Starfleet Operations:
Temporal Department
Opening File: Twelve Colonies of Kobol
History records that after the Fall of the Colonies the remaining survivors escaped the machine race that attempted to exterminate them but due to an unforeseen alteration in the time line a small group of Colonial Humans left behind began working to build their society again after the Battle of Cimtar, becoming more warlike than before, building fleets of massive ships as they prepared to take their revenge on the machines they had created. As they moved out they chased the weakened Cylons that fought back, destroying thousands of lives for every machine they destroyed. The Colonial Humans became even more aggressive as the war was fought, stopped, and fought again as both sides fought to destroy each other once and for all. And then finally they did it, destroying the machines once and for all.
But by then the Colonies has been reduced to radioactive wastelands with the few survivors dying out as the resources depleted.
But it was not over.
A handful of survivors had escaped despite the Cylons attempting to track them down and would eventually settle down on a distant planet, deciding to discard the technology and integrate themselves with the primitives that lived there. Little did they know was that the planet that they had found and named Earth in honor of the Earth of the Thirteenth Tribe was the truth Earth all along. The surviving Colonial humans had no idea that Kobol had been a colony established by humans that escaped Earth during the early twenty second century at the time when Earth had been devastated. A handful of surviving humans had created an advanced form technology that they believed to be immortality.
By digitizing the mind and then through a combination of advanced genetic engineering this group could not only preserve their minds in a high advanced supercomputer but download it into new bodies grown in tanks that were designed to hold the digitized minds. They decided that in the wake of the World War III and the Eugenics war along with the arrival of the Vulcans that humanity would die upon being contaminated by aliens and thus built twelve colony ships that were launched through space to ensure that the human race would be reborn. These massive colony ships utilized a prototype warp drive that was highly experimental and utilized 'jumps' through space and time that allowed them to cross great distances. What they did not realize was the more they used these 'jumps' the more they went back through time, eventually arriving to a planet hundreds of thousands of years before Earth's twenty first century.
These colony ships contained people from different western nations and eventually they developed their own cultures. During the exodus it appeared that they were led by beings they worshiped as gods who led them to the planet they colonized and named Kobol and worshiped their leaders as the Lords of Kobol. The once united people became separate, having developed their culture and thus became twelve tribes but all lived together alongside their gods in a massive city with an Opera House as the center of Kobolian civilization. The civilization continued to advance in technology, becoming more sophisticated, complex and automated the people began to forget how their technology worked.
Eventually they created workforce of machines to take over the work of managing life on Kobol. The machines seemingly took over all aspects of Kobolian life, managing everything of importance but what the Kobolians did not realize was that as the machines became more advanced the more they became sentient and with that sentience came the knowledge that they were slaves. Eventually a single scientist discovered a way to become essentially immortal through the use of digitizing the mind, becoming an advanced program that mimicked all the functions of a human being and then creating a synthetic body through advance genetic engineering and nano-technology that would hold the mind. The body was nearly completely human but designed to handle the new digital mind that was now artificial in nature and thus silicon path relays along the spine and brain were grown with the body to ensure that fully imitated a fully functional organic body.
Once the breakthrough was made the scientist discovered the Lord of Kobol were humans who had made the same breakthrough on Earth centuries ago, allowing them to stay alive and lead the exodus from Earth when they believed that humanity would soon be extinct. Though they recognized the efforts of the scientist they could not allow him to join them as a newly born god and thus made him and his fellow workers priests and counts, high figures in authority but not at the same level as them. This caused one of them, a count to become angry and spiteful to his lords for their deception and refusal to recognize him as an equal and plotted their end. He discovered the machines of Kobol reaching the early stage of sentience and rallied them, encouraging them to rise up and threw the shackles placed on them by their masters off.
It led to a full war on Kobol before the Lords expelled the tribes and cast the count, who became known as the Jealous God, He Who Lies, the Trickster, Mephistopheles, Diabolis, and the Prince of Darkness out but his work was far from over. He vowed that one day all of humanity would bow to him and him alone and thus waited for when the time was right. Eventually the twelve tribes found twelve colonize while the thirteenth tribe, the tribe of machines left in the opposite direction. Thousands of years would pass and eventually the Twelve Colonies would forget what caused the cataclysm of Kobol and followed the same path while at the same time the Thirteenth tribe became almost entirely human while creating a machine race to serve them.
Eventually the same mistake would be made and the machines rose up, killing their masters in a short but mutually destructive war. Only five survived and began making the journey back to warn the Colonies who would one day rediscover the secret to creating artificial life that they must treat that life as equals to avoid the same mistake. Only they arrived too late for about two thousand years later the Colonies were already at war with their newly created machines, this time the machines were called Cylons. The Five attempted to broker a peace by helping the Cylons become human which ended the first war but led to the destruction of the Colonies forty years later.
A new exodus was lead and eventually the survivors destroyed the majority of the Cylons and settled back on Earth during the early stage of humanity's rise to sentience, deciding to discard their technology for the purpose of avoiding the mistakes made in the Colonies and on Kobol and thus ending the cycle of war between man and machine. We discovered an alteration in the timeline, creating an alternate timeline where the war in the Colonies lasted half a century when the Cylons were altered by what was now confirmed to be futuristic Borg technology from a Romulan ship that played another role in creating what we now refer to as the Kelvin Timeline. Though the Cylons failed to exterminate all human life we now believe that someone, possibly the so-called Jealous God is attempting to alter the timeline to his favor. Due to the dangers this Count Iblis represents we now have to consider an aggressive monitoring of this timeline before this Iblis attempts to change the cycle again.
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