CYLON HOMEWORLD - CYLON PRIME

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CYLON HOMEWORLD - CYLON PRIME

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CYLON PRIME: PLANETARY DATA:

GOVERNMENT: Cylon
CLIMATE: High Tempature - High Humidity
PLANETARY SIZE: Medium
GRAVITY: Medium
ATMOSPHERE: Polluted
TERRAIN TYPE: Urban/Industrial - Surface Water 15%

CYLON PRIME is the homeword of the Cylon Race. It used to be a hot, wet swamp world. Now, it is completely covered in Cylon cities and factories.

The home world of Cylon is both the pride and shame of the Cylon race.
A hot, humid world, all of the natural beauty of it has now been destroyed since the mechanical Cylons were first built.
Originally, Cylon was home to many swamps and forests. It was covered with lush vegetation and was the perfect spawning and hunting ground of the repilian Cylons. For many long years they enjoyed these grounds and came back again and again to hunt, spawn and relax.
With the evolution of intelligence, the Cylons also gained the desire to build cities and centres of technology, but while their cities were grand, they were also in tune with their swamps and forests.
Even when the Cylons developed space flight they did not forget their swamps, and many Cylons migrated back to Cylon for their spawning season.

That all changed though when the extinction of the reptillian Cylons and the rise of the robotic beings that would take their name. The robots needed more space to build, and without having a need for swamps and spawning grounds, these were the first things to go. Within the space of a couple of yahrens, most of Cylon had been covered in cities, factories and command centres. A decade later, Cylon had been turned into a vast mechanical capital for their budding Empire. Ship yards, factories, command centres, all had their places and there was no space anymore for swamps and forests. At that point in time, if the Cylons could change the weather on their planet, they would have done that as well.

If was only later that they had realised what they had done. When the Cylons took to the stars again to bring order to the galaxy, they came across other races, and some of these races they had to exterminate so that they would not contaminate an ordered society. When these races were destroyed, arts and artefacts were saved so that the race itself would not be forgotten over time and all could enjoy the relics of the dead race. It was during the destruction of one of these first races (the Hasaris?) that the Imperious Leader of the time had a rare and uncharacteristic introspective thought. If the culture of destroyed races was kept, where was the culture of the original Cylons? And it was then that the shame of the Cylons was known. In their haste to create a shining new culture for themselves, they had managed to wipe out the remnants of the old, and the original Cylons were truly lost forever. Since then, each Imperious Leader has sworn to keep alive the cultures of the races that they destroy.