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Peter Laird

2020-12-26T05:15:17Z

Fredmdbud: better words are "coerced" and "dragooned", since selectees were compelled by the force of arms, not the force of law.

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|birthname= Peter Laird
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|seen= Pegasus (episode)
|pseen= Pegasus
|death= Bludgeoned by [[Tom Zarek]] {{TRS|The Oath}}
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|children= Unknown (implied)
|marital status= Widower (assumed)
|role= Deck Chief, battlestar ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'',<br>previously ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]''
|rank= Chief Petty Officer (coerced)
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'''Peter Laird''' is a civilian aeronautical engineer pressed into service by order of Admiral [[Helena Cain]] after the [[Cylon attack]] on the Twelve Colonies. He is aboard the civilian transport ''[[Scylla]]'' when it, along with several other vessels, is found by the battlestar ''[[Pegasus]]'' about a week after the attack. Admiral Cain places military priorities above all else and orders that the ships be scavenged for anything that would be of use to ''Pegasus'': supplies, weapons, parts and skilled civilian personnel. Laird, because his aeronautics background, becomes a selectee dragooned into ''Pegasus's'' crew along with 14 other people on board.

Colonel [[Jack Fisk|Fisk]] and Lieutenant [[Kendra Shaw|Shaw]] take a team of Marines to the ''Scylla'' to carry out the order. Laird speaks as the passengers' representative and refuses to cooperate. When Fisk's show of intimidation fails to persuade the civilians, Cain orders that the selectees' families be shot to demonstrate the alternative. Fisk continues his threat to shoot them, but Shaw takes the initiative and shoots one woman in the head, triggering the Marines to kill nine more. Word spreads throughout the civilian vessels and breaks all resistance, and Laird and the others are transfered to ''Pegasus''. Laird's wife and family are likely among the dead, if not left behind {{TRS|Razor}}.

He is put into uniform and assigned deck chief. When he pays ''{{RDM|Galactica}}'' a visit, he meets his counterpart, Chief [[Galen Tyrol|Tyrol]]. Laird is both appalled and impressed by the [[Blackbird]], Tyrol's new stealth fighter, and is surprised to find the plane is fitted with obsolete [[DDG-62]] engines he designed {{TRS|Pegasus (episode)}}.

Laird is transferred to ''Galactica'' as part of Admiral Cain's crew reassignments, and assigned as deck chief prior to Tyrol's arrest for Lt. [[Thorne|Thorne's]] death <ref>In the regular "Pegasus" episode, it seems like Laird replaces Tyrol ''after'' his arrest. However, the extended cut places it before Lt. Thorne's death as part of the crew integration.</ref>. He also makes a suggestion to ''Galactica'''s deck crew that increases the Blackbird's fuel efficiency by two percent ([[Pegasus (Extended Version)]]).

Laird has difficulty managing the hangar deck as Tyrol's substitute and lacks military bearing, but assures Commander Adama that all ships will be ready for "the [[Attack on the Resurrection Ship|attack thing]]" {{TRS|Resurrection Ship, Part I}}.

Following Admiral Cain's death, her crew transfers are reversed and Tyrol is re-instated as ''Galactica'''s deck chief. Laird presumably returns to his previous assignment as the ''Pegasus'' deck chief {{TRS|Resurrection Ship, Part II}}.

Over two years later, Laird is promoted to ''Galactica''{{'|s}} chief of the deck after [[Escape Velocity|Tyrol's demotion]] by Admiral Adama; he retrieves the navigational data from [[Eammon Pike]]'s damaged [[Raptor]] that tells them [[Sector Delta 9|where]] the rebel baseship jumped to {{TRS|Sine Qua Non}}.

In the early stages of a mutiny aboard ''Galactica,'' Laird finds several individuals attempting to steal a [[Raptor]] reserved for emergency medical transport to fly [[Tom Zarek]] to [[Colonial One]]. [[Felix Gaeta]] attempts to convince Laird that this is simply a change of orders that he wasn't informed of, but when Laird moves to confirm that story, Zarek kills him by striking him in the head with a wrench {{TRS|The Oath}}.

==Notes==
*Ron D. Moore said in his [[Podcast:Pegasus#Act 2|podcast]] that he was tempted to give Laird a Scottish accent as a tribute to [[Wikipedia:James Doohan|James Doohan]] (''Star Trek'''s [[MemoryAlpha:Montgomery Scott|Montgomery Scott]]) at his recent death at the time of the episode's filming, but reluctantly decided against it.

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Cylon organic resin

2012-12-28T07:27:27Z

Fredmdbud:

[[Image:Cylon-organic-resin.JPG|thumb|right|250px|]]

The [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]] use an '''organic resin'''<ref>{{bsgwiki term}}</ref> as a major structural component of their [[Basestar (RDM)|Basestars]]. The resin is applied to metal as a viscous black paste. In its cured state, the resin is compared to cartilage. The resin is also compatible with Colonial hulls, as it is used to prolong ''[[Galactica]]''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> structural integrity until [[Daybreak, Part II|her end]] ("[[No Exit]]", "[[Deadlock]]").

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Luciana Carro

2012-06-24T04:51:01Z

Fredmdbud:

{{Cast Data
| image= Lucianacarro.jpg
| character= [[Louanne Katraine|Louanne "Kat" Katraine]] ''(Battlestar Galactica)''<br/>[[Priyah Magnus]] ''(Caprica)''
| series=RDM
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| born_day= 23
| born_month= 3
| born_year= 1981
| nationality= CA
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'''Luciana Carro''' was born March 23, 1981, in Toronto, Canada to Italian parents (though she last lived there when she was 12 years old). Being a shy girl, her parents encouraged her to go into acting, which she did.

She moved to Vancouver in 2000 to become a professional actress and started out in TV series like ''The Chris Isaak Show'', ''Smallville'' and ''The L Word''. These led to her getting a part in the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Re-imagined Series]] as [[Louanne Katraine|Louanne "Kat" Katraine]], a trainee [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] pilot who quickly grows out to become an ace pilot and a regular character on the series.

Her performance on the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Re-imagined Series]] was quickly noted by film producers and she starred in ''Two for the Money'' (alongside Al Pacino) and ''Dr. Dolittle 3''. She was also cast for the recurring role of Stephanie Meyer on the critically acclaimed ''Everwood''. Carro appears in at least five episodes of Re-imagined prequel series ''[[Caprica (series)|Caprica]]'' as [[Priyah Magnus]], a [[w:public relations|public relations officer]] for [[Graystone Industries]] under [[Daniel Graystone]].

Luciana Carro's TV and film features include:

*''Blades of Glory''
*''Everwood''
*''Smallville''
*''Dr. Dolittle 3''
*''Two for the Money''
*''Young Blades''
*''White Chicks''
*''The L Word''
*''The Chris Isaak Show''
*''Falling Skies''
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== External Links ==
* [http://www.galactica.tv/galactica-2003---interviews/luciana-carro-galactica.tv-interview.html Luciana Carro interview] at the [http://www.galactica.tv GALACTICA.TV site]
*[[Wikipedia:Luciana Carro|Luciana Carro]] at the [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]]
*[http://www.lucianacarrofansite.com/ Official Luciana Carro Fansite]

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Luciana Carro

2012-06-24T04:50:26Z

Fredmdbud: additional TV series

{{Cast Data
| image= Lucianacarro.jpg
| character= [[Louanne Katraine|Louanne "Kat" Katraine]] ''(Battlestar Galactica)''<br/>[[Priyah Magnus]] ''(Caprica)''
| series=RDM
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| born_day= 23
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| nationality= CA
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'''Luciana Carro''' was born March 23, 1981, in Toronto, Canada to Italian parents (though she last lived there when she was 12 years old). Being a shy girl, her parents encouraged her to go into acting, which she did.

She moved to Vancouver in 2000 to become a professional actress and started out in TV series like ''The Chris Isaak Show'', ''Smallville'' and ''The L Word''. These led to her getting a part in the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Re-imagined Series]] as [[Louanne Katraine|Louanne "Kat" Katraine]], a trainee [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] pilot who quickly grows out to become an ace pilot and a regular character on the series.

Her performance on the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Re-imagined Series]] was quickly noted by film producers and she starred in ''Two for the Money'' (alongside Al Pacino) and ''Dr. Dolittle 3''. She was also cast for the recurring role of Stephanie Meyer on the critically acclaimed ''Everwood''. Carro appears in at least five episodes of Re-imagined prequel series ''[[Caprica (series)|Caprica]]'' as [[Priyah Magnus]], a [[w:public relations|public relations officer]] for [[Graystone Industries]] under [[Daniel Graystone]].

Luciana Carro's TV and film features include:

*''Blades of Glory''
*''Everwood''
*''Smallville''
*''Dr. Dolittle 3''
*''Two for the Money''
*''Young Blades''
*''White Chicks''
*''The L Word''
*''The Chris Isaak Show''
*"Falling Skies"
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== External Links ==
* [http://www.galactica.tv/galactica-2003---interviews/luciana-carro-galactica.tv-interview.html Luciana Carro interview] at the [http://www.galactica.tv GALACTICA.TV site]
*[[Wikipedia:Luciana Carro|Luciana Carro]] at the [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]]
*[http://www.lucianacarrofansite.com/ Official Luciana Carro Fansite]

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Pegasus (episode)

2012-05-06T04:52:39Z

Fredmdbud: /* Analysis */

:''This article discusses the [[Re-imagined Series]] episode. For the extended version released on DVD see [[Pegasus (Extended Version)]]. For other meanings of '''Pegasus''', see [[Pegasus (disambiguation)]].''
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| episode=10
| guests=[[Michelle Forbes]] as Admiral [[Helena Cain|Cain]]
| writer=[[Anne Cofell Saunders]]
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| director=[[Michael Rymer]]
| production=210
| rating= 2.0
| US airdate=2005-09-23
| CAN airdate=2006-03-18
| UK airdate=2006-03-14
| dvd= {{Season 2.0 NTSC DVD release date}} '''US'''<br/>{{Season 2 PAL DVD release date}} '''UK'''
| population= 49605
| oldpopulation= 47853
| extra='''Season 2.0 Cliffhanger'''
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| next=[[Resurrection Ship, Part I]]
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== Overview ==

:''[[The Fleet (RDM)|The Fleet]] happily discovers that the [[Mercury class battlestar|battlestar]] ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' has survived the destruction of the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Colonies]], only to have [[Helena Cain|Admiral Cain]] take command of ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' and enforce her own hardcore military doctrine on the Fleet.''

== Summary ==
*''Pegasus'', a [[Mercury class battlestar]], has joined the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]]. She survived the attack by [[blind-jump]]ing as the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]] attacked the [[Scorpion Fleet Shipyards]]. On board is Admiral [[Helena Cain|Cain]], a tough uncompromising warrior, and Commander [[William Adama|Adama]]'s superior.
* A large Cylon fleet of two [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]]s, approximately one dozen support ships and an [[Unknown Cylon Ship]] have been trailing the Fleet. ''Pegasus'' detected this fleet, which in turn led them to find ''Galactica''.
*''Pegasus'' discovered this Cylon fleet and has been carrying out hit-and-run attacks against the Cylons. At first the Cylon fleet's course seemed to be random, until Cain realized they were going to systems with natural resources.
* After looking over ''Galactica's'' logs, Cain surmises that the Cylon fleet was following ''Galactica'' (which itself was Jumping to systems with natural resources for the Fleet).
* Upon assuming command of the Fleet, Cain moves crew members around, citing discipline concerns, transferring [[Lee Adama]] and [[Kara Thrace]] to ''Pegasus''. This is in spite of her initial promise not to do so.
* President [[Laura Roslin]] has concerns about why Cain ignores her requests to talk and, more importantly, why ''Pegasus'' is only resupplying ''Galactica's'' military stores and ignoring the Fleet's needs.
*Colonel [[Saul Tigh]] meets up with his counterpart, [[Jack Fisk]]. Over drinks, Tigh hears an incredible story that Fisk later tries to laugh away as a joke. Fisk says that Cain [[Jurgen Belzen|shot her long-time XO in the CIC]] for violating a direct order. Tigh later relates this to Commander Adama.
* Tyrol welcomes his counterpart from ''Pegasus''. [[Peter Laird]] is a civilian aeronautical engineer-turned Deck Chief who designed the [[DDG-62|old engines]] in the [[Blackbird]]. Laird is both appalled and impressed by Tyrol's new stealth fighter.
* Captain Adama is essentially busted down to [[Raptor]] pilot in a recon mission to the Cylon fleet. He shows his defiant side by asking Starbuck (who is pulled off the recon mission herself for insubordination) to commandeer the [[Blackbird]] for better recon photos of the Cylon fleet, all without being noticed by Colonial ''or'' Cylon forces.
* [[Karl Agathon|Helo]] and [[Galen Tyrol]] discover that [[Gina Inviere]], the Cylon prisoner aboard ''Pegasus'', was raped by the crew as a form of torture. They rush to ''Galactica'''s brig, where a ''Pegasus'' lieutenant, [[Alastair Thorne]], is about to rape the Caprica copy of [[Sharon Agathon|Sharon Valerii]]. Tyrol throws Thorne against a bulkhead, accidentally killing him. The pair are arrested and taken to ''Pegasus''. [[image:pegasus02.jpg|left|thumb|Battlestar ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]''.]]
*Commander Adama is angered at Admiral Cain's convening of courts-martial for the men on ''Pegasus'', not ''Galactica'' where the offense occurred. Admiral Cain refuses to return the prisoners and balks at the thought of an independent tribunal to settle the dispute. Using Adama's logs against him once more, she notes that the [[Litmus|last time ''Galactica'' held a tribunal]], Commander Adama dissolved the tribunal when he "didn't like the verdict."
*Admiral Cain rapidly decides the verdict by herself hours later and orders Helo and Tyrol to be executed.
*Upon discovering Admiral Cain's hasty execution order, Commander Adama orders a Raptor to fly out with an armed [[Marine]] boarding party, and launches ''Galactica's'' Vipers as escort, demanding that Admiral Cain release [[Karl Agathon|Helo]] and [[Galen Tyrol]].
*Admiral Cain responds by launching ''Pegasus''' Vipers against the incoming Vipers from ''Galactica''. They close in on each other as the episode ends.

== Notes ==
*The episode ran over time and a lot of the background information was cut from the television release. However the deleted scenes were restored for the DVD release to create a 5-act episode. These changes are detailed in the "[[Pegasus (Extended Version)]]" article.
* This episode has been nominated for the [[Awards and Honors|2006 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form]]
*[[Louanne Katraine|Kat]] flies wingman to [[Lee Adama|Apollo]] in the opening sequence of this episode, as the [[Combat Air Patrol|CAP]] scouts ''Pegasus''. Evidently she has been judged fit to resume flight status after negligently damaging a Viper due to overuse of [[stims]] in "[[Final Cut]]".
* This episode is inspired by the two part episode, "[[The Living Legend, Part I (TOS)|The Living Legend]]".
* [[Ronald D. Moore]] also wrote another episode called ''[[memoryalpha:The Pegasus|The Pegasus]]'', in the seventh season of ''Star Trek: The Next Generation''.
* During the premiere airing of this episode on the Sci-Fi Channel, when the episode came back from commercial at the start of Act 3 a "Viewer Discretion Is Advised" black and white message was inserted, warning of "mature subject matter" and content. The following final act of the episode shows drunken ''Pegasus'' crewmen bragging about raping the Humanoid Cylon known as Gina, then the scene where Lt. Thorne attempts to rape Caprica-Sharon and Tyrol and Agathon intervene and fight the Marine guards appears.
* ''Pegasus'' crew wear a white version of the Colonial patch on their uniforms instead of the gold version used by ''Galactica''.
**Apollo and Starbuck do not switch to this version after their transfer to ''Pegasus'', in this or subsequent episodes.
*Baltar makes an etiquette flub, referring to Admiral Cain as "Commander". She promptly corrects him "Admiral!" and he apologizes. This might be a little in-joke that in the Original Series, Cain is a Commander, and does not outrank Adama.
*After ''Pegasus'' is identified as a Colonial vessel, Adama orders the Fleet to "stand down to Condition One". However, Condition One is the highest [[Action stations|alert level]]. Thus this is an error, and Adama should either order Condition Two or to "stand down ''from'' Condition One".
*Visual effects gaffe: When viewers are cut to ''Galactica's'' exterior as Adama makes his way to the bridge, ''Pegasus'' is in front and and slightly below and to the right of ''Galactica''. When seen again shortly later as she launches Vipers towards ''Galactica'', the ship is quite a distance away from the Fleet, above it and facing its left side.

== Analysis ==
*The population count is 49,605, a dramatic increase of 1,752 since the 47,853 count in "[[Flight of the Phoenix]]", accounting for the addition of ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' and her crew to the Colonial Fleet. This is to date the only occasion upon which the Fleet population marked a substantial increase.
**Cain notes that ''Pegasus'' lost 700 crew in the opening attack. This indicates that at the time of the attack her crew totaled to approximately 2,460.
***This number does not take into account any casualties that may have occurred because of the attack on the Cylon staging area, or any subsequent encounters with the Cylons.
***This is substantially smaller than ''[[Galactica]]'''s crew, explained by many of Cain's crew being on leave at the time of the attack and mainly increased automation due to newer technology.
* As the episode ends, the bulk of ''Galactica's'' Viper fleet consist of the Mark IIs, while ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' has the Mark VIIs. A classic picture of "old vs. new".
**While ''Pegasus'' seems to have entirely Viper Mk. VIIs, they would presumably have had to removed most of the automated systems from them (to prevent Cylon virus infiltration). Doing this makes them more difficult to fly (''Galactica's'' few Mk. VII's are only used by the most capable pilots now). ''Pegasus's'' pilots might have more advanced fighters but they aren't as reliable now as the tried-and-true Mk. IIs.
* [[Helena Cain]] is the female version of [[Cain (TOS)|Cain]], who was portrayed by the late [[Lloyd Bridges]] in the original ''[[Battlestar Galactica (1978)|Battlestar Galactica]]''.
*[[Cally Henderson]]'s charged reaction to the drunken ''Pegasus'' crewmen bragging about raping Gina repeatedly is probably due to herself being the survivor of an attempted rape, in "[[Bastille Day]]". This disgust with the ''Pegasus'' crew's gang-rape of Gina is interesting in light of the fact that Henderson had no compunctions about killing [[Sharon Valerii]]. Evidently she now acknowledges the Cylons' humanity in at least some measure.
**Women don't appreciate talk about rape in general. Ron Moore indicates something to this effect [[Podcast:Pegasus#Act 3|in the podcast]].
*It is interesting on a dramatic level how the portrayal of Cally's killing of Valerii in "[[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]" contrasts with the portrayal of the brutalized Gina and the attempted rape of [[Sharon Agathon|Caprica-Valerii]]. It was less shocking to many to watch Boomer being shot to death than it was to watch Caprica-Valerii being pinned down over her bunk and almost raped — possibly because, while killing a Valerii copy is an understandable act of revenge, raping one would be a senseless act of cruelty.
*In the [[Miniseries]], Adama first proposes that ''Galactica'' will go about independent of the rest of the fleet and fight the Cylons. Roslin persuades him to instead protect and lead the fleet on their escape from the colonies. The ''Pegasus'', in contrast, ''did'' travel about independently attacking the Cylons. The condition of the ''Pegasus'''s crew may be an indication of what would have happened to ''Galactica'' if she stood and fought.
*In contrast to ''Galactica'''s nearly evenly gender-divided crew, the crew of the ''Pegasus'' seems predominantly male to a very high degree. Admiral Cain is the only female aboard ''Pegasus'' with a speaking role, with only a couple other females visible in the hallways or in the ''Pegasus'' ready room. This stands in notable contrast to Ron Moore's egalitarian vision of gender issues in the military, and might have been an intentional decision made during production. In addition, the dialogue of the drunken ''Pegasus'' crewmen suggests they have perhaps forgotten how to act around women— they either ignore or fail to understand Cally's and the other female crew members' disgust with their talk about gang-raping Gina. This may be a contributing factor to the behavior of the ''Pegasus'' crew, and the resulting sexual frustration could have led to the overly regimented, authoritarian, and brutal culture the crew developed, culminating in the senseless, repeated gang rape of the Cylon prisoner [[Gina Inviere]]. However, it should be noted that "[[Razor]]" later shows many women among the crew in various roles.
*Not simply relying on her rank, Admiral Cain asserts her dominance in more subtle ways as soon as she sets foot on ''Galactica''. Despite the fact that she is bringing one ship to join dozens, she welcomes ''Galactica'' back to the Colonial Fleet, thus defining the Fleet as wherever she is. Later she tells Roslin "You look like I just shot your dog" when she asserts her authority over Adama. Both of these acts give some show of being welcoming or friendly, but also claim her spot at the top of the food chain.
* Also, since Adama has the rank of commander, he would not normally be entitled to "having a fleet," but more likely would be in charge of a convoy. This is how Commander [[Kronus]] refers to the "Fleet" in the [[Original Series]]. By contrast, flag officers (admirals) command "fleets," so Cain referring to "joining the 'Colonial' Fleet" refers to her ''military'' command, as opposed to the civilian ''fleet''.
*[[Peter Laird|Laird]], ''Pegasus's'' deck chief, refers to events since "the war happened". Admiral Cain and her ''Pegasus'' crew seem to still consider fighting against the Cylons to be a war, while in the [[Miniseries]] Commander Adama admitts that "the war is over, we lost".
*Thrace's criticism of Taylor's reconnaissance plan - that the Cylons would never leave such an obvious blind spot unaccounted for - is the same criticism she made of Tigh's initial assault plan in "[[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]."
*Admiral Cain's statement that she has broad authority due to being a flag officer on detached service during a time of war ignores the reality that the military command structure of the Colonial Fleet no longer exists on the Twelve Colonies; the successor Colonial government bodies, both military and civilian, are right there, so she is not actually "detached" from higher authorities. Also, Adama and Roslin decided that the official war is over, though Cain would obviously never accept that. Put together, Cain evidently neither recognizes the legitimacy of what remains of the Colonial government, nor accepts the fact that the Colonies are forever lost.
*The later ''Razor'' film establishes that one of Cain's top officers was [[Kendra Shaw]], who in retrospect becomes conspicuous by her absence in the course of events of this and the following two episodes. ''Razor'' establishes in dialogue a reason for Shaw not being evident during the post-"Resurrection Ship" episodes, but not her whereabouts during the events of the initial arc. (Presumably she was present, simply "off-camera" or assigned to duties that kept her away from the main action during this time.)

== Questions ==

*Will Starbuck and her [[Blackbird]] stealth fighter play a role in the armed standoff between ''Pegasus'' and ''Galactica''? ([[Resurrection Ship, Part I|Answer]])
*Where did the ''Pegasus'' crew get fresh fruit? ([[Scylla|Probable answer]])
*In the absence of Apollo and Starbuck, who is leading ''Galactica's'' fighters against ''Pegasus''? ([[Resurrection Ship, Part I|Answer]])
*What is the function of the unknown Cylon ship? ([[Resurrection Ship|Answer]])
*Does the Blackbird have an FTL drive? ([[Resurrection Ship, Part I|Answer]])
*Why are so many Viper pilots tasked with a recon mission carried out by Raptors? Did ''Pegasus'' lose many Raptor pilots?
*How did Cain and her crew discover the existence of humanoid Cylon models? ([[Razor|Answer]])
*How did ''Pegasus'' escape being infected with a Cylon virus after the initial assault? ([[Razor|Answer]])

== Official Statements ==
*''In an [http://www.battlestargalactica.com/outside_docs/bg_outdoc0050.htm interview with BattlestarGalactica.com on December 28th, 2005] RDM was asked about controversy surrounding this episode:''

:"Q: Walt Kelly's Pogo used the phrase "the enemy is us" as part of a 1970's anti-litter campaign, and recently David Eick has cited it as a theme in the longer Pegasus arc of the second season. Some of the show's vocal critics charge that this notion promotes a "Blame America" attitude or is a sort of stealth anti-Americanism. What is this concept supposed to convey as we head into the bottom half of the second season?

:'''RDM:''' The reference is to the fact that human beings are often their own worst enemy. In the context of the show, it means that the real challenges to who and what these people are often comes not from bullets, but from within. I continue to be amazed at how easily one gets tagged with the moniker of "anti-American" these days by those on the right. It's almost... well, anti-American."

* ''From [http://www.thescifiworld.net/interviews/aaron_douglas_01.htm TheSciFiWorld.net's interview] with [[Aaron Douglas]]:''

: '''Gilles Nuytens:''' I read some critics about the "rape" scene shown in the last episode aired, as you played in this scene, what's your opinion on it?
: '''Aaron Douglas:''' BSG is a reflection of real life and these types of events go on everyday. Many people were upset by it but to me they need to realize that this is the world we live in. Does that mean they have or want to watch? Absolutely not but do not discount it as sensationalism. What we shot was so much more graphic than what was aired and I understand why they did not use it. In what aired the rape had not totally begun. It was suggestive. I thought it was a good scene and on point with the story and not added to draw in viewers. That suggestion is absurd. I know Ron Moore very well and he is not the kind of person or writer to add scenes purely for sensationalistic or ratings purposes. They have to be on point, truthfully reflect the situation and today's world and be relevant to the story or they are not there. It also amazes me that people have no problem with beatings, shootings, bombings, stabbings etc. but show a breast, a bottom, or a grope and they fly off the wall to condemn it.

: This happens in all areas of film, television and theatre and it is ridiculous.

* ''From [http://www.hollywoodnorthreport.com/article.php?Article=2674 Hollywood North Report: Battlestar Galactica Set Visit, Part II], article on filming the [[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I|series finale]] and an interview with [[Mary McDonnell]]:''

: '''Robert Falconer:''' Speaking of bleak, you had some pretty strong feelings about how people reacted to that rape scene at the end of Pegasus, and the overall problem of how violence against women tends to be portrayed on television.

: '''[[Mary McDonnell]]''': I have strong feelings about this as a woman; it’s a huge button for me, the issue of violence against women on television and how much of this stuff we’re going to pump out there before it becomes an accepted point of view that that’s what happens to women, and no-one takes responsibility and there’s no consequences.

:But there’s a big difference between crystallizing it inside a genre that doesn’t do it very often; making it part of one story one week, and the mainstream, non-sci-fi television where we become used to seeing women being raped and killed and mutilated—and other horrible things. ''That’s'' the sad thing.

:So for me, the fact that it was so upsetting to people when presented on ''Battlestar Galactica'' is a very good thing. It ''should'' be upsetting. It ''needs'' to be very, very upsetting. One ''should'' watch it and think, “I don’t want to see that!” We shouldn’t be using the fragility or vulnerability of the female body as a “technique” around which to build entertainment.

:I believe if ''Galactica'' were doing that sort of thing all the time, then the show would have a problem. But the way it was portrayed enables people to dialogue and talk about these sorts of things. Fires should be lit. And we should hear. Then you know if you’re in the ballpark of something that is really relevant, or if you’re being exploitive. And I have a lot of respect for the people who got upset as well as the people who wrote it.

* ''From [http://www.hollywoodnorthreport.com/article.php?Article=2363 Hollywood North Report: Battlestar Galactica Set Visit, Part I], which includes an interview with [[Edward James Olmos]]:''

: '''Robert Falconer''': By the end of “Pegasus,” Adama makes a decision with potentially sweeping consequences, but one that logically follows from everything that has happened to him up to that point. Is this a decision he will be able to live with as a military leader?

: '''Edward James Olmos''': I think Adama’s decision to attack the ''Pegasus'' could be interpreted as strictly military in nature. You don’t leave anybody behind, and protecting your men is a fundamental tenet of any military leader. In fact, you could argue that he has no consideration for anyone OTHER than his military guys aboard the Pegasus—he’s not thinking about the fleet at that moment, he’s not even thinking about the future of either of those two battlestars, because they’re going to blast each other to bits, since he’s not going to give into Cain’s craziness.

: '''Robert''': The rape scene toward the end of “Pegasus” has stirred up a lot of controversy in certain quarters. Ironically, there seems to be something of a disconnect here; people seem more willing to accept this in contemporary mainstream drama than they do in television science fiction, almost as if they’ve become conditioned to science fiction presenting a sanitized view of the future. Any thoughts on that?

: '''Edward James Olmos''': Well for those who were particularly upset by the scene to which you refer, I pray to god they don’t watch because it’s only going to get worse. They should be warned right now: please turn off your television sets and do not watch this show because it’s only going to provide more insight into the complexities of what happens to human beings. I would say that the minority of people who were freaked out by the rape scene are likely to be jarred into unconsciousness. So I say to them: do not watch this program, it could be hazardous to your health.

: For everyone else, hang on, ‘cause it’s gonna be a helluva ride…

* ''[[Leah Cairns]] discusses a humorous incident while shooting the episode:''

: '''[[Leah Cairns]]:''' One of the funniest things shooting a specific scene happened when we were shooting a scene where ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' meets ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]''. A scene with [[Michelle Forbes]] in it when Forbes and [[William Adama|Adama]] see each other in the hangar deck. [[Edward James Olmos|Eddie [James Olmos]]] wandered off set in the middle of shooting. He thought we were on a little break, and he wandered off, and [[Michael Rymer]], the director didn't notice and called action! It was a close up on Michelle Forbes and Rymer had no idea that Eddie wasn't there. And Michelle Forbes being the professional that she is.... when the camera is rolling you do your business..... so she started the scene! But there was no one to respond to her! So [[James Callis]] nonchalantly comes over and steps into Eddie's place and puts on the best Adama voice you'd ever heard! Better than Eddie can do! (laughs) And they did the entire scene with Michelle and James Callis as Adama, and Michelle almost pulled it off, except [[Mary McDonnell|Mary [McDonnell]]] got the giggles and started laughing and then all the background started laughing and Michael Rymer, who STILL doesn't know that Eddie left, comes out and starts yelling at everybody because we were all laughing during the take! And then he looks around and says ....where the hell is Eddie and realizes that the whole scene was bogus!

: '''Gilles Nuytens:''' It seems funny yeah. What was the reaction of Michelle Forbes?

: '''Leah Cairns:''' She was so great! There was this tiny little hint.... you could see in her eyes just a tiny bit that... I think she thought she'd just go along with it until Michael Rymer actually figured it out. But Callis just steps in and starts talking like Adama.... so she just went with it! She was trying so hard to keep it together! Sometimes in situations like that some really great moments can come about and sometimes magic can happen on camera ...... but Mary just couldn't keep it together and started laughing and Michelle ... what can she do? She killed herself laughing! The only person who didn't laugh was Callis, he was dead pan through the entire thing. He was so set on playing Adama, he was just awesome!<ref name="sfw">{{cite_web|url=http://www.thescifiworld.net/interviews/leah_cairns_01.htm|title=The Scifi World: Leah Cairns interview|date=21 March 2007|accessdate=10 April 2007|last=Nuytens|first=Giles|format=|language=}}</ref>

== Noteworthy Dialogue ==

*{{audio|Pegasus - I'm here to help you.mp3|''Speaking to Gina''}}
:'''Baltar''': The food is yours. It's not a trick. I'm not going to take it away at the last second. You know, I...um...I'm just gonna talk right now. I don't expect you to say anything. Back on Caprica, before the attack—and sometimes I forget there was a world before the attack—I knew someone…a woman, unlike any other woman I'd ever known. She was unique. Beautiful, clever, intensely sensual. When she wasn't in my bed, she was in my thoughts. She was a Cylon. And she changed my life in a very real, very fundamental way in that I have quite literally never stopped thinking about her, because I love her. To this very day, I love her. And she looks exactly like you. My name is Gaius Baltar, and I'm here to help you.

* {{audio|Pegasus - I'm getting my men.mp3|''Cain and Adama are discussing Helo and Tyrol's court-martial over wireless''}}
:'''Adama''': You told me they'd get a fair trial. What kind of a trial could they have possibly had?
:'''Cain''': I assure you I heard them out. I weighed their statements against those of the guards and I took into consideration their service records and commendations. It was a difficult decision, Commander, but I dare say it was a fair one.
:'''Adama''': They have the right to have their case heard by a jury.
:'''Cain''': I am a flag officer on detached service during a time of war. Regulations give me broad authority in this matter.
:'''Adama''' (to Tigh): Launch the fighters. (to Cain): You can quote me whatever regulation you'd like. I'm not going to let you execute my men.
:'''Cain''': I highly suggest you reconsider that statement, Commander.
:'''Fisk''': Admiral, ''Galactica'' is launching Vipers and a Raptor.
:'''Cain''': Commander, why are you launching Vipers?
:'''Adama''': Please arrange for Chief Tyrol and Lieutenant Agathon to be handed over to my Marines as soon as they arrive.
:'''Cain''': I don't take orders from you!
:'''Adama''': Call it whatever you like. I'm getting my men.
:'''Cain''': You are making such a mistake.
:'''Adama''': I'm getting my men.

== Guest stars ==
*[[Michael Hogan]] as Colonel [[Saul Tigh]]
*[[Aaron Douglas]] as Chief [[Galen Tyrol]]
*[[Tahmoh Penikett]] as Lt. [[Karl Agathon|Karl "Helo" Agathon]]
*[[Paul Campbell]] as [[Billy Keikeya]]
*[[Nicki Clyne]] as Specialist [[Cally Tyrol|Cally Henderson]]
*[[Alessandro Juliani]] as Lt. [[Felix Gaeta]]
*[[Kandyse McClure]] as Petty Officer [[Anastasia Dualla]]
*[[Graham Beckel]] as Colonel [[Jack Fisk]]
*[[John Pyper-Ferguson]] as Captain [[Cole Taylor|Cole "Stinger" Taylor]]
*[[Sebastian Spence]] as [[Narcho]]
*[[Leah Cairns]] as Lt. [[Margaret Edmondson|Margaret "Racetrack" Edmondson]]
*[[Fulvio Cecere]] as Lt. [[Alastair Thorne]]
*[[Mike Dopud]] as Specialist [[Gage]]
*[[Derek Delost]] as Specialist [[Vireem]]
*[[Vincent Gale]] as Chief [[Peter Laird]]
*[[Michael Jonsson]] as Pegasus Guard #1
*[[Aleks Paunovic]] as Sergeant [[Omar Fischer]]

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No Exit

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== Overview ==

:''[[Ellen Tigh]] is [[resurrection (RDM)|resurrected]], and she knows all the answers. [[Samuel Anders]]' condition releases a flood of visions and crucial memories that help the [[Final Five]] in the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] understand their involvement in the great scheme of things.''

== Summary ==

===Teaser===

* A unique sequence begins this episode, which summarizes in greater detail the origin of the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]]. The episode begins with the phrase "[[Pythia|This has all happened before and it will happen again]]" as a vista of the decimated [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]] appears, now known not only as the home of the [[Thirteenth Tribe (RDM)|Thirteenth Tribe]] but as an all-Cylon colony.
* The opening sequence shows [[Cylon Centurion Model 0005|original Cylon Centurions]] in a [[First Cylon War|Cylon War-era]] [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Raider]], and a clip of Centurions firing upon humans during the events of [[Razor]].
* As the Cylon War-era scenes are replaced by present-day scenes of the return of the Cylons, the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]] and the struggles of [[The Fleet (RDM)|the Fleet]], the screen text shows: "The Cylons were created by man. They rebelled. Then they vanished. Forty years later, they came back, they evolved. Fifty thousand, two-hundred ninety-eight human survivors, hunted by the Cylons. [[Humanoid Cylons|Eleven models are known]]—one was sacrificed."

* A flashback scene shows [[Ellen Tigh]] taking a poisoned drink from her husband, [[Saul Tigh]], who felt obligated to execute her for betraying the Resistance to the Cylons ([[Exodus, Part II]]).

* As scenes of Ellen flash, an elaborate visualization of a Cylon [[datastream]] (in a rather [[w:The Matrix|''Matrix''-like sequence]]) appears, concluding with Ellen's [[Resurrection (RDM)|resurrection]] in a [[resurrection tank]].
* At first, Ellen screams and is extremely frightened and disoriented, all alone except for one [[Cylon Centurion|Centurion]] on guard, stoic and indifferent to her screams. But soon she takes in her environment, and dramatically calms herself as if realizing or remembering something important. She calls out to the Centurion pleasantly to help her out of the tank, telling it, "It's okay. You can do that much," as if Ellen knew the programming restrictions of the Centurion.

* The scene shifts to present day in [[The Fleet (RDM)|the Fleet]], cleaning up and attending to the wounded from [[Gaeta's Mutiny|the mutiny]].
* In [[sickbay]], Dr. [[Cottle]] tends to [[Samuel Anders]]'s bullet wound to the head inflicted during the mutiny. He prepares to drill holes in Anders's head to relieve pressure from the hematoma caused by the bullet lodged in his skull.
* Anders, his head shaved and in a brace, recalls various scenes of himself in the past, saying outloud, "Among bright stars, I'm lost. There's a new tide. All the forgotten faces, all the forgotten children, we seek the forgotten language..."
* When [[Kara Thrace]] demands Cottle to take out the bullet, Cottle tells her that relieving the pressure is required before he can call up another surgeon from the ship ''[[Inchon Velle]]'', to remove the bullet.
* Anders continues to experience visions and talk of them as he recalls visions of the [[Temple of Five]], the dead shoreline of Earth, and how Ellen Tigh loved the water.

* The scene shifts back to Ellen Tigh after her resurrection as the timeline is given between Ander's surgery and her return: Eighteen months prior.
* A [[Number One]] appears to Ellen, sitting by the tank. "Hello, John," she says.
* When he objects to that name, Ellen recalls that she named the Number Ones after her own father. The One finishes sarcastically that Ellen also designed his model in Ellen's father's likeness.
* They discuss Saul's decision to kill her on [[New Caprica]]. As John argues over Saul's humanity, Ellen questions if John has changed in any significant way in her absence, saying that she had high hopes for him.
* He leaves, promising to send her some clothes.

* [[Galen Tyrol]] shows Admiral [[William Adama]] something very disturbing in the [[FTL]] engine room. "I first noticed it when I pulled the [[sync coil]]," Tyrol answers, pointing to a series of stress cracks along the fuselage of ''[[Galactica]]''.
* Adama asks Tyrol if he would accept reinstatement as Deck Chief of the ship. When Tyrol reminds Adama of Tyrol's [[Final Five|true nature]], Adama says, extending a hand, "Is that right? So's my [[Executive Officer|XO]]." Tyrol accepts. "Fix my ship, chief."

* The corridors of ''Galactica'' are filled with wounded. Back in sickbay, Anders awakens, asking Kara to gather up the others of his kind. He remembers everything about his past as a Cylon and its significance.

===Act 1===

* The scene moves to twelve months prior to the mutiny aftermath, back in the Cylon fleet.
* John discusses how the "mortal experience" that Ellen endured had left her practically unchanged. When she asks if he still has nightmares, John tells Ellen that, contrary to the programming ''she developed'' for the Number One models, John and his kind had removed the sleep subroutine to avoid dreaming altogether some twenty years prior.
* Ellen counters that, if John believes that he and his kind were poisoned by human traits she developed as well as the Centurion's earlier belief in a "[[God (RDM)|living God]]", then why did his kind spend so much time pursuing darker emotions such as vengeance and murder. John answers that, because his Centurion fore-bearers were slaves to humanity, he wants justice for that.
* Ellen tells him that he doesn't have to be that way as [[Sharon Valerii]] enters, carrying a tray of fruits and cheese. Ellen is happy to see someone familiar from her old life, noting to Valerii that John is taking a risk exposing her to Ellen.
* Realizing how John was likely manipulating Valerii through sexual means, Ellen quips if John had discussed [[The Swirl and Twist|the "Swirl"]] with him. A visibly uncomfortable John leaves but not before asking Valerii to talk about the flaws in Ellen's [[humanoid Cylon]] design. Ellen warns Valerii to make up her own mind about John's crusade for vengeance against mankind.

* Present day, back in ''Galactica's'' sickbay, Anders tells Tyrol, [[Tory Foster]] and Saul Tigh of their past lives on Earth, that Foster and Tyrol were lovers. When Saul recalls trying to get Ellen out of debris as the nukes hit Earth, Anders confirms that all five of them were downloaded to a research ship high above the planet, inferring that the Five were warned that an end was coming.
* When Tigh questions if the Five invented resurrection and Foster questions why such technology was needed when the Earth-bound Cylons could have children, Anders corrects, saying that they ''re-invented'' it: organic memory transfer, originally a technology of the Thirteenth Tribe on [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]].
* Kara Thrace, also at Anders's bedside, strongly asks Anders to rest but he refuses, needing to tell everything he recalls.
* Anders recalls that resurrection fell into disuse when the Cylons of his type learned to reproduce biologically. The Five, in their past lives, worked tirelessly to bring that ability back.
* It was Ellen who made the intuitive leap, Anders recalls, before Cottle arrives and orders everyone out.

* On ''[[Colonial One]]'', [[Laura Roslin]] and [[Lee Adama]] stand in the [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum]] meeting room, recalling past friends.
* Adama indicates that, while the Quorum should be rebuilt, that he believes that the people of the Fleet should have a different representation that foregoes the old Colonial ties.
* Roslin agrees but tells Adama that he will pick the new Quorum while she sits back, still as President, but in title only. Roslin is hand-picking Adama, [[Revelations|no stranger to strong civilian leadership]], as her eventual successor to the presidency. "It's time I let someone else do the heavy lifting."
* Roslin tells him that he is the right one for the job, reminding him that sometimes, in trying to the right thing, he doesn't always do the smartest thing. An ominous cough by Roslin recalls the ultimate reason why she entrusts Adama to the civilian leadership.

===Act 2===

* Tyrol is guiding the admiral through the bowels of the ship again. This time, he shows Admiral Adama more serious structural failure of the battlestar's superstructure and hull.
* When Adama questions how such metal fatigue could have occurred, Tyrol reminds him that, not only was ''Galactica'' a very old ship (over 50 years old), but that the men who constructed the battlestar, perhaps in a rush to get them to service for the Cylon War, cut corners, using inferior metals and workmanship.
* Tyrol notes that some repairs can be made. Adama agrees, but tells him that the repair teams should be all human.

* Anders tells Tigh and the group that the reason the Five left the destroyed Earth and headed back to the Twelve Tribes was to warn all the tribes that they must take good care of the Cylons they built or suffer the same fate as Earth. But it was too late: the First Cylon War between the Colonies had already started on their arrival.
* Tory Foster questions why the Five arrived two thousand years later. Anders notes that [[FTL|jump drives]] weren't invented yet. The Five's ship traveled at near-light speed, experiencing the effects of relativistic space travel where time slowed for them on their journey back, allowing them to stay alive.
* After Anders recovers from a fit of pain, he continues. The Five met with the Centurions, told them that, if they would stop the war against the [[Twelve Colonies of Kobol]], the Five would aid them in further development of organic Cylons. The Centurions were already experimenting with the beings known as the [[Hybrid]]s ([[Razor]]), but nothing that could live on its own.
* Anders tells the group that, in exchange for peace, the Five helped develop the ''eight'' humanoid Cylon models and gave them resurrection as well.
* Thrace stops him. "You said 'eight'." They all realize that the "Significant Seven" was originally eight models. One model was missing.
* Before Anders could clarify, he experiences a seizure.

===Act 3===

* Ellen Tigh's return flashes back to ten months prior, as the star of the [[algae planet]] goes supernova and the Cylon fleet retreats.
* A series of displays show images of the planet. Ellen recalls the original name of the temple: the [[Temple of Five|"Temple of Hopes"]], built 3,000 years ago by the Thirteenth Tribe. From there, the Tribe was shown the way to Earth by God, Ellen recalls.
* John tells Ellen that the Temple of Five's secrets encouraged one of his kind, the [[Number Three]] known as [[D'Anna Biers]], to see the identities of the Five. John tells Ellen that, as a result, he [[boxing|boxed]] all of the Threes.
* Ellen notes that the Threes can be unboxed, unlike the [[Number Seven]]s, which were permanently disposed of.
* John tells Ellen that the Threes will not be unboxed because of the "carnival trick" left in the Temple's mechanism that revealed the faces of the Five and exposed their identities of the Five to the Threes. Ellen counters. She notes that the Final Five merely backtracked the path of their ancestors, finding their temple. She believes that God orchestrated the events.
* John laments, angrily, how he was unable to experience the recent supernova only in human terms and their comparatively limited perceptions, as opposed to what the Centurions could experience.
* When Ellen replies that the eight models were designed to be as human as possible, John counters that he wants to be more like a true machine and not a machine with human limits.
* John leaves and Valerii asks if Ellen regrets what she has done in the humanoid Cylon design. Ellen answers in the negative. In creating the humanoid Cylons as they are, Ellen believes she has given them something important: free will, including the ability to love freely. But Valerii questions who she could possibly love in the universe--other Cylons, even humanity.

* Back on ''Galactica'' in present day, Saul Tigh and Tory await outside sickbay as Galen Tyrol returns. Anders is being prepped for surgery. As Tyrol reminds him that the Five were responsible for stopping the First Cylon War, Tigh talks about how the Five were responsible for creating the humanoid Cylon race, inferring how the Five were, in turn, responsible for the second [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|war that destroyed the Colonies]].
* Tory Foster reminds both that the humans on Kobol made the Five first. Tigh believes that, while the Cylons must own the responsibility of the humanoid Cylons and their acts, the Five must own up to their actions, just as the humans must own what they did, emphasizing that blame can't be entirely placed on the humans alone.

* As Dr. [[Gerard]] shows the brain scans to Cottle, Thrace and Anders, Gerard indicates that it was lucky that the bullet didn't cause greater injury. Anders's speech is breaking up as he worries that the memories he has recalled might be lost to further surgery. Anders tries to talk more but his speech breaks up more in to strings of unintelligible words--aphasia, affected by the injury.
* Anders tries to object to the surgery, to speak further to the others, but Thrace gives the go-ahead for the surgery. She tells Anders that he has as much time to speak with the others as the surgeons need to prep him.

* The scene backtracks to four months prior, when the [[Resurrection Hub]] is destroyed.
* John arrives at Ellen Tigh's bedside with some liquor in a glass. He tells her of the destruction of the Hub and the imminent extinction of the Cylons. Pleading for her help to rebuild the resurrection process, John tells her that, while the Colonials destroyed the hub, they weren't aware of [[The Colony]] where Ellen's equipment lies in wait.
* But Ellen tells him that she knows only part of the system needed to rebuild resurrection. The others in the Five would be needed for a chance to rebuild the system.
* John does not take Ellen's response well, believing that Ellen is refusing to help out of spite. He threatens Ellen by telling her that he will literally open her skull to tap into what knowledge she has in her head directly from her brain, if he has to.

===Act 4===

* Back in sickbay in present day, Anders tells of the first humanoid created, Cavil, who in turn helped build the remaining humanoid Cylons. He tells them that Ellen believed that the original Centurion's belief in God would stop the cycle of violence between the humans and Cylons.
* But Cavil was spiteful and did not believe in God or mercy. He turned on the Five and killed them by trapping them in a compartment and venting the oxygen. When the Five downloaded, he boxed them (as he did with the Threes, much later). Later, Cavil unboxed the Five but implanted them with new memories, a sleeper-like setup not unlike how Sharon Valerii once was. He unboxed Saul Tigh first, then Ellen and the rest later.
* Anders mentions that they all saw warning signs on Earth that were invisible to other people, but then his aphasia kicks in strongly. [[Layne Ishay]] tells everyone to leave. The surgeons are ready.
* Anders tells of Number Seven, one model they called Daniel. Anders screams to Saul Tigh to stay with the Fleet, that a miracle was about to happen.

* Colonel Tigh returns to his quarters where [[Caprica-Six]] rests. She tells Tigh that the baby in her womb began to move recently. He later feels the baby move as well.

* Back in time on the baseship, Ellen draws a picture of Saul as John returns, commenting on how she should update the picture to include the eye patch.
* John tells her that the [[Simon]]s have readied for Ellen's surgery, but Ellen asks John that, despite the many opportunities he has had to eradicate the Five, he has tortured them in various ways instead. She questions his ultimate reason for keeping the Five alive as Valerii (dressed in a Cylon flight suit) listens in. She concludes that John wanted the Five to witness the evils of Humanity before dying, so that when they were resurrected, they would admit they were wrong to have given John human traits.
* Ellen tells him that, while John claims to be a perfect machine, his petty hatred and jealousy has caused problems not only for the Seven, but ended development of the Daniel models. John retorts that if he is in fact an imperfect creation, then it is because she made him so.
* Ellen tries to reconcile, to apologize and forgive John, but he rejects her and leaves.

===Act 5===

* Tyrol's team continue their work to repair the battlestar as the admiral looks on. Tyrol tells him that he began to think about damage to the battlestar's superstructure that can't be seen.
* Using a device that reveals damage through spectral imaging, he shows Adama that the battlestar's bones are rotten. When he suggests that they use a Cylon technology that would grow into the metal, Adama strongly objects to the idea of Cylon technology being infused so closely into a ship he had prided himself on being resistant to Cylon infiltration.

* Anders is ready for surgery, unconscious, as Kara Thrace speaks some final words of encouragement.

* The admiral returns to his quarters, takes a drink from the bottle, and rinses his face in a sink. When he looks up to the mirror, he discovers cracks in the bathroom wall, shocking him with the extent of ''Galactica'''s damage.

* Back on the baseship, Sharon Valerii comes to take Ellen to surgery. She looks down at the sketch of Saul Tigh and asks Ellen how she can deal with knowing that he may hate her for everything she's done. Ellen responds that, maybe, Saul doesn't, because "love is like that sometimes." Sharon then asks her to put on a surgical gown, which Ellen refuses, believing it to be a useless theatrical prop.

* As they make their way down a corridor, Ellen asks Valerii if she has thought through taking part in John's plans. Valerii responds that she has — and surprises Ellen by bringing her to a waiting [[Raptor]]. Valerii then races the Raptor out of the baseship, which launches pursuing Raiders. Dodging their gunfire, the Raptor jumps away.

* Cottle returns to hand Thrace the bullet. Surprised that Anders hasn't awakened, Gerard and Cottle are setting up an EEG to see how Anders's brain is handling things.
* Later, Thrace speaks to the still-unconscious Anders, but nurse Ishay tells her not to bother: Anders's brain activity is essentially zero.

* Admiral Adama calls Tyrol over the phone after several drinks. "Chief, do whatever you have to do to save our girl."

== Notes ==
[[Image:No Exit Crew Call Sheet.jpg|thumb|right|Crew call sheet for "No Exit"]]

* Prior to this episode being aired, the episode title (and production information) were released on a call sheet posted by Wil McQueen.<ref name="flickr">{{cite_web|url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/wilmcqueen/2476722149/sizes/o/|title=Wil McQueen's Flickr photostream|date=8 May 2008|accessdate=30 May 2008|last=McQueen|first=Wil|format=|language=}}</ref>
* ''No Exit'' is the title of a [[w:No Exit|1944 existentialist play]] by [[w:Jean-Paul Sartre|Jean-Paul Sartre]]. The story references three people who are trapped in Hell, shown as a stately room with chairs and sofas. Each character in the play loathes the other two characters. The play contains the notable line, "Hell is other people!"
*As of this episode there were 39,556 survivors. At the start of the Cylon pursuit there were 50,298 survivors, meaning that more than 10,742 have been killed since the pursuit began (because the decrease by deaths is offset by births).
* It has been 18 months since [[Ellen Tigh]] downloaded into a new body.
* When [[Sharon Valerii]] comes to escort Ellen to surgery, Ellen sardonically remarks that that she "should have brought a [[w:tumbrel|tumbrel]]." A tumbrel is a two-wheeled cart used to carry various loads, particularly on a farm.[http://pro.corbis.com/images/HU036695.jpg?size=67&uid=%7BDE6F5EAC-11A0-4608-B615-14298D8BE914%7D] For the viewing audience, this is a cultural reference to the French Revolution in the 1780's, when many condemned prisoners were carried to the guillotine in tumbrels. In the show's universe, she may be referring to a parallel events on Kobol and/or the Thirteen Colonies.
* Inchon is the name of a port city in Korea and it was the location of a major battle during the [[w:Korean War|Korean War]]. During the battle, UN forces under the command of General [[w:Douglas MacArthur|Douglas MacArthur]] turned the tables on their communist adversaries and went on to drive the North Korean Army out of the Korean peninsula entirely.
* Anders' seemingly-incoherent ramblings in the beginning of the episode include lines from Milton's ''[[w:Paradise Lost|Paradise Lost]]'': "he it was, whose guile/Stird up with Envy and Revenge, deceiv'd The Mother of Mankind" (Book I, ln. 34-5); "The mind is its own place, and in it self/Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n." (ibid. ln. 254-55)
* Kate Vernon's father was also named John.
* The eleven known models in the introduction are shown in the order they were revealed to be Cylons to the audience: Number Six, Number Two, Number Five, Number Eight, Number Four, Number Three, Number One, Galen Tyrol, Samuel Anders, Tory Foster, Saul Tigh.
*Cavil's remark about wanting justice for "(his) forebearers on the Centurion side of the family" is amusingly ironic, considering that the Ones made the call to replace the sentient, if not fully sapient, [[Cylon Centurion Model 0005|0005s]] with the [[Cylon Centurion|nonsentient drones]] that the Cylons are currently using.
**Given that the Final Five were allied with the original [[Cylon Centurion Model 0005|Colonial Centurions]], and the whole point of their journey was to tell humans to treat AIs well, it can't have been their idea to scrap the old Centurions or to install inhibitors in the new ones, can it? Cavil's the only real candidate for that one.
*The experiments Anders refers to, which produced the [[First Hybrid]] and subsequent [[Hybrid]]s, are shown in "[[Razor]]" and the "[[Razor Flashbacks]]".
* The [[Liam Tigh|unborn child]] of Caprica-Six and Saul Tigh is male, as shown by the fact his parents refer to him as "he". This fact is established in the extended version of "[[A Disquiet Follows My Soul]]" but not the aired version.

== Analysis ==
*When Ellen was resurrected, her reaction to the event was very similar to Boomer's first resurrection in [[Downloaded]]. However, unlike Boomer, it appears that Ellen's original memories were reactivated and immediately her fear disappeared. This implies that the memory block that each of the Final Five had imposed on them is limited-- i.e 'hardwired' to their particular current physical body. Given that Anders' memories ''are'' there and not 'deleted', just suppressed, indicates that if all of the Final Five were reborn, they would have regained all of their collective memories.
**As confirmed by the show writers, the Cavil model had purposely tampered and prevented the other 6 humanoid Cylon models from remembering or thinking about the Final Five. This appeared to be a physical limitation imposed on all of their copied bodies.
*It is unclear to what extent Cylon memory tampering is a physical/biological process carried out on the body as opposed to memories being captured and adjusted/deleted when stored in a Cylon database and then re- introduced into a body -as is what seems to occur during boxing.
*Cavil clearly intends for the Five to rejoin the other Cylons one day, as he has not totally destroyed (if this is at all possible to do to blocked and stored memories) either the original memories of the Final Five or the knowledge the other six Cylons have of the Five. He has simply suppressed it (as indicated by D'Anna's flashes of the Five when downloading), presumably with the intention of revealing his plan and aforementioned knowledge in due time. Of course Cavil wants the Final Five to return to the fold, but on his terms.
**The resurrected Ellen has a starkly - completely - different personality and attitude compared to her "false memories" counterpart. This Ellen carries many motherly qualities and even has shown love, sadness, and care towards Cavil (John), and is far more intelligent.
**Anders also shows signs of a more intelligent and spiritual personality upon regaining his memories.
*Cavil's attempt to block the memories of the Final Five was not completely successful. Numerous times, especially their time on the post-nuclear Earth, memories from their past would resurface. This explains:
:#How Tyrol was able to sense and find the Temple of Five.
:#The visions that Anders, Tyrol, Tory, and Tigh had on Earth.
*Cavil not only knew about the Final Five, but he purposely kept their identities a secret and erased their identities from any other Cylon that knew. According to Ellen and Anders, Cavil (John) had developed a warped sense of morality. This morality eventually led to his killing of the Final Five and boxing of their personalities. His path eventually devolved to actions motivated by sadism and jealously upon which he would allow each of the Final Five to be resurrected, but with no memories of their past and implanted with false memories. His motivation for this act was to show the Five how unworthy of existence that humans were. Given that he kept at least one body for each of them, he left open the possibility for them to someday return. However, he would keep them secret unless they agreed with him, like he did with Ellen.
*Given Cavil's warped sense of justice, he is likely the Cylon that triggered the second war. He claims to want justice for the Centurions indicating he may have been the one that precipitated what happened.
*Cavil may be lying about his motives: he claims that he wants justice for the Centurions being enslaved, but demonstrates a lack of respect for them by installing inhibitors that made them non-sentient.
**Cavil's reaction to the Rebel Cylons' disabling of the neural inhibitor may be based on his knowledge of what had occurred with the 13th Tribe's Centurions and with the Twelve Colonies' Centurions. He may be worried that another Centurion uprising would occur.
*In the opening ''Galactica'' based scene it was evident that ''Galactica'' was still suffering from the after-effects of the mutiny as the wounded was in sickbay with an overflow of patients in the outside corridor. The population count during the opening credits was 39,556. That means 47 people had died by the end of "[[Blood on the Scales]]". Two of those deaths are of Gaeta and Zarek so it was 45 deaths during the second half of the mutiny, from 10:30 hours to 15:32 hours, including the Quorum members and their aides. Add this to the 40 deaths that happened in "[[The Oath]]" you have 85 deaths that occurred during the 9 hour mutiny, 06:32 hours when Zarek was sprung to 15:32 hours when Adama and Tigh retook the CIC, beginning with the death of [[Peter Laird]] shortly before 07:00 hours. That is about 9.4 deaths per hour average, but even worse considering the killings didn't really start in earnest until a little after 09:00 hours. a 6.5 hour period making it roughly 13.1 deaths per hour.
*During Boomer's first meeting with Ellen, she offers Boomer an apple from a plate of food. In Judeo-Christian mythology apples are commonly believed to be the fruit of the tree of knowledge that gave Adam and Eve knowledge at the price of their innocence (the fruit is not actually named in the text). While Boomer declined the offered apple, she later did begin to think for herself and forgave Ellen for what she did to the Cylon race and helped her escape from Number One.
* The humanoid Cylon civilization known as the Thirteenth Tribe reproduced sexually for generations by the time the members of the Final Five were born. Each of them had a Cylon mother and a Cylon father.
*There are two possible reasons as to why Adama was initially unwilling to use Cylon technology to repair ''Galactica''.
:#It stemmed from Adama's great love and pride in the ''Galactica''. This love was demonstrated several times during the course of the series, such as when he refused to allow a computer network to be installed. It was also seen in his facial and body reactions whenever he was confronted with the degraded condition of his ship. Adama's appalled reaction when he finds out that corners were cut in the original construction of ''Galactica'' in this episode further confirms this.
:#Another possible reason for his insistence that no Cylon technology be installed in Galactica could be a reaction to prevent another mutiny on the ship. He had no qualms of upgrading ''Galactica's'' and the Fleet's FTL drives with Cylon technology initially. He even permitted Cylons to do the installs originally, but post-mutiny, when confronted with needing a crew to repair ''Galactica's'' internal skeleton, Adama insisted on a human crew. His demand that the repairs be done without Cylon interface may have been a result of him trying to not repeat what had sparked the recently ended mutiny in the first place.
*At the same time, Adama's reversal towards the end of the episode further indicates that one of Adama's greatest strengths is the ability to admit when he is wrong and to do whatever it takes to survive.
*Tyrol once more proves that he is a brilliant engineer, something that he clearly retained from before his original memories were blocked, given that Anders identifies him as the genius behind much of Resurrection technology.
*Despite having re-invented Resurrection technology, the Final Five and their civilization had not developed FTL Jump technology, although they did have lightspeed capable drives that allowed subluminal travel but had the side effect of time dilation. By the time the Five reached the Twelve Colonies, the twelve tribes and their own Cylon opponents had the use of FTL which the Twelve Colonies developed independently. Inversely the Twelve Colonies had no access to Resurrection technology. The Final Five presumably integrated FTL into all their future Cylon technology.
* Saul Tigh's military history in the First Cylon War is revealed to be a fabrication. Given how detailed his memories are, they may have been extracted from a captured and experimented-on Colonial Serviceman- such experimentation was seen to have happened during the First Cylon War ([[Razor]]). This was also alluded to near the end of the episode when Cavil explains to Ellen that they had progress significantly in obtaining memories. Cavil's plan to seed the Final Five into humanity on the Colonies would have needed significant infiltration of Colonial databases to create fake identities, service records and family records. Tigh's record was foolproof enough to ensure he was re-activated into Colonial Service between the two Cylon wars. The Cylon superiority in computer infiltration probably made this relatively easy.
* The Final Five were warned of the coming apocalypse on Earth by [[Messengers#The Final Five's Messengers|images]] that no one else could see. Sam mentions that the messenger he saw was a woman, whereas Tory saw a man. Galen thought, at least at first, that he had a chip in his head (as with Baltar).
*Cylon infiltration of the Twelve Colonies began much earlier than two or so years before the Cylon attack, as Cavil would have had to work to install Tigh into his assumed role as a demobbed fighter pilot 30 years previously. It is not explained why Cavil waited so long before introducing Anders and Foster and Tyrol. As they do not seem to have as long a 'human' history as Tigh or have aged as much, there must have been a gap of over a decade, possibly two.
*Given Tigh has been seen in flashback as significantly younger than he appears now ([[Scattered]]), it seems that the Final Five age normally or at least age at some rate. Clearly William Adama would have noticed if his XO had not aged in 30 years. Of course this flashback sequence was shot and written before the producers chose Tigh to be one of the Final Five, rendering it potentially tricky in the continuity of the show; that said, the issue ''was'' addressed in dialogue in "[[Revelations]]" when Adama pointed out how Tigh used to have hair when they met and reiterated the length of time he'd known him.
* The Final Five can resurrect or be "reborn" in the same fashion that the Significant Seven can. It is not clear what age each of the Final Five's birthing tank bodies are kept at in stasis however. Given that Tigh was younger when he appeared in flashbacks following his seeding into the Colonies by Cavil, his stasis body (if one is being kept by Cavil as one was kept for Ellen) might be close to that age, and his resurrection (unlikely at this point given the loss of the Hub) might well result in him being reborn 30 years younger. Exploring this aspect of Cylon resurrection is, of course, hampered by the fact that the cast of the show are aging.
* When the Final Five resurrect, their memories are restored, suggesting the mental blocks only exist in their current bodies. However when the Seven Cylons resurrect, they still have no memories of the Final Five. This indicates that Cavil might well have had to kill and box all the active numbered Cylons once he had boxed the Final Five, allowing him to completely wipe the other six model's memories of the Final Five (as opposed to simply 'blocking' them), or hardwiring every one of the six numbered Cylons bodies (and by default the resulting copies) to suppress information of the Final Five. Killing any active Cylon models who had seen the Final Five before this would have been the only way he could have concealed the identities of the Final Five and effectively 'start over'. If this is so Cavil's brutal actions towards his own fellow six models extends well back before the Cylon Civil War.
**Alternatively, the difference is probably the result of different types of memory blocking programs. Since the Significant Seven are blocked to conceal Cavil's experiment, programming for persistent amnesia makes sense. In contrast, the Final Five are blocked so that they may be educated about the worth of humanity. Thus, programming for temporary amnesia permits restoration of memory upon resurrection so that Cavil may determine whether that individual has learned the desired lesson.
* There have been a number of vague hints thus far that the Number Ones seem to have a deeper knowledge of things, especially their own origin than the other Cylon models, as well as being, by far, the most adamant about not finding out who the Final Five are and insisting that it is part of their programming. This episode finally reveals that the Number Ones do know more than all of the other models, and are in fact responsible for much of the Cylons' programming, especially their knowledge of the Final Five's existence but block on discovering more about them other than the fact that they exist. The other Cylons' willingness and ability to find out more about them clearly indicates that the Ones coding skills were limited in comparison to the Final Five's, and/or they had greatly underestimated (or perhaps undervalued) the free will given them by the Final Five.
* While still giving no hint as to their nature, the fact that the Final Five all saw apparitions, peculiar to each of them, warning them of the coming Apocalypse further reinforces the fact that the visions of Baltar, Caprica Six, and possibly Kara as well are more than mere hallucinations. Added to this the fact that the Final Five did not build the Temple of Five (which they call the Temple of Hopes) nor did they modify it to show their faces, seems to clearly indicate that there is some other power at work in these events, what that power is, and what its goals are remains to be seen.
* It is important to note that, rather than being the enemies of humanity, the Final Five have, quite literally, devoted their entire existence to ending the vicious cycle between human and Cylon that seems to have been played out at least 3 times.
* It makes logical sense that, after a cataclysmic event and exodus the technology of a given people would take a significant step backwards, since the ships would eventually run out of power, and it would be a long time before they would be able to re-create the same technology. And given the challenge of surviving in the early years after such an event, it also makes sense that, after the original travelers died out, much of their knowledge and memory would be lost, save in written texts, which, to their less technologically advanced descendants, would mean little. It also makes sense that, when the technology of that people advanced to the point were they could create artificial intelligence that they would use it to ease their own burdens, thus creating an intelligent slave race that would eventually rebel if treated badly. That would probably happen even if all technology hadn't been lost, as seen from the miniseries, Baltar is questioning why they aren't allowed to make artificial intelligences and the newer battlestars have networked computers. People would always eventually come back to the thought that they could create a race of slave machines.
* Cavil (John) engages in actions that reveals traits of an [[Wikipedia:Oedipus Complex|Oedipus Complex]] In Greek mythology [[Wikipedia:Oedipus|Oedipus]] killed his own father and married his own mother, engaging in sexual relations and having children with her. However, Oedipus did not know at the time they were his parents. The sexual relationship between Cavil and Ellen was Oedipal in three senses: She is his creator and he is made in her father's physical image in addition to being given her father's name. In addition, he tortured and abused Saul Tigh, his father and husband of Ellen who were husband and wife both in the distant past and on New Caprica. The major difference is that they are not biologically related to Cavil (as far as it is known) and Cavil knew that Ellen and Tigh were his "parents" unlike Oedipus.
* In the same vein, Cavil's relationship with Boomer is akin to brother-sister incest.
* The relationships between Tigh and Six and between Tyrol and Boomer are also technically Oedipal, and like Oedipus, they didn't know the relationship to each other as "father" and "daughter" at the time of their first meetings. Currently, Saul and Caprica Six do know of the quasi parent-child relationship, as do Tyrol and Sharon Valerii. Cavil's relationship with Ellen and Tigh is more familial as seen thus far by the actions and words of Ellen including "I love you John, because I made you," and her attempt to hug him implying a mother-son relationship. Since Saul Tigh and Caprica Six have no direct memory of their prior relationship, there are no feelings of pseudo-incestuous implications.
*John Cavil's killing of Daniel, the Number 7 model and the destruction of the Seven's copies mirror the biblical (and Koran) story of [[Wikipedia:Cain and Abel|Cain and Abel]] in which Cain murders Abel to gain God's favor. God, Cain and Abel's creator (through [[Wikipedia:Adam and Eve|Adam and Eve]]) had favored Abel over Cain when he showed preference for an animal sacrifice Abel made over Cain's offering of food stuffs and Cain resented it. Similarly, Cavil felt that Ellen, his and Daniel's creator, favored Daniel over him (Ellen conceded the possibility that she did) and subsequently destroyed him. In a further parallel Cain was Adam and Eve's first born. Cavil was the first creation of the Final Five, hence his Number One designation while like Abel Daniel was a later birth, in Daniel's case, presumably, creation Number 7 making him Cavil's younger "brother" like Abel was to Cain.
*Another interpretation of Daniel's role could be that his character is linked to the Biblical Daniel, considered a prophet by Christianity. The name "Daniel" means "judged by God". He was a cultured member of the Jewish nobility and became famous for the interpretation of dreams. The most well-known incident was when he was called from exile to interpret a mysterious handwriting by an angel on King Belshazzar's wall, following a sacrilegious feast. He revealed that the days of his kingdom were numbered; indeed, the King was slain that night and a transfer of power occurred. This story, taking into account the mysterious painting on Kara Thrace's wall and her past experiences, could provide a link between the shifting power patterns in the Human-Cylon long-standing power struggle and her special destiny as the harbinger of death, shaping the new order.
*The relationship between Cavil and Ellen has a mirror in the relationships that the [[Lords of Kobol]] tended to have, specifically Zeus and Hera (who were brother and sister '''and''' married).
**This connection between the atheistic Cavil the monotheistic Ellen and the polytheistic gods that they both reject is a perfect example of multi-layered irony.
* At the core of things, Cavil appears to be driven by a sense of bitterness and self-hatred. He sees his humanoid body as a prison that limits his abilities and the way he perceives things. He believes that he could have been created to be something much more. In short, Cavil hates his own existence and he holds the Five accountable for having created him in the first place. He also fears that he truly is a disappointment to his creators.
* Lee Adama's suggestion that the new Quorum represent the people on the individual ships of the Fleet rather than the Twelve Colonies, indicates that he realizes that the old system is broken and needs to be rebuilt — something which Dualla told him previously during Baltar's trial. The people of the Fleet have aligned themselves according to their "home" ships rather than the now non-existent Colonies. Both Roslin and Lee have come realize this and determine that the people must be represented differently if democracy is to survive.
* When Gerard tells Anders and Starbuck where the bullet is lodged in Anders' brain, Anders instantly supplies the information as to what that area of the brain does, and realizes that is why he is remembering everything. This proves that, while Tyrol may have done most of the work on re-inventing resurrection, and Ellen was the one who made it work, all of them helped, as Anders clearly has detailed knowledge of how the brain works. This would also lend some credence to Ellen's claim that she alone could not rebuild resurrection.
*Right before his seizure, Sam Anders saw the other final four and Kara Thrace glowing. This could be a significant vision or merely the result of something pressing on his visual cortex. [[The Music|The music]] is heard during this scene.
* Although we can now be sure that the Final Five had the same personal names in their old lives as they do now, none of their surnames have yet been used in relation to their original selves.
*This episode further displays the Cavils' unity of thought and personality that none of the other models have displayed. After the destruction of the Hub, the original Cavil who started the Civil War, who called Boomer his 'pet Eight' was killed by D'Anna. However, the Cavil who provides a drink to Ellen carries the same thoughts and conclusions as the recently deceased Cavil. This further propagates the notion that the Cavils desire to be more machine than human as each particular Cavil does not appear to show any divergent or creative thought from each other. They appear to all share the same memories and train of thought while other models like the Sixes and Eights have shown time and time again that each individual in the model line can break from the pack so to speak.
*In a not-so-subtle hint to the audience, when Boomer asks Ellen why would she want to love humans and who would she want to love, immediately the scene shifts to Tyrol walking to the waiting area outside of sickbay.
*Ishay's cold response to Kara after Anders' surgery is a subtle hint of the disdain that Ishay has towards the Cylons. Unlike Doc Cottle (who treats his patients the same, human or Cylon), Ishay's facial responses in the last couple of episodes have shown extreme discomfort of treating the Cylons. She will do her job, but her response to Kara's attempts to speak to Anders post-surgery displayed a cold-heartedness towards her "patient." This flies against what is typically prescribed by doctors of comatose patients who would encourage family members to speak to their loved ones in order to stimulate brain activity and maybe revive their patients.
*When Anders mentioned that the 12 Tribes' Centurions had already begun their attempt to create flesh bodies, this did not seem to surprise Anders. This may hint to the 13th Tribe's origins as they may have begun the same way. They as Cylons developed "flesh" bodies and the organic memory transfer technology on Kobol. However, after they found and settled on Earth, this resurrection technology was lost to time and had to be reinvented. The Final Five's negotiated deal with the 12 Tribes' Centurions seemed to be motivated by their desire to not repeat the cycle by giving the Centurions what the 13th Tribes ancestors had achieved. However, their reasoning for not allowing biological reproduction in the 8 humanoid models seemed to indicate a plan to bring Cylon and Human together.
*It would appear that each humanoid Cylon model was given both a name and a model number by the Final Five. The Number One models prefer not to use names. This logically follows the pattern that the John/Cavil models have shown, that they prefer to be more machine than human, thus lean toward using an impersonal identification system vs. the personal names given to them by the Final Five.
*This episode sheds light on why the D'Anna model were able to "see" the Final Five in their post-death and pre-resurrected states, but were unable to recall the faces definitively once they were resurrected into their physical bodies. The Cavils apparently had hardwired all of the Significant Sevens bodies to purposely block out any type of memory that involved the Final Five. They were programmed to not "think" of the Final Five, but as Ellen explained to Boomer, the Significant Seven were given "free will" and it apparently had overridden John's reprogramming.
*The fact that a team of "Simons" were preparing to perform the neural surgery on Ellen suggests that at one point in time the Cavils had revealed Ellen's existence to at least some of the Number Fours. How much they know about her is not clear.
*The Centurion's response to Ellen after her resurrection seems to indicate that the Centurions also know who the Final Five are. The Centurion's reluctance to help Ellen initially indicated that it was unsure whether it was allowed to help her, upon which she reassured it was allowed to.
*The Centurions on Cavil's baseship appear to have not been tampered with or had their neural inhibitors restored as the Centurions on his baseship do not appear as curious of their surroundings as the Rebel Cylons' baseship centurions.
*Ellen's motherly and kind tone towards the Centurion after her resurrection reinforces Anders' explanation later that the Final Five wanted to tell the 12 tribes to treat their Centurions well.
*As he has been for several episodes, the Admiral is shown taking medicine for apparent pain. The nature of his ailment has not yet been revealed.
*Presumably, the Final Five could have copied themselves many times over as they did with the eight models they created, but chose not to.
*Valerii's lack of surprise when Ellen names Galen, Sam, and Saul as among the Final Five shows that she already possessed that information from Cavil.
* The journey of the Final Five from Earth to their first contact with the Centurions took approximately 2000 years, which is roughly the time period between the Earth Holocaust and the First Cylon War. Since they were traveling at close to the speed of light, that means their trip took them only 2000 light years from Earth before they made contact. This implies that either Earth is much closer to the Colonies than expected, or that the Cylons had explored much of the distance between the two systems. If the Five took a straighter path between Earth and the Colonies than the fleet did, they would save time.
* As noted by Moore in the podcast, Saul and Ellen are soulmates who were drawn to each other even after being given false memories by Cavil and inserted into the Twelve Colonies, marrying for what was actually the second time. In contrast, Galen and Tory, described by Sam as "madly in love" in their original lives, have not interacted much at all outside of the secret meetings and their moment together in [[Joe's Bar]]. In fact, when Tory began awakening to her true nature, she was drawn to Sam, not Galen.
* Presumably, Cavil could have given subversive programming to the Final Five along with their false memories, as was done with Boomer, but did not, because the idea was for them to suffer with the survivors, not for them to be saboteurs and spies.
* With the revelation that the Final Five could download (before the Hub was destroyed), it makes sense that they are referred to as "models" despite having been originally born, not built. A genetic formula must exist for each of them to build spare bodies.
* Ironically, Saul Tigh did have an involvement in the First Cylon War, but it was drastically different from what he remembers.
* Sam Anders, Tory Foster, the Tighs, and Galen Tyrol arrived in Colonial space as adults when Bill Adama was a young man and Lee Adama and Kara Thrace hadn't been conceived yet. Given this fact, they are older than they look even disregarding their time travelling at relativistic speed.

== Questions ==
===Characters===
* Will [[Samuel Anders|Anders]] recover following surgery? Will he retain his memories as a Cylon if he does? ([[Daybreak, Part II|Answer]])
* Just what was Saul Tigh's role in the Cylon War? ([[No Exit#Official Statements|Answer]])
* How will [[Ellen Tigh|Ellen]] react when she discovers that [[Saul Tigh|Saul]] is engaged in a relationship with and has impregnated [[Caprica-Six]]? ([[Deadlock|Answer]])
* Ellen seems very different from the woman we knew. How different were the rest of the Final Five in their past lives?
* Did the Final Five use the same surnames before Cavil altered their memories, as well as the same first names?
* Will Tory and Tyrol rekindle their old relationship, especially if they recover their first hand memories of their old life? Will Tory reveal to Tyrol that she killed Cally? ([[Daybreak, Part II|Partial answer]])
* Will Boomer and Tyrol manage to rekindle their old relationship, especially now that both are aware that the two of them are Cylons? Will the example of Saul Tigh and Caprica-Six's pregnancy open up to her the possibility of it? ([[Someone to Watch Over Me|Answer]])
* How will Boomer react to the news that [[Cally]] is dead?
* How will Boomer react to Caprica-Six, since she was killed by her at one point?
* How will Boomer react to Athena? How would Athena react to Boomer? ([[Someone to Watch Over Me|Answer]])
* How will Adama react to Boomer's return, since she did try to assassinate him at the end of Season One? ([[Deadlock|Answer]])
* Is Boomer honestly defecting from Cavil's side, or is this part of Cavil's plot? ([[Someone to Watch Over Me|Answer #1]], [[Islanded in a Stream of Stars|#2]])
* Will Cavil ever achieve his goal of evolving beyond his "primitive" humanoid form?
* Will Cavil ever be able to appreciate the gift of free will?
* Do the Simons ([[Number Four]]) and Dorals ([[Number Five]]) know the truth about the Final Five and Cavil's hand in manipulating events and circumstances? If and when they do find out, will they continue to side with him, or will they join the other Rebel Cylons?
* What is the meaning of Anders' ramblings (derived from ''Paradise Lost'') about the mother of mankind being deceived by one whose guile stirred with vengeance? Is there a connection to Ellen and Cavil?
* When did Tyrol acquire all of his knowledge of Cylon technology?
* Is "Cavil" Ellen's maiden name?
* Did Ellen have the same maiden name in both lives?
* How closely, if at all, do the childhoods and relatives in the memories that Cavil gave the Final Five resemble their original ones?
* Do the Final Five remember and have records of incidents like the [[Troy]] mining accident to explain their lack of living relatives?
* How did Anders become a sports celebrity with a fake background? No one would be able to interview his old acquaintances.

===Number Seven===
* Was [[Number Seven]] named after [[Daniel Graystone]], creator of the Cylons on the [[Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]]?
* Did any active copies of Daniel survive One's wrath? If so, what became of them?
* Is the Daniel model somehow connected to [[Kara Thrace]]? (Answer:No, [[Islanded in a Stream of Stars]] podcast)
* Besides Cavil, were the other Cylons aware of Number Seven's short-lived existence?

===The Cycle===
* What is the exact nature of this Cycle? How long has it been going on for? Can it ever be broken? ([[Daybreak, Part II|Partial answer]])
* What is the meaning/significance of the name Cylon, since every time humanity creates machines they seem to be given this name? ([[Caprica pilot|Partial answer]])
* Why did the original tribes flee Kobol? Was it another Human/Cylon war?
* What is the significance of the Centurions' form, which is in common between the Thirteenth Tribe and the Twelve Tribes?
* Had the Thirteenth Tribe Cylons already developed their own humanoid forms when they settled on Earth?
* What/who destroyed Earth? ([[No Exit#Official Statements|Answer]])
** What happened to the Centurions that destroyed Earth?
*** Based on the remains they discovered, it appeared that the war was mutually destructive. This isn't surprising as any type of nuclear exchange, i.e. the USA and the USSR, was expected to mutually destroy each nation and for the most part, the rest of the planet.
* What is the nature of the "messengers" that warned the Final Five of the disaster on Earth?
* Sam mentions that Tory saw a man and Sam himself saw a woman, what forms did the others take?
* Were the man and woman Messenger Baltar and Messenger Six?
**If so, were the Sixes modelled on her? And how could the male take the form of a man who would not be born for thousands of years?
* Why did these messengers not also appear to the Final Five before the apocalypse on the Twelve Colonies (presumably)?
* Assuming that the visions the Five saw warning of the Apocalypse, the visions given to D'Anna in the Temple of Five, and Baltar, Caprica-Six, and Kara's visions are all manifestations, or agents of, an outside power (which seems likely at this point) what exactly is the nature of this outside power? And what is its goal?
* What led the Centurions of the Twelve Colonies to believe in God? ([[Caprica pilot|Partial answer]])
* Would the Centurions eventually have created their own human forms, as the Five's distant ancestors seem to have?
* At which point during the conflict did the Final Five arrive in Colonial space? How did they find out what was going on?
* How did the Final Five approach the Centurions and prove their own nature as humanoid Cylons?
* Did the first generation of the Thirteenth Tribe consist of a limited number of models with copies?
* Had the Final Five not stopped it, would the First Cylon War have been mutually destructive, as previous such wars in human history seem to have been?
* Was the Number Eight model created before or after the demise of the Number Sevens?
* If the Final Five had not been ousted by Cavil, would they eventually have established peaceful contact with the Twelve Colonies via [[Armistice Station]]?
* Did the Final Five base any of the Significant Eight models besides Number One/John Cavil (made to resemble Ellen's father John) on people they knew? ([[Caprica Season 2|Possible Answer]])
** Also, is Cavil's personality (complete with the sadistic atheist outlook) based on that of Ellen's father? Was Ellen's father a priest?
* Did the Final Five plan on making any more models beyond Number Eight before they were boxed?
* Were the Final Five responsible for the holographic projector in the [[Tomb of Athena]]? If so, how did the references to it in the [[Sacred Scrolls]], which were supposedly written over 2000 years before the [[First Cylon War]], get written?
* Where do the Basestar Hybrids factor into all of this?
* What is [[Hera Agathon]]'s role in all of this? ([[Daybreak, Part II|Answer]])
* Where does [[Kara Thrace]] fit into all of this? ([[Daybreak, Part II|Answer]])
* Why has [[The Music|the song]] written by Anders become a special signal/trigger for the Final Five?
* What is the significance of the Opera House?
* Where do the Raiders factor into all of this?
* What relationships did each of the Five have to each of the models they created?
* Why was the Thirteenth Tribe able to procreate whereas the Significant Eight could not?

===Resurrection Technology===
* Who originally developed the resurrection technology on Kobol?
* Where is this [[The Colony|Colony]] Ellen supposedly stored her resurrection equipment on? Does it have a name? Is Anders aware of it? ([[Islanded in a Stream of Stars|Answer]])
* What is the status of the research ship the Final Five used to leave Earth 2,000 years ago? (Answer: It became the core of the Colony, Podcast: Islanded in a Stream of Stars)
* Will resurrection technology ever be salvaged?
* Is Ellen truthful when she says that any attempt to rebuild the [[Resurrection Hub]] would need all five of them? ([[Daybreak, Part II|Answer]])
* How will Anders' condition affect any attempts made to salvage resurrection technology? ([[Daybreak, Part II|Answer]])
* Did anyone else on Earth besides the Five contribute to the re-invention of the resurrection technology?
* Given the fact that [[Raider (RDM)|Cylon Raiders]] resurrect, and a Number Four asserts in "[[Torn]]" that Raiders, humanoid Cylons and Basestars are created from the same genetic pool, did the Five create them as well?

===What is a Cylon?===
* What exactly is the nature of the humanoid Cylons? Are they cyborgs—a combination of organic and inorganic material—or are they completely organic—like [[wikipedia:Blade Runner|''Blade Runner'']]'s [[wikipedia:Replicants|Replicants]]. They seem able to pass normal medical examinations, including presumably CAT scans, indicating that they are wholly organic. Yet they call themselves "machines" and exhibit striking differences, such as the ability to interface with fiber optics, indicating that they are cyborgs.
**Chances are overwhelming that they are not Cyborgs. The Colonials had the opportunity to examine dead humanoid Cylon bodies on more than one occasion including Boomer's and Natalie's since they were killed on Galactica and at least Boomer's body was sent to the morgue where very likely Dr. Cottle did intensive [[wikipedia:autopsy|autopsies]] at his leisure. The bodies were likely subjected to [[wikipedia:CAT scan|CAT scans]] and [[wikipedia:MRI|MRI scans]] and standard X-Rays as well as traditional [[wikipedia:dissection|dissectional]] autopsy. This is in addition to treating Cylons many times for injuries like on New Caprica, and with Athena's pregnancy and radiation sickness. Gaius Baltar also would had had opportunity to examine Cylon physiology. Any non biological "components" that the Cylons would had had would had been discovered by now. Abilities like Athena's and other Eights (if not other Models) ability to interface with standard computers with cable leads are likely genetic alterations of their nervous systems, which in humans carry electrical impulses to the brain. The Cylons probably genetically modified it for the humanoid Cylons so their nervous system could interface and the nerve ending's electrical impulses could carry data to and from standard electronic equipment. Most Colonial data cabling is optical, though, [[Data-font|requiring highly specialized cells]]. Photo-receptor cells are found in the human eye, so genes for those proteins are present in human DNA, but bio-luminescence (esp. fast enough to keep up with computer data rates) is quite another matter. In any case, the ''Blade Runner'' Replicants are perhaps the proper comparison. Indeed, Ronald D. Moore has borrowed the term "skinjob", a derogatory term for a humanoid Cylon from the same term for a Replicant in ''Blade Runner'', which was also derogatory.
* Is there any difference between birthed humanoid Cylons, such as the original Final Five and the other residents of Earth, and constructed humanoid Cylons, such as Nos. 1-8 and the replacement Final Five bodies?
**Highly unlikely that there are significant differences. Ellen Tigh herself stated that they created the Eight Cylon models to be as close to human as possible. The birth of [[Hera Agathon]] to the Cylon Sharon Agathon ("Athena") and the Human Karl Agathon did not reveal any unusual occurrences while given birth pass the normal complications one expects from human reproduction. Indeed, Dr. Cottle once sardonically complained during Sharon's emergency delivery that the Cylons didn't improve the reproductive organs of the female Cylons: "I find it absolutely amazing. You people went to all the trouble to appear human and didn't upgrade the plumbing!" ([[Downloaded]]) As of "No Exit" Dr. Cottle has not noted any significant differences between human gestation and the Cylon-Cylon pregnancy of Caprica-Six.
* If the humanoid Cylons are cyborgs, how is it possible for their inorganic components to grow and mature?
* If the humanoid Cylons are completely organic, what exactly distinguishes them from Humans? It must be something pretty obvious in the skeletal structure since all of the bodies found on Earth were easily identified as being Cylon.
** Assuming most of the remains uncovered date from 2,000 years prior to the fleet arriving at Earth, it's possible that some sort of genetic markers can still be found in their bone marrow, which allow the Cylons to identify them as their own.
* If humanoid Cylons are in fact different from Humans, how are the two species able to successfully interbreed?
** Since Colonial medicine can't distinguish Humans from humanoid Cylons, it would seem that they are compatible at a genetic level. Maybe the non-Human component is passed through some nano-technology which is passed to offspring at the moment of fertilization (of course this would possibly turn the host into a Cylon also - is this Starbuck's secret? Did she become a Cylon through the experiments on the Farm?).
**Dr Cottle has on at least one occasion referred to the the Cylons as a human subspecies, which would indicate that they have genetic differences with baseline humans but that these are much too small to stop successful cross breeding. In the real world it is actually not uncommon for two species of the same genus to be able to interbreed, although their offspring is almost never fertile. If Hera is the mother of modern humanity then the humanoid cylons are clearly mcuh more similar to humans than lions are to tigers.
* Does the fact that they '''can''' interbreed mean that Humans and Cylons really '''are''' the same species, and that the apparent differences are only "skin-deep," such as the superficial differences in appearance between Asians, Africans and Europeans on our Earth?
* If the humanoid Cylons are similar to Colonial humans, then how is it that they have exhibited superior strength and speed on numerous occasions?

===Other Questions===
* What became of the lower level mutineers in "[[The Oath]]" and "[[Blood on the Scales]]"? Were they prosecuted for their actions, or were they given an amnesty in spite of Adama's earlier threat that there would be "no forgiveness" for any mutineer? ([[Deadlock#Official Statements|Answer]])
* How do Ellen and Boomer intend to locate the Fleet?
* Is Ellen truthful when she says that D'Anna's vision of the Five was not planted by the Five themselves?
* Will the use of Cylon technology be successful in repairing ''Galactica''? ([[Someone to Watch Over Me|Answer]])
* And for what it's worth: Is maybe ''Galactica'' "the dying leader"? ([[Daybreak, Part II|Answer]])
** How about Adama? (What is he taking the pills for?)
* Will every ship in the Fleet be allowed to send a representative to the new Quorum? In particular, will there be a representative from the Cylon baseship? ([[Someone to Watch Over Me|Answer]])
* Are the names given to the other six models by the Final Five the same as those they used to infiltrate the Colonies? If not, what are they?
* Are the [[Number Four]]s and [[Number Five]]s also aware of the identities of the Final Five? When were any of the others, other than Boomer, told?
* How will the [[Cylon Civil War]] be resolved?
* How is it possible that the Thirteenth Tribe's bio-engineering technology was far advanced of the other Twelve Colonies, but they did not have Jump-technology?
**Bio-engineering and jump drives represent different realms of technology and are not directly related. Progress in one is therefore not a prerequisite for progress in the other.
**The thirteenth tribe lived on a single planet while the Colonials lived on twelve different planets. Advancing space travel technology would be more of a priority for the Colonials.
* If the Final Five did not have Jump-technology, and the Colonial Cylons' Jump-technology was on par with that of the humans, how did the Cylons develop Jump-Drives that were far more advanced than the Humans?
** The 12 Tribes' Centurions/Cylons had over 40 years to improve upon Colonial Jump-technology. As it has been shown numerous times during the show, Cylons had developed technologies that are far-more advanced than Colonial technology. As they had 40 years of isolation to test and improve upon designs, it is not inconceivable to see how a race of cybernetic creatures would constantly improve upon technology. For example, the current line of Centurions vs. the original Centurions are far more advance in technology and battle effectiveness.
* Right before going into surgery, Sam maniacally pleaded that Saul "stay with the fleet" and also mentioned that a "miracle from the angels" was coming. What is he referring to? Will Saul and the other Cylons heed his request? ([[Deadlock|Answer #1]], [[Daybreak, Part II|Possible Answer #2]])
* Where did Boomer's Raptor come from? ([[Torn|Answer]])
* When Ellen said that the Final Five had backtracked the path their ancestors used to find Earth, did they do so only through documented evidence (starcharts, books, etc.), or did they find physical signposts such as the Ionian Nebula, the Lion's Head beacon, and Kobol?
**It seems unlikely that the Five could have physically backtracked along the trail of their ancestors, given the fact that they did not possess FTL technology.
* Given that Cavil has the most knowledge of Cylon programming and design out of the Significant Seven, is he responsible for the sleeper agent status of Boomer? ([[The Plan|Answer]])

==Character Development==
* ''In the episode we see Sharon Valerii for the first time since "[[The Hub]]". She has been under the tutelage of John Cavil since shortly after the Cylon occupation of Caprica. When she first downloaded, after Cally Henderson (the future Cally Tyrol) shot her on Galactica, she still thought of herself as a human, had a human outlook, and hated her Cylon being. She even kept her old apartment on Caprica. She wanted and desired love and felt bitterly that she had, from her point of view, betrayed her friends as she expressed in [[Downloaded]]:''

:Sharon Valerii: What are you thinking? Do you think I care about your god?

:Caprica Six: Look, God loves you.

:Valerii: This is love. (Re: a picture of the Galactica crew) These people love me. I love them. I didn't pretend to feel something so I could screw people over. I loved them. And then I betrayed them. I shot a man I loved. Frakked over another man, ruined his life. And why? Because I'm a lying machine. I'm a frakking Cylon!

:''Ten months ago as of this episode, and approximately two years after she downloaded back into the Cylon baseship and went under the guidance of John Cavil after the failure of the [[New Caprica]] occupation, this was her attitude to love. It occurred in a discussion with Ellen Tigh after Cavil's passionate speech about how she foisted on him the limiting form of a human body:''

:Valerii: Don't you feel the slightest bit of remorse for what you did to him? What you did to us?

:Ellen: No. [turns her head to look at her] Because he's wrong, Boomer! There is no need for remorse or blame. We didn't limit you. We gave you something wonderful!! Free will! The ability to think creatively. To reach out to others with compassion. To love.

:Valerii: Love? Who? Humans? Why would I want to do that? Who would I want to love? [Followed immediately by a scene beginning with a shot of Chief Tyrol.]

:''Her attitude toward love seems not only to have been influenced by Cavil, but also is an reaction over her experiences of the failure of the New Caprica experiment and the rejection by [[Hera]], fellow Eight [[Sharon Agathon]]'s child from which she probably felt that being a Cylon she will never know the love of a child of her own. In reaction, she almost killed Hera but was prevented from doing so by Caprica Six. After which she seemed to had made the decision to follow the virulently anti-human Cavil, the very antithesis of what she previous believed. This is possibly a symptom of an emotional compensation coping mechanism due to her traumatic experiences.''

== Official Statements ==
Maureen Ryan of the Chicago Tribune interviews Jane Espenson and Ryan Mottesheard about the episode:<ref>[http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/entertainment_tv/2009/02/battlestar-galactica-no-exit-ellen-cavil-boomer.html "You asked, they answered: 'Battlestar Galactica' writers take on your 'No Exit' questions"], chicagotribune.com.</ref>
* "The Colony" is definitely of significance.
* The Earth was destroyed by an uprising of Centurions that the humanoid Cylons created.
* Cavil kept at least one blank body for each of the Five. The fact that none were killed in the war until Ellen died at her husband's hands is a source of frustration for him.
* Cavil probably wouldn't be happy in a metal body either.
* Like the Ones and Sevens, the Twos, Threes, Fours, Fives, Sixes, and Eights did at one time know and interact with the Final Five, but the Ones corrupted their memories and programmed them not to think of the Final Five.
* The Final Five, and presumably the whole Thirteenth Tribe, were originally polytheists like the other twelve tribes. They became monotheists after encountering the monotheistic Colonial Centurions, who believed in a loving and merciful God, a belief system the Final Five incorporated into the Significant Eight.
* It is re-iterated that Tigh did not actually serve in the first war, but was given fake memories of having done so. His friendship with Adama dates back to their service on a freighter together a few years after the war.

== Noteworthy Dialogue ==
''John Cavil had just shown a "slide show" - as Ellen Tigh cynically put it - of the destruction of the [[Algae planet]], the home of the [[The Temple of Five|Temple of Hopes]] built by the travelers from Kobol on their way to colonize Earth and the Twelve Colonies, when its own star went nova. Cavil was there to observe it. He relates his experience to Ellen and his disappointment over it, revealing his self-loathing and hatred of his human form and his deep seated resentment to Ellen and the other Finals for foisted on him the limiting form of a human body:''

:John: In all your travels, have you ever seen a star supernova?

:Ellen: No.

:John: No? [[Eye_of_Jupiter|Well, I have]]. I saw a star explode and send out the building blocks of the universe. Other stars, other planets and eventually other life. A supernova! Creation itself! I was there, I wanted to see it and be part of the moment. And you know how I perceived one of the most glorious events in the universe? With these ''ridiculous'' gelatinous orbs in my skull! With eyes designed to perceive only a tiny fraction of the EM spectrum. With ears designed only to hear vibrations in the air.

:Ellen: The five of us designed you to be as ''human'' as possible.

:John: I DON'T WANT TO BE HUMAN! I want to see [[w:gamma rays|gamma rays]]! I want to hear [[w:X-rays|X-rays]], and I -- I want to -- I want to smell [[w:dark matter|dark matter]]! Do you see the absurdity of what I am? I can't even express these things properly because I have to -- I have to conceptualize complex ideas in this stupid, limiting spoken language! But I know I want to reach out with something other than these prehensile paws, and feel the [[w:solar wind|solar wind]] of a supernova flowing over me! I'm a machine, and I could know much more, I could experience so much more, BUT I'M TRAPPED IN THIS ABSURD BODY! AND WHY? Because my five creators thought that ''God'' wanted it that way!

== Guest Stars ==

* [[Rekha Sharma]] as [[Tory Foster]]
* [[Kate Vernon]] as [[Ellen Tigh]]
* [[Donnelly Rhodes]] as Dr. [[Sherman Cottle]]
* [[Dean Stockwell]] as [[Number One]]
* [[John Hodgman]] as Dr. [[Gerard]]
* [[Kerry Norton]] as [[Layne Ishay]]
* [[Darcy Laurie]] as [[Dealino]]

== References ==
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|death=Executed by firing squad for [[Gaeta's Mutiny|mutiny & treason]], 4 ACH [148,000 BCE] ([[Blood on the Scales]])
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Lieutenant '''Felix Gaeta''' ({{IPA|ˈgeɪ.ɾə}} or "gay-tah") is a young, capable officer in the Colonial military. For the three years prior to the [[Cylon attack]] on the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]], he served as [[William Adama]]'s Senior Officer of the Watch aboard ''[[Galactica]]''.

Prior to the attack, he was studying genetics and planned to get a degree through the military extension program ([[Water]]).

He exhibits a strong attention to detail and is highly efficient. These traits and his overall abilities leads Adama to rely heavily on him as a member of ''Galactica's'' senior crew, despite his relative youth and junior rank.

As well as carrying out duties of Tactical Officer, Gaeta performs the navigational functions of calculating and initiating jumps, and manages the ship's [[FTL]] drive. Gaeta also manages the various primary [[Computers|computer systems]] used on the battlestar.

Following the fleet's discovery and abandoning of [[Earth]] and the controversial decision to install [[Cylon]] FTL technology on all ships in the fleet, Gaeta uses his central role in CIC to lead a [[Gaeta's Mutiny|bloody mutiny]] aboard Galactica, and in concert with Vice President [[Tom Zarek]] stages a coup d'etat against [[Laura Roslin]]'s presidency. Zarek promotes Gaeta to [[Commander]] and commanding officer of ''Galactica'', a position he holds briefly until Adama regains control of the ship.

Gaeta is executed by firing squad for his leading role in the coup.

==Remarkable Brilliance==

As a result of his studies in biogenetics, Lt. Gaeta is selected by Adama to assist Dr. [[Gaius Baltar]] in the development of the much-needed [[Cylon detector]] following the Cylon attack ([[Water]]). During his time working with Baltar, Gaeta develops a certain respect and liking for the doctor - despite the latter's apparent eccentricities. When a woman called "[[Shelly Godfrey]]" arrives aboard ''Galactica'', Gaeta works hard to prove Baltar's innocence of the charges leveled against him ([[Six Degrees of Separation]]). Although he is ultimately successful, Gaeta fails to follow-up on the fact that the photographic evidence supplied by Godfrey looked as if the evidence itself had been faked in a way that ensured it was exposed as a forgery.

Gaeta shows his remarkable brilliance after ''Galactica'' mistakenly jumps to a different set of coordinates than the rest of the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] to escape a Cylon attack ([[Scattered]]). The [[FTL]] computers compensate for spatial changes, but due to the chaos after Commander [[William Adama|Adama]] is shot by [[Sharon Valerii|Boomer]], Gaeta forgets to synchronize the spatial positioning with the rest of the Fleet, whose FTL computers had collectively different information. Complicating the issue, if ''Galactica'' returns to their original position, the Cylons would destroy the ship before it could recalculate the correct Fleet coordinates using standard procedures.

Gaeta blames himself (although [[Saul Tigh]] does not), but later realizes that by networking four computers of the ship (something Commander Adama may never have approved), he could reduce the coordinate calculation time from hours to minutes. Knowing the Cylons would try to crack his ad hoc network, Gaeta sets up five [[Wikipedia:Firewall (networking)|firewalls]] in the network to slow their progress while the ship's guns and Vipers buy the time required for the calculations. Unfortunately for Gaeta, the firewalls are not completely effective. Without him realizing it, the Cylons break through the last firewall before he can disconnect the network. As a result, many vital systems are disabled throughout the ship while [[Cylon Centurion|Centurions]] board the battlestar ([[Valley of Darkness]]). At the end, he manages to purge the systems of any remaining traces of the [[Cylon computer virus|virus]].

==Under Pressure==

Gaeta's calm exterior shows signs of wear when his interview with [[D'Anna Biers]] shows him somewhat drunk, smoking, and brandishing a rather garish [[tattoo]] of a tiger. Viewers learn from the footage that Gaeta's first name is Felix ([[Final Cut]]).

The Cylon virus rears its ugly head once more a few weeks later when shipboard malfunctions increase to a point where consoles begin to sputter and short out. Gaeta confirms that the same virus they thought they had removed from the formerly-networked computers had metamorphized into a heuristic program--a [[logic bomb]]--that studied and probed flaws in the battlestar's computers and the hardware that each system manages. The logic bomb threatenes to disable the ship's human control on a Cylon fighter's command--and a Cylon attack is imminent.

[[Image:Gaeta tiger tatoo.jpg|thumb|right|Gaeta's tiger tattoo]]

After Colonel Tigh's command to perform the daunting task of inspecting many lines of computer code for a Cylon virus, the young lieutenant completely loses his cool:

:'''Gaeta''': A power surge energized the board. System's been twitchy ever since the Cylons infiltrated our network.<br/>
:'''Tigh''': Commander's right. I don't care if you have to go through this program line by line; fix it.<br/>
:'''Gaeta''': Excuse me?<br/>
:'''Tigh''': You heard me.<br/>
:'''Gaeta''': Sir, I'm running every diagnostic we've got. Checking each line of code could take days.<br/>
:'''Tigh''': I am not interested in excuses. Fix it!<br/>
:'''Gaeta''': It's not an excuse, sir. It's a [[frak|frakking]] fact!<br/>

Everyone on the bridge, especially Commander Adama, is shocked by Gaeta's highly uncharacteristic outburst, but Adama is not particularly surprised, knowing that everyone on ''Galactica'' has low morale after working for months with no relief or change to their routine.

Gaeta has a solution for the logic bomb: Wipe all computer hard drives and restore them from backups made before the Cylon attack. The problem in doing this is that ''Galactica'' will be completely vulnerable to attack, save for her Viper fighters, for several minutes as her computers are rebuilt.

Against his instincts and on [[Laura Roslin]]'s advice, Adama opts to use the unique abilities of the cooperative [[Sharon Valerii|Caprica copy of Sharon Valerii]] to aid them. Gaeta gives the humanoid Cylon a fiber-optic data link with access to the battlestar mainframe computer and the ship's communications. After a few tense moments, Valerii asks Gaeta to perform the computer hard drive wipe after taking into her computer/brain a copy of the Cylon virus. She manipulates it and transmits to the massive incoming Cylon fleet, disabling the entire Cylon fleet in the same way that the Colonials suffered in the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]]. The Colonial forces [[Great Cylon Turkey Shoot|destroy the entire Cylon force]] without a single Colonial casualty ([[Flight of the Phoenix]]).

Gaeta is among the tense officers and crew in CIC that witness a standoff between their battlestar and the heavily-advanced battlestar ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'', whose commander, Admiral [[Helena Cain]], has opted to execute two ''Galactica'' crew members after she tried them herself and against Adama's requests for the rights of his crew to have a fair, open trial ([[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]).

== The Presidential Election and New Caprica ==

During the presidential election, Gaeta is assigned to aid and oversee the ballot counting process on ''Galactica''. He also aids in thwarting Roslin's plans to steal the election (though he apparently never knew - or indicates any knowledge of - who exactly is behind it, other than Colonel [[Saul Tigh]]) by discovering the illegitimate ballots from the ''[[Zephyr]]''. The only reason he realizes that the ''Zephyr'''s ballots were tampered with is due to the fact that the ''Zephyr''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s original, valid ballots had misspelled Gaius Baltar's name - the fixed ballots did not share this error. (Gaeta had authorized the go-ahead to use the misspelled ballots due to the lack of time to print new ones prior to the opening of the polls.)
Due to this happenstance discovery, Baltar, who had been rightfully elected President, was sworn in as president and ordered the Fleet to colonize [[New Caprica]].

A year later on [[New Caprica]], Gaeta seems to be an adviser to President [[Gaius Baltar]]. His previous post on ''Galactica'' is assumed by [[Karl Agathon]]. While Gaeta is pleased that there had been no Cylon attacks during Baltar's presidency, he disapproves of Baltar's womanizing and is secretly infuriated at Baltar's devil-may-care attitude towards the New Caprica City Worker's Union and the Quorum of Twelve. Gaeta later brings news of the Cylon invasion to the president and is present when Baltar surrenders New Caprica to [[Caprica-Six]] and [[Number Five]] ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]).

Gaeta is also the [[New Caprica Resistance]] inside source into the inner workings of the Cylons. He seems to favor an assassination of President Baltar as he provides the group with information that he is going to attend the [[New Caprica Police]] force graduation, which is disrupted by [[Duck]]'s suicide bombing. However, upon learning that Baltar would not attend, he rushes to contact the group to warn them Baltar that is not going to be there ([[Occupation]]).

== Inside Man ==
Being the "inside man" allows him to help the [[New Caprica Resistance]] understand the inner Cylon related activities and security procedures on [[New Caprica]]. For him to contact the group, he flips [[Jake (New Caprica)|Jake]]'s yellow bowl upside down and leaves a note or information packet in a nearby tool bin for the [[New Caprica Resistance|resistance]] to find. [[Galen Tyrol]] does not know that he is the "inside man" and when they talk, Tyrol accuses him of being a collaborator ([[Precipice]]).

Around the same time, Gaeta is seduced by a [[Number Eight]]. Believing that he can trust her, he gives her lists with names of human prisoners. The Eight promises to do what she can to save them, but only has a few token humans freed and the rest executed for being valuable to the humans. Gaeta only learns of her betrayal much later (''[[The Face of the Enemy]]'').

== End of the Baltar Administration ==
As the Cylons are preparing to evacuate during the [[Battle of New Caprica]], Gaeta pulls a gun on a distraught President Baltar, clearly intending to kill him. [[Caprica-Six]] attempts to dissuade Gaeta from this course of action. In contrast to his companion's feelings, Baltar seems fully willing to die; but he tells Gaeta that he is the only one who could stop a [[Number Three]]-model Cylon from detonating a nuclear weapon hidden somewhere in the city of New Caprica. This convinces the reluctant Gaeta to let Baltar go, giving the disgraced leader a chance to redeem himself. Gaeta emerges from the same ship behind Colonel Tigh when Tigh asks Admiral Adama for permission to come aboard ''Galactica'' during the post-battle celebration ([[Exodus, Part II]]).

== Return to Duty ==
Gaeta is initially isolated from ''Galactica'''s crew and those who were on New Caprica. Because of his high position in the collaborationist government, they believe he carried out the will of the Cylons. When he arrives in CIC to help with repairs on the communication systems damaged during the recent battle, former resistance leader Colonel Tigh is openly hostile towards him. Gaeta attempts to defend his actions in a tense conversation with [[Kara Thrace]] by revealing himself as Tyrol's mysterious informant. Starbuck doesn't know about the informant, since she was a captive of [[Leoben Conoy]] during the four-month Cylon occupation. She mocks her crewmate and dismisses his revelation as a poorly fabricated lie.

When Gaeta's name comes up for review in the the [[Circle]], he is convicted of collaborating with the enemy and sentenced to death, despite the lack of evidence against him. The six-person tribunal takes him to a Viper [[launch tubes (RDM)|launch tube]] to face his sentence. When asked to defend himself, Gaeta says that he already had and refuses to beg for his life. This infuriates [[Kara Thrace]], who lashes out at him in a physical attack and resumes the mocking she started in the mess hall. Upon hearing Thrace repeat information about the [[Jake (New Caprica)|dog bowl]], Galen Tyrol realizes that Gaeta was indeed the informant from inside the Baltar administration. Gaeta is released and allowed to go. He resumes his duties as a lieutenant, still shunned by most of his crewmates except Tyrol ([[Collaborators]]).

After his recommissioning, he takes over Baltar's scientific duties, concentrating on deciphering his notes and determining the course to Earth. Gaeta appears to have a grudge against Tigh for his part in the Circle that nearly ended in Gaeta's death, as he wears a scowl while everyone else celebrates Tigh's return from his self-exile.

== Animosity towards Baltar ==

Baltar is aware of Gaeta's relationship with the Eight on New Caprica. During an interrogation, he whispers to Gaeta, "I know what your Eight did". Baltar's knowledge leads Gaeta to try to kill him by stabbing him in the neck. However, he is stopped and knocked out by Admiral Adama ("[[Taking a Break from All Your Worries]]", ''[[The Face of the Enemy]]'') <ref>In "Taking a Break From All Your Worries", Baltar's words can't be heard. This was originally the remnant of a subplot that was cut from the storyline and later retconned in order to provide an explanation for Gaeta's reaction. See [[Taking a Break From All Your Worries#From the podcast]] for the original idea.</ref>.

During Baltar's trial for which he faces the death penalty, Gaeta commits perjury, claiming that he was there when Baltar signed the death lists and that Baltar offered no resistance in approving them ([[Crossroads, Part II]]).

== Member of the ''Demetrius'' Crew ==

Later, Gaeta becomes part of the ''[[Demetrius]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s crew on its mission to find Earth ([[The Ties That Bind]]). After [[Kara Thrace]] orders [[Karl Agathon]] to jump to a Cylon [[Basestar (RDM)|baseship]] to retrieve information regarding Earth, Agathon refuses the order believing it to be too risky. When he is relieved by Thrace, she appoints Gaeta as her new [[XO]] and gives him the same order. Like Agathon, Gaeta refuses to comply with the order, creating a standoff between the ship's officers which leads Agathon to relieve Thrace of command ([[The Road Less Traveled]]). During this standoff Anders shoots Gaeta in the leg before he can initiate a jump back to ''Galactica''. Having to wait 15 hours for a Raptor to return, Gaeta is worried that he will lose his leg because of the lack of proper medical treatement ([[Faith]]).

Returned to ''Galactica'', Gaeta does lose his leg. In recovery, he deals with the stress and phantom pain by singing a [[Gaeta's Lament|mournful ballad]] over and over ([[Guess What's Coming to Dinner?]]). Shortly later, he returns to duty, still in pain from his ordeal, but refusing to be relieved ([[Revelations]]).

==Post Earth/Mutiny==

In the webisodes "[[The Face of the Enemy]]" it was revealed that Gaeta had been in a relationship with [[communications officer]] Lieutenant [[Louis Hoshi]], though their relationship did not survive the webisode series.<ref>Writer's commentary to webisode 10; Gaeta ends the relationship in order to protect Hoshi from the fallout of what Gaeta is about to do.</ref>

After the formation of the Cylon-Human alliance, Gaeta entices Vice President Zarek to stage a coup d'état and leads a [[Gaeta's Mutiny|rebellion]] against Admiral Adama and President Roslin. Gaeta seizes control of the ship, and is appointed commander by Zarek, becoming the ''de facto'' commanding officer of ''Galactica'' though fighting continues throughout the ship.

Adama and Tigh are ultimately arrested after helping Roslin and Baltar escape the ship. Gaeta orders Tigh jailed, and attempts to force Adama to reason with President Roslin. Adama refuses and instead tells Gaeta contemptuously that he is now the 'admiral'.

Gaeta is horrified to see the bodies of the [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum]] members after Zarek ordered their mass assassination, but continues his allegiance. Despite Zarek's preference for quick and brutal removal of opponents, Gaeta insisted that Admiral Adama be tried for treason, ''et al.'', with Zarek as the entire tribunal, and [[Romo Lampkin]] serving as Adama's lawyer. Zarek summarily finds Adama guilty, and Gaeta orders the creation of a firing squad.

Having previously ordered her Raptor to be shot down, Gaeta is forced into a defensive position when Roslin takes command of the rebel Cylon Basestar. Zarek attempts to break Roslin's resolve by lying to her that Tigh died in an escape attempt and erroneously reporting that Adama was executed. The plan backfires; it steels Roslin's resolve, and she swears to destroy them at all costs. Zarek urges Gaeta to fight. Gaeta, feeling that enough blood had been shed, instead attempts to escape by jumping away with those ships who have obeyed his order to spin up their FTL drives. [[Galen Tyrol]] manages to manually disable ''Galactica'''s FTL drive, preventing a jump.

As the rest of his crew prepares to fire, Gaeta remembers what he had said to Thrace about there being a reckoning and that people would have to answer for their actions. Realizing that he, too, would soon face his own reckoning, Gaeta orders weapons hold. Seconds later, CIC is stormed by Adama and a large contingent of loyal officers and marines.

Gaeta gives up without a fight, and he and Zarek are led away, their rebellion ended. Gaeta later discusses things with Baltar, admitting that he doesn't mind that he lost but making an unclear statement (one that Baltar claims to have understood) about hoping people would understand who he is.

Gaeta and Zarek are executed by firing squad for mutiny and treason. Just prior to his death, Gaeta realizes in shock that his amputated leg no longer itches. His last words are, "It stopped!" ([[Blood on the Scales]])

==Notes==
*Gaeta does not wear any junior pilot wings on his duty uniform during the [[Miniseries]], but has flight wings in nearly every appearance since the Miniseries.
*While Gaeta is described as the "Tactical Officer", his role is closer to that of the US Navy's CIC Watch Officer (CICWO), combining it with elements of the Tactical Watch Officer (TAO), a role also partially fulfilled by Colonel [[Saul Tigh|Tigh]], both under the command of [[William Adama]]. According to the official SciFi.com character data file, Gaeta's title is "Senior Officer of the Watch", although the title of Tactical Officer may have a better "ring" to the ears of most viewers.
*The name "Felix" - first revealed in the episode "[[Final Cut]]" - means "happy" in Latin; the connotations of the Latin word imply being fortunate, lucky, prosperous.
*[[Wikipedia:Gaeta|Gaeta]] is the name of a small seaport and resort in southern Italy.
*In the Miniseries, Gaeta's name is usually pronounced {{IPA|ˈgaɪ.ɾə}}, while Colonel Tigh seems to vacillates between {{IPA|ˈgeɪ.ɾə}} and {{IPA|ˈgaɪ.ɾə}} - this may also be atributed to the varying severity of Michael Hogan's Canadian accent. However, in all subsequent episodes, everyone pronounces it as {{IPA|ˈgeɪ.ɾə}}.
*Despite his relationship with the female [[Eight]], Gaeta is often said to be homosexual.<ref>[http://www.out.com/detail.asp?id=22449 http://www.out.com/detail.asp?id=22449]</ref>
*Unlike most of the series' officers, Gaeta is usually addressed as "Mr. Gaeta", rather than by his rank. This appears to mirror real-world naval tradition, in which male officers with the rank of lieutenant or below are referred to and addressed as 'Mister.'

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Pegasus (TRS)

2011-04-02T10:38:48Z

Fredmdbud: /* History */

:''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)]].''

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image= Pegasus High Res.jpg
| title= Pegasus (BS 62)
| race= Colonial
| type= Military
| ftl= Yes
| crew= Approximately 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>
| 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>
| co= [[Lee Adama]] (At time of loss)
| xo= [[Anastasia Dualla]] (At time of loss)
| role= Carrier / Battleship
| weapons= 34 Primary [[KEW|Kinetic Energy Weapons]] (30 twin turrets, 4 fixed twin mounts) and point-defense [[KEW|Kinetic Energy Weapons]], conventional missiles, nuclear warheads, Vipers, Raptors
| status= Destroyed in [[Battle of New Caprica]]
| img= Y
}}
'''''Pegasus'' (BS 62)''' is a [[Mercury class battlestar|''Mercury'' class battlestar]], commanded by Rear Admiral [[Helena Cain]] during the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]].

Technologically more advanced and far greater in size and firepower than the to-be-decommissioned ''[[Galactica]]'', ''Pegasus'' is presumed destroyed in the Cylon attack, but had in fact survived, eventually finding and joining ''Galactica'' and its civilian fleet. It serves a significant role in the Colonial struggle for survival until the [[Battle of New Caprica|exodus]] from [[New Caprica]].

In the [[Pegasus (Extended Version)|Extended Cut]] of the episode "Pegasus" Admiral Cain states that the ship is nearly twice the size of ''Galactica'', but needs only half the crew. This probably refers to either the dual [[landing bay|landing bays]] or the ship's volume, as the ship is only 1000 feet longer. The decreased manpower requirement stems from increased computerization and automation. This is also evident in the comparatively small size of the ''Pegasus'' [[CIC]].

''Pegasus'' is informally nicknamed "The Beast" within the Fleet ([[The Captain's Hand]]).

==History==
[[Image:Pegasus, Scorpion Shipyards.jpg|thumb|right|''Pegasus'' docked at the [[Scorpion Fleet Shipyards]].]]

Prior to the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]], ''Pegasus'' was a prize assignment in the Colonial Fleet. [[Frank Bruno]] at the [[Caprica Transfer Station]] tells [[Kendra Shaw]] that "half the officers on this base would kill to get posted to that ship". It is apparently important enough for the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]] as a military target to infiltrate, as [[Gina Inviere]] (a [[Number Six]] copy) assumes the role of network administrator on the ship ([[Razor]]). [[William Adama]] mentions the reputation of Cain and her ship to President [[Laura Roslin]] ("[[Pegasus (Extended Version)|Pegasus]]", extended version).

[[Image:TheEnemysGateIsDown3.jpg|thumb|right|''Pegasus'' taking heavy fire.]]
Weeks before the Fall ''Pegasus'' docked at the [[Scorpion Fleet Shipyards]], where she was to undergo a three-month systems overhaul. All of the ship’s networked [[Computers in the Re-imagined Series|computers]] were taken off-line in preparation of the refit, leaving the heavily automated ship partially inoperative but also less vulnerable to electronic attacks. When the Cylons launch a surprise assault against the shipyard, they are only able to shut down ''Pegasus's'' weapons grid and navigational computer. The attack works in extreme favor of the Cylons, and they overtake the installation in a matter of minutes. However, the multiple nuclear weapons that they detonate create an [[EMP]] that blinds their [[DRADIS]], leaving them temporarily unaware of Colonial movement in the immediate area. Admiral Cain uses this to her advantage and orders her ship to [[Blind jump|randomly jump without a coordinates check]].

[[Image:Centurion on Pegasus.jpg|thumb|right|A [[Centurion]] on ''Pegasus''.]]
After their escape, Cain leads ''Pegasus'' on a series of hit-and-run attacks against Cylon assets. One such [[Battle of the Communications Relay|attack]] is against what is thought to be a lightly-defended communications relay but turns out to be a staging area with fifteen squadrons of [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Raider]]s. When Cain's long-time executive officer [[Jurgen Belzen]] refuses her order to launch all of the ships' Vipers, calling it suicide, she summarily executes him in CIC and promotes [[Jack Fisk]] to replace him. During the battle, the [[Cylon agent]] [[Gina Inviere]] allows a party of [[Cylon Centurion|Centurions]] to breach the ship's defenses and board, resulting in heavy casualties. When Gina is exposed as a Cylon, she kills several Marines before she is subdued. Once imprisoned, Admiral Cain directs her crew to use extreme methods, including gang-rape and other physical and emotional abuse, to break the prisoner.

Some time later, ''Pegasus'' realizes that a Cylon fleet it is tracking is not jumping randomly but is following a path along systems with natural resources. When it jumps to scout the Cylons' next projected position, ''Pegasus'' encounters the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] led by ''[[Galactica]]''; it turns out the Cylons are jumping to systems ''Galactica'' has passed through or explored. Cain assumes overall command of the Fleet and begins transferring supplies and personnel between the two battlestars, including Captain [[Lee Adama]] and Lieutenant [[Kara Thrace]]. Cain's indifference to the needs of the civilian ships prompts President [[Laura Roslin]] to raise her concerns with Commander [[William Adama]].
[[Image:Kg cg ns pegasus-009.jpg|thumb|right|''Pegasus'' engaged by a Cylon baseship.]]
When Chief [[Galen Tyrol|Tyrol]] and Lieutenant [[Karl Agathon]] inadvertently kill Cain's chief "Cylon interrogator" Lieutenant [[Alastair Thorne]], Admiral Cain has no reservations sentencing them to death.<ref>During his interrogation by Colonel [[Saul Tigh]] in "[[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]", Chief Tyrol mentions that he served aboard a number of battlestars in his military career, including ''Pegasus'', but doesn't mention if Cain was in command at the time. If she was and ever knew him then, she makes no mention of it.</ref> Commander Adama demands their return, precipitating an armed standoff between the two ships ([[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]). The two later set aside their animosity and join forces to successfully destroy a Cylon [[Resurrection Ship]]. During the immediate celebrations that follow, however, Cain is ambushed in her quarters by Gina, who shoots her and escapes from the battlestar undetected ([[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]).

Jack Fisk succeeds Cain as commander of ''Pegasus'', who in turn is murdered after running afoul of the Fleet's illicit black market ([[Black Market]]). Command then falls briefly to chief engineer-turned-commander [[Barry Garner]], who dies saving the ship during the [[Battle of the Binary Star System]]. ''Pegasus's'' final commander is Lee Adama ([[The Captain's Hand]]), with his wife [[Anastasia Dualla]] later serving as his XO ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]).

===A Lost Civilian Fleet===

[[Image:Lost Civilian Fleet.gif|thumb|Several ships of civilian fleet found by Pegasus.]]
''Pegasus'' encounters its own small fleet of 15 civilian ships, found about a week after the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]]. Rather than defend them as ''Galactica'' did its own at [[Ragnar Anchorage]], Admiral Cain uses them as a source of spare parts, deciding that ''Pegasus's'' military needs take priority over theirs.

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.

The civilian ships are stripped of useful items, including their weapons and FTL drives, and are left to their fate as ''Pegasus'' resumes her campaign of hit-and-run attacks against the Cylons ("[[Razor]]", "[[Resurrection Ship, Part I]]").

===New Caprica===

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 ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]).

Four months later, ''Pegasus'' and ''Galactica'' plan a rescue mission to recover the people left on the planet ([[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. Adama takes ''Galactica'' in the rescue effort without ''Pegasus'', ordering his son to stay with the Fleet at a rendezvous point to await their return ("[[Precipice]]", "[[Exodus, Part I]]").

Despite Adama's orders, ''Pegasus'' leaves her fighters to protect the remains 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 her forward batteries and attracts the attention of the others while ''Galactica'' repairs its FTL drive and prepares to jump away.

[[Image:Pegaus Ram (3).jpg|thumb|Pegasus' destruction.]]
''Pegasus'' reels from the onslought of missiles from the remaining Cylon basestars. 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, ''Pegasus'', mortally damaged and now completely unmanned, collides with a basestar, destroying it. As ''Pegasus'''s engines overload and explode, the remains of her starboard [[flight pod]] collides with another basestar, destroying it as well ([[Exodus, Part II]]).

== Equipment ==

''Pegasus'' has built-in electronic countermeasure (ECM) generators to ward off missiles aimed at the ship ([[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]).

''Pegasus'' also has [[Viper Mark VII]] production facilities, allowing the ship to re-arm itself on extended deployments, provided the battlestar has access to raw materials such as ore ([[Scar]]).

''Pegasus'' also has two Raptor take off pads on both sides of the flight pods seen in the ([[Razor]])

==Air Wing==

''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.

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 her 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.

''Pegasus'' has approximately 50 [[Raptor]]s, since they've lost over half of their 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]]").

==Crew==
====Senior Staff at Time of Destruction====
*Commander [[Lee Adama]] - Commanding officer
*Lieutenant [[Anastasia Dualla]] - [[Executive officer]]
*Lieutenant [[Louis Hoshi]] - [[Communications officer]]

====Former Members of the Senior Staff====
*Rear Admiral [[Helena Cain]] - Commanding officer (Killed by [[Gina Inviere]])
*Commander [[Jack Fisk]] - Commanding officer (Killed by racketeers in the [[Black market (organization)|black market]])
*Commander [[Barry Garner]] - Commanding officer (Killed in action)
*Major [[Kendra Shaw]] - Cain's aide; [[Lee Adama]]'s XO (Killed in action by destroying the [[Guardian basestar]])
*Colonel [[Jurgen Belzen]] - Executive officer (Killed by Admiral Cain)
*Captain [[Cole Taylor]] - [[CAG|Commander, Air Group]] (Demoted by Admiral Cain)
*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]]")
*Lieutenant [[Alastair Thorne]] - Cylon interrogator (Killed by [[Galen Tyrol]])
*[[Peter Laird]] - Chief of the deck (Civilian conscripted by Admiral Cain; later murdered by [[Tom Zarek]])

==Notes==
*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.
*This ship is named after [[w:Pegasus|the winged horse from Greek mythology]].

== Related Imagery ==

<gallery perrow="5">
Image:Pegasus01.jpg|''Pegasus'' - Front view    
Image:Pegasus_Hi-Res_1a.jpg|''Pegasus'' - Vipers landing    
Image:Pegasus_Hi-Res_5a.jpg|''Pegasus'' - Gun batteries    
Image:Pegasus 217 1080i rescale.jpg|''Pegasus'' - Side angle    
Image:Pegasus Rear Shot.png|Pegasus from the rear
Image:Pegasus cripple.jpg|''Pegasus'' taking mortal damage.
Image:Pegasus flight pod turret.jpg|''Pegasus'' flight pod turrets
Image:Pegasus engine room.jpg|A part of ''Pegasus'''s engine room.
Image:PegasusInterior Office2.jpg|Admiral Cain's office.
Image:PegasusInterior BriefingRoom.jpg|Pilot [[briefing room]].
Image:PegasusInterior Brig.jpg|The [[Brig]].
Image:CIC - Pegasus (Razor).jpg|[[CIC]] ([[Razor]]).
Image:PegasusInterior CIC3.jpg|CIC ([[The Captain's Hand]]).
Image:PegasusInterior CICHallway.jpg|Hallway and entrance to CIC (The Captain's Hand).
</gallery>

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==External links==

* [http://www.modelermagic.com/?p=536 A collection of Pegasus images]

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Pegasus (TRS)

2011-04-02T10:37:34Z

Fredmdbud: /* History */

:''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)]].''

{{Ship Data|
image= Pegasus High Res.jpg
| title= Pegasus (BS 62)
| race= Colonial
| type= Military
| ftl= Yes
| crew= Approximately 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>
| 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>
| co= [[Lee Adama]] (At time of loss)
| xo= [[Anastasia Dualla]] (At time of loss)
| role= Carrier / Battleship
| weapons= 34 Primary [[KEW|Kinetic Energy Weapons]] (30 twin turrets, 4 fixed twin mounts) and point-defense [[KEW|Kinetic Energy Weapons]], conventional missiles, nuclear warheads, Vipers, Raptors
| status= Destroyed in [[Battle of New Caprica]]
| img= Y
}}
'''''Pegasus'' (BS 62)''' is a [[Mercury class battlestar|''Mercury'' class battlestar]], commanded by Rear Admiral [[Helena Cain]] during the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]].

Technologically more advanced and far greater in size and firepower than the to-be-decommissioned ''[[Galactica]]'', ''Pegasus'' is presumed destroyed in the Cylon attack, but had in fact survived, eventually finding and joining ''Galactica'' and its civilian fleet. It serves a significant role in the Colonial struggle for survival until the [[Battle of New Caprica|exodus]] from [[New Caprica]].

In the [[Pegasus (Extended Version)|Extended Cut]] of the episode "Pegasus" Admiral Cain states that the ship is nearly twice the size of ''Galactica'', but needs only half the crew. This probably refers to either the dual [[landing bay|landing bays]] or the ship's volume, as the ship is only 1000 feet longer. The decreased manpower requirement stems from increased computerization and automation. This is also evident in the comparatively small size of the ''Pegasus'' [[CIC]].

''Pegasus'' is informally nicknamed "The Beast" within the Fleet ([[The Captain's Hand]]).

==History==
[[Image:Pegasus, Scorpion Shipyards.jpg|thumb|right|''Pegasus'' docked at the [[Scorpion Fleet Shipyards]].]]

Prior to the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]], ''Pegasus'' was a prize assignment in the Colonial Fleet. [[Frank Bruno]] at the [[Caprica Transfer Station]] tells [[Kendra Shaw]] that "half the officers on this base would kill to get posted to that ship". It is apparently important enough for the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]] as a military target to infiltrate, as [[Gina Inviere]] (a [[Number Six]] copy) assumes the role of network administrator on the ship ([[Razor]]). [[William Adama]] mentions the reputation of Cain and her ship to President [[Laura Roslin]] ("[[Pegasus (Extended Version)|Pegasus]]", extended version).

[[Image:TheEnemysGateIsDown3.jpg|thumb|right|''Pegasus'' taking heavy fire.]]
Weeks before the Fall ''Pegasus'' docked at the [[Scorpion Fleet Shipyards]], where she was to undergo a three-month systems overhaul. All of the ship’s networked [[Computers in the Re-imagined Series|computers]] were taken off-line in preparation of the refit, leaving the heavily automated ship partially inoperative but also less vulnerable to electronic attacks. When the Cylons launch a surprise assault against the shipyard, they are only able to shut down ''Pegasus's'' weapons grid and navigational computer. The attack works in extreme favor of the Cylons, and they overtake the installation in a matter of minutes. However, the multiple nuclear weapons that they detonate create an [[EMP]] that blinds their [[DRADIS]], leaving them temporarily unaware of Colonial movement in the immediate area. Admiral Cain uses this to her advantage and orders her ship to [[Blind jump|randomly jump without a coordinates check]].

[[Image:Centurion on Pegasus.jpg|thumb|right|A [[Centurion]] on ''Pegasus''.]]
After their escape, Cain leads ''Pegasus'' on a series of hit-and-run attacks against Cylon assets. One such [[Battle of the Communications Relay|attack]] is against what is thought to be a lightly-defended communications relay but turns out to be a staging area with fifteen squadrons of [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Raider]]s. When Cain's long-time executive officer [[Jurgen Belzen]] refuses her order to launch all of the ships' Vipers, calling it suicide, she summarily executes him in CIC and promotes [[Jack Fisk]] to replace him. During the battle, the [[Cylon agent]] [[Gina Inviere]] allows a party of [[Cylon Centurion|Centurions]] to breach the ship's defenses and board, resulting in heavy casualties. When Gina is exposed as a Cylon, she kills several Marines before she is subdued. Once imprisoned, Admiral Cain directs her crew to use extreme methods, including gang-rape and other physical and emotional abuse, to break the prisoner.

Some time later, ''Pegasus'' realizes that a Cylon fleet it is tracking is not jumping randomly but is following a path along systems with natural resources. When it jumps to scout the Cylons' next projected position, ''Pegasus'' encounters the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] led by ''[[Galactica]]''; it turns out the Cylons are jumping to systems ''Galactica'' has passed through or explored. Cain assumes overall command of the Fleet and begins transferring supplies and personnel between the two battlestars, including Captain [[Lee Adama]] and Lieutenant [[Kara Thrace]]. Cain's indifference to the needs of the civilian ships prompts President [[Laura Roslin]] to raise her concerns with Commander [[William Adama]].
[[Image:Kg cg ns pegasus-009.jpg|thumb|right|''Pegasus'' engaging a Cylon baseship.]]
When Chief [[Galen Tyrol|Tyrol]] and Lieutenant [[Karl Agathon]] inadvertently kill Cain's chief "Cylon interrogator" Lieutenant [[Alastair Thorne]], Admiral Cain has no reservations sentencing them to death.<ref>During his interrogation by Colonel [[Saul Tigh]] in "[[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]", Chief Tyrol mentions that he served aboard a number of battlestars in his military career, including ''Pegasus'', but doesn't mention if Cain was in command at the time. If she was and ever knew him then, she makes no mention of it.</ref> Commander Adama demands their return, precipitating an armed standoff between the two ships ([[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]). The two later set aside their animosity and join forces to successfully destroy a Cylon [[Resurrection Ship]]. During the immediate celebrations that follow, however, Cain is ambushed in her quarters by Gina, who shoots her and escapes from the battlestar undetected ([[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]).

Jack Fisk succeeds Cain as commander of ''Pegasus'', who in turn is murdered after running afoul of the Fleet's illicit black market ([[Black Market]]). Command then falls briefly to chief engineer-turned-commander [[Barry Garner]], who dies saving the ship during the [[Battle of the Binary Star System]]. ''Pegasus's'' final commander is Lee Adama ([[The Captain's Hand]]), with his wife [[Anastasia Dualla]] later serving as his XO ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]).

===A Lost Civilian Fleet===

[[Image:Lost Civilian Fleet.gif|thumb|Several ships of civilian fleet found by Pegasus.]]
''Pegasus'' encounters its own small fleet of 15 civilian ships, found about a week after the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]]. Rather than defend them as ''Galactica'' did its own at [[Ragnar Anchorage]], Admiral Cain uses them as a source of spare parts, deciding that ''Pegasus's'' military needs take priority over theirs.

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.

The civilian ships are stripped of useful items, including their weapons and FTL drives, and are left to their fate as ''Pegasus'' resumes her campaign of hit-and-run attacks against the Cylons ("[[Razor]]", "[[Resurrection Ship, Part I]]").

===New Caprica===

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 ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]).

Four months later, ''Pegasus'' and ''Galactica'' plan a rescue mission to recover the people left on the planet ([[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. Adama takes ''Galactica'' in the rescue effort without ''Pegasus'', ordering his son to stay with the Fleet at a rendezvous point to await their return ("[[Precipice]]", "[[Exodus, Part I]]").

Despite Adama's orders, ''Pegasus'' leaves her fighters to protect the remains 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 her forward batteries and attracts the attention of the others while ''Galactica'' repairs its FTL drive and prepares to jump away.

[[Image:Pegaus Ram (3).jpg|thumb|Pegasus' destruction.]]
''Pegasus'' reels from the onslought of missiles from the remaining Cylon basestars. 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, ''Pegasus'', mortally damaged and now completely unmanned, collides with a basestar, destroying it. As ''Pegasus'''s engines overload and explode, the remains of her starboard [[flight pod]] collides with another basestar, destroying it as well ([[Exodus, Part II]]).

== Equipment ==

''Pegasus'' has built-in electronic countermeasure (ECM) generators to ward off missiles aimed at the ship ([[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]).

''Pegasus'' also has [[Viper Mark VII]] production facilities, allowing the ship to re-arm itself on extended deployments, provided the battlestar has access to raw materials such as ore ([[Scar]]).

''Pegasus'' also has two Raptor take off pads on both sides of the flight pods seen in the ([[Razor]])

==Air Wing==

''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.

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 her 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.

''Pegasus'' has approximately 50 [[Raptor]]s, since they've lost over half of their 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]]").

==Crew==
====Senior Staff at Time of Destruction====
*Commander [[Lee Adama]] - Commanding officer
*Lieutenant [[Anastasia Dualla]] - [[Executive officer]]
*Lieutenant [[Louis Hoshi]] - [[Communications officer]]

====Former Members of the Senior Staff====
*Rear Admiral [[Helena Cain]] - Commanding officer (Killed by [[Gina Inviere]])
*Commander [[Jack Fisk]] - Commanding officer (Killed by racketeers in the [[Black market (organization)|black market]])
*Commander [[Barry Garner]] - Commanding officer (Killed in action)
*Major [[Kendra Shaw]] - Cain's aide; [[Lee Adama]]'s XO (Killed in action by destroying the [[Guardian basestar]])
*Colonel [[Jurgen Belzen]] - Executive officer (Killed by Admiral Cain)
*Captain [[Cole Taylor]] - [[CAG|Commander, Air Group]] (Demoted by Admiral Cain)
*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]]")
*Lieutenant [[Alastair Thorne]] - Cylon interrogator (Killed by [[Galen Tyrol]])
*[[Peter Laird]] - Chief of the deck (Civilian conscripted by Admiral Cain; later murdered by [[Tom Zarek]])

==Notes==
*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.
*This ship is named after [[w:Pegasus|the winged horse from Greek mythology]].

== Related Imagery ==

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Image:Pegasus01.jpg|''Pegasus'' - Front view    
Image:Pegasus_Hi-Res_1a.jpg|''Pegasus'' - Vipers landing    
Image:Pegasus_Hi-Res_5a.jpg|''Pegasus'' - Gun batteries    
Image:Pegasus 217 1080i rescale.jpg|''Pegasus'' - Side angle    
Image:Pegasus Rear Shot.png|Pegasus from the rear
Image:Pegasus cripple.jpg|''Pegasus'' taking mortal damage.
Image:Pegasus flight pod turret.jpg|''Pegasus'' flight pod turrets
Image:Pegasus engine room.jpg|A part of ''Pegasus'''s engine room.
Image:PegasusInterior Office2.jpg|Admiral Cain's office.
Image:PegasusInterior BriefingRoom.jpg|Pilot [[briefing room]].
Image:PegasusInterior Brig.jpg|The [[Brig]].
Image:CIC - Pegasus (Razor).jpg|[[CIC]] ([[Razor]]).
Image:PegasusInterior CIC3.jpg|CIC ([[The Captain's Hand]]).
Image:PegasusInterior CICHallway.jpg|Hallway and entrance to CIC (The Captain's Hand).
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== References ==
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==External links==

* [http://www.modelermagic.com/?p=536 A collection of Pegasus images]

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Blackbird

2011-01-09T22:13:29Z

Fredmdbud: /* Laura and her flight history */

The '''Blackbird''' is a short-lived, prototype [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Colonial]] stealth fighter designed by [[Galen Tyrol]] and built by many [[deckhand]]s and officers on ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]''.
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| title= Blackbird
| race= Colonial
| type= Military
| ftl= Yes
| crew= 1 pilot
| role= Prototype stealth infiltrator
| weapons= Normally unarmed; equipped with missiles [[Resurrection Ship, Part II|once]]
| status= Prototype destroyed
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== Overview ==

Frustrated at the dwindling number of available [[Viper (RDM)|Vipers]] due to loss and wear-and-tear, [[Galen Tyrol]] begins to build a new fighter from scratch.<ref>Unlike [[Pegasus (RDM)|newer battlestars]], ''Galactica'' is not equipped with Viper construction facilities.</ref>. The fighter design evolves due to supply shortages as well as improvisation and the imagination of participating crew members. The new fighter becomes more a reconnaissance vehicle than an actual fighter craft.

[[Image:Black bird constr..jpg|thumb|left|The Blackbird under construction.]]
The Blackbird is designed to use the Viper [[Launch tubes (RDM)|launch tube]]s, and therefore shares the same general shape. Unlike the Viper, it is built more for speed than for maneuverability and is not equipped with guns<ref>See [[Bradley Thompson]]'s [[Battlestar Wiki:Official Communiques/Archive5#Blackbird:_Efficient_Construction_Crew?|answer to a video effects gaff]] in "Flight of the Phoenix" where the Blackbird is mistakeningly shown flying about the [[Great Cylon Turkey Shoot]]. Thompson confirms that the Blackbird has no guns and its poor maneuverability makes it unsuitable as a dogfighter.</ref> but is later fitted with a missile launcher in "[[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]". Upon the suggestion of [[Karl Agathon]], the Blackbird uses black-colored carbon composite materials that make it largely undetectable by [[DRADIS]] and unaided visual viewing. This was a practical consideration in light of all metal being reserved for Viper repairs.

Along with the usual [[RCS]] mechanisms for directional control, the Blackbird is powered by four obsolete [[DDG-62]] engines that came from the flight deck of the ''[[Baah Pakal]]''. Further, unlike other ships of its size, the Blackbird is [[FTL]]-capable.

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== ''Laura'' and her flight history ==
[[Image:Flight_of_the_Phoenix-Laura.jpg|thumb|A close-up of the cursive on the side of the Blackbird.]]
The Blackbird is dubbed ''"Laura"'' in honor of President [[Laura Roslin]]. [[Kara Thrace]] pilots the maiden test flight, where, after some initial difficulties with handling the ungainly craft, she demonstrates the stealth capabilities, eluding chase pilot [[Lee Adama]] and ''Galactica's'' DRADIS.

The following individuals aid [[Galen Tyrol]] in ''Laura's'' construction:

* [[Karl Agathon]] suggests the use of carbon composite materials for the Blackbird's skin.
* [[Brendan Costanza|Brendan "Hot Dog" Costanza]]
* [[Anastasia Dualla]] improves communication systems.
* [[Anthony Figurski]]
* [[Cally Henderson Tyrol|Cally Henderson]]
* [[James Lyman|James "Jammer" Lyman]]
* [[Diana Seelix]]
* [[Saul Tigh]] offers the [[DDG-62]] engines.
* [[Kara Thrace]] aids in a few design principles and tests the craft.

Colonel Tigh originally denounces the project as frivolous, but later provides assistance in procuring the DDG-62 engines. Others among Tyrol's own deck crew also at first consider the project a waste of time, as noted through their initial reactions to Tyrol's proposal. However, Commander [[William Adama|Adama]] believes that the endeavor offers hope and purpose, and therefore permits it to continue despite the crisis with the Cylon [[logic bomb]] that has infected ''Galactica'''s systems ([[Flight of the Phoenix]]).

When commissioning a reconnaissance on the Cylon fleet (containing a [[Resurrection Ship|mysterious ship]]) ''Pegasus's'' [[CAG]] [[Cole Taylor]], although knowing of the Blackbird, chooses to use Raptors for his mission despite Thrace's protests. Before his plan can be put into action Thrace, with assistance from Lee Adama, absconds with the Blackbird, claiming she is running a test flight for Admiral Cain. In reality, she undertakes the mission single-handedly without being detected, taking several close-range pictures.

[[Image:Blackbird destroyed.jpg|thumb|The destruction of ''Laura'' during the [[Battle of the Resurrection Ship]].]]

The sudden, unexpected return of this Colonial craft causes it to be mistaken for a Cylon craft, bringing an end to the [[Standoff Between Galactica and Pegasus|standoff between Galactica and Pegasus]]. Thrace transmits the images, and appeals over the comm that she is not a Cylon vessel. From discussing these photos with [[Gina Inviere]], [[Gaius Baltar]] eventually details the name and purpose of the [[Resurrection Ship]] ([[Resurrection Ship, Part I]]).

''Laura'' is later piloted by then-Lieutenant [[Lee Adama]] in the [[Battle of the Resurrection Ship|battle]] to disable the Resurrection Ship's FTL drive, preventing her escape so that Vipers can destroy it. While Adama is successful, a collision with a disabled [[Raptor]] destroys the Blackbird and Adama is forced to eject ([[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]).
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==Notes==
* Since the Blackbird was designed for speed over maneuverability and possessed stealth characteristics, it is logical that an FTL drive was added for reconnaissance capability. An FTL drive might have been salvaged from a scrapped Raptor, such as [[Raptor 305]].
* The Blackbird's ungainly handling characteristics are quite evident during Thrace's first test flight, as she spends the first several seconds out of the launch tube attempting to gain control over the craft ([[Flight of the Phoenix]]).
* Instability actually adds to a vehicle's maneuverability in an atmosphere; an extremely stable aircraft resists any maneuvering. Modern real-world fighters are deliberately designed to be unstable with the flight surfaces constantly adjusted by the flight control system. The Blackbird's controls might have been initially uncalibrated for the plane's configuration (e.g. center of mass), and spent more fuel maintaining a desired attitude.
*[[w:Reinforced carbon-carbon|Carbon composites]] are a family of materials used in lightweight or high-temperature-resistant construction, of which a type is used in the nose and leading edges of the wings of [[w:NASA|NASA]]'s [[w:Space Transportation System|Space Shuttle Orbiter]]. Carbon composites are somewhat fragile, so impacts (even one from a champagne bottle, which Laura Roslin jokingly attempts to do as she christens the ship) may cause the material to splinter or break. It was damage to this material that caused the destruction of [[w:Space Shuttle Columbia|Space Shuttle ''Columbia'']] on [[w:STS-107|STS-107]].
*Executive Producer [[David Eick]] stated in his video blog that the Blackbird is "not a Viper", so it is not classed as a modified Viper model ("Viper Mark VIII", etc), but is an entirely distinct craft.
*The fighter's nickname creates a curious comparison with Laura Roslin, the person for whom it was named. The ailing but influential President Roslin and her rapid, secretive actions in her quest for Earth's location (including diverting Lt. Thrace from her original mission to destroy the Kobol basestar) as well as her savvy political work in "[[Colonial Day]]", are humorously similar in perspective to the abilities of "Laura", a structurally weak, but highly agile and initially underestimated stealth fighter.
*From a behind-the-scenes perspective, the Blackbird is most likely named after the [[w:Lockheed SR-71|SR-71 Blackbird]], an actual high-speed reconnaissance aircraft. The SR-71 not only shares the principle but also many design features. These include the engines pointing forward from the wings and also the swept long nose smoothing out on the sides.

==Sources==
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Stealthstar

2011-01-09T22:05:06Z

Fredmdbud: removed repetition/redundancy

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| image= Stealth Star profile.jpg
| title= Stealthstar (7746VA)
| race= Colonial
| type= Military
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| crew= 1 pilot
| role= Stealth infiltrator
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| status= Destroyed
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'''Stealthstar''' 7746VA was a designation used for a Colonial stealth craft.

Lieutenant [[Daniel Novacek|Daniel "Bulldog" Novacek]] from the [[battlestar (RDM)|battlestar]] ''[[Valkyrie]]'' piloted this craft across the [[Armistice Line]] in order to determine whether or not the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]] were performing a military buildup.

During the mission, the Stealthstar had open comm channels and was actively monitoring [[DRADIS]], perhaps in an attempt to lure the Cylons with the intent of going silent at the first sign of trouble. Its position was clearly visible to ''Valkyrie's'' DRADIS. However, the Stealthstar was interdicted by a craft of unknown designation (presumably Cylon) which quickly jumped in and out. This resulted in severe damage before its stealth functions were fully utilized ([[TRS]]: "[[Hero]]").

==Notes==
* The Stealthstar utilized the [[Viper Mark VII]] cockpit.
* On ''Valkyrie'''s [[DRADIS]], the ship was designated as "S-Star".
* The Stealthstar is a redress of the [[Blackbird]]. <ref name="podcast">{{cite rdm podcast| episode = Hero | act = 2 | id =stealthredress| timestamp = 00:25:14 | totalrunning = 00:47:05 }}</ref>

== Related Imagery ==
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Image:3x8-Stealth-Star-7746VA (2).jpg|Clearly showing the ship number as 7746VA
Image:3x8-Stealth-Star-Cockpit.jpg|Cockpit view
Image:3x8-Stealth-Star-Winged.jpg|Winged and spiraling out of control
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Gaeta's Mutiny

2011-01-09T08:47:13Z

Fredmdbud: concising infobox

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| image=MutinyCIC.jpg
| description=Gaeta and Adama in the CIC
| conflict= Gaeta's Mutiny
| date= Approximately [[Timeline (RDM)|4 years]] after the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]]
| place=[[Galactica (RDM)|Battlestar ''Galactica'']]
| result=Mutiny collapses<br>Assassination of the [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]]<br>[[Felix Gaeta|Gaeta]] and [[Tom Zarek|Zarek]] executed by firing squad<br>Imprisonment of remaining mutineers<br>[[The Fleet (RDM)|Colonial]]-[[Rebel basestar|Cylon]] alliance maintained.
| combatant1= Adama/Roslin loyalists<br/>[[Cylon (RDM)|Cylon]] [[Rebel basestar|rebel faction]]
| combatant2= Gaeta/Zarek faction
| co1= Admiral [[William Adama]]<br>President [[Laura Roslin]]<br/>[[Basestar command|Rebel basestar command]]
| co2= Lieutenant [[Felix Gaeta]]<br/>Vice President [[Tom Zarek]]
| strength1= [[Rebel basestar]], [[Cult of Baltar]], all servicemen and civilians loyal to Adama/Roslin including [[Lee Adama]] and Captain [[Kara Thrace]]
| strength2= At least 15 crew, marines and civilians on ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]''
| shiploss1= Minor damage to the Rebel basestar
| shiploss2= ''Galactica''’s FTL drive rendered temporarily inoperable
| casualties1= Unknown, heavy
| casualties2= Unknown, heavy
| prev= [[Standoff Between Galactica and the Cylon Rebels]]
| next= [[Battle of The Colony]]
| series= RDM
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'''Gaeta's Mutiny''' is an attempted coup led by Junior Lieutenant [[Felix Gaeta]] and Vice President [[Tom Zarek]] to overthrow both President [[Laura Roslin]] and Admiral [[William Adama]] following their establishment of an alliance with the [[Cylon (RDM)|Cylon]] [[Rebel basestar|rebel faction]].

==Causes==
Following the discovery of [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]], tensions within the Fleet begin to rise. Roslin's power as a religious icon diminishes, and she largely withdrawals from her official duties. Recognizing the desperate situation of the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]], Adama proposes an alliance with the rebel Cylons, whereby the Cylons will upgrade the Fleet's [[FTL]] drives, thus tripling their jump range, in exchange for protection from ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' and a seat on the [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]]. Though the Quorum of Twelve, led by Zarek, votes against allowing the Cylons to board ships in the Fleet, Adama declares the matter a military decision, overruling the Quorum and permitting the Cylons to install the upgrades. When the workers on the Fleet's refinery ship ''[[Hitei Kan]]'' revolt, kill the Cylon work crew and ''Galactica'' [[Colonial Marines|Marines]] aboard and jump the ship, Adama has Zarek arrested. Having become more disturbed by Adama's actions, Gaeta begins to quietly build support among members of the crew and, following the events on ''Hitei Kan'', meets with Zarek in the [[brig]]. There, the two men agree that Adama and Roslin must be removed from power in order to prevent the alliance and restore democracy ([[TRS]]: "[[A Disquiet Follows My Soul]]").

==Timeline==

===0600 - 0800===

* '''0620''' - Admiral [[William Adama]] and Colonel [[Saul Tigh]] meet for a standard morning briefing in Adama's quarters, where [[Laura Roslin]] is also staying.

* '''0623''' - Junior Lieutenant [[Felix Gaeta]] and a group of [[Colonial Marines|marines]] free Vice President [[Tom Zarek]] from the [[brig]] and escorts him to the [[hangar deck]], where Lieutenant [[Margaret Edmondson|Margaret "Racetrack" Edmondson]] convinces the deck crew and assembled civilians that her [[Raptor]] is leaking fuel and orders them all to evacuate the Deck. Zarek, Gaeta and the marines approach the Raptor but are interrupted by Deck Chief [[Peter Laird]]. Laird notes that the Raptor is scheduled for an emergency medical transport and not a VIP shuttle. While Gaeta unsuccessfully attempts to explain the situation, Zarek manages to sneak up behind Laird and kills him with a wrench. Zarek boards the Raptor and departs for ''[[Colonial One]]''.

* '''0704''' - When Gaeta reports for duty, Lieutenant [[Louis Hoshi]] notices that there is a launch in progress and that he doesn't have any scheduled in the flight log. Gaeta responds that maybe it is an error and that he should look over the flight log for an update by Laird. When he finds none in the flight log, he suggests calling down to the flight deck. Gaeta stops him and points out that there is not a transponder signal and when Tigh questions Gaeta, his response is that it is probably a [[DRADIS]] ghost. Given the condition of ''Galactica'' and the difficulties in maintaining the battlestar, the Admiral and XO accept this explanation, permitting Zarek to escape to ''[[Colonial One]]''.

* '''0741''' - The [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]] is in an emergency session regarding Zarek's arerst and the issue of the Cylon FTL drives when Zarek walks into the room, surprising everyone including Caprican Quorum delegate [[Lee Adama]].

:* Elsewhere, the mutineers begin to systematically take hostage all the [[Humanoid Cylon|Cylons]], as well as any known supporters and familial relations on ''Galactica''. Ensign [[Samuel Anders|Samuel "Longshot" Anders]] is the first, distracted by Ensign [[Diana Seelix|Diana "Hardball" Seelix]] and then hoodwinked and beaten by Lance Corporal [[Maldonaldo]] and Sergeant [[Allan Nowart]].

:* In CIC, everything goes according to plan as an alarm sounds, indicating a fire on C Deck near the main antennas. Adama orders in the damage control (DC) units, but Gaeta points out that the fire might not be an accident and that they will be in the dark if the antenna array goes down. Adama orders a Marine detail to escort the DC units, thus allowing more Marines to join the mutineers in the forward section of C Deck, raiding the small arms locker.

===0800 - 1000===

* '''0812''' - Captain [[Kara Thrace|Kara "Starbuck" Thrace]] is fencing with Junior Lieutenant [[Brendan Constanza|Brendan "Hot Dog" Constanza]] about [[Nicholas Tyrol|his fatherhood]] and sexual prowess in the Officers' Quarters, when the loudspeaker announces the fire. Thrace confronts Lieutenant [[Noel Allison|Noel "Narcho" Allison]] about fire control duties and is rudely rebuffed. Immediately suspicious, Thrace comes upon Marines and civilians, led by [[Charlie Connor]], arming themselves and discussing battle plans. Thrace arms herself in turn and tries to warn CIC, but Gaeta refuses to let her speak to the Admiral.

:* Lee Adama attempts to contact his father to find out the reasoning behind Zarek's release. Zarek suggests to Lee, who is having trouble getting a hold of his father on ''Galactica'', that the Admiral only released him because he didn't believe the civilian government posed a threat to his authority. Lee leaves to prove Zarek wrong, thus leaving the Quorum to Zarek.

:* In the CIC Gaeta informs Adama and Tigh that they have lost communications ship-wide, as well as backups.

* '''0902''' - On the hangar deck, Lee is greeted by Marines and [[Charlie Connor]] who proceed to rough him up and take him hostage. Before they are able to do anything more, Thrace interrupts and kills the marine pointing a gun at Lee's head. Following this, she shoots [[Hamish McCall|Hamish "Skulls" McCall]] in the shoulder. She forces the others to release Lee and the two escape.

:* The mutineers seize the Agathons in their quarters. Junior Lieutenant [[Sharon Agathon|Sharon "Athena" Agathon]] and [[Hera Agathon|Hera]] are taken hostage. Captain [[Karl Agathon|Karl "Helo" Agathon]] is confronted by [[Gage|Specialist Gage]], then pistol-whipped into unconsciousness.

:* Thrace and Lee regroup in a dry storage locker, and plan their next move.

* '''0908''' - Back in the CIC, Hoshi realizes that the devices used to scan for carbon monoxide sensors should be going through the roof, but he only reads normal levels. Adama is tired of being blind and sends his personal Marine, Private [[Stewart Jaffee]], to go to C Deck and report back.

:* All three Agathons are thrown in the brig, where they find [[Caprica-Six]] and [[Samuel Anders]]. Athena reasons that they are needed alive as bargaining chips for the rebel Cylons.

* '''0913''' - Lee and Kara make their way through ''Galactica''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> F Deck, where pitched battles between civilians and Marines are taking place.

* '''0922''' - Private Jaffee returns and reports what he has found, Gaeta suddenly orders the Marines to take Adama, Tigh, Hoshi and the senior staff into custody. Rebel Marines draw their weapons and surround the Admiral and his staff. A brief firefight ensues in which Jaffee is killed. Adama reluctantly orders his men to stand down. He and Gaeta then exchange harsh words, both accusing the other of betraying their oaths to defend the ship and her crew. Before he is escorted off the [[CIC]], Adama warns that there will be neither forgiveness nor amnesty for those involved in the mutiny.

* '''0925''' - Thrace and Lee Adama make it to [[Laura Roslin]], informing her of the situation and how desperate it is. Roslin decides to come out and publicly address the Fleet in hopes that they will listen to her. However, with communications down, they have no way to contact the rest of the Fleet. Roslin knows of a way they can get a message out: [[Gaius Baltar]]'s [[wireless]].

* '''0934''' - Gaeta has taken command in CIC, and when Specialist [[Gage]] hestitates to follow an order, he is reminded firmly by Gaeta to "stay with us."

* '''0942''' - Thrace, Roslin, and Lee make it to Baltar's compartment, where [[Galen Tyrol]] is organizing a defense against the mutineers. Tyrol informs them that the Admiral has been captured and warns them against using the ship communications system. Thrace and Lee rush off to find Adama.

* '''0947''' - Adama and Tigh overcome their marine guards, killing Maldonaldo and taking Nowart prisoner. They arm themselves with the Marines's pistols and rifles.

:*Roslin tries to convince Baltar to let her use his pirate transmitter. He acquiesces, against [[Paulla Schaffer]]'s advice.

* '''0956''' - Adama and Tigh observe Connor giving orders to a mixed group of civilians and Marines. They question their prisoner as to their destination, learning that all essential personnel and Cylons were being put in the brig on Gaeta's orders. They move out toward the brig, hoping to secure some allies.

===1000 - 1200===

* '''1012''' - In CIC, Gaeta is informed that the Fleet's ships are attempting to contact ''Galactica''. He has them put on speaker and requests a secure line to Zarek. Gaeta reports to Zarek that ''Galactica'' is secured under his control and that Admiral Adama is under guard. Zarek ruefully notes that Adama still being alive is a loose end, but congratulates Felix with some flowery phrases. Gaeta replies that they can "fine-tune their rationalizations later."

:*Suddenly, Roslin's voice cuts through the babble of ships' captains, urging calm, explaining the reasons behind the Cylon-Human alliance, and urging them to keep the faith and to not follow the traitorous elements. Gaeta jams the transmission, but not before the people hear most of what Roslin had to say.

* '''1017''' - Elsewhere, Adama and Tigh run into Thrace and Lee at the brig, where others are being held. The brig is too heavily guarded, so they decide to regroup with Tyrol at a secondary airlock.

* '''1021''' - Roslin and Baltar discuss Gaeta and their mutual bad judgment in presidential aides.

* '''1023''' - Kara, Lee, Tigh, and Adama regroup. While Thrace scouts ahead, Lee and Tigh argue about Cylons and humans before Adama tells them both to shut up. They then head toward the secondary airlock.

* '''1027''' - Baltar makes a personal call to Gaeta attempting to bring him to his senses, but fails. A Raptor coming from the Cylon baseship is detected on [[DRADIS]]. Gaeta realizes they are not headed to the hangar deck.

* '''1032''' - The Raptor docks at the secondary storage airlock, where the Adamas, Tigh, Thrace, Tyrol, Roslin, and Baltar are waiting. Roslin and Baltar board the Raptor which heads off for the rebel Basestar, while Admiral Adama and Tigh stay behind to cover the president's escape and try to retake the ship from the mutineers. Thrace, Lee, and Tyrol head off to continue their fight elsewhere.

:*Gaeta orders Narcho to destroy the fleeing [[Raptor]], meanwhile Admiral Adama and Tigh engage the Marines attempting to break into the airlock.

* '''1041''' - President Roslin and [[Gaius Baltar]] manage to escape ''Galactica'' on a Raptor to the Cylon baseship. Gaeta tries to have her shot down, but after Roslin identifies herself Constanza—apparently not in on the mutiny—hesitates and allows Roslin to make it to the baseship safely despite Narcho's attempts to destroy the Raptor. Tigh and Adama are captured by Marines led by [[Aaron Kelly]] after being knocked out by a stun grenade, Adama having decided to stay behind to try to retake the ship and Tigh supporting him.

* '''1051''' - Roslin and Baltar meet with the rebel Cylons on the baseship. The Cylons on the baseship want to flee, but Roslin manages to convince them to stay and support Adama.

:*Kelly returns Adama to Gaeta in CIC, attempting to force him to tell Roslin to surrender. Adama refuses and removes his rank insignia, telling Gaeta to call Roslin himself and "make her laugh."

:*The Cylons move their ship further into the Fleet for protection but Gaeta has it scatter, quarantining the baseship.

* '''1116''' - Zarek, the [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum]] in tow, arrives on ''Galactica'', observed by Lee and Starbuck.

* '''1118''' - Roslin attempts to make a broadcast to the Fleet with no luck.

:*Gaeta and Zarek meet, discussing the presence of the Quorum, and a trial for Adama.

*'''1131''' - Tyrol sees [[Romo Lampkin]] being escorted by Kelly and several Marines to the Admiral's Quarters.

*'''1148''' - Admiral Adama is tried for various crimes with Gaeta (now a Commander) as the people's representative and Zarek as the judge with Romo Lampkin as Adama's lawyer.

:*Tyrol enters the ship's vents.

===1200 - 1400===

* '''1222''' - Zarek tries to convince the Quorum to accept the state of affairs, but when Sagittaron delegate [[Jacob Cantrell]] asks him to leave, apparently supporting Roslin, he has them murdered. Kelly is visibly disturbed by this event.

* '''1245''' - Felix Gaeta views the dead bodies of the Quorum with shock and horror and confronts Zarek angrily. Zarek retorts that there is no turning back and that Adama must be executed.

:* Tyrol crawls through the ship's vents.

* '''1248''' - [[Tory Foster]] informs Roslin that the Cylons have decided to jump away. Roslin refuses to accept this, and talks passionately to the Cylons, convincing them to stay.

:* Tyrol exits the crawlspace at an arms locker where Kelly ambushes him only to let him go after sharing a brief rapport; Kelly's support of the mutiny continues to falter.

:* Lampkin tries to convince Adama to sign a statement, but he refuses to betray his beliefs. Lampkin whispers to him that his people are working to retake the ship and to give them time, but he is pushed away by Marine [[Parr]].

:* Baltar is comforted on the baseship by [[Lida]].

* '''1337''' - [[Lee Adama]] and [[Kara Thrace]], still free, manage to break into the brig and rescue the Cylons and Karl Agathon, and they join the two in the battle to retake the ship. Anders is seriously wounded and Kara stays behind to get him to Doctor [[Sherman Cottle]] for medical treatment while Caprica Six, Hera and the injured Helo go to Baltar's cult to hide out, reasoning that no one wants to go near there and they'll be safe.

* '''1342''' - Adama's trial continues, Zarek is informed that the prisoners have escaped. He lies to Adama, telling him that Tigh was killed trying to escape. Adama refuses to answer any more questions, and he is sentenced to death by firing squad.

:* Roslin manages to make a broadcast with help from [[Leoben Conoy]] about the mutiny, asking the civilian ships to shut down their FTL drives just before she is jammed again.

:* Lampkin, being escorted from the "trial" by Parr, comes across Thrace and Anders. He breaks free, killing Parr and is finally convinced by Thrace to assist her in get help for Anders.

===1400 - 1600 ===

* '''1435''' - 10 ships of 35 follow Roslin's orders and shut down their FTL drives. Gaeta gives jump coordinates to the remaining 25 and then has a firing squad led by Allison take Adama to a [[launch tube]] to be executed.

* '''1447''' - Kelly, Allison, and Marines lead Adama to a launch tube. Kelly leaves the entourage and breaks down with remorse in the [[memorial hallway]]. He is found by Lee, Tigh, and Athena and tells them where Adama was being taken. Kelly renounces the mutiny and joins them.

:* On the baseship, Baltar dreams of Adama being executed. He is again comforted by Lida, but this time he decides to return to ''Galactica'', realizing he has a responsibility to his followers there.

* '''1502''' - On the hangar deck, Adama is bound to a chair before a firing squad.

* '''1524''' - Roslin hails ''Galactica'' to demand Zarek and Gaeta's surrender.

:* Gaeta gets confirmation that Adama was executed. In reality he was rescued by Lee, Tigh, Athena and Kelly.

:* Adama convinces the firing squad to aid him in recapturing the ship, but Narcho, despite his respect for the Admiral, refuses to help anyone who won't fight the Cylons. Adama stops Tigh from executing Allison on the spot and instead has Allison tied up.

:* Tyrol continues down the crawlway.

:* In an attempt to get her to surrender in turn, Zarek claims to Roslin that Tigh was killed escaping and Adama was executed, but this only strengthens her resolve and has the baseship's weapons turned on ''Galactica''.

* '''1528''' - Gaeta sets the jump coordinates and prepares to jump ''Galactica''.

:* Tyrol arrives in the engine room.

:* Adama, Lee, Tigh, Athena, Kelly, the Marine squad, and a gathering crowd of other loyalists make their way towards the CIC.

:* Gaeta tries to jump, but Tyrol manages to manually disable the FTL drive. Zarek begins to panic. Specialist [[Gage]] turns ''Galactica's'' weapons on the baseship. Realizing he's lost, Gaeta orders him to stand down. Seconds later, Adama and his men storm CIC and retake it without firing a shot, ending the mutiny. Adama contacts the baseship and gets Roslin and the Cylons to stand down now that he's back in command again.

* '''1532''' - Galactica's CIC is secured by Admiral Adama and his loyalists. Gaeta and Zarek are led away.

:* Tyrol discovers ominous signs of structural damage in the engine room.

==Aftermath==
Gaeta and Zarek are executed by firing squad for their crimes at some later point ([[TRS]]: "[[Blood on the Scales]]"). The remaining mutineers are imprisoned on the ''[[Astral Queen]]'', though they are later freed in exchange for participating in the [[Battle of The Colony]] ([[TRS]]: "[[Deadlock]]" [[Podcast:Deadlock|podcast]]; "[[Daybreak, Part I]]").

Ironically, the mutiny ends up accomplishing the exact opposite of what it was intended to do. With a considerable number of ''Galactica'''s crew dead or imprisoned, the Colonials start flying joint CAPs with the rebel Cylons. In addition, there is a shortage of [[Colonial Marines|Marines]] on ''Galactica''. Adama refuses to let [[Centurions]] on board the ship and instead decides to arm [[Cult of Baltar|Baltar's cult]] to help control the civilian population in [[Dogsville]] ([[TRS]]: "[[Deadlock]]").

Furthermore, it is during the final stages of this mutiny that Tyrol discovers ominous signs of wear and tear on ''Galactica''. Admiral Adama reluctantly agrees to allow Tyrol to use Cylon bio-technology and Cylon work crews from the baseship to fix the damage ([[TRS]]: "[[No Exit]]").

With the [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]] decimated, it is replaced by the [[Quorum of Ships' Captains]] at Lee Adama's suggestion. The Quorum now comprises of captains representing the individual ships of the Fleet, rather than politicians representing the extinct Twelve Colonies. The Cylons are allowed to send their own representative to this new Quorum in the form of [[Sonja]] ([[TRS]]: "[[Someone to Watch Over Me]]").

==Known Participants==

: ''All deaths resulting directly from the mutiny are marked with the crucifix symbol (†).''

===''Galactica'' crew===
* Lieutenant [[Felix Gaeta]] †, military leader who is later executed.
* Captain [[Aaron Kelly]], defected to Loyalists.
* Lieutenant [[Noel Allison|Noel "Narcho" Allison]], in custody.
* Lieutenant [[Margaret Edmondson]], in custody but later returned to [[Battle of The Colony|active duty]].
* Lieutenant [[Hamish McCall]], in custody but later returned to [[Battle of The Colony|active duty]].
* Lieutenant [[Paolo McKay|Paolo "Redwing" McKay]], presumed to be in custody.
* Ensign [[Diana Seelix|Diana "Hardball" Seelix]], presumed to be in custody.
* Sergeant [[Allan Nowart]], in custody but later returned to [[Battle of The Colony|active duty]].
* Lance Corporal [[Maldonaldo]] †, killed by Admiral Adama.
* Specialist [[Gage]], in custody.
* Specialist [[Vireem]], in custody.
* Marine [[Parr]] †, killed by Romo Lampkin.

All surviving mutineers were later pardoned by Admiral Adama and offered reinstatement if they agreed to join ''Galactica''’s high risk assault on [[The Colony]] ([[TRS]]: "[[Daybreak, Part I]]").

===Civilians===
* Vice President [[Tom Zarek]] †, civilian leader who is later executed.
* [[Charlie Connor]], presumed to be in custody.

==Known Loyalists==

===''Galactica'' crew===
* Admiral [[William Adama]]
* Colonel [[Saul Tigh]]
* Captain [[Kara Thrace|Kara "Starbuck" Thrace]]
* Captain [[Karl Agathon|Karl "Helo" Agathon]], wounded in action.
* Captain [[Aaron Kelly]], defected from mutineers.
* Lieutenant [[Louis Hoshi]]
* Lieutenant [[Sharon Agathon|Sharon "Athena" Agathon]]
* Ensign [[Samuel Anders|Samuel "Longshot" Anders]], permanently crippled as a result of a firefight.
* Chief Petty Officer [[Peter Laird]] †, murdered by Zarek.
* Private [[Stewart Jaffee]] †, killed in action by Rebel Marines.

===Civilians===
* President [[Laura Roslin]]
* [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|The Quorum of Twelve]], later assassinated on Zarek's orders.
** [[Lee Adama]]
** [[Jacob Cantrell]] †
** [[Dahlia]] †
** [[Reza Chronides]] †
** Eight [[Unnamed civilians in the Fleet (RDM)#Quorum of Twelve|unnamed delegates]] †
* The [[Cult of Baltar]]
** Dr. [[Gaius Baltar]]
** [[Paulla Schaffer]]
** [[Jeanne]]
* [[Romo Lampkin]]

===Cylons not part of ''Galactica'''s crew===
On ''Galactica'':
* [[Galen Tyrol]]
* [[Caprica-Six]]

On the Baseship:
* Misc. [[Number Two]] copies
* Misc. [[Number Six]] copies
** [[Number Six#Lida|Lida]]
* Misc. [[Number Eight]] copies
* [[Tory Foster]]

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Number Three

2011-01-09T08:24:08Z

Fredmdbud: /* Other copies */ there is no indication that any other Number Threes were to be unboxed

: ''For other articles with subjects containing the number "three", see: [[Three (disambiguation)]].''

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"'''Number Three'''" is a model of humanoid Cylon, female, blonde, and marked by a religious curiosity—notably surrounding the verboten [[Final Five]]—that sets her against the other Cylon models, notably the [[Number One]]s.

The model was first introduced in "[[Final Cut]]" as an infiltrator in the Fleet under the alias "[[D'Anna Biers]]" posing as a reporter for the [[Fleet News Service]]. She appears to be more of a tabloid rumor-and-innuendo format news journalist and less of the conventional Fleet journalist types such as [[James McManus]].

Threes are also referred to as "D'Annas" collectively ([[The Ties That Bind]], [[Guess What's Coming to Dinner?]]).

Because of their defiance of the taboo against learning more about the Final Five, the entire line is [[Boxing|boxed]], and their consciousnesses are stored at the Cylons' central [[Resurrection Hub]] ([[The Ties That Bind]]).

[[Natalie]]'s faction in the [[Cylon Civil War]] wants to unbox the [[Number Three (Downloaded copy)|Number Three]] who visited the [[The Temple of Five|Temple of Five]], so that the seven and the five may be united. They eventually forms a fragile alliance with the Colonials to retrieve this Three, and then destroy the Hub ([[Guess What's Coming to Dinner?]]). Three is resurrected, and with the destruction of the Hub she becomes the sole Three in existence ("[[Sine Qua Non]]", "[[The Hub]]").

Fallen into despair with the discovery of a dead Earth, this last Three chooses to stay and die on the planet ([[Sometimes a Great Notion]]).<ref>In the podcast for "Sometimes a Great Notion", Ron Moore notes that this is the last appearance of D'Anna Biers.</ref>

== Copies ==

===Fleet copy===

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[[Image:CylonThree.jpg|thumb|left|Number Three model on ''Galactica'' ([[Final Cut]])]]

The first copy of Number Three is introduced in "[[Final Cut]]", posing as a documentary filmmaker chronicling the "[[Gideon]] massacre" and, later, life aboard ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]''. Her report is transmitted back to Cylon-occuped [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]], along with information on [[Sharon Agathon|Sharon Agathon ''neé'' Valerii]]'s survival and successful pregnancy.

Her status following the arrival of the Cylons on [[New Caprica]] is uncertain; it is not clear whether the lead Number Three who interacts with Baltar and later Hera is the same copy as the filmmaker.

This copy is presumed deceased, as she is more than likely [[boxing|boxed]] with her entire line and her consciousness destroyed with the [[Resurrection Hub]] ("[[Rapture]]", "[[Sine Qua Non]]", "[[The Hub]]").
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[[Image:Biers Downloaded.JPG|thumb|right|Number Three model on Caprica ([[Downloaded]])]]

This Number Three is first introduced in "[[Downloaded]]" in her attempt to box [[Caprica-Six]] and [[Sharon Valerii|Sharon "Boomer" Valerii]]. After the two Cylons convince the others that they made a mistake when they [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|launched their all-out attack]] on the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Colonies]], she later oversees the [[Cylon Occupation Authority|occupation]] of [[New Caprica]], the recovery of [[Hera Agathon]] from Colonial hands, and later leads the Cylons' search for both [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]] and the [[Final Five]].

This later search for the Final Five, verboten by a cultural imperative of Cylon society, leads her to the [[Temple of Five]] where she receives a vision that identifies the Five. She later dies as a result of this vision, only to be resurrected and summarily [[boxed]], a process overseen by the [[Number One]]s. However, a [[Cylon Civil War]] instigated by [[Natalie]] (a [[Number Six]]) leads to her later unboxing by Cavil and [[Sharon Valerii|Boomer]], with the belief that she can convince the rebels to stop rebelling. She offers her rather violent reply to this (by killing Cavil), and is summarily rescued by [[Karl Agathon]] and an [[Number Eight|Eight]], and—with the destruction of the [[Resurrection Hub]]—is the last Three in existence and the only Three to ever reach Earth.

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=== Other copies ===

A Number Three demonstrates her oratorical skills by giving a speech at the graduation ceremony of the [[New Caprica Police]] and is blown up shortly afterwards, along with many of the other attendees, by [[Tucker Clellan|Tucker "Duck" Clellan]], whom she has just congratulated ([[Occupation]]).

Later on, two Threes form part of the Cylon counsel in the command center of a baseship, where they first learn of the virus which threatened to infect their ship. After Baltar returns with further information from the baseships, one of the Threes makes the decision to abandon the infected baseship to its fate, angering the [[Hybrid]] ([[Torn]]).

A Number Three on another baseship repeatedly taunts and tortures [[Daniel Novacek]] prior to his seeming escape. Novacek "kills" this copy, which is allegedly diseased, and makes his "escape" to the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]]. However, this was all part of a Cylon plan for Novacek to take revenge on [[William Adama]], and his exit is observed by another Three, who laughs mockingly ([[Hero]]).

Another Number Three refuses the Cylon consensus that the fleet of [[Heavy Raider]]s carrying D'Anna Biers and [[Gaius Baltar]] to the [[algae planet]] must be told to stand down ([[Eye of Jupiter]]). Instead, she gives the return order to all the craft except the one with Biers and Baltar on it, reasoning that Admiral Adama would never destroy the [[Temple of Five]] and kill his own people over just one ship. This incident makes it clear to the other models that Biers no longer cares about consensus, and that the other Threes are with her ([[Rapture]]).

All Number Threes are subsequently boxed ([[Rapture]]). Biers herself is revived during the [[Battle of the Resurrection Hub]], and all the other copies are lost with the destruction of the [[Resurrection Hub]] ([[The Hub]]). Since she is the last, her death marks the extinction of her model.

==Notes==
*[[Lucy Lawless]]'s more renowned TV character, [[w:Xena|Xena]], originates from [[w:Amphipolis|Amphipolis]], an actual village situated between the Greek provinces Macedonia and [[wikipedia:Thrace|Thrace]]. See also: [[Kara Thrace]].
*A few scenes on the basestar (particularly those in "[[The Eye of Jupiter]]") imply that Number Three is in a senior position to at least some of the other models. For instance, she refers to the landing of Centurions on the algae planet as "need-to-know". On the other hand, the reactions of the other Cylons to this behavior indicate that she might have exceeded her authority.
*Number Three (or at least some models) appears to be a strict devotee of the [[Cylon Religion|Cylon religion]].
:''In Lucy Lawless' words "She's like the ultimate narcissist. She believes that she is the pure form, so she is constantly trying to bring everyone else in line with her world view".

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Sons of Ares

2010-10-06T06:17:33Z

Fredmdbud: militant, not militaristic

[[Image:4x04 Sons of Ares leader.jpg|thumb|The leader of the Sons of Ares]]
The '''Sons of Ares''' are a militant [[w:fundamentalist|fundamentalist]] group, dedicated to [[Ares]], the God of war. [[William Adama|Admiral Adama]] describes the group as "brutal". ([[Escape Velocity]])

The group appears to be in possession of certain weapons including firearms and smoke grenades, and appears to know about military protocol onboard ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'', though the reasoning behind this is unknown. Several members of the Sons of Ares throws a smoke grenade into the room where the [[Cult of Baltar]] is located, and raids the area with the intention of finding [[Gaius Baltar]]. However, they run out of time and are forced to retreat. Baltar becomes aware of who they are after finding their graffiti on a wall. ([[Escape Velocity]])

Several months later, Baltar's cult has another hostile confrontation with the Sons of Ares (along with [[Enzo]]) in [[Dogsville]]. After Baltar and his cult hand out food to the starving people in Dogsville, a contingent arrives and forces the cult to give them all the food, before getting out. Baltar then manages to appeal to Adama to give his group weapons in order to prepare for another confrontation with the Sons of Ares. ([[Deadlock]])

If such a confrontation occurred prior to the dissolution of the Fleet at Earth, it has not been chronicled.

== Note ==
* In the original draft for the beginning of [[Season 4|season four]], [[Tom Zarek]] was behind the Sons of Ares and encouraged its attack on the Cult <ref>{{cite_rdm_podcast|episode=Escape Velocity|act=1|id=ZarekPaysGoons|timestamp=|totalrunning=}}</ref>.

==See also==
* [[Ares]]

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Stephanie Jacobsen

2010-10-03T14:46:29Z

Fredmdbud:

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'''Stephanie Jacobsen''' (also credited as '''Stephanie Chaves-Jacobsen''') is a Hong Kong-born Australian actress who plays [[Kendra Shaw]] in "[[Razor]]", a television movie feature of the [[Re-imagined Series]].

Virtually unknown to American or European audiences, Jacobsen had recurring roles in two Australian TV shows, ''[[w:headLand|headLand]]'' and ''[[w:Pizza (TV series)|Pizza]]''. In the genre, she also had a brief appearance in the last season of SCIFI Channel's ''[[w:Farscape|Farscape]]''. Recently, she was cast as Maya in ABC's remake of ''[[w:Life on Mars (U.S. TV series)|Life on Mars]]'', but was replaced by [[w:Lisa Bonet|Lisa Bonet]] when nearly all of the parts were re-cast following the first pilot. She portrays Yoshi in a yet untitled sci-fi/horror movie referred to as "[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1147687/ Untitled Gehenna Project]".

Jacobsen had a semi-regular role for most of the second season of ''[[w:Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles|Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]'' as the character Commander Jesse Flores, a Resistance fighter from the future.<ref>{{cite_news|first=Crystal|last=Carroll|url=http://firefox.org/news/articles/1962/1/Sarah-Connor-Adds-Recurring-Character/Page1.html|title=Sarah Connor Adds Recurring Character|publisher=|page=|date=20 September 2008|accessdate=20 September 2008|language=}}</ref> Coincidentally, this character also served as executive officer, but on the nuclear submarine "USS Jimmy Carter''.

== External Links ==

* [http://www.galactica.tv/battlestar-galactica-2003-interviews/stephanie-jacobsen-galactica.tv-interview.html Stephanie Jacobsen GALACTICA.TV interview]

== References ==

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Flight suit

2010-10-03T08:04:34Z

Fredmdbud:

[[Image:Racetrack2.jpg|thumb|200px|[[ECO]] [[Racetrack]], wearing a flight suit with helmet.]]

A flight suit is basically a [[Wikipedia:Pressure suit|pressure suit]] garment. Flight suits are worn by both [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] and [[Raptor]] crews during missions<ref>In the [[Original Series]], a [[space suit]] was available for emergencies aboard [[Galactica (TOS)|their battlestar]]. However, [[Colonial Warrior]]s never wore any pressure suit during their [[Viper (TOS)|Viper]] flights, making in-space search-and-rescues likely impossible if cockpit decompressions occurred.</ref>, and the [[humanoid Cylons]] piloting [[Heavy Raiders]].

==Colonial Flight Suit==
Colonial military flight crews wear '''flight suits'''<ref>{{bsgwiki term}}</ref>, sometimes referred to as a "jock smocks"<ref>This term is first used by [[Kara Thrace]] in "[[He That Believeth In Me]]" when she asks [[Samuel Anders]] why he wears a flight suit.</ref>.

The flight suit is an airtight, one-piece jumpsuit with a single front zipper that runs from neck to waist. Pressure gloves are attached by soft pressure seals incorporated in the sleeves. The suit is attached to the flight helmet by a hard metal collar, which receives pressurizing air through a hose. The suit's basic environmental adjustments are managed by a small series of buttons on the left forearm. The flight suit appears suitable as all-weather gear when in rainy or cool conditions, but its lack of armor provides no significant protection in combat.

[[Image:Flightsuitcollar.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Close-up of [[Kara Thrace|Starbuck's]] hard-seal collar.]]

When not in ready status, the suit can be worn unzipped for comfort, with the the top half of the suit rolled down. Standard uniform undershirts are worn underneath the flight suit. Flight suits are worn with utility belts to carry a variety of gear, including sidearms.

The basic flight suit design has remained the same since the [[First Cylon War]] without major changes. A green fabric version was observed during the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]] ([[Miniseries]]). A black t-shirt was sometimes worn instead of the standard shirt and tank-top combination ([[Razor Flashbacks#Episode 1|Razor Flashbacks, Episode 1]]).

<div style="clear:both;"></div>

[[Image:Capricavalerii2.jpg|thumb|right|175px|A closer look at the upper half of a flight suit.]]

The left leg of the flight suit features a windowed pocket containing a checklist card, oriented to be readable by the wearer when in the seated position. The card for the viper pilots read as follows:

'''Viper Pre Flight Checklist'''

'''1. Pre Flight'''

External Inspection.....................................Okay<br>
Flight Controls............................................Okay<br>
Tanks filled ................................................Okay<br>
Canopy Locks and explosive bolts to safe.....Okay<br>
Seat Motors ...............................................Okay<br>
Weapons to safe ........................................Okay<br>

'''2. Start Check '''
[[Image:Pre Flight Checklist.jpg|thumb|right|Viper Pre Flight Checklist]]

Area..........................................................Clear<br>
Comms......................................................Up<br>
Tacom/Satnav.............................................Up<br>
Canopy Bolts..............................................Armed<br>
Escape Seat...............................................Armed<br>
Engine Systems in the Green.......................Green<br>
Weapons in the Green..........Weapons set to Armed<br>

'''3. Launch Tube Check'''

Area............................................................Clear<br>
Blast Doors..................................................Open<br>
Heads Up Display.........................................On<br>
Tac/Nav........................................................To Active<br>
Flaps...........................................................15 degrees down angle<br>
Engines........................................................85%<br>
Assume Launch Position................................Okay<br>
LSO Launch Signal........................................Okay<br>
Master Caution Cold Shot Warning..................Set<br>

==Cylon Flight Suit==

[[Image:411 cylon pilots.jpg|thumb|[[Number Eight|Eights]] and [[Number Six|Sixes]] in flight suits.]]
[[Humanoid Cylon]]s piloting [[Heavy Raider]]s wear all-black flight suits made of a sleek material ([[The Hub]]). It is unknown whether or not these flight suits have hard seals or helmets.

<div style="clear:both;"></div>

==Related Imagery==

<div style="text-align:center;">{{#fg:Flight_suit.xml}}</div>

==Notes==
*In the episodes "[[You Can't Go Home Again]]" and "[[Act of Contrition]]", [[Kara Thrace]] uses her flight suit to its fullest, from her ejection from her wayward Viper to her parachute landing, and monitoring of life support mechanisms using the gauges built into the suit.
*The suits are designed to keep a pilot who has ejected from his Viper alive in a vacuum for a limited amount of time, such as when Lee Adama has to eject from the [[Blackbird]] in "[[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]".
*It appears that ''Galactica'' rarely has opportunity for [[SAR]] operations to retrieve pilots after combat with Cylon forces. Often the battlestar must retreat with the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]], leaving any surviving Viper pilots to either be captured by the Cylons or die once their oxygen runs out.
*The flight suits were designed by Deborah Everton, and were constructed from materials produced by Sommers Plastic Products.<ref>http://www.scifihero.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=117&pid=4039&mode=threaded&start=</ref>

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Flight suit

2010-10-03T08:03:34Z

Fredmdbud:

[[Image:Racetrack2.jpg|thumb|200px|[[ECO]] [[Racetrack]], wearing a flight suit with helmet.]]

A flight suit is basically a [[Wikipedia:Pressure suit|pressure suit]] garment. Flight suits are worn by both [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] and [[Raptor]] crews during missions<ref>In the [[Original Series]], a [[space suit]] was available for emergencies aboard [[Galactica (TOS)|their battlestar]]. However, [[Colonial Warrior]]s never wore any pressure suit during their [[Viper (TOS)|Viper]] flights, making in-space search-and-rescues likely impossible if cockpit decompressions occurred.</ref> and the [[humanoid Cylons]] who pilot [[Heavy Raiders]].

==Colonial Flight Suit==
Colonial military flight crews wear '''flight suits'''<ref>{{bsgwiki term}}</ref>, sometimes referred to as a "jock smocks"<ref>This term is first used by [[Kara Thrace]] in "[[He That Believeth In Me]]" when she asks [[Samuel Anders]] why he wears a flight suit.</ref>.

The flight suit is an airtight, one-piece jumpsuit with a single front zipper that runs from neck to waist. Pressure gloves are attached by soft pressure seals incorporated in the sleeves. The suit is attached to the flight helmet by a hard metal collar, which receives pressurizing air through a hose. The suit's basic environmental adjustments are managed by a small series of buttons on the left forearm. The flight suit appears suitable as all-weather gear when in rainy or cool conditions, but its lack of armor provides no significant protection in combat.

[[Image:Flightsuitcollar.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Close-up of [[Kara Thrace|Starbuck's]] hard-seal collar.]]

When not in ready status, the suit can be worn unzipped for comfort, with the the top half of the suit rolled down. Standard uniform undershirts are worn underneath the flight suit. Flight suits are worn with utility belts to carry a variety of gear, including sidearms.

The basic flight suit design has remained the same since the [[First Cylon War]] without major changes. A green fabric version was observed during the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]] ([[Miniseries]]). A black t-shirt was sometimes worn instead of the standard shirt and tank-top combination ([[Razor Flashbacks#Episode 1|Razor Flashbacks, Episode 1]]).

<div style="clear:both;"></div>

[[Image:Capricavalerii2.jpg|thumb|right|175px|A closer look at the upper half of a flight suit.]]

The left leg of the flight suit features a windowed pocket containing a checklist card, oriented to be readable by the wearer when in the seated position. The card for the viper pilots read as follows:

'''Viper Pre Flight Checklist'''

'''1. Pre Flight'''

External Inspection.....................................Okay<br>
Flight Controls............................................Okay<br>
Tanks filled ................................................Okay<br>
Canopy Locks and explosive bolts to safe.....Okay<br>
Seat Motors ...............................................Okay<br>
Weapons to safe ........................................Okay<br>

'''2. Start Check '''
[[Image:Pre Flight Checklist.jpg|thumb|right|Viper Pre Flight Checklist]]

Area..........................................................Clear<br>
Comms......................................................Up<br>
Tacom/Satnav.............................................Up<br>
Canopy Bolts..............................................Armed<br>
Escape Seat...............................................Armed<br>
Engine Systems in the Green.......................Green<br>
Weapons in the Green..........Weapons set to Armed<br>

'''3. Launch Tube Check'''

Area............................................................Clear<br>
Blast Doors..................................................Open<br>
Heads Up Display.........................................On<br>
Tac/Nav........................................................To Active<br>
Flaps...........................................................15 degrees down angle<br>
Engines........................................................85%<br>
Assume Launch Position................................Okay<br>
LSO Launch Signal........................................Okay<br>
Master Caution Cold Shot Warning..................Set<br>

==Cylon Flight Suit==

[[Image:411 cylon pilots.jpg|thumb|[[Number Eight|Eights]] and [[Number Six|Sixes]] in flight suits.]]
[[Humanoid Cylon]]s piloting [[Heavy Raider]]s wear all-black flight suits made of a sleek material ([[The Hub]]). It is unknown whether or not these flight suits have hard seals or helmets.

<div style="clear:both;"></div>

==Related Imagery==

<div style="text-align:center;">{{#fg:Flight_suit.xml}}</div>

==Notes==
*In the episodes "[[You Can't Go Home Again]]" and "[[Act of Contrition]]", [[Kara Thrace]] uses her flight suit to its fullest, from her ejection from her wayward Viper to her parachute landing, and monitoring of life support mechanisms using the gauges built into the suit.
*The suits are designed to keep a pilot who has ejected from his Viper alive in a vacuum for a limited amount of time, such as when Lee Adama has to eject from the [[Blackbird]] in "[[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]".
*It appears that ''Galactica'' rarely has opportunity for [[SAR]] operations to retrieve pilots after combat with Cylon forces. Often the battlestar must retreat with the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]], leaving any surviving Viper pilots to either be captured by the Cylons or die once their oxygen runs out.
*The flight suits were designed by Deborah Everton, and were constructed from materials produced by Sommers Plastic Products.<ref>http://www.scifihero.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=117&pid=4039&mode=threaded&start=</ref>

==References==
<div style="font-size:85%"><references/></div>

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Flight suit

2010-10-03T07:56:03Z

Fredmdbud: /* Colonial Flight Suit */ removed paragraph that was primarily about the helmet, not the suit; wording edit

[[Image:Racetrack2.jpg|thumb|200px|[[ECO]] [[Racetrack]], wearing a flight suit with helmet.]]

A flight suit is a basic [[Wikipedia:Pressure suit|pressure suit]]. It's a versatile outfit that has been designed to be as comfortable as it is useful. Flight suits are worn by both [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] and [[Raptor]] crews during missions<ref>In the [[Original Series]], a [[space suit]] was available for emergencies aboard [[Galactica (TOS)|their battlestar]]. However, [[Colonial Warrior]]s never wore any pressure suit during their [[Viper (TOS)|Viper]] flights, making in-space search-and-rescues likely impossible if cockpit decompressions occurred.</ref> as well as by the [[humanoid Cylons]] who pilot [[Heavy Raiders]].

==Colonial Flight Suit==
Colonial military flight crews wear '''flight suits'''<ref>{{bsgwiki term}}</ref>, sometimes referred to as a "jock smocks"<ref>This term is first used by [[Kara Thrace]] in "[[He That Believeth In Me]]" when she asks [[Samuel Anders]] why he wears a flight suit.</ref>.

The flight suit is an airtight, one-piece jumpsuit with a single front zipper that runs from neck to waist. Pressure gloves are attached by soft pressure seals incorporated in the sleeves. The suit is attached to the flight helmet by a hard metal collar, which receives pressurizing air through a hose. The suit's basic environmental adjustments are managed by a small series of buttons on the left forearm. The flight suit appears suitable as all-weather gear when in rainy or cool conditions, but its lack of armor provides no significant protection in combat.

[[Image:Flightsuitcollar.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Close-up of [[Kara Thrace|Starbuck's]] hard-seal collar.]]

When not in ready status, the suit can be worn unzipped for comfort, with the the top half of the suit rolled down. Standard uniform undershirts are worn underneath the flight suit. Flight suits are worn with utility belts to carry a variety of gear, including sidearms.

The basic flight suit design has remained the same since the [[First Cylon War]] without major changes. A green fabric version was observed during the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]] ([[Miniseries]]). A black t-shirt was sometimes worn instead of the standard shirt and tank-top combination ([[Razor Flashbacks#Episode 1|Razor Flashbacks, Episode 1]]).

<div style="clear:both;"></div>

[[Image:Capricavalerii2.jpg|thumb|right|175px|A closer look at the upper half of a flight suit.]]

The left leg of the flight suit features a windowed pocket containing a checklist card, oriented to be readable by the wearer when in the seated position. The card for the viper pilots read as follows:

'''Viper Pre Flight Checklist'''

'''1. Pre Flight'''

External Inspection.....................................Okay<br>
Flight Controls............................................Okay<br>
Tanks filled ................................................Okay<br>
Canopy Locks and explosive bolts to safe.....Okay<br>
Seat Motors ...............................................Okay<br>
Weapons to safe ........................................Okay<br>

'''2. Start Check '''
[[Image:Pre Flight Checklist.jpg|thumb|right|Viper Pre Flight Checklist]]

Area..........................................................Clear<br>
Comms......................................................Up<br>
Tacom/Satnav.............................................Up<br>
Canopy Bolts..............................................Armed<br>
Escape Seat...............................................Armed<br>
Engine Systems in the Green.......................Green<br>
Weapons in the Green..........Weapons set to Armed<br>

'''3. Launch Tube Check'''

Area............................................................Clear<br>
Blast Doors..................................................Open<br>
Heads Up Display.........................................On<br>
Tac/Nav........................................................To Active<br>
Flaps...........................................................15 degrees down angle<br>
Engines........................................................85%<br>
Assume Launch Position................................Okay<br>
LSO Launch Signal........................................Okay<br>
Master Caution Cold Shot Warning..................Set<br>

==Cylon Flight Suit==

[[Image:411 cylon pilots.jpg|thumb|[[Number Eight|Eights]] and [[Number Six|Sixes]] in flight suits.]]
[[Humanoid Cylon]]s piloting [[Heavy Raider]]s wear all-black flight suits made of a sleek material ([[The Hub]]). It is unknown whether or not these flight suits have hard seals or helmets.

<div style="clear:both;"></div>

==Related Imagery==

<div style="text-align:center;">{{#fg:Flight_suit.xml}}</div>

==Notes==
*In the episodes "[[You Can't Go Home Again]]" and "[[Act of Contrition]]", [[Kara Thrace]] uses her flight suit to its fullest, from her ejection from her wayward Viper to her parachute landing, and monitoring of life support mechanisms using the gauges built into the suit.
*The suits are designed to keep a pilot who has ejected from his Viper alive in a vacuum for a limited amount of time, such as when Lee Adama has to eject from the [[Blackbird]] in "[[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]".
*It appears that ''Galactica'' rarely has opportunity for [[SAR]] operations to retrieve pilots after combat with Cylon forces. Often the battlestar must retreat with the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]], leaving any surviving Viper pilots to either be captured by the Cylons or die once their oxygen runs out.
*The flight suits were designed by Deborah Everton, and were constructed from materials produced by Sommers Plastic Products.<ref>http://www.scifihero.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=117&pid=4039&mode=threaded&start=</ref>

==References==
<div style="font-size:85%"><references/></div>

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Mercury class battlestar

2009-12-07T05:26:41Z

Fredmdbud: /* Overview */ edit

:''For the unnamed original class, to which ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' belongs, see [[Galactica Class Battlestar]].''
{{Ship Data|
|image= BSPegasus.jpg
| title= ''Mercury'' class battlestar
| race= Colonial
| type= Military
| ftl= Yes
| crew= Unknown approx 2500 (Full crew)
| role= Capital battleship/carrier
| weapons= 34 Primary [[KEW|Kinetic Energy Weapons]] (30 twin turrets, 4 fixed twin mounts) and point-defense [[KEW|Kinetic Energy Weapons]], conventional missiles, nuclear warheads, Vipers, Raptors
| 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>
| status= Final known ship of this class destroyed at the [[Battle of New Caprica]]
}}

'''''Mercury'' class battlestars''' are advanced Colonial capital warships/carriers of the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Colonial Fleet]], top-of-the-line vessels at the time of the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]]

==Overview==
Introduced some years after the First [[Cylon War]], the structural design of the ''Mercury'' class differs significantly from the original ''Galactica'' type battlestar. The "neck" section is smaller, and the ''Mercury'' class features eight [[sublight]] engine pods instead of the older class's six. Its edges are more angular, and the hull is more completely armored (no exposed ribs). Each [[flight pod]] consists of two stacked landing bays with adjoined decks and hangars, which along with computer-assisted landings results in a faster Viper recovery rate. These pods are fixed and do not retract when executing an [[FTL| FTL jump]] ([[The Captain's Hand]]), suggesting advances in jump systems. Inside, the class features automated sliding doorways, basic computer recognition stations in vital areas, and networked computer systems.

An example of this class, ''Pegasus'', carries a complement of 50 Raptors and 200 [[Viper Mark VII]] fighters (8 squadrons and two reserve squadrons color coded blue, red, green, yellow, orange, purple, black, white, and reserve squadrons gold and silver) <ref>Intelligence Debrief: Cylon Basestar, "Battlestar Galactica: The Official Magazine," June/July 2006, page 56.</ref>.

[[Battery|Gun batteries]] on the ''Mercury'' class are distributed all over the ship ([[The Captain's Hand]]), with the greatest concentration of large turrets found along the side of the ship, within the valley created by the upper and lower halves of the hull, and along the flight pods. Four are mounted on the underside of the upper hull on the ship's bow, below which sits four non-turreted large guns; these form the main forward batteries. Six turrets are mounted on each underside of the alligator head, grouped in pairs. There are also three turrets on the side of each flight pod along two more turrets are mounted on the front and back of each flight pod. This amounts to a total of thirty-four main gun batteries. The turreted guns of the ''Mercury'' class have a higher rate of fire than ''Galactica's'' turreted guns when operating in flak mode, demonstrated during the skirmish with the [[Raider (RDM)|Cylon War-era Raiders]] in [[Razor]].

The standard crew complement of a ''Mercury'' class battlestar is in excess of 2,500 ("[[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]", "[[Razor]]"), a small number for a ship its size made possible by [[Computers in the Re-imagined Series|computer]] automation.

The ''Mercury'' class battlestar has production facilities to build new [[Viper (RDM)|Viper Mark VIIs]] from basic resources ([[Scar]]).

== Known ''Mercury'' class battlestars ==
*Battlestar [[Pegasus]]
== Notes ==
[[Image:Pegasus-Comparison.png|right|thumb|Comparison of [[Battlestar (TOS)|original series battlestar]] and ''Mercury'' class]]
The shape of the ''Mercury'' class resembles the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]] [[battlestar (TOS)|battlestar]] more than the Re-imagined Series' ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]''. Its engine pods number eight, compared to ''Galactica'''s six engine pods. The pods aboard the ''Mercury'' class battlestar appear more directly integrated with its rear section, and its flight pods share the original angular shape.

The visual effects artist of the re-imagined ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'', Jose A. Perez, has commented that, "The new design was somewhat of a cross between the look of the [[TOS|original-series]] [[battlestar (TOS)|battlestars]], and yet with elements of the [[Galactica (RDM)|new one]]. Aside from that, it has mostly hull plating (to absorb more damage) , as opposed to the ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' which has more ribbing."
Mr. Perez also commented that, "The harder edges [ of the [[Pegasus (RDM)|''Pegasus'']] ] were intentional as well, to match the interior style of the sets more."

<gallery>
Image:Pegasus01.jpg|Fore and below
Image:Pegasus_Hi-Res_1a.jpg|[[Viper (RDM)|Mark VII Vipers]] landing in port flight pod
Image:Pegasus_Hi-Res_5a.jpg|[[Kinetic Energy Weapon|Batteries]] along the flight pod
</gallery>

==References==
<div style="font-size:85%"><references/></div>

{{sourcebox|Correspondence with Jose Perez}}

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[[de:Mercury-Klasse]]
[[es:Battlestar clase Mercury]]

Mercury class battlestar

2009-12-07T05:23:11Z

Fredmdbud: /* Overview */

:''For the unnamed original class, to which ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' belongs, see [[Galactica Class Battlestar]].''
{{Ship Data|
|image= BSPegasus.jpg
| title= ''Mercury'' class battlestar
| race= Colonial
| type= Military
| ftl= Yes
| crew= Unknown approx 2500 (Full crew)
| role= Capital battleship/carrier
| weapons= 34 Primary [[KEW|Kinetic Energy Weapons]] (30 twin turrets, 4 fixed twin mounts) and point-defense [[KEW|Kinetic Energy Weapons]], conventional missiles, nuclear warheads, Vipers, Raptors
| 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>
| status= Final known ship of this class destroyed at the [[Battle of New Caprica]]
}}

'''''Mercury'' class battlestars''' are advanced Colonial capital warships/carriers of the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Colonial Fleet]], top-of-the-line vessels at the time of the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]]

==Overview==
Introduced some years after the First [[Cylon War]], the structural design of the ''Mercury'' class differs significantly from the original ''Galactica'' type battlestar. The "neck" section is smaller, and the ''Mercury'' class features eight [[sublight]] engine pods instead of the older class's six. Its edges are more angular, and the hull is more completely armored (no exposed ribs). Each [[flight pod]] consists of two stacked landing bays with adjoined decks and hangars, which along with computer-assisted landings results in a faster Viper recovery rate. These pods are fixed and do not retract when executing an [[FTL| FTL jump]] ([[The Captain's Hand]]), suggesting advances in jump systems. Inside, the class features automated sliding doorways, basic computer recognition stations in vital areas, and networked computer systems.

An example of this class, ''Pegasus'', carries a complement of 50 Raptors and 200 [[Viper Mark VII]] fighters (8 squadrons and two reserve squadrons color coded blue, red, green, yellow, orange, purple, black, white, and reserve squadrons gold and silver) <ref>Intelligence Debrief: Cylon Basestar, "Battlestar Galactica: The Official Magazine," June/July 2006, page 56.</ref>.

[[Battery|Gun batteries]] on the ''Mercury'' class are distributed all over the ship ([[The Captain's Hand]]), with the greatest concentration of large turret found along the side of the ship, within the valley created by the upper and lower halves of the hull, including the flight pods. Four are mounted on the underside of the upper hull on the ship's bow, below which sits four non-turreted large guns; these form the main forward batteries. Six turrets are mounted on each underside of the alligator head, grouped in pairs. There are also three turrets on the side of each flight pod along two more turrets are mounted on the front and back of each flight pod. This amounts to a total of thirty-four main gun batteries. The turreted guns of the ''Mercury'' class have a higher rate of fire than ''Galactica's'' turreted guns when operating in flak mode, demonstrated during the skirmish with the [[Raider (RDM)|Cylon War-era Raiders]] in [[Razor]].

The standard crew complement of a ''Mercury'' class battlestar is in excess of 2,500 ("[[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]", "[[Razor]]"), a small number for a ship its size made possible by [[Computers in the Re-imagined Series|computer]] automation.

The ''Mercury'' class battlestar has production facilities to build new [[Viper (RDM)|Viper Mark VIIs]] from basic resources ([[Scar]]).

== Known ''Mercury'' class battlestars ==
*Battlestar [[Pegasus]]
== Notes ==
[[Image:Pegasus-Comparison.png|right|thumb|Comparison of [[Battlestar (TOS)|original series battlestar]] and ''Mercury'' class]]
The shape of the ''Mercury'' class resembles the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]] [[battlestar (TOS)|battlestar]] more than the Re-imagined Series' ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]''. Its engine pods number eight, compared to ''Galactica'''s six engine pods. The pods aboard the ''Mercury'' class battlestar appear more directly integrated with its rear section, and its flight pods share the original angular shape.

The visual effects artist of the re-imagined ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'', Jose A. Perez, has commented that, "The new design was somewhat of a cross between the look of the [[TOS|original-series]] [[battlestar (TOS)|battlestars]], and yet with elements of the [[Galactica (RDM)|new one]]. Aside from that, it has mostly hull plating (to absorb more damage) , as opposed to the ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' which has more ribbing."
Mr. Perez also commented that, "The harder edges [ of the [[Pegasus (RDM)|''Pegasus'']] ] were intentional as well, to match the interior style of the sets more."

<gallery>
Image:Pegasus01.jpg|Fore and below
Image:Pegasus_Hi-Res_1a.jpg|[[Viper (RDM)|Mark VII Vipers]] landing in port flight pod
Image:Pegasus_Hi-Res_5a.jpg|[[Kinetic Energy Weapon|Batteries]] along the flight pod
</gallery>

==References==
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{{sourcebox|Correspondence with Jose Perez}}

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Mercury class battlestar

2009-12-07T05:22:19Z

Fredmdbud: /* Overview */ missing words

:''For the unnamed original class, to which ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' belongs, see [[Galactica Class Battlestar]].''
{{Ship Data|
|image= BSPegasus.jpg
| title= ''Mercury'' class battlestar
| race= Colonial
| type= Military
| ftl= Yes
| crew= Unknown approx 2500 (Full crew)
| role= Capital battleship/carrier
| weapons= 34 Primary [[KEW|Kinetic Energy Weapons]] (30 twin turrets, 4 fixed twin mounts) and point-defense [[KEW|Kinetic Energy Weapons]], conventional missiles, nuclear warheads, Vipers, Raptors
| 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>
| status= Final known ship of this class destroyed at the [[Battle of New Caprica]]
}}

'''''Mercury'' class battlestars''' are advanced Colonial capital warships/carriers of the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Colonial Fleet]], top-of-the-line vessels at the time of the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]]

==Overview==
Introduced some years after the First [[Cylon War]], the structural design of the ''Mercury'' class differs significantly from the original ''Galactica'' type battlestar. The "neck" section is smaller, and the ''Mercury'' class features eight [[sublight]] engine pods instead of the older class's six. Its edges are more angular, and the hull is more completely armored (no exposed ribs). Each [[flight pod]] consists of two stacked landing bays with adjoined decks and hangars, which along with computer-assisted landings results in a faster Viper recovery rate. These pods are fixed and do not retract when executing an [[FTL| FTL jump]] ([[The Captain's Hand]]), suggesting advances in jump systems. Inside, the class features automated sliding doorways, basic computer recognition stations in vital areas, and networked computer systems.

An example of this class, ''Pegasus'', carries a complement of 50 Raptors and 200 [[Viper Mark VII]] fighters (8 squadrons and two reserve squadrons color coded blue, red, green, yellow, orange, purple, black, white, and reserve squadrons gold and silver) <ref>Intelligence Debrief: Cylon Basestar, "Battlestar Galactica: The Official Magazine," June/July 2006, page 56.</ref>.

[[Battery|Gun batteries]] on the ''Mercury'' class are distributed all over the ship ([[The Captain's Hand]]), with the greatest concentration of large turrets are found along the side of the ship, within the valley created by the upper and lower halves of the hull, including the flight pods. Four are mounted on the underside of the upper hull on the ship's bow, below which sits four non-turreted large guns; these form the main forward batteries. Six turrets are mounted on each underside of the alligator head, grouped in pairs. There are also three turrets on the side of each flight pod along two more turrets are mounted on the front and back of each flight pod. This amounts to a total of thirty-four main gun batteries. The turreted guns of the ''Mercury'' class have a higher rate of fire than ''Galactica's'' turreted guns when operating in flak mode, demonstrated during the skirmish with the [[Raider (RDM)|Cylon War-era Raiders]] in [[Razor]].

The standard crew complement of a ''Mercury'' class battlestar is in excess of 2,500 ("[[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]", "[[Razor]]"), a small number for a ship its size made possible by [[Computers in the Re-imagined Series|computer]] automation.

The ''Mercury'' class battlestar has production facilities to build new [[Viper (RDM)|Viper Mark VIIs]] from basic resources ([[Scar]]).

== Known ''Mercury'' class battlestars ==
*Battlestar [[Pegasus]]
== Notes ==
[[Image:Pegasus-Comparison.png|right|thumb|Comparison of [[Battlestar (TOS)|original series battlestar]] and ''Mercury'' class]]
The shape of the ''Mercury'' class resembles the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]] [[battlestar (TOS)|battlestar]] more than the Re-imagined Series' ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]''. Its engine pods number eight, compared to ''Galactica'''s six engine pods. The pods aboard the ''Mercury'' class battlestar appear more directly integrated with its rear section, and its flight pods share the original angular shape.

The visual effects artist of the re-imagined ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'', Jose A. Perez, has commented that, "The new design was somewhat of a cross between the look of the [[TOS|original-series]] [[battlestar (TOS)|battlestars]], and yet with elements of the [[Galactica (RDM)|new one]]. Aside from that, it has mostly hull plating (to absorb more damage) , as opposed to the ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' which has more ribbing."
Mr. Perez also commented that, "The harder edges [ of the [[Pegasus (RDM)|''Pegasus'']] ] were intentional as well, to match the interior style of the sets more."

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Image:Pegasus01.jpg|Fore and below
Image:Pegasus_Hi-Res_1a.jpg|[[Viper (RDM)|Mark VII Vipers]] landing in port flight pod
Image:Pegasus_Hi-Res_5a.jpg|[[Kinetic Energy Weapon|Batteries]] along the flight pod
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Scorpion Fleet Shipyards

2009-12-04T01:30:56Z

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[[Image:ScorpionFleetShipyards1.jpg|right|thumb|The shipyards over Scorpia.]]
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The '''Scorpion Fleet Shipyard(s)'''<ref>Both "shipyards" and "shipyard" are used in dialogue.</ref> were a [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] dockyard located in orbit around [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Scorpia|Scorpia]].

At the time of the [[Cylon attack]], ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'', at least three more [[battlestar]]s, and three other Colonial Fleet ships are docked there. A Cylon nuclear attack destroys the yards and all ships but ''Pegasus'', which escapes via a [[blind jump]] ([[Razor]]).

== Docked vessels ==

*] <ref>Only one can be seen in the establishing shot of the shipyard, being enclosed by the superstructure on two sides. However, during the battle, a ''Galactica''-type battlestar is shown in a different place. This could mean that the visual effects of the establishing shot and the battle don't fit together. It is unknown if the two are meant to be the same battlestar.</ref>. Two others are of the same or a similar design as ''[[Valkyrie]]''.
*The lower left arm of the superstructure seems to berth another vessel, but it can't be seen clearly.
*A [[Unnamed battlestars#Escort battlestar|peculiar ship]] is docked near ''Pegasus''. The ship may be an escort vessel for [[battlestar group]]s, almost certainly one of the other ships mentioned by Admiral Cain as destroyed in the shipyard attack ([[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]).

== Notes ==
*Although the planet is called Scorpia ("[[Colonial Day]]", "[[Razor]]"), the location subtitles in "Razor" identify the shipyard's name as "Scorpion Fleet Shipyards". It is possible that the installation is named with an adjectival form of the colony's ancient name, "Scorpio". The shipyard is identified as ''Scorpia'' Fleet Shipyards in "[[The Plan]]".
*This image of the shipyards and of the planet Scorpia in the background is the first time that viewers have seen any other Colonial planet aside from [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] ([[Miniseries]]). [[Tauron (RDM)|Tauron]] is later shown in the extended DVD cut of "Razor".
*The shipyards were seen in orbit around the southern hemisphere in "The Plan", but in orbit over Scorpia's northern hemisphere in "Razor".

== See also ==
* [[Fall of the Scorpion Fleet Shipyards]]

== Related images ==

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Image:ScorpionFleetShipyards - Close 2.jpg|Closeup
Image:ScorpionFleetShipyards-Close.jpg|Further closeup
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Kobol (RDM)

2009-12-04T01:22:02Z

Fredmdbud:

: ''For information on the Kobol of the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]], see [[Kobol (TOS)]]. For general information on the planet, see [[Kobol]].''
[[Image:Home_pt1-Kobol.jpg|thumb|280px|Kobol from orbit]]
'''Kobol''' is the ancestral homeworld of the people of the [[Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]], and one of [[Earth (RDM)#A New Earth|two]] known planets where humans naturally evolved. Though it is a lush, life-supporting planet, Kobol has been uninhabited since the exodus of the Thirteen Tribes. On the surface, only ruins remain as evidence of the once-great civilization that previously existed.

==Overview==
Kobol is a verdant world of seas and continents, the latter having large areas of woodland, grassland and forests. An unexplained event or environmental catastrophe caused humanity to leave Kobol and settle on the planets that form the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies of Kobol]]. However, at the time of ''Galactica's'' discovery of Kobol, the planet appears to have recovered from such an event.

The seat of power of Kobol resided in the [[City of the Gods]] in the northern hemisphere, itself dominated by the [[Forum]], [[Temple]] and [[Opera House]] ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]), structures which were duplicated on [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] in the city of [[Delphi]]. It is said that humans lived there in harmony with the [[Religion in the Twelve Colonies#The Lords of Kobol|Lords of Kobol]]. The [[Virtual beings]] were witness to Kobol's civilization and observed the same patterns there as they later would on the worlds settled by the descendants of Kobol's peoples - "commercialism, decadence, technology run amuck".

==Great Exodus==
Some 2,000 years prior to the events of the [[Miniseries]], the Twelve Tribes [[Galleon Meadow|departed Kobol]] for another star system in "The Great Exodus of the Twelve Tribes from Kobol". The [[Sacred Scrolls]] also tell of a [[Thirteenth Tribe (RDM)|Thirteenth Tribe]] that departed Kobol some 2,000 years prior ([[Miniseries]]) to seek a planet known as [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]] <ref>[[Galen Tyrol]]'s report on the age of the [[Temple of Five]] at around 4,000 years old ([[The Eye of Jupiter]]) is generally accurate. The Thirteenth Tribe allegedly left approximately 4,000 years prior to the events of the [[Miniseries]]. The Twelve Tribes (which form the Colonies) left much later, at 2,000 years prior to the Miniseries.</ref>. Although the Twelve Tribes later interpret the Scrolls to record that the Thirteenth were human, they were in fact [[humanoid Cylons]] created by Kobol's humans ([[Sometimes a Great Notion]]).

The Lords of Kobol also appear to have abandoned Kobol, but when is not known. Also unclear is whether they departed Kobol with the Tribes, although the Sacred Scrolls say that [[Athena, Lord of Kobol|Athena]] committed suicide in sorrow at the Great Exodus, suggesting that some Lords or humans remained to record the death before [[Tomb of Athena|entombing Athena]] and leaving themselves. The Sacred Scrolls also say that Zeus warned the leaders of the tribes that any return to Kobol would carry with it a cost in blood.

==Religious Texts==
[[Image:City of the Gods.jpg|right|thumb|An illustration from the [[Sacred Scrolls]] of the City of the Gods ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]])]]
During the time humans lived on Kobol, many texts were written, some of which have survived through time, and are regarded by some as religious artifacts, and by others the documenting of myths and legends. These texts have been collected into a tome known as the [[Sacred Scrolls]].

Chief among these writings include the Book of [[Pythia]] who, some 1,600 years prior to the Great Exodus, foretold another exodus featuring a "caravan of the heavens" led by someone dying of a "wasting disease" ([[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]). This exodus would lead humanity to a new home, although the leader would die before he/she could enter the new home.

Some of the writings of Pythia have apparently come true: President [[Laura Roslin]], the civil leader of the Colonial fleet is dying of cancer at the presumed fulfillment of the prophecy ([[Home, Part II]]). Further, Roslin has several [[Chamalla|visions]], including one of 12 snakes ([[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]), a vision specifically foretold by Pythia.

The [[Virtual beings|virtual image of Number Six]] that appears to [[Gaius Baltar]] tells him that human sacrifice was practiced on Kobol, and that the souls of all who die there are forever lost because God has turned his back on it ("[[Valley of Darkness]]", "[[Fragged]]"). She claims that the Colonial scriptures are erroneous in their description of life on Kobol, hiding darker truths.

==Rediscovering Kobol==
Its location is unknown until it is found by the Fleet, Colonial star charts place it in [[Sector 728]] of the galaxy ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]), when ''[[Galactica]]'' dispatches Raptors to locate planets which may provide materials needed to re-supply the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] and one of them finds the planet by chance. Upon its discovery, [[William Adama|Commander Adama]] suggests considering permanent settlement on the planet. However, Cylon forces are already present in the system.

Following the discovery (as predicted by the [[humanoid Cylon]] [[Leoben Conoy]]) as well as her own [[Chamalla|prescient visions]], Roslin becomes convinced that Kobol will lead the fleet to Earth, providing the [[Tomb of Athena]] can be found. To do this, priest [[Elosha]] notes that the [[Arrow of Apollo]] must be retrieved from the [[Delphi Museum of the Colonies]] on Caprica.

Against Commander [[William Adama|Adama's]] military orders, Roslin begins a quest to retrieve the Arrow, leading to her arrest ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]). She [[Resistance|later escapes]] and leads a third of the Fleet to Kobol (with the [[The Farm|retrieved Arrow]]) to begin the search for the Tomb ([[Home, Part I]])

A scouting team sent to Kobol is ambushed by Cylon forces. The survivors manage to escape further Cylon assault after a [[SAR]] mission ([[Fragged]]). Both expeditions to Kobol suffer casualties, in keeping with Zeus' warning.

Commander Adama later joins Roslin's expedition and soon find the Tomb of Athena. They are the first people to see the inside of the Tomb in centuries, and use the Arrow to activate a holographic map display which indicated the general direction of [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]] ([[Home, Part II]]). Afterwards, the Colonials abandoned Kobol again, never to return.

==Notes==

*Much of the scenic, expansive landscapes of Kobol were filmed at [http://www.spacesfornature.org/greatspaces/pinecone.html Widgeon Slough], the largest freshwater marsh in the Pinecone Burke Provincial Park, British Columbia, Port Coquitlam (Source in part: [[The Official Companion]]).
*In the original [[Miniseries]] script, the Twelve Colonies actually resided ''on'' Kobol. The final script returned Kobol to its status as birthplace of humankind, with humanity having left to other habitable worlds to match the premise of the Original Series.

==See Also==

* [[Kobol]], for similarities between the Original and Re-imagined Series and the etymology of the planet's name.

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Kobol (RDM)

2009-12-04T01:21:16Z

Fredmdbud: see talk page

: ''For information on the Kobol of the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]], see [[Kobol (TOS)]]. For general information on the planet, see [[Kobol]].''
[[Image:Home_pt1-Kobol.jpg|thumb|280px|Kobol from orbit]]
'''Kobol''' is the ancestral homeworld of the people of the [[Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]], and one of two [[Earth (RDM)#A New Earth|two]] known planets where humans naturally evolved. Though it is a lush, life-supporting planet, Kobol has been uninhabited since the exodus of the Thirteen Tribes. On the surface, only ruins remain as evidence of the once-great civilization that previously existed.

==Overview==
Kobol is a verdant world of seas and continents, the latter having large areas of woodland, grassland and forests. An unexplained event or environmental catastrophe caused humanity to leave Kobol and settle on the planets that form the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies of Kobol]]. However, at the time of ''Galactica's'' discovery of Kobol, the planet appears to have recovered from such an event.

The seat of power of Kobol resided in the [[City of the Gods]] in the northern hemisphere, itself dominated by the [[Forum]], [[Temple]] and [[Opera House]] ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]), structures which were duplicated on [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] in the city of [[Delphi]]. It is said that humans lived there in harmony with the [[Religion in the Twelve Colonies#The Lords of Kobol|Lords of Kobol]]. The [[Virtual beings]] were witness to Kobol's civilization and observed the same patterns there as they later would on the worlds settled by the descendants of Kobol's peoples - "commercialism, decadence, technology run amuck".

==Great Exodus==
Some 2,000 years prior to the events of the [[Miniseries]], the Twelve Tribes [[Galleon Meadow|departed Kobol]] for another star system in "The Great Exodus of the Twelve Tribes from Kobol". The [[Sacred Scrolls]] also tell of a [[Thirteenth Tribe (RDM)|Thirteenth Tribe]] that departed Kobol some 2,000 years prior ([[Miniseries]]) to seek a planet known as [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]] <ref>[[Galen Tyrol]]'s report on the age of the [[Temple of Five]] at around 4,000 years old ([[The Eye of Jupiter]]) is generally accurate. The Thirteenth Tribe allegedly left approximately 4,000 years prior to the events of the [[Miniseries]]. The Twelve Tribes (which form the Colonies) left much later, at 2,000 years prior to the Miniseries.</ref>. Although the Twelve Tribes later interpret the Scrolls to record that the Thirteenth were human, they were in fact [[humanoid Cylons]] created by Kobol's humans ([[Sometimes a Great Notion]]).

The Lords of Kobol also appear to have abandoned Kobol, but when is not known. Also unclear is whether they departed Kobol with the Tribes, although the Sacred Scrolls say that [[Athena, Lord of Kobol|Athena]] committed suicide in sorrow at the Great Exodus, suggesting that some Lords or humans remained to record the death before [[Tomb of Athena|entombing Athena]] and leaving themselves. The Sacred Scrolls also say that Zeus warned the leaders of the tribes that any return to Kobol would carry with it a cost in blood.

==Religious Texts==
[[Image:City of the Gods.jpg|right|thumb|An illustration from the [[Sacred Scrolls]] of the City of the Gods ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]])]]
During the time humans lived on Kobol, many texts were written, some of which have survived through time, and are regarded by some as religious artifacts, and by others the documenting of myths and legends. These texts have been collected into a tome known as the [[Sacred Scrolls]].

Chief among these writings include the Book of [[Pythia]] who, some 1,600 years prior to the Great Exodus, foretold another exodus featuring a "caravan of the heavens" led by someone dying of a "wasting disease" ([[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]). This exodus would lead humanity to a new home, although the leader would die before he/she could enter the new home.

Some of the writings of Pythia have apparently come true: President [[Laura Roslin]], the civil leader of the Colonial fleet is dying of cancer at the presumed fulfillment of the prophecy ([[Home, Part II]]). Further, Roslin has several [[Chamalla|visions]], including one of 12 snakes ([[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]), a vision specifically foretold by Pythia.

The [[Virtual beings|virtual image of Number Six]] that appears to [[Gaius Baltar]] tells him that human sacrifice was practiced on Kobol, and that the souls of all who die there are forever lost because God has turned his back on it ("[[Valley of Darkness]]", "[[Fragged]]"). She claims that the Colonial scriptures are erroneous in their description of life on Kobol, hiding darker truths.

==Rediscovering Kobol==
Its location is unknown until it is found by the Fleet, Colonial star charts place it in [[Sector 728]] of the galaxy ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]), when ''[[Galactica]]'' dispatches Raptors to locate planets which may provide materials needed to re-supply the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] and one of them finds the planet by chance. Upon its discovery, [[William Adama|Commander Adama]] suggests considering permanent settlement on the planet. However, Cylon forces are already present in the system.

Following the discovery (as predicted by the [[humanoid Cylon]] [[Leoben Conoy]]) as well as her own [[Chamalla|prescient visions]], Roslin becomes convinced that Kobol will lead the fleet to Earth, providing the [[Tomb of Athena]] can be found. To do this, priest [[Elosha]] notes that the [[Arrow of Apollo]] must be retrieved from the [[Delphi Museum of the Colonies]] on Caprica.

Against Commander [[William Adama|Adama's]] military orders, Roslin begins a quest to retrieve the Arrow, leading to her arrest ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]). She [[Resistance|later escapes]] and leads a third of the Fleet to Kobol (with the [[The Farm|retrieved Arrow]]) to begin the search for the Tomb ([[Home, Part I]])

A scouting team sent to Kobol is ambushed by Cylon forces. The survivors manage to escape further Cylon assault after a [[SAR]] mission ([[Fragged]]). Both expeditions to Kobol suffer casualties, in keeping with Zeus' warning.

Commander Adama later joins Roslin's expedition and soon find the Tomb of Athena. They are the first people to see the inside of the Tomb in centuries, and use the Arrow to activate a holographic map display which indicated the general direction of [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]] ([[Home, Part II]]). Afterwards, the Colonials abandoned Kobol again, never to return.

==Notes==

*Much of the scenic, expansive landscapes of Kobol were filmed at [http://www.spacesfornature.org/greatspaces/pinecone.html Widgeon Slough], the largest freshwater marsh in the Pinecone Burke Provincial Park, British Columbia, Port Coquitlam (Source in part: [[The Official Companion]]).
*In the original [[Miniseries]] script, the Twelve Colonies actually resided ''on'' Kobol. The final script returned Kobol to its status as birthplace of humankind, with humanity having left to other habitable worlds to match the premise of the Original Series.

==See Also==

* [[Kobol]], for similarities between the Original and Re-imagined Series and the etymology of the planet's name.

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Helena Cain

2009-12-04T01:13:04Z

Fredmdbud: Is introducing her full rank really necessary? The full rank is in the info box. Likewise, Adam should be edited.

:''For information on this character's [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]] counterpart, see [[Cain (TOS)]].
{{Character Data
|photo=CainH.jpg
|age=49-50<ref>According to the script for "[[Razor]]", young Helena Cain was nine years old at the time of the [[Battle of Tauron]]. See: [[Sources: Helena Cain]].</ref>
|colony=[[Tauron (RDM)|Tauron]]
|birthname=Helena Cain
|callsign=
|seen= Pegasus (episode)
|pseen=Pegasus
|death= Shot in the head by [[Gina Inviere]] ([[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]).
|parents= [[Saundra Cain|Mother]] and [[Cain (father)|father]] killed in the first [[Cylon War]] <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=22 November 2007|last=Ryan|first=Maureen|format=|language=}}</ref>
|siblings= [[Lucy Cain]]† (killed in the first Cylon War)
|children=
|marital status= Previous relationship with Gina Inviere
|role=Commanding Officer, [[Mercury class battlestar|battlestar]] ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]''
|rank=Rear Admiral
|actor=[[Michelle Forbes]]<br/> [[Kyra Scott]] (young Cain)
|serial=866931<ref>Serial number is from [[:Image:Cain's dogtag serial.jpg|her dogtags]].</ref>
|cylon=
|name=
}}
Admiral '''Helena Cain''' hails from the colony [[Tauron (RDM)|Tauron]], and is the commanding officer of the [[Mercury class battlestar]] ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' at the time of the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]]. She is a hard woman, unafraid of making difficult decisions and unflinching in her will to do what she sees as right. These traits sometimes compel her to feel that she has been left no choice but to take controversial, unpopular and morally questionable choices.

==Biography==
===Childhood===
Helena Cain was born during the first [[Cylon War]]. On the last day of the war, Tauron was under attack by Cylon [[Basestar (RDM)|basestars]] and [[Cylon Centurion Model 0005|Centurion]] ground forces. Her sister [[Lucy Cain]] and her [[Cain (father)|father]] were pinned down in a building under heavy fire. When her father was injured trying to escape, he told Helena to get Lucy to a shelter, before dying. The two made it out of the building, but outside Helena panicked, left Lucy in a field of rubble and ran away to hide in a container. When Cain came out again after the Cylons retreated, she found only her sister's doll on the ground ("[[Razor]]", extended version). These traumatic events were formative for her future.

===Cylon attack and guerrilla warfare===
[[Image:Cain and gina.jpg|thumb|right|Cain dining with [[Gina Inviere]].]]

When ''Pegasus'' is scheduled for an extensive overhaul at the [[Scorpion Fleet Shipyards]], Cain has regular meetings with [[Gina Inviere]], a civilian contractor working for the [[Ministry of Defense]], to work out the details of the retrofit. The two eventually become romantically involved.

Shortly before the [[Cylon attack]], Lieutenant [[Kendra Shaw]] is assigned to the battlestar as Cain's personal aide. When the lieutenant fails to make it to [[CIC]] immediately after her arrival, Cain chews her out in front of the crew, but breaks into laughter after Shaw leaves, showing that she isn't always as hard as she appears to be.

When the Cylons [[Fall of the Scorpion Fleet Shipyards|attack the shipyards]], Cain is in her quarters, working out and going over efficiency reports. She makes it to CIC and immediately orders the battlestar unmoored. When the navigational computer is discovered to be offline and nuclear missiles are inbound, Cain orders a [[blind jump]] to escape certain destruction. With many of her crew dead and the destruction of the Twelve Colonies confirmed, she holds a speech vowing to take revenge on the Cylons. However, in a private dinner with her XO [[Jurgen Belzen]], [[Jack Fisk]], Inviere and Shaw, she promises that she has no intention to unnecessarily waste lives or resources in an emotional quest for revenge.

Shortly later, a Cylon communications relay is detected, which the crew believes to be an easy target. On arrival, one squadron of Vipers is launched. However, 15 squadrons of [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Raider]]s suddenly appear because, it turns out, the target is actually a Cylon staging area. XO Belzen urges Cain to recover their Vipers and retreat, but instead she seemingly forgets her earlier promise and orders the launch of all remaining fighters, which Belzen refuses to do in the face of such odds. Cain asks the XO for his side arm, and shoots him in the head with it in front of the crew. She then turned to Fisk, promotes him to XO, and orders him to launch the rest of the Vipers. Fearing for his life, he does so. At the same time, Inviere disables the main gun batteries and allows a group of [[Cylon Centurion]]s to board the ship, causing many deaths. Shaw reveals her as a Cylon agent in CIC and Cain orders her arrest. ''Pegasus'' manages to win the [[Battle of the Communications Relay|battle]], but with staggering losses.

Cain is deeply stung by Inviere's betrayal, her feelings toward her erstwhile lover turned into hatred and scorn. Cain gives [[Alastair Thorne]] free rein in interrogating the Cylon for information, suggesting "pain ... degradation, fear, shame." This sets the tone for the interrogations, ultimately leading to measures such as gang rape.

When ''Pegasus'' happens upon a small civilian fleet, Admiral Cain decides to strip it of resources and personnel, including their FTL drives. The civilians, however, refuse the cooperate. Resistance is particularly vocal on the ''[[Scylla]]''. When a boarding team led by Shaw and Fisk fails to make the civilians cooperate, Cain orders the team to shoot the families of every conscript who refuses to obey. Shaw fires the first shot and eventually 10 people are killed, thus breaking the resistance. Cain is very impressed by Shaw's actions in the civilian standoff and promotes her to the rank of captain, explaining that Shaw has the qualities of a "razor"; someone who is able to shut down all emotions and inhibitions in battle in order to survive.

Despite the impossible odds, Cain intends to sustain a campaign of guerrilla warfare against the occupying Cylon forces. She then led the battlestar away from the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]], following a Cylon fleet that trails what they discovered as the fellow battlestar ''[[Galactica]]'' ("[[Razor]]", "[[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]").

===Meeting Galactica===
[[image:caingalact.jpg|left|Admiral Cain, meeting up with the crew of ''Galactica''.|thumb]]
Upon meeting up with Commander [[William Adama]]'s [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] six months later, she as ranking officer assumes command and transfers personnel from ''Galactica'' to ''Pegasus'', including [[Lee Adama]] and [[Kara Thrace]], indicating that Adama has let military discipline become too lax. Cain is more interested in fighting the Cylons, seemingly oblivious to the point that she and the ships around her are all that was left of the human race, whose survival is more paramount than offensive assaults. While Adama initially welcomes such attacks against a mysterious Cylon force that followed the Fleet (to stop it from following them), his attitude begins to cool about Cain's very strict and unmerciful leadership.

Cain's actions also raise concerns with President [[Laura Roslin]]. Cain recognizes Roslin and her former role as Secretary of Education. After the Fleet command transfer from Adama to Cain, Roslin makes several attempts to call Cain to request supplies for the civilian fleet, but all of Roslin's calls are ignored.

After the fatal assault of one of her crew members, Lieutenant Thorne, Cain arrests Chief [[Galen Tyrol|Tyrol]] and Lieutenant [[Karl Agathon]] and has them flown to ''Pegasus'', under Adama's protest, since traditionally a trial is held on the ship where an incident has occurred. Cain uses ''Galactica'''s log against Adama when he asks for a tribunal; Cain notes that Adama dismissed the last council unilaterally when the verdict did not suit him. Cain summarily court-martials the prisoners herself in a matter of hours, sentencing them to death. A displeased Commander Adama orders an assault crew to ''Pegasus'' to bring his men back. Cain responds by deploying her squadrons of advanced Viper Mark VIIs against Adama's museum collection of Viper Mark IIs in a tense standoff ([[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]).

The tense situation is ended by a sudden appearance by Starbuck, flying the [[Blackbird]] as she returns from her unofficial recon mission on the unknown Cylon ship. Starbuck transmits the pictures she took of the [[Resurrection Ship]] back to ''Pegasus'''s CIC. Upon Thrace's return to ''Pegasus'', Cain is so impressed with her performance that she promotes Thrace to Captain and ''Pegasus'' [[CAG]], replacing the competent but uncreative and inflexible Captain [[Cole Taylor|Taylor]]. Cain tasks Starbuck with planning the joint strike on the Resurrection Ship.

===Attack on the Resurrection Ship===
[[Image:Gina-Cain.jpg|thumb|Admiral Cain held at gun-point by [[Gina Inviere|her Cylon prisoner]].]]

After Captain Thrace briefs both Adama, Apollo, and Cain on her plan to attack the Resurrection Ship, Adama pulls Starbuck aside and outlines a plan to assassinate Cain following the attack. At the same time, Cain instructs [[Jack Fisk]] to lead a detachment of marines to "terminate Adama's command" after the battle ([[Resurrection Ship, Part I]]).

When the moment arrives, both commanders back down from their assassination plots, to the relief of Thrace and Fisk.

===Assassination===

Shortly afterwards, Cain returns to her quarters and is surprised to find Gina Inviere, who escaped her cell with the aid of [[Gaius Baltar|Baltar]], waiting for her. After a tense confrontation, Gina kills Cain with a shot to the head.

Cain is given a funeral with full military honors. Fisk and Thrace eulogize her; Fisk promises to command ''Pegasus'' in the same spirit as she did, and Thrace says that while she knew Cain only briefly, she admired her, and that "We were safer with her than we are without." ([[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]). Several months later, Adama tells his son that he can't find any faults in Cain's tactical decisions, and refuses to pass judgment on her, because he had people who kept him from going down a similar path, and never had to go through the situations Cain had to face ([[Razor]]).

== Analysis ==

Adama abandons his assassination plan because of something that was pointed out in a private conversation with [[Sharon Agathon|the second copy of Sharon Valerii]], who reminded him that during his decommissioning speech he had asked whether humanity asked itself if it deserved to survive ([[Miniseries]]). Turning on each other would have proven that the Cylons were correct about humanity.

Cain's reasons for calling off her plan were never revealed, and remain a topic of debate among fans.

== Notes ==

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=== Original Series nods ===

*Helena Cain is inspired by the character of Commander [[Cain (TOS)|Cain]] from the original ''[[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Battlestar Galactica]]'', portrayed by the late [[Lloyd Bridges]].

*Unlike Commander Cain in the Original Series, Admiral Cain is a superior officer to Commander William Adama. The Original Series's Adama held a higher rank than Cain, and relieved him of command for a time in the two part episode, "[[The Living Legend, Part I|The Living Legend]]".

=== Behind-the-Scenes ===

*Actress Michelle Forbes said on her character, "She’s lost perspective. People ask, ‘Is she insane? Is she psychotic?’ I hope that’s not how she came across because that was never the intention. I think some individuals can appear to be that way, but this is a woman who did what she had to do in order to survive during some very brutal conflicts. Along the way, Cain lost her sense of judgment as well as her sense of reason and rationale. That was all very interesting for me to play. Usually in TV you’re given one characteristic and you dare not stray from that, so it was neat to have such a difficult, fascinating woman to play. In "[[Resurrection Ship, Part I|Resurrection Ship]]" it really comes to light the path of sadism that these people have gone down and we’re fully able to see exactly what happened to this group aboard the Pegasus. There were some pretty difficult choices they had to make, too, in regard to the Cylon prisoner Gina and that whole dynamic." [http://www.greatlink.org/dcisV2.asp?url=http://www.greatlink.org/shownewsitem.asp?item=5201]

*Cain's sexual orientation was revealed in ''Razor'', which Forbes, in the "Making of" featurette on its original DVD release, stated came as a surprise to her.

*Forbes guest starred as Dara Timicin in the ''[[MemoryAlpha:Star Trek: The Next Generation|Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' episode "[[MemoryAlpha:Half a Life|Half a Life]]" and had a recurring role as Ensign [[MemoryAlpha:Ro Laren|Ro Laren]] during the last three seasons of ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'', with the character at one point earmarked to join the spinoff series ''[[MemoryAlpha:Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]''. ''Battlestar Galactica'' executive producer [[Ronald D. Moore]], also a ''TNG'' veteran, wrote for her character in the episodes "[[MemoryAlpha:Disaster|Disaster]]" and "[[MemoryAlpha:The Next Phase|The Next Phase]]".

=== Production ===

*Cain's given name, Helena, was not spoken in dialogue initially, but was posted in episode summaries on Scifi.com (initially misspelled as "Nelena"). Her name is first spoken by Colonel [[Jurgen Belzen]] in "[[Razor]]".

*Cain's habit of expediting meetings by conducting them without chairs is borrowed from UN Ambassador [[Wikipedia:John R. Bolton|John R. Bolton]] (Source: [[Podcast:Pegasus#Act 2|Podcast:Pegasus]]). Within the show, the lack of chairs is said to stem from her preference to stand because of her back problems ([[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]).

=== Separate continuity ===

* In [[Dynamite Entertainment]]'s [[comic]] books, Helena Cain and ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' make a one-shot appearance in ''[[Battlestar Galactica: Pegasus]]'', and she is mentioned again in ''[[Battlestar Galactica: Origins 6]]''. In ''Origins 6'', Captain [[Alexa Cain|Alexa "Pugnacious" Cain]] is noted as Helena's mother, who had divorced her husband well before the [[Battle of Tauron]]—the last battle of the First Cylon War. However, "Razor" makes it clear that Helena's mother was named "[[Saundra Cain|Saundra]]", and that she was on [[Hypatia]], [[Tauron]] at the time of that last battle, which is when she died.

== References ==
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Talk:Kobol (RDM)/Archive 1

2009-12-04T01:03:12Z

Fredmdbud: /* "Evolved" vs. "Possibly evolved" */

== "Evolved" vs. "Possibly evolved" ==

I am changing "one of two known planets where humans naturally evolved" back to "one of possibly two known planets where humans naturally evolved." In the context of "Daybreak, Part II," the question was never resolved. Adama suggests that the tribal humans who were already on New Earth evolved on the planet naturally, while Baltar countered by suggesting that a "divine hand" (the being sometimes referred to as "God") might have put them there intentionally--but the discussion never went further than that, meaning it's unanswered. Yes, in the ''real world'', humanity evolved here, but in the ''show'', in the BSG universe, the question is still on the table. Having a definitive answer is nice, but we just don't have that in this case. --[[User:BlueResistance|BlueResistance]] 17:00, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
*"...while Baltar countered by suggesting that a "divine hand" (the being sometimes referred to as "God") might have put them there intentionally." Actually I took Baltar statement more as a suggestion that a "divine hand" caused humans to naturally on ''both'' worlds. -- [[User:Troyian|Troyian]] 00:32, 4 December 2009 (UTC)
**This is possibly (ahem) getting into semantic nitpicking, but the key word here is "known". Might there have been, or are there one or more other worlds where genetically-compatible humans evolved independent of Kobol and the second Earth? Maybe. Was this thought entertained by the Colonies? It isn't stated. But from a omniscient show-viewing perspective, that only two *known* planets where humans naturally evolved is a factual statement. Adding possibly just adds a bit too much speculation as to what the Colonials knew or didn't know. Or about we know, either :) -- [[User:Fredmdbud|Fredmdbud]] 01:01, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

Talk:Kobol (RDM)/Archive 1

2009-12-04T01:02:00Z

Fredmdbud: /* "Evolved" vs. "Possibly evolved" */

== "Evolved" vs. "Possibly evolved" ==

I am changing "one of two known planets where humans naturally evolved" back to "one of possibly two known planets where humans naturally evolved." In the context of "Daybreak, Part II," the question was never resolved. Adama suggests that the tribal humans who were already on New Earth evolved on the planet naturally, while Baltar countered by suggesting that a "divine hand" (the being sometimes referred to as "God") might have put them there intentionally--but the discussion never went further than that, meaning it's unanswered. Yes, in the ''real world'', humanity evolved here, but in the ''show'', in the BSG universe, the question is still on the table. Having a definitive answer is nice, but we just don't have that in this case. --[[User:BlueResistance|BlueResistance]] 17:00, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
*"...while Baltar countered by suggesting that a "divine hand" (the being sometimes referred to as "God") might have put them there intentionally." Actually I took Baltar statement more as a suggestion that a "divine hand" caused humans to naturally on ''both'' worlds. -- [[User:Troyian|Troyian]] 00:32, 4 December 2009 (UTC)
**This is possibly (ahem) getting into semantic nitpicking, but the key word here is "known". Might there have been, or are there one or more other worlds where genetically-compatible humans evolved independent of Kobol and the second Earth? Maybe. Was this thought entertained by the Colonies? It isn't stated. But from a omniscient show-viewing perspective, that only two *known* planets where humans naturally evolved is a factual statement. Adding possibly just adds a bit too much speculation as to what the Colonials knew or didn't know.-- [[User:Fredmdbud|Fredmdbud]] 01:01, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

Talk:Kobol (RDM)/Archive 1

2009-12-04T01:01:12Z

Fredmdbud: additional $0.02

== "Evolved" vs. "Possibly evolved" ==

I am changing "one of two known planets where humans naturally evolved" back to "one of possibly two known planets where humans naturally evolved." In the context of "Daybreak, Part II," the question was never resolved. Adama suggests that the tribal humans who were already on New Earth evolved on the planet naturally, while Baltar countered by suggesting that a "divine hand" (the being sometimes referred to as "God") might have put them there intentionally--but the discussion never went further than that, meaning it's unanswered. Yes, in the ''real world'', humanity evolved here, but in the ''show'', in the BSG universe, the question is still on the table. Having a definitive answer is nice, but we just don't have that in this case. --[[User:BlueResistance|BlueResistance]] 17:00, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
*"...while Baltar countered by suggesting that a "divine hand" (the being sometimes referred to as "God") might have put them there intentionally." Actually I took Baltar statement more as a suggestion that a "divine hand" caused humans to naturally on ''both'' worlds. -- [[User:Troyian|Troyian]] 00:32, 4 December 2009 (UTC)
**This is possibly (ahem) getting into semantic nitpicking, but the key word here is "known". Might there have been, or are there one more more other worlds where genetically-compatible humans evolved independent of Kobol and the second Earth? Maybe. Was this thought entertained by the Colonies? It isn't stated. But from a omniscient show-viewing perspective, that only two *known* planets where humans naturally evolved is a factual statement. Adding possibly just adds a bit too much speculation as to what the Colonials knew or didn't know.-- [[User:Fredmdbud|Fredmdbud]] 01:01, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

Mercury class battlestar

2009-11-21T01:37:12Z

Fredmdbud:

:''For the unnamed original class, to which ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' belongs, see [[Galactica Class Battlestar]].''
{{Ship Data|
image= Mercury Class.png
| title= ''Mercury'' class battlestar
| race= Colonial
| type= Military
| ftl= Yes
| crew= Unknown approx 2500 (Full crew)
| role= Capital battleship/carrier
| weapons= 34 Primary [[KEW|Kinetic Energy Weapons]] (30 twin turrets, 4 fixed twin mounts) and point-defense [[KEW|Kinetic Energy Weapons]], conventional missiles, nuclear warheads, Vipers, Raptors
| 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>
| status= Final known ship of this class destroyed at the [[Battle of New Caprica]]
}}

'''''Mercury'' class battlestars''' are advanced Colonial capital warships/carriers of the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Colonial Fleet]], top-of-the-line vessels at the time of the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]]

==Overview==
Introduced some years after the First [[Cylon War]], the structural design of the ''Mercury'' class differs significantly from the original ''Galactica'' type battlestar. The "neck" section is smaller, and the ''Mercury'' class features eight [[sublight]] engine pods instead of the older class's six. Its edges are more angular is more completely armored (no exposed ribs). Each [[flight pod]] consists of two stacked landing bays with adjoined decks and hangars, which along with computer-assisted landings results in a faster Viper recovery rate. These pods are fixed and do not retract when executing an [[FTL| FTL jump]] ([[The Captain's Hand]]), suggesting advances in jump systems. Inside, the class features automated sliding doorways, basic computer recognition stations in vital areas, and networked computer systems.

An example of this class, ''Pegasus'', carries a complement of 50 Raptors and 200 [[Viper Mark VII]] fighters (8 squadrons and two reserve squadrons color coded blue, red, green, yellow, orange, purple, black, white, and reserve squadrons gold and silver) <ref>Intelligence Debrief: Cylon Basestar, "Battlestar Galactica: The Official Magazine," June/July 2006, page 56.</ref>.

[[Battery|Gun batteries]] on the ''Mercury'' class are distributed all over the ship ([[The Captain's Hand]]), with the greatest concentration of large turrets are found along the side of the ship, within the valley created by the upper and lower halves of the hull, including the flight pods. Four are mounted on the underside of the upper hull on the ship's bow, below which sits four non-turreted large guns; these form the main forward batteries. Six turrets are mounted on each underside of the alligator head, grouped in pairs. There are also three turrets on the side of each flight pod along two more turrets are mounted on the front and back of each flight pod. This amounts to a total of thirty-four main gun batteries. The turreted guns of the ''Mercury'' class have a higher rate of fire than ''Galactica's'' turreted guns when operating in flak mode, demonstrated during the skirmish with the [[Raider (RDM)|Cylon War-era Raiders]] in [[Razor]].

[[Image:Pegasus01.jpg|right|thumb|''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' from fore and below, with the Fleet in the background]] [[Image:Pegasus_Hi-Res_1a.jpg|right|thumb|[[Viper (RDM)|Mark VII Vipers]] landing in ''Pegasus's'' port flight pod]]
[[Image:Pegasus_Hi-Res_5a.jpg|right|thumb|Some of ''Pegasus's'' [[Kinetic Energy Weapon|batteries]]]]
[[Image:Pegasus-Comparison.png|right|thumb|Comparison of [[Battlestar (TOS)|original series battlestar]] and ''Mercury'' class]]

The standard crew complement of a ''Mercury'' class battlestar is in excess of 2,500 ("[[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]", "[[Razor]]"), a small number for a ship its size made possible by [[Computers in the Re-imagined Series|computer]] automation.

The ''Mercury'' class battlestar has production facilities to build new [[Viper (RDM)|Viper Mark VIIs]] from basic resources ([[Scar]]).

== Known ''Mercury'' class battlestars ==

*Battlestar [[Pegasus]]
== Notes ==
The shape of the ''Mercury'' class resembles the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]] [[battlestar (TOS)|battlestar]] more than the Re-imagined Series' ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]''. Its engine pods number eight, compared to ''Galactica'''s six engine pods. The pods aboard the ''Mercury'' class battlestar appear more directly integrated with its rear section, and its flight pods share the original angular shape.

The visual effects artist of the re-imagined ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'', Jose A. Perez, has commented that, "The new design was somewhat of a cross between the look of the [[TOS|original-series]] [[battlestar (TOS)|battlestars]], and yet with elements of the [[Galactica (RDM)|new one]]. Aside from that, it has mostly hull plating (to absorb more damage) , as opposed to the ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' which has more ribbing."
Mr. Perez also commented that, "The harder edges [ of the [[Pegasus (RDM)|''Pegasus'']] ] were intentional as well, to match the interior style of the sets more."

==References==
[[Image:Galactica-pegasus-scale-study-2.jpg|right|thumb|Size comparison between Pegasus and Galactica.]]
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Mercury class battlestar

2009-11-19T07:33:18Z

Fredmdbud: explicit reference to original series rather than ambiguous "older"

:''For the unnamed original class, to which ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' belongs, see [[Galactica Class Battlestar]].''
{{Ship Data|
image= Mercury Class.png
| title= ''Mercury'' class battlestar
| race= Colonial
| type= Military
| ftl= Yes
| crew= Unknown approx 2500 (Full crew)
| role= Capital battleship/carrier
| weapons= 34 Primary [[KEW|Kinetic Energy Weapons]] (30 twin turrets, 4 fixed twin mounts) and point-defense [[KEW|Kinetic Energy Weapons]], conventional missiles, nuclear warheads, Vipers, Raptors
| 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>
| status= Final known ship of this class destroyed at the [[Battle of New Caprica]]
}}

The '''''Mercury'' class battlestar''' is an advanced Colonial capital warship/carrier introduced into the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Colonial Fleet]] sometime after the First [[Cylon War]].

==Overview==
At the time of the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]], a ''Mercury'' class battlestar was a top-of-the-line vessel.

The structural design of the ''Mercury'' class differs significantly from the original ''Galactica'' type battlestar. The "neck" section is smaller, and the ''Mercury'' class features eight [[sublight]] engine pods instead of the older class's six. Its edges are more angular is more completely armored (no exposed ribs). Each [[flight pod]] consists of two stacked landing bays with adjoined decks and hangars, which along with computer-assisted landings results in a faster Viper recovery rate. These pods are fixed and do not retract when executing an [[FTL| FTL jump]] ([[The Captain's Hand]]), suggesting advances in jump systems. Inside, the class features automated sliding doorways, basic computer recognition stations in vital areas, and networked computer systems.

An example of this class, ''Pegasus'', carries a complement of 50 Raptors and 200 [[Viper Mark VII]] fighters (8 squadrons and two reserve squadrons color coded blue, red, green, yellow, orange, purple, black, white, and reserve squadrons gold and silver) <ref>Intelligence Debrief: Cylon Basestar, "Battlestar Galactica: The Official Magazine," June/July 2006, page 56.</ref>.

[[Battery|Gun batteries]] on the ''Mercury'' class are distributed all over the ship ([[The Captain's Hand]]), with the greatest concentration of large turrets are found along the side of the ship, within the valley created by the upper and lower halves of the hull, including the flight pods. Four are mounted on the underside of the upper hull on the ship's bow, below which sits four non-turreted large guns; these form the main forward batteries. Six turrets are mounted on each underside of the alligator head, grouped in pairs. There are also three turrets on the side of each flight pod along two more turrets are mounted on the front and back of each flight pod. This amounts to a total of thirty-four main gun batteries. The turreted guns of the ''Mercury'' class have a higher rate of fire than ''Galactica's'' turreted guns when operating in flak mode, demonstrated during the skirmish with the [[Raider (RDM)|Cylon War-era Raiders]] in [[Razor]].

[[Image:Pegasus01.jpg|right|thumb|''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' from fore and below, with the Fleet in the background]] [[Image:Pegasus_Hi-Res_1a.jpg|right|thumb|[[Viper (RDM)|Mark VII Vipers]] landing in ''Pegasus's'' port flight pod]]
[[Image:Pegasus_Hi-Res_5a.jpg|right|thumb|Some of ''Pegasus's'' [[Kinetic Energy Weapon|batteries]]]]
[[Image:Pegasus-Comparison.png|right|thumb|Comparison of [[Battlestar (TOS)|original series battlestar]] and ''Mercury'' class]]

The standard crew complement of a ''Mercury'' class battlestar is in excess of 2,500 ("[[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]", "[[Razor]]"), a small number for a ship its size made possible by [[Computers in the Re-imagined Series|computer]] automation.

The ''Mercury'' class battlestar has production facilities to build new [[Viper (RDM)|Viper Mark VIIs]] from basic resources ([[Scar]]).

== Known ''Mercury'' class battlestars ==

*Battlestar [[Pegasus]]
== Notes ==
The shape of the ''Mercury'' class resembles the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]] [[battlestar (TOS)|battlestar]] more than the Re-imagined Series' ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]''. Its engine pods number eight, compared to ''Galactica'''s six engine pods. The pods aboard the ''Mercury'' class battlestar appear more directly integrated with its rear section, and its flight pods share the original angular shape.

The visual effects artist of the re-imagined ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'', Jose A. Perez, has commented that, "The new design was somewhat of a cross between the look of the [[TOS|original-series]] [[battlestar (TOS)|battlestars]], and yet with elements of the [[Galactica (RDM)|new one]]. Aside from that, it has mostly hull plating (to absorb more damage) , as opposed to the ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' which has more ribbing."
Mr. Perez also commented that, "The harder edges [ of the [[Pegasus (RDM)|''Pegasus'']] ] were intentional as well, to match the interior style of the sets more."

==References==
[[Image:Galactica-pegasus-scale-study-2.jpg|right|thumb|Size comparison between Pegasus and Galactica.]]
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Mercury class battlestar

2009-11-19T07:30:43Z

Fredmdbud: /* Overview */

:''For the unnamed original class, to which ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' belongs, see [[Galactica Class Battlestar]].''
{{Ship Data|
image= Mercury Class.png
| title= ''Mercury'' class battlestar
| race= Colonial
| type= Military
| ftl= Yes
| crew= Unknown approx 2500 (Full crew)
| role= Capital battleship/carrier
| weapons= 34 Primary [[KEW|Kinetic Energy Weapons]] (30 twin turrets, 4 fixed twin mounts) and point-defense [[KEW|Kinetic Energy Weapons]], conventional missiles, nuclear warheads, Vipers, Raptors
| 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>
| status= Final known ship of this class destroyed at the [[Battle of New Caprica]]
}}

The '''''Mercury'' class battlestar''' is an advanced Colonial capital warship/carrier introduced into the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Colonial Fleet]] sometime after the First [[Cylon War]].

==Overview==
At the time of the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]], a ''Mercury'' class battlestar was a top-of-the-line vessel.

The structural design of the ''Mercury'' class differs significantly from the original ''Galactica'' type battlestar. The "neck" section is smaller, and the ''Mercury'' class features eight [[sublight]] engine pods instead of the older class's six. Its edges are more angular is more completely armored (no exposed ribs). Each [[flight pod]] consists of two stacked landing bays with adjoined decks and hangars, which along with computer-assisted landings results in a faster Viper recovery rate. These pods are fixed and do not retract when executing an [[FTL| FTL jump]] ([[The Captain's Hand]]), suggesting advances in jump systems. Inside, the class features automated sliding doorways, basic computer recognition stations in vital areas, and networked computer systems.

An example of this class, ''Pegasus'', carries a complement of 50 Raptors and 200 [[Viper Mark VII]] fighters (8 squadrons and two reserve squadrons color coded blue, red, green, yellow, orange, purple, black, white, and reserve squadrons gold and silver) <ref>Intelligence Debrief: Cylon Basestar, "Battlestar Galactica: The Official Magazine," June/July 2006, page 56.</ref>.

[[Battery|Gun batteries]] on the ''Mercury'' class are distributed all over the ship ([[The Captain's Hand]]), with the greatest concentration of large turrets are found along the side of the ship, within the valley created by the upper and lower halves of the hull, including the flight pods. Four are mounted on the underside of the upper hull on the ship's bow, below which sits four non-turreted large guns; these form the main forward batteries. Six turrets are mounted on each underside of the alligator head, grouped in pairs. There are also three turrets on the side of each flight pod along two more turrets are mounted on the front and back of each flight pod. This amounts to a total of thirty-four main gun batteries. The turreted guns of the ''Mercury'' class have a higher rate of fire than ''Galactica's'' turreted guns when operating in flak mode, demonstrated during the skirmish with the [[Raider (RDM)|Cylon War-era Raiders]] in [[Razor]].

[[Image:Pegasus01.jpg|right|thumb|''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' from fore and below, with the Fleet in the background]] [[Image:Pegasus_Hi-Res_1a.jpg|right|thumb|[[Viper (RDM)|Mark VII Vipers]] landing in ''Pegasus's'' port flight pod]]
[[Image:Pegasus_Hi-Res_5a.jpg|right|thumb|Some of ''Pegasus's'' [[Kinetic Energy Weapon|batteries]]]]
[[Image:Pegasus-Comparison.png|right|thumb|Comparison of [[Battlestar (TOS)|original series battlestar]] and ''Mercury'' class]]

The standard crew complement of a ''Mercury'' class battlestar is in excess of 2,500 ("[[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]", "[[Razor]]"), a small number for a ship its size made possible by [[Computers in the Re-imagined Series|computer]] automation.

The ''Mercury'' class battlestar has production facilities to build new [[Viper (RDM)|Viper Mark VIIs]] from basic resources ([[Scar]]).

== Known ''Mercury'' class battlestars ==

*Battlestar [[Pegasus]]
== Notes ==
The shape of the ''Mercury'' class resembles the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]] [[battlestar (TOS)|battlestar]] more than the Re-imagined Series' ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]''. Its engine pods number eight, compared to ''Galactica'''s six engine pods. The pods aboard the ''Mercury'' class battlestar appear more directly integrated with its rear section, and its flight pods share the original angular shape.

The visual effects artist of the re-imagined ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'', Jose A. Perez, has commented that, "The new design was somewhat of a cross between the look of the [[TOS|old class]] [[battlestar (TOS)|battlestars]], and yet with elements of the [[Galactica (RDM)|new one]]. Aside from that, it has mostly hull plating (to absorb more damage) , as opposed to the ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' which has more ribbing."
Mr. Perez also commented that, "The harder edges [ of the [[Pegasus (RDM)|''Pegasus'']] ] were intentional as well, to match the interior style of the sets more."

==References==
[[Image:Galactica-pegasus-scale-study-2.jpg|right|thumb|Size comparison between Pegasus and Galactica.]]
<div style="font-size:85%"><references/></div>

{{sourcebox|Correspondence with Jose Perez}}

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2009-11-19T07:30:07Z

Fredmdbud: /* Overview */ concising, re-arrangement

:''For the unnamed original class, to which ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' belongs, see [[Galactica Class Battlestar]].''
{{Ship Data|
image= Mercury Class.png
| title= ''Mercury'' class battlestar
| race= Colonial
| type= Military
| ftl= Yes
| crew= Unknown approx 2500 (Full crew)
| role= Capital battleship/carrier
| weapons= 34 Primary [[KEW|Kinetic Energy Weapons]] (30 twin turrets, 4 fixed twin mounts) and point-defense [[KEW|Kinetic Energy Weapons]], conventional missiles, nuclear warheads, Vipers, Raptors
| 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>
| status= Final known ship of this class destroyed at the [[Battle of New Caprica]]
}}

The '''''Mercury'' class battlestar''' is an advanced Colonial capital warship/carrier introduced into the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Colonial Fleet]] sometime after the First [[Cylon War]].

==Overview==
At the time of the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]], a ''Mercury'' class battlestar was a top-of-the-line vessel.

The structural design of the ''Mercury'' class differs significantly from the original ''Galactica'' type battlestar. The "neck" section is smaller, and the ''Mercury'' class features eight [[sublight]] engine pods instead of the older class's six. Its edges are more angular is more completely armored (no exposed ribs). Each [[flight pod]] consists of two stacked landing bays with adjoined decks and hangars, which along with computer-assisted landings results in a faster Viper recovery rate. These pods are fixed and do not retract when executing an [[FTL| FTL jump]] ([[The Captain's Hand]]), suggesting advances in jump systems. Inside, the class features automated sliding doorways, basic computer recognition stations in vital areas, and networked computer systems.

An example of this class, ''Pegasus'', carries a complement of 50 Raptors and 200 [[Viper Mark VII]] fighters (8 squadrons and two reserve squadrons color coded blue, red, green, yellow, orange, purple, black, white, and reserve squadrons gold and silver) <ref>Intelligence Debrief: Cylon Basestar, "Battlestar Galactica: The Official Magazine," June/July 2006, page 56.</ref>.

[[Battery|Gun batteries]] on the ''Mercury'' class are distributed all over the ship ([[The Captain's Hand]]), with the greatest concentration of large turrets are found along the side of the ship, within the valley created by the upper and lower halves of the hull, including the flight pods. Four are mounted on the underside of the upper hull on the ship's bow, below which sits four non-turreted large guns; these form the main forward batteries. Six turrets are mounted on each underside of the alligator head, grouped in pairs. There are also three turrets on the side of each flight pod along two more turrets are mounted on the front and back of each flight pod. This amounts to a total of thirty-four main gun batteries. The turreted guns of the ''Mercury'' class have a higher rate of fire than ''Galactica's'' turreted guns when operating in flak mode, demonstrated during the skirmish with the [[Raider (RDM)|Cylon War-era Raiders]] in [[Razor]].

[[Image:Pegasus01.jpg|right|thumb|''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' from fore and below, with the Fleet in the background]] [[Image:Pegasus_Hi-Res_1a.jpg|right|thumb|[[Viper (RDM)|Mark VII Vipers]] landing in ''Pegasus's'' port flight pod]]
[[Image:Pegasus_Hi-Res_5a.jpg|right|thumb|Some of ''Pegasus's'' [[Kinetic Energy Weapon|batteries]]]]
[[Image:Pegasus-Comparison.png|right|thumb|Comparison of [[Battlestar (TOS)|original series battlestar]] and ''Mercury'' class]]

The standard crew complement of a ''Mercury'' class battlestar is in excess of 2,500 ("[[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]", "[[Razor]]"), small number for a ship its size made possible by [[Computers in the Re-imagined Series|computer]] automation.

The ''Mercury'' class battlestar has production facilities to build new [[Viper (RDM)|Viper Mark VIIs]] from basic resources ([[Scar]]).

== Known ''Mercury'' class battlestars ==

*Battlestar [[Pegasus]]
== Notes ==
The shape of the ''Mercury'' class resembles the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]] [[battlestar (TOS)|battlestar]] more than the Re-imagined Series' ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]''. Its engine pods number eight, compared to ''Galactica'''s six engine pods. The pods aboard the ''Mercury'' class battlestar appear more directly integrated with its rear section, and its flight pods share the original angular shape.

The visual effects artist of the re-imagined ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'', Jose A. Perez, has commented that, "The new design was somewhat of a cross between the look of the [[TOS|old class]] [[battlestar (TOS)|battlestars]], and yet with elements of the [[Galactica (RDM)|new one]]. Aside from that, it has mostly hull plating (to absorb more damage) , as opposed to the ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' which has more ribbing."
Mr. Perez also commented that, "The harder edges [ of the [[Pegasus (RDM)|''Pegasus'']] ] were intentional as well, to match the interior style of the sets more."

==References==
[[Image:Galactica-pegasus-scale-study-2.jpg|right|thumb|Size comparison between Pegasus and Galactica.]]
<div style="font-size:85%"><references/></div>

{{sourcebox|Correspondence with Jose Perez}}

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2009-11-19T07:22:00Z

Fredmdbud: /* Overview */ edit to remove details beyond the article subject, gratuitous comparisons to Galactica

:''For the unnamed original class, to which ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' belongs, see [[Galactica Class Battlestar]].''
{{Ship Data|
image= Mercury Class.png
| title= ''Mercury'' class battlestar
| race= Colonial
| type= Military
| ftl= Yes
| crew= Unknown approx 2500 (Full crew)
| role= Capital battleship/carrier
| weapons= 34 Primary [[KEW|Kinetic Energy Weapons]] (30 twin turrets, 4 fixed twin mounts) and point-defense [[KEW|Kinetic Energy Weapons]], conventional missiles, nuclear warheads, Vipers, Raptors
| 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>
| status= Final known ship of this class destroyed at the [[Battle of New Caprica]]
}}

The '''''Mercury'' class battlestar''' is an advanced Colonial capital warship/carrier introduced into the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Colonial Fleet]] sometime after the First [[Cylon War]].

==Overview==
At the time of the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]], a ''Mercury'' class battlestar was a top-of-the-line vessel.

The structural design of the ''Mercury'' class differs significantly from the original ''Galactica'' type battlestar. The "neck" section is smaller, and the ''Mercury'' class features eight [[sublight]] engine pods instead of the older class's six. Its edges are more angular is more completely armored (no exposed ribs). Each [[flight pod]] consists of two stacked landing bays with adjoined decks and hangars, which along with computer-assisted landings results in a faster Viper recovery rate. Inside, the class features automated sliding doorways, basic computer recognition stations in vital areas, and networked computer systems.

An example of this class, ''Pegasus'', carries a complement of 50 Raptors and 200 [[Viper Mark VII]] fighters (8 squadrons and two reserve squadrons color coded blue, red, green, yellow, orange, purple, black, white, and reserve squadrons gold and silver) <ref>Intelligence Debrief: Cylon Basestar, "Battlestar Galactica: The Official Magazine," June/July 2006, page 56.</ref>.

[[Battery|Gun batteries]] on the ''Mercury'' class are distributed all over the ship ([[The Captain's Hand]]), with the greatest concentration of large turrets are found along the side of the ship, within the valley created by the upper and lower halves of the hull, including the flight pods. Four are mounted on the underside of the upper hull on the ship's bow, below which sits four non-turreted large guns; these form the main forward batteries. Six turrets are mounted on each underside of the alligator head, grouped in pairs. There are also three turrets on the side of each flight pod along two more turrets are mounted on the front and back of each flight pod. This amounts to a total of thirty-four main gun batteries. The turreted guns of the ''Mercury'' class have a higher rate of fire than ''Galactica's'' turreted guns when operating in flak mode, demonstrated during the skirmish with the [[Raider (RDM)|Cylon War-era Raiders]] in [[Razor]].

[[Image:Pegasus01.jpg|right|thumb|''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' from fore and below, with the Fleet in the background]] [[Image:Pegasus_Hi-Res_1a.jpg|right|thumb|[[Viper (RDM)|Mark VII Vipers]] landing in ''Pegasus's'' port flight pod]]
[[Image:Pegasus_Hi-Res_5a.jpg|right|thumb|Some of ''Pegasus's'' [[Kinetic Energy Weapon|batteries]]]]
[[Image:Pegasus-Comparison.png|right|thumb|Comparison of [[Battlestar (TOS)|original series battlestar]] and ''Mercury'' class]]

Based on figures from the episodes "[[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]" and "[[Razor]]", the standard crew complement of a ''Mercury'' class battlestar is in excess of 2,500, which is significantly lower than found on a ''Galactica'' type battlestar. Despite being larger in size than its preceding ship class, this level of crew appears to make operating battlestars of this class manageable, due to heavy [[Computers in the Re-imagined Series|computer]] automation.

The ''Mercury'' class battlestar has production facilities to build new [[Viper (RDM)|Viper Mark VIIs]] from basic resources ([[Scar]]).

Unlike ''Galactica'' type battlestar, which must retract their flight pods to execute an [[FTL| FTL jump]], the ''Mercury'' class' flight pods are fixed in place and do not retract during a jump ([[The Captain's Hand]]). This suggests that its jump system is more advanced than the older battlestars's.

== Known ''Mercury'' class battlestars ==

*Battlestar [[Pegasus]]
== Notes ==
The shape of the ''Mercury'' class resembles the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]] [[battlestar (TOS)|battlestar]] more than the Re-imagined Series' ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]''. Its engine pods number eight, compared to ''Galactica'''s six engine pods. The pods aboard the ''Mercury'' class battlestar appear more directly integrated with its rear section, and its flight pods share the original angular shape.

The visual effects artist of the re-imagined ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'', Jose A. Perez, has commented that, "The new design was somewhat of a cross between the look of the [[TOS|old class]] [[battlestar (TOS)|battlestars]], and yet with elements of the [[Galactica (RDM)|new one]]. Aside from that, it has mostly hull plating (to absorb more damage) , as opposed to the ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' which has more ribbing."
Mr. Perez also commented that, "The harder edges [ of the [[Pegasus (RDM)|''Pegasus'']] ] were intentional as well, to match the interior style of the sets more."

==References==
[[Image:Galactica-pegasus-scale-study-2.jpg|right|thumb|Size comparison between Pegasus and Galactica.]]
<div style="font-size:85%"><references/></div>

{{sourcebox|Correspondence with Jose Perez}}

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Unnamed Colonial vessels

2009-11-19T06:46:00Z

Fredmdbud: /* "Berzerk" Class Escort */ reword to a less fan-centric voice

:''This article lists seen, but unnamed [[battlestar]]s in the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Reimagined Series]].''

== Galactica type battlestars ==

During the first [[Cylon War]], ''[[Columbia (RDM)|Columbia]]'', ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' and one other unnamed battlestar of [[Galactica type battlestar|their class]] conducted [[Operation Raptor Talon]] against the Cylons ([[Razor Flashbacks]]).

This battlestar class was still in service over 40 years later. One such battlestar is destroyed near [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] in the renewed [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attack]]. It is broken in two parts in the middle and seen by [[Karl Agathon]] and [[Sharon Agathon|Sharon Valerii]] when their Raptor cruises towards Caprica ([[Miniseries]]).

At the same time at least one is docked at the [[Scorpion Fleet Shipyards]]. There is some debate as to whether or not a second ship of this type is seen later during the bombing of the shipyards due to the fact that the ship is seen in a different area than during the initial view of the facility. However the ship which is destroyed is slightly different to [[Galactica]], the mid-section or body of this vessel is somewhat shorter than that of [[Galactica]], resulting in a more squat shape though still appearing to be larger than [[Pegasus]]. The ship was [[Fall of the Scorpion Fleet Shipyards|destroyed]] by Cylon missiles ([[Razor]]). Only one can be seen in the establishing shot of the shipyard, being enclosed by the superstructure on two sides.<ref>http://www.battlestarforum.com/album.php?albumid=68&pictureid=690</ref> However, during the battle, a ''Galactica''-type battlestar is shown in a different place.<ref>http://www.battlestarforum.com/album.php?albumid=68&pictureid=691</ref> This could mean that the visual effects of the establishing shot and the battle don't fit together. It is unknown if the two are meant to be the same battlestar.

<gallery>
Image:Destroyed Battlestar Mini.JPG|A destroyed ''Galactica'' type battlestar near Caprica ([[Miniseries]]).
Image:Operation Raptor Talon.jpg|''Columbia'', ''Galactica'' and one unnamed battlestar over an [[ice planet]] ([[Razor Flashbacks]]).
Image:ScorpionFleetShipyards1.jpg|Docked at the shipyards over Scorpia (upper right) ([[Razor]]).
</gallery>

== Valkyrie type battlestars ==

[[Image:Valkyrie-type battlestar.jpg|thumb|left|''Valkyrie'' type battlestar destroyed in its berth (Razor).]]
Four battlestars of ''[[Valkyrie]]'''s design are also docked at the Scorpion Fleet Shipyards and destroyed by the Cylons ([[Razor]]). Although, it is theoretically possible that one of these battlestars is ''Valkyrie'' herself.

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== "Berzerk" Class Escort ==
[[Image:Pegasus, Scorpion Shipyards.jpg|thumb|right|A type of escort (top) docked next to ''Pegasus'' (bottom) at the [[Scorpion Fleet Shipyards]].]]

Another ship class, possibly a type of escort vessel<ref>Based on an original design by [[Eric Chu]], the version seen in "Razor" was created by Charles Oines of [http://www.irrationaldesigns.com/index.html Irrational Designs]. While not [[canon]]ical, Oines's artwork designates the vessel as a "Berzerk-class". His web site has full renderings of the ship.</ref>, is docked next to ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' during the [[Fall of the Scorpion Fleet Shipyards]] ([[Razor]]). However, it is unknown if this class is designated as a battlestar by the Colonial Fleet.

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Boxing

2009-10-28T05:30:14Z

Fredmdbud: reword, cut back on the potential speculation to what is said

×:''This article is concerned with the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]] process of boxing. [[w:Boxing|Boxing]], a sport and martial art, took place in the episode "[[Unfinished Business]]".''
:''If you are looking for the character of Box (a.k.a. Boxey) from the [[Maximum Press]] comics, see: [[Boxey (alternate)]].''

[[Image:Box.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Cylon cold storage unit.]]
To '''box''' a [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]] is to download a particular [[humanoid Cylon]]'s consciousness from his or her body into cold storage indefinitely (analogous to a computer core dump), presumably in an inert state. To a Cylon, boxing is much like true death, except that boxing is relatively easy to reverse if the Cylons who carried it out change their minds.

Boxing is carried out during the Cylon resurrection process. A small metal box on the side of the tank, the storage unit, is removed by an attending Cylon once the consciousness has been downloaded into it, and the Cylon body in the tank deactivates. The body is then moved to storage in a [[Resurrection Ship]]. The attendant may as a courtesy allow the condemned Cylon to resurrect long enough to inform him or her of the boxing before carrying it out.

A Cylon is boxed when he or she has been found dangerously unstable, such as when a humanoid Cylon's memories appear "corrupted" by extended or intense human contact, or when a sleeper agent becomes psychologically maladjusted from denying his or her Cylon nature.

[[Saul Tigh]], [[Ellen Tigh]], [[Samuel Anders]], [[Galen Tyrol]], and [[Tory Foster]] were boxed by [[Number One]] for a time after he killed them by asphyxiation, then released into the Twelve Colonies one by one with fake memories ([[No Exit]]).

The resurrected Cylons [[Caprica-Six]] (the [[Number Six]] who died protecting [[Gaius Baltar]] when his house is destroyed in the [[Miniseries]]) and [[Sharon Valerii|Sharon "Boomer" Valerii]] are threatened with boxing by a [[Number Three]] shortly after their return. Their "[[Hero of the Cylon]]" status and extended human associations threaten the Cylon ''status quo'' because the two became individuals, their personalities diverging from their fellow models ([[Downloaded]]).

Similarly, a Cavil infiltrates the resistance on Caprica and, as a result of observing and questioning the humans, comes to the conclusion that the extermination of humanity was a mistake. In order to contain this heresy, the ''Galactica'' copy promises to have him boxed once they are resurrected ([[The Plan]]).

[[Image:Boxáge.jpg|thumb|230px|left|A [[Cavil]] boxes [[Number Three]].]]
After the incident at the [[Temple of Five]], where the same Number Three who threatened to box Caprica-Six and Boomer goes against the will of the other Cylons, the decision is made to box not just her, but all Number Three models ([[Rapture]]). The [[Podcast:Rapture|podcast for "Rapture"]] reveals that the boxing of the Threes is the first and only model-wide boxing in Cylon history.

All boxed Cylons are stored at the [[Resurrection Hub]], a central facility which coordinates all resurrections. When the Hub is destroyed by an alliance of humans and renegade Cylons, all but one [[Number Three]], the unboxed [[D'Anna Biers]], are permanently killed in their boxed state. With the Hub gone, all Cylons lose their ability to resurrect and thus be boxed ([[The Hub]]).

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The Plan

2009-10-27T19:34:43Z

Fredmdbud: /* Questions */ This question is already answered in the article for Gina Inviere

{{Episode Data
| image=The Plan - Tigh and Adama in Galactica Corridor.jpg
| title= The Plan
| season=
| special=Y
| episode=
| guests=
| writer= [[Jane Espenson]] <ref name ="cyloncentric">{{cite_web|url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2008/08/battlestar-gala.html|title='Battlestar Galactica': Edward James Olmos will direct Cylon-centric special feature|date=08-06-2008|accessdate=09-03-2008}}</ref>
| story=
| director= [[Edward James Olmos]]<ref name ="cyloncentric"/>
| production= 101 - 01001
| rating=
| US airdate=2010
| CAN airdate=
| UK airdate=
| dvd=October 27, 2009
| population=
| prev=[[Daybreak, Part II]]
| next=
}}

== Overview ==
:''This special episode, based on the episode title, involves characters and events based around the series' premise stated in the opening credits of the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]] and their plan for humanity. The episode is set during the events of the [[Miniseries]] and Season 2, told from the Cylons' perspective, and is currently in post-production.<ref>See [[Mark Verheiden|Mark Verheiden's]] entry on his [http://verheiden.blogspot.com/2008/08/battlestar-galactica-plan.html blog, August 9, 2008.]</ref>The disappearance of [[Shelly Godfrey]] is explained, as is [[Ellen Tigh]]'s mysterious appearance. [[Samuel Anders]] and [[Number One|John Cavil]] are the main viewpoint characters.<ref>Tricia Helfer interview with USA Weekend:[http://blogs.usaweekend.com/whos_news/2009/01/exclusive-trici.html]</ref>''

== Summary ==

=== Teaser ===

The show opens with the statement "The Cylons where created by man. They rebelled. They evolved. They look and feel human. Some are programmed to think they are human. There are many copies and they have a Plan." While this is being said they show the Cylon Fleet.

Next, you are taken inside Galatica and you see two Ones being escorted to an airlock. Both of them are having a difference of opinion.

One A - "I was doing fine here, thanks for exposing me."

One B - "You weren't doing fine. Thank goodness. If you'd wiped out this fleet you would have made us ever more irredeemable in the eyes of our parents."

One A - "No, I would have proved us to be superior."

One B - "No, no see, I figured out what went wrong."

One A - "Well that's a very useful revelation to have, if your standing in front of an airlock."

One B - "None the less"

One A - "Our failure is obvious, we had our foot on the throat of humanity and we failed to step down hard enough."

One B - "That was our error. Have you learned nothing in all this time in the fleet. Because I learned a great deal among the rebels on Caprica. Ever killing of a human being was a grievous error. You want to know why."

One A - "I really don't."

One B - "Are you certain?" Because it's fascinating."

One A - "Listen brother. If you are right, that means this whole project was doomed from the beginning."

One B - "Yes, from the very top."

=== Act 1 ===

=== Act 2 ===

=== Act 3 ===

=== Act 4 ===

== Notes ==
*Unknown to the Colonials there apparently ''was'' a second Resurrection Ship nearby by the time the Cavil's were executed allowing them to download into new bodies when killed, although the Caprica copy was presumably boxed.

== Analysis ==
*Given the ''Galactica'' copy of Cavil's comments in the airlock, his resurrected self is the copy that led the enemy Cylon faction during the Cylon Civil War and later killed himself permanantly in CIC.

== Questions ==

* Did Giana take her husband's surname? In other words, is the full alias of Number Four actually "Simon O'Neil"?
* Is ''Galactica'' Cavil really the same Cavil that lead the Civil War before his suicide?

== Official Statements ==

===Future Movies===
Speaking at the 2009 San Diego Comic Con, director and star of ''The Plan'', [[Edward James Olmos]] stated that he believes there will be several more ''Battlestar Galactica'' movies in the future and is confident that the DVD release of ''The Plan'' will sell well enough to facilitate these films:
:"As a matter of fact, I've got to tell you right now. Because of you all, what you're doing, because of the love for that world...I can guarantee that this will not be the last movie." <ref>{{cite_web|url=http://io9.com/5322385/olmos-the-plan-wont-be-the-last-bsg-movie|title=Olmos: The Plan Won't Be the Last BSG Movie|date=Fri Jul 24 2009|accessdate=|last=|first=|format=|language=}}</ref>
This statement, however, is by no means official, as both [[Ronald D. Moore|Ron Moore]], [[David Eick]], and [[SciFi Channel|SyFy]] have made no mention of any additional ''Battlestar'' films.

Olmos later went on to clarify that if ''The Plan'' sold ¾ of a million copies (750,000) then Universal Studios would assuredly be willing to produce future ''Battlestar''-related productions. <ref>{{cite_web|url=http://galacticasitrep.blogspot.com/2009/08/edward-james-olmos-holds-court.html|title=Edward James Olmos holds court|date=Sat 08 Aug 2009|accessdate=|last=|first=|format=|language=}}</ref>

== Noteworthy Dialogue ==
Sam and his team our practicing at the Pyramid Training camp on Caprica, you see Sam lying on the ground just after the coach had showed him up by making a goal. He is looking up into the sky just as the bombs are coming in and he says, "This has happened before."

It was as if part of Sam's memory was breaking through trying to warn him that the cycle was starting again.

== Guest Stars ==

* [[Michael Hogan]] as [[Saul Tigh]] <ref name ="morecylons">{{cite_web|url=http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/entertainment_tv/2008/09/battlestar-gala.html|title='Battlestar Galactica' movie snares Tricia Helfer, Grace Park and lots more Cylons|date=09-03-2008|accessdate=10-11-2009}}</ref>
* [[Rekha Sharma]] as [[Tory Foster]] <ref name ="morecylons"/>
* [[Michael Trucco]] as [[Samuel T. Anders]] <ref name ="cyloncentric"/>
* [[Aaron Douglas]] as [[Galen Tyrol]] <ref name ="cyloncentric"/>
* [[Kate Vernon]] as [[Ellen Tigh]] <ref name ="theplancast">{{cite_web|url=http://io9.com/5106866/cylon-confessions-and-a-surprising-hookup-in-bsgs-tv-movie|title='Battlestar Galactica': Cylon Confessions, And A Surprising Hookup, In BSG's TV Movie|date=12-10-2008|accessdate=03-07-2009}}</ref>
* [[Dean Stockwell]] as [[Number One]] <ref name ="cyloncentric"/>
* [[Callum Keith Rennie]] as [[Number Two]] <ref name ="morecylons"/>
* [[Rick Worthy]] as [[Number Four]] <ref name ="theplancast"/>
* [[Matthew Bennett]] as [[Number Five]] <ref name ="morecylons"/>
* [[Lymari Nadal]] as [[Giana|Giana O'Neil]] <ref>{{cite_web|url=http://www.doorq.com/Blog.aspx?b=1667|title=DRAGON*CON: More Galactica Info from Olmos at Colonial Fleet Party}}</ref>
* [[Tiffany Lyndall-Knight]] as [[Hybrid]]

== References ==
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[[Category:Episodes written by Jane Espenson]]
[[Category:Episodes directed by Edward James Olmos]]

Basestar (TRS)

2009-10-27T16:00:34Z

Fredmdbud: /* Modern basestar */ new info from "The Plan"

:''This article is about the basestars as seen in the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Re-imagined Series]]. For the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]] version, see [[Basestar (TOS)]].''

A '''basestar''' (known interchangeably as a "baseship") is the most prominent example of the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]] military presence. As the capital ship of the Cylons, the basestar appears in three forms in the [[Re-imagined Series]].

== Modern basestar ==
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| title= Modern basestar
| race= [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]]
| type= Military
| ftl= Yes
| crew= [[Humanoid Cylon]]s, [[Cylon Centurion]]s, the [[Hybrid]]
| role= Carrier / battleship hybrid
| weapons= Nuclear and conventional missiles, Raiders, [[Heavy Raider]]s
| width={{Meters2Feet|1030.69}}<ref>The following was posted by [[Lee Stringer]] on StarshipBuilder.com forums, which are no longer available: "Width: 1030.69m Length: 856.1m (two arm side) + 1039.87m (single arm side) Height: 132.586m (Each Piece), 265.172m Total". Because of its ratio to the stated width, the overall length must have been measured on one of the three-arm pieces, meaning the full ship is slightly longer.</ref>
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The modern basestars, seen some 40 years after the end of the [[Cylon War]], are approximately the same size as a Colonial battlestar but appear to be more technologically advanced <ref>The official SciFi.com website indicates that basestars "dwarf" a battlestar. However, aired information in season 3, which shows ''Galactica'' and ''Pegasus'' in close proximity to a basestar, contradict SciFi.com's information.</ref>. The shape of the newer basestar reflects its name, with two Y-shaped hulls attached at their centers by a single pylon, the warship has a distinctive "star" shape.

They are equipped with a superior [[FTL|jump system]] and no visible means of [[sublight propulsion]], lacking any engine pods or nacelles, but remain capable of chasing down a battlestar ([[Exodus, Part II]]). They can rotate their upper and lower halves into a tandem-Y configuration for entry into a planetary atmosphere ([[The Plan]]).

Basestars operate a fleet of small fighters, known as [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Raiders]], and are capable of deploying hundreds of these ships simultaneously (see [[#Related Imagery|Related Imagery]]). The enormous number of Raiders serves as a basestar's primary defense system.

Like the Raiders, the basestars are partially organic, which is particularly evident in their landing bays ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]). When severely damaged, they can sustain large, fleshy [[:image:Basestar fleshy wound.jpg|"wounds"]] ([[Faith]]). Moreover, [[Natalie]] mentions that their damaged baseship can heal itself ([[Guess What's Coming to Dinner?]]).

The baseships possess several conventional rooms and hallways, which are sleek but generally bland. Lighting plays a large role in the aesthetics and some rooms are furnished with clearly human objects, such as beds and couches. Humanoid Cylons [[Projection|project different surroundings]] to navigate ship corridors more easily, and to provide them with an individually pleasing environment (such as a lush forest). Data and other functions (such as analyzing visual information) are handled within a liquid computer interface that resembles a stream of water flowing over a luminous glass surface. Cylons can [[Data-font|interact with the main computer by placing their hands in these basins]] ([[Torn]]).

===Command and Control===
[[Image:Basestarcontol_306_720p.png|thumb|left|Baseship control room ([[Torn]]).]]
A basestar is operated by many [[humanoid Cylon]]s. Up to [[Torn|all seven models]] of them issue commands for the basestar from a central command and control center. Consensus amongst models is the typical procedure, as such the process of deliberation and voting on decisions may cause the basestar to react more slowly than a battlestar's command and control in a [[CIC]].

A basestar's functions are managed by a partially humanoid Cylon incorporated into the ship, known as a [[Hybrid]]. The Hybrid, for all respects of identity and control, ''is'' the basestar. The ship is an extension of her body and she is the ship's mind. The Hybrid, despite its humanoid appearance, is not a considered a fellow humanoid Cylon and lacks voting power as other agents have in Cylon affairs.

A basestar has a [[datastream]], or computer network, which interfaces with the Hybrid and all aspects of the basestar's operation.

===Armaments===
[[Image:Basestar fires missiles, "He That Believeth In Me".jpg|thumb|left|Basestar launching missiles ([[He That Believeth In Me]]).]]
A basestar is capable of launching conventional or nuclear missiles from 220 turret launchers mounted throughout the arms and central axis <ref>[http://www.galacticabbs.com/index.php?autocom=gallery Season 3 (Collaborators) and onward]</ref><ref>[http://darthmojo.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/baseship_wallpaper.jpg]</ref><ref>[http://media.battlestarwiki.org/images/a/a3/Basestar_Weapon_Mod.JPG An image of one y structure. Two make up a basestar.]</ref> that pivot to allow the basestar to fire in any direction<ref>Intelligence Debrief: Cylon Basestar, "Battlestar Galactica: The Official Magazine", June/July 2006, page 56.</ref>. Basestar-launched nuclear strikes against Colonial ships are usually carried out before Raider deployment. One example of a Cylon nuclear attack involved three Cylon basestars that [[Battle of the Binary Star System|ambush]] the battlestar ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]''. They open their attack firing several nuclear missiles before deploying Raiders and switching to a non-nuclear salvo ([[The Captain's Hand]]).

A basestar's complement of Raiders is estimated as high as 792 fighters<ref>Intelligence Debrief: Cylon Basestar, "Battlestar Galactica: The Official Magazine", June/July 2006, page 56.</ref>, not counting fighters in repair or otherwise off-line. It should be noted that there are a total of 864 Raider launch slots on the arms of a pre-retconned Basestar. <ref>[http://www.modelermagic.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/kg_cg_ns_basestar-067.jpg multiply total by two]</ref> In comparison, the retconned Basestar has only 434 Raider launch slots, a dramatic decrease from the previous version.<ref>[http://www.galacticabbs.com/index.php?autocom=gallery&req=si&img=149903 larger section, multiply by 2: 5 rows of 17 slots, and 2 rows of 7 slots]</ref><ref>[http://www.galacticabbs.com/index.php?autocom=gallery&req=si&img=131194 smaller section, multiply by 4: 59 total slots]</ref>

This tactic, along with the massive numbers of Raiders that a basestar can unleash, suggest a reliance on overwhelming force to destroy a foe. It is probable that basestars use nuclear weapons to destroy the bulk of the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Colonial Fleet]] (using their [[CNP]] back-doors to compromise their defenses first) in the opening wave of their [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|destruction of the Colonies]].

After the Colonial commanders draw away their Raider wings, [[Battle of the Resurrection Ship|two basestars are torn apart]] by the kinetic guns of the battlestars ''Pegasus'' and ''Galactica'' in a joint mission to destroy a Cylon [[Resurrection Ship]]. It would seem that that basestars rely heavily on their Raiders for close-range gun defense. Since a basestar does not appear to have point-defense batteries, or heavy armoring<ref>Intelligence Debrief: Cylon Basestar, "Battlestar Galactica: The Official Magazine", June/July 2006, page 57.</ref>, it seems quite vulnerable to battlestars in close-range combat when fighter support is not prominent ([[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]). From this, it can be theorized that basestars are designed primarily as carriers for the massive fleet of Raiders they carry, rather than as a front-line main battleship. Their reliance on long-distance attacks with missiles and their complement of Raiders, as well as their overall fragility seem to support this.

=== Notes ===
*Beginning with the episode "[[Collaborators]]", a [[:Image:Change.jpg|new exterior design]] is used for the basestars, bearing a sharper, more mechanical look than they previously had. This was apparently an upgrade by the visual effects crew to make the exterior reflect the interior design, which is seen for the first time in that episode.
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== Cylon War-era basestar ==

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| title= Cylon War-era basestar
| race= [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]]
| type= Military
| ftl= Unknown
| crew= [[Cylon Centurion Model 0005|Centurions]]
| role= Carrier / battleship hybrid
| weapons= Nuclear and conventional missiles, [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Raiders]]
| img= Y
}}
The basestars in service during the 12-year Cylon War consisted of two flattened cones connected at the center by a thick pylon, giving them a conical saucer-like appearance<ref>This basestar design seen in the [[Miniseries]] and later in "[[Razor]]" is an obvious homage to the [[Basestar (TOS)|basestar]] seen in the [[Original Series]]. However, its weaponry (if not also its [[Imperious Leader|command structure]]) is markedly different than its 1978 counterpart per the "realistic" goals of [[Ron Moore]]'s essay on [[Naturalistic science fiction]] in ''Battlestar''.</ref> ([[Razor Flashbacks]]).

[[Image:Basestarinmuseum.jpg|thumb|left|A model of a Cylon War-era basestar on display in the defunct museum.]]
Much like its modern counterpart, this model utilized chemically-propelled missiles (with both nuclear and standard warheads) as the main form of offensive weaponry. Raiders were deployed from access points (totaling 8 in number) throughout a basestar's hull to provide defense.

During [[Operation Raptor Talon]], the battlestar ''[[Columbia (RDM)|Columbia]]'' was destroyed by basestar missiles and Raider attacks as ''[[Galactica]]'' and another unnamed battlestar pressed their assaults.

The origins of the initial basestars are unclear. However, as [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons were a creation of man]] in the early days before the war, it is probable that man himself (through the efforts of various [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|colonies]]) designed the various ships and weapons used by the Cylons for the use in intra-colonial wars prior to the [[Articles of Colonization]].

A model of this basestar design is displayed over 40 years later on ''Galactica'', as part of its [[Galactica Museum|planned museum]] ([[Miniseries, Night 1]]).

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== Guardian basestar ==
{{Ship Data
| image= guardian_basestar.jpg
| title= Guardian basestar
| race= [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]]
| type= Military
| ftl= Yes
| crew= [[Cylon Centurion Model 0005|Cylon Centurions]], the [[first Hybrid]]
| role= Carrier / battleship hybrid
| weapons= 36 twin missile tube mountings <ref>[http://www.galacticabbs.com/index.php?autocom=gallery&req=sc&cat=187&sort_key=caption&order_key=ASC&prune_key=*&st=4384 Images are in the middle of the page and clearly show missle launchers.]</ref>, First Cylon War-era Raiders
| status= Destroyed
}} {{mainarticle|Guardian basestar}}
Towards the end of the first Cylon War, the Cylons built a prototype basestar that had roughly the same shape as the modern basestar. The [[First Hybrid|first hybrids]] were developed for use with this model.

[[Image:Gardian basestar.jpg|thumb|left|The Guardian basestar taking off from an [[ice planet]] ([[Razor Flashbacks]]).]]
It is explained by [[Sharon Agathon|Athena]] that a group of Centurions calling themselves [[Guardians]] fractured from the Cylon majority with such a basestar. The belief is that they escaped to the far reaches of space to avoid being shut-down in favor of their modernized, non-sentient [[Cylon Centurion|successors]] ([[Razor]]). The only basestar of this type known to exist was destroyed by Colonial forces shortly after its discovery.
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== Rebel basestar ==
{{Ship Data
| image= Rebellen Basisstern.jpg
| title= Rebel basestar
| race= [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]]
| type= Military
| ftl= Yes
| crew= [[Humanoid Cylon]]s, [[Cylon Centurion]]s, the [[Hybrid]]
| role= Carrier / battleship hybrid
| weapons= Nuclear and conventional missiles, [[Heavy Raider]]s, at least 3 Raiders
| status= Under repairs from serious damage, allied with [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Colonial Fleet]]
| img=
}} {{mainarticle|Rebel basestar}}

This basestar belongs to the rebel Cylon faction comprising of all [[Number Two|Two]], [[Number Six|Six]] and [[Number Eight|Eight]] models apart from [[Sharon Valerii|Boomer]], as well as the last remaining [[Number Three|Three]] copy later on. The basestar becomes seriously damaged after the other three models wanted them wiped out and destroyed all but one basestar, which has become refuge to the surviving Twos, Sixes and Eights ([[The Ties That Bind]]).

The basestar is later found by the ''[[Demetrius]]'' and her crew, who have been searching for [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]], and they send the basestar to [[The Fleet (RDM)|the fleet]], where they form an unsteady alliance to destroy the [[Resurrection Hub]], and hence lose the Cylons' ability to [[resurrection|resurrect]]. However, the basestar becomes the only ship to make it there, after the [[Hybrid]] jumps without the fleet, but later manages to destroy the Hub with the help of the Humans in the ship, as well as retreive the last Three copy ([[Guess What's Coming to Dinner?]], [[The Hub]]).

After returning to the fleet in a succesfully mission, they join the fleet to Earth, only to find it in ruins. The basestar is later invited to join the fleet to find a new home afterwards ([[Sometimes a Great Notion]]).

It has since joined the fleet completly, even getting it's own representation in the new Quorum of Ship's Captians and being slated to act as the new flagship under Admiral Adama's command once ''Galactica'' is scrapped for parts (the Cylons offered that to Admiral Adama).
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== Related Imagery ==

<gallery>Image:Baseship, hornet nest.jpg|[[Cylon Raider|Raiders]] being released ([[Scattered]]).
Image:Baseships over Caprica.jpg|Trio of basestars over Caprica ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]).
Image:Dyingbasestar_306_720p.png|A basestar infected by a deadly [[Lymphocytic encephalitis|virus]] ([[Torn]]).
Image:Operation Raptor Talon.jpg|[[Operation Raptor Talon]] at the end of the first Cylon War ([[Razor]]).
Image:Basestar Interior 1.jpg|Baltar and a Three in a room on a basestar (Torn).
Image:Basestar Interior 2.jpg|Baltar and a Three in a corridor ([[The Passage]]).
Image:Basestar Interior 3.jpg|A basestar's hangar bay (Torn).
Image:Cylon membrane hatch.jpg|A membrane covers a mechanical-looking hatch of a Cylon docking slip ([[Faith]]).</gallery>

==References==
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Kara Thrace

2009-10-07T06:19:44Z

Fredmdbud: /* Background */ concising

:''This article discusses the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Re-imagined Series]] character with the pilot callsign of "Starbuck." For information on Kara Thrace's counterpart in the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]], see [[Starbuck (TOS)]].''

:''For Kara Thrace's parents, see [[Dreilide Thrace]] and [[Socrata Thrace]].''

{{Character Data
|photo= Kara Thrace.jpg
|age=
|colony= [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]]
|birthname= Kara Thrace
|callsign= Starbuck
|seen= Miniseries
|death= Viper destroyed near gas giant, crashing on [[Earth (RDM)#Arrival_and_Ruins|Cylon Earth]] ([[Maelstrom]]/[[Sometimes a Great Notion]]);<br>Mysteriously reappears ([[Crossroads, Part II]]);<br>Vanishes in Tanzania on [[Earth (RDM)#A_New_Earth|pre-historical 2nd Earth]] ([[Daybreak, Part II]])
|parents= [[Socrata Thrace]]† (mother)<br>[[Dreilide Thrace]]† (father)
|siblings=
|children=
|marital status= Married to [[Samuel Anders]]† (formerly engaged to [[Zak Adama]]†)
|rank=Captain
|role= Viper pilot;<br>flight instructor;<br>''Galactica'' [[Commander Air Group|CAG]];<br>angel-prophet;<br>captain of ''[[Demetrius]]''
|actor= [[Katee Sackhoff]]<br>[[Erika-Shaye Gair]] (child)
|cylon=
|serial = 462753 <ref name="serial"> Confirmed number from QMX dogtags given to them by the studio.</ref>
}}
'''Kara "Starbuck" Thrace''' is a gifted [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] pilot, with an attitude that has hindered her career in the Colonial Fleet. However, [[William Adama]] has confidence in Thrace's military skills, and she greatly aids the Fleet inside and out of the cockpit. She is the last [[Commander Air Group|Commander, Air Group]] (CAG) of ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'', and [[virtual beings|mysteriously vanishes]] in Tanzania on [[Earth (RDM)#A_New_Earth|real-world Earth]] shortly after the Fleet's arrival on the planet ([[Daybreak, Part II]]).

== Background ==

[[Image:YoungKaraThrace.jpg|thumb|left|A young Kara Thrace in a vision ([[Maelstrom]]).]]
*Thrace's mother [[Socrata Thrace|Socrata]] was a former [[Colonial Marine Corps]] sergeant major. She beat her daughter so frequently that Thrace came to accept pain as a way of life ("[[Flesh and Bone]]", "[[Maelstrom]]").
*Her father [[Dreilide Thrace|Dreilide]] was a pianist and composer. Kara seems to have been closer to him than with her mother ([[Valley of Darkness]], [[Someone to Watch Over Me]]) until he left them.
*Thrace left home to join the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|military]]. During her training, she was disciplined for insubordinate conduct towards [[Mike Gibbons|superior officers]].
*She was a talented [[pyramid]] player ([[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]), and was up for the pros, but an injured knee took her out of contention. However, she discovered a passion and skill for being a fighter pilot ([[Podcast:The Hand of God]]).
*One of her early posts was aboard the battlestar ''[[Triton (RDM)|Triton]]''. While there, she offended Commander [[Myron Ruth]], who initiated court-martial proceedings against her, but the charges were later dropped ([[The Son Also Rises]]).
*Thrace eventually returned to flight school as an instructor, where she fell in love with one of her students, [[Zak Adama]]. Despite his poor performance, she allowed him to pass his final check flight although he failed three of the required maneuvers ([[Act of Contrition]]).
*Thrace lost Zak Adama when he was killed during a routine mission shortly after graduating. [[Lee Adama]] ("Apollo"), Zak's elder brother, blamed their father for Zak's death, and Thrace, feeling guilty, kept quiet. She met [[William Adama]] shortly after the accident, and the two formed a strong rapport and stood together at the funeral ([[Act of Contrition]]).
*Thrace resigned as an instructor and returned to the Fleet as an operational pilot on the [[Galactica type battlestar|battlestar]] ''[[Galactica]]'' under the command of William Adama, where she served for some two years prior to the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attack]] on the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]]. Before the Cylon attack, she was second-in-command to the [[CAG]], [[Jackson Spencer]].
*She has a rarely-used run-down apartment in [[Delphi]] that overlooked a parking lot, and a Colonial version of a [[Wikipedia:Humvee|Humvee]] which she and Helo use to escape the city and get to the country where she meets her Samuel Anders. She was also an avid painter, and her apartment is cluttered with her paintings and a [[Starbuck's Poem|poem]] written on a wall ([[Valley of Darkness]]). The apartment was neater when Thrace was with Zak Adama, although her [[Eye of Jupiter|mandala]] wall painting pre-dates that relationship. ([[Daybreak, Part I]])
*Thrace hides the fact that she is deeply spiritual. She frequently prays to the [[Lords of Kobol]], particularly [[Aphrodite]] and [[Artemis]] in dire situations ([[Miniseries]], "[[Flesh and Bone]]", "[[You Can't Go Home Again]]").

==Character History==

=== Galactica and Pre-New Caprica ===

*Thrace's attitude quickly runs her afoul of Colonel [[Saul Tigh]], ''Galactica's'' [[executive officer]]. Their open mutual dislike of one another leads to the point where blows are exchanged, with Thrace ending up in the brig. After the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attack]] she is released from the brig and returns to duty as Viper pilot.
*Thrace manages to keep two of three nuclear missiles from striking ''Galactica'' in their first Cylon sortie, and saves Lee from doom in an innovative maneuver in the [[Battle of Ragnar Anchorage]].
*Her skills in saving Lee brings her grudging respect from Colonel Tigh, but she is unable to accept his offer of the olive branch—an act that will have repercussions for her later ([[Miniseries]]).
[[image:Bastille_Day-Starbuck_Boxey.jpg|thumb|right|Thrace as acting [[CAG]] with [[Boxey (RDM)|Boxey]] as assistant ([[Bastille Day]]).]]
*Thrace participates in a hostage rescue mission aboard the ''[[Astral Queen]]''. Following the successful mission, Thrace tries to mend fences between herself and Colonel Tigh with a toast (consisting of water), apologizing in much the same way as Tigh himself had tried after their initial escape from [[Ragnar Anchorage]]. But Tigh rejects Thrace's apology, stating that her flaws are professional, while his flaws were personal ([[Bastille Day]]).
*Thrace eventually admits her secret about Zak Adama to William Adama himself, an act that brings their close friendship almost to the breaking point ([[Act of Contrition]]).
*During a surprise encounter with Cylons during [[nugget]] training, Thrace destroys several Cylon Raiders, but her ship is damaged and tumbles towards a small red moon with an unbreathable atmosphere. With her Viper in a fatal flat-spin, Thrace is forced to eject from her Viper ([[You Can't Go Home Again]]).
*Thrace (nursing a damaged knee) repairs the downed Cylon Raider found on the inhabitable moon and returns to ''Galactica'', giving the Fleet a vital piece of Cylon fighter technology for study and use.
*The recovering Thrace, off flight status, is asked by Commander Adama to plan a special attack on a Cylon [[tylium]] refinery. The tactical planning role is not something she relishes, and she frequently shows resentment towards others for her condition ([[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]).
*During Thrace's undesired interrogation of a Cylon prisoner, a copy of a known [[Humanoid Cylon|Cylon]] named [[Leoben Conoy]], she uses some drastic acts to try to extract the information from the humanoid Cylon ([[Flesh and Bone]]).
[[image:Starbuck-Kobols_Last_Gleaming_pt2.jpg|thumb|right|Thrace retrieves the [[Arrow of Apollo]] ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]).]]
*Thrace is assigned to plant a nuclear device on board a [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]] in orbit around [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]]. She disobeys orders to retrieve the [[Arrow of Apollo]] at the request of President Roslin, since she discovered Commander Adama's speech concerning knowledge of the location of Earth was a lie. She [[FTL|jump]]s to Caprica ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]), landing in [[Delphi]] in the captured Cylon [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Raider]], depriving the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] of the valuable military asset.
*In the [[Delphi Museum of the Colonies]] with the Arrow, she is violently attacked by a copy of [[Number Six]]. Despite being heavily outmatched in the fight, Thrace luckily defeats the Cylon.
*At the museum, she reunites with [[Karl Agathon]], whom she thought dead, and discovers [[Sharon Agathon|a second copy]] of [[Sharon Valerii]], realizing instantly that the woman is a Cylon.
*"Caprica Valerii", fearing for her child, steals Thrace's Raider. In exasperation, Thrace only mutters: "Bitch took my ride" ([[Scattered]]). Like Agathon, Thrace is left with no way to return to the Fleet unless she could find her Raider or another Cylon spacecraft, as only Cylon navigational computers are powerful enough to plot jumps over such large distances..
*Thrace berates Agathon's love for the Caprica copy of Valerii. Thrace finds the keys of her surplus military utility vehicle in her old jacket in her old apartment. Thrace has a ride again, if only to move more efficiently about Caprica ([[Valley of Darkness]]).
[[Image:ThraceAndersResistance.jpg|thumb|right|Thrace and Anders playing Pyramid on Caprica ([[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]).]]
*Thrace and Agathon meet a [[Caprica Resistance|resistance movement]] on Caprica. Thrace and [[Samuel Anders]] strike up a rapport as fellow [[Pyramid (RDM)|Pyramid]] players and end up as lovers.
*During planning to steal a [[Heavy Raider]], Thrace is shot in a military action, waking up in a hospital on Caprica. Thrace is told by her doctor, [[Simon]], that Anders died from wounds he suffered in getting Thrace to safety.
*Thrace discovers that Simon is working with a [[Number Six|known humanoid Cylon]]. She overhears that the next day he plans to extract her ovaries for use in the Cylon's attempts to study and create a hybrid Cylon/human embryo. Simon also makes the mistake of calling Thrace by her callsign, Starbuck, which she had never revealed.
*Staggering and in pain, Thrace kills Simon and escapes the hospital, but not before clocking a Six copy with a fire extinguisher and destroying the local farm power supply, mercy-killing [[Sue-Shaun]] and several other women in the facility.
*Another Simon copy appears just as the Resistance attacks the facility. The second Simon, now revealed as a humanoid Cylon himself, is immediately killed by the Resistance, but a squad of [[Cylon Centurion]]s appear and pins the Resistance down. Luckily, [[Sharon Agathon|Caprica-Valerii]] swoops in with a stolen [[Heavy Raider]], destroys the Centurions and flies the Resistance and Thrace out of harm's way.
*Thrace promises to Anders that she'll [[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I|return with a rescue mission]] for the remaining survivors. Anders returns the Arrow of Apollo to Thrace, which he hid on the resistance grounds for safekeeping ([[The Farm]]).
*Thrace, Agathon and the pregnant "Caprica Valerii" land on the ''[[Astral Queen]]'' in the Heavy Raider. Finding the [[Laura Roslin faction]] in orbit of [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]], Thrace is reunited with Lee. He kisses her impulsively, catching Thrace by pleasant surprise, but a tense standoff follows when Lee discovers that another Sharon copy has returned with them. Roslin helps defuse the situation, and Thrace delivers the Arrow of Apollo to the President.
*Temporarily removed from military protocol, Lee playfully teases Thrace by stealing a pyramid ball she took from Caprica. Adama senses her depression about Caprica and tells her that he'd be happy to hear about any problems she had. He also let slip that he loved her, which brightened Thrace's mood to the point where she teased him back about his slip.
*With a team led by Laura Roslin, Lee, and, later, joined by the recovered Commander Adama, Thrace enters the [[Tomb of Athena]] and successfully uses the Arrow of Apollo to activate a hologram that shows constellations of the Twelve Colonies' ancient symbols.
*Thrace realizes that they are on a recreation of Earth. Together with Lee, they locate the Lagoon Nebula, a celestial body known to Commander Adama and Lee, and gather sufficient information to begin an actual course to Earth ([[Home, Part II]]).
*Thrace shows off the impressive stealth abilities of the new [[Blackbird]] fighter in her maiden flight ([[Flight of the Phoenix]]).
*With the arrival of ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'', Admiral [[Helena Cain]] summarily assigns Thrace (and Lee) to ''Pegasus'' after digesting the reports of ''Galactica'''s officers.
*[[Cole Taylor|The ''Pegasus'' CAG]] removes Thrace from the Cylon recon mission. Lee secretly tells her to use the [[Blackbird]] to take recon photos of the Cylon Unknown ([[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]).
*Returning from her very successful mission, the [[Blackbird]]'s lack of a Colonial transponder is mistaken for a Cylon [[Raider]] on [[DRADIS]], and Thrace is nearly confronted and shot at by Vipers from ''Pegasus'' and ''Galactica''. After narrowly avoiding certain death by declaring herself a friendly, Thrace transmits her recon photos to ''Pegasus''.
*Admiral Cain is very impressed with Thrace's performance and promotes her to Captain and ''Pegasus'' CAG.
*Thrace is assigned the task of planning the joint attack on the Resurrection Ship, but successfully asks to have Lee on her team, restoring him to flight status.
*After she briefs Cain and Commander Adama on her battle plan, Adama asks Thrace privately to assassinate Cain after the battle is complete. Adama fears that if Cain continues to command, the Fleet would be in mortal jeopardy from Cain's draconian command ([[Resurrection Ship, Part I]]).
*Thrace's battle planning, as before on the [[tylium]] [[The Hand of God (RDM)|mine]], works to near-perfection, with the Resurrection Ship destroyed and its supporting basestars.
*As a result of the battle events, Thrace is left without backup as she walks to the ''Pegasus'' CIC to shoot Cain, obviously afraid and apprehensive. When Commander Adama calls, Thrace slowly moves her hand to her sidearm but, to her relief, Adama does not give the kill order and cryptically instructs her to stand down ([[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]).
*Thrace and [[Louanne Katraine|Louanne "Kat" Katraine]] are involved in the protection of a mining operation from periodic Raider attacks. One Raider, nicknamed [[Scar (Raider)|Scar]], fuels an intensive rivalry for the pilot's "top gun" honor. Thrace, still depressed over her inability to convince Fleet command to initiate a rescue for Samuel Anders and his resistance, drinks heavily and obsesses over removing Scar from the sky, even at the cost of her life. Fortunately, Thrace realizes the futility of her actions, and works together with Katraine to destroy the remarkably dangerous Raider ([[Scar]]).
*A few weeks later, Thrace takes leave on ''[[Cloud Nine]]'' when she was dragooned into rescuing Lee and several other ''Galactica'' crew and residents after terrorists take them hostage in exchange for the incarcerated [[Sharon Agathon|Sharon Agathon neé Valerii]]. Thrace gathers intelligence on the situation, but her cover is blown. In the retreating firefight, Lee is caught in the crossfire. After the situation is resolved, Thrace intended to sit at Lee's bedside, only to discover that Dualla beat her to it ([[Sacrifice]]).
*Later, Thrace is assigned to ''Pegasus'' as a flight trainer. Though the pilots like her, Commander [[Barry Garner]] does not, eventually confining her to quarters for "insubordination." Following the [[Battle of the Binary Star System|ill-fated rescue and retreat]] from a Cylon ambush (where Thrace leads the fighters) and [[Battle of the Guardian Basestar|after a search, rescue and destroy mission to a Cylon-war era basestar]], Thrace informs Lee—now commander of ''Pegasus''—that she was taking over his old CAG post aboard ''Galactica'', joking that she has a problem with her commander wanting to send her off to get killed ("[[The Captain's Hand]]", "[[Razor]]").
*Thrace gets her wish: the Caprica rescue is approved, and she leads a large Raptor squadron to the planet. The group soon met up with Anders, who reports that their HQ had been destroyed and Thrace's timing was just perfect. A squad of Centurions ambush and pin down the group moments later ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I]]).
*Still pinned down from attack fire, Thrace and Anders agree to kill each other to avoid capture and internment at a [[Farms|farm]]. But the attack stops, and a [[Cavil|man]] appears, praising the [[Lords of Kobol|Gods]] as he announces that the Cylons not only have ceased fire, but are abandoning the Twelve Colonies. Thrace isn't really surprised to discover that the man, known as Brother [[Cavil]], was a Cylon upon their return to the Fleet.
*Thrace and Anders proceed to get drunk, and host a disastrous encounter with Lee. This apparently led to a rift between the two comrades.
[[Image:Leobenkara.jpg|thumb|right|180px|Leoben with Kara Thrace ([[Exodus, Part I]]).]]
*The evening of the founding of [[New Caprica]], Thrace slept with Lee and proclaimed her love for him as she was uncertain regarding her feelings toward Anders. The following morning she quickly married Anders in a ceremony near the river. This caused a rift between Thrace and Lee that lasted for well over a year ([[Unfinished Business]]).
*Life on New Caprica tempered Thrace, and she often behaved in ways Thrace never would have, including hugging Colonel Tigh and pampering Anders during his bout with an illness.
*She watches in horror at the sudden arrival of hundreds of Cylon ships in the sky over New Caprica. A few of ''Galactica's'' former crew gather near Thrace, looking to her for guidance. She responds the only way she knows how: "Fight 'em until we can't" ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]).

=== The New Caprica Ordeal and Her Death ===

*After Baltar's surrender of New Caprica, Conoy keeps Thrace prisoner in an apartment located within the Cylon-built [[New Caprica Detention Center]] in an attempt to convince Thrace that she loves him and also convert her to the [[Cylon Religion|Cylon monotheistic religion]]. She repeatedly kills Conoy a total of five times in an attempt to convince him to let her go ("[[Occupation]]", "[[Precipice]]").
*Conoy introduces Thrace to a small child named [[Kacey Brynn|Kacey]], who appears to be approximately two to three years in age, whom he claims is their biological daughter. He explains that the child was created using one of Thrace's extracted ovaries ([[The Farm]]) and his genetic material. Conflicted, Thrace leaves the child unattended, which later results in Kacey falling down the apartment's stairs ([[Precipice]]). After the fall, Thrace begins to change her attitude towards the child and begins to offer affection towards Conoy ("[[Precipice]]", "[[Exodus, Part I]]").
*Upon her return to ''Galactica'' after Admiral Adama's [[Battle of New Caprica|daring rescue attempt]], Thrace heartbreakingly discovers that Kacey was simply another manipulation on Conoy's part — Kacey is merely a human child whom the Cylons had abducted months ago from [[Julia Brynn|their mother]] ([[Exodus, Part II]]).
*Bearing the psychological scars of her four month ordeal with Leoben and Kacey, Thrace is recruited by [[Diana Seelix]] as a last minute replacement juror in the [[Circle]] after Anders' resignation. Thrace's involvement in the Circle precipitates the breakup of her marriage with Anders. Initially wondering about the legality of the tribunal, she is the fifth vote to find [[Felix Gaeta]] guilty of treason and collaboration. Later, when Gaeta is about to be killed in one of ''Galactica''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> [[launch tubes (RDM)|launch tubes]], she demands him to beg for his life. Thrace physically assaults him and goes down the litany of "lies" that Gaeta told her earlier about him helping the [[New Caprica Resistance|insurgency]]. As she does so, [[Galen Tyrol]], one of the Circle's jurors, overhears this and confirms the story. In a sense of confusion after learning that Gaeta was telling the truth, Thrace leaves the launch tube ([[Collaborators]]).
*During a combat exercise between Vipers, Thrace breaks formation and collides with another pilot, forcing an end to the war games and causing Lee to revoke her flight status. Later, at her bunk she is met by Kacey and her mother, whom she dismisses, telling Kacey's mother not to visit her again. In the pilots' rec room, Thrace and Colonel Tigh begin to sow dissent between the survivors of New Caprica and the crew that stayed behind on ''Galactica'', insinuating that those who stayed behind did not suffer like those on New Caprica did, and that the crew of ''Galactica'' took too long to organize a rescue. Admiral Adama, upon learning of this from Karl Agathon, confronts Thrace and Tigh on their behavior. He challenges them to shoot him, as their constant complaining is tantamount to pulling the trigger. When neither do, Adama throws Thrace off her chair and demands that both she and Tigh shape up and move on with their lives. Spurred by Adama's words, Thrace cuts her hair and returns to duty. Later, in uniform, she visits Kacey and her mother on the [[Dogsville|converted hangar deck]] ([[Torn]]).
*Thrace enters an affair with Lee, rekindling their romance on New Caprica ([[Unfinished Business]]). Both Anders and Lee's wife, Lieutenant [[Anastasia Dualla]], are more than vaguely aware of the pair's sexual tension. Lee soon ends the affair and reconciles, but Thrace refuses to give Anders any further attention than a periodic sexual fling.
*Thrace is involved with the defense of the incorrectly called "[[Temple of Five]]" but is severely injured, leaving her rescuer, Dualla, to return them to ''Galactica'' ([[Rapture]]). Agathon recognizes the strange circular [[Eye of Jupiter|mandala]] in the Temple, created 4,000 years before, and its resemblance to a symbol that Thrace painted in her apartment. When shown the symbol, the recovering Thrace is darkly reminded of Leoben's prophesy.
*During refueling operations above a gas giant, Thrace is continually attracted to what she believes is a Cylon contact, which she chases to find a planetary storm that resembles the mandala. She dives into it, almost losing control before coming to her senses and returning.
*Command staff and Thrace question her competency to continue flying, but Lee volunteers encouragement and offers to fly as her wingman on her next [[Combat Air Patrol|CAP]].
*Thrace finds herself attracted by another apparent Cylon contact. As she descended, her Viper is struck by debris and she, while unconscious, experiences a revelation about her mother, [[Socrata Thrace]], and guided through the vision by what looks to be a Leoben copy.
*Starbuck regains consciousness but chooses to continue her descent despite Lee's desperate pleas to ascend. "I'll see you on the other side (...) Just let me go" were her last words as her Viper explodes. A grief-stricken Lee tells [[CIC]] that he did not see any ejection ([[Maelstrom]]).
*While preparing for a Cylon engagement near the [[Ionian nebula]], Lee (who has [[Crossroads, Part I|since left]] the Colonial Military) detects a bogey on [[DRADIS]]. While he searches for the target, Lee finds himself momentarily in a cat-and-mouse chase game with the mysterious target. As Lee attempts to regain sight of the bogey, it positions itself next to his Viper.

=== Return from the Dead and Suspicion ===

*The [[Starbuck's Viper|pristine Viper Mark II]] that comes alongside is flown by Thrace herself. A shocked and confused [[Lee Adama]] (now a civilian) listens to the apparently-resurrected Kara Thrace, who tells him that she has been to [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]] and she has returned to take the Fleet to it ([[Crossroads, Part II]]).
*After the [[Battle of the Ionian Nebula|battle at the nebula]], she returns to ''Galactica'' where everyone is astounded to see her alive. While everyone believed her dead for over two months, only several hours have passed for her. She has returned with recon photography of [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]], but no navigational data or knowledge of how she got there. Further complicating her claim is the fact that her Viper is nearly pristine, as if it had just been built. Despite passing a medical examination by Doctor [[Sherman Cottle]], almost everyone—especially Roslin—thinks she may be a Cylon or part of a Cylon trap, and thus don't believe her. Thrace herself wonders if she could be a Cylon.
*When the Fleet jumps further away from the Ionian Nebula, she experiences headaches and says that she is losing the intuitive feeling of the way to Earth. Desperate to lead the Colonials there, she breaks into Adama's quarters and confronts Roslin at gun point ([[He That Believeth In Me]]).
*Thrace is eventually subdued by [[Colonial Marines]] and imprisoned in the [[brig]]. Lee visits Thrace in the brig and tells her that he believes her. Thrace is happy that he does and they share a kiss before Lee leaves for ''[[Colonial One]]''. Although not sure what to make of her claims, Admiral Adama releases her later, and gives her command of ''[[Demetrius]]'', and a crew including [[Karl Agathon]] and Samuel Anders, telling her to try to find Earth ([[Six of One]]).
*Thrace irritates her crew by frequent, unexplained course changes and rarely leaving her quarters, where she holes herself up to study star charts. When her husband confronts her about her command style and their marriage, she tells him that she is not the same person he married and tries to throw him out of her cabin. However, when Anders holds her, she tells him that she wants to have sex in order to feel something. Afterwards, she says that she feels distanced from her body and the events around her ([[The Ties That Bind]]).
* When a [[Leoben Conoy]] copy comes aboard ''Demetrius'' with the offer of an alliance with the Cylons, a power struggle among the crew breaks out when Thrace orders to jump to his baseship ([[The Road Less Traveled]]). The fight ends with Gaeta getting shot in the leg by Anders. After standing down, Thrace decides to accompany Conoy with a small team. On his baseship she meets the Cylon [[Hybrid]], who repeats the [[first Hybrid]]'s [[The Destiny|prophecy]] ([[Razor]]) and gives her the next task: join the Cylons to unbox [[Number Three]] to learn what she knows of the Final Five ([[Faith]]).
* After the unboxing, Thrace reacts with shock and disbelief when she learns that her husband is a Cylon. She investigates the [[Starbuck's Viper|Viper she returned in]] and notices that it receives a strange signal, giving her a direct bearing to Earth. Her discovery stops the imminent execution of Colonel Tigh and leads to a truce with the [[Cylon Civil War|Cylon rebels]]. After arriving at Earth, Thrace is part of the first group on the surface, but finds only a destroyed city ([[Revelations]]).

=== The Thirteenth Colony and the Search for a New Home ===
*Thrace and [[Leoben Conoy]] explore the devastated Earth trying to find the source of the signal. They find pieces of wreckage belonging to a [[Viper (RDM)|Colonial Viper]]—the [[Viper 8757|same Viper]] that Thrace [[Maelstrom|flew into the gas giant]]. Finally, they come upon the cockpit of the crashed Viper, with its pilot still inside. Thrace is horrified to discover that the carcass inside the cockpit is hers. Thrace reveals to Conoy that the [[Hybrid]] aboard the rebel baseship called her the "Harbinger of Death." Conoy has no explanation for any of this and flees the scene, leaving Thrace alone to wonder who or what she really is. Thrace later retrieves the dog tags and wedding ring from the body. She then cremates the body and returns to ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]''. She does not tell anyone what she has discovered ([[Sometimes a Great Notion]]).
*After ''Galactica'' leaves Earth, Thrace is still trying to come to terms with her discoveries there. [[Felix Gaeta]], who is unhappy about the Fleet's alliance with the [[Cylon (RDM)|Cylons]] and for the events leading up to that point (including a [[The Face of the Enemy|certain revelation]] about his role on [[New Caprica]]), decides to pick a fight with her. Gaeta accuses Thrace of collaborating with the Cylons, while Thrace retorts that Gaeta is just bitter because [[Faith|he lost his leg]]. Gaeta makes a thinly-veiled threat against Thrace, who responds by telling him she isn't afraid to beat up a cripple. Thrace then storms off ([[A Disquiet Follows My Soul]]).
*A withdrawn Thrace later has an altercation with [[Brendan Constanza|Brendan "Hot Dog" Constanza]]. She teases him about his unexpected fathering of [[Nicholas Tyrol]]. Constanza is unamused, angrily retorting that Thrace slept with half the Fleet herself and has nothing to show for her efforts. This hits a nerve and Thrace throws a bowl of food at a retreating Constanza.
*An alarm goes off and Thrace is ordered by [[Noel Allison|Noel "Narcho" Allison]] to evacuate the area. Thrace is suspicious and when she presses Allison for more information, he snaps that no one even knows what she is any more.
*Thrace turns to see a group of marines and civilians led by [[Charlie Connor]] run past her, and she follows them. She sees the group break into a weapons locker and arm themselves. She hears Connor giving his men orders to take the [[hangar deck]].
*Thrace rushes back to her barracks and grabs her weapons. She then tries to warn the CIC, but Gaeta blocks her calls. Realizing that Gaeta is also involved, Thrace takes off for the hangar deck.
*She arrives at the hangar deck just in time to rescue [[Lee Adama]] from Connor and his men, who are being assisted by [[Margaret Edmondson|Margaret "Racetrack" Edmondson]] and [[Hamish McCall|Hamish "Skulls" McCall]]. Thrace kills one of the marines and wounds Skulls, forcing the others to back off. She and Lee then hurry away.
*Thrace and Lee take refuge inside a storage compartment. Lee doesn't think they can defeat the mutiny alone. Thrace responds by kissing him. She then says that this is the first time in weeks that she feels right.
*Thrace and Lee head for the CIC. They find that the mutiny has spread all across the ship. They arrive at Admiral Adama's quarters, where they meet [[Laura Roslin]]. After learning of the mutiny, Roslin decides that she must come out and address the Fleet. However, the ship's communications are down, and the only working [[wireless]] transmitter on the ship is in [[Gaius Baltar]]'s possession.
*Thrace, Adama, and Roslin make it to Baltar's compartment, where they find [[Galen Tyrol]] organizing a defense. Tyrol tells them that Admiral Adama has been arrested and is being escorted to the brig. Tyrol also tells them about a secondary storage airlock they can use to escape the ship. Thrace and Adama head off to rescue the admiral.
*At the brig, they find that [[William Adama]] and [[Saul Tigh]] have already escaped custody. They have also taken the rebel marine, [[Allan Nowart]], prisoner. Thrace tries to kill Nowart, but Adama thwarts her. As Nowart flees, Thrace argues that the mutineers are no longer his men, and as such are the enemy and that they can't afford to take prisoners.
*Thrace, Tigh and the Adamas arrive at the secondary storage airlock, where they find Tyrol, Roslin and Baltar waiting. A [[Raptor]] piloted by an [[Eight]] docks. After Roslin and Baltar board the Raptor, Thrace, Lee and Tyrol head off to continue the fight against Gaeta and [[Thomas Zarek]]'s forces ([[The Oath]]).
*Lee and Thrace head off to free the captives held in the brig, while Tyrol goes to sabotage the ship's FTL drive. They take out the mutineers guarding the brig and free Tigh, [[Sharon Agathon]], [[Karl Agathon]], [[Hera Agathon]], [[Caprica Six]] and [[Samuel Anders]].
*During the escape, a firefight ensues and Anders is shot in the back of the head by a mutineer, who was believed dead. He is not killed but is in dire need of medical attention. Thrace yells at the others to go without her and she starts dragging Anders towards the infirmary.
*Thrace eventually exhausts herself trying to carry Anders and she collapses. Marine [[Parr]] escorting [[Romo Lampkin]] appears; Thrace attempts to shoot Parr, but her gun is empty— however, Lampkin suddenly stabs the marine twice in the neck with a pen, killing him.
*Thrace asks Lampkin to help her carry Anders to the infirmary. Lampkin is reluctant but eventually agrees to help ([[Blood on the Scales]]).
*In the immediate aftermath of the mutiny, Thrace learns from Doctor [[Sherman Cottle]] that the bullet is still stuck in Anders' skull. Anders' suppressed memories of his Cylon life back on Earth are also triggered. To Thrace's disappointment, Anders does not have an explanation as to who she really is or how she apparently came back from the dead.
*Cottle manages to remove the bullet, which he gives to Thrace. However, when Thrace goes to speak with Anders, she discovers that he has zero brain activity—which the medical personnel are unable to explain ([[No Exit]]).
*Thrace is later part of a joint Cylon-Colonial CAP which escorts [[Raptor 702|a Raptor]] carrying [[Ellen Tigh]] and [[Sharon Valerii|Sharon "Boomer" Valerii]] onto ''Galactica''.
*Thrace is later seen in [[Joe's Bar]] drinking and toying with the bullet removed from Anders' skull. She and Tyrol have a brief discussion about Valerii, who is being held in the brig ([[Deadlock]]).
*Thrace gets a drawing of what seems to be stars from Hera and later visits Joe's Bar where she helps piano player [[Slick]] with the music he's composing. There she reveals that she used to play piano as a girl with her father until he left and then stopped and she had a song she used to play that made her happy. She realizes that Hera's drawing is of the notes for that song and she and Slick start playing it together. The music turns out to be [[The Music|the same music that activated the memories]] of the so-called [[Final Five]]. Slick, who was a manifestation of her father, disappears and Thrace later goes to Anders in the hope of finding out the reason she knew of the Music and its meaning, but is unsuccessful.
*When Admiral Adama comes to see Anders—now acting as ''Galactica's'' Hybrid—to find out the location of [[The Colony]], Thrace reveals to him that she has tried to make sense out of the notes by assigning numbers to them, but has had no luck in understanding it. Adama tells her he knows who she is: she's his daughter. Later she and Adama spread red tape down the hanger deck to create a line for people to cross one way or the other to show whether or not they volunteer for the rescue mission for Hera. Thrace stays on the volunteers side of the line and doesn't move the whole time having made her choice.
*During [[Battle of The Colony|the battle]], she leads a strike force that includes both Agathons into The Colony through Raptors. They encounter Sharon Valerii who gives them back Hera before being killed by Sharon Agathon. Thrace's team meets up with Lee's and they retreat to ''Galactica'', which has its nose inside the Colony as their Raptors have been destroyed.
*Thrace helps defend the ship and after an agreement is reached with Cavil, takes damage reports on their forces alongside Lee. After things go badly and the Colony starts to fall into the black hole with ''Galactica'', Thrace—the nearest person to the [[FTL]] console—is ordered to jump them away. Thrace doesn't know the rendezvous coordinates and, after Adama makes it clear that it doesn't matter, is inspired to input the numbers she assigned to [[The Music]]'s notes as the coordinates and jumps ''Galactica'' there. According to Thrace, Thrace jumps them to "the watchtower," which turns out to be the singular moon in orbit around another planet that the Colonials later dub [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]].
*Thrace says goodbye to Anders before he flies the Fleet into the sun, destroying ''Galactica'' and the other ships, and later says her final goodbye to William Adama. Then she says her final goodbye to Lee Adama, having fulfilled [[The Destiny|her destiny]] to bring the Fleet to the second Earth. She disappears while Lee is talking about his dreams, leaving Lee surprised.

==Lords of Kobol, Hear My Prayer==

Despite her tough, rebellious exterior, Thrace is deeply spiritual and possesses a great deal of faith in the [[Lords of Kobol (RDM)|Lords of Kobol]]. She usually prays in moments of mourning or desperation, such as when she thinks Lee is dead ([[Miniseries]]), when she is trapped on a desolate moon with a broken knee and low oxygen ([[You Can't Go Home Again]]), and when she discovers she's in Cylon captivity ([[The Farm]]). This spirituality is put to the test as a series of events lead her towards a mysterious destiny.

==The Destiny==
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From early in her life, Kara Thrace has been guided through her mother's actions for a special role in life, a plot point that begins with a [[Leoben Conoy]] copy in the Season 1 episode, "[[Flesh and Bone]]". In "[[Maelstrom]]", the character dies, but reappears as a guide for the Fleet at the end of Season 3.

A Cylon [[First Hybrid|Hybrid]], speaking to Major [[Kendra Shaw]] moments before their deaths, warns her that Thrace is the herald of the apocalypse and the harbinger of death, that she would lead the human race to its end, and that she is not to be followed ([[Razor]]). Similarly, another [[Hybrid]] describes her as the harbinger of death, and she would lead them to salvation and destruction ([[Faith]]).

This becomes the case, as she leads ''Galactica'' (and the Fleet) to a second, new planet the Colonials dub "Earth." There, both Colonials and both races of Cylon (the Kobollian-based "[[The Final Five|Final Five]]" and the remaining models from the "[[Significant Seven]]") are saved. However, as their blend in with the native humans on the new Earth, the distinctive natures of Colonial human and Cylon creations blur and merge. In a sense, the blurring results in the "death" of both races as a new human race begins. [[Hera Agathon]]'s body, a perfect human/Cylon merging, is later represented as the Mitochondrial Eve for the humans on the New Earth ([[Daybreak, Part II]]).

==Notes==
*On the Sci-Fi Channel's preview for season 2.5 (US), Katee Sackhoff is quoted as saying that Starbuck is "the best Viper pilot...EVER."
*[[Wikipedia:Thrace|Thrace]] was a region in south-eastern Europe that was heavily influenced by the ancient Greeks and was eventually conquered by [[Wikipedia:Philip II of Macedonia|Phillip II of Macedonia]]. Thracians were considered by most to be the most ferocious fighters and were often highly paid mercenaries for Greek kings.
*Thrace may have been named after [[w:Thrax (mythology)|Thrax]], the son of [[w:Ares|Ares]], the god of war, who was said to reside on the Thracian plain in Greek mythology.
*After auditioning for the role of [[Anastasia Dualla|Dualla]], [[Grace Park]] was asked by director [[Michael Rymer]] to audition for the role of Starbuck, and she was actually one of two finalists up for the role (the other obviously being [[Katee Sackhoff]], who got the part). Ultimately Park was cast as [[Sharon Valerii|Sharon "Boomer" Valerii]].
*In a TV Guide [http://online.tvguide.com/newsearch/detail.aspx?id=4371595&sourcetype=S&progseriesparentid=4371595&tvobjectid=191395&keyword=Battlestar+Galactica&referrer=search1 photo shoot] at the BSG studios, Katee Sackhoff explained that the [[tattoo]] that Starbuck bears on her left arm is a wing and a circle and has half of the constellation of Capricorn (a reference to [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] obviously) and a small symbol of the planet as well. It matches a mirror image of the tattoo on Anders' right arm. When the two of them hold each other with their respective arms crossing, the 2 tattoos come together to form an image of a single ring with 2 wings that is supposed to represent their union. According to Sackhoff, Kara and Anders had the tattoos done around the time of their wedding, a fact later confirmed in dialogue during Season 4.5.
*The license plate on Thrace's truck on Caprica is "FB 42 E3" ([[Valley of Darkness]]).

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:''This article discusses the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Re-imagined Series]] character with the pilot callsign of "Starbuck." For information on Kara Thrace's counterpart in the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]], see [[Starbuck (TOS)]].''

:''For Kara Thrace's parents, see [[Dreilide Thrace]] and [[Socrata Thrace]].''

{{Character Data
|photo= Kara Thrace.jpg
|age=
|colony= [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]]
|birthname= Kara Thrace
|callsign= Starbuck
|seen= Miniseries
|death= Viper destroyed near gas giant, crashing on [[Earth (RDM)#Arrival_and_Ruins|Cylon Earth]] ([[Maelstrom]]/[[Sometimes a Great Notion]]);<br>Mysteriously reappears ([[Crossroads, Part II]]);<br>Vanishes in Tanzania on [[Earth (RDM)#A_New_Earth|pre-historical 2nd Earth]] ([[Daybreak, Part II]])
|parents= [[Socrata Thrace]]† (mother)<br>[[Dreilide Thrace]]† (father)
|siblings=
|children=
|marital status= Married to [[Samuel Anders]]† (formerly engaged to [[Zak Adama]]†)
|rank=Captain
|role= Viper pilot;<br>flight instructor;<br>''Galactica'' [[Commander Air Group|CAG]];<br>angel-prophet;<br>captain of ''[[Demetrius]]''
|actor= [[Katee Sackhoff]]<br>[[Erika-Shaye Gair]] (child)
|cylon=
|serial = 462753 <ref name="serial"> Confirmed number from QMX dogtags given to them by the studio.</ref>
}}
'''Kara "Starbuck" Thrace''' is a gifted [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] pilot, with an attitude that has hindered her career in the Colonial Fleet. However, [[William Adama]] has confidence in Thrace's military skills, and she greatly aids the Fleet inside and out of the cockpit. She is the last [[Commander Air Group|Commander, Air Group]] (CAG) of ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'', and [[virtual beings|mysteriously vanishes]] in Tanzania on [[Earth (RDM)#A_New_Earth|real-world Earth]] shortly after the Fleet's arrival on the planet ([[Daybreak, Part II]]).

== Background ==

[[Image:YoungKaraThrace.jpg|thumb|left|A young Kara Thrace in a vision ([[Maelstrom]]).]]
*Thrace's mother [[Socrata Thrace|Socrata]] was a former member of the [[Colonial Marine Corps]]. She beat her daughter so frequently that Thrace came to accept pain as a way of life ("[[Flesh and Bone]]", "[[Maelstrom]]").
*Her father [[Dreilide Thrace|Dreilide]] was a pianist and composer. Kara seems to have had a closer relationship with him than with her mother ([[Valley of Darkness]], [[Someone to Watch Over Me]]).
*Thrace left home to join the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|military]]. During her training, she received complaints about her conduct towards [[Mike Gibbons|superior officers]].
*One of her first postings prior to being a flight instructor was aboard the battlestar ''[[Triton (RDM)|Triton]]''. While serving aboard, she exhibited one of the first known instances of offending high-ranking commissioned officers, namely one Commander [[Myron Ruth]] who opened court-martial proceedings against her. They were later dropped ([[The Son Also Rises]]).
* She was a very talented [[pyramid]] player ([[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]), and received a scholarship to the Fleet Academy to play pyramid. During this time, she injured her knee and was no longer able to play pyramid at a professional level. However, she discovered a passion and skill at being a fighter pilot ([[Podcast:The Hand of God]]). On graduating from Colonial Flight School, she undertook a period of active duty before returning to flight school as an instructor.
*Thrace fell in love with a young recruit, [[Zak Adama]]. Despite his poor performance, she passed him on his final flight examination although he failed three of the required maneuvers ([[Act of Contrition]]).
*Thrace's engagement to Zak Adama ended when he was killed during a routine mission shortly after graduating. At the time, [[Lee Adama]] ("Apollo"), Zak's elder brother, blamed their father for Zak's death. Feeling guilty, Thrace did little to alter this idea. She did, however, meet [[William Adama]] shortly after the accident, and the two struck up such a strong rapport that they stood together at the funeral ([[Act of Contrition]]).
*Thrace resigned from flight school as an instructor and transferred as an operational pilot to the [[Galactica type battlestar|battlestar]] ''[[Galactica]]'' under the command of William Adama, where she served for some two years prior to the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attack]] on the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]]. Before the Cylon attack, she was second in command of the remaining pilots, subordinate to the [[CAG]], [[Jackson Spencer]].
*At the time of the Cylon attack she has an run-down apartment in [[Delphi]] that overlooks a parking lot and a Colonial version of a [[Wikipedia:Humvee|Humvee]] which she and Helo use to escape the city and get to the country where she meets her husband-to-be Anders. She rarely used the dilapidated apartment. She was also a very avid painter, and her apartment was cluttered with her paintings and a [[Starbuck's Poem|poem]] is written on a wall ([[Valley of Darkness]]). The apartment was a better state of repair when Thrace was romantically involved with Zak Adama, although her [[Eye of Jupiter|mandala]] wall painting pre-dates that relationship. ([[Daybreak, Part I]])
*Despite her reckless approach to life, Thrace hides the fact that she is deeply spiritual. She frequently prays (or talks) to the [[Lords of Kobol]], particularly [[Aphrodite]] and [[Artemis]] in times of need ([[Miniseries]], "[[Flesh and Bone]]", "[[You Can't Go Home Again]]").

==Character History==

=== Galactica and Pre-New Caprica ===

*Thrace's attitude quickly runs her afoul of Colonel [[Saul Tigh]], ''Galactica's'' [[executive officer]]. Their open mutual dislike of one another leads to the point where blows are exchanged, with Thrace ending up in the brig. After the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attack]] she is released from the brig and returns to duty as Viper pilot.
*Thrace manages to keep two of three nuclear missiles from striking ''Galactica'' in their first Cylon sortie, and saves Lee from doom in an innovative maneuver in the [[Battle of Ragnar Anchorage]].
*Her skills in saving Lee brings her grudging respect from Colonel Tigh, but she is unable to accept his offer of the olive branch—an act that will have repercussions for her later ([[Miniseries]]).
[[image:Bastille_Day-Starbuck_Boxey.jpg|thumb|right|Thrace as acting [[CAG]] with [[Boxey (RDM)|Boxey]] as assistant ([[Bastille Day]]).]]
*Thrace participates in a hostage rescue mission aboard the ''[[Astral Queen]]''. Following the successful mission, Thrace tries to mend fences between herself and Colonel Tigh with a toast (consisting of water), apologizing in much the same way as Tigh himself had tried after their initial escape from [[Ragnar Anchorage]]. But Tigh rejects Thrace's apology, stating that her flaws are professional, while his flaws were personal ([[Bastille Day]]).
*Thrace eventually admits her secret about Zak Adama to William Adama himself, an act that brings their close friendship almost to the breaking point ([[Act of Contrition]]).
*During a surprise encounter with Cylons during [[nugget]] training, Thrace destroys several Cylon Raiders, but her ship is damaged and tumbles towards a small red moon with an unbreathable atmosphere. With her Viper in a fatal flat-spin, Thrace is forced to eject from her Viper ([[You Can't Go Home Again]]).
*Thrace (nursing a damaged knee) repairs the downed Cylon Raider found on the inhabitable moon and returns to ''Galactica'', giving the Fleet a vital piece of Cylon fighter technology for study and use.
*The recovering Thrace, off flight status, is asked by Commander Adama to plan a special attack on a Cylon [[tylium]] refinery. The tactical planning role is not something she relishes, and she frequently shows resentment towards others for her condition ([[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]).
*During Thrace's undesired interrogation of a Cylon prisoner, a copy of a known [[Humanoid Cylon|Cylon]] named [[Leoben Conoy]], she uses some drastic acts to try to extract the information from the humanoid Cylon ([[Flesh and Bone]]).
[[image:Starbuck-Kobols_Last_Gleaming_pt2.jpg|thumb|right|Thrace retrieves the [[Arrow of Apollo]] ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]).]]
*Thrace is assigned to plant a nuclear device on board a [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]] in orbit around [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]]. She disobeys orders to retrieve the [[Arrow of Apollo]] at the request of President Roslin, since she discovered Commander Adama's speech concerning knowledge of the location of Earth was a lie. She [[FTL|jump]]s to Caprica ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]), landing in [[Delphi]] in the captured Cylon [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Raider]], depriving the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] of the valuable military asset.
*In the [[Delphi Museum of the Colonies]] with the Arrow, she is violently attacked by a copy of [[Number Six]]. Despite being heavily outmatched in the fight, Thrace luckily defeats the Cylon.
*At the museum, she reunites with [[Karl Agathon]], whom she thought dead, and discovers [[Sharon Agathon|a second copy]] of [[Sharon Valerii]], realizing instantly that the woman is a Cylon.
*"Caprica Valerii", fearing for her child, steals Thrace's Raider. In exasperation, Thrace only mutters: "Bitch took my ride" ([[Scattered]]). Like Agathon, Thrace is left with no way to return to the Fleet unless she could find her Raider or another Cylon spacecraft, as only Cylon navigational computers are powerful enough to plot jumps over such large distances..
*Thrace berates Agathon's love for the Caprica copy of Valerii. Thrace finds the keys of her surplus military utility vehicle in her old jacket in her old apartment. Thrace has a ride again, if only to move more efficiently about Caprica ([[Valley of Darkness]]).
[[Image:ThraceAndersResistance.jpg|thumb|right|Thrace and Anders playing Pyramid on Caprica ([[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]).]]
*Thrace and Agathon meet a [[Caprica Resistance|resistance movement]] on Caprica. Thrace and [[Samuel Anders]] strike up a rapport as fellow [[Pyramid (RDM)|Pyramid]] players and end up as lovers.
*During planning to steal a [[Heavy Raider]], Thrace is shot in a military action, waking up in a hospital on Caprica. Thrace is told by her doctor, [[Simon]], that Anders died from wounds he suffered in getting Thrace to safety.
*Thrace discovers that Simon is working with a [[Number Six|known humanoid Cylon]]. She overhears that the next day he plans to extract her ovaries for use in the Cylon's attempts to study and create a hybrid Cylon/human embryo. Simon also makes the mistake of calling Thrace by her callsign, Starbuck, which she had never revealed.
*Staggering and in pain, Thrace kills Simon and escapes the hospital, but not before clocking a Six copy with a fire extinguisher and destroying the local farm power supply, mercy-killing [[Sue-Shaun]] and several other women in the facility.
*Another Simon copy appears just as the Resistance attacks the facility. The second Simon, now revealed as a humanoid Cylon himself, is immediately killed by the Resistance, but a squad of [[Cylon Centurion]]s appear and pins the Resistance down. Luckily, [[Sharon Agathon|Caprica-Valerii]] swoops in with a stolen [[Heavy Raider]], destroys the Centurions and flies the Resistance and Thrace out of harm's way.
*Thrace promises to Anders that she'll [[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I|return with a rescue mission]] for the remaining survivors. Anders returns the Arrow of Apollo to Thrace, which he hid on the resistance grounds for safekeeping ([[The Farm]]).
*Thrace, Agathon and the pregnant "Caprica Valerii" land on the ''[[Astral Queen]]'' in the Heavy Raider. Finding the [[Laura Roslin faction]] in orbit of [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]], Thrace is reunited with Lee. He kisses her impulsively, catching Thrace by pleasant surprise, but a tense standoff follows when Lee discovers that another Sharon copy has returned with them. Roslin helps defuse the situation, and Thrace delivers the Arrow of Apollo to the President.
*Temporarily removed from military protocol, Lee playfully teases Thrace by stealing a pyramid ball she took from Caprica. Adama senses her depression about Caprica and tells her that he'd be happy to hear about any problems she had. He also let slip that he loved her, which brightened Thrace's mood to the point where she teased him back about his slip.
*With a team led by Laura Roslin, Lee, and, later, joined by the recovered Commander Adama, Thrace enters the [[Tomb of Athena]] and successfully uses the Arrow of Apollo to activate a hologram that shows constellations of the Twelve Colonies' ancient symbols.
*Thrace realizes that they are on a recreation of Earth. Together with Lee, they locate the Lagoon Nebula, a celestial body known to Commander Adama and Lee, and gather sufficient information to begin an actual course to Earth ([[Home, Part II]]).
*Thrace shows off the impressive stealth abilities of the new [[Blackbird]] fighter in her maiden flight ([[Flight of the Phoenix]]).
*With the arrival of ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'', Admiral [[Helena Cain]] summarily assigns Thrace (and Lee) to ''Pegasus'' after digesting the reports of ''Galactica'''s officers.
*[[Cole Taylor|The ''Pegasus'' CAG]] removes Thrace from the Cylon recon mission. Lee secretly tells her to use the [[Blackbird]] to take recon photos of the Cylon Unknown ([[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]).
*Returning from her very successful mission, the [[Blackbird]]'s lack of a Colonial transponder is mistaken for a Cylon [[Raider]] on [[DRADIS]], and Thrace is nearly confronted and shot at by Vipers from ''Pegasus'' and ''Galactica''. After narrowly avoiding certain death by declaring herself a friendly, Thrace transmits her recon photos to ''Pegasus''.
*Admiral Cain is very impressed with Thrace's performance and promotes her to Captain and ''Pegasus'' CAG.
*Thrace is assigned the task of planning the joint attack on the Resurrection Ship, but successfully asks to have Lee on her team, restoring him to flight status.
*After she briefs Cain and Commander Adama on her battle plan, Adama asks Thrace privately to assassinate Cain after the battle is complete. Adama fears that if Cain continues to command, the Fleet would be in mortal jeopardy from Cain's draconian command ([[Resurrection Ship, Part I]]).
*Thrace's battle planning, as before on the [[tylium]] [[The Hand of God (RDM)|mine]], works to near-perfection, with the Resurrection Ship destroyed and its supporting basestars.
*As a result of the battle events, Thrace is left without backup as she walks to the ''Pegasus'' CIC to shoot Cain, obviously afraid and apprehensive. When Commander Adama calls, Thrace slowly moves her hand to her sidearm but, to her relief, Adama does not give the kill order and cryptically instructs her to stand down ([[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]).
*Thrace and [[Louanne Katraine|Louanne "Kat" Katraine]] are involved in the protection of a mining operation from periodic Raider attacks. One Raider, nicknamed [[Scar (Raider)|Scar]], fuels an intensive rivalry for the pilot's "top gun" honor. Thrace, still depressed over her inability to convince Fleet command to initiate a rescue for Samuel Anders and his resistance, drinks heavily and obsesses over removing Scar from the sky, even at the cost of her life. Fortunately, Thrace realizes the futility of her actions, and works together with Katraine to destroy the remarkably dangerous Raider ([[Scar]]).
*A few weeks later, Thrace takes leave on ''[[Cloud Nine]]'' when she was dragooned into rescuing Lee and several other ''Galactica'' crew and residents after terrorists take them hostage in exchange for the incarcerated [[Sharon Agathon|Sharon Agathon neé Valerii]]. Thrace gathers intelligence on the situation, but her cover is blown. In the retreating firefight, Lee is caught in the crossfire. After the situation is resolved, Thrace intended to sit at Lee's bedside, only to discover that Dualla beat her to it ([[Sacrifice]]).
*Later, Thrace is assigned to ''Pegasus'' as a flight trainer. Though the pilots like her, Commander [[Barry Garner]] does not, eventually confining her to quarters for "insubordination." Following the [[Battle of the Binary Star System|ill-fated rescue and retreat]] from a Cylon ambush (where Thrace leads the fighters) and [[Battle of the Guardian Basestar|after a search, rescue and destroy mission to a Cylon-war era basestar]], Thrace informs Lee—now commander of ''Pegasus''—that she was taking over his old CAG post aboard ''Galactica'', joking that she has a problem with her commander wanting to send her off to get killed ("[[The Captain's Hand]]", "[[Razor]]").
*Thrace gets her wish: the Caprica rescue is approved, and she leads a large Raptor squadron to the planet. The group soon met up with Anders, who reports that their HQ had been destroyed and Thrace's timing was just perfect. A squad of Centurions ambush and pin down the group moments later ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I]]).
*Still pinned down from attack fire, Thrace and Anders agree to kill each other to avoid capture and internment at a [[Farms|farm]]. But the attack stops, and a [[Cavil|man]] appears, praising the [[Lords of Kobol|Gods]] as he announces that the Cylons not only have ceased fire, but are abandoning the Twelve Colonies. Thrace isn't really surprised to discover that the man, known as Brother [[Cavil]], was a Cylon upon their return to the Fleet.
*Thrace and Anders proceed to get drunk, and host a disastrous encounter with Lee. This apparently led to a rift between the two comrades.
[[Image:Leobenkara.jpg|thumb|right|180px|Leoben with Kara Thrace ([[Exodus, Part I]]).]]
*The evening of the founding of [[New Caprica]], Thrace slept with Lee and proclaimed her love for him as she was uncertain regarding her feelings toward Anders. The following morning she quickly married Anders in a ceremony near the river. This caused a rift between Thrace and Lee that lasted for well over a year ([[Unfinished Business]]).
*Life on New Caprica tempered Thrace, and she often behaved in ways Thrace never would have, including hugging Colonel Tigh and pampering Anders during his bout with an illness.
*She watches in horror at the sudden arrival of hundreds of Cylon ships in the sky over New Caprica. A few of ''Galactica's'' former crew gather near Thrace, looking to her for guidance. She responds the only way she knows how: "Fight 'em until we can't" ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]).

=== The New Caprica Ordeal and Her Death ===

*After Baltar's surrender of New Caprica, Conoy keeps Thrace prisoner in an apartment located within the Cylon-built [[New Caprica Detention Center]] in an attempt to convince Thrace that she loves him and also convert her to the [[Cylon Religion|Cylon monotheistic religion]]. She repeatedly kills Conoy a total of five times in an attempt to convince him to let her go ("[[Occupation]]", "[[Precipice]]").
*Conoy introduces Thrace to a small child named [[Kacey Brynn|Kacey]], who appears to be approximately two to three years in age, whom he claims is their biological daughter. He explains that the child was created using one of Thrace's extracted ovaries ([[The Farm]]) and his genetic material. Conflicted, Thrace leaves the child unattended, which later results in Kacey falling down the apartment's stairs ([[Precipice]]). After the fall, Thrace begins to change her attitude towards the child and begins to offer affection towards Conoy ("[[Precipice]]", "[[Exodus, Part I]]").
*Upon her return to ''Galactica'' after Admiral Adama's [[Battle of New Caprica|daring rescue attempt]], Thrace heartbreakingly discovers that Kacey was simply another manipulation on Conoy's part — Kacey is merely a human child whom the Cylons had abducted months ago from [[Julia Brynn|their mother]] ([[Exodus, Part II]]).
*Bearing the psychological scars of her four month ordeal with Leoben and Kacey, Thrace is recruited by [[Diana Seelix]] as a last minute replacement juror in the [[Circle]] after Anders' resignation. Thrace's involvement in the Circle precipitates the breakup of her marriage with Anders. Initially wondering about the legality of the tribunal, she is the fifth vote to find [[Felix Gaeta]] guilty of treason and collaboration. Later, when Gaeta is about to be killed in one of ''Galactica''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> [[launch tubes (RDM)|launch tubes]], she demands him to beg for his life. Thrace physically assaults him and goes down the litany of "lies" that Gaeta told her earlier about him helping the [[New Caprica Resistance|insurgency]]. As she does so, [[Galen Tyrol]], one of the Circle's jurors, overhears this and confirms the story. In a sense of confusion after learning that Gaeta was telling the truth, Thrace leaves the launch tube ([[Collaborators]]).
*During a combat exercise between Vipers, Thrace breaks formation and collides with another pilot, forcing an end to the war games and causing Lee to revoke her flight status. Later, at her bunk she is met by Kacey and her mother, whom she dismisses, telling Kacey's mother not to visit her again. In the pilots' rec room, Thrace and Colonel Tigh begin to sow dissent between the survivors of New Caprica and the crew that stayed behind on ''Galactica'', insinuating that those who stayed behind did not suffer like those on New Caprica did, and that the crew of ''Galactica'' took too long to organize a rescue. Admiral Adama, upon learning of this from Karl Agathon, confronts Thrace and Tigh on their behavior. He challenges them to shoot him, as their constant complaining is tantamount to pulling the trigger. When neither do, Adama throws Thrace off her chair and demands that both she and Tigh shape up and move on with their lives. Spurred by Adama's words, Thrace cuts her hair and returns to duty. Later, in uniform, she visits Kacey and her mother on the [[Dogsville|converted hangar deck]] ([[Torn]]).
*Thrace enters an affair with Lee, rekindling their romance on New Caprica ([[Unfinished Business]]). Both Anders and Lee's wife, Lieutenant [[Anastasia Dualla]], are more than vaguely aware of the pair's sexual tension. Lee soon ends the affair and reconciles, but Thrace refuses to give Anders any further attention than a periodic sexual fling.
*Thrace is involved with the defense of the incorrectly called "[[Temple of Five]]" but is severely injured, leaving her rescuer, Dualla, to return them to ''Galactica'' ([[Rapture]]). Agathon recognizes the strange circular [[Eye of Jupiter|mandala]] in the Temple, created 4,000 years before, and its resemblance to a symbol that Thrace painted in her apartment. When shown the symbol, the recovering Thrace is darkly reminded of Leoben's prophesy.
*During refueling operations above a gas giant, Thrace is continually attracted to what she believes is a Cylon contact, which she chases to find a planetary storm that resembles the mandala. She dives into it, almost losing control before coming to her senses and returning.
*Command staff and Thrace question her competency to continue flying, but Lee volunteers encouragement and offers to fly as her wingman on her next [[Combat Air Patrol|CAP]].
*Thrace finds herself attracted by another apparent Cylon contact. As she descended, her Viper is struck by debris and she, while unconscious, experiences a revelation about her mother, [[Socrata Thrace]], and guided through the vision by what looks to be a Leoben copy.
*Starbuck regains consciousness but chooses to continue her descent despite Lee's desperate pleas to ascend. "I'll see you on the other side (...) Just let me go" were her last words as her Viper explodes. A grief-stricken Lee tells [[CIC]] that he did not see any ejection ([[Maelstrom]]).
*While preparing for a Cylon engagement near the [[Ionian nebula]], Lee (who has [[Crossroads, Part I|since left]] the Colonial Military) detects a bogey on [[DRADIS]]. While he searches for the target, Lee finds himself momentarily in a cat-and-mouse chase game with the mysterious target. As Lee attempts to regain sight of the bogey, it positions itself next to his Viper.

=== Return from the Dead and Suspicion ===

*The [[Starbuck's Viper|pristine Viper Mark II]] that comes alongside is flown by Thrace herself. A shocked and confused [[Lee Adama]] (now a civilian) listens to the apparently-resurrected Kara Thrace, who tells him that she has been to [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]] and she has returned to take the Fleet to it ([[Crossroads, Part II]]).
*After the [[Battle of the Ionian Nebula|battle at the nebula]], she returns to ''Galactica'' where everyone is astounded to see her alive. While everyone believed her dead for over two months, only several hours have passed for her. She has returned with recon photography of [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]], but no navigational data or knowledge of how she got there. Further complicating her claim is the fact that her Viper is nearly pristine, as if it had just been built. Despite passing a medical examination by Doctor [[Sherman Cottle]], almost everyone—especially Roslin—thinks she may be a Cylon or part of a Cylon trap, and thus don't believe her. Thrace herself wonders if she could be a Cylon.
*When the Fleet jumps further away from the Ionian Nebula, she experiences headaches and says that she is losing the intuitive feeling of the way to Earth. Desperate to lead the Colonials there, she breaks into Adama's quarters and confronts Roslin at gun point ([[He That Believeth In Me]]).
*Thrace is eventually subdued by [[Colonial Marines]] and imprisoned in the [[brig]]. Lee visits Thrace in the brig and tells her that he believes her. Thrace is happy that he does and they share a kiss before Lee leaves for ''[[Colonial One]]''. Although not sure what to make of her claims, Admiral Adama releases her later, and gives her command of ''[[Demetrius]]'', and a crew including [[Karl Agathon]] and Samuel Anders, telling her to try to find Earth ([[Six of One]]).
*Thrace irritates her crew by frequent, unexplained course changes and rarely leaving her quarters, where she holes herself up to study star charts. When her husband confronts her about her command style and their marriage, she tells him that she is not the same person he married and tries to throw him out of her cabin. However, when Anders holds her, she tells him that she wants to have sex in order to feel something. Afterwards, she says that she feels distanced from her body and the events around her ([[The Ties That Bind]]).
* When a [[Leoben Conoy]] copy comes aboard ''Demetrius'' with the offer of an alliance with the Cylons, a power struggle among the crew breaks out when Thrace orders to jump to his baseship ([[The Road Less Traveled]]). The fight ends with Gaeta getting shot in the leg by Anders. After standing down, Thrace decides to accompany Conoy with a small team. On his baseship she meets the Cylon [[Hybrid]], who repeats the [[first Hybrid]]'s [[The Destiny|prophecy]] ([[Razor]]) and gives her the next task: join the Cylons to unbox [[Number Three]] to learn what she knows of the Final Five ([[Faith]]).
* After the unboxing, Thrace reacts with shock and disbelief when she learns that her husband is a Cylon. She investigates the [[Starbuck's Viper|Viper she returned in]] and notices that it receives a strange signal, giving her a direct bearing to Earth. Her discovery stops the imminent execution of Colonel Tigh and leads to a truce with the [[Cylon Civil War|Cylon rebels]]. After arriving at Earth, Thrace is part of the first group on the surface, but finds only a destroyed city ([[Revelations]]).

=== The Thirteenth Colony and the Search for a New Home ===
*Thrace and [[Leoben Conoy]] explore the devastated Earth trying to find the source of the signal. They find pieces of wreckage belonging to a [[Viper (RDM)|Colonial Viper]]—the [[Viper 8757|same Viper]] that Thrace [[Maelstrom|flew into the gas giant]]. Finally, they come upon the cockpit of the crashed Viper, with its pilot still inside. Thrace is horrified to discover that the carcass inside the cockpit is hers. Thrace reveals to Conoy that the [[Hybrid]] aboard the rebel baseship called her the "Harbinger of Death." Conoy has no explanation for any of this and flees the scene, leaving Thrace alone to wonder who or what she really is. Thrace later retrieves the dog tags and wedding ring from the body. She then cremates the body and returns to ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]''. She does not tell anyone what she has discovered ([[Sometimes a Great Notion]]).
*After ''Galactica'' leaves Earth, Thrace is still trying to come to terms with her discoveries there. [[Felix Gaeta]], who is unhappy about the Fleet's alliance with the [[Cylon (RDM)|Cylons]] and for the events leading up to that point (including a [[The Face of the Enemy|certain revelation]] about his role on [[New Caprica]]), decides to pick a fight with her. Gaeta accuses Thrace of collaborating with the Cylons, while Thrace retorts that Gaeta is just bitter because [[Faith|he lost his leg]]. Gaeta makes a thinly-veiled threat against Thrace, who responds by telling him she isn't afraid to beat up a cripple. Thrace then storms off ([[A Disquiet Follows My Soul]]).
*A withdrawn Thrace later has an altercation with [[Brendan Constanza|Brendan "Hot Dog" Constanza]]. She teases him about his unexpected fathering of [[Nicholas Tyrol]]. Constanza is unamused, angrily retorting that Thrace slept with half the Fleet herself and has nothing to show for her efforts. This hits a nerve and Thrace throws a bowl of food at a retreating Constanza.
*An alarm goes off and Thrace is ordered by [[Noel Allison|Noel "Narcho" Allison]] to evacuate the area. Thrace is suspicious and when she presses Allison for more information, he snaps that no one even knows what she is any more.
*Thrace turns to see a group of marines and civilians led by [[Charlie Connor]] run past her, and she follows them. She sees the group break into a weapons locker and arm themselves. She hears Connor giving his men orders to take the [[hangar deck]].
*Thrace rushes back to her barracks and grabs her weapons. She then tries to warn the CIC, but Gaeta blocks her calls. Realizing that Gaeta is also involved, Thrace takes off for the hangar deck.
*She arrives at the hangar deck just in time to rescue [[Lee Adama]] from Connor and his men, who are being assisted by [[Margaret Edmondson|Margaret "Racetrack" Edmondson]] and [[Hamish McCall|Hamish "Skulls" McCall]]. Thrace kills one of the marines and wounds Skulls, forcing the others to back off. She and Lee then hurry away.
*Thrace and Lee take refuge inside a storage compartment. Lee doesn't think they can defeat the mutiny alone. Thrace responds by kissing him. She then says that this is the first time in weeks that she feels right.
*Thrace and Lee head for the CIC. They find that the mutiny has spread all across the ship. They arrive at Admiral Adama's quarters, where they meet [[Laura Roslin]]. After learning of the mutiny, Roslin decides that she must come out and address the Fleet. However, the ship's communications are down, and the only working [[wireless]] transmitter on the ship is in [[Gaius Baltar]]'s possession.
*Thrace, Adama, and Roslin make it to Baltar's compartment, where they find [[Galen Tyrol]] organizing a defense. Tyrol tells them that Admiral Adama has been arrested and is being escorted to the brig. Tyrol also tells them about a secondary storage airlock they can use to escape the ship. Thrace and Adama head off to rescue the admiral.
*At the brig, they find that [[William Adama]] and [[Saul Tigh]] have already escaped custody. They have also taken the rebel marine, [[Allan Nowart]], prisoner. Thrace tries to kill Nowart, but Adama thwarts her. As Nowart flees, Thrace argues that the mutineers are no longer his men, and as such are the enemy and that they can't afford to take prisoners.
*Thrace, Tigh and the Adamas arrive at the secondary storage airlock, where they find Tyrol, Roslin and Baltar waiting. A [[Raptor]] piloted by an [[Eight]] docks. After Roslin and Baltar board the Raptor, Thrace, Lee and Tyrol head off to continue the fight against Gaeta and [[Thomas Zarek]]'s forces ([[The Oath]]).
*Lee and Thrace head off to free the captives held in the brig, while Tyrol goes to sabotage the ship's FTL drive. They take out the mutineers guarding the brig and free Tigh, [[Sharon Agathon]], [[Karl Agathon]], [[Hera Agathon]], [[Caprica Six]] and [[Samuel Anders]].
*During the escape, a firefight ensues and Anders is shot in the back of the head by a mutineer, who was believed dead. He is not killed but is in dire need of medical attention. Thrace yells at the others to go without her and she starts dragging Anders towards the infirmary.
*Thrace eventually exhausts herself trying to carry Anders and she collapses. Marine [[Parr]] escorting [[Romo Lampkin]] appears; Thrace attempts to shoot Parr, but her gun is empty— however, Lampkin suddenly stabs the marine twice in the neck with a pen, killing him.
*Thrace asks Lampkin to help her carry Anders to the infirmary. Lampkin is reluctant but eventually agrees to help ([[Blood on the Scales]]).
*In the immediate aftermath of the mutiny, Thrace learns from Doctor [[Sherman Cottle]] that the bullet is still stuck in Anders' skull. Anders' suppressed memories of his Cylon life back on Earth are also triggered. To Thrace's disappointment, Anders does not have an explanation as to who she really is or how she apparently came back from the dead.
*Cottle manages to remove the bullet, which he gives to Thrace. However, when Thrace goes to speak with Anders, she discovers that he has zero brain activity—which the medical personnel are unable to explain ([[No Exit]]).
*Thrace is later part of a joint Cylon-Colonial CAP which escorts [[Raptor 702|a Raptor]] carrying [[Ellen Tigh]] and [[Sharon Valerii|Sharon "Boomer" Valerii]] onto ''Galactica''.
*Thrace is later seen in [[Joe's Bar]] drinking and toying with the bullet removed from Anders' skull. She and Tyrol have a brief discussion about Valerii, who is being held in the brig ([[Deadlock]]).
*Thrace gets a drawing of what seems to be stars from Hera and later visits Joe's Bar where she helps piano player [[Slick]] with the music he's composing. There she reveals that she used to play piano as a girl with her father until he left and then stopped and she had a song she used to play that made her happy. She realizes that Hera's drawing is of the notes for that song and she and Slick start playing it together. The music turns out to be [[The Music|the same music that activated the memories]] of the so-called [[Final Five]]. Slick, who was a manifestation of her father, disappears and Thrace later goes to Anders in the hope of finding out the reason she knew of the Music and its meaning, but is unsuccessful.
*When Admiral Adama comes to see Anders—now acting as ''Galactica's'' Hybrid—to find out the location of [[The Colony]], Thrace reveals to him that she has tried to make sense out of the notes by assigning numbers to them, but has had no luck in understanding it. Adama tells her he knows who she is: she's his daughter. Later she and Adama spread red tape down the hanger deck to create a line for people to cross one way or the other to show whether or not they volunteer for the rescue mission for Hera. Thrace stays on the volunteers side of the line and doesn't move the whole time having made her choice.
*During [[Battle of The Colony|the battle]], she leads a strike force that includes both Agathons into The Colony through Raptors. They encounter Sharon Valerii who gives them back Hera before being killed by Sharon Agathon. Thrace's team meets up with Lee's and they retreat to ''Galactica'', which has its nose inside the Colony as their Raptors have been destroyed.
*Thrace helps defend the ship and after an agreement is reached with Cavil, takes damage reports on their forces alongside Lee. After things go badly and the Colony starts to fall into the black hole with ''Galactica'', Thrace—the nearest person to the [[FTL]] console—is ordered to jump them away. Thrace doesn't know the rendezvous coordinates and, after Adama makes it clear that it doesn't matter, is inspired to input the numbers she assigned to [[The Music]]'s notes as the coordinates and jumps ''Galactica'' there. According to Thrace, Thrace jumps them to "the watchtower," which turns out to be the singular moon in orbit around another planet that the Colonials later dub [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]].
*Thrace says goodbye to Anders before he flies the Fleet into the sun, destroying ''Galactica'' and the other ships, and later says her final goodbye to William Adama. Then she says her final goodbye to Lee Adama, having fulfilled [[The Destiny|her destiny]] to bring the Fleet to the second Earth. She disappears while Lee is talking about his dreams, leaving Lee surprised.

==Lords of Kobol, Hear My Prayer==

Despite her tough, rebellious exterior, Thrace is deeply spiritual and possesses a great deal of faith in the [[Lords of Kobol (RDM)|Lords of Kobol]]. She usually prays in moments of mourning or desperation, such as when she thinks Lee is dead ([[Miniseries]]), when she is trapped on a desolate moon with a broken knee and low oxygen ([[You Can't Go Home Again]]), and when she discovers she's in Cylon captivity ([[The Farm]]). This spirituality is put to the test as a series of events lead her towards a mysterious destiny.

==The Destiny==
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From early in her life, Kara Thrace has been guided through her mother's actions for a special role in life, a plot point that begins with a [[Leoben Conoy]] copy in the Season 1 episode, "[[Flesh and Bone]]". In "[[Maelstrom]]", the character dies, but reappears as a guide for the Fleet at the end of Season 3.

A Cylon [[First Hybrid|Hybrid]], speaking to Major [[Kendra Shaw]] moments before their deaths, warns her that Thrace is the herald of the apocalypse and the harbinger of death, that she would lead the human race to its end, and that she is not to be followed ([[Razor]]). Similarly, another [[Hybrid]] describes her as the harbinger of death, and she would lead them to salvation and destruction ([[Faith]]).

This becomes the case, as she leads ''Galactica'' (and the Fleet) to a second, new planet the Colonials dub "Earth." There, both Colonials and both races of Cylon (the Kobollian-based "[[The Final Five|Final Five]]" and the remaining models from the "[[Significant Seven]]") are saved. However, as their blend in with the native humans on the new Earth, the distinctive natures of Colonial human and Cylon creations blur and merge. In a sense, the blurring results in the "death" of both races as a new human race begins. [[Hera Agathon]]'s body, a perfect human/Cylon merging, is later represented as the Mitochondrial Eve for the humans on the New Earth ([[Daybreak, Part II]]).

==Notes==
*On the Sci-Fi Channel's preview for season 2.5 (US), Katee Sackhoff is quoted as saying that Starbuck is "the best Viper pilot...EVER."
*[[Wikipedia:Thrace|Thrace]] was a region in south-eastern Europe that was heavily influenced by the ancient Greeks and was eventually conquered by [[Wikipedia:Philip II of Macedonia|Phillip II of Macedonia]]. Thracians were considered by most to be the most ferocious fighters and were often highly paid mercenaries for Greek kings.
*Thrace may have been named after [[w:Thrax (mythology)|Thrax]], the son of [[w:Ares|Ares]], the god of war, who was said to reside on the Thracian plain in Greek mythology.
*After auditioning for the role of [[Anastasia Dualla|Dualla]], [[Grace Park]] was asked by director [[Michael Rymer]] to audition for the role of Starbuck, and she was actually one of two finalists up for the role (the other obviously being [[Katee Sackhoff]], who got the part). Ultimately Park was cast as [[Sharon Valerii|Sharon "Boomer" Valerii]].
*In a TV Guide [http://online.tvguide.com/newsearch/detail.aspx?id=4371595&sourcetype=S&progseriesparentid=4371595&tvobjectid=191395&keyword=Battlestar+Galactica&referrer=search1 photo shoot] at the BSG studios, Katee Sackhoff explained that the [[tattoo]] that Starbuck bears on her left arm is a wing and a circle and has half of the constellation of Capricorn (a reference to [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] obviously) and a small symbol of the planet as well. It matches a mirror image of the tattoo on Anders' right arm. When the two of them hold each other with their respective arms crossing, the 2 tattoos come together to form an image of a single ring with 2 wings that is supposed to represent their union. According to Sackhoff, Kara and Anders had the tattoos done around the time of their wedding, a fact later confirmed in dialogue during Season 4.5.
*The license plate on Thrace's truck on Caprica is "FB 42 E3" ([[Valley of Darkness]]).

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:''This article discusses the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Re-imagined Series]] character with the pilot callsign of "Starbuck." For information on Kara Thrace's counterpart in the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]], see [[Starbuck (TOS)]].''

:''For Kara Thrace's parents, see [[Dreilide Thrace]] and [[Socrata Thrace]].''

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|colony= [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]]
|birthname= Kara Thrace
|callsign= Starbuck
|seen= Miniseries
|death= Viper destroyed near gas giant, crashing on [[Earth (RDM)#Arrival_and_Ruins|Cylon Earth]] ([[Maelstrom]]/[[Sometimes a Great Notion]]);<br>Mysteriously reappears ([[Crossroads, Part II]]);<br>Vanishes in Tanzania on [[Earth (RDM)#A_New_Earth|pre-historical 2nd Earth]] ([[Daybreak, Part II]])
|parents= [[Socrata Thrace]]† (mother)<br>[[Dreilide Thrace]]† (father)
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|marital status= Married to [[Samuel Anders]]† (formerly engaged to [[Zak Adama]]†)
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|role= Viper pilot;<br>flight instructor;<br>''Galactica'' [[Commander Air Group|CAG]];<br>angel-prophet;<br>captain of ''[[Demetrius]]''
|actor= [[Katee Sackhoff]]<br>[[Erika-Shaye Gair]] (child)
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|serial = 462753 <ref name="serial"> Confirmed number from QMX dogtags given to them by the studio.</ref>
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'''Kara "Starbuck" Thrace''' is a gifted [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] pilot, with an attitude that has hindered her career in the Colonial Fleet. However, [[William Adama]] has confidence in Thrace's military skills, and she greatly aids the Fleet inside and out of the cockpit. She is the last [[Commander Air Group|Commander, Air Group]] (CAG) of ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'', and [[virtual beings|mysteriously vanishes]] in Tanzania on [[Earth (RDM)#A_New_Earth|real-world Earth]] shortly after the Fleet's arrival on the planet ([[Daybreak, Part II]]).

== Background ==

[[Image:YoungKaraThrace.jpg|thumb|left|A young Kara Thrace in a hallucination ([[Maelstrom]]).]]
*Thrace's mother [[Socrata Thrace|Socrata]] was a former member of the [[Colonial Marine Corps]]. She beat her daughter so frequently that Thrace came to accept pain as a way of life ("[[Flesh and Bone]]", "[[Maelstrom]]").
*Her father [[Dreilide Thrace|Dreilide]] was a pianist and composer. Kara seems to have had a closer relationship with him than with her mother ([[Valley of Darkness]], [[Someone to Watch Over Me]]).
*Thrace left home to join the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|military]]. During her training, she received complaints about her conduct towards [[Mike Gibbons|superior officers]].
*One of her first postings prior to being a flight instructor was aboard the battlestar ''[[Triton (RDM)|Triton]]''. While serving aboard, she exhibited one of the first known instances of offending high-ranking commissioned officers, namely one Commander [[Myron Ruth]] who opened court-martial proceedings against her. They were later dropped ([[The Son Also Rises]]).
* She was a very talented [[pyramid]] player ([[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]), and received a scholarship to the Fleet Academy to play pyramid. During this time, she injured her knee and was no longer able to play pyramid at a professional level. However, she discovered a passion and skill at being a fighter pilot ([[Podcast:The Hand of God]]). On graduating from Colonial Flight School, she undertook a period of active duty before returning to flight school as an instructor.
*Thrace fell in love with a young recruit, [[Zak Adama]]. Despite his poor performance, she passed him on his final flight examination although he failed three of the required maneuvers ([[Act of Contrition]]).
*Thrace's engagement to Zak Adama ended when he was killed during a routine mission shortly after graduating. At the time, [[Lee Adama]] ("Apollo"), Zak's elder brother, blamed their father for Zak's death. Feeling guilty, Thrace did little to alter this idea. She did, however, meet [[William Adama]] shortly after the accident, and the two struck up such a strong rapport that they stood together at the funeral ([[Act of Contrition]]).
*Thrace resigned from flight school as an instructor and transferred as an operational pilot to the [[Galactica type battlestar|battlestar]] ''[[Galactica]]'' under the command of William Adama, where she served for some two years prior to the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attack]] on the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]]. Before the Cylon attack, she was second in command of the remaining pilots, subordinate to the [[CAG]], [[Jackson Spencer]].
*At the time of the Cylon attack she has an run-down apartment in [[Delphi]] that overlooks a parking lot and a Colonial version of a [[Wikipedia:Humvee|Humvee]] which she and Helo use to escape the city and get to the country where she meets her husband-to-be Anders. She rarely used the dilapidated apartment. She was also a very avid painter, and her apartment was cluttered with her paintings and a [[Starbuck's Poem|poem]] is written on a wall ([[Valley of Darkness]]). The apartment was a better state of repair when Thrace was romantically involved with Zak Adama, although her [[Eye of Jupiter|mandala]] wall painting pre-dates that relationship. ([[Daybreak, Part I]])
*Despite her reckless approach to life, Thrace hides the fact that she is deeply spiritual. She frequently prays (or talks) to the [[Lords of Kobol]], particularly [[Aphrodite]] and [[Artemis]] in times of need ([[Miniseries]], "[[Flesh and Bone]]", "[[You Can't Go Home Again]]").

==Character History==

=== Galactica and Pre-New Caprica ===

*Thrace's attitude quickly runs her afoul of Colonel [[Saul Tigh]], ''Galactica's'' [[executive officer]]. Their open mutual dislike of one another leads to the point where blows are exchanged, with Thrace ending up in the brig. After the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attack]] she is released from the brig and returns to duty as Viper pilot.
*Thrace manages to keep two of three nuclear missiles from striking ''Galactica'' in their first Cylon sortie, and saves Lee from doom in an innovative maneuver in the [[Battle of Ragnar Anchorage]].
*Her skills in saving Lee brings her grudging respect from Colonel Tigh, but she is unable to accept his offer of the olive branch—an act that will have repercussions for her later ([[Miniseries]]).
[[image:Bastille_Day-Starbuck_Boxey.jpg|thumb|right|Thrace as acting [[CAG]] with [[Boxey (RDM)|Boxey]] as assistant ([[Bastille Day]]).]]
*Thrace participates in a hostage rescue mission aboard the ''[[Astral Queen]]''. Following the successful mission, Thrace tries to mend fences between herself and Colonel Tigh with a toast (consisting of water), apologizing in much the same way as Tigh himself had tried after their initial escape from [[Ragnar Anchorage]]. But Tigh rejects Thrace's apology, stating that her flaws are professional, while his flaws were personal ([[Bastille Day]]).
*Thrace eventually admits her secret about Zak Adama to William Adama himself, an act that brings their close friendship almost to the breaking point ([[Act of Contrition]]).
*During a surprise encounter with Cylons during [[nugget]] training, Thrace destroys several Cylon Raiders, but her ship is damaged and tumbles towards a small red moon with an unbreathable atmosphere. With her Viper in a fatal flat-spin, Thrace is forced to eject from her Viper ([[You Can't Go Home Again]]).
*Thrace (nursing a damaged knee) repairs the downed Cylon Raider found on the inhabitable moon and returns to ''Galactica'', giving the Fleet a vital piece of Cylon fighter technology for study and use.
*The recovering Thrace, off flight status, is asked by Commander Adama to plan a special attack on a Cylon [[tylium]] refinery. The tactical planning role is not something she relishes, and she frequently shows resentment towards others for her condition ([[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]).
*During Thrace's undesired interrogation of a Cylon prisoner, a copy of a known [[Humanoid Cylon|Cylon]] named [[Leoben Conoy]], she uses some drastic acts to try to extract the information from the humanoid Cylon ([[Flesh and Bone]]).
[[image:Starbuck-Kobols_Last_Gleaming_pt2.jpg|thumb|right|Thrace retrieves the [[Arrow of Apollo]] ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]).]]
*Thrace is assigned to plant a nuclear device on board a [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]] in orbit around [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]]. She disobeys orders to retrieve the [[Arrow of Apollo]] at the request of President Roslin, since she discovered Commander Adama's speech concerning knowledge of the location of Earth was a lie. She [[FTL|jump]]s to Caprica ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]), landing in [[Delphi]] in the captured Cylon [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Raider]], depriving the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] of the valuable military asset.
*In the [[Delphi Museum of the Colonies]] with the Arrow, she is violently attacked by a copy of [[Number Six]]. Despite being heavily outmatched in the fight, Thrace luckily defeats the Cylon.
*At the museum, she reunites with [[Karl Agathon]], whom she thought dead, and discovers [[Sharon Agathon|a second copy]] of [[Sharon Valerii]], realizing instantly that the woman is a Cylon.
*"Caprica Valerii", fearing for her child, steals Thrace's Raider. In exasperation, Thrace only mutters: "Bitch took my ride" ([[Scattered]]). Like Agathon, Thrace is left with no way to return to the Fleet unless she could find her Raider or another Cylon spacecraft, as only Cylon navigational computers are powerful enough to plot jumps over such large distances..
*Thrace berates Agathon's love for the Caprica copy of Valerii. Thrace finds the keys of her surplus military utility vehicle in her old jacket in her old apartment. Thrace has a ride again, if only to move more efficiently about Caprica ([[Valley of Darkness]]).
[[Image:ThraceAndersResistance.jpg|thumb|right|Thrace and Anders playing Pyramid on Caprica ([[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]).]]
*Thrace and Agathon meet a [[Caprica Resistance|resistance movement]] on Caprica. Thrace and [[Samuel Anders]] strike up a rapport as fellow [[Pyramid (RDM)|Pyramid]] players and end up as lovers.
*During planning to steal a [[Heavy Raider]], Thrace is shot in a military action, waking up in a hospital on Caprica. Thrace is told by her doctor, [[Simon]], that Anders died from wounds he suffered in getting Thrace to safety.
*Thrace discovers that Simon is working with a [[Number Six|known humanoid Cylon]]. She overhears that the next day he plans to extract her ovaries for use in the Cylon's attempts to study and create a hybrid Cylon/human embryo. Simon also makes the mistake of calling Thrace by her callsign, Starbuck, which she had never revealed.
*Staggering and in pain, Thrace kills Simon and escapes the hospital, but not before clocking a Six copy with a fire extinguisher and destroying the local farm power supply, mercy-killing [[Sue-Shaun]] and several other women in the facility.
*Another Simon copy appears just as the Resistance attacks the facility. The second Simon, now revealed as a humanoid Cylon himself, is immediately killed by the Resistance, but a squad of [[Cylon Centurion]]s appear and pins the Resistance down. Luckily, [[Sharon Agathon|Caprica-Valerii]] swoops in with a stolen [[Heavy Raider]], destroys the Centurions and flies the Resistance and Thrace out of harm's way.
*Thrace promises to Anders that she'll [[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I|return with a rescue mission]] for the remaining survivors. Anders returns the Arrow of Apollo to Thrace, which he hid on the resistance grounds for safekeeping ([[The Farm]]).
*Thrace, Agathon and the pregnant "Caprica Valerii" land on the ''[[Astral Queen]]'' in the Heavy Raider. Finding the [[Laura Roslin faction]] in orbit of [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]], Thrace is reunited with Lee. He kisses her impulsively, catching Thrace by pleasant surprise, but a tense standoff follows when Lee discovers that another Sharon copy has returned with them. Roslin helps defuse the situation, and Thrace delivers the Arrow of Apollo to the President.
*Temporarily removed from military protocol, Lee playfully teases Thrace by stealing a pyramid ball she took from Caprica. Adama senses her depression about Caprica and tells her that he'd be happy to hear about any problems she had. He also let slip that he loved her, which brightened Thrace's mood to the point where she teased him back about his slip.
*With a team led by Laura Roslin, Lee, and, later, joined by the recovered Commander Adama, Thrace enters the [[Tomb of Athena]] and successfully uses the Arrow of Apollo to activate a hologram that shows constellations of the Twelve Colonies' ancient symbols.
*Thrace realizes that they are on a recreation of Earth. Together with Lee, they locate the Lagoon Nebula, a celestial body known to Commander Adama and Lee, and gather sufficient information to begin an actual course to Earth ([[Home, Part II]]).
*Thrace shows off the impressive stealth abilities of the new [[Blackbird]] fighter in her maiden flight ([[Flight of the Phoenix]]).
*With the arrival of ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'', Admiral [[Helena Cain]] summarily assigns Thrace (and Lee) to ''Pegasus'' after digesting the reports of ''Galactica'''s officers.
*[[Cole Taylor|The ''Pegasus'' CAG]] removes Thrace from the Cylon recon mission. Lee secretly tells her to use the [[Blackbird]] to take recon photos of the Cylon Unknown ([[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]).
*Returning from her very successful mission, the [[Blackbird]]'s lack of a Colonial transponder is mistaken for a Cylon [[Raider]] on [[DRADIS]], and Thrace is nearly confronted and shot at by Vipers from ''Pegasus'' and ''Galactica''. After narrowly avoiding certain death by declaring herself a friendly, Thrace transmits her recon photos to ''Pegasus''.
*Admiral Cain is very impressed with Thrace's performance and promotes her to Captain and ''Pegasus'' CAG.
*Thrace is assigned the task of planning the joint attack on the Resurrection Ship, but successfully asks to have Lee on her team, restoring him to flight status.
*After she briefs Cain and Commander Adama on her battle plan, Adama asks Thrace privately to assassinate Cain after the battle is complete. Adama fears that if Cain continues to command, the Fleet would be in mortal jeopardy from Cain's draconian command ([[Resurrection Ship, Part I]]).
*Thrace's battle planning, as before on the [[tylium]] [[The Hand of God (RDM)|mine]], works to near-perfection, with the Resurrection Ship destroyed and its supporting basestars.
*As a result of the battle events, Thrace is left without backup as she walks to the ''Pegasus'' CIC to shoot Cain, obviously afraid and apprehensive. When Commander Adama calls, Thrace slowly moves her hand to her sidearm but, to her relief, Adama does not give the kill order and cryptically instructs her to stand down ([[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]).
*Thrace and [[Louanne Katraine|Louanne "Kat" Katraine]] are involved in the protection of a mining operation from periodic Raider attacks. One Raider, nicknamed [[Scar (Raider)|Scar]], fuels an intensive rivalry for the pilot's "top gun" honor. Thrace, still depressed over her inability to convince Fleet command to initiate a rescue for Samuel Anders and his resistance, drinks heavily and obsesses over removing Scar from the sky, even at the cost of her life. Fortunately, Thrace realizes the futility of her actions, and works together with Katraine to destroy the remarkably dangerous Raider ([[Scar]]).
*A few weeks later, Thrace takes leave on ''[[Cloud Nine]]'' when she was dragooned into rescuing Lee and several other ''Galactica'' crew and residents after terrorists take them hostage in exchange for the incarcerated [[Sharon Agathon|Sharon Agathon neé Valerii]]. Thrace gathers intelligence on the situation, but her cover is blown. In the retreating firefight, Lee is caught in the crossfire. After the situation is resolved, Thrace intended to sit at Lee's bedside, only to discover that Dualla beat her to it ([[Sacrifice]]).
*Later, Thrace is assigned to ''Pegasus'' as a flight trainer. Though the pilots like her, Commander [[Barry Garner]] does not, eventually confining her to quarters for "insubordination." Following the [[Battle of the Binary Star System|ill-fated rescue and retreat]] from a Cylon ambush (where Thrace leads the fighters) and [[Battle of the Guardian Basestar|after a search, rescue and destroy mission to a Cylon-war era basestar]], Thrace informs Lee—now commander of ''Pegasus''—that she was taking over his old CAG post aboard ''Galactica'', joking that she has a problem with her commander wanting to send her off to get killed ("[[The Captain's Hand]]", "[[Razor]]").
*Thrace gets her wish: the Caprica rescue is approved, and she leads a large Raptor squadron to the planet. The group soon met up with Anders, who reports that their HQ had been destroyed and Thrace's timing was just perfect. A squad of Centurions ambush and pin down the group moments later ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I]]).
*Still pinned down from attack fire, Thrace and Anders agree to kill each other to avoid capture and internment at a [[Farms|farm]]. But the attack stops, and a [[Cavil|man]] appears, praising the [[Lords of Kobol|Gods]] as he announces that the Cylons not only have ceased fire, but are abandoning the Twelve Colonies. Thrace isn't really surprised to discover that the man, known as Brother [[Cavil]], was a Cylon upon their return to the Fleet.
*Thrace and Anders proceed to get drunk, and host a disastrous encounter with Lee. This apparently led to a rift between the two comrades.
[[Image:Leobenkara.jpg|thumb|right|180px|Leoben with Kara Thrace ([[Exodus, Part I]]).]]
*The evening of the founding of [[New Caprica]], Thrace slept with Lee and proclaimed her love for him as she was uncertain regarding her feelings toward Anders. The following morning she quickly married Anders in a ceremony near the river. This caused a rift between Thrace and Lee that lasted for well over a year ([[Unfinished Business]]).
*Life on New Caprica tempered Thrace, and she often behaved in ways Thrace never would have, including hugging Colonel Tigh and pampering Anders during his bout with an illness.
*She watches in horror at the sudden arrival of hundreds of Cylon ships in the sky over New Caprica. A few of ''Galactica's'' former crew gather near Thrace, looking to her for guidance. She responds the only way she knows how: "Fight 'em until we can't" ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]).

=== The New Caprica Ordeal and Her Death ===

*After Baltar's surrender of New Caprica, Conoy keeps Thrace prisoner in an apartment located within the Cylon-built [[New Caprica Detention Center]] in an attempt to convince Thrace that she loves him and also convert her to the [[Cylon Religion|Cylon monotheistic religion]]. She repeatedly kills Conoy a total of five times in an attempt to convince him to let her go ("[[Occupation]]", "[[Precipice]]").
*Conoy introduces Thrace to a small child named [[Kacey Brynn|Kacey]], who appears to be approximately two to three years in age, whom he claims is their biological daughter. He explains that the child was created using one of Thrace's extracted ovaries ([[The Farm]]) and his genetic material. Conflicted, Thrace leaves the child unattended, which later results in Kacey falling down the apartment's stairs ([[Precipice]]). After the fall, Thrace begins to change her attitude towards the child and begins to offer affection towards Conoy ("[[Precipice]]", "[[Exodus, Part I]]").
*Upon her return to ''Galactica'' after Admiral Adama's [[Battle of New Caprica|daring rescue attempt]], Thrace heartbreakingly discovers that Kacey was simply another manipulation on Conoy's part — Kacey is merely a human child whom the Cylons had abducted months ago from [[Julia Brynn|their mother]] ([[Exodus, Part II]]).
*Bearing the psychological scars of her four month ordeal with Leoben and Kacey, Thrace is recruited by [[Diana Seelix]] as a last minute replacement juror in the [[Circle]] after Anders' resignation. Thrace's involvement in the Circle precipitates the breakup of her marriage with Anders. Initially wondering about the legality of the tribunal, she is the fifth vote to find [[Felix Gaeta]] guilty of treason and collaboration. Later, when Gaeta is about to be killed in one of ''Galactica''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> [[launch tubes (RDM)|launch tubes]], she demands him to beg for his life. Thrace physically assaults him and goes down the litany of "lies" that Gaeta told her earlier about him helping the [[New Caprica Resistance|insurgency]]. As she does so, [[Galen Tyrol]], one of the Circle's jurors, overhears this and confirms the story. In a sense of confusion after learning that Gaeta was telling the truth, Thrace leaves the launch tube ([[Collaborators]]).
*During a combat exercise between Vipers, Thrace breaks formation and collides with another pilot, forcing an end to the war games and causing Lee to revoke her flight status. Later, at her bunk she is met by Kacey and her mother, whom she dismisses, telling Kacey's mother not to visit her again. In the pilots' rec room, Thrace and Colonel Tigh begin to sow dissent between the survivors of New Caprica and the crew that stayed behind on ''Galactica'', insinuating that those who stayed behind did not suffer like those on New Caprica did, and that the crew of ''Galactica'' took too long to organize a rescue. Admiral Adama, upon learning of this from Karl Agathon, confronts Thrace and Tigh on their behavior. He challenges them to shoot him, as their constant complaining is tantamount to pulling the trigger. When neither do, Adama throws Thrace off her chair and demands that both she and Tigh shape up and move on with their lives. Spurred by Adama's words, Thrace cuts her hair and returns to duty. Later, in uniform, she visits Kacey and her mother on the [[Dogsville|converted hangar deck]] ([[Torn]]).
*Thrace enters an affair with Lee, rekindling their romance on New Caprica ([[Unfinished Business]]). Both Anders and Lee's wife, Lieutenant [[Anastasia Dualla]], are more than vaguely aware of the pair's sexual tension. Lee soon ends the affair and reconciles, but Thrace refuses to give Anders any further attention than a periodic sexual fling.
*Thrace is involved with the defense of the incorrectly called "[[Temple of Five]]" but is severely injured, leaving her rescuer, Dualla, to return them to ''Galactica'' ([[Rapture]]). Agathon recognizes the strange circular [[Eye of Jupiter|mandala]] in the Temple, created 4,000 years before, and its resemblance to a symbol that Thrace painted in her apartment. When shown the symbol, the recovering Thrace is darkly reminded of Leoben's prophesy.
*During refueling operations above a gas giant, Thrace is continually attracted to what she believes is a Cylon contact, which she chases to find a planetary storm that resembles the mandala. She dives into it, almost losing control before coming to her senses and returning.
*Command staff and Thrace question her competency to continue flying, but Lee volunteers encouragement and offers to fly as her wingman on her next [[Combat Air Patrol|CAP]].
*Thrace finds herself attracted by another apparent Cylon contact. As she descended, her Viper is struck by debris and she, while unconscious, experiences a revelation about her mother, [[Socrata Thrace]], and guided through the vision by what looks to be a Leoben copy.
*Starbuck regains consciousness but chooses to continue her descent despite Lee's desperate pleas to ascend. "I'll see you on the other side (...) Just let me go" were her last words as her Viper explodes. A grief-stricken Lee tells [[CIC]] that he did not see any ejection ([[Maelstrom]]).
*While preparing for a Cylon engagement near the [[Ionian nebula]], Lee (who has [[Crossroads, Part I|since left]] the Colonial Military) detects a bogey on [[DRADIS]]. While he searches for the target, Lee finds himself momentarily in a cat-and-mouse chase game with the mysterious target. As Lee attempts to regain sight of the bogey, it positions itself next to his Viper.

=== Return from the Dead and Suspicion ===

*The [[Starbuck's Viper|pristine Viper Mark II]] that comes alongside is flown by Thrace herself. A shocked and confused [[Lee Adama]] (now a civilian) listens to the apparently-resurrected Kara Thrace, who tells him that she has been to [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]] and she has returned to take the Fleet to it ([[Crossroads, Part II]]).
*After the [[Battle of the Ionian Nebula|battle at the nebula]], she returns to ''Galactica'' where everyone is astounded to see her alive. While everyone believed her dead for over two months, only several hours have passed for her. She has returned with recon photography of [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]], but no navigational data or knowledge of how she got there. Further complicating her claim is the fact that her Viper is nearly pristine, as if it had just been built. Despite passing a medical examination by Doctor [[Sherman Cottle]], almost everyone—especially Roslin—thinks she may be a Cylon or part of a Cylon trap, and thus don't believe her. Thrace herself wonders if she could be a Cylon.
*When the Fleet jumps further away from the Ionian Nebula, she experiences headaches and says that she is losing the intuitive feeling of the way to Earth. Desperate to lead the Colonials there, she breaks into Adama's quarters and confronts Roslin at gun point ([[He That Believeth In Me]]).
*Thrace is eventually subdued by [[Colonial Marines]] and imprisoned in the [[brig]]. Lee visits Thrace in the brig and tells her that he believes her. Thrace is happy that he does and they share a kiss before Lee leaves for ''[[Colonial One]]''. Although not sure what to make of her claims, Admiral Adama releases her later, and gives her command of ''[[Demetrius]]'', and a crew including [[Karl Agathon]] and Samuel Anders, telling her to try to find Earth ([[Six of One]]).
*Thrace irritates her crew by frequent, unexplained course changes and rarely leaving her quarters, where she holes herself up to study star charts. When her husband confronts her about her command style and their marriage, she tells him that she is not the same person he married and tries to throw him out of her cabin. However, when Anders holds her, she tells him that she wants to have sex in order to feel something. Afterwards, she says that she feels distanced from her body and the events around her ([[The Ties That Bind]]).
* When a [[Leoben Conoy]] copy comes aboard ''Demetrius'' with the offer of an alliance with the Cylons, a power struggle among the crew breaks out when Thrace orders to jump to his baseship ([[The Road Less Traveled]]). The fight ends with Gaeta getting shot in the leg by Anders. After standing down, Thrace decides to accompany Conoy with a small team. On his baseship she meets the Cylon [[Hybrid]], who repeats the [[first Hybrid]]'s [[The Destiny|prophecy]] ([[Razor]]) and gives her the next task: join the Cylons to unbox [[Number Three]] to learn what she knows of the Final Five ([[Faith]]).
* After the unboxing, Thrace reacts with shock and disbelief when she learns that her husband is a Cylon. She investigates the [[Starbuck's Viper|Viper she returned in]] and notices that it receives a strange signal, giving her a direct bearing to Earth. Her discovery stops the imminent execution of Colonel Tigh and leads to a truce with the [[Cylon Civil War|Cylon rebels]]. After arriving at Earth, Thrace is part of the first group on the surface, but finds only a destroyed city ([[Revelations]]).

=== The Thirteenth Colony and the Search for a New Home ===
*Thrace and [[Leoben Conoy]] explore the devastated Earth trying to find the source of the signal. They find pieces of wreckage belonging to a [[Viper (RDM)|Colonial Viper]]—the [[Viper 8757|same Viper]] that Thrace [[Maelstrom|flew into the gas giant]]. Finally, they come upon the cockpit of the crashed Viper, with its pilot still inside. Thrace is horrified to discover that the carcass inside the cockpit is hers. Thrace reveals to Conoy that the [[Hybrid]] aboard the rebel baseship called her the "Harbinger of Death." Conoy has no explanation for any of this and flees the scene, leaving Thrace alone to wonder who or what she really is. Thrace later retrieves the dog tags and wedding ring from the body. She then cremates the body and returns to ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]''. She does not tell anyone what she has discovered ([[Sometimes a Great Notion]]).
*After ''Galactica'' leaves Earth, Thrace is still trying to come to terms with her discoveries there. [[Felix Gaeta]], who is unhappy about the Fleet's alliance with the [[Cylon (RDM)|Cylons]] and for the events leading up to that point (including a [[The Face of the Enemy|certain revelation]] about his role on [[New Caprica]]), decides to pick a fight with her. Gaeta accuses Thrace of collaborating with the Cylons, while Thrace retorts that Gaeta is just bitter because [[Faith|he lost his leg]]. Gaeta makes a thinly-veiled threat against Thrace, who responds by telling him she isn't afraid to beat up a cripple. Thrace then storms off ([[A Disquiet Follows My Soul]]).
*A withdrawn Thrace later has an altercation with [[Brendan Constanza|Brendan "Hot Dog" Constanza]]. She teases him about his unexpected fathering of [[Nicholas Tyrol]]. Constanza is unamused, angrily retorting that Thrace slept with half the Fleet herself and has nothing to show for her efforts. This hits a nerve and Thrace throws a bowl of food at a retreating Constanza.
*An alarm goes off and Thrace is ordered by [[Noel Allison|Noel "Narcho" Allison]] to evacuate the area. Thrace is suspicious and when she presses Allison for more information, he snaps that no one even knows what she is any more.
*Thrace turns to see a group of marines and civilians led by [[Charlie Connor]] run past her, and she follows them. She sees the group break into a weapons locker and arm themselves. She hears Connor giving his men orders to take the [[hangar deck]].
*Thrace rushes back to her barracks and grabs her weapons. She then tries to warn the CIC, but Gaeta blocks her calls. Realizing that Gaeta is also involved, Thrace takes off for the hangar deck.
*She arrives at the hangar deck just in time to rescue [[Lee Adama]] from Connor and his men, who are being assisted by [[Margaret Edmondson|Margaret "Racetrack" Edmondson]] and [[Hamish McCall|Hamish "Skulls" McCall]]. Thrace kills one of the marines and wounds Skulls, forcing the others to back off. She and Lee then hurry away.
*Thrace and Lee take refuge inside a storage compartment. Lee doesn't think they can defeat the mutiny alone. Thrace responds by kissing him. She then says that this is the first time in weeks that she feels right.
*Thrace and Lee head for the CIC. They find that the mutiny has spread all across the ship. They arrive at Admiral Adama's quarters, where they meet [[Laura Roslin]]. After learning of the mutiny, Roslin decides that she must come out and address the Fleet. However, the ship's communications are down, and the only working [[wireless]] transmitter on the ship is in [[Gaius Baltar]]'s possession.
*Thrace, Adama, and Roslin make it to Baltar's compartment, where they find [[Galen Tyrol]] organizing a defense. Tyrol tells them that Admiral Adama has been arrested and is being escorted to the brig. Tyrol also tells them about a secondary storage airlock they can use to escape the ship. Thrace and Adama head off to rescue the admiral.
*At the brig, they find that [[William Adama]] and [[Saul Tigh]] have already escaped custody. They have also taken the rebel marine, [[Allan Nowart]], prisoner. Thrace tries to kill Nowart, but Adama thwarts her. As Nowart flees, Thrace argues that the mutineers are no longer his men, and as such are the enemy and that they can't afford to take prisoners.
*Thrace, Tigh and the Adamas arrive at the secondary storage airlock, where they find Tyrol, Roslin and Baltar waiting. A [[Raptor]] piloted by an [[Eight]] docks. After Roslin and Baltar board the Raptor, Thrace, Lee and Tyrol head off to continue the fight against Gaeta and [[Thomas Zarek]]'s forces ([[The Oath]]).
*Lee and Thrace head off to free the captives held in the brig, while Tyrol goes to sabotage the ship's FTL drive. They take out the mutineers guarding the brig and free Tigh, [[Sharon Agathon]], [[Karl Agathon]], [[Hera Agathon]], [[Caprica Six]] and [[Samuel Anders]].
*During the escape, a firefight ensues and Anders is shot in the back of the head by a mutineer, who was believed dead. He is not killed but is in dire need of medical attention. Thrace yells at the others to go without her and she starts dragging Anders towards the infirmary.
*Thrace eventually exhausts herself trying to carry Anders and she collapses. Marine [[Parr]] escorting [[Romo Lampkin]] appears; Thrace attempts to shoot Parr, but her gun is empty— however, Lampkin suddenly stabs the marine twice in the neck with a pen, killing him.
*Thrace asks Lampkin to help her carry Anders to the infirmary. Lampkin is reluctant but eventually agrees to help ([[Blood on the Scales]]).
*In the immediate aftermath of the mutiny, Thrace learns from Doctor [[Sherman Cottle]] that the bullet is still stuck in Anders' skull. Anders' suppressed memories of his Cylon life back on Earth are also triggered. To Thrace's disappointment, Anders does not have an explanation as to who she really is or how she apparently came back from the dead.
*Cottle manages to remove the bullet, which he gives to Thrace. However, when Thrace goes to speak with Anders, she discovers that he has zero brain activity—which the medical personnel are unable to explain ([[No Exit]]).
*Thrace is later part of a joint Cylon-Colonial CAP which escorts [[Raptor 702|a Raptor]] carrying [[Ellen Tigh]] and [[Sharon Valerii|Sharon "Boomer" Valerii]] onto ''Galactica''.
*Thrace is later seen in [[Joe's Bar]] drinking and toying with the bullet removed from Anders' skull. She and Tyrol have a brief discussion about Valerii, who is being held in the brig ([[Deadlock]]).
*Thrace gets a drawing of what seems to be stars from Hera and later visits Joe's Bar where she helps piano player [[Slick]] with the music he's composing. There she reveals that she used to play piano as a girl with her father until he left and then stopped and she had a song she used to play that made her happy. She realizes that Hera's drawing is of the notes for that song and she and Slick start playing it together. The music turns out to be [[The Music|the same music that activated the memories]] of the so-called [[Final Five]]. Slick, who was a manifestation of her father, disappears and Thrace later goes to Anders in the hope of finding out the reason she knew of the Music and its meaning, but is unsuccessful.
*When Admiral Adama comes to see Anders—now acting as ''Galactica's'' Hybrid—to find out the location of [[The Colony]], Thrace reveals to him that she has tried to make sense out of the notes by assigning numbers to them, but has had no luck in understanding it. Adama tells her he knows who she is: she's his daughter. Later she and Adama spread red tape down the hanger deck to create a line for people to cross one way or the other to show whether or not they volunteer for the rescue mission for Hera. Thrace stays on the volunteers side of the line and doesn't move the whole time having made her choice.
*During [[Battle of The Colony|the battle]], she leads a strike force that includes both Agathons into The Colony through Raptors. They encounter Sharon Valerii who gives them back Hera before being killed by Sharon Agathon. Thrace's team meets up with Lee's and they retreat to ''Galactica'', which has its nose inside the Colony as their Raptors have been destroyed.
*Thrace helps defend the ship and after an agreement is reached with Cavil, takes damage reports on their forces alongside Lee. After things go badly and the Colony starts to fall into the black hole with ''Galactica'', Thrace—the nearest person to the [[FTL]] console—is ordered to jump them away. Thrace doesn't know the rendezvous coordinates and, after Adama makes it clear that it doesn't matter, is inspired to input the numbers she assigned to [[The Music]]'s notes as the coordinates and jumps ''Galactica'' there. According to Thrace, Thrace jumps them to "the watchtower," which turns out to be the singular moon in orbit around another planet that the Colonials later dub [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]].
*Thrace says goodbye to Anders before he flies the Fleet into the sun, destroying ''Galactica'' and the other ships, and later says her final goodbye to William Adama. Then she says her final goodbye to Lee Adama, having fulfilled [[The Destiny|her destiny]] to bring the Fleet to the second Earth. She disappears while Lee is talking about his dreams, leaving Lee surprised.

==Lords of Kobol, Hear My Prayer==

Despite her tough, rebellious exterior, Thrace is deeply spiritual and possesses a great deal of faith in the [[Lords of Kobol (RDM)|Lords of Kobol]]. She usually prays in moments of mourning or desperation, such as when she thinks Lee is dead ([[Miniseries]]), when she is trapped on a desolate moon with a broken knee and low oxygen ([[You Can't Go Home Again]]), and when she discovers she's in Cylon captivity ([[The Farm]]). This spirituality is put to the test as a series of events lead her towards a mysterious destiny.

==The Destiny==
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From early in her life, Kara Thrace has been guided through her mother's actions for a special role in life, a plot point that begins with a [[Leoben Conoy]] copy in the Season 1 episode, "[[Flesh and Bone]]". In "[[Maelstrom]]", the character dies, but reappears as a guide for the Fleet at the end of Season 3.

A Cylon [[First Hybrid|Hybrid]], speaking to Major [[Kendra Shaw]] moments before their deaths, warns her that Thrace is the herald of the apocalypse and the harbinger of death, that she would lead the human race to its end, and that she is not to be followed ([[Razor]]). Similarly, another [[Hybrid]] describes her as the harbinger of death, and she would lead them to salvation and destruction ([[Faith]]).

This becomes the case, as she leads ''Galactica'' (and the Fleet) to a second, new planet the Colonials dub "Earth." There, both Colonials and both races of Cylon (the Kobollian-based "[[The Final Five|Final Five]]" and the remaining models from the "[[Significant Seven]]") are saved. However, as their blend in with the native humans on the new Earth, the distinctive natures of Colonial human and Cylon creations blur and merge. In a sense, the blurring results in the "death" of both races as a new human race begins. [[Hera Agathon]]'s body, a perfect human/Cylon merging, is later represented as the Mitochondrial Eve for the humans on the New Earth ([[Daybreak, Part II]]).

==Notes==
*On the Sci-Fi Channel's preview for season 2.5 (US), Katee Sackhoff is quoted as saying that Starbuck is "the best Viper pilot...EVER."
*[[Wikipedia:Thrace|Thrace]] was a region in south-eastern Europe that was heavily influenced by the ancient Greeks and was eventually conquered by [[Wikipedia:Philip II of Macedonia|Phillip II of Macedonia]]. Thracians were considered by most to be the most ferocious fighters and were often highly paid mercenaries for Greek kings.
*Thrace may have been named after [[w:Thrax (mythology)|Thrax]], the son of [[w:Ares|Ares]], the god of war, who was said to reside on the Thracian plain in Greek mythology.
*After auditioning for the role of [[Anastasia Dualla|Dualla]], [[Grace Park]] was asked by director [[Michael Rymer]] to audition for the role of Starbuck, and she was actually one of two finalists up for the role (the other obviously being [[Katee Sackhoff]], who got the part). Ultimately Park was cast as [[Sharon Valerii|Sharon "Boomer" Valerii]].
*In a TV Guide [http://online.tvguide.com/newsearch/detail.aspx?id=4371595&sourcetype=S&progseriesparentid=4371595&tvobjectid=191395&keyword=Battlestar+Galactica&referrer=search1 photo shoot] at the BSG studios, Katee Sackhoff explained that the [[tattoo]] that Starbuck bears on her left arm is a wing and a circle and has half of the constellation of Capricorn (a reference to [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] obviously) and a small symbol of the planet as well. It matches a mirror image of the tattoo on Anders' right arm. When the two of them hold each other with their respective arms crossing, the 2 tattoos come together to form an image of a single ring with 2 wings that is supposed to represent their union. According to Sackhoff, Kara and Anders had the tattoos done around the time of their wedding, a fact later confirmed in dialogue during Season 4.5.
*The license plate on Thrace's truck on Caprica is "FB 42 E3" ([[Valley of Darkness]]).

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:''This article discusses the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Re-imagined Series]] character with the pilot callsign of "Starbuck." For information on Kara Thrace's counterpart in the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]], see [[Starbuck (TOS)]].''

:''For Kara Thrace's parents, see [[Dreilide Thrace]] and [[Socrata Thrace]].''

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|colony= [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]]
|birthname= Kara Thrace
|callsign= Starbuck
|seen= Miniseries
|death= Viper destroyed near gas giant, crashing on [[Earth (RDM)#Arrival_and_Ruins|Cylon Earth]] ([[Maelstrom]]/[[Sometimes a Great Notion]]);<br>Mysteriously reappears ([[Crossroads, Part II]]);<br>Vanishes in Tanzania on [[Earth (RDM)#A_New_Earth|pre-historical 2nd Earth]] ([[Daybreak, Part II]])
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|marital status= Married to [[Samuel Anders]]† (formerly engaged to [[Zak Adama]]†)
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|role= Viper pilot;<br>flight instructor;<br>''Galactica'' [[Commander Air Group|CAG]];<br>angel-prophet;<br>captain of ''[[Demetrius]]''
|actor= [[Katee Sackhoff]]<br>[[Erika-Shaye Gair]] (child)
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'''Kara "Starbuck" Thrace''' is a gifted [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] pilot, with an attitude that at has hindered her career in the Colonial Fleet. However, [[William Adama]] has confidence in Thrace's military skills, and she greatly aids the Fleet inside and out of the cockpit. She is the last [[Commander Air Group|Commander, Air Group]] (CAG) of ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'', and [[virtual beings|mysteriously vanishes]] in Tanzania on [[Earth (RDM)#A_New_Earth|real-world Earth]] shortly after the Fleet's arrival on the planet ([[Daybreak, Part II]]).

== Background ==

[[Image:YoungKaraThrace.jpg|thumb|left|A young Kara Thrace in a hallucination ([[Maelstrom]]).]]
*Thrace's mother [[Socrata Thrace|Socrata]] was a former member of the [[Colonial Marine Corps]]. She beat her daughter so frequently that Thrace came to accept pain as a way of life ("[[Flesh and Bone]]", "[[Maelstrom]]").
*Her father [[Dreilide Thrace|Dreilide]] was a pianist and composer. Kara seems to have had a closer relationship with him than with her mother ([[Valley of Darkness]], [[Someone to Watch Over Me]]).
*Thrace left home to join the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|military]]. During her training, she received complaints about her conduct towards [[Mike Gibbons|superior officers]].
*One of her first postings prior to being a flight instructor was aboard the battlestar ''[[Triton (RDM)|Triton]]''. While serving aboard, she exhibited one of the first known instances of offending high-ranking commissioned officers, namely one Commander [[Myron Ruth]] who opened court-martial proceedings against her. They were later dropped ([[The Son Also Rises]]).
* She was a very talented [[pyramid]] player ([[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]), and received a scholarship to the Fleet Academy to play pyramid. During this time, she injured her knee and was no longer able to play pyramid at a professional level. However, she discovered a passion and skill at being a fighter pilot ([[Podcast:The Hand of God]]). On graduating from Colonial Flight School, she undertook a period of active duty before returning to flight school as an instructor.
*Thrace fell in love with a young recruit, [[Zak Adama]]. Despite his poor performance, she passed him on his final flight examination although he failed three of the required maneuvers ([[Act of Contrition]]).
*Thrace's engagement to Zak Adama ended when he was killed during a routine mission shortly after graduating. At the time, [[Lee Adama]] ("Apollo"), Zak's elder brother, blamed their father for Zak's death. Feeling guilty, Thrace did little to alter this idea. She did, however, meet [[William Adama]] shortly after the accident, and the two struck up such a strong rapport that they stood together at the funeral ([[Act of Contrition]]).
*Thrace resigned from flight school as an instructor and transferred as an operational pilot to the [[Galactica type battlestar|battlestar]] ''[[Galactica]]'' under the command of William Adama, where she served for some two years prior to the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attack]] on the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]]. Before the Cylon attack, she was second in command of the remaining pilots, subordinate to the [[CAG]], [[Jackson Spencer]].
*At the time of the Cylon attack she has an run-down apartment in [[Delphi]] that overlooks a parking lot and a Colonial version of a [[Wikipedia:Humvee|Humvee]] which she and Helo use to escape the city and get to the country where she meets her husband-to-be Anders. She rarely used the dilapidated apartment. She was also a very avid painter, and her apartment was cluttered with her paintings and a [[Starbuck's Poem|poem]] is written on a wall ([[Valley of Darkness]]). The apartment was a better state of repair when Thrace was romantically involved with Zak Adama, although her [[Eye of Jupiter|mandala]] wall painting pre-dates that relationship. ([[Daybreak, Part I]])
*Despite her reckless approach to life, Thrace hides the fact that she is deeply spiritual. She frequently prays (or talks) to the [[Lords of Kobol]], particularly [[Aphrodite]] and [[Artemis]] in times of need ([[Miniseries]], "[[Flesh and Bone]]", "[[You Can't Go Home Again]]").

==Character History==

=== Galactica and Pre-New Caprica ===

*Thrace's attitude quickly runs her afoul of Colonel [[Saul Tigh]], ''Galactica's'' [[executive officer]]. Their open mutual dislike of one another leads to the point where blows are exchanged, with Thrace ending up in the brig. After the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attack]] she is released from the brig and returns to duty as Viper pilot.
*Thrace manages to keep two of three nuclear missiles from striking ''Galactica'' in their first Cylon sortie, and saves Lee from doom in an innovative maneuver in the [[Battle of Ragnar Anchorage]].
*Her skills in saving Lee brings her grudging respect from Colonel Tigh, but she is unable to accept his offer of the olive branch—an act that will have repercussions for her later ([[Miniseries]]).
[[image:Bastille_Day-Starbuck_Boxey.jpg|thumb|right|Thrace as acting [[CAG]] with [[Boxey (RDM)|Boxey]] as assistant ([[Bastille Day]]).]]
*Thrace participates in a hostage rescue mission aboard the ''[[Astral Queen]]''. Following the successful mission, Thrace tries to mend fences between herself and Colonel Tigh with a toast (consisting of water), apologizing in much the same way as Tigh himself had tried after their initial escape from [[Ragnar Anchorage]]. But Tigh rejects Thrace's apology, stating that her flaws are professional, while his flaws were personal ([[Bastille Day]]).
*Thrace eventually admits her secret about Zak Adama to William Adama himself, an act that brings their close friendship almost to the breaking point ([[Act of Contrition]]).
*During a surprise encounter with Cylons during [[nugget]] training, Thrace destroys several Cylon Raiders, but her ship is damaged and tumbles towards a small red moon with an unbreathable atmosphere. With her Viper in a fatal flat-spin, Thrace is forced to eject from her Viper ([[You Can't Go Home Again]]).
*Thrace (nursing a damaged knee) repairs the downed Cylon Raider found on the inhabitable moon and returns to ''Galactica'', giving the Fleet a vital piece of Cylon fighter technology for study and use.
*The recovering Thrace, off flight status, is asked by Commander Adama to plan a special attack on a Cylon [[tylium]] refinery. The tactical planning role is not something she relishes, and she frequently shows resentment towards others for her condition ([[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]).
*During Thrace's undesired interrogation of a Cylon prisoner, a copy of a known [[Humanoid Cylon|Cylon]] named [[Leoben Conoy]], she uses some drastic acts to try to extract the information from the humanoid Cylon ([[Flesh and Bone]]).
[[image:Starbuck-Kobols_Last_Gleaming_pt2.jpg|thumb|right|Thrace retrieves the [[Arrow of Apollo]] ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]).]]
*Thrace is assigned to plant a nuclear device on board a [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]] in orbit around [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]]. She disobeys orders to retrieve the [[Arrow of Apollo]] at the request of President Roslin, since she discovered Commander Adama's speech concerning knowledge of the location of Earth was a lie. She [[FTL|jump]]s to Caprica ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]), landing in [[Delphi]] in the captured Cylon [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Raider]], depriving the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] of the valuable military asset.
*In the [[Delphi Museum of the Colonies]] with the Arrow, she is violently attacked by a copy of [[Number Six]]. Despite being heavily outmatched in the fight, Thrace luckily defeats the Cylon.
*At the museum, she reunites with [[Karl Agathon]], whom she thought dead, and discovers [[Sharon Agathon|a second copy]] of [[Sharon Valerii]], realizing instantly that the woman is a Cylon.
*"Caprica Valerii", fearing for her child, steals Thrace's Raider. In exasperation, Thrace only mutters: "Bitch took my ride" ([[Scattered]]). Like Agathon, Thrace is left with no way to return to the Fleet unless she could find her Raider or another Cylon spacecraft, as only Cylon navigational computers are powerful enough to plot jumps over such large distances..
*Thrace berates Agathon's love for the Caprica copy of Valerii. Thrace finds the keys of her surplus military utility vehicle in her old jacket in her old apartment. Thrace has a ride again, if only to move more efficiently about Caprica ([[Valley of Darkness]]).
[[Image:ThraceAndersResistance.jpg|thumb|right|Thrace and Anders playing Pyramid on Caprica ([[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]).]]
*Thrace and Agathon meet a [[Caprica Resistance|resistance movement]] on Caprica. Thrace and [[Samuel Anders]] strike up a rapport as fellow [[Pyramid (RDM)|Pyramid]] players and end up as lovers.
*During planning to steal a [[Heavy Raider]], Thrace is shot in a military action, waking up in a hospital on Caprica. Thrace is told by her doctor, [[Simon]], that Anders died from wounds he suffered in getting Thrace to safety.
*Thrace discovers that Simon is working with a [[Number Six|known humanoid Cylon]]. She overhears that the next day he plans to extract her ovaries for use in the Cylon's attempts to study and create a hybrid Cylon/human embryo. Simon also makes the mistake of calling Thrace by her callsign, Starbuck, which she had never revealed.
*Staggering and in pain, Thrace kills Simon and escapes the hospital, but not before clocking a Six copy with a fire extinguisher and destroying the local farm power supply, mercy-killing [[Sue-Shaun]] and several other women in the facility.
*Another Simon copy appears just as the Resistance attacks the facility. The second Simon, now revealed as a humanoid Cylon himself, is immediately killed by the Resistance, but a squad of [[Cylon Centurion]]s appear and pins the Resistance down. Luckily, [[Sharon Agathon|Caprica-Valerii]] swoops in with a stolen [[Heavy Raider]], destroys the Centurions and flies the Resistance and Thrace out of harm's way.
*Thrace promises to Anders that she'll [[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I|return with a rescue mission]] for the remaining survivors. Anders returns the Arrow of Apollo to Thrace, which he hid on the resistance grounds for safekeeping ([[The Farm]]).
*Thrace, Agathon and the pregnant "Caprica Valerii" land on the ''[[Astral Queen]]'' in the Heavy Raider. Finding the [[Laura Roslin faction]] in orbit of [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]], Thrace is reunited with Lee. He kisses her impulsively, catching Thrace by pleasant surprise, but a tense standoff follows when Lee discovers that another Sharon copy has returned with them. Roslin helps defuse the situation, and Thrace delivers the Arrow of Apollo to the President.
*Temporarily removed from military protocol, Lee playfully teases Thrace by stealing a pyramid ball she took from Caprica. Adama senses her depression about Caprica and tells her that he'd be happy to hear about any problems she had. He also let slip that he loved her, which brightened Thrace's mood to the point where she teased him back about his slip.
*With a team led by Laura Roslin, Lee, and, later, joined by the recovered Commander Adama, Thrace enters the [[Tomb of Athena]] and successfully uses the Arrow of Apollo to activate a hologram that shows constellations of the Twelve Colonies' ancient symbols.
*Thrace realizes that they are on a recreation of Earth. Together with Lee, they locate the Lagoon Nebula, a celestial body known to Commander Adama and Lee, and gather sufficient information to begin an actual course to Earth ([[Home, Part II]]).
*Thrace shows off the impressive stealth abilities of the new [[Blackbird]] fighter in her maiden flight ([[Flight of the Phoenix]]).
*With the arrival of ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'', Admiral [[Helena Cain]] summarily assigns Thrace (and Lee) to ''Pegasus'' after digesting the reports of ''Galactica'''s officers.
*[[Cole Taylor|The ''Pegasus'' CAG]] removes Thrace from the Cylon recon mission. Lee secretly tells her to use the [[Blackbird]] to take recon photos of the Cylon Unknown ([[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]).
*Returning from her very successful mission, the [[Blackbird]]'s lack of a Colonial transponder is mistaken for a Cylon [[Raider]] on [[DRADIS]], and Thrace is nearly confronted and shot at by Vipers from ''Pegasus'' and ''Galactica''. After narrowly avoiding certain death by declaring herself a friendly, Thrace transmits her recon photos to ''Pegasus''.
*Admiral Cain is very impressed with Thrace's performance and promotes her to Captain and ''Pegasus'' CAG.
*Thrace is assigned the task of planning the joint attack on the Resurrection Ship, but successfully asks to have Lee on her team, restoring him to flight status.
*After she briefs Cain and Commander Adama on her battle plan, Adama asks Thrace privately to assassinate Cain after the battle is complete. Adama fears that if Cain continues to command, the Fleet would be in mortal jeopardy from Cain's draconian command ([[Resurrection Ship, Part I]]).
*Thrace's battle planning, as before on the [[tylium]] [[The Hand of God (RDM)|mine]], works to near-perfection, with the Resurrection Ship destroyed and its supporting basestars.
*As a result of the battle events, Thrace is left without backup as she walks to the ''Pegasus'' CIC to shoot Cain, obviously afraid and apprehensive. When Commander Adama calls, Thrace slowly moves her hand to her sidearm but, to her relief, Adama does not give the kill order and cryptically instructs her to stand down ([[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]).
*Thrace and [[Louanne Katraine|Louanne "Kat" Katraine]] are involved in the protection of a mining operation from periodic Raider attacks. One Raider, nicknamed [[Scar (Raider)|Scar]], fuels an intensive rivalry for the pilot's "top gun" honor. Thrace, still depressed over her inability to convince Fleet command to initiate a rescue for Samuel Anders and his resistance, drinks heavily and obsesses over removing Scar from the sky, even at the cost of her life. Fortunately, Thrace realizes the futility of her actions, and works together with Katraine to destroy the remarkably dangerous Raider ([[Scar]]).
*A few weeks later, Thrace takes leave on ''[[Cloud Nine]]'' when she was dragooned into rescuing Lee and several other ''Galactica'' crew and residents after terrorists take them hostage in exchange for the incarcerated [[Sharon Agathon|Sharon Agathon neé Valerii]]. Thrace gathers intelligence on the situation, but her cover is blown. In the retreating firefight, Lee is caught in the crossfire. After the situation is resolved, Thrace intended to sit at Lee's bedside, only to discover that Dualla beat her to it ([[Sacrifice]]).
*Later, Thrace is assigned to ''Pegasus'' as a flight trainer. Though the pilots like her, Commander [[Barry Garner]] does not, eventually confining her to quarters for "insubordination." Following the [[Battle of the Binary Star System|ill-fated rescue and retreat]] from a Cylon ambush (where Thrace leads the fighters) and [[Battle of the Guardian Basestar|after a search, rescue and destroy mission to a Cylon-war era basestar]], Thrace informs Lee—now commander of ''Pegasus''—that she was taking over his old CAG post aboard ''Galactica'', joking that she has a problem with her commander wanting to send her off to get killed ("[[The Captain's Hand]]", "[[Razor]]").
*Thrace gets her wish: the Caprica rescue is approved, and she leads a large Raptor squadron to the planet. The group soon met up with Anders, who reports that their HQ had been destroyed and Thrace's timing was just perfect. A squad of Centurions ambush and pin down the group moments later ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I]]).
*Still pinned down from attack fire, Thrace and Anders agree to kill each other to avoid capture and internment at a [[Farms|farm]]. But the attack stops, and a [[Cavil|man]] appears, praising the [[Lords of Kobol|Gods]] as he announces that the Cylons not only have ceased fire, but are abandoning the Twelve Colonies. Thrace isn't really surprised to discover that the man, known as Brother [[Cavil]], was a Cylon upon their return to the Fleet.
*Thrace and Anders proceed to get drunk, and host a disastrous encounter with Lee. This apparently led to a rift between the two comrades.
[[Image:Leobenkara.jpg|thumb|right|180px|Leoben with Kara Thrace ([[Exodus, Part I]]).]]
*The evening of the founding of [[New Caprica]], Thrace slept with Lee and proclaimed her love for him as she was uncertain regarding her feelings toward Anders. The following morning she quickly married Anders in a ceremony near the river. This caused a rift between Thrace and Lee that lasted for well over a year ([[Unfinished Business]]).
*Life on New Caprica tempered Thrace, and she often behaved in ways Thrace never would have, including hugging Colonel Tigh and pampering Anders during his bout with an illness.
*She watches in horror at the sudden arrival of hundreds of Cylon ships in the sky over New Caprica. A few of ''Galactica's'' former crew gather near Thrace, looking to her for guidance. She responds the only way she knows how: "Fight 'em until we can't" ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]).

=== The New Caprica Ordeal and Her Death ===

*After Baltar's surrender of New Caprica, Conoy keeps Thrace prisoner in an apartment located within the Cylon-built [[New Caprica Detention Center]] in an attempt to convince Thrace that she loves him and also convert her to the [[Cylon Religion|Cylon monotheistic religion]]. She repeatedly kills Conoy a total of five times in an attempt to convince him to let her go ("[[Occupation]]", "[[Precipice]]").
*Conoy introduces Thrace to a small child named [[Kacey Brynn|Kacey]], who appears to be approximately two to three years in age, whom he claims is their biological daughter. He explains that the child was created using one of Thrace's extracted ovaries ([[The Farm]]) and his genetic material. Conflicted, Thrace leaves the child unattended, which later results in Kacey falling down the apartment's stairs ([[Precipice]]). After the fall, Thrace begins to change her attitude towards the child and begins to offer affection towards Conoy ("[[Precipice]]", "[[Exodus, Part I]]").
*Upon her return to ''Galactica'' after Admiral Adama's [[Battle of New Caprica|daring rescue attempt]], Thrace heartbreakingly discovers that Kacey was simply another manipulation on Conoy's part — Kacey is merely a human child whom the Cylons had abducted months ago from [[Julia Brynn|their mother]] ([[Exodus, Part II]]).
*Bearing the psychological scars of her four month ordeal with Leoben and Kacey, Thrace is recruited by [[Diana Seelix]] as a last minute replacement juror in the [[Circle]] after Anders' resignation. Thrace's involvement in the Circle precipitates the breakup of her marriage with Anders. Initially wondering about the legality of the tribunal, she is the fifth vote to find [[Felix Gaeta]] guilty of treason and collaboration. Later, when Gaeta is about to be killed in one of ''Galactica''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> [[launch tubes (RDM)|launch tubes]], she demands him to beg for his life. Thrace physically assaults him and goes down the litany of "lies" that Gaeta told her earlier about him helping the [[New Caprica Resistance|insurgency]]. As she does so, [[Galen Tyrol]], one of the Circle's jurors, overhears this and confirms the story. In a sense of confusion after learning that Gaeta was telling the truth, Thrace leaves the launch tube ([[Collaborators]]).
*During a combat exercise between Vipers, Thrace breaks formation and collides with another pilot, forcing an end to the war games and causing Lee to revoke her flight status. Later, at her bunk she is met by Kacey and her mother, whom she dismisses, telling Kacey's mother not to visit her again. In the pilots' rec room, Thrace and Colonel Tigh begin to sow dissent between the survivors of New Caprica and the crew that stayed behind on ''Galactica'', insinuating that those who stayed behind did not suffer like those on New Caprica did, and that the crew of ''Galactica'' took too long to organize a rescue. Admiral Adama, upon learning of this from Karl Agathon, confronts Thrace and Tigh on their behavior. He challenges them to shoot him, as their constant complaining is tantamount to pulling the trigger. When neither do, Adama throws Thrace off her chair and demands that both she and Tigh shape up and move on with their lives. Spurred by Adama's words, Thrace cuts her hair and returns to duty. Later, in uniform, she visits Kacey and her mother on the [[Dogsville|converted hangar deck]] ([[Torn]]).
*Thrace enters an affair with Lee, rekindling their romance on New Caprica ([[Unfinished Business]]). Both Anders and Lee's wife, Lieutenant [[Anastasia Dualla]], are more than vaguely aware of the pair's sexual tension. Lee soon ends the affair and reconciles, but Thrace refuses to give Anders any further attention than a periodic sexual fling.
*Thrace is involved with the defense of the incorrectly called "[[Temple of Five]]" but is severely injured, leaving her rescuer, Dualla, to return them to ''Galactica'' ([[Rapture]]). Agathon recognizes the strange circular [[Eye of Jupiter|mandala]] in the Temple, created 4,000 years before, and its resemblance to a symbol that Thrace painted in her apartment. When shown the symbol, the recovering Thrace is darkly reminded of Leoben's prophesy.
*During refueling operations above a gas giant, Thrace is continually attracted to what she believes is a Cylon contact, which she chases to find a planetary storm that resembles the mandala. She dives into it, almost losing control before coming to her senses and returning.
*Command staff and Thrace question her competency to continue flying, but Lee volunteers encouragement and offers to fly as her wingman on her next [[Combat Air Patrol|CAP]].
*Thrace finds herself attracted by another apparent Cylon contact. As she descended, her Viper is struck by debris and she, while unconscious, experiences a revelation about her mother, [[Socrata Thrace]], and guided through the vision by what looks to be a Leoben copy.
*Starbuck regains consciousness but chooses to continue her descent despite Lee's desperate pleas to ascend. "I'll see you on the other side (...) Just let me go" were her last words as her Viper explodes. A grief-stricken Lee tells [[CIC]] that he did not see any ejection ([[Maelstrom]]).
*While preparing for a Cylon engagement near the [[Ionian nebula]], Lee (who has [[Crossroads, Part I|since left]] the Colonial Military) detects a bogey on [[DRADIS]]. While he searches for the target, Lee finds himself momentarily in a cat-and-mouse chase game with the mysterious target. As Lee attempts to regain sight of the bogey, it positions itself next to his Viper.

=== Return from the Dead and Suspicion ===

*The [[Starbuck's Viper|pristine Viper Mark II]] that comes alongside is flown by Thrace herself. A shocked and confused [[Lee Adama]] (now a civilian) listens to the apparently-resurrected Kara Thrace, who tells him that she has been to [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]] and she has returned to take the Fleet to it ([[Crossroads, Part II]]).
*After the [[Battle of the Ionian Nebula|battle at the nebula]], she returns to ''Galactica'' where everyone is astounded to see her alive. While everyone believed her dead for over two months, only several hours have passed for her. She has returned with recon photography of [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]], but no navigational data or knowledge of how she got there. Further complicating her claim is the fact that her Viper is nearly pristine, as if it had just been built. Despite passing a medical examination by Doctor [[Sherman Cottle]], almost everyone—especially Roslin—thinks she may be a Cylon or part of a Cylon trap, and thus don't believe her. Thrace herself wonders if she could be a Cylon.
*When the Fleet jumps further away from the Ionian Nebula, she experiences headaches and says that she is losing the intuitive feeling of the way to Earth. Desperate to lead the Colonials there, she breaks into Adama's quarters and confronts Roslin at gun point ([[He That Believeth In Me]]).
*Thrace is eventually subdued by [[Colonial Marines]] and imprisoned in the [[brig]]. Lee visits Thrace in the brig and tells her that he believes her. Thrace is happy that he does and they share a kiss before Lee leaves for ''[[Colonial One]]''. Although not sure what to make of her claims, Admiral Adama releases her later, and gives her command of ''[[Demetrius]]'', and a crew including [[Karl Agathon]] and Samuel Anders, telling her to try to find Earth ([[Six of One]]).
*Thrace irritates her crew by frequent, unexplained course changes and rarely leaving her quarters, where she holes herself up to study star charts. When her husband confronts her about her command style and their marriage, she tells him that she is not the same person he married and tries to throw him out of her cabin. However, when Anders holds her, she tells him that she wants to have sex in order to feel something. Afterwards, she says that she feels distanced from her body and the events around her ([[The Ties That Bind]]).
* When a [[Leoben Conoy]] copy comes aboard ''Demetrius'' with the offer of an alliance with the Cylons, a power struggle among the crew breaks out when Thrace orders to jump to his baseship ([[The Road Less Traveled]]). The fight ends with Gaeta getting shot in the leg by Anders. After standing down, Thrace decides to accompany Conoy with a small team. On his baseship she meets the Cylon [[Hybrid]], who repeats the [[first Hybrid]]'s [[The Destiny|prophecy]] ([[Razor]]) and gives her the next task: join the Cylons to unbox [[Number Three]] to learn what she knows of the Final Five ([[Faith]]).
* After the unboxing, Thrace reacts with shock and disbelief when she learns that her husband is a Cylon. She investigates the [[Starbuck's Viper|Viper she returned in]] and notices that it receives a strange signal, giving her a direct bearing to Earth. Her discovery stops the imminent execution of Colonel Tigh and leads to a truce with the [[Cylon Civil War|Cylon rebels]]. After arriving at Earth, Thrace is part of the first group on the surface, but finds only a destroyed city ([[Revelations]]).

=== The Thirteenth Colony and the Search for a New Home ===
*Thrace and [[Leoben Conoy]] explore the devastated Earth trying to find the source of the signal. They find pieces of wreckage belonging to a [[Viper (RDM)|Colonial Viper]]—the [[Viper 8757|same Viper]] that Thrace [[Maelstrom|flew into the gas giant]]. Finally, they come upon the cockpit of the crashed Viper, with its pilot still inside. Thrace is horrified to discover that the carcass inside the cockpit is hers. Thrace reveals to Conoy that the [[Hybrid]] aboard the rebel baseship called her the "Harbinger of Death." Conoy has no explanation for any of this and flees the scene, leaving Thrace alone to wonder who or what she really is. Thrace later retrieves the dog tags and wedding ring from the body. She then cremates the body and returns to ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]''. She does not tell anyone what she has discovered ([[Sometimes a Great Notion]]).
*After ''Galactica'' leaves Earth, Thrace is still trying to come to terms with her discoveries there. [[Felix Gaeta]], who is unhappy about the Fleet's alliance with the [[Cylon (RDM)|Cylons]] and for the events leading up to that point (including a [[The Face of the Enemy|certain revelation]] about his role on [[New Caprica]]), decides to pick a fight with her. Gaeta accuses Thrace of collaborating with the Cylons, while Thrace retorts that Gaeta is just bitter because [[Faith|he lost his leg]]. Gaeta makes a thinly-veiled threat against Thrace, who responds by telling him she isn't afraid to beat up a cripple. Thrace then storms off ([[A Disquiet Follows My Soul]]).
*A withdrawn Thrace later has an altercation with [[Brendan Constanza|Brendan "Hot Dog" Constanza]]. She teases him about his unexpected fathering of [[Nicholas Tyrol]]. Constanza is unamused, angrily retorting that Thrace slept with half the Fleet herself and has nothing to show for her efforts. This hits a nerve and Thrace throws a bowl of food at a retreating Constanza.
*An alarm goes off and Thrace is ordered by [[Noel Allison|Noel "Narcho" Allison]] to evacuate the area. Thrace is suspicious and when she presses Allison for more information, he snaps that no one even knows what she is any more.
*Thrace turns to see a group of marines and civilians led by [[Charlie Connor]] run past her, and she follows them. She sees the group break into a weapons locker and arm themselves. She hears Connor giving his men orders to take the [[hangar deck]].
*Thrace rushes back to her barracks and grabs her weapons. She then tries to warn the CIC, but Gaeta blocks her calls. Realizing that Gaeta is also involved, Thrace takes off for the hangar deck.
*She arrives at the hangar deck just in time to rescue [[Lee Adama]] from Connor and his men, who are being assisted by [[Margaret Edmondson|Margaret "Racetrack" Edmondson]] and [[Hamish McCall|Hamish "Skulls" McCall]]. Thrace kills one of the marines and wounds Skulls, forcing the others to back off. She and Lee then hurry away.
*Thrace and Lee take refuge inside a storage compartment. Lee doesn't think they can defeat the mutiny alone. Thrace responds by kissing him. She then says that this is the first time in weeks that she feels right.
*Thrace and Lee head for the CIC. They find that the mutiny has spread all across the ship. They arrive at Admiral Adama's quarters, where they meet [[Laura Roslin]]. After learning of the mutiny, Roslin decides that she must come out and address the Fleet. However, the ship's communications are down, and the only working [[wireless]] transmitter on the ship is in [[Gaius Baltar]]'s possession.
*Thrace, Adama, and Roslin make it to Baltar's compartment, where they find [[Galen Tyrol]] organizing a defense. Tyrol tells them that Admiral Adama has been arrested and is being escorted to the brig. Tyrol also tells them about a secondary storage airlock they can use to escape the ship. Thrace and Adama head off to rescue the admiral.
*At the brig, they find that [[William Adama]] and [[Saul Tigh]] have already escaped custody. They have also taken the rebel marine, [[Allan Nowart]], prisoner. Thrace tries to kill Nowart, but Adama thwarts her. As Nowart flees, Thrace argues that the mutineers are no longer his men, and as such are the enemy and that they can't afford to take prisoners.
*Thrace, Tigh and the Adamas arrive at the secondary storage airlock, where they find Tyrol, Roslin and Baltar waiting. A [[Raptor]] piloted by an [[Eight]] docks. After Roslin and Baltar board the Raptor, Thrace, Lee and Tyrol head off to continue the fight against Gaeta and [[Thomas Zarek]]'s forces ([[The Oath]]).
*Lee and Thrace head off to free the captives held in the brig, while Tyrol goes to sabotage the ship's FTL drive. They take out the mutineers guarding the brig and free Tigh, [[Sharon Agathon]], [[Karl Agathon]], [[Hera Agathon]], [[Caprica Six]] and [[Samuel Anders]].
*During the escape, a firefight ensues and Anders is shot in the back of the head by a mutineer, who was believed dead. He is not killed but is in dire need of medical attention. Thrace yells at the others to go without her and she starts dragging Anders towards the infirmary.
*Thrace eventually exhausts herself trying to carry Anders and she collapses. Marine [[Parr]] escorting [[Romo Lampkin]] appears; Thrace attempts to shoot Parr, but her gun is empty— however, Lampkin suddenly stabs the marine twice in the neck with a pen, killing him.
*Thrace asks Lampkin to help her carry Anders to the infirmary. Lampkin is reluctant but eventually agrees to help ([[Blood on the Scales]]).
*In the immediate aftermath of the mutiny, Thrace learns from Doctor [[Sherman Cottle]] that the bullet is still stuck in Anders' skull. Anders' suppressed memories of his Cylon life back on Earth are also triggered. To Thrace's disappointment, Anders does not have an explanation as to who she really is or how she apparently came back from the dead.
*Cottle manages to remove the bullet, which he gives to Thrace. However, when Thrace goes to speak with Anders, she discovers that he has zero brain activity—which the medical personnel are unable to explain ([[No Exit]]).
*Thrace is later part of a joint Cylon-Colonial CAP which escorts [[Raptor 702|a Raptor]] carrying [[Ellen Tigh]] and [[Sharon Valerii|Sharon "Boomer" Valerii]] onto ''Galactica''.
*Thrace is later seen in [[Joe's Bar]] drinking and toying with the bullet removed from Anders' skull. She and Tyrol have a brief discussion about Valerii, who is being held in the brig ([[Deadlock]]).
*Thrace gets a drawing of what seems to be stars from Hera and later visits Joe's Bar where she helps piano player [[Slick]] with the music he's composing. There she reveals that she used to play piano as a girl with her father until he left and then stopped and she had a song she used to play that made her happy. She realizes that Hera's drawing is of the notes for that song and she and Slick start playing it together. The music turns out to be [[The Music|the same music that activated the memories]] of the so-called [[Final Five]]. Slick, who was a manifestation of her father, disappears and Thrace later goes to Anders in the hope of finding out the reason she knew of the Music and its meaning, but is unsuccessful.
*When Admiral Adama comes to see Anders—now acting as ''Galactica's'' Hybrid—to find out the location of [[The Colony]], Thrace reveals to him that she has tried to make sense out of the notes by assigning numbers to them, but has had no luck in understanding it. Adama tells her he knows who she is: she's his daughter. Later she and Adama spread red tape down the hanger deck to create a line for people to cross one way or the other to show whether or not they volunteer for the rescue mission for Hera. Thrace stays on the volunteers side of the line and doesn't move the whole time having made her choice.
*During [[Battle of The Colony|the battle]], she leads a strike force that includes both Agathons into The Colony through Raptors. They encounter Sharon Valerii who gives them back Hera before being killed by Sharon Agathon. Thrace's team meets up with Lee's and they retreat to ''Galactica'', which has its nose inside the Colony as their Raptors have been destroyed.
*Thrace helps defend the ship and after an agreement is reached with Cavil, takes damage reports on their forces alongside Lee. After things go badly and the Colony starts to fall into the black hole with ''Galactica'', Thrace—the nearest person to the [[FTL]] console—is ordered to jump them away. Thrace doesn't know the rendezvous coordinates and, after Adama makes it clear that it doesn't matter, is inspired to input the numbers she assigned to [[The Music]]'s notes as the coordinates and jumps ''Galactica'' there. According to Thrace, Thrace jumps them to "the watchtower," which turns out to be the singular moon in orbit around another planet that the Colonials later dub [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]].
*Thrace says goodbye to Anders before he flies the Fleet into the sun, destroying ''Galactica'' and the other ships, and later says her final goodbye to William Adama. Then she says her final goodbye to Lee Adama, having fulfilled [[The Destiny|her destiny]] to bring the Fleet to the second Earth. She disappears while Lee is talking about his dreams, leaving Lee surprised.

==Lords of Kobol, Hear My Prayer==

Despite her tough, rebellious exterior, Thrace is deeply spiritual and possesses a great deal of faith in the [[Lords of Kobol (RDM)|Lords of Kobol]]. She usually prays in moments of mourning or desperation, such as when she thinks Lee is dead ([[Miniseries]]), when she is trapped on a desolate moon with a broken knee and low oxygen ([[You Can't Go Home Again]]), and when she discovers she's in Cylon captivity ([[The Farm]]). This spirituality is put to the test as a series of events lead her towards a mysterious destiny.

==The Destiny==
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From early in her life, Kara Thrace has been guided through her mother's actions for a special role in life, a plot point that begins with a [[Leoben Conoy]] copy in the Season 1 episode, "[[Flesh and Bone]]". In "[[Maelstrom]]", the character dies, but reappears as a guide for the Fleet at the end of Season 3.

A Cylon [[First Hybrid|Hybrid]], speaking to Major [[Kendra Shaw]] moments before their deaths, warns her that Thrace is the herald of the apocalypse and the harbinger of death, that she would lead the human race to its end, and that she is not to be followed ([[Razor]]). Similarly, another [[Hybrid]] describes her as the harbinger of death, and she would lead them to salvation and destruction ([[Faith]]).

This becomes the case, as she leads ''Galactica'' (and the Fleet) to a second, new planet the Colonials dub "Earth." There, both Colonials and both races of Cylon (the Kobollian-based "[[The Final Five|Final Five]]" and the remaining models from the "[[Significant Seven]]") are saved. However, as their blend in with the native humans on the new Earth, the distinctive natures of Colonial human and Cylon creations blur and merge. In a sense, the blurring results in the "death" of both races as a new human race begins. [[Hera Agathon]]'s body, a perfect human/Cylon merging, is later represented as the Mitochondrial Eve for the humans on the New Earth ([[Daybreak, Part II]]).

==Notes==
*On the Sci-Fi Channel's preview for season 2.5 (US), Katee Sackhoff is quoted as saying that Starbuck is "the best Viper pilot...EVER."
*[[Wikipedia:Thrace|Thrace]] was a region in south-eastern Europe that was heavily influenced by the ancient Greeks and was eventually conquered by [[Wikipedia:Philip II of Macedonia|Phillip II of Macedonia]]. Thracians were considered by most to be the most ferocious fighters and were often highly paid mercenaries for Greek kings.
*Thrace may have been named after [[w:Thrax (mythology)|Thrax]], the son of [[w:Ares|Ares]], the god of war, who was said to reside on the Thracian plain in Greek mythology.
*After auditioning for the role of [[Anastasia Dualla|Dualla]], [[Grace Park]] was asked by director [[Michael Rymer]] to audition for the role of Starbuck, and she was actually one of two finalists up for the role (the other obviously being [[Katee Sackhoff]], who got the part). Ultimately Park was cast as [[Sharon Valerii|Sharon "Boomer" Valerii]].
*In a TV Guide [http://online.tvguide.com/newsearch/detail.aspx?id=4371595&sourcetype=S&progseriesparentid=4371595&tvobjectid=191395&keyword=Battlestar+Galactica&referrer=search1 photo shoot] at the BSG studios, Katee Sackhoff explained that the [[tattoo]] that Starbuck bears on her left arm is a wing and a circle and has half of the constellation of Capricorn (a reference to [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] obviously) and a small symbol of the planet as well. It matches a mirror image of the tattoo on Anders' right arm. When the two of them hold each other with their respective arms crossing, the 2 tattoos come together to form an image of a single ring with 2 wings that is supposed to represent their union. According to Sackhoff, Kara and Anders had the tattoos done around the time of their wedding, a fact later confirmed in dialogue during Season 4.5.
*The license plate on Thrace's truck on Caprica is "FB 42 E3" ([[Valley of Darkness]]).

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Kara Thrace

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:''This article discusses the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Re-imagined Series]] character with the pilot callsign of "Starbuck." For information on Kara Thrace's counterpart in the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]], see [[Starbuck (TOS)]].''

:''For Kara Thrace's parents, see [[Dreilide Thrace]] and [[Socrata Thrace]].''

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|age=
|colony= [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]]
|birthname= Kara Thrace
|callsign= Starbuck
|seen= Miniseries
|death= Viper destroyed near gas giant, crashing on [[Earth (RDM)#Arrival_and_Ruins|Cylon Earth]] ([[Maelstrom]]/[[Sometimes a Great Notion]]);<br>Mysteriously reappears ([[Crossroads, Part II]]);<br>Vanishes in Tanzania on [[Earth (RDM)#A_New_Earth|pre-historical 2nd Earth]] ([[Daybreak, Part II]])
|parents= [[Socrata Thrace]]† (mother)<br>[[Dreilide Thrace]]† (father)
|siblings=
|children=
|marital status= Married to [[Samuel Anders]]† (formerly engaged to [[Zak Adama]]†)
|rank=Captain
|role= Viper pilot;<br>flight instructor;<br>''Galactica'' [[Commander Air Group|CAG]];<br>angel-prophet;<br>captain of ''[[Demetrius]]''
|actor= [[Katee Sackhoff]]<br>[[Erika-Shaye Gair]] (child)
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|serial = 462753 <ref name="serial"> Confirmed number from QMX dogtags given to them by the studio.</ref>
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'''Kara "Starbuck" Thrace''' is a gifted [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] pilot, with an attitude that at has hindered her career in the Colonial Fleet. However, [[William Adama]] has confidence in Thrace's military skills, and she greatly aids the Fleet inside and out of the cockpit. She She is the last [[Commander Air Group|Commander, Air Group]] (CAG) of ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'', and [[virtual beings|mysteriously vanishes]] in Tanzania on [[Earth (RDM)#A_New_Earth|real-world Earth]] shortly after the Fleet's arrival on the planet ([[Daybreak, Part II]]).

== Background ==

[[Image:YoungKaraThrace.jpg|thumb|left|A young Kara Thrace in a hallucination ([[Maelstrom]]).]]
*Thrace's mother [[Socrata Thrace|Socrata]] was a former member of the [[Colonial Marine Corps]]. She beat her daughter so frequently that Thrace came to accept pain as a way of life ("[[Flesh and Bone]]", "[[Maelstrom]]").
*Her father [[Dreilide Thrace|Dreilide]] was a pianist and composer. Kara seems to have had a closer relationship with him than with her mother ([[Valley of Darkness]], [[Someone to Watch Over Me]]).
*Thrace left home to join the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|military]]. During her training, she received complaints about her conduct towards [[Mike Gibbons|superior officers]].
*One of her first postings prior to being a flight instructor was aboard the battlestar ''[[Triton (RDM)|Triton]]''. While serving aboard, she exhibited one of the first known instances of offending high-ranking commissioned officers, namely one Commander [[Myron Ruth]] who opened court-martial proceedings against her. They were later dropped ([[The Son Also Rises]]).
* She was a very talented [[pyramid]] player ([[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]), and received a scholarship to the Fleet Academy to play pyramid. During this time, she injured her knee and was no longer able to play pyramid at a professional level. However, she discovered a passion and skill at being a fighter pilot ([[Podcast:The Hand of God]]). On graduating from Colonial Flight School, she undertook a period of active duty before returning to flight school as an instructor.
*Thrace fell in love with a young recruit, [[Zak Adama]]. Despite his poor performance, she passed him on his final flight examination although he failed three of the required maneuvers ([[Act of Contrition]]).
*Thrace's engagement to Zak Adama ended when he was killed during a routine mission shortly after graduating. At the time, [[Lee Adama]] ("Apollo"), Zak's elder brother, blamed their father for Zak's death. Feeling guilty, Thrace did little to alter this idea. She did, however, meet [[William Adama]] shortly after the accident, and the two struck up such a strong rapport that they stood together at the funeral ([[Act of Contrition]]).
*Thrace resigned from flight school as an instructor and transferred as an operational pilot to the [[Galactica type battlestar|battlestar]] ''[[Galactica]]'' under the command of William Adama, where she served for some two years prior to the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attack]] on the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]]. Before the Cylon attack, she was second in command of the remaining pilots, subordinate to the [[CAG]], [[Jackson Spencer]].
*At the time of the Cylon attack she has an run-down apartment in [[Delphi]] that overlooks a parking lot and a Colonial version of a [[Wikipedia:Humvee|Humvee]] which she and Helo use to escape the city and get to the country where she meets her husband-to-be Anders. She rarely used the dilapidated apartment. She was also a very avid painter, and her apartment was cluttered with her paintings and a [[Starbuck's Poem|poem]] is written on a wall ([[Valley of Darkness]]). The apartment was a better state of repair when Thrace was romantically involved with Zak Adama, although her [[Eye of Jupiter|mandala]] wall painting pre-dates that relationship. ([[Daybreak, Part I]])
*Despite her reckless approach to life, Thrace hides the fact that she is deeply spiritual. She frequently prays (or talks) to the [[Lords of Kobol]], particularly [[Aphrodite]] and [[Artemis]] in times of need ([[Miniseries]], "[[Flesh and Bone]]", "[[You Can't Go Home Again]]").

==Character History==

=== Galactica and Pre-New Caprica ===

*Thrace's attitude quickly runs her afoul of Colonel [[Saul Tigh]], ''Galactica's'' [[executive officer]]. Their open mutual dislike of one another leads to the point where blows are exchanged, with Thrace ending up in the brig. After the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attack]] she is released from the brig and returns to duty as Viper pilot.
*Thrace manages to keep two of three nuclear missiles from striking ''Galactica'' in their first Cylon sortie, and saves Lee from doom in an innovative maneuver in the [[Battle of Ragnar Anchorage]].
*Her skills in saving Lee brings her grudging respect from Colonel Tigh, but she is unable to accept his offer of the olive branch—an act that will have repercussions for her later ([[Miniseries]]).
[[image:Bastille_Day-Starbuck_Boxey.jpg|thumb|right|Thrace as acting [[CAG]] with [[Boxey (RDM)|Boxey]] as assistant ([[Bastille Day]]).]]
*Thrace participates in a hostage rescue mission aboard the ''[[Astral Queen]]''. Following the successful mission, Thrace tries to mend fences between herself and Colonel Tigh with a toast (consisting of water), apologizing in much the same way as Tigh himself had tried after their initial escape from [[Ragnar Anchorage]]. But Tigh rejects Thrace's apology, stating that her flaws are professional, while his flaws were personal ([[Bastille Day]]).
*Thrace eventually admits her secret about Zak Adama to William Adama himself, an act that brings their close friendship almost to the breaking point ([[Act of Contrition]]).
*During a surprise encounter with Cylons during [[nugget]] training, Thrace destroys several Cylon Raiders, but her ship is damaged and tumbles towards a small red moon with an unbreathable atmosphere. With her Viper in a fatal flat-spin, Thrace is forced to eject from her Viper ([[You Can't Go Home Again]]).
*Thrace (nursing a damaged knee) repairs the downed Cylon Raider found on the inhabitable moon and returns to ''Galactica'', giving the Fleet a vital piece of Cylon fighter technology for study and use.
*The recovering Thrace, off flight status, is asked by Commander Adama to plan a special attack on a Cylon [[tylium]] refinery. The tactical planning role is not something she relishes, and she frequently shows resentment towards others for her condition ([[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]).
*During Thrace's undesired interrogation of a Cylon prisoner, a copy of a known [[Humanoid Cylon|Cylon]] named [[Leoben Conoy]], she uses some drastic acts to try to extract the information from the humanoid Cylon ([[Flesh and Bone]]).
[[image:Starbuck-Kobols_Last_Gleaming_pt2.jpg|thumb|right|Thrace retrieves the [[Arrow of Apollo]] ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]).]]
*Thrace is assigned to plant a nuclear device on board a [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]] in orbit around [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]]. She disobeys orders to retrieve the [[Arrow of Apollo]] at the request of President Roslin, since she discovered Commander Adama's speech concerning knowledge of the location of Earth was a lie. She [[FTL|jump]]s to Caprica ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]), landing in [[Delphi]] in the captured Cylon [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Raider]], depriving the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] of the valuable military asset.
*In the [[Delphi Museum of the Colonies]] with the Arrow, she is violently attacked by a copy of [[Number Six]]. Despite being heavily outmatched in the fight, Thrace luckily defeats the Cylon.
*At the museum, she reunites with [[Karl Agathon]], whom she thought dead, and discovers [[Sharon Agathon|a second copy]] of [[Sharon Valerii]], realizing instantly that the woman is a Cylon.
*"Caprica Valerii", fearing for her child, steals Thrace's Raider. In exasperation, Thrace only mutters: "Bitch took my ride" ([[Scattered]]). Like Agathon, Thrace is left with no way to return to the Fleet unless she could find her Raider or another Cylon spacecraft, as only Cylon navigational computers are powerful enough to plot jumps over such large distances..
*Thrace berates Agathon's love for the Caprica copy of Valerii. Thrace finds the keys of her surplus military utility vehicle in her old jacket in her old apartment. Thrace has a ride again, if only to move more efficiently about Caprica ([[Valley of Darkness]]).
[[Image:ThraceAndersResistance.jpg|thumb|right|Thrace and Anders playing Pyramid on Caprica ([[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]).]]
*Thrace and Agathon meet a [[Caprica Resistance|resistance movement]] on Caprica. Thrace and [[Samuel Anders]] strike up a rapport as fellow [[Pyramid (RDM)|Pyramid]] players and end up as lovers.
*During planning to steal a [[Heavy Raider]], Thrace is shot in a military action, waking up in a hospital on Caprica. Thrace is told by her doctor, [[Simon]], that Anders died from wounds he suffered in getting Thrace to safety.
*Thrace discovers that Simon is working with a [[Number Six|known humanoid Cylon]]. She overhears that the next day he plans to extract her ovaries for use in the Cylon's attempts to study and create a hybrid Cylon/human embryo. Simon also makes the mistake of calling Thrace by her callsign, Starbuck, which she had never revealed.
*Staggering and in pain, Thrace kills Simon and escapes the hospital, but not before clocking a Six copy with a fire extinguisher and destroying the local farm power supply, mercy-killing [[Sue-Shaun]] and several other women in the facility.
*Another Simon copy appears just as the Resistance attacks the facility. The second Simon, now revealed as a humanoid Cylon himself, is immediately killed by the Resistance, but a squad of [[Cylon Centurion]]s appear and pins the Resistance down. Luckily, [[Sharon Agathon|Caprica-Valerii]] swoops in with a stolen [[Heavy Raider]], destroys the Centurions and flies the Resistance and Thrace out of harm's way.
*Thrace promises to Anders that she'll [[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I|return with a rescue mission]] for the remaining survivors. Anders returns the Arrow of Apollo to Thrace, which he hid on the resistance grounds for safekeeping ([[The Farm]]).
*Thrace, Agathon and the pregnant "Caprica Valerii" land on the ''[[Astral Queen]]'' in the Heavy Raider. Finding the [[Laura Roslin faction]] in orbit of [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]], Thrace is reunited with Lee. He kisses her impulsively, catching Thrace by pleasant surprise, but a tense standoff follows when Lee discovers that another Sharon copy has returned with them. Roslin helps defuse the situation, and Thrace delivers the Arrow of Apollo to the President.
*Temporarily removed from military protocol, Lee playfully teases Thrace by stealing a pyramid ball she took from Caprica. Adama senses her depression about Caprica and tells her that he'd be happy to hear about any problems she had. He also let slip that he loved her, which brightened Thrace's mood to the point where she teased him back about his slip.
*With a team led by Laura Roslin, Lee, and, later, joined by the recovered Commander Adama, Thrace enters the [[Tomb of Athena]] and successfully uses the Arrow of Apollo to activate a hologram that shows constellations of the Twelve Colonies' ancient symbols.
*Thrace realizes that they are on a recreation of Earth. Together with Lee, they locate the Lagoon Nebula, a celestial body known to Commander Adama and Lee, and gather sufficient information to begin an actual course to Earth ([[Home, Part II]]).
*Thrace shows off the impressive stealth abilities of the new [[Blackbird]] fighter in her maiden flight ([[Flight of the Phoenix]]).
*With the arrival of ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'', Admiral [[Helena Cain]] summarily assigns Thrace (and Lee) to ''Pegasus'' after digesting the reports of ''Galactica'''s officers.
*[[Cole Taylor|The ''Pegasus'' CAG]] removes Thrace from the Cylon recon mission. Lee secretly tells her to use the [[Blackbird]] to take recon photos of the Cylon Unknown ([[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]).
*Returning from her very successful mission, the [[Blackbird]]'s lack of a Colonial transponder is mistaken for a Cylon [[Raider]] on [[DRADIS]], and Thrace is nearly confronted and shot at by Vipers from ''Pegasus'' and ''Galactica''. After narrowly avoiding certain death by declaring herself a friendly, Thrace transmits her recon photos to ''Pegasus''.
*Admiral Cain is very impressed with Thrace's performance and promotes her to Captain and ''Pegasus'' CAG.
*Thrace is assigned the task of planning the joint attack on the Resurrection Ship, but successfully asks to have Lee on her team, restoring him to flight status.
*After she briefs Cain and Commander Adama on her battle plan, Adama asks Thrace privately to assassinate Cain after the battle is complete. Adama fears that if Cain continues to command, the Fleet would be in mortal jeopardy from Cain's draconian command ([[Resurrection Ship, Part I]]).
*Thrace's battle planning, as before on the [[tylium]] [[The Hand of God (RDM)|mine]], works to near-perfection, with the Resurrection Ship destroyed and its supporting basestars.
*As a result of the battle events, Thrace is left without backup as she walks to the ''Pegasus'' CIC to shoot Cain, obviously afraid and apprehensive. When Commander Adama calls, Thrace slowly moves her hand to her sidearm but, to her relief, Adama does not give the kill order and cryptically instructs her to stand down ([[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]).
*Thrace and [[Louanne Katraine|Louanne "Kat" Katraine]] are involved in the protection of a mining operation from periodic Raider attacks. One Raider, nicknamed [[Scar (Raider)|Scar]], fuels an intensive rivalry for the pilot's "top gun" honor. Thrace, still depressed over her inability to convince Fleet command to initiate a rescue for Samuel Anders and his resistance, drinks heavily and obsesses over removing Scar from the sky, even at the cost of her life. Fortunately, Thrace realizes the futility of her actions, and works together with Katraine to destroy the remarkably dangerous Raider ([[Scar]]).
*A few weeks later, Thrace takes leave on ''[[Cloud Nine]]'' when she was dragooned into rescuing Lee and several other ''Galactica'' crew and residents after terrorists take them hostage in exchange for the incarcerated [[Sharon Agathon|Sharon Agathon neé Valerii]]. Thrace gathers intelligence on the situation, but her cover is blown. In the retreating firefight, Lee is caught in the crossfire. After the situation is resolved, Thrace intended to sit at Lee's bedside, only to discover that Dualla beat her to it ([[Sacrifice]]).
*Later, Thrace is assigned to ''Pegasus'' as a flight trainer. Though the pilots like her, Commander [[Barry Garner]] does not, eventually confining her to quarters for "insubordination." Following the [[Battle of the Binary Star System|ill-fated rescue and retreat]] from a Cylon ambush (where Thrace leads the fighters) and [[Battle of the Guardian Basestar|after a search, rescue and destroy mission to a Cylon-war era basestar]], Thrace informs Lee—now commander of ''Pegasus''—that she was taking over his old CAG post aboard ''Galactica'', joking that she has a problem with her commander wanting to send her off to get killed ("[[The Captain's Hand]]", "[[Razor]]").
*Thrace gets her wish: the Caprica rescue is approved, and she leads a large Raptor squadron to the planet. The group soon met up with Anders, who reports that their HQ had been destroyed and Thrace's timing was just perfect. A squad of Centurions ambush and pin down the group moments later ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I]]).
*Still pinned down from attack fire, Thrace and Anders agree to kill each other to avoid capture and internment at a [[Farms|farm]]. But the attack stops, and a [[Cavil|man]] appears, praising the [[Lords of Kobol|Gods]] as he announces that the Cylons not only have ceased fire, but are abandoning the Twelve Colonies. Thrace isn't really surprised to discover that the man, known as Brother [[Cavil]], was a Cylon upon their return to the Fleet.
*Thrace and Anders proceed to get drunk, and host a disastrous encounter with Lee. This apparently led to a rift between the two comrades.
[[Image:Leobenkara.jpg|thumb|right|180px|Leoben with Kara Thrace ([[Exodus, Part I]]).]]
*The evening of the founding of [[New Caprica]], Thrace slept with Lee and proclaimed her love for him as she was uncertain regarding her feelings toward Anders. The following morning she quickly married Anders in a ceremony near the river. This caused a rift between Thrace and Lee that lasted for well over a year ([[Unfinished Business]]).
*Life on New Caprica tempered Thrace, and she often behaved in ways Thrace never would have, including hugging Colonel Tigh and pampering Anders during his bout with an illness.
*She watches in horror at the sudden arrival of hundreds of Cylon ships in the sky over New Caprica. A few of ''Galactica's'' former crew gather near Thrace, looking to her for guidance. She responds the only way she knows how: "Fight 'em until we can't" ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]).

=== The New Caprica Ordeal and Her Death ===

*After Baltar's surrender of New Caprica, Conoy keeps Thrace prisoner in an apartment located within the Cylon-built [[New Caprica Detention Center]] in an attempt to convince Thrace that she loves him and also convert her to the [[Cylon Religion|Cylon monotheistic religion]]. She repeatedly kills Conoy a total of five times in an attempt to convince him to let her go ("[[Occupation]]", "[[Precipice]]").
*Conoy introduces Thrace to a small child named [[Kacey Brynn|Kacey]], who appears to be approximately two to three years in age, whom he claims is their biological daughter. He explains that the child was created using one of Thrace's extracted ovaries ([[The Farm]]) and his genetic material. Conflicted, Thrace leaves the child unattended, which later results in Kacey falling down the apartment's stairs ([[Precipice]]). After the fall, Thrace begins to change her attitude towards the child and begins to offer affection towards Conoy ("[[Precipice]]", "[[Exodus, Part I]]").
*Upon her return to ''Galactica'' after Admiral Adama's [[Battle of New Caprica|daring rescue attempt]], Thrace heartbreakingly discovers that Kacey was simply another manipulation on Conoy's part — Kacey is merely a human child whom the Cylons had abducted months ago from [[Julia Brynn|their mother]] ([[Exodus, Part II]]).
*Bearing the psychological scars of her four month ordeal with Leoben and Kacey, Thrace is recruited by [[Diana Seelix]] as a last minute replacement juror in the [[Circle]] after Anders' resignation. Thrace's involvement in the Circle precipitates the breakup of her marriage with Anders. Initially wondering about the legality of the tribunal, she is the fifth vote to find [[Felix Gaeta]] guilty of treason and collaboration. Later, when Gaeta is about to be killed in one of ''Galactica''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> [[launch tubes (RDM)|launch tubes]], she demands him to beg for his life. Thrace physically assaults him and goes down the litany of "lies" that Gaeta told her earlier about him helping the [[New Caprica Resistance|insurgency]]. As she does so, [[Galen Tyrol]], one of the Circle's jurors, overhears this and confirms the story. In a sense of confusion after learning that Gaeta was telling the truth, Thrace leaves the launch tube ([[Collaborators]]).
*During a combat exercise between Vipers, Thrace breaks formation and collides with another pilot, forcing an end to the war games and causing Lee to revoke her flight status. Later, at her bunk she is met by Kacey and her mother, whom she dismisses, telling Kacey's mother not to visit her again. In the pilots' rec room, Thrace and Colonel Tigh begin to sow dissent between the survivors of New Caprica and the crew that stayed behind on ''Galactica'', insinuating that those who stayed behind did not suffer like those on New Caprica did, and that the crew of ''Galactica'' took too long to organize a rescue. Admiral Adama, upon learning of this from Karl Agathon, confronts Thrace and Tigh on their behavior. He challenges them to shoot him, as their constant complaining is tantamount to pulling the trigger. When neither do, Adama throws Thrace off her chair and demands that both she and Tigh shape up and move on with their lives. Spurred by Adama's words, Thrace cuts her hair and returns to duty. Later, in uniform, she visits Kacey and her mother on the [[Dogsville|converted hangar deck]] ([[Torn]]).
*Thrace enters an affair with Lee, rekindling their romance on New Caprica ([[Unfinished Business]]). Both Anders and Lee's wife, Lieutenant [[Anastasia Dualla]], are more than vaguely aware of the pair's sexual tension. Lee soon ends the affair and reconciles, but Thrace refuses to give Anders any further attention than a periodic sexual fling.
*Thrace is involved with the defense of the incorrectly called "[[Temple of Five]]" but is severely injured, leaving her rescuer, Dualla, to return them to ''Galactica'' ([[Rapture]]). Agathon recognizes the strange circular [[Eye of Jupiter|mandala]] in the Temple, created 4,000 years before, and its resemblance to a symbol that Thrace painted in her apartment. When shown the symbol, the recovering Thrace is darkly reminded of Leoben's prophesy.
*During refueling operations above a gas giant, Thrace is continually attracted to what she believes is a Cylon contact, which she chases to find a planetary storm that resembles the mandala. She dives into it, almost losing control before coming to her senses and returning.
*Command staff and Thrace question her competency to continue flying, but Lee volunteers encouragement and offers to fly as her wingman on her next [[Combat Air Patrol|CAP]].
*Thrace finds herself attracted by another apparent Cylon contact. As she descended, her Viper is struck by debris and she, while unconscious, experiences a revelation about her mother, [[Socrata Thrace]], and guided through the vision by what looks to be a Leoben copy.
*Starbuck regains consciousness but chooses to continue her descent despite Lee's desperate pleas to ascend. "I'll see you on the other side (...) Just let me go" were her last words as her Viper explodes. A grief-stricken Lee tells [[CIC]] that he did not see any ejection ([[Maelstrom]]).
*While preparing for a Cylon engagement near the [[Ionian nebula]], Lee (who has [[Crossroads, Part I|since left]] the Colonial Military) detects a bogey on [[DRADIS]]. While he searches for the target, Lee finds himself momentarily in a cat-and-mouse chase game with the mysterious target. As Lee attempts to regain sight of the bogey, it positions itself next to his Viper.

=== Return from the Dead and Suspicion ===

*The [[Starbuck's Viper|pristine Viper Mark II]] that comes alongside is flown by Thrace herself. A shocked and confused [[Lee Adama]] (now a civilian) listens to the apparently-resurrected Kara Thrace, who tells him that she has been to [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]] and she has returned to take the Fleet to it ([[Crossroads, Part II]]).
*After the [[Battle of the Ionian Nebula|battle at the nebula]], she returns to ''Galactica'' where everyone is astounded to see her alive. While everyone believed her dead for over two months, only several hours have passed for her. She has returned with recon photography of [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]], but no navigational data or knowledge of how she got there. Further complicating her claim is the fact that her Viper is nearly pristine, as if it had just been built. Despite passing a medical examination by Doctor [[Sherman Cottle]], almost everyone—especially Roslin—thinks she may be a Cylon or part of a Cylon trap, and thus don't believe her. Thrace herself wonders if she could be a Cylon.
*When the Fleet jumps further away from the Ionian Nebula, she experiences headaches and says that she is losing the intuitive feeling of the way to Earth. Desperate to lead the Colonials there, she breaks into Adama's quarters and confronts Roslin at gun point ([[He That Believeth In Me]]).
*Thrace is eventually subdued by [[Colonial Marines]] and imprisoned in the [[brig]]. Lee visits Thrace in the brig and tells her that he believes her. Thrace is happy that he does and they share a kiss before Lee leaves for ''[[Colonial One]]''. Although not sure what to make of her claims, Admiral Adama releases her later, and gives her command of ''[[Demetrius]]'', and a crew including [[Karl Agathon]] and Samuel Anders, telling her to try to find Earth ([[Six of One]]).
*Thrace irritates her crew by frequent, unexplained course changes and rarely leaving her quarters, where she holes herself up to study star charts. When her husband confronts her about her command style and their marriage, she tells him that she is not the same person he married and tries to throw him out of her cabin. However, when Anders holds her, she tells him that she wants to have sex in order to feel something. Afterwards, she says that she feels distanced from her body and the events around her ([[The Ties That Bind]]).
* When a [[Leoben Conoy]] copy comes aboard ''Demetrius'' with the offer of an alliance with the Cylons, a power struggle among the crew breaks out when Thrace orders to jump to his baseship ([[The Road Less Traveled]]). The fight ends with Gaeta getting shot in the leg by Anders. After standing down, Thrace decides to accompany Conoy with a small team. On his baseship she meets the Cylon [[Hybrid]], who repeats the [[first Hybrid]]'s [[The Destiny|prophecy]] ([[Razor]]) and gives her the next task: join the Cylons to unbox [[Number Three]] to learn what she knows of the Final Five ([[Faith]]).
* After the unboxing, Thrace reacts with shock and disbelief when she learns that her husband is a Cylon. She investigates the [[Starbuck's Viper|Viper she returned in]] and notices that it receives a strange signal, giving her a direct bearing to Earth. Her discovery stops the imminent execution of Colonel Tigh and leads to a truce with the [[Cylon Civil War|Cylon rebels]]. After arriving at Earth, Thrace is part of the first group on the surface, but finds only a destroyed city ([[Revelations]]).

=== The Thirteenth Colony and the Search for a New Home ===
*Thrace and [[Leoben Conoy]] explore the devastated Earth trying to find the source of the signal. They find pieces of wreckage belonging to a [[Viper (RDM)|Colonial Viper]]—the [[Viper 8757|same Viper]] that Thrace [[Maelstrom|flew into the gas giant]]. Finally, they come upon the cockpit of the crashed Viper, with its pilot still inside. Thrace is horrified to discover that the carcass inside the cockpit is hers. Thrace reveals to Conoy that the [[Hybrid]] aboard the rebel baseship called her the "Harbinger of Death." Conoy has no explanation for any of this and flees the scene, leaving Thrace alone to wonder who or what she really is. Thrace later retrieves the dog tags and wedding ring from the body. She then cremates the body and returns to ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]''. She does not tell anyone what she has discovered ([[Sometimes a Great Notion]]).
*After ''Galactica'' leaves Earth, Thrace is still trying to come to terms with her discoveries there. [[Felix Gaeta]], who is unhappy about the Fleet's alliance with the [[Cylon (RDM)|Cylons]] and for the events leading up to that point (including a [[The Face of the Enemy|certain revelation]] about his role on [[New Caprica]]), decides to pick a fight with her. Gaeta accuses Thrace of collaborating with the Cylons, while Thrace retorts that Gaeta is just bitter because [[Faith|he lost his leg]]. Gaeta makes a thinly-veiled threat against Thrace, who responds by telling him she isn't afraid to beat up a cripple. Thrace then storms off ([[A Disquiet Follows My Soul]]).
*A withdrawn Thrace later has an altercation with [[Brendan Constanza|Brendan "Hot Dog" Constanza]]. She teases him about his unexpected fathering of [[Nicholas Tyrol]]. Constanza is unamused, angrily retorting that Thrace slept with half the Fleet herself and has nothing to show for her efforts. This hits a nerve and Thrace throws a bowl of food at a retreating Constanza.
*An alarm goes off and Thrace is ordered by [[Noel Allison|Noel "Narcho" Allison]] to evacuate the area. Thrace is suspicious and when she presses Allison for more information, he snaps that no one even knows what she is any more.
*Thrace turns to see a group of marines and civilians led by [[Charlie Connor]] run past her, and she follows them. She sees the group break into a weapons locker and arm themselves. She hears Connor giving his men orders to take the [[hangar deck]].
*Thrace rushes back to her barracks and grabs her weapons. She then tries to warn the CIC, but Gaeta blocks her calls. Realizing that Gaeta is also involved, Thrace takes off for the hangar deck.
*She arrives at the hangar deck just in time to rescue [[Lee Adama]] from Connor and his men, who are being assisted by [[Margaret Edmondson|Margaret "Racetrack" Edmondson]] and [[Hamish McCall|Hamish "Skulls" McCall]]. Thrace kills one of the marines and wounds Skulls, forcing the others to back off. She and Lee then hurry away.
*Thrace and Lee take refuge inside a storage compartment. Lee doesn't think they can defeat the mutiny alone. Thrace responds by kissing him. She then says that this is the first time in weeks that she feels right.
*Thrace and Lee head for the CIC. They find that the mutiny has spread all across the ship. They arrive at Admiral Adama's quarters, where they meet [[Laura Roslin]]. After learning of the mutiny, Roslin decides that she must come out and address the Fleet. However, the ship's communications are down, and the only working [[wireless]] transmitter on the ship is in [[Gaius Baltar]]'s possession.
*Thrace, Adama, and Roslin make it to Baltar's compartment, where they find [[Galen Tyrol]] organizing a defense. Tyrol tells them that Admiral Adama has been arrested and is being escorted to the brig. Tyrol also tells them about a secondary storage airlock they can use to escape the ship. Thrace and Adama head off to rescue the admiral.
*At the brig, they find that [[William Adama]] and [[Saul Tigh]] have already escaped custody. They have also taken the rebel marine, [[Allan Nowart]], prisoner. Thrace tries to kill Nowart, but Adama thwarts her. As Nowart flees, Thrace argues that the mutineers are no longer his men, and as such are the enemy and that they can't afford to take prisoners.
*Thrace, Tigh and the Adamas arrive at the secondary storage airlock, where they find Tyrol, Roslin and Baltar waiting. A [[Raptor]] piloted by an [[Eight]] docks. After Roslin and Baltar board the Raptor, Thrace, Lee and Tyrol head off to continue the fight against Gaeta and [[Thomas Zarek]]'s forces ([[The Oath]]).
*Lee and Thrace head off to free the captives held in the brig, while Tyrol goes to sabotage the ship's FTL drive. They take out the mutineers guarding the brig and free Tigh, [[Sharon Agathon]], [[Karl Agathon]], [[Hera Agathon]], [[Caprica Six]] and [[Samuel Anders]].
*During the escape, a firefight ensues and Anders is shot in the back of the head by a mutineer, who was believed dead. He is not killed but is in dire need of medical attention. Thrace yells at the others to go without her and she starts dragging Anders towards the infirmary.
*Thrace eventually exhausts herself trying to carry Anders and she collapses. Marine [[Parr]] escorting [[Romo Lampkin]] appears; Thrace attempts to shoot Parr, but her gun is empty— however, Lampkin suddenly stabs the marine twice in the neck with a pen, killing him.
*Thrace asks Lampkin to help her carry Anders to the infirmary. Lampkin is reluctant but eventually agrees to help ([[Blood on the Scales]]).
*In the immediate aftermath of the mutiny, Thrace learns from Doctor [[Sherman Cottle]] that the bullet is still stuck in Anders' skull. Anders' suppressed memories of his Cylon life back on Earth are also triggered. To Thrace's disappointment, Anders does not have an explanation as to who she really is or how she apparently came back from the dead.
*Cottle manages to remove the bullet, which he gives to Thrace. However, when Thrace goes to speak with Anders, she discovers that he has zero brain activity—which the medical personnel are unable to explain ([[No Exit]]).
*Thrace is later part of a joint Cylon-Colonial CAP which escorts [[Raptor 702|a Raptor]] carrying [[Ellen Tigh]] and [[Sharon Valerii|Sharon "Boomer" Valerii]] onto ''Galactica''.
*Thrace is later seen in [[Joe's Bar]] drinking and toying with the bullet removed from Anders' skull. She and Tyrol have a brief discussion about Valerii, who is being held in the brig ([[Deadlock]]).
*Thrace gets a drawing of what seems to be stars from Hera and later visits Joe's Bar where she helps piano player [[Slick]] with the music he's composing. There she reveals that she used to play piano as a girl with her father until he left and then stopped and she had a song she used to play that made her happy. She realizes that Hera's drawing is of the notes for that song and she and Slick start playing it together. The music turns out to be [[The Music|the same music that activated the memories]] of the so-called [[Final Five]]. Slick, who was a manifestation of her father, disappears and Thrace later goes to Anders in the hope of finding out the reason she knew of the Music and its meaning, but is unsuccessful.
*When Admiral Adama comes to see Anders—now acting as ''Galactica's'' Hybrid—to find out the location of [[The Colony]], Thrace reveals to him that she has tried to make sense out of the notes by assigning numbers to them, but has had no luck in understanding it. Adama tells her he knows who she is: she's his daughter. Later she and Adama spread red tape down the hanger deck to create a line for people to cross one way or the other to show whether or not they volunteer for the rescue mission for Hera. Thrace stays on the volunteers side of the line and doesn't move the whole time having made her choice.
*During [[Battle of The Colony|the battle]], she leads a strike force that includes both Agathons into The Colony through Raptors. They encounter Sharon Valerii who gives them back Hera before being killed by Sharon Agathon. Thrace's team meets up with Lee's and they retreat to ''Galactica'', which has its nose inside the Colony as their Raptors have been destroyed.
*Thrace helps defend the ship and after an agreement is reached with Cavil, takes damage reports on their forces alongside Lee. After things go badly and the Colony starts to fall into the black hole with ''Galactica'', Thrace—the nearest person to the [[FTL]] console—is ordered to jump them away. Thrace doesn't know the rendezvous coordinates and, after Adama makes it clear that it doesn't matter, is inspired to input the numbers she assigned to [[The Music]]'s notes as the coordinates and jumps ''Galactica'' there. According to Thrace, Thrace jumps them to "the watchtower," which turns out to be the singular moon in orbit around another planet that the Colonials later dub [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]].
*Thrace says goodbye to Anders before he flies the Fleet into the sun, destroying ''Galactica'' and the other ships, and later says her final goodbye to William Adama. Then she says her final goodbye to Lee Adama, having fulfilled [[The Destiny|her destiny]] to bring the Fleet to the second Earth. She disappears while Lee is talking about his dreams, leaving Lee surprised.

==Lords of Kobol, Hear My Prayer==

Despite her tough, rebellious exterior, Thrace is deeply spiritual and possesses a great deal of faith in the [[Lords of Kobol (RDM)|Lords of Kobol]]. She usually prays in moments of mourning or desperation, such as when she thinks Lee is dead ([[Miniseries]]), when she is trapped on a desolate moon with a broken knee and low oxygen ([[You Can't Go Home Again]]), and when she discovers she's in Cylon captivity ([[The Farm]]). This spirituality is put to the test as a series of events lead her towards a mysterious destiny.

==The Destiny==
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From early in her life, Kara Thrace has been guided through her mother's actions for a special role in life, a plot point that begins with a [[Leoben Conoy]] copy in the Season 1 episode, "[[Flesh and Bone]]". In "[[Maelstrom]]", the character dies, but reappears as a guide for the Fleet at the end of Season 3.

A Cylon [[First Hybrid|Hybrid]], speaking to Major [[Kendra Shaw]] moments before their deaths, warns her that Thrace is the herald of the apocalypse and the harbinger of death, that she would lead the human race to its end, and that she is not to be followed ([[Razor]]). Similarly, another [[Hybrid]] describes her as the harbinger of death, and she would lead them to salvation and destruction ([[Faith]]).

This becomes the case, as she leads ''Galactica'' (and the Fleet) to a second, new planet the Colonials dub "Earth." There, both Colonials and both races of Cylon (the Kobollian-based "[[The Final Five|Final Five]]" and the remaining models from the "[[Significant Seven]]") are saved. However, as their blend in with the native humans on the new Earth, the distinctive natures of Colonial human and Cylon creations blur and merge. In a sense, the blurring results in the "death" of both races as a new human race begins. [[Hera Agathon]]'s body, a perfect human/Cylon merging, is later represented as the Mitochondrial Eve for the humans on the New Earth ([[Daybreak, Part II]]).

==Notes==
*On the Sci-Fi Channel's preview for season 2.5 (US), Katee Sackhoff is quoted as saying that Starbuck is "the best Viper pilot...EVER."
*[[Wikipedia:Thrace|Thrace]] was a region in south-eastern Europe that was heavily influenced by the ancient Greeks and was eventually conquered by [[Wikipedia:Philip II of Macedonia|Phillip II of Macedonia]]. Thracians were considered by most to be the most ferocious fighters and were often highly paid mercenaries for Greek kings.
*Thrace may have been named after [[w:Thrax (mythology)|Thrax]], the son of [[w:Ares|Ares]], the god of war, who was said to reside on the Thracian plain in Greek mythology.
*After auditioning for the role of [[Anastasia Dualla|Dualla]], [[Grace Park]] was asked by director [[Michael Rymer]] to audition for the role of Starbuck, and she was actually one of two finalists up for the role (the other obviously being [[Katee Sackhoff]], who got the part). Ultimately Park was cast as [[Sharon Valerii|Sharon "Boomer" Valerii]].
*In a TV Guide [http://online.tvguide.com/newsearch/detail.aspx?id=4371595&sourcetype=S&progseriesparentid=4371595&tvobjectid=191395&keyword=Battlestar+Galactica&referrer=search1 photo shoot] at the BSG studios, Katee Sackhoff explained that the [[tattoo]] that Starbuck bears on her left arm is a wing and a circle and has half of the constellation of Capricorn (a reference to [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] obviously) and a small symbol of the planet as well. It matches a mirror image of the tattoo on Anders' right arm. When the two of them hold each other with their respective arms crossing, the 2 tattoos come together to form an image of a single ring with 2 wings that is supposed to represent their union. According to Sackhoff, Kara and Anders had the tattoos done around the time of their wedding, a fact later confirmed in dialogue during Season 4.5.
*The license plate on Thrace's truck on Caprica is "FB 42 E3" ([[Valley of Darkness]]).

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Kara Thrace

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Fredmdbud:

:''This article discusses the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Re-imagined Series]] character with the pilot callsign of "Starbuck." For information on Kara Thrace's counterpart in the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]], see [[Starbuck (TOS)]].''

:''For Kara Thrace's parents, see [[Dreilide Thrace]] and [[Socrata Thrace]].''

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|colony= [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]]
|birthname= Kara Thrace
|callsign= Starbuck
|seen= Miniseries
|death= Viper destroyed near gas giant, crashing on [[Earth (RDM)#Arrival_and_Ruins|Cylon Earth]] ([[Maelstrom]]/[[Sometimes a Great Notion]]);<br>Mysteriously reappears ([[Crossroads, Part II]]);<br>Vanishes in Tanzania on [[Earth (RDM)#A_New_Earth|pre-historical 2nd Earth]] ([[Daybreak, Part II]])
|parents= [[Socrata Thrace]]† (mother)<br>[[Dreilide Thrace]]† (father)
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|marital status= Married to [[Samuel Anders]]† (formerly engaged to [[Zak Adama]]†)
|rank=Captain
|role= Viper pilot;<br>flight instructor;<br>''Galactica'' [[Commander Air Group|CAG]];<br>angel-prophet;<br>captain of ''[[Demetrius]]''
|actor= [[Katee Sackhoff]]<br>[[Erika-Shaye Gair]] (child)
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|serial = 462753 <ref name="serial"> Confirmed number from QMX dogtags given to them by the studio.</ref>
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'''Kara "Starbuck" Thrace''' is a gifted [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] pilot, with an attitude that at times thwarts her career advancement. However, thanks to [[William Adama]], Thrace's skills in battle extend beyond the cockpit to greatly aid the Fleet. She [[virtual beings|mysteriously vanishes]] in Tanzania on [[Earth (RDM)#A_New_Earth|real-world Earth]] ([[Daybreak, Part II]]), shortly after the Fleet's arrival on the planet.

== Background ==

[[Image:YoungKaraThrace.jpg|thumb|left|A young Kara Thrace in a hallucination ([[Maelstrom]]).]]
*Thrace's mother [[Socrata Thrace|Socrata]] was a former member of the [[Colonial Marine Corps]]. She beat her daughter so frequently that Thrace came to accept pain as a way of life ("[[Flesh and Bone]]", "[[Maelstrom]]").
*Her father [[Dreilide Thrace|Dreilide]] was a pianist and composer. Kara seems to have had a closer relationship with him than with her mother ([[Valley of Darkness]], [[Someone to Watch Over Me]]).
*Thrace left home to join the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|military]]. During her training, she received complaints about her conduct towards [[Mike Gibbons|superior officers]].
*One of her first postings prior to being a flight instructor was aboard the battlestar ''[[Triton (RDM)|Triton]]''. While serving aboard, she exhibited one of the first known instances of offending high-ranking commissioned officers, namely one Commander [[Myron Ruth]] who opened court-martial proceedings against her. They were later dropped ([[The Son Also Rises]]).
* She was a very talented [[pyramid]] player ([[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]), and received a scholarship to the Fleet Academy to play pyramid. During this time, she injured her knee and was no longer able to play pyramid at a professional level. However, she discovered a passion and skill at being a fighter pilot ([[Podcast:The Hand of God]]). On graduating from Colonial Flight School, she undertook a period of active duty before returning to flight school as an instructor.
*Thrace fell in love with a young recruit, [[Zak Adama]]. Despite his poor performance, she passed him on his final flight examination although he failed three of the required maneuvers ([[Act of Contrition]]).
*Thrace's engagement to Zak Adama ended when he was killed during a routine mission shortly after graduating. At the time, [[Lee Adama]] ("Apollo"), Zak's elder brother, blamed their father for Zak's death. Feeling guilty, Thrace did little to alter this idea. She did, however, meet [[William Adama]] shortly after the accident, and the two struck up such a strong rapport that they stood together at the funeral ([[Act of Contrition]]).
*Thrace resigned from flight school as an instructor and transferred as an operational pilot to the [[Galactica type battlestar|battlestar]] ''[[Galactica]]'' under the command of William Adama, where she served for some two years prior to the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attack]] on the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]]. Before the Cylon attack, she was second in command of the remaining pilots, subordinate to the [[CAG]], [[Jackson Spencer]].
*At the time of the Cylon attack she has an run-down apartment in [[Delphi]] that overlooks a parking lot and a Colonial version of a [[Wikipedia:Humvee|Humvee]] which she and Helo use to escape the city and get to the country where she meets her husband-to-be Anders. She rarely used the dilapidated apartment. She was also a very avid painter, and her apartment was cluttered with her paintings and a [[Starbuck's Poem|poem]] is written on a wall ([[Valley of Darkness]]). The apartment was a better state of repair when Thrace was romantically involved with Zak Adama, although her [[Eye of Jupiter|mandala]] wall painting pre-dates that relationship. ([[Daybreak, Part I]])
*Despite her reckless approach to life, Thrace hides the fact that she is deeply spiritual. She frequently prays (or talks) to the [[Lords of Kobol]], particularly [[Aphrodite]] and [[Artemis]] in times of need ([[Miniseries]], "[[Flesh and Bone]]", "[[You Can't Go Home Again]]").

==Character History==

=== Galactica and Pre-New Caprica ===

*Thrace's attitude quickly runs her afoul of Colonel [[Saul Tigh]], ''Galactica's'' [[executive officer]]. Their open mutual dislike of one another leads to the point where blows are exchanged, with Thrace ending up in the brig. After the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attack]] she is released from the brig and returns to duty as Viper pilot.
*Thrace manages to keep two of three nuclear missiles from striking ''Galactica'' in their first Cylon sortie, and saves Lee from doom in an innovative maneuver in the [[Battle of Ragnar Anchorage]].
*Her skills in saving Lee brings her grudging respect from Colonel Tigh, but she is unable to accept his offer of the olive branch—an act that will have repercussions for her later ([[Miniseries]]).
[[image:Bastille_Day-Starbuck_Boxey.jpg|thumb|right|Thrace as acting [[CAG]] with [[Boxey (RDM)|Boxey]] as assistant ([[Bastille Day]]).]]
*Thrace participates in a hostage rescue mission aboard the ''[[Astral Queen]]''. Following the successful mission, Thrace tries to mend fences between herself and Colonel Tigh with a toast (consisting of water), apologizing in much the same way as Tigh himself had tried after their initial escape from [[Ragnar Anchorage]]. But Tigh rejects Thrace's apology, stating that her flaws are professional, while his flaws were personal ([[Bastille Day]]).
*Thrace eventually admits her secret about Zak Adama to William Adama himself, an act that brings their close friendship almost to the breaking point ([[Act of Contrition]]).
*During a surprise encounter with Cylons during [[nugget]] training, Thrace destroys several Cylon Raiders, but her ship is damaged and tumbles towards a small red moon with an unbreathable atmosphere. With her Viper in a fatal flat-spin, Thrace is forced to eject from her Viper ([[You Can't Go Home Again]]).
*Thrace (nursing a damaged knee) repairs the downed Cylon Raider found on the inhabitable moon and returns to ''Galactica'', giving the Fleet a vital piece of Cylon fighter technology for study and use.
*The recovering Thrace, off flight status, is asked by Commander Adama to plan a special attack on a Cylon [[tylium]] refinery. The tactical planning role is not something she relishes, and she frequently shows resentment towards others for her condition ([[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]).
*During Thrace's undesired interrogation of a Cylon prisoner, a copy of a known [[Humanoid Cylon|Cylon]] named [[Leoben Conoy]], she uses some drastic acts to try to extract the information from the humanoid Cylon ([[Flesh and Bone]]).
[[image:Starbuck-Kobols_Last_Gleaming_pt2.jpg|thumb|right|Thrace retrieves the [[Arrow of Apollo]] ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]).]]
*Thrace is assigned to plant a nuclear device on board a [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]] in orbit around [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]]. She disobeys orders to retrieve the [[Arrow of Apollo]] at the request of President Roslin, since she discovered Commander Adama's speech concerning knowledge of the location of Earth was a lie. She [[FTL|jump]]s to Caprica ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]), landing in [[Delphi]] in the captured Cylon [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Raider]], depriving the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] of the valuable military asset.
*In the [[Delphi Museum of the Colonies]] with the Arrow, she is violently attacked by a copy of [[Number Six]]. Despite being heavily outmatched in the fight, Thrace luckily defeats the Cylon.
*At the museum, she reunites with [[Karl Agathon]], whom she thought dead, and discovers [[Sharon Agathon|a second copy]] of [[Sharon Valerii]], realizing instantly that the woman is a Cylon.
*"Caprica Valerii", fearing for her child, steals Thrace's Raider. In exasperation, Thrace only mutters: "Bitch took my ride" ([[Scattered]]). Like Agathon, Thrace is left with no way to return to the Fleet unless she could find her Raider or another Cylon spacecraft, as only Cylon navigational computers are powerful enough to plot jumps over such large distances..
*Thrace berates Agathon's love for the Caprica copy of Valerii. Thrace finds the keys of her surplus military utility vehicle in her old jacket in her old apartment. Thrace has a ride again, if only to move more efficiently about Caprica ([[Valley of Darkness]]).
[[Image:ThraceAndersResistance.jpg|thumb|right|Thrace and Anders playing Pyramid on Caprica ([[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]).]]
*Thrace and Agathon meet a [[Caprica Resistance|resistance movement]] on Caprica. Thrace and [[Samuel Anders]] strike up a rapport as fellow [[Pyramid (RDM)|Pyramid]] players and end up as lovers.
*During planning to steal a [[Heavy Raider]], Thrace is shot in a military action, waking up in a hospital on Caprica. Thrace is told by her doctor, [[Simon]], that Anders died from wounds he suffered in getting Thrace to safety.
*Thrace discovers that Simon is working with a [[Number Six|known humanoid Cylon]]. She overhears that the next day he plans to extract her ovaries for use in the Cylon's attempts to study and create a hybrid Cylon/human embryo. Simon also makes the mistake of calling Thrace by her callsign, Starbuck, which she had never revealed.
*Staggering and in pain, Thrace kills Simon and escapes the hospital, but not before clocking a Six copy with a fire extinguisher and destroying the local farm power supply, mercy-killing [[Sue-Shaun]] and several other women in the facility.
*Another Simon copy appears just as the Resistance attacks the facility. The second Simon, now revealed as a humanoid Cylon himself, is immediately killed by the Resistance, but a squad of [[Cylon Centurion]]s appear and pins the Resistance down. Luckily, [[Sharon Agathon|Caprica-Valerii]] swoops in with a stolen [[Heavy Raider]], destroys the Centurions and flies the Resistance and Thrace out of harm's way.
*Thrace promises to Anders that she'll [[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I|return with a rescue mission]] for the remaining survivors. Anders returns the Arrow of Apollo to Thrace, which he hid on the resistance grounds for safekeeping ([[The Farm]]).
*Thrace, Agathon and the pregnant "Caprica Valerii" land on the ''[[Astral Queen]]'' in the Heavy Raider. Finding the [[Laura Roslin faction]] in orbit of [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]], Thrace is reunited with Lee. He kisses her impulsively, catching Thrace by pleasant surprise, but a tense standoff follows when Lee discovers that another Sharon copy has returned with them. Roslin helps defuse the situation, and Thrace delivers the Arrow of Apollo to the President.
*Temporarily removed from military protocol, Lee playfully teases Thrace by stealing a pyramid ball she took from Caprica. Adama senses her depression about Caprica and tells her that he'd be happy to hear about any problems she had. He also let slip that he loved her, which brightened Thrace's mood to the point where she teased him back about his slip.
*With a team led by Laura Roslin, Lee, and, later, joined by the recovered Commander Adama, Thrace enters the [[Tomb of Athena]] and successfully uses the Arrow of Apollo to activate a hologram that shows constellations of the Twelve Colonies' ancient symbols.
*Thrace realizes that they are on a recreation of Earth. Together with Lee, they locate the Lagoon Nebula, a celestial body known to Commander Adama and Lee, and gather sufficient information to begin an actual course to Earth ([[Home, Part II]]).
*Thrace shows off the impressive stealth abilities of the new [[Blackbird]] fighter in her maiden flight ([[Flight of the Phoenix]]).
*With the arrival of ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'', Admiral [[Helena Cain]] summarily assigns Thrace (and Lee) to ''Pegasus'' after digesting the reports of ''Galactica'''s officers.
*[[Cole Taylor|The ''Pegasus'' CAG]] removes Thrace from the Cylon recon mission. Lee secretly tells her to use the [[Blackbird]] to take recon photos of the Cylon Unknown ([[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]).
*Returning from her very successful mission, the [[Blackbird]]'s lack of a Colonial transponder is mistaken for a Cylon [[Raider]] on [[DRADIS]], and Thrace is nearly confronted and shot at by Vipers from ''Pegasus'' and ''Galactica''. After narrowly avoiding certain death by declaring herself a friendly, Thrace transmits her recon photos to ''Pegasus''.
*Admiral Cain is very impressed with Thrace's performance and promotes her to Captain and ''Pegasus'' CAG.
*Thrace is assigned the task of planning the joint attack on the Resurrection Ship, but successfully asks to have Lee on her team, restoring him to flight status.
*After she briefs Cain and Commander Adama on her battle plan, Adama asks Thrace privately to assassinate Cain after the battle is complete. Adama fears that if Cain continues to command, the Fleet would be in mortal jeopardy from Cain's draconian command ([[Resurrection Ship, Part I]]).
*Thrace's battle planning, as before on the [[tylium]] [[The Hand of God (RDM)|mine]], works to near-perfection, with the Resurrection Ship destroyed and its supporting basestars.
*As a result of the battle events, Thrace is left without backup as she walks to the ''Pegasus'' CIC to shoot Cain, obviously afraid and apprehensive. When Commander Adama calls, Thrace slowly moves her hand to her sidearm but, to her relief, Adama does not give the kill order and cryptically instructs her to stand down ([[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]).
*Thrace and [[Louanne Katraine|Louanne "Kat" Katraine]] are involved in the protection of a mining operation from periodic Raider attacks. One Raider, nicknamed [[Scar (Raider)|Scar]], fuels an intensive rivalry for the pilot's "top gun" honor. Thrace, still depressed over her inability to convince Fleet command to initiate a rescue for Samuel Anders and his resistance, drinks heavily and obsesses over removing Scar from the sky, even at the cost of her life. Fortunately, Thrace realizes the futility of her actions, and works together with Katraine to destroy the remarkably dangerous Raider ([[Scar]]).
*A few weeks later, Thrace takes leave on ''[[Cloud Nine]]'' when she was dragooned into rescuing Lee and several other ''Galactica'' crew and residents after terrorists take them hostage in exchange for the incarcerated [[Sharon Agathon|Sharon Agathon neé Valerii]]. Thrace gathers intelligence on the situation, but her cover is blown. In the retreating firefight, Lee is caught in the crossfire. After the situation is resolved, Thrace intended to sit at Lee's bedside, only to discover that Dualla beat her to it ([[Sacrifice]]).
*Later, Thrace is assigned to ''Pegasus'' as a flight trainer. Though the pilots like her, Commander [[Barry Garner]] does not, eventually confining her to quarters for "insubordination." Following the [[Battle of the Binary Star System|ill-fated rescue and retreat]] from a Cylon ambush (where Thrace leads the fighters) and [[Battle of the Guardian Basestar|after a search, rescue and destroy mission to a Cylon-war era basestar]], Thrace informs Lee—now commander of ''Pegasus''—that she was taking over his old CAG post aboard ''Galactica'', joking that she has a problem with her commander wanting to send her off to get killed ("[[The Captain's Hand]]", "[[Razor]]").
*Thrace gets her wish: the Caprica rescue is approved, and she leads a large Raptor squadron to the planet. The group soon met up with Anders, who reports that their HQ had been destroyed and Thrace's timing was just perfect. A squad of Centurions ambush and pin down the group moments later ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I]]).
*Still pinned down from attack fire, Thrace and Anders agree to kill each other to avoid capture and internment at a [[Farms|farm]]. But the attack stops, and a [[Cavil|man]] appears, praising the [[Lords of Kobol|Gods]] as he announces that the Cylons not only have ceased fire, but are abandoning the Twelve Colonies. Thrace isn't really surprised to discover that the man, known as Brother [[Cavil]], was a Cylon upon their return to the Fleet.
*Thrace and Anders proceed to get drunk, and host a disastrous encounter with Lee. This apparently led to a rift between the two comrades.
[[Image:Leobenkara.jpg|thumb|right|180px|Leoben with Kara Thrace ([[Exodus, Part I]]).]]
*The evening of the founding of [[New Caprica]], Thrace slept with Lee and proclaimed her love for him as she was uncertain regarding her feelings toward Anders. The following morning she quickly married Anders in a ceremony near the river. This caused a rift between Thrace and Lee that lasted for well over a year ([[Unfinished Business]]).
*Life on New Caprica tempered Thrace, and she often behaved in ways Thrace never would have, including hugging Colonel Tigh and pampering Anders during his bout with an illness.
*She watches in horror at the sudden arrival of hundreds of Cylon ships in the sky over New Caprica. A few of ''Galactica's'' former crew gather near Thrace, looking to her for guidance. She responds the only way she knows how: "Fight 'em until we can't" ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]).

=== The New Caprica Ordeal and Her Death ===

*After Baltar's surrender of New Caprica, Conoy keeps Thrace prisoner in an apartment located within the Cylon-built [[New Caprica Detention Center]] in an attempt to convince Thrace that she loves him and also convert her to the [[Cylon Religion|Cylon monotheistic religion]]. She repeatedly kills Conoy a total of five times in an attempt to convince him to let her go ("[[Occupation]]", "[[Precipice]]").
*Conoy introduces Thrace to a small child named [[Kacey Brynn|Kacey]], who appears to be approximately two to three years in age, whom he claims is their biological daughter. He explains that the child was created using one of Thrace's extracted ovaries ([[The Farm]]) and his genetic material. Conflicted, Thrace leaves the child unattended, which later results in Kacey falling down the apartment's stairs ([[Precipice]]). After the fall, Thrace begins to change her attitude towards the child and begins to offer affection towards Conoy ("[[Precipice]]", "[[Exodus, Part I]]").
*Upon her return to ''Galactica'' after Admiral Adama's [[Battle of New Caprica|daring rescue attempt]], Thrace heartbreakingly discovers that Kacey was simply another manipulation on Conoy's part — Kacey is merely a human child whom the Cylons had abducted months ago from [[Julia Brynn|their mother]] ([[Exodus, Part II]]).
*Bearing the psychological scars of her four month ordeal with Leoben and Kacey, Thrace is recruited by [[Diana Seelix]] as a last minute replacement juror in the [[Circle]] after Anders' resignation. Thrace's involvement in the Circle precipitates the breakup of her marriage with Anders. Initially wondering about the legality of the tribunal, she is the fifth vote to find [[Felix Gaeta]] guilty of treason and collaboration. Later, when Gaeta is about to be killed in one of ''Galactica''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> [[launch tubes (RDM)|launch tubes]], she demands him to beg for his life. Thrace physically assaults him and goes down the litany of "lies" that Gaeta told her earlier about him helping the [[New Caprica Resistance|insurgency]]. As she does so, [[Galen Tyrol]], one of the Circle's jurors, overhears this and confirms the story. In a sense of confusion after learning that Gaeta was telling the truth, Thrace leaves the launch tube ([[Collaborators]]).
*During a combat exercise between Vipers, Thrace breaks formation and collides with another pilot, forcing an end to the war games and causing Lee to revoke her flight status. Later, at her bunk she is met by Kacey and her mother, whom she dismisses, telling Kacey's mother not to visit her again. In the pilots' rec room, Thrace and Colonel Tigh begin to sow dissent between the survivors of New Caprica and the crew that stayed behind on ''Galactica'', insinuating that those who stayed behind did not suffer like those on New Caprica did, and that the crew of ''Galactica'' took too long to organize a rescue. Admiral Adama, upon learning of this from Karl Agathon, confronts Thrace and Tigh on their behavior. He challenges them to shoot him, as their constant complaining is tantamount to pulling the trigger. When neither do, Adama throws Thrace off her chair and demands that both she and Tigh shape up and move on with their lives. Spurred by Adama's words, Thrace cuts her hair and returns to duty. Later, in uniform, she visits Kacey and her mother on the [[Dogsville|converted hangar deck]] ([[Torn]]).
*Thrace enters an affair with Lee, rekindling their romance on New Caprica ([[Unfinished Business]]). Both Anders and Lee's wife, Lieutenant [[Anastasia Dualla]], are more than vaguely aware of the pair's sexual tension. Lee soon ends the affair and reconciles, but Thrace refuses to give Anders any further attention than a periodic sexual fling.
*Thrace is involved with the defense of the incorrectly called "[[Temple of Five]]" but is severely injured, leaving her rescuer, Dualla, to return them to ''Galactica'' ([[Rapture]]). Agathon recognizes the strange circular [[Eye of Jupiter|mandala]] in the Temple, created 4,000 years before, and its resemblance to a symbol that Thrace painted in her apartment. When shown the symbol, the recovering Thrace is darkly reminded of Leoben's prophesy.
*During refueling operations above a gas giant, Thrace is continually attracted to what she believes is a Cylon contact, which she chases to find a planetary storm that resembles the mandala. She dives into it, almost losing control before coming to her senses and returning.
*Command staff and Thrace question her competency to continue flying, but Lee volunteers encouragement and offers to fly as her wingman on her next [[Combat Air Patrol|CAP]].
*Thrace finds herself attracted by another apparent Cylon contact. As she descended, her Viper is struck by debris and she, while unconscious, experiences a revelation about her mother, [[Socrata Thrace]], and guided through the vision by what looks to be a Leoben copy.
*Starbuck regains consciousness but chooses to continue her descent despite Lee's desperate pleas to ascend. "I'll see you on the other side (...) Just let me go" were her last words as her Viper explodes. A grief-stricken Lee tells [[CIC]] that he did not see any ejection ([[Maelstrom]]).
*While preparing for a Cylon engagement near the [[Ionian nebula]], Lee (who has [[Crossroads, Part I|since left]] the Colonial Military) detects a bogey on [[DRADIS]]. While he searches for the target, Lee finds himself momentarily in a cat-and-mouse chase game with the mysterious target. As Lee attempts to regain sight of the bogey, it positions itself next to his Viper.

=== Return from the Dead and Suspicion ===

*The [[Starbuck's Viper|pristine Viper Mark II]] that comes alongside is flown by Thrace herself. A shocked and confused [[Lee Adama]] (now a civilian) listens to the apparently-resurrected Kara Thrace, who tells him that she has been to [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]] and she has returned to take the Fleet to it ([[Crossroads, Part II]]).
*After the [[Battle of the Ionian Nebula|battle at the nebula]], she returns to ''Galactica'' where everyone is astounded to see her alive. While everyone believed her dead for over two months, only several hours have passed for her. She has returned with recon photography of [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]], but no navigational data or knowledge of how she got there. Further complicating her claim is the fact that her Viper is nearly pristine, as if it had just been built. Despite passing a medical examination by Doctor [[Sherman Cottle]], almost everyone—especially Roslin—thinks she may be a Cylon or part of a Cylon trap, and thus don't believe her. Thrace herself wonders if she could be a Cylon.
*When the Fleet jumps further away from the Ionian Nebula, she experiences headaches and says that she is losing the intuitive feeling of the way to Earth. Desperate to lead the Colonials there, she breaks into Adama's quarters and confronts Roslin at gun point ([[He That Believeth In Me]]).
*Thrace is eventually subdued by [[Colonial Marines]] and imprisoned in the [[brig]]. Lee visits Thrace in the brig and tells her that he believes her. Thrace is happy that he does and they share a kiss before Lee leaves for ''[[Colonial One]]''. Although not sure what to make of her claims, Admiral Adama releases her later, and gives her command of ''[[Demetrius]]'', and a crew including [[Karl Agathon]] and Samuel Anders, telling her to try to find Earth ([[Six of One]]).
*Thrace irritates her crew by frequent, unexplained course changes and rarely leaving her quarters, where she holes herself up to study star charts. When her husband confronts her about her command style and their marriage, she tells him that she is not the same person he married and tries to throw him out of her cabin. However, when Anders holds her, she tells him that she wants to have sex in order to feel something. Afterwards, she says that she feels distanced from her body and the events around her ([[The Ties That Bind]]).
* When a [[Leoben Conoy]] copy comes aboard ''Demetrius'' with the offer of an alliance with the Cylons, a power struggle among the crew breaks out when Thrace orders to jump to his baseship ([[The Road Less Traveled]]). The fight ends with Gaeta getting shot in the leg by Anders. After standing down, Thrace decides to accompany Conoy with a small team. On his baseship she meets the Cylon [[Hybrid]], who repeats the [[first Hybrid]]'s [[The Destiny|prophecy]] ([[Razor]]) and gives her the next task: join the Cylons to unbox [[Number Three]] to learn what she knows of the Final Five ([[Faith]]).
* After the unboxing, Thrace reacts with shock and disbelief when she learns that her husband is a Cylon. She investigates the [[Starbuck's Viper|Viper she returned in]] and notices that it receives a strange signal, giving her a direct bearing to Earth. Her discovery stops the imminent execution of Colonel Tigh and leads to a truce with the [[Cylon Civil War|Cylon rebels]]. After arriving at Earth, Thrace is part of the first group on the surface, but finds only a destroyed city ([[Revelations]]).

=== The Thirteenth Colony and the Search for a New Home ===
*Thrace and [[Leoben Conoy]] explore the devastated Earth trying to find the source of the signal. They find pieces of wreckage belonging to a [[Viper (RDM)|Colonial Viper]]—the [[Viper 8757|same Viper]] that Thrace [[Maelstrom|flew into the gas giant]]. Finally, they come upon the cockpit of the crashed Viper, with its pilot still inside. Thrace is horrified to discover that the carcass inside the cockpit is hers. Thrace reveals to Conoy that the [[Hybrid]] aboard the rebel baseship called her the "Harbinger of Death." Conoy has no explanation for any of this and flees the scene, leaving Thrace alone to wonder who or what she really is. Thrace later retrieves the dog tags and wedding ring from the body. She then cremates the body and returns to ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]''. She does not tell anyone what she has discovered ([[Sometimes a Great Notion]]).
*After ''Galactica'' leaves Earth, Thrace is still trying to come to terms with her discoveries there. [[Felix Gaeta]], who is unhappy about the Fleet's alliance with the [[Cylon (RDM)|Cylons]] and for the events leading up to that point (including a [[The Face of the Enemy|certain revelation]] about his role on [[New Caprica]]), decides to pick a fight with her. Gaeta accuses Thrace of collaborating with the Cylons, while Thrace retorts that Gaeta is just bitter because [[Faith|he lost his leg]]. Gaeta makes a thinly-veiled threat against Thrace, who responds by telling him she isn't afraid to beat up a cripple. Thrace then storms off ([[A Disquiet Follows My Soul]]).
*A withdrawn Thrace later has an altercation with [[Brendan Constanza|Brendan "Hot Dog" Constanza]]. She teases him about his unexpected fathering of [[Nicholas Tyrol]]. Constanza is unamused, angrily retorting that Thrace slept with half the Fleet herself and has nothing to show for her efforts. This hits a nerve and Thrace throws a bowl of food at a retreating Constanza.
*An alarm goes off and Thrace is ordered by [[Noel Allison|Noel "Narcho" Allison]] to evacuate the area. Thrace is suspicious and when she presses Allison for more information, he snaps that no one even knows what she is any more.
*Thrace turns to see a group of marines and civilians led by [[Charlie Connor]] run past her, and she follows them. She sees the group break into a weapons locker and arm themselves. She hears Connor giving his men orders to take the [[hangar deck]].
*Thrace rushes back to her barracks and grabs her weapons. She then tries to warn the CIC, but Gaeta blocks her calls. Realizing that Gaeta is also involved, Thrace takes off for the hangar deck.
*She arrives at the hangar deck just in time to rescue [[Lee Adama]] from Connor and his men, who are being assisted by [[Margaret Edmondson|Margaret "Racetrack" Edmondson]] and [[Hamish McCall|Hamish "Skulls" McCall]]. Thrace kills one of the marines and wounds Skulls, forcing the others to back off. She and Lee then hurry away.
*Thrace and Lee take refuge inside a storage compartment. Lee doesn't think they can defeat the mutiny alone. Thrace responds by kissing him. She then says that this is the first time in weeks that she feels right.
*Thrace and Lee head for the CIC. They find that the mutiny has spread all across the ship. They arrive at Admiral Adama's quarters, where they meet [[Laura Roslin]]. After learning of the mutiny, Roslin decides that she must come out and address the Fleet. However, the ship's communications are down, and the only working [[wireless]] transmitter on the ship is in [[Gaius Baltar]]'s possession.
*Thrace, Adama, and Roslin make it to Baltar's compartment, where they find [[Galen Tyrol]] organizing a defense. Tyrol tells them that Admiral Adama has been arrested and is being escorted to the brig. Tyrol also tells them about a secondary storage airlock they can use to escape the ship. Thrace and Adama head off to rescue the admiral.
*At the brig, they find that [[William Adama]] and [[Saul Tigh]] have already escaped custody. They have also taken the rebel marine, [[Allan Nowart]], prisoner. Thrace tries to kill Nowart, but Adama thwarts her. As Nowart flees, Thrace argues that the mutineers are no longer his men, and as such are the enemy and that they can't afford to take prisoners.
*Thrace, Tigh and the Adamas arrive at the secondary storage airlock, where they find Tyrol, Roslin and Baltar waiting. A [[Raptor]] piloted by an [[Eight]] docks. After Roslin and Baltar board the Raptor, Thrace, Lee and Tyrol head off to continue the fight against Gaeta and [[Thomas Zarek]]'s forces ([[The Oath]]).
*Lee and Thrace head off to free the captives held in the brig, while Tyrol goes to sabotage the ship's FTL drive. They take out the mutineers guarding the brig and free Tigh, [[Sharon Agathon]], [[Karl Agathon]], [[Hera Agathon]], [[Caprica Six]] and [[Samuel Anders]].
*During the escape, a firefight ensues and Anders is shot in the back of the head by a mutineer, who was believed dead. He is not killed but is in dire need of medical attention. Thrace yells at the others to go without her and she starts dragging Anders towards the infirmary.
*Thrace eventually exhausts herself trying to carry Anders and she collapses. Marine [[Parr]] escorting [[Romo Lampkin]] appears; Thrace attempts to shoot Parr, but her gun is empty— however, Lampkin suddenly stabs the marine twice in the neck with a pen, killing him.
*Thrace asks Lampkin to help her carry Anders to the infirmary. Lampkin is reluctant but eventually agrees to help ([[Blood on the Scales]]).
*In the immediate aftermath of the mutiny, Thrace learns from Doctor [[Sherman Cottle]] that the bullet is still stuck in Anders' skull. Anders' suppressed memories of his Cylon life back on Earth are also triggered. To Thrace's disappointment, Anders does not have an explanation as to who she really is or how she apparently came back from the dead.
*Cottle manages to remove the bullet, which he gives to Thrace. However, when Thrace goes to speak with Anders, she discovers that he has zero brain activity—which the medical personnel are unable to explain ([[No Exit]]).
*Thrace is later part of a joint Cylon-Colonial CAP which escorts [[Raptor 702|a Raptor]] carrying [[Ellen Tigh]] and [[Sharon Valerii|Sharon "Boomer" Valerii]] onto ''Galactica''.
*Thrace is later seen in [[Joe's Bar]] drinking and toying with the bullet removed from Anders' skull. She and Tyrol have a brief discussion about Valerii, who is being held in the brig ([[Deadlock]]).
*Thrace gets a drawing of what seems to be stars from Hera and later visits Joe's Bar where she helps piano player [[Slick]] with the music he's composing. There she reveals that she used to play piano as a girl with her father until he left and then stopped and she had a song she used to play that made her happy. She realizes that Hera's drawing is of the notes for that song and she and Slick start playing it together. The music turns out to be [[The Music|the same music that activated the memories]] of the so-called [[Final Five]]. Slick, who was a manifestation of her father, disappears and Thrace later goes to Anders in the hope of finding out the reason she knew of the Music and its meaning, but is unsuccessful.
*When Admiral Adama comes to see Anders—now acting as ''Galactica's'' Hybrid—to find out the location of [[The Colony]], Thrace reveals to him that she has tried to make sense out of the notes by assigning numbers to them, but has had no luck in understanding it. Adama tells her he knows who she is: she's his daughter. Later she and Adama spread red tape down the hanger deck to create a line for people to cross one way or the other to show whether or not they volunteer for the rescue mission for Hera. Thrace stays on the volunteers side of the line and doesn't move the whole time having made her choice.
*During [[Battle of The Colony|the battle]], she leads a strike force that includes both Agathons into The Colony through Raptors. They encounter Sharon Valerii who gives them back Hera before being killed by Sharon Agathon. Thrace's team meets up with Lee's and they retreat to ''Galactica'', which has its nose inside the Colony as their Raptors have been destroyed.
*Thrace helps defend the ship and after an agreement is reached with Cavil, takes damage reports on their forces alongside Lee. After things go badly and the Colony starts to fall into the black hole with ''Galactica'', Thrace—the nearest person to the [[FTL]] console—is ordered to jump them away. Thrace doesn't know the rendezvous coordinates and, after Adama makes it clear that it doesn't matter, is inspired to input the numbers she assigned to [[The Music]]'s notes as the coordinates and jumps ''Galactica'' there. According to Thrace, Thrace jumps them to "the watchtower," which turns out to be the singular moon in orbit around another planet that the Colonials later dub [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]].
*Thrace says goodbye to Anders before he flies the Fleet into the sun, destroying ''Galactica'' and the other ships, and later says her final goodbye to William Adama. Then she says her final goodbye to Lee Adama, having fulfilled [[The Destiny|her destiny]] to bring the Fleet to the second Earth. She disappears while Lee is talking about his dreams, leaving Lee surprised.

==Lords of Kobol, Hear My Prayer==

Despite her tough, rebellious exterior, Thrace is deeply spiritual and possesses a great deal of faith in the [[Lords of Kobol (RDM)|Lords of Kobol]]. She usually prays in moments of mourning or desperation, such as when she thinks Lee is dead ([[Miniseries]]), when she is trapped on a desolate moon with a broken knee and low oxygen ([[You Can't Go Home Again]]), and when she discovers she's in Cylon captivity ([[The Farm]]). This spirituality is put to the test as a series of events lead her towards a mysterious destiny.

==The Destiny==
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From early in her life, Kara Thrace has been guided through her mother's actions for a special role in life, a plot point that begins with a [[Leoben Conoy]] copy in the Season 1 episode, "[[Flesh and Bone]]". In "[[Maelstrom]]", the character dies, but reappears as a guide for the Fleet at the end of Season 3.

A Cylon [[First Hybrid|Hybrid]], speaking to Major [[Kendra Shaw]] moments before their deaths, warns her that Thrace is the herald of the apocalypse and the harbinger of death, that she would lead the human race to its end, and that she is not to be followed ([[Razor]]). Similarly, another [[Hybrid]] describes her as the harbinger of death, and she would lead them to salvation and destruction ([[Faith]]).

This becomes the case, as she leads ''Galactica'' (and the Fleet) to a second, new planet the Colonials dub "Earth." There, both Colonials and both races of Cylon (the Kobollian-based "[[The Final Five|Final Five]]" and the remaining models from the "[[Significant Seven]]") are saved. However, as their blend in with the native humans on the new Earth, the distinctive natures of Colonial human and Cylon creations blur and merge. In a sense, the blurring results in the "death" of both races as a new human race begins. [[Hera Agathon]]'s body, a perfect human/Cylon merging, is later represented as the Mitochondrial Eve for the humans on the New Earth ([[Daybreak, Part II]]).

==Notes==
*On the Sci-Fi Channel's preview for season 2.5 (US), Katee Sackhoff is quoted as saying that Starbuck is "the best Viper pilot...EVER."
*[[Wikipedia:Thrace|Thrace]] was a region in south-eastern Europe that was heavily influenced by the ancient Greeks and was eventually conquered by [[Wikipedia:Philip II of Macedonia|Phillip II of Macedonia]]. Thracians were considered by most to be the most ferocious fighters and were often highly paid mercenaries for Greek kings.
*Thrace may have been named after [[w:Thrax (mythology)|Thrax]], the son of [[w:Ares|Ares]], the god of war, who was said to reside on the Thracian plain in Greek mythology.
*After auditioning for the role of [[Anastasia Dualla|Dualla]], [[Grace Park]] was asked by director [[Michael Rymer]] to audition for the role of Starbuck, and she was actually one of two finalists up for the role (the other obviously being [[Katee Sackhoff]], who got the part). Ultimately Park was cast as [[Sharon Valerii|Sharon "Boomer" Valerii]].
*In a TV Guide [http://online.tvguide.com/newsearch/detail.aspx?id=4371595&sourcetype=S&progseriesparentid=4371595&tvobjectid=191395&keyword=Battlestar+Galactica&referrer=search1 photo shoot] at the BSG studios, Katee Sackhoff explained that the [[tattoo]] that Starbuck bears on her left arm is a wing and a circle and has half of the constellation of Capricorn (a reference to [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] obviously) and a small symbol of the planet as well. It matches a mirror image of the tattoo on Anders' right arm. When the two of them hold each other with their respective arms crossing, the 2 tattoos come together to form an image of a single ring with 2 wings that is supposed to represent their union. According to Sackhoff, Kara and Anders had the tattoos done around the time of their wedding, a fact later confirmed in dialogue during Season 4.5.
*The license plate on Thrace's truck on Caprica is "FB 42 E3" ([[Valley of Darkness]]).

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The unnamed captain<ref>In the [[Battlestar Galactica (2005 Novel)|novelization]] of the [[Miniseries]], the unnamed character (credited as the "Transport pilot") is given a name: "Captain [[Russo]]". However, because of many contradictions and inaccuracies in this book, this name and the novelization are [[separate continuity]] references.</ref> of the [[Government of the Twelve Colonies|government-chartered]] passenger transport ''[[Colonial Heavy 798]]'' ferries Secretary of Education [[Laura Roslin]], her aide, [[Billy Keikeya]] and several members of the [[Colonial Press]] to attend the decommissioning ceremonies for the [[Cylon War]]-era [[Galactica type battlestar|battlestar]] ''[[Galactica]]''. The pilot tells his passengers that the trip from [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] to the battlestar would take about 5 1/2 hours.<ref>For an interesting analysis on the speeds and distances involved in the Miniseries based on ''Colonial One's'' trip, see [[Navigation_in_the_Re-imagined_Series#Distances_and_speeds_in_the_Miniseries|Navigation in the Re-imagined Series]] and [[Science in the Re-imagined Series]].</ref>

After the ceremonies, ''Colonial Heavy 798'' begins its return to Caprica, accompanied by [[Lee Adama|Apollo]] in his [[William Adama|father's]] old restored [[Viper Mark II]].

About 3 hours away from Caprica, the captain leaves his cockpit to make a personal announcement to his passengers of strange events surrounding Caprica that will delay their flight. He keeps his message rather cryptic as neither he nor Lee Adama can discern exactly what is going on from their wireless monitoring. The captain expresses his happiness that Captain Adama's fighter is escorting them, but Adama reminds him that his old Viper was rebuilt for show, not combat. Adama warns the pilot to be ready to escape if there is any sign of trouble. The pilot acknowledges, indicating that his hand hasn't left the ship's throttle since they received the first messages of trouble.

Some time later, Secretary Roslin visits the pilot's cockpit to confirm a passenger's report from his shortwave [[wireless]] that Caprica has been hit by nuclear bombs. The pilot, holding a printed message he just received, trembles as he confirms that not only Caprica, but three other colonies have been attacked. The visibly-trembling pilot feels the need to make some sort of announcement, but Roslin assumes that responsibility, and asks the pilot to try contacting the Ministry of Civil Defense to see if there's anything the ship can do to help in the crisis. Roslin's new instructions help the captain focus, and the fear in his face lessens.

After Roslin's report to the passengers, the captain reports that he managed to reach someone in the Ministry. Roslin speaks to [[Jack|this individual]] and manages to get some inconsistent information on the attack, which is confirmed to be of [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]] origin, when the captain interrupts Roslin: ''Colonial Heavy 798'' is under attack by an incoming missile. Luckily, Apollo is able to lure the incoming missile away from the passenger transport to detonate it remotely. The transport captain is called to retrieve Apollo's Viper into his ship's immense cargo bay after the missile's detonation disables the fighter. The captain and Roslin discuss rescue plans and resources as Lee Adama enters the passenger cabin.

Later, with Roslin and Adama in the cockpit, the transport captain receives a strange government message over wireless. Roslin answers the concerned faces staring at her for answers that the [[Case Orange|automated emergency message]] is designed to be sent out when the President of the Colonies and most of the Cabinet are dead or incapacitated. She asks the captain to transmit her government ID code back on the same frequency, then leaves. Shortly, the transport captain delivers an printed response from the emergency system: Laura Roslin is the only known surviving government official of the Twelve Colonies, and she is now President of the Twelve Colonies by emergency succession. She asks the transport captain to find a [[Elosha|priest]] onboard for her swearing in.

Approximately 4 hours away from Caprica, the transport captain has located several civilian ships, which now fly with his ship. The small group of ships find ''[[Gemenon Liner 1701]]'' adrift and in need of assistance. As he calls out to the ship, the transport pilot changes his ships designation from ''Colonial Heavy 798'' to ''Colonial One'' in recognition of having the President onboard. The small verbal change in station startles Roslin and brings a smile to the captain's face. Their rescue is interrupted by a second Cylon missile attack. Lee Adama remembers that the otherwise-defenseless transport is carrying some old [[EMP|electromagnetic pulse generators]] from ''Galactica'' that the passenger ship was ferrying back to Caprica. Adama activates the devices, which disables the missiles, fools the Cylons into thinking that the group of ships are destroyed, and knocks the cockpit crew of ''Colonial One'' unconscious. The transport pilot soon reawakens and brings the ship back up to operation. After he and Roslin find Lee Adama by the pulse generators, who explains what he did, the transport captain wonders if anyone else in the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Colonial Fleet]] knew of Adama's trick.

The small group of civilian ships that Roslin gathers soon becomes a large caravan, which attracts the attention of a Cylon scout. While the transport captain agrees with [[Aaron Doral]] to use every second possible to retrieve as many passengers from the [[sublight]] ships as they could, Captain Adama disagrees, knowing that very little time remains before everyone is destroyed.

The transport captain and Adama prepare ''Colonial One'' with the other [[FTL]] ships to escape. The captain resists the urge to tell the helpless sublight ships the coordinates to follow by sublight speed when Adama tells him that the Cylons could gain that information if they capture the people left behind ([[Miniseries]]).

==Notes==
*Despite his importance as the chief pilot of ''Colonial One'', the character does not appear again after the Miniseries.
*The logo on his uniform reads "[[Eversun]]" instead of "Intersun" (as on the ship). This is probably a mixup between the special effects and costuming departments.

==References==
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Helena Cain

2009-09-21T11:00:16Z

Fredmdbud: /* Notes */ adding analysis section

Helena Cain

2009-09-21T10:48:01Z

Fredmdbud: /* Attack on the Resurrection Ship */ this belongs in the analysis section

:''For information on this character's [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]] counterpart, see [[Cain (TOS)]].
{{Character Data
|photo=CainH.jpg
|age=49-50<ref>According to the script for "[[Razor]]", young Helena Cain was nine years old at the time of the [[Battle of Tauron]]. See: [[Sources: Helena Cain]].</ref>
|colony=[[Tauron (RDM)|Tauron]]
|birthname=Helena Cain
|callsign=
|seen= Pegasus (episode)
|pseen=Pegasus
|death= Shot in the head by [[Gina Inviere]] ([[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]).
|parents= [[Saundra Cain|Mother]] and [[Cain (father)|father]] killed in the first [[Cylon War]] <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=22 November 2007|last=Ryan|first=Maureen|format=|language=}}</ref>
|siblings= [[Lucy Cain]]† (killed in the first Cylon War)
|children=
|marital status= Previous relationship with Gina Inviere
|role=Commanding Officer, [[Mercury class battlestar|battlestar]] ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]''
|rank=Rear Admiral
|actor=[[Michelle Forbes]]<br/> [[Kyra Scott]] (young Cain)
|serial=866931<ref>Serial number is from [[:Image:Cain's dogtag serial.jpg|her dogtags]].</ref>
|cylon=
|name=
}}
Admiral '''Helena Cain''' hails from the colony [[Tauron (RDM)|Tauron]], and is the commanding officer of the [[Mercury class battlestar]] ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' at the time of the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]]. She is a hard woman, unafraid of making difficult decisions and unflinching in her will to do what she sees as right. These traits sometimes compel her to feel that she has been left no choice but to take controversial, unpopular and morally questionable choices.

==Biography==
===Childhood===
Helena Cain was born during the first [[Cylon War]]. On the last day of the war, Tauron was under attack by Cylon [[Basestar (RDM)|basestars]] and [[Cylon Centurion Model 0005|Centurion]] ground forces. Her sister [[Lucy Cain]] and her [[Cain (father)|father]] were pinned down in a building under heavy fire. When her father was injured trying to escape, he told Helena to get Lucy to a shelter, before dying. The two made it out of the building, but outside Helena panicked, left Lucy in a field of rubble and ran away to hide in a container. When Cain came out again after the Cylons retreated, she found only her sister's doll on the ground ("[[Razor]]", extended version). These traumatic events were formative for her future.

===Cylon attack and guerrilla warfare===
[[Image:Cain and gina.jpg|thumb|right|Cain dining with [[Gina Inviere]].]]

When ''Pegasus'' is scheduled for an extensive overhaul at the [[Scorpion Fleet Shipyards]], Cain has regular meetings with [[Gina Inviere]], a civilian contractor working for the [[Ministry of Defense]], to work out the details of the retrofit. The two eventually become romantically involved.

Shortly before the [[Cylon attack]], Lieutenant [[Kendra Shaw]] is assigned to the battlestar as Cain's personal aide. When the lieutenant fails to make it to [[CIC]] immediately after her arrival, Cain chews her out in front of the crew, but breaks into laughter after Shaw leaves, showing that she isn't always as hard as she appears to be.

When the Cylons [[Fall of the Scorpion Fleet Shipyards|attack the shipyards]], Cain is in her quarters, working out and going over efficiency reports. She makes it to CIC and immediately orders the battlestar unmoored. When the navigational computer is discovered to be offline and nuclear missiles are inbound, Cain orders a [[blind jump]] to escape certain destruction. With many of her crew dead and the destruction of the Twelve Colonies confirmed, she holds a speech vowing to take revenge on the Cylons. However, in a private dinner with her XO [[Jurgen Belzen]], [[Jack Fisk]], Inviere and Shaw, she promises that she has no intention to unnecessarily waste lives or resources in an emotional quest for revenge.

Shortly later, a Cylon communications relay is detected, which the crew believes to be an easy target. On arrival, one squadron of Vipers is launched. However, 15 squadrons of [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Raider]]s suddenly appear because, it turns out, the target is actually a Cylon staging area. XO Belzen urges Cain to recover their Vipers and retreat, but instead she seemingly forgets her earlier promise and orders the launch of all remaining fighters, which Belzen refuses to do in the face of such odds. Cain asks the XO for his side arm, and shoots him in the head with it in front of the crew. She then turned to Fisk, promotes him to XO, and orders him to launch the rest of the Vipers. Fearing for his life, he does so. At the same time, Inviere disables the main gun batteries and allows a group of [[Cylon Centurion]]s to board the ship, causing many deaths. Shaw reveals her as a Cylon agent in CIC and Cain orders her arrest. ''Pegasus'' manages to win the [[Battle of the Communications Relay|battle]], but with staggering losses.

Cain is deeply stung by Inviere's betrayal, her feelings toward her erstwhile lover turned into hatred and scorn. Cain gives [[Alastair Thorne]] free rein in interrogating the Cylon for information, suggesting "pain ... degradation, fear, shame." This sets the tone for the interrogations, ultimately leading to measures such as gang rape.

When ''Pegasus'' happens upon a small civilian fleet, Admiral Cain decides to strip it of resources and personnel, including their FTL drives. The civilians, however, refuse the cooperate. Resistance is particularly vocal on the ''[[Scylla]]''. When a boarding team led by Shaw and Fisk fails to make the civilians cooperate, Cain orders the team to shoot the families of every conscript who refuses to obey. Shaw fires the first shot and eventually 10 people are killed, thus breaking the resistance. Cain is very impressed by Shaw's actions in the civilian standoff and promotes her to the rank of captain, explaining that Shaw has the qualities of a "razor"; someone who is able to shut down all emotions and inhibitions in battle in order to survive.

Despite the impossible odds, Cain intends to sustain a campaign of guerrilla warfare against the occupying Cylon forces. She then led the battlestar away from the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]], following a Cylon fleet that trails what they discovered as the fellow battlestar ''[[Galactica]]'' ("[[Razor]]", "[[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]").

===Meeting Galactica===
[[image:caingalact.jpg|left|Admiral Cain, meeting up with the crew of ''Galactica''.|thumb]]
Upon meeting up with Commander [[William Adama]]'s [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] six months later, she as ranking officer assumes command and transfers personnel from ''Galactica'' to ''Pegasus'', including [[Lee Adama]] and [[Kara Thrace]], indicating that Adama has let military discipline become too lax. Cain is more interested in fighting the Cylons, seemingly oblivious to the point that she and the ships around her are all that was left of the human race, whose survival is more paramount than offensive assaults. While Adama initially welcomes such attacks against a mysterious Cylon force that followed the Fleet (to stop it from following them), his attitude begins to cool about Cain's very strict and unmerciful leadership.

Cain's actions also raise concerns with President [[Laura Roslin]]. Cain recognizes Roslin and her former role as Secretary of Education. After the Fleet command transfer from Adama to Cain, Roslin makes several attempts to call Cain to request supplies for the civilian fleet, but all of Roslin's calls are ignored.

After the fatal assault of one of her crew members, Lieutenant Thorne, Cain arrests Chief [[Galen Tyrol|Tyrol]] and Lieutenant [[Karl Agathon]] and has them flown to ''Pegasus'', under Adama's protest, since traditionally a trial is held on the ship where an incident has occurred. Cain uses ''Galactica'''s log against Adama when he asks for a tribunal; Cain notes that Adama dismissed the last council unilaterally when the verdict did not suit him. Cain summarily court-martials the prisoners herself in a matter of hours, sentencing them to death. A displeased Commander Adama orders an assault crew to ''Pegasus'' to bring his men back. Cain responds by deploying her squadrons of advanced Viper Mark VIIs against Adama's museum collection of Viper Mark IIs in a tense standoff ([[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]).

The tense situation is ended by a sudden appearance by Starbuck, flying the [[Blackbird]] as she returns from her unofficial recon mission on the unknown Cylon ship. Starbuck transmits the pictures she took of the [[Resurrection Ship]] back to ''Pegasus'''s CIC. Upon Thrace's return to ''Pegasus'', Cain is so impressed with her performance that she promotes Thrace to Captain and ''Pegasus'' [[CAG]], replacing the competent but uncreative and inflexible Captain [[Cole Taylor|Taylor]]. Cain tasks Starbuck with planning the joint strike on the Resurrection Ship.

===Attack on the Resurrection Ship===
[[Image:Gina-Cain.jpg|thumb|Admiral Cain held at gun-point by [[Gina Inviere|her Cylon prisoner]].]]

After Captain Thrace briefs both Adama, Apollo, and Cain on her plan to attack the Resurrection Ship, Adama pulls Starbuck aside and outlines a plan to assassinate Cain following the attack. At the same time, Cain instructs [[Jack Fisk]] to lead a detachment of marines to "terminate Adama's command" after the battle ([[Resurrection Ship, Part I]]).

When the moment arrives, both commanders back down from their assassination plots, to the relief of Thrace and Fisk.

===Assassination===

Shortly afterwards, Cain returns to her quarters and is surprised to find Gina Inviere, who escaped her cell with the aid of [[Gaius Baltar|Baltar]], waiting for her. After a tense confrontation, Gina kills Cain with a shot to the head.

Cain is given a funeral with full military honors. Fisk and Thrace eulogize her; Fisk promises to command ''Pegasus'' in the same spirit as she did, and Thrace says that while she knew Cain only briefly, she admired her, and that "We were safer with her than we are without." ([[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]). Several months later, Adama tells his son that he can't find any faults in Cain's tactical decisions, and refuses to pass judgment on her, because he had people who kept him from going down a similar path, and never had to go through the situations Cain had to face ([[Razor]]).

== Notes ==

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=== Original Series nods ===

*Helena Cain is inspired by the character of Commander [[Cain (TOS)|Cain]] from the original ''[[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Battlestar Galactica]]'', portrayed by the late [[Lloyd Bridges]].

*Unlike Commander Cain in the Original Series, Admiral Cain is a superior officer to Commander William Adama. The Original Series's Adama held a higher rank than Cain, and relieved him of command for a time in the two part episode, "[[The Living Legend, Part I|The Living Legend]]".

=== Behind-the-Scenes ===

*Actress Michelle Forbes said on her character, "She’s lost perspective. People ask, ‘Is she insane? Is she psychotic?’ I hope that’s not how she came across because that was never the intention. I think some individuals can appear to be that way, but this is a woman who did what she had to do in order to survive during some very brutal conflicts. Along the way, Cain lost her sense of judgment as well as her sense of reason and rationale. That was all very interesting for me to play. Usually in TV you’re given one characteristic and you dare not stray from that, so it was neat to have such a difficult, fascinating woman to play. In "[[Resurrection Ship, Part I|Resurrection Ship]]" it really comes to light the path of sadism that these people have gone down and we’re fully able to see exactly what happened to this group aboard the Pegasus. There were some pretty difficult choices they had to make, too, in regard to the Cylon prisoner Gina and that whole dynamic." [http://www.greatlink.org/dcisV2.asp?url=http://www.greatlink.org/shownewsitem.asp?item=5201]

*Cain's sexual orientation was revealed in ''Razor'', which Forbes, in the "Making of" featurette on its original DVD release, stated came as a surprise to her.

*Forbes guest starred as Dara Timicin in the ''[[MemoryAlpha:Star Trek: The Next Generation|Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' episode "[[MemoryAlpha:Half a Life|Half a Life]]" and had a recurring role as Ensign [[MemoryAlpha:Ro Laren|Ro Laren]] during the last three seasons of ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'', with the character at one point earmarked to join the spinoff series ''[[MemoryAlpha:Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]''. ''Battlestar Galactica'' executive producer [[Ronald D. Moore]], also a ''TNG'' veteran, wrote for her character in the episodes "[[MemoryAlpha:Disaster|Disaster]]" and "[[MemoryAlpha:The Next Phase|The Next Phase]]".

=== Production ===

*Cain's given name, Helena, was not spoken in dialogue initially, but was posted in episode summaries on Scifi.com (initially misspelled as "Nelena"). Her name is first spoken by Colonel [[Jurgen Belzen]] in "[[Razor]]".

*Cain's habit of expediting meetings by conducting them without chairs is borrowed from UN Ambassador [[Wikipedia:John R. Bolton|John R. Bolton]] (Source: [[Podcast:Pegasus#Act 2|Podcast:Pegasus]]). Within the show, the lack of chairs is said to stem from her preference to stand because of her back problems ([[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]).

=== Separate continuity ===

* In [[Dynamite Entertainment]]'s [[comic]] books, Helena Cain and ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' make a one-shot appearance in ''[[Battlestar Galactica: Pegasus]]'', and she is mentioned again in ''[[Battlestar Galactica: Origins 6]]''. In ''Origins 6'', Captain [[Alexa Cain|Alexa "Pugnacious" Cain]] is noted as Helena's mother, who had divorced her husband well before the [[Battle of Tauron]]—the last battle of the First Cylon War. However, "Razor" makes it clear that Helena's mother was named "[[Saundra Cain|Saundra]]", and that she was on [[Hypatia]], [[Tauron]] at the time of that last battle, which is when she died.

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Helena Cain

2009-09-21T10:44:56Z

Fredmdbud: /* Assassination */ edit

:''For information on this character's [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]] counterpart, see [[Cain (TOS)]].
{{Character Data
|photo=CainH.jpg
|age=49-50<ref>According to the script for "[[Razor]]", young Helena Cain was nine years old at the time of the [[Battle of Tauron]]. See: [[Sources: Helena Cain]].</ref>
|colony=[[Tauron (RDM)|Tauron]]
|birthname=Helena Cain
|callsign=
|seen= Pegasus (episode)
|pseen=Pegasus
|death= Shot in the head by [[Gina Inviere]] ([[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]).
|parents= [[Saundra Cain|Mother]] and [[Cain (father)|father]] killed in the first [[Cylon War]] <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=22 November 2007|last=Ryan|first=Maureen|format=|language=}}</ref>
|siblings= [[Lucy Cain]]† (killed in the first Cylon War)
|children=
|marital status= Previous relationship with Gina Inviere
|role=Commanding Officer, [[Mercury class battlestar|battlestar]] ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]''
|rank=Rear Admiral
|actor=[[Michelle Forbes]]<br/> [[Kyra Scott]] (young Cain)
|serial=866931<ref>Serial number is from [[:Image:Cain's dogtag serial.jpg|her dogtags]].</ref>
|cylon=
|name=
}}
Admiral '''Helena Cain''' hails from the colony [[Tauron (RDM)|Tauron]], and is the commanding officer of the [[Mercury class battlestar]] ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' at the time of the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]]. She is a hard woman, unafraid of making difficult decisions and unflinching in her will to do what she sees as right. These traits sometimes compel her to feel that she has been left no choice but to take controversial, unpopular and morally questionable choices.

==Biography==
===Childhood===
Helena Cain was born during the first [[Cylon War]]. On the last day of the war, Tauron was under attack by Cylon [[Basestar (RDM)|basestars]] and [[Cylon Centurion Model 0005|Centurion]] ground forces. Her sister [[Lucy Cain]] and her [[Cain (father)|father]] were pinned down in a building under heavy fire. When her father was injured trying to escape, he told Helena to get Lucy to a shelter, before dying. The two made it out of the building, but outside Helena panicked, left Lucy in a field of rubble and ran away to hide in a container. When Cain came out again after the Cylons retreated, she found only her sister's doll on the ground ("[[Razor]]", extended version). These traumatic events were formative for her future.

===Cylon attack and guerrilla warfare===
[[Image:Cain and gina.jpg|thumb|right|Cain dining with [[Gina Inviere]].]]

When ''Pegasus'' is scheduled for an extensive overhaul at the [[Scorpion Fleet Shipyards]], Cain has regular meetings with [[Gina Inviere]], a civilian contractor working for the [[Ministry of Defense]], to work out the details of the retrofit. The two eventually become romantically involved.

Shortly before the [[Cylon attack]], Lieutenant [[Kendra Shaw]] is assigned to the battlestar as Cain's personal aide. When the lieutenant fails to make it to [[CIC]] immediately after her arrival, Cain chews her out in front of the crew, but breaks into laughter after Shaw leaves, showing that she isn't always as hard as she appears to be.

When the Cylons [[Fall of the Scorpion Fleet Shipyards|attack the shipyards]], Cain is in her quarters, working out and going over efficiency reports. She makes it to CIC and immediately orders the battlestar unmoored. When the navigational computer is discovered to be offline and nuclear missiles are inbound, Cain orders a [[blind jump]] to escape certain destruction. With many of her crew dead and the destruction of the Twelve Colonies confirmed, she holds a speech vowing to take revenge on the Cylons. However, in a private dinner with her XO [[Jurgen Belzen]], [[Jack Fisk]], Inviere and Shaw, she promises that she has no intention to unnecessarily waste lives or resources in an emotional quest for revenge.

Shortly later, a Cylon communications relay is detected, which the crew believes to be an easy target. On arrival, one squadron of Vipers is launched. However, 15 squadrons of [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Raider]]s suddenly appear because, it turns out, the target is actually a Cylon staging area. XO Belzen urges Cain to recover their Vipers and retreat, but instead she seemingly forgets her earlier promise and orders the launch of all remaining fighters, which Belzen refuses to do in the face of such odds. Cain asks the XO for his side arm, and shoots him in the head with it in front of the crew. She then turned to Fisk, promotes him to XO, and orders him to launch the rest of the Vipers. Fearing for his life, he does so. At the same time, Inviere disables the main gun batteries and allows a group of [[Cylon Centurion]]s to board the ship, causing many deaths. Shaw reveals her as a Cylon agent in CIC and Cain orders her arrest. ''Pegasus'' manages to win the [[Battle of the Communications Relay|battle]], but with staggering losses.

Cain is deeply stung by Inviere's betrayal, her feelings toward her erstwhile lover turned into hatred and scorn. Cain gives [[Alastair Thorne]] free rein in interrogating the Cylon for information, suggesting "pain ... degradation, fear, shame." This sets the tone for the interrogations, ultimately leading to measures such as gang rape.

When ''Pegasus'' happens upon a small civilian fleet, Admiral Cain decides to strip it of resources and personnel, including their FTL drives. The civilians, however, refuse the cooperate. Resistance is particularly vocal on the ''[[Scylla]]''. When a boarding team led by Shaw and Fisk fails to make the civilians cooperate, Cain orders the team to shoot the families of every conscript who refuses to obey. Shaw fires the first shot and eventually 10 people are killed, thus breaking the resistance. Cain is very impressed by Shaw's actions in the civilian standoff and promotes her to the rank of captain, explaining that Shaw has the qualities of a "razor"; someone who is able to shut down all emotions and inhibitions in battle in order to survive.

Despite the impossible odds, Cain intends to sustain a campaign of guerrilla warfare against the occupying Cylon forces. She then led the battlestar away from the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]], following a Cylon fleet that trails what they discovered as the fellow battlestar ''[[Galactica]]'' ("[[Razor]]", "[[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]").

===Meeting Galactica===
[[image:caingalact.jpg|left|Admiral Cain, meeting up with the crew of ''Galactica''.|thumb]]
Upon meeting up with Commander [[William Adama]]'s [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] six months later, she as ranking officer assumes command and transfers personnel from ''Galactica'' to ''Pegasus'', including [[Lee Adama]] and [[Kara Thrace]], indicating that Adama has let military discipline become too lax. Cain is more interested in fighting the Cylons, seemingly oblivious to the point that she and the ships around her are all that was left of the human race, whose survival is more paramount than offensive assaults. While Adama initially welcomes such attacks against a mysterious Cylon force that followed the Fleet (to stop it from following them), his attitude begins to cool about Cain's very strict and unmerciful leadership.

Cain's actions also raise concerns with President [[Laura Roslin]]. Cain recognizes Roslin and her former role as Secretary of Education. After the Fleet command transfer from Adama to Cain, Roslin makes several attempts to call Cain to request supplies for the civilian fleet, but all of Roslin's calls are ignored.

After the fatal assault of one of her crew members, Lieutenant Thorne, Cain arrests Chief [[Galen Tyrol|Tyrol]] and Lieutenant [[Karl Agathon]] and has them flown to ''Pegasus'', under Adama's protest, since traditionally a trial is held on the ship where an incident has occurred. Cain uses ''Galactica'''s log against Adama when he asks for a tribunal; Cain notes that Adama dismissed the last council unilaterally when the verdict did not suit him. Cain summarily court-martials the prisoners herself in a matter of hours, sentencing them to death. A displeased Commander Adama orders an assault crew to ''Pegasus'' to bring his men back. Cain responds by deploying her squadrons of advanced Viper Mark VIIs against Adama's museum collection of Viper Mark IIs in a tense standoff ([[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]).

The tense situation is ended by a sudden appearance by Starbuck, flying the [[Blackbird]] as she returns from her unofficial recon mission on the unknown Cylon ship. Starbuck transmits the pictures she took of the [[Resurrection Ship]] back to ''Pegasus'''s CIC. Upon Thrace's return to ''Pegasus'', Cain is so impressed with her performance that she promotes Thrace to Captain and ''Pegasus'' [[CAG]], replacing the competent but uncreative and inflexible Captain [[Cole Taylor|Taylor]]. Cain tasks Starbuck with planning the joint strike on the Resurrection Ship.

===Attack on the Resurrection Ship===
[[Image:Gina-Cain.jpg|thumb|Admiral Cain held at gun-point by [[Gina Inviere|her Cylon prisoner]].]]

After Captain Thrace briefs both Adama, Apollo, and Cain on her plan to attack the Resurrection Ship, Adama pulls Starbuck aside and outlines a plan to assassinate Cain following the attack. At the same time, Cain instructs [[Jack Fisk]] to lead a detachment of marines to "terminate Adama's command" after the battle ([[Resurrection Ship, Part I]]).

When the moment arrives, both commanders decide to not say the code words signaling their execution orders. This leaves Thrace and Fisk visibly relieved. Cain survives Adama's plan, ironically, because Adama solicits advice from [[Sharon Agathon|the second copy of Sharon Valerii]], who reminds him of his decommissioning speech that asked whether humanity asked itself if it deserved to survive ([[Miniseries]]). That is, an assassination Cain by Adama would be a good example of why humanity deserved to be exterminated. Although it may have been due to realizing Adama's value as a commander during the battle, the reasons for Cain staying her hand were never revealed, and remain a topic of debate among fans.

===Assassination===

Shortly afterwards, Cain returns to her quarters and is surprised to find Gina Inviere, who escaped her cell with the aid of [[Gaius Baltar|Baltar]], waiting for her. After a tense confrontation, Gina kills Cain with a shot to the head.

Cain is given a funeral with full military honors. Fisk and Thrace eulogize her; Fisk promises to command ''Pegasus'' in the same spirit as she did, and Thrace says that while she knew Cain only briefly, she admired her, and that "We were safer with her than we are without." ([[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]). Several months later, Adama tells his son that he can't find any faults in Cain's tactical decisions, and refuses to pass judgment on her, because he had people who kept him from going down a similar path, and never had to go through the situations Cain had to face ([[Razor]]).

== Notes ==

{{sourcebox}}

=== Original Series nods ===

*Helena Cain is inspired by the character of Commander [[Cain (TOS)|Cain]] from the original ''[[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Battlestar Galactica]]'', portrayed by the late [[Lloyd Bridges]].

*Unlike Commander Cain in the Original Series, Admiral Cain is a superior officer to Commander William Adama. The Original Series's Adama held a higher rank than Cain, and relieved him of command for a time in the two part episode, "[[The Living Legend, Part I|The Living Legend]]".

=== Behind-the-Scenes ===

*Actress Michelle Forbes said on her character, "She’s lost perspective. People ask, ‘Is she insane? Is she psychotic?’ I hope that’s not how she came across because that was never the intention. I think some individuals can appear to be that way, but this is a woman who did what she had to do in order to survive during some very brutal conflicts. Along the way, Cain lost her sense of judgment as well as her sense of reason and rationale. That was all very interesting for me to play. Usually in TV you’re given one characteristic and you dare not stray from that, so it was neat to have such a difficult, fascinating woman to play. In "[[Resurrection Ship, Part I|Resurrection Ship]]" it really comes to light the path of sadism that these people have gone down and we’re fully able to see exactly what happened to this group aboard the Pegasus. There were some pretty difficult choices they had to make, too, in regard to the Cylon prisoner Gina and that whole dynamic." [http://www.greatlink.org/dcisV2.asp?url=http://www.greatlink.org/shownewsitem.asp?item=5201]

*Cain's sexual orientation was revealed in ''Razor'', which Forbes, in the "Making of" featurette on its original DVD release, stated came as a surprise to her.

*Forbes guest starred as Dara Timicin in the ''[[MemoryAlpha:Star Trek: The Next Generation|Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' episode "[[MemoryAlpha:Half a Life|Half a Life]]" and had a recurring role as Ensign [[MemoryAlpha:Ro Laren|Ro Laren]] during the last three seasons of ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'', with the character at one point earmarked to join the spinoff series ''[[MemoryAlpha:Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]''. ''Battlestar Galactica'' executive producer [[Ronald D. Moore]], also a ''TNG'' veteran, wrote for her character in the episodes "[[MemoryAlpha:Disaster|Disaster]]" and "[[MemoryAlpha:The Next Phase|The Next Phase]]".

=== Production ===

*Cain's given name, Helena, was not spoken in dialogue initially, but was posted in episode summaries on Scifi.com (initially misspelled as "Nelena"). Her name is first spoken by Colonel [[Jurgen Belzen]] in "[[Razor]]".

*Cain's habit of expediting meetings by conducting them without chairs is borrowed from UN Ambassador [[Wikipedia:John R. Bolton|John R. Bolton]] (Source: [[Podcast:Pegasus#Act 2|Podcast:Pegasus]]). Within the show, the lack of chairs is said to stem from her preference to stand because of her back problems ([[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]).

=== Separate continuity ===

* In [[Dynamite Entertainment]]'s [[comic]] books, Helena Cain and ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' make a one-shot appearance in ''[[Battlestar Galactica: Pegasus]]'', and she is mentioned again in ''[[Battlestar Galactica: Origins 6]]''. In ''Origins 6'', Captain [[Alexa Cain|Alexa "Pugnacious" Cain]] is noted as Helena's mother, who had divorced her husband well before the [[Battle of Tauron]]—the last battle of the First Cylon War. However, "Razor" makes it clear that Helena's mother was named "[[Saundra Cain|Saundra]]", and that she was on [[Hypatia]], [[Tauron]] at the time of that last battle, which is when she died.

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Louis Hoshi

2009-09-18T04:53:20Z

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|role= [[Galactica (RDM)|''Galactica'']] watch officer and communications officer;<br>Acting Admiral of the Fleet ([[Daybreak, Part II]])
|rank= Junior Lieutenant;<br>Brevet promotion to Rear Admiral (resumed permanent rank hours later)<ref>See: [[Sources:L. Hoshi]]</ref>
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Lieutenant '''Louis Hoshi''' is the [[communications officer]] on the [[Mercury class battlestar|battlestar]] ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'', and later becomes the communications officer on ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' in a similar role as Lieutenant [[Anastasia Dualla]]. During his time aboard ''Pegasus'', he at times carries out duties usually done by the [[tactical officer]].

During the opening salvos of the Cylon attack on the [[Scorpion Fleet Shipyards]], Hoshi is showing Lieutenant [[Kendra Shaw]] to her quarters and explaining the basics of the ship's computer network to her before he is knocked unconscious when ''Pegasus'' is hit. He is later seen back on duty in the CIC when Cain announces the colonies' destruction to the crew. He is also there when Shaw orders the security camera feed pulled up, revealing a dead [[Number Six]] and unmasking [[Gina Inviere]] as a Cylon agent ([[Razor]]).

Hoshi handles the [[wireless]] traffic between ''Pegasus'' and her Vipers during the [[Standoff Between Galactica and Pegasus|stand-off between the two battlestars]] ([[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]), and between ''Pegasus'' and the strike team during the [[Battle of the Guardian Basestar|attack on the Guardian basestar]], where he also reports the damage control status. He also mans nuclear the launch key station when Commander [[Lee Adama]] prepares a nuclear strike on the basestar (Razor).

With the settlement of [[New Caprica]], Hoshi remains on ''Pegasus'' and is serving in the CIC when the Cylons arrive and force the remaining [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] to abandon the colony ([[Occupation]]). After the destruction of ''Pegasus'', Hoshi is assigned to ''Galactica'''s CIC ([[The Passage]]).

During a standoff with the Cylons above the [[algae planet]], Admiral [[William Adama]] orders Hoshi to arm missile tubes 4 through 10, threatening to destroy the [[Temple of Five]] ([[The Eye of Jupiter]]) with nuclear warheads.

Hoshi takes over Lieutenant [[Felix Gaeta]]'s duties when Gaeta joins Captain [[Kara Thrace]]'s search for [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]] aboard the ''[[Demetrius]]''. When the [[Cylon Civil War|Cylon rebel]] [[basestar]] found by the ''Demetrius'' jumps to the Fleet without her, he relays Admiral Adama's order to the Fleet to make an [[Emergency jump coordinates|emergency jump]] and announces when the [[Battery|main batteries]] have acquired a firing solution on the baseship ([[Guess What's Coming to Dinner?]]).

After Lieutenant [[Anastasia Dualla]]'s death, Hoshi replaces her as ''Galactica'''s [[communications officer]] ([[Sometimes a Great Notion]]).

[[image:Louis Hoshi.jpg|thumb|left|Louis Hoshi in CiC. ([[The Oath]]).]]
Hoshi is revealed to be in a romantic relationship with [[Felix Gaeta]]. When the Gaeta's [[Raptor]] goes missing en route to the ''[[Zephyr]]'', Hoshi and [[Margaret Edmondson|Margaret "Racetrack" Edmondson]] mount a [[SAR]] mission to find him, which they eventually do. Once back aboard ''Galactica'', Gaeta ends their relationship in order to protect Hoshi from any repercussions from his meeting with Admiral Adama. ([[The Face of the Enemy]]) Gaeta actually planned a [[Gaeta's Mutiny|mutiny]], which Hoshi is unaware of. Gaeta arranges sabotages, which Hoshi thought were just glitches on ''Galactica's'' old systems. After Gaeta announces that he is relieving Adama of command, Hoshi is taken away by a mutinying marine. ([[The Oath]])

Despite volunteering for the mission to rescue [[Hera]] from [[The Colony]], he is appointed Admiral by Adama should they not return with the child. He leaves on the last Raptor out and is saluted by the crew before he goes. Later, he is seen on the new planet with [[Cottle]], [[Tigh]], [[Lee]], and [[William Adama|Adama]] watching the natives. He returns the Admiral stars to Adama, saying that they were "too heavy", and that the happiest day of his life was when he saw Adama get out of that Raptor, echoing a statement Roslin made to Adama back in [[Resurrection Ship, Part I]] in regards to the return of Admiral [[Helena Cain]]. ([[Daybreak, Part II]])

== Notes ==

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* Hoshi means "star" in Japanese.
* In a [[List of Deleted Scenes (RDM)#The Captain's Hand|deleted scene]] in "The Captain's Hand", Hoshi is relieved of his post by Commander [[Barry Garner]] and summarily replaced with Ensign [[Abel Thornton]]. Another deleted scene from "[[Black Market]]" shows him finding Commander Fisk's body.
*In ''[[MemoryAlpha:Star Trek: Enterprise|Star Trek: Enterprise]]'', [[MemoryAlpha:Hoshi Sato|Hoshi Sato]] is the name of the communications officer aboard the ''[[MemoryAlpha:Enterprise (NX-01)|Enterprise]]''.

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Galen Tyrol

2009-09-10T02:52:34Z

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|age=Allegedly around 32<ref>Tyrol stated that he has "served on battlestars since I was 18" ([[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]), and had "ten years experience" at the time of the Cylon attack ([[Miniseries]]) which would make him 28 at the time. The series concludes four years later.</ref>, actually 2,000+<ref>[This is due to extreme long age flight at near but not equaling light speed. Thus succumbing to relativistic affects including only from his point of view being in space for only a few years. Therefore in addition to have actually been born his actual age biologically speaking is actually closer to 30, possibly older, but not 2,000.</ref>
|colony= [[Earth (RDM)#Arrival and Ruins|Original Earth]]; he has a fabricated background of being from [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Gemenon|Gemenon]]
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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 in or near Scotland after 4 ACH settlement on New Earth (c. 148,000 BCE)
|parents= Allegedly an unnamed [[oracle]] (mother) and [[priest]] (father).
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|children=[[Nicholas Tyrol]] (not biological)
|marital status= Widowed, formerly married to [[Cally Tyrol|Cally (Henderson) Tyrol]]†;<br>Involved with [[Tory Foster]]† on original Earth
|role= Tribal King of the Scots [[#Notes|See More...]];<br>Deck Chief of [[Galactica type battlestar|battlestar]] ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'';<br>Temporarily principal liaison between rebel Cylons and Colonials;<br>[[Resurrection]] scientist
|rank= [[wikipedia:Senior Chief Petty Officer|Senior Chief Petty Officer]] [[#Rank Notes|See More...]]
|serial= 312365<ref name="serial">The original dog tags showed a different name and serial number: "C. Tyrol ser 312365" ([http://www.mediablvd.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=16040&view=findpost&p=1890295 "Questions for Aaron Douglas"] messageboard Q&A with actor Aaron Douglas).</ref> <br/>409185<ref name="serial 2">Recent tag photos from the actor show the correct name but with a new serial number ([http://community.livejournal.com/aarondouglas/45310.html The Chief's Deck fan blog]), which is also the number supplied to QMX for the dogtag replicas.</ref>
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== Biography ==

=== Background ===

'''Galen Tyrol''', often referred to as "Chief", is the highest ranking NCO remaining aboard ''[[Galactica]]''. He served aboard battlestars from the age of eighteen, including ''[[Columbia (RDM)|Columbia]]'', ''[[Atlantia (RDM)|Atlantia]]'', and ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' ([[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]). He has served under [[William Adama]] on ''Galactica'' for five years ([[Litmus]]), and has considerable respect for the Commander - a feeling that is reciprocated. Indeed, he admires Adama to such a degree that he has modeled his own style of leadership on that of Adama: firm, fair, and willing to go to the fullest degree in support of his crew.

However, when people under his responsibility are injured, threatened or killed, Tyrol becomes rather irrational, angry, and reckless in his actions, to the point of further endangering his people or his reputation with senior officers. Prime examples of his lack of emotional control includes the scenes before the ship venting after the nuke hit and cursing [[Saul Tigh|Tigh]] in front of Commander Adama for the vent and loss of 85 of his people ([[Miniseries]]), and saving a mortally-wounded crewmate while leaving himself and [[Cally Henderson]] highly vulnerable in "[[Scattered]]". Tyrol's tryst with [[Sharon Valerii]] and a subsequent cover-up attempt in "[[Litmus]]" resulted in the jailing of Specialist [[Socinus]], who was trying to protect Tyrol.

Originally leading [[Deck Crew 5]], a team of 15 [[deckhand]]s and specialists, since the Cylon attack he has become the most senior and experienced NCO on ''Galactica''.

===First and Second Life Cycles===

Tyrol was born on [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]] during its last days. He was a senior researcher in a special team attempting to recover [[downloading]] technology, which had been lost since the founding of the colony. His work was considered key. In his first body, he wore glasses. He was planning to marry fellow team member [[Tory Foster]]. The two of them were lovers and shared living quarters.

Prior to the war, Tyrol and the others received warnings about the war from beings they saw which no others could see. Tyrol insisted there must be a chip in his head creating the visions, not unlike Baltar would thousands of years later. The work was completed. Tyrol was killed by a very close nuclear flash as he was shopping in a fruit and flower market. The vaporization of his body left a shadow on a concrete wall visible 2,000 years later.

His consciousness was transferred to a ship orbiting the planet. He and the others set out in a slower-than-light ship to re-find Kobol and the 12 tribes. He arrived at the colonies during the first Cylon war, and helped construct the eight humanoid Cylons. He was betrayed, killed and boxed by [[Number One]], who later resurrected him with false memories and planted him in the colonies for his next life cycle.

=== Cylon Attack ===

At the time of the Cylon attack, as well as leading his deck crew, Tyrol is overseeing the refurbishment and restoration of [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] [[Viper Mark II|Mark II]] [[Viper 7242|N7242C]] - the Viper originally flown by William Adama at the time of the [[Cylon War]] ([[Miniseries]]).

Following the attack, with ''Galactica'' undermanned, Tyrol also performs the function of senior Damage Control officer ([[Miniseries]] / [[Water]]), a role that brings him into conflict with [[Saul Tigh|Colonel Tigh]] after the ''Galactica'' is struck by a Cylon nuclear warhead.

=== Relationship with Sharon Valerii ===

[[Image:Sharontyrol.jpg|thumb|right|[[Sharon Valerii]] and Galen Tyrol.]]

For several months prior to the Cylon attack, and in its aftermath, Tyrol has been engaged in an affair with Lieutenant [[Sharon Valerii]], one of ''Galactica'''s [[Raptor]] pilots. Despite the fact the relationship breaks military protocol, senior officers on the ship turn a blind eye to it, while Tyrol's own crew treat it with fond amusement.

When the water supplies on ''Galactica'' are sabotaged, Tyrol is placed in an awkward position: by her own admission, Valerii knows explosives were missing from a small-arms locker - potentially making her a suspect - and he is the principal DC investigator into the cause of the explosions which wreck the water tanks. Torn between love and duty, the situation prompts him to hide evidence and allow a theory that the walls of the tanks simply collapsed from fatigue resulting from damage ''Galactica'' received from a nuclear warhead in the Cylon attack ([[Water]] / [[Miniseries]]).

Following the sabotage attempt, Valerii is ordered to end her relationship with Tyrol ([[Bastille Day]]) as a part of a general tightening-up of security and discipline on ship, only to have Tyrol's deck crew help the two of them to continue to meet in greater secret ([[Litmus]]).

Tyrol's world is thrown further into turmoil when both he and Valerii become the prime suspects in an investigation into how a humanoid Cylon (a copy of [[Aaron Doral]]) managed to get aboard the ''Galactica'', kill a guard, steal explosives and them blow himself up in a ship's corridor, almost killing Adama and Tigh ([[Litmus]]). When [[Socinus|one of his own Specialists]] is thrown in the brig for dereliction of duty which may have enabled the Cylon to access a weapons locker and steal the explosives, Tyrol is shocked into re-thinking his relationship with Valerii, and ends it himself.

While they continue to encounter one another professionally - their work means they can hardly avoid one another - Tyrol and Valerii now have an uneasy distance between each other, and Valerii's actions around a captured Cylon [[Raider (RDM)|Raider]] have begun to disturb Tyrol.

=== Kobol ===

When [[The Fleet (RDM)|the Fleet]] discovers the planet believed to be [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]], Tyrol arranges for Socinus' release and later berates the specialist for lying to cover for him. Thereafter, Tyrol is part of the team assembled on the ill-fated recon Kobol on the [[Raptor 1]], which then crashlands near the ruins of the [[Tomb of Athena]]. ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]], [[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II|Part II]])

While Tyrol is the more experienced leader, his non-commissioned status leaves Lieutenant [[Alex Quartararo|Alex "Crashdown" Quartararo]] in charge of the survivors. When Crashdown blames [[Tarn]] for leaving a needed med kit behind -- Socinus is injured during the crash and [[serisone]] is needed to help him breathe -- Tyrol steps in, recommending that he and [[Cally Henderson]] accompany Tarn. After successfully retrieving the kit from the Raptor crash site and heading back to the party, the trio is ambushed by Cylons and Tarn is killed ([[Scattered]]). Eventually, he and Henderson make it back to the party, only to find out that it is too late. Upon [[Seelix]]'s urging, Tyrol euthanizes Socinus with an overdose of [[morpha]] from both medkits to spare him a more painful death ([[Valley of Darkness]]).

Upon discovering that the Cylons are setting up an anti-aircraft missile battery, Crashdown plans a strike to take the unit (and its accompanying [[DRADIS]] dish) out of operation. While the others of his party, notably Baltar and Henderson, attempt to voice their indignation of such a plan, Tyrol firmly reminds them that Crashdown is in charge. Despite Tyrol's own misgivings of how the plan is to be executed, they follow through to the point right before the attack.

When it becomes clear that there were five Cylons at the battery, Henderson refuses to conduct a diversionary attack. Tyrol attempts to diffuse the situation by trying to state that the DRADIS dish is undefended; all that needs to be done is to destroy it, and the turret could not automatically target the incoming [[SAR]] operation. Crashdown has a breakdown and irrationally threatens to kill Henderson, prompting Baltar to [[w: Frag (military)|frag]] Crashdown.

As the command officer, per se, Tyrol later destroys the DRADIS dish as the Cylons pursue them towards it. Tyrol then makes a stand against the Cylons, screaming and firing his pistol at them. The Cylons are all killed; a surprised Tyrol turns around and sees that a [[Raptor]], preserved by Tyrol's destruction of the dish, has destroyed the Centurions with a missile ([[Fragged]]).

=== After Kobol ===

Tyrol is arrested and interrogated by Colonel Tigh, due to his relationship with Commander Adama's would-be assassin. Tigh accuses him of being part of the plot to kill Adama, throwing him in the same cell as Valerii. Baltar later visits the cell on the pretense of drawing Tyrol's blood to analyze via the [[Cylon detector]]. In fact, Tyrol is used as a means to extract information from Valerii; Baltar injects a drug that induces a systemic shutdown of Tyrol's organs, telling Valerii that the chief only has moments to live and that providing him with information on the numbers of humanoid Cylons within the fleet is the only thing that could save Tyrol. After extracting the alleged number of Cylons in the Fleet from Valerii, Tyrol is injected with an antidote and is eventually declared human by Baltar (who does not run the test).

Tyrol is present when his own deckhand, Cally Henderson, kills Valerii, as Tyrol accompanies the security escort to Valerii's testing cell ([[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]). This act causes Tyrol to withdraw more from interaction with his own staff, many of which are already treating him coldly from his interaction with the now-confirmed Cylon Valerii.

As with many on ''Galactica'', the stress of working without relief in sight or with little hope begins to take its toll on Tyrol. For him, the challenge of keeping the old Vipers running with very few spare parts and sometimes extensive damage becomes too much to manage. Under pressure from [[CAG]] [[Lee Adama]] to keep his Vipers flying, and mostly because he has little else to do, he scribbles out a design for a new fighter and begins to assemble it from basic metals and parts ([[Flight of the Phoenix]]). Initially, his deck crews are skeptical that the Chief's project is anything but a pipe dream. But word soon spreads as the fuselage forms and Tyrol's dream becomes reality. While Colonel Tigh is visibly against the project at first, Commander Adama notices that the project, for whatever outcome it might yield, gives the crew something to strive for, something to hope for, and tacitly allows off-duty crew to work on it. Many, including [[Anastasia Dualla]] from [[CIC]], and [[Kara Thrace]], lend a hand.

Tyrol's group is stuck when trying to place a skin on the new fighter since the necessary parts are reserved for the Vipers. But [[Karl Agathon]] suggests carbon composite materials as an alternative to cover the ship. This solves the covering but adds a significant new ability: stealth. The carbon composites would make the new fighter nearly invisible to [[DRADIS]] detection.

After the ship's [[logic bomb]] crisis, the new fighter, named the [[Blackbird]], is given a trial flight by Kara Thrace, with very good results. In a ceremony, President Roslin christens the vessel and Tyrol reveals the nickname of the Blackbird in honor of the President: ''Laura''.

=== Helo's Return ===

After the return of [[Karl Agathon]] and another version of Sharon Valerii, pregnant with Agathon's child, the two attempt to reconcile their feelings for the biological creation. Helo and Tyrol eventually have a fistfight with lots of name calling over what the Sharons were, but in reality, both are upset over the fact that the two Cylon copies were real people that whom they loved, despite the reality of what they are ([[Flight of the Phoenix]]). Their realization of this fact leads them to what amounted to an uneasy truce.

Later on, after the appearance of Admiral [[Helena Cain]] and the advanced [[Mercury-class]] ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'', he and Agathon stop Lieutenant [[Alastair Thorne]] from raping Sharon and Tyrol accidentally kills Thorne in the process. Tyrol and Agathon are summarily arrested and transferred to ''Pegasus'' for court martial, against Commander Adama's objections. However, Admiral Cain's "court martial" is over before Adama even knows it began, and she sentences both to be executed for murder and treason. This prompts Adama to launch Vipers and a Raptor loaded with a marine strike team to recover them both ([[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]).

Helo and Tyrol receive a stay of execution through the efforts of [[Laura Roslin]] while the two battlestar commanders prepare to destroy the [[Resurrection Ship]] and its Cylon attack fleet that has followed ''Galactica''. Tyrol admits to his difficulty with dealing with the existence of the second Sharon, and tells Helo that he's got to "let it go", an idea that Helo supports, both understanding each other's take on the situation.

The two prisoners are seen receiving two sets of visitors, one welcome, one not. First, Lieutenant Adama visits them to tell them how close ''Galactica'' came to a shooting war with ''Pegasus'' ([[Resurrection Ship, Part I]]), asking the two, "Just how many kinds of stupid ''are'' you?" A day or so later, Specialists [[Vireem]] and [[Gage]] bind and beat the two prisoners in retaliation for the death of Lieutenant Thorne. [[Executive officer]] [[Jack Fisk]] comes to break up the beating, but refuses the prisoners' thanks as he was fond of Thorne himself.

After the escaped humanoid Cylon [[Gina]] escapes and shoots Admiral Cain, killing her, Tyrol and Helo are released and return to ''Galactica''. Both Tyrol and Helo visit Sharon Valerii at her specialized cell. She happily greets Helo, but completely ignores Tyrol. He gets the hint and soon leaves the room, still unable to recover from the memory of the Sharon he knew as "Boomer".

=== Depression and Suicidal Yearnings ===

Tyrol also begins to experience a recurring nightmare in which he jumps from the upper portion of the flight deck to his death. [[Cally Henderson]] finds him asleep but twitching on the ''Galactica'' deck, but when she attempts to wake him, he attacks her in a frenzied rage, beating her savagely.

Deeply distressed by what he had done, Tyrol requests counselling with a priest, and is assigned [[Cavil|Brother Cavil]]. After some time with Tyrol, Cavil identifies the source of Tyrol's anxiety as arising from fear that he is a [[Humanoid Cylon|Cylon sleeper agent]], much like [[Sharon Valerii]] was. Tyrol points out that Sharon was totally convinced by her programming that she was human; Tyrol is haunted by the fear that it was impossible to truly know if you were a Cylon or not. Cavil assures him that he was not, quipping that he knew "because I'm a Cylon and I've never seen you at any of the meetings.".

[[Cavil]] tells him to get back to work, which is where his real family is, and argues that they, [[Deck Crew 5|the deck crew]], love him, "even Cally, ''especially'' Cally" ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I]]). Tyrol is subsequently responsible for exposing [[Cavil]] as a humanoid Cylon when he recognizes him as one of the returnees from the rescue mission to [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]]. Upon realizing this, Tyrol tackles Cavil, calls for security, and states 'Code Blue.'
[[Image:Tyrol LDYBII.JPG|thumb|Tyrol as Union President ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]])]]

===On New Caprica===

A year later, Tyrol lives in [[New Caprica City]] and is the president of the Worker's Union, a vocal opponent of President Baltar's administration. By this point, he has married Henderson, who is pregnant 380 days after settling on the planet. Tyrol and Henderson witness the arrival of the Cylons on the planet, and go to [[Kara Thrace]] for guidance. She tells him to "fight them until we can't" ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]).
Shortly thereafter, their son [[Nicholas Tyrol|Nicholas]] is born, whom they [[dedication ceremony|dedicate]] to the gods Ares and Apollo ([[Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance|The Resistance, Episode 10]]).

By Day 67 of the Cylon Occupation, he begins working with [[Saul Tigh]] about forming an armed resistance movement against the Cylon forces ([[Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance#Episode 1|The Resistance, Episode 1]]). They begin to cache weapons, hiding them in various places, including a temple ([[Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance#Episode 3|The Resistance, Episode 3]]). Through his efforts, the Resistance begins to pick up membership in combating the Cylon Oppressors.

By Day 134, the Resistance is in full swing, working with [[Samuel Anders]] to hit high profile targets, including a Heavy Raider ([[Occupation]]). He becomes at odds with Tigh over the use of suicide bombing to strike at President Baltar during the [[NCP]] Graduation Ceremony, but manages to get a signal to an orbiting Raptor from the Fleet ([[Occupation]]). As a result, he works with Tigh to disrupt the Cylons enough until ''Galactica'' and the Fleet can return.

After learning that his wife is among the detainees taken by the [[NCP]], Tyrol begins a plan to rescue them using the information provided [[Felix Gaeta|from a source]] within Baltar's government, which is ultimately successful ([[Exodus, Part I]]).

===After The Second Exodus===

Following the successful escape from New Caprica with the colonists, Tyrol re-enlists in ''Galactica'''s crew. Meanwhile, he becomes a member of [[the Circle]], a secret tribunal authorized by President Tom Zarek to judge and convict Cylon collaborators. In this position, he acts in a scrupulous manner, insisting on proper procedure and often being the last member to cast his vote. When [[Felix Gaeta]] is tried and sentenced to death, Tyrol realises that Gaeta was the "inside source" in Baltar's administration and without his help the Colonials probably would never escape from New Caprica. That revelation saves Gaeta's life. Soon afterwards the circle is disbanded by President Roslin ([[Collaborators]]).

===Seeing the Eye===

[[Image:3x11 Temple of Five discovery.jpg|thumb|left|Tyrol discovers the Temple of Five ([[The Eye of Jupiter]]).]]
Tyrol, his wife, and a small group of people are camped on the [[algae planet]] as they continue their harvest of badly-needed algae to be used as food for the Fleet ([[The Passage]]). Tyrol, however, senses something on the planet, and soon goes to investigate alone. He finds, within a mountain, a constructed entrance, which leads to an immense chamber, with five pentagonal obelisks, a central circular spire and writings of Colonial origin. Tyrol has discovered something that his parents, one a [[Religion in the Twelve Colonies (RDM)#The Clergy|priest]] and another an [[oracle]], would have longed to see: [[The Temple of Five]]. Tyrol has apparently and inadvertently discovered a family heritage to sense spiritual forces, or at least, ancient Colonial structures.

After the Cylons arrive in force at the algae planet and threaten to destroy ''Galactica'' if they attempt to leave with the Eye (with the Colonials threatening to nuke the planet if the Cylons attempt to do the same), Tyrol is ordered to wire the Temple with [[G-4]] to prevent a Cylon incursion. He begins to touch the central symbol on the center spire as, unknown to him, Cylons begin their move on the Temple ([[The Eye of Jupiter]]).
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===The life of a knuckledragger===
During an outbreak of [[Mellorak infection|Mellorak sickness]], Tyrol displays a shared and apparently wide spread prejudice against [[Sagittaron]]s, including worrying that if they abandoned their religious belief against using scientific medicine the rest of the Fleet would have to share the scarce [[bittamucin]] drug that cures the disease ([[The Woman King]]).

The Tyrols are put in danger after Galen and Cally are trapped in a depressurizing airlock during routine maintenance. With no other options before air runs out, the two are ejected into open space and into a Raptor, despite the lack of pressure suits. Suffering [[w:Decompression sickness|decompression sickness]], Tyrol recovers in bed in sickbay while his wife recovers in a hyperbaric chamber. Tyrol finds himself with more time to care for his son, [[Nicholas Tyrol|Nicholas]], as his wife desired ([[A Day In The Life]]).

Tyrol and Admiral Adama lock horns in a labor dispute. Tyrol takes the side of workers aboard the [[refinery ship]] ''[[Hitei Kan]]'' who go on strike due their bad working and living conditions. Tyrol backs down when Adama threatens to have his wife executed. Later Tyrol and President Roslin come to a mutual agreement, and a [[Colonial Worker's Alliance|workers union]] is reformed from Tyrol's New Caprica days ([[Dirty Hands]]).

===Revelations===
When the Fleet heads towards the Ionian nebula, Tyrol is driven to unrest by a strange [[The Music|music]] he hears. Arriving at the nebula, the effect intensifies, and Tyrol is drawn together with [[Tory Foster]], [[Samuel Anders]] and [[Saul Tigh]]. Initially shocked at the discovery that he is one of the [[final five]] Cylons, Tyrol chooses, along with the other three, to return to his post and his duties in defending the Fleet from an incoming Cylon fleet ([[Crossroads, Part II]]). However, over the next months the four hold clandestine meetings in various locations, discussing their nature and their actions.

Tyrol has difficulty coping with this new revelation, beginning to cut himself. Although trying to act normally, Tyrol's changed behavior eventually has an effect on his marriage. He alienates his wife, who begins to take anti-depressants to cope. After she witnesses one of their secret meetings, she is killed by Foster, who makes it appear like a suicide ([[The Ties That Bind]]). Tyrol's personal problems are magnified by his wife's death and having to care alone for his son. An uncharacteristic "[[frak]]-up" on the hanger deck nearly results in catastrophe and a drunken tirade against Admiral Adama in [[Joe's bar]] earns him demotion and re-assignment ([[Escape Velocity]]). His shaving of his head reflects a continuing troubled state of mind. Blaming himself for Cally's death, he nearly commits suicide, but is unable to bring himself to pull the trigger. During this, he also clashes with [[Gaius Baltar]] over the memory of his wife and Baltar's new cult. However, when Baltar apologizes in private and explains the reasons for becoming a religious figure, Tyrol seems to forgive him ([[The Road Less Traveled]]).

When the [[Cylon Civil War|Cylon rebels]] take hostages and demand that the Cylons on ''Galactica'' are turned over to them, Saul Tigh comes clean and reveals the four. Tigh is about to be executed when [[Kara Thrace]] runs into the [[Launch tube (RDM)|launch tube]] control room announcing that she found another clue towards Earth. In an unexpected move, President [[Lee Adama]] grants the Cylons a full amnesty. When the Fleet makes its final jump to Earth, Tyrol sits in his quarters with his son ([[Revelations]]).

===Earth and after===

Tyrol is among those that make the initial landing on Earth. His reaction to the burnt-out, radiated wasteland is different from the others; he smiles in a cynical grin, shaking his head. As they all begin to explore, he is attracted to a fragment of wall. As he gets closer, he hears echoes of ghosts saying things like "Fresh fruit, get your fresh fruit!" He sees a human silhouette on the wall, looking as if it were painted there. Surrounding the silhouette is weathered writing, barely readable. Tyrol touches the silhouette--and is thrown into a vision of the world as it once was, and Tyrol as he once was, wearing glasses and a sportcoat as he passes through a bustling marketplace of open carts of fruit and flowers and other goods. He stops to buy an avocado himself then continues walking. A massively bright flash of light appears as Tyrol shields his eyes - and stumbles back away from the wall and falls to the ground ([[Sometimes a Great Notion]]).

Among the Cylons in the fleet, Tyrol has (thus far) been shown as the most torn between his worlds since the arrival of the rebel Cylon basestar. Saul Tigh, Sam Anders and Sharon Agathon remained on active duty and retained their rank [though Tigh and Anders may have been temporarily relieved between their identification in "Revelations" and the end of "Sometimes a Great Notion"]. Tory Foster defected to the Cylons; and the rebel Sixes, Eights, Twos, rebel [[Hybrid]] and (apparently) their [[Raider (RDM)|Raider]]s and [[Cylon Centurion|Centurions]] having had their [[telencephalic inhibitor]]s removed, identify entirely as Cylons. Caprica-Six, though remaining aboard ''Galactica'' with the father of her child (and with the only physician with Cylon obstetric experience), identifies herself exclusively as a Cylon and is quite excited about her ability to bear a wholly-Cylon child. The only un-boxed [[Number Three]] maroons herself on Earth with the bones of their ancestors. Conversely, Tyrol appears to have one foot in each society.

Unlike Tigh, Anders and Agathon, Tyrol's duty status is "inactive" from the time of his exposure in "Revelations" until the first act of "No Exit"<ref>FTL engine room control computer terminal showed his status at the end of "Blood on the Scales". He accepts Adm. Adama's request to return to active duty as a Chief Petty Officer (presumably SCPO) whilst discussing the necessary ship repairs in the FTL engine room in Act 1 of "No Exit".</ref>, though he apparently continues to reside aboard ''Galactica'' with his nominal son. It is revealed in "[[A Disquiet Follows My Soul]]" that he serves as an intermediary between the rebel Cylons and the Colonial government (or specifically Adama), and vouched for Adama's character and trustworthiness before the rebel Cylons. He conveys their offer to upgrade Colonial FTL drives with Cylon technology in exchange for citizenship and representation. In doing so, Tyrol finds himself confused by what pronouns to use with respect to Colonials and Cylons, demonstrating his struggle with his group identity. Out of habit, he initially refers to the rebel Cylons in the third person before correcting himself to use the first person, and likewise speaks of the colonists in the first person with an immediate amendment to the second person. The only other Cylon who formerly served in the Colonial military and is not currently on active duty is Tryol's former lover, Sharon Valerii.

The duality of his group identity is instrumental to the survival of President Roslin and former President Baltar, and the failure of the Zarek-Gaeta coup d'état. Tyrol has wireless communication with Cylons, independent of ''Galactica''’s radio systems, and is thus able to arrange a Cylon-piloted rescue Raptor to meet them at a rarely-used airlock and fly them to the safety of the Basestar. ([[The Oath]]) Like the other Cylons among the colonists, Tyrol remains loyal to the established authority of President Roslin and Admiral Adama; and, like Councilman Adama, puts aside his civilian status to take up arms and counter the mutiny. Tyrol's detailed knowledge of the ship's ductwork and FTL systems enable him to bybass the mutineers and disable the drive by removing its synchronisation coil<ref>Actions shown in "Blood on the Scales". The part is identified in dialogue in "No Exit".</ref>, thus preventing Gaeta from jumping the ship away. The loyalty he instils in his former subordinates, collegues and trade unionists allow him to escape capture when discovered mid-travel. While in the FTL engine room, he discovers severe cracks in ''Galactica''’s hull. ([[Blood on the Scales]])

Despite being well-versed in maintaining ''Galactica'''s two FTL drives and being a Final Five Cylon, Tyrol is baffled by Cylon FTL technology and defers to "Sixes, Sharons and maybe even some Leobens" to upgrade Colonial ships' drives. (A Disquiet Follows My Soul).

In connection with young Nicholas Tyrol's kidney infection, Galen learns from [[Doctor Cottle]] that the boy is the biological son of [[Brendan Costanza]]; [[Callandra Tyrol|Cally]] had secretly been sexually involved with both men concurrently prior to her marriage to Galen; she, Cottle, and Cottle's staff kept the child's parentage secret from Galen. After briefly battering Costanza to satisfy his machismo and sense of betrayal, Tyrol takes him to Nicky's hospital bed and instructs him that his first lesson in fatherhood is to stay at the boy's side until Tyrol sleeps off his alcohol binge and sobers up. (A Disquiet Follows My Soul).

Following the [[Gaeta's Mutiny|mutiny]], Tyrol brings to the attention of Adama a number of stress fractures in the hull of ''Galactica''. Adama reinstates Tyrol to active duty as a Chief Petty Officer (presumably Senior Chief, but his specific rank has never been stated orally), a position that was opened by the murder of [[Peter Laird]]. Tyrol convinces a reluctant Adm. Adama to let him utilize Cylon technology to repair and structurally enhance the ship. Adama promoted him back to his old position.

===The escape of Sharon Valerii===

After Tyrol had been supervising for a time the repairs on ''Galactica'', Sharon Valerii returned to ''Galactica'' ostensibly rescuing [[Ellen Tigh]] from the [[Cavil]] led Cylons. Tyrol immediately exposed Valerii to Admiral Adama who had her arrested for her past attack on himself, then Commander Adama, and her leadership role in New Caprica's puppet government. During the ensuing weeks Valerii was held in the brig.

After the Rebel Cylons elected [[Sonja]] as their representative to the Quorum she immediately requested the extradition of Valerii to the Cylons for treason in siding with the Cavil forces in the Cylon Civil War (she went against the consensus decision of her model line to not lobotomize the Cylon Raiders). Her acts after the war started caused the deaths of thousands if not millions of Rebel Cylons. If found guilty she would be put to death.

This cause great distress to Tyrol. This compelled him to visit Valerii in the brig for the first time after weeks of her incarceration. He voiced his regrets over things he said to Valerii when he discovered she was a Cylon but still unaware he was one himself. Later, there for the first time Tyrol experienced Cylon Projection, joining the projection by Valerii of their house they had intended to build on [[Picon]] and eventually the child they probably would had had. This rekindled his love for Valerii.

He pleaded with President Roslin to deny extradition that was to happen the very next day. He failed. Without legal recourse and certain that the Rebel Cylons would put her to death, Tyrol, under the cover of darkness he created, assaulted an Eight during repair work on ''Galactica''. Somehow transporting the incapacitated Eight, he then sabotaged the power to the Valerii's Brig. With her cooperation she was switched for the other Eight.

Tyrol had intended to just have her escape ''Galactica'' (where in particular was not revealed) by briefly impersonating Sharon "Athena" Agathon who was scheduled to go on a long range duration planet search mission. Possibly unknown to him she had viciously assaulted Athena in the pilot's head adjoining the [[Ready Room]]. However, giving his willingness to assault a random Eight to facilitate the escape of Valerii he may had seen Valerii's assault on Athena-if he knew about it-as a necessary evil. What he didn't know was Valerii's intent to abduct and escape with Hera Agathon, Athena's daughter. On the hanger deck and unknown to him she was in the equipment provisions case drugged as he helped Valerii with it onto a Raptor. After a passionate good bye (after Valerii asked Tyrol to join her but he turned it down) with the hope that they will meet again, Valerii prepared for launch.

In the interim Valerii was discovered to have escaped and Admiral Adama, first through deception and then overtly tried to apprehend her by preventing her launch, prompting her to take drastic action to fly out of a closing flight pod damaging the Raptor but making it out. She then quickly jumped away from ''Galactica'' damaging her hull due to her proximity. As he was overseeing and giving orders for repairs of the damaged section he learned of the abduction by Valerii of Hera from a crewman and overhearing a distraught Athena and Helo brow beat a crewman for supposedly not noticing a three year old girl boarding a Raptor. Shocked and devastated he irrationally projected the Picon house which was empty including of his notional daughter. It emotionally shattered him, Valerii's betrayal in stealing Hera. Valerii's mission was to abduct Hera all along. The "rescue" of Ellen Tigh was part of the plot to gain credibility.([[Someone to Watch Over Me]])

Later Tyrol was arrested for his hand in the escape of Sharon Valerii and her abduction of Hera Agathon. How his complicity was detected is not known. Although given his known determination to save Valerii from extradition and very likely death and his known "repair" of the power to her cell he was a natural suspect. Also, given the known Cylon ability to tell each other apart despite being identical to humans if he was seen talking to the supposed "Athena" on the hanger deck he would not able to plead ignorance and misidentification given how easily he identified Valerii when she first came aboard. Given his arrest most likely he has been stripped of his rank and responsibilities. ([[Islanded in a Stream of Stars]] outtakes<ref>The scene depicting the arrest and jailing of Tyrol was edited out. [http://www.bearmccreary.com/blog/?p=1671]</ref>)

===Battle of the Colony, and New Earth===
Tyrol is released from the brig and when Admiral Adama calls for volunteers to rescue Hera, he immediately volunteers and convinces Tory Foster to as well. When ''Galactica'' jumps to the battle, he mans the FTL console and is the one to jump the ship to the Colony, but he remains with Ellen and Anders afterwards. Later, after the Five offer to give Cavil back resurrection in exchange for giving them back Hera and leaving humanity alone, Tyrol and the other members of the Five combine together through Anders' Hybrid tank to retrieve the secret of resurrection which they each hold a piece of, and Tyrol and the others see at least some of each others memories. When Tyrol sees Tory killing Cally and realizes the truth, he flies into a rage, breaks the download and strangles Tory and breaks her neck, killing her. Later on the Colonials new homeworld, he decides to move to an island with no people on it and live out the rest of his days as a hermit, having grown tired of people, both human and Cylon.

From the description "it's an island, off one of the northern continents. It's cold, it's up in the highlands" his intended place of residence may be modern-day Scotland; however, in historical fact sea levels 150,000 years ago were different and Britain was not then an island, being connected to the European mainland.

== Attitudes toward humans ==
After his self discovery as a Cylon and his almost suicidal depression over it, he seems to have accepted it but is still struggling in coming to terms with what it exactly means. He has expressed himself as a Cylon and represented their point of view in discussions with Admiral Adama including lobbying for Cylon citizenship and delegate representation in the Fleet. ([[A Disquiet Follows My Soul]]). However, he still has a strong loyalty to the humans and ''Galactica'', siding with the Loyalist during the mutiny and was instrumental in getting President Roslin and Gaius Baltar off the ship in which they subsequently reached the safety of the Baseship. ([[The Oath]]) He also prevented the ''Galactica'' from jumping away from the baseship and the ships who followed Roslin's orders. ([[Blood on the Scales]]) After discovering serious structural damage to the ship, he has accepted a request to become Chief of Engineering again from Admiral Adama who he is fiercely loyal to in particular. He has offered to use Cylon technology to help strengthen her hull. After an initial refusal from Adama the Admiral changed his mind and accepted Tyrol's offer. He looks on the saving the humans from the Cylon Centurions during the first Cylon War as a positive that he and the other Five should be given credit for it ([[No Exit]]) but he has never uttered an anti-human word. However, he has been told of his history on Earth and since then second handedly. Unlike [[Ellen Tigh]] and [[Samuel Anders]] and like [[Tory Foster]] and [[Saul Tigh]] he has not been shown to have any first-hand self recollection of his true history, apart from the moment of his death on Old Earth. It is not known if his strongly pro-human attitude will change if he ever does, but Anders's recitation of events including him helping stopping the First Cylon War against the humans 40 years ago it maybe favorable if he does recover his true memory. In the end, he exiles himself from the colonial humans ''and'' Cylons, settling on an island in the northern hemisphere.

== Notes ==

*On the [http://community.livejournal.com/aarondouglas/56725.html?thread=253077#t253077 Aaron Douglas Live Journal Community], Aaron Douglas told fans that he is "Number 12", which he got to choose. This comment seems to be made invalid by [[Ron D. Moore]]'s statement that the Final Five do not have model numbers like the other seven humanoid Cylons.<ref>{{cite_web|url=http://www.thefutoncritic.com/rant.aspx?id=20080611|title=Rants & Reviews - Live at the "Battlestar Galactica" Midseason Finale Premiere|date=11 June 2008|accessdate=13 June 2008|last=Sullivan|first=Brian Ford|format=|language=}}</ref>
*[[Wikipedia:Galen|Galen]] is the name of a famed Greek doctor, who was first to argue that the mind was in the brain, not the heart. This may be construed as irony, given Tyrol's part in the ongoing story.
*Tyrol's first name, Galen, was first revealed in Ron D. Moore's blog during Season 1, but it is not mentioned on screen until the Season 2 episode "[[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]".
*While it may be a coincidence, Tyrol's forename, Galen, is one of the series' many homages (intentional or otherwise) to the ''[[Wikipedia:Planet of the Apes|Planet of the Apes]]'' franchise. Galen was the name of [[Wikipedia:Roddy McDowall|Roddy McDowall]]'s character in [[Wikipedia:Planet of the Apes (TV series)|the 1974 television series]] which, like ''Battlestar Galactica'', featured human military astronauts surveying post-apocalyptic Earth. (''See also'' [[Gaius Baltar#Notes|Baltar's forename & roles]], the [[Revelations#Earth|end of "Revelations"]], [[Leoben Conoy]] [[Sometimes a Great Notion#Noteworthy Dialogue|quoting Dr. Zaius]] in "[[Sometimes a Great Notion]]", the two hybrids' characterisation of [[Kara Thrace]] as "[[The Destiny#The Hybrids' Warnings|The harbinger of death]]", ''inter alia'').
*[[Wikipedia:Tyrol|Tyrol]] (or Tirol) is the name of a region divided between western Austria and northern Italy.
*Ron Moore explains in the DVD commentary for the [[Miniseries]] that Chief Tyrol was originally supposed to be a fairly small role, and in the first script of the Miniseries he only had about 15 lines. However, Aaron Douglas was so good at ad libbing new lines for scenes as production moved forward that Moore kept writing him into a bigger character. Going into Season 1, Tyrol would originally have been defined by his relationship to Boomer, with suspicion that she might be a Cylon only coming out towards the end of the season. However, instead of this, Boomer and Tyrol's relationship becomes strained and ends early in Season 1, with Tyrol being expanded to a character that is not defined solely by Boomer.
*The revelations of "[[No Exit]]" may answer how he was able to sense the Temple of Five: it was built by the Thirteenth Tribe and the Final Five visited it on their way to the Twelve Colonies. Tyrol's blocked Cylon memories may have subconsciously guided him there as he did know its location in the blocked memories.
*The podcast for "[[Daybreak, Part II]]" confirms that Tyrol settled in Scotland, and there were people already living there. Tyrol became the 'Tribal King of the Scots', apparently due to Aaron Douglas' great enthusiasm for the idea. Ronald D. Moore is presumably being flippant by suggesting that all Scots (a people noted for a tradition of great engineers) are descended from Tyrol. Subsequent ice ages would have likely either wiped out any population in Scotland and the British Isles from this time or forced them to flee south.

=== Rank Notes ===

Tyrol was originally and currently a [[wikipedia:Senior Chief Petty Officer|Senior Chief Petty Officer]] then demoted to [[wikipedia:Specialist (rank)|Specialist]] in "[[Escape Velocity]]". Tyrol was put into inactivation after his discovery as a Cylon in "[[Revelations]]". He was made Senior Chief Petty Officer once again in "[[No Exit]]". However, he has been placed under arrest for his role in the escape of [[Sharon Valerii]] and her abduction of [[Hera Agathon]].

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'''Stephanie Jacobsen''' (also credited as '''Stephanie Chaves-Jacobsen''') is a Hong Kong-born Australian actress who plays [[Kendra Shaw]] in "[[Razor]]", a television movie feature of the [[Re-imagined Series]].

Virtually unknown to American or European audiences, Jacobsen had recurring roles in two Australian TV shows, ''[[w:headLand|headLand]]'' and ''[[w:Pizza (TV series)|Pizza]]''. In the genre, she also had a brief appearance in the last season of SCIFI Channel's ''[[w:Farscape|Farscape]]''. Recently, she was cast as Maya in ABC's remake of ''[[w:Life on Mars (U.S. TV series)|Life on Mars]]'', but was replaced by [[w:Lisa Bonet|Lisa Bonet]] when nearly all of the parts were re-cast following the first pilot. She portrays Yoshi in a yet untitled sci-fi/horror movie referred to as "[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1147687/ Untitled Gehenna Project]".

Jacobsen had a semi-regular role for most of the second season of ''[[w:Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles|Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]'' as the character Commander Jesse Flores, a Resistance fighter from the future.<ref>{{cite_news|first=Crystal|last=Carroll|url=http://firefox.org/news/articles/1962/1/Sarah-Connor-Adds-Recurring-Character/Page1.html|title=Sarah Connor Adds Recurring Character|publisher=|page=|date=20 September 2008|accessdate=20 September 2008|language=}}</ref>

Coincidentally like Kendra Shaw, her Jesse Flores character served as executive officer of the nuclear submarine U.S.S. ''Jimmy Carter''.

== External Links ==

* [http://www.galactica.tv/battlestar-galactica-2003-interviews/stephanie-jacobsen-galactica.tv-interview.html Stephanie Jacobsen GALACTICA.TV interview]

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