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'''Erin Mathias''' is a | Gunnery Sergeant '''Erin Mathias''' is one of the few [[Marine]] NCOs seen in the series. | ||
Under [[Kendra Shaw]] and [[Kara Thrace]] she leads a team of Marines that boards a [[Guardian basestar|Cylon basestar]] in order to rescue a captured Raptor crew. When the arming mechanism of a nuclear device, that they brought along to destroy the basestar, fails and she can't repair it, she rigs a manual switch. Shaw then detonates the bomb manually ([[Razor]]). | |||
Later Mathias leads [[Sharon Agathon]]'s Marine escort on [[New Caprica]] as part of Admiral [[William Adama]]'s rescue operation ([[Exodus, Part I]]). She and her team repel a [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]] ambush on a preliminary meeting between Agathon and the New Caprica Resistance under [[Samuel Anders]]. She then accompanies the resistance group back to [[New Caprica City]] to discuss the rescue plan with all leaders, among them [[Saul Tigh]], [[Laura Roslin]] and [[Tom Zarek]] ([[Exodus, Part I]]). When Adama's plans are executed, Mathias is in charge of the Marines who participate in the attack on the [[New Caprica Detention Center]] ([[Exodus, Part II]]). | |||
Mathias is later part of the party that boards the infected basestar discovered at the [[Lion's Head Nebula]]. She is assigned to execute the prisoners retrieved from this baseship in a failed plan to infect the entire Cylon race via the download process ([[A Measure of Salvation]]). | |||
She also leads the Marine force on the [[algae planet]] and is ordered by Lee Adama to detain Samuel Anders when he wants to rescue his wife whose Raptor was shot down by the Cylons ([[The Eye of Jupiter]]). | |||
Sergeant Mathias leads the Marines responding to [[Kara Thrace]] taking President Roslin hostage in Adama's quarters. Later, she releases Thrace from the [[brig]] and escorts her to the hangar deck ([[Six of One]]). | |||
Mathias is selected to join ''[[Demetrius]]'' on its mission to find | Mathias is selected to join ''[[Demetrius]]'' on its mission to find Earth under the command of Thrace. Two months into the mission she dies during an extravehicular inspection of a damaged [[Heavy Raider]], when its reactor explodes ([[The Road Less Traveled]]). | ||
==Notes== | ==Notes== | ||
* | *Ron Moore named the character after Jim Mathias, the high school superintendent that preceded his father at Chowchilla Union High School <ref>{{cite_rdm_podcast|episode=Exodus, Part I|act=1|id=mathias-namesake|timestamp=|totalrunning=}}</ref><ref>{{cite companion|season=3|page=42}}</ref>. | ||
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