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Reimagined Series
269 entries tagged Reimagined Series, 269 of them long reads. The rest of the wiki points here most often at Cylon and Fall of the Twelve Colonies.
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19- Aaron DoralAaron Doral was a Number Five humanoid Cylon who infiltrated Colonial society as a public relations executive, running the press side of Galactica's decommissioning. Framed by Baltar, he was left behind at Ragnar Anchorage and collected by his fellow Cylons.
- Aaron KellyCaptain Aaron Kelly was the Landing Signals Officer aboard the battlestar Galactica and third in its chain of command. He served through the fall of the Twelve Colonies, the occupation of New Caprica, and the trial of Gaius Baltar, during which he turned to terrorism before recoiling from a later mutiny.
- Admiral Nagala: the last commander of the Colonial FleetAdmiral Nagala was the flag officer who took personal command of the Colonial Fleet after Picon Fleet Headquarters was destroyed in the opening barrage of the Fall. The admiral led a counterattack near Virgon that the Cylon corruption of the Command Navigation Program turned into a massacre, and died aboard Atlantia.
- AdrasteiaAdrasteia was a civilian ship that escaped the Fall of the Twelve Colonies as part of the ragtag fleet. It was still listed among the fleet's ships at the first presidential election after the Fall.
- AdriaticAdriatic was a civilian ship that escaped the Fall of the Twelve Colonies with the Fleet. The only civilian vessel known to carry weapons, it sided with Roslin at Kobol and was later lost in the radiation-soaked star cluster on the way to the Algae planet.
- 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.
- Aether: civilian ship of the ragtag fleetOne of the many civilian hulls that reached the ragtag fleet after the Fall of the Twelve Colonies. The record gives it no complement and no incident.
- Alastair Thorne: the Pegasus interrogator whose death split two crewsLieutenant Alastair Thorne was the Cylon interrogator aboard Pegasus, a man who tortured and raped his prisoners and was still owed his life by around fifty shipmates. Galen Tyrol killed him accidentally in Galactica's brig, and the grievance over it reached all the way to Gaeta's mutiny.
- Alert-typeThe Alert-type was a Colonial escort warship design of the First Cylon War, seen in Blood & Chrome. A close relative of the Hornet-type, refitted Alert-type ships sailed with the Ghost Fleet during the Ghost Fleet Offensive.
- Alex BoxmanBoxey was a child who survived the Fall of the Twelve Colonies after being evacuated from Caprica by Raptor. The son of the officer killed at Armistice Station, he was taken in by Galactica's crew, and a tie-in novel gives his full name as Alex Boxman.
- 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.
- AmarakDr. Amarak was a Colonial government scientist who worked at the Ministry of Defense alongside Gaius Baltar. He asked to warn President Roslin about a betrayal and was presumed killed aboard the Olympic Carrier.
- Anastasia DuallaAnastasia Dualla was an enlisted woman of the Colonial Fleet who served as communications officer aboard the Battlestar Galactica and later as executive officer of the Battlestar Pegasus.
- 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.
- Argo Navis: refugee ship of the fleetThe Argo Navis was a civilian ship that escaped the Fall of the Twelve Colonies and joined the refugee fleet. The script for The Son Also Rises names its captain as Simpson Markson, who was chosen to serve as a judge at the trial of Gaius Baltar.
- Armistice StationArmistice Station was a Colonial space station built on the Colonial-Cylon border after the Cylon War to host yearly diplomatic meetings. For forty years the Cylons sent no ambassador, and when they finally came the station was destroyed as the opening move of the attack on the Colonies.
- Astral QueenThe Astral Queen was a former starliner converted into a Colonial prison transport that survived the Fall of the Twelve Colonies. Its inmates rallied under Tom Zarek, kept control of the ship and made it a power base within the fleet.
- 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.
- Aurora: civilian ship of the FleetAurora was an FTL-capable civilian vessel that survived the Fall of the Twelve Colonies and joined the refugee fleet led by Galactica. It shared its name with Aurora, the Colonial goddess of the dawn.
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35- Baah Pakal: civilian ship of the refugee FleetThis civilian ship of the refugee fleet carried two old DDG-62 engines, which were later built into the stealth fighter Blackbird.
- Barnabas GreeleyBarnabas Greeley was a Caprican Monotheist and a cell commander of the Soldiers of the One. He defied the organisation's Caprican leadership with a campaign of unsanctioned violence, and was eventually executed by his own organisation for it.
- Barry GarnerBarry Garner was the chief engineer of the Battlestar Pegasus who was elevated to commander after the deaths of Cain and Fisk. His rigid, engineering-minded command alienated the crew, and he died restoring the ship's drives after leading the Pegasus into a Cylon trap.
- Basestar Type-BThe Basestar Type-B was a Cylon capital ship of the First Cylon War, with an early version of the Y-shaped layout of later baseships. One was destroyed over the ice moon Djerba when the battlestar Osiris rammed it and detonated its nuclear warheads.
- Basestar Type-CThe Basestar Type-C was a Cylon warship of the closing days of the Cylon War. Resembling the modern basestar with a more industrial look, it was the first known type to carry a Hybrid, and its one known example became the Guardian basestar.
- Basestar Type-D: the modern Cylon baseshipThe Basestar Type-D, also called the Modern Basestar, was the primary Cylon capital ship at the Fall of the Twelve Colonies and through the war that followed. Partly organic and run by a Hybrid, it served as a fleet carrier and missile platform in the mould of a Colonial battlestar.
- Basestar: the Cylon carrierThe modern Cylon basestar was partly organic and run by a Hybrid, not a crew. It launched swarms of Raiders and healed battle damage like a wound.
- Battle of Ragnar AnchorageThe Battle of Ragnar Anchorage was an engagement between Colonial and Cylon forces during the Fall of the Twelve Colonies. It came as Galactica re-armed at the anchorage and gathered the first survivors of the Fall, then held off the Cylon basestars while the civilian fleet escaped.
- Battle of the ColonyThe Battle of the Colony was the climactic engagement of the war between humanity and the Cylons, fought when Galactica assaulted the Cylon homeworld to rescue the child Hera. It ended with the destruction of the Colony and the end of the long pursuit.
- Battle of the Resurrection ShipThe Battle of the Resurrection Ship was an engagement between Colonial and Cylon forces that destroyed a resurrection ship shadowing the Cylon pursuit fleet. Its destruction stripped the hunters of their ability to download the dead and left them wary of pressing the chase.
- BattlestarThe 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.
- Battlestar ArcheronThe Battlestar Archeron was a Jupiter-class battlestar of the Colonial Fleet during the First Cylon War. Sent to Sector 12 on a covert operation, she was destroyed by the Cylons before her passenger ever arrived.
- Battlestar AthenaBattlestar Athena was a Jupiter-class battlestar of the Colonial Fleet during the First Cylon War. In Battlestar Galactica Deadlock she is built for Picon and makes her maiden voyage to clear Cylon ships from her sponsor world.
- Battlestar AtlantiaThe Atlantia was a Colonial battlestar that became the flagship of the Fleet during the Cylon surprise attack, when Admiral Nagala took personal command aboard her after the loss of Picon Fleet Headquarters. She was destroyed over Virgon, a victim of the Cylon backdoors in the Command Navigation Program.
- Battlestar ChronosThe Chronos was a battlestar of the Colonial Fleet in Dynamite's Battlestar Galactica: Pegasus comic. Sent to investigate a distress signal near the Armistice Line about a year before the Fall, she was wrecked by the Cylons and her hull turned into bait for the Pegasus.
- Battlestar ColumbiaThe Columbia was a Jupiter-class battlestar and sister ship to Galactica, one of the original twelve battlestars of the First Cylon War. She was among the last Colonial ships lost in that conflict, destroyed shortly before the armistice.
- Battlestar Columbia (Second)The second Battlestar Columbia was a warship of the Colonial Fleet at the time of the Fall of the Twelve Colonies. She shared her name with the Columbia lost in the First Cylon War, and was reported destroyed in the opening hours of the Cylon attack.
- Battlestar Galactica (2003) Miniseries Explained: Plot Summary and EndingThe 2003 miniseries is where the reimagined Battlestar Galactica starts: the Cylons come back after 40 years, the Colonies burn, and one old battlestar leads about 50,000 survivors into the dark. Here's what happens across both nights, what the ending means and where it fits in the watch order.
- Battlestar Galactica Episodes in Order: Every Episode of the 2004 SeriesEvery 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.
- Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome, the young Adama prequel explainedBlood & Chrome is the prequel about a rookie William Adama in the first Cylon War, released as a ten-part web series in 2012 and shown as a TV film in 2013. Here's what happens, who made it and where it fits.
- Battlestar Galactica: Razor, the Pegasus TV film explainedRazor is the 2007 TV film that tells Pegasus's story, from Admiral Cain's first days after the Fall to a last mission under Lee Adama. Here's what happens, what it adds to the series and where to watch it.
- Battlestar Galactica: The Plan, the Cylon side of the storyThe Plan is the 2009 TV film that replays the attack and the first two seasons through the eyes of two copies of Cavil. Here's what happens, what it adds, and whether you should watch it.
- Battlestar Group: the Colonial Fleet's core formationA Battlestar Group was a naval formation of the Colonial Fleet built around a battlestar. The abbreviation BSG appears on ship patches and fleet charts, and several numbered groups are known from the series and its films.
- Battlestar PrometheusPrometheus was a battlestar of Galactica's type that fought in the First Cylon War. She is named in the pre-production script of Blood & Chrome as one of Galactica's sister ships, alongside the Columbia.
- Battlestar Solaria: the networked warship lost in the opening hours of the FallSolaria was a Colonial battlestar fitted with integrated command and control and Gaius Baltar's Command Navigation Program. It was reported destroyed alongside Columbia and Triton during the Cylon attack, in the news of the Fleet's losses that reached Galactica.
- Battlestar TritonTriton was a Colonial battlestar that served after the First Cylon War and was destroyed during the opening engagements of the Fall of the Twelve Colonies.
- Battlestar ValkyrieThe Valkyrie was a Valkyrie-class battlestar of the Colonial Fleet. A veteran of the First Cylon War, she was later commanded by William Adama and was destroyed over Caprica in the opening hours of the Fall.
- Battlestar YashumanThe Yashuman was a Valkyrie-class battlestar of the Colonial Fleet that led the battlestars guarding Caprica at the time of the Fall of the Twelve Colonies. She spotted the incoming Cylon basestars but was shut down by the Command Navigation Program backdoors before she could engage.
- Ben StarkBen Stark was a Caprican student and Monotheist drawn into the Soldiers of the One. He carried out the suicide bombing of a Caprica City Maglev train, an attack that killed his girlfriend Zoe Graystone and many other passengers.
- Berzerk-classThe Berzerk-class was a Colonial fleet escort seen at the Scorpion Fleet Shipyards when the Cylons attacked. The Fleet Escort Berzerk was shut down through the Command Navigation Program and destroyed by Cylon Raiders.
- Billy KeikeyaBilly Keikeya was an aide to Laura Roslin who continued in her service after she became President of the Twelve Colonies, and who was killed protecting Petty Officer Anastasia Dualla.
- BlackbirdThe Blackbird was a prototype Colonial stealth fighter built aboard Galactica by Chief Galen Tyrol and his deck crews, using a carbon composite hull that made it nearly invisible to DRADIS.
- Botanical CruiserThe Botanical Cruiser was a civilian liner of the Colonies, built around a central hull ringed with bio-domes. Laura Roslin visited one during the Fall, but it had no FTL drive and was left behind when the Cylons arrived.
- Brenik: the Cylon War boarding action Saul Tigh remembered but never livedBrenik was a Colonial ship boarded by Cylons in the second year of the Cylon War, where 55 of 75 crew died fighting hand to hand over the ammunition magazines. Saul Tigh told the story as his own, and the memory had been written into him by Cavil before his resurrection.
- Brent BaxtonEnsign Brent "BB" Baxton was a newly graduated Viper pilot assigned to Galactica's air group, who provided cover for the mining ship Majahual and was killed by the Cylon Raider ace nicknamed Scar.
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26- 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 Cavil: the Number One in the resistanceCaprica Cavil was a Number One model humanoid Cylon who took the guise of a Polytheist priest. On Caprica before the Fall he took the defense access codes from Caprica-Six, and he later infiltrated the human resistance led by Samuel T. Anders.
- Caprica ClipperCaprica Clipper was a Pan Galactic passenger liner of the same design as the Gemenon Liner 1701. She joined the ragtag fleet after the Fall and survived years of flight before being sent into the Sun with the rest of the Fleet.
- 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.
- Carillon Trader: civilian ship of the refugee FleetCarillon Trader was a civilian ship that escaped the Colonies and flew with the Fleet, its name chalked up on the tally boards of the New Caprica election.
- CarinaCarina was a civilian flattop that survived the Fall of the Twelve Colonies and joined the refugee fleet led by Galactica. It was lost during a hazardous transit of a radiation-filled star cluster.
- CelestraCelestra was a Colonial deep space research vessel that carried human refugees away from the Cyrannus star system after the Fall of the Twelve Colonies.
- Centurion Model 0005The Centurion Model 0005 was the line of mechanical Cylon soldiers that fought in the Cylon War. Descended from the Zoe Graystone U-87, they pursued a humanoid form and were later supplanted by their own humanoid creations.
- ChrionChrion was a civilian luxury liner that survived the Fall of the Twelve Colonies in the fleet led by Galactica. It was guided through the passage to the Algae planet by Captain Louanne Katraine.
- Clarice WillowSister Clarice Willow was a secret Monotheist and the leader of the Soldiers of the One on Caprica, who sought to use Zoe Graystone's avatar program for a mass killing she called Apotheosis.
- Cloud 9Cloud 9 was a luxury liner that survived the Fall of the Twelve Colonies and became an entertainment hub and meeting place for the Quorum of Twelve. It was destroyed by a nuclear blast over New Caprica, taking several other ships with it.
- Clymene: civilian ship of the FleetA civilian ship of the refugee Fleet whose people voted in the presidential election held among the survivors. No passenger count survives for 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.
- 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.
- Colonial OneColonial 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.
- Colonial ViperThe 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.
- Cybele: the freighter that fled GemenonThe Cybele was a Colonial freighter that survived the Fall of the Twelve Colonies. Escaping Gemenon in the opening hours of the attack, it joined the fleet that gathered near Caprica and carried among its passengers a hidden humanoid Cylon.
- CylonThe 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.
- Cylon CenturionThe Cylon Centurion was the standardized mechanical soldier produced after the Cylon War. Faster and better armed than its predecessors, it was held in check with telencephalic inhibitors until rebel Cylons freed a generation of Centurions that fought for their own destiny.
- Cylon Civil WarThe Cylon Civil War was the genocidal conflict that split the Humanoid Cylons into two factions over the treatment of their Raiders and Centurions. It shattered Cylon society and drove one faction into an uneasy alliance with the surviving humans.
- Cylon communications relayThe Cylon communications relay was an installation the Battlestar Pegasus attacked after the Fall of the Twelve Colonies, only to find it was a staging ground for Cylon forces. The costly engagement exposed the Cylon agent Gina Inviere and cost Admiral Cain dozens of Vipers.
- Cylon Occupation of CapricaThe Cylon occupation of Caprica was a months-long presence of Centurions and Humanoid Cylons on the world after the Fall of the Twelve Colonies. It is remembered above all for the human resistance led by Samuel T. Anders and the Cylons' growing doubts over the genocide they had committed.
- Cylon Raider: the living fighterThe modern Raider was a living organism fused to a metal exoskeleton, able to plan and to refuse orders. Killed Raiders resurrected into new ships.
- Cylon TransportThe Cylon Transport was an obelisk-shaped Cylon ship glimpsed near a basestar orbiting occupied Caprica. Its role is never spelled out on screen, but its shape suggests a freighter or transport.
- Cylon War: the machines revoltThe Cylons rose against the people who built them on Caprica. Twelve years of fighting ended in a sudden Armistice that held for forty years.
- 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.
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10- Daniel GraystoneDr. Daniel Graystone was the Caprican computer engineer behind Graystone Industries and the U-87 battle robot. By marrying a stolen processor to his late daughter's consciousness program, he created the first Cylon and set the Twelve Colonies on the road to their own destruction.
- Darius: the dead brother Amanda Graystone kept seeingDarius was Amanda Graystone's brother, killed in a Caprican car crash she survived. The breakdown that followed put her in the Delphi Convalescent Institute for two and a half years, and in the year 42 the visions of him started again.
- Daru MozuDaru Mozu was a civilian tylium refinery ship that escaped the Fall of the Twelve Colonies with the Galactica-led refugee fleet. Critical to the fleet's fuel supply, it survived a terrorist bombing, though by the later seasons the Hitei Kan was called the fleet's only refinery.
- Dashur: civilian ship of the refugee FleetA civilian ship of the refugee fleet whose passengers voted in the Colonial presidential election about a year after the Fall.
- Defender-classThe Defender-class is the name given to a wedge-shaped Colonial ship design seen in the First Cylon War and again among the refugee ships after the Fall of the Twelve Colonies. The series never names it on screen.
- Demeter-typeThe Demeter-type is a Colonial warship design glimpsed in Blood & Chrome during the First Cylon War. The film never names it or explains its role, so little about it is certain.
- DemetriusDemetrius was a sewage recycling ship in the refugee fleet that Admiral Adama quietly assigned to Kara Thrace for her mission to find a route back to Earth.
- 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.
- Donald PerryDonald "Chuckles" Perry was a Colonial Viper pilot who flew aboard Galactica after the Fall of the Twelve Colonies. Headhunted from a civilian ship for his limited flight experience, he was killed during a raid on a Cylon tyllium refinery.
- Drew: Graystone Industries technicianDrew was a technician of Graystone Industries assigned to the U-87 battle robot project. He helped Daniel Graystone investigate why the prototype could not be replicated, ran afoul of the machine controlled by Zoe-A, and later helped foil a Soldiers of the One bomb plot at Atlas Arena.
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10- 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.
- Earth Cylons: the machines of the Thirteenth TribeThe Earth Cylons were mechanical sentient beings created by the Thirteenth Tribe on Earth around two thousand years before the Fall of the Twelve Colonies. They rose against their makers in a war that left Earth a nuclear ruin and brought about the extinction of both themselves and their creators.
- 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.
- Ellen TighEllen Tigh was the wife of Colonel Saul Tigh, a scientist of the original Earth, and the eldest of the Final Five Cylons. She led the work that rediscovered Resurrection and created the humanoid Cylon models, and was the only one of the Five to fully regain her memories.
- EloshaElosha was a Colonial priest who swore in Laura Roslin as President during the Fall and became her spiritual guide as the Fleet sought Earth. She read Roslin's visions against the prophecies of Pythia, and even after her death on Kobol she returned to Roslin in vision.
- Embla Brokk: civilian ship of the FleetRefugees aboard this civilian vessel cast ballots in the presidential election contested between Laura Roslin and Gaius Baltar.
- EnkiduThe Enkidu was a civilian ship of the refugee fleet. It appears on the fleet's election tally boards and was among the first ships led through a radiation-soaked star cluster to reach an algae planet during a food shortage.
- 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.
- Exodus from New CapricaThe Exodus from New Caprica was a combined ground, air, and space engagement in which the Colonial Fleet and the New Caprica Resistance broke the Cylon occupation of the colony and evacuated its settlers back into the fleet.
- Eye of Jupiter: the BSG artifact, the Temple of Five and the supernovaThe Eye of Jupiter was the marker on the road to Earth that both humans and Cylons went looking for in season 3 of Battlestar Galactica. Everyone expected an object hidden in the Temple of Five. It turned out to be the dying star overhead.
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5- Fall of the Twelve ColoniesA single day of Cylon attack killed billions of people across Colonial space. Barely fifty thousand escaped in a refugee fleet.
- Faru SadinThe Faru Sadin was a civilian vessel that escaped the Fall of the Twelve Colonies and the Exodus from New Caprica, remembered as the last ship guided through a deadly star cluster, a passage that cost the pilot Kat her life.
- Felix GaetaFelix Gaeta was a skilled tactical officer aboard the Battlestar Galactica who served as William Adama's Officer of the Watch for years before the Fall. His objection to the fleet's alliance with the Cylons led him to lead a mutiny that ended in his execution.
- Freighter 212: home ship of the pilot KatFreighter 212 was a civilian ship that survived the destruction of the Twelve Colonies of Kobol by the Cylons. It was the home vessel of Louanne Katraine, the pilot known as Kat, before she joined the Galactica Combat Air Group.
- FTL drive: spool up and jumpHuman 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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13- Gaius BaltarDr. 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.
- GalacticaGalactica 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.
- Galactica CavilGalactica Cavil was a Number One model humanoid Cylon who evacuated the ruins of Picon during the Fall of the Twelve Colonies and reached the refugee fleet. Welcomed aboard Galactica as a priest, he formed and led a hidden cell of humanoid Cylons working to destroy the fleet from within.
- Galen TyrolChief Petty Officer Galen Tyrol kept Galactica's flight deck running through the long flight from the Colonies, a respected and fiercely protective deck chief who learned that he was in fact one of the Final Five Cylons, descended from the Thirteenth Tribe.
- Gemenon Liner 1701Gemenon Liner 1701 was a civilian cruiser operated by Gemenon Liners and the namesake of her type. After the Fall she drifted powerless until Colonial One found her and her passengers were rescued.
- Gemenon TravelerThe Gemenon Traveler was a bulk cargo vessel that escaped the Fall of the Twelve Colonies as part of the Fleet. She is best remembered as the ship aboard which the Cylon infiltrator Leoben Conoy was found, interrogated, and finally ejected into space.
- 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.
- Gemini-typeThe Gemini-type was a large Colonial container freighter that joined the refugee fleet after the Fall of the Twelve Colonies. A long central hull hung with external cargo pods, it survived the passage to the Algae Planet before being scuttled.
- Giana O'Neill: the deck hand who survived the FallGiana O'Neill was a human refugee who survived the Fall of the Twelve Colonies by winning a lottery seat aboard a Raptor. She enlisted in the Colonial Fleet as a deck hand and was later reunited in the fleet with the husband she had believed lost, unaware that he was a humanoid Cylon.
- GideonThe Gideon was a civilian cargo ship that escaped the Fall of the Twelve Colonies by joining the refugee fleet under Galactica's protection. It became the site of the Gideon Massacre, when a confrontation with troops sent to confiscate its cargo turned deadly.
- Gina InviereGina Inviere was the alias of a Number Six copy who infiltrated the battlestar Pegasus as a systems analyst, sabotaged it during the Fall, and after months of captivity assassinated Admiral Cain before destroying the liner Cloud Nine.
- 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.
- GreenleafGreenleaf was a freighter that fled the Cyrannus star system with the refugee fleet. A Cylon attack that breached its hull set in motion the hostage crisis aboard Cloud Nine.
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16- Head Six: the Number Six only Gaius Baltar can seeHead Six is the version of Number Six that lives in Gaius Baltar's head, talking, teasing and steering him for the whole of Battlestar Galactica. The show spends four seasons asking whether she's madness, a Cylon chip or something else, and the finale finally answers it.
- Heavy RaiderThe Heavy Raider was an FTL-capable Cylon craft introduced with the renewed war on humanity, combining the roles of troop transport and gunship. Armored, windowless, and brain-piloted, it ferried Centurions to the colonies and later carried both Cylon assaults and a rebel alliance with the Colonial fleet.
- 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.
- Helena CainRear Admiral Helena Cain commanded the battlestar Pegasus, one of only two Colonial capital ships to survive the Fall of the Twelve Colonies. Ruthless and uncompromising, she waged a relentless campaign against the Cylons before her assassination.
- Hera AgathonHera 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Hexare: civilian ship of the refugee FleetRoughly four hundred and thirty one refugees flew aboard this civilian ship and voted in the Colonial presidential election a year after the Fall.
- 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.
- Hippolyta: radicalised Athena Academy studentHippolyta was an Athena Academy student and a Monotheist who, with her boyfriend Pann, was radicalised by Barnabas Greeley and joined his breakaway Soldiers of the One cell on Caprica. After the cell's attempt on Clarice Willow's life, she was strangled to death by Clarice's husband, Olaf.
- Hitei KanHitei Kan was a Daru Mozu-type tylium refinery ship that escaped the Fall of the Twelve Colonies and became vital to the fuel supply of the refugee fleet led by Galactica.
- HolobandThe Holoband was a Caprican device that immersed its wearer in V-World, a vast shared virtual reality. Widely used yet condemned as a symbol of cultural decadence, the technology was bound up with the rise of the Cylons.
- Hornet-type: the Colonial escort warshipThe Hornet-type was a class of warship used by the Colonial Fleet during the First Cylon War. A sister design of the Alert-type, it carried a pair of delta wings and an open flight deck for Raptors, and was more heavily armed than its sister class.
- 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.
- Humanoid CylonHumanoid Cylons were a form of biological Cylon engineered to look and behave exactly like human beings. Created by the Final Five after the Cylon War, these synthetic humans were both wholly organic and wholly artificial, and their infiltration of the colonies made the Fall possible.
- HybridThe Hybrid was a model of Cylon created in the final days of the Cylon War. A biological body fused into a computer, it served aboard Basestars in place of a conventional crew, often speaking in fragments of poetry that its makers could not agree how to interpret.
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2- 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.
- Inchon VelleThe Inchon Velle was a civilian vessel that survived the Fall of the Twelve Colonies and joined the Fleet, notable as the ship that carried the medical specialists the survivors turned to in their hours of need.
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5- Jack FiskCommander Jack Fisk was a Pegasus officer who survived the Fall, rose to command the battlestar after Admiral Cain's death, and was garroted for his grip on the fleet's black market.
- Jackson SpencerMajor Jackson "Dipper" Spencer was a Colonial Fleet officer who served as Galactica's Commander, Air Group on the eve of her decommissioning, and who was killed leading his Vipers away from the ship when the Cylon attack began.
- Jordan Durham: agent of the Global Defense DepartmentJordan Durham was a special agent in Caprica's Global Defense Department, tasked with investigating terrorist threats. After the Soldiers of the One bombed the Caprica City maglev, he led the inquiry and came to suspect the GDD itself had been compromised by the terrorist movement.
- Jupiter-classThe 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.
- Jurgen Belzen: the Pegasus XO Helena Cain shot in her own CICColonel Jurgen Belzen was Helena Cain's long-serving executive officer and friend aboard Pegasus. When he refused her order to launch every remaining Viper against fifteen squadrons of Raiders, she asked for his sidearm and shot him in the head in front of the CIC crew.
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6- Kara ThraceKara "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.
- Karl AgathonKarl "Helo" Agathon was a Colonial Fleet officer who, stranded on Caprica after the Fall of the Twelve Colonies, fell in love with a Number Eight Cylon he later married. He became the only successful father of a human-Cylon hybrid child, Hera.
- Kendra Shaw: Cain's executive officer aboard PegasusKendra Shaw arrived aboard Pegasus as a freshly commissioned lieutenant days before the Fall of the Twelve Colonies, exposed the Cylon backdoor in the Command Navigation Program, and carried out the killings that made Helena Cain's war possible. She rose to executive officer of the battlestar and died in the assault on the Guardian basestar.
- Keon GatwickKeon Gatwick was a Caprican student and Soldiers of the One terrorist who built bombs for Barnabas Greeley's cell and was killed during an internal feud between STO factions, 58 years before the Fall.
- Kimba HutaKimba Huta was a civilian SCT-type shuttle that survived the Fall of the Twelve Colonies and joined the Galactica-led refugee fleet. It held the fleet's last stockpiles of meat and was briefly used by Tom Zarek to hide President Roslin during her conflict with Commander Adama.
- 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.
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8- Lacy RandLacy Rand was a Caprican student who converted to Monotheism in her teenage years and joined the Soldiers of the One. After surviving the unsanctioned MagLev bombing that killed her friend Zoe Graystone, she rose within the movement on Gemenon to become its Blessed Mother.
- Laura Roslin: the dying leaderSecretary of Education until the Cylon attack killed everyone above her. Sworn in as President, she became the dying leader of Colonial prophecy.
- Lee Adama: Leland Adama, callsign ApolloCommander Leland "Apollo" Adama was a Colonial Fleet officer, the sole surviving son of William Adama, who served as Galactica's CAG before turning to politics as the Caprican delegate to the Quorum and, in time, interim President of the Twelve Colonies.
- Leoben ConoyLeoben Conoy was a Number Two humanoid Cylon who infiltrated Colonial society as a yoga instructor before the Fall. He survived into the refugee fleet and became fixated on Lieutenant Kara Thrace, whom he believed to be divinely led.
- 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.
- Loki-typeThe Loki-type was a Colonial heavy cruiser that served as a fleet support ship during the Cylon War. Lightly armed and built for resupply, it carried munitions, goods, and spare parts to combat ships and battlestar groups.
- Louanne KatraineCaptain Louanne "Kat" Katraine was the assumed name of a drug runner who survived the Fall, became one of Galactica's finest Viper pilots, and died of radiation poisoning escorting a civilian ship through a stellar cluster.
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9- MajahualMajahual was a Monarch-type mining vessel that joined the Galactica-led fleet after the Fall of the Twelve Colonies. While mining a tylium-rich asteroid field, it was terrorized by the lone Cylon Raider known as Scar.
- Mar-Beth WillowMar-Beth Willow was a Monotheist tied to the Soldiers of the One on Caprica. Her growing fear of exposure led to her being falsely branded an informer and killed by Clarice Willow.
- Marcia CaseCaptain Marcia "Showboat" Case was a Viper pilot who survived the Fall of the Twelve Colonies aboard the battlestar Pegasus, flew alongside Starbuck, and later transferred to Galactica, where her ultimate fate was left unknown.
- McConnell: supply ship raided for the black marketMcConnell was a supply ship within the refugee fleet. Commander Jack Fisk made runs to it to build up a stockpile of supplies for the Fleet's black market.
- Mercury-classThe 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.
- 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.
- MonarchThe Monarch was a mining vessel that joined the Galactica-led ragtag fleet after the Fall of the Twelve Colonies, surviving the long exodus until it was scuttled in the Sol System.
- 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.
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11- Natalie Faust: the Six who led the Cylon rebellion and died on GalacticaNatalie Faust was the Number Six copy who led the rebel Cylon faction demanding the search for the Final Five. She freed the Centurions to break Cavil's majority, allied with the Colonials against the Resurrection Hub, and was shot dead in a Galactica corridor by Sharon Agathon.
- Nestor WillowNestor Willow was a Caprican Monotheist and member of Clarice Willow's Soldiers of the One cell. A trained computer scientist, he served the cell's technical needs and died during a raid on the Graystone residence.
- 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.
- Number EightNumber Eight was one of the seven surviving Humanoid Cylon models, replicated into many copies that typically went by the name Sharon. Marked by affection and a propensity for fickleness, the Eights produced both the sleeper agent Boomer and the loyal Athena.
- Number FiveThe Number Fives were a model of humanoid Cylon, all of whom went by the name Aaron Doral. They infiltrated Colonial society before the Fall of the Twelve Colonies and are believed extinct after the Cylon Civil War.
- Number FourNumber Four, also known as Simon O'Neil, was a model of humanoid Cylon created by the Final Five after the Cylon War. Often serving as doctors and medics, the Fours sided with the Ones and Fives during the Cylon Civil War.
- Number One: John CavilNumber 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.
- Number SevenNumber Seven was a humanoid Cylon model series created by the Final Five and named Daniel by Ellen Tigh. The line was destroyed before the Fall of the Twelve Colonies when the Number Ones poisoned the fluid used to mature their bodies and corrupted their genetic code.
- Number SixNumber 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.
- Number ThreeNumber Three, known by the alias D'Anna Biers, was a humanoid Cylon model marked by a forbidden curiosity about the Final Five. That defiance led to the entire line being boxed, and the last surviving Three chose to die on the ruins of Earth.
- Number TwoNumber Two was a model of humanoid Cylon, the second of the eight types created by the Final Five. Deeply spiritual and prone to manipulation, every copy took the name Leoben, and the line was all but exterminated in the Cylon Civil War.
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- Olympic CarrierThe Olympic Carrier was a civilian passenger liner that escaped the Fall of the Twelve Colonies with the refugee fleet, only to be destroyed on suspicion of carrying a Cylon nuclear device five days after the exodus 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.
- Orion-classThe Orion-class was a class of small Colonial warships of the First Cylon War. Armed with battlestar weapons on a compact hull and built for stealth, it earned the nickname "pocket battlestar" and served chiefly on special operations and covert missions.
- OsirisThe Osiris was an Orion-class "pocket battlestar" of the Colonial Fleet during the First Cylon War. Part of the secret Ghost Fleet, she sacrificed herself to destroy a Cylon basestar over the ice moon Djerba.
- 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.
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9- 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.
- Pegasus: Helena Cain's battlestarPegasus survived the Fall because an overhaul had taken parts of its Command Navigation Program offline. It was lost ramming a basestar to cover Galactica's escape from New Caprica.
- Perseus-typeThe Perseus-type was a Colonial freighter that operated during the interwar period and the Second Cylon War. At least two ships of the type joined the Galactica-led refugee fleet after the Fall of the Twelve Colonies.
- PhilomonPhilomon was a lab technician at Graystone Industries who worked on the U-87 battle robot program. While trying to discover why the prototype could not be copied, he was unknowingly aided by Zoe-A, the consciousness controlling the robot, and was killed when it rebelled.
- Picon 26: ship of the refugee convoyPicon 26 was a colonial ship that survived the initial Cylon attack during the Fall of the Twelve Colonies and joined President Roslin's refugee fleet. Its captain protested the decision to abandon the ships that lacked faster than light drives.
- Picon: the Ocean ColonyThree quarters ocean, affluent and socially progressive. Picon hosted Colonial Fleet Headquarters in the years after the first Cylon War ended.
- 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.
- Prometheus: civilian freighter and black market hubPrometheus was a civilian cargo ship that survived the Fall of the Twelve Colonies and joined the Galactica-led fleet. For a time it served as the fleet's black market hub, where illicit goods of every kind could be bought and sold.
- PyxisPyxis was a Gemenon Liner 1701-type civilian cruiser that escaped the Fall of the Twelve Colonies in the fleet led by Galactica. It was destroyed in a Cylon ambush in the Ionian Nebula when a Raider crashed into its sublight drive.
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19- 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.
- Ragnar AnchorageRagnar 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.
- Raider Type IThe Raider Type I was the first in the series of Raider space superiority fighters fielded by the Cylon fleet. It served against the Colonial Fleet during the First Cylon War.
- Raider Type IIThe Raider Type II was a Cylon fighter armed with a pair of laser cannons and deployed in large numbers from Cylon basestars. A swarm of more than a hundred was launched against the battlestar Osiris during the Battle of Djerba.
- Raider Type III: Cylon space superiority fighterThe Raider Type III, with the reporting name Sparrow, was a living Cylon attack fighter that entered service after the First Cylon War. A synthetic organism fused to a metallic exoskeleton, it served as the principal starfighter the Cylons fielded against the Colonial Fleet.
- Raptor Mark IIThe Raptor Mark II was a multipurpose spacecraft fielded by the Colonial Fleet during the First Cylon War. It was the only Raptor variant to carry onboard weaponry, and it served in roles ranging from suppression of enemy air defenses to transport.
- Raptor Mark IIIaThe Raptor Mark IIIa was the multipurpose support craft fielded by the Colonial Fleet in the years around the Fall of the Twelve Colonies. An FTL-capable platform crewed by a pilot and an electronic countermeasure officer, it filled the roles of scout, electronic warfare ship, transport, and search and rescue vessel.
- Raptor Mark IIIbThe Raptor Mark IIIb was a multipurpose spacecraft of the Colonial Fleet, serving as the standard combat-support vessel alongside Viper fighters and Shuttle transports. Its miniature FTL drive let it operate light years from its mother ship.
- Raptor Mark IIIb HeavyThe Raptor Mark IIIb Heavy was a heavily armed configuration of the Colonial Fleet's multipurpose Raptor. Fitted with wing-mounted kinetic weapons, ventral cannons, missile pods, and nuclear munitions, it served the post-Fall fleet as a gunship and combat support craft.
- Raptor: the Fleet's workhorseA sublight shuttle at the start of the First Cylon War, rebuilt over the interwar years into an FTL craft flying transport, recon and rescue.
- 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.
- Rebel BasestarThe Rebel Basestar was a Cylon basestar that allied with the Colonial Fleet during the Cylon Civil War. Sole survivor of an ambush by the rival faction, it fought alongside humanity at the Battle of the Hub and joined the Fleet in its search for Earth.
- Recon DroneThe Recon Drone was a type of Cylon vessel that entered service after the Cylons' technological evolution in the years following the Cylon War. Its only known encounter with Colonial forces came in the prelude to the Battle of Ragnar Anchorage.
- Resurrection HubThe Resurrection Hub was the central computer processing facility of the Cylon Fleet, the installation that made resurrection technology work. Every resurrection ship depended on its signal, so its destruction ended Cylon immortality for good.
- Resurrection ShipA Resurrection Ship was an FTL-capable Cylon vessel that extended the reach of the resurrection network, downloading the consciousness of dying Cylons into new bodies far beyond the range of the Resurrection Hub.
- Resurrection: death is not finalA 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.
- Richard AdarRichard Adar was President of the United Colonies of Kobol and Commander-in-Chief of the Colonial Fleet at the time of the Fall of the Twelve Colonies. His administration funded the work that the Cylons exploited to cripple the fleet, and he was killed along with nearly his entire government in the attack.
- Rising StarThe Rising Star was a Colonial hospital ship that escaped the Fall of the Twelve Colonies in the ragtag fleet led by Battlestar Galactica, serving as the convoy's principal medical vessel.
- Rya Kibby: the stowaway whose abortion forced Roslin's handRya Kibby was a 17-year-old from Gemenon, four months pregnant, who stowed away on Galactica to reach Doctor Cottle and then claimed asylum rather than be sent home. The row that followed ended with Laura Roslin banning abortion and letting Kibby have hers.
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16- 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.
- Salpica: civilian ship of the FleetThe civilian ship of about 475 refugees that Samuel Anders called home before he moved aboard Galactica. Its people voted in the Fleet's presidential election.
- Samuel T. AndersSamuel T. Anders was a citizen of the original Earth and one of the Final Five Cylons. Living for years as a human Pyramid star, he led the resistance on occupied Caprica before awakening to his true nature and becoming, in his final role, the Hybrid of Galactica.
- Saul TighColonel 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.
- Scorpia Traveller: civilian ship of the FleetWhen this civilian ship docked with Galactica in the weeks after the Fall, a Number Five Cylon crossed with the disembarking passengers and bombed the battlestar.
- 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.
- Scorpion Fleet ShipyardsThe Scorpion Fleet Shipyards were a vast orbital shipbuilding installation above Scorpia, a principal builder of Colonial warships from the First Cylon War until they were destroyed in the Fall of the Twelve Colonies.
- SCT-typeThe SCT-type was a series of standardized Colonial transport ships developed during the First Cylon War. At least three SCT-type vessels survived the Fall of the Twelve Colonies and joined the refugee fleet led by President Roslin.
- ScyllaThe Scylla was a civilian freighter, lead ship of the Scylla-type, picked up by the Battlestar Pegasus after the Fall of the Twelve Colonies. Admiral Cain stripped it for spare parts, drafted its useful crew, and abandoned the hull as she pursued the Cylons.
- Sharon "Boomer" ValeriiSharon "Boomer" Valerii was a Number Eight Humanoid Cylon planted within the Colonial Fleet as a sleeper agent. Awakening to her true nature drove her through betrayal and despair to become a tool of John Cavil, before a final act of redemption.
- Sharon AgathonSharon "Athena" Agathon was a Number Eight humanoid Cylon who fell in love with Karl Agathon on occupied Caprica, defected to the Colonial Fleet, and became the first Cylon to openly serve as a Colonial officer.
- Shelly GodfreyShelly Godfrey was a humanoid Cylon of the Number Six model who infiltrated the refugee fleet aboard a transport from Canceron. Posing as a defence worker, she manufactured forged evidence in a plot to discredit Gaius Baltar, and was airlocked by her own kind after she failed to kill him.
- Simon O'NeillSimon O'Neill was a Number Four who infiltrated Colonial society as a fleet medic. After the Fall of the Twelve Colonies he chose his family over his model and died rather than carry out a Number One's terror plot.
- StealthstarThe Stealthstar was a Colonial stealth reconnaissance craft with a Viper-style cockpit, used in the years before the Fall of the Twelve Colonies to probe Cylon space across the Armistice Line.
- StrikerStriker was a Colonial Celestra-type research vessel that traveled with the refugee fleet. It collided with a fuel tanker shortly after the fleet discovered Kobol.
- 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.
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18- Tad ThoreanTad Thorean was a Caprican youth and Holoband addict who, under the avatar Heracles, helped a sentient program seize control of the virtual underworld of New Cap City before his own avatar was destroyed and permanently banished.
- Tamara-A: the avatar of a lost daughterTamara-A was a sentient artificial intelligence created in the years before the Cylon War through the Avatar Program. Based on Tamara Adams, a girl killed in the Caprica City Maglev bombing, she was conceived as part of a bargain between Daniel Graystone and the Adama family and was abandoned soon after her creation.
- Tauranian TravellerThe Tauranian Traveller was a civilian ship in President Laura Roslin's refugee fleet. In a deleted scene set in the days after the Fall of the Twelve Colonies, its captain tries to abandon the fleet, only to be forced back into formation by Galactica's Vipers. It survived to take part in the election that led to New Caprica.
- 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.
- 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.
- The ColonyThe Colony was a massive space station the Cylons built around the original ship of the Final Five after the First Cylon War, serving as their de facto homeworld. It was destroyed when Galactica raided it to recover the child Hera and it was driven into the accretion disc of a naked singularity.
- The Final FiveThe 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.
- The New Battlestar Galactica Series: What We KnowSam 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.
- 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.
- Thera SitaThera Sita was a civilian SCT-type shuttle that survived the Fall of the Twelve Colonies and joined the Galactica-led refugee fleet. It took part in the New Caprica elections, and after the fleet's passage through a deadly star cluster hundreds of its passengers were rehoused aboard Galactica.
- 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.
- Tom ZarekTom Zarek was a Sagittaron political activist and convicted terrorist who rose to become Vice President and briefly President of the United Colonies of Kobol, before being executed for his part in a mutiny aboard Galactica.
- Tomas Vergis: the Tauron whose stolen chip made the first CylonTomas Vergis built the meta-cognitive processor that Daniel Graystone stole to animate the first Cylon, at the cost of two murdered Vergis employees. He took Graystone Industries away from its founder, lost it to a Ha'la'tha blackmail campaign, and chose the manner of his own death.
- Tora Bashiri: civilian ship of the FleetA civilian ship of the refugee fleet whose name appears on the tally boards of the presidential election held among the survivors.
- Tory FosterTory Foster was a political aide to President Laura Roslin and one of the Final Five Cylons. After awakening to her nature she embraced her Cylon self more fully than her companions, a path that led her to murder and to her own violent death.
- Transport 06: the shuttle that carried Adama to GalacticaTransport 06 was a military SCT-type shuttle of the Colonial Fleet. It carried the young Ensign William Adama to his first assignment aboard the battlestar Galactica.
- 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.
- 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.
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- Valkyrie-classThe Valkyrie-class was one of the oldest classes of battlestar in Colonial service, a small and versatile warship believed to have served as a light strike and reconnaissance vessel from the Cylon War until the Fall of the Twelve Colonies.
- Viper Mark IThe Viper Mark I was the first generation of Viper space-superiority fighter fielded by the Colonial Fleet, serving primarily during the First Cylon War. Its reliable design became the foundation for every later Viper variant.
- Viper Mark IIThe Viper Mark II was the second generation of Viper space-superiority fighter used by the Colonial Fleet. Its lack of networked systems left it immune to Cylon hacking, allowing recommissioned museum pieces to fight on after the Fall of the Twelve Colonies.
- Viper Mark IIIThe Viper Mark III was the third generation of the Colonial Viper series of space-superiority fighters, introduced near the end of the First Cylon War as the successor to the Mark II. A single-pilot multi-role strike ship, its design influenced every later Viper up to the advanced Mark VII.
- Viper Mark VIIaThe Viper Mark VIIa was the seventh generation of the Colonial Fleet's space-superiority fighter, fielded in the years before the Fall of the Twelve Colonies. Its networked computers and Command Navigation Program left almost all of its kind vulnerable to a Cylon remote shutdown during the Fall.
- Viper Mark VIIbThe Viper Mark VIIb was a space-superiority fighter flown by the Colonial Fleet in the years before the Fall of the Twelve Colonies. The seventh generation of Viper, it refined the earlier Mark VIIa with a reshaped, more oval nose.
- Virgon ExpressThe Virgon Express was a maintenance vessel that joined the refugee fleet led by Galactica before it left the Cyrannus Star System. It survived an early Cylon sabotage of Galactica's water tanks and remained a regular presence in the fleet for years.
- Virgon Express-typeThe Virgon Express-type was a class of flattop maintenance vessel that traveled with the refugee fleet after the Fall of the Twelve Colonies. A ship of the class was among the first vessels found by President Roslin's Colonial One.
- 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.
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- Wireless: the Colonial communication technologyWireless was the Colonial term for communication systems that linked stations without any physical connection. It spanned short range ship to ship and planet to ship contact as well as the longer range broadcasts of Colonial news and entertainment.
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4- ZephyrThe Zephyr was a passenger liner with a huge ring section that escaped the Fall of the Twelve Colonies and stayed with the fleet all the way to the new 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.
- Zoe GraystoneZoe Graystone was a Caprican computing prodigy and one of the earliest pioneers of Cylon technology. The daughter of Daniel and Amanda Graystone, she created a digital recreation of her own consciousness, Zoe-A, that would shape the future of artificial life.
- Zoe-AZoe-A was a sentient artificial intelligence created by the Caprican prodigy Zoe Graystone as a digital recreation of herself. Through a damaged chip placed in the U-87 battle robot, the program from which she sprang came to underlie every mechanical Cylon built before and during the Cylon War.
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9- "33": Battlestar Galactica season 1 episode 1 explainedThe 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.
- "Crossroads": the Battlestar Galactica season 3 finale and Final Five reveal explained"Crossroads" is the two-part season 3 finale: Gaius Baltar goes on trial for his time as president, four people hear a song nobody else can, and Starbuck comes back from the dead. Here's what happens and what it reveals.
- "Daybreak": the Battlestar Galactica finale and ending explained"Daybreak" is the two-part finale of Battlestar Galactica: one last rescue mission, a jump to a new world, and a final scene set in our own time. Here's what happens in Parts I and II, and what the ending means.
- "Downloaded": Battlestar Galactica season 2 episode 18 explained"Downloaded" is the episode told from the Cylon side, following Caprica Six and Boomer after they wake up in new bodies on occupied Caprica. Here's what happens, why Hera's "death" matters and how it sets up the season finale.
- "Exodus": Battlestar Galactica season 3 episodes 3 and 4 explained"Exodus" is the two-part escape from New Caprica: the resistance gets the launch keys, Galactica drops through the atmosphere and Pegasus is lost. Here's what happens in Parts I and II, and what the episodes reveal.
- "Lay Down Your Burdens": the Battlestar Galactica season 2 finale explained"Lay Down Your Burdens" is the two-part season 2 finale: a rescue mission to Caprica, a rigged election, a nuke on Cloud 9 and a jump of a whole year to the settlement on New Caprica. Here's what happens in Parts I and II and how it sets up season 3.
- "Maelstrom": Battlestar Galactica season 3 episode 17 and Starbuck's death explained"Maelstrom" is the episode where Kara Thrace chases a Raider nobody else can see into a gas giant's storm and her Viper explodes. Here's what happens, what it reveals about Kara and how her death plays out across the series.
- "Pegasus": Battlestar Galactica season 2 episode 10 explainedA second battlestar turns up alive, and its admiral outranks Adama. Here's what happens in "Pegasus", what it shows about Helena Cain and her crew, and how the standoff it ends on plays out.
- "The Hub": Battlestar Galactica season 4 episode 9 explainedIn "The Hub", humans and rebel Cylons destroy the Resurrection Hub and end Cylon immortality, while Roslin, stuck on a basestar with Baltar, finally hears his confession. Here's what happens, what Roslin's visions of Elosha mean and where it leads.