Resurrection and Battlestar Galactica

If you are behind in your viewing of BSG, you may want to skip this post.

In the episode "the Hub," which aired in the US on Friday, June 6, 2008, the rebel Cylons and the Colonials nuked the Resurrection Hub ship. By destroying the Hub, the Cylons supposedly have lost the ability to download their consciousness to a new body when they die. It seems that in order to be reborn, a dying Cylon had to be in range of a resurrection ship, which was basically a dumb terminal that was somehow linked to the Hub. Maybe they can rebuild the Hub, as someone or something had to build the first Hub. The implication is that they cannot.

The societal implications for the Cylons are staggering. Because they could just download into adult bodies, the Cylons had no need to breed or to have child care or any sort of educational system.

In short, the survival of the Cylons, both the "skin jobs" and the raiders that have biological intelligence, is now linked to either building a new hub or intertwining with the only other sentient species which has the knowledge base to raise and train their young: The human Colonials.

But given that the Cylons had effectively wiped out the Twelve Colonies and reduced the human population from tens of billions to 39,000, the odds of such an alliance may be poor. The biological and cyber-Cylons may have signed their own death warrants, leaving only the "toasters" to survive. Which sets the Cylons back about 40 years or so to where they were at the end of the first Colonial-Cylon War.