thomas7g
December 11th, 2003, 10:37 PM
I submitted this idea once to Moore, but I never got a reply back. But I always thought it was possible to link the two stories together.
This idea expands upon an old thread here.
A lone Basestar, one of many, searches for the human’s fleet lost many years ago. Their course is set by the best estimate of humanity’s last known heading.
The Cylons find a primitive planet. It is earth. No real defences. Not from an attack from above their world.
The cylons devastate city after city. New York, Moscow, Los Angeles, Toronto….
But when all is lost, and our cries for surrender ignored, we are saved by a lone Battlestar named Galactica. (The old one from the original series)
The colonials have been watching and learning about us. Preparing for that first contact. They have been preparing to disappear into our civilization. To lose their identities into our masses. But the appearance of the cylons have changes everything..
The Galactica crushes the Basestar easily, but the cylons now know about earth. The colonail rag tag fleet has nowhere left to run. No place to go to. The holy land couldn’t repel a single lone basestar. And by now the cylons will be sending an armada.
A hurried new alliance is formed between earth and her lost brothers. Preparations are made. A few years pass.
A HUGE fleet of Basestars approach a star system. A Terran/Colonial fleet sails to engage them. There hasn’t been time to complete new Terran Battlestars. So the fleet mostly consists of the old ragtag fleet, armed to the teeth with missles and fightercraft. New tactics are used. ECM jams the cylon targeting systems.
The battle is bloody. Many good people die. But the battle does not go well so the Terrans begin a new strategy, a dark form of nuclear berseker/kamikaze attacks. Ship after ship is rammed or detonated to decimate the cylon fleets. No thought is given to saving lives, even on their own side. The colonials are horrified at the callous loss of life. But the tactic is affective. They buy time until the cylons can send another fleet.
The second attack comes. But the new Battlestars are able to repel the attack
But its only a diversion. The cylons after seeing the brutality of humans in the last attack have determined that humans must be eliminated. They are a threat to the whole universe. They deploy a new weapon against earth. Huge missles rain down on earth, they strike deep into her surface and drill down. Then they simultaneously go off, and the concussive force drives off the upper layer of the earth crust into space. Earth is destroyed.
But the new battlestars escape destruction.
We take the war back to the original colonies.
The Galactican fleet decide to liberate Caprica first. But the people there for the most part can’t even remember the colonists. Few are older than 25. And they believe the colonists are the enemy they have been waiting for. Its more a cult than a human world now. And they choose genocide over freedom from the cylons.
The Colonial Fleet realizes THERE IS NO WAY TO FREE THE COLONIES.
The colonists have no choice. So they begin a policy of containment. All the colonies become a quarantine zone. Nothing enters or leaves. Anything that tries is destroyed. Outside of this all cylons are terminated. But within the original colonies cylons rule over the exiled worlds. (This is where Moore’s new cylons come from)
With earth gone, new colonies are formed. A new Caprica. A new Piscon. Etc. And Humanity thrives. A millennium passes.
In the new struggle to rebuild the human race much has been forgotten. Names of heroes like Starbuck, Athena, Apollo, have become more like myths and legends. Hot pilots use the names for their call signs. And one of the original Terran Battlestars, which was named Galactica II in honor of its predecessor, is about to be mothballed.
The cylons and the humanity have merged into together. The cylons have become more human. Humans have given up their bodies to become machine. And their memory of their origins are blurred. They now see themselves as decended from the colonists.
And a long distance away, in a far away star system a planet badly damaged begins to heal…
…
There is an old legend, a theory about how the universe likes to repeat itself. But perhaps its more complex. The destiny of civilizations are predetermined. And not only does history like to repeat itself, the players of the game are reassembled to play out their roles again, with the chance to change the outcome. :)
:cool:
This idea expands upon an old thread here.
A lone Basestar, one of many, searches for the human’s fleet lost many years ago. Their course is set by the best estimate of humanity’s last known heading.
The Cylons find a primitive planet. It is earth. No real defences. Not from an attack from above their world.
The cylons devastate city after city. New York, Moscow, Los Angeles, Toronto….
But when all is lost, and our cries for surrender ignored, we are saved by a lone Battlestar named Galactica. (The old one from the original series)
The colonials have been watching and learning about us. Preparing for that first contact. They have been preparing to disappear into our civilization. To lose their identities into our masses. But the appearance of the cylons have changes everything..
The Galactica crushes the Basestar easily, but the cylons now know about earth. The colonail rag tag fleet has nowhere left to run. No place to go to. The holy land couldn’t repel a single lone basestar. And by now the cylons will be sending an armada.
A hurried new alliance is formed between earth and her lost brothers. Preparations are made. A few years pass.
A HUGE fleet of Basestars approach a star system. A Terran/Colonial fleet sails to engage them. There hasn’t been time to complete new Terran Battlestars. So the fleet mostly consists of the old ragtag fleet, armed to the teeth with missles and fightercraft. New tactics are used. ECM jams the cylon targeting systems.
The battle is bloody. Many good people die. But the battle does not go well so the Terrans begin a new strategy, a dark form of nuclear berseker/kamikaze attacks. Ship after ship is rammed or detonated to decimate the cylon fleets. No thought is given to saving lives, even on their own side. The colonials are horrified at the callous loss of life. But the tactic is affective. They buy time until the cylons can send another fleet.
The second attack comes. But the new Battlestars are able to repel the attack
But its only a diversion. The cylons after seeing the brutality of humans in the last attack have determined that humans must be eliminated. They are a threat to the whole universe. They deploy a new weapon against earth. Huge missles rain down on earth, they strike deep into her surface and drill down. Then they simultaneously go off, and the concussive force drives off the upper layer of the earth crust into space. Earth is destroyed.
But the new battlestars escape destruction.
We take the war back to the original colonies.
The Galactican fleet decide to liberate Caprica first. But the people there for the most part can’t even remember the colonists. Few are older than 25. And they believe the colonists are the enemy they have been waiting for. Its more a cult than a human world now. And they choose genocide over freedom from the cylons.
The Colonial Fleet realizes THERE IS NO WAY TO FREE THE COLONIES.
The colonists have no choice. So they begin a policy of containment. All the colonies become a quarantine zone. Nothing enters or leaves. Anything that tries is destroyed. Outside of this all cylons are terminated. But within the original colonies cylons rule over the exiled worlds. (This is where Moore’s new cylons come from)
With earth gone, new colonies are formed. A new Caprica. A new Piscon. Etc. And Humanity thrives. A millennium passes.
In the new struggle to rebuild the human race much has been forgotten. Names of heroes like Starbuck, Athena, Apollo, have become more like myths and legends. Hot pilots use the names for their call signs. And one of the original Terran Battlestars, which was named Galactica II in honor of its predecessor, is about to be mothballed.
The cylons and the humanity have merged into together. The cylons have become more human. Humans have given up their bodies to become machine. And their memory of their origins are blurred. They now see themselves as decended from the colonists.
And a long distance away, in a far away star system a planet badly damaged begins to heal…
…
There is an old legend, a theory about how the universe likes to repeat itself. But perhaps its more complex. The destiny of civilizations are predetermined. And not only does history like to repeat itself, the players of the game are reassembled to play out their roles again, with the chance to change the outcome. :)
:cool: