Het was niet de aarde dat aangevallen werd, maar een planeet van de twaalf stammen. De planeet heette Caprica en de aziatische meid heet Sharon (ook wel Boomer genoemd) zij is nu op de battlestar galactica. Helo, de man die achtergelaten werd, word nu door de Cylons opgejaagd. De blonde vrouw is een cylon en heet number Six
Dat allemaal gebeurde trouwens in de mini serie. De eerste echte aflevering was in principe '33'. In '33' werd de vloot van overlevenden steeds 33 minuten na een FTL jump ondekt door de cylons, daardoor moesten ze steeds weer gaan 'jumpen'.
Hier is trouwens een samenvatting van de Miniserie.
"The Twelve Colonies of Kobol ("Heaven" in ancient Persian) long ago created the Cylons as machine worker drones for humanity. These machines became independent after fighting in wars between the Colonies, rose in rebellion, created their own empire, and launched war on their masters. Forty years before the series takes place, a ceasefire was declared, the war ended and the Cylons withdrew to their own new planet, after which they were never seen or heard from again. However, unknown to the Colonies, they had been evolving into more human form, creating synthetic bio-mechanical Cylon models who seek to exterminate true biological humans. Following the nuclear destruction of the Colonies, the Cylons pursued the Galactica and its companion fleet, fearing that the surviving humans would someday return to take revenge on the Cylons.
The Cylons use a human scientist, Dr. Gaius Baltar, to help one of their infiltrators (known as Number Six) to penetrate the Colonies' master defense mainframes. The Number Six android covertly assists Baltar in developing the Command Navigation Program, or CNP, which is eventually deployed on almost all Colonial spacecraft. Baltar is reluctant, but smitten with Number Six, who appears as a woman of seemingly insatiable sexual desire. The result of their affair is a nuclear sneak-attack which rapidly annihilates billions of people on the Colonies and the fleet deployed for their protection. The CNP had backdoors written into it that allowed Cylon fighters to shut down the power and weapons systems of battlestars and other ships during the attack, leaving them defenseless and easy to destroy.
One ship, however, survives; a less advanced battlestar designated Galactica, part of Battlestar Group 75, which had been scheduled for decommissioning and conversion into a museum to honor its role in the first Cylon war. After the destruction of their fleet headquarters on Picon and nearly 120 other battlestars and support ships in the Colonial fleet, Galactica's commanding officer, Commander Adama, assumes leadership of whatever surviving fleet remains.
Galactica's first task in its new life as sole remaining battlestar is to refill its munitions, which were destroyed as part of the ship's decommissioning ceremony. After an FTL jump to avoid Cylon forces, the ship arrives at the Ragnar Anchorage depot, a space station located deep within the upper atmosphere of a gas giant. The location of the station was chosen because the storm was known by Colonial fleet to emit radiation that caused Cylon technology to malfunction, and also provided cover for any ships residing within the storm.
Education Secretary Laura Roslin is designated by a Colonial government "doomsday" contingency computer program as President of the Twelve Colonies after the deaths of all other more-senior government officials. She convinces Commander Adama of the futility of continuing to fight and the importance of escaping with the last 50,000 humans from the Colonies who were fortunate to have been in space on FTL-capable ships during the attack. The Galactica must now lead the surviving humans on a quest for a new homeworld on which to rebuild humanity.
Galactica holds back two Cylon basestars and their Raiders while the civilian ships jump away from Ragnar to a new location and to the void of space. After the escape, during the funeral for the dead crew on the ship, Adama inspires his crew by pretending to know the location of the legendary thirteenth colony known as "Earth." In the end, we see that the humans are not out of danger yet—Number Six warns Baltar (and the audience) that Cylon agents, who may even believe that they are human, could still be within the fleet. Adama finds a cryptic message in his quarters reading simply, "There are only 12 Cylon models," while on Ragnar, a group of Cylons rescue Aaron Doral. One of them is an exact copy of Lt. Sharon Valerii, revealing that Valerii is a Cylon."
