Stark

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Ben Stark is a student at the Athena Academy on Caprica, a private religious school. He and a number of other bright students, including Lacy Rand and Ben's girlfriend, Zoe Graystone, are introduced by the school headmistress, Sister Clarice Willow, to the illegal Soldiers of the One monotheistic cult. He is the best friend of Keon Gatwick, who is likewise a member of the STO.

Ben becomes a fanatical monotheist and ostensibly goes with Zoe to leave Caprica and live on Gemenon. Without Zoe's prior knowledge of his intent, Ben blows up the train they are riding with a bomb strapped to his torso ^{(CAP: "Pilot")}.

During a public ceremony held on Junius 7th, 42YR (58 BCH) denoting the one month marking of the tragedy, Natalie Stark, Ben's mother, gives Amanda Graystone various objects belonging to her daughter Zoe that were found in Ben's room, including a large, foldable gold STO infinity symbol. Amanda had been completely unaware of Ben or of the STO in Zoe's life, and in her grief and shock at the revelation, she falsely tells the assembled victims' families that her daughter was the bomber of Maglev 23 ^{(CAP: "Rebirth")}.

Ben's involvement with the STO almost came to the attention of the Global Defense Department a year before the bombing, but was missed due to procedural errors. On Aprilus 9th, 41YR (59 BCH), Ben was picked up for a post-curfew violation by the GDD and was found with what turned out to be bomb making materials, which were explained away by Ben to his interrogator, Agent Youngblood, as model rocketry components. He was let go on a warning due to lack of probable cause and the plausibility of his explanation. A videotape recording of the interrogation would go unnoticed for over a month after the bombing because Agent Youngblood spelled his surname "Starke" with an "e" and consequently misfiled it. Youngblood herself had totally forgotten about Ben. Fearing departmental embarrassment and to protect his partner, the tape is destroyed by Agent Jordan Duram, following a broad hint by the director of the GDD ^{(CAP: "Reins of a Waterfall")}.

Notes

In early drafts of the pilot script, the story began more directly with Ben, Zoe, and Lacy heading to the train. The V-Club sequence was added later in the writing process to create a more provocative opening for the series.^[1]
A previous report regarding the pilot noted that he uploaded his memories into an online holographic avatar named Ben-A, who has contact only with Sister Clarice Willow.^[2] This plotline exists solely as a deleted scene viewable on the DVD.

References

↑ Podcast for Caprica pilot, timestamp 00:01:53
↑ Caprica casting info (backup available on Archive.org) (in English). (Apr 3, 2008).

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Natalie Stark is the mother of Maglev 23 suicide bomber and Soldiers of the One member Ben Stark.

She is aware of her son's relationship with Zoe Graystone—a relationship that Amanda Graystone is unaware about. Stark later confirms the existence of this relationship to Amanda, who was previously informed about it by GDD Agent Jordan Durham, and gives a few possessions that Zoe left at the Stark residence. Amongst these possessions is an infinity symbol brooch that leads Graystone to the erroneous conclusion that she was one of the bombers of Maglev 23 ^{(CAP: "Rebirth")}.

It is unknown whether or not Stark knew about Zoe or Ben's involvement with the STO.

Notes

Nimet Kanji also portrayed Candace Myson in the Re-imagined Series episode "Litmus."

Starke is a guard on Astral Queen after the Fall of the Twelve Colonies. During the attempt to commandeer Queen, Seaborne attacks Starke, allowing him to open the inmates' cells with impunity.

Presumably, he is among the support staff who are evacuated after the inmates are given control of Queen ^{(TRS: "Bastille Day")}.

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Actor Scott Nicholson is not credited for the role on screen. He is identified via research, aided by call sheets for "Bastille Day".

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[1] Podcast for Caprica pilot, timestamp 00:01:53

[casting_call-2] Caprica casting info (backup available on Archive.org) (in English). (Apr 3, 2008).

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