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Should there have been more survivers?
posted by Midi-chlorian_CountSTAFFMOD on April 29, 2018 at 2:23 AM
I'm currently rewatching this for the first time and it's just struck me as quite amusing that the number of colonial survivors shown at the start is ~ 49,600.
Why is that amusing? Because the show quite heavily revolves around the importance of the Government, the intrigue surrounding that Government, the press, etc... but I've just looked up which UK town has a population close to matching that number on the show. The answer - Kirkcaldy 😂
Can you imagine the town of Kirkcaldy being so excited about the political situation whilst a bunch of robots were trying to kill them all?
Reply by Nexus71
on August 18, 2018 at 4:19 PM
yeah in stead of being of obsessed about politics and screwing each other over they should have been fracking like bunnies for the survival of the species.
Reply by Darth Ackbar
on April 10, 2020 at 2:10 PM
BRILLIANT!
Reply by LansingFan
on November 1, 2020 at 11:40 AM
@Midi-chlorian_Count : Possibly.
Reply by Nexus71
on November 15, 2020 at 2:04 AM
I think they also had to leave behind a lot of people due to limited amount of Space worthy spaceships ,resources etc just like in the original and I don't think it is far fetched to assume that Anders' resistance group wasn't the only resistance group on Caprica since his group mainly operated around Caprica City .Plus we see a lot of survivors when Starbuck joins the resistance group after she goes back to find the Arrow.And we know there were dozens of humans being experimented on in "The Farm" and my guess is this was not the only place on Caprica were these experiments took place so we are talking hundreds of people near Caprica City alone multiply that by various other cities and multiply that by the 12 other planets of the colonies and we can assume that probably more people were left behind than the number that managed to flee from the Cylons.