What Happend on Kobol... I Think
I needed to come up with some answers for myself on this corner of the Galacica plot. its one of the main questions i wanted the show to answer in the finale. but since its all on its way to becoming a franchise, then i guess it benefits Ron Moore to fill in the blanks on projects such as "The Plan" and then "Caprica" later on because he wants it all the continue through different shows and other media. okay, here we go...
The humans of Kobol advanced their technology and they end up creating cylons. 12 of the most A.I. advanced cylons wanted to rebel against humanity for their harsh treatment of cylons. humans have already invented the resurrection system and organic generation. the cylons planned to take advantage of these and build a robot army to take over Kobol. they succeeded.
they rule over what survives of the human race and models a new society... over many generations... that resembles our ancient greece. they name themselves the lords of kobol. they keep humans low tech. they dont allow them to pursue science. superstition becomes the new rationale for the humans. the lords split them into tribes, with one lord governing a tribe. with their ability to resurrect, and their control over advanced tech, and also the robot centurian army under their command, humans born over the many centuries easily come to regard their skin job masters as gods.
the lords had sex with their human subjects. it probably began with the kobol lord Zeus. he is the biggest philanderer, just like the mythical character. the other lords may have also had sex with humans, but without producing offspring. but one of them fell in love and it did finally produce a child. then came some other children, probably. these half-breed offspring have the power to project into the minds of others. they can do anything that the lords can do with the addition of having children, which the 12 lords could not do with eachother. they can also resurrect using the same tech that the lords already use. but after some time, and after their population grows through childbirth, resurrection falls out of favor with the community of half-breeds, now known as the 13th tribe.
then something else happened. as we now know that Starbuck became some sort of david bowman-type starchild after "dying" in the meastrom... one of the half-breeds (as i believe Kara to be one) became the very first to cross over the way Starbuck did, transforming into an energy based being. this entity is the cylon god, and its the most powerful thing anyone's ever seen. the cylon god's angels are also half breeds of the 13th tribe that he helped make into energy beings.
the 13th tribe recognized the authority of this new god over the lords of kobol. war broke out over this dramatic shift in power. the 12 tribes of humans didnt fight, as the cylon god intended to keep them out of the conflict. indeed, the 12 tribes understood little of what was going on around them. the war ended quickly with a "cataclysmic" event as it was described in season 1 of the show (though not nuclear, as i interpret it) and it was initiated by the cylon god. resurrection tech got destroyed along with all the records on how to build it. the lord Athena despairs over the loss of paradise and kills herself. the remaining lords capitulate.
the lords agreed to a deal that the 12 human tribes would move to 12 new worlds that the cylon god had found prior. the lords would remain on kobol to live out the rest of their now mortal lives. the cylon god chose Pythia from the 12 tribes to appear as Zeus to her. she recorded his warning for the humans to never return to Kobol. he also communicated the prophesy to her at that time or over time through her use of kamala. on new caprica, he communicated the same way through the oracle Dodona Selloi to the cylon D'anna. through it all, the cylon god never desired to convert the 12 tribes to monotheism. he already had the 13th tribe as his faithful at the time, and would later introduce monotheism to humans on the 2nd earth through the colonials who had lived under Baltar's influence.
my Kobol story doesnt account in any way for the orginal hybrid from Razor. i believe he's a member of the cylon party that bombed the 1st earth into a dead planet. he followed the final five to the 12 colonies and somehow downloaded into the first hybrid of cavil's project. he was all metal before that.
The humans of Kobol advanced their technology and they end up creating cylons. 12 of the most A.I. advanced cylons wanted to rebel against humanity for their harsh treatment of cylons. humans have already invented the resurrection system and organic generation. the cylons planned to take advantage of these and build a robot army to take over Kobol. they succeeded.
they rule over what survives of the human race and models a new society... over many generations... that resembles our ancient greece. they name themselves the lords of kobol. they keep humans low tech. they dont allow them to pursue science. superstition becomes the new rationale for the humans. the lords split them into tribes, with one lord governing a tribe. with their ability to resurrect, and their control over advanced tech, and also the robot centurian army under their command, humans born over the many centuries easily come to regard their skin job masters as gods.
the lords had sex with their human subjects. it probably began with the kobol lord Zeus. he is the biggest philanderer, just like the mythical character. the other lords may have also had sex with humans, but without producing offspring. but one of them fell in love and it did finally produce a child. then came some other children, probably. these half-breed offspring have the power to project into the minds of others. they can do anything that the lords can do with the addition of having children, which the 12 lords could not do with eachother. they can also resurrect using the same tech that the lords already use. but after some time, and after their population grows through childbirth, resurrection falls out of favor with the community of half-breeds, now known as the 13th tribe.
then something else happened. as we now know that Starbuck became some sort of david bowman-type starchild after "dying" in the meastrom... one of the half-breeds (as i believe Kara to be one) became the very first to cross over the way Starbuck did, transforming into an energy based being. this entity is the cylon god, and its the most powerful thing anyone's ever seen. the cylon god's angels are also half breeds of the 13th tribe that he helped make into energy beings.
the 13th tribe recognized the authority of this new god over the lords of kobol. war broke out over this dramatic shift in power. the 12 tribes of humans didnt fight, as the cylon god intended to keep them out of the conflict. indeed, the 12 tribes understood little of what was going on around them. the war ended quickly with a "cataclysmic" event as it was described in season 1 of the show (though not nuclear, as i interpret it) and it was initiated by the cylon god. resurrection tech got destroyed along with all the records on how to build it. the lord Athena despairs over the loss of paradise and kills herself. the remaining lords capitulate.
the lords agreed to a deal that the 12 human tribes would move to 12 new worlds that the cylon god had found prior. the lords would remain on kobol to live out the rest of their now mortal lives. the cylon god chose Pythia from the 12 tribes to appear as Zeus to her. she recorded his warning for the humans to never return to Kobol. he also communicated the prophesy to her at that time or over time through her use of kamala. on new caprica, he communicated the same way through the oracle Dodona Selloi to the cylon D'anna. through it all, the cylon god never desired to convert the 12 tribes to monotheism. he already had the 13th tribe as his faithful at the time, and would later introduce monotheism to humans on the 2nd earth through the colonials who had lived under Baltar's influence.
my Kobol story doesnt account in any way for the orginal hybrid from Razor. i believe he's a member of the cylon party that bombed the 1st earth into a dead planet. he followed the final five to the 12 colonies and somehow downloaded into the first hybrid of cavil's project. he was all metal before that.
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