Chief Tyrol as the founder of Scotland

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You know how at the end of Battlestar Galactica, Chief Tyrol said there was an island to the north where he could live out his days in peace (or something like that)?

The producers have stated that he became the founder of Scotland.

I don't think that could be because they landed 250,000 years ago, before humans made it to Europe - no one to procreate with and populate the island.

Unless of course some other Colonial fleet person or persons made it up there.

Well, he was a Cylon - maybe he just waited around for 250,000 years until someone showed up...

I guess what the producers tried to do (beyond just Tyrol) was show that the Colonial culture was so similar to earth culture, especially in their belief in the Greek / Roman gods, because it was the Colonials who were actually our ancestors on Modern earth - but how well that works really depends. I mean, you could ask yourself why colonial firearms are so much like our modern day firearms, and that would tend to explain it ... but ... the problem is that you have all this tribal / pre-industrial times to get through and for these colonial ideas and technologies to somehow "hibernate" through those times yet still emerge intact in the end.

Tyrol thinks he founded Scotland, but it was really Hotdog.