Editing Tucker Clellan

{{Character Data
    |photo= Tucker Clellan.jpg
    |photo 2=Duck before death.jpg
    |caption 2=Clellan before his suicide bombing of the NCP graduation ceremony.
    |age=
    |colony=
    |birthname= Tucker Clellan
    |callsign= Duck
    |seen= Flight of the Phoenix
    |death= As a suicide bomber {{TRS|Occupation}}
    |parents= 
    |siblings= 
    |children= 
    |marital status= Formerly dating [[Nora Farmer]] †
    |role= Former Viper Pilot, [[Galactica type battlestar|battlestar]] ''[[Galactica (TRS)|Galactica]]''
    |rank= Lieutenant (Colonial Fleet), Captain ([[NCP]])
    |actor= [[Christian Tessier]]
    |cylon= 
    |name= 
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Lieutenant '''Tucker "Duck" Clellan''' is a [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] pilot on ''{{RDM|Galactica}}'' circa {{ACH|1}} who, according to [[Louanne Katraine]], is one of the best pilots that ''[[Galactica (TRS)|Galactica]]'' has left to offer {{TRS|Scar}}. Clellan is an ace with forty confirmed kills, according to [[Saul Tigh]]. 

Along with most of ''Galactica''{{'|s}} pilots, Clellan participates in the [[Great Cylon Turkey Shoot|massacre of the disabled Cylon raiders]] and the celebration after the christening of the [[Blackbird]] {{TRS|Flight of the Phoenix}}.

Clellan is later part of the honor guard present on the [[hangar deck]] when [[Admiral]] [[Helena Cain]] arrives on ''[[Galactica (TRS)|Galactica]]'' {{TRS|Pegasus (episode)}}. 

Later, Clellan takes part in a [[Battle of the Resurrection Ship| joint operation]] which required all available pilots from both the ''[[Galactica (TRS)|Galactica]]'' and ''[[Pegasus (RDM)| Pegasus]]'' air wings {{TRS|Resurrection Ship, Part II}}. 

When ''Galactica'' provides protection for an asteroid mining operation, Clellan is among those taking part in regular picket patrols of the area. He is also present during marksmanship training for [[Viper]] [[nugget]][[Joseph Clark| Joseph "Jo-Jo" Clark]], commenting that his first attempt at the same training fared worse than Clark's. 

During a patrol of the [[Big Spud]], Clellan unsuccessfully calls for [[Brent Baxton|Brent "BB" Baxton]] to retreat when their Vipers become on low fuel. Baxton, another [[nugget]], ignores orders and engages a group of Raiders with fatal results. Additionally, Clellan helps account for [[Reilly]]'s belongings after the pilot is killed by Scar and he is later present in the pilot's rec room when [[Kara Thrace]] toasts to the deceased pilots {{TRS|Scar}}.

His significant other, [[Nora Farmer]], is a fellow pilot that mustered out of the Colonial Fleet. Clellan is a smoker, but chooses to quit upon deciding to start a family with her {{TRS|Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance}}. 

== New Caprica ==
When a colony on New Caprica is established, Clellan is in attendance during the ground breaking ceremony {{TRS|Unfinished Business}}. As settlement operations transpire, both Clellan and Farmer muster out of Colonial Fleet service, as she wants to settle down and have a family. He is approached by [[Galen Tyrol]] and [[James Lyman]] to join the [[New Caprica Resistance|resistance efforts]] when New Caprica is occupied by Cylons, but declines over the desire to be a husband to Nora. 

Following Nora's death in a Cylon attack on a temple, Clellan becomes violently upset at the revelation that the resistance was hiding weapons there. After a brief period of mourning, he relents and agrees to join the insurgents. His first assignment as a resistance member involves infiltrating the New Caprica Police, where he keeps an eye on both the Cylons and their human collaborators {{TRS|Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance}}. 

He later agrees to become a suicide bomber when the resistance learns about an NCP graduation ceremony, believing that [[Gaius Baltar]] will also be present. When [[Samuel Anders]] asks whether Clellan is committed, Clellan replies that, without Nora, he has nothing left to live for.

Despite Baltar's last-minute withdrawal from the ceremony, Clellan detonates his bomb, killing 33 people and several Cylons in the process {{TRS|Occupation|Crossroads, Part I}} . Subsequently, the Cylons begin a crackdown on all individuals thought to be resistance members. They orchestrate mass abductions and executions of suspected insurgents; surviving NCP members, lead by his former friend, Lyman, carry them out {{TRS|Precipice|Exodus, Part I|Exodus, Part II}}.

Later on ''Galactica'', [[Lee Adama]] and [[Kara Thrace]] make a pact about where to place each other's photos on the wall of memories should either die.  Adama requests to have his photo placed next to Duck and Nora, commenting: "Good card players.  Nice way to spend eternity." {{TRS|Maelstrom}}

==Notes==
* It can be inferred by {{callsign|Karl Agathon}}'s apparent need to introduce himself to Clellan that he is a post-[[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Fall]] addition to ''Galactica''{{'|s}} air wing. Given the pilots' close-knit community, the two would probably know each other had they served together before. He is possibly a refugee from another Colonial unit like [[Alex Quartararo|Alex "Crashdown" Quartararo]], or another one of the [[nuggets]] trained by [[Kara Thrace]].
* [[Christian Tessier]] would later appear in ''[[Caprica (series)|Caprica]]'' as [[Francis]].

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