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{{disline|For information on an Original Series [[BW:SEP|separate continuity novel]], see [[Destiny (book)]].}} | {{disline|For information on an Original Series [[BW:SEP|separate continuity novel]], see [[Destiny (book)]].}} | ||
The nature of '''[[Kara Thrace|Kara "Starbuck" Thrace's]] specific destiny''' began in the Season 1 episode, "[[Flesh and Bone]]", continues through "[[Maelstrom]]", where the character dies, and continues with theological ramifications in the season 3 cliffhanger, "[[Crossroads, Part II]]". Indications from the series' events strongly suggest that Thrace has an unknown connection to one or more locales or entities: The [[Temple of Five]], the Cylons' [[Final Five]], the [[Thirteenth Tribe (RDM)|Thirteenth Tribe]] and the [[Religion in the Twelve Colonies (RDM)|The Lords of Kobol]]. | |||
== Leoben Conoy interrogation == | == Leoben Conoy interrogation == | ||
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== The Eye of Jupiter == | == The Eye of Jupiter == | ||
[[ | [[Image:Valley of Darkness-Starbuck Helo.jpg|thumb|[[Kara Thrace]]'s painting of a mandala on the wall of her old apartment {{TRS|Valley of Darkness}}.]] Fewer elements are noted about the destiny in season 2. In the episode "[[Valley of Darkness]]", [[Helo]] and Thrace enter Thrace's old apartment, where, among other paintings, a noticeable "bullseye"-like painting is seen. Several episodes later, in "[[The Farm]]", the Cylon later to be known as [[Sharon Agathon]] tells Thrace after her rescue from the [[Farm]]: "They know who you are, Kara. You’re special. Leoben told you that. You have a destiny." A [[Simon]] also reflects knowledge of Thrace's abuse as a child through a medical examination in the same episode. | ||
By "[[Maelstrom]], | [[Image:S3-eyeofjupiter.jpg|thumb|[[Galen Tyrol]] finds a depiction of a mandala in [[The Temple of Hopes]] on the [[algae planet]] {{TRS|The Eye of Jupiter}}.]] By late into season 3, the episodes "[[The Eye of Jupiter]]" and "[[Rapture]]" reveal the [[Eye of Jupiter]], a symbol left by the [[Thirteenth Tribe (RDM)|Thirteenth Tribe]] in the [[Temple of Five]]. As the home star of the [[Algae planet]] goes nova, the star's discharge is very similar to one that was observed in the distant [[Ionian system]] at the time of the Thirteenth Tribe's journey, and greatly resembles the symbol of the Eye in the temple. Only Helo had seen what is now called the "[[W:mandala|mandala]]" by the Fleet leadership before, and shows Thrace the photo of one mandala from the Temple of Five, comparing it to Thrace's symbol. Thrace remembers the words of the Leoben from "[[Flesh and Bone]]." | ||
By "[[Maelstrom]]", Thrace is seeing the mandala in many objects: the dripping of wax, and as the colors of a gas giant's planetary storm. Thrace becomes increasing distracted by and attracted to the symbol whenever it appears. When she is knocked unconscious during her last flight and "awakens" in her old apartment (where the mandala appears again), a [[Messenger Leoben|person in Leoben's likeness]] greets Thrace and allows her to relive the last moments with her mother. This section vaguely alludes to information that Socrata knew about her daughter's path in life and tried to prepare her for it as best she knew how. The [[Podcast:Maelstrom|podcast]] for the episode by [[Ron D. Moore]] supports this by stating: | |||
<div style="font-size: 90%"><blockquote><nowiki>[. . .]</nowiki>"(In) this episode, you could see that there was really something behind it. That Kara really does have a destiny. That Kara really was fated for a particular end. And that mom was trying to prepare her for that. And prepare her for those roles, on some level, even if she couldn't quite articulate why and what she was doing to her daughter, that her mother believed and had seen oracles and had felt that Kara was special, and that out of her desire to toughen her daughter and make her daughter strong enough to take on the challenges that she was gonna face one day, she had really stepped over the line and had abused the daughter and had created this really toxic relationship between mother and child."</blockquote></div> | <div style="font-size: 90%"><blockquote><nowiki>[. . .]</nowiki>"(In) this episode, you could see that there was really something behind it. That Kara really does have a destiny. That Kara really was fated for a particular end. And that mom was trying to prepare her for that. And prepare her for those roles, on some level, even if she couldn't quite articulate why and what she was doing to her daughter, that her mother believed and had seen oracles and had felt that Kara was special, and that out of her desire to toughen her daughter and make her daughter strong enough to take on the challenges that she was gonna face one day, she had really stepped over the line and had abused the daughter and had created this really toxic relationship between mother and child."</blockquote></div> | ||
Socrata Thrace's use of [[Oracle]]s strongly support the connection between Thrace and the Lords of Kobol. | |||
==The Aurora Connection== | ==The Aurora Connection== | ||
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===The Warning from the First Hybrid=== | ===The Warning from the First Hybrid=== | ||
In the ending of "[[Razor]], | In the ending of "[[Razor]]", during the raid on the Cylon basestar, the Cylon [[First Hybrid|Hybrid]] tells [[Kendra Shaw]] that "all of this has happened before and will happen again" and that Kara Thrace "will lead the human race to its end. She is the herald of the [[:w:apocalypse|apocalypse]]. The harbinger of death. They must not follow her." Despite being unable to fully understand the importance of the Hybrid's warning, Shaw tries to warn Commander [[Lee Adama]] aboard ''Pegasus'', but Cylon jamming prevents Adama from receiving the full message. | ||
===Return of Leoben Conoy and the | ===Return of Leoben Conoy and the message from the Hybrid=== | ||
While leading ''[[Demetrius]]'' on a mission to find [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]], | While leading the ''[[Demetrius]]'' on a mission to find [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]], [[Kara Thrace|Starbuck]] flies a [[Combat Air Patrol|CAP]] herself with [[Brendan Costanza|Hot Dog]] as her wingman. While in space they encounter a severely damaged [[Heavy Raider]] piloted by the [[Number Two]] copy that held her captive on [[New Caprica]] and is likely the same one from the ''[[Gemenon Traveler]]''. Thrace takes him prisoner and he tries to convince her to jump to his basestar to meet with the [[Hybrid]] and form a truce between the rebel Cylons and the Colonials. She ultimately agrees, but ends up in a power struggle for the ship that ends when [[Samuel Anders]] shoots [[Felix Gaeta]] in the leg. Thrace ends up taking a Raptor carrying herself, Leoben, Athena, Anders and Barolay to the baseship. There, Barolay is killed by a Six who is then killed by Natalie to appease the Colonials. Thrace meets with the Hybrid who leaves her with a cryptic message and who also tells her that she is the harbinger of death and will lead the human race to its end, echoing the words of the First Hybrid to [[Kendra Shaw]] before their deaths {{TRS|Faith}}. | ||
The "harbinger of death, | The "harbinger of death", spoken by Hybrids, may refer to Thrace's role in the chain of events which lead to the destruction of the [[Resurrection Hub]], rendering the humanoid Cylons mortal<ref>[[Podcast:Revelations]]</ref>. | ||
Hybrids have historically shown to be able to sense or foretell momentous events for both Cylon and human characters<ref>The first Hybrid seen in the series tells [[Number Three]] and [[Gaius Baltar]] of the [[Eye of Jupiter]], sourcing nothing else save its own resources.</ref>. Colonials have similar individuals which have had the same ability and spoken to both Colonial and Cylon: [[Oracle]]s.<ref>[[Dodona Selloi]] was in apparent communication with ''both'' Cylon and Colonial deities when speaking to a [[Number Three (Downloaded copy)|Number Three]] {{TRS|Exodus, Part I}}.</ref> | Hybrids have historically shown to be able to sense or foretell momentous events for both Cylon and human characters<ref>The first Hybrid seen in the series tells [[Number Three]] and [[Gaius Baltar]] of the [[Eye of Jupiter]], sourcing nothing else save its own resources.</ref>. Colonials have similar individuals which have had the same ability and spoken to both Colonial and Cylon: [[Oracle]]s.<ref>[[Dodona Selloi]] was in apparent communication with ''both'' Cylon and Colonial deities when speaking to a [[Number Three (Downloaded copy)|Number Three]] {{TRS|Exodus, Part I}}.</ref> | ||
In popular usage, the term "apocalypse" has incorrectly been used as a synonym for "armageddon, | In popular usage, the term "apocalypse" has incorrectly been used as a synonym for "armageddon", the end of the world through a great war between good and evil forces. The correct meaning of apocalypse is "[[W:revelation|revelation]]", defined as an uncovering or disclosure via communication from a previously hidden or unknown divine source that could not be known apart from the very moment of the source's time of unveiling itself. The [[Hybrid utterances|babble of the Hybrid to Baltar]] also refers to the "five lights of the apocalypse," presumably the [[Final Five]] and/or the [[Five priests]]. | ||
If this stricter definition of apocalypse/revelation is used, Thrace's destiny may lead to an encounter with the Lords of Kobol, the Cylon god, or another divine source | If this stricter definition of apocalypse/revelation is used, Thrace's destiny may lead to an encounter with the Lords of Kobol, the Cylon god, or another divine source -- an event that neither side may be prepared to do as of the conclusion of "[[Revelations]]", based on previous events where both Colonials and Cylons have denied the existence or divinity (and, in short, the validity) of the Lords of Kobol and/or the Cylon god.<ref>Examples include the cynicism of the Cylon [[Cavil]], Gaius Baltar and his agnosticism to both Cylon and Colonial faith, the Cylon majority's decision to [[boxing|box]] all Number Threes after one discovered the identities of the Final Five {{TRS|Rapture}}, and Commander [[William Adama|Adama's]] resistance to [[Laura Roslin]] and her quest for the mythical [[Tomb of Athena]] {{TRS|Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II}}.</ref> | ||
Starbuck finally fulfills her destiny in [[Daybreak, Part II]]: Lead the Fleet to a new home where human and Cylon can live in peace. She had previously learned that [[The Music|the song]] which activated four of the [[Final Five]] Cylons was in fact a song which her father had taught her when she was a child. In an attempt to make sense of the song, she tried assigning numbers to the notes and performing mathematical calculations on them, to no avail. At the conclusion of the [[Battle of The Colony]], as the Cylon ''[[The Colony|Colony]]'' and the battlestar ''[[Galactica ( | Starbuck finally fulfills her destiny in [[Daybreak, Part II]]: Lead the Fleet to a new home where human and Cylon can live in peace. She had previously learned that [[The Music|the song]] which activated four of the [[Final Five]] Cylons was in fact a song which her father had taught her when she was a child. In an attempt to make sense of the song, she tried assigning numbers to the notes and performing mathematical calculations on them, to no avail. At the conclusion of the [[Battle of The Colony]], as the Cylon ''[[The Colony|Colony]]'' and the battlestar ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' were falling towards the event horizon of a black hole, Thrace - who happened to be nearest to the FTL console - was ordered by [[William Adama]] to jump ''Galactica''. As she did not know the rendezvous coordinates for [[The Fleet (RDM)|the Fleet]], she input the numbers as a set of FTL coordinates and jumped ''Galactica'' there. The ship ended up in orbit over the moon of a habitable planet. It was on this planet, which the Colonials christened [[Earth (RDM)#A_New_Earth|Earth]], that the remnants of humans and Cylons lived, abandoning their advanced technology and living with the early human natives of this second Earth. Shortly after settlement began, Starbuck declared to [[Lee Adama]] that her journey was now over, and disappeared, apparently some kind of angel sent back from the dead to finish guiding the Fleet home. | ||
===The "Harbinger of Death" Explained=== | ===The "Harbinger of Death" Explained=== | ||