This has all happened before, and it will all happen again...

I'll have a new post up tomorrow explaining how Razor, Season 4, and YouWillKnowTheTruth all simply confirm what I've been saying for the past... well, month, I guess, but still... Lee Adama is the final cylon. However, before that I wanted to share a hypothetical I thought up while I was wasting time considering who might be the final cylon if it were not Lee Adama, which was, necessarily, a waste of time because Lee Adama is the final cylon. But, regardless...

This has all happened before, and it will all happen again - this is the religious mantra of humanity in Battlestar Galactica. The Dying Leader, the Temple of the Five, the Eye of Jupiter, Kobol - its all happened before, and its all happening now. And, according to the scripture, it will all happen again.

But, what exactly is "it?" Well, what prompted the great journey? An attack on humanity by the Cylons, nearly wiping out the entire race, as they flee across the galaxy to their new home. And what happened before? Humanity, for reasons unknown, had to flee Kobol. But if this has all happened before, shouldn't that mean we know why? Indeed, if this has all happened before, and will all happen again, then humanity must have fled Kobol because of a Cylon attack.

Of course, that wouldn't be possible, as Cylons were invented by humanity long after the human race fled Kobol. But what if the human race as it now exists was not the human race as it existed on Kobol? What if, in fact, the human race as it now exists are the decendants of those attacking Cylons?

I'll get back to that point in a moment, but first let's condier what we know about the Cylons who attacked the 12 colonies. We know they have 7 human-like skin-job models, who are in practially every way indistinguishable from humans. We know that these models, and the "hybrids" which control their baseships and spew forth prophetic ramblings were created by research on a handful of humans captured in the waning days of the first Cylon war. We know these 7 models are incapable of reproducing with each other, and have mostly proved incapable of reproducing with humans, with one exception.

And what do we know of the final 5? We know they are capable of reproducing with Cylons, as did Tigh with Caprica-6. We know they are capable of reproducing with humans, as did Tyrol with Cally. And we know that the offspring of a final 5 Cylon and a human is indistinguishable from a human child - Doc Cottle raised many alarm bells about Hera, the one known half-human half-Cylon, but said nothing about Nicholas, Tyrol and Cally's baby.

So, back to my first point: what happened before, and what will happen again? Perhaps it is the attack by the robotic race on the creators, the flight of the remnants of the creators, pursued by their creations, to a legendary new homeworld. Perhaps it happened before, and that is what caused the flight from Kobol. But instead of the robotic creations being the Cylons, they were humanity.

Suppose a "pre-human" race inhabited Kobol, and created a robotic slave race. This race became self aware, waged war, and eventually developed new technologies creating models which in every way appeared like these "pre-humans." When the "pre-human" flight reached their new home, Caprica, the two groups converged. And among these "pre-humans" existed a few individual "final" humans, who posessed the uncanny ability to reproduce with the "pre-human" model humans. After all, if this has all happened before, than these "pre-humans" were just the decendants of the robotic menace of the "pre-pre-humans" who had fled to Kobol.

In other words, here's what has happened before, and will happen again: A part-organic part-machine race grows, thinking itself entirely organic. It develops machines, those machines become self aware and revolt. Those machines develop part-organic models that are largely indistinguishable from their creator race. The created race nearly wipes out the creator race, which then flees to a legendary new world. The two races converge. Among the creator race are a handful of individuals who can reproduce with the part-organic models of the created race. Those organic created and those creators become the forefathers of a new race. The new race forgets it is part-machine. The cycle begins anew.

And, if this is the case, than the final Cylon is necessarily Helo - who was, let us not forget, on the basestar when D'Anna insisted only four were in the fleet.

Helo is the father of the only human-Cylon mixed-race child. Nicholas is not one, as his blood did not contain the unusual antigens that were in Hera's body. And Hera is a figure of incredible spiritual importance to Cylons and to the Cylon God - the first of the new generation.

This would explain why the Farms didn't work, not because love was missing - certainly there must be humans around in the BSG universe who can tell you that, tragically, you can indeed reproduce without love - it was because none of the captured human women were one of the final five.

And the final five aren't Cylons - they're people with a special genetic code that allows them to reproduce with Cylons. If they aren't Cylons though, how could a switch be flipped? Because humans are part machines, and this would have certainly become clear during the experiments to create the Cylon hybrids and the 7 Cylon skin-jobs. They would have been able to identify what human genetic material would be able to successfully mate with the Cylon skin-job genetic material, and they would have been able to construct some sort of radio-wave that would be able to communicate with those humans. And that information could have been left embedded in the hybrids.

All that could be true - except, Lee Adama is the final Cylon, so it can't be. Still, its an interesting idea.