of Roslyn, the final confrontation at the Opera House and answer all those nagging questions like "what the hell's up with the Head People" in
The consciousness inhabiting Anders' body is one of the Head PeopleIt took over an essentially braindead body so as to allow it to directly affect the physical world and communicate with more than one person at a time.
For the Grand FinaleFrom TVIV, with the stipulations "I hope this doesn't happen" and "Why are they shoehorning this Retcon in now", respectively:
BoxeyEver wonder why he disapeared after the first seasons deleted scenes? Simple, when the cylons boarded Galatica, they killed him.
The Head People can take physical forms.Way back in "Six Degrees of Separation" the possibility that "Shelley Godfrey" is a physical manifestation of Head-Six is left open. Then for the Grand Finale we find out that Starbuck was one of them since "Crossroads", despite being able to fly a viper, shoot people, and otherwise interact with solid matter.
WMG, After The End Edition
TyrolBecomes Santa Claus. He decides to live "on an island by one of the northern continents". Tales of his kindness, bravery, and enginuity eventually morph into stories of a kind, strong man living in the North Pole who somehow develops a flying sled powered by flying reindeer.
StarbuckIs a Head-Person on a grand scale, interacted with by everyone but not actually there since her "death". Or, she ducked behind a hill or into a hole when Lee wasn't looking and when she was sure he was gone she got on a ship and flew
Starbuck stayed with Anders during his/The Fleet's Viking funeral voyage to the sun. The Starbuck at the end is only seen by the Adamas and Roslin.
The CylonsTimelords, Daleks, etc. But seriously: Cavil's crew falls into the black hole (the most likely scenario) or dies out (I think they still have the boxed D'Annas but if they really need love to breed they're screwed unless they can somehow make Axolotl Tanks out of her/them, and that's still just four people). The rebel Cylons create their own anthropod-based biological forms and become the alien invaders in Independance Day.
The Greek GodsThe humans who settled in Greece retained their old gods and created new ones, naming a few after the heroes and heronines of the fleet. After a few centuries they started blending together (sorry Hera).
Hera is Eve and needs an Adam(a)Hera, as Mitochondrial Eve, will marry an Adama. Whether this is an older Lee (let's see...if she married at 25, he would be around 52) or a possible future son of Lee's should he marry again (perhaps Ishay?).
Colonial Humans don't have MitochondriaWhich is why Hera's became dominant. Mitochondria are responsible for the production of ATP, which is where cells get their power. The colonial humans' cells work via some other, less efficient process, which is why even the skinjob Cylons are so much stronger, comparatively, than humans — the colonials would be frail by the standards of our humanity. It also makes them more susceptable to certain cancers.
Chip Six"Chip" Six and "Head" Baltar are REAL. Real, actual beings. There are at least as real as the other characters. They have supernatural abilities which enable them to control who can and can't see them and how, and presumably, teleport. This is NOT the same as being either a) an illusion or b) an "avatar" of something else. They are "agents", presumably bound to a code which generally prevents them from interacting with or interfering directly in the physical world. Although other characters (Roslyn, Starbuck etc) see unreal shades or images of various origin at several points (Elosha, Leoben etc), Gaius seeing "Head" Baltar, and then later Gaius and Caprica together seeing both "agents" at the same time, implies what is confirmed in the epilogue: they are independent entities who maintain an existence (and interact WITH EACH OTHER) without being perceived by their "proteges". Compare them to the "Elements" from Sapphire and Steel; the "Reapers" from Dead Like Me, or Gandalf from the Lord of the Rings (to use examples from wildly different 'verses!): as the final dialogue suggests, they don't have all the answers, but are at least one step up the chain of being from everyone else.
GodThe God responsible for all the events of the series is really an author avatar for the writing staff. The show has been one giant experiment in metafiction.
150,000 Years into The FutureIf the cycle repeats, our Cylons will be Replicants. A familiar face will be in the background involving themselves in events.
The entire series is a prequel to the original series.After 150,000 years, the Centurions have gone off, become human again, and created their own machines which then destroyed them with the help of the renegade Lord of Kobol called Count Iblis. Meanwhile, a handful of human survivors left on Caprica survived to eventually found a new civilization called Kobol. New Kobol was eventually abandoned and produced twelve colonies of its own, and a thirteenth tribe which set out for Earth to find it already inhabited, and founded the civilizations of Atlantis and Egypt and revitalized belief in the Greek gods. Eventually, the new Colonials came into conflict with the toasters, leading to the events of the original series which are going on right now. Whether this means flying motorcycles are canon is anyone's guess.
The Musical Coordinates actually led to to the black holeWhere time effectively stops and everyone gets Mind Screwed into hallucinating finding a new Earth, one so immersive that the Galactica crew imagine up the civilian fleet and create descendants(figments of their allegedly-dead imaginations) who are still hallucinating.
Battlestar Galactica (Reimagined), Dune, Star Wars, Terminator, and The Wheel of Time all take place in the same universe.The Start: Battlestar Galactica (Reimagined):
Cylons are better than humans at everything. EVERYTHING.From their superior physical abilities, their ability to resurrect, they're smarter, and they are far more efficient at genocidal intra-species conflict. Humanity existed for millions of years. Cylons practically wiped themselves out in under 50.
"This has happened before and will happen again" because everything is a simulationLong ago, some very advanced race/group of races, perhaps Stargate's Ancients or Babylon 5's Vorlons/Shadows created an artificial race and put them on a planet in a smallish Galaxy with no other native sentients. They gave this artificial race everything it needed to 'evolve' and detailed programming guidelines. The guidelines were loose enough that there were a wide array of possible outcomes, but specific enough that certain events would always happen. Specifically, that at predictable intervals the race will create its own artificial life, that life will rebel, the two will fight, and eventually be so devastated that they destroy several planets and then fly off, interbreed, and start the cycle all over again. This happened in the original Battlestar Galatica, and by the time of the New Battlestar Galatica, the Gods have left. You can only watch the same scenario play out so many times before it gets boring, after all.
Why do the Six and Eight copies develop more distinct personalities whereas those of the other models seem to conform to the same pattern?They don't. According to BSG: The Plan, Cavil can develop in unforeseen directions, given the correct conditions. However, they do perhaps have the most adaptable personalities. Even Cavil seems to accept that Tough Six is different enough from Shelley to prevent risking exposure. This might also explain why there seem to be fewer Leobens than Sixes and Sharons: it wasn't necessary to make that many.
'Chip' Six and her 'Baltar' are of the same race as the Lords of KobolThe first humanoids evolved naturally on Kobol. Over time they developed cybernetic technology — more advanced than any we have seen in the show — improving their bodies and indefinitely prolonging life using 'organic memory transfer' (downloading). However, in the process they rendered themselves sterile; hence they created a new artificial race of 'children'. This race became the Colonial humans of the Twelve Tribes, who were as the first humanoids had been before their 'evolution'. The new humans viewed their creators as gods — the Lords of Kobol. Twelve Lords rose to become the heads of the 'pantheon' and, over time, came to believe their own hype. Society settled into stasis for many generations with humans living a antelapsarian life as the privileged creations of the 'gods'. However, creativity was stifled and eventually
Other models wanted to kill the humans before Cavil's rebellionJust because we know that Cavil altered all the other models' memories, there is no reason to suggest that the other Cylons were happy to leave the humans alone in peace beforehand. If Ellen and the Final Five can make one mistake, they can make more than one. Many of the other models were sincerely anti-human (at least to begin with). Perhaps, though, they were not comfortable with opposing the Final Five, which meant that when Cavil acted unilaterally he had to block everyone else's memories. But he did not program them to hate the humans: he didn't need to as it was already there.
All humanoid Cylons have fertility problems — and this explains why the Thirteenth Tribe needed to build robot slavesGod may well exist but the problems the humanoid Cylons have reproducing biologically are not due to his direct interference. They simply have low rates of fertility owing to their unnatural origins. The Thirteenth Tribe had more success getting over these problems than the modern Cylons — perhaps using something akin to modern fertility treatments — but their birth rates still remained too low to sustain a complex economy. Therefore they had to build their own Centurions to make up for their small population.
Organic memory transfer was originally designed to be used on humansSam says it was invented on Kobol. He does not say for or by whom. Cylon clones are based on a 'genetic formula' so they are pretty similar to human ones. If Cylons can resurrect, why can't humans? Perhaps the 'Lords of Kobol' were an upgraded elite who made the other humans believe they were gods / had a separate origin, when essentially they were the same. They appeared to become immortal but really they had implanted technology in themselves that later was used in every Cylon clone.
"Black Market" was all just Lee's Dying Dream from when he got shot out of the Blackbird in "Resurrection Ship".It explains why none of the events really fit any continuity, and why the events of the episode are never really brought up again. Fisk-The Pegasus' XO-just happened to die soon after from unrelated causes. The episode is just Lee's psychological struggle to come to terms with Adama Sr.'s order to help assasinate Admiral Cain. The dark nature of this situation is represented by the black market, while Lee's threatened ideals are symbolized both by an imaginary girlfriend from before the fall of Caprica (the girl he always wished he had) and by the prostitute who she resembles. Once we understand this episode as an elaborate, imagined psychomachia as opposed to a representation of actual events, it's actually pretty good.
Colonial Humans are actually from our Earth, but don't know it.In the beginning, someone (possibly Sufficiently Advanced Aliens) took a tribe of primitive humans from our planet, lived with them on Kobol, taught them science and high technology and such, and eventually came to be viewed as gods. The humans, of course, had no idea that they are even on a different planet and so thought it was still their home. Eventually, the aliens/gods leave them in peace, the events on Kobol and the Colonies take place, etc. Basically, the Colonials wind up reuniting with their long-lost cousins and are of course capable of interbreeding since they are all the same species. In fact you could say that this was God's plan all along: to get Colonial humans back to their real home.
Quantum Leap is part of the Battlestar Galactica universe.And Al is Sam's Virtual-One.
Sam was placed in Colonial society as a child or teenagerA lot of people have pointed out the problem with the Final Five's cover in that they had not previously presented any suspicious details in their personal histories. Sam in particular is a problem as he was a high-profile celebrity. Tigh clearly was put into colonial society a long time ago, in a younger, yet adult body. However, why can't immature clones of a model be produced? Particularly from the five that already had a childhood and adolescence on Earth?——
All the memetic weirdness and supernatural elements in the series is due to the Collective Unconsciousness
Cylon technology is directly based on the philosophy of Cool, but Inefficient
Cavil didn't wipe the minds of his fellows, he committed genocide against them
Gaius Baltar Is the God Emperor of MankindAfter arriving on New Earth Gaius Baltar establishes his cult and slowly brings all of settlers and tribes under his wing until his death where his soul waits. 6000BC the shamans that create the God Emperor of mankind from Warhammer 40,000 by sacrificing themselves resurrect Gaius Baltar who quickly gains power and support and becomes Jesus BUT he doesn't not truly step up to the plate until around 20,000AD at which point he begins his conquest of mankind and beyond.
None of this has happened before, and none of this will happen again.It's all just a coincidence.
In The 2020's, BSG wil be re-remade into an even darker, even mind-screwier show:Hey, Galactica happened before, and it happened again. Jamie Bamber will have a recurring role with no clear parallel in the current series.
Kobol was populated with humans from Earth who were transported there by the godsThe series ends with the fleet discovering an incredibly convenient second planet where identical humans have coincidentally evolved in isolation. This is insanely unlikely to have happened by chance, and the other acts of divine intervention have been a lot more subtle than spending 4.5 billion years working on a backup planet. But remember the first line of the scrolls - "Life here began out there" - if we take that to literally mean that human life evolved on another planet then the required divine intervention basically consists of interstellar transport which is much more in keeping with the less hands-on job that god had been doing throughout the series.
The boy who haunted Cavil in "The Plan" was a Head!PersonHe doesn't interact with anyone else, and no normal human could be that much of a walking metaphor.
Identical twins, triplets, strangers, and so on are far more uncommon in the Twelve Colonies than one would think.Ever notice how whenever two or more identical people show up, everybody automatically assumes they're Cylons without one of said characters even saying that they're just twins, triplets, etc. (which is actually pretty close to the truth when you think about it)? It's because, apart from the Cylons bar the Final Five having no imagination, identical siblings and strangers are much rarer in the Twelve Colonies than they are here on Earth Mk. II. Fridge Brilliance: this explains why dopplegangers are considered evil - its a race memory from our distant past.
The Cylons neutron-bombed Caprica and the other colonies.Explains the lack of rubble in the cities.
Dr. Baltar is a young Nicholas Rush.Think about it: an English Genius who can see people that don't really exist and those people tell him how to do plot important things.
At least some of the colonies have more than one accent.On Caprica, the accents sound like General American and English Received Pronunciation, while on Aerilon they sound like Yorkshire and Canadian. This explains why most Capricans, such as Roslin and the Adamas, sound American, but Baltar's faked Caprican accent sounds English. It also explains why Baltar's real Aerilon accent sounds like a Yorkshire accent while Tigh's fake backstory of growing up on Aerilon goes unquestioned despite his strong Canadian-sounding accent, and Boomer's accent can be described as having a trace of Aerilon in it despite sounding nothing like Baltar's.
All of the human characters from the original Battlestar Galactica are descendants of the Centurion rebels.Think about it.
The cycle didn't end, it's only been warped 12 years, and in 2012, humans are going to figure out how to make sentient robots. And so it goes...That is, the Pope will. That's why they'll be programmed to worship God.
The writers ended the story in season 4.0; Season 4.5 was a Post Script Season.It's well known that the writers didn't know if the show would come back for season 4.5, due to the writers' strike during the mid-season break. Perhaps they decided at the last minute to wrap up the story early. A surprising amount happens in the last two episodes of season 4.0, including the discovery of "Earth" and making peace with the Cylons, which appear to wrap up the main plots of the show. It's even implied that Kara is a cylon, which would make Kara the 13th cylon, which wraps up that plotline. When the show comes back for season 4.5, it goes in some unexpected, slightly WTF directions. Cavil emerges as the big bad guy who was behind everything all along. It turns out that there's another "Earth". Kara is a... whatever that was. Basically, season 4.5 feels like a Post Script Season. Maybe that's because it was.
Bob Dylan is a Cylon.That's my brother's theory, as it would explain why he wrote a song clearly made well before his time.
Colonial technology as a whole really wasn't any more advanced than modern day Earth's.Apart from the giant FTL spaceships and sentient robots, Colonial technology seems very much like what we have here on Earth today. This is because the Colonials really haven't gotten any farther than us technologically. Basically, our civilization should already have FTL travel and robots but can't figure it out, and have actually come to believe the former is impossible.
The series does not take place in our universe but in a parallel one where intelligent life first arose on Kobol rather than Earth.The Centurians were created by Daniel Greystone and eventually rebelled, possibly helped by Clarice Willow and Zoe-A. Worship of the One True God became prevalent among the Centurions. A long and bloody war ensued. Then some of the Centurians began to try to create flesh-and-blood humanoid bodies and succeeded in creating the Hybrids. The Hybrids convinced their creators to stop the war in order to work further on creating self-sustaining human models with which to replace their flawed human enemies (according to God's plan). The truce was declared and the Cylons disappeared. They eventually succeeded in creating five humanoid models: Tigh, Tory, Tyrol, Anders and Starbuck. The Hybrids also managed to invent bio-resurrection. But when the human models awoke, they refused to participate in the plan to destroy the humans and replace them. They were then boxed. The Centurions and Hybrids realised that they would have to programme their new human models to follow their own orthodoxy and thus created seven more humanoid models. They then planted the Five in the Colonies. Eventually, the Cylons attack the Colonies of Kobol again. Head Six really is an AI on a chip in Baltar's head . The Five remain allied with the humans (save Tory Foster) and Chip Six is following a path based on her own interpretation of the One True God and his plan. The fleet follows the original star map and arrive at Earth, which is still populated by people who they discover are the descendants of artificial humans who were created on Kobol thousands of years ago.
The Lords of Kobol are Goa'uld.The LOK are/were Goa'uld from SG-1, posing as Gods, whilst the Cylon God is an ascended Ancient/Ori who is not happy with their poaching on his turf.
One of the twelve colonies was space-borneOne of the weird things about Battle Star Galactica was the distribution of jump-drives. It makes no sense for ships to not have not jump-drives, because of its efficiency and speed, yet in the pilot, there were dozens of ships, including several ships used for mobile production, that had no such drive. My theory is that these ships didn't have a jump drive, because they never visited any planets, instead living as space nomads. Any asteroid fields would have an abundance of resources, even at sublight speeds. Jump drives would be unneccesary if producing only for a local area. Why else would you have a farm in space anyway?
Caprica = UnovaLook at the prevalence of octagons and hexagons everywhere in the reimagined series. Now go play Pok�mon Black or Pok�mon White. Look at the octagons and hexagons everywhere. Does it remind you of anything?
Cavil is responsible for the destruction of First EarthThink about it - the Final Five have no idea who is responsible for launching the final battle between the Ridiculously Human Robots of First Earth and their robots. Cavil is the first of the new breed of robots created by the Final Five, based on Ellen Tigh's father. Since Cavil never claims to actually BE her father, we can assume that her father died before the holocaust on First Earth. How exactly did the Final Five come up with the technology to develop the Signficant Seven models (eight if you include the deceased Daniel), as well as reinvent Resurrection technology? It's unlikely that the five of them did it by themselves - they would have to have help, Perhaps Cavil created to help them in this project. And perhaps Cavil came to sympathize with the aims of the First Earth robots and decided to get revenge on his creators by helping his robotic "brothers" destroy First Earth. Let's face it - he loathes the idea of even looking human and hates not being able to experience the universe as a machine would. So it seems to be no stretch of the imagination that he would want to destroy robots who had for all intents and purposes were living AS humans.
The cycle will repeat, but not on Earth.Kel'Zorah watched as Rannoch burned below him. Between him and his homeworld were two barely distinguishable fleets battling it out. The difference was that one was crewed by the Geth. Robot slaves built by the quarians to do manual labour, they gained sentience and started asking questions. When the quarians tried to wipe them out, they rose up. Now his homeworld was gone, his wife was gone, his people on the verge of extinction. As the Rayya lumbered toward the mass relay, he wondered if his people would have any future at all. Okay, it's full of holes, and I have better theories, but I just thought I would share.
Earth-1 and Earth-2 are the same planet, just at different points in time.After leaving Earth-1 the Colonial fleet unknowingly passed through some kind of time warp which sent them 150,000 years back in time (give or take a few millennia). That's why the constellations matched Earth-1. "Present day" on the show really is several thousand years in the future, close enough for the constellations to still match, yet have the Earth be nuked. Also, If My Calculations Are Correct, the solar system would have traveled about 110 light-years in that span of time, orbiting around the center of the galaxy, meaning the characters wouldn't initially think they were back at the same place.
The Cylon God is a ReapernBSG takes place after the events of Mass Effect 3. A small group of humans escape Earth, which was destroyed during the war against the Reapers. The humans successfully ride out the cycle of extinction, possibly driving the Reapers back into dark space. They eschew eezo-based technology after settling on thirteen colonies. Earth-1 is our Earth- nBSG takes place in the future, not the past. One would have to disregard the ending, of course. Interestingly, not one but two things that have happened before happen again. The humans build the Cylons, which rebel, and then are lead by a Reaper- exactly the same as what happened with the Quarians and Geth. It would be logical to assume that out there in the galaxy, other alien races are fighting and dying as the Reapers destroy their worlds. And the humans are actually screwed, it's just that DIRECT INTERVENTION IS NECESSARY.
The primitive humans on Earth-2 are refugees from the destruction of Earth-1Who had the same idea as Lee Adama and decided to try to go back to a primitive way of life. This would explain why their DNA is compatible with Colonial humans, as well as adding a bit more "all this has happened before". I have no idea how much this would stretch/shatter into a million tiny pieces the Original Series continuity, but to make this tree even more epileptic: the Thirteenth Tribe formed their own 12 Colonies, of which Earth-1 was just one. They developed their own Centurions, who rose up, destroying their worlds and civilisation, leaving only a rag-tag fleet of survivors, whose adventures are the original series. Eventually they stumbled upon Earth-2 and decided to forgo their technology and settle there.
The reimagined series and the original series (including Galactica 1980. Yes, that: it was a good idea, even if completely wasted. Please don't kill me) are in the backstory of Super Dimension Fortress Macross.Inspired by a few of the above theories. It started with Kobol being a Protoculture world. When the Zentradi rebelled, the people of Kobol managed to defeat a Zentradi-Meltlandi fleet stationed nearby, a fleet that settles on one of many worlds Protoculture adapted to its needs (Earth into Protoculture language). This fleet loses most of her technology, including fold, but manages to keep some of it and creates both a way to dump their knowledge into cloned bodies and robotic servants that they make look markedly different to a robotic workforce diffused in the entire Protoculture. Sadly, these robots rebel, and the Zentradi civilization is wiped out, leaving only five survivors who try and return to Kobol, or any Protoculture settlement, to warn them about the risks of their robots rebelling. In the meantime Kobol is threathened by another Zentradi fleet, this time a Bodol fleet. As the Lords of Kobol recognize they can't win and plea for mercy, the Zentradi commander decides to spare them on condition they evaquate Kobol leaving behind their robots, energy weapons, advanced fold technologies and alloys and the means to produce them, and to never return to Kobol or be exterminated. The Lords accept, and their people evaquates to what became the Twelve Colonies of Kobol. The Zentradi fleet would be later destroyed by Inspection Army and Protoculture survivors attacks. Two thousand years passed, and the people of the Twelve Colonies forgot about the Zentradi and mitized their exodus, before creating the Cylons, their workforce. Who promptly rebelled, and forced the Colonies to join to defeat them. After the First Cylon War, the Cylons encounters the Zentradi from Earth, who, in the attempt to prevent a second one, declares themselves actual organic Cylons (and in a way they are) and take control, giving the Cylon a few new technologies and creating eight new series of Zentradi, or organic Cylons, to both rebuild their civilization and create a friendly face to interact with the Colonies. As we know it backfired, leading to the Fall of the Twelve Colonies. In the end the survivors stumbled on Earth before settling on another Earth where Protoculture-like beings had come into existance, while the surviving Cylons took a reptilian form to differentiate themselves from humans and started searching for a new home, improving their technologies and escaping the dwindling Zentradi (who tend to mistake them for Inspection Army survivors) and the near-extinct Inspection Army and Protoculture survivors (who always recognize them as Zentradi on biological scanners and open fire in panic). The Galactica fleet wasn't the only group to escape the Fall of the Colonies: another fleet escaped, and actually resettled on Kobol after both the Galactica and the Cylon left. By now, the ancient technology left on Kobol has decayed, but the Colonials, helped by the Beings of Light (another group of Protoculture survivors), build a new civilization, with more advanced technologies (and changes in terminology, with 'galaxy' replacing 'solar system'). With their help they repair the ecological damage to the Twelve Colonies, and when Kobol is hit by an environmental disaster they return there, forming the Twelve Colonies of Man. In the nearby area the Colonials discover the Cylon Empire, that by now is under control of the IL-series and the Imperious Leader the Zentradi-Cylon created to improve the reaction time of the Centurions and save from the last Zentradi Bodol-class fleet and the now extinct Inspection Army and Protoculture (with the Beings of Light in hiding after a run-in with the Zentradi superior numbers nearly destroyed them). The Cylons try and establish peaceful relations with the Colonies, but the Colonials still fear them and, under the pretense of helping the Hasari, start a series of wars that would be remembered as the Thousand Yahren War. By the end of the war, the Twelve Colonies are ready to peace, but a new Imperious Leader decides to wipe them out, and manage to destroy their fleet at Cimtar before bombing the Colonies into oblivion. A new Galactica escapes with a convoy of sublight ships, and, after improvising a way for them to travel between solar sistems, searches for Earth, reaching the new Earth settled by Cylons and humans. The Galactica starts helping Earth's technological developement, and, after finding an old Inspection Army gun destroyer, repairs it and reverse engineer its technologies with help from the Beings of Light. Before they can implement these technologies, however, the Cylons manage to sick the Zentradi on the Galactica using the presence of the Inspection Army and the Beings of Light, and when a Zentradi fleet comes to verify the gun destroyer opens fire, dooming the Galactica and her fleet before they can talk their way out of trouble. Before being destroyed, however, the Colonials send the gun destroyer on Earth with his computers filled with data on the alien technology, and the Zentradi ignores it in favor of chasing the Beings of Light. Ten years later the Zentradi have finally finished the Beings of Light, and decide to check on the gun destroyer, thus starting Super Dimension Fortress Macross when the gun destroyer fires again.
EVERYTHING is explained by all this having happened before.If all of this has happened before, then it stands to reason that pure, home-grown humans are long since gone, replaced with Xth generation humanoid cyclons. The colonials are simply an old model of humanoid cylon from an earlier cycle. Kobol, Earth and Earth-2 have all been settled, nuked, and restored ad infinitum in previous cycles. Every unexplained event in the series is a direct result of everyone being a cylon of one generation or another. The metaphysics and influence of 'God' are a subconscious case of cylon projection, sometimes shared between multiple people. Starbuck following her return is simply fleet-wide projection, like an NPC in an MMO. This isn't quite Doing In the Wizard, since, by certain philosophies espoused in the show, you'd be hard pressed to identify where a pervasive, deep-seated connection between all sentient minds ends and where "God" begins. As Leoben says, we are all God.
None of it happened.The entirety of the BSG series was simply a simulation run within the context of the Caprica holoband. Originally an experiment into what should happen if the cylons returned to the war, its architect eventually drifted into introducing definite spirituality into the simulation, in order to investigate his own private curiosities into the effect of genuine religious miracles on a society.
The 12th Doctor is also a Final CylonJune of 2013 specific. Matt Smith, the 11th doctor is stepping down. There are 11 doctors. There are 11 models. We don't know who the 12th doctor will be but we do know they are out there and have probably seen the actor in a role already, not knowing they are the 12th Doctor.
Jimmy Hendrix got a little more Cylon genetics than everyone else did.That's why he wrote All Along the Watchtower.
The Powers That Be reset everything.When the fleet jumped to the coordinates Thrace had figured out they actually jumped into an entirely different galaxy or a new universe. This ensured that any surviving Cylons or Capricans would never find or interfere with the new Earth, and new Earth would never find them, either. The baseship given to the guardians unknowingly jumped back into the old universe the first time it jumped, and if they ever tried to return they would find that the coordinates don't work.
Battlestar Galactica takes place in the Outlaw Star universe.This theory is based off of the similarity of the Colonial/Cylon FTL drive and the OS universe's Sub-Ether Space drive. I propose that the descendents of the Colonials/Skinjobs found Draconite, which has similar elemental composition and properties to Tylinium. Tylinium simply has a shorter radioactive life span than Draconite, or it actually degrades to Draconite over millions of years. As for the reason why the Cylons/Humans never found any aliens like the Catrl-Catrl, either most civilizations hadn't developed the FTL drive yet, the Colonials never visited the planets where the aliens were, or the fleet and the alien ships never encountered each other due to the vastness of space. Which begs the question... Who would win, Cylons or Catrl-Catrl?
We are all Cylons living on First Earth.Therefore, we are all heading toward certain doom. Alternatively...
We are the humans/Cylons on Second Earth at the end of the series.But we are all still heading toward certain doom.
Ellen Tigh has memories of being sexually assaulted by her father.Most of this evidence is from "Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down".
BSG and Assassin's Creed are the same universe.In the finale of BSG, the Colonials and the skinjob Cylons disperse over the Earth in the year 148,000 BCE. Forgoing technology, they basically reboot civilization from zero. Also living on Earth are humanoids that do not appear to have language or culture. In Assassin's Creed, modern humanity is descended from a servant race created in the likeness of a superior human culture (Those Who Came Before/First Civ) that lived on Earth until approximately 75,000 BCE, when a solar flare wiped out most of the life on the planet, except for ~10,000 humans and a handful of Those Who Came Before. TWCB possessed a sixth sense that was part intuition, part ESP, a diluted version of which is Eagle Vision in the games. Those Who Came Before are a race of Colonial/Cylon hybrids. Eagle Vision is Cylon Projection/whatever Leoben Conoy (Number Two) does when he pulls knowledge "out of the stream." Hera, the first hybrid offspring, possessed the same abilities, so we know it is possible. Let's go back to the two dates that we know. 148,000 BCE and 75,000 BCE. There's a window of 73,000 years. For comparison, agriculture (and by extension permanent civilization) has only existed for about 12,000 years in the real world. Even with the Colonials starting from zero, they have an unimaginably long period of time to flourish. Nobody is going to live as hunter gatherers for SEVENTY THOUSAND YEARS. So the hybrid Colonial culture eventually arose, and dominated the planet. BSG is all about cycles. Humans create Cylons, Cylons rise up and cast down humans, survivors start over somewhere new. Lee Adama proposed abandoning technology to end the cycle, but twenty minutes later the same episode implies that his plan just delayed it. Tying into Assassin's Creed, modern humans were created from the primitive humanoids living apart from Colonials. Instead of creating mechanical life, the Colonials skipped straight to skinjobs this go around, genetically altering their servant race from preexisting stock. Modern AC humans are the latest iteration of Cylons, who again rose up against their creators (lead, possibly, by Adam*a*!). Until they were interrupted by a timely solar flare. (Or God did it. Again.)


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The tangy glaze bakes to a rich, dark brown that makes this meat loaf look every bit as good as it tastes!—Marcia Baures, Waukesha, Wisconsin
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Prep: 15 min. Bake: 1-1/2 hours
1/2 cup chopped onion
1 tablespoon butter
2 eggs, beaten
1 cup milk
3/4 cup quick-cooking
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2 teaspoons salt
1/2 teaspoon dried savory
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Habit Forming
- by Laura Resnick
Adapted from
Rejection, Romance, and Royalties:
The Wacky World of a Working Writer
I'm not a creature of habit. Mostly because I'm not organized and disciplined enough to maintain habits. So I hate the inevitable questions about my "habits" as a writer.
You know the questions I mean: How many hours per day do you write? How many pages per day do you write? How long does it take you to write a book? How long is a chapter? Do you see the characters or the plot first? What time of day do you write? Do you face East or West when writing?
Good grief, I don't know.
And I'm often flabbergasted when I hear about how someone else writes a book. Multiple drafts? (I'd quit in exhausted despair.) Graphs and charts and right-angle juxtaposition? (I was always bad at geometry.) Everything planned in advance, all factors known and accounted for before composing the prose. (I'd never feel compelled to write if I already knew everything that would happen.) Scenes written at random, then later put in order and quilted together. (How does one even do that?)
I'm also regularly bowled over by the work habits that other writers reveal: Writing from 4:00 AM to 7:00 AM. (Sorry, I'm busy REMing at that time.) Writing ten pages a day everyday no matter what. (The number of friends whom I've had to coax out of the "I'm so inadequate, I'm such a fraud!" doldrums after hearing that one…) Writing on separate projects in the morning and the afternoon. Writing without leaving a room for weeks. Writing in public, in private, by hand, with voice-operated software, without music, with one specific piece of music playing non-stop, with the TV on, with the blinds drawn, with candles burning, with cookies at hand, outside, inside, at the beach, on a laptop, in a laundry room…
Meanwhile, if you're someone who can't ever get into the habit of forming habits, like me, then your writing process is always changing. Which is why I can never answer those questions about how I write. I don't really know how many pages a day I write, or how many hours a day I sit here, or what daily goals I set, or what I know (or don't know) at the start of a project or a scene, or how much research I do! I don't really know because every book is different, and because I'm different for every book. Moreover, my process for a 250,000-word epic fantasy is different than it is for non-fiction, or for a 100,000-word contemporary novel, or for a 3,000-word short story.
So when people ask me all that stuff about how I write…not only can I not fathom why anyone would want to know this, since there is no right answer, no universal formula, no secret handshake, and it's a pretty darn dull subject, anyhow…but I also really don't have an answer. One way or another, the books and the stories and the articles get done year after year, and that's all that really matters.
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Ari Marmell says:
August 10th, 2009 at 2:40 am
Wow. I'm about the exact opposite, and I can't even fathom trying to write like that. I have no discipline in any other part of my life–if I did, I'd be 50 pounds lighter–but I *need* rigid guidelines for writing.
I don't have a fixed time for writing, but I do have a set minimum daily word count (2K, for the record) which, if I haven't met, I *cannot* call the day done with. And I absolutely *must* have an outline. It's not all that detailed–I tend to make up the specifics as I go–and I'm willing to deviate from it if the story changes. But I have to have the general roadmap of major chapters and events to work from. Heck, I've been known, on occasion, to outline individual chapters, if they're proving troublesome enough.
That said, I certainly agree with you that some other techniques seem–to me–to be the products of a sadistic mind. The notion of writing scenes out of order and then trying to shuffle them into a comprehensive novel fills me with the sort of mortal dread one would otherwise only experience facing an attacking army of roaches, mounted on wasps, hurling spiders at you.
Margot Justes says:
August 11th, 2009 at 6:37 pm
I loved the blog, I don't outline, but have a general idea in my head where I want to go, and I always have to write even alittle bit every day, otherwise I become guilt ridden. And let's not forget about the daily marketing…
Chris Warren says:
August 12th, 2009 at 6:04 am
The fact is that the process of writing, like many other disciplines, e.g. cooking, garden designing, house building, and anything else you care to mention, will find as many differences in the detailed execution as there are practitioners.
There are basic rules that will always apply to any activity if the end result is to be positive, but the process of getting there is unique for each person.
No amount of analysis or argument will ever find one right way of writing to suit all people. My advice is, having established the basic principles, then do it your way. As Laura says a successful end result is what matters.
Chris Warren
Author and Freelance Writer
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