From: Starfire72 
Newsgroups: alt.games.vga-planets


Greetz from Pseudo
Re: The Missing Colonies of Man, all you ever wanted to know

From the sleeve for the 2 hr 5min video of the original pilot/movie:

Battlestar Galactica
"The Galactica, a futuristic aircraft carrier the size of a small city,
careens through a distant starfield followed by a convoy of bizarre space
vehicles, all fleeing the destruction of the human race.  Led by Commander
Adama (Lorne Greene), these survivors have started on a journey to a
thirteenth sister colony in a distant galaxy star system -- a planet
called Earth.  _Battlestar Galactica_ follows these interstellar refugees
and their battles with their enemy -- the dreaded, lizard-like Cylons." 
... (I think that's supposed to be "robot-like", I dont know where they
got lizard-like from) ...
 [Available from MCA/Universal Home Video. 1978]

From the recent comic series from Maximum Press  (a totally awesome comic
series IMHO) :
"What has gone before...
  Millennia ago, the human race left its motherworld Kobol and inhabited
twelve planets in another region of space.  Humanity thrived on these
twelve colonies and built a wondrous civilization founded on the
principles of their ancestors.
  One thousand years ago, peace was shattered when the Colonies made
contact with the Cylon Empire; a race of advanced beings who had succumbed
to their own technology and replaced their living bodies with cybernetic
ones.  The Cylons hated the free thining human race and launched a
genocidal war that had only one objective:  the annihilation of mankind.
  In response, the human race constructed huge space fortresses called
Battlestars and engaged the Cylons in a thousand year war.  But humanity
would not be extinguished, so the Cylons tried a different tactic.  A
human emissary named Baltar negotiated peace between his people and the
Cylon Empire.  Unkown to anyone, Baltar was working for the Cylons and
cleverly maneuvered the human fleet away from its colonies.  The Cylons
launched the largest assault in the history of galactic warfare and the
Colonies were completely destroyed.
  Of the twelve Battlestars, only the Galactica survived (wrong if you
know the whole story ).  The Galactica's legendary commander Adama, led
the handful of survivors into space on a journey to find the lost
thirteenth tribe of Kobol.  According to legend, the thirteenth tribe had
migrated to a myhtic planet called earth..."
[Battlestar Galactica: War of Eden #1, Maximum Press.  July 1995]

All credit for the story goes to Glen Larson the creator.

As anyone can see I'm a huge fan of the story... I think the true name of
the colonies in the race is "the lost colonies of man"  but for the same
purposes that Tim couldn't use names like "UFP", "romulans", "klingons",
and etc...  he made it "the missing colonies of man"

In the Story (series, movie, comic, etc...) both the Colonies and the
Robots (Cylons) wage their wars with Colonial Fighters (called Vipers) and
Cylon Fighters (called Raiders i think)... therefore they make natural
"fighter races".  In the Story the Colonies main ship is of course the
Battlestar (aka Virgo) and the Robots (Cylons) have the BaseStar (aka
Instrumentality) as their main ship (thats why they are the best robot
ship to make for the tech level, $, and minerals).  Also in the Story, the
Robots (Cylons) are very fond of laying minefields (x4) (even in stellar
disturbances ala "ion storms") while the Colonial Fighter pilots were very
good in finding them and destroying them (ala fighter mine sweep) no
matter where they were.

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