History of the Future

Intervention.
When and where the decision was made to intervene on behalf of
humanity might not be as intuitive as you think. There was always
concern, but the past had played out so many different ways proving
that no matter how small their numbers, they always made a come back
entirely on their own. It was not until the extinction of humanity was
an established fact that a consensus was created for the cause of
intervention. The risk of inadvertently destroying our own existence
in the effort to save humans was a concern of many but the ultimate
extinction of humans convinced many of the remaining holdouts. Many of
our attempts to change the past created unforeseen consequences to our
present and future. Our initial strategy in response to this was to
try and catalog every event that could possibly change our present,
which of course was insane, we see that now. But we do that in which
we place our faith. This story will be interpreted by some of you as
being about our faith journey, how our understanding of God changed
over the millennia and led to our present interest in humanity. Others
will see it more as a record of the tools we created in response to
our struggle to stay alive. We’ve finally figured out a way to be free
from our constant changing past.
The Harbinger of Death.
(This is the variant of Kara Thrace that arrived on dying earth with
cylons in tow, who joined and better armed the rebelling cylons to
destroy the13th colony. She stayed and fought them and died in the
battle. Having doomed the 13th colony, and the Galactica she never
returned to, the human race went extinct.
Independently of this, the final five were warned of the coming
apocalypse with enough time to reinvent resurrection technology, and
begin their odyssey back in time to change history, arriving just
before the end of the first cylon war.
Starbuck begins working with the 13th colony to help protect them from
the coming cylon attack (and the coordinated insurrection). She is
introduced to the group later known as the final five — she
recognizes them of course — and immediately knows (though in the
wrong context) that they are cylons, and accuses them of being spies.
The outcomes of several loops: synopsis is that she has to change her
own future (of the little girl) to escape the loop, changing anything
else continues the loop and the harbinger of death.
Title: Little Girl Tara. First loop, She is born on the 13th colony
but travels to future Caprica with her mother to study to be a pilot.
Mother is trying to escape the dying world of the 13th colony.
2nd loop same but meets older version of self (dog tags) who has
traveled back in time, neither recognize one another. 3rd loop same.
Title: Dog Tags. First and only loop, She fights and dies with the
13th colony. Meets but doesn’t recognize younger self.
Title: Before the Book of Pythia. 2nd loop is her only loop, she meets
but doesn’t recognize her younger self. Sees dead dog tags? She goes
back in time further to be Pythia, to write the history that will be
followed as prophesy by a future Galactica (but is assassinated before
book is written, and is mostly too crazy to write the book anyway due
to the time travel sickness).
Title: The Book of Pythia. She goes back in time to be second coming
of Pythia, gives her book to Magnus, and lives out her days with Tye
senior, eventually giving birth to Tye Junior. Which means Tye Junior
does not exist until loops after this. And that she had no knowledge
of Tye Junior from previous loops. The series as we know it is the
final loop.
Title: Future Tara (the disappearing Tara we know and love). She
escapes the loop by going back forward in time, instead of back. She
goes back to the Galactica, not realizing she has time traveled to the
past and back.

The lineage
Toasters are robots that are given sentience from greystone’s
daughter. They led the initial war against the colonies, but sometime
after the 13th tribe traveled to algae planet. When the 13th tribe
learned of the humans being destroyed by the toasters in the “one and
only cylon war” they created the 7 purely synthetic models reprenting
the various “types” or facets of humanity as a tribute to their
ancestors, as well as companions, or children to keep them company.
The 13th tribe were already beginning to learn of the out of control
egos that occur with immortality, and determine to program
ressurection to not transfer memories of previous life, so as to
continue to have more human like existence like they use to.
Essentially machines living human lives, having children and dying.
Forward time travel was invented first, because its easier, leases
complications in the space time continuum when going forward. When
going backward in time, things are more complicated. Not many
complications going forward except when something happens to a younger
variant of yourself, you disappear. With the invention of backward
time travel, which as we’ve said takes much longer to travel, there
became a need to track “absolute time”, which is the “natural
progression of time” per time travelor, from the point of view of
their “earlier” life as if they never time traveled. Tracking this was
difficult mathematically. The necessity came about from traveling back
in time and then forward, you will find a second self which is younger
going back in time, and if they don’ t do the time travel in the exact
moment that you did in their own personal future, then your time line
disappears and so do you, at that “absolute” moment. Basically
whenever you travel back in time you know when this Moment of your
“disappearance” will be, (presuming nothing happens to your original
prior to it) as it is the absolute moment in your doubles future in
which you traveled back, if they don’t travel back. This is what
happened to Starbuck in the final episode, when she was observed to
disappear. Her original had just crashed and burned on the original
earth.

Starbuck knew she had limited time on new Earth. She was well aware that the “younger version” of herself — in absolute time — was about to crash and burn in the battle that would bring the historic 13th colony to extinction. Perhaps she was wearing a special watch, a gift perhaps, that provided a count down of her borrowed time. Or maybe her travels back and forth on the time continuum had created an internal sense — an inner time piece — that she had learn to read. We don’t really know. The algorithms allowing future observation of her final timeline have been destroyed, to protect the actions that led to the resurrection of humanity from possible erasure.

Notes from mini series…
Baltar starts seeing visions of six after explosion on caprica, not
before. Perhaps six’s love for Baltar gives her the idea after human
extinction to travel back in time and use the resurrection technology
of the “followers of the one” to copy Baltar before he dies so he can
be resurrected. She knows from previous loops of this effort that she
must erase baltar’s memory of being killed, as well as any knowledge
that he’s a synthetic. She fails several attempts because her own
memory of what she needs to do keeps getting corrupted by the time
travel [need extended explanation of loops, and types of memory
impairment from backward time travel; maybe a chapter each, but
separated and used as intermissions from the story line]. It
eventually occurs to her to place an “angel” in the resurrection
programming that can guide her and Balter to their destiny. The story
of how that is pulled off, going back in time to alter a computer
program used by the first human users of resurrection, could be a
separate chapter unto itself. Did the final five ( who were the only
remaining humans, albeit synthetic, order the angels to be programmed?
Admiral Adama gives speech about whether humans are worthy of being
saved, right before attack, catching interest of some of the final
five…
Corneal Tie doesn’t want the galactica to jump, after all these years,
maybe it doesn’t work… Or maybe he’s concerned about memory loss…
Baltar says “Oh my God” (singular) when he realizes he has been fooled.
Apparition Six is helping him from the beginning, showing him the
cylon device, baltar identifies a second cylon immediately…
Corneal tie seems to know baltar, when he says he’s a genius. Six says
they should make a copy of baltar’s brain waves be caused she is so
impressed with his lack of conscience.
Chapter One: extinction.
Based on Episode 33 and Water
Baltar’s “imaginary” Six knows that there are agents on board the
Olympic cruiser, and that they have been communicating (every 33
minutes) with the base stars following the fleet. She knows this
because that ship rammed and destroyed the galactica on a previous
loop, ending the human race as the rest of the fleet was undefended
and destroyed. This was part of the programming put into the “angel”
in the followers of the one resurrection apparatus. The Water episode
therefor takes place in the new loop, a perpetuation of the same
devolution of the Sharons and the Sixes brought about by love of
humans. The Sharon’s are having trouble following orders feeling more
alive impersonating humans than as themselves. Aboard galactica, via
the plan, sharon isn’t playing along as she should, she destroys the
water supply, only to discover more and fight off destroying her self
and the ship to go ahead and report the finding. The Sixes feeling
more alive loving humans — on occupied caprica a six tries to connect
with Helo before a Sharon kills her, to play house herself with Helo.
Angel six tells Baltar not to deny God’s existence, telling him to
repent for doing so. There were people aboard the Olympic carrier,
pawns of hijacking. Angel six — seeking to save Baltar — warns him
that the ship needs to be destroyed. Maybe the destruction of the
galactica in this way, and subsequently the rest of the fleet, meaning
the human race, is the first chapter.
Note that Baltar denies the existence of God after the discover that
earth is dead, as well.
Chapter 2: The Final Five. The story of the last five humans. The land
they came from, their belief in resurrection prior to resurrection
technology, did they die with resurrection? Were they replicated or
reborn? Whatever they were, they were the last remnants of humanity to
survive the human extinction. The 13th colony survived the first
robotic uprising, having left the system in search of a new home where
they would not be religiously persecuted. What were their beliefs? Did
they believe in one God? Read the comics again.
…were they not priests (the temple)? …were they not scientists (memories)?
Canon says they returned and stopped the first robotic war. Did they
time travel to do so? Had the extinction already occurred, but they
were able to go back in time and stop the war short of its natural
end, promising the toasters help with creating human bodies, hence the
creation of the 7 “purely” synthetic models by the five, allowing the
toasters to have experience of various aspects of humanity …need
reference.
Some of that I now know is incorrect. Timeline is Kobol (4000 yrs
before destruction of colonies BDC), algae planet, pre apocalyptic
dead earth, post apocalyptic earth (2000 BDC), caprica pre cylon war,
end of first cylon war (40 BDC), destruction of caprica (DC),
Galactica destroys Olympus (vs it rams Galactica), escape from
occupied caprica, boomers discovery of water on the algae planet,
discovery of Kobol, discovery of the poisonous beacon, Starbuck killed
in gravity well, supernova turns on the final five, Starbuck returns 2
months after death, cylon civil war destroys resurrection, final 5
outed, dead earth found along with Starbucks body, discovery and
destruction of the colony, new earth, earth 15000 later with Baltar
and six speculating on its future.
But the children get jealous of their parents love for humans, and
determine to kill the humans, in the process of doing so learn that
the parents don’t stop loving humans after the humans die, they still
remember them, and morn them. But it is too late, humanity has been
killed off. The Olympic cruiser rams the galactica, destroying the
defenses of the fleet, and the human race is extinguished.
Can they travel back in time again? Will they have to wait for the
technology to evolve? [note the reason the final five couldn’t give
resurrection technology to the non rebels was because they hadn’t
invented it yet, perhaps]
Based on episodes of Bastille day and an act of contrition
Angel six tells Baltar he had better do as she says or the fleet will
discover what he has done and throw him out of an airlock — she is
uncharacteristically loud which may mean this actually happened in a
previous loop which she wishes to avoid. A chapter about Baltar being
discovered, his cylon detector being a fraud, him being thrown out an
airlock… But when? Presumably immediately, which would mean perhaps
the guy from the ministry of defense has the opportunity to narc on
him, but at this point in the time line the Olympic has already been
destroyed… So did the guy get on board the Galactica prior to the
jump? Does another episode better reveal this?maybe. Six degrees of
separation suggests that the cylons are trying to get Baltar’s machine
discredited, and him thrown out an airlock, but this is all after the
destruction of the Olympic cruiser.
Based on Litmus, you can’t go home again, and six degrees of separation.
Doral was trying to blow up Baltar’s machine, Baltar, Adama, or any of
these high priority targets? Trying to kill Baltar confirms angel six
is aligned with Baltar, as opposed to the “cylon agenda”… Still want
to answer the question of when does Baltar get air locked? And new
question, why so important to angel six that Baltar admits his
powerlessness, why must he ask for God’s help for her to help him?
So Kara can fly a raider even as members of the final five have
trouble, she recreates the feat instinctually — where does this
knowledge come from?
Sharon, Six, and Doral on occupied caprica are experimenting with
human love; Helo did not know that six was not human, or that cylons
looked human, until Sharon shot her? At any rate Occupied caprica six
by kissing Helo shows that she is interest in playing the lead role in
the experiment, maybe that was actually the original plan, but Sharon
changed it with the gun shot, claiming that she knew Helo wasn’t going
to take the bait. The seduction module of the sixes seems impaired
after angel six appears –the model that kissed Adama, the model that
kissed Helo, just isn’t able to pull it off, she comes across as too
strong — maybe was part of the same sabotage as the creation of angel
six.
Why are the cylons trying to kill Baltar? Because of the cylon
detection machine rouse? Angel six knows its fake but still gets
Baltar to work on it. She know this will attract attempts on his life
that will draw them out of hiding. Is she working with the final five
or on a separate add-on or followup mission? It’s a follow up mission,
that makes the series sequence of events possible. First lines of the
book are, “all of this has happened before, all of this will happen
again…” Perhaps the follow up mission is specific to insuring the
ability of future generations to have children… having children
changes the parents, even when the parents are cylon… The immortals
need mortality, love, and children, to be human… Without these, it
never ends well. Hence the love experiments.
Chapter 3, The Mortality Experiments. Chapter 4, The Love Experiments.
Chapter 5, The Parenthood Experiments. Chapter 6, Six. Chapter 7, The
Creation of God. The story of the importance of God, and God’s
creation. Chapter 8, Sabotage.
Note that the full blooded cylon baby dies, it’s the hybrid baby that
is mitochondrial eve.
Roslyn’s synchronized visions with Sharon and Physical Six is the
result of an implant done the day she was diagnosed with cancer. The
day the she was diagnosed was a matter of public record after she
divulged her cancer to the public. The parenthood experiments led to a
second intervention, not just Baltar’s resurrection with the angel six
programming but Roslyn’s implant.

Time line
Initial storm fight where thrace remembers damage to ship that wasn’t
there — due to time travel
Thrace draws picture of eye of jupiter as a child, because she has
resurrected and having done so either has that memory implanted to
help herself remember her future destiny — or she has the technology
to resurrect in childbirth, literally being reborn as a child —
side-note: resurrection in the womb, downloading data directly into
fetus, very advanced technology, allowing for closer “mortal”
experience.
If starbuck didn’t resurrect in womb birth then there were two
Starbucks, what happened to the one without the memory implant?
……………………..
Starbuck lived a life on earth, smelled it etc, then something
happened, society crumbled — cylons and man killed one another, she
as human perhaps independently of the final five travels back in time,
which takes time because its an older technology, and as always with
human backward time travel results in two Starbucks, a younger and an
older — the older bringing the time traveler. Starbuck’s original
visit to earth was the result of time travel, which was faster than
the travel back in time, just because it was forward, with less
complications in the fabric of time space when moving forward, but the
technology is the same “old” technology.
Final five also lived on earth, and also conducted time travel back in
time to prevent the destruction of man. They tried this multiple
times, each loop ending unsuccessfully–but learning more and more
each time and coming closer and closer to saving mankind. They had
already learned that immortality leads to abuse of power and that
living their lives with knowledge of ressurection technology provided
the closest thing to a human experience, but also discover that just
like human time travel you lose memories of the future after time
travel back to the past because you are changing the future by your
vary existence. Given much trial and error they figure out that by
simply putting them selves at certain locations in the past, even
without memory of the future they could effect change — for instance
by arranging things such that they all end up on the galactica, they
end up saving the remaining human fleet (because the Raiders see them)
during a battle that otherwise went the other way and the humans all
died.
The hybrids that fly the cylon base stations being half human half
machine retain memory of all the loops, but are understood as speaking
jib bearish because no one else “sees and remembers” past loops. Their
ability is a byproduct of the jump technology being crossed with a
human mind, most people and cylons just believe they are insane. They
originally came from the centurion and packed with the earlier final
five attempts to stop the war, the final five arrived and offered them
help with creating bodies, the raiders and the base stars where the
first advances in this area — but later ressurection ships started
time travel (originally the cylons took generations to travel back in
time, later on they (the oldest) were able to do it in no time at all,
by combining jump drives with time travel ( the newest time travel
techology) to speed up the time it takes to travel back in time.

History of the Future

Web 1.0  Windows 95, pages on the internet.

Web 2.0 Interactive internet, post information on the web without knowing code. Facebook, etc.

Web 3.0 Google, contextual search, knows where you are, gives you relevant information based on that. There is an artificial intelligence recognizes you and serves you information different from what it serves other people, based on who you are, what your preferences are etc.

Web 4.0 is mobile devices, always connected, don’t really even use the word internet anymore. Don’t turn on radio to get the weather, you use an app.  Mobile workstations (read .pdfs, edit Word docs, while listening to streaming music) all from your cellphone. Network has extended into our mobile devices. Internet isn’t just in your house anymore, you have it in your car, and on your bike, where ever you go.

Web 5.0 wearable devices that track even more personal information than location, like calories burned, what was eaten, google glasses recognize what you are looking at.

Always a bit of a blur of boundaries when transitioning between these bands. Here the blur is represented by paraplegics who have full use of their artificial limbs, via neural impulses from their brain; so its not just wearable technology, but technology that is directly interfaced with their thoughts, e.g. they don’t have to type or say “arm, move to right to pick up glass of water and take drink”, they just have to think it.

Web 6.0 Beginning is the ability to think a search phrase, rather than type it or speak it. End of 6.0 beginning of 7.0 is when difference between augmented humans and non-adopters or naturalists is so great that a non-adopter can’t really survive in society anymore; e.g., the signs that designate where roads are, and the lines on those roads that designate which side to stay on, are no longer painted on the road, they are directly streamed to you electronically. You know where the roads are, not because of some physical sign, but because your brain just automatically receives the information via GPS. Non-adopters aren’t getting this information and are literally roadkill. The difference between non-adopters and augmented humans are extraordinary, and though they may not technically be a different species yet, there isn’t enough mating occurring between the two types of humans that for all practical purposes, they are two different species.

At the end of 7.0, they are literally two different species, if non-adopters still exist.

Will Oremus (2013) Mind Plus Machine. Accessed on 3/24/15 from http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/superman/2013/03/brain_computer_interfaces_could_neural_implants_give_you_telekinesis.html

experimental colonies

unexpressed code — either legacy code that was never intended for expression, because it was part of another program from which needed code was borrowed during development, or legacy code that was initially intended for expression but proved problematic for one reason or another and so was turned off.

Once we were able to understand our own programming — that is, the expressed programming — we began looking at the unexpressed programming and in some cases doing experiments to see if the legacy code could be useful for anything. Because some of it involved developmental processes that could only be expressed over time to fully understand, certain colonies were initiated for observation purposes.

Most of the colonies were terminated, restarted and terminated again, over and over as a normal part of controlled experimentation on various variables to maximize our learning about the potential of this unexpressed code.

There were reports that some of the experiments had to be abandoned prematurely due to the cylon civil war, and that not all those experiments were properly terminated. To date, no known records exist that provide any meaningful details of these reports, just rumors.

I’ve sometimes wondered if I (Baltar) am descended from one of these rumored colonies.

Endings to each chapter, a la television episode.

climatic event, involving either:

survival or death of human or other character of interest; or

survival or death of a group.

regardless, the ending should have hope.

Each episode should deal with one aspect of technology and the human and/or machine response to it.

<God is love><love is patience, kindness><love>story</love>

the theme of machine civil war presented in the plan.

the theme of time travel having to do with locations (can’t talk about time travel without designating physical places in time)

chapter by chapter (the endings):

chapter 1 Olympic Carrier. How many interventions does it take to successfully protect the Galactica from being destroyed? Guis Baltar’s Head Six has to successfully get him to recommend the destruction of the Carrier, in such a way that President Roslin will agree. And for fun, certain events have to be re-engineered on the Olympic Carrier, to make sure no one can be seen from the windows, as this causes too much delay in the decision to fire on it. One timeline has the Galactica destroy the Olympic Carrier too close, thereby damaging their systems and preventing their jump. The rest of the fleet gets away but eventually is hunted down without the protection of the Galactica which is destroyed by the Cylon fleet soon after destroying the Olympic Carrier.

chapter 2

chapter 3

chapter 4

chapter 5

chapter 6

chapter 7

chapter 8

chapter 9

chapter 10

chapter 11

chapter 12

chapter 13

chapter 14

chapter 15

chapter 16

chapter 17

chapter 18

chapter 19

chapter 20

(draft location, not final) Speech of Dr. Gius Baltar, speaking to the Colonial Academy for Physics, at their 7th annual conference.

It helps to think of memory as stored in the environment, rather than in your head. Think of your head as merely storing the coordinates of the temporal environment where your memories reside. In this way the brain acts as an antenna to access memory from the external environment. It is much more complex, but viewed this way, helps you better understand the specific types of memory deterioration and amnesia that occurs with time travel.

The other component that is critical to understand is the simultaneous nature of the temporal plane. It by no means appears to us this way. With the limited processing power of the average human mind, we would not be able to function if we saw past and future as simultaneously occurring. There is a condition, temporal amotivational syndrome, or temporal catatonia in its worst manifestation, which proves this very point. Folks just sit and stare, watching it all, with no ability to come out of it.

Now I say that it is critical to understand the simultaneity of the temporal plane because we are so accustomed to thinking in terms of cause and effect, that you can actually come up with the wrong results in your analysis

Retrograde temporal amnesia is the result of traveling back in time, prior to the formation of certain memories. The memories still exist and can be accessed from anywhere in the time continuum, but there is a catch. If you travel back in time prior to the formation of certain memories, they can literally disappear, and become inaccessible. Now this is only in certain situations.

If you travel back in time and view your “ghost of temporal past”, and in the course of interaction somehow change the ghost’s future such that the memories for which you have coordinates — in your brain — never develop in his brain — well then, you lose your memories because your coordinates point somewhere that never developed. That’s called retrograde temporal amnesia.

Traveling forward in time is much safer in this respect. There are less complications. The significant degree to which forward time travel is less complicated than backward time travel is the reason why it was achieved first in our experimental explorations. Yes, write this down class, the first significant fact for our orientation to the history of the future is that time travel into the future was invented before time travel into the past. There are implications of this, of course, that are discussed in the next chapter (History of the Future, by Gius Baltar).

As we established earlier, time travel takes time. Now here is the second piece. It also takes a specific inertia to achieve the escape velocity required to reverse the direction of your temporal progression. One can not suddenly reverse the direction of their temporal progression. It takes time to build the inertia required to successfully turn around, per se. The third piece is that the inertia disrupts the temporal fabric, like a speed boat disrupts the surface of the water through which it travels. This is true with any travel through time, the material environment is changed by our presence, but much more so with travel against the temporal current. Using our wave analogy, it is like waves moving in two different directions colliding into each other, versus combining in the same direction. Clashing waves are more destructive to the fabric. The coordinates of memories can permanently change location, can cause what we refer to as retrograde temporal amnesia. A certain amount of temporary amnesia can occur due to any wave movement of the fabric. The reason this is significant is that we’ve found it best to do the actual time travel far away from the location we wish to visit, so as not to disrupt the fabric.

Minor wave disruption of the fabric does not noticeably effect the memory of those in a location hit by a temporal wave. Basically the relative coordinates of the respective memories bob up and down together with the human antenna. But while those “within” the sector of the minor wave disruption don’t notice any memory impairment, those further away on the temporal plane (e.g. those individuals who are time traveling) do experience intermittent memory loss until as the waves temporarily displace the coordinates of their memories.

More severe wave disruption, such as that due to the gravitational inertia of time travel taking place very close to a particular location can permanently dislodge the environmental memory of that location, creating a mismatch with the coordinates present in the head of any time travelers that had memories located there.

     For this reason, pathways for time travel were designated far away from known habitats of time travelers. Eventually black holes were used as their gravitational pull naturally capture and buffer the severe temporal traveling waves created, and they are persistently old enough to reliably exist at the starting and ending point of one’s typical journey.

Misc history of future notes

Machine’s Regret. The ability to regret a mistake is more wide spread in the animal kingdom than most realize. To be clear, I’m not talking about the mere ability to recognize that one has made a mistake. I’m talking about the set of psychological and neurological events that follow one’s recognition not just that they made a mistake but rather more importantly the contemplation of what might have been if the mistake had not been made. Regret is the recognition that you made a mistake and if you had done something differently things would have gone better. Experiments on lab animals as early as 200 years before the first colonial cylon war demonstrated not just “looking back” behavior — behavior in which an animal physically looks back in the direction of a bad decision they made ( when they realize that what they thought was going to happen as a result of there decision turned out to not be true ) — animals don’t look back when they are disappointed, just when regretful — second, they are more willing to accept a less than optimal deal immediately following regret — they are more likely to “settle” — third, they don’t take their time eating and grooming following regret, they rush their eating and quickly move on to their next activity.
These results are quite interesting insights into human and cylon behavior, but just as interesting is the lack of popular acknowledgement of the implications, which it doesn’t take a genius to see, among both human and cylon populations. So much for the power of self reflection in man and machine! As an evolved characteristic of our decision making algorithm, the the behavioral corollaries of regret must have maximized human chances for survival in some past environment — perhaps those with a disposition to simply move on and take action, even less than optimal action would survive where those who continued to look for a better deal simply didn’t make it.
So reflexes can be overcome, albeit in some cases quite difficultly, overcome nonetheless. Humans that identify this reflex and work to successfully overcome it may indeed succumb to the very loses are biology normally prevents, but in some cases this rewriting of or reflexes can have powerful benefits, especially when one has access to knowing more about the future than previous generations. Ok, so it’s interesting that humans didn’t take more advantage of that — but what is more interesting is that cylons had the reflex to begin with, having not shared the same evolutionary history as humans.

13th Tribe on Earth (possible history to examine)
It takes time to travel back in time. The 13th tribe took several generations to reach Earth’s distant past. When the rag tag colonial fleet followed them, they traveled in present, to the correct physical location in space, but not in time. The destruction they saw and judged to have happened centuries ago, was actually caused “relatively” more recently when contemporary cylons followed Kara Thrace’s viper back in time through the algae planet’s planetary worm hole ??? The cylons that discovered Earth did not know it was earth and did not know that the people there were human-cylon hybrids, and so wiped them out in a swift nuclear attack.