Editing Ravashol

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'''Ravashol''' is a genetic and electronic scientist/inventor based on the ice planet of [[Arcta]] during, and following the end of, the [[Thousand-Yahren War]].

Ravashol is the [[Father-Creator|"father/creator"]] of the [[Theta|Theta class]] clone life-forms, as well as the progenitor of the [[Ravashol pulsar|Ravashol pulsar―]]<nowiki/>originally intended to transmit information across vast distances via laser energy.

== Gun on Ice Planet Zero ==

The [[Cylons (TOS)|Cylons]] allow Ravashol to live so that he can produce more technological marvels in the form of war materiel.

While he understood that the Cylons were "misusing" the pulsar, he had no idea that his biological creations were breeding. He had not planned this to happen, and eventually realizes that he must help out {{TOS|Apollo}}'s team remove the pulsar.

Once the pulsar was obliterated, Ravashol worked with his children, having other methods at his disposal to protect them ([[The Gun on Ice Planet Zero, Part II]]).

== Tie-in Material Information ==

* ''According to ''[[Encyclopedia Galactica]]'' (a non-canonical piece of merchandise published in 1979):''

: Ravishol, the brooding genius of the Physics Department of the [[Tauron Center for Science and the Arts]], was an idealist and a pacifist whose research nearly gave the [[Cylons (TOS)|Cylons]] the key to intergalactic domination. Ravishol's work in intergalactic communication was fueled by an immense faith in the legendary [[Thirteenth Colony]], [[Earth (TOS)|Earth]], which he believed had been established outside our own [[Cyrannus (TOS)|Cyranus Galaxy]]. On the lonely asteroid [[Arcta]], he designed and constructed a supremely powerful communication device powered by the direct fusion of tritium and deuterium that he dubbed [[Ravashol pulsar|the Pulsar]]. The Pulsar was to transmit intense, electromagnetic waves in a simple but unmistakable ordered pattern to catch the attention of distant alien beings who were monitoring or observing deep space. Ravishol's plan was to gradually increase the complexity of his message to form a code that his unseen beings would in time decipher, eventually leading to full-fledged two-way communication. Dr. Ravishol's dream was never realized, however. The [[Cylon Empire]] seized the Arcta laboratories shortly after the [[Final Destruction]] and converted the Pulsar's vast energy-conversion systems into an Ultimate Weapon that could deliver utter destruction to any corner of the Cyranus Galaxy. The [[Battlestar (TOS)|Battlestar]] ''[[Galactica (TOS)|Galactica]]'' fortunately destroyed the Pulsar, and in that raid many of Ravishol's breakthroughs in energy conversion and transmission were lost, perhaps for all time. <ref>{{cite book|last=Kraus|first=Bruce|authorlink=|authorlinkurl=|coauthors=|year=1979|title=[[Encyclopedia Galactica]]|publisher=|location=|id=|pages=49}}</ref>

== Notes ==

* There is some doubt as to whether or not Ravashol actually planned the eventuality for breeding between female and male Thetas. He did not seem totally astonished by Apollo's revelation on this subject while in the confines of the Ravashol laboratories. He seemed to be playing both the Cylons and his creations, perhaps with the hope of eventually removing the Cylons from Arcta with an invention of some type.
* It is also interesting that Ravashol was apparently a resident of the ice-planet for what can only be a long time, apparently way before the time the Colonies were purged as per the [[Imperious Leader]]'s Edict of Extermination. He might have been at the planet for at least several [[yahren]], perhaps even decades. These hypotheses, along with logically reached conjecture, certainly give interesting theories as to the reasons why and how Ravashol ended up on Arcta. It is also interesting that he brought enough equipment to not only forge a laboratory, but an underground settlement as well...Which leaves the viewer to wonder who backed Ravashol, and how did he manage to build a colony for the Thetas without the apparent knowledge of the Colonial [[Quorum of Twelve (TOS)|Quorum of the Twelve]].

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