Editing Erin Mathias

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{{Character Data
|photo=Mathias.jpg
|birthname=Erin Mathias
|seen=Exodus, Part I
|death=[[Heavy Raider]] explosion in "[[The Road Less Traveled]]"
|role=[[Colonial Marine Corps|Marine]]
|rank=Gunnery Sergeant
|actor=[[Eileen Pedde]]
|sortkey=Mathias, Erin
}}
'''Erin Mathias''' is a gunnery sergeant serving in the [[Colonial Marine Corps]].

Under Colonel [[Kendra Shaw]] and Captain [[Kara Thrace]], she leads a team of Marines that boards a [[Guardian basestar|Cylon basestar]] in order to rescue a captured [[Raptor]] crew. When their nuclear weapon's arming mechanism fails, she prepares the manual switch that Shaw uses to detonate the bomb {{TRS|Razor}}.

During the occupation of [[New Caprica]], Mathias leads {{callsign|Athena}}'s Marine escort on the planet as part of Admiral [[William Adama]]'s rescue operation {{TRS|Exodus, Part I}}. She and her team repel a [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]] ambush of a preliminary meeting between Agathon and the New Caprica Resistance under [[Samuel Anders]]. She then accompanies the group back to [[New Caprica City]] to discuss the rescue plan with the resistance leaders {{TRS|Exodus, Part I}}. When Adama's plans are executed, Mathias is placed in charge of the Marines participating n the attack on the [[New Caprica Detention Center]] {{TRS|Exodus, Part II}}.

Following the evacuation of New Caprica, Mathias is involved in a number of key actions. She joins a boarding party that investigates an infected basestar discovered at the [[Lion's Head Nebula]]. She is assigned to execute prisoners retrieved from this baseship in a failed plan to infect the entire Cylon race via the download process {{TRS|A Measure of Salvation}}. She also leads the Marine force on the so-called [[algae planet]] and is ordered by Lee Adama to detain Samuel Anders when he attempts to rescue his wife, Thrace {{TRS|The Eye of Jupiter}}. When Thrace later takes President [[Laura Roslin]] hostage, Mathias commands the Marine response team and escorts Thrace to ''{{RDM|Galactica}}''{{'|s}} hangar deck after she is released from the brig {{TRS|Six of One}}.

Mathias is selected to join ''[[Demetrius]]'' on its mission to find {{RDM|Earth}} under the command of Thrace. Two months into the mission, she is killed by the detonation of a [[Heavy Raider]]'s reactor while in the process of an extravehicular inspection of that craft {{TRS|The Road Less Traveled}}.

==Notes==
*[[Ronald D. 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>
*Mathias is first introduced in "[[Exodus, Part I]]," even though her appearance in "[[Razor]]" chronologically proceeds her introduction.

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