BattleStar Galactica Lore : First Cylon War (Deadlock)

BattleStar Galactica Lore is one of the most fascinating and interesting lore out there. Everything destroyed ... Surviving the apocolypse. However, what happened before the Galactica jumped away from the burning planets? We'll talk about the First Cylon War and the travesty's that were wrought.

Notice: This Video was brought in part by Slytherine Games who agreed to a free copy if a series of Lore Videos about the Game was made. There was no financial gain had, beyond that of the value of the game itself.

[Revzbit]

It's a shame that Caprica was so slow that people lost interest. The season 2 preview looked awesome and probably would have answered many questions

[scandor]

I got the impression that game represents a turning point in the war. Before the game, although the war had been going on for an indeterminate length of time (I'd say years but less than a decade at a guess) that the tempo and scale of operations was still quite small.

I get the impression that before the game, Colonial Fleet was more like a NATO or UN force, small in resources and scale, and that planetary defence forces were still handling the bulk of the fighting, but in a purely defensive, piecemeal, uncoordinated manner, and that Colonial Fleet was the only force actually trying to "win" the war. As a side note, I feel that this informs the design and value of the Jupiter Class - it's designed to operate as the centrepiece of a battlegroup of smaller ships as a force multiplier, which would fit given that we see in the game that most defence forces are made up of a large number of smaller craft.

The story arc of the game takes you from this tiny multinational taskforce to probably being the biggest single chunk of military force in the twelve colonies (Depending how much you build up before the end of the game). After the game's ending, you've established Colonial Fleet's bona fides as the only organisation that can realistically fight the Cylons, which leads to what we see in Blood and Chrome and later the full series, where Colonial Fleet is this huge, centralised force that, judging by what we see of the Cylon Navy in The Plan, the Cylons didn't have a hope in hell of beating in a general fleet engagement.

[ChadZLumenarcus]

Please make sure your voice is louder than the music. But other than that, this was solid.

[TerranceChilds-uinh]

I really like this video it is very informative

[dougfoust]

I don't think that is the best description of the articles and the distribution of Jupiter's. The poor colonies would be well within their rights to build a Jupiter class, articles be damned. They just didn't have the capacity to do so. Signing the treaty was the only way they would ever get a ship that powerful. Would you hand over a wmd, that you built, to a historic enemy, without some kind of promise they won't use it against you?

[DanielDavis]

I don't know if you've watched it but Blood & Chrome at least provides a small snapshot of the first cylon war.

[kencohagen]

We need a prequel series. One was pitched to SyFy, but they turned it down. Too bad! Loyal fans would have killed to see very last episode. Even thought many of us would use our DVRs to record and watch each episode when our schedules permitted, and we would most likely fast forward past the commercials, we still would watch the ones that caught our eye for items or brands we were interested in. In a way, that would give advertisers a better idea how to write their commercials and which products were their biggest competition! The whole thing seems like a win win to me! So, SyFy, if you're smart enough to check the opinions posted on videos like this and forums for fans, .... get busy reading these comments and put together a prequel that would do BSG proud!

[CultureClashh]

Keep bringing the content my friend!:)

[QuizmasterLaw]

I would like to work on a Slytherine game about the espionage aspects of the first and second cylon wars ^^

[doctorclu]

Big fan of the original BSG and Blood and Chrome. BSG re-imagined did show, in my opinion, basically the original BSG timeline expanded and more fleshed out. Also ran with the course the show was taking clear to finding Earth (Starbuck being an angelic being and so forth) So kinda cool if you cut through all the felgercarb.

[benkeller]

Dang, really bad audio. This is very difficult to understand.

[davidlutz]

Great video....really well done
Thanks
(Low Volume?)

[QuizmasterLaw]

Deadlock has ome amazing First Cylon War insights which I REALLY hope make it into Universal's upcoming movie!!!

[emlynperson]

the first cylon war has to be on cobolt otherwise 13th tribe does not work.

[TheGaelicBrit]

Definitely interesting to get some canon tidbits about the First War where the Cylons don't just hack-2-win like a bunch of 12 year old Battlefront players! xD All in all, I look forward to getting the game myself, and trying it. See you in the skies, Admiral Lore? Might just have to show you how it's done. ^_^

[kencohagen]

We need a series to create canon for the first Cylon War which uses the facts presented by the second series. Too bad Syfy wouldn't do it. It takes a network with some balls to go there. Who will that be? I hope we find out!

[evilwarcow]

I wonder what if the cylons tried invading earth in the 25th century in the Star Trek universe. Same goes for the Aliens in the 1990's Independence day movie. And I also wonder how the ID4 Aliens and the Cylons would fair against each other.

[Fabian-Wenzel]

You must watch Battlestar Galactica - Blood and Chrome movie then you know the first Cylon war.

[johnnyscifi]

Galactica was the Battlestar made for the colony of Caprica, riight?

[dougbaker]

if your going to fight a war first eat a big breakfast then run away and hide until it is all over.