Do not read this if you have not seen the most recent episode of Battlestar Galactica (BSG).

Also do not read this if you don't want to read speculation which has, in my opinion, a high probability of being correct about the future of BSG.  It's not technically spoilers, as I am not taking this from elsewhere from a source that knows, rather I am putting things together.

Okay, warnings done, here we go.

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This show follows a lot of what happened in the original BSG series from the 1970s.  In fact, it follows a lot more than I expected.  Most of the events from the original show have already happened.  There was an episode about travelling through a void in space with a few vipers leading the way.  There were the Pegasus episodes (and it also ended with the Pegasus being destroyed in a suicide mission against multiple cylon battlestars).  There was the temple they found to guide the way to earth, which was also destroyed before they could fully study it.  And more similarities...

And then, pretty well into the series, there was a two part episode called War of the Gods.

In those episodes, some new ships are seen by viper pilots.  They do not show up on the screen (now called DRADIS), and they glow with a white light (a Ship of Light).  The vipers lose power and crash.  The pilots meet up with someone called Count Ibilis.  It comes out that Iblis is not human, nor cylon, nor related to either, but of a race called the Seraph.  He is at war with another group of his race.  He is there to help prepare the way to earth for the people of the colonies.

To prove he means to help, Iblis promises to deliver Baltar to the Galactica.  He then convinces Baltar to surrender, and does deliver him.  Baltar is put on trial for treason (sound familiar yet?).  He then goes on to perfom many miricles.

It later turns out Iblis is evil, and a manifestation of essentially an evil diety the Colonies acknowledged in their relgion.  There are also good beings of his race.  Essentially, devils and angels, though really that was just an intepretation placed on them by he colonials.

Some of the pilots from the crashed ship return alive, having been killed by Iblis in a manner which was apparently against the rules of his race.  The pilots then reveal the location of earth, which the mysteriously now know, apparently given them by the "angels".

Fast forward to Galactica 1980, which was a bad series but which had some decent wrting for some episodes and which was in fact directly linked to the previous series and set up by the series.  One of the last episodes was an episode called "The Return of Starbuck", where it turns out Starbuck is stranded on a planet alone with a broken cylon, and he meets one of the Seraph in the form of a human, and the Seraph has a child, and Starbuck saves the child and lunches the baby in a ship to return to Galactica in statsis.  The child turns out to be Dr. Zee, a being of incredible power, who is the one who guides the Galactica to earth.

The last episode that was in pre-production for Galactica 1980, which was never filmed but which was fully scripted, was called "Wheel of Fire".  During this episode, a viper pilot apparently has his ship destroyed.  In reality, he is rescued by the Seraph.  And on the Seraph ship he meets Starbuck, who was believed to be dead but apparently he's been with the Seraph for a while. Starbuckl explains that he didn't die, bu merely evoled to another plane of existence (sound familiar to the whole "guide you to walk between life and death" that Starbuck was told by Not Leoban?).  There is then some time travel nonsense, and the wheel of fire is some raider crashing on earth in the past which is seen by Ezekiel on earth and which becomes the legendary Wheel of Fire.  Bah, whatever.  But the wheel of fire concept is relevant for this weeks past episode.


Okay, old episode recap is done.  Now to connect it to this new episode.

The "Cylon Raider" that Starbuck keeps seeing?  It's not a cylon raider.  Play it back slowly.  The body is wrong, the movement is off, it cloaks in and out , and it has a purple engine trail.  Sometimes, it appears to be white, and full of light.  In other words, it looks like a new version of the old concept of a Ship of Light.

The Baltar in Sixes head, and the Six in Baltars head, are both Seraphs, "Angels" or "Devils", in my theory.  Head-Six even said she was an "An Angel of God".  They are neither cylon nor human, but Seraph guiding the cylons and humans to earth, or somewhere, or fighting their war using the humans and cylons as pawns.  And I think there are good ones and bad ones, and I don't know which is good and which is bad with Six and Baltar.

And the "Not Leoban" in Starbucks head?  Yeah, another Seraph.  The "Not Leoban" says he isn't a cylon, nor actually Leoban, and that he never said he was.  He did say he was there to guide Starbuck between life and death.  We also see a wheel of fire, which is the whirling storm on the planet that Starbuck's ship supposedly blew up near.

So that is my theory.  Starbuck is alive, and evolving to become a member of the Seraph.  The Seraph are the beings in the heads of Baltar, Six, and now Starbuck.  They are guiding or manipulating cylons and humans.  They are part of the joint religion of the Cylons and Humans, manifestations of good and evil.  And we will see more of them.