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Concepts
18 entries tagged Concepts, 18 of them long reads. The rest of the wiki points here most often at Colonial Fleet: 120 battlestars and Twelve Colonies of Kobol.
- Algae planetThe algae planet was a habitable world orbiting an unstable star, once visited by the Thirteenth Tribe and later sought by human refugees for its algae before a supernova destroyed it.
- Atlas: Lord of Kobol who bore the skyAtlas appears to be one of the Lords of Kobol worshipped in the Colonial polytheist faith. He gave his name to Caprica City's Atlas Arena, where a great statue of him, posed as if bearing a heavy load, stood watch.
- Colonial Fleet: 120 battlestarsThe navy of the Twelve Colonies, which fought the Cylon War. One software exploit cut it to two surviving battlestars on the day of the Fall.
- Cyrannus: the Colonies' four sunsFour stars in a double binary, Helios Alpha through Delta, holding all Twelve Colonies. Refugees from Kobol settled them two thousand years back.
- God: the One True God of the MonotheistsGod, or the One True God, was a metaphysical entity especially concerned with the evolution of humans and Cylons. Its worshippers, called Monotheists, held it to be the only deity worthy of worship, setting their faith apart from the polytheistic belief in the Lords of Kobol.
- HebeHebe was one of the seventy-four moons of the gas giant Zeus in the Cyrannus star system. Along with Nike, it was one of the largest moons of that gas giant.
- HestiaHestia was a gas giant orbiting the star Helios Delta in the Cyrannus star system. At only 47,000 kilometers in diameter it was the smallest gas giant in the Four Systems, and it held seventeen moons.
- HiberniaHibernia was the only moon of the colony Virgon, orbiting the star Helios Beta in the Cyrannus star system. Though only marginally habitable, it was settled a few centuries before the Fall by Virgon dissidents known as the Celtans.
- MinosMinos, also known as Tauron I, was the largest moon in the Twelve Colonies and the only one with a ring system. Though it lacked an atmosphere, it housed several of Tauron's scientific and mining colonies.
- MithrasMithras was a god worshipped by a minority among the Twelve Worlds, outside the established faith in the Lords of Kobol. Persecution of his followers became a concern after the Battle of the Ionian Nebula.
- MonotheismMonotheism was a human religion teaching of a single omnipotent and omniscient deity called the One True God. A minority faith across the Twelve Colonies, it was often treated as zealotry, yet its largest colonial home lay on Gemenon and its conflict with Polytheism recurred throughout the Cycle of Time.
- OuranosOuranos was a dense, mineral-rich asteroid belt in the Helios Beta system that separated its inner and outer worlds. Its resources made it a frequent point of conflict between rival colonies.
- PolytheismPolytheism was the dominant religion of the Twelve Worlds, originating on Kobol and worshipping many deities known as the Lords of Kobol. Its faith shaped Colonial politics, ritual, and community, and stood in long opposition to the Monotheist belief in a single God.
- Rear AdmiralRear Admiral was a flag officer rank of the Colonial Fleet. Rear Admirals served beneath Vice Admirals and held command over one of the nine major divisions into which the Fleet was organized.
- ThanatosThanatos was an inhospitable planet in the Cyrannus star system, the closest world to the star Helios Gamma. Its atmosphere of sulfur dioxide made it unsuitable for kobolforming, and it took its name from a god of death.
- Thirteenth Tribe: the lost Cylon people of KobolThe Thirteenth Tribe were a race of cybernetic beings who originated on Kobol and left it to found their own world. They settled Earth, where the sentient machines they built rose against them in a war that ended in mutual destruction.
- Twelve Colonies of KobolThe United Colonies of Kobol, also called the Twelve Colonies of Kobol, was the interplanetary state that represented humanity from the Cylon War until its dissolution upon the settling of the second Earth.
- ZeusZeus was a vast gas giant in the Cyrannus star system and the largest planet in Cyrannus. Two of its many moons, Hebe and Nike, possessed breathable atmospheres.