Friday, January 16, 2009

battlestar theory

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The battlestar theory.

There are many, many cylons. Raiders, and centurions and hybrids and others. The creators were humans, many, many generations ago. They created these beings as intelligent machines, to serve humans in many ways, but especially to be the warriors - to do the dirty work.

Over time the Cylons became smarter and smarter, and eventually they were able to think, to reason and to become self-aware. This wasn't obvious, this wasn't clear even to most of their 'creators' - the military-industrial complex that programmed and used and spent these - now living - creatures.

One scientist/engineer realized what the increasing sophistication had created - being even quicker, even more creative than humans, because they had no pre-conceptions, no moral barriers, no intellectual or emotional or familal inhibitions. But the reality was, the most sophisticated, most elegant, most flexible housing for intelligence was the human body. Nothing could compare.

How to get this incredible intelligence, this new species, into the most adaptable, most desirable host? Human tissue was harvested, experiments were made. Cyber-biology was explored. The desire to have a complex human life, to have bodies and all that bodies entail was the holy grail.

The research split. The research may have been directed by a human, or humans, or by the sentient Cylon labs. One research direction went the way of creating many bodies for each consciousness - the way that resulted in the resurrection hub, the numbered Cylons. Only a few genetic lines survived to create models. Many, many models can be created from the existing lines, but there are no other lines. There is a limited amount of creativity. Their existence depends upon an ability to broadcast and connect over distances, but their ability to pro-create is hampered by the process of their lab-based 'growth.'

The fact was, the factory-model cylons were considered adequate, but the real hope for individuality lay in the second research path. Could the intelligence-patterns of the artifically created Cylons be imprinted upon 'womb-grown' beings, each individual in pattern, in identity and in skills,but stronger, faster, and superior.

The only way to accomplish this was through using the wombs of human women. (So the 'farms' - lab-Cylons were trying to recreate these rumors sucesses.) In years past, the Cylons had some idea this was possible, but the reality of the reseach was supressed, for fear of unrest. So the Cylons aren't supposed to ask about the 'final five.'

The final five are the five successful implantations of the Cylon technology into human women. The first one was Tigh - long before any others, and this was the success that kept the experiment alive. Through 'fertility clinics' and complicit doctors - five implants took place over 2.5 generations. They were from difference colonies and had different backgrounds. Human biology encases alien processes, programming, wiring, nervous systems. The Humlons were not aware of their 'true nature,' because the 'electronic or magnetic field' hadn't triggered consciousness yet.

Now the final five are being revealed. The lab-Cylons face the end of their consciousness. They become more like humans all the time. One of the unforseen consequences of the 'womb-grown' research line was the emotional and mental torment the individuals experienced all their lives (Sam may be the exception - because he was an athlete?)

Now - humans and Cylons will need to live together - earth is a wasteland - now what?

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