The Cylons used all their trickery when they finally destroyed the Colonies. They used Baltar (knowingly it should be noted) to speak to the Quorum of Twelve that they Cylons wished to sue for peace. This peace would be sealed at the old moon of Cimtar, a system only a short hyperspeed journey away from the Colonies.

President Adar had had enough of war at this point, and he believed Baltar - as did most of the Council of Twelve, a notable exception being the military Commander Adama who represented the planet Caprica in the Council - that the Cylons truely wanted peace. As such, he let himself be led by Baltar, and the final heavy elements of the Colonial Fleet journeyed to the moon of Cimtar to seal the truce.

The Cylon plan was three fold. The first two parts operated together to destroy the final defences of the Colonies, and then the third part would be the utlimate destruction of the human race.

Part one was a huge trap for the Colonial Fleet. Surrounding the moon of Cimtar is a vast mist layer, and hidden within this layer were Cylon tankers. They fueled a vast amarda of over a thousand Raiders, which would allow them to operate without Baseship support. These would destroy the Colonial Fleet.

At the same time, part two of the trap consisted of three fully loaded Baseships jumping into the Cyranus system to attack the Colony worlds. Targets would include any Fleet elements and planetary defences. Part of this plan was to use spies of Baltar who would attempt to disable defences and provide information on Fleet movements.

Then, when the Raiders and Baseships had done their jobs, they would rendeavous with the remaining Cylon Fleet elements, and once refueled and rearmed, the entire fleet would then jump back to the Cyranus System, and complete the destruction.

The plan worked almost perfectly.

		The Colonial fleet moved to the moon of Cimtar, but a lone patrol from the Colonial Battlestar Galactica discovered the massed Raiders and the Cylons had to spring their trap early. Thus during the attack, the Colonials detected the presence of the Baseships in their home system, and the Galactica managed to break away from the ambush and jump back to Cyranus. The rest of the Colonial Fleet, aside from a few Vipers, was destroyed. However, the Galactica arrived too late to save the Colonial Worlds. The first group of Baseships had already arrived and left, and with the help of human sabatuers, had disabled the planetary defences, allowing them and any Fleet elements present to be easily destroyed. Having no choice to stay, the Battlestar Galactica attempted to assemble as many survivors as it could, and left the Cyranus System for good. Shortly afterwards, the Cylons arrived back in system, and this time they completed the destruction of the Colony worlds, and the extermination of all life there. Once this was underway, the Cylons sent out death squads to other Colonial colonies and last known positions of Colonial Fleet elements with orders to destroy them utterly. There was to be no mercy.