Caprica is burning

[@jonathanmccullouch3243]

10 years later and this video is still beautiful...

[@jamesgraves1682]

It's nice to see a video like this without listening to "Requium for a Dream" music for a change.

[@danriceman7533]

James Graves original is fine with me.

[@FluffyFooFookins]

Same, I like this or Apocalypse from the BSG soundtrack. Beats listening to Let the Bodies hit the floor or Breaking Benjamin.

[@loralyane]

Question... why the hell not doing it with BSG original music ?

[@Ginovertonic]

At first I was like "Okay, let's watch it. I'm not gonna cry. I mean, why should I cry?!" and then the red light scanned the first Battlestar and it begin to drift away and the tears swelled up in my eyes and I got goosebumps all over and--- oh my, I miss that show!!! Great job on the video! :)

[@beammeup8654]

Okay, I know it's all Fiction.... ....but in the full scene, when the Hybrid was announcing the results of the surprise attack, the line that got me all choked up was.... "The Oceans of Aquaria are burning...."

[@reesemontoya5318]

Same I'm new to the series so I'm just now on RAZOR & THE PLAN but that was heart wrenching

[@reesemontoya5318]

The cities of Caprica are burning

[@AGH331]

Fucking Baltar. Seeing the fleet drifting helplessly while the colonies are getting nuked and people burning to ash mentally hurts.

[@edjoultz9678]

What is so amazing about Battlestar is how it all happens within one galaxy!

[@michaelnolan6054]

The toast in the diner where Carl and Sharon will be staying is not yet burning.

[@itak365]

It's very creepy, the way that the ships suddenly shut down. It almost makes me think that the Cylons just let them plunge into the atmopshere, unable to propel themselves.

[@tylermitchell6707]

Rip Battlestar Valkyrie :(

[@YurkerYT]

Sexiest ship, never given a chance to fight.

[@stratiosastero6880]

@@YurkerYT valkyrie,yashuman,bellerephon.. all three. but after further investigation there was few more and could find one more galactica or pegasus at one of shots.

[@richardched6085]

@@stratiosastero6880 True. There were at most 4 Valkyrie Battlestars at the Scorpia Fleet Shipyards (Bellerophon, Ramses, and 2 unidentified often called the Freyja and Poseidon in fandom). There were 2 Jupiter (Galactica Type) Battlestars there as well (Probably not of the original 12 as Galactica was the "Last of her kind"). There was even a Jupiter at Caprica that presumably encountered the Cylon Armada and was destroyed shortly after the Valkyrie, Yashuman and another were disabled. Each Jupiter had the same lack of Armor plating as Galactica indicating that it was a design choice rather than a part of Galactica's Decomissioning.

[@stratiosastero6880]

How did end UP battlestar rycon? I did heard that after fighting cylons they lost control due to damage and crashed on Mountain at sone of planets

[@richardched6085]

@@stratiosastero6880 i never mentioned the Rycon which thus far only existed in the Original Series continuity...

[@Axatar]

No one's left, everything's gone, Caprica is burning.........

[@Infernal460]

What about those rebels.

[@yamiblade]

We're re receiving no communications anywhere in the system.....Not even Beacons.

[@MrShadowtruth]

yamiblade there are ships in high atmo. It is likely they are responsible for the attack. Capture at least one vessel for interegation... destroy the rest.

[@kiethshadowfade]

MrShadowtruth "The subject did not survive interrogation."

[@50LightSabersInAPack]

omg no don't even D:

[@padawangussin1]

@eaglesguy2036 She was in drydock when the attack began and the Cylons were targeting active ships of the fleet. As the shipyard came under attack in what was most likely the second wave, Cain made the choice to jump away from the battle to save her ship and be able to fight another day.

[@Bifirocker]

BSG is a series where we learn being proud of the human race but also that we built machines to help people not to replace them

[@CosmosFan1]

@TRUExSIGHTS I agree. I think those tubes lining the underside of the flight pods are viper catapults. There only being six of them suggests the Valkyrie can only launch six vipers at a time. And I think the ship is about the length of Galactica's flight pods, but it definitely has quite a complement of batteries and ship-to-ship missiles launchers.

[@Nicodermus4Life]

@hotstuffooo actually that's sort of an "easter egg" but they're not on earth. Another one is that the image that is shown under the nuke as it's decending is actually a google map image of Vancuver, Canada.=)

[@richardched6085]

Makes sense as BSG was filmed in Vancouver with all Caprica scenes being filmed within that city. They got the descending MIRV scene perfectly accurate in this case.

[@darthjerh12]

if they aren't in geosynchronous orbit they could possibly fall due to gravity. another explanation would be that when the engines from the ships are going offline, they aren't going off at the same time, thus a burst of energy from one engine could push it into another heading.

[@fedeborghesi]

They weren't falling off. If you think about a ship that large, it probably needs to compensate its direction constantly, especially in short range movement. When the virus is uploaded, whatever was the last compensational movement would continue, so that the ships begin spinning at very slow speeds.

[@stevedandy973]

GREAT video to show the Cylon's devastating attacks on the 12 colonies.

[@marchindley9856]

"The Battlestar Columbia, flagship of the Colonial fleet...has been destroyed."

[@MrShadowtruth]

"Scoripa shipyards ... anihilated. All oribital stations ... destroyed. We are not recieving any communications from any of the twelve colonies. Not even beacons. We're alone."

[@shaftoe195]

+Marc Hindley actually BS Atlantia was a colonial flagship. Always Atlantia. It's like Enterprise.

[@MrShadowtruth]

fucking gema the vid shut from viewing in germany FUCK YOU GEMA!!!!!!!!

[@sharp14x]

Atlantia, with Admiral Nagala, took command after the destruction of the Columbia and of Picon fleet headquaters.

[@brianwesley28]

Shaftoe Yes. The Command Battlestar Atlantia. Flagship. Good cross reference analogy to the Enterprise.

[@Trek001]

Odd - the Yashuman passes a Cylon baseship without being fired upon or firing upon it

[@AuroraAustralis_]

To see BSG 41 and her Vipers go down without a fight hurt to watch...

[@mikiroony]

Frakking toasters!! You blew it all to hell! DAMN YOU!! DAMN YOU ALL!

[@petrstasek8386]

Good choice of music. Perfect match with video and battalestar galactica style :D

[@blockmasterscott]

That is just so hard seeing all those battlestars and vipers just shutting down. What a sucky way to go.....

[@Peachyc76]

I loved what you did here, the Video with Music are absolutely beautifully placed together. Great job

[@TehOneAndOnlyDuckyyy]

I'm not one for making stupid philosophical comments. But the chances are that this has happened somewhere in the Universe, one day boom and an entire civilisation wiped out. Scary thought.

[@BladeZero238]

It could be us some day.

[@Themago200]

Blade Zero agree

[@TheRX1982]

I agree I look at the stars and think how many civilisations have been wiped out either by their own hand a comet/asteroid supernova or by another Civilisation..

[@Themago200]

TheRX1982 me too

[@Tezhan_29A]

TheRX1982 wiped out...such a ruthless term loll

[@QuizmasterLaw]

the children of humanity lie trampled beneath our feet.

[@Marc3c]

@kajzar Yup. And at 2:19 it's Europe seen "upside down" fron the way we're used to seeing it.

[@fubaralakbar6800]

This is awesome, but so sad and painful to watch. There was just no excuse for the Cylons did.

[@Blueguy72]

Religion and "because god told me too" has been responsible (or at least a factor of) at least 90% of the wars human kind has been involved in.

[@DLordSadow]

Blueguy72 Actually it’s was ALL really about John Cavil (the 1’s) wanting to get back at his parents (the “Final Five). The destruction of the Colonies and genocide of humanity was entirely because a kid was throwing a massive tantrum.

[@vrass775]

@@Blueguy72 Only some religions not all of them are warlike or crazy. And all those who use God as an excuse for such are going to find themselves in a very special part of Hell when they die.

[@andrewm6244]

The whole show was about resurrection technology, it’s just not what it was focused on

[@richardched6085]

They are the bad guys after all lol.

[@smcneal057]

@Winner8501 Well on the "Real Earth" in Battlestar Galactica the Cylons looked like Samurai.

[@edjoultz9678]

At 0:50 it seems like the hybrids have it good every time they "jump"!

[@johanderuiter9842]

It is how one empire destroys another. By the time the great Mantra has been sung, reality itself will have fully transformed. The Cylons in their turn would be defeated by those that control sound and frequency. And those by them that control time. Then these by others that live outside of time and are unaffected by its gravity.

[@redcardinalist]

@thehelix27 Actually, I seem to recall in the pilot city scenes we do see flying cars (or if not cars, somesort of flying vehicles). Of course in the actual series we had WW2 era army trucks so your point is generally good :)

[@Taco1011]

What a great show, Its a sad end to 12 beautiful worlds.

[@FreeThePorgs]

THIS is what happens when we let computers and tech run ramped...we(humans) keep making more and mores smart machines, machines that can think on there own, robots that can do this and that, with no human input....I have nothing against tech/computers or robots for that fact, but we must keep the human factor in all choices....what is next AI's?....skynet?....I simply call myself an "adamaist".....people(mostly me) who are advocating strict control over all and any computer....

[@darthjerh12]

they would have given them hell. the pegasus could withstand her own against many basestars, and that was a ship that hadn't gone through dry dock in several months!

[@darthjerh12]

well how would you account for the cylons rebelling 2000 years before the setting of caprica on the original Earth, where the five are from?

[@proadmin1]

Let's hope we fare better....this time.

[@richardched6085]

3:20 I'm guessing this is before a 50 Megaton Nuke is dropped on the City (Which would leave practically nothing left but rubble).

[@dotdashdotdash]

Tsar Bomba scale. Not even rubble would exist. Just a huge fuckin crater.

[@richardched6085]

​@@dotdashdotdash Here it looks like a few Kilotons at most. Even in the main series the Buildings are intact which contradicts the Miniseries. Unless this isn't THE Caprica City Adama was referring to.

[@Nogrentain]

@TheAmericanEmperor Probably being the operative word. Considering the battlestars would also have colony defenses aiding them as well if they sat there waiting...who knows. Certainly would have been a good fight.

[@MrBlackcz]

"No one's left. Everything's gone. Caprica is burning."

[@smcneal057]

@KuDastardly If you could equip it with an FTL drive you could make it similar to a mass-driver. In that way you would make it more destructive and faster. There is no way possible of getting out of the way in time with that thing.

[@link30222]

The absense of evidence is not the evidence of absence, just becuase you can't see or sense something doesn't mean its not there there's a lot out in the universe.

[@KomeijiRecords]

@thehelix27 in one of the flashbacks you can see flying "cars" in the background

[@Nogrentain]

@TheAmericanEmperor Indeed I do. Bit of a BSG fan. I'm just curious (and not sure) what a squadron of Battlestars could actually take on collectively.

[@TRUExSIGHTS]

@CosmosFan1 Some sort of Valkyrie style, but instead of a stealth version battleline version *Aka full ship of the line instead of support ship*. I notice they have more armour and are bigger overall, but don't seem to have loads of vipers.

[@hershu4]

I know its for visual effect, but the main thing that bothered me about this scene was the scale of the ships versus the planet. I mean, if a ship is peaking over the edge of the planet and i can see it, either the planet is REALLY small, or those basestars are the size of a death star.

[@WheelLock]

did they crash some ships into the cities, cause i remember seeing some enter the atmosphere?

[@KuDastardly]

@smcneal057 Also, I suspected that the Cylons had no intentions of fully obliterating everything on all the 12 colonies. It was likely they intended to harvest whatever resource they could salvage from the 12 colonies for their own purposes. If you remember, the Cylon humanoids were occupying Caprica city as some of the centurions were assigned to urban renovations.

[@joseluissalguero6478]

La música es espectacular y refleja la caida de las 12 colonias de kobol

[@MrEetsie]

well they also where pretty close to the planet so they might just "fall" into it due to gravity effects

[@stratiosastero6880]

well battlestar columbia debris fell on the icy moon during operation raptor talon

[@prplhze2000]

What the hell could 3 battlestars have done against all those base stars anyway?

[@richardched6085]

Especially since these are Valkyrie Light Battlestars... That wouldn't even be enough against one Modern Basestar...

[@richardched6085]

There was a Jupiter Battlestar also protecting Caprica at the time. It too was disabled and destroyed. Caprica presumably had quite a few defense vessels.

[@hal1992]

This is video game quality footage. I'm glad I never saw 'The Plan'.

[@flickgeek830]

No, I think it was one of the ships docked nearby.

[@smcneal057]

I've always wondered about the humans that survived on Caprica after the fall. Did they all die from the radiation or did they somehow make it and learn to live off the land? I have always been curious about this.

[@richardched6085]

A question still unanswered to this day... Seemed like the Centurions were sent en masse to massacre or capture survivors for experimentation (Which would take decades as millions had to have survived the initial Nuclear Bombardment with a fraction of that surviving the Fallout). If there were enough survivors for genetic diversity they could have eventually reclaimed the planet as the Cylons left less than a year after the Fall. 150 thousand years later they might be out there right now... Not just Caprica either. The Twelve Colonies of Kobol may once again be a space faring civilization. As to why they haven't contacted us is likely because the Colonials never really explored space before the Fall (The Prolmar Sector was beyond the "Red Line" which Galactica and it's fleet went beyond). It's likely they haven't explored beyond their own system.

[@JulyForToday]

@dickjpaige Yeah. Someone brought that up on another similar video. Best as I can tell, I think the VFX team used it to cut corners. It's supposed to be Caprica, but they figured that shooting it just so at that kind of angle, only someone paying a lot of attention would even notice. None of the VFX sequence was really in the original script of The Plan, and the VFX team wanted to actually do something cool, yet it probably wasn't covered much in the budget.

[@MCWminecraftwolfe]

Does anyone know where the video comes from it’s not in the first episode (pilot) of battle star galactica. They never showed the colonies in battle

[@CJEJTHEDJ]

Is anyone else wondering why they needed to hack into the system? I mean there were only two ships around that planet and they had a few dozen at the very least. They also had hundreds of nukes pointing in that direction anyway.

[@rageagaintstheNWO]

its the new movie, Battlestar Galactica: The Plan.

[@MKIX-Prod]

it's not weird that i found this beautiful is it?

[@hereholdmyhobo]

Watching this gave me goosebumps ._. I miss being able to watch awesome tv.

[@alfredoflores87]

simply beautiful!,,,saving as favorites

[@KuDastardly]

You pulled it off well, good execution and choice of music as it sound very very typical of BSG themes. Yours is a rare find, unlike some other cliché wannabe crap I see on KZbin.

[@eaglesguy2036]

I can't really remember the storyline but can anyone remind me why the Pegasus was able to jump away from the attack and all the other Battlestars apparently couldn't?

[@richardched6085]

The Pegasus's Command Navigation Program was shut down for the 3 month retrofit at the Scorpia Shipyards so the ship was still somewhat operational when the Cylons arrived. The other vessels presumably had their CNP online and were disabled then destroyed.

[@thecraziestofalldave]

a whole bunch of those caprican and libran butildings looked like hardened arcologie thaat would have survived the attacks and were left behind, don't blame the fleet. the colonies live

[@nehorlavazapalka]

obviously you have to insert quite large inaccuracy to the FTL to make the story work, with precise jump systems the raiders just could've jumped over the cities with nukes and nothing would have been able to counter them. 1000 km in front of the planet means 20-30s to impact it also makes the x,y placement of munition possible (you jump 100km next to the citiy, the rocket has to climb the x /y axis. Point defence is good in all cases. Also it doesn't really mean more BattleStars escaping.

[@art4256]

@pimpjuice739 its from the last bsg movie the plan.

[@Industrialist2015ofUk]

@scathomancer well said! i like space battle scenes as much as the next person... but Caprica is set on a planet only and is a deep futuristic style drama that some people are not capable of understanding.

[@DrLynch2009]

@pimpjuice739 nop... is from the tv film The Plan directed by Edward James Olmos.

[@JulyForToday]

Plus, if you notice in the same shot the way they show the Baystars encircling Caprica is completely unrealistic. They are in close formation (close enough to see), and yet some of the ships are obscured by the planet. They'd have to be thousands of miles away for that to happen (and they'd look like tiny points of light at best). That or Baystars are the size of Iraq (which they aren't). I saw the VFX break down of this shot, it seems like it was done to look dramatic, not realistic.

[@jutau]

Incredibly moving.

[@3dhotshot]

Lightwave is always magical

[@MasterYoda975]

Did anybody else notice the Arabian Peninsula at 1:14? Isn't that supposed to be Caprica?

[@LeonidProxy]

@flame10240 dont focus too much on that 1 detail....Remember they used most of their Animation and effects on the Escape from New Caprica so i hear so they probably did use Earth in the Background rather then some other planet

[@marshmallowbudgie]

imagine if the Raiders knew what *they* were about to be in for ...

[@art4256]

@pimpjuice739 it tels the hole story from the cylon side it easy to download. your lucky to be able to watch it for the first time i have to wait till 2012 for new bsg series cuz i havee seen all

[@pimpjuice739]

I really do not remember seeing most of these clips in the main show are they from the extended version???????

[@jadewarlock]

@charonelli It was canceled due to weak ratings - and it had by far run its course as it was written. Even Caprica suffered from viewership. It has nothing to do with gay/straight issues at all. BTW, There is no specific time for "BG," however, it's implied that the travelers came 150K years BEFORE we did, not the future.

[@MegaLeafgreen]

Just wrong.... so very very frakking wrong.... it haunts me sometimes.

[@MegaLeafgreen]

"baltar" is the worst curse word i can call a person.

[@MegaLeafgreen]

Still so very very wrong. Anyone military will know it - you build, train your life, the balloon goes up and you are outnumbered 10:1, but you go out to do or die. Denied everything with the flip of a switch....

[@MegaLeafgreen]

Still just goddamn wrong.

[@Ansila01]

why not use the original score for this?

[@carlosatomo1]

buen video tienes mas.

[@warszawianka]

The Cylons are nuking downtown Vancouver at 2:28. LOL

[@LeonidProxy]

@TheAmericanEmperor Oh yeah there is the Warstar Zeus that would Tare the Mercuries in 2 within just a couple of minutes and they can hold off 20 Base stars at once.

[@darthjerh12]

well they couldn't breed. and while that wasn't the issue at hand, baby cavil just had to throw his tantrum at humanity.

[@TrekscaperOne]

Dankje! Met een naam als Jaap moet je wel een Nederlander zijn :P Ben blij dat een mede Nederland een reactie achterlaat!

[@GFitzgeraldSewell]

@pimpjuice739 Nope. These are form the version that played on TV and DVD.

[@CosmosFan1]

What class battlestars are those? Valkyrie?

[@Killerbobcats]

@MrEric177 Well more of those scenes would just be more ships being turned off, it would get kinda tedious, although a nice explosion of admiral Nagalas battlestar Atlantia would have been nice to see, or at least an explosion of the battlestars shown here. Then it probably would have been more worthwhile to watch.

[@richardched6085]

I agree. It's implied that Nagalla had a small task force of surviving Battlestars at Virgon and was actually fighting the Cylons indicating that the CNP wasn't 100% effective. He just didn't have enough ships to stage a proper counterattack and was overwhelmed. The Atlantia was destroyed along with the Triton, Solaria, Columbia, and many more Battlestars. Some Raptors and Mk VII Vipers managed to survive this massacre and rendezvous with the Civilian Fleet at Ragnar (As Sam Witwer's character Crashdown was a "refugee from Triton" and a few Mk VIIs can be seen in the Civilian Fleet).

[@Nogrentain]

@TheAmericanEmperor Let's say 15 battlestars, 10 of which are Mercury class, the other 5 any other class. A full complement of mark 7 vipers.

[@asvarien]

Even if the military hadn't been crippled I doubt they could have stopped an invasion of that magnitude.

[@FluffyFooFookins]

@Aiden Hunter Meh, a lot of those 120 battlestars are probably Valkyrie class. Galactica was the last of 12 original Jupiter class. Common theory is battlestars like Pegasus which was the Mercury class are probably what superceded the Jupiter class so there is probably 12 of those too. I would think there had to had been at least 100 base stars originally to be some sort of match for the colonial fleet so I don't know happened to them all.

[@jutau]

@warszawianka Recognized the stadium?

[@plasm2]

@SirPaFla and tht is why each class of ship sould have diferent virus protection systems and different goverments working on on thm

[@plasm2]

@thehelix27 thats very clever and yet a very cheap move. wouldnt the battlestars be equiped with something to counter that though? i mean ur enemies are robots you would have somesort of cyber defence tech right? guess they didnt have norton or avg huh? lol

[@richardched6085]

Their operating system was the weakness. The Cylons practically created the very Network the Colonials were using. There was no hacking involved. Just an inputted backdoor command to shut off every Military asset.

[@aepceo1]

Wonderful.

[@northroad1]

Ethnic cleansing

[@Nogrentain]

@TheAmericanEmperor 120 battlestars plus auxillary ships plus fighters based on each colony and and any other military installations. We even see that the fleet was maneuvering to defend the colonies but the infiltration disabled everything. I doubt a Pearl Harbour would have occurred. I'm sure some nukes as a minimum would have made it but not a literal carpet bombing of each colony. I'd maintain it'd still be a fight not unlike the first war.

[@roberatgianascol3241]

Can this happen.

[@GearsOfWarGod345]

yes the battlestars have point defense but it doesnt matter cause they had no idea what was there so they didnt think they should shoot at unknown contacts, and even if they did the cylon virus wouldve gotten them eventuly anyways so only battlestars that had thier computers off and disconected would live like galactica and pegasis

[@LeonidProxy]

@RebornSilver I agree with you on the cylons using human tech against them but the cyclons i think were a tad more technologically advanced for they have FTL drives that are about 5 times better than the colonials ( note how they only jumped once to the colonies), also dont forget that they went from being machines only with super computers in their brains into humanoids tell me thats not very very high tech like. Part 1

[@roberthaworth9097]

If only the humans had spent 40% of their budgets on defense, like we do, they'd have been OK. The Cylons haven't messed with US, have they?!

[@MegaLeafgreen]

120 Battlestars, 1,000? smaller support combat ships, shipyards, ammo bases, non-combat ships,, Viper squadrons on the planets and elsewhere... who knows what % they spent on defense? Didn't matter, Baltar had to dip his wick and NO amount of defense spending saved anything. Or the lives of the millions spending their entire lives training to defend the planets. Flick, gone, dead.

[@67EHC]

¿Porqué estas escenas no se ven en la serie?

[@aaronrivas7977]

TECNO80 tal vez sea muy tarde, pero es porque vienen de una película llamada "the plan"

[@67EHC]

Sí, ya vi esa película, gracias.