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Zoe Graystone

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{{Character Data
|photo= Zoe-A.jpg
|age= 16 (at time of death)
|colony= {{RDM|Caprica}}
|nickname=Zo
|seen= Caprica (series)
|pseen= Caprica pilot
|death= Killed in suicide bombing {{CAP|Pilot}}
|parents= [[Daniel Graystone]] <br>[[Amanda Graystone]]
|siblings=
|children=
|marital status=Dated [[Ben Stark]] † while alive, dated [[Philomon]] in the [[virtual world]]
|role= Creator of the [[resurrection program]], first [[Cylon (RDM)|Cylon]] consciousness in the Twelve Colonies.
|rank=
|actor= [[Alessandra Torresani]]<br>[[Olivia Steele Falconer]] (as child)
|cylon=
|sortkey=Graystone, Zoe
|archives=zoe-graystone|photo 2=Caprica - Things We Lock Away - Young Zoe Graystone.jpg|caption 2=A flashback of Zoe as a child {{CAP|Things We Lock Away}}.}}
'''Zoe Graystone''' was the daughter of [[Daniel Graystone|Daniel]] and [[Amanda Graystone]], killed during an act of terrorism by the [[Soldiers of the One]]. Zoe's consciousness is downloaded into a [[virtual world|virtual]] [[avatar]] and later implanted into the [[U-87 Cyber Combat Unit]], making her the first sentient [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]], '''Zoe-A''' and '''Zoe-R'''.

==Early Life==
[[File:Zoe Alessandra.jpg|thumb|Zoe Graystone as a vital teenager.]]
Though she was loved by her parents, Zoe was an accident, conceived while the Graystones were busy building their careers. Following her birth, Zoe's mother Amanda Graystone suffered from [[Wikipedia: Postpartum depression|postpartum depression]] {{CAP|False Labor}}.

:''This version of events may not have been entirely accurate as they were told to [[Mar-Beth Willow]] by Amanda Graystone, who later admitted she lied to Mar-Beth.

At the age of six, Zoe was trapped in her bedroom when a devastating fire swept through the Graystones' first home on {{RDM|Caprica}}. With her father unable to reach her, Zoe survived with the assistance of a [[messengers|vision]] of herself as a teenager. Though she came away from the fire unscathed, Zoe never got over the incident, living with a fear of fire into young adulthood {{CAP|Ghosts in the Machine|Things We Lock Away}}.

Zoe later fondly remembered growing up in the Graystones' first home and recalled planting a garden there {{CAP|Know Thy Enemy}}. At some point during her childhood, she became an avid reader of ''[[Dragon Fighters of Kobol]]'', a fantasy book {{CAP|Here Be Dragons}}.

===Adolescence===
As Zoe grew up, her relationship with her mother was strained. Attributing her daughter's often rude and rebellious nature to the unhappy pregnancy, Amanda Graystone believed that her daughter hated her. She later described Zoe as "angry, defiant, rude, vulgar, obnoxious, unreasonable - just your typical 16 year old girl" {{CAP|Pilot (Caprica)|Retribution}}.

[[File:Zoe holoband, 1x01.jpg|thumb|left|Zoe caught wearing her holoband at school.]]

Attending high school at [[Athena Academy]] in [[Caprica City]], Zoe was extremely proficient in computer programming to the point of being considered a genius. Still, she ran into trouble at school; at least once being caught and disciplined for using her [[holoband]] at school. Among her, extracurricular activities were cello and frequent visits to the [[virtual world]] where she visited group sex rooms in the "[[V-Club]]" {{CAP|Pilot (Caprica)|Rebirth}}.

Zoe was schooled in the teachings of the [[Religion in the Twelve Colonies (RDM)#The Lords of Kobol|Goddess]] [[Athena, Lord of Kobol|Athena]]. Despite her polytheistic upbringing, Zoe came to believe in a singular [[God (RDM)|God]], telling her best friend, [[Lacy Rand]], "There is a right and there is a wrong. But only through the One true God can we know the difference." With her boyfriend, [[Ben Stark]], Zoe persuaded Lacy to join a secret monotheist prayer group, though she kept her activities with the [[Soldiers of the One]] terror group secret {{CAP|Pilot (Caprica)}}.

==Zoe-A==
[[File:Zoe-A first appears, 1x13.jpg|thumb|Zoe-A first interacts with her creator, Zoe Graystone.]]
The virtual version of Zoe was created by Zoe Graystone herself using hacked rudimentary emulation software capable of duplicating her own V-World avatar. Graystone programmed the copy - a perfect copy - with roughly 100 terabytes of personal information from other databases. This allowed the avatar to access and translate information from medical scans, DNA profiles, psychological evaluations, school records, emails, video and audio recordings, CAT scans, genetic typing, synaptic records, security cameras, test results, shopping records, talent shows, ballgames, traffic tickets, restaurant bills, phone records, music lists, movie tickets, TV shows and "even prescriptions for birth control" - essentially turning raw data into personality and memory {{CAP|Pilot (Caprica)}}.

===Life's A Good Start===
Zoe initially conceived of the avatar program after seeing her father's designs for the [[U-87 Cyber Combat Unit]] chassis. Interacting with an [[Messengers|illusory]] version of herself, Zoe realized that she could do more than create a robot body - that she could create life itself. Working from her father's workstation in his [[Graystone Estate|home]] lab, Zoe created the avatar, at first a semi-sentient being, barely aware of its own ability to speak or its own separate identity from the flesh and blood Zoe {{CAP|Things We Lock Away}}.

[[File:Zoe and Zoe-A, 1x01.jpg|thumb|left|Zoe Graystone and her avatar in V-World.]]

Eventually, Zoe brought her discovery to Sister [[Clarice Willow]], headmistress of [[Athena Academy]] and closet monotheist, who encouraged Zoe to continue her work - ultimately inspiring Clarice's own notion of [[apotheosis]] {{CAP|Unvanquished}}.

The avatar was soon programmed with a bio-feedback protocol to ostensibly allow it to respond to stimuli in real time as the physical Zoe Graystone experienced it. Despite the achievement, the avatar showed difficulty maintaining resolution, sometimes derezzing back to earlier copies in times of stress {{CAP|Pilot (Caprica)}}.

Graystone worked with her boyfriend, fellow STO member Ben Stark, to build a private space within the V-Club to house Zoe-A, loosely resembling a monotheist temple on [[Gemenon]] {{CAP|Rebirth|Unvanquished}}.

Placing the finishing touches on the avatar program, Zoe and Ben prepared to leave for Gemenon; telling Lacy Rand only that there would be a "new family" waiting for them there {{CAP|Pilot (Caprica)|Reins of a Waterfall}}.

:''The details of Zoe's plan were never fully revealed, however deleted scenes from the pilot episode show that Sister Clarice actively pushed Zoe to leave Caprica for Gemenon, pointing to her recent bad behavior as hesitance to complete the mission.

As they boarded the [[Metropolitan Levitation Mass Transit|MLMT]] train bound for the [[Caprica Interplanetary Spaceport|Caprican Spaceport]], Lacy backed out, leaving Zoe and Ben on their own. Having recently argued with her mother, Zoe used her [[computer sheet]] to send a conciliatory message aboard the train. However, that message was never received as Ben Stark detonated a bomb in the name of the "One True God", destroying the Lev and killing everybody aboard {{CAP|Pilot (Caprica)}}.

===Life After Death===
[[File:Caprica - Pilot - Zoe-A after Zoe's Death.png|thumb|[[Zoe-A]] experiences the real Zoe's death {{CAP|Pilot (Caprica)}}.]]
In the wake of the bombing and the resulting death of Zoe Graystone, the Zoe-A program continues to run in the virtual world. Upon being discovered by [[Lacy Rand]] still functioning within the V-Club, Zoe-A briefly appears covered in blood, fully aware of the bombing and death of Zoe Graystone. Despite initial reservations, Rand comes to treat the holographic version of Zoe as the real thing and introduces her to Zoe's real-world father, wealthy technologist [[Daniel Graystone]] {{CAP|Pilot (Caprica)}}.

At first appalled by the copy of his daughter, Daniel Graystone sees the Zoe avatar as an opportunity to bring his daughter back from the grave. Capturing the avatar's code, Graystone transfers the program to a personal virtual space for analysis. Later transferring the avatar program to the revolutionary [[Meta-cognitive processor|Meta-cognitive Processor]], a device stolen from the [[Vergis Corporation]] of [[Tauron]], Graystone attempts to implant Zoe-A's consciousness into one of [[Graystone Industries]]' [[U-87 Cyber Combat Unit|U-87]] battle robots, giving the avatar a physical body in the real world {{CAP|Pilot (Caprica)|Know Thy Enemy}}.

At first the experiment seems successful, with the robot taking several steps toward Graystone and speaking a single word - "Daddy" - but the [[datastream]] quickly and inexplicably destabilizes, appearing to Graystone as a catastrophic data loss {{CAP|Pilot (Caprica)}}.

Soon afterward, stored at Graystone Industries labs in [[Caprica City]], the robot containing the Meta-cognitive Processor reactivated with the avatar's consciousness left intact {{CAP|Pilot (Caprica)}}.

==Zoe-R==
[[File:Zoe awakens, 1x01.jpg|thumb|left|Zoe awakens as the U-87.]]

Awakening at Graystone Industries, Zoe-A as the prototype "Cylon" (Cybernetic Lifeform Node) becames the subject of much attention from Doctor [[Cyrus Xander]] and lab assistants [[Philomon]] and [[Drew Tanner]]. Despite the company's attempts at placing duplicate MCP chips into other U-87 robot chassis, the other robots fail to function properly. Unbeknown to the team at Graystone Industries, the Zoe avatar program had bonded to both the original MCP chip and prototype U-87 body, creating a sentient being in the fusion of technologies. Where the U-87s previously failed to prove themselves as capable battle robots, the prototype body containing Zoe-A proves to be an efficient war machine {{CAP|Caprica (pilot)|Rebirth|Unvanquished}}.

Frustrated by his company's failure to perfect the Cylon technology and faced with a deadline to produce 100,000 combat units for the Caprican Government, Daniel Graystone has the Zoe robot transferred to his home lab for further study. As she is moved back into her old home, Zoe attempts to break free, but is subdued by Philomon and carted in her father's lab where she accidentally injures Drew. Zoe later recalled unease over being touched by the lab assistants: "One guy touched me, and I hurt him" {{CAP|Rebirth}}.

[[File: Lacy and Zoe-R, 1x02.jpg|thumb|Lacy and Zoe in her robot guise reunite.]]

Back in her old home, Zoe-R is able to reconnect with Lacy Rand. Zoe is also able to access her father's home computer, creating a wireless link to a [[holoband]] which allows her to transfer her avatar from her robot body to the virtual world at will. Exploring her father's virtual space with Lacy Rand, Zoe stumbles upon another hacked avatar: that of [[Tamara Adams]], a young girl also killed in the MagLev bombing CAP|Rebirth|Reins of a Waterfall}}.

:''A deleted scene from "Reins of a Waterfall" showed Zoe working with [[Serge]] to establish the link to the virtual world after being unable to fit a holoband over the robot's head. In that scene, Serge recognized the robot as Zoe, who ordered him not to acknowledge her by name.

===First of a New Race===
In her Cylon body, Zoe struggles to maintain some semblance of a normal existence. Savoring the fleeting moments she is allowed by existing in her holographic "skin" in the virtual world (and indulging in simple comforts like virtual food), Zoe's life is dominated by existence as an experimental battle robot. Much of her time is spent being handled by the scientists at Graystone Industries as well as being scrutinized and studied by her father. Upon seeing the Zoe robot in Daniel's home lab, Amanda Graystone unknowingly refers to her daughter as a "monster", believing that Zoe would never have approved of "[[frak]]king killer robots" in her home {{CAP|Rebirth|Reins of a Waterfall|Ghosts in the Machine}}.

[[File:CylonPrototype.jpg|thumb|left|Zoe on display at Graystone Industries.]]

Aside from the indignities of life as a robot - including being forced to watch her parents engage in sexual intercourse - Zoe also experiences difficulty controlling her own body. When ordered to perform specific tasks, Zoe is unable to disobey in her robot guise. Presented in front of the Board of Directors at Graystone Industries - and introduced as a new life form to be exploited by the citizens of Caprica - Zoe is forced to rip off her own arm in a demonstration of the Cylons' willingness to comply to human orders {{CAP|Reins of a Waterfall|There is Another Sky}}.

In these experiences, however, Zoe becomes close with Philomon, a Graystone Industries lab assistant tasked with repairing her. Intuitively referring to Zoe in the feminine - despite her generally male appearance - Philomon treats the robot Zoe with reverence, bordering on romantic interest. Setting a test of the U-87's motor functions to music, Philomon allows Zoe to dance - a moment of near normalcy for the adolescent girl {{CAP|Rebirth|Know Thy Enemy|Gravedancing}}.

===Escape to Gemenon===
With little knowledge of the original Zoe Graystone's ultimate plan for her avatar, the virtual/robotic version of Zoe knows only that she was to be transported to [[Gemenon]] where she would help in the effort to spread [[God (RDM)|monotheism]] to the Tweleve Colonies. Fearing Sister Clarice could not be trusted, Zoe enlists Lacy Rand to join a rival Soldiers of the One cell led by [[Barnabas Greeley]] to get her to Gemenon and fulfill original Zoe's plan {{CAP|Gravedancing|Know Thy Enemy}}.

As Lacy secures passage for the "package," Zoe seeks to use her connection with Philomon to her advantage. Modifying her avatar to pose as "{{inlineref|Rachel}}," Zoe contacts Philomon through the personals website "[[V-Match]]" and arranges to meet him in the V-Club. There Zoe as Rachel initiates a romantic relationship with Philomon, explaining that she used Zoe Graystone's physical parameters to represent her in the virtual world. Over the course of several dates, including a [[Caprican Viper|Viper]] flight simulation, Zoe is able to get Philomon to reveal his work with top secret robotics and attempts to persuade him to release the robot from confinement, telling him to give it "fresh air." However, Zoe unwittingly leads Philomon to a revelation about the problems Graystone Industries had been having with the [[MCP]] and [[U-87]] {{CAP|The Imperfections of Memory}}.

[[File:Zoe shoots Ceasar, 1x08.jpg|thumb|Zoe shoots Caesar.]]

In the real world, Philomon explains his theory to Daniel Graystone who quickly comes to realize that Zoe's avatar is still inside the U-87. Determined to draw his daughter out of the robot, Graystone launches into a series of tests, attempting to elicit a response that will prove Zoe's consciousness is still within the Cylon prototype. Putting the robot through its paces and subjecting Zoe to mind games, Daniel ultimately places a gun in the robot's hand and orders it to shoot Zoe's childhood dog, [[Caesar]]. Detecting a slight difference in weight in the weapon, Zoe realizes the gun is loaded with blanks and fires on the dog. Convinced that his daughter would never try to shoot her own pet, Graystone resigns himself to believing that Zoe's avatar is gone for good {{CAP|The Imperfections of Memory|Ghosts in the Machine}}.

===End of Line===
[[File:U-87 behind the wheel, 1x09.jpg|thumb|Zoe-R escapes from Graystone labs.]]
To withstand her father's psychological assault, Zoe vows to become one with the robot body she inhabits, hardening herself against a man and a world she feels betrayed by. Faced with a shortened deadline for the production of battle robots, Daniel orders Philomon to erase the data on the MCP, an act that will delete Zoe's avatar. With little time to escape deletion and permanent death, Zoe urges Lacy to hasten her departure to Gemenon by posing as Rachel, sneaking into Graystone labs, incapacitating Philomon and freeing the U-87. As the deadline approaches and Lacy fails to come through, Zoe reveals herself to Philomon as both "Rachel" and Zoe Graystone in the robot body. Incensed, Philomon triggers a security alert forcing Zoe to attack and kill him. Stealing a Graystone Industries van, Zoe breaks out of the lab and escapes into the outskirts of Caprica City. {{CAP|End of Line}}

Pursued by Caprican authorities, Zoe is forced to drive her van into a barricade, causing an explosion that destroys the U-87 body {{CAP|End of Line|Unvanquished}}.

==Avatar Again==
Following the destruction of the U-87 chassis, the MCP containing Zoe's avatar fails to reboot, allowing Graystone Industries to successfully copy it and begin production of the Defense Department's Cylons. With the robot beyond repair, the U-87 is [[boxing|boxed]] and sent to Daniel Graystone's home lab. Zoe's avatar, however, lives on, finding herself once again living in the virtual world {{CAP|Unvanquished}}.

===New Cap City===
[[File:Zoe as a Deadwalker, 1x10.jpg|thumb|Zoe as a Dead Walker.]]
Appearing in [[New Cap City]], Zoe - called a "Deadwalker" by its inhabitants - battles several players branded with a unique symbol, that of the other Deadwalker, Tamara Adams {{CAP|Unvanquished}}.

Tracking this Deadwalker to the ruined, New Cap City version of [[Atlas Arena]], Zoe battles Tamara in a brutal, but ultimately pointless fight. Tamara, blames the Zoe avatar for the bombing that killed her real life counterpart as well as her mother, and unleashes angry New Cap City users against her. Enduring a bloody assault, Zoe survives the ordeal - taking solace from the reappearance of the original Zoe's angelic counterpart. Finally, Tamara and Zoe battle one on one, both withstanding horrible injuries. Ultimately, however, Zoe is able to convince Tamara that she is not the ''original'' Zoe, nor the bomber, and that together they can fulfill a greater destiny in New Cap City {{CAP|Things We Lock Away}}.

===Avenging Angels===
[[File:Avenging Angels.jpg|thumb|The Avenging Angels phenomenon appearing on CAP2 TV.]]
Acknowledging it as a breeding ground of moral decay and corruption, Zoe and Tamara take it upon themselves to "clean" New Cap City. Appearing nightly at the den of iniquity called "Sinny McNutt's Slash & Cut," Zoe and Tamara engage in combat with its patrons, opening fire on those who are unwilling to leave and derezzing them from the game. The notion of encountering the girls at the bar is a draw to users hoping to either kill them or be killed by them - either way becoming famous. Among the users the Deadwalkers derez are [[Olaf Willow|Olaf]] and [[Nestor Willow]] who - despite their work with Clarice Willow on Apotheosis - believe the Zoe avatar is simply an anonymous user "playing dress up" {{CAP|The Dirteaters}}.

Indeed, the prevailing belief in the real world is that the Zoe avatar is simply a fake and the notion of Zoe and Tamara as "Avenging Angels" spreads into popular culture. As T-shirts spread throughout Caprica City bearing the likenesses of Zoe and Tamara, Daniel Graystone becomes aware of the phenomenon and suspects that it is in fact the real Zoe. Entering V-World and finding the girls at the Slash & Cut bar, Daniel is spotted by Zoe and Tamara who quickly flee {{CAP|The Dirteaters}}.

Afraid of being captured by Daniel, Tamara suggests they leave New Cap City for other parts of V-World. Zoe, however, rejects this idea, saying that the two had become gods there. Vowing to "forsake these [[frak|motherfrakkers]]," Zoe and Tamara use their ability to control code to destroy and reconfigure the urban setting, turning New Cap City into a fortress upon a mountain, surrounded by dense forest - a place to hide {{CAP|The Dirteaters|Here Be Dragons}}.

===The Fortress===
[[File:Zoe and Tamara in their fortress, 1x16.jpg|thumb|left|"Let them come."]]
Completing their fortress, Zoe and Tamara's solitude in the new New Cap City is shortlived. Tracking Zoe's avatar through backdoor access to the virutal world, Daniel Graystone is able to locate his daughter and capture Tamara. Holding Tammy in his private virtual space, Graystone attempts to give her a message to relay to Zoe. Zoe, however, enters the private space and attacks her father, stabbing him in the chest and derezzing him. Locked out of the game, Graystone has no other choice but to enter V-World through the "front door", taking his wife, Amanda and Tamara's uncle [[Sam Adama]] with him {{CAP|The Heavens Will Rise}}.

Aware of their entry into the reconfigured New Cap City, Zoe transforms her parents' virtual horses into monsters from her favorite childhood book, ''Dragonfighters of Kobol'', attempting to drive them out of the simulation. Undeterred even after losing Sam Adama, the Graystones push on, finally encountering their daughter in the virtual forest. Rather than trying to force Zoe to go with them, Amanda Graystone tearfully reunites with her daughter and ''invites'' her home, telling Zoe that she's welcome to return to the virtual version of their home any time she wants {{CAP|Here Be Dragons}}.

===Zoe-R Returns===
[[File:Zoe-R returns, 1x17.jpg|thumb|Zoe returns to her robotic body.]]

Transferring her program back into the U-87 body being repaired in her father's home lab, Zoe discovers her parents held hostage by Clarice Willow and her spouses. Stepping in to defend the Graystones, Zoe uses her detached robotic arm to club Nestor Willow to death before chasing Clarice and Olaf out of the Graystones' home. With the robot incapacitated, Zoe transfers herself into the virtual version of her family home and agrees to work with her father on the creation of a more appropriate robotic body, one with a more humanoid appearance and skin - a "[[skin job]]" {{CAP|Here Be Dragons}}.

===Apotheosis===
[[File:Zoe destroys V-Heaven, 1x18.jpg|left|thumb|Zoe destroys Clarice's virtual heaven.]]
Immediately following the break in, STO operative and director of the [[Global Defense Department]] [[Gara Singh]] uses his authority within the Caprican government to storm the Graystone residence, accusing Daniel and Amanda Graystone of planning the MLMT bombing their daughter allegedly carried out. Alone in the virtual version of the Graystones' house, Zoe is cut off from her parents who are now on the run from the authorities. Viewing [[CapTV|CAP News]] coverage depicting the Graystones as wanted terrorists, Zoe realizes Clarice Willow must be involved and infiltrates Clarice's "Virtual Heaven" as the apotheosis begins {{CAP|Apotheosis (episode)}}.

Seeing STO suicide bombers resurrected within the V-world simulation, Zoe begins to understand her purpose: stop Clarice Willow. Having experienced the debauchery of the V-Club and New Cap City, Zoe argues with Clarice, telling her that a guaranteed virtual afterlife would result in the same kind of moral corruption, this time in the real world. Demonstrating her power to control the virtual world and declaring herself "[[God (RDM)|God]]," Zoe destroys Clarice's virtual heaven, terminating the avatars of Willow's STO cell, including the avatar of her recently deceased husband, Olaf Willow, and forcing Clarice to withdraw to the real world {{CAP|Apotheosis (episode)}}.

==The Shape of Things to Come==
[[File:Zoe reborn, 1x18.jpg|thumb|Zoe reborn in her "skinjob" body.]]
In the aftermath of the destruction of virtual heaven and the [[Battle of Atlas Arena|battle]] at [[Atlas Arena]], Daniel and Amanda Graystone are cleared of the charges leveled against them, devoting their attention and resources to the development of Zoe's "skin job." As Cylons became commonplace in the Twelve Colonies, Daniel Graystone utilizes his expertise in robotics and Amanda her experience in plastic surgery to construct a robotic body, composed of a mechanical skeletal structure with human-looking skin and hair. The body is activated in Daniel's private lab - a perfect, robotic copy of the Graystones' daughter and the true rebirth of Zoe Graystone into the physical world {{CAP|Apotheosis (episode)}}.

Though she no longer inhabits the U-87 chassis, hints of Zoe's avatar remain on the MCP chip which is duplicated and placed into hundreds of thousands of Cylons produced by Graystone Industries. One such Cylon - a U-87 sold on the [[black market]] to the STO on Gemenon - remains at the Monotheist retreat with Lacy Rand, having taken part in the overthrow of the [[Monotheist Church|church]]. This U-87 - distinguished by red markings on its chest plating - stays with Lacy as she carries out her duties as the head of the Monotheist Church and the new [[Mother|Holy Mother]] {{CAP|The Heavens Will Rise|Here Be Dragons|Apotheosis (episode)}}.

[[File:Zoe in the Congregation, 1x18.jpg|thumb|Zoe-A appears in Clarice's virtual Cylon congregation.]]

:''With the cancellation of ''[[Caprica_(series)|Caprica]]'', it is unclear the extent to which Zoe's personality, traits or beliefs were disseminated to the other Cylons produced by Graystone Industries. It is possible, considering the revelation in "[[No Exit]]" that the Centurions believed in a singular god during the First Cylon War, that Zoe's monotheism - as well as her disdain for the moral corruption on Caprica - was the genesis of the [[Cylon Religion]] and a cause of the ultimate Cylon rebellion.

Delivering a sermon in V-world to a congregation of various Cylon models, Clarice Willow prophesies that a single individual will be instrumental in the inevitable conflict between humanity and the Cylons. Among avatars of U-87s, Cylon servants and Cylon laborers, Zoe-A sits among the congregation and smiles {{CAP|Apotheosis (episode)}}.

:''According to executive producer [[Kevin Murphy]]'s audio commentary for the episodes "Unvanquished" and "Apotheosis", Zoe's journey to becoming a skin job in the period leading up to the flash forward would have been depicted if ''Caprica'' had been given a second season. In that five-year period, Zoe would have encountered the [[Final Five]] - on their way to the Twelve Colonies following the destruction of [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]] by their own [[Earth Cylon Centurion|version]] of the Cylons - in the virtual world. There, the Final Five would have assisted Zoe in the creation of her humanoid robotic body. Also according to Murphy, Zoe would have joined the Caprican Legionnaires, working under the command of [[Jordan Duram]] to eradicate the Cylon threat before the inevitable uprising. [http://dvd.ign.com/articles/114/1140870p1.html]

==Notes==
* The "Zoe-A" and "Zoe-R" monikers come from the pilot script for ''Caprica''. [http://thetvaddict.com/2008/04/23/the-tv-addict-previews-battlestar-galactica-prequel-caprica/] The character was portrayed by Alessandra Torresani with the actress playing the avatar version of Zoe, the living Zoe Graystone, as well as the robot version. For scenes involving Torresani as the U-87 Cylon, the actress was intercut with a computer-generated version of the robot. A physical model of the U-87 was also constructed. [http://www.flickr.com/photos/worldofhiglet/4305737892/] The producers worked out a system by which they would indicate the presence of Zoe within the U-87 body, first establishing the robot, then cutting to or transitioning to Zoe as played by Torresani. [http://drexfiles.wordpress.com/2009/10/11/the-u-87-keeping-it-real/]

* In the [[Caprica (pilot)|''Caprica'' pilot]], Zoe-A can be identified by a green hairband that the avatar wears, as otherwise the avatar wears the same purple ornate one-piece dress that her creator does.

*According to showrunner [[Kevin Murphy]] in audio commentaries, Zoe's transition to a skin job form was necessitated by the show's budgetary limitations, unable to sustain the cost of depicting Zoe in either her robot form or the virtual world.

*Of Zoe's appearance in Sister Clarice's V-world congregation of Cylons in the final moments of the series finale, "Apotheosis", Murphy said he had no idea why Zoe was present.

*Murphy and [[Jane Espenson]] have stated that one of various ideas for the future of ''Caprica'' discussed, but not finalized, by the writing staff was that Zoe became the archetype for the [[Number Six]] model of [[humanoid Cylon]].<ref>{{archivelink|live=No|url=http://www.capricatimes.com/the-caprica-times-exclusive-interview-kevin-murphy|title=''The Caprica Times'' Exclusive Interview: Kevin Murphy}}</ref><ref>[http://twitter.com/#!/JaneEspenson/status/66023637202903040 Tweet by Jane Espenson]</ref>

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: ''Chaos is rampant as paramedics try to save Commander [[William Adama|Adama]]'s life after [[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II|he is shot]], and ''[[Galactica (TRS)|Galactica]]'' is accidentally separated from the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]].''

: '''''Note''': This is part one of a two-part episode. Part two is "[[Valley of Darkness]]".''

== Summary ==
=== Teaser ===
* Moments after [[William Adama|Commander Adama]] is shot by [[Sharon Valerii|Boomer]], [[Lee Adama|Captain Adama]] yells out for Doctor [[Cottle]]. Since he is not on board, [[Anastasia Dualla|Dualla]] searches for him throughout the rest of the fleet.
* Medics arrive and take Adama to sickbay. Meanwhile, Boomer wonders what has happened, and in response, [[Saul Tigh|Tigh]] has the [[Marine]]s take her to the brig.
* Also, Tigh has brief flashbacks back to the time when he first meets Adama.
* [[Felix Gaeta|Gaeta]] then detects a [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]] on [[DRADIS]], preparing to ambush [[The Fleet (RDM)|the fleet]]. Dualla locates Cottle on board the ''[[Rising Star (RDM)|Rising Star]]''; however, he cannot be shuttled to ''Galactica'' as Tigh is forced to order the fleet to make an [[Emergency jump coordinates|emergency]] [[FTL]] jump to escape the Cylons. When asked about the survivors on the surface of {{RDM|Kobol}}, Tigh replies by saying that the people down there will have to wait.
* Meanwhile, Apollo is taken to the brig alongside [[Laura Roslin|President Roslin]] who is given news that Adama has been shot. Apollo asks [[Venner|Corporal Venner]] to remove his cuffs, but is denied.
* After the rest of the ships in the fleet have escaped, ''Galactica'' performs its own jump to safety; however, when Gaeta reads DRADIS there are no other ships nearby. They have somehow lost the fleet, and are stranded in space, alone.

=== Act 1 ===
* [[Gaius Baltar]] and [[Number Six]] are inside the [[Opera house]] where they look down at their child. Baltar wonders if the baby is metaphorical, but Six tells him that the baby is real and she is the mother and Gaius the father. The child may not be born yet, but will soon be. Six then asks Gaius if he wishes to hold her. Hesitantly, he agrees and moves to do so when he wakes realizing it was just a dream and mutters "am I the father?"
* Baltar and the rest of crew of [[Raptor 1]] are still on the surface of Kobol, near the ruins of the city. [[Diana Seelix|Seelix]] is giving the injured [[Socinus]] some [[serisone]] to help him breathe and [[Cally]] presses Baltar to carry something along with the others when they make their way to the tree line and await rescue.
* While checking the supplies, the team hears a sonic boom, and realize that a [[Cylon (RDM)|Cylon]] ship has entered the planet's atmosphere and they must find cover immediately. Although [[Galen Tyrol|Chief Tyrol]] feels they have enough time to ensure they have all of the needed supplies before moving out, {{callsign|Crashdown}} overrides him and leads the group to hide among the trees.
* On ''[[Galactica (TRS)|Galactica]]'', Tigh changes his blood-soaked clothes while [[Ellen Tigh|Ellen]] asks what happened to the fleet. Tigh explains that every watch they update their emergency jump calculations with new star fixes to compensate for inertial drift, and then transmit them to the rest of the fleet. This time. however, ''Galactica'''s updated theirs, but neglected to transmit them to the other ships. When he mentions it was [[Gaeta]] who forgot to send the updates, Ellen is quick to attack him, but Tigh counters that it wasn't "the kid's fault".
* Ellen then tells him that now he is the one in charge of the fleet to which Tigh responds that it is not his command, no matter how much Ellen wants him to be.
* Later upon entering the [[CIC]] Tigh tells the crew in that Adama is still the commander, and will be until the day he dies, and they will not let him die. After everyone resumes their duties he turns to Gaeta and [[Aaron Kelly|Kelly]], who have come up with an idea on how to locate the rest of the fleet. If they jump back to their original coordinates, their navigation computers can use the star fixes to generate a best fit solution for the fleet's current location. However, it will take 12 hours to locate the fleet, and with a basestar in the area, they won't be able to survive long enough to jump again.
* In the brig, Apollo and Roslin talk about wanting the ship to return to their jump point, since Starbuck will have no way of locating the fleet, should she return with the [[Arrow of Apollo]]. Roslin apologizes to Apollo for making him go against his own father but he forestalls her by implying he did it for his own ideals which amounted to nothing.
* On Kobol, the survivors have made their way into the trees and Baltar sees a baby cot as they walk further in.
* The team decides to stop and Seelix looks for some more serisone. Tyrol asks Socinus how he is doing to which he replies that he can hear birds, something they have not heard for a while.
* Seelix is unable to find the second med kit which contains the needed serisone. Crashdown blames [[Tarn]] for not bringing it and orders him to retrieve it alone; however, the Chief and Cally are able to convince Crashdown that they should go with Tarn as backup. The three then head back to the Raptor crash site.
* On {{RDM|Caprica}}, in the [[Delphi Museum of the Colonies]], [[Kara Thrace]] and {{callsign|Karl Agathon}} look over the body of the dead Six. [[Sharon Agathon|Sharon]] then warns them that they need to leave, as the Six will [[download]] into another body and reveal their location to the other Cylons.
* Starbuck is annoyed that they are to listening to a Cylon though Helo counters that Sharon has gotten him this far. Sharon also tries to convince Starbuck by reciting a memory she has of her.
* Starbuck reacts by pulling out her gun and pointing it a her. Helo tries to stop her from shooting but Starbuck doesn't listen and pulls the trigger her shot missing when Helo pushes her arm and then revealing Sharon is carrying his child.
* Starbuck is upset at Helo for falling for a machine and they begin to argue until they hear a noise. They rush outside just in time to see the [[Raider (RDM)|Raider]] Starbuck arrived in flying off. The scene ends with Starbuck exclaiming "bitch took my ride."

=== Act 2 ===
* Tigh visits the sickbay, and he has another flashback of himself and Adama in a bar during which Adama tells him that he is going back to the fleet.
* Tigh subsequently talks to [[Layne Ishay]], who tells him that Adama has lost a lot of blood, and the bullets have damaged his spleen. She feels unequal to the task being only a medic and wants Dr Cottle to operate. Tigh informs her that he is not available and she will need to perform the role of a doctor in order to save Adama.
[[File:201 02.jpg|thumb|Tigh brutalizes Valerii during her interrogation.]]
* After leaving sick bay, Tigh heads to the brig where Boomer is being held to question her. He orders her to tell him how many Cylons are in the fleet and who gave the command to shoot Adama. Boomer, still in shock at what has happened is unable to answer until she finally says 'just get it over with, you frakking coward."
* Angered by her reply, Tigh beats her, and orders one of the Marines to give him a sidearm so that he can shoot but is stopped from doing so by a memory of a door with the number 3 on it that is about to be opened.
* On Kobol Tyrol, Cally and Tarn return to the Raptor crash site, find the missing medkit. and make their way back to the rest of the team.
* As they walk, Cally and the Chief engage in some light banter when they suddenly fall under gunfire.
* Cally and Tyrol are able to take cover but Tarn is shot twice in the chest before he can do the same. Tyrol gives Cally the rifle so she can cover him while he tries to get to Tarn, who is shot once more. Tyrol manages to reach him, picks him up and moves away from the firing Cylons with Cally in tow.

=== Act 3 ===
* Once the Chief and Cally manage to evade the Cylons, they stop to check on Tarn's condition. Tyrol is reassuring him when he stops breathing and dies. The Chief is momentarily at a loss but finally takes Tarn's [[dog tag]]s, and the two continue on.
* On ''Galactica'', Dualla and Gaeta are washing up in the officer's Head where she tries to comfort him by telling him that their current situation is not really his fault. After she leaves, Gaeta becomes inspired by the arrangement of soap bars next to the sinks to build a firewall for ''Galactica'''s computers, and rushes to the CIC to present his idea to Tigh and Kelly.
* In CIC, Gaeta explains that they could calculate the fleet's location in 10 minutes if they network the ship's computers.
* Kelly objects to the idea, bringing up Commander Adama's past reluctance to networking which would make them vulnerable to a cyber-attack by the Cylons. Gaeta counters by explaining that he would devise a series of firewalls to halt the virus protecting the mainframe. Having no other good options, Tigh gives his approval for Gaeta to proceed.
* As they prepare to jump to their previous location, Tigh has another flashback. In this one Adama informs him that he is back in Colonial Military due to his [[Carolanne Adama|wife's]] connections with the [[Defense Subcommittee]]. Confident, Adama tells Tigh that he will command his own [[battlestar (RDM)|battlestar]] one day.
* Tigh decides to conditionally release Apollo so that he can resume his role as CAG, though he must return to the brig when not on duty and not attempt to free Roslin. As the Colonel is leaving the brig Roslin talks to him but he refuses to hear her.
* Back in CIC, Gaeta has networked the ship's computers and set up five firewalls to protect them. Although Gaeta is less than confident and expresses that would have liked Baltar's help, Tigh says he trusts him, and will take his work "over that shifty son of a bitch any day."
* Once everything is ready, ''Galactica'' jumps to their previous location and start the calculations. Multiple [[DRADIS]] contacts are detected: the basestar and raiders, who prepare to attack them.

=== Act 4 ===
* ''Galactica'' holds off the Cylon basestar with weapons fire, while the [[Viper Mark II|Vipers]] are launched to intercept the raiders. Those in the cockpit include Apollo, {{callsign|Kat}}, [[Flyboy]] and {{callsign|Hot Dog}}.
* One of the Raiders sends a [[Cylon computer virus|computer virus]] to ''Galactica'', which immediately tries to infect the computer systems and quickly breaches the first firewall.
* While engaging the Raiders, Apollo notices a [[Cylon Heavy Raider|strange Cylon vessel]] among them and engages it with Kat's assistance.
* While the ship is taking hits from missiles, Ishay and her team begin to operate on Adama. His heart stops beating and unable to use the defibrillator to restart it, Ishay asks for a surgical knife.
* In the brig, [[Venner|Corporal Venner]] asks for [[Laura Roslin|Roslin]] to pray with him.
* The second firewall is breached while the jump calculations are only halfway done, followed soon after by a breach of the third.
[[File:Flakfield.jpg|thumb|Apollo nears the flak field while trying to stop the Heavy Raider.]]
* Apollo nears the strange Cylon vessel, which turns around and tries to destroy Apollo's Viper. He manages to damage the ship, but it reverses course and heads directly towards ''Galactica''. Kat urges Apollo to halt pursuit, since he is getting too near ''Galactica'''s guns. Eventually, Apollo has no choice but to disengage and the Heavy Raider crashes into ''Galactica''{{'|s}} starboard flight pod.
* Ishay opens Adama's chest and performs a heart massage.
* The fourth firewall is breached leaving only one protecting the ship's computers from being overtaken by the Cylons.
* Finally, calculations are complete and Gaeta breaks the network link.
* All Vipers are ordered back to the ship and Tigh orders a jump to the fleet's calculated location.
* After the jump, Gaeta reads DRADIS, reporting several signals which turn out to all be Colonial. The calculations were correct and fleet has been found, elating the crew. Tigh is quick to order ''Rising Star'' to send Cottle over ''Galactica'' ASAP.
* In sickbay, Tigh congratulates Ishay for her work to revive Adama, and stop the bleeding. After she leaves, Tigh talks to Adama who is still unconscious, and wonders if he can hear him.
* Tigh has another flashback, involving the same "3" door seen earlier. It opens with Tigh dousing his uniform and metals in lighter fuel preparing for what appears to be self-immolation. He hears a knock on the door and after some hesitation, he answers it. Two MPs, inform him that he is back in the fleet courtesy of "Major Adama".
* After the flashback, Tigh tells Adama that he shouldn't have let him back into the service, instead letting him die along with the other billions of people killed during the Cylon attack. He never wanted command, and urges Bill not to die.
* Meanwhile, in the starboard flight pod, the wreckage of Heavy Raider seems completely quiet as it rests in ''Galactica'''s museum. Suddenly the red pulsating eyes of several [[Cylon Centurion]]s appear as they emerge from the damaged craft and into ''Galactica''.

== Notes ==

*The second season introduces the practice of showing the current Fleet population in the opening credits. Throughout this episode, that population is 47,875. This represents 12 total casualties since "Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II".
** This may reflect in part the presumed loss of at least 1 Raptor crew from the previous episode. The death rate from natural causes in the fleet is likely 2 per day (assuming an equal distribution of ages & an average lifespan of 80 years/29,200 days, in Earth terms; if the fleet skews younger or older, then it could be a bit lower or higher, respectfully.
* [[Socinus]]{{'}} lungs are filling with fluid.
** Supporting this, the medication given to [[Socinus]]{{'}} was called ''sersone'' which can be assumed to be a steroidal anti-inflammatory (other medications of the class on Earth also end in "sone" such as ''dexamethasone'' or ''prednisone''). Such medications counteract the human body's inflammatory response, including pain and swelling in response to trauma.
* Captain Kelly is third in the chain of command, after Tigh. This is demonstrated in the [[Miniseries]], as Kelly attempts to give orders on trying to stop the fires after the nuclear strike on the battlestar, while Tigh hesitates giving the order to vent the affected compartments.
** It is possible that Kelly is only third in command because of the "malefactions" of Apollo, and that, typically as fourth it is not a surprise that he is not seen before. The sudden incapacity of two superiors has bumped him up the ladder.
** Kelly could be respnsible for [[CIC]] on 3rd shift, when most of the main crew are off duty; moreover, his post for Condition One could be somewhere other than CIC, perhaps the [[War Room]] or some other secondary command location.
** While Doctor Cottle holds the rank of Major, as physician he would not be in ''Galactica'''s chain of command at all. In the military there are times when a lower ranking person will be in "operational command" of people who are technically higher in rank. This is the distinction between a [[w:staff officer|staff officer]] and a [[w:line officer|line officer]]. Line officers are those officers in general military specialities, and are eligible to command ships and other units. Staff officers, however, are only permitted to command units within their speciality (like medical personnel). Aboard ships, the senior line officer is in command, no matter the rank of any embarked staff officer. While the line officer will treat the staff officer with all courtesy and respect of the higher rank, the line officer is not obligated to follow any orders of the staff officer not within the staff order's speciality. This is how a doctor (staff position) may remove a line officer who is not fit for duty from command, but may not assume command unless ''all'' line officers are incapacitated.
* Adama and Tigh served on a merchant freighter together after leaving the military; Adama was responsible for bringing Tigh back into the military when he reentered.
* This episode marks the first (known) attempt at networking ''Galactica'''s computer systems, at least under William Adama's command.
* Tigh's distrust of Baltar seems evident in this episode, particularly in the reply he made to [[Felix Gaeta|Gaeta]] regarding the trust he had in the Lieutenant's programming abilities over Baltar's.
* Tigh's wife has taken residence in Tigh's quarters.
* Starbuck seems to incorrectly assume that there is a "real" Sharon Valerii and that the Valerii on Caprica is just a copy of her.
* This episode introduces the first combat depiction of the Cylon [[Heavy Raider]], previously seen during "[[Colonial Day]]".
* This episode shows the first change in the intro sequence, including subtitles, a lack of the "episode clip" sequence, and the use of the theme music previously used only in the UK showings of the first season.
*[[Kerry Norton]] (paramedic [[Layne Ishay]]) is the wife of [[Jamie Bamber]] ({{callsign|Apollo|nolink=y}})

== Analysis ==
[[File:Firewallbreech.jpg|left|thumb|Gaeta's firewall under attack, but not (yet) breached.]]
[[File:Virus Scattered.JPG|right|thumb|The virus breaches Gaeta's last firewall on the display in the upper-left corner.]]
*As Gaeta leans away from the status display to the floor to yank out the cable networking the computers (while he's not looking), the display does show that the last firewall is breached (probably why the Cylons were able to infiltrate a few but not all of ''Galactica'''s computers). Once he unplugs the network, the firewall status disappears from the screen. When he sits up and looks at the screen, it only says that the fleet position is plotted and that the network is offline.
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*In this episode, the viewers discover that [[Aaron Kelly|Captain Aaron Kelly]] is third-in-command, but haven't really seen that much of him since the [[Miniseries]] (although he is doing his job as [[Landing Signal Officer]] in "[[Final Cut]]"), which makes this seem contrived. However, in the Miniseries, Kelly gives Tyrol an order to aid the stricken port flight pod rescue after Tigh hesitates to give an order (himself following Adama's command to tend to the matter). Giving such an order with the second-in-command standing there is something only a third-in-command would have the guts or authorization to do. Tigh did countermand him moments later to order the venting of the pod, but did not suggest he was out-of-line for stepping in. This strongly suggests that Kelly already was third-in-command, either at the time of decommissioning or as a direct result of casualties taken in the attack. Additionally, "[[Final Cut]]" seems to establish that as [[Landing Signal Officer|LSO]], he just spends most or all of his duty time in the flight pod, and thus wouldn't normally be seen in CIC. Given that a battlestar's initial defense involves the reliability of Viper launches, Kelly's rank and duties could be considered just as important as the command staff needed to initiate the launch orders.
**From [[Ron Moore]]'s blog on [http://blog.scifi.com/battlestar/ July 27th, 2006]:
::"The appearance/disappearance of Captain Kelly has more to do with the budgeting process on the show than any creative issue. We only have so much money to spend each week and it's not worth it to pay to bring in Kelly (or any other recognizable guest-star for that matter) unless he's integral to the plot. So, we ask you to take the leap with us and assume that characters like Kelly and Kat and Hotdog and so on, are still aboard ship and doing their jobs even when they're not featured on camera, and therefore are ready to step into action the moment we actually need them for a story."

*The starboard flight pod is significantly damaged in this episode. However, as Ron Moore states in the audio commentary (podcast) for this episode, that this landing pod - originally set up as a museum - is not in active use.
*Computers simply being networked is not a sufficient condition to allow foreign interference - why would any of the systems [[Felix Gaeta|Gaeta]] links be connected to [[wireless]] channels? Is the infiltration that he detects originating from within ''Galactica''?
**As with any other Colonial ship, ''Galactica'' receives data all the time from exterior sources. In addition to its mainframe computer, ''Galactica'' primary computers include the FTL, Navigation, Damage Control, and Fire Control systems. The mainframe ostensibly handles wireless communications (Note [[Sharon Valerii|Caprica-Valerii]]'s request for access to the mainframe with its communications channels in "[[Flight of the Phoenix]]"). The mainframe probably ''did'' come under attack by the Cylon virus but was able to avoid infection because a Colonial mainframe may have been what the Colonials believed would be the central lynchpin in stopping any Cylon computer cracking.
**While the Colonial Fleet became lax in their computer defenses years after the [[Cylon War]], they probably believed that a networked computer system would be acceptable provided that their battlestar's mainframe computer or a robust avionics package and programming would be able to block or stop any electronic incursion. That fact might have been true—were it not for the [[Command Navigation Program]], which gave the Cylons a backdoor to any Colonial flight computer system. Instead of ramming the main door (mainframe) down, the Cylons used the "window," entering through a lesser computer (or opening a hole in their network) to achieve the same effect. The CNP helped to bypass the defenses of the mainframe, where normal communications were probably screened and electronic attacks thwarted, to enter through another system.
**''Galactica'''s computers may have never been networked in her history before this episode. Her computers may also not be as robust as her sister battlestars. But her computers were designed to be networked or run separately since Gaeta was able to set up a network at all. It was very likely that the mainframe was part of Gaeta's ad hoc network since the other computers would not be able to gather any data from the mainframe's wireless communications. Once the connections were made, the other computers (all of which probably had less resistance or defenses to Cylon viruses) were likely more susceptible to infection than the mainframe as these computers could now "hear" the same things that the mainframe heard normally in its business (such as Cylon electronic attack sequences), but was far more able to thwart. The lesser computers became infected quickly. After a time, even the mainframe in whole or in part would be infected since the Cylon virus is remarkably adaptable and polymorphic, even turning later into a [[Logic bomb]] after learning and probing ''Galactica''{{'|s}} hardware (in "[[Flight of the Phoenix]]").
**See also [http://www.hollywoodnorthreport.com/article.php?Article=2385 Galactica Techblog #4] by science adviser [[Kevin Grazier]].

* The members of ''Galactica'''s crew jump to the conclusion that Lieutenant Valerii must be a Cylon, without considering the possibility that she acted in support of President Roslin, or in collusion with one of the many dissident factions within the fleet, or that she is suffering from mental illness. The suspicious nature of her recent cheek wound should make this last concern particularly plausible.

== Questions ==

* Does Tigh recall that [[Gaius Baltar]] first tested his [[Cylon detector]] on Valerii? Or did he know in the first place? ([[Resistance (episode)|Answer]])
* Regarding the firewall status display: What is not to say that the Cylons programmed the display, or more accurately the GUI interface for it, to show a false reading on their intrusion progress? (see [[#Analysis|Analysis]] for a related topic)
* Just how many aboard ''Galactica'' agree with Adama's decision to jail Roslin? ([[Home, Part I|Answer]])
* Is [[LSO]] Captain Kelly normally third in the chain of command on ''Galactica'', or would a CAG outrank him if on board the ship?
* While it appears that the cylon virus was introduced bg a Cylon raider that initiated a scan, in the [[Miniseries]], [[Gaius Baltar]] comments to [[Felix Gaeta]] that the Cylons were able to overcome colonial defences by infecting the nav computers; Gaeta remarks that they were lucky that the computers were not networked on Galactica. Did Gaeta purge the nav computer in the interim or was the virus waiting for an opportunity?

== Official Statements ==

=== From [http://blog.scifi.com/battlestar/ RDM's blog] ===

* We've almost completed shooting the opening of Season Two, with [[Michael Rymer]] back at the helm filming a two-parter written by [[David Weddle]] & [[Bradley Thompson]] called 'Scattered' and '[[Valley of Darkness]].' Things have been going well so far, with a good mood on the set and a feeling of satisfaction and pride running through the whole team at their accomplishments in year one and anticipation for year two."

=== From the [[Podcast:Scattered|podcast]] ===

* ''Regarding the bar room scenes (i.e. how [[Saul Tigh]] and [[William Adama]] met) that were filmed, but weren't fully utilized:''
*: "We were going to open this show, with just that scene, to show how the two men met. And then come into this scene we're watching now, where Tigh takes command of ''Galactica'', and Adama's been shot, and there's all this chaos. And the episode was going to continue to sort of flashback onto their relationship. On the early days of Tigh and Adama. [...] And we shot those sequences. And edited it together, and we looked at them, but ultimately we didn't like them. We just didn't feel—they weren't quite the show. [...] You can't really put your finger on any particular person, except maybe me, because it is my concept. [...] I don't know if I created, or had the writers of this episode, [[Bradley Thompson]] and [[David Weddle]], I don't know if I really gave them a rich enough environment to tell that backstory. "
* ''On splitting the original "Scattered" into "Scattered" and "[[Valley of Darkness]]":''
*: "We've always struggled with the length of our scripts, the length of our episodes. If you look at it, there's only 40 minutes and change of actual program content. And our scripts tend to run, in the early drafts, in the 50s or low 50s. [...] 60 page scripts are not unheard of. An ideal page script for us, going into shooting, is usually around 46-47 pages. Sometimes we make that, sometimes we don't. [...] And I think we did on 'Scattered', I think in the final draft it was around 47-48 pages. The shows are still too huge. They're still too long. The style of storytelling—I might have talked about this before—just requires spending more time on character, creating moments, really, sort of, taking your time as you go through the show. [...] So we essentially divided it into two and created another action storyline for part two."
* ''On the scene in which Tigh is about to commit suicide:''
*:"The great thing here is this is- there's a definite homage quality in this to ''[[w:Apocalypse Now|Apocalypse Now]]'' which is one of our- a brilliant film. One of our all-time favorites and we certainly wanted to pay respect to that in certain ways with this scene. But it's not the same scene. They don't put him in the shower and sober him up. It's- he just goes off and pulls himself together. Which, for our story, is more effective. There was something great about him getting ready to light his own medals on fire with the lighter fluid and I wanted to convey this idea that he might- the whole place might go up but we didn't q- we weren't able to quite convey that."

=== Interviews===

* ''[[Jamie Bamber]] talks about the challenge of filming the episode's opening act:''

: So far this season I've been given great stuff to do, and [[Lee Adama|as my character]] I've been very careful not to apologize for the decision he made in ''[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II|Kobol's Last Gleaming]]''. It's the one thing that Lee can claim as his own act and he's not about to second guess himself. [[Michael Rymer]] [who directed ''Kobol's Last Gleaming'' and ''Scattered''] and I got together early on and decided that would be the case. We could have taken Lee down either path. He could have felt massive guilt in the way in which his father is gunned down seconds after betraying him, and then not having the chance to put that right. It would have been easy to go back and question what he did, but I think the character is far more interesting and stronger for not doing that. Lee is standing on his own two feet and moving forward, which he has to do. <ref name="starburst_71_19-20">Steven Eramo, "Jamie Bamber: A Man for all Seasons". <u>Starburst</u>, Special 71: [http://bsgmedia.org/gallery/albums/StarburstScans/BSGscan11.jpg 19]-[http://bsgmedia.org/gallery/albums/StarburstScans/BSGscan12.jpg 20]</ref>

* ''In issue #348 of ''Starlog'' magazine, p.33, Nicki Clyne (Cally) said:''

:"Cally is supposed to provide the Chief firecover by shooting at the Cylons. I focused on doing it right, because the weapons experts showed me how to aim and fire the guns, but the director said "No, you're shooting those weapons ''too'' well. Remember, Cally hasn't fired a weapon since basic training!" But I figured, "Hey, if ''I'' can learn to shoot a gun that quickly, then Cally certainly can". That was my defense!"

* "We shot a scene where I’m in the brig, and [[Saul Tigh|Tigh]] is trying to get in my face, and I’m all, 'Just shoot me now, you pussy.' It was great."—[[Grace Park]], <ref>http://scifi.about.com/od/bgsonscifi/a/parkinter2_2.htm</ref>

== Noteworthy Dialogue ==

* ''In ''Galactica'''s sickbay:''
*:<b>Colonel Tigh:</b> (to Commander Adama) You never should have brought me back into the service. If you had just let me be, I'd have died back there on Caprica along with everyone else, and been happier for it. I don't want a command. I never did. Don't you dare die on me now.

* ''During a flashback sequence:''
*:<b>Saul Tigh:</b> So, how'd you do it? How'd you get off this [[frak]]king freighter?
*:<b>William Adama:</b> Connections. [[Anne Adama|Anne's]] father has a friend in the Defense Committee.
*:<b>Saul Tigh:</b> So the new wife comes through. I wish I had in-laws with pull.
*:<b>William Adama:</b> Give me a couple years. I'll have some pull. You watch me. I'll have my own battlestar someday.

* ''In ''Galactica'''s brig:''
*:<b>President Laura Roslin:</b> (to Tigh) Colonel, once we find the fleet, I'd like to have a word with you.
*:<b>Colonel Tigh:</b> There's nothing to talk about. You went up against [[William Adama | the old man]] and you lost.

* ''Tigh's pep talk to the [[CIC]] crew:''
*: '''Tigh''': This is his command. His orders are still the word of the Gods on board this ship. Just so we're clear. This will be Adama's command until the day he dies. And we are not going to let him die. So say we all.

* ''On Caprica Valerii being "right":''
*: '''Starbuck''': She's right, huh? Sharon the Cylon is right. Let's all just listen to Sharon the Cylon. Do whatever she says. Because that's a good idea.
*: '''Helo''': Hey, Kara, she helped me get this far.
*: '''Starbuck''': OK. I get it. I get it, Helo. You and I go way back, so I get it. All right? I remember how you felt about her, but she is not the real Sharon. That is some cheap, knock-off copy.

* ''After Starbuck shoots at Caprica Valerii:''
*: '''Helo''': I'm not going to let you kill her. She's carrying my child.
*: '''Starbuck''': My Gods, men are so painfully stupid sometimes! How do you know that?
*: '''Helo''': I know, all right? She's not lying.
*: '''Starbuck''': They lie about ''everything'', Helo. Their entire existence is a ''lie''. They're not human, Helo, they're machines. You can't have a baby with a ''machine''.
*: '''Helo''': I don't know what to tell you, OK? But I believe her. It's hard to describe, we've been together for a long time. I mean, I know what she is, but she's not like the others! Look at me, she is not.

* ''Lee Adama gives his word to Tigh regarding his parole:''
*: '''Adama''': All right, you have my parole. When I'm on duty, I will make no attempt to free her or sow insurrection among the crew. When I'm not on duty, I'll report back to this cell.
*: '''Tigh''': (matter-of-factly) Pre-flight brief is underway in the ready room.
*: '''Adama''': Right.

*{{audio|BitchTookMyRide.mp3|''Starbuck, upon the realization that Caprica Valerii has just stolen her Cylon Raider:''}}
*: '''Starbuck''': Bitch took my ride...

== Guest stars ==
*[[Michael Hogan]] as Colonel [[Saul Tigh]]
*[[Aaron Douglas]] as Chief [[Galen Tyrol]]
*[[Tahmoh Penikett]] as Lt. [[Karl Agathon|Karl "Helo" Agathon]]
*[[Paul Campbell]] as [[Billy Keikeya]]
*[[Nicki Clyne]] as Specialist [[Cally Tyrol|Cally Henderson]]
*[[Alessandro Juliani]] as Lt. [[Felix Gaeta]]
*[[Kandyse McClure]] as Petty Officer [[Anastasia Dualla]]
*[[Samuel Witwer]] as [[Alex Quartararo|Alex "Crashdown" Quartararo]]
*[[Kate Vernon]] as [[Ellen Tigh]]
*[[Alonso Oyarzun]] as Specialist [[Socinus]]
*[[Kerry Norton]] as Paramedic [[Layne Ishay]]
*[[Kurt Evans]] as Paramedic [[Howard Kim]]
*[[Chris Shields]] as Corporal [[Venner]]
*[[Luciana Carro]] as Lt. [[Louanne Katraine|Louanne "Kat" Katraine]]
*[[Bodie Olmos]] as Lt. [[Brendan Costanza|Brendan "Hot Dog" Costanza]]
*[[Jennifer Halley]] as [[Diana Seelix]]
*[[Warren Christie]] as [[Tarn]]
*[[Ty Olsson]] as Captain [[Aaron Kelly]]
*[[Nicholas Treeshin]] as Sergeant [[Watkins]]
*[[Michael Tayles]] as [[Flyboy]]
*[[Leah Cairns]] as Lt. [[Margaret Edmondson|Margaret "Racetrack" Edmondson]]
*[[Aleks Paunovic]] as Sergeant [[Omar Fischer]]

==References==
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Precipice

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| rating= 1.8
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:''After the suicide bombing, the [[Cylons (RDM) |Cylons]] institute stricter controls on the human population on [[New Caprica]]. Aboard ''[[Galactica (TRS)|Galactica]]'', plans for the rescue from New Caprica move forward now that communication with the [[New Caprica Resistance|resistance]] has been established.''

== Summary ==

=== Teaser ===
* [[Gaius Baltar]] visits [[Laura Roslin]], who has been detained by the Cylons. In order to appear friendly, he hands her back her glasses, but then expresses his outrage and disbelief at the suicide bombings carried out by the [[New Caprica|resistance]]. He demands that he and Roslin publicly condemn these actions. Although Roslin initially expresses understanding for the resistance, when Baltar presses her to condone their attacks, she remains silent. Baltar tries to make her understand that order and policing is necessary and denies Roslin's allegations of random searches, arrests and torture. When he leaves, he again emphasizes that the situation has deteriorated to a dangerous level and orders the guard to release Roslin.
* At night the [[New Caprica Police]] prepares for an operation. [[Cavil]] arrives and asks Captain [[James Lyman]] if he understands his orders and assures him that the [[Cylon Centurion|Centurions]] will provide support if necessary.
* In the resistance's underground hideout, [[Galen Tyrol]] asks [[Saul Tigh]] about another planned suicide bombing, objects to the targeting of innocent civilians in the market, and questions which side they're fighting on. At his computer, Tyrol has established contact with another [[Raptor]] sent by ''Galactica'' and delivers a status report.
* New Caprica Police members don night vision goggles and arrest people on a list provided by the Cylons, including [[Cally Tyrol]]. Galen Tyrol later finds his [[Nicholas Tyrol|son]] alone in his tent.

=== Act 1===

* On ''[[Galactica (TRS)|Galactica]]'' Admiral [[William Adama|Adama]], {{callsign|Lee Adama}}, {{callsign|Karl Agathon}}, [[Louanne Katraine]], [[Anastasia Dualla]] and other discuss their rescue plan. Agathon notes that the resistance is lacking in strength. When Katraine mentions that they need to determine which pilots will fly the ships off the planet, the Admiral points out that the resistance must first retrieve the ships' [[launch key]]s, which the Cylons have removed. Katraine suggests supplying the resistance with weapons, but Lee Adama objects that this would only tip off the Cylons that ''Galactica'' has been in contact with the resistance and is planning an impending rescue effort.
* On [[New Caprica]], Galen Tyrol talks to [[Felix Gaeta]]. Both men are unaware of each other's role as resistance leader and informant, respectively. Tyrol asks for information about Cally's fate, but Gaeta is unsure if he can do anything. Tyrol can't understand how Gaeta can work for the Cylons, and Gaeta tells him that he will try to help him.
* In a street, Jammer is picking through some belongings scattered around by his raid, thinking about what he has done. Tyrol notices his troubled state and asks if he is OK. Jammer replies that everything is fine and mentions that he heard about Cally, saying that he is sorry. Referring to himself without revealing his membership in the force, Jammer says that some policemen probably believed they could do something good, but are in over their heads now. Tyrol tells him that the police force - and Gaeta - are collaborators and [[Collaborators|one day]] they will be strung up, while people like he and Jammer will cheer.
*The [[Leoben Conoy|Leoben copy]] keeping [[Kara Thrace]] imprisoned introduces her to [[Kacey Brynn]], claiming the child to be [[Hera Agathon|another]] Cylon-human hybrid bred by fertilizing [[The Farm|eggs from Thrace's ovary stolen by the Cylons]]. Thrace's immediate reaction is to deny Kacey is her child, treating her as an "it."

=== Act 2 ===
*On ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'', Dualla reads a communique and can't believe that Admiral Adama wants to release {{callsign|Athena}} from incarceration and send her to New Caprica to establish contact with the resistance. Equally disbelieving and furious, Lee Adama orders a Raptor be prepared so he may meet with his father. However, the admiral believes he can trust Agathon and refuses to listen to his son's advice. Lee believes the plan too risky, arguing they should focus on protecting the two thousand civilians who escaped New Caprica with them rather than risking the future of mankind on a gamble. The admiral acknowledges Lee's argument to a point and decides to alter his plan: Lee and Pegasus will stay with the Fleet, while Galactica returns to New Caprica alone.
*In the apartment on New Caprica, Conoy tells Thrace more about Kacey and eventually leaves them alone. Thrace is as distant as ever, wanting to have nothing to do with the child.
*In a tent, [[Laura Roslin]] talks to Colonel Tigh, demanding that he stop the suicide bombings. When Tigh asks if she works for the Cylons, she slaps him, but apologizes quickly. Tigh says that none of it matters anymore and argues that the attacks aren't any different from sending soldiers on suicide missions. He tells Roslin to stop being naive and moralizing until she is back on ''Colonial One'' again, and leaves.
* At the [[Detention Center]] many humans are brought in with bags over their head. [[Sharon Valerii]] tells [[Number Six]] that their actions are just causing more resentment and violence. Outside, Jammer is overseeing the prisoners and asks to speak to Valerii, questioning whether she can find out what happened to Cally Tyrol.
* In the apartment, Thrace watches Kacey play with disinterest and rebuffs the child's attempts to interact with her. She goes to the bathroom to calm down. When she comes back, she finds that Kacey has fallen down on the stairs and is bleeding. Worried, she calls her name.

=== Act 3 ===
* In a hospital, Thrace and Conoy watch over Kacey's bed. Conoy apparently is glad that Thrace has finally connected with the child.
* Valerii visits Cally Tyrol in her cell. Not really knowing what to tell her, she says that she is happy for Cally and her husband, despite her previous relationship with Galen. However, when Tyrol learns that Valerii can't release her, she tells her to [[frak]] herself and asks how many times she [[Resistance (episode)|has to kill her]].
* Another suicide attack destroys a power station, killing many Cylons and 4 humans. On ''Colonial One'', the Cylons agree that harsher measures against the humans are necessary. [[Number Three]] gives Baltar a document authorizing summary execution of the detainees and tells him to sign it. Baltar objects, and [[Caprica-Six]] vigorously defends him in front of the other Cylons. Since Baltar is not cooperating voluntarily, [[Number Five]] threatens him by holding a gun to his head, again demanding Baltar's signature. Caprica-Six continues to take Baltar's side, shouting "This is crazy!," and Five responds by shooting her in the head. Baltar is shocked and afraid following the sudden death. He abandons his resistance with the persuasion of Messenger Six and signs the order.
* On ''Galactica'', Sharon Agathon is sworn in as an officer in the [[Colonial Fleet (TRS)|Colonial Fleet]]. Afterwards, her [[Karl Agathon|husband]] tells her that he is glad for her and that it means a lot to him. She says that she won't betray the uniform. On the [[hangar deck]], she asks Admiral Adama how he knows that she won't betray them. He responds by saying that he doesn't know, but is what trust is.
* On New Caprica, Cavil and [[Ellen Tigh]] finish having sex. Cavil says the Cylons know her husband is the leader of the resistance and threatens to again detain, and possibly kill, Saul if Ellen does not provide the time and place for a high-level meeting of the resistance.

=== Act 4 ===
* Tyrol tells Tigh about the planned rendezvous with the Colonial Raptor, and Tigh is equally incredulous that Adama sent Sharon Agathon on this mission. They are reviewing a map of the meeting place when Ellen Tigh arrives. After [[Samuel Anders]] memorizes the location, Tigh prepares to burn the map, but his wife takes it from him purportedly to put in the fire for him, but instead pockets it.
* On ''Colonial One'', Gaeta angrily confronts Baltar about the death warrant he signed. Baltar is dejected about the whole ordeal and sits quietly on a couch. He replies that he knows what he has done and that he read the names, but didn't have a choice.
* The New Caprica Police storms through the city and arrests more people, including [[Laura Roslin]]. The prisoners are put on trucks, where Roslin meets [[Tom Zarek]], who has spent the last four months in detention.
* The resistance makes its way to [[Breeders Canyon]] where two [[Raptors]] jump into the atmosphere.
* At the hospital, Kara Thrace prays to the Lords of Kobol to spare Kacey's life, admitting that it was her mistake that resulted in the child's injuries. Conoy tells her not to worry and that it was just an accident. Both are happy when Kacey wakes up.
* Cavil has the convoy of trucks stopped, telling the guards to let the prisoners "stretch their legs". Zarek tells Roslin that he would have preferred if her [[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II|election fraud]] had been successful.
* Sharon Agathon meets with Anders and his resistance fighters and are making plans when they are ambushed by [[Cylon Centurion|Centurions]].
* The prisoners are waiting near the trucks when Jammer, disguised by a mask as all police are, cuts Cally Tyrol loose. He tells her to run and she obliges climbing down a ravine and running into the woods. As she is escaping, Centurions come into sight, preparing to open fire on the prisoners. Gunshots are heard.

== Notes ==

===Story===
*Felix Gaeta's given name, first revealed in "[[Final Cut]]," is spoken out loud for the first time.
*Caprica-Valerii has married Karl Agathon and taken his last name. Exactly when this occurred is uncertain, nor is it explained at this point how they were allowed to wed in the first place. In "[[Occupation]]" it was shown that Sharon was still confined to a cell, albeit now more comfortably furnished; depending on when she married Agathon, it remains to be seen at this point whether she remains in the cell or moves into quarters with Helo.
*Sharon Agathon and William Adama continued to develop the rapport which they established in "[[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]" and which was shown to have evolved into friendship in "[[Occupation]]".
*Baltar's internal Six appears only after Caprica-Six is shot in the head.
*{{callsign|Lee Adama}} states that there are about 2000 civilians on the ships that escaped New Caprica, which would mean that after accounting for an unspecified number of military personnel (and an unspecified number of said personnel that were left on New Caprica), at least 5500 people were killed in the destruction of ''[[Cloud 9]]'' as well as the other ships destroyed by the nuclear warhead in "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]".
*Another four humans are killed in the suicide bombing at the power substation this episode. It is unknown whether or not this figure includes the bomber. Additionally, 23 Cylons are critically wounded; 14 of them are euthanized. Almost half the city is left without power, with repair estimates standing at a minimum of two weeks.
*[[Tom Zarek]]'s role in the Baltar administration is finally revealed: he was indeed Baltar's running mate, and was elected Vice President in "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]". (This was implied in the last three episodes of season two, but not stated explicitly). He refused to be party to the Cylon occupation and was detained shortly thereafter, until his execution was ordered in this episode.
*This episode and "[[Exodus, Part II]]" are the only ones in which all twelve humanoid Cylons appear.

===Other===
*"[[Occupation]]/Precipice" was awarded the [[Awards and Honors|IGN.com Editor's choice award]], following a review in which it received a rating of 10/10.
*This episode was nominated for "Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series" in the 2007 Emmy Awards.
*"Occupation" and "Precipice" were edited as one 2-hr episode with only one introduction. However, in the podcast, [[Ronald D. Moore]] indicates the "beginning" of "Precipice" as the scene with Baltar and Roslin in the detention cell. On the [[Battlestar Galactica - Season 3 (Region 1 DVD)|Region 1 DVD]] set for [[Season 3 (2006-07)|Season 3]], the episodes are presented as two distinct episodes.
*However, the episode is slightly cut for the DVD release (and possibly the syndication airings as well). Likely in order to make more room for a second intro, the conversation between Sharon and Karl Agathon after her taking her oath is shortened. Missing is one of Helo's lines: "One of the first things they taught us at the academy was that symbols matter. Uniforms, flags, banners, even mascots. They're like pieces of your heart you can look at."
*This episode has the second highest number of guest stars. Only the [[Miniseries]] has more credited stars.
*In the podcast, [[Ronald D. Moore]] states that references to "The Twist" and "The Swirl" are a homage to ''[[Wikipedia:Seinfeld |Seinfeld]]''. The episode in question is "[[Wikipedia:The Fusilli Jerry |The Fusilli Jerry]]."
*The apparent shooting of the captives at the end of the episode is a homage to ''[[Wikipedia:The Great Escape|The Great Escape]]'' and ''[[Wikipedia:Battle of the Bulge (film)|Battle of the Bulge]]''; especially the latter as it features a survivor's escaping in a similar manner to Cally Tyrol's.

== Analysis ==
*Apparently a single humanoid Cylon copy can speak for his or her particular model. The phrase "''We'' agree" is said by several models. A [[Six]] adds "most of us do, anyway," indicating that disagreement in the ranks of one model is unusual. Interestingly, [[Caprica-Six]] fails to dissuade her "sisters" from voting to execute the dissidents.
**This consensus within the copies is done invisibly. Similar communication between Cylons of a single model has been witnessed in several prior episodes:
***In "[[The Farm]]," the copy of Simon which Kara Thrace encounters outside the facility shares the memories of the one she has recently killed, although insufficient time has passed for a resurrection of the type witnessed in "[[Downloaded]]".
***In "[[Home, Part II]]," [[Sharon Agathon|Caprica-Valerii]] reveals to Galen Tyrol that she has some of the Boomer copy's memories.
***At the start of "[[Occupation]]," the [[Cavil]] model interrogating with Saul Tigh knows of his wife's work to free him.
**This contact is apparently strictly voluntary. According to Caprica-Sharon in "[[Home, Part I]]," "I'm not wired in. It doesn't work like that," and her presence on New Caprica is not considered a security hazard.
*As one of the Cavils notes, adherence to the Cylon creed has become increasingly perfunctory. The Cylons seek the president's signature as a mere formality.
*[[Number Three]]'s claim that Caprica-Six's assault on her was the first case of Cylon-on-Cylon violence in their history is false. While [[Sharon Valerii|Boomer]]'s actions as a sleeper agent can't be considered to apply here, [[Sharon Agathon|Caprica-Valerii]] shoots another Eight in "[[Colonial Day]]" and a Six at the end of "[[33]]". However, strictly from Three's point of view, her statement may be true, since she either may not know about these events or who exactly shot that Eight.
*Ironically, a Five shoots Caprica-Six in the head shortly after Three's statement. Cavil indicates, however, that she won't be "[[boxing|boxed]]," as Caprica feared in "[[Downloaded]]".
*The same Number Three that is killed in "Downloaded" by Caprica-Six is present on ''Colonial One'', referencing the incident; it is this same Three who questions Six regarding her love of Baltar.
*If [[Leoben Conoy]]'s story is true, [[Kacey Brynn]] can't be older than 16 months <ref>As of this episode, it has been about 27 months since the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|fall of the Colonies]]. Kara Thrace's incarceration at the [[Farms|farm]] on Caprica took place about two months after the Cylon attack.</ref>.
*While Ellen Tigh's actions seem as reprehensible as ever, her motivations this time around are rather more laudable. These two episodes show that she truly does care for her husband.
*Cavil informs Ellen Tigh that they released Saul Tigh so that he might continue leading the resistance, thereby ensuring attacks against the Cylons, such as the two bombings that followed his release. These bombings and their results reinforce Cavil's argument that instilling fear and exerting total control over the population is the only viable solution.
**It also might be possible that the release of Tigh might play into the faction of Cylons who continue to hold a strong prejudice towards humans. Caprica-Six and Boomer are clearly shown to be a diminishing voice amongst the Cylon leadership as evidenced when [[Number Five]] shot Caprica-Six in the head. This faction of Cylons may very well be attempting to destroy the experiment that Caprica-Six and Boomer convinced the Cylon population to undergo.
*The Cylons' condemnation to suicide bombings is strikingly hypocritical, in light of the fact that a [[Number Five]] used the same tactic after boarding ''Galactica'' in "[[Litmus]]," and [[Gina Inviere|Gina Inviere's]] nuclear detonation on [[Cloud 9]] in [[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]].
*The Colonials have no issues jumping Raptors directly into New Caprica's atmosphere despite the dangers previously mentioned when the same maneuverer was performed over [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]] in "[[Home, Part II]]."

== Questions ==

*Given that she was ordered to face execution by the Colonial Government, where would [[Cally Tyrol]] be able to run to? ([[Exodus, Part I|Answer]])
*Why did the Cylons abandon their plan for a public execution?
*If viewers are to assume that the gunfire at the end of the episode is not from the Centurions, then who is firing? ([[Exodus, Part I|Answer]])
*Is Gaeta showing rather unusual behavior? If so, how much will his role as "inside man" be affected?
*What is the role of the five unseen Cylon models in the occupation? Are they present and simply remaining off-camera for the benefit of the audience? Have they attempted to hide themselves from the Colonials? ([[Torn|Answer]])
*Why do none of the Leoben Conoy copies attend the meeting on ''Colonial One'' regarding the execution order?
*[[Cally Tyrol]] and {{callsign|Athena}} both took their husbands' names upon marriage, as did [[Ellen Tigh]], [[Caroline Adama]] and [[Sesha Abinell]]. Are [[Anastasia Dualla]] and [[Kara Thrace]] now Anastasia Adama, and Kara Anders, respectively? ([[Collaborators|Answer regarding Kara Thrace]])
*What is the relationship between Caprica-Six's shooting and the reappearance of [[Cylon-Related_Hallucinations#Baltar.27s_Internal_Six|Baltar's Internal Six]]?
*On the topic of internal manifestations, what happened to Caprica-Six's internal Baltar? Will he ever show himself again? Has he disappeared much like his counterpart in Baltar, now that the real-world Baltar is in Caprica-Six's midst? ([[The Woman King|Answer]])
*Now that the Sharon Agathon has landed on the surface of New Caprica, how can she be distinguished from other [[Number Eight]]s there? ([[Exodus, Part I|Answer]])
*How will ''humans'' identify Sharon Agathon should she ever leave their sight? How, for example, can she safely return to ''{{RDM|Galactica}}''? ([[Exodus, Part I|Answer]])
*How does Jammer identify the particular Eight he talks to as "Boomer?"
*If the Centurions are incapable of distinguishing between individual copies of a model, why would they fire on Sharon Agathon, who should be just another Eight to them? ([[Exodus, Part I|Answer]])
*Why didn't Duck tell Tyrol that Jammer had joined the New Caprica Police?
*Did Kacey fall down the stairs or was she pushed?
*As Zarek wanted nothing to do with Baltar's puppet administration, who replaced him as Vice President? ([[Collaborators|Answer]])
*Given Zarek's imprisonment for four months, what has become of Zarek's various supporters? Do they still exist on New Caprica or in the Fleet? If so, what of them?
*What has become of the [[Demand Peace]] movement?
**They probably joined the [[New Caprica Police]]. The recruit standing next to Duck bore a resemblance to [[Royan Jahee]].
*Is [[Kacey Brynn]] all that [[Leoben Conoy]] claims her to be? ([[Exodus, Part II|Answer]])
*Since Felix Gaeta is one of the top people in the Baltar administration (indeed, Baltar's staff seems to consist primarily of Felix Gaeta) and was once a Colonial officer, why doesn't Tyrol consider the possibility that Gaeta may be his inside source?

== Noteworthy Dialogue ==
*''[[William Adama]] sees off the newly commissioned {{callsign|Athena}}:''
:'''Agathon:''' How do you know? How do you really know that you can trust me?
:'''Adama:''' I don't. That's what trust is. Good hunting, Lieutenant.

*''Discussing suicide bombings:''
:'''[[Galen Tyrol]]''': This is crazy. You know, we need to figure out whose side we're on.
:'''[[Saul Tigh]]''': Which side are we on? We're on the side of the demons, Chief. We are evil men in the gardens of paradise, sent by the forces of death to spread devastation and destruction wherever we go. I'm surprised you didn't know that.

*''After having watched surveillance footage of the suicide bombing at the power plant:''
:'''[[Number Five]]''': Twenty-three Cylons critically wounded. Fourteen had to be euthanised.
:'''[[Sharon Valerii|Boomer]]''': They had casualties too. Four human dead.
:'''[[Cavil]]''': Who gives a frak about that part?

*''After being arrested, held without charge and carted to a remote location:''
:'''[[Tom Zarek]]''': Laura...That election last year. You tried to steal it, didn't you?
:'''[[Laura Roslin]]''': Yes, Tom. I did.
:'''Tom Zarek''': (laughs) Ah...I wish you'd gone through with it.
:'''Laura Roslin''': Me too.

*''[[Cally Tyrol]] in her cell to Sharon Valerii who visits her:''
:"...[[frak]] you Sharon, you stupid frakked-up [[toaster]]. How many times do I have to shoot you anyway?"

*''Colonel Tigh after being slapped by Roslin for accusing her of working for the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]]:''
:'''Tigh''': You see, little things like that, they don't matter anymore. Fact, not too frakking much really matters anymore. I got one job here, lady, and one job only. To disrupt the Cylons, make them worry about the anthill they stirred up down here so they're distracted and out of position when the old man shows up in orbit. The bombings, they got the Cylons' attention, they really got their attention. And I am not giving that up.
:'''Laura Roslin''': We are talking about people blowing themselves up.
:'''Tigh''': You know, sometimes I think that you've got ice water in those veins. And other times, I think you're just a naive little school teacher. I've sent men on suicide missions in two wars now, and let me tell you something. It don't make a godsdamn bit of difference whether they're riding in a Viper or walking out onto a parade ground. In the end, they're just as dead. (pauses) So, take your piety, and your moralizing, and your high-minded principles, and stick 'em some place safe until you're off this rock and you're sitting in your nice, cushy chair on ''[[Colonial One]]'' again. (stands) I've got a war to fight (leaves).

*''Sharon and {{callsign|Karl Agathon}} after she is sworn in as officer:''
:'''Karl Agathon''': Looks good on you. Belongs on you.
:'''Sharon Agathon''': You know what this means to me.
:'''Karl Agathon''': One of the first things they taught us at the academy was that symbols matter. Uniforms, flags, banners, even mascots. They're like pieces of your heart you can look at. This uniform... it means a lot to me, Sharon.
:'''Sharon Agathon''': I know it does, Helo. It means a lot to me, too. I won't betray it. (They kiss.)

*''William and {{callsign|Lee Adama}} have a confrontation about the right course of action:''
:'''Lee Adama:''' You are gambling with the lives of everyone on this ship. And everyone on my ship.
:'''William Adama:''' I don't need a lecture from you about the responsibilities of command. We're done here. (Leaves. Lee follows him into the corridor.)
:'''Lee Adama:''' I'm not finished. This entire plan is a reckless gamble. And, yes, you certainly have the right to risk the lives of the men and women under your command. But that's not the issue. The issue is that you are risking the lives of the entire human race.
:'''William Adama:''' I'm trying to save the human race.
:'''Lee Adama:''' No. No, you're not. That's what you're not seeing. Right now, the human race? Well, that's the 2,000 people huddled in those civilian ships that managed to get away when the Cylons came back. They're the safe bet. They're the ones whose survival we should guard. Just like we did after the attack on the Colonies. [...] Remember what Roslin said: "Our first responsibility is to the survival of humanity." We can't lose sight of that. Over the last year, we've lost sight of almost everything. We got...soft. But if we go back to New Caprica now, and we lose, it's over. Humanity just ''stops''. And those admiral's stars don't give you the right to make that gamble.
:'''William Adama:''' You're right, son. You should make plans to resume the search for earth with the ''Pegasus'' and the civilian fleet.
:'''Lee Adama:''' With ''Pegasus''? What about ''Galactica''?
:'''William Adama:''' I know why we left those people behind. And I know it was their choice in the first place to be down there. And I realize that the survival of the human race outweighs anything else. But this time... I can't live with it. Can't face it. Maybe I'm a coward. But I'm going back.
:'''Lee Adama:''' Dad, you won't have a chance.
:'''William Adama:''' I'm going back, son.

== Guest Stars ==
*[[Michael Hogan]] as [[Saul Tigh]]
*[[Aaron Douglas]] as [[Galen Tyrol]]
*[[Tahmoh Penikett]] as Lt. [[Karl Agathon|Karl "Helo" Agathon]]
*[[Nicki Clyne]] as [[Cally Henderson Tyrol|Cally Tyrol]]
*[[Alessandro Juliani]] as [[Felix Gaeta]]
*[[Kandyse McClure]] as [[Anastasia Dualla]]
*[[Michael Trucco]] as [[Samuel Anders]]
*[[Richard Hatch]] as [[Tom Zarek]]
*[[Rick Worthy]] as [[Simon]]
*[[Callum Keith Rennie]] as [[Leoben Conoy]]
*[[Kate Vernon]] as [[Ellen Tigh]]
*[[Donnelly Rhodes]] as Dr. [[Cottle]]
*[[Matthew Bennett]] as [[Number Five]]
*[[Rekha Sharma]] as [[Tory Foster]]
*[[Dean Stockwell]] as [[Cavil]]
*[[Erica Cerra]] as [[Maya]]
*[[Luciana Carro]] as Lt. [[Louanne Katraine|Louanne "Kat" Katraine]]
*[[Christian Tessier]] as [[Tucker Clellan|Tucker "Duck" Clellan]]
*[[Brad Dryborough]] as Lt. [[Louis Hoshi]]
*[[Leah Cairns]] as Lt. [[Margaret Edmondson|Margaret "Racetrack" Edmondson]]
*[[Madeline Parker]] as [[Kacey Brynn]]
*[[Dominic Zamprogna]] as [[James Lyman|James "Jammer" Lyman]]
*[[Mylène Dinh-Robic]] as Officer #1
*[[Ryan McDonell]] as [[Eammon Pike|Eammon "Gonzo" Pike]] (credited as Pilot #3)
*[[Byron Lawson]] as Pilot #4
*[[Colin Lawrence]] as [[Hamish McCall|Hamish "Skulls" McCall]]
*[[Larissa Stadnichuk]] as Suicide bomber

== References ==
{{reflist}}

{{episode list (RDM season 3)}}

[[Category:Episodes written by Ronald D. Moore]]
[[Category:Episodes directed by Sergio Mimica-Gezzan]]
[[Category:RDM]]

[[de:Am Abgrund]]
[[fr:Épisode:La Grande Rafle]]

Cylon computer virus

2025-06-15T23:19:01Z

WarGrowlmon15: /* Fall of the Twelve Colonies */

{{disline|This article discusses the Cylons of the [[Re-imagined Series]] and their cybernetic assaults. The [[Original Series]] [[Cylons (TOS)|version]] of the Cylons do not exhibit this behavior in an aired episode.}}

:''For other uses of the term, see [[Virus]].''

[[File:Cylon virus code.jpg|thumb|Cylon virus code as visually displayed by the GUI of Colonial computer systems {{TRS|Scattered}}.]]

Consistent with their cybernetic nature, the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]] use '''viruses''' to infect Colonial [[Computers in the Re-imagined Series|computers]] to force malfunctions that render a Colonial ship vulnerable to attack.

==Cylon War==

The virus infiltration tactic was used greatly in the first [[Cylon War]]. In response, the Colonials began using simpler technologies that were impossible to reprogram or shut down.<ref>This is told to reporters covering the battlestar's scheduled decommissioning by [[Aaron Doral]] in the first scenes aboard ''Galactica'' in the [[Miniseries, Night 1]].</ref> The first [[Galactica type battlestar|battlestars]], to which ''{{RDM|Galactica}}'' belongs to, used computers but didn't network them or tie them to external sensors or communications, preventing a virus from entering ship's systems and minimizing damage to other systems in the event of an infection.<ref>The use of non-networked computers to counter an apocalyptic computer virus is similar to the plotline of [http://traveller.wikia.com/wiki/Virus/TNE Traveller: The New Era] role-playing game.</ref>

Comparatively primitive communications gear and other hardware throughout these ships also reduced or eliminated the ability of the Cylons to hack into or shut down a shipboard function. In the case of total power loss, the Colonials also installed [[sound-powered phone]]s on the original battlestars as a last-ditch communications measure.

==[[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]]==

In the second Cylon War, the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]] use a slightly different means of electronic infiltration, after their espionage determined that Colonial use of computer technology has become widespread once again, 40 years after the first war. However, instead of using viruses, backdoors are planted in the [[Command Navigation Program]], the operating system used by the Colonial military, by a [[Caprica-Six|human-looking agent]].

These exploits make it possible to remotely shut down all computers on Colonial warships and fighters, without a possibly lengthy period of time to bypass a computer's defenses.

Because ''Galactica'' continued its "no networks" historical tradition, the Cylons could not overcome the battlestar by electronic subversion, and are forced to directly attack the ship. While ''Galactica''{{'|s}} last [[Viper Mark VII]] squadron (which used the [[CNP]]) is compromised and destroyed, ''Galactica'' has, by happenstance, a squadron of [[Viper Mark II]] fighters in its [[Galactica Museum|museum]], which, as similar to or identical to the Cylon War-era Vipers, are impervious to CNP compromise. The Mark IIs give ''Galactica'' sufficient defenses until it is able to rearm itself at [[Ragnar Anchorage]] {{TRS|Miniseries}}.

In the same relative time, the [[Mercury class battlestar|battlestar]] ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' avoids Cylon computer incursion because most of her critical computer systems were offline while being retrofitted for the CNP by [[Integral Systems Engineering]] contractors. The battlestar [[Fall of the Scorpion Fleet Shipyards|escapes the destruction of her dock]] via a [[blind jump]]. Later, ''Pegasus'' suffers some cyber-attacks after [[Gina Inviere]] alerts other Cylons of the battlestar's imminent attack on a communications array and causes system failures in several computer systems. Despite Inviere's sabotage, ''Pegasus'' survives to fight another day {{TRS|Pegasus|Razor}}.

==Risky Calculations==

[[File:Cylon computer virus attacking firewall.jpg|thumb|A [[w:GUI|GUI]] alert prompt indicating attack on Gaeta's improvised firewalls {{TRS|Scattered}}.]]

Some time later after leaving Colonial space, ''Galactica'' suffers a Cylon virus infection near the legendary planet of {{RDM|Kobol}}. The viral attack occurs after [[CIC]] is forced into doing what Commander [[William Adama]] (at the time, seriously wounded in an assassination attempt) would never normally allow: The temporary networking of several of the battlestar's computers. The temporary network is needed to greatly reduce the computation time needed to find the proper coordinates of the missing civilian [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]], which jumped to a different set of coordinates {{TRS|Scattered}}.

Improvised software firewalls (software barriers that deny unauthorized intrusion) are put in place by Lieutenant [[Felix Gaeta]] in order to slow down the anticipated Cylon cracking attempts, but the protection loses its integrity at the very last moment. After the virus initially shuts down several systems (while, coincidentally, a squad of heavily-armored [[Cylon Centurion]]s board ''Galactica''), the battlestar uses software or other means to purge the virus {{TRS|Valley of Darkness}}.

==The Logic Bomb==

Initially, the crew thought it had eliminated the infection, but when, weeks later, as computer malfunctions and equipment failures begin to surface, Gaeta is ordered to run diagnostics and review the [[Wikipedia:source code|source code]] of programs aboard the ship. Commander Adama orders {{callsign|Karl Agathon}} to have [[Sharon Agathon|Caprica-8]] review a printout of the virus source code.

Upon reading, Valerii warns that the virus, believed removed weeks before, has returned as a "[[w:logic bomb|logic bomb]]". The virus replicated into other systems on the system, probing and learning control and weaknesses. The logic bomb sends a signal through the battlestar's communications system to alert other Cylons of the compromise, and awaited a Cylon force to activate the bomb.

Once activated, the logic bomb would take over complete control of the ship, probably venting the ship's atmosphere <ref>The logic bomb tests this ability prior to the imminent Cylon attack by venting the atmosphere of the [[firing range]], almost killing [[Kara Thrace]], {{callsign|Lee Adama}} and [[Brendan Costanza]].</ref> to kill its crew, and then training the ship's [[battery|batteries]] on the civilian ships to complete the Fleet's destruction.

Caprica-Valerii offers her services to eradicate the virus by connecting herself through her [[Cylon data port]] to the Colonial mainframe and communication systems through a fiber optic cable. The battlestar erases its hard drives to eradicate the logic bomb, but is left completely defenseless for a time, save Valerii's efforts.

Valerii isolates, ostensibly reprograms and transmits the virus to an oncoming Cylon fighter force, disabling it and permitting the small [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] defense to [[Great Cylon Turkey Shoot|destroy the Cylon attack forces with impunity]].

The battlestar computers are reloaded from uninfected backups created prior to the fall of the Colonies {{TRS|Flight of the Phoenix}}.

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:A to Z]]
[[Category:RDM]]
[[Category:Technology]]
[[Category:Technology (RDM)]]
[[Category:Terminology]]
[[Category:Terminology (RDM)]]

Cylon computer virus

2025-06-15T23:17:44Z

WarGrowlmon15:

{{disline|This article discusses the Cylons of the [[Re-imagined Series]] and their cybernetic assaults. The [[Original Series]] [[Cylons (TOS)|version]] of the Cylons do not exhibit this behavior in an aired episode.}}

:''For other uses of the term, see [[Virus]].''

[[File:Cylon virus code.jpg|thumb|Cylon virus code as visually displayed by the GUI of Colonial computer systems {{TRS|Scattered}}.]]

Consistent with their cybernetic nature, the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]] use '''viruses''' to infect Colonial [[Computers in the Re-imagined Series|computers]] to force malfunctions that render a Colonial ship vulnerable to attack.

==Cylon War==

The virus infiltration tactic was used greatly in the first [[Cylon War]]. In response, the Colonials began using simpler technologies that were impossible to reprogram or shut down.<ref>This is told to reporters covering the battlestar's scheduled decommissioning by [[Aaron Doral]] in the first scenes aboard ''Galactica'' in the [[Miniseries, Night 1]].</ref> The first [[Galactica type battlestar|battlestars]], to which ''{{RDM|Galactica}}'' belongs to, used computers but didn't network them or tie them to external sensors or communications, preventing a virus from entering ship's systems and minimizing damage to other systems in the event of an infection.<ref>The use of non-networked computers to counter an apocalyptic computer virus is similar to the plotline of [http://traveller.wikia.com/wiki/Virus/TNE Traveller: The New Era] role-playing game.</ref>

Comparatively primitive communications gear and other hardware throughout these ships also reduced or eliminated the ability of the Cylons to hack into or shut down a shipboard function. In the case of total power loss, the Colonials also installed [[sound-powered phone]]s on the original battlestars as a last-ditch communications measure.

==[[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]]==

In the second Cylon War, the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]] use a slightly different means of electronic infiltration, after their espionage determined that Colonial use of computer technology has become widespread once again, 40 years after the first war. However, instead of using viruses, backdoors are planted in the [[Command Navigation Program]], the operating system used by the Colonial military, by a [[Caprica-Six|human-looking agent]].

These exploits make it possible to remotely shut down all computers on Colonial warships and fighters, without a possibly lengthy period of time to bypass a computer's defenses.

Because ''Galactica'' continued its "no networks" historical tradition, the Cylons could not overcome the battlestar by electronic subversion, and are forced to directly attack the ship. While ''Galactica's'' last [[Viper Mark VII]] squadron (which used the [[CNP]]) is compromised and destroyed, ''Galactica'' has, by happenstance, a squadron of [[Viper Mark II]] fighters in its [[Galactica Museum|museum]], which, as similar to or identical to the Cylon War-era Vipers, are impervious to CNP compromise. The Mark IIs give ''Galactica'' sufficient defenses until it is able to rearm itself at [[Ragnar Anchorage]] {{TRS|Miniseries}}.

In the same relative time, the [[Mercury class battlestar|battlestar]] ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' avoids Cylon computer incursion because most of her critical computer systems were offline while being retrofitted for the CNP by [[Integral Systems Engineering]] contractors. The battlestar [[Fall of the Scorpion Fleet Shipyards|escapes the destruction of her dock]] via a [[blind jump]]. Later, ''Pegasus'' suffers some cyber-attacks after [[Gina Inviere]] alerts other Cylons of the battlestar's imminent attack on a communications array and causes system failures in several computer systems. Despite Inviere's sabotage, ''Pegasus'' survives to fight another day {{TRS|Pegasus (episode)||Razor}}.

==Risky Calculations==

[[File:Cylon computer virus attacking firewall.jpg|thumb|A [[w:GUI|GUI]] alert prompt indicating attack on Gaeta's improvised firewalls {{TRS|Scattered}}.]]

Some time later after leaving Colonial space, ''Galactica'' suffers a Cylon virus infection near the legendary planet of {{RDM|Kobol}}. The viral attack occurs after [[CIC]] is forced into doing what Commander [[William Adama]] (at the time, seriously wounded in an assassination attempt) would never normally allow: The temporary networking of several of the battlestar's computers. The temporary network is needed to greatly reduce the computation time needed to find the proper coordinates of the missing civilian [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]], which jumped to a different set of coordinates {{TRS|Scattered}}.

Improvised software firewalls (software barriers that deny unauthorized intrusion) are put in place by Lieutenant [[Felix Gaeta]] in order to slow down the anticipated Cylon cracking attempts, but the protection loses its integrity at the very last moment. After the virus initially shuts down several systems (while, coincidentally, a squad of heavily-armored [[Cylon Centurion]]s board ''Galactica''), the battlestar uses software or other means to purge the virus {{TRS|Valley of Darkness}}.

==The Logic Bomb==

Initially, the crew thought it had eliminated the infection, but when, weeks later, as computer malfunctions and equipment failures begin to surface, Gaeta is ordered to run diagnostics and review the [[Wikipedia:source code|source code]] of programs aboard the ship. Commander Adama orders {{callsign|Karl Agathon}} to have [[Sharon Agathon|Caprica-8]] review a printout of the virus source code.

Upon reading, Valerii warns that the virus, believed removed weeks before, has returned as a "[[w:logic bomb|logic bomb]]". The virus replicated into other systems on the system, probing and learning control and weaknesses. The logic bomb sends a signal through the battlestar's communications system to alert other Cylons of the compromise, and awaited a Cylon force to activate the bomb.

Once activated, the logic bomb would take over complete control of the ship, probably venting the ship's atmosphere <ref>The logic bomb tests this ability prior to the imminent Cylon attack by venting the atmosphere of the [[firing range]], almost killing [[Kara Thrace]], {{callsign|Lee Adama}} and [[Brendan Costanza]].</ref> to kill its crew, and then training the ship's [[battery|batteries]] on the civilian ships to complete the Fleet's destruction.

Caprica-Valerii offers her services to eradicate the virus by connecting herself through her [[Cylon data port]] to the Colonial mainframe and communication systems through a fiber optic cable. The battlestar erases its hard drives to eradicate the logic bomb, but is left completely defenseless for a time, save Valerii's efforts.

Valerii isolates, ostensibly reprograms and transmits the virus to an oncoming Cylon fighter force, disabling it and permitting the small [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] defense to [[Great Cylon Turkey Shoot|destroy the Cylon attack forces with impunity]].

The battlestar computers are reloaded from uninfected backups created prior to the fall of the Colonies {{TRS|Flight of the Phoenix}}.

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:A to Z]]
[[Category:RDM]]
[[Category:Technology]]
[[Category:Technology (RDM)]]
[[Category:Terminology]]
[[Category:Terminology (RDM)]]

Cylon computer virus

2025-06-15T23:16:25Z

WarGrowlmon15: /* Fall of the Twelve Colonies */

{{disline|This article discusses the Cylons of the [[Re-imagined Series]] and their cybernetic assaults. The [[Original Series]] [[Cylons (TOS)|version]] of the Cylons do not exhibit this behavior in an aired episode.}}

:''For other uses of the term, see [[Virus]].''

[[File:Cylon virus code.jpg|thumb|Cylon virus code as visually displayed by the GUI of Colonial computer systems {{TRS|Scattered}}.]]

Consistent with their cybernetic nature, the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]] use '''viruses''' to infect Colonial [[Computers in the Re-imagined Series|computers]] to force malfunctions that render a Colonial ship vulnerable to attack.

==Cylon War==

The virus infiltration tactic was used greatly in the first [[Cylon War]]. In response, the Colonials began using simpler technologies that were impossible to reprogram or shut down.<ref>This is told to reporters covering the battlestar's scheduled decommissioning by [[Aaron Doral]] in the first scenes aboard ''Galactica'' in the [[Miniseries, Night 1]].</ref> The first [[Galactica type battlestar|battlestars]], to which ''{{RDM|Galactica}}'' belongs to, used computers but didn't network them or tie them to external sensors or communications, preventing a virus from entering ship's systems and minimizing damage to other systems in the event of an infection.<ref>The use of non-networked computers to counter an apocalyptic computer virus is similar to the plotline of [http://traveller.wikia.com/wiki/Virus/TNE Traveller: The New Era] role-playing game.</ref>

Comparatively primitive communications gear and other hardware throughout these ships also reduced or eliminated the ability of the Cylons to hack into or shut down a shipboard function. In the case of total power loss, the Colonials also installed [[sound-powered phone]]s on the original battlestars as a last-ditch communications measure.

==[[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]]==

In the second Cylon War, the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]] use a slightly different means of electronic infiltration, after their espionage determined that Colonial use of computer technology has become widespread once again, 40 years after the first war. However, instead of using viruses, backdoors are planted in the [[Command Navigation Program]], the operating system used by the Colonial military, by a [[Caprica-Six|human-looking agent]].

These exploits make it possible to remotely shut down all computers on Colonial warships and fighters, without a possibly lengthy period of time to bypass a computer's defenses.

Because ''Galactica'' continued its "no networks" historical tradition, the Cylons could not overcome the battlestar by electronic subversion, and are forced to directly attack the ship. While ''Galactica''{{'|s}} last [[Viper Mark VII]] squadron (which used the [[CNP]]) is compromised and destroyed, ''Galactica'' has, by happenstance, a squadron of [[Viper Mark II]] fighters in its [[Galactica Museum|museum]], which, as similar to or identical to the Cylon War-era Vipers, are impervious to CNP compromise. The Mark IIs give ''Galactica'' sufficient defenses until it is able to rearm itself at [[Ragnar Anchorage]] {{TRS|Miniseries}}.

In the same relative time, the [[Mercury class battlestar|battlestar]] ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' avoids Cylon computer incursion because most of her critical computer systems were offline while being retrofitted for the CNP by [[Integral Systems Engineering]] contractors. The battlestar [[Fall of the Scorpion Fleet Shipyards|escapes the destruction of her dock]] via a [[blind jump]]. Later, ''Pegasus'' suffers some cyber-attacks after [[Gina Inviere]] alerts other Cylons of the battlestar's imminent attack on a communications array and causes system failures in several computer systems. Despite Inviere's sabotage, ''Pegasus'' survives to fight another day {{TRS|Pegasus (episode)||Razor}}.

==Risky Calculations==

[[File:Cylon computer virus attacking firewall.jpg|thumb|A [[w:GUI|GUI]] alert prompt indicating attack on Gaeta's improvised firewalls {{TRS|Scattered}}.]]

Some time later after leaving Colonial space, ''Galactica'' suffers a Cylon virus infection near the legendary planet of {{RDM|Kobol}}. The viral attack occurs after [[CIC]] is forced into doing what Commander [[William Adama]] (at the time, seriously wounded in an assassination attempt) would never normally allow: The temporary networking of several of the battlestar's computers. The temporary network is needed to greatly reduce the computation time needed to find the proper coordinates of the missing civilian [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]], which jumped to a different set of coordinates {{TRS|Scattered}}.

Improvised software firewalls (software barriers that deny unauthorized intrusion) are put in place by Lieutenant [[Felix Gaeta]] in order to slow down the anticipated Cylon cracking attempts, but the protection loses its integrity at the very last moment. After the virus initially shuts down several systems (while, coincidentally, a squad of heavily-armored [[Cylon Centurion]]s board ''Galactica''), the battlestar uses software or other means to purge the virus {{TRS|Valley of Darkness}}.

==The Logic Bomb==

Initially, the crew thought it had eliminated the infection, but when, weeks later, as computer malfunctions and equipment failures begin to surface, Gaeta is ordered to run diagnostics and review the [[Wikipedia:source code|source code]] of programs aboard the ship. Commander Adama orders {{callsign|Karl Agathon}} to have [[Sharon Agathon|Caprica-8]] review a printout of the virus source code.

Upon reading, Valerii warns that the virus, believed removed weeks before, has returned as a "[[w:logic bomb|logic bomb]]". The virus replicated into other systems on the system, probing and learning control and weaknesses. The logic bomb sends a signal through the battlestar's communications system to alert other Cylons of the compromise, and awaited a Cylon force to activate the bomb.

Once activated, the logic bomb would take over complete control of the ship, probably venting the ship's atmosphere <ref>The logic bomb tests this ability prior to the imminent Cylon attack by venting the atmosphere of the [[firing range]], almost killing [[Kara Thrace]], {{callsign|Lee Adama}} and [[Brendan Costanza]].</ref> to kill its crew, and then training the ship's [[battery|batteries]] on the civilian ships to complete the Fleet's destruction.

Caprica-Valerii offers her services to eradicate the virus by connecting herself through her [[Cylon data port]] to the Colonial mainframe and communication systems through a fiber optic cable. The battlestar erases its hard drives to eradicate the logic bomb, but is left completely defenseless for a time, save Valerii's efforts.

Valerii isolates, ostensibly reprograms and transmits the virus to an oncoming Cylon fighter force, disabling it and permitting the small [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] defense to [[Great Cylon Turkey Shoot|destroy the Cylon attack forces with impunity]].

The battlestar computers are reloaded from uninfected backups created prior to the fall of the Colonies {{TRS|Flight of the Phoenix}}.

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:A to Z]]
[[Category:RDM]]
[[Category:Technology]]
[[Category:Technology (RDM)]]
[[Category:Terminology]]
[[Category:Terminology (RDM)]]

Valley of Darkness

2025-06-15T23:05:37Z

WarGrowlmon15: /* Act 3 */

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: ''After rediscovering the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]], [[Cylon Centurion]]s board ''{{RDM|Galactica}}'' and wreak havoc, while [[Lee Adama]] and a rag-tag group of pilots and Marines attempt to thwart the Cylon's methodical plans.''

== Summary ==
===Teaser===
* After the successful [[FTL|jump]] to the location of the rest of the Fleet, [[Billy Keikeya]] runs into [[Anastasia Dualla]]. The two haven't seen each other in two weeks though he tells her that he tried to see her again. Dualla retorts by saying he was too busy sparking mutiny against [[William Adama|Adama]] to find her but is instantly sorry and apologizes. Before they can talk further she tells Billy she is due in [[CIC]].
* While [[Saul Tigh]] and [[Layne Ishay|Ishay]] are in sickbay with a comatose [[William Adama]], ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]''{{'|s}} power system unexpectedly shuts down. Tigh immediately leaves for CIC to find out what has happened. [[Felix Gaeta|Gaeta]] informs him that he believes the [[Cylon computer virus|computer virus]] the [[Cylon (RDM)|Cylons]] uploaded in an attempt to disable ''Galactica'' made copies of itself and has knocked out their power systems. Moments later the emergency power kicks in.
* On the hangar deck, the team of [[Viper Mark II|Viper]] pilots celebrate their victory during the previous battle, but [[Lee Adama|Captain Adama]] is less satisfied as he tells them that they still let [[Heavy Raider|one]] through even though it crashed.
* Power goes out in the hangar and [[Jammer]] tells Apollo that the only thing he can find that is working are the sound-powered phones, but the signals are jammed.
* In CIC, [[Aaron Kelly]] receives a call, and in horror informs Tigh that they have been boarded.
* As they make their way back to their quarters in the dark, {{callsign|Kat}}, {{callsign|Hot Dog}} and [[Flyboy]] continue to boast about their kills when they are shocked to see a [[Cylon Centurion|Centurion]], who swipes its razor claws through Flyboy, killing him.
* The other pilots quickly retreat with the Centurion pursuing them. They try to make it up a flight of emergency stairs with Apollo in the rear.

===Act 1===
* While the rest of the pilots manage to evade the Centurion, Apollo is forced to turn around to face it. He pulls out his sidearm and shoots at the Centurion but even though he empties his weapon, his foe is unaffected. The Centurion closes in for the kill when its head is blown off and the Centurion falls.
* The source of the blast is a group of [[Marine]]s, who used an explosive round which appears to be the only thing that will stop the invaders. Unfortunately, it was their last round which leaves them defenseless.
* Apollo scribbles a notes and tells Hot Dog to take it to CIC, he then announces to the other fellow pilots and Marines that they are going "[[toaster]] shopping".
* Gaeta warns the rest of [[The Fleet (RDM)|the fleet]] over the [[Wireless]] not to try to board or get near ''Galactica'' because of the invasion. Soon after, the virus manages to jam the signal.
* In the brig, [[Venner|Corporal Venner]], Billy and [[Laura Roslin]] listen in horror to gunshots and screaming of the fighting without knowing exactly what is happening. Roslin then convinces Venner to release her from her cell.
* Seconds later, the hatch to the brig begins to open but to their relief, it is Apollo and a contingent of Marines.
* Apollo informs them of the situation, and instructs Venner to escort Billy and Roslin to safety. He has the Marines provide Billy and Roslin with sidearms. And although Billy relucantly takes one, Roslin refuses to arm herself. Apollo tells them to go to the sick bay, but to avoid the gunfire. For his own part, Apollo plans to take his team to an arms locker to find more explosive rounds and stop the Centurion incursion.
* In the city of [[Delphi]] on {{RDM|Caprica}}, {{callsign|Helo}} and {{callsign|Starbuck}} are walking through the streets, when Starbuck comments on the lack of dead bodies. Helo explains that they have been collected by the Cylons and cremated, much to her disgust. He also expresses his plan to head to the airbases to look for a [[Raptor]] on which to escape the planet.
* Starbuck, however, is not very amiable because he was fooled by, and [[Six Degrees of Separation|impregnated a Cylon]]. She suddenly looks around and decides they should make a "pit stop" and heads to one of the buildings.
* In ''Galactica'''s CIC, Gaeta informs Tigh that it could take as long as an hour to restore main power.
* Tigh then learns that the Centurions have split off into two groups, one is moving forward, the other moving aft.
* Tigh notes that he has seen this pattern before and that their targets are [[aft damage control]] and [[auxiliary fire control]]. If they are successful in reaching them, the Cylons will vent the entire ship of all atmosphere, and after the entire crew is dead, will use the ship's guns against the rest of the fleet wiping it out.

===Act 2===
* [[Gaius Baltar]], holding a baby, finds himself in the ancient ruins of {{RDM|Kobol}} where a rescue party has landed led by Commander Adama who approaches him.
* Adama asks to hold the baby, to which Baltar consents, and asks if this is the shape of things to come. When Baltar says yes, Adama responds with "only one thing for it then" and begins to walk away.
* Baltar follows the commander, wondering what he is planning. Adama calmly takes the baby to a nearby stream and drowns her. A horrified Baltar tries to find the body as Commander Adama leaves.
* Baltar wakes from his dream in the forest and is reassured by Virtual [[Number Six|Six]] that everything is fine.
* Gaius then notices a pile of human skulls and bones partially hidden. Six tells Baltar that they were victims of human sacrifice, and that the [[Sacred Scrolls|Scriptures]] are lies, fabricated to cover up how barbaric life on Kobol really was.
* On ''Galactica'', Apollo's team arrive at a small arms locker, where they hear a noise that turns out to be [[James Lyman|Jammer]] hiding. Once inside they are dismayed to find only six explosive rounds, the others presumably taken by other soldiers fighting the Cylons. Apollo distributes them among the now five team members taking the reload for himself.
* On Caprica, Starbuck leads Helo to her apartment, where he notices [[Eye of Jupiter|paintings]] and [[Starbuck's Poem|poetry]] on the walls, which surprises him. Soon after entering Starbuck starts a battery-powered radio which plays piano-driven music composed or performed by [[Dreilide Thrace|her father]].
* Thrace searches through the empty cigar boxes until she finds one while Helo looks fruitlessly for food. The two exhausted Colonials sit down in the living room with Kara donning an old military jacket laying in the room.
* Thrace then reminisces about how much she hated the apartment and how everyone is now fighting to get back what they once had.
* On ''Galactica'', Roslin's group finds the bodies of some of ''Galactica'''s enlisted crew, massacred by the Cylons. Among the dead is one survivor: a concussed and shell-shocked [[Anastasia Dualla]]. Billy manages to snap Dualla out of her shock and they begin to move forward again when Venner finds the way blocked by gunfire, and decides to take an alternative route.
* In CIC, the crew hears news that teams manage to stop the Centurions heading for Auxiliary fire control; however, there is still nothing to stop the others from getting to Aft damage control, leaving them still in jeopardy.

===Act 3===
* On Kobol, [[Cally Tyrol|Cally]] and [[Galen Tyrol|Chief Tyrol]] take a rest after escaping from the Cylons. Tyrol begins to go into shock feeling responsible for [[Tarn]]'s death until Cally snaps him out of it by yelling "talk, you motherfrakker". Tyrol laughs at this and he and Cally continue on to take the medicine needed by [[Socinus]].
* Further in the forest Baltar returns to the others, where he is harangued by {{callsign|Crashdown}} for breaking away from the group.
* Cally and Tyrol rejoin the main group carrying the spare [[medkit]] and Crashdown asks where Tarn is. As a response Tyrol hands him Tarn's [[dog tag]]s, and informs everyone the Cylons killed him.
* [[Diana Seelix|Seelix]] then tells Tyrol that they have returned too late, and Socinus is going to die, not matter what treatment he receives. The only thing they can do now is relieve the pain and implies by using a lethal dose of [[morpha]].
* Reluctantly, Tyrol agrees with Seelix and decides to be the one administer the morpha. After doing so Tyrol them tells him that a rescue party has arrived and they are going home. Seconds later, Socinus passes away peacefully.
* On ''Galactica'', Jammer manages to fix a phone, and Apollo is able to make contact with Tigh in CIC. Apollo informs him that they are chasing the Centurions and will dispatch them soon. Tigh tells him to hurry.
* Elsewhere, Dualla notices the gun Billy is wearing, and shows him how to turn on the safety if he is to keep it in his trousers. Venner discovers that the Cylons have de-pressurised a passage along their planned route and decides on another which goes past Aft damage control, where, unknown to them, the Centurions are heading.

===Act 4===
* Apollo's team arrives at the Aft damage control, and station themselves around the passageway leading to it. Apollo encourages a nervous Jammer, who is about to fight the Cylons for the first time, and then tells himself to fire a headshot, reload, then take another headshot.
* Meanwhile, the [[Cylon Centurion|Centurions]] are coming, and Roslin's team is trapped in a side room. Billy takes out his gun and accidentally fires it, drawing their attention. Roslin and crew try to escape while the Centurions open fire.
* Apollo's team seizes the opportunity and attacks. Two of the Centurions are destroyed, but two Marines are killed in the process. Apollo quickly loads the last explosive round as the last Centurion charges. The Centurion leaps toward Apollo who manages to fire the last round destroying it.
* With the threat over, everyone begins to relax and Venner notices bullet holes in Roslin's suit though she is unharmed. This leads him to state the gods must be looking out for her.
* Back on Caprica, Starbuck finds a set of keys in her old jacket as they are resting in her appartment, and asks Helo if he is "tired of walking?"
* Helo and Starbuck then leave Delphi driving her old surplus military truck with the [[Arrow of Apollo]] in their possession.
* On Galactica, Roslin, Tigh and Apollo are all in sickbay around the unconscious Adama, Roslin assures Lee that [[William Adama|Commander Adama]] will be fine before being taken back to the brig.
* Tigh then tells Captain Adama that he is still shocked that he would side with the President against his own father. He goes so far as to say that he is unfit to wear a [[Colonial]] uniform. Apollo agrees but retorts that Tigh isn't either, and that what happens to both of them will be determined by his father after he has recovered.
* After Apollo is taken back to the brig, Tigh remarks "thank the gods I didn't have kids", before sitting alongside Adama.

== Notes ==
*The title refers to [[w:Pulp Fiction#Jules's Bible passage|a Bible quote]] which is recited several times by [[w:Samuel L. Jackson|Samuel L. Jackson]]'s character in the movie [[w:Pulp Fiction|Pulp Fiction]]. It is cited as "Ezekiel 25:17", but is actually fabricated from several Bible verses. The particular phrase "Valley of Darkness" probably comes from [[w:Psalm 23|Psalm 23:4]], where it is usually translated as "the valley of the shadow of death".
*The Fleet population cited in the opening credits is 47,874. This is one less than the previous episode. Prior to the opening credits, a Cylon kills [[Flyboy]].
* During the teaser, just before Flyboy has his ill-fated run-in with the Centurion, [[Louanne Katraine]] exclaims "Jesus!" in reaction to seeing the Cylon. This would be the second time that a "Jesus" ad-lib makes an appearance in the series, the first being from [[Michael Hogan]] during the [[Miniseries, Night 1|Miniseries]].
*This is the first episode without an appearance by either [[Sharon Valerii]] or the future {{callsign|Athena}} (except in opening montage). Other episodes in which no Number Eights appear include "[[Fragged]]", "[[Black Market]]", "[[The Captain's Hand]]", "[[Collaborators]]", "[[Taking a Break From All Your Worries]]", "[[Dirty Hands]]", and "[[Escape Velocity]]".
*Karl Agathon reveals to Kara Thrace that the Cylons recovered the bodies and brought them to cremation centers, hence the lack of bodies.
*Socinus, initially slated to die in early drafts of "[[Scattered]]", dies in this episode - euthanised by Tyrol.
* [[Kate Vernon]] is listed as a guest star in the opening credits. However, her character, [[Ellen Tigh]], is not in the final cut of this episode, thus all of her scenes are amongst this episode's [[List of Deleted Scenes (RDM)#Scattered|deleted scenes]].
* The music that plays in Kara Thrace's apartment and again during the closing act of the episode is ''Metamorphosis Five'', composed by [[w:Philip Glass|Philip Glass]]. It is from Glass's 1989 album ''Solo Piano''.
*In the German broadcast redubbing of Cally's now-infamous "Talk to me, you motherfrakker!" line, "motherfrakker" is replaced with "blöder Arsch", which translates as "stupid ass". The real world equivalent of the curse word "motherfrakker" doesn't exist in German, and a direct translation into German would have sounded particularly obscene, so the line was changed, and the joke is therefore lost in translation.
*The sign and countersign used by Tyrol and Crashdown on the surface of Kobol ("Flash!"/"Thunder!") was used by the Allied forces on [[w:D-Day|D-Day]], the first day of the invasion of [[w:Normandy|Normandy]], during [[w:World War II|World War II]].
*The apartment complex used in this episode is later reused as the prison-apartment on [[New Caprica]] in which [[Leoben Conoy]] holds Starbuck captive at the start of the third season ("[[Occupation]]" through "[[Exodus, Part II]]").
*The sun painting on the wall in Starbuck's apartment is later revealed in [[Season 3]] episodes to be a representation of the [[Eye of Jupiter]] subconsciously painted by Thrace. The symbol has [[The Destiny|later complications]] to the destiny of Thrace.
*The Colonials use internal combustion engines, such as Starbuck's truck and the vehicles seen in the flashbacks in "[[Act of Contrition]]".
*[[Colonel Tigh]]'s statement at the end of the episode is bitterly ironic given that the Significant Seven Cylons view him as their father ([[Islanded in a Stream of Stars]]).

== Analysis ==
*The Centurions in this episode can only be destroyed by explosive rounds, which is a large plot element. However, in episodes before and after "Valley of Darkness", Centurions have been seen being destroyed by regular bullets. These Centurions might have heavier armor because they are being used for a boarding action and will see heavy fighting. When episode writer Bradley Thompson was [[Battlestar Wiki:Official Communiques#Centurion armor|asked]] about this by Battlestar Wiki, he answered:
::''"Centurions are constantly being upgraded - new ones come out with better armor, quieter servos, better battle software. Some are designed for different uses (the ones designed for submarine use have REALLY heavy armor but are exceptionally slow, and have reduced ammunition carrying capacity.) Not to mention that the Colonials have remarkably bright backyard engineers—they've been hot-loading our small-arms rounds, coming up with better armor-piercing projectiles—it's the constant ebb-and-flow of wartime technology."''
*The fate of the Heavy Raider in the starboard bay is unknown. It's possible that, like Starbuck's captured Raider, the Colonials keep it for study. However, the crash may have damaged it beyond repair. (The Fleet later gains a second, [[Home, Part I|intact Heavy Raider]]. Its FTL guidance system is used in tandem with [[Sharon Agathon|Caprica-Valerii]] for the Caprica rescue mission {{TRS|Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I}}.)

== Questions ==
*The remains Baltar and Six find cannot be thousands of years old; they should not have been able to survive in the open. Did the [[Thirteenth Tribe (RDM)|Thirteenth Tribe]] leave Kobol recently? Do humans, at least until recently, still inhabit Kobol? Or were all the remains merely fabricated hallucinations by Six? ([[Sometimes a Great Notion|Probable Partial Answer]], [[No Exit|Probable Partial Answer]])
*Are the human skeletons real, or a hallucination created for Baltar by Six? If the skeletons ''are'' real, is Six lying when she says they are the result of human sacrifice (i.e. they could have been from the cataclysm that drove humanity off of Kobol)?
:When [[Battlestar Wiki:Official Communiques#Human sacrifice|asked about this]] episode writer [[Bradley Thompson]] answered: "The question at the bottom of this is: "Who is Six?" In such cases, I'm not going to embellish what Ron & David have put on the screen."
*Why would later humans have felt it necessary to cover up the nature of civilization on Kobol? Is it related to the reason why Kobol was abandoned in the first place? How would the Cylons have found out? Did Six just make it up, or could it be the Cylon interpretation of the scriptures? ([[Sometimes a Great Notion|Probable Partial Answer]], [[No Exit|Partial Answer]])

== Official Statements ==
=== From RDM's blog ===

* "We've almost completed shooting the opening of Season Two, with [[Michael Rymer]] back at the helm filming a two-parter written by [[David Weddle]] & [[Bradley Thompson]] called '[[Scattered]]' and '[[Valley of Darkness]].' Things have been going well so far, with a good mood on the set and a feeling of satisfaction and pride running through the whole team at their accomplishments in year one and anticipation for year two."<ref name="blog-4-11-05">{{cite web|url=http://blog.scifi.com/battlestar/archives/2005/04/|title=Battlestar Galactica: April 2005 Blog Archives|author=Ron D. Moore|date=April 11, 2005}}</ref>

* ''"[[Lee Adama|Apollo]]'s betrayal of [[William Adama|Adama]]'s decision to arrest the [[Laura Roslin|president]] is detracting from the believability of the show for me. I'm listining to your [[podcast]] of [[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II|ep. 113]] as I write this and you just said Lee is "a more capable, more competent, leader . . ." He's also struck me as a fairly honorable character. If he had doubts about this mission I think he would have at least voiced them and then not gone along with the strike team so he would not have been put in the position he was. I hope you won't use Adama's near death experience at the end of season one/start of season two to "write off" these betrayals, esp. Apollo's. His was much more unforgivable considering his relationship with Adama, his leadership role in the fleet, and the battle between the president and Adama. I find it hard to see Lee continuing as [[CAG]] after this. "''

: You bring up valid points and we are planning to play out the consequences of Lee's decision as it impacts both him and his father over the course of the season.<ref name="blog-4-11-05"/>

== Noteworthy Dialogue ==

* {{audio|VOD - motherfrakker.mp3|''On the surface of Kobol, Chief Tyrol and Cally are on their way to rendezvous with the rest of the Raptor crash survivors:''}}
:'''Cally:''' (exhausted from walking) What do you say we take five?
:(Chief Tyrol is still in a state of shock from having lost Tarn to a surprise attack by the Cylons and leans against a tree)
:'''Cally:''' How much further, do you think?
:(Chief Tyrol ignores her)
:'''Cally:''' [[Tarn]] getting shot...it wasn't your fault, you know that right?... Chief?
:(Chief Tyrol is silent)
:'''Cally:''' Talk to me, you mother[[frak]]ker!
:(Chief Tyrol turns around and looks at her strangely)
:'''Chief Tyrol:''' (laughing) Motherfrakker?
:'''Cally:''' Socinus better appreciate this.
:'''Chief Tyrol:''' He's probably lying in the sun, staring up at the birds like some Gods' damned emperor. He's an idiot.
:'''Cally:''' I hope he's okay...

* {{audio|VOD - great family values.mp3|''Regarding "Sharon, the Cylon":''}}
:'''Starbuck:''' (to Helo, sarcastically) Your girlfriend’s from a ''lovely'' family, good people, great values.

* {{audio|VOD - why people fight.mp3|''In her apartment on Caprica, Starbuck and Helo stop to rest:''}}
:'''Kara Thrace:''' (sitting on her couch) You know, I never really liked this place anyway. Air conditioning doesn't work in the summer. Heater doesn't work in the winter. The rent's a crime...(lights a cigar)...After they attacked, I never pined over any of my old crap. Never missed it. Stupid view of the parking lot. Broken toilet in the bathroom...You know, everyone I know is fighting to get back what they had. I'm fighting because I don't know how to do anything else.

*{{audio|VOD - toaster shopping.mp3|''Speaking to Marines:''}}
:'''Lee Adama''': Let’s go [[toaster]] shopping.

* {{audio|VOD_-_Socinus'_death.mp3|''Chief Tyrol and Cally have rejoined the others on Kobol, and they find out that Socinus isn't going to survive much longer:''}}
:'''Chief Tyrol:''' How's he doing?
:'''Seelix:''' He's not going to make it.
:'''Chief Tyrol:''' What? What do you mean? What are you talking about? We got the medkit! Give him a shot! Give him another shot!
:'''Seelix:''' It's too late.
:'''Chief Tyrol:''' What do you mean, it's too late? I got you the medkit! What else do you want? (looking stunned) So we...got the medicine you asked for...Tarn...and for what? For this? Come on! You have to do something. You have to do something!
:'''Seelix:''' We can't change that he's going to die, Chief. It's going to be slow and painful, and we can spare him that if we give him the morpha from my kit and the one that you brought back.
:'''Chief Tyrol:''' What? No. (looks at Crashdown) LT..LT, come on!
:'''Crashdown:''' He's your man, Chief.
:'''Chief Tyrol:''' Give it to me. (takes morpha from Seelix and leans down beside Socinus) Hey buddy. It's the Chief. How you doing?
:'''Socinus:''' (wheezing) What's going on?
:'''Chief Tyrol:''' Oh, you know...listening to the birds. I got you a little something for the pain. (injects morpha into Socinus) Good news, buddy. The recovery party's here. Raptors just landed. We're going to put you on one and take you back to ''Galactica'', okay?
:'''Socinus:''' We're going home?
:'''Chief Tyrol:''' Yeah...(tears welling in his eyes)...we're going home.
:(Socinus passes away)

* {{audio|VOD - not fit to wear the uniform.mp3|''In ''Galactica''{{'|s}} sickbay:''}}
:'''Colonel Tigh:''' I can't believe you sided with that woman against [[The Old Man|the old man]]. I wouldn't do that if you put a gun to my head...[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II|and you did]]! As far as I'm concerned, you're not fit to wear a uniform.
:'''Lee Adama:''' Huh. You're right about that part. I am not fit to wear the uniform...and maybe I never was. Then again, neither are you. But this isn't my ship, and it sure as hell isn't yours. (motions at Commander Adama) It's his, and when he wakes up, he'll decide what to do with the both of us. (Captain Adama leaves for the brig)
:'''Colonel Tigh:''' Thank the Gods I didn't have kids.

* {{audio|VOD - roll the hard six.mp3|''In Aft Damage Control, preparing to fight the Cylons:''}}
:'''Lee Adama''': Sometimes you got to roll a hard six.
:'''[[Jammer]]''': What does that mean, sir?
:'''Lee Adama''': Uh, I don't know. It's something my [[William Adama|dad]] says.

== Guest stars ==
*[[Michael Hogan]] as Colonel [[Saul Tigh]]
*[[Aaron Douglas]] as Chief [[Galen Tyrol]]
*[[Tahmoh Penikett]] as Lt. [[Karl Agathon|Karl "Helo" Agathon]]
*[[Paul Campbell]] as [[Billy Keikeya]]
*[[Nicki Clyne]] as Specialist [[Cally Tyrol|Cally Henderson]]
*[[Alessandro Juliani]] as Lt. [[Felix Gaeta]]
*[[Kandyse McClure]] as Petty Officer [[Anastasia Dualla]]
*[[Samuel Witwer]] as {{callsign|Crashdown}}
*[[Kate Vernon]] as [[Ellen Tigh]]
*[[Alonso Oyarzun]] as Specialist [[Socinus]]
*[[Kerry Norton]] as Paramedic [[Layne Ishay]]
*[[Chris Shields]] as Corporal [[Venner]]
*[[Luciana Carro]] as Lt. [[Louanne Katraine|Louanne "Kat" Katraine]]
*[[Bodie Olmos]] as Lt. [[Brendan Costanza|Brendan "Hot Dog" Costanza]]
*[[Jennifer Halley]] as [[Diana Seelix]]
*[[Ty Olsson]] as Captain [[Aaron Kelly]]
*[[Michael Tayles]] as [[Flyboy]]
*[[Dominic Zamprogna]] as [[James Lyman|James "Jammer" Lyman]]
*[[Garvin Cross]] as [[Collishaw]]
*[[Brad Loree]] as [[Bonnington]]
*[[Lori Stewart]] as [[Twinam]]

== References ==
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Religion in the Twelve Colonies (RDM)

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WarGrowlmon15: /* The Lords of Kobol */

{{disline|This article discusses the Colonial polytheistic religion as seen in the [[Re-imagined Series]]. For summary information on the Kobollian religion from the [[Original Series]], see [[Religion in the Twelve Colonies (TOS)]].}}

:''For information on the various mythologies used in ''Battlestar Galactica'', see [[Mythological references]].''

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The dominant '''religion of the Twelve Colonies''', which the various characters of ''Battlestar Galactica'' practice to greater or lesser extent, is a [[Wikipedia:polytheism|polytheistic]] faith<ref>The Colonial deities are very similar to the [[Wikipedia:Greek mythology|Olympic gods]] of Greek mythology on the real-world Earth.</ref> with a strong emphasis on the philosophy of [[Wikipedia:Eternal return|eternal return]]. There are several variants of this faith, in both belief and practice.

Contrasting with this is a lesser [[Monotheism|monotheistic]] religion that grows during the period leading up to the [[First Cylon War]], directly clashing with the perceived depravity and excesses originating from the dominant polytheistic faith. To further advocate their goal, a militant monotheistic arm of the [[Monotheist Church]], the [[Soldiers of the One]], advocate violent change on behalf of this singular [[God (RDM)|God]]. This laid groundwork leads to the schism between humanity and its children, the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]].

==Origin==
[[File:Pythia.jpg|right|thumb|A portion of the Sacred Scrolls, specifically, a portion of the Book of [[Pythia]].]]
The eternal-return aspect between the peoples of {{RDM|Kobol}} and [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]] suggest a parallel or reverse-origin with humanity as a whole, or the [[Thirteenth Tribe (RDM)|Thirteenth Tribe]] that presumably populated it. See [[History of the Twelve Colonies]] for more analysis.

During the memorial following the [[Battle of Ragnar Anchorage|escape from Ragnar Anchorage]] {{TRS|Miniseries, Night 2}}, [[William Adama]] states, "Life here began out there,<ref>This phrase is a homage to the [[Original Series]], where each episode began with this phrase in a voice-over introduction.</ref>" reminding the assembly that this was the first line of the [[Sacred Scrolls]], the principal religious tome of the Colonial faith, told to them by the Lords of Kobol many centuries ago.
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==Belief==
===The Lords of Kobol===
Colonial religion is centered on the Lords of Kobol. In the Re-imagined Series and ''Caprica'', the following Lords of Kobol have been positively identified:
* [[Zeus]] – The leader of the Lords. [[Tom Zarek]] has twice referred to [[William Adama|Bill Adama]] as "Zeus" ("[[Bastille Day]]," "[[The Farm]]," as a play on {{callsign|Lee Adama}}'s callsign).
* [[Aphrodite]] – The lady of love and sexuality. Kara Thrace prays often to this Lord {{TRS|Flesh and Bone}}.
* [[Apollo, Lord of Kobol|Apollo]] – Zeus' son, said to be the lord of the hunt and of healing {{TRS|Bastille Day}}.
* [[Ares]] – The lord of war. The [[Nicholas Tyrol|infant son]] of [[Cally]] and [[Galen Tyrol]] is [[dedication ceremony|dedicated]] to this Lord of Kobol ([[TRS]]: "[[Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance|The Resistance, Episode 10]]"). The [[Sons of Ares]] are a militant fundamentalist group, dedicated to Ares {{TRS|Escape Velocity|Deadlock}}
* [[Artemis]] – Twin sister of Apollo, lady of the hunt. [[Kara Thrace]] prays often to this Lord {{TRS|Flesh and Bone}}.
* [[Asclepius]] – The lord of healing {{TRS|Escape Velocity}}.
* [[Athena, Lord of Kobol|Athena]] – This lord committed suicide "out of despair over the exodus of the thirteen tribes" {{TRS|Home, Part II}}. Her [[Tomb of Athena|tomb]] holds a map to [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]] ([[TRS]]: "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]").
* [[Aurora, Goddess of the Dawn]] {{TRS|Maelstrom}}<ref>Aurora is the Roman counterpart of the Greek [[w:Eos|Eos]]. Eos is one of the [[w:Titans (mythology)|Titans]]. Since the Lords of Kobol are modeled after the [[w:Twelve Olympians|Twelve Olympians]] however, this could indicate that she is not one of the Lords, but belongs to another group of deities.</ref>.
*[[Hecate]] – Shape-changing goddess of the underworld ([[CAP]]: [[Caprica pilot|''Caprica'' pilot]]).
* [[Hera, Lord of Kobol|Hera]] – Wife of Zeus. A [[Gates of Hera|mountain ridge]] on Kobol is named after her {{TRS|Home, Part II}}, and the [[Hera Agathon|first Cylon/human hybrid child]] is named for this lord {{TRS|Downloaded}}.
* [[Poseidon]] – [[Gaius Baltar]] mentions this deity in a conversation with [[Tracey Anne]] {{TRS|He That Believeth in Me}}. Deckhand [[Brooks (RDM)|Brooks]] also prays to this lord. {{TRS|The Face of the Enemy}}
* {{inlineref|Hephaestus|bold=N}} - Noted as the patron god of [[Canceron]].<ref>In Greek mythology, [[w:Hephaestus|]] is known as the god of fire, metalworking, stone masonry, forges and the art of sculpture.</ref>
* {{inlineref|Hermes|bold=N}} - Noted as the patron god of [[Aquaria (RDM)|Aquaria]].<ref>In Greek mythology, {{w|Hermes}} is considered the {{w|herald}} (messenger) of the gods, also the protector of humans heralds, travellers, thieves, merchants and orators.</ref>
*{{inlineref|Icarus|bold=N}} - [[Baxter Sarno]]'s joke about the wings of statue of Icarus melting, particularly in the aftermath of the bombing of [[Clarice Willow]]'s car, is met with scorn {{CAP|Unvanquished}}.
*{{inlineref|Prometheus|bold=N}} - Credited in the pantheon as bringing the gift of fire to mortals, and thus the light of knowledge. [[Cerebus]] of the ''[[New Cap City]]'' nightclub [[Mysteries]] retold the story of Prometheus to their patrons, and would pose riddles to patrons regarding this tale {{CAP|Ghosts in the Machine}}.

The Colonials appear to use multiple names for their lords, interchanging "Mars" for "Ares," "Jupiter" for "Zeus," and so on.<ref>Curiously, [[Laura Roslin]] mentions that the 134th day of the Cylon occupation of [[New Caprica]] is Mars Day {{TRS|Occupation}}, suggesting that Ares may also be called by his alternate Roman pantheon's name. The same happens again in "[[The Passage]]" when Zeus is referred to by the name of his Roman counterpart Jupiter.</ref>

====Afterlife====
Believers think that they will go to [[Fields of Elysium]] after death if they led a good life {{TRS|Faith}}.<ref>This is clearly a direct parallel to the ancient Greek [[w:Elysium|Elysian Fields]], the part of the [[w:Hades|underworld]] corresponding to "heaven". The visual image of a ferry crossing a river also parallels the river [[w:Styx|Styx]].</ref>

==== Paradise Lost====
According to the [[Sacred Scrolls]], the gods once shared a paradise-like existence with the people of {{RDM|Kobol}}. Later circumstances forced the exodus of the human population of Kobol to [[The Twelve Colonies of Kobol|the Twelve Colonies]] and [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]], and lead to Athena's suicide.

The existence of the Lords of Kobol is attested to by the survival of numerous artifacts, including the [[Arrow of Apollo]], the [[Tomb of Athena]] and the [[Gates of Hera]]. However, although she accepts their historic authenticity, [[Sharon Agathon|Caprica-Valerii]], a [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]], questions their actual divinity.<ref>There is a notion in fan circles that there are twelve lords of Kobol, by analogy to the twelve Cylon models, twelve Colonies, and perhaps the [[w:Twelve Olympians|Twelve Olympians]] of Greek mythology. A post from [[Ron D. Moore]]'s blog [http://blog.scifi.com/battlestar/archives/2005/03/index.html#a000023 on March 12, 2005] loosely alludes on this coincidence, but further official sourcing has not been revealed.</ref>

====The Jealous God ====
[[Elosha]] states that the exodus from Kobol was precipitated when "one jealous god began to desire that he be elevated above all the other gods, and the war on Kobol began." This god was eventually separated from the others.<ref>From a [[List of Deleted Scenes - Season 2 (RDM)#Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I|deleted scene]] cut from the episode "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]".</ref> This figure may be related to or identical with "[[The One Whose Name Cannot Be Spoken|the one whose name cannot be spoken]]," whose [[Temple of Five|temple]] is discovered on the [[algae planet]] {{TRS|The Eye of Jupiter}}.

====The Path of Olympus====
[[Tom Zarek]] conveys to [[Laura Roslin]] and her [[Laura Roslin faction|followers]] the news that Commander [[William Adama]] had resumed command of ''[[Galactica (TRS)|Galactica]]'' after the attempt on his life by saying: "Zeus has returned to '''Olympus'''" {{TRS|The Farm}}.<ref>In Greek mythology, the home of the gods on Earth resided high atop Greece's highest mountain, Mount Olympus, at a time where access to the mountain summit would be almost impossible with the inhabitants' technology of that age.</ref> By Zarek's comment we can infer that Colonial religion appears to acknowledge the existence of a place called Olympus. It cannot yet be determined, however, if Olympus was thought of as the residence of the gods at a specific physical or ''metaphysical'' location of Kobol, as there has been no mention of Olympus elsewhere. If Olympus is a metaphysical locale, this may contradict [[Elosha]]'s comment that the gods and man lived on Kobol together in harmony.<ref>On the other hand, according to the ancient Greek poem ''[[w:Theogony|Theogony]]'' by Hesiod, the gods lived together with humankind until Prometheus' deception at Mecone, after which they dwelt exclusively on mount Olympus and humans exclusively on Earth. Perhaps, then, some transgression caused the Lords of Kobol and humankind to part paths.</ref>

===Other Mythological Names in Colonial Culture===
Various items have been identified which are apparently named after other gods and legendary figures of their faith, although these have not been explicitly identified as Lords of Kobol.

:''See main article: [[Mythological references]]''

===The Cycle of Time===
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''"All this has happened before, and all this will happen again."''<ref>In a short talk he gave before a screening of "[[Flesh and Bone]]," Ron Moore revealed that he "stole" the line from the introduction of the Disney animated version of ''[[w:Peter Pan|Peter Pan]]'' (lecture [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9op6PC03LRA part 1] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0w-9NglSNG0 part 2]).</ref>

According to [[Gaius Baltar]], this line from the [[Pythia]]n prophecy is very well known {{TRS|The Hand of God (RDM)}}. [[Laura Roslin]] later expands on it, reminding [[Kara Thrace]],

<blockquote>"If you believe in the gods, then you believe in the cycle of time that we are all playing our parts in a story that is told again, and again, and again throughout eternity" ([[TRS]]: "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]").</blockquote>

Various events have led some people to believe that they are playing out another turn of this cycle<ref>The notion of a circular progression of time (also known as [[w:eternal return|eternal return]] or eternal recurrence) is a common theme in other faiths, particularly [[w:Maya#Religion|Mayan]] mythology and is a cornerstone of the Hindu and Buddhist faiths. Moreover, [[w:Stoic|Stoic]] philosophy did believe in the concept of ''ekpyrosis'', the fire which consumes the old world and signals the birth of a new world, identical to the old, for a recurring cycle of birth, death and rebirth.</ref>. (See [[Sacred Scrolls]] for more detailed analysis).

===Sanctity of Life===
According to the Sacred Scrolls, abortion is "an abomination in the eyes of the Gods." The more fundamentalist [[The Twelve Colonies of Kobol#Gemenon|Gemenese]] strictly adhere to this commandment, however the more secular Colonies such as Caprica apparently do not follow this as strictly: officially, Colonies-wide Federal law guaranteed a woman the right to an abortion, at least at the time of the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]] {{TRS|The Captain's Hand}}.

==Individual Practice==
The Colonials display a wide spectrum of religious practice, ranging from [[Billy Keikeya]]'s atheism ([[TRS]]: "[[Home, Part II]]," [[List of Deleted Scenes - Season 2 (RDM)#Home, Part II|cut scene]]) to Corporal [[Venner]]'s literalistic readings of the Sacred Scrolls.

While not fully explained in the Re-imagined Series, it appears, based on the information from a [[dedication ceremony]] for [[Nicholas Tyrol]] and the prayers of [[Kara Thrace]], that each Colonial is paired, or "placed in the service" with one or more of the Lords. Based on the dedication ceremony blessing, Zeus is a considered "almighty" or foremost of the gods, while other Lords are prayed to by Colonials as a proxy to Zeus.<ref>This practice is similar to a Catholic practice of prayer to Mary, mother of Jesus. While Mary is a human, followers believe that, by praying to Mary, she can intercede to aid the acceptance of the prayer by the [[w:Trinity|Trinity]], the godhead of the Catholic faith.</ref>

===Artifacts===
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Despite Gemenon's fundamentalist climate, the city of [[Delphi]] on {{RDM|Caprica}} was apparently of a mind to store an important religious artifact, the [[Arrow of Apollo]], in a [[Delphi Museum of the Colonies|museum]], rather than a devotional institution ([[TRS]]: "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]").

Ancient temples may be also be the repository of special artifacts such as the [[Eye of Jupiter]], believed to be stored inside the legendary [[Temple of Five]] ("[[Rapture]]," "[[The Eye of Jupiter]]").
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=== Confession===
At least some sects of the Colonial religion practice the concept of absolution of sins through confession. Brothers, and presumably priests as well, may hear confessions as demonstrated by [[Brother Cavil]] agreeing to hear Anders' confession {{TRS|The Plan}}. It is not known if this practice is uniform throughout the Colonial religion or limited to certain sects.

A confession begins with the confessor saying, "Bless me, Brother, for I have acted against the example of the Gods." The Brother or Priest will then say, "Proceed in the name of the Gods," and after hearing the confession, they will end by saying, "You are absolved in the example of the Gods."

=== Dress===
[[File:Season 3 - Promo - Epi 1 - 2 - Oracle Selloi.jpg|right|thumb|200px|The robes of [[Dodona Selloi]] {{TRS|Exodus, Part I}}]]
As seen by the various [[Laura Roslin faction|separatists]] orbiting Kobol {{TRS|Home, Part I}}, it appears that many Colonials have clothing that suggests a religious deference. In the scene, one older, white-bearded gentleman is dressed in simple colored robes and a round, flat head covering<ref>These robes may remind viewers of the tradition dress of Hasidic Jews, Islamic clerics, or Eastern Orthodox clerics of the real-world Earth.</ref> Other distinctive dress styles of other characters in the scene increase the sense of the dedication of religion in the Gemenese people (which appear to comprise the majority of Roslin's separatists).

The [[oracle]] [[Dodona Selloi]] dresses in a turban and robes, suggesting a special role in Colonial society or its religious hierarchy {{TRS|Exodus, Part I}}.<br clear="all">

=== Idols===
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Kara Thrace, a devotee of Artemis and Aphrodite, prays to them on behalf of [[Leoben Conoy]] using figurines that bear a similarity to classic representations of Artemis and Athena. Artemis is depicted with her bow and arrow, and Athena with her helmet of war {{TRS|Flesh and Bone}}.

When visting the oracle [[Yolanda Brenn]], Thrace receives a figurine of the goddess [[Aurora, Goddess of the Dawn|Aurora]] as a gift {{TRS|Maelstrom}}.
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=== Prayer===
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Some prisoners on the ''[[Astral Queen]]'' seeking rehabilitation have turned to group prayer. They greet Laura Roslin as a prophet and she provides them with a blessing {{TRS|The Farm}}.

Priest [[Elosha]] sings a group prayer in a [[Service for the dead]] after the Fleet escapes from the initial Cylon attack {{TRS|Miniseries, Night 2}}.<ref>The language she sings is [[w:Sanskrit|Sanskrit]], a classical language of real-world Earth's Hindu/Indian peoples. More about the verses that she sings and their meaning can be found in the [[Language in the Twelve Colonies#Liturgy|Language in the Twelve Colonies]] article.</ref> The priest also gives a prayer after ''[[Colonial One]]'' is boarded by Commander Adama's troops to remove Roslin from power ([[TRS]]: "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]").

A chaplain delivered a simple prayer at the funeral of [[Zak Adama]], two years prior to the fall of the Colonies {{TRS|Act of Contrition}}<ref>The prayer's mention of committing a "body to the ground from which we were all made" echoes the Biblical passage of [http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/bible/genesis/genesis3.htm Genesis 3:19]:'''<nowiki/>'''
:"By the sweat of your brow
:you will eat your food
:until you return to the ground,
:since from it you were taken;
:for dust you are
:and to dust you will return."</ref>:

<blockquote>"The burdens of this life are with us but a short time. For Lieutenant Zak Adama, son of [[William Adama|William]] and [[Carolanne Adama]], brother of [[Lee Adama|Lee]], the time was too short, but we take comfort in knowing his life was willingly given in service to all of us. We honor them for that. And thus, it falls upon us to repent our sins and with the help of the Lords of Kobol, make our own lives worthy of that gift. And now, we commit his body to the ground from which we were all made."</blockquote>

Corporal [[Venner]] asks [[Laura Roslin]] to join him in a simple prayer while ''Galactica'' is attacked as it desperately tries to find its Fleet {{TRS|Scattered}}.
<blockquote>''(To Roslin:)'' Will you pray with me? ''(He begins:)'' Help us, Lords of Kobol. Help your prophet Laura guide us to the path of righteousness. That we might – that we might destroy our enemies. Let us walk the path of righteousness and lift our faces unto your goodness. Help us turn away from the calls of the wicked and show us the knowledge of your certain salvation. We offer this prayer.</blockquote>

Prayer is also seen in the [[Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance|Season 3 webisode series]] in a temple (where prayers are written and then burned before an idol), and by [[Kara Thrace]] {{TRS|Miniseries|Flesh and Bone}}.<br clear="all">
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===Rosaries===
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As [[Laura Roslin]] begins to suffer from [[chamalla]] withdrawal in ''Galactica'''s brig, Corporal Venner, a [[The Twelve Colonies of Kobol#Gemenon|Gemenese]], anxiously clutches a set of white prayer beads {{TRS|Fragged}}.
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===[[Temple]]===
[[File:Resistance - Webisode 4.jpg|thumb|[[Nora Farmer|Nora]] and [[Cally Tyrol]] pray in a temple on [[New Caprica]] ([[TRS]]: "[[Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance#Episode 4|Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance – Episode 4]]").]]

Temples may have been more elaborate places on the Twelve Colonies, but the spaceborne remnants of humanity presumably use any space they can find on their ships to form a basic temple. As seen on [[New Caprica]], a basic temple may consist of a simple altar with candles, idols of the Lords of Kobol, and what meager offerings the Colonials can give as a [[w:tithe|tithe]]. Some prayers are written on paper and burned ([[TRS]]: "[[Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance]]").

The temple on New Caprica was known as the Temple of [[Artemis]] {{TRS|Collaborators}}, suggesting that temples are dedicated to a Lord or Lords, and may be related to the pairing of Colonials to a specific set of Lords at their dedication ceremony.

A similar arrangement to temple is found in an [[Yolanda Brenn|oracle camp]] {{TRS|Maelstrom}}.

A room used for religious services on ''[[Galactica (TRS)|Galactica]]'' is referred to as a temple {{TRS|Escape Velocity}}. In the guise of a brother, the Fleet copy of [[John Cavil]] establishes a temple aboard ''Galactica'' for clandestine meetings with other [[Humanoid Cylon|Cylon agents]] regarding "the plan" {{TRS|The Plan}}.
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===Sagittaron beliefs===
Orthodox [[Sagittaron#Culture|Sagittaron beliefs]] are more anachronistic than the Gemenese's, believing that the mind and body are myths, and that medicine is "an abomination, a sin against the Gods". Sagittarons also blame physicians for the spread of disease due to their ignorance of the aforementioned "myth" of the body and mind. They traditionally do not believe in violence, even to the point of not aiding the [[New Caprica Resistance]] in their fight against the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]] occupation of [[New Caprica]] {{TRS|The Woman King}}.

=== Other minority beliefs===
A small minority of the Colonials were secretly [[God (RDM)|monothiests]]. While it is not clear if such worship was still in practice in modern Colonial times up to the Cylon holocaust, an [[Temple of Five|unusual temple]] found on a [[Algae planet|remote planet]] suggests that monotheism was prevalent in the [[Thirteenth Tribe (RDM)|Thirteenth Tribe]].

After the [[Second Exodus]], [[Gaius Baltar]] later founds [[Cult of Baltar|a monotheistic cult]] that finds itself in conflict with the established faiths. Baltar's faith comes into direct, violent conflict with the [[Sons of Ares]] as well as the general Colonial polythiests. [[Mithraism]] is also noted in practice {{TRS|Escape Velocity}}

==The Clergy==
The religious and government bodies of the Twelve Colonies work together. This association is likely based on the religious homogeneity of the Colonies.<ref>This differs from the United States, whose government is based on religious tolerance through the separation of religious practice and legislature. While the real-world Earth has many, many religions, the Twelve Colonies, as yet, appear to have only one religion and as such does not suffer greatly from schisms or other religious factions, although colonists such as the Gemenese show a different emphasis on how they interpret the religious writings.</ref>

===Priests/Priestesses===
[[File:Season 3 - Promo - Collaborators - Priest.jpg|right|thumb|A male [[Unnamed characters (RDM)#Priest|priest]]. {{TRS|Collaborators}}.]]
[[File:Elosha1.jpg|thumb|left|Elosha, priestess and friend of President Roslin. {{TRS|Home, Part I}}]]
[[Laura Roslin]] [[Case Orange|is sworn into the presidency]] by a priestess<ref>In "[[Blood on the Scales]]," Baltar refers to Elosha as "the ''Priestess'' Elosha," indicating that women priests have a femanine title</ref>, [[Elosha]], who continues on in an advisory capacity within Roslin's administration. Priests also preside over military funerals, without regard for the beliefs of the deceased.

Priests in the Twelve Colonies are apparently not required to practice celibacy, and can be male or female. Chief [[Galen Tyrol]] states that his father was a priest and his mother an oracle {{TRS|Resistance (episode)|Resistance}}.<ref>Galen Tyrol's information may be skewed by the revelation that he himself is a Cylon {{TRS|Crossroads, Part II}}.</ref>

According to [[Billy Keikeya]], some priests use [[chamalla]] for its hallucinogenic properties. The prescient dreams it imparted to Laura Roslin may imply the use of something similar by [[Pythia]], an ancient prophet. [[Oracle]]s also use the drug.
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===Brothers===
[[File:Cyca2.jpg|left|thumb|The false Brother [[Cavil]] {{TRS|Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II}}.]]
The term ''Brother'' is used as a title for male members of the clergy, although it is not fully apparent whether this role is similar to that of a [[w:Monk|monk]] or [[w:Deacon|deacon]].

As with priests, a brother offers consultation and leads prayer.

The only instance of this clergy is Brother [[Cavil]], who offers guidance to Chief Tyrol.

Cavil, however, is revealed as a [[humanoid Cylon]] some time later. Because of Cavil's nature, there may be doubt as to whether Cavil is a useful example of the work of a Brother in Colonial religion.

It is probable that Brothers are lay clergy, unlike priests and oracles, who appear to have political status as well as their religious status.
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===Sisters===
[[File:Tivenan.jpg|right|thumb|Sister Tivenan (right) at a [[dedication ceremony]] ([[TRS]]: "[[Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance|The Resistance: Episode 10]]")]]
As with Brothers in the clergy, there are ''Sisters'' as well.

Sister [[Tivenan]] is briefly seen tending to business in the temple on [[New Caprica]], guiding prayer and officiating a [[dedication ceremony]] for the [[Nicholas Tyrol|newborn son]] of [[Galen Tyrol|Galen]] and [[Cally Tyrol]] ([[TRS]]: "[[Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance]]").

It is probable that Sisters, like Brothers, are lay clergy.
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===Oracles===
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[[File:Season 3 - Promo - Epi 1 - 2 - Oracle Selloi.jpg|left|thumb|The oracle [[Dodona Selloi]] {{TRS|Exodus, Part I}}.]]
[[File:S3 oraclebrenn low.jpg|right|thumb|The oracle [[Yolanda Brenn]] {{TRS|Maelstrom}}.]]
There is little information as to the religious functions of ''oracles''. [[Dodona Selloi]] is one of two oracles seen in the Re-imagined Series. She confirms the dreams of a copy of [[Number Three]] and the existence of [[Hera Agathon|Hera]]. It is not clear if Selloi is sitting in a tent designated as a temple, but there are numerous ornate or curious inscriptions surrounding and inside her tent that suggest the significance of the oracle's tent or her presence. A second oracle, [[Yolanda Brenn]], gives counsel to [[Kara Thrace]] on her strange dreams aboard ''Galactica'' {{TRS|Maelstrom}}.

Priests and oracles may assume their roles due to an personal, possibly inherited affinity to sense spiritual changes or conditions. [[Galen Tyrol]], [[Final Five|believed to be the son of a priest and oracle]], detects the presence of and finds the [[Temple of Five]] alone, based only on his senses, apparently detecting the hidden temple on the otherwise-unremarkable (and undocumented) [[algae planet]] {{TRS|The Eye of Jupiter}}. However, it is revealed later that he is in fact a humanoid Cylon, one of the {{TRS|Final Five}}, and had visited the site before.
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==A Cylon Connection==
:''Main article: [[Cylon Religion]]''
:''See Also: [[The Destiny]], [[Final Five]], [[Temple of Five]]''

While humanoid Cylons show a strict, firm belief in a monotheistic [[God (RDM)|God]], referring to the Lords of Kobol as "false idols," a connection between the Cylon God and the Lords of Kobol may exist. During the Cylon occupation of New Caprica, an [[Selloi|oracle]] tells [[Number Three]] (who has a ''dream'' of the oracle's tent and of holding the believed-dead hybrid child [[Hera Agathon|Hera]]") that she has a message from the one that Number Three worships {{TRS|Exodus, Part I}}. This poses the question how an oracle of the Lords of Kobol is able to hear the messages of the Cylon God.

The [[Temple of Five]], which a [[Number Three]] uses to visualize the identities of the [[Final Five]]," was not built for the Cylons (who were not created until 4,000 years later) but for humans. The Temple, according to the Sacred Scrolls, was built for five priests who worshiped "[[The One Whose Name Cannot Be Spoken]]". It is not clear if this was the spurned "jealous god" or another fallen member of the Lords of Kobol.<ref>While the notion of a fallen Lord is speculative in the Re-imagined Series, there is already a parallel series of characters from the [[Original Series]]: The [[Beings of Light]] and their fallen member, [[Iblis]]. [[Ron D. Moore]], however, has stated in several interviews that he was not planning to use this Original Series concept in the Re-imagined Series.</ref>

[[Kara Thrace]] realizes her [[The Destiny|destiny]], first from the words of a [[Leoben Conoy]] model, and later, in a type of dream, through an [[Messenger Leoben|entity that took the likeness of Leoben]], but was not a Cylon. From death, Thrace [[Crossroads, Part II|returns]] to the Fleet, not as an illusion, but resurrected – something that, prior to Thrace, only a humanoid Cylon could do.

==Notes==

* In a podcast, RDM mentioned that it was intended that there would be many sectarian divisions and religious denominations within colonial society, ranging from a Hellenic-style Cult of Athena to more Buddhist and Hindu forms of worship, and including monotheistic minorities. Mithraism is presumably one such minority belief, similar to the real-life minority Mithraic religion of Roman times. This diversity was not fully shown due to time constraints, but would later be made more apparent in ''Caprica''.
*It seems that Colonial society protects freedom of worship and encourages religious diversity to some degree. However, certain monotheistic organizations such as the [[Soldiers of the One]] and the [[Cult of Baltar]] are strongly anti-polytheistic, and some devout polytheists such as [[Jordan Duram]] take strong exception to the doctrine of monotheism.
*The Tauron funeral rite {{CAP|There is Another Sky}} mirrors the Ancient Greek rite of placing a coin on the head of the dead for the Charon, the ferryman who took the souls of the dead across the Rivers Styx and Acheron to The Underworld. The idea of eternal return "all of this has happened before, and will happen again" is strongly present in many forms of Hinduism, which see the universe as cyclical. The use of oracles and icons of deities reflects many historical Indo-European religions from Ancient Greek to Hindu, as well as different shamanistic practices. Additionally the priests of the Lords of Kobol wear different vestments perhaps indicating divisions similar to Protestantism/Catholic/Orthadox in Christianity.
*The use of the names of certain real-life pagan Gods as personal names (like the Germanic Odin) as well as the presence of interchangable Greco-Roman names for the same gods (i.e. Jupiter/Zeus or Mars/Ares) may suggest that the worship of the Lords of Kobol uses different names for the same Gods depending on language. Different colonies may call the same Lords of Kobol names like the Germanic Tyr, Roman Jupiter, Greek Zeus Pater, Indian Deus Pita interchangably. Alternatively, it is possible that some polytheists in the colonies worship a different pantheon altogether, or include the worship of other gods along with the 12 Lords of Kobol, just as how there are Titans and Olympians in Greek religion, Asir and Vanir in Germanic religion, or Devas and Asuras in Hindu religion.
*The punchline of [[Blood_on_the_Scales#Noteworthy_Dialogue|the joke]] that [[Tom Zarek]] tells {{callsign|Racetrack}} as he is escorted from the flight deck in "[[Blood_on_the_Scales#Notes|Blood on the Scales]]" suggests that pedophilia by priests may have been an issue among the clergy of the Twelve Colonies, similar to [[w:Abuse_by_members_of_Roman_Catholic_orders|anecdotes and allegations]] involving the Roman Catholic Church.

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[[File:1stearth.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Earth, home of the Thirteenth Tribe, from orbit]]
'''Earth''' is the believed destination of the [[Thirteenth Tribe (RDM)|Thirteenth Tribe]] of {{RDM|Kobol}}, as attested in the [[Sacred Scrolls]]. Prior to its discovery, its existence is considered purely mythical and legendary within Colonial and Cylon societies. Earth is also the name of a planet Colonial survivors eventually settle after a long and arduous journey across space following the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]].

==Earth: Home of the Thirteenth Tribe==
===Beginnings===
[[File:EarthBCH.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Earth, as it appeared before its destruction]]
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The legend of Earth begins at least four thousand years ago on {{RDM|Kobol}}, where Scriptures tell of the exodus of a Thirteenth Tribe of humanity during a period of great turmoil across the planet. It is said that "''they traveled far and made their home upon a planet called Earth . . . which circled a distant and unknown star.''" While not many previously believed in Earth, there are [[Arrow of Apollo|artifacts]] rumored to point out the general direction to the planet. These rumors are later confirmed after the destruction of the Colonies ([[TRS]]: [[Miniseries]], "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]").

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===Settlement and Development===
For nearly two thousand years, the Thirteenth Tribe flourished on the planet, creating a civilization comparable to the Twelve Colonies before their fall, including development of [[Earth_Cylon_Centurion|their own robotics and artificial intelligence]]. Unbeknownst to Colonials or most Cylons, the Thirteenth Tribe was a flesh and blood race of artificial beings much like the [[humanoid Cylons]], which were created on Kobol thousands of years ago. They originally relied on [[Resurrection (RDM)|organic memory transfer]] technology to download into new bodies after their deaths. However, sometime after leaving Kobol, they gained the ability to reproduce sexually, and the technology fell out of use {{TRS|No Exit}}.

:''The fact that the Tribe was artificial in nature is never fully revealed to the civilians of the fleet. To them, they were a society of humans that were destroyed by their robotic creations much like their society was four years prior.''

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===Apocalypse===
:''Main article: [[Final Five]]
Approximately two thousand years [[BCH]], the Tribe's robotic creations rebelled against their creators, in an act of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutually_assured_destruction mutually assured destruction]. The attack caught the population off guard, with many at work or enjoying leisurely activities. Evidence of people going about their lives is still visible on the remains millennia later. However, prior to the apocalypse, [[Final Five|five individuals]] started seeing visions of [[Messengers|strange people]] warning them of the upcoming cataclysm. The five worked hard to recreate the lost organic memory transfer technology, and built a ship in orbit to carry their experiments. After their deaths, the five were resurrected on this ship, and opted to follow the Tribe's original course back to Kobol, leaving Earth behind {{TRS|Revelations|Sometimes a Great Notion|No Exit}}.

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===Earth's Fate===
[[File:Earth Ruins.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Earth's ruins, two millennia after the Fall of the Thirteenth Tribe]]
At the conclusion of the war, no survivors remained on either side, and Earth was left burning and irradiated. Despite lingering radioactive contamination, plant life gradually returned, and whatever ruins remained succumbed to nature and time. A large city on the planet visited by both Colonials and rebel Cylons was largely submerged in water and partly buried in sand.

Unable to support human life, the planet is abandoned days after its discovery, and is likely never visited again ([[TRS]]: "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]," "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]," "[[Revelations]]," "[[Sometimes a Great Notion]]").

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==A New Earth: The Promised Land==
[[File:Earth, "Daybreak, Part II".jpg|thumb|right|200px|The Colonial's new home, as it appears from the moon's orbit]]
By an infinitesimal chance, a habitable planet is found by pilot [[Kara Thrace|Kara "Starbuck" Thrace]], after she is able to extrapolate [[FTL]] jump coordinates from a [[The Music|song]] she used to play as a child. Captain Thrace inputs these FTL coordinates into ''Galactica''{{'|s}} FTL computer in a desperate attempt to escape from the Cylon [[The Colony|Colony]]. ''Galactica'', damaged from battle, limps into orbit of the planet.

:''As depicted in "[[Crossroads, Part II]]," this planet is located relatively close to the [[Ionian Nebula]].''

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===Diverse Wildlife===
[[File:Diverse Wildlife.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Earth's diverse wildlife]]
After Colonial recon of the planet, Earth is discovered to have a diverse range of wildlife, more than the Twelve Colonies put together. It also features a race of primitive hunter-gatherer humanoids, having evolved here separately from those on Kobol. Upon further study, these humanoids are discovered to be compatible with Colonial DNA, which opens up the possibility of Colonials and Cylons interbreeding with them.

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===Colonial/Cylon Settlement and Future Evolution===
[[File:Settlement.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Survivors heading for shelter]]
With ''Galactica'' in pieces, and the Colonial Fleet not fairing any better, it is decided that the planet will be settled, with the remaining Cylons soon joining them. Plans begin for new cities to be built, but those plans are soon abandoned in favor of starting fresh in an attempt to break the historical cycle of violence. Colonial units scout the planet, and eventually determine the best possible chance for survival is to split the survivors into groups, and spread them across different sites around the globe. These locations are documented, and presented to each of the groups for future use. After the survivors set up their camps, the fleet and any remaining advanced technology are scuttled. The settlers christen this new planet "Earth," in honor of the promised land they have been chasing for four years.

The surviving Colonial and Cylon settlers and their descendants begin interbreeding with the indigenous humanoids, creating a new race, with [[Hera Agathon|the first human-Cylon hybrid]] becoming "Mitochondrial Eve," the most recent common matrilineal ancestor of all living humans. Her fossilized remains are uncovered nearly one hundred fifty thousand years later, around the time that another advanced human society is on the brink of major breakthroughs in robotics - much like the Twelve Colonies, the first Earth, and Kobol before them {{TRS|Daybreak, Part II}}.

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==Notes==
* [[Gaeta]] comments in "[[Revelations]]" that the constellations seen from orbit of the Earth they had just found match those seen in the [[Tomb of Athena]]. This was later proven incorrect, as those constellations are actually visible from a different Earth over one hundred centuries later {{TRS|Daybreak, Part II}}. It would have been extremely improbable that the constellations visible from the Earth found in "[[Revelations]]" would have looked the same as those of New Earth. That being said, while on the first Earth, all of the constellations of Zodiac could all be seen at once-this is not possible on the current Earth.

*From what is known of the nature of navigation in FTL jumps, the odds of the coordinates used by Kara Thrace to jump ''Galactica'' from the Colony to the new Earth and actually achieving the end they did are no less than infinitesimal. One of the elements in FTL navigation is the point of origin. A point of origin is a necessary factor in many navigational forms in order to plot direction and distance to a required destination, and FTL navigation is no different. Essentially, what this means is that the coordinates entered by Kara Thrace into the FTL computer aboard Galactica would only jump the ship to its new Earth destination from the precise astral location of ''Galactica'' when it initiated the jump from the Colony. Given the coordinates' origins in the Music and the revelation that a divine entity is in some way shaping the events which have taken place in the series, as seen by Pythia, it could be suggested that the attack on the Colony and the resulting success and retreat were in some way destined. While this may seem logical, it is purely conjectural. The way these events have took place cannot be explained by rational means.

== Official Statements ==
* ''[[Edward James Olmos]] jokingly describes how he thinks the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] could find Earth:''

:I personally — this is not [from] any of the writers, but my thing — I wanted to come into [the present day], find Earth, cruise on top of it, see it for what it is, and as we're coming down to it, we're blown up, we're nuked. And then [someone says to] the [[w:President of the United States|President of the United States]], which is [[w:George W. Bush|[George W.] Bush]], "They've been taken care of. Thank God you saved the world again." And you turn, and you see who told him that, and it's one of the Cylons. [''Laughs'']<ref>{{cite_web|url=http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20015932_2,00.html|title=Four-ward, Cylons: Edward James Olmos|date=23 March 2007|accessdate=22 June 2007|last=Vary|first=Adam B.|format=|language=}}</ref>

==References==
{{reflist}}
{{RDM Planets}}
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Camp Oil Slick

2025-06-15T22:40:21Z

WarGrowlmon15: /* Citizenry */

[[File:Campoilslick.JPG|thumb|A view of the camp.]]
'''"Camp Oil Slick"''', later referred to as "'''Dogsville'''," is a nickname given to the lodging set up on a part of ''[[Galactica (TRS)|Galactica]]''<nowiki/>'s unused starboard [[hangar deck]] for displaced civilians rescued from [[New Caprica]] during the [[Second Exodus]]. These civilians originally hailed from ships in the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] that were dismantled for resources during New Caprica's colonization, or are currently unable to shelter them, or are otherwise unusable.

While believed a temporary feature, the remnants of Camp Oil Slick are later converted to a living area for refugees, in order to address the population concerns of the Fleet. Dogsville's "mayor" is Captain {{Callsign|Helo}}, who accepts the post after Colonel [[Saul Tigh]] resumes his old post as ''Galactica'''s [[Executive Officer]] {{TRS|The Woman King}}. Due to Agathon's return to flight status, it is uncertain who is still "mayor" of Dogsville, although it devolves into lawlessness in the aftermath of various calamities {{TRS|A Day in the Life}}.

== Medical Treatment ==
As more refugees arrive aboard ''Galactica'', they are processed before entering the general public of Dogsville. Initially, medical treatment in Dogsville is provided by Doctor [[Michael Robert]], a civilian doctor who worked back on New Caprica’s medical center alongside [[Sherman Cottle]]. When [[Mellorak infection]] breaks out in Dogsville, it is up to Robert and {{callsign|Karl Agathon}} to stop the spread and treat those already ill with [[bittamucin]].

A group of [[Sagittaron|Sagittarons]] come aboard pushing the already overcrowded Dogsville to breaking point. These new arrivals are mysteriously dying from the infection before the 48 hours and some even after treatment. The civilians are getting angry, and do not trust Robert. It is Agathon, backed by Cottle, who discovers Robert is responsible for killing numerous Sagittarons under his treatment well before Dogsville, dating back to the medical center on [[New Caprica]] {{TRS|The Woman King}}.

== Shortages ==
[[File:Dogsville-civilians.JPG|thumb|left|200px|Civilians in line for food {{TRS|Deadlock}}.]]

Life in Dogsville for the civilians is very tough, with major shortages of food as well as roaming armed gangs using threats of force to steal what little supplies the civilians have. This refugee camp aboard ''Galactica'' is home to many children and their families, however they have fallen on very hard times many nearly starving and exhausted from their living conditions.

Following [[Gaeta's Mutiny]], the eroded [[Marine]] force is devastating, as their only presence occurs when supplies are distributed to the civilians. When the civilians are queuing in line for food, the Marines have a hard time keeping the surging masses at bay and thus pandemonium ensues. This leads to raids by opportunists, including the [[Sons of Ares]], and [[William Adama]] is convinced by [[Gaius Baltar]] to arm civilians so that they may oversee their own distribution efforts {{TRS|Deadlock}}.

== Citizenry ==
[[Julia Brynn]] and her young daughter, [[Kacey Brynn|Kacey]], reside here after being reunited aboard ''Galactica'' immediately following the [[Battle of New Caprica]] {{TRS|Exodus, Part II}}. Kacey was previously used by [[Leoben Conoy]] as a prop to convince {{Callsign|Starbuck}} that they had a child together, and Thrace chooses to visit as a means to help recover from the trauma she sustained during the [[Cylon Occupation Authority|Cylon occupation]] {{TRS|Torn}}.

Several people living in Dogsville, among them [[Daniel Noon]], are conscripted to work on the refinery ship ''[[Hitei Kan]]'' after its crew goes on strike due to bad working conditions, and [[Galen Tyrol]] negotiates for worker rotations to relieve the people there {{TRS|Dirty Hands}}.

After having strange dreams about [[Leoben Conoy]], {{Callsign|Starbuck}} visits the [[oracle]] [[Yolanda Brenn]] in Dogsville {{TRS|Maelstrom}}.

After Baltar's desecration of the makeshift temple aboard ''[[Galactica (TRS)|Galactica]]''; [[Roslin|Laura Roslin]] comments to [[William Adama]] that [[Gaius Baltar]] knows Dogsville is home to many religious hardliners, which she believes he is provoking {{TRS|Escape Velocity}}.

Baltar later visits Dogsville, encountering a mother, [[Naia]], who presents her only young son, [[Gaius]], coincidentally named after his father. Apparently sympathetic to their plight, he offers to supply the denizens of Dogsville {{TRS|Deadlock}}.

The residents of Dogsville abandon it and the ship at large shortly before the [[Battle of the Colony]] as ''Galactica'' is evacuated. It's unclear if any of the people of Dogsville join the mission to rescue [[Hera Agathon]] {{TRS|Daybreak, Part I}}.

Along with the rest of the fleet, the denizens of Dogsville settle on the new [[Earth (RDM)#A New Earth: The Promised Land|Earth]] {{TRS|Daybreak, Part II}}.

== Notable residents ==
* [[Julia Brynn]]
* [[Kacey Brynn]]
* [[Willie King]] (deceased)
* [[Portia King]]
* [[Daniel Noon]] (temporarily assigned as worker to ''[[Hitei Kan]]'')
* [[Yolanda Brenn]]
* [[Naia]] and her son [[Gaius (child)|Gaius]]

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Camp Oil Slick

2025-06-15T22:39:33Z

WarGrowlmon15: /* Citizenry */

[[File:Campoilslick.JPG|thumb|A view of the camp.]]
'''"Camp Oil Slick"''', later referred to as "'''Dogsville'''," is a nickname given to the lodging set up on a part of ''[[Galactica (TRS)|Galactica]]''<nowiki/>'s unused starboard [[hangar deck]] for displaced civilians rescued from [[New Caprica]] during the [[Second Exodus]]. These civilians originally hailed from ships in the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] that were dismantled for resources during New Caprica's colonization, or are currently unable to shelter them, or are otherwise unusable.

While believed a temporary feature, the remnants of Camp Oil Slick are later converted to a living area for refugees, in order to address the population concerns of the Fleet. Dogsville's "mayor" is Captain {{Callsign|Helo}}, who accepts the post after Colonel [[Saul Tigh]] resumes his old post as ''Galactica'''s [[Executive Officer]] {{TRS|The Woman King}}. Due to Agathon's return to flight status, it is uncertain who is still "mayor" of Dogsville, although it devolves into lawlessness in the aftermath of various calamities {{TRS|A Day in the Life}}.

== Medical Treatment ==
As more refugees arrive aboard ''Galactica'', they are processed before entering the general public of Dogsville. Initially, medical treatment in Dogsville is provided by Doctor [[Michael Robert]], a civilian doctor who worked back on New Caprica’s medical center alongside [[Sherman Cottle]]. When [[Mellorak infection]] breaks out in Dogsville, it is up to Robert and {{callsign|Karl Agathon}} to stop the spread and treat those already ill with [[bittamucin]].

A group of [[Sagittaron|Sagittarons]] come aboard pushing the already overcrowded Dogsville to breaking point. These new arrivals are mysteriously dying from the infection before the 48 hours and some even after treatment. The civilians are getting angry, and do not trust Robert. It is Agathon, backed by Cottle, who discovers Robert is responsible for killing numerous Sagittarons under his treatment well before Dogsville, dating back to the medical center on [[New Caprica]] {{TRS|The Woman King}}.

== Shortages ==
[[File:Dogsville-civilians.JPG|thumb|left|200px|Civilians in line for food {{TRS|Deadlock}}.]]

Life in Dogsville for the civilians is very tough, with major shortages of food as well as roaming armed gangs using threats of force to steal what little supplies the civilians have. This refugee camp aboard ''Galactica'' is home to many children and their families, however they have fallen on very hard times many nearly starving and exhausted from their living conditions.

Following [[Gaeta's Mutiny]], the eroded [[Marine]] force is devastating, as their only presence occurs when supplies are distributed to the civilians. When the civilians are queuing in line for food, the Marines have a hard time keeping the surging masses at bay and thus pandemonium ensues. This leads to raids by opportunists, including the [[Sons of Ares]], and [[William Adama]] is convinced by [[Gaius Baltar]] to arm civilians so that they may oversee their own distribution efforts {{TRS|Deadlock}}.

== Citizenry ==
[[Julia Brynn]] and her young daughter, [[Kacey Brynn|Kacey]], reside here after being reunited aboard ''Galactica'' immediately following the [[Battle of New Caprica]] {{TRS|Exodus, Part II}}. Kacey was previously used by [[Leoben Conoy]] as a prop to convince {{Callsign|Starbuck}} that they had a child together, and Thrace chooses to visit as a means to help recover from the trauma she sustained during the [[Cylon Occupation Authority|Cylon occupation]] {{TRS|Torn}}.

Several people living in Dogsville, among them [[Daniel Noon]], are conscripted to work on the refinery ship ''[[Hitei Kan]]'' after its crew goes on strike due to bad working conditions, and [[Galen Tyrol]] negotiates for worker rotations to relieve the people there {{TRS|Dirty Hands}}.

After having strange dreams about [[Leoben Conoy]], {{Callsign|Starbuck}} visits the [[oracle]] [[Yolanda Brenn]] in Dogsville {{TRS|Maelstrom}}.

After Baltar's desecration of the makeshift temple aboard ''[[Galactica (TRS)|Galactica]]''; [[Roslin|Laura Roslin]] comments to [[William Adama]] that [[Gaius Baltar]] knows Dogsville is home to many religious hardliners, which she believes he is provoking {{TRS|Escape Velocity}}.

Baltar later visits Dogsville, encountering a mother, [[Naia]], who presents her only young son, [[Gaius]], coincidentally named after his father. Apparently sympathetic to their plight, he offers to supply the denizens of Dogsville {{TRS|Deadlock}}.

The residents of Dogsville abandon it and the ship at large shortly before the [[Battle of the Colony]] as ''Galactica'' is evacuated. It's unclear if any of the people of Dogsville join the mission to rescue [[Hera Agathon]] {{TRS|Daybreak, Part I}}.

Along with the rest of the fleet, the denizens of Dogsville settle on the new [[Earth (RDM)#A New Earth|Earth]] {{TRS|Daybreak, Part II}}.

== Notable residents ==
* [[Julia Brynn]]
* [[Kacey Brynn]]
* [[Willie King]] (deceased)
* [[Portia King]]
* [[Daniel Noon]] (temporarily assigned as worker to ''[[Hitei Kan]]'')
* [[Yolanda Brenn]]
* [[Naia]] and her son [[Gaius (child)|Gaius]]

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[[Category:RDM]]

Aerilon

2025-06-15T22:28:51Z

WarGrowlmon15: /* Post-First Cylon War */

{{disline|For the version of this colony depicted in the [[List of Comics#Dynamite Comics|Dynamite Comics]], see: [[Aerilon (alternate)]].}}
[[File:ColonialColors7.png|100px|thumb|Colors and symbol of Aerilon]]
: ''Note: some of the information below is taken from [http://www.nbcuniversalstore.com/beyond-caprica-a-vistors-pocket-guide-to-the-twelve-colonies/detail.php?p=268969 ''Beyond Caprica: A Visitor's Pocket Guide to the Twelve Colonies'']

'''Aerilon''' is primarily an agricultural world, known as the "food basket" of the [[The Twelve Colonies of Kobol|Twelve Colonies]].

Despite this, Aerilon is considered to be one of the poorest Colonies {{TRS|Dirty Hands}}. Its capital city is Gaoth.

== Government ==

Aerilon's government provides little or no support for health care, education, or other social infrastructure services. However, Aerilonians accept police with broad powers to detain, imprison, and torture suspects.

== Economy ==

Although Aerilon's soil is not very fertile and requires intensive cultivation to achieve plentiful harvests, it is primarily an agricultural world. The capital, Gaoth, started as a prairie town on intersecting cattle trails. Aerilon also has [[tylium (RDM)|tylium]] mines, and Promethea, one of the larger cities on the planet, was founded as a mining town on the edge of a region known as the Badlands (''[[Blood and Chrome]]'', deleted scenes).

== History ==

Fifteen people died when President [[Richard Adar]], for reasons unexplained, sent the [[Colonial Marine Corps|Marines]] to Aerilon {{TRS|Water}}.

== Culture ==

While imprisoned on ''{{RDM|Galactica}}'', [[Gaius Baltar]] talks extensively about Aerilon, confirming that it, not {{RDM|Caprica}}, was his birth world. He imitates the speech mannerisms of a stereotypical native, a farmer who likes to work with his hands, and "go down to the pub for a pint"<ref>Baltar's use of the term "pub" and "pint" suggest that Aerilon's culture is reminiscent of that of the workers of Ireland, Scotland or England. Baltar's use of a unit of liquid measurement called a "[[jp]]" in the episode "[[Water]]" and "pint" suggests that the Colonials may have several units of liquid volume. The term "pint" is also a nickname for a glass of beer, which often is measured in Imperial pints.</ref> and have a fight at the end of the night. In doing this, Baltar puts on a strong [[Language in the Twelve Colonies#Aerilon Accent|raspy "Aerilon" accent]] <ref>Actor [[James Callis]], who normally speaks in his own native accent, adopted an accent similar to a Yorkshire accent for Baltar's "native Aerilon."</ref> {{TRS|Dirty Hands}}.

Likewise, the musical and visual arts of Aerilon are informed by simple, harsh agrarian and working-class sensibilities.

== Education ==
Aerilon's prime educational institution, the {{Inlineref|University of Aerilon|bold=N}}, is located in Gaoth. It is known for producing artisans, such as writer [[Mark Bailey]] whose works became well-known in [[YR42]] (''[[The Caprican]]'': "[[The Bottom Five Backtalk Guests]]").

Its rival, the {{Inlineref|Promethea Agricultural and Mechanical|bold=N}} (A&M), is based in the mining boomtown of Promethea (''[[Blood and Chrome]]'', deleted scenes).

== Other ==

[[File:lest_we_forget.jpg|thumb|right|150px|The only [[Lest We Forget|visual depiction]] of Aerilon.]]
*The professional [[Pyramid (RDM)|Pyramid]] team from Aerilon played against the [[Caprica Buccaneers]] in one of the last games before the Cylon attack. They apparently won {{TRS|Resistance (episode)|Resistance}}.
*A [[Lest We Forget|photo of a grief-stricken soldier]] staring out at the ruins of Aerilon's capital hangs behind President Roslin's desk and on the bulkhead of a [[pilot ready rooms|pilot ready room]] on ''Galactica''. The pilots touch the photo for luck and in a sign of respect as they leave the room. This photo of Aerilon gives viewers one of the few visual depictions of life on a colony other than Caprica.
*[[Aerilon Crystal]] table salt is used by {{callsign|Racetrack}} in the [[Salt Line Ceremony]] {{TRS|Exodus, Part I}}.
*Several of the Colonies' greatest artists, writers, and political leaders came from the planet, although their fame was almost always achieved after leaving Aerilon.

===Natives===

==== Pre-[[First Cylon War]] ====

*[[Julius Baltar]]
*[[Coker Fasjovik]], Colonial flight officer during the [[Cylon War]] {{TRS|Blood and Chrome}}.
*[[Mark Bailey]]
*[[Saul Tigh]]<ref>[[Final Five|This is alleged.]]</ref>

==== Post-First Cylon War ====
*[[Gaius Baltar]], moved to [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] and changed his accent to hide his true origins {{TRS|Dirty Hands}}.
*[[Alisander Asiel]], Aerilon's representative to the [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]] {{TRS|Colonial Day}}.
*[[Sekou Hamilton]], presumed; editor of the ''Aerilon Gazette'' {{TRS|Colonial Day}}.
*[[Socinus]], presumed; the zodiac sign of Aries is [[:File:SocinusTatoo KLGp1.JPG|tattooed]] on his arm ([[TRS]]: "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]," [[List of Deleted Scenes - Season 1 (RDM)#Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I|deleted scene]]).

===Publications===
*''[[Aerilon Gazette]]''

===Locations===
* [[Cuffle's Breath Wash]]
* [[Euclid River]]
* Promethea
* Gaoth

== Notes==
*The spelling of this colony is sometimes inconsistent in the Re-imagined Series' official cast and crew notes and episode content, in the same way that the [[Original Series]] had inconsistent spellings of "Centurion" and "Centurian". The colony is spelled "Aerilon" in the episodes "[[Home, Part I]]" and "[[The Son Also Rises]]" in official Colonial documentation, as well as placards from "[[Colonial Day]]" and various [[Season 4]] episodes. Further research into this has lead Battlestar Wiki to choose the more prevalent spelling that appears on various props in the series, as well as spellings from the scripts: "Aerilon".
*[[Socrata Thrace]] and [[Galen Tyrol]] pronounce the name as "Air-lon," while Baltar pronounces it "Air-e-lon".

== References ==

{{reflist}}

{{RDM Planets}}

[[Category:A to Z]]
[[Category:Aerilon|*]]
[[Category:Colonial]]
[[Category:Planets (RDM)]]
[[Category:Twelve Colonies]]
[[Category:RDM]]

[[de:Aerilon]]
[[fr:Aerilon]]

Aerilon

2025-06-15T22:28:14Z

WarGrowlmon15: /* Post-First Cylon War */

{{disline|For the version of this colony depicted in the [[List of Comics#Dynamite Comics|Dynamite Comics]], see: [[Aerilon (alternate)]].}}
[[File:ColonialColors7.png|100px|thumb|Colors and symbol of Aerilon]]
: ''Note: some of the information below is taken from [http://www.nbcuniversalstore.com/beyond-caprica-a-vistors-pocket-guide-to-the-twelve-colonies/detail.php?p=268969 ''Beyond Caprica: A Visitor's Pocket Guide to the Twelve Colonies'']

'''Aerilon''' is primarily an agricultural world, known as the "food basket" of the [[The Twelve Colonies of Kobol|Twelve Colonies]].

Despite this, Aerilon is considered to be one of the poorest Colonies {{TRS|Dirty Hands}}. Its capital city is Gaoth.

== Government ==

Aerilon's government provides little or no support for health care, education, or other social infrastructure services. However, Aerilonians accept police with broad powers to detain, imprison, and torture suspects.

== Economy ==

Although Aerilon's soil is not very fertile and requires intensive cultivation to achieve plentiful harvests, it is primarily an agricultural world. The capital, Gaoth, started as a prairie town on intersecting cattle trails. Aerilon also has [[tylium (RDM)|tylium]] mines, and Promethea, one of the larger cities on the planet, was founded as a mining town on the edge of a region known as the Badlands (''[[Blood and Chrome]]'', deleted scenes).

== History ==

Fifteen people died when President [[Richard Adar]], for reasons unexplained, sent the [[Colonial Marine Corps|Marines]] to Aerilon {{TRS|Water}}.

== Culture ==

While imprisoned on ''{{RDM|Galactica}}'', [[Gaius Baltar]] talks extensively about Aerilon, confirming that it, not {{RDM|Caprica}}, was his birth world. He imitates the speech mannerisms of a stereotypical native, a farmer who likes to work with his hands, and "go down to the pub for a pint"<ref>Baltar's use of the term "pub" and "pint" suggest that Aerilon's culture is reminiscent of that of the workers of Ireland, Scotland or England. Baltar's use of a unit of liquid measurement called a "[[jp]]" in the episode "[[Water]]" and "pint" suggests that the Colonials may have several units of liquid volume. The term "pint" is also a nickname for a glass of beer, which often is measured in Imperial pints.</ref> and have a fight at the end of the night. In doing this, Baltar puts on a strong [[Language in the Twelve Colonies#Aerilon Accent|raspy "Aerilon" accent]] <ref>Actor [[James Callis]], who normally speaks in his own native accent, adopted an accent similar to a Yorkshire accent for Baltar's "native Aerilon."</ref> {{TRS|Dirty Hands}}.

Likewise, the musical and visual arts of Aerilon are informed by simple, harsh agrarian and working-class sensibilities.

== Education ==
Aerilon's prime educational institution, the {{Inlineref|University of Aerilon|bold=N}}, is located in Gaoth. It is known for producing artisans, such as writer [[Mark Bailey]] whose works became well-known in [[YR42]] (''[[The Caprican]]'': "[[The Bottom Five Backtalk Guests]]").

Its rival, the {{Inlineref|Promethea Agricultural and Mechanical|bold=N}} (A&M), is based in the mining boomtown of Promethea (''[[Blood and Chrome]]'', deleted scenes).

== Other ==

[[File:lest_we_forget.jpg|thumb|right|150px|The only [[Lest We Forget|visual depiction]] of Aerilon.]]
*The professional [[Pyramid (RDM)|Pyramid]] team from Aerilon played against the [[Caprica Buccaneers]] in one of the last games before the Cylon attack. They apparently won {{TRS|Resistance (episode)|Resistance}}.
*A [[Lest We Forget|photo of a grief-stricken soldier]] staring out at the ruins of Aerilon's capital hangs behind President Roslin's desk and on the bulkhead of a [[pilot ready rooms|pilot ready room]] on ''Galactica''. The pilots touch the photo for luck and in a sign of respect as they leave the room. This photo of Aerilon gives viewers one of the few visual depictions of life on a colony other than Caprica.
*[[Aerilon Crystal]] table salt is used by {{callsign|Racetrack}} in the [[Salt Line Ceremony]] {{TRS|Exodus, Part I}}.
*Several of the Colonies' greatest artists, writers, and political leaders came from the planet, although their fame was almost always achieved after leaving Aerilon.

===Natives===

==== Pre-[[First Cylon War]] ====

*[[Julius Baltar]]
*[[Coker Fasjovik]], Colonial flight officer during the [[Cylon War]] {{TRS|Blood and Chrome}}.
*[[Mark Bailey]]
*[[Saul Tigh]]<ref>[[Final Five|This is alleged.]]</ref>

==== Post-First Cylon War ====
*[[Gaius Baltar]], moved to [[Caprica (RDK)|Caprica]] and changed his accent to hide his true origins {{TRS|Dirty Hands}}.
*[[Alisander Asiel]], Aerilon's representative to the [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]] {{TRS|Colonial Day}}.
*[[Sekou Hamilton]], presumed; editor of the ''Aerilon Gazette'' {{TRS|Colonial Day}}.
*[[Socinus]], presumed; the zodiac sign of Aries is [[:File:SocinusTatoo KLGp1.JPG|tattooed]] on his arm ([[TRS]]: "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]," [[List of Deleted Scenes - Season 1 (RDM)#Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I|deleted scene]]).

===Publications===
*''[[Aerilon Gazette]]''

===Locations===
* [[Cuffle's Breath Wash]]
* [[Euclid River]]
* Promethea
* Gaoth

== Notes==
*The spelling of this colony is sometimes inconsistent in the Re-imagined Series' official cast and crew notes and episode content, in the same way that the [[Original Series]] had inconsistent spellings of "Centurion" and "Centurian". The colony is spelled "Aerilon" in the episodes "[[Home, Part I]]" and "[[The Son Also Rises]]" in official Colonial documentation, as well as placards from "[[Colonial Day]]" and various [[Season 4]] episodes. Further research into this has lead Battlestar Wiki to choose the more prevalent spelling that appears on various props in the series, as well as spellings from the scripts: "Aerilon".
*[[Socrata Thrace]] and [[Galen Tyrol]] pronounce the name as "Air-lon," while Baltar pronounces it "Air-e-lon".

== References ==

{{reflist}}

{{RDM Planets}}

[[Category:A to Z]]
[[Category:Aerilon|*]]
[[Category:Colonial]]
[[Category:Planets (RDM)]]
[[Category:Twelve Colonies]]
[[Category:RDM]]

[[de:Aerilon]]
[[fr:Aerilon]]

Louanne Katraine

2025-06-15T22:23:02Z

WarGrowlmon15: /* Biography */

{{disline|If you were looking for the entry on cats in general, see: [[Cat]].}}

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'''Louanne "Kat" Katraine''' was the assumed name of a young woman named Sasha, a drug runner on {{RDM|Caprica}} with flying experience {{TRS|The Passage}}. She is selected as a candidate pilot ("[[nugget]]") for [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] training under the command of Lieutenant [[Kara Thrace|Kara "Starbuck" Thrace]] {{TRS|Act of Contrition}}. While she is a new pilot, she has a taste for fighting, and is often on the front lines when ''{{RDM|Galactica}}'' engages [[Cylon (RDM)|Cylon]] forces. She becomes ''Galactica''' [[CAG]] during the colonization and occupation period of [[New Caprica]].

She is headstrong, arrogant and assertive, which are traits she shares with Starbuck, and the two clash frequently. At the same time, Katraine is loyal to her friends and always tries to protect the pilots around and under her from dangers or perceived injustices.

Katraine dies after receiving cumulatively fatal radiation exposure while escorting civilian ships through a star cluster to a planet with a food source {{TRS|The Passage}}.

== Biography ==

Katraine's real name is actually Sasha. She took the name "Louanne Katraine" from a girl who died two days before [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|the attack]]. She was a drug runner in the [[The Twelve Colonies of Kobol|Twelve Colonies]] working for a person named [[Enzo]] {{TRS|The Passage}}.

Katraine is selected from relative obscurity to become one of ''{{RDM|Galactica}}'''s first intake of trainee pilots after 13 experienced pilots were killed in a freak accident {{TRS|Act of Contrition}}.

Described as a "boonie jumper," Katraine is placed under the instruction of [[Kara Thrace]], alongside nugget pilots [[Brendan Costanza]] and [[Donald Perry]], with whom she forms a friendship.

Thrown in at the deep end - flying {{RDM|Viper}}s on their very first day of training, none of the nuggets perform particularly well - Kat in particular fails to make a [[combat landing]] on ''Galactica''. Thrace washes out the entire group of candidates until Commander [[William Adama]] later forces Thrace to reinstate them.

Katraine's training continues until she is selected to fly with {{callsign|Lee Adama}} during a raid to secure a [[tylium (RDM)|tylium]] mine from the Cylons {{TRS|The Hand of God (RDM)}}. Her fellow nuggets [[Donald Perry]] and [[Stepchild]] are killed in this action, but she and {{callsign|Hot Dog}} survive and are greeted as heroes on their return to ''Galactica''.

Kat participates in the defense of ''Galactica'' when the battlestar becomes separated from [[The Fleet (RDM)|the Fleet]], and has to face down a Cylon [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]] in order to relocate it {{TRS|Scattered}}.

After Lee Adama's defection to the [[Laura Roslin faction]], his replacement, the newly promoted Captain [[George Birch]] negligently endangers Katraine during a training exercise. She is almost killed when Birch incorrectly directs her to attack an asteroid target as {{callsign|Hot Dog}} fires a missile at the target. Katraine's improving piloting skills save her from a dangerous collision with debris {{TRS|Home, Part I}}.

Kat is later promoted from cadet to the rank of lieutenant. She becomes increasingly exhausted with the mounting pressures of service in the Fleet with long hours, constant danger, and no possiblity of reinforcement. While trying to combat her fatigue, Kat becomes dependent on [[stims]], of which the effects of their overuse make her emotionally unstable. She "moons" a documentary crew for her "buddies" on [[Freighter 212]], berates Chief [[Galen Tyrol|Tyrol]] for mechanical failures that are beyond his control, and later crashes her Viper into the [[landing bay]], totalling the vehicle ("[[Final Cut]]," "[[Flight of the Phoenix]]"). She is pulled from flight status for some time, but is reinstated by the time that the advanced battlestar ''Pegasus'' joins the Fleet , when she flies wingman to [[Lee Adama|Apollo]] on [[Combat Air Patrol|CAP]] when first contact is made with ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]''.

In the wake of Admiral Cain's integration of ''Galactica'' and ''Pegasus''' officers, Kat appears to have been made the acting-CAG of ''Galactica'' flight team. With Starbuck and Apollo both transferred to ''Pegasus'' and the failure of Cpt. [[George Birch]] as [[CAG]] during Lee Adama's absence, Katraine appears to be the most likely choice to fill the command vacuum. She is flight leader of the Viper wing that stands off against the ''Pegasus'' Vipers. In spite of making repeated requests for firing clearance, she manages to keep the situation from degenerating into a fire fight, and avoids several collision attempts in the fighters' deadly "chicken" game, each attempting to force the other side to fire first {{TRS|Resurrection Ship, Part I}}.

On day 189 of the human exodus, Kat is assigned CAP with {{callsign|Starbuck}}. Kat's maturity and past insensitivity show growth when Starbuck orders her to stop her small talk about Starbuck's off-hours behavior, which Kat does so without skipping a beat and returns to business by requesting permission to do a weapons check. As Kat test-fires her Viper's guns, an ammo misfire destroys Kat's port gun and sends debris at Starbuck's Viper, cracking her cockpit window. The two declare an emergency and safely return to ''Galactica.'' The cause of the malfunction was soon determined to be sabotage later blamed on a civilian ammunition worker that is part of the [[Demand Peace]] movement {{TRS|Epiphanies}}.

Katraine is more than personally upset with Starbuck's apparent behavior issues. While Kat obviously admires Kara Thrace, she tires quickly of Starbuck's drinking and bragging, which is affecting her work, and in turn affecting the pilots, especially the [[nugget]]s. Fed up with Starbuck's lording over the "Top Gun" beer stein as well as the rampaging Raider ace known as "[[Scar (Raider)|Scar]]," Kat makes a bet with Starbuck on who will destroy the morale-sucking Raider first.

Kat manages pilot combat reviews, having become a highly skilled tactical pilot herself. She grimaces at Starbuck's inefficiencies and chimes in often to correct or chide Starbuck, much to Thrace's chagrin. Things come to a head in their rivalry when Kat openly criticizes Starbuck for substituting [[Jo-Jo]] for patrol rather than flying herself (she awoke that morning hungover and unable to fly). Jo-Jo and his wingman are both killed, and Kat is incensed. But instead of Starbuck delivering the first punch, it's Kat that delivers it. Their fight is interrupted by Captain [[Lee Adama|Adama]], who orders them on patrol near the [[Big Spud]]. Kat and Starbuck find Scar, and Starbuck's Viper is damaged in a near-successful ambush. The consummate wingman, Kat continually speaks to Starbuck to get a bearing, although Starbuck resists out of pride rather than working jointly to destroy Scar. When Starbuck realizes that because of [[Samuel Anders]] she doesn't want to die in order to take Scar with her, she guides Kat in to her position, manuvering Scar so he ends up right in front of Kat which he doesn't know until Starbuck moves out of the way. Thanks to Starbuck's actions, Kat is perfect position and finally destroys Scar by blasting off one of his wings, causing a fatal collison with an asteriod.

[[File:Kat Scar.JPG|thumb|right|Kat triumphant {{TRS|Scar}}.]]
Kat chides Starbuck once more in the pilot's recreation room as she holds the Top Gun mug. Starbuck pours champagne in the mug and tells Kat, "You've earned it." Kat's slight smile in response is not only that of smugness, but also that of honor - for Starbuck to tell her that she was (at least for the time being) the best - is pleasing as a master would compliment a student {{TRS|Scar}}. Kat's smugness is short-lived, as Starbuck offers a toast to all the pilots who died during their flight from the colonies. Overwhelmed with the memory of lost comrades, Kat nearly bursts into tears.

By the time of the Cylon invasion of [[New Caprica]], with Lee Adama in command of ''Pegasus'' and Kara Thrace having left the fleet and settled planetside, Katraine has been promoted to ''Galactica'''s [[CAG]] {{TRS|Exodus, Part I}}. During the [[Battle of New Caprica]], she leads a group of Vipers escorting decoy [[Raptor]]s, and presumably assists in the defense of ''Galactica'' in the following space battle {{TRS|Exodus, Part II}}. Following the destruction of ''Pegasus'', Lee Adama returns to ''Galactica'' and replaces Katraine as the CAG, who in turn becomes a squadron leader ("[[Torn]]," "[[The Passage]]").

[[File:Promo - The Passage - Kat.jpg|thumb|left|One of Kat's final moments {{TRS|The Passage}}.]]
During a food shortage throughout the fleet, ''Galactica'''s pilots are tasked with safely guiding the civilian ships through a highly radioactive star cluster to a food source on the other side. During this time Katraine encounters [[Enzo]], who survived the attack and calls her by her real name, Sasha. Enzo confronts Katraine and threatens to reveal Kat's past to others unless she helps him. Thrace observes the argument and later confronts Enzo about it, who in turn reveals Katraine's secret to Thrace. Katraine confirms it to Thrace, who is angered over the secret, even suggesting that Kat could have possibly unknowingly aiding the Cylons in their infiltration of Caprica. Katraine begs Thrace not to tell Admiral Adama, saying that she wants to tell him herself.

Before the final trip through the passage, Katraine, who had already reached her threshold of radiation on earlier trips, switches radiation badges with Helo. During the final trip, she loses track of the ''[[Faru Sadin]]'', but remains in the passage until she finds the vessel and joins the rest of the Fleet on the other side. Upon landing, Katraine is celebrated as a hero, but then succumbs to radiation poisoning and collapses on the flight deck.

On her deathbed, Katraine summons Thrace for a final reconciliation, and receives from Thrace an apology and a supply of [[sleeping pills]], enough for an overdose that would allow her to die painlessly. Admiral Adama also comes to visit Katraine and informs her of her promotion to CAG again. Kat tries telling him the truth about her past, but he cuts her off, saying he doesn't need to know any more than what she did while serving under him. He pulls up a chair to sit watch over her, and comforts her with how the sickbay reminds him of when his son, [[Zak Adama|Zak]], was born, and how he and Carolanne had wanted a girl. After Katraine's death, Admiral Adama symbolically replaces Lee Adama's name with hers in the pilot roster board's CAG slot while the pilots observe in silence. Thrace goes to the [[memorial hallway|wall of remembrance]] and adds Katraine's photo {{TRS|The Passage}}.

After the fleet finally finds [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]], Thrace visits Katraine's picture in the memorial hallway {{TRS|Revelations}}.

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==Notes==
*Katraine's assumed first name, Louanne, was revealed in the episode "[[Final Cut]]" during her interview with [[D'Anna Biers]], although it is spelled as "Louann" in the closing credits (as it did before in "[[Home, Part I]]"). The spelling is corrected from "[[Resurrection Ship, Part I]]" on out.
*It was initially assumed that some of Kat's family may have survived the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]], as implied when Kat shouted "Hi, Mom!" while waving into the camera in "[[Final Cut]]". However, given what was revealed in "[[The Passage]]," it may have been fictitious.
*Kat is featured in the XBOX 360 ''Battlestar Galactica'' game as one of the pilots the player competes with to shoot down the most ships and become ''Galactica'''s new top gun.
*In the DVD commentary for "[[Act of Contrition]]," David Eick and Ron D. Moore elaborate on the increased role of the nugget pilots as the series progressed:

:Eick: This young actress playing Kat has proven to be--and there's Bodie Olmos, Eddie's son, in the center there who's Hot Dog, he's also become a recurring character.
:RDM: Well those three in the front, {{callsign|Chuckles}}, {{callsign|Hot Dog}}, and Kat, they all became "pilots" to us. And I don't think we really had any expectation of that. The idea was we were going to do "the nuggets," "the new pilots," was just going to be its own kind of story, and ''maybe'' you might see one of these guys again later. And what started happening is the writers just started putting them in, like almost every scene that we dealt with the pilots (of Galactica) so these ''became'' our "recognizable faces".
:Eick: Kat is quite fine. She's someone we're now talking about, and have already, built into a much more prominent character. She's just a really, really talented actor, and she's someone who in a very different way than Katee (Starbuck), just exemplifies that sort of masculine fortitude, despite being a woman, that is required to be a pilot like this. In one of the upcoming episodes {{TRS|Scar}}, we're actually going to deal with the tension between Kara Thrace and Kat.
:RDM: Yeah, what happens when your protege starts outdistancing you. What happens when you train this young pilot, and it's great that she's a hot shot and all that, and then wait a minute, what if she starts being better than you?
*The [[:Image:Memorial8.jpg|current picture]] of Kat was the one placed on the [[memorial hallway]] {{TRS|The Passage}}
*In an [[Exodus, Part II]] deleted scene, Kat's past is alluded to in a conversation with Admiral Adama where he also alludes to the fact that he is aware of it but doesn't care.

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Louanne Katraine

2025-06-15T22:22:24Z

WarGrowlmon15: /* Biography */

{{disline|If you were looking for the entry on cats in general, see: [[Cat]].}}

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'''Louanne "Kat" Katraine''' was the assumed name of a young woman named Sasha, a drug runner on {{RDM|Caprica}} with flying experience {{TRS|The Passage}}. She is selected as a candidate pilot ("[[nugget]]") for [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] training under the command of Lieutenant [[Kara Thrace|Kara "Starbuck" Thrace]] {{TRS|Act of Contrition}}. While she is a new pilot, she has a taste for fighting, and is often on the front lines when ''{{RDM|Galactica}}'' engages [[Cylon (RDM)|Cylon]] forces. She becomes ''Galactica''' [[CAG]] during the colonization and occupation period of [[New Caprica]].

She is headstrong, arrogant and assertive, which are traits she shares with Starbuck, and the two clash frequently. At the same time, Katraine is loyal to her friends and always tries to protect the pilots around and under her from dangers or perceived injustices.

Katraine dies after receiving cumulatively fatal radiation exposure while escorting civilian ships through a star cluster to a planet with a food source {{TRS|The Passage}}.

== Biography ==

Katraine's real name is actually Sasha. She took the name "Louanne Katraine" from a girl who died two days before [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|the attack]]. She was a drug runner in the [[The Twelve Colonies of Kobol|Twelve Colonies]] working for a person named [[Enzo]] {{TRS|The Passage}}.

Katraine is selected from relative obscurity to become one of ''{{RDM|Galactica}}'''s first intake of trainee pilots after 13 experienced pilots were killed in a freak accident {{TRS|Act of Contrition}}.

Described as a "boonie jumper," Katraine is placed under the instruction of [[Kara Thrace]], alongside nugget pilots [[Brendan Costanza]] and [[Donald Perry]], with whom she forms a friendship.

Thrown in at the deep end - flying {{RDM|Viper}}s on their very first day of training, none of the nuggets perform particularly well - Kat in particular fails to make a [[combat landing]] on ''Galactica''. Thrace washes out the entire group of candidates until Commander [[William Adama]] later forces Thrace to reinstate them.

Katraine's training continues until she is selected to fly with {{callsign|Lee Adama}} during a raid to secure a [[tylium (RDM)|tylium]] mine from the Cylons {{TRS|The Hand of God (RDM)}}. Her fellow nuggets [[Donald Perry]] and [[Stepchild]] are killed in this action, but she and {{callsign|Hot Dog}} survive and are greeted as heroes on their return to ''Galactica''.

Kat participates in the defense of ''Galactica'' when the battlestar becomes separated from [[The Fleet (RDM)|the Fleet]], and has to face down a Cylon [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]] in order to relocate it {{TRS|Scattered}}.

After Lee Adama's defection to the [[Laura Roslin faction]], his replacement, the newly promoted Captain [[George Birch]] negligently endangers Katraine during a training exercise. She is almost killed when Birch incorrectly directs her to attack an asteroid target as {{callsign|Hot Dog}} fires a missile at the target. Katraine's improving piloting skills save her from a dangerous collision with debris {{TRS|Home, Part I}}.

Kat is later promoted from cadet to the rank of lieutenant. She becomes increasingly exhausted with the mounting pressures of service in the Fleet with long hours, constant danger, and no possiblity of reinforcement. While trying to combat her fatigue, Kat becomes dependent on [[stims]], of which the effects of their overuse make her emotionally unstable. She "moons" a documentary crew for her "buddies" on [[Freighter 212]], berates Chief [[Galen Tyrol|Tyrol]] for mechanical failures that are beyond his control, and later crashes her Viper into the [[landing bay]], totalling the vehicle ("[[Final Cut]]," "[[Flight of the Phoenix]]"). She is pulled from flight status for some time, but is reinstated by the time that the advanced battlestar ''Pegasus'' joins the Fleet , when she flies wingman to [[Lee Adama|Apollo]] on [[Combat Air Patrol|CAP]] when first contact is made with ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]''.

In the wake of Admiral Cain's integration of ''Galactica'' and ''Pegasus''' officers, Kat appears to have been made the acting-CAG of ''Galactica'' flight team. With Starbuck and Apollo both transferred to ''Pegasus'' and the failure of Cpt. [[George Birch]] as [[CAG]] during Lee Adama's absence, Katraine appears to be the most likely choice to fill the command vacuum. She is flight leader of the Viper wing that stands off against the ''Pegasus'' Vipers. In spite of making repeated requests for firing clearance, she manages to keep the situation from degenerating into a fire fight, and avoids several collision attempts in the fighters' deadly "chicken" game, each attempting to force the other side to fire first {{TRS|Resurrection Ship, Part I}}.

On day 189 of the human exodus, Kat is assigned CAP with {{callsign|Starbuck}}. Kat's maturity and past insensitivity show growth when Starbuck orders her to stop her small talk about Starbuck's off-hours behavior, which Kat does so without skipping a beat and returns to business by requesting permission to do a weapons check. As Kat test-fires her Viper's guns, an ammo misfire destroys Kat's port gun and sends debris at Starbuck's Viper, cracking her cockpit window. The two declare an emergency and safely return to ''Galactica.'' The cause of the malfunction was soon determined to be sabotage later blamed on a civilian ammunition worker that is part of the [[Demand Peace]] movement {{TRS|Epiphanies}}.

Katraine is more than personally upset with Starbuck's apparent behavior issues. While Kat obviously admires Kara Thrace, she tires quickly of Starbuck's drinking and bragging, which is affecting her work, and in turn affecting the pilots, especially the [[nugget]]s. Fed up with Starbuck's lording over the "Top Gun" beer stein as well as the rampaging Raider ace known as "[[Scar (Raider)|Scar]]," Kat makes a bet with Starbuck on who will destroy the morale-sucking Raider first.

Kat manages pilot combat reviews, having become a highly skilled tactical pilot herself. She grimaces at Starbuck's inefficiencies and chimes in often to correct or chide Starbuck, much to Thrace's chagrin. Things come to a head in their rivalry when Kat openly criticizes Starbuck for substituting [[Jo-Jo]] for patrol rather than flying herself (she awoke that morning hungover and unable to fly). Jo-Jo and his wingman are both killed, and Kat is incensed. But instead of Starbuck delivering the first punch, it's Kat that delivers it. Their fight is interrupted by Captain [[Lee Adama|Adama]], who orders them on patrol near the [[Big Spud]]. Kat and Starbuck find Scar, and Starbuck's Viper is damaged in a near-successful ambush. The consummate wingman, Kat continually speaks to Starbuck to get a bearing, although Starbuck resists out of pride rather than working jointly to destroy Scar. When Starbuck realizes that because of [[Samuel Anders]] she doesn't want to die in order to take Scar with her, she guides Kat in to her position, manuvering Scar so he ends up right in front of Kat which he doesn't know until Starbuck moves out of the way. Thanks to Starbuck's actions, Kat is perfect position and finally destroys Scar by blasting off one of his wings, causing a fatal collison with an asteriod.

[[File:Kat Scar.JPG|thumb|right|Kat triumphant {{TRS|Scar}}.]]
Kat chides Starbuck once more in the pilot's recreation room as she holds the Top Gun mug. Starbuck pours champagne in the mug and tells Kat, "You've earned it." Kat's slight smile in response is not only that of smugness, but also that of honor - for Starbuck to tell her that she was (at least for the time being) the best - is pleasing as a master would compliment a student {{TRS|Scar}}. Kat's smugness is short-lived, as Starbuck offers a toast to all the pilots who died during their flight from the colonies. Overwhelmed with the memory of lost comrades, Kat nearly bursts into tears.

By the time of the Cylon invasion of [[New Caprica]], with Lee Adama in command of ''Pegasus'' and Kara Thrace having left the fleet and settled planetside, Katraine has been promoted to ''Galactica'''s [[CAG]] {{TRS|Exodus, Part I}}. During the [[Battle of New Caprica]], she leads a group of Vipers escorting decoy [[Raptor]]s, and presumably assists in the defense of ''Galactica'' in the following space battle {{TRS|Exodus, Part II}}. Following the destruction of ''Pegasus'', Lee Adama returns to ''Galactica'' and replaces Katraine as the CAG, who in turn becomes a squadron leader ("[[Torn]]," "[[The Passage]]").

[[File:Promo - The Passage - Kat.jpg|thumb|left|One of Kat's final moments {{TRS|The Passage}}.]]
During a food shortage throughout the fleet, ''Galactica'''s pilots are tasked with safely guiding the civilian ships through a highly radioactive star cluster to a food source on the other side. During this time Katraine encounters [[Enzo]], who survived the attack and calls her by her real name, Sasha. Enzo confronts Katraine and threatens to reveal Kat's past to others unless she helps him. Thrace observes the argument and later confronts Enzo about it, who in turn reveals Katraine's secret to Thrace. Katraine confirms it to Thrace, who is angered over the secret, even suggesting that Kat could have possibly unknowingly aiding the Cylons in their infiltration of Caprica. Katraine begs Thrace not to tell Admiral Adama, saying that she wants to tell him herself.

Before the final trip through the passage, Katraine, who had already reached her threshold of radiation on earlier trips, switches radiation badges with Helo. During the final trip, she loses track of the ''[[Faru Sadin]]'', but remains in the passage until she finds the vessel and joins the rest of the Fleet on the other side. Upon landing, Katraine is celebrated as a hero, but then succumbs to radiation poisoning and collapses on the flight deck.

On her deathbed, Katraine summons Thrace for a final reconciliation, and receives from Thrace an apology and a supply of [[sleeping pills]], enough for an overdose that would allow her to die painlessly. Admiral Adama also comes to visit Katraine and informs her of her promotion to CAG again. Kat tries telling him the truth about her past, but he cuts her off, saying he doesn't need to know any more than what she did while serving under him. He pulls up a chair to sit watch over her, and comforts her with how the sickbay reminds him of when his son, [[Zak Adama|Zak]], was born, and how he and Carolanne had wanted a girl. After Katraine's death, Admiral Adama symbolically replaces Lee Adama's name with hers in the pilot roster board's CAG slot while the pilots observe in silence. Thrace goes to the [[memorial hallway|wall of remembrance]] and adds Katraine's photo {{TRS|The Passage}}.

After the fleet finally finds [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]], Thrace visits Katraine's picture in the memorial hallway {{TRS|Revelations}}

{{clear}}

==Notes==
*Katraine's assumed first name, Louanne, was revealed in the episode "[[Final Cut]]" during her interview with [[D'Anna Biers]], although it is spelled as "Louann" in the closing credits (as it did before in "[[Home, Part I]]"). The spelling is corrected from "[[Resurrection Ship, Part I]]" on out.
*It was initially assumed that some of Kat's family may have survived the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]], as implied when Kat shouted "Hi, Mom!" while waving into the camera in "[[Final Cut]]". However, given what was revealed in "[[The Passage]]," it may have been fictitious.
*Kat is featured in the XBOX 360 ''Battlestar Galactica'' game as one of the pilots the player competes with to shoot down the most ships and become ''Galactica'''s new top gun.
*In the DVD commentary for "[[Act of Contrition]]," David Eick and Ron D. Moore elaborate on the increased role of the nugget pilots as the series progressed:

:Eick: This young actress playing Kat has proven to be--and there's Bodie Olmos, Eddie's son, in the center there who's Hot Dog, he's also become a recurring character.
:RDM: Well those three in the front, {{callsign|Chuckles}}, {{callsign|Hot Dog}}, and Kat, they all became "pilots" to us. And I don't think we really had any expectation of that. The idea was we were going to do "the nuggets," "the new pilots," was just going to be its own kind of story, and ''maybe'' you might see one of these guys again later. And what started happening is the writers just started putting them in, like almost every scene that we dealt with the pilots (of Galactica) so these ''became'' our "recognizable faces".
:Eick: Kat is quite fine. She's someone we're now talking about, and have already, built into a much more prominent character. She's just a really, really talented actor, and she's someone who in a very different way than Katee (Starbuck), just exemplifies that sort of masculine fortitude, despite being a woman, that is required to be a pilot like this. In one of the upcoming episodes {{TRS|Scar}}, we're actually going to deal with the tension between Kara Thrace and Kat.
:RDM: Yeah, what happens when your protege starts outdistancing you. What happens when you train this young pilot, and it's great that she's a hot shot and all that, and then wait a minute, what if she starts being better than you?
*The [[:Image:Memorial8.jpg|current picture]] of Kat was the one placed on the [[memorial hallway]] {{TRS|The Passage}}
*In an [[Exodus, Part II]] deleted scene, Kat's past is alluded to in a conversation with Admiral Adama where he also alludes to the fact that he is aware of it but doesn't care.

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Kobol (RDM)

2025-06-15T21:49:33Z

WarGrowlmon15: /* Great Exodus */

{{disline|For information on the Kobol of the {{TOS|Battlestar Galactica|Original Series}}, see [[Kobol (TOS)]]. For general information on the planet, see [[Kobol]].}}

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

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

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

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

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

==Religious Texts==
[[File:City of the Gods.jpg|right|thumb|An illustration from the [[Sacred Scrolls]] of the City of the Gods {{TRS|Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I}}]]
During the time humans lived on Kobol, many texts were written, some of which have survived through time, and are regarded by some as religious artifacts, and by others as the documenting of myths and legends. These texts have been collected into a tome known as the [[Sacred Scrolls]]. These are the main source of information about Kobol for the people of the Twelve Colonies, as few hard facts remain.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Notes==

*Much of the scenic, expansive landscapes of Kobol were filmed at [http://www.spacesfornature.org/greatspaces/pinecone.html Widgeon Slough], the largest freshwater marsh in the Pinecone Burke Provincial Park, British Columbia, Port Coquitlam (Source in part: [[The Official Companion]]).
*In earlier versions of the [[Miniseries]] script, the Twelve Colonies actually resided ''on'' Kobol. Remnants of that decision are evident in props and costume components already produced for the Miniseries, such as the [[Kobol Review|''Kobol Review'']] and the notation of "Kobol HQ" on the [[Colonial Ministry of Defense]] patch worn by both the [[Armistice Officer]] and [[Kendra Shaw]]. The final shooting script returned Kobol to its status as birthplace of humankind, with humanity having left to other habitable worlds to match the premise of the [[Original Series]].

==See Also==

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

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Battle of Djerba

2025-06-15T20:58:03Z

WarGrowlmon15: /* Orbital Engagement */

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|conflict=[[Cylon War|First Cylon War]]
|date=[[Timeline (RDM)|10th Year]] of the [[Cylon War]]. Approximately 42 years prior to the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]].
|place=[[Djerba]], [[Sector 12]]
|result= Colonial victory
|combatant1=[[The Twelve Colonies of Kobol|Twelve Colonies of Kobol]]
|combatant2=[[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]]
|co1=Commander [[Ozar]] †
|co2=Unspecified
|strength1= Battlestar ''[[Osiris]]''
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The '''Battle of Djerba''' was an engagement that took place in the 10th year of the [[Cylon War|First Cylon War]]. This battle was fought in orbit, and planet side as ''[[Wild Weasel]]'' and her [[Viper Mark III|Viper]] escorts deliver [[Beka Kelly]] to her rendezvous.

==Battle==

===Orbital Engagement===

The Battle of Djerba took place after a Cylon [[Basestar (RDM)|Basestar]] jumped into [[DRADIS]] range of ''[[Osiris]]'' while in orbit of [[Djerba]]. ''Osiris'' was on assignment to drop off Dr. [[Beka Kelly]] to rendezvous with a spec ops marine recon team, that had previously been dispatched to the moon. ''Osiris'' has time to retreat and jump back, but Commander Ozar makes the decision to engage the basestar, to draw the Cylons away from the landing party.

''Osiris'' takes heavy damage immediately, which destroys the missile bay doors holding the ships nuclear stockpile, preventing the crew from launching the warheads at the basestar. The next hit on ''Osiris'' completely destroys her starboard engine nacelle, sealing her destruction. Rather than let the ship be destroyed in vain, Ozar orders the ship to ram the basestar, after which, she manually detonates the nuclear warheads, destroying both ships, with the loss of all hands.

===Planetside===

After launching, the Cylons detect the Raptor crew's descent into the planet, and quickly follow. Engaged by three Raiders, the descent party are forced to defend themselves, but are quickly overwhelmed. Elias is shot down by a pursuing Raider, and both [[Jim Kirby]] and ''[[Wild Weasel]]'' take damage. After taking damage, Kirby apologizes to Coker, and and abandons the Raptor to head home. The pursuing Raider lets him go, and takes after the Raptor, but [[William Adama]] sees an opportunity to think outside the box, and lets the Raider get in close. Dumping fuel on him, Adama uses the afterburners to light the Raider on fire, which causes the Raider to crash into the ice field below. Soon after, Adama loses control of the Raptor requiring a crash landing into the ice, disabling the Raptor.

== Aftermath ==

After abandoning the Raptor, Adama, Coker, and Beka are able to locate the Marine spec ops team inside a cave, however they were killed by an unknown Cylon creation some time beforehand. After locating surviving Marines, the party takes off for their next way point.

It is unknown what happens to Jim Kirby.

== Notes ==

*Shortly before ramming the basestar, Ozar utters the line "Brace for contact, my friend.," this is a reference to a line in the [[Miniseries, Night 1|miniseries]] shortly before ''{{RDM|Galactica}}'' is struck by a nuclear missile.

* In history, [[w:Battle of Djerba|Battle of Djerba]] took place in May 1560 near the island of Djerba, Tunisia. The Ottomans under Piyale Pasha's command overwhelmed a large joint Christian Alliance fleet, composed chiefly of Spanish, Papal, Genoese, Maltese and Neapolitan forces. The allies lost 27 galleys and some smaller vessels as well as the fortified island of Djerba. This victory marked perhaps the high point of Ottoman power in the Mediterranean Sea.

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Battle of Djerba

2025-06-15T20:56:45Z

WarGrowlmon15: /* Notes */

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|result= Colonial victory
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The '''Battle of Djerba''' was an engagement that took place in the 10th year of the [[Cylon War|First Cylon War]]. This battle was fought in orbit, and planet side as ''[[Wild Weasel]]'' and her [[Viper Mark III|Viper]] escorts deliver [[Beka Kelly]] to her rendezvous.

==Battle==

===Orbital Engagement===

The Battle of Djerba took place after a Cylon [[Basestar (RDM)|Basestar]] jumped into [[DRADIS]] range of ''[[Osiris]]'' while in orbit of [[Djerba]]. ''Osiris'' was on assignment to drop off Dr. [[Beka Kelly]] to rendezvous with a spec ops marine recon team, that had previously been dispatched to the moon. ''Osiris'' has time to retreat and jump back, but Commander Ozar makes the decision to engage the basestar, to draw the Cylons away from the landing party.

''Osiris'' takes heavy damage immediately, which destroys the missile bay doors holding the ships nuclear stockpile, preventing the crew from launching the warheads at the basestar. The next hit on ''Osiris'' completely destroys her starboard engine nacelle, sealing her destruction. Rather than let the ship be destroyed in vain, she orders the ship to ram the basestar, after which, she manually detonates the nuclear warheads, destroying both ships, with the loss of all hands.

===Planetside===

After launching, the Cylons detect the Raptor crew's descent into the planet, and quickly follow. Engaged by three Raiders, the descent party are forced to defend themselves, but are quickly overwhelmed. Elias is shot down by a pursuing Raider, and both [[Jim Kirby]] and ''[[Wild Weasel]]'' take damage. After taking damage, Kirby apologizes to Coker, and and abandons the Raptor to head home. The pursuing Raider lets him go, and takes after the Raptor, but [[William Adama]] sees an opportunity to think outside the box, and lets the Raider get in close. Dumping fuel on him, Adama uses the afterburners to light the Raider on fire, which causes the Raider to crash into the ice field below. Soon after, Adama loses control of the Raptor requiring a crash landing into the ice, disabling the Raptor.

== Aftermath ==

After abandoning the Raptor, Adama, Coker, and Beka are able to locate the Marine spec ops team inside a cave, however they were killed by an unknown Cylon creation some time beforehand. After locating surviving Marines, the party takes off for their next way point.

It is unknown what happens to Jim Kirby.

== Notes ==

*Shortly before ramming the basestar, Ozar utters the line "Brace for contact, my friend.," this is a reference to a line in the [[Miniseries, Night 1|miniseries]] shortly before ''{{RDM|Galactica}}'' is struck by a nuclear missile.

* In history, [[w:Battle of Djerba|Battle of Djerba]] took place in May 1560 near the island of Djerba, Tunisia. The Ottomans under Piyale Pasha's command overwhelmed a large joint Christian Alliance fleet, composed chiefly of Spanish, Papal, Genoese, Maltese and Neapolitan forces. The allies lost 27 galleys and some smaller vessels as well as the fortified island of Djerba. This victory marked perhaps the high point of Ottoman power in the Mediterranean Sea.

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Continuity errors (TRS)

2025-06-15T20:49:20Z

WarGrowlmon15: /* Colonial Workers Alliance */

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This is a listing of '''continuity errors''' in the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Re-imagined Series]].

== Acknowledged Mistakes ==

=== Tomb of Athena ===
*At the end of "[[Home, Part II]]," when everyone is looking at the map to [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]] in the [[Tomb of Athena]], Lee Adama points out the [[w:Lagoon Nebula|Lagoon Nebula]] in one of the constellations shown in the sky. According to him, and supported by the visual effects, the nebula is located in [[w:Scorpius|Scorpio]], but in the real world it is actually in the constellation [[wikipedia:Sagittarius (constellation)|Sagittarius]]. {{Spoiltext|The events of "[[Daybreak]]" solidify that the Tomb of Athena itself is a mistake, as the constellations would not have looked the way they did 150,000 BCE.}}

=== Captions ===
*At the beginning of "[[Downloaded]]" two captions are shown: one states that the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon Attack]] in the [[Miniseries, Night 1|Miniseries]] occurred nine months before the current episode (which is consistent with the other episodes in Season 2.5), while the second reads "10 weeks ago," and then shows [[Cally Tyrol|Cally]] shooting [[Sharon Valerii|"Boomer" Valerii]] in "[[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]." However, it is impossible for this to have happened "10 weeks before 9 months after the attack": 9 months = 270 days. There is another plaque in the episode "[[Epiphanies]]" which clearly states on screen that that episode took place on Day 189. There are 70 days in 10 weeks. 70 days before Day 270 would be around Day 200; well after "Epiphanies". To correct this, the title card of the home video and international television releases has been changed to "10 weeks later," meaning 10 weeks after [[Caprica-Six]]'s resurrection.

=== Corrected Sequences ===
*In "[[Scar]]" Starbuck and Kat fly [[Viper Mark VII]]s but the launch in the originally aired episode showed a [[Viper Mark II]]. This has been fixed in the home video release that includes a shorter launch sequence with the Mk VIIs. (Although, a few previous episodes like "[[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]" only use the Mk II sequence, but both types of Vipers are deployed by ''Galactica''.)

=== Out-of-Order Sequences ===
*"[[Exodus, Part I]]": At the end of "[[Precipice]]" Cally is clearly in the woods when the gunfire is going off. At the time [[Galen Tyrol|Tyrol]] and his group take aim at the [[Cylon Centurion]], Cally has not reached the wooded area by the time gunfire sounds. Further, when the gunfire begins in "Precipice," Tyrol is at the firing position, far from Cally, while in "Exodus, Part I" he is holding her to the ground when it begins.

== [[Retroactive continuity|Retcons]] ==

=== [[Season two timeline discontinuity]] ===
*All episodes before Season 2.5 (starting with "[[Resurrection Ship, Part I]]") seem to indicate that Season 2.5 begins 3-4 months after the Cylon attack. However, "Resurrection Ship, Part I" and all subsequent Season 2.5 episodes indicate that "Resurrection Ship, Part I" began 6 months after the Cylon attack. See the main article for more detailed analysis. There are 3 main points of discontinuity:
**[[Sharon Agathon|Caprica-Valerii]] is not visibly pregnant in "[[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]," but by "[[Epiphanies]]," roughly 2-3 weeks later, she appears to be in her second trimester.
**The presidential elections in "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]" are said to take place 9 months after the attack, when throughout Season 1 it was consistently said to be 7 months after the Cylon attack.
**If all of the dates mentioned in each episode are counted up, "Pegasus" only occurs roughly three months post-attack, not six.

=== [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet numbers]] ===
*In the [[Miniseries]], a total of 40 [[FTL]] ships (led by Roslin) rendezvous with ''Galactica'' at [[Ragnar Anchorage]]. This makes the count 41 ships, including ''Galactica''. However, this number was enlarged for the series. In "[[33]]," Dualla states: "Jump 237 underway... 53 ships have jumped, 10 still reporting trouble with their FTL drives, including ''Colonial One''." Thus making the total 64 ships, including ''Galactica'' herself. By the end of "33," the count drops to 63 as {{callsign|Lee Adama}} and [[Kara Thrace]] destroy the ''[[Olympic Carrier]]''. In "[[You Can't Go Home Again]]," Colonel Tigh mentions the Cylons searching for "a sixty-odd ships". The count offered in "[[The Farm]]" is similar — 24 ships leave to join [[Laura Roslin faction|Roslin's fleet]], which was "almost a third" of the Fleet, putting the number at about 75. About 65 ships have been named to date, mostly on the vote tally boards in "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]".
*The ''[[Astral Queen]]'': In the [[Miniseries]], [[Billy Keikeya]] states that the captain had 500 prisoners in his cargo hold, and that the ''Queen'' was a cargo vessel transporting prisoners to a prison. In "[[Bastille Day]]," [[Billy Keikeya]]'s lines were re-dubbed: '''1,500''' prisoners are aboard the ''Astral Queen'' and that the ship was a '''prison transport'''. Lee Adama would go on to later state that the ''Astral Queen'' was en route to {{RDM|Caprica}} for parole hearings.

=== [[Cylon detector]] ===
*In the episode "[[Flesh and Bone]]," it takes only minutes to identify [[Sharon Valerii|"Boomer" Valerii]] as a Cylon. However, in "[[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]," he states that complete testing on one sample of blood takes 11 hours. However, this could be because a negative result takes 11 hours to confirm but a positive result potentially may be more instant. Although, since Ellen is later revealed to be a member of the [[Final Five]] in "[[Sometimes a Great Notion]]," coupled with the fact that Baltar rigged the results to always read as negative and said he would "never tell" what Ellen's true results were, it is possible that it takes 11 hours to alter any positive readouts so that they'd appear to be negative.

=== [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]] ===
*The exodus from {{RDM|Kobol}}: In "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]" Elosha, Billy and Roslin are discussing Kobol and the exodus of the tribes. Billy says that the ruins on Kobol are 2,000 years old. Elosha states this is when the ''Thirteen'' tribes left Kobol. Other mentions in the show (particularly [[Season 3 (2006-07)|Season 3]] episodes concerning the [[Lymphocytic encephalitis|Cylon virus]] and the [[Temple of Five]]) mention that the 13th tribe left Kobol about 2,000 years before the other twelve did. Elosha's comment implies that all thirteen tribes left Kobol together, just in different directions.

=== Characters ===
* In "[[Final Cut]]," [[Louanne Katraine]] says hello to her mother on camera in the [[duty locker]] and says hello to her buddies on ''[[Freighter 212]]'', yet in "[[The Passage]]," Katraine is noted as the alias for Sasha, a gun-runner who has been avoiding her past. These two pieces of information are not fully congruent.
*In "[[No Exit]]," [[Cavil]] tells [[Ellen]] that he had programmed himself to stop sleeping decades ago. However, [[Cavil]] is shown in pajamas getting into bed in "[[The Plan]]," which takes place only a few years before his statement to Ellen.

== Danglers ==
Danglers are plotlines that have been started, but were never explicitly resolved.

=== Zarek-Tigh Plotline ===
In the episode "[[Colonial Day]]," it is heavily implied that [[Ellen Tigh]] revealed the location of [[Valance]] to agents of [[Tom Zarek]], and that she intends for her husband, Colonel [[Saul Tigh]], to meet with Zarek's people in the near future. Nothing of this is touched again up to Ellen's murder in "[[Exodus, Part II]]" or even Zarek's execution later in "[[Blood on the Scales]]," at which point the Tighs had been [[Final Five|outed as Cylons]].

=== Zarek-[[Black market (organization)|Black Market]] Plotline ===
Similarly, the end of "[[Black Market]]" implies that Zarek has assumed some measure of influence in that organization, yet there is no mention of his association with the black market in the remainder of the series. However, Zarek tells Apollo what he knows about the Black Market because he was approached by Phelan to join the operation but declined on principles, leading to ''Astral Queen'' being shunned when supplies were distributed. He provides this background information to Apollo because it will help Apollo shut down the black market, serving Zarek's stated agenda of making access to supplies and luxuries equitable to all.

=== [[Demand Peace]] ===
The pro-Cylon terrorist faction that sprung up in the fleet during "[[Epiphanies]]" never resurfaced. The episode concluded without any firm resolution regarding the fate of the movement and its leader, [[Royan Jahee]]. Their base of operations, "[[Cloud 9]]," was destroyed by [[Gina Inviere]] in "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]". The plotline of "Epiphanies" implies that the group is gearing up for a full-scale campaign against the Fleet's leadership, but they are never seen again and the fates of the group's members are not discussed later on. Adama declared the organization outlaw and terrorist, and it is likely that the incident depicted in "[[Sacrifice]]" led to a general crackdown on armed insurgent organizations within the Colonial Fleet.

=== [[Colonial Workers Alliance]] ===
This union, lead by [[Galen Tyrol]], begins on [[New Caprica]] in "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II" and is touched upon in the episode "[[Dirty Hands]]". However, in light of Tyrol's discovery of being a member of the [[Final Five]], and his [[Escape Velocity|subsequent breakdown]] occurring after [[The Ties That Bind|the death]] of [[Cally Tyrol|his wife]], his association with the union has not been noted since, and its existence has not been mentioned post-"Dirty Hands". In a deleted scene for "[[Sine Qua Non]]," it's mentioned that Tyrol has abandoned his duties as head of the union as a result of his breakdown.

== Recasting ==

=== [[Zak Adama]] ===
In the [[Miniseries]], a different actor (or stand-in) is pictured as Zak Adama. In "[[Act of Contrition]]," a new actor portrays Zak, and the picture was changed to reflect the casting choice.

=== [[Ellen Tigh]] ===
The picture of [[Saul Tigh]]'s estranged wife, which Tigh has burned a hole through, was originally a picture of [[David Eick]]'s wife, [[Jennifer Birchfield-Eick]]. When [[Kate Vernon]] was cast as Ellen beginning in "[[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]," the image was changed and scene reshot for the "previously on" recap used in the episode.

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=== [[Richard Adar]] ===
In the [[Miniseries]], Adar is [[:md:Image:Bsg-baltar-adar.jpg|portrayed]] by [[David Eick]] in a photograph in Baltar's domicile on Caprica. When Adar appears in person in "[[Epiphanies]]" he is played by [[Colm Feore]].

=== [[Carolanne Adama]] ===
At [[Zak Adama|Zak's]] funeral, Carolanne Adama is portrayed by an uncredited actress, wearing a broad hat and black veil that obscures her face in "[[Act of Contrition]]." She is portrayed by [[Lucinda Jenney]] in the episode "[[A Day in the Life]]" during [[William Adama]]'s remembrances of his former wife.

== Logic errors ==

=== "[[Scar]]" ===
* In the last act of this episode, when [[Kara Thrace]] enters the [[rec room]], an intercut scene of the people in the room shows Kara Thrace (at ~38:50) sitting at a table drinking from the "Top Gun" stein. However, the stein is being used by [[Louanne Katraine]] at this point, and Thrace had just entered.

==== "[[He That Believeth in Me]]" ====
* '''Missing Limp:''' In the [[Crossroads, Part II|previous episode]], it is established that [[Samuel Anders]] has a limp from a broken leg he received in "[[The Son Also Rises]]." The limp is visible in the revelation regarding [[Final Five|Four of the Five]] in the last act. However, the limp disappears completely in "He That Believeth in Me" in events that are depicted to happen 10 (or fewer) minutes later.
* '''Pilot Training:''' In "[[Crossroads, Part II]]," it is implied that Samuel Anders only began his training, as he is being shown avionics and other key systems in a Raptor by Lieutenant [[Margaret Edmondson]]. In this episode, he tells [[Kara Thrace]] that he concluded basic training and began [[ACM]], and is capable of flying the Viper.

=== "[[Sine Qua Non]]"/"[[The Hub]]" ===
*The events of the episodes "[[Sine Qua Non]]" and "[[The Hub]]" occur concurrently, yet the population count drops by one in between the two episodes. Arguably there should have been no drop until the survivor count appears again in "[[Revelations]]." The appearance of [[Eammon Pike]], who dies during the events seen in "The Hub" but whose corpse is found in the preceding episode probably explains the error.

=== "[[The Plan]]" ===
*[[William Adama]] asks [[Sharon Valerii]] to take her Raptor and destroy the [[Basestar (RDM)|Basestar]] orbiting {{RDM|Kobol}}, the same scene from "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]". In the next scene, [[Giana O'Neill]] returns from working on the [[hangar deck]], saying that [[Galen Tyrol]] had asked her to look over the captured [[Raider (RDM)|Raider]]. This is a sequential error, as Adama had sent Valerii on the mission because Tyrol had been shot down on Kobol and [[Kara Thrace]] had stolen the Raider.

== Wrong Footage ==

==== Miniseries ====

* When {{Callsign|Apollo}}, flying his father's [[Viper Mark II|Mark II]] [[Viper 7242]], is caught in the Cylon missile's explosion (having destroyed it before it took out ''[[Colonial One]]''), the cockpit instrumentation is a reuse of the earlier scene when [[Viper Mark VII|Mark VII Vipers]] led by {{Callsign|Ripper}}, are remotely deactivated.

== VFX Gaffes ==

=== Miniseries ===
*[[File:TRS - Miniseries - Missing Viper Tail Number.jpg|thumb|An instance of a destroyed Viper fuselage sans tail number and nameplate {{TRS|Miniseries, Night 1}}.]]When the [[Armistice Officer]]'s [[Shuttle (RDM)|shuttle]] first docks at the [[Armistice Station]], the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon pentagon]] and the [[Colonial seal|Colonial Phoenix]] are seen above the base of the docking tube. Later, when the Station is destroyed, the symbol positions are swapped.
*While en route to make a visual inspection of the port flight pod, [[Kara Thrace|Kara "Starbuck" Thrace]] passes the remains of the [[Viper Mark II]] that does not have a tail number.
*No less than three copies of [[Viper 1104]] are present at the [[Battle of Ragnar Anchorage]]. Of these, one is crash landed by Lieutenant [[Kara Thrace|Thrace]], one destroyed by Cylon fire, and one successfully landed on ''Galactica''.
*[[Miniseries]] and "[[33]]": As ''Galactica'' prepares to jump to Ragnar Anchorage, the flight pods retract. As the ship jumps, the pods are not retracted. When ''Galactica'' has jumped to Ragnar Anchorage the pods are retracted again. This same footage is reused during "[[33]]"{{'|s}} opening titles.

=== Season 1 ===

==== "[[33]]" ====
*As the Cylon Centurion approaches Helo from behind, the rain is hitting it, but it does not drip off its body. In contrast, water is dripping from Helo's face in a fairly consistent and noticeable manner.
*As ''Olympic Carrier'' approaches the Fleet, ''Galactica'' turns to engage it, putting itself perpendicular to the ship. When ''Olympic Carrier'' is destroyed, ''Galactica'' is shown in the position it was before ''Olympic Carrier'' appeared.

==== "[[You Can't Go Home Again]]" ====
*Before searching for Starbuck, [[Lee Adama|Apollo]] climbs into a Viper Mk VII, although he is shown piloting a Mk II in all other effects shots. However, his Mark VII is mentioned as being down for repairs at one point, implying that he flies it off screen.

==== "{{RDM|The Hand of God}}" ====
[[File:4267 HoG.JPG|thumb|Flipped decals on Vipers {{TRS|The Hand of God}}.]]

* During the ground run lead by {{Callsign|Lee Adama}} , "GALACTICA," "BEWARE OF BLAST," "NO STEP" and other textual details (excluding the tail number and nameplate) on the fuselage and wings of [[Viper 4267|Vipers 4267]] and [[Viper 7961|7961]] are flipped, as they are meant for the port side of the digital model, and not its starboard.
{{Clear}}

==== [[Season 1 (2004-05)|Amid Season 1]] ====
*Half-way through Season 1, the ''[[Colonial One]]'' CG model was updated and the seal of the President of the Colonies was added to the hull. However, the reuse of stock footage from the Miniseries and earlier in the first season cause the seal to continually disappear and reappear in the same episode depending on what shot is used.

=== Season 2 ===

==== "[[Scattered]]" ====
[[File:1104reverse Scattered.JPG|thumb|Mirrored shot of Viper 1104 {{TRS|Scattered}}.]]
*A shot of [[Viper 1104]] is mirrored.

==== "[[Flight of the Phoenix]]" ====
*'''Viper and [[List of pilots|pilot]] numbers:''' 42 Vipers are deployed at a time when no more than 34 could have been serviceable, and with no more than 25 pilots available. 40 were available at the start of the series.
*'''[[Blackbird]]:''' As the [[Great Cylon Turkey Shoot]] begins, the Blackbird (still incomplete, untested, and missing its composite skin by this point) can be seen swooping across the screen in a manner inconsistent with its flight characteristics; the ship was built for speed, not maneuverability. The ship also fires what appears to be autocannons, although Blackbird is unarmed except in its [[Resurrection Ship, Part II|final mission]].

==== "[[The Captain's Hand]]" ====
*As Starbuck leads ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus's]]'' [[Viper Mark VII|Viper Mk VIIs]] into combat, a cockpit shot of her mistakenly shows [[Viper Mark II|Viper Mk IIs]] around her ship.

=== Season 3 ===

==== "[[Crossroads, Part II]]": ====
* Lee Adama's Viper Mark VII is identified as 2220NC, or [[Viper 2220 (Mark VII)|Viper 2220]]. However, [[Viper 2220]] has already been established as a Viper Mark II, not a Mark VII, which has seen multiple appearances as Adama's Viper throughout Season 1.
*Further, Kara Thrace's pristine Viper does not have a nameplate. This is telling in closeups of her in her Viper's cockpit. This error is remedied in the following episode, "[[He That Believeth in Me]]".

=== Season 4 ===

==== "[[Razor]]" ====
*When Starbuck orders [[Marcia Case|Showboat]] to "open up with all you've got" as they find themselves in ''Pegasus''<nowiki>'</nowiki> firing solution, the gun shown firing is that of a [[Viper Mark II]]. However, Starbuck and Showboat are in [[Viper Mark VII]]s.

==== "[[Revelations]]" ====
*When [[Felix Gaeta]] stumbles in the [[CIC]], the shadow of his [[Guess What's Coming to Dinner?|amputated]] leg is visible.

==Anachronisms==

=== [[Miniseries]] ===
*An [[wikipedia:F-16 Fighting Falcon|F-16 Fighting Falcon]] is visible in a picture in Adama's quarters when he and Colonel Tigh discuss Starbuck striking Tigh. However, this could be a tribute; the F-16 is sometimes called "Viper" by its pilots.

=== "[[Six Degrees of Separation]]" ===
*The special-effects group for the Re-imagined Series appear dedicated to creating computer screens, equipment and interfaces that are familiar to viewers, but aren't full counterparts to real-world Earth materials. However, the logo for NEC computer manufacturers can be seen on the monitors while [[Felix Gaeta|Gaeta]] is working on the photograph. A similar occurrence happens in "Sacrifice".

=== "[[Home, Part I]]": ===
*As Adama gives his first press conference after recovering from his gunshot wounds, the logo of the electronics manufacturer [[w:SHURE|SHURE]] is seen on the podium microphone.

=== "[[Scar]]" ===
*The little model plane on top of the "Top Gun" mug sported by Starbuck and Kat is actually an [[wikipedia:F/A-18 Hornet|F/A-18 Hornet]].

=== "[[Sacrifice]]": ===
*A computer mouse using a design created by [[Microsoft]] is seen connected to [[Sesha Abinell]]'s laptop computer.

=== "[[Exodus, Part II]]" ===
* In the scene where ''Galactica'' falls to [[New Caprica]] after an inter-atmosphere Jump, a closeup of the grease pencils that roll around on the navigation table makes the markings of where they are made visible, in this case: [[w:China|China]].

=== "[[Maelstrom]]" ===
* During one of the flashbacks, there is a quick shot of Kara Thrace's mother's ashtray, containing at least one cigarette that quite clearly has the word "Marlboro" on it.

=== "[[Guess What's Coming to Dinner?]]" ===
* A [[w:Windows XP|Windows XP]] dialogue box can be seen on one of the Cylon Basestar's wall displays.

=== "[[A Disquiet Follows My Soul]]": ===
*The blood pressure monitor on [[Nicholas Tyrol]] reads Welch Allyn, a medical diagnostic supply company.

=== "[[The Plan]]" ===
*The [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprican]] landmasses shown at the beginning of the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|attack on the Colonies]] are clearly identifiable as those of Earth, specifically an inverted and stretched image of [[w:Europe|Europe]], as well as the [[w:Iranian Peninsula|Iranian Peninsula]], the [[w:Arabian Peninsula|Arabian Peninsula]] and [[w:Turkey|Turkey]]. This most likely represents an instance of CGI corner-cutting.
*In what is either an Easter egg (given the large amount of ''Battlestar Galactica'' filming which took place in and around Vancouver) or another CGI cost-cutting move, a Cylon [[w:MIRV|MIRV]] is seen detonating over a large city [http://www.niciasus.com/wp-content/gallery/bsg-the-plan/bsgplan_059.JPG] which is actually a Google Maps satellite image of downtown [[w:Vancouver|Vancouver]], rotated approximately 180 degrees counterclockwise. [http://maps.google.com/maps?client=safari&oe=UTF-8&ie=UTF8&q=vancouver+bc&fb=1&gl=us&ei=jfueS-vzCqG2zASz77TPBg&ved=0CBgQpQY&hl=en&view=map&geocode=FeSz7wId-w2p-A&split=0&iwloc=A&sa=X] The domes of the [[w:General Motors Place|General Motors Place]] and [[w:BC Place|BC Place Stadium]] sports arenas are clearly visible when the nuclear missiles are falling.
*The CGI landscape which appears during the Hybrid's statement that the "courthouses of [[Libran]] are burning" is the exact same landscape which is shown on screen as [[Tauron City]] in the ''[[Caprica (series)|Caprica]]'' episode "[[Know Thy Enemy]]," which takes place some 58 years before the events of "[[The Plan]]." The ''Caprica'' version is widened and more buildings added. However, it is unclear whether the landscape shown in "The Plan" was indeed intended to represent Tauron, or if this is simply another example of CGI corner-cutting by incorporating footage created for "The Plan" into ''Caprica''.

==Prop and Equipment Errors==
[[File:2276gaff Mini.JPG|thumb|Major Spencer in Viper 2276 {{TRS|Miniseries}}.]]

=== [[Miniseries]] ===
*The Viper Mk. VII flown by Major Spencer during the first sortie is still marked as "[[Viper 2276|Viper 2276NC]]" which is the Viper flown by Captain {{callsign|Lee Adama}} to ''Galactica''.
*As [[Sharon Valerii|Sharon "Boomer" Valerii]] takes off from Caprica with the civilians in the [[Raptor]], just after [[Helo|Karl "Helo" Agathon]] shoots the civilian who jumps on to the wing, the camera points to Boomer, where viewers can see in the window reflection the crane that is hoisting the Raptor into the air.
*As shown in a closeup of the pilot after giving [[Laura Roslin]] the [[Case Orange]] reply, the spaceline's name on the [[Colonial One captain]]'s uniform, "Eversun," is mismatched to the spaceline name used on ''[[Colonial Heavy 798]]'' itself: [[Intersun]]. This continues throughout the series.
*When [[Kara Thrace|Kara "Starbuck" Thrace]]'s Viper is hit during the second sortie at the [[Battle of Ragnar Anchorage]] ("I'm all right"), her helmet's jaw plate is ejected outward.
*Similarly, {{callsign|Lee Adama}}'s collar is opened when he scolds her for being "beyond insane" as Thrace pushing Adama's Viper into ''Galactica''{{'|s}} [[flight pod]] at the end of the [[Battle of Ragnar Anchorage]].

=== Season 1 ===

==== "[[33]]" ====
* [[File:TRS - 33 - Colonial One Co-Pilot Talks to Billy Keikeya.jpg|thumb|[[Colonial One co-pilot|''Colonial One''{{'|s}} co-pilot]] notifies [[Billy Keikeya]] about ''[[Colonial One]]''{{'|s}} [[FTL]] issue {{TRS|33}}.]]The [[Colonial One co-pilot|''Colonial One'' co-pilot]] appears briefly when he notifies [[Billy Keikeya]] about ''[[Colonial One]]''<nowiki/>'s FTL issue, wearing a [[Colonial Fleet (TRS)|Colonial Fleet]] [[Insignia (RDM)|junior flight wing]] pin instead of the civilian flight wing pin from his appearance in the [[Miniseries]].
*When [[Anastasia Dualla|Dualla]] admits that she lost the ''[[Olympic Carrier]]'', her headset changes sides during the conversation. In addition, there are times between scenes where her BDU does and does not have her rank insignia pins throughout the episode.
*As Helo fires upon the Cylon Centurion that survives the detonation of an anti-personnel mine (similar to a [[Claymore mine]]), the first time Helo fires the pistol, it is heard to fire, but there is no accompanying visual spark from the barrel. In contrast, the second shot is accompanied by both a spark and the appropriate sound.
*After the disappearance of the ''Olympic Carrier'' in jump 238, with the timer running towards the 33 minute mark, the viewer can see that the clock is at 10 seconds. When focusing on Adama and Tigh, the viewer hears ten seconds counting off, but when the camera quick-pans to the overhead console, it reads that 3 seconds have passed.
*Before the clock reaches zero in the teaser, a wide shot of [[CIC]] is shown with Adama and Tigh standing at the central console. The timer on the screen above their heads is flashing 00:00:00.
[[File:TRS - Water - G-4 Detonator Case with Foam Insert Gaffe.jpg|thumb|[[Sharon Valerii]] opens up a case of [[A-type detonator|A-type detonators]] in ''Galactica''<nowiki/>'s small arms locker, seeing that 5 of the 12 are present {{TRS}}.]]

==== "[[Water]]" ====

*When [[Sharon Valerii]] opens up an [[A-type detonator]] case in the [[small arms locker]], the impression on the top lid's foam indicates that only 5 detonators were ever present for any period of time.
{{Clear}}
[[File:TRS - You Can't Go Home Again - Helmet Jaw Drop.jpg|thumb|[[Kara Thrace|Kara "Starbuck" Thrace]]'s helmet jaw plate in the "open" position while being dragged by her deployed escape parachute {{TRS|You Can't Go Home Again}}.]]

==== "[[You Can't Go Home Again]]" ====

* As [[Kara Thrace|Kara "Starbuck" Thrace]] is pulled by her escape parachute, the jaw piece of her helmet keeps on opening and closing.
{{Clear}}

==== "[[Colonial Day]]" ====

*[[File:TRS - Colonial Day - Tigh Costume Gaffe.jpg|thumb|''{{RDM|Galactica}}'' pin on [[Saul Tigh]]'s [[duty blue]], where his [[Insignia (RDM)|flight wing]] would otherwise be {{TRS|Colonial Day}}.]]During the bar fight scene, [[Valance]]'s gun is shown with a silencer attached as it falls out of his briefcase, but the silencer is not present for the rest of the scene. The silencer is back when [[Valance]] is interrogated by {{Callsign|Starbuck}} and {{Callsign|Apollo}}.
*In a later scene where Valance's death is discussed aboard ''[[Colonial One]]'', Colonel [[Saul Tigh]] stands behind President [[Laura Roslin]] while wearing a ''Galactica'' "ears and tails" pin (reserved for the [[Uniforms (RDM)|dress gray uniform]]) in lieu of the elite flight wing pin.
{{Clear}}

=== Season 2 ===

==== "[[Valley of Darkness]]" ====

*{{callsign|Kat}} finds a box of explosive rounds with only 6 shells. The shells in the container start out scattered within the box, but as the camera cuts back and forth in the scene the shells switch from organized to scattered many times.

==== "[[Black Market]]" ====

*At around 42:55 in the episode, the [[w:John Fowles|John Fowles]] historical fiction/romance novel ''[[w:The French Lieutenant's Woman|The French Lieutenant's Woman]]'' appears on a shelf behind the couch in [[William Adama]]'s room, to {{callsign|Lee Adama}}'s left.

==== "[[Scar]]" ====

*When getting intimate with Apollo, the bandage on Thrace's back moves from one side to the other. Usually, such bandages are used to cover [[Katee Sackhoff]]'s crucifix back tattoo.

==== "[[Sacrifice]]" ====

*When Thrace removes handguns out of her tool case, she still has the environmental engineer's hat on. When she quickly turns around with the guns and starts firing, her hat has disappeared without explanation.

==== "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]" ====

*When the rescue mission returns from [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]], [[Cavil]] (as well as probably Sharon Valerii and Karl Agathon) are carried by a Raptor featuring [[Margaret Edmondson|Margaret "Racetrack" Edmondson]]'s nameplate. However, Racetrack never made it to Caprica; this may not be so much of an error, but an indication of resource shortages.

=== Season 3 ===

==== "[[Exodus, Part II]]" ====

*The [[DRADIS]] displays on ''Galactica'' and ''Pegasus'' are free of interference from the [[New Caprica]] nebula, even though it continued to be an obvious problem for both ships at the end of "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]."

==== "[[The Passage]]" ====

*[[Raymond Lai|Raymond "Raygun" Lai]]'s name appears on ''Galactica''’s active flight roster. His name previously appeared on one of the 40 year-old Viper Mk. IIs in ''Galactica'' museum during the [[Miniseries]].

=== Season 4 ===

==== "[[Razor]]" ====
* Early in the scenes with the search and rescue party in the [[Guardian basestar]], Kara Thrace can be seen with the [[Arts and Literature of the Twelve Colonies#Tattoos|tattoo]] she gets after marrying [[Samuel Anders]], an event that won't happen for months from the story's perspective. It is absent in later scenes.
*[[Kendra Shaw]] has a band-aid on the end of her right index finger throughout the episode, in both the present and in the flashback scenes. However, it seems highly unlikely that she would either still be wearing it over the course of ten months or would coincidentally have to apply another one on the same part of the same finger.

==== "[[Six of One]]" ====

* When [[Karl Agathon|Karl "Helo" Agathon]] enters with the wooden box of [[ambrosia]] with shot glasses, the telephone to the left of the door is visibility missing. It continues to be missing as the camera pans around the room, until it appears as [[Noel Allison|Noel "Narcho" Allison]] brings the room to attention for {{callsign|Apollo}}'s farewell toast.

{| class="wikitable"
|+Missing Phone
![[File:TRS - Six of One - Agathon with Wooden Shot Glass and Ambrosia Box.jpg|thumb|{{callsign|Karl Agathon}} enters with the wooden box of [[ambrosia]] and shot glasses, walking past a door frame missing the phone on left {{TRS|Six of One}}.]]
![[File:TRS - Six of One - Narcho Brings the Room to Order.jpg|thumb|The phone to the left of the door reappears when [[Noel Allison|Noel "Narcho" Allison]] brings the room to order {{TRS|Six of One}}.]]
|}

==== "[[Sometimes a Great Notion]]" ====

* Admiral [[William Adama|Adama]] spills liquor on [[Saul Tigh]]'s table and throws the marine's pistol on the table. In each of the six cuts, the module below the barrel of the gun changes: first it is slightly wet, then dry, then wet in a different way, dry again, then wet matching the first scene, then dry again.

==== "[[Daybreak]]" ====
* As {{callsign|Lee Adama}} rappels over the [[airlock]] into [[The Colony]], the neoprene neck piece from his flightsuit falls away.
* In a deleted flashback scene, [[Sharon Valerii|Sharon "Boomer" Valerii]] and [[Karl Agathon|Karl "Helo" Agathon]] wear the newer Raptor helmets introduced in late Season 2, even though they should've been wearing the earlier version with the "horns" and silver braided tubing.

== Insignia Changes ==
In several episodes characters wear the wrong [[Military Ranks (RDM)|rank insignia]]:
* "[[33]]":
** [[Felix Gaeta]] begins wearing standard flight wings.
** The [[Colonial One co-pilot|''Colonial One'' co-pilot]] wears standard flight wings instead of the civilian flight wings seen in the [[Miniseries]].
* "[[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]": [[Kara Thrace|Kara "Starbuck" Thrace]] wears junior lieutenant (short chevron) insignia in several scenes.
* "[[Fragged]]": [[Cally]] is wearing petty officer, 2nd class instead of crewman specialist insignia.
* "[[Home, Part I]]" and "[[Home, Part II]]": {{Callsign|Apollo}} wears major instead of captain insignia.
* "[[Scar]]":
** In the first scene in the recreation room Thrace wears lieutenant insignia despite having been promoted to captain.
** Some of the [[nuggets]] have lieutenant insignia despite being addressed as ensigns.
* "[[The Captain's Hand]]":
** Lee Adama's insignia switches between captain and major at least once. Major is his correct rank at that time.
** [[Abel Thornton]] wears the junior lieutenant insignia, but is addressed as ensign, in keeping with the continued misuse of this pin for ensign ranks.
*"[[Hero]]": In the flashback scenes in ''Valkyrie'''s CIC, Commander Adama is wearing admiral's insignia.
*"[[Dirty Hands]]": Junior lieutenant pins are used for the rank of ensign, as seen when applied to [[Diana Seelix]]'s coveralls.
*"[[Escape Velocity]]":
**Saul Tigh wears admiral's insignia during the episode's teaser. This is due to this scene being a pickup shot during or after production of "[[Sine Qua Non]]," when Adama leaves the Fleet to search for Roslin, thus temporarily promoting Tigh to Admiral during his leave.
**{{Callsign|Redwing}} wears his standard flight wing pin upside down. This may be intentional to cover pin holes of the jumpsuit (that uses an unforgiving plastic material) in McKay's cockpit close-up shots, as the pins for elite flight wings are mounted on the back of the wings themselves.

=== General Notes ===

==== Junior Lieutenant Pin as Ensign Pin ====
With regard to the junior lieutenant pin, it is used for those who are explicitly called out as ensigns. This is because there was never a formal ensign pin produced by production, thus all ensigns (up to, and including, {{Callsign|Longshot}}) wear the junior lieutenant pins.

While this can be considered a retcon, it should be noted that Boomer and, later, Athena use these insignia throughout the series and are considered Junior Lieutenants.

==== Captain vs. Major Pin ====
The rank pins for captain and major ranks are very similar, with one minor exception (the major pin has a chevron that overlaps the top of the pin), thus these are common mistakes behind the scenes.

==Dialogue Errors==

=== [[Miniseries]] ===
*The pronunciation of Lt. [[Felix Gaeta|Gaeta]]'s name frequently shifts between ''GAY-ta'' and ''GUY-ta'' during the Miniseries. Colonel Tigh regularly calls him GUY-ta while Adama vacillates between GAY-ta and GUY-ta. From "33" onward he is referred to by everyone as GAY-ta.
* When the Cylon beacon device is spotted on the DRADIS ("DRAY-dis") console, Tigh refers to it as the "DRAD-is" (like "gratis") console.
*Tigh exclaims "Jesus!" when shown the photo of Adama, Zak and Lee. Ron Moore has stated that this was just an ad-lib by the actor, and was never in the script, and should have been removed during editing. In fact this was removed from the "theatrical version" shown on [[Universal HD]].
* "Oh my God!" as opposed to "Gods".
**When being informed by Six of her true nature and mission, [[Gaius Baltar]] exclaims "Oh, my God!"
**Also when Caprica-Six breaks the neck of the baby the mother, [[Chantara]], screeches "Oh, my God!" several times.
**[[Jackson Spencer]] also makes this mistake after the Cylon Raiders launch missiles at his disabled squadron.
**When Secretary of Education Laura Roslin informs the passengers of ''Colonial Heavy 798'' about the attack a woman reacts "Oh my God".
***<i>All of these instances of the use of "Oh my God!" may not necessarily be errors. The events of [[Caprica (series)|Caprica]] have demonstrated that monotheism was known to the Twelve Colonies; the Colonials were not uniformly polytheistic. However, Baltar did not explicitly adopt monotheism until [[Cult_of_Baltar|much later in the series]].</i>

=== "[[33]]" ===
* Helo states his rank as "lieutenant, junior grade" despite consistently wearing "lieutenant, senior grade" rank insignia.
* Later in the episode, when President Roslin and Dr. Baltar are discussing cutting off communications with the ''Olympic Carrier'', Baltar uses the term "radio" instead of the in-universe term of "[[wireless]]" during the conversation.

=== "[[Valley of Darkness]]" ===

*When [[Lee Adama|Apollo]], {{callsign|Kat}} and others are searching the ship for weapons a [[Cylon Centurion|Centurion]] turns the corner and Kat says "Jesus."

=== "[[Downloaded]]" ===

*In the Miniseries, [[Sharon Valerii|Boomer]] claims that her parents died while she was very young, regarding the accident at [[Troy (RDM)|Troy]], which is later supported by dialogue in "[[Flesh and Bone]]." In "Downloaded," she explains that she received a gift from her mother when she left for the Fleet academy.

=== "[[Hero]]" ===

*The episode places the flashback events one year prior to the [[Cylon attack]]. However, this conflicts with earlier information that Adama served on ''Galactica'' for several years, Tyrol under him for at least five years and Gaeta for three years. For more details, see [[Hero#Analysis]].

=== "[[Unfinished Business]]" ===
* When Adama is down in his corner and bleeding badly, Roslin says "coagulant for the swelling, ice for the bleeding". This should be the other way around.
* In the [[Unfinished Business (Extended Version)|extended version]], as Cottle is looking after Adama in the corner, he can be heard exclaiming "Christ!"

==Crew Visible==

*A member of the production crew, possibly a boom operator, is visible on screen in "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]". He can be seen behind the damaged wall behind the display of the [[Arrow of Apollo]].
*In "[[Flight of the Phoenix]]" another camera operator can be briefly seen after the fight between Tyrol and Helo, as Tyrol walks to the Raptor to sit on its wing.
*At ~31:14 in "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]," a cameraman can be seen to the right of the frame as another camerman pushes in through the small crowd that celebrates [[Laura Roslin]]'s victory over [[Gaius Baltar]] and ultimately up to Roslin's reaction at her desk.
*At 1:06:12 in "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]," as the Cylons are marching in, a video screen of the crew can be seen in the distance on the right. Also, a camera dolly track can be seen on the ground just to the right of the crowd. The camera is most likely obscured from view by a plastic tarp.
*At 00:02:26 in "[[Unfinished Business]]," a camera can be seen briefly in the darkness behind the crowd.
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Image:Gaffcrew klgpII.JPG|Crew member visible in "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]".
Image:PhoenixCrewVisible.jpg|Camera crew in "[[Flight of the Phoenix]]".
Image:Colonial One cameraman gaffe.jpg|A camerman in shorts and sneakers off to the right of the frame in "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]".
Image:Bsg s02 e20 time01-06-12 orig.jpg|A video screen and a camera dolly track are visible in "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]".
Image:Bsg s03 e09 time00-02-26 orig.jpg|A cameraman can be seen in the dark during a fight in "[[Unfinished Business]]".
</gallery>

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Lymphocytic encephalitis

2025-06-15T20:39:40Z

WarGrowlmon15: /* Notes */

{{disline|For other uses of the concept of viruses in ''Battlestar Galactica'', see [[Virus]].}}
[[image:LCMV.jpg|thumb|170px|right|An actual LCMV specimen, as observed under a light microscope]]
'''Lymphocytic encephalitis''' is a viral infectious disease caused by the Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis Virus (LCMV). Originally carried by rodents, primarily [[Life Forms of the Twelve Colonies#Mammals|rats]], LCMV is no longer lethal to humans, who have developed an immunity to the virus several hundred years ago.

A [[Lion's Head beacon|beacon]], believed to have been left by the [[Thirteenth Tribe (RDM)|Thirteenth Tribe]] on their way to [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]], was contaminated by LCMV. When a basestar discovers the beacon while exploring the [[Lion's Head Nebula]], the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]] bring the device on board and unleash the virus. Some time later, a team of Colonial marines discovers the drifting basestar and boards the vessel, finding everything save for a small group of humanoids dead. They take the ill Cylons (a [[Number Two|Two]], a [[Number Four|Four]], a [[Number Five|Five]], a [[Number Six|Six]], and an [[Number Eight|Eight]]) prisoner and return to ''Galactica'' just as the basestar's self-destruct mechanism activates and destroys the ship.

Though humans are immune, the virus is highly lethal to Cylons because of a bio-electric component that causes a fatal system error within the host. It is theorized that this system error disrupts the management of a humanoid Cylon's immune system, progressively weakening and eventually killing the infected individual. Furthermore, the Cylons speculate that if an infected host is [[Resurrection (RDM)|resurrected]], the system error will follow, potentially afflicting the [[Resurrection Ship]] and eventually the entire Cylon fleet.

This theory forms the basis of a plan devised by {{callsign|Lee Adama}} to eradicate the Cylon race. By killing the infected Cylons prisoners near a Resurrection Ship, the aforementioned bio-electrical effect would be spread to all Cylons upon download. Ultimately, the plan is thwarted when {{callsign|Karl Agathon}} kills the prisoners before ''Galactica'' can penetrate the Resurrection Ship's upload radius. Agathon does this despite the risk of being executed for treason, as he feels that the genocide of the Cylon race, despite the fact that they had tried to do the same to mankind, is morally wrong.

During the time that the infected Cylons are held captive aboard ''Galactica'', [[Cottle|Dr. Cottle]] creates a simple vaccine that dramatically reverses the effect of the virus on said Cylons. However, an antibody in their blood breaks down the vaccine's RNA backbone, rendering the treatment useless. Because of that, the Cylons require regular close interval injections of the vaccine, or their condition significantly worsens. If regular injections are provided, an infected Cylon could be kept alive indefinitely.

Unlike the other Cylons {{callsign|Athena}} displays immunity to the virus—although she is exposed to LCMV, the pathogen does not adversely affect her. Cottle postulates that human antibodies were transferred over to Sharon during her pregnancy with her half-human daughter [[Hera Agathon|Hera]], and that these antibodies are subduing the virus {{TRS|Torn}}.

== Notes ==
*[http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/spb/mnpages/dispages/lcmv/qa.htm Lymphocytic choriomeningitis] (of which encephalitis is one form) is an actual disease. As in the episode, the illness was spread through rodents on the real-world Earth. The effects on the Cylons appear similar to the symptoms in this CDC document.
*Arguably, the plan to kill all Cylons by exposing the Resurrection ship to the disease is ill-conceived; there is nothing to stop the Cylons from destroying the vessel after it is infected. Additionally, the plan seems to hinge on the idea that once in the Resurrection Ship the disease would spread throughout the Cylon fleet and perhaps even the whole of Cylon-inhabited space.
*After her death and [[resurrection]] in "[[Rapture]]," [[Sharon Agathon]] presumably no longer possesses an immunity to this virus.

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[[de:Lymphozytäre Enzephalitis]]

No Exit

2025-06-15T08:55:52Z

WarGrowlmon15: /* Resurrection Technology */

{{Concision Fairy}}

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| title= No Exit
| season= 4
| episode=15
| guests=
| writer= [[Ryan Mottesheard]]
| story=
| director= [[Gwyneth Horder-Payton]]
| production=417
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| US airdate=February 13, 2009
| CAN airdate=February 13, 2009
| UK airdate=February 17, 2009
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:''[[Ellen Tigh]] is [[resurrection (RDM)|resurrected]], and she knows all the answers. [[Samuel Anders]]' condition releases a flood of visions and crucial memories that help the [[Final Five]] in the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] understand their involvement in the great scheme of things.''

== Summary ==

===Teaser===

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

===Act 1===

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

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

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

===Act 2===

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

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

===Act 3===

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

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

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

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

===Act 4===

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

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

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

===Act 5===

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

:Caprica-Six: Look, God loves you.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

:'''Ellen:''' No.

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

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

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

== Guest Stars ==

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

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No Exit

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

== Summary ==

===Teaser===

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

===Act 1===

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

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

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

===Act 2===

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

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

===Act 3===

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

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

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

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

===Act 4===

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

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

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

===Act 5===

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

:Caprica-Six: Look, God loves you.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

:'''Ellen:''' No.

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

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

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

== Guest Stars ==

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

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No Exit

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

== Summary ==

===Teaser===

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

===Act 1===

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

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

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

===Act 2===

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

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

===Act 3===

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

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

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

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

===Act 4===

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

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

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

===Act 5===

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

:Caprica-Six: Look, God loves you.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

:'''Ellen:''' No.

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

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

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

== Guest Stars ==

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

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

== Summary ==

===Teaser===

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

===Act 1===

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

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

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

===Act 2===

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

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

===Act 3===

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

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

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

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

===Act 4===

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

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

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

===Act 5===

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

:Caprica-Six: Look, God loves you.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

:'''Ellen:''' No.

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

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

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

== Guest Stars ==

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

== References ==
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Battle of the Algae Planet

2020-08-26T04:27:15Z

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| name=Battle of the Algae Planet
| image=Galactica nukes.jpg
| description=Cylons and Colonials converge on a planet where the [[Eye of Jupiter]] is located
| conflict=[[Cylon Attack|Second Cylon War]]
| date=Fourteen days into algae harvesting
| place=[[Algae planet]]
| result=Withdrawal of both sides<br>[[Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Colonials]] gain [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]] waypoint<br />[[Hera Agathon]] retrieved<br>Capture of [[Gaius Baltar]] and [[Caprica-Six]]<br />[[Boxing]] of all [[Number Three]] units
| combatant1=Remnants of the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Colonial Fleet]]
| combatant2=[[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]]
| co1=Admiral [[William Adama]]<br>Major [[Lee Adama]]
| co2=[[Basestar command]]
| strength1= In orbit:''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'', [[Viper (RDM)|Vipers]], [[Raptor]]s<br/><br /> On surface:<br/>1 Raptor,<br/>approx. 12 Marines,<br>Unknown number of drafted civilians
| strength2=In orbit:Four [[Basestar (RDM)|Basestars]], 1 [[Resurrection Ship]], associated [[Raider (RDM)|Raiders]], [[Heavy Raider]]s<br><br />On surface:<br/>2 Heavy Raiders,<br />at least six [[Centurion]]s,<br />One [[Cavil]] and one [[Number Three]]
| shiploss1=1 Raptor damaged,<br>supplies left on planet
| shiploss2=2 Heavy Raiders,<br>Approximately 15 [[Centurion]]s
| casualties1=[[Omar Fischer]], [[Hillard]] and a Marine
| casualties2=All [[Number Three]] units [[Boxing|deactivated]]<br>One [[Number One]] (temporarily)
| prev=[[Battle of NCD2539]]
| next=[[Battle of the Ionian Nebula]]
| series=RDM
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The '''Battle of the Algae Planet''' occurs when the discovery of a [[Eye of Jupiter|mysterious religious artifact]] leads to a standoff between [[Galactica (RDM)|''Galactica'']] and [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]] forces.

Shortly after the [[Temple of Five]] is discovered during day 14 of the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]]'s [[The Passage|food-collection operations]] on the [[algae planet]], four Cylon [[basestar (RDM)|basestar]]s [[FTL|jump into orbit]]. Admiral [[William Adama]] orders all civilian ships to escape to emergency jump coordinates (keeping ''Galactica'' behind to support the ground team) as the Cylons discreetly deploy one [[Heavy Raider]] to the planet's surface.

Uncharacteristically, the Cylons do not attack, but seek a parley with the Colonials. After a [[wireless]] transmission from the basestars to ''Galactica'', [[Gaius Baltar]], a [[Number Three]], a [[Cavil]], and [[Sharon Valerii|Boomer]] of the basestars' command group come to ''Galactica'' in order to negotiate for control of the [[Eye of Jupiter]], reported to be in the temple. The Cylons claim that if they gain possession, they will leave the Fleet alone and turn over Baltar. Admiral Adama delivers an ultimatum: attempt to land on the planet and ''Galactica'' will destroy the temple with a nuclear strike. The meeting ends in a stalemate. Also, Boomer informs Athena of Hera's survival which she doesn't believe, but learns its true after Adama confronts Roslin about it later.

The Cylons soon jam all Colonial wireless frequencies, but not before Colonial command manages to relay most of the situation. On the surface, Major [[Lee Adama|Adama]] plans a defense for the temple, placing [[Samuel Anders]] in command of all civilians present, and using Captain [[Kara Thrace|Thrace]]'s Raptor, the only one on the surface, for reconnaissance. Chief [[Galen Tyrol]] and his team place [[G-4]] packs around the Temple's central spire to destroy the Temple in the event of its compromise.

Meanwhile, [[Cylon Centurion]]s from the first Heavy Raider build a surface-to-air missile battery. As Starbuck conducts her reconnaissance, she encounters the battery. Evasive maneuvers by Starbuck avoid a direct hit, but her Raptor is disabled and crash-lands.

Six Heavy Raiders are deployed from the basestars toward the planet as part of the Cylons' plan to both defend Baltar and a Three, [[Number_Three_(Fleet_copy)|D'Anna Biers]], who are heading to the temple and to call Admiral Adama's bluff.

Admiral Adama counters by preparing ''Galactica'''s nuclear arsenal, arming seven missiles at the surface ([[missile tubes]] 4 through 10) to obliterate the temple ([[TRS]]: "[[The Eye of Jupiter]]").

The Cylons realize that Adama's threat must be taken seriously, and order recall all but one of the Heavy Raiders (an internal dispute with their [[Number Three]] units and the other Cylons prevent the last recall). Admiral Adama reconsiders the risk and rescinds the missile launch.

On the planet, both Starbuck and her Raptor are generally intact after the crash, but the Raptor's fly-by-wire system is damaged and the pilot has serious burns to her hands, making it impossible to fly.

Lieutenant [[Anastasia Dualla]] is assigned [[SAR]] detail with Sergeant [[Omar Fischer|Fischer]], who is killed in a sniper attack. Dualla manages to reach the Raptor, and, after repairing the damaged [[avionics]], return Starbuck to ''Galactica'', despite her lack of flight training.

Sharon Agathon, having learned of her daughter's survival, decides to rescue her from the Cylons. In a desperate move, she has Helo shoot and kill her allowing her to download into a new body on the Cylon [[Resurrection Ship]] nearby. Sharon gets lucky and is greeted at her resurrection by Caprica-Six who is sympathetic enough to take her to her daughter who is being cared for by Boomer. Hera instantly recignizes her mother and calms down, and Sharon determines that Hera likely has a blocked intestine and her only chance is to go back to ''Galactica'' and have Doctor Cottle treat her. Boomer threatens to kill Hera, but Sharon convinces Caprica-Six to help and she kills Boomer and helps Sharon and Hera escape on a Raptor to ''Galactica'' where Caprica-Six is taken prisoner and Hera is taken to Doctor Cottle for treatment.

Major Adama's team place [[tylium]] bombs within a narrow trail where the terrain would require any enemy forces to walk through. Three Cylons enter the kill zone, but detect the bomb before all of them are inside the zone. The Colonial's detonation mostly disables one Centurion, and two retreat, but [[Hillard]] is killed. After a later offensive by the two remaining Cylons, Major Adama calls for a withdrawal of Colonial forces and the destruction of the Temple. Chief Tyrol refuses Major Adama's order and this delays the detonation.

When the Colonials activate the detonator, nothing happens. A small Cylon team, including deposed president [[Gaius Baltar]], had entered the Temple moments before and removed the G-4's detonator caps.

The Cylons' official intention, to retrieve information on the whereabouts of Earth, are ignored by D'Anna Biers in the Temple. A [[Cavil]] model assigned with the group attempts to kill the Three, but Baltar kills the Cavil unit. The Three then uses the temple's vision mechanism to see the faces of the [[Final Five]] but it kills her afterwards before she can tell Baltar who any of the Five are.

The Colonials witness the star's nova event. Not wishing to be caught in the shockwave, all Cylon forces jump away. The star's appearance tells the Colonials that the star itself, not anything within, is the Eye of Jupiter marker. The Colonials quickly investigate the Temple to find Baltar, who is rendered unconscious and captured.

All Colonials are quickly retrieved by Raptor back to ''Galactica'', which escapes as the nova shockwave tears through the star system and destroys the planet.

Lieutenant Gaeta is able to use the information about the nova to discern the next waypoint: the [[Ionian nebula]].

The Cylons, failing to obtain information from the Temple due to the unauthorized actions of the Number Three models to seek the forbidden identities of the missing five humanoid Cylons, intentionally [[boxing|deactivate]] all Number Three models throughout the Cylon race ([[TRS]]: "[[Rapture]]").

Through various means of tracking one of the Colonial's fuel ships, the Cylons continue their pursuit of the Fleet ([[TRS]]: "[[The Son Also Rises]]", "[[Crossroads, Part I]]").

==Aftermath and Impact==
This battle sets some of the seeds of the Cylon Civil War. D'Anna learns the identities of the Final Five and as such her entire line is boxed by Cavil to keep the secret safe. When the Sixs, Eights and Twos figure out that the Final Five are in the human fleet, their demad for D'Anna's unboxing is one of the things that leads to the Civil War. The need to unbox D'Anna leads to the alliance between human and rebel Cylon and the [[Battle of the Resurrection Hub]] which results in D'Anna's unboxing and the destruction of Cylon resurrection forever. Using the knowledge gained here, she exposes four of the Final Five but doesn't reveal the fifth as she belives that Cylon is dead (she was but she downloaded into a new body and became Cavil's prisoner). Also during the battle Gaius Baltar is captured and removed from Cylon hands, taking away their main source of knowledge about how to find Earth. Hera Agathon is resuced by her mother and Caprica-Six also giving the Colonials a valuable Cylon prisoner and taking away the hybrid child the Cylons so desperatly wanted.

==Notes==
*''Galactica'' departs [[Ragnar Anchorage]] with five nuclear warheads. One warhead is cannibalized to create [[Gaius Baltar]]'s [[Cylon detector]] ([[Bastille Day]]) and ultimately detonated by [[Gina Inviere]] on ''[[Cloud 9]]'' ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]). A second warhead is used to destroy a Cylon basestar above Kobol in "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]", leaving ''Galactica'' with three. ''Galactica'' probably obtained additional warheads from ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' at some point prior to her destruction in "[[Exodus, Part II]]".
*In "[[The Eye of Jupiter]]," it is said and shown that four basestars arrive for the battle, but in "[[Rapture]]" only three are shown in shots of the Cylon fleet and jumping away at the end. There's no explanation for the disappearence of the fourth basestar. Also, initaly there's no sign or mention of a [[Resurrection Ship]], but one appears when Athena downloads.
*Ironically, while D'Anna Biers is searching for the identities of the Final Five, three and possibly four of them are in the vicinity of the algae planet when she sees their faces: [[Saul Tigh]] is aboard ''Galactica'', and Samuel Anders and Galen Tyrol are on the planet itself. [[Ellen Tigh]] is Cavil's secret prisoner aboard a basestar, but it is unclear if that basestar is part of the Cylon task force at the planet. [[Tory Foster]] is with the rest of the fleet, having jumped away at the start of the battle.

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The Hand of God (TOS)

2020-07-29T01:12:18Z

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

:''[[Adama (TOS)|Commander Adama]] decides to quit running from the [[Cylons (TOS)|Cylons]], and launches [[Battle at Galaxy's Edge|an all-out attack]] on a [[Basestar (TOS)|basestar]].''

== Summary ==

* [[Apollo (TOS)|Apollo]] is leading [[Sheba]], [[Starbuck (TOS)|Starbuck]], and [[Cassiopeia]] through some unknown parts of [[Galactica (TOS)|''Galactica'']] on something of a group date. They climb into a dome, directly over the main thrusters.

* Apollo opens up the shielding on the dome, revealing space all around them. Cassiopeia is frightened, but Apollo explains that they are safe as the walls are constructed from [[transparent tylinium]]. Apollo explains that it is a [[Celestial chamber]]. When ''Galactica'' was launched 500 [[yahren]] ago, she had several chambers, but only one remains. They were used by navigators to take star sightings to double-check the calculations of the navigation computers.

* The scanners are set for long range [[Gamma frequency|Gamma frequencies]], an outdated method of communication. Sheba notices that they are receiving a signal on a Gamma frequency. Apollo recognizes something in the signal that looks like ships that used to be flown by [[The Twelve Colonies (TOS)|the Colonials]] many yahrens ago.

[[Image:Apollo_11.jpg|thumb|right|Boomer analyzing a Gamma frequency transmission.]]

* The date group wakes up [[Boomer (TOS)|Boomer]], who speculates that the signal could either be a harmonic signal, with a double or tripling of the original transmitting frequency, in which case the source would be relatively close. If the signal is at its original frequency it would have to be intergalactic to be so weak.

* [[Adama (TOS)|Adama]] orders ''Galactica'' to scan in the direction of the signal in order to see if it was a harmonic signal originating from nearby. A planetary system is detected in the direction of the transmission, so Adama orders Apollo to take a [[Viper (TOS)|Viper]] patrol into the system to take a closer look.

* Apollo, Starbuck, and Sheba fly towards the system. They detect five planets. Starbuck detects a [[Cylons (TOS)|Cylon]] [[Basestar (TOS)|basestar]] coming out from behind orbit of the third planet. The Vipers flee hoping they avoided detection.

* The basestar is located in a strategic location on the rim of the galaxy, forcing [[The Fleet (TOS)|the fleet]] to take a long detour if they want to avoid it. Adama thinks that the transmission they received was sent from the basestar as part of an elaborate trap. Tired of running, Adama proposes attacking the basestar.

* Aboard the basestar, a Command Centurion checks the status. A [[Centurion (TOS)|Centurion]] reports a blip shortly before achieving orbit. The Command Centurion orders a [[Cylon Raider|fighter]] patrol to check the far side of the planet system just to be safe.

* Commander Adama and [[Tigh (TOS)|Colonel Tigh]] brief the Viper pilots. All Vipers squadrons will be launched in an attempt to draw out the Cylon Raiders. They will be outnumbered two to one. ''Galactica'' will attempt to flank around the star system and surprise the basestar, getting the first strike. After that it will be a slugfest.

* Apollo stays after the meeting examining the basestar model. He and Starbuck come up with a plan to use [[Baltar (TOS)|Baltar's]] Cylon fighter to sneak aboard the basestar and knock out its scanners, ensuring ''Galactica'' the first strike. Apollo is able to convince Adama of his plan, however Starbuck's knowledge of the interior of the basestar is too limited (after his brief stay during "[[War of the Gods, Part I (TOS)|War of the Gods, Part I]]"). Adama decides that the person who would be better able to help them with information would be Baltar himself.

* The Cylon Raiders have found nothing in their search, but the Command Centurion orders them to continue further into the galaxy as long as fuel permits.

[[Image:BaltarsBargain.jpg|thumb|right|Adama strikes a bargain with Baltar.]]

* Adama offers Baltar freedom in exchange for information. Adama would drop Baltar off on a habitable planet that they pass, leaving him with adequate provisions and shelter. Baltar is able to negotiate for a short range communication device as well. Baltar would be set free after the basestar has been destroyed.

* Sheba accuses Apollo of having a death wish since [[Serina]]'s loss, and reveals her feelings for him. Meanwhile Cassiopeia is asking Starbuck why he has to be on every dangerous mission. Starbuck admits that he sees the danger, but chooses not to dwell on it.

* Boomer gives Apollo and Starbuck an identification transmitter, which would alert their fellow Viper pilots that they are friendly when they return from their mission. He reminds them not to lose the transmitter, or else they will likely be shot at. Starbuck says that if they do lose the transmitter that they'll just waggle their wings.

* Baltar explains that they can probably safely land without clearance. It will be assumed that there is a communications problem on the raider. A centurion will be sent if they don't have any fighters out. The control center is at the bottom of the central core, guarded by a single centurion. They can just destroy the computers outside the command room to blind the basestar.

* Apollo and Starbuck launch the Raider and stumble into the returning Cylon patrol, but are not noticed by the Cylons.

* After the Centurions have disembarked, Apollo and Starbuck leave the hangar and make their way to the central core, and open the hatch. As they climb down a ladder, the Centurion guard looks up, prompting an exchange of laser fire. The Centurion is destroyed, and the warriors are unharmed. They enter the computer room outside the control center, and Starbuck plants the charges while Apollo covers him.

* ''Galactica'' launches all of her Vipers and begins her flanking maneuver. The basestar picks up the Vipers on its sensors. The Command Centurion orders all fighters dispatched to intercept the Vipers, and orders sensors to scan for ''Galactica''.

* A Centurion walks in on Starbuck planting the last charge, and is shot in the chest. Apollo and Starbuck flee up the ladder. As Apollo rushes up the ladder he drops the identification transmitter. With several Centurions on their tail, they continue up the ladder anyway. The charges detonate, killing the pursuing Centurions and blinding the basestar.

* The Vipers duel with the raiders. Both sides take losses but the raiders are getting the worst end of it.

* ''Galactica'' spots the basestar. Adama orders everyone to battle stations and gets the first shots in, severely damaging the basestar. The basestar detects ''Galactica'' and begins to return fire. ''Galactica'' sustains heavy damage, but destroys the Cylon basestar.

[[Image:CelestialChamber.jpg|thumb|right|Apollo scans Gamma frequencies for the signal.]]

* ''Galactica'' issues a recall order to all Vipers. They have not received any signal from the identification transmitter. As several Raiders have made suicide runs towards ''Galactica'', Adama orders another approaching raider destroyed but is stopped by Boomer, who thinks it is Starbuck and Apollo because "they're waggling!"

* After they are safely aboard, Apollo returns to the Celestial chamber, looking for another Gamma frequency signal, which he hopes came from Earth. Apollo expects that first contact will come in the form of routine video or radio scans. Starbuck comes looking for him to return him to the victory celebration. After they exit the Celestial chamber the signal is received again, this time clearer: it is a transmission of the Apollo moon landing, with nobody there to see it.

== Notes ==
*This episode is both the season and series finale of the [[Original Series]].
*This episode is notable in that it has no guest stars and introduces no new characters.
*The title was reused for the [[The Hand of God (RDM)|tenth episode]] of the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Re-imagined 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.
* Apollo gives the age of ''Galactica'' as being 500 [[yahren]]s (years) and given his comments on the removal of her [[celestial chamber]]s, it can be inferred that ''Galactica'' was updated throughout the years.
*The final episode of the Original Series shows not just one, but two authentic items of American space program output.
:*The first article, shown in the grainy Gamma transmissions, is camera footage from the return of the ascent stage of an [[w:Apollo Lunar Module|Apollo Lunar Module]]. Specifically, the footage was of ''Eagle'', the first lunar lander to reach the moon, piloted by [[w:Neil Armstrong|Neil Armstrong]] and [[w:Buzz Aldrin|Buzz Aldrin]] in July, 1969.
:*The central basestar core was in fact the interior of the mockup or backup vehicle of [[w:Skylab|Skylab]], the first United States space station, which was used from 1973 to 1974. Two flight-ready Skylabs were built; the flown station reentered the atmosphere in 1979 to great international fanfare and speculation as to its crash and debris site. The second flight-ready vehicle is available for viewing at the [[w:National Air and Space Museum|National Air and Space Museum]]. The mockup resides in the hands of the [[w:United States Space & Rocket Center|United States Space & Rocket Center]] and underwent restoration.

== Analysis ==

* Boomer speculates that the signal they recorded could have be on a harmonic frequency, doubling or quadrupling the original frequency. If it is a harmonic it comes from nearby. The planetary system they scouted has a large [[w:Jupiter|Jupiter]]-like [[w:gas giant|gas giant]], a [[w:Venus|Venus]]-like planet with a compressed [[w:carbon dioxide|carbon dioxide]] atmosphere, and a lifeless red [[w:Mars|Mars]]-like world. It have be [[w:Sol|our solar system]] but this isn't explored further for fear another Cylon basestar might be coming to investigate.
* As inferred from previous episodes, such as "[[Saga of a Star World]]" and "[[The Living Legend, Part II]]", a Cylon [[basestar (TOS)|basestar]] and a Colonial [[battlestar (TOS)|battlestar]] are evenly matched.
* This episode suggests that the Galactica saga takes place hundreds or even thousands of years in the far future. Therefore, Earth would most likely be far enough along technologically and politically to help their brothers from the Colonies. ''[[Galactica 1980]]'' contradicts this, however.
*Unless a Colonial "year" is significantly shorter than 365 Earth days, the episode creates a continuity error between the Original Series and its [[spin-off]], ''[[Galactica 1980]]'' in terms of time. ''Galactica 1980'' begins with ''Galactica'' arriving at Earth in 1980 after a "30 year" journey. However, even if ''Galactica'' is picking up the Apollo landing "live" in this episode, there is only an 11 year difference between 1969, when the moon landing occurred and 1980 when ''Galactica'' makes it to Earth. As well, assuming the star system ''Galactica'' receives the signal in is not the Sol system, the transmissions from the 1969 moon landing (traveling at the speed of light) would take much, much longer to cross interstellar (if not intergalactic) space to reach ''Galactica''.
*Much like the Re-imagined Series, the setting of the Original Series is chronologically ambiguous relative to the real-world Earth. There is no definitive way to prove within the context of the Original Series just what time period the journey of ''Galactica'' and her fleet takes place in, only that it is some point after 1969. Only ''Galactica 1980'' gives a precise date marker relative to Earth, the year 1980. This means that the star system encountered in this episode has to be [[w:Alpha Centauri|Alpha Centauri]] as it is the only nearby star located sufficiently close to our solar system for the 1980 date to work. In this case Galactica would intercept the Apollo 11 broadcast in late 1973 while Alpha Centauri is located directly between Earth and the Colonial fleet From there, the remaining sublight speed journey to our solar system takes 5-6 Earth years and the fleet arrives in 1980.
*In theory, the first video transmission ''Galactica'' could receive from Earth would actually be the broadcast of the opening ceremonies of the [[w:1936 Summer Olympics|1936 Summer Olympics]] from Berlin, Germany. By that time however, ''Galactica'' would also have picked up many years-worth of radio signals as well. However, someone would have to be monitoring what they considered a superfluous and "ancient" set of signals. This is comparable to SETI monitoring radio transmissions and without people and funding, nobody monitors this data.

== Questions ==

*What is the fate of Baltar? Does Adama follow through with his promise to Baltar?
*Were it to occur, how would the civilians in the Fleet react to Baltar's release by Adama? What of the [[Quorum of Twelve (TOS)|Quorum of Twelve]]?
*Where is [[Lucifer]]?
*What of [[Boxey (TOS)|Boxey]] and [[Muffit]]? ([[Troy (1980)|Answer]])
*Would Starbuck and Cassiopeia be [[seal]]ed?
*Where is Apollo and Sheba's relationship going?
*What is the current state of [[Earth (TOS)|Earth]]? ([[Galactica 1980|Answer]])
*How old is the gamma frequency transmission ''Galactica'' receives?
*Do the Colonials believe in [[w:backups|backing up important data]]?
*Why doesn't Apollo attach a recording device to the gamma frequency booster that Boomer gave him?

== Noteworthy Dialogue ==
* ''Colonel Tigh briefs the [[Viper (TOS)|Viper]] pilots about the Cylon [[Basestar (TOS)|basestar]]:''
:'''Colonel Tigh''': She carries three hundred fighters. Has two long range mega pulsars... here... and here. And over a hundred defensive laser turrets. She's an orbiting killer... capable of destroying every ship we have... including the ''Galactica''.
:'''Starbuck''': (to Boomer) That's what I like about the Colonel... his optimism.

* ''Boomer gives Starbuck the IFF transponder:''
:'''Boomer''': Whatever happens, don't lose that transmitter. It's the only way we'll be able to tell you from the Cylons.
:'''Starbuck''': Well, if we do, we'll just waggle our wings.
:'''Boomer''': You would.

* ''Cassiopeia and Sheba watch Starbuck and Apollo take off from the [[Celestial chamber]].''
:'''Cassiopeia''': Why did I ever have to fall in love with a warrior?
:'''Sheba''': I don't know.

* ''A Cylon [[Raider (TOS)|Raider]] approaches ''Galactica'', and is about to be shot by the defensive systems.''
:'''Boomer''': No! Don't fire! It's them!
:'''Adama''': How do you know?
:'''Boomer''': They're waggling!
:'''Tigh''': Waggling?!

== Deleted Scenes ==
:''See: [[{{PAGENAME}}/Deleted_scenes|The deleted scenes from this episode.]]

== External Links ==
*[http://www.hulu.com/watch/11943 The Hand of God full episode on Hulu.com]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fmzVTY8kWY=related The Hand of God full episode on YouTube]
*[http://galactica1981.tripod.com/HANDOFGOD.htm The Hand of God full summary and review at Sheba's Galaxy]
*[http://galactica1981.tripod.com/MissingHand.htm The Hand of God deleted scenes]
*[http://galactica1981.tripod.com/BG.htm Overview of Battlestar Galactica including why it was cancelled]

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Planetary System at the Edge of the Galaxy

2020-07-29T01:04:44Z

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The planetary system they scouted has a large [[w:Jupiter|Jupiter]]-like [[w:gas giant|gas giant]], a [[w:Venus|Venus]]-like planet with a compressed [[w:carbon dioxide|carbon dioxide]] atmosphere, and a lifeless red [[w:Mars|Mars]]-like world. It may have been [[w:Sol|Earth's solar system]].

[[Battle at Galaxy's Edge|Last known battle]] in [[Original Series]] happens in this system.

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Boxey (RDM)

2020-07-29T01:00:55Z

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:''This article is about the young orphan from the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Re-imagined Series]]. For more information on his {{TOS|Battlestar Galactica|Original Series}} counterpart, see [[Boxey (TOS)]].''

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[[Image:Photos seen on Armistice Station.jpg|thumb|left|Boxey and his possible mother on photos on [[Armistice Station]].]]
'''Boxey''' is the son of the [[Armistice Officer]] at [[Armistice Station]].

Following the [[Cylon attack]], Boxey and his aunt{{citation needed}} seek sanctuary when a [[Raptor]] manned by Lieutenants [[Sharon Valerii (Galactica copy)|Valerii]] and [[Karl Agathon|Agathon]] makes an emergency landing on [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]].

When it becomes evident that the Raptor cannot rescue all the terrified refugees who come to it, Boxey's aunt gives him up with other children for transport back to ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]''. The child becomes unofficially adopted by members of the crew and is also seen eating with Valerii and other pilots on ''Galactica'' ([[TRS]]: "[[Miniseries]]").

Later, Boxey is following [[Kara Thrace]] around and copying her attitude and tone with [[Saul Tigh]]. During an exchange with Tigh, Boxey sarcastically reveals that his mother is dead ([[TRS]]: "[[Bastille Day]]").

== Life on the cutting room floor ==

[[Image:Kobol's Last Gleaming Pt 2 - Boomer and Boxey.jpg|thumb|Boxey's last appearance in the series.]]

Otherwise, the character is mostly found in [[List of Deleted Scenes (RDM)|deleted scenes]] and on the cutting room floor, with little further exposure. Boxey appears in [[List of Deleted Scenes (RDM)#Water|five deleted scenes]] included with the [[Season 1 DVD]] set. The first four are from "[[Water]]":
* In the first, Boxey happens upon Boomer at her locker, and rummaging through it finds a rag which she used to wipe rust off of her hands from when she was planting the bombs in the water tanks.
* In the second (after the discovery of water by Boomer), Boxey and [[Galen Tyrol|Tyrol]] pay a visit to Boomer in her quarters to congratulate her. Boxey is [[frak]]kin explicit, while Tyrol slaps him on the head to rebuke him and asks him to leave the room so he can take a moment with Boomer.
* In his third deleted scene in "Water," Boxey tries to sell some [[ambrosia]] he got from an engineer to [[Alex Quartararo|Crashdown]] (apparently one of the attempts to turn him into the "artful dodger" mentioned by the writers).
* The subplot of the second scene is followed up on in a fourth scene at the end of the episode where Tyrol finds Boxey with the rag, who tells him that he got it from Boomer's locker, and Tyrol recognizes the rust as being the same residue as he found in the water tank, raising his suspicions about Boomer (this entire subplot was dropped).
* Boxey's [[List of Deleted Scenes (RDM)#Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I|fifth deleted scene]] in the set is from "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]", in which Boomer is practicing drawing her weapon from its holster and pointing it, and after several times Boxey steps into the room just as she wheels around and points her gun in his direction, accidentally scaring him off.

==Notes==
*Boxey is based on a [[Boxey (TOS)|character of the same name]] from the {{TOS|Battlestar Galactica|Original Series}}. He shares some similarities with his TOS counterpart, in that he is a young boy orphaned by the [[Cylon attack]] who is adopted by members of ''Galactica's'' crew. While Boxey was an often recurring character in the Original Series and the [[Troy (1980)|main character]] of the follow up series ''[[Galactica 1980]]'', in the Re-imagined Series he only appears in one episode of the first season, "[[Bastille Day]]". A number of other appearances were filmed, but cut from other episodes due to time considerations. By the start of Season 2, the writers realized they had never really used him and couldn't think of a way to fit him into the series, and the character has been essentially abandoned.
*In the original draft of the Miniseries, Boxey would form a family unit with [[Sharon Valerii]] and [[Galen Tyrol]], but it was then decided that Boomer would be a Cylon sleeper agent. The writers then toyed around with the idea of still having the three of them be a family unit (with Boomer completely unsuspecting that she was a Cylon) until the Season 1 finale, when Boomer would reveal herself. Instead, starting with the second episode, "[[Water]]", Boomer early on starts suspecting that she is a Cylon, and the writers found fewer and fewer ways for Boxey to fit in. An idea toyed around with was that Boxey would become the "artful dodger" on the show; running the [[black market (organization)|black market]], stealing things, etc., but it was decided that there wasn't even time for that.
*One of the problems with having a young character such as Boxey on the show is that while the actor naturally ages, the Re-imagined Series has progressed much more slowly; the series covers approximately [[Timeline (RDM)|one and a half years]] in fictional time from the Miniseries (2003) to the end of Season 2 (2006).
*In the non-canonical novel ''[[Sagittarius Is Bleeding]]'', Boxey's name is given as "[[Andrew Boxman]]" (or "Alex Boxman"). He is briefly suspected as a Cylon after talking with [[Sharon Agathon]] against orders and helps to thwart a terrorist plot. His continuing absence in the main series is explained as Boxey living on another ship but being allowed to visit the pilots on ''Galactica''.

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Earth (RDM)

2020-07-26T07:36:17Z

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[[Image:1stearth.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Earth, home of the Thirteenth Tribe, from orbit]]
'''Earth''' is the believed destination of the [[Thirteenth Tribe (RDM)|Thirteenth Tribe]] of [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]], as attested in the [[Sacred Scrolls]]. Prior to its discovery, its existence is considered purely mythical and legendary within Colonial and Cylon societies. Earth is also the name of a planet Colonial survivors eventually settle after a long and arduous journey across space following the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]].

==Earth: Home of the Thirteenth Tribe==
===Beginnings===
[[Image:EarthBCH.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Earth, as it appeared before its destruction]]
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The legend of Earth begins at least four thousand years ago on [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]], where Scriptures tell of the exodus of a Thirteenth Tribe of humanity during a period of great turmoil across the planet. It is said that "''they traveled far and made their home upon a planet called Earth . . . which circled a distant and unknown star.''" While not many previously believed in Earth, there are [[Arrow of Apollo|artifacts]] rumored to point out the general direction to the planet. These rumors are later confirmed after the destruction of the Colonies ([[TRS]]: [[Miniseries]], "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]").

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===Settlement and Development===
For nearly two thousand years, the Thirteenth Tribe flourished on the planet, creating a civilization comparable to the Twelve Colonies before their fall, including development of [[Earth_Cylon_Centurion|their own robotics and artificial intelligence]]. Unbeknownst to Colonials or most Cylons, the Thirteenth Tribe was a flesh and blood race of artificial beings much like the [[humanoid Cylons]], which were created on Kobol thousands of years ago. They originally relied on [[Resurrection (RDM)|organic memory transfer]] technology to download into new bodies after their deaths. However, sometime after leaving Kobol, they gained the ability to reproduce sexually, and the technology fell out of use ([[TRS]]: "[[No Exit]]").

:''The fact that the Tribe was artificial in nature is never fully revealed to the civilians of the fleet. To them, they were a society of humans that were destroyed by their robotic creations much like their society was four years prior.''

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===Apocalypse===
:''Main article: [[Final Five]]
Approximately two thousand years [[BCH]], the Tribe's robotic creations rebelled against their creators, in an act of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutually_assured_destruction mutually assured destruction]. The attack caught the population off guard, with many at work or enjoying leisurely activities. Evidence of people going about their lives is still visible on the remains millennia later. However, prior to the apocalypse, [[Final Five|five individuals]] started seeing visions of [[Messengers|strange people]] warning them of the upcoming cataclysm. The five worked hard to recreate the lost organic memory transfer technology, and built a ship in orbit to carry their experiments. After their deaths, the five were resurrected on this ship, and opted to follow the Tribe's original course back to Kobol, leaving Earth behind ([[TRS]]: "[[Revelations]]", "[[Sometimes a Great Notion]]", "[[No Exit]]").

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===Earth's Fate===
[[Image:Earth Ruins.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Earth's ruins, two millennia after the Fall of the Thirteenth Tribe]]
At the conclusion of the war, no survivors remained on either side, and Earth was left burning and irradiated. Despite lingering radioactive contamination, plant life gradually returned, and whatever ruins remained succumbed to nature and time. A large city on the planet visited by both Colonials and rebel Cylons was largely submerged in water and partly buried in sand.

Unable to support human life, the planet is abandoned days after its discovery, and is likely never visited again ([[TRS]]: "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]", "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]", "[[Revelations]]", "[[Sometimes a Great Notion]]").

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==A New Earth: The Promised Land==
[[Image:Earth, "Daybreak, Part II".jpg|thumb|right|200px|The Colonial's new home, as it appears from the moon's orbit]]
By an infinitesimal chance, a habitable planet is found by pilot [[Kara Thrace|Kara "Starbuck" Thrace]], after she is able to extrapolate [[FTL]] jump coordinates from a [[The Music|song]] she used to play as a child. Lt. Thrace inputs these FTL coordinates into ''Galactica''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> FTL computer in a desperate attempt to escape from the Cylon [[The Colony|Colony]]. ''Galactica'', damaged from battle, limps into orbit of the planet.

:''As depicted in "[[Crossroads, Part II]]", this planet is located relatively close to the [[Ionian Nebula]].''

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===Diverse Wildlife===
[[Image:Diverse Wildlife.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Earth's diverse wildlife]]
After Colonial recon of the planet, Earth is discovered to have a diverse range of wildlife, more than the Twelve Colonies put together. It also features a race of primitive hunter-gatherer humanoids, having evolved here separately from those on Kobol. Upon further study, these humanoids are discovered to be compatible with Colonial DNA, which opens up the possibility of Colonials and Cylons interbreeding with them.

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===Colonial/Cylon Settlement and Future Evolution===
[[Image:Settlement.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Survivors heading for shelter]]
With ''Galactica'' in pieces, and the Colonial Fleet not fairing any better, it is decided that the planet will be settled, with the remaining Cylons soon joining them. Plans begin for new cities to be built, but those plans are soon abandoned in favor of starting fresh in an attempt to break the historical cycle of violence. Colonial units scout the planet, and eventually determine the best possible chance for survival is to split the survivors into groups, and spread them across different sites around the globe. These locations are documented, and presented to each of the groups for future use. After the survivors set up their camps, the fleet and any remaining advanced technology are scuttled. The settlers christen this new planet "Earth," in honor of the promised land they have been chasing for four years.

The surviving Colonial and Cylon settlers and their descendants begin interbreeding with the indigenous humanoids, creating a new race, with [[Hera Agathon|the first human-Cylon hybrid]] becoming "Mitochondrial Eve," the most recent common matrilineal ancestor of all living humans. Her fossilized remains are uncovered nearly one hundred fifty thousand years later, around the time that another advanced human society is on the brink of major breakthroughs in robotics - much like the Twelve Colonies, the first Earth, and Kobol before them ([[TRS]]: "[[Daybreak, Part II]]").

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==Notes==
* [[Gaeta]] comments in "[[Revelations]]" that the constellations seen from orbit of the Earth they had just found match those seen in the [[Tomb of Athena]]. This was later proven incorrect, as those constellations are actually visible from a different Earth over one hundred centuries later ([[TRS]]: "[[Daybreak, Part II]]"). It would have been extremely improbable that the constellations visible from the Earth found in "[[Revelations]]" would have looked the same as those of New Earth. That being said, while on the first Earth, all of the constellations of Zodiac could all be seen at once-this is not possible on the current Earth.

*From what is known of the nature of navigation in FTL jumps, the odds of the coordinates used by Kara Thrace to jump ''Galactica'' from the Colony to the new Earth and actually achieving the end they did are no less than infinitesimal. One of the elements in FTL navigation is the point of origin. A point of origin is a necessary factor in many navigational forms in order to plot direction and distance to a required destination, and FTL navigation is no different. Essentially, what this means is that the coordinates entered by Kara Thrace into the FTL computer aboard Galactica would only jump the ship to its new Earth destination from the precise astral location of the ''Galactica'' when it initiated the jump from the Colony. Given the coordinates' origins in the Music and the revelation that a divine entity is in some way shaping the events which have taken place in the series, as seen by Pythia, it could be suggested that the attack on the Colony and the resulting success and retreat were in some way destined. While this may seem logical, it is purely conjectural. The way these events have took place cannot be explained by rational means.

== Official Statements ==
* ''[[Edward James Olmos]] jokingly describes how he thinks the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] could find Earth:''

:I personally — this is not [from] any of the writers, but my thing — I wanted to come into [the present day], find Earth, cruise on top of it, see it for what it is, and as we're coming down to it, we're blown up, we're nuked. And then [someone says to] the [[w:President of the United States|President of the United States]], which is [[w:George W. Bush|[George W.] Bush]], "They've been taken care of. Thank God you saved the world again." And you turn, and you see who told him that, and it's one of the Cylons. [''Laughs'']<ref>{{cite_web|url=http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20015932_2,00.html|title=Four-ward, Cylons: Edward James Olmos|date=23 March 2007|accessdate=22 June 2007|last=Vary|first=Adam B.|format=|language=}}</ref>

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* See Also
** Sacred Scrolls#The Origin of Mankind|Origin of Mankind theories
* Other Series
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** Earth (1980)|Earth from "Galactica 1980"
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Blood on the Scales

2015-02-20T01:55:10Z

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== Overview ==
:''Felix Gaeta's mutiny continues while Laura Roslin finds refuge on the rebel Cylon basestar.''

== Summary ==

=== Teaser ===
* Rebel marines led by [[Aaron Kelly]] storm the airlock and capture [[Admiral Adama]] and [[Saul Tigh]] both of whom were stunned by a flash grenade.
* Tigh recognizes Kelly and calls him "the brig rat." Kelly is visibly uneasy about all this.
* Meanwhile, the [[Raptor]] with President [[Laura Roslin]] and [[Gaius Baltar]] on board heads for the [[Basestar (RDM)#Rebel basestar|rebel basestar]].
* A pair of Vipers, piloted by Narcho and Hotdog, pursue the Raptor. Hotdog, who is unaware of the mutiny on ''Galactica'', gets the Raptor in his sights, but doesn't fire. Instead he orders the Raptor to identify itself.
* Narcho tells Hotdog to destroy the Raptor, but Hotdog continues to ask for the target's identification.
* Roslin transmits a message from the Raptor saying that she is aboard the Raptor. [[Gage]] blocks the transmission, but not before Hotdog receives it.
* [[Felix Gaeta]], now in command of the CIC, contacts Hotdog and orders him to destroy the Raptor. When Hotdog continues to hold his fire, Narcho goes in and launches a pair of missiles at the Raptor.
* The [[Eight]] piloting the Raptor successfully avoids the missiles, which hit the basestar instead. The Raptor successfully docks at the basestar.
* Gaeta orders Colonel Tigh to be placed in the brig with the other Cylons, but orders Admiral Adama to be brought to the CIC.
* On board the basestar, the Cylons demand to know why they're being fired upon. Roslin explains the situation. Fearing that the government has been overthrown, the Cylons want to jump away from the Fleet.
* Roslin insists that they give Adama a chance to retake ''Galactica''. Baltar points out that it's unlikely that Adama will win and that Gaeta and Zarek have the majority of support on ''Galactica''. Roslin counters that they've already seen evidence that not all of ''Galactica'''s crew support the mutiny.
* Roslin tells the Cylons to move their ship into the middle of the Fleet, so that ''Galactica'' won't be able to fire upon them.
* Back on ''Galactica'', Adama is brought to the CIC. Gaeta asks him to call Roslin and convince her to surrender.
* Adama refuses and instead pulls off his admiral pins. He throws them to Gaeta and sarcastically tells Gaeta that he's the admiral now and to make the call himself.
* Gaeta orders gun batteries to target the basestar, but before they can do so, the basestar moves into the middle of the Fleet. Gaeta calls off the attack and orders the basestar to be quarantined. He also gives orders to prepare for [[Tom Zarek]]'s arrival.
* Adama asks Gaeta if he's planning on shooting him. Gaeta gives no response.

=== Act 1 ===
* ''[[Colonial One]]'' lands on ''Galactica'''s flight deck, with Zarek and the [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum]] on board.
* Kelly, Narcho, [[Margaret Edmondson|Racetrack]], [[Diana Seelix|Seelix]], and other rebels escort Zarek from the flight deck, while [[Lee Adama|Lee]] and [[Kara Thrace|Starbuck]] watch, hidden behind some machinery. Once they are out of sight, Lee and Starbuck move on.
* In a Raptor aboard the rebel baseship, Roslin attempts to transmit a signal to anyone who will listen, without success.
* In the holding cell, Hera looks with concern at Helo's head wound. Athena attempts to assure her that he will get better.
* Caprica-Six nurses Tigh's ear, bleeding from the stun grenade.
* Anders wonders aloud what Gaeta will do. Tigh quips, "In your case, cut off one of your frakking legs."
* In Adama's quarters, Gaeta tells Zarek that he has "a net" over the baseship, and thus Zarek did not need to bring the entire Quorum with him to ''Galactica''. Zarek replies that as long as Gaeta insists on having a trial for Adama, he wants the Quorum where he can keep an eye on them. Zarek says they need to move on, but Gaeta replies that before that can happen, people must answer for what they've done, beginning with Adama.
* Tyrol continues to sneak through the corridors of ''Galactica'' unnoticed. On Deck D Corridor 2, he hears the sound of a door opening and runs for cover.
* Hidden from view, Tyrol observes Kelly and two rebel marines escorting [[Romo Lampkin]] at gunpoint. Romo wonders if anyone will feed his dog.
* In Adama's quarters, Zarek reads the charges against Adama: treason, desertion, giving aid and comfort to the enemy, and gross dereliction of duty. Zarek reminds him that the punishment for these crimes is death by firing squad. All the while, Adama glares at Gaeta.
* Zarek tells Romo that the Admiral is entitled to a court martial, but they need a lawyer to handle his defense. Adama mutters, "They need a pimp."
* Romo wonders why they are doing all of this. Gaeta replies, "For justice." Romo, considering the tone of the room, conjectures that if he should choose to pass on this "field trip for justice," that the two marines guarding him will instead use him for target practice. Zarek impatiently tells him to just do his job.
* Zarek goes on to say that "Commander" Gaeta will represent the people, and that Zarek himself will be serving as judge. Romo wonders if they've run out of ship's captains. Gaeta replies that the captains are busy defending their ships against the basestar Adama welcomed into the Fleet. "Shove it up your ass," Adama tells Gaeta pointedly.
* Gaeta continues to argue with a mockingly defiant Adama. Adama points out that the rebel Cylons gave "aid and comfort" to the fleet, not vice versa. As the argument begins to escalate, Romo asks for a few minutes with Adama.
* On the basestar, Roslin continues to unsuccessfully try to use the Raptor's communication system to contact anyone, with the Cylons looking on. A Six remarks that they no longer have the protection of the Fleet, and the Viper patrols are becoming increasingly bold, firing into space, inviting the Cylons to react. Tory Foster tells the other Cylons that they should all talk.
* On ''Galactica'', Tyrol uses a crowbar to pry the cover off of a service tunnel, and crawls inside.
* On ''Colonial One'', Zarek addresses the Quorum. As Zarek speaks in support of Gaeta's leadership of the military, the Quorum delegates are visibly concerned. Zarek tells the Quorum that he has brought them to ''Galactica'' to show Gaeta that the Quorum delegates are people who, "at the end of the day, still stand by your president." At this, the Quorum bursts into an excited discussion, which ends with [[Jacob Cantrell]] telling Zarek, "I think you should leave now, Mr. Vice President." The other delegates are in agreement.
* Zarek walks out of the conference room in defeat. In the adjacent corridor, he tells two marines, "Shoot them." Zarek then tells Kelly to get Gaeta. Kelly walks away to the sounds of screams and gunfire. He is visibly disturbed by the sounds.

=== Act 2 ===
* On ''Colonial One'', Gaeta looks in horror on the slain Quorum delegates, and angrily rebukes Zarek. Zarek reminds him that Gaeta began the coup, and that this is just another consequence of that. Gaeta is in disbelief, remarking that until now they had the truth on their side. Zarek tells him that the truth is told by whoever is left standing, and reminds him that Adama must be eliminated.
* On ''Galactica'', Tyrol continues to crawl through a cramped and dirty service tunnel.
* On the rebel baseship, Tory informs Roslin that the Cylons have decided to jump away to ensure their own survival. The Six tells Roslin that Gaeta will likely execute Tigh, Tyrol, Anders, and any of the others who oppose him, such as Kara, Helo, and Adama.
* Roslin urges the Cylons to stay, reminding them that they have all made a habit out of beating the odds, particularly William Adama, and that when he returns to command, he will know who stuck with him and who ran.
* Tyrol crawls out of the duct into an empty munitions locker, where he is met at gunpoint by Kelly. Tyrol notes that the rebels sprang him from the brig.
* Kelly tells him to get out of the duct, but Tyrol says that he is too tired and that Kelly should just shoot him. Kelly replies that he's a machine, to which Tyrol replies that Kelly is a "dumbass." Kelly and Tyrol both begin laughing at this, and Kelly lowers his rifle.
* They both hear the sounds of gunfire in the distance. Kelly remarks, "This was a hell of a ship once." Tyrol agrees. Kelly tells Tyrol he heard his child wasn't a Cylon, and that he could have told Tyrol that Cally was "trouble." Tyrol laughs, saying it would not have mattered.
* After collecting himself, Kelly again points his rifle at Tyrol, but when Tyrol braces himself for the shot, Kelly instead tells him to leave, yelling "Go on skinjob, go!" After Tyrol crawls back into the duct, Kelly berates himself.
* In Adama's quarters, Romo hands Adama a pen to sign a statement. Adama refuses, but Romo urges him to put his innocence on record, and to give his people time to retake the ship.
* One of the rebels who was guarding the holding cell goes to the latrine, where Starbuck smashes his head into the wall.
[[Image:Lida.jpg|thumb|Lida approaching Baltar.]]
* On the rebel baseship, a Six named [[Lida]] asks Baltar if he is injured. He replies that they typically use the word "damaged" instead of "injured."
* In the corridor outside the holding cell, Lee and Starbuck argue over the best way to overpower the guards. Lee throws a grenade into their midst, and in the ensuing panic Lee and Starbuck gun them all down. Immediately after the last guard goes down, Starbuck ducks for cover, but an amused Lee nonchalantly walks to the thrown grenade and picks it back up. He tells Starbuck that he never pulled the pin, to which she states, "Not funny."
* With the guards dispatched, Lee and Starbuck free the prisoners, but Lee is upset to learn that his father is not among them.
* On their way out of the cell, Starbuck and Anders search the guards for weapons, but Lee tells them that they are quickly running out of time.
* A rebel turns the corner and fires at Starbuck and Anders. Starbuck shoots the rebel in the chest, but not before Anders is struck by a bullet in the neck, causing him to stumble.

=== Act 3 ===
* While Lee covers them, Starbuck looks after a wounded Anders. Sounds of yelling and gunfire indicate that there is fighting nearby. Lee insists that they need to leave.
* Tigh tells Caprica-Six to take Hera to Baltar's followers for safety, as "no one wants to go near those nutjobs." She insists she can take care of herself.
* Lee yells for Tigh to help him get Anders off the ground, but Starbuck tells Lee to go after his father instead. Athena and the others go with Lee and Tigh, while Starbuck stays with an incoherent Anders to try to get him to Doc Cottle for medical treatment.
* In Adama's quarters, the "court martial" proceeds apace, with Gaeta arguing that Adama deserted them on New Caprica. Romo objects, saying Gaeta is badgering the witness. Not surprisingly, his objection goes unheard by Zarek.
* As Adama continues to mock Gaeta, Zarek receives a call telling him that Tigh and the other "skinjobs" escaped. Zarek tells Adama and the others that Tigh was killed trying to escape. At the news of his longtime friend's death, Adama shows the first signs of emotion, and tells Gaeta that he is not answering any more of his questions.
* Zarek declares the prisoner guilty as charged, upsetting Romo, who says, "This isn't a trial, this is an asylum." Zarek angrily grabs Romo and pushes him against the bulkhead.
* Roslin's voice is heard over the wireless, prompting a smile from Adama and looks of concern from everyone else. Roslin announces that Gaeta took command of ''Galactica'' by force, and that the Cylons were merely defending themselves when they moved the baseship into the Fleet. She then commands the Fleet ships to power down their FTL drives.
* On the rebel baseship, Roslin exclaims that their signal could not be jammed. Behind her, a [[Number Two|Leoben]] is leaning on a device with flashing red lights, to which the Raptor's comm system is presumably connected. "I thought this would do the trick," he says with a grin.
* Back on ''Galactica'', Starbuck slowly drags an unconscious Anders a short distance before falling on the floor, exhausted. [[Parr]], the rebel marine escorting a bound Romo, happens upon them, commanding Starbuck to show him her hands. Romo readies his pen. Starbuck draws her sidearm and pulls the trigger, but the weapon is empty. Seizing his opportunity, Romo stabs his captor in the neck repeatedly with his pen. After removing his restraints, he retrieves his sunglasses and a sidearm from the fallen guard.
* Starbuck implores Romo to help her get Anders to Dr. Cottle, but Romo refuses, citing the fact that on the way there, he and his "friend" had already been shot at twice, once by his own men. Further considering the situation, an obviously conflicted Romo chooses to turn around and help.
* In CIC, Gage informs Gaeta that ten of the thirty-five ships remaining in the Fleet shut down their FTL drives after Roslin's announcement. Narcho is upset, but Gaeta tells him that Roslin did them a favor in exposing those ships who would cause them trouble. Gaeta tells Gage to give jump coordinates only to those ships that kept their FTL drives online, and to order them to jump immediately.
* Gaeta then tells Narcho to assemble an execution detail comprised of men he can trust, to secure the main hangar bay launch tube, and to take Adama down there and await further orders. Narcho shows some reluctance, but he insists that Gaeta can count on him "all down the line."
* Gaeta asks Zarek, who is waiting nearby, if he is spying on him. Zarek insists that they simply need to get through the current predicament, and move on.
* In a corridor somewhere on ''Galactica'', Narcho leads a team of six rebel marines who are escorting Adama to the launch tube, with Kelly walking behind the group. After some consideration, Kelly breaks off from the group and goes to the [[memorial hallway]], where he drops his rifle and breaks down in tears.
* In a nearby corridor, Tigh and Athena keep watch while Lee opens a service panel and disconnects a power line, causing the main lights to go out. Sounds of gunfire indicate there is still heavy fighting nearby.
* Tyrol continues to crawl through service tubes, this time crawling behind a latrine. He coughs and gags at the smell.
* In the memorial hallway, Lee confronts Kelly, who is nearly catatonic with grief. He finally admits to Lee that the others are planning on executing Adama in the main launch tube. Lee moves to punch Kelly, but Tigh pulls him away. As they run to the hangar deck, Kelly picks up his rifle and runs after them, yelling, "I'm coming with you!"
* On the rebel baseship, Baltar dreams of Adama's death by firing squad, which wakes him violently. In bed with him, Lida attempts to comfort him, but Baltar rebuffs her, saying that he has run for his life yet again. She tells him that fear makes people act differently, but he says that he did not run out of fear this time.
* For the first time, Baltar admits that he is merely playing the role of religious leader to humor his followers, and that he privately scorns their "provincial intellects" and their unfailing willingness to make him feel better; however, he also admits that he feels responsible for them, and that he must go back.
* On the hangar deck, Adama is tied to a chair in the main launch tube by a marine while Narcho stands nearby, distressed. As Narcho walks towards the eight marines with rifles at the ready, Adama spits.
* From the rebel baseship, Roslin gives the rebels five minutes to return command to Admiral Adama.
* In CIC, an increasingly concerned Zarek listens to Roslin's ultimatum, and looks around for Gaeta, who is absent.
* In Adama's quarters, Gaeta walks to Adama's desk, where he drops the admiral pins on ''Galactica'''s watch log. He then calls Narcho, telling him to carry out the execution.
* On the hangar deck, Narcho replies, "Yes, sir," and hangs up with Tigh pointing a sidearm at his head. Meanwhile, Lee unties his father from the chair in the launch tube, and Kelly and Athena have their rifles pointed at eight marines, all disarmed and kneeling with hands behind their heads.
* Adama is overjoyed to see Tigh, whom he was told was dead. Tigh replies that for a while, he was.
* Adama addresses the kneeling, disarmed marines, saying, "I'm gonna take back my ship." Adama then addresses Narcho, who tells him that while he has always respected him, he hates the Cylons, and he cannot take orders from a leader who won't fight them. At this, Tigh raises his weapon to Narcho's head, but Adama orders him to stand down, and orders Narcho to be tied up instead.
* Sitting at Adama's desk, Gaeta removes his prosthesis and scratches the stump underneath.
* Deep in the bowels of ''Galactica'', Tyrol finally has enough room to crouch rather than crawl, allowing him to move faster.
* In CIC, Zarek orders Vireem to pass him through to Roslin. As Gaeta walks into CIC, Zarek addresses Roslin on the rebel baseship, introducing himself as the President of the Twelve Colonies. He announces that Tigh was killed in an escape attempt, and that Adama was tried, found guilty of his crimes, and was executed by firing squad earlier that morning. Zarek insists that Roslin think of the welfare of the people of the Fleet, and surrender.
* Roslin vehemently refuses, vowing to use every weapon at her disposal to come after Zarek and the other mutineers. The weapon emplacements on the baseship open, targeting ''Galactica''.

=== Act 4 ===
* In CIC, after Zarek's statements to Roslin, Gaeta remarks that now they have a military leader and a president in one. Zarek questions how Gaeta would have handled the situation, had he been there.
* Gage indicates that the baseship is arming itself, and that they are jump ready. Gaeta orders the board be set to green, and a crew member inserts the FTL key at gunpoint, explaining that he feels enough killing has occurred.
* Tyrol rushes down a set of stairs in ''Galactica'''s FTL engine room.
* Adama marches towards CIC, leading an increasingly large group of marines, officers, and enlisted crew.
* In the FTL engine room, Tyrol breaks open the door to the auxiliary control station, and attempts to shut down the FTL drive with his command code.
* As Adama and his group of loyalists continue their march to CIC, Roslin's voice is heard over the wireless, commanding ''Galactica'' to surrender.
* In the FTL engine room, Tyrol's command code is denied (as he is not currently in active duty). Instead he looks to some nearby machinery and, with some effort, removes a [[Sync coil|vital component]] and shuts down the FTL drive.
* In CIC, Gage announces the FTL drive's shutdown. Zarek begins ordering crew members to look into it, but no one moves. He tells Gaeta to launch Vipers to defend themselves, but Gaeta ignores him, and instead recalls his own words: "One day soon there's gonna be a reckoning."
* Gage announces that gun batteries have fixed target bearings and are ready to fire. With Zarek at a near-panic, Gaeta realizes they are defeated, and orders a weapons hold.
* Adama arms himself with the sidearm from a nearby marine, and the group storms CIC. No resistance is offered by the mutineers who, outmatched, surrender without a fight.
* Adama gets on the wireless, identifies himself, confirms that he has retaken command, and tells Roslin to stand down. Roslin, Baltar, and even the Cylons are relieved to hear his voice with Roslin and at least one Eight in tears.
* Zarek, Gaeta, and the other mutineers are taken away at gunpoint. While Gaeta and Adama exchange a stare, Adama has nothing to say to his fomrer loyal officer and merely gestures for Kelly and Athena to take him away.
* In the FTL engine room, an exhausted Tyrol drops the component as the massive FTL drive slowly come to a halt. As he turns to the bulkhead, he notices some significant structural damage which concerns him greatly.
* On ''Galactica'', Roslin climbs down a ladder and, seeing Adama alive for the first time since she boarded the Raptor, cries tears of joy. The two leaders walk together, his arm around her.
* In Gaeta's quarters, Gaeta and Baltar are smoking cigarettes - something Gaeta has not been seen doing for quite some time and drink coffee which Gaeta calls the "spoils of war." Gaeta is telling Baltar of the many careers he once dreamed of pursuing: architecture, medicine, engineering, photography, and finally, science.
* Baltar, on the verge of tears, begins to say something, but Gaeta stops him. He assures Baltar that he is fine with the way things turned out, and that his only wish is that eventually, people realize who he is. Baltar tells Gaeta that he knows who he is.
* Gaeta and Zarek are seated in the main launch tube of the hangar deck, with Adama, Lee, Tigh, and Baltar standing behind the firing squad.
* Just before Adama orders the execution detail to fire, Gaeta looks down at his severed leg in astonishment and remarks, "It stopped" refering to the intense pain he has had since he lost his leg.
*The squad fires, killing Gaeta and Zarek.

== Notes ==
*The punchline of [[Blood_on_the_Scales#Noteworthy_Dialogue|the joke]] that [[Tom Zarek]] tells [[Racetrack]] as he is escorted from the flight deck suggests that pedophilia by priests may have been an issue among the [[Religion_in_the_Twelve_Colonies_(RDM)|clergy of the Twelve Colonies]], similar to [[w:Abuse_by_members_of_Roman_Catholic_orders|anecdotes and allegations]] involving the Roman Catholic Church.
*The [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]] were murdered on Zarek's order for supporting President Roslin. [[Lee Adama]] survived as he wasn't present during the Quorum session. Two other regular Quorum members (Gemenon Delegate and one other delegate) were replaced by temporary stand-ins (who were killed), and their fate is unknown.
*Romo Lampkin while being forced to serve as Adama's lawyer during his trial he referred to two looming Marine guards as "Wynken and Blynken". This was in reference to the poem of ''[[Wikipedia:Wynken, Blynken, and Nod|Wynken, Blynken, and Nod]]'', a late 19th century Dutch child's lullaby by [[Wikipedia:Eugene Field|Eugene Field]] about three fishermen fishing in the starry night in the sky with the help of the moon and uses a magic wooden shoe as their boat.<ref>[http://www3.amherst.edu/~rjyanco94/literature/eugenefield/poems/poemsofchildhood/wynkenblynkenandnod.html Wynken, Blynken, and Nod" Lullaby]</ref>
*This episode marks the death of Felix Gaeta and Tom Zarek, who are executed by firing squad for their mutiny against Adama and the government.
*The character Captain Kelly was last seen during season 3 when he was arrested for his bombing and assassinations of Baltar's lawyers. His character has appeared intermittently since the show began and it is fitting that he would be a double-turn coat as he was part of the original senior staff and his love for Admiral Adama is proven to be stronger than his hatred for the Cylons.
*The events depicted in "The Oath" and "Blood on the Scales" cover approximately nine hours: Tigh enters Adama's quarters at 0620 at the beginning of "The Oath", culminates with Gaeta seizing the CIC at 0922, and concludes with Adama and his loyalists retaking the CIC at 1532 in "Blood on the Scales". The executions of Gaeta and Zarek, however, take place at an unspecified time later.
*The firing-squad executions of Gaeta and Zarek mark the first time a method of execution other than [[airlock|airlocking]] has been used on screen (apart from the non-judicial summary executions in ''[[Razor]]''), although the action takes place in the same location where most recent airlocking incidents have occurred. In "[[Dirty_Hands#Act_4|Dirty Hands]]", Admiral Adama threatens to have [[Cally Tyrol]] shot as a mutineer, suggesting that the firing squad is the standard means of execution for humans that commit mutiny.
*The ship's [[FTL]] drive is seen for the first time.
*Baltar becomes involved with a previously-unseen copy of [[Number Six]] (referenced off-screen by the name [[Lida]]). Discounting his [[Messengers|Messenger Six]], this makes the third copy of Six with whom he has had relations, after [[Caprica-Six]] and [[Gina Inviere]].
*Ironically when Zarek told the Quorum that the people would recognize they stood behind their President they did, they stood behind Roslin.

== Analysis ==
*Despite all of the support that Gaeta and Zarek seemed to have at the beginning of the mutiny, Roslin and Adama had more support from people opposed to it and possibly people who rethought it like Kelly. On Roslin and Adama's side were ''Galactica's'' senior staff (the members of CIC were either people on Gaeta's side or forced to work at gunpoint by marines), at least most of the crew given how many people joined Adama's march to CIC, the Quorum of Twelve and the Cylons and Baltar's followers. Gaeta and Zarek had the supporters they'd managed to gather amongst ''Galactica's'' crew and about 25 ships who refused Roslin's order to stand down FTL drives. In the end Adama and Roslin were successful because the people supported them more and Adama had enough respect from his crew that he was able to turn a lot back to his side just by stating his intention to retake the ship and walking by others. Gaeta and Zarek had to use force to get what they wanted. Many people, both in support of Gaeta/Zarek and in opposition, were killed. Given the death count, 40 in the first four hours of the mutiny, from 06:32 hours when Zarek was released from the Brig to sometime after 10:30 hours when Adama and Tigh are captured in the stowage bay (with most of the killing starting shortly after 09:02 hours after Capt. [[Kara Thrace]] rescues Delegate [[Lee Adama]] in the Hanger Deck. [[Peter Laird]] was the very first death, occuring shortly before 07:00 hours.), the attack on those Loyal to Adama was vicious. The break down of mutineer and loyalist deaths hasn't been given yet, but it is most likely that most of these deaths were those loyal to Adama since Gaeta/Zarek forces had the elements of both surprise and preparation in their favor. The 40 figure only represents the deaths by the end of "[[The Oath]]", near the approximate halfway point of the mutiny at 10:30 hours. With the retaking of CIC by Adama and Tigh, the mutiny ended at 15:32 hours, approximately nine hours elapsed time (there may have been resisters after that time not wishing to be taken into custody). Mutiny death figures since 10:30 hours, including the murder of the Quorum delegates, will be reflected in the survivor population count after the teaser of "[[No Exit]]" unless otherwise indicated.
*Gaeta's sudden lack of pain in his amputated leg signals that his chronic pain (which he tried to numb with painkillers during the webisodes) was partially psychological. Once he was at peace with who he was and what he had done, his mental pain and much of his physical pain and itching disappeared. His last words acknowledged that the irritation had stopped.
*The marines who eventually joined Adama's side near the end of the episode indicates that other mutineers simply were part of the coup out of self-preservation or at least wanting to be on the "winning" side. Once it was clear that Adama and the senior staff were rising up and reclaiming the ship, the marines, and others finally arose as well.
*By sparing Narcho's life, Admiral Adama characteristically shows his love and compassion for those who serve under him. Despite his speech of "no forgiveness" in "The Oath", it is clear that Adama will attempt to give the some of the mutineers a second chance.
**Not likely, the podcast for Deadlocked says they were all imprisoned on the ''Astral Queen''.
**Adama grants clemency to those volunteering for the rescue of Hera. However, this was out of a desperate need for as many people as possible and the only ones shown for sure to take it were Nowart, Racetrack and Skulls, the later two of which died in the battle.
*From a pragmatic standpoint, Humanity, such at the verge of extinction anyways, can not afford to lose large numbers of people.
*The mutineers at no point subdued all resistance aboard ''Galactica''. As Adama marched on CIC, many crew members rushed to join him, indicating that they were either still resisting or were waiting for a sign that the tide had turned. CIC also was controlled by Gaeta through the use of marines who held most of the staff at gunpoint.
* Tyrol, while attempting to disable Galactica's jump drive notices odd tears in the hull near the FTL assembly. ''Galactica'' may be suffering from serious long term metal fatigue and/or cumulative battle damage, as evidenced by the bulkhead deformation Tyrol discovers in the FTL drive room. Over the course of the series, Tigh has made a number of comments on ''Galactica's'' worsening structural condition, especially in absence of any possibility for repair at a shipyard. The ship itself is 50+ years old and has seen combat in two wars against the Cylons, and after all the damage its taken - the [[Battle of New Caprica]] being the most obvious example - it is not all that surprising to see the ship's structural integrity begin to fail like this.
*Roslin threatens to attack ''Galactica'' if Gaeta and Zarek do not surrender. Numerous missile emplacements are then shown opening along the arms of the rebel basestar. Due to the known incompetence of ''Galactica's'' mutineer crew (Gage being unable to jam Roslin's transmission in [[The Oath]] without Gaeta's help), the chaos aboard ''Galactica'' with a mutiny still ongoing, and ''Galactica's'' status as an undermanned vessel, it is possible that the basestar could have successfully engaged and destroyed ''Galactica'' or at least severely damaged her enough to prevent her escaping.
*Captain Kelly, after having been locked up in the brig for his attempts to assassinate Baltar's lawyers, still holds a deep love for the Galactica and her commander. As he was a part of the original senior leadership (3rd in command as shown after Adama's near-assassination), his nostalgic comments with Tyrol indicated his withering resolve to be part of the coup. In addition, being a witness to the cruelty of Zarek with the Quorum was probably the first catalyst for his repentance.
*Gaeta, prior to his execution, is shown smoking and having drinks with Baltar. This is significant as Gaeta is rarely shown smoking during the show, and when it is shown, it was done when Gaeta finally felt free to be who he wanted to be. The first time was during his taped interview with D'Anna where he "let his hair down" so to speak. Incorporating a final smoke for Gaeta seemed appropriate to allow the audience to see a humanized Gaeta again.
*Gaeta and Baltar have a civil conversation before Gaeta's execution indicating that the two have forgiven each other for thier past transgressions: Gaeta trying to kill Baltar and Baltar's involvement with the Cylons on New Caprica.
*Baltar, despite admitting to not really liking his followers, has developed a sense of responsibility towards them as shown when he's speaking with [[Number Six#Lida|Lida]] about them and deciding to go back. This is the first time that Baltar has been shown to truly care about something besides himself indicating he may have changed somewhat.
*Dialogue in this episode indicates there are 35 civilian ships left in the fleet. This is the first time since abandoning [[New Caprica]] that significant information on the number of ships left in the fleet has emerged. This number doesn't seem to tally with the observed losses in the fleet since the first season, although the number of ships has been portrayed inconsistently throughout the miniseries and the main seasons (a figure in the mid 70s being mentioned in [[Home, Part I]]). The figure of 35 stated here- indicating a loss of half the fleet's ships- seems somewhat inconsistent with a the human population that has only declined by about one fifth since the arrival of Pegasus's crew which bolstered the number of survivors to close to 50,000. Ships being abandoned on New Caprica or afterwards may explain this strikingly low number unless it is a continuity error. If 35 is a correct figure, the other ships in the fleet must have somehow found a way to take a huge number of extra people aboard.
**It is possible that the 35 civilian ships that were mentioned were the total number of ships that had initially sided with Zarek and Gaeta, rather than the entire number of ships in the fleet. If they had been ready to jump at Zarek and Gaeta's order, their FTL drives would have been spun up. With Roslin's broadcast, though, 10 of the 35 would have switched sides again and shut down their FTLs, indicating the end of their desire to follow the coup leaders.
*Ronald D Moore has commented that ''Galactica'' is severely undermanned at this point and therefore large parts of the ship are empty, making it easier for mutineers and counter-mutineers to move around unobserved. This however is contradicted by the fact that ''Galactica'' now has the crew of ''Pegasus'' aboard and the ship has in fact been seen to be overcrowded. Even allowing for losses on New Caprica and the fact that ''Pegasus'' was undermanned, the ship should still have a larger crew compliment than when she began her journey. In orbit around New Caprica the two ships still had over 2000 personnel still serving and doubtless most if not all former crew re-enlisted after the evacuation of New Caprica. Galactica's combined crew have not been seen to have taken any substantial losses since leaving New Caprica that would leave much of the ship empty. This may be a retcon or continuity error. It should be noted, however, that a large proportion of the people on the ship following the escape from New Caprica were civilians who may have since been relocated. Furthermore, it may be that only certain areas of the ship - such as the living quarters - are overcrowded. The exact number of personnel that a fully manned ''Galactica'' should have is unknown.
*Despite [[Sharon Agathon]]'s vision-induced paranoia of a Six taking her daughter, [[Hera Agathon|Hera]]<ref>Sharon kills [[Natalie]] in "[[Sine Qua Non]]" when she sees the latter with Hera in a corridor after Sharon, President Roslin, and Caprica-Six all have a vision of a Six absconding with Hera at the opera house.</ref>, she does not protest [[Caprica-Six]] carrying Hera while Sharon supports her injured husband, [[Karl Agathon|Karl]]. It must be remembered that it was Caprica Six who aided in the escape of Athena with Hera from the baseship after she got Helo to kill her so she would resurrect on the baseship and recover their daughter. Caprica Six killed [[Sharon Valerii]] ("Boomer", who later resurrected) after Valerii tried to kill Hera for rejecting her and then Caprica Six helped get both Athena and Hera off the baseship. Ironically, Caprica Six is the only character who has been seen specifically committing infanticide (not counting Baltar's dream about Adama drowning Hera).<ref>Caprica-Six snaps a human infant's neck in her first scene in the [[Miniseries]].</ref>
*Assuming the writers maintained their preference to mirror real-world military traditions, the firing squad assembled to execute Gaeta and Zarek would likely be composed of low-level mutineers who were treated with leniency and then required to seal their loyalty (and feelings of guilt) by executing their former conspirators.
*It isn't clear whether Gaeta and Zarek were given any sort of trial before being executed. Given Adama and Roslin's preference (albeit sometimes waveringly so) for maintaining the rule of law, it would be surprising if the lead mutineers were just shot out of hand.
* Contrary to real-world military protocol and traditions, Gaeta was not cashiered prior to his execution, and faces the firing squad still wearing the rank insignia of a lieutenant.
* During Tyrol and Kelly's discussion in the arms locker, Kelly mentions that he could have told Tyrol that Cally was trouble, Tyrol's response "Thanks, it wouldn't have mattered", indicates that, even if he had known that Cally had been sleeping with Hot Dog, he would still have married her. This clearly indicates that Tyrol loved her, and the way in which he says it clearly indicates that he still does. This means that Tyrol's tirade against the Admiral after his wife's death was an act, possibly out of grief, possibly to get himself dismissed from the Deck Crew so he couldn't sabotage anything should he have any hidden programming.
* The Cylons among the fleet are, collectively, more loyal to Roslin and Adama (and more willing to forgive past conflicts) than are the humans.
*Despite Adama's obvious anger towards Gaeta, he may have been somewhat forgiving towards him at the end: Baltar is allowed to visit, it happens in Gaeta's quaters indicating that Adama didn't put him in the brig but locked him in his room and he's smoking cigarettes (which he may have had in his room) and drinks what looks like the Admiral's morning coffee which he calls the "spoils of war" indicating Adama may have given it to him. Also, Adama allows him to die wearing his uniform which he promised he wouldn't allow any of the mutineers to do.
*Despite the Quorum's disagreements with Roslin and her policy lately, they still supported her during the mutiny showing that despite her policies, they prefer her as President and don't agree with Zarek and his attempts to take power. Notably, they pointedly refer to him as the ''Vice President'' instead of the President showing that they didn't recognize his new position of power.

== Questions ==

=== Answered Questions ===

* What will become of the other mutineers (Racetrack, Narcho, Seelix, etc)? Will Adama follow through with his promise of "no forgiveness"? ([[Deadlock|Answer]])
* Who will take over Gaeta's duties? ([[Deadlock|Answer]])
* What repercussions will the Quorum's assassination have on the Fleet? ([[No Exit|Answer]])
* What is the significance of the damage Tyrol discovers in the engine room? Has it been there long, or is it a result of the improper shut down of the FTL drive? Do other areas of the ship show similar signs of damage? ([[No Exit|Answer]])
* In the [[Miniseries]], Colonel Tigh tells Lt. Gaeta to "spin up FTL drives 1 and 2". Why did Tyrol's deactivation of one FTL drive stop Gaeta from ordering the other's use? Is the other FTL drive still functional?
** Answer: The ship needs both FTL drives to make a proper jump, and Tyrol pulled the [[sync coil]] between the two.
* Will Anders survive his injuries? Were Starbuck and Lampkin even successful in getting him to sickbay? ([[No Exit|Partial Answer]])
* Will Helo survive his injuries? ([[Someone to Watch Over Me|Answer]])
* How will Baltar's new-found sense of responsibility toward his flock change his behavior? ([[Deadlock|Possible Answer]])
* Will the Cylons' assistance of, and subordination to, President Roslin (and/or Colonial political leaders' fears of being associated with the failed coup d'état) secure them the citizenship and Quorum representation they seek? ([[Islanded in a Stream of Stars|Answer]])
* With Zarek dead and Lee Adama being the only surviving member of the Quorum (or one of the few surviving members, considering that two regular delegates were replaced by stand-ins), will he become the new Vice President? ([[No Exit|Possible Answer]])
* Are ''Galactica'''s computers now networked? ([[Daybreak, Part I|Answer]])
* With most of the Quorum dead, will Roslin and Adama use the attempted mutiny as a basis to declare martial law? ([[No Exit|Answer]])

=== Unanswered Questions ===

* Will Kelly be allowed to resume his duties on ''Galactica''?
* Is the same structural deficiency present near the other FTL drive?
* Will the rebel Cylons become less trusting of the humans as a result of this mutiny? Or will they be more inclined to trust certain humans, such as Roslin, since she managed to convince them to stay and follow her leadership?
* What was that device Roslin and Leoben were using to communicate with the rest of the Fleet?
* Why was Lee Adama - as opposed to Roslin - present at Zarek and Gaeta's execution?
* What will be done to the 25 ships who did not obey Roslin's order to power down their FTL drives?
* Will the FTL upgrades proceed once order has been brought back completely?
* Will there be a faction that will attempt to portray Zarek or Gaeta as martyrs?
* Do the Articles of Colonization include pre-approval language for the joining of the fabled "13th Tribe", now known to be Cylons? Such is often the case of comparable federation constitutions; the United States' former [[wikipedia:Articles of Confederation|Articles of Confederation]] included such language with respect to "Canada" (meaning Ontario) and Bermuda.
* Were Gaeta and Zarek given trials?
* How much time passed between the mutiny and the execution?
* Did Zarek subsequently target the absent members of the Quorum for assassination? Do any of them, other than Lee, live through the mutiny?

== Character Development ==
*''In the [[Miniseries]] (in the teaser) the first time we see Lt. Felix Gaeta and then-Commander Adama, Gaeta was handing him routine reports-and also unknown to them the first indications of trouble-while he was practicing his public address on the occasion of ''Galactica'''s-and his-retirement. It is of note considering what we now know of what the unimaginable future had for them:''

:'''Gaeta:''' Good morning, sir.

:'''Adama:''' Good morning.

:'''Gaeta:''' (hands him messages) Com traffic from the midwatch.

:'''Adama:''' (re: messages) Hmm. Anything interesting?

:'''Gaeta:''' Uh... Mostly housekeeping. Uh, there was one odd message we were copied on. (shows him the message) Uh... The one from Fleet headquarters there, sir. Courier officer's overdue coming back from Armistice station. They've asked for a full status report on all FTL capable ships, just in case they need someone to jump out there today, see if his ship is having mechanical problems.

:'''Adama:''' I think we're a little bit busy today, wouldn't you say so Lieutenant?

:'''Gaeta:''' (grins) Yes, sir.

:'''Adama:''' Glad we agree.

:'''Gaeta:''' And, may I take this opportunity to say that it's been both a pleasure and an honor to serve under you these past three years.

:'''Adama:''' It's my honor, Lieutenant Gaeta.

*It's also interesting to note that the first time Roslin meets a Number Two, he is trying to sabotage the fleet and she has him executed ([[Flesh and Bone]]); in this episode she and a Number Two are seen cooperating and sharing a friendly moment. It may have even been the same Number Two, as Leoben is still alive and has been prominent among the rebels.

== Official Statements ==
*[http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/entertainment_tv/2009/02/battlestar-galactica-gaeta-blood-scales-angeli.html Maureen Ryan of the Chicago Tribune interviews Michael Angeli about the episode:], The Six who sleeps with Baltar on the baseship is named [[Number Six#Lida|Lida]].

* ''[[Richard Hatch]] discusses his desire for a [[Tom Zarek]] interview prior to Zarek's execution:''

: I actually want to do the final Tom Zarek interview before he gets blown out the airlock, which they didn’t show, on the show. They had [[Felix Gaeta|Gaeta]] talk to [[Gaius Baltar|Baltar]], but you never got to see what Zarek was feeling. And I always wanted to do the final Zarek interview, you know, a little bit like the [[w:David Frost|David Frost]] interview with [[w:Richard Nixon|[Richard] Nixon]], where you could understand a little more deeply where he was coming from.

: I always wanted to go into that, just because I always felt that some people missed the point. They took sides, on who they liked more, as opposed to seeing what was really happening there. And art is not just about entertainment, not about taking sides; it’s about challenging your thinking, seeing things outside the box and expanding your mind, and seeing things from a larger viewpoint.<ref>{{cite_web|url=http://geeksdreamgirl.com/2009/08/13/j-interviews-richard-hatch-part-2/|title=J Interviews Richard Hatch Part II|date=13 August 2009|accessdate=14 August 2009|last=|first=|format=|language=}}</ref>

== Noteworthy Dialogue ==
*'''Tom Zarek''' (ending a joke to Racetrack): . . . shall we save the kids? And the attorney says, "Frak them". And the priest says, "Do we have time?"
:'''Racetrack''' (after both laugh): "You're gross."
*'''''Tom Zarek''' delivers his ultimatum to '''Laura Roslin''''':
:'''Zarek''': This is Tom Zarek, President of the Twelve Colonies. It's over, Laura. Saul Tigh was killed attempting to escape. Bill Adama was tried and found guilty of his crimes. A firing squad executed him this morning. It's done, Laura. You want to think about the people of this fleet now, and surrender.
:'''Roslin''': No. Not now. Not ever. Do you hear me? I will use every cannon, every bomb, every bullet, every weapon I have down to my own eyeteeth to end you. I swear it!''' ''I'm coming for all of you!'''''
*'''''Felix Gaeta''' is disturbed by the sight of the slaughtered Quorum delegates:
:'''Gaeta''': We--we had the truth on our side. Now . . . now . . .
:'''Zarek''': The truth is told by whoever is left standing.
*'''''Lee Adama''' has just thrown a grenade towards the marines guarding the Cylon Prisoners, allowing him and '''Kara Thrace''' to kill them, after which Kara takes cover and Lee looks at her both amused and pleased with himself:
:'''Lee Adama''': ''walking forward and picking up the Grenade'' I never pulled the pin.
:'''Kara Thrace''': Ok, that is not funny.
:'''Lee Adama''': It would have been if you had thought of it.
:'''Kara Thrace''': No, still not funny.
*'''''Laura Roslin''''' broadcasting to the fleet:
:'''Roslin''': This is President Laura Roslin speaking from the Cylon baseship. Felix Gaeta has seized ''Galactica'' by force. The Cylons were defending themselves. They will not harm you. I repeat, the Cylons will not harm you. I am asking all ships' captains not to jump. Do not jump! Shut down your FTL drives!
*'''''Felix Gaeta''' is about to be executed for his crimes:
:'''Gaeta''': (referring to the pain from his lost leg) It stopped.
*'''''Gaeta''' pours himself and Baltar a cup of what looks like Admiral Adama's coffee and Baltar looks at it confused:
:'''Gaeta''': Spoils of war.
*'''''Adama''' regains control of CIC and captures '''Gaeta''' and '''Zarek''':
:'''Adama''': ''(to a CIC crewmember)'' Connect me with the President.
:'''Crewmember''': Right away Admiral.
:''(Adama puts down his gun and picks up the phone)''
:'''Adama''': Madam President, this is the Admiral! Stand down! I repeat ''Galactica'' secure, stand down!
:''(Roslin, Baltar and the Cylons are clearly relieved with Roslin and an Eight even crying)''
:'''Roslin''': ''(tearfully)'' Bill!

== Guest Stars ==
* [[Mark Sheppard]] as [[Romo Lampkin]]
* [[Richard Hatch]] as [[Tom Zarek]]
* [[Sebastian Spence]] as Lieutenant [[Noel Allison|Noel "Narcho" Allison]]
* [[Bodie Olmos]] as Lieutenant [[Brendan Costanza|Brendan "Hot Dog" Costanza]]
* [[Leah Cairns]] as Lieutenant [[Margaret Edmondson|Margaret "Racetrack" Edmondson]]
* [[Jennifer Halley]] as Ensign [[Diana Seelix|Diana "Hardball" Seelix]]
* [[Ty Olsson]] as Captain [[Aaron Kelly]]
* [[Derek Delost]] as Specialist [[Vireem]]
* [[Mike Dopud]] as Specialist [[Gage]]
* [[Colin Corrigan]] as Sergeant [[Allan Nowart]]
* [[Alexandra Thomas]] as [[Hera Agathon]]
* [[Callum Keith Rennie]] as [[Number Two]] / [[Leoben Conoy]]
* [[Rekha Sharma]] as [[Tory Foster]]
* [[Andrew McIlroy]] as [[Jacob Cantrell]]
* [[Marilyn Norry]] as [[Reza Chronides]]
* [[Judith Maxie]] as [[Unnamed civilians in the Fleet (RDM)#Picon Delegate|Picon Delegate]]
* [[Iris Paluly]] as Speaking Delegate [[Dahlia]]
* [[Veena Sood]] as [[Unnamed civilians in the Fleet (RDM)#Quorum Delegate|Quorum Delegate]]
* [[Adrian Holmes]] as Marine [[Parr]]

== References ==
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Blood on the Scales

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== Overview ==
:''Felix Gaeta's mutiny continues while Laura Roslin finds refuge on the rebel Cylon basestar.''

== Summary ==

=== Teaser ===
* Rebel marines led by [[Aaron Kelly]] storm the airlock and capture [[Admiral Adama]] and [[Saul Tigh]] both of whom were stunned by a flash grenade.
* Tigh recognizes Kelly and calls him "the brig rat." Kelly is visibly uneasy about all this.
* Meanwhile, the [[Raptor]] with President [[Laura Roslin]] and [[Gaius Baltar]] on board heads for the [[Basestar (RDM)#Rebel basestar|rebel basestar]].
* A pair of Vipers, piloted by Narcho and Hotdog, pursue the Raptor. Hotdog, who is unaware of the mutiny on ''Galactica'', gets the Raptor in his sights, but doesn't fire. Instead he orders the Raptor to identify itself.
* Narcho tells Hotdog to destroy the Raptor, but Hotdog continues to ask for the target's identification.
* Roslin transmits a message from the Raptor saying that she is aboard the Raptor. [[Gage]] blocks the transmission, but not before Hotdog receives it.
* [[Felix Gaeta]], now in command of the CIC, contacts Hotdog and orders him to destroy the Raptor. When Hotdog continues to hold his fire, Narcho goes in and launches a pair of missiles at the Raptor.
* The [[Eight]] piloting the Raptor successfully avoids the missiles, which hit the basestar instead. The Raptor successfully docks at the basestar.
* Gaeta orders Colonel Tigh to be placed in the brig with the other Cylons, but orders Admiral Adama to be brought to the CIC.
* On board the basestar, the Cylons demand to know why they're being fired upon. Roslin explains the situation. Fearing that the government has been overthrown, the Cylons want to jump away from the Fleet.
* Roslin insists that they give Adama a chance to retake ''Galactica''. Baltar points out that it's unlikely that Adama will win and that Gaeta and Zarek have the majority of support on ''Galactica''. Roslin counters that they've already seen evidence that not all of ''Galactica'''s crew support the mutiny.
* Roslin tells the Cylons to move their ship into the middle of the Fleet, so that ''Galactica'' won't be able to fire upon them.
* Back on ''Galactica'', Adama is brought to the CIC. Gaeta asks him to call Roslin and convince her to surrender.
* Adama refuses and instead pulls off his admiral pins. He throws them to Gaeta and sarcastically tells Gaeta that he's the admiral now and to make the call himself.
* Gaeta orders gun batteries to target the basestar, but before they can do so, the basestar moves into the middle of the Fleet. Gaeta calls off the attack and orders the basestar to be quarantined. He also gives orders to prepare for [[Tom Zarek]]'s arrival.
* Adama asks Gaeta if he's planning on shooting him. Gaeta gives no response.

=== Act 1 ===
* ''[[Colonial One]]'' lands on ''Galactica'''s flight deck, with Zarek and the [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum]] on board.
* Kelly, Narcho, [[Margaret Edmondson|Racetrack]], [[Diana Seelix|Seelix]], and other rebels escort Zarek from the flight deck, while [[Lee Adama|Lee]] and [[Kara Thrace|Starbuck]] watch, hidden behind some machinery. Once they are out of sight, Lee and Starbuck move on.
* In a Raptor aboard the rebel baseship, Roslin attempts to transmit a signal to anyone who will listen, without success.
* In the holding cell, Hera looks with concern at Helo's head wound. Athena attempts to assure her that he will get better.
* Caprica-Six nurses Tigh's ear, bleeding from the stun grenade.
* Anders wonders aloud what Gaeta will do. Tigh quips, "In your case, cut off one of your frakking legs."
* In Adama's quarters, Gaeta tells Zarek that he has "a net" over the baseship, and thus Zarek did not need to bring the entire Quorum with him to ''Galactica''. Zarek replies that as long as Gaeta insists on having a trial for Adama, he wants the Quorum where he can keep an eye on them. Zarek says they need to move on, but Gaeta replies that before that can happen, people must answer for what they've done, beginning with Adama.
* Tyrol continues to sneak through the corridors of ''Galactica'' unnoticed. On Deck D Corridor 2, he hears the sound of a door opening and runs for cover.
* Hidden from view, Tyrol observes Kelly and two rebel marines escorting [[Romo Lampkin]] at gunpoint. Romo wonders if anyone will feed his dog.
* In Adama's quarters, Zarek reads the charges against Adama: treason, desertion, giving aid and comfort to the enemy, and gross dereliction of duty. Zarek reminds him that the punishment for these crimes is death by firing squad. All the while, Adama glares at Gaeta.
* Zarek tells Romo that the Admiral is entitled to a court martial, but they need a lawyer to handle his defense. Adama mutters, "They need a pimp."
* Romo wonders why they are doing all of this. Gaeta replies, "For justice." Romo, considering the tone of the room, conjectures that if he should choose to pass on this "field trip for justice," that the two marines guarding him will instead use him for target practice. Zarek impatiently tells him to just do his job.
* Zarek goes on to say that "Commander" Gaeta will represent the people, and that Zarek himself will be serving as judge. Romo wonders if they've run out of ship's captains. Gaeta replies that the captains are busy defending their ships against the basestar Adama welcomed into the Fleet. "Shove it up your ass," Adama tells Gaeta pointedly.
* Gaeta continues to argue with a mockingly defiant Adama. Adama points out that the rebel Cylons gave "aid and comfort" to the fleet, not vice versa. As the argument begins to escalate, Romo asks for a few minutes with Adama.
* On the basestar, Roslin continues to unsuccessfully try to use the Raptor's communication system to contact anyone, with the Cylons looking on. A Six remarks that they no longer have the protection of the Fleet, and the Viper patrols are becoming increasingly bold, firing into space, inviting the Cylons to react. Tory Foster tells the other Cylons that they should all talk.
* On ''Galactica'', Tyrol uses a crowbar to pry the cover off of a service tunnel, and crawls inside.
* On ''Colonial One'', Zarek addresses the Quorum. As Zarek speaks in support of Gaeta's leadership of the military, the Quorum delegates are visibly concerned. Zarek tells the Quorum that he has brought them to ''Galactica'' to show Gaeta that the Quorum delegates are people who, "at the end of the day, still stand by your president." At this, the Quorum bursts into an excited discussion, which ends with [[Jacob Cantrell]] telling Zarek, "I think you should leave now, Mr. Vice President." The other delegates are in agreement.
* Zarek walks out of the conference room in defeat. In the adjacent corridor, he tells two marines, "Shoot them." Zarek then tells Kelly to get Gaeta. Kelly walks away to the sounds of screams and gunfire. He is visibly disturbed by the sounds.

=== Act 2 ===
* On ''Colonial One'', Gaeta looks in horror on the slain Quorum delegates, and angrily rebukes Zarek. Zarek reminds him that Gaeta began the coup, and that this is just another consequence of that. Gaeta is in disbelief, remarking that until now they had the truth on their side. Zarek tells him that the truth is told by whoever is left standing, and reminds him that Adama must be eliminated.
* On ''Galactica'', Tyrol continues to crawl through a cramped and dirty service tunnel.
* On the rebel baseship, Tory informs Roslin that the Cylons have decided to jump away to ensure their own survival. The Six tells Roslin that Gaeta will likely execute Tigh, Tyrol, Anders, and any of the others who oppose him, such as Kara, Helo, and Adama.
* Roslin urges the Cylons to stay, reminding them that they have all made a habit out of beating the odds, particularly William Adama, and that when he returns to command, he will know who stuck with him and who ran.
* Tyrol crawls out of the duct into an empty munitions locker, where he is met at gunpoint by Kelly. Tyrol notes that the rebels sprang him from the brig.
* Kelly tells him to get out of the duct, but Tyrol says that he is too tired and that Kelly should just shoot him. Kelly replies that he's a machine, to which Tyrol replies that Kelly is a "dumbass." Kelly and Tyrol both begin laughing at this, and Kelly lowers his rifle.
* They both hear the sounds of gunfire in the distance. Kelly remarks, "This was a hell of a ship once." Tyrol agrees. Kelly tells Tyrol he heard his child wasn't a Cylon, and that he could have told Tyrol that Cally was "trouble." Tyrol laughs, saying it would not have mattered.
* After collecting himself, Kelly again points his rifle at Tyrol, but when Tyrol braces himself for the shot, Kelly instead tells him to leave, yelling "Go on skinjob, go!" After Tyrol crawls back into the duct, Kelly berates himself.
* In Adama's quarters, Romo hands Adama a pen to sign a statement. Adama refuses, but Romo urges him to put his innocence on record, and to give his people time to retake the ship.
* One of the rebels who was guarding the holding cell goes to the latrine, where Starbuck smashes his head into the wall.
[[Image:Lida.jpg|thumb|Lida approaching Baltar.]]
* On the rebel baseship, a Six named [[Lida]] asks Baltar if he is injured. He replies that they typically use the word "damaged" instead of "injured."
* In the corridor outside the holding cell, Lee and Starbuck argue over the best way to overpower the guards. Lee throws a grenade into their midst, and in the ensuing panic Lee and Starbuck gun them all down. Immediately after the last guard goes down, Starbuck ducks for cover, but an amused Lee nonchalantly walks to the thrown grenade and picks it back up. He tells Starbuck that he never pulled the pin, to which she states, "Not funny."
* With the guards dispatched, Lee and Starbuck free the prisoners, but Lee is upset to learn that his father is not among them.
* On their way out of the cell, Starbuck and Anders search the guards for weapons, but Lee tells them that they are quickly running out of time.
* A rebel turns the corner and fires at Starbuck and Anders. Starbuck shoots the rebel in the chest, but not before Anders is struck by a bullet in the neck, causing him to stumble.

=== Act 3 ===
* While Lee covers them, Starbuck looks after a wounded Anders. Sounds of yelling and gunfire indicate that there is fighting nearby. Lee insists that they need to leave.
* Tigh tells Caprica-Six to take Hera to Baltar's followers for safety, as "no one wants to go near those nutjobs." She insists she can take care of herself.
* Lee yells for Tigh to help him get Anders off the ground, but Starbuck tells Lee to go after his father instead. Athena and the others go with Lee and Tigh, while Starbuck stays with an incoherent Anders to try to get him to Doc Cottle for medical treatment.
* In Adama's quarters, the "court martial" proceeds apace, with Gaeta arguing that Adama deserted them on New Caprica. Romo objects, saying Gaeta is badgering the witness. Not surprisingly, his objection goes unheard by Zarek.
* As Adama continues to mock Gaeta, Zarek receives a call telling him that Tigh and the other "skinjobs" escaped. Zarek tells Adama and the others that Tigh was killed trying to escape. At the news of his longtime friend's death, Adama shows the first signs of emotion, and tells Gaeta that he is not answering any more of his questions.
* Zarek declares the prisoner guilty as charged, upsetting Romo, who says, "This isn't a trial, this is an asylum." Zarek angrily grabs Romo and pushes him against the bulkhead.
* Roslin's voice is heard over the wireless, prompting a smile from Adama and looks of concern from everyone else. Roslin announces that Gaeta took command of ''Galactica'' by force, and that the Cylons were merely defending themselves when they moved the baseship into the Fleet. She then commands the Fleet ships to power down their FTL drives.
* On the rebel baseship, Roslin exclaims that their signal could not be jammed. Behind her, a [[Number Two|Leoben]] is leaning on a device with flashing red lights, to which the Raptor's comm system is presumably connected. "I thought this would do the trick," he says with a grin.
* Back on ''Galactica'', Starbuck slowly drags an unconscious Anders a short distance before falling on the floor, exhausted. [[Parr]], the rebel marine escorting a bound Romo, happens upon them, commanding Starbuck to show him her hands. Romo readies his pen. Starbuck draws her sidearm and pulls the trigger, but the weapon is empty. Seizing his opportunity, Romo stabs his captor in the neck repeatedly with his pen. After removing his restraints, he retrieves his sunglasses and a sidearm from the fallen guard.
* Starbuck implores Romo to help her get Anders to Dr. Cottle, but Romo refuses, citing the fact that on the way there, he and his "friend" had already been shot at twice, once by his own men. Further considering the situation, an obviously conflicted Romo chooses to turn around and help.
* In CIC, Gage informs Gaeta that ten of the thirty-five ships remaining in the Fleet shut down their FTL drives after Roslin's announcement. Narcho is upset, but Gaeta tells him that Roslin did them a favor in exposing those ships who would cause them trouble. Gaeta tells Gage to give jump coordinates only to those ships that kept their FTL drives online, and to order them to jump immediately.
* Gaeta then tells Narcho to assemble an execution detail comprised of men he can trust, to secure the main hangar bay launch tube, and to take Adama down there and await further orders. Narcho shows some reluctance, but he insists that Gaeta can count on him "all down the line."
* Gaeta asks Zarek, who is waiting nearby, if he is spying on him. Zarek insists that they simply need to get through the current predicament, and move on.
* In a corridor somewhere on ''Galactica'', Narcho leads a team of six rebel marines who are escorting Adama to the launch tube, with Kelly walking behind the group. After some consideration, Kelly breaks off from the group and goes to the [[memorial hallway]], where he drops his rifle and breaks down in tears.
* In a nearby corridor, Tigh and Athena keep watch while Lee opens a service panel and disconnects a power line, causing the main lights to go out. Sounds of gunfire indicate there is still heavy fighting nearby.
* Tyrol continues to crawl through service tubes, this time crawling behind a latrine. He coughs and gags at the smell.
* In the memorial hallway, Lee confronts Kelly, who is nearly catatonic with grief. He finally admits to Lee that the others are planning on executing Adama in the main launch tube. Lee moves to punch Kelly, but Tigh pulls him away. As they run to the hangar deck, Kelly picks up his rifle and runs after them, yelling, "I'm coming with you!"
* On the rebel baseship, Baltar dreams of Adama's death by firing squad, which wakes him violently. In bed with him, Lida attempts to comfort him, but Baltar rebuffs her, saying that he has run for his life yet again. She tells him that fear makes people act differently, but he says that he did not run out of fear this time.
* For the first time, Baltar admits that he is merely playing the role of religious leader to humor his followers, and that he privately scorns their "provincial intellects" and their unfailing willingness to make him feel better; however, he also admits that he feels responsible for them, and that he must go back.
* On the hangar deck, Adama is tied to a chair in the main launch tube by a marine while Narcho stands nearby, distressed. As Narcho walks towards the eight marines with rifles at the ready, Adama spits.
* From the rebel baseship, Roslin gives the rebels five minutes to return command to Admiral Adama.
* In CIC, an increasingly concerned Zarek listens to Roslin's ultimatum, and looks around for Gaeta, who is absent.
* In Adama's quarters, Gaeta walks to Adama's desk, where he drops the admiral pins on ''Galactica'''s watch log. He then calls Narcho, telling him to carry out the execution.
* On the hangar deck, Narcho replies, "Yes, sir," and hangs up with Tigh pointing a sidearm at his head. Meanwhile, Lee unties his father from the chair in the launch tube, and Kelly and Athena have their rifles pointed at eight marines, all disarmed and kneeling with hands behind their heads.
* Adama is overjoyed to see Tigh, whom he was told was dead. Tigh replies that for a while, he was.
* Adama addresses the kneeling, disarmed marines, saying, "I'm gonna take back my ship." Adama then addresses Narcho, who tells him that while he has always respected him, he hates the Cylons, and he cannot take orders from a leader who won't fight them. At this, Tigh raises his weapon to Narcho's head, but Adama orders him to stand down, and orders Narcho to be tied up instead.
* Sitting at Adama's desk, Gaeta removes his prosthesis and scratches the stump underneath.
* Deep in the bowels of ''Galactica'', Tyrol finally has enough room to crouch rather than crawl, allowing him to move faster.
* In CIC, Zarek orders Vireem to pass him through to Roslin. As Gaeta walks into CIC, Zarek addresses Roslin on the rebel baseship, introducing himself as the President of the Twelve Colonies. He announces that Tigh was killed in an escape attempt, and that Adama was tried, found guilty of his crimes, and was executed by firing squad earlier that morning. Zarek insists that Roslin think of the welfare of the people of the Fleet, and surrender.
* Roslin vehemently refuses, vowing to use every weapon at her disposal to come after Zarek and the other mutineers. The weapon emplacements on the baseship open, targeting ''Galactica''.

=== Act 4 ===
* In CIC, after Zarek's statements to Roslin, Gaeta remarks that now they have a military leader and a president in one. Zarek questions how Gaeta would have handled the situation, had he been there.
* Gage indicates that the baseship is arming itself, and that they are jump ready. Gaeta orders the board be set to green, and a crew member inserts the FTL key at gunpoint, explaining that he feels enough killing has occurred.
* Tyrol rushes down a set of stairs in ''Galactica'''s FTL engine room.
* Adama marches towards CIC, leading an increasingly large group of marines, officers, and enlisted crew.
* In the FTL engine room, Tyrol breaks open the door to the auxiliary control station, and attempts to shut down the FTL drive with his command code.
* As Adama and his group of loyalists continue their march to CIC, Roslin's voice is heard over the wireless, commanding ''Galactica'' to surrender.
* In the FTL engine room, Tyrol's command code is denied (as he is not currently in active duty). Instead he looks to some nearby machinery and, with some effort, removes a [[Sync coil|vital component]] and shuts down the FTL drive.
* In CIC, Gage announces the FTL drive's shutdown. Zarek begins ordering crew members to look into it, but no one moves. He tells Gaeta to launch Vipers to defend themselves, but Gaeta ignores him, and instead recalls his own words: "One day soon there's gonna be a reckoning."
* Gage announces that gun batteries have fixed target bearings and are ready to fire. With Zarek at a near-panic, Gaeta realizes they are defeated, and orders a weapons hold.
* Adama arms himself with the sidearm from a nearby marine, and the group storms CIC. No resistance is offered by the mutineers who, outmatched, surrender without a fight.
* Adama gets on the wireless, identifies himself, confirms that he has retaken command, and tells Roslin to stand down. Roslin, Baltar, and even the Cylons are relieved to hear his voice with Roslin and at least one Eight in tears.
* Zarek, Gaeta, and the other mutineers are taken away at gunpoint. While Gaeta and Adama exchange a stare, Adama has nothing to say to his fomrer loyal officer and merely gestures for Kelly and Athena to take him away.
* In the FTL engine room, an exhausted Tyrol drops the component as the massive FTL drive slowly come to a halt. As he turns to the bulkhead, he notices some significant structural damage which concerns him greatly.
* On ''Galactica'', Roslin climbs down a ladder and, seeing Adama alive for the first time since she boarded the Raptor, cries tears of joy. The two leaders walk together, his arm around her.
* In Gaeta's quarters, Gaeta and Baltar are smoking cigarettes - something Gaeta has not been seen doing for quite some time and drink coffee which Gaeta calls the "spoils of war." Gaeta is telling Baltar of the many careers he once dreamed of pursuing: architecture, medicine, engineering, photography, and finally, science.
* Baltar, on the verge of tears, begins to say something, but Gaeta stops him. He assures Baltar that he is fine with the way things turned out, and that his only wish is that eventually, people realize who he is. Baltar tells Gaeta that he knows who he is.
* Gaeta and Zarek are seated in the main launch tube of the hangar deck, with Adama, Lee, Tigh, and Baltar standing behind the firing squad.
* Just before Adama orders the execution detail to fire, Gaeta looks down at his severed leg in astonishment and remarks, "It stopped" refering to the intense pain he has had since he lost his leg.
*The squad fires, killing Gaeta and Zarek.

== Notes ==
*The punchline of [[Blood_on_the_Scales#Noteworthy_Dialogue|the joke]] that [[Tom Zarek]] tells [[Racetrack]] as he is escorted from the flight deck suggests that pedophilia by priests may have been an issue among the [[Religion_in_the_Twelve_Colonies_(RDM)|clergy of the Twelve Colonies]], similar to [[w:Abuse_by_members_of_Roman_Catholic_orders|anecdotes and allegations]] involving the Roman Catholic Church.
*The [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]] were murdered on Zarek's order for supporting President Roslin. [[Lee Adama]] survived as he wasn't present during the Quorum session. Two other regular Quorum members (Gemenon Delegate and one other delegate) were replaced by temporary stand-ins (who were killed), and their fate is unknown.
*Romo Lampkin while being forced to serve as Adama's lawyer during his trial he referred to two looming Marine guards as "Wynken and Blynken". This was in reference to the poem of ''[[Wikipedia:Wynken, Blynken, and Nod|Wynken, Blynken, and Nod]]'', a late 19th century Dutch child's lullaby by [[Wikipedia:Eugene Field|Eugene Field]] about three fishermen fishing in the starry night in the sky with the help of the moon and uses a magic wooden shoe as their boat.<ref>[http://www3.amherst.edu/~rjyanco94/literature/eugenefield/poems/poemsofchildhood/wynkenblynkenandnod.html Wynken, Blynken, and Nod" Lullaby]</ref>
*This episode marks the death of Felix Gaeta and Tom Zarek, who are executed by firing squad for their mutiny against Adama and the government.
*The character Captain Kelly was last seen during season 3 when he was arrested for his bombing and assassinations of Baltar's lawyers. His character has appeared intermittently since the show began and it is fitting that he would be a double-turn coat as he was part of the original senior staff and his love for Admiral Adama is proven to be stronger than his hatred for the Cylons.
*The events depicted in "The Oath" and "Blood on the Scales" cover approximately nine hours: Tigh enters Adama's quarters at 0620 at the beginning of "The Oath", culminates with Gaeta seizing the CIC at 0922, and concludes with Adama and his loyalists retaking the CIC at 1532 in "Blood on the Scales". The executions of Gaeta and Zarek, however, take place at an unspecified time later.
*The firing-squad executions of Gaeta and Zarek mark the first time a method of execution other than [[airlock|airlocking]] has been used on screen (apart from the non-judicial summary executions in ''[[Razor]]''), although the action takes place in the same location where most recent airlocking incidents have occurred. In "[[Dirty_Hands#Act_4|Dirty Hands]]", Admiral Adama threatens to have [[Cally Tyrol]] shot as a mutineer, suggesting that the firing squad is the standard means of execution for humans that commit mutiny.
*The ship's [[FTL]] drive is seen for the first time.
*Baltar becomes involved with a previously-unseen copy of [[Number Six]] (referenced off-screen by the name [[Lida]]). Discounting his [[Messengers|Messenger Six]], this makes the third copy of Six with whom he has had relations, after [[Caprica-Six]] and [[Gina Inviere]].
*Ironically when Zarek told the Quorum that the people would recognize they stood behind their President they did, they stood behind Roslin.

== Analysis ==
*Despite all of the support that Gaeta and Zarek seemed to have at the beginning of the mutiny, Roslin and Adama had more support from people opposed to it and possibly people who rethought it like Kelly. On Roslin and Adama's side were ''Galactica's'' senior staff (the members of CIC were either people on Gaeta's side or forced to work at gunpoint by marines), at least most of the crew given how many people joined Adama's march to CIC, the Quorum of Twelve and the Cylons and Baltar's followers. Gaeta and Zarek had the supporters they'd managed to gather amongst ''Galactica's'' crew and about 25 ships who refused Roslin's order to stand down FTL drives. In the end Adama and Roslin were successful because the people supported them more and Adama had enough respect from his crew that he was able to turn a lot back to his side just by stating his intention to retake the ship and walking by others. Gaeta and Zarek had to use force to get what they wanted. Many people, both in support of Gaeta/Zarek and in opposition, were killed. Given the death count, 40 in the first four hours of the mutiny, from 06:32 hours when Zarek was released from the Brig to sometime after 10:30 hours when Adama and Tigh are captured in the stowage bay (with most of the killing starting shortly after 09:02 hours after Capt. [[Kara Thrace]] rescues Delegate [[Lee Adama]] in the Hanger Deck. [[Peter Laird]] was the very first death, occuring shortly before 07:00 hours.), the attack on those Loyal to Adama was vicious. The break down of mutineer and loyalist deaths hasn't been given yet, but it is most likely that most of these deaths were those loyal to Adama since Gaeta/Zarek forces had the elements of both surprise and preparation in their favor. The 40 figure only represents the deaths by the end of "[[The Oath]]", near the approximate halfway point of the mutiny at 10:30 hours. With the retaking of CIC by Adama and Tigh, the mutiny ended at 15:32 hours, approximately nine hours elapsed time (there may have been resisters after that time not wishing to be taken into custody). Mutiny death figures since 10:30 hours, including the murder of the Quorum delegates, will be reflected in the survivor population count after the teaser of "[[No Exit]]" unless otherwise indicated.
*Gaeta's sudden lack of pain in his amputated leg signals that his chronic pain (which he tried to numb with painkillers during the webisodes) was partially psychological. Once he was at peace with who he was and what he had done, his mental pain and much of his physical pain and itching disappeared. His last words acknowledged that the irritation had stopped.
*The marines who eventually joined Adama's side near the end of the episode indicates that other mutineers simply were part of the coup out of self-preservation or at least wanting to be on the "winning" side. Once it was clear that Adama and the senior staff were rising up and reclaiming the ship, the marines, and others finally arose as well.
*By sparing Narcho's life, Admiral Adama characteristically shows his love and compassion for those who serve under him. Despite his speech of "no forgiveness" in "The Oath", it is clear that Adama will attempt to give the some of the mutineers a second chance.
**Not likely, the podcast for Deadlocked says they were all imprisoned on the ''Astral Queen''.
**Adama grants clemency to those volunteering for the rescue of Hera. However, this was out of a desperate need for as many people as possible and the only ones shown for sure to take it were Nowart, Racetrack and Skulls, the later two of which died in the battle.
*From a pragmatic standpoint, Humanity, such at the verge of extinction anyways, can not afford to lose large numbers of people.
*The mutineers at no point subdued all resistance aboard ''Galactica''. As Adama marched on CIC, many crew members rushed to join him, indicating that they were either still resisting or were waiting for a sign that the tide had turned. CIC also was controlled by Gaeta through the use of marines who held most of the staff at gunpoint.
* Tyrol, while attempting to disable Galactica's jump drive notices odd tears in the hull near the FTL assembly. ''Galactica'' may be suffering from serious long term metal fatigue and/or cumulative battle damage, as evidenced by the bulkhead deformation Tyrol discovers in the FTL drive room. Over the course of the series, Tigh has made a number of comments on ''Galactica's'' worsening structural condition, especially in absence of any possibility for repair at a shipyard. The ship itself is 50+ years old and has seen combat in two wars against the Cylons, and after all the damage its taken - the [[Battle of New Caprica]] being the most obvious example - it is not all that surprising to see the ship's structural integrity begin to fail like this.
*Roslin threatens to attack ''Galactica'' if Gaeta and Zarek do not surrender. Numerous missile emplacements are then shown opening along the arms of the rebel basestar. Due to the known incompetence of ''Galactica's'' mutineer crew (Gage being unable to jam Roslin's transmission in [[The Oath]] without Gaeta's help), the chaos aboard ''Galactica'' with a mutiny still ongoing, and ''Galactica's'' status as an undermanned vessel, it is possible that the basestar could have successfully engaged and destroyed ''Galactica'' or at least severely damaged her enough to prevent her escaping.
*Captain Kelly, after having been locked up in the brig for his attempts to assassinate Baltar's lawyers, still holds a deep love for the Galactica and her commander. As he was a part of the original senior leadership (3rd in command as shown after Adama's near-assassination), his nostalgic comments with Tyrol indicated his withering resolve to be part of the coup. In addition, being a witness to the cruelty of Zarek with the Quorum was probably the first catalyst for his repentance.
*Gaeta, prior to his execution, is shown smoking and having drinks with Baltar. This is significant as Gaeta is rarely shown smoking during the show, and when it is shown, it was done when Gaeta finally felt free to be who he wanted to be. The first time was during his taped interview with D'Anna where he "let his hair down" so to speak. Incorporating a final smoke for Gaeta seemed appropriate to allow the audience to see a humanized Gaeta again.
*Gaeta and Baltar have a civil conversation before Gaeta's execution indicating that the two have forgiven each other for thier past transgressions: Gaeta trying to kill Baltar and Baltar's involvement with the Cylons on New Caprica.
*Baltar, despite admitting to not really liking his followers, has developed a sense of responsibility towards them as shown when he's speaking with [[Number Six#Lida|Lida]] about them and deciding to go back. This is the first time that Baltar has been shown to truly care about something besides himself indicating he may have changed somewhat.
*Dialogue in this episode indicates there are 35 civilian ships left in the fleet. This is the first time since abandoning [[New Caprica]] that significant information on the number of ships left in the fleet has emerged. This number doesn't seem to tally with the observed losses in the fleet since the first season, although the number of ships has been portrayed inconsistently throughout the miniseries and the main seasons (a figure in the mid 70s being mentioned in [[Home, Part I]]). The figure of 35 stated here- indicating a loss of half the fleet's ships- seems somewhat inconsistent with a the human population that has only declined by about one fifth since the arrival of Pegasus's crew which bolstered the number of survivors to close to 50,000. Ships being abandoned on New Caprica or afterwards may explain this strikingly low number unless it is a continuity error. If 35 is a correct figure, the other ships in the fleet must have somehow found a way to take a huge number of extra people aboard.
**It is possible that the 35 civilian ships that were mentioned were the total number of ships that had initially sided with Zarek and Gaeta, rather than the entire number of ships in the fleet. If they had been ready to jump at Zarek and Gaeta's order, their FTL drives would have been spun up. With Roslin's broadcast, though, 10 of the 35 would have switched sides again and shut down their FTLs, indicating the end of their desire to follow the coup leaders.
*Ronald D Moore has commented that ''Galactica'' is severely undermanned at this point and therefore large parts of the ship are empty, making it easier for mutineers and counter-mutineers to move around unobserved. This however is contradicted by the fact that ''Galactica'' now has the crew of ''Pegasus'' aboard and the ship has in fact been seen to be overcrowded. Even allowing for losses on New Caprica and the fact that ''Pegasus'' was undermanned, the ship should still have a larger crew compliment than when she began her journey. In orbit around New Caprica the two ships still had over 2000 personnel still serving and doubtless most if not all former crew re-enlisted after the evacuation of New Caprica. Galactica's combined crew have not been seen to have taken any substantial losses since leaving New Caprica that would leave much of the ship empty. This may be a retcon or continuity error. It should be noted, however, that a large proportion of the people on the ship following the escape from New Caprica were civilians who may have since been relocated. Furthermore, it may be that only certain areas of the ship - such as the living quarters - are overcrowded. The exact number of personnel that a fully manned ''Galactica'' should have is unknown.
*Despite [[Sharon Agathon]]'s vision-induced paranoia of a Six taking her daughter, [[Hera Agathon|Hera]]<ref>Sharon kills [[Natalie]] in "[[Sine Qua Non]]" when she sees the latter with Hera in a corridor after Sharon, President Roslin, and Caprica-Six all have a vision of a Six absconding with Hera at the opera house.</ref>, she does not protest [[Caprica-Six]] carrying Hera while Sharon supports her injured husband, [[Karl Agathon|Karl]]. It must be remembered that it was Caprica Six who aided in the escape of Athena with Hera from the baseship after she got Helo to kill her so she would resurrect on the baseship and recover their daughter. Caprica Six killed [[Sharon Valerii]] ("Boomer", who later resurrected) after Valerii tried to kill Hera for rejecting her and then Caprica Six helped get both Athena and Hera off the baseship. Ironically, Caprica Six is the only character who has been seen specifically committing infanticide (not counting Baltar's dream about Adama drowning Hera).<ref>Caprica-Six snaps a human infant's neck in her first scene in the [[Miniseries]].</ref>
*Assuming the writers maintained their preference to mirror real-world military traditions, the firing squad assembled to execute Gaeta and Zarek would likely be composed of low-level mutineers who were treated with leniency and then required to seal their loyalty (and feelings of guilt) by executing their former conspirators.
*It isn't clear whether Gaeta and Zarek were given any sort of trial before being executed. Given Adama and Roslin's preference (albeit sometimes waveringly so) for maintaining the rule of law, it would be surprising if the lead mutineers were just shot out of hand.
* Contrary to real-world military protocol and traditions, Gaeta was not cashiered prior to his execution, and faces the firing squad still wearing the rank insignia of a lieutenant.
* During Tyrol and Kelly's discussion in the arms locker, Kelly mentions that he could have told Tyrol that Cally was trouble, Tyrol's response "Thanks, it wouldn't have mattered", indicates that, even if he had known that Cally had been sleeping with Hot Dog, he would still have married her. This clearly indicates that Tyrol loved her, and the way in which he says it clearly indicates that he still does. This means that Tyrol's tirade against the Admiral after his wife's death was an act, possibly out of grief, possibly to get himself dismissed from the Deck Crew so he couldn't sabotage anything should he have any hidden programming.
* The Cylons among the fleet are, collectively, more loyal to Roslin and Adama (and more willing to forgive past conflicts) than are the humans.
*Despite Adama's obvious anger towards Gaeta, he may have been somewhat forgiving towards him at the end: Baltar is allowed to visit, it happens in Gaeta's quaters indicating that Adama didn't put him in the brig but locked him in his room and he's smoking cigarettes (which he may have had in his room) and drinks what looks like the Admiral's morning coffee which he calls the "spoils of war" indicating Adama may have given it to him. Also, Adama allows him to die wearing his uniform which he promised he wouldn't allow any of the mutineers to do.

== Questions ==

=== Answered Questions ===

* What will become of the other mutineers (Racetrack, Narcho, Seelix, etc)? Will Adama follow through with his promise of "no forgiveness"? ([[Deadlock|Answer]])
* Who will take over Gaeta's duties? ([[Deadlock|Answer]])
* What repercussions will the Quorum's assassination have on the Fleet? ([[No Exit|Answer]])
* What is the significance of the damage Tyrol discovers in the engine room? Has it been there long, or is it a result of the improper shut down of the FTL drive? Do other areas of the ship show similar signs of damage? ([[No Exit|Answer]])
* In the [[Miniseries]], Colonel Tigh tells Lt. Gaeta to "spin up FTL drives 1 and 2". Why did Tyrol's deactivation of one FTL drive stop Gaeta from ordering the other's use? Is the other FTL drive still functional?
** Answer: The ship needs both FTL drives to make a proper jump, and Tyrol pulled the [[sync coil]] between the two.
* Will Anders survive his injuries? Were Starbuck and Lampkin even successful in getting him to sickbay? ([[No Exit|Partial Answer]])
* Will Helo survive his injuries? ([[Someone to Watch Over Me|Answer]])
* How will Baltar's new-found sense of responsibility toward his flock change his behavior? ([[Deadlock|Possible Answer]])
* Will the Cylons' assistance of, and subordination to, President Roslin (and/or Colonial political leaders' fears of being associated with the failed coup d'état) secure them the citizenship and Quorum representation they seek? ([[Islanded in a Stream of Stars|Answer]])
* With Zarek dead and Lee Adama being the only surviving member of the Quorum (or one of the few surviving members, considering that two regular delegates were replaced by stand-ins), will he become the new Vice President? ([[No Exit|Possible Answer]])
* Are ''Galactica'''s computers now networked? ([[Daybreak, Part I|Answer]])
* With most of the Quorum dead, will Roslin and Adama use the attempted mutiny as a basis to declare martial law? ([[No Exit|Answer]])

=== Unanswered Questions ===

* Will Kelly be allowed to resume his duties on ''Galactica''?
* Is the same structural deficiency present near the other FTL drive?
* Will the rebel Cylons become less trusting of the humans as a result of this mutiny? Or will they be more inclined to trust certain humans, such as Roslin, since she managed to convince them to stay and follow her leadership?
* What was that device Roslin and Leoben were using to communicate with the rest of the Fleet?
* Why was Lee Adama - as opposed to Roslin - present at Zarek and Gaeta's execution?
* What will be done to the 25 ships who did not obey Roslin's order to power down their FTL drives?
* Will the FTL upgrades proceed once order has been brought back completely?
* Will there be a faction that will attempt to portray Zarek or Gaeta as martyrs?
* Do the Articles of Colonization include pre-approval language for the joining of the fabled "13th Tribe", now known to be Cylons? Such is often the case of comparable federation constitutions; the United States' former [[wikipedia:Articles of Confederation|Articles of Confederation]] included such language with respect to "Canada" (meaning Ontario) and Bermuda.
* Were Gaeta and Zarek given trials?
* How much time passed between the mutiny and the execution?
* Did Zarek subsequently target the absent members of the Quorum for assassination? Do any of them, other than Lee, live through the mutiny?

== Character Development ==
*''In the [[Miniseries]] (in the teaser) the first time we see Lt. Felix Gaeta and then-Commander Adama, Gaeta was handing him routine reports-and also unknown to them the first indications of trouble-while he was practicing his public address on the occasion of ''Galactica'''s-and his-retirement. It is of note considering what we now know of what the unimaginable future had for them:''

:'''Gaeta:''' Good morning, sir.

:'''Adama:''' Good morning.

:'''Gaeta:''' (hands him messages) Com traffic from the midwatch.

:'''Adama:''' (re: messages) Hmm. Anything interesting?

:'''Gaeta:''' Uh... Mostly housekeeping. Uh, there was one odd message we were copied on. (shows him the message) Uh... The one from Fleet headquarters there, sir. Courier officer's overdue coming back from Armistice station. They've asked for a full status report on all FTL capable ships, just in case they need someone to jump out there today, see if his ship is having mechanical problems.

:'''Adama:''' I think we're a little bit busy today, wouldn't you say so Lieutenant?

:'''Gaeta:''' (grins) Yes, sir.

:'''Adama:''' Glad we agree.

:'''Gaeta:''' And, may I take this opportunity to say that it's been both a pleasure and an honor to serve under you these past three years.

:'''Adama:''' It's my honor, Lieutenant Gaeta.

*It's also interesting to note that the first time Roslin meets a Number Two, he is trying to sabotage the fleet and she has him executed ([[Flesh and Bone]]); in this episode she and a Number Two are seen cooperating and sharing a friendly moment. It may have even been the same Number Two, as Leoben is still alive and has been prominent among the rebels.

== Official Statements ==
*[http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/entertainment_tv/2009/02/battlestar-galactica-gaeta-blood-scales-angeli.html Maureen Ryan of the Chicago Tribune interviews Michael Angeli about the episode:], The Six who sleeps with Baltar on the baseship is named [[Number Six#Lida|Lida]].

* ''[[Richard Hatch]] discusses his desire for a [[Tom Zarek]] interview prior to Zarek's execution:''

: I actually want to do the final Tom Zarek interview before he gets blown out the airlock, which they didn’t show, on the show. They had [[Felix Gaeta|Gaeta]] talk to [[Gaius Baltar|Baltar]], but you never got to see what Zarek was feeling. And I always wanted to do the final Zarek interview, you know, a little bit like the [[w:David Frost|David Frost]] interview with [[w:Richard Nixon|[Richard] Nixon]], where you could understand a little more deeply where he was coming from.

: I always wanted to go into that, just because I always felt that some people missed the point. They took sides, on who they liked more, as opposed to seeing what was really happening there. And art is not just about entertainment, not about taking sides; it’s about challenging your thinking, seeing things outside the box and expanding your mind, and seeing things from a larger viewpoint.<ref>{{cite_web|url=http://geeksdreamgirl.com/2009/08/13/j-interviews-richard-hatch-part-2/|title=J Interviews Richard Hatch Part II|date=13 August 2009|accessdate=14 August 2009|last=|first=|format=|language=}}</ref>

== Noteworthy Dialogue ==
*'''Tom Zarek''' (ending a joke to Racetrack): . . . shall we save the kids? And the attorney says, "Frak them". And the priest says, "Do we have time?"
:'''Racetrack''' (after both laugh): "You're gross."
*'''''Tom Zarek''' delivers his ultimatum to '''Laura Roslin''''':
:'''Zarek''': This is Tom Zarek, President of the Twelve Colonies. It's over, Laura. Saul Tigh was killed attempting to escape. Bill Adama was tried and found guilty of his crimes. A firing squad executed him this morning. It's done, Laura. You want to think about the people of this fleet now, and surrender.
:'''Roslin''': No. Not now. Not ever. Do you hear me? I will use every cannon, every bomb, every bullet, every weapon I have down to my own eyeteeth to end you. I swear it!''' ''I'm coming for all of you!'''''
*'''''Felix Gaeta''' is disturbed by the sight of the slaughtered Quorum delegates:
:'''Gaeta''': We--we had the truth on our side. Now . . . now . . .
:'''Zarek''': The truth is told by whoever is left standing.
*'''''Lee Adama''' has just thrown a grenade towards the marines guarding the Cylon Prisoners, allowing him and '''Kara Thrace''' to kill them, after which Kara takes cover and Lee looks at her both amused and pleased with himself:
:'''Lee Adama''': ''walking forward and picking up the Grenade'' I never pulled the pin.
:'''Kara Thrace''': Ok, that is not funny.
:'''Lee Adama''': It would have been if you had thought of it.
:'''Kara Thrace''': No, still not funny.
*'''''Laura Roslin''''' broadcasting to the fleet:
:'''Roslin''': This is President Laura Roslin speaking from the Cylon baseship. Felix Gaeta has seized ''Galactica'' by force. The Cylons were defending themselves. They will not harm you. I repeat, the Cylons will not harm you. I am asking all ships' captains not to jump. Do not jump! Shut down your FTL drives!
*'''''Felix Gaeta''' is about to be executed for his crimes:
:'''Gaeta''': (referring to the pain from his lost leg) It stopped.
*'''''Gaeta''' pours himself and Baltar a cup of what looks like Admiral Adama's coffee and Baltar looks at it confused:
:'''Gaeta''': Spoils of war.
*'''''Adama''' regains control of CIC and captures '''Gaeta''' and '''Zarek''':
:'''Adama''': ''(to a CIC crewmember)'' Connect me with the President.
:'''Crewmember''': Right away Admiral.
:''(Adama puts down his gun and picks up the phone)''
:'''Adama''': Madam President, this is the Admiral! Stand down! I repeat ''Galactica'' secure, stand down!
:''(Roslin, Baltar and the Cylons are clearly relieved with Roslin and an Eight even crying)''
:'''Roslin''': ''(tearfully)'' Bill!

== Guest Stars ==
* [[Mark Sheppard]] as [[Romo Lampkin]]
* [[Richard Hatch]] as [[Tom Zarek]]
* [[Sebastian Spence]] as Lieutenant [[Noel Allison|Noel "Narcho" Allison]]
* [[Bodie Olmos]] as Lieutenant [[Brendan Costanza|Brendan "Hot Dog" Costanza]]
* [[Leah Cairns]] as Lieutenant [[Margaret Edmondson|Margaret "Racetrack" Edmondson]]
* [[Jennifer Halley]] as Ensign [[Diana Seelix|Diana "Hardball" Seelix]]
* [[Ty Olsson]] as Captain [[Aaron Kelly]]
* [[Derek Delost]] as Specialist [[Vireem]]
* [[Mike Dopud]] as Specialist [[Gage]]
* [[Colin Corrigan]] as Sergeant [[Allan Nowart]]
* [[Alexandra Thomas]] as [[Hera Agathon]]
* [[Callum Keith Rennie]] as [[Number Two]] / [[Leoben Conoy]]
* [[Rekha Sharma]] as [[Tory Foster]]
* [[Andrew McIlroy]] as [[Jacob Cantrell]]
* [[Marilyn Norry]] as [[Reza Chronides]]
* [[Judith Maxie]] as [[Unnamed civilians in the Fleet (RDM)#Picon Delegate|Picon Delegate]]
* [[Iris Paluly]] as Speaking Delegate [[Dahlia]]
* [[Veena Sood]] as [[Unnamed civilians in the Fleet (RDM)#Quorum Delegate|Quorum Delegate]]
* [[Adrian Holmes]] as Marine [[Parr]]

== References ==
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Battle of Kobol (TRS)

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WarGrowlmon15: The final skirmish part adds three Centurions

:''For information on a battle over [[Kobol (TOS)|Kobol]] from the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]], see [[Battle of Kobol (TOS)]].''

{{Battle Data
|name=Battle of Kobol
|image=DoctorStrangeLove.jpg
|description=Cylon basestar destroyed by a tactical nuclear weapon, in orbit of Kobol
|conflict=[[Cylon Attack|Second Cylon War]]
|date=[[Re-Imagined Series Timeline|Day 50-51]]
|place=[[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]], nearby space
|result=[[Colonial]] victory
|combatant1=Remnants of the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Colonial Fleet]]
|combatant2=[[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]]
|co1=Commander [[William Adama]]<br>Colonel [[Saul Tigh]]
|co2=[[Basestar command]]
|strength1=''[[Galactica]]'', approx 35-40 [[Viper (RDM)|Vipers]] and 5 [[Raptor|Raptors]]
|strength2=2 [[Basestar (RDM)|basestars]], associated [[Raiders]] and at least one [[Heavy Raider]], fixed anti-aircraft emplacement (on Kobol), at least 8 [[Cylon Centurion]]s on Kobol, 10 Cylon Centurions on ''Galactica''
|shiploss1=2 Raptors
|shiploss2=1 basestar over Kobol, unknown number of Raiders, 1 Heavy Raider
|casualties1=10 killed on [[Raptor 3]], 4 on [[Raptor 1]], 11 killed in Cylon boarding of ''Galactica''. <ref>This number comes from the [[survivor count]] shown in the opening credits of "[[Fragged]]". However, this number is barely sufficient to account for the many bodies seen in throughout the hallways.</ref>
|casualties2=Loss of at least 8 Centurions on Kobol, 10 Centurions on ''Galactica''
|prev=[[Battle for the Tylium Asteroid]]
|next=[[Skirmish at the Farm]]
|series=RDM
}}

The '''Battle of Kobol''' occurs when ''Galactica'' stumbles on the mythological human homeworld of [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]] and attempts to discover its secrets.

== Discovery ==

During a reconnaissance flight, [[Sharon Valerii|Sharon "Boomer" Valerii]] and [[Alex Quartararo|Alex "Crashdown" Quartararo]] return to ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' with information on an unusual habitable planet. Though Quartararo originally proposes this planet to be the sought-after [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]], a strangely attentive Valerii explains that this is something "much more important". Investigation of the ruins and features of the planet confirm that ''Galactica'' has accidentally discovered the original human homeworld of [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]], detailed extensively in the [[Sacred Scrolls|scriptures]] of the [[Lords of Kobol]]. Commander [[William Adama|Adama]] directs three [[Raptor]]s to conduct a thorough surface survey of the planet, particularly to note whether the Fleet could settle there.

When the Raptors [[FTL|jump]] into Kobol’s orbit, they come into contact with a squadron of [[Raider (RDM)|Raiders]]. One Raptor is destroyed when it collides with a Raider, and a second jumps away to safety. The [[Raptor 1|third Raptor]] is shot down and crash-lands in a marsh on the planet’s surface, in the vicinity the ruined Kobol [[Opera House]].

Since the orbiting [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]] prohibits rescue of the surviving crashed Raptor crew, Lieutenant [[Kara Thrace]] suggests the use of the captured Raider ([[TRS]]: "[[You Can't Go Home Again]]") to sneak into the basestar with a nuclear warhead. The Raider would jump to the basestar, fly inside on auto-pilot after Thrace abandons ship, and then the weapon would be detonated. With the basestar destroyed, Thrace would be picked up by a waiting Raptor and the stranded survivors on Kobol would be recovered.

Adama agrees to the plan, but intervention by President [[Laura Roslin]] leads Thrace to disobey orders and to divert the Raider to [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] in search of the [[Arrow of Apollo]]. While on a test flight—with [[Lee Adama]] as her wingman—Thrace activates the Raider’s FTL drive and jumps back to Colonial space, abandoning ''Galactica'' and leaving her crew without means by which to infiltrate the enemy basestar. This development infuriates Commander Adama, forcing him to remove President Roslin from power, and to use alternative means of getting the warhead onto the enemy capital ship. Consequently, he orders a Raptor to be equipped with a [[Cylon transponder]] (to fool the Cylons into thinking that the Raptor is a captured vessel) and directs Valerii, with [[Margaret Edmondson|Margaret "Racetrack" Edmondson]] as her [[ECO]], to fly into the basestar to deploy the warhead ([[TRS]]: "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]", "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]").

When Valerii and Edmondson arrive in orbit of Kobol, the transponder proves to function as intended, and the Raptor enters the basestar without Cylon resistance. However, once inside a problem with weapon deployment forces them to land within a habitable area and manually release the weapon. While working to disconnect the warhead from the couplings that bind it to the Raptor, Valerii encounters several [[Humanoid Cylon|Cylon]] [[Number Eight|copies of herself]]. The copies attempt to talk, and repeatedly profess their love to her, but the frightened Valerii—having successfully decoupled the warhead—flees to the Raptor and instigates a hasty departure, much to Edmondson's bewilderment. The copies detect the nuclear warhead and approach it, but nevertheless allow the device to detonate, engulfing them and their vessel.

Upon their return to ''Galactica'', both Valerii and Edmondson are summoned to the CIC for commendation. As Adama approaches Valerii in congratulation, she retrieves her side-arm and shoots him twice at point-blank range—her latent Cylon programming having been further activated during her time aboard the basestar ([[TRS]]: "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]").

== Scattering of the Fleet ==

In the chaos caused by the shooting, another basestar suddenly appears, and Colonel [[Saul Tigh]] assumes charge of ''Galactica'' with Captain [[Aaron Kelly]] serving as his second in command. Caught by surprise and facing certain destruction, Tigh orders the Fleet to jump to [[Emergency Jump Coordinates|emergency coordinates]] (pre-planned in standard procedure by Lieutenant [[Felix Gaeta]]).

While relaying the emergency jump order to the civilian ships, Gaeta neglects to update their jump coordinates, and the Fleet departs with data not fitting the local space-time conditions. Thus, after escaping the Cylons, ''Galactica'' finds herself removed from the rest of the Fleet, which has ended up in a separate and unknown location. Meanwhile, the available medical staff attends to the near-fatally wounded Adama ([[Dr. Cottle]] is overseeing patients on another ship), and Marines drag a confused and hysterical Valerii to the [[brig]] on Tigh’s orders.

To determine the co-ordinates of the Fleet, Gaeta devises a dangerous but necessary plan. He networks the FTL computer to the Navigation, Damage Control, and Fire Control computers aboard ''Galactica'', so that it will only take 10 minutes (as opposed to 12 hours if said computers are not linked) to compute the Fleet's location. However, not only will this involve jumping back to their previous location, where they will most certainly be ambushed by an awaiting basetsar, but networking the computers will make ''Galactica'' susceptible to Cylon infiltration. Knowing that the Cylons will attempt to penetrate any network they set up, Gaeta erects four software firewalls to slow the progress of the anticipated electronic attack.

Meanwhile, on Kobol, the downed Raptor crew - lead by an inexperienced Crashdown - attends as best they can to their injured. [[Socinus]] is in especially critical condition, having suffered severe lung damage from smoke inhalation. However, they are soon attacked by Cylons and flee into the woods for cover.

Back on ''Galactica'', final preparations are made to effectively deal with the imminent battle, and the battlestar jumps to her previous location where, sure enough, she is attacked by the lurking basestar. As Gaeta works to calculate the Fleet’s end-point coordinates, the basestar deploys hundreds of Raiders against ''Galactica'' and [[Viper]]s are scrambled in defense of the vessel. With Lee Adama as squadron leader, the air wing engages the oncoming wave of Raiders and a chaotic skirmish erupts. During the course of the ensuing battle, a [[Heavy Raider]] carrying a Centurion boarding party advances in ''Galactica's'' direction, but Adama spots the craft and assails it with a team of other Viper pilots. After briefly trading fire with the Vipers, the Heavy Raider veers into ''Galactica's'' firing solution and crash-lands into the [[Galactica Museum|converted]] starboard [[flight pod]], depressurizing it.

Gaeta successfully obtains the Fleet's coordinates and disconnects the network, but not before a [[Cylon computer virus|Cylon virus]] sent by a Raider infects one of the networked systems unknown to the command staff. With the crew having completed what they set out to do, Tigh orders all Vipers to retreat and the battlestar jumps away once more ([[TRS]]: "[[Scattered]]").

== Cylon Boarding ==

After successfully reuniting with the Fleet, ''Galactica's'' power systems shut down unexpectedly. [[James Lyman|Jammer]] reports to Lee Adama that the phones are working but are being jammed with unfamiliar communications – as such, they cannot contact damage control.

While crews attempt to orient themselves in the darkened battlestar and commence work to re-power the ship, the crashed Heavy Raider in ''Galactica's'' starboard flight pod deploys ten [[Centurion]]s equipped with heavy armor to endure most weapons fire. As the Cylons make their way into the ship, Gaeta notes that [[Cylon computer virus|a virus]] has infected some of the ship's computers while they were networked, and that this is the likely cause of the power outage. He quickly assembles teams to clean out the infection.

When Apollo, [[Louanne Katraine|Kat]], [[Brendan Costanza|Hot Dog]], and [[Flyboy]] are attacked by a marauding Centurion, Flyboy is killed before they are rescued by [[Marine]]s. After learning that the ship was boarded, Tigh orders teams of Marines assembled to deal with the Cylon menace. Having [[Brenik|previous experience]] with this type of attack, he instructs the teams not to defend the gun magazines, but to try to keep the Centurions from reaching [[Auxiliary Fire Control]] and [[Aft Damage Control]]. Should the Centurions reach said areas, they will neutralize the crew by venting the ship's atmosphere, and then turn ''Galactica's'' guns on the unarmed Fleet.

Marine forces engage the Centurions throughout the ship, destroying all but three and securing Auxiliary Fire Control but are cut-off from Aft Damage Control. However, a team led by Lee Adama, consisting, among others, of [[Collishaw]], [[Twinam]], and Jammer, reaches Aft Damage Control after communicating with Colonel Tigh and eliminate the Centurions with their last remaining rounds. Meanwhile, Gaeta and his team complete the task of cleaning out the virus, and are able to restore power and communications. They are successful for the time being, but the virus leaves behind a [[Cylon_computer_virus#The_Logic_Bomb|logic bomb]] that returns to haunt the ship [[Flight of the Phoenix|months later]] ([[TRS]]: "[[Valley of Darkness]]").

== Raptor Team Rescue ==

On Kobol - shortly after [[Socinus]] is euthanized due to his mortal injuries and [[Tarn]] is cut down by enemy fire - Crashdown and the Raptor team locate a group of three Centurions, and notice them cannibalizing a downed Heavy Raider. After some additional recon, they conclude that the automatons are using the vessel’s parts to build an anti-aircraft battery by which to destroy any [[SAR|search and rescue]] craft sent to find the stranded team. The battery is linked to a [[DRADIS]] dish set up some distance from the battery that is used to track incoming Raptors. Meanwhile on ''Galactica'', Lee Adama begins preparations to rescue the downed Raptor crew from Kobol, and leads a team with two Raptors as part of the rescue team.

Crashdown develops a foolhardy plan to attack the command and control console at the launcher by flanking the Centurions and sending Petty Officer [[Cally Henderson]] on a possibly suicidal diversionary feint. As the team prepares their attack, they discover there are five Centurions, not three as initially counted by Doctor [[Gaius Baltar]]. Chief [[Galen Tyrol]] points out that the two Centurions that guarded the dish had moved to the launcher, leaving the DRADIS dish completely unguarded. If the team can cover the one kilometer distance to the dish quick enough to destroy it, Tyrol reasons, they can render the launcher tactically worthless. Additionally, if they take this course of action, the team would not have to face the Cylons head on.

As the team detect the sonic booms caused by Raptors entering the atmosphere - indicating the arrival of their rescuers - Crashdown panics and negates Tyrol's new plan. He orders Henderson to initiate the diversion, but she freezes in terror. When Crashdown threatens to kill her for disobeying a direct order, Baltar shoots him in the back, killing him. The gunshot alerts the Centurions to the team's presence and they open fire on their position.

With the Cylons nearly on top of them, Tyrol hastily orders everyone flee for the DRADIS dish and the team fights a running battle with the Centurions. During the chase, [[Diana Seelix]] is shot in the leg by an approaching Centurion, but is dragged to safety by Henderson. As the Cylon battery fires on the incoming Raptors, Tyrol successfully destroys the DRADIS dish with a rocket launcher, breaking the missiles' lock on the Raptors.

As the ground team is pinned down and nearly defeated, Tyrol makes a last stand by openly attacking the Centurions with his pistol. The Centurions are unexpectedly obliterated by a missile fired from Lee Adama's Raptor. The Raptors land in a clearing and the survivors are returned to ''Galactica''. The survivors cover up the circumstances of Crashdown's death, telling Adama that he died saving them ([[TRS]]: "[[Fragged]]").

== The Final Skirmish ==

With most of the Cylon presence eliminated from Kobol, Roslin and [[Laura Roslin faction|her followers]] jump safely to the planet, and using clues from the [[Book of Pythia]] and knowledge of Colonial scripture from [[Sharon Agathon|an Eight who abandoned her fellow Cylons]], they start down the path to the [[Tomb of Athena]]. The priestess [[Elosha]] finds what appears to be gravestones but instead are mines, and is killed. Three remaining Centurions ambush the landing party from a nearby cliff, killing one and pinning down the rest. [[Karl Agathon]], Thrace, and Lee Adama take out two of the attackers. During the skirmish, the Eight breaks away and heads for the grenade launcher. She reaches the launcher and uses it to destroy the last Centurion, and then drops the weapon without a fight, surprising Adama and earning a little more of his trust ([[TRS]]: "[[Home, Part I]]").

== Aftermath ==

After the skirmish, a recovered Commander William Adama attempts to reunite the fleet and leads a landing party of his own to Kobol, where he makes amends with Roslin, his son, and Thrace. United, they find the Tomb of Athena and a map to [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]] ([[TRS]]: "[[Resistance]]", "[[Home, Part I]]", "[[Home, Part II]]").

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User talk:BlueResistance

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== A Note on Language/Aerelon/Grace Park ==

It is true that Grace Park is a fluent speaker of Korean, but her English--either as Sharon Valerii or as herself in interviews--bears no trace of a Korean accent whatsoever. I am married to a native Korean speaker, have friends and colleagues who speak Korean either as their first or second language, and have been studying the language for a few years myself, so I am absolutely certain that Korean has no bearing on what might or might not be considered an Aerelon accent.

On a somewhat smaller matter, there is no accepted version of English called "General English," with a capital G. I am willing to accept a lower case g, "general English," to indicate "common sense" notions about the accent/group of accents.

:Please, do me the courtesy of replying to my comments before altering [[Language in the Twelve Colonies]] unilaterally. --[[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 02:45, 19 October 2005 (EDT)

::I'm sorry, I'm new to this system and I didn't see your comments or the "Languages of the Twelve Colonies" talk page until after I had made the changes. I'm still trying to figure out exactly what goes where.

:::No harm, no foul. --[[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 02:48, 19 October 2005 (EDT)

Can I just respond to you here, for now? It seems more convenient. You said that Grace Park's bilingualism would come up eventually. I would recommend limiting discussions of her bilingualism to the actress' bio page. The label "Korean" doesn't meaningfully describe anything that's going on when Sharon/Boomer is speaking. My own Korean is getting good enough that I'm approaching true "bilingual" status, but nobody would use "Korean" to describe my English.

:It's better to have the conversation on the relevant article's talk page, so that others can participate. I'm copying your comments there once again. Tip: to sign your comments, use <nowiki>--~~~~</nowiki>. --[[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 02:55, 19 October 2005 (EDT)

== Thanks! ==

Thanks for reverting the idiotic blanking vandalism done recently! -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]]</sup> 05:12, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
:My pleasure, but sorry I got around to fixing only two or three--some problems came up here at home. --[[User:BlueResistance|BlueResistance]] 12:10, 30 December 2010 (EDT)
:: No need to apologize, I was able to get the rest. Hope all is well! :) -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]]</sup> 19:22, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

== Punctuation ==

A comma is after the second quotation mark, not before, when the reason there are quotation marks is that it's an episode title, as this makes the marks part of an object not a quote. A comma is not used before the last term in a series when it's a simple series according to AP Style, which I follow in my work as web editor for my university's CIT department. -- [[User:Noneofyourbusiness|Noneofyourbusiness]] 10:12, 11 June 2011 (EDT)

:As you noted, AP style avoids serial commas before conjunctions in a series of simple terms. However, Battlestar Wiki is not governed by AP style rules: it isn't journalism, nor is there anything in the Standards and Conventions regarding AP style. Therefore, a writer may follow AP style on this point or s/he may not, based on her/his preference. I won't second guess your choice in this matter. But, you are wrong about commas and periods inside or outside quotation marks and AP style--even AP style requires them inside the quotation marks, with no exceptions for the titles of creative works. Here is a small selection of websites covering AP style, including at least one with samples of creative works in quotation marks:

http://www.brandeis.edu/communications/webcommunications/images/apstyle.pdf
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/735/02/
http://www.sc.edu/webpresence/editorial_guide/punctuation.html

Placing commas and periods inside quotation marks is not just an AP rule; it is standard across the majority of American styles, unless there is a chance of ambiguity, which would not be a risk here. You're confusing American style with British style (a.k.a. "logical punctuation").

HOWEVER, bringing the discussion back to Battlestar Wiki, the specific [[Battlestar_Wiki:Standards_and_Conventions/Prose#Episode.2C_TV.2C_and_Movie_Title_Formats|Standards and Conventions for this wiki]] state, "Contrary to standard American punctuation rules, place commas and periods after the quotation mark." Therefore, you were correct about the commas in this case, but not for the reason you thought. --[[User:BlueResistance|BlueResistance]], 23:05, 12 June 2011 (UTC).
: I didn't say the quote thing was AP. Anyway, I'm glad it's resolved. -- [[User:Noneofyourbusiness|Noneofyourbusiness]] 19:16, 12 June 2011 (EDT)

==Aft Damage Control==

Hi BlueResistance ... I see what you did to my edits on [[Aft Damage Control]] and I think they look great - thanks for cleaning it up as nicely as you did, I agree that it looks better now than my last edit - [[User:Flatulist|Flatulist]] 22:03, 17 April 2012 (EDT)

==Spammers==

Since you and I are being targeted in that last spat of spam, I protected our user and talk pages. As of now, only admin can modify the user pages and no new or unregistered people can edit our talk pages. This should prevent or minimize the risk of that happening again. --[[User:Talos|Talos]] 07:57, 7 October 2012 (EDT)

== Osiris ==

I know. It's weird. But I keep hearing it referenced as a Battlestar in official media. To me, it isn't, but I asked about it on the official B&C Facebook page, which I think is run by one of BSG Wiki's founders, I got a reply back stating it's written on the ship's patch. When I went back to episode 4, I can barely see "battlestar" written on it, but the ship is too dark to make out the ship's name. Curiously, many of the characters are filmed from their right side.

I've put in an inquiry to the ANOVOS page (who made the B&C uniforms), to see what they did with the patch.

Maybe perhaps in canon it might be an earlier "battlestar" built before the onset of the war? It's been said on Serge's Twitter that the Colonials were already using that designation before the war.

-- [[user:Frylock86|Frylock86]]

== Great work! ==

I would like to congratulate you on your good work in maintaining such things as the airdates and so on. I really appreciate it.--[[User:DrWho42|DrWho42]] 22:13, 23 March 2013 (EDT)
:My pleasure! -- [[User:BlueResistance|BlueResistance]] 09:49, 24 March 2013 (EDT)

== My recent edits ==

Let me know on my talk page when you get this with your response. I didn't get that message from you until a few minutes ago so sorry about that. You can erase the Delphi Skirmish page if you want, your probably right about that, but the others should probably stay. Most of my other edits that are not new pages are adding information where its lacking and in some pages like the Sharon Valerii page adding the episode tags. I wrote most of the information where those tags had to go myself back when the episode came out (I also created some of the battle pages such as the Battle of the Colony) and forgot to add them then. I noticed it and fixed it that's all. On the Kobol battle page I added a bit more where it seemed warranted. I actually considered adding the Skirmish on Kobol as part of that battle but then I decided to make it separate since I figured there must be a reason it wasn't added there as part of that battle. Not too sure about the Skirmish With a Raider page so if you think it should go do it but I thought it should be added since they ''did'' battle that Raider. The one with Scar should stay since that was kinda a major skirmish. I added Hera's kidnapping since that was a major event that led up to the Battle of the Colony. The one at the farm was kinda major since that's where they met Simon for the first time and its more than just a hand-to-hand fight so I'd like that kept if possible. I figured it'd be alright to add the skirmishes since the one over the Red Moon is there so its obviously not forbidden. I'm just on a BSG craze lately and decided to add some stuff. That's it though besides any edits to existing pages I feel need to be done. As for the multiple edits to the pages I created that was mostly me going back and editing ''myself'' where I noticed mistakes when I read the completed product. My computer is giving me a hard time with displaying the finished work and I can't get preview pages. I actually have to save then hit Back to the original opened page to see what I've done all the time. Believe it or not I've got Rollback rights on the Kane Chronicles wiki due to my contributions there (don't really understand that) and was promoted to Administrator myself on the Gears of War wiki. Not sure how ''that'' happened and I don't really do much more than I used to do as I don't really understand that role.--[[User:WarGrowlmon15|WarGrowlmon15]] 02:52, 12 August 2014 (EDT)
:Please don't explain all of this. Just allow your work to stand or fall on its own. More importantly, take a short break and give other users of the Wiki a chance to catch up. -- [[User:BlueResistance|BlueResistance]] 07:39, 12 August 2014 (EDT)
::Well I ''am'' done for now. Like I said the most I'll do is minor edits to existing pages like I've done in the past. I'm all done adding new pages. I would've liked it though if you'd responded to my thoughts about why I did the things I did. I wrote that because I wanted your opinion on it.--[[User:WarGrowlmon15|WarGrowlmon15]] 12:30, 12 August 2014 (EDT)
:::I will respond in detail, while reviewing and editing individual contributions (and hopefully other users will contribute, too). A user talk page isn't the place to go into every specific issue with other articles. Trying to comment on everything in one massive paragraph at once would be too time consuming (one of the main issues here) and overwhelming from both a writing perspective and a reading perspective. --[[User:BlueResistance|BlueResistance]] 12:50, 12 August 2014 (EDT)
::::I actually ''did'' put some of my thoughts on the talk page for the Skirmish With Scar article when I wrote it but no one's responded. I'm just curious if your going to delete the Delphi Museum one. I know you don't like it and probably have a point (and in the paragraph I said go ahead if you want to) but its still up. All I want is the Scar, Farm, Kobol and Kidnapping of Hera pages to stay. I think they're important enough to the plot to warrant that much. I don't care if they're edited, go ahead and do that, I ''welcome'' it but I just don't want all my work deleted.--[[User:WarGrowlmon15|WarGrowlmon15]] 13:37, 12 August 2014 (EDT)
:::::Unfortunately, you aren't understanding the need to step back and allow others the time they require to look through your work, or my request that you avoid discussing individual articles here. I'll have to put up a block. Remember that this is only temporary. -- [[User:BlueResistance|BlueResistance]] 17:41, 12 August 2014 (EDT)

== My Block ==

I'm also posting this here since I'm not sure if your watching my talk page. If you are, sorry and just let me know. I've never seen Crapica and I don't do episode summaries so I won't be doing Blood and Chrome. I've tried to add information on pages where it was needed by that's it. Oh and you said the block was till Friday or Saturday. It's Monday and it kinda pissed me off especially as you've left a broken link on a page for days that's easily fixed and I can't do anything about it. I told you I was basically done. All I was doing when you blocked me was making a few of the battle pages that were just one giant summary into pages that looked more like most of the battle pages on this wiki. They weren't really up to standards.--[[User:WarGrowlmon15|WarGrowlmon15]] 11:51, 18 August 2014 (EDT)

== Redundant Links ==

We don't put links in each section here that are the same??? Sorry, I didn't realize that. I'm a major contributor on ''many'' wikis including this one and actually hold the position of Administrator (their version of Chief) on another one due to all my contributions. On the other ones, including the one where I'm Administrator we put links like that. Or at least no one's said any different. I thought that was fine. Oh and thanks for fixing the Battle of the Asteroid Fields thing. That ''is'' a better name and it is still at least mostly my work.--[[User:WarGrowlmon15|WarGrowlmon15]] 11:54, 18 August 2014 (EDT)

User talk:BlueResistance

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Sharon Valerii

2014-08-18T15:45:46Z

WarGrowlmon15: It was more than a single shot. There's clearly the sound of more than one shot and Boomer is hit more than once. Fix the wording if you want but its more than one

:''This article concerns the first [[Number Eight]] Cylon that served on ''Galactica'' with the callsign of "Boomer."
:''For information on the Eight discovered on Caprica and the wife of [[Karl Agathon]] with the callsign of "Athena," see [[Sharon Agathon]].''
:''For information on the [[Original Series]] character, see [[Boomer (TOS)]].''
{{Character Data
|photo=Sharon.PNG
|age=
|colony= [[The Colony|Cylon Homeworld]]; she has a fabricated background of being from [[Troy]]
|birthname=
|servicen= T-990429
|callsign= Boomer
|seen= Miniseries
|death=1. Shot by [[Cally]]<br/> 2. Neck broken by [[Caprica Six]]<br/> 3. Shot by [[Sharon Agathon]] (death final) ([[Daybreak, Part II]])
|parents= None biologically (allegedly [[Abraham Valerii|Abraham]] and [[Katherine Valerii]]); she was created by the [[Final Five]]
|siblings= None in the usual way (allegedly one, per photo in "[[Downloaded]]"); all other [[Number Eight]] Cylons are her identical sisters, and the other numbers are considered siblings as well
|children=
|marital status= Formerly in a relationship with [[Galen Tyrol]] and later [[John Cavil]]
|role= Cylon infiltrator, saboteur; [[Raptor]] pilot
|rank= Formerly lieutenant, junior grade
|serial=T-990429 <br/> 312743<ref name="serial">This serial is based off her dogtags [[:Image:Id_wings.jpg|pictured here]]. Interestingly, this is the same serial number given to QMX by the studios for [[Sharon Agathon]]'s dog tags. In the episode "[[Water]]", Valerii looks at the ID tag on her uniform jacket, which reads "Lieutenant S. VALERII T-990429". This suggests that, like [[Karl Agathon]], that the prop tags and the scripts didn't always match up perfectly.</ref>
|actor= [[Grace Park]]
|cylon= y
|name= Sharon Valerii
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'''Sharon "Boomer" Valerii''' is a copy of the [[humanoid Cylon]] model [[Number Eight]] who is initially planted as a "sleeper" agent in the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Colonial Fleet]]. She is unaware of her Cylon nature and serves for two years as Lieutenant Valerii on ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'', where she is assigned as a [[Raptor]] pilot and also engaged in a secret relationship with Chief [[Galen Tyrol|Tyrol]]. After the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attack]], her underlying programming repeatedly emerges which leads her to unconscious acts of sabotage. Growing confusion about her true self result in a deep depression and a failed suicide attempt. After Valerii returns from a successful mission to destroy a Cylon [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]], she shoots Commander [[William Adama]] in the chest, wounding him critically. She is incarcerated in the [[brig]] and soon afterward is killed by [[Cally Henderson]].

Her consciousness is downloaded and she is reborn in another body. Subsequently, she experiences severe problems integrating into Cylon society and long considers herself more human than Cylon. She eventually works together with [[Caprica-Six]] in an attempt to change Cylon popular opinion about humans and she emerges as one of the Cylon leaders jointly responsible for the end of the occupation of the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]] and later the Cylon occupation on [[New Caprica]]. Following the failure on New Caprica, Valerii abandons her hopes for coexistence with humans and she denounces her past on ''Galactica''. She is assigned to watch Hera Agathon, but when Hera's mother comes to rescue her, Boomer tries to kill her and is killed by Caprica Six allowing Agathon and Caprica Six to escape while Boomer downloads to a new body again. However, while she feels that she belongs to Cylon society, she is not fully integrated into it and relatively isolated among her peers, particularly from the rest of her model's line as her vote to lobotomize the [[Raider (RDM)|Cylon Raiders]] leads to a [[Cylon Civil War]].

She is engaged in a relationship with the [[Number One]] leading the pro-lobotomization faction of the Cylons and is a member of that faction although she does express some misgivings about their actions. She is also aware of the identity of at least one member of the Final Five: Ellen Tigh and has known since before even D'Anna found out as Cavil trusts her and let her in on the secret. She eventually helps Ellen escape as part of a plan to infiltrate ''Galactica'' and is locked in the Cylon brig on arrival.

Later when she is prisoner on ''Galactica'' she escapes, beats Athena badly, has sexual relations with Helo and kidnaps Hera, but redeems herself somewhat by saving Hera from dissection and helping her escape to her parents. Boomer is finally killed by Athena and with resurrection destroyed, her death is final.

== Biography ==

=== Life on Galactica ===
Valerii is a "sleeper" agent, unsuspecting of her Cylon status. As far as she is aware, she was born on the mining colony of [[Troy (RDM)|Troy]], as the daughter of a family from [[Aerilon]] ([[Flesh and Bone]]). Troy itself was destroyed in an unexplained cataclysm, allowing Valerii's background to be established as that of an orphan. Following her arrival on board ''Galactica'', she enters into a relationship with the ship's Chief Petty Officer [[Galen Tyrol]], which is against military protocols concerning fraternization between officers and non-officers. Whether this is unintentional or a subconscious reaction to her Cylon programming remains unclear.

As a rookie pilot, she keeps missing the trap and putting holes into the deck. Admiral Adama calls her to his office alongside Colonel Tigh and talks with her about why she keeps doing that and instead of kicking her out of the service, he gives her advice and another chance. Boomer thanks him and tells him she owes him one and will pay him back someday. Adama says a lot of people owe him one but a lot never pay it back but Boomer promises to pay him back someday when it really means something. ([[Daybreak, Part II]])

At the time of the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attack]], Valerii is flying her Raptor to [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] with ''Galactica''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> last remaining operational [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] squadron, when they learn of the attacks and attempt to engage two [[Raider (RDM)|Cylon Raiders]]. However, the Viper squadron is destroyed, and the Raptor is damaged while trying to escape, forcing Valerii and her [[ECO]] [[Karl Agathon]] to make an emergency landing on [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] in [[Raptor 312]].

After repairing the Raptor they are mobbed by desperate civilians and undertake a rescue operation. Lifting a number of children, Valerii states there is room for three adults. Valerii holds a lottery for the three seats. When the last number is called, Agathon chooses to give up his place aboard the Raptor so that Doctor [[Gaius Baltar]] can be rescued as well ([[Miniseries]]). Helo later manages to make it back to ''Galactica'' with the help of Starbuck and [[Sharon Agathon|another Sharon]] months later. ([[Home, Part I]])

After being found by [[Laura Roslin]]'s group of stranded military and civilian ships, Valerii works within the new civilian [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]], assisting Roslin's attempts to gather other stranded civilian ships in the space surrounding Caprica. She finds a number of ships critical to the fledgling Fleet's survival, such as a fuel tanker. After the newly assembled Fleet, led by ''Galactica'', leaves the solar system of the Colonies, Valerii aids in other critical acts, including the discovery of a [[tylium]]-rich asteroid, replete with an active Cylon mine ([[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]), and locating a source of water to replenish the Fleet's lost supply after the sabotage of ''Galactica''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> stores ([[Water]]).

=== Acts of sabotage ===
[[image:sharontyrol.jpg|170px|left|Valerii and Chief [[Tyrol]].|thumb]]
At the same time as she is supporting the human Fleet, Valerii's underlying Cylon subroutines periodically emerge. Her Cylon programming is the cause of the sabotage of ''Galactica'''s water tanks, something she planned herself. However, her human side starts to emerge and prevents her from dying in the sabotage as [[John Cavil|Cavil]] had wanted with Cavil bringing out her Cylon programing using an elephant statue ([[Water]], [[The Plan]]). Later, she possibly assists a copy of [[Aaron Doral]] to perform a suicide bombing by leaving a hatch open for him. The Doral copy nearly kills Commander Adama and Colonel [[Saul Tigh|Tigh]] ([[Litmus]], [[The Plan]]).

Valerii finds herself soaking wet, after she awakes to her human personality shortly after the bombs used to destroy ''Galactica'''s water tanks were planted. She becomes increasingly concerned and starts to question her true self. Her worry increases when she experiences a certain attachment to a captured [[Raider (RDM)|Cylon Raider]], and is able to give insight into how it can be properly assessed and understood ("Water", "[[Six Degrees of Separation]]", "[[Flesh and Bone]]"). Her concerns are further elevated when, following the bombing by Doral, ''Galactica''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> [[Master-at-Arms]], Sergeant [[Hadrian]], suspects her and Chief [[Galen Tyrol]] of Cylon complicity ([[Litmus]]).

Tyrol distances himself from Valerii after this incident, and he later ends their relationship following the arrest of Specialist [[Socinus]] (Litmus). Facing Tyrol's suspicions concerning her activities immediately before the bombing, Valerii finds herself emotionally isolated and stressed. She takes the [[Cylon detector]] test created by Dr. [[Gaius Baltar|Baltar]], but he hides her positive test result in fear that once discovered, she might immediately retaliate and kill him ([[Flesh and Bone]]). Valerii finds short solace in Baltar's test, but deals with an anonymous accusation, when she finds the word "Cylon" written on the mirror of her locker. While its unclear, her Cylon personality believes she unconsciously wrote it to warn herself about her true nature and to stop her from continuing acts of sabotage ([[Six Degrees of Separation]], [[The Plan]]).

[[Image:Valshootadama.jpg|235px|thumb|right|Valerii shoots Commander William Adama.|thumb]]
Frightened and alone, Valerii withdraws into herself and attempts suicide, but is initially unable to do so. During her second attempt, she is interrupted by Dr. Baltar who, rather than discouraging her, essentially gives her his blessing on her suicide. Following his departure from the [[duty locker]], Valerii succeeds in shooting herself, but her Cylon personality interrupts the attempt. Valerii only wounds herself in her right cheek ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]).

After [[Kara Thrace]] absconds with a captured Cylon Raider intended for an attack on a [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]] orbiting [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]], Commander Adama asks Valerii and ECO [[Margaret Edmondson]] to use a [[Cylon transponder]] in their Raptor to infiltrate the basestar and place a nuclear warhead within to destroy it. The mission is a success, but when the weapon would not auto-release from the Raptor after landing, Valerii exits the ship and enters the basestar. Inside, she encounters a dozen copies of herself, confirming her worst fears. Valerii escapes in the Raptor just before the warhead detonates and destroys the basestar. Back on ''Galactica'', her encounter with the other [[Number Eight|Eight]] models on the basestar apparently triggers Valerii's Cylon programming to emerge once more, and she shoots Commander Adama in the chest while being congratulated on her successful mission in [[CIC]], wounding him critically. While her Cylon programing succeeded in performing the act Cavil had been pushing her to do, she had to mentally turn herself into a Centurion as even Valerii's Cylon personality cares for Adama. It's later suggested by a [[Number Six]] that she purposefully wounded him in a way he could survive due to love for him. ("[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]", "[[Scattered]]", "[[The Plan]]").

=== Imprisonment and death ===
After shooting Adama, Valerii is quickly restrained by guards and jailed in the [[brig]]. During her imprisonment, Colonel [[Saul Tigh|Tigh]] attempts to forcibly extract information from her at gunpoint, but Valerii stonewalls him and even asks him to shoot her ([[Scattered]]). Chief [[Galen Tyrol|Tyrol]] is later incarcerated in the same brig cell by Tigh, also suspected of being a Cylon. While imprisoned together, Valerii tries to convince Tyrol that her feelings for him were real and important, but he rejects her and threatens to kill her if she touched him.
[[Image:Sharondeath.jpg|235px|Valerii dies in Chief [[Galen Tyrol|Tyrol's]] arms.|right|thumb]]
Dr. [[Gaius Baltar|Baltar]] later enters the cell, ostensibly to collect a blood sample from Tyrol to prove his innocence using the [[Cylon detector]], but he instead injects Tyrol with a potent toxin that would kill him in a matter of seconds if Baltar does not give him an antidote. Baltar interrogates Valerii, demanding to know how many other Cylons are in the Fleet, using the dying Tyrol to blackmail her. Valerii first protests that she does not know, but as Tyrol is about to die, she reveals that there are eight other Cylons in the Fleet and Baltar then revives Tyrol.

Soon after, while being transferred to a new reinforced cell built to hold Cylons for later experiments and long term incarceration, a large crowd of crewmembers jeers at her and calls her a traitor. Specialist [[Cally]] who considers Valerii responsible for Tyrol's imprisonment breaks through the crowd holding a gun and shoots Valerii at point-blank range. Valerii's last words are "I love you, Chief" and she dies in Tyrol's arms ([[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]).

Valerii's body is sent to the morgue and autopsied. Later, the recovered Commander Adama visits her corpse, asking "why" aloud, and weeps over her body. Adama pronounces a very mild reprimand for Cally, sentencing her to 30 days in the brig for discharging a weapon without authorization. Cally is never tried for murder, since Cylons are not seen as people ([[The Farm]]).

Valerii's corpse is later used as bait when [[Sesha Abinell]] takes over [[Cloud 9]], demanding the execution of the future [[Sharon Agathon]]. The distraction provided a window with which to diffuse the terrorist situation. ([[Sacrifice]])

===Rebirth and life among Cylons===
[[Image:Cylon resurrection.jpg|235px|thumb|left|Valerii is reborn in a new body.|thumb]]
After being shot by [[Callandra Tyrol|Cally Henderson]], ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' is close enough to a Cylon [[Resurrection Ship]] so that her consciousness is retrieved for [[download]] into another body. On rebirth, Valerii rejects her Cylon nature and continues to call herself "Sharon" instead of "Eight," even going so far as to reclaim her former apartment (502) on Caprica. A copy of [[Number Three]], representing the status quo of the Cylons, is deeply disturbed by this and suggests that Valerii be [[boxed]].

[[Caprica-Six]], also seen as a [[Hero of the Cylon]], protests and Three advises her to get Valerii to change. When Valerii laments the loss of Tyrol, Caprica-Six tells her about her own love for a human, [[Gaius Baltar|Baltar]], which prompts Valerii to inform her that he is still alive. Suspecting that Three has an ulterior motive and wants to box both of them, the two play along and Valerii announces her intent to move out of her old apartment. After a [[Caprica Resistance]] bombing, Valerii, Caprica-Six, and Three are trapped in a garage with the resistance's leader, [[Samuel Anders]]. There, Caprica-Six reveals their true intentions and declares that Valerii and herself are celebrities in a culture of unity, and, through their love for humans, have realized the horror of the Cylons' actions. Using their celebrity, they could convince a large portion of the Cylon society of their new belief that the genocide of humanity was wrong. Valerii stops Anders from killing Three, but is surprised to see Caprica-Six kill Three herself. After telling Anders to escape, Valerii agrees to help Caprica-Six reveal the truth of the genocide to the other Cylons ([[Downloaded]]).

Valerii and Caprica-Six are obviously successful in their attempt to change popular opinion among Cylons about the genocide on the human race. According to a [[Cavil]] model that is briefly incarcerated on board ''Galactica'', Valerii and Caprica-Six convinced a majority that "the slaughter of mankind was a mistake" which ultimately leads to an end of the occupation of the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]] ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I]]).

One year later, Valerii is one of the leaders of the Cylon force occupying [[New Caprica]]. But as other Cylons start to consider the occupation a failure, her influence appears to decrease quickly, most evident when she is unable to secure Henderson's release from detention or to remove her from the death list ([[Precipice]]). Their initial plan on New Caprica, "to push past the conflict that separated us from humans for so long", fails and the occupation is ended after four months ([[Exodus, Part II]]).

Following the retreat from New Caprica, Valerii is on the same [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]] as Caprica-Six and Baltar, and assigned responsibility for the Cylon-human hybrid child, [[Hera Agathon]]. At a stand-off with the human [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] at the [[algae planet]], Valerii is part of a Cylon delegation to make demands regarding the [[Eye of Jupiter]], but on board ''Galactica'', she is identified by [[Sharon Agathon]] and denied entry. During this first meeting between them, Valerii informs Agathon that her daughter, Hera, is still alive, and she suggests that Agathon will never be fully accepted among humans, because they continue to treat her as a thing ([[The Eye of Jupiter]]).

After Agathon downloads into the Cylon fleet to recover her child, it becomes clear that Valerii resents her, possibly out of jealousy for her connection with Hera and Agathon essentially replacing her on ''Galactica''. Valerii has been growing increasingly frustrated by her inability to make progress with the child. She also states that she is done with her past on ''Galactica'' and that the failure of New Caprica has taught her that humans and Cylons cannot coexist. When Agathon insists that Hera is suffering from a blocked intestine after she determined that her stomach was "as hard as a gourd" and must be brought to a human doctor who knows how to care for an infant, Valerii immediately suspects that it was the other's intention all along to take Hera back to ''Galactica'', although she is forced to admit that the child's belly has become "hard as a gourd". Suggesting that Cylons were never meant to have children in the first place, Valerii threatens to kill Hera but is knocked to the floor by Caprica-Six and killed by her former comrade ([[Rapture]]).

After the [[Raider (RDM)|Cylon Raider]]s refuse to take any offensive action for fear of harming the [[Final Five]] Cylons in the human fleet, Valerii votes in favor of lobotomizing them into effective fighters once again. This is in contradiction to the opinion of the rest of her model, breaking the stalemate between the [[Number One|One]]s, [[Number Four|Four]]s, and [[Number Five|Five]]s in favor of lobotomization and the [[Number Two|Two]]s, [[Number Six|Six]]es, and [[Number Eight|Eight]]s against it. Valerii's explanation is that, "we need to be able to defend ourselves." [[Natalie]] accuses the Number One that she calls "Cavil" of having influenced Valerii ([[Six of One]]). The two are romantically engaged, as they kiss shortly after Cavil's [[Resurrection (RDM)|resurrection]], and later questions Cavil's decision to attack Natalie's rebel faction at the onset of the [[Cylon Civil War]] ([[The Ties That Bind]]).

Valerii is with [[Cavil]] at [[D'Anna Biers]]'s unboxing on the [[Resurrection Hub]] and witnesses her killing him, fleeing afterwards ([[The Hub]]).

==="Escape" from John Cavil===
After [[Ellen Tigh]]'s resurrection, John Cavil allows Boomer to witness his numerous conversations with Ellen. Initially agreeing with John's disdainful view of Ellen, she eventually establishes a bond with her and comes to sympathize with Ellen's perspective on Cylon creation. When Cavil has the [[Simon]]s prepare to surgically dissect Ellen's brain to extract her memories, she escapes with Ellen in a Raptor logged as missing by the Colonials over a year ago. The two somehow find the Fleet, and after Boomer's voice is identified as an Eight by a Six flying CAP, the Raptor is allowed to land on ''Galactica''. No one realizes who she is until Tyrol approaches, senses who she is, and announces her identity, eliciting a smile from her when he tells her it's nice to see her. Upon hearing this, Admiral Adama has her taken to the brig. Unknown to them at the time, Boomer's "escape" was engineered. ([[TRS]]: "[[No Exit]]", "[[Deadlock]]")

===Escape from ''Galactica''===
The Cylon rebels decide to put her on trial for treason and, with death permanent because of the loss of resurrection, capital punishment is possible. When Tyrol goes to see her in the brig, she confesses that she still loves him and has thought of him ever since she died in his arms. She shares with him [[projection]]s of their dream home on [[Picon]], which she has been harboring for a while. In this dream life, they are married and have a daughter. Sure that she is going to be found guilty and executed, Tyrol helps her escape by switching her with another Eight he assaulted and rendered unconscious and placed in Boomer's cell. Pursuing her true mission, Boomer then severely beats Sharon Agathon and hides her, bound and gagged, in a toilet stall. She is then mistaken by Karl Agathon for his wife and is sexually pursued by him after she tried to quietly and discreetly without tipping him off to her true identity avoid his advances and to ostensibly leave on her (i.e Athena's) mission. Eventually she acquiesces and even gladly has sex with Karl Agathon without his knowledge as to who she truly was. During the encounter, and most likely without Boomer's knowledge, her victim Athena had become semi-conscious and witnesses Boomer's encounter with her husband from the toilet stall. Boomer then kidnapped the Agathon's daughter, Hera, drugging her with a drink when she picks her up at the [[Galactica daycare|daycare center]] to keep her quiet.

Boomer hides the drugged Hera in a provisions supply case, which is loaded onto a Raptor with Tyrol's help without attracting much attention as such cases have become routine for extended search patrols. Before Tyrol leaves, after he turned down her plea for him to come with her, she tells him that no matter what happens, she was not lying about everything she has told him and that she meant it, leading to Tyrol kissing her. While waiting for clearance to depart, she figures out that she has been discovered, and against Admiral Adama's orders powers up the Raptor and spins up its FTL drive. She hurriedly flies the Raptor out of the closing flight pod, clipping her port wing, then jumps away, close enough to damage ''Galactica'' from the resulting spatial disruption.

While talking with Saul Tigh Ellen later concludes, correctly, that everything that Boomer did, including helping her escape, was planned in order to kidnap Hera and bring her to [[Number One|John Cavil]] ([[TRS]]: "[[Someone to Watch Over Me]]")

Boomer keeps jumping her stolen Raptor, heading for [[The Colony]]. Hera repeatably cries for her mother, irritating Boomer. Boomer goes to sedate her with a large hypodermic needle roughly but can't bring herself to do it. Instead she tells Hera about her projection of her and Tyrol's home on Picon and Hera surprises her by revealing she can project too and joining her in the projection. Boomer shows Hera the bedroom she dreamed of for her daughter and bonds with the girl. She ultimately takes her to Cavil but starts crying bitterly when Hera calls out for her showing she regrets her actions.

Later when Boomer, Simon, Cavil and Doral are sitting and watching Hera draw, Cavil reveals that Hera has apparently refused to eat and wants to intubate her. Boomer, the only one who seems to have any sympathy at all for the child, objects saying Hera wants her mother, but Cavil doesn't care only wanting to find the secret in Hera's genetic code that allowed her to come into being so the Cylon race can survive. He leaves and Boomer watches unhappily as Simon starts up a drill and prepares to intubate Hera to force her to eat. ([[TRS]]: "[[Islanded in a Stream of Stars]]," "[[Daybreak, Part I]]")

=== Final Act and Death ===
During the [[Battle of The Colony]], Boomer is with Hera and the Simon who still plans on dissecting her despite the invasion force, confident that the humans will lose. Boomer snaps his neck, killing him and takes Hera and carries her away. She carries her to the rescue team which is searching for her and gives Hera back to her parents. Athena points out that it does not make up for what she did and Boomer admits that she knows that, but she made what she knows will probably be her final choice and saved Hera. She asks them to tell Admiral Adama she owed him for having given her another chance once. She also informs them their Raptors have been destroyed, cutting off their primary escape route. Calm and ready to accept Athena's revenge, Boomer lets Athena shoot her dead. Without resurrection, her death is permanent ([[TRS]]: "[[Daybreak, Part II]]").

===The Psychological Damage and Choices Made ===
:''Explained by David Weddle & Grace Park''
Both David Weddle & Grace Park who plays Sharon "Boomer" Valerii as well as Sharon "Athena" Agathon and other Eights give their views on the motivations and choices made by Park's character Boomer. Weddle concentrates on if Boomer actually loved Galen Tyrol and the psychological trauma she has been subjected to. Park examines what choices she has made from that background:<blockquote>''"Did Boomer really love the Chief? That’s an interesting question and one I don’t have a neat answer to. Boomer is deeply conflicted. I think the process of having false memories planted in her, getting switched “on” as a Cylon, shooting Adama, getting shot by Cally, and her experiences on New Caprica have left her severely disturbed. She was determined to go through with her mission, but in the process of seducing Tyrol she reawakened feelings of love that she thought were dead. I think she experienced real misgivings just before she got on that Raptor, but felt she had gone too far to back down. Wrapped up in that is her perverse envy of Athena, who obtained everything Boomer once wanted, and this festered into a sick desire to strike out at Athena. It’s difficult to say someone who did that loves the Chief, and yet in her damaged way, I think she did and still does love him."''<ref>[http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/entertainment_tv/2009/02/battlestar-galactica-starbuck-boomer-someone-to-watch-over-me-.html "Play it again, Starbuck: Talking to Weddle and Thompson about 'Someone to Watch Over Me'" Maureen Ryan Chicago Tribune February 28, 2009]</ref> ----David Weddle</blockquote>

<blockquote>''"Boomer is much more tragic and conflicted, and in a lot of denial. Athena came from a very different starting point, and everything was a lie, but she fought and made it through the trenches. She's a story not of privilege, but about creating whoever you want to be. That's the American story. Boomer could have been a number of things too, but she made a lot of poor decisions."''<ref>[http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2009-03-12-battlestar-characters_N.htm "Internal battles are raging in 'Battlestar'" Anthony Breznican USA Today March 12, 2009]</ref> ---Grace Park</blockquote>

==Notes==

*This [[Number Eight]] is often just called "Boomer" colloquially, as that callsign is more closely associated with her, while [[Sharon Agathon]] is usually called "Sharon" and more recently "Athena". Until Season 3, this copy was referred to as the ''Galactica'' copy ("''Galactica''-Sharon" or "''Galactica''-Boomer"), because she was first encountered on ''Galactica''. She is refered to as Boomer by everyone on the series, including the Cylons, shown when she votes against the other Eights and [[Natalie Faust]] calls her Boomer when she walks into the room.
*[[Virtual Six]] rhetorically asks [[Gaius Baltar]] in "[[Flesh and Bone]]" why he thinks that Valerii got the callsign "Boomer", implying a sexual reference. Aside from the fact that Valerii is the analogue of [[Boomer (TOS)|Boomer]] from the [[Original Series]], the reason for giving her this callsign is likely due to her reputation for loud and botched landings with [[Raptor]]s ([[Miniseries]], "[[Flight of the Phoenix]]", "[[Scar]]", "[[Daybreak, Part II]]").
*In reality, "Boomer" is a nickname for a ballistic missile submarine. "[[Karl Agathon|Helo]]" is a similar nickname for a helicopter.
*Despite both being main characters for the first season of the show, with Boomer being a major character whenever she appeared after that, Boomer and Athena only actually meet four times. In their first meeting, Athena identifies Boomer preventing her from joining the negotiations and Boomer reveals that Hera is still alive, something which Athena didn't know. In their second meeting, Athena downloads into the Cylon fleet to rescue Hera and Boomer is suspicious of her intentions. Boomer threatens to kill Hera, but is instead killed by her former friend Caprica Six. In their third meeting, Athena doesn't realize who she is at first and by the time she does it's too late and Boomer beats her up and ties her up as part of a plan to kidnap Hera. In their final meeting, Boomer gives back Hera to Athena and allows Athena to kill her.
*Her personality after her resurrection seems to fluctuate between her human one and her Cylon one: at first she seemed more like her old "human" self until the failure of New Caprica. Afterwards it seemed like her personality was closer to that of her Cylon one while still retaining a few elements of her human one. Her return to ''Galactica'' seemed to stir her human personality more especially when she kidnapped Hera and bonded with her and she seemed to be in a state closer to her human personality than she had been since New Caprica when she died permanently.

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Battle for the Tylium Asteroid

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|description=[[Lee Adama|Apollo]] flying away from the Cylon tylium mine as it begins to explode
|conflict=[[Cylon Attack|Second Cylon War]]
|date=[[Re-Imagined Series Timeline|Day 36]]
|place=[[Sector_Delta_9#Sector_J23R7|Sector J23R7 ]]
|result=Colonial victory
* Resupply of [[tylium]] ore for fuel reserves.
|combatant1=Remnants of the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Colonial Fleet]]
|combatant2=[[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]]
|co1=Commander [[William Adama]]
Lieutenant [[Kara Thrace]]
Captain [[Lee Adama]]
|co2=Unknown †
|strength1= 1 battlestar
* ''[[Galactica]]''
** ~19 [[Viper (RDM)|Vipers]]
** 2 [[Raptor|Raptors]]
3 civilian transports
|strength2=140 [[Raider|Raiders]] <br /> Fixed anti-aircraft emplacements
|shiploss1=At least 4 Vipers
|shiploss2=Complete destruction of Cylon forces
|casualties1= ~6 pilots dead
* [[Fireball]]
* [[Stepchild]]
* Sgt. [[Donald Perry]]
* 3 other pilots
|casualties2=Unknown, high
|prev=[[Skirmish over the Red Moon]]
|next=[[Battle of Kobol (RDM)|Battle of Kobol]]
|series=RDM
}}
The '''Battle for the Tylium Asteroid''' takes place when ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' attacks a Cylon [[Cylon Refinery|tylium ore refinery]]. It marks the first time that ''Galactica'' makes an offensive strike against Cylon forces in nearly forty years.

==Background==
After exhausting much of its fuel reserves fleeing from Cylon forces, ''Galactica'' sends [[Raptor]]s to outlying star systems in search of [[tylium]], a fuel source used by all ships in the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]]. They locate an asteroid saturated with the mineral, but also occupied by Cylons and fortified with [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Raider]] squadrons. Commander [[William Adama|Adama]] decides to take the asteroid with a daring plan, utilizing the unconventional thinking of Lieutenant [[Kara Thrace]] to draft the attack strategy and Captain [[Lee Adama]] to implement it. ([[TRS]]: "[[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]")

==Battle==
''Galactica'' pulls a double-feint; using a cargo freighter to lure away patrolling Raiders, the battlestar deploys a Viper squadron to approach the unprotected asteroid. The Cylons deduce the freighter to be a diversion and turn their fighters on the approaching Viper squadron. Additionally, they release all of their base's reserve Raiders to make a run at ''Galactica''. With all Cylon craft engaging either the Vipers or ''Galactica'', a second squadron of Vipers emerges from inside the cargo freighter and heads for the now unguarded Cylon base.

As the squadron reaches the surface of the asteroid, guided anti-aircraft missiles are launched and [[Fireball]] is killed in his Viper - while [[Kat]] and [[Stepchild]] launch their guided missiles, a powerful jamming signal appears and causes the Colonial missiles to lose guidance and veer away from the refinery

Captain Adama determines that any attacks they attempt will have to be completed manually. For that to be possible they must be able to approach the base at a close range - something which the anti-aircraft artillery makes unattainable.

As the remaining four Vipers approach the refinery, they encounter heavy anti-aircraft fire that destroys two more Vipers, including [[Chuckles]] in [[Viper 4267]] and [[Stepchild]] in her assigned [[Viper]]

Captain Adama orders the other fighters to pull back as he searches for an alternative way of approaching the refinery. He finds a conveyor duct that runs from an un-defended canyon adjacent to the base, and ends below a tank storing highly unstable tylium precursor. After successfully maneuvering [[Viper 2220]] through the duct, Adama detonates a pair of explosive charges underneath the tank, then makes his escape.

The ignition of the tylium-precursor results in a chain-reaction that destroys the refinery with a force equivalent to that of a three kiloton nuclear warhead yet leaves the underlying tylium unaffected. Moreover, the force of the explosion heavily disorients the overflying Raiders, leaving them unable to re-arm or refuel. With no means by which to escape the space surrounding the asteroid, the scattered fighters are destroyed by ''Galactica'' and its Vipers. ([[TRS]]: "[[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]

==Aftermath==
Shortly after ''Galactica's'' victory over the enemy, ships from the civilian fleet mine a large quantity of tylium from the asteroid (gathered by the mobile [[mining ship]]s and processed on a [[refinery ship]]). The mining yields enough tylium reserve to last the Fleet for several years.

Extraordinarily, this battle was prophesied in the [[Sacred Scrolls]], which mention a victory "led by serpents numbering two and ten" (the twelve Vipers). The scrolls warn, however, that "though the outcome favored the few, it would lead to a [[Battle of Kobol (RDM)|confrontation]] at [[Kobol (RDM)|the home of the gods]]" ([[TRS]]: "[[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]").

==Impact==

Without the replenishment of the tylium, it is highly probable that the Cylons would have caught up with the Fleet and destroyed it. Nearly three years later, tylium ore was still in supply ([[TRS]]: "[[Dirty Hands]]"), suggesting that success in this battle may have removed what would have been a major concern for the Fleet for several years.

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User talk:WarGrowlmon15

2014-08-18T15:31:59Z

WarGrowlmon15: /* Removing block, and future edits */

== Welcome to Battlestar Wiki! ==
Welcome to the Wiki, WarGrowlmon15. Feel free to tell us about yourself on [[User:WarGrowlmon15|your user page]]. Before you get started on other edits, please read the [[Battlestar Wiki:Standards and Conventions|Standards and Conventions]], which details the policies we use in editing pages (this differs from many other wikis in its particular use of verb tense, abbreviations, formatting, and the like). If you need help in learning how to use the MediaWiki tools supported here, you can check out the [[BW:TUT|tutorial]] and the [[BW:MARK|wiki markup code]] pages for assistance.

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We look forward to your contributions to the community!
--[[User:Shane|Shane]] <sup>([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]])</sup> 01:09, 28 October 2006 (CDT)

== purpose of the Question section in episode articles ==

I know that it seems counter-inuitive, but the question area is only for answers provided in actual episodes. When answers materialize in future episodes, they can be linked. There is a policy in place against random speculation, even if some of it does make sense.
Speculation - to a certain degree - belongs to Analysis --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 13:20, 11 November 2006 (CST)

== Standards and conventions ==

You should take a look at [[BW:SAC]] for some of the formatting rules we use here. For example, unlike most sites, we do not capitalize the words "basestar" or "battlestar", treating them as general ship types instead. Military ships are italicized and don't have definite articles. Periods go after episode cites. Small things like that, and you don't have to get every little detail right, but since you're doing many edits it would be easier if you adhered more closely to them :) --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 01:32, 26 November 2007 (CST)

== Questions ==

Please don't answer questions directly in the question sections like that. You can of course write a lengthier reply, but then it needs to be moved to Analysis. That's really appropriate if the issue is more complicated or dealt with in a deleted scene. Otherwise, we usually only link to the episode that contains the answer. The question on Three's identity is a perfect example of a question that isn't really open, and belongs to Notes or Analysis instead. -- [[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 20:22, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

== Your current edits to Number One ==

WarGrowlmon, I see the need for the first "Given . . ." paragraph in the Analysis section; I will revise it rather than just deleting it. Unfortunately, the prose in the second "Given . . ." paragraph is very difficult to read. Please post a revised paragraph that is clearer. -- [[User:BlueResistance|BlueResistance]] 13:10, 7 August 2014 (EDT)

== Voluntary pause, or possible temporary block ==

WarGrowlmon15, as a Battlestar Wiki administrator, I am formally requesting that you stop making edits for the next several days. You have been putting a massive amount of information onto the Wiki that has to be reviewed. Some of it is valuable, but as I have pointed out in my revisions, your language frequently needs to be cleaned up, and on more than one occasion, the content you have been adding has been incorrect or inappropriate. One recent example of this is what you called the "Skirmish in the Delphi Museum"; it's a hand-to-hand fight between two people, and not something that would rise to the standard of a battle, or require its own separate page. Readers of this Wiki--myself included--need time to review what you have done so far, but the rate at which you are adding content isn't allowing the rest of us to catch up.

I propose that you voluntarily halt your editing until Friday or Saturday of this week. I would rather get your consent on this and not resort to an administrative action, but I am prepared to put a temporary block on the account. In the interest of ''quality'' writing on this Wiki, I hope you understand. -- [[User:BlueResistance|BlueResistance]] 23:22, 11 August 2014 (EDT)

== Removing block, and future edits ==

I'm finished reviewing your contributions and making (or starting to make) revisions where necessary, and I can remove the block. I tried explaining the rationale for my revisions in the summary lines, but if you would like more detailed explanations on a limited number of them, ask and I will do so when I can. As I noted before, part of the problem was the astonishingly high volume of your edits. ''Slow down'' and take time to do them in the future, not only to give others a chance to respond, but also so that you can more carefully review and fix your own work before posting it.

I tried preserving as much of your writing as possible, but in quite a few cases, it wasn't possible at all. You've been trying to contribute to articles that were basically finished years ago, and if they needed anything, it was only a few minor tweaks and polishing and not significant additions. The re-imagined BSG has been covered thoroughly on this wiki; you're digging where there's almost nothing left to dig for. If you are looking to do a substantial amount of writing, I recommend working on story summaries for the last five episodes of ''Caprica'' and for ''Blood and Chrome''--those are major gaps that need filling. -- [[User:BlueResistance|BlueResistance]] 01:13, 18 August 2014 (EDT)
*I've never seen Crapica and I don't do episode summaries so I won't be doing ''Blood and Chrome''. I've tried to add information on pages where it was needed by that's it. Oh and you said the block was till Friday or Saturday. It's ''Monday'' and it kinda pissed me off especially as you've left a broken link on a page for days that's easily fixed and I can't do ''anything'' about it. I ''told'' you I was basically done. All I was doing when you blocked me was making a few of the battle pages that were just one giant summary into pages that looked more like most of the battle pages on this wiki. They weren't really up to standards.--[[User:WarGrowlmon15|WarGrowlmon15]] 11:31, 18 August 2014 (EDT)

Skirmish at the Farm

2014-08-12T17:44:13Z

WarGrowlmon15: /* Skirmish */

{{Battle Data
|name=Skirmish at the Farm
|image=
|conflict=[[Cylon Attack|Second Cylon War]]
|date=Shortly after the [[Battle of Kobol (RDM)|Battle of Kobol]]
|place=[[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]]
*Cylon [[Farm]]
|result=[[Colonial]] victory
*[[Kara Thrace]] rescued
*Farm destroyed
*Theft of a [[Heavy Raider]]
|combatant1=Remnants of the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Colonial Fleet]]<br>[[Caprica Resistance]]
|combatant2=[[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]]
|co1=[[Samuel Anders]]<br>Lieutenant [[Kara Thrace]]
|co2=[[Number Six]]
|strength1=Lieutenant [[Kara Thrace]]<br>Lieutenant [[Karl Agathon]]<br>[[Sharon Agathon|Caprica-Valerii]]<br>[[Caprica Resistance]]<br>1 captured [[Heavy Raider]]
|strength2=2 [[Number Four]]s<br>1 [[Number Six]]<br>Several [[Cylon Centurion]]s
|shiploss1=None
|shiploss2=All [[Centurion]]s<br>Cylon farm
|casualties1=[[Sue-Shaun]]<br>Other women being experimented on
|casualties2=1 [[Number Six]]<br>2 [[Number Four]]s<br>All [[Centurion]]s
|prev=[[Skirmish in the Delphi Museum]]
|next=[[Skirmish on Kobol]]
|series=RDM
}}

The '''Skirmish at the Farm''' was a skirmish between the [[Caprica Resistance]] aided by Lieutenants [[Kara Thrace]] and [[Karl Agathon]] as well as a [[Cylon (TRS)|Cylon]] defector later named [[Sharon Agathon]] against Cylon forces at a Cylon breeding [[Farm|farm]].

==Background==
After being sent to [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] by President [[Laura Roslin]] to get the [[Arrow of Apollo]], Lieutenant [[Kara Thrace|Kara "Starbuck" Thrace]] met up with long-missing Lieutenant [[Karl Agathon|Karl "Helo" Agathon]] and his girlfriend, [[Sharon Agathon|a copy]] of Kara's friend [[Sharon Valerii|Boomer]]. When Thrace repeatedly threatened to kill her, Caprica-Valerii fled in Thrace's stolen [[Cylon (TRS)|Cylon]] [[Raider (RDM)|Raider]], leaving Thrace and Agathon stranded on Caprica. Sometime afterwards, the two met up with the [[Caprica Resistance]] and as they were planning an assault to steal a [[Heavy Raider]], the group was ambushed and Thrace and [[Sue-Shaun]] were captured by Cylon forces and taken to a breeding [[farm]]. While Sue-Shaun was hooked up a "baby machine" along with other women, Thrace was experimented on directly by a [[Number Four]] going by the name of Simon under the guise of treating her injuries from the ambush. During this time, at least one of her ovaries were removed. However, the Number Four accidentally broke his cover to the suspicious Thrace by calling her by her call-sign of Starbuck which she hadn't told him. After seeing him discussing his plan to remove her ovaries completely with a [[Number Six]], Thrace realized that Simon was actually a Cylon agent and she had to escape.

At the same time, the Caprica Resistance returned to the ambush point to look for clues to Thrace's location. Caprica-Valerii, who had been tracking Agathon for days, appeared and offered her help to rescue Thrace. With the help of Valerii, the Caprica Resistance stole a Heavy Raider and launched a rescue mission for Thrace ([[TRS]]: "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]," "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]," "[[Scattered]]," "[[Resistance]]", "[[The Farm]]")

==Skirmish==
Needing to escape, Lieutenant [[Kara Thrace]] breaks a bedside mirror and waits for [[Number Four|Simon]] to return. When he does, she reveals her suspicions to him and then proceeds to kill the [[Cylon (TRS)|Cylon]] by stabbing him in the neck with the mirror shard. Sneaking her way through the facility, Thrace spots a [[Number Six]] and kills her by smashing her head in with a fire extinguisher. To Thrace's horror, she finds [[Caprica Resistance]] member [[Sue-Shaun]] and other women hooked up to "baby machines." Not wanting to live like this and unable to be unhooked without being killed, Sue-Shaun asks Thrace to destroy the machines and mercy-kill the women. Thrace reluctantly smashes the machines, ending the women's suffering. Getting outside the facility, Thrace is confronted by another Number Four who greets her. Before Thrace or the Four can do anything, the Caprica Resistance and Lieutenant [[Karl Agathon]] arrive and kill the Four. As Thrace attempts to escape to the Resistance, [[Centurion]]s in higher levels of the facility open fire, pinning her and the Resistance down, but [[Sharon Agathon|Caprica-Valerii]] arrives in a captured [[Heavy Raider]] and destroys the Centurions. The Cylon forces and [[farm]] destroyed, the Resistance retreats in the Heavy Raider before anymore Cylons can show up. ([[TRS]]: "[[The Farm]]")

==Aftermath==
Having identified their doctor as a copy of [[Number Four]] after seeing the copy outside the [[farm]], [[Samuel Anders]] dispatches [[Jean Barolay]] to get rid of the [[Cylon (TRS)|Cylon]] agent, not aware that there is also a [[Number One]] in the Resistance's midst. At the [[Caprica Resistance]] [[Delphi Union High School|base]], Lieutenant [[Kara Thrace]] interrogates [[Sharon Agathon|Caprica-Valerii]] about what was done to her at the farm. Valerii explains that the Cylons are unable to have children naturally which they attribute to a lack of love and along with the experiment to impregnate her, they are using the farms to attempt to artificially impregnate human women. Valerii is unaware of exactly what was done to Thrace however. Hearing about the farms and angry about what was done to her, Thrace proposes that the Resistance use their captured [[Heavy Raider]] to destroy all of the farms. However, Anders tells her she has a mission to complete and gives her the [[Arrow of Apollo]]. Anders tells Thrace to find [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]] and the Resistance will destroy all of the farms they can. Thrace agrees and after promising [[Rescue on Caprica|to be back to rescue him]], she, Valerii and Lieutenant [[Karl Agathon]] leave in the Heavy Raider to return to [[The Fleet (TRS)|the fleet]]. The three [[FTL|jump]] the Heavy Raider to [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]] where they meet up with the [[Laura Roslin faction]] and eventually the rest of the fleet. ([[TRS]]: "[[The Farm]]," "[[The Plan]]," "[[Home, Part I]]," "[[Home, Part II]]")
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Skirmish at the Farm

2014-08-12T17:43:40Z

WarGrowlmon15: /* Skirmish */

{{Battle Data
|name=Skirmish at the Farm
|image=
|conflict=[[Cylon Attack|Second Cylon War]]
|date=Shortly after the [[Battle of Kobol (RDM)|Battle of Kobol]]
|place=[[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]]
*Cylon [[Farm]]
|result=[[Colonial]] victory
*[[Kara Thrace]] rescued
*Farm destroyed
*Theft of a [[Heavy Raider]]
|combatant1=Remnants of the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Colonial Fleet]]<br>[[Caprica Resistance]]
|combatant2=[[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]]
|co1=[[Samuel Anders]]<br>Lieutenant [[Kara Thrace]]
|co2=[[Number Six]]
|strength1=Lieutenant [[Kara Thrace]]<br>Lieutenant [[Karl Agathon]]<br>[[Sharon Agathon|Caprica-Valerii]]<br>[[Caprica Resistance]]<br>1 captured [[Heavy Raider]]
|strength2=2 [[Number Four]]s<br>1 [[Number Six]]<br>Several [[Cylon Centurion]]s
|shiploss1=None
|shiploss2=All [[Centurion]]s<br>Cylon farm
|casualties1=[[Sue-Shaun]]<br>Other women being experimented on
|casualties2=1 [[Number Six]]<br>2 [[Number Four]]s<br>All [[Centurion]]s
|prev=[[Skirmish in the Delphi Museum]]
|next=[[Skirmish on Kobol]]
|series=RDM
}}

The '''Skirmish at the Farm''' was a skirmish between the [[Caprica Resistance]] aided by Lieutenants [[Kara Thrace]] and [[Karl Agathon]] as well as a [[Cylon (TRS)|Cylon]] defector later named [[Sharon Agathon]] against Cylon forces at a Cylon breeding [[Farm|farm]].

==Background==
After being sent to [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] by President [[Laura Roslin]] to get the [[Arrow of Apollo]], Lieutenant [[Kara Thrace|Kara "Starbuck" Thrace]] met up with long-missing Lieutenant [[Karl Agathon|Karl "Helo" Agathon]] and his girlfriend, [[Sharon Agathon|a copy]] of Kara's friend [[Sharon Valerii|Boomer]]. When Thrace repeatedly threatened to kill her, Caprica-Valerii fled in Thrace's stolen [[Cylon (TRS)|Cylon]] [[Raider (RDM)|Raider]], leaving Thrace and Agathon stranded on Caprica. Sometime afterwards, the two met up with the [[Caprica Resistance]] and as they were planning an assault to steal a [[Heavy Raider]], the group was ambushed and Thrace and [[Sue-Shaun]] were captured by Cylon forces and taken to a breeding [[farm]]. While Sue-Shaun was hooked up a "baby machine" along with other women, Thrace was experimented on directly by a [[Number Four]] going by the name of Simon under the guise of treating her injuries from the ambush. During this time, at least one of her ovaries were removed. However, the Number Four accidentally broke his cover to the suspicious Thrace by calling her by her call-sign of Starbuck which she hadn't told him. After seeing him discussing his plan to remove her ovaries completely with a [[Number Six]], Thrace realized that Simon was actually a Cylon agent and she had to escape.

At the same time, the Caprica Resistance returned to the ambush point to look for clues to Thrace's location. Caprica-Valerii, who had been tracking Agathon for days, appeared and offered her help to rescue Thrace. With the help of Valerii, the Caprica Resistance stole a Heavy Raider and launched a rescue mission for Thrace ([[TRS]]: "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]," "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]," "[[Scattered]]," "[[Resistance]]", "[[The Farm]]")

==Skirmish==
Needing to escape, Lieutenant [[Kara Thrace]] breaks a bedside mirror and waited for [[Number Four|Simon]] to return. When he did, she revealed her suspicions to him and then proceeded to kill the [[Cylon (TRS)|Cylon]] by stabbing him in the neck with the mirror shard. Sneaking her way through the facility, Thrace spots a [[Number Six]] and kills her by smashing her head in with a fire extinguisher. To Thrace's horror, she finds [[Caprica Resistance]] member [[Sue-Shaun]] and other women hooked up to "baby machines." Not wanting to live like this and unable to be unhooked without being killed, Sue-Shaun asks Thrace to destroy the machines and mercy-kill the women. Thrace reluctantly smashes the machines, ending the women's suffering. Getting outside the facility, Thrace is confronted by another Number Four who greets her. Before Thrace or the Four can do anything, the Caprica Resistance and Lieutenant [[Karl Agathon]] arrive and kill the Four. As Thrace attempts to escape to the Resistance, [[Centurion]]s in higher levels of the facility open fire, pinning her and the Resistance down, but [[Sharon Agathon|Caprica-Valerii]] arrives in a captured [[Heavy Raider]] and destroys the Centurions. The Cylon forces and [[farm]] destroyed, the Resistance retreats in the Heavy Raider before anymore Cylons can show up. ([[TRS]]: "[[The Farm]]")

==Aftermath==
Having identified their doctor as a copy of [[Number Four]] after seeing the copy outside the [[farm]], [[Samuel Anders]] dispatches [[Jean Barolay]] to get rid of the [[Cylon (TRS)|Cylon]] agent, not aware that there is also a [[Number One]] in the Resistance's midst. At the [[Caprica Resistance]] [[Delphi Union High School|base]], Lieutenant [[Kara Thrace]] interrogates [[Sharon Agathon|Caprica-Valerii]] about what was done to her at the farm. Valerii explains that the Cylons are unable to have children naturally which they attribute to a lack of love and along with the experiment to impregnate her, they are using the farms to attempt to artificially impregnate human women. Valerii is unaware of exactly what was done to Thrace however. Hearing about the farms and angry about what was done to her, Thrace proposes that the Resistance use their captured [[Heavy Raider]] to destroy all of the farms. However, Anders tells her she has a mission to complete and gives her the [[Arrow of Apollo]]. Anders tells Thrace to find [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]] and the Resistance will destroy all of the farms they can. Thrace agrees and after promising [[Rescue on Caprica|to be back to rescue him]], she, Valerii and Lieutenant [[Karl Agathon]] leave in the Heavy Raider to return to [[The Fleet (TRS)|the fleet]]. The three [[FTL|jump]] the Heavy Raider to [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]] where they meet up with the [[Laura Roslin faction]] and eventually the rest of the fleet. ([[TRS]]: "[[The Farm]]," "[[The Plan]]," "[[Home, Part I]]," "[[Home, Part II]]")
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Skirmish at the Farm

2014-08-12T17:42:49Z

WarGrowlmon15: Adding links

{{Battle Data
|name=Skirmish at the Farm
|image=
|conflict=[[Cylon Attack|Second Cylon War]]
|date=Shortly after the [[Battle of Kobol (RDM)|Battle of Kobol]]
|place=[[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]]
*Cylon [[Farm]]
|result=[[Colonial]] victory
*[[Kara Thrace]] rescued
*Farm destroyed
*Theft of a [[Heavy Raider]]
|combatant1=Remnants of the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Colonial Fleet]]<br>[[Caprica Resistance]]
|combatant2=[[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]]
|co1=[[Samuel Anders]]<br>Lieutenant [[Kara Thrace]]
|co2=[[Number Six]]
|strength1=Lieutenant [[Kara Thrace]]<br>Lieutenant [[Karl Agathon]]<br>[[Sharon Agathon|Caprica-Valerii]]<br>[[Caprica Resistance]]<br>1 captured [[Heavy Raider]]
|strength2=2 [[Number Four]]s<br>1 [[Number Six]]<br>Several [[Cylon Centurion]]s
|shiploss1=None
|shiploss2=All [[Centurion]]s<br>Cylon farm
|casualties1=[[Sue-Shaun]]<br>Other women being experimented on
|casualties2=1 [[Number Six]]<br>2 [[Number Four]]s<br>All [[Centurion]]s
|prev=[[Skirmish in the Delphi Museum]]
|next=[[Skirmish on Kobol]]
|series=RDM
}}

The '''Skirmish at the Farm''' was a skirmish between the [[Caprica Resistance]] aided by Lieutenants [[Kara Thrace]] and [[Karl Agathon]] as well as a [[Cylon (TRS)|Cylon]] defector later named [[Sharon Agathon]] against Cylon forces at a Cylon breeding [[Farm|farm]].

==Background==
After being sent to [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] by President [[Laura Roslin]] to get the [[Arrow of Apollo]], Lieutenant [[Kara Thrace|Kara "Starbuck" Thrace]] met up with long-missing Lieutenant [[Karl Agathon|Karl "Helo" Agathon]] and his girlfriend, [[Sharon Agathon|a copy]] of Kara's friend [[Sharon Valerii|Boomer]]. When Thrace repeatedly threatened to kill her, Caprica-Valerii fled in Thrace's stolen [[Cylon (TRS)|Cylon]] [[Raider (RDM)|Raider]], leaving Thrace and Agathon stranded on Caprica. Sometime afterwards, the two met up with the [[Caprica Resistance]] and as they were planning an assault to steal a [[Heavy Raider]], the group was ambushed and Thrace and [[Sue-Shaun]] were captured by Cylon forces and taken to a breeding [[farm]]. While Sue-Shaun was hooked up a "baby machine" along with other women, Thrace was experimented on directly by a [[Number Four]] going by the name of Simon under the guise of treating her injuries from the ambush. During this time, at least one of her ovaries were removed. However, the Number Four accidentally broke his cover to the suspicious Thrace by calling her by her call-sign of Starbuck which she hadn't told him. After seeing him discussing his plan to remove her ovaries completely with a [[Number Six]], Thrace realized that Simon was actually a Cylon agent and she had to escape.

At the same time, the Caprica Resistance returned to the ambush point to look for clues to Thrace's location. Caprica-Valerii, who had been tracking Agathon for days, appeared and offered her help to rescue Thrace. With the help of Valerii, the Caprica Resistance stole a Heavy Raider and launched a rescue mission for Thrace ([[TRS]]: "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]," "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]," "[[Scattered]]," "[[Resistance]]", "[[The Farm]]")

==Skirmish==
Needing to escape, Lieutenant [[Kara Thrace]] broke a bedside mirror and waited for [[Number Four|Simon]] to return. When he did, she revealed her suspicions to him and then proceeded to kill the [[Cylon (TRS)|Cylon]] by stabbing him in the neck with the mirror shard. Sneaking her way through the facility, Thrace spots a [[Number Six]] and kills her by smashing her head in with a fire extinguisher. To Thrace's horror, she finds [[Caprica Resistance]] member [[Sue-Shaun]] and other women hooked up to "baby machines." Not wanting to live like this and unable to be unhooked without being killed, Sue-Shaun asks Thrace to destroy the machines and mercy-kill the women. Thrace reluctantly smashes the machines, ending the women's suffering. Getting outside the facility, Thrace is confronted by another Number Four who greets her. Before Thrace or the Four can do anything, the Caprica Resistance and Lieutenant [[Karl Agathon]] arrive and kill the Four. As Thrace attempts to escape to the Resistance, [[Centurion]]s in higher levels of the facility open fire, pinning her and the Resistance down, but [[Sharon Agathon|Caprica-Valerii]] arrives in a captured [[Heavy Raider]] and destroys the Centurions. The Cylon forces and [[farm]] destroyed, the Resistance retreats in the Heavy Raider before anymore Cylons can show up. ([[TRS]]: "[[The Farm]]")

==Aftermath==
Having identified their doctor as a copy of [[Number Four]] after seeing the copy outside the [[farm]], [[Samuel Anders]] dispatches [[Jean Barolay]] to get rid of the [[Cylon (TRS)|Cylon]] agent, not aware that there is also a [[Number One]] in the Resistance's midst. At the [[Caprica Resistance]] [[Delphi Union High School|base]], Lieutenant [[Kara Thrace]] interrogates [[Sharon Agathon|Caprica-Valerii]] about what was done to her at the farm. Valerii explains that the Cylons are unable to have children naturally which they attribute to a lack of love and along with the experiment to impregnate her, they are using the farms to attempt to artificially impregnate human women. Valerii is unaware of exactly what was done to Thrace however. Hearing about the farms and angry about what was done to her, Thrace proposes that the Resistance use their captured [[Heavy Raider]] to destroy all of the farms. However, Anders tells her she has a mission to complete and gives her the [[Arrow of Apollo]]. Anders tells Thrace to find [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]] and the Resistance will destroy all of the farms they can. Thrace agrees and after promising [[Rescue on Caprica|to be back to rescue him]], she, Valerii and Lieutenant [[Karl Agathon]] leave in the Heavy Raider to return to [[The Fleet (TRS)|the fleet]]. The three [[FTL|jump]] the Heavy Raider to [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]] where they meet up with the [[Laura Roslin faction]] and eventually the rest of the fleet. ([[TRS]]: "[[The Farm]]," "[[The Plan]]," "[[Home, Part I]]," "[[Home, Part II]]")
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User talk:BlueResistance

2014-08-12T17:37:08Z

WarGrowlmon15: /* My recent edits */

Battle for the Tylium Asteroid

2014-08-12T16:59:12Z

WarGrowlmon15: Too many spaces

{{Battle Data
|image=Cylonminegoboom_110_1080i.jpg
|description=[[Lee Adama|Apollo]] flying away from the Cylon tylium mine as it begins to explode
|conflict=[[Cylon Attack|Second Cylon War]]
|date=[[Re-Imagined Series Timeline|Day 36]]
|place=[[Sector_Delta_9#Sector_J23R7|Sector J23R7 ]]
|result=Colonial victory
* Resupply of [[tylium]] ore for fuel reserves.
|combatant1=Remnants of the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Colonial Fleet]]
|combatant2=[[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]]
|co1=Commander [[William Adama]]
Lieutenant [[Kara Thrace]]
Captain [[Lee Adama]]
Ensign [[Brendan Constanza]]
|co2=Unknown †
|strength1= 1 battlestar
* ''[[Galactica]]''
** ~19 [[Viper (RDM)|Vipers]]
** 2 [[Raptor|Raptors]]
3 civilian transports
|strength2=140 [[Raider|Raiders]] <br /> Fixed anti-aircraft emplacements
|shiploss1=At least 4 Vipers
|shiploss2=Complete destruction of Cylon forces
|casualties1= ~6 pilots dead
* [[Fireball]]
* [[Stepchild]]
* Sgt. [[Donald Perry]]
* 3 other pilots
|casualties2=Unknown, high
|prev=[[Skirmish With a Raider]]
|next=[[Battle of Kobol (RDM)|Battle of Kobol]]
|series=RDM
}}
The '''Battle for the Tylium Asteroid''' takes place when ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' attacks a Cylon [[Cylon Refinery|tylium ore refinery]]. Additionally, it marks the first time that ''Galactica'' makes an offensive strike against Cylon forces in nearly 40 years.

==Backgrond==
After exhausting much of its fuel reserves fleeing from Cylon forces ([[TRS]]: "[[33]]") and rescuing [[Kara Thrace]] after she crash-lands on a moon ([[TRS]]: "[[You Can't Go Home Again]]"), ''Galactica'' sends [[Raptor]]s to outlying star systems in search of [[tylium]]; a fuel source used by all ships in the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]].They locate an asteroid saturated with the mineral, but also occupied by Cylons and fortified with [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Raider]] squadrons. Commander [[William Adama|Adama]] decides to take the asteroid with a daring plan, utilizing the unconventional thinking of Kara Thrace to draft the attack strategy and Captain [[Lee Adama]] to implement it. ([[TRS]]: "[[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]")

==Battle==
''Galactica'' pulls a double-feint; using a cargo freighter to lure away patrolling Raiders, the battlestar deploys a Viper squadron to approach the unprotected asteroid. The Cylons deduce the freighter to be a diversion and turn their fighters on the approaching Viper squadron. Additionally, they release all of their base's reserve Raiders to make a run at ''Galactica''. With all Cylon craft engaging either the Vipers or ''Galactica'', a second squadron of Vipers emerges from inside the cargo freighter and heads for the now unguarded Cylon base.

As the squadron reaches the surface of the asteroid, guided anti-aircraft missiles are launched and [[Fireball]] is killed in his Viper - while [[Kat]] and [[Stepchild]] launch their guided missiles, a powerful jamming signal appears and causes the Colonial missiles to lose guidance and veer away from the refinery

Captain Adama determines that any attacks they attempt will have to be completed manually. For that to be possible they must be able to approach the base at a close range - something which the anti-aircraft artillery makes unattainable.

As the remaining 4 Vipers approach the refinery, they encounter heavy anti-aircraft fire that destroys two more Vipers, including [[Chuckles]] in [[Viper 4267]] and [[Stepchild]] in her assigned [[Viper]]

Captain Adama orders the other fighters to pull back as he searches for an alternative way of approaching the refinery. He finds a conveyor duct that runs from an un-defended canyon adjacent to the base, and ends below a tank storing highly unstable tylium precursor. After successfully maneuvering [[Viper 2220]] through the duct, Adama detonates a pair of explosive charges underneath the tank, then makes his escape.

The ignition of the tylium-precursor results in a chain-reaction that destroys the refinery with a force equivalent to that of a three kiloton nuclear warhead yet leaves the underlying tylium unaffected. Moreover, the force of the explosion heavily disorients the overflying Raiders, leaving them unable to re-arm or refuel. With no means by which to escape the space surrounding the asteroid, the scattered fighters are destroyed by ''Galactica'' and her Vipers. ([[TRS]]: "[[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]

==Aftermath==
Shortly after ''Galactica's'' victory over the enemy, ships from the civilian fleet mine a large quantity of tylium from the asteroid (gathered by the mobile [[mining ship]]s and processed on a [[refinery ship]]). The mining yields enough tylium reserve to last the Fleet for several years.

Extraordinarily, this battle was prophesied in the [[Sacred Scrolls]], which mention a victory "led by serpents numbering two and ten" (the twelve Vipers). The scrolls warn, however, that "though the outcome favored the few, it would lead to a [[Battle of Kobol (RDM)|confrontation]] at [[Kobol (RDM)|the home of the gods]]" ([[TRS]]: "[[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]").

==Impact==

Without the replenishment of the tylium, it is highly probable that the Cylons would have caught up with the Fleet and destroyed it. As of "[[Dirty Hands]]", nearly three years later, tylium ore was still in supply. Hence, the success of this battle removed what would have been a major concern for the Fleet for several years. Although further resupply is possible, it is not mentioned during the time between this battle and the events of "Dirty Hands".

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{{Battles (RDM)}}

[[Category:A to Z]]
[[Category:Colonial]]
[[Category:Colonial Battles]]
[[Category:Colonial Battles (TRS)]]
[[Category:TRS]]

[[de:Kampf um den Tylium-Asteroiden]]

Battle for the Tylium Asteroid

2014-08-12T16:58:24Z

WarGrowlmon15: Just making it look like other battles and adding episode tags which were missing

{{Battle Data
|image=Cylonminegoboom_110_1080i.jpg
|description=[[Lee Adama|Apollo]] flying away from the Cylon tylium mine as it begins to explode
|conflict=[[Cylon Attack|Second Cylon War]]
|date=[[Re-Imagined Series Timeline|Day 36]]
|place=[[Sector_Delta_9#Sector_J23R7|Sector J23R7 ]]
|result=Colonial victory
* Resupply of [[tylium]] ore for fuel reserves.
|combatant1=Remnants of the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Colonial Fleet]]
|combatant2=[[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]]
|co1=Commander [[William Adama]]
Lieutenant [[Kara Thrace]]
Captain [[Lee Adama]]
Ensign [[Brendan Constanza]]
|co2=Unknown †
|strength1= 1 battlestar
* ''[[Galactica]]''
** ~19 [[Viper (RDM)|Vipers]]
** 2 [[Raptor|Raptors]]
3 civilian transports
|strength2=140 [[Raider|Raiders]] <br /> Fixed anti-aircraft emplacements
|shiploss1=At least 4 Vipers
|shiploss2=Complete destruction of Cylon forces
|casualties1= ~6 pilots dead
* [[Fireball]]
* [[Stepchild]]
* Sgt. [[Donald Perry]]
* 3 other pilots
|casualties2=Unknown, high
|prev=[[Skirmish With a Raider]]
|next=[[Battle of Kobol (RDM)|Battle of Kobol]]
|series=RDM
}}
The '''Battle for the Tylium Asteroid''' takes place when ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' attacks a Cylon [[Cylon Refinery|tylium ore refinery]]. Additionally, it marks the first time that ''Galactica'' makes an offensive strike against Cylon forces in nearly 40 years.

==Backgrond==
After exhausting much of its fuel reserves fleeing from Cylon forces ([[TRS]]: "[[33]]") and rescuing [[Kara Thrace]] after she crash-lands on a moon ([[TRS]]: "[[You Can't Go Home Again]]"), ''Galactica'' sends [[Raptor]]s to outlying star systems in search of [[tylium]]; a fuel source used by all ships in the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]].They locate an asteroid saturated with the mineral, but also occupied by Cylons and fortified with [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Raider]] squadrons. Commander [[William Adama|Adama]] decides to take the asteroid with a daring plan, utilizing the unconventional thinking of Kara Thrace to draft the attack strategy and Captain [[Lee Adama]] to implement it. ([[TRS]]: "[[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]")

==Battle==
''Galactica'' pulls a double-feint; using a cargo freighter to lure away patrolling Raiders, the battlestar deploys a Viper squadron to approach the unprotected asteroid. The Cylons deduce the freighter to be a diversion and turn their fighters on the approaching Viper squadron. Additionally, they release all of their base's reserve Raiders to make a run at ''Galactica''. With all Cylon craft engaging either the Vipers or ''Galactica'', a second squadron of Vipers emerges from inside the cargo freighter and heads for the now unguarded Cylon base.

As the squadron reaches the surface of the asteroid, guided anti-aircraft missiles are launched and [[Fireball]] is killed in his Viper - while [[Kat]] and [[Stepchild]] launch their guided missiles, a powerful jamming signal appears and causes the Colonial missiles to lose guidance and veer away from the refinery

Captain Adama determines that any attacks they attempt will have to be completed manually. For that to be possible they must be able to approach the base at a close range - something which the anti-aircraft artillery makes unattainable.

As the remaining 4 Vipers approach the refinery, they encounter heavy anti-aircraft fire that destroys two more Vipers, including [[Chuckles]] in [[Viper 4267]] and [[Stepchild]] in her assigned [[Viper]]

Captain Adama orders the other fighters to pull back as he searches for an alternative way of approaching the refinery. He finds a conveyor duct that runs from an un-defended canyon adjacent to the base, and ends below a tank storing highly unstable tylium precursor. After successfully maneuvering [[Viper 2220]] through the duct, Adama detonates a pair of explosive charges underneath the tank, then makes his escape.

The ignition of the tylium-precursor results in a chain-reaction that destroys the refinery with a force equivalent to that of a three kiloton nuclear warhead yet leaves the underlying tylium unaffected. Moreover, the force of the explosion heavily disorients the overflying Raiders, leaving them unable to re-arm or refuel. With no means by which to escape the space surrounding the asteroid, the scattered fighters are destroyed by ''Galactica'' and her Vipers. ([[TRS]]: "[[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]

==Aftermath==
Shortly after ''Galactica's'' victory over the enemy, ships from the civilian fleet mine a large quantity of tylium from the asteroid (gathered by the mobile [[mining ship]]s and processed on a [[refinery ship]]). The mining yields enough tylium reserve to last the Fleet for several years.

Extraordinarily, this battle was prophesied in the [[Sacred Scrolls]], which mention a victory "led by serpents numbering two and ten" (the twelve Vipers). The scrolls warn, however, that "though the outcome favored the few, it would lead to a [[Battle of Kobol (RDM)|confrontation]] at [[Kobol (RDM)|the home of the gods]]" ([[TRS]]: "[[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]").

==Impact==

Without the replenishment of the tylium, it is highly probable that the Cylons would have caught up with the Fleet and destroyed it. As of "[[Dirty Hands]]", nearly three years later, tylium ore was still in supply. Hence, the success of this battle removed what would have been a major concern for the Fleet for several years. Although further resupply is possible, it is not mentioned during the time between this battle and the events of "Dirty Hands".

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{{Battles (RDM)}}

[[Category:A to Z]]
[[Category:Colonial]]
[[Category:Colonial Battles]]
[[Category:Colonial Battles (TRS)]]
[[Category:TRS]]

[[de:Kampf um den Tylium-Asteroiden]]

Skirmish Over the Red Moon

2014-08-12T16:51:24Z

WarGrowlmon15: /* Trapped on the moon */

{{Battle Data
|image=PowerlessViper.jpg
|description=Starbuck's damaged Viper and the Cylon Raider are caught in the Red Moon's gravity field
|conflict=[[Cylon Attack|Second Cylon War]]
|date=[[Re-Imagined Series Timeline|Day 14]]
|place=An unnamed [[Red Moon|red moon]]
|result=[[Colonial]] victory
* Patrol destroyed
* Capture of a Cylon Raider
|combatant1=Remnants of the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Colonial Fleet]]
|combatant2=[[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]]
|co1=Lieutenant [[Kara Thrace]]
|co2=None
|strength1= 2 [[Viper Mark II|Mark II Viper]]s
|strength2=8 Cylon [[Raider (RDM)|Raiders]]
|shiploss1=1 Viper destroyed
1 Viper damaged
|shiploss2=7 Raiders destroyed
1 disabled and captured
|casualties1=None
|casualties2=8 Cylon Raiders
|prev=[[Battle of the Communications Relay]]
|next=[[Skirmish With a Raider]]
|series=RDM
}}
The '''Skirmish over the Red Moon''' takes place when eight [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Cylon Raiders]] surprise a group of [[nugget]] [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] pilots, under instruction by Lt. [[Kara Thrace|Kara "Starbuck" Thrace]], in orbit of an unnamed [[Red Moon|russet moon]] (which in turn cycles a gas giant).

==Background==
After an accident on the flight deck, Lieutenant [[Kara Thrace]] is assigned to train [[nuggets|new pilots]] to replace those killed in the accident. Although she at first allows [[Zak Adama|her feelings]] to get in the way of training, she eventually reinstates the pilots and takes them on a training flight. During the flight, a patrol of [[Cylon (TRS)|Cylon]] [[Raider (RDM)|Raiders]] is detected.

==Skirmish==
Upon coming into contact with the patrol, Lieutenant [[Kara Thrace|Thrace]] orders her squad to return to ''Galactica'' while she engages all eight enemy combatants simultaneously. Disobeying direct orders, and adhering to the general rule that a pilot must always have a wingman, Cadet [[Brendan Costanza|Brendan "Hot Dog" Costanza]] reverses course, and follows her into combat. His tactics disorient and scatter the enemy, opening a window for Lt. Thrace to shoot down six Raiders. Additionally, Costanza manages to destroy one Raider (his first kill in a Viper), before suffering damage from incoming fire, forcing him to pull back from the engagement. His Viper gives out shortly after.

With only one Raider remaining, Lieutenant Thrace re-orients herself into a combat position and charges the enemy. As the two combatants close in on each other, Lieutenant Thrace's Viper experiences sudden [[Computers#Avionics|electrical problems]] that cause her communications and transponder to go off-line. Still, she manages to exchange fire with the Raider and finishes it off with a direct hit to the head-canopy.

The disabled craft immediately spirals out control, and eventually collides with the Viper. Damage inflicted by the Raider's impact disables the Viper's flight controls, and both fighters tumble into the [[Red Moon|russet moon's]] gravity well. The Raider crashes intact upon the moon, but Thrace is forced to eject from her Viper after it goes into an uncontrollable [[Wikipedia:Spin (flight)|flat spin]] towards the satellite's surface and disintegrates.

==Trapped on the moon==

After successfully ejecting, Lieutenant [[Kara Thrace|Thrace]] lands by parachute on the moon. However - just as she makes contact with the surface - fierce winds heave her parachute laterally, drag her over a jagged bed of rocks and severely injure her knee. The gusts nearly haul her off the edge of a cliff, but Lieutenant Thrace manages to cut herself loose moments before hitting the drop-off point.

As this is happening, a [[SAR]] Raptor deployed by ''Galactica'' recovers Costanza and his critically damaged Viper in the moon's orbit. Subsequently, SAR teams are sent out to retrieve Lieutenant Thrace, but the moon's thick atmosphere prevent them from making contact with the downed pilot. On top of that, organic deposits along ship engines cut short the rescue effort, and force the various rescue craft to hastily return to ''Galactica'' for repairs.

On the moon's surface - with a broken [[wireless]] handset and no other means of establishing communication - Lieutenant Thrace wanders over the rocky terrain, looking for higher ground to await rescue. Eventually she comes across the downed [[Cylon (TRS)|Cylon]] [[Raider (RDM)|Raider]] and finds a way inside the ship. Crawling into the belly of the beast, she discovers that the Raider is bio-mechanical in nature - it is "piloted" by an organic brain that interfaces directly with the internal machinations of the craft. The rounds that she fired during their confrontation penetrated the Raider's brain, thus "killing" the vessel.

Inside the Raider, Lieutenat Thrace finds oxygen to replace her [[flight suit]]'s depleted reserves, and re-pressurizes the Raider's interior by using a portion of her flight suit to seal a fist-sized gash in the hull. Lieutenant Thrace's [[Flight of the Phoenix|test-pilot savvy]] allows her to determine the basic mechanics of the vessel quickly and she learns to control it by manipulating the various internal actuators, eventually flying the Raider off the moon and into open space.

At the same time, President [[Laura Roslin]] has convinced Commander [[William Adama]] and [[Lee Adama|his son]] to call off the search and the fleet begins [[FTL|jumping]] away. A tense situation results when she approaches ''Galactica'', while Captain [[Lee Adama]] is sent out to intercept what [[CIC]] believes is an enemy fighter. Adama attempts to shoot her down while ''Galactica'' attempts to send out another fighter to help, but Thrace's piloting skill allow her to avoid destruction and she enters formation with Adama than flips so he can see her Raider's underside where she has written her callsign "Starbuck" in yellow tape. The jubilant Adama informs ''Galactica'' then escorts Thrace into the [[flight pod]] where she is taken to [[sickbay]] to be treated for her injured knee. ([[TRS]]: "[[You Can't Go Home Again]]")

== Impact ==
This is the first time Colonial forces are able to capture and examine the updated Cylon Raider. Chief [[Galen Tyrol]] and his deck crew spend the next several weeks analyzing the fighter, eventually returning it to flight status with significant internal modifications for effective human control ([[TRS]]: "[[You Can't Go Home Again]]", "[[Six Degrees of Separation]]", "[[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]", "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]", and "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]").

The Raider is later lost on [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] during the events to retrieve the [[Arrow of Apollo]], when [[Sharon Agathon|Caprica-Valerii]] steals it from Lt. Thrace at the [[Delphi Museum of the Colonies]]. It is unclear what she does with it as its not seen again.

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{{Battles (RDM)}}

[[Category:A to Z]]
[[Category:Colonial]]
[[Category:Colonial Battles]]
[[Category:Colonial Battles (TRS)]]
[[Category:TRS]]

[[de:Scharmützel über dem Roten Mond]]

Skirmish Over the Red Moon

2014-08-12T16:48:50Z

WarGrowlmon15: /* Aftermath */

{{Battle Data
|image=PowerlessViper.jpg
|description=Starbuck's damaged Viper and the Cylon Raider are caught in the Red Moon's gravity field
|conflict=[[Cylon Attack|Second Cylon War]]
|date=[[Re-Imagined Series Timeline|Day 14]]
|place=An unnamed [[Red Moon|red moon]]
|result=[[Colonial]] victory
* Patrol destroyed
* Capture of a Cylon Raider
|combatant1=Remnants of the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Colonial Fleet]]
|combatant2=[[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]]
|co1=Lieutenant [[Kara Thrace]]
|co2=None
|strength1= 2 [[Viper Mark II|Mark II Viper]]s
|strength2=8 Cylon [[Raider (RDM)|Raiders]]
|shiploss1=1 Viper destroyed
1 Viper damaged
|shiploss2=7 Raiders destroyed
1 disabled and captured
|casualties1=None
|casualties2=8 Cylon Raiders
|prev=[[Battle of the Communications Relay]]
|next=[[Skirmish With a Raider]]
|series=RDM
}}
The '''Skirmish over the Red Moon''' takes place when eight [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Cylon Raiders]] surprise a group of [[nugget]] [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] pilots, under instruction by Lt. [[Kara Thrace|Kara "Starbuck" Thrace]], in orbit of an unnamed [[Red Moon|russet moon]] (which in turn cycles a gas giant).

==Background==
After an accident on the flight deck, Lieutenant [[Kara Thrace]] is assigned to train [[nuggets|new pilots]] to replace those killed in the accident. Although she at first allows [[Zak Adama|her feelings]] to get in the way of training, she eventually reinstates the pilots and takes them on a training flight. During the flight, a patrol of [[Cylon (TRS)|Cylon]] [[Raider (RDM)|Raiders]] is detected.

==Skirmish==
Upon coming into contact with the patrol, Lieutenant [[Kara Thrace|Thrace]] orders her squad to return to ''Galactica'' while she engages all eight enemy combatants simultaneously. Disobeying direct orders, and adhering to the general rule that a pilot must always have a wingman, Cadet [[Brendan Costanza|Brendan "Hot Dog" Costanza]] reverses course, and follows her into combat. His tactics disorient and scatter the enemy, opening a window for Lt. Thrace to shoot down six Raiders. Additionally, Costanza manages to destroy one Raider (his first kill in a Viper), before suffering damage from incoming fire, forcing him to pull back from the engagement. His Viper gives out shortly after.

With only one Raider remaining, Lieutenant Thrace re-orients herself into a combat position and charges the enemy. As the two combatants close in on each other, Lieutenant Thrace's Viper experiences sudden [[Computers#Avionics|electrical problems]] that cause her communications and transponder to go off-line. Still, she manages to exchange fire with the Raider and finishes it off with a direct hit to the head-canopy.

The disabled craft immediately spirals out control, and eventually collides with the Viper. Damage inflicted by the Raider's impact disables the Viper's flight controls, and both fighters tumble into the [[Red Moon|russet moon's]] gravity well. The Raider crashes intact upon the moon, but Thrace is forced to eject from her Viper after it goes into an uncontrollable [[Wikipedia:Spin (flight)|flat spin]] towards the satellite's surface and disintegrates.

==Trapped on the moon==

After successfully ejecting, Lieutenant [[Kara Thrace|Thrace]] lands by parachute on the moon. However - just as she makes contact with the surface - fierce winds heave her parachute laterally, drag her over a jagged bed of rocks and severely injure her knee. The gusts nearly haul her off the edge of a cliff, but Lieutenant Thrace manages to cut herself loose moments before hitting the drop-off point.

As this is happening, a [[SAR]] Raptor deployed by ''Galactica'' recovers Costanza and his critically damaged Viper in the moon's orbit. Subsequently, SAR teams are sent out to retrieve Lt. Thrace, but the moon's thick atmosphere prevent them from making contact with the downed pilot. On top of that, organic deposits along ship engines cut short the rescue effort, and force the various rescue craft to hastily return to ''Galactica'' for repairs.

On the moon's surface - with a broken [[wireless]] handset and no other means of establishing communication - Lieutenant Thrace wanders over the rocky terrain, looking for higher ground to await rescue. Eventually she comes across the downed [[Cylon (TRS)|Cylon]] [[Raider (RDM)|Raider]] and finds a way inside the ship. Crawling into the belly of the beast, she discovers that the Raider is bio-mechanical in nature - it is "piloted" by an organic brain that interfaces directly with the internal machinations of the craft. The rounds that she fired during their confrontation penetrated the Raider's brain, thus "killing" the vessel.

Inside the Raider, Lieutenat Thrace finds oxygen to replace her [[flight suit]]'s depleted reserves, and re-pressurizes the Raider's interior by using a portion of her flight suit to seal a fist-sized gash in the hull. Lieutenant Thrace's [[Flight of the Phoenix|test-pilot savvy]] allows her to determine the basic mechanics of the vessel quickly and she learns to control it by manipulating the various internal actuators, eventually flying the Raider off the moon and into open space.

At the same time, President [[Laura Roslin]] has convinced Commander [[Willian Adama]] and [[Lee Adama|his son]] to call off the search and the fleet begins [[FTL|jumping]] away. A tense situation results when she approaches ''Galactica'', while Captain [[Lee Adama]] is sent out to intercept what [[CIC]] believes is an enemy fighter. Adama attempts to shoot her down while ''Galactica'' attempts to send out another fighter to help, but Thrace's piloting skill allow her to avoid destruction and she enters formation with Adama than flips so he can see her Raider's underside where she has written her callsign "Starbuck" in yellow tape. The jubilant Adama informs ''Galactica'' then escorts Thrace into the [[flight pod]] where she is taken to [[sickbay]] to be treated for her injured knee. ([[TRS]]: "[[You Can't Go Home Again]]")

== Impact ==
This is the first time Colonial forces are able to capture and examine the updated Cylon Raider. Chief [[Galen Tyrol]] and his deck crew spend the next several weeks analyzing the fighter, eventually returning it to flight status with significant internal modifications for effective human control ([[TRS]]: "[[You Can't Go Home Again]]", "[[Six Degrees of Separation]]", "[[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]", "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]", and "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]").

The Raider is later lost on [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] during the events to retrieve the [[Arrow of Apollo]], when [[Sharon Agathon|Caprica-Valerii]] steals it from Lt. Thrace at the [[Delphi Museum of the Colonies]]. It is unclear what she does with it as its not seen again.

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{{Battles (RDM)}}

[[Category:A to Z]]
[[Category:Colonial]]
[[Category:Colonial Battles]]
[[Category:Colonial Battles (TRS)]]
[[Category:TRS]]

[[de:Scharmützel über dem Roten Mond]]

Skirmish Over the Red Moon

2014-08-12T16:47:37Z

WarGrowlmon15: /* Skirmish */

{{Battle Data
|image=PowerlessViper.jpg
|description=Starbuck's damaged Viper and the Cylon Raider are caught in the Red Moon's gravity field
|conflict=[[Cylon Attack|Second Cylon War]]
|date=[[Re-Imagined Series Timeline|Day 14]]
|place=An unnamed [[Red Moon|red moon]]
|result=[[Colonial]] victory
* Patrol destroyed
* Capture of a Cylon Raider
|combatant1=Remnants of the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Colonial Fleet]]
|combatant2=[[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]]
|co1=Lieutenant [[Kara Thrace]]
|co2=None
|strength1= 2 [[Viper Mark II|Mark II Viper]]s
|strength2=8 Cylon [[Raider (RDM)|Raiders]]
|shiploss1=1 Viper destroyed
1 Viper damaged
|shiploss2=7 Raiders destroyed
1 disabled and captured
|casualties1=None
|casualties2=8 Cylon Raiders
|prev=[[Battle of the Communications Relay]]
|next=[[Skirmish With a Raider]]
|series=RDM
}}
The '''Skirmish over the Red Moon''' takes place when eight [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Cylon Raiders]] surprise a group of [[nugget]] [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] pilots, under instruction by Lt. [[Kara Thrace|Kara "Starbuck" Thrace]], in orbit of an unnamed [[Red Moon|russet moon]] (which in turn cycles a gas giant).

==Background==
After an accident on the flight deck, Lieutenant [[Kara Thrace]] is assigned to train [[nuggets|new pilots]] to replace those killed in the accident. Although she at first allows [[Zak Adama|her feelings]] to get in the way of training, she eventually reinstates the pilots and takes them on a training flight. During the flight, a patrol of [[Cylon (TRS)|Cylon]] [[Raider (RDM)|Raiders]] is detected.

==Skirmish==
Upon coming into contact with the patrol, Lieutenant [[Kara Thrace|Thrace]] orders her squad to return to ''Galactica'' while she engages all eight enemy combatants simultaneously. Disobeying direct orders, and adhering to the general rule that a pilot must always have a wingman, Cadet [[Brendan Costanza|Brendan "Hot Dog" Costanza]] reverses course, and follows her into combat. His tactics disorient and scatter the enemy, opening a window for Lt. Thrace to shoot down six Raiders. Additionally, Costanza manages to destroy one Raider (his first kill in a Viper), before suffering damage from incoming fire, forcing him to pull back from the engagement. His Viper gives out shortly after.

With only one Raider remaining, Lieutenant Thrace re-orients herself into a combat position and charges the enemy. As the two combatants close in on each other, Lieutenant Thrace's Viper experiences sudden [[Computers#Avionics|electrical problems]] that cause her communications and transponder to go off-line. Still, she manages to exchange fire with the Raider and finishes it off with a direct hit to the head-canopy.

The disabled craft immediately spirals out control, and eventually collides with the Viper. Damage inflicted by the Raider's impact disables the Viper's flight controls, and both fighters tumble into the [[Red Moon|russet moon's]] gravity well. The Raider crashes intact upon the moon, but Thrace is forced to eject from her Viper after it goes into an uncontrollable [[Wikipedia:Spin (flight)|flat spin]] towards the satellite's surface and disintegrates.

==Aftermath==

After successfully ejecting, Lieutenant [[Kara Thrace|Thrace]] lands by parachute on the moon. However - just as she makes contact with the surface - fierce winds heave her parachute laterally, drag her over a jagged bed of rocks and severely injure her knee. The gusts nearly haul her off the edge of a cliff, but Lieutenant Thrace manages to cut herself loose moments before hitting the drop-off point.

As this is happening, a [[SAR]] Raptor deployed by ''Galactica'' recovers Costanza and his critically damaged Viper in the moon's orbit. Subsequently, SAR teams are sent out to retrieve Lt. Thrace, but the moon's thick atmosphere prevent them from making contact with the downed pilot. On top of that, organic deposits along ship engines cut short the rescue effort, and force the various rescue craft to hastily return to ''Galactica'' for repairs.

On the moon's surface - with a broken [[wireless]] handset and no other means of establishing communication - Lieutenant Thrace wanders over the rocky terrain, looking for higher ground to await rescue. Eventually she comes across the downed [[Cylon (TRS)|Cylon]] [[Raider (RDM)|Raider]] and finds a way inside the ship. Crawling into the belly of the beast, she discovers that the Raider is bio-mechanical in nature - it is "piloted" by an organic brain that interfaces directly with the internal machinations of the craft. The rounds that she fired during their confrontation penetrated the Raider's brain, thus "killing" the vessel.

Inside the Raider, Lieutenat Thrace finds oxygen to replace her [[flight suit]]'s depleted reserves, and re-pressurizes the Raider's interior by using a portion of her flight suit to seal a fist-sized gash in the hull. Lieutenant Thrace's [[Flight of the Phoenix|test-pilot savvy]] allows her to determine the basic mechanics of the vessel quickly and she learns to control it by manipulating the various internal actuators, eventually flying the Raider off the moon and into open space.

At the same time, President [[Laura Roslin]] has convinced Commander [[Willian Adama]] and [[Lee Adama|his son]] to call off the search and the fleet begins [[FTL|jumping]] away. A tense situation results when she approaches ''Galactica'', while Captain [[Lee Adama]] is sent out to intercept what [[CIC]] believes is an enemy fighter. Adama attempts to shoot her down while ''Galactica'' attempts to send out another fighter to help, but Thrace's piloting skill allow her to avoid destruction and she enters formation with Adama than flips so he can see her Raider's underside where she has written her callsign "Starbuck" in yellow tape. The jubilant Adama informs ''Galactica'' then escorts Thrace into the [[flight pod]] where she is taken to [[sickbay]] to be treated for her injured knee. ([[TRS]]: "[[You Can't Go Home Again]]")

== Impact ==
This is the first time Colonial forces are able to capture and examine the updated Cylon Raider. Chief [[Galen Tyrol]] and his deck crew spend the next several weeks analyzing the fighter, eventually returning it to flight status with significant internal modifications for effective human control ([[TRS]]: "[[You Can't Go Home Again]]", "[[Six Degrees of Separation]]", "[[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]", "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]", and "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]").

The Raider is later lost on [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] during the events to retrieve the [[Arrow of Apollo]], when [[Sharon Agathon|Caprica-Valerii]] steals it from Lt. Thrace at the [[Delphi Museum of the Colonies]]. It is unclear what she does with it as its not seen again.

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{{Battles (RDM)}}

[[Category:A to Z]]
[[Category:Colonial]]
[[Category:Colonial Battles]]
[[Category:Colonial Battles (TRS)]]
[[Category:TRS]]

[[de:Scharmützel über dem Roten Mond]]

Skirmish Over the Red Moon

2014-08-12T16:46:40Z

WarGrowlmon15: /* Skirmish */

{{Battle Data
|image=PowerlessViper.jpg
|description=Starbuck's damaged Viper and the Cylon Raider are caught in the Red Moon's gravity field
|conflict=[[Cylon Attack|Second Cylon War]]
|date=[[Re-Imagined Series Timeline|Day 14]]
|place=An unnamed [[Red Moon|red moon]]
|result=[[Colonial]] victory
* Patrol destroyed
* Capture of a Cylon Raider
|combatant1=Remnants of the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Colonial Fleet]]
|combatant2=[[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]]
|co1=Lieutenant [[Kara Thrace]]
|co2=None
|strength1= 2 [[Viper Mark II|Mark II Viper]]s
|strength2=8 Cylon [[Raider (RDM)|Raiders]]
|shiploss1=1 Viper destroyed
1 Viper damaged
|shiploss2=7 Raiders destroyed
1 disabled and captured
|casualties1=None
|casualties2=8 Cylon Raiders
|prev=[[Battle of the Communications Relay]]
|next=[[Skirmish With a Raider]]
|series=RDM
}}
The '''Skirmish over the Red Moon''' takes place when eight [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Cylon Raiders]] surprise a group of [[nugget]] [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] pilots, under instruction by Lt. [[Kara Thrace|Kara "Starbuck" Thrace]], in orbit of an unnamed [[Red Moon|russet moon]] (which in turn cycles a gas giant).

==Background==
After an accident on the flight deck, Lieutenant [[Kara Thrace]] is assigned to train [[nuggets|new pilots]] to replace those killed in the accident. Although she at first allows [[Zak Adama|her feelings]] to get in the way of training, she eventually reinstates the pilots and takes them on a training flight. During the flight, a patrol of [[Cylon (TRS)|Cylon]] [[Raider (RDM)|Raiders]] is detected.

==Skirmish==
Upon coming into contact with the patrol, Lieutenant [[Kara Thrace|Thrace]] orders her squad to return to ''Galactica'' while she engages all eight enemy combatants simultaneously. Disobeying direct orders, and adhering to the general rule that a pilot must always have a wingman, Cadet [[Brendan Costanza|Brendan "Hot Dog" Costanza]] reverses course, and follows her into combat. His tactics disorient and scatter the enemy, opening a window for Lt. Thrace to shoot down six Raiders. Additionally, Costanza manages to destroy one Raider (his first kill in a Viper), before suffering damage from incoming fire, forcing him to pull back from the engagement. His Viper gives out shortly after.

With only one Raider remaining, Lieutenant. Thrace re-orients herself into a combat position and charges the enemy. As the two combatants close in on each other, Lieutenant Thrace's Viper experiences sudden [[Computers#Avionics|electrical problems]] that cause her communications and transponder to go off-line. Still, she manages to exchange fire with the Raider and finishes it off with a direct hit to the head-canopy.

The disabled craft immediately spirals out control, and eventually collides with the Viper. Damage inflicted by the Raider's impact disables the Viper's flight controls, and both fighters tumble into the [[Red Moon|russet moon's]] gravity well. The Raider crashes intact upon the moon, but Thrace is forced to eject from her Viper after it goes into an uncontrollable [[Wikipedia:Spin (flight)|flat spin]] towards the satellite's surface and disintegrates.

==Aftermath==

After successfully ejecting, Lieutenant [[Kara Thrace|Thrace]] lands by parachute on the moon. However - just as she makes contact with the surface - fierce winds heave her parachute laterally, drag her over a jagged bed of rocks and severely injure her knee. The gusts nearly haul her off the edge of a cliff, but Lieutenant Thrace manages to cut herself loose moments before hitting the drop-off point.

As this is happening, a [[SAR]] Raptor deployed by ''Galactica'' recovers Costanza and his critically damaged Viper in the moon's orbit. Subsequently, SAR teams are sent out to retrieve Lt. Thrace, but the moon's thick atmosphere prevent them from making contact with the downed pilot. On top of that, organic deposits along ship engines cut short the rescue effort, and force the various rescue craft to hastily return to ''Galactica'' for repairs.

On the moon's surface - with a broken [[wireless]] handset and no other means of establishing communication - Lieutenant Thrace wanders over the rocky terrain, looking for higher ground to await rescue. Eventually she comes across the downed [[Cylon (TRS)|Cylon]] [[Raider (RDM)|Raider]] and finds a way inside the ship. Crawling into the belly of the beast, she discovers that the Raider is bio-mechanical in nature - it is "piloted" by an organic brain that interfaces directly with the internal machinations of the craft. The rounds that she fired during their confrontation penetrated the Raider's brain, thus "killing" the vessel.

Inside the Raider, Lieutenat Thrace finds oxygen to replace her [[flight suit]]'s depleted reserves, and re-pressurizes the Raider's interior by using a portion of her flight suit to seal a fist-sized gash in the hull. Lieutenant Thrace's [[Flight of the Phoenix|test-pilot savvy]] allows her to determine the basic mechanics of the vessel quickly and she learns to control it by manipulating the various internal actuators, eventually flying the Raider off the moon and into open space.

At the same time, President [[Laura Roslin]] has convinced Commander [[Willian Adama]] and [[Lee Adama|his son]] to call off the search and the fleet begins [[FTL|jumping]] away. A tense situation results when she approaches ''Galactica'', while Captain [[Lee Adama]] is sent out to intercept what [[CIC]] believes is an enemy fighter. Adama attempts to shoot her down while ''Galactica'' attempts to send out another fighter to help, but Thrace's piloting skill allow her to avoid destruction and she enters formation with Adama than flips so he can see her Raider's underside where she has written her callsign "Starbuck" in yellow tape. The jubilant Adama informs ''Galactica'' then escorts Thrace into the [[flight pod]] where she is taken to [[sickbay]] to be treated for her injured knee. ([[TRS]]: "[[You Can't Go Home Again]]")

== Impact ==
This is the first time Colonial forces are able to capture and examine the updated Cylon Raider. Chief [[Galen Tyrol]] and his deck crew spend the next several weeks analyzing the fighter, eventually returning it to flight status with significant internal modifications for effective human control ([[TRS]]: "[[You Can't Go Home Again]]", "[[Six Degrees of Separation]]", "[[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]", "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]", and "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]").

The Raider is later lost on [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] during the events to retrieve the [[Arrow of Apollo]], when [[Sharon Agathon|Caprica-Valerii]] steals it from Lt. Thrace at the [[Delphi Museum of the Colonies]]. It is unclear what she does with it as its not seen again.

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{{Battles (RDM)}}

[[Category:A to Z]]
[[Category:Colonial]]
[[Category:Colonial Battles]]
[[Category:Colonial Battles (TRS)]]
[[Category:TRS]]

[[de:Scharmützel über dem Roten Mond]]

Skirmish Over the Red Moon

2014-08-12T16:46:01Z

WarGrowlmon15:

{{Battle Data
|image=PowerlessViper.jpg
|description=Starbuck's damaged Viper and the Cylon Raider are caught in the Red Moon's gravity field
|conflict=[[Cylon Attack|Second Cylon War]]
|date=[[Re-Imagined Series Timeline|Day 14]]
|place=An unnamed [[Red Moon|red moon]]
|result=[[Colonial]] victory
* Patrol destroyed
* Capture of a Cylon Raider
|combatant1=Remnants of the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Colonial Fleet]]
|combatant2=[[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]]
|co1=Lieutenant [[Kara Thrace]]
|co2=None
|strength1= 2 [[Viper Mark II|Mark II Viper]]s
|strength2=8 Cylon [[Raider (RDM)|Raiders]]
|shiploss1=1 Viper destroyed
1 Viper damaged
|shiploss2=7 Raiders destroyed
1 disabled and captured
|casualties1=None
|casualties2=8 Cylon Raiders
|prev=[[Battle of the Communications Relay]]
|next=[[Skirmish With a Raider]]
|series=RDM
}}
The '''Skirmish over the Red Moon''' takes place when eight [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Cylon Raiders]] surprise a group of [[nugget]] [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] pilots, under instruction by Lt. [[Kara Thrace|Kara "Starbuck" Thrace]], in orbit of an unnamed [[Red Moon|russet moon]] (which in turn cycles a gas giant).

==Background==
After an accident on the flight deck, Lieutenant [[Kara Thrace]] is assigned to train [[nuggets|new pilots]] to replace those killed in the accident. Although she at first allows [[Zak Adama|her feelings]] to get in the way of training, she eventually reinstates the pilots and takes them on a training flight. During the flight, a patrol of [[Cylon (TRS)|Cylon]] [[Raider (RDM)|Raiders]] is detected.

==Skirmish==
Upon coming into contact with the patrol, Lieutenant. [[Kara Thrace|Thrace]] orders her squad to return to ''Galactica'' while she engages all eight enemy combatants simultaneously. Disobeying direct orders, and adhering to the general rule that a pilot must always have a wingman, Cadet [[Brendan Costanza|Brendan "Hot Dog" Costanza]] reverses course, and follows her into combat. His tactics disorient and scatter the enemy, opening a window for Lt. Thrace to shoot down six Raiders. Additionally, Costanza manages to destroy one Raider (his first kill in a Viper), before suffering damage from incoming fire, forcing him to pull back from the engagement. His Viper gives out shortly after.

With only one Raider remaining, Lieutenant. Thrace re-orients herself into a combat position and charges the enemy. As the two combatants close in on each other, Lieutenant Thrace's Viper experiences sudden [[Computers#Avionics|electrical problems]] that cause her communications and transponder to go off-line. Still, she manages to exchange fire with the Raider and finishes it off with a direct hit to the head-canopy.

The disabled craft immediately spirals out control, and eventually collides with the Viper. Damage inflicted by the Raider's impact disables the Viper's flight controls, and both fighters tumble into the [[Red Moon|russet moon's]] gravity well. The Raider crashes intact upon the moon, but Thrace is forced to eject from her Viper after it goes into an uncontrollable [[Wikipedia:Spin (flight)|flat spin]] towards the satellite's surface and disintegrates.

==Aftermath==

After successfully ejecting, Lieutenant [[Kara Thrace|Thrace]] lands by parachute on the moon. However - just as she makes contact with the surface - fierce winds heave her parachute laterally, drag her over a jagged bed of rocks and severely injure her knee. The gusts nearly haul her off the edge of a cliff, but Lieutenant Thrace manages to cut herself loose moments before hitting the drop-off point.

As this is happening, a [[SAR]] Raptor deployed by ''Galactica'' recovers Costanza and his critically damaged Viper in the moon's orbit. Subsequently, SAR teams are sent out to retrieve Lt. Thrace, but the moon's thick atmosphere prevent them from making contact with the downed pilot. On top of that, organic deposits along ship engines cut short the rescue effort, and force the various rescue craft to hastily return to ''Galactica'' for repairs.

On the moon's surface - with a broken [[wireless]] handset and no other means of establishing communication - Lieutenant Thrace wanders over the rocky terrain, looking for higher ground to await rescue. Eventually she comes across the downed [[Cylon (TRS)|Cylon]] [[Raider (RDM)|Raider]] and finds a way inside the ship. Crawling into the belly of the beast, she discovers that the Raider is bio-mechanical in nature - it is "piloted" by an organic brain that interfaces directly with the internal machinations of the craft. The rounds that she fired during their confrontation penetrated the Raider's brain, thus "killing" the vessel.

Inside the Raider, Lieutenat Thrace finds oxygen to replace her [[flight suit]]'s depleted reserves, and re-pressurizes the Raider's interior by using a portion of her flight suit to seal a fist-sized gash in the hull. Lieutenant Thrace's [[Flight of the Phoenix|test-pilot savvy]] allows her to determine the basic mechanics of the vessel quickly and she learns to control it by manipulating the various internal actuators, eventually flying the Raider off the moon and into open space.

At the same time, President [[Laura Roslin]] has convinced Commander [[Willian Adama]] and [[Lee Adama|his son]] to call off the search and the fleet begins [[FTL|jumping]] away. A tense situation results when she approaches ''Galactica'', while Captain [[Lee Adama]] is sent out to intercept what [[CIC]] believes is an enemy fighter. Adama attempts to shoot her down while ''Galactica'' attempts to send out another fighter to help, but Thrace's piloting skill allow her to avoid destruction and she enters formation with Adama than flips so he can see her Raider's underside where she has written her callsign "Starbuck" in yellow tape. The jubilant Adama informs ''Galactica'' then escorts Thrace into the [[flight pod]] where she is taken to [[sickbay]] to be treated for her injured knee. ([[TRS]]: "[[You Can't Go Home Again]]")

== Impact ==
This is the first time Colonial forces are able to capture and examine the updated Cylon Raider. Chief [[Galen Tyrol]] and his deck crew spend the next several weeks analyzing the fighter, eventually returning it to flight status with significant internal modifications for effective human control ([[TRS]]: "[[You Can't Go Home Again]]", "[[Six Degrees of Separation]]", "[[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]", "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]", and "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]").

The Raider is later lost on [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] during the events to retrieve the [[Arrow of Apollo]], when [[Sharon Agathon|Caprica-Valerii]] steals it from Lt. Thrace at the [[Delphi Museum of the Colonies]]. It is unclear what she does with it as its not seen again.

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{{Battles (RDM)}}

[[Category:A to Z]]
[[Category:Colonial]]
[[Category:Colonial Battles]]
[[Category:Colonial Battles (TRS)]]
[[Category:TRS]]

[[de:Scharmützel über dem Roten Mond]]

Skirmish Over the Red Moon

2014-08-12T16:45:05Z

WarGrowlmon15: /* Background */

{{Battle Data
|image=PowerlessViper.jpg
|description=Starbuck's damaged Viper and the Cylon Raider are caught in the Red Moon's gravity field
|conflict=[[Cylon Attack|Second Cylon War]]
|date=[[Re-Imagined Series Timeline|Day 14]]
|place=An unnamed [[Red Moon|red moon]]
|result=[[Colonial]] victory
* Patrol destroyed
* Capture of a Cylon Raider
|combatant1=Remnants of the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Colonial Fleet]]
|combatant2=[[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]]
|co1=Lieutenant [[Kara Thrace]]
|co2=None
|strength1= 2 [[Viper Mark II|Mark II Viper]]s
|strength2=8 Cylon [[Raider (RDM)|Raiders]]
|shiploss1=1 Viper destroyed
1 Viper damaged
|shiploss2=7 Raiders destroyed
1 disabled and captured
|casualties1=None
|casualties2=8 Cylon Raiders
|prev=[[Battle of the Communications Relay]]
|next=[[Skirmish With a Raider]]
|series=RDM
}}
The '''Skirmish over the Red Moon''' takes place when eight [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Cylon Raiders]] surprise a group of [[nugget]] [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] pilots, under instruction by Lt. [[Kara Thrace|Kara "Starbuck" Thrace]], in orbit of an unnamed russet moon (which in turn cycles a gas giant).

==Background==
After an accident on the flight deck, Lieutenant [[Kara Thrace]] is assigned to train [[nuggets|new pilots]] to replace those killed in the accident. Although she at first allows [[Zak Adama|her feelings]] to get in the way of training, she eventually reinstates the pilots and takes them on a training flight. During the flight, a patrol of [[Cylon (TRS)|Cylon]] [[Raider (RDM)|Raiders]] is detected.

==Skirmish==
Upon coming into contact with the patrol, Lieutenant. [[Kara Thrace|Thrace]] orders her squad to return to ''Galactica'' while she engages all eight enemy combatants simultaneously. Disobeying direct orders, and adhering to the general rule that a pilot must always have a wingman, Cadet [[Brendan Costanza|Brendan "Hot Dog" Costanza]] reverses course, and follows her into combat. His tactics disorient and scatter the enemy, opening a window for Lt. Thrace to shoot down six Raiders. Additionally, Costanza manages to destroy one Raider (his first kill in a Viper), before suffering damage from incoming fire, forcing him to pull back from the engagement. His Viper gives out shortly after.

With only one Raider remaining, Lieutenant. Thrace re-orients herself into a combat position and charges the enemy. As the two combatants close in on each other, Lieutenant Thrace's Viper experiences sudden [[Computers#Avionics|electrical problems]] that cause her communications and transponder to go off-line. Still, she manages to exchange fire with the Raider and finishes it off with a direct hit to the head-canopy.

The disabled craft immediately spirals out control, and eventually collides with the Viper. Damage inflicted by the Raider's impact disables the Viper's flight controls, and both fighters tumble into the [[Red Moon|russet moon's]] gravity well. The Raider crashes intact upon the moon, but Thrace is forced to eject from her Viper after it goes into an uncontrollable [[Wikipedia:Spin (flight)|flat spin]] towards the satellite's surface and disintegrates.

==Aftermath==

After successfully ejecting, Lieutenant [[Kara Thrace|Thrace]] lands by parachute on the moon. However - just as she makes contact with the surface - fierce winds heave her parachute laterally, drag her over a jagged bed of rocks and severely injure her knee. The gusts nearly haul her off the edge of a cliff, but Lieutenant Thrace manages to cut herself loose moments before hitting the drop-off point.

As this is happening, a [[SAR]] Raptor deployed by ''Galactica'' recovers Costanza and his critically damaged Viper in the moon's orbit. Subsequently, SAR teams are sent out to retrieve Lt. Thrace, but the moon's thick atmosphere prevent them from making contact with the downed pilot. On top of that, organic deposits along ship engines cut short the rescue effort, and force the various rescue craft to hastily return to ''Galactica'' for repairs.

On the moon's surface - with a broken [[wireless]] handset and no other means of establishing communication - Lieutenant Thrace wanders over the rocky terrain, looking for higher ground to await rescue. Eventually she comes across the downed [[Cylon (TRS)|Cylon]] [[Raider (RDM)|Raider]] and finds a way inside the ship. Crawling into the belly of the beast, she discovers that the Raider is bio-mechanical in nature - it is "piloted" by an organic brain that interfaces directly with the internal machinations of the craft. The rounds that she fired during their confrontation penetrated the Raider's brain, thus "killing" the vessel.

Inside the Raider, Lieutenat Thrace finds oxygen to replace her [[flight suit]]'s depleted reserves, and re-pressurizes the Raider's interior by using a portion of her flight suit to seal a fist-sized gash in the hull. Lieutenant Thrace's [[Flight of the Phoenix|test-pilot savvy]] allows her to determine the basic mechanics of the vessel quickly and she learns to control it by manipulating the various internal actuators, eventually flying the Raider off the moon and into open space.

At the same time, President [[Laura Roslin]] has convinced Commander [[Willian Adama]] and [[Lee Adama|his son]] to call off the search and the fleet begins [[FTL|jumping]] away. A tense situation results when she approaches ''Galactica'', while Captain [[Lee Adama]] is sent out to intercept what [[CIC]] believes is an enemy fighter. Adama attempts to shoot her down while ''Galactica'' attempts to send out another fighter to help, but Thrace's piloting skill allow her to avoid destruction and she enters formation with Adama than flips so he can see her Raider's underside where she has written her callsign "Starbuck" in yellow tape. The jubilant Adama informs ''Galactica'' then escorts Thrace into the [[flight pod]] where she is taken to [[sickbay]] to be treated for her injured knee. ([[TRS]]: "[[You Can't Go Home Again]]")

== Impact ==
This is the first time Colonial forces are able to capture and examine the updated Cylon Raider. Chief [[Galen Tyrol]] and his deck crew spend the next several weeks analyzing the fighter, eventually returning it to flight status with significant internal modifications for effective human control ([[TRS]]: "[[You Can't Go Home Again]]", "[[Six Degrees of Separation]]", "[[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]", "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]", and "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]").

The Raider is later lost on [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] during the events to retrieve the [[Arrow of Apollo]], when [[Sharon Agathon|Caprica-Valerii]] steals it from Lt. Thrace at the [[Delphi Museum of the Colonies]]. It is unclear what she does with it as its not seen again.

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{{Battles (RDM)}}

[[Category:A to Z]]
[[Category:Colonial]]
[[Category:Colonial Battles]]
[[Category:Colonial Battles (TRS)]]
[[Category:TRS]]

[[de:Scharmützel über dem Roten Mond]]

Skirmish Over the Red Moon

2014-08-12T16:44:41Z

WarGrowlmon15: Revamping it so its more like other battle pages. Gonna do the same to the Tylium Asteriod battle

{{Battle Data
|image=PowerlessViper.jpg
|description=Starbuck's damaged Viper and the Cylon Raider are caught in the Red Moon's gravity field
|conflict=[[Cylon Attack|Second Cylon War]]
|date=[[Re-Imagined Series Timeline|Day 14]]
|place=An unnamed [[Red Moon|red moon]]
|result=[[Colonial]] victory
* Patrol destroyed
* Capture of a Cylon Raider
|combatant1=Remnants of the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Colonial Fleet]]
|combatant2=[[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]]
|co1=Lieutenant [[Kara Thrace]]
|co2=None
|strength1= 2 [[Viper Mark II|Mark II Viper]]s
|strength2=8 Cylon [[Raider (RDM)|Raiders]]
|shiploss1=1 Viper destroyed
1 Viper damaged
|shiploss2=7 Raiders destroyed
1 disabled and captured
|casualties1=None
|casualties2=8 Cylon Raiders
|prev=[[Battle of the Communications Relay]]
|next=[[Skirmish With a Raider]]
|series=RDM
}}
The '''Skirmish over the Red Moon''' takes place when eight [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Cylon Raiders]] surprise a group of [[nugget]] [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] pilots, under instruction by Lt. [[Kara Thrace|Kara "Starbuck" Thrace]], in orbit of an unnamed russet moon (which in turn cycles a gas giant).

==Background==
After an accident on the flight deck, Lieutenant [[Kara Thrace]] is assigned to train [[nuggets|new pilots]] to replace those killed in the accident. Although she at first allows [[Zak Adama|her feelings]] to get in the way of training, she eventually reinstates the pilots and takes them on a training flight. During the flight, a patrol of [[Cylon (TRS)|Cylon]] [[Raider (TRS)|Raiders]] is detected.

==Skirmish==
Upon coming into contact with the patrol, Lieutenant. [[Kara Thrace|Thrace]] orders her squad to return to ''Galactica'' while she engages all eight enemy combatants simultaneously. Disobeying direct orders, and adhering to the general rule that a pilot must always have a wingman, Cadet [[Brendan Costanza|Brendan "Hot Dog" Costanza]] reverses course, and follows her into combat. His tactics disorient and scatter the enemy, opening a window for Lt. Thrace to shoot down six Raiders. Additionally, Costanza manages to destroy one Raider (his first kill in a Viper), before suffering damage from incoming fire, forcing him to pull back from the engagement. His Viper gives out shortly after.

With only one Raider remaining, Lieutenant. Thrace re-orients herself into a combat position and charges the enemy. As the two combatants close in on each other, Lieutenant Thrace's Viper experiences sudden [[Computers#Avionics|electrical problems]] that cause her communications and transponder to go off-line. Still, she manages to exchange fire with the Raider and finishes it off with a direct hit to the head-canopy.

The disabled craft immediately spirals out control, and eventually collides with the Viper. Damage inflicted by the Raider's impact disables the Viper's flight controls, and both fighters tumble into the [[Red Moon|russet moon's]] gravity well. The Raider crashes intact upon the moon, but Thrace is forced to eject from her Viper after it goes into an uncontrollable [[Wikipedia:Spin (flight)|flat spin]] towards the satellite's surface and disintegrates.

==Aftermath==

After successfully ejecting, Lieutenant [[Kara Thrace|Thrace]] lands by parachute on the moon. However - just as she makes contact with the surface - fierce winds heave her parachute laterally, drag her over a jagged bed of rocks and severely injure her knee. The gusts nearly haul her off the edge of a cliff, but Lieutenant Thrace manages to cut herself loose moments before hitting the drop-off point.

As this is happening, a [[SAR]] Raptor deployed by ''Galactica'' recovers Costanza and his critically damaged Viper in the moon's orbit. Subsequently, SAR teams are sent out to retrieve Lt. Thrace, but the moon's thick atmosphere prevent them from making contact with the downed pilot. On top of that, organic deposits along ship engines cut short the rescue effort, and force the various rescue craft to hastily return to ''Galactica'' for repairs.

On the moon's surface - with a broken [[wireless]] handset and no other means of establishing communication - Lieutenant Thrace wanders over the rocky terrain, looking for higher ground to await rescue. Eventually she comes across the downed [[Cylon (TRS)|Cylon]] [[Raider (RDM)|Raider]] and finds a way inside the ship. Crawling into the belly of the beast, she discovers that the Raider is bio-mechanical in nature - it is "piloted" by an organic brain that interfaces directly with the internal machinations of the craft. The rounds that she fired during their confrontation penetrated the Raider's brain, thus "killing" the vessel.

Inside the Raider, Lieutenat Thrace finds oxygen to replace her [[flight suit]]'s depleted reserves, and re-pressurizes the Raider's interior by using a portion of her flight suit to seal a fist-sized gash in the hull. Lieutenant Thrace's [[Flight of the Phoenix|test-pilot savvy]] allows her to determine the basic mechanics of the vessel quickly and she learns to control it by manipulating the various internal actuators, eventually flying the Raider off the moon and into open space.

At the same time, President [[Laura Roslin]] has convinced Commander [[Willian Adama]] and [[Lee Adama|his son]] to call off the search and the fleet begins [[FTL|jumping]] away. A tense situation results when she approaches ''Galactica'', while Captain [[Lee Adama]] is sent out to intercept what [[CIC]] believes is an enemy fighter. Adama attempts to shoot her down while ''Galactica'' attempts to send out another fighter to help, but Thrace's piloting skill allow her to avoid destruction and she enters formation with Adama than flips so he can see her Raider's underside where she has written her callsign "Starbuck" in yellow tape. The jubilant Adama informs ''Galactica'' then escorts Thrace into the [[flight pod]] where she is taken to [[sickbay]] to be treated for her injured knee. ([[TRS]]: "[[You Can't Go Home Again]]")

== Impact ==
This is the first time Colonial forces are able to capture and examine the updated Cylon Raider. Chief [[Galen Tyrol]] and his deck crew spend the next several weeks analyzing the fighter, eventually returning it to flight status with significant internal modifications for effective human control ([[TRS]]: "[[You Can't Go Home Again]]", "[[Six Degrees of Separation]]", "[[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]", "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]", and "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]").

The Raider is later lost on [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] during the events to retrieve the [[Arrow of Apollo]], when [[Sharon Agathon|Caprica-Valerii]] steals it from Lt. Thrace at the [[Delphi Museum of the Colonies]]. It is unclear what she does with it as its not seen again.

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