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== citing episodes? ==

Didn't see a tutorial entry on citing episodes. Article I just tweaked, ([[Zoe Graystone]]), uses both ("Rebirth') and (Rebirth). -- [[User:Vorik111|Vorik111]] 15:26, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

Zoe Graystone

2010-03-04T15:16:57Z

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{{Character Data
|photo= Zoe Alessandra.jpg
|age= 16
|colony= [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]]
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|seen= Caprica (series)
|pseen= ''Caprica pilot''
|death= Killed in suicide bombing (''Caprica pilot'')
|parents= [[Daniel Graystone]] (father)<br>[[Amanda Graystone]] (mother)
|siblings=
|children=
|marital status=Girlfriend of [[Ben Stark]] †
|role= Creator of first [[Cylon (RDM)|Cylon]] consciousness in the Twelve Colonies.
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|actor= [[Alessandra Toressani]]
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|sortkey=Graystone, Zoe
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'''Zoe Graystone''' is the daughter of [[Daniel Graystone|Daniel]] and [[Amanda Graystone]]. Though her parents believe her to be a typical apathetic teenager, she is a computer genius and secret fanatical [[God (RDM)|monotheist]].

==Early Life==
Zoe was born into a very wealthy family on [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]]. Though she appeared to have had a good relationship with her father, her relationship with her mother was strained, even to the point where she was unaware of major events in her life ("[[Rebirth]]," "[[The Reins of a Waterfall]]"). Her interests included playing the cello ([[Gravedancing]]). She attended the [[Athena Academy]], where she was best friends with fellow classmate [[Lacy Rand]]. Together, they began using the [[holoband]] technology her father invented to indulge in the [[V-Club]], a virtual nightclub frequented by teenagers, where they indulged in sex.

[[Image:Soldiers of One Logo.jpg|thumb|left|120px|"Infinity" symbol representing the Soldiers of the One.]]
At some point, Zoe began dating [[Ben Stark]] unbeknownst to her parents ([[Rebirth]]), a fanatical monotheist guided by the headmistress of the [[Athena Academy]], Sister [[Clarice Willow]]. Both Zoe and Lacy and became closet monotheists as a result of Ben's guidance. Showing her aptitude for computer programming, she created a temple within the V-Club only accessible to herself and her fellow monotheists, with an [[Soldiers of the One|infinity symbol]] marking the entrance. Furthermore, she designed a program that allowed her to create virtual duplicate of herself using a compilation of various personal records, a feat that impressed even her own computer-gifted father. Zoe believed that the creation of her [[holographic avatar]] was the next step towards a divinely-inspired plan, and designed a biofeedback subroutine that allowed her avatar to feel what she felt in the real world.

==Death==
Fed up with her parents and the fact that her monotheism had to be kept a secret on polytheistic Caprica, Zoe planned to leave for [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Gemenon|Gemenon]] with Stark and Rand. Though she had a plan for her avatar once they had arrived on Gemenon, she never revealed what that plan was.

The three students leave their school and board the [[Lev]], but Rand has second thoughts and stays behind. Undaunted, Stark and Zoe proceed, and she quickly sends a goodbye email to her parents from her [[computer sheet]]. Noticing that Stark is acting tense, she asks him what is is wrong. Apologizing to her, Stark reveals a bomb strapped around his torso. Before she has time to stop him, Stark detonates the bomb, destroying the train and killing himself and Zoe as well others on the train, including [[Shannon Adama|Shannon]] and [[Tamara Adams]] ([[Caprica pilot|''Caprica'' pilot]]).

In the weeks after the bombing, [[Jordan Durham]], the lead investigator of the bombing, begins to suspect that Zoe was involved in the bombing of the train, given the farewell email she sent to her parents shortly before the bombing.

==Avatar==
[[Image:Zoe-A.jpg|thumb|Zoe's online avatar.]]
Rand visits the virtual temple after the bombing to find that the virtual Zoe still exists despite her doppleganger's death. Due to the biofeedback subroutine, she also felt the real Zoe's death, though strangely she is also covered in blood. Daniel Graystone soon becomes aware of the existence of Zoe's avatar with Rand's help. At first, he rejects the avatar as a superficial copy of his daughter. However, she is able to convince him that she is a perfect recreation of her consciousness.

Graystone then tricks Zoe's avatar and downloads her onto a media storage device, planning to insert her into his company's [[Cylon Prototype|U-87 Cyber Combat Unit]] to allow her to live in the real world. Though Zoe rejects this idea, Graystone ignores her protests and loads her into the robot. Though at first the experiment seems to have succeeded, with the robot taking several steps and calling Graystone "daddy", her data quickly becomes corrupted and seemingly irretrievable, and the robot collapses.

Soon afterwords, the robot containing Zoe's avatar is stored at Graystone's lab. Suddenly, the robot reactivates with Zoe's consciousness intact. She reaches a computer terminal and contacts Rand, asking for her help.

== Notes ==
*The name "Zoe" originally comes from the ancient Greek word for "life"<ref>{{cite_web|url=http://www.behindthename.com/name/zoe|title=Behind the Name:Zoe|date=|accessdate=7 April 2008|last=|first=|format=|language=}}</ref>, and is used in the [[w:New Testament|New Testament]] of the Bible 134 times to indicate the "eternal life" or the "life after death" in heaven rewarded to the children of God<ref>{{cite_web|url=http://www.biblical-baby-names.com/meaning-of-zoe.html|title=Biblical-Baby Names:Zoe|date=|accessdate=7 April 2008|last=|first=|format=|language=}}</ref>. This could be a reference to Zoe's own resurrection, or it could be a religious reference to the Cylons' status as the children of [[God (RDM)|God]], or both.

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Final Five

2007-07-13T01:01:46Z

Vorik111: /* Four Revealed */ expanding the "anything else" thoughts

[[Image:TheFinalFive.JPG|right|thumb|300px|The Final Five in the Kobol Opera House]]
The term "'''Final Five'''" collectively describes five of the twelve [[Humanoid Cylon|humanoid Cylon models]] whose identity, knowledge, or existence has been deliberately or accidentally lost to seven of the Humanoid Cylon models.

[[Caprica-Six]], when asked by Gaius Baltar about the five missing models he has not seen on the [[Basestar (RDM)|baseship]] he lives on or on [[New Caprica]], curtly replies that the others do not talk about the subject ([[Torn]]).

==The unauthorized quest for the Five==
A [[Number Three]] copy, whom [[Gaius Baltar]] calls by her human alias, [[D'Anna Biers]], repeatedly commits suicide to get glimpses of five white-cloaked beings that she believes are images of the Final Five. She attempts to draw what she has seen, but has difficulty in doing so ([[Hero]]).

One detailed sketch which she briefly shows to Baltar depicts her personal artistic rendering of the faces of the Five ([[The Passage]]). The sketch is meant to depict [[Saul Tigh]], [[Galen Tyrol]], [[Samuel Anders]], [[Tory Foster]] and the twelfth and final Cylon. ([[Crossroads, Part II]]).

[[Image:FFSketches.jpg|thumb|left|Sketches of the Five.]]
Baltar's ability to see a virtual doppelganger of Caprica-Six (as well as enjoying her company in various pleasant environments) lead him to suggest that he might be using a Cylon technique known as [[projection]]. This suspicion, in turn, makes Baltar begin a personal inquiry into his own nature after allying himself with D'Anna-Three.

The two eventually make their way to the [[algae planet]], where a Colonial structure, the fabled [[Temple of Five]], awaits with possible answers ("[[The Passage]]", "[[The Eye of Jupiter]]"). When the system's dying star goes nova, a ray of light is generated by the mechanisms of the temple. Number Three steps into the light and suddenly finds herself back in the [[Opera House]] and before the same image of the Five, not persistent. Upon seeing their faces she recognizes one of them in particular, saying in surprise "You... forgive me... I had no idea." She is then pulled back to reality and collapses in Baltar's arms, apparently suffering the effects of a brain hemorrhage. She tells Baltar, "You were right," but dies before answering about what, or telling him what she saw. She tells the [[Cavil]] who greets her in the tank that there are five other Cylons, and he will see them some day.

In a rather striking irony, as the Three sacrifices all to see the Final Five, [[Galen Tyrol]] and [[Samuel Anders]] are just outside the Temple, being shot at by her centurions. Only because Tyrol delays firing off explosives left in the temple does she get a chance to stand within it at activation.

Although four of the final five have been revealed ([[Crossroads, Part II]]), the identity of the person she recognized remains a mystery ([[Rapture]]).

==Awareness of the Five by other seven Cylons==
Caprica Six indicates that the Cylons do not speak of the Five, but she knows how many there are. [[D'Anna Biers]] also indicates to Baltar that they do not discuss the Five. A [[Cavil]] realizes in the [[Temple of Five]] that D'Anna is attempting to see the Final Five, and not simply seeking [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]]. He tells her "That can't happen" and points a gun at her to stop her, but is shot by Baltar. Later, a Cavil explains that because of her obsession her entire line will be [[boxing|boxed]] ([[Rapture]]).

A [[Leoben Conoy]] claims that "Adama is a Cylon" though neither Adama is one of the other six Cylons he should know. If an Adama were a member of the final five, Leoben should not, in theory, know this. It is commonly believed that he is lying ([[Flesh and Bone]]).

The [[Boomer]] copy of Number Eight, interrogated by Baltar, declares there are eight Cylons in the Fleet. Among the individuals now known to be Cylons in the Fleet at the time are Boomer herself, [[D'Anna Biers]], [[Cavil]], [[Saul Tigh]], [[Galen Tyrol]], and [[Tory Foster]]. ([[Samuel Anders]] is on Caprica.) This leaves two Cylons unaccounted for: one is presumably the last member of the Final Five, while the other may be [[Shelly Godfrey]] (if she remained with the fleet) or another unrevealed copy of the original seven. In theory Boomer should have no knowledge of the particular whereabouts of the Final Five members. The number may be a guess, or a lie, or she may actually have some (possibly subconscious) knowledge of the number of Cylons in the Fleet ([[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]).

A [[Three]] and the resurrected Boomer on Caprica, don't recognize Anders as a Cylon and refer to him as human ([[Downloaded]]).

While [[Centurion]]s are programmed to recognize and obey the [[humanoid Cylon]]s, on a number of occasions they shoot at members of the final five, including at Tyrol on Kobol, and Anders both on Caprica and outside the Temple of Five, and most members during the exodus from [[New Caprica]]. However, they also shot at [[Sharon Agathon]], though they hit neither her nor them.

Both [[Caprica Six]] and Sharon Agathon share a dream vision in which the glowing, white-robed figures of the final five are shown in the [[Opera House]] ([[Crossroads, Part II]]).

An interesting situation arises when considering the nature of humanoid Cylon death and [[Resurrection (RDM)|resurrection]]. If the Final Five can die and download into a new body as the other models can, then there would have to be husks of them in the resurrection facilities. The other models might theoretically be able to see these husks, or interact with members of the Final Five once they download. This raises the question of how many copies of the Final Five there actually are, and whether they can, in fact, download. It is, of course, also possible that the Final Five have their own [[Resurrection Ship]]s.

==Four Revealed==
As the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] draws closer to the [[Ionian nebula]], four people begin hearing an [[The Music|unusual melody]] on wireless radio: these four are Colonel [[Saul Tigh]], Chief [[Galen Tyrol]], Ensign [[Samuel Anders]] and presidential aide [[Tory Foster]] ([[Crossroads, Part I]]). Tyrol and Anders say that the song seems like something from their childhoods, while Tigh becomes progressively more disturbed as he begins to hear the music everywhere on ''Galactica''. Foster becomes noticeably distracted, irritable, and unkempt, claiming to have not been sleeping well. When the fleet finally arrives at the Ionian Nebula the song becomes clear to the four who can hear it and they begin to stalk the halls of ''Galactica'' muttering its mysterious lyrics. Eventually, the four arrive at ''Galactica''’s gym and upon seeing each other the truth becomes clear to them; they are Cylons, four of the Final Five. The nature of these Cylons is clearly different from the other seven. In particular, Colonel Tigh's friendship with William Adama stretches back to shortly after the end of the first Cylon War and in an interview<ref>{{cite_web|url=http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07085/770732-352.stm|title=Post-Gazette Moore interview}}</ref> RDM states Tigh "fought in two wars." ([[Crossroads, Part II]])

After activation, the four revealed Cylons are unaware of any thoughts like Boomer's [[Sharon Valerii#Acts of sabotage|Cylon directives]] other than that they are Cylons. In a sense they know less than the audience and the Significant Seven, who at least know that the Final Five are fundamentally different models.<ref>{{cite_rdm_podcast|episode=Frak Party Q and A|act=|id=ffdifferent|timestamp=19:05|totalrunning=78:27}}</ref> Tigh and Anders painfully and confusedly recite events from their lives which make little sense in the context of their newly revealed nature. With particular pain, Tigh asks "My gods, what about Ellen?" His personal execution of his wife for being a Cylon collaborator, and his pain over it, have been a major theme in the episode.

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Image:Tyrol Cylon.jpg|[[Galen Tyrol]]
Image:Anders_Cylon.jpg|[[Samuel Anders]]
Image:Tighlon.jpg|[[Saul Tigh]]
Image:Tory Cylon.JPG|[[Tory Foster]]
</gallery>

===Connections between the Colonial gods and Cylon god===
*The Temple of Five was built over 4,000 years prior to the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]], long before the Cylons existed. The [[Thirteenth Tribe (RDM)|Thirteenth Tribe]] would, logically, have no knowledge of these automatons in the strictest sense. However, the Thirteenth Tribe has significant prophetic insight, as shown in the works of [[Pythia]]. According to Colonial scriptures, "Five pillars of the temple were fashioned after the five priests devoted to the one whose name cannot be spoken". This may have been another Lord of Kobol, given that on a deleted scene [[Elosha]] noted that the fall of [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]] and its civilization was due in part to a "jealous god".

*On [[New Caprica]], D'Anna/Three meets [[Dodona Selloi]], a human [[oracle]], who relays a message from Three's God, despite the oracle's association with the Lords of Kobol.

*With this information, there is a strong, but unexplained correlation or connection with the the Cylon God and the Lords of Kobol.

===The Eye of Jupiter and Kara Thrace===
*The Eye of Jupiter storyline introduced an association between Kara Thrace, a human that "doodled" a circular image as a child with no prior derivation (her old apartment on [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]] has a painting of the image from the episode, "[[Valley of Darkness]]"), and the mandalas or icons of the eye that decorated a temple built 4,000 years before her birth. No further information is revealed other than the prophecy from [[Leoben Conoy]], who told Thrace of an unexplained "destiny" ([[Flesh and Bone]]).

===Illusion or Truth===
*The Threes hunt for and see visions of the Five, which leads to the other Cylons themselves [[boxing]] the entire line of Threes after her discovery, but whether this is done to suppress the notion or actual information of the final five or to relieve the other Cylons of an aberrant model is unclear.

*Later, in dream visions of the [[Opera House]] shared by [[Laura Roslin]], [[Sharon Agathon]] and [[Caprica Six]], the same 5 glowing figures seen by Three appear, along with the same chamber with six drapes, this time empty. Six sees them for a more prolonged period in a second vision.

*As the Temple of Five was apparently built for human usage, the Temple may have only allowed the transitional visions that the Threes see to be more persistent and clear. It may never be revealed what Baltar (or another human) would have seen. While Baltar believed Three and actively participated in her quest, both his virtual Six and a [[Hybrid]] noted that he, not D'Anna/Three, was intended to use the Temple's imaging mechanism as the "chosen one". The human association and significance of the five priests, the god they worshiped, and their connections with the Cylons, Kara Thrace and Baltar are not yet explained.

==Notes==
* The podcast for "[[Rapture]]" confirms that the Final Five Cylons have not been [[boxing|boxed]]<ref>{{cite_rdm_podcast|episode=Rapture|act=4|id=firstboxing|timestamp=41:47|totalrunning=}}</ref>.
* During a Q&A session on the official Sci Fi channel Battlestar Galactica forum Ronald D. Moore notes that he already knows who the last Cylon is, and that he's already left clues as to who it is<ref>[http://forums.scifi.com/index.php?showtopic=2270103&st=0&p=3041263&#entry3041263 20 Answers - SCI FI FORUMS] Retrieved 03-27-2007</ref>.

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Talk:Hybrid utterances/Archive 1

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Vorik111: expanding my reasoning

===The Chosen One===
I was thinking that "[[The Chosen One]]" referred to in this instance is [[Chief Tyrol]]. The Hybrid says "the five lights of the apocalypse rising struggling towards the light, the sins revealedonly to those who enter the temple only to the chosen one", and since Baltar was not present during the revelation of a few of the [[Final Five]] at the end of the [[Crossroads, Part II|Season 2 Finale]] when [[Tigh]], Tyrol, [[Anders]] and [[Tory Foster|Foster]] converged in the gym.

Should a page be made to describe The Chosen One, which will then be fleshed out when more is revealed? Since its never stated that the Chosen One is a Cylon, but it is implied that it is [[Baltar]] by the Hybrid's deliberate focus, it is certainly speculation that Tyrol could be The Chosen One, which would argue against his inclusion in such an article until canonized. Still, I'm unsure if a Chosen One page would be considered speculation, and I was unsure what to actually include in a The Chosen One page, this early in the revelation. -- [[User:Vorik111|Vorik111]] 18:49, 12 July 2007 (CDT)

Talk:Hybrid utterances/Archive 1

2007-07-12T23:49:20Z

Vorik111: A page for the Chosen One?

I was thinking that "[[The Chosen One]]" referred to in this instance is [[Chief Tyrol]]. Should a page be made to describe The Chosen One, which will then be fleshed out when more is revealed? Since its never stated that the Chosen One is a Cylon, but it is implied that it is [[Baltar]] by the Hybrid's deliberate focus, it is certainly speculation that Tyrol could be The Chosen One, which would argue against his inclusion in such an article until canonized. Still, I'm unsure if a Chosen One page would be considered speculation. -- [[User:Vorik111|Vorik111]] 18:49, 12 July 2007 (CDT)

User talk:Vorik111

2007-07-12T21:21:49Z

Vorik111: page creation

Hi!