Atekimogus wrote:And probalby most depressing of all, the fleet is gone, the beloved battlestar just gone and 150.000 years later you have proof positive that really nothing of this journey mattered because there is noone left to remember it and all memories of it are gone. Hera might have had some evolutionary role to play...but that is far from sure from my pov.
Agreed. At the very least, the ships would have provided help in case trouble occurred. Shelter, water reclamation, books, machine tools, etc. But no, all of it had to go into the sun. All it would have taken is one bad crop season, and the Colonial survirors would have been dead.
IMHO a better ending would have been where the Colonials got along with the Cylon Centurions, and they formed a unified culture. Eventually, they would have engineered themselves (nanotechnology and similar) until there was no physical difference between Centurion and organic. They take over the role of watching the galaxy, and helping developing races out.
Atekimogus wrote:ps. Was there a reason why they settled only on earth? I mean with the cylon threat gone why didn't some people go back to kobol for instance? Also a little outpost on new caprica might be worth thinking about because there surley is some infrastructure there.
Well, how many jumps were they from Kobol? They popped there during season 2 (Home, pt 1 & pt 2), and nothing after that. How far did they go from there to Earth? There was the supernova cluster that had the radiation fun (The Passage), plus a few other bits. At this point, Galactica is dead (cannot jump again), so they might as well stay where they are.