Intervention

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.