I think its all just an illusion, a made up adventure designed to captivate audiances around the world with a story of human stuggle against impossible odds.
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At the end, we will discover that everybody is still hooked up to the matrix, and the Cylons just let the humans think that they had escaped, so that they don't really try to escape.