There were many possible endings to this story. I will go through the ideas of each of them and why I decided against them.
Ending 1: Laura Roslin
The earliest idea I had for an ending would be for the Final Five to re-program Zoe to believe she was Laura Roslin. This idea was supposed to be a Romeo and Juliet sort of ending to the Adama/ Graystone feud.
As I looked into the back story of Laura Roslin though, there were just too many things standing in the way. Least of these problems was that, as fara as we know, Laura Roslin is geneetically related to her mother as both wind up dying of cancer. Then there was the problem of Gaius Baltar's Cylon detector and the fact that the idea just seemed like something that would wind up in a fan fiction and I was trying to go for a non fan-ficy fan-fiction.
Ending 2: Leaders of the Centurions
The second alternate ending would see Zoe Graystone and Tamara Adama leading the Cylon race to a new home. This idea was the one I was going with for the longest.
The problem with the idea was giving the story some diversity. I had been putting argument after argument into the story between Tamara and Zoe and just decided that, Tamara wasn't going to go off into space with Zoe quietly so I decided that both characters wind up on Earth instead of 'Cylon World'.
Ending 3: The 'Fun' Ending
This is the current ending. The idea to end with Zoe telling Lee Adama her story came from my love of stories that come full circle and the idea in the Messenger meeting epilogue that Caprica was a part of genetic memory. In the end though, I decided that we've had enough dark death and arguments and I should just have fun with the ending.
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