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Colonies

26 entries tagged Colonies. Every entry is sourced from the Battlestar Galactica reimagined series, the miniseries, the television films, or the official companion material.

AerilonAerilon was a temperate agricultural world in the Cyrannus star system and one of the Twelve Colonies of Kobol. Known as the "Food Basket of the Colonies", it was a rugged, working-class farming world and the birthplace of Gaius Baltar.
AquariaAquaria was a cold, sparsely populated world in the Cyrannus star system and one of the Twelve Colonies of Kobol. Known as "The Ice Colony", it grew from a research outpost into a frontier colony governed by direct democracy.
CanceronCanceron was a planet of the Cyrannus star system orbiting Helios Delta, the most populous of the Twelve Colonies of Kobol. A long-standing democracy of vast cities and sprawling slums, it shared an orbit with Aerilon and Hestia.
CapricaCaprica was a planet in the Cyrannus star system and the cultural, economic and military center of the Twelve Colonies of Kobol. Birthplace of the first Cylons, it became the capital of the United Colonies and was devastated in the Cylon assault that ended colonial civilization.
Colonial Fleet HeadquartersColonial Fleet Headquarters, also called Picon Fleet Headquarters, was the military installation on Picon that housed most of the Colonial Admiralty. It was a primary target in the opening nuclear barrage of the Fall of the Twelve Colonies and was destroyed.
Djerba: the ice moon of Sector 12Djerba was an icy stellar body in Sector 12 that held a winter resort before the Cylon War. Captured by the Cylons early in the conflict, it became a deep enemy stronghold and the site of a costly engagement during the Ghost Fleet Offensive.
Earth: the new home of the survivorsThis Earth was the world settled by the survivors of the Twelve Colonies and their humanoid Cylon allies at the end of their long flight. Already home to primitive humans, it became the cradle of a new lineage descended from Hera Agathon.
EarthEarth was a world settled by the Thirteenth Tribe roughly four thousand years before the fall of the Twelve Colonies. Once home to a flourishing Cylon civilization, it was reduced to a radioactive ruin by a nuclear holocaust, and the Colonial fleet abandoned it days after at last reaching it.
Erebos: the Tauron mining beltThe Erebos asteroid belt orbited Helios Alpha in the Cyrannus star system, lying between the worlds of Tauron and Zeus. Mined by Tauron prospectors for hundreds of years, its mineral wealth helped fuel the high-tech revolution on Tauron.
GemenonGemenon was a planet of the Cyrannus star system orbiting Helios Alpha, the first world settled by the Kobol refugees and the most religious of the Twelve Colonies. Known for its extreme climate, it shared an orbit with Caprica as a double planet.
Hera: gas giant of Helios BetaHera was a gas giant in the Cyrannus star system, orbiting the star Helios Beta. It was the third-largest planet in the system and was named for a god of the Colonial religion, the patron deity of Gemenon.
Icarus: the molten innermost planet of Helios AlphaIcarus was the first planet of the star Helios Alpha in the Cyrannus Star System. Its extremely close orbit left its surface largely molten metal, and the Colonials ignored it as unfit for exploration, mining, or settlement.
KobolKobol was the ancestral homeworld of the Twelve Tribes and the Thirteenth Tribe, abandoned for over two thousand years and rediscovered by the refugee fleet during its search for Earth.
LeonisLeonis was the largest world in the Cyrannus star system and one of the Twelve Colonies of Kobol. Known as the "Heart of the Colonies", it was the seat of a former empire, renowned for its wine, ski slopes and learning, and was left uninhabitable by the Cylon assault.
LibranLibran was a planet of the Cyrannus star system orbiting Helios Gamma, one of the Twelve Colonies of Kobol. A jungle world with no fixed capital, it was home to the Inter-Colonial Court that settled disputes between the Twelve Worlds.
New CapricaNew Caprica was a marginally habitable planet briefly settled by the survivors of the Twelve Colonies, chosen for its concealment within a stellar cloud before it was discovered and occupied by the Cylons.
Ophion: the captured gas giant of Helios GammaOphion was a large, frigid gas giant orbiting the star Helios Gamma in the Cyrannus Star System. Studies suggested it was a rogue planet captured by the system, an event that also shifted Ragnar into its present orbit.
PallasPallas was a planet in the Cyrannus star system whose repeated failed kobolforming attempts helped instigate the Imperial Wars and which came under Cylon attack during the First Cylon War.
PiconPicon was a temperate ocean world in the Cyrannus star system and one of the Twelve Colonies of Kobol. Known as "The Ocean Colony", it was an affluent, socially progressive world that hosted Colonial Fleet Headquarters after the Cylon War.
RagnarRagnar was a gas giant in the Cyrannus Star System whose hydrocarbons drove the economies of Canceron and Aerilon. It saw a costly battle early in the Cylon War and later hosted the surplus depot of Ragnar Anchorage.
SagittaronSagittaron was a barren, mountainous world in the Cyrannus star system and one of the Twelve Colonies of Kobol. Settled by Gemenese fundamentalists, it was known for religious isolationism, distrust of modern medicine, and the resentment that fed Tom Zarek's insurgency.
ScorpiaScorpia was a ringed jungle planet of the Cyrannus star system orbiting Helios Gamma, one of the Twelve Colonies of Kobol. A popular vacation resort, it was also home to the Scorpion Fleet Shipyards that built ships for the Colonial Fleet.
Styx: planet of the Cyrannus systemStyx was a planet of the Cyrannus star system, orbiting the star Helios Delta. It was a world with a dense reducing atmosphere of carbon dioxide and sulfides, counted among the bodies of the system settled by the people of the Twelve Colonies of Kobol.
TauronTauron was a planet in the Cyrannus star system and one of the Twelve Colonies of Kobol. Known as "The Old Colony", it was a proud, industrious world scarred by famine, civil war and a genocide of its native Ha'la'tha people before falling in the Cylon assault that ended colonial civilization.
Troy: the mining world of Helios BetaTroy was the innermost planet of the star Helios Beta in the Cyrannus Star System. Rich in metal, it was extensively mined by Virgon and Leonis until its mining colony was destroyed in a methane explosion that left no survivors.
VirgonVirgon was a temperate world in the Cyrannus star system and one of the Twelve Colonies of Kobol. Once the seat of a dominant interplanetary empire, the "Imperial" colony was ruled by a royal family and was destroyed in the Cylon assault on the Twelve Worlds.