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Originally Posted by Benedict
Knowing how the Colonies are arranged would help things a bit. In my mind they're ludicrously close to each other.
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Yes they do seem to be quite close, but perhaps thats what makes the system where their ancestors settled special. They had the ability to travel throughout the stars and found this one unique system with 12 habitable planets.
That could also explain why they did not fall to the Cylons sooner. Being close together made them easier to defend.
I'm no scientist but I tend to think the really hard part wouldnt be to find 12 planets in the habitable zone in one system, even a trinary. But the tricky part in a binary or especially a trinary would be for those planets to remain geologically stable enough to build a civilization on. They would possibly be vistied by crazy cycles of frequent quakes, tidal waves, and solar storms.
But the idea of 12 colonies in one trinary system is really fun and interesting.
