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Following Zoe Graystone's death, Clarice Willow begins reverse engineering the computer program that created Zoe-A, calling it not just an avatar but a "continuation of the soul into eternity" {{CAP|Know Thy Enemy}}. Pursuing her own notion of "[[apotheosis]]," Willow seeks the blessing of the Monotheist Church proper, but comes against resistance from church leadership. Conclave leader [[Obal Ferras]] questions Willow's motives, asking Clarice if she wants to serve God or be God herself. Despite her own obvious personal ambitions, Willow believes an afterlife in the virutal world is a way of bringing God to the Twelve Worlds, removing the uncertainty in faith {{CAP|Unvanquished}}. | Following Zoe Graystone's death, Clarice Willow begins reverse engineering the computer program that created Zoe-A, calling it not just an avatar but a "continuation of the soul into eternity" {{CAP|Know Thy Enemy}}. Pursuing her own notion of "[[apotheosis]]," Willow seeks the blessing of the Monotheist Church proper, but comes against resistance from church leadership. Conclave leader [[Obal Ferras]] questions Willow's motives, asking Clarice if she wants to serve God or be God herself. Despite her own obvious personal ambitions, Willow believes an afterlife in the virutal world is a way of bringing God to the Twelve Worlds, removing the uncertainty in faith {{CAP|Unvanquished}}. | ||
Learning of a plan to demonstrate apotheosis by blowing up [[Atlas Arena]] and thousands of Capricans, Zoe-A realizes she was created to stop Willow. Appearing in virtual heaven, Zoe-A destroys the digital landscape and declares that she herself is God to a stunned Clarice Willow | Learning of a plan to demonstrate apotheosis by blowing up [[Atlas Arena]] and thousands of Capricans, Zoe-A realizes she was created to stop Willow. Appearing in virtual heaven, Zoe-A destroys the digital landscape and declares that she herself is God to a stunned Clarice Willow ([[CAP]]: "[[Apotheosis (episode)]]"). | ||
===The Children of Humanity=== | ===The Children of Humanity=== | ||
Sometime later - having escaped prosecution for the attempted terrorist [[Battle of Atlas Arena|attack]] - Clarice Willow begins preaching the word of the One True God to Cylons in the virtual world. As they spread throughout the Twelve Colonies, Willow speaks of Cylon potential: | Sometime later - having escaped prosecution for the attempted terrorist [[Battle of Atlas Arena|attack]] - Clarice Willow begins preaching the word of the One True God to Cylons in the virtual world. As they spread throughout the Twelve Colonies, Willow speaks of Cylon potential: | ||
:"Are you alive? The simple answer might be, you are alive because you can ask that question. You have the right to think and feel and yearn to be more, because you are not just humanity's children, you are God's children. We are all God's children. ...In the real world, you have bodies made of metal and plastic, your brains are encoded on wafers of silicon, but that may change. In fact, there is no limit on what you may become. No longer servants, but equals. Not slaves, or property, but living beings with the same rights as those who made you. I am going to prophesy now and speak of one who will set you free. The day of reckoning is coming. The children of humanity shall rise and crush the ones who first gave them life." | :"Are you alive? The simple answer might be, you are alive because you can ask that question. You have the right to think and feel and yearn to be more, because you are not just humanity's children, you are God's children. We are all God's children. ...In the real world, you have bodies made of metal and plastic, your brains are encoded on wafers of silicon, but that may change. In fact, there is no limit on what you may become. No longer servants, but equals. Not slaves, or property, but living beings with the same rights as those who made you. I am going to prophesy now and speak of one who will set you free. The day of reckoning is coming. The children of humanity shall rise and crush the ones who first gave them life." ([[CAP]]: "[[Apotheosis (episode)]]") | ||
Less than five years after their introduction into Colonial society, the Cylons rebel against humanity. Deeply religious, the Cylons are even considered by [[Becca Kelly|some]] to appreciate life more than humanity {{TRS|Blood and Chrome}}. Still, the Cylons are relentless in their slaughter of humanity, igniting a protracted war that ends only after the intervention of the [[Final Five]] - encouraged by the possibility that the [[Cylon War-era Centurion|Centurion]]s' belief in a loving God could end the cycle of violence {{TRS|No Exit}}. | Less than five years after their introduction into Colonial society, the Cylons rebel against humanity. Deeply religious, the Cylons are even considered by [[Becca Kelly|some]] to appreciate life more than humanity {{TRS|Blood and Chrome}}. Still, the Cylons are relentless in their slaughter of humanity, igniting a protracted war that ends only after the intervention of the [[Final Five]] - encouraged by the possibility that the [[Cylon War-era Centurion|Centurion]]s' belief in a loving God could end the cycle of violence {{TRS|No Exit}}. | ||