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<div>{{Character Data <br />
|photo= Saul Tigh.jpg<br />
|age= Allegedly 71<ref>Tigh was supposedly born in 69 BCH, ("[[Valley of Darkness]]" deleted scene), and Season 3 takes place in 2 AHC.</ref>, actually 2,000+<br />
|colony= [[Earth_(RDM)#Arrival_and_Ruins|Original Earth]]; he has a fabricated background of being from [[Aerilon]]<br />
|birthname=<br />
|callsign= <br />
|seen= Miniseries<br />
|death= 1. Nuclear destruction of Original Earth, c. 2000 BCH (resurrected in orbit)<br>2. suffocated by [[Number One]], c. 32 BCH (resurrected with false memories)<br>3. Eventually died after 4 ACH settlement on New Earth<br />
|parents=<br />
|siblings=<br />
|children= Non-biologically: Considered a "father" of the eight humanoid Cylon models;<br>Biologically: [[Liam Tigh]]† (miscarried at four months) with Caprica-Six<br />
|marital status=Married to [[Ellen Tigh]] in all three lives;<br>briefly cohabitated with [[Caprica-Six]]<br />
|role= Executive Officer, [[Galactica type battlestar|battlestar]] ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'';<br>Commander of [[New Caprica Resistance]];<br>Civilian deckhand;<br>Engineer or scientist<br />
|rank= Colonel<br />
|actor= [[Michael Hogan]]<br />
|serial=219804<ref>Serial number from [[:Image:Tigh's dogtag serial.jpg|his dogtags]] and confirmed by the studios for the QMX replica.</ref>, 245A-34DC<ref>serial number as seen in [[He That Believeth In Me]]; also see notes section.</ref> <br />
|5cylon= y<br />
|name= Saul Tigh<br />
}}<br />
'''Saul Tigh''' is the [[Executive Officer]] (XO) of ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'', and repeatedly serves as acting commander in the absence of [[William Adama]]. Before his service on ''Galactica'', he served as Adama's XO on the battlestar ''[[Valkyrie]]''. During the Cylon occupation of [[New Caprica]], Tigh commanded the [[New Caprica Resistance]]. <br />
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A tough but troubled man with a long history of alcoholism, Tigh has false memories of having served in the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Colonial Fleet]] since his teenage years, seeing action in the [[First Cylon War]]. He is married to [[Ellen Tigh]], whose death was incorrectly (though logically) presumed to have been permanent. Believing himself to be a widower, he entered a sexual relationship with [[Caprica Six]],with whom he sired a miscarried child named [[Liam|Liam Tigh]].<br />
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Upon reaching the [[Ionian nebula]], he and [[Final Five|three others]] [[Crossroads, Part II|became aware]] of their nature as [[Humanoid Cylon|Cylons]]. Since then, he has sporadically regained memories and knowledge of his prior life.<br />
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==Biography ==<br />
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===Cylon past===<br />
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Saul Tigh lived on [[Earth (RDM)#Arrival_and_Ruins|the original Earth]] two millennia ago. Like all humanoids on that planet, he was a Cylon: a member of the [[Thirteenth Tribe (RDM)|Thirteenth Tribe]]. There, he was one of five scientists researching "organic memory transfer," a technology which had originated on [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]], but fell out of use on Earth once the Thirteenth Tribe Cylons started to procreate sexually. His wife Ellen was the most gifted of the five scientists. When nuclear armageddon came, Saul found himself in the lobby of his apartment building. Hearing a voice crying out, "Saul!" from the floor in front of the tenants' post boxes, he finds his wife trapped under debris he cannot move. He pulls the lighter debris from around her, as more bombs detonate. Moments before they die, she tells him, "Saul, it's okay. Everything's in place. We'll be reborn... again. Together." ([[Sometimes a Great Notion]], [[No Exit]])<br />
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The organic memory transfer they were researching was [[Resurrection (RDM)|resurrection technology]], the same technology their ancestors brought from [[Kobol]]. When killed by the explosions, Saul and the other four downloaded into new bodies aboard a ship they had placed in orbit. Knowing that humanity would continue to create artificial life, they made their way the Twelve Colonies to warn them about the the need to treat their creations with kindness in order to prevent a rebellion and inter-species war. Lacking [[Propulsion in the Re-imagined Series|faster-than-light]] capability, the five travelled at relativistic speeds. From the planetary perspective, their journey took approximately two thousand years.<br />
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Saul and the other four found their fears were justified. Upon their arrival, the first [[Cylon War]] was already in progress between humans and the Colonial [[Cylon Centurion Model 0005|Cylon Centurions]]. Saul and the others made a deal with the Centurions: end the war against the humans, and the Five would help them build humanoid Cylons. They ultimately made eight models for the Centurions, and their technology was stored in [[The Colony]]. The favoritism which [[Number One]] perceived Saul's wife, Ellen, displayed toward [[Number Seven]] drove Number One into a jealous rage. In addition to permanently destroying the Number Seven line, he suffocated Saul and the other four Cylons from Earth. Blocking their real memories, Number One implanted false ones in their minds, and deposited them among the human population in an attempt to prove to them the "evils" of humanity.<br />
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=== False Backstory ===<br />
Saul Tigh was supposedly born on the colony of [[Aerilon]]<ref name="aerelon">"Cylon Intelligence Report: Personnel File: Saul Tigh." <u>Battlestar Galactica: The Official Magazine</u>. Feb./Mar. 2006: 62. - He has [[Crossroads, Part II|recently been revealed]] as a Cylon presumably making this point moot.</ref>.<br />
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Tigh began his military career as a deckhand<ref name="deckhand">''Ibid''. "Saul Tigh entered the fleet as a deckhand, but rose through the ranks, and was a CPO (Chief Petty Officer) by the time the First Cylon War broke out."</ref>. By the second year of the First [[Cylon War]], he was serving as a gunner's mate onboard the ''[[Brenik]]''. His ship was boarded by the Cylons, where he and others fought in hand-to-hand combat, during the bloodiest period of that war. It was during this battle that he saw his first dead man, [[Duncan Rafferty]], who was violently vivisected by Centurions ("[[Valley of Darkness]]", [[List of Deleted Scenes - Season 2 (RDM)#Noteworthy Dialogue|deleted scene]]). His ship was subsequently destroyed, but he survived. He was transferred to another unnamed ship, which succumbed to a similar fate as his original ship. Having borne witness to many a bloody combat, he became emotionally scarred, which had, among other impetuses, led him to alcoholism. <br />
[[Image:Tighadama.jpg|Tigh and Adama's first meeting.|left|thumb]]<br />
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Tigh eventually achieved the rank of Chief Petty Officer. When Viper pilot numbers began running low in the war, Tigh was selected for Colonial [[officer candidate school]], and was reassigned as a Viper pilot.<ref>{{cite rdm podcast|episode=Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down}}</ref> As a pilot, he demonstrated considerable skill, earning several medals while posted aboard [[Athena (Battlestar)|Battlestar ''Athena'']].<ref name="athena">''Ibid''. "Tigh joined the Colonial officer candidate school, and was reassigned as a Viper pilot, something he excelled in, earning a string of medals in his post aboard the battlestar Athena."</ref> After the cessation of hostilities, he was dismissed from service.<br />
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=== Inter-War Years ===<br />
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Tigh eked out an existence as a deckhand aboard a commercial freighter. He clearly experienced signs of post-traumatic stress disorder; he commented that every time he smelled grease or machine oil, he would nearly vomit, as this smell reminded him of the "stink" of Centurions ("[[Valley of Darkness]]", [[List of Deleted Scenes - Season 2 (RDM)#Noteworthy Dialogue|deleted scene]]). While onboard, he drowned himself in alcohol and, after a time, about 20 years after the war, encountered [[William Adama]], who had not seen as much combat experience as Tigh himself. They became fast friends, and remained in touch after Adama was recommissioned into the service. Two years later, Tigh found himself reinstated into the Colonial Fleet at the rank of captain, thanks to his old friend, and now major, Adama.<ref name="adama">''Ibid''. "Adama reenlisted with the service, and Tigh spent two years drinking before Adama pulled strings to get him back into service. Tigh was straightening his life out when he met his wife Ellen, whom he courted and married within two months, about 7 years before the [[Miniseries]]. Unfortunately, Ellen did not take well to military life, and her repeated infidelities drove Tigh back into the bottle. The two separated shortly before the Cylon attack.</ref> His alcoholism has led many in the crew to view him with contempt ([[Miniseries]], "[[33]]").<br />
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=== Second Cylon War ===<br />
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Following the Cylon attack, Tigh recovered some of his old verve, and attempted to give up alcohol. However, this, combined with the initial stress of flight from the Cylons, caused him to overcompensate as a martinet, frequently driving the personnel overly hard, and berating where encouragement would prove the better option ([[33]]). He excused this by his view that the XO is supposed to be the "hard face" of command.<br />
[[image:33-Tigh_Adama.jpg|thumb|right|"If the crew doesn't hate the XO, then he's not doing his job."]]<br />
With his drinking problem relatively under control, Tigh settled back into his role as the ''Galactica'''s Executive Officer, though he still treats the ship's personnel relatively inhumanely. Apart from Adama, he seems unable to utter a sentence without cursing, or to leave any differing opinion unsneered at.<br />
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During Cylon attacks, Tigh has proven himself to be a good battle-manager and tactician. His quick actions sometimes save the ship and the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] from damage or destruction ("[[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]", "[[Scattered]]", "[[Valley of Darkness]]"). <br />
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Tigh is uneasy around President [[Laura Roslin]] ([[Water]]), and resents what he sees as her interfering with Adama's command ([[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]) - something born out of his deep respect for Adama, which even the most heated of disagreements between them ([[You Can't Go Home Again]]) cannot disrupt, or his general inability to accept differing viewpoints.<br />
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Tigh personally loathes [[Kara Thrace]], one of ''Galactica'''s pilots. While grudgingly conceding she is a fine pilot, Tigh does consider her an an egotistical, insubordinate youngster, and even tries to end her active service. Tigh criticizes Adama for having a soft spot for Thrace, ignoring that his whole existence in the fleet is based on a similar soft spot ([[Miniseries]]). <br />
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Outside of Adama, Tigh has few others he regards as confidants aboard ship; and since the initial Cylon attack, he has withdrawn from interacting with the crew during off-duty hours, making him perhaps more isolated than even Adama - who is at least held in awe, and respected by the crew.<br />
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=== Wife's Return ===<br />
[[image:Tigh_Me_Up_Tigh_Me_Down-Saul_Ellen.jpg|thumb|left|'''Tigh''' and his newly returned wife, [[Ellen Tigh|Ellen]], making a toast: "To starting over" ([[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]).]]<br />
Some three weeks after the Cylon attack on the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]], Tigh is stunned to discover his wife, [[Ellen Tigh|Ellen]], had not been killed as he had thought, but was rescued from [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Picon|Picon]], and carried aboard the ''[[Rising Star (RDM)|Rising Star]]'' as an unconscious "Jane Doe" by an unknown person. Later, it is revealed that the person who did that was a [[John Cavil]]-model Cylon.<br />
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Despite the emotional implications from the destruction of the Colonies and life aboard the ship, Tigh is reluctantly thrust further into politics, as his wife plays her schemes. Much to his disdain, his wife attempts to procure photo opportunities with the likes of [[Tom Zarek]] - a person Tigh views with the utmost contempt ([[Colonial Day]]). Additionally, Ellen seems to re-establish Tigh's alcoholism with gratuitous drinking. <br />
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Despite this, Adama sends Tigh with a squadron of [[Colonial Marine Corps|Marines]] to arrest [[Laura Roslin]] after Adama discovers that she convinced [[Kara Thrace]] to [[FTL|Jump]] back to [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] to retrieve a historical artifact called the [[Arrow of Apollo]] from the Delphi Museum. This action deprives the Fleet of a military asset - a captured [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Cylon Raider]], intended to have been used to plant a nuclear warhead aboard a [[basestar]] in orbit around the planet believed to be [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]] - and convinces Adama that Roslin is abusing her authority. <br />
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Onboard ''[[Colonial One]]'', Tigh's men and Roslin's [[Presidential Security Service|personal security agents]] are at a standoff when [[Lee Adama]] aims a weapon at Tigh's head and attempts to thwart the coup. Attempting to defuse the situation, Roslin agrees to be arrested and Lee Adama is arrested on charges of treason ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]).<br />
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=== Tigh in Command ===<br />
[[Image:Scattered-Tigh.jpg|thumb|right|Tigh realizing he's in a bit over his head ([[Scattered]]).]]<br />
Tigh is present in [[CIC]] during the attempted assassination of Adama by [[Sharon Valerii]]. As guards restrain Valerii, Tigh attempts to stop the bleeding from the torso gunshot wounds Adama sustained in the attempt ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]). He keeps Lee Adama from tending to his father and throws him into the brig. However, the need for reliable officers, forces Tigh to grant Lee a parole from his arrest. After his daily duties as [[CAG]] are done, Lee promises to return to the brig when off-shift.<br />
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With Adama incapacitated and with Roslin arrested, Tigh tries to maintain order. However, his irrational and gruff command style displeases many crew members. Morale and ship efficiency began to suffer. Ellen Tigh becomes a private adviser to her husband, frequently questioning his power to command while also suggesting ways of usurping more power and quashing his opponents. Ellen Tigh's advice only exacerbates an already-deteriorating situation.<br />
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Tigh's interrogation of suspected Cylon collaborators or infiltrators is brutal. After beating, then nearly shooting the ''Galactica'' copy of Valerii, other issues in the Fleet divert him from further interrogation. He orders a special cage made for her for later interrogation. Tigh also savagely interrogates Valerii's former lover, Chief [[Galen Tyrol]] as a possible [[humanoid Cylon]] himself. Tigh would have left him with Valerii in the newly built Cylon cage if [[Gaius Baltar]] did not intervene to prove medically that Tyrol is not a Cylon himself.<br />
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With Roslin in prison, uprisings begin as civilian ships refuse to supply ''Galactica'' until Roslin is released. Worse, the [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]] demand to see Roslin. Knowing of Roslin's hallucinations in the brig, he intentionally invites the Quorum to see Roslin in her poor state in hopes of disillusioning the Quorum. However, Roslin recovers sufficiently from her [[Chamalla]] withdrawal after getting a supply smuggled to her by Corporal [[Venner]], her guard. Tigh believes that the accounts within the [[Sacred Scrolls]] weren't to be believed, and teases Roslin in front of the Quorum on her visions. Roslin not only is able to speak to the Quorum, but decisively reinforces her decisions as well as her role in the search for the location of Earth as told in the Pythian prophesies. This act greatly impresses the Quorum, and infuriates Tigh; fearing a larger civilian government uprising led by the Quorum. Tigh institutes [[Wikipedia:martial law|martial law]] throughout the Fleet - a move he earlier had disclaimmed - in an attempt to maintain order in a rapidly chaotic shuffle of power between the civilian and military governments ([[Fragged]]).<br />
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The supply situation leads Tigh to deploying Marines in forcibly retrieving supplies. On [[Gideon|one ship]], a riot leads to four deaths and many injuries due to the pilot's inexperience in managing such a situation. Unlike Adama (who likely would have taken direct responsibility for the "Gideon Massacre"), Tigh places blame solely on the pilot, absolving himself from the incident.<br />
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=== Fleet Factioning and Adama's Return ===<br />
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The shootings, Tigh's decision for martial law, and his unwillingness to discuss anything with anyone except Ellen Tigh (and the unconscious Adama) becomes the dividing point of those wanting to press on to finding Earth, and those wanting to settle on Kobol ([[Season 2 (2005-06)|Season 2]]). Tigh's drinking spirals further out of control, leading to more erratic behavior and causing great concern regarding his ability to effectively command, particularly among the [[CIC]] staff. The situation comes to a head when Roslin, tacitly aided by other officers and crew on ''Galactica'', escapes the brig in an attempt to hide amongst the many ships in the Fleet with the aid of [[Tom Zarek]]. Tigh chases down the escaping Raptor using the [[Combat Air Patrol|CAP]], having the Viper fire across the bow of the fleeing Raptor to persuade it to return. The Raptor brazenly continues onward, leading to a crucial decision for the Colonel. Tigh allows the Raptor to escape rather than shooting it down, which would have killed Adama's son and the President and could have destabilized the fleet.<br />
[[image:Flight_of_the_Phoenix-Tigh_Adama.jpg|thumb|left|Tigh and Adama share a knowing smirk at the commissioning of the [[Blackbird]], ''Laura'' ([[Flight of the Phoenix]]).]]<br />
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Fortunately for the fleet and Colonel Tigh, Commander Adama regains consciousness shortly after the escape and asks what had happened during his absence. Tigh confesses that he has "frakked things up good", but Adama reassures his friend, saying, "I never had much use for people that second-guessed my decisions, especially if they've never held a command. They don't understand the pressure to make a call that affects the lives of thousands, and you have no one to turn to for backup." Despite all the serious problems that Tigh created, Adama doesn't blame him, telling Tigh that whatever bad calls were made, they would pick up the pieces together ([[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]). <br />
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Both Adama and Tigh underestimate the number of ships that secede from the main fleet to join the [[Laura Roslin faction|faction]] that sought the [[Tomb of Athena]] with President Roslin ([[The Farm]]). Tigh backs up Adama while he maintains a similar official position on Roslin and the separated ships as Tigh has. However, after Adama realizes that survival of the entire Fleet would only come if everyone held together, Adama begins to prepare a journey to Kobol to retrieve the remainder of the Fleet and reach out to Roslin ([[Home, Part I]]). At first Tigh seems to believe that Adama is retrieving the faction by more military means, and scoffs at Roslin's religious views on the quest until he realizes that Adama is beginning to follow Roslin's information, taking her reports and visions seriously. Tigh is left in command while Adama successfully reunites the Fleet and reconciles with Roslin ([[Home, Part II]]).<br />
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After [[William Adama|Adama's]] return to command and Roslin to the presidency, for a moment the ''Gideon'' incident is almost forgotten. Before she is invited to ''Galactica'', reporter [[D'Anna Biers]] prepares a story about the incident, which could destroy the public's view towards Tigh, and eventually ''Galactica''. However she drops the subject in favor of a ''Galactica'' documentary. Lt. [[Joe Palladino]], the pilot in charge of the boarding operation to ''Gideon'', blames Tigh for the discredit to his reputation. He begins to terrorize Tigh and his wife, but Tigh later manages to subdue Palladino ([[Final Cut]]).<br />
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=== ''Pegasus'' Discovered ===<br />
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Things once again turn on their head when ''Galactica'' has a chance encounter with the battlestar ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'', a modern type of battlestar and the flagship of Admiral [[Helena Cain]]. Cain, being the superior officer, assumes complete command of the Fleet. The naturally suspicious Tigh is wary about this mixed blessing, but takes it in stride like everything else up until now. When he begins to regularly speak with ''Pegasus''’s own XO [[Jack Fisk]], his suspicions slowly prove to be well founded.<br />
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Fisk's conscience-clearing sessions with Tigh reveal that Admiral Cain was responsible for a set of atrocities, the most damning being the pillaging and stranding of a small civilian fleet in open space. When Tigh relays this information to Commander Adama, Adama reminisces about their own questionable activities, particularly their actions regarding the ''[[Olympic Carrier]]''. However, Adama keeps Tigh's warnings in mind and they help him in his decision to stand up to Cain later on ("[[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]" through "[[Resurrection Ship, Part I]]").<br />
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=== The Election and New Caprica ===<br />
When the presidential election arrives, Colonel Tigh is charged with overseeing the vote tallies on ''Galactica''. When it appears that [[Gaius Baltar|Baltar]] would win the vote, [[Tory Foster]], President Roslin's aide, approaches Tigh and [[Anastasia Dualla|Dualla]] to conspire to steal the election for Roslin, foreseeing certain disaster in a Baltar presidency. Tigh, never a fan of Baltar's to begin with, organises the counting of fraudulent ballots in order to keep Baltar out of office. The plot is overturned when Lt. [[Felix Gaeta|Gaeta]] reports irregularities to Tigh, who all too obviously tries to sweep the affair under the carpet. Gaeta then informs Admiral Adama, who lets Tigh and Dualla off the hook and the official vote tallies are "revised" without the public learning of the Roslin campaign's attempt to steal the election.<br />
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One year later, after the fleet settles on [[New Caprica]] on the orders of President Baltar, most of the military staff have all but retired from active service. Col. Tigh is one of the few officers still serving aboard ''Galactica'', but the day eventually comes when Admiral Adama discharges his friend and XO from his duties to let him return to civilian life with his wife. On the surface of New Caprica, the couple run into [[Kara Thrace]] at [[Galen Tyrol|Galen]] and [[Cally Tyrol|Cally]] Tyrol's union rally. The former colonel and captain share an unusually warm embrace, having put their differences behind them at some point in the preceding year. However, their reunion does not last as a large Cylon fleet appears in orbit over the planet and the Cylons occupy New Caprica without firing a shot. Tigh and his wife are last seen watching in utter shock as [[Cylon Centurion]]s march through the streets of New Caprica City ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]).<br />
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=== Occupation and Resistance ===<br />
Two months into the occupation of New Caprica by the Cylons, Tigh is organizing and recruiting for [[New Caprica Resistance|the resistance on New Caprica]] along with Galen Tyrol and [[Jammer]]. When the Cylons begin to find the weapons hidden by the Resistance, Tigh orders them to be stored in the Temple, believing it to be the safest place as the Cylon respect the sanctity of the Temple and will not search it, disregarding any moral concerns. When the Cylons discover the weapons, [[Nora Farmer|Nora]] is shot and Cally Tyrol and her [[Nicholas Tyrol|baby]] barely escape. This leads several members of the [[New Caprica Resistance|resistance movement]] to question whether Tigh is going too far. After Tigh plans an attack that could endanger patients at a hospital, Jammer reports him to the Cylon authorities ([[Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance]]). The Cylons imprison Tigh and tear his right eye out. Ellen's sexual efforts with [[Cavil]] lead to Tigh's eventual release ([[Occupation]]) though this is later revealed to be a Cylon ruse to blackmail Ellen into collaboration with the Cylons as well as find the location of a high level meeting of the Insurgency.<br />
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===Escape from New Caprica and Ellen's death===<br />
After Ellen is discovered to have betrayed a meeting with [[Sharon Agathon]] to the Cylons, fellow Resistance leader [[Samuel Anders]] compels Tigh to execute Ellen for her actions. Reluctantly, Tigh kills his wife by giving her a poisoned drink after which he cries over her body.<br />
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[[Image:Saulellen.jpg|Tigh handing Ellen her poisoned drink.|thumb]]Tigh actively participates in the exodus from New Caprica, leading an attack on the shipyard with Galen Tyrol, during which they are aided by Vipers launched from ''Galactica''.<br />
[[Image:TighAdamaReunion.jpg|thumb|left|Adama welcomes Tigh back on ''Galactica'' ([[Exodus, Part II]]).]]<br />
Following the escape, he initially resumes his post as the executive officer of ''Galactica'', but is unable to conceal his contempt for those who colluded with the Cylons, such as [[Felix Gaeta]]. In a face-off with Admiral Adama, in which the senior officer orders Tigh to "sleep it off", it is clear that the events on New Caprica - most notably, his wife's death - are still adversely affecting Tigh. Following that he spends a lot of time in his quarters trying to cope with what happened to him on New Caprica and is temporarily replaced by [[Karl Agathon]].<br />
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He eventually becomes the apparent ringleader of the [[The Circle|Circle]], a group of six people authorized by then-President [[Tom Zarek]], charged with bringing collaborators to justice. Tigh is among the less scrupulous members but nonetheless opposes [[Charlie Connor]]'s suggestion of summary executions. Thirteen people fall victim to the Circle's mandate, including [[Jammer]] ([[Collaborators]]).<br />
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Tigh is reunited with an old comrade, [[Daniel Novacek]] and tells him the truth of his last mission. Tigh later stops him when Novacek tries to kill Adama in revenge for being the cause of him spending years as a Cylon captive ([[Hero]]). Tigh also referees the boxing fights organized to boost morale ([[Unfinished Business]]). He returns to duty during operations to resupply the Fleet's food stores ([[The Passage]]). When [[Dr. Robert]], a civilian physician, is implicated in the deaths of [[Sagittaron]] refugees, Tigh initially defends his friend, saying that he worked with the resistance on New Caprica. He clashes with [[Karl Agathon]] over this, who insists on investigating Robert. However, when it turns out that Robert was killing the Sagittarons out of prejudice, Tigh orders his arrest ([[The Woman King]]).<br />
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When [[Kara Thrace]] dies he is visibly heartbroken ([[Maelstrom]]), showing that he did truly care about her despite their differences, which he had begun to show in "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]". As the Fleet nears the [[Ionian nebula]] and Gaius Baltar's trial begins, Tigh is one of a few people who hear mysterious music on several occasions. When called to testify in court, he shows up drunk. [[Romo Lampkin|Baltar's lawyer]] exploits this vulnerability and forces Tigh to publicly admit that he killed his wife on New Caprica ([[Crossroads, Part I]]).<br />
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===The Damning Revelation===<br />
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[[Image:403 - Tigh and his gun.jpg|thumb|Tigh in his waking "nightmare" state ([[He That Believeth In Me]]).]]<br />
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Saul Tigh, [[Galen Tyrol]], [[Samuel Anders]] and [[Tory Foster]] begin to hear a [[The Music|song]] only they can hear over and over again, driving them to distraction. They instinctively come to the realization that they are four of the [[final five]] Cylons. They decide to remain loyal to the Colonials ([[Crossroads, Part II]]).<br />
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With a Cylon fleet bearing down on them, Tigh resumes his position as executive officer again. However, almost immediately, this decision is tested by both Tigh's waking nightmares during the onset of the [[Battle of the Ionian Nebula|battle]]&mdash;where he believes he will kill his friend and commander, Adama, much the same way [[Sharon Valerii|Boomer]] tried to&mdash;and the return of [[Kara Thrace]], who may be a Cylon. Even amidst this, he is the ''de facto'' leader of the "Final Four" and continues to assure them that they are different than Boomer and the other Cylons. Further, he has them pledge to kill themselves should they feel any inkling of betraying the Fleet ([[He That Believeth In Me]]).<br />
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In an attempt to learn more about what it means to be a Cylon and how they deal with pain, Tigh visits [[Caprica-Six]] in the [[brig]] and asks her how it feels to have the blood of billions of beings on her hands. Six replies that she is just as human as he is and can't switch off her feelings, but that she has found another way to deal with her pain. During their conversation, Tigh has a [[Virtual Ellen|hallucination]] of his dead wife, whose body he sees the place of Six. She tries to help him cope with his feelings and share some of her perceived clarity. In act of tenderness, she removes his eye patch, but Tigh rebukes her advances. Six then punches Tigh and kisses him when he lies on the floor ([[Escape Velocity]]).<br />
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When [[Natalie]] offers the Colonials access to the Cylon [[Resurrection Hub]] and wants to unbox the [[Number Three|Threes]] in order to learn what she knows about the Final Five, Tigh reacts shocked and fears that he will be uncovered and killed. Instead of cooperation with the Cylon rebels, he urges President Roslin to just destroy the hub ([[Guess What's Coming to Dinner?]]).<br />
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When Doctor [[Cottle]] discovers that Caprica-Six is pregnant, Admiral Adama is angry at Tigh for "giving in to his weaknesses" and being disloyal. Tigh initially counters that Adama is risking a lot for [[Laura Roslin|woman he cares about]] as well. When Adama asks what Ellen would say about his actions, Tigh becomes furious and physically attacks Adama. The two exchange blows and Adama eventually shoves Tigh to the floor, who breaks Adama's model ship during the fall. Having vented their frustrations, both calm down. Later, Adama decides to stay back in a Raptor to wait for Roslin's return. He temporarily promotes Tigh to admiral and gives him command of the Fleet. Tigh is reluctant, recalling his previous [[Scattered|disastrous experience in command]], but takes the position ([[Sine Qua Non]]).<br />
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Tigh's anxiousness about being revealed as a Cylon is magnified when Adama returns with [[D'Anna Biers]]. However, instead of exposing him, she forces his hand by holding the Colonials on the Cylon baseship hostage, demanding that the Cylons on ''Galactica'' are turned over to them. To prevent Adama from carrying out an extremely risky and bloody rescue plan, Tigh decides to come clean himself. He confesses to William Adama, saying that he should have done so earlier. Adama can't believe his friend, but orders him arrested and brought to a [[Launch tube (RDM)|launch tube]]. There, Tigh also exposes Tyrol and Anders. Tigh is about to be spaced, when Kara Thrace runs into the control room and tells everyone that she has found another clue towards [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]]. In an unexpected move, President [[Lee Adama]] grants the Cylons a full amnesty. Before the final jump to Earth, Tigh sits in his quarters drinking, unsure what to do ([[Revelations]]).<br />
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===Earth and further revelations===<br />
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Tigh and Caprica-Six accompany the survey team to Earth's surface, where the latter reaches out for and touches the former. Following their amnesty, Tigh, Anders and Tyrol wear fatigues with no rank insignia ([[Revelations]], [[Sometimes a Great Notion]]), and none is shown having any authority. Tigh's sidearm has not, however, been confiscated from his wall locker.<br />
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Back aboard ''Galactica'', a drunken Admiral Adama storms into Tigh's quarters, armed with a marine's pistol. Grabbing Tigh's pistol from its storage shelf, charging it, and dropping it on the table, Adama orders Tigh, "Sit down, Cylon!" Tigh successfully resists Adama's attemps to encourage Tigh into drinking and to be used for Adama's "assisted suicide". Tigh tries to apologize about his revelation of being a Cylon, but Adama is beyond angry. "Is that how it worked? They program you to be my friend? Emulate all the qualities I respect. Tell me jokes...and I laugh at them." Tigh counters that he wanted, chose to be his friend. Adama throws insult after insult about [[Ellen Tigh]], in an attempt to anger Tigh into picking up either sidearm to shoot his friend. "Do it! Or I'll do it myself!" Adama says, pointing the marine's pistol to his own temple. "I'm sorry, Bill, but this is the one time I can't help you," Tigh tells him ([[Sometimes a Great Notion]]).<br />
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In a reversal of roles, Tigh is the sober one of the two, and gives Adama a much-needed dressing-down. After listening to Adama's story of foxes that would either fight, try to cross the river, or simply give up and float out to sea, Tigh admonishes him not be like foxes choosing to drown. He reminds Adama that he is still the commander and that Tigh is still the XO of the ship; killing himself would not help himself nor their people. Thereafter, Colonel Tigh is restored to his to his rank and position on ''Galactica'' ([[Sometimes a Great Notion]]).<br />
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Once again in his service uniform and wearing his rank, Tigh leads the round-up of the survey crews on the Earth surface in preparation for their journey toward a new home. At the water's edge, [[Number Three (Downloaded copy)|Downloaded Three]] informs him of her decision to give up and die alone on Earth. Their talk reminds Tigh of Adama's fox story, and he begins to walk into the sea. When chest-deep, he is compelled to reach down. In doing so, he discovers a mangled post box hatch from his apartment building lobby two millenia earlier. Like Tyrol, he has a vision of Earth's nuclear distruction. He is wearing a civilian business suit. He hears Ellen, finds her trapped under debris he cannot move. He splashes through the water as he remembers himself digging though the rubble to reach Ellen and remembers her prophesy. Ellen tells him, as more bombs go off, flashing bright, "Saul, it's okay. Everything's in place. We'll be reborn...again. Together." The vision fades as Tigh realizes the truth. "Ellen...Ellen! You're the [[Final Five|fifth!]]"<br />
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===The search for a home continues===<br />
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Col. Tigh relieves an exhausted Lt. [[Felix Gaeta]] from duty and orders him to take an ill-fated week's leave aboard ''[[Zephyr]]'' to rest and recover. After Gaeta's shuttle raptor is lost in an emergency FTL jump while en-route to ''Zephyr'', Tigh acquiesses to Lt. [[Louis Hoshi]]'s plea for a raptor and pilot with whom to search for his lover. Gaeta is the only survivor of the seven (five Colonials and two [[Number Eight]] Cylons) aboard the raptor, and explains that one of the Eights killed everyone else before being herself killed by Gaeta. After consulting off-camera with the rebel Cylons, Tigh tells him that the incident will not be investigated. Nevertheless, the incident leaves Gaeta apprehensive about their alliance with the rebel Cylons and asks to speak with Admiral Adama because, with all due respect, Tigh is a Cylon. Tigh reluctantly approves his request ([[The Face of the Enemy]]).<br />
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Days into the Fleet's search for a new home, Caprica-Six and Saul Tigh are in sickbay where Dr. Cottle is using a sonagram to show them their unborn child. Tigh can't see the image, when Cottle quips, "Try looking with your eyes...eye." In a moment of amazement while Assistant Layne Ishay points out the elements of the sonagram, an overwhelmed Tigh albeit happy, asks for a drink. Cottle offers a cigarette instead to Tigh as he lights one for himself, to Ishay's dismay.<br />
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In Admiral Adama's quarters, Lee Adama, Saul Tigh, Galen Tyrol, Felix Gaeta and Karl Agathon meet to discuss the implementation of Cylon FTL upgrades to the civilian ships. Tyrol argues that the Cylons become valid citizens of the Fleet, with their own representative on the Quorum and Adama's oath of protection if they are to get the Cylon technology. Tigh comments after Tyrol fubbles with his proper pronouns for the situation that he might need a chart to help him keep it right. <br />
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=== Mutiny, Return of Ellen and the End of the Journey ===<br />
Felix Gaeta leads a mutiny alongside a coup lead by Tom Zarek in order to gain control of the Fleet. Adama and Tigh are captured, but manage to escape and meet up with Lee and Kara. They make their way to a forgotten airlock where Baltar and Roslin escape in a Cylon Raptor to the [[Rebel Basestar]] while Adama stays behind to try to retake ''Galactica''. Tigh insists on staying with him despite being a likely target due to being a Cylon and Adama tells him that "its been an honor to serve with you my friend." ([[The Oath]]) The two are knocked out by a stun grenade and captured by marines led by Captain Aaron Kelly who Tigh insults. He's taken to the brig where Caprica Six, Helo, Athena and Anders already are, but they are rescued by Kara and Lee. However, Anders is seriously hurt and Kara stays behind to get him to Doctor Cottle. The freed prisoners find Kelly who defects and shows them where Admiral Adama is about to be executed and they arrive just in time to save his life. Tigh holds a gun on Narcho who's in charge of the firing squad and forces him not to tell Gaeta the truth. After Narcho refuses to help retake the ship, Tigh goes to shoot him, but is stopped by Adama who has him tied up instead. Tigh is part of Adama's march to retake CIC and helps recapture it without firing a shot, ending the mutiny. ([[Blood on the Scales]])<br />
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Tigh later learns some of his history from Anders who has regained his Cylon memories after being shot in the head during the mutiny. ([[No Exit]]) He is also shocked when a missing Raptor shows up carrying Boomer and his wife Ellen who had downloaded into a new body on a [[Resurrection Ship]] after he had killed her and had been a prisoner of [[Cavil]] until Boomer helped her escape. The Rebel Cylons are excited to have all of the Final Five with them and want to leave the Fleet and leave it up to a majority vote of the Five. Tigh, remembering that Anders told him to stay with the Fleet, votes to stay and given what Anders said, they take it as a vote to stay as well, Tyrol and Tory vote to go, but Ellen is shocked and undecided after learning that he got Caprica Six pregnant. He later asks for a private meeting with Ellen, but she summons Tyrol, Tory and Caprica Six to tell them that they're going to leave the Fleet, doing it just to spite him as she knows how much he loves the Fleet. Tigh refuses to go saying that they can go without him and if Caprica Six really wants to go, she can go too, but he's not going. Ellen uses this to say he loves the Fleet and Bill Adama more than he loves either of them, but Caprica Six suddenly goes into distress and starts to miscarry the baby. A horrified Ellen apologizes saying she only wanted to hurt him, not Caprica Six or the baby. She tells them that they can stay and should and that she'll move to the [[Rebel Basestar]] and leave him alone. He at first pushes her away, but eventually allows her to comfort him. She tries to get him to tell Caprica Six how much he loves her, but he can't seem to do it. Caprica Six miscarries and their baby dies in the womb. Later Tigh goes to Admiral Adama and cries about his lost son. ([[Deadlock]]) The death of their baby is also apparently the end of the relationship between Tigh and Caprica Six.<br />
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Tigh is with Ellen, Tyrol and Tory in Joe's Bar when Kara starts playing the music, surprising them all. ([[Someone to Watch Over Me]]) Afterwards he's shocked when Admiral Adama decides to order ''Galactica's'' repairs to stop and the ship to be scrapped for parts. The two share a toast to the ship. ([[Islanded in a Stream of Stars]])<br />
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When Adama calls for volunteers for a rescue mission for Hera Agathon, Tigh volunteers immediately alongside Ellen. ([[Daybreak, Part I]]) During the [[Battle of The Colony]], Tigh coordinates the battle with Admiral Adama in CIC. When a fire breaks out near Anders, he goes up with Tyrol to put it out and stays on the balcony afterwards. During the attempt to get Cavil to stop all of this and release Hera who he has taken hostage in CIC, Tigh offers him resurrection if he agrees to let Hera go and stop chasing humanity. After he agrees the Five combine together to send the plans for resurrection to The Colony and Tigh calms a nervous Tory by saying they forgive her sins when she gets worried about everyone seeing everyone else's memories. Tigh is shocked to discover that Tory murdered Cally and can only watch as Tyrol kills Tory in revenge. After ''Galactica'' jumps away, Tigh resumes his duties as XO and reports that ''Galactica'' suffered critical structural failures and "broke her back" and can't jump anymore. After landing on their new home planet that they name Earth, Tigh and Ellen say goodbye to Tyrol who plans to go off and live as a hermit and Tigh forgives him for killing Tory, saying he'd have done the same thing if someone had done that to Ellen. Tigh and Ellen rekindle their relationship and go off to spend the rest of their lives together. ([[Daybreak, Part II]])<br />
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== Attitudes toward humans ==<br />
Col. Tigh is unabashedly pro-human and has stayed fiercely loyal to [[William Adama]] and the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] despite almost being killed by his son [[Lee Adama]] in a rage over his - from Lee's point of view - lifelong deception of his father and the Fleet. He has faced such deadly hostility, but has persevered perhaps in part, if not in whole, because he shares such prejudice himself. This is including serving in the [[New Caprica Resistance|Resistance]] on [[New Caprica]] and having no compunction in blowing up Cylons and alleged collaborators alike. He was often the first to call for the execution of any Cylons found among them. He even killed his own wife [[Ellen Tigh]] for betraying the Resistance essentially under [[Samuel Anders]]' orders.<br />
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When he finds out he is a "[[skinjob]]" he is, of course, stunned. He has a waken nightmare of himself repeating the act of [[Sharon Valerii]] shooting Admiral Adama under programming. He pledges with the other three [[Final Five]] Cylons aboard ''Galactica'' to remain loyal and at their post, but if any of them including himself showed signs of working against the interest of the Fleet via hidden program, they should be killed or turned in. Since his discovery his loyalty has not wavered. Indeed he was disappointed in [[Tory Foster]]'s defection to the Cylons and [[Galen Tyrol]]'s wavering of who he should belong to. Sam Anders has a similar attitude as Tigh for being loyal to humanity but not as strong - or at least not stated as strongly.<br />
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Tigh has fully accepted his Cylon nature to the point he cohabitates with [[Caprica-Six]] who is carrying the couple's child. During the mutiny he is willing to die by the side of his best friend and commanding officer William Adama despite Adama's drunken attempts to bait Tigh into killing him only days earlier. He has said that mankind has a lot to answer for regarding the treatment of the Cylons before the [[Second Cylon War]] began, but he actually argues to Tyrol and particularly Tory Foster that it is by no means entirely the fault of humankind for their own destruction:<center><blockquote>''NO! Maybe we share the guilt with the humans but we don't get to just shove it off onto them.</blockquote></center><br />
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Like Tyrol and Foster, he has no independent recollection of his life before Cavil killed him and implanted false memories, but he was, as related by Samuel Anders, one of the Five to stop the [[Cylon War|First Cylon War]] the [[Cylon Centurion Model 0005|Colonial Centurion Cylons]] were raging some 40 years before so his attitude may moderate, but probably won't change his pro-human outlook.<br />
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==Notes==<br />
* Tigh is supposedly a third-generation Colonial soldier. His father was a decorated fighter pilot killed in combat and his grandfather served under President [[Mueller (president)|Mueller]]. Also, Tigh was a published military historian until personal problems became apparent ([[Miniseries]], [[List of Deleted Scenes (RDM)|deleted scene]]). However, given Tigh's recently-revealed Cylon nature, his family history may be a fabrication. Tigh's interest in military history has not been mentioned on screen after the Miniseries, although he mentions various Cylon tactics in use from the Cylon War that came to save ''Galactica'' after being boarded by [[Centurion (RDM)|Centurion]]s ([[Valley of Darkness]]).<br />
* A different serial number is given in [[He That Believeth In Me]] on Starbuck's gun-camera shots of Earth's moon: '''245A-34DC'''.<br />
* Tigh's first name has been given as "Paul" on a number of websites. This is initially based on an early [http://www.twiztv.com/scripts/battlestar/season1/galactica-ms1.pdf version of the script] '''(PDF file)''', which has Adama speaking to "Paul" in their discussion of his fight with Kara Thrace. In the [[podcast]] [[Podcast:Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down|commentary]] on the episode "[[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]", [[Ronald D. Moore]] has indicated that the character's name initially was Paul Tigh. The name had to be changed due to legal issues that Moore was unable to recall in that podcast.<br />
* Tigh is based on the character of Paul Eddington in the movie ''[[w:In Harm's Way|In Harm's Way]]'' portrayed by [[w:Kirk Douglas|Kirk Douglas]] (with [[w:John Wayne|John Wayne]]).<br />
* Tigh's (albeit false) age is one of the only ones which can be accurately deduced. According to a [[List of Deleted Scenes - Season 2 (RDM)#Valley of Darkness|deleted scene]] from "[[Valley of Darkness]]", he served on the ''[[Brenik]]'' when it was boarded during the second year of the Cylon War. Tigh says that he was "just a kid. Virgin. Teenager." It is known that [[Colonial Day (holiday)|Colonial Day]] is the anniversary of both the unification of the Colonies, and (roughly) the outbreak of the Cylon War<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20080505053711/http://blog.scifi.com/battlestar/archives/2005/04/index.html#a000025 RDM, April 11, 2005]</ref>, and was 52 years ago ([[Colonial Day]]). Thus, Tigh is between 63 and 69 years old at the beginning of Season 2.<br />
* In the DVD commentary of "[[Act of Contrition]]", Ron Moore notes that actor [[Michael Hogan]] won the role of Tigh over [[Donnelly Rhodes]], who was one of two other actors vying for the part. Rhodes went on to play the role of [[Cottle|Dr. Cottle]], ''Galactica'''s CMO.<br />
* According to ''[[Battlestar Galactica: The Official Magazine]]'', Tigh's home colony is [[Aerilon]]. However, in "[[Dirty Hands]]", [[Cally Tyrol|Cally]] claims that virtually no officers in the Colonial Fleet are from poorer colonies. While this could be an exaggeration, her [[Galen Tyrol|husband]] brings up [[Anastasia Dualla|Dualla]] as counter-example, but not Tigh.<br />
*Tigh's Cylon identity may be alluded to as early as "[[Occupation]]": not only does he have only one eye at this point, but the Cylon "scanning eye" sound effect can be faintly heard as he looks toward the open door of his cell when Cavil enters to tell him that he has been released.<br />
*In several interviews included on the Season 4.0 DVD, actor Michael Hogan cites fan polls that indicated Tigh was considered one of the least likely characters to be a Cylon. This would also seem to extend to the production crew, as a highlight of the 2006 Gag Reel shown at the San Diego Comic Con was a comedic segment suggesting that Tigh was the "13th Cylon".<br />
*Despite being a Cylon and unlike the other members of the Final Five, Tigh doesn't really display Cylon abilities. This is likely from him not embracing his Cylon side like the others do to various extents: Tory shows Cylon strength and joins the Cylons on the baseship as well as connecting to the datastream in the final episode, Tyrol shows Cylon resilance, strength, the ability to tell Cylons apart, [[projection]] and is able to connect to the datastream, Anders is physicaly connected to the datastream and acts as a Hybrid as well as displaying a Cylon IFF signal when scanned by a Raider, while Ellen resurrects and acts like a Cylon in her new body, but the only time Tigh displays his Cylon abilities is when he connects to the datastream to transmit the Resurrection data.<br />
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|age= Allegedly 71<ref>Tigh was supposedly born in 69 BCH, ("[[Valley of Darkness]]" deleted scene), and Season 3 takes place in 2 AHC.</ref>, actually 2,000+<br />
|colony= [[Earth_(RDM)#Arrival_and_Ruins|Original Earth]]; he has a fabricated background of being from [[Aerilon]]<br />
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|death= 1. Nuclear destruction of Original Earth, c. 2000 BCH (resurrected in orbit)<br>2. suffocated by [[Number One]], c. 32 BCH (resurrected with false memories)<br>3. Eventually died after 4 ACH settlement on New Earth<br />
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|children= Non-biologically: Considered a "father" of the eight humanoid Cylon models;<br>Biologically: [[Liam Tigh]]† (miscarried at four months) with Caprica-Six<br />
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'''Saul Tigh''' is the [[Executive Officer]] (XO) of ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'', and repeatedly serves as acting commander in the absence of [[William Adama]]. Before his service on ''Galactica'', he served as Adama's XO on the battlestar ''[[Valkyrie]]''. During the Cylon occupation of [[New Caprica]], Tigh commanded the [[New Caprica Resistance]]. <br />
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A tough but troubled man with a long history of alcoholism, Tigh has false memories of having served in the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Colonial Fleet]] since his teenage years, seeing action in the [[First Cylon War]]. He is married to [[Ellen Tigh]], whose death was incorrectly (though logically) presumed to have been permanent. Believing himself to be a widower, he entered a sexual relationship with [[Caprica Six]],with whom he sired a miscarried child named [[Liam|Liam Tigh]].<br />
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Upon reaching the [[Ionian nebula]], he and [[Final Five|three others]] [[Crossroads, Part II|became aware]] of their nature as [[Humanoid Cylon|Cylons]]. Since then, he has sporadically regained memories and knowledge of his prior life.<br />
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==Biography ==<br />
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===Cylon past===<br />
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Saul Tigh lived on [[Earth (RDM)#Arrival_and_Ruins|the original Earth]] two millennia ago. Like all humanoids on that planet, he was a Cylon: a member of the [[Thirteenth Tribe (RDM)|Thirteenth Tribe]]. There, he was one of five scientists researching "organic memory transfer," a technology which had originated on [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]], but fell out of use on Earth once the Thirteenth Tribe Cylons started to procreate sexually. His wife Ellen was the most gifted of the five scientists. When nuclear armageddon came, Saul found himself in the lobby of his apartment building. Hearing a voice crying out, "Saul!" from the floor in front of the tenants' post boxes, he finds his wife trapped under debris he cannot move. He pulls the lighter debris from around her, as more bombs detonate. Moments before they die, she tells him, "Saul, it's okay. Everything's in place. We'll be reborn... again. Together." ([[Sometimes a Great Notion]], [[No Exit]])<br />
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The organic memory transfer they were researching was [[Resurrection (RDM)|resurrection technology]], the same technology their ancestors brought from [[Kobol]]. When killed by the explosions, Saul and the other four downloaded into new bodies aboard a ship they had placed in orbit. Knowing that humanity would continue to create artificial life, they made their way the Twelve Colonies to warn them about the the need to treat their creations with kindness in order to prevent a rebellion and inter-species war. Lacking [[Propulsion in the Re-imagined Series|faster-than-light]] capability, the five travelled at relativistic speeds. From the planetary perspective, their journey took approximately two thousand years.<br />
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Saul and the other four found their fears were justified. Upon their arrival, the first [[Cylon War]] was already in progress between humans and the Colonial [[Cylon Centurion Model 0005|Cylon Centurions]]. Saul and the others made a deal with the Centurions: end the war against the humans, and the Five would help them build humanoid Cylons. They ultimately made eight models for the Centurions, and their technology was stored in [[The Colony]]. The favoritism which [[Number One]] perceived Saul's wife, Ellen, displayed toward [[Number Seven]] drove Number One into a jealous rage. In addition to permanently destroying the Number Seven line, he suffocated Saul and the other four Cylons from Earth. Blocking their real memories, Number One implanted false ones in their minds, and deposited them among the human population in an attempt to prove to them the "evils" of humanity.<br />
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=== False Backstory ===<br />
Saul Tigh was supposedly born on the colony of [[Aerilon]]<ref name="aerelon">"Cylon Intelligence Report: Personnel File: Saul Tigh." <u>Battlestar Galactica: The Official Magazine</u>. Feb./Mar. 2006: 62. - He has [[Crossroads, Part II|recently been revealed]] as a Cylon presumably making this point moot.</ref>.<br />
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Tigh began his military career as a deckhand<ref name="deckhand">''Ibid''. "Saul Tigh entered the fleet as a deckhand, but rose through the ranks, and was a CPO (Chief Petty Officer) by the time the First Cylon War broke out."</ref>. By the second year of the First [[Cylon War]], he was serving as a gunner's mate onboard the ''[[Brenik]]''. His ship was boarded by the Cylons, where he and others fought in hand-to-hand combat, during the bloodiest period of that war. It was during this battle that he saw his first dead man, [[Duncan Rafferty]], who was violently vivisected by Centurions ("[[Valley of Darkness]]", [[List of Deleted Scenes - Season 2 (RDM)#Noteworthy Dialogue|deleted scene]]). His ship was subsequently destroyed, but he survived. He was transferred to another unnamed ship, which succumbed to a similar fate as his original ship. Having borne witness to many a bloody combat, he became emotionally scarred, which had, among other impetuses, led him to alcoholism. <br />
[[Image:Tighadama.jpg|Tigh and Adama's first meeting.|left|thumb]]<br />
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Tigh eventually achieved the rank of Chief Petty Officer. When Viper pilot numbers began running low in the war, Tigh was selected for Colonial [[officer candidate school]], and was reassigned as a Viper pilot.<ref>{{cite rdm podcast|episode=Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down}}</ref> As a pilot, he demonstrated considerable skill, earning several medals while posted aboard [[Athena (Battlestar)|Battlestar ''Athena'']].<ref name="athena">''Ibid''. "Tigh joined the Colonial officer candidate school, and was reassigned as a Viper pilot, something he excelled in, earning a string of medals in his post aboard the battlestar Athena."</ref> After the cessation of hostilities, he was dismissed from service.<br />
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=== Inter-War Years ===<br />
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Tigh eked out an existence as a deckhand aboard a commercial freighter. He clearly experienced signs of post-traumatic stress disorder; he commented that every time he smelled grease or machine oil, he would nearly vomit, as this smell reminded him of the "stink" of Centurions ("[[Valley of Darkness]]", [[List of Deleted Scenes - Season 2 (RDM)#Noteworthy Dialogue|deleted scene]]). While onboard, he drowned himself in alcohol and, after a time, about 20 years after the war, encountered [[William Adama]], who had not seen as much combat experience as Tigh himself. They became fast friends, and remained in touch after Adama was recommissioned into the service. Two years later, Tigh found himself reinstated into the Colonial Fleet at the rank of captain, thanks to his old friend, and now major, Adama.<ref name="adama">''Ibid''. "Adama reenlisted with the service, and Tigh spent two years drinking before Adama pulled strings to get him back into service. Tigh was straightening his life out when he met his wife Ellen, whom he courted and married within two months, about 7 years before the [[Miniseries]]. Unfortunately, Ellen did not take well to military life, and her repeated infidelities drove Tigh back into the bottle. The two separated shortly before the Cylon attack.</ref> His alcoholism has led many in the crew to view him with contempt ([[Miniseries]], "[[33]]").<br />
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=== Second Cylon War ===<br />
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Following the Cylon attack, Tigh recovered some of his old verve, and attempted to give up alcohol. However, this, combined with the initial stress of flight from the Cylons, caused him to overcompensate as a martinet, frequently driving the personnel overly hard, and berating where encouragement would prove the better option ([[33]]). He excused this by his view that the XO is supposed to be the "hard face" of command.<br />
[[image:33-Tigh_Adama.jpg|thumb|right|"If the crew doesn't hate the XO, then he's not doing his job."]]<br />
With his drinking problem relatively under control, Tigh settled back into his role as the ''Galactica'''s Executive Officer, though he still treats the ship's personnel relatively inhumanely. Apart from Adama, he seems unable to utter a sentence without cursing, or to leave any differing opinion unsneered at.<br />
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During Cylon attacks, Tigh has proved himself to be an good battle-manager and tactician. His quick actions sometimes save the ship and the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] from damage or destruction ("[[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]", "[[Scattered]]", "[[Valley of Darkness]]"). <br />
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Tigh is uneasy around President [[Laura Roslin]] ([[Water]]), and resents what he sees as her interfering with Adama's command ([[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]) - something born out of his deep respect for Adama, which even the most heated of disagreements between them ([[You Can't Go Home Again]]) cannot disrupt, or his general inability to accept differing viewpoints.<br />
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Tigh personally loathes [[Kara Thrace]], one of ''Galactica'''s pilots. While grudgingly conceding she is a fine pilot, Tigh does consider her an an egotistical, insubordinate youngster, and even tries to end her active service. Tigh criticizes Adama for having a soft spot for Thrace, ignoring that his whole existence in the fleet is based on a similar soft spot ([[Miniseries]]). <br />
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Outside of Adama, Tigh has few others he regards as confidants aboard ship; and since the initial Cylon attack, he has withdrawn from interacting with the crew during off-duty hours, making him perhaps more isolated than even Adama - who is at least held in awe, and respected by the crew.<br />
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=== Wife's Return ===<br />
[[image:Tigh_Me_Up_Tigh_Me_Down-Saul_Ellen.jpg|thumb|left|'''Tigh''' and his newly returned wife, [[Ellen Tigh|Ellen]], making a toast: "To starting over" ([[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]).]]<br />
Some three weeks after the Cylon attack on the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]], Tigh is stunned to discover his wife, [[Ellen Tigh|Ellen]], had not been killed as he had thought, but was rescued from [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Picon|Picon]], and carried aboard the ''[[Rising Star (RDM)|Rising Star]]'' as an unconscious "Jane Doe" by an unknown person. Later, it is revealed that the person who did that was a [[John Cavil]]-model Cylon.<br />
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Despite the emotional implications from the destruction of the Colonies and life aboard the ship, Tigh is reluctantly thrust further into politics, as his wife plays her schemes. Much to his disdain, his wife attempts to procure photo opportunities with the likes of [[Tom Zarek]] - a person Tigh views with the utmost contempt ([[Colonial Day]]). Additionally, Ellen seems to re-establish Tigh's alcoholism with gratuitous drinking. <br />
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Despite this, Adama sends Tigh with a squadron of [[Colonial Marine Corps|Marines]] to arrest [[Laura Roslin]] after Adama discovers that she convinced [[Kara Thrace]] to [[FTL|Jump]] back to [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] to retrieve a historical artifact called the [[Arrow of Apollo]] from the Delphi Museum. This action deprives the Fleet of a military asset - a captured [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Cylon Raider]], intended to have been used to plant a nuclear warhead aboard a [[basestar]] in orbit around the planet believed to be [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]] - and convinces Adama that Roslin is abusing her authority. <br />
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Onboard ''[[Colonial One]]'', Tigh's men and Roslin's [[Presidential Security Service|personal security agents]] are at a standoff when [[Lee Adama]] aims a weapon at Tigh's head and attempts to thwart the coup. Attempting to defuse the situation, Roslin agrees to be arrested and Lee Adama is arrested on charges of treason ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]).<br />
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=== Tigh in Command ===<br />
[[Image:Scattered-Tigh.jpg|thumb|right|Tigh realizing he's in a bit over his head ([[Scattered]]).]]<br />
Tigh is present in [[CIC]] during the attempted assassination of Adama by [[Sharon Valerii]]. As guards restrain Valerii, Tigh attempts to stop the bleeding from the torso gunshot wounds Adama sustained in the attempt ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]). He keeps Lee Adama from tending to his father and throws him into the brig. However, the need for reliable officers, forces Tigh to grant Lee a parole from his arrest. After his daily duties as [[CAG]] are done, Lee promises to return to the brig when off-shift.<br />
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With Adama incapacitated and with Roslin arrested, Tigh tries to maintain order. However, his irrational and gruff command style displeases many crew members. Morale and ship efficiency began to suffer. Ellen Tigh becomes a private adviser to her husband, frequently questioning his power to command while also suggesting ways of usurping more power and quashing his opponents. Ellen Tigh's advice only exacerbates an already-deteriorating situation.<br />
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Tigh's interrogation of suspected Cylon collaborators or infiltrators is brutal. After beating, then nearly shooting the ''Galactica'' copy of Valerii, other issues in the Fleet divert him from further interrogation. He orders a special cage made for her for later interrogation. Tigh also savagely interrogates Valerii's former lover, Chief [[Galen Tyrol]] as a possible [[humanoid Cylon]] himself. Tigh would have left him with Valerii in the newly built Cylon cage if [[Gaius Baltar]] did not intervene to prove medically that Tyrol is not a Cylon himself.<br />
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With Roslin in prison, uprisings begin as civilian ships refuse to supply ''Galactica'' until Roslin is released. Worse, the [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]] demand to see Roslin. Knowing of Roslin's hallucinations in the brig, he intentionally invites the Quorum to see Roslin in her poor state in hopes of disillusioning the Quorum. However, Roslin recovers sufficiently from her [[Chamalla]] withdrawal after getting a supply smuggled to her by Corporal [[Venner]], her guard. Tigh believes that the accounts within the [[Sacred Scrolls]] weren't to be believed, and teases Roslin in front of the Quorum on her visions. Roslin not only is able to speak to the Quorum, but decisively reinforces her decisions as well as her role in the search for the location of Earth as told in the Pythian prophesies. This act greatly impresses the Quorum, and infuriates Tigh; fearing a larger civilian government uprising led by the Quorum. Tigh institutes [[Wikipedia:martial law|martial law]] throughout the Fleet - a move he earlier had disclaimmed - in an attempt to maintain order in a rapidly chaotic shuffle of power between the civilian and military governments ([[Fragged]]).<br />
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The supply situation leads Tigh to deploying Marines in forcibly retrieving supplies. On [[Gideon|one ship]], a riot leads to four deaths and many injuries due to the pilot's inexperience in managing such a situation. Unlike Adama (who likely would have taken direct responsibility for the "Gideon Massacre"), Tigh places blame solely on the pilot, absolving himself from the incident.<br />
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=== Fleet Factioning and Adama's Return ===<br />
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The shootings, Tigh's decision for martial law, and his unwillingness to discuss anything with anyone except Ellen Tigh (and the unconscious Adama) becomes the dividing point of those wanting to press on to finding Earth, and those wanting to settle on Kobol ([[Season 2 (2005-06)|Season 2]]). Tigh's drinking spirals further out of control, leading to more erratic behavior and causing great concern regarding his ability to effectively command, particularly among the [[CIC]] staff. The situation comes to a head when Roslin, tacitly aided by other officers and crew on ''Galactica'', escapes the brig in an attempt to hide amongst the many ships in the Fleet with the aid of [[Tom Zarek]]. Tigh chases down the escaping Raptor using the [[Combat Air Patrol|CAP]], having the Viper fire across the bow of the fleeing Raptor to persuade it to return. The Raptor brazenly continues onward, leading to a crucial decision for the Colonel. Tigh allows the Raptor to escape rather than shooting it down, which would have killed Adama's son and the President and could have destabilized the fleet.<br />
[[image:Flight_of_the_Phoenix-Tigh_Adama.jpg|thumb|left|Tigh and Adama share a knowing smirk at the commissioning of the [[Blackbird]], ''Laura'' ([[Flight of the Phoenix]]).]]<br />
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Fortunately for the fleet and Colonel Tigh, Commander Adama regains consciousness shortly after the escape and asks what had happened during his absence. Tigh confesses that he has "frakked things up good", but Adama reassures his friend, saying, "I never had much use for people that second-guessed my decisions, especially if they've never held a command. They don't understand the pressure to make a call that affects the lives of thousands, and you have no one to turn to for backup." Despite all the serious problems that Tigh created, Adama doesn't blame him, telling Tigh that whatever bad calls were made, they would pick up the pieces together ([[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]). <br />
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Both Adama and Tigh underestimate the number of ships that secede from the main fleet to join the [[Laura Roslin faction|faction]] that sought the [[Tomb of Athena]] with President Roslin ([[The Farm]]). Tigh backs up Adama while he maintains a similar official position on Roslin and the separated ships as Tigh has. However, after Adama realizes that survival of the entire Fleet would only come if everyone held together, Adama begins to prepare a journey to Kobol to retrieve the remainder of the Fleet and reach out to Roslin ([[Home, Part I]]). At first Tigh seems to believe that Adama is retrieving the faction by more military means, and scoffs at Roslin's religious views on the quest until he realizes that Adama is beginning to follow Roslin's information, taking her reports and visions seriously. Tigh is left in command while Adama successfully reunites the Fleet and reconciles with Roslin ([[Home, Part II]]).<br />
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After [[William Adama|Adama's]] return to command and Roslin to the presidency, for a moment the ''Gideon'' incident is almost forgotten. Before she is invited to ''Galactica'', reporter [[D'Anna Biers]] prepares a story about the incident, which could destroy the public's view towards Tigh, and eventually ''Galactica''. However she drops the subject in favor of a ''Galactica'' documentary. Lt. [[Joe Palladino]], the pilot in charge of the boarding operation to ''Gideon'', blames Tigh for the discredit to his reputation. He begins to terrorize Tigh and his wife, but Tigh later manages to subdue Palladino ([[Final Cut]]).<br />
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=== ''Pegasus'' Discovered ===<br />
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Things once again turn on their head when ''Galactica'' has a chance encounter with the battlestar ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'', a modern type of battlestar and the flagship of Admiral [[Helena Cain]]. Cain, being the superior officer, assumes complete command of the Fleet. The naturally suspicious Tigh is wary about this mixed blessing, but takes it in stride like everything else up until now. When he begins to regularly speak with ''Pegasus''’s own XO [[Jack Fisk]], his suspicions slowly prove to be well founded.<br />
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Fisk's conscience-clearing sessions with Tigh reveal that Admiral Cain was responsible for a set of atrocities, the most damning being the pillaging and stranding of a small civilian fleet in open space. When Tigh relays this information to Commander Adama, Adama reminisces about their own questionable activities, particularly their actions regarding the ''[[Olympic Carrier]]''. However, Adama keeps Tigh's warnings in mind and they help him in his decision to stand up to Cain later on ("[[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]" through "[[Resurrection Ship, Part I]]").<br />
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=== The Election and New Caprica ===<br />
When the presidential election arrives, Colonel Tigh is charged with overseeing the vote tallies on ''Galactica''. When it appears that [[Gaius Baltar|Baltar]] would win the vote, [[Tory Foster]], President Roslin's aide, approaches Tigh and [[Anastasia Dualla|Dualla]] to conspire to steal the election for Roslin, foreseeing certain disaster in a Baltar presidency. Tigh, never a fan of Baltar's to begin with, organises the counting of fraudulent ballots in order to keep Baltar out of office. The plot is overturned when Lt. [[Felix Gaeta|Gaeta]] reports irregularities to Tigh, who all too obviously tries to sweep the affair under the carpet. Gaeta then informs Admiral Adama, who lets Tigh and Dualla off the hook and the official vote tallies are "revised" without the public learning of the Roslin campaign's attempt to steal the election.<br />
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One year later, after the fleet settles on [[New Caprica]] on the orders of President Baltar, most of the military staff have all but retired from active service. Col. Tigh is one of the few officers still serving aboard ''Galactica'', but the day eventually comes when Admiral Adama discharges his friend and XO from his duties to let him return to civilian life with his wife. On the surface of New Caprica, the couple run into [[Kara Thrace]] at [[Galen Tyrol|Galen]] and [[Cally Tyrol|Cally]] Tyrol's union rally. The former colonel and captain share an unusually warm embrace, having put their differences behind them at some point in the preceding year. However, their reunion does not last as a large Cylon fleet appears in orbit over the planet and the Cylons occupy New Caprica without firing a shot. Tigh and his wife are last seen watching in utter shock as [[Cylon Centurion]]s march through the streets of New Caprica City ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]).<br />
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=== Occupation and Resistance ===<br />
Two months into the occupation of New Caprica by the Cylons, Tigh is organizing and recruiting for [[New Caprica Resistance|the resistance on New Caprica]] along with Galen Tyrol and [[Jammer]]. When the Cylons begin to find the weapons hidden by the Resistance, Tigh orders them to be stored in the Temple, believing it to be the safest place as the Cylon respect the sanctity of the Temple and will not search it, disregarding any moral concerns. When the Cylons discover the weapons, [[Nora Farmer|Nora]] is shot and Cally Tyrol and her [[Nicholas Tyrol|baby]] barely escape. This leads several members of the [[New Caprica Resistance|resistance movement]] to question whether Tigh is going too far. After Tigh plans an attack that could endanger patients at a hospital, Jammer reports him to the Cylon authorities ([[Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance]]). The Cylons imprison Tigh and tear his right eye out. Ellen's sexual efforts with [[Cavil]] lead to Tigh's eventual release ([[Occupation]]) though this is later revealed to be a Cylon ruse to blackmail Ellen into collaboration with the Cylons as well as find the location of a high level meeting of the Insurgency.<br />
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===Escape from New Caprica and Ellen's death===<br />
After Ellen is discovered to have betrayed a meeting with [[Sharon Agathon]] to the Cylons, fellow Resistance leader [[Samuel Anders]] compels Tigh to execute Ellen for her actions. Reluctantly, Tigh kills his wife by giving her a poisoned drink after which he cries over her body.<br />
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[[Image:Saulellen.jpg|Tigh handing Ellen her poisoned drink.|thumb]]Tigh actively participates in the exodus from New Caprica, leading an attack on the shipyard with Galen Tyrol, during which they are aided by Vipers launched from ''Galactica''.<br />
[[Image:TighAdamaReunion.jpg|thumb|left|Adama welcomes Tigh back on ''Galactica'' ([[Exodus, Part II]]).]]<br />
Following the escape, he initially resumes his post as the executive officer of ''Galactica'', but is unable to conceal his contempt for those who colluded with the Cylons, such as [[Felix Gaeta]]. In a face-off with Admiral Adama, in which the senior officer orders Tigh to "sleep it off", it is clear that the events on New Caprica - most notably, his wife's death - are still adversely affecting Tigh. Following that he spends a lot of time in his quarters trying to cope with what happened to him on New Caprica and is temporarily replaced by [[Karl Agathon]].<br />
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He eventually becomes the apparent ringleader of the [[The Circle|Circle]], a group of six people authorized by then-President [[Tom Zarek]], charged with bringing collaborators to justice. Tigh is among the less scrupulous members but nonetheless opposes [[Charlie Connor]]'s suggestion of summary executions. Thirteen people fall victim to the Circle's mandate, including [[Jammer]] ([[Collaborators]]).<br />
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Tigh is reunited with an old comrade, [[Daniel Novacek]] and tells him the truth of his last mission. Tigh later stops him when Novacek tries to kill Adama in revenge for being the cause of him spending years as a Cylon captive ([[Hero]]). Tigh also referees the boxing fights organized to boost morale ([[Unfinished Business]]). He returns to duty during operations to resupply the Fleet's food stores ([[The Passage]]). When [[Dr. Robert]], a civilian physician, is implicated in the deaths of [[Sagittaron]] refugees, Tigh initially defends his friend, saying that he worked with the resistance on New Caprica. He clashes with [[Karl Agathon]] over this, who insists on investigating Robert. However, when it turns out that Robert was killing the Sagittarons out of prejudice, Tigh orders his arrest ([[The Woman King]]).<br />
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When [[Kara Thrace]] dies he is visibly heartbroken ([[Maelstrom]]), showing that he did truly care about her despite their differences, which he had begun to show in "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]". As the Fleet nears the [[Ionian nebula]] and Gaius Baltar's trial begins, Tigh is one of a few people who hear mysterious music on several occasions. When called to testify in court, he shows up drunk. [[Romo Lampkin|Baltar's lawyer]] exploits this vulnerability and forces Tigh to publicly admit that he killed his wife on New Caprica ([[Crossroads, Part I]]).<br />
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===The Damning Revelation===<br />
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[[Image:403 - Tigh and his gun.jpg|thumb|Tigh in his waking "nightmare" state ([[He That Believeth In Me]]).]]<br />
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Saul Tigh, [[Galen Tyrol]], [[Samuel Anders]] and [[Tory Foster]] begin to hear a [[The Music|song]] only they can hear over and over again, driving them to distraction. They instinctively come to the realization that they are four of the [[final five]] Cylons. They decide to remain loyal to the Colonials ([[Crossroads, Part II]]).<br />
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With a Cylon fleet bearing down on them, Tigh resumes his position as executive officer again. However, almost immediately, this decision is tested by both Tigh's waking nightmares during the onset of the [[Battle of the Ionian Nebula|battle]]&mdash;where he believes he will kill his friend and commander, Adama, much the same way [[Sharon Valerii|Boomer]] tried to&mdash;and the return of [[Kara Thrace]], who may be a Cylon. Even amidst this, he is the ''de facto'' leader of the "Final Four" and continues to assure them that they are different than Boomer and the other Cylons. Further, he has them pledge to kill themselves should they feel any inkling of betraying the Fleet ([[He That Believeth In Me]]).<br />
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In an attempt to learn more about what it means to be a Cylon and how they deal with pain, Tigh visits [[Caprica-Six]] in the [[brig]] and asks her how it feels to have the blood of billions of beings on her hands. Six replies that she is just as human as he is and can't switch off her feelings, but that she has found another way to deal with her pain. During their conversation, Tigh has a [[Virtual Ellen|hallucination]] of his dead wife, whose body he sees the place of Six. She tries to help him cope with his feelings and share some of her perceived clarity. In act of tenderness, she removes his eye patch, but Tigh rebukes her advances. Six then punches Tigh and kisses him when he lies on the floor ([[Escape Velocity]]).<br />
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When [[Natalie]] offers the Colonials access to the Cylon [[Resurrection Hub]] and wants to unbox the [[Number Three|Threes]] in order to learn what she knows about the Final Five, Tigh reacts shocked and fears that he will be uncovered and killed. Instead of cooperation with the Cylon rebels, he urges President Roslin to just destroy the hub ([[Guess What's Coming to Dinner?]]).<br />
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When Doctor [[Cottle]] discovers that Caprica-Six is pregnant, Admiral Adama is angry at Tigh for "giving in to his weaknesses" and being disloyal. Tigh initially counters that Adama is risking a lot for [[Laura Roslin|woman he cares about]] as well. When Adama asks what Ellen would say about his actions, Tigh becomes furious and physically attacks Adama. The two exchange blows and Adama eventually shoves Tigh to the floor, who breaks Adama's model ship during the fall. Having vented their frustrations, both calm down. Later, Adama decides to stay back in a Raptor to wait for Roslin's return. He temporarily promotes Tigh to admiral and gives him command of the Fleet. Tigh is reluctant, recalling his previous [[Scattered|disastrous experience in command]], but takes the position ([[Sine Qua Non]]).<br />
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Tigh's anxiousness about being revealed as a Cylon is magnified when Adama returns with [[D'Anna Biers]]. However, instead of exposing him, she forces his hand by holding the Colonials on the Cylon baseship hostage, demanding that the Cylons on ''Galactica'' are turned over to them. To prevent Adama from carrying out an extremely risky and bloody rescue plan, Tigh decides to come clean himself. He confesses to William Adama, saying that he should have done so earlier. Adama can't believe his friend, but orders him arrested and brought to a [[Launch tube (RDM)|launch tube]]. There, Tigh also exposes Tyrol and Anders. Tigh is about to be spaced, when Kara Thrace runs into the control room and tells everyone that she has found another clue towards [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]]. In an unexpected move, President [[Lee Adama]] grants the Cylons a full amnesty. Before the final jump to Earth, Tigh sits in his quarters drinking, unsure what to do ([[Revelations]]).<br />
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===Earth and further revelations===<br />
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Tigh and Caprica-Six accompany the survey team to Earth's surface, where the latter reaches out for and touches the former. Following their amnesty, Tigh, Anders and Tyrol wear fatigues with no rank insignia ([[Revelations]], [[Sometimes a Great Notion]]), and none is shown having any authority. Tigh's sidearm has not, however, been confiscated from his wall locker.<br />
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Back aboard ''Galactica'', a drunken Admiral Adama storms into Tigh's quarters, armed with a marine's pistol. Grabbing Tigh's pistol from its storage shelf, charging it, and dropping it on the table, Adama orders Tigh, "Sit down, Cylon!" Tigh successfully resists Adama's attemps to encourage Tigh into drinking and to be used for Adama's "assisted suicide". Tigh tries to apologize about his revelation of being a Cylon, but Adama is beyond angry. "Is that how it worked? They program you to be my friend? Emulate all the qualities I respect. Tell me jokes...and I laugh at them." Tigh counters that he wanted, chose to be his friend. Adama throws insult after insult about [[Ellen Tigh]], in an attempt to anger Tigh into picking up either sidearm to shoot his friend. "Do it! Or I'll do it myself!" Adama says, pointing the marine's pistol to his own temple. "I'm sorry, Bill, but this is the one time I can't help you," Tigh tells him ([[Sometimes a Great Notion]]).<br />
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In a reversal of roles, Tigh is the sober one of the two, and gives Adama a much-needed dressing-down. After listening to Adama's story of foxes that would either fight, try to cross the river, or simply give up and float out to sea, Tigh admonishes him not be like foxes choosing to drown. He reminds Adama that he is still the commander and that Tigh is still the XO of the ship; killing himself would not help himself nor their people. Thereafter, Colonel Tigh is restored to his to his rank and position on ''Galactica'' ([[Sometimes a Great Notion]]).<br />
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Once again in his service uniform and wearing his rank, Tigh leads the round-up of the survey crews on the Earth surface in preparation for their journey toward a new home. At the water's edge, [[Number Three (Downloaded copy)|Downloaded Three]] informs him of her decision to give up and die alone on Earth. Their talk reminds Tigh of Adama's fox story, and he begins to walk into the sea. When chest-deep, he is compelled to reach down. In doing so, he discovers a mangled post box hatch from his apartment building lobby two millenia earlier. Like Tyrol, he has a vision of Earth's nuclear distruction. He is wearing a civilian business suit. He hears Ellen, finds her trapped under debris he cannot move. He splashes through the water as he remembers himself digging though the rubble to reach Ellen and remembers her prophesy. Ellen tells him, as more bombs go off, flashing bright, "Saul, it's okay. Everything's in place. We'll be reborn...again. Together." The vision fades as Tigh realizes the truth. "Ellen...Ellen! You're the [[Final Five|fifth!]]"<br />
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===The search for a home continues===<br />
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Col. Tigh relieves an exhausted Lt. [[Felix Gaeta]] from duty and orders him to take an ill-fated week's leave aboard ''[[Zephyr]]'' to rest and recover. After Gaeta's shuttle raptor is lost in an emergency FTL jump while en-route to ''Zephyr'', Tigh acquiesses to Lt. [[Louis Hoshi]]'s plea for a raptor and pilot with whom to search for his lover. Gaeta is the only survivor of the seven (five Colonials and two [[Number Eight]] Cylons) aboard the raptor, and explains that one of the Eights killed everyone else before being herself killed by Gaeta. After consulting off-camera with the rebel Cylons, Tigh tells him that the incident will not be investigated. Nevertheless, the incident leaves Gaeta apprehensive about their alliance with the rebel Cylons and asks to speak with Admiral Adama because, with all due respect, Tigh is a Cylon. Tigh reluctantly approves his request ([[The Face of the Enemy]]).<br />
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Days into the Fleet's search for a new home, Caprica-Six and Saul Tigh are in sickbay where Dr. Cottle is using a sonagram to show them their unborn child. Tigh can't see the image, when Cottle quips, "Try looking with your eyes...eye." In a moment of amazement while Assistant Layne Ishay points out the elements of the sonagram, an overwhelmed Tigh albeit happy, asks for a drink. Cottle offers a cigarette instead to Tigh as he lights one for himself, to Ishay's dismay.<br />
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In Admiral Adama's quarters, Lee Adama, Saul Tigh, Galen Tyrol, Felix Gaeta and Karl Agathon meet to discuss the implementation of Cylon FTL upgrades to the civilian ships. Tyrol argues that the Cylons become valid citizens of the Fleet, with their own representative on the Quorum and Adama's oath of protection if they are to get the Cylon technology. Tigh comments after Tyrol fubbles with his proper pronouns for the situation that he might need a chart to help him keep it right. <br />
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=== Mutiny, Return of Ellen and the End of the Journey ===<br />
Felix Gaeta leads a mutiny alongside a coup lead by Tom Zarek in order to gain control of the Fleet. Adama and Tigh are captured, but manage to escape and meet up with Lee and Kara. They make their way to a forgotten airlock where Baltar and Roslin escape in a Cylon Raptor to the [[Rebel Basestar]] while Adama stays behind to try to retake ''Galactica''. Tigh insists on staying with him despite being a likely target due to being a Cylon and Adama tells him that "its been an honor to serve with you my friend." ([[The Oath]]) The two are knocked out by a stun grenade and captured by marines led by Captain Aaron Kelly who Tigh insults. He's taken to the brig where Caprica Six, Helo, Athena and Anders already are, but they are rescued by Kara and Lee. However, Anders is seriously hurt and Kara stays behind to get him to Doctor Cottle. The freed prisoners find Kelly who defects and shows them where Admiral Adama is about to be executed and they arrive just in time to save his life. Tigh holds a gun on Narcho who's in charge of the firing squad and forces him not to tell Gaeta the truth. After Narcho refuses to help retake the ship, Tigh goes to shoot him, but is stopped by Adama who has him tied up instead. Tigh is part of Adama's march to retake CIC and helps recapture it without firing a shot, ending the mutiny. ([[Blood on the Scales]])<br />
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Tigh later learns some of his history from Anders who has regained his Cylon memories after being shot in the head during the mutiny. ([[No Exit]]) He is also shocked when a missing Raptor shows up carrying Boomer and his wife Ellen who had downloaded into a new body on a [[Resurrection Ship]] after he had killed her and had been a prisoner of [[Cavil]] until Boomer helped her escape. The Rebel Cylons are excited to have all of the Final Five with them and want to leave the Fleet and leave it up to a majority vote of the Five. Tigh, remembering that Anders told him to stay with the Fleet, votes to stay and given what Anders said, they take it as a vote to stay as well, Tyrol and Tory vote to go, but Ellen is shocked and undecided after learning that he got Caprica Six pregnant. He later asks for a private meeting with Ellen, but she summons Tyrol, Tory and Caprica Six to tell them that they're going to leave the Fleet, doing it just to spite him as she knows how much he loves the Fleet. Tigh refuses to go saying that they can go without him and if Caprica Six really wants to go, she can go too, but he's not going. Ellen uses this to say he loves the Fleet and Bill Adama more than he loves either of them, but Caprica Six suddenly goes into distress and starts to miscarry the baby. A horrified Ellen apologizes saying she only wanted to hurt him, not Caprica Six or the baby. She tells them that they can stay and should and that she'll move to the [[Rebel Basestar]] and leave him alone. He at first pushes her away, but eventually allows her to comfort him. She tries to get him to tell Caprica Six how much he loves her, but he can't seem to do it. Caprica Six miscarries and their baby dies in the womb. Later Tigh goes to Admiral Adama and cries about his lost son. ([[Deadlock]]) The death of their baby is also apparently the end of the relationship between Tigh and Caprica Six.<br />
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Tigh is with Ellen, Tyrol and Tory in Joe's Bar when Kara starts playing the music, surprising them all. ([[Someone to Watch Over Me]]) Afterwards he's shocked when Admiral Adama decides to order ''Galactica's'' repairs to stop and the ship to be scrapped for parts. The two share a toast to the ship. ([[Islanded in a Stream of Stars]])<br />
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When Adama calls for volunteers for a rescue mission for Hera Agathon, Tigh volunteers immediately alongside Ellen. ([[Daybreak, Part I]]) During the [[Battle of The Colony]], Tigh coordinates the battle with Admiral Adama in CIC. When a fire breaks out near Anders, he goes up with Tyrol to put it out and stays on the balcony afterwards. During the attempt to get Cavil to stop all of this and release Hera who he has taken hostage in CIC, Tigh offers him resurrection if he agrees to let Hera go and stop chasing humanity. After he agrees the Five combine together to send the plans for resurrection to The Colony and Tigh calms a nervous Tory by saying they forgive her sins when she gets worried about everyone seeing everyone else's memories. Tigh is shocked to discover that Tory murdered Cally and can only watch as Tyrol kills Tory in revenge. After ''Galactica'' jumps away, Tigh resumes his duties as XO and reports that ''Galactica'' suffered critical structural failures and "broke her back" and can't jump anymore. After landing on their new home planet that they name Earth, Tigh and Ellen say goodbye to Tyrol who plans to go off and live as a hermit and Tigh forgives him for killing Tory, saying he'd have done the same thing if someone had done that to Ellen. Tigh and Ellen rekindle their relationship and go off to spend the rest of their lives together. ([[Daybreak, Part II]])<br />
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== Attitudes toward humans ==<br />
Col. Tigh is unabashedly pro-human and has stayed fiercely loyal to [[William Adama]] and the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] despite almost being killed by his son [[Lee Adama]] in a rage over his - from Lee's point of view - lifelong deception of his father and the Fleet. He has faced such deadly hostility, but has persevered perhaps in part, if not in whole, because he shares such prejudice himself. This is including serving in the [[New Caprica Resistance|Resistance]] on [[New Caprica]] and having no compunction in blowing up Cylons and alleged collaborators alike. He was often the first to call for the execution of any Cylons found among them. He even killed his own wife [[Ellen Tigh]] for betraying the Resistance essentially under [[Samuel Anders]]' orders.<br />
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When he finds out he is a "[[skinjob]]" he is, of course, stunned. He has a waken nightmare of himself repeating the act of [[Sharon Valerii]] shooting Admiral Adama under programming. He pledges with the other three [[Final Five]] Cylons aboard ''Galactica'' to remain loyal and at their post, but if any of them including himself showed signs of working against the interest of the Fleet via hidden program, they should be killed or turned in. Since his discovery his loyalty has not wavered. Indeed he was disappointed in [[Tory Foster]]'s defection to the Cylons and [[Galen Tyrol]]'s wavering of who he should belong to. Sam Anders has a similar attitude as Tigh for being loyal to humanity but not as strong - or at least not stated as strongly.<br />
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Tigh has fully accepted his Cylon nature to the point he cohabitates with [[Caprica-Six]] who is carrying the couple's child. During the mutiny he is willing to die by the side of his best friend and commanding officer William Adama despite Adama's drunken attempts to bait Tigh into killing him only days earlier. He has said that mankind has a lot to answer for regarding the treatment of the Cylons before the [[Second Cylon War]] began, but he actually argues to Tyrol and particularly Tory Foster that it is by no means entirely the fault of humankind for their own destruction:<center><blockquote>''NO! Maybe we share the guilt with the humans but we don't get to just shove it off onto them.</blockquote></center><br />
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Like Tyrol and Foster, he has no independent recollection of his life before Cavil killed him and implanted false memories, but he was, as related by Samuel Anders, one of the Five to stop the [[Cylon War|First Cylon War]] the [[Cylon Centurion Model 0005|Colonial Centurion Cylons]] were raging some 40 years before so his attitude may moderate, but probably won't change his pro-human outlook.<br />
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==Notes==<br />
* Tigh is supposedly a third-generation Colonial soldier. His father was a decorated fighter pilot killed in combat and his grandfather served under President [[Mueller (president)|Mueller]]. Also, Tigh was a published military historian until personal problems became apparent ([[Miniseries]], [[List of Deleted Scenes (RDM)|deleted scene]]). However, given Tigh's recently-revealed Cylon nature, his family history may be a fabrication. Tigh's interest in military history has not been mentioned on screen after the Miniseries, although he mentions various Cylon tactics in use from the Cylon War that came to save ''Galactica'' after being boarded by [[Centurion (RDM)|Centurion]]s ([[Valley of Darkness]]).<br />
* A different serial number is given in [[He That Believeth In Me]] on Starbuck's gun-camera shots of Earth's moon: '''245A-34DC'''.<br />
* Tigh's first name has been given as "Paul" on a number of websites. This is initially based on an early [http://www.twiztv.com/scripts/battlestar/season1/galactica-ms1.pdf version of the script] '''(PDF file)''', which has Adama speaking to "Paul" in their discussion of his fight with Kara Thrace. In the [[podcast]] [[Podcast:Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down|commentary]] on the episode "[[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]", [[Ronald D. Moore]] has indicated that the character's name initially was Paul Tigh. The name had to be changed due to legal issues that Moore was unable to recall in that podcast.<br />
* Tigh is based on the character of Paul Eddington in the movie ''[[w:In Harm's Way|In Harm's Way]]'' portrayed by [[w:Kirk Douglas|Kirk Douglas]] (with [[w:John Wayne|John Wayne]]).<br />
* Tigh's (albeit false) age is one of the only ones which can be accurately deduced. According to a [[List of Deleted Scenes - Season 2 (RDM)#Valley of Darkness|deleted scene]] from "[[Valley of Darkness]]", he served on the ''[[Brenik]]'' when it was boarded during the second year of the Cylon War. Tigh says that he was "just a kid. Virgin. Teenager." It is known that [[Colonial Day (holiday)|Colonial Day]] is the anniversary of both the unification of the Colonies, and (roughly) the outbreak of the Cylon War<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20080505053711/http://blog.scifi.com/battlestar/archives/2005/04/index.html#a000025 RDM, April 11, 2005]</ref>, and was 52 years ago ([[Colonial Day]]). Thus, Tigh is between 63 and 69 years old at the beginning of Season 2.<br />
* In the DVD commentary of "[[Act of Contrition]]", Ron Moore notes that actor [[Michael Hogan]] won the role of Tigh over [[Donnelly Rhodes]], who was one of two other actors vying for the part. Rhodes went on to play the role of [[Cottle|Dr. Cottle]], ''Galactica'''s CMO.<br />
* According to ''[[Battlestar Galactica: The Official Magazine]]'', Tigh's home colony is [[Aerilon]]. However, in "[[Dirty Hands]]", [[Cally Tyrol|Cally]] claims that virtually no officers in the Colonial Fleet are from poorer colonies. While this could be an exaggeration, her [[Galen Tyrol|husband]] brings up [[Anastasia Dualla|Dualla]] as counter-example, but not Tigh.<br />
*Tigh's Cylon identity may be alluded to as early as "[[Occupation]]": not only does he have only one eye at this point, but the Cylon "scanning eye" sound effect can be faintly heard as he looks toward the open door of his cell when Cavil enters to tell him that he has been released.<br />
*In several interviews included on the Season 4.0 DVD, actor Michael Hogan cites fan polls that indicated Tigh was considered one of the least likely characters to be a Cylon. This would also seem to extend to the production crew, as a highlight of the 2006 Gag Reel shown at the San Diego Comic Con was a comedic segment suggesting that Tigh was the "13th Cylon".<br />
*Despite being a Cylon and unlike the other members of the Final Five, Tigh doesn't really display Cylon abilities. This is likely from him not embracing his Cylon side like the others do to various extents: Tory shows Cylon strength and joins the Cylons on the baseship as well as connecting to the datastream in the final episode, Tyrol shows Cylon resilance, strength, the ability to tell Cylons apart, [[projection]] and is able to connect to the datastream, Anders is physicaly connected to the datastream and acts as a Hybrid as well as displaying a Cylon IFF signal when scanned by a Raider, while Ellen resurrects and acts like a Cylon in her new body, but the only time Tigh displays his Cylon abilities is when he connects to the datastream to transmit the Resurrection data.<br />
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|children= Non-biologically: Considered a "father" of the eight humanoid Cylon models;<br>Biologically: [[Liam Tigh]]† (miscarried at four months) with Caprica-Six<br />
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'''Saul Tigh''' is the [[Executive Officer]] (XO) of ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'', and repeatedly serves as acting commander in the absence of [[William Adama]]. Before his service on ''Galactica'', he served as Adama's XO on the battlestar ''[[Valkyrie]]''. During the Cylon occupation of [[New Caprica]], Tigh commanded the [[New Caprica Resistance]]. <br />
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A tough but troubled man with a long history of alcoholism, Tigh has false memories of having served in the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Colonial Fleet]] since his teenage years, seeing action in the [[First Cylon War]]. He is married to [[Ellen Tigh]], whose death was incorrectly (though logically) presumed to have been permanent. Believing himself to be a widower, he entered a sexual relationship with [[Caprica Six]],with whom he sired a miscarried child named [[Liam|Liam Tigh]].<br />
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Upon reaching the [[Ionian nebula]], he and [[Final Five|three others]] [[Crossroads, Part II|became aware]] of their nature as [[Humanoid Cylon|Cylons]]. Since then, he has sporadically regained memories and knowledge of his prior life.<br />
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==Biography ==<br />
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===Cylon past===<br />
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Saul Tigh lived on [[Earth (RDM)#Arrival_and_Ruins|the original Earth]] two millennia ago. Like all humanoids on that planet, he was a Cylon: a member of the [[Thirteenth Tribe (RDM)|Thirteenth Tribe]]. There, he was one of five scientists researching "organic memory transfer," a technology which had originated on [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]], but fell out of use on Earth once the Thirteenth Tribe Cylons started to procreate sexually. His wife Ellen was the most gifted of the five scientists. When nuclear armageddon came, Saul found himself in the lobby of his apartment building. Hearing a voice crying out, "Saul!" from the floor in front of the tenants' post boxes, he finds his wife trapped under debris he cannot move. He pulls the lighter debris from around her, as more bombs detonate. Moments before they die, she tells him, "Saul, it's okay. Everything's in place. We'll be reborn... again. Together." ([[Sometimes a Great Notion]], [[No Exit]])<br />
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The organic memory transfer they were researching was [[Resurrection (RDM)|resurrection technology]], the same technology their ancestors brought from [[Kobol]]. When killed by the explosions, Saul and the other four downloaded into new bodies aboard a ship they had placed in orbit. Knowing that humanity would continue to create artificial life, they made their way the Twelve Colonies to warn them about the the need to treat their creations with kindness in order to prevent a rebellion and inter-species war. Lacking [[Propulsion in the Re-imagined Series|faster-than-light]] capability, the five travelled at relativistic speeds. From the planetary perspective, their journey took approximately two thousand years.<br />
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Saul and the other four found their fears were justified. Upon their arrival, the first [[Cylon War]] was already in progress between humans and the Colonial [[Cylon Centurion Model 0005|Cylon Centurions]]. Saul and the others made a deal with the Centurions: end the war against the humans, and the Five would help them build humanoid Cylons. They ultimately made eight models for the Centurions, and their technology was stored in [[The Colony]]. The favoritism which [[Number One]] perceived Saul's wife, Ellen, displayed toward [[Number Seven]] drove Number One into a jealous rage. In addition to permanently destroying the Number Seven line, he suffocated Saul and the other four Cylons from Earth. Blocking their real memories, Number One implanted false ones in their minds, and deposited them among the human population in an attempt to prove to them the "evils" of humanity.<br />
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=== False Backstory ===<br />
Saul Tigh was supposedly born on the colony of [[Aerilon]]<ref name="aerelon">"Cylon Intelligence Report: Personnel File: Saul Tigh." <u>Battlestar Galactica: The Official Magazine</u>. Feb./Mar. 2006: 62. - He has [[Crossroads, Part II|recently been revealed]] as a Cylon presumably making this point moot.</ref>.<br />
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Tigh began his military career as a deckhand<ref name="deckhand">''Ibid''. "Saul Tigh entered the fleet as a deckhand, but rose through the ranks, and was a CPO (Chief Petty Officer) by the time the First Cylon War broke out."</ref>. By the second year of the First [[Cylon War]], he was serving as a gunner's mate onboard the ''[[Brenik]]''. His ship was boarded by the Cylons, where he and others fought in hand-to-hand combat, during the bloodiest period of that war. It was during this battle that he saw his first dead man, [[Duncan Rafferty]], who was violently vivisected by Centurions ("[[Valley of Darkness]]", [[List of Deleted Scenes - Season 2 (RDM)#Noteworthy Dialogue|deleted scene]]). His ship was subsequently destroyed, but he survived. He was transferred to another unnamed ship, which succumbed to a similar fate as his original ship. Having borne witness to many a bloody combat, he became emotionally scarred, which had, among other impetuses, led him to alcoholism. <br />
[[Image:Tighadama.jpg|Tigh and Adama's first meeting.|left|thumb]]<br />
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Tigh eventually achieved the rank of Chief Petty Officer. When Viper pilot numbers began running low in the war, Tigh was selected for Colonial [[officer candidate school]], and was reassigned as a Viper pilot.<ref>{{cite rdm podcast|episode=Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down}}</ref> As a pilot, he demonstrated considerable skill, earning several medals while posted aboard [[Athena (Battlestar)|Battlestar ''Athena'']].<ref name="athena">''Ibid''. "Tigh joined the Colonial officer candidate school, and was reassigned as a Viper pilot, something he excelled in, earning a string of medals in his post aboard the battlestar Athena."</ref> After the cessation of hostilities, he was dismissed from service.<br />
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=== Inter-War Years ===<br />
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Tigh eked out an existence as a deckhand aboard a commercial freighter. He clearly experienced signs of post-traumatic stress disorder; he commented that every time he smelled grease or machine oil, he would nearly vomit, as this smell reminded him of the "stink" of Centurions ("[[Valley of Darkness]]", [[List of Deleted Scenes - Season 2 (RDM)#Noteworthy Dialogue|deleted scene]]). While onboard, he drowned himself in alcohol and, after a time, about 20 years after the war, encountered [[William Adama]], who had not seen as much combat experience as Tigh himself. They became fast friends, and remained in touch after Adama was recommissioned into the service. Two years later, Tigh found himself reinstated into the Colonial Fleet at the rank of captain, thanks to his old friend, and now major, Adama.<ref name="adama">''Ibid''. "Adama reenlisted with the service, and Tigh spent two years drinking before Adama pulled strings to get him back into service. Tigh was straightening his life out when he met his wife Ellen, whom he courted and married within two months, about 7 years before the [[Miniseries]]. Unfortunately, Ellen did not take well to military life, and her repeated infidelities drove Tigh back into the bottle. The two separated shortly before the Cylon attack.</ref> His alcoholism has led many in the crew to view him with contempt ([[Miniseries]], "[[33]]").<br />
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=== Second Cylon War ===<br />
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Following the Cylon attack, Tigh recovered some of his old verve, and attempted to give up alcohol. However, this, combined with the initial stress of flight from the Cylons, caused him to overcompensate as a martinet, frequently driving the personnel overly hard, and berating where encouragement would prove the better option ([[33]]). He excused this by his view that the XO is supposed to be the "hard face" of command.<br />
[[image:33-Tigh_Adama.jpg|thumb|right|"If the crew doesn't hate the XO, then he's not doing his job."]]<br />
With his drinking problem relatively under control, Tigh settled back into his role as the ''Galactica'''s Executive Officer, though he still treats the ship's personnel relatively inhumanely. Apart from Adama, he seems unable to utter a sentence without cursing, or to leave any differing opinion unsneered at.<br />
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During Cylon attacks, Tigh has proved himself to be an good battle-manager and tactician. His quick actions sometimes save the ship and the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] from damage or destruction ("[[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]", "[[Scattered]]", "[[Valley of Darkness]]"). <br />
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Tigh is uneasy around President [[Laura Roslin]] ([[Water]]), and resents what he sees as her interfering with Adama's command ([[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]) - something born out of his deep respect for Adama, which even the most heated of disagreements between them ([[You Can't Go Home Again]]) cannot disrupt, or his general inability to accept differing viewpoints.<br />
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Tigh personally loathes [[Kara Thrace]], one of ''Galactica'''s pilots. While grudgingly conceding she is a fine pilot, Tigh does consider her an an egotistical, insubordinate youngster, and even tries to end her active service. Tigh criticizes Adama for having a soft spot for Thrace, ignoring that his whole existence in the fleet is based on a similar soft spot ([[Miniseries]]). <br />
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Outside of Adama, Tigh has few others he regards as confidants aboard ship; and since the initial Cylon attack, he has withdrawn from interacting with the crew during off-duty hours, making him perhaps more isolated than even Adama - who is at least held in awe, and respected by the crew.<br />
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=== Wife's Return ===<br />
[[image:Tigh_Me_Up_Tigh_Me_Down-Saul_Ellen.jpg|thumb|left|'''Tigh''' and his newly returned wife, [[Ellen Tigh|Ellen]], making a toast: "To starting over" ([[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]).]]<br />
Some three weeks after the Cylon attack on the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]], Tigh is stunned to discover his wife, [[Ellen Tigh|Ellen]], had not been killed as he had thought, but was rescued from [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Picon|Picon]], and carried aboard the ''[[Rising Star (RDM)|Rising Star]]'' as an unconscious "Jane Doe" by an unknown person. Later, it is revealed that the person who did that was a [[John Cavil]]-model Cylon.<br />
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Despite the emotional implications from the destruction of the Colonies and life aboard the ship, Tigh is reluctantly thrust further into politics, as his wife plays her schemes. Much to his disdain, his wife attempts to procure photo opportunities with the likes of [[Tom Zarek]] - a person Tigh views with the utmost contempt ([[Colonial Day]]). Additionally, Ellen seems to re-establish Tigh's alcoholism with gratuitous drinking. <br />
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Despite this, Adama sends Tigh with a squadron of [[Colonial Marine Corps|Marines]] to arrest [[Laura Roslin]] after Adama discovers that she convinced [[Kara Thrace]] to [[FTL|Jump]] back to [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] to retrieve a historical artifact called the [[Arrow of Apollo]] from the Delphi Museum. This action deprives the Fleet of a military asset - a captured [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Cylon Raider]], intended to have been used to plant a nuclear warhead aboard a [[basestar]] in orbit around the planet believed to be [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]] - and convinces Adama that Roslin is abusing her authority. <br />
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Onboard ''[[Colonial One]]'', Tigh's men and Roslin's [[Presidential Security Service|personal security agents]] are at a standoff when [[Lee Adama]] aims a weapon at Tigh's head and attempts to thwart the coup. Attempting to defuse the situation, Roslin agrees to be arrested and Lee Adama is arrested on charges of treason ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]).<br />
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=== Tigh in Command ===<br />
[[Image:Scattered-Tigh.jpg|thumb|right|Tigh realizing he's in a bit over his head ([[Scattered]]).]]<br />
Tigh is present in [[CIC]] during the attempted assassination of Adama by [[Sharon Valerii]]. As guards restrain Valerii, Tigh attempts to stop the bleeding from the torso gunshot wounds Adama sustained in the attempt ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]). He keeps Lee Adama from tending to his father and throws him into the brig. However, the need for reliable officers, forces Tigh to grant Lee a parole from his arrest. After his daily duties as [[CAG]] are done, Lee promises to return to the brig when off-shift.<br />
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With Adama incapacitated and with Roslin arrested, Tigh tries to maintain order. However, his irrational and gruff command style displeases many crew members. Morale and ship efficiency began to suffer. Ellen Tigh becomes a private adviser to her husband, frequently questioning his power to command while also suggesting ways of usurping more power and quashing his opponents. Ellen Tigh's advice only exacerbates an already-deteriorating situation.<br />
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Tigh's interrogation of suspected Cylon collaborators or infiltrators is brutal. After beating, then nearly shooting the ''Galactica'' copy of Valerii, other issues in the Fleet divert him from further interrogation. He orders a special cage made for her for later interrogation. Tigh also savagely interrogates Valerii's former lover, Chief [[Galen Tyrol]] as a possible [[humanoid Cylon]] himself. Tigh would have left him with Valerii in the newly built Cylon cage if [[Gaius Baltar]] did not intervene to prove medically that Tyrol is not a Cylon himself.<br />
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With Roslin in prison, uprisings begin as civilian ships refuse to supply ''Galactica'' until Roslin is released. Worse, the [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]] demand to see Roslin. Knowing of Roslin's hallucinations in the brig, he intentionally invites the Quorum to see Roslin in her poor state in hopes of disillusioning the Quorum. However, Roslin recovers sufficiently from her [[Chamalla]] withdrawal after getting a supply smuggled to her by Corporal [[Venner]], her guard. Tigh believes that the accounts within the [[Sacred Scrolls]] weren't to be believed, and teases Roslin in front of the Quorum on her visions. Roslin not only is able to speak to the Quorum, but decisively reinforces her decisions as well as her role in the search for the location of Earth as told in the Pythian prophesies. This act greatly impresses the Quorum, and infuriates Tigh; fearing a larger civilian government uprising led by the Quorum. Tigh institutes [[Wikipedia:martial law|martial law]] throughout the Fleet - a move he earlier had disclaimmed - in an attempt to maintain order in a rapidly chaotic shuffle of power between the civilian and military governments ([[Fragged]]).<br />
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The supply situation leads Tigh to deploying Marines in forcibly retrieving supplies. On [[Gideon|one ship]], a riot leads to four deaths and many injuries due to the pilot's inexperience in managing such a situation. Unlike Adama (who likely would have taken direct responsibility for the "Gideon Massacre"), Tigh places blame solely on the pilot, absolving himself from the incident.<br />
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=== Fleet Factioning and Adama's Return ===<br />
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The shootings, Tigh's decision for martial law, and his unwillingness to discuss anything with anyone except Ellen Tigh (and the unconscious Adama) becomes the dividing point of those wanting to press on to finding Earth, and those wanting to settle on Kobol ([[Season 2 (2005-06)|Season 2]]). Tigh's drinking spirals further out of control, leading to more erratic behavior and causing great concern regarding his ability to effectively command, particularly among the [[CIC]] staff. The situation comes to a head when Roslin, tacitly aided by other officers and crew on ''Galactica'', escapes the brig in an attempt to hide amongst the many ships in the Fleet with the aid of [[Tom Zarek]]. Tigh chases down the escaping Raptor using the [[Combat Air Patrol|CAP]], having the Viper fire across the bow of the fleeing Raptor to persuade it to return. The Raptor brazenly continues onward, leading to a crucial decision for the Colonel. Tigh allows the Raptor to escape rather than shooting it down, which would have killed Adama's son and the President and could have destabilized the fleet.<br />
[[image:Flight_of_the_Phoenix-Tigh_Adama.jpg|thumb|left|Tigh and Adama share a knowing smirk at the commissioning of the [[Blackbird]], ''Laura'' ([[Flight of the Phoenix]]).]]<br />
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Fortunately for the fleet and Colonel Tigh, Commander Adama regains consciousness shortly after the escape and asks what had happened during his absence. Tigh confesses that he has "frakked things up good", but Adama reassures his friend, saying, "I never had much use for people that second-guessed my decisions, especially if they've never held a command. They don't understand the pressure to make a call that affects the lives of thousands, and you have no one to turn to for backup." Despite all the serious problems that Tigh created, Adama doesn't blame him, telling Tigh that whatever bad calls were made, they would pick up the pieces together ([[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]). <br />
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Both Adama and Tigh underestimate the number of ships that secede from the main fleet to join the [[Laura Roslin faction|faction]] that sought the [[Tomb of Athena]] with President Roslin ([[The Farm]]). Tigh backs up Adama while he maintains a similar official position on Roslin and the separated ships as Tigh has. However, after Adama realizes that survival of the entire Fleet would only come if everyone held together, Adama begins to prepare a journey to Kobol to retrieve the remainder of the Fleet and reach out to Roslin ([[Home, Part I]]). At first Tigh seems to believe that Adama is retrieving the faction by more military means, and scoffs at Roslin's religious views on the quest until he realizes that Adama is beginning to follow Roslin's information, taking her reports and visions seriously. Tigh is left in command while Adama successfully reunites the Fleet and reconciles with Roslin ([[Home, Part II]]).<br />
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After [[William Adama|Adama's]] return to command and Roslin to the presidency, for a moment the ''Gideon'' incident is almost forgotten. Before she is invited to ''Galactica'', reporter [[D'Anna Biers]] prepares a story about the incident, which could destroy the public's view towards Tigh, and eventually ''Galactica''. However she drops the subject in favor of a ''Galactica'' documentary. Lt. [[Joe Palladino]], the pilot in charge of the boarding operation to ''Gideon'', blames Tigh for the discredit to his reputation. He begins to terrorize Tigh and his wife, but Tigh later manages to subdue Palladino ([[Final Cut]]).<br />
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=== ''Pegasus'' Discovered ===<br />
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Things once again turn on their head when ''Galactica'' has a chance encounter with the battlestar ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'', a modern type of battlestar and the flagship of Admiral [[Helena Cain]]. Cain, being the superior officer, assumes complete command of the Fleet. The naturally suspicious Tigh is wary about this mixed blessing, but takes it in stride like everything else up until now. When he begins to regularly speak with ''Pegasus''’s own XO [[Jack Fisk]], his suspicions slowly prove to be well founded.<br />
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Fisk's conscience-clearing sessions with Tigh reveal that Admiral Cain was responsible for a set of atrocities, the most damning being the pillaging and stranding of a small civilian fleet in open space. When Tigh relays this information to Commander Adama, Adama reminisces about their own questionable activities, particularly their actions regarding the ''[[Olympic Carrier]]''. However, Adama keeps Tigh's warnings in mind and they help him in his decision to stand up to Cain later on ("[[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]" through "[[Resurrection Ship, Part I]]").<br />
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=== The Election and New Caprica ===<br />
When the presidential election arrives, Colonel Tigh is charged with overseeing the vote tallies on ''Galactica''. When it appears that [[Gaius Baltar|Baltar]] would win the vote, [[Tory Foster]], President Roslin's aide, approaches Tigh and [[Anastasia Dualla|Dualla]] to conspire to steal the election for Roslin, foreseeing certain disaster in a Baltar presidency. Tigh, never a fan of Baltar's to begin with, organises the counting of fraudulent ballots in order to keep Baltar out of office. The plot is overturned when Lt. [[Felix Gaeta|Gaeta]] reports irregularities to Tigh, who all too obviously tries to sweep the affair under the carpet. Gaeta then informs Admiral Adama, who lets Tigh and Dualla off the hook and the official vote tallies are "revised" without the public learning of the Roslin campaign's attempt to steal the election.<br />
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One year later, after the fleet settles on [[New Caprica]] on the orders of President Baltar, most of the military staff have all but retired from active service. Col. Tigh is one of the few officers still serving aboard ''Galactica'', but the day eventually comes when Admiral Adama discharges his friend and XO from his duties to let him return to civilian life with his wife. On the surface of New Caprica, the couple run into [[Kara Thrace]] at [[Galen Tyrol|Galen]] and [[Cally Tyrol|Cally]] Tyrol's union rally. The former colonel and captain share an unusually warm embrace, having put their differences behind them at some point in the preceding year. However, their reunion does not last as a large Cylon fleet appears in orbit over the planet and the Cylons occupy New Caprica without firing a shot. Tigh and his wife are last seen watching in utter shock as [[Cylon Centurion]]s march through the streets of New Caprica City ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]).<br />
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=== Occupation and Resistance ===<br />
Two months into the occupation of New Caprica by the Cylons, Tigh is organizing and recruiting for [[New Caprica Resistance|the resistance on New Caprica]] along with Galen Tyrol and [[Jammer]]. When the Cylons begin to find the weapons hidden by the Resistance, Tigh orders them to be stored in the Temple, believing it to be the safest place as the Cylon respect the sanctity of the Temple and will not search it, disregarding any moral concerns. When the Cylons discover the weapons, [[Nora Farmer|Nora]] is shot and Cally Tyrol and her [[Nicholas Tyrol|baby]] barely escape. This leads several members of the [[New Caprica Resistance|resistance movement]] to question whether Tigh is going too far. After Tigh plans an attack that could endanger patients at a hospital, Jammer reports him to the Cylon authorities ([[Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance]]). The Cylons imprison Tigh and tear his right eye out. Ellen's sexual efforts with [[Cavil]] lead to Tigh's eventual release ([[Occupation]]) though this is later revealed to be a Cylon ruse to blackmail Ellen into collaboration with the Cylons as well as find the location of a high level meeting of the Insurgency.<br />
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===Escape from New Caprica and Ellen's death===<br />
After Ellen is discovered to have betrayed a meeting with [[Sharon Agathon]] to the Cylons, fellow Resistance leader [[Samuel Anders]] compels Tigh to execute Ellen for her actions. Reluctantly, Tigh kills his wife by giving her a poisoned drink after which he cries over her body.<br />
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[[Image:Saulellen.jpg|Tigh handing Ellen her poisoned drink.|thumb]]Tigh actively participates in the exodus from New Caprica, leading an attack on the shipyard with Galen Tyrol, during which they are aided by Vipers launched from ''Galactica''.<br />
[[Image:TighAdamaReunion.jpg|thumb|left|Adama welcomes Tigh back on ''Galactica'' ([[Exodus, Part II]]).]]<br />
Following the escape, he initially resumes his post as the executive officer of ''Galactica'', but is unable to conceal his contempt for those who colluded with the Cylons, such as [[Felix Gaeta]]. In a face-off with Admiral Adama, in which the senior officer orders Tigh to "sleep it off", it is clear that the events on New Caprica - most notably, his wife's death - are still adversely affecting Tigh. Following that he spends a lot of time in his quarters trying to cope with what happened to him on New Caprica and is temporarily replaced by [[Karl Agathon]].<br />
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He eventually becomes the apparent ringleader of the [[The Circle|Circle]], a group of six people authorized by then-President [[Tom Zarek]], charged with bringing collaborators to justice. Tigh is among the less scrupulous members but nonetheless opposes [[Charlie Connor]]'s suggestion of summary executions. Thirteen people fall victim to the Circle's mandate, including [[Jammer]] ([[Collaborators]]).<br />
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Tigh is reunited with an old comrade, [[Daniel Novacek]] and tells him the truth of his last mission. Tigh later stops him when Novacek tries to kill Adama in revenge for being the cause of him spending years as a Cylon captive ([[Hero]]). Tigh also referees the boxing fights organized to boost morale ([[Unfinished Business]]). He returns to duty during operations to resupply the Fleet's food stores ([[The Passage]]). When [[Dr. Robert]], a civilian physician, is implicated in the deaths of [[Sagittaron]] refugees, Tigh initially defends his friend, saying that he worked with the resistance on New Caprica. He clashes with [[Karl Agathon]] over this, who insists on investigating Robert. However, when it turns out that Robert was killing the Sagittarons out of prejudice, Tigh orders his arrest ([[The Woman King]]).<br />
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When [[Kara Thrace]] dies he is visibly heartbroken ([[Maelstrom]]), showing that he did truly care about her despite their differences, which he had begun to show in "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]". As the Fleet nears the [[Ionian nebula]] and Gaius Baltar's trial begins, Tigh is one of a few people who hear mysterious music on several occasions. When called to testify in court, he shows up drunk. [[Romo Lampkin|Baltar's lawyer]] exploits this vulnerability and forces Tigh to publicly admit that he killed his wife on New Caprica ([[Crossroads, Part I]]).<br />
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===The Damning Revelation===<br />
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[[Image:403 - Tigh and his gun.jpg|thumb|Tigh in his waking "nightmare" state ([[He That Believeth In Me]]).]]<br />
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Saul Tigh, [[Galen Tyrol]], [[Samuel Anders]] and [[Tory Foster]] begin to hear a [[The Music|song]] only they can hear over and over again, driving them to distraction. They instinctively come to the realization that they are four of the [[final five]] Cylons. They decide to remain loyal to the Colonials ([[Crossroads, Part II]]).<br />
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With a Cylon fleet bearing down on them, Tigh resumes his position as executive officer again. However, almost immediately, this decision is tested by both Tigh's waking nightmares during the onset of the [[Battle of the Ionian Nebula|battle]]&mdash;where he believes he will kill his friend and commander, Adama, much the same way [[Sharon Valerii|Boomer]] tried to&mdash;and the return of [[Kara Thrace]], who may be a Cylon. Even amidst this, he is the ''de facto'' leader of the "Final Four" and continues to assure them that they are different than Boomer and the other Cylons. Further, he has them pledge to kill themselves should they feel any inkling of betraying the Fleet ([[He That Believeth In Me]]).<br />
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In an attempt to learn more about what it means to be a Cylon and how they deal with pain, Tigh visits [[Caprica-Six]] in the [[brig]] and asks her how it feels to have the blood of billions of beings on her hands. Six replies that she is just as human as he is and can't switch off her feelings, but that she has found another way to deal with her pain. During their conversation, Tigh has a [[Virtual Ellen|hallucination]] of his dead wife, whose body he sees the place of Six. She tries to help him cope with his feelings and share some of her perceived clarity. In act of tenderness, she removes his eye patch, but Tigh rebukes her advances. Six then punches Tigh and kisses him when he lies on the floor ([[Escape Velocity]]).<br />
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When [[Natalie]] offers the Colonials access to the Cylon [[Resurrection Hub]] and wants to unbox the [[Number Three|Threes]] in order to learn what she knows about the Final Five, Tigh reacts shocked and fears that he will be uncovered and killed. Instead of cooperation with the Cylon rebels, he urges President Roslin to just destroy the hub ([[Guess What's Coming to Dinner?]]).<br />
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When Doctor [[Cottle]] discovers that Caprica-Six is pregnant, Admiral Adama is angry at Tigh for "giving in to his weaknesses" and being disloyal. Tigh initially counters that Adama is risking a lot for [[Laura Roslin|woman he cares about]] as well. When Adama asks what Ellen would say about his actions, Tigh becomes furious and physically attacks Adama. The two exchange blows and Adama eventually shoves Tigh to the floor, who breaks Adama's model ship during the fall. Having vented their frustrations, both calm down. Later, Adama decides to stay back in a Raptor to wait for Roslin's return. He temporarily promotes Tigh to admiral and gives him command of the Fleet. Tigh is reluctant, recalling his previous [[Scattered|disastrous experience in command]], but takes the position ([[Sine Qua Non]]).<br />
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Tigh's anxiousness about being revealed as a Cylon is magnified when Adama returns with [[D'Anna Biers]]. However, instead of exposing him, she forces his hand by holding the Colonials on the Cylon baseship hostage, demanding that the Cylons on ''Galactica'' are turned over to them. To prevent Adama from carrying out an extremely risky and bloody rescue plan, Tigh decides to come clean himself. He confesses to William Adama, saying that he should have done so earlier. Adama can't believe his friend, but orders him arrested and brought to a [[Launch tube (RDM)|launch tube]]. There, Tigh also exposes Tyrol and Anders. Tigh is about to be spaced, when Kara Thrace runs into the control room and tells everyone that she has found another clue towards [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]]. In an unexpected move, President [[Lee Adama]] grants the Cylons a full amnesty. Before the final jump to Earth, Tigh sits in his quarters drinking, unsure what to do ([[Revelations]]).<br />
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===Earth and further revelations===<br />
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Tigh and Caprica-Six accompany the survey team to Earth's surface, where the latter reaches out for and touches the former. Following their amnesty, Tigh, Anders and Tyrol wear fatigues with no rank insignia ([[Revelations]], [[Sometimes a Great Notion]]), and none is shown having any authority. Tigh's sidearm has not, however, been confiscated from his wall locker.<br />
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Back aboard ''Galactica'', a drunken Admiral Adama storms into Tigh's quarters, armed with a marine's pistol. Grabbing Tigh's pistol from its storage shelf, charging it, and dropping it on the table, Adama orders Tigh, "Sit down, Cylon!" Tigh successfully resists Adama's attemps to encourage Tigh into drinking and to be used for Adama's "assisted suicide". Tigh tries to apologize about his revelation of being a Cylon, but Adama is beyond angry. "Is that how it worked? They program you to be my friend? Emulate all the qualities I respect. Tell me jokes...and I laugh at them." Tigh counters that he wanted, chose to be his friend. Adama throws insult after insult about [[Ellen Tigh]], in an attempt to anger Tigh into picking up either sidearm to shoot his friend. "Do it! Or I'll do it myself!" Adama says, pointing the marine's pistol to his own temple. "I'm sorry, Bill, but this is the one time I can't help you," Tigh tells him ([[Sometimes a Great Notion]]).<br />
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In a reversal of roles, Tigh is the sober one of the two, and gives Adama a much-needed dressing-down. After listening to Adama's story of foxes that would either fight, try to cross the river, or simply give up and float out to sea, Tigh admonishes him not be like foxes choosing to drown. He reminds Adama that he is still the commander and that Tigh is still the XO of the ship; killing himself would not help himself nor their people. Thereafter, Colonel Tigh is restored to his to his rank and position on ''Galactica'' ([[Sometimes a Great Notion]]).<br />
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Once again in his service uniform and wearing his rank, Tigh leads the round-up of the survey crews on the Earth surface in preparation for their journey toward a new home. At the water's edge, [[Number Three (Downloaded copy)|Downloaded Three]] informs him of her decision to give up and die alone on Earth. Their talk reminds Tigh of Adama's fox story, and he begins to walk into the sea. When chest-deep, he is compelled to reach down. In doing so, he discovers a mangled post box hatch from his apartment building lobby two millenia earlier. Like Tyrol, he has a vision of Earth's nuclear distruction. He is wearing a civilian business suit. He hears Ellen, finds her trapped under debris he cannot move. He splashes through the water as he remembers himself digging though the rubble to reach Ellen and remembers her prophesy. Ellen tells him, as more bombs go off, flashing bright, "Saul, it's okay. Everything's in place. We'll be reborn...again. Together." The vision fades as Tigh realizes the truth. "Ellen...Ellen! You're the [[Final Five|fifth!]]"<br />
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===The search for a home continues===<br />
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Col. Tigh relieves an exhausted Lt. [[Felix Gaeta]] from duty and orders him to take an ill-fated week's leave aboard ''[[Zephyr]]'' to rest and recover. After Gaeta's shuttle raptor is lost in an emergency FTL jump while en-route to ''Zephyr'', Tigh acquiesses to Lt. [[Louis Hoshi]]'s plea for a raptor and pilot with whom to search for his lover. Gaeta is the only survivor of the seven (five Colonials and two [[Number Eight]] Cylons) aboard the raptor, and explains that one of the Eights killed everyone else before being herself killed by Gaeta. After consulting off-camera with the rebel Cylons, Tigh tells him that the incident will not be investigated. Nevertheless, the incident leaves Gaeta apprehensive about their alliance with the rebel Cylons and asks to speak with Admiral Adama because, with all due respect, Tigh is a Cylon. Tigh reluctantly approves his request ([[The Face of the Enemy]]).<br />
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Days into the Fleet's search for a new home, Caprica-Six and Saul Tigh are in sickbay where Dr. Cottle is using a sonagram to show them their unborn child. Tigh can't see the image, when Cottle quips, "Try looking with your eyes...eye." In a moment of amazement while Assistant Layne Ishay points out the elements of the sonagram, an overwhelmed Tigh albeit happy, asks for a drink. Cottle offers a cigarette instead to Tigh as he lights one for himself, to Ishay's dismay.<br />
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In Admiral Adama's quarters, Lee Adama, Saul Tigh, Galen Tyrol, Felix Gaeta and Karl Agathon meet to discuss the implementation of Cylon FTL upgrades to the civilian ships. Tyrol argues that the Cylons become valid citizens of the Fleet, with their own representative on the Quorum and Adama's oath of protection if they are to get the Cylon technology. Tigh comments after Tyrol fubbles with his proper pronouns for the situation that he might need a chart to help him keep it right. <br />
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=== Mutiny, Return of Ellen and the End of the Journey ===<br />
Felix Gaeta leads a mutiny alongside a coup lead by Tom Zarek in order to gain control of the Fleet. Adama and Tigh are captured, but manage to escape and meet up with Lee and Kara. They make their way to a forgotten airlock where Baltar and Roslin escape in a Cylon Raptor to the [[Rebel Basestar]] while Adama stays behind to try to retake ''Galactica''. Tigh insists on staying with him despite being a likely target due to being a Cylon and Adama tells him that "its been an honor to serve with you my friend." ([[The Oath]]) The two are knocked out by a stun grenade and captured by marines led by Captain Aaron Kelly who Tigh insults. He's taken to the brig where Caprica Six, Helo, Athena and Anders already are, but they are rescued by Kara and Lee. However, Anders is seriously hurt and Kara stays behind to get him to Doctor Cottle. The freed prisoners find Kelly who defects and shows them where Admiral Adama is about to be executed and they arrive just in time to save his life. Tigh holds a gun on Narcho who's in charge of the firing squad and forces him not to tell Gaeta the truth. After Narcho refuses to help retake the ship, Tigh goes to shoot him, but is stopped by Adama who has him tied up instead. Tigh is part of Adama's march to retake CIC and helps recapture it without firing a shot, ending the mutiny. ([[Blood on the Scales]])<br />
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Tigh later learns some of his history from Anders who has regained his Cylon memories after being shot in the head during the mutiny. ([[No Exit]]) He is also shocked when a missing Raptor shows up carrying Boomer and his wife Ellen who had downloaded into a new body on a [[Resurrection Ship]] after he had killed her and had been a prisoner of [[Cavil]] until Boomer helped her escape. The Rebel Cylons are excited to have all of the Final Five with them and want to leave the Fleet and leave it up to a majority vote of the Five. Tigh, remembering that Anders told him to stay with the Fleet, votes to stay and given what Anders said, they take it as a vote to stay as well, Tyrol and Tory vote to go, but Ellen is shocked and undecided after learning that he got Caprica Six pregnant. He later asks for a private meeting with Ellen, but she summons Tyrol, Tory and Caprica Six to tell them that they're going to leave the Fleet, doing it just to spite him as she knows how much he loves the Fleet. Tigh refuses to go saying that they can go without him and if Caprica Six really wants to go, she can go too, but he's not going. Ellen uses this to say he loves the Fleet and Bill Adama more than he loves either of them, but Caprica Six suddenly goes into distress and starts to miscarry the baby. A horrified Ellen apologizes saying she only wanted to hurt him, not Caprica Six or the baby. She tells them that they can stay and should and that she'll move to the [[Rebel Basestar]] and leave him alone. He at first pushes her away, but eventually allows her to comfort him. She tries to get him to tell Caprica Six how much he loves her, but he can't seem to do it. Caprica Six miscarries and their baby dies in the womb. Later Tigh goes to Admiral Adama and cries about his lost son. ([[Deadlock]]) The death of their baby is also apparently the end of the relationship between Tigh and Caprica Six.<br />
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Tigh is with Ellen, Tyrol and Tory in Joe's Bar when Kara starts playing the music, surprising them all. ([[Someone to Watch Over Me]]) Afterwards he's shocked when Admiral Adama decides to order ''Galactica's'' repairs to stop and the ship to be scrapped for parts. The two share a toast to the ship. ([[Islanded in a Stream of Stars]])<br />
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When Adama calls for volunteers for a rescue mission for Hera Agathon, Tigh volunteers immediately alongside Ellen. ([[Daybreak, Part I]]) During the [[Battle of The Colony]], Tigh coordinates the battle with Admiral Adama in CIC. When a fire breaks out near Anders, he goes up with Tyrol to put it out and stays on the balcony afterwards. During the attempt to get Cavil to stop all of this and release Hera who he has taken hostage in CIC, Tigh offers him resurrection if he agrees to let Hera go and stop chasing humanity. After he agrees the Five combine together to send the plans for resurrection to The Colony and Tigh calms a nervous Tory by saying they forgive her sins when she gets worried about everyone seeing everyone else's memories. Tigh is shocked to discover that Tory murdered Cally and can only watch as Tyrol kills Tory in revenge. After ''Galactica'' jumps away, Tigh resumes his duties as XO and reports that ''Galactica'' suffered critical structural failures and "broke her back" and can't jump anymore. After landing on their new home planet that they name Earth, Tigh and Ellen say goodbye to Tyrol who plans to go off and live as a hermit and Tigh forgives him for killing Tory, saying he'd have done the same thing if someone had done that to Ellen. Tigh and Ellen rekindle their relationship and go off to spend the rest of their lives together. ([[Daybreak, Part II]])<br />
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== Attitudes toward humans ==<br />
Col. Tigh is unabashedly pro-human and has stayed fiercely loyal to [[William Adama]] and the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] despite almost being killed by his son [[Lee Adama]] in a rage over his - from Lee's point of view - lifelong deception of his father and the Fleet. He has faced such deadly hostility, but has persevered perhaps in part, if not in whole, because he shares such prejudice himself. This is including serving in the [[New Caprica Resistance|Resistance]] on [[New Caprica]] and having no compunction in blowing up Cylons and alleged collaborators alike. He was often the first to call for the execution of any Cylons found among them. He even killed his own wife [[Ellen Tigh]] for betraying the Resistance essentially under [[Samuel Anders]]' orders.<br />
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When he finds out he is a "[[skinjob]]" he is, of course, stunned. He has a waken nightmare of himself repeating the act of [[Sharon Valerii]] shooting Admiral Adama under programming. He pledges with the other three [[Final Five]] Cylons aboard ''Galactica'' to remain loyal and at their post, but if any of them including himself showed signs of working against the interest of the Fleet via hidden program, they should be killed or turned in. Since his discovery his loyalty has not wavered. Indeed he was disappointed in [[Tory Foster]]'s defection to the Cylons and [[Galen Tyrol]]'s wavering of who he should belong to. Sam Anders has a similar attitude as Tigh for being loyal to humanity but not as strong - or at least not stated as strongly.<br />
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Tigh has fully accepted his Cylon nature to the point he cohabitates with [[Caprica-Six]] who is carrying the couple's child. During the mutiny he is willing to die by the side of his best friend and commanding officer William Adama despite Adama's drunken attempts to bait Tigh into killing him only days earlier. He has said that mankind has a lot to answer for regarding the treatment of the Cylons before the [[Second Cylon War]] began, but he actually argues to Tyrol and particularly Tory Foster that it is by no means entirely the fault of humankind for their own destruction:<center><blockquote>''NO! Maybe we share the guilt with the humans but we don't get to just shove it off onto them".</blockquote></center><br />
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Like Tyrol and Foster, he has no independent recollection of his life before Cavil killed him and implanted false memories, but he was, as related by Samuel Anders, one of the Five to stop the [[Cylon War|First Cylon War]] the [[Cylon Centurion Model 0005|Colonial Centurion Cylons]] were raging some 40 years before so his attitude may moderate, but probably won't change his pro-human outlook.<br />
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==Notes==<br />
* Tigh is supposedly a third-generation Colonial soldier. His father was a decorated fighter pilot killed in combat and his grandfather served under President [[Mueller (president)|Mueller]]. Also, Tigh was a published military historian until personal problems became apparent ([[Miniseries]], [[List of Deleted Scenes (RDM)|deleted scene]]). However, given Tigh's recently-revealed Cylon nature, his family history may be a fabrication. Tigh's interest in military history has not been mentioned on screen after the Miniseries, although he mentions various Cylon tactics in use from the Cylon War that came to save ''Galactica'' after being boarded by [[Centurion (RDM)|Centurion]]s ([[Valley of Darkness]]).<br />
* A different serial number is given in [[He That Believeth In Me]] on Starbuck's gun-camera shots of Earth's moon: '''245A-34DC'''.<br />
* Tigh's first name has been given as "Paul" on a number of websites. This is initially based on an early [http://www.twiztv.com/scripts/battlestar/season1/galactica-ms1.pdf version of the script] '''(PDF file)''', which has Adama speaking to "Paul" in their discussion of his fight with Kara Thrace. In the [[podcast]] [[Podcast:Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down|commentary]] on the episode "[[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]", [[Ronald D. Moore]] has indicated that the character's name initially was Paul Tigh. The name had to be changed due to legal issues that Moore was unable to recall in that podcast.<br />
* Tigh is based on the character of Paul Eddington in the movie ''[[w:In Harm's Way|In Harm's Way]]'' portrayed by [[w:Kirk Douglas|Kirk Douglas]] (with [[w:John Wayne|John Wayne]]).<br />
* Tigh's (albeit false) age is one of the only ones which can be accurately deduced. According to a [[List of Deleted Scenes - Season 2 (RDM)#Valley of Darkness|deleted scene]] from "[[Valley of Darkness]]", he served on the ''[[Brenik]]'' when it was boarded during the second year of the Cylon War. Tigh says that he was "just a kid. Virgin. Teenager." It is known that [[Colonial Day (holiday)|Colonial Day]] is the anniversary of both the unification of the Colonies, and (roughly) the outbreak of the Cylon War<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20080505053711/http://blog.scifi.com/battlestar/archives/2005/04/index.html#a000025 RDM, April 11, 2005]</ref>, and was 52 years ago ([[Colonial Day]]). Thus, Tigh is between 63 and 69 years old at the beginning of Season 2.<br />
* In the DVD commentary of "[[Act of Contrition]]", Ron Moore notes that actor [[Michael Hogan]] won the role of Tigh over [[Donnelly Rhodes]], who was one of two other actors vying for the part. Rhodes went on to play the role of [[Cottle|Dr. Cottle]], ''Galactica'''s CMO.<br />
* According to ''[[Battlestar Galactica: The Official Magazine]]'', Tigh's home colony is [[Aerilon]]. However, in "[[Dirty Hands]]", [[Cally Tyrol|Cally]] claims that virtually no officers in the Colonial Fleet are from poorer colonies. While this could be an exaggeration, her [[Galen Tyrol|husband]] brings up [[Anastasia Dualla|Dualla]] as counter-example, but not Tigh.<br />
*Tigh's Cylon identity may be alluded to as early as "[[Occupation]]": not only does he have only one eye at this point, but the Cylon "scanning eye" sound effect can be faintly heard as he looks toward the open door of his cell when Cavil enters to tell him that he has been released.<br />
*In several interviews included on the Season 4.0 DVD, actor Michael Hogan cites fan polls that indicated Tigh was considered one of the least likely characters to be a Cylon. This would also seem to extend to the production crew, as a highlight of the 2006 Gag Reel shown at the San Diego Comic Con was a comedic segment suggesting that Tigh was the "13th Cylon".<br />
*Despite being a Cylon and unlike the other members of the Final Five, Tigh doesn't really display Cylon abilities. This is likely from him not embracing his Cylon side like the others do to various extents: Tory shows Cylon strength and joins the Cylons on the baseship as well as connecting to the datastream in the final episode, Tyrol shows Cylon resilance, strength, the ability to tell Cylons apart, [[projection]] and is able to connect to the datastream, Anders is physicaly connected to the datastream and acts as a Hybrid as well as displaying a Cylon IFF signal when scanned by a Raider, while Ellen resurrects and acts like a Cylon in her new body, but the only time Tigh displays his Cylon abilities is when he connects to the datastream to transmit the Resurrection data.<br />
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[[ms:Saul Tigh]]</div>Determinanthttps://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Sharon_Valerii&diff=215556Sharon Valerii2015-08-12T10:22:51Z<p>Determinant: </p>
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<div>:''This article concerns the first [[Number Eight]] Cylon that served on ''Galactica'' with the callsign of "Boomer." <br />
:''For information on the Eight discovered on Caprica and the wife of [[Karl Agathon]] with the callsign of "Athena," see [[Sharon Agathon]].''<br />
:''For information on the [[Original Series]] character, see [[Boomer (TOS)]].''<br />
{{Character Data<br />
|photo=Sharon.PNG<br />
|age=<br />
|colony= [[The Colony|Cylon Homeworld]]; she has a fabricated background of being from [[Troy]]<br />
|birthname= <br />
|servicen= T-990429<br />
|callsign= Boomer<br />
|seen= Miniseries<br />
|death=1. Shot by [[Cally]]<br/> 2. Neck broken by [[Caprica Six]]<br/> 3. Shot by [[Sharon Agathon]] (death final) ([[Daybreak, Part II]])<br />
|parents= None biologically (allegedly [[Abraham Valerii|Abraham]] and [[Katherine Valerii]]); she was created by the [[Final Five]]<br />
|siblings= None in the usual way (allegedly one, per photo in "[[Downloaded]]"); all other [[Number Eight]] Cylons are her identical sisters, and the other numbers are considered siblings as well<br />
|children=<br />
|marital status= Formerly in a relationship with [[Galen Tyrol]] and later [[John Cavil]]<br />
|role= Cylon infiltrator, saboteur; [[Raptor]] pilot<br />
|rank= Formerly lieutenant, junior grade<br />
|serial=T-990429 <br/> 312743<ref name="serial">This serial is based off her dogtags [[:Image:Id_wings.jpg|pictured here]]. Interestingly, this is the same serial number given to QMX by the studios for [[Sharon Agathon]]'s dog tags. In the episode "[[Water]]", Valerii looks at the ID tag on her uniform jacket, which reads "Lieutenant S. VALERII T-990429". This suggests that, like with [[Karl Agathon]] and [[Saul Tigh]], the prop tags and the scripts didn't always match up perfectly.</ref><br />
|actor= [[Grace Park]]<br />
|cylon= y<br />
|name= Sharon Valerii<br />
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'''Sharon "Boomer" Valerii''' is a copy of the [[humanoid Cylon]] model [[Number Eight]] who is initially planted as a "sleeper" agent in the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Colonial Fleet]]. She is unaware of her Cylon nature and serves for two years as Lieutenant Valerii on ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'', where she is assigned as a [[Raptor]] pilot and also engaged in a secret relationship with Chief [[Galen Tyrol|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 a failed suicide attempt. After Valerii returns from a successful mission to destroy a Cylon [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]], she shoots Commander [[William Adama]] in the chest, wounding him critically. She is incarcerated in the [[brig]] and soon afterward is killed by [[Cally Henderson]].<br />
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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]]. Following the failure on New Caprica, Valerii abandons her hopes for coexistence with humans and she denounces her past on ''Galactica''. She is assigned to watch Hera Agathon, but when Hera's mother comes to rescue her, Boomer tries to kill her and is killed by Caprica Six allowing Agathon and Caprica Six to escape while Boomer downloads to a new body again. However, while she feels that she belongs to Cylon society, she is not fully integrated into it and relatively isolated among her peers, particularly from the rest of her model's line as her vote to lobotomize the [[Raider (RDM)|Cylon Raiders]] leads to a [[Cylon Civil War]].<br />
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She is engaged in a relationship with the [[Number One]] leading the pro-lobotomization faction of the Cylons and is a member of that faction although she does express some misgivings about their actions. She is also aware of the identity of at least one member of the Final Five: Ellen Tigh and has known since before even D'Anna found out as Cavil trusts her and let her in on the secret. She eventually helps Ellen escape as part of a plan to infiltrate ''Galactica'' and is locked in the Cylon brig on arrival.<br />
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Later when she is prisoner on ''Galactica'' she escapes, beats Athena badly, has sexual relations with Helo and kidnaps Hera, but redeems herself somewhat by saving Hera from dissection and helping her escape to her parents. Boomer is finally killed by Athena and with resurrection destroyed, her death is final.<br />
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== Biography ==<br />
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=== Life on Galactica ===<br />
Valerii is a "sleeper" agent, unsuspecting of her Cylon status. As far as she is aware, she was born on the mining colony of [[Troy (RDM)|Troy]], as the daughter of a family from [[Aerilon]] ([[Flesh and Bone]]). Troy itself was destroyed in an unexplained cataclysm, allowing Valerii's background to be established as that of an orphan. Following her arrival on board ''Galactica'', she enters into a relationship with the ship's Chief Petty Officer [[Galen Tyrol]], which is against military protocols concerning fraternization between officers and non-officers. Whether this is unintentional or a subconscious reaction to her Cylon programming remains unclear.<br />
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As a rookie pilot, she keeps missing the trap and putting holes into the deck. Admiral Adama calls her to his office alongside Colonel Tigh and talks with her about why she keeps doing that and instead of kicking her out of the service, he gives her advice and another chance. Boomer thanks him and tells him she owes him one and will pay him back someday. Adama says a lot of people owe him one but a lot never pay it back but Boomer promises to pay him back someday when it really means something. ([[Daybreak, Part II]])<br />
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At the time of the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attack]], Valerii is flying her Raptor to [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] with ''Galactica''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> last remaining operational [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] squadron, when they learn of the attacks and attempt to engage two [[Raider (RDM)|Cylon Raiders]]. However, the Viper squadron is destroyed, and the Raptor is damaged while trying to escape, forcing Valerii and her [[ECO]] [[Karl Agathon]] to make an emergency landing on [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] in [[Raptor 312]]. <br />
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After repairing the Raptor they are mobbed by desperate civilians and undertake a rescue operation. Lifting a number of children, Valerii states there is room for three adults. Valerii holds a lottery for the three seats. When the last number is called, Agathon chooses to give up his place aboard the Raptor so that Doctor [[Gaius Baltar]] can be rescued as well ([[Miniseries]]). Helo later manages to make it back to ''Galactica'' with the help of Starbuck and [[Sharon Agathon|another Sharon]] months later. ([[Home, Part I]])<br />
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After being found by [[Laura Roslin]]'s group of stranded military and civilian ships, Valerii works within the new civilian [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]], assisting Roslin's attempts to gather other stranded civilian ships in the space surrounding Caprica. She finds a number of ships critical to the fledgling Fleet's survival, such as a fuel tanker. After the newly assembled Fleet, led by ''Galactica'', leaves the solar system of the Colonies, Valerii aids in other critical acts, including the discovery of a [[tylium]]-rich asteroid, replete with an active Cylon mine ([[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]), and locating a source of water to replenish the Fleet's lost supply after the sabotage of ''Galactica''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> stores ([[Water]]).<br />
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=== Acts of sabotage ===<br />
[[image:sharontyrol.jpg|170px|left|Valerii and Chief [[Tyrol]].|thumb]]<br />
At the same time as she is supporting the human Fleet, Valerii's underlying Cylon subroutines periodically emerge. Her Cylon programming is the cause of the sabotage of ''Galactica'''s water tanks, something she planned herself. However, her human side starts to emerge and prevents her from dying in the sabotage as [[John Cavil|Cavil]] had wanted with Cavil bringing out her Cylon programing using an elephant statue ([[Water]], [[The Plan]]). Later, she possibly assists a copy of [[Aaron Doral]] to perform a suicide bombing by leaving a hatch open for him. The Doral copy nearly kills Commander Adama and Colonel [[Saul Tigh|Tigh]] ([[Litmus]], [[The Plan]]).<br />
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Valerii finds herself soaking wet, after she awakes to her human personality shortly after the bombs used to destroy ''Galactica'''s water tanks were planted. She becomes increasingly concerned and starts to question her true self. Her worry increases when she experiences a certain attachment to a captured [[Raider (RDM)|Cylon Raider]], and is able to give insight into how it can be properly assessed and understood ("Water", "[[Six Degrees of Separation]]", "[[Flesh and Bone]]"). Her concerns are further elevated when, following the bombing by Doral, ''Galactica''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> [[Master-at-Arms]], Sergeant [[Hadrian]], suspects her and Chief [[Galen Tyrol]] of Cylon complicity ([[Litmus]]).<br />
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Tyrol distances himself from Valerii after this incident, and he later ends their relationship following the arrest of Specialist [[Socinus]] (Litmus). Facing Tyrol's suspicions concerning her activities immediately before the bombing, Valerii finds herself emotionally isolated and stressed. She takes the [[Cylon detector]] test created by Dr. [[Gaius Baltar|Baltar]], but he hides her positive test result in fear that once discovered, she might immediately retaliate and kill him ([[Flesh and Bone]]). Valerii finds short solace in Baltar's test, but deals with an anonymous accusation, when she finds the word "Cylon" written on the mirror of her locker. While its unclear, her Cylon personality believes she unconsciously wrote it to warn herself about her true nature and to stop her from continuing acts of sabotage ([[Six Degrees of Separation]], [[The Plan]]).<br />
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[[Image:Valshootadama.jpg|235px|thumb|right|Valerii shoots Commander William Adama.|thumb]]<br />
Frightened and alone, Valerii withdraws into herself and attempts suicide, but is initially unable to do so. During her second attempt, she is interrupted by Dr. Baltar who, rather than discouraging her, essentially gives her his blessing on her suicide. Following his departure from the [[duty locker]], Valerii succeeds in shooting herself, but her Cylon personality interrupts the attempt. Valerii only wounds herself in her right cheek ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]).<br />
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After [[Kara Thrace]] absconds with a captured Cylon Raider intended for an attack on a [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]] orbiting [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]], Commander Adama asks Valerii and ECO [[Margaret Edmondson]] to use a [[Cylon transponder]] in their Raptor to infiltrate the basestar and place a nuclear warhead within to destroy it. The mission is a success, but when the weapon would not auto-release from the Raptor after landing, Valerii exits the ship and enters the basestar. Inside, she encounters a dozen copies of herself, confirming her worst fears. Valerii escapes in the Raptor just before the warhead detonates and destroys the basestar. Back on ''Galactica'', her encounter with the other [[Number Eight|Eight]] models on the basestar apparently triggers Valerii's Cylon programming to emerge once more, and she shoots Commander Adama in the chest while being congratulated on her successful mission in [[CIC]], wounding him critically. While her Cylon programing succeeded in performing the act Cavil had been pushing her to do, she had to mentally turn herself into a Centurion as even Valerii's Cylon personality cares for Adama. It's later suggested by a [[Number Six]] that she purposefully wounded him in a way he could survive due to love for him. ("[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]", "[[Scattered]]", "[[The Plan]]").<br />
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=== Imprisonment and death === <br />
After shooting Adama, Valerii is quickly restrained by guards and jailed in the [[brig]]. During her imprisonment, Colonel [[Saul Tigh|Tigh]] attempts to forcibly extract information from her at gunpoint, but Valerii stonewalls him and even asks him to shoot her ([[Scattered]]). Chief [[Galen Tyrol|Tyrol]] is later incarcerated in the same brig cell by Tigh, also suspected of being a Cylon. While imprisoned together, Valerii tries to convince Tyrol that her feelings for him were real and important, but he rejects her and threatens to kill her if she touched him. <br />
[[Image:Sharondeath.jpg|235px|Valerii dies in Chief [[Galen Tyrol|Tyrol's]] arms.|right|thumb]]<br />
Dr. [[Gaius Baltar|Baltar]] later enters the cell, ostensibly to collect a blood sample from Tyrol to prove his innocence using the [[Cylon detector]], but he instead injects Tyrol with a potent toxin that would kill him in a matter of seconds if Baltar does not give him an antidote. Baltar interrogates Valerii, demanding to know how many other Cylons are in the Fleet, using the dying Tyrol to blackmail her. Valerii first protests that she does not know, but as Tyrol is about to die, she reveals that there are eight other Cylons in the Fleet and Baltar then revives Tyrol.<br />
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Soon after, while being transferred to a new reinforced cell built to hold Cylons for later experiments and long term incarceration, a large crowd of crewmembers jeers at her and calls her a traitor. Specialist [[Cally]] who considers Valerii responsible for Tyrol's imprisonment breaks through the crowd holding a gun and shoots Valerii at point-blank range. Valerii's last words are "I love you, Chief" and she dies in Tyrol's arms ([[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]).<br />
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Valerii's body is sent to the morgue and autopsied. Later, the recovered Commander Adama visits her corpse, asking "why" aloud, and weeps over her body. Adama pronounces a very mild reprimand for Cally, sentencing her to 30 days in the brig for discharging a weapon without authorization. Cally is never tried for murder, since Cylons are not seen as people ([[The Farm]]).<br />
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Valerii's corpse is later used as bait when [[Sesha Abinell]] takes over [[Cloud 9]], demanding the execution of the future [[Sharon Agathon]]. The distraction provided a window with which to diffuse the terrorist situation. ([[Sacrifice]])<br />
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===Rebirth and life among Cylons===<br />
[[Image:Cylon resurrection.jpg|235px|thumb|left|Valerii is reborn in a new body.|thumb]]<br />
After being shot by [[Callandra Tyrol|Cally Henderson]], ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' is close enough to a Cylon [[Resurrection Ship]] so that her consciousness is retrieved for [[download]] into another body. On rebirth, Valerii rejects her Cylon nature and continues to call herself "Sharon" instead of "Eight," even going so far as to reclaim her former apartment (502) on Caprica. A copy of [[Number Three]], representing the status quo of the Cylons, is deeply disturbed by this and suggests that Valerii be [[boxed]].<br />
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[[Caprica-Six]], also seen as a [[Hero of the Cylon]], protests and Three advises her to get Valerii to change. When Valerii laments the loss of Tyrol, Caprica-Six tells her about her own love for a human, [[Gaius Baltar|Baltar]], which prompts Valerii to inform her that he is still alive. Suspecting that Three has an ulterior motive and wants to box both of them, the two play along and Valerii announces her intent to move out of her old apartment. After a [[Caprica Resistance]] bombing, Valerii, Caprica-Six, and Three are trapped in a garage with the resistance's leader, [[Samuel Anders]]. There, Caprica-Six reveals their true intentions and declares that Valerii and herself are celebrities in a culture of unity, and, through their love for humans, have realized the horror of the Cylons' actions. Using their celebrity, they could convince a large portion of the Cylon society of their new belief that the genocide of humanity was wrong. Valerii stops Anders from killing Three, but is surprised to see Caprica-Six kill Three herself. After telling Anders to escape, Valerii agrees to help Caprica-Six reveal the truth of the genocide to the other Cylons ([[Downloaded]]).<br />
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Valerii and Caprica-Six are obviously successful in their attempt to change popular opinion among Cylons about the genocide on the human race. According to a [[Cavil]] model that is briefly incarcerated on board ''Galactica'', Valerii and Caprica-Six convinced a majority that "the slaughter of mankind was a mistake" which ultimately leads to an end of the occupation of the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]] ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I]]).<br />
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One year later, Valerii is one of the leaders of the Cylon force occupying [[New Caprica]]. But as other Cylons start to consider the occupation a failure, her influence appears to decrease quickly, most evident when she is unable to secure Henderson's release from detention or to remove her from the death list ([[Precipice]]). Their initial plan on New Caprica, "to push past the conflict that separated us from humans for so long", fails and the occupation is ended after four months ([[Exodus, Part II]]).<br />
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Following the retreat from New Caprica, Valerii is on the same [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]] as Caprica-Six and Baltar, and assigned responsibility for the Cylon-human hybrid child, [[Hera Agathon]]. At a stand-off with the human [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] at the [[algae planet]], Valerii is part of a Cylon delegation to make demands regarding the [[Eye of Jupiter]], but on board ''Galactica'', she is identified by [[Sharon Agathon]] and denied entry. During this first meeting between them, Valerii informs Agathon that her daughter, Hera, is still alive, and she suggests that Agathon will never be fully accepted among humans, because they continue to treat her as a thing ([[The Eye of Jupiter]]).<br />
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After Agathon downloads into the Cylon fleet to recover her child, it becomes clear that Valerii resents her, possibly out of jealousy for her connection with Hera and Agathon essentially replacing her on ''Galactica''. Valerii has been growing increasingly frustrated by her inability to make progress with the child. She also states that she is done with her past on ''Galactica'' and that the failure of New Caprica has taught her that humans and Cylons cannot coexist. When Agathon insists that Hera is suffering from a blocked intestine after she determined that her stomach was "as hard as a gourd" and must be brought to a human doctor who knows how to care for an infant, Valerii immediately suspects that it was the other's intention all along to take Hera back to ''Galactica'', although she is forced to admit that the child's belly has become "hard as a gourd". Suggesting that Cylons were never meant to have children in the first place, Valerii threatens to kill Hera but is knocked to the floor by Caprica-Six and killed by her former comrade ([[Rapture]]).<br />
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After the [[Raider (RDM)|Cylon Raider]]s refuse to take any offensive action for fear of harming the [[Final Five]] Cylons in the human fleet, Valerii votes in favor of lobotomizing them into effective fighters once again. This is in contradiction to the opinion of the rest of her model, breaking the stalemate between the [[Number One|One]]s, [[Number Four|Four]]s, and [[Number Five|Five]]s in favor of lobotomization and the [[Number Two|Two]]s, [[Number Six|Six]]es, and [[Number Eight|Eight]]s against it. Valerii's explanation is that, "we need to be able to defend ourselves." [[Natalie]] accuses the Number One that she calls "Cavil" of having influenced Valerii ([[Six of One]]). The two are romantically engaged, as they kiss shortly after Cavil's [[Resurrection (RDM)|resurrection]], and later questions Cavil's decision to attack Natalie's rebel faction at the onset of the [[Cylon Civil War]] ([[The Ties That Bind]]).<br />
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Valerii is with [[Cavil]] at [[D'Anna Biers]]'s unboxing on the [[Resurrection Hub]] and witnesses her killing him, fleeing afterwards ([[The Hub]]).<br />
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==="Escape" from John Cavil===<br />
After [[Ellen Tigh]]'s resurrection, John Cavil allows Boomer to witness his numerous conversations with Ellen. Initially agreeing with John's disdainful view of Ellen, she eventually establishes a bond with her and comes to sympathize with Ellen's perspective on Cylon creation. When Cavil has the [[Simon]]s prepare to surgically dissect Ellen's brain to extract her memories, she escapes with Ellen in a Raptor logged as missing by the Colonials over a year ago. The two somehow find the Fleet, and after Boomer's voice is identified as an Eight by a Six flying CAP, the Raptor is allowed to land on ''Galactica''. No one realizes who she is until Tyrol approaches, senses who she is, and announces her identity, eliciting a smile from her when he tells her it's nice to see her. Upon hearing this, Admiral Adama has her taken to the brig. Unknown to them at the time, Boomer's "escape" was engineered. ([[TRS]]: "[[No Exit]]", "[[Deadlock]]")<br />
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===Escape from ''Galactica''===<br />
The Cylon rebels decide to put her on trial for treason and, with death permanent because of the loss of resurrection, capital punishment is possible. When Tyrol goes to see her in the brig, she confesses that she still loves him and has thought of him ever since she died in his arms. She shares with him [[projection]]s of their dream home on [[Picon]], which she has been harboring for a while. In this dream life, they are married and have a daughter. Sure that she is going to be found guilty and executed, Tyrol helps her escape by switching her with another Eight he assaulted and rendered unconscious and placed in Boomer's cell. Pursuing her true mission, Boomer then severely beats Sharon Agathon and hides her, bound and gagged, in a toilet stall. She is then mistaken by Karl Agathon for his wife and is sexually pursued by him after she tried to quietly and discreetly without tipping him off to her true identity avoid his advances and to ostensibly leave on her (i.e Athena's) mission. Eventually she acquiesces and even gladly has sex with Karl Agathon without his knowledge as to who she truly was. During the encounter, and most likely without Boomer's knowledge, her victim Athena had become semi-conscious and witnesses Boomer's encounter with her husband from the toilet stall. Boomer then kidnapped the Agathon's daughter, Hera, drugging her with a drink when she picks her up at the [[Galactica daycare|daycare center]] to keep her quiet.<br />
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Boomer hides the drugged Hera in a provisions supply case, which is loaded onto a Raptor with Tyrol's help without attracting much attention as such cases have become routine for extended search patrols. Before Tyrol leaves, after he turned down her plea for him to come with her, she tells him that no matter what happens, she was not lying about everything she has told him and that she meant it, leading to Tyrol kissing her. While waiting for clearance to depart, she figures out that she has been discovered, and against Admiral Adama's orders powers up the Raptor and spins up its FTL drive. She hurriedly flies the Raptor out of the closing flight pod, clipping her port wing, then jumps away, close enough to damage ''Galactica'' from the resulting spatial disruption.<br />
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While talking with Saul Tigh Ellen later concludes, correctly, that everything that Boomer did, including helping her escape, was planned in order to kidnap Hera and bring her to [[Number One|John Cavil]] ([[TRS]]: "[[Someone to Watch Over Me]]")<br />
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Boomer keeps jumping her stolen Raptor, heading for [[The Colony]]. Hera repeatably cries for her mother, irritating Boomer. Boomer goes to sedate her with a large hypodermic needle roughly but can't bring herself to do it. Instead she tells Hera about her projection of her and Tyrol's home on Picon and Hera surprises her by revealing she can project too and joining her in the projection. Boomer shows Hera the bedroom she dreamed of for her daughter and bonds with the girl. She ultimately takes her to Cavil but starts crying bitterly when Hera calls out for her showing she regrets her actions.<br />
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Later when Boomer, Simon, Cavil and Doral are sitting and watching Hera draw, Cavil reveals that Hera has apparently refused to eat and wants to intubate her. Boomer, the only one who seems to have any sympathy at all for the child, objects saying Hera wants her mother, but Cavil doesn't care only wanting to find the secret in Hera's genetic code that allowed her to come into being so the Cylon race can survive. He leaves and Boomer watches unhappily as Simon starts up a drill and prepares to intubate Hera to force her to eat. ([[TRS]]: "[[Islanded in a Stream of Stars]]," "[[Daybreak, Part I]]")<br />
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=== Final Act and Death ===<br />
During the [[Battle of The Colony]], Boomer is with Hera and the Simon who still plans on dissecting her despite the invasion force, confident that the humans will lose. Boomer snaps his neck, killing him and takes Hera and carries her away. She carries her to the rescue team which is searching for her and gives Hera back to her parents. Athena points out that it does not make up for what she did and Boomer admits that she knows that, but she made what she knows will probably be her final choice and saved Hera. She asks them to tell Admiral Adama she owed him for having given her another chance once. She also informs them their Raptors have been destroyed, cutting off their primary escape route. Calm and ready to accept Athena's revenge, Boomer lets Athena shoot her dead. Without resurrection, her death is permanent ([[TRS]]: "[[Daybreak, Part II]]").<br />
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===The Psychological Damage and Choices Made === <br />
:''Explained by David Weddle & Grace Park''<br />
Both David Weddle & Grace Park who plays Sharon "Boomer" Valerii as well as Sharon "Athena" Agathon and other Eights give their views on the motivations and choices made by Park's character Boomer. Weddle concentrates on if Boomer actually loved Galen Tyrol and the psychological trauma she has been subjected to. Park examines what choices she has made from that background:<blockquote>''"Did Boomer really love the Chief? That’s an interesting question and one I don’t have a neat answer to. Boomer is deeply conflicted. I think the process of having false memories planted in her, getting switched “on” as a Cylon, shooting Adama, getting shot by Cally, and her experiences on New Caprica have left her severely disturbed. She was determined to go through with her mission, but in the process of seducing Tyrol she reawakened feelings of love that she thought were dead. I think she experienced real misgivings just before she got on that Raptor, but felt she had gone too far to back down. Wrapped up in that is her perverse envy of Athena, who obtained everything Boomer once wanted, and this festered into a sick desire to strike out at Athena. It’s difficult to say someone who did that loves the Chief, and yet in her damaged way, I think she did and still does love him."''<ref>[http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/entertainment_tv/2009/02/battlestar-galactica-starbuck-boomer-someone-to-watch-over-me-.html "Play it again, Starbuck: Talking to Weddle and Thompson about 'Someone to Watch Over Me'" Maureen Ryan Chicago Tribune February 28, 2009]</ref> ----David Weddle</blockquote> <br />
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<blockquote>''"Boomer is much more tragic and conflicted, and in a lot of denial. Athena came from a very different starting point, and everything was a lie, but she fought and made it through the trenches. She's a story not of privilege, but about creating whoever you want to be. That's the American story. Boomer could have been a number of things too, but she made a lot of poor decisions."''<ref>[http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2009-03-12-battlestar-characters_N.htm "Internal battles are raging in 'Battlestar'" Anthony Breznican USA Today March 12, 2009]</ref> ---Grace Park</blockquote><br />
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==Notes==<br />
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*This [[Number Eight]] is often just called "Boomer" colloquially, as that callsign is more closely associated with her, while [[Sharon Agathon]] is usually called "Sharon" and more recently "Athena". Until Season 3, this copy was referred to as the ''Galactica'' copy ("''Galactica''-Sharon" or "''Galactica''-Boomer"), because she was first encountered on ''Galactica''. She is refered to as Boomer by everyone on the series, including the Cylons, shown when she votes against the other Eights and [[Natalie Faust]] calls her Boomer when she walks into the room.<br />
*[[Virtual Six]] rhetorically asks [[Gaius Baltar]] in "[[Flesh and Bone]]" why he thinks that Valerii got the callsign "Boomer", implying a sexual reference. Aside from the fact that Valerii is the analogue of [[Boomer (TOS)|Boomer]] from the [[Original Series]], the reason for giving her this callsign is likely due to her reputation for loud and botched landings with [[Raptor]]s ([[Miniseries]], "[[Flight of the Phoenix]]", "[[Scar]]", "[[Daybreak, Part II]]").<br />
*In reality, "Boomer" is a nickname for a ballistic missile submarine. "[[Karl Agathon|Helo]]" is a similar nickname for a helicopter.<br />
*Despite both being main characters for the first season of the show, with Boomer being a major character whenever she appeared after that, Boomer and Athena only actually meet four times. In their first meeting, Athena identifies Boomer preventing her from joining the negotiations and Boomer reveals that Hera is still alive, something which Athena didn't know. In their second meeting, Athena downloads into the Cylon fleet to rescue Hera and Boomer is suspicious of her intentions. Boomer threatens to kill Hera, but is instead killed by her former friend Caprica Six. In their third meeting, Athena doesn't realize who she is at first and by the time she does it's too late and Boomer beats her up and ties her up as part of a plan to kidnap Hera. In their final meeting, Boomer gives back Hera to Athena and allows Athena to kill her.<br />
*Her personality after her resurrection seems to fluctuate between her human one and her Cylon one: at first she seemed more like her old "human" self until the failure of New Caprica. Afterwards it seemed like her personality was closer to that of her Cylon one while still retaining a few elements of her human one. Her return to ''Galactica'' seemed to stir her human personality more especially when she kidnapped Hera and bonded with her and she seemed to be in a state closer to her human personality than she had been since New Caprica when she died permanently.<br />
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<div>:''This article concerns the first [[Number Eight]] Cylon that served on ''Galactica'' with the callsign of "Boomer." <br />
:''For information on the Eight discovered on Caprica and the wife of [[Karl Agathon]] with the callsign of "Athena," see [[Sharon Agathon]].''<br />
:''For information on the [[Original Series]] character, see [[Boomer (TOS)]].''<br />
{{Character Data<br />
|photo=Sharon.PNG<br />
|age=<br />
|colony= [[The Colony|Cylon Homeworld]]; she has a fabricated background of being from [[Troy]]<br />
|birthname= <br />
|servicen= T-990429<br />
|callsign= Boomer<br />
|seen= Miniseries<br />
|death=1. Shot by [[Cally]]<br/> 2. Neck broken by [[Caprica Six]]<br/> 3. Shot by [[Sharon Agathon]] (death final) ([[Daybreak, Part II]])<br />
|parents= None biologically (allegedly [[Abraham Valerii|Abraham]] and [[Katherine Valerii]]); she was created by the [[Final Five]]<br />
|siblings= None in the usual way (allegedly one, per photo in "[[Downloaded]]"); all other [[Number Eight]] Cylons are her identical sisters, and the other numbers are considered siblings as well<br />
|children=<br />
|marital status= Formerly in a relationship with [[Galen Tyrol]] and later [[John Cavil]]<br />
|role= Cylon infiltrator, saboteur; [[Raptor]] pilot<br />
|rank= Formerly lieutenant, junior grade<br />
|serial=T-990429 <br/> 312743<ref name="serial">This serial is based off her dogtags [[:Image:Id_wings.jpg|pictured here]]. Interestingly, this is the same serial number given to QMX by the studios for [[Sharon Agathon]]'s dog tags. In the episode "[[Water]]", Valerii looks at the ID tag on her uniform jacket, which reads "Lieutenant S. VALERII T-990429". This suggests that, like with [[Karl Agathon]] and [[Saul Tigh]], that the prop tags and the scripts didn't always match up perfectly.</ref><br />
|actor= [[Grace Park]]<br />
|cylon= y<br />
|name= Sharon Valerii<br />
}}<br />
'''Sharon "Boomer" Valerii''' is a copy of the [[humanoid Cylon]] model [[Number Eight]] who is initially planted as a "sleeper" agent in the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Colonial Fleet]]. She is unaware of her Cylon nature and serves for two years as Lieutenant Valerii on ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'', where she is assigned as a [[Raptor]] pilot and also engaged in a secret relationship with Chief [[Galen Tyrol|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 a failed suicide attempt. After Valerii returns from a successful mission to destroy a Cylon [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]], she shoots Commander [[William Adama]] in the chest, wounding him critically. She is incarcerated in the [[brig]] and soon afterward is killed by [[Cally Henderson]].<br />
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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]]. Following the failure on New Caprica, Valerii abandons her hopes for coexistence with humans and she denounces her past on ''Galactica''. She is assigned to watch Hera Agathon, but when Hera's mother comes to rescue her, Boomer tries to kill her and is killed by Caprica Six allowing Agathon and Caprica Six to escape while Boomer downloads to a new body again. However, while she feels that she belongs to Cylon society, she is not fully integrated into it and relatively isolated among her peers, particularly from the rest of her model's line as her vote to lobotomize the [[Raider (RDM)|Cylon Raiders]] leads to a [[Cylon Civil War]].<br />
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She is engaged in a relationship with the [[Number One]] leading the pro-lobotomization faction of the Cylons and is a member of that faction although she does express some misgivings about their actions. She is also aware of the identity of at least one member of the Final Five: Ellen Tigh and has known since before even D'Anna found out as Cavil trusts her and let her in on the secret. She eventually helps Ellen escape as part of a plan to infiltrate ''Galactica'' and is locked in the Cylon brig on arrival.<br />
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Later when she is prisoner on ''Galactica'' she escapes, beats Athena badly, has sexual relations with Helo and kidnaps Hera, but redeems herself somewhat by saving Hera from dissection and helping her escape to her parents. Boomer is finally killed by Athena and with resurrection destroyed, her death is final.<br />
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== Biography ==<br />
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=== Life on Galactica ===<br />
Valerii is a "sleeper" agent, unsuspecting of her Cylon status. As far as she is aware, she was born on the mining colony of [[Troy (RDM)|Troy]], as the daughter of a family from [[Aerilon]] ([[Flesh and Bone]]). Troy itself was destroyed in an unexplained cataclysm, allowing Valerii's background to be established as that of an orphan. Following her arrival on board ''Galactica'', she enters into a relationship with the ship's Chief Petty Officer [[Galen Tyrol]], which is against military protocols concerning fraternization between officers and non-officers. Whether this is unintentional or a subconscious reaction to her Cylon programming remains unclear.<br />
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As a rookie pilot, she keeps missing the trap and putting holes into the deck. Admiral Adama calls her to his office alongside Colonel Tigh and talks with her about why she keeps doing that and instead of kicking her out of the service, he gives her advice and another chance. Boomer thanks him and tells him she owes him one and will pay him back someday. Adama says a lot of people owe him one but a lot never pay it back but Boomer promises to pay him back someday when it really means something. ([[Daybreak, Part II]])<br />
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At the time of the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attack]], Valerii is flying her Raptor to [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] with ''Galactica''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> last remaining operational [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] squadron, when they learn of the attacks and attempt to engage two [[Raider (RDM)|Cylon Raiders]]. However, the Viper squadron is destroyed, and the Raptor is damaged while trying to escape, forcing Valerii and her [[ECO]] [[Karl Agathon]] to make an emergency landing on [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] in [[Raptor 312]]. <br />
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After repairing the Raptor they are mobbed by desperate civilians and undertake a rescue operation. Lifting a number of children, Valerii states there is room for three adults. Valerii holds a lottery for the three seats. When the last number is called, Agathon chooses to give up his place aboard the Raptor so that Doctor [[Gaius Baltar]] can be rescued as well ([[Miniseries]]). Helo later manages to make it back to ''Galactica'' with the help of Starbuck and [[Sharon Agathon|another Sharon]] months later. ([[Home, Part I]])<br />
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After being found by [[Laura Roslin]]'s group of stranded military and civilian ships, Valerii works within the new civilian [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]], assisting Roslin's attempts to gather other stranded civilian ships in the space surrounding Caprica. She finds a number of ships critical to the fledgling Fleet's survival, such as a fuel tanker. After the newly assembled Fleet, led by ''Galactica'', leaves the solar system of the Colonies, Valerii aids in other critical acts, including the discovery of a [[tylium]]-rich asteroid, replete with an active Cylon mine ([[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]), and locating a source of water to replenish the Fleet's lost supply after the sabotage of ''Galactica''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> stores ([[Water]]).<br />
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=== Acts of sabotage ===<br />
[[image:sharontyrol.jpg|170px|left|Valerii and Chief [[Tyrol]].|thumb]]<br />
At the same time as she is supporting the human Fleet, Valerii's underlying Cylon subroutines periodically emerge. Her Cylon programming is the cause of the sabotage of ''Galactica'''s water tanks, something she planned herself. However, her human side starts to emerge and prevents her from dying in the sabotage as [[John Cavil|Cavil]] had wanted with Cavil bringing out her Cylon programing using an elephant statue ([[Water]], [[The Plan]]). Later, she possibly assists a copy of [[Aaron Doral]] to perform a suicide bombing by leaving a hatch open for him. The Doral copy nearly kills Commander Adama and Colonel [[Saul Tigh|Tigh]] ([[Litmus]], [[The Plan]]).<br />
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Valerii finds herself soaking wet, after she awakes to her human personality shortly after the bombs used to destroy ''Galactica'''s water tanks were planted. She becomes increasingly concerned and starts to question her true self. Her worry increases when she experiences a certain attachment to a captured [[Raider (RDM)|Cylon Raider]], and is able to give insight into how it can be properly assessed and understood ("Water", "[[Six Degrees of Separation]]", "[[Flesh and Bone]]"). Her concerns are further elevated when, following the bombing by Doral, ''Galactica''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> [[Master-at-Arms]], Sergeant [[Hadrian]], suspects her and Chief [[Galen Tyrol]] of Cylon complicity ([[Litmus]]).<br />
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Tyrol distances himself from Valerii after this incident, and he later ends their relationship following the arrest of Specialist [[Socinus]] (Litmus). Facing Tyrol's suspicions concerning her activities immediately before the bombing, Valerii finds herself emotionally isolated and stressed. She takes the [[Cylon detector]] test created by Dr. [[Gaius Baltar|Baltar]], but he hides her positive test result in fear that once discovered, she might immediately retaliate and kill him ([[Flesh and Bone]]). Valerii finds short solace in Baltar's test, but deals with an anonymous accusation, when she finds the word "Cylon" written on the mirror of her locker. While its unclear, her Cylon personality believes she unconsciously wrote it to warn herself about her true nature and to stop her from continuing acts of sabotage ([[Six Degrees of Separation]], [[The Plan]]).<br />
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[[Image:Valshootadama.jpg|235px|thumb|right|Valerii shoots Commander William Adama.|thumb]]<br />
Frightened and alone, Valerii withdraws into herself and attempts suicide, but is initially unable to do so. During her second attempt, she is interrupted by Dr. Baltar who, rather than discouraging her, essentially gives her his blessing on her suicide. Following his departure from the [[duty locker]], Valerii succeeds in shooting herself, but her Cylon personality interrupts the attempt. Valerii only wounds herself in her right cheek ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]).<br />
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After [[Kara Thrace]] absconds with a captured Cylon Raider intended for an attack on a [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]] orbiting [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]], Commander Adama asks Valerii and ECO [[Margaret Edmondson]] to use a [[Cylon transponder]] in their Raptor to infiltrate the basestar and place a nuclear warhead within to destroy it. The mission is a success, but when the weapon would not auto-release from the Raptor after landing, Valerii exits the ship and enters the basestar. Inside, she encounters a dozen copies of herself, confirming her worst fears. Valerii escapes in the Raptor just before the warhead detonates and destroys the basestar. Back on ''Galactica'', her encounter with the other [[Number Eight|Eight]] models on the basestar apparently triggers Valerii's Cylon programming to emerge once more, and she shoots Commander Adama in the chest while being congratulated on her successful mission in [[CIC]], wounding him critically. While her Cylon programing succeeded in performing the act Cavil had been pushing her to do, she had to mentally turn herself into a Centurion as even Valerii's Cylon personality cares for Adama. It's later suggested by a [[Number Six]] that she purposefully wounded him in a way he could survive due to love for him. ("[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]", "[[Scattered]]", "[[The Plan]]").<br />
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=== Imprisonment and death === <br />
After shooting Adama, Valerii is quickly restrained by guards and jailed in the [[brig]]. During her imprisonment, Colonel [[Saul Tigh|Tigh]] attempts to forcibly extract information from her at gunpoint, but Valerii stonewalls him and even asks him to shoot her ([[Scattered]]). Chief [[Galen Tyrol|Tyrol]] is later incarcerated in the same brig cell by Tigh, also suspected of being a Cylon. While imprisoned together, Valerii tries to convince Tyrol that her feelings for him were real and important, but he rejects her and threatens to kill her if she touched him. <br />
[[Image:Sharondeath.jpg|235px|Valerii dies in Chief [[Galen Tyrol|Tyrol's]] arms.|right|thumb]]<br />
Dr. [[Gaius Baltar|Baltar]] later enters the cell, ostensibly to collect a blood sample from Tyrol to prove his innocence using the [[Cylon detector]], but he instead injects Tyrol with a potent toxin that would kill him in a matter of seconds if Baltar does not give him an antidote. Baltar interrogates Valerii, demanding to know how many other Cylons are in the Fleet, using the dying Tyrol to blackmail her. Valerii first protests that she does not know, but as Tyrol is about to die, she reveals that there are eight other Cylons in the Fleet and Baltar then revives Tyrol.<br />
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Soon after, while being transferred to a new reinforced cell built to hold Cylons for later experiments and long term incarceration, a large crowd of crewmembers jeers at her and calls her a traitor. Specialist [[Cally]] who considers Valerii responsible for Tyrol's imprisonment breaks through the crowd holding a gun and shoots Valerii at point-blank range. Valerii's last words are "I love you, Chief" and she dies in Tyrol's arms ([[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]).<br />
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Valerii's body is sent to the morgue and autopsied. Later, the recovered Commander Adama visits her corpse, asking "why" aloud, and weeps over her body. Adama pronounces a very mild reprimand for Cally, sentencing her to 30 days in the brig for discharging a weapon without authorization. Cally is never tried for murder, since Cylons are not seen as people ([[The Farm]]).<br />
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Valerii's corpse is later used as bait when [[Sesha Abinell]] takes over [[Cloud 9]], demanding the execution of the future [[Sharon Agathon]]. The distraction provided a window with which to diffuse the terrorist situation. ([[Sacrifice]])<br />
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===Rebirth and life among Cylons===<br />
[[Image:Cylon resurrection.jpg|235px|thumb|left|Valerii is reborn in a new body.|thumb]]<br />
After being shot by [[Callandra Tyrol|Cally Henderson]], ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' is close enough to a Cylon [[Resurrection Ship]] so that her consciousness is retrieved for [[download]] into another body. On rebirth, Valerii rejects her Cylon nature and continues to call herself "Sharon" instead of "Eight," even going so far as to reclaim her former apartment (502) on Caprica. A copy of [[Number Three]], representing the status quo of the Cylons, is deeply disturbed by this and suggests that Valerii be [[boxed]].<br />
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[[Caprica-Six]], also seen as a [[Hero of the Cylon]], protests and Three advises her to get Valerii to change. When Valerii laments the loss of Tyrol, Caprica-Six tells her about her own love for a human, [[Gaius Baltar|Baltar]], which prompts Valerii to inform her that he is still alive. Suspecting that Three has an ulterior motive and wants to box both of them, the two play along and Valerii announces her intent to move out of her old apartment. After a [[Caprica Resistance]] bombing, Valerii, Caprica-Six, and Three are trapped in a garage with the resistance's leader, [[Samuel Anders]]. There, Caprica-Six reveals their true intentions and declares that Valerii and herself are celebrities in a culture of unity, and, through their love for humans, have realized the horror of the Cylons' actions. Using their celebrity, they could convince a large portion of the Cylon society of their new belief that the genocide of humanity was wrong. Valerii stops Anders from killing Three, but is surprised to see Caprica-Six kill Three herself. After telling Anders to escape, Valerii agrees to help Caprica-Six reveal the truth of the genocide to the other Cylons ([[Downloaded]]).<br />
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Valerii and Caprica-Six are obviously successful in their attempt to change popular opinion among Cylons about the genocide on the human race. According to a [[Cavil]] model that is briefly incarcerated on board ''Galactica'', Valerii and Caprica-Six convinced a majority that "the slaughter of mankind was a mistake" which ultimately leads to an end of the occupation of the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]] ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I]]).<br />
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One year later, Valerii is one of the leaders of the Cylon force occupying [[New Caprica]]. But as other Cylons start to consider the occupation a failure, her influence appears to decrease quickly, most evident when she is unable to secure Henderson's release from detention or to remove her from the death list ([[Precipice]]). Their initial plan on New Caprica, "to push past the conflict that separated us from humans for so long", fails and the occupation is ended after four months ([[Exodus, Part II]]).<br />
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Following the retreat from New Caprica, Valerii is on the same [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]] as Caprica-Six and Baltar, and assigned responsibility for the Cylon-human hybrid child, [[Hera Agathon]]. At a stand-off with the human [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] at the [[algae planet]], Valerii is part of a Cylon delegation to make demands regarding the [[Eye of Jupiter]], but on board ''Galactica'', she is identified by [[Sharon Agathon]] and denied entry. During this first meeting between them, Valerii informs Agathon that her daughter, Hera, is still alive, and she suggests that Agathon will never be fully accepted among humans, because they continue to treat her as a thing ([[The Eye of Jupiter]]).<br />
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After Agathon downloads into the Cylon fleet to recover her child, it becomes clear that Valerii resents her, possibly out of jealousy for her connection with Hera and Agathon essentially replacing her on ''Galactica''. Valerii has been growing increasingly frustrated by her inability to make progress with the child. She also states that she is done with her past on ''Galactica'' and that the failure of New Caprica has taught her that humans and Cylons cannot coexist. When Agathon insists that Hera is suffering from a blocked intestine after she determined that her stomach was "as hard as a gourd" and must be brought to a human doctor who knows how to care for an infant, Valerii immediately suspects that it was the other's intention all along to take Hera back to ''Galactica'', although she is forced to admit that the child's belly has become "hard as a gourd". Suggesting that Cylons were never meant to have children in the first place, Valerii threatens to kill Hera but is knocked to the floor by Caprica-Six and killed by her former comrade ([[Rapture]]).<br />
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After the [[Raider (RDM)|Cylon Raider]]s refuse to take any offensive action for fear of harming the [[Final Five]] Cylons in the human fleet, Valerii votes in favor of lobotomizing them into effective fighters once again. This is in contradiction to the opinion of the rest of her model, breaking the stalemate between the [[Number One|One]]s, [[Number Four|Four]]s, and [[Number Five|Five]]s in favor of lobotomization and the [[Number Two|Two]]s, [[Number Six|Six]]es, and [[Number Eight|Eight]]s against it. Valerii's explanation is that, "we need to be able to defend ourselves." [[Natalie]] accuses the Number One that she calls "Cavil" of having influenced Valerii ([[Six of One]]). The two are romantically engaged, as they kiss shortly after Cavil's [[Resurrection (RDM)|resurrection]], and later questions Cavil's decision to attack Natalie's rebel faction at the onset of the [[Cylon Civil War]] ([[The Ties That Bind]]).<br />
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Valerii is with [[Cavil]] at [[D'Anna Biers]]'s unboxing on the [[Resurrection Hub]] and witnesses her killing him, fleeing afterwards ([[The Hub]]).<br />
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==="Escape" from John Cavil===<br />
After [[Ellen Tigh]]'s resurrection, John Cavil allows Boomer to witness his numerous conversations with Ellen. Initially agreeing with John's disdainful view of Ellen, she eventually establishes a bond with her and comes to sympathize with Ellen's perspective on Cylon creation. When Cavil has the [[Simon]]s prepare to surgically dissect Ellen's brain to extract her memories, she escapes with Ellen in a Raptor logged as missing by the Colonials over a year ago. The two somehow find the Fleet, and after Boomer's voice is identified as an Eight by a Six flying CAP, the Raptor is allowed to land on ''Galactica''. No one realizes who she is until Tyrol approaches, senses who she is, and announces her identity, eliciting a smile from her when he tells her it's nice to see her. Upon hearing this, Admiral Adama has her taken to the brig. Unknown to them at the time, Boomer's "escape" was engineered. ([[TRS]]: "[[No Exit]]", "[[Deadlock]]")<br />
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===Escape from ''Galactica''===<br />
The Cylon rebels decide to put her on trial for treason and, with death permanent because of the loss of resurrection, capital punishment is possible. When Tyrol goes to see her in the brig, she confesses that she still loves him and has thought of him ever since she died in his arms. She shares with him [[projection]]s of their dream home on [[Picon]], which she has been harboring for a while. In this dream life, they are married and have a daughter. Sure that she is going to be found guilty and executed, Tyrol helps her escape by switching her with another Eight he assaulted and rendered unconscious and placed in Boomer's cell. Pursuing her true mission, Boomer then severely beats Sharon Agathon and hides her, bound and gagged, in a toilet stall. She is then mistaken by Karl Agathon for his wife and is sexually pursued by him after she tried to quietly and discreetly without tipping him off to her true identity avoid his advances and to ostensibly leave on her (i.e Athena's) mission. Eventually she acquiesces and even gladly has sex with Karl Agathon without his knowledge as to who she truly was. During the encounter, and most likely without Boomer's knowledge, her victim Athena had become semi-conscious and witnesses Boomer's encounter with her husband from the toilet stall. Boomer then kidnapped the Agathon's daughter, Hera, drugging her with a drink when she picks her up at the [[Galactica daycare|daycare center]] to keep her quiet.<br />
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Boomer hides the drugged Hera in a provisions supply case, which is loaded onto a Raptor with Tyrol's help without attracting much attention as such cases have become routine for extended search patrols. Before Tyrol leaves, after he turned down her plea for him to come with her, she tells him that no matter what happens, she was not lying about everything she has told him and that she meant it, leading to Tyrol kissing her. While waiting for clearance to depart, she figures out that she has been discovered, and against Admiral Adama's orders powers up the Raptor and spins up its FTL drive. She hurriedly flies the Raptor out of the closing flight pod, clipping her port wing, then jumps away, close enough to damage ''Galactica'' from the resulting spatial disruption.<br />
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While talking with Saul Tigh Ellen later concludes, correctly, that everything that Boomer did, including helping her escape, was planned in order to kidnap Hera and bring her to [[Number One|John Cavil]] ([[TRS]]: "[[Someone to Watch Over Me]]")<br />
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Boomer keeps jumping her stolen Raptor, heading for [[The Colony]]. Hera repeatably cries for her mother, irritating Boomer. Boomer goes to sedate her with a large hypodermic needle roughly but can't bring herself to do it. Instead she tells Hera about her projection of her and Tyrol's home on Picon and Hera surprises her by revealing she can project too and joining her in the projection. Boomer shows Hera the bedroom she dreamed of for her daughter and bonds with the girl. She ultimately takes her to Cavil but starts crying bitterly when Hera calls out for her showing she regrets her actions.<br />
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Later when Boomer, Simon, Cavil and Doral are sitting and watching Hera draw, Cavil reveals that Hera has apparently refused to eat and wants to intubate her. Boomer, the only one who seems to have any sympathy at all for the child, objects saying Hera wants her mother, but Cavil doesn't care only wanting to find the secret in Hera's genetic code that allowed her to come into being so the Cylon race can survive. He leaves and Boomer watches unhappily as Simon starts up a drill and prepares to intubate Hera to force her to eat. ([[TRS]]: "[[Islanded in a Stream of Stars]]," "[[Daybreak, Part I]]")<br />
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=== Final Act and Death ===<br />
During the [[Battle of The Colony]], Boomer is with Hera and the Simon who still plans on dissecting her despite the invasion force, confident that the humans will lose. Boomer snaps his neck, killing him and takes Hera and carries her away. She carries her to the rescue team which is searching for her and gives Hera back to her parents. Athena points out that it does not make up for what she did and Boomer admits that she knows that, but she made what she knows will probably be her final choice and saved Hera. She asks them to tell Admiral Adama she owed him for having given her another chance once. She also informs them their Raptors have been destroyed, cutting off their primary escape route. Calm and ready to accept Athena's revenge, Boomer lets Athena shoot her dead. Without resurrection, her death is permanent ([[TRS]]: "[[Daybreak, Part II]]").<br />
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===The Psychological Damage and Choices Made === <br />
:''Explained by David Weddle & Grace Park''<br />
Both David Weddle & Grace Park who plays Sharon "Boomer" Valerii as well as Sharon "Athena" Agathon and other Eights give their views on the motivations and choices made by Park's character Boomer. Weddle concentrates on if Boomer actually loved Galen Tyrol and the psychological trauma she has been subjected to. Park examines what choices she has made from that background:<blockquote>''"Did Boomer really love the Chief? That’s an interesting question and one I don’t have a neat answer to. Boomer is deeply conflicted. I think the process of having false memories planted in her, getting switched “on” as a Cylon, shooting Adama, getting shot by Cally, and her experiences on New Caprica have left her severely disturbed. She was determined to go through with her mission, but in the process of seducing Tyrol she reawakened feelings of love that she thought were dead. I think she experienced real misgivings just before she got on that Raptor, but felt she had gone too far to back down. Wrapped up in that is her perverse envy of Athena, who obtained everything Boomer once wanted, and this festered into a sick desire to strike out at Athena. It’s difficult to say someone who did that loves the Chief, and yet in her damaged way, I think she did and still does love him."''<ref>[http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/entertainment_tv/2009/02/battlestar-galactica-starbuck-boomer-someone-to-watch-over-me-.html "Play it again, Starbuck: Talking to Weddle and Thompson about 'Someone to Watch Over Me'" Maureen Ryan Chicago Tribune February 28, 2009]</ref> ----David Weddle</blockquote> <br />
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<blockquote>''"Boomer is much more tragic and conflicted, and in a lot of denial. Athena came from a very different starting point, and everything was a lie, but she fought and made it through the trenches. She's a story not of privilege, but about creating whoever you want to be. That's the American story. Boomer could have been a number of things too, but she made a lot of poor decisions."''<ref>[http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2009-03-12-battlestar-characters_N.htm "Internal battles are raging in 'Battlestar'" Anthony Breznican USA Today March 12, 2009]</ref> ---Grace Park</blockquote><br />
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==Notes==<br />
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*This [[Number Eight]] is often just called "Boomer" colloquially, as that callsign is more closely associated with her, while [[Sharon Agathon]] is usually called "Sharon" and more recently "Athena". Until Season 3, this copy was referred to as the ''Galactica'' copy ("''Galactica''-Sharon" or "''Galactica''-Boomer"), because she was first encountered on ''Galactica''. She is refered to as Boomer by everyone on the series, including the Cylons, shown when she votes against the other Eights and [[Natalie Faust]] calls her Boomer when she walks into the room.<br />
*[[Virtual Six]] rhetorically asks [[Gaius Baltar]] in "[[Flesh and Bone]]" why he thinks that Valerii got the callsign "Boomer", implying a sexual reference. Aside from the fact that Valerii is the analogue of [[Boomer (TOS)|Boomer]] from the [[Original Series]], the reason for giving her this callsign is likely due to her reputation for loud and botched landings with [[Raptor]]s ([[Miniseries]], "[[Flight of the Phoenix]]", "[[Scar]]", "[[Daybreak, Part II]]").<br />
*In reality, "Boomer" is a nickname for a ballistic missile submarine. "[[Karl Agathon|Helo]]" is a similar nickname for a helicopter.<br />
*Despite both being main characters for the first season of the show, with Boomer being a major character whenever she appeared after that, Boomer and Athena only actually meet four times. In their first meeting, Athena identifies Boomer preventing her from joining the negotiations and Boomer reveals that Hera is still alive, something which Athena didn't know. In their second meeting, Athena downloads into the Cylon fleet to rescue Hera and Boomer is suspicious of her intentions. Boomer threatens to kill Hera, but is instead killed by her former friend Caprica Six. In their third meeting, Athena doesn't realize who she is at first and by the time she does it's too late and Boomer beats her up and ties her up as part of a plan to kidnap Hera. In their final meeting, Boomer gives back Hera to Athena and allows Athena to kill her.<br />
*Her personality after her resurrection seems to fluctuate between her human one and her Cylon one: at first she seemed more like her old "human" self until the failure of New Caprica. Afterwards it seemed like her personality was closer to that of her Cylon one while still retaining a few elements of her human one. Her return to ''Galactica'' seemed to stir her human personality more especially when she kidnapped Hera and bonded with her and she seemed to be in a state closer to her human personality than she had been since New Caprica when she died permanently.<br />
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== Overview ==<br />
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: ''A tale centered around the new ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' officer [[Kendra Shaw]], following her entire tenure on the battlestar from the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]] under Admiral [[Helena Cain|Cain]], to [[Lee Adama]]'s command and a frightful rescue mission to save crew members who have been captured by the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]].''<br />
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== Summary ==<br />
Four separate, but related stories are documented:<br />
*William Adama's mission at the end of the first [[Cylon War]].<br />
*Helena Cain's loss of her family at the same time.<br />
*The events on ''Pegasus'' during and shortly after the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]].<br />
*The events surrounding the [[Battle of the Guardian basestar]], set in the time period between "[[The Captain's Hand]]" and "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I]]".<br />
In the episode these stories are largely told in parallel, flashing between the different time periods. Below the different story lines are listed chronologically.<br />
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=== First Cylon War === <br />
====William Adama ====<br />
:''See also: [[Razor Flashbacks]]''<br />
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*{{RazorDVD|At the end of the first [[Cylon War]], a Colonial battle group conducts [[Operation Raptor Talon]] against a [[Ice planet|Cylon planet]] presumed to house a super weapon. During the battle, the [[Galactica type battlestar|battlestar]] ''[[Columbia (RDM)|Columbia]]'' is pummeled from [[basestar (RDM)|basestar]] salvos and is subsequently destroyed. Adama then spots two Raiders entering the planet's atmosphere. Out for revenge, Adama engages the two. He shoots down one in the high altitudes, but collides with the other and is forced to eject.}}<br />
*{{RazorDVD|However, a [[Cylon Centurion Model 0005|Centurion]] survived as well and shoots at Adama during the free-fall. Adama shoots back and the two eventually engage in hand-to-hand combat. When the Centurion tries to use a blade on Adama, Adama pulls his parachute's rip cord to slow his descent, watching as the Centurion falls to the ground. Adama lands safely on the ground, crashing through what appears to be a warehouse sky-window. There he encounters the Centurion and kills it by repeatedly smashing its head with a pipe.}}<br />
*As Adama enters what appears to be a Cylon laboratory, he finds evidence of human experimentation and human mutilations. He eventually finds a vat filled with a gelatin-like substance which is reminiscent of the [[resurrection tank]]s or [[Hybrid]] tanks that the later [[humanoid Cylon|humanoid Cylons]] would use. <br />
*He kneels down and touches the substance, and immediately begins to hear the screams of torture victims. As he looks back at the tank, a hand abruptly grabs his arm. The hand disappears just as quickly as it appeared, and Adama falls back to the ground. A voice is heard, quoting from the [[Pythia|Pythian]] prophecies: "All this has happened before and will happen again." <br />
*A banging sound is heard from a locked chamber nearby. As Adama approaches the window of the chamber, an unidentified man presses his face against the window and begs Adama to release him and the other captives. Adama finds a piece of metal nearby, and attempts to break open the door to the chamber.<br />
*As Adama attempts to free the door, the man tells him that they are civilians from the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Gemenon|Gemenese]] ship ''[[Diana]]'', whose convoy was attacked by the Cylons, and that there were initially 50 of them who were taken away one by one. <br />
*Suddenly the ground begins to tremble. Adama manages to open the door a little bit, but not enough to allow the captives to escape. The man urges Adama to leave them and save himself. He asks Adama to tell others of what has happened to them. Adama finally complies after he realizes that he cannot free the prisoners, and runs out of the laboratory. <br />
*Emerging from the laboratory warehouse, Adama sees the [[Guardian basestar]] lifting off into the clouds. He radios his findings about the Cylon experimentation on humans to ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'', but the young pilot is shocked to learn that an armistice has just been signed, and the war is over.<br />
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====Helena Cain====<br />
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: ''This entire story segment is contained exclusively on the unrated, extended DVD version of "Razor".'' <br />
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*At the same time [[Tauron (RDM)|Tauron]] is under attack by Cylon basestars and Centurion ground forces. A young [[Helena Cain]], her sister [[Lucy Cain|Lucy]] and her [[Cain (father)|father]] are pinned down in a building under heavy fire. The three attempt to escape after the last remaining marines in the building are gunned down. When her father is injured by mortar fire, he tells Helena to get Lucy to a shelter before dying.<br />
*The sisters make it out of the building, but Lucy trips over concrete rubble and injures herself, unable to go on. Helena panics, yelling at Lucy to get up and run. She eventually leaves Lucy in the field of rubble and runs away to hide in a container. A group of Centurions appears and surrounds Lucy, who continues to cry out Helena's name.<br />
*A Centurion discovers Helena inside the container. She finds a knife on the floor and nervously approaches the Centurion, preparing to attack it.<br />
*The Centurion stops approaching the girl and retreats from the container, apparently having received instructions and information that the Cylon War is over and an armistice was signed. When Helena comes out, she finds only her sister's doll on the ground, and watches the Raiders leave the planet.<br />
*Helena Cain lost her entire family on that day.<ref name="watcher-forbes">{{cite_web|url=http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/entertainment_tv/2007/11/battlestar-ga-1.html|title='Battlestar Galactica: Razor' cuts to the heart of the matter|date=20 November 2007|accessdate=2015-08-12|last=Ryan|first=Maureen|format=|language=}}</ref><br />
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=== The Fall of the Twelve Colonies ===<br />
====Fall of the Scorpion Fleet Shipyards====<br />
{{mainarticle|Fall of the Scorpion Fleet Shipyards}}<br />
*{{RazorDVD|[[Kendra Shaw]] waits at the [[Caprica Transfer Station]] for a ship to bring her to ''Pegasus''. She briefly chats with [[Frank Bruno]] about her mother, [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum]] delegate [[Marta Shaw]], her assignment and her career goals.}}<br />
*The battlestar ''Pegasus'' is docked at the [[Scorpion Fleet Shipyards]] over [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Scorpia|Scorpia]] for a three-month overhaul. As Kendra Shaw approaches the ship from [[Raptor 179]], she gazes in awe at the size of the [[Mercury class battlestar]].<br />
*Admiral [[Helena Cain]] is in her quarters, reviewing a crew status report as her [[XO]], Colonel [[Jurgen Belzen]] enters. He lightly encourages her to take her shore leave, but she insists that she could never leave ''Pegasus'' in the hands of the civilian contractors assigned to oversee her overhaul. <br />
*In the port hangar bay, Raptor 179 has recently arrived. With orders to report directly to [[CIC#Pegasus|CIC]], Shaw steps down and asks a pair of passing crewman to help her locate it. The crewman, however, are too busy to notice her.<br />
*Shaw wanders through the port [[flight pod]], past groups of busy civilians, until she finds [[Gina Inviere]], a civilian network administrator assigned to ''Pegasus'''s overhaul. Inviere shows Shaw a map of ''Pegasus'', with a route to the CIC, and the two discuss the origins of Gina's last name. <br />
*Shaw eventually reaches the CIC, where she finds Cain and Belzen at the Command and Control station. Shaw drops her gear and salutes the admiral. Cain is harsh on her new aide. She grills Shaw for being late to the CIC, concluding that she either stopped for a cup of coffee, or got lost. After Shaw leaves, Cain breaks out in laughter with Belzen, revealing that she only had a joke at the lieutenant's expense.<br />
*[[Louis Hoshi]] escorts her to her quarters. As they are walking down the hallway, a large blast shakes ''Pegasus'', and the noise ripples through the hallway. Shaw and Hoshi are immediately thrown to the floor. As Shaw awakens, she is in a daze. She looks around to find Hoshi unconscious on the floor. The hallway has suddenly become a disaster area. <br />
*Admiral Cain, who was on her way to her quarters at the time, finds Shaw and Hoshi in the corridor. She asks Shaw if she is alright, but when she doesn’t respond, Cain slaps her in the face. Shaw immediately awakens. The hallway echoes with screams of horror, and the [[Action Stations|Condition One]] sirens blare. After an aborted attempt to wake Hoshi, the two head to the CIC.<br />
*''Pegasus'' is on fire in space. [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Cylon Raiders]] flood the shipyard; missiles strike two helpless ''[[Valkyrie]]''-type battlestars nearby.<br />
*In the CIC, Colonel [[Jack Fisk|Fisk]] and many of the CIC personnel are unconscious. Belzen is coordinating the response effort, but there have been multiple nuclear detonations. Luckily however, the battlestar still has main power and propulsion, but that’s about it. [[DRADIS]] and weapons have both been knocked out.<br />
*The Cylon attack is taking its toll on the shipyards. The two ''Valkyrie''-type battlestars lose their moorings and one crashes into the shipyards, instantly destroying it. <br />
*Cain orders the ship to seal all hatches and release all moorings in preparation for an immediate departure. As the ship evacuates the shipyards, Cain orders the [[Propulsion in the Re-imagined Series#Faster-Than-Light travel|FTL]] drive spun up for an immediate jump. <br />
*A Cylon Raider fires two nuclear missiles at ''Pegasus'' from across the shipyards. The missiles fly past a [[Galactica type battlestar]] as its moorings are destroyed, and past the wreckage of several other battlestars and support vessels. <br />
*Cain orders an immediate jump, but Shaw says that with the navigational computer off-line, she would have to enter a random set of coordinates, [[Blind jump|which could take the battlestar anywhere]], possibly within a star or other larger astral body. Cain yells back at her to do it anyway, and the battlestar jumps away.<br />
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====So Say We All====<br />
*Two days since the attack on the Scorpion Fleet Shipyards, ''Pegasus'' is four to five jumps away from the Colonies. Belzen reports that many of ''Pegasus'''s [[Viper (RDM)|Vipers]] and [[Raptor]]s are either destroyed or beyond repair, over a quarter of the crew is dead, and rumors are circulating about the destruction of the Twelve Colonies and the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Colonial Fleet]].<br />
*Shaw has been working without sleep to restore the navigational and defense computer systems, and she has finally done it. Additionally, she has discovered lines of hidden Cylon computer code inside the [[Command Navigation Program]], which was fortunately down during the attack. Shaw suggests that the entire program be purged from the system. <br />
*After ordering two Raptors on a reconnaissance mission back to the Colonies, the time has finally come for Cain to reveal the extent of the devastation at home to her crew. She tells them that their colonies have been destroyed, their cities nuked, their fleet obliterated. While the victory of one ship may seem unattainable when even their very survival is at stake, she tells them that they have revenge to reach for instead. <br />
*In an expression of determination and conviction, the crew resoundingly shouts, “So say we all!” over and over, after hearing Cain’s words.<br />
*Cain, Shaw, Fisk and Belzen are in the admiral’s quarters, looking over recently gathered intelligence for a low-risk attack on a Cylon outpost. They are discussing a somewhat isolated communications relay when Gina Inviere enters. She greets the admiral with a kiss and a flirtatious shoulder pinch, and the five sit down to enjoy some wine and conversation.<br />
*Cain assures her senior staff that while she does want to engage in guerrilla warfare tactics against the Cylons, she is not willing to put the ship and crew in any amount of excessive danger.<br />
*Shaw and Inviere are working on firewalling all of ''Pegasus'''s computer networks to prevent them from being infiltrated by the Cylons, but constantly having to find a senior officer to input their command codes for system access is making the process take exceedingly long. Inviere discreetly complains about it, and Shaw says that under the circumstances, she would speak to Cain about raising her clearance. In the meantime, she gives Inviere her own command code to use. Inviere then discusses her relationship with Cain in greater detail.<br />
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====Battle of the Communications Relay ====<br />
{{mainarticle|Battle of the Communications Relay}}<br />
*''Pegasus'' prepares for a hit-and-run attack on what appears to be a somewhat neglected Cylon communications relay. However, when ''Pegasus'' arrives, there are twelve Cylon Raiders guarding the relay. Despite the increased enemy presence, Cain orders [[Blue Squadron (RDM)|Blue Squadron]] to advance.<br />
*Almost the second after the Vipers are launched, fifteen enemy squadrons of fighters jump into DRADIS range. Cain orders ''Pegasus'''s defensive fire concentrated on the incoming attack squadrons, but Shaw reports that the weapons grid won't respond to commands.<br />
*In spite of the odds, Cain orders Belzen to launch the reserve Vipers, but he insists that taking such an action would cost too many lives and resources. She persists in her orders, but Belzen refuses to carry them out. Cain orders Belzen to hand her his sidearm, which she uses to shoot him in the forehead, in front of the entire bridge crew. <ref>This event is recalled by [[Jack Fisk]] to [[Saul Tigh]] months later, over drinks, in the Season 2 episode "[[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]."</ref><br />
*Cain turns to a stunned Fisk, tells him that he is now the [[Executive Officer|XO]] and orders him to launch the reserve Vipers. Fisk, nearly petrified by what he just saw, is more than compelled to follow the order. As the last of ''Pegasus’s'' remaining squadrons launch, Cylon batteries pound the hull.<br />
*With the weapons grid down, Cylon [[Heavy Raider]]s easily breach ''Pegasus’s'' defensive perimeter. [[Cylon Centurion|Centurions]] begin pouring into the ship through breached [[airlock]]s. Cain orders fast-response teams of [[Colonial Marine Corps|Marines]] to engage the Centurions, and orders Shaw to Secondary Damage Control, as she fears that the Cylons will use this junction to vent all of ''Pegasus’s'' air into space.<ref>This tactic is reminiscent of a similar tactic attempted by the Cylons in the episode "[[Valley of Darkness]]."</ref><br />
*As Shaw heads to Secondary Damage Control, she finds Gina Inviere trying to escape the Centurions, and orders her to the CIC. As she peers around the corner, she is almost seen by a Centurion. She waits for it to leave, and as she turns the corner to go down the hallway, she sees a [[Number Six]] Cylon, following the Centurion. At first, Shaw doesn’t understand what she sees, but then it comes together – [[Humanoid Cylon|the Cylons can mimic human form]], and Gina Inviere is one of them. Shaw shoots and kills the Six, leaving it dead right in front of a security camera.<br />
*Shaw immediately heads to the CIC to take Inviere, now also in CIC, into custody before she can do any more harm. In the CIC, she directs her weapon at Inviere, and orders the Marines to take her into custody. When Cain belays the order, Shaw states that Gina is a Cylon infiltrator and that "they can look like us". When Cain scoffs, Shaw asks Hoshi to display the security feed from Airlock 4. <br />
*Cain balks at the image of the dead humanoid Cylon in the form of her lover. Feeling betrayed and without any other options, she orders the guards to remove Inviere ("''this thing''") from the bridge. As a Cylon missile strikes ''Pegasus'', Gina uses the moment to flip her captor around by the jaw, and gains control of his [[Weapons in the Re-imagined Series#Handheld weapons|weapon]], which she uses to shoot his comrade. She then snaps the Marine's neck, and trains her weapon on Cain. In a moment of hesitation, Inviere cannot bring herself to shoot Cain, and Shaw sneaks up behind her, clubbing the Cylon over the head with the butt of her rifle.<br />
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====Massacre aboard the ''Scylla''====<br />
* The victory at the communications relay is bittersweet. Over eight hundred of ''Pegasus''’s original crew are now dead <ref>Kendra Shaw reports "at least 816 dead, 121 injured" after the attack on the com relay. Earlier, Colonel Belzen reports the loss of over 700 people in the attack on the shipyards. Given ''Pegasus'''s crew complement of approximately 1,750 when she encounters ''Galactica'', adding both numbers would mean that almost half of the crew died. ''Battlestar Wiki'' assumes that Shaw is relating the casualties of both battles.</ref>, over 90 Vipers are either destroyed or out of commission, and the deck crew doesn't have the resources to repair all remaining ones. <br />
*As Cain and Shaw discuss the battle, Gina Inviere looks on from her cell. Shaw blames herself for the high cost of the battle, for giving Inviere her access codes, which she used to take down the weapons grid. <br />
*The hatch opens, and Lieutenant [[Alastair Thorne]] salutes Admiral Cain. Cain orders him to use whatever means he can conjure to retrieve information from Inviere, including torture and rape. As Thorne enters Inviere’s cell, Cain is called to the CIC.<br />
*As Cain enters the CIC, Fisk is elated to inform the admiral that a convoy of 15 civilian ships has been detected. Fisk and Shaw are thrilled at the discovery, but the mood quickly turns sour when they realize Cain has other things on her mind. Cain orders Fisk to prepare teams of Marines and engineers to board each ship. They will take what they need, including spare parts and people, and leave the ships without FTL drives to fend for themselves. <br />
*Fisk and Shaw come aboard the ''[[Scylla]]'', where they find a relieved welcoming party. [[Peter Laird]] is the first to welcome them aboard. Excitement quickly turns to confusion however, when they hand Laird a list of Admiral Cain’s orders. Laird is shocked to learn that Cain wants to take their FTL drives. Laird informs the welcoming party, and they suddenly become an angry mob. Shaw informs them that they will use force if necessary, but Laird persistently refuses. <br />
*As the mob inches closer to the boarding party, Fisk reports to Cain of the escalating situation. In an act that surprises even him, she orders him to shoot the families of any selectee that doesn’t comply with the orders. <br />
*Fisk and the Marines are wary of the order, but they line up a couple of the families despite their reservations, hoping that showing the mob their resolve will force them to comply. The angry mob suddenly becomes violent – they throw whatever they can at the boarding party. <br />
*At that very moment, Shaw pulls out her sidearm, and shoots a woman in the front in the head. The Marines follow suit, and before very long, the deck of the ''Scylla'' is painted with the blood of the dead. Shaw’s gaze drifts to her sidearm, still smoking from the shot, and then up to Laird, who is too stunned to move. <br />
*In the aftermath, Shaw cannot bring her eyes to look upon the dead. Fisk comforts her by telling her that the entire fleet heard about what happened and there should be no more resistance. As her party leaves the ''Scylla'', she can’t help but look back. <br />
*For her actions aboard the ''Scylla'', Cain promotes Shaw to captain. It is small comfort to Shaw, who is still anguished by what she has done. Seeing her vulnerability, Cain tells Shaw that the war is forcing them all to do things that they may not like, even hate, because if they don’t, then they may not live to simply become human again. By putting aside her fear, her reservations, even her revulsion to complete the mission, Shaw has become Cain’s "razor".<br />
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=== Present events ===<br />
* Newly-promoted Commander [[Lee Adama]] is formally appointed commander of ''Pegasus'' by [[Laura Roslin]] in front of the ship's crew. In his speech he promises to change things on the battlestar and announces [[Kara Thrace]]'s appointment as acting [[CAG]].<br />
* Shaw follows the speech on the [[wireless]] set, but eventually switches it off. She walks to a jar, takes out a syringe and injects herself with a drug. She is still troubled about what happened on the ''Scylla''.<br />
* Next, she is summoned to Adama's office, who reads her service file and points out that she received glowing reports from Cain, but increasingly negatives ones from Fisk and [[Barry Garner|Garner]], who eventually assigned her to kitchen duty because of "persistent insubordinate behavior". After listening to Shaw's candid opinions about him and his predecessors, Adama offers her the job of executive officer; he intends to give the crew back its pride, and as an outsider he needs someone to uphold Cain's legacy.<br />
* During a firearms drill, she shows competence but also how hard she is on the crew. William Adama comments that his son found an XO meaner than [[Saul Tigh]].<br />
* The Admiral gives Commander Adama his first mission: a [[SAR|search and rescue]] for two pilots and a civilian science team in an overdue Raptor.<br />
* At their destination, Starbuck and [[Showboat]] conduct a Viper patrol and suddenly encounter enemy fighters of an unfamiliar configuration. Although able to identify them as Cylons, Starbuck doesn't realize that they are in fact [[Raiders (RDM)#Cylon War-era Raider|Raiders like the ones used in the first Cylon War]].<br />
* ''Pegasus'' establishes a defensive perimeter and orders the Vipers to return prior to an FTL jump. When the [[Computers in the Re-imagined Series#Navigation computer|navigational computer]] malfunctions and the Raiders close, Shaw orders to the vessel's offensive flight pod [[Battery|batteries]] turned on the incoming targets, placing Starbuck and Showboat inside the battlestar's close-in firing solution. Struggling their way through the barrage, a Raider follows them into the [[flight pod]], which Starbuck shoots down once inside the landing bay. On the [[hangar deck]], she angrily confronts Shaw over her decision to open fire, but Adama defends his XO.<br />
* ''Pegasus'' returns to the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]], and Admiral Adama, Roslin and Tigh inspect the downed Raider on the hangar deck. [[Sharon Agathon|Sharon Valerii]] recalls the "[[Guardians]]", a group of [[Cylon Centurion Model 0005|original Centurion models]] that escaped being scrapped by the [[humanoid Cylons]]. The Guardians guard the [[first Hybrid]], created by the Cylons as a first attempt at an organic model and eventually abandoned as an evolutionary dead end. This causes Adama to remember the events on the ice planet on the last day of the Cylon War, finally realizing the significance of what he saw over 40 years ago.<br />
* After examining the Raider's navigational data, Admiral Adama believes that the Raptor crew was captured by the Guardians and orders his son to jump to a possible base of theirs. For the duration of the operation, he transfers his flag to ''Pegasus'', but assures Lee that it will be his mission.<br />
* Shaw drafts an attack plan for ''Pegasus'' to draw Cylon forces away while a Raptor, piloted by Thrace and carrying a strike team, jumps to the Cylon base. Before signing off on the plan, Lee Adama confronts Shaw over the incident on the ''Scylla''. She just replies that she is Cain's legacy - a razor - and that Cain wouldn't have hesitated to execute the plan.<br />
* Before the battle Shaw is about to take another shot of the drug and when she is caught by Thrace, who is looking for a bottle of [[ambrosia]]. The two stalemate and agree to keep each other's secrets, and realize that they are more alike than they thought.<br />
* {{RazorDVD|Thrace is going over the Raptor prepared for the mission and told by Shaw that Chief Tyrol already checked everything. During their chat, the two notice that Thrace's [[Socrata Thrace|mother]] and Admiral Cain weren't too different, advising to repress one's fear and focus on the anger. Thrace remarks that her mother only had her anger left in the end and died alone.}}<br />
* The mission doesn't go as planned when the strike team's Raptor is pursued by two Raiders. They simulate an engine malfunction, emergency blow the side hatch and sling themselves out of the flat-spinning Raptor before it is destroyed by the Cylons, escaping undetected. Using EVA thrusters, they make their way to the Guardian basestar.<br />
* Thrace, Shaw, [[Erin Mathias|Mathias]], [[Dasilva]] and [[Hudson]] find the missing Raptor crew, whom the Cylons mutilate in a manner similar to what William Adama saw in the first Cylon War. As they free the survivors, two Centurions attack, wound Dasilva and begin to drag him away. Unwilling to let him suffer same treatment as the Raptor crew, Shaw shoots Dasilva, but in turn is shot in the abdomen.<br />
* While under cover from the firefight, Mathias reports to ''Pegasus'' that the detonator for the nuclear warhead, which they plan to use to destroy the basestar, is damaged.<br />
* ''Pegasus'' loses wireless contact with the boarding team and Lee Adama orders a [[Missile tubes|nuclear ship to ship missile]] to be armed and readied. Thrace herself considers the "mission outcome doubtful". Assuming that the team is dead, Commander Adama orders the launch of the missile, but is overridden by his father, who wants to give the team a chance.<br />
* After reestablishing contact and learning that an evacuation Raptor is on the way, Shaw orders Mathias to rig a manual detonator for the nuke, determined to complete the mission. While Lee is reluctant to sacrifice someone to detonate the warhead, his father believes that the Cylons would easily shoot down a missile, but leaves the final decision to Lee. He orders Thrace to get the team to safety, but to stay behind and detonate the nuke manually.<br />
* The team prepares to suit up and leave, when Shaw forces Thrace to hand over the warhead at gunpoint and remains on the baseship. Walking through the hallways, she finds the Cylon Hybrid, who knows her name, saying that he has been waiting for her for a long time. He tells her that the Centurions worship him as god, and observes Shaw's desire to be forgiven for what she has become. The Hybrid also delivers a warning about Thrace: she will lead the human race to its end, she is the herald of the apocalypse and the harbinger of death, and she must not be followed.<br />
* Shaw tries to relay this to ''Pegasus'', but her transmission is blocked by Cylon jamming shortly after the start, and the warning is not heard. She then detonates the nuke, killing herself and destroying the basestar.<br />
* Later, the Adamas discuss the battle and its outcome, the admiral noting Thrace's recommendation of Shaw for a posthumous commendation. Reviewing the logs, Admiral Adama doesn't find fault in either Cain's or Shaw's decisions, but Commander Adama vehemently disagrees, citing the ''Scylla''. The admiral replies that he never had to face similar circumstances, and that he had people like Lee, Roslin and Tigh to counsel and challenge him and keep him from making extreme and questionable decisions. He comforts Lee, telling him that his decision to launch the nuclear missile and sacrifice the strike team wasn't wrong, just necessary from Lee's perspective at the time.<br />
* Outside [[Officer's quarters#Admiral Adama's quarters|Adama's quarters]], Lee meets Thrace, who now has Cain's knife given to her by Shaw. She is unsure if Shaw sacrificed herself as atonement or if she just "had it coming." Thrace tells him that she requested reassignment back to ''Galactica'' because she thinks Lee would keep trying to get her killed. When asked if she might deserve that, she jokingly replies that she has a [[The Destiny|destiny]] and plans to live to keep it.<br />
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Teaser – We see only Shaw’s hand as she opens and closes Cain’s knife. She rubs her fingers along the blade. She talks about the importance of living with your decisions, and the cycle of life, and how there are no second chances. She says that you are the choices you make in life.<br />
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Act 1 – Begins after opening titles. Ends after Shaw is promoted to major.<br />
Act 2 – Begins as Shaw is drilling Colonial Marines on rifle assembly aboard Pegasus. Ends as the Pegasus crew is <br />
shouting “So Say We All!”<br />
Act 3 – Begins as the Pegasus senior staff is discussing the communication relay. Ends as the first Cylon salvos strike <br />
Pegasus.<br />
Act 4 – Begins as Belzen is being taken to the morgue. Ends after the First Cylon War flashback, as Adama and Roslin <br />
look over the original Cylon Raider. <br />
Act 5 - Begins as Roslin, Apollo and Adama discuss the Guardian basestar. Ends after the massacre aboard the Scylla.<br />
Act 6 – Begins as the Scylla boarding party is leaving the ship. Ends as the Centurion Model 0005's are coordinating<br />
with each other aboard the Cylon Raider.<br />
Act 7 – Begins as Red Squad is floating in space. Ends after the Guardian basestar explodes. <br />
Act 8 – Begins as Apollo and Adama are discussing Cain and Shaw posthumously. Ends at credits.<br />
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== Notes ==<br />
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===General===<br />
*The episode was nominated for a Hugo and a Saturn award.<br />
*One of the ships in ''Pegasus'''s civilian fleet was clearly inspired by the [[Original Series]]'s ''[[Rising Star (TOS)|Rising Star]]''.<br />
* Despite being credited, [[Aaron Douglas]] ([[Galen Tyrol]]), [[Tahmoh Penikett]] ([[Karl Agathon]]), [[Alessandro Juliani]] ([[Felix Gaeta]]), [[Michael Trucco]] ([[Samuel Anders]]), [[Kandyse McClure]] ([[Anastasia Dualla]]) and [[Matthew Bennett]] ([[Number Five]]/[[Aaron Doral]]) do not appear in either the aired version of "Razor" or the one on DVD.<br />
**Bennett appears briefly in the [[Razor Flashback]] web-episodes as [[Aaron Doral]], in a flashback two days before the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]].<br />
**Tyrol is mentioned by Admiral Adama as having helped [[Gaius Baltar]] remove navigational information from the Cylon Raider, but is never seen otherwise.<br />
*A four-part podcast of the original story meeting for "Razor" is available on the [http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/season04/ SciFi website].<br />
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===Production===<br />
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* [[Michael Taylor]] noted that the original opening for "Razor" was inspired by ''[[w:Apocalypse Now|Apocalypse Now]]'', but this was later cut <ref name="thewatcher">{{cite_web|url=http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/entertainment_tv/2007/11/answers-to-your.html|title=Answers to your 'Razor' questions and clues about 'Battlestar Galactica's' final season|date=16 November 2007|accessdate=16 November 2007|last=Ryan|first=Maureen|format=|language=}}</ref>.<br />
* A scene with [[Alastair Thorne]] torturing [[Gina Inviere]] while Cain looks on was filmed but removed as "it played a little too much like an outtake from ''[[w:Spartacus|Spartacus]]''."<ref name="thewatcher"/> Part of it can still be seen in the recap at the beginning of the movie.<br />
*According to composer [[Bear McCreary]], no specific soundtrack release for "Razor" is currently planned. However, the best tracks will be included on the Season 4 soundtrack <ref>{{cite_web|url=http://www.bearmccreary.com/blog/?p=205|title=Bear McCreary's blog|date=|accessdate=|last=|first=|format=|language=}}</ref>.<br />
*According to [[Gary Hutzel]], the [[Fall of the Scorpion Fleet Shipyards]] was written so that "we would see it in bits and pieces. For the most part, it centered on the fact that they had to jump out of there before two nuclear missiles hit them." As for the [[blind jump]], the impetus for it was to be filmed only from the point-of-view of the CIC personnel, who saw the two incoming warheads on [[DRADIS]], which prompted the jump. However, [[Felix Alcala]] wanted the scene to be something out of ''[[w:Pearl Harbor (film)|Pearl Harbor]]'', thus the shots showing the destruction of the shipyards were added in.<ref name="vfxworld-2">{{cite_web|url=http://vfxworld.com/?atype=articles&id=3460&page=2|title= <br />
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* Universal Home Entertainment financed part of "Razor" for DVD-only effects and other material for the show which is proprietary, which is why such effects sequences are on the DVD or used in promotional material.<ref name="vfxworld-2"/><br />
* Furthermore, the special effects shots were done in house without using a third-party source: over 184 shots were done, 120 of them being full CGI. Many new ships had to be developed specifically for "Razor", in addition to the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]]-inspired Centurions.<ref name="vfxworld">{{cite_web|url=http://vfxworld.com/?atype=articles&id=3460|title= <br />
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===Story===<br />
* As [[Kendra Shaw]] scrubs through the [[wireless]] bands, she happens upon a [[Talk Wireless]] broadcast where the wireless personality notes [[Laura Roslin]]'s cancer remission, going on to infer that there was speculation on how the remission was brought about. Another snippet mentions Roslin's "recent" ban of abortion.<br />
* The [[Guardian basestar]] appears to be an evolutionary gap in between the older Cylon War-era [[basestar (RDM)|basestar]] and the newer starfish type basestar.<br />
* The flashback of a young William Adama finding a Cylon lab during the war is part of the fifth, sixth, and seventh episodes of the [[Razor Flashbacks|"Razor" web-episodes]].<br />
* According to [[Sharon Agathon|Caprica-Valerii]], the [[Hybrid]]s were created as a means to grow out of their mechanical roots and into biological ones. The Cylons considered the hybrids a failure and, after creating enough of them to control their baseships, the project was abandoned.<br />
*At the end of "[[The Captain's Hand]]" Apollo jokes that he's glad Starbuck will not be his CAG, and Starbuck confirms that she has to be Galactica's CAG. Something must have changed by the time Apollo took command because "Razor" begins with him announcing Starbuck as his acting CAG. At the end of "Razor" Thrace asks to be re-assigned to ''Galactica''.<br />
*Despite being a major, Kendra Shaw wears a colonel's [[Uniforms (RDM)|uniform]] with white/red trim when she becomes the XO of Pegasus. As shown on Doctor [[Cottle]] earlier, a major's uniform only has a grey trim.<br />
* When ''Pegasus'' jumps away from the Scorpion Fleet Yards, the vacuum created from the jump appears to suck in the surrounding flames and smoke of battle. This effect has been seen before in "[[Exodus, Part II]]" following ''Galactica'''s intra-atmosphere jump.<br />
* The events on the ''Scylla'' do not play out exactly as [[Jack Fisk|Colonel Fisk]] describes them to [[Saul Tigh|Colonel Tigh]] in "[[Resurrection Ship, Part I]]". In the earlier episode, he mentions two families being lined up against the wall and shot, which does not happen.<br />
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===Unrated DVD===<br />
* In the DVD version, [[Virtual Six]] appears and reveals why the Cylons achieved human form, claiming that since their God created humanity in his image, the Cylons wanted to do the same, regardless of how much they themselves loathed humanity.<br />
* Young William Adama says the word "cocksucker" in reference to the Cylon he pursues as he breaks away from ''Columbia'' (e.g. "This cocksucker's mine."). The dialogue is re-dubbed in the [[Razor Flashbacks]] to "This frakker's mine."<br />
* Shootings are more graphically violent than ''Battlestar Galactica'' normally shows on television. When Cain shoots Belzen in the head, a large amount of blood splatters on the glass wall behind him. Usually only the entry wound is shown and the camera avoids the area behind the head, such as when Number Six is shot in "[[Precipice]]" and Three in "[[Hero]]". A similarly graphic scene where a Marine is wounded by Centurions on the guardian basestar is missing from the television version but included in the unrated DVD.<br />
* The DVD version includes an additional monologue by the [[first Hybrid]] when the strike team arrives at the basestar. It is intercut with footage of the team making its way through the ship. This is a reference to the revelation of four of the [[Final Five]] Cylons during "[[Crossroads, Part II]]". The Hybrid also talks about the [[Significant Seven|seven other Cylon models]] and demonstrates knowledge of [[Number Three]]'s [[boxing]], an event over a year in the future at the time of his speech. See ''[[Razor/Noteworthy Dialogue#hybridspeech|Noteworthy Dialogue]]''<br />
* The main feature does not include all of the [[Razor Flashbacks]], namely Episodes 1, 2 and and the ''Galactica'' scenes of Episode 7. However, all seven flashbacks are included as separate special features on the DVD.<br />
* Two [[List of Deleted Scenes - Season 4 (RDM)#Razor|deleted scenes]] are contained on the DVD. One with Lee Adama at the Caprica Transfer Station waiting for a flight to ''Galactica'''s decommissioning, in which he talks about his dissatisfaction with his father's expectations of him. The other is a flashback to the aftermath of the episode "[[33]]". Starbuck and Apollo review their Vipers' gun camera footage. While Adama is convinced that he sees someone in the windows of the ''[[Olympic Carrier]]'', Starbuck tells him that sometimes people might need to be left behind to save others.<br />
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== Analysis ==<br />
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=== Story ===<br />
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*According to Admiral Cain, a razor is someone who can set aside all fear, hesitation, revulsion and natural inhibition in battle (see [[Razor/Noteworthy Dialogue|noteworthy dialogue]]).<br />
**When Cain recruits [[Jack Fisk]] to assassinate Commander Adama, she tells him that he needs to pick Marines who are "completely reliable. Completely loyal. Razors." ([[Resurrection Ship, Part I]]).<br />
**This bears a passing semblance to a poem by Japanese [[Wikipedia:Isoroku Yamamoto|Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto]]: "I am still the sword/Of my Emperor/I will not be sheathed/Until I die." Admiral Yamamoto knew about America, Americans and their potential from his time as a student at Harvard and as a naval attaché in Washington, DC. Despite misgivings about declaring war on America, he served his Emperor and planned the attack on Pearl Harbor.<br />
**A razor is a physically present symbol throughout the episode in the form of a folding knife, which Cain found as a child when her home colony was attacked by the Cylons. She used it to overcome her fear of a Centurion and kept it over the decades. After Cain's death, the blade passes to Kendra Shaw and eventually to Kara Thrace. It appears several times in the episode, and is used by Cain to explain the concept of becoming a razor to Shaw.<br />
*The woman shot by Shaw could have been [[Peter Laird]]'s wife, given the pan shot from his expression as he looks at the bodies, to the dead woman's face. His evasiveness when asked about the rumors circulating about the ''Scylla'' in the episode "[[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]" would support this. His reaction to the woman's execution, however, can be taken one of two ways. He was either a man in complete shock of witnessing his wife's death or a man who was horrified from what he didn't believe was possible of Colonial military. Laird never mentions a wife explicitly, but Fisk implies he had family aboard the ''Scylla'' ([[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]).<br />
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=== Characters ===<br />
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*In stark contrast to her demeanor by the time of the rendezvous with ''Galactica'', Helena Cain is visibly more relaxed with her crew: She is stern when necessary, but also enjoys several moments of levity with subordinates and cultivates personable relations with her staff. She regards [[Jurgen Belzen]] as a personal friend (as described later by Fisk to Tigh); she initiates Shaw to ''Pegasus'' by chewing her out in the CIC and shares a humored look with her XO afterwards; the atmosphere at the dinner is very informal. She briefly talks to and comforts crewmen in the corridors, and expresses strong emotions and sheds tears as she surveys the ship's casualties. All these point to the war and especially Gina's betrayal as reasons for her push over the edge to become a "razor" and the narrowing of her perspective to pure vengeance.<br />
*Although she may have sacrificed herself in atonement, Kendra Shaw ended her life as a razor, casting aside fear and self-preservation to stay behind and die to complete her mission, echoing Admiral Cain's observation that "sometimes we have to leave people behind so that we can go on, so that we can continue to fight. Sometimes you have do things that we never thought we were capable of ..." When she arrives on ''Pegasus'', she is regarded as an opportunist, but in the end she is quite the opposite.<br />
*Kendra Shaw's death marks the final transition from Cain's legacy to Admiral Adama's. Shaw was the last of Cain's inner circle. She was one of the officers who had Cain's utmost respect and trust. Her death signifies the complete replacement of ''Pegasus'''s original leadership and opens up the merging of the two battlestar crews.<br />
*Admiral Cain suggests that Kendra Shaw used her mother's connections to secure an upwardly-mobile assignment on ''Pegasus'' — an ironic criticism, since then-Commander William Adama mentions to President Roslin how well-connected Cain is, helping her jump over half the commanders list for promotion to admiral ([[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]).<br />
*Both Shaw and Thrace have been noticed and mentored by Admiral Cain. In this respect, the friction between the two takes on aspects of sibling rivalry.<br />
*Based on the restored scenes on the "Razor" DVD, Admiral Cain's past plays a huge role in how she approached the second Cylon War. As a child, Cain abandoned her little sister in order to hide from Centurions. Though this scene of a young Cain is mixed in Cain's speech of the need to leave some behind in order to go on fighting, it implies a sense of guilt on Cain's part for having abandoned her sister to the Cylons. Her entire rationale in actively fighting the Cylons and not running portrays a need for her to take a stand and fight. She had a need to stop running.<br />
*Also in the DVD version, the knife that Cain carries is revealed to have a deeper meaning to Cain than simply a weapon. The knife was an impromptu weapon Cain discovered while she was attempting to hide from the Centurions. When she is finally discovered, she makes her last stand with this same knife. In the end, it becomes the only object that she still carried, and what she eventually became, a last resort weapon.<br />
*The actions of the younger Cain and Adama during the final events of the first Cylon War both contrast and parallel. Adama continued to pursue and attack the Cylons; Cain was told to run and hide from the Cylons, but when she was cornered by a Centurion, she picked up the knife and made as best a last stand as she could. Adama witnessed the escape of the First Hybrid's ship, feeling the responsibility of the lost lives that he could not save; Cain witnessed the withdrawal of Centurion forces, anguished by her responsibility for leaving her little sister behind.<br />
*This film casts Cain's death in "Resurrection Ship Part II" in a new light. In that episode, Gina shot her to avenge her treatment in custody. "Razor" adds several new dimensions to the scene. First, it parallels Cain's killing of her XO. Second, it reveals the relationship Cain had with Gina, which deepens Gina's personal motivations in shooting Cain. Gina's response to Cain's defiant "Frak you!" in that episode was "You're not my type." Considering their relationship, that line now takes on the possible meaning of a Cylon taunting Cain for having used her when Gina had no interest in her personally. <br />
**On the other hand, there is evidence that Gina's feelings for Cain may have been genuine: during the Battle of the Communications Relay, she hesitated when given a perfect opportunity to kill Cain.<br />
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=== Miscellaneous ===<br />
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*Given the overall [[survivor count]] and the tally of 49,579 during the credits, "Razor" takes place between "[[The Captain's Hand]]" and "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I]]". Captions also place the flashback portions 10 months prior to the present events. However this timespan is closer to 9 months.<br />
**This is also the only time during Lee Adama's command of ''Pegasus'' that the episode can fit, since Starbuck leaves for Caprica in "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I". See also ''[[Timeline - Season 2 (RDM)]]''<br />
**Adama's selection of Shaw as his [[XO]] likely takes place very shortly after him taking command of ''Pegasus'', but other parts of the episode might take place slightly later.<br />
**[[Sharon Agathon]]'s appearance ''may indicate'' that this episode takes place before "[[Downloaded]]", however this cannot be confirmed by any visual evidence as her appearance is brief and all camera shots are seemingly aimed to avoid shooting her belly. However, it can be reasonably surmised that because she is still cooperating with the Colonials that [[Hera Agathon|Hera]]'s birth and her subsequent faked death haven't occurred yet.<br />
**The survivor count of 49,579 is the same as the episodes "Downloaded" and the beginning of "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I," which means the death of Shaw, the Raptor crew and the SAR marine are never counted.<br />
**"Razor" establishes the destruction of the colonies happening 10 months earlier, although "Downloaded," which presumably takes place shortly after, places the destruction at 9 months prior. "The Plan" establishes the beginning of "Lay Down Your Burdens" as 280 days after the fall.<br />
*Regarding the casualties suffered by ''Pegasus'' during the [[Battle of the Communications Relay]], Shaw's report that ''Pegasus'' suffered over 800 dead likely refers to the total casualty rate since the Cylon attack. Since ''Pegasus'' already suffered over 700 losses fleeing the Scorpion shipyards, adding 800 to this figure would mean that almost half the crew were killed. Considering that ''Pegasus'''s crew is approximately 1,750 when she encounters ''Galactica'', such a high death rate seems unlikely.<br />
**The numbers are consistent, however, with casualty figures reported during "Pegasus," which established that 700 were killed during the attack on the shipyard, and 800 were killed during the attempt to board the ship.<br />
*Given that an evac Raptor successfully retrieves the assault team by docking or at least flying close to the Guardian basestar without incident, it seems that the Guardian basestar itself appears to be unarmed and totally reliant on its Raiders for defense, unlike the standard [[Basestar (RDM)|Cylon basestar]].<br />
*A curious technical gaffe appears to occur as the smoke from the various fires in the shipyard travel upward. Unless the flames (which would appear as a globular "blossom" shape without gravity) jet upward, the smoke, with the lack of convection (heat rising upward as lighter gases against gravity), would expand in all directions opposite the flames or venting, not "up" relative to the battlestar or flames.<br />
*The ''Galactica''-type battlestar at the shipyard appears to be the same size, if not larger than ''Pegasus''. This is a contradiction of Admiral Cain's statement, that ''Pegasus'' is twice the size of ''Galactica''. While she does not refer to the ship's length, this seems to be a scaling error in the visual effects.<br />
*The destroyed Viper piloted by [[William Adama|Adama]] during the last day of the Cylon War was not the same Viper that [[Galen Tyrol]] presented to him near the beginning of the [[Miniseries]]. The restored craft was [[N7242C|Viper N7242C]], whereas Adama crashed [[Viper_1104|Viper 1104NC]].<br />
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== Questions == <br />
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* How does the Hybrid know [[Kendra Shaw]]? <br />
* Is the Hybrid's warning that [[Kara Thrace]] is the harbinger of death true? ([[The Hub|Possible answer]]) Does it say this to ensure that the eternal cycle continues per Pythian prophecy? ([[Faith|Possible answer]])<br />
* What does the First Hybrid mean when he says that Kara Thrace will lead the human race to their end ([[Daybreak, Part II|Answer]])<br />
* Who becomes [[Pegasus (RDM)|''Pegasus'']]'s [[CAG]] after Thrace steps down?<br />
* Whose decision was it to scrap the [[Cylon Centurion Model 0005|old Centurions]]? ([[Number One|Answer]]) Did they resist?<br />
* When the [[first Hybrid]] says "My children believe I am a god", to whom is he referring? The old model Cylons? The organic models?<br />
* What does the first Hybrid mean when he says his existence will "begin again in ways uncertain"?<br />
** Does this statement imply that the first Hybrid is capable of [[Resurrection (RDM)|downloading]], or does it refer to an [[Sacred Scrolls|unending cycle]] or the afterlife?<br />
* Are all of the Guardians on the basestar when it is destroyed, or did they build other bases in the decades before?<br />
* Is the first Hybrid one of the humans captured on the ''[[Diana]]''?<br />
* Is the first Hybrid as it originally appeared, or has it physically aged? Was it created in that stage of adult maturity?<br />
* If the Hybrid experiment was abandoned after others were created to control the [[Basestar (RDM)|basestars]], do the Cylons only have a limited number of them?<br />
* Did the Cylons abduct humans, such as [[Lucy Cain]] on Tauron, for further experimentation after abandoning their facilities on the [[ice planet]]?<br />
* If Saul Tigh fought in the first Cylon War, how was he created, since the Cylons had yet to create humanoid Cylons by the time of the armistice? ([[No Exit|Answer]])<br />
* Were the captives from the ice planet rescued? How much did the Colonials know about the experiments which took place there?<br />
* Why did the Centurions withdraw from the First War? ([[No Exit|Answer]])<br />
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== Guest Stars ==<br />
* [[Michael Hogan]] as [[Saul Tigh]]<br />
* [[Aaron Douglas]] as [[Galen Tyrol]] (credit only)<br />
* [[Tahmoh Penikett]] as [[Karl Agathon|Karl "Helo" Agathon]] (credit only)<br />
* [[Alessandro Juliani]] as Lieutenant [[Felix Gaeta]] (credit only)<br />
* [[Michael Trucco]] as [[Samuel Anders]] (credit only)<br />
* [[Kandyse McClure]] as [[Anastasia Dualla]] (credit only)<br />
* [[Michelle Forbes]] as Admiral [[Helena Cain]]<br />
* [[Graham Beckel]] as Colonel [[Jack Fisk]]<br />
* [[Stephanie Jacobsen]] as Lieutenant/Captain/Major [[Kendra Shaw]]<br />
* [[Nico Cortez]] as Young [[William Adama]]<br />
* [[Matthew Bennett]] as [[Number Five]]<br />
* [[Steve Bacic]] as Colonel [[Jurgen Belzen]]<br />
* [[Brad Dryborough]] as Lieutenant [[Louis Hoshi]]<br />
* [[Eileen Pedde]] as Sergeant [[Erin Mathias]]<br />
* [[Fulvio Cecere]] as Lieutenant [[Alastair Thorne]]<br />
* [[Vincent Gale]] as [[Peter Laird]]<br />
* [[Campbell Lane]] as [[First Hybrid|Hybrid]]<br />
* [[Kyra Scott]] as Young [[Helena Cain]]<br />
* [[Chandra Berg]] as Little [[Lucy Cain]]<br />
* [[Peter Flemming]] as [[Cain (father)|Helena's Father]]<br />
* [[Shaker Paleja]] as Medic [[Hudson]]<br />
* [[Andrew Dunbar]] as Marine [[Dasilva]]<br />
* [[Jacob Blair]] as Squad Leader [[Banzai]]<br />
* [[Peter Bryant]] as [[Frank Bruno]]<br />
* [[Chris Bradford]] as Ops Officer<br />
* [[Tyson Stanley]] as Young [[Marine]]<br />
* [[Trevor Roberts]] as ''[[Scylla]]'' Protestor #1<br />
* [[Cameron Macleod]] as ''Scylla'' Protestor #2<br />
* [[Ingrid Tesch]] as Mother<br />
* [[Joey Pierce]] as Marine [[Riggs]]<br />
* [[Matt Drake]] as Son #1<br />
* [[Dustin Eriksen]] as Son #2<br />
* [[John Hainsworth]] as Man in Cage #1<br />
* [[Victor Ayala]] as Man in Cage #2<br />
* [[Deni Dolory]] as Woman in Cage<br />
* [[Emily Hirst]] as Child in Cage<br />
* [[Ben Cotton]] as [[Terrified Man]]<br />
* [[Stefanie von Pfetten]] as Captain [[Marcia Case|Marcia "Showboat" Case]]<br />
* [[Alyssa Minniss]] as Flower Girl <br />
* [[Allison Warnyca]] as Lt. [[Jaycie McGavin]] (credited only on the DVD's Flashback credits)<br />
* Uncredited as [[Gus]]<br />
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== External Links ==<br />
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* Composer [[Bear McCreary]] on the [http://www.bearmccreary.com/blog/?p=205 score for "Razor"]<br />
* "Razor" concept art: [http://www.galactica.tv/battlestar-galactica-2003---news/razor-concept-art.html], [http://www.galactica.tv/battlestar-galactica-2003---news/cylon-concept-art.html], [http://www.galactica.tv/battlestar-galactica-2003---news/season-4-concept-art.html]<br />
<br />
== References ==<br />
{{reflist}}<br />
<br />
{{Episode list (RDM season 4)}}<br />
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[[Category:episodes written by Michael Taylor]]<br />
[[Category:episodes directed by Félix Enríquez Alcalá]]<br />
<br />
[[de:Auf Messers Schneide]]</div>Determinanthttps://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Determinant&diff=215553User talk:Determinant2015-08-12T09:43:28Z<p>Determinant: /* "Ppidoo" */</p>
<hr />
<div>== "Ppidoo" ==<br />
<br />
I reviewed the video at the point that you cited and didn't see anything labeled like this. Whether or not it's there, it seems like much too minor a detail for its own separate page. "Razor" has been completely mined for relevant details by now. -- [[User:BlueResistance|BlueResistance]] 07:55, 8 August 2015 (EDT)<br />
<br />
:@[[User:BlueResistance|BlueResistance]]:<br />
:I would have supplied a screenshot, would I not have been forced to create another (!) account on the media subdomain. It is definitely there, and at least as visible as the dogtag of Belzen.<br />
:Just a note: As you are an administrator, maybe, just maybe, '''instead of deleting faithful contributions to the oh-so-complete Battlestar-Wiki you could see to it, that this site itself gets fixed up''':<br />
:Dead links everywhere (FrakMedia! e.g.), the edit fields looking damaged (\[&amp;lt;textricheditor&amp;gt;\] does not quite seem to fit the original intention, as it might be the case with the edit toolbar disappearing completely on preview) etc.pp.--[[User:Determinant|Determinant]] 09:01, 8 August 2015 (EDT)<br />
<br />
::Even if "Ppidoo" is there in the movie and you can provide a screen grab, it seems to be far too minor a detail for its own page. True, the Wiki is far from complete, but there are much bigger gaps that can be filled. Summaries of ''Blood and Chrome'' and the last four episodes of ''Caprica'' immediately come to mind.<br />
<br />
::As to other problems on Battlestar Wiki that you mentioned, the more technical ones are above my level of administrator access, and those with sufficient access have very little contact with the Wiki these days. Red links are a different matter; whenever you encounter them, you are welcome and entirely capable of deleting them on your own, just like any contributor. I delete red links whenever I see them, but writing for and administering this wiki are hobbies--not a full-time job--and my ability to find time for them lately has been rather constrained. -- [[User:BlueResistance|BlueResistance]] 09:49, 8 August 2015 (EDT)<br />
<br />
:::I do not refer to red links within the Wiki itself, but dead links going outside.<br />
:::Regarding Chrome and Caprica: That may be so, but this does not forbid adding "less important" content elsewhere.<br />
:::I will recreate my PPDIOO page, even more so, since I found, that PPDIOO is actually a _real_ network planning and improvement process defined by Cisco. This, especially with respect to the fact, that network intrusions were the reason for the colonial demise, is more than a mere "coincidence", no? - and of some relevance to the BSG continuum.--[[User:Determinant|Determinant]] 09:58, 8 August 2015 (EDT)<br />
<br />
::::Users can edit dead links going outside just as easily. <br />
<br />
::::You may be conflating the real world PPIDOO and the one in "Razor"; if it was on screen so briefly, then you don't have clear evidence of what it did in the movie. In addition, your "coincidence" point is only speculation without evidence of some sort to back it up. Something as simple as a statement from somebody involved in the production would suffice. But the bigger point here is that because something exists in both the BSG world and in the real world doesn't mean it deserves an article here. If it did, then you could just as easily have individual articles on desks, food, parents, children, and so on--and these are things that have had clearer ''specific'' relevance to the stories, the characters, and/or their situations. In other words, I'm still not convinced.<br />
<br />
::::However, I'll let it stay on the wiki if you do the following in the next couple of days: 1) provide a screen grab of PPIDOO from "Razor," and 2) bring the article up to standards for general proofreading (italics, capital letters, etc.) and for Battlestar Wiki style (proper episode/movie references, relevant links, etc.). There are many examples throughout the wiki that you can use. -- [[User:BlueResistance|BlueResistance]] 00:27, 10 August 2015 (EDT)<br />
<br />
:::::I did just that on page recreation ([[PPDIOO]]).<br />
:::::'''Again''': I do not refer to red links (maybe with the exception of the red link ''present in the tutorial'' and also in the ''Terms of Service'' on the user registration form)!<br />
:::::Instead, I am referring to<br />
:::::* [[Help:Unified login|Unified login]] not working anymore, but still effectively preventing creation of a new login on e.g. media.battlestarwiki.org with the same credentials as on en.battlestarwiki.org<br />
:::::* dead links from the site's frame, e.g.<br />
:::::** FrakMedia! Network<br />
:::::** mister-wong.com<br />
:::::** BS Pegasus<br />
:::::** BSG Forum<br />
:::::** Wiki Frakr<br />
:::::** Our Google+ Page<br />
:::::* database and/or syntax errors in subdomains:<br />
:::::** fr.battlestarwiki.org<br />
:::::** zh.battlestarwiki.org<br />
:::::** es.battlestarwiki.org<br />
:::::** tr.battlestarwiki.org<br />
:::::** simple.battlestarwiki.org<br />
:::::** ms.battlestarwiki.org<br />
:::::and so forth.<br />
:::::Those topics should concern an administrator of a site, while assuming a "I am the one and only authorized to make content-related worthiness-decisions"-position should possibly not so much. Even on Wikipedia, and even on the German one, which is sometimes quite extreme in its stringency, administrators do not usually assume such an attitude. They especially do not just delete on their own authority.<br />
:::::Besides: You seem mightily convinced of the completeness of the Wiki. Maybe you might want to take a look at my further updates in the last days. Even such obvious topics as the different serial number of Saul Tigh in different places in the continuum (especially at the start of series 4) were overlooked.--[[User:Determinant|Determinant]] 06:07, 10 August 2015 (EDT)<br />
<br />
::::::You ignored the other changes that I mentioned above--general proofreading (such as italicizing ship names) and Battlestar Wiki style (mainly giving a proper citation to the "Razor" movie). However, I apologize for missing the screen grab; I was expecting it to be in the page itself and not an external link. <br />
<br />
::::::Besides telling you that I do not have access to the kinds of technical problems your cited, I am not sure how else to convince you. Also, if you read what I wrote earlier, you would see that I never claimed that the wiki was complete--I wrote quite the opposite, in fact. <br />
<br />
::::::I am sorry that your view of the proper role of a wiki administrator is so different from mine, but I have been on this wiki as both a contributor and as an admin for much longer than you. Please make the rest of the necessary revisions to the PPIDOO page. You can ask me if you're not sure what needs to be done. -- [[User:BlueResistance|BlueResistance]] 00:22, 12 August 2015 (EDT)<br />
----<br />
:::::::@[[User:BlueResistance]]: Please at least ''try'' to reach one of the real administrators: The site en.battlestarwiki.org seems on the verge of going down as the other language versions already did. If the site is finally breaking/offline, all other content-related discussions would be of no significance whatsoever and the wealth of information lost.--[[User:Determinant|Determinant]] 05:43, 12 August 2015 (EDT)</div>Determinanthttps://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=PPDIOO&diff=215552PPDIOO2015-08-12T09:37:13Z<p>Determinant: Further style enhancements and references as suggested by User:BlueResistance</p>
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<div>'''PPDIOO'''<ref>[http://imgur.com/6VvkXZP PPDIOO-report as seen in Razor]</ref> is a network lifecycle continuous/continual improvement process ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continual_improvement_process CIP]) implemented by the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|colonial military]].<br />
<br />
Admiral [[Helena Cain]] reviews a summary report on PPDIOO's implementation and other topics related to ship and crew status, while [[Pegasus (TRS)|''Battlestar Pegasus'']] is docked at the [[Scorpion Fleet Shipyards]] for a large-scale overhaul, including its network infrastructure, the latter being lead by [[Gina Inviere]] of [[Integral Systems Engineering]] ([[Razor/Full Article|Razor]]).<br />
<br />
==Notes==<br />
* PPDIOO (Prepare, Plan, Design, Implement, Operate, and Optimize) is also a network lifecycle implementation and optimization procedure [http://www.w7cloud.com/cisco-ppdioo/ defined by the networking corporation Cisco].<br />
* The short glimpse on the term in ''Pegasus'&#x2060;'' report seems to be the only known occurrence throughout the continuity.<br />
<br />
==External references==<br />
<references /></div>Determinanthttps://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=User:Determinant/battlestar_widescreen.css&diff=215550User:Determinant/battlestar widescreen.css2015-08-10T16:04:18Z<p>Determinant: Blanked the page</p>
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<div></div>Determinanthttps://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=User:Determinant/battlestar_widescreen.css&diff=215549User:Determinant/battlestar widescreen.css2015-08-10T16:03:36Z<p>Determinant: </p>
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<div>body, p, ol, ul, li, dd, dl {font-family:Minion Pro,DejaVu Serif,Times New Roman,Times,serif!important;font-size:14pt;}<br />
h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 {font-family:Myriad Pro,DejaVu Serif,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif!important;font-size:14pt;}</div>Determinanthttps://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Determinant&diff=215546User talk:Determinant2015-08-10T15:48:42Z<p>Determinant: /* "Ppidoo" */</p>
<hr />
<div>== "Ppidoo" ==<br />
<br />
I reviewed the video at the point that you cited and didn't see anything labeled like this. Whether or not it's there, it seems like much too minor a detail for its own separate page. "Razor" has been completely mined for relevant details by now. -- [[User:BlueResistance|BlueResistance]] 07:55, 8 August 2015 (EDT)<br />
<br />
:@[[User:BlueResistance|BlueResistance]]:<br />
:I would have supplied a screenshot, would I not have been forced to create another (!) account on the media subdomain. It is definitely there, and at least as visible as the dogtag of Belzen.<br />
:Just a note: As you are an administrator, maybe, just maybe, '''instead of deleting faithful contributions to the oh-so-complete Battlestar-Wiki you could see to it, that this site itself gets fixed up''':<br />
:Dead links everywhere (FrakMedia! e.g.), the edit fields looking damaged (\[&amp;lt;textricheditor&amp;gt;\] does not quite seem to fit the original intention, as it might be the case with the edit toolbar disappearing completely on preview) etc.pp.--[[User:Determinant|Determinant]] 09:01, 8 August 2015 (EDT)<br />
<br />
::Even if "Ppidoo" is there in the movie and you can provide a screen grab, it seems to be far too minor a detail for its own page. True, the Wiki is far from complete, but there are much bigger gaps that can be filled. Summaries of ''Blood and Chrome'' and the last four episodes of ''Caprica'' immediately come to mind.<br />
<br />
::As to other problems on Battlestar Wiki that you mentioned, the more technical ones are above my level of administrator access, and those with sufficient access have very little contact with the Wiki these days. Red links are a different matter; whenever you encounter them, you are welcome and entirely capable of deleting them on your own, just like any contributor. I delete red links whenever I see them, but writing for and administering this wiki are hobbies--not a full-time job--and my ability to find time for them lately has been rather constrained. -- [[User:BlueResistance|BlueResistance]] 09:49, 8 August 2015 (EDT)<br />
<br />
:::I do not refer to red links within the Wiki itself, but dead links going outside.<br />
:::Regarding Chrome and Caprica: That may be so, but this does not forbid adding "less important" content elsewhere.<br />
:::I will recreate my PPDIOO page, even more so, since I found, that PPDIOO is actually a _real_ network planning and improvement process defined by Cisco. This, especially with respect to the fact, that network intrusions were the reason for the colonial demise, is more than a mere "coincidence", no? - and of some relevance to the BSG continuum.--[[User:Determinant|Determinant]] 09:58, 8 August 2015 (EDT)<br />
<br />
::::Users can edit dead links going outside just as easily. <br />
<br />
::::You may be conflating the real world PPIDOO and the one in "Razor"; if it was on screen so briefly, then you don't have clear evidence of what it did in the movie. In addition, your "coincidence" point is only speculation without evidence of some sort to back it up. Something as simple as a statement from somebody involved in the production would suffice. But the bigger point here is that because something exists in both the BSG world and in the real world doesn't mean it deserves an article here. If it did, then you could just as easily have individual articles on desks, food, parents, children, and so on--and these are things that have had clearer ''specific'' relevance to the stories, the characters, and/or their situations. In other words, I'm still not convinced.<br />
<br />
::::However, I'll let it stay on the wiki if you do the following in the next couple of days: 1) provide a screen grab of PPIDOO from "Razor," and 2) bring the article up to standards for general proofreading (italics, capital letters, etc.) and for Battlestar Wiki style (proper episode/movie references, relevant links, etc.). There are many examples throughout the wiki that you can use. -- [[User:BlueResistance|BlueResistance]] 00:27, 10 August 2015 (EDT)<br />
<br />
:::::I did just that on page recreation ([[PPDIOO]]).<br />
:::::'''Again''': I do not refer to red links (maybe with the exception of the red link ''present in the tutorial'' and also in the ''Terms of Service'' on the user registration form)!<br />
:::::Instead, I am referring to<br />
:::::* [[Help:Unified login|Unified login]] not working anymore, but still effectively preventing creation of a new login on e.g. media.battlestarwiki.org with the same credentials as on en.battlestarwiki.org<br />
:::::* dead links from the site's frame, e.g.<br />
:::::** FrakMedia! Network<br />
:::::** mister-wong.com<br />
:::::** BS Pegasus<br />
:::::** BSG Forum<br />
:::::** Wiki Frakr<br />
:::::** Our Google+ Page<br />
:::::* database and/or syntax errors in subdomains:<br />
:::::** fr.battlestarwiki.org<br />
:::::** zh.battlestarwiki.org<br />
:::::** es.battlestarwiki.org<br />
:::::** tr.battlestarwiki.org<br />
:::::** simple.battlestarwiki.org<br />
:::::** ms.battlestarwiki.org<br />
:::::and so forth.<br />
:::::Those topics should concern an administrator of a site, while assuming a "I am the one and only authorized to make content-related worthiness-decisions"-position should possibly not so much. Even on Wikipedia, and even on the German one, which is sometimes quite extreme in its stringency, administrators do not usually assume such an attitude. They especially do not just delete on their own authority.<br />
:::::Besides: You seem mightily convinced of the completeness of the Wiki. Maybe you might want to take a look at my further updates in the last days. Even such obvious topics as the different serial number of Saul Tigh in different places in the continuum (especially at the start of series 4) were overlooked.--[[User:Determinant|Determinant]] 06:07, 10 August 2015 (EDT)</div>Determinanthttps://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Determinant&diff=215545User talk:Determinant2015-08-10T15:48:21Z<p>Determinant: /* "Ppidoo" */</p>
<hr />
<div>== "Ppidoo" ==<br />
<br />
I reviewed the video at the point that you cited and didn't see anything labeled like this. Whether or not it's there, it seems like much too minor a detail for its own separate page. "Razor" has been completely mined for relevant details by now. -- [[User:BlueResistance|BlueResistance]] 07:55, 8 August 2015 (EDT)<br />
<br />
:@[[User:BlueResistance|BlueResistance]]:<br />
:I would have supplied a screenshot, would I not have been forced to create another (!) account on the media subdomain. It is definitely there, and at least as visible as the dogtag of Belzen.<br />
:Just a note: As you are an administrator, maybe, just maybe, '''instead of deleting faithful contributions to the oh-so-complete Battlestar-Wiki you could see to it, that this site itself gets fixed up''':<br />
:Dead links everywhere (FrakMedia! e.g.), the edit fields looking damaged (\[&amp;lt;textricheditor&amp;gt;\] does not quite seem to fit the original intention, as it might be the case with the edit toolbar disappearing completely on preview) etc.pp.--[[User:Determinant|Determinant]] 09:01, 8 August 2015 (EDT)<br />
<br />
::Even if "Ppidoo" is there in the movie and you can provide a screen grab, it seems to be far too minor a detail for its own page. True, the Wiki is far from complete, but there are much bigger gaps that can be filled. Summaries of ''Blood and Chrome'' and the last four episodes of ''Caprica'' immediately come to mind.<br />
<br />
::As to other problems on Battlestar Wiki that you mentioned, the more technical ones are above my level of administrator access, and those with sufficient access have very little contact with the Wiki these days. Red links are a different matter; whenever you encounter them, you are welcome and entirely capable of deleting them on your own, just like any contributor. I delete red links whenever I see them, but writing for and administering this wiki are hobbies--not a full-time job--and my ability to find time for them lately has been rather constrained. -- [[User:BlueResistance|BlueResistance]] 09:49, 8 August 2015 (EDT)<br />
<br />
:::I do not refer to red links within the Wiki itself, but dead links going outside.<br />
:::Regarding Chrome and Caprica: That may be so, but this does not forbid adding "less important" content elsewhere.<br />
:::I will recreate my PPDIOO page, even more so, since I found, that PPDIOO is actually a _real_ network planning and improvement process defined by Cisco. This, especially with respect to the fact, that network intrusions were the reason for the colonial demise, is more than a mere "coincidence", no? - and of some relevance to the BSG continuum.--[[User:Determinant|Determinant]] 09:58, 8 August 2015 (EDT)<br />
<br />
::::Users can edit dead links going outside just as easily. <br />
<br />
::::You may be conflating the real world PPIDOO and the one in "Razor"; if it was on screen so briefly, then you don't have clear evidence of what it did in the movie. In addition, your "coincidence" point is only speculation without evidence of some sort to back it up. Something as simple as a statement from somebody involved in the production would suffice. But the bigger point here is that because something exists in both the BSG world and in the real world doesn't mean it deserves an article here. If it did, then you could just as easily have individual articles on desks, food, parents, children, and so on--and these are things that have had clearer ''specific'' relevance to the stories, the characters, and/or their situations. In other words, I'm still not convinced.<br />
<br />
::::However, I'll let it stay on the wiki if you do the following in the next couple of days: 1) provide a screen grab of PPIDOO from "Razor," and 2) bring the article up to standards for general proofreading (italics, capital letters, etc.) and for Battlestar Wiki style (proper episode/movie references, relevant links, etc.). There are many examples throughout the wiki that you can use. -- [[User:BlueResistance|BlueResistance]] 00:27, 10 August 2015 (EDT)<br />
<br />
:::::I did just that on page recreation ([[PPDIOO]]).<br />
:::::'''Again''': I do not refer to red links (maybe with the exception of the red link ''present in the tutorial'' and also in the ''Terms of Service'' on the user registration form)!<br />
:::::Instead, I am referring to<br />
:::::*[[Help:Unified login|Unified login]] not working anymore, but still effectively preventing creation of a new login on e.g. media.battlestarwiki.org with the same credentials as on en.battlestarwiki.org<br />
:::::* dead links from the site's frame, e.g.<br />
:::::** FrakMedia! Network<br />
:::::** mister-wong.com<br />
:::::** BS Pegasus<br />
:::::** BSG Forum<br />
:::::** Wiki Frakr<br />
:::::** Our Google+ Page<br />
:::::* database and/or syntax errors in subdomains:<br />
:::::** fr.battlestarwiki.org<br />
:::::** zh.battlestarwiki.org<br />
:::::** es.battlestarwiki.org<br />
:::::** tr.battlestarwiki.org<br />
:::::** simple.battlestarwiki.org<br />
:::::** ms.battlestarwiki.org<br />
:::::and so forth.<br />
:::::Those topics should concern an administrator of a site, while assuming a "I am the one and only authorized to make content-related worthiness-decisions"-position should possibly not so much. Even on Wikipedia, and even on the German one, which is sometimes quite extreme in its stringency, administrators do not usually assume such an attitude. They especially do not just delete on their own authority.<br />
:::::Besides: You seem mightily convinced of the completeness of the Wiki. Maybe you might want to take a look at my further updates in the last days. Even such obvious topics as the different serial number of Saul Tigh in different places in the continuum (especially at the start of series 4) were overlooked.--[[User:Determinant|Determinant]] 06:07, 10 August 2015 (EDT)</div>Determinanthttps://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Determinant&diff=215544User talk:Determinant2015-08-10T11:01:49Z<p>Determinant: /* "Ppidoo" */</p>
<hr />
<div>== "Ppidoo" ==<br />
<br />
I reviewed the video at the point that you cited and didn't see anything labeled like this. Whether or not it's there, it seems like much too minor a detail for its own separate page. "Razor" has been completely mined for relevant details by now. -- [[User:BlueResistance|BlueResistance]] 07:55, 8 August 2015 (EDT)<br />
<br />
:@[[User:BlueResistance|BlueResistance]]:<br />
:I would have supplied a screenshot, would I not have been forced to create another (!) account on the media subdomain. It is definitely there, and at least as visible as the dogtag of Belzen.<br />
:Just a note: As you are an administrator, maybe, just maybe, '''instead of deleting faithful contributions to the oh-so-complete Battlestar-Wiki you could see to it, that this site itself gets fixed up''':<br />
:Dead links everywhere (FrakMedia! e.g.), the edit fields looking damaged (\[&amp;lt;textricheditor&amp;gt;\] does not quite seem to fit the original intention, as it might be the case with the edit toolbar disappearing completely on preview) etc.pp.--[[User:Determinant|Determinant]] 09:01, 8 August 2015 (EDT)<br />
<br />
::Even if "Ppidoo" is there in the movie and you can provide a screen grab, it seems to be far too minor a detail for its own page. True, the Wiki is far from complete, but there are much bigger gaps that can be filled. Summaries of ''Blood and Chrome'' and the last four episodes of ''Caprica'' immediately come to mind.<br />
<br />
::As to other problems on Battlestar Wiki that you mentioned, the more technical ones are above my level of administrator access, and those with sufficient access have very little contact with the Wiki these days. Red links are a different matter; whenever you encounter them, you are welcome and entirely capable of deleting them on your own, just like any contributor. I delete red links whenever I see them, but writing for and administering this wiki are hobbies--not a full-time job--and my ability to find time for them lately has been rather constrained. -- [[User:BlueResistance|BlueResistance]] 09:49, 8 August 2015 (EDT)<br />
<br />
:::I do not refer to red links within the Wiki itself, but dead links going outside.<br />
:::Regarding Chrome and Caprica: That may be so, but this does not forbid adding "less important" content elsewhere.<br />
:::I will recreate my PPDIOO page, even more so, since I found, that PPDIOO is actually a _real_ network planning and improvement process defined by Cisco. This, especially with respect to the fact, that network intrusions were the reason for the colonial demise, is more than a mere "coincidence", no? - and of some relevance to the BSG continuum.--[[User:Determinant|Determinant]] 09:58, 8 August 2015 (EDT)<br />
<br />
::::Users can edit dead links going outside just as easily. <br />
<br />
::::You may be conflating the real world PPIDOO and the one in "Razor"; if it was on screen so briefly, then you don't have clear evidence of what it did in the movie. In addition, your "coincidence" point is only speculation without evidence of some sort to back it up. Something as simple as a statement from somebody involved in the production would suffice. But the bigger point here is that because something exists in both the BSG world and in the real world doesn't mean it deserves an article here. If it did, then you could just as easily have individual articles on desks, food, parents, children, and so on--and these are things that have had clearer ''specific'' relevance to the stories, the characters, and/or their situations. In other words, I'm still not convinced.<br />
<br />
::::However, I'll let it stay on the wiki if you do the following in the next couple of days: 1) provide a screen grab of PPIDOO from "Razor," and 2) bring the article up to standards for general proofreading (italics, capital letters, etc.) and for Battlestar Wiki style (proper episode/movie references, relevant links, etc.). There are many examples throughout the wiki that you can use. -- [[User:BlueResistance|BlueResistance]] 00:27, 10 August 2015 (EDT)<br />
<br />
:::::I did just that on page recreation ([[PPDIOO]]).<br />
:::::'''Again''': I do not refer to red links (maybe with the exception of the red link ''present in the tutorial'' and also in the ''Terms of Service'' on the user registration form)!<br />
:::::Instead, I am referring to<br />
:::::[[Help:Unified login|Unified login]] not working anymore, but still effectively preventing creation of a new login on e.g. media.battlestarwiki.org with the same credentials as on en.battlestarwiki.org<br />
:::::* dead links from the site's frame, e.g.<br />
:::::** FrakMedia! Network<br />
:::::** mister-wong.com<br />
:::::** BS Pegasus<br />
:::::** BSG Forum<br />
:::::** Wiki Frakr<br />
:::::** Our Google+ Page<br />
:::::* database and/or syntax errors in subdomains:<br />
:::::** fr.battlestarwiki.org<br />
:::::** zh.battlestarwiki.org<br />
:::::** es.battlestarwiki.org<br />
:::::** tr.battlestarwiki.org<br />
:::::** simple.battlestarwiki.org<br />
:::::** ms.battlestarwiki.org<br />
:::::and so forth.<br />
:::::Those topics should concern an administrator of a site, while assuming a "I am the one and only authorized to make content-related worthiness-decisions"-position should possibly not so much. Even on Wikipedia, and even on the German one, which is sometimes quite extreme in its stringency, administrators do not usually assume such an attitude. They especially do not just delete on their own authority.<br />
:::::Besides: You seem mightily convinced of the completeness of the Wiki. Maybe you might want to take a look at my further updates in the last days. Even such obvious topics as the different serial number of Saul Tigh in different places in the continuum (especially at the start of series 4) were overlooked.--[[User:Determinant|Determinant]] 06:07, 10 August 2015 (EDT)</div>Determinanthttps://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Determinant&diff=215543User talk:Determinant2015-08-10T10:58:36Z<p>Determinant: /* "Ppidoo" */</p>
<hr />
<div>== "Ppidoo" ==<br />
<br />
I reviewed the video at the point that you cited and didn't see anything labeled like this. Whether or not it's there, it seems like much too minor a detail for its own separate page. "Razor" has been completely mined for relevant details by now. -- [[User:BlueResistance|BlueResistance]] 07:55, 8 August 2015 (EDT)<br />
<br />
:@[[User:BlueResistance|BlueResistance]]:<br />
:I would have supplied a screenshot, would I not have been forced to create another (!) account on the media subdomain. It is definitely there, and at least as visible as the dogtag of Belzen.<br />
:Just a note: As you are an administrator, maybe, just maybe, '''instead of deleting faithful contributions to the oh-so-complete Battlestar-Wiki you could see to it, that this site itself gets fixed up''':<br />
:Dead links everywhere (FrakMedia! e.g.), the edit fields looking damaged (\[&amp;lt;textricheditor&amp;gt;\] does not quite seem to fit the original intention, as it might be the case with the edit toolbar disappearing completely on preview) etc.pp.--[[User:Determinant|Determinant]] 09:01, 8 August 2015 (EDT)<br />
<br />
::Even if "Ppidoo" is there in the movie and you can provide a screen grab, it seems to be far too minor a detail for its own page. True, the Wiki is far from complete, but there are much bigger gaps that can be filled. Summaries of ''Blood and Chrome'' and the last four episodes of ''Caprica'' immediately come to mind.<br />
<br />
::As to other problems on Battlestar Wiki that you mentioned, the more technical ones are above my level of administrator access, and those with sufficient access have very little contact with the Wiki these days. Red links are a different matter; whenever you encounter them, you are welcome and entirely capable of deleting them on your own, just like any contributor. I delete red links whenever I see them, but writing for and administering this wiki are hobbies--not a full-time job--and my ability to find time for them lately has been rather constrained. -- [[User:BlueResistance|BlueResistance]] 09:49, 8 August 2015 (EDT)<br />
<br />
:::I do not refer to red links within the Wiki itself, but dead links going outside.<br />
:::Regarding Chrome and Caprica: That may be so, but this does not forbid adding "less important" content elsewhere.<br />
:::I will recreate my PPDIOO page, even more so, since I found, that PPDIOO is actually a _real_ network planning and improvement process defined by Cisco. This, especially with respect to the fact, that network intrusions were the reason for the colonial demise, is more than a mere "coincidence", no? - and of some relevance to the BSG continuum.--[[User:Determinant|Determinant]] 09:58, 8 August 2015 (EDT)<br />
<br />
::::Users can edit dead links going outside just as easily. <br />
<br />
::::You may be conflating the real world PPIDOO and the one in "Razor"; if it was on screen so briefly, then you don't have clear evidence of what it did in the movie. In addition, your "coincidence" point is only speculation without evidence of some sort to back it up. Something as simple as a statement from somebody involved in the production would suffice. But the bigger point here is that because something exists in both the BSG world and in the real world doesn't mean it deserves an article here. If it did, then you could just as easily have individual articles on desks, food, parents, children, and so on--and these are things that have had clearer ''specific'' relevance to the stories, the characters, and/or their situations. In other words, I'm still not convinced.<br />
<br />
::::However, I'll let it stay on the wiki if you do the following in the next couple of days: 1) provide a screen grab of PPIDOO from "Razor," and 2) bring the article up to standards for general proofreading (italics, capital letters, etc.) and for Battlestar Wiki style (proper episode/movie references, relevant links, etc.). There are many examples throughout the wiki that you can use. -- [[User:BlueResistance|BlueResistance]] 00:27, 10 August 2015 (EDT)<br />
<br />
:::::I did just that on page recreation ([[PPDIOO]]).<br />
:::::'''Again''': I do not refer to red links (maybe with the exception of the red link ''present in the tutorial'' and also in the ''Terms of Service'' on the user registration form)!<br />
:::::Instead, I am referring to<br />
:::::[[Help:Unified login|Unified login]] not working anymore<br />
:::::* dead links from the site's frame, e.g.<br />
:::::** FrakMedia! Network<br />
:::::** mister-wong.com<br />
:::::** BS Pegasus<br />
:::::** BSG Forum<br />
:::::** Wiki Frakr<br />
:::::** Our Google+ Page<br />
:::::* database and/or syntax errors in subdomains:<br />
:::::** fr.battlestarwiki.org<br />
:::::** zh.battlestarwiki.org<br />
:::::** es.battlestarwiki.org<br />
:::::** tr.battlestarwiki.org<br />
:::::** simple.battlestarwiki.org<br />
:::::** ms.battlestarwiki.org<br />
:::::and so forth.<br />
:::::Those topics should concern an administrator of a site, while assuming a "I am the one and only authorized to make content-related worthiness-decisions"-position should possibly not so much. Even on Wikipedia, and even on the German one, which is sometimes quite extreme in its stringency, administrators do not usually assume such an attitude. They especially do not just delete on their own authority.<br />
:::::Besides: You seem mightily convinced of the completeness of the Wiki. Maybe you might want to take a look at my further updates in the last days. Even such obvious topics as the different serial number of Saul Tigh in different places in the continuum (especially at the start of series 4) were overlooked.--[[User:Determinant|Determinant]] 06:07, 10 August 2015 (EDT)</div>Determinanthttps://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Determinant&diff=215542User talk:Determinant2015-08-10T10:56:44Z<p>Determinant: /* "Ppidoo" */</p>
<hr />
<div>== "Ppidoo" ==<br />
<br />
I reviewed the video at the point that you cited and didn't see anything labeled like this. Whether or not it's there, it seems like much too minor a detail for its own separate page. "Razor" has been completely mined for relevant details by now. -- [[User:BlueResistance|BlueResistance]] 07:55, 8 August 2015 (EDT)<br />
<br />
:@[[User:BlueResistance|BlueResistance]]:<br />
:I would have supplied a screenshot, would I not have been forced to create another (!) account on the media subdomain. It is definitely there, and at least as visible as the dogtag of Belzen.<br />
:Just a note: As you are an administrator, maybe, just maybe, '''instead of deleting faithful contributions to the oh-so-complete Battlestar-Wiki you could see to it, that this site itself gets fixed up''':<br />
:Dead links everywhere (FrakMedia! e.g.), the edit fields looking damaged (\[&amp;lt;textricheditor&amp;gt;\] does not quite seem to fit the original intention, as it might be the case with the edit toolbar disappearing completely on preview) etc.pp.--[[User:Determinant|Determinant]] 09:01, 8 August 2015 (EDT)<br />
<br />
::Even if "Ppidoo" is there in the movie and you can provide a screen grab, it seems to be far too minor a detail for its own page. True, the Wiki is far from complete, but there are much bigger gaps that can be filled. Summaries of ''Blood and Chrome'' and the last four episodes of ''Caprica'' immediately come to mind.<br />
<br />
::As to other problems on Battlestar Wiki that you mentioned, the more technical ones are above my level of administrator access, and those with sufficient access have very little contact with the Wiki these days. Red links are a different matter; whenever you encounter them, you are welcome and entirely capable of deleting them on your own, just like any contributor. I delete red links whenever I see them, but writing for and administering this wiki are hobbies--not a full-time job--and my ability to find time for them lately has been rather constrained. -- [[User:BlueResistance|BlueResistance]] 09:49, 8 August 2015 (EDT)<br />
<br />
:::I do not refer to red links within the Wiki itself, but dead links going outside.<br />
:::Regarding Chrome and Caprica: That may be so, but this does not forbid adding "less important" content elsewhere.<br />
:::I will recreate my PPDIOO page, even more so, since I found, that PPDIOO is actually a _real_ network planning and improvement process defined by Cisco. This, especially with respect to the fact, that network intrusions were the reason for the colonial demise, is more than a mere "coincidence", no? - and of some relevance to the BSG continuum.--[[User:Determinant|Determinant]] 09:58, 8 August 2015 (EDT)<br />
<br />
::::Users can edit dead links going outside just as easily. <br />
<br />
::::You may be conflating the real world PPIDOO and the one in "Razor"; if it was on screen so briefly, then you don't have clear evidence of what it did in the movie. In addition, your "coincidence" point is only speculation without evidence of some sort to back it up. Something as simple as a statement from somebody involved in the production would suffice. But the bigger point here is that because something exists in both the BSG world and in the real world doesn't mean it deserves an article here. If it did, then you could just as easily have individual articles on desks, food, parents, children, and so on--and these are things that have had clearer ''specific'' relevance to the stories, the characters, and/or their situations. In other words, I'm still not convinced.<br />
<br />
::::However, I'll let it stay on the wiki if you do the following in the next couple of days: 1) provide a screen grab of PPIDOO from "Razor," and 2) bring the article up to standards for general proofreading (italics, capital letters, etc.) and for Battlestar Wiki style (proper episode/movie references, relevant links, etc.). There are many examples throughout the wiki that you can use. -- [[User:BlueResistance|BlueResistance]] 00:27, 10 August 2015 (EDT)<br />
<br />
:::::I did just that on page recreation ([[PPDIOO]]).<br />
:::::'''Again''': I do not refer to red links (maybe with the exception of the red link ''present in the tutorial'')!<br />
:::::Instead, I am referring to<br />
:::::[[Help:Unified login|Unified login]] not working anymore<br />
:::::* dead links from the site's frame, e.g.<br />
:::::** FrakMedia! Network<br />
:::::** mister-wong.com<br />
:::::** BS Pegasus<br />
:::::** BSG Forum<br />
:::::** Wiki Frakr<br />
:::::** Our Google+ Page<br />
:::::* database and/or syntax errors in subdomains:<br />
:::::** fr.battlestarwiki.org<br />
:::::** zh.battlestarwiki.org<br />
:::::** es.battlestarwiki.org<br />
:::::** tr.battlestarwiki.org<br />
:::::** simple.battlestarwiki.org<br />
:::::** ms.battlestarwiki.org<br />
:::::and so forth.<br />
:::::Those topics should concern an administrator of a site, while assuming a "I am the one and only authorized to make content-related worthiness-decisions"-position should possibly not so much. Even on Wikipedia, and even on the German one, which is sometimes quite extreme in its stringency, administrators do not usually assume such an attitude. They especially do not just delete on their own authority.<br />
:::::Besides: You seem mightily convinced of the completeness of the Wiki. Maybe you might want to take a look at my further updates in the last days. Even such obvious topics as the different serial number of Saul Tigh in different places in the continuum (especially at the start of series 4) were overlooked.--[[User:Determinant|Determinant]] 06:07, 10 August 2015 (EDT)</div>Determinanthttps://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Determinant&diff=215541User talk:Determinant2015-08-10T10:22:41Z<p>Determinant: </p>
<hr />
<div>== "Ppidoo" ==<br />
<br />
I reviewed the video at the point that you cited and didn't see anything labeled like this. Whether or not it's there, it seems like much too minor a detail for its own separate page. "Razor" has been completely mined for relevant details by now. -- [[User:BlueResistance|BlueResistance]] 07:55, 8 August 2015 (EDT)<br />
<br />
:@[[User:BlueResistance|BlueResistance]]:<br />
:I would have supplied a screenshot, would I not have been forced to create another (!) account on the media subdomain. It is definitely there, and at least as visible as the dogtag of Belzen.<br />
:Just a note: As you are an administrator, maybe, just maybe, '''instead of deleting faithful contributions to the oh-so-complete Battlestar-Wiki you could see to it, that this site itself gets fixed up''':<br />
:Dead links everywhere (FrakMedia! e.g.), the edit fields looking damaged (\[&amp;lt;textricheditor&amp;gt;\] does not quite seem to fit the original intention, as it might be the case with the edit toolbar disappearing completely on preview) etc.pp.--[[User:Determinant|Determinant]] 09:01, 8 August 2015 (EDT)<br />
<br />
::Even if "Ppidoo" is there in the movie and you can provide a screen grab, it seems to be far too minor a detail for its own page. True, the Wiki is far from complete, but there are much bigger gaps that can be filled. Summaries of ''Blood and Chrome'' and the last four episodes of ''Caprica'' immediately come to mind.<br />
<br />
::As to other problems on Battlestar Wiki that you mentioned, the more technical ones are above my level of administrator access, and those with sufficient access have very little contact with the Wiki these days. Red links are a different matter; whenever you encounter them, you are welcome and entirely capable of deleting them on your own, just like any contributor. I delete red links whenever I see them, but writing for and administering this wiki are hobbies--not a full-time job--and my ability to find time for them lately has been rather constrained. -- [[User:BlueResistance|BlueResistance]] 09:49, 8 August 2015 (EDT)<br />
<br />
:::I do not refer to red links within the Wiki itself, but dead links going outside.<br />
:::Regarding Chrome and Caprica: That may be so, but this does not forbid adding "less important" content elsewhere.<br />
:::I will recreate my PPDIOO page, even more so, since I found, that PPDIOO is actually a _real_ network planning and improvement process defined by Cisco. This, especially with respect to the fact, that network intrusions were the reason for the colonial demise, is more than a mere "coincidence", no? - and of some relevance to the BSG continuum.--[[User:Determinant|Determinant]] 09:58, 8 August 2015 (EDT)<br />
<br />
::::Users can edit dead links going outside just as easily. <br />
<br />
::::You may be conflating the real world PPIDOO and the one in "Razor"; if it was on screen so briefly, then you don't have clear evidence of what it did in the movie. In addition, your "coincidence" point is only speculation without evidence of some sort to back it up. Something as simple as a statement from somebody involved in the production would suffice. But the bigger point here is that because something exists in both the BSG world and in the real world doesn't mean it deserves an article here. If it did, then you could just as easily have individual articles on desks, food, parents, children, and so on--and these are things that have had clearer ''specific'' relevance to the stories, the characters, and/or their situations. In other words, I'm still not convinced.<br />
<br />
::::However, I'll let it stay on the wiki if you do the following in the next couple of days: 1) provide a screen grab of PPIDOO from "Razor," and 2) bring the article up to standards for general proofreading (italics, capital letters, etc.) and for Battlestar Wiki style (proper episode/movie references, relevant links, etc.). There are many examples throughout the wiki that you can use. -- [[User:BlueResistance|BlueResistance]] 00:27, 10 August 2015 (EDT)<br />
<br />
:::::I did just that on page recreation ([[PPDIOO]]).<br />
:::::'''Again''': I do not refer to red links (maybe with the exception of the red link ''present in the tutorial'')!<br />
:::::Instead, I am referring to<br />
:::::* dead links from the site's frame, e.g.<br />
:::::** FrakMedia! Network<br />
:::::** mister-wong.com<br />
:::::** BS Pegasus<br />
:::::** BSG Forum<br />
:::::** Wiki Frakr<br />
:::::** Our Google+ Page<br />
:::::* database and/or syntax errors in subdomains:<br />
:::::** fr.battlestarwiki.org<br />
:::::** zh.battlestarwiki.org<br />
:::::** es.battlestarwiki.org<br />
:::::** tr.battlestarwiki.org<br />
:::::** simple.battlestarwiki.org<br />
:::::** ms.battlestarwiki.org<br />
:::::and so forth.<br />
:::::Those topics should concern an administrator of a site, while assuming a "I am the one and only authorized to make content-related worthiness-decisions"-position should possibly not so much. Even on Wikipedia, and even on the German one, which is sometimes quite extreme in its stringency, administrators do not usually assume such an attitude. They especially do not just delete on their own authority.<br />
:::::Besides: You seem mightily convinced of the completeness of the Wiki. Maybe you might want to take a look at my further updates in the last days. Even such obvious topics as the different serial number of Saul Tigh in different places in the continuum (especially at the start of series 4) were overlooked.--[[User:Determinant|Determinant]] 06:07, 10 August 2015 (EDT)</div>Determinanthttps://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Determinant&diff=215540User talk:Determinant2015-08-10T10:15:03Z<p>Determinant: /* "Ppidoo" */</p>
<hr />
<div>== Welcome to Battlestar Wiki! ==<br />
<br />
Greetings, {{PAGENAME}}, and welcome to Battlestar Wiki! I'm pleased to tell you that you have full editing privileges on every wiki in the Battlestar Wiki network. 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:{{PAGENAME}}|user page]]?<br />
<br />
As you may already know, Battlestar Wiki covers all the ''Battlestar Galactica'' series from past to present, in addition to authorized merchandise and [[BW:SEPCON|separate continuity]] materials such as comics and tie-in novels. '''We do not cover fan fiction.''' We're also not a discussion site, although we do have an ever-growing [http://www.battlestarforum.com Battlestar Forum] where people can discuss the various shows and non-BSG topics as well!<br />
<br />
To get started on the wiki, we suggest that you check out our [[BW:TUT|tutorial]], experiment in [[BW:SAND|the sandbox]] (a test editing area for those learning wiki code), and review some of our basic [[BW:POL|policies]] (which have important differences from other SF wikis). For some general questions and answers about the navigation and operation of the Wiki, check out the [[Battlestar Wiki:FAQ|Frequently Asked Questions]] (FAQ).<br />
<br />
Of course, if you have any questions, comments, or concerns, you are more than welcome to bring them up at the [[BW:CN|Chiefs' noticeboard]] (which is frequented by the administrators of the Wiki) and at the [[BW:GQ|Galactipedians' Quorum]] (which is the hub for contributors, who are called "Galactipedians").<br />
<br />
Furthermore, if you don't wish to see the ads, then please consider upgrading your account to a [[BW:MEMBERSHIP|paid membership]], which costs only $10 USD a year and helps support the wiki financially. This membership also extends to the [http://www.battlestarforum.com Battlestar Forum], where you can talk to other members about the show and most anything that you want to talk about to BSG fans! We think this is very cool, and we hope you do as well! <br />
<br />
Thank you for joining us! Hope to see you soon! -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]]</sup> 19:05, 22 July 2013 (EDT)<br />
<br />
== "Ppidoo" ==<br />
<br />
I reviewed the video at the point that you cited and didn't see anything labeled like this. Whether or not it's there, it seems like much too minor a detail for its own separate page. "Razor" has been completely mined for relevant details by now. -- [[User:BlueResistance|BlueResistance]] 07:55, 8 August 2015 (EDT)<br />
<br />
:@[[User:BlueResistance|BlueResistance]]:<br />
:I would have supplied a screenshot, would I not have been forced to create another (!) account on the media subdomain. It is definitely there, and at least as visible as the dogtag of Belzen.<br />
:Just a note: As you are an administrator, maybe, just maybe, '''instead of deleting faithful contributions to the oh-so-complete Battlestar-Wiki you could see to it, that this site itself gets fixed up''':<br />
:Dead links everywhere (FrakMedia! e.g.), the edit fields looking damaged (\[&amp;lt;textricheditor&amp;gt;\] does not quite seem to fit the original intention, as it might be the case with the edit toolbar disappearing completely on preview) etc.pp.--[[User:Determinant|Determinant]] 09:01, 8 August 2015 (EDT)<br />
<br />
::Even if "Ppidoo" is there in the movie and you can provide a screen grab, it seems to be far too minor a detail for its own page. True, the Wiki is far from complete, but there are much bigger gaps that can be filled. Summaries of ''Blood and Chrome'' and the last four episodes of ''Caprica'' immediately come to mind.<br />
<br />
::As to other problems on Battlestar Wiki that you mentioned, the more technical ones are above my level of administrator access, and those with sufficient access have very little contact with the Wiki these days. Red links are a different matter; whenever you encounter them, you are welcome and entirely capable of deleting them on your own, just like any contributor. I delete red links whenever I see them, but writing for and administering this wiki are hobbies--not a full-time job--and my ability to find time for them lately has been rather constrained. -- [[User:BlueResistance|BlueResistance]] 09:49, 8 August 2015 (EDT)<br />
<br />
:::I do not refer to red links within the Wiki itself, but dead links going outside.<br />
:::Regarding Chrome and Caprica: That may be so, but this does not forbid adding "less important" content elsewhere.<br />
:::I will recreate my PPDIOO page, even more so, since I found, that PPDIOO is actually a _real_ network planning and improvement process defined by Cisco. This, especially with respect to the fact, that network intrusions were the reason for the colonial demise, is more than a mere "coincidence", no? - and of some relevance to the BSG continuum.--[[User:Determinant|Determinant]] 09:58, 8 August 2015 (EDT)<br />
<br />
::::Users can edit dead links going outside just as easily. <br />
<br />
::::You may be conflating the real world PPIDOO and the one in "Razor"; if it was on screen so briefly, then you don't have clear evidence of what it did in the movie. In addition, your "coincidence" point is only speculation without evidence of some sort to back it up. Something as simple as a statement from somebody involved in the production would suffice. But the bigger point here is that because something exists in both the BSG world and in the real world doesn't mean it deserves an article here. If it did, then you could just as easily have individual articles on desks, food, parents, children, and so on--and these are things that have had clearer ''specific'' relevance to the stories, the characters, and/or their situations. In other words, I'm still not convinced.<br />
<br />
::::However, I'll let it stay on the wiki if you do the following in the next couple of days: 1) provide a screen grab of PPIDOO from "Razor," and 2) bring the article up to standards for general proofreading (italics, capital letters, etc.) and for Battlestar Wiki style (proper episode/movie references, relevant links, etc.). There are many examples throughout the wiki that you can use. -- [[User:BlueResistance|BlueResistance]] 00:27, 10 August 2015 (EDT)<br />
<br />
:::::I did just that on page recreation.<br />
:::::'''Again''': I do not refer to red links (maybe with the exception of the red link ''present in the tutorial'')!<br />
:::::Instead, I am referring to<br />
:::::* dead links from the site's frame, e.g.<br />
:::::** FrakMedia! Network<br />
:::::** mister-wong.com<br />
:::::** BS Pegasus<br />
:::::** BSG Forum<br />
:::::** Wiki Frakr<br />
:::::** Our Google+ Page<br />
:::::* database and/or syntax errors in subdomains:<br />
:::::** fr.battlestarwiki.org<br />
:::::** zh.battlestarwiki.org<br />
:::::** es.battlestarwiki.org<br />
:::::** tr.battlestarwiki.org<br />
:::::** simple.battlestarwiki.org<br />
:::::** ms.battlestarwiki.org<br />
:::::and so forth.<br />
:::::Besides: You seem mightily convinced of the completeness of the Wiki. Maybe you might want to take a look at my further updates in the last days. Even such obvious topics as the different serial number of Saul Tigh in different places in the continuum (especially at the start of series 4) were overlooked.--[[User:Determinant|Determinant]] 06:07, 10 August 2015 (EDT)</div>Determinanthttps://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Determinant&diff=215539User talk:Determinant2015-08-10T10:07:00Z<p>Determinant: /* "Ppidoo" */</p>
<hr />
<div>== Welcome to Battlestar Wiki! ==<br />
<br />
Greetings, {{PAGENAME}}, and welcome to Battlestar Wiki! I'm pleased to tell you that you have full editing privileges on every wiki in the Battlestar Wiki network. 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:{{PAGENAME}}|user page]]?<br />
<br />
As you may already know, Battlestar Wiki covers all the ''Battlestar Galactica'' series from past to present, in addition to authorized merchandise and [[BW:SEPCON|separate continuity]] materials such as comics and tie-in novels. '''We do not cover fan fiction.''' We're also not a discussion site, although we do have an ever-growing [http://www.battlestarforum.com Battlestar Forum] where people can discuss the various shows and non-BSG topics as well!<br />
<br />
To get started on the wiki, we suggest that you check out our [[BW:TUT|tutorial]], experiment in [[BW:SAND|the sandbox]] (a test editing area for those learning wiki code), and review some of our basic [[BW:POL|policies]] (which have important differences from other SF wikis). For some general questions and answers about the navigation and operation of the Wiki, check out the [[Battlestar Wiki:FAQ|Frequently Asked Questions]] (FAQ).<br />
<br />
Of course, if you have any questions, comments, or concerns, you are more than welcome to bring them up at the [[BW:CN|Chiefs' noticeboard]] (which is frequented by the administrators of the Wiki) and at the [[BW:GQ|Galactipedians' Quorum]] (which is the hub for contributors, who are called "Galactipedians").<br />
<br />
Furthermore, if you don't wish to see the ads, then please consider upgrading your account to a [[BW:MEMBERSHIP|paid membership]], which costs only $10 USD a year and helps support the wiki financially. This membership also extends to the [http://www.battlestarforum.com Battlestar Forum], where you can talk to other members about the show and most anything that you want to talk about to BSG fans! We think this is very cool, and we hope you do as well! <br />
<br />
Thank you for joining us! Hope to see you soon! -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]]</sup> 19:05, 22 July 2013 (EDT)<br />
<br />
== "Ppidoo" ==<br />
<br />
I reviewed the video at the point that you cited and didn't see anything labeled like this. Whether or not it's there, it seems like much too minor a detail for its own separate page. "Razor" has been completely mined for relevant details by now. -- [[User:BlueResistance|BlueResistance]] 07:55, 8 August 2015 (EDT)<br />
<br />
:@[[User:BlueResistance|BlueResistance]]:<br />
:I would have supplied a screenshot, would I not have been forced to create another (!) account on the media subdomain. It is definitely there, and at least as visible as the dogtag of Belzen.<br />
:Just a note: As you are an administrator, maybe, just maybe, '''instead of deleting faithful contributions to the oh-so-complete Battlestar-Wiki you could see to it, that this site itself gets fixed up''':<br />
:Dead links everywhere (FrakMedia! e.g.), the edit fields looking damaged (\[&amp;lt;textricheditor&amp;gt;\] does not quite seem to fit the original intention, as it might be the case with the edit toolbar disappearing completely on preview) etc.pp.--[[User:Determinant|Determinant]] 09:01, 8 August 2015 (EDT)<br />
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::Even if "Ppidoo" is there in the movie and you can provide a screen grab, it seems to be far too minor a detail for its own page. True, the Wiki is far from complete, but there are much bigger gaps that can be filled. Summaries of ''Blood and Chrome'' and the last four episodes of ''Caprica'' immediately come to mind.<br />
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::As to other problems on Battlestar Wiki that you mentioned, the more technical ones are above my level of administrator access, and those with sufficient access have very little contact with the Wiki these days. Red links are a different matter; whenever you encounter them, you are welcome and entirely capable of deleting them on your own, just like any contributor. I delete red links whenever I see them, but writing for and administering this wiki are hobbies--not a full-time job--and my ability to find time for them lately has been rather constrained. -- [[User:BlueResistance|BlueResistance]] 09:49, 8 August 2015 (EDT)<br />
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:::I do not refer to red links within the Wiki itself, but dead links going outside.<br />
:::Regarding Chrome and Caprica: That may be so, but this does not forbid adding "less important" content elsewhere.<br />
:::I will recreate my PPDIOO page, even more so, since I found, that PPDIOO is actually a _real_ network planning and improvement process defined by Cisco. This, especially with respect to the fact, that network intrusions were the reason for the colonial demise, is more than a mere "coincidence", no? - and of some relevance to the BSG continuum.--[[User:Determinant|Determinant]] 09:58, 8 August 2015 (EDT)<br />
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::::Users can edit dead links going outside just as easily. <br />
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::::You may be conflating the real world PPIDOO and the one in "Razor"; if it was on screen so briefly, then you don't have clear evidence of what it did in the movie. In addition, your "coincidence" point is only speculation without evidence of some sort to back it up. Something as simple as a statement from somebody involved in the production would suffice. But the bigger point here is that because something exists in both the BSG world and in the real world doesn't mean it deserves an article here. If it did, then you could just as easily have individual articles on desks, food, parents, children, and so on--and these are things that have had clearer ''specific'' relevance to the stories, the characters, and/or their situations. In other words, I'm still not convinced.<br />
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::::However, I'll let it stay on the wiki if you do the following in the next couple of days: 1) provide a screen grab of PPIDOO from "Razor," and 2) bring the article up to standards for general proofreading (italics, capital letters, etc.) and for Battlestar Wiki style (proper episode/movie references, relevant links, etc.). There are many examples throughout the wiki that you can use. -- [[User:BlueResistance|BlueResistance]] 00:27, 10 August 2015 (EDT)<br />
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:::::I did just that on page recreation.<br />
:::::'''Again''': I do not refer to red links! I am referring to<br />
:::::* dead links from the site's frame, e.g.<br />
:::::** FrakMedia! Network<br />
:::::** mister-wong.com<br />
:::::** BS Pegasus<br />
:::::** BSG Forum<br />
:::::** Wiki Frakr<br />
:::::** Our Google+ Page<br />
:::::* database and/or syntax errors in subdomains:<br />
:::::** fr.battlestarwiki.org<br />
:::::** zh.battlestarwiki.org<br />
:::::** es.battlestarwiki.org<br />
:::::** tr.battlestarwiki.org<br />
:::::** simple.battlestarwiki.org<br />
:::::** ms.battlestarwiki.org<br />
:::::and so forth.<br />
:::::Besides: You seem mightily convinced of the completeness of the Wiki. Maybe you might want to take a look at my further updates in the last days. Even such obvious topics as the different serial number of Saul Tigh in different places in the continuum (especially at the start of series 4) were overlooked.--[[User:Determinant|Determinant]] 06:07, 10 August 2015 (EDT)</div>Determinanthttps://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=CIC&diff=215534CIC2015-08-09T20:45:39Z<p>Determinant: Typo</p>
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<div>:''This article discusses the CIC of battlestar ''Galactica'' of the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Re-imagined Series]]. The CIC of the battlestar ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' contained similar stations.''<br />
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[[Image:CIC Overview 1.jpg|300px|thumb|The Combat Information Center of ''Galactica''.]]<br />
Colonial [[Battlestar|battlestars]] are centrally operated from the '''Combat Information Center''', or '''CIC''', the battlestar's nerve center. It performs both the functions of a bridge and the CIC in naval parlance, as the vessels are also steered from the CIC.<br />
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== ''Galactica'' ==<br />
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[[Image:CIC Overview 2.jpg|300px|thumb|The Combat Information Center of ''Galactica''.]]<br />
''Galactica's'' CIC is a faintly-circular room located deep in the interior "alligator head" of the battlestar, where the main hull meets the midship section. From CIC, the battlestar's tactical and navigational operations are monitored and directed. CIC is a large, two-level complex with three bulkhead exits, which are closed during [[Action Stations|action stations]] alerts.<br />
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''Galactica's'' CIC is divided into multiple stations.<ref>This comes from Doug Drexler's Facebook page. - [https://www.facebook.com/doug.drexler.7/posts/10151131312251104]</ref><br />
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* '''AIMD - AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE DIVISION'''<br />
* '''AIR - AIR DEPARTMENT'''<br />
* '''DECK - DECK DIVISION'''<br />
* '''UNREP - UNDERWAY FUELING AND REPLENISHMENT'''<br />
* '''FTL - JUMP OFFICER'''<br />
* '''DECK - DECK DIVISION'''<br />
* '''ENG - ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT'''<br />
* '''CSD - COMBAT SYSTEMS DIVISION'''<br />
* '''NAV - NAVIGATION DEPARTMENT'''<br />
* '''OPSO - OPERATIONS DEPARTMENT'''<br />
* '''DRADIS\AEW - AIRBORNE EARLY WARNING'''<br />
* '''TEW - TACTICAL ELECTRONIC WARFARE'''<br />
* '''DECK - DECK DIVISION'''<br />
* '''FLETOPS - FLEET OPERATIONS DIVISION'''<br />
* '''BATC - AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL DIVISION'''<br />
* '''ATC - AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL DIVISION'''<br />
* '''JIC - JOINT INTELLIGENCE'''<br />
* '''LSO - LANDING SIGNAL OFFICER'''<br />
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[[Image:Bsg-cic-2.jpg|thumb|The Command and Control station.]]<br />
[[Image:Dradisconsole.jpg|thumb|right|Close-up of the [[DRADIS console]].]]<br />
===Command and Control===<br />
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The '''Command and Control''' station is the primary station within CIC used by the Commanding and Executive Officers aboard a Colonial battlestar. The center comprises a large communications and a roughly hexagonal "information management" table, with a retractable information display tower bearing a number of LCD screens suspended above it. There are no chairs; the command staff are always standing.<br />
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Here, the battlestar's commander and [[Executive officer]] are on station, observing and plotting battle tactics, viewing transparent charts, and giving commands to others in CIC. Above the Command and Control Station is a cluster of monitors known as the [[DRADIS console]]. The DRADIS console descends from a cylindrical ceiling recess when required. From the Command and Control Station, the commander has a 360-degree view of the CIC. The DRADIS console contains DRADIS displays but also includes other navigation and tactical information available to the commander at a glance. The displays are capable of showing a wide range on information including:<br />
* Countdowns ("[[33]]", "[[You Can't Go Home Again]]")<br />
* [[DRADIS]] sensor readings relayed from the DRADIS console<br />
* Battlestar management information, such as the vessel's spatial orientation (pitch, yaw & roll)<br />
* Battle management information<br />
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A [[Cylon transponder]] was once mounted on the base of the DRADIS console ([[Miniseries]]), supposedly planted there by [[Aaron Doral]].<br />
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[[Image:Cic_commstation.jpg|right|thumb|The Communication station.]]<br />
===Communications Center===<br />
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Adjacent to the Command and Control Center on the port side of CIC is the ''Communications Center''. Here, all communications to and from fighters and other ships are monitored, directed or relayed. In coordination with the Tactical Station, the Communications officer can also verify [[IFF|transponders]] that register as friendly, and alerts the Tactical Officer or commander of any signals without transponders or recognized enemy transponders. The [[Communications Officer]] has a link to the [[Computers#Mainframe computer|mainframe computer]], where a library of Colonial recognition information resides.<br />
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===Damage Control Station===<br />
[[Image:Dmgcontrolconsole.jpg|thumb|[[Galen Tyrol]] at DC panel after a nuclear strike on the port [[flight pod]] ([[Miniseries]]).]]<br />
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Situated in the far port side of CIC is ''Damage Control.'' This station, usually unmanned, contains the Damage Control computers, which connect to many sensors throughout the exterior and interior of the ship. A large display against the wall of the station shows damage through a series of lights that represent the [[Frame|frames]], or compartments of the battlestar that form the many segments of the ship.<br />
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[[Image:Cicdmgcontrol.jpg|left|thumb|The Damage Control station.]]<br />
A commander can order a Damage Control officer to perform many actions to repair or mitigate the effects of an enemy attack through the controls here, including the venting of compartments, coordination of damage control teams, and the like. It is also likely that alternative damage control stations outside of CIC, such as the [[Aft Damage Control]] room contain similar controls to aid in repairs, control of fires and the like in the event that CIC's damage control is knocked offline or CIC staff are incapacitated.<br />
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[[Image:Cichelmcontrol.jpg|thumb|Helm Control.]]<br />
===Helm Control===<br />
Battlestars move through space much as a submarine navigates in an ocean. There are no windows, no viewscreens to see into space for helm control. While external cameras may be available, they are seldom used in navigation of a battlestar. Navigation is managed by spatial coordinates based on [[DRADIS]] and other sensor information. The helm crewmembers drive the battlestar through a series of controls and based on commands from the Executive officer or commanding officer.<br />
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===Tactical Station===<br />
[[Image:Cictacticalstation1.jpg|thumb|left|The tactical station with tactical plot and table.]]<br />
[[Image:Tact plot.jpg|thumb|right|Close-up of tactical plot.]]<br />
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The Officer of the Watch/[[Tactical Officer]] is arguably the busiest officer in ''Galactica's'' CIC. Tasked with the monitoring of [[DRADIS]] and coordinating various command and control functionality, including [[Computers|computer control]], the Tactical Officer must relay changes in status and keep the commander updated continuously during the fluid events of battle. The Tactical officer is typically the first to know that an attack is imminent and will address the battlestar by the public address system to go to battle stations through [[Action Stations|Condition One or Two alerts]].<br />
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As ''Galactica's'' computers aren't networked, the Tactical officer must manually print or offload data from the various central computers he monitors (Fire control, Navigation, FTL, and mainframe computers) and relay this information to the other officers and staff in the room. Fortunately, many stations see the same information on displays similar to those at the Tactical Station, but it is the Tactical Officer who is charged with notifying the commander of the changes and interpreting the results. ''Galactica's'' Tactical officer also is the administrator for all central computers onboard and provides maintenance as required.<br />
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While the Helm officers drive the ship, it is the Tactical officer that plots [[FTL|FTL jumps]], the apparently instantaneous leap from one location in space to another location millions of kilometers away. The Tactical officer of ''Galactica'' not only has to provide Jump coordinates to the battlestar's helm, but is also responsible for relaying both scheduled sets and sets of [[emergency jump coordinates]] to over 70 other FTL-capable civilian ships that make up [[The Fleet (RDM)|the Fleet]] to ensure that all ships always stay close to ''Galactica's''' protective sphere.<br />
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Nearby the Tactical Station is a tactical board and table where the commander can meet with several officers and crew at once for advanced battle or strategy conferences. The Tactical Station is frequently manned by other specialists and officers that assist the Watch Officer.<br />
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===Weapons Control Room===<br />
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[[Image:Cicweaponscontrol1.jpg|thumb|left|The Weapons Control Room, left of the tactical station.]]<br />
[[Image:Cicweaponscontrol2.jpg|thumb|right|Weapons Control Room.]]<br />
Hidden away, next to the Tactical Station is the Weapons Control Room. Obscured from direct view during most episodes, the Weapons Control Room ostensibly is manned during [[Action Stations]]. The battlestar's gun [[Battery|batteries]] and other defensive controls are managed here.<br />
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In the event that the Weapons Control Room or CIC is knocked offline or its crew incapacitated, control of the ship's batteries can be managed at [[Auxiliary Fire Control]].<br />
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===The Core===<br />
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[[Image:CIC Core 2.jpg|thumb|left|Laura Roslin walking along the stations in the Core ([[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]).]]<br />
[[Image:CIC Core 1.jpg|thumb|right|Roslin and Adama talking (Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down).]]<br />
The second deck of the CIC, known only as the "Core", offers a bird's eye view of the busy command deck below. This narrow passageway, lined with a limited set of computers and consoles, extends in a semi-circle from just above the port hatch around the rear of the CIC, over Damage Control, the Communications Center and Helm Control, to just above the starboard hatch. There is also a small room with computers behind the consoles. Two sets of stairs lead up to the Core; one is next to the starboard hatch, and the other is just behind the Communications Center. They can be easily spotted by the blue lights behind them.<br />
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The Core often proves to be a conveniently private area of the CIC for [[William Adama]] to meet with his associates to discuss delicate affairs while on duty. In "[[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]" he meets here with [[Laura Roslin]] to discuss the creation of [[Gaius Baltar]]'s [[Cylon detector]], and again in "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]" with [[Saul Tigh]] to discuss [[Kara Thrace]]'s desertion to retrieve the [[Arrow of Apollo]].<br />
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=== FTL ===<br />
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The FTL station is in the area behind the Tactical Station. It is not routinely manned, but can be manned by up to two crewmembers. All functions of the FTL drive and computer can be controlled from this station. While the engineering portions of the FTL drive are usually controlled and monitored by engineering staff, this station is sometimes staffed when more complex jumps must be made. This station is where the Tactical Officer plots and executes the jump. Sometimes the Tactical Officer inputs the jump coordinates himself, while other times the station is manned by two seated crewmen. However, the jump is always executed by the Tactical Officer himself. The FTL drive is engaged by inserting a blue "key" into a receptacle at the center of the console and turning it. This console folds down into a table when it is not being used.<br />
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== ''Pegasus'' ==<br />
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''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'s'' CIC is far smaller than ''Galactica's'', reflecting the [[Mercury class battlestar|advanced battlestar]]'s increased automation and reliance on computer networks. According to Admiral [[Helena Cain|Cain]], the ship is far larger, but requires only half the crew ([[Pegasus (Extended Version)|Pegasus]]), as evidenced by the reduced size and staffing of CIC.<br />
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In contrast to Galactica, Pegasus' bridge is not located inside the alligator head, but in the forward area of the following, narrower section, as can be seen when [[Gina Inviere]] shows [[Kendra Shaw]] the way to the CIC in [[Razor]].<br />
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The CIC has overall far fewer stations than ''Galactica's'' and occupies only one level, but the general layout is similar. The command table with computer screens above is located in the center, around which the main stations such as tactical, helm and communications are grouped, allowing the commanding officer to quickly address all officers.<br />
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There are two larger consoles with seats and no fewer than five free standing stations; additionally, there are two standing tactical plotters on opposing ends of the CIC. <br />
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While ''Galactica's'' CIC doors are solid bulkheads, ''Pegasus's'' CIC lies adjacent to a large hallway and can be accessed through a series of glass doors that pivot ninety degrees. A door is also located along the opposite wall to the extreme left.<br />
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Image:PegasusInterior CIC1.jpg|''Pegasus'' CIC ([[The Captain's Hand]]).<br />
Image:PegasusInterior CIC2.jpg|''Pegasus'' CIC (The Captain's Hand).<br />
Image:PegasusInterior CIC3.jpg|''Pegasus'' CIC (The Captain's Hand).<br />
Image:PegasusInterior CICHallway.jpg|Hallway and entrance to the CIC (The Captain's Hand).<br />
Image:Pegasus_CIC_view_1.jpg|A view of ''Pegasus'' CIC.<br />
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== ''Valkyrie'' ==<br />
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''[[Valkyrie]]''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> CIC is the same size as those of the ''Mercury'' class with the same general aesthetic and console configurations, although there are minor positional changes. Noteworthy differences include bulkhead coloring and the lack of the glass doors. Unlike other battlestars, there is only one main entrance to CIC that is located in the center of the wall parallel to the command table, behind where Commander [[William Adama|Adama]] stands ([[Hero]]). <br />
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Image:Valkyrie bridge.jpg|''Valkyrie'''s CIC.<br />
Image:Valkyrie CIC.jpg|Full view of ''Valkyrie'''s CIC.<br />
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==Notes==<br />
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* The destruction of other battlestars during the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attack]] hinged on the Colonial's dependence on complex networking within most CICs. It is likely that the battlestars that were destroyed required fewer crewmembers to operate it since they used networked computer systems that moved data around faster than the crew that literally ran between stations in ''Galactica's'' CIC with pen and paper or data cartridges to transfer messages and data.<br />
* A [[Cylon agent]], probably the first copy of [[Aaron Doral]] encountered, installed a [[Cylon transponder]] at the base of the DRADIS console shortly before the Cylon attack ([[Miniseries]]). Dr. Baltar is aided by his virtual [[Number Six]] in identifying it to the CIC command staff. It is likely that the transponder is placed there to track ''Galactica'' should it escape the initial Cylon attack.<br />
*According to [[Anastasia Dualla|Dualla]], in a deleted scene from "[[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]", the ''Galactica'' CIC is staffed by roughly 50 people.<br />
*The battlestar ''[[Valkyrie]]'' is a third CIC seen in the series. Being of an intermediate design between ''Galactica'' and ''Pegasus'', its CIC is similar to the latter vessel. Cinematically the set is a redress of the ''Pegasus'' CIC set.<br />
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==Cinematic Information==<br />
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* Cinematic realism on the CIC set is enhanced with the use of actual submarine hardware, such as thick phones with cords.<br />
* Unlike the command centers of many science fiction space vessels, ''Galactica's'' CIC does not have a central viewing screen out into space. There isn't a single window looking out, in fact. Navigation is performed from sensor and spatial data not unlike a submarine.<br />
* The CIC set used for the ''Pegasus'' are the modified remains of set hardware intended for use on a revival of the "Lost in Space" television series. When the series project was cancelled, the show's sets were refitted to form the CIC for this advanced battlestar. This is also the behind the scenes reason why the ''Pegasus'' CIC is not as large as the two-level ''Galactica'' CIC; the production team simply could not afford to make another set on the scale of the ''Galactica'' CIC, and were able to build the ''Pegasus'' CIC by purchasing the canceled "Lost in Space" sets for next to nothing. <br />
* The Sci-Fi Channel official web site incorrectly names CIC as the "''Command'' Information Center." The correct name is verifiable from the center's name that is etched in the glass of the doors of the set.<br />
*The Weapons Control Section is a rarely seen (in terms of use in episodes) and secluded part of CIC. The area was shown manned and in action during the closing moments of the [[Battle of Ragnar Anchorage]] ([[Miniseries]]), just before [[Anastasia Dualla]] reports that Starbuck and Apollo have not yet returned to ''Galactica.'' The area was likely built with the set budget before later restrictions would make building one impossible. The angle and enclosed area suggests that the area is used in production to allow film crew to hide off-camera without being off-set during filming.<br />
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* See Also<br />
** DRADIS|DRADIS<br />
** Situation Room|Situation Room<br />
** Senior Staff of Galactica|Galactica's Senior Staff<br />
** Computers in the Re-imagined Series|Computers in the Re-imagined Series<br />
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** Basestar command|Basestar Command<br />
* Other Series<br />
** Core Command|Core Command, TOS's counterpart<br />
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<div>: ''This article describes the robotic creations of a reptilian race from the [[TOS|Original Series]]. For the Cylons of the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Re-imagined Series]], see [[Cylons (RDM)]]. For Cylons depicted in the spin-off ''[[Galactica 1980]]'', see [[Cylons (1980)]].''<br />
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The '''Cylons''' are entirely composed of robots, originally the creation of a reptilian race that were also known as Cylons.<br />
[[Image:PartyCrashers.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Cylon Centurions crash Sire Uri's party ([[Saga of a Star World]]).]]<br />
Both types of Cylons shared a home, also known as "Cylon", prior to the beginning of the [[Thousand Yahren War]] ([[Saga of a Star World]]) in the [[Cyranus Galaxy]] ([[The Long Patrol]]).<br />
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== Reptillian Cylons ==<br />
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[[Image:Cylon in serpent form.jpg|thumb|A depiction of a reptilian, serpent Cylon from the "[[Experiment in Terra (TV movie)|Experiment in Terra]]" television movie.]]<br />
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Originally, the reptilian, serpent ([[Experiment in Terra (TV movie)|Experiment in Terra Telemovie]]) Cylons created a race of robots to service their needs ([[Saga of a Star World]]). According to [[Apollo (TOS)|Apollo]], the Cylons discovered humanity. Having determined humans to be the most practical form of creature in their system and crafted robotic creations that mimicked their form. However their creations were made bigger and stronger than humans with interchangeable parts that allow the robots to live forever ([[Saga of a Star World]]).<br />
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The reptilian Cylons allowed themselves to be overcome by their own technology ([[War of the Gods, Part II]]) upon the creation of the [[Imperious Leader]] ([[Experiment in Terra (TV movie)|Experiment in Terra Telemovie]]). The robotic Cylons became an organized war machine bent on exterminating life in the galaxy after the creation of the Imperious Leader, who had a slight error in its programming ([[Experiment in Terra (TV movie)|Experiment in Terra Telemovie]]). <ref>Count [[Iblis]]'s appearance and his subsequent encounter with Lord [[Baltar (TOS)|Baltar]] in the [[Prison Barge]]'s brig suggests (without further substantiation) that the revolt of the robotic Cylons was organized by Iblis over a thousand yahren prior to the Cylon holocaust of the [[Twelve Colonies (TOS)|Twelve Colonies]] ([[War of the Gods, Part II]]). Given that his voice patterns seem to have been imprinted into what Iblis called "machine Leader" ([[War of the Gods, Part II]]) and the apparent onset of the Leader's creation causing the slaughter of both the original Cylons and all human life in the "star system" ([[Experiment in Terra (TV movie)|Experiment in Terra Telemovie]]), this connotation seems to have been further substantiated.</ref> Despite the fact that the reptilian Cylons had long since been wiped out, their robotic creations still bear their name ([[Saga of a Star World]]). The term has come to almost exclusively describe the robotic antagonists of the [[The Twelve Colonies (TOS)|Colonials]].<br />
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== Robotic Cylons ==<br />
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Under the robotic Cylons, they began expanding their sphere of influence, creating what Commander [[Adama (TOS)|Adama]] calls "[[the Alliance]]" ([[Saga of a Star World]]). The Cylons' goal is to strive to achieve "eternal perfection and order" throughout the known galaxy, although they haven't thought much (or at all) beyond that point ([[The Return of Starbuck]]).<br />
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Centurions appear to be incapable of acting independently, having to refer to "the manual" in order to determine courses of action. Failing that, Centurions often take votes when consensus isn't clear. In addition, they do not appear to have much information on humans, outside of the different genders and general language ([[The Return of Starbuck]]). In comparison, the [[IL-series]] has more human qualities and emotions ("[[Lost Planet of the Gods, Part II]]", "[[The Young Lords]]"), although the Centurions are apparently able to emulate emotions and human qualities, such as freedom of choice and loyalty as exemplified by [[Cyrus]] ([[The Return of Starbuck]]).<br />
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=== Cylon Society ===<br />
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There are five types of Cylons:<br />
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* [[Imperious Leader]]: controls all Cylon forces and rules the empire. The Imperious Leader is distinguished by taking on an appearance meant to resemble the reptilian Cylon race. <br />
* [[IL-series]] (or the "IL group"): Robots that typically take on the administrative duties of the Cylon Empire.<br />
* [[Command Centurion]]: Robots with gold plated armor that are analogous with commanders in the [[Warrior|Colonial Military]].<br />
* [[Centurion (TOS)|Cylon Centurion]]s: These robots are the chrome plated foot soldiers, pilots, and labor force for the Cylon Empire. <br />
* [[Cylon civilian|Cylon "civilians"]]: According to Colonel [[Tigh (TOS)|Tigh]], he picks up civilian transmissions of a Cylon nature on [[Gamoray]] ([[The Living Legend, Part I]]).<br />
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== Cylon craft ==<br />
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There are three known Cylon spacecraft:<br />
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* [[Basestar (TOS)|Basestar]]: Capital ships of the Cylon military force, analogous to the [[Battlestar (TOS)|Colonial battlestar]].<br />
* [[Raider (TOS)|Raider]]: The primary fighter of the Cylon forces, manned by two pilots and a ship commander.<br />
* [[Cylon freighter (TOS)|Freighter]]: Ships used throughout the Cylon sphere of influence to provide fuel. May be used to support an offensive operation, as demonstrated at the [[Battle of Cimtar]] ([[Saga of a Star World]]).<br />
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== Cylon history ==<br />
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=== The Thousand Yahren War ===<br />
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: ''Main Article: [[Thousand Yahren War]]''<br />
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The [[Thousand Yahren War]] between the humans of the [[Twelve Colonies (TOS)|Twelve Colonies]] and the Cylons began when the Colonials liberated the [[Hasari]] from Cylon rule. The Cylons then viewed humanity as a threat to their Empire and proceeded to attack Colonial installations.<br />
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The Cylons and the humans fought for roughly one thousand yahren, with losses on both sides. <br />
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The final end to the war occurred after the Cylons proposed peace through the mediation of Baltar, a member of the [[Quorum of Twelve (TOS)|Quorum of Twelve]]. However, instead of concluding peace, the Cylons destroyed the human Battlestar force in the [[Battle of Cimtar]] and also attacked the Colonies, killing most inhabitants. Baltar, who had intended to use the Cylons to subjugate his colony under his rule, saw his colony destroyed to and barely escaped execution. ([[Saga of a Star World]])<br />
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=== Cylon pursuit of the Colonial Fleet ===<br />
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The [[the Fleet (TOS)|"rag-tag, fugitive fleet"]], being led by the last known surviving [[Battlestar (TOS)|battlestar]], ''[[Galactica (TOS)|Galactica]]'', flees their homeworlds, avoiding the Cylon genocidal attacks.<br />
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Sparing Baltar's life, the newly ascended [[Imperious Leader]] gives Baltar the command of three basestars and a cogitator, [[Lucifer]] ([[Saga of a Star World]], [[Lost Planet of the Gods, Part I]]). With Baltar pursuing the Fleet, ''Galactica'' and the 220 ships she leads from their aggressors avoid Cylon death traps, such as those on [[Arcta]] (the "[[Ravashol pulsar]]"), and all out attacks (e.g. [[Battle of Gamoray]] and the events of "[[Fire in Space]]"). <br />
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Eventually, a [[Battle at Galaxy's Edge|daring, successful attack on a lone basestar]] leads Adama to believe that they may have outwitted the Cylons -- who have, apparently, spread their resources thin in an attempt to locate the remaining humans ([[The Hand of God (TOS)|The Hand of God]]).<br />
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== Cylons in other media ==<br />
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In the Berkley novelizations for the Original Series, which Battlestar Wiki treats as non-canonical [[Battlestar Wiki: Separate continuity|separate continuity]] sources, the Cylons' status in the Cylon Empire is determined by the number of brains they possess. <br />
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Centurions start off with one brain, but can achieve a "second brain" status. The Imperious Leader itself achieves a third brain status. <br />
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Achieving a second or third brain status resorts in the Cylon becoming a "reptilian sort of beast" mentally.<ref>{{cite_book|last=Thurston|first=Robert|authorlink=Robert Thurston|authorlinkurl=|year=September 1979|title=[[The Tombs of Kobol|Battlestar Galactica 3: The Tombs of Kobol]]|publisher=Berkley Books|pages=3|location=|id=}}</ref><br />
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=== Cylon customs ===<br />
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Cylons have various customs in their society. One such custom is having both an official name and a secret name. Official names are used when communicating to non-Cylons and it is considered humiliating if a Cylon's secret name is learned by outsiders. Further, the secret name is part of the secret sector of Cylon language.<ref name="tok-4">''Ibid.'', 4</ref><br />
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[[Lucifer (alternate)|Lucifer]], despite not being an actual Cylon in the novelizations but rather a robotic construct, is permitted to adopt this custom. In his conversation with [[Baltar (TOS alternate)|Baltar]], Lucifer informs him that "Lucifer" is actually an acronym of his secret name.<ref name="tok-4"/><br />
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=== Cylon constructs ===<br />
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In the novelizations, Lucifer is a Cylon construct. He is considered an "ambulatory cybernetic sentience" and is the result of Cylons' developments into different technologies during the Thousand Yahren War. Further, Lucifer claims that he can manufacture machines and that he has a soul, as he was able to create his own personality.<ref>''Ibid.'', 6-7.</ref><br />
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=== Cylon History ===<br />
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The Realm Press comic series gives a backstory to the Cylons in the [[1999 Tourbook]].<br />
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<gallery caption="Cylon Origin"> <br />
Image:Cylon Origin 01.jpg |Cylon Origin 1 <br />
Image:02.jpg |2 <br />
Image:Cylon Origin 03.jpg |3 <br />
Image:Cylon Origin 04.jpg |4 <br />
Image:Cylon Origin 05.jpg |5 <br />
Image:Cylon Origin 06.jpg |6 <br />
Image:Cylon Origin 07.jpg |7 <br />
Image:Cylon Origin 08.jpg |8 <br />
Image:Cylon Origin 09.jpg |9 <br />
Image:Cylon Origin 10.jpg |10 <br />
Image:Cylon Origin 11.jpg |11<br />
Image:Cylon Origin 12.jpg |12<br />
Image:Cylon Origin 13.jpg |13<br />
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== Notes ==<br />
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* Both the Gold Command Cylon Centurions and the Silver Cylon Centurions were voiced with an EMS Vocoder 2000 [http://google.com/search?tbm=isch&hl=en&source=hp&biw=1400&bih=947&q=ems+vocoder+2000&gbv=2&oq=ems+vo&aq=0&aqi=g1g-S4g-sS1g-S1g-sS1g-S2&aql=&gs_sm=c&gs_upl=5517l8139l0l10975l6l6l0l0l0l0l331l1498l0.1.3.2l6l0] (verified in the book 'How to Wreck a Nice Beach' by Dave Tompkins) by voice-actor Michael Santiago.<br />
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<div>:''This article discusses the [[Re-imagined Series]] battlestar. For other meanings of '''''Galactica''''', see [[Galactica (disambiguation)]].''<br />
{{Ship Data<br />
| image= Battlestar Galactica - Blood And Chrome Appearence.png<br />
| title= ''Galactica'' (BS 75)<br />
| race= Colonial<br />
| type= Military<br />
| ftl= Yes<br />
| crew= Approximately 5,000<br />
| length= {{Meters2Feet|1438.64}}<ref name="dim">These dimensions (in meters) were derived from the CG model and posted by [[Lee Stringer]] on the StarshipBuilder.com forums, which are no longer available. They are the most precise so far. The width with pods extended and the height are quoted here verbatim; the length was calculated by adding the posted dimension for the front of the ship (766.04m) to the posted dimension for the back (672.6m). The full set as provided by Lee Stringer is as follows: "Width (Pods out) 536.84m (Pods In) 352.34m<br />
Engines Max 359.38m Head Max 334.58m<br />
Length: Front (Main body) 730.65m (Antenee) 766.04m Back 672.6m<br />
(using the center of the two arms as the middle)<br />
Height (Armor/Mainbody) 181.825m (Details) 183.315m".</ref><br />
| width= {{Meters2Feet|536.84}}<ref name="podtopod">This is from flight pod to flight pod while they are extended.</ref><br />
| height= {{Meters2Feet|183.315}}<br />
| otherdi= The dimensions above are from [[Lee Stringer]], who built the ''Galactica'' CG model. VFX Sequence Designer [[Adam "Mojo" Lebowitz]] gave the length as {{Feet2Meters|4740}}.<ref>[http://darthmojo.wordpress.com/2009/04/05/how-big-was-the-colony/#comment-2193 Blog comment] by [[Adam "Mojo" Lebowitz]].</ref> The reason for this twenty-foot discrepancy is unknown. <br />
| co= Commander [[Silas Nash]] (Circa YR58)<br />
| xo= Unknown<br />
| role= Command and Control <br /> Carrier / battleship<br />
| arm= ~600x dual point-defense [[Battery#Close-in_Weapon_Systems|CIWS]] <br /> ~40-50x Primary [[Battery#Gun_Clusters|guns]]<br />
| def= Flak<br />
| aircraft= Full Viper Mk. II compliment <br /> Full Viper Mk. III compliment <br /> Full Raptor compliment<br />
| facilities= 2x [[Flight pod|flight pods]] <br /> 2x [[Landing bay (RDM)|flight decks]]: 617 m (2,025 ft) each <br /> 2x [[Hangar deck|Hangar facilities]] <br /> 80x Viper [[Launch tube (TRS)|launch tubes]]<br />
| patch= Galactica Gold.png<br />
}}<br />
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Built during the early days of the [[Cylon War]], '''''Galactica'' (BS 75)''' is a [[Galactica type battlestar|veteran battlestar]] and was the last of its kind still in service, prior to its decommissioning by the Colonial Fleet. Officially decommissioned, ''Galactica'' was transformed into a museum ship as a memorial to the Cylon War, fought nearly forty years prior. Before decommissioning, ''Galactica'' was part of the 75th Colonial Battlestar Group. <br />
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== Construction and First War Service (YR48-YR60) ==<br />
''Galactica'' was one of the first twelve ''Galactica'' type battlestars to be constructed by the Colonials, each representing one of the twelve colonies; ''Galactica'' represented [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]]. While solidly built, various factors during ''Galactica's'' construction led to the shipyard "cutting corners" when it was originally built, with various components not completed to spec ([[TRS]]: "[[No Exit]]").<br />
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These battlestars were all designed with non-integrated computer systems to avoid the Cylons' demonstrated ability to override or subvert networked command and control systems early in the war ([[TRS]]: [[Miniseries, Night 1]]). Rather than technological sophistication, the battlestar depended on its sheer bulk and defensive / offensive capabilities to ward off any threats to itself or the Colonies.<br />
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Entering service sometime prior to the tenth year of the War, ''Galactica''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> primary duties included planetary defense, and border patrol. It is unknown if the ship took part in any major engagement prior to this point, however it is known that the Colonials were facing heavy losses in the wake of Cylon advancements (''[[Blood and Chrome]]''). <br />
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Two years later ''Galactica'' participated in [[Operation Raptor Talon]], along with ''[[Columbia (RDM)|Columbia]]'' and one other battlestar of its class. It was successful in inflicting major damage to Cylon forces, but not before they were able to destroy ''Columbia''. The battle ended in a draw, when it was announced the Cylons had signed an armistice agreement ([[TRS]]: "[[Razor]]"). <br />
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=== Gallery === <br />
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Image:Galactica Refit.png|''Galactica'' sporting new primary cannons in place of point defense KEWs.<br />
Image:Galactica Viper Launch.png|A Viper launches from ''Galactica''. <br />
Image:CIC.png|''Galactica's'' CIC in its original configuration during the Cylon War.<br />
Image:CIC 2.png|''Galactica's'' CIC in its original configuration during the Cylon War.<br />
Image:CIC 3.png|''Galactica's'' CIC in its original configuration during the Cylon War.<br />
Image:Hangar.png|''Galactica's'' hangar deck in its original configuration during the Cylon War.<br />
Image:Galactica Hangar Deck.png|''Galactica''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> hangar deck during the War. <br />
Image:Cable Car.png|A cable car used to transport personnel through the ship.<br />
Image:Galactica Infirmary.png|''Galactica''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> infirmary during the First Cylon War.<br />
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=== Notes ===<br />
* In ''[[Blood and Chrome]]'', ''Galactica'' is depicted with larger flight facilities than in the reimagined series; however, its overall flight pod design does not change, creating a continuity error. Since the pods do not change, [http://www.flickr.com/photos/lee_stringer/8738268186/ it is impossible] for the larger hangar deck to fit inside the pods, without a change in elevation of the above flight deck. <br />
* Also in ''Blood and Chrome'', ''Galactica''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> cannons change position from the beginning of the production to the end. It is assumed this is a production mixup, and that two different models were produced, and both accidentally used. The second model used at the conclusion of the production is incomplete, and does not feature lightmaps. <br />
* In Starbuck's gun camera shots in [[He That Believes In Me]] Galactica is supposedly a member of [[Battlestar Group]] 62.<br />
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== Modern Service and Decommissioning (YR80-YR00) ==<br />
{{Ship Data<br />
| image= Galactica Overview.jpg<br />
| title= ''Galactica'' (BS 75)<br />
| race= Colonial<br />
| type= Military<br />
| ftl= Yes<br />
| crew= Approximately 2,900 <br />
| length= {{Meters2Feet|1438.64}}<ref name="dim">These dimensions (in meters) were derived from the CG model and posted by [[Lee Stringer]] on the StarshipBuilder.com forums, which are no longer available. They are the most precise so far. The width with pods extended and the height are quoted here verbatim; the length was calculated by adding the posted dimension for the front of the ship (766.04m) to the posted dimension for the back (672.6m). The full set as provided by Lee Stringer is as follows: "Width (Pods out) 536.84m (Pods In) 352.34m<br />
Engines Max 359.38m Head Max 334.58m<br />
Length: Front (Main body) 730.65m (Antenee) 766.04m Back 672.6m<br />
(using the center of the two arms as the middle)<br />
Height (Armor/Mainbody) 181.825m (Details) 183.315m".</ref><br />
| width= {{Meters2Feet|536.84}}<ref name="podtopod">This is from flight pod to flight pod while they are extended.</ref><br />
| height= {{Meters2Feet|183.315}}<br />
| co= Admiral [[William Adama]]<br />
| xo= Colonel [[Saul Tigh]] <br />
| role= Command and Control <br /> Carrier / battleship<br />
| arm= ~514x dual point-defense [[Battery#Close-in_Weapon_Systems|CIWS]] <br /> 24x primary [[Battery#Gun_Clusters|guns]] <br /> ~12x [[missile tubes]]<br />
| def= Flak <br /> Non-networked computer systems<br />
| aircraft= ~80x Viper Mk. II's <br /> Full Raptor compliment <br /> Atmospheric shuttles<br />
| facilities= 1x active [[Flight pod|flight pod]] <br /> 1x active [[Landing bay (RDM)|flight deck]]: 617 m (2,025 ft) <br /> 1x active [[Hangar deck|Hangar facility]] <br /> 40x active Viper [[Launch tube (TRS)|launch tubes]]<br />
| status= Decommissioned, YR00 <br /> Scuttled, YR04 <br />
| patch= Galactica Gold.png<br />
| img= Y<br />
}}<br />
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=== Post War Service ===<br />
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Even before the end of the War, ''Galactica'' undergoes a refit that sees the removal of much of its armor, removal of the Viper stacks, and many of its dorsal primary batteries. Major changes to the layout of the CIC, hangar decks and infirmary are delivered at this point as well ([[TRS]]: "[[Razor Flashbacks]]"). <ref>The reasons for this are unknown, however it can be surmised that the highly successful Ghost Fleet Offensive, and advancements in technology allowed the Colonials to scale back massive deployments. The massive redesign of CIC and the hangar decks is likely to streamline operations.</ref> This would be ''Galactica'' <nowiki>'s</nowiki> last major refit prior to its decommissioning nearly 40 years later. ''Galactica'' never receives the networked computer or Baltar's CNP upgrades like its sister ships do. <br />
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Following the armistice, the ''Galactica'' is regulated to intra-system duties, and has been known to take on "Coast Guard" roles involving the shipping sector, which limits the use of the ship's two FTL drives. Prior to ''Galactica''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> FTL jump to [[Ragnar Anchorage]], its drives were not utilized in nearly twenty years ([[TRS]]: [[Miniseries, Night 2]]).<br />
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=== Decommissioning ===<br />
:''Main article: [[Galactica Museum|Battlestar Galactica Museum]]''<br />
With its active career drawing to a close, a decision was taken to retire ''Galactica'' and decommission it from service. The Colonial Fleet chose not to scrap the ship, but to turn it into a combination of living museum to the original Cylon War and an educational center, with the conversion being overseen by the vessel's final commander, [[William Adama]].<br />
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At the time of its formal decommissioning ceremony, ''Galactica'' is stripped of all but one of its operational [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] Mark VII squadrons, its munitions are destroyed, and its starboard landing pod is converted into a pressurized museum which houses various items from the Cylon War. However, its Viper munitions stores are still on the ship. The museum is about to open when the Cylons break the Armistice, and renew their hostilities with the Colonials.<br />
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== Cylon Attack and Post-Fall Exodus (YR00-YR04) ==<br />
=== Surprise Attack === <br />
[[Image:Mini side fleet.jpg|thumb|left|200px|''Galactica'' and the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]].]]<br />
With the renewed and unexpected Cylon hostilities, ''Galactica'' is quickly brought back to combat condition and sorties a squadron of Mark IIs retrieved from its museum, engaging in its first battle with the Cylons in over forty years (all but one last Mark VII squadron were sent to Caprica for reassignment). It survives a direct hit by a tactical nuclear missile to the forward section of its port flight pod, and later [[FTL|jumps]] successfully to [[Ragnar Anchorage]] to replenish its empty ammunition stores at this strategic depot.<br />
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''Galactica'' emerges from the anchorage and engages one [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]] with its gun batteries, providing cover for [[The Fleet (RDM)|a fleet of 75 civilian ships]] harboring survivors of the Twelve Colonies. Once the entire civilian fleet successfully jumps away, and as a second basestar approaches to join the battle, ''Galactica'' recovers its remaining Vipers and jumps to the rendezvous point beyond the [[Red Line]], never to return to Colonial space ([[TRS]]: [[Miniseries, Night 2]]). <br />
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=== Leading a Ragtag Fleet ===<br />
[[Image:Ep212battle.jpg|200px|left|thumb|''Galactica'' and ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' work together during the [[Battle of the Resurrection Ship]].]]<br />
Since the exodus of the Colonials from their overrun homeworlds, ''Galactica'' becomes both protector and provider for the Fleet. It provides covering fire for the Fleet during Cylon attacks no fewer than 240 times ([[TRS]]: "[[33]]": "[[Act of Contrition]]"). The battlestar provides much of the Fleet with recycled water ([[TRS]]: "[[Water]]") and it is the primary source of medical care, where groups of civilians are periodically brought aboard for check-ups and treatment ([[TRS]]: "[[Litmus]]"). ''Galactica'' also undertakes internal policing duties within the Fleet ([[TRS]]: "[[Water]]", "[[Bastille Day]]").<br />
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''Galactica'' successfully goes on the offensive against the Cylons, after the capture of a [[tylium]] fuel mining and processing plant in the process. This plant is able to provide enough fuel for ''Galactica'' and the fleet for years ([[TRS]]: "[[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]"). <br />
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The [[Mercury class battlestar|advanced battlestar]] ''Pegasus'', commanded by Rear Admiral [[Helena Cain]], joins ''Galactica'' approximately 6 months into their exodus ([[TRS]]: "[[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]"). While integration into the fleet is far from smooth, the two battlestars work in unison to destroy two Cylon [[Basestar (RDM)|basestars]], as well as a critical Cylon support ship known as a [[Resurrection Ship]] ([[TRS]]: "[[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]").<br />
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===New Caprica===<br />
Following the founding of [[New Caprica]], ''Galactica'' is assigned to the orbital defense force that protects the planet. During this time the majority of the crew are allowed to the surface in an effort to populate the planet and restore the human race, a majority of whom are seemingly convinced that the Cylons will never find New Caprica. The diminished crew inevitably results in standard maintenance becoming overlooked or ignored; basic military responses, such as the launching of alert fighters and routine training exercises become difficult to execute. One year following the founding of New Caprica, a fleet of Cylon ships jump into orbit of the planet. Severely limited in their abilities, Admiral Adama orders the defense fleet to jump away from New Caprica along with a handful of civilian ships still in orbit of the colony. ([[TRS]]: "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]").<br />
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[[Image:BONC.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''Galactica'' takes a pounding during the [[Battle of New Caprica]].]]<br />
Four months after their escape, ''Galactica'''s staff is still in the process of developing a rescue strategy with 16 training exercises having been completed, and a 17th underway when an accident causes its early cessation ([[TRS]]: "[[Occupation]]"). This forces both a change in strategy and the reformulation of a rescue plan to deal with personnel who have not seen conflict in 16 months ([[TRS]]: "[[Precipice]]", "[[Exodus, Part I]]").<br />
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After coordinating with the [[New Caprica Resistance]], ''Galactica'' leaves ''Pegasus'' to guard the space-bound members of humanity, while it initiates the [[Battle of New Caprica]]. In the subsequent battle, ''Galactica'' is outnumbered by four basestars, lacks the support of its Vipers, and missile barrages disable its FTL drives. Pummeled by the Cylons, ''Galactica'' faces destruction when ''Pegasus'' unexpectedly arrives. ''Pegasus''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> salvos draw the attention of the basestars away from ''Galactica'', buying the crew time to bring its [[FTL|FTL drives]] back on-line, recover its planes, and escape ([[TRS]]: "[[Exodus, Part II]]"). ''Galactica'' bears the scars of the battle with significant scorching and dents to the hull. Repairs continue on the journey through the Ionian nebula, with heavy damage to secondary storage, and damage to one particular airlock nearly causing the deaths of Galen and Cally Tyrol during what they expected to be a quick repair of a hull micro-fracture ([[TRS]]: "[[Blood on the Scales]]", "[[A Day in the Life]]").<br />
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Given the loss of ''Pegasus'', ''Galactica'' now boasts a larger crew, Viper and Raptor complement, to the point where there are more pilots than there are ships to fly ([[TRS]]: "[[Torn]]"), although the training of new recruits is still ongoing ([[TRS]]: "[[Dirty Hands]]", "[[Crossroads, Part II]]", "[[He That Believeth in Me]]"). Further, there are various redundancies between the two crews that are appropriately dealt with ([[TRS]]: [[List of Deleted Scenes - Season 3 (RDM)|deleted scene]] from "[[Exodus, Part II]]").<br />
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=== Resuming the Search for Earth ===<br />
''Galactica'' takes aboard a significant quantity of civilians following the exodus from New Caprica, as several civilian ships are lost during the escape from the failed colony. Cramped conditions increase as crew and civilians struggle to adapt to life back aboard a ship. The civilians reside on the refurbished starboard hangar deck as a refugee camp nicknamed "[[Camp Oil Slick]]" and later "Dogsville" ([[TRS]]: "[[Torn]]", "[[The Woman King]]").<br />
[[Image:BOTIM.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''Galactica'' is outnumbered during the [[Battle of the Ionian Nebula]].]]<br />
During a [[The Passage|food shortage crisis]] caused by contamination of the Fleet's food processing systems, ''Galactica'' (along with its Raptors acting as pilot ships) guides the civilian Fleet through an area of intense heat, light and radiation caused by a [[Passage (star cluster)|dense star cluster]] to reach edible resources on the [[algae planet]]. ''Galactica''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> heavy armor and radiation shielding protect it from the intense effects of the cluster, but the ship still suffers hull damage and numerous decompressions.<br />
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When the Fleet reaches the [[Ionian Nebula]], four Cylon baseships are detected following an unexplained power outage. With the entire Fleet powered down and unable to escape, ''Galactica'' scrambles its Vipers and prepares for a lopsided fight, outnumbered and outgunned ([[TRS]]: "[[Crossroads, Part II]]"). During the [[Battle of the Ionian Nebula|following battle]], ''Galactica'' manages to hold off the main attack of the massive Cylon attack force. Despite the damage suffered in previous engagements, the old warship wields its main guns and point defense batteries effectively again in defense of the Fleet. Despite having the advantage, and managing to destroy or damage several civilian ships, the Cylons retreat in the middle of the battle, after detecting one of the [[Final Five]] among the Colonials. ''Galactica'' takes minor damage in the battle, losing a forward dorsal battery, and contributing to further weakening of its overall structure ([[TRS]]: "[[He That Believeth in Me]]").<br />
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After three years of searching, ''Galactica'' and its Fleet locate Earth. The fleet enters orbit, and immediately launch ground teams who quickly determine that the planet is uninhabitable, having suffered a cataclysm sometime prior. A short time after, ''Galactica'' leads its fleet back to the stars ([[TRS]]: "[[Revelations]]", "[[Sometimes a Great Notion]]").<br />
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=== Post-Earth ===<br />
[[Image:Damaged Galactica.jpg|thumb|right|200px|A heavily damaged ''Galactica''.]] <br />
With ''Galactica's'' advanced age, the corners cut during construction, and the abuse it has been put through since the war started all have contributed to deteriorating conditions. A structural survey of the ship finds several torn supports and weakened areas in the hull, and a more in-depth examination finds endemic metal fatigue throughout the ship, with virtually every part of the hull riddled with small cracks and fissures. A plan is proposed to treat the damaged parts of the ship with an [[Cylon organic resin|organic Cylon resin]] from the [[Rebel Baseship]], which would fill the cracks and bear the stresses, which Adama at first refuses. However, Adama finally appreciates ''Galactica's'' dire condition when he finds a tear in a bulkhead in his quarters, and orders Tyrol to carry out his plan to repair the ship ([[TRS]]: "[[No Exit]]"). Despite the resin, ''Galactica'' is dying of old age and accumulated battle damage.<br />
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Despite repairs, the ship continues to accrue damage, and the order is given to abandon ship. Command will be transferred to the Cylon baseship once supplies and personnel have been offloaded ([[TRS]]: "[[Islanded In a Stream of Stars]]"). The ship is to be stripped of all useful equipment, including its Viper launching mechanisms. However, inspired by a photo of Hera on the Memorial Hallway, Admiral Adama decides to commit the old battlestar to one last mission: a suicidal mission to rescue Hera from the Cylon homeworld, the Colony. With Starbuck's help, he puts a line of red tape down the center of the hangar deck and makes an impassioned speech to the gathered crew members: He will lead ''Galactica'' to rescue Hera, but it is a volunteer mission only. If there are not enough people to crew ''Galactica'', he will instead lead a Raptor assault with anyone willing to join him. Everybody makes their choice; there are enough people to crew the ship. Preparations for the final mission get underway. Command of the Fleet is transferred to Louis Hoshi, the flag is transferred to the baseship and a number of Vipers are assigned to it for CAP duties.<br />
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=== Battle of The Colony ===<br />
[[Image:Battleofthecolony.jpg|thumb|left|200px|''Galactica'' takes massive hits seconds after jumping to [[The Colony]].]]<br />
With a skeleton crew and a frail battlestar, Admiral Adama executes a daring mission to rescue Hera Agathon.<br />
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''Galactica'' jumps to the Colony at point-blank range. Besieged by the Colony's gun batteries at first, the ship is pummeled relentlessly (causing the destruction of its dorsal Colonial roundel and heavy structural damage all around the ship) until [[Samuel Anders]], recently injured and turned into a [[Hybrid]], manages to take them and the Colony's Hybrids offline. As ''Galactica's'' Vipers engage incoming Raiders, its Raptors jump directly from their berth in the starboard [[flight pod]], causing the destruction of the pod, and maneuver to board the Colony. ''Galactica'' is then used to ram the Colony, providing an entry and exit point for assault teams but crumpling its forward alligator head.<br />
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As the battle wages on, Cylon Raiders swarm ''Galactica'', destroying at least one of its remaining heavy gun batteries. Cylon forces manage to blow a hole in Deck 21, allowing them to pour into the ship at platoon strength. Legions of enemy Centurions swarm into the ship, and are held back by marine firing squads, despite inflicting heavy casualties. After a brief cease fire, the ship comes under enemy fire once more, in one final push by Cylon forces. After the Colony is hit with nuclear-tipped missiles launched by Racetrack's drifting Raptor, both ''Galactica'' and the Colony begin falling into the black hole the Colony was orbiting.<br />
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===Journey's End===<br />
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[[File:Battlestar Over Africa.jpg|thumb|right|200px|right|A crippled ''Galactica'' over Earth.]]<br />
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Battered by interstellar debris, ''Galactica'' is successful in escaping its position via a blind FTL jump (though Starbuck inputs coordinates she extrapolated from the Music). The ship however does not retract its flight pods before executing the jump. This and the accumulated stresses of the past four years turn out to be the nail in the coffin for the old battlestar. Successfully emerging from the jump, ''Galactica'' suffers a series of catastrophic failures across its entire structure. Its lateral structural supports give out, which causes sections of the hull to visibly flex and twist against each other, so much so that hull breaches and explosive decompression rock the ship, sending structural beams ripping through decks, causing electrical failures and destroying multiple systems in the CIC. As the hull flexes, several Vipers are in turn tossed from the port flight deck. Despite the damage, the ship remains in one piece thanks to the Cylon organic resin, and other vital ship systems like life support and sublight propulsion are online. ''Galactica''s FTL is offline, and the ship cannot jump without risking destruction. It is, for all intents and purposes, beyond repair. The fear of being stranded in space is short lived as the ship is revealed to have exited its jump above the moon of a [[Earth_(RDM)#A_New_Earth:_The_Promised_Land|habitable planet]] within sublight range.<br />
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When the Colonials decide to colonize this world, ''Galactica'' and its fleet are scuttled, piloted directly into the system's star, by Samuel Anders. Admiral Adama is the last soul to leave the ship, departing in his Cylon War-era Viper Mark II ([[TRS]]: "[[Daybreak, Part II]]"). <br />
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== Crew ==<br />
:''For information on Senior Staff, see : [[Senior Staff of Galactica]]'' <br />
:''For a list of pilots, see: [[List of Pilots]]'' <br />
:''For a list of deckhands, see: [[List of deckhands]]'' <br />
:''For a list of marines, see: [[Colonial Marine Corps]]'' <br />
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Before the attack, ''Galactica'' has approximately 2,900 crewmen. By the time of the arrival of ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'', attrition has reduced this number to about 2,660. (c.f. [[Crew tally]]) <br />
It is unknown whether the Colonial Marines account for members or not.<br />
*Between "[[Act of Contrition]]" and "[[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]" ''Galactica''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> offensive capability is also greatly hampered by the number of [[List of Pilots|qualified pilots]] available, and their lack of flight simulators with which to train more. Since ''Galactica''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> reunion with ''Pegasus'', this has ceased to be an issue ([[TRS]]: "[[Scar]]").<br />
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==Related Imagery==<br />
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Image:BSG Ortho Top & Bottom.jpg|''Galactica'' - [[Zoic]] rendering &nbsp; &nbsp;<br />
Image:BSG Ortho Front, Back & Starboard.jpg|''Galactica'' - Zoic rendering &nbsp; &nbsp;<br />
Image:Galactica's top side.jpg|''Galactica'''s top side.<br />
Image:Kg cg ns galactica-049.jpg|''Galactica'''s front - Zoic<br />
Image:Battlestar stern.jpg|''Galactica'''s stern.<br />
Image:Galactica retraction.jpg|Flight pod retraction area.<br />
Image:Galactica's bottom-023b.jpg|''Galactica'''s bottom.<br />
Image:Bsg damaged.jpg|''Galactica'' with battle damage. (High Res)<br />
Image:Cylon War-era Galactica, "Razor" Flashback 1.jpg|''Galactica'' in the "[[Razor Flashbacks]]".<br />
Image:Galactica - flight pods retracted.jpg|''Galactica'' with flight pods retracted.<br />
Image:BSG landing alcove.jpg|''Galactica'' landing alcove.<br />
Image:Kg cg ns galactica-037.jpg|A cluster of rail guns.<br />
Image:Battered Battlestar.jpg|Bow view of ''Galactica''.<br />
Image:GalPeg.png|''Galactica'' overlooking ''Pegasus''.<br />
Image:Pointdefence2 101 1080i.jpg|''Galactica''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> point defense batteries in action &nbsp; &nbsp;<br />
Image:Galactica fights off missile salvos.jpg|''Galactica'' establishes a defense perimeter.<br />
Image:Raptor scramble.jpg|''Galactica'' scrambles Vipers and Raptors.<br />
Image:Colony Breech.jpg|''Galactica'' is rammed into the Colony.<br />
Image:Img0059.jpg|''Galactica'''s main batteries.<br />
Image:Galactia's end.jpg|''Galactica'' and the Fleet depart for the sun, with the African continent in the background.<br />
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Image:CIC Overview 1.jpg|''Galactica'''s CIC.<br />
Image:Cicweaponscontrol1.jpg|Weapons control.<br />
Image:Cictacticalstation1.jpg|Tactical station.<br />
Image:Cic commstation.jpg|Communications.<br />
Image:The Mess.jpg|The Officers' mess hall.<br />
Image:Cicdmgcontrol.jpg|Damage control.<br />
Image:Ftl2.jpg|FTL Drive.<br />
Image:Bsg-1-10.jpg|The "War Room".<br />
Image:Porthangardeck.jpg|The port hangar bay on ''Galactica''.<br />
Image:DutyLocker.jpg|Crew quarters.<br />
Image:GalacticaInterior Sickbay1.jpg|Sickbay<br />
Image:Galactica Museum, "Daybreak, Part II".jpg| The ''Galactica'' museum in the starboard flight pod.<br />
Image:Galactica corridor.jpg|The "A-shaped" corridors.<br />
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== See also ==<br />
*[[Galactica crew facilities (RDM)|Galactica crew facilities]]<br />
*[[:Category:Galactica Areas (RDM)|Galactica Areas]]<br />
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[[zh:卡拉狄加 (RDM)]]</div>Determinanthttps://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Saul_Tigh&diff=215531Saul Tigh2015-08-08T18:22:14Z<p>Determinant: </p>
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<div>{{Character Data <br />
|photo= Saul Tigh.jpg<br />
|age= Allegedly 71<ref>Tigh was supposedly born in 69 BCH, ("[[Valley of Darkness]]" deleted scene), and Season 3 takes place in 2 AHC.</ref>, actually 2,000+<br />
|colony= [[Earth_(RDM)#Arrival_and_Ruins|Original Earth]]; he has a fabricated background of being from [[Aerilon]]<br />
|birthname=<br />
|callsign= <br />
|seen= Miniseries<br />
|death= 1. Nuclear destruction of Original Earth, c. 2000 BCH (resurrected in orbit)<br>2. suffocated by [[Number One]], c. 32 BCH (resurrected with false memories)<br>3. Eventually died after 4 ACH settlement on New Earth<br />
|parents=<br />
|siblings=<br />
|children= Non-biologically: Considered a "father" of the eight humanoid Cylon models;<br>Biologically: [[Liam Tigh]]† (miscarried at four months) with Caprica-Six<br />
|marital status=Married to [[Ellen Tigh]] in all three lives;<br>briefly cohabitated with [[Caprica-Six]]<br />
|role= Executive Officer, [[Galactica type battlestar|battlestar]] ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'';<br>Commander of [[New Caprica Resistance]];<br>Civilian deckhand;<br>Engineer or scientist<br />
|rank= Colonel<br />
|actor= [[Michael Hogan]]<br />
|serial=219804<ref>Serial number from [[:Image:Tigh's dogtag serial.jpg|his dogtags]] and confirmed by the studios for the QMX replica, but also see contradictory evidence in the notes section.</ref> <br />
|5cylon= y<br />
|name= Saul Tigh<br />
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'''Saul Tigh''' is the [[Executive Officer]] (XO) of ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'', and repeatedly serves as acting commander in the absence of [[William Adama]]. Before his service on ''Galactica'', he served as Adama's XO on the battlestar ''[[Valkyrie]]''. During the Cylon occupation of [[New Caprica]], Tigh commanded the [[New Caprica Resistance]]. <br />
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A tough but troubled man with a long history of alcoholism, Tigh has false memories of having served in the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Colonial Fleet]] since his teenage years, seeing action in the [[First Cylon War]]. He is married to [[Ellen Tigh]], whose death was incorrectly (though logically) presumed to have been permanent. Believing himself to be a widower, he entered a sexual relationship with [[Caprica Six]],with whom he sired a miscarried child named [[Liam|Liam Tigh]].<br />
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Upon reaching the [[Ionian nebula]], he and [[Final Five|three others]] [[Crossroads, Part II|became aware]] of their nature as [[Humanoid Cylon|Cylons]]. Since then, he has sporadically regained memories and knowledge of his prior life.<br />
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==Biography ==<br />
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===Cylon past===<br />
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Saul Tigh lived on [[Earth (RDM)#Arrival_and_Ruins|the original Earth]] two millennia ago. Like all humanoids on that planet, he was a Cylon: a member of the [[Thirteenth Tribe (RDM)|Thirteenth Tribe]]. There, he was one of five scientists researching "organic memory transfer," a technology which had originated on [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]], but fell out of use on Earth once the Thirteenth Tribe Cylons started to procreate sexually. His wife Ellen was the most gifted of the five scientists. When nuclear armageddon came, Saul found himself in the lobby of his apartment building. Hearing a voice crying out, "Saul!" from the floor in front of the tenants' post boxes, he finds his wife trapped under debris he cannot move. He pulls the lighter debris from around her, as more bombs detonate. Moments before they die, she tells him, "Saul, it's okay. Everything's in place. We'll be reborn... again. Together." ([[Sometimes a Great Notion]], [[No Exit]])<br />
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The organic memory transfer they were researching was [[Resurrection (RDM)|resurrection technology]], the same technology their ancestors brought from [[Kobol]]. When killed by the explosions, Saul and the other four downloaded into new bodies aboard a ship they had placed in orbit. Knowing that humanity would continue to create artificial life, they made their way the Twelve Colonies to warn them about the the need to treat their creations with kindness in order to prevent a rebellion and inter-species war. Lacking [[Propulsion in the Re-imagined Series|faster-than-light]] capability, the five travelled at relativistic speeds. From the planetary perspective, their journey took approximately two thousand years.<br />
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Saul and the other four found their fears were justified. Upon their arrival, the first [[Cylon War]] was already in progress between humans and the Colonial [[Cylon Centurion Model 0005|Cylon Centurions]]. Saul and the others made a deal with the Centurions: end the war against the humans, and the Five would help them build humanoid Cylons. They ultimately made eight models for the Centurions, and their technology was stored in [[The Colony]]. The favoritism which [[Number One]] perceived Saul's wife, Ellen, displayed toward [[Number Seven]] drove Number One into a jealous rage. In addition to permanently destroying the Number Seven line, he suffocated Saul and the other four Cylons from Earth. Blocking their real memories, Number One implanted false ones in their minds, and deposited them among the human population in an attempt to prove to them the "evils" of humanity.<br />
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=== False Backstory ===<br />
Saul Tigh was supposedly born on the colony of [[Aerilon]]<ref name="aerelon">"Cylon Intelligence Report: Personnel File: Saul Tigh." <u>Battlestar Galactica: The Official Magazine</u>. Feb./Mar. 2006: 62. - He has [[Crossroads, Part II|recently been revealed]] as a Cylon presumably making this point moot.</ref>.<br />
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Tigh began his military career as a deckhand<ref name="deckhand">''Ibid''. "Saul Tigh entered the fleet as a deckhand, but rose through the ranks, and was a CPO (Chief Petty Officer) by the time the First Cylon War broke out."</ref>. By the second year of the First [[Cylon War]], he was serving as a gunner's mate onboard the ''[[Brenik]]''. His ship was boarded by the Cylons, where he and others fought in hand-to-hand combat, during the bloodiest period of that war. It was during this battle that he saw his first dead man, [[Duncan Rafferty]], who was violently vivisected by Centurions ("[[Valley of Darkness]]", [[List of Deleted Scenes - Season 2 (RDM)#Noteworthy Dialogue|deleted scene]]). His ship was subsequently destroyed, but he survived. He was transferred to another unnamed ship, which succumbed to a similar fate as his original ship. Having borne witness to many a bloody combat, he became emotionally scarred, which had, among other impetuses, led him to alcoholism. <br />
[[Image:Tighadama.jpg|Tigh and Adama's first meeting.|left|thumb]]<br />
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Tigh eventually achieved the rank of Chief Petty Officer. When Viper pilot numbers began running low in the war, Tigh was selected for Colonial [[officer candidate school]], and was reassigned as a Viper pilot.<ref>{{cite rdm podcast|episode=Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down}}</ref> As a pilot, he demonstrated considerable skill, earning several medals while posted aboard [[Athena (Battlestar)|Battlestar ''Athena'']].<ref name="athena">''Ibid''. "Tigh joined the Colonial officer candidate school, and was reassigned as a Viper pilot, something he excelled in, earning a string of medals in his post aboard the battlestar Athena."</ref> After the cessation of hostilities, he was dismissed from service.<br />
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=== Inter-War Years ===<br />
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Tigh eked out an existence as a deckhand aboard a commercial freighter. He clearly experienced signs of post-traumatic stress disorder; he commented that every time he smelled grease or machine oil, he would nearly vomit, as this smell reminded him of the "stink" of Centurions ("[[Valley of Darkness]]", [[List of Deleted Scenes - Season 2 (RDM)#Noteworthy Dialogue|deleted scene]]). While onboard, he drowned himself in alcohol and, after a time, about 20 years after the war, encountered [[William Adama]], who had not seen as much combat experience as Tigh himself. They became fast friends, and remained in touch after Adama was recommissioned into the service. Two years later, Tigh found himself reinstated into the Colonial Fleet at the rank of captain, thanks to his old friend, and now major, Adama.<ref name="adama">''Ibid''. "Adama reenlisted with the service, and Tigh spent two years drinking before Adama pulled strings to get him back into service. Tigh was straightening his life out when he met his wife Ellen, whom he courted and married within two months, about 7 years before the [[Miniseries]]. Unfortunately, Ellen did not take well to military life, and her repeated infidelities drove Tigh back into the bottle. The two separated shortly before the Cylon attack.</ref> His alcoholism has led many in the crew to view him with contempt ([[Miniseries]], "[[33]]").<br />
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=== Second Cylon War ===<br />
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Following the Cylon attack, Tigh recovered some of his old verve, and attempted to give up alcohol. However, this, combined with the initial stress of flight from the Cylons, caused him to overcompensate as a martinet, frequently driving the personnel overly hard, and berating where encouragement would prove the better option ([[33]]). He excused this by his view that the XO is supposed to be the "hard face" of command.<br />
[[image:33-Tigh_Adama.jpg|thumb|right|"If the crew doesn't hate the XO, then he's not doing his job."]]<br />
With his drinking problem relatively under control, Tigh settled back into his role as the ''Galactica'''s Executive Officer, though he still treats the ship's personnel relatively inhumanely. Apart from Adama, he seems unable to utter a sentence without cursing, or to leave any differing opinion unsneered at.<br />
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During Cylon attacks, Tigh has proved himself to be an good battle-manager and tactician. His quick actions sometimes save the ship and the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] from damage or destruction ("[[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]", "[[Scattered]]", "[[Valley of Darkness]]"). <br />
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Tigh is uneasy around President [[Laura Roslin]] ([[Water]]), and resents what he sees as her interfering with Adama's command ([[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]) - something born out of his deep respect for Adama, which even the most heated of disagreements between them ([[You Can't Go Home Again]]) cannot disrupt, or his general inability to accept differing viewpoints.<br />
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Tigh personally loathes [[Kara Thrace]], one of ''Galactica'''s pilots. While grudgingly conceding she is a fine pilot, Tigh does consider her an an egotistical, insubordinate youngster, and even tries to end her active service. Tigh criticizes Adama for having a soft spot for Thrace, ignoring that his whole existence in the fleet is based on a similar soft spot ([[Miniseries]]). <br />
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Outside of Adama, Tigh has few others he regards as confidants aboard ship; and since the initial Cylon attack, he has withdrawn from interacting with the crew during off-duty hours, making him perhaps more isolated than even Adama - who is at least held in awe, and respected by the crew.<br />
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=== Wife's Return ===<br />
[[image:Tigh_Me_Up_Tigh_Me_Down-Saul_Ellen.jpg|thumb|left|'''Tigh''' and his newly returned wife, [[Ellen Tigh|Ellen]], making a toast: "To starting over" ([[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]).]]<br />
Some three weeks after the Cylon attack on the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]], Tigh is stunned to discover his wife, [[Ellen Tigh|Ellen]], had not been killed as he had thought, but was rescued from [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Picon|Picon]], and carried aboard the ''[[Rising Star (RDM)|Rising Star]]'' as an unconscious "Jane Doe" by an unknown person. Later, it is revealed that the person who did that was a [[John Cavil]]-model Cylon.<br />
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Despite the emotional implications from the destruction of the Colonies and life aboard the ship, Tigh is reluctantly thrust further into politics, as his wife plays her schemes. Much to his disdain, his wife attempts to procure photo opportunities with the likes of [[Tom Zarek]] - a person Tigh views with the utmost contempt ([[Colonial Day]]). Additionally, Ellen seems to re-establish Tigh's alcoholism with gratuitous drinking. <br />
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Despite this, Adama sends Tigh with a squadron of [[Colonial Marine Corps|Marines]] to arrest [[Laura Roslin]] after Adama discovers that she convinced [[Kara Thrace]] to [[FTL|Jump]] back to [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] to retrieve a historical artifact called the [[Arrow of Apollo]] from the Delphi Museum. This action deprives the Fleet of a military asset - a captured [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Cylon Raider]], intended to have been used to plant a nuclear warhead aboard a [[basestar]] in orbit around the planet believed to be [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]] - and convinces Adama that Roslin is abusing her authority. <br />
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Onboard ''[[Colonial One]]'', Tigh's men and Roslin's [[Presidential Security Service|personal security agents]] are at a standoff when [[Lee Adama]] aims a weapon at Tigh's head and attempts to thwart the coup. Attempting to defuse the situation, Roslin agrees to be arrested and Lee Adama is arrested on charges of treason ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]).<br />
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=== Tigh in Command ===<br />
[[Image:Scattered-Tigh.jpg|thumb|right|Tigh realizing he's in a bit over his head ([[Scattered]]).]]<br />
Tigh is present in [[CIC]] during the attempted assassination of Adama by [[Sharon Valerii]]. As guards restrain Valerii, Tigh attempts to stop the bleeding from the torso gunshot wounds Adama sustained in the attempt ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]). He keeps Lee Adama from tending to his father and throws him into the brig. However, the need for reliable officers, forces Tigh to grant Lee a parole from his arrest. After his daily duties as [[CAG]] are done, Lee promises to return to the brig when off-shift.<br />
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With Adama incapacitated and with Roslin arrested, Tigh tries to maintain order. However, his irrational and gruff command style displeases many crew members. Morale and ship efficiency began to suffer. Ellen Tigh becomes a private adviser to her husband, frequently questioning his power to command while also suggesting ways of usurping more power and quashing his opponents. Ellen Tigh's advice only exacerbates an already-deteriorating situation.<br />
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Tigh's interrogation of suspected Cylon collaborators or infiltrators is brutal. After beating, then nearly shooting the ''Galactica'' copy of Valerii, other issues in the Fleet divert him from further interrogation. He orders a special cage made for her for later interrogation. Tigh also savagely interrogates Valerii's former lover, Chief [[Galen Tyrol]] as a possible [[humanoid Cylon]] himself. Tigh would have left him with Valerii in the newly built Cylon cage if [[Gaius Baltar]] did not intervene to prove medically that Tyrol is not a Cylon himself.<br />
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With Roslin in prison, uprisings begin as civilian ships refuse to supply ''Galactica'' until Roslin is released. Worse, the [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]] demand to see Roslin. Knowing of Roslin's hallucinations in the brig, he intentionally invites the Quorum to see Roslin in her poor state in hopes of disillusioning the Quorum. However, Roslin recovers sufficiently from her [[Chamalla]] withdrawal after getting a supply smuggled to her by Corporal [[Venner]], her guard. Tigh believes that the accounts within the [[Sacred Scrolls]] weren't to be believed, and teases Roslin in front of the Quorum on her visions. Roslin not only is able to speak to the Quorum, but decisively reinforces her decisions as well as her role in the search for the location of Earth as told in the Pythian prophesies. This act greatly impresses the Quorum, and infuriates Tigh; fearing a larger civilian government uprising led by the Quorum. Tigh institutes [[Wikipedia:martial law|martial law]] throughout the Fleet - a move he earlier had disclaimmed - in an attempt to maintain order in a rapidly chaotic shuffle of power between the civilian and military governments ([[Fragged]]).<br />
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The supply situation leads Tigh to deploying Marines in forcibly retrieving supplies. On [[Gideon|one ship]], a riot leads to four deaths and many injuries due to the pilot's inexperience in managing such a situation. Unlike Adama (who likely would have taken direct responsibility for the "Gideon Massacre"), Tigh places blame solely on the pilot, absolving himself from the incident.<br />
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=== Fleet Factioning and Adama's Return ===<br />
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The shootings, Tigh's decision for martial law, and his unwillingness to discuss anything with anyone except Ellen Tigh (and the unconscious Adama) becomes the dividing point of those wanting to press on to finding Earth, and those wanting to settle on Kobol ([[Season 2 (2005-06)|Season 2]]). Tigh's drinking spirals further out of control, leading to more erratic behavior and causing great concern regarding his ability to effectively command, particularly among the [[CIC]] staff. The situation comes to a head when Roslin, tacitly aided by other officers and crew on ''Galactica'', escapes the brig in an attempt to hide amongst the many ships in the Fleet with the aid of [[Tom Zarek]]. Tigh chases down the escaping Raptor using the [[Combat Air Patrol|CAP]], having the Viper fire across the bow of the fleeing Raptor to persuade it to return. The Raptor brazenly continues onward, leading to a crucial decision for the Colonel. Tigh allows the Raptor to escape rather than shooting it down, which would have killed Adama's son and the President and could have destabilized the fleet.<br />
[[image:Flight_of_the_Phoenix-Tigh_Adama.jpg|thumb|left|Tigh and Adama share a knowing smirk at the commissioning of the [[Blackbird]], ''Laura'' ([[Flight of the Phoenix]]).]]<br />
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Fortunately for the fleet and Colonel Tigh, Commander Adama regains consciousness shortly after the escape and asks what had happened during his absence. Tigh confesses that he has "frakked things up good", but Adama reassures his friend, saying, "I never had much use for people that second-guessed my decisions, especially if they've never held a command. They don't understand the pressure to make a call that affects the lives of thousands, and you have no one to turn to for backup." Despite all the serious problems that Tigh created, Adama doesn't blame him, telling Tigh that whatever bad calls were made, they would pick up the pieces together ([[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]). <br />
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Both Adama and Tigh underestimate the number of ships that secede from the main fleet to join the [[Laura Roslin faction|faction]] that sought the [[Tomb of Athena]] with President Roslin ([[The Farm]]). Tigh backs up Adama while he maintains a similar official position on Roslin and the separated ships as Tigh has. However, after Adama realizes that survival of the entire Fleet would only come if everyone held together, Adama begins to prepare a journey to Kobol to retrieve the remainder of the Fleet and reach out to Roslin ([[Home, Part I]]). At first Tigh seems to believe that Adama is retrieving the faction by more military means, and scoffs at Roslin's religious views on the quest until he realizes that Adama is beginning to follow Roslin's information, taking her reports and visions seriously. Tigh is left in command while Adama successfully reunites the Fleet and reconciles with Roslin ([[Home, Part II]]).<br />
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After [[William Adama|Adama's]] return to command and Roslin to the presidency, for a moment the ''Gideon'' incident is almost forgotten. Before she is invited to ''Galactica'', reporter [[D'Anna Biers]] prepares a story about the incident, which could destroy the public's view towards Tigh, and eventually ''Galactica''. However she drops the subject in favor of a ''Galactica'' documentary. Lt. [[Joe Palladino]], the pilot in charge of the boarding operation to ''Gideon'', blames Tigh for the discredit to his reputation. He begins to terrorize Tigh and his wife, but Tigh later manages to subdue Palladino ([[Final Cut]]).<br />
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=== ''Pegasus'' Discovered ===<br />
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Things once again turn on their head when ''Galactica'' has a chance encounter with the battlestar ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'', a modern type of battlestar and the flagship of Admiral [[Helena Cain]]. Cain, being the superior officer, assumes complete command of the Fleet. The naturally suspicious Tigh is wary about this mixed blessing, but takes it in stride like everything else up until now. When he begins to regularly speak with ''Pegasus''’s own XO [[Jack Fisk]], his suspicions slowly prove to be well founded.<br />
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Fisk's conscience-clearing sessions with Tigh reveal that Admiral Cain was responsible for a set of atrocities, the most damning being the pillaging and stranding of a small civilian fleet in open space. When Tigh relays this information to Commander Adama, Adama reminisces about their own questionable activities, particularly their actions regarding the ''[[Olympic Carrier]]''. However, Adama keeps Tigh's warnings in mind and they help him in his decision to stand up to Cain later on ("[[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]" through "[[Resurrection Ship, Part I]]").<br />
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=== The Election and New Caprica ===<br />
When the presidential election arrives, Colonel Tigh is charged with overseeing the vote tallies on ''Galactica''. When it appears that [[Gaius Baltar|Baltar]] would win the vote, [[Tory Foster]], President Roslin's aide, approaches Tigh and [[Anastasia Dualla|Dualla]] to conspire to steal the election for Roslin, foreseeing certain disaster in a Baltar presidency. Tigh, never a fan of Baltar's to begin with, organises the counting of fraudulent ballots in order to keep Baltar out of office. The plot is overturned when Lt. [[Felix Gaeta|Gaeta]] reports irregularities to Tigh, who all too obviously tries to sweep the affair under the carpet. Gaeta then informs Admiral Adama, who lets Tigh and Dualla off the hook and the official vote tallies are "revised" without the public learning of the Roslin campaign's attempt to steal the election.<br />
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One year later, after the fleet settles on [[New Caprica]] on the orders of President Baltar, most of the military staff have all but retired from active service. Col. Tigh is one of the few officers still serving aboard ''Galactica'', but the day eventually comes when Admiral Adama discharges his friend and XO from his duties to let him return to civilian life with his wife. On the surface of New Caprica, the couple run into [[Kara Thrace]] at [[Galen Tyrol|Galen]] and [[Cally Tyrol|Cally]] Tyrol's union rally. The former colonel and captain share an unusually warm embrace, having put their differences behind them at some point in the preceding year. However, their reunion does not last as a large Cylon fleet appears in orbit over the planet and the Cylons occupy New Caprica without firing a shot. Tigh and his wife are last seen watching in utter shock as [[Cylon Centurion]]s march through the streets of New Caprica City ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]).<br />
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=== Occupation and Resistance ===<br />
Two months into the occupation of New Caprica by the Cylons, Tigh is organizing and recruiting for [[New Caprica Resistance|the resistance on New Caprica]] along with Galen Tyrol and [[Jammer]]. When the Cylons begin to find the weapons hidden by the Resistance, Tigh orders them to be stored in the Temple, believing it to be the safest place as the Cylon respect the sanctity of the Temple and will not search it, disregarding any moral concerns. When the Cylons discover the weapons, [[Nora Farmer|Nora]] is shot and Cally Tyrol and her [[Nicholas Tyrol|baby]] barely escape. This leads several members of the [[New Caprica Resistance|resistance movement]] to question whether Tigh is going too far. After Tigh plans an attack that could endanger patients at a hospital, Jammer reports him to the Cylon authorities ([[Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance]]). The Cylons imprison Tigh and tear his right eye out. Ellen's sexual efforts with [[Cavil]] lead to Tigh's eventual release ([[Occupation]]) though this is later revealed to be a Cylon ruse to blackmail Ellen into collaboration with the Cylons as well as find the location of a high level meeting of the Insurgency.<br />
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===Escape from New Caprica and Ellen's death===<br />
After Ellen is discovered to have betrayed a meeting with [[Sharon Agathon]] to the Cylons, fellow Resistance leader [[Samuel Anders]] compels Tigh to execute Ellen for her actions. Reluctantly, Tigh kills his wife by giving her a poisoned drink after which he cries over her body.<br />
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[[Image:Saulellen.jpg|Tigh handing Ellen her poisoned drink.|thumb]]Tigh actively participates in the exodus from New Caprica, leading an attack on the shipyard with Galen Tyrol, during which they are aided by Vipers launched from ''Galactica''.<br />
[[Image:TighAdamaReunion.jpg|thumb|left|Adama welcomes Tigh back on ''Galactica'' ([[Exodus, Part II]]).]]<br />
Following the escape, he initially resumes his post as the executive officer of ''Galactica'', but is unable to conceal his contempt for those who colluded with the Cylons, such as [[Felix Gaeta]]. In a face-off with Admiral Adama, in which the senior officer orders Tigh to "sleep it off", it is clear that the events on New Caprica - most notably, his wife's death - are still adversely affecting Tigh. Following that he spends a lot of time in his quarters trying to cope with what happened to him on New Caprica and is temporarily replaced by [[Karl Agathon]].<br />
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He eventually becomes the apparent ringleader of the [[The Circle|Circle]], a group of six people authorized by then-President [[Tom Zarek]], charged with bringing collaborators to justice. Tigh is among the less scrupulous members but nonetheless opposes [[Charlie Connor]]'s suggestion of summary executions. Thirteen people fall victim to the Circle's mandate, including [[Jammer]] ([[Collaborators]]).<br />
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Tigh is reunited with an old comrade, [[Daniel Novacek]] and tells him the truth of his last mission. Tigh later stops him when Novacek tries to kill Adama in revenge for being the cause of him spending years as a Cylon captive ([[Hero]]). Tigh also referees the boxing fights organized to boost morale ([[Unfinished Business]]). He returns to duty during operations to resupply the Fleet's food stores ([[The Passage]]). When [[Dr. Robert]], a civilian physician, is implicated in the deaths of [[Sagittaron]] refugees, Tigh initially defends his friend, saying that he worked with the resistance on New Caprica. He clashes with [[Karl Agathon]] over this, who insists on investigating Robert. However, when it turns out that Robert was killing the Sagittarons out of prejudice, Tigh orders his arrest ([[The Woman King]]).<br />
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When [[Kara Thrace]] dies he is visibly heartbroken ([[Maelstrom]]), showing that he did truly care about her despite their differences, which he had begun to show in "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]". As the Fleet nears the [[Ionian nebula]] and Gaius Baltar's trial begins, Tigh is one of a few people who hear mysterious music on several occasions. When called to testify in court, he shows up drunk. [[Romo Lampkin|Baltar's lawyer]] exploits this vulnerability and forces Tigh to publicly admit that he killed his wife on New Caprica ([[Crossroads, Part I]]).<br />
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===The Damning Revelation===<br />
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[[Image:403 - Tigh and his gun.jpg|thumb|Tigh in his waking "nightmare" state ([[He That Believeth In Me]]).]]<br />
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Saul Tigh, [[Galen Tyrol]], [[Samuel Anders]] and [[Tory Foster]] begin to hear a [[The Music|song]] only they can hear over and over again, driving them to distraction. They instinctively come to the realization that they are four of the [[final five]] Cylons. They decide to remain loyal to the Colonials ([[Crossroads, Part II]]).<br />
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With a Cylon fleet bearing down on them, Tigh resumes his position as executive officer again. However, almost immediately, this decision is tested by both Tigh's waking nightmares during the onset of the [[Battle of the Ionian Nebula|battle]]&mdash;where he believes he will kill his friend and commander, Adama, much the same way [[Sharon Valerii|Boomer]] tried to&mdash;and the return of [[Kara Thrace]], who may be a Cylon. Even amidst this, he is the ''de facto'' leader of the "Final Four" and continues to assure them that they are different than Boomer and the other Cylons. Further, he has them pledge to kill themselves should they feel any inkling of betraying the Fleet ([[He That Believeth In Me]]).<br />
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In an attempt to learn more about what it means to be a Cylon and how they deal with pain, Tigh visits [[Caprica-Six]] in the [[brig]] and asks her how it feels to have the blood of billions of beings on her hands. Six replies that she is just as human as he is and can't switch off her feelings, but that she has found another way to deal with her pain. During their conversation, Tigh has a [[Virtual Ellen|hallucination]] of his dead wife, whose body he sees the place of Six. She tries to help him cope with his feelings and share some of her perceived clarity. In act of tenderness, she removes his eye patch, but Tigh rebukes her advances. Six then punches Tigh and kisses him when he lies on the floor ([[Escape Velocity]]).<br />
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When [[Natalie]] offers the Colonials access to the Cylon [[Resurrection Hub]] and wants to unbox the [[Number Three|Threes]] in order to learn what she knows about the Final Five, Tigh reacts shocked and fears that he will be uncovered and killed. Instead of cooperation with the Cylon rebels, he urges President Roslin to just destroy the hub ([[Guess What's Coming to Dinner?]]).<br />
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When Doctor [[Cottle]] discovers that Caprica-Six is pregnant, Admiral Adama is angry at Tigh for "giving in to his weaknesses" and being disloyal. Tigh initially counters that Adama is risking a lot for [[Laura Roslin|woman he cares about]] as well. When Adama asks what Ellen would say about his actions, Tigh becomes furious and physically attacks Adama. The two exchange blows and Adama eventually shoves Tigh to the floor, who breaks Adama's model ship during the fall. Having vented their frustrations, both calm down. Later, Adama decides to stay back in a Raptor to wait for Roslin's return. He temporarily promotes Tigh to admiral and gives him command of the Fleet. Tigh is reluctant, recalling his previous [[Scattered|disastrous experience in command]], but takes the position ([[Sine Qua Non]]).<br />
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Tigh's anxiousness about being revealed as a Cylon is magnified when Adama returns with [[D'Anna Biers]]. However, instead of exposing him, she forces his hand by holding the Colonials on the Cylon baseship hostage, demanding that the Cylons on ''Galactica'' are turned over to them. To prevent Adama from carrying out an extremely risky and bloody rescue plan, Tigh decides to come clean himself. He confesses to William Adama, saying that he should have done so earlier. Adama can't believe his friend, but orders him arrested and brought to a [[Launch tube (RDM)|launch tube]]. There, Tigh also exposes Tyrol and Anders. Tigh is about to be spaced, when Kara Thrace runs into the control room and tells everyone that she has found another clue towards [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]]. In an unexpected move, President [[Lee Adama]] grants the Cylons a full amnesty. Before the final jump to Earth, Tigh sits in his quarters drinking, unsure what to do ([[Revelations]]).<br />
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===Earth and further revelations===<br />
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Tigh and Caprica-Six accompany the survey team to Earth's surface, where the latter reaches out for and touches the former. Following their amnesty, Tigh, Anders and Tyrol wear fatigues with no rank insignia ([[Revelations]], [[Sometimes a Great Notion]]), and none is shown having any authority. Tigh's sidearm has not, however, been confiscated from his wall locker.<br />
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Back aboard ''Galactica'', a drunken Admiral Adama storms into Tigh's quarters, armed with a marine's pistol. Grabbing Tigh's pistol from its storage shelf, charging it, and dropping it on the table, Adama orders Tigh, "Sit down, Cylon!" Tigh successfully resists Adama's attemps to encourage Tigh into drinking and to be used for Adama's "assisted suicide". Tigh tries to apologize about his revelation of being a Cylon, but Adama is beyond angry. "Is that how it worked? They program you to be my friend? Emulate all the qualities I respect. Tell me jokes...and I laugh at them." Tigh counters that he wanted, chose to be his friend. Adama throws insult after insult about [[Ellen Tigh]], in an attempt to anger Tigh into picking up either sidearm to shoot his friend. "Do it! Or I'll do it myself!" Adama says, pointing the marine's pistol to his own temple. "I'm sorry, Bill, but this is the one time I can't help you," Tigh tells him ([[Sometimes a Great Notion]]).<br />
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In a reversal of roles, Tigh is the sober one of the two, and gives Adama a much-needed dressing-down. After listening to Adama's story of foxes that would either fight, try to cross the river, or simply give up and float out to sea, Tigh admonishes him not be like foxes choosing to drown. He reminds Adama that he is still the commander and that Tigh is still the XO of the ship; killing himself would not help himself nor their people. Thereafter, Colonel Tigh is restored to his to his rank and position on ''Galactica'' ([[Sometimes a Great Notion]]).<br />
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Once again in his service uniform and wearing his rank, Tigh leads the round-up of the survey crews on the Earth surface in preparation for their journey toward a new home. At the water's edge, [[Number Three (Downloaded copy)|Downloaded Three]] informs him of her decision to give up and die alone on Earth. Their talk reminds Tigh of Adama's fox story, and he begins to walk into the sea. When chest-deep, he is compelled to reach down. In doing so, he discovers a mangled post box hatch from his apartment building lobby two millenia earlier. Like Tyrol, he has a vision of Earth's nuclear distruction. He is wearing a civilian business suit. He hears Ellen, finds her trapped under debris he cannot move. He splashes through the water as he remembers himself digging though the rubble to reach Ellen and remembers her prophesy. Ellen tells him, as more bombs go off, flashing bright, "Saul, it's okay. Everything's in place. We'll be reborn...again. Together." The vision fades as Tigh realizes the truth. "Ellen...Ellen! You're the [[Final Five|fifth!]]"<br />
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===The search for a home continues===<br />
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Col. Tigh relieves an exhausted Lt. [[Felix Gaeta]] from duty and orders him to take an ill-fated week's leave aboard ''[[Zephyr]]'' to rest and recover. After Gaeta's shuttle raptor is lost in an emergency FTL jump while en-route to ''Zephyr'', Tigh acquiesses to Lt. [[Louis Hoshi]]'s plea for a raptor and pilot with whom to search for his lover. Gaeta is the only survivor of the seven (five Colonials and two [[Number Eight]] Cylons) aboard the raptor, and explains that one of the Eights killed everyone else before being herself killed by Gaeta. After consulting off-camera with the rebel Cylons, Tigh tells him that the incident will not be investigated. Nevertheless, the incident leaves Gaeta apprehensive about their alliance with the rebel Cylons and asks to speak with Admiral Adama because, with all due respect, Tigh is a Cylon. Tigh reluctantly approves his request ([[The Face of the Enemy]]).<br />
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Days into the Fleet's search for a new home, Caprica-Six and Saul Tigh are in sickbay where Dr. Cottle is using a sonagram to show them their unborn child. Tigh can't see the image, when Cottle quips, "Try looking with your eyes...eye." In a moment of amazement while Assistant Layne Ishay points out the elements of the sonagram, an overwhelmed Tigh albeit happy, asks for a drink. Cottle offers a cigarette instead to Tigh as he lights one for himself, to Ishay's dismay.<br />
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In Admiral Adama's quarters, Lee Adama, Saul Tigh, Galen Tyrol, Felix Gaeta and Karl Agathon meet to discuss the implementation of Cylon FTL upgrades to the civilian ships. Tyrol argues that the Cylons become valid citizens of the Fleet, with their own representative on the Quorum and Adama's oath of protection if they are to get the Cylon technology. Tigh comments after Tyrol fubbles with his proper pronouns for the situation that he might need a chart to help him keep it right. <br />
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=== Mutiny, Return of Ellen and the End of the Journey ===<br />
Felix Gaeta leads a mutiny alongside a coup lead by Tom Zarek in order to gain control of the Fleet. Adama and Tigh are captured, but manage to escape and meet up with Lee and Kara. They make their way to a forgotten airlock where Baltar and Roslin escape in a Cylon Raptor to the [[Rebel Basestar]] while Adama stays behind to try to retake ''Galactica''. Tigh insists on staying with him despite being a likely target due to being a Cylon and Adama tells him that "its been an honor to serve with you my friend." ([[The Oath]]) The two are knocked out by a stun grenade and captured by marines led by Captain Aaron Kelly who Tigh insults. He's taken to the brig where Caprica Six, Helo, Athena and Anders already are, but they are rescued by Kara and Lee. However, Anders is seriously hurt and Kara stays behind to get him to Doctor Cottle. The freed prisoners find Kelly who defects and shows them where Admiral Adama is about to be executed and they arrive just in time to save his life. Tigh holds a gun on Narcho who's in charge of the firing squad and forces him not to tell Gaeta the truth. After Narcho refuses to help retake the ship, Tigh goes to shoot him, but is stopped by Adama who has him tied up instead. Tigh is part of Adama's march to retake CIC and helps recapture it without firing a shot, ending the mutiny. ([[Blood on the Scales]])<br />
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Tigh later learns some of his history from Anders who has regained his Cylon memories after being shot in the head during the mutiny. ([[No Exit]]) He is also shocked when a missing Raptor shows up carrying Boomer and his wife Ellen who had downloaded into a new body on a [[Resurrection Ship]] after he had killed her and had been a prisoner of [[Cavil]] until Boomer helped her escape. The Rebel Cylons are excited to have all of the Final Five with them and want to leave the Fleet and leave it up to a majority vote of the Five. Tigh, remembering that Anders told him to stay with the Fleet, votes to stay and given what Anders said, they take it as a vote to stay as well, Tyrol and Tory vote to go, but Ellen is shocked and undecided after learning that he got Caprica Six pregnant. He later asks for a private meeting with Ellen, but she summons Tyrol, Tory and Caprica Six to tell them that they're going to leave the Fleet, doing it just to spite him as she knows how much he loves the Fleet. Tigh refuses to go saying that they can go without him and if Caprica Six really wants to go, she can go too, but he's not going. Ellen uses this to say he loves the Fleet and Bill Adama more than he loves either of them, but Caprica Six suddenly goes into distress and starts to miscarry the baby. A horrified Ellen apologizes saying she only wanted to hurt him, not Caprica Six or the baby. She tells them that they can stay and should and that she'll move to the [[Rebel Basestar]] and leave him alone. He at first pushes her away, but eventually allows her to comfort him. She tries to get him to tell Caprica Six how much he loves her, but he can't seem to do it. Caprica Six miscarries and their baby dies in the womb. Later Tigh goes to Admiral Adama and cries about his lost son. ([[Deadlock]]) The death of their baby is also apparently the end of the relationship between Tigh and Caprica Six.<br />
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Tigh is with Ellen, Tyrol and Tory in Joe's Bar when Kara starts playing the music, surprising them all. ([[Someone to Watch Over Me]]) Afterwards he's shocked when Admiral Adama decides to order ''Galactica's'' repairs to stop and the ship to be scrapped for parts. The two share a toast to the ship. ([[Islanded in a Stream of Stars]])<br />
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When Adama calls for volunteers for a rescue mission for Hera Agathon, Tigh volunteers immediately alongside Ellen. ([[Daybreak, Part I]]) During the [[Battle of The Colony]], Tigh coordinates the battle with Admiral Adama in CIC. When a fire breaks out near Anders, he goes up with Tyrol to put it out and stays on the balcony afterwards. During the attempt to get Cavil to stop all of this and release Hera who he has taken hostage in CIC, Tigh offers him resurrection if he agrees to let Hera go and stop chasing humanity. After he agrees the Five combine together to send the plans for resurrection to The Colony and Tigh calms a nervous Tory by saying they forgive her sins when she gets worried about everyone seeing everyone else's memories. Tigh is shocked to discover that Tory murdered Cally and can only watch as Tyrol kills Tory in revenge. After ''Galactica'' jumps away, Tigh resumes his duties as XO and reports that ''Galactica'' suffered critical structural failures and "broke her back" and can't jump anymore. After landing on their new home planet that they name Earth, Tigh and Ellen say goodbye to Tyrol who plans to go off and live as a hermit and Tigh forgives him for killing Tory, saying he'd have done the same thing if someone had done that to Ellen. Tigh and Ellen rekindle their relationship and go off to spend the rest of their lives together. ([[Daybreak, Part II]])<br />
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== Attitudes toward humans ==<br />
Col. Tigh is unabashedly pro-human and has stayed fiercely loyal to [[William Adama]] and the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] despite almost being killed by his son [[Lee Adama]] in a rage over his - from Lee's point of view - lifelong deception of his father and the Fleet. He has faced such deadly hostility, but has persevered perhaps in part, if not in whole, because he shares such prejudice himself. This is including serving in the [[New Caprica Resistance|Resistance]] on [[New Caprica]] and having no compunction in blowing up Cylons and alleged collaborators alike. He was often the first to call for the execution of any Cylons found among them. He even killed his own wife [[Ellen Tigh]] for betraying the Resistance essentially under [[Samuel Anders]]' orders.<br />
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When he finds out he is a "[[skinjob]]" he is, of course, stunned. He has a waken nightmare of himself repeating the act of [[Sharon Valerii]] shooting Admiral Adama under programming. He pledges with the other three [[Final Five]] Cylons aboard ''Galactica'' to remain loyal and at their post, but if any of them including himself showed signs of working against the interest of the Fleet via hidden program, they should be killed or turned in. Since his discovery his loyalty has not wavered. Indeed he was disappointed in [[Tory Foster]]'s defection to the Cylons and [[Galen Tyrol]]'s wavering of who he should belong to. Sam Anders has a similar attitude as Tigh for being loyal to humanity but not as strong - or at least not stated as strongly.<br />
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Tigh has fully accepted his Cylon nature to the point he cohabitates with [[Caprica-Six]] who is carrying the couple's child. During the mutiny he is willing to die by the side of his best friend and commanding officer William Adama despite Adama's drunken attempts to bait Tigh into killing him only days earlier. He has said that mankind has a lot to answer for regarding the treatment of the Cylons before the [[Second Cylon War]] began, but he actually argues to Tyrol and particularly Tory Foster that it is by no means entirely the fault of humankind for their own destruction:<center><blockquote>''NO! Maybe we share the guilt with the humans but we don't get to just shove it off onto them".</blockquote></center><br />
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Like Tyrol and Foster, he has no independent recollection of his life before Cavil killed him and implanted false memories, but he was, as related by Samuel Anders, one of the Five to stop the [[Cylon War|First Cylon War]] the [[Cylon Centurion Model 0005|Colonial Centurion Cylons]] were raging some 40 years before so his attitude may moderate, but probably won't change his pro-human outlook.<br />
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==Notes==<br />
* Tigh is supposedly a third-generation Colonial soldier. His father was a decorated fighter pilot killed in combat and his grandfather served under President [[Mueller (president)|Mueller]]. Also, Tigh was a published military historian until personal problems became apparent ([[Miniseries]], [[List of Deleted Scenes (RDM)|deleted scene]]). However, given Tigh's recently-revealed Cylon nature, his family history may be a fabrication. Tigh's interest in military history has not been mentioned on screen after the Miniseries, although he mentions various Cylon tactics in use from the Cylon War that came to save ''Galactica'' after being boarded by [[Centurion (RDM)|Centurion]]s ([[Valley of Darkness]]).<br />
* A different serial number is given in [[He That Believeth In Me]] on Starbuck's gun-camera shots of Earth's moon: '''245A-34DC'''.<br />
* Tigh's first name has been given as "Paul" on a number of websites. This is initially based on an early [http://www.twiztv.com/scripts/battlestar/season1/galactica-ms1.pdf version of the script] '''(PDF file)''', which has Adama speaking to "Paul" in their discussion of his fight with Kara Thrace. In the [[podcast]] [[Podcast:Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down|commentary]] on the episode "[[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]", [[Ronald D. Moore]] has indicated that the character's name initially was Paul Tigh. The name had to be changed due to legal issues that Moore was unable to recall in that podcast.<br />
* Tigh is based on the character of Paul Eddington in the movie ''[[w:In Harm's Way|In Harm's Way]]'' portrayed by [[w:Kirk Douglas|Kirk Douglas]] (with [[w:John Wayne|John Wayne]]).<br />
* Tigh's (albeit false) age is one of the only ones which can be accurately deduced. According to a [[List of Deleted Scenes - Season 2 (RDM)#Valley of Darkness|deleted scene]] from "[[Valley of Darkness]]", he served on the ''[[Brenik]]'' when it was boarded during the second year of the Cylon War. Tigh says that he was "just a kid. Virgin. Teenager." It is known that [[Colonial Day (holiday)|Colonial Day]] is the anniversary of both the unification of the Colonies, and (roughly) the outbreak of the Cylon War<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20080505053711/http://blog.scifi.com/battlestar/archives/2005/04/index.html#a000025 RDM, April 11, 2005]</ref>, and was 52 years ago ([[Colonial Day]]). Thus, Tigh is between 63 and 69 years old at the beginning of Season 2.<br />
* In the DVD commentary of "[[Act of Contrition]]", Ron Moore notes that actor [[Michael Hogan]] won the role of Tigh over [[Donnelly Rhodes]], who was one of two other actors vying for the part. Rhodes went on to play the role of [[Cottle|Dr. Cottle]], ''Galactica'''s CMO.<br />
* According to ''[[Battlestar Galactica: The Official Magazine]]'', Tigh's home colony is [[Aerilon]]. However, in "[[Dirty Hands]]", [[Cally Tyrol|Cally]] claims that virtually no officers in the Colonial Fleet are from poorer colonies. While this could be an exaggeration, her [[Galen Tyrol|husband]] brings up [[Anastasia Dualla|Dualla]] as counter-example, but not Tigh.<br />
*Tigh's Cylon identity may be alluded to as early as "[[Occupation]]": not only does he have only one eye at this point, but the Cylon "scanning eye" sound effect can be faintly heard as he looks toward the open door of his cell when Cavil enters to tell him that he has been released.<br />
*In several interviews included on the Season 4.0 DVD, actor Michael Hogan cites fan polls that indicated Tigh was considered one of the least likely characters to be a Cylon. This would also seem to extend to the production crew, as a highlight of the 2006 Gag Reel shown at the San Diego Comic Con was a comedic segment suggesting that Tigh was the "13th Cylon".<br />
*Despite being a Cylon and unlike the other members of the Final Five, Tigh doesn't really display Cylon abilities. This is likely from him not embracing his Cylon side like the others do to various extents: Tory shows Cylon strength and joins the Cylons on the baseship as well as connecting to the datastream in the final episode, Tyrol shows Cylon resilance, strength, the ability to tell Cylons apart, [[projection]] and is able to connect to the datastream, Anders is physicaly connected to the datastream and acts as a Hybrid as well as displaying a Cylon IFF signal when scanned by a Raider, while Ellen resurrects and acts like a Cylon in her new body, but the only time Tigh displays his Cylon abilities is when he connects to the datastream to transmit the Resurrection data.<br />
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|photo= Saul Tigh.jpg<br />
|age= Allegedly 71<ref>Tigh was supposedly born in 69 BCH, ("[[Valley of Darkness]]" deleted scene), and Season 3 takes place in 2 AHC.</ref>, actually 2,000+<br />
|colony= [[Earth_(RDM)#Arrival_and_Ruins|Original Earth]]; he has a fabricated background of being from [[Aerilon]]<br />
|birthname=<br />
|callsign= <br />
|seen= Miniseries<br />
|death= 1. Nuclear destruction of Original Earth, c. 2000 BCH (resurrected in orbit)<br>2. suffocated by [[Number One]], c. 32 BCH (resurrected with false memories)<br>3. Eventually died after 4 ACH settlement on New Earth<br />
|parents=<br />
|siblings=<br />
|children= Non-biologically: Considered a "father" of the eight humanoid Cylon models;<br>Biologically: [[Liam Tigh]]† (miscarried at four months) with Caprica-Six<br />
|marital status=Married to [[Ellen Tigh]] in all three lives;<br>briefly cohabitated with [[Caprica-Six]]<br />
|role= Executive Officer, [[Galactica type battlestar|battlestar]] ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'';<br>Commander of [[New Caprica Resistance]];<br>Civilian deckhand;<br>Engineer or scientist<br />
|rank= Colonel<br />
|actor= [[Michael Hogan]]<br />
|serial=219804<ref>Serial number from [[:Image:Tigh's dogtag serial.jpg|his dogtags]] and confirmed by the studios for the QMX replica.</ref> <br />
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'''Saul Tigh''' is the [[Executive Officer]] (XO) of ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'', and repeatedly serves as acting commander in the absence of [[William Adama]]. Before his service on ''Galactica'', he served as Adama's XO on the battlestar ''[[Valkyrie]]''. During the Cylon occupation of [[New Caprica]], Tigh commanded the [[New Caprica Resistance]]. <br />
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A tough but troubled man with a long history of alcoholism, Tigh has false memories of having served in the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Colonial Fleet]] since his teenage years, seeing action in the [[First Cylon War]]. He is married to [[Ellen Tigh]], whose death was incorrectly (though logically) presumed to have been permanent. Believing himself to be a widower, he entered a sexual relationship with [[Caprica Six]],with whom he sired a miscarried child named [[Liam|Liam Tigh]].<br />
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Upon reaching the [[Ionian nebula]], he and [[Final Five|three others]] [[Crossroads, Part II|became aware]] of their nature as [[Humanoid Cylon|Cylons]]. Since then, he has sporadically regained memories and knowledge of his prior life.<br />
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==Biography ==<br />
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===Cylon past===<br />
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Saul Tigh lived on [[Earth (RDM)#Arrival_and_Ruins|the original Earth]] two millennia ago. Like all humanoids on that planet, he was a Cylon: a member of the [[Thirteenth Tribe (RDM)|Thirteenth Tribe]]. There, he was one of five scientists researching "organic memory transfer," a technology which had originated on [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]], but fell out of use on Earth once the Thirteenth Tribe Cylons started to procreate sexually. His wife Ellen was the most gifted of the five scientists. When nuclear armageddon came, Saul found himself in the lobby of his apartment building. Hearing a voice crying out, "Saul!" from the floor in front of the tenants' post boxes, he finds his wife trapped under debris he cannot move. He pulls the lighter debris from around her, as more bombs detonate. Moments before they die, she tells him, "Saul, it's okay. Everything's in place. We'll be reborn... again. Together." ([[Sometimes a Great Notion]], [[No Exit]])<br />
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The organic memory transfer they were researching was [[Resurrection (RDM)|resurrection technology]], the same technology their ancestors brought from [[Kobol]]. When killed by the explosions, Saul and the other four downloaded into new bodies aboard a ship they had placed in orbit. Knowing that humanity would continue to create artificial life, they made their way the Twelve Colonies to warn them about the the need to treat their creations with kindness in order to prevent a rebellion and inter-species war. Lacking [[Propulsion in the Re-imagined Series|faster-than-light]] capability, the five travelled at relativistic speeds. From the planetary perspective, their journey took approximately two thousand years.<br />
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Saul and the other four found their fears were justified. Upon their arrival, the first [[Cylon War]] was already in progress between humans and the Colonial [[Cylon Centurion Model 0005|Cylon Centurions]]. Saul and the others made a deal with the Centurions: end the war against the humans, and the Five would help them build humanoid Cylons. They ultimately made eight models for the Centurions, and their technology was stored in [[The Colony]]. The favoritism which [[Number One]] perceived Saul's wife, Ellen, displayed toward [[Number Seven]] drove Number One into a jealous rage. In addition to permanently destroying the Number Seven line, he suffocated Saul and the other four Cylons from Earth. Blocking their real memories, Number One implanted false ones in their minds, and deposited them among the human population in an attempt to prove to them the "evils" of humanity.<br />
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=== False Backstory ===<br />
Saul Tigh was supposedly born on the colony of [[Aerilon]]<ref name="aerelon">"Cylon Intelligence Report: Personnel File: Saul Tigh." <u>Battlestar Galactica: The Official Magazine</u>. Feb./Mar. 2006: 62. - He has [[Crossroads, Part II|recently been revealed]] as a Cylon presumably making this point moot.</ref>.<br />
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Tigh began his military career as a deckhand<ref name="deckhand">''Ibid''. "Saul Tigh entered the fleet as a deckhand, but rose through the ranks, and was a CPO (Chief Petty Officer) by the time the First Cylon War broke out."</ref>. By the second year of the First [[Cylon War]], he was serving as a gunner's mate onboard the ''[[Brenik]]''. His ship was boarded by the Cylons, where he and others fought in hand-to-hand combat, during the bloodiest period of that war. It was during this battle that he saw his first dead man, [[Duncan Rafferty]], who was violently vivisected by Centurions ("[[Valley of Darkness]]", [[List of Deleted Scenes - Season 2 (RDM)#Noteworthy Dialogue|deleted scene]]). His ship was subsequently destroyed, but he survived. He was transferred to another unnamed ship, which succumbed to a similar fate as his original ship. Having borne witness to many a bloody combat, he became emotionally scarred, which had, among other impetuses, led him to alcoholism. <br />
[[Image:Tighadama.jpg|Tigh and Adama's first meeting.|left|thumb]]<br />
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Tigh eventually achieved the rank of Chief Petty Officer. When Viper pilot numbers began running low in the war, Tigh was selected for Colonial [[officer candidate school]], and was reassigned as a Viper pilot.<ref>{{cite rdm podcast|episode=Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down}}</ref> As a pilot, he demonstrated considerable skill, earning several medals while posted aboard [[Athena (Battlestar)|Battlestar ''Athena'']].<ref name="athena">''Ibid''. "Tigh joined the Colonial officer candidate school, and was reassigned as a Viper pilot, something he excelled in, earning a string of medals in his post aboard the battlestar Athena."</ref> After the cessation of hostilities, he was dismissed from service.<br />
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=== Inter-War Years ===<br />
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Tigh eked out an existence as a deckhand aboard a commercial freighter. He clearly experienced signs of post-traumatic stress disorder; he commented that every time he smelled grease or machine oil, he would nearly vomit, as this smell reminded him of the "stink" of Centurions ("[[Valley of Darkness]]", [[List of Deleted Scenes - Season 2 (RDM)#Noteworthy Dialogue|deleted scene]]). While onboard, he drowned himself in alcohol and, after a time, about 20 years after the war, encountered [[William Adama]], who had not seen as much combat experience as Tigh himself. They became fast friends, and remained in touch after Adama was recommissioned into the service. Two years later, Tigh found himself reinstated into the Colonial Fleet at the rank of captain, thanks to his old friend, and now major, Adama.<ref name="adama">''Ibid''. "Adama reenlisted with the service, and Tigh spent two years drinking before Adama pulled strings to get him back into service. Tigh was straightening his life out when he met his wife Ellen, whom he courted and married within two months, about 7 years before the [[Miniseries]]. Unfortunately, Ellen did not take well to military life, and her repeated infidelities drove Tigh back into the bottle. The two separated shortly before the Cylon attack.</ref> His alcoholism has led many in the crew to view him with contempt ([[Miniseries]], "[[33]]").<br />
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=== Second Cylon War ===<br />
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Following the Cylon attack, Tigh recovered some of his old verve, and attempted to give up alcohol. However, this, combined with the initial stress of flight from the Cylons, caused him to overcompensate as a martinet, frequently driving the personnel overly hard, and berating where encouragement would prove the better option ([[33]]). He excused this by his view that the XO is supposed to be the "hard face" of command.<br />
[[image:33-Tigh_Adama.jpg|thumb|right|"If the crew doesn't hate the XO, then he's not doing his job."]]<br />
With his drinking problem relatively under control, Tigh settled back into his role as the ''Galactica'''s Executive Officer, though he still treats the ship's personnel relatively inhumanely. Apart from Adama, he seems unable to utter a sentence without cursing, or to leave any differing opinion unsneered at.<br />
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During Cylon attacks, Tigh has proved himself to be an good battle-manager and tactician. His quick actions sometimes save the ship and the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] from damage or destruction ("[[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]", "[[Scattered]]", "[[Valley of Darkness]]"). <br />
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Tigh is uneasy around President [[Laura Roslin]] ([[Water]]), and resents what he sees as her interfering with Adama's command ([[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]) - something born out of his deep respect for Adama, which even the most heated of disagreements between them ([[You Can't Go Home Again]]) cannot disrupt, or his general inability to accept differing viewpoints.<br />
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Tigh personally loathes [[Kara Thrace]], one of ''Galactica'''s pilots. While grudgingly conceding she is a fine pilot, Tigh does consider her an an egotistical, insubordinate youngster, and even tries to end her active service. Tigh criticizes Adama for having a soft spot for Thrace, ignoring that his whole existence in the fleet is based on a similar soft spot ([[Miniseries]]). <br />
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Outside of Adama, Tigh has few others he regards as confidants aboard ship; and since the initial Cylon attack, he has withdrawn from interacting with the crew during off-duty hours, making him perhaps more isolated than even Adama - who is at least held in awe, and respected by the crew.<br />
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=== Wife's Return ===<br />
[[image:Tigh_Me_Up_Tigh_Me_Down-Saul_Ellen.jpg|thumb|left|'''Tigh''' and his newly returned wife, [[Ellen Tigh|Ellen]], making a toast: "To starting over" ([[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]).]]<br />
Some three weeks after the Cylon attack on the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]], Tigh is stunned to discover his wife, [[Ellen Tigh|Ellen]], had not been killed as he had thought, but was rescued from [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Picon|Picon]], and carried aboard the ''[[Rising Star (RDM)|Rising Star]]'' as an unconscious "Jane Doe" by an unknown person. Later, it is revealed that the person who did that was a [[John Cavil]]-model Cylon.<br />
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Despite the emotional implications from the destruction of the Colonies and life aboard the ship, Tigh is reluctantly thrust further into politics, as his wife plays her schemes. Much to his disdain, his wife attempts to procure photo opportunities with the likes of [[Tom Zarek]] - a person Tigh views with the utmost contempt ([[Colonial Day]]). Additionally, Ellen seems to re-establish Tigh's alcoholism with gratuitous drinking. <br />
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Despite this, Adama sends Tigh with a squadron of [[Colonial Marine Corps|Marines]] to arrest [[Laura Roslin]] after Adama discovers that she convinced [[Kara Thrace]] to [[FTL|Jump]] back to [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] to retrieve a historical artifact called the [[Arrow of Apollo]] from the Delphi Museum. This action deprives the Fleet of a military asset - a captured [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Cylon Raider]], intended to have been used to plant a nuclear warhead aboard a [[basestar]] in orbit around the planet believed to be [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]] - and convinces Adama that Roslin is abusing her authority. <br />
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Onboard ''[[Colonial One]]'', Tigh's men and Roslin's [[Presidential Security Service|personal security agents]] are at a standoff when [[Lee Adama]] aims a weapon at Tigh's head and attempts to thwart the coup. Attempting to defuse the situation, Roslin agrees to be arrested and Lee Adama is arrested on charges of treason ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]).<br />
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=== Tigh in Command ===<br />
[[Image:Scattered-Tigh.jpg|thumb|right|Tigh realizing he's in a bit over his head ([[Scattered]]).]]<br />
Tigh is present in [[CIC]] during the attempted assassination of Adama by [[Sharon Valerii]]. As guards restrain Valerii, Tigh attempts to stop the bleeding from the torso gunshot wounds Adama sustained in the attempt ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]). He keeps Lee Adama from tending to his father and throws him into the brig. However, the need for reliable officers, forces Tigh to grant Lee a parole from his arrest. After his daily duties as [[CAG]] are done, Lee promises to return to the brig when off-shift.<br />
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With Adama incapacitated and with Roslin arrested, Tigh tries to maintain order. However, his irrational and gruff command style displeases many crew members. Morale and ship efficiency began to suffer. Ellen Tigh becomes a private adviser to her husband, frequently questioning his power to command while also suggesting ways of usurping more power and quashing his opponents. Ellen Tigh's advice only exacerbates an already-deteriorating situation.<br />
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Tigh's interrogation of suspected Cylon collaborators or infiltrators is brutal. After beating, then nearly shooting the ''Galactica'' copy of Valerii, other issues in the Fleet divert him from further interrogation. He orders a special cage made for her for later interrogation. Tigh also savagely interrogates Valerii's former lover, Chief [[Galen Tyrol]] as a possible [[humanoid Cylon]] himself. Tigh would have left him with Valerii in the newly built Cylon cage if [[Gaius Baltar]] did not intervene to prove medically that Tyrol is not a Cylon himself.<br />
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With Roslin in prison, uprisings begin as civilian ships refuse to supply ''Galactica'' until Roslin is released. Worse, the [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]] demand to see Roslin. Knowing of Roslin's hallucinations in the brig, he intentionally invites the Quorum to see Roslin in her poor state in hopes of disillusioning the Quorum. However, Roslin recovers sufficiently from her [[Chamalla]] withdrawal after getting a supply smuggled to her by Corporal [[Venner]], her guard. Tigh believes that the accounts within the [[Sacred Scrolls]] weren't to be believed, and teases Roslin in front of the Quorum on her visions. Roslin not only is able to speak to the Quorum, but decisively reinforces her decisions as well as her role in the search for the location of Earth as told in the Pythian prophesies. This act greatly impresses the Quorum, and infuriates Tigh; fearing a larger civilian government uprising led by the Quorum. Tigh institutes [[Wikipedia:martial law|martial law]] throughout the Fleet - a move he earlier had disclaimmed - in an attempt to maintain order in a rapidly chaotic shuffle of power between the civilian and military governments ([[Fragged]]).<br />
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The supply situation leads Tigh to deploying Marines in forcibly retrieving supplies. On [[Gideon|one ship]], a riot leads to four deaths and many injuries due to the pilot's inexperience in managing such a situation. Unlike Adama (who likely would have taken direct responsibility for the "Gideon Massacre"), Tigh places blame solely on the pilot, absolving himself from the incident.<br />
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=== Fleet Factioning and Adama's Return ===<br />
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The shootings, Tigh's decision for martial law, and his unwillingness to discuss anything with anyone except Ellen Tigh (and the unconscious Adama) becomes the dividing point of those wanting to press on to finding Earth, and those wanting to settle on Kobol ([[Season 2 (2005-06)|Season 2]]). Tigh's drinking spirals further out of control, leading to more erratic behavior and causing great concern regarding his ability to effectively command, particularly among the [[CIC]] staff. The situation comes to a head when Roslin, tacitly aided by other officers and crew on ''Galactica'', escapes the brig in an attempt to hide amongst the many ships in the Fleet with the aid of [[Tom Zarek]]. Tigh chases down the escaping Raptor using the [[Combat Air Patrol|CAP]], having the Viper fire across the bow of the fleeing Raptor to persuade it to return. The Raptor brazenly continues onward, leading to a crucial decision for the Colonel. Tigh allows the Raptor to escape rather than shooting it down, which would have killed Adama's son and the President and could have destabilized the fleet.<br />
[[image:Flight_of_the_Phoenix-Tigh_Adama.jpg|thumb|left|Tigh and Adama share a knowing smirk at the commissioning of the [[Blackbird]], ''Laura'' ([[Flight of the Phoenix]]).]]<br />
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Fortunately for the fleet and Colonel Tigh, Commander Adama regains consciousness shortly after the escape and asks what had happened during his absence. Tigh confesses that he has "frakked things up good", but Adama reassures his friend, saying, "I never had much use for people that second-guessed my decisions, especially if they've never held a command. They don't understand the pressure to make a call that affects the lives of thousands, and you have no one to turn to for backup." Despite all the serious problems that Tigh created, Adama doesn't blame him, telling Tigh that whatever bad calls were made, they would pick up the pieces together ([[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]). <br />
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Both Adama and Tigh underestimate the number of ships that secede from the main fleet to join the [[Laura Roslin faction|faction]] that sought the [[Tomb of Athena]] with President Roslin ([[The Farm]]). Tigh backs up Adama while he maintains a similar official position on Roslin and the separated ships as Tigh has. However, after Adama realizes that survival of the entire Fleet would only come if everyone held together, Adama begins to prepare a journey to Kobol to retrieve the remainder of the Fleet and reach out to Roslin ([[Home, Part I]]). At first Tigh seems to believe that Adama is retrieving the faction by more military means, and scoffs at Roslin's religious views on the quest until he realizes that Adama is beginning to follow Roslin's information, taking her reports and visions seriously. Tigh is left in command while Adama successfully reunites the Fleet and reconciles with Roslin ([[Home, Part II]]).<br />
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After [[William Adama|Adama's]] return to command and Roslin to the presidency, for a moment the ''Gideon'' incident is almost forgotten. Before she is invited to ''Galactica'', reporter [[D'Anna Biers]] prepares a story about the incident, which could destroy the public's view towards Tigh, and eventually ''Galactica''. However she drops the subject in favor of a ''Galactica'' documentary. Lt. [[Joe Palladino]], the pilot in charge of the boarding operation to ''Gideon'', blames Tigh for the discredit to his reputation. He begins to terrorize Tigh and his wife, but Tigh later manages to subdue Palladino ([[Final Cut]]).<br />
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=== ''Pegasus'' Discovered ===<br />
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Things once again turn on their head when ''Galactica'' has a chance encounter with the battlestar ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'', a modern type of battlestar and the flagship of Admiral [[Helena Cain]]. Cain, being the superior officer, assumes complete command of the Fleet. The naturally suspicious Tigh is wary about this mixed blessing, but takes it in stride like everything else up until now. When he begins to regularly speak with ''Pegasus''’s own XO [[Jack Fisk]], his suspicions slowly prove to be well founded.<br />
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Fisk's conscience-clearing sessions with Tigh reveal that Admiral Cain was responsible for a set of atrocities, the most damning being the pillaging and stranding of a small civilian fleet in open space. When Tigh relays this information to Commander Adama, Adama reminisces about their own questionable activities, particularly their actions regarding the ''[[Olympic Carrier]]''. However, Adama keeps Tigh's warnings in mind and they help him in his decision to stand up to Cain later on ("[[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]" through "[[Resurrection Ship, Part I]]").<br />
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=== The Election and New Caprica ===<br />
When the presidential election arrives, Colonel Tigh is charged with overseeing the vote tallies on ''Galactica''. When it appears that [[Gaius Baltar|Baltar]] would win the vote, [[Tory Foster]], President Roslin's aide, approaches Tigh and [[Anastasia Dualla|Dualla]] to conspire to steal the election for Roslin, foreseeing certain disaster in a Baltar presidency. Tigh, never a fan of Baltar's to begin with, organises the counting of fraudulent ballots in order to keep Baltar out of office. The plot is overturned when Lt. [[Felix Gaeta|Gaeta]] reports irregularities to Tigh, who all too obviously tries to sweep the affair under the carpet. Gaeta then informs Admiral Adama, who lets Tigh and Dualla off the hook and the official vote tallies are "revised" without the public learning of the Roslin campaign's attempt to steal the election.<br />
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One year later, after the fleet settles on [[New Caprica]] on the orders of President Baltar, most of the military staff have all but retired from active service. Col. Tigh is one of the few officers still serving aboard ''Galactica'', but the day eventually comes when Admiral Adama discharges his friend and XO from his duties to let him return to civilian life with his wife. On the surface of New Caprica, the couple run into [[Kara Thrace]] at [[Galen Tyrol|Galen]] and [[Cally Tyrol|Cally]] Tyrol's union rally. The former colonel and captain share an unusually warm embrace, having put their differences behind them at some point in the preceding year. However, their reunion does not last as a large Cylon fleet appears in orbit over the planet and the Cylons occupy New Caprica without firing a shot. Tigh and his wife are last seen watching in utter shock as [[Cylon Centurion]]s march through the streets of New Caprica City ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]).<br />
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=== Occupation and Resistance ===<br />
Two months into the occupation of New Caprica by the Cylons, Tigh is organizing and recruiting for [[New Caprica Resistance|the resistance on New Caprica]] along with Galen Tyrol and [[Jammer]]. When the Cylons begin to find the weapons hidden by the Resistance, Tigh orders them to be stored in the Temple, believing it to be the safest place as the Cylon respect the sanctity of the Temple and will not search it, disregarding any moral concerns. When the Cylons discover the weapons, [[Nora Farmer|Nora]] is shot and Cally Tyrol and her [[Nicholas Tyrol|baby]] barely escape. This leads several members of the [[New Caprica Resistance|resistance movement]] to question whether Tigh is going too far. After Tigh plans an attack that could endanger patients at a hospital, Jammer reports him to the Cylon authorities ([[Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance]]). The Cylons imprison Tigh and tear his right eye out. Ellen's sexual efforts with [[Cavil]] lead to Tigh's eventual release ([[Occupation]]) though this is later revealed to be a Cylon ruse to blackmail Ellen into collaboration with the Cylons as well as find the location of a high level meeting of the Insurgency.<br />
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===Escape from New Caprica and Ellen's death===<br />
After Ellen is discovered to have betrayed a meeting with [[Sharon Agathon]] to the Cylons, fellow Resistance leader [[Samuel Anders]] compels Tigh to execute Ellen for her actions. Reluctantly, Tigh kills his wife by giving her a poisoned drink after which he cries over her body.<br />
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[[Image:Saulellen.jpg|Tigh handing Ellen her poisoned drink.|thumb]]Tigh actively participates in the exodus from New Caprica, leading an attack on the shipyard with Galen Tyrol, during which they are aided by Vipers launched from ''Galactica''.<br />
[[Image:TighAdamaReunion.jpg|thumb|left|Adama welcomes Tigh back on ''Galactica'' ([[Exodus, Part II]]).]]<br />
Following the escape, he initially resumes his post as the executive officer of ''Galactica'', but is unable to conceal his contempt for those who colluded with the Cylons, such as [[Felix Gaeta]]. In a face-off with Admiral Adama, in which the senior officer orders Tigh to "sleep it off", it is clear that the events on New Caprica - most notably, his wife's death - are still adversely affecting Tigh. Following that he spends a lot of time in his quarters trying to cope with what happened to him on New Caprica and is temporarily replaced by [[Karl Agathon]].<br />
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He eventually becomes the apparent ringleader of the [[The Circle|Circle]], a group of six people authorized by then-President [[Tom Zarek]], charged with bringing collaborators to justice. Tigh is among the less scrupulous members but nonetheless opposes [[Charlie Connor]]'s suggestion of summary executions. Thirteen people fall victim to the Circle's mandate, including [[Jammer]] ([[Collaborators]]).<br />
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Tigh is reunited with an old comrade, [[Daniel Novacek]] and tells him the truth of his last mission. Tigh later stops him when Novacek tries to kill Adama in revenge for being the cause of him spending years as a Cylon captive ([[Hero]]). Tigh also referees the boxing fights organized to boost morale ([[Unfinished Business]]). He returns to duty during operations to resupply the Fleet's food stores ([[The Passage]]). When [[Dr. Robert]], a civilian physician, is implicated in the deaths of [[Sagittaron]] refugees, Tigh initially defends his friend, saying that he worked with the resistance on New Caprica. He clashes with [[Karl Agathon]] over this, who insists on investigating Robert. However, when it turns out that Robert was killing the Sagittarons out of prejudice, Tigh orders his arrest ([[The Woman King]]).<br />
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When [[Kara Thrace]] dies he is visibly heartbroken ([[Maelstrom]]), showing that he did truly care about her despite their differences, which he had begun to show in "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]". As the Fleet nears the [[Ionian nebula]] and Gaius Baltar's trial begins, Tigh is one of a few people who hear mysterious music on several occasions. When called to testify in court, he shows up drunk. [[Romo Lampkin|Baltar's lawyer]] exploits this vulnerability and forces Tigh to publicly admit that he killed his wife on New Caprica ([[Crossroads, Part I]]).<br />
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===The Damning Revelation===<br />
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[[Image:403 - Tigh and his gun.jpg|thumb|Tigh in his waking "nightmare" state ([[He That Believeth In Me]]).]]<br />
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Saul Tigh, [[Galen Tyrol]], [[Samuel Anders]] and [[Tory Foster]] begin to hear a [[The Music|song]] only they can hear over and over again, driving them to distraction. They instinctively come to the realization that they are four of the [[final five]] Cylons. They decide to remain loyal to the Colonials ([[Crossroads, Part II]]).<br />
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With a Cylon fleet bearing down on them, Tigh resumes his position as executive officer again. However, almost immediately, this decision is tested by both Tigh's waking nightmares during the onset of the [[Battle of the Ionian Nebula|battle]]&mdash;where he believes he will kill his friend and commander, Adama, much the same way [[Sharon Valerii|Boomer]] tried to&mdash;and the return of [[Kara Thrace]], who may be a Cylon. Even amidst this, he is the ''de facto'' leader of the "Final Four" and continues to assure them that they are different than Boomer and the other Cylons. Further, he has them pledge to kill themselves should they feel any inkling of betraying the Fleet ([[He That Believeth In Me]]).<br />
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In an attempt to learn more about what it means to be a Cylon and how they deal with pain, Tigh visits [[Caprica-Six]] in the [[brig]] and asks her how it feels to have the blood of billions of beings on her hands. Six replies that she is just as human as he is and can't switch off her feelings, but that she has found another way to deal with her pain. During their conversation, Tigh has a [[Virtual Ellen|hallucination]] of his dead wife, whose body he sees the place of Six. She tries to help him cope with his feelings and share some of her perceived clarity. In act of tenderness, she removes his eye patch, but Tigh rebukes her advances. Six then punches Tigh and kisses him when he lies on the floor ([[Escape Velocity]]).<br />
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When [[Natalie]] offers the Colonials access to the Cylon [[Resurrection Hub]] and wants to unbox the [[Number Three|Threes]] in order to learn what she knows about the Final Five, Tigh reacts shocked and fears that he will be uncovered and killed. Instead of cooperation with the Cylon rebels, he urges President Roslin to just destroy the hub ([[Guess What's Coming to Dinner?]]).<br />
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When Doctor [[Cottle]] discovers that Caprica-Six is pregnant, Admiral Adama is angry at Tigh for "giving in to his weaknesses" and being disloyal. Tigh initially counters that Adama is risking a lot for [[Laura Roslin|woman he cares about]] as well. When Adama asks what Ellen would say about his actions, Tigh becomes furious and physically attacks Adama. The two exchange blows and Adama eventually shoves Tigh to the floor, who breaks Adama's model ship during the fall. Having vented their frustrations, both calm down. Later, Adama decides to stay back in a Raptor to wait for Roslin's return. He temporarily promotes Tigh to admiral and gives him command of the Fleet. Tigh is reluctant, recalling his previous [[Scattered|disastrous experience in command]], but takes the position ([[Sine Qua Non]]).<br />
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Tigh's anxiousness about being revealed as a Cylon is magnified when Adama returns with [[D'Anna Biers]]. However, instead of exposing him, she forces his hand by holding the Colonials on the Cylon baseship hostage, demanding that the Cylons on ''Galactica'' are turned over to them. To prevent Adama from carrying out an extremely risky and bloody rescue plan, Tigh decides to come clean himself. He confesses to William Adama, saying that he should have done so earlier. Adama can't believe his friend, but orders him arrested and brought to a [[Launch tube (RDM)|launch tube]]. There, Tigh also exposes Tyrol and Anders. Tigh is about to be spaced, when Kara Thrace runs into the control room and tells everyone that she has found another clue towards [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]]. In an unexpected move, President [[Lee Adama]] grants the Cylons a full amnesty. Before the final jump to Earth, Tigh sits in his quarters drinking, unsure what to do ([[Revelations]]).<br />
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===Earth and further revelations===<br />
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Tigh and Caprica-Six accompany the survey team to Earth's surface, where the latter reaches out for and touches the former. Following their amnesty, Tigh, Anders and Tyrol wear fatigues with no rank insignia ([[Revelations]], [[Sometimes a Great Notion]]), and none is shown having any authority. Tigh's sidearm has not, however, been confiscated from his wall locker.<br />
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Back aboard ''Galactica'', a drunken Admiral Adama storms into Tigh's quarters, armed with a marine's pistol. Grabbing Tigh's pistol from its storage shelf, charging it, and dropping it on the table, Adama orders Tigh, "Sit down, Cylon!" Tigh successfully resists Adama's attemps to encourage Tigh into drinking and to be used for Adama's "assisted suicide". Tigh tries to apologize about his revelation of being a Cylon, but Adama is beyond angry. "Is that how it worked? They program you to be my friend? Emulate all the qualities I respect. Tell me jokes...and I laugh at them." Tigh counters that he wanted, chose to be his friend. Adama throws insult after insult about [[Ellen Tigh]], in an attempt to anger Tigh into picking up either sidearm to shoot his friend. "Do it! Or I'll do it myself!" Adama says, pointing the marine's pistol to his own temple. "I'm sorry, Bill, but this is the one time I can't help you," Tigh tells him ([[Sometimes a Great Notion]]).<br />
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In a reversal of roles, Tigh is the sober one of the two, and gives Adama a much-needed dressing-down. After listening to Adama's story of foxes that would either fight, try to cross the river, or simply give up and float out to sea, Tigh admonishes him not be like foxes choosing to drown. He reminds Adama that he is still the commander and that Tigh is still the XO of the ship; killing himself would not help himself nor their people. Thereafter, Colonel Tigh is restored to his to his rank and position on ''Galactica'' ([[Sometimes a Great Notion]]).<br />
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Once again in his service uniform and wearing his rank, Tigh leads the round-up of the survey crews on the Earth surface in preparation for their journey toward a new home. At the water's edge, [[Number Three (Downloaded copy)|Downloaded Three]] informs him of her decision to give up and die alone on Earth. Their talk reminds Tigh of Adama's fox story, and he begins to walk into the sea. When chest-deep, he is compelled to reach down. In doing so, he discovers a mangled post box hatch from his apartment building lobby two millenia earlier. Like Tyrol, he has a vision of Earth's nuclear distruction. He is wearing a civilian business suit. He hears Ellen, finds her trapped under debris he cannot move. He splashes through the water as he remembers himself digging though the rubble to reach Ellen and remembers her prophesy. Ellen tells him, as more bombs go off, flashing bright, "Saul, it's okay. Everything's in place. We'll be reborn...again. Together." The vision fades as Tigh realizes the truth. "Ellen...Ellen! You're the [[Final Five|fifth!]]"<br />
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===The search for a home continues===<br />
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Col. Tigh relieves an exhausted Lt. [[Felix Gaeta]] from duty and orders him to take an ill-fated week's leave aboard ''[[Zephyr]]'' to rest and recover. After Gaeta's shuttle raptor is lost in an emergency FTL jump while en-route to ''Zephyr'', Tigh acquiesses to Lt. [[Louis Hoshi]]'s plea for a raptor and pilot with whom to search for his lover. Gaeta is the only survivor of the seven (five Colonials and two [[Number Eight]] Cylons) aboard the raptor, and explains that one of the Eights killed everyone else before being herself killed by Gaeta. After consulting off-camera with the rebel Cylons, Tigh tells him that the incident will not be investigated. Nevertheless, the incident leaves Gaeta apprehensive about their alliance with the rebel Cylons and asks to speak with Admiral Adama because, with all due respect, Tigh is a Cylon. Tigh reluctantly approves his request ([[The Face of the Enemy]]).<br />
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Days into the Fleet's search for a new home, Caprica-Six and Saul Tigh are in sickbay where Dr. Cottle is using a sonagram to show them their unborn child. Tigh can't see the image, when Cottle quips, "Try looking with your eyes...eye." In a moment of amazement while Assistant Layne Ishay points out the elements of the sonagram, an overwhelmed Tigh albeit happy, asks for a drink. Cottle offers a cigarette instead to Tigh as he lights one for himself, to Ishay's dismay.<br />
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In Admiral Adama's quarters, Lee Adama, Saul Tigh, Galen Tyrol, Felix Gaeta and Karl Agathon meet to discuss the implementation of Cylon FTL upgrades to the civilian ships. Tyrol argues that the Cylons become valid citizens of the Fleet, with their own representative on the Quorum and Adama's oath of protection if they are to get the Cylon technology. Tigh comments after Tyrol fubbles with his proper pronouns for the situation that he might need a chart to help him keep it right. <br />
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=== Mutiny, Return of Ellen and the End of the Journey ===<br />
Felix Gaeta leads a mutiny alongside a coup lead by Tom Zarek in order to gain control of the Fleet. Adama and Tigh are captured, but manage to escape and meet up with Lee and Kara. They make their way to a forgotten airlock where Baltar and Roslin escape in a Cylon Raptor to the [[Rebel Basestar]] while Adama stays behind to try to retake ''Galactica''. Tigh insists on staying with him despite being a likely target due to being a Cylon and Adama tells him that "its been an honor to serve with you my friend." ([[The Oath]]) The two are knocked out by a stun grenade and captured by marines led by Captain Aaron Kelly who Tigh insults. He's taken to the brig where Caprica Six, Helo, Athena and Anders already are, but they are rescued by Kara and Lee. However, Anders is seriously hurt and Kara stays behind to get him to Doctor Cottle. The freed prisoners find Kelly who defects and shows them where Admiral Adama is about to be executed and they arrive just in time to save his life. Tigh holds a gun on Narcho who's in charge of the firing squad and forces him not to tell Gaeta the truth. After Narcho refuses to help retake the ship, Tigh goes to shoot him, but is stopped by Adama who has him tied up instead. Tigh is part of Adama's march to retake CIC and helps recapture it without firing a shot, ending the mutiny. ([[Blood on the Scales]])<br />
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Tigh later learns some of his history from Anders who has regained his Cylon memories after being shot in the head during the mutiny. ([[No Exit]]) He is also shocked when a missing Raptor shows up carrying Boomer and his wife Ellen who had downloaded into a new body on a [[Resurrection Ship]] after he had killed her and had been a prisoner of [[Cavil]] until Boomer helped her escape. The Rebel Cylons are excited to have all of the Final Five with them and want to leave the Fleet and leave it up to a majority vote of the Five. Tigh, remembering that Anders told him to stay with the Fleet, votes to stay and given what Anders said, they take it as a vote to stay as well, Tyrol and Tory vote to go, but Ellen is shocked and undecided after learning that he got Caprica Six pregnant. He later asks for a private meeting with Ellen, but she summons Tyrol, Tory and Caprica Six to tell them that they're going to leave the Fleet, doing it just to spite him as she knows how much he loves the Fleet. Tigh refuses to go saying that they can go without him and if Caprica Six really wants to go, she can go too, but he's not going. Ellen uses this to say he loves the Fleet and Bill Adama more than he loves either of them, but Caprica Six suddenly goes into distress and starts to miscarry the baby. A horrified Ellen apologizes saying she only wanted to hurt him, not Caprica Six or the baby. She tells them that they can stay and should and that she'll move to the [[Rebel Basestar]] and leave him alone. He at first pushes her away, but eventually allows her to comfort him. She tries to get him to tell Caprica Six how much he loves her, but he can't seem to do it. Caprica Six miscarries and their baby dies in the womb. Later Tigh goes to Admiral Adama and cries about his lost son. ([[Deadlock]]) The death of their baby is also apparently the end of the relationship between Tigh and Caprica Six.<br />
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Tigh is with Ellen, Tyrol and Tory in Joe's Bar when Kara starts playing the music, surprising them all. ([[Someone to Watch Over Me]]) Afterwards he's shocked when Admiral Adama decides to order ''Galactica's'' repairs to stop and the ship to be scrapped for parts. The two share a toast to the ship. ([[Islanded in a Stream of Stars]])<br />
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When Adama calls for volunteers for a rescue mission for Hera Agathon, Tigh volunteers immediately alongside Ellen. ([[Daybreak, Part I]]) During the [[Battle of The Colony]], Tigh coordinates the battle with Admiral Adama in CIC. When a fire breaks out near Anders, he goes up with Tyrol to put it out and stays on the balcony afterwards. During the attempt to get Cavil to stop all of this and release Hera who he has taken hostage in CIC, Tigh offers him resurrection if he agrees to let Hera go and stop chasing humanity. After he agrees the Five combine together to send the plans for resurrection to The Colony and Tigh calms a nervous Tory by saying they forgive her sins when she gets worried about everyone seeing everyone else's memories. Tigh is shocked to discover that Tory murdered Cally and can only watch as Tyrol kills Tory in revenge. After ''Galactica'' jumps away, Tigh resumes his duties as XO and reports that ''Galactica'' suffered critical structural failures and "broke her back" and can't jump anymore. After landing on their new home planet that they name Earth, Tigh and Ellen say goodbye to Tyrol who plans to go off and live as a hermit and Tigh forgives him for killing Tory, saying he'd have done the same thing if someone had done that to Ellen. Tigh and Ellen rekindle their relationship and go off to spend the rest of their lives together. ([[Daybreak, Part II]])<br />
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== Attitudes toward humans ==<br />
Col. Tigh is unabashedly pro-human and has stayed fiercely loyal to [[William Adama]] and the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] despite almost being killed by his son [[Lee Adama]] in a rage over his - from Lee's point of view - lifelong deception of his father and the Fleet. He has faced such deadly hostility, but has persevered perhaps in part, if not in whole, because he shares such prejudice himself. This is including serving in the [[New Caprica Resistance|Resistance]] on [[New Caprica]] and having no compunction in blowing up Cylons and alleged collaborators alike. He was often the first to call for the execution of any Cylons found among them. He even killed his own wife [[Ellen Tigh]] for betraying the Resistance essentially under [[Samuel Anders]]' orders.<br />
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When he finds out he is a "[[skinjob]]" he is, of course, stunned. He has a waken nightmare of himself repeating the act of [[Sharon Valerii]] shooting Admiral Adama under programming. He pledges with the other three [[Final Five]] Cylons aboard ''Galactica'' to remain loyal and at their post, but if any of them including himself showed signs of working against the interest of the Fleet via hidden program, they should be killed or turned in. Since his discovery his loyalty has not wavered. Indeed he was disappointed in [[Tory Foster]]'s defection to the Cylons and [[Galen Tyrol]]'s wavering of who he should belong to. Sam Anders has a similar attitude as Tigh for being loyal to humanity but not as strong - or at least not stated as strongly.<br />
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Tigh has fully accepted his Cylon nature to the point he cohabitates with [[Caprica-Six]] who is carrying the couple's child. During the mutiny he is willing to die by the side of his best friend and commanding officer William Adama despite Adama's drunken attempts to bait Tigh into killing him only days earlier. He has said that mankind has a lot to answer for regarding the treatment of the Cylons before the [[Second Cylon War]] began, but he actually argues to Tyrol and particularly Tory Foster that it is by no means entirely the fault of humankind for their own destruction:<center><blockquote>''NO! Maybe we share the guilt with the humans but we don't get to just shove it off onto them".</blockquote></center><br />
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Like Tyrol and Foster, he has no independent recollection of his life before Cavil killed him and implanted false memories, but he was, as related by Samuel Anders, one of the Five to stop the [[Cylon War|First Cylon War]] the [[Cylon Centurion Model 0005|Colonial Centurion Cylons]] were raging some 40 years before so his attitude may moderate, but probably won't change his pro-human outlook.<br />
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==Notes==<br />
* Tigh is supposedly a third-generation Colonial soldier. His father was a decorated fighter pilot killed in combat and his grandfather served under President [[Mueller (president)|Mueller]]. Also, Tigh was a published military historian until personal problems became apparent ([[Miniseries]], [[List of Deleted Scenes (RDM)|deleted scene]]). However, given Tigh's recently-revealed Cylon nature, his family history may be a fabrication. Tigh's interest in military history has not been mentioned on screen after the Miniseries, although he mentions various Cylon tactics in use from the Cylon War that came to save ''Galactica'' after being boarded by [[Centurion (RDM)|Centurion]]s ([[Valley of Darkness]]).<br />
* A different serial number is given in [[He That Believeth In Me]] on Starbuck's gun-camera shots of Earth's moon: '''245A-34DC'''.<br />
* Tigh's first name has been given as "Paul" on a number of websites. This is initially based on an early [http://www.twiztv.com/scripts/battlestar/season1/galactica-ms1.pdf version of the script] '''(PDF file)''', which has Adama speaking to "Paul" in their discussion of his fight with Kara Thrace. In the [[podcast]] [[Podcast:Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down|commentary]] on the episode "[[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]", [[Ronald D. Moore]] has indicated that the character's name initially was Paul Tigh. The name had to be changed due to legal issues that Moore was unable to recall in that podcast.<br />
* Tigh is based on the character of Paul Eddington in the movie ''[[w:In Harm's Way|In Harm's Way]]'' portrayed by [[w:Kirk Douglas|Kirk Douglas]] (with [[w:John Wayne|John Wayne]]).<br />
* Tigh's (albeit false) age is one of the only ones which can be accurately deduced. According to a [[List of Deleted Scenes - Season 2 (RDM)#Valley of Darkness|deleted scene]] from "[[Valley of Darkness]]", he served on the ''[[Brenik]]'' when it was boarded during the second year of the Cylon War. Tigh says that he was "just a kid. Virgin. Teenager." It is known that [[Colonial Day (holiday)|Colonial Day]] is the anniversary of both the unification of the Colonies, and (roughly) the outbreak of the Cylon War<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20080505053711/http://blog.scifi.com/battlestar/archives/2005/04/index.html#a000025 RDM, April 11, 2005]</ref>, and was 52 years ago ([[Colonial Day]]). Thus, Tigh is between 63 and 69 years old at the beginning of Season 2.<br />
* In the DVD commentary of "[[Act of Contrition]]", Ron Moore notes that actor [[Michael Hogan]] won the role of Tigh over [[Donnelly Rhodes]], who was one of two other actors vying for the part. Rhodes went on to play the role of [[Cottle|Dr. Cottle]], ''Galactica'''s CMO.<br />
* According to ''[[Battlestar Galactica: The Official Magazine]]'', Tigh's home colony is [[Aerilon]]. However, in "[[Dirty Hands]]", [[Cally Tyrol|Cally]] claims that virtually no officers in the Colonial Fleet are from poorer colonies. While this could be an exaggeration, her [[Galen Tyrol|husband]] brings up [[Anastasia Dualla|Dualla]] as counter-example, but not Tigh.<br />
*Tigh's Cylon identity may be alluded to as early as "[[Occupation]]": not only does he have only one eye at this point, but the Cylon "scanning eye" sound effect can be faintly heard as he looks toward the open door of his cell when Cavil enters to tell him that he has been released.<br />
*In several interviews included on the Season 4.0 DVD, actor Michael Hogan cites fan polls that indicated Tigh was considered one of the least likely characters to be a Cylon. This would also seem to extend to the production crew, as a highlight of the 2006 Gag Reel shown at the San Diego Comic Con was a comedic segment suggesting that Tigh was the "13th Cylon".<br />
*Despite being a Cylon and unlike the other members of the Final Five, Tigh doesn't really display Cylon abilities. This is likely from him not embracing his Cylon side like the others do to various extents: Tory shows Cylon strength and joins the Cylons on the baseship as well as connecting to the datastream in the final episode, Tyrol shows Cylon resilance, strength, the ability to tell Cylons apart, [[projection]] and is able to connect to the datastream, Anders is physicaly connected to the datastream and acts as a Hybrid as well as displaying a Cylon IFF signal when scanned by a Raider, while Ellen resurrects and acts like a Cylon in her new body, but the only time Tigh displays his Cylon abilities is when he connects to the datastream to transmit the Resurrection data.<br />
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'''Saul Tigh''' is the [[Executive Officer]] (XO) of ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'', and repeatedly serves as acting commander in the absence of [[William Adama]]. Before his service on ''Galactica'', he served as Adama's XO on the battlestar ''[[Valkyrie]]''. During the Cylon occupation of [[New Caprica]], Tigh commanded the [[New Caprica Resistance]]. <br />
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A tough but troubled man with a long history of alcoholism, Tigh has false memories of having served in the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Colonial Fleet]] since his teenage years, seeing action in the [[First Cylon War]]. He is married to [[Ellen Tigh]], whose death was incorrectly (though logically) presumed to have been permanent. Believing himself to be a widower, he entered a sexual relationship with [[Caprica Six]],with whom he sired a miscarried child named [[Liam|Liam Tigh]].<br />
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Upon reaching the [[Ionian nebula]], he and [[Final Five|three others]] [[Crossroads, Part II|became aware]] of their nature as [[Humanoid Cylon|Cylons]]. Since then, he has sporadically regained memories and knowledge of his prior life.<br />
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==Biography ==<br />
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===Cylon past===<br />
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Saul Tigh lived on [[Earth (RDM)#Arrival_and_Ruins|the original Earth]] two millennia ago. Like all humanoids on that planet, he was a Cylon: a member of the [[Thirteenth Tribe (RDM)|Thirteenth Tribe]]. There, he was one of five scientists researching "organic memory transfer," a technology which had originated on [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]], but fell out of use on Earth once the Thirteenth Tribe Cylons started to procreate sexually. His wife Ellen was the most gifted of the five scientists. When nuclear armageddon came, Saul found himself in the lobby of his apartment building. Hearing a voice crying out, "Saul!" from the floor in front of the tenants' post boxes, he finds his wife trapped under debris he cannot move. He pulls the lighter debris from around her, as more bombs detonate. Moments before they die, she tells him, "Saul, it's okay. Everything's in place. We'll be reborn... again. Together." ([[Sometimes a Great Notion]], [[No Exit]])<br />
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The organic memory transfer they were researching was [[Resurrection (RDM)|resurrection technology]], the same technology their ancestors brought from [[Kobol]]. When killed by the explosions, Saul and the other four downloaded into new bodies aboard a ship they had placed in orbit. Knowing that humanity would continue to create artificial life, they made their way the Twelve Colonies to warn them about the the need to treat their creations with kindness in order to prevent a rebellion and inter-species war. Lacking [[Propulsion in the Re-imagined Series|faster-than-light]] capability, the five travelled at relativistic speeds. From the planetary perspective, their journey took approximately two thousand years.<br />
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Saul and the other four found their fears were justified. Upon their arrival, the first [[Cylon War]] was already in progress between humans and the Colonial [[Cylon Centurion Model 0005|Cylon Centurions]]. Saul and the others made a deal with the Centurions: end the war against the humans, and the Five would help them build humanoid Cylons. They ultimately made eight models for the Centurions, and their technology was stored in [[The Colony]]. The favoritism which [[Number One]] perceived Saul's wife, Ellen, displayed toward [[Number Seven]] drove Number One into a jealous rage. In addition to permanently destroying the Number Seven line, he suffocated Saul and the other four Cylons from Earth. Blocking their real memories, Number One implanted false ones in their minds, and deposited them among the human population in an attempt to prove to them the "evils" of humanity.<br />
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=== False Backstory ===<br />
Saul Tigh was supposedly born on the colony of [[Aerilon]]<ref name="aerelon">"Cylon Intelligence Report: Personnel File: Saul Tigh." <u>Battlestar Galactica: The Official Magazine</u>. Feb./Mar. 2006: 62. - He has [[Crossroads, Part II|recently been revealed]] as a Cylon presumably making this point moot.</ref>.<br />
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Tigh began his military career as a deckhand<ref name="deckhand">''Ibid''. "Saul Tigh entered the fleet as a deckhand, but rose through the ranks, and was a CPO (Chief Petty Officer) by the time the First Cylon War broke out."</ref>. By the second year of the First [[Cylon War]], he was serving as a gunner's mate onboard the ''[[Brenik]]''. His ship was boarded by the Cylons, where he and others fought in hand-to-hand combat, during the bloodiest period of that war. It was during this battle that he saw his first dead man, [[Duncan Rafferty]], who was violently vivisected by Centurions ("[[Valley of Darkness]]", [[List of Deleted Scenes - Season 2 (RDM)#Noteworthy Dialogue|deleted scene]]). His ship was subsequently destroyed, but he survived. He was transferred to another unnamed ship, which succumbed to a similar fate as his original ship. Having borne witness to many a bloody combat, he became emotionally scarred, which had, among other impetuses, led him to alcoholism. <br />
[[Image:Tighadama.jpg|Tigh and Adama's first meeting.|left|thumb]]<br />
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Tigh eventually achieved the rank of Chief Petty Officer. When Viper pilot numbers began running low in the war, Tigh was selected for Colonial [[officer candidate school]], and was reassigned as a Viper pilot.<ref>{{cite rdm podcast|episode=Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down}}</ref> As a pilot, he demonstrated considerable skill, earning several medals while posted aboard [[Athena (Battlestar)|Battlestar ''Athena'']].<ref name="athena">''Ibid''. "Tigh joined the Colonial officer candidate school, and was reassigned as a Viper pilot, something he excelled in, earning a string of medals in his post aboard the battlestar Athena."</ref> After the cessation of hostilities, he was dismissed from service.<br />
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=== Inter-War Years ===<br />
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Tigh eked out an existence as a deckhand aboard a commercial freighter. He clearly experienced signs of post-traumatic stress disorder; he commented that every time he smelled grease or machine oil, he would nearly vomit, as this smell reminded him of the "stink" of Centurions ("[[Valley of Darkness]]", [[List of Deleted Scenes - Season 2 (RDM)#Noteworthy Dialogue|deleted scene]]). While onboard, he drowned himself in alcohol and, after a time, about 20 years after the war, encountered [[William Adama]], who had not seen as much combat experience as Tigh himself. They became fast friends, and remained in touch after Adama was recommissioned into the service. Two years later, Tigh found himself reinstated into the Colonial Fleet at the rank of captain, thanks to his old friend, and now major, Adama.<ref name="adama">''Ibid''. "Adama reenlisted with the service, and Tigh spent two years drinking before Adama pulled strings to get him back into service. Tigh was straightening his life out when he met his wife Ellen, whom he courted and married within two months, about 7 years before the [[Miniseries]]. Unfortunately, Ellen did not take well to military life, and her repeated infidelities drove Tigh back into the bottle. The two separated shortly before the Cylon attack.</ref> His alcoholism has led many in the crew to view him with contempt ([[Miniseries]], "[[33]]").<br />
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=== Second Cylon War ===<br />
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Following the Cylon attack, Tigh recovered some of his old verve, and attempted to give up alcohol. However, this, combined with the initial stress of flight from the Cylons, caused him to overcompensate as a martinet, frequently driving the personnel overly hard, and berating where encouragement would prove the better option ([[33]]). He excused this by his view that the XO is supposed to be the "hard face" of command.<br />
[[image:33-Tigh_Adama.jpg|thumb|right|"If the crew doesn't hate the XO, then he's not doing his job."]]<br />
With his drinking problem relatively under control, Tigh settled back into his role as the ''Galactica'''s Executive Officer, though he still treats the ship's personnel relatively inhumanely. Apart from Adama, he seems unable to utter a sentence without cursing, or to leave any differing opinion unsneered at.<br />
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During Cylon attacks, Tigh has proved himself to be an good battle-manager and tactician. His quick actions sometimes save the ship and the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] from damage or destruction ("[[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]", "[[Scattered]]", "[[Valley of Darkness]]"). <br />
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Tigh is uneasy around President [[Laura Roslin]] ([[Water]]), and resents what he sees as her interfering with Adama's command ([[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]) - something born out of his deep respect for Adama, which even the most heated of disagreements between them ([[You Can't Go Home Again]]) cannot disrupt, or his general inability to accept differing viewpoints.<br />
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Tigh personally loathes [[Kara Thrace]], one of ''Galactica'''s pilots. While grudgingly conceding she is a fine pilot, Tigh does consider her an an egotistical, insubordinate youngster, and even tries to end her active service. Tigh criticizes Adama for having a soft spot for Thrace, ignoring that his whole existence in the fleet is based on a similar soft spot ([[Miniseries]]). <br />
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Outside of Adama, Tigh has few others he regards as confidants aboard ship; and since the initial Cylon attack, he has withdrawn from interacting with the crew during off-duty hours, making him perhaps more isolated than even Adama - who is at least held in awe, and respected by the crew.<br />
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=== Wife's Return ===<br />
[[image:Tigh_Me_Up_Tigh_Me_Down-Saul_Ellen.jpg|thumb|left|'''Tigh''' and his newly returned wife, [[Ellen Tigh|Ellen]], making a toast: "To starting over" ([[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]).]]<br />
Some three weeks after the Cylon attack on the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]], Tigh is stunned to discover his wife, [[Ellen Tigh|Ellen]], had not been killed as he had thought, but was rescued from [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Picon|Picon]], and carried aboard the ''[[Rising Star (RDM)|Rising Star]]'' as an unconscious "Jane Doe" by an unknown person. Later, it is revealed that the person who did that was a [[John Cavil]]-model Cylon.<br />
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Despite the emotional implications from the destruction of the Colonies and life aboard the ship, Tigh is reluctantly thrust further into politics, as his wife plays her schemes. Much to his disdain, his wife attempts to procure photo opportunities with the likes of [[Tom Zarek]] - a person Tigh views with the utmost contempt ([[Colonial Day]]). Additionally, Ellen seems to re-establish Tigh's alcoholism with gratuitous drinking. <br />
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Despite this, Adama sends Tigh with a squadron of [[Colonial Marine Corps|Marines]] to arrest [[Laura Roslin]] after Adama discovers that she convinced [[Kara Thrace]] to [[FTL|Jump]] back to [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] to retrieve a historical artifact called the [[Arrow of Apollo]] from the Delphi Museum. This action deprives the Fleet of a military asset - a captured [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Cylon Raider]], intended to have been used to plant a nuclear warhead aboard a [[basestar]] in orbit around the planet believed to be [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]] - and convinces Adama that Roslin is abusing her authority. <br />
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Onboard ''[[Colonial One]]'', Tigh's men and Roslin's [[Presidential Security Service|personal security agents]] are at a standoff when [[Lee Adama]] aims a weapon at Tigh's head and attempts to thwart the coup. Attempting to defuse the situation, Roslin agrees to be arrested and Lee Adama is arrested on charges of treason ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]).<br />
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=== Tigh in Command ===<br />
[[Image:Scattered-Tigh.jpg|thumb|right|Tigh realizing he's in a bit over his head ([[Scattered]]).]]<br />
Tigh is present in [[CIC]] during the attempted assassination of Adama by [[Sharon Valerii]]. As guards restrain Valerii, Tigh attempts to stop the bleeding from the torso gunshot wounds Adama sustained in the attempt ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]). He keeps Lee Adama from tending to his father and throws him into the brig. However, the need for reliable officers, forces Tigh to grant Lee a parole from his arrest. After his daily duties as [[CAG]] are done, Lee promises to return to the brig when off-shift.<br />
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With Adama incapacitated and with Roslin arrested, Tigh tries to maintain order. However, his irrational and gruff command style displeases many crew members. Morale and ship efficiency began to suffer. Ellen Tigh becomes a private adviser to her husband, frequently questioning his power to command while also suggesting ways of usurping more power and quashing his opponents. Ellen Tigh's advice only exacerbates an already-deteriorating situation.<br />
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Tigh's interrogation of suspected Cylon collaborators or infiltrators is brutal. After beating, then nearly shooting the ''Galactica'' copy of Valerii, other issues in the Fleet divert him from further interrogation. He orders a special cage made for her for later interrogation. Tigh also savagely interrogates Valerii's former lover, Chief [[Galen Tyrol]] as a possible [[humanoid Cylon]] himself. Tigh would have left him with Valerii in the newly built Cylon cage if [[Gaius Baltar]] did not intervene to prove medically that Tyrol is not a Cylon himself.<br />
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With Roslin in prison, uprisings begin as civilian ships refuse to supply ''Galactica'' until Roslin is released. Worse, the [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]] demand to see Roslin. Knowing of Roslin's hallucinations in the brig, he intentionally invites the Quorum to see Roslin in her poor state in hopes of disillusioning the Quorum. However, Roslin recovers sufficiently from her [[Chamalla]] withdrawal after getting a supply smuggled to her by Corporal [[Venner]], her guard. Tigh believes that the accounts within the [[Sacred Scrolls]] weren't to be believed, and teases Roslin in front of the Quorum on her visions. Roslin not only is able to speak to the Quorum, but decisively reinforces her decisions as well as her role in the search for the location of Earth as told in the Pythian prophesies. This act greatly impresses the Quorum, and infuriates Tigh; fearing a larger civilian government uprising led by the Quorum. Tigh institutes [[Wikipedia:martial law|martial law]] throughout the Fleet - a move he earlier had disclaimmed - in an attempt to maintain order in a rapidly chaotic shuffle of power between the civilian and military governments ([[Fragged]]).<br />
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The supply situation leads Tigh to deploying Marines in forcibly retrieving supplies. On [[Gideon|one ship]], a riot leads to four deaths and many injuries due to the pilot's inexperience in managing such a situation. Unlike Adama (who likely would have taken direct responsibility for the "Gideon Massacre"), Tigh places blame solely on the pilot, absolving himself from the incident.<br />
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=== Fleet Factioning and Adama's Return ===<br />
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The shootings, Tigh's decision for martial law, and his unwillingness to discuss anything with anyone except Ellen Tigh (and the unconscious Adama) becomes the dividing point of those wanting to press on to finding Earth, and those wanting to settle on Kobol ([[Season 2 (2005-06)|Season 2]]). Tigh's drinking spirals further out of control, leading to more erratic behavior and causing great concern regarding his ability to effectively command, particularly among the [[CIC]] staff. The situation comes to a head when Roslin, tacitly aided by other officers and crew on ''Galactica'', escapes the brig in an attempt to hide amongst the many ships in the Fleet with the aid of [[Tom Zarek]]. Tigh chases down the escaping Raptor using the [[Combat Air Patrol|CAP]], having the Viper fire across the bow of the fleeing Raptor to persuade it to return. The Raptor brazenly continues onward, leading to a crucial decision for the Colonel. Tigh allows the Raptor to escape rather than shooting it down, which would have killed Adama's son and the President and could have destabilized the fleet.<br />
[[image:Flight_of_the_Phoenix-Tigh_Adama.jpg|thumb|left|Tigh and Adama share a knowing smirk at the commissioning of the [[Blackbird]], ''Laura'' ([[Flight of the Phoenix]]).]]<br />
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Fortunately for the fleet and Colonel Tigh, Commander Adama regains consciousness shortly after the escape and asks what had happened during his absence. Tigh confesses that he has "frakked things up good", but Adama reassures his friend, saying, "I never had much use for people that second-guessed my decisions, especially if they've never held a command. They don't understand the pressure to make a call that affects the lives of thousands, and you have no one to turn to for backup." Despite all the serious problems that Tigh created, Adama doesn't blame him, telling Tigh that whatever bad calls were made, they would pick up the pieces together ([[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]). <br />
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Both Adama and Tigh underestimate the number of ships that secede from the main fleet to join the [[Laura Roslin faction|faction]] that sought the [[Tomb of Athena]] with President Roslin ([[The Farm]]). Tigh backs up Adama while he maintains a similar official position on Roslin and the separated ships as Tigh has. However, after Adama realizes that survival of the entire Fleet would only come if everyone held together, Adama begins to prepare a journey to Kobol to retrieve the remainder of the Fleet and reach out to Roslin ([[Home, Part I]]). At first Tigh seems to believe that Adama is retrieving the faction by more military means, and scoffs at Roslin's religious views on the quest until he realizes that Adama is beginning to follow Roslin's information, taking her reports and visions seriously. Tigh is left in command while Adama successfully reunites the Fleet and reconciles with Roslin ([[Home, Part II]]).<br />
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After [[William Adama|Adama's]] return to command and Roslin to the presidency, for a moment the ''Gideon'' incident is almost forgotten. Before she is invited to ''Galactica'', reporter [[D'Anna Biers]] prepares a story about the incident, which could destroy the public's view towards Tigh, and eventually ''Galactica''. However she drops the subject in favor of a ''Galactica'' documentary. Lt. [[Joe Palladino]], the pilot in charge of the boarding operation to ''Gideon'', blames Tigh for the discredit to his reputation. He begins to terrorize Tigh and his wife, but Tigh later manages to subdue Palladino ([[Final Cut]]).<br />
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=== ''Pegasus'' Discovered ===<br />
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Things once again turn on their head when ''Galactica'' has a chance encounter with the battlestar ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'', a modern type of battlestar and the flagship of Admiral [[Helena Cain]]. Cain, being the superior officer, assumes complete command of the Fleet. The naturally suspicious Tigh is wary about this mixed blessing, but takes it in stride like everything else up until now. When he begins to regularly speak with ''Pegasus''’s own XO [[Jack Fisk]], his suspicions slowly prove to be well founded.<br />
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Fisk's conscience-clearing sessions with Tigh reveal that Admiral Cain was responsible for a set of atrocities, the most damning being the pillaging and stranding of a small civilian fleet in open space. When Tigh relays this information to Commander Adama, Adama reminisces about their own questionable activities, particularly their actions regarding the ''[[Olympic Carrier]]''. However, Adama keeps Tigh's warnings in mind and they help him in his decision to stand up to Cain later on ("[[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]" through "[[Resurrection Ship, Part I]]").<br />
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=== The Election and New Caprica ===<br />
When the presidential election arrives, Colonel Tigh is charged with overseeing the vote tallies on ''Galactica''. When it appears that [[Gaius Baltar|Baltar]] would win the vote, [[Tory Foster]], President Roslin's aide, approaches Tigh and [[Anastasia Dualla|Dualla]] to conspire to steal the election for Roslin, foreseeing certain disaster in a Baltar presidency. Tigh, never a fan of Baltar's to begin with, organises the counting of fraudulent ballots in order to keep Baltar out of office. The plot is overturned when Lt. [[Felix Gaeta|Gaeta]] reports irregularities to Tigh, who all too obviously tries to sweep the affair under the carpet. Gaeta then informs Admiral Adama, who lets Tigh and Dualla off the hook and the official vote tallies are "revised" without the public learning of the Roslin campaign's attempt to steal the election.<br />
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One year later, after the fleet settles on [[New Caprica]] on the orders of President Baltar, most of the military staff have all but retired from active service. Col. Tigh is one of the few officers still serving aboard ''Galactica'', but the day eventually comes when Admiral Adama discharges his friend and XO from his duties to let him return to civilian life with his wife. On the surface of New Caprica, the couple run into [[Kara Thrace]] at [[Galen Tyrol|Galen]] and [[Cally Tyrol|Cally]] Tyrol's union rally. The former colonel and captain share an unusually warm embrace, having put their differences behind them at some point in the preceding year. However, their reunion does not last as a large Cylon fleet appears in orbit over the planet and the Cylons occupy New Caprica without firing a shot. Tigh and his wife are last seen watching in utter shock as [[Cylon Centurion]]s march through the streets of New Caprica City ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]).<br />
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=== Occupation and Resistance ===<br />
Two months into the occupation of New Caprica by the Cylons, Tigh is organizing and recruiting for [[New Caprica Resistance|the resistance on New Caprica]] along with Galen Tyrol and [[Jammer]]. When the Cylons begin to find the weapons hidden by the Resistance, Tigh orders them to be stored in the Temple, believing it to be the safest place as the Cylon respect the sanctity of the Temple and will not search it, disregarding any moral concerns. When the Cylons discover the weapons, [[Nora Farmer|Nora]] is shot and Cally Tyrol and her [[Nicholas Tyrol|baby]] barely escape. This leads several members of the [[New Caprica Resistance|resistance movement]] to question whether Tigh is going too far. After Tigh plans an attack that could endanger patients at a hospital, Jammer reports him to the Cylon authorities ([[Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance]]). The Cylons imprison Tigh and tear his right eye out. Ellen's sexual efforts with [[Cavil]] lead to Tigh's eventual release ([[Occupation]]) though this is later revealed to be a Cylon ruse to blackmail Ellen into collaboration with the Cylons as well as find the location of a high level meeting of the Insurgency.<br />
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===Escape from New Caprica and Ellen's death===<br />
After Ellen is discovered to have betrayed a meeting with [[Sharon Agathon]] to the Cylons, fellow Resistance leader [[Samuel Anders]] compels Tigh to execute Ellen for her actions. Reluctantly, Tigh kills his wife by giving her a poisoned drink after which he cries over her body.<br />
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[[Image:Saulellen.jpg|Tigh handing Ellen her poisoned drink.|thumb]]Tigh actively participates in the exodus from New Caprica, leading an attack on the shipyard with Galen Tyrol, during which they are aided by Vipers launched from ''Galactica''.<br />
[[Image:TighAdamaReunion.jpg|thumb|left|Adama welcomes Tigh back on ''Galactica'' ([[Exodus, Part II]]).]]<br />
Following the escape, he initially resumes his post as the executive officer of ''Galactica'', but is unable to conceal his contempt for those who colluded with the Cylons, such as [[Felix Gaeta]]. In a face-off with Admiral Adama, in which the senior officer orders Tigh to "sleep it off", it is clear that the events on New Caprica - most notably, his wife's death - are still adversely affecting Tigh. Following that he spends a lot of time in his quarters trying to cope with what happened to him on New Caprica and is temporarily replaced by [[Karl Agathon]].<br />
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He eventually becomes the apparent ringleader of the [[The Circle|Circle]], a group of six people authorized by then-President [[Tom Zarek]], charged with bringing collaborators to justice. Tigh is among the less scrupulous members but nonetheless opposes [[Charlie Connor]]'s suggestion of summary executions. Thirteen people fall victim to the Circle's mandate, including [[Jammer]] ([[Collaborators]]).<br />
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Tigh is reunited with an old comrade, [[Daniel Novacek]] and tells him the truth of his last mission. Tigh later stops him when Novacek tries to kill Adama in revenge for being the cause of him spending years as a Cylon captive ([[Hero]]). Tigh also referees the boxing fights organized to boost morale ([[Unfinished Business]]). He returns to duty during operations to resupply the Fleet's food stores ([[The Passage]]). When [[Dr. Robert]], a civilian physician, is implicated in the deaths of [[Sagittaron]] refugees, Tigh initially defends his friend, saying that he worked with the resistance on New Caprica. He clashes with [[Karl Agathon]] over this, who insists on investigating Robert. However, when it turns out that Robert was killing the Sagittarons out of prejudice, Tigh orders his arrest ([[The Woman King]]).<br />
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When [[Kara Thrace]] dies he is visibly heartbroken ([[Maelstrom]]), showing that he did truly care about her despite their differences, which he had begun to show in "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]". As the Fleet nears the [[Ionian nebula]] and Gaius Baltar's trial begins, Tigh is one of a few people who hear mysterious music on several occasions. When called to testify in court, he shows up drunk. [[Romo Lampkin|Baltar's lawyer]] exploits this vulnerability and forces Tigh to publicly admit that he killed his wife on New Caprica ([[Crossroads, Part I]]).<br />
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===The Damning Revelation===<br />
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[[Image:403 - Tigh and his gun.jpg|thumb|Tigh in his waking "nightmare" state ([[He That Believeth In Me]]).]]<br />
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Saul Tigh, [[Galen Tyrol]], [[Samuel Anders]] and [[Tory Foster]] begin to hear a [[The Music|song]] only they can hear over and over again, driving them to distraction. They instinctively come to the realization that they are four of the [[final five]] Cylons. They decide to remain loyal to the Colonials ([[Crossroads, Part II]]).<br />
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With a Cylon fleet bearing down on them, Tigh resumes his position as executive officer again. However, almost immediately, this decision is tested by both Tigh's waking nightmares during the onset of the [[Battle of the Ionian Nebula|battle]]&mdash;where he believes he will kill his friend and commander, Adama, much the same way [[Sharon Valerii|Boomer]] tried to&mdash;and the return of [[Kara Thrace]], who may be a Cylon. Even amidst this, he is the ''de facto'' leader of the "Final Four" and continues to assure them that they are different than Boomer and the other Cylons. Further, he has them pledge to kill themselves should they feel any inkling of betraying the Fleet ([[He That Believeth In Me]]).<br />
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In an attempt to learn more about what it means to be a Cylon and how they deal with pain, Tigh visits [[Caprica-Six]] in the [[brig]] and asks her how it feels to have the blood of billions of beings on her hands. Six replies that she is just as human as he is and can't switch off her feelings, but that she has found another way to deal with her pain. During their conversation, Tigh has a [[Virtual Ellen|hallucination]] of his dead wife, whose body he sees the place of Six. She tries to help him cope with his feelings and share some of her perceived clarity. In act of tenderness, she removes his eye patch, but Tigh rebukes her advances. Six then punches Tigh and kisses him when he lies on the floor ([[Escape Velocity]]).<br />
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When [[Natalie]] offers the Colonials access to the Cylon [[Resurrection Hub]] and wants to unbox the [[Number Three|Threes]] in order to learn what she knows about the Final Five, Tigh reacts shocked and fears that he will be uncovered and killed. Instead of cooperation with the Cylon rebels, he urges President Roslin to just destroy the hub ([[Guess What's Coming to Dinner?]]).<br />
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When Doctor [[Cottle]] discovers that Caprica-Six is pregnant, Admiral Adama is angry at Tigh for "giving in to his weaknesses" and being disloyal. Tigh initially counters that Adama is risking a lot for [[Laura Roslin|woman he cares about]] as well. When Adama asks what Ellen would say about his actions, Tigh becomes furious and physically attacks Adama. The two exchange blows and Adama eventually shoves Tigh to the floor, who breaks Adama's model ship during the fall. Having vented their frustrations, both calm down. Later, Adama decides to stay back in a Raptor to wait for Roslin's return. He temporarily promotes Tigh to admiral and gives him command of the Fleet. Tigh is reluctant, recalling his previous [[Scattered|disastrous experience in command]], but takes the position ([[Sine Qua Non]]).<br />
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Tigh's anxiousness about being revealed as a Cylon is magnified when Adama returns with [[D'Anna Biers]]. However, instead of exposing him, she forces his hand by holding the Colonials on the Cylon baseship hostage, demanding that the Cylons on ''Galactica'' are turned over to them. To prevent Adama from carrying out an extremely risky and bloody rescue plan, Tigh decides to come clean himself. He confesses to William Adama, saying that he should have done so earlier. Adama can't believe his friend, but orders him arrested and brought to a [[Launch tube (RDM)|launch tube]]. There, Tigh also exposes Tyrol and Anders. Tigh is about to be spaced, when Kara Thrace runs into the control room and tells everyone that she has found another clue towards [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]]. In an unexpected move, President [[Lee Adama]] grants the Cylons a full amnesty. Before the final jump to Earth, Tigh sits in his quarters drinking, unsure what to do ([[Revelations]]).<br />
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===Earth and further revelations===<br />
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Tigh and Caprica-Six accompany the survey team to Earth's surface, where the latter reaches out for and touches the former. Following their amnesty, Tigh, Anders and Tyrol wear fatigues with no rank insignia ([[Revelations]], [[Sometimes a Great Notion]]), and none is shown having any authority. Tigh's sidearm has not, however, been confiscated from his wall locker.<br />
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Back aboard ''Galactica'', a drunken Admiral Adama storms into Tigh's quarters, armed with a marine's pistol. Grabbing Tigh's pistol from its storage shelf, charging it, and dropping it on the table, Adama orders Tigh, "Sit down, Cylon!" Tigh successfully resists Adama's attemps to encourage Tigh into drinking and to be used for Adama's "assisted suicide". Tigh tries to apologize about his revelation of being a Cylon, but Adama is beyond angry. "Is that how it worked? They program you to be my friend? Emulate all the qualities I respect. Tell me jokes...and I laugh at them." Tigh counters that he wanted, chose to be his friend. Adama throws insult after insult about [[Ellen Tigh]], in an attempt to anger Tigh into picking up either sidearm to shoot his friend. "Do it! Or I'll do it myself!" Adama says, pointing the marine's pistol to his own temple. "I'm sorry, Bill, but this is the one time I can't help you," Tigh tells him ([[Sometimes a Great Notion]]).<br />
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In a reversal of roles, Tigh is the sober one of the two, and gives Adama a much-needed dressing-down. After listening to Adama's story of foxes that would either fight, try to cross the river, or simply give up and float out to sea, Tigh admonishes him not be like foxes choosing to drown. He reminds Adama that he is still the commander and that Tigh is still the XO of the ship; killing himself would not help himself nor their people. Thereafter, Colonel Tigh is restored to his to his rank and position on ''Galactica'' ([[Sometimes a Great Notion]]).<br />
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Once again in his service uniform and wearing his rank, Tigh leads the round-up of the survey crews on the Earth surface in preparation for their journey toward a new home. At the water's edge, [[Number Three (Downloaded copy)|Downloaded Three]] informs him of her decision to give up and die alone on Earth. Their talk reminds Tigh of Adama's fox story, and he begins to walk into the sea. When chest-deep, he is compelled to reach down. In doing so, he discovers a mangled post box hatch from his apartment building lobby two millenia earlier. Like Tyrol, he has a vision of Earth's nuclear distruction. He is wearing a civilian business suit. He hears Ellen, finds her trapped under debris he cannot move. He splashes through the water as he remembers himself digging though the rubble to reach Ellen and remembers her prophesy. Ellen tells him, as more bombs go off, flashing bright, "Saul, it's okay. Everything's in place. We'll be reborn...again. Together." The vision fades as Tigh realizes the truth. "Ellen...Ellen! You're the [[Final Five|fifth!]]"<br />
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===The search for a home continues===<br />
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Col. Tigh relieves an exhausted Lt. [[Felix Gaeta]] from duty and orders him to take an ill-fated week's leave aboard ''[[Zephyr]]'' to rest and recover. After Gaeta's shuttle raptor is lost in an emergency FTL jump while en-route to ''Zephyr'', Tigh acquiesses to Lt. [[Louis Hoshi]]'s plea for a raptor and pilot with whom to search for his lover. Gaeta is the only survivor of the seven (five Colonials and two [[Number Eight]] Cylons) aboard the raptor, and explains that one of the Eights killed everyone else before being herself killed by Gaeta. After consulting off-camera with the rebel Cylons, Tigh tells him that the incident will not be investigated. Nevertheless, the incident leaves Gaeta apprehensive about their alliance with the rebel Cylons and asks to speak with Admiral Adama because, with all due respect, Tigh is a Cylon. Tigh reluctantly approves his request ([[The Face of the Enemy]]).<br />
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Days into the Fleet's search for a new home, Caprica-Six and Saul Tigh are in sickbay where Dr. Cottle is using a sonagram to show them their unborn child. Tigh can't see the image, when Cottle quips, "Try looking with your eyes...eye." In a moment of amazement while Assistant Layne Ishay points out the elements of the sonagram, an overwhelmed Tigh albeit happy, asks for a drink. Cottle offers a cigarette instead to Tigh as he lights one for himself, to Ishay's dismay.<br />
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In Admiral Adama's quarters, Lee Adama, Saul Tigh, Galen Tyrol, Felix Gaeta and Karl Agathon meet to discuss the implementation of Cylon FTL upgrades to the civilian ships. Tyrol argues that the Cylons become valid citizens of the Fleet, with their own representative on the Quorum and Adama's oath of protection if they are to get the Cylon technology. Tigh comments after Tyrol fubbles with his proper pronouns for the situation that he might need a chart to help him keep it right. <br />
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=== Mutiny, Return of Ellen and the End of the Journey ===<br />
Felix Gaeta leads a mutiny alongside a coup lead by Tom Zarek in order to gain control of the Fleet. Adama and Tigh are captured, but manage to escape and meet up with Lee and Kara. They make their way to a forgotten airlock where Baltar and Roslin escape in a Cylon Raptor to the [[Rebel Basestar]] while Adama stays behind to try to retake ''Galactica''. Tigh insists on staying with him despite being a likely target due to being a Cylon and Adama tells him that "its been an honor to serve with you my friend." ([[The Oath]]) The two are knocked out by a stun grenade and captured by marines led by Captain Aaron Kelly who Tigh insults. He's taken to the brig where Caprica Six, Helo, Athena and Anders already are, but they are rescued by Kara and Lee. However, Anders is seriously hurt and Kara stays behind to get him to Doctor Cottle. The freed prisoners find Kelly who defects and shows them where Admiral Adama is about to be executed and they arrive just in time to save his life. Tigh holds a gun on Narcho who's in charge of the firing squad and forces him not to tell Gaeta the truth. After Narcho refuses to help retake the ship, Tigh goes to shoot him, but is stopped by Adama who has him tied up instead. Tigh is part of Adama's march to retake CIC and helps recapture it without firing a shot, ending the mutiny. ([[Blood on the Scales]])<br />
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Tigh later learns some of his history from Anders who has regained his Cylon memories after being shot in the head during the mutiny. ([[No Exit]]) He is also shocked when a missing Raptor shows up carrying Boomer and his wife Ellen who had downloaded into a new body on a [[Resurrection Ship]] after he had killed her and had been a prisoner of [[Cavil]] until Boomer helped her escape. The Rebel Cylons are excited to have all of the Final Five with them and want to leave the Fleet and leave it up to a majority vote of the Five. Tigh, remembering that Anders told him to stay with the Fleet, votes to stay and given what Anders said, they take it as a vote to stay as well, Tyrol and Tory vote to go, but Ellen is shocked and undecided after learning that he got Caprica Six pregnant. He later asks for a private meeting with Ellen, but she summons Tyrol, Tory and Caprica Six to tell them that they're going to leave the Fleet, doing it just to spite him as she knows how much he loves the Fleet. Tigh refuses to go saying that they can go without him and if Caprica Six really wants to go, she can go too, but he's not going. Ellen uses this to say he loves the Fleet and Bill Adama more than he loves either of them, but Caprica Six suddenly goes into distress and starts to miscarry the baby. A horrified Ellen apologizes saying she only wanted to hurt him, not Caprica Six or the baby. She tells them that they can stay and should and that she'll move to the [[Rebel Basestar]] and leave him alone. He at first pushes her away, but eventually allows her to comfort him. She tries to get him to tell Caprica Six how much he loves her, but he can't seem to do it. Caprica Six miscarries and their baby dies in the womb. Later Tigh goes to Admiral Adama and cries about his lost son. ([[Deadlock]]) The death of their baby is also apparently the end of the relationship between Tigh and Caprica Six.<br />
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Tigh is with Ellen, Tyrol and Tory in Joe's Bar when Kara starts playing the music, surprising them all. ([[Someone to Watch Over Me]]) Afterwards he's shocked when Admiral Adama decides to order ''Galactica's'' repairs to stop and the ship to be scrapped for parts. The two share a toast to the ship. ([[Islanded in a Stream of Stars]])<br />
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When Adama calls for volunteers for a rescue mission for Hera Agathon, Tigh volunteers immediately alongside Ellen. ([[Daybreak, Part I]]) During the [[Battle of The Colony]], Tigh coordinates the battle with Admiral Adama in CIC. When a fire breaks out near Anders, he goes up with Tyrol to put it out and stays on the balcony afterwards. During the attempt to get Cavil to stop all of this and release Hera who he has taken hostage in CIC, Tigh offers him resurrection if he agrees to let Hera go and stop chasing humanity. After he agrees the Five combine together to send the plans for resurrection to The Colony and Tigh calms a nervous Tory by saying they forgive her sins when she gets worried about everyone seeing everyone else's memories. Tigh is shocked to discover that Tory murdered Cally and can only watch as Tyrol kills Tory in revenge. After ''Galactica'' jumps away, Tigh resumes his duties as XO and reports that ''Galactica'' suffered critical structural failures and "broke her back" and can't jump anymore. After landing on their new home planet that they name Earth, Tigh and Ellen say goodbye to Tyrol who plans to go off and live as a hermit and Tigh forgives him for killing Tory, saying he'd have done the same thing if someone had done that to Ellen. Tigh and Ellen rekindle their relationship and go off to spend the rest of their lives together. ([[Daybreak, Part II]])<br />
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== Attitudes toward humans ==<br />
Col. Tigh is unabashedly pro-human and has stayed fiercely loyal to [[William Adama]] and the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] despite almost being killed by his son [[Lee Adama]] in a rage over his - from Lee's point of view - lifelong deception of his father and the Fleet. He has faced such deadly hostility, but has persevered perhaps in part, if not in whole, because he shares such prejudice himself. This is including serving in the [[New Caprica Resistance|Resistance]] on [[New Caprica]] and having no compunction in blowing up Cylons and alleged collaborators alike. He was often the first to call for the execution of any Cylons found among them. He even killed his own wife [[Ellen Tigh]] for betraying the Resistance essentially under [[Samuel Anders]]' orders.<br />
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When he finds out he is a "[[skinjob]]" he is, of course, stunned. He has a waken nightmare of himself repeating the act of [[Sharon Valerii]] shooting Admiral Adama under programming. He pledges with the other three [[Final Five]] Cylons aboard ''Galactica'' to remain loyal and at their post, but if any of them including himself showed signs of working against the interest of the Fleet via hidden program, they should be killed or turned in. Since his discovery his loyalty has not wavered. Indeed he was disappointed in [[Tory Foster]]'s defection to the Cylons and [[Galen Tyrol]]'s wavering of who he should belong to. Sam Anders has a similar attitude as Tigh for being loyal to humanity but not as strong - or at least not stated as strongly.<br />
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Tigh has fully accepted his Cylon nature to the point he cohabitates with [[Caprica-Six]] who is carrying the couple's child. During the mutiny he is willing to die by the side of his best friend and commanding officer William Adama despite Adama's drunken attempts to bait Tigh into killing him only days earlier. He has said that mankind has a lot to answer for regarding the treatment of the Cylons before the [[Second Cylon War]] began, but he actually argues to Tyrol and particularly Tory Foster that it is by no means entirely the fault of humankind for their own destruction:<center><blockquote>''NO! Maybe we share the guilt with the humans but we don't get to just shove it off onto them".</blockquote></center><br />
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Like Tyrol and Foster, he has no independent recollection of his life before Cavil killed him and implanted false memories, but he was, as related by Samuel Anders, one of the Five to stop the [[Cylon War|First Cylon War]] the [[Cylon Centurion Model 0005|Colonial Centurion Cylons]] were raging some 40 years before so his attitude may moderate, but probably won't change his pro-human outlook.<br />
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==Notes==<br />
* Tigh is supposedly a third-generation Colonial soldier. His father was a decorated fighter pilot killed in combat and his grandfather served under President [[Mueller (president)|Mueller]]. Also, Tigh was a published military historian until personal problems became apparent ([[Miniseries]], [[List of Deleted Scenes (RDM)|deleted scene]]). However, given Tigh's recently-revealed Cylon nature, his family history may be a fabrication. Tigh's interest in military history has not been mentioned on screen after the Miniseries, although he mentions various Cylon tactics in use from the Cylon War that came to save ''Galactica'' after being boarded by [[Centurion (RDM)|Centurion]]s ([[Valley of Darkness]]).<br />
* A different serial number is given in [[He That Believeth In Me]] on the Starbuck's gun-camera shots of Earth's moon: '''245A-34DC'''.<br />
* Tigh's first name has been given as "Paul" on a number of websites. This is initially based on an early [http://www.twiztv.com/scripts/battlestar/season1/galactica-ms1.pdf version of the script] '''(PDF file)''', which has Adama speaking to "Paul" in their discussion of his fight with Kara Thrace. In the [[podcast]] [[Podcast:Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down|commentary]] on the episode "[[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]", [[Ronald D. Moore]] has indicated that the character's name initially was Paul Tigh. The name had to be changed due to legal issues that Moore was unable to recall in that podcast.<br />
* Tigh is based on the character of Paul Eddington in the movie ''[[w:In Harm's Way|In Harm's Way]]'' portrayed by [[w:Kirk Douglas|Kirk Douglas]] (with [[w:John Wayne|John Wayne]]).<br />
* Tigh's (albeit false) age is one of the only ones which can be accurately deduced. According to a [[List of Deleted Scenes - Season 2 (RDM)#Valley of Darkness|deleted scene]] from "[[Valley of Darkness]]", he served on the ''[[Brenik]]'' when it was boarded during the second year of the Cylon War. Tigh says that he was "just a kid. Virgin. Teenager." It is known that [[Colonial Day (holiday)|Colonial Day]] is the anniversary of both the unification of the Colonies, and (roughly) the outbreak of the Cylon War<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20080505053711/http://blog.scifi.com/battlestar/archives/2005/04/index.html#a000025 RDM, April 11, 2005]</ref>, and was 52 years ago ([[Colonial Day]]). Thus, Tigh is between 63 and 69 years old at the beginning of Season 2.<br />
* In the DVD commentary of "[[Act of Contrition]]", Ron Moore notes that actor [[Michael Hogan]] won the role of Tigh over [[Donnelly Rhodes]], who was one of two other actors vying for the part. Rhodes went on to play the role of [[Cottle|Dr. Cottle]], ''Galactica'''s CMO.<br />
* According to ''[[Battlestar Galactica: The Official Magazine]]'', Tigh's home colony is [[Aerilon]]. However, in "[[Dirty Hands]]", [[Cally Tyrol|Cally]] claims that virtually no officers in the Colonial Fleet are from poorer colonies. While this could be an exaggeration, her [[Galen Tyrol|husband]] brings up [[Anastasia Dualla|Dualla]] as counter-example, but not Tigh.<br />
*Tigh's Cylon identity may be alluded to as early as "[[Occupation]]": not only does he have only one eye at this point, but the Cylon "scanning eye" sound effect can be faintly heard as he looks toward the open door of his cell when Cavil enters to tell him that he has been released.<br />
*In several interviews included on the Season 4.0 DVD, actor Michael Hogan cites fan polls that indicated Tigh was considered one of the least likely characters to be a Cylon. This would also seem to extend to the production crew, as a highlight of the 2006 Gag Reel shown at the San Diego Comic Con was a comedic segment suggesting that Tigh was the "13th Cylon".<br />
*Despite being a Cylon and unlike the other members of the Final Five, Tigh doesn't really display Cylon abilities. This is likely from him not embracing his Cylon side like the others do to various extents: Tory shows Cylon strength and joins the Cylons on the baseship as well as connecting to the datastream in the final episode, Tyrol shows Cylon resilance, strength, the ability to tell Cylons apart, [[projection]] and is able to connect to the datastream, Anders is physicaly connected to the datastream and acts as a Hybrid as well as displaying a Cylon IFF signal when scanned by a Raider, while Ellen resurrects and acts like a Cylon in her new body, but the only time Tigh displays his Cylon abilities is when he connects to the datastream to transmit the Resurrection data.<br />
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[[Image:CIC Overview 1.jpg|300px|thumb|The Combat Information Center of ''Galactica''.]]<br />
Colonial [[Battlestar|battlestars]] are centrally operated from the '''Combat Information Center''', or '''CIC''', the battlestar's nerve center. It performs both the functions of a bridge and the CIC in naval parlance, as the vessels are also steered from the CIC.<br />
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== ''Galactica'' ==<br />
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[[Image:CIC Overview 2.jpg|300px|thumb|The Combat Information Center of ''Galactica''.]]<br />
''Galactica's'' CIC is a faintly-circular room located deep in the interior "alligator head" of the battlestar, where the main hull meets the midship section. From CIC, the battlestar's tactical and navigational operations are monitored and directed. CIC is a large, two-level complex with three bulkhead exits, which are closed during [[Action Stations|action stations]] alerts.<br />
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''Galactica's'' CIC is divided into multiple stations.<ref>This comes from Doug Drexler's Facebook page. - [https://www.facebook.com/doug.drexler.7/posts/10151131312251104]</ref><br />
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* '''AIMD - AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE DIVISION'''<br />
* '''AIR - AIR DEPARTMENT'''<br />
* '''DECK - DECK DIVISION'''<br />
* '''UNREP - UNDERWAY FUELING AND REPLENISHMENT'''<br />
* '''FTL - JUMP OFFICER'''<br />
* '''DECK - DECK DIVISION'''<br />
* '''ENG - ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT'''<br />
* '''CSD - COMBAT SYSTEMS DIVISION'''<br />
* '''NAV - NAVIGATION DEPARTMENT'''<br />
* '''OPSO - OPERATIONS DEPARTMENT'''<br />
* '''DRADIS\AEW - AIRBORNE EARLY WARNING'''<br />
* '''TEW - TACTICAL ELECTRONIC WARFARE'''<br />
* '''DECK - DECK DIVISION'''<br />
* '''FLETOPS - FLEET OPERATIONS DIVISION'''<br />
* '''BATC - AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL DIVISION'''<br />
* '''ATC - AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL DIVISION'''<br />
* '''JIC - JOINT INTELLIGENCE'''<br />
* '''LSO - LANDING SIGNAL OFFICER'''<br />
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[[Image:Bsg-cic-2.jpg|thumb|The Command and Control station.]]<br />
[[Image:Dradisconsole.jpg|thumb|right|Close-up of the [[DRADIS console]].]]<br />
===Command and Control===<br />
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The '''Command and Control''' station is the primary station within CIC used by the Commanding and Executive Officers aboard a Colonial battlestar. The center comprises a large communications and a roughly hexagonal "information management" table, with a retractable information display tower bearing a number of LCD screens suspended above it. There are no chairs; the command staff are always standing.<br />
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Here, the battlestar's commander and [[Executive officer]] are on station, observing and plotting battle tactics, viewing transparent charts, and giving commands to others in CIC. Above the Command and Control Station is a cluster of monitors known as the [[DRADIS console]]. The DRADIS console descends from a cylindrical ceiling recess when required. From the Command and Control Station, the commander has a 360-degree view of the CIC. The DRADIS console contains DRADIS displays but also includes other navigation and tactical information available to the commander at a glance. The displays are capable of showing a wide range on information including:<br />
* Countdowns ("[[33]]", "[[You Can't Go Home Again]]")<br />
* [[DRADIS]] sensor readings relayed from the DRADIS console<br />
* Battlestar management information, such as the vessel's spatial orientation (pitch, yaw & roll)<br />
* Battle management information<br />
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A [[Cylon transponder]] was once mounted on the base of the DRADIS console ([[Miniseries]]), supposedly planted there by [[Aaron Doral]].<br />
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[[Image:Cic_commstation.jpg|right|thumb|The Communication station.]]<br />
===Communications Center===<br />
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Adjacent to the Command and Control Center on the port side of CIC is the ''Communications Center''. Here, all communications to and from fighters and other ships are monitored, directed or relayed. In coordination with the Tactical Station, the Communications officer can also verify [[IFF|transponders]] that register as friendly, and alerts the Tactical Officer or commander of any signals without transponders or recognized enemy transponders. The [[Communications Officer]] has a link to the [[Computers#Mainframe computer|mainframe computer]], where a library of Colonial recognition information resides.<br />
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===Damage Control Station===<br />
[[Image:Dmgcontrolconsole.jpg|thumb|[[Galen Tyrol]] at DC panel after a nuclear strike on the port [[flight pod]] ([[Miniseries]]).]]<br />
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Situated in the far port side of CIC is ''Damage Control.'' This station, usually unmanned, contains the Damage Control computers, which connect to many sensors throughout the exterior and interior of the ship. A large display against the wall of the station shows damage through a series of lights that represent the [[Frame|frames]], or compartments of the battlestar that form the many segments of the ship.<br />
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[[Image:Cicdmgcontrol.jpg|left|thumb|The Damage Control station.]]<br />
A commander can order a Damage Control officer to perform many actions to repair or mitigate the effects of an enemy attack through the controls here, including the venting of compartments, coordination of damage control teams, and the like. It is also likely that alternative damage control stations outside of CIC, such as the [[Aft Damage Control]] room contain similar controls to aid in repairs, control of fires and the like in the event that CIC's damage control is knocked offline or CIC staff are incapacitated.<br />
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[[Image:Cichelmcontrol.jpg|thumb|Helm Control.]]<br />
===Helm Control===<br />
Battlestars move through space much as a submarine navigates in an ocean. There are no windows, no viewscreens to see into space for helm control. While external cameras may be available, they are seldom used in navigation of a battlestar. Navigation is managed by spatial coordinates based on [[DRADIS]] and other sensor information. The helm crewmembers drive the battlestar through a series of controls and based on commands from the Executive officer or commanding officer.<br />
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===Tactical Station===<br />
[[Image:Cictacticalstation1.jpg|thumb|left|The tactical station with tactical plot and table.]]<br />
[[Image:Tact plot.jpg|thumb|right|Close-up of tactical plot.]]<br />
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The Officer of the Watch/[[Tactical Officer]] is arguably the busiest officer in ''Galactica's'' CIC. Tasked with the monitoring of [[DRADIS]] and coordinating various command and control functionality, including [[Computers|computer control]], the Tactical Officer must relay changes in status and keep the commander updated continuously during the fluid events of battle. The Tactical officer is typically the first to know that an attack is imminent and will address the battlestar by the public address system to go to battle stations through [[Action Stations|Condition One or Two alerts]].<br />
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As ''Galactica's'' computers aren't networked, the Tactical officer must manually print or offload data from the various central computers he monitors (Fire control, Navigation, FTL, and mainframe computers) and relay this information to the other officers and staff in the room. Fortunately, many stations see the same information on displays similar to those at the Tactical Station, but it is the Tactical Officer who is charged with notifying the commander of the changes and interpreting the results. ''Galactica's'' Tactical officer also is the administrator for all central computers onboard and provides maintenance as required.<br />
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While the Helm officers drive the ship, it is the Tactical officer that plots [[FTL|FTL jumps]], the apparently instantaneous leap from one location in space to another location millions of kilometers away. The Tactical officer of ''Galactica'' not only has to provide Jump coordinates to the battlestar's helm, but is also responsible for relaying both scheduled sets and sets of [[emergency jump coordinates]] to over 70 other FTL-capable civilian ships that make up [[The Fleet (RDM)|the Fleet]] to ensure that all ships always stay close to ''Galactica's''' protective sphere.<br />
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Nearby the Tactical Station is a tactical board and table where the commander can meet with several officers and crew at once for advanced battle or strategy conferences. The Tactical Station is frequently manned by other specialists and officers that assist the Watch Officer.<br />
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===Weapons Control Room===<br />
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[[Image:Cicweaponscontrol1.jpg|thumb|left|The Weapons Control Room, left of the tactical station.]]<br />
[[Image:Cicweaponscontrol2.jpg|thumb|right|Weapons Control Room.]]<br />
Hidden away, next to the Tactical Station is the Weapons Control Room. Obscured from direct view during most episodes, the Weapons Control Room ostensibly is manned during [[Action Stations]]. The battlestar's gun [[Battery|batteries]] and other defensive controls are managed here.<br />
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In the event that the Weapons Control Room or CIC is knocked offline or its crew incapacitated, control of the ship's batteries can be managed at [[Auxiliary Fire Control]].<br />
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===The Core===<br />
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[[Image:CIC Core 2.jpg|thumb|left|Laura Roslin walking along the stations in the Core ([[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]).]]<br />
[[Image:CIC Core 1.jpg|thumb|right|Roslin and Adama talking (Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down).]]<br />
The second deck of the CIC, known only as the "Core", offers a bird's eye view of the busy command deck below. This narrow passageway, lined with a limited set of computers and consoles, extends in a semi-circle from just above the port hatch around the rear of the CIC, over Damage Control, the Communications Center and Helm Control, to just above the starboard hatch. There is also a small room with computers behind the consoles. Two sets of stairs lead up to the Core; one is next to the starboard hatch, and the other is just behind the Communications Center. They can be easily spotted by the blue lights behind them.<br />
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The Core often proves to be a conveniently private area of the CIC for [[William Adama]] to meet with his associates to discuss delicate affairs while on duty. In "[[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]" he meets here with [[Laura Roslin]] to discuss the creation of [[Gaius Baltar]]'s [[Cylon detector]], and again in "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]" with [[Saul Tigh]] to discuss [[Kara Thrace]]'s desertion to retrieve the [[Arrow of Apollo]].<br />
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The FTL station is in the area behind the Tactical Station. It is not routinely manned, but can be manned by up to two crewmembers. All functions of the FTL drive and computer can be controlled from this station. While the engineering portions of the FTL drive are usually controlled and monitored by engineering staff, this station is sometimes staffed when more complex jumps must be made. This station is where the Tactical Officer plots and executes the jump. Sometimes the Tactical Officer inputs the jump coordinates himself, while other times the station is manned by two seated crewmen. However, the jump is always executed by the Tactical Officer himself. The FTL drive is engaged by inserting a blue "key" into a receptacle at the center of the console and turning it. This console folds down into a table when it is not being used.<br />
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== ''Pegasus'' ==<br />
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''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'s'' CIC is far smaller than ''Galactica's'', reflecting the [[Mercury class battlestar|advanced battlestar]]'s increased automation and reliance on computer networks. According to Admiral [[Helena Cain|Cain]], the ship is far larger, but requires only half the crew ([[Pegasus (Extended Version)|Pegasus]]), as evidenced by the reduced size and staffing of CIC.<br />
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In contrast to Gatactica, Pegasus' bridge is not located inside the alligator head, but in the forward area of the following, narrower section, as can be seen when [[Gina Inviere]] shows [[Kendra Shaw]] the way to the CIC in [[Razor]].<br />
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The CIC has overall far fewer stations than ''Galactica's'' and occupies only one level, but the general layout is similar. The command table with computer screens above is located in the center, around which the main stations such as tactical, helm and communications are grouped, allowing the commanding officer to quickly address all officers.<br />
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There are two larger consoles with seats and no fewer than five free standing stations; additionally, there are two standing tactical plotters on opposing ends of the CIC. <br />
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While ''Galactica's'' CIC doors are solid bulkheads, ''Pegasus's'' CIC lies adjacent to a large hallway and can be accessed through a series of glass doors that pivot ninety degrees. A door is also located along the opposite wall to the extreme left.<br />
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Image:PegasusInterior CIC1.jpg|''Pegasus'' CIC ([[The Captain's Hand]]).<br />
Image:PegasusInterior CIC2.jpg|''Pegasus'' CIC (The Captain's Hand).<br />
Image:PegasusInterior CIC3.jpg|''Pegasus'' CIC (The Captain's Hand).<br />
Image:PegasusInterior CICHallway.jpg|Hallway and entrance to the CIC (The Captain's Hand).<br />
Image:Pegasus_CIC_view_1.jpg|A view of ''Pegasus'' CIC.<br />
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== ''Valkyrie'' ==<br />
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''[[Valkyrie]]''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> CIC is the same size as those of the ''Mercury'' class with the same general aesthetic and console configurations, although there are minor positional changes. Noteworthy differences include bulkhead coloring and the lack of the glass doors. Unlike other battlestars, there is only one main entrance to CIC that is located in the center of the wall parallel to the command table, behind where Commander [[William Adama|Adama]] stands ([[Hero]]). <br />
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Image:Valkyrie bridge.jpg|''Valkyrie'''s CIC.<br />
Image:Valkyrie CIC.jpg|Full view of ''Valkyrie'''s CIC.<br />
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* The destruction of other battlestars during the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attack]] hinged on the Colonial's dependence on complex networking within most CICs. It is likely that the battlestars that were destroyed required fewer crewmembers to operate it since they used networked computer systems that moved data around faster than the crew that literally ran between stations in ''Galactica's'' CIC with pen and paper or data cartridges to transfer messages and data.<br />
* A [[Cylon agent]], probably the first copy of [[Aaron Doral]] encountered, installed a [[Cylon transponder]] at the base of the DRADIS console shortly before the Cylon attack ([[Miniseries]]). Dr. Baltar is aided by his virtual [[Number Six]] in identifying it to the CIC command staff. It is likely that the transponder is placed there to track ''Galactica'' should it escape the initial Cylon attack.<br />
*According to [[Anastasia Dualla|Dualla]], in a deleted scene from "[[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]", the ''Galactica'' CIC is staffed by roughly 50 people.<br />
*The battlestar ''[[Valkyrie]]'' is a third CIC seen in the series. Being of an intermediate design between ''Galactica'' and ''Pegasus'', its CIC is similar to the latter vessel. Cinematically the set is a redress of the ''Pegasus'' CIC set.<br />
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* Cinematic realism on the CIC set is enhanced with the use of actual submarine hardware, such as thick phones with cords.<br />
* Unlike the command centers of many science fiction space vessels, ''Galactica's'' CIC does not have a central viewing screen out into space. There isn't a single window looking out, in fact. Navigation is performed from sensor and spatial data not unlike a submarine.<br />
* The CIC set used for the ''Pegasus'' are the modified remains of set hardware intended for use on a revival of the "Lost in Space" television series. When the series project was cancelled, the show's sets were refitted to form the CIC for this advanced battlestar. This is also the behind the scenes reason why the ''Pegasus'' CIC is not as large as the two-level ''Galactica'' CIC; the production team simply could not afford to make another set on the scale of the ''Galactica'' CIC, and were able to build the ''Pegasus'' CIC by purchasing the canceled "Lost in Space" sets for next to nothing. <br />
* The Sci-Fi Channel official web site incorrectly names CIC as the "''Command'' Information Center." The correct name is verifiable from the center's name that is etched in the glass of the doors of the set.<br />
*The Weapons Control Section is a rarely seen (in terms of use in episodes) and secluded part of CIC. The area was shown manned and in action during the closing moments of the [[Battle of Ragnar Anchorage]] ([[Miniseries]]), just before [[Anastasia Dualla]] reports that Starbuck and Apollo have not yet returned to ''Galactica.'' The area was likely built with the set budget before later restrictions would make building one impossible. The angle and enclosed area suggests that the area is used in production to allow film crew to hide off-camera without being off-set during filming.<br />
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** DRADIS|DRADIS<br />
** Situation Room|Situation Room<br />
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** Computers in the Re-imagined Series|Computers in the Re-imagined Series<br />
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<div>'''PPDIOO''' is a network lifecycle continuous improvement process (CIP) implemented in the colonial military.<br />
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Admiral [[Helena Cain]] reviews a summary report on this and other status related topics, while [[Pegasus (TRS)|Pegasus]] is in [[Scorpion Fleet Shipyards]] for a large-scale overhaul, including its network infrastructure, the latter being lead by [[Gina Inviere]] of [[Integral Systems Engineering]].<br />
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* Interesting coincidence: PPDIOO (Prepare, Plan, Design, Implement, Operate, and Optimize) is also a network lifecycle implementation and optimization procedure [http://www.w7cloud.com/cisco-ppdioo/ defined by Cisco].<br />
* The short glimpse on the term in Pegasus' report seems to be the only occurrence of the term throughout the continuity.<br />
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[http://imgur.com/6VvkXZP Screenshot of occurrence]</div>Determinanthttps://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=PPDIOO&diff=215523PPDIOO2015-08-08T14:06:53Z<p>Determinant: </p>
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<div>'''PPDIOO''' is a network lifecycle continuous improvement process (CIP) implemented in the colonial military.<br />
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Admiral [[Helena Cain]] reviews a summary report on this and other status related topics, while [[Pegasus (TRS)|Pegasus]] is in [[Scorpion Fleet Shipyards]] for a large-scale overhaul, including its network infrastructure, the latter being lead by [[Gina Inviere]] of [[Integral Systems Engineering]].<br />
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==Notes==<br />
* Interesting coincidence: PPDIOO (Prepare, Plan, Design, Implement, Operate, and Optimize) is also a network lifecycle implementation and optimization procedure [http://www.w7cloud.com/cisco-ppdioo/|defined by Cisco].<br />
* The short glimpse on the term in Pegasus' report seems to be the only occurrence of the term throughout the continuity.<br />
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==External references==<br />
[http://imgur.com/6VvkXZP Screenshot of occurrence]</div>Determinanthttps://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Pegasus_(TRS)&diff=215522Pegasus (TRS)2015-08-08T14:06:14Z<p>Determinant: Interesting real-life reference.</p>
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<div>{{Ship Data|<br />
| image= Pegasus High Res.jpg<br />
| title= ''Pegasus'' (BS 62)<br />
| race= Colonial<br />
| type= Military<br />
| ftl= Yes<br />
| propol = * 8x sublight engines <br /> * Maneuvering thrusters<br />
| crew= Approx. 1,750 <ref>The [[survivor count]] increases by this number in the episode "Pegasus". Before that, the battlestar lost approximately 700 crewmen during the [[Fall of the Scorpion Fleet Shipyards|attack on the Scorpion Fleet Shipyards]] and a further 100 during its [[Battle of the Communications Relay|attack on a Cylon communications relay]].</ref><br />
| length={{Feet2Meters|5872}}<ref>[http://darthmojo.wordpress.com/2009/04/05/how-big-was-the-colony/#comment-2193 Blog comment] by [[Adam "Mojo" Lebowitz]].</ref><br />
| co= [[Lee Adama]] (At time of loss)<br />
| xo= [[Anastasia Dualla]] (At time of loss)<br />
| role= Carrier / Battleship <br />
| arm= * 34x [[KEW|primary batteries ]] (30x twin turrets, 4x fixed twin mounts) <br /> * Numerous [[KEW|point-defense cannons]] <br /> * [[missile tubes|Missile tubes]]<br />
| def= * Electronic countermeasures <br /> * Flak<br />
| aircraft= * Full Viper Mk. VII compliment <br /> * Full Raptor compliment<br />
| facilities= * 2x flight pods <br /> * 4x flight decks <br /> * 80x Viper launch tubes <br /> * Viper construction facilities<br />
| status= Destroyed, [[Battle of New Caprica]], circa 3 ACH<br />
| patch= Pegasus White.png<br />
| img= Y<br />
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:''This article discusses the [[Mercury class battlestar]] from the [[Re-imagined Series]]. For the episode of the same name, see [[Pegasus (episode)]]. For other meanings of '''Pegasus''', see [[Pegasus (disambiguation)]].''<br />
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'''''Pegasus'' (BS 62)''' is a [[Mercury class battlestar|''Mercury'' class battlestar]], commanded by Rear Admiral [[Helena Cain]] during the time leading up to and after the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]]. Built sometime after the First Cylon War, ''Pegasus'' was the crown jewel of the Colonial Fleet, with a big reputation, and many officers yearning for a post on the ship ([[TRS]]: "[[Razor]]"). <br />
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After the Fall, ''Pegasus'' is informally nicknamed "The Beast" within the surviving Colonial Fleet ([[TRS]]: "[[The Captain's Hand]]").<br />
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==History==<br />
=== Before the Fall ===<br />
[[Image:Pegasus, Scorpion Shipyards.jpg|thumb|left|''Pegasus'' docked at the [[Scorpion Fleet Shipyards]].]]<br />
At some point prior to the Fall, ''Pegasus'' is upgraded to include the [[Command Navigation Program]], a new operating system (later found to be bugged) designed for use in Colonial spacecraft. Parts of it were taken offline during a three-month systems overhaul at the [[Scorpion Fleet Shipyards]] shortly before the Cylon attack, an attribute which later spared the ship from destruction ([[TRS]]: "[[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]").<br />
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During the three month overhaul, technicians and staff from both the [[Ministry of Defense]], and [[Integral Systems Engineering]] were aboard the ship, assisting ''Pegasus'' crew members with the upgrades. One of those technicians, [[Gina Inviere]], worked to gain the trust of the crew - even entering into a relationship with Rear Admiral Cain, in what is now known to be an act of subterfuge ([[TRS]]: "[[Razor]]"). <br />
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=== Cylons Attack ===<br />
:''Main articles: [[Fall of the Scorpion Fleet Shipyards]], [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]]<br />
Shortly after the ship enters drydock, the Cylon strike the Colonies. The Fleet Shipyards are indirectly struck by nuclear weapons, which blinds both Cylon and Colonial [[DRADIS]]. The nuclear strike is powerful enough to knock the crew to the floor, causing many injuries. ''Pegasus'' survives the nuclear strike, but with multiple injuries to officers and crew, and damage to its computer systems, it is unable to fight back. With no other options available, Cain orders a blind FTL jump away from the shipyards.<br />
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''Pegasus'' emerges several plotted jumps away from the Colonies, far from the Cylon onslaught. Cain uses this time to repair her ship, and calm the crew, with the intent on getting back into the fight, but repair efforts are compounded by rumors of the fate of the Colonies and the Colonial Fleet. After revealing that both have been destroyed, Cain prepares the ship and crew for hit and run attacks against Cylon targets, and with the help of ISE specialist Inviere, quickly determine their first target. The crew responds with overwhelming support.<br />
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As the computer systems are brought back online by Ministry of Defense officer [[Kendra Shaw]], she discovers that the Command Navigation Program contains a backdoor, allowing access to the computer network. Shaw determines that it is Cylon in origin, and should be purged ([[TRS]]: "[[Razor]]").<br />
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=== Hit and Run Campaign, and A Cylon Spy ===<br />
:''Main article: [[Battle of the Communications Relay]]<br />
[[Image:Centurion on Pegasus.jpg|thumb|right|A [[Centurion]] on ''Pegasus''.]]<br />
With repairs complete, ''Pegasus'' begins her attacks on what is thought to be a communications relay. However, after launching a handful of Vipers, multiple Raider squadrons appear on DRADIS, revealing the area to be a staging ground. The Vipers are quickly outnumbered, and are unable to proceed as planned. Cain orders the reserves launched, however, her XO, Colonel [[Jurgen Belzen]] hesitates and proposes to retreat and form a new plan. A now furious Cain calls for Belzen's sidearm, and summarily executes him on the spot for refusing to carry out orders, much to the shock and horror of CIC staff. As the battle continues, Cain calls up officer Colonel [[Jack Fisk]] to launch the reserves. Still in shock, he calls for the launch. <br />
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The battle does not proceed well, with the Cylons soon gaining access to the ship via the flight pods. As the boarding parties fight their way into the ship, officer Shaw discovers a woman in white who looks exactly like Gina Inviere walking the corridors. Determining that she is not a ''Pegasus'' officer or crewman, she guns the woman down, and then makes her way back to the CIC, where she finds Inviere next to Cain. Shaw determines that she is Cylon in nature, and moves to apprehend her. As she sees her double on a security feed, she kills three marines before she is knocked unconscious and removed from the CIC. <br />
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While ''Pegasus'' is able to destroy the relay, the battle was pyrrhic at best, with heavy Colonial losses. At this point, nearly 816 crewmen have been killed, with 121 injured. Losses are further compounded by the tally of Vipers lost or damaged in the battle, with half the airwing suffering damage.<br />
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The battle takes an insurmountable toll on the crew, and the communications relay would be the first and last Cylon target ''Pegasus'' strikes on its own ([[TRS]]: "[[Razor]]"). <br />
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Following the conclusion of the battle at the Communications Relay, Cain begins the interrogation of Inviere, using whatever methods necessary. Considered now to be nothing more than an emotionless machine, certain members of the crew, led by Lieutenant [[Alastair Thorne]] begin assaulting and raping the prisoner. Thorne is essential in saving the lives of many ''Pegasus'' officers and crew, and line up behind him in support of torturing the Cylon prisoner ([[TRS]]: "[[Razor]]").<br />
:''How Thorne saves his fellow crewman's lives is never fully revealed in the series.'' <br />
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===A Lost Civilian Fleet===<br />
[[Image:Lost Civilian Fleet.gif|thumb|right|Several ships found by ''Pegasus''.]]<br />
''Pegasus'' encounters its own small fleet of 15 civilian ships, found about a week after the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]]. Admiral Cain uses them as a source of spare parts, deciding that ''Pegasus''' military needs take priority over theirs.<br />
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Cain also reviews their passenger lists and draws up a list of selectees, people such as aeronautical engineer [[Peter Laird]] who would be of value, to forcibly draft into her crew. However, some are with their families and refuse to leave them. Facing an uprising aboard the civilian transport ''[[Scylla]]'' that spreads to the other ships, Admiral Cain orders Colonel Fisk to shoot the families of any who resist. When the angry crowd gets violent, Lieutenant [[Kendra Shaw]] and her Marines carry out the order, killing 10 people and cowing the rest into submission.<br />
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The civilian ships are stripped of useful items, including their FTL drives, and are left to their fate as ''Pegasus'' resumes its campaign of hit-and-run attacks against the Cylons ("''[[Razor]]''", "[[Resurrection Ship, Part I]]").<br />
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=== Finding ''Galactica'', and Cylon Resurrection ===<br />
:''Main article: [[Battle of the Resurrection Ship]]<br />
Months after the attacks, ''Pegasus'' is still tracking a large Cylon fleet jumping from system to system with natural resources. When ''Pegasus'' jumps ahead to the Cylon's next projected position, it detects a large fleet. After communication is made, and authentications exchanged, it is revealed that the fleet is led by battlestar ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' (BS 75), believed by ''Pegasus''' crew to have been destroyed. Integration into the fleet doesn't go as smooth as both crews had hoped, with Admiral Cain quickly taking command, and integrating both crews despite having said otherwise. She also begins neglecting the civilian fleet, with many crucial supplies going to both battlestars instead. Cain also uses this time to share the information they've gathered about the Cylon fleet they've been tracking with ''Galactica's'' CO, [[William Adama]]. Several basestars, their support ships, and one unidentified ship is seen in the recon photographs.<br />
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During this time, Lt. Thorne is brought aboard ''Galactica'' to interrogate Sharon Agathon, ''Galactica's'' Cylon prisoner, while Dr. Baltar is brought to ''Pegasus'' to see Gina Inviere. Lt. Thorne wastes no time in abusing Agathon, and when deck chief [[Galen Tyrol]], and pilot [[Karl Agathon]] are told of his visit, they rush to the jail cell and pull him off Sharon, moments away from raping her. Chief Tyrol tosses him to the wall, where he knocks his head against an exposed bolt, and dies as a result. This further escalates tensions, as Cain announces plans to execute Lt. Agathon, and Chief Tyrol for their actions. Commander Adama aboard ''Galactica'' launches Vipers and Raptors in an attempt to get his men back, an action which nearly sparks a shooting war between the battlestars. The fight is broken up after ''Galactica'' pilot, Lt. [[Kara Thrace]], returning from an unscheduled recon of the Cylon fleet, is detected, and initially believed to be a Cylon Raider. Cooler heads prevail, and a truce is called while the crews work to destroy their Cylon target, now discovered to be a [[Resurrection Ship]].<br />
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A plan to attack is formulated as the two crews begin working with each other. However, distrust remains, and each commander has one person under their respective commands ready to execute each other at a moments notice, citing concerns in leadership style. The battle proceeds as planned, with both battlestars working in unison against two basestars, while fighters are used to draw the Raiders away from the targets. With the basestars occupied, a small joint force of Vipers converges on the Resurrection Ship, and destroys it. This proves to be a turning point in relations between both crews, and both sides call off their decapitation plans. As both crews relax, an escaped Inviere exacts revenge on Cain for the physical and emotional abuse she's suffered, gunning her down in the war room. Cains death marks the end of hostilities with the crew of ''Galactica'', and the permanent integration into the surviving fleet ([[TRS]]: "[[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]", "[[Resurrection Ship, Part I]]", "[[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]"). <br />
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=== Service Within the Fleet ===<br />
:''Main articles: [[Battle of the Binary Star System]], [[Battle of the Guardian Basestar]]<br />
Following Admiral Cain's death, Jack Fisk is promoted to the rank of commander, and is instated as the ship's new CO. Thanks to his involvement in the fleet's [[black market]], ''Pegasus'' now becomes a staging ground for smuggling goods across the fleet. However, due to his high, negligent demands with the market, Commander Fisk is murdered a short time later, further adding to ''Pegasus''<nowiki>'</nowiki> dark history ([[TRS]]: "[[Black Market]]"). Following Fisk's death, newly promoted Admiral Adama appoints ship's engineer [[Barry Garner]] as CO. As Garner is used to dealing with machines, rather than people, his command style is rather strict, with many crew either punished or interned for their actions. When a pair of ''Pegasus''' raptors go missing, Garner ignores all authoritative orders, and takes ''Pegasus'' to go find them, triggering a Cylon trap. ''Pegasus'' is quickly outnumbered, and takes heavy damage, knocking out the FTL drive, and the ship's only means of escape. Realizing his mistake, Cmdr. Garner cedes command to his XO, [[Lee Adama]], while he retreats to the engine room to repair the FTL drive. While ''Pegasus'' is successful in fighting off the Cylon trap, it looses its third CO after Cmdr. Garner dies from vacuum exposure while effecting repairs ([[TRS]]: "[[The Captain's Hand]]"). Upon returning to the fleet, Admiral Adama appoints Lee Adama as ''Pegasus''<nowiki>'</nowiki> next CO. <br />
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After settling into his new command, Cmdr. Adama begins the search for a new XO and eventually settles on Kendra Shaw, out of a desire to demonstrate to the crew a measure of respect for Cain's legacy that he in fact does not share. ''Pegasus'' is called upon shortly thereafter to find a missing Raptor, sent out by ''Galactica'' to study a supernova remnant. Not long into the mission, DRADIS contact is made with ships that turn out to be [[Cylon War]]-era [[Raider_(RDM)#Cylon_War-era_Raider|Raiders]] piloted by War-era [[Centurions]]. It is quickly determined that the missing Raptor crew were taken by these Cylons back to their [[Guardian basestar|baseship]]. ''Pegasus'' initiates [[Battle of the Guardian Basestar|battle]] in order to lure the Raiders away from the baseship, as a lone group make their way via spacewalk to the missing crew. Numerous kamikaze Raiders strike the ship and penetrate the hull, but with minimal damage. ''Pegasus'' is successful in rescuing the kidnapped Raptor crew and destroying the baseship. However, Kendra Shaw sacrifices herself in order to detonate the nuclear weapon smuggled aboard the baseship ([[TRS]]: "[[Razor]]"). <br />
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===New Caprica===<br />
:''Main article: [[Battle of New Caprica]]<br />
Following the founding of [[New Caprica]], ''Pegasus'' is assigned to the orbital defense force that protects the planet. During this time, Commander [[Lee Adama]] keeps an emergency supply of medication aboard for the pilots, despite the fact that their crew are severely depleted due to colonization of the planet. One year after the founding the colony, the Cylons return in force. Unable to defend the planet, ''Pegasus'' and the remaining ships orbiting the planet jump away ([[TRS]]: "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]").<br />
[[Image:Pegaus Ram (3).jpg|thumb|''Pegasus''' destruction.]]<br />
Four months later, ''Pegasus'' and ''Galactica'' plan a rescue mission to recover the humans left on the planet ([[TRS]]: "[[Occupation]]"). While the plans initially called for the involvement of ''Pegasus'' in the recovery, Admiral Adama decides that the remnants of the Fleet, the last free people of humanity, should not be left unprotected if things went awry. The admiral takes ''Galactica'' in the rescue effort without ''Pegasus'', ordering his son to stay with the Fleet at a rendezvous point to await their return ([[TRS]]: "[[Precipice]]", "[[Exodus, Part I]]").<br />
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Despite the admiral's orders, ''Pegasus'' leaves its fighters and the majority of its Raptor complement to protect the remnants of the Fleet and returns to New Caprica with a skeleton crew to participate in the rescue. ''Pegasus'' jumps into the fight and finds ''Galactica'' under fire from four Cylon basestars. ''Pegasus'' destroys one of the baseships with its forward batteries and attracts the attention of the others while ''Galactica'' repairs its FTL drive and prepares to jump away.<br />
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''Pegasus'' reels from the onslought of missiles from the remaining Cylon basestars and sustains heavy damage. It becomes clear to Admiral Adama that ''Pegasus's'' trip was one-way. Following ''Galactica's'' jump, Commander Adama sets his battlestar's batteries on auto-fire and orders the crew to abandon ship, pausing just long enough to give his dying command a quiet thanks. As the evacuation Raptors jump away, the ''Pegasus'', mortally damaged and now completely unmanned, rams an attacking basestar, destroying both vessels. ''Pegasus's'' fuel lines ignite, causing explosions to ripple down the ships hull towards the engines which detonate, ripping the ship apart. The starboard flight pod breaks away, and is flung into a handful of raiders, eventually colliding with another nearby basestar, destroying it as well ([[TRS]]: "[[Exodus, Part II]]"). The rest of Pegasus's crew, Vipers and Raptors are integrated with ''Galactica'', bolstering its air wing and pilot roster significantly.<br />
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==Air Wing==<br />
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''Pegasus'' operates at least 10 squadrons of Viper Mark VII space fighters. During the [[Battle of the Binary Star System]] four [[:Category:Fighter squadrons|color-coded squadrons]] are identified verbally and on the [[DRADIS]] ([[The Captain's Hand]]). Since these designations are later used for very different squadrons led by different people, they are very likely just [[wireless]] callsigns. Moreover, the standing [[Squadrons of Galactica|squadrons on ''Galactica'']] have more elaborate names and are numbered; such as the [[Vigilantes]]. The colors and group leaders could be assigned on an ad-hoc basis, while a more formal structure exists in the background. <br />
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Given that ''Pegasus'' suffers over 90 Viper casualties with 32 being destroyed during its [[Battle of the Communications Relay|attack on a Cylon communications relay]] ([[Razor]]), but is still able to field a sizable Viper complement at the time of encountering ''Galactica'', this suggests that its initial Viper load out was very large. The exact number of Vipers per squadron for a full-strength battlestar is approx 20 ([[Battlestar Galactica RPG]]). Also, ''Pegasus'' fielded approx 8 squadrons of Vipers and 2 reserve squadrons, the number of Vipers per squadron must have been 20 to equal up to 200 Vipers.<br />
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''Pegasus'' has approximately 50 [[Raptor]]s, having lost over half of its fighters and recon craft, and 20 Raptors can be deployed for the [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] rescue mission, while ''Galactica'' alone appears to have difficulties deploying more than about 5 Raptors at one time ("[[The Farm]]", "[[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]").<br />
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==Crew==<br />
====Senior Staff at Time of Destruction====<br />
*Commander [[Lee Adama]] - Commanding officer<br />
*Lieutenant [[Anastasia Dualla]] - [[Executive officer]]<br />
*Lieutenant [[Louis Hoshi]] - [[Communications officer]]<br />
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====Former Members of the Senior Staff====<br />
*Rear Admiral [[Helena Cain]] - Commanding officer (Killed by [[Gina Inviere]])<br />
*Commander [[Jack Fisk]] - Commanding officer (Killed by racketeers in the [[Black market (organization)|black market]])<br />
*Commander [[Barry Garner]] - Commanding officer (Killed in action)<br />
*Major [[Kendra Shaw]] - Cain's aide; [[Lee Adama]]'s XO (Killed in action by destroying the [[Guardian basestar]])<br />
*Colonel [[Jurgen Belzen]] - Executive officer (Killed by Admiral Cain)<br />
*Captain [[Cole Taylor]] - [[CAG|Commander, Air Group]] (Demoted by Admiral Cain)<br />
*Captain [[Kara Thrace]] - Commander, Air Group (Replaced Cole Taylor in "[[Resurrection Ship, Part I]]" but transferred to ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' at some time after "[[Razor]]")<br />
*Lieutenant [[Alastair Thorne]] - Cylon interrogator (Killed by [[Galen Tyrol]])<br />
*[[Peter Laird]] - Chief of the deck (Civilian conscripted by Admiral Cain; later murdered by [[Tom Zarek]])<br />
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==Notes==<br />
*According to [[David Eick]]'s video blog, it would have been impossible to afford creating new sets for the entire interior of ''Pegasus'' on the budget of an episodic television show. This expense was circumvented when a year beforehand Ron D. Moore and David Eick bought (for next to nothing) the abandoned sets of the failed pilot for the FOX network's ''Lost In Space'' remake, directed by John Woo. The production team then held onto the sets hoping to find some later use for them, eventually using them for "[[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]". The sets were then radically redesigned and painted to give them the aesthetic look of ''Galactica'', but sleeker and more advanced.<br />
*This ship is named after [[w:Pegasus|the winged horse from Greek mythology]].<br />
*The colonial military seems to employ a network optimization process also defined by Cisco in the real world: see [[PPDIOO]]. As network breakdowns induced by Cylon viruses are the main reason for the colonial demise, this might comprise a pun on said networking company.<br />
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== Related Imagery ==<br />
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Image:Pegasus01.jpg|''Pegasus'' - Front view &nbsp; &nbsp;<br />
Image:Pegasus_Hi-Res_1a.jpg|''Pegasus'' - Vipers landing &nbsp; &nbsp;<br />
Image:Pegasus_Hi-Res_5a.jpg|''Pegasus'' - Gun batteries &nbsp; &nbsp;<br />
Image:Pegasus 217 1080i rescale.jpg|''Pegasus'' - Side angle &nbsp; &nbsp;<br />
Image:Pegasus Rear Shot.png|Pegasus from the rear<br />
Image:Pegasus cripple.jpg|''Pegasus'' taking mortal damage.<br />
Image:Pegasus flight pod turret.jpg|''Pegasus'' flight pod turrets<br />
Image:Pegasus engine room.jpg|A part of ''Pegasus'''s engine room.<br />
Image:PegasusInterior Office2.jpg|Admiral Cain's office.<br />
Image:PegasusInterior BriefingRoom.jpg|Pilot [[briefing room]].<br />
Image:PegasusInterior Brig.jpg|The [[Brig]].<br />
Image:CIC - Pegasus (Razor).jpg|[[CIC]] ([[Razor]]).<br />
Image:PegasusInterior CIC3.jpg|CIC ([[The Captain's Hand]]).<br />
Image:PegasusInterior CICHallway.jpg|Hallway and entrance to CIC (The Captain's Hand).<br />
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== "Ppidoo" ==<br />
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I reviewed the video at the point that you cited and didn't see anything labeled like this. Whether or not it's there, it seems like much too minor a detail for its own separate page. "Razor" has been completely mined for relevant details by now. -- [[User:BlueResistance|BlueResistance]] 07:55, 8 August 2015 (EDT)<br />
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:@[[User:BlueResistance|BlueResistance]]:<br />
:I would have supplied a screenshot, would I not have been forced to create another (!) account on the media subdomain. It is definitely there, and at least as visible as the dogtag of Belzen.<br />
:Just a note: As you are an administrator, maybe, just maybe, '''instead of deleting faithful contributions to the oh-so-complete Battlestar-Wiki you could see to it, that this site itself gets fixed up''':<br />
:Dead links everywhere (FrakMedia! e.g.), the edit fields looking damaged (\[&amp;lt;textricheditor&amp;gt;\] does not quite seem to fit the original intention, as it might be the case with the edit toolbar disappearing completely on preview) etc.pp.--[[User:Determinant|Determinant]] 09:01, 8 August 2015 (EDT)<br />
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::Even if "Ppidoo" is there in the movie and you can provide a screen grab, it seems to be far too minor a detail for its own page. True, the Wiki is far from complete, but there are much bigger gaps that can be filled. Summaries of ''Blood and Chrome'' and the last four episodes of ''Caprica'' immediately come to mind.<br />
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::As to other problems on Battlestar Wiki that you mentioned, the more technical ones are above my level of administrator access, and those with sufficient access have very little contact with the Wiki these days. Red links are a different matter; whenever you encounter them, you are welcome and entirely capable of deleting them on your own, just like any contributor. I delete red links whenever I see them, but writing for and administering this wiki are hobbies--not a full-time job--and my ability to find time for them lately has been rather constrained. -- [[User:BlueResistance|BlueResistance]] 09:49, 8 August 2015 (EDT)<br />
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:::I do not refer to red links within the Wiki itself, but dead links going outside.<br />
:::Regarding Chrome and Caprica: That may be so, but this does not forbid adding "less important" content elsewhere.<br />
:::I will recreate my PPDIOO page, even more so, since I found, that PPDIOO is actually a _real_ network planning and improvement process defined by Cisco. This, especially with respect to the fact, that network intrusions were the reason for the colonial demise, is more than a mere "coincidence", no? - and of some relevance to the BSG continuum.--[[User:Determinant|Determinant]] 09:58, 8 August 2015 (EDT)</div>Determinanthttps://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=PPDIOO&diff=215520PPDIOO2015-08-08T13:55:51Z<p>Determinant: Created again, this time with more information.</p>
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<div>'''PPDIOO''' is a network lifecycle continuous improvement process (CIP) implemented in the colonial military.<br />
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Admiral [[Helena Cain]] reviews a summary report on this and other status related topics, while [[Pegasus (TRM)|Pegasus]] is in [[Scorpion Fleet Shipyards]] for a large-scale overhaul, including its network infrastructure, the latter being lead by [[Gina Inviere]] of [[Integral Systems Engineering]].<br />
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==Notes==<br />
* Interesting coincidence: PPDIOO (Prepare, Plan, Design, Implement, Operate, and Optimize) is also a network lifecycle implementation and optimization procedure [http://www.w7cloud.com/cisco-ppdioo/|defined by Cisco].<br />
* The short glimpse on the term in Pegasus' report seems to be the only occurrence of the term throughout the continuity.<br />
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==External references==<br />
[http://imgur.com/6VvkXZP Screenshot of occurrence]</div>Determinanthttps://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=User:BlueResistance&diff=215517User:BlueResistance2015-08-08T13:02:44Z<p>Determinant: </p>
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<div>'''NOTE ON GRACE PARK/AERELON ACCENT'''<br />
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It is true that Grace Park is a fluent speaker of Korean, but her English--either as Sharon Valerii or as herself in interviews--bears no trace of a Korean accent whatsoever. I am married to a native Korean speaker, have friends and colleagues who speak Korean either as their first or second language, and have been studying the language for a few years myself, so I am absolutely certain that Korean has no bearing on what might or might not be considered an Aerelon accent.<br />
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On a somewhat smaller matter, there is no linguistically accepted version of English called "General English," with a capital G. I am willing to accept a lower case g, "general English," to indicate "common sense" notions about the accent/group of accents.<br />
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:I am copying this and replying to it on [[Talk:Language in the Twelve Colonies]]. Look under the topics Aerelon Accent and General American. --[[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 02:24, 19 October 2005 (EDT)<br />
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'''Noteworthy Dialogue for "Scar"'''<br />
Added Kat's "Tigh" comment to the page. --[[User:BlueResistance|BlueResistance]] 20:34, 7 March 2006 (EST)<br />
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Please take a look at my talk page.--[[User:Determinant|Determinant]] 09:02, 8 August 2015 (EDT)</div>Determinanthttps://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Determinant&diff=215516User talk:Determinant2015-08-08T13:01:15Z<p>Determinant: </p>
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== "Ppidoo" ==<br />
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I reviewed the video at the point that you cited and didn't see anything labeled like this. Whether or not it's there, it seems like much too minor a detail for its own separate page. "Razor" has been completely mined for relevant details by now. -- [[User:BlueResistance|BlueResistance]] 07:55, 8 August 2015 (EDT)<br />
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:@[[User:BlueResistance|BlueResistance]]:<br />
:I would have supplied a screenshot, would I not have been forced to create another (!) account on the media subdomain. It is definitely there, and at least as visible as the dogtag of Belzen.<br />
:Just a note: As you are an administrator, maybe, just maybe, '''instead of deleting faithful contributions to the oh-so-complete Battlestar-Wiki you could see to it, that this site itself gets fixed up''':<br />
:Dead links everywhere (FrakMedia! e.g.), the edit fields looking damaged (\[&amp;lt;textricheditor&amp;gt;\] does not quite seem to fit the original intention, as it might be the case with the edit toolbar disappearing completely on preview) etc.pp.--[[User:Determinant|Determinant]] 09:01, 8 August 2015 (EDT)</div>Determinanthttps://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=The_Twelve_Colonies_of_Kobol&diff=215501The Twelve Colonies of Kobol2015-07-06T22:00:20Z<p>Determinant: Typos et al.</p>
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<div>:''This article discusses the Twelve Colonies of the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Re-imagined Series]]. See [[The Twelve Colonies of Man]] for information on the Colonies of the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]].''<br />
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[[File:Colonialseal.png|210px|right|[[Colonial Seal|Seal]] of the Twelve Colonies.]]<br />
'''The Twelve Colonies of Kobol''' are twelve distinct worlds, located in a remote part of our Galaxy. For 2,000 years they were home to the descendants of humans participating in the exodus of [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]].<ref>Mentioned at [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/11953827897 Serge's twitter account], given that Serge's account corresponds to 58 years before [[The Fall]].</ref> For most of the two millennia that these worlds were inhabited, the Twelve Colonies consisted of multiple sovereign states, but during the final fifty-two years leading up to the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]], all twelve comprised a single state known as the United Colonies of Kobol ([[TRS]]: "[[Colonial Day]]")<ref>The formal "United Colonies of Kobol" was never used on-screen, and appears only on the [[Battlestar Galactica Map of the 12 Colonies]].</ref>.<br />
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After the settlement, the colonies slowly began to prosper and eventually gave birth to a race of cybernetic lifeforms, known as [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]]. Only a few years after their creation, the Cylons raged a devastating war on their creators' home planets, which ultimately led to the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]]. Wasted and in ruins, the once prosperous homeworlds of humanity were finally abandoned by both humans and Cylons.<br />
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==Star System==<br />
:''Note: A portion of the information listed below is taken from the [[Battlestar_Wiki:Canon#Official|official]], "quasi-canon" [[Battlestar Galactica Map of the 12 Colonies]]'' <ref name="io9">{{cite_web|url=http://io9.com/5742034/a-detailed-map-of-battlestar-galacticas-twelve-colonies?skyline=true&s=i|title=Detailed Map Of Battlestar Galactica's Twelve Colonies|date=24 January 2010|accessdate=29 January 2011|last=Anders|first=Charlie Jane|format=|language=English}}</ref>. <br />
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The Twelve Colonies are situated within the star system Cyrannus, located some 2,000 light years from Kobol, where humanity presumedly first evolved. All in all, Cyrannus is a vast and complex system, comprised of four <ref>In [[TRS]]: "[[The Plan]]," a Cylon [[Hybrid]] indicates that the Colonies orbit three stars. </ref> stars: Helios Alpha, Helios Beta, Helios Gamma, and Helios Delta. Each star is orbited by its own family of planets and other astronomical bodies. The stars come together to form two binary systems (Alpha/Beta and Gamma/Delta). Both pairs of stars then orbit each other around a third, central [[w:Barycentric coordinates (astronomy)|barycenter]] every 546,892 years. Both binary systems are separated by 0.16 [[w:Light-year|light years]] or 10,091 Stellar Units, shortened to SU (In this case, 1 SU being equal to the average distance between Helios Alpha and the barycenter of the Caprica-Gemenon binary, roughly 150 million km).<br />
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===Helios Alpha===<br />
Helios Alpha is a [[w:Main sequence|main sequence star]] of spectral class G2V and has a [[w:Solar mass|mass]] of 1.0, and was the first system settled by the Colonials after the exodus from Kobol, having first set foot on Gemenon. It shares its orbit with Helios Beta at a distance of 63 SU. The pair complete an orbit once every 373 years.<br />
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* Planets and Other Astronomical Bodies<br />
** Icarus - A small planet located close to the star. It has a molten surface which makes mining and exploration impossible.<br />
** Picon - This colony has an inclined orbit.<br />
** [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] and Gemenon - These two colonies form a binary planet.<br />
** [[Tauron (RDM)|Tauron]] - One of only three colonies to feature a moon, named Minos. It is the only moon with a ring, and home to several mining and scientific outposts. <br />
** Erebos asteroid belt - This asteroid belt is rich in minerals, which were mined by Tauran prospectors for hundreds of years.<br />
** Zeus - A gas giant located at the outer edge of the system. This gas giant is the largest planet in the four systems, with a diameter of 153,000 km at the equator. The planet has 74 moons, the largest of which are Nike and Hebe. Constant upper atmosphere lightning creates an aurora effect that can be seen with the naked eye. <br />
** Persephone - Classified as a dwarf planet, Persephone is the outermost planet in the system and features an inclined and eccentric orbit. Colonial scientists believe this planet could be an escaped moon of Zeus.<br />
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This system is unique in the fact that Caprica and Gemenon share an orbit around a common barycenter. According to the Colonial map, the planets orbit each other once every 28.2 days, and are separated by a distance of 493,000 km. Based on these numbers, [[w:Kepler%27s_laws_of_planetary_motion#Third_law|Kepler's Third Law]] learns us that the combined mass of these colonies is about twice that of Earth.<br />
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===Helios Beta===<br />
Helios Beta is a main sequence star of spectral class K1V and has a mass of 0.79. It was the second system settled by the Colonials after the exodus from Kobol. It shares its orbit with Helios Alpha at a distance of 63 SU. The pair complete an orbit once every 373 years.<br />
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* Planets and Other Astronomical Bodies<br />
** [[Troy (RDM)|Troy]] - A small, metal-rich planet, mined extensively by Virgon and Leonis since the founding of those two colonies. <br />
** Leonis - The largest inhabited planet of the Twelve Colonies.<br />
** [[Pallas]] - A small world with an inclined orbit once believed to hold a life sustaining atmosphere. It is no longer tectonically active. However, the Colonials have set up several small colonies and a military research station on the planet. Efforts to [[w:Terraforming|kobolform]] the planet have failed.<br />
** Ouranos asteroid belt - This dense asteroid belt separates long-time rivals Leonis and Virgon, and has been a source of minerals for both colonies.<br />
** Virgon - One of only three colonies to feature a moon, named Hibernia, and the only naturally habitable moon in the 12 Colonies. It was settled several centuries ago by the Celtans, an ethnic group opposed to Virgon rule.<br />
** Hera - A gas giant, approximately 75,000 km in diameter, and the third largest planet in the Cyrannus system. It has 29 moons, the largest of which are Iris and Eubora. <br />
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===Helios Gamma===<br />
Helios Gamma is a main sequence star of spectral class G9V and has a mass of 0.89. It was presumably the third system settled by the Colonials. Helios Gamma shares its orbit with Helios Delta at a distance of 70 SU, and completes an orbit once every 456 years.<br />
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* Planets and Other Astronomical Bodies<br />
** Thanatos - This planet, named after the god of death, has a corrosive 'sulphur' dioxide atmosphere and is tidally locked to its star.<br />
** Acheron asteroid belt - A broad asteroid belt, named after Sagittaron's largest river.<br />
** Libran - Features two small moons, Herse and Pandrossos, which are thought to be captured asteroids. The moons orbit so close to each other, they periodically swap positions. <br />
** Scorpia - Home to the Scorpia Fleet ship yards. The planet features a half ring, thought to be a moon that broke apart nearly 100,000 years ago. <br />
** [[Sagittaron|Sagittaron]] - A barren, mountainous world.<br />
** Ophion - A frigid gas giant with a diameter of 51,000 km, and an inclined orbit. The planet has 14 moons, all smaller than 10 km in diameter. Studies on the planet have Colonial scientists thinking that Ragnar was originally a member of the Helios Gamma system, while Ophion was not. Scientists think that Ophion was a rogue planet that passed close to Ragnar and was caught by the star, pushing Ragnar into its current orbit around the entire Gamma/Delta system.<br />
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===Helios Delta===<br />
Helios Delta is a reddish main sequence star of spectral class K2V and has a mass of 0.74. It was the last of the four systems to be settled by the Colonials. Helios Delta shares its orbit with Helios Gamma at a distance of 70 SU, and completes an orbit once every 456 years.<br />
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* Planets and Other Astronomical Bodies<br />
** Phoebe - A small world with a high surface temperature and thin atmosphere. <br />
** Styx - A planet with a dense, reducing atmosphere of carbon dioxide and sulfides. <br />
** Aeolus asteroid belt - This asteroid belt features 'gaps', likely caused by tidal influences with Hestia and its two orbital companions.<br />
** Aerilon, Hestia, and Canceron - These planets share the same orbit.<br />
*** Hestia - The smallest gas giant in the Cyrannian star system, Hestia only has a diameter of 47,000 km. It has 17 moons, the largest of which, Kronos and Rhea, share the same orbit. <br />
** [[Aquaria (RDM)|Aquaria]] - An arctic world, with the most inclined orbit of all the Twelve Colonies.<br />
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This system is unique in the fact that Aerilon, Hestia, and Canceron share the same orbit. The two colonies are positioned at Hestia's [[w:Lagrangian_point|Lagrangian points]], meaning that the gravitational pull of Helios Delta and Hestia are balanced, allowing two smaller bodies (Aerilon and Canceron) to share the same orbit in a "fixed" position, maintaining the same distance apart at all times. Aerilon sits at the (leading) L4 point, and Canceron at the (trailing) L5 point. <br />
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* [[Ragnar]] - A gas giant with a diameter of 138,000 km, orbits the entire Helios Gamma and Delta system in a 899.75 year period. It is about 110 SU away from the central barycenter. The Colonials use the planet as host to [[Ragnar Anchorage]], an orbital refueling station and naval armory that distills hydrocarbons from the planet's upper atmosphere. It has one moon, Sigurd. During the Fall of the Colonies, Ragnar was used as cover by the battlestar ''[[Galactica]]'', and later her [[The Fleet (RDM)|fleet]], after escaping the destruction of Caprica. It would be the last world of the Cyrannian system that most of the surviving Colonials would lay eyes on. Hours after arriving, ''Galactica'' took the gathered fleet, [[Battle_of_Ragnar_Anchorage|and fled the system]], never to return.<br />
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===Notes===<br />
* The fact that the Colonies are located within one system originates from a [http://web.archive.org/web/20080620084336/http://blog.scifi.com/battlestar/archives/2005/01/#a000016 blog entry] by Ronald D. Moore.<br />
* Jane Espenson revealed on Twitter that the Colonies are within a star cluster and share some orbits. The latter fact was finally shown to be true in the TV version of the [[Caprica pilot#Differences between the DVD and TV Cut|series premiere]] of ''Caprica''.<br />
* The configuration of the Twelve Colonies was inspired by the real world star system [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epsilon_Lyrae Epsilon Lyrae], a famous "double-double" star system located ~162 light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Lyra. <ref>[http://io9.com/5742034/a-detailed-map-of-battlestar-galacticas-twelve-colonies?skyline=true&s=i io9 - A Detailed Map of Battlestar Galactica's Twelve Colonies]</ref><br />
* Before the semi-canonical figure mentioned on the map, the original [[Miniseries]] script stated a pre-Fall population of about 12 billion. The webisodes "[[The Resistance]]" stated the death of 20 billion people caused by the Cylons. <br />
*Serge's twitter [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/17543741200 mentions] that the exodus from Kobol is believed to be true by the inhabitants of the Twelve Colonies and it was from them that animals such as cats as well as dogs came to the Colonies. Furthermore, the [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/13899240134 twelve planets] are populated with a few other worlds in the star cluster, with the settled colonies [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/12891949300 already] possessing some animal as well as plant life. Furthermore, Serge [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/17543813025 states] that not all the colonies are democracies, but rather each has their own style of government. ([[TRS]]: [[Serge's Twitter]])<br />
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==History==<br />
{{mainarticle|History of the Twelve Colonies}}<br />
[[Image:Home pt1-Kobol.jpg|thumb|[[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]], the ancient homeworld of humanity.]]<br />
About 2,000 years prior to the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]], the last twelve tribes of [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]] left their planet<ref>According to dialogue from "[[Torn]]", "[[A Measure of Salvation]]" and "[[The Eye of Jupiter]]", the [[Thirteenth Tribe (RDM)|Thirteenth Tribe]] left Kobol some 2,000 years ''before'' the twelve tribes. The Scroll of [[Pythia]] is dated as written 3,600 years before the last exodus of Kobol, and chronicles the Thirteenth Tribe's exodus.</ref> over conflicts with their [[Religion in the Twelve Colonies#The Lords of Kobol|gods]], as well as some sort of calamity ([[TRS]]: "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]").<br />
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The tribes settled on twelve worlds some distance away ([[TRS]]: "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]"). The tribes' namesakes and icons originally corresponded to the twelve signs of the ancient tribes, although these [[wikipedia:Zodiac|names]] drifted over time ([[TRS]]: "[[Home, Part II]]").<ref>Flag matches with Colonies from "Encyclopedia Galactica." ''[[Battlestar Galactica: The Official Magazine]]''. Feb./Mar. 2006: 50-55.</ref><br />
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The early Colonies lived (and fought) more as sovereign nations. Some (particularly [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]]) prospered, while others (such as [[Sagittaron]] and [[Aerilon]]) were often considered lessers. For labor forces as well as wars fought among each other, humanity created the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]]. When these [[Cylon Centurion Model 0005|early models]] rebelled, the Colonies unified their governments under the [[Articles of Colonization]] at some point during the [[Cylon War]] into a federal republic known as the '''Twelve Colonies of Kobol'''. <br />
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The official symbol of the Twelve Colonies was the [[Colonial seal]]. The nation also had a distinctive [[Colonial anthem|anthem]].<br />
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===Downfall===<br />
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[[Image:Bsyashuman.jpg|thumb|[[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]], shortly before its downfall.]]<br />
40 years after the end of the devastating war, the Cylons return and sow destruction among the worlds of their creators ([[TRS]]: [[Miniseries]], "[[The Plan]]"). For some time the Twelve Colonies remain occupied by Cylon forces and a [[Caprica resistance|small group of human survivors]]. After nine months, humanity and the Cylons leave the Cyrannus system forever ([[TRS]]: "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]").<br />
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Out of all Colonial inhabitants, only about 55,000 survive the first days of the holocaust. Most of them leave the Colonies behind in two small [[The Fleet (RDM)|fugitive fleets]]. The fleet of the [[Battlestar (RDM)|battlestar]] ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' eventually encounters both [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]], as well as the original Thirteenth Colony [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]]. Some time after that, and after the destruction of the [[The Colony|the Cylon home world]], they settle on a [[Earth (RDM)#A New Earth|beautiful, rich world]], leaving behind the baggage of their Colonial heritage. ([[TRS]]: [[Miniseries]], "[[Razor]]", "[[Daybreak, Part II]]")<br />
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===Fate===<br />
The ultimate fate of the Twelve Colonies 150,000 years after [[The Fall]] is unknown. Presumably, after several hundred years, their climates and surfaces would degrade until they resemble the original [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]]. <br />
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It can be presumed that by present-day radiation levels would have lowered to a point where life would be allowed to flourish once again. But few, if any, traces would remain of the human civilizations that once thrived upon them, excluding remains in space, such as the remnants of [[Scorpion Fleet Shipyards]] or [[Ragnar Anchorage]].<br />
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==Aerilon==<br />
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'''Ancient Name''': [[wikipedia:Aries (constellation)|Aries]]<br />
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'''Alternative Name''': Aerelon<br />
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'''Population''': 1.2 billion<br />
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'''Patron God''': Demeter<br />
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'''Capital''': Gaoth<br />
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'''Major Cities''': Gaoth, Promethea<br />
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'''Attractions''': University of Aerilon, Promethea A & M<br />
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'''Pyramid Teams''': Aerilon Threshers, Promethea Golden Horns<br />
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Aerilon was primarily an agricultural world. It was considered to be the "food basket" of the Twelve Colonies and ranked among its poorest members ([[TRS]]: "[[Dirty Hands]]"). The planet shares an orbit with the gas giant Hestia and Canceron, sitting in Hestia's leading (L4) libratian point in the Helios Delta system.<br />
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About all of the planet's landmasses are situated in the temperate zones, featuring open and rolling landscapes offering little variation in altitude. There are few inland waterways, and the shorelines consist mostly of rocky bluffs with only mangrove swamps breaking the monotony near the equator. To top it the planet offers hostile seas with no useful harbors at its coasts.<br />
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Aerilon has a mild climate and reliable seasons, with plentiful rain, so catch basins and wells are sufficiently filled and fresh water is readily available despite the lack of rivers and lakes.<br />
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==Aquaria==<br />
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[[Image:Aquaria.jpg|right]]<br />
'''Ancient Name''': [[wikipedia:Aquarius (constellation)|Aquarius]]<br />
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'''Alternative Name''': Aquarion<br />
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'''Population''': 25,000<br />
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'''Patron God''': Hermes<br />
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'''Capital''': None<br />
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'''Major Cities''': Heim<br />
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'''Attractions''': Kyros Summerfest<br />
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'''Pyramid Teams''': None<br />
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Aquaria, the outermost planet in the Helios Delta system, follows a highly inclined orbit around its sun, establishing an arctic climate on this world. The planet's summer lasts only a few pleasant weeks around the time of closest approach to Helios Delta.<br />
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The planet surface is about entirely covered by vast, frigid oceans, punctuated with violently erupting volcanoes breaking through the sea surface. Only one land mass, named Kyros, is large enough to sustain human habitation. Volcanoes occupy each end of this crescent-shaped continent, which consist mostly of volcanic tephra covered in moss and dotted by exotic native plantlife.<br />
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Most people live in Heim, a town at the centre of the island facing what would be the harbor if the seas weren't so frigid. Only a few people live outside the town, tending the infrastructure needed for survival, like windmills, hydroponics, and solar panels. Due to the lack of wood, most structures are made of tin or stone.<br />
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==Canceron==<br />
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[[Image:Canceron.png|thumb|right|Canceron from orbit.]]<br />
'''Ancient Name''': [[wikipedia:Cancer (constellation)|Cancer]]<br />
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'''Population''': 6.7 billion<br />
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'''Patron God''': Hephaestus<br />
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'''Capital''': Hades<br />
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'''Major Cities''': Hades, Prommos, Mangala<br />
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'''Attractions''': Prommos, Ruby Range, Kor Yaz Glacier<br />
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'''Pyramid Teams''': Canceron Hydras, Hades Vice, Mangala Krill<br />
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Canceron is the most populous planet in the twelve worlds. It is located in the Helios Delta system, sharing its orbit with two other planets, one of them being Aerilon. The planet was well known for its beaches and had at least one large coastal metropolis ([[TRS]]: "[[The Plan]]"). The capital was Hades.<ref name="capitals1">[http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/ Serge's twitter account] mentioned the capitals of Gemenon, Virgon, Leonis, Sagittaron, Scorpia, Canceron and Aerilon in [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/10545377704 this tweet].</ref><br />
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Prior to the [[First Cylon War]], Canceron was a very overpopulated and poor colony. Canceron's major cities such as Hades and Mangala were known to have large slums. Its large population earned Canceron the nickname "The Largest Democracy" within the colonies, though some believed the government was nothing more than a corrupt Oligarchy.<ref>[http://showblogs.syfy.com/caprican/sports/canceron-wants-a-fourth-pyramid-team.php ''The Caprican'' article: "Canceron Wants a Fourth Pyramid Team"].</ref> <ref>[http://showblogs.syfy.com/caprican/opinion/just-wondering-about-that-military-roadblock-thing.php ''The Caprican'' article: "Just Wondering About That Military Roadblock Thing"]</ref><br />
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During the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attack]], Canceron is hit with at least three nuclear devices. One of the [[Luxury liner | passenger liners]] within [[The Fleet (RDM)|the fleet]], ''[[Pyxis]]'', is one of the last ships that escapes this world when the attack began. Aboard is the [[Number Six]] copy [[Shelly Godfrey]] ([[TRS]]: "[[The Plan]]").<br />
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[[Robin Wenutu]] is the Canceron delegate to the first [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]] after the Fall.<br />
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===Natives===<br />
*[[Lexon]]<br />
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==Caprica==<br />
{{mainarticle|Caprica (RDM)}}<br />
[[Image:Caprica.jpg|right]]<br />
[[Image:Caprica from Orbit.jpg|right|thumb|[[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] from orbit.]] <br />
[[Image:Caprica City, The Plan.jpg|thumb|right|Caprica City.]]<br />
[[Image:Gemenon from Caprica City.jpg|thumb|right|The view of Gemenon from Caprica City.]]<br />
'''Ancient Name''': [[w:Capricornus|Capricorn]]<br />
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'''Population''': 4.9 billion<br />
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'''Patron God''': Apollo<br />
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'''Official Language''': Caprican<br />
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'''Capital''': [[Caprica City]]<br />
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'''Major Cities''': Caprica City, [[Delphi]], Phoebus<br />
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'''Attractions''': [[Delphi Museum of the Colonies]], [[Atlas Arena]], [[Caprica_Interplanetary_Spaceport|Caprica Interplanetary Spaceport]], [[Graystone Industries]], Apollo University, [[Pantheon_Bridge|Pantheon Bridge]], Ionian Islands, Orpheus Park<br />
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'''Pyramid Teams''': [[Caprica City Buccaneers]], Delphi Legion, Phoebus Suns<br />
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Caprica was a lush blue-green planet, covered by large oceans and continents. It shares its orbit with Gemenon around a common barycenter, and can often be seen in the skies above the Caprican landscape. Depending on its orbit, the Caprican night can almost be negated by intense planetshine from Gemenon, although not as bright as the Caprican sun, there is enough light reflected back to effectively turn night into day ([[TRS]]: [[You Can't Go Home Again]], [[Litmus]]). Of curious note, Caprica features landmasses similar to a world the Colonials would eventually settle and come to call Earth. <br />
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Caprica was regarded as the center of Colonial civilization, even long before the [[First Cylon War]]. [[Graystone Industries]] was one of the Colonies' most influential technology developers and had a hand in creating the very [[U-87|first Cylons]]. Some 60 years before [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|the Fall]], Caprica was also plagued by [[Soldiers of the One | religiously]] motivated terrorism ([[CAP]]: [[Caprica pilot|Pilot]]). After the war, the planet was once again the seat of politics, culture, art, science, learning and even the Colonial government. It was also one of the wealthiest colonies ([[TRS]]: "[[Epiphanies]]", "[[Dirty Hands]]").<br />
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During the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attack]], Caprica and it's surrounding airspace, played host to numerous skirmishes, one of which would eventually determine the outcome of the war. Caprica herself, comes under heavy attack from Cylon forces right from the start. With numerous basestars jumping directly into orbit, they are quickly able to gain the upper hand. At least four [[Battlestar (RDM)|battlestars]], including the ''Yashuman'' and ''Valkyrie'', are quickly dispatched, and numerous targets, including the once proud Caprica City, are annihilated from orbit by nuclear weapons ([[TRS]]: [[Miniseries]], "[[The Plan]]"). The attacks leave the civilian shipping lanes in the vicinity of Caprica/Gemenon shut down, but the civilian ships are relatively ignored in the opening moments of the attack, in favor of military targets. This gives them time to gather and flee the area, picking up other survivors along the way. Eventually the fleet amasses over 100 ships of all kinds, both civilian and homeless military support craft. However, only 75 FTL capable ships are able to flee Caprican airspace, leaving the sub-lights, and their passengers, at the hands of the Cylons.<br />
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At the time of the attack, the ''Galactica'' was positioned 3 hours away, and was not able to partake in the defense of its home planet. It wasn't long, however, before the Cylons located its position, and attempted to take it out. After being struck by a nuclear warhead, suffering major damage, and not having anything to shoot with, but still in one piece, the ''Galactica'' had no choice but to retreat to the relative safety of the gas giant, [[Ragnar]] ([[TRS]]: [[Miniseries]]), leaving Caprica, and the remaining survivors, completely defenseless and on their own. <br />
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After the space-faring Colonials flee, Caprica is occupied by [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon forces]], attempting to undo the damage they've done, and colonize the planet themselves. They often clash with [[Caprica resistance|human survivors]] within the Colonies, and fight on this world for several weeks. The occupation and resistance both end roughly nine months after the attack and the planet is left for good ([[TRS]]: "[[33]]", "[[Resistance]]", "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]", "[[The Plan]]"). <br />
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6,250 people from Caprica join the [[Laura Roslin faction]] over [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]] ([[TRS]]: "[[Home, Part I]]"). The overall Caprican survivor population, possibly significantly greater, is unknown (see analysis [[The Fleet (RDM)#Demographics|here]]). An attempted settlement by the survivors of the holocaust is named [[New Caprica]] in honor of the original colony ([[TRS]]: "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]").<br />
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The first [[Quorum of Twelve (TRS)|Quorum of Twelve]] delegate after the Fall is [[Gaius Baltar]]. Years later this spot is taken by [[Lee Adama]], the last Quroum delegate from that colony before Delegate Adama establishes the [[Quorum of Ship's Captains]] in the wake of the mass-execution of the Quorum during [[Gaeta's Mutiny]] ([[TRS]]: "[[Islanded in a Stream of Stars]]"). <br />
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===Natives===<br />
* [[William Adama | William]], [[Tamara Adama|Tamara]], [[Zak Adama|Zak]] and [[Lee Adama]]<br />
* [[Richard Adar]], presumed as he was also the mayor of Caprica City at one point<br />
* [[Daniel Graystone|Daniel]], [[Amanda Graystone|Amanda]] and [[Zoe Graystone]]<br />
* [[Lacy Rand]] and her family<br />
* [[Laura Roslin | Laura]], [[Cheryl Roslin|Cheryl]] and [[Sandra Roslin]], as well as their parents<br />
* [[Ben Stark]] and his mother, [[Natalie Stark|Natalie]]<br />
* [[Kara Thrace|Kara]], [[Socrata Thrace|Socrata]] and (presumably) [[Dreilide Thrace]]<br />
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===Notes===<br />
* Caprica was and continues to be the world most prominently depicted in the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|re-imagined series continuity]]. Until "[[Razor]]", none of the other eleven Colonies was verifiably depicted on screen. <br />
*Serge's Twitter account [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/11920922009 states] that Caprica had a number of unique lifeforms on its surface, though transplantation by early Colonists spread them to the other planets.<br />
*Serge's Twitter account also [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/11861670347 notes] that Caprica spends the most on Colonial defense in the years prior to the First Cylon War.<br />
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==Gemenon==<br />
[[Image:Gemenon.jpg|right]]<br />
'''Ancient Name''': [[wikipedia:Gemini (constellation)|Gemini]]<br />
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'''Population''': 2.8 billion<br />
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'''Patron God''': Hera<br />
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'''Official Language''': Old Gemenese<br />
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'''Capital''': [[Oranu]]<ref>{{cite_web|url=http://showblogs.syfy.com/caprican/opinion/gemenon-the-evil-twin-of-caprica.php|title=Gemenon: The (Evil) Twin of Caprica|date=24 Aprilis YR42|accessdate=10 November 2011|last=Sinclair|first=Ralston|format=|language=English}}</ref><br />
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'''Major Cities''': Oranu, Illumini<br />
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'''Attractions''': Kobol Colleges, Illumini Pantheon, Gramada Mountains, Spatiu Gol Plateau, Pustiu Desert<br />
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'''Pyramid Teams''': [[Gemenon Twins]], Illumini Vipers<br />
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[[Image:Gemenon.JPG|thumb|right|Gemenon and the distant Helios Delta seen from orbit.]]<br />
Gemenon was the first world colonized by the humans of Kobol. It shares its orbit around Helios Alpha with Caprica, completing an rotation once every 28.2 days. Its status as a twin planet gives it its name<ref>[http://files.meetup.com/405090/Serge%20Graystone's%20Twitter%20Feed.pdf Serge Graystone's Twitter feed]</ref>. Its climate can vary wildly, featuring frozen plateaus, and searing deserts, which can make life difficult for its inhabitants. <br />
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It was one of the poorer colonies and its people, the Gemenese, were known for their religious fundamentalism ([[TRS]]: "[[Scattered]]", "[[Dirty Hands]]").<ref> Despite this fundamentalist approach to the polytheistic Colonial religion, the Gemenese were known to be tolerant of all forms of worship, including monotheism. In fact, the monotheist movement is said to have begun on Gemenon.<br />
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The people of Gemenon are consistently referred to as "Gemenese" in both the [[Re-imagined Series]] and [[Caprica (series)|Caprica]].</ref><br />
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Before the [[First Cylon War]], Gemenon was home to the Kobol Colleges and a monotheistic cult called "[[Soldiers of the One|The Soldiers of the One]]" ([[TRS]]: [[Miniseries, Night 2]]; [[CAP]]: [[Caprica pilot|Pilot]]). Gemenon's second-largest city, Illumini, was built around a large Pantheon complex, composed of buildings intended to worship and celebrate every deity in the [[Sacred Scrolls]].<ref name="capricanvacations">[http://showblogs.syfy.com/caprican/lifestyle/top-5-off-beat-vacation-destinations.php ''The Caprican'' article: "Top 5 Off-Beat Vacation Destinations"].</ref> <br />
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The Gemenese were known for their literal interpretations of the [[Sacred Scrolls|Scrolls]] ([[TRS]]: "[[Fragged]]"). Most of the population of Gemenon was apparently very strongly opposed to the federal laws legalizing abortion ([[TRS]]: "[[The Captain's Hand]]"). <br />
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The planet also had either an old or disused language, known as [[Language in the Twelve Colonies|Old Gemenese]] ([[TRS]]: "[[Razor]]").<br />
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[[Image:GemenonCityscape.jpg|thumb|left|A city on Gemenon.]]<br />
During the [[Fall_of_the_Twelve_Colonies|Cylon attack]], Gemenon comes under heavy assault by Cylon air and ground forces, completely obliterating one city with a high-yield nuclear device, and causing extensive damage to another with conventional means. At least one ship, the ''[[Cybele]]'', is able to escape the destruction of its port and occupying Cylon forces, and find Roslin's fleet ([[TRS]]: "[[The Plan]]"). <br />
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Three months after the attacks, approximately 9,500 Gemenese break away from the main fleet, and join the [[Laura Roslin faction]] over [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]] ([[TRS]]: "[[Home, Part I]]"). The large and devoted Gemenese population continues to be an important political factor within the [[The Fleet (RDM)|fugitive fleet]] ([[TRS]]: "[[The Captain's Hand]]"). <br />
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===Natives===<br />
*[[Adrien Bauer]]<br />
*[[Jurgen Belzen]] and his family<br />
*[[Rya Kibby]]<br />
*[[Romo Lampkin]]<br />
*[[Sarah Porter]], former delegate to the [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]]<br />
*Corporal [[Venner]]<br />
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===Notes===<br />
* If the word "Inviere" (meaning "Resurrection") is any indication, Old Gemenese was probably similar to the Romanian language of [[Earth (RDM)#A New Earth|our Earth]].<br />
* According to [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/8705440343 Serge's Twitter account], Gemenon is the planet that shares its orbit with [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]]. This planet is seen at the beginning of the aired ''Caprica'' pilot, but is not clearly identified as such until [[CAP]]: "[[The Heavens Will Rise]]" in a visual transition from Caprica to Gemenon.<br />
* As an Easter Egg in ''[[The Plan]]'', the building on the lower left of the screen is the same one where the [[memoryalpha:Romulan Senate|Romulan Senate]] assembles in ''[[memoryalpha:Star Trek Nemesis|Star Trek Nemesis]]''. A detailed picture of this building is available [[memoryalpha:File:Romulan senate building, 2379.jpg|here]].<br />
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==Leonis==<br />
[[Image:PlanetLeonis.jpg|right]]<br />
[[Image:Leonis.png|thumb|right|A Leonan thoroughfare under Cylon assault.]]<br />
'''Ancient Name''': [[wikipedia:Leo (constellation)|Leo]]<br />
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'''Population''': 2.6 billion<br />
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'''Patron God''': Artemis<br />
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'''Official Language''': Leonese<br />
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'''Capital''': Luminere<br />
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'''Major Cities''': Luminere, Hedon<br />
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'''Attractions''': Royal Palace of Leonis, Hedon Grand Casino<br />
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'''Pyramid Teams''': [[Leonis Wildcats]], Hedon Suns<br />
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Leonis is the second planet in the Helios Beta system, and was geographically known for its open plains ([[TRS]]: "[[The Plan]]"). The planet itself has no axial tilt, which supports a mild and predictable climate. It was a major hub for both education and industry, and despite Colonial unification, was able to maintain its own language and culture.<br />
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In the era prior to the [[First Cylon War]], Leonis produced and exported a popular energy drink named "Leonis Red".<ref name="capricanvacations">[http://showblogs.syfy.com/caprican/lifestyle/top-5-off-beat-vacation-destinations.php ''The Caprican'' article: "Top 5 Off-Beat Vacation Destinations"].</ref> [[Leonis Estates Sparkling Wine]] was a type of alcohol produced on this colony ([[TRS]]: "[[Flight of the Phoenix]]").<br />
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During the final Cylon [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|attack]], Leonis is struck with at least one, low-yield nuclear device, that was able to stun its residents and disable any means of escape. Those who survived the blast, are then seen being systematically eliminated by both ground and air forces ([[TRS]]: "[[The Plan]]"). It is unknown if any are collected and used in the Four's various [[farms]].<br />
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[[Safiya Sanne]] is the Leonan representative on the first [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]] after [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|the Fall]].<br />
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==Libran==<br />
[[Image:PlanetLibran.jpg|right]]<br />
[[Image:Libran.gif|thumb|right|The courthouses of Libran.]]<br />
'''Ancient Name''': [[wikipedia:Libra (constellation)|Libra]]<br />
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'''Alternative Name''': Libris<br />
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'''Population''': 2.1 million<br />
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'''Patron God''': Athena<br />
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'''Capital''': None<br />
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'''Major Cities''': Themis<br />
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'''Attractions''': Supreme Hall of Justice, Themis Arena<br />
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'''Pyramid Teams''': None<br />
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Libran was known for its courthouses and lawyers ([[TRS]]: "[[The Plan]]"), and was the home of the [[Inter-Colonial Court]] ([[CAP]]: "[[Gravedancing]]"). The planet had no official capital.<ref name="capitals3">[http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/ Serge's twitter account] stated in [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/10545438632 this tweet] that Aquaria and Libran "don't have official capitals".</ref><br />
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A major city on Libran was called [[Themis]] which had a large, modern [[pyramid]] arena built sometime before the First Cylon War. Yet at this time Libran had no official pyramid team.<ref>[http://showblogs.syfy.com/caprican/sports/libran-needs-a-pyramid-team-statim.php ''The Caprican'' article: "Libran Needs a Pyramid Team Statim"].</ref><br />
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After the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]], [[Oswin Eriku]] is chosen to be this colony's representative to the [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]].<br />
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''[[Zephyr]]'', a passenger liner in the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]], is of Libran registry.<ref>This was stated in a Fleet overview on scifi.com. This section of the site has long been shut down.</ref> <br />
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===Notes===<br />
* The Colony's actual name, '''Libran''', was not heard on screen until "[[The Plan]]" but could already be seen on a name plate in "[[The Ties That Bind]]" and "[[A Disquiet Follows My Soul]]". Before that it was often called '''Libris''' in secondary publications. <br />
* The city that is seen when Libran is mentioned in the "Caprica is burning" monologue in "[[The Plan]]", bears a striking resemblance to [[Tauron City]], as seen in "[[Know Thy Enemy]]". <br />
*Serge's twitter account [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/15877355213 says] that the Libran court system served as a body through which trade disputes and legal matters were capable of being sorted amongst the colonies. He also [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/15877298276 states] that it is a high earning colony but is not regarded as a desirable place to live, and he [https://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/8751959730 states] that the planet is "largely a wildlife reserve".<br />
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==Picon==<br />
[[Image:PlanetPicon.jpg|right]]<br />
[[Image:Picon.png|thumb|right|Picon from orbit.]]<br />
'''Ancient Name''': [[wikipedia:Pisces (constellation)|Pisces]]<br />
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'''Population''': 1.4 billion<br />
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'''Patron God''': Poseidon<br />
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'''Capital''': Queenstown<br />
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'''Major Cities''': Perkinston, Queenstown, Pailyn<br />
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'''Attractions''': Colonial Fleet Headquarters, Penrose Harbor<br />
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'''Pyramid Teams''': [[Picon Panthers]] <br />
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Picon was a turquoise planet, containing 75% water, and famous for its harbors ([[TRS]]: [[The Plan]]). The capital city was Queenstown, which started as a relatively small fishing village.<ref name="capricanpicon">[http://showblogs.syfy.com/caprican/lifestyle/p-is-for-paradise-p-is-for-picon.php ''The Caprican'' article: "'P' Is for 'Paradise, 'P' Is for Picon"].</ref><ref name="capitals2">[http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/ Serge's twitter account] mentioned the capitals of Caprica, Tauron and Picon [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/10545200174 this tweet].</ref> <br />
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During the planet's off-season, most of the landscape became cold and rugged.<ref name="capricanpicon">[http://showblogs.syfy.com/caprican/lifestyle/p-is-for-paradise-p-is-for-picon.php ''The Caprican'' article: "'P' Is for 'Paradise, 'P' Is for Picon"].</ref> The planet was often used as a substitute for [[Caprica City]] in Caprican films and TV series.<ref name="capricanvacations">[http://showblogs.syfy.com/caprican/lifestyle/top-5-off-beat-vacation-destinations.php ''The Caprican'' article: "Top 5 Off-Beat Vacation Destinations"].</ref><br />
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After the Unification of the Twelve Colonies this world was the location of the [[Picon Fleet Headquarters|Colonial Fleet Headquarters]] ([[TRS]]: [[Miniseries]]). Picon was also the home of [[Picon Laboratories]], located in Pailyn, Muritolan ([[TRS]]: "[[Faith]]").<br />
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The colony came under heavy attack during the early stages of the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attack]]. One of the last ships to leave the planet was the ''[[Rising Star (RDM)|Rising Star]]'', carrying many wounded people including an unconscious [[Ellen Tigh]] ([[TRS]]: "[[The Plan]]").<br />
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The destruction of Picon's Fleet Headquarters caused President [[Richard Adar]] to offer a complete and unconditional surrender to the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]]. This offer was ignored by the invading forces ([[TRS]]: [[Miniseries]]).<br />
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===Natives===<br />
* [[Asha Janik]]<br />
* [[Billy Keikeya | Billy Keikeya's]] family<br />
* [[Playa Palacios]]<br />
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===Publications===<br />
*''[[Picon Star Tribune]]''<br />
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=== Notes ===<br />
*Picon's destination as a substitute for Caprica in films and series is likely a reference to Canada, and particularly Vancouver, where both the [[Re-Imagined Series]] and ''[[Caprica (series)|Caprica]]'' were filmed.<br />
*[http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/12144717655 According] to Serge's twitter account, Picon has the most efficient, cooperative and responsive democracy in the colonies. <br />
*In one [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/10988850734 post], it's said that Picon offers tax incentives for production of TV programs on the planet though Caprica remains the leading producer of such shows.<br />
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==Sagittaron==<br />
{{mainarticle|Sagittaron}}<br />
[[Image:PlanetSagittaron.jpg|right]]<br />
'''Ancient Name''': [[wikipedia:Sagittarius (constellation)|Sagittarius]]<br />
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'''Alternative Name''': Sagittarion<br />
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'''Population''': 1.7 billion<br />
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'''Patron God''': Zeus<br />
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'''Capital''': Tawa<br />
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'''Attractions''': Acheron River<br />
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'''Pyramid Teams''': [[Sagittaron Archers]]<br />
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Sagittaron was one of the poorest worlds of the Twelve Colonies ([[TRS]]: "[[Bastille Day]]"). The capital of this planet was Tawa.<ref name="capitals1">[http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/ Serge's twitter account] mentioned the capitals of Gemenon, Virgon, Leonis, Sagittaron, Scorpia, Canceron and Aerilon in [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/10545377704 this tweet].</ref><br />
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The Sagittarons were traditionalists who practiced a different form of religion from the other Colonials. They distrusted modern medicine and were generally unsupportive of the military ([[TRS]]: "[[The Woman King]]").<br />
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The Planet endured centuries of exploitation at the hands of the other Colonies. Eventually, [[Tom Zarek]] led an organized series of terrorist acts against the established government there, many years before the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Fall of the Colonies]] ([[TRS]]: "[[Bastille Day]]"). <br />
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A few days after the Cylon attack, 5,251 people from this world reside within [[The Fleet (RDM)|the Fleet]] ([[TRS]]: "[[33]]").<br />
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===Natives===<br />
* [[Jacob Cantrell]]<br />
* [[Anastasia Dualla]]<br />
* [[Portia King | Portia]] and [[Willie King]]<br />
* [[Clarice Willow]]<br />
* [[Tom Zarek]]<br />
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===Notes===<br />
* The colony's name was originally spelled as "Sagittar'''i'''on" in the [[Miniseries]], but this changed to '''Sagittaron''' when the regular series began.<br />
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==Scorpia==<br />
[[Image:PlanetScorpia.jpg|right]]<br />
[[Image:ScorpionFleetShipyards1.jpg|thumb|right|Scorpia and its shipyards from orbit.]]<br />
'''Ancient Name''': [[wikipedia:Scorpius|Scorpio]]<br />
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'''Population''': 450 million<br />
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'''Patron God''': Dionysus<br />
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'''Capital''': Celeste<br />
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'''Major Cities''': Celeste, Argentum<br />
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'''Attractions''': Argentum Bay, Guardian Mountains, Scorpia Shipyards<br />
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'''Pyramid Teams''': Scorpia Stingers, Celeste Storms, Celeste Lightning, Argentum Bay Silverstars<br />
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Scorpia was known for its lush jungles and hot temperatures ([[TRS]]: "[[The Plan]]"). Scorpia's capital was Celeste.<ref name="capitals1">[http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/ Serge's twitter account] mentioned the capitals of Gemenon, Virgon, Leonis, Sagittaron, Scorpia, Canceron and Aerilon in [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/10545377704 this tweet].</ref><br />
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Before the [[First Cylon War]] one of the major leisure spots of the world was Argentum Bay, despite the colony's trashy reputation.<ref>[http://showblogs.syfy.com/caprican/entertainment/argentum-bay-the-ultimate-vernal-break.php ''The Caprican'' article: "Argentum Bay: The Ultimate Vernal Break"].</ref>. The Planet was also apparently well-known for its [[Scorpia Paragliding|Paragliding]] ([[TRS]]: "Razor").<br />
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After the Unification, Scorpia was home to the [[Scorpion Fleet Shipyards|Scorpion Fleet Shipyards]]. <br />
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During the initial [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attack]], Scorpia falls victim to numerous massive nuclear attacks, destroying much of the population. Cylon forces also focus on the orbiting ship yards, obliterating the structure, destroying numerous Battlestars and support ships, and causing [[Pegasus (RDM)|another one]] to risk a blind jump in order to escape ([[TRS]]: "[[Razor]]").<br />
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[[Eladio Puasha]] serves as the planet's delegate to the first [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]] assembled after the Fall.<br />
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===Notes===<br />
* In an [http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2010/01/caprica-countdown-paula-malcolmsons-moving-away-from-deadwoods-trixie.html LA Times article], Scorpia is described as having a "scorpion tail-like half-ring".<br />
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==Tauron==<br />
{{mainarticle|Tauron (RDM)}}<br />
[[Image:PlanetTauron.jpg|right]]<br />
[[Image:Tauron.png|thumb|right|[[Tauron (RDM)|Tauron]] from orbit, and under Cylon assault.]]<br />
[[Image:TauronCity.JPG|thumb|right|Pre-Cylon War Minos (Tauron City).]]<br />
[[Image:TauronTwinPlanet.JPG|thumb|right|Tauron's moon, Minos, in the evening sky.]]<br />
'''Ancient Name''': [[wikipedia:Taurus (constellation)|Taurus]]<br />
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'''Population''': 2.5 billion<br />
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'''Patron God''': Ares<br />
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'''Official Language''': Tauron<br />
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'''Capital''': [[Hypatia]]<br />
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'''Major Cities''': Hypatia, [[Tauron City]] (Minos)<br />
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'''Attractions''': Minos, Olympia Hippadrome, Great Tauron Plains<br />
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'''Pyramid Teams''': Olympia Stallions, Tauron Bulls <br />
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Tauron was a barren, arid planet that lacked any kind of flowers. However, it was well-known for its agriculture ([[CAP]]: [[Caprica pilot|Pilot]]). Its capital was [[Hypatia]]<ref name="capitals2">[http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/ Serge's twitter account] mentioned the capitals of Caprica, Tauron and Picon [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/10545200174 this tweet].</ref>, another large city was [[Tauron City]]. The planet shared its orbit with another ringed world ([[CAP]]: "[[Know Thy Enemy]]" - see notes).<br />
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Taurons were known to be very traditional people, even speaking a very old and distinctive [[Language in the Twelve Colonies|language]] ([[CAP]]: [[Caprica pilot|Pilot]]).<br />
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Some 800 years before [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|the Fall]] Tauron was colonized by [[#Virgon|Virgon]] and [[#Leonis|Leonis]]. The people of Tauron liberated themselves and ever since this world has been known for its troubled and violent history.<ref>[http://showblogs.syfy.com/caprican/opinion/racism-an-unacceptable-aspect-of-caprican-life.php ''The Caprican'' article: "An Unacceptable Aspect of Caprican Life"].</ref><br />
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Nearly a century before its Fall, Tauron was one of the poorer colonial worlds and the center of a [[Tauron Civil War|civil war]]. A few years before the [[First Cylon War]], the crime syndicate [[Ha'la'tha]] had enormous influence over the planet, which even extended to other colonies, such as [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] ([[CAP]]: [[Caprica pilot|Pilot]]).<br />
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During the War, [[Hypatia]] was was the location of a [[Battle of Tauron|fierce and lossy battle]] against [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon forces]] ([[TRS]]: "[[Razor]]", extended Edition). <br />
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After the War, Tauron was known to be a somewhat troublesome colony within the [[Government of the Twelve Colonies|federal system]] of the Colonies, often disobeying directives decided by the colonies and pushing their luck with the admiralty ([[TRS]]: "[[Hero]]"). Yet this world was counted among the wealthier of the twelve worlds ([[TRS]]: "[[Dirty Hands]]"). <br />
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===Natives===<br />
* [[Joseph Adama | Joseph]] and [[Sam Adama]]<br />
* [[Shannon Adama]] and her mother, [[Ruth]]<br />
* [[Helena Cain]] and her murdered family<br />
* [[Tomas Vergis]]<br />
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===Notes===<br />
* The language of Tauron is remarkably similar to Ancient Greek that, thousands of years later, was spoken on [[Earth (RDM)#A New Earth | a planet]] on the other side of the galaxy. <br />
* According to [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/10335013016 Serge's Twitter Account] Tauron only has a moon.<br />
* Serge's Twitter account also [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/10545200174 stated] Tauron's capital to be [[Hypatia]].<br />
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==Virgon==<br />
[[Image:PlanetVirgon.jpg|right]]<br />
'''Ancient Name''': [[wikipedia:Virgo (constellation)|Virgo]]<br />
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'''Population''': 4.3 billion<br />
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'''Patron God''': Hestia<br />
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'''Capital''': Boskirk<br />
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'''Major Cities''': Boskirk, Blaustad, Hadrian<br />
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'''Attractions''': House of Parliament, Tower of Virgon, Petrus Palace, Virgon Universities<br />
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'''Pyramid Teams''': Virgon United, [[Boskirk All Reds]]<br />
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Virgon was well-known for its forests ([[TRS]]: "[[The Plan]]") and considered to be one of the wealthier colonies ([[TRS]]: "[[Dirty Hands]]"). The capital of Virgon was Boskirk.<ref name="capitals1">[http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/ Serge's twitter account] mentioned the capitals of Gemenon, Virgon, Leonis, Sagittaron, Scorpia, Canceron and Aerilon in [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/10545377704 this tweet].</ref><br />
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Virgon had a declining monarchy and a strong national parliament, at least 58 years before the Fall of the Colonies.<ref>Mentioned by [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/statuses/10937229785 Serge's twitter account].</ref> <br />
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[[Virgon Brew]] was a beer produced on the planet and exported to other Colonies ([[TRS]]: "[[Maelstrom]]").<br />
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Soon after the beginning of the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attack]], the Colonials launch a counter-attack over Virgon. The battle ends with the destruction of the flagship battlestar ''[[Atlantia (RDM)|Atlantia]]'' and the resulting death of [[Nagala|Fleet Admiral Nagala]] ([[TRS]]: [[Miniseries]]). <br />
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[[Marshall Bagot]] is the Virgon delegate to the first [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]]. He nominates [[Tom Zarek]] for the vice-presidency ([[TRS]]: "[[Colonial Day]]"). In public ceremonies, the Virgon delegate wears a light blue sash.<br />
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===Notes===<br />
*Serge's Twitter Account [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone/status/10937229785 states] that Virgon has a declining monarchy with a strong parliament.<br />
*Virgon draws many parallels with present-day Earth's Britain; a declining monarchy, birthplace of Colonial language, coloniser of other planets (comparable to countries) and 'Virgon United' and 'Boskirk All Reds' are similar to Manchester United, a prominent English football team, also known as the Red Devils.<br />
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== See Also==<br />
*[[Ithaca]]<br />
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[[zh:拾贰殖民地 (RDM)]]</div>Determinanthttps://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Monotheist_Church&diff=214560Monotheist Church2014-04-23T17:13:15Z<p>Determinant: /* Adoption by Cylons */</p>
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<div>[[Image:Monotheist Church, 1x10.jpg|thumb|The Monotheist Church's retreat on Gemenon.]]<br />
The '''Monotheist Church''', sometimes referred to as the '''Monad Church''', was a religious organization based on [[Gemenon]] in the years before the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Fall]]. Lead by the cleric known as [[Mother]], the Monotheist Chruch's goal was to spread the gospel of a single, all knowing, all powerful [[God (RDM)|God]] to the generally [[Lords of Kobol|polytheist]] [[Twelve Colonies of Kobol|Twelve Worlds]].<br />
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==History==<br />
[[Image:Monotheist Church at night, 1x10.jpg|thumb|The retreat at night.]]<br />
Formed in the decades leading up to the [[First Cylon War]], the Monotheist Church was housed in the rocky, seaside cliffs of Gemenese in a temple referred to as "the retreat". The location was considered by the monotheists to be the Holy Land. Inside the retreat was an elaborate cathedral distinguished by buttresses, stained glass windows and reflecting pools where the clerics met for worship as well as politicking. The halls of the Monotheist Church echoed with the sound of chanting and prayer, reflecting a bygone age of mysticism in the Twelve Colonies ([[CAP]]: "[[Unvanquished]]", "[[Blowback]]").<br />
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In the early years of its formation, the Monad Church came into conflict with its polytheistic neighbors with polytheist rebels in the east and the "Hephaistons" in the west. Despite these tensions, the Monad Chruch's relationship with the polytheist ones softened over time, though they still considered nonbelievers "unenlightened" ([[CAP]]: "[[Unvanquished]]").<br />
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===The Soldiers of the One===<br />
:''Main article: [[Soldiers of the One]]''<br />
[[Image:Soldiers of One Logo.jpg|thumb|"Infinity" symbol representing the Soldiers of the One.]]<br />
The Soldiers of the One, or STO, was the militant arm of the Monotheist Church, formed in the movement's early years to defend the church, driving out the many [[Lords of Kobol (RDM)|Gods]] and combating the corruption and decadence of Colonial society. Considered by the [[GDD|Caprican Government]] to be a terrorist organization, the STO was at least in part seen by Obal Ferras, with training camps set up on Gemenon ([[CAP]]: "[[Unvanquished]]").<br />
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Meeting resistance to the monotheist movement, the Monotheist Church at first heavily utilized its arm branch, crediting it with its success in leaner years. Despite the fact that they were treated as saviors, the Monotheist Church ultimately took up a more distant relationship with its STO cells, going so far as to refuse to house its leaders within the church proper ([[CAP]]: "[[Unvanquished]]").<br />
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===Conclave===<br />
The monotheist '''conclave''' was a ten member group of clerics that convened on Gemenon to carry out the affairs of the Church, with members including [[Obal Ferras]] consulting directly with the Blessed Mother ([[CAP]]: "[[Unvanquished]]", "[[Retribution]]").<br />
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====Apotheosis====<br />
[[Image:Clarice and the Conclave, 1x10.jpg|thumb|The conclave on Gemenon.]]<br />
58 years before the Fall of the Twelve Worlds, the conclave came into direct conflict with the STO. Objecting to the church's newly found "coziness" with the polytheist organizations in the Colonies, [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprican]] cell leader [[Clarice Willow]] sought a new direction for the church. Meeting with the conclave on Gemenon, Clarice unveiled her notion of "[[Apotheosis]]" — the realization of life everlasting in a [[Virtual World|virtual]] heaven. Despite a convincing argument, however, Obal Ferras found Willow's notion blasphemous, relating his position to Mother and securing permission to have Clarice disposed of ([[CAP]]: "[[Unvanquished]]").<br />
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Willow's Apotheosis had nevertheless won over many other members of the conclave and the STO who conspired to murder Ferras instead. With the conclave stabbing Ferras to death before her eyes, Mother acquiesced, giving Willow the resources she needed to complete her "science project" and granting her full control over the STO cells on Caprica. Willow quickly returned to Caprica where she set out eliminating her competition ([[CAP]]: "[[Unvanquished]]", "[[Retribution]]").<br />
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====Ascension of Lacy Rand====<br />
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[[Image:Barnabas, Lacy and the Crate to Gemenon, 1x09.jpg|thumb|Barnabas, Lacy and the crate to Gemenon.]]<br />
Monotheist Lacy Rand initially infiltrates the STO on Caprica in order to gain their trust sufficiently to smuggle [[Zoe-R]]'s [[U-87]] Centurion body to Gemenon ([[CAP]]: "[[Reins of a Waterfall]]", ""[[Gravedancing]]"). She becomes a pawn in the battle of supremacy between her mentor Sister [[Clarice Willow]] and the Caprican STO commander [[Barnabas Greeley]] who can facilitate the transport, and unwittingly plants Barnabas' bomb to kill Clarice ([[CAP]]: "[[Know Thy Enemy]]", "[[End of Line]]"). Lacy's efforts are for naught, as Zoe-R is captured and severely damaged ([[CAP]]: "[[End of Line]]"). Her fate sealed, Lacy actively trains under Barnabas, and attempts to bomb the [[Caprica Interplanetary Spaceport]] ([[CAP]]: "[[Unvanquished]]", "[[Retribution]]"). Clarice had survived; she hunts down Barnabas and Lacy, kills the former, and takes the latter prisoner ([[CAP]]: "[[Retribution]]"). Lacy manages to regain some of Clarice's trust and Clarice gives Lacy an opportunity for redemption, sending her off to the STO training camp on Gemenon ([[CAP]]: "[[Things We Lock Away]]").<br />
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Meanwhile, unbeknownst to Lacy, the STO begins purchasing U-87s - the very thing Lacy had tried to smuggle - from the Ha'la'tha planted in [[Graystone Industries]]. The black market U-87s are sent to Gemenon ([[CAP]]: "[[Blowback]]").<br />
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When polytheists hijack the STO shuttle, Lacy takes the lead in successfully fighting the hijackers and personally injures one of them ([[CAP]]: "[[Blowback]]"). The incident is immediately revealed to have been an evaluation and training exercise. That evening, Lacy and her comrade [[Odin Sinclair]] witnesses the execution of those recruits who had renounced their faith during the evaluation; the executioner is a U-87 ([[CAP]]: "[[Blowback]]").<br />
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Soon thereafter, Lacy realises that the STO trainers and leadership are murderous thugs who routinely order U-87s to summarilly execute subordinates for petty infractions and mere disagreements ([[CAP]]: "[[The Heavens Will Rise]]"). When she instinctively calls out for one such execution to stop, the U-87 immediately removes its muzzle from its would-be victim's head and responds, "By your command." The Cylons' programming to follow all orders from (and ''only'' from) authorised leaders is discovered to be subordinate to their recognition of, and obedience to, Lacy Rand ([[CAP]]: "[[The Heavens Will Rise]]"). Lacy sneeks into the temple where the U-87s are stored to investigate further. Recognising the one that had obeyed her, because of its red chest markings, she asks it if it is Zoe, a question the robot does not understand; so she orders, "If you are Zoe, raise your arm." One by one, every Cylon in the temple raises its arm ([[CAP]]: "[[The Heavens Will Rise]]").<br />
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[[Image:Lacy Rand as Mother, 1x18.jpg|thumb|Lacy Rand, Blessed Mother of the Monad Church.]]<br />
While the STO and Monad church know only of Lacy's inexplicable ability to control the one U-87 and of her opposition to the killing of innocents, that is enough to make her unacceptably dangerous. [[Mother|Blessed Mother]] orders Lacy be killed with the appearance of a training accident ([[CAP]]: "[[Here Be Dragons]]"). Odin recognises that such orders are necessarilly imminent, and convinces Lacy and their fellow trainees of the same. Thus prepared, the trainees double-cross and ambush Lacy's would-be assassins ([[CAP]]: "[[Here Be Dragons]]"). Lacy dismisses her comrades' proposition to escape from the base; instead, she leads them to the Cylon storage temple where she orders the Cylons to power up and directs them to follow her with the ominous, "We have work to do." ([[CAP]]: "[[Here Be Dragons]]").<br />
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With her tiny cadre of trainees supported by Centurions, Lacy stages a coup d'état, installing herself as Blessed Mother, with Odin serving as her lieutenant, and the red-breasted U-87 as her acolyte and/or praetorian guard ([[CAP]]: "[[Apotheosis (episode)|Apotheosis]]").<br />
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====Adoption by Cylons====<br />
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:''Main article: [[Cylon Religion]]''<br />
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The kernel of Zoe-R's identity contained in the Cylons' fundamental programming which Lacy exploites, also makes them predisposed to monotheism. Ironically, the Cylon marines' killing of monotheist human terrorists to protect the thousands of polytheist humans at [[Atlas Arena]] (coincidental to Lacy's coup) ingratiates the Cylons with humanity and is the catalyst for their much more rapid popularity and sales than inventor [[Daniel Graystone]] had anticipated ([[CAP]]: "[[Apotheosis (episode)|Apotheosis]]").<br />
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[[Image:Clarice's Sermon, 1x18.jpg|thumb|Sister Clarice Willow proselytizing to her Cylon congregation.]]<br />
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Clarice Willow evades capture for her orchestration of the failed arena bombing ([[CAP]]: "[[Apotheosis (episode)|Apotheosis]]"). She eventually discovers the Cylons' monothistic instincts and establishes a Cylon congregation in V-World where various domestic, industrial, and military Cylon models attend to hear her sermons ([[CAP]]: "[[Apotheosis (episode)|Apotheosis]]"). Clarice preaches that Cylons are every bit as much God's children as humans are ([[CAP]]: "[[Apotheosis (episode)|Apotheosis]]"). <br />
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Blessed Mother Lacy grants Clarice an audience at her see on Gemenon to discuss Clarice's proposal for divine recognition of the "differently sentient" - the Cylon race. Lacy greets Clarice with a smile, but commands her to kneel ([[CAP]]: "[[Apotheosis (episode)|Apotheosis]]").<br />
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The Centurions maintain monotheism through the [[Cylon War|first human-Cylon war]] and beyond. The continue to progogate the belief system into the root programming of the comrades they manufacture to fight humans, as well as with most of the [[Significant Seven|humanoid Cylon models]] they create with the help of the [[Final Five]]. Of the seven mass-produced models, only [[Number One|one]] is atheist. It is not known if the semi-sentient [[Raider (RDM)|Raiders]] and [[Cylon Centurion|second war Centurions]] have even the capacity to process religion. The humanoid Cylons' funerary services utilise ornaments and amulets in the form of the Monad church's infinity symbol ([[TRS]]: "[[Islanded in a Stream of Stars]]").<br />
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[[fr:Église monothéiste]]</div>Determinanthttps://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Lacy_Rand&diff=214559Lacy Rand2014-04-23T16:12:12Z<p>Determinant: /* Clarice's Hostage */</p>
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'''Lacy Rand''' is a student at the [[Athena Academy]] on [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] and best friend of [[Zoe Graystone]]. Following Graystone's death, Rand becomes one of the [[Zoe-A|Zoe avatar]]'s only links to the outside world, helping orchestrate her escape to [[Gemenon]] by joining the [[Soldiers of the One]].<br />
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==Early Life==<br />
Lacy Rand grew up in the suburbs of [[Caprica City]]. Though her mother was a blue collar worker (repairing motorcycles for a living), she raised Lacy in an environment Rand described as "formal" ([[CAP]]: "[[Rebirth]]", "[[The Reins of a Waterfall]]", "[[Gravedancing]]").<br />
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:''Deleted dialogue in "[[Unvanquished]]" refers to Lacy's mother as an alcoholic.<br />
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[[Image:Lacy Rand's House, 1x03.jpg|thumb|Lacy Rand in front of her childhood home.]]<br />
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As a teenager, Rand attended high school at [[Athena Academy]], learning the teachings of the Goddess [[Athena, Lord of Kobol|Athena]], under polytheist cleric and headmistress [[Clarice Willow]]. Rand also attended school with her best friend, [[Zoe Graystone]] - with whom Lacy would frequently visit the [[virtual world]]'s "[[V-Club]]" to take part in the simulated group sex rooms. Despite the closeness of their relationship, Rand and Graystone began to drift apart ([[CAP]]: "[[Caprica pilot|Pilot]]", "[[Rebirth]]", "[[Reins of a Waterfall]]").<br />
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Though Athena Academy's curriculum required Rand to take part in several prayer groups, Lacy was convinced by Zoe Graystone and her boyfriend [[Ben Stark]] to join a different kind of prayer group - one devoted to the worship of the monotheist [[God (RDM)|God]]. According to Stark, "You pray, Lace, but your [[Lords of Kobol (RDM)|Gods]] don't answer, you hurt but your Gods don't heal. You go to the V-Club for sex and sin, but it doesn't fill the void in your soul." ([[CAP]]: "[[Caprica pilot|Pilot]]")<br />
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Convinced by the teachings of the [[Monotheist Church]], Rand became devout in her worship of the "One True God", forming a close bond with Zoe Graystone and coming to see the decadence of the V-Club as moral corruption ([[CAP]]: "[[Caprica pilot|Pilot]]").<br />
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==Death of Zoe Graystone==<br />
[[Image:Lacy left behind, 1x01.jpg|thumb|Lacy watches the Lev carrying Zoe Graystone depart.]]<br />
Though they shared a close bond, Lacy Rand was left much in the dark about Zoe Graystone's activities relating to the monotheist movement. Rand was aware, however vaguely, of Zoe's work in the creation of a living [[avatar]], one that acted as a permanent manifestation of Zoe inside V-world. She also agreed to join Zoe and Ben Stark in their move to [[Gemenon]], told only that there would be a "new family" waiting for them. ([[CAP]]: "[[Caprica pilot|Pilot]]", "[[Rebirth]]).<br />
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When the time comes to leave Caprica, however, Rand backs out, watching her friends depart on the [[Lev|MagLev]] train bound for the [[Caprica Interplanetary Spaceport|Caprica City Spaceport]]. The train, though, never reaches its destination. As the Lev departs, Ben Stark detonates an explosive, killing everybody aboard the train, including Zoe Graystone ([[CAP]]: "[[Caprica pilot|Pilot]]").<br />
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===Finding the Avatar===<br />
Devastated by the loss of her best friend, Rand seeks the counsel of Clarice Willow. Secretly a cell leader in the monotheist terror group the [[Soldiers of the One]], Clarice is aware of Zoe's avatar program, though unable to access it. Clarice urges Rand to seek out any work Zoe had been conducting as a way of feeling closer to her deceased friend - and hoping she will lead Clarice to the [[resurrection program|avatar program]] ([[CAP]]: "[[Caprica pilot|Pilot]]").<br />
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[[Image:Lacy and Zoe-R, 1x02.jpg|thumb|left|Lacy reunites with Zoe as the U-87.]]<br />
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To that end, Rand visits the [[Graystone Estate|home]] of the Graystone family, where she accesses Zoe's [[computer sheet]] and locates the avatar in V-world. Rand is shocked to find the avatar reeling from the death of the real Zoe; the Zoe avatar pleads with her to acknowledge it as a the real Zoe Graystone - not just a computer-generated simulacrum. Rand concedes, embracing her friend for the first time in her virtual "skin" ([[CAP]]: "[[Caprica pilot|Pilot]]"). <br />
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Accessing the avatar from Zoe's home computer system some time later, Rand is caught by Zoe's father, [[Daniel Graystone]], who insists Rand show him the avatar. Taking Daniel into the hacked underbelly of the virtual world, Rand introduces Daniel to the virtual copy of his dead daughter and unwittingly allows him to capture her code ([[CAP]]: "[[Caprica pilot|Pilot]]"). <br />
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===Rebirth===<br />
With Rand out of communication with Zoe and unaware of Daniel Graystone's plans for the avatar, Rand is shocked to receive a phone call from a familiar voice - that of Zoe Graystone, now living within the body of a [[U-87 Cyber Combat Unit|U-87]] [[robot]] soldier ([[CAP]]: "[[Caprica pilot|Pilot]]").<br />
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Once again sneaking into the Graystone home, Rand returns to find Zoe living in secret as the seven-foot [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]] prototype. Overcoming her reluctance at seeing her best friend in such a horrific form, Rand accepts Zoe in her unusual form and agrees to help her ([[CAP]]: "[[Rebirth]]").<br />
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===Introduction to the STO===<br />
[[Image:Clarice seduces Lacy, 1x03.jpg|thumb|Sister Clarice attempts to "mentor" Lacy.]]<br />
As Caprican authorities square in on Ben Stark and the Soldiers of the One as the perpetrators of the bombing, Rand is questioned by [[GDD]] Agent [[Jordan Duram]]. Forced to lie about her knowledge of Stark and Graystone's religious beliefs, Rand becomes riddled with guilt. Once again seeking solace from Sister Clarice, she confesses her association with the monotheist movement, only to learn that Clarice herself is STO ([[CAP]]: "[[Caprica pilot|Pilot]]").<br />
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Not fully trusting Sister Clarice, Rand agrees to visit Willow's home, where she meets the various members of the headmistress' group marriage. Despite the glimpse into Clarice's life outside the Athena Academy, Rand only distrusts her more, from then on avoiding contact with her. Meeting regularly with Zoe in the Virtual World, Rand is tasked with finding a way to transport the U-87 to Gemenon, to complete the original Zoe's mission ([[CAP]]: "[[Reins of a Waterfall]]").<br />
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Zoe asks Rand to track down [[Keon Gatwick]], a member of Ben Stark's STO cell. Having been taunted by him at school, Rand approaches Keon aggressively, tackling him and demanding information about the Soldiers of the One. As Keon is reluctant to help her, Rand is forced to win his trust by helping him repair motorcycles - a skill she learned from her mother - at the auto shop he works at. Finally, Keon agrees to set up a meeting with [[Barnabas Greeley]], the leader of his cell ([[CAP]]: "[[Reins of a Waterfall]]", "[[Gravedancing]]").<br />
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===Barnabas' Cell===<br />
Meeting Barnabas in his lair at the Caprica City ports, Rand is unable to explain precisely what she needs transported to Gemenon. Still, with persistence, Rand is allowed to join Barnabas' prayer groups. Quickly showing her mettle and earning Barnabas' trust, Rand continues to work toward freeing Zoe. Providing her with a container that would clear Gemenese customs, Barnabas asks Rand to return the favor — plant a "tracking" device on Sister Clarice. At first hesitant, Rand does as she was asked, planting the device on Clarice's keyring ([[CAP]]: "[[Know Thy Enemy]]", "[[End of Line]]").<br />
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[[Image:Barnabas, Lacy and the Crate to Gemenon, 1x09.jpg|left|thumb|Barnabas, Lacy and the crate to Gemenon.]]<br />
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Back in Barnabas' lair, however, Rand learns the true purpose of the device: a detonator. With Keon working the controls, Rand feels betrayed. At first refusing to go along with murdering Clarice, Rand relents when Barnabas holds a gun to her head, then Keon's, threatening to kill him if she does not comply. Activating the remote detonator, Rand watches as the bomb in Clarice's trunk ignites. Though Clarice is able to escape unharmed, Rand is by then well in over her head ([[CAP]]: "[[End of Line]]").<br />
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With a means of finally securing Zoe passage to Gemenon, Rand's task is nearly complete. However, she is too late and Zoe — at risk of having her program deleted — is forced to flee Graystone Industries. Angry and betrayed, Zoe accuses Rand of failing her, just like she let down the original Zoe Graystone on the Maglev some months ago. Zoe escapes confinement, but her robot body is damaged in a collision with Caprican military vehicles and her avatar returns to the virtual world ([[CAP]]: "[[End of Line]]", "[[Unvanquished]]").<br />
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==Aftermath==<br />
[[Image:Lacy as STO, 1x10.jpg|thumb|Lacy training to become STO.]]<br />
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Without her mission to help Zoe, Rand becomes fully immersed in Barnabas' STO terror cell, training in the use of firearms and participating in blood-letting rituals ([[CAP]]: "[[Unvanquished]]").<br />
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:''Deleted scenes from "Unvanquished" depict Lacy as hesitant to continue working with Barnabas following the disappearance of Zoe-A and the attempted murder of Sister Clarice. She also expresses objections to Barnabas' indulgence in sex and drug use, contrary to his religious teachings. In an excised storyline, Lacy attempts to break free of Barnabas' hold by going to GDD Headquarters in an attempt to meet with Agent Durham. Barnabas, however, intercepts Lacy and threatens to kill her if she defects, forcing her to grudgingly return to his cell.<br />
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As part of her initiation into Barnbas' circle, Rand joins cell members [[Pann]] and [[Hippolyta]] in planting explosives at the [[Caprica Interplanetary Spaceport]]. Confronted by spaceport security, Rand is unable to plant her bomb, managing to elude capture but botching the entire attempt. With the cell's activities capturing the attention of the press and the Caprican Government, Sister Clarice takes the opportunity to seek revenge for the attempt on her life, killing Pann and Hyppolyta ([[CAP]]: "[[Retribution]]").<br />
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Finding Barnbas at a construction site in downtown Caprica City, Rand begs for forgiveness for the botched bombing. However, Barnabas no longer trusts her, accusing Rand of working for Clarice. As the situation deteriorates, Keon Gatwick attempts to quit the cell, prompting Barnabas to shoot him. Charging in on the scene, Sister Clarice handcuffs Barnabas to an explosive and kidnaps Rand, watching from the street as the bomb detonates ([[CAP]]: "[[Retribution]]").<br />
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[[Image:Lacy Held Captive, 1x12.jpg|thumb|Lacy held captive in Sister Clarice's attic.]]<br />
===Clarice's Hostage===<br />
Locked in the attic of Willow's family home, Rand is given water that keeps her in a perpetually drugged state. She is occasionally visited by Willow's husband, [[Nestor Willow]], who sometimes berates her and other times comforts her. Finally, after a failed escape attempt and refusing to eat, Rand is visited by Clarice Willow, who presses her for information about Zoe's avatar program. With the robot destroyed and the real Zoe long dead, Rand gives into Willow's questioning, telling her that a backup copy might exist in a piece of costume jewelry once owned by the real Zoe Graystone ([[CAP]]: "[[Things We Lock Away]]").<br />
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==Gemenon==<br />
Satisfied with the information she provided, Clarice Willow sends Rand with her other husband, Olaf Willow, who drives her to the Caprican Spaceport and gives her a one-way ticket to Gemenon. Despite Clarice's insistence that Rand be sent to train with the STO, Olaf Willow tells Rand that he knows she'll be back, and that he looks forward to it ([[CAP]]: "[[Things We Lock Away]]").<br />
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===Attempted Hijacking===<br />
[[Image:Lacy aboard the Jump Ship, 1x14.jpg|thumb|Lacy and Odin Sinclair aboard the hijacked ship.]]<br />
At the spaceport on Gemenon, Lacy Rand encounters a fellow traveler, [[Odin Sinclair]], before being collected by STO training camp leader [[Diego]]. Aboard a [[jump ship|sub-orbital vessel]] headed for the Monotheist Church retreat, Rand and Sinclair are caught in the middle of a hijacking attempt by polytheist rebels. As their fellow passengers are given the choice of either denouncing the singular god or being shot and flushed out an [[airlock]], Rand and Sinclair determine to take action. Displacing a metal bar from beneath the deck plates, Rand attacks the rebel leader, [[Kevin Reikle]], beating him severely. Rather than risk Rand killing Reikle, Diego intervenes, revealing the hijacking to be a staged test as part of the new recruits' initiation into the STO ([[CAP]]: "[[Blowback]]").<br />
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During the welcoming reception at the Monotheist retreat, Rand and Sinclair see the shooting of recruits who were aboard the "hijacked" flight - those who had failed the test. Sinclair looks upon the shooting as a sign of the horrible things the STO is capable of and leaves, leaving Rand alone to see the shooter: a U-87 Cyber Combat Unit, smuggled to Gemenon by the [[Ha'la'tha]] ([[CAP]]: "[[Blowback]]").<br />
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===Cylons===<br />
Beginning her training in the mountains of Gemenon, Rand witnesses an argument between two STO members, the higher ranking of the two ordering a U-87 guard to kill the other. As the robot soldier draws its weapon and prepares to fire, Rand steps in, ordering the U-87 to stand down. Despite repeated orders from STO leaders, the robot will only comply with orders issued by Lacy.<br />
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[[Image:Lacy with U-87s, 1x16.jpg|thumb|Lacy Rand among the STO Cylons.]]<br />
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In his living quarters, Diego attempts to question Rand about the incident, telling her that the U-87s will only respond to authorized controllers. Unable to explain the incident, Rand secretly suspects that the U-87 is in fact the Zoe avatar. Sneaking out of the bunks at night, Rand brings Odin Sinclair to the disused temple where dozens of U-87s are stored. Commanding the robots to power up, Rand approaches the U-87 she had interacted with earlier, distinguished by red paint applied to its chest. Though the robot responds to her commands, it does not acknowledge itself as Zoe.<br />
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Highly confused what he has just seen, Sinclair presses Rand for information. Rather than divulge her secret, however, Rand kisses Sinclair, providing a distraction ([[CAP]]: "[[The Heavens Will Rise]]").<br />
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===Rise to Power===<br />
[[Image:Lacy Rand as Mother, 1x18.jpg|thumb|Lacy Rand, Her Holy Mother of the Monad Church.]]<br />
Following the revelation of Rand's ability to control the U-87s, STO leaders come to view her as a threat, and order Sinclair to kill her. Sinclair subsequently brings Rand back to the disused temple, where he puts a pistol to her head and forces her to the ground, but hesitates to kill her. Diego and Kevin Reikle then emerge, telling Sinclair to go through with killing Rand, and telling Rand that it is because of the robots. Sinclair then pretends to prepare to shoot Rand, but instead attempts to shoot Diego and Reikle, only to find that the gun is empty. Diego begins to mock Sinclair for his failure, but before he can execute Rand himself, he and Reikle are ambushed by the other new recruits and killed in the ensuing firefight. Sinclair then proposes that he and the other recruits flee in a transport, but Rand refuses to run and instead brings the others to the chamber where the robots are stored, commanding them to power up and saying, "We have work to do" ([[CAP]]: "[[Here Be Dragons]]"). <br />
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Rand successfully stages a coup over the leadership of the monotheist church and eventually takes on the position of [[Mother]], with Sinclair serving as her lieutenant. During her time as the Blessed Mother, she receives Clarice Willow, who has traveled to Gemenon to ask for divine recognition of the "differently sentient" - the Cylon race. Rand greets her with a smile, but commands her to kneel ([[CAP]]: "[[Apotheosis (episode)|Apotheosis]]").<br />
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:''Producer [[Kevin Murphy]] revealed basic plot information from the aborted second season of ''[[Caprica (series)|Caprica]]'' in a 2011 interview. In it he said, "Lacy and Odin [would] take advantage of Lacy’s odd affinity with the U-87s to drive Mother from power and enforce peace on Gemenon. The trouble is that Cylons scare the crap out of the population at large, and Lacy is perceived by Capricans as the head of a crazy cult of toaster-lovers. Circumstances would have forced Lacy into an awkward marriage of convenience with Clarice." Murphy also stated that while Lacy and Clarice would have joined forces, Daniel Graystone would have teamed up with Mother to stop them from stirring up a "robot insurrection". [http://www.capricatimes.com/the-caprica-times-exclusive-interview-kevin-murphy]<br />
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[[fr:Lacy Rand]]</div>Determinanthttps://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Odin_Sinclair&diff=214558Odin Sinclair2014-04-23T16:03:43Z<p>Determinant: </p>
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'''Odin Sinclair''' was a young recruit of the [[Soldiers of the One]] terror group ([[CAP]]: "[[Blowback]]", "[[The Heavens Will Rise]]", "[[Here Be Dragons]]"). <br />
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A nonbeliever himself, Sinclair's parents were staunch [[Monotheist Church|monotheist]]s, hiring men to knock their son unconscious and transport him to [[Gemenon]]. On Gemenon, Sinclair met [[Lacy Rand]] and the two traveled aboard a [[jump ship]] to the Monotheist retreat where the STO trained its members. Enroute to the retreat, however, a group of polytheist rebels boarded the jump ship and held the recruits hostage, giving them the option of renouncing "[[God (RDM)|The One True God]]" or facing execution. Sinclair and Rand planned to take action, but when the situation came to a head, it was Lacy Rand who acted, attacking the lead hijacker, [[Kevin Reikle]], and forcing STO leader [[Diego]] to step in and reveal the situation to be a test ([[CAP]]: "[[Blowback]]").<br />
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At the Monotheist retreat, Sinclair and Rand were welcomed by Reikle and Diego in a reception and dinner for the new recruits. However, Sinclair and Rand were shocked to see the recruits that had "failed" the test put to death by firing squad - a sign to Sinclair of exactly what the STO was capable of ([[CAP]]: "[[Blowback]]").<br />
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An unwilling participant in the STO training, Sinclair was unafraid of the consequences of possessing such contraband as illicit drugs and a [[holoband]] in the dormitory - using the band to have simulated sex with Lacy Rand ([[CAP]]: "[[The Heavens Will Rise]]").<br />
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Witnessing Rand exert unexplained control over the STO's [[Black market (organization)|black market]] [[U-87 Cyber Combat Unit|U-87 soldier robot]]s, Sinclair attempted to question Lacy about her ability. As a way of avoiding further questioning, Rand began kissing Sinclair, successfully distracting him ([[CAP]]: "[[The Heavens Will Rise]]").<br />
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Later, Sinclair approached Kevin Riekle and Diego, telling the STO trainers that he did not want to be involved in whatever conflict arose from Lacy Rand's influence of the U-87s. Intrigued by Sinclair's position, Reikle and Diego enlisted Sinclair to kill Rand. When the time came to execute Lacy, Sinclair turned his gun on Reikle and Diego and attempted to shoot them, but the gun wasn't loaded. Reikle and Diego, unsurprised by Sinclair's turn, threatened him at gunpoint, but were caught off guard when several other recruits appeared and fired rifles, killing the two men. Grabbing the key to the jump ship from Diego's body, the group of recruits prepared to leave Gemenon, however, Lacy Rand had another idea - activating the squad of U-87s and commanding them to follow her ([[CAP]]: "[[Here Be Dragons]]). Rand subsequently staged a coup over the leadership of the monotheist church and took on the position of "Mother," with Sinclair serving as her lieutenant. ([[CAP]]: "[[Apotheosis (episode)|Apotheosis]]".)<br />
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[[de:Odin Sinclair]]</div>Determinanthttps://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Colonial_One&diff=213758Colonial One2013-09-07T08:09:39Z<p>Determinant: /* Case Orange */</p>
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'''''Colonial One''''' is a passenger liner starship now used as the seat of government for the President of the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies of Kobol]]. ''Colonial One'' is the civilian counterpart to the military leadership aboard the battlestar ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]''. <br />
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== Background ==<br />
[[Image:Colonialheavy798 001 720p.jpg|left|thumb|Departing Caprica]]<br />
The Colonial [[Government]] chartered an [[Eversun]] starliner, designated ''Colonial Heavy 798'', for ferrying Secretary of Education [[Laura Roslin]], her staff and members of the [[Fleet News Service|Colonial press]] to and from the decommissioning ceremonies for the [[Galactica type battlestar|battlestar]] ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]''.<ref>The ship's original designation as "Heavy" is perhaps similar to that of Earth aircraft; jets weighing over 255,000 pounds are called "Heavy" in air traffic control communications to alert other aircraft of possible wake turbulence from the named airplane. The proper usage is to append the word "Heavy" ''after'' the flight number and the incorrect usage is probably an error by the writers. If following the Earthly convention the ship would be referred to as ''Colonial 798 Heavy''. This designation may also imply that the ship's sub-light or FTL technologies could create hazards for other ships especially smaller ones.</ref> Roslin departs the pre-attack seat of Colonial power, [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]], shortly after her briefing on the teachers' strike with President [[Richard Adar]] ([[Epiphanies]]).<br />
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== History ==<br />
=== ''Galactica's'' Decommissioning Ceremony and Destruction of the Colonies ===<br />
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''Colonial Heavy 798'' arrives and lands aboard ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' a few hours before the ceremonies. After the ceremonies, the transport begins its return to [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]] with Captain [[Lee Adama]] escorting the starliner in [[Viper 7242|his father's old Viper]], carrying ''Galactica's'' old [[EMP]] coils in her hangar bay for return to Caprica.<br />
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Approximately 3 hours from Caprica, the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attack]] commences. ''Colonial Heavy 798'' and Colonial press members hear of news that Caprica has been nuked along with three other Colonies. Secretary Roslin, as the highest government official on board, takes charge of the situation by setting up ''Colonial Heavy 798'' for long term use. Shortly after this news, a single [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Raider]] attacks ''Colonial Heavy 798''. Lee Adama is able to decoy a missile that targets the starliner and shoots it down. His Viper is damaged in the process, but ''Colonial Heavy 798'' recovers the Viper into its cargo bay ([[Miniseries]]).<br />
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=== Case Orange ===<br />
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[[Image:Roslin_swearing_in.jpg|150px|right|thumb|Roslin being sworn in]]<br />
A [[Case orange|special automated government broadcast]] prompts Laura Roslin to send her government ID ("D-456-345-A") number to locate surviving officials. With no more senior Colonial government officials apparently left alive, Laura Roslin is quickly sworn-in as the new President of the Colonies aboard<ref name="sworn">[[Wikipedia:Lyndon_B._Johnson#Assassination of President John F. Kennedy|U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson]] was quickly sworn-in aboard [[Wikipedia:SAM_26000|SAM 26000 (callsign ''Air Force One'')]], the Presidential air transport, immediately after President [[Wikipedia:John F. Kennedy|John F. Kennedy]] was assassinated in Dallas, Texas in November 1963. Roslin's swearing-in scene in the Miniseries was deliberately staged to mirror this event.</ref>, and ''Colonial Heavy 798'' is re-designated ''Colonial One'', in recognition of its status as the President's spacecraft.<br />
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=== Rescue Operations ===<br />
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With nowhere else to go, ''Colonial One'' engages in rescue missions under the direct orders of the new President. ''Colonial One'' locates and gathers other civilian vessels marooned in space around the vicinity of [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]]. During their rescues, ''Colonial One'' receives a message from ''Galactica'': Regroup at [[Ragnar Anchorage]]. Roslin attempts to countermand Commander Adama, ordering his battlestar to aid in rescue operations instead. Before the situation can be resolved, another Cylon Raider jumps in and launches nuclear missiles at the small gathering of ships where ''Colonial One'' is assisting. Lee Adama saves the day once more using ''Galactica's'' old [[EMP]] coils to disable the missiles and fool the Cylons in thinking the small fleet was destroyed. Faced with the threat of further Cylon forces coming, Laura Roslin is forced to order all ''FTL'' capable vessels to jump to Ragnar Anchorage, leaving the sublight vessels behind where they are destroyed by the Cylons. The exact number of casualties from this action is unknown, but believed to be in the several thousands.<br />
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=== President Roslin's First Administration ===<br />
While this ordinary starliner probably lacks many of the facilities and systems the original ''Colonial One'' would have boasted, President Roslin nevertheless made it her base of operations during her term as Colonial President as did her successor President [[Gaius Baltar]]. Locating the administration aboard a civilian craft and not the arguably more logical choice of the battlestar ''Galactica'' helps to keep the civilian administration figuratively distinct as well as physically separate from [[William Adama]]'s military leadership. As well, ''Colonial One's'' security is handled by the [[Presidential security service]], which is independent of the military leadership.<br />
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=== President Baltar's Administration ===<br />
[[Image:Colonial1onnewcaprica.jpg|thumb|150px|right|Colonial One on New Caprica]]<br />
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Baltar continued to use ''Colonial One'' as base of operations for his administration, even going so far as to land ''Colonial One'' on the surface of [[New Caprica]] on a hilltop overlooking the new settlement. From here he could oversee the colonization of the planet, while the ship itself could act as a visual symbol of the presidency and de facto office building/White House equivalent for the administration.<br />
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=== Settlement of New Caprica ===<br />
A year after his election, President Baltar had all but done away with the modesty of Roslin's office on the ship. He remade it to resemble his old house on Caprica, replacing Roslin's simple desk with an extravagant wood desk, her office chair with a decorated leather seat, and her back office with an apparent sleeping chambers for his harem. He removed the white board with its population-count as well as the [[Lest We Forget|image of a rescue worker]] given to Roslin in "[[33]]". The white board was replaced with a picture of himself (in a sense symbolically laying his own ego over his responsibility to protect the people).<br />
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=== The Occupation of New Caprica ===<br />
A year after the discovery of the planet, [[New Caprica]] is detected and occupied by the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]] ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]). A [[Cylon Occupation Authority|Cylon "advisory committee"]] made up of representatives of each of the revealed Cylon models join Baltar aboard ''Colonial One'', although it's unclear whether they physically live aboard the vessel (more likely they lived in the Cylon-built administration and jail complex nearby). The Cylon committee forms the real government of New Caprica while Baltar's administration is reduced to no more than a puppet regime maintained to put a human face on increasingly horrific Cylon actions. These actions force many to resist the administration, including [[Felix Gaeta]] who uses his access to ''Colonial One'' to acquire information that can aid the growing [[New Caprica Resistance|human insurrection movement]]. Eventually the resistance stages a series of major strikes that, with the aid of Admiral Adama and the battlestars ''Galactica'' and ''Pegasus'', force the Cylons and Baltar to abandon the colony during the [[Battle of New Caprica]].<br />
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During the operation, the deserted vessel is boarded by former president Laura Roslin and a small force under her command as Roslin claims the ship as hers (probably due both to how long she'd lived there, and her leadership of the resistance; Vice President Zarek tacitly acknowledges her ''de facto'' supremacy by not contradict her and by assigning Jammer to protect her while wishing her good luck). Utilizing launch keys covertly obtained by Sharon Agathon, the force are able to re-activate ''Colonial One's'' launch thrusters and [[FTL|FTL drive]] and flee from New Caprica along with the remaining colonists. ''Colonial One'' is the last human ship to leave the planet.<br />
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=== There and Back Again: President Roslin's Second Administration ===<br />
With President Baltar having either died or abandoned his office, Vice President Tom Zarek assumes the presidency and reigns briefly aboard ''Colonial One''; whether or not Laura Roslin resided in the ship during the interim Zarek presidency is unclear. Zarek knows that he lacks the military's allegiance and that the will of the people is for Roslin to govern. The principal activities of the Zarak's caretaker administration appear to be effecting a smooth and legal transition to second Roslin administration and the swift and secret [[The Circle|adjudication of a number of collaboration and treason cases]], claimed to save Roslin and the population from months of painful and divisive "witch hunts". Laura Roslin, through an appointment-and-succession deal with Tom Zarek, once again takes office as Colonial President with Zarek as her Vice President. The ship is subsequently re-established as the center of the civilian government and resumes its fleet position traveling near ''Galactica'' ([[Collaborators]]). With ''[[Cloud Nine]]'' destroyed, [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum]] meetings are held aboard ''Colonial One'' from there on.<br />
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When redecorating and cleaning the office after Baltar's opulent reign, Roslin and Foster joke about hanging Baltar's portrait in the bathroom over the toilet as they feel that this is the only place where it belongs ([[Hero]]).<br />
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During a routine patrol around the Fleet, a Raptor manned by [[Margaret Edmondson]] and [[Hamish McCall]] loses flight control due to impurities in its [[tylium]] fuel. Unable to regain control and on a collision course with ''Colonial One'', the two pilots are forced to eject from the Raptor, which impacts the larger vessel near Roslin's office. The accident results in several injuries, but no fatalities. The hull damage forces Roslin and her staff to move to another part of the ship until repairs can be made ([[Dirty Hands]]).<br />
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During the [[Battle of the Ionian Nebula]] ''Colonial One'' is nearly destroyed by a Cylon missile. The missile is intercepted moments before impact by a quick-thinking [[Seelix]], who is taking part in active combat for the first time ([[He That Believeth in Me]]).<br />
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In the weeks preceding [[Gaeta's Mutiny]], Roslin used ''Colonial One'' less and less, in part due to the necessity of being aboard ''Galactica'' for medical treatment. Following the mutiny, during which a massacre of the Quorum of Twelve had occurred on ''Colonial One'', and with her own health deteriorating, Roslin effectively moved government operations to ''Galactica'' ("[[Deadlock]]", "[[Islanded in a Stream of Stars]]"). Despite this, there is no indication that ''Galactica'' has adopted the ''Colonial One'' call-sign, nor is there any indication that the [[Rebel Basestar]] adopted the call-sign when President [[Romo Lampkin|Lampkin]] and Admiral [[Louis Hoshi|Hoshi]] move the fleet leadership there. ''Colonial One'', along with all the surviving ships in the fleet is later flown via remote control by [[Samuel Anders]] into the [[New Earth]]'s sun. ([[Daybreak, Part II]]).<br />
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== Size and Configuration ==<br />
[[Image:ColonialOneDocking Water.JPG|right|thumb|Docking in ''Galactica''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s port flight pod]]<br />
''Colonial One'' is small enough to fit inside of ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica's]]'' flight pod ([[Water]]). This makes ''Galactica'' a "safe haven" and also reduces contact with outsiders who would otherwise have the chance to make a move on the important visitors that frequently come and go from ''Colonial One''.<br />
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A large main cabin aboard the ship provides seating accommodation for dignitaries and [[Fleet News Service|press]] alike, while forward of this are small, more personal quarters reserved for ministers and their guests. Despite its conversion for government use, ''Colonial One'' retains its own docking bay, large enough to take a Colonial shuttle, and also boasts a cargo hold big enough to house a [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]]-sized craft. Additionally, the ship boasts at least four cargo bays, three of which were converted to hold passengers ([[Miniseries]]).<br />
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Following the destruction of the Colonies, the ship's normal passenger capacity was reduced to accommodate the offices and cabins required by government personnel. Civilian passengers on ''Colonial One'' resided in converted sections of the liner. However, the configuration of passenger accommodations seems likely to have changed following the events of the ''Battle of New Caprica'' and the abandonment the human colony there. ''Colonial One'' appears to be carrying a larger complement of civilians, just as ''Galactica ''is carrying a larger crew of military personnel (from the destroyed ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'') mixed with civilians. For example, as Roslin negotiates with [[Tom Zarek]] over his future role in the presidential administration in the episode "[[Collaborators]]", two children can be seen playing in a corner of the President's office. This overcrowding is presumably due to the loss of several ships [[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II|before]] and [[Exodus, Part II|during]] the evacuation of New Caprica, as well as the need to spread out the remaining population among the existing ships.<br />
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== Notes ==<br />
[[Image:ColonialOneSeal.jpg|right|thumb|''Colonial One'' sporting the Colonial seal in "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]".]]<br />
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* The practice of redesignating the president's spacecraft ''Colonial One'' mirrors real-life practice in the United States, in that any U. S. Air Force aircraft carrying the president is automatically given the call-sign ''Air Force One'' (Marine, Navy and civilian craft use the call signs "Marine One", "Navy One" and "Executive One", respectively). Correctly, the designation is only used when the president is on board. As ''Colonial One'' continues to be referred to as such even without the president aboard suggests the Colonies, or at least the Fleet, follow a different protocol. Despite President Roslin being based aboard ''Galactica'' for much of the time since the discovery of Earth, and with her effectively moving government and Quorum operations there (as indicated in "[[Deadlock]]") there appears to have been no attempt at following the naming protocol with regards to the battlestar, which otherwise should now be known as ''Colonial One''. This could also reflect Galactica's role as a naval carrier and not a mere passenger ship.<br />
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* In seasons 1 and 2, the ship is always seen flying next to ''Galactica'' either for best protection or convenience when the President needed to board. (Visually, having the two ships close in a shot also played well to the challenges in the separation of civilian and military authority.) During several episodes of Season 4 this was taken one step further by having ''Colonial One'' actually parked inside one of ''Galactica's'' landing bays.<br />
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* After "[[Exodus, Part II]]", rust can be seen between the outer hull plates of ''Colonial One'', reflecting weathering from resting over a year on [[New Caprica]].<br />
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* The ship is intermittently seen closely escorted by several Vipers.<br />
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* In a pre-fall flashback ([[TRS]]: "[[Daybreak, Part I]]"), multiple ships of the same type and color scheme as ''Colonial One'' are shown for the first time, docked near the water in [[Caprica City]]. The ship type is one that has seen decades of service, going back at least 58 years before the fall ([[CAP]]: "[[Retribution]]").<br />
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== Cinematic Trivia ==<br />
* The cockpit of ''Colonial One'' (seen only in the [[Miniseries]]) was a redressed original Space Shuttle Orbiter cockpit simulator. (The current Orbiter fleet have since been refurbished with [http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/sts101_new_cockpit.html newer cockpits.])<br />
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*''Colonial One'''s cargo bay (seen only in the [[Miniseries]]) was actually the car deck of a [[w:BC Ferries|BC Ferries]] [[w:V class ferry|V Class]] car and passenger ferry.<br />
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* The passenger area of the ship is modeled after the interior of the Pan Am ''Clipper Orion'' space shuttle seen ferrying Dr. Floyd into orbit in the movie ''[[w:2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|2001: A Space Odyssey]]''. The defunct airline, and perhaps the ''2001'' movie, is also given homage with the [[Pan Galactic]] spaceline.<br />
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* In order to contribute to the series' "real world" feel, the ship was intentionally painted in a livery based closely upon that of the [[w:1st Airlift Squadron|1st Airlift Squadron]]'s executive transport fleet such as the principal [[w:Air Force One|''Air Force One'']] aircraft.<br />
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* Half way through Season 1, the ''Colonial One'' CG model was updated and the [[Colonial seal]] was added to the dorsal "hump" at the bow of the ship. The reuse of stock footage from early in season one and the Miniseries, however causes the seal to continually appear and disappear at random intervals.<br />
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*[[Colonial One captain]], for the ship's unnamed captain.<br />
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{{featured article}}</div>Determinanthttps://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Miniseries,_Night_1&diff=213756Miniseries, Night 12013-09-07T08:08:17Z<p>Determinant: /* Act 5 */</p>
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<div>: ''After 40 years of peace with their creations, the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]], [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|the peoples of the Twelve Colonies of Kobol]] find themselves victims of a genocidal attack.<br />
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== Backstory == <br />
* The [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]] were created by the people of the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies of Kobol]] as a labor and military force. Approximately 52 years ago, the Cylons turned on their human creators and the [[Cylon War]] ensued. After an armistice was declared, the Cylons left the Colonies, ostensibly to seek a homeworld of their own.<br />
*The Colonials maintain an [[Armistice Station]] as a place where Cylon and Colonial representatives can meet in order to maintain diplomatic relations. However, the Cylons have never sent an ambassador. No one has seen a Cylon since the end of the Cylon War, over 40 years ago.<br />
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==Summary==<br />
=== Act 1 ===<br />
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*At the Armistice Station, the [[Armistice Officer]], with pictures of his [[Boxey (RDM)|family]] on his desk, is dozing off when the unexpected happens: Two [[Cylon Centurion]]s enter the station and take guard at the station's Cylon entrance. These Cylons appear similar to the expected [[Cylon Centurion Model 0005]], but are distinctively taller and more menacing.<br />
*The Colonial officer is further surprised by the entrance of a [[Number Six|a beautiful female]].<ref>The notion of a humanoid Cylon is not unique to the Re-imagined Series. Some 23 years prior, in the [[spin-off]] series, ''[[Galactica 1980]]'', a Cylon with human appearance, [[Andromus]], appears in the episode, "[[The Night the Cylons Landed, Part I]]."</ref> Instead of sitting at the negotiation table, the woman walks over to the officer's side of the table in a seductive fashion, leans over to examine him, asking, "Are you alive?"<br />
*The woman kisses the Colonial officer as the station shakes from the impact of a Cylon missile, fired from a [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]] – a massive Cylon capital warship that dwarfs the tiny station.<br />
*The woman restrains the officer, preventing him from escaping. "It has begun," she says as she forcefully kisses him – and the Armistice Station and its occupants are destroyed.<br />
*Some distance from the colony of [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]], the [[Galactica type battlestar|battlestar]] ''[[Galactica]]'', one of the last relics from the [[Cylon War]], is preparing for its decommissioning ceremony. Instead of being scrapped, the ship is slated to be turned into a [[Galactica Museum|museum]] in honor of its wartime service.<ref>The United States honors one of its earliest battle sailing ships, the [[w:USS Constitution|USS ''Constitution'']], by converting it partially into a living museum while also keeping it as officially commissioned in the U.S. Navy. The United Kingdom honors the [[w:HMS Victory|HMS ''Victory'']] similarly, although it is dry-docked and unable to sail, while ''Constitution'' is annually sailed to minimize weathering to the wooden ship while docked.</ref><br />
*[[Aaron Doral]], a P.R. representative for the government, provides a tour of the battlestar to the press as life goes on in the battlestar. [[Kara Thrace|Lt. Kara "Starbuck" Thrace]], a Viper pilot, jogs through the corridors.<br />
*Commander [[William Adama]] prepares his speech for the ceremony, occasionally being interrupted by well-wishers of his crew on his pending retirement. As Thrace passes by, he and she exchange their [[Nothing but the rain|personal pilot's greeting]].<br />
*Lieutenant [[Felix Gaeta|Gaeta]], the ship's Watch Officer, notifies him of various bits of Fleet housekeeping news, including a request from [[Fleet Headquarters]] asking any available [[FTL]]-capable ships to visit Armistice Station, as the Armistice Officer is overdue from his mission. Adama notes that his ship's decommissioning ceremonies that day would make ''Galactica'' a bit too busy to jump to the Armistice Station.<br />
*The hangar deck crew, led by [[Galen Tyrol]], gives Adama a parting gift for the retiring battlestar and its commander. The crew has found and refurbished Adama's old [[Viper Mark II]] from the Cylon War, and has readied it for flight. Specialist [[Prosna]] also gives Adama a picture from the Colonial Fleet archives that shows a young Adama with his two sons, [[Lee Adama]] and [[Zak Adama]]. When Adama sees the picture, he appears shaken. Adama's youngest son was killed two years before, which has caused a rift in his relationship with his older son, a captain in the Colonial Fleet.<br />
*Thrace is locked in the [[Brig]] after striking Colonel [[Saul Tigh]], who started a fight during a [[Triad (RDM)|card game]].<br />
*On Caprica, Secretary of Education [[Laura Roslin]] sits in a doctor's office. The [[Caprica Doctor|doctor]] arrives with grim news. She has breast cancer and it has spread aggressively.<ref>This scene marks the first of three homages to spaceships from other science fiction series. See [[The Fleet (RDM)#Notes|this article for more information]].</ref><br />
*Roslin later boards the government-chartered civilian transport, ''[[Colonial Heavy 798]]'' as the government representative that will attend ''Galactica's'' decommissioning ceremonies. She is joined by a government aide, [[Billy Keikeya]], who briefs her on the events. Roslin, however, is too distracted by the news of her illness to fully absorb Keikeya's notes.<br />
*Another seemingly [[Caprica-Six|identical twin]] of the blonde woman from the Armistice Station walks through the [[Riverwalk Market]]. During her walk, she runs into a young mother, [[Chantara]], and her [[Unnamed characters in the Colonies (RDM)#Chantara.27s_baby|baby boy]]. She begins observing how small babies are and asks to hold it. After obtaining the mother's permission to do so, the blonde begins cooing to the crying baby, telling him that he'll soon no longer cry. She makes a disturbing observation about the baby's neck being able to support his head's weight, which upsets the mother. However, she is momentarily distracted by her [[Chantara's husband|husband]] and the blonde snaps the baby's neck, and walks away from the crowd as the mother screams frantically about her dead child.<br />
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===Act 2===<br />
*Famed scientist [[Gaius Baltar]] gives a remote television interview with reporter [[Kellan Brody]] at his home. While Baltar speaks in the interview, a woman enters his home with the familiarity of someone who has entered the home many times. The woman is identical to the blonde woman seen on the Armistice Station.<br />
*Baltar and the young blonde woman have sexual intercourse. As she gyrates atop Baltar, the spine of the young woman glows a bright red color.<ref>This is a special effect used only once again in the regular series, but is later discontinued.</ref><br />
*Captain [[Lee Adama|Lee "Apollo" Adama]] arrives in his [[Viper Mark VII]] ([[Viper 2276]]) as part of the decommissioning ceremonies. He appears ambivalent about his role, given the rift between him and Commander Adama, his father. He questions the use of [[Hands-on Approach|manual landings]] for ''Galactica'', which Chief Tyrol explains as standard procedure on the old battlestar.<br />
*Later, Baltar and his blonde girlfriend discuss the success of his [[Command Navigation Program]]. He boasts that her involvement with the project should help her later in future work with the government, but the woman tells him cryptically that future government work wasn't the reason that she helped. She leaves Baltar to meet another person, whose identity is not shown.<br />
*''Colonial Heavy 798'' arrives. Secretary Roslin meets with Commander Adama, who denies her request to add a student computer network in the battlestar. Unlike her sister battlestars, ''Galactica'' has a tradition where its commanders have never allowed networked computers in the ship.<br />
*The next morning, Baltar's young blonde woman ejects another woman she finds Baltar in bed with, and soon tells Baltar of the truth of her existence, and her mission, to Baltar's disbelief.<br />
*The woman is a type of android, a [[Cylon agent]] that has used him to access critical Colonial Fleet facilities to, among other things, compromise his [[CNP]] software. When Baltar becomes upset, denies involvement and reaches for his phone to call his lawyer, the blonde woman tells Baltar not to worry, since in a few hours, no one will be alive to accuse him of any crime. The flash of a distant nuclear explosion appears outside Baltar's scenic windows.<br />
*Captain Adama and the last Viper squadron flies overhead the starboard [[landing bay]] to [[Colonial anthem|the Colonial musical fanfare]], where the new museum is located.<br />
*Commander Adama completes his address at the decommissioning ceremony. His derision of humanity and their creation of the Cylons leaves a quizzical expression on several attendees, including Colonel Tigh.<br />
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===Act 3===<br />
*Baltar watches two news channels as Kellan Brody and a second reporter attempt to report on the explosions. A bomb strikes near Brody's studio, likely obliterating it, as the shockwave of the same bomb blows the second reporter off the air seconds later.<br />
*Baltar starts to break down as he realizes what his actions have wrought: the impending annihilation of humankind. He rejects the young blond's attempt at comfort. A bomb explodes near them, the flash briefly blinding Baltar.<br />
*The young blonde explains that she cannot die, and that her consciousness will [[Resurrection (RDM)|download]] into a new body. She also tells Baltar that there are twelve human Cylon models: She is "[[Caprica-Six|Number Six]]."<br />
*As the shockwave from the nearby blast approaches, Baltar begs for his life. The Cylon protects him as the shockwave rips through his home, destroying it.<ref>This event triggers the analysis on Baltar's true nature. While the regular series' second season episode "[[Downloaded]]" appears to eliminate Gaius Baltar's possibility of being a Cylon, the third season episodes "[[Torn]]" and "[[The Eye of Jupiter]]" reopen the question. For more, see the article, [[Baltar as Cylon speculation]].</ref><br />
*As ''Colonial Heavy 798'' flies back to Caprica, passengers and crew hear news over personal shortwave [[wireless]] sets that the Colonies are under attack. The chaos and intermittent contact make confirmation of the news difficult. Captain Lee Adama, flying escort with the starliner in his father's old Viper, acknowledges the news but warns that the old Viper may not be useful for any real combat.<br />
*Commander Adama is notified of the attacks by Lt. Gaeta and calls the battlestar to [[Action Stations|action stations]].<br />
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===Act 4===<br />
*Most of the crew, including Colonel Tigh, are caught off guard; very few of them have ever assumed action stations except in drills, especially on a battlestar that hasn't any ammunition for its [[batteries]] or even a [[Viper Mark VII]] squadron remaining aboard. Tigh enters [[CIC]], believing that some shipping accident has occured.<br />
*Commander Adama uses the general ship address system to tell his crew of the "massive assault" by the Cylons, and that Admiral [[Nagala]], on battlestar ''[[Atlantia (RDM)|Atlantia]]'' is leading the Fleet attack after [[Picon Fleet Headquarters]] was destroyed.<br />
*Adama orders Gaeta to begin a plot of all space traffic, "friendly or otherwise", orders Kara Thrace out of the brig, and orders Tigh to search for munitions depots they can reach to rearm ''Galactica''.<br />
*''Galactica's'' last Viper Mark VII squadron, led by [[Jackson Spencer]], en route to Caprica for reassignment, receives the attack news and moves to intercept a Cylon fighter group. As their support [[Raptor]], piloted by Lt. [[Sharon Valerii|Sharon "Boomer" Valerii]], moves away, Spencer moves his group into attack range.<br />
*Gaeta notes that the bulk of the fight is massing near [[Virgon]].<br />
*Lieutenant Thrace is briefed on the situation. She is aghast that a quarter of the Fleet's 120 battlestars are already lost. She reports many pilots but no fighters. Commander Adama reminds her of the squadron of functional [[Viper Mark II]]s in the museum.<br />
*Communications officer [[Anastasia Dualla]] receives word of "equipment malfunctions" throughout the Fleet, including the ominous news of a battlestar completely losing power before being destroyed by the Cylons.<br />
*The Viper Mark VII squadron near Caprica finds only two [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|newly-designed Cylon Raiders]], but before the Vipers can attack, the Cylons access the backdoor programming of the Vipers' [[CNP]], disabling every Colonial fighter. The Cylons launch missiles and obliterate the squadron while Boomer's Raptor retreats with the Cylons in pursuit.<br />
*In the Raptor, Boomer and [[Helo]], her [[ECO]], manage to shake off two Cylon missiles using [[swallow]]s, but not without damage. They make an emergency landing on Caprica for repairs, powering down to escape detection. The planet's surface is still periodically illuminated with flashes of nuclear bomb detonations. Strewn around Caprican space are many undamaged Cylon basestars and the wreckage of a battlestar and other Colonial fighters.<br />
*Adama tells the crew of the extent of nuclear bombings throughout the Colonies, but asks his crew to mourn the dead later and get ''Galactica'' into the fight.<br />
*On ''Colonial Heavy 798'', Laura Roslin succeeds in confirming the news of Caprica's plight. After informing the starliner's passengers officially, she manages to contact [[Jack|a fellow official]] about the attack, including the whereabouts of President [[Richard Adar]]. Before she can get more news, a Cylon missile is detected approaching the ship.<br />
*Apollo is able to decoy and destroy the missile, but his Viper is disabled and must be retrieved to ''798'''s cargo bay.<br />
*Boomer and Helo, making repairs, are soon besieged by [[Caprican refugees|Colonial refugees who are desperate to escape Caprica]].<br />
*When he gets back on ''Colonial Heavy 798'', Apollo is met by [[Aaron Doral]], who is worried because the pilot of the ship is "not the one giving orders". He is brought to Laura Roslin, who is heading up preparing the ship to take on passengers from disabled vessels. Apollo quickly recognizes her authority. The current plan is to gather as many survivors as they can carry and "find a place to hide".<br />
*Overwhelmed by the mob of refugees, Helo and Boomer agree to take all the children among them, which include a boy named [[Boxey (RDM)|Boxey]]. They figure they can also take three adults and still break orbit, so they quickly organize a lottery.<br />
*Several Cylon Raiders soon engage ''Galactica'' and her older Vipers while it performs evasive maneuvers. Unlike the newer Mark VIIs, however, the attack squadron of older Mark II Vipers cannot be electronically compromised by the Cylons. Starbuck finally enters the fray after several aborted launch attempts.<br />
*A Raider fires three nuclear missiles at ''Galactica''. Starbuck manages to down two of the three missiles but the third strikes ''Galactica'' in her forward port [[flight pod]].<br />
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===Act 5===<br />
*The fighters rid themselves of the last Cylon fighters, but the battlestar is now in a slow uncontrolled lateral spin. The port [[flight pod]] has suffered intense fires and decompressions.<br />
*Chief Tyrol and Captain [[Aaron Kelly]] work from the [[Computers in the Re-imagined Series|Damage Control console]] to control the damage, but it is too severe to manage as water mains have been damaged. [[Deckhand]] damage control teams are fighting the fires with handheld gear.<br />
*Colonel Tigh orders decompression of sections of the flight pod to prevent the battlestar's fuel lines from being caught in the flre, which would destroy the ship. The decompression works, but 85 crew members are killed in the process, including [[Prosna]].<br />
*Helo and Boomer select the three adults who will join them and the children in the Raptor. The last number is #47, which belongs to an elderly woman standing next to Gaius Baltar. He notices she has the number when she asks him to read her ticket, but hesitates.<br />
*Helo notices Baltar in the crowd and calls to him. Baltar immediately identifies the lady next to him as having #47 and moves her onto the shuttle. Helo then gives up his seat on the Raptor to Baltar, believing that he was more important to the welfare of humanity than a mere Raptor ECO.<ref>Originally, [[Karl Agathon|Karl "Helo" Agathon]] was an [[w:redshirt|expendable character]], but his performance convinced series executives to create a [[Sharon Agathon|story arc for him]] in the first season of the Re-imagined Series.</ref><br />
*As he boards, Baltar briefly sees what he thinks to be Caprica-Six in the crowd. As the Raptor lifts off, one of the refugees left behind jumps on, forcing Helo to shoot him off.<br />
*The [[Colonial One Captain|captain]] of ''Colonial Heavy 798'' discovers an [[Case Orange|automated government message]] on wireless. Secretary Roslin instructs the pilot to respond to the message with her government identification ("D-456-345-A").<br />
*Roslin returns to the cabin, and is joined by Apollo. She tells him that she's 43rd in the line of succession, and knows all 42 ahead of her, from President [[Richard Adar]] down. She quips that she never liked politics, but something about Adar kept her coming back.<br />
*Soon, a response returns from the automated message: Roslin is the only government official at or above the cabinet level alive, and is now assigned the duties of President of the Twelve Colonies by emergency succession. In an emotional ceremony, she is sworn in by a [[priest]], [[Elosha]].<br />
*Tigh notifies Adama of the death count, and of [[Ragnar Anchorage]], a munitions depot on the opposite side of the Cylon fleet. Adama orders for confirmation on the depot's storage.<br />
*Chief Tyrol meets with Adama to berate Tigh for acting too quickly, but the commander (with some level of sympathy) dresses down Tyrol. Adama tells Tyrol that, if he were at the damage control station, he would have done the same as Tigh.<br />
*[[Dualla]] gives Adama more fateful news: Nagala's ship, ''Atlantia'', as well many other battlestars such as the ''[[Triton (RDM)|Triton]]'', ''[[Solaria]]'', and ''[[Columbia (RDM)|Columbia]]'' are destroyed.<br />
*As the only senior officer remaining in the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Colonial Fleet]], Commander Adama assumes fleet command and issues a system-wide order to all Colonial Fleet units to rendezvous at Ragnar Anchorage for counterattack preparations.<br />
*As Roslin's transport, renamed ''[[Colonial One]]'', begins a rescue of several civilian ships, two Cylon Raiders launch nuclear missiles at the Colonial ships. Roslin refuses to leave the area, but Lee Adama activates ''Galactica's'' old [[EMP|electric pulse generators]] stored in ''Colonial One's'' cargo hold.<br />
*''Galactica'' [[Actual]] is in communication with ''Colonial One'' before the attack as Captain Adama and Commander Adama argue over his orders to regroup at Ragnar, which conflict with Roslin's orders to initiate civilian rescues.<br />
*When communication is cut off as Captain Adama deals with the missile attack, ''Galactica'' is able to get a remote telemetry of the incoming missiles. The telemetry registers what appears to be a nuclear explosion as the signal disappears.<br />
*Commander Adama mourns the loss of another son, but orders that [[FTL|jump preparations]] to [[Ragnar]] continue.<br />
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== Notes ==<br />
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* Principal photography for the miniseries occured between 1 April and 12 June 2003.<ref>{{cite_book|last=Bassom|first=David|authorlink=|authorlinkurl=|coauthors=|year=2005|title=[[Battlestar Galactica: The Official Companion]]|pages=23|editor=ed. Adam "Adama" Newell|publisher=Titan Books|location=|id=ISBN 1-84576-0972}}</ref><br />
* [[w:Breck Eisner|Breck Eisner]], who previously worked with [[David Eick]] on Sci-Fi Channel's original series, ''[[w:The Invisible Man (TV series)|The Invisible Man]]'', was initially assigned as director of the Miniseries<ref>{{cite_book|last=Bassom|first=David|authorlink=|authorlinkurl=|coauthors=|year=2005|title=[[Battlestar Galactica: The Official Companion]]|pages=12|editor=ed. Adam "Adama" Newell|publisher=Titan Books|location=|id=ISBN 1-84576-0972}}</ref>. However, Eisner left the miniseries to work on other projects, including ''[[w:Sahara (2005 film)|Sahara]]'', a film adaptation of [[w:Clive Cussler|Clive Cussler]]'s 1992 novel [[w:Sahara (novel)|of the same name]]. While [[Michael Rymer]] was eventually selected, [[Jeff Woolnough]] (who would later direct episodes of the series) was also considered as the miniseries' director.<ref>{{cite_book|last=Bassom|first=David|authorlink=|authorlinkurl=|coauthors=|year=2005|title=[[Battlestar Galactica: The Official Companion]]|pages=19|editor=ed. Adam "Adama" Newell|publisher=Titan Books|location=|id=ISBN 1-84576-0972}}</ref><br />
* The opening scenes on the [[Armistice Station]] were written in at [[David Eick]]'s request, stating the need for "something like the shark attack at the start of ''[[w:Jaws (film)|Jaws]]'' – when the girl is attacked at the beginning of the movie, you don't really have any idea what's going to happen next, but for the next hour you're desperately waiting to find out."<ref>{{cite_book|last=Bassom|first=David|authorlink=|authorlinkurl=|coauthors=|year=2005|title=[[Battlestar Galactica: The Official Companion]]|pages=28|editor=ed. Adam "Adama" Newell|publisher=Titan Books|location=|id=ISBN 1-84576-0972}}</ref><br />
* The scene where [[Kara Thrace|Starbuck]] is playing cards is a reworking of a similar scene from "[[Saga of a Star World]]", where [[Starbuck (TOS)|Starbuck]], played by [[Dirk Benedict]], is playing cards with his fellow pilots prior to the [[Battle of Cimtar|the Cylon attack]]. [[Katee Sackhoff]] notes the reworked scene as a favorite of hers that was "exciting to shoot", and would refer to it whenever she needed to eliminate her doubts on "how strong the character is and how much of a loose cannon she is".<ref name="oc 29">{{cite_book|last=Bassom|first=David|authorlink=|authorlinkurl=|coauthors=|year=2005|title=[[Battlestar Galactica: The Official Companion]]|pages=29|editor=ed. Adam "Adama" Newell|publisher=Titan Books|location=|id=ISBN 1-84576-0972}}</ref><br />
* Lee Adama's first meeting with William Adama was [[Jamie Bamber]]'s audition scene, although the scene that was shot was set up differently and "much more vitriolic towards his father than I had originally intended".<ref name="oc 29"/><br />
* In an early scene showing Caprica through a window, several ships pass over. One of which bears resemblance to the ship "Serenity" from the series "Firefly" and "Serenity".<br />
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==Analysis==<br />
{{mainarticle|Miniseries, Analysis}}<br />
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== Questions == <br />
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=== Answered Questions ===<br />
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* What happened to the Cylons over the course of their 40 year exile? ([[Razor|Possible Answer]], [[No Exit|Answer #2]], [[Islanded In a Stream of Stars|Answer #3 {In Teaser}]])<br />
* What events transpired that made the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]] hate their human masters? When did this occur? (This is partially addressed in the prequel series, [[Caprica (series)|''Caprica'']].)<br />
* Why did the Cylons cut off all diplomatic contact? ([[No Exit|Possible Answer]])<br />
* Why did the Cylons attack? ([[Bastille Day|Partial Answer #1]], [[No Exit|Partial Answer #2]])<br />
* Where is the [[Cylon homeworld]]? ([[Daybreak, Part I|Partial answer]], [[Daybreak, Part II|Full Answer]])<br />
* Whom does Number Six meet on Caprica after Gaius Baltar leaves? ([[The Plan|Answer]])<br />
* What happened to [[William Adama|Husker]]'s Viper? ([[Viper 7242|Answer]])<br />
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=== Unanswered Questions ===<br />
* Who placed the Cylon transmitter on the [[DRADIS console]]?<br />
* See also [[Miniseries, Analysis#The Infanticide Debate|Questions on the death of the infant at the Riverwalk market at the Six's hands]].<br />
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:''See the series article [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)]] for analysis of the Miniseries and the central differences between the Re-imagined Series and the [[Original Series]].''<br />
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== Official Statements ==<br />
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* ''Moore discusses using "[[Saga of a Star World]]" as a template for the miniseries:''<br />
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: Both involve a sudden Cylon attack that wipes out the homeworlds of this Colonial society, leaving only the ''Galactica'' and a handful of civilian ships and survivors to escape from the Cylons and go off to find a mythical place called [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]]. Where they differ is that the miniseries takes a very different approach to telling that particular story. I wanted to make it much more believable and real.<br />
: There were certain elements of the original pilot's storyline that I knew didn't work, so I changed them. In the original pilot, the Colonials have been at war with the Cylons for [[Thousand Yahren War|a thousand years]] and as soon as the Cylons launch a peace initiative, the Colonials [[Battle of Cimtar|gather their entire fleet in one place ready to be destroyed]]! I always felt that was a bit silly. I also knew I did not want to go to the [[Carillon|casino planet]] like they did in the original.<ref>{{cite_book|last=Bassom|first=David|authorlink=|authorlinkurl=|coauthors=|year=2005|title=[[Battlestar Galactica: The Official Companion]]|pages=27|editor=ed. Adam "Adama" Newell|publisher=Titan Books|location=|id=ISBN 1-84576-0972}}</ref><br />
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* ''[[Michael Rymer]] discusses the first sex scene between [[Gaius Baltar]] and [[Number Six]]:''<br />
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: I think science fiction tends to be a little antiseptic in its depiction of sexuality. It's clearly aimed at teenage boys and usually consists of [[MemoryAlpha:Seven of Nine|just a babe in a tight outfit]]. So I wanted to do something that had more of a relationship to reality and shows that sexuality is a huge part of life.<br />
: The scene between Baltar and Number Six is all about lust. I was fascinated by the way Number Six uses sex to get the information the Cylons use to destroy humanity, because I thought that was very believable and had a great contemporary relevance – there have been a lot of scandals over the years involving national security and military secrets being exchanged for sex.<ref>{{cite_book|last=Bassom|first=David|authorlink=|authorlinkurl=|coauthors=|year=2005|title=[[Battlestar Galactica: The Official Companion]]|pages=30|editor=ed. Adam "Adama" Newell|publisher=Titan Books|location=|id=ISBN 1-84576-0972}}</ref><br />
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* ''Moore on focusing on people's reactions to the destruction of the Colonies, than on the destruction itself:''<br />
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: I wanted to keep the focus on our people. It's more effective and scarier if the attack is happening out there some place, and you're stuck on a ship and can only hear about it. That was very reminiscent of 9/11, and also harked back to the movie ''[[w:In Harm's Way|In Harm's Way]]'', which focused on what was happening on [[w:John Wayne|John Wayne]]'s cruiser during the attack on [[w:Pearl Harbor|Pearl Harbor]].<ref>{{cite_book|last=Bassom|first=David|authorlink=|authorlinkurl=|coauthors=|year=2005|title=[[Battlestar Galactica: The Official Companion]]|pages=31|editor=ed. Adam "Adama" Newell|publisher=Titan Books|location=|id=ISBN 1-84576-0972}}</ref><br />
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* ''[[Matthew Bennett]] discusses auditioning for the Miniseries:''<br />
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: I had heard that they were going to be shooting the ''Battlestar'' mini-series well before the auditions. We had all heard about it. It was a big show that was coming to town and I had watched [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|the original show]] as a kid. When it came to the audition I didn’t actually know I was auditioning for [[Aaron Doral|Doral]]. The scene I was given to read when I showed up was the tour scene that starts the show. It was a lot of dialogue, but the director, [[Michael Rymer]], told me that he wanted me in the show and so we worked in the audition room to find it. It seemed to work. Michael likes actors and for me that’s everything. He’s a guy who has a lot of trust in what we do and so I wanted to work with him.<ref>{{cite_web|url=http://www.thescifiworld.net/interviews/matthew_bennett_01.htm|title=The Scifi World: Matthew Bennett interview|date=26 November 2006|accessdate=19 Feburary 2007|last=Nuytens|first=Gilles|format=|language=}}</ref><br />
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* ''[[Aaron Douglas]] discusses his growing involvement in the Miniseries:''<br />
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: Oh God, read the original script. In the original script, Tyrol is just this relatively small character. There is not a whole lot going on. There’s not a lot of scenes and there’s not a lot of dialogue. I mean, he was there and he was in place and everybody understood who he was and everything like that, but oh yeah, David Eick was on the set as sort of helping us do the re-write as we go, constant communication was going on and Michael Rymer would just sort of say, “go Aaron, go.” And I am a big improver, if the line doesn’t make sense I’ll change the line, and originally I had nine days in the shooting schedule, and I ended up with 14 because David just kept adding scenes and adding scenes and adding lines, and I would show up and David would just go, “OK, I’m putting you to this scene, I’m not really sure what the dialogue would be but here’s the situation...” And then: Go. And I’d go out and just improv something and he would say “Fabulous! It’s great , do it again!” Or he would say, “Good. I really need this one word hit.” And so, a lot of my stuff is improved and ad-libbed. And they just kept adding me to more and more scenes.<ref>{{cite_web|url=http://www.bsgtns.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=41&Itemid=44|title=Chief Tyrol Tells It Like It Is|date=23 February 2004|accessdate=23 February 2007|last=Farvoyager|first=|format=|language=}}</ref><br />
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== Noteworthy Dialogue ==<br />
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*{{audio|Mini1 Adama's speech.mp3|''Adama's speech at ''Galactica's'' decommissioning ceremony:''}}<br />
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:The [[Cylon War]] is long over, yet we must not forget the reasons why so many sacrificed so much in the cause of freedom. The cost of wearing the uniform can be high, but...sometimes it's too high. <br />
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:You know, when we fought the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]], we did it to save ourselves from extinction. But we never answered the question, why? Why are we as a people worth saving? We still commit murder because of greed, spite, jealousy. And we still visit all of our sins upon our children. We refuse to accept the responsibility for anything that we've done. Like we did with the Cylons. We decided to play God, create life. When that life turned against us, we comforted ourselves in the knowledge that it really wasn't our fault, not really. You cannot play God then wash your hands of the things that you've created. Sooner or later, the day comes when you can't hide from the things that you've done anymore.<br />
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* {{audio|Mini1 war.mp3|''Adama tells his crew that the Cylon attack is underway:''}}<br />
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: '''Adama:''' This is the commander. Moments ago, this ship received word of a Cylon attack against our home worlds is underway. We do not know the size or the disposition or the strength of the enemy forces. But all indications point... to a massive assault against Colonial defenses. <br />
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: Admiral [[Nagala]] has taken personal command of the [[Colonial Fleet|fleet]] aboard the ''battlestar [[Atlantia (RDM)|Atlantia]]'', following complete destruction of [[Picon Fleet Headquarters]] in the first wave of the attacks. <br />
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: How, why ... doesn't really matter now.<br />
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: What does matter is that, as of this moment, we are at war. <br />
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: You've trained for this. You're ready for this. Stand to your duties, trust your fellow shipmates and we'll all get through this. Further updates as we get them. Thank you.<br />
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== Related Topics==<br />
* [[Soundtrack (Miniseries)]]<br />
* [[Battlestar Galactica: The Lowdown (Miniseries)]]<br />
* The Miniseries [[Battlestar Galactica (2005 Novel)|novelization]]<br />
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== External Links ==<br />
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*[[imdb:tt0314979|Battlestar Galactica Miniseries]] at [http://www.imdb.com IMDB.com]<br />
*[http://www.seesaw.com/TV/Drama/b-28373-Battlestar-Galactica Battlestar Galactica Miniseries] at SeeSaw.com (UK only)<br />
*[http://galactica1981.tripod.com/NewGalactica.htm Sheba's Galaxy review of the miniseries]<br />
*[http://galactica1981.tripod.com/reviewsgalactica2.htm Various reviews of the miniseries]<br />
*[http://www.starbacks.ca/sjpaxton/gal2003pt1.html Battlestar Zone review of the miniseries script]<br />
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<div>The '''''Galleon''''' is the name used to describe the "great ship" that carried the twelve tribes from [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]], starting the Exodus that leads the tribes to discover twelve inhabitable worlds, on which they founded the [[Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies of Kobol]].<br />
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According to the [[Sacred Scrolls]], the ship left from [[Galleon Meadow]] on Kobol some 2,000 years prior to the events of the Re-imagined Series ([[Home, Part I]]).<br />
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* In the real world, a [[w:Galleon|galleon]] was a large, multi-decked sailing ship used primarily by the nations of Europe from the 16th to early 18th centuries. Despite common ideas, a galleon was not a ponderous transport ship, but more a kind of warship.<br />
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|colony=Caprica<br />
|birthname= Socrata Thrace<br />
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|seen= Maelstrom<br />
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|children= [[Kara Thrace]]<br />
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'''Socrata Thrace''' was a former member of the [[Colonial Marine Corps]] who fought in the first [[Cylon War]]. Thrace was stationed on [[Mehidra]], in a region dominated by dense jungle, after which she suffered from [[w:Entomophobia|entomophobia]]—the fear of insects. She retired after a lifelong career with the rank of sergeant major ([[Maelstrom]]).<br />
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At one point, she was married to Dreilide Thrace, a piano player of some renown. Following the birth of their child, Kara, Socrata asked Dreilide to give up his career in music in favor of a steady profession; Dreilide refused and left his family ([[Someone to Watch Over Me]]). <br />
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While being interrogated by Kara Thrace, [[Leoben Conoy]] claims that she had been physically abused by her mother, long ago:<br />
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<blockquote>You were born to a woman who believes that suffering was good for the soul, so you suffered. Life is a testament to pain, injuries, accidents. Some inflicted upon others, some inflicted upon yourself. Surrounds you like a bubble but it's not... real it's just-- that's just something she put into your head. It's something that you wanna believe 'cause it means that you're the problem, not the world that you live in. You wanna believe it because... it means that you're bad luck. Like a cancer that needs to be removed. Because you hear her voice every day and you want her to be right ([[Flesh and Bone]]).</blockquote><br />
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Later, a [[Simon]] copy notes that Kara Thrace's hands show indications of broken bones, speculating that she endured abuse at the hands of a parent ([[The Farm]]).<br />
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Thrace appeared to be a chain cigarette smoker and alcohol drinker. Her sparse apartment has only a handful of items, particularly the [[Medal of Valor]], which she received as a corporal<ref>From BSG auction catalog photo</ref> and may have been awarded to her during the Cylon War. A bottle of [[Virgon Brew]] is also seen momentarily.<br />
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Leoben's claims of abuse are confirmed by her daughter when she discusses one incident with her husband, [[Samuel Anders]]. Kara Thrace reveals that her mother broke her hand by holding it against a door jamb and slamming the door shut, to punish her daughter for placing plastic insects in her shoes; in return payback for earlier abuse at the hands of her mother.<br />
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Thrace was diagnosed with a cancerous gastric tumor four years before the destruction of the Twelve Colonies by the [[Caprican Colonial Forces Veteran's Hospital]]. Vowing never to return to see her mother, Kara Thrace never saw her mother before her death.<br />
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Years later, Kara Thrace is given a [[The Destiny|mysterious opportunity]] to visit her mother at her deathbed by a [[Messenger Leoben|being with Leoben's appearance]] ([[Maelstrom]]).<br />
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[[Image:Socrata Thrace - corrected.jpg|thumb|Thrace in uniform.]]<br />
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*The [[:md:Image:SocrataThraceLetter.jpg|letter]] Thrace receives, states her rank as corporal. However, on several earlier occasions, such as the [[Podcast:Maelstrom|podcast for "Maelstrom"]], Ronald D. Moore stated that Socrata Thrace was a sergeant major. This is further re-established in the extended DVD edition of "[[Razor]]", when Kara Thrace refers to her mother as such<ref>Kara Thrace: "Hope for the best, plan for the worst, as my mom the sergeant major used to say."</ref>.<br />
*In her portrait, Thrace appears to wear Sergeant First Class pips on a dress blue uniform. Depending upon the lighting, the insignia could alternatively be that of a Junior Lieutenant (each is a single silver chevron on a lozenge of green or yellow enamel, respectively).<br />
**Corporal is the lowest non-commissioned officer [[Military Ranks (RDM)|rank]] in the Colonial Marine Corps, sergeant major is the highest rank; it can thus be inferred that Thrace served in the Corps for her whole professional career. That is also supported by her daughter's insult, that her medal is all she has to show "for a life of dedication".<br />
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