Proteus is a prison planetoid established by the Colonies some 700 yahren prior to the Battle of Cimtar, where criminals (and their descendents) serve their time making munitions and ambrosa. When the munitions ran out, the prisoners continue to create ambrosa, believing that they were helping the Colonies in the war effort against the Cylons.

Prisoners are named for their crime (Embezzler, Forger, Adulteress, Assault) as well as a number for identification purposes. Descendents of the criminals inherit the name/crime of their parents but increment the number, which itself is placed on a colored armband.

The prisoners who originally were sentenced to the prison were known as the Original Sinner. The prison is overseen by the enforcers, who are descendents of the staff who were originally in charge of overseeing the Original Sinners.

Sectar is a planet in the Zeta Quadrant. Home to the native Borays as well as a small agro colony of humans called Serenity. Adama leads a mission to this planet hoping to trade an unmarked energizer in exchange for some agron seed, after two of the three agro ships in the fleet are destroyed by Cylon raiders.

Equellus is a low-tech planet in the Hatari Sector, similar in motif to the American West circa 1800s. Apollo crash lands on this planet after luring a Cylon task force away from the Fleet with false distress signals.

Prior to Apollo's landing on this planet, there was another battle with the Cylons some ten or more years prior, resulting in another Colonial Warrior named Martin crash-landing on Equellus. A Cylon Raider also crashed roughly nine yahrens prior, Equellus residents Lacerta, Marco, and Macy rescue a lone Cylon Centurion, Red-Eye, who terrorizes the residents on behalf of Lacerta, until Red-Eye is destroyed by Apollo.

The planet Terra is home to the Terran Nationalists and the Eastern Alliance. The Eastern Alliance would have eliminated the Nationalists in a nuclear attack if not for the intervention of Apollo and Galactica. Despite hopes that Galactica had finally reached its destination, it is revealed that Terra is not Earth.

Colonists from Terra founded the Lunar Colonies. Galactica first encounters "Earthlings" when they discover a ship from the Lunar Colonies. The people aboard were attempting to flee the influence of the Eastern Alliance by travelling to Paradeen

Paradeen is the destination of Michael, his traveling companion Sarah, and their four children, who are traveling in a primitive spaceship in a state of suspended animation. Galactica intercepts their ship, and word of their discovery spreads throughout the fleet with rumors that they are from Earth.

To avoid a riot, Apollo, Starbuck, and Cassiopeia escort the ship to its original destination of Paradeen. Michael later awakens to tell the group that they do not come from Earth, but from a planet named Terra, which is besieged in a civil war. Paradeen's population was destroyed by the Eastern Alliance. The Colonials are greeted by two androids that survived, named Hector and Vector

Carillon is the dimly lit home planet of the Ovions.

The resort on the surface of the planet is used by the inhabitants as a lure to kidnap people for the purpose of consuming them.

Carillon has rich tylium deposits, which the Ovions had hoped to trade to the Cylons in exchange for independence. An earlier expedition overseen by Baltar noted that Carillon had nothing of note, although these reports were later proven false by Commander Adama.

The tylium ends up leading to the destruction of the planet, when Starbuck and Apollo set fire to the tylium mines. The explosion of the planet destroys a Cylon basestar along with the Imperious Leader that is aboard.

The tylium-rich Carillon was first discovered by Colonials 178 yahren before the Battle of Cimtar, later settled by a human mining colony 58 yahren later. Since the soil is incapable of supporting crops, the settlers are dependent on supplies from outside sources. Despite this, the colony grew to 50,000 people 15 years after settlement.

Due to the intensification of the Thousand-Yahren War, supply lines became impossible to obtain and the colony was later abandoned, making way for the non-native Ovions to settle, mining the tylium for the Cylons.

Lianus vector is an area of space that contains Cimtar, an "old moon" which is the staging area for the Cylon ambush against the Colonial peace envoy.

Blue Flight, a Viper patrol from battlestar Galactica consisting of Captain Apollo and Lieutenant Zac, enter this region of space and happen across the thousands of Raiders and the two empty Cylon fuel tankers orbiting Cimtar on a routine patrol.

Cimtar is a small moon where Count Baltar arranges for a peace conference between the Cylon Empire and the Twelve Colonies, whose remaining battlestars gather in anticipation of the end of the Thousand-Yahren War. The signing never takes place. Baltar's guidance of President Adar is revealed as part of an elaborate plan by the Cylons to ambush the battlestars and their homeworlds.

Gamoray is a planet originally the center of power for the Delphian Empire, lying within a region of space the Cylons refer to as the Krillian Star System. According to the Colonials, Gamoray at one time time was inhabited by some 70 million beings.

Conquered by the Cylons sometime before the destruction of the Twelve Colonies, Gamoray became a Cylon regional capital city (complete with civilians), a base, and fuel dump located on the planet to project its imperial power throughout the star system (The Living Legend, Part I).

Gamoray is also the location of a space battle between Cylon forces and the Colonial battlestars Galactica and Pegasus. The attack by the Colonial forces is planned and executed by Pegasus Commander Cain after he joins the rag-tag fleet, having survived the Battle of Molecay, where Cain's battlestar had been presumed destroyed.

During the Battle of Gamoray, two basestars are destroyed -- but Pegasus herself is presumed loss.

The Nova of Madagon is a spacial location lying somewhere between the Twelve Colonies and the planet Carillon. It is not actually a nova at all, but is a starfield of intense, blinding brightness; this "nova" also causes electronic equipment problems for smaller craft. The Straits of Madagon, a passage within this area of space, were mined by the Cylons, though these are cleared by a group of three Vipers lead by Captain Apollo.

The Straits of Madagon are a passage through the Nova of Madagon, and is one of the first destinations of Galactica and her new civilian Fleet after the Battle of Cimtar. The Cylons had mined the straits, but Apollo, Starbuck, and Boomer clear the mines in their Vipers, allowing the Fleet to pass through to Carillon.

Kobol is the ancestral homeworld for humanity in the original Battlestar Galactica saga. An unexplained event or environmental catastrophe causes humanity to leave Kobol and settle on the planets that form their new homeworlds known as the Twelve Colonies.

The tombs of the Lords of Kobol as seen in the Original Series.

Kobol is located in a quadrant of space known to the Colonials as Epsilon Quadrant approximately one to three parsecs from its star.

Kobol was the mother world where mankind originated. An ecological or environmental disaster led to humanity's migration. During the migration, twelve tribes set out for the stars, but became lost in a starless void before stumbling into the worlds that would become the new Twelve Colonies of Man, while the Thirteenth Tribe headed for a world called "Earth."

Kobol is rediscovered by chance by Galactica. A team from the battlestar arrives among the ruins of Eden, the planet's largest city, seeking to enter the tomb of the Ninth Lord of Kobol in order to find clues as to the route taken by the Thirteenth Tribe. A Cylon attack ultimately prevents them from doing so.

Eden is an ancient, uninhabited city on the planet Kobol.

According to the Book of the Word, Eden was the largest city on the planet. Due to an ecological disaster that had caused the exodus from Kobol, Eden had become a desert, populated by ruins.

The structures of Eden are populated by pyramid structures (an architectural trait that is also apparent on Caprica). The Tomb of the Ninth Lord of Kobol is located within what remained of the city.

Commander Adama and two others explore Eden in hopes of finding information on the lost colony known as Earth. Eden is further damaged by a Cylon attack from Baltar's forces in the form of a Cylon Raider phalanx, as ordered by his cogitator Lucifer. This attack prevents Adama from gaining much information on Earth's whereabouts.

The tomb of the Ninth Lord of Kobol is located inside a large pyramid in the city of Eden on the planet Kobol. Its entrance is marked with an inscription that tells that the Ninth Lord of Kobol lies there in peace and promises death to those who enter it.

The Ninth Lord of Kobol was the last of the Lords of Kobol to have survived. Apparently, he survived long enough for a tomb to be built in his honor by the humans, who were apparently leaving due to an ecological disaster on Kobol. While much was never revealed about the Ninth Lord, the Colonials felt that his tomb held the location of Earth.

Despite the dire warnings, Adama enters the tomb, using his Quorum of Twelve medallion as a key. Serina and Apollo accompany him. A trap springs shortly after they enter, and the bones of tomb raiders in the trap reveal its deadly nature.

Adama again uses his medallion, this time to free them from the trap and continue. The next chamber appears to be the crypt, but they are interrupted by the entrance of Baltar through a different door. Apparently his amulet works as well. Baltar is taken back to the camp, and Adama remains trying to decipher the writings.

When Starbuck returns and tells the camp of the basestar that is just beyond sensor range, Apollo and Serina bring Baltar back to the tomb. It is then when the star of Kobol begins to shine again, reflecting off of Adama's amulet and causing the crypt to retract revealing a stairwell.

Baltar pries the lid off of the sarcophagus.

Baltar charges in first, followed by the others. Baltar manages to pry off the lid of the sarcophagus before Apollo can stop him, and grabs a scepter, activating a trap. A large stone block traps them in the tomb. Adama discovers that the inscriptions he was searching for, regarding the last days of Kobol and the exodus of the thirteenth tribe to Earth are on the walls of this room.

Shots from a Cylon Raider end up blowing a hole in the tomb, freeing them from the room but also destroying the writings and trapping Baltar under a large stone

Arcta is an ice planet that appears to have been uninhabited prior to the arrival of Dr. Ravashol. A brilliant scientist, Dr. Ravashol bred clones to assist him in his work, known as Theta class lifeforms. The Thetans have created large underground excavations for their small city, since the surface is unlivable, due to di-ethene storms on places like Deathpoint Plateau.

The Cylons later established a garrison on Arcta using Dr. Ravashol's technology to construct the Ravashol pulsar. The pulsar was later destroyed by a team from Galactica.

Otarsis Quadrant is an area of space in the Cyranus galaxy (The Long Patrol) consisting of at least three celestial bodies. Two appear to be planetoids, while one appears to be a satellite orbiting a green planet, which appear to orbit a star.

A Cylon listening post is located on the green planet, which Lieutenant Boomer refers to as an "asteroid".

Colonel Tigh considers the path through Otarsis to be a better route than the magnetic void detected by Patrol One, consisting of Starbuck and Apollo, in the neighboring Epsilon Quadrant.