The 13th Colony: Cylon?

Thanks to everyone who has been sticking around during the periods of no posting.  I can offer no explanation but thank you for your patience.

Anyway, I got to thinking yesterday about the 12 Colonies of Kobol (because that’s what I do in my spare time).  The 12 Colonies, for those not in the know, are 12 planets in the world of Battlestar Galactica that humans have settled on and have a thriving society.  Going further back, long ago, on a planet named Kobol, man disagreed with his “Gods” and fled for another solar system, establishing twelve colonies based on the 12 astrological signs.  Here’s a list…

Aquaria
Caprica
Leonis
Libris
Scorpia
Picon
Geminon
Aerelon
Canceron
Sagittaron
Tauron
Virgon

The premise of the show is that there is a 13th colony somewhere else, a sect of humanity that disagreed with the other 12 and broke off to form it’s own planet, called Earth.  Since the enemies in the show (the Cylons) extinguished 95% of the known human race on the day they nuked all 12 planets, the remaining human survivors (led by the Galactica) are searching for the long list myth of Earth so they can reunite with their lost brothers and start another civilization.

But, the name EARTH kind of doesn’t fit with the 12 names.  It could just be because the 13th colony wanted something to differentiate themselves from the other 12, but I think Earth is just the name of the planet and the 13th colony might very well call themselves… Cylon.

It fits with the list!  Especially the last few:

Picon
Geminon
Aerelon
Canceron
Sagittaron
Tauron
Virgon
Cylon

And the world ‘Cylon,’ really hasn’t been explained.  In an unofficial script for the prequel show Caprica, it is supposedly revealed as Cybernetic Living Organism Node, but that isn’t canon yet and can easily change during rewrites.

So what might this mean?

Will the Galactica arrive on Earth to find it populated by a bunch of offspring of Number Six’s and Two’s?  Well, I don’t think so, because as we know Cylons can’t reproduce with each other (only with humans).  I don’t have all the answers, but I have to believe the final five Cylons, being so ‘fundamentally different’ from the rest, might have something to do with it.  I don’t think it’s the Cylon homeworld (at least, not as we know them), but I would not be surprised if some other form of Cylon life were living there, “and has been from the beginning.”