High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Twelve Colonies of Man or Twelve Colonies of Kobol are fictional locations that constitute the principal human civilization in the original Battlestar Galactica television series, the "reimagined" series of the same name in 2004, and in the prequel series Caprica and Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome. The names of the colonies` tribes and the planets they lived on were borrowed from the Zodiac.