Battlestar Galactica

Battlestar Galactica
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Created by	Glen A. Larson
Original work	Battlestar Galactica (1978)
Owner	NBCUniversal
Years	1978–2012
Print publications
Book(s)	List of books
Comics	List of comics
Films and television
Film(s)	Battlestar Galactica (1978)
Television series	Battlestar Galactica (1978–79) Galactica 1980 (1980) Battlestar Galactica (2003–09) Caprica (2010)
Web series	The Resistance (2006) Razor Flashbacks (2007) The Face of the Enemy (2008–09) Blood & Chrome (2012)
Television film(s)	Razor (2007) The Plan (2009)
Games
Video game(s)	List of video games

Battlestar Galactica is an American science fiction media franchise created by Glen A. Larson. It began with the original television series in 1978, and was followed by a short-run sequel series, Galactica 1980, a line of book adaptations, original novels, comic books, a board game, and video games. A reimagined version aired as a two-part, three-hour miniseries developed by Ronald D. Moore and David Eick in 2003, followed by a 2004 television series, which aired until 2009. A prequel series, Caprica, aired in 2010.

All Battlestar Galactica productions share the premise that in a distant part of the universe, a human civilization has extended to a group of planets known as the Twelve Colonies, to which they have migrated from their ancestral homeworld of Kobol. The Twelve Colonies have been engaged in a lengthy war with the Cylons, a cybernetic race whose goal is the extermination of the human species. The Cylons offer peace to the humans, which proves to be a ruse. With the aid of a human named Baltar, the Cylons carry out a massive nuclear attack on the Twelve Colonies and the Colonial Fleet of starships that protect them, devastating the fleet, laying waste to the Colonies, and destroying all but a small remaining population. Survivors flee into outer space aboard a motley fleet of spaceworthy ships. Of the Colonial battle fleet, only the Battlestar Galactica, a gigantic battleship and spacecraft carrier, appears to have survived the attack. Under the leadership of Commander Adama, the Galactica and the pilots of "Viper fighters" lead a fugitive fleet of survivors in search of the fabled thirteenth colony known as Earth.