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===Birth=== | ===Birth=== | ||
Agathon is born by emergency surgery one month premature. President [[Laura Roslin]] arranges with Doctor [[Cottle]]—and without Admiral [[William Adama]]'s involvement—to fake Agathon's death and secretly gives the child to a woman named [[Maya]] under the guise that the child is the daughter of a ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' officer. The subterfuge, Roslin presumes, is necessary to keep Agathon safe from humanoid Cylons that may be hiding in the Fleet {{TRS|Downloaded}} <ref>In a deleted subplot from "[[Downloaded]], | Agathon is born by emergency surgery one month premature. President [[Laura Roslin]] arranges with Doctor [[Cottle]]—and without Admiral [[William Adama]]'s involvement—to fake Agathon's death and secretly gives the child to a woman named [[Maya]] under the guise that the child is the daughter of a ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' officer. The subterfuge, Roslin presumes, is necessary to keep Agathon safe from humanoid Cylons that may be hiding in the Fleet {{TRS|Downloaded}} <ref>In a deleted subplot from "[[Downloaded]]", [[Gina Inviere]] and [[D'Anna Biers]] scheme to kidnap Agathon at [[Gaius Baltar]]'s request. Gina expresses disgust at Agathon being named for a [[Hera, Lord of Kobol|human god]]. When D'Anna asks Gina what they should call the baby, Gina suggests "Thirteen".</ref>. Maya, unaware of her new child's past, names the girl Isis {{TRS|Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II}}. | ||
[[File:Baby_Hera.jpg|right|thumb|Hera Agathon as an infant, in the care of [[Maya]].]] | [[File:Baby_Hera.jpg|right|thumb|Hera Agathon as an infant, in the care of [[Maya]].]] | ||
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Boomer ultimately decides to kill the Simon operating on Hera and return her to her parents, who have boarded the Colony. Boomer is then killed by Sharon after handing Hera back to her parents. Thrace, {{Callsign|Apollo}}, Karl, and Sharon return to ''Galactica'' with Hera, but, after her father is shot by a Doral model, they lose track of her. The wounded Karl then pleads with his wife to leave him and go find their daughter. Hera is sheltered by Roslin, and then by Caprica-Six and Baltar, who take her into [[CIC#Galactica|CIC]] and protect her from Cavil, fulfilling the [[Opera House Prophecy]]. | Boomer ultimately decides to kill the Simon operating on Hera and return her to her parents, who have boarded the Colony. Boomer is then killed by Sharon after handing Hera back to her parents. Thrace, {{Callsign|Apollo}}, Karl, and Sharon return to ''Galactica'' with Hera, but, after her father is shot by a Doral model, they lose track of her. The wounded Karl then pleads with his wife to leave him and go find their daughter. Hera is sheltered by Roslin, and then by Caprica-Six and Baltar, who take her into [[CIC#Galactica|CIC]] and protect her from Cavil, fulfilling the [[Opera House Prophecy]]. | ||
Hera is among the survivors that settle on the [[Earth (RDM)#A New Earth|new Earth]], where she lives an agrarian and hunter/gatherer lifestyle with her parents in an area of Africa known later as Tanzania. She dies while a young woman. Her fossilized remains are discovered in 150,000 years and she is speculated to be the "[[w:Mitochondrial Eve|Mitochondrial Eve]], | Hera is among the survivors that settle on the [[Earth (RDM)#A New Earth|new Earth]], where she lives an agrarian and hunter/gatherer lifestyle with her parents in an area of Africa known later as Tanzania. She dies while a young woman. Her fossilized remains are discovered in 150,000 years and she is speculated to be the "[[w:Mitochondrial Eve|Mitochondrial Eve]]", most recent common ancestress (when only purely female lines of descent are considered) of all living humans, by archaeologists from the Smithsonian Institute in Washington. [[Messengers#Messenger Baltar|Messenger Baltar]] and [[Messengers#Messenger Six|Messenger Six]] read an article about the discovery and indicate that the archaeologists' speculation is correct {{TRS|Daybreak, Part II}}. | ||
==Notes== | ==Notes== | ||
*The series' producers have noted, in a ''TV Guide'' interview, that this character will not "hyperage, | *The series' producers have noted, in a ''TV Guide'' interview, that this character will not "hyperage", that is, suddenly become much older than series-elapsed time (see the talk page of this article for more information). | ||
*If Hera really is Mitochondrial Eve, then that would imply that all present-day human mitochondria are descended from her, and thus, her mother, a Cylon. So that would mean we all have Cylon mitochondria, though in reality, human mitochondria closely match those of apes and all other Earth life. This is also presumably true in the Battlestar universe, otherwise a difference would have caused major scientific and religious upheaval. | *If Hera really is Mitochondrial Eve, then that would imply that all present-day human mitochondria are descended from her, and thus, her mother, a Cylon. So that would mean we all have Cylon mitochondria, though in reality, human mitochondria closely match those of apes and all other Earth life. This is also presumably true in the Battlestar universe, otherwise a difference would have caused major scientific and religious upheaval. | ||