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The Cylon War is a fictitious interstellar war that occurred in the Battlestar Galactica universe. Both the original 1978 Battlestar Galactica movie
and the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica mini-series are set shortly after that conflict.

Battlestar Galactica (1978)

In the original series, the Cylon war is also known as the Thousand Yahren War, the Thousand Year War and the Great Cylon Conflict.

Cause of the war

The Cylon War begun when the Twelve Colonies of Man decided to come to the help of an alien species called the Hasaris. This small and militarily-weak civilisation was under attack by the Cylon army. The reasons for the Cylon-Hasaris war are never made clear; however, given the Hasaris peace-loving nature, it is unlikely they were the aggressor. It is more likely that the Cylon picked them as a target. The Cylons were, after all, designed as war robots, and they needed a new enemy after they had destroyed their biological masters.

Despite the Colonies' help, the Hasaris civilisation was eventually destroyed by the Cylons. Following their victory, the Cylons set their aim on destroying the Twelve Colonies, who had helped their enemies.

The war

The war itself has never been discussed in detail. The few facts that are known are that the Colonial Battlestars were constructed shortly after the war had begun, that a large number of battles of all kinds took place, and that, at some point near the end of the war, Count Baltar was chosen to act as a liaison between both sides.

End of the war

The Cylon War ended nearly a thousand yahrens after it had begun. The Cylons made an unexpected overture for peace through their agent, Count Baltar. The Colonials, weary of the war, accepted. However, the Cylons had no real intention to negotiate peace. Baltar had betrayed the Colonials, and the whole thing was a ruse to catch the Colonials off-guard. It worked almost perfectly, and in one sudden attack, the Twelve Colonies and all but one of the Battlestars were destroyed.

Following the destruction of the Twelve Colonies, the last Battlestar, Galactica, gathered the few survivors into a rag-tag fugitive fleet, and set a course for unexplored space, away from the Cylons. Their goal was to reach a mythical Thirteenth Colony, called Earth, in the hopes it had achieved a technological level high enough to protect them from Cylon tyranny.

Battlestar Galactica (2003)

Cause of the war

Always seeking new and better technology, the Twelve Colonies created the Cylon, highly intelligent military robots. However, the Cylons rebelled against their human masters, causing the war.

The war

The war itself has never been discussed in detail. What little is known is that Humans fought using the Colonial Battlestars and Vipers, against the first generation of Cylons, called the "Harbingers of Doom". Given the Cylon's artificial nature, they had the ability to infect computer networks. This caused the Humans to shun large computer networks in favour of isolated computer systems.

End of the war

The Humans and Cylons were an even match for each other, and fought to a stalemate. The war ended after ten years, when a peace accord was signed between the Twelve Colonies and the Cylons.

Aftermath

Following the peace accord, the Cylons retreated away from Colonial space and cut all contacts with the Colonies. The Colonials, hoping to prevent another war through diplomatic means, built Armistice Station as a place for Humans and Cylons meet in order to maintain a peaceful dialogue between both races. The Cylons never visited it.

Meanwhile, after decades, voices in the Colonies started calling for a lift on the ban on sophisticated computer networks, which had been instituted during the Cylon War. Chief among them was Gaius Baltar, one of the Colonies' most brilliant scientist and an important member of the military's defense research team.

Unknown to the Colonies, the Cylons were using this time to prepare a new offensive. They were building an army of new, superior Cylon Centurions, researching organic-based technologies, and cloning an army of Cylons who appeared Human down to the cellular level.

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