Editing Heroes of the Cylon

[[File:Heroes of the Cylon, Downloaded.jpg|thumb|The "Heroes of the Cylon," [[Caprica-Six]] and {{Callsign|Boomer}}, reflect on their experiences while entombed by a bombing of a carpark by [[Samuel Anders]] {{TRS|Downloaded}}.]]
"'''Hero of the Cylon'''" is the [[W:Title of honor|honorary title]] given to [[Sharon Valerii]] and [[Caprica-Six]] after their successful missions of [[Miniseries, Night 1|espionage]], [[Water|sabotage]], [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|genocide]] and [[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II|attempted murder]]. Their two missions resulted in the successful destruction and occupation of the [[The Twelve Colonies of Kobol|Twelve Colonies]], as well as the damage and terror strewn among its [[The Fleet (RDM)|fleeing survivors]]  {{TRS|Downloaded}}.

As she helps Caprica-Six adjust after her [[Resurrection (RDM)|download]] into a new body, a [[Number Three]] congratulates her on this honor as they watch the [[Cylons (RDM)|occupying Cylons]] on {{RDM|Caprica}} clean up and rebuild a city for their use.

Later, Caprica-Six and Valerii realize that the honor also poses a danger; their status as heroes have marked the two [[humanoid Cylon]]s as being too unique among their models, and highlight their prolonged exposure to and respective romantic involvements with humans [[Gaius Baltar]] and [[Galen Tyrol]]<ref>Although Tyrol comes to realize, that he is one of the [[Final Five|Final Five Cylons]], the [[Humanoid Cylon#Significant Eight|Significant Seven]] are unaware of this.</ref>, respectively. Three suggests that if Valerii (and likewise Caprica-Six, too) does not accept her true nature as a Cylon and abandon her emotional attachments to her former human life, her consciousness will eventually be [[boxed]]. Caprica-Six is also tipped off to this problem by a [[Messengers#Messenger Baltar|projection of Gaius Baltar]] whom only she can see and hear {{TRS|Downloaded}}.

Caprica-Six and Valerii avert boxing by successfully persuading the Cylons to change their plan to replace humanity on the former worlds of the [[The Twelve Colonies of Kobol|Twelve Colonies]], and instead seek out the [[The Fleet (RDM)|surviving fragment of humanity]] to care for them as parents would their children. After approximately a [[Unfinished Business|year]], the Cylon fleet detects and investigates the radiation signature of a [[Cloud 9|nuclear explosion]], leading them to discover most of the Colonials settled on a [[New Caprica|new world]].

Accompanied by a [[Number Five]], the heroes of the Cylon receive the unconditional surrender of the Colonies from President Baltar (TRS: "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]").

While the former "Boomer" Valerii [[Rapture|eventually renounces]] her emotional ties to humanity, deciding that it was wrong to try to unite Cylons and humans, Caprica-Six continues to attempt to balance her duties as a Cylon with her [[Occupation|love of Gaius Baltar]] and the [[Rapture|safety and well-being]] of the "first of the new generation of God's children", [[Hera Agathon]]. Caprica-Six is eventually successful, while Valerii meets a bad end {{TRS|Daybreak, Part II}}.

==Notes==
*This is not the only time that the term "Cylon" is used as a collective term. In "[[Occupation]]," a Number Six states that "a majority of the Cylon felt that the slaughter of mankind had been a mistake."
*[[Demand Peace]] also uses this phrasing. [[Royan Jahee]] says that he wants "Peace with the Cylon", and the suicide bomber on ''[[Daru Mozu]]'' declares that "(if) my sacrifice sends a signal to the Cylon that brings peace, then it was worth it" {{TRS|Epiphanies}}.
*It is somewhat odd that Valerii was considered a "hero" despite the fact that Adama ultimately survived her attempt on his life.

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