My own prognostications:<br /><br />- The four individuals in last night's episode, plus the President, are Cylons.<br />- Starbuck is not.<br />- Earth is not the 13th colony. It's where humans came from before they got to Kobol.<br />- Earth was long ago the scene of a catastrophically destructive war between humans and machines, far worse than the first Cylon war.<br />- Earth is now uninhabited (no lights visible on the dark side of the planet in that 1/2 daylight shot), and may be uninhabitable.<br />- The 11 types of humanoid Cylons (the six we know about, plus the Final Five) are based on the mere 11 viable human survivors of the abovementioned war.<br />- The original machine race decided these humans' DNA must be preserved, as they recognized the advantages of biological construction, neural networks etc.<br />- They created a new race that combined the best features of both, based on those 11 surviving humans' DNA.<br />- Kobol was populated by humans who successfully fled that long-ago war.<br />- The machine race found them there, and there was more fighting.<br />- After the second war, the machine race decided to be peaceful, and evolved into something much higher, almost godlike.<br />- They are in some kind of communication with the current Cylons, hence those Cylons' religious convictions<br />- The current humanoid Cylons aren't aware of this history. This is deliberate on the part of the godlike ones.<br />- The godlike beings are manipulating events for a higher purpose that neither human nor Cylon could entirely comprehend even if they were told about it<br />- This includes ultimately bringing the two races together into one, in a joyful union<br />- Which will be the basis for them joining the earlier, more highly evolved godlike ones, in doing whatever galactic housekeeping such beings do<br />- A few humans won't want to go along with the deal, and will flee in a fleet of ragtag spaceships, looking for a new home to colonize<br /><br />The End (?)