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Sharon Valerii

2006-04-07T19:04:33Z

TheTrista: /* The Sleeper Awakens */

{{Character Data|
|photo=[[Image:Sharon Valerii promo.jpg|200px]]
|age=
|colony= None. (She believed she was from [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Aerelon|Aerelon]], by way of [[Troy]])
|birthname=
|servicen= T-990429
|callsign= Boomer
|death= Shot by [[Cally]] (''[[Resistance]]''), followed by rebirth in "[[Downloaded]]"
|parents= None. (She believed they were [[Abraham Valerii|Abraham]] and [[Catherine Valerii]])
|siblings= She believed she had one, as seen in the fake family photo in "[[Downloaded]]"
|children=
|marital status= Single, was in a relationship with Chief [[Galen Tyrol]].
|role= Cylon Infiltrator, Saboteur; [[Raptor]] Pilot
|rank= Lieutenant, Junior Grade
|actor= [[Grace Park]]
|cylon= y
|name=
}}

:''This page is about the copy of Cylon Model Number Eight first seen on [[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]], who loves [[Galen Tyrol]] and is shot by [[Cally]]. For the Sharon Valerii first seen on [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]], who loves [[Karl Agathon|Helo]] and becomes pregnant, see [[Sharon Valerii (Caprica copy)]]. For information about the various copies see [[Number Eight]].''

Lieutenant Junior Grade '''Sharon "Boomer" Valerii''', serial number T-990429, appears to be a young pilot recently-assigned to shipboard operations. Assigned to flying the Raptor reconnaissance vehicle, her inexperience is demonstrated through repeated rough landings aboard ''Galactica'' ([[Miniseries]]).
As a pilot, she is assigned alongside [[ECO]] [[Karl Agathon|Karl "Helo" Agathon]], with whom she has developed a close friendship. She has also formed friendships with other pilot officers aboard the battlestar, sharing off-duty activities, such as regular card games ([[Miniseries]], [[Act of Contrition]]), all of which have helped her integrate into shipboard life and be accepted as a member of the crew. She had been serving on board ''Galactica'' for two years prior to the Cylon attack ([[The Farm]]).

== Biography ==
=== Agent in Disguise ===

Initially, "Boomer" Valerii is a "sleeper" agent, unaware of her Cylon status. As far as she is aware, she was born on the mining colony of Troy, the daughter of a family from Aerelon ([[Flesh and Bone]]). Troy itself was destroyed in an unexplained cataclysm, allowing Boomer's background to be established as that of an orphan.

Following her arrival on-board ''Galactica'', she enters into a relationship with the ship's Chief Petty Officer [[Galen Tyrol]], which is against military protocols concerning fraternization between officers and non-officers. Whether this is unintentional, or a subconcious reaction to her Cylon personality program is unclear.

At the time of the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attack]], Boomer is flying her Raptor to [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]] with ''[[Galactica]]'s'' last remaining operational [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] squadron when they learn of the attacks and attempt to engage two [[Cylon Raider]]s. However, the Viper squadron is destroyed (their ships powered down by their tainted [[CNP]]), and the Raptor is damaged while trying to escape, forcing Boomer and Helo to make an emergency landing on [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]].

After repairing the Raptor, Helo and Boomer are mobbed by desperate civilians and undertake an unexpected rescue operation, lifting a number of children and adults from the planet. However, Helo chooses to give up his place aboard the Raptor so that Dr. [[Gaius Baltar]] can be rescued ([[Miniseries]]).

After being found by [[Laura Roslin]]'s group of stranded military and civilian ships, Boomer works hard within the new civilian [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]], assisting Laura Roslin's attempts to gather other stranded civilian ships within the space surrounding Caprica as possible. She finds a number of ships critical to the fledgling Fleet's survival (such as a fuel tanker). [[image:sharontyrol.jpg|Sharon and Tyrol.|thumb]]After the Fleet (with ''Galactica'' leading it) leaves the solar system of the Colonies, Boomer aids in other critical acts, such as the discovery of a [[tylium]]-rich asteroid, replete with an active Cylon mine ([[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]), and locating a source of water to replenish the Fleet's lost supply after a sabotage of ''Galactica's'' stores ([[Water]]).

=== The Sleeper Awakens ===

However, at the same time she is apparently supporting the Fleet, Boomer's underlying Cylon programming periodically emerges. Her Cylon programming is the cause of the sabotage ''Galactica's'' water tanks ([[Water]]). Later, she likely assists a copy of [[Aaron Doral]] to access to a munitions store. The Doral copy constructs a suicide bomb which very nearly kills [[William Adama|Commander Adama]] and [[Saul Tigh|Colonel Tigh]].

Having "awoken" to her human personality shortly after the bombs used to destroy ''Galactica's'' water tanks were planted, she finds herself soaking wet. Boomer's human personality becomes increasingly concerned that she is not all she appears. Her worry increases when she experiences a certain "attraction" to a captured [[Cylon Raider]], and is able to give insight into how it can be properly assessed and understood ("[[Six Degrees of Separation]]", "[[Flesh and Bone]]"). Her concerns are further elevated when, following the bombing by Doral, ''Galactica's'' [[Master-at-Arms]], Sergeant [[Hadrian]] suspects her and Tyrol of Cylon complicity ([[Litmus]]).

Boomer is isolated from Tyrol following this event, and he later ends their relationship following the arrest of Specialist [[Socinus]] ([[Litmus]]). Facing Tyrol's own suspicions concerning her activities immediately before the bombing, Boomer finds herself emotionally isolated and stressed. She takes the Cylon detector test created by Dr. [[Gaius Baltar]]. Baltar hides the positive test results to cover himself from recrimination from other Cylon agents and lies to the young lieutenant ([[Flesh and Bone]]). Boomer finds short solace in his test results but deals with increasing anonymous accusations from others when she finds the word "CYLON" written on the mirror of her locker ([[Six Degrees of Separation]]).
[[Image:Valshootadama.jpg|thumb|left|Sharon shoots Commander Adama.|thumb]]
Frightened and isolated, Boomer withdraws into herself and attempts suicide, but finds herself initially unable to do so. During her second attempt, she is interrupted by Dr. Baltar who, rather than discouraging her, essentially gives her his blessing on her attempt. Following his departure from the bunkroom, Boomer succeeds in shooting herself, but her Cylon personality apparently interrupts the attempt. Boomer can only severely wound herself in the face ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]).

After [[Kara Thrace|Starbuck]] absconds with the captured Raider intended for an attack on a basestar orbiting [[Kobol]], Commander Adama orders Boomer and ECO [[Margaret Edmonson|Racetrack]] to use a [[Cylon Transponder]] in their Raptor to infiltrate the basestar place a nuclear warhead within to destroy it. The mission is a success. However, when the weapon would not auto-release from the Raptor after landing, Boomer exits the ship and into the expanse of the basestar's interior, where she encounters a dozen copies of herself, confirming her worse fears. Boomer escapes in the Raptor while her copies caress the weapon just before it detonates and destroys the basestar. Back on ''Galactica'', her encounter with her copies on the basestar apparently forces Boomer's Cylon personality to emerge once more, with astonishing repercussions: on accepting thanks from Commander Adama for the mission, she shoots and seriously wounds him ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]).

=== Boomer's Dark Discovery and Demise ===
Boomer is quickly restrained by guards and jailed in the [[brig]]. During her emprisonment, Tigh attempts to forcibly extract information from her by gunpoint. Sharon's human and Cylon personalities appear to stonewall him ([[Scattered]]). Chief [[Galen Tyrol|Tyrol]] is later thrown in the same brig cell by Col. Tigh, also suspected of being a Cylon. While imprisoned together, Boomer tries to convince Tyrol that her feelings for him were real and important, but he rejects her and threatens to kill her if she touched him.
[[Image:Sharondeath.jpg|Sharon dies in Tyrol's arms.|right|thumb]]
Dr. [[Gaius Baltar]] later enters the cell, austensibly to collect a blood sample from Tyrol to prove his innocence using the [[Cylon detector]], but instead Baltar injects Tyrol with a potent toxin that would kill him in a matter of seconds if Baltar doesn't give him an antidote. Baltar interrogates Sharon, demanding to know how many other Cylons were in the Fleet, using the dying Tyrol to blackmail her. Boomer, near hysterics, protests that she didn't know. Baltar insists that somewhere in her subconscious mind, underneath all of her programming and false memories, she truly ''does'' know and with a stressful enough stimulus, the information would come forward. At the last second, she cries out that there were eight other Cylons in the Fleet. Baltar revives Tyrol.

Soon after, while being transferred to a new reinforced cell in the [[brig]] built to hold Cylons for later experiments, a large crowd of crewmembers jeers at her and calls her a traitor. An enraged [[Cally]] breaks through the crowd holding a gun and shoots Boomer at point blank range. Dying in Tyrol's arms, her last words were "I love you, Chief" ([[Resistance]]).

Boomer's body is sent to the morgue, and autopsied. The recovered [[William Adama|Commander Adama]] visits her corpse, asking "Why?" aloud, and weeps over her body. Commander Adama gives Cally a slap on the wrist by sentencing her to only 30 days in the brig for discharging a weapon without authorization. Cally is never tried for murder since Boomer was merely yet another enemy Cylon to be destroyed ([[The Farm]]).

===A New Beginning===
[[Image:Cylon resurrection.jpg|thumb|left|''Galactica''-Sharon reborn in a new body|thumb]]
However, Boomer's consciousness did not die. When Cally shot "Boomer" Valerii, ''Galactica'' was close enough to the Cylon [[Resurrection Ship]] following the human fleet that her consciousness was downloaded into another body on Caprica. She was revealed to have been resurrected in the Caprica city of Delphi in the episode "[[Downloaded]]". Upon being reborn, she rejected her Cylon nature and continued to call herself Sharon instead of "Eight", even going so far as to reclaim her former apartment. [[Number Three]], representing the status quo of the Cylons, was deeply disturbed by this, going so far as to suggest Sharon be "[[boxed]]."
[[Image:Boomer downloaded.JPG|thumb|Resurrected Valerii on Caprica ([[Downloaded]])]] [[Caprica-Six]] protests vehemently, and Three advises her to get Sharon to change. When Sharon laments the loss of Tyrol, Six tells Sharon of her own love for Baltar, which prompts Sharon to inform her that Baltar is stll alive. Realizing that Three has an ulterior motive, the two play along. During a Resistence bombing, Three, Sharon and Six are trapped in a garage with [[Samuel Anders]]. Listening to the dry conversation, Six suddenly reveals the truth: "Sharon" and "Caprica" are celebrities in a culture of unity, and, through their love for human individuals, have realized the true horror of the Cylons' actions. Using their celebrity status, they could therefore convince a large portion of the rest of Cylon society of their new belief that the Cylon genocide of humanity was wrong.

Sharon then stops Anders from killing Three, and is shell-shocked when Six smashes Three's skull. After telling Anders to get out, Six begs Sharon to help her reveal the truth of the genocide to the other Cylons. Sharon eventually agrees, and a new path is forged ([[Downloaded]]).

A year later, Boomer is one of the leaders of the Cylon force occupying [[New Caprica]], along with Caprica-Six and a [[Number Five]]. ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]).

==Notes==
*This Sharon Valerii is still referred to as the Galactica copy, even though she is now with the Cylons, because she was first encountered on Galactica.
*[[Number Six]] rhetorically asks Baltar in "[[Flesh and Bone]]" why he thinks that Valerii got her callsign, "Boomer." As shown twice in "[[Water]]" and with her destruction of the basestar in "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]", the ''Galactica'' Valerii appeared to have a penchant for blowing things up. This is inconsistent with her [[Boomer (TOS)|namesake]] from the Original Series, who did not show this tendency.
**Number Six could probably have been using sexual innuendo when she rhetorically asked why the ''Galactica'' Valerii's callsign was "Boomer"; for example, as demonstrated in "[[Six Degrees of Separation]]" (Actress Grace Park said in interviews that she was so determined to make an enthusiastic lovemaking scene, i.e. copious amounts of moaning, etc., that when the scene director finished they flat out said their footage would have to be ''heavily'' edited).
** Alternately, this may be an in-joke to the anime ''[[Wikipedia:Bubblegum Crisis|Bubblegum Crisis]]'' (and its spin-offs). ''Bubblegum Crisis'' generally focuses on a futuristic police force in conflict with rogue androids with a human appearance, or "synthetic humanoids", referred to as ''[[Wikipedia:boomer (anime term)|boomer]]s''. Some of these (such as Cynthia in BGC1 '''Tinsel City''') are completely unaware of their nature as synthetically created beings. It should be noted that [[Boomer (TOS)|Boomer]] from the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|original ''Battlestar Galactica'']] predates this usage.

According to SkyOne, Sharon's memories were of growing up on the mining settlement of Troy.

Here is SkyOne's summary of Valerii:

:''Sharon's first memories are vivid and she occasionally revisits them in her dreams. As far as she knew she grew up with a happy, normal childhood, the product of loving parents on the mining settlement of Troy. Troy was a small, barren world of the Colonial system.''

:''Sharon always wanted to leave and seek a grander life. After passing the Colonial Acedemy's exams she left aboard a commercial transport ship.''

:''During the flight, her hometown was wiped out in a series of titanic explosions caused by volatile methane gas, which had ignited in a mining operation. The disaster stunned the colonies.''

:''She later applied for flight school and was accepted over more qualified candidates. Flight school was rough on Sharon. Not a born pilot, she laboured long and hard. By the time she had graduated. she managed to earn the second chances that she seemed fated to be given. Her first assignment was aboard the Battlestar Galactica, and by the time of the Cylon attack, she had been there for almost a year.''

As this information does not come from the official Scifi.com website, it's authenticity is questionable. Further, it is blatantly contradicted by Sharon's statements that Troy was destroyed when she was a little girl, not in flight school, and Adama's comment in "[[The Farm]]" that she had been on ''Galactica'' for nearly ''two'' years, not almost one.

{{Characters}}

[[Category:A to Z|Valerii, Sharon, (Galactica copy)]]
[[Category:Characters|Valerii, Sharon, (Galactica copy)]]
[[Category:Cylons|Valerii, Sharon, (Galactica copy)]]
[[Category:RDM|Valerii, Sharon, (Galactica copy)]]
[[Category:People from Aerelon|Valerii, Sharon, (Galactica copy)]]

Sharon Valerii

2006-04-07T19:03:18Z

TheTrista: /* The Sleeper Awakens */

{{Character Data|
|photo=[[Image:Sharon Valerii promo.jpg|200px]]
|age=
|colony= None. (She believed she was from [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Aerelon|Aerelon]], by way of [[Troy]])
|birthname=
|servicen= T-990429
|callsign= Boomer
|death= Shot by [[Cally]] (''[[Resistance]]''), followed by rebirth in "[[Downloaded]]"
|parents= None. (She believed they were [[Abraham Valerii|Abraham]] and [[Catherine Valerii]])
|siblings= She believed she had one, as seen in the fake family photo in "[[Downloaded]]"
|children=
|marital status= Single, was in a relationship with Chief [[Galen Tyrol]].
|role= Cylon Infiltrator, Saboteur; [[Raptor]] Pilot
|rank= Lieutenant, Junior Grade
|actor= [[Grace Park]]
|cylon= y
|name=
}}

:''This page is about the copy of Cylon Model Number Eight first seen on [[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]], who loves [[Galen Tyrol]] and is shot by [[Cally]]. For the Sharon Valerii first seen on [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]], who loves [[Karl Agathon|Helo]] and becomes pregnant, see [[Sharon Valerii (Caprica copy)]]. For information about the various copies see [[Number Eight]].''

Lieutenant Junior Grade '''Sharon "Boomer" Valerii''', serial number T-990429, appears to be a young pilot recently-assigned to shipboard operations. Assigned to flying the Raptor reconnaissance vehicle, her inexperience is demonstrated through repeated rough landings aboard ''Galactica'' ([[Miniseries]]).
As a pilot, she is assigned alongside [[ECO]] [[Karl Agathon|Karl "Helo" Agathon]], with whom she has developed a close friendship. She has also formed friendships with other pilot officers aboard the battlestar, sharing off-duty activities, such as regular card games ([[Miniseries]], [[Act of Contrition]]), all of which have helped her integrate into shipboard life and be accepted as a member of the crew. She had been serving on board ''Galactica'' for two years prior to the Cylon attack ([[The Farm]]).

== Biography ==
=== Agent in Disguise ===

Initially, "Boomer" Valerii is a "sleeper" agent, unaware of her Cylon status. As far as she is aware, she was born on the mining colony of Troy, the daughter of a family from Aerelon ([[Flesh and Bone]]). Troy itself was destroyed in an unexplained cataclysm, allowing Boomer's background to be established as that of an orphan.

Following her arrival on-board ''Galactica'', she enters into a relationship with the ship's Chief Petty Officer [[Galen Tyrol]], which is against military protocols concerning fraternization between officers and non-officers. Whether this is unintentional, or a subconcious reaction to her Cylon personality program is unclear.

At the time of the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attack]], Boomer is flying her Raptor to [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]] with ''[[Galactica]]'s'' last remaining operational [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] squadron when they learn of the attacks and attempt to engage two [[Cylon Raider]]s. However, the Viper squadron is destroyed (their ships powered down by their tainted [[CNP]]), and the Raptor is damaged while trying to escape, forcing Boomer and Helo to make an emergency landing on [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]].

After repairing the Raptor, Helo and Boomer are mobbed by desperate civilians and undertake an unexpected rescue operation, lifting a number of children and adults from the planet. However, Helo chooses to give up his place aboard the Raptor so that Dr. [[Gaius Baltar]] can be rescued ([[Miniseries]]).

After being found by [[Laura Roslin]]'s group of stranded military and civilian ships, Boomer works hard within the new civilian [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]], assisting Laura Roslin's attempts to gather other stranded civilian ships within the space surrounding Caprica as possible. She finds a number of ships critical to the fledgling Fleet's survival (such as a fuel tanker). [[image:sharontyrol.jpg|Sharon and Tyrol.|thumb]]After the Fleet (with ''Galactica'' leading it) leaves the solar system of the Colonies, Boomer aids in other critical acts, such as the discovery of a [[tylium]]-rich asteroid, replete with an active Cylon mine ([[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]), and locating a source of water to replenish the Fleet's lost supply after a sabotage of ''Galactica's'' stores ([[Water]]).

=== The Sleeper Awakens ===

However, at the same time she is apparently supporting the Fleet, Boomer's underlying Cylon programming periodically emerges. Her Cylon programming is the cause of the sabotage ''Galactica's'' water tanks ([[Water]]). Later, she likely assists a copy of [[Aaron Doral]] to access to a munitions store. The Doral copy constructs a suicide bomb which very nearly kills [[William Adama|Commander Adama]] and [[Saul Tigh|Colonel Tigh]].

Having "awoken" to her human personality shortly after the bombs used to destroy ''Galactica's'' water tanks were planted, she finds herself soaking wet. Boomer's human personality becomes increasingly concerned that she is not all she appears. Her worry increases when she experiences a certain "attraction" to a captured [[Cylon Raider]], and is able to give insight into how it can be properly assessed and understood ("[[Six Degrees of Separation]]", "[[Flesh and Bone]]"). Her concerns are further elevated when, following the bombing by Doral, ''Galactica's'' [[Master-at-Arms]], Sergeant [[Hadrian]] suspects her and Tyrol of Cylon complicity ([[Litmus]]).

Boomer is isolated from Tyrol following this event, and he later ends their relationship following the arrest of Specialist [[Socinus]] ([[Litmus]]). Facing Tyrol's own suspicions concerning her activities immediately before the bombing, Boomer finds herself emotionally isolated and stressed. She takes the Cylon detector test created by Dr. [[Gaius Baltar]]. Baltar hides the positive test results to cover himself from recrimination from other Cylon agents and lies to the young lieutenant ([[Flesh and Bone]]). Boomer finds short solace in his test results but deals with increasing anonymous accusations from others when she finds the word "CYLON" written on the mirror of her locker ([[Six Degrees of Separation]]).
[[Image:Valshootadama.jpg|thumb|left|Sharon shoots Commander Adama.|thumb]]
Frightened and isolated, Boomer withdraws into herself and attempts suicide, but finds herself initially unable to do so. During her second attempt, she is interrupted by Dr. Baltar who, rather than discouraging her, essentially gives her his blessing on her attempt. Following his departure from the bunkroom, Boomer succeeds in shooting herself, but her Cylon personality apparently interrupts the attempt. Boomer can only severely wound herself in the face ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]).

After [[Kara Thrace|Starbuck]] absconds with the captured Raider intended for an attack on a basestar orbiting [[Kobol]], Commander Adama orders Boomer and ECO [[Margaret Edmonson|Racetrack]] to use a [[Cylon Transponder]] in their Raptor to infiltrate the basestar place a nuclear warhead within to destroy it. The mission is a success. However, when the weapon would not auto-release from the Raptor after landing, Boomer exits the ship and into the expanse of the basestar's interior, where she encounters a dozen copies of herself, confirming her worse fears. Boomer escapes in the Raptor while her copies caress the weapon just before it detonates and destroys the basestar. Back on ''Galactica'', her encounter with her copies on the basestar apparently forces Boomer's Cylon personality to emerge once more, with astonishing reprocussions: on accepting thanks from Commander Adama for the mission, she shoots and seriously wounds him ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]).

=== Boomer's Dark Discovery and Demise ===
Boomer is quickly restrained by guards and jailed in the [[brig]]. During her emprisonment, Tigh attempts to forcibly extract information from her by gunpoint. Sharon's human and Cylon personalities appear to stonewall him ([[Scattered]]). Chief [[Galen Tyrol|Tyrol]] is later thrown in the same brig cell by Col. Tigh, also suspected of being a Cylon. While imprisoned together, Boomer tries to convince Tyrol that her feelings for him were real and important, but he rejects her and threatens to kill her if she touched him.
[[Image:Sharondeath.jpg|Sharon dies in Tyrol's arms.|right|thumb]]
Dr. [[Gaius Baltar]] later enters the cell, austensibly to collect a blood sample from Tyrol to prove his innocence using the [[Cylon detector]], but instead Baltar injects Tyrol with a potent toxin that would kill him in a matter of seconds if Baltar doesn't give him an antidote. Baltar interrogates Sharon, demanding to know how many other Cylons were in the Fleet, using the dying Tyrol to blackmail her. Boomer, near hysterics, protests that she didn't know. Baltar insists that somewhere in her subconscious mind, underneath all of her programming and false memories, she truly ''does'' know and with a stressful enough stimulus, the information would come forward. At the last second, she cries out that there were eight other Cylons in the Fleet. Baltar revives Tyrol.

Soon after, while being transferred to a new reinforced cell in the [[brig]] built to hold Cylons for later experiments, a large crowd of crewmembers jeers at her and calls her a traitor. An enraged [[Cally]] breaks through the crowd holding a gun and shoots Boomer at point blank range. Dying in Tyrol's arms, her last words were "I love you, Chief" ([[Resistance]]).

Boomer's body is sent to the morgue, and autopsied. The recovered [[William Adama|Commander Adama]] visits her corpse, asking "Why?" aloud, and weeps over her body. Commander Adama gives Cally a slap on the wrist by sentencing her to only 30 days in the brig for discharging a weapon without authorization. Cally is never tried for murder since Boomer was merely yet another enemy Cylon to be destroyed ([[The Farm]]).

===A New Beginning===
[[Image:Cylon resurrection.jpg|thumb|left|''Galactica''-Sharon reborn in a new body|thumb]]
However, Boomer's consciousness did not die. When Cally shot "Boomer" Valerii, ''Galactica'' was close enough to the Cylon [[Resurrection Ship]] following the human fleet that her consciousness was downloaded into another body on Caprica. She was revealed to have been resurrected in the Caprica city of Delphi in the episode "[[Downloaded]]". Upon being reborn, she rejected her Cylon nature and continued to call herself Sharon instead of "Eight", even going so far as to reclaim her former apartment. [[Number Three]], representing the status quo of the Cylons, was deeply disturbed by this, going so far as to suggest Sharon be "[[boxed]]."
[[Image:Boomer downloaded.JPG|thumb|Resurrected Valerii on Caprica ([[Downloaded]])]] [[Caprica-Six]] protests vehemently, and Three advises her to get Sharon to change. When Sharon laments the loss of Tyrol, Six tells Sharon of her own love for Baltar, which prompts Sharon to inform her that Baltar is stll alive. Realizing that Three has an ulterior motive, the two play along. During a Resistence bombing, Three, Sharon and Six are trapped in a garage with [[Samuel Anders]]. Listening to the dry conversation, Six suddenly reveals the truth: "Sharon" and "Caprica" are celebrities in a culture of unity, and, through their love for human individuals, have realized the true horror of the Cylons' actions. Using their celebrity status, they could therefore convince a large portion of the rest of Cylon society of their new belief that the Cylon genocide of humanity was wrong.

Sharon then stops Anders from killing Three, and is shell-shocked when Six smashes Three's skull. After telling Anders to get out, Six begs Sharon to help her reveal the truth of the genocide to the other Cylons. Sharon eventually agrees, and a new path is forged ([[Downloaded]]).

A year later, Boomer is one of the leaders of the Cylon force occupying [[New Caprica]], along with Caprica-Six and a [[Number Five]]. ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]).

==Notes==
*This Sharon Valerii is still referred to as the Galactica copy, even though she is now with the Cylons, because she was first encountered on Galactica.
*[[Number Six]] rhetorically asks Baltar in "[[Flesh and Bone]]" why he thinks that Valerii got her callsign, "Boomer." As shown twice in "[[Water]]" and with her destruction of the basestar in "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]", the ''Galactica'' Valerii appeared to have a penchant for blowing things up. This is inconsistent with her [[Boomer (TOS)|namesake]] from the Original Series, who did not show this tendency.
**Number Six could probably have been using sexual innuendo when she rhetorically asked why the ''Galactica'' Valerii's callsign was "Boomer"; for example, as demonstrated in "[[Six Degrees of Separation]]" (Actress Grace Park said in interviews that she was so determined to make an enthusiastic lovemaking scene, i.e. copious amounts of moaning, etc., that when the scene director finished they flat out said their footage would have to be ''heavily'' edited).
** Alternately, this may be an in-joke to the anime ''[[Wikipedia:Bubblegum Crisis|Bubblegum Crisis]]'' (and its spin-offs). ''Bubblegum Crisis'' generally focuses on a futuristic police force in conflict with rogue androids with a human appearance, or "synthetic humanoids", referred to as ''[[Wikipedia:boomer (anime term)|boomer]]s''. Some of these (such as Cynthia in BGC1 '''Tinsel City''') are completely unaware of their nature as synthetically created beings. It should be noted that [[Boomer (TOS)|Boomer]] from the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|original ''Battlestar Galactica'']] predates this usage.

According to SkyOne, Sharon's memories were of growing up on the mining settlement of Troy.

Here is SkyOne's summary of Valerii:

:''Sharon's first memories are vivid and she occasionally revisits them in her dreams. As far as she knew she grew up with a happy, normal childhood, the product of loving parents on the mining settlement of Troy. Troy was a small, barren world of the Colonial system.''

:''Sharon always wanted to leave and seek a grander life. After passing the Colonial Acedemy's exams she left aboard a commercial transport ship.''

:''During the flight, her hometown was wiped out in a series of titanic explosions caused by volatile methane gas, which had ignited in a mining operation. The disaster stunned the colonies.''

:''She later applied for flight school and was accepted over more qualified candidates. Flight school was rough on Sharon. Not a born pilot, she laboured long and hard. By the time she had graduated. she managed to earn the second chances that she seemed fated to be given. Her first assignment was aboard the Battlestar Galactica, and by the time of the Cylon attack, she had been there for almost a year.''

As this information does not come from the official Scifi.com website, it's authenticity is questionable. Further, it is blatantly contradicted by Sharon's statements that Troy was destroyed when she was a little girl, not in flight school, and Adama's comment in "[[The Farm]]" that she had been on ''Galactica'' for nearly ''two'' years, not almost one.

{{Characters}}

[[Category:A to Z|Valerii, Sharon, (Galactica copy)]]
[[Category:Characters|Valerii, Sharon, (Galactica copy)]]
[[Category:Cylons|Valerii, Sharon, (Galactica copy)]]
[[Category:RDM|Valerii, Sharon, (Galactica copy)]]
[[Category:People from Aerelon|Valerii, Sharon, (Galactica copy)]]

Number Eight

2006-03-09T21:33:10Z

TheTrista: /* Notes */

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Cylon Model '''Number Eight''', known to the humans as '''Sharon Valerii''', initially appears as a young officer with a bright future in the [[Colonial Fleet]]. She is initially encountered aboard the [[Original battlestar (RDM)|battlestar]] ''[[Galactica]]'', where she is integrated into [[Colonial]] military life, serving as a [[Raptor]] pilot (callsign of "Boomer") with the rank of Lieutenant (junior grade).

But "Boomer" Valerii is Cylon operative in hiding, a "sleeper agent." She has many copies. Other variants of the Valerii model are active on Cylon-occupied [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]] and were also aboard a Cylon [[basestar (RDM)|basestar]] orbiting [[Kobol]] before its destruction. Of all the [[Humano-Cylon|Cylon agents]] witnessed thus far, Sharon Valerii appears to behave with the strongest or genuine human qualities. This may be the cause of this model's tendency to have conflicts between its latent Cylon or active human personalities, or even turn against its own kind.

== ''Galactica'' Copy ==
[[Image:bsg-valerii-1.jpg|thumb|right|The Many Sides of "Sharon Valerii" (credit: Sky One / Sci-Fi Channel)]]
The first copy of the Sharon model was encountered on ''Galactica'', where she had been serving as a Raptor pilot for two years (where she came from before this infiltration is unknown). She is a "sleeper" agent, programmed with false memories to think she ''is'' human.
:''For more, see the article [[Sharon Valerii (Galactica copy)]]''

== Caprica Copy ==
Another copy of the Sharon model used by the Cylons in a breeding experiment with Lt. [[Karl Agathon|Karl "Helo" Agathon]] on Cylon-occupied [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]]. Eventually, she falls in love with Helo, apparently defecting to the humans and turning on her fellow Cylons.
:''For more, see the article [[Sharon Valerii (Caprica copy)]]''

==Other Copies==
*At the end of the [[Mini-Series]], a copy of Valerii wearing the Colonial Raptor Pilot Uniform appears to be leading the group of Humano-Cylons who recover the [[Aaron Doral#PR Executive Copy|PR Executive Copy of Aaron Doral]] from [[Ragnar Anchorage]].
**It is possible that the this is the same individual as the Caprica copy. While, at the time the [[Mini-Series]] had been filmed, there were no plans to have [[Tahmoh Penikett]] reprise the role of [[Karl Agathon|Helo]], the ending of the [[Mini-Series]] forms a link to "[[33]]", establishing that the Cylons have developed a plan for Helo's presence on Caprica.
*A copy of Valerii is witnessed wearing a grey coat at the spaceport at [[Delphi]]. However, she is immediately killed by Helo's Valerii copy ([[Colonial Day]]).
*Multiple copies of the Valerii model were encountered on the [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]] over [[Kobol]]. It is likely that they were dispatched to the Raptor in order to activate some latent portion of the ''Galactica'' copy's Cylon personality ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]).
*A copy of Valerii is seen at the end of "[[Final Cut]]", also wearing a grey coat like other Sharons on Caprica, remarking in surprise that Caprica-Valerii is still alive.
*Numerous copies of Valerii were seen on Cylon occupied Caprica throughout the episode "[[Downloaded]]", the episode where it was revealed that she is the eighth in the sequence of twelve Cylon models. Various outfits were seen on them. A copy in a pale blue tunic is one of four 'rebirth nurses' who greet [[Caprica-Six]] following her rebirth. Several months later, it is likely this same group that welcomes the reborn [[Sharon Valerii (Galactica copy)|Lieutenant Boomer]]. Valerii becomes hysterical after seeing and hearing this copy.

==Notes==
*As a matter of trivia, neither copy of Sharon refers to her lover by his first name onscreen. Galactica-Sharon calls Chief Tyrol "Chief" instead of "Galen" even when dying in his arms, and Caprica-Sharon has yet to call Lt. Agathon "Karl". Ron Moore explained in his blog that no one had every really called Tyrol "Galen" before, and hearing Sharon say it would have distracted from the emotional impact of her death (RDM revealed his first name in his blog, and it has only been mentioned on screen once, briefly at the beginning of "[[Resistance]]"). RDM compared it to the Seinfeld episode when Kramer's first name is revealed to be "Cosmo"; i.e. the viewers would be unused to Tyrol's previously unknown first name. As for Agathon, everybody usually just calls him "Helo" (Starbuck has only briefly called him "Karl" once or twice).
*[[Wikipedia:Valerii|Valerii]] is the male plural form of the Roman name of the family Valeria. Valerius is the singular form.
*In an interview for thefandom.com Ron D. Moore stated that "'''There is no original human Sharon.''' The idea is not that there was likely an original human model that they were copied from. The idea was that these models of Cylon were sort of developed out of their own study of us. The Cylons on some level looked at humanity and said "You know what? There's really only 12 of you". If these are the 12, and sort of if you look at them they each represent different archetypes of what humanity is".

There is some speculation as to whether Sharon's ability to form close bonds with humans is considered an asset or a liability (or a little of both) by the Cylon majority. It would be interesting to see whether the four models created after Number Eight act more or less "human" than she.

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Number Six

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TheTrista: /* Armistice Station Copy */

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"'''Number Six'''" is a stunning blonde who plays several key roles in the [[Cylon]] military. She is the first [[Cylon agent]] that viewers witness in the reimagined ''Battlestar Galactica'' saga.

== Armistice Station Copy ==
Number Six is a portent of doom for the peoples of the [[Twelve Colonies]]; she arrives on [[Armistice Station]] shortly before it is destroyed in what are the opening shots of the [[Cylon attack]] in the [[Mini-Series]]. Dressed in a red miniskirt, she is the first and last "diplomat" ever sent to the station by the Cylons since its construction. She greets the Colonial officer present with the question "Are you alive?" When he answers that he is alive, she tells him to prove it - by making out with her. After he realizes that Armistice is under attack, she smiles and forces another kiss on him shortly before they are both destroyed.

Later, three Sixes in the same outfit are among the group of Cylons that rescue and debrief [[Number Five|Aaron Doral]], following his stranding on [[Ragnar Anchorage]] by the suspicious Colonials.

== Caprica-Six ==

The copy of Number Six that seduced Dr. [[Gaius Baltar]] into unwittingly betraying the Twelve Colonies by giving her access to the Colonial defense mainframe.

''For more, see the article, "[[Caprica-Six]]."''

== Baltar's Internal Six ==
[[image:Tigh_Me_Up_Tigh_Me_Down-Baltar_Six.jpg|thumb|left|Number Six and [[Gaius Baltar]] in his lab aboard ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]''.]]
Fleeing the city and then the planet itself, Baltar is shocked to discover that the woman he had a relationship with on Caprica lives on - inside his head.

At first he tries to dismiss her presence as a manifestation of his own guilt over what has happened to his people, and his role in it. However, Six suggests that she is in fact the result of a chip inside his head. However, while some of her actions - such as terrifying Baltar into constructing a genuine [[Cylon detector]] ([[Bastille Day]]) - very much suggest she is a part of his own psyche, this is countered by her underlying actions and deeds, all of which represent a furtherance of those aims and goals she expressed as a corporeal entity, giving added weight to the idea that she is most likely a personality download contained within a chip in Baltar's head. Some of these are characteristics never witnessed by Baltar himself - such as her jealous reaction to [[Sharon Valerii (Galactica copy)|Boomer]]'s visit with Baltar in his lab ([[Flesh and Bone]]), which closely mirrors the jealousy she shows towards the Valerii copy on Caprica ("[[Litmus]]", "[[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]").

Certainly, this seems to be the view Baltar himself comes to hold, as he relies more and more on her for guidance and insight into Cylon ways - so much so that she deliberately suggests that her presence within him is something of which other Cylons have no knowledge. However, in her relentless drive to get Baltar to fully accept the Cylon concept of God, it would appear that not only are other Cylons in the fleet aware of her "existence", they are in communication with her: hence the arrival of "Shelly Godfrey" onboard ''[[Galactica]]'' with her accusations of treachery at the precise time Six ceases to communicate with Baltar.

When Baltar begins to deny Six's actual existence, she turns the tables by changing her appearance and telling him that he was, indeed, "crazy" ([[Home, Part II]]). Baltar asks Dr. [[Cottle]] to perform a brain scan to check for anything unusual. "Nothing, nothing, more nothing" is the gruff diagnosis from Cottle. However, later in the same episode Baltar realizes that the Six he sees could could not possibly be a hallucination caused by him going "crazy", because she knows things (such as that [[Sharon Valerii (Caprica copy)|Caprica-Sharon Valerii]] was pregnant) that his subconscious mind has no way of knowing. When confronted with this, Six agrees that she is not a product of Baltar's mind, although scans show no chip in his brain. When Baltar asks her what she really was, Six only replies that "I'm an angel of God sent here to protect you". While Baltar may not have a conventionally visible chip in his head, it could be organically-based (like the humanoid Cylons) and indistinguishable from other tissues in his brain or central nervous system. There is a remote chance that Baltar could be a Humano-Cylon himself (see the [[Cylon agent speculation]] article for arguments for and against Baltar as a Cylon agent).

In the episode "[[Downloaded]]" it is revealed that the vision of Number Six that Baltar sees everywhere is definately not the same Number Six consciousness as the one he had a relationship with back on Caprica: [[Caprica-Six]]'s consciousness downloaded into a new body, and for nine months continued to live on Cylon-occupied Caprica. This adds a further level of complexity to who exactly Baltar sees all the time: would Caprica-Six really implant a chip in his head? When she was downloaded into a new body, Caprica-Six actually thought that Baltar was ''dead'', and did not find out he was alive for months. Furthermore, just as Baltar has an inner Six inside his mind, Caprica-Six has an inner Baltar in hers (and just as Baltar's inner Six manipulates him against the humans, Caprica-Six's inner Baltar manipulates her against the Cylons). She may have implanted a chip, containing one of her "sister" consciousnesses, into him as part of a "backup plan" she never thought she'd actually use...or she may really have never implanted a chip inside Baltar. And this is true, why would she also have a chip inside herself of Baltar? The answer remains unknown.

== Shelly Godfrey ==
A copy of Number Six that physically appears on board ''Galactica'' to try to discredit Baltar as a traitor, using evidence which was flawed, so that he ended up being more popular than before.
''For more, see the article, "[[Shelly Godfrey]]."''

== Gina ==
A copy of Number Six captured aboard the battlestar [[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]] and repeatedly tortured and sexually abused by the crew, before escaping with Baltar's help. <br>
''For more, see the article, "[[Gina]]."''

== Caprican Overseer Copies ==
[[Image:Sixsharonlitmus.jpg|thumb|Number Six beating up Sharon Valerii on Caprica.|thumb]]
On Caprica, Six performs the role of a Cylon overseer, working with [[Aaron Doral]] to ensure their experiment involving the stranded [[Karl Agathon]] and Valerii either reaches its desired conclusion, or is suitably terminated ([[Litmus]], [[Secrets and Lies]]). These copies of Number Six wear a militaristic black outfit, with a black body-suit underneath suited to martial arts.

Following the destruction of a "troop leader" Six (shot by Valerii, in order to enable her to "rescue" Agathon), her "sister" on Caprica demonstrates a certain vindictiveness towards Valerii when giving her a beating that goes far beyond the needs of the experiment ([[Litmus]]), thus revealing she may well be experiencing resentment for being shot (remembering that experiences and knowledge are passed from body to body among the various types of humano-Cylon), as well as jealousy at Valerii's chosen role in proceedings.

A further "overseer" Six is present at the Cylon's established base at [[Delphi]], and is briefly seen by [[Karl Agathon|Helo]] when he attempts to gain access to the base in order to steal a ship and get off the planet ([[Colonial Day]]).

Perhaps this same overseer-Six surprised [[Kara Thrace|Starbuck]] in the [[Delphi Museum]] when she returned to Caprica to retrieve the [[Arrow of Apollo]]. They engaged in an all-out brawl, and just as Six appeared to be winning Starbuck rushed her, knocking both of them off of a ledge. This Number Six fell underneath Starbuck, breaking Kara's fall, and was impaled on building debris, killing her ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]).

Another "overseer" Six was present at the "farm" where Starbuck was taken after she was incapacitated by the Cylons. While the Cylon doctor [[Simon]] operated on her, Six was there to relay orders and see that everything was proceeding smoothly. She was definitely the controlling figure of the operation. This copy was later bashed over the head with a fire extinguisher by Kara Thrace as she made her escape ([[The Farm]]).

Yet another overseer, or possibly one of the previously witnessed copies, viewed [[D'anna Biers]]' broadcast in a theatre on Cylon-occupied Caprica in the episode "[[Final Cut]]". She remarked that the resilience displayed by the Colonials was impressive, and seemed overjoyed that Sharon's hybrid baby survived.

== Caprican Troop Leaders ==
At least 3 additional variants of Six have been operational on Caprica, and appear to lead [[Cylon Centurion]] squads and have a subservient role to the "overseer" Six variants. This variant of Six is distinguished by the white raincoat it wears.

One of these variants distracted Helo, enabling him to be captured. In this, she shared the same seductive characteristic as shown by her "sisters" at Armistice station and with Baltar - her first act on "freeing" the captured Agathon is to kiss him. ([[33]])She was subsequently shot by [[Sharon Valerii (Caprica copy)|Valerii]].

The second acted as an observer to Helo's "escape", and this same variant may have been leading the Centurion troops into the Caprican farm Helo was hiding in ([[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]).

The third was present at [[Delphi]], taking orders from an "overseer" Six.

=="[[Downloaded]]"==

In this episode, a Number Six in a gold tunic was one of four 'rebirth nurses' who welcomed the reincarnated [[Caprica-Six]], and it was likely the same group who welcomed [[Sharon Valerii (Galactica copy)|Boomer]] back to life several months later.

Several other copies of Six were seen on Caprica in a variety of different outfits.

==Notes==
*The name "Number Six" is, according to "[[Battlestar Galactica: The Official Companion]]" (Titan Books, 2005), written by David Bassom, an indirect tribute to [[Wikipedia:Patrick McGoohan|Patrick McGoohan]]'s cult 1967 television series [[Wikipedia:The Prisoner|The Prisoner]] - a series that addressed topics such as personal freedom and identity, mind control, illusionary experiences and the infiltration of society's supposed guardians (secret agents) by a nefarious force (those behind The Village).

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