02-14-2009, 10:51 AM
here's a great summary of what we learned in this Episode shamelessly stolen:
SPOILER!
While on Kobol the twelve (human) tribes made a 13th tribe
of artificial (but biological!) beings. The Kobolians had
resurrection technology (Anders said "organic memory transfer"
technology came from Kobol). For whatever reason, that 13th tribe
left or was driven from Kobol and eventually found "Earth". While
there (or during the journey) they discovered/gained the ability
to procreate and the resurrection tech fell out of use. Meanwhile,
the other 12 tribes eventually left Cobol to found the colonies.
On "Earth" the 13th tribe eventually created centurions to serve
them. The people who became the final five got "warnings" of
the pending disaster (Anders said "I saw a woman. You [Tori] saw
a man. Galen, you thought you had a chip in you.") which sure as
heck sound to me like they came from the equivalent of Baltar's
Head-Six. So they rediscovered the resurrection tech and put
a ship in orbit to wait for the end. When they died in the nuking
they were reborn on the ship and took off at sublight but very
close to the speed of light speeds to look for the other tribes
and tell them not to build artificial beings. Because they
were sublight, it took them thousands of years to find the
colonies but they didn't age due to relativistic time dilation.
When they got to the colonies it was too late -- the first Cylon
war had begun. The colonies' Cylons were trying to become at least
partly biological (Razor flashbacks, for example). The Final Five,
hoping to prevent a future holocaust, made a deal with the colonies'
Cylons -- stop the war and we'll help you become fully biological.
The Cylons agreed and the Final Five created the other seven models,
starting with Cavil.
Unfortunately, Cavil turned out to be an evil, self-loathing sadist.
He destroyed the Daniel line after the first Daniel. He enslaved the
centurions and the raiders. He killed the Final Five and when they
resurrected he wiped their minds, gave them false memories, and planted
them in the colonies. He fiddled with the programming of the other
models to make them forget or not think about the Final Five. And
he decided to seek "revenge" on the colonists. So he's the one
behind wiping out the colonies.
SPOILER!
While on Kobol the twelve (human) tribes made a 13th tribe
of artificial (but biological!) beings. The Kobolians had
resurrection technology (Anders said "organic memory transfer"
technology came from Kobol). For whatever reason, that 13th tribe
left or was driven from Kobol and eventually found "Earth". While
there (or during the journey) they discovered/gained the ability
to procreate and the resurrection tech fell out of use. Meanwhile,
the other 12 tribes eventually left Cobol to found the colonies.
On "Earth" the 13th tribe eventually created centurions to serve
them. The people who became the final five got "warnings" of
the pending disaster (Anders said "I saw a woman. You [Tori] saw
a man. Galen, you thought you had a chip in you.") which sure as
heck sound to me like they came from the equivalent of Baltar's
Head-Six. So they rediscovered the resurrection tech and put
a ship in orbit to wait for the end. When they died in the nuking
they were reborn on the ship and took off at sublight but very
close to the speed of light speeds to look for the other tribes
and tell them not to build artificial beings. Because they
were sublight, it took them thousands of years to find the
colonies but they didn't age due to relativistic time dilation.
When they got to the colonies it was too late -- the first Cylon
war had begun. The colonies' Cylons were trying to become at least
partly biological (Razor flashbacks, for example). The Final Five,
hoping to prevent a future holocaust, made a deal with the colonies'
Cylons -- stop the war and we'll help you become fully biological.
The Cylons agreed and the Final Five created the other seven models,
starting with Cavil.
Unfortunately, Cavil turned out to be an evil, self-loathing sadist.
He destroyed the Daniel line after the first Daniel. He enslaved the
centurions and the raiders. He killed the Final Five and when they
resurrected he wiped their minds, gave them false memories, and planted
them in the colonies. He fiddled with the programming of the other
models to make them forget or not think about the Final Five. And
he decided to seek "revenge" on the colonists. So he's the one
behind wiping out the colonies.
Skelas
Burnt to a crisp.
Burnt to a crisp.