Assuming that the Galactica hasn’t traveled too great a distance between WOG and HOG, they are probably somewhere in one of the smaller galaxies between here and Andromeda, such as Andromeda III or IV, or NGC185 (based on the idea that a sectar = 41.67 Terran days = .1142 Terran year: 19 million sectars is approximately 2,200,000 light years). This might put their home galaxy as Andromeda, or perhaps Triangulum.
This suggests, however, that there is something about the nature of certain radio frequencies that act differently than higher EM frequencies in the deeps of space. This is supported by Boomer’s statements in HOG that the signal from Earth could be intergalactic, and could be 100, 1000, or 10,000 yahrens old. If the frequencies in question were subject to the same laws of the universe that we assume light is, then even an age of 10,000 is too young for intergalactic travel (the closest galaxy to us is about 80,000 ly)
All of this is of course an attempt to reconcile what we are told and shown in the series with our world. In order to do that, we must assume that our understanding of the nature of the universe and its laws is fundamentally flawed, or at least grossly incomplete, and that the Colonials know a very different universe than we do.
None of this really tells us how long it will take them to get to Earth, nor at what point of development they would find Earth when they did arrive. We might as well assume that they will find Earth much further advanced than we are today, and that with a little shared technology, the colonies will be reclaimed...that is after all what Adama said they were going to do.
JJR
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