who are the cylons on battlestar galactica
Cylon (reimagining) Cylons are a fictional artificially-intelligent species envisioned in the Battlestar Galactica science fiction series and related franchises. Originally created to serve human needs like other machines, a series of events involving the transfer of a human's consciousness into a Cylon's neural network led Cylons to evolve into sentient, self-aware beings. The original Cylons were purely mechanical. The Cylon was reimagined in the second Battlestar Galactica television series and its prequel Cap