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:''For other uses, see [[Cyrannus]].''
In "[[The Long Patrol]]", [[Starbuck (TOS)|Starbuck]] refers to the [[The Twelve Colonies (TOS)|Twelve Colonies of Man]] as being in the "Cyrannus Galaxy".

Opinion is divided whether the Colonies lie in the same galaxy as [[Earth (TOS)|Earth]], which—given numerous references (particularly in "[[Greetings from Earth]]") that the Earth sought after by the Colonials is our Earth—would have to be identical to our "Milky Way galaxy".

Opponents of such an identity can point to Commander [[Adama (TOS)|Adama]]'s clear statement in "[[Saga of a Star World]]", that Earth is located "In a galaxy similar to our own".

Proponents of the identity of the two galaxies argue that it is less improbable that the [[The Fleet (TOS)|Fleet]] could traverse a large span of several thousand light-years within the Milky Way galaxy (which is approximately 100,000 light-years in diameter) than to make a journey from one galaxy to another (which implies a journey of two million light-years or more).

Note, however, that both explanations automatically assume that the "galaxy" term means the same thing to the Colonials as it does to us, i.e. a massive system of millions or billions of individual star systems orbiting a common center of mass. This is not necessarily the case (see e.g. [[micron]] and [[parsec]]). Statements such as "[Earth's] proximity to the sun provides the only climate in the galaxy comfortably able to support life as we know it" ([[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part I]]) suggests a colonial "galaxy" may in fact be the same thing as a star/solar system. Thus the Cyrannus "galaxy" may in fact consist only of a handful of stars and planets orbiting each other, broadly similar to our own solar system.

In the [[spin-off]] series ''[[Galactica 1980]]'', the Fleet reaches 30 years after the [[Battle of Cimtar]]. The [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]] does not define the [[Propulsion (TOS)|nature of propulsion]] nor does it provide sufficient information to determine if intergalactic travel is in use.

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