List of Battlestar Galactica (re-imagining) locations
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The re-imagined science fiction television series Battlestar Galactica presents various locations, spaceborne and planetary.
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[edit] Aerelon
- See also: Twelve Colonies
Aerelon is one of the Twelve Colonies, and was primarily an agricultural world. The planet was settled by the Aries tribe of Kobol, and became the breadbasket of the Colonies. It's Gaius Baltar's homeworld.[1]
[edit] Algae Planet
The so-called Algae Planet was a ringed, terrestrial planet located on the far side of a young nebulous star cluster from Kobol and the Twelve Colonies. The planet had an abundance of primitive plant life in the form of water-born algae which the refugee fleet stopped to harvest for food. There was also an immense desert region where the fleet set up a temporary base camp.
The Temple of Five was discovered located beneath its surface by Chief Galen Tyrol who found himself mysterious drawn to the loaction. It was later believed to have been a temporary colony of the Thirteenth Tribe of Kobol on their voyage to Earth, some 4000 years ago. The Eye of Jupiter artifact was located within the Temple of Five which offered another clue to finding Earth. The planet, temple and artifact are features of the sacred texts.
The fleet's stay the the planet was cut short when the world was destroyed after the blue giant star the planet orbited went supernova. After the nova explosion, the young nebula it created looked similar to the more distant Ionian Nebula located 13,000 light years away. Acting on a hunch that the Eye of Jupiter was a "road sign", Admiral William Adama sets course for the Ionian Nebula hoping it will lead to Earth.
- Filming location: Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada (outdoor sequences)[2]
[edit] Armistice Line
The Armistice Line demarcates the border between Colonial Space of the Twelve Colonies and Cylon Space. It was agreed to at the end of the First Cylon War. Crossing the line by either side is considered an act of war. Commander William Adama of the Battlestar Valkyrie, under orders from Admiral Corman, sends Bulldog over the line in a Stealthstar, one year before the Destruction of the Colonies. Adama later comes to see this as the starting point of the Second Cylon War.[3]
[edit] Armistice Station
The Armistice Station is a fictional diplomatic space station from Battlestar Galactica (re-imagining) built by humans after the Cylon War so that humans and Cylons could meet once a year in a neutral location to continue their peace accords. Over a period of 40 years, the Cylons never once had shown up for the annual meeting. Their only time to make an appearance was to destroy the station. Their destruction of the station was the first attack of their massive invasion and defeat of the Colonials.[4]
[edit] B
[edit] Breeders Canyon
Breeders Canyon on New Caprica is a river valley some distance from New Caprica City, chosen by the insurgents as the place to meet Galactica's Raptor team led by Sharon Agathon.[5]
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[edit] Camp Oil Slick
Camp Oil Slick was the codename given to the temporary refugee camp made aboard Galactica in the unused museum hangar during the episode "The Passage". After the loss of two ships, the Carina and Adriatic, the survivors of those vessels made Camp Oil Slick their permanent home which has been renamed Dogsville.
[edit] Caprica
Caprica is an Earth-like planet settled by the Capricorn tribe of Kobol. It also has the Capital of the Twelve Colonies, Caprica City. Caprica was the cultural, scientific, technological and governmental capital of the Colonies.
[edit] Caprica City, Caprica
Caprica City is the capital of the planet Caprica.
- Filming location: Mostly at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.
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[edit] Delphi
Delphi is a city on the planet of Caprica. It contains the Museum of the Colonies. This Museum contained the Arrow of Apollo.
- Filming location: Koerner Library, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (Cylon base)[6]
[edit] Dogsville
Dogsville is the makeshift "town" established aboard Galactica in the unused museum hangar. Formerly "Camp Oil Slick", Dogsville's residents are survivors of the ships Adriatic, and Carina which were lost in the episode "The Passage" as they traversed a dangerous star cluster. Most of Dogsville's residents are refugees from the Colonies of Picon and Sagittaron.
In the episode "The Woman King", a doctor named Michael Robert was discovered murdering the Sagittarons in Dogsville for whom he had a deep hatred.
In the episode "Maelstrom", Starbuck visits the oracle Yolanda Breen who lived in Dosgville.
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[edit] Earth
Earth, according to scripture of the Twelve Colonies, is the planet where the Thirteenth Tribe of Kobol supposedly settled.
[edit] Eye of Jupiter
The Eye of Jupiter is an alcove inside the Temple of Five, where the mosaic Eye of Jupiter is located. A skylight in the ceiling allowed a natural shaft of light to fall on the mosaic. The design of the mosaic is based on the Eye of Jupiter supernova.
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[edit] Gates of Hera
The Gates of Hera is a mountain pass between two peaks on the planet Kobol. It leads the way to the Tomb of Athena. Within the show, it is said that Athena jumped to her death in despair over the exodus of the tribes here. It is also said that the leaders of the Twelve Tribes of Kobol passed the pass on their way off-planet.[7]
- Filming location: The Lions, twin mountain peaks overlooking Vancouver, British Columbia.[8]
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[edit] Ionian Nebula
The Ionian Nebula is a supernova remnant recorded by the people of Kobol 4000 years ago. The nebula closely resembles the Eye of Jupiter supernova event in the episode "Rapture" that resulted when the star the Algae Planet orbited exploded. Felix Gaeta noted similarities in the remnant patterns and believes the Eye of Jupiter is a marker that points toward the Ionian Nebula; another clue to finding Earth.
The Ionian Nebula is 13,000 light years from the Algae Planet.
NGC 2440 resembles the Ionian Nebula and is 4000 light-years from Earth.
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[edit] Joe's Bar
A makeshift tavern constructed in Galactica's hangar bay and ran by a civilian bartender named Joe. Joe's Bar made its first appearance in the episode "Taking a Break from All Your Worries".
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[edit] Kimiko
Kimiko was the name given in passing dialog to an icy planet in the episode "Water", by Raptor ECO Lt. Crashdown. His pilot, Boomer discovers water here, however she had to fight her Cylon programming before she could divulge the find. Crashdown gets the name from a former girlfriend who was killed during the Cylon sneak attack, however Boomer disregards the name in her official report to Galactica.
[edit] Kobol
Kobol is the planet where the Colonials and Earthlings originated, ruled over by the Lords of Kobol.
- Filming location: Widgeon Slough, the largest freshwater marsh in the Pinecone Burke Provincial Park, Port Coquitlam, British Columbia[6]
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[edit] Lion's Head Nebula
A beacon was left by the thirteenth tribe here, near a pair of pulsars, one red, one blue. The beacon was accidentally contaminated by a virus, causing fatal illnesses in the Cylons.
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[edit] M8
Lagoon Nebula, astro-number M8, is seen in the skymap for the home of the thirteenth tribe, as depicted in the Tomb of Athena.[7]
[edit] Memorial Highway
Memorial Highway is the name given to the length of corridor aboard Galactica that is filled with thousands of photos of people lost during the Cylon sneak attack on the Twelve Colonies.
[edit] Museum of the Colonies
The Museum of the Colonies is located in the city of Delphi on the planet Caprica. It contains various artifacts, including the Arrow of Apollo.
[edit] N
[edit] New Caprica
New Caprica is a barely habitable planet in the midst of a nebula. It was briefly settled by the refugee fleet of the Twelve Colonies, and briefly occupied by the Cylons. The capital of New Caprica is New Caprica City.
[edit] New Caprica City, New Caprica
New Caprica City is the capital of the planet New Caprica.
- Filming location: Richmond, British Columbia, Canada.
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[edit] Pergamus Flats
Pergamus Flats on New Caprica is the site chosen by the Cylons for the mass execution of 200 suspected insurgents.[9]
[edit] Picon
- See also: Twelve Colonies
Picon is the planet where the Pisces tribe of Kobol settled.[7] It is also the location of the headquarters of the Colonial Fleet.[4]
[edit] Picon Fleet Headquarters
The Headquarters of the Colonial Fleet were located on the planet Picon and destroyed in the first wave of the Cylon attack on the Twelve Colonies.[4]
[edit] R
[edit] Ragnar
Ragnar is a gas giant planet at the fringes of the Twelve Colonies's star system. During the "Miniseries", Commander Adama takes the Galactica there for supplies and weapons from the Ragnar Anchorage, which was in low orbit around the planet. Ragnar's natural radiation was discovered to be damaging to the Cylons, who avoided the planet and allowed the refugee fleet to hide here temporarily before fleeing the system.
[edit] Ragnar Anchorage
Ragnar Anchorage is a Colonial munitions dump suspended in the upper atmosphere of the gas giant Ragnar. The Colonial Fleet learned that the atmosphere of the planet Ragnar emitted a kind of radiation that adversely affected Cylon technology and cloaked ships residing within the storm. When the Cylons launch their attack on the Twelve Colonies, the Battlestar Galactica is caught without any munitions for her main and point-defence batteries, having dumped them as part of her decommissioning ceremonies prior to the battle. Colonel Saul Tigh determines that Ragnar Anchorage offers the best opportunity for re-arming the ship.
While at Ragnar Anchorage, Galactica obtains enough munitions to completely re-arm her guns, and she also collects a number of Class-D warheads. Her crew also encounter Leoben Conoy, posing as an arms trader, who eventually gives the Colonials their first discovery of humanoid Cylon infiltrators. Galactica is joined by a civilian convoy of survivors gathered by President Laura Roslin. When they arrive, Commander William Adama is persuaded to alter his original plan to send Galactica into a suicidal fight against the Cylons into one of exodus from the Colonies to save the last of humanity.
Galactica protects the civilian fleet as they make a FTL jump from Ragnar towards the Promar Sector, well beyond the "Red Line" of charted space, never to return to the solar system of the Colonies in an effort to escape the Cylons. Soon after the battle, the Cylons dock at the station to retrieve the Cylon agent Aaron Doral.
[edit] Red Line
The Red Line is the safety limit of FTL travel for the Twelve Colonies. A ship jumping beyond this line risks running into unknown navigational hazards or going off course due to compound errors in its jump calculation.
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[edit] Temple of Five
The Temple of Five is a place mentioned in the sacred texts. It contains the Eye of Jupiter, and is located on an algae covered planet (Algae Planet) in orbit around a blue giant star on the far side of a young nebulous star cluster from Kobol and the Twelve Colonies. The temple is destroyed by a supernova explosion, revealing that the "eye" is actually the star itself as it goes nova. The machinery inside the temple is actually to create a holographic interface with "the chosen one" as the star novas.
The temple was constructed 4000 years prior to the supernova by the five priests of "He whose name must not be spoken", a "heretical" sect of the colonial religion.
[edit] Tomb of Athena
Athena is a deity among the Lords of Kobol whose tomb is located on the mythical planet Kobol, which is the world where the ancient scriptures say mankind originated. According to legend within the series, Athena threw herself off a mountain due to sorrow about mankind's departure from Kobol aboard the galleon.
Once the refugee fleet discovers a planet containing ancient ruins, President Roslin declares they have found Kobol. She leads an expedition to find the legendary tomb along with the Arrow of Apollo artefact, which according to scriptures, will "point" the way to Earth, the "lost" 13th colony of mankind.
The tomb is eventually found in the side of a mountain where numerous artifacts are discovered. Inside, the group finds the statue of Sagittarius and places the arrow in his bow. This sets off a chain of events that seals the tomb's door, and seemingly "transports" the expedition to a grassy hill surrounded by large stones engraved with a zodiac symbols representing each world of the Twelve Colonies. The group realizes the room is a starmap which gives the positions of celestial objects from the viewpoint of someone actually standing on Earth itself.
Upon recognizing the distant nebula cloud, M8, Commader Adama gets his bearings and believes by navigating toward the cloud, the fleet should eventually find Earth.
The original series analogue of the Tomb of Athena is the Tomb of the Ninth Lord of Kobol.
[edit] Troy
Troy is an Aerelon mining colony whose exact nature and location are unknown. According to dialog in "Flesh and Bone", before learning she is a Cylon spy, Sharon "Boomer" Valerii claims that she was from Troy, as opposed to being from Aerelon (indicating it was another planet), and that her family was lost in an unspecified disaster that happened there. Gaius Baltar says in the same episode that Valerii has a slight trace of an Aerelon accent, and he was familiar with the "disaster" which destroyed the colony. Boomer repeats in denial that she is human and was born on Troy when she goes to the Cylon Basestar in "Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part 2" and finds the Cylon copies of herself.
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[edit] Virgon
- See also: Twelve Colonies
Virgon is the planet where the Virgo tribe of Kobol settled.[7] It is also where a major battle occurred during the Destruction of the Twelve Colonies.[4]
[edit] References
- ^ "Dirty Hands". Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series).
- ^ Sci Fi
- ^ "Hero". Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series).
- ^ a b c d "Miniseries, Parts 1 and 2". Battlestar Galactica (TV miniseries).
- ^ "Exodus, Part I". Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series).
- ^ a b David Bassom, Battlestar Galactica: The Official Companion. Titan Books, August 2005, ISBN 1845760972
- ^ a b c d "Home". Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series).
- ^ Vancouver Hiking - The Lions
- ^ "Precipice". Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series).
