Editing Ila (alternate)

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This article covers the various depictions of '''[[Ila]]''' from the tie-in novelizations, comic books, and other media based on the [[Original Series]].

== Berkley novelizations ==

The wife of Commander {{alt|Adama|TOS}} and mother of three children ({{alt|Apollo|TOS}}, {{alt|Athena|TOS}}, and [[Zac (alternate)|Zac]]), she is killed at her home in [[Caprica City (TOS)|Caprica City]] during the Cylon attack (''[[Saga of a Star World (Book)|Battlestar Galactica]]'' pilot novelization).

== Richard Hatch novelizations ==

Ila was the wife of Commander {{alt|Adama|TOS-RH|Adama}} and the mother of {{alt|Apollo|TOS-RH|Apollo}}, {{alt|Athena|TOS-RH|Athena}}, and [[Zac (TOS-RH)|Zac]]. She was descended from the original [[Kobol (TOS-RH)|Kobollians]] in a direct line, as was Adama, giving their children pure Kobollian blood.<ref name="ARM54">{{cite book|last=Hatch|first=Richard|coauthors=[[Christopher Golden|Golden, Christopher]]|authorlink=Richard Hatch|title=[[Armageddon (Book)|Armageddon]]|publisher=iBooks, Inc.|month=May|year=2004|pages=54}}</ref>

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 {{alt|Athena|TOS-RH|Athena}} every night at their hillside home.<ref name="ARM15">{{cite book|last=Hatch|first=Richard|coauthors=[[Christopher Golden|Golden, Christopher]]|authorlink=Richard Hatch|title=[[Armageddon (Book)|Armageddon]]|publisher=iBooks, Inc.|month=May|year=2004|pages=15}}</ref> 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.<ref name="REB109">{{cite book|last=Hatch|first=Richard|coauthors=[[Brad Linaweaver|Linaweaver, Brad]]|authorlink=Richard Hatch|title=[[Rebellion (Book)|Rebellion]]|publisher=Tor Books|month=December|year=2010|pages=109}}</ref> He told his children about these flowers during a sectare that Athena would later recall with great fondness.<ref name="REB109" />

She died during the [[Battle of Cimtar (TOS-RH)|Cylon attack on Caprica]].<ref name="ARM14">{{cite book|last=Hatch|first=Richard|coauthors=[[Christopher Golden|Golden, Christopher]]|authorlink=Richard Hatch|title=[[Armageddon (Book)|Armageddon]]|publisher=iBooks, Inc.|month=May|year=2004|pages=14}}</ref>  Adama salvaged one item from the ruins of their home following the attack: an antique time device called a clock.<ref name="ARM12">{{cite book|last=Hatch|first=Richard|coauthors=[[Christopher Golden|Golden, Christopher]]|authorlink=Richard Hatch|title=[[Armageddon (Book)|Armageddon]]|publisher=iBooks, Inc.|month=May|year=2004|pages=12}}</ref>

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.<ref name="ARM15" />

=== Notes ===

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

== Dynamite Entertainment comics ==

{{Disambiguation|Ila (TOS alternate reality)|this character in an [[alternate reality]]}}

The wife of Commander {{alt|Adama|TOS}} and mother of three children ({{alt|Apollo|TOS}}, {{alt|Athena|TOS}}, and [[Zac (alternate)|Zac]]).

In [[7322]], she is pregnant with their third child. At the time prior to the attack on [[Umbra]], Ila and Adama had been at odds over the name: she preferred Zac, while Adama preferred Starbuck.

During the attack on Umbra, Captain Adama crashes into the [[Thorn forest]] and is saved by a young orphan boy. It is after this event that Adama names the boy "Starbuck," as the amnesiac boy's identity could not be ascertained (''[[Battlestar Galactica: Starbuck 1]]'').

Sometime after assuming command of ''[[Galactica (TOS-DE alternate)|Galactica]]'', Adama's passcode for activation of the ship's [[self-destruct]] mechanism involves her name ({{Comics|vol1|5}}).

[[Yahren|Yahrens]] following her death on {{alt|Caprica|TOS}}, Adama is continually plagued with fantastic dreams of Ila's last moments, which include his attempt to intervene in her death, only to beg for death himself when he fails to stop it ({{comics|vol2|1}}).

== Marvel comics ==

In the Marvel comic adaptation, she is named '''Ilya''' and is killed during the Cylon attack (''[[Battlestar Galactica (1979 Comic)|Battlestar Galactica]]'').

During [[Serena (alternate)|Serena]]'s funeral, he recalls how much Serena reminds him of Ilya (''[[The Memory Machine]]''). Later, while inside the [[memory inducer]], Adama relives a memory of a picnic he has with Ilya before [[Eurayle]] manages to help free Adama from the machine (''[[The Trap!]]'').

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