Where the Final Five grown?

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Rook

Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: London
Posts: 71

In all honesty, I don't see a huge problem with Tigh. The Final Five have been established to exist outside the mainstream Cylon Culture and knowledge. Furthermore, episodes like Rapture and Torn imply heavily that either a certain form of Cylon, or the Final Five existed long before the rest. The way Temple of Five functions, its connection to the Final Five, the fact that Simon in Torn says that the Humanoid Cylon genepool comes from the same source which is not the genes from Colonials as they had the immunity to the Virus for some 600 years all seem to point out that the FF could exist without making Tigh's memories a fake.

I remember someone speculating that the Significant Seven ressurect and the Final Five reincarnate across different lives although I am not sure how this can justify the Cylon abilities the FF have.

My personal belief is that the Final Five, much like the Significant Seven, were probably created/birthed/grown in a lab or sorts. This particular lab, however, has some kind of connection to the "All Along the Watchtower" as Anders and Tyrol describe it being like a childhood memory. I believe they heard the song there and it was imprinted to their subconscious in the process. The connection to All Along the Watchtower can imply that the lab was on Earth. This contradicts with the style of the song which was specifically intended to be Colonial-style. However, it does fit with the possibility that the Cylon DNA came a non-Colonial source.

Maybe the "Third Party" placed the Final Five into the Colonies prior/during the Cylon War. During this period, the Mechanical Cylons were trying (and failing) their own experiments with humans. Perhaps after their banishment, the "Third Party" contacted the Mechanical Cylons (Thus making the third party the "Original Programmers"), gave them the genetic samples that would become the Significant Seven and thaught them how to create the Significant Seven while making sure that various Final Five-related programming was put in place in order to make the S7 both susceptible to the F5(The raider reaction could be an example) and make them avoid researching the Final Five to the point they would not consciously (Caprica-Six' and Leoben's comments can imply they still had something on a subconscious level) realise they are Cylons if they faced one.

I know it is not a sustainable theory and its a very rough one but I believe the situation with the Final Five is somewhere along that line although I can't say how or why the Third Party has done such a thing though.

I like the idea that the lab was on Earth! VERy VERY cool!