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geenome
The Earth (spoilers)
Apr 17 2009, 8:15 AM EDT | Post edited: Apr 17 2009, 8:16 AM EDT
This has been bugging me for a while now. When the final 5 were having flashbacks on the original Earth it looked as if they were all living peacefully with humans, who nuked the Earth then? Were the others in the flashbacks a mixture of human and cylon living together or a humanoid cylon dominated world?
I wish they'd explained the destruction of the original Earth more clearly. Does anyone have a better grasp of this before I start plowing through the programs again even though I have the feeling that isn't explained. Do you find this valuable?    
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1. RE: The Earth (spoilers)
Apr 20 2009, 1:02 PM EDT | Post edited: Apr 20 2009, 1:02 PM EDT
My understanding is that the 13th Colony was ENTIRELY Cylon (i.e. there were no humans there at all). From the time they left Kobol they were a purely Cylon tribe, which possibly explains why they left Kobol thousands of years before the other tribes, and went in a completely different direction.

We also know that the Cylon tribe on Earth started creating their own Centurions at some point, so the war that annihilated Earth was probably either a) humanoid Cylons vs. centurion Cylons, or b) an inter-Cylon war -- it's quite possible the Cylons couldn't live with each other in peace, even after thousands of years.

Really, all we know for sure is that the 13th Colony was fast approaching its doom, and 5 individuals experienced visions forewarning them of the apocalypse, so they took action to recreate resurrection and thus survive. After that, the 5 retraced the steps of their ancestors back to Kobol (leaving clues to the location of Earth along the way), and finding Kobol uninhabited, followed the path of the 12 human tribes to the Colonies, where they found the human-Cylon war already in progress... Do you find this valuable?