But that’s answered in the backstory article. There are (at least) 2 generations of Cylons. The Final Five date back at least 4,000 years to the Temple of Five. Did you not see them in that Temple, and in the Opera House from Kobol, dating back 2,000 to 4,000 years? Tigh only dates back 65 years — that’s nothing.

Where do you think the 7 Cylons we saw before got their bodies from? They sure don’t act like they developed that technology.