It is the year 2042 on Earth, fifteen years after the cataclysmic war against the Cylons. Humanity is building a great fleet and Battlestars and other ships of space. In two years' time, the largest Battlestars every constructed will lead a fleet on a mission back to the Twelve Colonies. But as mankind is poised for a future that seems boundless, a natural disaster and old hatreds in the small nation of New Caprica rise up and test the courage of many.