Galatica Time Stream

The following is a timeline I created for Battlestar Galatica after seeing the episode “No Exit” near the end of series. This timeline has no dates making it more of an order of events or a time stream but you get the point. This is a lot of information that came near the end of the series, but it’s all stuff that happened before the series. In some cases hundreds of thousands of years before the series.

This is obviously a little spoilery so don’t read on if you haven’t watched the series yet. Also, a lot of this information comes from my own inferences so it can’t all be taken as series cannon, but this is the way I keep things straight in my head. Also because I’m brilliant I knew that Earth couldn’t be Earth as we knew it so I referred to it as Earph in my time stream (to be honest I picked the Earph term up from Galatica Watercooler Podcast, but still I was smart enough to know the truth when I saw it).

Anyway, everything that follows this sentence was written sometime in February 2009.

Planet Kobal

Gods live (Athena, Zeus, the whole bunch)

Gods create man

Man creates machine

Machine Gets Souls from GOD

Gods expel man from Kobal for stealing the secrets of creating life

Man and machine flee Kobal (they most likely were at war with each other)

12 Tribes of Kobal wander the galaxy looking for a new home

13th Tribe made of Cylons look in the opposite direction

12 Tribes find the twelve colonies and live there for 4000 years

13th Tribe of Cylons find Earph and live there for 2000 years

After 2000 years on Earph the 13th Tribe creates new Toasters

The Mechanical Cylons of Earph rebel and kill everything on the planet

Right before the Holocaust on Earph: Ellen Tigh, Saul Tigh, Sam Anders, Tory, and Galen Tyrol re-create the long lost Cylon download technology, which had existed for the Cylons on Kobal

The five survivors download to a ship where they begin to travel to the twelve colonies in hopes of stopping a new Cylon holocaust

During this time the only Cylons in known Universe are the Five aforementioned.

It takes the Five 2000 years to reach the 12 Colonies because they did not have Faster than Light (FTL) technology, however, with resurrection they can last indefinitely

Approximately 50 years in the past from the present humans on the 12 colonies create metal Cylons (toasters)

The Toasters rebel on the twelve colonies beginning the first human/cylon war in 4000 years

During this war the final Five Survivors of Earph reach the Cylons of the 12 colonies and convince them to end the war in return for teaching the Toasters how to create human Cylons. The reason the Five decided to do this was the fact that the Toasters believed in the one True God therefore with this faith they could stop the cycle of violence.

All Cylons leave humanity for 40 years during which time

The Five create 8 humanoid cylons models:
1. John Cavil
2. Simon
3. Deanna
4. Doral
5. Leoben
6. Caprica
7. Daniel
8. Boomer

The first of these new Cylons “Cavil” kills the entire Daniel line and proceeds to kill the Five. When the Five resurrect Cavil reprograms them to forget who they were.

Cavil leads the new Cylons in genocide of the Humans of the 12 colonies and replants the Five among the surviving human fleet to give them a front row seat to the “evils” of humanity.