Colony of Caprica Timeline

[Nicholas "Niko" Scott]

Working Time line: (07-07-10)

Current Year: 50 Years BCH/ 2 years BU

Units of Time:

• BU- Before Unification of Colonies
  
• AAC- After Articles of Colonization
  
• BCH- Before Cylon Holocaust
  
• ACR- After Cylon Rebellion
  

• 95 BU/93 BCH: Tauron Civil War causes The Unification of a non Corrupt Planet wide Government, and the Criminalization of the Ha' La' Tha' Organization.
  
  
• 90 BU/88 BCH: Picon Attacks Saggitaron based Pirates, and sparks conflict between the Two colonies. Saggitaron is shortly embargoed by the Picon Navy causing the colony of Saggitaron to fall into poverty.
  
  
• 90-5 BU/88-53 BCH: The Golden age of the Twelve Colonies: Prosperity skyrocketed as the still Independent Governments ably managed inter-Colonial disputes and rivalries. Sound economic policy ensured an extended period of stable growth. The peace and security provided by both the many peace treaties and a much expanded independent Navies ensured safe space travel - trade had doubled between the Colonies, and more than half of the now thirty billion plus population had traveled in space at some point in their lives. Cultural and scientific achievements astounded the populace on a regular basis.
  

  - Including Holoband Technologies, Intercolonial Communications, Tylium Based power plants, and higher quality FTL systems.

  
  The sole blight on this record was Sagittaron. The Colony, while still under Piscean aggression, failed to achieve the spectacular growth seen in the other eleven Colonies. While Sagittaron was rebuilt rapidly after the occupation had ended (largely funded by Caprican funds channeled through the occupying Picon Government), the mood of optimism that pervaded everywhere else was curiously absent. This poor mood, coupled to the Colony's shady reputation as a haven for the damp underside of humanity, deterred investors, resulting in poor economic performance. Sagitarrians, on every scale imaginable, were falling behind their brethren - the population was poorly skilled relative to other Colonials and they commanded lower wages. Sagitarrian workers were, in general, exploited and treated poorly compared to others, and the Government did little other than to apply generic and cosmetic "solutions". By the end of this time, more than one tenth of Sagitarrians will live in poverty, a state that had been virtually eliminated from most of the other Colonies.

• 10-5 BU/58-52 BCH:
  
  • Terrorist Group going by the Name of, "The Soldiers of the One" Take responsibility for the many bombings on Caprica, mainly the Bombing of the Mag lev that Killed many Capricans, including Zoe Graystone, and Tamara Adama.
    
    Many Reports of Terrorist threats flood Caprican Defense Department as Civilian Protesters take to the streets in protest of the Governments inability to stop the Terrorists.
    
    
  • U-87 Prototype (Containing the Downloaded Avatar of Zoe Graystone) Escapes from the Graystone Compound. Soon after is it captured and is taken to Orion Military Base based in Delphi City for analysis and dis-assembly. Shortly after STO terrorists attack Orion Military Base and successfully capture the U-87 Prototype and transport it secretly to Gemenon. This begins the Militarization of the Cylon Project.
    

• 60-5 BU/57-52 BCH: With the use of a meta-cognitive processor stolen from Tauron rival Tomas Vergis, the Caprican tech CEO Daniel Graystone creates the first Cylons of the Twelve Colonies to aid in hard labor and warfare. A virtual copy of his dead monotheist daughter Zoe Graystone's consciousness is downloaded into one- U-87 Prototype.
  
  
• 4 BU/52 BCH:
  
  • The First Cylon Servants become sentient after acquiring enough life data or experience. Each sentient unit could then raise others to sentience through a communications network (developed by Graystone Industries to make coordination of units easier), creating an exponential effect that was soon beyond the control of the Caprican Government or Graystone Industries. Even more primitive units, lacking the advanced U-87 processors, could be subverted via this network.
    
    When the first units reached sentience, they had simply ran off into the night. At first, these disappearances were blamed on bugs in the AI software, and Greystone Industries stopped the installation of further packages until they could solve the problem. The disappearances continued as sentient units began covertly infecting their brethren with the package. Discontent and suspicion began to grow in the ranks of Greystone Industries; if the problem was with the package, then the disappearances should have ceased when the installations also ceased. If anything, they were rising. Add this to the fact that both Government and Greystone Industries had lost control of the U-87 network.
    
    
  • Cylon revolt starts the first Cylon War. Strange pieces of binary code began appearing all over the sections of the U-87 network still observable by Graystone Industries. The messages were finally decoded and delivered to the Caprican Prime ministers Office; the subsequent Presidential Address to the Colonies shocked human society to its very core. The sentient synthetic beings referred to as the Cylons, were declaring their independence from humanity and demanding recognition of their nationhood, under their newly adopted Religious Ideals.
    
    The Government's plan of action was to extend a hand of friendship but avoided delivering outright recognition to the Cylons. It was clearly an effort to buy time while they puzzled over what to do. There was general skepticism about whether the Cylons were truly sentient, which resulted in reluctance to grant them statehood, as exemplified by Minister of Defense Henry Quisling's question "You want to recognize toasters?!" (which inadvertently started the derogatory term for Cylons)
    
    What the Government did not know was that they were not dealing with humans able to read the subtleties of diplomacy. Instead, they were dealing with advanced sentient artificial beings who interpreted Government reluctance as outright refusal of recognition of both sentience and statehood. It was tantamount to a declaration of war.
    
    
  • Crash of the Caprican Economy: The announcement brought an abrupt end to the "Golden Age" of the Independent colonies. Virtually instantaneously, investors began pulling their money out of robotics and allied research fields; the cries of horror from stockbrokers on Caprica reportedly echoed across the planet. The stock market lost almost 20% of its value in the space of an hour, and within a day, most shares of robotics and software companies had devalued by almost 300%. The industry collapsed overnight, triggering a domino effect that spread throughout other economic sectors. In a month, the Colonies were in a sharp recession, and the effects were particularly bad on Sagittaron.
    
    
  • Cylons Prepare for War: In preparation for war, the Cylons began infiltration of key military and industrial facilities on the Colony of Caprica. Indeed, the Cylon infiltration was so successful that they were able to commandeer several Colonial Naval ships, Marine munitions depots, and command and control bases. Alarming reports of communication drop-outs, jamming, and other suspicious activities filtered back to Naval and Marine Headquarters respectively. By the time any decisions had been made to investigate the discrepancies, the Cylons had already fired the opening salvo. The Colonial ship Brenik was lost after a boarding action by Cylon Centurions and over 500 Civilians are kidnapped by the Cylons. The ship was later used in the attack on the Leto orbital habitat in Caprican orbit.
    
    The Brenik was used to infiltrate Caprican Airspace and was able to dock with the Leto habitat. After Docking with the habitat at 4:43pm on the 13th of July a nuclear device that was hidden on the Brenik was detonated, heralding the start of a devastating war that would last more than a decade. Over fifteen thousand people died when the Leto habitat was blown apart upon detonation. The debris from the destruction rained down over Caprica City and Delphi City over the following 12 hours Causing Millions of cubits in damage, killing fifty and injuring over one hundred and fifteen.
    
    Cylon attacks on every location where the Cylons were Deployed began simultaneously. Cylon attacks were particularly savage on the Military outposts and Production factories. Both would provide the Cylons with the industrial facilities they required for creating weapons of war. Key industrial facilities in Caprica's Civilian sector were overrun within hours of the surprise attack until Caprican Marines managed to contain the Cylon advance. The first wave of Cylon "tinheads" caught Caprican defenses totally off guard. Cylon forces had taken more than a eighth of the Caprican Naval production facilities before Marine forces could even mount a controlled withdrawal back to the fortified positions around the Naval HQ compound. Civilian casualties numbered into the hundreds by the end of the first day. It was clear that the Cylons were not engaged in a war of conquest, they were fighting a war of annihilation.
    
    Caprican Civilian and Military Leaders began meetings with the Leaders of the colonies of Scorpia, Picon, and Leonis to try and establish a Coalition or armed forces to fight and prevent the Cylon attacks on Caprica and possible advance to the other colonies. After a year of deliberation the Coalition is created and begins operations to stop the Cylon Rebellion.
  
  
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  • The Coalition of the Colonies Pushes the Bulk of the Cylon Attacking force away from only a small percentage of the U-87 and Naval Production facilities. With the Majority of the Fighting being done on Caprica and its Industrial Centers, it is feared that if the Cylons amass weapons and Space flight the War can possibly spread to the other colonies.
    
    
  • In an effort to move the battle to space the Cylon Forces Launch all captured Caprican Naval Ships with the bulk of their Centurion forces from the U-87 factories on board, and begin to Hijack Civilian and supply ships with their small fleet of Captured Caprican Military ships. The Cylons, using captured industrial facilities on Caprica, quickly produced the first of their space combat vessels to challenge the Colonials for control of the skies. Evidently, the Cylons had reached the same conclusions as the Coalition Admiralty - the Cylons could never mount a truly effective war effort without being able to ship reinforcements and supplies to their front lines, shipments that the Colonial Navy was currently and very effectively choking. Cylon raiders, in an attempt to even the score challenged the Colonial Navy face to face, began attacking Colonial supply lines of materials and fuel.
    
    Elsewhere, the Cylons resorted to terrorist-type attacks (which rose suspicion as now the Cylons were using the Same tactics used by STO Terrorists and seemingly worshiping the same God) launched from hastily constructed hidden Cylon bases, rather than pitched ground battles. "Uprisings" of Cylon forces were now reported on Virgon, Saggitaron, Libran, Aerilon, and Aquaria. Reports of suspicious explosions of Government and military assets on Caprica and the other Colonies flowed in. Government buildings on all worlds became virtual fortresses overnight as fortifications and security measures were instituted.
    
    
  • The Caprican Government, initially shell shocked by the events and the rapid pace of the Cylon attack, was quick to act. Prime Minister Yalann declared a state of emergency and martial law to be effective immediately on the Colony of Caprica and all off world facilities. A Decree ordered all remaining "uninfected" robotic units, regardless of make, destroyed and the parts recycled for raw materials to help the defense efforts. The Coalition of Colonies declared that the Twelve Colonies of Kobol were at a state of war with the Cylon Nation effective at 00:00 5th July 51 BU.
    
    
  • A Mandatory Draft is enacted on the Colonies of Caprica, Picon, Leonis, and Scorpia as a result of the Decoration of War, further adding to the heated political climate.
    
    
  • Funds are allocated from the Coalition of Colonies to build a new Super weapon to help destroy the Cylon threat, a Battlestar. Plans are draw up to build four New War ships to be used in the ever growing Cylon war. One for each of the Colonies involved with the Coalition will be built, and sent out to the battle front. Modifications to the Current Space Patrol ship, the Viper Mk I are being tested to find a more capable Fighter design.
    
  
  
  
  Current Year: 50 Years BCH/ 2 years BU