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: ''For other items with the name '''Delphi''', see: [[Delphi (disambiguation)]].'' | : ''For other items with the name '''Delphi''', see: [[Delphi (disambiguation)]].'' | ||
'''Delphi''' is a Colonial city on [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] with a large spaceport and military base, and is situated in the same general region as [[Caprica City]]. | |||
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== | == General == | ||
[[Image:TelamontBuilding.jpg|thumb|A binocular view of Delphi, with the [[Telamont Building]] in center.]] | |||
[[Image:HistoryMuseum.jpg|right|thumb|The heavily-damaged Delphi Museum, repository of an [[Arrow of Apollo|important artifact]].]] | |||
Delphi is encircled by a rolling temperate rain forest and is located fairly close to a mountain range. It is on one of these mountains that the [[Caprica Buccaneers]] [[Pyramid (RDM)|pyramid]] team survived the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attack]] while undertaking high-altitude training. | |||
Delphi | One of the tallest structures in Delphi is the [[Telamont Building]]. When he reaches Delphi, [[Karl Agathon|Helo]] recognizes the city by this building. | ||
Another major landmark is the [[Delphi Museum of the Colonies]]. This massive archaeological complex contains the [[Arrow of Apollo]], an artifact that holds clues to the general whereabouts of Earth. After seeing visions of a city on the planet Kobol, President [[Laura Roslin|Roslin]] becomes convinced that Colonial scriptures hold real-world significance. She overrides Commander [[William Adama|Adama]]'s plans to destroy a [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]] orbiting Kobol by means of a [[You Can't Go Home Again|captured]] Cylon [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Raider]], and persuades [[Kara Thrace]] to take the craft to Delphi in order to recover the Arrow. Successfully jumping to Caprica, Thrace lands near the Delphi Museum and manages to retrieve the artifact ("[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]" and "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II|Part II]]"). | |||
Prior to the attack, Kara Thrace owned a studio apartment in Delphi. Overlooking a parking lot, the apartment is in complete disarray, having inoperative air-conditioning, faulty heating and a broken toilet. The living room is littered with paintings of her own creation, some on canvas, [[The Destiny|one particular painting on the wall]] (complete with a [[Starbuck's Poem|poem]]) and a tiny cache of her customary [[Foliole|cigars]]. Thrace isn't very enthusiastic about the place, and merely returns to collect an old jacket, a personal memento, and to retrieve the keys to her old military truck so she and Helo won't have to walk anymore ([[Valley of Darkness]]). | |||
[[ | In a less urbanized part of the city, the [[Delphi Convalescent Institute]] served patients suffering from mental illness for more than sixty years prior to the fall of the Colonies ([[The Imperfections of Memory]]). The [[Delphi Union High School]] is located in the forested area outside of Delphi and used as base of operation by the [[Caprica resistance]] ([[Resistance]]). | ||
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== Cylon Use == | |||
A [[ | [[Image:S2-Downloaded-DelphiRestoration.jpg|left|thumb|[[Cylon Centurion|Centurions]] serving as landscaping workers ([[Downloaded]])]] | ||
[[Image:S2-TheFarm-OccupiedHospital.jpg|right|thumb|A Cylon breeding [[Farms|farm]] in Delphi.]] | |||
Following the Cylon attack, Delphi, which was not directly targeted by nuclear weapons and therefore remained mostly intact, is used by the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]] as their primary base of operations. When [[Sharon Agathon|Valerii]] and Agathon reach Delphi after two months of traveling the surrounding countryside, they notice heavy Cylon activity in and around the city ("[[Flesh and Bone]]", "[[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]", "[[Colonial Day]]"). | |||
The Cylons gradually re-settle Delphi - the [[humanoid Cylon]]s appropriate apartments, restore the landscaping and open a restaurant and other facilities. The Delphi Convalescent Institute is converted into a [[farm]] for reproductive procedures with human women, until the facility is heavily damaged by Kara Thrace ("[[The Farm]]"). After being [[Resurrection (RDM)|resurrected]], [[Sharon Valerii]] returns to the apartment she had lived in prior to the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Fall of the Colonies]] for a time. | |||
Delphi, as with the rest of the Colonies, | Delphi, as with the rest of the Colonies, is allegedly abandoned as the Cylons leave to find the [[The Fleet (RDM)|last remnants]] of humanity in order to find a way to co-exist with them ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]) | ||
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== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
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*Initially, the Oracle was associated with [[w:Gaia (mythology)|Gaia]], who became the foundation of the Olympian Gods. However, with the founding of a temple to the god Apollo, Delphi became more closely associated with him. This relationship between Delphi and Apollo is reflected in Delphi on Caprica being the home of the Arrow of Apollo. | *Initially, the Oracle was associated with [[w:Gaia (mythology)|Gaia]], who became the foundation of the Olympian Gods. However, with the founding of a temple to the god Apollo, Delphi became more closely associated with him. This relationship between Delphi and Apollo is reflected in Delphi on Caprica being the home of the Arrow of Apollo. | ||
*The University of British Columbia's | *The University of British Columbia's Koerner Library was used as the Delphi base on Caprica in the episode "[[Colonial Day]]" (Source: [[Battlestar Galactica: The Official Companion|The Official Companion]]). | ||
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