Resurrection Hub
the heart of Cylon immortality
The 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.
The Resurrection Hub was the space-borne facility that controlled Cylon resurrection, coordinating all of the resurrection ships and downloading facilities. Designed by the Final Five, survivors of the Thirteenth Tribe, it let the minds of Humanoid Cylons and Raiders be downloaded after death into new bodies. Because the resurrection ships depended on it, its loss would end Cylon resurrection entirely, a vulnerability that made it the decisive target of the Cylon Civil War. (Battlestar Galactica, "Guess What's Coming to Dinner?"; Battlestar Galactica, "The Hub"; Battlestar Galactica, "No Exit")
History#
The Resurrection Hub was designed by the Final Five, survivors of the Thirteenth Tribe, whose technology let the minds of Humanoid Cylons and Raiders be downloaded after death into a new body. The Hub itself held resurrection tanks and spare bodies, and it was also where boxed Cylon minds were stored. The resurrection ships extended the range of downloading, but it was the Hub that controlled the process, and only the Final Five understood how it worked. If the Hub was destroyed, every resurrection ship would be useless. (Battlestar Galactica, "Resurrection Ship, Part 1"; Battlestar Galactica, "Guess What's Coming to Dinner?"; Battlestar Galactica, "No Exit")
After the onset of the Cylon Civil War, the faction led by the Number Ones kept control of the Hub, cutting the rebels off from resurrection. Following their alliance with Galactica and its fleet, the rebel Number Twos, Sixes and Eights launched an assault on the Hub, with Galactica's Vipers towed in hidden behind rebel Heavy Raiders. Once cut loose, the Vipers knocked out the Hub's FTL drives. Karl Agathon and a rebel Eight boarded it to recover the restored Number Three, D'Anna Biers, and once their Raptor was clear the Vipers destroyed the Hub with nuclear missiles. (Battlestar Galactica, "The Ties That Bind"; Battlestar Galactica, "Guess What's Coming to Dinner?"; Battlestar Galactica, "The Hub")
Design#
Similar to the modern basestars, the Resurrection Hub was built from two Y-shaped structures joined in the middle. Unlike the basestars, however, the Hub had a harder, more industrial appearance, in contrast to their organic shapes. It carried an FTL drive, which made the drive the first target of the attack. (Battlestar Galactica, "The Hub")
Armament and defenses#
The Hub carried no weapons of its own and relied on its escorts. As a safeguard it jumped to new locations from time to time and then relayed its position to the basestars' Hybrids. During the Cylon Civil War, it was guarded by two loyalist basestars. (Battlestar Galactica, "The Hub")
Frequently asked questions
- What was the Resurrection Hub?
- The Resurrection Hub was the space-borne facility that controlled Cylon resurrection, coordinating all the resurrection ships and downloading facilities. It let the minds of humanoid Cylons and Raiders be downloaded after death into new bodies.
- Why was the Resurrection Hub so important to the Cylons?
- The resurrection ships only extended the reach of downloading, while the Hub actually controlled the process. Destroying it would leave every resurrection ship useless and end Cylon resurrection.
- How was the Resurrection Hub destroyed?
- The rebel Cylons, allied with Galactica, attacked the Hub. Vipers hidden behind rebel Heavy Raiders knocked out its FTL drives, Karl Agathon and an Eight boarded it to recover D'Anna Biers, and then the Vipers destroyed it with nuclear missiles.
- How did the Resurrection Hub defend itself?
- The Hub carried no weapons of its own. As a safeguard it jumped to new coordinates from time to time and passed its position to the basestars' Hybrids, and during the Civil War it was guarded by two loyalist basestars.
- What did the Resurrection Hub look like?
- Like the modern basestars, the Hub was built from two Y-shaped structures joined in the middle, but it had a harder, more industrial look than the organic basestars.
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Images via Battlestar Wiki
Sources
- EpisodeBattlestar Galactica, "Resurrection Ship, Part 1", Season 2, Episode 11 (2006)
- EpisodeBattlestar Galactica, "The Ties That Bind", Season 4, Episode 3 (2008)
- EpisodeBattlestar Galactica, "Guess What's Coming to Dinner?", Season 4, Episode 7 (2008)
- EpisodeBattlestar Galactica, "The Hub", Season 4, Episode 9 (2008)
- EpisodeBattlestar Galactica, "No Exit", Season 4, Episode 15 (2009)
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