The focus of that effort, according to Brown, is on District Attorney Ron Moore.

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The series, also from Eick and his Battlestar partner Ron Moore, is set 50 years earlier and tells the tale of how humanity first created the Cylons.

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Additionally, the emails are not emails sent by Ron Moore.

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The project was commissioned by longtime Lucasfilm producer Rick McCallum, who enlisted writers such as "Battlestar Galactica's" Ron Moore and swore them to NDA secrecy on the plot details (more on the show's storyline below).

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