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Colonies

27 entries tagged Colonies, 27 of them long reads. The rest of the wiki points here most often at Caprica: the Colonial capital and New Caprica: Baltar's colony.

The red moon: where Starbuck was shot down and flew a Raider homeThe red moon is a lifeless, waterless world orbiting a gas giant many jumps from the Twelve Colonies. Weeks after the Fall, Kara Thrace ejected into its frozen carbon dioxide atmosphere, then got off it by gutting the Cylon Raider she had shot down and flying it back into space.
AerilonAerilon was an agricultural world and one of the Twelve Colonies of Kobol. Known as the food basket of the Colonies, it was a poor, working-class farming world and the birthplace of Gaius Baltar.
AquariaAquaria was a cold, sparsely populated ocean world and one of the Twelve Colonies of Kobol. Official guides describe it as a former research outpost that grew 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.
Caprica: the Colonial capitalCaprica 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.
Colonial Fleet HeadquartersColonial Fleet Headquarters, also called Picon Fleet Headquarters, was the central command and support centre of the Colonial Fleet on Picon. It was destroyed in the opening wave of nuclear strikes in the Fall of the Twelve Colonies.
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 target of a costly mission tied to 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.
Gemenon: the First ColonyOne 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.
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.
Kobol: humanity's lost homeworldKobol 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.
Leonis: Heart of the ColoniesThe largest world in Cyrannus and seat of an early empire, known for its wine, ski slopes and learning. The Cylon attack left it uninhabitable.
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 Caprica: Baltar's colonyBaltar campaigned for settling New Caprica, a barely habitable world hidden in a DRADIS-blocking cloud. A Cylon patrol found it, and the Occupation began.
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 dead planet in the Cyrannus star system that the Colonials had failed to kobolform, though they still kept several small colonies and a military research station there.
Picon: the Ocean ColonyThree quarters ocean, affluent and socially progressive. Picon hosted Colonial Fleet Headquarters in the years after the first Cylon War ended.
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.
Scorpia: the Colonies' playgroundA ringed jungle world of Helios Gamma that lived on its tourist trade, and also held the Scorpion Fleet Shipyards that built 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, one of the uncolonised bodies in the system that was home to the Twelve Colonies of Kobol.
Tauron: the Old ColonyA proud industrial world scarred by famine, civil war and a recognised genocide of its native Ha'la'tha, long before the Cylons finished the job.
Troy: the mining world of Helios BetaTroy was a small, metal-rich world of the star Helios Beta in the Cyrannus Star System, mined by Virgon and Leonis, whose settlement was wrecked when a protective dome collapsed. Sharon Valerii believed she grew up there.
Virgon: the Imperial ColonyA temperate world of Helios Beta, second largest of the habitable colonies, known for its forests, its wealth and its capital, Boskirk.