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Old December 30th, 2004, 10:00 AM   #4
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I am fairly certain that the answer is that they are 12 "worlds" that are in a single star system. Whether all of the "worlds" are planets or a combination of planets and moons I believe was never explained. In one of the shots of colonials fleeing we see a planet that appears by our standards not to be habitable. Whether that meant people were fleeing from an unseen moon or somehow colonial technology was able to overcome the environment, or whether it was simply a poor image to use on the part of special effects artist I do not know.

I understand that in the new series they were originally going to make the 12 colonies spread across multiple stars to make it more realistic but intentionally changed it to 12 worlds in one star system to reflect back to TOS.
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