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Cylons are a fictional artificially-intelligent "species" envisioned in the Battlestar Galactica science fiction series and related franchises. Originally created to serve human needs like other machines, a series of events involving the transfer of a human's consciousness into a Cylon's neural network led Cylons to evolve into sentient, self-aware beings.
The original Cylons were purely mechanical. The Cylon was reimagined in the second Battlestar Galactica television series and its prequel Caprica.
The first configurations Centurions were robots. Others were cyborgs whose different configurations incorporated biological elements, including some that were nearly indistinguishable from humans. Once thousands of years before the events of Battlestar Galactica and later they fought a war against the Thirteenth Tribe on Earth. The second Centurion creation is detailed in the prequel series Caprica.
A common activity on Caprica was to participate in a virtual world V-World that allowed players to live an alternate existence. The original Cylon was developed as a place to house Zoe's avatar virtual existence after she is killed in a bombing on a maglev train in Caprica Episode 1. Her father sees her avatar in V-World and forces her best friend Lacy to take him to her there where she explains that she is much more than a simple digital simulation.
She has Zoe's memories from a neural scan Zoe developed to extend a V-World character into a virtual instance of the person.
The digital Zoe says to her father, "I don't feel like a copy", and she becomes the basis of the first Cylons. Cylons were originally accepted into Caprican culture as robotic workers after a group of them under direct remote control by Graystone himself, with the help of his wife Amanda successfully thwarted an attack on the public at Atlas Stadium by the Soldiers of the One STO.
The Cylons then spread throughout the colonies as a worker class, but because they had basic self-awareness they became increasingly resentful of their servitude. In Battlestar Galactica , the Cylons were created thousands of years before the series began. They destroyed the Thirteenth Tribe living on the original Earth 2, years before. BSGr Cylon society consists of three classes: Basestars and Raiders are partly biological cyborgs and as such are vulnerable to biological threats such as disease.
The skinjobs lead Cylon society. Some are sleeper agents , programmed with false memories to think they are human. Cylons can convincingly interact with humans and are capable of intimate relationships. They have limited superhuman abilities such as increased stamina and strength and the ability to connect with computer systems.
Cylons are more sensitive than humans to some forms of radiation and more resistant than humans to others. They can upload their memories to other copies of their model through a central station. Another Cylon, of the same model, can then access these memories. The humanoid Cylons have the ability to distinguish between copies by sight, unlike Centurions and humans. Centurions are often called toasters by humans, partly a reference to their metallic construction but also to demean them.
Centurions were also termed "chromejobs" or "bulletheads". The chronological origin of the word "toaster" can be found in the prequel Caprica , episode 10 which was created after BSG had ended. After a car crash made the first-ever test Cylon inoperable, it was considered "toast" after which Tomas Vergis joked "or a toaster".
The term "skinjob" is originally used in Caprica, episode 17, where a new body is being discussed for an avatar and AI of "Zoe". The parents emphasize it will be "with skin" as opposed to the Cylon, metal prototypes which she then calls "a skinjob". Cylons were initially unable to produce children with each other.
They turned their attention to mating with humans. Their crossbreeding experiments in facilities called "farms" are unsuccessful. They theorize that love is necessary for them to procreate, because "God is love" in their theology. This leads to a successful experiment in which an Eight and a human, Karl Agathon, fall in love and produce a daughter named Hera. Skinjobs can download their consciousness into another body when the body they are using dies, giving them virtual immortality.
These downloads have a limited range, requiring the Cylons to build a "Resurrection Ship" to capture them. If not within range of a Resurrection Ship, downloading is unavailable and a Cylon's death is permanent.
The downloading process is shared by the semi-organic Raider spacecraft, which allows Raiders who have been killed several times to become more formidable fighters " Scar ". The Centurions do not download. Resurrection Ships function as boosters for the central Resurrection Hub.
Without the Hub resurrection is not possible. This technology was first shown in Caprica in an attempt to "resurrect" deceased relatives in a so-called "resurrection" program first called that way in episode 13 in virtual reality where one could meet and interact with those one was mourning for.
Cylons have an ability referred to as "projection", a form of realistic daydreaming that allows them to change the appearance of their surroundings in their own mind e.
They have the ability to touch, smell, etc. They can share projections and create virtual individuals as part of the fantasy. This ability allows them to express their subconscious desires. If a Cylon is deemed dangerous by the other models, he or she may be "boxed" — deactivated with consciousness and memories placed in storage. This may involve a particular copy or an entire line. Boxed consciousnesses are stored in the Resurrection Hub and can be unboxed.
The term was also used in the prequel Caprica episode 10 which discusses "boxing" a defunct test cylon as literally placing it in a crate for "deep storage".
As Caprica is the prequel this is chronologically the first time of its use from which the Cylons derived their own definition. Between 3—4, years before the Second Cylon War, it is implied that the humans and Cylons of Kobol fought each other, but the nature of the conflict remains unrevealed. Eventually, they developed the ability to reproduce sexually. Resurrection technology fell into disuse and was lost. The Final Five redeveloped resurrection, following warnings by mysterious "angels" that a Kobol-like disaster was coming.
When life on Cylon Earth was destroyed in a nuclear war between the thirteenth tribe and their mechanical Cylon creations stemming from the latter's maltreatment at the hands of the Tribe , the Final Five downloaded into an orbiting vessel.
The Final Five wanted to warn the other Twelve Colonies to treat their Cylon workers well to prevent another catastrophe. However, without faster than light FTL travel, they required approximately 2, years to make the journey relative to human time, while only a few years passed inside the ship due to Special Relativity. It lasted roughly twelve and a half years. The Final Five learned that these Centurions were trying to develop organic bodies through experiments on humans, resulting in the first Hybrid.
To end the war, the Final Five helped the Centurions develop skinjob model numbers One to Eight model number Seven's creation was sabotaged by One and resurrection technology. The war ended with an armistice and an attempt by the Colonies to establish diplomatic relations between the parties.
Instead, the Cylons disappeared for forty years. He boxed the Final Five. He then periodically sent them to the Colonies to see how terrible humanity was. After forty years, the Colonial Admiralty sent Battlestar Valkyrie on a covert mission close to the armistice line to gather intelligence on Cylon activity. A stealth ship from the Valkyrie crossed the armistice line, but was intercepted by the Cylons.
Three years later the Cylons initiated a surprise attack on the Colonies. The attack was successful because a Cylon agent, later known as Caprica Six , infiltrated Caprica 's colonial defense network with the unwitting complicity of renowned scientist Gaius Baltar and created backdoor programs to shut down the network and its defenses.
The attacks wiped out billions of humans, nearly the entire colonial population. Two Battlestars — Galactica and Pegasus — survived. A fleet of civilian ships was scattered throughout the neighboring space. Together they fled into deep space.
The Cylons pursued them while initiating the next phase of their evolution, procreation. Female human survivors were detained and used in experiments to create Cylon-human hybrids. The experiments were unsuccessful leading the Cylons to conclude that the missing component was love. They tested this by using an Eight posing as Lt. Karl "Helo" Agathon on Caprica.
They fell in love. The Eight abandoned the Cylons, helping Helo to escape. This Eight joined the fleet with Helo. She later married Helo, joined the Colonial military and received the call sign "Athena". Ten months after the initial attacks, Eight Sharon Valerii call sign "Boomer" , attempted to assassinate Commander Adama under the influence of unexplained programing unknown to her.
She was unaware that she was a Cylon before the attack, though she had been uneasy because of unexplained blackouts during various attempts to sabotage Galactica. A vengeful crew mate, Cally Henderson killed her. She downloaded into a new body and settled on Cylon-occupied Caprica in her former apartment, unable to relinquish her human identity.
She led a campaign for better treatment of the humans. She and other like-minded Cylons influenced the Cylon civilization, which withdrew from the colonial home worlds and pursued benevolent treatment of the humans and then reconciliation.
During this time, the half-human half-Cylon hybrid, Hera Agathon was born on Galactica. Fearing that the Cylons might capture the child, President Laura Roslin faked Hera's death and secretly had her adopted by a human woman. The humans settled on a barren planet they dubbed New Caprica. The refuge lasted a year before the Cylons found them. The Cylons occupied the new human settlement, at first peacefully but later forcefully and more viciously as the human Resistance increased.
In the end they used punitive methods to keep the humans in line, including summary executions and infiltration by seemingly sympathetic Cylons. One such infiltrator was an Eight model who manipulated Felix Gaeta into giving her a list of people the Resistance desired to free from Cylon detention whom she then had executed.