Caprica

Caprica is one of the Twelve colonies of Kobol. Central in the Trojan orbit, Caprica is a beautiful blue-green world with a near-perfect climate. The Colony has rolling hills, pleasant lakes, and deep forests. The cities are heavily populated, but it never seems that way. Glittering silver towers spike through bustling open air markets and plazas. Parks, rivers, and waterfalls are everywhere. So comfortable are Caprica’s cities that people rarely pay attention to the steady lines of vehicles streaking past overhead.

Caprica is also the center of Colonial government, education and culture. Its capital of Delphi house all three branches of government and host the biggest corporations and universities in the system. The city has replicas of the Forum, Temple, and Opera House trying to replace the originals left behind on the original Kobol. The Museum of the Colonies display many original artifacts from the lost home world.

Caprica is a T3 planet settled by the Capricorn tribe of Kobol. Located in the Helios Alpha star system, Caprica has a twin planet called Gemenon that is only 493000 km away. The twin planets share a mutual orbit where each trades places with the other every 28.2 days. Caprica also shares its star system with Picon and Tauron. It is known throughout the Four Systems as the “Capital of the Colonies”.

Caprica City is both a planetary and later a federal capital of the Twelve Colonies after the “Articles of Colonization” were signed soon after the First Cylon War started. The city replaced the previous Colonial Capital, Boskirk on Virgon. It is also extremely beautiful, with many graceful skyscrapers, and is located on the shores of a large ocean or sea. As a result, Caprica became the cultural, scientific, and technological capital of the Colonies, and was regarded as the First Planet of the Colonies. The city has two central business districts:—a highly futuristic one with glittering metal skyscrapers where transportation is by hovercar, called the City Center; and a less futuristic district called the Government Center, with transportation in cars just like those on Earth-I. It has a large open space called Orpheus Park and the Caprica Buccaneers play at Atlas Arena.