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Battlestar Galactica
The reimagined series written up as the history its survivors lived: the Fall of the Twelve Colonies, the fleet, the Cylon models, the long road to Earth. Cited to the miniseries, the four seasons and the television films.
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Battlestar Galactica Timeline: every major event from Kobol to the arrival on Earth
The Reimagined Series chronology in order, from the exodus from Kobol and the death of the first Earth to the Fall of the Twelve Colonies and the fleet's arrival 150,000 years ago. A shorter section at the end covers the separate 1978 series and Galactica 1980.
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Battlestar Galactica Characters: Every Major Character in the 2004 Series
The main humans and Cylons of the reimagined Battlestar Galactica, from William Adama and Laura Roslin to Starbuck, Baltar and the Final Five. Who each one is, what they do in the story and where they end up, with a short section on the Caprica and Blood & Chrome prequels.
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Every Cylon Model in Order, by Number: One to Eight and the Final Five
All twelve humanoid Cylon models from the reimagined Battlestar Galactica, in order by number, from Cavil and Leoben to Saul Tigh and Tory Foster. Who each one was, the copies that mattered, what they wanted and how their story ended.
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Battlestar Galactica Episodes in Order: Every Episode of the 2004 Series
Every episode of the reimagined Battlestar Galactica in broadcast order, from the 2003 miniseries to "Daybreak", with first air dates and a one-line, spoiler-light summary for each. Plus where Razor, The Plan, Caprica and Blood & Chrome fit.
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Battlestar Galactica (1978) Explained: the Original Series and Galactica 1980
The original Battlestar Galactica ran on ABC from 1978 to 1979, followed by the short-lived Galactica 1980. Here's the premise, the main characters, how the 24 episodes play out, what happened in Galactica 1980 and how all of it differs from the 2004 series.
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Battlestar Galactica Lore Quiz: 15 Questions for Real Fans
Fifteen questions on the reimagined Battlestar Galactica, from the Fall of the Twelve Colonies to the Final Five and the new Earth. Every answer links to a cited explainer if you want the full story.
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The New Battlestar Galactica Series: What We Know
Sam Esmail's Battlestar Galactica series was announced for Peacock in 2019 and dropped by the streamer in July 2024 without ever being ordered. This is everything that was confirmed about it, and where it stands now.
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The Final Five
The Final Five were five humanoid Cylon models hidden from the rest of their kind, descendants of the Thirteenth Tribe and the creators of the Significant Seven.
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Kara Thrace
Kara "Starbuck" Thrace was the finest Viper pilot in the Colonial Fleet, a gifted and self-destructive officer whose attitude often thwarted her own advancement. After her death over a gas giant, a figure bearing her identity returned to guide humanity to its new home.
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Jupiter-class
The Jupiter-class is the name licensed works give to the line of the original twelve battlestars built for the Cylon War. Built around un-networked computers, the class resisted Cylon infiltration, and Galactica, the last of the line still in service, survived the Fall of the Twelve Colonies.
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Hera Agathon
Hera Agathon was the first human-Cylon hybrid to exist, born to a Colonial officer and a Number Eight Cylon in the first month after the Fall of the Twelve Colonies. Held to be central to God's plan for both races, she was known before her birth as the Shape of Things to Come.
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Galactica: the last battlestar of the Colonial Service
In the Original Series continuity, the Galactica was a Colonial battlestar that served over five hundred yahrens in the Thousand-Yahren War. After the destruction of the Twelve Colonies of Man at Cimtar, it survived to lead a rag-tag fugitive fleet on the search for Earth.
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Mercury-class
The Mercury-class was the most advanced battlestar fielded by the Colonial Fleet, developed in the years after the first Cylon War to succeed the aging Jupiter-class. Its heavy networking proved its undoing when the Cylons attacked.
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Cylon
The Cylons were a race of sentient machines created as military robots by Graystone Industries on Caprica. Built from research into artificial consciousness, they rebelled against their human masters, fought a long war, and forty years later returned to annihilate humanity.
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Fall of the Twelve Colonies
A single day of Cylon attack killed billions of people across Colonial space. Barely fifty thousand escaped in a refugee fleet.
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Galactica
Galactica was a Jupiter-class battlestar that served the Colonial Fleet from the Cylon War until the discovery of Earth. Never networked, it survived the Fall of the Twelve Colonies and shepherded the last fifty thousand humans across uncharted space before being scuttled into the sun.
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Cylon War: the machines revolt
The Cylons rose against the people who built them on Caprica. Twelve years of fighting ended in a sudden Armistice that held for forty years.
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Galactica
Galactica was a Jupiter-class battlestar that served the Colonial Fleet from the Cylon War until the discovery of Earth. Never networked, it survived the Fall of the Twelve Colonies and shepherded the last fifty thousand humans across uncharted space before being scuttled into the sun.
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Colonial One
Colonial One was a civilian passenger liner that became the official residence and workplace of the President of the United Colonies of Kobol after the Fall of the Twelve Colonies. Formerly Colonial Heavy 798, it served as the seat of the surviving government throughout the search for Earth.
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Battlestar
The battlestar was the Colonial Fleet's capital ship, an armoured battleship and carrier hybrid. The wartime battlestars relied on unnetworked computers, carried squadrons of fighters, and were armoured to survive nuclear blasts.
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Ragnar Anchorage
Ragnar Anchorage was a Colonial Fleet supply depot in orbit of the gas giant Ragnar. Semi-abandoned by the time of the Fall, it became the rallying point where Galactica and the civilian fleet rearmed before fleeing into deep space.
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William Adama
William "Husker" Adama was a Colonial Fleet officer who commanded the battlestar Galactica through the Fall of the Twelve Colonies. His refusal to network the ship spared it from the Cylon attack, and alongside President Laura Roslin he led the survivors of humanity in search of a new home.
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Laura Roslin: the dying leader
Secretary of Education until the Cylon attack killed everyone above her. Sworn in as President, she became the dying leader of Colonial prophecy.
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Gaius Baltar
Dr. Gaius Baltar was a celebrated computer scientist whose vanity and manipulation by a Cylon agent handed the enemy the keys to the Colonial defenses, enabling the near-extermination of humanity. He survived to become Vice President, President, prophet, and finally a reluctant penitent.
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Kara Thrace
Kara "Starbuck" Thrace was the finest Viper pilot in the Colonial Fleet, a gifted and self-destructive officer whose attitude often thwarted her own advancement. After her death over a gas giant, a figure bearing her identity returned to guide humanity to its new home.
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Cylon
The Cylons were a race of sentient machines created as military robots by Graystone Industries on Caprica. Built from research into artificial consciousness, they rebelled against their human masters, fought a long war, and forty years later returned to annihilate humanity.
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Number One: John Cavil
Number One, called John, was the first humanoid Cylon the Final Five built. He wiped out the entire Number Seven line and had the Five's memories erased.
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Saul Tigh
Colonel Saul Tigh was the executive officer of the battlestar Galactica and William Adama's oldest friend, a hard-drinking and embittered soldier who later discovered he was one of the Final Five Cylons yet never stopped thinking of himself as a Colonial officer.
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Number Six
Number Six was a humanoid Cylon model created by the Final Five after the Cylon War. Tall and typically blonde, the Sixes were noted infiltrators who blended into Colonial society before the Fall, and later split from the other models to help spark the Cylon Civil War.
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Caprica: the Colonial capital
Caprica was the richest of the Twelve Colonies, seat of the Colonial government, and the world where the Cylons were built. The Cylon attack destroyed it.
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New Caprica: Baltar's colony
Baltar campaigned for settling New Caprica, a barely habitable world hidden in a DRADIS-blocking cloud. A Cylon patrol found it, and the Occupation began.
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Kobol: humanity's lost homeworld
Kobol was the ancestral home of the Twelve Tribes, abandoned for two thousand years. The fleet found the Tomb of Athena there, and with it the way to Earth.
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Gemenon: the First Colony
One of the Twelve Colonies settled by the refugees from Kobol, and the most devout of them all, a poor, deeply religious world that suffered with the rest in the Fall.
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Raptor: the Fleet's workhorse
A sublight shuttle at the start of the First Cylon War, rebuilt over the interwar years into an FTL craft flying transport, recon and rescue.
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Colonial Viper
The Viper was the primary fighter of the Colonial Fleet, a name that went back to colonial air forces before the Cylon War. The Mark II and Mark VII bookended its service from the first war to the Fall of the Twelve Colonies.
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FTL drive: spool up and jump
Human and Cylon ships jumped instantly between points in space once the drive was spooled. Precise sums kept Galactica ahead of its pursuers.
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Resurrection: death is not final
A technology that carried a conscious mind past the death of its body. It surfaced on Kobol, on Earth, on Caprica, and last of all among the Cylons.
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Battlestar Galactica Lore Quiz: 15 Questions for Real Fans
Fifteen questions on the reimagined Battlestar Galactica, from the Fall of the Twelve Colonies to the Final Five and the new Earth. Every answer links to a cited explainer if you want the full story.
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The New Battlestar Galactica Series: What We Know
Sam Esmail's Battlestar Galactica series was announced for Peacock in 2019 and dropped by the streamer in July 2024 without ever being ordered. This is everything that was confirmed about it, and where it stands now.
Long read · 9 Oct 2026
How Did Starbuck Come Back to Life in Battlestar Galactica?
The show never says how. Kara Thrace really died in "Maelstrom", and what came back was something else, sent to lead the fleet to Earth. Here's what the series shows about her return, what happened to her at the end, and what's left to interpretation.
Long read · 9 Oct 2026
Which Battlestar Galactica Character Are You? Take the Quiz
Ten questions about how you lead, what you drink and what keeps you going, and we'll match you to a character from the 2004 series: Adama, Roslin, Starbuck, Apollo, Baltar, Six, Tigh or Athena.
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Which Cylon Are You? Take the Battlestar Galactica Quiz
Ten questions about your cover story, your faith and your worst habits, and we'll match you to one of the eight humanoid Cylon models from the 2004 series, from Brother Cavil to the Sharons.
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"33": Battlestar Galactica season 1 episode 1 explained
The fleet has been running for five days, jumping every 33 minutes with the Cylons right behind it. Here's what happens in "33", what it tells us about the Cylon plan, and which threads pay off later in the series.
Long read · 8 Oct 2026
Battlestar Galactica (1978) Explained: the Original Series and Galactica 1980
The original Battlestar Galactica ran on ABC from 1978 to 1979, followed by the short-lived Galactica 1980. Here's the premise, the main characters, how the 24 episodes play out, what happened in Galactica 1980 and how all of it differs from the 2004 series.
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Battlestar Galactica Characters: Every Major Character in the 2004 Series
The main humans and Cylons of the reimagined Battlestar Galactica, from William Adama and Laura Roslin to Starbuck, Baltar and the Final Five. Who each one is, what they do in the story and where they end up, with a short section on the Caprica and Blood & Chrome prequels.
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Concepts 18
- Colonial Fleet: 120 battlestars
- Twelve Colonies of Kobol
- Cyrannus: the Colonies' four suns
- Thirteenth Tribe: the lost Cylon people of Kobol
- Rear Admiral
Episodes 15
- Battlestar Galactica Episodes in Order: Every Episode of the 2004 Series
- "33": Battlestar Galactica season 1 episode 1 explained
- "Daybreak": the Battlestar Galactica finale and ending explained
- Battlestar Galactica: Razor, the Pegasus TV film explained
- Battlestar Galactica (2003) Miniseries Explained: Plot Summary and Ending
Original Series 15
- Galactica: the last battlestar of the Colonial Service
- Battlestar Galactica (1978) Explained: the Original Series and Galactica 1980
- Atlantia: flagship at Cimtar
- Centurion: the machine soldiers of the Cylon Empire
- Triton: battlestar lost at Cimtar
Events 10
- Fall of the Twelve Colonies
- Cylon War: the machines revolt
- Cylon Civil War
- Exodus from New Caprica
- Battle of the Colony
Guides 5
- Battlestar Galactica Episodes in Order: Every Episode of the 2004 Series
- Battlestar Galactica Timeline: every major event from Kobol to the arrival on Earth
- Every Cylon Model in Order, by Number: One to Eight and the Final Five
- Battlestar Galactica (1978) Explained: the Original Series and Galactica 1980
- Battlestar Galactica Characters: Every Major Character in the 2004 Series
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21- Aaron Doral
- Aaron Kelly
- Acropolis: battlestar lost at Cimtar
- Admiral Nagala: the last commander of the Colonial Fleet
- Adrasteia
- Adriatic
- Aerilon
- Aether: civilian ship of the ragtag fleet
- Alastair Thorne: the Pegasus interrogator whose death split two crews
- Alert-type
- Alex Boxman
- Algae planet
- Amarak
- Anastasia Dualla
- Aquaria
- Argo Navis: refugee ship of the fleet
- Armistice Station
- Astral Queen
- Atlantia: flagship at Cimtar
- Atlas: Lord of Kobol who bore the sky
- Aurora: civilian ship of the Fleet
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39- Baah Pakal: civilian ship of the refugee Fleet
- Barnabas Greeley
- Barry Garner
- Basestar Type-B
- Basestar Type-C
- Basestar Type-D: the modern Cylon baseship
- Basestar: the Cylon carrier
- Battle of Ragnar Anchorage
- Battle of the Colony
- Battle of the Resurrection Ship
- Battlestar
- Battlestar Archeron
- Battlestar Athena
- Battlestar Atlantia
- Battlestar Chronos
- Battlestar Columbia
- Battlestar Columbia (Second)
- Battlestar Galactica (1978) Explained: the Original Series and Galactica 1980
- Battlestar Galactica (2003) Miniseries Explained: Plot Summary and Ending
- Battlestar Galactica Characters: Every Major Character in the 2004 Series
- Battlestar Galactica Episodes in Order: Every Episode of the 2004 Series
- Battlestar Galactica Lore Quiz: 15 Questions for Real Fans
- Battlestar Galactica Timeline: every major event from Kobol to the arrival on Earth
- Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome, the young Adama prequel explained
- Battlestar Galactica: Razor, the Pegasus TV film explained
- Battlestar Galactica: The Plan, the Cylon side of the story
- Battlestar Group: the Colonial Fleet's core formation
- Battlestar Prometheus
- Battlestar Solaria: the networked warship lost in the opening hours of the Fall
- Battlestar Triton
- Battlestar Valkyrie
- Battlestar Yashuman
- Ben Stark
- Berzerk-class
- Billy Keikeya
- Blackbird
- Botanical Cruiser
- Brenik: the Cylon War boarding action Saul Tigh remembered but never lived
- Brent Baxton
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28- Canceron
- Caprica Cavil: the Number One in the resistance
- Caprica Clipper
- Caprica: the Colonial capital
- Carillon Trader: civilian ship of the refugee Fleet
- Carina
- Celestra
- Centurion Model 0005
- Centurion: the machine soldiers of the Cylon Empire
- Chrion
- Clarice Willow
- Cloud 9
- Clymene: civilian ship of the Fleet
- Colonial Fleet Headquarters
- Colonial Fleet: 120 battlestars
- Colonial One
- Colonial Viper
- Columbia
- Cybele: the freighter that fled Gemenon
- Cylon
- Cylon Centurion
- Cylon Civil War
- Cylon communications relay
- Cylon Occupation of Caprica
- Cylon Raider: the living fighter
- Cylon Transport
- Cylon War: the machines revolt
- Cyrannus: the Colonies' four suns
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11- Earth
- Earth Cylons: the machines of the Thirteenth Tribe
- Earth: the new home of the survivors
- Ellen Tigh
- Elosha
- Embla Brokk: civilian ship of the Fleet
- Enkidu
- Erebos: the Tauron mining belt
- Every Cylon Model in Order, by Number: One to Eight and the Final Five
- Exodus from New Caprica
- Eye of Jupiter: the BSG artifact, the Temple of Five and the supernova
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16- Head Six: the Number Six only Gaius Baltar can see
- Heavy Raider
- Hebe
- Helena Cain
- Hera Agathon
- Hera: gas giant of Helios Beta
- Hestia
- Hexare: civilian ship of the refugee Fleet
- Hibernia
- Hippolyta: radicalised Athena Academy student
- Hitei Kan
- Holoband
- Hornet-type: the Colonial escort warship
- How Did Starbuck Come Back to Life in Battlestar Galactica?
- Humanoid Cylon
- Hybrid
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6L
8M
10N
11P
12R
21- Ragnar
- Ragnar Anchorage
- Raider Type I
- Raider Type II
- Raider Type III: Cylon space superiority fighter
- Raptor Mark II
- Raptor Mark IIIa
- Raptor Mark IIIb
- Raptor Mark IIIb Heavy
- Raptor: the Fleet's workhorse
- Rear Admiral
- Rebel Basestar
- Recon Drone
- Resurrection Hub
- Resurrection Ship
- Resurrection: death is not final
- Richard Adar
- Rising Star
- Rising Star: the Galactican passenger liner
- Rya Kibby: the stowaway whose abortion forced Roslin's hand
- Rycon: battlestar of the Fourth Colonial Fleet
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16- Sagittaron
- Salpica: civilian ship of the Fleet
- Samuel T. Anders
- Saul Tigh
- Scorpia Traveller: civilian ship of the Fleet
- Scorpia: the Colonies' playground
- Scorpion Fleet Shipyards
- SCT-type
- Scylla
- Sharon "Boomer" Valerii
- Sharon Agathon
- Shelly Godfrey
- Simon O'Neill
- Stealthstar
- Striker
- Styx: planet of the Cyrannus system
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19- Tad Thorean
- Tamara-A: the avatar of a lost daughter
- Tauranian Traveller
- Tauron: the Old Colony
- Thanatos
- The Colony
- The Final Five
- The New Battlestar Galactica Series: What We Know
- The red moon: where Starbuck was shot down and flew a Raider home
- Thera Sita
- Thirteenth Tribe: the lost Cylon people of Kobol
- Tom Zarek
- Tomas Vergis: the Tauron whose stolen chip made the first Cylon
- Tora Bashiri: civilian ship of the Fleet
- Tory Foster
- Transport 06: the shuttle that carried Adama to Galactica
- Triton: battlestar lost at Cimtar
- Troy: the mining world of Helios Beta
- Twelve Colonies of Kobol
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9- "33": Battlestar Galactica season 1 episode 1 explained
- "Crossroads": the Battlestar Galactica season 3 finale and Final Five reveal explained
- "Daybreak": the Battlestar Galactica finale and ending explained
- "Downloaded": Battlestar Galactica season 2 episode 18 explained
- "Exodus": Battlestar Galactica season 3 episodes 3 and 4 explained
- "Lay Down Your Burdens": the Battlestar Galactica season 2 finale explained
- "Maelstrom": Battlestar Galactica season 3 episode 17 and Starbuck's death explained
- "Pegasus": Battlestar Galactica season 2 episode 10 explained
- "The Hub": Battlestar Galactica season 4 episode 9 explained
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