The 12 Colonies are the twelve colonies of Kobul. Season 1 of Battlestar Galactica is pretty centered around Kobul, and the origin of humanities 12 (13 if including Earth) colonies. Most of the histroy HAS been explained, however i think the only interesting part of the BSG universe would be the First Cylon War. Also it would be a great way to promote Caprica seeing as the events in Caprica presumably lead to the first Cylon war.

I just can’t get into Caprica. It’s violating to much canon and it’s too much like a daytime soap.

there were about 5.000 people left on new caprica after the exodus
or rescue
they were left without the resources of the fleet and the cylons
i would really love to know what became of them

I’d like to see Caprica or new spin off series to explore Kobol, and the first humanoid cylons. I’d like to know what becomes of the red stripe centurions. Do they make their way back to old Earth and pick D’Anna up, and make her their leader? (She’s amazing in Spartacus btw). What actually became of the original Earth centurions, given that they destroyed their humanoid cylon creators. Where did they go? Did D’Anna manage to reawaken some of the old centurions? How long do humanoid cylons actually live for anyway?

The Old Testament describes people living for 900 years, and the Sumerian civilization describes their ‘gods’ the Anunnaki (Those who from heaven to earth came) as not only having created man in their image and likeness, but as living for hundreds of thousands of years. (Almost every story in the Old Testament comes from the Sumerians 3500-6000 BC). Those people that hate the BSG ending and the religious overtones, obviously haven’t read anything by Zecharia Sitchin or Erich Von Daniken yet. God and the gods were beings from Nibiru, the 10th planet in the solar system, and beyond, with technology that to primitive humans, even bronze age humans, was supernatural in appearance.

Anyway. One thing that Caprica sorely needs are humanoid cylons. Not the v-world avatars, but the humanoid cylon robots. It also needs to pick up the pace, and become an action adventure series, not simply a slow-as-the Sopranos affair. Yawn, Tony Soprano in bath robe waddles over to the fridge, finds the owange juice is finished, shouts where’s da owange juice…yawn…(who gives a giant frack?) Caprica needs politics, double dealing, and treachery. It needs some interplanetary action, just to give us some space-based action. It needs to explain where the significant seven cylons came from. Their DNA came from the final five, but what about their personalities? Obviously, their personalities were once housed inside centurion bodies, and by implication, were before that, avatars in the V-world. Which means that the significant seven were actually real people at one point. If Caprica can’t have humanoid cylons, couldn’t we still have Leoben, Six, Boomer etc in their original human form, before their minds are somehow copied into centurion bodies?

Will we ever see aliens in the BSG universe? Will we ever discover who or what exactly God, the Angels / Head characters and the Gods are? Are they aliens? Super-cylons? The avatars created on Kobol? Or are they an intelligence billions of years older than anything humans or cylons have seen before?

One other thing I’d like to see change in Caprica. The music. Bear McCreary is a genius, but despite the fact that he now has a full orchestra to play with, the classical feel to the music, the lack of percussion and ethnic instruments is a real loss. Surely a burgeoning city is a cultural center,with lots of different influences. The music is great, but like the writing and the performances, doesn’t quite have the grit or depth yet that BSG had. If Battlestar Galactica is a spicy taco, Caprica is a watery salad. I know from her tweets how Jane Espenson loves food, so I thought I’d throw in a food metaphor :) Is it a deliberate attempt to make a BSG-set series palatable enough for network tv, and watery enough to last for 7 or 8 seasons?

Ok so here is my Idea I agree that a Kobol story needs to be told or even a pre-Kobol story. I say pre because when the fleet arrive on earth they find a “primitive human” race living there. This would also help to explain some of the current gaps in the fossil record here on current earth. ie the “gods” come to earth and discover humanity in an early form evolve them and take those evolved to Kobol harmony in sues. until the humans mentally evolve and turn on the “gods” for allowing Hephaestus to create the automatons (cylons) both centurion and human form. war breaks out on Kobol the Automatons (cylons) flee Kobol in the early days of the war in fear that the humans will destroy them. the remaining 12 tribes remain and battle until the planet is all but destroyed save the city of the Gods. as the 12 tribes depart a final insult to the gods themselves they bombard the planet (possibly with nukes) and make way for the colonies. a small battle group is sent to earth to finish what was started in the war and plants the seed of descent between the human form and centurion cylons. thus earth is destroyed. upon reaching the colonies it is decided to not be space faring to protect the sovereignty of the individual colonies. that lasts for 500 years until the discovery of Tylium. and we know the rest….fast forward 1500 years give or take a decade or two we have just ended the first Cylon war a paranoid group of military leaders on each of the 12 worlds decide that the loss of 15 billion people in the first war was a tragedy what if the Cyclons come back? so they put a plan in place to protect humanity from extinction (much the way the super-powers did here in the cold war years) and build protected bunkers manned and supported at all times by the minimum number of people to be able to repopulate the planets should a new war break out. the stations would be carefully selected and the personnel would form the building blocks of the new colonies if (by earth DNA records) we are descended from approx 75,000 people about 75,000 years ago, then conceivably between 50,000 to 80,000 per colony would be sufficient to repopulate the colonies. given 150,000 years the populous of the colonies would be more then that of the pre-fall colonies.