Ila (TOS-RH)

Ila was the wife of Commander Adama and the mother of Apollo, Athena, and Zac. She was descended from the original Kobollians in a direct line, as was Adama, giving their children pure Kobollian blood.

The family home where Ila lived with her husband and children was located on a hillside on Caprica. While raising Athena, Ila sang a lullaby to Athena every night at their hillside home. Ila's husband, Adama, had a fondness for lavender Dnigibian orchids, flowers with unique curved white blossoms with a hint of pink on the inside that reminded him of her. He told his children about these flowers during a sectare that Athena would later recall with great fondness.

She died during the Cylon attack on Caprica. Adama salvaged one item from the ruins of their home following the attack: an antique time device called a clock.

Later, eighteen yahren after her death, as Adama lay dying, Athena sang Ila's lullaby to her father, remembering every word despite not having thought of it in ages.

Notes

• Ila is not directly named in the book, and instead referenced obliquely.