User talk:Chinga

2008-01-23T07:33:59Z

Chinga:

== Welcome to Battlestar Wiki! ==

Greetings, Chinga, and welcome to Battlestar Wiki! I hope you enjoy your stay with us and am looking forward to your contributions to the Wiki! Why not begin by telling us a bit about yourself on your own [[User:Chinga|user page]]?

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== Number Twelve / Galen Tyrol ==

Greetings! Welcome to the Wiki! I have noticed your edit on [[Cylon Models]]. Do you have a source for the information that [[Galen Tyrol]] is "Number Twelve"? Since all information needs to be [[BW:CJ|sourced]], we need a source to verify this, since it's not been mentioned in any episode to date. Thank you! -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]] - [http://www.sanctuarywiki.org Sanctuary Wiki — ''New'']</sup> 18:48, 22 January 2008 (CST)

== RE: Number Twelve / Galen Tyrol ==
Greetings! Thank you! I have yet to learn my way around here. I was so exicted when I read that, I deicied to register and post the info. yet, I see it has been since removed... Aaron did a Q&A on his LJ community<ref>{{The Chief's Deck - Ask The Chief|url=http://community.livejournal.com/aarondouglas/56725.html?page=2#comments|title=Ask The Chief (Questions Answered)|date=Jan. 22nd, 2008|accessdate=|last=|first=|format=|language=}}</ref> yesterday and the day before where he answers fan questions, one of which was about the numbering of the Final Five. his response: "12. i got to choose" -- [[User:chinga|chinga]] 1:32, 23 January 2008 (CST)

Cylon Models

2008-01-23T00:43:11Z

Chinga:

:''For information on the [[Original Series]] Cylons, see [[Cylons (TOS)]].''

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==Centurion Model 0005==
[[Image:Cent 005.jpg|thumb|Cylon Centurion during the First Cylon War ([[Razor]])]]
Model Name: Cylon Centurion
:''Main article: [[Cylon Centurion Model 0005]]''
The Centurion Model 0005<ref>This model was included in the miniseries primarily as an homage to the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]]. Within the context of the Re-imagined Series, the Model 0005 is over 40 years old, and was the last assumed appearance of the Cylons after the war.</ref>, glimpsed briefly in two scenes of the [[Miniseries]], was apparently the latest Cylon model to have been extensively documented by Colonial authorities after the [[Cylon War]]. It is a primitive model, resembling a short, clumsy humanoid with a single red eye - or as some of the Colonials contemptuously referred to them, "chrome [[toaster]]s". According to [[Saul Tigh]],<ref>From "[[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]", [http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/episodes/season02/202/deleted1.html deleted scene]</ref> they had a distinctive "stink" of machine oil.

These models were apparently the instigators of the Cylon rebellion, or their immediate descendants. They fought in all the major engagements of the Cylon War, including the boardings of ''[[Brenik]]'' and ''[[Galactica]]''. A painting by [[Monclair]] depicts a massive melee between early-model Cylons and joint Aerelon-Caprican ground forces.

Not only were these models sentient, they were far from emotionless — in his recollection of the ''Brenik'', [[Saul Tigh]] recalls their vicious tactics in hand-to-hand combat: "The first one was Duncan Raverty. I found him in the corridor. His guts were strewn around on the floor. Y'know, at first I couldn't figure out why the Cylons would bother doing something like that [...] You had to look into their red eye-slit. They hated us. They hated us so much it wasn't enough just to kill us" ("[[Scattered]]", deleted scene).

While remarks by [[Number Six]] in the miniseries state that "those [walking chrome toaster] models are still around. They have their uses," it is most likely that she is referring to the modern Centurions (below), which seem to have replaced the Model 0005 entirely.

==Modern Centurion==
[[Image:Cento.jpg|thumb|right|A deadly Cylon Centurion, upgraded from its predecessors]]
:''Main article: [[Cylon Centurion]]''
The current mainstay of Cylon ground forces, the modern Centurion is a taller, swifter and more agile unit than the Model 0005. Its "fingers" serve as edged weapons in close-quarters combat, and can retract to make way for projectile weapons built into its forearms.

There are apparently two armor configurations - the Centurions encountered by Lt. [[Karl Agathon]] on occupied [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]] were susceptible to normal small-arms fire, while a boarding party dispatched to ''Galactica'' in a boarding action could only be impeded by explosive rounds ([[Valley of Darkness]]).

While the earlier Centurion models presumably took a leadership role in their war against the Colonials, modern Centurions appear completely mute and are subservient to the human models. To prevent an uprising of their own, the human models did not design the modern Centurion with any sentience.<ref>Ron Moore, from [http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/blogs/ blog] [http://blog.scifi.com/battlestar/archives/2006/01/#a000114 entries] on January 20th, 2006, confirms "the Centurions are not sentient[,] and their memories/experiences are not downloaded into new bodies when they die." [[William Adama]] notes this to his son in the episode, "[[Exodus, Part I]]."</ref>

==Cylon Spacecraft==
[[image:SCinside2.jpg|thumb|right|[[Kara Thrace]] cuts her way through the biomechanical muscles of the [[Cylon Raider]] in order to get in ([[You Can't Go Home Again]]).]]
:''Main article: [[Cylon Spacecraft (RDM)]]''
The current model Cylon Raider is an autonomous craft ([[Miniseries]]), apparently capable of operating at fair distance from any command vessel ([[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]; [[Final Cut]]). Captain [[Jackson Spencer]], encountering the newer model Cylon Raider for the first time, expresses shock that "nobody's flying these things." Lt. [[Kara Thrace]] later discovers that the Raider she has [[Skirmish over the Red Moon|shot down]] was, after a fashion, "alive." She removes most of its organic parts before returning with it to ''Galactica''. There, [[Sharon Valerii]], a Cylon sleeper agent, guesses that the Raider is a Cylon in its own right, although "More of an animal, maybe, than the human models... like a pet" ([[Six Degrees of Separation]]).

[[Sharon Agathon|Another Sharon copy]] confirms that Raiders 'download' and reincarnate. In addition, the former Cylon operative reinforces the earlier statement about the animal-like nature of Raiders, saying, "A raider's much like a trained animal, with the basic consciousness and survival instinct."

The [[Basestar (RDM)|basestars]] also makes extensive use of organic parts ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]). The ship is [[Basestar command|commanded by a group of Humanoid Cylons]], and has a living humanoid computer, known as a [[Hybrid]], that manages ship functions and takes orders from other agents. Hybrids do not function autonomously.<ref>In both these cases, the distinction between a "Cylon" and their own semi-sentient technology becomes increasingly blurred — interestingly, the same problem that led to the [[Cylon War]] in the first place.</ref>

== Human Models ==
:''Main article: [[Humanoid Cylons]]''
At some point at least two years prior to the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]], the Cylons appear as an organic model that's almost completely indistinguishable from a human being. While twelve models were created, the origins and creators of the humanoid Cylon are a mystery. The history or fate of [[final five|five]] of these models is deliberately (by design or taboo) suppressed by the seven active models.<ref>Supported from dialogue with [[Gaius Baltar]] and [[Caprica-Six]] in the episode "[[Torn]]", and the behavior of [[Cavil]] and the decision to [[boxing|box]] all [[Number Three]] units in "[[Rapture]]".</ref>

These were used to quietly and effectively infiltrate the Colonial defense forces, with agent models such as [[Number Six]] gaining access to secret military technology, and sleeper agents such as [[Sharon Valerii|Sharon "Boomer" Valerii]] being planted within the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Colonial Fleet]] itself. These sleeper agents are programmed with false memories and appear genuine. Unplanned discovery of their true nature can be extremely disturbing for these units, and their behavior is not always predictable.

Only slight chemical differences reveal human from Humanoid Cylon. Humanoid Cylons also apparently differ from humans in two significant ways.
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[[Image:Sharonspine.jpg|thumb|right|Sharon Valerii conceives a child with [[Karl Agathon]] ([[Six Degrees of Separation]]).]]

===Reproductive Difficulties===
It is impossible for two Cylons to reproduce with each other, and as result the Cylons begin cross-breeding experiments with humans, which results in the pregnancy of [[Sharon Valerii (Caprica copy)|the Caprica-copy of Sharon Valerii]]. Cylon beliefs attribute this to the apparent inability of Cylons to feel love, which they believe to be a crucial element of the process. The forceful impregnation of human women however was unsuccessful ([[The Farm]]).

The second human-Cylon hybrid is [[Nicholas Tyrol]]. At the time of the child's conception, his father [[Galen Tyrol]] was unaware that he is a Cylon ("[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]", "[[Crossroads, Part II]]").
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===Cybernetics===
[[Image:6spine-ms.jpg|thumb|left|[[Number Six]]'s spine glows during intercourse]]On two occasions, the vertebrae of human-model Cylons have been seen to emit a red glow visible through the skin during sexual intercourse ([[Miniseries]], "[[Six Degrees of Separation]]").

Other elements of Cylon humanoid physiology are light-sensitive. Tissues disguised in their forearms behave as a [[Cylon data port|data link]] that can be interfaced, after a fashion, to Colonial fiber-optic networks ([[Flight of the Phoenix]]), but is primarily used in accessing the Cylon optical network known as the [[datastream]] ("[[Torn]]," "[[A Measure of Salvation]]").
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Cylon brains are imbued with a vaguely described technology called [[Silica Pathways|silica pathways]]. This legacy technology existed in the original Centurion Model 0005, but some of this technology remains in the human models, although the technology appears to have been integrated at the molecular level since the brains of Humanoid Cylons and humans are visually identical. Silica pathways are possibly key in the maintenance or transfer of thoughts, memories and consciousness of a Cylon to be downloaded and transferred into a new body when the agent dies. Silica pathways in Humanoid Cylons, as in Centurions, remain susceptible to certain forms of radiation, as found in the storm surrounding [[Ragnar Station]] and the [[Wikipedia:Plutonium|Plutonium]] used as the active element of Dr. [[Gaius Baltar]]'s [[Cylon Detector]]. It normally takes several hours of prolonged exposure for this radiation to have a visible effect ([[Miniseries]], "[[Bastille Day]]"). Cylons are exceptionally resilient to other forms of radiation, as seen in "[[The Passage]]".

===Known Models===

In the Miniseries, somewhat ambiguous comments by [[Caprica-Six]] and a note left for [[William Adama]] (presumably by [[Gaius Baltar]]) indicate that there were only twelve humanoid models at the time of the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]].<ref>Humanoid Cylons are constructs, archetypes of human behavior that are not and never were human, as clarified by [[Ronald D. Moore]] in an [http://www.thefandom.com/Article50.phtml interview] on "The Chase Show", hosted on the SF webcast news site [http://www.thefandom.com/TheFandom.com TheFandom.com].</ref> Of the twelve human models, eleven have been revealed as of the episode "[[Crossroads, Part II]]."
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Image:Three Cylon BW.jpg|[[Number Three]] ([[Boxing|Boxed]])
Image:Doral.jpg|[[Number Five]]
Image:Six_closeup.jpg|[[Number Six]]
Image:Boomer_closeup.jpg|[[Number Eight]]
Image:Leoben Headshot.jpg|[[Leoben Conoy]]
Image:Cysim.jpg|[[Simon]]
Image:Cavil_closeup.jpg|[[Cavil]]
Image:Tyrol Cylon.jpg|[[Number Twelve]] | [[Galen Tyrol]]
Image:Anders_Cylon.jpg|[[Samuel Anders]]
Image:Tighlon.jpg|[[Saul Tigh]]
Image:Tory Cylon.JPG|[[Tory Foster]]
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===The "[[final five]]"===

[[Image:TheFinalFive.JPG|right|thumb|300px|The Final Five, as seen in visions by observers.]]
The existence or knowledge of the [[Final five|five remaining models]] appear to be something of a taboo in Cylon society. When Baltar mentions their absence to Caprica-Six he is told not to talk about them. The identities of these five models appear to be suppressed or missing from the Cylons' collective knowledgebase.

A Number Three model believes that the five silhouetted figures she sees in a vision of Kobol's ancient [[Opera House]] while she is in the "space between life and death" prior to [[Resurrection (RDM)|resurrection]] are images of the final five.

Inside the [[Temple of Five]], Number Three manages to return to the "space between life and death" and sees the faces of the five and retains her memories of them for the first time. She recognizes one of the five while she is in their presence. Although her consciousness returns to the temple, she promptly dies before she can reveal who she saw. Some fans have suggested that the figure she recognizes and "apologizes" to is Colonel Saul Tigh, whom she probably saw while he was in captivity on New Caprica. Her "apology" towards him could be been in relation to his eye, which the Cylons removed while he was held in a Cylon Detention Center. Her consciousness, and the consciousnesses of all other Three models has been [[boxing|boxed]] by the other Cylons and all the knowledge of the five has been boxed with her, for the time being ([[Rapture]]). Since only the Threes have seen these figures, and because the Temple itself was designed for descendants of the twelve tribes and not the Cylons, the actual nature of the final five remains a mystery.

As [[Saul Tigh]], [[Galen Tyrol]], [[Samuel Anders]] and [[Tory Foster]] approached the [[Ionian nebula]], a strange [[The Music|event]] brings them physically together to realize that they are Cylons. The final Cylon model remains a mystery.<ref>Ron Moore has stated in multiple interviews that [http://forums.scifi.com/index.php?showtopic=2270103&st=0&p=3041263&#entry3041263 clues have been left behind] in past episodes.</ref> ([[Crossroads, Part II]]).

===Hybrids===
:''Main articles: [[Hybrid]], [[First Hybrid]]''
[[Image:Hybrid.jpg|thumb|left|A Hybrid speaking "nonsense".]]

In addition to the humanoid Cylons, there is a second type of humanoids, known as the Hybrids. Not to be confused with the Cylon/human hybrid children, [[Hera Agathon]] and [[Nicholas Tyrol]], the Hybrids aboard basestars resemble [[humanoid Cylon]]s, but are another type of Cylon similar to the autonomous bio-mechanical [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Raiders]]. They are specially constructed living computers that manage the autonomic functions of the basestar. The Hybrids are so integrated into the basestar's functionality that they ''are'', for all practical purposes, the basestar. [[Sharon Agathon|Athena]] claims that the Hybrids were eventually phased out of use aboard baseships, but those who already exist continue to serve their function ([[Razor]]).

[[Image:First Hybrid.png|thumb|right|The First Hybrid]]

The [[First Hybrid]] created from the Cylons' experimentation with human beings possesses many of the same traits that the modern Hybrids exhibit, only with a few distinct differences. The First Hybrid, although it possesses the same metaphysical perception as its descendants, is considerably more lucid and speaks in coherent, though slightly ambiguous, sentences. Like the modern Hybrids, the First Hybrid functions as the central computer of its [[Guardian basestar|basestar]], but it also appears to function as the basestar's command and control, given the absence of modern humanoid Cylons aboard. While Athena claims the First Hybrid is an evolutionary dead-end and was abandoned by the Cylons, the Hybrid itself claims that its "children" see it as a god. The First Hybrid was destroyed along with its basestar in the [[Battle of the Guardian basestar]], and it is currently unknown whether or not it was the only one of its kind.
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===Organizational Relationships===
At this point only limited knowledge exists regarding the Cylon hierarchy's nature. The humanoid models, as the most evolved form of Cylon, appear to be in charge of all subsequent models, such as the Centurions, Raiders, and Hybrids. [[Caprica-Six]]'s statement in "[[Downloaded]]" that Cylon culture is based on unity and that celebrities such as herself are something new implies that there is no single leader <ref>Like the [[Imperious Leader]] in the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]].</ref>. Instead, each model appears to be equal in terms of power and authority and the Cylons appear to make critical decisions based on consensus, or failing that, majority opinion. One or two representatives from each available model gather and discuss matters in a forum-like environment then hold a vote on what course of action to take. Each model gets one vote that appears to represent the opinion of every copy of that model (except in one known instance where Caprica-Six disagrees with the other Sixes). The Centurions, Raiders and the [[Hybrid|baseship Hybrids]] are not permitted a vote in the decision making process ("[[Occupation]]" through "[[A Measure of Salvation]]").

One instance where a [[Number Three]] model goes against the collective will of her fellow models and ultimately imposes her will over the rest is considered so radical that every Number Three copy is [[boxing|boxed]] for disrupting the unity of Cylon race ("[[The Eye of Jupiter]]", "[[Rapture]]"). Just before being boxed a Three indicates to one of the [[Cavil]]s that she does not know who programmed the humanoid Cylons or why. However, unlike the modern Hybrids, [[First Hybrid|the first successful Hybrid]] appears to exert direct control over its own [[Guardian basestar|basestar]] and [[Guardians|Cylon Centurions]]. The Hybrid claims that his "children" consider him to be a god. The exact meaning behind this statement is not yet known ([[Razor]]).

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