The Twelve Colonies

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The Federal Republic of the Twelve Colonies of Kobol

Image:Colonialflag.jpg Image:Colonialcrest-110.jpg Flag Coat of arms
Motto: TBC
Anthem: Colonial Anthem
Capital	Caprica
Largest city	Piconus, Picon
Official language(s)	English
Government President	Federal Republic Richard Adar area_magnitude = TBC
N/A - Colonial Day	- 17th December
Area  • Total  • Water (%)	TBC km² (TBC) TBC
Population  • 2008 A.E est.  • Every 5 years census  • Density	40.5 Billion (1st) June 2008 320/km² (150th)
GDP (PPP)  • Total  • Per capita	2008 A.E estimate Government Budget: TBC (TBC) TBC (TBC)
HDI (2003|TBC)	TBC TBC – TBC
Currency	Cubit (tbc)
Time zone  • Summer (DST)	N/A (UTCN/A) N/A (UTCN/A)
Internet TLD	N/A
Calling code	+N/A

The Twelve Colonies of Kobol Colonial Data:

Arts & Literature Ecosystem Government History Language Race & Ethnicity Religion

Brief Account of Colonial History

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The thirteenth tribe (or first depending on your perspective) leaves Kobol, 1,600 years before the exodus of the other twelve. 1,600 years later, an issue between the "gods" and a selfish/jealous god leads to a massive cataclysm on Kobol, the 12 tribes are forced to abandon Kobol for their own survival and during their departure Athena, a god from Colonial religion, commits suicide in grief.

After many years of travelling, the refugees from Kobol on-board a colony ship stumbled upon a binary star system, that possessed a few habitable worlds, which were colonised one after the other by the colonists (It's interesting to note that, at that specific time, they may have refered to themselves as "Colonists from Kobol" and not as individual tribes, The texts of Pythia may be retrospective and referred to them as such to make it more understandable to the Colonials). Other barren worlds in the system were laboriously terraformed for settlement.

Due to the system having 12 habitable worlds, a decision was made upon their founding to name them after the 12 Zodiac signs / mythological aspects of Colonial history. It was from this period onwards that specific identities started to emerge per colony.

In other words, after many years, Humans of Kobol began to refer to themselves as Capricans, Sagittarons, Gemonese etc... This departure from regarding themselves as a single colonial force from Kobol, likely stems from individual beliefs, desires and ideologies (Sagittarons, Gemenese etc), who preferred to run their worlds individually based upon their own emerging cultures.

Inevitably this led to skirmishes and power struggles over many centuries, each colony vying for more power, resources and technologies, during these centuries other colonies like Aerelon, Gemenon and Sagittaron couldn't compete with the wealthy (if not more exploitive) colonies such as Caprica, Tauron and Picon.

Some 1,800 years after their exodus from Kobol, notable changes have occured. The flags of the colonies have changed (as you would expect) and no longer displaying the star pattern of a constellation, but now a graphical representation loosely based upon it. As well as the slight change in the Colonies names (for example Libra = Libris).