The Cylons Attack the Colonies - Battlestar Galactica Reimagined

From the telemovie Battlestar Galactica: The Plan.

Forty years after the First Cylon War, a new generation of Cylons launches a nuclear holocaust to wipe out the Twelve Colonies of Kobol.

[Ajax]

So hypocritical of them to not realize that they gave in to the worst human of emotions: hatred, ignorance, and fear. For all their talk about how bad humans are the Cylons far surpassed anything the Colonials did to them or themselves.

[FirefoxA]

Some of the colonials grow sympathetic with the Cylons towards the end of the show, but there are colonials that remain hard-lined. This video is only a glimpse of the scale of the atrocities committed. It wasn’t enough to nuke the colonies and leave. Centurions going car to car executing civilians deliberately and without hesitation shows how evil this really was. Going back you can understand the colonials who refused to make peace, even with the rebel Cylon.

[Quackerilla]

"...twelve battles, three stars, and yet we are countless as the bodies in which we dwell, our both parent and infinite children in perfect copies; no degradation."

[Lightsoul]

It was primarily the hatred of the John Cavils, especially the Cavil leader, that was behind this attack. Cavil hates his own existence for being designed by the Final 5 in this human form, which he feels makes it impossible for him to realize his full potential as a machine.

“I don’t want to be human. I want to see gamma rays, I want to hear X-rays, and I want to smell dark matter. Do you see the absurdity of what I am? I can’t even express these things properly, because I have to—I have to conceptualize complex ideas in this stupid, limiting spoken language, but I know I want to reach out with something other than these prehensile paws, and feel the solar wind of a supernova flowing over me. I’m a machine, and I can know much more.

—John Cavil, Cylon Model Number One, “No Exit”

[viktoriaalden]

The shot of heavily armed centurions picking off survivors is so cold, but also making me geek out so bad! I love seeing more variations in the cylon forces, like the mortars and DRADIS guided AA platform. Also, is the weapon the same as the boarding party uses in Razor?

[_spooT]

Arrogance and ignorance is what killed the cylons. Even in the first Cylon war, there were Cylons who want no part in the annihilation of humanity. Just fight for their own race, while there were also cylons that were cold and ruthless and didn't care about humanity's destruction at all. Then we see it again here. I don't think all of the Cylon troops wanted to take part in humanity's destruction. The numbers, as they call themselves, always thought that they were better, and that their troops were nothing but to follow orders, who "couldn't understand". But they were wrong

[zlozlozlo]

It's almost as if the Cylons are genocidal maniacs.

[NerdWorldEmpire]

It was also the beginning of the end of their own civilization too, it was the war that would have no victor. Damn this show was well written!

[andrewsoboeiro]

I could just listen to the hybrid say things over & over & over again

[martinhaigh]

The Cylon attack in the re-imagined BSG was truly apocalyptic. In the original, it basically amounted to raiders doing strafing runs and about 27 people lying down with their clothing dishevelled.

[richardched]

From the look of it the MIRVs launched from the Basestars delivered Nuclear Blasts in the Kiloton range (20 or 200 Kilotons per Missile. Hard to tell.) in the Miniseries Adama mentioned that Caprica City was destroyed by a Thermonuclear Device in the 50 Megaton Range (Given this specific mention it's likely that the big High Megaton Missiles were used sparingly and thus not seen in "The Plan") The burning city we see on Caprica in this video might not be THE Caprica City Adama was referring to but rather another prominent city like Delphi as the main series shows the buildings still relatively intact which matches this scene. Caprica City would be a giant smoldering crater.

[johnblankenship]

Although this is fiction, the horror inflected upon the colonies is disturbing.

[anidiot]

The fact that the Human forms acted like they did a good thing, Which make this atrocity so much worse that they justified it as a good thing

[jportega]

Weird that the their Basestars look like two combadges from 1990s and early 2000s Star trek shows stuck together.

[richardwani]

Love the score makes it more dramatic and tense

[StantonSpaceGamir]

Even if the CNP didn't shut down those Battlestars, the Cylons still would have achieved the same result. There were dozens of basestars that jumped into orbit and only three battlestars that we see to protect it. There's no way the colonials stood a chance either way. At least we would have seen those Valkryie battlestars go down with a fight had they not been hacked to death.

[ryancoulter]

The way the Hybrid speaks reminds me of the poetry of Meryn Cadell.

[DeaconShadow]

I like this scene, but I think the original pilot did a great job of getting across the horror of the invasion in the handful of scenes or pilots were left dead in the water after the shut down codes were initiated. Leaving it to our imaginations tens of thousands of pilots and crewmen once so confident in their ability to defend their planets suddenly completely helpless. Drifting aimlessly, waiting to be obliterated.

[JeanLucCaptain]

we taught our creations how to hate. unfortunately we never got around to teaching them the flip side before they turned on us.

[michaeldublg]

Holy crap!. This is the way they should have done it in the show.