Survivors flee into outer space aboard a motley fleet 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. Moore and David Eick in 2003, followed by a 2004 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.
