Number Eight

2006-12-16T05:39:41Z

Artemis5: /* Sharon "Athena" Agathon */

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'''Number Eight''' is one of the twelve Cylon human models. She is the youngest of the seven known models and generally associated with the name "Sharon" when interacting with humans. Eights have been the Cylons with the most extensive human contact, resulting in at least two interspecies relationships and a Cylon-human hybrid child. Humans have particularly been exposed to two specific copies, [[Sharon Valerii]], a "sleeper" agent who served on board ''Galactica'', and [[Sharon Agathon]], a Cylon defector now appointed as a Colonial officer.

== Sharon "Boomer" Valerii ==
[[Image:bsg-valerii-1.jpg|224px|right|Sharon Agathon / Sharon Valerii |thumb]]
: Main article: [[Sharon Valerii]]''
'''Sharon "Boomer" Valerii''' is a copy initially planted as a "sleeper" agent in the [[Colonial Fleet]]. She is unaware of her true nature and serves for two years as Lieutenant Valerii on ''Galactica'', where she is assigned as a [[Raptor]] pilot and also engaged in a secret relationship with Chief [[Galen Tyrol]]. After the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attack]], her underlying programming repeatedly emerges which leads her to unconscious acts of sabotage. Growing confusion about her true self result in a deep depression and an ultimately failed suicide attempt. After Valerii returns from a successful mission to destroy a Cylon [[basestar]], she shoots [[William Adama|Commander Adama]] in the chest, wounding him critically. She is jailed in the [[brig]] and soon afterwards killed by Specialist [[Cally]].

Her consciousness is downloaded and she is reborn in another body. Subsequently, she experiences severe problems integrating into Cylon society and long considers herself more human than Cylon. She eventually works together with [[Caprica-Six]] in an attempt to change Cylon popular opinion about humans and she emerges as one of the Cylon leaders jointly responsible for the end of the occupation of the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]] and later the Cylon occupation on [[New Caprica]].

== Sharon "Athena" Agathon ==
: Main article: [[Sharon Agathon]]
'''Sharon "Athena" Agathon''' is a copy first encountered by [[Karl Agathon|Karl "Helo" Agathon]], when he is stranded on [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]]. She is initially assigned to seduce him by impersonating [[Sharon Valerii|Lt. Sharon Valerii]], as part of a Cylon cross-breeding experiment, but later turns against her people and helps him escape the planet; pregnant with his child during that time. Helo, first shocked by her true nature, ultimately accepts her as the mother of his child and declares his love for her.

Once on ''Galactica'', she is imprisoned and long seen as a mere object. She frequently provides intelligence, but is severely mistreated by an interrogator from ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' who beats and nearly sexually assaults her. Over time, she earns [[William Adama|Admiral Adama's]] trust by helping the [[Colonial Fleet]] escape peril several times and she is eventually appointed as an officer of the Colonial Fleet. Agathon gives birth on ''Galactica'', but her child [[Hera]] is subsequently hidden from her and she believes Hera to be dead. She is married to Karl Agathon.

==Other Copies==
[[Image:Boomerraincoat Colonialday.JPG|thumb|left|Number Eight copy at Delphi spaceport ([[Colonial Day]])]]
*Shortly after the [[Cylon Attack]] ends, an Eight in a pale blue tunic is one of four 'rebirth nurses' who greet [[Caprica-Six]] following her rebirth (this takes place at the same time as the events of the middle or end of the [[Miniseries]], but is seen in the much later episode [[Downloaded]]).
*At the end of the [[Miniseries]], an Eight wearing a Colonial [[flight suit]] appears to be leading a group of Cylon agents who recover the [[Aaron Doral#PR Executive Copy|PR Executive Copy of Aaron Doral]] from [[Ragnar Anchorage]].
*An Eight is witnessed wearing a grey coat at the spaceport at [[Delphi]]. However, she is immediately "killed" by [[Sharon Agathon]] ([[Colonial Day]]) after noticing and attempting to shoot Helo.
*Multiple copies of the Eight model are encountered on the [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]] over [[Kobol]]. It is possible that they were dispatched to the Raptor in order to activate some latent portion of [[Sharon Valerii]]'s underlying Cylon programming ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]).
*An Eight is among a group of rebirth nurses, possibly the same one that midwifed Caprica-Six, who welcome the reborn [[Sharon Valerii]]. Valerii becomes hysterical after seeing and hearing this copy.
*A copy of Number Eight is seen at the end of "[[Final Cut]]", also wearing a grey coat like other Eights on Caprica, remarking in surprise that [[Sharon Agathon]] is still alive (and saying, "I told you" to the [[Number Five]] copy sitting next to her).
*Numerous copies of Eight are seen on Cylon occupied Caprica throughout the episode "[[Downloaded]]," the episode where it was revealed that she is the eighth in the sequence of twelve Cylon models.
[[Image:SharVal.jpg|thumb|right|Eights onboard a Cylon Baseship]]
*Several Eights are part of a group of humanoid Cylons blown up on New Caprica by a bomb planted by [[Samuel Anders]] and [[Galen Tyrol]] as they approach a group of Centurions exiting from a Heavy Raider which has just landed.
*Another Eight sits next to Boomer on Colonial One during the [[Cylon Occupation Authority]]'s discussion of the suicide bombing of New Caprica City's power station and the subsequent proposal that harsher measures be adopted. She does not speak during the meeting.
*An Eight can be seen practicing a Cylon version of [[Wikipedia:Tai Chi Chuan|Tai Chi]] in the episode "[[Torn]]".
*Another Eight is among the infected Cylons captured by ''Galactica'' as part of the Colonials's plot to infect the Cylon race with the virus from the [[Lion's Head beacon]]. She and the others are executed by Karl Agathon before the plan can be put into action ([[A Measure of Salvation]]).

==Notes==
*[[Ronald D. Moore|Ron D. Moore]] stated in an interview for ''TheFandom.com'' that "There is no original human Sharon. The idea is not that there was likely an original human model that they were copied from. The idea was that these models of Cylon were sort of developed out of their own study of us. The Cylons on some level looked at humanity and said 'You know what? There's really only 12 of you.' If these are the 12, and sort of if you look at them they each represent different archetypes of what humanity is."
*The two notable Eights, [[Sharon Valerii]] and [[Sharon Agathon]], have yet to actually meet each other.
*[[w:Valerii|Valerii]] is the male plural form of the Roman name of the family Valeria. Valerius is the singular form.
*Neither Eight with extended time with the Colonials refers to her lover by his first name onscreen. Sharon Valerii called [[Chief Tyrol]] by "Chief" instead of "Galen", even as she dies in his arms. Sharon Agathon has yet to call [[Karl Agathon]] "Karl". Ron D. Moore explained in his blog that no one had ever really called Tyrol "Galen" before, and hearing Valerii say it would have distracted from the emotional impact of her death. Moore compared it to the Seinfeld episode when Kramer's first name is revealed to be "Cosmo"; i.e. the viewers would be unused to Tyrol's previously unknown first name. As for Agathon, everybody usually just calls him "Helo". Sharon Valerii referred to Chief Tyrol by "Galen" for the first time, while speaking to [[Cally]] in the Cylon Detention Center on [[New Caprica]], long after their romantic relationship had ended.

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