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Zoe Graystone is the daughter of Daniel and Amanda Graystone. Though her parents believe her to be a typical apathetic teenager, she is a computer genius and secret fanatical monotheist.

Early Life

Zoe was born into a very wealthy family on Caprica. Though she appeared to have had a good relationship with her father, her relationship with her mother was strained. She attended the Athena Academy, where she was best friends with fellow classmate Lacy Rand. Together, they began using the holoband technology her father invented to indulge in the V-Club, a virtual nightclub frequented by teenagers, where they indulged in sex.

At some point, Zoe began dating Ben Stark, a fanatical monotheist guided by the headmistress of the Athena Academy, Sister Clarice Willow. Both Zoe and Lucy and became closet monotheists as a result of Ben's guidance. Showing her aptitude for computer programming, she created a temple within the V-Club only accessible to herself and her fellow monotheists, with an infinity symbol marking the entrance. Furthermore, she designed a program that allowed her to create virtual duplicate of herself using a compilation of various personal records, a feat that impressed even her own computer-gifted father. Zoe believed that the creation of her holographic avatar was the next step towards a divinely-inspired plan, and designed a biofeedback subroutine that allowed her avatar to feel what she felt in the real world.

Death

Fed up with her parents and the fact that her monotheism had to be kept a secret on polytheistic Caprica, Zoe planned to leave for Gemenon with Stark and Rand. Though she had a plan for her avatar once they had arrived on Gemenon, she never revealed what that plan was.

The three students leave their school and board the Lev, but Rand has second thoughts and stays behind. Undaunted, Stark and Zoe proceed, and she quickly sends a goodbye email to her parents from her computer sheet. Noticing that Stark is acting tense, she asks him what is is wrong. Apologizing to her, Stark reveals a bomb strapped around his torso. Before she has time to stop him, Stark detonates the bomb, destroying the train and killing himself and Zoe as well others on the train, including Shannon and Tamara Adams (Caprica pilot).

In the weeks after the bombing, Jordan Duram, the lead investigator of the bombing, begins to suspect that Zoe was involved in the bombing of the train, given the farewell email she sent to her parents shortly before the bombing.

Resurrection

Rand visits the virtual temple after the bombing to find that the virtual Zoe still exists despite her doppleganger's death. Due to the biofeedback subroutine, she also has memories of the real Zoe's death, though strangely she is also covered in blood. Daniel Graystone soon becomes aware of the existence of Zoe's avatar with Rand's help. At first, he rejects of the avatar as a superficial copy of his daughter. However, she is able to convince him that she is a perfect recreation of her consciousness.

Graystone then tricks Zoe's avatar and downloads her onto a media storage device, planning to insert her into his company's U-87 Cyber Combat Unit to allow her to live in the real world. Though Zoe rejects this idea, Graystone ignores her protests and loads her into the robot. Though at first the experiment seems to have succeeded, with the robot taking several steps and calling Graystone "daddy", her data quickly becomes corrupted and seemingly irretrievable, and the robot collapses.

Soon afterwords, the robot containing Zoe's avatar is stored at Graystone's lab. Suddenly, the robot reactivates with Zoe's consciousness intact. She reaches a computer terminal and contacts Rand, asking for her help.

Notes

The name "Zoe" originally comes from the ancient Greek word for "life"^[1], and is used in the New Testament of the Bible 134 times to indicate the "eternal life" or the "life after death" in heaven rewarded to the children of God^[2]. This could be a reference to Zoe's own resurrection, or it could be a religious reference to the Cylons' status as the children of God, or both.

References

↑ Behind the Name:Zoe (backup available on Archive.org) (in ). Retrieved on 7 April 2008.
↑ Biblical-Baby Names:Zoe (backup available on Archive.org) (in ). Retrieved on 7 April 2008.

[1] Behind the Name:Zoe (backup available on Archive.org) (in ). Retrieved on 7 April 2008.

[2] Biblical-Baby Names:Zoe (backup available on Archive.org) (in ). Retrieved on 7 April 2008.

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-'''Zoe Graystone''' is the daughter of [[Daniel Graystone]], a brilliant and wealthy [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprican]] computer engineer and his wife [[Amanda Graystone]].
+'''Zoe Graystone''' is the daughter of [[Daniel Graystone|Daniel]] and [[Amanda Graystone]]. Though her parents believe her to be a typical apathetic teenager, she is a computer genius and secret fanatical [[God (RDM)|monotheist]].
-<ref name="casting call">{{cite_web|url=http://www.tvsquad.com/2008/04/03/exclusive-caprica-casting-info-revealed/|title=Caprica casting info|date=Apr 3, 2008}}</ref>. Her talent with computer programming is greatly admired by her friends. Later, after her death, her father learns the full extent of her talent, such as encryption coding, and he comes to admire her talent as well. Zoe's friends believed that her talents were God given for the purpose of revealing God to the worlds.
-She became a closet [[God (RDM)|monotheist]] in the [[Religion in the Twelve Colonies (RDM)|polytheistic]] society of the [[Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]] after being introduced to the worship of one [[God (RDM)|God]] by the headmistress of the [[Athena Academy]], Sister [[Clarice Willow]]. She created in Virtual Reality on the Holo-band network her father created 10 years before, an exact duplicate of herself that is supposed to be a symbol or instrument to change the worlds; presumably to their monotheistic beliefs and morality system. To that end Zoe tries to leave Caprica, running away from home with her boyfriend [[Ben Stark]], a fanatical monotheist, and her best friend [[Lacy Rand]] to live on [[The_Twelve_Colonies_(RDM)#Gemenon|Gemenon]] with new families. As they board the high speed [[wikipedia:Maglev (transport)|Magnetic Levitation]] subway train (Mag Lev, known colloquially as "The 'Lev") Lacy has second thoughts and stays behind as Zoe and Ben ostensibly heads for the port to take a ship to Gemenon. However, Ben has other intentions. After Zoe sends a goodbye E-mail to her parents from her computer sheet, Ben reveals a bomb strapped around his torso to her horror. He and Zoe perish when Ben sets off a bomb on the subway train, killing [[Shannon Adama|Shannon]] and [[Tamara Adams]] as well. ([[Caprica pilot]])
+==Early Life==
+Zoe was born into a very wealthy family on [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]]. Though she appeared to have had a good relationship with her father, her relationship with her mother was strained. She attended the [[Athena Academy]], where she was best friends with fellow classmate [[Lacy Rand]]. Together, they began using the [[holoband]] technology her father invented to indulge in the [[V-Club]], a virtual nightclub frequented by teenagers, where they indulged in sex.
-After her death, in an obsessive desire to have his daughter back, Daniel Graystone downloads his daughter's Virtual Reality avatar into a prototype military soldier robot creating the first Cybernetic Life-form Node, a [[Cylon (RDM)|Cylon]].
+At some point, Zoe began dating [[Ben Stark]], a fanatical monotheist guided by the headmistress of the [[Athena Academy]], Sister [[Clarice Willow]]. Both Zoe and Lucy and became closet monotheists as a result of Ben's guidance. Showing her aptitude for computer programming, she created a temple within the V-Club only accessible to herself and her fellow monotheists, with an infinity symbol marking the entrance. Furthermore, she designed a program that allowed her to create virtual duplicate of herself using a compilation of various personal records, a feat that impressed even her own computer-gifted father. Zoe believed that the creation of her [[holographic avatar]] was the next step towards a divinely-inspired plan, and designed a biofeedback subroutine that allowed her avatar to feel what she felt in the real world.
-==Zoe-A==
+==Death==
+Fed up with her parents and the fact that her monotheism had to be kept a secret on polytheistic Caprica, Zoe planned to leave for [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Gemenon|Gemenon]] with Stark and Rand. Though she had a plan for her avatar once they had arrived on Gemenon, she never revealed what that plan was.
-Before her death, Zoe found a way to upload her memories and DNA into a Virtual Reality hologram, thus creating an [[holographic avatar|online avatar]] of herself on the Holo-band network which her father invented, Zoe-A. She is intended to somehow "change the worlds" and Zoe had been teaching her about the alleged defects of their society that she will somehow bring society to the truth of the "One true God". Zoe-A resides in Virtual Reality in a room of an adolescent but decadent "V-Club" that only she occupies away from the others participating in the Virtual world. It is bare and dark with with a large four person sette. Votive candles are along around the walls. High up along those side walls and the wall behind the sette are stain glass windows (much like a Christian church in real life). It is essentially a temple to her. It could only be entered by Zoe, Lacy and presumably Ben by touching a virtual sensor shaped in the form of the Infinity symbol. After the suicide bombing, the avatar is left behind, suffering from sympathy burns from the rudimentary bio feedback subroutine that Zoe had set up so that Zoe-A can feel Zoe's experiences in the world, even though she could not do so directly. Lacy came to her to reconnect with her dead friend. At first she is horrified and confused over Zoe-A's apparent wounds and then rejects her momentarily as a friend saying she was merely a "thing" but changed her minds seeing Zoe-A's physical and emotional suffering. Later Daniel Graystone discovers Lacy's visitations of Zoe-A and after at first rejecting the notion of Zoe-A being her daughter, he steals her by downloading her data to a memory stick with the intention of downloading her into one of his prototype robots. <!-- Similarly, her boyfriend also uploaded his personality into an avatar known as [[Ben-A]]. -->
+The three students leave their school and board the [[Lev]], but Rand has second thoughts and stays behind. Undaunted, Stark and Zoe proceed, and  she quickly sends a goodbye email to her parents from her [[computer sheet]]. Noticing that Stark is acting tense, she asks him what is is wrong. Apologizing to her, Stark reveals a bomb strapped around his torso. Before she has time to stop him, Stark detonates the bomb, destroying the train and killing himself and Zoe as well others on the train, including [[Shannon Adama|Shannon]] and [[Tamara Adams]] ([[Caprica pilot|''Caprica'' pilot]]).
+In the weeks after the bombing, [[Jordan Duram]], the lead investigator of the bombing, begins to suspect that Zoe was involved in the bombing of the train, given the farewell email she sent to her parents shortly before the bombing.
+==Resurrection==
 [[Image:Zoe-A.jpg|thumb|Zoe's online avatar.]]
+Rand visits the virtual temple after the bombing to find that the virtual Zoe still exists despite her doppleganger's death. Due to the biofeedback subroutine, she also has memories of the real Zoe's death, though strangely she is also covered in blood. Daniel Graystone soon becomes aware of the existence of Zoe's avatar with Rand's help. At first, he rejects of the avatar as a superficial copy of his daughter. However, she is able to convince him that she is a perfect recreation of her consciousness.
+Graystone then tricks Zoe's avatar and downloads her onto a media storage device, planning to insert her into his company's [[Cylon Prototype|U-87 Cyber Combat Unit]] to allow her to live in the real world. Though Zoe rejects this idea, Graystone ignores her protests and loads her into the robot. Though at first the experiment seems to have succeeded, with the robot taking several steps and calling Graystone "daddy", her data quickly becomes corrupted and seemingly irretrievable, and the robot collapses.
-==Zoe-R==
+Soon afterwords, the robot containing Zoe's avatar is stored at Graystone's lab. Suddenly, the robot reactivates with Zoe's consciousness intact. She reaches a computer terminal and contacts Rand, asking for her help.
-When Daniel Graystone discovers his daughter's online twin, he decides to recreate Zoe as a robot, using Zoe's avatar and technology stolen from his business competitor, [[Tomas Vergis]]. With the help of  [[Joseph Adama|Joseph Adams]]'s (later Adama) organized crime contacts, whose [[Evelyn Adama|wife]] and [[Tamara Adama|daughter]] also died in the same explosion, to steal an advanced technology from the Vergis Company, the Meta-Cognitive Processor (MCP) which is an artificial brain. The crime syndicate has Adams do a standing favor for it in return for stealing the processor. Adams is to persuade the Caprican Defense Minister to do a favor for the mob. Adams attempts this but fails to persuade the Defense Minister. However, the Mob is satisfied over Adams's efforts and obtains the technology for Graystone (the Defense Minister is later murdered in his bed possibly with Adams's knowledge). Graystone installs the MCP into a [[Cylon Prototype|U-87 Cyber Combat Unit]]. Zoe-A is downloaded into the memory of the U-87 by her "father" Daniel, and thus becomes Zoe-R, the first version of the Cylons in the Twelve Colonies. (Caprica pilot)
 == Notes ==
-*The name "Zoe" originally comes from the ancient Greek word for "life"<ref>{{cite_web|url=http://www.behindthename.com/name/zoe|title=Behind the Name:Zoe|date=|accessdate=7 April 2008|last=|first=|format=|language=}}</ref>, and is used in the [[w:New Testament|New Testament]] of the Bible 134 times to indicate the "eternal life" or the "life after death" in heaven rewarded to the children of God<ref>{{cite_web|url=http://www.biblical-baby-names.com/meaning-of-zoe.html|title=Biblical-Baby Names:Zoe|date=|accessdate=7 April 2008|last=|first=|format=|language=}}</ref>. This could be a reference to Zoe's own resurrection as Zoe-R, or it could be a religious reference to the Cylons' status as the children of [[God (RDM)|God]], or both.
+*The name "Zoe" originally comes from the ancient Greek word for "life"<ref>{{cite_web|url=http://www.behindthename.com/name/zoe|title=Behind the Name:Zoe|date=|accessdate=7 April 2008|last=|first=|format=|language=}}</ref>, and is used in the [[w:New Testament|New Testament]] of the Bible 134 times to indicate the "eternal life" or the "life after death" in heaven rewarded to the children of God<ref>{{cite_web|url=http://www.biblical-baby-names.com/meaning-of-zoe.html|title=Biblical-Baby Names:Zoe|date=|accessdate=7 April 2008|last=|first=|format=|language=}}</ref>. This could be a reference to Zoe's own resurrection, or it could be a religious reference to the Cylons' status as the children of [[God (RDM)|God]], or both.
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