Post originally by K. A. Pezzano at 2003-12-23 13:51:40
Converted from Phorums BB System

<<It's probably due to the distance of time from the original material, but I seem to have an impression firmly in mind that these 12 colonies were all in one super-solar system? Possibly a system that was the product of advanced celestial engineering of a magnitude beyond even that required to create a Dyson sphere.

Not sure if that's altogether right, but it would be interesting to have the Lords of Kobol have been capable of such engineering feats, if only to raise the question: "Ok, so what happened to them? What became of/ Where did such intelligent beings go?">>

I can't recall any actual diagram of the Colonial solar system(s) being shown, but I do have vague recollections of a magazine that showed the various uniform designs and patches, and one had twelve concentric rings around a point, implying a single system with twelve worlds, as you say.

Of course, the show and the novelizations often differed like that (in the books, for instance, the Cylons were organic, as opposed to the totally-robotic Cylons of the series, and there's plenty of fanboy controversy over the names of all the canon Battlestars). So who can really say?

A twelve-planet system that was obviously created by a supremely advanced civilization would explain a lot about the unshakable faith that Adama and others had in the myths of Kobol. It'd be hard *not* to believe in an "ancient astronaut" origin, with evidence like that laying around!