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[rose_griffes]

Anyone remember why the cylons wanted to find Earth in season three? The Colonial fleet wanted a safe haven from the cylons, but why did the cylons want to go there? Wipe out the rest of the humans? (I don't think that was their motivation. But I don't remember any motivation ever being given.)

This is me frantically trying to come up with a gen female POV fic for the femgenficathon. Less than two weeks, ACK!

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[lyssie.livejournal.com]

No motive was ever given, as far as I know. I sort of fanwanked it as they were being led their by God, as it was some fulfillment of their destinies. Also, the thirteenth tribe were there, and perhaps there would be some sort of new start (New Caprica was an old start, after all).

Honestly, I'd always thought the Cylons wanted Earth way more than the fleet, if only to settle there as some sort of Promised Land.

[raincitygirl.livejournal.com]

THere was speculation at the time that since the Thirteenth Colony were the only humanss left who didn't have major grduges against them, maybe they hoped for t hat "fresh start" to involve a new approach towards humans. Who wouldn't automatically hate them on sight because of course the Cylons would forget to mention having wiped out the Twelve Colonies and then New Caprica. And the Thirteenth Colony would welcome their outer space benefactors and all would live idyllically together in the Promised Land. At least until the Cavils decided "better safe than sorry" and exterminated the Thirteenth Colony because you just can't trust humans.

I've become less and less convinced that the Cylons even *have* a home world. The hub being i n space rather than at their home world suggests they might have spent the majority of the interwar decades in spaceships.

[nicole-anell.livejournal.com]

^^ yeah. that.

[raincitygirl.livejournal.com]

They've got Kobol, which is religiously forbidden to them. They lost interest in the Colonies (which are pretty damn irradiated, anyway, so hardly practical for longterm settlement). New Caprica has bad memories, and anyway, the humans know where it is. So basically, they're probably nomads just as much as teh Ragtag Fugitive Fleet. Nomadic three-year-olds with no adult supervision and their finger on the nuclear button.

[raincitygirl.livejournal.com]

P.S. With Earth just as irradiated as the Colonies, I wonder if Kobol will turn out to be the Promised Land. I mean, if the Cylon God sends down a new decree that Kobol is now a-okay (and incidentally, you totally misinterpreted me when you blew up twelve planets and said you did it for me), maybe Kobol will become the symbolic Earth.

[rose-griffes.livejournal.com]

Heh. I do think it'd be hard to go backwards for the humans... though you might be right, maybe the cylons will get a big revelation to head there next.

[rose-griffes.livejournal.com]

Also, the thirteenth tribe were there, and perhaps there would be some sort of new start (New Caprica was an old start, after all).

*nods* New start for the 'Love all the humans (to death)' cylons or finish the job of killing them all (Brother Cavil and company). Cylons are like little kids--any promise of a fun new toy and they're distracted.

Personally I'm amused that 'finding Earth' (for whatever reason) led to:

1) persuade Baltar to figure it out
2) torture Baltar for getting cylons killed
then 3) have sex with Baltar