Battlestar Galactica: Unlocking the Secrets of the Cylon

The third season of "Battlestar Galactica" may be putting more focus on the enemies of the Colonial fleet - the Cylons - but it's still safe to say that all we know about this human-created robotic race could fill nothing more than a few sentences in a paragraph.

There are 12 human-like models. but only seven seem to remain active. We know very little about the other five. While not being able to procreate similar to humans amongst themselves, they discovered that they can procreate using a human the emotion of love, as demonstrated between Helo (Tahmoh Penikett) and the Cylon who would later be known as Athena (Grace Park). Each Cylon model seems to have their own individual personality and opinions, but no matter what happens, as long as there is a resurrection base nearby, they can never die.

So that's it. End of story. We have to wait for Ronald D. Moore and his great staff of writers to clue us in from there. But that doesn't mean we can't speculate, does it?

First of all, it's not very hard to figure out that 12 is a common number in the show, referring to things like the Twelve Colonies, which in turn leads to the Quorum of Twelve. The planets were named from the 12 signs of the Zodiac, which we use to signify portions of the 12 months of the year.

OK, so what does that mean? Only Moore, the true Cylon god, knows for sure. But it can't be a coincidence.

The gods at one time lived with the people of Kobol. That was well established in the second season of "Battlestar Galactica" during Roslin's (Mary McDonnell) search for the Tomb of Athena. During that entire sequence, something that Leoben (Callum Keith Rennie) said during the first season of the show kept repeating itself in my mind: "All of this has happened before, all of it will happen again."