Earth

Battlestar Galactica 2004 Continuity
(Battlestar Galactica 2004, Caprica and Blood & Chrome)

Earth is a kobolstrial planet, settled by the 13th Tribe some 4000 years ago before the Fall of the Twelve Colonies. The planet was eventually discovered by the Colonial ragtag fleet, approximately four years after their departure from the Cyrannus Star System.

History[]

Earth was settled approximately 4000 years prior to the Fall by the Thirteenth Tribe, a Cylon race which left Kobol to create a colony of its own to flourish in away from Kobolians, after unspecified period of strife. In the 2000 years following the Exodus, the Thirteenth Tribe built large cities across the planet and began constructing increasingly sophisticated machine servitors using artificial intelligence. These machine servants later achieved sentience and started a slave revolt, which ended with a nuclear holocaust and the apparent mutual destruction of both peoples, with the exception of five survivors of the Thirteenth Tribe who reinvented, by then, long lost resurrection technology.^[1]

In the 2000 years following this conflict, a radioactive trace was still detectable in the planet's ecosystem. When the planet was discovered by the ragtag fleet who survived the Fall of the Twelve Colonies and Exodus from New Caprica now consisting of humans, humanoid cylons and four of the five Thirteenth Tribe survivors.^[2] The soil and water contaminants were deemed unsafe for colonization., and after only few days, the fleet abandoned Earth, leaving behind only a last remaining Number 3 who requested to stay behind.^[1]