DPP: A history of the colonies

[lizziec]

Yesterday we looked at Pilots personalities.

Today we have another history themed DPP. Yes, I know it's another kind of history themed DPP and I'm in danger of being repetative, but humour me. Marking is extremely boring but because of it I have history on the brain. I prompted this over at the ficathon on leeadama_daily but no one took it up and I really love this concept so I thought I'd throw it out there for us lovers of pilots :) (I hope I'm not making a huge faux pas by doing that - sorry if I am :().

So, an academic in the future of the colonies is writing a history of the holocaust, the exodus and the Rag Tag Fleet^TM. What would the academic write about our pilots? How would they (and history) judge them and their actions? Would they have a prominent place in the history or actually, in the great scheme of things, were their actions sometimes merely footnotes? What kind of history would you prefer to read? A social one, one focusing on the military aspects or something else? Finally, would you have them writing it on New Earth on a collection of leaves, in a future where the fleet is still going, or on an alternate version of New Earth where they kept their tech?

Discuss, link, drabble - whatever you feel like really :)



Today's screenshot is the only one I entirely planned in advance, because I have a feeling that the Olympic Carrier incident would be a hotly debated issue if there happens to be more than one historian among the surving colonists (and frankly, given the number of politicians and journalists, I don't see why there wouldn't be an entire department full of historians).

Comments

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

There was an LJ user not long after finale who was writing BSG stories from the point of view of anthropologists and scientists I think...

**after a bit of digging**

You may find these interesting. Although I'm pretty sure there was another set of stories that were anthropologists and more Kara/Lee focused.

Spaceships and Cave Paintings (http://chaletian.livejournal.com/366085.html)
Our Wings will Burn (http://chaletian.livejournal.com/366766.html)
Killer Robots and Clones (http://chaletian.livejournal.com/366766.html)

[sammy567.livejournal.com]

Interesting idea... history is remembered only how we record it. According to the Pegasus arc, Adama was pretty good at keeping records of everything went down. However, I wonder if unless the historian was close in contact with the Admiral or President, he might never get to see these documents. My guess is that a lot of the earlier events (Olympic Carrier) may never have been revealed to the public.

Events like Kobal will probably be viewed as negative, since the Earth they found was a nuclear wasteland. New Caprica? Not sure.

I imagine that the final rescue mission for Hera will be viewed in the positive as a brave or desperate mission by the military to free the colonists from the bad bad cylons and find earth.

Lee and his tylium mission will probably go into the history books, because he eventually became a Commander, so as an individual he'd be noticed and the historian would want to trace back his previous endeavors. Kara coming back from the dead (blech) would probably make a big dent in the history books. It might make more for scriptures than history books. Actually, as the history gets older, details may be changed as people stop believing the mysticism.

I'm rambling.

Lastly, I think they'd record history by word of mouth, through storytelling, which means things will get drastically changed, and characters will be forgotten or mixed up. That would be an interesting story.

Ramble over.

[winegums.livejournal.com]

I think that, like some of the original stories of the 12 tribes of Kobol, some of the Rag-Tag-Fleet's stories would likely pass into myth or be explained away somehow.

But re: L&K specifically, I think pilots would both come in for a fair degree of scrutiny - but separately and in a professional capacity (Lee as CAG, Commander, Quorum member later President, Kara as CAG and mission leader in the search for the first Earth) but the history books likely wouldn't really have a grip on their personal connection, I think.