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Columbia (TRS)

2008-06-09T02:11:07Z

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:''For information on an [[Original Series]] [[Battlestar (TOS)|battlestar]] of the same name, see [[Columbia (TOS)]].''

There have been at least two [[Battlestar (RDM)|battlestar]]s to bear the name '''''Columbia''''' in the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Colonial Fleet]].

== First ''Columbia'' ==
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| status= Destroyed during [[Operation Raptor Talon]]
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''Columbia'' is one of the [[Galactica type battlestar|original twelve]]<ref>In the [[Miniseries, Night 1|first night of the Miniseries]], [[Aaron Doral]] mentions that there were twelve [[Galactica type battlestar|''Galactica'' type battlestars]] created during the Cylon War. ''Columbia'' is clearly of the same class as ''Galactica'', and thus belongs to this type.</ref> battlestars created during the [[Cylon War]].

During [[Operation Raptor Talon]], ''Columbia'' is destroyed with all hands by the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]]. As this was the final battle of the Cylon War, it is likely that ''Columbia'' was the last Colonial ship lost during the conflict.

 

== Second ''Columbia'' ==
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The second ''Columbia'' is of a newer (albeit unknown) type, featuring integrated command and control systems and Dr. [[Gaius Baltar]]'s [[Command Navigation Program]] (CNP). It is reported as lost, along with ''[[Atlantia]]'', ''[[Solaria]]'' and ''[[Triton (RDM)|Triton]]'', during the initial moments of the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Second Cylon War]].

Adama once served as [[executive officer]] on ''Columbia'' ([[Hero]]). [[Galen Tyrol]] also served on this ship at some point in his long career as an NCO ([[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]).

 

==Notes==

* The name ''Columbia'' is a derivation of the name of 15th Century Genoan explorer [[Wikipedia:Christopher Columbus|Christopher Columbus]], which itself is derived from the Latin ''columba'', meaning "dove" or "pigeon"). Columbia is also another name for the USA and/or the "spirit of America", as seen in the name of the national capital, District of Columbia. While at first glance such an Earth-based name seems an unlikely choice for an "alien" culture, it might be a hint towards a [[Sacred Scrolls#Earth as the true origin of the human species|different version]] of the Twelve Colonies' ancient history.

* Many fans believe ''Galactica'' to be a Columbia class battlestar. However, this is not supported by [[BW:CJ|official sources]], in neither the [[Original Series|Original]] nor the [[Re-imagined Series]]. For the battlestar type ''Galactica'' belongs to, see [[Galactica type battlestar]].

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Resurrection Hub

2008-06-08T18:06:07Z

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The Cylon '''Central Resurrection Hub''' is a unique space-borne facility which coordinates the [[Resurrection (RDM)|resurrection process]] among all of the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]] [[Resurrection Ship|resurrection ships]] and downloading facilities, with what appears to be an indefinite operational range between itself and the other ships of the fleet. With the Cylons having become a purly spacefaring race, abandoning the 12 Colonies and their homeworld, the Hub is the new core of their nation and irreplaceable. As a safeguard, the Hub periodically jumps to new locations and relays its position to the Cylon baseship [[Hybrid]]s once completed. The Resurrection Hub is also where [[Boxing|boxed]] Cylon consciousnesses are stored.

At the start of the [[Cylon Civil War]], [[Natalie]] plans to unbox the [[Number Three]], [[D'Anna Biers]], in the hopes of finding the [[Final Five]] among the humans ([[The Ties That Bind]]). However, the [[Cavil]] faction gains the upper hand in the conflict and claims the Hub first. When ''[[Demetrius]]'' returns with the renegade [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]], Natalie offers Admiral [[William Adama]] and President [[Laura Roslin]] the chance to destroy the Hub in return for their help unboxing Biers. Before the plan is carried out, however, Natalie is shot by [[Sharon Agathon]] and the basestar jumps away when Roslin, determined to get some answers about her visions, has the Hybrid reconnected ([[Guess What's Coming To Dinner]]).

A [[Raptor]] soon discovers that the Hub has disappeared from its last known location. Another Raptor from the missing rebel basestar jumps in, severely damaged and containing a dead pilot. Using the jump coordinates recovered from that Raptor, a force recon encounters battle wreckage with Colonial Vipers among debris which is believed to include the Resurrection Hub. Colonel [[Saul Tigh]] believes the rebel baseship is also destroyed, but Admiral Adama is convinced that it survives, and he stays behind in a sole Raptor to wait for the baseship'a return while the fleet jumps away ([[Sine Qua Non]]).

Several days earlier the renegade baseship found the target, its Hybrid jumping reflexivly to it, and the Resurrection Hub is eventually destroyed along with its baseship escorts in a massive battle. The Galactica Vipers, pulled secretly into battle by the rebels' Heavy Raiders, manage to shoot out the Hub's FTL drives, stranding it. As the rebel baseship fights off the two guardian baseships, Karl Agathon and a Number Eight board the Hub to get to the unboxed Three. Afterwards the Vipers fire nuclear missiles, destroying the Central Resurrection Hub and at least one of the two nearby basestars ([[The Hub]]).

With its destruction Cylon resurrection is now lost forever, until such time as a new Hub can be built if at all possible, or a possible return to the alleged Cylon homeworld where surviving resurrection infrastructure might still exist.

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Resurrection Hub

2008-06-08T17:47:41Z

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The Cylon '''Central Resurrection Hub''' is a unique space-borne facility which coordinates the [[Resurrection (RDM)|resurrection process]] among all of the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]] [[Resurrection Ship|resurrection ships]] and downloading facilities, with what appears to be an indefinite operational range between itself and the other ships of the fleet. With the Cylons having become a purly spacefaring race, abandoning the 12 Colonies and their homeworld, the Hub is the new core of their nation and irreplaceable. As a safeguard, the Hub periodically jumps to new locations and relays its position to the Cylon baseship [[Hybrid]]s once completed. The Resurrection Hub is also where [[Boxing|boxed]] Cylon consciousnesses are stored.

At the start of the [[Cylon Civil War]], [[Natalie]] plans to unbox the [[Number Three]], [[D'Anna Biers]], in the hopes of finding the [[Final Five]] among the humans ([[The Ties That Bind]]). However, the [[Cavil]] faction gains the upper hand in the conflict and claims the Hub first. When ''[[Demetrius]]'' returns with the renegade [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]], Natalie offers Admiral [[William Adama]] and President [[Laura Roslin]] the chance to destroy the Hub in return for their help unboxing Biers. Before the plan is carried out, however, Natalie is shot by [[Sharon Agathon]] and the basestar jumps away when Roslin, determined to get some answers about her visions, has the Hybrid reconnected ([[Guess What's Coming To Dinner]]).

A [[Raptor]] soon discovers that the Hub has disappeared from its last known location. Another Raptor from the missing rebel basestar jumps in, severely damaged and containing a dead pilot. Using the jump coordinates recovered from that Raptor, a force recon encounters battle wreckage with Colonial Vipers among debris which is believed to include the Resurrection Hub. Colonel [[Saul Tigh]] believes the rebel baseship is also destroyed, but Admiral Adama is convinced that it survives, and he stays behind in a sole Raptor to wait for the baseship'a return while the fleet jumps away ([[Sine Qua Non]]).

Several days earlier the renegade baseship found the target, its Hybrid jumping reflexivly to it, and the Resurrection Hub is eventually destroyed along with its baseship escorts in a massive battle. The Galactica Vipers, pulled secretly into battle by the rebels' Heavy Raiders, manage to shoot out the Hub's FTL drives, stranding it. As the rebel baseship fights off the two guardian baseships, Karl Agathon and a Number Eight board the Hub to get to the unboxed Three. Afterwards the Vipers fire nuclear missiles, destroying the Central Resurrection Hub and at least one of the two nearby basestars ([[The Hub]]).

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Resurrection Hub

2008-06-08T17:42:40Z

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The Cylon '''Central Resurrection Hub''' is a unique space-borne facility which coordinates the [[Resurrection (RDM)|resurrection process]] among all of the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]] [[Resurrection Ship|resurrection ships]] and downloading facilities, with what appears to be an indefinite operational range between itself and the other ships of the fleet. With the Cylons having become a purly spacefaring race, abandoning the 12 Colonies and their homeworld, the Hub is the new core of their nation and irreplaceable. As a safeguard, the Hub periodically jumps to new locations and relays its position to the Cylon baseship [[Hybrid]]s once completed. The Resurrection Hub is also where [[Boxing|boxed]] Cylon consciousnesses are stored.

At the start of the [[Cylon Civil War]], [[Natalie]] plans to unbox the [[Number Three]], [[D'Anna Biers]], in the hopes of finding the [[Final Five]] among the humans ([[The Ties That Bind]]). However, the [[Cavil]] faction gains the upper hand in the conflict and claims the Hub first. When ''[[Demetrius]]'' returns with the renegade [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]], Natalie offers Admiral [[William Adama]] and President [[Laura Roslin]] the chance to destroy the Hub in return for their help unboxing Biers. Before the plan is carried out, however, Natalie is shot by [[Sharon Agathon]] and the basestar jumps away when Roslin, determined to get some answers about her visions, has the Hybrid reconnected ([[Guess What's Coming To Dinner]]).

A [[Raptor]] soon discovers that the Hub has disappeared from its last known location. Another Raptor from the missing rebel basestar jumps in, severely damaged and containing a dead pilot. Using the jump coordinates recovered from that Raptor, a force recon encounters battle wreckage with Colonial Vipers among debris which is believed to include the Resurrection Hub. Colonel [[Saul Tigh]] believes the rebel baseship is also destroyed, but Admiral Adama is convinced that it survives, and he stays behind in a sole Raptor to wait for the baseship'a return while the fleet jumps away ([[Sine Qua Non]]).

Several days earlier the renegade baseship found the target, its Hybrid jumping reflexivly to it, and the Resurrection Hub is eventually destroyed by a salvo of nuclear warheads, along with its baseship escorts in a massive battle. The Galactica Vipers, pulled secretly into battle by the rebels' Heavy Raiders, manage to shoot out the Hub's FTL drives, stranding it. As the rebel baseship fights off the two guardian baseships, Karl Agathon and a Number Eight board the Hub to get to the unboxed Three. Afterwards the Vipers fire nuclear missiles, destroying the Central Resurrection Hub and at least one of the two nearby basestars ([[The Hub]]).

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Cylon Civil War

2008-05-23T18:47:57Z

Telperion: /* First Blood */

The '''Cylon Civil War''' is an internal conflict between [[humanoid Cylon]]s.
[[Image:Cylon civil war - opening fire.jpg|right|thumb|200px|The initial engagement.]]
One faction consists of the [[Number One]]s, the [[Number Four]]s, the [[Number Five]]s, and the [[Number Eight]] copy known as [[Sharon Valerii]], under the leadership of the Number One copy known as Cavil. The opposition consists of the [[Number Two]]s, the [[Number Six]]es, several Centurions with restored free will and the majority of the [[Number Eight]]s, under the leadership of the Number Six copy known as [[Natalie]].

The seeds for the conflict are sown during the [[Battle of the Ionian Nebula]], in which the Cylon [[Raider (RDM)|Raider]]s break off the attack because one of them detects [[Samuel Anders]] as a humanoid Cylon. Cavil's faction votes to "reconfigure" (lobotomize) the Raiders so that they will continue the attacks on the Colonial fleet. Natalie's faction votes against this action, believing that the [[final five]] humanoid Cylons are present in the Colonial fleet ([[He That Believeth In Me]]). Their goal is to unite all twelve humanoid Cylon models, a plan which includes unboxing the [[Number Three]]s, so that the Three known as D'Anna can tell them what she has learned in the [[Temple of Five]].

== First Blood ==
[[Image:First Blood - Cylon civil war.jpg|left|thumb|200px|The Centurions rise up against their masters.]]
Cavil's faction takes the "swing vote" of [[Sharon Valerii]] as sufficient for them to proceed with the Raider lobotomy. Natalie's faction does not accept this turn of events and has the Centurions' [[telencephalic inhibitor]]s removed so that they can open fire on Cavil's faction, thus starting the conflict ([[Six of One]]).

The Cylon fleet is split down the middle, with some basestars under Cavil's control, others under Natalie's. Whether this division is managed with or without bloodshed on the other basestars is unknown, but a Number One remarks that Natalie "did a little ethnic cleansing" on the ship where the first shooting happened. Critically, Cavil's faction has control of a [[Resurrection Ship]].

Later, Natalie and two Eights meet with Cavil, who tells them that his fellows came to the conclusion that it was wrong to box the Threes, agreeing to undo their actions. Due to the massive logistical task of resurrecting that many copies, the process needs to be carried out from the Cylons' [[Resurrection Hub|central resurrection hub]]. The two factions agree to fly there with their own respective baseships, in order to hear what D'Anna has to say. However, en route Cavil and Boomer double-cross Natalie and open fire on her fleet, destroying many of her vessels. The Resurrection Ship was prevented from jumping with them, meaning that the Cylons killed in this battle will die permanently ([[The Ties That Bind]]).

== Proposed Alliance with Humans ==

The ''[[Demetrius]]'', commanded by [[Kara Thrace]] on a mission to find Earth, encounters a heavily-damaged [[Heavy Raider]] with a copy of [[Leoben Conoy]] aboard, who offers an alliance between the humans and his faction of Cylon rebels <ref>In future episode descriptions, this faction is referred to as "Cylon rebels."</ref>. Thrace orders a jump to Conoy's damaged baseship against her crew's objections ([[The Road Less Traveled]]), but ultimately realizes that she can't risk the entire crew, so she takes a small team in a [[Raptor]] instead, with the understanding that if she does not return within 15 hours, ''Demetrius'' is to rendezvous with ''Galactica''.

From within the field of detonating battle wreckage, she locates Natalie's severely-damaged baseship. The baseship's [[Hybrid]] is unable to navigate a jump, but they determine that they can hook the baseship to the Raptor's FTL computer, although this would require disconnecting the Hybrid, thus killing it.

The Eights want to mutiny against Natalie and turn to [[Sharon Agathon|Athena]] to lead them, but Athena refuses and chastises them for too easily changing their minds and not committing to their choices.
[[Image:Anders - Number 6 confrontation.jpg|thumb|right|200px|The newly-formed alliance nearly fractures.]]
When making the modifications to the Raptor [[Jean Barolay]] encounters a Six whom she had drowned on [[New Caprica]]. The Six, who is emotionally traumatized by that death and is enraged by Barolay's cavalier attitude about it, kills her. An angry [[Samuel Anders]] throws her down at gunpoint, but it is Natalie who pulls the trigger, both to end the Six's torment from the memories and to satisfy any human need for justice, emphasizing that there is no resurrection for these Cylons.

Thrace is brought to the Hybrid and tries to understand her cryptic messages, but is frustrated and orders that they proceed with the jump. An Eight attempts to disconnect the Hybrid, but the Hybrid's reaction causes a Centurion to shoot and mortally wound the Eight before being shot itself. The dying Eight apologizes to Athena, asks for her forgiveness, and reaches out her, but Athena doesn't take her hand. Instead it is Anders who takes her hand and comforts the Eight as she truly dies.

The renegade Cylon basestar jumps to the ''Demetrius'', arriving moments before she jumps back to the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] ([[Faith]]). However, when the two ships attempt to jump back together, their jump drives aren't properly synchronized and the basestar arrived at its destination alone. Admiral Adama scrambles ''Galactica'''s Vipers, thinking the Fleet to be under attack. The situation is defused when the ''Demetrius'' arrives and announces that the basestar is under their control ([[Guess What's Coming to Dinner?]]).

== A Plan takes Shape ==
[[Image:An alliance forms.jpg|thumb|left|200px|The Colonials and rebel Cylons unify under official terms.]]
Natalie acts as the rebels' spokesperson and is brought to ''Galactica'' to talk with Admiral [[William Adama|Adama]] and President [[Laura Roslin|Roslin]]. She tells them of the Cylons' central [[Resurrection Hub]] and outlines her plan. She wants to the Colonials' help in getting there and unbox the Threes. In return, she offers them a chance to destroy the Cylons' [[Resurrection (RDM)|resurrection]] capability and take vengeance on them. [[Karl Agathon]] proposes to move half of ''Galactica'''s Vipers onto the baseship and use it to fool the Cylons. Roslin agrees, but adds a double-cross, because she distrusts the rebels: Go along with the plan, but then keep the Final Five, once uncovered, until they reach [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]].

The Cylons plan to double-cross the Colonials as well. Suspecting that the Colonials won't allow them to have the Final Five and just leave, they plan to use the Centurions to take hostages after the mission. However, after Natalie is asked to speak in front of the [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]] to assuage their fears about the alliance, she has a change of heart. Fearing that the Final Five may watch and judge them for their actions, she tells [[Number Two]] to call off the Centurions. She also tells the Quorum that she thinks that the Cylons need mortality to lead meaningful lives, when asked why she would give up the location of the hub ([[Guess What's Coming to Dinner?]]).

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Resurrection Hub

2008-05-23T18:43:05Z

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Resurrection Hub

2008-05-22T07:40:56Z

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Resurrection Hub

2008-05-22T07:38:58Z

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The Cylon '''Central Resurrection Hub''' is a space-based installation, the core of the Cylon nation, which coordinates the [[Resurrection (RDM)|resurrection process]] among all of the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]]' [[Resurrection Ship|Resurrection Ships]] and other downloading facilities. Unlike the actual downloading process, the functions of the Central Resurrection Hub have an indefinite range, and the Hub itself is irreplaceable. The Hub periodically jumps to a new location in order to prevent its discovery and relays its new location to the Cylon fleets. The Resurrection Hub also contains a facility used to store [[Boxing|boxed]] Cylons' consciousnesses, which means that they can be revived there.

At the start of the [[Cylon Civil War]], [[Natalie]] plans to unbox the [[Number Three]]s, a task required to be carried out on their main Hub ([[The Ties That Bind]]). Following the return of ''[[Demetrius]]'' with the renegade [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]], Natalie talks with Admiral [[William Adama|Adama]] and President [[Laura Roslin|Roslin]] and offers them a chance to destroy the Hub, in return for their help with unboxing the Threes ([[Guess What's Coming To Dinner]]).

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Resurrection Hub

2008-05-22T07:37:27Z

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The Cylon '''Central Resurrection Hub''' is a space-based installation, the core of the Cylon nation, which coordinates the [[Resurrection (RDM)|resurrection process]] among all of the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]]' [[Resurrection Ship|Resurrection Ships]] and other downloading facilities. Unlike the actual downloading process, the functions of the Central Resurrection Hub have an indefinite range, and the Hub itself is irreplaceable. The Hub periodically jumps to a new location in order to prevent its discovery and relays its new location to the Cylon fleets. The Resurrection Hub also contains a facility used to store [[Boxing|boxed]] Cylons' consciousnesses, which means that they can be revived there.

At the start of the [[Cylon Civil War]], [[Natalie]] plans to unbox the [[Number Three]]s, a task required to be carried out on their main hub ([[The Ties That Bind]]). Following the return of ''[[Demetrius]]'' with the renegade [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]], Natalie talks with Admiral [[William Adama|Adama]] and President [[Laura Roslin|Roslin]] and offers them a chance to destroy the hub, in return for their help with unboxing the Threes ([[Guess What's Coming To Dinner]]).

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Number Two

2007-01-07T18:22:14Z

Telperion: /* Gemenon Traveller Copy */

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'''Leoben Conoy''' is a [[Cylon agent]] first encountered at [[Ragnar Anchorage]]. He fancies himself as a prophet with predilections for enlightened monotheistic religious dogma, whereas he is more likely to sow the seeds of doubt or mis-information, weaving lies in the fabric of truth and faith.

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== Ragnar Anchorage Copy ==

Conoy is first encountered at the [[Ragnar Anchorage]], where he poses as an arms dealer. It is likely that he was assigned with the monitoring of this depot station as the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|war]] began, gaining intelligence on battlestars that visited there. Alternatively, he may have been tasked with stealing away or destroying the ammunition (or the station itself) to prevent its use by the Colonials.

Conoy is already sick from the radiation around Ragnar, suggesting he had been there for several hours before '' Galactica's'' arrival.

Conoy becomes trapped aboard the station with [[William Adama|Commander Adama]] after a warhead is accidentally detonated. As they try to find another way out of the station, Leoben reveals his true nature to Adama through conversation, initially by claiming to be something of a philosopher. Identifying Conoy as a Cylon on the point of death, Adama challenges him and learns of the Cylon's ability to transfer their consciousness to another body when dying. Only Leoben can't -- the radiation of [[Ragnar]] is interfering with his ability.

A fight ensues, during which Leoben exhibits unnatural strength and speed. Adama manages to kill Conoy by forcing his head over an outventing steam pipe then bludgeoning him to death with a [[flashlight]]. He then brings Leoben's body back to ''[[Galactica]]'' for examination. Samples from this body, when burned, revealed synthetic materials -- which permitted Adama, [[Saul Tigh|Colonel Tigh]] and Dr. [[Gaius Baltar]] to deduce that Cylons could mimic humans in appearance ([[Miniseries]]).

The body is later stored in the ship's morgue ([[Flesh and Bone]]).

Later, three copies of Leoben are among the group of Cylons that rescue [[Number Five|Aaron Doral]], abandoned on Ragnar by the Colonials after Dr. Baltar fingers him as a Cylon agent, and debrief him.

== Gemenon Traveller Copy ==

[[Image:CyLeo.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Leoben moments before his execution.]]
Conoy is again encountered when a copy is found apparently stowing away aboard the ''[[Gemenon Traveller]]''. Knowing the model's ability to weave fact, fiction and outright lies into a confusing fabric of truth, half-truths and deceit, Adama wants the copy destroyed. However, he is overruled by [[Laura Roslin|President Roslin]], who demands the model be interrogated.

[[Kara Thrace|Lieutenant Kara "Starbuck" Thrace]] is assigned to interrogate Conoy aboard the ''Gemenon Traveller''. Over the course of eight hours, Conoy demonstrates his ability to confuse and mix truth with lies: he claims to have planted a nuclear device somewhere in the fleet, but will not reveal where. He also mixes what appears to be religious mumbo-jumbo with penetrating insights into Colonial philosophy and Starbuck's own past ([[Flesh and Bone]]).

While she resorts to ever-more drastic measures to obtain details on the alleged bomb's location, Starbuck finds herself being drawn into Leoben's vision of life. So much so that when Roslin orders his execution, Starbuck very much empathises with him.

Prior to his death, Conoy reveals there is no bomb, and uses a reason suggested by Starbuck in the initial stages of his interrogation: that since he is so far from other Cylon centers of influence, he cannot transmit his "soul" back to home should his body die. However, the real purpose of his mission is revealed when President Roslin arrives aboard the ''Traveller'' and he manages to whisper to her that Adama is in fact a Cylon -- thus planting a potentially dangerous seed of doubt between her and Adama.

Convinced now of the danger in keeping Conoy alive, Roslin orders him ejected from the ''Traveller's'' airlock.

Interestingly, Roslin had a premonition of Conoy's surfacing in the fleet when she had a dream about him at the time he was captured. Later, in her cabin on ''[[Colonial One]]'', she had a vision of him talking to her which prompted her decision to visit him in person - thus allowing him to complete his mission.

At the time of the dream and the vision, Roslin assumed both were the result of her using [[Chamalla]] to treat her cancer. However, both may have been the result of some form of psychic ability on the part of Conoy or Roslin. One last eerie incident was the correct fortelling by Leoben that the Fleet would eventually find the legendary homeworld of [[Kobol]], home of the Gods and birthplace of Mankind.

== New Caprica Copy ==
[[Image:Leobenkara.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Leoben with Kara.]]
During the Cylon invasion of [[New Caprica]] a Conoy copy slips into Kara Thrace and [[Samuel Anders]]' tent and asks the ailing Anders where Thrace is ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]).

This Conoy copy kidnaps Thrace and holds in an apartment located within the Cylon complex built in [[New Caprica City]], shortly after the Cylon occupation of [[New Caprica]].

Though never directly stated, it is heavily implied that this Conoy is the same Cylon previously interrogated and tortured by Thrace ([[Flesh and Bone]]). Ostensibly, the New Caprica copy of Conoy attempts to befriend her with food and politeness in a [[Wikipedia:Pygmalion (mythology)|reverse-Pygmalion]] attempt of appeasing her, and perhaps converting her to the Cylon monotheistic religion.

Conoy's attempts initially fail, and painfully. Thrace refuses his kindnesses and assaults and kills Conoy at least five times. Conoy returns each time, patiently resuming his attempts at appealing to Thrace ([[Occupation]]).

Conoy takes a dramatic tactical change and introduces Thrace to [[Kacey]], a young child appearing to be two years old. He claims that Kacey is the biological child of both him and Thrace, created using one of Thrace's ovaries, recovered from the ruins of the [[Farms|farm]] she was held in on [[Caprica]], and his genetic material. Whatever the truth of Kacey's origin, Conoy successfully uses the child to break down Thrace's resistance after the child suffers an accident that Thrace blames herself for. The Cylon surprisingly finds Thrace taking hold of his hand at Kacey's hospital bedside ([[Precipice]]).

During the [[Battle of New Caprica]], he leaves to presumably help in the attack and is forced to knock out Thrace after she attempts to find out what is going on. Kara later returns to the apartment to find Kacey and Conoy appears with Kacey. He uses Kara's frantic desire to take Kacey during the evacuation to force her to say she loves him, which she reluctantly complies. They kiss for several moments as Conoy is unaware of the knife Kara aquirred earlier. She stabs him in the stomach and kills him one final time as he collapses on the floor.

Despite Kara's bond to Kacey, it turns out the girl was simply a human child kidnapped on New Caprica. Kara discovers this when Kacey's rightful mother claims her aboard ''Galactica''. ([[Exodus, Part II]]).

== Other Copies ==

Apparently the [[Caprica Resistance]] captured and interrogated their own copy of Conoy, as [[Samuel Anders]] sarcastically quotes his philosophy to [[Kara Thrace]] ([[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]). This is speculation, of course.

A Leoben or two are witnessed in the background of the park and cafe scenes in "[[Downloaded]]"; however, these are played by a stand-in as Calum Keith Rennie was unavailable for the episode.

Several Leobens are seen on the Cylon baseship that [[Gaius Baltar]] wakes up on shortly after he and the Cylons flee from New Caprica. [[Caprica-Six]] tells Baltar that his model believes the hybrid model who controls the baseship is speaking the "words of God" in her endlessly incoherent diagnostic babble ([[Torn]]).

Another Leoben was recovered from the infected baseship by ''Galactica''. He was going to be part of their plan to infect the entire Cylon race with the virus spawned from the [[13th Colony]] probe. However, he and the other Cylons captured by the ''Galactica'' were executed by Karl Agathon before they were within download range of a [[Resurrection Ship]] ([[A Measure of Salvation]]).

At the standoff between Galactica and several [[basestar]]s; a Leoben states that the [[Temple of Five]] and [[Eye of Jupiter]] are far too important to be risked over the testing of Adama's bluff to nuke the planet
([[The Eye of Jupiter]]).

==Notes==
* Laura Roslin inadvertently referred to him as "Leoben ConROY" during "Flesh and Bone," which had to be edited when it was used as a sound bite in an intro segment in a subsequent episode.

*[[Wikipedia:Conoy_Township%2C_PA|Conoy]] is the name of a township in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

{{Characters}}

[[Category:A to Z|Conoy, Leoben]]
[[Category:Characters|Conoy, Leoben]]
[[Category:Cylons|Conoy, Leoben]]
[[Category:RDM|Conoy, Leoben]]

Number Two

2007-01-07T18:16:41Z

Telperion: /* Gemenon Traveller Copy */

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'''Leoben Conoy''' is a [[Cylon agent]] first encountered at [[Ragnar Anchorage]]. He fancies himself as a prophet with predilections for enlightened monotheistic religious dogma, whereas he is more likely to sow the seeds of doubt or mis-information, weaving lies in the fabric of truth and faith.

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== Ragnar Anchorage Copy ==

Conoy is first encountered at the [[Ragnar Anchorage]], where he poses as an arms dealer. It is likely that he was assigned with the monitoring of this depot station as the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|war]] began, gaining intelligence on battlestars that visited there. Alternatively, he may have been tasked with stealing away or destroying the ammunition (or the station itself) to prevent its use by the Colonials.

Conoy is already sick from the radiation around Ragnar, suggesting he had been there for several hours before '' Galactica's'' arrival.

Conoy becomes trapped aboard the station with [[William Adama|Commander Adama]] after a warhead is accidentally detonated. As they try to find another way out of the station, Leoben reveals his true nature to Adama through conversation, initially by claiming to be something of a philosopher. Identifying Conoy as a Cylon on the point of death, Adama challenges him and learns of the Cylon's ability to transfer their consciousness to another body when dying. Only Leoben can't -- the radiation of [[Ragnar]] is interfering with his ability.

A fight ensues, during which Leoben exhibits unnatural strength and speed. Adama manages to kill Conoy by forcing his head over an outventing steam pipe then bludgeoning him to death with a [[flashlight]]. He then brings Leoben's body back to ''[[Galactica]]'' for examination. Samples from this body, when burned, revealed synthetic materials -- which permitted Adama, [[Saul Tigh|Colonel Tigh]] and Dr. [[Gaius Baltar]] to deduce that Cylons could mimic humans in appearance ([[Miniseries]]).

The body is later stored in the ship's morgue ([[Flesh and Bone]]).

Later, three copies of Leoben are among the group of Cylons that rescue [[Number Five|Aaron Doral]], abandoned on Ragnar by the Colonials after Dr. Baltar fingers him as a Cylon agent, and debrief him.

== Gemenon Traveller Copy ==

[[Image:CyLeo.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Leoben moments before his execution.]]
Conoy is again encountered when a copy is found apparently stowing away aboard the ''[[Gemenon Traveller]]''. Knowing the model's ability to weave fact, fiction and outright lies into a confusing fabric of truth, half-truths and deceit, Adama wants the copy destroyed. However, he is overruled by [[Laura Roslin|President Roslin]], who demands the model be interrogated.

[[Kara Thrace|Lieutenant Kara "Starbuck" Thrace]] is assigned to interrogate Conoy aboard the ''Gemenon Traveller''. Over the course of eight hours, Conoy demonstrates his ability to confuse and mix truth with lies: he claims to have planted a nuclear device somewhere in the fleet, but will not reveal where. He also mixes what appears to be religious mumbo-jumbo with penetrating insights into Colonial philosophy and Starbuck's own past ([[Flesh and Bone]]).

While she resorts to ever-more drastic measures to obtain details on the alleged bomb's location, Starbuck finds herself being drawn into Leoben's vision of life. So much so that when Roslin orders his execution, Starbuck very much empathises with him.

Prior to his death, Conoy reveals there is no bomb, and uses a reason suggested by Starbuck in the initial stages of his interrogation: that since he is so far from other Cylon centers of influence, he cannot transmit his "soul" back to home should his body die. However, the real purpose of his mission is revealed when President Roslin arrives aboard the ''Traveller'' and he manages to whisper to her that Adama is in fact a Cylon -- thus planting a potentially dangerous seed of doubt between her and Adama.

Convinced now of the danger in keeping Conoy alive, Roslin orders him ejected from the ''Traveller's'' airlock.

Interestingly, Roslin had a premonition of Conoy's surfacing in the fleet when she had a dream about him at the time he was captured. Later, in her cabin on ''[[Colonial One]]'', she had a vision of him talking to her which prompted her decision to visit him in person - thus allowing him to complete his mission.

At the time of the dream and the vision, Roslin assumed both were the result of her using [[Chamalla]] to treat her cancer. However, both may have been the result of some form of psychic ability on the part of Conoy or Roslin. One last eerie incident was the correct fortelling by Conoy that the Fleet would eventually find the legendary homeworld of [[Kobol]], home of the Gods and birthplace of Mankind.

== New Caprica Copy ==
[[Image:Leobenkara.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Leoben with Kara.]]
During the Cylon invasion of [[New Caprica]] a Conoy copy slips into Kara Thrace and [[Samuel Anders]]' tent and asks the ailing Anders where Thrace is ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]).

This Conoy copy kidnaps Thrace and holds in an apartment located within the Cylon complex built in [[New Caprica City]], shortly after the Cylon occupation of [[New Caprica]].

Though never directly stated, it is heavily implied that this Conoy is the same Cylon previously interrogated and tortured by Thrace ([[Flesh and Bone]]). Ostensibly, the New Caprica copy of Conoy attempts to befriend her with food and politeness in a [[Wikipedia:Pygmalion (mythology)|reverse-Pygmalion]] attempt of appeasing her, and perhaps converting her to the Cylon monotheistic religion.

Conoy's attempts initially fail, and painfully. Thrace refuses his kindnesses and assaults and kills Conoy at least five times. Conoy returns each time, patiently resuming his attempts at appealing to Thrace ([[Occupation]]).

Conoy takes a dramatic tactical change and introduces Thrace to [[Kacey]], a young child appearing to be two years old. He claims that Kacey is the biological child of both him and Thrace, created using one of Thrace's ovaries, recovered from the ruins of the [[Farms|farm]] she was held in on [[Caprica]], and his genetic material. Whatever the truth of Kacey's origin, Conoy successfully uses the child to break down Thrace's resistance after the child suffers an accident that Thrace blames herself for. The Cylon surprisingly finds Thrace taking hold of his hand at Kacey's hospital bedside ([[Precipice]]).

During the [[Battle of New Caprica]], he leaves to presumably help in the attack and is forced to knock out Thrace after she attempts to find out what is going on. Kara later returns to the apartment to find Kacey and Conoy appears with Kacey. He uses Kara's frantic desire to take Kacey during the evacuation to force her to say she loves him, which she reluctantly complies. They kiss for several moments as Conoy is unaware of the knife Kara aquirred earlier. She stabs him in the stomach and kills him one final time as he collapses on the floor.

Despite Kara's bond to Kacey, it turns out the girl was simply a human child kidnapped on New Caprica. Kara discovers this when Kacey's rightful mother claims her aboard ''Galactica''. ([[Exodus, Part II]]).

== Other Copies ==

Apparently the [[Caprica Resistance]] captured and interrogated their own copy of Conoy, as [[Samuel Anders]] sarcastically quotes his philosophy to [[Kara Thrace]] ([[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]). This is speculation, of course.

A Leoben or two are witnessed in the background of the park and cafe scenes in "[[Downloaded]]"; however, these are played by a stand-in as Calum Keith Rennie was unavailable for the episode.

Several Leobens are seen on the Cylon baseship that [[Gaius Baltar]] wakes up on shortly after he and the Cylons flee from New Caprica. [[Caprica-Six]] tells Baltar that his model believes the hybrid model who controls the baseship is speaking the "words of God" in her endlessly incoherent diagnostic babble ([[Torn]]).

Another Leoben was recovered from the infected baseship by ''Galactica''. He was going to be part of their plan to infect the entire Cylon race with the virus spawned from the [[13th Colony]] probe. However, he and the other Cylons captured by the ''Galactica'' were executed by Karl Agathon before they were within download range of a [[Resurrection Ship]] ([[A Measure of Salvation]]).

At the standoff between Galactica and several [[basestar]]s; a Leoben states that the [[Temple of Five]] and [[Eye of Jupiter]] are far too important to be risked over the testing of Adama's bluff to nuke the planet
([[The Eye of Jupiter]]).

==Notes==
* Laura Roslin inadvertently referred to him as "Leoben ConROY" during "Flesh and Bone," which had to be edited when it was used as a sound bite in an intro segment in a subsequent episode.

*[[Wikipedia:Conoy_Township%2C_PA|Conoy]] is the name of a township in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

{{Characters}}

[[Category:A to Z|Conoy, Leoben]]
[[Category:Characters|Conoy, Leoben]]
[[Category:Cylons|Conoy, Leoben]]
[[Category:RDM|Conoy, Leoben]]

Number Two

2007-01-07T18:16:13Z

Telperion: /* Gemenon Traveller Copy */

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'''Leoben Conoy''' is a [[Cylon agent]] first encountered at [[Ragnar Anchorage]]. He fancies himself as a prophet with predilections for enlightened monotheistic religious dogma, whereas he is more likely to sow the seeds of doubt or mis-information, weaving lies in the fabric of truth and faith.

__TOC__
== Ragnar Anchorage Copy ==

Conoy is first encountered at the [[Ragnar Anchorage]], where he poses as an arms dealer. It is likely that he was assigned with the monitoring of this depot station as the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|war]] began, gaining intelligence on battlestars that visited there. Alternatively, he may have been tasked with stealing away or destroying the ammunition (or the station itself) to prevent its use by the Colonials.

Conoy is already sick from the radiation around Ragnar, suggesting he had been there for several hours before '' Galactica's'' arrival.

Conoy becomes trapped aboard the station with [[William Adama|Commander Adama]] after a warhead is accidentally detonated. As they try to find another way out of the station, Leoben reveals his true nature to Adama through conversation, initially by claiming to be something of a philosopher. Identifying Conoy as a Cylon on the point of death, Adama challenges him and learns of the Cylon's ability to transfer their consciousness to another body when dying. Only Leoben can't -- the radiation of [[Ragnar]] is interfering with his ability.

A fight ensues, during which Leoben exhibits unnatural strength and speed. Adama manages to kill Conoy by forcing his head over an outventing steam pipe then bludgeoning him to death with a [[flashlight]]. He then brings Leoben's body back to ''[[Galactica]]'' for examination. Samples from this body, when burned, revealed synthetic materials -- which permitted Adama, [[Saul Tigh|Colonel Tigh]] and Dr. [[Gaius Baltar]] to deduce that Cylons could mimic humans in appearance ([[Miniseries]]).

The body is later stored in the ship's morgue ([[Flesh and Bone]]).

Later, three copies of Leoben are among the group of Cylons that rescue [[Number Five|Aaron Doral]], abandoned on Ragnar by the Colonials after Dr. Baltar fingers him as a Cylon agent, and debrief him.

== Gemenon Traveller Copy ==

[[Image:CyLeo.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Leoben moments before his execution.]]
Conoy is again encountered when a copy is found apparently stowing away aboard the ''[[Gemenon Traveller]]''. Knowing the model's ability to weave fact, fiction and outright lies into a confusing fabric of truth, half-truths and deceit, Adama wants the copy destroyed. However, he is overruled by [[Laura Roslin|President Roslin]], who demands the model be interrogated.

[[Kara Thrace|Lieutenant Kara "Starbuck" Thrace]] is assigned to interrogate Conoy aboard the ''Gemenon Traveller''. Over the course of eight hours, Conoy demonstrates his ability to confuse and mix truth with lies: he claims to have planted a nuclear device somewhere in the fleet, but will not reveal where. He also mixes what appears to be religious mumbo-jumbo with penetrating insights into Colonial philosophy and Starbuck's own past ([[Flesh and Bone]]).

While she resorts to ever-more drastic measures to obtain details on the alleged bomb's location, Starbuck finds herself being drawn into Leoben's vision of life. So much so that when Roslin orders his execution, Starbuck very much empathises with him.

Prior to his death, Conoy reveals there is no bomb, and uses a reason suggested by Starbuck in the initial stages of his interrogation: that since he is so far from other Cylon centers of influence, he cannot transmit his "soul" back to home should his body die. However, the real purpose of his mission is revealed when President Roslin arrives aboard the ''Traveller'' and he manages to whisper to her that Adama is in fact a Cylon -- thus planting a potentially dangerous seed of doubt between her and Adama.

Convinced now of the danger in keeping Conoy alive, Roslin orders him ejected from the ''Traveller's'' airlock.

Interestingly, Roslin had a premonition of Conoy's surfacing in the fleet when she had a dream about him at the time he was captured. Later, in her cabin on ''[[Colonial One]]'', she had a vision of him talking to her which prompted her decision to visit him in person - thus allowing him to complete his mission.

At the time of the dream and the vision, Roslin assumed both were the result of her using [[Chamalla]] to treat her cancer. However, both may have been the result of some form of psychic ability on the part of Conoy or Roslin. One last eerie incident was the correct fortelling by Conoy that the Fleet would eventually find the legendary homeworld of [[Kobol]], home of the [[Gods]] and birthplace of Mankind.

== New Caprica Copy ==
[[Image:Leobenkara.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Leoben with Kara.]]
During the Cylon invasion of [[New Caprica]] a Conoy copy slips into Kara Thrace and [[Samuel Anders]]' tent and asks the ailing Anders where Thrace is ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]).

This Conoy copy kidnaps Thrace and holds in an apartment located within the Cylon complex built in [[New Caprica City]], shortly after the Cylon occupation of [[New Caprica]].

Though never directly stated, it is heavily implied that this Conoy is the same Cylon previously interrogated and tortured by Thrace ([[Flesh and Bone]]). Ostensibly, the New Caprica copy of Conoy attempts to befriend her with food and politeness in a [[Wikipedia:Pygmalion (mythology)|reverse-Pygmalion]] attempt of appeasing her, and perhaps converting her to the Cylon monotheistic religion.

Conoy's attempts initially fail, and painfully. Thrace refuses his kindnesses and assaults and kills Conoy at least five times. Conoy returns each time, patiently resuming his attempts at appealing to Thrace ([[Occupation]]).

Conoy takes a dramatic tactical change and introduces Thrace to [[Kacey]], a young child appearing to be two years old. He claims that Kacey is the biological child of both him and Thrace, created using one of Thrace's ovaries, recovered from the ruins of the [[Farms|farm]] she was held in on [[Caprica]], and his genetic material. Whatever the truth of Kacey's origin, Conoy successfully uses the child to break down Thrace's resistance after the child suffers an accident that Thrace blames herself for. The Cylon surprisingly finds Thrace taking hold of his hand at Kacey's hospital bedside ([[Precipice]]).

During the [[Battle of New Caprica]], he leaves to presumably help in the attack and is forced to knock out Thrace after she attempts to find out what is going on. Kara later returns to the apartment to find Kacey and Conoy appears with Kacey. He uses Kara's frantic desire to take Kacey during the evacuation to force her to say she loves him, which she reluctantly complies. They kiss for several moments as Conoy is unaware of the knife Kara aquirred earlier. She stabs him in the stomach and kills him one final time as he collapses on the floor.

Despite Kara's bond to Kacey, it turns out the girl was simply a human child kidnapped on New Caprica. Kara discovers this when Kacey's rightful mother claims her aboard ''Galactica''. ([[Exodus, Part II]]).

== Other Copies ==

Apparently the [[Caprica Resistance]] captured and interrogated their own copy of Conoy, as [[Samuel Anders]] sarcastically quotes his philosophy to [[Kara Thrace]] ([[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]). This is speculation, of course.

A Leoben or two are witnessed in the background of the park and cafe scenes in "[[Downloaded]]"; however, these are played by a stand-in as Calum Keith Rennie was unavailable for the episode.

Several Leobens are seen on the Cylon baseship that [[Gaius Baltar]] wakes up on shortly after he and the Cylons flee from New Caprica. [[Caprica-Six]] tells Baltar that his model believes the hybrid model who controls the baseship is speaking the "words of God" in her endlessly incoherent diagnostic babble ([[Torn]]).

Another Leoben was recovered from the infected baseship by ''Galactica''. He was going to be part of their plan to infect the entire Cylon race with the virus spawned from the [[13th Colony]] probe. However, he and the other Cylons captured by the ''Galactica'' were executed by Karl Agathon before they were within download range of a [[Resurrection Ship]] ([[A Measure of Salvation]]).

At the standoff between Galactica and several [[basestar]]s; a Leoben states that the [[Temple of Five]] and [[Eye of Jupiter]] are far too important to be risked over the testing of Adama's bluff to nuke the planet
([[The Eye of Jupiter]]).

==Notes==
* Laura Roslin inadvertently referred to him as "Leoben ConROY" during "Flesh and Bone," which had to be edited when it was used as a sound bite in an intro segment in a subsequent episode.

*[[Wikipedia:Conoy_Township%2C_PA|Conoy]] is the name of a township in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

{{Characters}}

[[Category:A to Z|Conoy, Leoben]]
[[Category:Characters|Conoy, Leoben]]
[[Category:Cylons|Conoy, Leoben]]
[[Category:RDM|Conoy, Leoben]]

Opera House

2006-12-29T08:24:07Z

Telperion:

[[Image:Opera House ruins.jpg|thumb|Ruins of the Opera House on [[Kobol]].]]
The '''Opera House''' is a legendary structure said to have existed in the [[City of the Gods]] on [[Kobol]], birthplace of Humanity, along with other edifices such as the [[Forum]] and [[Temple]].

These are the first ruins on Kobol that viewers see after [[Crashdown]]'s [[Raptor]], damaged by a [[Cylon Raider]] attack as they headed to explore the planet, crash-lands on Kobol near the Opera House. Among the surviving passengers on that craft were [[Galen Tyrol]], [[Tarn]], [[Seelix]], [[Cally]], [[Socinus]], and [[Gaius Baltar]].

Shortly after his Raptor crash on Kobol, the virtual [[Number Six]] leads Baltar towards the ruins of the Opera House, where viewers and Baltar see the Opera House as it was, millenia ago. It is in that virtual Opera House that Six shows Baltar an image of what she claims is his future [[Hera|child]] ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]).

Much later a Number Three would have similar visions of the Opera House and beings of light therein ([[Rapture]]).

==Cinematic Note==

The Orpheum Theatre in Vancouver (where ''Battlestar Galactica'' is produced) provided the setting of the Opera House interior that Gaius Baltar sees in his dream (Source: [[The Official Companion]]).

[[Category:A to Z]]
[[Category:Colonial History]]
[[Category:Colonial Religion]]
[[Category:RDM]]

The Hand of God (RDM)

2006-12-29T08:04:09Z

Telperion: /* Analysis */

:''This article details an episode of the [[Re-imagined Series]]. For information on the [[Original Series]] episode of the same name, see [[The Hand of God (TOS)]].''

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| season=1
| episode=10
| guests=
| writer=[[David Weddle]] [[Bradley Thompson]]
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| director=[[Jeff Woolnough]]
| production=110
| rating= 2.2
| US airdate=2005-03-11
| UK airdate=2005-01-03
| dvd= {{Season 1 NTSC DVD release date}} '''US''' {{Season 1 PAL DVD release date}} '''UK'''
| population=47,898
| prev=[[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down|Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]
| next=[[Colonial Day]]
| podcast=Y
| podtitle=The Hand of God
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== Overview ==

: ''With the Fleet short of [[tylium|fuel]], ''[[Galactica]]'' launches a daring attack on a Cylon base.''

== Summary ==
* [[The Fleet (RDM)|The Fleet]] is almost out of fuel, and ''[[Galactica]]'' has [[Raptor|Raptors]] out scouting nearby star systems to find tylium ore - if they don't, the fleet can make two more [[FTL|jumps]] at best
* Aboard one of the Raptors, [[Sharon Valerii (Galactica copy)|Boomer]] and [[Crashdown]] find an asteroid filled with years worth of tylium ore — unfortunately, the Cylons found it first and have built a [[Cylon Refinery|refinery base]] on it.
* Faced with hoping to locate tylium elsewhere using their remaining supplies of fuel, or taking the asteroid from the Cylons, [[William Adama|Adama]] opts to attack the asteroid to take the tylium from the Cylons.
* On ''[[Colonial One]]'', [[Laura Roslin]] reveals she is being affected by taking [[Chamalla]] extract to [[Elosha]], having prescient visions – her dreams about [[Leoben Conoy]] which occurred immediately before he was found on the ''[[Gemenon Traveler]]'' ([[Flesh and Bone]]), and her hallucination about snakes
* On hearing about the snakes, Elosha reveals that it matches a prophecy in an ancient text written by [[Pythia]] 3,600 years ago concerning the exodus of humankind, which foretells that a dying Leader will lead the remnants of humanity to the promised land of Earth.
* Colonel [[Saul Tigh|Tigh]] and [[Lee Adama|Apollo]] draw up an initial plan to take the asteroid, but Commander Adama decides to turn to [[Kara Thrace|Starbuck]] to come up with an unconventional idea to accomplish the mission, as she has a penchant for thinking "outside the box", and as machines the Cylons tend to predict more logical plans.
* Plans are drawn up for the attack on the Cylon base on the asteroid, and [[Gaius Baltar]] is involved in preparations when Starbuck and Tigh show him recon photos of the refinery. They cannot simply nuke the base, as the radiation would render the tylium inert, so the best plan would be to destroy the containers holding the volatile unrefined tylium precursor. Tigh and Starbuck want Baltar to point out what it is, even though he has no idea what it looks like. In his mind, Baltar asks his virtual Number Six for help, but she tells him it is in God's hands and He will "tell" Baltar where to point. Baltar picks an object in the base, simply as a wild guess (though he doesn't tell the others that). Baltar is terrified, telling Six he didn't hear God's voice, but she reassures him that "God doesn't always speak in ''words''".
* Apollo is concerned that everyone thinks Starbuck is a better pilot than he is and would be better leading the mission. Starbuck cannot fly in the attack, because in the [[Weight Room|weight room]] Commander Adama demonstrates that her knee has not yet fully recovered from its [[You Can't Go Home Again|injury]]. On the hangar deck, Commander Adama encourages Apollo, telling him he thinks Apollo really can pull off this mission, because he is his son.
* The attack is launched, and [[Battle for the Tylium Asteroid|the battle]] commences: civilian mining ships jump in on one side of the Cylon base pretending to be on a survey mission, drawing off some Raiders from the base, while ''Galactica'' jumps in on the other side and launches a squadron of Vipers against it, which are confronted by the base's reserve Raiders. The Raiders sent against the mining ships peel off and advance with the others on ''Galactica''. Everything seems to be going wrong, but then Adama reveals that this was a feint, apparently only he and those directly involved in implementing the plan aware of the real plan.
*A second squadron of Vipers, led by Apollo, launches from inside of the mining ships. While appearing to be merely bait, and dismissed as such by the Cylons, the ships are the real thrust of the attack. With the raiders lured out of position by ''Galactica'', Apollo and his wing have a clear flight to the base.
*Once the Vipers reach the moon, however, things are far from easy: the Cylon base has a formidable anti-air defense system, and the Vipers' missle attack fails as the Cylons are able to jam the missiles' tracking systems.
*In a move of reckless improvisation worthy of Starbuck, Apollo avoids the Cylon defense grid by flying through its tylium mining tunnels to the center of the base, then dropping a pair of explosive charges at the supposed tylium-precursor container.
*Much to Baltar's surprise, his wild guess at which container held the volatile tylium-precursor was correct: as Apollo flies away, the entire base explodes with the force of a 3 kiloton nuclear warhead.
*With their base destroyed, the Cylon Raiders go into a panic and are easy prey for ''Galactica''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s Vipers to mop up. All planes return to ''Galactica'' in a moment of celebration. Civilian mining ships will be able to get enough tylium fuel from the asteroid to last the Fleet several years.
*In Baltar's dream world, he expresses his astonishment to Number Six: Baltar "realizes" that the only "logical" explanation is that God truly did guide his hand to the right point on the Cylon base. The formerly atheist Baltar now accepts the possibility that he might truly be an instrument of God...

[[Image:bsg-1-10.jpg|thumb|Adama and staff plan the attack.]]
=== On Caprica: ===
*[[Karl Agathon|Helo]] and [[Sharon Valerii (Caprica copy)|Valerii]] are hiding-out on a farm on their way to [[Delphi]].
*When Helo offers to prepare a meal, Valerii is uncharacteristically sick, leading them to try and settle down for some sleep.
*They are interrupted by the arrival of a troop of [[Cylon Centurion]]s - lead by another copy of Number Six.
*Forcing a stunned Helo into action - he cannot believe the woman he saw Sharon kill is coming after them - Sharon forces him back on the run.

== Questions ==

* Why did [[William Adama|Commander Adama]] order the fighters to pursue the fleeing [[Cylon Raiders]], instead of securing the area? One possibility for attacking the remaining fighters to prevent them from getting reinforcements from a distant [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]]. ''(Although Adama will not have discovered this until later episodes, Raiders have the ability to make a jump ''much'' farther than any Colonial vessel.)''
* How many Vipers does ''Galactica'' actually have? Do they have a contingency plan should the majority (or all) of the Vipers be destroyed? Or are they simply fraked? (See [[Galactica (RDM)#Running Tallies|this article for a running tally by episode to-date]])
* Are the Colonials able to build ships, such as [[Viper (RDM)|Vipers]], from scratch? Or can they take destroyed hulks and rebuild off them? (Answer: Vipers are frequently salvaged, but only to a point. [[Flight of the Phoenix|Yes, they can build from scratch]], although the result [[Blackbird|may not be a Viper]]. However, [[Pegasus (RDM)|''Pegasus'']] is able to build Vipers from scratch, when she has the raw materials (metal ore, etc) to do so. ([[Scar]]))
* How exactly can a 3,600 year old text foretell the exodus of humanity, and the leadership of [[Laura Roslin|President Roslin]]? ([[Sacred Scrolls|Answer]].)
* Does someone have time on their hands to build miniatures of the ''new'' Cylon Raiders for the [[Situation Room]]!?
* If [[Gaius Baltar]] read the Sacred Scrolls in "... the 6th grade", why, in spite of being the former Secretary of Education, doesn't [[Laura Roslin|President Roslin]] know who [[Pythia]] is? Possibly it is because Gaius Baltar is a genius and he was reading very advanced material in the 6th grade, and Laura Roslin wasn't very religious prior to becoming president.
**Answer: According to RDM, the Sacred Scrolls are much like modern Earth religions, i.e. the vast majority of the general populace often knows many often-quoted phrases and the general philosophy of a religion, but that doesn't mean every person is a theology scholar. Also, like Earth different sections of the Twelve Colonies are more religious than others. [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]], for example, is quite secular in regards to religion, while [[Gemenon]] is religiously fundamentalist, believing in the literal truth of the Sacred Scrolls.
*Is Baltar truly an instrument of "God"?

== Analysis ==
*The introduction of the prophesy of [[Pythia]] further link the series' mythology to the ancient Greece of our own planet. In Greek mythology, the Pythia was the priestess at Apollo's oracle in Delphi. The name itself comes from Python, the dragon slain by Apollo. The Pythia operated as a vehicle for Apollo's will to be known to those on earth. A believer would make a sacrifice and present a question to a priest. The priest would then present the question to the Pythia. The Pythia sat on a bronze tripod in the adytum, or inner chamber of Apollo's temple. In this sacred chamber the spirit of Apollo overcame the Pythia and inspired the prophecy.
**Pythia in ancient Greece was the Oracle of Delphi – and on Caprica, Helo and Sharon are making for the religious center of [[Delphi]].
*Following his seeking God’s forgiveness ([[33]]) and his repentance of his sins ([[Six Degrees of Separation]]), Baltar finally becomes God’s "instrument". He literally becomes the hand of God referenced in the episode title: he is the one that points out the target that will destroy the Cylon base.
*Over the last few weeks, we’ve seen Baltar move through the five emotional states that tend to guide our reactions to a new "truth" we’d rather not face:
**Denial (dismissing the "disappearance" of the ''Olympic Carrier'' after the call from Dr. Amorak as anything more than a serendipitous event - [[33]])
**Anger (his outright hostility towards Six as she continues to "bore" him with talk of God - [[Six Degrees of Separation]])
**Bargaining (praying to God for his safety in return for his obedience - [[Six Degrees of Separation]])
**Depression (leaving the Situation Room without having "heard" God’s voice & facing up to the fact that he had to – again - lie)
**Acceptance his messianic response to Six’s coaxing at the end of this episode.
*Did the Cylons ''allow'' the Colonials to find an asteroid filled with fuel?
**Executive producer [[Ron Moore]] has stated numerous times that the Cylons are not letting the Fleet escape, but are actively trying to destroy it.

== Notes ==
*Nine days have passed since the events of "[[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]".
*The celtic victory music played at the end of the episode after the Cylon base is destroyed is titled "Wander My Friends", written and composed by [[Bear McCreary]]. The lyrics and translation for the song given in the liner notes for the Season 1 soundtrack are reposted [[Soundtrack (Season 1)#Lyrics and Translations|on this page]], with permission.
*Tylium ore is use to power FTL systems, but probably not through any fissionable reaction.
*Tylium has an energy density of about 5e14 J/kg, comparable to that of nuclear fusion.
*Cylon technology is clearly a Colonial off-shoot, as one would expect: from the use of tylium down to the shape of doorways.
*William Adama’s father was Joseph Adama.
*Sharon Valerii on Caprica may well be pregnant.
*Lt. Gaeta makes mention in passing conversation to Apollo that the Colonials actually know where the [[Cylon homeworld]] is ("they'd build a refinery this far from their homeworld?" "Why not? They need fuel out here just as much as we do").
*There is an ancient text some 3,600 years old foretelling humanity’s flight – and apparently, Roslin’s leadership.
*Mark II Vipers can carry both missiles and munitions pods (bombs).
*The Mark VII Vipers all appear to be out of commission - even Apollo is now regularly flying a Mk II.
*Based on the conversation between Commander Adama and Starbuck in the gym, it appears that Mark II Viper thruster pedals use a mechanical flight control system rather than a "fly-by-wire" linkage. This fits the concept of minimizing the use of computers mentioned in the [[miniseries]].
*The religious overtones to the human / Cylon struggle are becoming more pronounced, with a now-promised confrontation due at the "home of the Gods".
*The Colonial fleet has a tylium refinery ship among its number.
*With the capture of the tylium mining facilities on the asteroid, the Colonials should be able to gather enough tylium to keep them going for about 2 years – assuming they can shift that much tylium to their refinery ship before the Cylons return.
*A railway line can be seen below the balcony of Baltar's Caprica house at the end of the episode. Single track, mounted on apparently wooden (as oppsoed to conrete sleepers), on a bed of gravel, without any form of electrifcation (3rd rail or overhead wires).
*The title of this episode was also that of the 21st episode of the original series. Aside from both Adamas launching an offensive strike against Cylon forces, there is little comparison between the two episodes. The writers of the Re-imagined Series episode claimed that the naming of their episode and the offensive attack plans were coincidental; they weren't aware of this Original Series episode.
*[[Ronald D. Moore]] says in his podcast that [[Lee Adama]]'s flight through the tunnel is an homage to ''[[wikipedia:Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope|Star Wars]]''.

== Noteworthy Dialogue ==

*''Lee Adama sits with a battered Viper before the mission. He is joined by his father, who after a short conversation, Adama hands Lee a lighter:''
:'''Commander Adama:''' It belonged to your grandfather. My mother bought it for him when he was in law school. See the engraving on it?
:'''Lee Adama:''' (reading the name "Joseph Adama") Yes I...can barely make it out...
:'''Commander Adama:''' He was a better father than I was. Dad used to carry that into court cases. He claimed he never lost unless he left it behind.
:'''Lee Adama:''' So you’re worried too.
:'''Commander Adama:''' About what?
:'''Lee Adama:''' Sometimes it feels like the whole ship thinks...Starbuck...would do better.
:'''Commander Adama:''' I don’t.
:'''Lee Adama:''' How can you be so sure?
:'''Commander Adama:''' Because you’re my son.

*''Commander Adama asks Starbuck to assist with developing a plan to attack the refinery:''
:'''Commander Adama:''' Captain Adama and Colonel Tigh are working on the plan now and I need some serious "out-of -the-box" thinking.
:'''Starbuck:''' "Out-of-the-box" is where I live.

*''During the briefing with Apollo, Tigh, Starbuck, Adama, and Roslin.''
:'''Commander Adama:''' Sometimes, you have to roll the hard six.

== Official Statements ==




== Guest stars ==
*[[Michael Hogan]] as Colonel [[Saul Tigh]]
*[[Aaron Douglas]] as Chief Petty Officer [[Galen Tyrol]]
*[[Tahmoh Penikett]] as Lt. [[Karl Agathon|Karl "Helo" Agathon]]
*[[Kandyse McClure]] as Petty Officer Anastasia Dualla
*[[Paul Campbell]] as Billy Keikeya
*[[Sam Witwer]] as Lt. Crashdown
*[[Lorena Gale]] as [[Elosha]]
*[[Nicki Clyne]] as Specialist [[Cally]]
*[[Cailin Stadnyk]] as Ensign [[Davis]]
*[[Bodie Olmos]] as Lt. [[Brendan Constanza|Brendan "Hot Dog" Constanza]]
*[[Lucianna Carro]] as Lt. [[Louanne Katraine|Louanne "Kat" Katraine]]
*[[Terry Chen]] as [[Perry|"Chuckles" Perry]]
*[[Christina Schild]] as [[Playa Palacios]]
*[[Biski Gugushe]] as [[Sekou Hamilton]]
*[[Paul Cummings]] as [[Fireball]]
*[[Camille Sullivan]] as [[Stepchild]]

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User talk:Telperion

2005-11-01T08:57:57Z

Telperion:

MIght I say, an excellent user name; the line of the White Tree will never fail. ---[[User:Ricimer|Ricimer]], October 12, 2005

Welcome to the Wiki, Telperion. Thanks for the needed Opera House article. I hadn't opportunity to gather any information on it. There was an image of the ruins here that was mistakenly used on [[Tomb of Athena]]. Perhaps I will find it and add it to this page to complete it. --[[User:Spencerian|Spencerian]] 10:26, 27 October 2005 (EDT)

Thanks dudes. :) Long may the thrones of the Valar endure... or was that the Lords of Kobol? ;) --Telperion Nov, 1, 05

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2005-11-01T08:57:31Z

Telperion:

Richard Adar

2005-11-01T08:53:26Z

Telperion:

[[Image:bsg-baltar-adar.jpg|thumb|President Adar (right) with Gaius Baltar (credit: Sky One / Sci-Fi Channel)]]

President Adar is the last president of the [[Twelve Colonies]] before the [[Cylon attack]] in the ongoing [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Battlestar Galactica]] television series. He presumably died, along with the [[Quorum of the Twelve]], his Cabinet, and the first 42 officials in line of succession, during the attack which precipitated the near extinction of the human race. He was serving his second term as president, and had previously served as a mayor ([[Mini-Series]]). President Adar is succeeded by President [[Laura Roslin]] who was sworn in during the immediate aftermath of the attack.

Prior to this, Adar had faced some political strife for military actions, the details of which are still unclear, which he himself apparently regretted. He reportedly wrote down the names of all the casualties of this act, leaving it in his desk as a reminder of his fallibility. President Roslin emulated her predecessor in this regard by writing the name of the ship ''[[Olympic Carrier]]'' down and leaving it in her own desk aboard ''[[Colonial One]]'' as a reminder of her own fallibility ([[Water]]).

Another of his actions in office was to offer a full pardon to [[Tom Zarek]] in exchange for the latter's renunciation of violence; Zarek turned down the offer ([[Bastille Day]]).

He was also an influential friend to [[Baltar, Gaius|Gaius Baltar]] ([[Mini-Series]]).

[[Commander Adama]] considers President Adar "a moron" ([[Home, Part II]]).

==Notes==

*According to SkyOne, Adar's first name is "Richard". Earlier in his political career he was Mayor of [[Caprica City]], during which time he lead the city out of a high-crime, corrupt slump and back to its full potential. He later ran for Governor.
*[[Wikipedia:Adar|Adar]] is the name of the 6th month in the ecclesiastical year and 12th month of the civil year in the Hebrew calendar.
*The original script for "[[Home, Part II]]" called for Adama to refer to Adar as a "prick", but the line was edited to comply with broadcasting decency standards.

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Richard Adar

2005-11-01T08:52:57Z

Telperion:

[[Image:bsg-baltar-adar.jpg|thumb|President Adar (right) with Gaius Baltar (credit: Sky One / Sci-Fi Channel)]]

President Adar is the last president of the [[Twelve Colonies]] before the [[Cylon attack]] in the ongoing [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Battlestar Galactica]] television series. He presumably died, along with the Quorum of the Twelve, his Cabinet, and the first 42 officials in line of succession, during the attack which precipitated the near extinction of the human race. He was serving his second term as president, and had previously served as a mayor ([[Mini-Series]]). President Adar is succeeded by President [[Laura Roslin]] who was sworn in during the immediate aftermath of the attack.

Prior to this, Adar had faced some political strife for military actions, the details of which are still unclear, which he himself apparently regretted. He reportedly wrote down the names of all the casualties of this act, leaving it in his desk as a reminder of his fallibility. President Roslin emulated her predecessor in this regard by writing the name of the ship ''[[Olympic Carrier]]'' down and leaving it in her own desk aboard ''[[Colonial One]]'' as a reminder of her own fallibility ([[Water]]).

Another of his actions in office was to offer a full pardon to [[Tom Zarek]] in exchange for the latter's renunciation of violence; Zarek turned down the offer ([[Bastille Day]]).

He was also an influential friend to [[Baltar, Gaius|Gaius Baltar]] ([[Mini-Series]]).

[[Commander Adama]] considers President Adar "a moron" ([[Home, Part II]]).

==Notes==

*According to SkyOne, Adar's first name is "Richard". Earlier in his political career he was Mayor of [[Caprica City]], during which time he lead the city out of a high-crime, corrupt slump and back to its full potential. He later ran for Governor.
*[[Wikipedia:Adar|Adar]] is the name of the 6th month in the ecclesiastical year and 12th month of the civil year in the Hebrew calendar.
*The original script for "[[Home, Part II]]" called for Adama to refer to Adar as a "prick", but the line was edited to comply with broadcasting decency standards.

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Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II

2005-10-26T21:44:34Z

Telperion:

[[Image:bsg-klg2-1.jpg|thumb|"Kobol's Last Gleaming Part 2" (credit: Sci-Fi Channel)]]
== Overview ==
''Starbuck has gone to Caprica. Adama insists Roslin must stand down as President. When she refuses, he is forced to deal with that situation while simultaneously adapting the plan to rid themselves of the Cylon baseship over Kobol''

== Summary ==

=== On The Galactica: ===

* [[Adama, William|Adama]] challenges [[Roslin, Laura|Roslin]] over [[Thrace, Kara|Starbuck's]] actions with the [[Cylon Raider]] (which occured in the last episode) and she admits her role in helping [[Starbuck]]
* Adama requests her resignation as President. Roslin refuses. He states he is terminating her presidency. When she reveals the press are recording the conversation, he hangs up
* He isolates ''[[Colonial One]]'' using the [[CAP]] to physically isolate it, and by jamming all communications from it. He then orders [[Tigh, Saul|Colonel Tigh]] and [[Lee Adama]] to set-up a strike force to take ''Colonial One''
* Visiting [[Valerii, Sharon#"Boomer" Valerii|Boomer]] in sickbay, Adama asks her to fly a dangerous mission: take a Raptor fitted with a Cylon [[IFF]] transponder, jump to the Cylon [[Baseship|baseship]] orbiting Kobol and drop a nuclear bomb into its landing bay before jumping clear
* The strike team flies to an isolated ''Colonial One'' aboard two Raptors, lead by Tigh and Lee Adama, and they start cutting their way into the ship
* Roslin is returned to the ''Galactica'' after the failed standoff on the Colonial One and is placed in the brig, while Lee Adama is in irons in CIC for turning his gun on Tigh
* [[Boomer]] and [[Racetrack]] arrive in CIC following the success of the attack on the baseship near [[Kobol]], and as he thanks them, Boomer shoots Adama twice in the chest at point blank range, seriously wounding him

=== On the Colonial One: ===

* Roslin refuses Adama's final request to yield and her security team ready themselves for an assault and the strike team access the ship
* A confrontation ensues between Colonial forces and Roslin's security. It is broken only when Lee Adama sides with his conscience, and turns on Tigh. Afraid of a bloodbath, Roslin surrenders and Lee Adama is arrested

=== At Kobol ===

*[[Raptor]] 1 has crashed down on [[Kobol]] and is on fire, as the crew struggle to get out and remove the bodies of the dead and injured, [[Baltar, Gaius|Baltar]] becomes trapped by fire in the back of the vehicle
* [[Crashdown]] tries to help him, but Baltar is too terrified to move. [[Number Six|Six]] appears and gives Baltar the strength to escape by giving the impression ''she'' is helping him out of the ship
* As they get clear, the ship explodes, and Baltar wanders into the long grass before collapsing, as the rest of the crew start checking on their injured
* Boomer's Raptor makes it through the Cylon perimeter around the baseship situated above Kobol, but the bomb release mechanism fails, forcing them to land inside the basestar and attempt a manual removal of the bomb
* While there, Boomer encounters a number of her "sisters". While she tries to claim she is human, they inform her she cannot escape destiny
* After she leaves on the Raptor, her "sisters" make no attempt to disarm or remove the bomb. The baseship is destroyed in a massive nuclear explosion.
* On Kobol, Baltar recognises Six "saved" him, and she takes him to see exactly why he has been chosen by God, and she walks him towards the ruined [[Opera House]].
* Entering it, he is shown the "face of things to come", apparently a baby in a crib, the "first of the new generation of God's children" - and he is to be their protector

=== On Caprica: ===
* [[Valerii, Sharon#Caprica Valerii|Valerii]] has taken [[Agathon, Karl C.|Helo]] to hide near the [[Delphi]] Museum of the Colonies
* She is aware of the importance of the [[Arrow of Apollo]]
* They have discussed the fact that she is a Cylon (rather than a Cylon-created human clone as Helo suggested ([[Colonial Day]]))
* She reveals her relationship with him is important as it brings the Cylons closer to God. She also reveals she is pregnant
* Starbuck completes her long-range jump and arrives over [[The Twelve Colonies#Caprica|Caprica]]. Passing through Cylon lines, she sets down in Delphi and heads for the museum
* Locating the [[Arrow of Apollo]] she is confronted by [[Number Six|Six]] and a fight ensues in which Starbuck is initially badly beaten, before a last-minute rush sends them both over a landing, killing Six.
* Helo comes to Starbuck's aid, and she panics when she sees Valerii, immediately realizing that Valerii is a Cylon. Helo stops Starbuck from shooting her, citing that she's pregnant

== Summary from scifi.com ==
When Commander Adama learns that Kara disobeyed orders and Jumped to Caprica on orders from President Roslin, he demands the president's resignation, with the implied threat of a military coup. Roslin refuses his demand and sparks a confrontation.

As civil war simmers in the fleet, the conflict on Caprica heats up. Kara completes her mission for Laura: She finds the Arrow of Apollo that, according to prophecy, will lead the fleet to Earth. No sooner does she pick it up, however, than she is thrust into a battle to the death with Number Six.

Meanwhile, Adama sends Sharon and Racetrack in a Raptor equipped with a Cylon transponder, to fire a nuclear warhead that will destroy the basestar. But when the missile release jams, Sharon lands the Raptor deep inside the basestar, to deliver the warhead manually.

Once outside her ship, however, Sharon is greeted by dozens of Sharon avatars, all Cylons like her, welcoming her home. She retreats, but is told that she and her fellow Cylons will meet again. She and Racetrack escape the basestar, which explodes.

Mission accomplished, Sharon returns home to the Galactica. She warmly accepts Commander Adama's thanks and praise for a job well done — then she coldly shoots him, point-blank, in the chest.
--This section ©2005, [http://www.scifi.com SCI FI]. All rights reserved.

== Questions ==
* Are Adama's wounds fatal? ([[Scattered|Answer]])
* What will be the public reaction when news of [[Roslin, Laura|Roslin's]] arrest finally breaks through the communication's embargo? ([[Home, Part I|Answer]])
* Who will take over as the civil leader with Roslin in the brig and [[Baltar, Gaius|Baltar]] "lost" somewhere on the surface of [[Kobol]]? ([[Fragged|Answer]])
* How will [[Tigh, Saul|Tigh]] rise to the demands of command?
* What is the baby in the crib? ([[Scattered|Answer]])
** The offspring from Valerii and [[Agathon, Karl C.|Helo]]?
** The future offspring of Baltar and a corporeal [[Number Six|Six]]? ([[Home, Part II|Answer]])
* If the Cylons understand the significance of the Arrow of Apollo (and by extension, the Tomb of Athena), why don't they use them themselves to find [[Earth]]?
:* Might they possibly also want to open the tomb in order to find and in turn sabotage Earth for the remaining fleet?
:*If they want the humans to find Earth, why try and prevent Starbuck from taking the Arrow in the first place?
* Are the Cylons genuinely interested in Earth, or has it simply been a means to bring them to Kobol?
* Why didn't the sound of Starbuck's Raider landing attract Helo's attention sooner? He's across the road from the museum, and so could hardly fail to see it touch down, or see Starbuck climb the steps to the museum itself.
* How did Six know Starbuck's name so readily? Is this a pointer to her being in communication with her "sister" in Baltar's head? Or having been in communication with Conoy ([[Flesh and Bone]])?
* Did Boomer sabotage the bomb release mechanism, thus forcing herself into landing on the baseship?
* Why didn't [[Racetrack]] raise concerns about [[Valerii, Sharon|Boomer's]] ability to survive in a vacuum on their return to the ''[[Galactica]]''? ([[Scattered|Answer]])
* Did the IFF transponders genuinely work, or did the Cylons simply allow Starbuck's Raider to pass and the Raptor to reach the baseship in order for Starbuck and Boomer to continue along their "paths"?
* How many operational [[Raptor|Raptors]] does the ''Galactica'' have? [[Water]] gives the impression she had five. A total of six are used in Part I and Part II of "Kobol's Last Gleaming".
:*Not necessarily. In [[Water]], Tigh only said that there were five ''systems'' within their "Practical Jump Radius". If one raptor each was adequate for survey purposes, there would have been no reason to deploy the sixth.

== Analysis ==
An extraordinary ending to a remarkable first season; not by any means a traditional cliff-hanger episode so frequently used by sci-fi writers, it nevertheless fulfils the same purpose by both bringing several of the on-going arcs of the season together, without actually tying the thread together nor leaving them dangling in the wind. The result is to confirm much of the speculation developed throughout the first season, while simultaneously opening the overall arc of the series by providing both crises and a glimpse of the future.

As with “Kobol’s Last Gleaming, Part 1”, music plays an important part of the episode – particularly with reference to Baltar’s visions in the ruins of Kobol, where the string orchestration used in the teaser of Part 1 becomes the motif for Baltar’s transition from confused pawn to willing participant in the Cylon’s plan. Similarly, music is used to indicate Boomer’s shifts between her human and Cylon selves. And the counterpoint couldn’t be more interesting: while both utilise strings, the harmony around Baltar’s enlightenment indicates - as Six points out – the rhythm of his life falling into line with God’s will, whereas the discordant working of strings around Boomer’s contact with her “sisters” underscores the final collapse of her human will, opening the door to her Cylon personality to take control of her conscious actions and shoot Adama when the time comes.

And it is with Boomer that some of the arcs of season one draw together: yes, Valerii on Caprica is pregnant; yes love and procreation were the keys to Cylon desire with her and Helo; yes her true nature would be revealed to her crewmates – if not directly through her actions in shooting Adama, then certainly through Starbuck’s return to the Galactica. While Starbuck is liable to be thrown into the brig on her return, that’s no reason for Tigh and others not to believe claims about Boomer in light of what she has seen on Caprica and what has happened in CIC.

Another element that is finally revealed is what the Cylons really want out of Baltar – but this in itself raises questions. Not only about his relationship with Six, but also about the future of the Helo / Valerii storyline, and those questions centre on what he saw in the crib.

That he was seeing into the future is clear: but is the child he sees the product of Helo’s relationship with Valerii, or his own (future) relationship with a corporeal Six? On the one hand, much of what is seen points to the child being born of Valerii: she admits her condition to Helo (and thus opens the door to him remaining on Caprica with her while Starbuck returns to the Galactica with the Arrow) and the Cylons were apparently aiming for her to become pregnant by Helo (or at least, Doral and Six showed no surprised when she reported her lovemaking with him). But – Six’s words to Baltar as she prepares him to see the future are interesting: “You are the guardian and protector of a new generation of God’s children,” – a somewhat neutral explanation that comes before she smiles, catches her breath and adds, “The first member of our family will be with us soon, Gaius.” This could be a reference to the fact that Valerii is pregnant; however the shift to the possessive “our family” and “with us” could be seen to indicate the child could be Baltar’s own.

And again, how much more of an effective guardian and protector will Baltar be, if he is in fact protecting his own offspring, rather than that of another Cylon / human relationship? And if this is the case, where does that leave the Valerii / Helo relationship?

This episode also reveals some more about Six: if the offspring on the crib she sees with Baltar is that of Valerii and Helo, then it would more or less confirm that she is in contact with corporeal Cylons elsewhere – how else would she know of the developing Valerii / Helo situation otherwise as it started after her “death”? Similarly, it is interesting to note the degree of savagery involved in the beating Six gives Starbuck. In many respects, it mirrors the beating she gave Valerii in “Litmus”; at the time, the viciousness she showed seemed to be linked to the jealousy evident between her and Valerii. We now know that Six has been affected by Baltar’s reaction to sleeping with Starbuck (“Kobol’s Last Gleaming, Part 1”); could the physical beating Starbuck receives be a manifestation of the jealousy she feels for what happened on the Galactica, transmitted to her corporeal sister?

But the key question is what will happen to Adama? It is very hard to conceive of the series progressing without his presence. While the ensemble cast is one of the best put together on-screen, and while many of them – Callis in particular – have put in powerful performances, it is fair to say that Olmos is very much the anchor of this series. Without his strength and gravitas, Battlestar Galactica could end up drifting very badly. Therefore, while it will be interesting to see what new dynamics may develop while Adama is out of commission – how will Tigh handle the vagaries of command, who will he nominate as his XO, etc, – it is essential Adama’s presence is felt sooner rather than later in the next season.

While discussing Adama, it may be interesting to note that his shooting almost brings the story full-circle. As he was dying on [[Ragnar Anchorage]], the [[humano-Cylon]] [[Conoy, Leoben|Leoben Conoy]] warns Adama that, “Sooner or later, the day comes when you can’t hide from the things you’ve done” ([[Mini-Series]]). Adama has waged war on the Cylons – both as a young officer during the Cylon War and now in his efforts to protect his people and the fleet. He has just been responsible for the destruction of a Cylon baseship, complete with many copies of Valerii; and now Valerii has shot him.

And how will the fleet react once word of Roslin’s arrest breaks through the communications blackout the Galactica inflicted on Colonial One? What can the civilians do? In many respects Adama holds all the cards – or would do, were he in a fit condition. His ship is the key to the protection of the fleet. She is pretty much unassailable, and without her facilities, 16,000 people in the fleet would very soon be without water (“Water”). Therefore, it is hard to see anyone stepping too far out of line when it comes to making major decisions: where the fleet will go, what it will do, etc. But within the civilian community, it is hard not to see repercussions: Roslin has been arrested; Baltar is missing, possibly dead. Who is available to take the civil reigns? Wallace Gray (“Colonial Day”)? Tom Zarek (“Bastille Day”; “Colonial Day”). Is it a coincidence that not too long before, at the Quorum of Twelve, Zarek himself raised the spectre of a military coup – and that’s more-or-less what they now have on their hands?

All told, this episode generates outstanding drama that demands a successful renewal and second season. It brings what has been an excellent first season to a powerful close, reflecting the almost unbroken run of quality drama evidenced by the show. Indeed the overall quality in terms of production, writing, casting and acting more than demonstrates both Ronald Moore and David Eick are correct in limiting the show to 13-episode runs.

== Notes ==
* This episode takes place directly after those of [[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]
* There are now 47,887 survivors in the fleet, a net loss of 10 since "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]".
* Cylon vessels are indeed capable of very long-range jumps
* [[Delphi]] was once a cultural centre on Caprica, and apparently held a lot of historical / religious artefacts
* Cylon basestars appear bio-mechanical, like Raiders
* In [[Water]] it was established that the ''Galactica'' had at least 5 [[Raptor|Raptors]] on board: [[Adama, William|Adama]] orders Raptors to survey local star systems for water bearing planets, 5 are dispatched. This episode reveals ''Galactica'' has at least 6: 1 is destroyed over [[Kobol]], one crashes on Kobol; three take part in the raid on ''[[Colonial One]]'', 1 simultaneously carries a nuclear warhead to the Cylon basestar,
*According to RDM's podcast, during the Starbuck/Number Six fight in the Delphi Museum, Katee Sackhoff and Tricia Helfer themselves actually perform the entire fight scene, with no stunt doubles.

===Nods===
The use of [[IFF]] transponders by the Cylons is an indirect nod to [[TOS Battlestar Galactica|the original series]], in which [[Apollo (TOS)|Apollo]] and [[Starbuck (TOS)|Starbuck]] use an IFF-type device to identify their [[Cylon Raider#Original Series Raider|Raider]] to Colonial forces when they launch an attack on a Cylon Basestar ([[The Hand of God (TOS)]])

== Noteworthy Dialogue ==

* ''When Adama congratulates Boomer for destroying the basestar over Kobol:''
*:Commander Adama: Congratulations to both of you. You carried out a very difficult and dangerous mission, and you did it...despite any...personal misgivings you may or may not have had...and for that I'm very proud. Thank you.
*:Racetrack: Thank you, sir.
*:Boomer: Thank you, sir. (pulls out a gun and shoots Adama in the chest)

* ''In the Opera House on Kobol''
*:Gaius Baltar: I don't understand.
*:Number Six: Life has a melody, Gaius. A rhythm of notes that become your existence once played in harmony with God's plan. It's time to do your part and realize your destiny.
*:Gaius Baltar: Which is what, exactly?
*:Number Six: You are the guardian and protector of the new generation of God's children. The first member of our family will be with us soon, Gaius. It's time to make your choice.
*:Gaius Baltar: But I don't understand what you're talking about. Really, I don't understand-
*:Number Six: Come. See the face of the shape of things to come.

* ''On the Colonial One''
*:Colonel Tigh: Madam President, no one needs to get hurt here.
*:Laura Roslin: Then why don't you get off my ship, Colonel.
*:Colonel Tigh: I'm placing you under arrest.
*:Lee Adama: No...no, we're not doing this.
*:Colonel Tigh: I'm in command here, Captain.
*:Lee Adama: Colonel, this is wrong!
*:Colonel Tigh: You're relieved! Fall back. Madam President, I would-
*:Lee Adama: (pulls a gun on Tigh) Men, lay down your weapons.
*:Colonel Tigh: Have you lost your frakking mind?
*:Lee Adama: Colonel, tell these Marines to fall back!
*:Colonel Tigh: This is mutiny. You know that.
*:Lee Adama: Yes I do, but you can tell my father that I'm listening to my instincts, and my instincts tell me that we cannot sacrifice our democracy just because the President makes a bad decision.

== Official Statements ==

* ''Regarding [[Lee Adama]] and his development (and setbacks) incurred over the course of [[Season 1 (2004-05)]], as stated by [[Jamie Bamber]]:''

: I think he's his own man. I think he's a natural leader, but I don't think he's realised that yet. We are exploring it.

:At the end of the first season he's on his own again. I mean, he's always been an isolated figure in the first place because he doesn't really belong on the ''[[Galactica]]''. He doesn't even intend to be there but then the end of the world sort of catches him on the hop and that's where he has to make a start. He cuts a role out for himself as the "[[CAG]]," something he perhaps wasn't intending to do.

:And I think he comes into his own gradually. He surprises himself. But then again, at the end of the first season he disobeys an order, so that's basically burned all his bridges that he had with the crew of the ''[[Galactica]]''.

:So he's a lone thinker in many respects, but I think more and more you'll see him start to come out with true leadership qualities. [http://gateworld.net/galactica/articles/bamber01.shtml]

== Statistics ==



=== Guest Stars ===



*[http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Lorena+Gale Lorena Gale] as [[Elosha]]
*[http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Alonso+Oyarzun Alonso Oyarzun] as [[Socinus]]
*[http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Nicki+Clyne Nicki Clyne] as [[Cally]]
*[http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Jim+Shield Jim Shield] as [[Karna]]
*[http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Leah+Cairns Leah Cairns] as [[Racetrack]]
*[http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Warren+Christie Warren Christie] as Ground Crew #1
*[http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Jen+Halley Jen Halley] as Ground Crew #2



=== Writing & Direction ===

*Story by [http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+David+Eick David Eick]
*Teleplay by [http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Ronald+D.+Moore Ronald D. Moore]
*Directed by [http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Michael+Rymer) Michael Rymer]




=== Production Notes ===

*Series: 1 (2004 / 2005)
*Production Number: 1.13
*Airdate Order: 13 (of 13)

=== First Run Air Dates & Releases ===

*UK Airdate: 24 January 2005 (Sky One)
*US Airdate: 01 April 2005 (Sci-Fi Channel)
*DVD Release: 28 March 2005 (UK)

== External Links ==
[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/episodes/season01/113/ "Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II"] at scifi.com

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Opera House

2005-10-26T21:41:42Z

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The Opera House is a legendary structure said to have existed in the [[City of the Gods]] on [[Kobol]], birthplace of Humanity, along with other edifices such as the [[Forum]] and Temple. Number Six took Baltar to the ruins of the Opera House in [[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]].

Kobol

2005-10-26T21:39:13Z

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==Overview==
Kobol is said to be the original home of mankind, once shared with the [[Lords of Kobol]].

Kobol is a verdant world of seas and continents, the latter having large swathes of woodland, grassland and forests ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]).

Kobol was a place where humans and the gods dwelt in harmony, the seat of power being the [[City of the Gods]], itself dominated by the [[Forum]] and [[Opera House]] ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]), structures which were duplicated on [[Caprica]] in the city of [[Delphi]].

==Great Exodus==
The Great Exodus from Kobol took place some 2,000 years prior to the events of the [[re-imagined|new Battestar Galactica]]. At that time, the 12 tribes departed Kobol for the [[Cyrannus]] system ([[Video Game]]).

It is unclear whether the gods themselves departed Kobol at this time. However, given that their presence is not seen among the 12 colonies, it is possible they remained on Kobol. This may be the reason why not everyone departed Kobol at the time of the Great Exodus.

Certainly, it is known that the [[Thirteenth Tribe]] departed Kobol some time after the main exodus ([[Mini-Series]]), to seek a planet known as "([[Earth]])". The gods may also have abandoned Kobol at this time to travel with the Thirteenth Tribe.

==Religious Texts==
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. Chief among these writings are those of [[Pythia]], who wrote some 1,600 years prior to the Great Exodus, fortelling of another exodus featuring a "caravan of the heavens" lead by someone dying of a "wasting disease" ([[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: [[Roslin, Laura|President Laura Roslin]], the civil leader of the Colonial fleet is dying of cancer - which can be considered a wasting disease. Further, she has several visions, including one of 12 snakes ([[The Hand of God]]) that is specifically foretold by Pythia.

According to [[Six]], the Cylons have very different beliefs about Kobol, including that human sacrifice was practiced there, and that the souls of all who die on Kobol are forever lost. ([[Valley of Darkness]], [[Fragged]])

==Rediscovering Kobol==
Kobol is re-discovered by chance when the ''[[Galactica]]'' dispatches her [[Raptor|Raptors]] to locate planets which may provide materials needed to re-supply the fleet ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]).

Following the discovery as predicted by the [[humano-Cylon]] [[Conoy, Leoben|Leoben Conoy]], Roslin becomes convinced that Kobol will lead the fleet to Earth, providing the [[Tomb of Athena]] can be accessed. To do this, the [[Arrow of Apollo]] must be retreived from [[The Twelve Colonies#Caprica|Caprica]].

However, before the surface of Kobol can be reached safely (and the crew of a crashed Raptor rescued), a [[Cylon]] force lead by a [[basestar]] must be eliminated. It is planned to use the captured Cylon [[Raider]] to help with this, but before any plan can be put into action, [[Thrace, Kara|Lt. "Starbuck" Thrace]] uses the Raider to go to Caprica in an attempt to recover the Arrow. [[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]].

==Kobol In the Original Series ==

In the [[TOS|original series]] Kobol was also the mother world where mankind originated. In that series, it was an ecological / environmental disaster that lead to the migration. During the migration, 12 tribes set out for the stars, but became lost in a starless void before stumbling into the worlds that would become the new twelve colonies of mankind, while the 13th again headed for a world called "Earth".

Kobol is rediscovered in the episode [[Lost Planet of the Gods, Part I]], which sees a team from the ''[[Galactica]]'' arrive among the ruins of [[Eden]], the planet's largest city. Here they seek to enter the tomb of the [[Ninth Lord of Kobol]] in order to find clues as to the route taken by the Thirteeth Tribe ([[Lost Planet of the Gods, Part II]]). A [[Cylon]] attack prevents them from doing so.

===Similarities with the [[Re-imagined|New Galactica]]===

Both series of Galactica utilise Kobol in similar ways:

*It is the original home of mankind
*It is found by chance by both fleets
*A tomb may hold the key to the location of Earth
**[[Ninth Lord of Kobol]] - [[Lost Planet of the Gods, Part I]]
**[[Tomb of Athena]] - [[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]
*The Colonials encounter Cylons at both.

==Origins of "Kobol"==
"Kobol" originally appears to have derived from "Kolob" which, according to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_articles_about_Mormonism Mormon] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Abraham Book of Abraham] is the "star nearest unto God". [[Glen A. Larson]], creator of the original series is a member of the of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints], and as such used Mormon imagery within the show, together with elements of Eygptian imagery that tend to reflect the time of Abraham and the Israelites.

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Delphi

2005-10-26T21:37:24Z

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[[Image:Delphi.jpg|thumb|Aerial view of Cylon-occupied Delphi.]]
A Colonial city on [[The Twelve Colonies#Caprica|Caprica]] featuring a large Cylon spaceport and military base. The tallest structure that could be seen for miles was the Telemontus Building- a towering monument that pierced the Delphian city skyline by several stories.

Delphi is believed to be the cultural and spiritual heart of the Twelve Colonies, home of the [[Forum]], Temple, and [[Opera House]] which were built to mirror the originals on [[Kobol]]. Helo is heard to curse the Cylons for using Delphi as a major hub in [[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]].

Following the [[Cylon attack|Cylon Attack]], Delphi is used by the [[Cylons]] as their primary base of operations. [[Valerii, Sharon|Valerii]] and [[Agathon, Karl C.|Helo]] make their way acorss the planet in the hope of being able to find a vehicle they can use to fly off Caprica ([[Flesh and Bone]], [[Hand of God]], [[Colonial Day]]).

It is also the city that contains the [[Arrow of Apollo]], an artefact that may be the only clue to the whereabouts of Earth ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]], [[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]). When [[Roslin, Laura|Laura Roslin]] has visions following the discovery of [[Kobol]], she overrides [[Adama, William|Adama's]] plans and persuades [[Thrace, Kara|Kara "Starbuck" Thrace]] to take her captured [[Cylon Raider]] to Caprica in order to recover the Arrow ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]).

Successfully jumping to Caprica, Starbuck lands next to the museum in which the Arrow is kept and manages to retrieve it, but she is badly beaten by [[Number Six|Six]], and encounters [[Agathon, Karl C.|Helo]] and the pregnant [[Valerii, Sharon|Sharon Valerii]] ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]).

Starbuck once owned a studio apartment in Delphi. The place was a mess, it overlooked a parking lot, it had a broken toilet and the basic services were constantly being cut off because she didn't pay the bills. The apartment was littered with paintings of her own creation and of course her customary stogies. Starbuck wasn't very enthusiastic about the place, even when she owned it, the only reason she returned "home" was to collect an old jacket, a personal memento, and to get her humvee so she and Helo wouldn't have to walk anymore ([[Valley of Darkness]]).

== Ancient Greece ==

The location of Delphi is one of many of the series’ influences by ancient Greek mythology and history. In antiquity, the Greek city of Delphi was home to the Delphic Oracle, a Sibyl who made predictions, delivered in song or verse, which may have been inspired or influenced by the breathing of vapors emitted from the ground. The Oracle was originally a Pythian priestess (named for the python, killed by Apollo). Overt time, she became known as The Pythia.

Initially, the Oracle was associated with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_%28mythology%29 Gaia], who became the foundation of the [[Greek Gods|Olympian Gods]]. However, with the founding of a temple to the god [[Greek Gods| Apollo]], Delphi became more closely associated with him.

This relationship between Delphi and Apollo is reflected in Delphi on Caprica being the home of the Arrow of Apollo.

== External Links ==

Wikipedia entry for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphi Delphi] 

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City of the Gods

2005-10-26T21:36:43Z

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[[Image:bsg-cityofgods-1.jpg|thumb|An illustration of the City of the Gods (credit: Sky One / Sci-Fi Channel)]]
[[Image:Bsg-ath-tomb.jpg|thumb|Ruins of the Opera House of the City of the Gods (credit: Sky One / Sci-Fi Channel)]]
The main city on the planet [[Kobol]], said to be the birthplace of mankind and the place where the "gods and man lived in paradise" before the exodus of the thirteen tribes.

It is the only city seen by [[Valerii, Sharon|Boomer]] and [[Crashdown]] when they came across Kobol during a [[Raptor]] sortie from the ''[[Galactica]]'' ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]).

During a review of the images of the city, [[Roslin, Laura|Laura Roslin]] has a vision of the city when it was still inhabited, seeing the [[Forum]] and the Opera House ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]), and then has quick visions of the [[Tomb of Athena]] and the [[Arrow of Apollo]]. The [[Forum]] and possibly other structures such as the [[Opera House]] and Temple are mirrored on Caprica, in [[Delphi]].

These events lead her to the conclusion that the scriptures and the legends are true, and that - as foretold by [[Conoy, Leoben|Leoben Conoy]], - Kobol will be a stepping stone to [[Earth]] ([[Flesh and Bone]]).

Realising that the Arrow of Apollo may be the key to discovering Earth, Roslin pursuades [[Thrace, Kara|Starbuck]] to take the captured [[Cylon Raider|Raider]] back to [[The Twelve Colonies#Caprica|Caprica]] to retrieve the Arrow, rather than preparing it for an attack on a [[Cylon]] [[basestar]] orbiting Kobol ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]).

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Opera House

2005-10-26T21:35:13Z

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The Opera House is a legendary structure said to have existed in the [[City of the Gods]] on [[Kobol]], birthplace of Humanity. Number Six took Baltar to the ruins of the Opera House in [[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]].

Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II

2005-10-26T21:32:51Z

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[[Image:bsg-klg2-1.jpg|thumb|"Kobol's Last Gleaming Part 2" (credit: Sci-Fi Channel)]]
== Overview ==
''Starbuck has gone to Caprica. Adama insists Roslin must stand down as President. When she refuses, he is forced to deal with that situation while simultaneously adapting the plan to rid themselves of the Cylon baseship over Kobol''

== Summary ==

=== On The Galactica: ===

* [[Adama, William|Adama]] challenges [[Roslin, Laura|Roslin]] over [[Thrace, Kara|Starbuck's]] actions with the [[Cylon Raider]] (which occured in the last episode) and she admits her role in helping [[Starbuck]]
* Adama requests her resignation as President. Roslin refuses. He states he is terminating her presidency. When she reveals the press are recording the conversation, he hangs up
* He isolates ''[[Colonial One]]'' using the [[CAP]] to physically isolate it, and by jamming all communications from it. He then orders [[Tigh, Saul|Colonel Tigh]] and [[Lee Adama]] to set-up a strike force to take ''Colonial One''
* Visiting [[Valerii, Sharon#"Boomer" Valerii|Boomer]] in sickbay, Adama asks her to fly a dangerous mission: take a Raptor fitted with a Cylon [[IFF]] transponder, jump to the Cylon [[Baseship|baseship]] orbiting Kobol and drop a nuclear bomb into its landing bay before jumping clear
* The strike team flies to an isolated ''Colonial One'' aboard two Raptors, lead by Tigh and Lee Adama, and they start cutting their way into the ship
* Roslin is returned to the ''Galactica'' after the failed standoff on the Colonial One and is placed in the brig, while Lee Adama is in irons in CIC for turning his gun on Tigh
* [[Boomer]] and [[Racetrack]] arrive in CIC following the success of the attack on the baseship near [[Kobol]], and as he thanks them, Boomer shoots Adama twice in the chest at point blank range, seriously wounding him

=== On the Colonial One: ===

* Roslin refuses Adama's final request to yield and her security team ready themselves for an assault and the strike team access the ship
* A confrontation ensues between Colonial forces and Roslin's security. It is broken only when Lee Adama sides with his conscience, and turns on Tigh. Afraid of a bloodbath, Roslin surrenders and Lee Adama is arrested

=== At Kobol ===

*[[Raptor]] 1 has crashed down on [[Kobol]] and is on fire, as the crew struggle to get out and remove the bodies of the dead and injured, [[Baltar, Gaius|Baltar]] becomes trapped by fire in the back of the vehicle
* [[Crashdown]] tries to help him, but Baltar is too terrified to move. [[Number Six|Six]] appears and gives Baltar the strength to escape by giving the impression ''she'' is helping him out of the ship
* As they get clear, the ship explodes, and Baltar wanders into the long grass before collapsing, as the rest of the crew start checking on their injured
* Boomer's Raptor makes it through the Cylon perimeter around the baseship situated above Kobol, but the bomb release mechanism fails, forcing them to land inside the basestar and attempt a manual removal of the bomb
* While there, Boomer encounters a number of her "sisters". While she tries to claim she is human, they inform her she cannot escape destiny
* After she leaves on the Raptor, her "sisters" make no attempt to disarm or remove the bomb. The baseship is destroyed in a massive nuclear explosion.
* On Kobol, Baltar recognises Six "saved" him, and she takes him to see exactly why he has been chosen by God, and she walks him towards the ruined [[Forum]] and Opera House.
* Entering it, he is shown the "face of things to come", apparently a baby in a crib, the "first of the new generation of God's children" - and he is to be their protector

=== On Caprica: ===
* [[Valerii, Sharon#Caprica Valerii|Valerii]] has taken [[Agathon, Karl C.|Helo]] to hide near the [[Delphi]] Museum of the Colonies
* She is aware of the importance of the [[Arrow of Apollo]]
* They have discussed the fact that she is a Cylon (rather than a Cylon-created human clone as Helo suggested ([[Colonial Day]]))
* She reveals her relationship with him is important as it brings the Cylons closer to God. She also reveals she is pregnant
* Starbuck completes her long-range jump and arrives over [[The Twelve Colonies#Caprica|Caprica]]. Passing through Cylon lines, she sets down in Delphi and heads for the museum
* Locating the [[Arrow of Apollo]] she is confronted by [[Number Six|Six]] and a fight ensues in which Starbuck is initially badly beaten, before a last-minute rush sends them both over a landing, killing Six.
* Helo comes to Starbuck's aid, and she panics when she sees Valerii, immediately realizing that Valerii is a Cylon. Helo stops Starbuck from shooting her, citing that she's pregnant

== Summary from scifi.com ==
When Commander Adama learns that Kara disobeyed orders and Jumped to Caprica on orders from President Roslin, he demands the president's resignation, with the implied threat of a military coup. Roslin refuses his demand and sparks a confrontation.

As civil war simmers in the fleet, the conflict on Caprica heats up. Kara completes her mission for Laura: She finds the Arrow of Apollo that, according to prophecy, will lead the fleet to Earth. No sooner does she pick it up, however, than she is thrust into a battle to the death with Number Six.

Meanwhile, Adama sends Sharon and Racetrack in a Raptor equipped with a Cylon transponder, to fire a nuclear warhead that will destroy the basestar. But when the missile release jams, Sharon lands the Raptor deep inside the basestar, to deliver the warhead manually.

Once outside her ship, however, Sharon is greeted by dozens of Sharon avatars, all Cylons like her, welcoming her home. She retreats, but is told that she and her fellow Cylons will meet again. She and Racetrack escape the basestar, which explodes.

Mission accomplished, Sharon returns home to the Galactica. She warmly accepts Commander Adama's thanks and praise for a job well done — then she coldly shoots him, point-blank, in the chest.
--This section ©2005, [http://www.scifi.com SCI FI]. All rights reserved.

== Questions ==
* Are Adama's wounds fatal? ([[Scattered|Answer]])
* What will be the public reaction when news of [[Roslin, Laura|Roslin's]] arrest finally breaks through the communication's embargo? ([[Home, Part I|Answer]])
* Who will take over as the civil leader with Roslin in the brig and [[Baltar, Gaius|Baltar]] "lost" somewhere on the surface of [[Kobol]]? ([[Fragged|Answer]])
* How will [[Tigh, Saul|Tigh]] rise to the demands of command?
* What is the baby in the crib? ([[Scattered|Answer]])
** The offspring from Valerii and [[Agathon, Karl C.|Helo]]?
** The future offspring of Baltar and a corporeal [[Number Six|Six]]? ([[Home, Part II|Answer]])
* If the Cylons understand the significance of the Arrow of Apollo (and by extension, the Tomb of Athena), why don't they use them themselves to find [[Earth]]?
:* Might they possibly also want to open the tomb in order to find and in turn sabotage Earth for the remaining fleet?
:*If they want the humans to find Earth, why try and prevent Starbuck from taking the Arrow in the first place?
* Are the Cylons genuinely interested in Earth, or has it simply been a means to bring them to Kobol?
* Why didn't the sound of Starbuck's Raider landing attract Helo's attention sooner? He's across the road from the museum, and so could hardly fail to see it touch down, or see Starbuck climb the steps to the museum itself.
* How did Six know Starbuck's name so readily? Is this a pointer to her being in communication with her "sister" in Baltar's head? Or having been in communication with Conoy ([[Flesh and Bone]])?
* Did Boomer sabotage the bomb release mechanism, thus forcing herself into landing on the baseship?
* Why didn't [[Racetrack]] raise concerns about [[Valerii, Sharon|Boomer's]] ability to survive in a vacuum on their return to the ''[[Galactica]]''? ([[Scattered|Answer]])
* Did the IFF transponders genuinely work, or did the Cylons simply allow Starbuck's Raider to pass and the Raptor to reach the baseship in order for Starbuck and Boomer to continue along their "paths"?
* How many operational [[Raptor|Raptors]] does the ''Galactica'' have? [[Water]] gives the impression she had five. A total of six are used in Part I and Part II of "Kobol's Last Gleaming".
:*Not necessarily. In [[Water]], Tigh only said that there were five ''systems'' within their "Practical Jump Radius". If one raptor each was adequate for survey purposes, there would have been no reason to deploy the sixth.

== Analysis ==
An extraordinary ending to a remarkable first season; not by any means a traditional cliff-hanger episode so frequently used by sci-fi writers, it nevertheless fulfils the same purpose by both bringing several of the on-going arcs of the season together, without actually tying the thread together nor leaving them dangling in the wind. The result is to confirm much of the speculation developed throughout the first season, while simultaneously opening the overall arc of the series by providing both crises and a glimpse of the future.

As with “Kobol’s Last Gleaming, Part 1”, music plays an important part of the episode – particularly with reference to Baltar’s visions in the ruins of Kobol, where the string orchestration used in the teaser of Part 1 becomes the motif for Baltar’s transition from confused pawn to willing participant in the Cylon’s plan. Similarly, music is used to indicate Boomer’s shifts between her human and Cylon selves. And the counterpoint couldn’t be more interesting: while both utilise strings, the harmony around Baltar’s enlightenment indicates - as Six points out – the rhythm of his life falling into line with God’s will, whereas the discordant working of strings around Boomer’s contact with her “sisters” underscores the final collapse of her human will, opening the door to her Cylon personality to take control of her conscious actions and shoot Adama when the time comes.

And it is with Boomer that some of the arcs of season one draw together: yes, Valerii on Caprica is pregnant; yes love and procreation were the keys to Cylon desire with her and Helo; yes her true nature would be revealed to her crewmates – if not directly through her actions in shooting Adama, then certainly through Starbuck’s return to the Galactica. While Starbuck is liable to be thrown into the brig on her return, that’s no reason for Tigh and others not to believe claims about Boomer in light of what she has seen on Caprica and what has happened in CIC.

Another element that is finally revealed is what the Cylons really want out of Baltar – but this in itself raises questions. Not only about his relationship with Six, but also about the future of the Helo / Valerii storyline, and those questions centre on what he saw in the crib.

That he was seeing into the future is clear: but is the child he sees the product of Helo’s relationship with Valerii, or his own (future) relationship with a corporeal Six? On the one hand, much of what is seen points to the child being born of Valerii: she admits her condition to Helo (and thus opens the door to him remaining on Caprica with her while Starbuck returns to the Galactica with the Arrow) and the Cylons were apparently aiming for her to become pregnant by Helo (or at least, Doral and Six showed no surprised when she reported her lovemaking with him). But – Six’s words to Baltar as she prepares him to see the future are interesting: “You are the guardian and protector of a new generation of God’s children,” – a somewhat neutral explanation that comes before she smiles, catches her breath and adds, “The first member of our family will be with us soon, Gaius.” This could be a reference to the fact that Valerii is pregnant; however the shift to the possessive “our family” and “with us” could be seen to indicate the child could be Baltar’s own.

And again, how much more of an effective guardian and protector will Baltar be, if he is in fact protecting his own offspring, rather than that of another Cylon / human relationship? And if this is the case, where does that leave the Valerii / Helo relationship?

This episode also reveals some more about Six: if the offspring on the crib she sees with Baltar is that of Valerii and Helo, then it would more or less confirm that she is in contact with corporeal Cylons elsewhere – how else would she know of the developing Valerii / Helo situation otherwise as it started after her “death”? Similarly, it is interesting to note the degree of savagery involved in the beating Six gives Starbuck. In many respects, it mirrors the beating she gave Valerii in “Litmus”; at the time, the viciousness she showed seemed to be linked to the jealousy evident between her and Valerii. We now know that Six has been affected by Baltar’s reaction to sleeping with Starbuck (“Kobol’s Last Gleaming, Part 1”); could the physical beating Starbuck receives be a manifestation of the jealousy she feels for what happened on the Galactica, transmitted to her corporeal sister?

But the key question is what will happen to Adama? It is very hard to conceive of the series progressing without his presence. While the ensemble cast is one of the best put together on-screen, and while many of them – Callis in particular – have put in powerful performances, it is fair to say that Olmos is very much the anchor of this series. Without his strength and gravitas, Battlestar Galactica could end up drifting very badly. Therefore, while it will be interesting to see what new dynamics may develop while Adama is out of commission – how will Tigh handle the vagaries of command, who will he nominate as his XO, etc, – it is essential Adama’s presence is felt sooner rather than later in the next season.

While discussing Adama, it may be interesting to note that his shooting almost brings the story full-circle. As he was dying on [[Ragnar Anchorage]], the [[humano-Cylon]] [[Conoy, Leoben|Leoben Conoy]] warns Adama that, “Sooner or later, the day comes when you can’t hide from the things you’ve done” ([[Mini-Series]]). Adama has waged war on the Cylons – both as a young officer during the Cylon War and now in his efforts to protect his people and the fleet. He has just been responsible for the destruction of a Cylon baseship, complete with many copies of Valerii; and now Valerii has shot him.

And how will the fleet react once word of Roslin’s arrest breaks through the communications blackout the Galactica inflicted on Colonial One? What can the civilians do? In many respects Adama holds all the cards – or would do, were he in a fit condition. His ship is the key to the protection of the fleet. She is pretty much unassailable, and without her facilities, 16,000 people in the fleet would very soon be without water (“Water”). Therefore, it is hard to see anyone stepping too far out of line when it comes to making major decisions: where the fleet will go, what it will do, etc. But within the civilian community, it is hard not to see repercussions: Roslin has been arrested; Baltar is missing, possibly dead. Who is available to take the civil reigns? Wallace Gray (“Colonial Day”)? Tom Zarek (“Bastille Day”; “Colonial Day”). Is it a coincidence that not too long before, at the Quorum of Twelve, Zarek himself raised the spectre of a military coup – and that’s more-or-less what they now have on their hands?

All told, this episode generates outstanding drama that demands a successful renewal and second season. It brings what has been an excellent first season to a powerful close, reflecting the almost unbroken run of quality drama evidenced by the show. Indeed the overall quality in terms of production, writing, casting and acting more than demonstrates both Ronald Moore and David Eick are correct in limiting the show to 13-episode runs.

== Notes ==
* This episode takes place directly after those of [[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]
* There are now 47,887 survivors in the fleet, a net loss of 10 since "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]".
* Cylon vessels are indeed capable of very long-range jumps
* [[Delphi]] was once a cultural centre on Caprica, and apparently held a lot of historical / religious artefacts
* Cylon basestars appear bio-mechanical, like Raiders
* In [[Water]] it was established that the ''Galactica'' had at least 5 [[Raptor|Raptors]] on board: [[Adama, William|Adama]] orders Raptors to survey local star systems for water bearing planets, 5 are dispatched. This episode reveals ''Galactica'' has at least 6: 1 is destroyed over [[Kobol]], one crashes on Kobol; three take part in the raid on ''[[Colonial One]]'', 1 simultaneously carries a nuclear warhead to the Cylon basestar,
*According to RDM's podcast, during the Starbuck/Number Six fight in the Delphi Museum, Katee Sackhoff and Tricia Helfer themselves actually perform the entire fight scene, with no stunt doubles.

===Nods===
The use of [[IFF]] transponders by the Cylons is an indirect nod to [[TOS Battlestar Galactica|the original series]], in which [[Apollo (TOS)|Apollo]] and [[Starbuck (TOS)|Starbuck]] use an IFF-type device to identify their [[Cylon Raider#Original Series Raider|Raider]] to Colonial forces when they launch an attack on a Cylon Basestar ([[The Hand of God (TOS)]])

== Noteworthy Dialogue ==

* ''When Adama congratulates Boomer for destroying the basestar over Kobol:''
*:Commander Adama: Congratulations to both of you. You carried out a very difficult and dangerous mission, and you did it...despite any...personal misgivings you may or may not have had...and for that I'm very proud. Thank you.
*:Racetrack: Thank you, sir.
*:Boomer: Thank you, sir. (pulls out a gun and shoots Adama in the chest)

* ''In the Opera House on Kobol''
*:Gaius Baltar: I don't understand.
*:Number Six: Life has a melody, Gaius. A rhythm of notes that become your existence once played in harmony with God's plan. It's time to do your part and realize your destiny.
*:Gaius Baltar: Which is what, exactly?
*:Number Six: You are the guardian and protector of the new generation of God's children. The first member of our family will be with us soon, Gaius. It's time to make your choice.
*:Gaius Baltar: But I don't understand what you're talking about. Really, I don't understand-
*:Number Six: Come. See the face of the shape of things to come.

* ''On the Colonial One''
*:Colonel Tigh: Madam President, no one needs to get hurt here.
*:Laura Roslin: Then why don't you get off my ship, Colonel.
*:Colonel Tigh: I'm placing you under arrest.
*:Lee Adama: No...no, we're not doing this.
*:Colonel Tigh: I'm in command here, Captain.
*:Lee Adama: Colonel, this is wrong!
*:Colonel Tigh: You're relieved! Fall back. Madam President, I would-
*:Lee Adama: (pulls a gun on Tigh) Men, lay down your weapons.
*:Colonel Tigh: Have you lost your frakking mind?
*:Lee Adama: Colonel, tell these Marines to fall back!
*:Colonel Tigh: This is mutiny. You know that.
*:Lee Adama: Yes I do, but you can tell my father that I'm listening to my instincts, and my instincts tell me that we cannot sacrifice our democracy just because the President makes a bad decision.

== Official Statements ==

* ''Regarding [[Lee Adama]] and his development (and setbacks) incurred over the course of [[Season 1 (2004-05)]], as stated by [[Jamie Bamber]]:''

: I think he's his own man. I think he's a natural leader, but I don't think he's realised that yet. We are exploring it.

:At the end of the first season he's on his own again. I mean, he's always been an isolated figure in the first place because he doesn't really belong on the ''[[Galactica]]''. He doesn't even intend to be there but then the end of the world sort of catches him on the hop and that's where he has to make a start. He cuts a role out for himself as the "[[CAG]]," something he perhaps wasn't intending to do.

:And I think he comes into his own gradually. He surprises himself. But then again, at the end of the first season he disobeys an order, so that's basically burned all his bridges that he had with the crew of the ''[[Galactica]]''.

:So he's a lone thinker in many respects, but I think more and more you'll see him start to come out with true leadership qualities. [http://gateworld.net/galactica/articles/bamber01.shtml]

== Statistics ==



=== Guest Stars ===



*[http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Lorena+Gale Lorena Gale] as [[Elosha]]
*[http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Alonso+Oyarzun Alonso Oyarzun] as [[Socinus]]
*[http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Nicki+Clyne Nicki Clyne] as [[Cally]]
*[http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Jim+Shield Jim Shield] as [[Karna]]
*[http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Leah+Cairns Leah Cairns] as [[Racetrack]]
*[http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Warren+Christie Warren Christie] as Ground Crew #1
*[http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Jen+Halley Jen Halley] as Ground Crew #2



=== Writing & Direction ===

*Story by [http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+David+Eick David Eick]
*Teleplay by [http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Ronald+D.+Moore Ronald D. Moore]
*Directed by [http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Michael+Rymer) Michael Rymer]




=== Production Notes ===

*Series: 1 (2004 / 2005)
*Production Number: 1.13
*Airdate Order: 13 (of 13)

=== First Run Air Dates & Releases ===

*UK Airdate: 24 January 2005 (Sky One)
*US Airdate: 01 April 2005 (Sci-Fi Channel)
*DVD Release: 28 March 2005 (UK)

== External Links ==
[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/episodes/season01/113/ "Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II"] at scifi.com

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Numerology

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The [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|re-imagined Battlestar Galactica]] series shares a humorous and sometimes mysterious affinity in placing numbers with popular-culture cross-references or inside jokes in episode content.

== "1701" ==

This is part of the registry number of the famous "USS Enterprise" of the "Star Trek" TV and movie series. In the [[Mini-Series]], ''[[Colonial One]]'' rescues a passenger liner named "Gemenon Liner 1701." This is an inside nod to [[RDM]]'s work in the "Star Trek: The Next Generation" TV series.

== "47" ==

This was the last lottery number held by a lucky refugee on [[Twelve Colonies#Caprica|Caprica]], who was rescued by Lt. [[Sharon Valerii]] during an emergency stop on the Colony during the initial [[Cylon Attack]]. Dr. [[Gaius Baltar]] appeared to momentarily consider using the number for himself as the older woman could not read her number (her forgetfulness led her to neglect her glasses on top of her head). But Baltar was frightened out of the idea when [[Karl Agathon]] recognized him, and Baltar feared arrest for [[Colonial Defense Mainframe|treason]].

The number 47 was a very common in-joke in "Star Trek: The Next Generation", where the number was placed as many times as possible throughout the series in [[technobabble]], props, and visual references.

== "33" ==

* [[33]] is the name of the first episode
* 33 is the number of minutes between Cylon attacks in the episode [[33]]
* 33 is the largest printed number on the [[Radio Magnetic Indicator]]
* The [[Wikipedia:Homeric Hymns|Homeric Hymns]] are '''33''' verses to various characters from Greek mythology, a few of which are also [[Lords of Kobol]].

=== {{from_RDM_blog}}: Why 33 minutes? ===

:The truth is, there's no real answer. It's just a random number that felt right when I came up with the idea that our people were under continuous, relentless attack since the end of the pilot. I wanted it to be a short interval, just long enough for them to grab a bite to eat, jump in the shower and maybe try to catch a catnap before dragging themselves back to their duty stations and begin the whole tedious, terrifying ordeal all over again.

:A deeper truth is, I was never interested in coming up with an explanation for Why? Never. I mean, I suppose I could've come up with a sufficiently important-sounding bit of technobabble that would've made sense (you see, the [[Cylon]] double-talk sensors tracking the [[Olympic Carrier]]'s nonsense drive signature needed 15 minutes to relay the made-up data wave through the pretend continuum, then the Cylon navigational hyper silly system needed another 10 minutes to recalculate the flux capacitor, etc.) but what would that have really added to the drama? How does explaining that 33 minute interval help our understanding of [[Laura Roslin|Laura]]'s terrible moment of decision, or bring us to any greater knowledge of [[Dualla]]'s search for her missing family and friends, or yield insight into [[Gaius Baltar|Baltar]]'s morally shattered psyche?

:It doesn't, of course. The answer, however artfully it may (or may not) have been crafted can only subtract from the experience we have in watching the episode. Not knowing the how's or why's of the Cylon attack puts us in the same seat as the characters we're watching. They're in the dark, and we're in the dark. The relentless attack is unfathomable in its origin and unstoppable in its execution. It's mortality coming at you on a loop. If you only had 33 minutes before the next time you could die, what would you do? And what about the time after that? And the time after that? At a certain point, you stop caring about why it's happening, all you know is that it is happening, and it's happening to you.

:So the mystery of 33 will be permanent on this show. No explanation, not even the attempt. Let it just be a number that seemed like an eternity for five long days on the [[battlestar]] [[Galactica]].

== "13" ==

* There are 13 Colonies - the [[Twelve Colonies]], plus one: The thirteenth Colony, [[Earth]] 
**There are Twelve Colonies of Kobol that are formed of the 12 tribes that traveled together, and there are supposedly 12 [[Lords of Kobol]]. There's also supposedly 12 models of humanoid Cylon. But there's really 13 tribes and 13 colonies if you count Earth: does this mean there will be a 13th Cylon model? Would the future child of the Caprica copy of [[Sharon Valerii]] and [[Karl Agathon]] count as the 13th model? (More of the contributor debate on the number of [[Humano-Cylon]] models is available in its article.) The Sacred Scrolls say that originally there were 13 gods and that one jealous god broke away from the Twelve to try and claim supremecy, bringing on the destruction of Kobol.
* There are 13 episodes in the first season of the re-imagined "Battlestar Galactica." 
**This is the standard number of episodes in the first 'trial' season of many new shows; 52 weeks a year/4 = 13 weeks a "season" that they air episodes.
* Number of pilots killed by communication drone accident in "[[Act of Contrition]]" 

== "12" ==

* There are 12 original Colonies matching the 12 zodiac symbols.
* There are 12 Lords of Kobol matching the 12 Olympian Gods.
* There are 12 Cylon humanoid models.

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Delphi

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[[Image:Delphi.jpg|thumb|Aerial view of Cylon-occupied Delphi.]]
A Colonial city on [[The Twelve Colonies#Caprica|Caprica]] featuring a large Cylon spaceport and military base. The tallest structure that could be seen for miles was the Telemontus Building- a towering monument that pierced the Delphian city skyline by several stories.

Delphi is believed to be the cultural and spiritual heart of the Twelve Colonies, home of the [[Forum]], Temple, and Opera House which were built to mirror the originals on [[Kobol]]. Helo is heard to curse the Cylons for using Delphi as a major hub in [[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]].

Following the [[Cylon attack|Cylon Attack]], Delphi is used by the [[Cylons]] as their primary base of operations. [[Valerii, Sharon|Valerii]] and [[Agathon, Karl C.|Helo]] make their way acorss the planet in the hope of being able to find a vehicle they can use to fly off Caprica ([[Flesh and Bone]], [[Hand of God]], [[Colonial Day]]).

It is also the city that contains the [[Arrow of Apollo]], an artefact that may be the only clue to the whereabouts of Earth ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]], [[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]). When [[Roslin, Laura|Laura Roslin]] has visions following the discovery of [[Kobol]], she overrides [[Adama, William|Adama's]] plans and persuades [[Thrace, Kara|Kara "Starbuck" Thrace]] to take her captured [[Cylon Raider]] to Caprica in order to recover the Arrow ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]).

Successfully jumping to Caprica, Starbuck lands next to the museum in which the Arrow is kept and manages to retrieve it, but she is badly beaten by [[Number Six|Six]], and encounters [[Agathon, Karl C.|Helo]] and the pregnant [[Valerii, Sharon|Sharon Valerii]] ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]).

Starbuck once owned a studio apartment in Delphi. The place was a mess, it overlooked a parking lot, it had a broken toilet and the basic services were constantly being cut off because she didn't pay the bills. The apartment was littered with paintings of her own creation and of course her customary stogies. Starbuck wasn't very enthusiastic about the place, even when she owned it, the only reason she returned "home" was to collect an old jacket, a personal memento, and to get her car so she and Helo wouldn't have to walk anymore ([[Valley of Darkness]]).

== Ancient Greece ==

The location of Delphi is one of many of the series’ influences by ancient Greek mythology and history. In antiquity, the Greek city of Delphi was home to the Delphic Oracle, a Sibyl who made predictions, delivered in song or verse, which may have been inspired or influenced by the breathing of vapors emitted from the ground. The Oracle was originally a Pythian priestess (named for the python, killed by Apollo). Overt time, she became known as The Pythia.

Initially, the Oracle was associated with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_%28mythology%29 Gaia], who became the foundation of the [[Greek Gods|Olympian Gods]]. However, with the founding of a temple to the god [[Greek Gods| Apollo]], Delphi became more closely associated with him.

This relationship between Delphi and Apollo is reflected in Delphi on Caprica being the home of the Arrow of Apollo.

== External Links ==

Wikipedia entry for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphi Delphi] 

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Forum

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The Forum was located in the [[City of the Gods]], on [[Kobol]]. After the Cataclysm on Kobol and the establishment of the [[Twelve Colonies]] of Man a second Forum was built on [[Caprica]], either in [[Delphi]] or [[Caprica City]], in tribute of the original. This may imply that Caprica was the first of the Twelve Worlds to be colonized and be a reason for its importance above the other Colonies.

It is not clear if the Forum was religious in nature (perhaps a temple to the Lords of Kobol), governmental, or simply a civic gathering place. [[Laura Roslin]] ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]) describes it as a large dome-like structure with a colonnade of pillars surounding it.

Other structures on Kobol that might be mirrored on Caprica include the [[Opera House]] and the [[Temple]]. It is possible the Forum and the rumored Temple are one in the same.

Kobol

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==Overview==
Kobol is said to be the original home of mankind, once shared with the [[Lords of Kobol]].

Kobol is a verdant world of seas and continents, the latter having large swathes of woodland, grassland and forests ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]).

Kobol was a place where humans and the gods dwelt in harmony, the seat of power being the [[City of the Gods]], itself dominated by the [[Forum]] and Opera House ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]), structures which were duplicated on [[Caprica]] in the city of [[Delphi]].

==Great Exodus==
The Great Exodus from Kobol took place some 2,000 years prior to the events of the [[re-imagined|new Battestar Galactica]]. At that time, the 12 tribes departed Kobol for the [[Cyrannus]] system ([[Video Game]]).

It is unclear whether the gods themselves departed Kobol at this time. However, given that their presence is not seen among the 12 colonies, it is possible they remained on Kobol. This may be the reason why not everyone departed Kobol at the time of the Great Exodus.

Certainly, it is known that the [[Thirteenth Tribe]] departed Kobol some time after the main exodus ([[Mini-Series]]), to seek a planet known as "([[Earth]])". The gods may also have abandoned Kobol at this time to travel with the Thirteenth Tribe.

==Religious Texts==
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. Chief among these writings are those of [[Pythia]], who wrote some 1,600 years prior to the Great Exodus, fortelling of another exodus featuring a "caravan of the heavens" lead by someone dying of a "wasting disease" ([[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: [[Roslin, Laura|President Laura Roslin]], the civil leader of the Colonial fleet is dying of cancer - which can be considered a wasting disease. Further, she has several visions, including one of 12 snakes ([[The Hand of God]]) that is specifically foretold by Pythia.

According to [[Six]], the Cylons have very different beliefs about Kobol, including that human sacrifice was practiced there, and that the souls of all who die on Kobol are forever lost. ([[Valley of Darkness]], [[Fragged]])

==Rediscovering Kobol==
Kobol is re-discovered by chance when the ''[[Galactica]]'' dispatches her [[Raptor|Raptors]] to locate planets which may provide materials needed to re-supply the fleet ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]).

Following the discovery as predicted by the [[humano-Cylon]] [[Conoy, Leoben|Leoben Conoy]], Roslin becomes convinced that Kobol will lead the fleet to Earth, providing the [[Tomb of Athena]] can be accessed. To do this, the [[Arrow of Apollo]] must be retreived from [[The Twelve Colonies#Caprica|Caprica]].

However, before the surface of Kobol can be reached safely (and the crew of a crashed Raptor rescued), a [[Cylon]] force lead by a [[basestar]] must be eliminated. It is planned to use the captured Cylon [[Raider]] to help with this, but before any plan can be put into action, [[Thrace, Kara|Lt. "Starbuck" Thrace]] uses the Raider to go to Caprica in an attempt to recover the Arrow. [[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]].

==Kobol In the Original Series ==

In the [[TOS|original series]] Kobol was also the mother world where mankind originated. In that series, it was an ecological / environmental disaster that lead to the migration. During the migration, 12 tribes set out for the stars, but became lost in a starless void before stumbling into the worlds that would become the new twelve colonies of mankind, while the 13th again headed for a world called "Earth".

Kobol is rediscovered in the episode [[Lost Planet of the Gods, Part I]], which sees a team from the ''[[Galactica]]'' arrive among the ruins of [[Eden]], the planet's largest city. Here they seek to enter the tomb of the [[Ninth Lord of Kobol]] in order to find clues as to the route taken by the Thirteeth Tribe ([[Lost Planet of the Gods, Part II]]). A [[Cylon]] attack prevents them from doing so.

===Similarities with the [[Re-imagined|New Galactica]]===

Both series of Galactica utilise Kobol in similar ways:

*It is the original home of mankind
*It is found by chance by both fleets
*A tomb may hold the key to the location of Earth
**[[Ninth Lord of Kobol]] - [[Lost Planet of the Gods, Part I]]
**[[Tomb of Athena]] - [[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]
*The Colonials encounter Cylons at both.

==Origins of "Kobol"==
"Kobol" originally appears to have derived from "Kolob" which, according to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_articles_about_Mormonism Mormon] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Abraham Book of Abraham] is the "star nearest unto God". [[Glen A. Larson]], creator of the original series is a member of the of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints], and as such used Mormon imagery within the show, together with elements of Eygptian imagery that tend to reflect the time of Abraham and the Israelites.

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The Twelve Colonies of Kobol

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{{Twelve Colonies Series}}
Approximately 2,000 years ago, twelve of the thirteen tribes of [[Kobol]] settled on nearby worlds ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]). Their names and icons originally corresponded to the twelve signs of the western [[Wikipedia:Zodiac|Zodiac]], although these drifted over time ([[Home, Part II]]).

It is unclear whether all twelve colonies are orbiting a single star or not, or what the name of this star might be. The semi-canonical 2003 [[Video Game]] names the home system for the twelve colonies as [[Cyrannus]]. This has yet to be confirmed in the new television series, however.

''In the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica, the twelve colonies were originally located on a single world - [[Kobol]] (early draft of the [[Mini-Series]] script). However, this was later revised to twelve separate worlds, in keeping with the original concept.''
 

==Aerelon==
[[Image:ColonialColors4.png|thumb|100px|right|Colors and Symbol of Aerelon]]
"15 people were killed" when President [[Adar (RDM)| Adar]], for reasons unexplained, sent the Marines to Aerelon ([[Water]]).

The mining colony of [[Troy]], destroyed in a cataclysmic explosion ([[Flesh and Bone]]) is located near Aerelon, and may have been operated by natives of that world. [[Troy]] was the alleged home of [[Valerii, Sharon|Sharon Valerii]] ([[Flesh and Bone]]).

The pro [[Pyramid]] team from Aerelon played against the [[Caprica Buccaneers]] in one of the last games before the Cylon attack. They apparently won. ([[Resistance]])

===Natives===
*[[Valerii, Sharon|Sharon Valerii]] - (alleged, precise home given as the [[Troy]] Mining Colony )
*[[Hamilton, Sekou|Sekou Hamilton]] (Presumably - editor of the Aerelon Gazette)
*[[Socinus]]
*The unnamed [[Quorum of Twelve]] delegate from Aerelon voted for [[Tom Zarek]] in the vice-presidential elections ([[Colonial Day]]).

===Publications===
*[[Aerelon Gazette]]

 

==Aquaria==
The unnamed [[Quorum of Twelve]] delegate from Aquaria voted for [[Tom Zarek]] in the vice-presidential elections ([[Colonial Day]]).
 

==Canceron==
[[Image:ColonialColors9.png|thumb|100px|right|Colors and Symbol of Canceron]]

*[[Robin Wenutu]] is the Canceron Representative to the [[Quorum of Twelve]].

 

==Caprica==
[[Image:ColonialColors3.png|thumb|100px|right|Colors and Symbol of Caprica]]

Capital of the Twelve Colonies, Caprica is a large blue-green planet, similar to Earth. Its largest population center is [[Caprica City]], which serves as the seat of all three branches of the Colonial [[Government]]. Caprica City is surrounded by other small towns and hamlets, such as [[Oasis]]. Thus far, Caprica is the only planet of the [[Twelve Colonies]] that viewers have seen directly. The episode opening credits show Caprica City, as well as the nuclear bombing of the planet.

Other major cities included [[Delphi]], famous for the [[Delphi Museum of the Colonies]] and also home to a large spaceport. After the [[Cylon attack]], the [[Resistance (movement)|resistance]] cell lead by [[Samuel Anders]] operated out of Delphi.

Caprica is known for its fine Caprican cloth (which Dr. Gaius Baltar wears), fumarella leaf (used for cigar smoking), and art.

===Natives===
*Commander [[Adama, William|William "Husker" Adama]].
*[[Caroline Adama]]
*Captain [[Lee Adama|Lee "Apollo" Adama]].
*Lt. [[Zak Adama]]
*Doctor [[Baltar, Gaius|Gaius Baltar]], Vice President
*Lieutenant [[Thrace, Kara|Kara "Starbuck" Thrace]] (Had an apartment in Delphi, but SkyOne sources state that she was born on Picon).
*[[James Macmanus]] (Presumably - editor of the Caprican Times)
*[[Aaron Doral]] (claimed)

===Publications===
*[[Caprican Times]]
*[[Caprican Life]]

 

==Gemenon==
[[Image:ColonialColors5.png|thumb|100px|right|Colors and Symbol of Gemenon]]
Gemenon is home to the Kobol College School of Public Relations ([[Mini-Series]]).
One of the last ever pro [[Pyramid]] games was held on Gemenon just prior to the [[Cylon Attack]] on the Colonies ([[Mini-Series]]).
Gemenon natives are known for their literal interpretations of the [[Sacred Scrolls]] ([[Fragged]]).

===Natives===
*Representative [[Sarah Porter]], [[Quorum of Twelve]]
*Corporal [[Venner]]
*Chief Petty Officer [[Galen Tyrol]]
 

==Leonis==
[[Image:ColonialColors12.png|thumb|100px|right|Colors and Symbol of Leonis (tentative)]]
[[Safiya Sanne]] is identified as both Leonis's and [[#Picon|Picon]]'s representative on the [[Quorum of Twelve]]. See his article for details.

 

==Libra==
[[Image:ColonialColors7.png|thumb|100px|right|Colors and Symbol of Libra (tentative)]]
''No information has been given yet regarding the colony corresponding to Libra. Its colonial-era name also has yet to be confirmed.''

 

==Picon==
[[Image:ColonialColors2.png|thumb|100px|right|Colors and Symbol of Picon (tentative)]]
Picon was the location for the [[Picon Fleet Headquarters|Colonial Fleet Headquarters]] ([[Mini-Series]]), and as such came under heavy attack during the early stages of the [[Cylon Attack|Cylon attack]]. [[Adar (TNS)|President Adar]] offered a complete and unconditional surrender to the Cylons after Picon was nuked; this overture was ignored ([[Mini-Series]], [[List of Deleted Scenes (RDM)|deleted scene]]).

[[Ellen Tigh]] claimed to be at the airport on Picon, "on her way home" when the attack started, and that some unknown hero ensured she was put on the last ship to get off the planet ([[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]).

===Natives===
*Representative [[Safiya Sanne]], [[Quorum of Twelve]] (Although see his article for some confusion on the matter)
* [[Playa Palacios]] (Presumably - veteran columnist from the Picon Star Tribune)

===Publications===
*[[Picon Star Tribune]]

 

==Sagittaron==
[[Image:ColonialColors10.png|thumb|100px|right|Colors and Symbol of Sagittaron]]
Sagittaron endured centuries of exploitation at the hands of the other colonies ([[Bastille Day]]), so much so that even after unified colonial rule, [[Zarek, Tom|Tom Zarek]] lead an organised series of terrorist acts against the established government there. One of these acts include blowing up a government building ([[Bastille Day]]). Under Sagittarian penal law convicted felons lose their citizenship, but have it automatically reinstated after they finish serving their sentences. This included the right to vote and to stand for election ([[Colonial Day]]).

As of "[[33]]", 5,251 natives of the planet were in [[the Fleet]].

===Natives===
*Petty Officer [[Anastasia Dualla]]
*Representative [[Zarek, Tom|Tom Zarek]], [[Quorum of Twelve]]
*[[Valance]] ([[Colonial Day]])

 

==Scorpion==
[[Image:ColonialColors6.png|thumb|100px|right|Colors and Symbol of Scorpion]]
Home to the [[Scorpion Ship Yards]], where the battlestar ''[[Pegasus]]'' found itself during the [[Cylon Attack]].

 

==Tauron==
[[Image:ColonialColors8.png|thumb|100px|right|Colors and Symbol of Tauron (tentative)]]
The unnamed [[Quorum of Twelve]] delegate from Tauron voted for [[Gaius Baltar]] in the vice-presidential elections ([[Colonial Day]]).

===Natives===
*Admiral [[Nelena Cain]]

 

==Virgon==
[[Image:ColonialColors1.png|thumb|100px|right|Colors and Symbol of Virgon]]
[[Bagott, Marshall|Marshall Bagott]] is the Virgon Representative to the [[Quorum of Twelve]]. In public ceremony, the Virgon delegate wears a light blue sash.

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The Twelve Colonies of Kobol

2005-10-13T04:44:05Z

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{{Twelve Colonies Series}}
Approximately 2,000 years ago, twelve of the thirteen tribes of [[Kobol]] settled on nearby worlds ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]). Their names and icons originally corresponded to the twelve signs of the western [[Wikipedia:Zodiac|Zodiac]], although these drifted over time ([[Home, Part II]]).

It is unclear whether all twelve colonies are orbiting a single star or not, or what the name of this star might be. The semi-canonical 2003 [[Video Game]] names the home system for the twelve colonies as [[Cyrannus]]. This has yet to be confirmed in the new television series, however.

''In the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica, the twelve colonies were originally located on a single world - [[Kobol]] (early draft of the [[Mini-Series]] script). However, this was later revised to twelve separate worlds, in keeping with the original concept.''
 

==Aerelon==
[[Image:ColonialColors4.png|thumb|100px|right|Colors and Symbol of Aerelon]]
"15 people were killed" when President [[Adar (RDM)| Adar]], for reasons unexplained, sent the Marines to Aerelon ([[Water]]).

The mining colony of [[Troy]], destroyed in a cataclysmic explosion ([[Flesh and Bone]]) is located near Aerelon, and may have been operated by natives of that world. [[Troy]] was the alleged home of [[Valerii, Sharon|Sharon Valerii]] ([[Flesh and Bone]]).

The pro [[Pyramid]] team from Aerelon played against the [[Caprica Buccaneers]] in one of the last games before the Cylon attack. They apparently won. ([[Resistance]])

===Natives===
*[[Valerii, Sharon|Sharon Valerii]] - (alleged, precise home given as the [[Troy]] Mining Colony )
*[[Hamilton, Sekou|Sekou Hamilton]] (Presumably - editor of the Aerelon Gazette)
*[[Socinus]]
*The unnamed [[Quorum of Twelve]] delegate from Aerelon voted for [[Tom Zarek]] in the vice-presidential elections ([[Colonial Day]]).

===Publications===
*[[Aerelon Gazette]]

 

==Aquaria==
The unnamed [[Quorum of Twelve]] delegate from Aquaria voted for [[Tom Zarek]] in the vice-presidential elections ([[Colonial Day]]).
 

==Canceron==
[[Image:ColonialColors9.png|thumb|100px|right|Colors and Symbol of Canceron]]

*[[Robin Wenutu]] is the Canceron Representative to the [[Quorum of Twelve]].

 

==Caprica==
[[Image:ColonialColors3.png|thumb|100px|right|Colors and Symbol of Caprica]]

Capital of the Twelve Colonies. Caprica is a large blue-green planet, similar to Earth. Its largest population center is [[Caprica City]], which serves as the seat of all three branches of the Colonial [[Government]]. Caprica City is surrounded by other small towns and hamlets, such as [[Oasis]]. Thus far, Caprica is the only planet of the [[Twelve Colonies]] that viewers have seen directly. The episode opening credits show Caprica City, as well as the nuclear bombing of the planet.

Other major cities included [[Delphi]], famous for the [[Delphi Museum of the Colonies]] and also home to a large spaceport. After the [[Cylon attack]], the [[Resistance (movement)|resistance]] cell lead by [[Samuel Anders]] operated out of Delphi.

Caprica is known for its fine Caprican cloth (which Dr. Gaius Baltar wears), fumarella leaf (used for cigar smoking), and art.

===Natives===
*Commander [[Adama, William|William "Husker" Adama]].
*[[Caroline Adama]]
*Captain [[Lee Adama|Lee "Apollo" Adama]].
*Lt. [[Zak Adama]]
*Doctor [[Baltar, Gaius|Gaius Baltar]], Vice President
*Lieutenant [[Thrace, Kara|Kara "Starbuck" Thrace]] (Had an apartment in Delphi, but SkyOne sources state that she was born on Picon).
*[[James Macmanus]] (Presumably - editor of the Caprican Times)
*[[Aaron Doral]] (claimed)

===Publications===
*[[Caprican Times]]
*[[Caprican Life]]

 

==Gemenon==
[[Image:ColonialColors5.png|thumb|100px|right|Colors and Symbol of Gemenon]]
Gemenon is home to the Kobol College School of Public Relations ([[Mini-Series]]).
One of the last ever pro [[Pyramid]] games was held on Gemenon just prior to the [[Cylon Attack]] on the Colonies ([[Mini-Series]]).
Gemenon natives are known for their literal interpretations of the [[Sacred Scrolls]] ([[Fragged]]).

===Natives===
*Representative [[Sarah Porter]], [[Quorum of Twelve]]
*Corporal [[Venner]]
*Chief Petty Officer [[Galen Tyrol]]
 

==Leonis==
[[Image:ColonialColors12.png|thumb|100px|right|Colors and Symbol of Leonis (tentative)]]
[[Safiya Sanne]] is identified as both Leonis's and [[#Picon|Picon]]'s representative on the [[Quorum of Twelve]]. See his article for details.

 

==Libra==
[[Image:ColonialColors7.png|thumb|100px|right|Colors and Symbol of Libra (tentative)]]
''No information has been given yet regarding the colony corresponding to Libra. Its colonial-era name also has yet to be confirmed.''

 

==Picon==
[[Image:ColonialColors2.png|thumb|100px|right|Colors and Symbol of Picon (tentative)]]
Picon was the location for the [[Picon Fleet Headquarters|Colonial Fleet Headquarters]] ([[Mini-Series]]), and as such came under heavy attack during the early stages of the [[Cylon Attack|Cylon attack]]. [[Adar (TNS)|President Adar]] offered a complete and unconditional surrender to the Cylons after Picon was nuked; this overture was ignored ([[Mini-Series]], [[List of Deleted Scenes (RDM)|deleted scene]]).

[[Ellen Tigh]] claimed to be at the airport on Picon, "on her way home" when the attack started, and that some unknown hero ensured she was put on the last ship to get off the planet ([[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]).

===Natives===
*Representative [[Safiya Sanne]], [[Quorum of Twelve]] (Although see his article for some confusion on the matter)
* [[Playa Palacios]] (Presumably - veteran columnist from the Picon Star Tribune)

===Publications===
*[[Picon Star Tribune]]

 

==Sagittaron==
[[Image:ColonialColors10.png|thumb|100px|right|Colors and Symbol of Sagittaron]]
Sagittaron endured centuries of exploitation at the hands of the other colonies ([[Bastille Day]]), so much so that even after unified colonial rule, [[Zarek, Tom|Tom Zarek]] lead an organised series of terrorist acts against the established government there. One of these acts include blowing up a government building ([[Bastille Day]]). Under Sagittarian penal law convicted felons lose their citizenship, but have it automatically reinstated after they finish serving their sentences. This included the right to vote and to stand for election ([[Colonial Day]]).

As of "[[33]]", 5,251 natives of the planet were in [[the Fleet]].

===Natives===
*Petty Officer [[Anastasia Dualla]]
*Representative [[Zarek, Tom|Tom Zarek]], [[Quorum of Twelve]]
*[[Valance]] ([[Colonial Day]])

 

==Scorpion==
[[Image:ColonialColors6.png|thumb|100px|right|Colors and Symbol of Scorpion]]
Home to the [[Scorpion Ship Yards]], where the battlestar ''[[Pegasus]]'' found itself during the [[Cylon Attack]].

 

==Tauron==
[[Image:ColonialColors8.png|thumb|100px|right|Colors and Symbol of Tauron (tentative)]]
The unnamed [[Quorum of Twelve]] delegate from Tauron voted for [[Gaius Baltar]] in the vice-presidential elections ([[Colonial Day]]).

===Natives===
*Admiral [[Nelena Cain]]

 

==Virgon==
[[Image:ColonialColors1.png|thumb|100px|right|Colors and Symbol of Virgon]]
[[Bagott, Marshall|Marshall Bagott]] is the Virgon Representative to the [[Quorum of Twelve]]. In public ceremony, the Virgon delegate wears a light blue sash.

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Forum

2005-10-13T04:39:10Z

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The Forum was located in the City of the Gods, on [[Kobol]]. After the Cataclysm on Kobol and the establishment of the Twelve Colonies of Man a second Forum was built on [[Caprica]], either in [[Delphi]] or [[Caprica City]], in tribute of the original. This may imply that Caprica was the first of the Twelve Worlds to be colonized and be a reason for its importance above the other Colonies.

It is not clear if the Forum was religious in nature (perhaps a temple to the Lords of Kobol), governmental, or simply a civic gathering place. [[Laura Roslin]] describes it as having a colonnade of pillars surounding a large dome in [[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]].

Other structures on Kobol that might be mirrored on Caprica include the [[Opera House]] and the [[Temple]]. It is possible the Forum and the rumored Temple are one in the same.

City of the Gods

2005-10-13T04:37:56Z

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[[Image:bsg-cityofgods-1.jpg|thumb|An illustration of the City of the Gods (credit: Sky One / Sci-Fi Channel)]]
[[Image:Bsg-ath-tomb.jpg|thumb|Ruins of the Opera House of the City of the Gods (credit: Sky One / Sci-Fi Channel)]]
The main city on the planet [[Kobol]], said to be the birthplace of mankind and the place where the "gods and man lived in paradise" before the exodus of the thirteen tribes.

It is the only city seen by [[Valerii, Sharon|Boomer]] and [[Crashdown]] when they came across Kobol during a [[Raptor]] sortie from the ''[[Galactica]]'' ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]).

During a review of the images of the city, [[Roslin, Laura|Laura Roslin]] has a vision of the city when it was still inhabited, seeing the [[Forum]] and the Opera House ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]), and then has quick visions of the [[Tomb of Athena]] and the [[Arrow of Apollo]]. The [[Forum]] and possibly other structures such as the Opera House and Temple are mirrored on Caprica, in [[Delphi]].

These events lead her to the conclusion that the scriptures and the legends are true, and that - as foretold by [[Conoy, Leoben|Leoben Conoy]], - Kobol will be a stepping stone to [[Earth]] ([[Flesh and Bone]]).

Realising that the Arrow of Apollo may be the key to discovering Earth, Roslin pursuades [[Thrace, Kara|Starbuck]] to take the captured [[Cylon Raider|Raider]] back to [[The Twelve Colonies#Caprica|Caprica]] to retrieve the Arrow, rather than preparing it for an attack on a [[Cylon]] [[basestar]] orbiting Kobol ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]).

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Forum

2005-10-13T04:33:30Z

Telperion:

The Forum was located in the City of the Gods, on [[Kobol]]. After the Cataclysm on Kobol and the establishment of the Twelve Colonies of Man a second Forum was built on [[Caprica]], either in [[Delphi]] or [[Caprica City]], in tribute of the original. This may imply that Caprica was the first of the Twelve Worlds to be colonized and be a reason for its importance above the other Colonies.

It is not clear if the Forum was religious in nature (perhaps a temple to the Lords of Kobol), governmental, or simply a civic gathering place. [[Laura Roslin]] describes it as having a colonnade of pillars surounding it in [[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]].

Other structures on Kobol that might be mirrored on Caprica include the [[Opera House]] and the [[Temple]]. It is possible the Forum and the rumored Temple are one in the same.

Forum

2005-10-13T04:32:37Z

Telperion:

The Forum was located in the City of the Gods, on [[Kobol]]. After the Cataclysm on Kobol and the establishment of the Twelve Colonies of Man a second Forum was built on [[Caprica]], either in [[Delphi]] or [[Caprica City]], in tribute of the original. This may imply that Caprica was the first of the Twelve Worlds to be colonized and be a reason for its importance above the other Colonies.

It is not clear if the Forum was religious in nature (perhaps a temple to the Lords of Kobol), governmental, simply a civic gathering place. [[Laura Roslin]] describes it as having a colonnade of pillars surounding it in [[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]].

Other structures on Kobol that might be mirrored on Caprica include the [[Opera House]] and the [[Temple]]. It is possible the Forum and the rumored Temple are one in the same.

Forum

2005-10-13T04:25:48Z

Telperion:

The Forum was located in the City of the Gods, on [[Kobol]]. After the Cataclysm on Kobol and the establishment of the Twelve Colonies of Man a second Forum was built on [[Caprica]], either in [[Delphi]] or [[Caprica City]], in tribute of the original. This may imply that Caprica was the first of the Twelve Worlds to be colonized and be a reason for its importance above the other Colonies.

It is not clear if the Forum was religious in nature (perhaps a temple to the Lords of Kobol), governmental, or simply a civic gathering place. It is described as having a colonnade of pillars surounding it by Laura Roslin in [[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Pt. 1]]

Other structures on Kobol that might be mirrored on Caprica include the [[Opera House]] and the [[Temple]].

Delphi

2005-10-12T12:11:51Z

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[[Image:Delphi.jpg|thumb|Aerial view of Cylon-occupied Delphi.]]
A Colonial city on [[The Twelve Colonies#Caprica|Caprica]] featuring a large Cylon spaceport and military base. The tallest structure that could be seen for miles was the Telemontus Building- a towering monument that pierced the Delphian city skyline by several stories.

Delphi is believed to be the spiritual capital of the Twelve Colonies, home of the Forum, Temple, and Opera House which were built to mirror the originals on [[Kobol]]. Helo is heard to curse the Cylons for using Delphi as a major hub in [[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]].

Following the [[Cylon attack|Cylon Attack]], Delphi is used by the [[Cylons]] as their primary base of operations. [[Valerii, Sharon|Valerii]] and [[Agathon, Karl C.|Helo]] make their way acorss the planet in the hope of being able to find a vehicle they can use to fly off Caprica ([[Flesh and Bone]], [[Hand of God]], [[Colonial Day]]).

It is also the city that contains the [[Arrow of Apollo]], an artefact that may be the only clue to the whereabouts of Earth ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]], [[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]). When [[Roslin, Laura|Laura Roslin]] has visions following the discovery of [[Kobol]], she overrides [[Adama, William|Adama's]] plans and persuades [[Thrace, Kara|Kara "Starbuck" Thrace]] to take her captured [[Cylon Raider]] to Caprica in order to recover the Arrow ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]).

Successfully jumping to Caprica, Starbuck lands next to the museum in which the Arrow is kept and manages to retrieve it, but she is badly beaten by [[Number Six|Six]], and encounters [[Agathon, Karl C.|Helo]] and the pregnant [[Valerii, Sharon|Sharon Valerii]] ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]).

Starbuck once owned a studio apartment in Delphi. The place was a mess, it overlooked a parking lot, it had a broken toilet and the basic services were constantly being cut off because she didn't pay the bills. The apartment was littered with paintings of her own creation and of course her customary stogies. Starbuck wasn't very enthusiastic about the place, even when she owned it, the only reason she returned "home" was to collect an old jacket, a personal memento, and to get her car so she and Helo wouldn't have to walk anymore ([[Valley of Darkness]]).

== Ancient Greece ==

The location of Delphi is one of many of the series’ influences by ancient Greek mythology and history. In antiquity, the Greek city of Delphi was home to the Delphic Oracle, a Sibyl who made predictions, delivered in song or verse, which may have been inspired or influenced by the breathing of vapors emitted from the ground. The Oracle was originally a Pythian priestess (named for the python, killed by Apollo). Overt time, she became known as The Pythia.

Initially, the Oracle was associated with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_%28mythology%29 Gaia], who became the foundation of the [[Greek Gods|Olympian Gods]]. However, with the founding of a temple to the god [[Greek Gods| Apollo]], Delphi became more closely associated with him.

This relationship between Delphi and Apollo is reflected in Delphi on Caprica being the home of the Arrow of Apollo.

== External Links ==

Wikipedia entry for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphi Delphi] 

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Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down

2005-10-12T11:55:41Z

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[[Image:bsg-1-09.jpg|thumb|"Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down" (credit: Sci-Fi Channel)]]

: ''This episode is also known under its draft title, "Secrets and Lies". Its official title is "Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down".''

== Overview ==

: ''[[Saul Tigh|Colonel Tigh's]] world is turned upside down when [[Ellen Tigh|his wife]] arrives on the ''[[Galactica]]'' -- but is she all she professes?''

== Summary ==
* [[Laura Roslin]] comes aboard the ''[[Galactica]]'' as [[William Adama|Adama]] receives a report that [[Gaius Baltar|Baltar’s]] [[Cylon detector]] is operational.
* Unable to shake [[Leoben Conoy|Conoy’s]] words to her ([[Flesh and Bone]]), she wants Adama to take the test first; he reluctantly agrees.
* When a lone [[Cylon Raider]] shows up, [[Lee Adama]] is ordered to intercept, and [[Saul Tigh|Tigh]] is stunned to learn Adama is off-ship.
* The Raider is crippled, and a [[Raptor]] is dispatched to gather intel on it, particularly how its [[FTL]] drive operates.
* Adama returns to the ''Galactica'' on a [[Raptor]] with a further shock for Tigh: his wife, [[Ellen Tigh|Ellen]].
* Roslin calls Baltar to check on the progress of Adama’s Cylon test – only to find Adama has cancelled so that a woman called “Ellen” can be tested. Roslin orders Baltar to restart Adama’s test immediately.
* Roslin summons Tigh to ''[[Colonial One]]'' and reveals her suspicions regarding Adama, and challenging a defensive Tigh over Adama’s behavior in leaving the ''Galactica'' unannounced.
* Tigh takes the wind out of Roslin’s sails when he states Adama was off-ship so he could collect Tigh’s missing wife.
* After Tigh has left her office, Roslin calls Baltar and orders him to stop Adama’s test and resume Ellen’s.
* Later, at a dinner in Adama’s quarters, Ellen behaves with a mixture of her old self – trying to play footsie with Lee Adama under the table, and trying to flirt with him over the table – and strange curiosity concerning [[Earth]].
* Adama deflects her probing by asking how it could be that she got aboard a ship, the ''[[Rising Star]]'', without anyone having any knowledge or her or of treating her during her alleged 3 weeks of being unconscious.
* Ellen simply shrugs off the questions in her apparently drunken state and breaks up the party with her “drunken” playing.
* As she and her husband return to their quarters, they encounter Baltar, with whome she openly flirts, both annoying Tigh and raising [[Number Six|Six]]’s curiosity.
* After Baltar has departed, Ellen deflects her husband’s anger at her behaviour by claiming Adama wants her, then dragging Tigh after Baltar.
* In Baltar’s lab, a row is brewing over the various tests that should have been carried out; things being even more complicated when Tigh and his wife arrive, and the disagreements and suspicions become a three-way argument, which is broken up when Adama, Lee and Tigh are summoned to [[CIC]].
* The Cylon Raider has stopped behaving oddly, and is on an collision course for ''Galactica''. [[Alert Fighters]] are dispatched at Tigh’s order, and the Raider is destroyed.
* Later, back in Baltar’s lab, Ellen’s test results come through and are apparently green. Baltar, however simply states to Six that having everything turn up green makes life a lot easier.

=== On Caprica: ===
*[[Karl C. Agathon|Helo]] and [[Sharon Valerii#Caprica Valerii|Valerii]] are trying to avoid the Cylons by running through the storm drains under a city.
*Valerii has a plan -- she claims to have overheard the Cylons discussing a huge base at [[Delphi]], she believes they can steal a ship from there and get off the planet.
*[[Aaron Doral|Doral]] and [[Number Six|Six]] are definitely affected by the fact that even though Valerii has run off, she is experiencing emotions they have never had -- as is Helo.

== Summary from scifi.com ==
President Roslin's fears that Commander Adama is a Cylon are stoked when she learns he's making secret wireless calls to other ships. Then, to make things worse, a single Cylon raider appears near the Galactica and begins acting strangely after being damaged in battle.

When Adama returns to the ship with Tigh's wife, Ellen, an earthy temptress and irrepressible flirt who claims to have been in a coma since their civilization was destroyed, Roslin's suspicions increase. She orders Baltar to screen both Ellen and Adama with his newly completed Cylon-detector.

Meanwhile, Col. Tigh and the rest of the crew watch warily and gather data as the wounded Cylon raider jumps in and out of space.

On Caprica, the Cylon overseers fear that the Cylon Sharon is developing a strange feeling toward Helo — love.
--This section ©2005, [http://www.scifi.com SCI FI]. All rights reserved.

== Questions ==
*Is [[Ellen Tigh]] an [[Humano-Cylon]]?
*What is [[Gaius Baltar|Baltar]] hoping to gain from keeping the test results secret?

== Analysis ==

An episode that cleverly mixes intrigue and humour to conjure a rich tapestry that is somewhat different from earlier episodes – but no less entertaining in the questions it raises.

The intrigue is initially driven out of Roslin’s paranoia towards Adama, but quickly re-centres on Ellen Tigh.

Roslin’s paranoia is fed by Leoben Conoy’s last words to her in “Flesh and Bone” – she is genuinely concerned that Adama is a Cylon, and his pre-occupation with Ellen Tigh doesn’t help calm her fears. But even when the mystery surrounding Adama’s actions is resolved, the intrigue doesn’t let up: just who or what is Ellen Tigh? Human or Cylon?

The weight of evidence for her being human is almost overwhelming. She is vindictive, manipulative, calculating (witness her ability to play footsie under the table with Lee Adama after hearing about his brother's death), but human nonetheless. She has clearly been a destructive force in Tigh's life - and most likely the reason for his drinking problem, and despite her claims to want a reconcilliation, it is clear that little has really changed within her: she is man-hungry, and delights in sowing the seeds of mischief.

BUT - and there is always a "but" in BSG, the writers throw in just enough to create doubt:
*Why is it that - as Adama points out - no-one can remember her either being aboard the Rising Star or being treated for her injuries until the last few days?

*Why can’t the Captain of the Rising Star remember how she came to be aboard his ship. Her "rescue" from Picon sounds so dramatic, surely someone would remember her coming aboard the ship, whether she was conscious or not?
*And why is her interest at the dinner table focused singularly on the subject of Earth? Is it really the "talk of the fleet", or is there something behind her persistence?
*She operates in a manner strikingly similar to a cross between Six and Conoy. Like Six, she is not afraid to use her sexual mores against men; like Conoy, her words seem laced with half-truths and are frequently manipulative and border on the insidious
*Finally, there is her comment on meeting Baltar, “Oh, I know exactly who you are.” On the one hand, it could simply be a result of her recognising Baltar as a leading scientist and (no doubt) playboy, and her predatory nature kicking-in. On the other hand, knowing exactly who someone “is” usually means a person is not fooled: they know intimate secrets about the individual they are meeting, and so the comment is usually taken as a thinly-veiled threat. Does Ellen Tigh know more than she is letting on?

Even the denouement concerning Ellen Tigh’s heritage is open to interpretation: Baltar proclaims her to be human, but then admits to Six he’s decided all results are going to be “green”; as he puts it: “no muss, no fuss”. He won’t even reveal the true result of the test to Six.

Six’s reaction to Ellen Tigh is equally interesting: “Something here, isn’t there?” she states after Ellen’s unconventional introduction to Baltar – and it is doubtful she is referring to the flirting that takes place; rather, her words are a warning, as is her follow-up comment: “You should be watching her.” Six has sensed something in Ellen Tigh, and it is something she doesn’t trust.

So, could it be that Ellen Tigh is a Cylon? Certainly, it has been established that there are 12 models of Cylon, so again, this leaves room for her to be one. But – again – if she were, that would raise an interesting precedent: it would mean that that Cylons can replicate living (or once-living) humans. Were this to be the case, it would significantly alter the balance of things. For this reason, more than any other, it is unlikely Ellen Tigh is anything more than a human woman with an agenda of her own.

Meanwhile, on Caprica things also continue to take an interesting turn. Now fugitives together, Helo and Valerii are finally making an attempt to get off the planet, and Valerii is reaching the point where if she doesn’t admit her status to Helo, he’s going to guess. Above them – literally - we are given further insight into Cylon motivations for what was occurring around Helo, and once again it all seems to boil down to the emotions generated by love: loyalty, need, protectiveness, desire, generosity, anguish, the motivations it creates – all of which appear to be beyond Cylon understanding, even though they are capable of other, baser emotional responses, as witnessed by Six’s tears and Doral’s hurt envy. And there is still that small matter of procreation hanging in the air... This is also the first mention of the city of Delphi and Helo's hostile reaction to the news of its being used as a Cylon hub. Plausibly the emotional reaction is due to Delphi as a spiritual center for the Twelve Colonies.

Perhaps the one weak link in the episode is the arrival of the Cylon Raider. Despite all the material the production crew have to play with in this episode, this one thread sticks out from the rest and almost screams “Padding!” at the top of its voice.

As an attempt to heighten concern about Adama’s real motivations (the Raider turning up while he is out and about in a Raptor), it is nothing short of clumsy. As a means of confirming the fact that the Colonials don’t have FTL systems of a comparable size to those contained in the captured Raider, and are thus keen to find out all they can about a “working” version, it is short on drama. Was the Raider really crippled? Was it playing a game with the Colonials - if so, to what purpose? What caused Starbuck to come to this conclusion? None of the answers to these questions are even hinted at - much less explained, leaving the entire Raider situation something that has a big “So what?” hanging over it.

But this aside, “Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down” serves up another interesting blend of character-driven drama that demonstrates that Battlestar Galactica is also capable of some fine humour.

== Questions ==
*The test themselves apparently take 11 hours to generate results (although Boomer’s result in “Flesh and Bone” was obtained in far less time than this – "a couple of minutes", according to Baltar, and about 60 seconds of screen-time.)
**Baltar claims in [[Resistance]] that he allowed Boomer to believe she was Human "for [his] own purposes". Does he have the ability to determine other Cylon infiltrators in a much shorter timeframe than he chooses to admit in this episode? Perhaps he was just going through the math in his head - but then why the half-serious jokes about suicide as he contemplates the task?

== Notes ==
*The script was originally called "Secrets and Lies". However, "'''Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down'''" is the official title for the episode, according to [[Ronald D. Moore]].
*It is 3 days since the events of "[[Flesh and Bone]]".
*There are now 47,905 survivors in the fleet, a loss of 49 since "Flesh and Bone". Compared to other casualty figures in the first season, this is unusually high for a three-day period.
**Are Boomer (tested last episode) and Baltar himself included in this figure?
*Billy’s relationship with Dualla is picking up, despite his attempts to pump her for information
*Tigh’s alcoholism was more than likely kicked-off by his wife – either directly or through her infidelity – or possibly both.
*Baltar apparently has no intention of being honest about the results of his Cylon tests.
*The Galactica has a forward observation lounge that has become a much sought-after trysting-place, with individuals and couples rotated through it at regular intervals.
*The Cylons have established a major base at Delphi, another major city on Caprica.
*Helo curses the Cylons for choosing Delphi as their base.

== Noteworthy Dialogue ==

* ''As Commamder Adama and Laura Roslin talk in the CIC:''

:Commander Adama: Madame President, we are the proud owners of the universe's first bona fide Cylon detector.
:Laura Roslin: Well, that is great news. So... when do we begin?
:Commander Adama: Doctor Baltar would like to start widespread testing as soon as possible, but there are some serious limitations, because he can only do one person at a time and verification takes hours.
:Laura Roslin: So, who's going to go first?
:Commander Adama: (thinking for a second) The test... right. I think people in sensitive positions should go first.
:Laura Roslin: I completely agree. How about you?
:Commander Adama: Excuse me?
:Laura Roslin: If you're a Cylon, I'd like to know.
:Commander Adama: If I'm a Cylon, you're really screwed.
:(Adama and Roslin both start laughing)
:Laura Roslin: Seriously, I do think you should go first. Show everyone in the fleet that they can trust the people at the top.
:Commander Adama: Well then, maybe YOU should go first. (silence) All right... I'll go first.

* ''As Commander Adama, Colonel Tigh, Ellen Tigh, Apollo, and Laura Roslin are eating dinner:''
:Ellen Tigh: So Bill, now the question on everyone's mind -- and, I do mean everyone -- is "Where's Earth?" and "When are we going to get there?"
:Commander Adama: Yeah... that's classified information.
:Ellen Tigh: Oh, there's that word again!
:Colonel Tigh: Ellen, leave the man alone.
:Ellen Tigh: Come on! If there aren't privileges to being an XO's wife, then what's the point? I mean, Bill, we're all family here, so come on!
:Laura Roslin: The need for secrecy is paramount, Ellen. Oh, I'm sorry. Perhaps you don't know that the Cylons look like us now.
:Ellen Tigh: Oh... that. Yes. Yes, I knew that.
:Laura Roslin: It's recent news. Most people just found out a few days ago.
:Ellen Tigh: (thinking) A thing like that would travel fast.
:Commander Adama: Any one of us could be a Cylon.
:(the entire table goes silent)
:Ellen Tigh: BOO!
:(everyone jumps in their seat, but Ellen and Saul start laughing)

== Official Statements ==




*"'Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down' was originally called 'Secrets and Lies', or 'Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down' by [[Jeff Vlaming|Jeff (Vlaming)]]. And when I saw those titles on the script, I knew we had to go with 'Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down'. It was too good. Too good a title to let lie on the cutting room floor." -- Ronald D. Moore [[podcast]]
*"'Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down' began life as a very different episode than it ultimately came out to be. It was originally going to be a riff on 'Crimson Tide'." -- Ronald D. Moore [[podcast]]
*"It did feel right that, perhaps, there was one place; that perhaps there was one area of the ship, which accepted a window or a port to look out and that it would be a fairly confined space for the crew on these very long, deep space missions that probably lasted months, if not years. And that there might be a place where they can go to and just stargaze. And in this situation, it seemed like there would be a lot of people lining up to try and look out at the stars, you know, a break from the monotony of staring at metal walls." -- Ronald D. Moore [[podcast]], talking about the observation area of the ''[[Galactica]]''
*"The long and the short of it was that we had just come out of a very heavy, very dark, very [[Flesh and Bone|disturbing episode]]. And the very next episode was supposed to be 'Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down' which was all about a very disturbing, very dark, very (sort of) unhappy episode where our two -- two of our lead characters started pointing guns at one another. So there came a point when I just decided, well, lets just punt. Lets not do the dark and brooding episode. Lets try a different tone. Lets see if the show can withstand something lighter. Lets try something that's closer to a comedy, or as close to a comedy as ''Galactica'' can withstand." -- Ronald D. Moore [[podcast]]

== Statistics ==



=== Guest Stars ===


*[[Kate Vernon]] as [[Ellen Tigh]]
*[[Bennett, Matthew|Matthew Bennett]] as [[Aaron Doral]]
*[http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Slex+Green Alex Green] as Deckhand




=== Writing & Direction ===

*Written by [http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Jeff+Vlaming Jeff Vlaming]
*Directed by [[Edward James Olmos]]




=== Production Notes ===
*Series 1 (2004 / 2005)
*Production Number: 1.09
*Airdate Order: 9 (of 13)

=== First Run Air Dates & Releases ===

*UK Airdate: 13 December 2004 (Sky One)
*US Airdate: 4 march 2005 (Sci-Fi Channel)
*DVD Release: 28 March 2005 (UK)

== External Links ==
[http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/episodes/season01/109/ "Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down"] at scifi.com

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Kobol

2005-10-12T11:45:36Z

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==Overview==
Kobol is said to be the original home of mankind, once shared with the [[Lords of Kobol]].

Kobol is a verdant world of seas and continents, the latter having large swathes of woodland, grassland and forests ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]).

Kobol was a place where humans and the gods dwelt in harmony, the seat of power being the [[City of the Gods]], itself dominated by the Forum and Opera House ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]), structures which were duplicated on [[Caprica]] in the city of [[Delphi]].

==Great Exodus==
The Great Exodus from Kobol took place some 2,000 years prior to the events of the [[re-imagined|new Battestar Galactica]]. At that time, the 12 tribes departed Kobol for the [[Cyrannus]] system ([[Video Game]]).

It is unclear whether the gods themselves departed Kobol at this time. However, given that their presence is not seen among the 12 colonies, it is possible they remained on Kobol. This may be the reason why not everyone departed Kobol at the time of the Great Exodus.

Certainly, it is known that the [[Thirteenth Tribe]] departed Kobol some time after the main exodus ([[Mini-Series]]), to seek a planet known as "([[Earth]])". The gods may also have abandoned Kobol at this time to travel with the Thirteenth Tribe.

==Religious Texts==
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. Chief among these writings are those of [[Pythia]], who wrote some 1,600 years prior to the Great Exodus, fortelling of another exodus featuring a "caravan of the heavens" lead by someone dying of a "wasting disease" ([[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: [[Roslin, Laura|President Laura Roslin]], the civil leader of the Colonial fleet is dying of cancer - which can be considered a wasting disease. Further, she has several visions, including one of 12 snakes ([[The Hand of God]]) that is specifically foretold by Pythia.

According to [[Six]], the Cylons have very different beliefs about Kobol, including that human sacrifice was practiced there, and that the souls of all who die on Kobol are forever lost. ([[Valley of Darkness]], [[Fragged]])

==Rediscovering Kobol==
Kobol is re-discovered by chance when the ''[[Galactica]]'' dispatches her [[Raptor|Raptors]] to locate planets which may provide materials needed to re-supply the fleet ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]).

Following the discovery as predicted by the [[humano-Cylon]] [[Conoy, Leoben|Leoben Conoy]], Roslin becomes convinced that Kobol will lead the fleet to Earth, providing the [[Tomb of Athena]] can be accessed. To do this, the [[Arrow of Apollo]] must be retreived from [[The Twelve Colonies#Caprica|Caprica]].

However, before the surface of Kobol can be reached safely (and the crew of a crashed Raptor rescued), a [[Cylon]] force lead by a [[basestar]] must be eliminated. It is planned to use the captured Cylon [[Raider]] to help with this, but before any plan can be put into action, [[Thrace, Kara|Lt. "Starbuck" Thrace]] uses the Raider to go to Caprica in an attempt to recover the Arrow. [[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]].

==Kobol In the Original Series ==

In the [[TOS|original series]] Kobol was also the mother world where mankind originated. In that series, it was an ecological / environmental disaster that lead to the migration. During the migration, 12 tribes set out for the stars, but became lost in a starless void before stumbling into the worlds that would become the new twelve colonies of mankind, while the 13th again headed for a world called "Earth".

Kobol is rediscovered in the episode [[Lost Planet of the Gods, Part I]], which sees a team from the ''[[Galactica]]'' arrive among the ruins of [[Eden]], the planet's largest city. Here they seek to enter the tomb of the [[Ninth Lord of Kobol]] in order to find clues as to the route taken by the Thirteeth Tribe ([[Lost Planet of the Gods, Part II]]). A [[Cylon]] attack prevents them from doing so.

===Similarities with the [[Re-imagined|New Galactica]]===

Both series of Galactica utilise Kobol in similar ways:

*It is the original home of mankind
*It is found by chance by both fleets
*A tomb may hold the key to the location of Earth
**[[Ninth Lord of Kobol]] - [[Lost Planet of the Gods, Part I]]
**[[Tomb of Athena]] - [[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]
*The Colonials encounter Cylons at both.

==Origins of "Kobol"==
"Kobol" originally appears to have derived from "Kolob" which, according to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_articles_about_Mormonism Mormon] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Abraham Book of Abraham] is the "star nearest unto God". [[Glen A. Larson]], creator of the original series is a member of the of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints], and as such used Mormon imagery within the show, together with elements of Eygptian imagery that tend to reflect the time of Abraham and the Israelites.

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City of the Gods

2005-10-12T11:37:43Z

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[[Image:bsg-cityofgods-1.jpg|thumb|An illustration of the City of the Gods (credit: Sky One / Sci-Fi Channel)]]
[[Image:Bsg-ath-tomb.jpg|thumb|Ruins of the Opera House of the City of the Gods (credit: Sky One / Sci-Fi Channel)]]
The main city on the planet [[Kobol]], said to be the birthplace of mankind and the place where the "gods and man lived in paradise" before the exodus of the thirteen tribes.

It is the only city seen by [[Valerii, Sharon|Boomer]] and [[Crashdown]] when they came across Kobol during a [[Raptor]] sortie from the ''[[Galactica]]'' ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]).

During a review of the images of the city, [[Roslin, Laura|Laura Roslin]] has a vision of the city when it was still inhabited, seeing the Forum and the Opera House ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]), and then has quick visions of the [[Tomb of Athena]] and the [[Arrow of Apollo]]. The Forum and possibly other structures such as the Opera House and Temple are mirrored on Caprica, in [[Delphi]].

These events lead her to the conclusion that the scriptures and the legends are true, and that - as foretold by [[Conoy, Leoben|Leoben Conoy]], - Kobol will be a stepping stone to [[Earth]] ([[Flesh and Bone]]).

Realising that the Arrow of Apollo may be the key to discovering Earth, Roslin pursuades [[Thrace, Kara|Starbuck]] to take the captured [[Cylon Raider|Raider]] back to [[The Twelve Colonies#Caprica|Caprica]] to retrieve the Arrow, rather than preparing it for an attack on a [[Cylon]] [[basestar]] orbiting Kobol ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]).

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City of the Gods

2005-10-12T11:36:55Z

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[[Image:bsg-cityofgods-1.jpg|thumb|An illustration of the City of the Gods (credit: Sky One / Sci-Fi Channel)]]
[[Image:Bsg-ath-tomb.jpg|thumb|Ruins of the Opera House of the City of the Gods (credit: Sky One / Sci-Fi Channel)]]
The main city on the planet [[Kobol]], said to be the birthplace of mankind and the place where the "gods and man lived in paradise" before the exodus of the thirteen tribes.

It is the only city seen by [[Valerii, Sharon|Boomer]] and [[Crashdown]] when they came across Kobol during a [[Raptor]] sortie from the ''[[Galactica]]'' ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]).

During a review of the images of the city, [[Roslin, Laura|Laura Roslin]] has a vision of the city when it was still inhabited, seeing the Forum and the Opera House ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]), and then has quick visions of the [[Tomb of Athena]] and the [[Arrow of Apollo]]. The Forum and possibly other structures such as the Opera House and Temple are mirrored on Caprica.

These events lead her to the conclusion that the scriptures and the legends are true, and that - as foretold by [[Conoy, Leoben|Leoben Conoy]], - Kobol will be a stepping stone to [[Earth]] ([[Flesh and Bone]]).

Realising that the Arrow of Apollo may be the key to discovering Earth, Roslin pursuades [[Thrace, Kara|Starbuck]] to take the captured [[Cylon Raider|Raider]] back to [[The Twelve Colonies#Caprica|Caprica]] to retrieve the Arrow, rather than preparing it for an attack on a [[Cylon]] [[basestar]] orbiting Kobol ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]).

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City of the Gods

2005-10-12T11:29:05Z

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[[Image:bsg-cityofgods-1.jpg|thumb|An illustration of the City of the Gods (credit: Sky One / Sci-Fi Channel)]]
[[Image:Bsg-ath-tomb.jpg|thumb|Ruins of the Opera House of the City of the Gods (credit: Sky One / Sci-Fi Channel)]]
The main city on the planet [[Kobol]], said to be the birthplace of mankind and the place where the "gods and man lived in paradise" before the exodus of the thirteen tribes.

It is the only city seen by [[Valerii, Sharon|Boomer]] and [[Crashdown]] when they came across Kobol during a [[Raptor]] sortie from the ''[[Galactica]]'' ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]).

During a review of the images of the city, [[Roslin, Laura|Laura Roslin]] has a vision of the city when it was still inhabited, seeing the Forum and the Opera House ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]), and then has quick visions of the [[Tomb of Athena]] and the [[Arrow of Apollo]]. The Forum and possibly the Opera House are mirrored on Caprica.

These events lead her to the conclusion that the scriptures and the legends are true, and that - as foretold by [[Conoy, Leoben|Leoben Conoy]], - Kobol will be a stepping stone to [[Earth]] ([[Flesh and Bone]]).

Realising that the Arrow of Apollo may be the key to discovering Earth, Roslin pursuades [[Thrace, Kara|Starbuck]] to take the captured [[Cylon Raider|Raider]] back to [[The Twelve Colonies#Caprica|Caprica]] to retrieve the Arrow, rather than preparing it for an attack on a [[Cylon]] [[basestar]] orbiting Kobol ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]).

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Delphi

2005-10-12T11:20:44Z

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[[Image:Delphi.jpg|thumb|Aerial view of Cylon-occupied Delphi.]]
A Colonial city on [[The Twelve Colonies#Caprica|Caprica]] featuring a large Cylon spaceport and military base. The tallest structure that could be seen for miles was the Telemontus Building- a towering monument that pierced the Delphian city skyline by several stories.

Delphi is believed to be the spiritual capital of the Twelve Colonies, home of the Forum, Temple, and Opera House which were built to mirror the originals on Kobol. Helo is heard to curse the Cylons for using Delphi as a major hub in [[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]].

Following the [[Cylon attack|Cylon Attack]], Delphi is used by the [[Cylons]] as their primary base of operations. [[Valerii, Sharon|Valerii]] and [[Agathon, Karl C.|Helo]] make their way acorss the planet in the hope of being able to find a vehicle they can use to fly off Caprica ([[Flesh and Bone]], [[Hand of God]], [[Colonial Day]]).

It is also the city that contains the [[Arrow of Apollo]], an artefact that may be the only clue to the whereabouts of Earth ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]], [[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]). When [[Roslin, Laura|Laura Roslin]] has visions following the discovery of [[Kobol]], she overrides [[Adama, William|Adama's]] plans and persuades [[Thrace, Kara|Kara "Starbuck" Thrace]] to take her captured [[Cylon Raider]] to Caprica in order to recover the Arrow ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]).

Successfully jumping to Caprica, Starbuck lands next to the museum in which the Arrow is kept and manages to retrieve it, but she is badly beaten by [[Number Six|Six]], and encounters [[Agathon, Karl C.|Helo]] and the pregnant [[Valerii, Sharon|Sharon Valerii]] ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]).

Starbuck once owned a studio apartment in Delphi. The place was a mess, it overlooked a parking lot, it had a broken toilet and the basic services were constantly being cut off because she didn't pay the bills. The apartment was littered with paintings of her own creation and of course her customary stogies. Starbuck wasn't very enthusiastic about the place, even when she owned it, the only reason she returned "home" was to collect an old jacket, a personal memento, and to get her car so she and Helo wouldn't have to walk anymore ([[Valley of Darkness]]).

== Ancient Greece ==

The location of Delphi is one of many of the series’ influences by ancient Greek mythology and history. In antiquity, the Greek city of Delphi was home to the Delphic Oracle, a Sibyl who made predictions, delivered in song or verse, which may have been inspired or influenced by the breathing of vapors emitted from the ground. The Oracle was originally a Pythian priestess (named for the python, killed by Apollo). Overt time, she became known as The Pythia.

Initially, the Oracle was associated with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_%28mythology%29 Gaia], who became the foundation of the [[Greek Gods|Olympian Gods]]. However, with the founding of a temple to the god [[Greek Gods| Apollo]], Delphi became more closely associated with him.

This relationship between Delphi and Apollo is reflected in Delphi on Caprica being the home of the Arrow of Apollo.

== External Links ==

Wikipedia entry for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphi Delphi] 

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Delphi

2005-10-12T11:18:56Z

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[[Image:Delphi.jpg|thumb|Aerial view of Cylon-occupied Delphi.]]
A Colonial city on [[The Twelve Colonies#Caprica|Caprica]] featuring a large Cylon spaceport and military base. The tallest structure that could be seen for miles was the Telemontus building- a towering monument that pierced the Delphian city skyline by several stories.

Delphi is believed to be the spiritual capital of the Twelve Colonies, home of the Forum, Temple, and Opera House which were built to mirror the originals on Kobol. Helo is heard to curse the Cylons for using Delphi as a major hub in [[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]

Following the [[Cylon attack|Cylon Attack]], Delphi is used by the [[Cylons]] as their primary base of operations. [[Valerii, Sharon|Valerii]] and [[Agathon, Karl C.|Helo]] make their way acorss the planet in the hope of being able to find a vehicle they can use to fly off Caprica ([[Flesh and Bone]], [[Hand of God]], [[Colonial Day]]).

It is also the city that contains the [[Arrow of Apollo]], an artefact that may be the only clue to the whereabouts of Earth ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]], [[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]). When [[Roslin, Laura|Laura Roslin]] has visions following the discovery of [[Kobol]], she overrides [[Adama, William|Adama's]] plans and persuades [[Thrace, Kara|Kara "Starbuck" Thrace]] to take her captured [[Cylon Raider]] to Caprica in order to recover the Arrow ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]).

Successfully jumping to Caprica, Starbuck lands next to the museum in which the Arrow is kept and manages to retrieve it, but she is badly beaten by [[Number Six|Six]], and encounters [[Agathon, Karl C.|Helo]] and the pregnant [[Valerii, Sharon|Sharon Valerii]] ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]).

Starbuck once owned a studio apartment in Delphi. The place was a mess, it overlooked a parking lot, it had a broken toilet and the basic services were constantly being cut off because she didn't pay the bills. The apartment was littered with paintings of her own creation and of course her customary stogies. Starbuck wasn't very enthusiastic about the place, even when she owned it, the only reason she returned "home" was to collect an old jacket, a personal memento, and to get her car so she and Helo wouldn't have to walk anymore ([[Valley of Darkness]]).

== Ancient Greece ==

The location of Delphi is one of many of the series’ influences by ancient Greek mythology and history. In antiquity, the Greek city of Delphi was home to the Delphic Oracle, a Sibyl who made predictions, delivered in song or verse, which may have been inspired or influenced by the breathing of vapors emitted from the ground. The Oracle was originally a Pythian priestess (named for the python, killed by Apollo). Overt time, she became known as The Pythia.

Initially, the Oracle was associated with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_%28mythology%29 Gaia], who became the foundation of the [[Greek Gods|Olympian Gods]]. However, with the founding of a temple to the god [[Greek Gods| Apollo]], Delphi became more closely associated with him.

This relationship between Delphi and Apollo is reflected in Delphi on Caprica being the home of the Arrow of Apollo.

== External Links ==

Wikipedia entry for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphi Delphi] 

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