Of the entire Colonial battle fleet, only the Battlestar Galactica, a gigantic battleship and spacecraft carrier, appears to have survived the attack. Scattered survivors flee into outer space aboard a ragtag array of spaceworthy ships. With the aid of a human named Baltar, the Cylons carry out a massive nuclear attack on the Twelve Colonies and the Colonial Fleet of starships that protect them, devastating the fleet, laying waste to the Colonies, and destroying all but a small remaining population. The Cylons offer peace to the humans, which proves to be a ruse. The Twelve Colonies have been engaged in a lengthy war with the Cylons, a cybernetic race whose goal is the extermination of the human species. A prequel series, Caprica, aired in 2010.Īll Battlestar Galactica productions share the premise that in a distant part of the universe, a human civilization has extended to a group of planets known as the Twelve Colonies, to which they have migrated from their ancestral homeworld of Kobol. It led to a weekly television series, which aired until 2009. A reimagined version aired as a two-part, three-hour miniseries developed by Ronald D. It began with the original television series in 1978, and was followed by a short-run sequel series ( Galactica 1980), a line of book adaptations, original novels, comic books, a board game, and video games. Battlestar Galactica is an American science fiction media franchise created by Glen A.
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