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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chimera" data-source="post: 3168785" data-attributes="member: 2002">This whole thing is a serious can of worms.  I don't necessarily like the "resurrection transmission of the virus" angle, but I'm going to have a serious problem if this is a one-off that they ignore from here on out.Biological Weapons ProgramStep 1:  Create multiple samples of this virus and store them in un-registered and un-recorded locations so as to prevent mass-sabotage from destroying the program.Step 2:  Begin large scale production of the virus.Step 3:  Simultaneous Covert Introduction of the virus to all fleet ships.  This will flush out the remaining 'skin jobs' and, if lucky, introduce the virus to any resurrection ships in range.  If not and you uncover a few of them, you once again have subjects for the "get in range of a res ship and kill them" plot.Step 4:  Seed the 14 Worlds (12 Colonies, Kobol, New Caprica) with virus spores.  This will prevent their occupation by Cylon 'skin jobs'.  True enough, it won't prevent their controlling the space around them or sending down 'bullet heads', but it too offers the danger of mass infection of the new Cylon race.  (It also gives any surviving Humans on those planets a chance.)Step 5:  Realize that you just gave the Cylons every reason in the Universe to get to Earth ahead of you.EarthLife began out there...If life began on Earth, then moved to Kobol, then moved back...  We now have at least two cycles on Earth, with a coming third.1>  Initial growth, reaching the point of FTL to depart Earth for Kobol.2>  Return of "The 13th Colony" to Earth.3>  Return of the meager survivors of the 12 Colonies to Earth.  "3,000 years" after the supposed 13th Colony mission.I'm going to find it very difficult to accept a Modern Era Earth at the end of the series, by this time-line.  There also has to be the issue that Kobol seems to be quite a distance from Earth, so you would expect some explanation for this.  In other words, either the original Kobol group was intentionally sent a rather extreme distance for some unknown reason, or it was a 'lost' group that unintentionally traveled too far, or ???</blockquote>

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