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[[WMG: UFOs are actually the Cylon Centurions who are set free in the final episode or their descendants]]

[[WMG: Inverse of above theory, ''Franchise/TheMatrix'' was what became of the Cylons and the Earth from whence the Final Five came.]]

During this couple-thousand-year voyage, back on Earth, another cycle has taken hold: Humanoid Cylons being kept under control in a simulation that, although close, is imperfect. To help keep the humans under control even as they reject the simulation and yearn for the real world, they create an initially fictitious Messianic story so a specially-grown Cylon can manipulate the humans into each culling and rebirth cycle. The AIs responsible for coming up with this idea? The Architect and the Oracle - in truth, they're Program incarnations of the angelic beings that were Head!Six and Head!Baltar. By instituting this cycle of Ones in the Matrix, they can use each One in an attempt to renegotiate Man/Machine peace right under the noses of the Machines, and on their sixth try with Neo it finally happens. Neo sacrifices himself to delete Smith, Man and Machine come to terms, now it's up to their alliance to make things better or at least survive long enough for the Colonials to arrive and rescue them. However, as by this point the Earth has become heavily resource-depleted, and wars over said resources and over unplugging humans rage over what's left, eventually everything on Earth dies out completely. Even the nanite layer covering the Earth completely eventually withers away and leaves holes in itself, allowing the Sun to shine upon it once more, far too late for anything but to allow any remaining survivors to leave the planet in search of a new home.

In time, the Twelve Colonies get glassed in a surprise attack, the Galactica flees with a civilian fleet into deep space to find the legendary "Earth" they believe to be a refuge, and as in the show they find it to be a hollow and irradiated uninhabitable wasteland. The Final Five and the Rebel Cylons recognize a lot of what they find in the ruins, and it sparks a lot of memories for the Five...

Everyone will die. Nobody survives. Not just "All of the main characters, 'KillEmAll' style" everyone dies. EVERYONE dies. The whole fleet is wiped out through civil war, and then starvation as they fall below the minimum threshold needed to maintain any sort of civilization, or even keep a ship in the uncaring environment of space running.

From Wiki/TheOtherWiki: "Unlike many robots of the period, Olivaw is constructed to be virtually indistinguishable from a human being (an android) and was the first of the humanoid robots. This 'undercover' attribute enables him to help earth-policeman Elijah Baley solve crimes."

Ever notice how whenever two or more identical people show up, everybody automatically assumes they're Cylons without one of said characters even saying that they're just twins, triplets, etc. (which is actually pretty close to the truth when you think about it)? It's because, apart from the Cylons [[spoiler: bar the Final Five]] having no imagination, identical siblings and strangers are much rarer in the Twelve Colonies than they are here on Earth Mk.

FridgeBrilliance: this explains why dopplegangers are considered evil - its a race memory from our distant past.
* More FridgeBrilliance: It also explains why our species has twins much more often. Colonial humans have no multiple births, Cylons have a boat-load, so us, being descended from both, have them, but they are relatively rare.

[[WMG: The whole series is an earlier version of ''Film/TheMatrix''.]]

[[WMG: The Galacticans actually arrived circa 10,000 years ago and founded Atlantis. ]]

The Galacticans were astounded to discover ruins of a great city on a beautiful unpopulated garden island in the Mediterranean. Because at the center of this city was an Opera House that looked like the ruins of the Opera House on Kobol.

The Galacticans were astounded to discover ruins of a great city on a beautiful unpopulated garden island in the Mediterranean. And at the center of this city was an Opera House that looked like the ruins of the Opera House on Kobol.

The Galacticans adopted the name of this island themselves: they were now the Atlantians.

The Atlantians kept most of their technology and interacted with the extant primitive Earth peoples. They tried to hide their technology somewhat, but they were still believed to be gods, and strongly influenced cultures such as Greece.

Because Earth was so much smaller than the colony planets, the first Atlantians were, in effect, much stronger than native humans. A healthy Atlantian could easily jump 20 feet into the air. Although the Atlantians gradually adapted to Earth gravity, and all their descendants had normal Earth strength, the extreme physical strength of the first Atlantians contributed in no small part to the natives believing they were gods.

Certainly not all was good. When the Atlantians did speak of their prior affairs with the Cylons, the natives misconstrued things like “resurrection”, which became enmeshed as a concept, leading to things like the Egyptians obsession with building the pyramids.

And while the Atlantians managed to be mostly peaceful, at times the friction between the previous colonies would erupt. These conflicts were relatively mild, but because the weapons used were strange and powerful, the Greeks and others perceived these events as wars between the gods. There were stories of large metallic birds seemingly appearing and disappearing in thin air.

For unknown reasons, Atlantis fell circa 1175 BCE. It’s been theorized that Atlantis may have triggered the Late Bronze Age Collapse by providing advanced (new to the natives) weaponry.

For unknown reasons, Atlantis fell circa 2500 BC.

Baltar was able to revolutionize the natives’ agriculture, which alone allowed them to settle down, giving time for writing and other intellectual pursuits.