Editing Armistice Officer

{{Character Data
|photo= Armistice_officer_001.jpg
|series=TRS
|death= [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Zero Hour]], {{ACH|0}}
|children= [[Boxey (RDM)|Boxey]]
|marital status= Married
|role= Officer assigned to [[Armistice Station]]
|rank= Colonel
|actor= [[Ryan Robbins]]
}}

The '''Armistice Station Officer''' (also referred to as the "courier officer") is assigned to the [[Armistice Station]], representing the [[The Twelve Colonies of Kobol|Twelve Colonies]] in their long-dormant diplomatic relations with the exiled [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]]. He brings with him pictures his family, including a photo of his son [[Boxey (RDM)|Boxey]], which he displays on the negotiation table.<ref group="Book">{{Cite book|author=David Bassom|title=[[Battlestar Galactica: The Official Companion]]|year=2005|publisher=Titan Books|isbn=1845760972|page=26}}</ref>

The officer is the first member of the Colonial Fleet to see the Cylons in over 40 years when two upgraded [[Cylon Centurion]]s arrive at the station. They are accompanied by what appears to be a strikingly beautiful woman, a [[Humanoid Cylon|Cylon evolved to humanoid form]]. While the Centurions stand at attention, the woman asks the Colonial officer, "Are you alive?" When he answers "Yes", she tells him to prove it, and kisses him.

A missile launches from a Cylon [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]] and strikes, shaking the station. The woman announces, [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|"It has begun,"]] then continues to hold him down and kisses him again, preventing him from escaping back to his [[Atmospheric shuttle|shuttle]].

[[Fleet Headquarters]] sends a general message requesting the status of all [[FTL]]-capable ships when the courier officer is overdue coming back from Armistice Station, just in case they need someone to jump there and check on him. Commander [[William Adama|Adama]] has Lieutenant [[Felix Gaeta|Gaeta]] reply that they are too busy with the impending decommissioning ceremonies to help {{TRS|Miniseries}}.

Unbeknownst to any human, the Armistice Officer is the first human to die during the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]].

== Behind the Scenes ==
* The role of the Armistice Officer was initially offered to [[Dirk Benedict]], who played [[Starbuck (TOS)|Starbuck]] in the [[Original Series]]. According to executive producer [[David Eick]], "I thought it would be a great sort of nod to the audience... Plus to see Dirk Benedict blowing up at the start of the miniseries would have been a great way to say, 'This is not your parents' ''Battlestar Galactica''!'" Benedict ultimately passed on the project.<ref group="Book">{{Cite book|author=David Bassom|title=[[Battlestar Galactica: The Official Companion]]|year=2005|publisher=Titan Books|isbn=1845760972|page=28}}</ref>
* [[Ryan Robbins]] underwent a significant transformation through makeup and prosthetics in order to appear older than he really was. The original script of the Miniseries called for the opening to show a young officer repeatedly visiting Armistice Station over the 40 years between the end of the Cylon War and the Attack on the Colonies, progressively aging with each visit. Multiple scenes with Robbins in various age-enhanced makeup were filmed, however all of them except the final scene where [[Number Six|Six]] makes her entrance were cut for time.<ref group="Book">{{Cite book|author=David Bassom|title=[[Battlestar Galactica: The Official Companion]]|year=2005|publisher=Titan Books|isbn=1845760972|page=28}}</ref>
* Robbins would later portray the [[New Caprica Resistance]] fighter [[Charlie Connor]] in seasons [[Season 3 (2006-07)|three]] and [[Season 4 (2008)|four]], and later portrayed [[Diego]] in the prequel ''[[Caprica (series)|Caprica]]''.

== Apocrypha ==
*[[File:TRS - Miniseries - Armistice Officer Roused.jpg|thumb|The Armistice Officer's apocryphal costuming accouterments {{TRS|Miniseries, Night 1}}. ]]In the [[Battlestar Galactica (2005 Novel)|novelization]] of the Miniseries, the officer is named [[Colonel Wakefield]]. As the novelization takes liberty in giving names to places and characters that have not been substantiated by or contradict aired content, it is thus considered a [[Battlestar Wiki:Separate continuity|separate continuity]] source.
*The '''Battlestar ''Galactica'' BSG 75''' badge is worn on the officer's lapel. This detail is clear on the HD release of the Miniseries. This is a costuming error as no other badges, outside of a generic badge sans text, were made for the series.
*The "[[Colonial Ministry of Defense|Ministry of Defence Kobol HQ]]" patch first appears here, and would appear one last time as worn by [[Kendra Shaw]] in "[[Razor]]." The patch is also a costuming error, as it is a holdover from an earlier iteration of the production script that originally held that humans were actively living on one single planet, [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]], before this was changed to reflect [[The Twelve Colonies of Kobol]] in keeping with the [[Original Series|original source material]].

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