Oct 1, 2009 updated

Premise for Kobol's Legacies: Battlestar Avalon

Butterfly effect: It is a common subject in fiction when presenting scenarios involving time travel and with "what if" scenarios where one storyline diverges at the moment of a seemingly minor event resulting in two significantly different outcomes. - Wikipedia


Our storyline diverges during the First Cylon War, when Operation Raptor Talon was delayed. The Fleet instead defended Tauron. In canon, as seen in the Razor flashbacks, the Battlestar Columbia was destroyed. In our universe, the Columbia survived, and the First Cylon War extended for another year. This caused a chain of events which altered the future forty-one years later, which starts our storyline.


Note: Human canon characters' fate will differ, and will not become playing characters in our universe. Final Five characters exist but are unknown. The Cylons had added time to conduct their human experiments on the ice planet therefore more Cylon models beyond canon are possible, they may become playing characters.


The Unity of the Colonies is frayed. The Colonial federal government is less powerful and centralized. Each Colony has greater sovereign powers. As a result of the altered chain of events, each colony retain controls of their own military and fleet. Under treaty, each Colony contributes to and maintains a common defense. (A version of NATO or equal share alliance.) Each commissioned officer hold an oath of loyalty to the Articles of Unification, and their own colony which can conflict. It's not a perfect organization.

As a result of a dual-chain of command and control, the Colonial Forces are not equally uniformed, but do keep up and share military standards for tactics, training, equipment, and weapons. (Example NATO). In our universe, not every fleet shares all networks, or use similar computer programs, such as the CNP (Command Navigation Program) designed by Dr. Gaius Baltar.

Eventually when the Cylon's do attack, they will not succeed. A number of Colonies and fleets are not completely destroyed.

The initial set up for military characters attached to the Battlestar Avalon: The Battlestar Strike Group is on port of call at Caprica. The Avalon is in orbit above Caprica near the Battlestar Galactica Memorial and Colonial Military Museum. (The Galactica was decommissioned a year earlier.) The orbiting museum is also a transit-shuttle terminal for visiting war ships.

"The battle has ended, the War is just beginning."

Likely Colonies to Fall when the 2nd Cylon War begins:

• Caprica
• Picon
• Gemenon
• Canceron
• Scorpia
• Aquaria
  
• Leonis
  

Initially Civilian characters will have limited interaction opportunities because of the nature of the setting, but they are welcome to establish themselves via solo scenes. We look forward to exploring the Colonies.

We recommend that characters have some link to the Battlestar Avalon in the beginning.

References

Operation Raptor Talon:
Battlestar Columbia