Kobol is the name of a planet in the fictional Battlestar Galactica universe. A planet, as defined by the International Astronomical Union (IAU is a celestial body Orbiting a Star or stellar remnant that is Battlestar Galactica is a franchise of Science fiction Films and television series, the first of which was produced in 1978

Within the context of both Battlestar Galactica stories, Kobol is the birthplace and original home of humanity, from which the civilization departed and formed the "Twelve Colonies of Man" on other worlds. The Twelve Colonies of Man or Twelve Colonies of Kobol constitute the main human civilization in the original Battlestar Galactica Television series According to legend, there was also a thirteenth tribe who settled on a "lost" colony, the planet called Earth, whose location remained a mystery to the populations of the other twelve. EARTH was a short-lived Japanese vocal trio which released 6 singles and 1 album between 2000 and 2001

As written fiction, Kobol is an anagram of the Mormon "Kolob," a celestial body named in the Book of Abraham and identified as being near the home or origin of God. An anagram ( Greek anagramma 'letters written anew' passive participle of ana- 'again' + gramma 'letter' is a type of Word play Mormonism is a term used to describe the religious, ideological and cultural elements of certain branches of the Latter Day Saint movement In the Latter Day Saint movement, Kolob is a Star or Planet mentioned in the Book of Abraham as being nearest to the Throne The Book of Abraham is a scriptural text for Latter Day Saint movement denominations God is the principal or sole Deity in Religions and other belief systems that worship one deity.

Original series Kobol

As depicted in the original Battlestar Galactica series (1978-79), particularly the series episode "Lost Planet of the Gods," Kobol orbits an irregular variable star, and its encompassing system of planets lies immediately adjacent to a "magnetic void. Battlestar Galactica is an American Science fiction television series, produced in 1978 by Glen Larson and starring Lorne Greene Year 1978 ( MCMLXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1978 Gregorian calendar) Year 1979 ( MCMLXXIX) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1979 Gregorian calendar) "Lost Planet of the Gods" is a two-part episode of the original Battlestar Galactica television series In Physics, an orbit is the gravitationally curved path of one object around a point or another body for example the gravitational orbit of a planet around a star An irregular variable is a type of Variable star in which variations in brightness show no regular Periodicity. A star is a massive luminous ball of plasma. The nearest star to Earth is the Sun, which is the source of most of the Energy on Earth In Physics, magnetism is one of the Phenomena by which Materials exert attractive or repulsive Forces on other Materials. " The people of Kobol developed space-faring technology, and within the story it is suggested that their population likely reached the limits inherent in occupying a single planet, and, coupled with other disasters or factors (such as the star around which Kobol rotates), motivated humans to leave the planet. Eden was the name of a city on the planet, and, according to Commander Adama (Lorne Greene), was "the first to fall" to some unknown cataclysm. Commander Adama is a character in the 1978 movie and subsequent ABC Television series Battlestar Galactica and its continuation Lyon Chaim Green OC, LLD ( February 12, 1915 &ndash September 11, 1987) was a Canadian Actor

In scenes that were filmed, but deleted from the final broadcast of the episodes, Captain Apollo explains that in its final days, Kobol was stricken with terrible overpopulation and waste. The surface and atmosphere of the planet were in fact so polluted that only the absolute strongest of creatures could still survive. After the human inhabitants of Kobol fled the planet and founded the colonies, they deliberately destroyed all of their technology and spacecraft; it took several centuries to rebuild even the most primitive ships for exploring the stars.

Also unexplained is the culture of then-Kobolian society and their division into thirteen distinct tribes. Culture (from the Latin cultura stemming from colere, meaning "to cultivate" generally refers to patterns of human activity and the symbolic A society is a Population of Humans characterized by patterns of relationships between individuals that share a distinctive Culture and Institutions A tribe, viewed historically or developmentally consists of a Social group existing before the development of or outside of States Many anthropologists use Twelve of these groups traveled through the magnetic void and eventually settled a group of inhabitable planets in a common solar system. The Solar System consists of the Sun and those celestial objects bound to it by Gravity. These settlements became the colonies depicted in the series, known collectively as the Twelve Colonies of Man. The Twelve Colonies of Man or Twelve Colonies of Kobol constitute the main human civilization in the original Battlestar Galactica Television series For some unexplained reason, the thirteenth tribe presumably traveled a greater distance and in the opposite direction, settling on Earth. EARTH was a short-lived Japanese vocal trio which released 6 singles and 1 album between 2000 and 2001 At the time the original series began, there had been no contact between the thirteenth tribe and the Twelve Colonies. As the centuries pass, the people of the Twelve Colonies generally considered the existence of Earth and the thirteenth tribe a myth. The word mythology (from the Greek grc μυθολογία mythología, meaning "a story-telling a legendary lore"

Kobol is rediscovered in the aforementioned "Lost Planet of the Gods," which depicts at least part of the planet as being a desert, with ruins similar (or possibly identical) to the Egyptian Pyramids of Giza; parts of the episode were filmed on location at Giza. "Lost Planet of the Gods" is a two-part episode of the original Battlestar Galactica television series A desert is a Landscape or region that receives very little precipitation. This article is about ruins in Architecture; for other meanings see Ruins (disambiguation. This article is about the country of Egypt For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Egypt topics. A pyramid is a Building where the upper surfaces are triangular and converge on one point You may have been looking for the Great Pyramid of Giza. For the three pyramids of Giza visit the Giza pyramid complex.

Reimagined series Kobol

Kobol as portrayed in the 2004 television series.

As depicted in the "reimagined" Battlestar Galactica television series, Kobol appears to be a lush Earth-like planet with high mountains and dense forests. Battlestar Galactica is an Emmy and Peabody Award -winning serial drama Television program created by Ronald D EARTH was a short-lived Japanese vocal trio which released 6 singles and 1 album between 2000 and 2001 A planet, as defined by the International Astronomical Union (IAU is a celestial body Orbiting a Star or stellar remnant that is The details of its solar system however, have not been discussed. In contrast to the original series, Kobol's ruins appear to be more Greco-Roman in their influence than Egyptian. In modern Olympic and amateur Wrestling, Greco-Roman wrestling is a particular style and variation Ancient Egypt was an Ancient Civilization in eastern North Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River in what is now

Kobol has much of the same mythology of the original series. The thirteenth colony is noted to have settled on Earth, and there has been no contact between it and the other colonies, which are known as "The Twelve Colonies of Kobol. "

Galactica discovers Kobol, but when it sends a survey team to its surface, their Colonial Raptor is shot down by a squadron of Cylon Raiders dispatched by a Basestar orbiting the planet. The Raptor is a multipurpose military spacecraft featured in the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica. The Cylon Raider is the standard Starfighter used by the Cylons, in the various Battlestar Galactica movies and television series The Basestar is the primary capital ship of the Cylons ' in the 1978 Science fiction Television series and movie Battlestar Galactica Galactica manages to destroy the Basestar, but there is evidence of a Cylon presence on the planet surface.

According to Colonial religious scriptures, humans lived on Kobol side-by-side with their Gods, the Lords of Kobol. The Lords of Kobol are beatified humans or deities featured in the Fictional universe of Battlestar Galactica. An unspecified conflict between the Gods, referred to as "one jealous god" that turned on his brethren, spurred the humans of the time to flee Kobol onboard the Galleon, a spacefaring ship of unknown construction, in the face of "The Blaze" (assumed to be some sort of nuclear warfare). It was said that, for any who return, Kobol would exact a price paid in blood.

Kobol is the location of the Tomb of Athena, located near the Gates of Hera. The reimagined Science fiction Television series Battlestar Galactica presents various locations, spaceborne and planetary The reimagined Science fiction Television series Battlestar Galactica presents various locations, spaceborne and planetary An ancient relic, the Arrow of Apollo, was required to gain entry to the temple ruin in which it is said clues could be found to finding the way to the thirteenth colony, Earth. Arrow of Apollo is a Fictional object featured in the reimagined Battlestar Galactica series Within the Tomb were statues representing each of the Twelve Tribes. When the arrow was placed on the statue representing Sagittarius, the location of Earth was revealed. Earth can see the twelve zodiac constellations which are imprinted on the flags of the Twelve Colonies. Zodiac denotes an annual cycle of twelve stations along the Ecliptic, the apparent path of the sun across the heavens through the Constellations that divide the ecliptic In common usage a constellation is a group of celestial bodies that are connected together in some arrangement typically stars to form a visible figure or picture Also, the Colonials recognized in the map a nebula that is visible to Earth; in reality, the Lagoon Nebula. The Lagoon Nebula (also known as Messier Object 8 ( M8) and NGC 6523) is a giant interstellar cloud classified as an Emission nebula

The Kobol opera house and forum, though a ruin in Galactica's time, was apparently once an important civic building on the planet. An opera house is a theater building used for Opera performances that consists of a stage an orchestra pit audience seating and backstage facilities for costumes The Forum was the public space in the middle of a Roman city It had a great social importance and was often the scene of diverse activities including political discussions Five characters, human and Cylon, have experienced visions of the opera house in its original state thousands of years ago, the visions focusing on Hera Agathon or the final five Cylons. Hera Agathon or Isis is a fictional character from the reimagined Battlestar Galactica series The Cylons are a fictional race of bio-mechanical beings appearing in the reimagined Battlestar Galactica television series

See also

• List of Battlestar Galactica (1978, 1980) locations
• List of Battlestar Galactica (re-imagining) locations
• List of Battlestar Galactica (1978-1980) episodes
• List of Battlestar Galactica (2004 series) episodes

Trivia

In ancient Persian, Kobol means "Heaven". The Science fiction Television series Battlestar Galactica and Galactica 1980 presents various locations, spaceborne and The reimagined Science fiction Television series Battlestar Galactica presents various locations, spaceborne and planetary List of episodes of the original Battlestar Galactica Battlestar Galactica (1978 TV series List of episodes of the original Battlestar The reimagined Battlestar Galactica was initially unveiled as a Science fiction Miniseries which was first broadcast on the Sci Fi Heaven may refer to the physical heavens the sky or the seemingly endless expanse of the Universe beyond