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The world ended with no warning, and all that was left ... was hope.

The Cylons were created by the people of the Twelve Colonies. Intelligent robots, they were used as slaves and soldiers to fight humanity's wars. But the Cylons became sentient and they rebelled. Man and machine fought to a bloody stalemate, then the Cylons withdrew to a remote region of space.

A truce between the Twelve Colonies and the Cylons lasted for 40 tense and silent years. Each year, on the anniversary of the treaty-signing, humanity sent an envoy to the neutral ground of Armistice Station to meet with a Cylon envoy. For 39 years, no Cylon envoy came.

Then, on the 40th anniversary, a stunning blonde - No.6 - a Cylon in human form - met the human envoy ... moments before the Cylons vaporized the station and launched a genocidal attack on the Twelve Colonies.

In one devastating day, billions of human lives were consumed by nuclear fires. Only those souls fortunate enough to be aboard starships were able to band together and escape and flee into deep space, led by the sole surviving Colonial warship, the Battlestar Galactica.

The Galactica and its crew seemed to be unlikely saviors for humanity's fewer than 50,000 desperate survivors. The ship was old and had been about to be decommissioned and turned into a museum when the Cylon attack occurred. In the aftermath its commanding officer, William Adama, found himself responsible for safeguarding the last remnants of the human race.

Meanwhile, the annihilation of the Colonial government on Caprica resulted in the succession of Laura Roslin, the Secretary of Education, to the presidency. Driven by prophetic visions and political necessity, she set the fleet upon a quest that will take it into the farthest reaches of unexplored space ... in search of the mythical, lost "13th colony" - Earth

The Miniseries

In a sudden, devastating nuclear attack, the Cylon robots - who have now taken human form - wipe out billions of people. Only a ragtag fleet of Colonial forces is left to shepherd humanity's few survivors to safety. Commander William Adama, a veteran of the Cylon Wars and the highest-ranking military officer left alive, reactivates the Battlestar Galactica to once again face his greatest nemeses.

His son, Lee Adama, callsign "Apollo," joins the fight alongside the fleet's best pilot, Kara Thrace, callsign "Starbuck." With the president and most of his senior cabinet killed in the attack, Secretary of Education Laura Roslin is sworn in as the new president of the Twelve Colonies of Kobol. As Adama and Roslin debate whether to fight or flee, the Cylons launch a sneak attack on the new president's ship, Colonial One.

Forced into an uneasy alliance, President Roslin and Commander Adama do their best to lead the military into battle and the civilians to safety. Gaius Baltar, the decadent genius who inadvertently helped the Cylons infiltrate the government's defense systems, has been rescued and treasured as one of humanity's last great intellectuals. No one has yet discovered Baltar's involvement in the Cylon attack - or that he is still haunted, and possibly controlled, by visions of the seductive Cylon "Number Six."

Aboard the Galactica, Baltar's superior intellect ironically leads to his designation as the authority on all things Cylon. Outnumbered and outgunned, Adama reluctantly concedes that President Roslin was correct - this battle was lost before it had begun. With no choice but to flee, humanity's survivors set out in search of the mythic 13th Colony of Kobol ... a legendary planet known as Earth.

Season 1

With only each other to rely upon, and Cylon spies in their midst, trust becomes the survivors' most valuable asset…

With the human race reduced to fewer than 50,000 people, a ragtag fleet of ships searches for the mythical planet Earth, protected only by the Battlestar Galactica. Newly sworn-in President Laura Roslin and Commander William Adama, joined by an uneasy alliance, lead the fleet of shocked and grieving survivors deep into uncharted space with their tormentors, the Cylons, in pursuit.

Because some Cylons now appear to be human, no one can be sure whom to trust. One of the Battlestar Galactica's pilots — Lt. Karl Agathon, call sign "Helo" — experiences a Cylon deception more intimately than most. Stranded on the devastated and Cylon-occupied planet Caprica, he falls in love with a woman he thinks is his flight partner, Sharon Valerii (call sign "Boomer"). In fact she is a Cylon, one of many copies of the "Number Eight" Sharon model. Her mission: to seduce Helo and bear a child so that the Cylons can study hybrid reproduction. This plan backfires, however, when Sharon and Helo fall in love, and her devotion to him eclipses her loyalty to the Cylons.

Unknown to Helo, "Boomer," the Sharon he had served with, is still on the Battlestar Galactica — unaware of her own Cylon nature, and romantically involved with the ship's senior noncommissioned officer, Chief Galen Tyrol.

Meanwhile, vivid and disturbing visions begin to haunt President Roslin. As a result, she becomes a devout believer in the mythological planet Earth, which she feels is a real place, a safe haven to which she is destined to lead humanity according to the prophecies of the Colonies' gods. Accordingly, she orders pilot Kara Thrace to hijack a captured Cylon ship, sneak back to the ruined capital city of Caprica, and retrieve the ancient Arrow of Apollo.

At a critical moment, after the Sharon aboard the Battlestar Galactica returns from a critical mission to destroy a Cylon base ship, her Cylon programming abruptly activates: in one shattering instant, on the command deck of the Battlestar Galactica, she shoots Adama.

Season Two

Difficult choices lead to divided loyalties … and more daunting challenges.

With Vice President Gaius Baltar and a team of Colonial troops stranded and hunted by Cylon centurions on Kobol, the legendary "planet of the gods," Commander Adama lays clinging to life after being shot while in the command center of the Battlestar Galactica. In the aftermath, Crewman Cally, a member of the Battlestar Galactica's flight-deck crew, assassinates the captive Cylon infiltrator Sharon Valerii.

Like all Cylons, Sharon's consciousness downloads into a new body after her death. Because she still thinks of herself as human, her rebirth among Cylons on occupied Caprica is a nightmarish awakening. She meets a kindred spirit in "Caprica Six," a Cylon who loved Baltar before she died in the initial attack. Revered as war heroes by their people, the duo become prominent Cylon leaders.

On occupied Caprica, Kara Thrace meets a group of resistance fighters led by a man named Samuel Anders. Their time together is brief but passionate, and before leaving Kara promises to return for Anders as soon as she can. She then returns to the Battlestar Galactica with the Arrow of Apollo, her stranded crewmate Karl "Helo" Agathon, and his pregnant Cylon lover, Sharon. They return to find the wounded Adama regaining his strength after a long rehabilitation.

With the Arrow, President Laura Roslin brings her prophetic visions to fruition. The fleet returns to Kobol and opens the ancient Tomb of Athena, where Roslin discovers what appears to be a map to the unimaginably distant Earth.

Aboard the Battlestar Galactica, Helo's Sharon gives birth to their daughter, Hera. Unwilling to let Sharon raise the infant, Roslin switches the Cylon-human hybrid with a stillborn human baby. Sharon, believing that Roslin and Adama murdered her daughter, is furious. Roslin secretly arranges for the baby to be adopted by Maya, a surrogate mother who does not know the baby's true nature.

With the hybrid child hidden within the fleet, life moves on. Adama awards his son command of the battlestar Pegasus, the recently returned sister ship of the Battlestar Galactica. The fleet prepares for its first presidential election, in which Dr. Baltar emerges as Roslin's chief opponent. Roslin's re-election campaign runs into trouble when the fleet discovers what becomes the central issue of the election: a habitable planet hidden in a nebula, safe from Cylon detection.

Roslin believes that settling there — and abandoning the quest for Earth — is the wrong decision. Unfortunately, Baltar's optimistic plan to settle the new planet draws overwhelming support from voters weary of space travel and Cylon raids. Baltar is elected president, and his first executive order is for the fleet to land on and colonize the planet, which is dubbed New Caprica.

Life on New Caprica is hard. Supplies are scarce, and the climate is harsh. Baltar's reign is an unhappy one. Deaf to the needs of his people and facing growing political resistance, he acts more like a dictator than like a president. Roslin abandons politics and returns to teaching, while keeping a close watch on the hybrid baby. Kara rescues Anders as she'd promised, and they marry. In orbit, the Galactica and the Pegasus patrol with skeleton crews and a tiny, stripped-down fleet. The new colony remains safe from the Cylons … for one year.

It is then that the Cylons discover the new human colony and invade. The battlestars are forced to break orbit and flee into deep space rather than be overpowered and destroyed. Without them, the planet is defenseless. Baltar surrenders without a fight, turning his city over to an occupying army of Cylon Centurions. As Roslin, Kara, and their fellow humans watch their enemies march through New Caprica, they realize that their most difficult struggle still lay ahead…

Season Three

Humanity's last survivors struggle to be free and follow the clues to Earth — and the Cylons haunt their every move.

For months, the humans on Cylon-occupied New Caprica struggle to survive while faced with the constant threat of imprisonment, torture and execution at the hands of their Cylon overseers. Some collaborate with the Cylons; some become resistance fighters. At last, they are liberated by the Battlestar Galactica and the Pegasus (which is destroyed in the fight). The human fleet resumes its search for Earth, but the traumatic events of the occupation haunt all who suffered them, leading to suspicion, anger and outbreaks of violence. In this turbulent atmosphere, Kara Thrace and Lee Adama — both married to other people — begin an affair.

Meanwhile, Gaius Baltar, the former president of New Caprica who collaborated with the occupation, travels with the Cylon fleet. His relationship with Caprica Six gives way to a close bond with Number Three, who is on an unauthorized quest to explore Cylon spiritual mysteries. Among other things, she longs to discover the identities of the "final five" Cylons: mysterious, quasi-mystical figures about whom the seven known Cylon models are ignorant (in some cases, willfully so).

After one deep-space confrontation in which the humans come close to deploying a genocidal plague against the Cylon race, humans and Cylons converge a second time above a planet that's home to the ancient Temple of Five. The Temple was built by the members of the 13th colony who journeyed to Earth many centuries earlier. Roslin hopes that the temple houses a clue to Earth's location; Number Three expects to learn about the final five Cylons. During the tense standoff that follows, the humans discover that their route lies toward the distant Ionian Nebula. They also capture Gaius Baltar and Caprica Six. Meanwhile, Number Three receives a vision of the final five Cylons. Before she can share her new knowledge, however, her fellow Cylons, unnerved by her rebellious actions, "box" all copies of her — condemning her consciousness to indefinite "cold storage."

After the fleet escapes the Cylons and sets course for the Ionian Nebula, Admiral Adama and President Roslin turn their attention to their prisoner, Gaius Baltar. Baltar reacts by publishing a manifesto from the Battlestar Galactica's brig that stirs up class conflict by accusing the fleet's elites of repressing the workers. Plague outbreaks and labor disputes involving disadvantaged citizens lend credibility to his accusations. Roslin and Adama's ultimate decision to give him a fair trial angers both the occupation survivors who want him summarily executed and the downtrodden workers for whom he's becoming a hero.

Kara and Lee, meanwhile, force themselves to end their affair and repair their marriages. Then Kara begins to see visions. As she pursues an internal quest that only she understands, her behavior grows erratic. On a Viper patrol mission, she dives into a vast storm above a planet and apparently is killed when her Viper explodes. Her husband Sam Anders and both Adamas are devastated by her loss.

Gaius Baltar's trial for treason against humanity begins, with Admiral Adama sitting on the judges' tribunal and Laura Roslin testifying for the prosecution. Romo Lampkin, Baltar's brilliant and manipulative attorney, recruits Lee Adama to assist the defense. Lee takes his job so seriously that he alienates his father, Roslin and his wife, Anastasia Dualla, with his zealous defense of his client. He resigns his military commission, and Dualla asks him for a separation. Baltar is acquitted and spirited away by some of his followers.

As the fleet reaches the Ionian Nebula, a mysterious song guides Saul Tigh, Galen Tyrol, Sam Anders and Tory Foster to an obscure compartment aboard the Battlestar Galactica. When the four converge, they intuitively realize that they have been summoned in this way because they are Cylons — four of the final five. As they struggle to face this horrifying truth, the fleet comes under attack. The Cylons have found them once again.

Though no longer a military pilot, Lee jumps into a Viper and flies out to defend the human fleet. In the eerie light of the nebula, another Viper appears alongside his. To his shock, Kara Thrace is flying it. The woman he thought was dead hails him with the news that she has found Earth — and she's going to show the fleet how to get there.

Season Four - Watch this space

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