In it, Lucifer tells Baltar that the outpost is 1.5 hectares from Galactica and that they could catch the battlestar at light speed 'within a centon.' According to the Writer's Guide, a hectar is 9 million miles, or roughly a light minute. Both terms are used almost exclusively in the first two episodes. In the pilot, Apollo tells the Quorum of the Twelve that the intended route to Carillon would 'take us centons of our way.' The use of two other time units- millicenton and microcenton-seem to be based off of this original definition of the centon as a week, especially when considering the metric prefixes of 'milli' (thousandth) and 'micro' (millionth).
In ' Murder on the Rising Star', Boomer uses the phrase 'Just a centon,' the Colonial equivalent of 'Just a minute.'.
