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Post by Capt. Joseph Markus on Nov 17, 2011 11:08:28 GMT -6
A list of various Colonial locations-just for your viewing pleasure!
Algae PlanetThe so-called Algae Planet is a ringed, terrestrial planet located on the far side of a young nebulous star cluster from Kobol and the Twelve Colonies. The planet appears first in the episode "The Passage". It has an abundance of primitive plant life in the form of waterborne algae which the refugee fleet stop to harvest for food. There is also an immense desert region where the fleet sets up a temporary base camp.
The Temple of Five is discovered located beneath its surface by Chief Galen Tyrol, who finds himself mysteriously drawn to the location, not knowing that he was a Kobol-era biological Cylon. It is later believed to have been a temporary colony of the Thirteenth Tribe of Kobol on their voyage to Earth, some 4,000 years ago. The Eye of Jupiter artifact is located within the Temple of Five which offers another clue to finding Earth. The planet, temple and artifact are featured in the sacred texts.
The fleet's stay at the planet is cut short when the world is destroyed after the blue giant star the planet is orbiting goes nova. After the nova explosion, the young nebula it creates looks similar to the more distant Ionian Nebula, located 13,000 light years away. Acting on a hunch that the Eye of Jupiter is a "road sign", Admiral William Adama sets course for the Ionian Nebula hoping it will lead to Earth.
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Post by Capt. Joseph Markus on Nov 17, 2011 11:08:57 GMT -6
Armistice LineThe Armistice Line demarcates the border between Colonial Space of the Twelve Colonies and Cylon Space. It was agreed to at the end of the First Cylon War. Crossing the line by either side is considered an act of war. Commander William Adama of the Battlestar Valkyrie, under orders from Admiral Corman, sent a fighter pilot nickamed "Bulldog" over the armistice line in a Stealthstar, one year before the Destruction of the Colonies. Bulldog's mission was to spy on the Cylons, but his fighter was detected and Adama chose to destroy Bulldog's fighter and kill his own pilot rather than have the Cylons discover the nature of Bulldog's mission. Adama later came to see this incident as the starting point of the Second Cylon War, and suffers guilty feelings because of it.[6]
[edit] Armistice StationThe Armistice Station was a diplomatic space station that appears in the opening of the miniseries. The station was constructed by humans after the Cylon War so that humans and Cylons could meet once a year in a neutral location to continue their peace accords.
Over a period of 40 years the colonies annually sent a representative, while the Cylons never once showed up for the meeting. Their only time to make an appearance was to destroy the station, a prelude to invasion. The station was fired upon by a Basestar, which dwarfed the space station in size. It was the first attack of the Cylon invasion, which lead to the destruction of the Twelve Colonies.
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Post by Capt. Joseph Markus on Nov 17, 2011 11:09:12 GMT -6
Breeders CanyonBreeders Canyon on New Caprica is a river valley some distance from New Caprica City, chosen by the insurgents as the place to meet Galactica's Raptor team led by Sharon Agathon.[7]
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Post by Capt. Joseph Markus on Nov 17, 2011 11:09:31 GMT -6
Camp Oil SlickCamp Oil Slick was the codename given to the temporary refugee camp made aboard the Galactica in the unused museum hangar during the episode "The Passage". After the loss of two ships, the Carina and Adriatic, the survivors of those vessels made Camp Oil Slick their permanent home which had been renamed "Dogsville".
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Post by Capt. Joseph Markus on Nov 17, 2011 11:09:45 GMT -6
The ColonyThe Colony was an extremely large space station, many times larger than even a Cylon basestar. It had an organic appearance with at least six radial arms emitting from a large, central hub. The station was built by the Cylons as their base of operations following the conclusion of the First Cylon War. It was here that the mechanical Cylons and the Final Five collaborated on the creation of the other humanoid models. It may be analogous to the occasionally mentioned 'Cylon homeworld'. Cavil moved the Colony just prior to the Cylon Civil War, from its former location to a more secure area located deep inside the accretion disk of a black hole. The gravity well means that the only safe position where a ship could jump into the system is only one kilometer above the Colony. The Colony appeared to be defended by several basestars and Cylon Raiders of both contemporary design and from the First Cylon War. According to Ronald D. Moore's podcast, the Final Five's original, sublight ship was located in the heart of the Colony and the rest of the station was built around it.
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Post by Capt. Joseph Markus on Nov 17, 2011 11:10:41 GMT -6
Cylon homeworldThe Cylon homeworld was a planet colonized by Cylons following the First Cylon War. It was the location of the Cylon Colony until the Cylon Civil War.
[edit] Cyrannus Star SystemIn the re-imagined series, the Cyrannus Star System is two pairs of binary stars, "Helios Alpha" and "Helios Beta" that orbit a common barycenter at a distance of .16 light year from binary barycenter to binary barycenter. Kobol is located 2000 light years away. The second pair is "Helios Delta" and "Helios Gamma", orbiting the barycenter at 70 astronomical units. The gas giant Ragnar (moon: Sigurd) orbits the binary systems Helios Delta and Helios Gamma about the barycenter at 110 astronomical units.
In the Battlestar Galactica video game, published in 2003, just prior to the release of the reimagined series, the colonies were in one star system called "Cyrannus". The name "Cyrannus" was used in the original series episode "The Long Patrol", but was used by the character Starbuck as the name of the galaxy, not a single star system, although as with most SF shows of that era, much of the terminology used is obscure and self-contradictory. It appears as if the authors were themselves frequently unclear as to what the difference between a solar system and a galaxy was, though "star system" could refer to a cluster of stars that were in relatively close proximity to each other. The name "Cyrannus" has not been used in the reimagined series.
In the 1978 series, the Colonies were very obviously set in a binary star system, and distinguished between "Inner" and "Outer" colonies. "Inner" colonies orbited the primary star in the system, and "Outer" colonies orbited the other one, though both appeared to be G2 class stars from what little information was visible onscreen. The inner colonies - including Virgon, Sagitaria and Caprica - were attacked first. By the time the Galactica arrived, the Cylons were already launching their first wave against the outer colonies.
In the novelization of the pilot for the 1978 series, the Twelve Colonies are referred to as "The Twelve Colonies of the Three Suns".
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Post by Capt. Joseph Markus on Nov 17, 2011 11:11:30 GMT -6
[edit] DelphiDelphi was a major city on the planet of Caprica. It contains the Museum of the Colonies. This Museum contained the Arrow of Apollo, an ancient artifact which could supposedly point the way to the mythical planet of Earth, home of the lost thirteenth colony. Like Caprica City, Delphi's human population was totally exterminated by the Cylons in their attack on Caprica; however, the Museum building survived the attack, as does the Arrow of Apollo artifact.
Delphi Museum of the Colonies
The Museum of the Colonies is located in the city of Delphi on the planet Caprica. It contains various artifacts, including the Arrow of Apollo.
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Post by Capt. Joseph Markus on Nov 17, 2011 11:11:47 GMT -6
DogsvilleDogsville was the makeshift "town" established aboard Galactica in the unused museum hangar. Formerly "Camp Oil Slick", Dogsville's residents were survivors of the ships Adriatic, and Carina which were lost in the episode "The Passage" as they traversed a dangerous star cluster. Most of Dogsville's residents are refugees from the Colonies of Picon and Sagittaron.
In the episode "The Woman King", a doctor named Michael Robert was discovered murdering the Sagittarons in Dogsville for whom he had a deep hatred.
In the episode "Maelstrom", Starbuck visited Yolanda Breen, an oracle living in Dogsville.
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Post by Capt. Joseph Markus on Nov 17, 2011 11:12:05 GMT -6
There are two planets referred to as Earth in the Battlestar Galactica series.
[edit] Earth of the Thirteenth TribeThis Earth, according to the sacred scripture of the Twelve Colonies, is the legendary planet where the "lost" Thirteenth Tribe of Kobol supposedly settled. When Earth is finally reached at the end of the episode "Revelations", the surface is shown briefly as a radioactive wasteland filled with ruins of a destroyed civilization.
In "Sometimes a Great Notion", it is revealed that the Thirteenth Tribe consisted of humanoid and mechanical cylons of a type previously unknown. It is also revealed that the final five cylons had lived there 2000 years in the past, when an apparent nuclear war devastated the planet.
[edit] Earth of the Colonial RefugeesThis Earth is the final destination of the refugees from the Twelve Colonies. In the series finale episode "Daybreak, Part II", it is revealed that the Thirteenth Tribe's "Earth" is a different planet from the Earth that orbits Sol. Head-Baltar refers to the Thirteenth Tribe's Earth as the real Earth. In the series finale, Starbuck eventually leads the fleet to a planet that appears as the true Earth and they first land on the continent of Africa.
Advancing ahead in time 150,000 years to New York City, a pedestrian (played by Ronald D. Moore) is shown reading a magazine which the cover shows Hera as the Mitochondrial Eve and humanity are her descendants (who are a mixture of native Earth human, Colonial human, and humanoid Cylon due to the Colonial humans and humanoid Cylons interbreeding with the native Earth human population). Head-Six and Head-Baltar discuss the fate of humanity being destroyed by their technology as all having happened before—like it did on Kobol, The Thirteenth Tribe's Earth, and The Twelve Colonies—but Head-Six refutes this grim prophecy for new Earth.
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Post by Capt. Joseph Markus on Nov 17, 2011 11:12:21 GMT -6
Euclid RiverA river possibly located on Aerilon. It was mentioned in "Home, part I" as a place where Gaius Baltar used to sit alone as a boy to watch fish swim upstream.
[edit] Eye of JupiterThe Eye of Jupiter is an alcove inside the Temple of Five, where the mosaic Eye of Jupiter is located. A skylight in the ceiling allowed a natural shaft of light to fall on the mosaic. The design of the mosaic is based on the Eye of Jupiter supernova.
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Post by Capt. Joseph Markus on Nov 17, 2011 11:12:36 GMT -6
Gates of HeraThe Gates of Hera is a mountain pass between two peaks on the planet Kobol. It leads the way to the Tomb of Athena. Within the show, it is said that Athena jumped to her death in despair over the exodus of the tribes here. It is also said that the leaders of the Twelve Tribes of Kobol passed the pass on their way off-planet.[11]
Filming location: The Lions, twin mountain peaks overlooking Vancouver, British Columbia.[12] [edit] Galleon MeadowLocation on Kobol where President Roslin begins her search for the Tomb of Athena in "Home, part I". Named after the departure spot of a great galleon ship which was prophesied in the scriptures as taking the founders of the 13 colonies to their destiny.
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Post by Capt. Joseph Markus on Nov 17, 2011 11:13:16 GMT -6
Helios AlphaSpectral Class G2V, Mass 1.0. Planets: Icarus, Picon, Caprica & Gemenon (binary planets orbiting a barycenter), Tauron (moon: Minos), the Erebos asteroid belt, the gas giant Zeus (74 moons, including Hebe and Nike), and Persephone.
[edit] Helios BetaSpectral Class K1V, Mass 0.79. Planets: Troy, Leonis, the Ouranos asteroid belt, Virgon (moon: Hibernia), the gas giant Hera (29 moons, including Iris and Euboea), and Pallas.
[edit] Helios DeltaSpectral Class K2V, Mass 0.74. Planets: Phoebe, the Aeolus asteroid belt, the gas giant Hestia (17 moons, including binaries Rhea and Kronos) with Canceron & Aerilon at Hestia's L4 and L5, Aquaria, and Styx.
[edit] Helios GammaSpectral Class G9V, Mass 0.89. Planets: Thanatos, the Acheron asteroid belt, Scorpia, Saggitaron, Libran (moons: Herse and Pandrossos), and the gas giant Ophion (14 moons).
[edit] HeraHera is the third largest planet of all the Twelve Colonies and is a gas giant in the Helios Beta star system. It measures 75,000 km at its equator and has 29 moons, the largest being Isis and Euboea.
[edit] HestiaA ringed gas giant in the Helios Delta Star system. Hestia has a planetary diameter of 42,000 kilometres (26,097.6 mi) and it is the smallest gas giant in all of the colonies. It has 17 moons, the largest of which are Athea and Kronos which share an orbit.[1]
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Post by Capt. Joseph Markus on Nov 17, 2011 11:13:47 GMT -6
The Ionian Nebula is a supernova remnant recorded by the people of Kobol 4000 years ago. The nebula closely resembles the Eye of Jupiter supernova event in the episode "Rapture" that resulted when the star the Algae Planet orbited exploded. Felix Gaeta noted similarities in the remnant patterns and believes the Eye of Jupiter is a marker that points toward the Ionian Nebula; another clue to finding Earth.
A massive battle takes place inside the Nebula between the Battlestar Galactica and 4 Cylon Basestars. 1,700 civilians are killed when the civilian ship Pyxis is destroyed, with Space Park and Astral Queen heavily damaged (episode "He That Believeth in Me").
The Ionian Nebula is 13,000 light years from the Algae Planet.
NGC 2440 resembles the Ionian Nebula and is 4000 light-years from Earth.
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Post by Capt. Joseph Markus on Nov 17, 2011 11:14:02 GMT -6
Joe's BarA makeshift tavern constructed in Galactica's hangar bay and run by a civilian bartender named Joe. Joe's Bar made its first appearance in the episode "Taking a Break from All Your Worries".
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Post by Capt. Joseph Markus on Nov 17, 2011 11:15:12 GMT -6
Kimiko
Kimiko was the name given in passing dialog to an icy planet in the episode "Water", by Raptor ECO Lt. Crashdown. His pilot, Boomer discovers water here, however she had to fight her Cylon programming before she could divulge the find. Crashdown gets the name from a former girlfriend who was killed during the Second Cylon War attack, however Boomer disregards the name in her official report to Galactica.
Kobol is the "mother planet" where all humans supposedly developed. At one time the planet was wealthy and advanced; it was ruled over by the Lords of Kobol, and were said to live with the Gods. At some point, however, the people of Kobol became corrupt, decadent, and brutal, even practicing human sacrifice rituals. As a result, the Gods of Kobol cast out the thirteen human tribes living with them. Twelve of the tribes settled on the Twelve Colonies, the thirteenth tribe went in another direction and settled on Earth.
Kobol CollegeKobol College is a college on Gemenon, and is the claimed educational background of Aaron Doral.
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