The Big Sleep (Battlestar Galactica/Babylon 5)
Title: The Big Sleep
Author: Selena
Fandoms: Battlestar Galactica/ Babylon 5.
Disclaimer: characters and situations owned by J.M. Straczynski, Ron Moore, David Eick and various production companies. Title stolen from Raymond Chandler.
Timeline: A few weeks after In the Shadow of Z’ha’dum, season 2, for Babylon 5; during and after s4 for Battlestar ( Read more... )
Author: Selena
Fandoms: Battlestar Galactica/ Babylon 5.
Disclaimer: characters and situations owned by J.M. Straczynski, Ron Moore, David Eick and various production companies. Title stolen from Raymond Chandler.
Timeline: A few weeks after In the Shadow of Z’ha’dum, season 2, for Babylon 5; during and after s4 for Battlestar ( Read more... )
And yes, without BSG knowledge this must be awfully confusing. Hm, let me try to sum up the horribly convoluted myth arc as it relates to this story: By the end of the show, the following backstory had been revealed:
1) Humanity came from a planet named Kobol. Where twelve tribes emigrated from to form colonies. There was also a thirteenth tribe ending up on Earth. Said thirteenth tribe, as it turned out, were the descendant of artificial lifeforms who had developed to the point of being completely organic, having children instead of downloading, having forgotten much of their history, and developing AIs themselves. Bloody civil war ensues, resulting in Earth getting nuked and everyone dead. Everyone, that is, except for:
2) The Final Five - five people who had managed to rediscover their artificial lifeform origins and the download process, which is how they got away from Earth. These five people are identical with characters the viewers met as humans during the course of the show proper, btw. Having downloaded into new bodies, they went on their way to the other twelve colonies. Not having discovered faster than light transport yet, only nearly as fast as light speed, this took them a millennium, though for them a much briefer time passed. These five people were: Ellen, Saul, Galen, Sam and Tory.
3) By the time they arrived, the twelve colonies had developed their own artificial lifeforms, the Cylons, as sort of slaves, the Cylons grew sentient, and there was a bloody uprising and war going on as well. The Cylons (metal centurion version) were also trying to evolve and create organic/metal hybrids, but hadn't gotten very far. The Five promised to help them develop organic models in exchange for the Cylons agreeing to peace with the humans of the colonies. The humans didn't know about any of this, btw. Much like the B5 humans when the Minbari suddenly surrended, it confused the hell out of them when the Cylons suddenly withdrew and were not heard of again for the next 40 years.
4) Ellen and the others then developed eight organic Cylon models as promised. Number One was John, aka Cavil, and developed a raging mixture between the Oedipus complex and Lucifer issues about having been created in human resemblance. (And being given an old man's body.) He killed off one of the other younger models out of sibling jealousy, and staged a coup via trapping the Five, killing them and interfering with their download via giving them false memories, releasing them one after the other into the human population. The reason for this was to make them realize how much humanity and the human form sucked. He also made sure the remaining six models would not be able to remember the Five, and converted them to his revenge war on the humans idea.
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I did not read your post in depth, sorry you wasted the time: I'm planning to start on BSG shortly.
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*edits buggers into bastards*
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