http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperion_Cantos
I'll make this short. For those who have read the series, you can use the series to explain the entire religion aspect of BSG. The medium in which the farcasters and the UI's live/communicate (arg, i forgot what it was called; it was where the technocore lived) was insinuated in the books to be the "afterlife" of sorts, except it really exists in the subspace of time and 3D. It is where your soul and all living material is tied to. You don't necessarily remember your life when you die; you just sort of mingle and "exist" in this medium after you die. Think "gaia" from the Final Fantasy 7 mythology and the Final Fantasy CG theatrical movie.
This medium is "heaven." In this medium/heaven, resides an Ultimate Intelligence/Machine God.
The Machine God of the far far far future has been dictating and planning the events of all of space-time throughout the existence of life of the universe. The entire "this has happened before, and will happen again," happens in the Hyperion series (I know moore just ripped it off of Peter Pan, but oh well).
In Hyperion, Humans create AI, AI defects, AI gains power and tries to be the Gods and human's overseer, the same AI's finds this frightening other Ultimate Intelligence (which is insinuated to be the Machine God of the far far far future) within the medium (FFS!! I can't rememeber the name of the medium!!), many battles occur, Earth is Stolen, and a major war breaks. There are alliances between the humans and the AI and the UI (ultimate intellegence) as everyone tries to wrestle for power/survival. Earth at the end is finally returned (not the other way around where in BSG, they looked for Earth) So, essentially, Everything in BSG has happened yet again (except in a more epic scale).
The Caprica+Baltar angels are just ambassadors of the Machine God from the far far future. Maybe that's who the Cylons eventually become. They evolve, find the subspace medium, eliminate their 3D/physical/time variants, and start living in this subspace medium.
Kara is just like Moneta. Kara's first death is really never explained, nor is her reappearance. If BSG parallels with the Hyperion series, then that explains how Kara came back, and lead the humans to Earth. It explains her sudden disappearance at the end of BSG. It's as if Kara IS Moneta; finally ending/beginning her journey as she travels back in time to the beginnings of the Human race on Earth.
The cruciform is like an evolution to the resurrection technology in BSG that is given to all of humanity.
Aenea is a hybrid. Child of a human, and a AI Cybrid. She is a central messianic figure in the series of extreme importance (like Hera)
Well, bottom line:
In order to answer the rest of your questions about the existence of God, Angels, Kara's reappearance and disappearance, her mission, the cylons, what the cylons may become, READ the Hyperion series.
OF COURSE though, you can see many influences on what Hyperion has provided modern sci-fi. (The Matrix trilogy, Stargate, BSG).
I'll make this short. For those who have read the series, you can use the series to explain the entire religion aspect of BSG. The medium in which the farcasters and the UI's live/communicate (arg, i forgot what it was called; it was where the technocore lived) was insinuated in the books to be the "afterlife" of sorts, except it really exists in the subspace of time and 3D. It is where your soul and all living material is tied to. You don't necessarily remember your life when you die; you just sort of mingle and "exist" in this medium after you die. Think "gaia" from the Final Fantasy 7 mythology and the Final Fantasy CG theatrical movie.
This medium is "heaven." In this medium/heaven, resides an Ultimate Intelligence/Machine God.
The Machine God of the far far far future has been dictating and planning the events of all of space-time throughout the existence of life of the universe. The entire "this has happened before, and will happen again," happens in the Hyperion series (I know moore just ripped it off of Peter Pan, but oh well).
In Hyperion, Humans create AI, AI defects, AI gains power and tries to be the Gods and human's overseer, the same AI's finds this frightening other Ultimate Intelligence (which is insinuated to be the Machine God of the far far far future) within the medium (FFS!! I can't rememeber the name of the medium!!), many battles occur, Earth is Stolen, and a major war breaks. There are alliances between the humans and the AI and the UI (ultimate intellegence) as everyone tries to wrestle for power/survival. Earth at the end is finally returned (not the other way around where in BSG, they looked for Earth) So, essentially, Everything in BSG has happened yet again (except in a more epic scale).
The Caprica+Baltar angels are just ambassadors of the Machine God from the far far future. Maybe that's who the Cylons eventually become. They evolve, find the subspace medium, eliminate their 3D/physical/time variants, and start living in this subspace medium.
Kara is just like Moneta. Kara's first death is really never explained, nor is her reappearance. If BSG parallels with the Hyperion series, then that explains how Kara came back, and lead the humans to Earth. It explains her sudden disappearance at the end of BSG. It's as if Kara IS Moneta; finally ending/beginning her journey as she travels back in time to the beginnings of the Human race on Earth.
The cruciform is like an evolution to the resurrection technology in BSG that is given to all of humanity.
Aenea is a hybrid. Child of a human, and a AI Cybrid. She is a central messianic figure in the series of extreme importance (like Hera)
Well, bottom line:
In order to answer the rest of your questions about the existence of God, Angels, Kara's reappearance and disappearance, her mission, the cylons, what the cylons may become, READ the Hyperion series.
OF COURSE though, you can see many influences on what Hyperion has provided modern sci-fi. (The Matrix trilogy, Stargate, BSG).
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