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* KnowWhenToFoldThem: Libran was the only Colony to have its majority against the war from the beginning. [[spoiler:By the end of the war, they've had enough and effectively secede from the Colonies in order to surrender. In exchange, the Tau'ri grant them status as an independent world again]].
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*** Hell, Colonial warfare is outright compared to Napoleonic warfare. They have no concept of mobile warfare, blitz attacks, shock and awe, or many of the other tactics that the Tau'ri take for granted.
*** The Colonials also don't believe in fighting or moving at night.
*** The Colonials also don't believe in fighting or moving at night.
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* CorneredRattlesnake: As much of a CurbStomp is being delivered to the Colonials, the Tau'ri specifically intend to [[AvertedTrope:avert this]].
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* DecapitationStrike: Attempted by the Tau'ri multiple times.
** The initial shelling of the Senate killed almost half of the Colonial government figures, however this simply left openings for extremists like Cain and Spiros to slide into power.
** Later, the wartime government's secret bunker is unsuccessfully raided by Tau'ri special forces to attempt this.
** [[spoiler: By the late stages of the war, multiple opportunities to successfully pull this off are deliberately ignored, as using this tactic would throw the Colonies into disarray and make it harder to achieve surrender]].
** The initial shelling of the Senate killed almost half of the Colonial government figures, however this simply left openings for extremists like Cain and Spiros to slide into power.
** Later, the wartime government's secret bunker is unsuccessfully raided by Tau'ri special forces to attempt this.
** [[spoiler: By the late stages of the war, multiple opportunities to successfully pull this off are deliberately ignored, as using this tactic would throw the Colonies into disarray and make it harder to achieve surrender]].
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** [[spoiler:One of the dicier moments of the Battle for Tauron comes when a group of Colonial tanks are trapped between a line of Dragon Fire and a Tau'ri firing line]].
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** [[Spoiler:In the latter stages of the final battle, the Tau'ri begin alternating demands for surrender with escalating attacks on the Colonials.]]
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* CorneredRattlesnake: As much of a CurbStomp is being delivered to the Colonials, the Tau'ri specifically intend to Avert this trope.
** General Leong actively passes up an opportunity to cut off her enemy' escape route.
** [[Spoiler:In the latter stages of the final battle, the Tau'ri begin alternating demands for surrender with escalating attacks on the Colonials.]]
** General Leong actively passes up an opportunity to cut off her enemy' escape route.
** [[Spoiler:In the latter stages of the final battle, the Tau'ri begin alternating demands for surrender with escalating attacks on the Colonials.]]
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* BigDamnHeroes: During the mission to recover the ZPMS, the Akula is exposed in orbit due to an accidental ramming by a ship coming out of hyperspace. All seems lost, for both the Akula in space and the marines on the ground, until the Britannia and her taskforce come sailing in to deliver a CurbStompBattle to the colonials.
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* SpotOfTea: Admiral Moreton of the Britannia, of course.
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* NoseArt: This tradition is revived for Tau'ri pilots and their Eagle Fighters after the attack on Valhalla. One fighter in particular, Elsa's Revenge, mixes the patriotic and humorous variations of this trope.
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* WeaponOfMassDestruction: [[spoiler:Turns out the Tau'ri and the Colonies have very different ideas about what constitutes a WMD.]].
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* WeaponOfMassDestruction: [[spoiler:Turns out the Tau'ri and the Colonies have very different ideas about what constitutes a WMD.]].
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** Adar attempting to intimidate the Tau'ri when negotiations broke down. Or to put it another way: sending a fleet into another sovereign power's territory without their permission and expecting them not to view it as a threat. End result: a decimated fleet, the nuking of Kobol, and the entire Tau'ri up in arms. Oops.
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* RougeAnglesOfSatin: Many, but the story remains relatively readable.
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* RougeAnglesOfSatin: Many, it was an ongoing theory in the comments that the author's first language was not English due to this trope. The author eventually clarified that they had a reading disorder and do not trust Beta readers. Admittedly, that doesn't explain the mistakes that could be caught by the common spellchecker, but the story remains relatively readable.
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*GovernmentConspiracy: Interestingly, the opening chapter centers around the process of dismantling [[Series/StargateSG1 the preexisting conspiracy]].
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* RougeAnglesofSatin: Many, but the story remains relatively readable.
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* EnemyMine: The Colonial war succeeds in bringing together a divided Earth into a united Tau'ri front for this reason.
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** Adar's cabinet members from Sagittaron and Gememon are unwilling to give up the fight [[spoiler:even after the destruction of the Colonial navy, occupation of multiple planets, and the reveal of the Ragnarok superweapon]].
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* EntertaininglyWrong: At one point Adar tries to 'threaten' the Tau'ri with the knowledge of their fourth colony world, only to be informed that 'Disneyland' is actually a theme park rather than another planet.
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* EntertaininglyWrong: At one point Adar tries to 'threaten' the Tau'ri with the knowledge of their fourth colony world, only to be informed that 'Disneyland' 'Disneyworld' is actually a theme park rather than another planet.
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** When the war begins, the Colonials are at another disadvantage as they have no true experience with guerrilla warfare, allowing the Tau’ri to use alternative tactics to what the Colonials were expecting (although Earth did provide the Tau'ri with rules of combat that they expected both sides to obey).
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* EntertaininglyWrong: At one point Adar tries to 'threaten' the Tau'ri with the knowledge of their fourth colony world, only to be informed that 'Disneyland' is actually a theme park rather than another planet.
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* HeroicSacrifice: As in “[[Recap/StargateSG1S10E20Unending Unending]]”, [[spoiler:Teal’c volunteers to operate a time dilation device, albeit with the opposite results; everyone else gains a few years of age while Teal’c spends a few months in the Colonies to protect the device]].
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* HeroicSacrifice: As in “[[Recap/StargateSG1S10E20Unending Unending]]”, [[spoiler:Teal’c volunteers to operate a time dilation device, albeit with the opposite results; everyone else gains a few years of age to prepare for the next strike on the Colonies while Teal’c spends a few months in the Colonies to protect the device]].
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* AuthorityInNameOnly: Adar finds his authority being undercut by religious extremists and anti-Tau'ri factions in the Quorum so often that any effort he makes to de-escalate the war is doomed before it gets off the ground.
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* ShoutOut: At one point during the early tour of the Colonies, Torren Sheppard shows D’Anna Biers a clip from Film/AvengersInfinityWar (albeit a very different clip from what the film actually turned out to be like).
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* ShoutOut: At one point during the early tour of the Colonies, Torren Sheppard shows D’Anna Biers a clip from Film/AvengersInfinityWar (albeit a very different clip from what the film actually turned out to be like).like - the movie didn't come out until long after that scene was written).
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* ArtisticLicenseLaw: Cain's attempt to defend herself in her court-martial by making statements that would ''set national policy'' regarding Colonial-Tau'ri relations would never have been accepted by a rational judge. Allowing the defense to proceed on that avenue to the point where the court arrests ''a foreign dignitary'' for refusing to answer questions that were not relevant to the incident the trial was about is utter insanity. In any case, the entire question of whether or not the Tau'ri were actually the Thirteenth Tribe, whether they were officially part of the unified Colonial structure, and whether or not their officers were subordinate to the Colonial Navy was irrelevant: in a tribunal of this nature, what matters is the decision process involved in the officer making the decisions that are under investigation. The notion that Earth ships should be part of the Colonial military and thus answerable to her authority was not part of her thought process, as she didn't know that the ship she fired on was from Earth until ''after'' she gave the order to attack, and her ship's own communication logs could verify this.
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* ArtisticLicenseLaw: Cain's attempt to defend herself in her court-martial by making statements that would ''set national policy'' regarding Colonial-Tau'ri relations would never have been accepted by a rational judge. Allowing the defense to proceed on that avenue to the point where the court arrests ''a foreign dignitary'' for refusing to answer questions that were not relevant to the incident the trial was about is utter insanity. In any case, the entire question of whether or not the Tau'ri were actually the Thirteenth Tribe, whether they were officially part of the unified Colonial structure, and whether or not their officers were subordinate to the Colonial Navy was irrelevant: in a tribunal of this nature, what matters is the decision process involved in the officer making the decisions that are under investigation. The notion that Earth ships should be part of the Colonial military and thus answerable to her authority was not part of her thought process, as she didn't know that the ship she fired on was from Earth until ''after'' she gave the order to attack, attack (she thought it was a new Cylon vessel class whose crew was playing dumb), and her ship's own communication logs could verify this.
* CurbStompBattle: Earth's ships are so much faster and more powerful than the Colony's that every engagement ends up as one, not helped by the fact that the Colonial Navy doesn't have the range to even try to attack most of Terran space. The only reason the war lasts as long as it does is because Earth only has a handful of ships, most of which are tied down in operations against the Wraith.
* EasyLogistics: Due to the totally different FTL travel systems, it would literally take years for a Colonial vessel to reach any Tau'ri system other than Valhalla/Kobol, making Colonial conquest of Earth utterly impossible.
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* InsaneTrollLogic: This is basically the reason for much of the initial hostility between Earth and the Twelve Colonies, as Colonial law rules that Earth is their thirteenth colony and their political process has been heavily based on that idea, to the point that a priest has been signing for Earth when circumstances require all thirteen of the Quorum representatives to vote. As Colonel O’Neill (Jack O’Neill’s now-adult clone) observes, Earth cannot be held legally accountable when someone signed a contract ‘on their behalf’ without their knowledge (even before they learn where the Colonials’ Earth actually is from the Cylons), but Cain insists that under the Articles of Colonisation Earth should be considered another colony and hence subject to their laws, even when none of the Colonials know where Earth is to try and enforce that decree and nobody from Earth agrees with that interpretation.
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* InsaneTrollLogic: InsaneTrollLogic:
** This is basically the reason for much of the initial hostility between Earth and the Twelve Colonies, as Colonial law rules that Earth is their thirteenth colony and their political process has been heavily based on that idea, to the point that a priest has been signing for Earth when circumstances require all thirteen of the Quorum representatives to vote. As Colonel O’Neill (Jack O’Neill’s now-adult clone) observes, Earth cannot be held legally accountable when someone signed a contract ‘on their behalf’ without their knowledge (even before they learn where the Colonials’ Earth actually is from the Cylons), but Cain insists that under the Articles of Colonisation Earth should be considered another colony and hence subject to their laws, even when none of the Colonials know where Earth is to try and enforce that decree and nobody from Earth agrees with that interpretation.
** This also comes into play regarding the fact that the Colonials hold that since Valhalla was once their homeworld of Kobol, it belongs to them despite them having not lived there in millennia. Attempts to point out that they had lost all claim to said world after creating the border treaty with the Cylons with Kobol on the other side decades before are generally ignored.
** This is basically the reason for much of the initial hostility between Earth and the Twelve Colonies, as Colonial law rules that Earth is their thirteenth colony and their political process has been heavily based on that idea, to the point that a priest has been signing for Earth when circumstances require all thirteen of the Quorum representatives to vote. As Colonel O’Neill (Jack O’Neill’s now-adult clone) observes, Earth cannot be held legally accountable when someone signed a contract ‘on their behalf’ without their knowledge (even before they learn where the Colonials’ Earth actually is from the Cylons), but Cain insists that under the Articles of Colonisation Earth should be considered another colony and hence subject to their laws, even when none of the Colonials know where Earth is to try and enforce that decree and nobody from Earth agrees with that interpretation.
** This also comes into play regarding the fact that the Colonials hold that since Valhalla was once their homeworld of Kobol, it belongs to them despite them having not lived there in millennia. Attempts to point out that they had lost all claim to said world after creating the border treaty with the Cylons with Kobol on the other side decades before are generally ignored.
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* RealityEnsues: While the Tau’ri have more advanced technology than the Twelve Colonies, the Colonials’ superior numbers make conflict between the two challenging at best, particularly when the Tau’ri don’t want to use their more devastating weapons against the Colonies to, for example, destroy their sun.
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* RealityEnsues: RealityEnsues:
** Adar sends a small fleet to Valhalla to do some saber-rattling. The Tau'ri forces see warships of a nation that has declared their intent to annex them and had thrown a member of the first contact team in prison jump inside their outer defense perimeter and immediately interpret it as a hostile force.
** While the Tau’ri have more advanced technology than the Twelve Colonies, the Colonials’ superior numbers make conflict between the two challenging at best, particularly when the Tau’ri don’t want to use their more devastating weapons against the Colonies to, for example, destroy their sun.
** Adar sends a small fleet to Valhalla to do some saber-rattling. The Tau'ri forces see warships of a nation that has declared their intent to annex them and had thrown a member of the first contact team in prison jump inside their outer defense perimeter and immediately interpret it as a hostile force.
** While the Tau’ri have more advanced technology than the Twelve Colonies, the Colonials’ superior numbers make conflict between the two challenging at best, particularly when the Tau’ri don’t want to use their more devastating weapons against the Colonies to, for example, destroy their sun.
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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: The Viper pilot on Adar's saber-rattling mission to Kobol who ends up launching missiles before getting shot down... accidentally nuking Disney World Valhalla.
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* ArtisticLicenseLaw: Cain's attempt to defend herself in her court-martial by making statements that would ''set national policy'' regarding Colonial-Tau'ri relations would never have been accepted by a rational judge. Allowing the defense to proceed on that avenue to the point where the court arrests ''a foreign dignitary'' for refusing to answer questions that were not relevant to the incident the trial was about is utter insanity. In any case, the entire question of whether or not the Tau'ri were actually the Thirteenth Tribe, whether they were officially part of the unified Colonial structure, and whether or not their officers were subordinate to the Colonial Navy was irrelevant: in a tribunal of this nature, what matters is the decision process involved in the officer making the decisions that are under investigation. The notion that Earth ships should be part of the Colonial military and thus answerable to her authority was not part of her thought process, as she didn't know that the ship she fired on was from Earth until ''after'' she gave the order to attack, and her ship's own communication logs could verify this.
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* NoodleIncident: The decimation of Kobol was the result of the Goa’uld Zeus experimenting with stolen ZPMs; his human slaves retreated to the future Colonies with twelve of the ZPMs, but Zeus’s experiments caused the thirteenth ZPM to detonate with the force of a super-volcano.
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* NoodleIncident: The decimation of Kobol was the result of the Goa’uld Zeus experimenting with stolen ZPMs; [=ZPMs=]; his human slaves retreated to the future Colonies with twelve of the ZPMs, [=ZPMs=], but Zeus’s experiments caused the thirteenth ZPM [=ZPM=] to detonate with the force of a super-volcano.
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* DeliberateValuesDissonance: A few of these contribute to the declaration of war between both sides, such as the Tau’ri being disturbed at how some of the more religious colonies basically make children the property of their parents.
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** A few of these contribute to the declaration of war between both sides, such as the Tau’ri being disturbed at how some of the more religious colonies basically make children the property of their parents.
** A few of these contribute to the declaration of war between both sides, such as the Tau’ri being disturbed at how some of the more religious colonies basically make children the property of their parents.
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* HeroicSacrific: As in “[[Recap/StargateSG1S10E20Unending Unending]]”, [[spoiler:Teal’c volunteers to operate a time dilation device, albeit with the opposite results; everyone else gains a few years of age while Teal’c spends a few months in the Colonies to protect the device]].
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* HeroicSacrific: HeroicSacrifice: As in “[[Recap/StargateSG1S10E20Unending Unending]]”, [[spoiler:Teal’c volunteers to operate a time dilation device, albeit with the opposite results; everyone else gains a few years of age while Teal’c spends a few months in the Colonies to protect the device]].
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''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11126728/1/Contact-at-Kobol Contact at Kobol]]'' is a ''[[Series/BattlestarGalactica2004 Battlestar Galactica]]''/''[[Franchise/StargateVerse Stargate]]'' crossover fic, starting a few years after the televised conclusion of the Stargate series and a few months before the Cylon attack on the Colonies. When a chance encounter results in shots being exchanged between the two sides, the more fanatical elements of the Colonies (such as Helena Cain) force Earth into a new war with the Twelve Colonies.
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''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11126728/1/Contact-at-Kobol Contact at Kobol]]'' is a ''[[Series/BattlestarGalactica2004 ''[[Series/BattlestarGalactica2003 Battlestar Galactica]]''/''[[Franchise/StargateVerse Stargate]]'' crossover fic, starting a few years after the televised conclusion of the Stargate series and a few months before the Cylon attack on the Colonies. When a chance encounter results in shots being exchanged between the two sides, the more fanatical elements of the Colonies (such as Helena Cain) force Earth into a new war with the Twelve Colonies.
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''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11126728/1/Contact-at-Kobol Contact at Kobol]]'' is a ''[[Series/BattlestarGalactica2004 Battlestar Galactica]]''/''[[Franchise/StargateVerse Stargate]]'' crossover fic, starting a few years after the televised conclusion of the Stargate series and a few months before the Cylon attack on the Colonies. When a chance encounter results in shots being exchanged between the two sides, the more fanatical elements of the Colonies (such as Helena Cain) force Earth into a new war with the Twelve Colonies.
* AchievementsInIgnorance: In as much as anyone would consider it an ‘achievement’ to [[spoiler:destroy a planet by accident; one of the Tau’ri’s bombs accidentally hits the only piece of naquadah in the Twelve Colonies, in the oceans of Aquaria, escalating the resulting explosion to basically decimate the entire planet]].
* AlienNonInterferenceClause: Defied in various ways; not only do the Colonials attempt to impose their laws on Earth in the belief that it’s one of their colonies, but the Tau’ri also mount various subtle espionage operations against the Colonials even before the war begins (albeit just to make sure they avoid any potentially delicate issues). As the storyline unfolds, [[spoiler:the Jaffa and the Nox each make it clear they will be staying out of the war with the Colonials, but primarily because they trust the Tau’ri to handle it, although the Nox do attempt to act as neutral arbiters only to be rejected because certain Colonials think the Nox are just Tau’ri in disguise]].
* BeliefMakesYouStupid: Several citizens of the Colonies are spurred to go to war as various figures talk about how they will be protected by the Lords of Kobol, with the Spiros family in particular continuing to insist that their gods will aid them [[spoiler:even after the Tau’ri destroy Caprica City and devastate Aquaria]].
* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: [[spoiler:At the end of the war, Helena Cain requests a knife from the Tau’ri soldier who arrested her so that she can commit suicide rather than be taken prisoner]].
* ButForMeItWasTuesday: For the Colonials, making contact with Earth is the final reunion of the Colonies of Man, but for the Tau’ri it’s just another first contact situation, particularly when the Tau’ri know that they aren’t ‘related’ to the Colonials in that context.
* CargoCult: The Tau’ri are surprised to learn that the Colonies have twelve Zero Point Modules, which they regard as holy relics known as ‘the lights of the Lords of Kobol’, completely unaware of the modules’ true nature as a potential power source.
* CombatPragmatist: While the Colonials see them as lacking in honour, the Tau’ri justify their more underhanded tactics as a willingness to win whatever it takes (while still not crossing lines such as deliberately attacking civilians).
* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: At the [[spoiler:end of the war, a Libran general notes that the whole conflict could have been averted if the Twelve Colonies had just left the Tau’ri alone as they wished]].
* CrossCulturalKerfluffle: One of these is a particular sore point for the Tau’ri and the Colonials; by uncanny coincidence, a famous military figure in the Colonies has a personal sigil that looks almost exactly like the swastika.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: A few of these contribute to the declaration of war between both sides, such as the Tau’ri being disturbed at how some of the more religious colonies basically make children the property of their parents.
** The Colonials have particular trouble adapting to the Tau’ri’s willingness to use what they would consider terrorist strategies as part of active warfare.
* DidntThinkThisThrough:
** As relations between the Tau’ri and the Colonies begins to break down, group of Colonials attempt to kill the wolves the Tau’ri brought to the Colonies to represent Earth’s animal, but they underestimated the danger the wolves could pose and seven men are killed in the process of killing three wolves.
** May arguably apply to the likes of Admiral Cain or the Spiros family, as they provoked a war with another culture they knew little about without considering the risk if that culture was significantly more advanced than they were.
* GodzillaThreshold: While the Colonies can’t threaten Earth itself, the escalating conflict eventually reaches a point where Earth decides that the best solution is [[spoiler:to trap the Twelve Colonies in a time dilation field, which gives Earth five years to increase their military resources where the Colonials believe it’s just been a few months]].
* HeroicSacrific: As in “[[Recap/StargateSG1S10E20Unending Unending]]”, [[spoiler:Teal’c volunteers to operate a time dilation device, albeit with the opposite results; everyone else gains a few years of age while Teal’c spends a few months in the Colonies to protect the device]].
* IgnorantOfTheirOwnIgnorance:
** The best ‘justification’ for how so many of the Twelve Colonies provoked war with Earth is that they had no idea how powerful Earth really was, and are also unaware that the Tau’ri Earth isn’t the Earth the thirteenth tribe travelled to.
** When the war begins, the Colonials are at another disadvantage as they have no true experience with guerrilla warfare, allowing the Tau’ri to use alternative tactics to what the Colonials were expecting.
* It’sAllAbout Me:
** The definition of Admiral Helena Cain’s attitude. When her actions result in a fight between the Tau’ri and the Colonial fleet because she assumed they were Cylons breaking the treaty and reacted accordingly, Cain goes out of her way to present a scenario where her actions are ‘justified’ under Colonial law so that the Tau’ri are punished for the resulting deaths while she is spared punishment (albeit presenting it as wanting justice for the Colonial soldiers who died in the fight), when she could have simply acknowledged it was just a tragic accident, accepted a personal punishment and let the whole thing go.
** To a degree, this is part of the problem in trying to make the Twelve Colonies aware of the wider universe; religion is so important to them that many of their people find it hard to accept that aliens are real when their holy writings state that humanity was given the stars by the Lords of Kobol, and only ‘reconcile’ it with their existing beliefs by convincing themselves that they have a Gods-given right to rule the aliens, even the more advanced Nox.
* InsaneTrollLogic: This is basically the reason for much of the initial hostility between Earth and the Twelve Colonies, as Colonial law rules that Earth is their thirteenth colony and their political process has been heavily based on that idea, to the point that a priest has been signing for Earth when circumstances require all thirteen of the Quorum representatives to vote. As Colonel O’Neill (Jack O’Neill’s now-adult clone) observes, Earth cannot be held legally accountable when someone signed a contract ‘on their behalf’ without their knowledge (even before they learn where the Colonials’ Earth actually is from the Cylons), but Cain insists that under the Articles of Colonisation Earth should be considered another colony and hence subject to their laws, even when none of the Colonials know where Earth is to try and enforce that decree and nobody from Earth agrees with that interpretation.
* JerkassHasAPoint: While Teal’c explicitly states that he feels the Jaffa should help the Tau’ri in the fight against the Colonials after the Tau’ri helped free the Jaffa from the Goa’uld, Daniel acknowledges that the Jaffa have a point that they took the brunt of the Ori offensive in the last major war while Earth was basically untouched.
* KnightTemplar: Could apply to the Colonials (particularly after they learn that ‘Valhalla’ was originally Kobol), save for the fact that most of the Colonial religious leaders tend to order others to fight in their name rather than doing it themselves.
* LetsYouAndHimFight: The Cylons contemplated doing this for the Colonials and the Tau’ri, but as the Tau’ri prove to be more powerful and reasonable than the Colonials the Cyons abandon that plan and form a separate alliance with Earth (they do later provide assistance to the Tau’ri in the Colonial/Tau’ri war, but the Cylons had no part in starting that conflict).
* LogicalWeakness: Basically applies to what the Tau’ri have discovered about the Wraith hive-ships; as the ships are living tissue, they’ve found a way to give the hives a form of cancer.
* MortonsFork: Admiral Helena Cain basically sets the stage for the war by putting President Adar in this position. Under the Colonial legal system, Earth is the thirteenth colony, so its military forces are thus subject to Colonial authority, meaning that (Cain argues) the Tau’ri should have stood down when confronted by the Battlestars, and were therefore in open rebellion when they fired on Cain. Adar can’t rule that Earth isn’t a colony without basically declaring the Colonial government invalid, but treating Earth as a colony naturally meets with dissatisfaction from the Tau’ri.
* MutilationInterrogation: Invoked; when the Colonials try to interrogate Senior Sergeant Adrik Drugov, their only Tau’ri POW, at one point Cain all but cuts his right hand off, but Drugov dismisses that wound as Tau’ri medical technology can easily grow him a new limb.
* NamedByTheAdaptation: The Number Six that came to be known as ‘Caprica Six’ was never identified by a human name in the series; here she is revealed to have adopted the alias of Doctor Jenny Oldstone, with two other Sixes posing as her triplet sisters Gina and Jane.
* NeverMyFault: Most of the initial tension between Earth and the Colonies basically comes about because Cain wants the Tau’ri to be punished for the Colonial soldiers killed in their first confrontation, ignoring the fact that she instigated the conflict that killed the soldiers in the first place.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Admittedly, it’s debatable whether Adar was ever a ‘hero’, but when the president attempts to make his meetings with the Tau’ri public to affirm that they have nothing to hide, his well-intentioned efforts cause further controversy when Woolsey’s revelations upend so many Colonial beliefs, such as the meaning of ‘Tau’ri’ and the truth about galactic history.
* NoodleIncident: The decimation of Kobol was the result of the Goa’uld Zeus experimenting with stolen ZPMs; his human slaves retreated to the future Colonies with twelve of the ZPMs, but Zeus’s experiments caused the thirteenth ZPM to detonate with the force of a super-volcano.
* PerfectlyArrangedMarriage: An interesting case where this backfired for the people arranging it; the highly religious Spiros family arranged for their son to marry the daughter of the equally religious Contos family, but husband and wife discovered that they each shared monotheist beliefs.
* OneSteveLimit: Jack O’Neill’s clone (as created in “[[Recap/StargateSG1S7E3FragileBalance Fragile Balance]]”) is now an active member of the Tau’ri military, officially down on paper as Jack’s son, with the two only really distinguished in text based on their rank.
* OutsideContextProblem: As part of their campaign against the Colonials, the Tau’ri [[spoiler:unleash Todd on one of the planets to spread terror, with the understanding that he won’t feed on children]].
* RealityEnsues: While the Tau’ri have more advanced technology than the Twelve Colonies, the Colonials’ superior numbers make conflict between the two challenging at best, particularly when the Tau’ri don’t want to use their more devastating weapons against the Colonies to, for example, destroy their sun.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: While they are not the primary Colonial leaders as they were in canon, William Adama and Laura Roslin come across as this in scenes dealing with the Colonies’ leaders, each one recognising where the Tau’ri are coming from and offering a counter-argument to their associates’ expressed desires for war, even if they remain loyal to their people.
* RefugeInAudacity:
** As part of the Cylons’ attempts to learn more about Earth, three Sixes join the research program (one of them the would-be Caprica-Six and another Cain’s would-have-been lover Gina), with the three claiming to be triplets who don’t get along that well to justify how they never told any of their human contacts that they had sisters.
** A neat summation of the way the Tau’ri gain an advantage in the war from the beginning, exploiting the fact that so many of their technologies, such as cloaking and teleportation, are believed to be impossible by the Colonials.
* RuleOfSymbolism:
** Several Colonials take this as a sign when Earth is asked to bring its ‘world animal’ and ‘world bird’ with them; the owl chosen to represent Earth eats all twelve of the signature birds of the other colonies when it’s put in a cage with them (the Colonies’ world birds all being songbirds rather than predators), and the wolves chosen as Earth’s world animal are slaughtered as a symbolic early stage of the war.
** After [[spoiler:Aquaria is ‘accidentally’ destroyed by a Tau’ri weapon, some argue that the continued existence of a statue of Hermes on the planet shows that the Colonials must keep fighting as the Lords of Kobol will help them survive, but Sharon Valerii (still unaware of her Cylon status) offers the observation that it could also be a reflection of the fate that will await them if they don’t stop fighting]].
* RulesLawyer: Cain demonstrates this to get out of her trial for the events of their first contact; as a witness from the Tau’ri is required to verify what happened, and the Tau’ri refuse to consider themselves part of the Colonial government, Colonel O’Neill is arrested for refusing to adhere to the Colonial chain of command despite his argument that Earth shouldn’t be bound by Colonial law.
* ShoutOut: At one point during the early tour of the Colonies, Torren Sheppard shows D’Anna Biers a clip from Film/AvengersInfinityWar (albeit a very different clip from what the film actually turned out to be like).
* SmallNameBigEgo: The Colonies all regard the ‘reunion’ with their cousins as the biggest event to have ever happened in their history and believe that Earth is just as excited as they are, but the Tau’ri don’t consider it that big a deal and see the Colonies as just another culture to make contact with, with news of alien tech being used to search for Bigfoot attracting more interest back on Earth then the contact with the Colonials.
* TortureIsIneffective: Drugov, the Colonials’ only captured POW, resists their every attempt to make him give them useful information, simply making it clear that the Tau’ri are too powerful and the Colonials are going to lose.
* TooKinkyToTorture: He doesn’t actually enjoy it, but Drugov is constantly nonchalant about the treatment he is subjected to by the Colonials, likely aided by the knowledge that his injuries can be treated back on Earth.
* TwistingTheWords: Admiral Cain attempts to do this when Colonel O’Neill (Jack’s clone) is talking with the Quorom, attempting to create the impression that the Tau’ri would conquer the Colonies when O’Neill just observed that they might have moved in to set up their own colony in the system if it was uninhabited.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Despite psychiatric professionals having observed that she has a tendency to focus on her targets while ignoring the wider implications, Cain was still a great battlefield commander, and formed so many connections that she was able to use her popular public status to get a position in government as the war with the Tau’ri unfolds even after being officially dismissed from the military, with Adar only able to oppose her by promoting Adama to admiral as a counterbalance.
* WouldntHurtAChild: When the Tau’ri send Todd into the Colonies, one of the few rules they give him is that he’s not to hurt children, but Todd notes that he never does that even when feeding normally.
* AchievementsInIgnorance: In as much as anyone would consider it an ‘achievement’ to [[spoiler:destroy a planet by accident; one of the Tau’ri’s bombs accidentally hits the only piece of naquadah in the Twelve Colonies, in the oceans of Aquaria, escalating the resulting explosion to basically decimate the entire planet]].
* AlienNonInterferenceClause: Defied in various ways; not only do the Colonials attempt to impose their laws on Earth in the belief that it’s one of their colonies, but the Tau’ri also mount various subtle espionage operations against the Colonials even before the war begins (albeit just to make sure they avoid any potentially delicate issues). As the storyline unfolds, [[spoiler:the Jaffa and the Nox each make it clear they will be staying out of the war with the Colonials, but primarily because they trust the Tau’ri to handle it, although the Nox do attempt to act as neutral arbiters only to be rejected because certain Colonials think the Nox are just Tau’ri in disguise]].
* BeliefMakesYouStupid: Several citizens of the Colonies are spurred to go to war as various figures talk about how they will be protected by the Lords of Kobol, with the Spiros family in particular continuing to insist that their gods will aid them [[spoiler:even after the Tau’ri destroy Caprica City and devastate Aquaria]].
* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: [[spoiler:At the end of the war, Helena Cain requests a knife from the Tau’ri soldier who arrested her so that she can commit suicide rather than be taken prisoner]].
* ButForMeItWasTuesday: For the Colonials, making contact with Earth is the final reunion of the Colonies of Man, but for the Tau’ri it’s just another first contact situation, particularly when the Tau’ri know that they aren’t ‘related’ to the Colonials in that context.
* CargoCult: The Tau’ri are surprised to learn that the Colonies have twelve Zero Point Modules, which they regard as holy relics known as ‘the lights of the Lords of Kobol’, completely unaware of the modules’ true nature as a potential power source.
* CombatPragmatist: While the Colonials see them as lacking in honour, the Tau’ri justify their more underhanded tactics as a willingness to win whatever it takes (while still not crossing lines such as deliberately attacking civilians).
* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: At the [[spoiler:end of the war, a Libran general notes that the whole conflict could have been averted if the Twelve Colonies had just left the Tau’ri alone as they wished]].
* CrossCulturalKerfluffle: One of these is a particular sore point for the Tau’ri and the Colonials; by uncanny coincidence, a famous military figure in the Colonies has a personal sigil that looks almost exactly like the swastika.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: A few of these contribute to the declaration of war between both sides, such as the Tau’ri being disturbed at how some of the more religious colonies basically make children the property of their parents.
** The Colonials have particular trouble adapting to the Tau’ri’s willingness to use what they would consider terrorist strategies as part of active warfare.
* DidntThinkThisThrough:
** As relations between the Tau’ri and the Colonies begins to break down, group of Colonials attempt to kill the wolves the Tau’ri brought to the Colonies to represent Earth’s animal, but they underestimated the danger the wolves could pose and seven men are killed in the process of killing three wolves.
** May arguably apply to the likes of Admiral Cain or the Spiros family, as they provoked a war with another culture they knew little about without considering the risk if that culture was significantly more advanced than they were.
* GodzillaThreshold: While the Colonies can’t threaten Earth itself, the escalating conflict eventually reaches a point where Earth decides that the best solution is [[spoiler:to trap the Twelve Colonies in a time dilation field, which gives Earth five years to increase their military resources where the Colonials believe it’s just been a few months]].
* HeroicSacrific: As in “[[Recap/StargateSG1S10E20Unending Unending]]”, [[spoiler:Teal’c volunteers to operate a time dilation device, albeit with the opposite results; everyone else gains a few years of age while Teal’c spends a few months in the Colonies to protect the device]].
* IgnorantOfTheirOwnIgnorance:
** The best ‘justification’ for how so many of the Twelve Colonies provoked war with Earth is that they had no idea how powerful Earth really was, and are also unaware that the Tau’ri Earth isn’t the Earth the thirteenth tribe travelled to.
** When the war begins, the Colonials are at another disadvantage as they have no true experience with guerrilla warfare, allowing the Tau’ri to use alternative tactics to what the Colonials were expecting.
* It’sAllAbout Me:
** The definition of Admiral Helena Cain’s attitude. When her actions result in a fight between the Tau’ri and the Colonial fleet because she assumed they were Cylons breaking the treaty and reacted accordingly, Cain goes out of her way to present a scenario where her actions are ‘justified’ under Colonial law so that the Tau’ri are punished for the resulting deaths while she is spared punishment (albeit presenting it as wanting justice for the Colonial soldiers who died in the fight), when she could have simply acknowledged it was just a tragic accident, accepted a personal punishment and let the whole thing go.
** To a degree, this is part of the problem in trying to make the Twelve Colonies aware of the wider universe; religion is so important to them that many of their people find it hard to accept that aliens are real when their holy writings state that humanity was given the stars by the Lords of Kobol, and only ‘reconcile’ it with their existing beliefs by convincing themselves that they have a Gods-given right to rule the aliens, even the more advanced Nox.
* InsaneTrollLogic: This is basically the reason for much of the initial hostility between Earth and the Twelve Colonies, as Colonial law rules that Earth is their thirteenth colony and their political process has been heavily based on that idea, to the point that a priest has been signing for Earth when circumstances require all thirteen of the Quorum representatives to vote. As Colonel O’Neill (Jack O’Neill’s now-adult clone) observes, Earth cannot be held legally accountable when someone signed a contract ‘on their behalf’ without their knowledge (even before they learn where the Colonials’ Earth actually is from the Cylons), but Cain insists that under the Articles of Colonisation Earth should be considered another colony and hence subject to their laws, even when none of the Colonials know where Earth is to try and enforce that decree and nobody from Earth agrees with that interpretation.
* JerkassHasAPoint: While Teal’c explicitly states that he feels the Jaffa should help the Tau’ri in the fight against the Colonials after the Tau’ri helped free the Jaffa from the Goa’uld, Daniel acknowledges that the Jaffa have a point that they took the brunt of the Ori offensive in the last major war while Earth was basically untouched.
* KnightTemplar: Could apply to the Colonials (particularly after they learn that ‘Valhalla’ was originally Kobol), save for the fact that most of the Colonial religious leaders tend to order others to fight in their name rather than doing it themselves.
* LetsYouAndHimFight: The Cylons contemplated doing this for the Colonials and the Tau’ri, but as the Tau’ri prove to be more powerful and reasonable than the Colonials the Cyons abandon that plan and form a separate alliance with Earth (they do later provide assistance to the Tau’ri in the Colonial/Tau’ri war, but the Cylons had no part in starting that conflict).
* LogicalWeakness: Basically applies to what the Tau’ri have discovered about the Wraith hive-ships; as the ships are living tissue, they’ve found a way to give the hives a form of cancer.
* MortonsFork: Admiral Helena Cain basically sets the stage for the war by putting President Adar in this position. Under the Colonial legal system, Earth is the thirteenth colony, so its military forces are thus subject to Colonial authority, meaning that (Cain argues) the Tau’ri should have stood down when confronted by the Battlestars, and were therefore in open rebellion when they fired on Cain. Adar can’t rule that Earth isn’t a colony without basically declaring the Colonial government invalid, but treating Earth as a colony naturally meets with dissatisfaction from the Tau’ri.
* MutilationInterrogation: Invoked; when the Colonials try to interrogate Senior Sergeant Adrik Drugov, their only Tau’ri POW, at one point Cain all but cuts his right hand off, but Drugov dismisses that wound as Tau’ri medical technology can easily grow him a new limb.
* NamedByTheAdaptation: The Number Six that came to be known as ‘Caprica Six’ was never identified by a human name in the series; here she is revealed to have adopted the alias of Doctor Jenny Oldstone, with two other Sixes posing as her triplet sisters Gina and Jane.
* NeverMyFault: Most of the initial tension between Earth and the Colonies basically comes about because Cain wants the Tau’ri to be punished for the Colonial soldiers killed in their first confrontation, ignoring the fact that she instigated the conflict that killed the soldiers in the first place.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Admittedly, it’s debatable whether Adar was ever a ‘hero’, but when the president attempts to make his meetings with the Tau’ri public to affirm that they have nothing to hide, his well-intentioned efforts cause further controversy when Woolsey’s revelations upend so many Colonial beliefs, such as the meaning of ‘Tau’ri’ and the truth about galactic history.
* NoodleIncident: The decimation of Kobol was the result of the Goa’uld Zeus experimenting with stolen ZPMs; his human slaves retreated to the future Colonies with twelve of the ZPMs, but Zeus’s experiments caused the thirteenth ZPM to detonate with the force of a super-volcano.
* PerfectlyArrangedMarriage: An interesting case where this backfired for the people arranging it; the highly religious Spiros family arranged for their son to marry the daughter of the equally religious Contos family, but husband and wife discovered that they each shared monotheist beliefs.
* OneSteveLimit: Jack O’Neill’s clone (as created in “[[Recap/StargateSG1S7E3FragileBalance Fragile Balance]]”) is now an active member of the Tau’ri military, officially down on paper as Jack’s son, with the two only really distinguished in text based on their rank.
* OutsideContextProblem: As part of their campaign against the Colonials, the Tau’ri [[spoiler:unleash Todd on one of the planets to spread terror, with the understanding that he won’t feed on children]].
* RealityEnsues: While the Tau’ri have more advanced technology than the Twelve Colonies, the Colonials’ superior numbers make conflict between the two challenging at best, particularly when the Tau’ri don’t want to use their more devastating weapons against the Colonies to, for example, destroy their sun.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: While they are not the primary Colonial leaders as they were in canon, William Adama and Laura Roslin come across as this in scenes dealing with the Colonies’ leaders, each one recognising where the Tau’ri are coming from and offering a counter-argument to their associates’ expressed desires for war, even if they remain loyal to their people.
* RefugeInAudacity:
** As part of the Cylons’ attempts to learn more about Earth, three Sixes join the research program (one of them the would-be Caprica-Six and another Cain’s would-have-been lover Gina), with the three claiming to be triplets who don’t get along that well to justify how they never told any of their human contacts that they had sisters.
** A neat summation of the way the Tau’ri gain an advantage in the war from the beginning, exploiting the fact that so many of their technologies, such as cloaking and teleportation, are believed to be impossible by the Colonials.
* RuleOfSymbolism:
** Several Colonials take this as a sign when Earth is asked to bring its ‘world animal’ and ‘world bird’ with them; the owl chosen to represent Earth eats all twelve of the signature birds of the other colonies when it’s put in a cage with them (the Colonies’ world birds all being songbirds rather than predators), and the wolves chosen as Earth’s world animal are slaughtered as a symbolic early stage of the war.
** After [[spoiler:Aquaria is ‘accidentally’ destroyed by a Tau’ri weapon, some argue that the continued existence of a statue of Hermes on the planet shows that the Colonials must keep fighting as the Lords of Kobol will help them survive, but Sharon Valerii (still unaware of her Cylon status) offers the observation that it could also be a reflection of the fate that will await them if they don’t stop fighting]].
* RulesLawyer: Cain demonstrates this to get out of her trial for the events of their first contact; as a witness from the Tau’ri is required to verify what happened, and the Tau’ri refuse to consider themselves part of the Colonial government, Colonel O’Neill is arrested for refusing to adhere to the Colonial chain of command despite his argument that Earth shouldn’t be bound by Colonial law.
* ShoutOut: At one point during the early tour of the Colonies, Torren Sheppard shows D’Anna Biers a clip from Film/AvengersInfinityWar (albeit a very different clip from what the film actually turned out to be like).
* SmallNameBigEgo: The Colonies all regard the ‘reunion’ with their cousins as the biggest event to have ever happened in their history and believe that Earth is just as excited as they are, but the Tau’ri don’t consider it that big a deal and see the Colonies as just another culture to make contact with, with news of alien tech being used to search for Bigfoot attracting more interest back on Earth then the contact with the Colonials.
* TortureIsIneffective: Drugov, the Colonials’ only captured POW, resists their every attempt to make him give them useful information, simply making it clear that the Tau’ri are too powerful and the Colonials are going to lose.
* TooKinkyToTorture: He doesn’t actually enjoy it, but Drugov is constantly nonchalant about the treatment he is subjected to by the Colonials, likely aided by the knowledge that his injuries can be treated back on Earth.
* TwistingTheWords: Admiral Cain attempts to do this when Colonel O’Neill (Jack’s clone) is talking with the Quorom, attempting to create the impression that the Tau’ri would conquer the Colonies when O’Neill just observed that they might have moved in to set up their own colony in the system if it was uninhabited.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Despite psychiatric professionals having observed that she has a tendency to focus on her targets while ignoring the wider implications, Cain was still a great battlefield commander, and formed so many connections that she was able to use her popular public status to get a position in government as the war with the Tau’ri unfolds even after being officially dismissed from the military, with Adar only able to oppose her by promoting Adama to admiral as a counterbalance.
* WouldntHurtAChild: When the Tau’ri send Todd into the Colonies, one of the few rules they give him is that he’s not to hurt children, but Todd notes that he never does that even when feeding normally.
