https://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=Number1&feedformat=atomBattlestar Wiki - User contributions [en]2024-03-28T16:31:02ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.40.1https://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Jay_Finnegan&diff=169802Jay Finnegan2008-12-27T00:10:58Z<p>Number1: </p>
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<div>{{Character Data<br />
|photo= Finn.jpg<br />
|age=<br />
|colony=<br />
|birthname= J. Finnegan<br />
|callsign= Shark<br />
|death= <br />
|seen= The Face of the Enemy<br />
|parents= <br />
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|children= <br />
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|role= [[Raptor]] pilot, assigned to ''[[Galactica]]''<br />
|rank= Lieutenant<br />
|actor= [[William C. Vaughn]]<br />
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|name= <br />
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Lieutenant '''J. "Shark" Finnegan''' is a [[Raptor]] pilot assigned to ''[[Galactica]]''.<br />
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He serves with [[Esrin|"Easy" Esrin]], who is his co-pilot aboard [[Raptor 718]]. While making a routine run to the [[Zephyr]] for R&R along with Lt. [[Gaeta]], Specialist [[Brooks (RDM)|Brooks]], and two [[Number Eight]] [[Cylons]] aboard, a false alarm causes the fleet to make an emergency jump. The Raptor accidentally jumps beyond the [[red line]] with no way to return to their original coordinates. The Raptor is stranded in space with only 20 1/2 hours of oxygen left ([[The Face of the Enemy]]).<br />
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[[Category:RDM]]</div>Number1https://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Michael_Trucco&diff=166333Michael Trucco2008-07-28T18:31:30Z<p>Number1: </p>
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<div>{{Cast Data<br />
| image= bsg-mt-1.jpg<br />
| character= [[Samuel Anders]]<br />
| born_day= 22<br />
| born_month= 6<br />
| born_year= 1970<br />
| nationality= US<br />
| imdb= 0874001<br />
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'''Michael Trucco''' (born Edward Michael Trucco on June 22, 1970) is a native of [[w:San Mateo, California|San Mateo, California]]. He attended Junipero Serra High School, and is the son of a police officer. He was interested in being a cop himself, until his college days, when he was attracted to theatrical performance. He took a theatre course for non-majors while he was studying Criminal Justice, but did so well that he was asked to consider changing majors. He changed majors and completed his BA in Theatre Arts at the [[w:University of Santa Clara|University of Santa Clara]]. <br />
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Trucco became active in television in the late 1990's with appearances in episodes of popular series including ''Touched by An Angel'', ''Silk Stalkings'', ''Beverly Hills: 90210'', ''Dr. Quinn: Medicine Woman'', ''Sabrina: The Teenage Witch'', and ''Pensacola: Wings of Gold'' among others. He continued appearing in shows of similar genres like ''CSI'', ''Wishmaster 4: The Prophecy Fulfilled'', ''Heartbeart'', ''Strong Medicine'', ''CSI: Miami'', and others into the 2000's. His latest TV efforts consist of several episodes as "Cooper Lee" in ''One Tree Hill'', and of course his current role as [[Samuel Anders]] on ''[[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Battlestar Galactica]] (2003)''. <br />
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He is also the lead guitarist of the band "Simpleworld". <br />
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In December of 2007, Trucco was involved in a motor vehicle accident. He broke his neck, but managed a full recovery from an injury that most likely should have resulted in paralysis or death. As his injury occurred during the [[WGA strike]], he was fortunate to be able to recover before production resumed. "I didn't want BSG to have to rewrite Anders as a sniveling, whining ball of despair who's hiding out in the corner." <ref name="TVG_4-28-08"><u>TV Guide</u> April 28, 2008: 18-19</ref>{{spoiltext|Trucco now has a distinctive scar on the back of his neck. "I've been told they want to incorporate [it] into BSG--but that's ''all'' I'm allowed to say."}}<br />
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==Filmography==<br />
* ''Pensacola: Wings of Gold'' (1997) <br />
* ''Confessions of a Sexist Pig'' (1998)<br />
* ''Charmed'' (1999)<br />
* ''Ablaze'' (2001) <br />
* ''Knight Club'' (2001)<br />
* ''A Girl, Three Guys, and a Gun'' (2001)<br />
* ''The Groomsmen'' (2001)<br />
* ''Wishmaster 4: The Prophecy Fulfilled'' (2002)<br />
* ''Perfect Romance'' (2004)<br />
* ''Battlestar Galactica'' (2005)<br />
* ''One Tree Hill'' (2006)<br />
* ''Next'' (2007)<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[http://www.michaeltrucco.com Michael Trucco's official site]<br />
*[http://www.simpleworldmusic.com/bio.html Simpleworld] (under construction)<br />
*[http://www.galactica.tv/battlestar-galactica-2003---interviews/michael-trucco-galactica.tv-interview.html LONG Michael Trucco interview] at [http://www.galactica.tv GALACTICA.TV site] <br />
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[[de:Michael Trucco]]</div>Number1https://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Senior_Staff_of_Galactica&diff=162184Senior Staff of Galactica2008-05-31T05:15:54Z<p>Number1: /* Executive Officer */</p>
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<div>== Present Senior Staff ==<br />
<br />
=== CIC ===<br />
<br />
*Admiral [[Saul Tigh|Saul Tigh]] - Acting Commanding officer <br />
*Unknown - [[Executive officer|Executive officer]] <br />
*Captain [[Kara Thrace|Kara Thrace]] - [[Commander Air Group|Commander, Air Group]] <br />
*Lieutenant [[Hoshi|Hoshi]] - [[Tactical officer|Tactical officer]], Senior Officer of the Watch <br />
*Lieutenant [[Anastasia Dualla|Anastasia Dualla]]<br />
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=== Support ===<br />
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*Major [[Cottle|Cottle]] - [[Chief Medical Officer|Chief Medical Officer]]<br />
*Chief Petty Officer [[Peter Laird]] - Chief of the Deck<br />
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=== [[Marines|Marines]] ===<br />
<br />
*Lieutenant [[Terry Burrell|Terry Burrell]] (seen only in "[[Sacrifice|Sacrifice]]") <br />
*[[Unnamed Galactica and Pegasus crew (RDM)#Marine Lieutenant|Unnamed lieutenant]] (seen only in "[[Escape Velocity|Escape Velocity]]")<br />
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== Chain of Command ==<br />
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Presently, the first in command aboard ''Galactica ''is Admiral Adama, and the second in command is Colonel Tigh. Captain Karl Agathon has risen to third-in-command and often assumes the post of executive officer instead of Tigh. Beyond that the hierarchy is unclear. Major [[Cottle|Cottle]] is a staff officer and outside of the chain of command. Given Captain [[Aaron Kelly|Aaron Kelly]]'s detention in "[[The Son Also Rises|The Son Also Rises]]" he is presumably no longer a candidate. <br />
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== Position Histories ==<br />
<br />
=== Commanding Officer ===<br />
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*Commander William Adama ([[Miniseries|Miniseries]] to "[[Scattered|Scattered]]") - Injured after assassination attempt <br />
*Colonel Saul Tigh, Acting ("Scattered" to "[[The Farm|The Farm]]") - Relinquishes command after Commander Adama returns to duty <br />
*Admiral William Adama ("The Farm" to "[[Sine Qua Non|Sine Qua Non]]") - Promoted to admiral by President [[Laura Roslin|Roslin]] ([[Resurrection Ship, Part II|Resurrection Ship, Part II]]). Resigned position (temporarily - perhaps permanently) to search for President [[Laura Roslin|Roslin]] following her disappearance ("[[Sine Qua Non|Sine Qua Non]]")<br />
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=== Executive Officer ===<br />
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*Colonel Saul Tigh ([[Miniseries|Miniseries]] to "[[Scattered|Scattered]]") - Assumes command when Commander Adama is injured during an assassination attempt <br />
*Captain Aaron Kelly, Acting ("Scattered" to "[[The Farm|The Farm]]") - Returns to regular duties when Commander Adama resumes command <br />
*Colonel Saul Tigh ("The Farm" to "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II|Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]") - Relocates to [[New Caprica|New Caprica]] <br />
*Captain Karl Agathon ("[[Occupation|Occupation]]" to "[[The Passage|The Passage]]") - Colonel Tigh resumes post <br />
*Colonel Saul Tigh ("The Passage" to "Sine Qua Non". Interrupted by a short leave of absence in "[[Crossroads, Part I|Crossroads, Part I]] &amp; [[Crossroads, Part II|II]]")<br />
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=== Tactical officer ===<br />
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*Lieutenant Felix Gaeta ([[Miniseries|Miniseries]] to "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II|Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]") - Relocates to New Caprica (working as aide to President [[Gaius Baltar|Baltar]]) <br />
*Lieutenant Karl Agathon ("Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II") - Promoted to XO <br />
*Captain Aaron Kelly ("[[Occupation|Occupation]]" to "[[The Passage|The Passage]]") - Gaeta resumes post <br />
*Lieutenant Felix Gaeta ("The Passage" to "[[Six of One|Six of One]]") - Joined crew of the ''Demetrius'' <br />
*Lieutenant Hoshi ("[[The Ties That Bind|The Ties That Bind]]" to present)<br />
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=== Communications Officer ===<br />
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*Petty Officer 2nd Class Anastasia Dualla ([[Miniseries|Miniseries]] to "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II|Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]") - Promoted to XO of [[Pegasus (RDM)|''Pegasus'']] <br />
*Unknown ("[[Occupation|Occupation]]" to "[[Exodus, Part II|Exodus, Part II]]") <br />
*Lieutenant Hoshi ("[[Collaborators|Collaborators]]" to "[[Six of One|Six of One]]") - Reassigned to Tactical Officer <br />
*Unknown ("[[The Ties That Bind|The Ties That Bind]]" to present)<br />
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=== Commander, Air Group ===<br />
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*Major [[Jackson Spencer]] ([[Miniseries]]) - Killed in Action <br />
*Captain [[Lee Adama]] (Miniseries to "[[The Captain's Hand]]") - Promoted to CO of ''Pegasus'' <br />
*Captain [[George Birch]] ("[[Home, Part I]]" to "[[Home, Part II]]") - Temporary replacement for Captain Adama <br />
*Captain [[Kara Thrace]] ("[[Downloaded]]" to "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]") - Relocates to New Caprica <br />
*Captain [[Louanne Katraine]] ("Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II" to "[[Collaborators]]") - Demoted when Major Adama resumes post. Posthumous and symbolic promotion ([[The Passage]]) <br />
*Major Lee Adama ("[[Torn]]" to "[[The Son Also Rises]]") - Re-assigned as head of security for [[Romo Lampkin]] <br />
*Captain Karl Agathon ("The Son Also Rises" to "[[Six of One]]". Interrupted by a temporary stint as XO to replace Col. Tigh in "[[Crossroads, Part I]] & [[Crossroads, Part II|II]]") - Joins crew of the ''Demetrius''<br />
*Unknown ("[[The Ties That Bind]]" to "[[Faith]]") - ''Demetrius'' returns<br />
*Captain Karl Agathon ("[[Guess What's Coming to Dinner?]]" to present)<br />
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=== Chief Medical Officer ===<br />
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*Major Cottle ([[Miniseries|Miniseries]] to present, with the exception of his relocation to New Caprica) <br />
*Unknown ("[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II|Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]" to "[[Exodus, Part II|Exodus, Part II]]")<br />
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=== Chief of the Deck ===<br />
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*Chief Petty Officer Galen Tyrol ([[Miniseries|Miniseries]] to "[[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]") - Replaced by ''Pegasus's'' deck chief <br />
*Chief Petty Officer [[Peter Laird|Peter Laird]] ("Pegasus" to "[[Resurrection Ship, Part II|Resurrection Ship, Part II]]") - Laird reassigned to ''Pegasus'' <br />
*Chief Petty Officer Galen Tyrol ("[[Epiphanies|Epiphanies]]" to "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II|Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]") - Relocates to New Caprica <br />
*Unknown ("Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II" to "[[Exodus, Part II|Exodus, Part II]]") - Tyrol resumes post <br />
*Chief Petty Officer Galen Tyrol ("[[Collaborators|Collaborators]]" to "[[Escape Velocity|Escape Velocity]]") - Demoted by Admiral Adama <br />
*Chief Petty Officer Peter Laird ("Escape Velocity" to present)<br />
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=== Master-at-Arms ===<br />
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*Sergeant [[Hadrian|Hadrian]] (Presumably [[Miniseries|Miniseries]] to present, but last mentioned in "[[Valley of Darkness|Valley of Darkness]]")<br />
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=== Landing Signal Officer ===<br />
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*Captain Aaron Kelly ("[[Miniseries|Miniseries]]" to "[[Scattered|Scattered]]") - Re-assigned as acting XO <br />
*Unknown ("Scattered" to "[[The Farm|The Farm]]") - Aaron Kelly resumes post <br />
*Captain Aaron Kelly ("The Farm" to "[[Exodus, Part I|Exodus, Part I]]") - Re-assigned as tactical officer <br />
*Unknown ("Exodus, Part I" to "[[Exodus, Part II|Exodus, Part II]]") - Aaron Kelly resumes post <br />
*Captain Aaron Kelly ("[[Collaborators|Collaborators]]" to "[[The Son Also Rises|The Son Also Rises]]") - Put in detention with charges pending <br />
*Unknown ("The Son Also Rises" to present)<br />
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[[Category:A_to_Z]] [[Category:Characters|*]] [[Category:Characters_(RDM)|*]] [[Category:Lists]] [[Category:RDM|*]] [[de:Offiziersbesatzung der Galactica|de:Offiziersbesatzung der Galactica]]</div>Number1https://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Senior_Staff_of_Galactica&diff=162183Senior Staff of Galactica2008-05-31T05:15:04Z<p>Number1: /* CIC */</p>
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<div>== Present Senior Staff ==<br />
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=== CIC ===<br />
<br />
*Admiral [[Saul Tigh|Saul Tigh]] - Acting Commanding officer <br />
*Unknown - [[Executive officer|Executive officer]] <br />
*Captain [[Kara Thrace|Kara Thrace]] - [[Commander Air Group|Commander, Air Group]] <br />
*Lieutenant [[Hoshi|Hoshi]] - [[Tactical officer|Tactical officer]], Senior Officer of the Watch <br />
*Lieutenant [[Anastasia Dualla|Anastasia Dualla]]<br />
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=== Support ===<br />
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*Major [[Cottle|Cottle]] - [[Chief Medical Officer|Chief Medical Officer]]<br />
*Chief Petty Officer [[Peter Laird]] - Chief of the Deck<br />
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=== [[Marines|Marines]] ===<br />
<br />
*Lieutenant [[Terry Burrell|Terry Burrell]] (seen only in "[[Sacrifice|Sacrifice]]") <br />
*[[Unnamed Galactica and Pegasus crew (RDM)#Marine Lieutenant|Unnamed lieutenant]] (seen only in "[[Escape Velocity|Escape Velocity]]")<br />
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== Chain of Command ==<br />
<br />
Presently, the first in command aboard ''Galactica ''is Admiral Adama, and the second in command is Colonel Tigh. Captain Karl Agathon has risen to third-in-command and often assumes the post of executive officer instead of Tigh. Beyond that the hierarchy is unclear. Major [[Cottle|Cottle]] is a staff officer and outside of the chain of command. Given Captain [[Aaron Kelly|Aaron Kelly]]'s detention in "[[The Son Also Rises|The Son Also Rises]]" he is presumably no longer a candidate. <br />
<br />
== Position Histories ==<br />
<br />
=== Commanding Officer ===<br />
<br />
*Commander William Adama ([[Miniseries|Miniseries]] to "[[Scattered|Scattered]]") - Injured after assassination attempt <br />
*Colonel Saul Tigh, Acting ("Scattered" to "[[The Farm|The Farm]]") - Relinquishes command after Commander Adama returns to duty <br />
*Admiral William Adama ("The Farm" to "[[Sine Qua Non|Sine Qua Non]]") - Promoted to admiral by President [[Laura Roslin|Roslin]] ([[Resurrection Ship, Part II|Resurrection Ship, Part II]]). Resigned position (temporarily - perhaps permanently) to search for President [[Laura Roslin|Roslin]] following her disappearance ("[[Sine Qua Non|Sine Qua Non]]")<br />
<br />
=== Executive Officer ===<br />
<br />
*Colonel Saul Tigh ([[Miniseries|Miniseries]] to "[[Scattered|Scattered]]") - Assumes command when Commander Adama is injured during an assassination attempt <br />
*Captain Aaron Kelly, Acting ("Scattered" to "[[The Farm|The Farm]]") - Returns to regular duties when Commander Adama resumes command <br />
*Colonel Saul Tigh ("The Farm" to "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II|Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]") - Relocates to [[New Caprica|New Caprica]] <br />
*Captain Karl Agathon ("[[Occupation|Occupation]]" to "[[The Passage|The Passage]]") - Colonel Tigh resumes post <br />
*Colonel Saul Tigh ("The Passage" to present. Interrupted by a short leave of absence in "[[Crossroads, Part I|Crossroads, Part I]] &amp; [[Crossroads, Part II|II]]")<br />
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=== Tactical officer ===<br />
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*Lieutenant Felix Gaeta ([[Miniseries|Miniseries]] to "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II|Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]") - Relocates to New Caprica (working as aide to President [[Gaius Baltar|Baltar]]) <br />
*Lieutenant Karl Agathon ("Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II") - Promoted to XO <br />
*Captain Aaron Kelly ("[[Occupation|Occupation]]" to "[[The Passage|The Passage]]") - Gaeta resumes post <br />
*Lieutenant Felix Gaeta ("The Passage" to "[[Six of One|Six of One]]") - Joined crew of the ''Demetrius'' <br />
*Lieutenant Hoshi ("[[The Ties That Bind|The Ties That Bind]]" to present)<br />
<br />
=== Communications Officer ===<br />
<br />
*Petty Officer 2nd Class Anastasia Dualla ([[Miniseries|Miniseries]] to "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II|Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]") - Promoted to XO of [[Pegasus (RDM)|''Pegasus'']] <br />
*Unknown ("[[Occupation|Occupation]]" to "[[Exodus, Part II|Exodus, Part II]]") <br />
*Lieutenant Hoshi ("[[Collaborators|Collaborators]]" to "[[Six of One|Six of One]]") - Reassigned to Tactical Officer <br />
*Unknown ("[[The Ties That Bind|The Ties That Bind]]" to present)<br />
<br />
=== Commander, Air Group ===<br />
<br />
*Major [[Jackson Spencer]] ([[Miniseries]]) - Killed in Action <br />
*Captain [[Lee Adama]] (Miniseries to "[[The Captain's Hand]]") - Promoted to CO of ''Pegasus'' <br />
*Captain [[George Birch]] ("[[Home, Part I]]" to "[[Home, Part II]]") - Temporary replacement for Captain Adama <br />
*Captain [[Kara Thrace]] ("[[Downloaded]]" to "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]") - Relocates to New Caprica <br />
*Captain [[Louanne Katraine]] ("Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II" to "[[Collaborators]]") - Demoted when Major Adama resumes post. Posthumous and symbolic promotion ([[The Passage]]) <br />
*Major Lee Adama ("[[Torn]]" to "[[The Son Also Rises]]") - Re-assigned as head of security for [[Romo Lampkin]] <br />
*Captain Karl Agathon ("The Son Also Rises" to "[[Six of One]]". Interrupted by a temporary stint as XO to replace Col. Tigh in "[[Crossroads, Part I]] & [[Crossroads, Part II|II]]") - Joins crew of the ''Demetrius''<br />
*Unknown ("[[The Ties That Bind]]" to "[[Faith]]") - ''Demetrius'' returns<br />
*Captain Karl Agathon ("[[Guess What's Coming to Dinner?]]" to present)<br />
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=== Chief Medical Officer ===<br />
<br />
*Major Cottle ([[Miniseries|Miniseries]] to present, with the exception of his relocation to New Caprica) <br />
*Unknown ("[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II|Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]" to "[[Exodus, Part II|Exodus, Part II]]")<br />
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=== Chief of the Deck ===<br />
<br />
*Chief Petty Officer Galen Tyrol ([[Miniseries|Miniseries]] to "[[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]") - Replaced by ''Pegasus's'' deck chief <br />
*Chief Petty Officer [[Peter Laird|Peter Laird]] ("Pegasus" to "[[Resurrection Ship, Part II|Resurrection Ship, Part II]]") - Laird reassigned to ''Pegasus'' <br />
*Chief Petty Officer Galen Tyrol ("[[Epiphanies|Epiphanies]]" to "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II|Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]") - Relocates to New Caprica <br />
*Unknown ("Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II" to "[[Exodus, Part II|Exodus, Part II]]") - Tyrol resumes post <br />
*Chief Petty Officer Galen Tyrol ("[[Collaborators|Collaborators]]" to "[[Escape Velocity|Escape Velocity]]") - Demoted by Admiral Adama <br />
*Chief Petty Officer Peter Laird ("Escape Velocity" to present)<br />
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=== Master-at-Arms ===<br />
<br />
*Sergeant [[Hadrian|Hadrian]] (Presumably [[Miniseries|Miniseries]] to present, but last mentioned in "[[Valley of Darkness|Valley of Darkness]]")<br />
<br />
=== Landing Signal Officer ===<br />
<br />
*Captain Aaron Kelly ("[[Miniseries|Miniseries]]" to "[[Scattered|Scattered]]") - Re-assigned as acting XO <br />
*Unknown ("Scattered" to "[[The Farm|The Farm]]") - Aaron Kelly resumes post <br />
*Captain Aaron Kelly ("The Farm" to "[[Exodus, Part I|Exodus, Part I]]") - Re-assigned as tactical officer <br />
*Unknown ("Exodus, Part I" to "[[Exodus, Part II|Exodus, Part II]]") - Aaron Kelly resumes post <br />
*Captain Aaron Kelly ("[[Collaborators|Collaborators]]" to "[[The Son Also Rises|The Son Also Rises]]") - Put in detention with charges pending <br />
*Unknown ("The Son Also Rises" to present)<br />
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[[Category:A_to_Z]] [[Category:Characters|*]] [[Category:Characters_(RDM)|*]] [[Category:Lists]] [[Category:RDM|*]] [[de:Offiziersbesatzung der Galactica|de:Offiziersbesatzung der Galactica]]</div>Number1https://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Senior_Staff_of_Galactica&diff=162182Senior Staff of Galactica2008-05-31T05:13:43Z<p>Number1: /* Commanding Officer */</p>
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<div>== Present Senior Staff ==<br />
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=== CIC ===<br />
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*Admiral [[William Adama|William Adama]] - Commanding officer <br />
*Colonel [[Saul Tigh|Saul Tigh]] - [[Executive officer|Executive officer]] <br />
*Captain [[Karl Agathon|Karl Agathon]] - [[Commander Air Group|Commander, Air Group]] <br />
*Lieutenant [[Hoshi|Hoshi]] - [[Tactical officer|Tactical officer]], Senior Officer of the Watch <br />
*Lieutenant [[Anastasia Dualla|Anastasia Dualla]]<br />
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=== Support ===<br />
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*Major [[Cottle|Cottle]] - [[Chief Medical Officer|Chief Medical Officer]]<br />
*Chief Petty Officer [[Peter Laird]] - Chief of the Deck<br />
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=== [[Marines|Marines]] ===<br />
<br />
*Lieutenant [[Terry Burrell|Terry Burrell]] (seen only in "[[Sacrifice|Sacrifice]]") <br />
*[[Unnamed Galactica and Pegasus crew (RDM)#Marine Lieutenant|Unnamed lieutenant]] (seen only in "[[Escape Velocity|Escape Velocity]]")<br />
<br />
== Chain of Command ==<br />
<br />
Presently, the first in command aboard ''Galactica ''is Admiral Adama, and the second in command is Colonel Tigh. Captain Karl Agathon has risen to third-in-command and often assumes the post of executive officer instead of Tigh. Beyond that the hierarchy is unclear. Major [[Cottle|Cottle]] is a staff officer and outside of the chain of command. Given Captain [[Aaron Kelly|Aaron Kelly]]'s detention in "[[The Son Also Rises|The Son Also Rises]]" he is presumably no longer a candidate. <br />
<br />
== Position Histories ==<br />
<br />
=== Commanding Officer ===<br />
<br />
*Commander William Adama ([[Miniseries|Miniseries]] to "[[Scattered|Scattered]]") - Injured after assassination attempt <br />
*Colonel Saul Tigh, Acting ("Scattered" to "[[The Farm|The Farm]]") - Relinquishes command after Commander Adama returns to duty <br />
*Admiral William Adama ("The Farm" to "[[Sine Qua Non|Sine Qua Non]]") - Promoted to admiral by President [[Laura Roslin|Roslin]] ([[Resurrection Ship, Part II|Resurrection Ship, Part II]]). Resigned position (temporarily - perhaps permanently) to search for President [[Laura Roslin|Roslin]] following her disappearance ("[[Sine Qua Non|Sine Qua Non]]")<br />
<br />
=== Executive Officer ===<br />
<br />
*Colonel Saul Tigh ([[Miniseries|Miniseries]] to "[[Scattered|Scattered]]") - Assumes command when Commander Adama is injured during an assassination attempt <br />
*Captain Aaron Kelly, Acting ("Scattered" to "[[The Farm|The Farm]]") - Returns to regular duties when Commander Adama resumes command <br />
*Colonel Saul Tigh ("The Farm" to "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II|Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]") - Relocates to [[New Caprica|New Caprica]] <br />
*Captain Karl Agathon ("[[Occupation|Occupation]]" to "[[The Passage|The Passage]]") - Colonel Tigh resumes post <br />
*Colonel Saul Tigh ("The Passage" to present. Interrupted by a short leave of absence in "[[Crossroads, Part I|Crossroads, Part I]] &amp; [[Crossroads, Part II|II]]")<br />
<br />
=== Tactical officer ===<br />
<br />
*Lieutenant Felix Gaeta ([[Miniseries|Miniseries]] to "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II|Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]") - Relocates to New Caprica (working as aide to President [[Gaius Baltar|Baltar]]) <br />
*Lieutenant Karl Agathon ("Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II") - Promoted to XO <br />
*Captain Aaron Kelly ("[[Occupation|Occupation]]" to "[[The Passage|The Passage]]") - Gaeta resumes post <br />
*Lieutenant Felix Gaeta ("The Passage" to "[[Six of One|Six of One]]") - Joined crew of the ''Demetrius'' <br />
*Lieutenant Hoshi ("[[The Ties That Bind|The Ties That Bind]]" to present)<br />
<br />
=== Communications Officer ===<br />
<br />
*Petty Officer 2nd Class Anastasia Dualla ([[Miniseries|Miniseries]] to "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II|Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]") - Promoted to XO of [[Pegasus (RDM)|''Pegasus'']] <br />
*Unknown ("[[Occupation|Occupation]]" to "[[Exodus, Part II|Exodus, Part II]]") <br />
*Lieutenant Hoshi ("[[Collaborators|Collaborators]]" to "[[Six of One|Six of One]]") - Reassigned to Tactical Officer <br />
*Unknown ("[[The Ties That Bind|The Ties That Bind]]" to present)<br />
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=== Commander, Air Group ===<br />
<br />
*Major [[Jackson Spencer]] ([[Miniseries]]) - Killed in Action <br />
*Captain [[Lee Adama]] (Miniseries to "[[The Captain's Hand]]") - Promoted to CO of ''Pegasus'' <br />
*Captain [[George Birch]] ("[[Home, Part I]]" to "[[Home, Part II]]") - Temporary replacement for Captain Adama <br />
*Captain [[Kara Thrace]] ("[[Downloaded]]" to "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]") - Relocates to New Caprica <br />
*Captain [[Louanne Katraine]] ("Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II" to "[[Collaborators]]") - Demoted when Major Adama resumes post. Posthumous and symbolic promotion ([[The Passage]]) <br />
*Major Lee Adama ("[[Torn]]" to "[[The Son Also Rises]]") - Re-assigned as head of security for [[Romo Lampkin]] <br />
*Captain Karl Agathon ("The Son Also Rises" to "[[Six of One]]". Interrupted by a temporary stint as XO to replace Col. Tigh in "[[Crossroads, Part I]] & [[Crossroads, Part II|II]]") - Joins crew of the ''Demetrius''<br />
*Unknown ("[[The Ties That Bind]]" to "[[Faith]]") - ''Demetrius'' returns<br />
*Captain Karl Agathon ("[[Guess What's Coming to Dinner?]]" to present)<br />
<br />
=== Chief Medical Officer ===<br />
<br />
*Major Cottle ([[Miniseries|Miniseries]] to present, with the exception of his relocation to New Caprica) <br />
*Unknown ("[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II|Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]" to "[[Exodus, Part II|Exodus, Part II]]")<br />
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=== Chief of the Deck ===<br />
<br />
*Chief Petty Officer Galen Tyrol ([[Miniseries|Miniseries]] to "[[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]") - Replaced by ''Pegasus's'' deck chief <br />
*Chief Petty Officer [[Peter Laird|Peter Laird]] ("Pegasus" to "[[Resurrection Ship, Part II|Resurrection Ship, Part II]]") - Laird reassigned to ''Pegasus'' <br />
*Chief Petty Officer Galen Tyrol ("[[Epiphanies|Epiphanies]]" to "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II|Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]") - Relocates to New Caprica <br />
*Unknown ("Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II" to "[[Exodus, Part II|Exodus, Part II]]") - Tyrol resumes post <br />
*Chief Petty Officer Galen Tyrol ("[[Collaborators|Collaborators]]" to "[[Escape Velocity|Escape Velocity]]") - Demoted by Admiral Adama <br />
*Chief Petty Officer Peter Laird ("Escape Velocity" to present)<br />
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=== Master-at-Arms ===<br />
<br />
*Sergeant [[Hadrian|Hadrian]] (Presumably [[Miniseries|Miniseries]] to present, but last mentioned in "[[Valley of Darkness|Valley of Darkness]]")<br />
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=== Landing Signal Officer ===<br />
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*Captain Aaron Kelly ("[[Miniseries|Miniseries]]" to "[[Scattered|Scattered]]") - Re-assigned as acting XO <br />
*Unknown ("Scattered" to "[[The Farm|The Farm]]") - Aaron Kelly resumes post <br />
*Captain Aaron Kelly ("The Farm" to "[[Exodus, Part I|Exodus, Part I]]") - Re-assigned as tactical officer <br />
*Unknown ("Exodus, Part I" to "[[Exodus, Part II|Exodus, Part II]]") - Aaron Kelly resumes post <br />
*Captain Aaron Kelly ("[[Collaborators|Collaborators]]" to "[[The Son Also Rises|The Son Also Rises]]") - Put in detention with charges pending <br />
*Unknown ("The Son Also Rises" to present)<br />
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<div>== Present Senior Staff ==<br />
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=== CIC ===<br />
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*Admiral [[William Adama|William Adama]] - Commanding officer <br />
*Colonel [[Saul Tigh|Saul Tigh]] - [[Executive officer|Executive officer]] <br />
*Captain [[Karl Agathon|Karl Agathon]] - [[Commander Air Group|Commander, Air Group]] <br />
*Lieutenant [[Hoshi|Hoshi]] - [[Tactical officer|Tactical officer]], Senior Officer of the Watch <br />
*Lieutenant [[Anastasia Dualla|Anastasia Dualla]]<br />
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=== Support ===<br />
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*Major [[Cottle|Cottle]] - [[Chief Medical Officer|Chief Medical Officer]]<br />
*Chief Petty Officer [[Peter Laird]] - Chief of the Deck<br />
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=== [[Marines|Marines]] ===<br />
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*Lieutenant [[Terry Burrell|Terry Burrell]] (seen only in "[[Sacrifice|Sacrifice]]") <br />
*[[Unnamed Galactica and Pegasus crew (RDM)#Marine Lieutenant|Unnamed lieutenant]] (seen only in "[[Escape Velocity|Escape Velocity]]")<br />
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== Chain of Command ==<br />
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Presently, the first in command aboard ''Galactica ''is Admiral Adama, and the second in command is Colonel Tigh. Captain Karl Agathon has risen to third-in-command and often assumes the post of executive officer instead of Tigh. Beyond that the hierarchy is unclear. Major [[Cottle|Cottle]] is a staff officer and outside of the chain of command. Given Captain [[Aaron Kelly|Aaron Kelly]]'s detention in "[[The Son Also Rises|The Son Also Rises]]" he is presumably no longer a candidate. <br />
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== Position Histories ==<br />
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=== Commanding Officer ===<br />
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*Commander William Adama ([[Miniseries|Miniseries]] to "[[Scattered|Scattered]]") - Injured after assassination attempt <br />
*Colonel Saul Tigh, Acting ("Scattered" to "[[The Farm|The Farm]]") - Relinquishes command after Commander Adama returns to duty <br />
*Admiral William Adama ("The Farm" to present) - Promoted to admiral by President [[Laura Roslin|Roslin]] ([[Resurrection Ship, Part II|Resurrection Ship, Part II]])<br />
*Admiral William Adama ("The Farm" to present) - Resigned position (temporarily - perhaps permanently) to search for President [[Laura Roslin|Roslin]] ("[[Sine Qua Non|Sine Qua Non]]")<br />
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=== Executive Officer ===<br />
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*Colonel Saul Tigh ([[Miniseries|Miniseries]] to "[[Scattered|Scattered]]") - Assumes command when Commander Adama is injured during an assassination attempt <br />
*Captain Aaron Kelly, Acting ("Scattered" to "[[The Farm|The Farm]]") - Returns to regular duties when Commander Adama resumes command <br />
*Colonel Saul Tigh ("The Farm" to "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II|Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]") - Relocates to [[New Caprica|New Caprica]] <br />
*Captain Karl Agathon ("[[Occupation|Occupation]]" to "[[The Passage|The Passage]]") - Colonel Tigh resumes post <br />
*Colonel Saul Tigh ("The Passage" to present. Interrupted by a short leave of absence in "[[Crossroads, Part I|Crossroads, Part I]] &amp; [[Crossroads, Part II|II]]")<br />
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=== Tactical officer ===<br />
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*Lieutenant Felix Gaeta ([[Miniseries|Miniseries]] to "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II|Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]") - Relocates to New Caprica (working as aide to President [[Gaius Baltar|Baltar]]) <br />
*Lieutenant Karl Agathon ("Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II") - Promoted to XO <br />
*Captain Aaron Kelly ("[[Occupation|Occupation]]" to "[[The Passage|The Passage]]") - Gaeta resumes post <br />
*Lieutenant Felix Gaeta ("The Passage" to "[[Six of One|Six of One]]") - Joined crew of the ''Demetrius'' <br />
*Lieutenant Hoshi ("[[The Ties That Bind|The Ties That Bind]]" to present)<br />
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=== Communications Officer ===<br />
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*Petty Officer 2nd Class Anastasia Dualla ([[Miniseries|Miniseries]] to "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II|Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]") - Promoted to XO of [[Pegasus (RDM)|''Pegasus'']] <br />
*Unknown ("[[Occupation|Occupation]]" to "[[Exodus, Part II|Exodus, Part II]]") <br />
*Lieutenant Hoshi ("[[Collaborators|Collaborators]]" to "[[Six of One|Six of One]]") - Reassigned to Tactical Officer <br />
*Unknown ("[[The Ties That Bind|The Ties That Bind]]" to present)<br />
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=== Commander, Air Group ===<br />
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*Major [[Jackson Spencer]] ([[Miniseries]]) - Killed in Action <br />
*Captain [[Lee Adama]] (Miniseries to "[[The Captain's Hand]]") - Promoted to CO of ''Pegasus'' <br />
*Captain [[George Birch]] ("[[Home, Part I]]" to "[[Home, Part II]]") - Temporary replacement for Captain Adama <br />
*Captain [[Kara Thrace]] ("[[Downloaded]]" to "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]") - Relocates to New Caprica <br />
*Captain [[Louanne Katraine]] ("Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II" to "[[Collaborators]]") - Demoted when Major Adama resumes post. Posthumous and symbolic promotion ([[The Passage]]) <br />
*Major Lee Adama ("[[Torn]]" to "[[The Son Also Rises]]") - Re-assigned as head of security for [[Romo Lampkin]] <br />
*Captain Karl Agathon ("The Son Also Rises" to "[[Six of One]]". Interrupted by a temporary stint as XO to replace Col. Tigh in "[[Crossroads, Part I]] & [[Crossroads, Part II|II]]") - Joins crew of the ''Demetrius''<br />
*Unknown ("[[The Ties That Bind]]" to "[[Faith]]") - ''Demetrius'' returns<br />
*Captain Karl Agathon ("[[Guess What's Coming to Dinner?]]" to present)<br />
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=== Chief Medical Officer ===<br />
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*Major Cottle ([[Miniseries|Miniseries]] to present, with the exception of his relocation to New Caprica) <br />
*Unknown ("[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II|Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]" to "[[Exodus, Part II|Exodus, Part II]]")<br />
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=== Chief of the Deck ===<br />
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*Chief Petty Officer Galen Tyrol ([[Miniseries|Miniseries]] to "[[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]") - Replaced by ''Pegasus's'' deck chief <br />
*Chief Petty Officer [[Peter Laird|Peter Laird]] ("Pegasus" to "[[Resurrection Ship, Part II|Resurrection Ship, Part II]]") - Laird reassigned to ''Pegasus'' <br />
*Chief Petty Officer Galen Tyrol ("[[Epiphanies|Epiphanies]]" to "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II|Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]") - Relocates to New Caprica <br />
*Unknown ("Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II" to "[[Exodus, Part II|Exodus, Part II]]") - Tyrol resumes post <br />
*Chief Petty Officer Galen Tyrol ("[[Collaborators|Collaborators]]" to "[[Escape Velocity|Escape Velocity]]") - Demoted by Admiral Adama <br />
*Chief Petty Officer Peter Laird ("Escape Velocity" to present)<br />
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=== Master-at-Arms ===<br />
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*Sergeant [[Hadrian|Hadrian]] (Presumably [[Miniseries|Miniseries]] to present, but last mentioned in "[[Valley of Darkness|Valley of Darkness]]")<br />
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=== Landing Signal Officer ===<br />
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*Captain Aaron Kelly ("[[Miniseries|Miniseries]]" to "[[Scattered|Scattered]]") - Re-assigned as acting XO <br />
*Unknown ("Scattered" to "[[The Farm|The Farm]]") - Aaron Kelly resumes post <br />
*Captain Aaron Kelly ("The Farm" to "[[Exodus, Part I|Exodus, Part I]]") - Re-assigned as tactical officer <br />
*Unknown ("Exodus, Part I" to "[[Exodus, Part II|Exodus, Part II]]") - Aaron Kelly resumes post <br />
*Captain Aaron Kelly ("[[Collaborators|Collaborators]]" to "[[The Son Also Rises|The Son Also Rises]]") - Put in detention with charges pending <br />
*Unknown ("The Son Also Rises" to present)<br />
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<div>:''This article discusses the [[Re-imagined Series]] battlestar. For other meanings of '''''Galactica''''', see [[Galactica (disambiguation)]].''<br />
{{Ship Data<br />
| image= Battlestar_stern.jpg<br />
| title= Galactica (BS 75)<br />
| race= Colonial<br />
| type= Military<br />
| ftl= Yes<br />
| crew= Approximately 2,650 <br />
| co= [[Saul Tigh]] (Acting)<br />
| xo= Unknown<br />
| role= Carrier / battleship hybrid<br />
| weapons= As many as 506 point-defense dual [[KEW|Kinetic Energy Weapons]], 24 primary dual Kinetic Energy Weapons, at least 12 [[missile tubes]] capable of firing conventional and nuclear missiles, Vipers, Raptors<br />
| status= Active<br />
| img= Y<br />
}}<br />
'''''Galactica'' (BS 75)''' is a [[Galactica type battlestar|veteran battlestar]] and the last of her kind still in service with the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Colonial Fleet]] at the time of the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|destruction of the Twelve Colonies]]. Built during the early days of the [[Cylon War]], she remains the only military vessel without integrated [[Computers|computer networks]]. Without networked computers, ''Galactica'' never upgrades to the new [[Command Navigation Program|integrated defense system software]] developed by Dr. [[Gaius Baltar]] and his [[Number Six|team]]. Because of this and other factors, she becomes one of only two known battlestars (the other being ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'') to survive the renewed Cylon attack on the [[Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]]. At the time of this attack, she was part of the 75th [[Battlestar Group]] (BSG-75).<br />
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== History ==<br />
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''Galactica'' was one of the first twelve battlestars to be constructed by the Colonials, each representing one of the twelve colonies; ''Galactica'' represented [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]]. As such, she is some 50 years old. Following the outbreak of Cylon hostilities several more battlestars were built. ''Galactica''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> first commander was named [[Nash]].<br />
[[Image:Mini gal top.jpg|left|thumb|A dorsal view of ''Galactica''. The starboard [[flight pod]] is covered by a window to form the [[Galactica Museum|museum area]].]]<br />
The original battlestars were all designed with non-integrated computer systems to avoid the Cylons' demonstrated ability to override or subvert networked command and control systems early in the war ([[Miniseries]]). Rather than technological sophistication, the battlestar depended on its sheer bulk and defensive / offensive capabilities to ward off any threats to itself or the Colonies. <br />
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After the [[Armistice Station|armistice]] with the Cylons, and their withdrawal from Colonial space, ''Galactica'' and her sister ships served the Twelve Colonies in a variety of roles. While her surviving sister ships were scrapped or upgraded to match the systems capabilities of newer Colonial vessels, ''Galactica'' continued in service without her systems being fully networked or integrated, making her unique among Colonial military vessels. Galactica was relegated to intra-system duties for at least 20 years prior to her decommissioning.<br />
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With her active career drawing to a close, a decision was taken to retire ''Galactica'' and decommission her from service. Colonial Fleet chose not to scrap her, but to turn her into a combination of living museum to the original Cylon War and an educational center, with her conversion being overseen by her final commander, [[William Adama]].<br />
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At the time of her formal decommissioning ceremony, ''Galactica'' is stripped of all but one of her operational [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] Mark VII squadrons, her munitions are destroyed, and her starboard landing pod is converted into a pressurized [[Galactica Museum|museum]] which houses (among other things) a full squadron of [[Viper Mark II|Mk. II Vipers]] as well as a Viper model that appears [[Viper (TOS)|older than the Mark II]] (Miniseries, also in deleted scenes).<br />
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With the renewed and unexpected Cylon hostilities, ''Galactica'' is quickly brought back to combat condition and sorties several Mark IIs retrieved from her museum, engaging in her first battle with the Cylons in over 40 years (all but one last Mark VII squadron were sent to Caprica for reassignment). She survives a direct hit by a tactical nuclear missile, and later [[FTL|jumps]] successfully to [[Ragnar Anchorage]] to replenish her empty ammunition stores at this strategic depot.<br />
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''Galactica'' emerges from the anchorage and engages one [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]] with her gun batteries, providing cover for [[The Fleet (RDM)|a fleet of 75 civilian ships]] harboring survivors of the Twelve Colonies. Once the entire civilian fleet successfully jumps away, and as a second basestar approaches to join the battle, ''Galactica'' recovers her remaining Vipers and jumps to the rendezvous point beyond the [[Red Line]], never to return to Colonial space ([[Miniseries]]). <br />
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Since the exodus of the Colonials from their overrun homeworlds, ''Galactica'' becomes both protector and provider for the Fleet. She provides covering fire for the Fleet during Cylon attacks no fewer than 240 times ("[[33]]", "[[Act of Contrition]]"). The battlestar provides much of the Fleet with recycled water ([[Water]]) and she is the primary source of medical care, where groups of civilians are periodically brought aboard for check-ups and treatment ([[Litmus]]). ''Galactica'' also undertakes internal policing duties within the Fleet ("[[Water]]", "[[Bastille Day]]").<br />
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''Galactica'' successfully goes on the offensive against the Cylons, capturing a [[tylium]] fuel mining and processing plant in the process ([[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]).<br />
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The [[Mercury class battlestar|advanced battlestar]] ''Pegasus'', commanded by Admiral [[Helena Cain|Cain]], joins ''Galactica'' approximately 6 months into their exile (See the series [[Timeline (RDM)|timeline]] for special information about this milestone). The two battlestars destroy two [[Basestar (RDM)|basestars]] as well as a critical Cylon support ship known as the [[Resurrection Ship]]. After Admiral Cain's death, President [[Laura Roslin|Roslin]] promotes William Adama to Admiral, restoring him to overall Fleet command, but now with two battlestars at his disposal ([[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]).<br />
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===New Caprica===<br />
Following the founding of [[New Caprica]], ''Galactica'' is assigned to the orbital defense force that protects the planet. During this time the majority of her crew are allowed to the surface in an effort to populate the planet and restore the human race, a majority of whom are seemingly convinced that the Cylons will never find New Caprica. The diminished staff inevitably results in standard maintenance becoming overlooked or ignored; basic military responses, such as the launching of alert fighters and routine training exercises become difficult to execute. One year following the founding of New Caprica, a fleet of Cylon ships jump into orbit of the planet. Severely limited in their abilities, Admiral Adama orders the defense fleet to jump away from New Caprica along with a handful of civilian ships still in orbit of the colony. They vow to eventually return to New Caprica and liberate it from the Cylon invaders ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]).<br />
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===[[Battle of New Caprica]]===<br />
Four months after their escape, ''Galactica'''s staff is still in the process of developing a rescue strategy with 16 training exercises having been completed and a 17th underway when an accident causes its early cessation ([[Occupation]]). This forces both a change in strategy and the reformulation of a rescue plan to deal with personnel who have not seen conflict in 16 months. While ''Galactica'' fights to liberate the Colonials on-planet, ''Pegasus'' is assigned to protect the remaining civilian fleet and continue its search for [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]] ("[[Precipice]]", "[[Exodus, Part I]]").<br />
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After coordinating with the [[New Caprica Resistance]], ''Galactica'' leaves ''Pegasus'' to guard the space-bound members of humanity while it uses a series of drones to misdirect the bulk of the Cylon Raiders and avoid immediate detection by baseships, thus allowing the civilians on the planet to escape to their ships and flee New Caprica.<br />
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''Galactica'' then jumps into low orbit, plummeting from an altitude of 100,000 feet. As the ship falls, Admiral Adama orders the launch of all remaining Vipers. ''Galactica'' then jumps back into orbit. In the subsequent battle with the orbiting basestars, ''Galactica'' is overtaxed, out-gunned, and faces destruction when ''Pegasus'' unexpectedly arrives. ''Pegasus''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> salvos draw the attention of the basestars away from ''Galactica'', buying ''Galactica'' time to bring her [[FTL|FTL drives]] back on-line and escape, but at the cost of ''Pegasus''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> destruction ([[Exodus, Part II]]).<br />
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''Galactica'' bears the scars of the battle with significant scorching and dents to the hull. Nonetheless, the battlestar remains combat ready, holding off a superior Cylon force for a short duration in the [[Battle of NCD2539]] ([[A Measure of Salvation]]), and threatening to use its nuclear arsenal twice after New Caprica ("[[The Eye of Jupiter]]", "[[Crossroads, Part II]]"). Given the loss of ''Pegasus'', ''Galactica'' now boasts a larger crew, Viper and Raptor complement, to the point where there are more pilots than there are ships to fly ([[Torn]]), although the training of new recruits is still ongoing ("[[Dirty Hands]]", "[[Crossroads]]", "[[He That Believeth In Me]]"). Further, there are various redundancies between the two crews that are appropriately dealt with (e.g. [[Lee Adama]] in a [[List of Deleted Scenes - Season 3 (RDM)|deleted scene]] from "[[Exodus, Part II]]").<br />
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In "[[A Day in the Life]]", Colonel Tigh comments that ''Galactica'' took so much damage in this battle that it would "take six weeks in dry dock just to bang out the dents". This indicates that the damage is extensive enough to require a significant amount time (probably months) for full repair, and would be unlikely to survive a massive battle again. <br />
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===Resuming the search for Earth===<br />
''Galactica'' takes aboard a significant quantity of civilians following the exodus from New Caprica, as several civilian ships are lost during the escape from the failed colony. Cramped conditions increase as crew and civilians struggle to adapt to life back aboard a ship. The civilians reside on the refurbished starboard hangar deck as a refugee camp nicknamed "[[Camp Oil Slick]]" and later "Dogsville" ("[[Torn]]", "[[The Woman King]]").<br />
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During a [[The Passage|food shortage crisis]] caused by contamination of the Fleet's food processing systems, ''Galactica'' (along with her Raptors acting as pilot ships) guides the civilian Fleet through an area of intense heat, light and radiation caused by a [[Passage (star cluster)|dense star cluster]] to reach edible resources on the [[algae planet]]. ''Galactica''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> heavy armor and radiation shielding protect her from the intense effects of the cluster, but the ship still suffers hull damage and decompressions.<br />
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The ship confronts a Cylon fleet and barely escapes a nova during [[Eye of Jupiter|the events over the algae planet]], jumping out at the last moment after recovering its ground teams and additional data on a way-point to Earth known to the Colonials as the [[Ionian nebula]] ("[[The Eye of Jupiter]]", "[[Rapture]]"). Repairs continue on the journey to the Ionian nebula. Damage to one particular airlock nearly causes the deaths of Galen and Cally Tyrol during what they expected to be a quick repair of a hull micro-fracture ([[A Day in the Life]]). <br />
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When the Fleet reaches the nebula, four Cylon baseships are detected following an unexplained power outage. With the entire Fleet crippled and unable to escape, ''Galactica'' scrambles her Vipers and prepares for a lopsided fight, outnumbered and outgunned ([[Crossroads, Part II]]). During the [[Battle of the Ionian Nebula|following battle]], ''Galactica'' manages to hold off the main attack of the massive Cylon attack force. Despite the damage suffered in previous engagements, the old warship wields her main guns and point defense batteries effectively again in defense of the Fleet. During the battle ''Galactica'' takes many hits while covering the Fleet although without crippling damage. Despite having the advantage, and managing to destroy or damage several civilian ships, the Cylons retreat in the middle of the battle, after detecting one of the [[Final Five]] among the Colonials ([[He That Believeth In Me]]).<br />
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== Equipment ==<br />
Barring any technological upgrades that may have been made to other ships of [[Galactica type battlestar|her class]], ''Galactica'' shares the same overall technical specifications as other original Colonial battlestars.<br />
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===Starboard Flight Pod===<br />
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The starboard landing bay is eventually restored to usable condition, evidenced when Major Lee Adama lands his Raptor in the starboard pod. However, it is possible that this is due to a previously issued quarantine order and not because the flight pod is in regular use ([[A Measure of Salvation]]). The starboard hangar deck is designated an [[Dogsville|area of refuge]] for civilians displaced from lost ships (The Woman King).<br />
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===Nuclear Warheads===<br />
[[Image:Galactica nukes.jpg|thumb|''Galactica'''s nuclear arsenal.]]<br />
''Galactica'' has five nuclear warheads as of "[[Bastille Day]]". Commander [[William Adama|Adama]] uses one warhead to destroy the Cylon [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]] orbiting Kobol ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]), and Dr. [[Gaius Baltar|Baltar]] cannibalizes one to use in his [[Cylon detector]]. He later gives the warhead to [[Gina Inviere]], who detonates it aboard ''[[Cloud Nine]]''. <br />
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It is unknown how many nuclear warheads ''Pegasus'' has when it encounters ''Galactica'', but the two ships pool their nuclear ordnance stockpiles after that. As of "[[The Eye of Jupiter]]", ''Galactica'' possesses at least seven warheads ([[missile tube]]s 4 through 10).<br />
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:''The yield of these weapons is unknown. It is likely they are of a "dial a yield" design which is common in real-life nuclear weapons. Because the physics of nuclear weapon design is a measurable science, and based on the size of the weapons seen on screen, the yield of ''Galactica''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> weapons may lie between 5 and 150 kilotons.''<ref>This is extrapolated from the size of the weapon, compared to a modern day ([[w:W80|W80]])-class nuclear warhead used by the United States.</ref><br />
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===Vipers===<br />
[[image:1104Tube Mini.JPG|right|thumb|200X|Viper in launch tube.]]<br />
:''For information on the fighter squadrons stationed on ''Galactica'' see: [[Squadrons of Galactica]]''<br />
Prior to the arrival of ''Pegasus'', ''Galactica'' carries a maximum thirty-four Vipers, of which at least six are Mark VIIs. Following the advent of ''Pegasus'', ''Galactica'' receives supplies that aid in the repair and refurbishment of her initial fighter complement ([[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]). Some time later, new Mark VII Vipers are constructed at ''Pegasus''s' Viper construction facilities utilizing the raw ore mined in an asteroid belt ([[Scar]]), and several of those are assigned to ''Galactica''. <br />
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With ''Pegasus'' destroyed at the [[Battle of New Caprica]], ''Galactica'' absorbs the former's Viper squadrons and personnel. It is uncertain how many total Vipers ''Galactica'' has since, as ''Pegasus''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> Viper complement was never accurately specified. However, given that there enough Vipers available to press [[nuggets]] into action during the [[Battle of the Ionian Nebula]], the number of Vipers appears to be relatively large.<br />
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===Raptors===<br />
The number of [[Raptor|Raptors]] available to ''Galactica'' is portrayed inconsistently. The assumption prior to joining up with ''Pegasus'' is that the battlestar has at least five Raptors, having left [[Ragnar Anchorage]] with at least eight. After the Battle of New Caprica, ''Galactica'' takes on ''Pegasus''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> Raptors. The subsequent number of available craft is unknown, but is at least 20, considering how many Raptors are deployed to rescue to the resistance fighters on Caprica ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]).<br />
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===Other Craft===<br />
*''Galactica'' currently possesses two [[Heavy Raider]]s. One is hit by ''Galactica''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s defensive fire and crashes into the starboard flight pod with unknown, but probably extensive, damage ([[Scattered]]). The other returns in operational status from [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] ([[Home, Part I]]). One of these Heavy Raiders is relieved of its FTL navigation system for use on the rescue mission to Caprica ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I]]).<br />
* A Raider from the first Cylon War may be on board ''Galactica'' after one follows Starbuck into one of ''Pegasus''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> landing bays and is shot down ([[Razor]]). A Cylon War era Raider, or at least a replica of one, was present in the [[Galactica Museum]], but has not been mentioned since.<br />
*A second [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Raider]] comes into ''Galactica''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> possession after [[Daniel Novacek]]'s "escape" from a basestar, replacing the one retrieved by [[Kara Thrace]] and lost during the quest for the [[Arrow of Apollo]] ([[Hero]]).<br />
*An experimental stealth fighter, the [[Blackbird]], is constructed using spare parts ([[Flight of the Phoenix]]) and used in a critically successful reconnaissance mission to explore the nature of what comes to be known as the [[Resurrection Ship]]. The Blackbird is destroyed after completing its [[Battle of the Resurrection Ship|first combat mission]] ([[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]).<br />
*''Galactica'' possesses [[fuel tanker]]s used to supply fuel to Vipers and Raptors in flight without the need to dock with the ship. These may be dedicated craft or specially fitted shuttles or Raptors ([[Occupation]]).<br />
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== Crew ==<br />
:''For information on Senior Staff, see : [[Senior Staff of Galactica]]'' <br />
:''For a list of pilots, see: [[List of Pilots]]'' <br />
:''For a list of deckhands, see: [[List of deckhands]]'' <br />
:''For a list of marines, see: [[Colonial Marine Corps]]'' <br />
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Before the attack, ''Galactica'' has approximately 2,800 crewmen. By the time of the arrival of ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'', attrition has reduced this number to about 2,660. (c.f. [[Crew tally]])<br />
*Between "[[Act of Contrition]]" and "[[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]" ''Galactica''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> offensive capability is also greatly hampered by the number of [[List of Pilots|qualified pilots]] available, and their lack of flight simulators with which to train more. Since ''Galactica''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> reunion with ''Pegasus'', this has ceased to be an issue ([[Scar]]).<br />
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==Related Imagery==<br />
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Image:Galactica Ortho copy.jpg|''Galactica'' - [[Zoic]] rendering &nbsp; &nbsp;<br />
Image:BSG Ortho Bottom.jpg|''Galactica'' - Zoic rendering &nbsp; &nbsp;<br />
Image:Galactica - flight pods retracted.jpg|''Galactica'' with flight pods retracted.<br />
Image:BSG landing alcove.jpg|''Galactica'' landing alcove.<br />
Image:Pointdefence2 101 1080i.jpg|''Galactica''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> batteries in action &nbsp; &nbsp;<br />
Image:Galactica fights off missile salvos.jpg|''Galactica'' establishes a defense perimeter.<br />
Image:CIC Overview 1.jpg|''Galactica'''s CIC.<br />
Image:Cicweaponscontrol1.jpg|Weapon's control.<br />
Image:Cictacticalstation1.jpg|Tactical station.<br />
Image:Cic commstation.jpg|Communications.<br />
Image:The Mess.jpg|The Officers' mess hall.<br />
Image:Galactica corridor.jpg|The "A-shaped" corridors.<br />
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== See also ==<br />
*[[Galactica crew facilities (RDM)|Galactica crew facilities]]<br />
*[[:Category:Galactica Areas (RDM)|Galactica Areas]]<br />
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== "C-Bucks" ==<br />
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I've had to remove your recent addition of Anders' alleged callsign. There is nothing in the dialogue for "[[He That Believeth In Me]]" that suggests that "C-Bucks" is his callsign. On the other hand, if you can point where exactly [[Sharon Agathon|Athena]] calls him this, that would be appreciated -- although I was listening pretty closely for such things and didn't pick it up. (I've had the episode for more than a week now, seeing as I received the screener and was able to review it.) Comments? Questions? Concerns? -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]] - [[bsp:|Battlestar Pegasus]]</sup> 14:57, 6 April 2008 (UTC)<br />
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Athena says "Hey look. Stay cool out there, alright. You lock on [or something like that] and do what you're trained to do. Come on." (with some replies from Anders in between). Nothing that sounds even remotely like "C-Buck". -- [[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 15:52, 6 April 2008 (UTC)<br />
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If you have the subtitles on at 00:05:17 Athena says C-Buck</div>Number1https://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Samuel_Anders&diff=153989Samuel Anders2008-04-06T15:57:19Z<p>Number1: Fixing Reference</p>
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|age=<br />
|colony=[[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Picon|Picon]]<br />
|birthname=<br />
|callsign= C-Buck<ref>{{cite episode<br />
| title = He That Believeth In Me<br />
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| network = Sci-Fi Channel<br />
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| airdate = 2008-04-04<br />
| season = 4<br />
| number = 2<br />
| timestamp = 00:05:17<br />
| format = TV<br />
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|seen= Resistance (episode)<br />
|pseen= Resistance<br />
|death=<br />
|parents=<br />
|siblings=<br />
|children=<br />
|marital status=Married to [[Kara Thrace]]<br />
|role=[[nugget|pilot in training]], former [[Caprica Resistance]] leader and professional [[Pyramid (RDM)|pyramid]] player.<br />
|rank= Ensign<br />
|actor=[[Michael Trucco]]<br />
|5cylon=y<br />
|name= Samuel T. Anders<br />
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'''Samuel T. Anders''' was the captain of the professional [[Pyramid (RDM)|pyramid]] team known as the [[Caprica Buccaneers]] who became the one-time leader of the human [[Caprica Resistance|resistance group]] on [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]]. Despite leading a Caprican team, he hails from [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Picon|Picon]]. He is later rescued by [[Kara Thrace]], marries her, helps lead [[New Caprica Resistance|another resistance]] on [[New Caprica]], holds animosity towards [[Lee Adama]] because of his wife's love for Adama, and later becomes a [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] [[nugget|pilot in training]] after his wife's [[Maelstrom|apparent death]]. <br />
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However, he [[Crossroads, Part II|recently became aware]] of his [[Humanoid Cylon|true nature]] as being one of the "[[Final Five]]", as well as the possibility that his wife might be a Cylon herself.<br />
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==Biography==<br />
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Allegedly born on [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Picon|Picon]], Anders attended [[Noyce Elementary School]]. Sometime during his life, he later became a player on the [[Caprica Buccaneers]]. During the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]], he was leading his team in high-altitude training in the mountains outside of [[Delphi]], where he and his team were able to survive the massive nuclear attack.<br />
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Being in a high-altitude rural area shielded Anders and his team from the blasts and most of the radioactive fallout that followed. He and the Buccaneers become ''ad hoc'' resistance fighters from that point forward, raiding armories and collecting caches of weapons, [[anti-radiation medication]], ammo and supplies in the hopes of staying alive and defending themselves against the Cylons.<br />
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[[image:Resistance-Anders_Starbuck.jpg|thumb|left|'''Anders''' and [[Kara Thrace]] play [[Pyramid (RDM)|Pyramid]] at the [[Caprica Resistance]]'s HQ on [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]] in "[[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]".]]<br />
Anders was able to rally upwards of 100 people, mostly hikers and survivalists, to his resistance against the Cylons and from the former [[Delphi Union High School]] he was able to strike back at the Cylons for nine months. Unlike [[Karl Agathon|Helo]], the Caprica-based (and pregnant) [[Sharon Agathon|Sharon Valerii]], and [[Kara Thrace|Starbuck]], Anders seems to be focused more on surviving on Caprica than he is with leaving the planet.<br />
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Anders and his resistance members encounter Starbuck and Helo two months after the initial Cylon attack ([[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]).<br />
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Anders' main focus for a time is keeping himself and his resistance movement alive long enough for Kara Thrace to return to Caprica once again with reinforcements from ''Galactica'' and evacuate them. Thrace gives him her [[Identification tags|Fleet ID tags]] as a promise that she would come back for him. While waiting for rescue, Anders plans to locate and destroy as many Cylon hybrid-producing "farms" as possible ([[The Farm]]).<br />
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Anders and the resistance movement conduct acts of terrorism against the Cylons after they appropriate Delphi for their own. His aim was to scare the Cylons into believing there is no safe place for them and to kill them in the most gruesome way possible so they remember when they are reborn what it is like to die violently, like in an explosion ([[Downloaded]]).<br />
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Following the Cylon's reappropriation of Delphi, Anders and his fighters continue their insurgency, and carry out a series of attacks on the Cylons, the most notable of which was the destruction of a café which kill roughly 40 Cylons. After planting the bomb in a garage, Anders is trapped with the bomb after defending it from a Centurion. Hiding behind a car on the other side of the garage, Anders is mostly protected from the blast but buried under rubble. Later found by [[Sharon Valerii (Galactica copy)|Boomer]] and [[Number Three]]. Anders is spared, as he would be a useful source of information. When [[Caprica-Six]] talks about genocide and God's love, Anders uses the opening to try and kill Number Three, but is stopped by Boomer. Three is more than willing to take revenge, but all were astonished when Caprica-Six kills Three. Heeding Six's orders to get out, Anders flees, still puzzled by what had transpired ([[Downloaded]]).<br />
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Anders survives an assault by the Cylons at the resistance's headquarters -- the same morning that the Caprica [[SAR]] team lands nearby. The Cylons assaulted the remnants of the Resistance as they head for the Raptors ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I]]), forcing them to go to higher ground. After the Cylons stop attacking them, Thrace (leading the rescue team) fears the worst. Anders and Thrace promise to kill each other so that the Cylons would be unable to put them in one of their [[farms]]. Miraculously, a [[Cavil|mysterious man]] appears to tell the team that the Cylons had left the Colonies. <br />
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Thrace and Anders' relationship picks up where it left off, forcing a rift to occur between Thrace and Lee Adama.<br />
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A year later, now married to Thrace on [[New Caprica]], Anders develops [[Wikipedia:pneumonia|pneumonia]], forcing Thrace to beg Lee Adama to release some [[antibiotics]] reserved for ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]''' pilots. <br />
[[Image:Anders LDYBPII.JPG|thumb|Ill Anders playing pyramid with his teammates, moments before being tackled from behind ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]])]]<br />
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After the Cylons occupy New Caprica, Anders is visited by a copy of [[Leoben Conoy]] who inquires on Kara Thrace's whereabouts ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]). Since the Cylons had forced ''Pegasus'' and the defense fleet away from New Caprica, the antibiotics are no longer avaliable to help Anders.<br />
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Anders recovers from his sickness and is a leader of the [[New Caprica Resistance]], along with [[Saul Tigh]] and [[Galen Tyrol]]. Thrace was taken from him sometime after the occupation, and he is unsure if she is still alive ([[Occupation]]).<br />
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Four months into the occupation, contact is made with a Raptor and a rescue plan is put in motion. Anders meets ''Galactica'''s liaison officer [[Sharon Agathon]] in [[Breeders Canyon]], and the group is ambushed by Cylon Centurions ([[Precipice]]).<br />
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After the Centurions are neutralized, a map is found on a dead [[Humanoid Cylon|'skinjob']]. Anders realizes that the map is the one given to [[Ellen Tigh]] to destroy in a heating fire. Tigh is then suspected of collaborating with the Cylons.<br />
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Later, Anders is charged by Laura Roslin with protecting [[Maya]] and the Cylon-human hybrid baby [[Hera Agathon|Hera]] ([[Exodus, Part I]]).<br />
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Anders then tells [[Saul Tigh]] about his [[Ellen Tigh|wife]]'s betrayal. He tells Tigh that if he doesn't "take care" of the problem, someone else will. After ''Galactica'' jumps into orbit, Anders and a group of resistance fighters set off multiple bombs around New Caprica City. They then retrieve a cache of weapons hidden under the Pyramid court in order storm the [[New Caprica Detention Center]] and free the humans imprisoned within. Inside the detention center, Anders and a team of Marines find an unconscious Kara Thrace in her apartment style prison cell. Anders begins to carry Thrace out of the center but is interrupted after Thrace regains consciousness and runs back to retrieve her daughter, [[Kacey]]. Anders finds Thrace and Kacey back at the apartment, and leads both out of the detention center ([[Exodus, Part II]]).<br />
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Shortly following the Fleet's abandonment of New Caprica, Anders is brought into the [[The Circle|Circle]], a secret council assembled by President [[Tom Zarek]] for the purpose of judging and executing those who had collaborated with the Cylons during the occupation. Anders soon becomes uncomfortable with the Circle's actions and leaves the group. Thrace accepts the Circle's invitation to replace Anders, an act her husband sees as a personal betrayal. He hands back Thrace's ID tag, saying he doesn't want it anymore. Thrace and Anders are still husband and wife, but the combination of Thrace's joining the Circle and her feelings for Lee Adama has heavily strains their marriage. He eventually moves off ''Galactica'' to the ''[[Salpica]]'' ([[Unfinished Business (Extended Version)]]), which limits their contact to occasional visits per shuttle or participation in critical missions ("[[The Eye of Jupiter]]", "[[Rapture]]").<br />
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The death of his wife ([[Maelstrom]]) weighs heavily on Anders. Two weeks later he is found drunk on the hangar deck, standing atop of a Viper and playing with a [[cubit]]. When Lee Adama is tries to get Anders to come down, he slips, falls and breaks one of his legs. Later, Anders joins Adama at the [[memorial wall]] where Adama has put up Kara Thrace's picture ([[The Son Also Rises]]). Shortly after this, Anders decides to follow in his wife's footsteps, and becomes commissioned in the Fleet as a [[nugget|pilot in training]] ([[Crossroads, Part I]]).<br />
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Not long after he begins a relationship with [[Tory Foster]], he realizes that the pair of them are experiencing [[The Music|hearing something unusual]]. Later on, he discovers that Tyrol hears the strange sounds as well, but does not get the opportunity to discuss it with him. When Anders, along with Tyrol, Foster and Saul Tigh find themselves drawn to a room shortly after the Fleet arrives at the [[Ionian nebula]], they instinctively realized that they are four of the [[Final Five]] Cylons. However, both he and Tigh agree that their lives up until that point were not in vain, and the four wordlessly agree to continue their allegiance to the Colonies ([[Crossroads, Part II]]).<br />
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[[Image:Ander's red eye.jpg|thumb|Anders's "red eye" moment.]]<br />
He participates in the [[Battle of the Ionian Nebula]], finding himself face to face with a Cylon [[Raider (RDM)|Raider]] that he fails to destroy because his weapon safeties are enabled. The fortuitous act results in the Raider scanning Anders, whose eye flickers red. The Raider apparently determines that he is a Cylon and it is likely due to this that the Cylons abruptly abort their attack on the Fleet ([[He That Believeth In Me]]).<br />
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==Notes==<br />
*"Ander" is derived from a Greek term meaning "Man" (a well known example would be that "Anderson" means "Son of Andrew/Andreas/etc", the name being a descendant of Greek andreios ‘manly’, from aner ‘man’, ‘male’, genitive andros). Fitting, given that Anders is leading the last free humans alive on Caprica in a resistance against the Cylons: it's literally a fight of "Man" versus Machines. The revelation of Anders as a Cylon makes this ironic.<br />
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*The tattoo that Anders has on his right arm in Season 3 is his "wedding band". He got it after he married [[Kara Thrace]], who also has a similar tattoo, but it is on her left arm. They match up to form one set of wings and the circles overlap when they're facing each other. Both of them have half of the constellation of Capricorn (a reference to [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] obviously) and a small symbol of the planet as well.<br />
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[[fr:Samuel Anders]]</div>Number1https://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Samuel_Anders&diff=153987Samuel Anders2008-04-06T15:53:01Z<p>Number1: </p>
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|photo=Samuel Anders.jpg<br />
|age=<br />
|colony=[[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Picon|Picon]]<br />
|birthname=<br />
|callsign= C-Buck<ref>{{cite episode/bsg|4|3|timestamp=00:05:17}}</ref><br />
|seen= Resistance (episode)<br />
|pseen= Resistance<br />
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|parents=<br />
|siblings=<br />
|children=<br />
|marital status=Married to [[Kara Thrace]]<br />
|role=[[nugget|pilot in training]], former [[Caprica Resistance]] leader and professional [[Pyramid (RDM)|pyramid]] player.<br />
|rank= Ensign<br />
|actor=[[Michael Trucco]]<br />
|5cylon=y<br />
|name= Samuel T. Anders<br />
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'''Samuel T. Anders''' was the captain of the professional [[Pyramid (RDM)|pyramid]] team known as the [[Caprica Buccaneers]] who became the one-time leader of the human [[Caprica Resistance|resistance group]] on [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]]. Despite leading a Caprican team, he hails from [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Picon|Picon]]. He is later rescued by [[Kara Thrace]], marries her, helps lead [[New Caprica Resistance|another resistance]] on [[New Caprica]], holds animosity towards [[Lee Adama]] because of his wife's love for Adama, and later becomes a [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] [[nugget|pilot in training]] after his wife's [[Maelstrom|apparent death]]. <br />
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However, he [[Crossroads, Part II|recently became aware]] of his [[Humanoid Cylon|true nature]] as being one of the "[[Final Five]]", as well as the possibility that his wife might be a Cylon herself.<br />
<br />
==Biography==<br />
<br />
Allegedly born on [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Picon|Picon]], Anders attended [[Noyce Elementary School]]. Sometime during his life, he later became a player on the [[Caprica Buccaneers]]. During the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]], he was leading his team in high-altitude training in the mountains outside of [[Delphi]], where he and his team were able to survive the massive nuclear attack.<br />
<br />
Being in a high-altitude rural area shielded Anders and his team from the blasts and most of the radioactive fallout that followed. He and the Buccaneers become ''ad hoc'' resistance fighters from that point forward, raiding armories and collecting caches of weapons, [[anti-radiation medication]], ammo and supplies in the hopes of staying alive and defending themselves against the Cylons.<br />
<br />
[[image:Resistance-Anders_Starbuck.jpg|thumb|left|'''Anders''' and [[Kara Thrace]] play [[Pyramid (RDM)|Pyramid]] at the [[Caprica Resistance]]'s HQ on [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]] in "[[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]".]]<br />
Anders was able to rally upwards of 100 people, mostly hikers and survivalists, to his resistance against the Cylons and from the former [[Delphi Union High School]] he was able to strike back at the Cylons for nine months. Unlike [[Karl Agathon|Helo]], the Caprica-based (and pregnant) [[Sharon Agathon|Sharon Valerii]], and [[Kara Thrace|Starbuck]], Anders seems to be focused more on surviving on Caprica than he is with leaving the planet.<br />
<br />
Anders and his resistance members encounter Starbuck and Helo two months after the initial Cylon attack ([[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]).<br />
<br />
Anders' main focus for a time is keeping himself and his resistance movement alive long enough for Kara Thrace to return to Caprica once again with reinforcements from ''Galactica'' and evacuate them. Thrace gives him her [[Identification tags|Fleet ID tags]] as a promise that she would come back for him. While waiting for rescue, Anders plans to locate and destroy as many Cylon hybrid-producing "farms" as possible ([[The Farm]]).<br />
<br />
Anders and the resistance movement conduct acts of terrorism against the Cylons after they appropriate Delphi for their own. His aim was to scare the Cylons into believing there is no safe place for them and to kill them in the most gruesome way possible so they remember when they are reborn what it is like to die violently, like in an explosion ([[Downloaded]]).<br />
<br />
Following the Cylon's reappropriation of Delphi, Anders and his fighters continue their insurgency, and carry out a series of attacks on the Cylons, the most notable of which was the destruction of a café which kill roughly 40 Cylons. After planting the bomb in a garage, Anders is trapped with the bomb after defending it from a Centurion. Hiding behind a car on the other side of the garage, Anders is mostly protected from the blast but buried under rubble. Later found by [[Sharon Valerii (Galactica copy)|Boomer]] and [[Number Three]]. Anders is spared, as he would be a useful source of information. When [[Caprica-Six]] talks about genocide and God's love, Anders uses the opening to try and kill Number Three, but is stopped by Boomer. Three is more than willing to take revenge, but all were astonished when Caprica-Six kills Three. Heeding Six's orders to get out, Anders flees, still puzzled by what had transpired ([[Downloaded]]).<br />
<br />
Anders survives an assault by the Cylons at the resistance's headquarters -- the same morning that the Caprica [[SAR]] team lands nearby. The Cylons assaulted the remnants of the Resistance as they head for the Raptors ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I]]), forcing them to go to higher ground. After the Cylons stop attacking them, Thrace (leading the rescue team) fears the worst. Anders and Thrace promise to kill each other so that the Cylons would be unable to put them in one of their [[farms]]. Miraculously, a [[Cavil|mysterious man]] appears to tell the team that the Cylons had left the Colonies. <br />
<br />
Thrace and Anders' relationship picks up where it left off, forcing a rift to occur between Thrace and Lee Adama.<br />
<br />
A year later, now married to Thrace on [[New Caprica]], Anders develops [[Wikipedia:pneumonia|pneumonia]], forcing Thrace to beg Lee Adama to release some [[antibiotics]] reserved for ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]''' pilots. <br />
[[Image:Anders LDYBPII.JPG|thumb|Ill Anders playing pyramid with his teammates, moments before being tackled from behind ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]])]]<br />
<br />
After the Cylons occupy New Caprica, Anders is visited by a copy of [[Leoben Conoy]] who inquires on Kara Thrace's whereabouts ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]). Since the Cylons had forced ''Pegasus'' and the defense fleet away from New Caprica, the antibiotics are no longer avaliable to help Anders.<br />
<br />
Anders recovers from his sickness and is a leader of the [[New Caprica Resistance]], along with [[Saul Tigh]] and [[Galen Tyrol]]. Thrace was taken from him sometime after the occupation, and he is unsure if she is still alive ([[Occupation]]).<br />
<br />
Four months into the occupation, contact is made with a Raptor and a rescue plan is put in motion. Anders meets ''Galactica'''s liaison officer [[Sharon Agathon]] in [[Breeders Canyon]], and the group is ambushed by Cylon Centurions ([[Precipice]]).<br />
<br />
After the Centurions are neutralized, a map is found on a dead [[Humanoid Cylon|'skinjob']]. Anders realizes that the map is the one given to [[Ellen Tigh]] to destroy in a heating fire. Tigh is then suspected of collaborating with the Cylons.<br />
<br />
Later, Anders is charged by Laura Roslin with protecting [[Maya]] and the Cylon-human hybrid baby [[Hera Agathon|Hera]] ([[Exodus, Part I]]).<br />
<br />
Anders then tells [[Saul Tigh]] about his [[Ellen Tigh|wife]]'s betrayal. He tells Tigh that if he doesn't "take care" of the problem, someone else will. After ''Galactica'' jumps into orbit, Anders and a group of resistance fighters set off multiple bombs around New Caprica City. They then retrieve a cache of weapons hidden under the Pyramid court in order storm the [[New Caprica Detention Center]] and free the humans imprisoned within. Inside the detention center, Anders and a team of Marines find an unconscious Kara Thrace in her apartment style prison cell. Anders begins to carry Thrace out of the center but is interrupted after Thrace regains consciousness and runs back to retrieve her daughter, [[Kacey]]. Anders finds Thrace and Kacey back at the apartment, and leads both out of the detention center ([[Exodus, Part II]]).<br />
<br />
Shortly following the Fleet's abandonment of New Caprica, Anders is brought into the [[The Circle|Circle]], a secret council assembled by President [[Tom Zarek]] for the purpose of judging and executing those who had collaborated with the Cylons during the occupation. Anders soon becomes uncomfortable with the Circle's actions and leaves the group. Thrace accepts the Circle's invitation to replace Anders, an act her husband sees as a personal betrayal. He hands back Thrace's ID tag, saying he doesn't want it anymore. Thrace and Anders are still husband and wife, but the combination of Thrace's joining the Circle and her feelings for Lee Adama has heavily strains their marriage. He eventually moves off ''Galactica'' to the ''[[Salpica]]'' ([[Unfinished Business (Extended Version)]]), which limits their contact to occasional visits per shuttle or participation in critical missions ("[[The Eye of Jupiter]]", "[[Rapture]]").<br />
<br />
The death of his wife ([[Maelstrom]]) weighs heavily on Anders. Two weeks later he is found drunk on the hangar deck, standing atop of a Viper and playing with a [[cubit]]. When Lee Adama is tries to get Anders to come down, he slips, falls and breaks one of his legs. Later, Anders joins Adama at the [[memorial wall]] where Adama has put up Kara Thrace's picture ([[The Son Also Rises]]). Shortly after this, Anders decides to follow in his wife's footsteps, and becomes commissioned in the Fleet as a [[nugget|pilot in training]] ([[Crossroads, Part I]]).<br />
<br />
Not long after he begins a relationship with [[Tory Foster]], he realizes that the pair of them are experiencing [[The Music|hearing something unusual]]. Later on, he discovers that Tyrol hears the strange sounds as well, but does not get the opportunity to discuss it with him. When Anders, along with Tyrol, Foster and Saul Tigh find themselves drawn to a room shortly after the Fleet arrives at the [[Ionian nebula]], they instinctively realized that they are four of the [[Final Five]] Cylons. However, both he and Tigh agree that their lives up until that point were not in vain, and the four wordlessly agree to continue their allegiance to the Colonies ([[Crossroads, Part II]]).<br />
<br />
[[Image:Ander's red eye.jpg|thumb|Anders's "red eye" moment.]]<br />
He participates in the [[Battle of the Ionian Nebula]], finding himself face to face with a Cylon [[Raider (RDM)|Raider]] that he fails to destroy because his weapon safeties are enabled. The fortuitous act results in the Raider scanning Anders, whose eye flickers red. The Raider apparently determines that he is a Cylon and it is likely due to this that the Cylons abruptly abort their attack on the Fleet ([[He That Believeth In Me]]).<br />
<br />
==Notes==<br />
*"Ander" is derived from a Greek term meaning "Man" (a well known example would be that "Anderson" means "Son of Andrew/Andreas/etc", the name being a descendant of Greek andreios ‘manly’, from aner ‘man’, ‘male’, genitive andros). Fitting, given that Anders is leading the last free humans alive on Caprica in a resistance against the Cylons: it's literally a fight of "Man" versus Machines. The revelation of Anders as a Cylon makes this ironic.<br />
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*The tattoo that Anders has on his right arm in Season 3 is his "wedding band". He got it after he married [[Kara Thrace]], who also has a similar tattoo, but it is on her left arm. They match up to form one set of wings and the circles overlap when they're facing each other. Both of them have half of the constellation of Capricorn (a reference to [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] obviously) and a small symbol of the planet as well.<br />
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[[fr:Samuel Anders]]</div>Number1https://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Samuel_Anders&diff=153985Samuel Anders2008-04-06T15:48:01Z<p>Number1: Included the citation. Episode 4/1 at 00:05:17 Athena calls Anders C-Buck</p>
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'''Samuel T. Anders''' was the captain of the professional [[Pyramid (RDM)|pyramid]] team known as the [[Caprica Buccaneers]] who became the one-time leader of the human [[Caprica Resistance|resistance group]] on [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]]. Despite leading a Caprican team, he hails from [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Picon|Picon]]. He is later rescued by [[Kara Thrace]], marries her, helps lead [[New Caprica Resistance|another resistance]] on [[New Caprica]], holds animosity towards [[Lee Adama]] because of his wife's love for Adama, and later becomes a [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] [[nugget|pilot in training]] after his wife's [[Maelstrom|apparent death]]. <br />
<br />
However, he [[Crossroads, Part II|recently became aware]] of his [[Humanoid Cylon|true nature]] as being one of the "[[Final Five]]", as well as the possibility that his wife might be a Cylon herself.<br />
<br />
==Biography==<br />
<br />
Allegedly born on [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Picon|Picon]], Anders attended [[Noyce Elementary School]]. Sometime during his life, he later became a player on the [[Caprica Buccaneers]]. During the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]], he was leading his team in high-altitude training in the mountains outside of [[Delphi]], where he and his team were able to survive the massive nuclear attack.<br />
<br />
Being in a high-altitude rural area shielded Anders and his team from the blasts and most of the radioactive fallout that followed. He and the Buccaneers become ''ad hoc'' resistance fighters from that point forward, raiding armories and collecting caches of weapons, [[anti-radiation medication]], ammo and supplies in the hopes of staying alive and defending themselves against the Cylons.<br />
<br />
[[image:Resistance-Anders_Starbuck.jpg|thumb|left|'''Anders''' and [[Kara Thrace]] play [[Pyramid (RDM)|Pyramid]] at the [[Caprica Resistance]]'s HQ on [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]] in "[[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]".]]<br />
Anders was able to rally upwards of 100 people, mostly hikers and survivalists, to his resistance against the Cylons and from the former [[Delphi Union High School]] he was able to strike back at the Cylons for nine months. Unlike [[Karl Agathon|Helo]], the Caprica-based (and pregnant) [[Sharon Agathon|Sharon Valerii]], and [[Kara Thrace|Starbuck]], Anders seems to be focused more on surviving on Caprica than he is with leaving the planet.<br />
<br />
Anders and his resistance members encounter Starbuck and Helo two months after the initial Cylon attack ([[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]).<br />
<br />
Anders' main focus for a time is keeping himself and his resistance movement alive long enough for Kara Thrace to return to Caprica once again with reinforcements from ''Galactica'' and evacuate them. Thrace gives him her [[Identification tags|Fleet ID tags]] as a promise that she would come back for him. While waiting for rescue, Anders plans to locate and destroy as many Cylon hybrid-producing "farms" as possible ([[The Farm]]).<br />
<br />
Anders and the resistance movement conduct acts of terrorism against the Cylons after they appropriate Delphi for their own. His aim was to scare the Cylons into believing there is no safe place for them and to kill them in the most gruesome way possible so they remember when they are reborn what it is like to die violently, like in an explosion ([[Downloaded]]).<br />
<br />
Following the Cylon's reappropriation of Delphi, Anders and his fighters continue their insurgency, and carry out a series of attacks on the Cylons, the most notable of which was the destruction of a café which kill roughly 40 Cylons. After planting the bomb in a garage, Anders is trapped with the bomb after defending it from a Centurion. Hiding behind a car on the other side of the garage, Anders is mostly protected from the blast but buried under rubble. Later found by [[Sharon Valerii (Galactica copy)|Boomer]] and [[Number Three]]. Anders is spared, as he would be a useful source of information. When [[Caprica-Six]] talks about genocide and God's love, Anders uses the opening to try and kill Number Three, but is stopped by Boomer. Three is more than willing to take revenge, but all were astonished when Caprica-Six kills Three. Heeding Six's orders to get out, Anders flees, still puzzled by what had transpired ([[Downloaded]]).<br />
<br />
Anders survives an assault by the Cylons at the resistance's headquarters -- the same morning that the Caprica [[SAR]] team lands nearby. The Cylons assaulted the remnants of the Resistance as they head for the Raptors ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I]]), forcing them to go to higher ground. After the Cylons stop attacking them, Thrace (leading the rescue team) fears the worst. Anders and Thrace promise to kill each other so that the Cylons would be unable to put them in one of their [[farms]]. Miraculously, a [[Cavil|mysterious man]] appears to tell the team that the Cylons had left the Colonies. <br />
<br />
Thrace and Anders' relationship picks up where it left off, forcing a rift to occur between Thrace and Lee Adama.<br />
<br />
A year later, now married to Thrace on [[New Caprica]], Anders develops [[Wikipedia:pneumonia|pneumonia]], forcing Thrace to beg Lee Adama to release some [[antibiotics]] reserved for ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]''' pilots. <br />
[[Image:Anders LDYBPII.JPG|thumb|Ill Anders playing pyramid with his teammates, moments before being tackled from behind ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]])]]<br />
<br />
After the Cylons occupy New Caprica, Anders is visited by a copy of [[Leoben Conoy]] who inquires on Kara Thrace's whereabouts ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]). Since the Cylons had forced ''Pegasus'' and the defense fleet away from New Caprica, the antibiotics are no longer avaliable to help Anders.<br />
<br />
Anders recovers from his sickness and is a leader of the [[New Caprica Resistance]], along with [[Saul Tigh]] and [[Galen Tyrol]]. Thrace was taken from him sometime after the occupation, and he is unsure if she is still alive ([[Occupation]]).<br />
<br />
Four months into the occupation, contact is made with a Raptor and a rescue plan is put in motion. Anders meets ''Galactica'''s liaison officer [[Sharon Agathon]] in [[Breeders Canyon]], and the group is ambushed by Cylon Centurions ([[Precipice]]).<br />
<br />
After the Centurions are neutralized, a map is found on a dead [[Humanoid Cylon|'skinjob']]. Anders realizes that the map is the one given to [[Ellen Tigh]] to destroy in a heating fire. Tigh is then suspected of collaborating with the Cylons.<br />
<br />
Later, Anders is charged by Laura Roslin with protecting [[Maya]] and the Cylon-human hybrid baby [[Hera Agathon|Hera]] ([[Exodus, Part I]]).<br />
<br />
Anders then tells [[Saul Tigh]] about his [[Ellen Tigh|wife]]'s betrayal. He tells Tigh that if he doesn't "take care" of the problem, someone else will. After ''Galactica'' jumps into orbit, Anders and a group of resistance fighters set off multiple bombs around New Caprica City. They then retrieve a cache of weapons hidden under the Pyramid court in order storm the [[New Caprica Detention Center]] and free the humans imprisoned within. Inside the detention center, Anders and a team of Marines find an unconscious Kara Thrace in her apartment style prison cell. Anders begins to carry Thrace out of the center but is interrupted after Thrace regains consciousness and runs back to retrieve her daughter, [[Kacey]]. Anders finds Thrace and Kacey back at the apartment, and leads both out of the detention center ([[Exodus, Part II]]).<br />
<br />
Shortly following the Fleet's abandonment of New Caprica, Anders is brought into the [[The Circle|Circle]], a secret council assembled by President [[Tom Zarek]] for the purpose of judging and executing those who had collaborated with the Cylons during the occupation. Anders soon becomes uncomfortable with the Circle's actions and leaves the group. Thrace accepts the Circle's invitation to replace Anders, an act her husband sees as a personal betrayal. He hands back Thrace's ID tag, saying he doesn't want it anymore. Thrace and Anders are still husband and wife, but the combination of Thrace's joining the Circle and her feelings for Lee Adama has heavily strains their marriage. He eventually moves off ''Galactica'' to the ''[[Salpica]]'' ([[Unfinished Business (Extended Version)]]), which limits their contact to occasional visits per shuttle or participation in critical missions ("[[The Eye of Jupiter]]", "[[Rapture]]").<br />
<br />
The death of his wife ([[Maelstrom]]) weighs heavily on Anders. Two weeks later he is found drunk on the hangar deck, standing atop of a Viper and playing with a [[cubit]]. When Lee Adama is tries to get Anders to come down, he slips, falls and breaks one of his legs. Later, Anders joins Adama at the [[memorial wall]] where Adama has put up Kara Thrace's picture ([[The Son Also Rises]]). Shortly after this, Anders decides to follow in his wife's footsteps, and becomes commissioned in the Fleet as a [[nugget|pilot in training]] ([[Crossroads, Part I]]).<br />
<br />
Not long after he begins a relationship with [[Tory Foster]], he realizes that the pair of them are experiencing [[The Music|hearing something unusual]]. Later on, he discovers that Tyrol hears the strange sounds as well, but does not get the opportunity to discuss it with him. When Anders, along with Tyrol, Foster and Saul Tigh find themselves drawn to a room shortly after the Fleet arrives at the [[Ionian nebula]], they instinctively realized that they are four of the [[Final Five]] Cylons. However, both he and Tigh agree that their lives up until that point were not in vain, and the four wordlessly agree to continue their allegiance to the Colonies ([[Crossroads, Part II]]).<br />
<br />
[[Image:Ander's red eye.jpg|thumb|Anders's "red eye" moment.]]<br />
He participates in the [[Battle of the Ionian Nebula]], finding himself face to face with a Cylon [[Raider (RDM)|Raider]] that he fails to destroy because his weapon safeties are enabled. The fortuitous act results in the Raider scanning Anders, whose eye flickers red. The Raider apparently determines that he is a Cylon and it is likely due to this that the Cylons abruptly abort their attack on the Fleet ([[He That Believeth In Me]]).<br />
<br />
==Notes==<br />
*"Ander" is derived from a Greek term meaning "Man" (a well known example would be that "Anderson" means "Son of Andrew/Andreas/etc", the name being a descendant of Greek andreios ‘manly’, from aner ‘man’, ‘male’, genitive andros). Fitting, given that Anders is leading the last free humans alive on Caprica in a resistance against the Cylons: it's literally a fight of "Man" versus Machines. The revelation of Anders as a Cylon makes this ironic.<br />
<br />
*The tattoo that Anders has on his right arm in Season 3 is his "wedding band". He got it after he married [[Kara Thrace]], who also has a similar tattoo, but it is on her left arm. They match up to form one set of wings and the circles overlap when they're facing each other. Both of them have half of the constellation of Capricorn (a reference to [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] obviously) and a small symbol of the planet as well.<br />
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[[fr:Samuel Anders]]</div>Number1https://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Samuel_Anders&diff=153969Samuel Anders2008-04-06T11:31:47Z<p>Number1: Said by Athena in the episode He Who Beleveth In Me</p>
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|colony=[[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Picon|Picon]]<br />
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|callsign= C-Buck<br />
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|children=<br />
|marital status=Married to [[Kara Thrace]]<br />
|role=[[nugget|pilot in training]], former [[Caprica Resistance]] leader and professional [[Pyramid (RDM)|pyramid]] player.<br />
|rank= Ensign<br />
|actor=[[Michael Trucco]]<br />
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'''Samuel T. Anders''' was the captain of the professional [[Pyramid (RDM)|pyramid]] team known as the [[Caprica Buccaneers]] who became the one-time leader of the human [[Caprica Resistance|resistance group]] on [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]]. Despite leading a Caprican team, he hails from [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Picon|Picon]]. He is later rescued by [[Kara Thrace]], marries her, helps lead [[New Caprica Resistance|another resistance]] on [[New Caprica]], holds animosity towards [[Lee Adama]] because of his wife's love for Adama, and later becomes a [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] [[nugget|pilot in training]] after his wife's [[Maelstrom|apparent death]]. <br />
<br />
However, he [[Crossroads, Part II|recently became aware]] of his [[Humanoid Cylon|true nature]] as being one of the "[[Final Five]]", as well as the possibility that his wife might be a Cylon herself.<br />
<br />
==Biography==<br />
<br />
Allegedly born on [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Picon|Picon]], Anders attended [[Noyce Elementary School]]. Sometime during his life, he later became a player on the [[Caprica Buccaneers]]. During the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]], he was leading his team in high-altitude training in the mountains outside of [[Delphi]], where he and his team were able to survive the massive nuclear attack.<br />
<br />
Being in a high-altitude rural area shielded Anders and his team from the blasts and most of the radioactive fallout that followed. He and the Buccaneers become ''ad hoc'' resistance fighters from that point forward, raiding armories and collecting caches of weapons, [[anti-radiation medication]], ammo and supplies in the hopes of staying alive and defending themselves against the Cylons.<br />
<br />
[[image:Resistance-Anders_Starbuck.jpg|thumb|left|'''Anders''' and [[Kara Thrace]] play [[Pyramid (RDM)|Pyramid]] at the [[Caprica Resistance]]'s HQ on [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]] in "[[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]".]]<br />
Anders was able to rally upwards of 100 people, mostly hikers and survivalists, to his resistance against the Cylons and from the former [[Delphi Union High School]] he was able to strike back at the Cylons for nine months. Unlike [[Karl Agathon|Helo]], the Caprica-based (and pregnant) [[Sharon Agathon|Sharon Valerii]], and [[Kara Thrace|Starbuck]], Anders seems to be focused more on surviving on Caprica than he is with leaving the planet.<br />
<br />
Anders and his resistance members encounter Starbuck and Helo two months after the initial Cylon attack ([[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]).<br />
<br />
Anders' main focus for a time is keeping himself and his resistance movement alive long enough for Kara Thrace to return to Caprica once again with reinforcements from ''Galactica'' and evacuate them. Thrace gives him her [[Identification tags|Fleet ID tags]] as a promise that she would come back for him. While waiting for rescue, Anders plans to locate and destroy as many Cylon hybrid-producing "farms" as possible ([[The Farm]]).<br />
<br />
Anders and the resistance movement conduct acts of terrorism against the Cylons after they appropriate Delphi for their own. His aim was to scare the Cylons into believing there is no safe place for them and to kill them in the most gruesome way possible so they remember when they are reborn what it is like to die violently, like in an explosion ([[Downloaded]]).<br />
<br />
Following the Cylon's reappropriation of Delphi, Anders and his fighters continue their insurgency, and carry out a series of attacks on the Cylons, the most notable of which was the destruction of a café which kill roughly 40 Cylons. After planting the bomb in a garage, Anders is trapped with the bomb after defending it from a Centurion. Hiding behind a car on the other side of the garage, Anders is mostly protected from the blast but buried under rubble. Later found by [[Sharon Valerii (Galactica copy)|Boomer]] and [[Number Three]]. Anders is spared, as he would be a useful source of information. When [[Caprica-Six]] talks about genocide and God's love, Anders uses the opening to try and kill Number Three, but is stopped by Boomer. Three is more than willing to take revenge, but all were astonished when Caprica-Six kills Three. Heeding Six's orders to get out, Anders flees, still puzzled by what had transpired ([[Downloaded]]).<br />
<br />
Anders survives an assault by the Cylons at the resistance's headquarters -- the same morning that the Caprica [[SAR]] team lands nearby. The Cylons assaulted the remnants of the Resistance as they head for the Raptors ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I]]), forcing them to go to higher ground. After the Cylons stop attacking them, Thrace (leading the rescue team) fears the worst. Anders and Thrace promise to kill each other so that the Cylons would be unable to put them in one of their [[farms]]. Miraculously, a [[Cavil|mysterious man]] appears to tell the team that the Cylons had left the Colonies. <br />
<br />
Thrace and Anders' relationship picks up where it left off, forcing a rift to occur between Thrace and Lee Adama.<br />
<br />
A year later, now married to Thrace on [[New Caprica]], Anders develops [[Wikipedia:pneumonia|pneumonia]], forcing Thrace to beg Lee Adama to release some [[antibiotics]] reserved for ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]''' pilots. <br />
[[Image:Anders LDYBPII.JPG|thumb|Ill Anders playing pyramid with his teammates, moments before being tackled from behind ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]])]]<br />
<br />
After the Cylons occupy New Caprica, Anders is visited by a copy of [[Leoben Conoy]] who inquires on Kara Thrace's whereabouts ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]). Since the Cylons had forced ''Pegasus'' and the defense fleet away from New Caprica, the antibiotics are no longer avaliable to help Anders.<br />
<br />
Anders recovers from his sickness and is a leader of the [[New Caprica Resistance]], along with [[Saul Tigh]] and [[Galen Tyrol]]. Thrace was taken from him sometime after the occupation, and he is unsure if she is still alive ([[Occupation]]).<br />
<br />
Four months into the occupation, contact is made with a Raptor and a rescue plan is put in motion. Anders meets ''Galactica'''s liaison officer [[Sharon Agathon]] in [[Breeders Canyon]], and the group is ambushed by Cylon Centurions ([[Precipice]]).<br />
<br />
After the Centurions are neutralized, a map is found on a dead [[Humanoid Cylon|'skinjob']]. Anders realizes that the map is the one given to [[Ellen Tigh]] to destroy in a heating fire. Tigh is then suspected of collaborating with the Cylons.<br />
<br />
Later, Anders is charged by Laura Roslin with protecting [[Maya]] and the Cylon-human hybrid baby [[Hera Agathon|Hera]] ([[Exodus, Part I]]).<br />
<br />
Anders then tells [[Saul Tigh]] about his [[Ellen Tigh|wife]]'s betrayal. He tells Tigh that if he doesn't "take care" of the problem, someone else will. After ''Galactica'' jumps into orbit, Anders and a group of resistance fighters set off multiple bombs around New Caprica City. They then retrieve a cache of weapons hidden under the Pyramid court in order storm the [[New Caprica Detention Center]] and free the humans imprisoned within. Inside the detention center, Anders and a team of Marines find an unconscious Kara Thrace in her apartment style prison cell. Anders begins to carry Thrace out of the center but is interrupted after Thrace regains consciousness and runs back to retrieve her daughter, [[Kacey]]. Anders finds Thrace and Kacey back at the apartment, and leads both out of the detention center ([[Exodus, Part II]]).<br />
<br />
Shortly following the Fleet's abandonment of New Caprica, Anders is brought into the [[The Circle|Circle]], a secret council assembled by President [[Tom Zarek]] for the purpose of judging and executing those who had collaborated with the Cylons during the occupation. Anders soon becomes uncomfortable with the Circle's actions and leaves the group. Thrace accepts the Circle's invitation to replace Anders, an act her husband sees as a personal betrayal. He hands back Thrace's ID tag, saying he doesn't want it anymore. Thrace and Anders are still husband and wife, but the combination of Thrace's joining the Circle and her feelings for Lee Adama has heavily strains their marriage. He eventually moves off ''Galactica'' to the ''[[Salpica]]'' ([[Unfinished Business (Extended Version)]]), which limits their contact to occasional visits per shuttle or participation in critical missions ("[[The Eye of Jupiter]]", "[[Rapture]]").<br />
<br />
The death of his wife ([[Maelstrom]]) weighs heavily on Anders. Two weeks later he is found drunk on the hangar deck, standing atop of a Viper and playing with a [[cubit]]. When Lee Adama is tries to get Anders to come down, he slips, falls and breaks one of his legs. Later, Anders joins Adama at the [[memorial wall]] where Adama has put up Kara Thrace's picture ([[The Son Also Rises]]). Shortly after this, Anders decides to follow in his wife's footsteps, and becomes commissioned in the Fleet as a [[nugget|pilot in training]] ([[Crossroads, Part I]]).<br />
<br />
Not long after he begins a relationship with [[Tory Foster]], he realizes that the pair of them are experiencing [[The Music|hearing something unusual]]. Later on, he discovers that Tyrol hears the strange sounds as well, but does not get the opportunity to discuss it with him. When Anders, along with Tyrol, Foster and Saul Tigh find themselves drawn to a room shortly after the Fleet arrives at the [[Ionian nebula]], they instinctively realized that they are four of the [[Final Five]] Cylons. However, both he and Tigh agree that their lives up until that point were not in vain, and the four wordlessly agree to continue their allegiance to the Colonies ([[Crossroads, Part II]]).<br />
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[[Image:Ander's red eye.jpg|thumb|Anders's "red eye" moment.]]<br />
He participates in the [[Battle of the Ionian Nebula]], finding himself face to face with a Cylon [[Raider (RDM)|Raider]] that he fails to destroy because his weapon safeties are enabled. The fortuitous act results in the Raider scanning Anders, whose eye flickers red. The Raider apparently determines that he is a Cylon and it is likely due to this that the Cylons abruptly abort their attack on the Fleet ([[He That Believeth In Me]]).<br />
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*"Ander" is derived from a Greek term meaning "Man" (a well known example would be that "Anderson" means "Son of Andrew/Andreas/etc", the name being a descendant of Greek andreios ‘manly’, from aner ‘man’, ‘male’, genitive andros). Fitting, given that Anders is leading the last free humans alive on Caprica in a resistance against the Cylons: it's literally a fight of "Man" versus Machines. The revelation of Anders as a Cylon makes this ironic.<br />
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*The tattoo that Anders has on his right arm in Season 3 is his "wedding band". He got it after he married [[Kara Thrace]], who also has a similar tattoo, but it is on her left arm. They match up to form one set of wings and the circles overlap when they're facing each other. Both of them have half of the constellation of Capricorn (a reference to [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] obviously) and a small symbol of the planet as well.<br />
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[[fr:Samuel Anders]]</div>Number1https://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scorpion_Fleet_Shipyards&diff=142260Scorpion Fleet Shipyards2007-12-03T00:04:29Z<p>Number1: </p>
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The '''Scorpion Fleet Shipyards''' were [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] dockyards located in orbit around [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Scorpia|Scorpia]].<br />
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At the time of the [[Cylon attack]], ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'', at least three more [[battlestar]]s, and three other Colonial Fleet ships are docked there. A Cylon nuclear attack destroys the yards and all ships but ''Pegasus'', which escapes via a [[blind jump]], after approximately 700 of her crew are killed in the attack ([[Razor]]).<br />
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*Although the planet is called Scorpia ("[[Colonial Day]]", "[[Razor]]"), the location subtitles in "Razor" identify the shipyard's name as "Scorpion Fleet Shipyards". It is possible that the installation was given the colony's ancient name.<br />
*A [[Valkyrie]] type Battlestar can be seen in the extended destruction scenes on the Razor DVD Companion Website.<br />
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* [[Fall of the Scorpion Fleet Shipyards]]<br />
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The '''Scorpion Fleet Shipyards''' were [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] dockyards located in orbit around [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Scorpia|Scorpia]].<br />
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At the time of the [[Cylon attack]], ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'', at least three more [[battlestar]]s, and three other Colonial Fleet ships are docked there. A Cylon nuclear attack destroys the yards and all ships but ''Pegasus'', which escapes via a [[blind jump]], after approximately 700 of her crew are killed in the attack ([[Razor]]).<br />
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*Although the planet is called Scorpia ("[[Colonial Day]]", "[[Razor]]"), the location subtitles in "Razor" identify the shipyard's name as "Scorpion Fleet Shipyards". It is possible that the installation was given the colony's ancient name.<br />
*A [[Valkyrie]] type Battlestar could be seen in the extended destruction scenes on the DVD Companion Website.<br />
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* [[Fall of the Scorpion Fleet Shipyards]]<br />
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[[de:Scorpianische Flotten-Schiffswerften]]</div>Number1https://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Samuel_Witwer&diff=122567Samuel Witwer2007-05-21T08:28:30Z<p>Number1: </p>
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'''Samuel Witwer''' is an American actor. He is also a [[Wikipedia:Star Trek|Star Trek]] alumnus: he appeared as an unnamed Xindi-Sloth in the ''Star Trek: Enterprise'' season 3 episode, "The Shipment". He has also appeared on ''ER'', and on ''Dark Angel'' as Marrow, which would have become a recurring role if the series had not been canceled.<br />
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According to an [http://www.mediablvd.com/magazine/Magazine-Home/MBMag_20060420133.html interview in MediaBlvd], Witwer was willing to leave the show of his own accord because of other work possibilities in Los Angeles. Currently, he is producing, writing, and directing an independant film, and hopes that several other ''Battlestar Galactica'' cast members might be able to make cameos. Sam is also close friends with [[Nicki Clyne]], and they often get together with friends for movie nights.<br />
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Sam was a big fan of ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'' as a child, and went on a tour of the set. The tour guide took him and his brother to meet Wil Wheaton (Wesley Crusher), who was studying in his trailer. Sam said Wil "talked to us for 30 minutes, while the rest of the tour group just sat by and patiently waited. That experience put it in my head that I wanted to be an actor". Witwer remained a fan of ''Star Trek'' and appeared on "''Enterprise''" as a Xindi-Sloth because he asked his agent to find a role for him on ''Star Trek'', and as an unpleasant result Witwer said that "I’m affectionately referred to, by my other friends that work on Star Trek, as Sam the Sloth, which totally sucks."<br />
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Witwer's true passion is his band, the ''Crashtones''; it's actually a one-man band with Witwer performing all of the instruments and vocals. Witwer dresses up in costume as various fictitious other members of the "band", who appear on the cover of "their" albums.<br />
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On May 18, 2007 Witwer was announced as the voice actor for the character Darth Vader's Secret Apprentice in Star Wars: The Force Unleashed according to the [http://www.lucasarts.com/games/theforceunleashed/gameinfo/news/the_cast.html developers blog].<br />
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*[http://samwitwer.com/ The Crashtones]<br />
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[[Category:RDM|Witwer, Samuel]]</div>Number1https://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Hasbro_Titanium_Collection&diff=116134Hasbro Titanium Collection2007-04-12T14:33:53Z<p>Number1: Updating with information from Entertainment Earth</p>
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The '''Hasbro Titanium Collection''' is a series of 3-inch [[Wikipedia:Casting|die-cast]] models of some of the ships featured in the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|re-imagined]] and [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|original]] ''Battlestar Galactica'' series. Expansion to include 3.75" figures was planned, but canceled in 2007 after the production of the initial figure, a [[Cylon Centurion]] from the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|re-imagined]] series. <ref name="HasbroRelease">[http://www.hasbro.com/media/content/printable.cfm?release=452 This Hasbro press release] describes the Titanium series' future plans and prices.</ref><br />
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*[[Galactica type battlestar|Battlestar]] [[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]<br />
**Also available as a limited ''ULTRA'' collectors edition<ref name="UltraDiscontinued">Hasbro discontinued their Ultra line after the release of the Ultra Battlestar Galactica; the 3" scale is not affected by this decision.</ref><br />
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*[[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Cylon Raider]]<br />
*[[Viper Mark II|Viper MkII 1104NC]]<ref name="Viper1104NC">[http://www.flickr.com/photos/lights/133102956/ This image] shows clearly that the MkII Viper is [[Viper 1104|Viper 1104NC]]</ref><br />
**Incorrectly shown on the box as a MkVII<ref name="MkVIIwrong">[http://www.flickr.com/photos/lights/132636517/ This image] shows box incorrectly marking a MkII Viper as a MkVII.</ref><br />
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*[[Colonial One]]<br />
*[[Raptor]]<br />
*[[Viper Mark VII]]<br />
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*[[Scar (Raider)|"Scar" Cylon Raider (repaint)]]<br />
*[[Viper (TOS)|Classic Colonial Viper]]<ref name="ClassicViperVariants">Classic Colonial Viper variants: "clean" (initial shipments) and "dirty" (later shipments).</ref><br />
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Series Four (2007)<br />
*[[Cylon Centurion|Cylon Centurion]]<ref name="CylonReleaseDate">Hasbro discontinued their Forged Figures line of Titanium characters in 2007. A representative told [http://www.jedidefender.com/newspro/fullnews.cgi?newsid1168639598,73495, JediDefender.com] "We would love to continue to support the Forged Figure line and we will continue to support the line through Spring of 2007. Unfortunately there was not enough demand for this figure line which has resulted in a lack of retail support for the figures by our retail partners. My advice, buy them now because they will not be around for long." (January 12, 2007). Although the Cylon Centurion was produced, to date no retailers have received the figures. However, two figures, possibly misappropriated, reached private hands via an ebay auction in early 2007.</ref><br />
*[[Raider (TOS)|Classic Cylon Raider]]<br />
*[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]<br />
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*[[Viper Mark II|Viper MkII 1104NC]] - Repaint<br />
*[[Viper Mark VII]] - Red Repaint<br />
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*3" die-cast ships: $4.99<br />
*3.75" die-cast figures: $15.99 <br />
*"ULTRA" die-cast ships: $19.99<br />
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*UK: 20th June / 14th August 2006<ref name="UKdate">UK release dates are found at [http://www.forbiddenplanet.co.uk Forbidden Planet Toy Store].</ref><br />
*US: May 2006<br />
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Image:Galactica Titanium ULTRA.jpg|''Galactica'' "ULTRA" model<br />
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Image:HAS12005.jpg|Cylon Raider<br />
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Image:Raptor D3562.jpg|Raptor<br />
Image:Scarcylonraider.jpg|"Scar" Cylon Raider<br />
Image:Cyloncenturian hasbro.jpg|Cylon Centurion<br />
Image:Classiccolonialviper hasbro.jpg|Classic Colonial Viper<br />
Image:Titanium classicraider promo.jpg|Classic Cylon Raider<br />
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Image:BSG Merchandise.jpg|''Galactica'' "ULTRA" model plus other merchandise<br />
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Image:Hasbro Galactica 2.jpg|View of Engines<br />
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[[Category:RDM]]</div>Number1https://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Kara_Thrace&diff=114699Kara Thrace2007-03-28T04:44:25Z<p>Number1: /* Character History at a Glance */</p>
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<div>:''This article discusses the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Re-imagined Series]] character with the pilot callsign of "Starbuck." For information on Kara Thrace's counterpart in the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]], see [[Starbuck (TOS)]].''<br />
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|marital status= Married to [[Samuel Anders]] (formerly engaged to [[Zak Adama]]†)<br />
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'''Kara "Starbuck" Thrace''', serial number 462753, is a gifted [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] pilot &mdash; and knows it. This leaves her with an attitude that has at times thwarted her career advancement. However, thanks to [[William Adama]], Thrace's skills in battle have extended beyond the cockpit to greatly aid the Fleet.<br />
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== Background ==<br />
*In an unhappy childhood, Thrace was so frequently beaten by her mother [[Socrata Thrace]], that she came to accept pain as a way of life ([[Flesh and Bone]]).<br />
*Her father was a pianist ([[Valley of Darkness]]).<br />
*Thrace left home to join the [[Colonial Fleet|military]].<br />
*One of her first postings prior to being a flight instructor was aboard the battlestar ''[[Triton (RDM)|Triton]]'' ([[The Son Also Rises]]).<br />
* She was a very talented [[pyramid]] player ([[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]), and received a scholarship to the Fleet Academy to play pyramid. During this time, she injured her knee and was no longer able to play pyramid at a professional level. During that time, however, she discovered a passion and skill at being a fighter pilot ([[Podcast:The Hand of God]]). On graduating from Colonial Flight School, she undertook a period of active duty before returning to flight school as an instructor. <br />
*Thrace fell in love with a young recruit, [[Zak Adama]]. Despite his mediocre performance, she passed him on his final flight examination, despite failing three of the required maneuvers ([[Act of Contrition]]).<br />
*Thrace's engagement to Zak Adama ends when he was killed during a routine mission shortly after graduating. At the time, [[Lee Adama]], Zak's elder brother, blamed their father for Zak Adama's death. In her guilt, Thrace did little to alter this idea. She did, however, meet [[William Adama]] shortly after the accident, and the two struck up such a strong rapport that they stood together at the funeral ([[Act of Contrition]]). <br />
*Thrace resigned from flight school as a instructor and transferred as an operational pilot aboard [[Galactica type battlestar|battlestar]] ''[[Galactica]]'' under the command of William Adama, where she served for some two years prior to the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attack]] on the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]]. Before the Cylon attack, she was second in command of the remaining pilots, subordinate to the [[CAG]], [[Jackson Spencer]].<br />
*At the time of the Cylon attack she has an run-down apartment in [[Delphi]] that overlooks a parking lot and a Colonial version of a [[Wikipedia:Humvee|Humvee]] which she and Helo use to escape the city and get to the country where she meets her husband-to-be Anders. She rarely used the dilapidated apartment. She was also a very avid painter, and her apartment was cluttered with her paintings and a [[Starbuck's Poem|poem]] is written on a wall ([[Valley of Darkness]]).<br />
*Despite her reckless approach to life, Thrace hides the fact that she is deeply spiritual. She frequently prays (or talks) to the [[Lords of Kobol]], particularly [[Aphrodite]] and [[Artemis]] in times of need ([[Miniseries]], "[[Flesh and Bone]]", "[[You Can't Go Home Again]]").<br />
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==Character History at a Glance==<br />
*Thrace's attitude quickly runs her afoul of Colonel [[Saul Tigh]], ''Galactica's'' [[Executive officer]]. Their open mutual dislike of one another leads to the point where blows are exchanged, with Thrace ending up in the brig. After the Cylon attack she is released from the brig and returns to duty as ''Galactica's'' Viper pilot.<br />
*Thrace manages to keep two of three nuclear missiles from striking ''Galactica'' in their first Cylon sortie, and saves Captain Adama from doom in an innovative maneuver in the [[Battle of Ragnar Anchorage]].<br />
*Her skills in saving Apollo brings her grudging respect from Colonel Tigh, but she is unable to accept his offer of the olive branch - an act that will have repercussions for her later ([[Miniseries]]).<br />
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[[image:Bastille_Day-Starbuck_Boxey.jpg|thumb|left|[[Kara Thrace|Starbuck]] as acting [[CAG]] with [[Boxey (RDM)|Boxey]] as assistant ([[Bastille Day]]).]]<br />
*Thrace participates in a hostage rescue mission aboard the ''[[Astral Queen]]''. Following the successful mission, Thrace tries to mend fences between herself and Colonel Tigh with a toast (consisting of water), apologizing in much the same way as Tigh himself had tried after their initial escape from [[Ragnar Anchorage]]. But Tigh rejects Thrace's apology, stating that her flaws are professional, while his flaws were personal ([[Bastille Day]]). <br />
*Thrace eventually admits her secret about Zak Adama to William Adama himself, an act that brings their close friendship almost to the breaking point ([[Act of Contrition]]). <br />
*During a surprise encounter with Cylons during [[nugget]] training, Starbuck destroys several Cylon Raiders, but her ship is damaged and tumbles towards a small red moon with an unbreathable atmosphere. With her Viper in a fatal flat-spin, Starbuck is forced to eject from her Viper ([[You Can't Go Home Again]]).<br />
*Thrace (nursing a damaged knee) repairs the downed Cylon Raider found on the inhabitable moon and returns to ''Galactica'', giving the Fleet a vital piece of Cylon fighter technology for study and use.<br />
*The recovering Thrace, off flight status, is asked by Commander Adama to plan a special attack on a Cylon [[tylium]] refinery. The tactical planning role is not something she relishes, and she frequently shows resentment towards others for her condition ([[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]). <br />
*During Thrace's undesired interrogation of a Cylon prisoner, a copy of a known [[Humanoid Cylon]] named [[Leoben Conoy]], she uses some drastic acts to try to extract the information from the Humanoid Cylon ([[Flesh and Bone]]).<br />
[[image:Starbuck-Kobols_Last_Gleaming_pt2.jpg|thumb|right|'''Starbuck''' retrieves the [[Arrow of Apollo]] ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]).]]<br />
*Thrace is assigned to plant a nuclear device on board a [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]] in orbit around [[Kobol]]. Disobeying orders to retrieve the [[Arrow of Apollo]] by President Roslin's request, disillusioned by Commander Adama, she Jumps to Caprica ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]), landing in [[Delphi]].<br />
*In the [[Delphi Museum of the Colonies]] with the Arrow, she is violently attacked by a copy of [[Number Six]]. Despite being heavily outmatched in the fight, Thrace luckily defeats the Cylon.<br />
*At the museum, she reunites with [[Karl Agathon|Helo]], whom she thought dead, and discovers a second copy of [[Sharon Valerii]], realizing instantly that the woman is a Cylon.<br />
*Valerii, fearing for her child, steals Thrace's Raider. In exasperation, Starbuck could only mutter: "Bitch took my ride" ([[Scattered]]). Like Helo, Starbuck was left with no way to return to the Fleet unless she could find her Raider or another Cylon spacecraft, as enemy FTL engines were the only ones sufficently powerful to reach the Fleet.<br />
*Starbuck berates Helo's love for the Caprica copy of Valerii. Thrace finds the keys of her surplus military utility vehicle in her old jacket in her old apartment. Thrace has a ride again, if only to move more efficiently about Caprica ([[Valley of Darkness]]).<br />
*Thrace and Helo meet a [[Caprica Resistance|resistance movement]] on Caprica. Thrace and [[Samuel Anders]] strike up a rapport as fellow [[pyramid (RDM)|pyramid]] players and end up as lovers.<br />
*During planning to steal a [[Heavy Raider]], Thrace is shot in a military action, waking up in a hospital on Caprica. Thrace is told by her doctor, [[Simon]], that Anders died from wounds he suffered in getting Thrace to safety.<br />
*Thrace discovers that Simon is working with a [[Number Six|known Humanoid Cylon]]. She overhears that the next day he plans to extract her ovaries for use in the Cylon's attempts to study and create a hybrid Cylon/human embryo. Simon also makes the mistake of calling Thrace by her callsign, Starbuck, which she had never revealed.<br />
*Staggering and in pain, Thrace kills Simon and escapes the hospital, but not before clocking a Six copy with a fire extinguisher and destroying the local farm power supply, mercy-killing [[Sue-Shaun]] and several other women in the facility.<br />
*Another Simon copy appears just as the Resistance attacks the facility. The second Simon, now revealed as a Humanoid Cylon himself, is immediately killed by the Resistance, but a squad of [[Cylon Centurion]]s appear and pins the Resistance down. Luckily, Helo's [[Sharon Valerii (Caprica copy)|copy of Sharon Valerii]] swoops in with a stolen [[Heavy Raider]], destroys the Centurions and flies the Resistance and Thrace out of harm's way.<br />
*Thrace promises to Anders that she'll [[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I|return with a rescue mission]] for the remaining survivors. Anders returns the Arrow of Apollo to Thrace, which he hid on the resistance grounds for safekeeping ([[The Farm]]).<br />
*Thrace, Helo and the pregnant Valerii land on the ''[[Astral Queen]]'' in the Heavy Raider. Finding the [[Laura Roslin faction]] in orbit of [[Kobol]], Thrace is reunited with Lee Adama. He kisses her impulsively, catching Thrace by pleasant surprise, but a tense standoff follows when Adama discovers that another Valerii copy has returned with them. Roslin helps defuse the situation, and Thrace delivers the Arrow of Apollo to the President.<br />
*Temporarily removed from miltary protocol, Lee Adama playfully teases Thrace by stealing a pyramid ball she took from Caprica. Adama senses her depression about Caprica and tells her that he'd be happy to hear about any problems she had. He also let slip that he loved her, which brightened Thrace's mood to the point where she teased him back about his slip.<br />
*With a team led by Laura Roslin, Lee Adama, and, later, joined by the recovered Commander Adama, Thrace enters the [[Tomb of Athena]] and successfully uses the Arrow of Apollo to activate a hologram that shows constellations of the Twelve Colonies' ancient symbols.<br />
*Thrace realizes that they are on a recreation of Earth. Together with Lee Adama, they locate the Lagoon Nebula, a celestial body known to Commander Adama and Lee Adama, and gather sufficient information to begin an actual course to Earth ([[Home, Part II]]).<br />
*Thrace shows off the impressive stealth abilities in the new [[Blackbird]] fighter in her maiden flight ([[Flight of the Phoenix]]).<br />
*With the arrival of ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'', Admiral [[Helena Cain]] summarily assigns Thrace (and Lee Adama) to ''Pegasus'' after digesting the reports of ''Galactica'''s officers. <br />
*[[Cole Taylor|The ''Pegasus'' CAG]] removes Thrace from the Cylon recon mission. Lee Adama secretly tells her to use the [[Blackbird]] to take recon photos of the Cylon Unknown ([[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]).<br />
*Returning from her very successful mission, the [[Blackbird]]'s lack of a Colonial transponder is mistaken for a Cylon [[Raider]] on [[DRADIS]], and Starbuck is nearly confronted and shot at by Vipers from ''Pegasus'' and ''Galactica''. After narrowly avoiding certain death by declaring herself a friendly, Thrace transmits her recon photos to ''Pegasus''.<br />
*Admiral Cain is very impressed with Starbuck's performance and promotes her to Captain and ''Pegasus'' CAG.<br />
*Thrace is assigned the task of planning the joint attack on the Resurrection Ship, but successfully asks to have Lee Adama on her team, restoring him to flight status.<br />
*After she briefs Cain and Commander Adama on her battle plan, Adama asks Thrace privately to assassinate Cain after the battle is complete. Adama fears that if Cain continues to command, the Fleet would be in mortal jeopardy from Cain's draconian command ([[Resurrection Ship, Part I]]).<br />
*Thrace's battle planning, as before on the [[tylium]] [[The Hand of God (RDM)|mine]], works to near-perfection, with the Resurrection Ship destroyed and its supporting basestars.<br />
*As a result of the battle events, Thrace is left without backup as she walks to the ''Pegasus'' CIC to shoot Cain, obviously afraid and apprehensive. When Commander Adama calls, Thrace slowly moves her hand to her sidearm but, to her relief, Adama does not give the kill order and cryptically instructs her to stand down ([[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]).<br />
*Starbuck and [[Kat]] are involved in the protection of a mining operation from periodic Raider attacks. One Raider, nicknamed [[Scar (Raider)|Scar]], fuels an intensive rivalry for the pilot's "top gun" honor. Thrace, still depressed over her inability to convince Fleet command to initiate a rescue for Samuel Anders and his resistance, drinks heavily and obsesses over removing Scar from the sky, even at the cost of her life. Fortunately, Starbuck realizes the futility of her actions, and works together with Kat to destroy the remarkably dangerous Raider ([[Scar]]).<br />
*A few weeks later, Thrace takes leave on ''[[Cloud Nine]]'' when she was dragooned into rescuing Lee Adama and several other ''Galactica'' crew and residents after terrorists take them hostage in exchange for the incarcerated [[Sharon Valerii (Caprica copy)|Sharon Valerii]]. Thrace gathers intel on the situation, but her cover is blown. In the retreating firefight, Lee Adama is caught in the crossfire. After the situation is resolved, Thrace intended to sit at Adama's bedside, only to discover that Dualla beat her there ([[Sacrifice]]).<br />
*Later, Thrace is assigned to ''Pegasus'' as a flight trainer. Though the pilots like her, Commander [[Barry Garner]] does not, eventually confining her to quarters for "insubordination." Following the [[Battle of the Binary Star System|ill-fated rescue and retreat]] from a Cylon ambush (where Thrace leads the fighters), Thrace informs new ''Pegasus'' Commander Lee Adama that she was taking over his old CAG post aboard ''Galactica'' ([[The Captain's Hand]]).<br />
*Thrace gets her wish: The Caprica rescue is approved, and she leads a large Raptor squadron to the planet. The group soon met up with Anders, who reports that their HQ had been destroyed and Thrace's timing was just perfect. A squad of Centurions ambush and pin down the group moments later ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I]]).<br />
*Still pinned down from attack fire, Starbuck and Anders agree to kill each other to avoid capture and interrment at a [[Farms|farm]]. But the attack stops, and a [[Cavil|man]] appears, praising the [[Lords of Kobol|Gods]] as he announces that the Cylons not only have ceased fire, but are abandoning the Twelve Colonies. Starbuck isn't really surprised to discover that the man, known as Brother [[Cavil]], was a Cylon upon their return to the Fleet.<br />
*Starbuck and Anders proceed to get drunk, and host a disastrous visitation with Lee Adama. This apparently led to a rift between the two comrades. <br />
[[Image:Leobenkara.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Leoben with Kara.]]<br />
*The evening of the founding of [[New Caprica]], Thrace slept with Lee Adama and proclaimed her love for him as she was uncertain regarding her feelings toward Anders. The following morning she quickly married Anders in a ceremonry near the river. This caused a rift between Kara and Lee that lasted for over a year.<br />
*Life on New Caprica tempered Thrace, and she often behaved in ways Starbuck never would have, including hugging Colonel Tigh and pampering Anders during his bout with an illness.<br />
*She watches in horror at the sudden arrival of hundreds of Cylon ships in the sky over New Caprica. A few of ''Galactica's'' former crew gather near Thrace, looking to her for guidance. Starbuck responds the only way she knows how: "Fight 'em until we can't" ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]). <br />
*After Baltar's surrender of New Caprica, Conoy keeps Thrace prisoner in an apartment located within the Cylon-built [[New Caprica Detention Center]] in an attempt to convince Thrace that she loves him and also convert her to the [[Cylon Religion|Cylon monotheistic religion]]. She repeatedly kills Conoy a total of five times in an attempt to convince him to let her go ([[Occupation]], [[Precipice]]).<br />
*Conoy introduces Thrace to a small child named [[Kacey]], who appears to be approximately two to three years in age, whom he claims is their biological daughter. He explains that the child was created using one of Thrace's extracted ovaries ([[The Farm]]) and his genetic material. Conflicted, Thrace leaves the child unattended, which later results in Kacey falling down the apartment's stairs ([[Precipice]]). After the fall, Thrace begins to change her attitude towards the child and begins to offer affection towards Conoy ([[Precipice]], [[Exodus, Part I]]).<br />
*Upon her return to ''Galactica'' after Admiral Adama's daring rescue attempt, Thrace heartbreakingly discovers that Kacey was simply another manipulation on Conoy's part &mdash; Kacey is merely a human child whom the Cylons had abducted months ago ([[Exodus, Part II]]).<br />
*Bearing the psychological scars of her four month ordeal with Leoben and Kacey, Thrace is recruited by [[Seelix]] as a last minute replacement juror in the [[Circle]] after [[Samuel Anders]]' resignation. She is the fifth vote to find Gaeta of treason and collaboration. Thrace's involvement in the Circle precipitates the breakup of her marriage with Anders. Later, when Gaeta is about to be sentenced and executed in one of ''Galactica's'' [[launch tubes (RDM)|launch tubes]], she demands him to beg for his life. Thrace physically assaults him and goes down the litany of "lies" that Gaeta told her earlier about him helping the [[New Caprica Resistance|insurgency]]. As she does so, [[Galen Tyrol]], one of the Circle's jurors and the sixth vote to convict, overhears this and confirms the story. In a sense of confusion after learning that Gaeta was telling the truth, Thrace leaves the launch tube ([[Collaborators]]).<br />
*During a combat exercise between Vipers, Thrace breaks formation and collides with another pilot, forcing an end to the war games and causing Apollo to revoke her flight status. Later, at her bunk she is met by Kacey and her mother, whom she dismisses, telling Kacey's mother not to visit her again. In the pilots' rec room, Thrace and Colonel Tigh begin to sow dissent between the survivors of New Caprica and the crew that stayed behind on ''Galactica'', insinuating that those who stayed behind did not suffer like those on New Caprica did, and that the crew of ''Galactica'' took too long to organize a rescue. Admiral Adama, upon learning of this from [[Karl Agathon]], confronts Thrace and Tigh on their behavior. He challenges them to shoot him, as their constant complaining is tantamount to pulling the trigger. When neither do, Adama throws Thrace off her chair and demands that both she and Tigh shape up and move on with their lives. Spurred by Adama's words, Thrace cuts her hair and returns to duty. Later, in uniform, she visits Kacey and her mother on the [[Camp Oil Slick|converted hangar deck]] ([[Torn]]).<br />
*Thrace enters an illicit affair with Lee Adama, rekindling their romance on New Caprica ([[Unfinished Business]]). Both Anders and Adama's wife, Lieutenant [[Dualla]], are more than vaguely aware of the pair's sexual tension. Major Adama soon ends the affair and reconciles, but Thrace refuses to give Anders any further attention than a periodic sexual fling.<br />
*Starbuck is involved with the defense of the [[Temple of Five]] but is severely injured, leaving her rescuer, Dualla, to return them to ''Galactica'' ([[Rapture]]). Helo recognizes the strange circular [[Eye of Jupiter|mandala]] (created 4,000 years before) in the Temple and its resemblance to a symbol that Thrace painted in her apartment. When shown the symbol, the recovering Thrace is darkly reminded of Leoben's prophesy.<br />
*During refueling operations above a gas giant, Starbuck is continually attracted to what she believes is a Cylon contact, which she chases to find a planetary storm that resembles the mandala. She dives into it, almost losing control before coming to her senses and returning.<br />
*Command staff and Thrace question her competency to continue flying, but Major Adama volunteers encouragement and offers to fly as her wingman on her next [[CAP]].<br />
*Starbuck finds herself attracted by another apparent Cylon contact. As she descended, her Viper is struck by debris and she, while unconscious, experiences a revelation about her mother, [[Socrata Thrace]], and guided through the vision by what looks to be a Leoben copy.<br />
*Starbuck regains consciousness but chooses to continue her descent despite Apollo's desperate pleas to ascend. "I'll see you on the other side (...) Just let me go" were her last words as her Viper explodes. A grief-stricken Apollo tells [[CIC]] that he did not see any ejection ([[Maelstrom]]).<br />
*While in battle with the Cylons near the [[Ionian nebula]], Apollo detected a bogey on [[DRADIS]]. While Lee is searching a Viper Mark 2 comes alongside with Starbuck inside. Flying in formation, Kara tells him that she has been to [[Earth]] and she's there to take them to it.([[Crossroads, Part II]])<br />
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==The Destiny==<br />
The ''nature'' of Kara Thrace's specific destiny has not been revealed in the series as of the episode, "[[Maelstrom]]". Indications from the series' events strongly suggest that Thrace has an unknown connection to one or more locales or entities: The [[Temple of Five]], the Cylon's [[final five]], the [[Thirteenth Tribe]] and the [[Religion in the Twelve Colonies (RDM)|The Lords of Kobol]].<br />
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Thrace is told of her part in a destiny by the second [[Leoben Conoy]] agent in the season 1 episode, "[[Flesh and Bone]]" during his interrogation. The lines suggest that Thrace's destiny also involves the Leoben Cylon himself:<br />
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<div style="font-size:90%"><blockquote>"This is not your path, Starbuck. You have a different destiny."</blockquote><br />
<blockquote>"All this has happened before, and all of it will happen again."</blockquote><br />
<blockquote>"You kneel before idols and ask for guidance and you can't see that your destiny's already been written. Each of us plays a role, each time a different role. The last time, I was the interrogator and you were the prisoner. The players change, the story remains the same. And this time...this time, you're wrong. <nowiki>[. . .] </nowiki>You have to deliver my soul unto God. Do it for me. It's your destiny, and mine."</blockquote></div><br />
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In this same dialogue, the Leoben Cylon talks of the abuse that Thrace suffered at the hands of her mother, [[Socrata Thrace]].<br />
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Fewer elements are noted about the destiny in season 2. In the episode, "[[Valley of Darkness]]", [[Helo]] and Thrace enter her old apartment, where, among other paintings, is a noticeable "bullseye"-like painting. Several episodes later, in "[[The Farm]]", the Cylon later to be known as [[Sharon Agathon]] tells Thrace after her rescue from the [[Farms|farm]], "They know who you are, Kara. You’re special. Leoben told you that. You have a destiny." The [[Simon]] Cylon also reflects knowledge of Thrace's child abuse through a medical examination in the same episode.<br />
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By late into season 3, the episodes "[[The Eye of Jupiter]]" and "[[Rapture]]" reveal the [[Eye of Jupiter]], a symbol left by the [[Thirteenth Tribe]] in the [[Temple of Five]]. As the home star of the [[algae planet]] went nova, the star's discharge was very similar to one that occurred in the [[Ionian system]] at the time of the Thirteenth Tribe's journey, and greatly resembled the symbol of the Eye in the temple. Only Helo had seen what is now called the "mandala" by the Fleet leadership before, and shows Thrace the photo of one mandala from the Temple of Five, comparing it to Thrace's symbol. Thrace remembers the words of the Leoben from "Flesh and Bone."<br />
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By "[[Maelstrom]]", viewers find Thrace seeing the mandala in many objects: the dripping of wax, and as the colors of a gas giant's planetary storm. Thrace becomes increasing distracted by and attracted to the symbol whenever it appears. When Starbuck is knocked unconscious during her last flight and "awakens" in her old apartment (where the mandala again appears), a [[Virtual Leoben|person in Leoben's likeness]] greets her and allows Thrace to relive the last moments with her mother. This section vaguely alludes to information that Socrata knew about her daughter's path in life and tried to prepare her for it as best she knew how. The [[Podcast:Maelstrom|podcast]] for the episode by [[Ron D. Moore]] supports this by stating:<br />
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<div style="font-size:90%"><blockquote><nowiki>[. . .]</nowiki>"(In) this episode, you could see that there was really something behind it. That Kara really does have a destiny. That Kara really was fated for a particular end. And that mom was trying to prepare her for that. And prepare her for those roles, on some level, even if she couldn't quite articulate why and what she was doing to her daughter, that her mother believed and had seen oracles and had felt that Kara was special, and that out of her desire to toughen her daughter and make her daughter strong enough to take on the challenges that she was gonna face one day, she had really stepped over the line and had abused the daughter and had created this really toxic relationship between mother and child."</blockquote></div><br />
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Moore's note on Socrata Thrace's use of [[oracle]]s strongly support the connection between Thrace and the Lords of Kobol.<br />
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When Thrace visits the oracle [[Yolanda Brenn]], the pilot finds a figurine of [[Aurora, Goddess of the Dawn|Aurora]], ostensibly a figure of worship in the Colonial faith, if not a Lord of Kobol itself. The oracle tells Thrace to keep the figure until Thrace realizes who should receive it. That person is [[William Adama|Admiral Adama]]. After Thrace's death, Adama places the Aurora figurine on his sailing ship model as a [[w:figurehead|figurehead]]. The figurehead on a ship given by Thrace may allude to a connection to the path to Earth through Thrace and her destiny, but little more can be determined by this aired information.<br />
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The most mysterious element towards the end of the episode involves the revelation by Thrace that the [[Virtual Leoben|Leoben in her vision]] was not in fact a Leoben Cylon (nor did it claim to be). What or who the entity was that guided Thrace in the vision is unknown, but "Leoben's" presence with Thrace in her last moments before choosing to die reflects the "Flesh and Bone" line from an actual Leoben: "You have to deliver my soul unto God. Do it for me. It's your destiny, and mine."<br />
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==Notes==<br />
*On the Sci-Fi Channel's preview for season 2.5 (US), Katee Sackoff is quoted as saying that Starbuck is "the best Viper pilot...EVER."<br />
*[[Wikipedia:Thrace|Thrace]] was a region in south-eastern Europe that was heavily influenced by the ancient Greeks and was eventually conquered by [[Wikipedia:Philip_II_of_Macedonia|Phillip II of Macedonia]]. Thracians were considered by most to be the most ferocious fighters and were often highly paid mercenaries for Greek kings.<br />
*After auditioning for the role of [[Anastasia Dualla|Dualla]], [[Grace Park]] was asked by director [[Michael Rymer]] to audition for the role of Starbuck, and she was actually one of two finalists up for the role (the other being Katee Sackhoff, who got the part). Ultimately Park was cast as [[Sharon Valerii (Galactica copy)|Sharon "Boomer" Valerii]].<br />
*In a TV Guide [http://online.tvguide.com/newsearch/detail.aspx?id=4371595&sourcetype=S&progseriesparentid=4371595&tvobjectid=191395&keyword=Battlestar+Galactica&referrer=search1 photo shoot] at the BSG studios, Katee Sackhoff explained that the [[tattoo]] that Starbuck bears on her left arm is a wing and a circle and has half of the constellation of Capricorn (a reference to [[Caprica]] obviously) and a small symbol of the planet as well. It matches a mirror image of the tattoo on Anders' right arm. When the two of them hold each other with their respective arms crossing, the 2 tattoos come together to form an image of a single ring with 2 wings that is supposed to represent their union. According to Sackhoff, Kara and Anders had the tattoos done around the time of their wedding.<br />
*The license plate on Thrace's truck on Caprica is "FB 42 E3" ([[Valley of Darkness]]).<br />
*In a [http://community.tvguide.com/thread.jspa?threadID=800009378 recent TV Guid interview], David Eick stated that ..."the events in episodes 16 and 19 will greatly impact the nature of their romance" when asked about the Starbuck/Apollo romance, which appears to support the theory that Starbuck somehow survived "Maelstrom".<br />
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<div>:''The article discusses the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Re-imagined Series]] character with the pilot callsign of "Apollo." For information on his [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]] counterpart, see [[Apollo (TOS)]].''<br />
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|birthname= Lee Adama<br />
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|parents= [[Caroline Adama]] (mother, likely deceased), [[William Adama]] (father)<br />
|siblings= [[Zak Adama]] †<br />
|children=1 unborn child with [[Gianne]] (presumed deceased)<br />
|marital status= Married to [[Anastasia Dualla]]<br />
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== Biographical Notes ==<br />
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=== Background ===<br />
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'''Lee "Apollo" Adama''' is the eldest son of [[Caroline Adama|Caroline]] and [[William Adama]]. Together with his younger brother, Zak, he was raised largely by his mother on [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]], following his parents' divorce when he was eight. <br />
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Despite his father's estrangement from the family, Adama nevertheless inherited his passion for flying - a passion that saw him enrolling in the Colonial military reserves after graduating from college. Following his basic training, he graduated from the military academy third in his class and immediately applied for flight school. <br />
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Not to be outdone by his elder brother, Zak Adama applied for military service, a move that eventually brought tragedy to the Adama household.<br />
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Accepted into flight school, Adama proved himself a gifted and natural pilot, hampered only by his tendency to over-intellectualise things - a result of his upbringing with his mother, who encouraged him to read widely, and think freely (encouragement that led him to read banned texts by the renegade [[Tom Zarek]] while at college ([[Bastille Day]])). <br />
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Graduating from flight school, Adama was commissioned as a Lieutenant in the Colonial Reserve, flying the [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] Mark VII. During this time, he was also introduced to [[Kara Thrace|Kara "Starbuck" Thrace]], a training instructor at flight school, who was also involved with Zak Adama. While Adama was still at flight school, the three frequently spent time together, and Adama and Thrace developed a friendship through Zak Adama ([[Miniseries]]).<br />
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=== Brother's Death ===<br />
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Tragedy struck some two years prior to the renewed Cylon attack on the Twelve Colonies when Zak Adama, recently graduated from flight school, was killed on a routine Viper mission. At the time, the cause of the accident was put down to pilot error. However, Lee Adama chose to blame the mishap on his father, whom he believed had pushed Zak into applying for military service and for applying for flight school ([[Miniseries]]). <br />
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Following Zak's death, Lee Adama became estranged from his father, seeking to build his career well away from any influence exerted by either William Adama or the legendary [[Galactica type battlestar|battlestar]] ''[[Galactica]]'', his father's command. While he was successful in this - gaining promotion to Captain through his own abilities, the decision nevertheless placed a heavy strain on his friendship with Kara Thrace, as she applied for pilot duty aboard ''Galactica''. <br />
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Adama spent much time on Caprica and becomes engaged to a woman named [[Gianne]]. She told him she is pregnant with their child, causing him to run from her due to his own family issues. Before he can speak with her again he is assigned to take part in the decommissioning ceremony aboard ''Galactica'' ([[Black Market]]).<br />
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Adama is reunited with both his father and Kara Thrace when ''Galactica'' is to be decommissioned as a [[Galactica Museum|living museum and educational center]] of the [[Cylon War]]. As a part of the final ceremonies marking ''Galactica's'' retirement, Lee Adama participates in a final Viper flyby to salute both the ship and her commanding officer - an assignment he undertakes grudgingly, doing little to hide his true feelings from the moment he arrives on the battlestar ([[Miniseries]]). Matters are not helped when he discovers he will fly not in his own [[Viper Mark VII|Mark VII Viper]], but in a newly-restored [[Viper Mark II]] his father had flown during the Cylon War ([[Miniseries]]).<br />
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Things worsen after the PR official aboard ''Galactica'', [[Aaron Doral]], sees Captain Adama's presence on ''Galactica'' as a major PR opportunity and has Adama and his father pose for pictures together. Immediately following this, Adama confronts his father over his brother's death, venting two years' worth of anger and belief that his father was responsible for the loss of his brother.<br />
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=== Surprise [[Cylon Attack]] ===<br />
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Following the decommissioning ceremony, Lee Adama departs ''Galactica'', acting as an unofficial escort for ''[[Colonial Heavy 798]]'', the official transport for Secretary of Education [[Laura Roslin]], who represented President [[Richard Adar|Adar]] at the ceremony. Midway through their return to [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]], Adama and the crew of ''Colonial Heavy 798'' hear of the Cylon attacks on the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]], and soon find themselves under direct attack. Adama is able to thwart a missile attack, but his father's old Viper is disabled. Aboard ''Colonial Heavy 798''. Adama becomes one of Laura Roslin's unofficial advisors, aiding her in her self-appointed rescue mission. Adama's annoyance of his father's old Viper comes back to haunt him when [[Sharon Valerii|Boomer]], returning from her unexpected rescue mission on Caprica and disastrous attack on two [[Cylon Raider]]s, notes to him that other Vipers and other modern Colonial spacecraft like his Mark VII were [[Command Navigation Program|easily destroyed]] by Cylon attacks.<br />
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Adama again saves ''Colonial Heavy 798'' from a nuclear missile attack with a failed experiment he toyed with in [[War College]], using ''Galactica's'' [[EMP]] coils that were placed on the ship for return to Caprica and the Colonial Fleet - while simultaneously making it look like the ship had been destroyed. He supports Roslin in her rescue efforts, persuading Roslin to lead the [[FTL]]-capable ships to follow ''Galactica'' to [[Ragnar Anchorage]]. <br />
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As the ranking pilot aboard ''Galactica'', and despite his relative inexperience, Adama finds himself promoted to the position of [[CAG]] by Colonel [[Saul Tigh]].<br />
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Apollo leads a Viper squadron in keeping [[Cylon Raider]]s at bay while the civilian [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] Jumps away from Ragnar Anchorage. His ship is badly damaged midway in the battle and Adama would have been killed by a missile were it not for the lightning-fast and highly-accurate shooting of Starbuck. Starbuck's highly unconventional flying force-fits her fighter and Adama's now-powerless Viper nose-to-nose and flies him back to the battlestar seconds before the port [[flight pod]] closes and ''Galactica'' Jumps away.<br />
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=== Special Advisor === <br />
[[image:Water_Apollo_Roslin.jpg|thumb|left|300px|[[Lee Adama|Adama]] and President Roslin shake hands after appointment as military advisor in "[[Water]]". (c) Universal)]]<br />
Adama's work as Roslin's "special advisor" to further help her understand military matters does not sit well with his father ([[Bastille Day]]). <br />
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In the weeks following the Cylon attack, Adama finds time to re-evaluate his relationship with his father - due in no small part to Starbuck's admission of her involvement in Zak's acceptance as a fighter pilot ([[Miniseries]]) and his subsequent death. Father and son grow somewhat closer - even standing shoulder-to-shoulder when Starbuck is MIA ([[You Can't Go Home Again]]). Even so, Adama's former self-doubts and moodiness are not easily overcome and sometimes come back to haunt him when he is tasked to fill a role that others are unsure he can manage. As a Viper pilot, Adama is able to escape from Starbuck's shadow, proving himself capable in unconventional and skilled flying in the [[Battle for the Tylium Asteroid]] ([[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]).<br />
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After the tylium asteroid mission, Adama matures enormously, emerging from his shell as a somewhat disillusioned officer and becomes a practical leader who now comfortably straddles his responsibilities as [[CAG]] of ''Galactica'' with his duties as advisor to Roslin. With few issues with either Roslin or his father, Adama demonstrates his maturity particularly well in his handling of security arrangements for the initial meeting of Roslin's [[Quorum of Twelve]] aboard the luxury liner ''[[Cloud Nine]]'' ([[Colonial Day]]).<br />
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=== The Inner Conflicts at Kobol ===<br />
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Unfortunately, Adama's beliefs in the need for democratic representation and civil government brings him in direct conflict with orders given him by Commander Adama. During the arrest of Laura Roslin following her [[Arrow of Apollo|interference with military operations]], Captain Adama draws his gun on [[Saul Tigh|Colonel Tigh]] in a direct act of mutiny, protesting his father's removal of Roslin from office. Arrested together with Roslin, Adama watches helplessly in [[CIC]] as [[Sharon Valerii (Galactica copy)|Lieutenant Valerii]] shoots his father at point blank range, seriously wounding him ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]).<br />
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Adama is temporarily furloughed by Colonel Tigh so that he can continue his CAG responsibilities, For a time, Commander Adama's initiative lives on through his son. Young Adama leads a fight with Cylons to buy time for ''Galactica'' to find its proper bearings to the civilian Fleet ([[Scattered]]), He leads a team of [[Marines]] to stop [[Cylon Centurion]]s from reaching [[Aft Damage Control]], saving the ship ([[Valley of Darkness]]). After that, Adama continues his initiative and leads a [[SAR]] mission with two [[Raptors]] to retrieve stranded Colonials on the surface of Kobol ([[Fragged]]).<br />
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Adama's desire to let democracy work without overt military action comes to a head once more as he plots with a handful of others to free Roslin and smuggle her away from ''Galactica'' ([[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]). Before he leaves, he apologizes to his unconscious Commander Adama at his bedside for what he is about to do: Leave with Roslin and a [[Laura Roslin faction|faction]] of ships to search for data on Earth on Kobol. Commander Adama begins to awaken just as young Adama leaves his side.<br />
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On the ''[[Astral Queen]]'', Adama is so happy to see Kara Thrace had returned safely from Caprica with the [[Arrow of Apollo]] that he hugs and also impulsively kisses her, pleasantly surprising Thrace. Moments later, as the Caprica copy of Sharon Valerii entered, Adama instantly grabs the known [[Cylon agent]] in anger and would have killed her if Helo and Roslin did not intervene.<br />
[[image:Home_pt1-Apollo_Starbuck.jpg|thumb|[[Lee Adama|Adama]] and Kara Thrace speak aboard the ''Astral Queen'' in "Home, Part I". (c) Universal)]]<br />
Later, with their military protocols and attitudes temporarily relaxed, Adama playfully teases the brooding Kara Thrace by stealing a [[pyramid (RDM)|pyramid]] ball she took as a keepsake from her time with [[Samuel Anders|Anders]] on Caprica. He returns the ball after sensing her depressed mood and tells her that he would be happy to listen to what was on her mind. In the same conversation, he lets it slip out that he loves Thrace. Amused, Thrace cheers up a bit and teases Adama, telling him that there are no take-backs on what he said ([[Home, Part I]]).<br />
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Adama and Thrace join President Roslin and her other supporters on their quest to find the [[Tomb of Athena]] on Kobol. When Cylon Centurions ambush the group along an ancient trail, Adama and Thrace work well together in the fight, complementing each other for their fine shooting. During the incident, Adama chases what appeared to be an escaping Valerii, with Thrace calling Adama back in vain. Valerii takes a grenade launcher and aims it in the direction of Adama, but Valerii actually uses the weapon to destroy the last Centurion instead before dropping the weapon to a very surprised Adama.<br />
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Adama's reunion with his recovered father on Kobol further mends the wounds between them, both politically and personally. Like Captain Adama had done on the ''Queen'', his father reacts violently to the existence of a another copy of Valerii, leaving Captain Adama in the awkward position of defending her from his father.<br />
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In the virtual planetarium created by the Tomb of Athena, Adama is the party member that completes the mystery of interpreting how to use the constellations as viewed from Earth to make a flight path. He spots the [[Wikipedia:Lagoon Nebula|Lagoon Nebula]] in the sky where the Scorpius constellation resided, a celestial body known to the Colonials which gives them a reference point to navigate to Earth. His father confirms Adama's observation, noting that the nebula is far away from their current location at Kobol.<br />
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After the Fleet's reunification, Lee Adama is fully restored to flight status and his position as the Commander, Air Group ([[Final Cut]]). Apollo doubts that [[Galen Tyrol|Tyrol]] could successfully complete a prototype fighter later known as the [[Blackbird]], but in the end aids in its first test flight with Starbuck. Around this time, Adama begins to develop a peculiar attraction to Petty Officer 2nd Class [[Anastasia Dualla]] ([[Flight of the Phoenix]]).<br />
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===Reassignment===<br />
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Apollo is on [[CAP]] when the [[Mercury class battlestar|battlestar]] ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' reunites with ''Galactica'': he was one of the first to see it up close. Soon afterwards, friction develops between Adama and the CAG of ''Pegasus'', Captain [[Cole Taylor|Cole "Stinger" Taylor]]. Taylor feels that Adama's pilots were undisciplined and implies that Adama has his position through his father's influence. Taylor recommends that Adama have his pilots focus on keeping a "killcount" of Raiders to encourage competition between his pilots, while Adama stresses that his first priority is to make sure that all of his pilots merely survive another day.<br />
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To Adama's shock, Admiral [[Helena Cain]] re-assigns him and Lt. Thrace to ''Pegasus'', under Taylor's command. Cain believes that having Commander Adama's son in the role of CAG was a mistake that had clouded Commander Adama's judgment, as young Adama had been insubordinate and even [[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II|mutinous]] in the past. During a briefing on an upcoming scouting mission against the Cylon fleet following them, Thrace crassly points out that it would never work. She is grounded while Taylor orders Adama to perform the humiliating task of co-piloting a Raptor. However, after the briefing, Adama surreptitiously gives Starbuck a surveillance package and tells her to take the Blackbird to carry out a recon mission on her own. When Commander Adama and Admiral Cain turn on each other, Apollo is away in Taylor's Raptor on his recon mission ([[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]).<br />
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As the two battlestar commanders begin sparring with Vipers, ''Pegasus'' orders Taylor to relieve Adama of duty. Taylor pulls his sidearm and takes away Adama's. Now weaponless and with nothing more to do than to ride along, Adama asks permission to head to the rear of the Raptor. While Taylor is busy, Adama secretly sends an encoded [[wireless]] message to Starbuck on her whereabouts with the Blackbird and the secret stealth mission he tasked her with. It happened that Starbuck arrives back in the Fleet's space to see the furious and dangerous game of Viper-tag and replies to Adama, asking what was going on. Starbuck's return on the outer fringes of [[DRADIS]] activate proximity alarms on both ''Pegasus'' and ''Galactica'', whose Vipers unite as a team to intercept what they think is a [[Raider]]. Starbuck manages to identify herself before things get out of hand.<br />
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Cain feels that persecuting young Adama for authorizing Thrace's mission would be odd since she was promoting Thrace for her work on her recon mission. Thrace successfully returns Adama to flight status, but demoted to Lieutenant ([[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]).<br />
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=== Battle of the Resurrection Ship ===<br />
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While Thrace plans an assault on the Resurrection Ship and the two [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]]s defending it, she tells Adama that his father has ordered her to kill Cain after the battle, and asks Adama to watch her back. Outraged, Adama confronts his father with this, shocked to learn it was President Roslin's idea. Thrace assigns Adama the specific task of disabling the Resurrection Ship's [[FTL]] drive by sneaking up on it in the [[Blackbird]] and destroying it with a precision missile strike. Apollo succeeds, but the Blackbird collides with a Raider. Apollo is able to eject, but the Blackbird is destroyed. Alive, but not unscathed, Apollo floats in space watching the battle take place, able to faintly hear Dualla calling for him over [[wireless]]. His damaged [[flight suit]] leaves him in hypoxia, drifting in and out of consciousness, found shortly afterwards by a [[SAR]] [[Raptor]] and resuscitated. Adama becomes despondent and distant from his friends and family after his near-death experience. In the pilot's locker room, Thrace tells Adama "Let's just be glad that we both came back alive, alright?" to which Adama responds "That's just it, Kara, I didn't want to make it back alive" ([[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]).<br />
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=== The Black Market ===<br />
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Captains Adama and Thrace apprehend Viper saboteur [[Asha Janik]] of the [[Demand Peace]] group after she sabotages Viper ammunition.<br />
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After President Roslin is saved from her illness, she begins trying to put down the Fleet's [[Black market (organization)|black market]]. New ''Pegasus'' commander [[Jack Fisk]] is soon murdered, leaving the elder Adama (now an Admiral) to assign his son to investigate. With his association with prostitute [[Shevon]] and her daughter [[Paya]] on ''[[Cloud 9]]'' [[Anastasia Dualla]] asks where the relationship between the two of them was heading. After he hesitates, Dualla takes it to mean it is over. Rushing to help Shevon after her call for help, the captain is ambushed by Phelan's men. Waking up from the attack, he finds the Fisk's murder weapon, and the body of Fisk's murderer. <br />
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With some help from [[Tom Zarek]], unwilling to accept the neatly-wrapped up case of Fisk's murderer or the missing Shevon, Adama finds the black market's main ship, the ''[[Prometheus]]''. He finds Paya and other children locked in a storage room. He confronts Phelan, who tells him a black market is necessary, since some supplies may never reach needy people any other way. After Phelan admits running a child prostitution ring, Adama shoots Phelan, and tells his bodyguards that the market can continue operations, unless it keeps holding back essential medicines, begins killing, or returns to child prostitution.<br />
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Shevon refuses to see Adama anymore, realizing that Adama has tried to use her and Paya as replacements in his mind for his lost fiancé [[Gianne]] and their unborn child ([[Black Market]]).<br />
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===Friendly Fire===<br />
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While on leave to ''[[Cloud 9]]'' with [[Anastasia Dualla]], a group of terrorists seize a bar and demand the second copy of [[Sharon Valerii (Caprica copy)|Sharon Valerii]] for execution, while they hold hostage approximately a dozen people, including Dualla, [[Billy Keikeya]], [[Ellen Tigh]] and Adama. The captain secretly sabotages the bar's sensors to appear as if it were leaking atmosphere. The sabotage enables Captain Thrace to gather intelligence on the situation, but her cover is blown, and she is forced to lay down some fire to escape. One shot hits Adama in the chest. Dualla is able to care for Adama long enough for him to survive to ''Galactica's'' sickbay, and later sat at his bedside while he recovers ([[Sacrifice]]).<br />
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===A Worthy Command ===<br />
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Adama finds himself promoted to Major and assigned to battlestar [[Pegasus (RDM)|''Pegasus]]'' to assess the new commander [[Barry Garner]], a former officer in engineering, and the bad situation on the ship in general. His relationship with Dualla has become very intimate following his promotion and recovery. Garner finds an instant dislike for Kara Thrace, still assigned as ''Pegasus''' CAG, and orders her sent back to ''Galactica''. Against orders from Admiral Adama, Garner takes ''Pegasus'' in to search for two Raptors missing during a recon mission into a binary star system. His impulsive and unwise efforts result in the battlestar's ambush by three Cylon basestars.<br />
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With the FTL drive damaged after successive nuclear missile strikes, Garner relegates command to Major Adama and heads below to help in FTL repairs. After a moment's hesitation (perhaps thinking what his father would do), Adama orders the forward guns to fire on the nearest basestar's central spire, critically damaging the basestar and forcing its retreat, while commanding the battlestar's fighters (led by Starbuck) to guard embattled areas damaged from nuclear pummeling. Adama's attack buys time for Commander Garner to repair the FTL drive, enabling Adama to order ''Pegasus'' to escape back to the Fleet and relative safety.<br />
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Admiral Adama debriefs his son, and congratulates him by promoting him to the rank of Commander and giving him command of battlestar ''Pegasus'' ([[The Captain's Hand]]).<br />
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Sometime later, Adama wishes Thrace good luck in rescuing [[Anders]] and the rest of the [[Caprica Resistance|resistance group on Caprica]], despite his clear personal feelings towards her. After Thrace and Anders' return, Adama attempts to introduce himself politely, but is hampered by the couple's amorous and highly drunken behavior. When Thrace gives a rude comment, Adama bows out the area, beginning a quiet but palpable rift in their friendship. This strain would grow worse on the evening of the founding of [[New Caprica]]. After the party on the surface, Lee and Kara slept together after Dee and Anders had retired. Proclaiming his love for her, she reciprocated and they fell asleep in one anothers arms. The next morning he awoke to find Starbuck gone. When he reached the settlement he was informed by his father that Kara and Anders had gotten married earlier in the morning ([[Unfinished Business]]).<br />
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[[Image:Apollo LDYBPII.JPG|thumb|left|Lee Adama in command of ''Pegasus'' ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]).]]<br />
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Just over a year later, commanding a half-capacity, nearly unneeded battlestar orbiting [[New Caprica]], Commander Lee Adama gained a considerable amount of weight in the intervening year. He is in the process of deciding whether or not to supply Kara Thrace with antibiotics for Anders (now her husband, suffering from pneumonia) when Dualla (now Lieutenant, ''Pegasus'' [[CIC]] and wife of Lee Adama) spots a massive Cylon fleet jumping into the nebula. Adama and his father briefly discuss their course of action; young Adama argues for an immediate emergency jump. Reluctantly, the Admiral ordered the orbiting remains of the Fleet, whose population consists of around two thousand citizens, to escape, leaving New Caprica to the Cylons, for the time being ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]).<br />
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=== Battle of New Caprica and Destruction of ''Pegasus'' ===<br />
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Commander Adama and his father get into a disagreement over whether or not a rescue mission should be mounted to New Caprica. Lee believes that it would end with the destruction of both ''Galactica'' and ''Pegasus'', leaving the pitiful remnants of the Fleet at the mercy of the Cylons. Lee also objects to the Admiral's decision to reinstate [[Sharon Agathon]] as a Colonial Fleet officer to act as liaison between the New Caprica resistance and ''Galactica''. These disagreements lead to heated arguments between the two, prompting Admiral Adama to make a comment about Lee's weight by calling him a "fatass" and saying he has grown "soft" in the past year ([[Occupation]], [[Precipice]]). Due to his son's objections, Admiral Adama decides to take ''Galactica'' to rescue the people on New Caprica alone. He gives his son orders to wait 18 hours for his return; if he does not return by then, Lee is to resume the search for Earth with what's left of the civilian fleet ([[Exodus, Part I]]).<br />
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Lee is certain that the elder Adama will not return, and he is conflicted between his duty to protect the civilians and his duty to his father. His wife's attempt at reassurance only serve to heighten his guilt. Leaving his ship's Vipers behind to protect the civilians, the Commander takes ''Pegasus'' to assist ''Galactica'', fully aware that he may very well be on a suicide mission. He joins the [[Battle of New Caprica]] just in time, saving his father's ship from certain destruction at the hands of four Cylon basestars; ''Pegasus'' immediately destroys one basestar with its forward guns. Lee then uses ''Pegasus'' to draw fire, giving ''Galactica'' time to escape. This action damages ''Pegasus'' beyond repair. Per his plan, Adama orders the crew to evacuate and sets the ship's batteries to be set on autofire; he is the last person to leave the CIC, thanking the ship as he departs. The small crew evacuates on Raptors and executes FTL jumps just as ''Pegasus'' rams a basestar, destroying itself in the process. One of its flight pods tumbles away from the force of the explosion and collides with another basestar in a final act of defiance ([[Exodus, Part II]]). <br />
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The Commander and his crew transfer to the last remaining battlestar, ''Galactica''. Still a Commander three days later, Lee reports directly to his father regarding important affairs within the Fleet, including the mysterious disappearances of 13 people confirmed to have survived the Exodus from New Caprica. Dissatisfied with his round appearance, he had also taken up a rigid exercise regimen and starts losing weight rapidly ([[Collaborators]]). <br />
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=== The Second Exodus ===<br />
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[[Image:Maj apollo in viper.jpg|thumb|right|Lee Adama back as a major in the role of Galactica's CAG. ([[Torn]])]]<br />
As of the episode "[[Torn]]", he has returned to the role of Galactica's CAG, with the rank of Major. When a dying basestar is discovered in the [[Lion's Head Nebula]], Adama leads a team of marines on it and captures several humanoid Cylons. When Doctor [[Cottle]] discovers that they are infected with a virus lethal to the Cylons, Adama advocates to use the prisoners as biological weapons in an attempt to exterminate the Cylons. The plan is approved but ultimately fails due to the intervention of [[Karl Agathon]] ([[A Measure of Salvation]]).<br />
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== Notes ==<br />
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*From [[Ronald D. Moore]]'s [[Wikipedia:blog|blog]], in response to a fan's question:<br />
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<blockquote>In my first draft of the [[Miniseries|mini]], Lee Adama had just been accepted into test pilot school on [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]] and was not currently assigned to any [[battlestar]]. Presumably, he had been posted to at least a couple of battlestar [[CAG|air groups]] in his career, as well as several ground assignments as well. This isn't [[canon]] yet, however, and I'm currently thinking of changing some elements of his specific backstory as I work on storylines for [[Season 2 (2005-06)|Season Two]]. Overall, I'd say Lee was striving (perhaps too hard) to blaze a different path for himself in the fleet from that of his [[William Adama|father]]. I don't think Lee ever saw himself as a battlestar commander and was looking for a different way to make his mark.</blockquote><br />
*According to Jamie Bamber, Adama's official character biography states that “Lee is never so happy as when he’s in his kitchen cooking.”<br />
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*The subtitles under Apollo's name in "[[Final Cut]]" list him as "CFR". In the podcast, RDM explained that this stood for Colonial Fleet Reserves; likely analogous to the U.S. Army Reserve, the U.S. Air Force Reserve and such of the United States military; and Apollo is in that because, as stated above, he wasn't sure what he was doing with his life and wasn't sure if he was going to pursue a full career in the Fleet.<br />
* Jamie Bamber is the husband of actress Kerry Norton, who portrays [[Layne Ishay]], the paramedic from "[[Scattered]]".<br />
* Bamber is actually a British citizen; he disguises his accent to play the role of Lee Adama.<br />
* Bamber's natural hair color is blonde, but his hair is dyed brown to play Apollo, so he will resemble [[Edward James Olmos]] more, who plays his characters' father. <br />
*According to [[Battlestar Galactica: The Official Companion]], [[Edward James Olmos]] and [[Mary McDonnell]] were hand-picked for their roles, while the rest of the characters were cast by audition: among those in the running for the role of Apollo was ''Farscape'' and ''Stargate SG-1'' star [[Wikipedia:Ben Browder|Ben Browder]], though the role ultimately went to [[Jamie Bamber]]. <br />
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<div>:''This article discusses the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Re-imagined Series]] character with the pilot callsign of "Starbuck." For information on Kara Thrace's counterpart in the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]], see [[Starbuck (TOS)]].''<br />
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'''Kara "Starbuck" Thrace''', serial number 462753, is a gifted Viper pilot &mdash; and knows it. This leaves her with an attitude that has at times thwarted her career advancement. However, thanks to [[William Adama]], Thrace's skills in battle have extended beyond the cockpit to greatly aid the Fleet.<br />
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== Background ==<br />
*In an unhappy childhood, Thrace was so frequently beaten by her mother that she came to accept pain as a way of life ([[Flesh and Bone]]).<br />
*Her father was a pianist ([[Valley of Darkness]]), suggesting that her formerly broken finger bones on both hands had been intentionally broken by a parent using her father's piano ([[The Farm]]).<br />
*Thrace left home to join the [[Colonial Fleet|military]].<br />
* She was a very talented [[pyramid]] player ([[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]), and received a scholarship to the Fleet Academy to play pyramid. During this time, she injured her knee and was no longer able to play pyramid at a professional level. During that time, however, she discovered a passion and skill at being a fighter pilot ([[Podcast:The Hand of God]]). On graduating from Colonial Flight School, she undertook a period of active duty before returning to flight school as an instructor. <br />
*Thrace fell in love with a young recruit, [[Zak Adama]]. Despite his mediocre performance, she passed him on his final flight examination, despite failing three of the required maneuvers ([[Act of Contrition]]).<br />
*Thrace's engagement to Zak Adama ends when he was killed during a routine mission shortly after graduating. At the time, [[Lee Adama]], Zak's elder brother, blamed their father for Zak Adama's death. In her guilt, Thrace did little to alter this idea. She did, however, meet [[William Adama]] shortly after the accident, and the two struck up such a strong rapport that they stood together at the funeral ([[Act of Contrition]]). <br />
*Thrace resigned from flight school as a instructor and transferred as an operational pilot aboard [[Galactica type battlestar|battlestar]] ''[[Galactica]]'' under the command of William Adama, where she served for some two years prior to the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attack]] on the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]]. Before the Cylon attack, she was second in command of the remaining pilots, subordinate to the [[CAG]], [[Jackson Spencer]].<br />
*At the time of the Cylon attack she has an run-down apartment in [[Delphi]] that overlooks a parking lot. She rarely used the dilapidated apartment. She was also a very avid painter, and her apartment was cluttered with her paintings ([[Valley of Darkness]]).<br />
*Despite her reckless approach to life, Thrace hides the fact that she is deeply spiritual. She frequently prays (or talks) to the [[Lords of Kobol]], particularly [[Aphrodite]] and [[Artemis]] in times of need ([[Miniseries]], "[[Flesh and Bone]]", "[[You Can't Go Home Again]]").<br />
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==Character History at a Glance==<br />
*Thrace's attitude quickly runs her afoul of Colonel [[Saul Tigh]], ''Galactica's'' [[Executive officer]]. Their open mutual dislike of one another leads to the point where blows are exchanged, with Thrace ending up in the brig. After the Cylon attack she is released from the brig and returns to duty as ''Galactica's'' Viper pilot.<br />
*Thrace manages to keep two of three nuclear missiles from striking ''Galactica'' in their first Cylon sortie, and saves Captain Adama from doom in an innovative maneuver in the [[Battle of Ragnar Anchorage]].<br />
*Her skills in saving Apollo brings her grudging respect from Colonel Tigh, but she is unable to accept his offer of the olive branch - an act that will have repercussions for her later ([[Miniseries]]).<br />
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[[image:Bastille_Day-Starbuck_Boxey.jpg|thumb|left|[[Kara Thrace|Starbuck]] as acting [[CAG]] with [[Boxey (RDM)|Boxey]] as assistant in [[Bastille Day]].]]<br />
*Thrace participates in a hostage rescue mission aboard the ''[[Astral Queen]]''. Following the successful mission, Thrace tries to mend fences between herself and Colonel Tigh with a toast (consisting of water), apologizing in much the same way as Tigh himself had tried after their initial escape from [[Ragnar Anchorage]]. But Tigh rejects Thrace's apology, stating that her flaws are professional, while his flaws were personal ([[Bastille Day]]). <br />
*Thrace eventually admits her secret about Zak Adama to William Adama himself, an act that brings their close friendship almost to the breaking point ([[Act of Contrition]]). <br />
*During a surprise encounter with Cylons during [[nugget]] training, Starbuck destroys several Cylon Raiders, but her ship is damaged and tumbles towards a small red moon with an unbreathable atmosphere. With her Viper in a fatal flat-spin, Starbuck is forced to eject from her Viper ([[You Can't Go Home Again]]).<br />
*Thrace (nursing a damaged knee) repairs the downed Cylon Raider found on the inhabitable moon and returns to ''Galactica'', giving the Fleet a vital piece of Cylon fighter technology for study and use.<br />
*The recovering Thrace, off flight status, is asked by Commander Adama to plan a special attack on a Cylon [[tylium]] refinery. The tactical planning role is not something she relishes, and she frequently shows resentment towards others for her condition ([[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]). <br />
*During Thrace's undesired interrogation of a Cylon prisoner, a copy of a known [[Cylon agent]] named [[Leoben Conoy]], she uses some drastic acts to try to extract the information from the Cylon agent ([[Flesh and Bone]]).<br />
[[image:Starbuck-Kobols_Last_Gleaming_pt2.jpg|thumb|right|'''Starbuck''' retrieves the [[Arrow of Apollo]] in [[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]].]]<br />
*Thrace is assigned to plant a nuclear device on board a [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]] in orbit around [[Kobol]]. Disobeying orders to retrieve the [[Arrow of Apollo]] by President Roslin's request, disillusioned by Commander Adama, she Jumps to Caprica ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]), landing in [[Delphi]].<br />
*In the [[Delphi Museum of the Colonies]] with the Arrow, she is violently attacked by a copy of [[Number Six]]. Despite being heavily outmatched in the fight, Thrace luckily defeats the Cylon.<br />
*At the museum, she reunites with [[Karl Agathon|Helo]], whom she thought dead, and discovers a second copy of [[Sharon Valerii]], realizing instantly that the woman is a Cylon.<br />
*Valerii, fearing for her child, steals Thrace's Raider. In exasperation, Starbuck could only mutter: "Bitch took my ride" ([[Scattered]]). Like Helo, Starbuck was left with no way to return to the Fleet unless she could find her Raider or another Cylon spacecraft, as enemy FTL engines were the only ones sufficently powerful to reach the Fleet.<br />
*Starbuck berates Helo's love for the Caprica copy of Valerii. Thrace finds the keys of her surplus military utility vehicle in her old jacket in her old apartment. Thrace has a ride again, if only to move more efficiently about Caprica ([[Valley of Darkness]]).<br />
*Thrace and Helo meet a [[Caprica Resistance|resistance movement]] on Caprica. Thrace and [[Samuel Anders]] strike up a rapport as fellow [[pyramid (RDM)|pyramid]] players and end up as lovers.<br />
*During planning to steal a [[Heavy Raider]], Thrace is shot in a military action, waking up in a hospital on Caprica. Thrace is told by her doctor, [[Simon]], that Anders died from wounds he suffered in getting Thrace to safety.<br />
*Thrace discovers that Simon is working with a [[Number Six|known Cylon agent]]. She overhears that the next day he plans to extract her ovaries for use in the Cylon's attempts to study and create a hybrid Cylon/human embryo. Simon also makes the mistake of calling Thrace by her callsign, Starbuck, which she had never revealed.<br />
*Staggering and in pain, Thrace kills Simon and escapes the hospital, but not before clocking a Six copy with a fire extinguisher and destroying the local farm power supply, mercy-killing [[Sue-Shaun]] and several other women in the facility.<br />
*Another Simon copy appears just as the Resistance attacks the facility. The second Simon, now revealed as a Cylon agent himself, is immediately killed by the Resistance, but a squad of [[Cylon Centurion]]s appear and pins the Resistance down. Luckily, Helo's [[Sharon Valerii (Caprica copy)|copy of Sharon Valerii]] swoops in with a stolen [[Heavy Raider]], destroys the Centurions and flies the Resistance and Thrace out of harm's way.<br />
*Thrace promises to Anders that she'll [[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I|return with a rescue mission]] for the remaining survivors. Anders returns the Arrow of Apollo to Thrace, which he hid on the resistance grounds for safekeeping ([[The Farm]]).<br />
*Thrace, Helo and the pregnant Valerii land on the ''[[Astral Queen]]'' in the Heavy Raider. Finding the [[Laura Roslin faction]] in orbit of [[Kobol]], Thrace is reunited with Lee Adama. He kisses her impulsively, catching Thrace by pleasant surprise, but a tense standoff follows when Adama discovers that another Valerii copy has returned with them. Roslin helps defuse the situation, and Thrace delivers the Arrow of Apollo to the President.<br />
*Temporarily removed from miltary protocol, Lee Adama playfully teases Thrace by stealing a pyramid ball she took from Caprica. Adama senses her depression about Caprica and tells her that he'd be happy to hear about any problems she had. He also let slip that he loved her, which brightened Thrace's mood to the point where she teased him back about his slip.<br />
*With a team led by Laura Roslin, Lee Adama, and, later, joined by the recovered Commander Adama, Thrace enters the [[Tomb of Athena]] and successfully uses the Arrow of Apollo to activate a hologram that shows constellations of the Twelve Colonies' ancient symbols.<br />
*Thrace realizes that they are on a recreation of Earth. Together with Lee Adama, they locate the Lagoon Nebula, a celestial body known to Commander Adama and Lee Adama, and gather sufficient information to begin an actual course to Earth ([[Home, Part II]]).<br />
*Thrace shows off the impressive stealth abilities in the new [[Blackbird]] fighter in her maiden flight ([[Flight of the Phoenix]]).<br />
*With the arrival of ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'', Admiral [[Helena Cain]] summarily assigns Thrace (and Lee Adama) to ''Pegasus'' after digesting the reports of ''Galactica'''s officers. <br />
*[[Cole Taylor|The ''Pegasus'' CAG]] removes Thrace from the Cylon recon mission. Lee Adama secretly tells her to use the [[Blackbird]] to take recon photos of the Cylon Unknown ([[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]).<br />
*Returning from her very successful mission, the [[Blackbird]]'s lack of a Colonial transponder is mistaken for a Cylon [[Raider]] on [[DRADIS]], and Starbuck is nearly confronted and shot at by Vipers from ''Pegasus'' and ''Galactica''. After narrowly avoiding certain death by declaring herself a friendly, Thrace transmits her recon photos to ''Pegasus''.<br />
*Admiral Cain is very impressed with Starbuck's performance and promotes her to Captain and ''Pegasus'' CAG.<br />
*Thrace is assigned the task of planning the joint attack on the Resurrection Ship, but successfully asks to have Lee Adama on her team, restoring him to flight status.<br />
*After she briefs Cain and Commander Adama on her battle plan, Adama asks Thrace privately to assassinate Cain after the battle is complete. Adama fears that if Cain continues to command, the Fleet would be in mortal jeopardy from Cain's draconian command ([[Resurrection Ship, Part I]]).<br />
*Thrace's battle planning, as before on the [[tylium]] [[The Hand of God (RDM)|mine]], works to near-perfection, with the Resurrection Ship destroyed and its supporting basestars.<br />
*As a result of the battle events, Thrace is left without backup as she walks to the ''Pegasus'' CIC to shoot Cain, obviously afraid and apprehensive. When Commander Adama calls, Thrace slowly moves her hand to her sidearm but, to her relief, Adama does not give the kill order and cryptically instructs her to stand down ([[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]).<br />
*Starbuck and [[Kat]] are involved in the protection of a mining operation from periodic Raider attacks. One Raider, nicknamed [[Scar (Raider)|Scar]], fuels an intensive rivalry for the pilot's "top gun" honor. Thrace, still depressed over her inability to convince Fleet command to initiate a rescue for Samuel Anders and his resistance, drinks heavily and obsesses over removing Scar from the sky, even at the cost of her life. Fortunately, Starbuck realizes the futility of her actions, and works together with Kat to destroy the remarkably dangerous Raider ([[Scar]]).<br />
*A few weeks later, Thrace takes leave on ''[[Cloud Nine]]'' when she was dragooned into rescuing Lee Adama and several other ''Galactica'' crew and residents after terrorists take them hostage in exchange for the incarcerated [[Sharon Valerii (Caprica copy)|Sharon Valerii]]. Thrace gathers intel on the situation, but her cover is blown. In the retreating firefight, Lee Adama is caught in the crossfire. After the situation is resolved, Thrace intended to sit at Adama's bedside, only to discover that Dualla beat her there ([[Sacrifice]]).<br />
*Later, Thrace is assigned to ''Pegasus'' as a flight trainer. Though the pilots like her, Commander [[Barry Garner]] does not, eventually confining her to quarters for "insubordination." Following the [[Battle of the Binary Star System|ill-fated rescue and retreat]] from a Cylon ambush (where Thrace leads the fighters), Thrace informs new ''Pegasus'' Commander Lee Adama that she was taking over his old CAG post aboard ''Galactica'' ([[The Captain's Hand]]).<br />
*Thrace gets her wish: The Caprica rescue is approved, and she leads a large Raptor squadron to the planet. The group soon met up with Anders, who reports that their HQ had been destroyed and Thrace's timing was just perfect. A squad of Centurions ambush and pin down the group moments later ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I]]).<br />
*Still pinned down from attack fire, Starbuck and Anders agree to kill each other to avoid capture and interrment at a [[Farms|farm]]. But the attack stops, and a [[Cavil|man]] appears, praising the [[Lords of Kobol|Gods]] as he announces that the Cylons not only have ceased fire, but are abandoning the Twelve Colonies. Starbuck isn't really surprised to discover that the man, known as Brother [[Cavil]], was a Cylon upon their return to the Fleet.<br />
*Starbuck and Anders proceed to get drunk, and host a disastrous visitation with Lee Adama. This apparently led to a rift between the two comrades. <br />
[[Image:Leobenkara.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Leoben with Kara.]]<br />
*The evening of the founding of [[New Caprica]], Thrace slept with Lee Adama and proclaimed her love for him as she was uncertain regarding her feelings toward Anders. The following morning she quickly married Anders near the river. This caused a rift between Kara and Lee that lasted for several months.<br />
*Life on New Caprica tempered Thrace, and she often behaved in ways Starbuck never would have, including hugging Colonel Tigh and pampering Anders during his bout with an illness.<br />
*She watches in horror at the sudden arrival of hundreds of Cylon ships in the sky over New Caprica. A few of ''Galactica's'' former crew gather near Thrace, looking to her for guidance. Starbuck responds the only way she knows how: "Fight 'em until we can't" ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]). <br />
*After Baltar's surrender of New Caprica, Conoy keeps Thrace prisoner in an apartment located within the Cylon-built [[New Caprica Detention Center]] in an attempt to convince Thrace that she loves him and also convert her to the [[Cylon Religion|Cylon monotheistic religion]]. She repeatedly kills Conoy a total of five times in an attempt to convince him to let her go ([[Occupation]], [[Precipice]]).<br />
*Conoy introduces Thrace to a small child named [[Kacey]], who appears to be approximately two to three years in age, whom he claims is their biological daughter. He explains that the child was created using one of Thrace's extracted ovaries ([[The Farm]]) and his genetic material. Conflicted, Thrace leaves the child unattended, which later results in Kacey falling down the apartment's stairs ([[Precipice]]). After the fall, Thrace begins to change her attitude towards the child and begins to offer affection towards Conoy ([[Precipice]], [[Exodus, Part I]]).<br />
*Upon her return to ''Galactica'' after Admiral Adama's daring rescue attempt, Thrace heartbreakingly discovers that Kacey was simply another manipulation on Conoy's part &mdash; Kacey is merely a human child whom the Cylons had abducted months ago ([[Exodus, Part II]]).<br />
*Bearing the psychological scars of her four month ordeal with Leoben and Kacey, Thrace is recruited by [[Seelix]] as a last minute replacement juror in [[The Circle]] after [[Samuel Anders]]' resignation. She is the fifth vote to find Gaeta of treason and collaboration. Thrace's involvement in the Circle precipitates the breakup of her marriage with Anders. Later, when Gaeta is about to be sentenced and executed in one of ''Galactica's'' [[launch tubes]], she demands him to beg for his life. Thrace physically assaults him and goes down the litany of "lies" that Gaeta told her earlier about him helping the [[New Caprica Resistance|insurgency]]. As she does so, [[Galen Tyrol]], one of the Circle's jurors and the sixth vote to convict, overhears this and confirms the story. In a sense of confusion after learning that Gaeta was telling the truth, Thrace leaves the launch tube ([[Collaborators]]).<br />
*During a combat exercise between Vipers, Thrace breaks formation and collides with another pilot, forcing an end to the war games and causing Apollo to revoke her flight status. Later, at her bunk she is met by Kacey and her mother, whom she dismisses, telling Kacey's mother not to visit her again. In the pilots' rec room, Thrace and Colonel Tigh begin to sow dissent between the survivors of New Caprica and the crew that stayed behind on ''Galactica'', insinuating that those who stayed behind did not suffer like those on New Caprica did, and that the crew of ''Galactica'' took too long to organize a rescue. Admiral Adama, upon learning of this from [[Karl Agathon]], confronts Thrace and Tigh on their behavior. He challenges them to shoot him, as their constant complaining is tantamount to pulling the trigger. When neither do, Adama throws Thrace off her chair and demands that both she and Tigh shape up and move on with their lives. Spurred by Adama's words, Thrace cuts her hair and returns to duty. Later, in uniform, she visits Kacey and her mother on the [[Camp Oil Slick|converted hangar deck]] ([[Torn]]).<br />
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==Notes==<br />
*On the Sci-Fi Channel's preview for season 2.5 (US), Katee Sackoff is quoted as saying that Starbuck is "the best Viper pilot...EVER."<br />
*[[Wikipedia:Thrace|Thrace]] was a region in south-eastern Europe that was heavily influenced by the ancient Greeks and was eventually conquered by [[Wikipedia:Philip_II_of_Macedonia|Phillip II of Macedonia]]. Thracians were considered by most to be the most ferocious fighters and were often highly paid mercenaries for Greek kings.<br />
*After auditioning for the role of [[Anastasia Dualla|Dualla]], [[Grace Park]] was asked by director [[Michael Rymer]] to audition for the role of Starbuck, and she was actually one of two finalists up for the role (the other being Katee Sackhoff, who got the part). Ultimately Park was cast as [[Sharon Valerii (Galactica copy)|Sharon "Boomer" Valerri]].<br />
*In a TV Guide [http://online.tvguide.com/newsearch/detail.aspx?id=4371595&sourcetype=S&progseriesparentid=4371595&tvobjectid=191395&keyword=Battlestar+Galactica&referrer=search1 photo shoot] at the BSG studios, Katee Sackhoff explained that the tattoo that Starbuck bears on her left arm is a wing and a circle and has half of the constellation of Capricorn (a reference to [[Caprica]] obviously) and a small symbol of the planet as well. It matches a mirror image of the tattoo on Anders' right arm. When the two of them hold each other with their respective arms crossing, the 2 tattoos come together to form an image of a single ring with 2 wings that is supposed to represent their union. According to Sackhoff, Kara and Anders had the tattoos done around the time of their wedding.<br />
*The license plate on Thrace's truck on Caprica is "FB 42 E3" ([[Valley of Darkness]]).<br />
*{{spoiltext|At a SF convention in Indianapolis in November 2006, actress Sackhoff noted that her filming for season 3, as well as her contract, ended with episode 16, "[[Maelstrom]]," strongly suggesting that Starbuck may be the central character that may be killed during season 3 as noted by producers Moore and Eick.}}<br />
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[[Category:RDM|Thrace, Kara]]</div>Number1https://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Cylon_Centurion&diff=92004Cylon Centurion2006-11-19T04:39:32Z<p>Number1: </p>
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<div>: ''For Centurions from the [[Original Series]], see [[Centurion (TOS)]].''<br />
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[[Image:CylonCenturion.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Centurion, Warrior of the Cylon Army.]]<br />
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The basic unit of Cylon ground forces, the '''Cylon Centurion''' appears to be an upgrade to the [[Cylon Centurion Model 0005]]. They have long, talon-like fingers with multiple joints and have a double barreled automatic projectile weapon mounted on the end of each arm. These newer, fiercer Centurions are capable of moving extremely fast via [[Wikipedia:bipedal locomotion|bipedal locomotion]] and are capable of jumping over obstacles. The projectile guns built into each arm are so powerful that they make counterattacks very difficult by Colonials since the barrage is, in effect, much like a [[Wikipedia:gatling gun|gatling gun]]. Unlike the Model 0005, a single Centurion is more than enough to terrorize a squad of Colonial fighters. They also use mortars in combat.<br />
<br />
It is unknown whether the Centurions can "speak." It is certainly possible that they communicate with each other via some sort of computer network, and thus have no need for verbal speech. <br />
<br />
The Cylon Centurions may also have different armor options. For instance, a small number of them wreaked havoc when boarding ''[[Galactica]]'', and could only be destroyed using explosive rounds ([[Valley of Darkness]]).<br />
<br />
Centurions encountered on [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]] reacted more slowly, acted less intelligently, and were more easily destroyed by small arms fire. This may be due to the Cylons' plans for [[Karl Agathon|Helo]] and [[Sharon Valerii (Caprica copy)|the copy of Sharon Valerii]] with him; killing them would render their experiments worthless. A similar group of Centurions found on [[Kobol]] during the episode [[Fragged]] were equally less individually intelligent. It may be that these Centurions are very simple soldiers that, despite their menacing statistics, are limited in their evolution and programming. Centurions are not sentient, and are not [[Resurrection Ship|downloaded]] upon destruction.<br />
<br />
On [[New Caprica]], the Centurions are used for a variety of jobs. Among them guards, soldiers and executioners.<br />
<br />
When the Cylons created their new Centurions, they did not give them sentience, making them rely solely on programming. Ironically this was done, according to information from [[Sharon Agathon]], to prevent another robotic rebellion similar to the one the Cylons themselves originally orchestrated. Moreover, the Centurions are programmed to not harm any of the 12 humanoid Cylon models and they cannot distinguish one copy from another ([[Precipice]]). However, if ordered to do so they can terminate humanoid Cylon models and have the logs ordered erased to prevent the discovery of this act or unit knowledge of the act ([[Hero]]).<br />
<br />
''Bullethead'' is a Colonial nickname for these advanced and deadly Cylon constructs ([[Exodus, Part I]]).<br />
<br />
===Cinematic Notes===<br />
The creators of the Re-imagined Series decided that using actors in an elaborate Cylon robot outfit (as was done in the Original Series) would detract from the realism of the series. They decided to make fully computer-generated Cylon Centurions for the new series.<br />
<br />
Inaugural director [[Michael Rymer]] wanted the new Cylon warrior to blend in and avoid detracting from the live actor's performances. However, the new designs were eye-catching, and the new robot became a popular addition to many scenes. The virtual Cylons are designed with full articulation in the hands and joints that gives a realistic appearance to the viewer. Initially the new warrior was built with more human movement, such as swaggering. However, the movements did not fit the robotic attitude that the writers wanted to convey and were later discarded.<br />
<br />
Actors interact with a life-size cardboard stand-in when filming a scene that will later have virtual Cylon warriors inserted. Some times human actors (production assistants in reality) stand in for the CG Centurions in more complex shots. As revealed in a [http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/bts/videoblog/ Video Blog] entry on SciFi's ''Galactica'' website, stand-ins portraying Centurions are made to wear thick black vests with the word '''CENTURION''' printed across them. Much like the cardboard stand-ins the "actors" are then digitally painted out of the shot and replaced with virtual Centurions.<br />
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== Related Imagery ==<br />
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<gallery><br />
Image:Cylon Centurion New 001.jpg|'''Centurion''' in action <br/>during the <br/>boarding of ''Galactica'' <br/>([[Valley of Darkness]])<br />
Image:Cylon Centurion New 002.jpg|'''Centurion''' leaving the<br/> crashed [[Cylon Heavy Raider]] <br/>([[Scattered]])<br />
Image:CenturionFace.jpg|'''Centurion''' investigating a Cylon garage. ([[Downloaded]])<br />
Image:Centz.jpg|'''Centurion''' Guard in New Caprica. ([[Occupation]])<br />
</gallery><br />
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[[Category:RDM]]</div>Number1https://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Cylon_Centurion&diff=92003Cylon Centurion2006-11-19T04:38:24Z<p>Number1: </p>
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<div>: ''For Centurions from the [[Original Series]], see [[Centurion (TOS)]].''<br />
<br />
[[Image:CylonCenturion.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Centurion, Warrior of the Cylon Army.]]<br />
<br />
The basic unit of Cylon ground forces, the '''Cylon Centurion''' appears to be an upgrade to the [[Cylon Centurion Model 0005]]. They have long, talon-like fingers with multiple joints and have a double barreled automatic projectile weapon mounted on the end of each arm. These newer, fiercer Centurions are capable of moving extremely fast via [[Wikipedia:bipedal locomotion|bipedal locomotion]] and are capable of jumping over obstacles. The projectile guns built into each arm are so powerful that they make counterattacks very difficult by Colonials since the barrage is, in effect, much like a [[Wikipedia:gatling gun|gatling gun]]. Unlike the Model 0005, a single Centurion is more than enough to terrorize a squad of Colonial fighters. They also use mortars in combat.<br />
<br />
It is unknown whether the Centurions can "speak." It is certainly possible that they communicate with each other via some sort of computer network, and thus have no need for verbal speech. <br />
<br />
The Cylon Centurions may also have different armor options. For instance, a small number of them wreaked havoc when boarding ''[[Galactica]]'', and could only be destroyed using explosive rounds ([[Valley of Darkness]]).<br />
<br />
Centurions encountered on [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]] reacted more slowly, acted less intelligently, and were more easily destroyed by small arms fire. This may be due to the Cylons' plans for [[Karl Agathon|Helo]] and [[Sharon Valerii (Caprica copy)|the copy of Sharon Valerii]] with him; killing them would render their experiments worthless. A similar group of Centurions found on [[Kobol]] during the episode [[Fragged]] were equally less individually intelligent. It may be that these Centurions are very simple soldiers that, despite their menacing statistics, are limited in their evolution and programming. Centurions are not sentient, and are not [[Resurrection Ship|downloaded]] upon destruction.<br />
<br />
On [[New Caprica]], the Centurions are used for a variety of jobs. Among them guards, soldiers and executioners.<br />
<br />
When the Cylons created their new Centurions, they did not give them sentience, making them rely solely on programming. Ironically this was done, according to information from [[Sharon Agathon]], to prevent another robotic rebellion similar to the one the Cylons themselves originally orchestrated. Moreover, the Centurions are programmed to not harm any of the 12 humanoid Cylon models and they cannot distinguish one copy from another ([[Precipice]]). However, if ordered to do so they can terminate humanoid Cylon models and have the logs ordered erased ([[Hero]]).<br />
<br />
''Bullethead'' is a Colonial nickname for these advanced and deadly Cylon constructs ([[Exodus, Part I]]).<br />
<br />
===Cinematic Notes===<br />
The creators of the Re-imagined Series decided that using actors in an elaborate Cylon robot outfit (as was done in the Original Series) would detract from the realism of the series. They decided to make fully computer-generated Cylon Centurions for the new series.<br />
<br />
Inaugural director [[Michael Rymer]] wanted the new Cylon warrior to blend in and avoid detracting from the live actor's performances. However, the new designs were eye-catching, and the new robot became a popular addition to many scenes. The virtual Cylons are designed with full articulation in the hands and joints that gives a realistic appearance to the viewer. Initially the new warrior was built with more human movement, such as swaggering. However, the movements did not fit the robotic attitude that the writers wanted to convey and were later discarded.<br />
<br />
Actors interact with a life-size cardboard stand-in when filming a scene that will later have virtual Cylon warriors inserted. Some times human actors (production assistants in reality) stand in for the CG Centurions in more complex shots. As revealed in a [http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/bts/videoblog/ Video Blog] entry on SciFi's ''Galactica'' website, stand-ins portraying Centurions are made to wear thick black vests with the word '''CENTURION''' printed across them. Much like the cardboard stand-ins the "actors" are then digitally painted out of the shot and replaced with virtual Centurions.<br />
<br />
== Related Imagery ==<br />
<br />
<gallery><br />
Image:Cylon Centurion New 001.jpg|'''Centurion''' in action <br/>during the <br/>boarding of ''Galactica'' <br/>([[Valley of Darkness]])<br />
Image:Cylon Centurion New 002.jpg|'''Centurion''' leaving the<br/> crashed [[Cylon Heavy Raider]] <br/>([[Scattered]])<br />
Image:CenturionFace.jpg|'''Centurion''' investigating a Cylon garage. ([[Downloaded]])<br />
Image:Centz.jpg|'''Centurion''' Guard in New Caprica. ([[Occupation]])<br />
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[[Category:RDM]]</div>Number1https://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Daniel_Novacek&diff=91832Daniel Novacek2006-11-18T06:00:55Z<p>Number1: </p>
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{{Character Data<br />
|photo= Season 3 - Promo - Hero - Novacek.jpg<br />
|age=<br />
|colony= <br />
|birthname= Daniel Novacek<br />
|callsign= Bulldog <br />
|seen= Hero<br />
|death= <br />
|parents=<br />
|siblings=<br />
|role=<br />
|rank=Lieutenant<br />
|actor= [[Carl Lumbly]]<br />
}}<br />
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Lieutenant '''Daniel "Bulldog" Novacek''' is a pilot who served under [[Admiral Adama]] aboard the battlestar ''[[Valkyrie]]'' before the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]]. He was taken prisoner by the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]] following a recon mission past the Cylon Armistice Line. He would spend three years under Cylon captivity before escape. ''[[Galactica]]'' and Bulldog are reunited some time after the occupation of [[New Caprica]].<br />
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== Notes ==<br />
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* [[David Eick]]'s Video Blog entitled "Introducing Bulldog"<ref>{{cite_web|url=http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/video/index.php?cat=videoBlog&vid=34824|title=Introducing Bulldog|date=2006-10-11|accessdate=|last=|first=|format=VID|language=}}</ref> revealed that after agreeing to the role, Carl Lumbly stated that he wanted to keep his dreadlocks, much to the bemusement of director [[Michael Rymer]].<br />
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== References ==<br />
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[[Category:RDM]]</div>Number1https://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Hero&diff=91831Hero2006-11-18T05:54:34Z<p>Number1: /* Questions */</p>
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{{Episode Data<br />
| title= Hero<br />
| image= Season 3 - Promo - Hero -Adama Tigh and Novacek.jpg<br />
| season= 3<br />
| episode= 8<br />
| guests= [[Carl Lumbly]]<br />
| writer= [[David Eick]]<br />
| story= <br />
| director= [[Michael Rymer]]<br />
| production=<br />
| rating=<br />
| US airdate= 2006-11-17<br />
| UK airdate=<br />
| dvd=<br />
| population= ?<br />
| prev= [[A Measure of Salvation]]<br />
| next= [[Unfinished Business]]<br />
}}<br />
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== Overview ==<br />
:''A [[Bulldog|figure ]] from [[William Adama|Adama]]'s past returns to haunt him. His return raises questions about why the Cylons launched their initial attack against the [[Twelve Colonies]]. <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tv.com/battlestar-galactica-2003/hero/episode/748771/summary.html |title=TV.com Episode Summary}}</ref>''<br />
== Summary ==<br />
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=== On [[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]] ===<br />
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* ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' detects three [[Cylon Raider|raider`]]s. Much to the surpise of the [[CIC]] crew, two raiders are pursuing a third raider. [[Kara Thrace|Starbuck]] and [[Louanne Katraine|Kat]] are dispatched. After destroying the pursing raiders, they pursue the third. <br />
* In CIC, Adama orders Kat and Starbuck to escort the raider to ''Galactica'', after hearing [[Bulldog]]'s communication squaks.<br />
* Kat and Starbuck escort the raider in. In the hangar bay, Adama and the party that meets the raider, surprised at the fact that a human appears to have piloted the craft. A visibly weak Bulldog salutes Adama; Adama returns the salute.<br />
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=== On a [[Basestar (RDM)|Basestar]] ===<br />
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== Questions ==<br />
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*Did humans taken prisoner well before the Fall of the Twelve Colonies provide the original genetic pool for the humanoid Cylons?<br />
*What class of Battlestar is the ''[[Valkyrie]]''?<br />
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== Analysis ==<br />
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== Notes ==<br />
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*A revelation about something truly egregious and illegal that Admiral [[William Adama]] was guilty of doing during the days leading up to the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]], and how he has kept the revelation of that incident from rearing its head. An event transpires that brings it all home with a vengeance, and the ramifications are significant. (David Eick revealed this in an interview with ''iFMagazine'' <ref>{{cite_web|url=http://www.ifmagazine.com/feature.asp?article=1496|title=Interview with ''iFMagazine''|date=|accessdate=|last=|first=|format=|language=}}</ref>.)<br />
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*According to an [http://community.tvguide.com/thread.jspa?threadID=700002601 interview] with David Eick, this is probably episode 7 of [[Season 3 (2006-07)|Season 3]]. A contemporary of Adama's and Tigh's from the past arrives on ''Galactica'' with a very dark secret about Adama.<br />
<br />
*In another [http://community.tvguide.com/thread.jspa?threadID=700002601 interview] with Eick, he revealed that this episode "involves a human POW who's been trapped on the Cylon base ship for the last four years, and when we meet him we realize it's a great homecoming for him because he was one of Adama's pilots. But by the middle of the episode you realize the reason why this guy was taken prisoner was because Adama shot his ship down. And it becomes sort of an episode about why such a thing would have happened and how Adama begins to believe that on some level he might have been responsible for provoking the Cylon attack on the Twelve Colonies."<br />
<br />
*According to Ron Moore at the BSG Comic-Con panel, [[Carl Lumbly]] will guest star in this episode as "[[Bulldog]]", an old pilot of Adama's who was taken as a POW in the war.<br />
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== Noteworthy Dialogue ==<br />
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== Official Statements ==<br />
*A video blog gives an insight to this episode during filming. <ref>{{cite_web|url=http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/video/index.php?cat=videoBlog&vid=34824|title=Introducing Bulldog|date=2006-10-11|accessdate=|last=|first=|format=VID|language=}}</ref><br />
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== Guest Stars ==<br />
*[[imdb:0447921|Barry Kennedy]] as Admiral [[Corman]]<br />
*[[Lucy Lawless]] as [[Number Three]]<br />
*[[Carl Lumbly]] as Lt. [[Daniel Novacek]]<br />
*[[Donnelly Rhodes]] as Doctor [[Cottle]]<br />
*[[Matthew Bennett]] as [[Number Five]]<br />
*[[Rekha Sharma]] as [[Tory Foster]]<br />
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== References ==<br />
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{{episode list (RDM season 3)}}<br />
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[[Category:Episodes written by David Eick]]<br />
[[Category:Episodes directed by Michael Rymer]]<br />
[[Category:RDM]]</div>Number1https://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=William_Adama&diff=91816William Adama2006-11-18T02:55:31Z<p>Number1: /* Currently... */</p>
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<div>:''For information on William Adama's [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Original Series]] counterpart, see [[Adama (TOS)]].''<br />
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{{Character Data<br />
|photo=Season3 Promot William Adama.jpg<br />
|age=<br />
|colony= [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]]<br />
|birthname= William Adama<br />
|callsign= Husker<br />
|nickname= The Old Man<br />
|seen= Miniseries<br />
|death= <br />
|parents= [[Joseph Adama]] (father)<br />
|siblings= <br />
|children= [[Lee Adama]] <br/> [[Zak Adama]] †<br />
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'''William Adama''', a veteran of the [[Cylon War]], is the commanding officer of the [[Galactica type battlestar|battlestar]] ''[[Galactica]]'', and the highest ranking officer left in the [[Colonial Fleet]].<br />
<br />
== Background ==<br />
<br />
*William Adama was born on Caprica, the son of [[Joseph Adama]]. His father was an attorney specializing in civil liberties ([[Litmus]]).<br />
<br />
*Adama served late in the [[Cylon War]] as a [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] pilot. He allegedly gained the call sign of "Husker" on account of his baritone "gravelled" voice. He proved a gifted pilot, shooting down his first [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]] on his very first mission.<br />
*He racked-up his 1,000th deck landing while serving aboard battlestar ''[[Atlantia]]'' ([[Act of Contrition]]), when he held the rank of Lieutenant.<br />
*In the last week in the war, Adama served on ''[[Galactica]]'' when the battlestar was boarded by Cylon forces. He recalled to his friend and fellow war veteran [[Saul Tigh]] of a dangerous Cylon tactic that tried to turn the battlestar's power against itself ([[Scattered]], deleted scene).<br />
*Following the Cylon armistice, William Adama married [[Caroline Adama]] and had two sons, [[Lee Adama|Lee]] and [[Zak Adama|Zak]], before the pressures of Adama's career and the time he spent away from home in active service began to place a strain on their marriage, and the two eventually divorce.<br />
*Furloughed by [[Colonial Fleet]] after the war's end, Adama found work on a civilian freighter where he met [[Saul Tigh]], who was to become a longtime friend.<br />
*Adama married a second time to [[Anne Adama]]. Anne's family had political influence with the defense subcommittee and pulled to get Adama reinstated to the [[Colonial Fleet]]. Adama himself arranged for Tigh's reinstatement a few years later.<br />
[[Image:Youngadamafamily.jpg|thumb|left|200px|A young William Adama and his two sons.]]<br />
*While elder son Lee Adama showed promise as a Viper pilot, younger Zak Adama did not. [[Kara Thrace]], Zak's flight instructor and lover, certified him for basic flight despite young Adama's poor flight skills. Later, Zak Adama was killed in an operational flight. Zak's death would cause a rift between he and his older son for nearly [[Act of Contrition|three years]] until Thrace admits her error to Bill Adama.<br />
*Adama has the rare combination of qualities that make up a good leader: insight, the ability to naturally command respect, a common touch that enables him to relate to the enlisted personnel under his command as well as his officers, intuition, intelligence, a strong belief in his own abilities, and the ability to take the advice of others. These qualities are reflected in the fact that personnel of all ranks aboard ''Galactica'' hold him in high regard, and know that he is approachable ([[Miniseries]]). <br />
*Adama mistrusts politicians, and sometimes places too strongly a value of loyalty to those he regards as family and friends. From his uneasiness to [[Laura Roslin]]'s unexpected assumption of the Presidency, to the tolerance and patience of his friend, [[Saul Tigh]], and his stubborness to save Kara Thrace ([[You Can't Go Home Again]]), Adama shows a dogged determination that few others care to confront.<br />
<br />
== Character History at a Glance ==<br />
*At the time of the [[Miniseries]], William Adama, former CO of the battlestar ''[[Valkyrie]]'', serves out his final weeks as commander of the battlestar ''[[Galactica]]''. After some 50 years of service, the historic warship is in the process of being decommissioned, and it was one of Adama's final duties to formally hand her over to the [[Colonial Ministry of Education]], which would operate the ship as a living museum and educational center commemorating the original Cylon War. <br />
*As a retirement gift, several members of [[Galen Tyrol]]'s deck crew find and restore Adama's old [[Viper Mark II]].<br />
*On news of a renewed Cylon attack, Adama's first thoughts are, "Dead. We're all dead" ([[Home, Part II]]). Despite this, as well as the presumed loss of his wife in Caprica City, he manages to shepherd [[The Fleet (RDM)|the last of humanity]] to safety.<br />
[[image:Mini_Adama_Tigh_DRADIS.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Commander [[William Adama|Adama]] and Colonel [[Saul Tigh|Tigh]] plot a course to [[Ragnar Anchorage]] in the [[Miniseries]].]]<br />
*When [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Picon|Picon]] Fleet Headquarters is destroyed and then Admiral [[Nagala]] is killed, he unhesitatingly takes control of the Colonial's response to the Cylon incursion and starts defining a response to the onslaught. Once President Roslin convinces Adama the futility of fighting against overwhelming odds, and with what may be the last 50,000 humans that remain anywhere, he makes the switch to the more tactical thinking that keeps the Colonial fleet at least one step ahead of their Cylon pursuers.<br />
*From the outset, he is savvy enough to give every single survivor of the devastating attack on the Colonies a reason for hope for the future: the legend of Earth. This falsehood [[Tomb of Athena|comes back to haunt him]] as the weeks continue, as Roslin is aware of this lie to the crew and states this privately to Adama.<br />
*Adama continues to face the problem of infiltration within the Fleet by [[Cylon agent]]s as well as [[Demand Peace|dissenting humans who protest or terrorize]] others in the Fleet. Adama continually redefines the boundaries of military and civil leadership. After some [[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II|serious missteps between he and President Roslin]], the two later become friends as well as influential leaders.<br />
*[[Sharon Valerii]], a trusted [[Raptor]] pilot that served with Adama for two years, reveals herself unwittingly as a Cylon sleeper agent and shoots Adama at point blank range after a [[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II|critical mission near Kobol]]. Cottle [[Fragged|eventually repairs]] the damage to Adama's body, but Adama's psyche takes the larger hit while he repairs the [[Resistance|damage to the Fleet]] he and Col. Tigh have caused in arresting President Roslin, as well as the existence of a second copy of Valerii.<br />
[[image:Home_pt1-Adama.jpg|thumb|Commander [[William Adama|Adama]] paints a model boat while talking to [[Anastasia Dualla|Dualla]] in "[[Home, Part I]]."]]<br />
*While at first Adama takes a similar stance to Tigh in assuming a hard military posture, a conversation with [[Anastasia Dualla|Dualla]] helps him realize that, despite the problems, the Fleet is his family, and the family must stay together. After finding the [[Tomb of Athena]] with Roslin and reuniting a [[Laura Roslin faction|factioning of the Fleet]], Adama firmly buries the hatchet between he and Roslin publicly.<br />
*In a desperate plan, Adama trusts the second Valerii to help ward off a massive Cylon fleet. Adama ([[Flight of the Phoenix]]). Despite his "gut" feelings about the Cylon, he finds common ground often with her, even [[Resurrection Ship, Part I|apologizing to her]] after a distasteful incident.<br />
*Adama stoically accepts Admiral [[Helena Cain]]'s overall command. Wary of her behavior and her crew, Adama follows his own truism: stick to what you know, until you find something better.<br />
*Matters with Cain's unusually totalitarian command style come to a head when Cain makes several highly questionable orders that lead him to face off with her battlestar and her command in a [[Pegasus (episode)|military challenge]]. While the issue is temporarily defused, Adama is told by, of all people, President Roslin that Cain is a threat to the safety of the Fleet's citizens and must be eliminated.<br />
*Adama avoids killing Cain after realizing that he would become the monster that the Cylons believed they were, unaware that she has plotted his demise as well.<br />
*With Cain's fate sealed not by Adama but [[Gina]], a frail President Roslin promotes Adama to Admiral. He gives her a simple, affectionate kiss, which she returns, signifying another change in their turbulent association.<br />
*Adama's sense of justice with Roslin holds when he confronts her about a conspiracy involving her re-election. Roslin admits the conspiracy but she is certain disaster will strike if [[Gaius Baltar]] becomes president. He agrees, but convinces Roslin that the correct course of action is to acknowledge a miscount and cover the conspiracy.<br />
*When ''[[Cloud Nine]]'' and two other ships blow up as a result of [[Gina]]'s last effort of sabotage, Adama is privately infuriated at new President Baltar's refusal to investigate, and begins to wonder if he hadn't made a mistake.<br />
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==Currently...==<br />
<br />
*A year later, Adama commands a heavily under-staffed ''Galactica'' as the flagship of a defense fleet, consisting of all ships unable or unwilling to make planetfall on [[New Caprica]]. He now sports a thick mustache, and has apparently taken up smoking.<br />
*Adama convinces [[Saul Tigh|Tigh]] to rejoin Ellen in [[New Caprica City]] after months of debate, with [[Helo]] acting as his new XO.<br />
*Not long after Tigh leaves, a massive Cylon fleet bears down on New Caprica. After a brief discussion with Commander Lee Adama ([[The Captain's Hand|aboard ''Pegasus'']]), they order the Fleet to escape to pre-arranged Jump coordinates.<br />
*The admiral issues the Jump order with a reminder: "We're leaving... but we'll be back."<br />
*A couple of months after ''Galactica'', ''Pegasus'' and the rest of the New Caprica Defense Fleet jump away, Adama is trying to make a rescue plan on New Caprica but hurls a Raptor model across the room in frustration ([[Occupation]]).<br />
[[Image:Adama being carried Exodus-Pt-II.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Adama being carried by the Crew of Galactica after the [[Battle of New Caprica]] (Lower Left)]]<br />
*Admiral Adama mends fences with [[Sharon Agathon]] over the months in orbit of New Caprica. He commissions her as a Colonial officer shortly after making contact with the [[New Caprica Resistance]] ([[Precipice]]).<br />
*After this, Adama orders his son Lee to take over as guardian of the Fleet; Lee's orders are to continue the search for Earth, as Adama is going back to retrieve those left behind &mdash; which Lee considers a suicide mission ([[Precipice]], [[Exodus, Part I]]). Despite heavy losses, and with the last-minute assistance of Lee and the ''Pegasus'', Adama is able to successfully pull off the rescue attempt ([[Exodus, Part II]]). He is lauded by his crew and the civilians for this.<br />
*He has recently be awarded a Medal of Valor for his 45 years of distinctive service in the Colonial Fleet. To him this is a penance for the harm that he caused in the past, and the possibility that he was the cause of the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]] ([[Hero]]).<br />
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==Additional Notes==<br />
*[[Wikipedia:Adama|Adama]] (also known as Nazareth) is the name of a large city in Ethiopia. The name is also a variation on "[[Wikipedia:Adam and Eve|Adam]]," the first man to be created according to the Bible in the [[Wikipedia:Genesis|Book of Genesis]]. In Hebrew the word pronounced "Adama" means earth.<br />
*Edward James Olmos has brown eyes, but he wears contacts when playing William Adama that make Adama's eyes blue. This is done so that Olmos and [[Jamie Bamber]], who is playing his son Apollo, will resemble each other more. <br />
*Astute viewers may recall Edward James Olmos sharing the screen with realistic humanoid robots as Gaff in the classic science fiction film "Blade Runner". Olmos also shares with ''Star Trek'' star William Shatner the distinction of being one of only two actors to both command a television starship and portray a police officer in a popular 1980's cop show ("Miami Vice" for Olmos, "T.J. Hooker" for Shatner).<br />
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Admiral '''Corman''' is an officer in the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Colonial Fleet]]. A member of the Colonial Fleet Admiralty, Corman ordered Commander [[William Adama]] and the battlestar ''[[Valkyrie]]'' to escort a recon vessel over the [[Cylon]] Armistice Line prior to the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]].<br />
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<div>:''For information on William Adama's [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Original Series]] counterpart, see [[Adama (TOS)]].''<br />
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'''William Adama''', a veteran of the [[Cylon War]], is the commanding officer of the [[Galactica type battlestar|battlestar]] ''[[Galactica]]'', and the highest ranking officer left in the [[Colonial Fleet]].<br />
<br />
== Background ==<br />
<br />
*William Adama was born on Caprica, the son of [[Joseph Adama]]. His father was an attorney specializing in civil liberties ([[Litmus]]).<br />
<br />
*Adama served late in the [[Cylon War]] as a [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] pilot. He allegedly gained the call sign of "Husker" on account of his baritone "gravelled" voice. He proved a gifted pilot, shooting down his first [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]] on his very first mission.<br />
*He racked-up his 1,000th deck landing while serving aboard battlestar ''[[Atlantia]]'' ([[Act of Contrition]]), when he held the rank of Lieutenant.<br />
*In the last week in the war, Adama served on ''[[Galactica]]'' when the battlestar was boarded by Cylon forces. He recalled to his friend and fellow war veteran [[Saul Tigh]] of a dangerous Cylon tactic that tried to turn the battlestar's power against itself ([[Scattered]], deleted scene).<br />
*Following the Cylon armistice, William Adama married [[Caroline Adama]] and had two sons, [[Lee Adama|Lee]] and [[Zak Adama|Zak]], before the pressures of Adama's career and the time he spent away from home in active service began to place a strain on their marriage, and the two eventually divorce.<br />
*Furloughed by [[Colonial Fleet]] after the war's end, Adama found work on a civilian freighter where he met [[Saul Tigh]], who was to become a longtime friend.<br />
*Adama married a second time to [[Anne Adama]]. Anne's family had political influence with the defense subcommittee and pulled to get Adama reinstated to the [[Colonial Fleet]]. Adama himself arranged for Tigh's reinstatement a few years later.<br />
[[Image:Youngadamafamily.jpg|thumb|left|200px|A young William Adama and his two sons.]]<br />
*While elder son Lee Adama showed promise as a Viper pilot, younger Zak Adama did not. [[Kara Thrace]], Zak's flight instructor and lover, certified him for basic flight despite young Adama's poor flight skills. Later, Zak Adama was killed in an operational flight. Zak's death would cause a rift between he and his older son for nearly [[Act of Contrition|three years]] until Thrace admits her error to Bill Adama.<br />
*Adama has the rare combination of qualities that make up a good leader: insight, the ability to naturally command respect, a common touch that enables him to relate to the enlisted personnel under his command as well as his officers, intuition, intelligence, a strong belief in his own abilities, and the ability to take the advice of others. These qualities are reflected in the fact that personnel of all ranks aboard ''Galactica'' hold him in high regard, and know that he is approachable ([[Miniseries]]). <br />
*Adama mistrusts politicians, and sometimes places too strongly a value of loyalty to those he regards as family and friends. From his uneasiness to [[Laura Roslin]]'s unexpected assumption of the Presidency, to the tolerance and patience of his friend, [[Saul Tigh]], and his stubborness to save Kara Thrace ([[You Can't Go Home Again]]), Adama shows a dogged determination that few others care to confront.<br />
<br />
== Character History at a Glance ==<br />
*At the time of the [[Miniseries]], William Adama, former CO of the battlestar ''[[Valkyrie]]'', serves out his final weeks as commander of the battlestar ''[[Galactica]]''. After some 50 years of service, the historic warship is in the process of being decommissioned, and it was one of Adama's final duties to formally hand her over to the [[Colonial Ministry of Education]], which would operate the ship as a living museum and educational center commemorating the original Cylon War. <br />
*As a retirement gift, several members of [[Galen Tyrol]]'s deck crew find and restore Adama's old [[Viper Mark II]].<br />
*On news of a renewed Cylon attack, Adama's first thoughts are, "Dead. We're all dead" ([[Home, Part II]]). Despite this, as well as the presumed loss of his wife in Caprica City, he manages to shepherd [[The Fleet (RDM)|the last of humanity]] to safety.<br />
[[image:Mini_Adama_Tigh_DRADIS.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Commander [[William Adama|Adama]] and Colonel [[Saul Tigh|Tigh]] plot a course to [[Ragnar Anchorage]] in the [[Miniseries]].]]<br />
*When [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Picon|Picon]] Fleet Headquarters is destroyed and then Admiral [[Nagala]] is killed, he unhesitatingly takes control of the Colonial's response to the Cylon incursion and starts defining a response to the onslaught. Once President Roslin convinces Adama the futility of fighting against overwhelming odds, and with what may be the last 50,000 humans that remain anywhere, he makes the switch to the more tactical thinking that keeps the Colonial fleet at least one step ahead of their Cylon pursuers.<br />
*From the outset, he is savvy enough to give every single survivor of the devastating attack on the Colonies a reason for hope for the future: the legend of Earth. This falsehood [[Tomb of Athena|comes back to haunt him]] as the weeks continue, as Roslin is aware of this lie to the crew and states this privately to Adama.<br />
*Adama continues to face the problem of infiltration within the Fleet by [[Cylon agent]]s as well as [[Demand Peace|dissenting humans who protest or terrorize]] others in the Fleet. Adama continually redefines the boundaries of military and civil leadership. After some [[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II|serious missteps between he and President Roslin]], the two later become friends as well as influential leaders.<br />
*[[Sharon Valerii]], a trusted [[Raptor]] pilot that served with Adama for two years, reveals herself unwittingly as a Cylon sleeper agent and shoots Adama at point blank range after a [[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II|critical mission near Kobol]]. Cottle [[Fragged|eventually repairs]] the damage to Adama's body, but Adama's psyche takes the larger hit while he repairs the [[Resistance|damage to the Fleet]] he and Col. Tigh have caused in arresting President Roslin, as well as the existence of a second copy of Valerii.<br />
[[image:Home_pt1-Adama.jpg|thumb|Commander [[William Adama|Adama]] paints a model boat while talking to [[Anastasia Dualla|Dualla]] in "[[Home, Part I]]."]]<br />
*While at first Adama takes a similar stance to Tigh in assuming a hard military posture, a conversation with [[Anastasia Dualla|Dualla]] helps him realize that, despite the problems, the Fleet is his family, and the family must stay together. After finding the [[Tomb of Athena]] with Roslin and reuniting a [[Laura Roslin faction|factioning of the Fleet]], Adama firmly buries the hatchet between he and Roslin publicly.<br />
*In a desperate plan, Adama trusts the second Valerii to help ward off a massive Cylon fleet. Adama ([[Flight of the Phoenix]]). Despite his "gut" feelings about the Cylon, he finds common ground often with her, even [[Resurrection Ship, Part I|apologizing to her]] after a distasteful incident.<br />
*Adama stoically accepts Admiral [[Helena Cain]]'s overall command. Wary of her behavior and her crew, Adama follows his own truism: stick to what you know, until you find something better.<br />
*Matters with Cain's unusually totalitarian command style come to a head when Cain makes several highly questionable orders that lead him to face off with her battlestar and her command in a [[Pegasus (episode)|military challenge]]. While the issue is temporarily defused, Adama is told by, of all people, President Roslin that Cain is a threat to the safety of the Fleet's citizens and must be eliminated.<br />
*Adama avoids killing Cain after realizing that he would become the monster that the Cylons believed they were, unaware that she has plotted his demise as well.<br />
*With Cain's fate sealed not by Adama but [[Gina]], a frail President Roslin promotes Adama to Admiral. He gives her a simple, affectionate kiss, which she returns, signifying another change in their turbulent association.<br />
*Adama's sense of justice with Roslin holds when he confronts her about a conspiracy involving her re-election. Roslin admits the conspiracy but she is certain disaster will strike if [[Gaius Baltar]] becomes president. He agrees, but convinces Roslin that the correct course of action is to acknowledge a miscount and cover the conspiracy.<br />
*When ''[[Cloud Nine]]'' and two other ships blow up as a result of [[Gina]]'s last effort of sabotage, Adama is privately infuriated at new President Baltar's refusal to investigate, and begins to wonder if he hadn't made a mistake.<br />
<br />
==Currently...==<br />
<br />
*A year later, Adama commands a heavily under-staffed ''Galactica'' as the flagship of a defense fleet, consisting of all ships unable or unwilling to make planetfall on [[New Caprica]]. He now sports a thick mustache, and has apparently taken up smoking.<br />
*Adama convinces [[Saul Tigh|Tigh]] to rejoin Ellen in [[New Caprica City]] after months of debate, with [[Helo]] acting as his new XO.<br />
*Not long after Tigh leaves, a massive Cylon fleet bears down on New Caprica. After a brief discussion with Commander Lee Adama ([[The Captain's Hand|aboard ''Pegasus'']]), they order the Fleet to escape to pre-arranged Jump coordinates.<br />
*The admiral issues the Jump order with a reminder: "We're leaving... but we'll be back."<br />
*A couple of months after ''Galactica'', ''Pegasus'' and the rest of the New Caprica Defense Fleet jump away, Adama is trying to make a rescue plan on New Caprica but hurls a Raptor model across the room in frustration ([[Occupation]]).<br />
[[Image:Adama being carried Exodus-Pt-II.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Adama being carried by the Crew of Galactica after the [[Battle of New Caprica]] (Lower Left)]]<br />
*Admiral Adama mends fences with [[Sharon Agathon]] over the months in orbit of New Caprica. He commissions her as a Colonial officer shortly after making contact with the [[New Caprica Resistance]] ([[Precipice]]).<br />
*After this, Adama orders his son Lee to take over as guardian of the Fleet; Lee's orders are to continue the search for Earth, as Adama is going back to retrieve those left behind &mdash; which Lee considers a suicide mission ([[Precipice]], [[Exodus, Part I]]). Despite heavy losses, and with the last-minute assistance of Lee and the ''Pegasus'', Adama is able to successfully pull off the rescue attempt ([[Exodus, Part II]]). He is lauded by his crew and the civilians for this.<br />
<br />
==Additional Notes==<br />
*[[Wikipedia:Adama|Adama]] (also known as Nazareth) is the name of a large city in Ethiopia. The name is also a variation on "[[Wikipedia:Adam and Eve|Adam]]," the first man to be created according to the Bible in the [[Wikipedia:Genesis|Book of Genesis]]. In Hebrew the word pronounced "Adama" means earth.<br />
*Edward James Olmos has brown eyes, but he wears contacts when playing William Adama that make Adama's eyes blue. This is done so that Olmos and [[Jamie Bamber]], who is playing his son Apollo, will resemble each other more. <br />
*Astute viewers may recall Edward James Olmos sharing the screen with realistic humanoid robots as Gaff in the classic science fiction film "Blade Runner". Olmos also shares with ''Star Trek'' star William Shatner the distinction of being one of only two actors to both command a television starship and portray a police officer in a popular 1980's cop show ("Miami Vice" for Olmos, "T.J. Hooker" for Shatner).<br />
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<div>:''For information on William Adama's [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Original Series]] counterpart, see [[Adama (TOS)]].''<br />
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'''William Adama''', a veteran of the [[Cylon War]], is the commanding officer of the [[Galactica type battlestar|battlestar]] ''[[Galactica]]'', and the highest ranking officer left in the [[Colonial Fleet]].<br />
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== Background ==<br />
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*William Adama was born on Caprica, the son of [[Joseph Adama]]. His father was an attorney specializing in civil liberties ([[Litmus]]).<br />
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*Adama served late in the [[Cylon War]] as a [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] pilot. He allegedly gained the call sign of "Husker" on account of his baritone "gravelled" voice. He proved a gifted pilot, shooting down his first [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]] on his very first mission.<br />
*He racked-up his 1,000th deck landing while serving aboard battlestar ''[[Atlantia]]'' ([[Act of Contrition]]), when he held the rank of Lieutenant.<br />
*In the last week in the war, Adama served on ''[[Galactica]]'' when the battlestar was boarded by Cylon forces. He recalled to his friend and fellow war veteran [[Saul Tigh]] of a dangerous Cylon tactic that tried to turn the battlestar's power against itself ([[Scattered]], deleted scene).<br />
*Following the Cylon armistice, William Adama married [[Caroline Adama]] and had two sons, [[Lee Adama|Lee]] and [[Zak Adama|Zak]], before the pressures of Adama's career and the time he spent away from home in active service began to place a strain on their marriage, and the two eventually divorce.<br />
*Furloughed by [[Colonial Fleet]] after the war's end, Adama found work on a civilian freighter where he met [[Saul Tigh]], who was to become a longtime friend.<br />
*Adama married a second time to [[Anne Adama]]. Anne's family had political influence with the defense subcommittee and pulled to get Adama reinstated to the [[Colonial Fleet]]. Adama himself arranged for Tigh's reinstatement a few years later.<br />
[[Image:Youngadamafamily.jpg|thumb|left|200px|A young William Adama and his two sons.]]<br />
*While elder son Lee Adama showed promise as a Viper pilot, younger Zak Adama did not. [[Kara Thrace]], Zak's flight instructor and lover, certified him for basic flight despite young Adama's poor flight skills. Later, Zak Adama was killed in an operational flight. Zak's death would cause a rift between he and his older son for nearly [[Act of Contrition|three years]] until Thrace admits her error to Bill Adama.<br />
*Adama has the rare combination of qualities that make up a good leader: insight, the ability to naturally command respect, a common touch that enables him to relate to the enlisted personnel under his command as well as his officers, intuition, intelligence, a strong belief in his own abilities, and the ability to take the advice of others. These qualities are reflected in the fact that personnel of all ranks aboard ''Galactica'' hold him in high regard, and know that he is approachable ([[Miniseries]]). <br />
*Adama mistrusts politicians, and sometimes places too strongly a value of loyalty to those he regards as family and friends. From his uneasiness to [[Laura Roslin]]'s unexpected assumption of the Presidency, to the tolerance and patience of his friend, [[Saul Tigh]], and his stubborness to save Kara Thrace ([[You Can't Go Home Again]]), Adama shows a dogged determination that few others care to confront.<br />
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== Character History at a Glance ==<br />
*At the time of the [[Miniseries]], William Adama serves out his final weeks as commander of the battlestar ''[[Galactica]]'' after commanding the battlestar ''[[Valkyrie]]''. After some 50 years of service, the historic warship is in the process of being decommissioned, and it was one of Adama's final duties to formally hand her over to the [[Colonial Ministry of Education]], which would operate the ship as a living museum and educational center commemorating the original Cylon War. <br />
*As a retirement gift, several members of [[Galen Tyrol]]'s deck crew find and restore Adama's old [[Viper Mark II]].<br />
*On news of a renewed Cylon attack, Adama's first thoughts are, "Dead. We're all dead" ([[Home, Part II]]). Despite this, as well as the presumed loss of his wife in Caprica City, he manages to shepherd [[The Fleet (RDM)|the last of humanity]] to safety.<br />
[[image:Mini_Adama_Tigh_DRADIS.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Commander [[William Adama|Adama]] and Colonel [[Saul Tigh|Tigh]] plot a course to [[Ragnar Anchorage]] in the [[Miniseries]].]]<br />
*When [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Picon|Picon]] Fleet Headquarters is destroyed and then Admiral [[Nagala]] is killed, he unhesitatingly takes control of the Colonial's response to the Cylon incursion and starts defining a response to the onslaught. Once President Roslin convinces Adama the futility of fighting against overwhelming odds, and with what may be the last 50,000 humans that remain anywhere, he makes the switch to the more tactical thinking that keeps the Colonial fleet at least one step ahead of their Cylon pursuers.<br />
*From the outset, he is savvy enough to give every single survivor of the devastating attack on the Colonies a reason for hope for the future: the legend of Earth. This falsehood [[Tomb of Athena|comes back to haunt him]] as the weeks continue, as Roslin is aware of this lie to the crew and states this privately to Adama.<br />
*Adama continues to face the problem of infiltration within the Fleet by [[Cylon agent]]s as well as [[Demand Peace|dissenting humans who protest or terrorize]] others in the Fleet. Adama continually redefines the boundaries of military and civil leadership. After some [[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II|serious missteps between he and President Roslin]], the two later become friends as well as influential leaders.<br />
*[[Sharon Valerii]], a trusted [[Raptor]] pilot that served with Adama for two years, reveals herself unwittingly as a Cylon sleeper agent and shoots Adama at point blank range after a [[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II|critical mission near Kobol]]. Cottle [[Fragged|eventually repairs]] the damage to Adama's body, but Adama's psyche takes the larger hit while he repairs the [[Resistance|damage to the Fleet]] he and Col. Tigh have caused in arresting President Roslin, as well as the existence of a second copy of Valerii.<br />
[[image:Home_pt1-Adama.jpg|thumb|Commander [[William Adama|Adama]] paints a model boat while talking to [[Anastasia Dualla|Dualla]] in "[[Home, Part I]]."]]<br />
*While at first Adama takes a similar stance to Tigh in assuming a hard military posture, a conversation with [[Anastasia Dualla|Dualla]] helps him realize that, despite the problems, the Fleet is his family, and the family must stay together. After finding the [[Tomb of Athena]] with Roslin and reuniting a [[Laura Roslin faction|factioning of the Fleet]], Adama firmly buries the hatchet between he and Roslin publicly.<br />
*In a desperate plan, Adama trusts the second Valerii to help ward off a massive Cylon fleet. Adama ([[Flight of the Phoenix]]). Despite his "gut" feelings about the Cylon, he finds common ground often with her, even [[Resurrection Ship, Part I|apologizing to her]] after a distasteful incident.<br />
*Adama stoically accepts Admiral [[Helena Cain]]'s overall command. Wary of her behavior and her crew, Adama follows his own truism: stick to what you know, until you find something better.<br />
*Matters with Cain's unusually totalitarian command style come to a head when Cain makes several highly questionable orders that lead him to face off with her battlestar and her command in a [[Pegasus (episode)|military challenge]]. While the issue is temporarily defused, Adama is told by, of all people, President Roslin that Cain is a threat to the safety of the Fleet's citizens and must be eliminated.<br />
*Adama avoids killing Cain after realizing that he would become the monster that the Cylons believed they were, unaware that she has plotted his demise as well.<br />
*With Cain's fate sealed not by Adama but [[Gina]], a frail President Roslin promotes Adama to Admiral. He gives her a simple, affectionate kiss, which she returns, signifying another change in their turbulent association.<br />
*Adama's sense of justice with Roslin holds when he confronts her about a conspiracy involving her re-election. Roslin admits the conspiracy but she is certain disaster will strike if [[Gaius Baltar]] becomes president. He agrees, but convinces Roslin that the correct course of action is to acknowledge a miscount and cover the conspiracy.<br />
*When ''[[Cloud Nine]]'' and two other ships blow up as a result of [[Gina]]'s last effort of sabotage, Adama is privately infuriated at new President Baltar's refusal to investigate, and begins to wonder if he hadn't made a mistake.<br />
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*A year later, Adama commands a heavily under-staffed ''Galactica'' as the flagship of a defense fleet, consisting of all ships unable or unwilling to make planetfall on [[New Caprica]]. He now sports a thick mustache, and has apparently taken up smoking.<br />
*Adama convinces [[Saul Tigh|Tigh]] to rejoin Ellen in [[New Caprica City]] after months of debate, with [[Helo]] acting as his new XO.<br />
*Not long after Tigh leaves, a massive Cylon fleet bears down on New Caprica. After a brief discussion with Commander Lee Adama ([[The Captain's Hand|aboard ''Pegasus'']]), they order the Fleet to escape to pre-arranged Jump coordinates.<br />
*The admiral issues the Jump order with a reminder: "We're leaving... but we'll be back."<br />
*A couple of months after ''Galactica'', ''Pegasus'' and the rest of the New Caprica Defense Fleet jump away, Adama is trying to make a rescue plan on New Caprica but hurls a Raptor model across the room in frustration ([[Occupation]]).<br />
[[Image:Adama being carried Exodus-Pt-II.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Adama being carried by the Crew of Galactica after the [[Battle of New Caprica]] (Lower Left)]]<br />
*Admiral Adama mends fences with [[Sharon Agathon]] over the months in orbit of New Caprica. He commissions her as a Colonial officer shortly after making contact with the [[New Caprica Resistance]] ([[Precipice]]).<br />
*After this, Adama orders his son Lee to take over as guardian of the Fleet; Lee's orders are to continue the search for Earth, as Adama is going back to retrieve those left behind &mdash; which Lee considers a suicide mission ([[Precipice]], [[Exodus, Part I]]). Despite heavy losses, and with the last-minute assistance of Lee and the ''Pegasus'', Adama is able to successfully pull off the rescue attempt ([[Exodus, Part II]]). He is lauded by his crew and the civilians for this.<br />
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==Additional Notes==<br />
*[[Wikipedia:Adama|Adama]] (also known as Nazareth) is the name of a large city in Ethiopia. The name is also a variation on "[[Wikipedia:Adam and Eve|Adam]]," the first man to be created according to the Bible in the [[Wikipedia:Genesis|Book of Genesis]]. In Hebrew the word pronounced "Adama" means earth.<br />
*Edward James Olmos has brown eyes, but he wears contacts when playing William Adama that make Adama's eyes blue. This is done so that Olmos and [[Jamie Bamber]], who is playing his son Apollo, will resemble each other more. <br />
*Astute viewers may recall Edward James Olmos sharing the screen with realistic humanoid robots as Gaff in the classic science fiction film "Blade Runner". Olmos also shares with ''Star Trek'' star William Shatner the distinction of being one of only two actors to both command a television starship and portray a police officer in a popular 1980's cop show ("Miami Vice" for Olmos, "T.J. Hooker" for Shatner).<br />
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<div>:''This article concerns a copy of Cylon Model [[Number Eight]] first seen on [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]], who marries [[Karl Agathon|Helo]] and becomes a Colonial Officer. For information on Sharon "Boomer" Valerii first seen on ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]],'' the lover of [[Galen Tyrol]], see [[Sharon Valerii]]. For general information about these Cylon copies, see [[Number Eight]].''<br />
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'''Sharon "Athena" Agathon''' is a copy of the Cylon human model [[Number Eight]] who is first encountered by [[Karl Agathon|Karl "Helo" Agathon]], when he is stranded on [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]]. She is initially assigned to seduce him by impersonating Lt. [[Sharon Valerii]], as part of a Cylon cross-breeding experiment, but later turns against her people and helps him escape the planet; pregnant with his child during that time. Helo, first shocked by her true nature, ultimately accepts her as the mother of his child and declares his love for her.<br />
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Once on ''Galactica'', she is imprisoned and long seen as a mere object. She frequently provides intelligence, but is severely mistreated by an interrogator from ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' who beats and sexually assaults her. Over time, she earns [[William Adama|Admiral Adama's]] trust by helping the [[Colonial Fleet]] escape peril several times and she is eventually appointed as an officer of the Colonial Fleet. Agathon gives birth on ''Galactica'', but her child [[Hera]] is subsequently hidden from her and she believes Hera to be dead. She is married to Karl Agathon.<br />
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== Biography ==<br />
=== Cylon cross-breeding experiment === <br />
This [[Number Eight]] is first seen on [[Caprica]], as the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]] decide to use her in an elaborate experiment focused around [[Karl Agathon|Karl "Helo" Agathon]] who is stranded on the planet after he gave up his seat on his and [[Sharon Valerii|Boomer's]] [[Raptor]] on the day of the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]]. The Cylons intend to use this Eight who is an identical copy of Helo's friend and colleague [[Sharon Valerii|Sharon "Boomer" Valerii]], to examine the possibilities of Cylon-human procreation. This second Valerii appears to Helo to rescues him after he is captured by a [[Number Six|Six]] and [[Cylon Centurion|Cylon Centurions]]. Unaware that Cylons have developed human models, Helo believes her to be the "Boomer" he knows from ''Galactica'', returning to rescue him. Following this rescue, Valerii leads Helo to "her" Raptor, now surrounded by several Cylon Centurions, convincing him that they have no direct way off of the planet. Copies of [[Aaron Doral]] and [[Number Six]] oversee the experiment ([[Water]]).<br />
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After receiving a "Colonial signal" on a radio receiver they carry, Valerii leads Helo to a city where they find a fully-equipped "fallout shelter" in which two people can live in reasonable security, hidden from above-ground Cylon operations, and with sufficient supplies to last a considerable period of time ([[Act of Contrition]]). The purpose in establishing this "nest" is to elicit an emotional response in Helo towards Valerii. When this fails, as Helo continues to seek a way off Caprica, the Cylons arrange for Valerii to be "captured", concluding that if Helo does not seek to rescue her, the experiment has failed, and he must be killed ([[You Can't Go Home Again]]). <br />
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Helo does indeed "rescue" Valerii. Helo has always been fond of Valerii; his long-time affection for her (stilled by "her" relationship with [[Galen Tyrol]]) arises within him from the dramatic rescue, which leads to Helo and Valerii having sex ([[Six Degrees of Separation]]). Valerii later reports this achievement to Doral and Six. A new hideout, a cabin in the woods, is being constructed for Helo and Valerii. She is instructed to lead him there and have him stay with her - or kill him if he attempts to leave ([[Flesh and Bone]]). But Valerii's human emotions begin to question the Cylon's overall goal. Realizing that she has herself fallen in love with Helo, Valerii disobeys her instructions and attempts to lead Helo to [[Delphi]], where they hope to steal a vehicle and get off the planet ([[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]). On the way to the spaceport, Valerii shows signs of being pregnant: she succumbs to a bout of morning sickness ([[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]) and develops a ravenous appetite ([[Colonial Day]]).<br />
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=== Helo's discovery ===<br />
[[Image:Boomerhelokara.jpg|235px|left|Helo attempts to stop Kara from shooting Sharon, in the Delphi Museum.|thumb]]<br />
On reaching Delphi, Valerii and Helo break into the Cylon facilities to reach the spaceport. When Helo encounters yet another copy of Valerii, he draws the initial conclusion that she is a human clone created by the Cylons, and goes on the run alone ([[Colonial Day]]). When Valerii catches up with him, her emotional condition is so confused that she challenges him to shoot her ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]). Helo can only bring himself to wound her, and takes her with him to use her to somehow get off Caprica. While Helo keeps her at gunpoint, Valerii leads him to the [[Delphi Museum]]. Waiting out a storm in a nearby ruined building, Valerii tells Helo that her love for him is real and that she is pregnant with his child.<br />
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When she and Helo come across [[Kara Thrace|Starbuck]], who lands near the museum to retrieve the [[Arrow of Apollo]], Thrace realizes on-sight that this Valerii is a Cylon (having left [[Sharon Valerii (Galactica copy)|"Boomer" Valerii]] behind with the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]]) and attempts to shoot her. Helo stops Thrace and reveals to her that Valerii is pregnant ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]). Starbuck, like Helo, also wrongly concludes that Caprica-Valerii must be a Cylon copy of the "real" Sharon Valerii on ''Galactica''. Valerii tries to convince her that she and "Boomer" Valerii are both Cylons but also just as "real" as the other. Valerii attempts to prove this by recollecting the first time she and Starbuck met, to no avail.<br />
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=== Resistance movement and arrival at the Fleet ===<br />
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While Thrace and Helo argue over Valerii, the confused and frightened Cylon escapes in Thrace's Cylon Raider to save herself and the life of her unborn child ([[Scattered]]). After tracking them for several days, Valerii returns to Helo and a human [[Caprica Resistance|resistance movement]] that had formed on Caprica. She offers her aid in finding the missing Thrace ([[The Farm]]). After Thrace escapes to the outside of the hospital where she was imprisoned, Valerii arrives at the rescue scene in a stolen [[Heavy Raider]] and destroys several Centurions that attack the Resistance rescue party. Convinced that Helo's Valerii copy can be sufficiently trusted, or at least give useful information on Cylon activity, the humans allow Valerii to accompany them as they fly the Heavy Raider back to [[The Fleet (RDM)|the Fleet]].<br />
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When Valerii walks aboard the ''[[Astral Queen]]'', [[Lee Adama]] reacts violently. The son of Commander [[William Adama|Adama]] (shot by the sleeper Cylon agent "Boomer" Valerii) grabs this second Valerii and places his gun to her head. Helo draws his sidearm against Adama, forcing a standoff, but President Roslin urges both men enough to withdraw their weapons, and orders Valerii to be ejected out the airlock. Valerii pleads for her life, telling Roslin she knows the precise location of the [[Laura Roslin faction|faction's]] objective: The [[Tomb of Athena]]. Roslin reconsiders and places Valerii in the brig. Roslin later confirms that the Cylon is actually working on their side because Valerii wants her child and Helo to remain safe from what Roslin interprets as a mothering instinct.<br />
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=== Guide on Kobol ===<br />
[[image:sharonhome.jpg|235px|Sharon on Kobol, with Helo, Elosha, and Roslin.|thumb]]<br />
Valerii accompanies Roslin's party to [[Kobol]]. Valerii recites the specific passages of the Tomb in the scriptures of the [[Sacred Scrolls]] and plots the group's path along a ridge nearby. As priestess [[Elosha]] examines a gravestone marker along the ancient trail, the handcuffed Valerii senses danger but is too late to warn anyone; two "[[Wikipedia:S-mine|Bouncing Betty]]"-style antipersonnel mines detonate, killing Elosha. At the same instant, a group of Centurions open fire. As others hide or return fire, Valerii vaults away, with Lee Adama in pursuit, believing she is trying to escape. Valerii scoops up a grenade launcher lying ahead, and just as Lee Adama thinks she is about to shoot him, she aims for the last Centurion and destroys it ([[Home, Part I]]). At camp, Adama and Thrace are perplexed that Helo still loves Valerii, despite his awareness of her true nature as a Cylon.<br />
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During the trek, Valerii casually tells Helo that their child is a girl. Not long after, Commander Adama's search party arrives at Roslin's camp. The warm reunion of the two leaders and family is interrupted when Adama sees this second copy of Sharon Valerii. Reacting as his son did, Commander Adama immediately tries to choke her to death. He releases her after experiencing terrible chest pains (probably the result of his recent surgery, or from anxiety), as she says "And you asked 'why'?" (mysteriously referencing what Commander Adama said over the dead body of "Boomer" Valerii).<br />
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[[Tom Zarek]]'s follower, [[Meier]], tries to convince Valerii to help him kill both Adamas as part of a power play by Zarek. Valerii believed her ''Galactica'' counterpart was being held in the [[brig]], but Meier informs her that she was killed. She expresses her outrage to Helo that [[Cally]] killed Boomer, receiving only a minor punishment. Valerii deduces that the Colonials don't see humanoid Cylons are people; she is a thing they may destroy once they no longer need her. Valerii appears to take up Meier's proposal to kill Commander Adama and Lee Adama, but after they all draw their weapons, she shoots Meier instead, saving the lives of both Adamas. She announces to Commander Adama that she is not the same Sharon Valerii that shot him, and that she is not a sleeper agent with hidden protocols waiting to activate; she makes her own choices. She surrenders the weapon to Commander Adama, to everyone's surprise.<br />
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=== Cooperation with the human fleet ===<br />
[[Image:Valerii_virus.jpg|thumb|170px|left|Valerii in trance while disabling the Cylon logic bomb.]]<br />
Subsequently, Valerii is brought aboard battlestar ''[[Galactica]]'' and imprisoned in a new reinforced cell designed to incarcerate "Boomer." The virtual [[Number Six]] tells Dr. Baltar that Valerii's baby will be born in that cell. Number Six considers Valerii's and Helo's biological child to be hers; she says that she will be its "mother" and Baltar will be its "father" ([[Home, Part II]]).<br />
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While in her cell, Valerii nearly has a miscarriage, and is rushed to [[Sickbay]] where Dr. [[Cottle]] succeeds in saving the fetus. [[D'anna Biers]], a reporter for the [[Fleet News Service]], stumbles upon Valerii while filming her documentary in Sickbay. Biers threatens to expose that Commander Adama is harboring a Cylon aboard ''Galactica'', but he confiscates what he believed was Biers' tape of Valerii. In reality, Biers secretly switches tapes and keeps the real one. This critical information was not broadcast in the final cut of her documentary distributed to the Fleet, but it was broadcast back to other Cylons on Caprica (by way of two Raiders that attack ''Galactica'' in order to get within transmission range). The Cylons on Caprica (including another copy of Biers and yet another Valerii copy) are surprised yet overjoyed that Helo's Valerii is still alive (they are apparently unaware that she had survived). They are incredibly concerned that her hybrid child survives, saying that it must be protected at all costs ([[Final Cut]]).<br />
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When ''Galactica'' experiences mysterious computer failures and system malfunctions from a mutated version of a Cylon virus [[Valley of Darkness|thought eradicated]], Commander Adama orders Helo to show the incarcerated Valerii the strange Cylon code. Valerii identifies it as a very virulent [[Logic bomb]] that will take control of the ship and kill off the crew without her help. Reluctantly, on advice from President Roslin, Commander Adama brings Valerii to [[CIC]], where Valerii cuts her arm open and connects her body to a fiber optic line to communicate with ''Galactica's'' mainframe [[Computers|computer]] and communication channels. With Valerii now with access, she takes into her a portion of the logic bomb code, then instructs Lieutenant [[Felix Gaeta|Gaeta]] to wipe the hard drives of the system computers to erase all Cylon virus traces for good. ''Galactica'' is a sitting duck to a massive Cylon fighter force on the outskirts of [[DRADIS]] range while Valerii makes adjustments to the code. She resends the code out on the communication channels to the Cylons, disabling the entire fleet of Cylon fighters. ([[Flight of the Phoenix]]).<br />
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=== Interrogation and abuse ===<br />
[[image:Pegasus-Thorne_Boomer.jpg|235px|Valerii is beaten and sexually assaulted during an interrogation by Lt. [[Alistair Thorne|Thorne]].|thumb]]<br />
After ''Galactica'' reunites with battlestar ''Pegasus'', Admiral [[Helena Cain]] sends Lieutenant [[Alistair Thorne]] to inspect the incarcerated Valerii. He beats and sexually assaults her while his guards watch and hold her. Fortunately for Valerii, both Helo and Tyrol find out about Thorne and what was done to his previous [[Gina|prisoner]] and arrive in time to stop him. Tyrol accidentally kills Thorne in the process. Both he and Helo are arrested by the ''Pegasus'' guards and taken to Cain's battlestar, where Cain hastily convenes courts-martial for the men (without Adama's knowledge) and sentences Agathon and Tyrol to death. <br />
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Commander Adama sends a [[Marines|Marine]] force and his Viper squadrons out to retrieve his men. Valerii and all of the fleet await news on the survival of her "past" and current love as a military standoff between the battlestars begins ([[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]). Valerii's attempted rape by Thorne results in a hairline fracture in one of her ribs and minor bruising. Still in shock for the incident, Commander Adama (who has reached a détenté with Admiral Cain over Helo's execution) personally appologizes to Valerii over the incident ([[Resurrection Ship, Part I]]). This is also the first time that Adama refers to Valerii as a "her", as opposed to as an "it". Valerii is happily reunited with Helo and Tyrol when the two are released after Adama resumes full command of the Fleet, though she is more enthusiastic to see Helo than Tyrol. ([[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]).<br />
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Weeks later, President Roslin, on her deathbed, recommends that Valerii's fetus be aborted, fearing dire consequences for the Fleet. On hearing this news, Helo is terrified, but Valerii, having cooperated fully to aid the Fleet to save herself and her child and to show that not all Cylons are dangerous, is enraged. Marines sent to inspect her and later to take her to [[sickbay]] for the procedure are forced to restrain the angry Cylon. <br />
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At the last minute (spurred by threats from his virtual [[Number Six]]), [[Gaius Baltar]] learns of an astonishing ability of the fetal blood of Valerii's baby: it destroys cancer cells. Taking a small blood sample, he injects it into the dying Laura Roslin. Moments later, her cancer is "gone," according to Dr. [[Cottle]]. The abortion procedure is cancelled. The recovering Roslin visits Valerii in her cell and smiles at the sight of Valerii stroking her belly, just as a human female would ([[Epiphanies]]).<br />
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===Birth of her daughter===<br />
[[Image:Sharondownloaded.jpg|170px|thumb|left|Helo comforts Valerii as the doctors start to perform an emergency birth procedure ]]<br />
Valerii begins to bleed; her placenta is detaching. An emergency [[Wikipedia:Cesarean section|birth procedure]] must to be performed by Dr. [[Cottle]] to save both the baby's and Caprica-Valerii's life. Helo and Valerii name the baby girl [[Hera]] and marvel at her as she lay in an incubator. Some time later, believing their baby is out of danger, the baby apparently dies due to her underdeveloped lungs and Dr. Cottle's failure to intubate her in time. In a state of shock, Valerii nearly strangles Cottle in grief before being subdued, and subsequently falls into a deep depression. <br />
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However, unbeknownst to Caprica-Valerii, Hera is still alive. In a move to not have to kill the baby but at the same time not have it raised by Valerii or risk having it captured by unseen Cylon agents, Valerii's baby was switched with another dead child. President [[Laura Roslin|Roslin]], Dr. Cottle and Presidental aide [[Tory Foster]] place Valerii's baby in the care of [[Maya]], a foster mother. Maya is told a cover story that disguises Hera's true identity ([[Downloaded]]).<br />
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Valerii's depression over losing her child only worsens. Helo convinces her to aid in the rescue of [[Samuel Anders|Anders]] and the other survivors on Caprica, in part to try and draw her out of her depression. Valerii's knowledge of Cylon FTL technology makes the rescue possible by acting as a conduit between the Colonial Raptors and the far more advanced FTL computer salvaged from a Heavy Raider ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I]]).<br />
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On Caprica, Thrace demonstrates a new level of trust for Valerii by throwing her a gun during a firefight with ambushing Centurions. Later, Valerii is as perplexed as everyone else when the Cylons disengage and apparently leave the planet for good. She ''is'' aware, however, that [[Cavil|Brother Cavil]], a man who approaches the group and loudly proclaims the end of the occupation to be a miracle, is a [[Cylon agent]]. She witholds this information from the others. On ''Galactica'', Cavil is exposed by Chief Tyrol (who realizes that a copy of Cavil was already present in the Fleet). Angered by Valerii's obvious withholding of Cavil's nature, Admiral Adama sends Valerii back to the brig along with Cavil. When asked by a distraught Helo why she didn't report this crucial fact, she replies "They killed my baby. Do you think I care about you, or us, or whether or not Adama trusts me anymore?" Valerii withdraws further, shutting Helo out completely. ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]).<br />
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===Officer of the Colonial Fleet===<br />
[[Image:Season 3 - Promo - Epi 1 - 2 - C-Number Eight, Adama, Helo.jpg|235px|Sharon Agathon is sworn-in by Adama as a Colonial Officer.|thumb]]<br />
Four months after ''Galactica's'' and ''Pegasus's'' retreat brings many changes. Sharon Agathon, now married to Karl "Helo" Agathon, is still in her special brig, but Admiral Adama has taken to sitting down to tea and talking in confidence with her. Her cell now has a couch, table, and other amenities ([[Occupation]]). Admiral Adama commissions Agathon into the Colonial Fleet as a Lieutenant (Junior Grade). This could be because he trusts her, because the upcoming rescue mission is much easier with her help, or some combination of both.<br />
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Her first mission as an officer has two objectives: to lead an insertion force that will serve as a liaison between the [[New Caprica Resistance|resistance]] and ''Galactica'' during the extraction of the New Caprica population, and to, herself, infiltrate the Cylon defenses and secure the [[launch key]]s to the grounded Colonial Ships. She leads two Raptors in an intra-atmosphere Jump and links up with [[Samuel Anders]] and his squad at the [[Breeders Canyon]]. Their planning is interrupted when an unknown number of [[Cylon Centurion]]s ambush their position ([[Precipice]]). Agathon and her assigned Marines had anticipated enemy contact, so the Marines, from a supporting position, easily neutralize the Cylon attackers.<br />
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That night, the combined force of Agathon, her Marines, and Anders' squad return to [[New Caprica City]]. On the day following, Agathon enters the [[New Caprica Detention Center|detention center]] to recover the launch keys. Two human [[New Caprica Police]] guards, not being able to distinguish Sharon from any other Eight unit, let her enter and she interfaces with a data terminal to determine the location of the keys. As she is taking them, a [[Number Three]] enters the room and recognizes her as a defector. The Three tells her that [[Hera]] is still alive, and Agathon responds that Adama would not lie to her, shooting the Three in each leg, and departs. When she hands over the keys to [[Galen Tyrol]], she asks if Hera had truly died and, and he affirms ([[Exodus, Part I]]). Sharon Agathon is last seen embracing Helo aboard Galactica's hanger bay after the successful mission.<br />
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==Notes==<br />
*This Sharon is still referred to as the Caprica copy ('Caprica-Sharon'), even though she is now aboard ''Galactica'', because she was first encountered on Caprica. She is also sometimes called 'Helo-Sharon' by fans (as opposed to 'Tyrol-Sharon') or simply 'Sharon' (as opposed to 'Boomer', a nickname more commonly associated with [[Sharon Valerii (Galactica copy)|Galactica-Sharon]]).<br />
*During Season 1, Caprica-Sharon parts her hair on the left side of her head, while "Boomer" Valerii parts her hair to the right.<br />
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<div>:''This article concerns a copy of Cylon Model [[Number Eight]] first seen on [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]], who marries [[Karl Agathon|Helo]] and becomes a Colonial Officer. For information on Sharon "Boomer" Valerii first seen on ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]],'' the lover of [[Galen Tyrol]], see [[Sharon Valerii]]. For general information about these Cylon copies, see [[Number Eight]].''<br />
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'''Sharon "Athena" Agathon''' is a copy of the Cylon human model [[Number Eight]] who is first encountered by [[Karl Agathon|Karl "Helo" Agathon]], when he is stranded on [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]]. She is initially assigned to seduce him by impersonating Lt. [[Sharon Valerii]], as part of a Cylon cross-breeding experiment, but later turns against her people and helps him escape the planet; pregnant with his child during that time. Helo, first shocked by her true nature, ultimately accepts her as the mother of his child and declares his love for her.<br />
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Once on ''Galactica'', she is imprisoned and long seen as a mere object. She frequently provides intelligence, but is severely mistreated by an interrogator from ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' who beats and sexually assaults her. Over time, she earns [[William Adama|Admiral Adama's]] trust by helping the [[Colonial Fleet]] escape peril several times and she is eventually appointed as an officer of the Colonial Fleet. Agathon gives birth on ''Galactica'', but her child [[Hera]] is subsequently hidden from her and she believes Hera to be dead. She is married to Karl Agathon.<br />
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== Biography ==<br />
=== Cylon cross-breeding experiment === <br />
This [[Number Eight]] is first seen on [[Caprica]], as the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]] decide to use her in an elaborate experiment focused around [[Karl Agathon|Karl "Helo" Agathon]] who is stranded on the planet after he gave up his seat on his and [[Sharon Valerii|Boomer's]] [[Raptor]] on the day of the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]]. The Cylons intend to use this Eight who is an identical copy of Helo's friend and colleague [[Sharon Valerii|Sharon "Boomer" Valerii]], to examine the possibilities of Cylon-human procreation. This second Valerii appears to Helo to rescues him after he is captured by a [[Number Six|Six]] and [[Cylon Centurion|Cylon Centurions]]. Unaware that Cylons have developed human models, Helo believes her to be the "Boomer" he knows from ''Galactica'', returning to rescue him. Following this rescue, Valerii leads Helo to "her" Raptor, now surrounded by several Cylon Centurions, convincing him that they have no direct way off of the planet. Copies of [[Aaron Doral]] and [[Number Six]] oversee the experiment ([[Water]]).<br />
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After receiving a "Colonial signal" on a radio receiver they carry, Valerii leads Helo to a city where they find a fully-equipped "fallout shelter" in which two people can live in reasonable security, hidden from above-ground Cylon operations, and with sufficient supplies to last a considerable period of time ([[Act of Contrition]]). The purpose in establishing this "nest" is to elicit an emotional response in Helo towards Valerii. When this fails, as Helo continues to seek a way off Caprica, the Cylons arrange for Valerii to be "captured", concluding that if Helo does not seek to rescue her, the experiment has failed, and he must be killed ([[You Can't Go Home Again]]). <br />
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Helo does indeed "rescue" Valerii. Helo has always been fond of Valerii; his long-time affection for her (stilled by "her" relationship with [[Galen Tyrol]]) arises within him from the dramatic rescue, which leads to Helo and Valerii having sex ([[Six Degrees of Separation]]). Valerii later reports this achievement to Doral and Six. A new hideout, a cabin in the woods, is being constructed for Helo and Valerii. She is instructed to lead him there and have him stay with her - or kill him if he attempts to leave ([[Flesh and Bone]]). But Valerii's human emotions begin to question the Cylon's overall goal. Realizing that she has herself fallen in love with Helo, Valerii disobeys her instructions and attempts to lead Helo to [[Delphi]], where they hope to steal a vehicle and get off the planet ([[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]). On the way to the spaceport, Valerii shows signs of being pregnant: she succumbs to a bout of morning sickness ([[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]) and develops a ravenous appetite ([[Colonial Day]]).<br />
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=== Helo's discovery ===<br />
[[Image:Boomerhelokara.jpg|235px|left|Helo attempts to stop Kara from shooting Sharon, in the Delphi Museum.|thumb]]<br />
On reaching Delphi, Valerii and Helo break into the Cylon facilities to reach the spaceport. When Helo encounters yet another copy of Valerii, he draws the initial conclusion that she is a human clone created by the Cylons, and goes on the run alone ([[Colonial Day]]). When Valerii catches up with him, her emotional condition is so confused that she challenges him to shoot her ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]). Helo can only bring himself to wound her, and takes her with him to use her to somehow get off Caprica. While Helo keeps her at gunpoint, Valerii leads him to the [[Delphi Museum]]. Waiting out a storm in a nearby ruined building, Valerii tells Helo that her love for him is real and that she is pregnant with his child.<br />
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When she and Helo come across [[Kara Thrace|Starbuck]], who lands near the museum to retrieve the [[Arrow of Apollo]], Thrace realizes on-sight that this Valerii is a Cylon (having left [[Sharon Valerii (Galactica copy)|"Boomer" Valerii]] behind with the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]]) and attempts to shoot her. Helo stops Thrace and reveals to her that Valerii is pregnant ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]). Starbuck, like Helo, also wrongly concludes that Caprica-Valerii must be a Cylon copy of the "real" Sharon Valerii on ''Galactica''. Valerii tries to convince her that she and "Boomer" Valerii are both Cylons but also just as "real" as the other. Valerii attempts to prove this by recollecting the first time she and Starbuck met, to no avail.<br />
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=== Resistance movement and arrival at the Fleet ===<br />
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While Thrace and Helo argue over Valerii, the confused and frightened Cylon escapes in Thrace's Cylon Raider to save herself and the life of her unborn child ([[Scattered]]). After tracking them for several days, Valerii returns to Helo and a human [[Caprica Resistance|resistance movement]] that had formed on Caprica. She offers her aid in finding the missing Thrace ([[The Farm]]). After Thrace escapes to the outside of the hospital where she was imprisoned, Valerii arrives at the rescue scene in a stolen [[Heavy Raider]] and destroys several Centurions that attack the Resistance rescue party. Convinced that Helo's Valerii copy can be sufficiently trusted, or at least give useful information on Cylon activity, the humans allow Valerii to accompany them as they fly the Heavy Raider back to [[The Fleet (RDM)|the Fleet]].<br />
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When Valerii walks aboard the ''[[Astral Queen]]'', [[Lee Adama]] reacts violently. The son of Commander [[William Adama|Adama]] (shot by the sleeper Cylon agent "Boomer" Valerii) grabs this second Valerii and places his gun to her head. Helo draws his sidearm against Adama, forcing a standoff, but President Roslin urges both men enough to withdraw their weapons, and orders Valerii to be ejected out the airlock. Valerii pleads for her life, telling Roslin she knows the precise location of the [[Laura Roslin faction|faction's]] objective: The [[Tomb of Athena]]. Roslin reconsiders and places Valerii in the brig. Roslin later confirms that the Cylon is actually working on their side because Valerii wants her child and Helo to remain safe from what Roslin interprets as a mothering instinct.<br />
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=== Guide on Kobol ===<br />
[[image:sharonhome.jpg|235px|Sharon on Kobol, with Helo, Elosha, and Roslin.|thumb]]<br />
Valerii accompanies Roslin's party to [[Kobol]]. Valerii recites the specific passages of the Tomb in the scriptures of the [[Sacred Scrolls]] and plots the group's path along a ridge nearby. As priestess [[Elosha]] examines a gravestone marker along the ancient trail, the handcuffed Valerii senses danger but is too late to warn anyone; two "[[Wikipedia:S-mine|Bouncing Betty]]"-style antipersonnel mines detonate, killing Elosha. At the same instant, a group of Centurions open fire. As others hide or return fire, Valerii vaults away, with Lee Adama in pursuit, believing she is trying to escape. Valerii scoops up a grenade launcher lying ahead, and just as Lee Adama thinks she is about to shoot him, she aims for the last Centurion and destroys it ([[Home, Part I]]). At camp, Adama and Thrace are perplexed that Helo still loves Valerii, despite his awareness of her true nature as a Cylon.<br />
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During the trek, Valerii casually tells Helo that their child is a girl. Not long after, Commander Adama's search party arrives at Roslin's camp. The warm reunion of the two leaders and family is interrupted when Adama sees this second copy of Sharon Valerii. Reacting as his son did, Commander Adama immediately tries to choke her to death. He releases her after experiencing terrible chest pains (probably the result of his recent surgery, or from anxiety), as she says "And you asked 'why'?" (mysteriously referencing what Commander Adama said over the dead body of "Boomer" Valerii).<br />
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[[Tom Zarek]]'s follower, [[Meier]], tries to convince Valerii to help him kill both Adamas as part of a power play by Zarek. Valerii believed her ''Galactica'' counterpart was being held in the [[brig]], but Meier informs her that she was killed. She expresses her outrage to Helo that [[Cally]] killed Boomer, receiving only a minor punishment. Valerii deduces that the Colonials don't see humanoid Cylons are people; she is a thing they may destroy once they no longer need her. Valerii appears to take up Meier's proposal to kill Commander Adama and Lee Adama, but after they all draw their weapons, she shoots Meier instead, saving the lives of both Adamas. She announces to Commander Adama that she is not the same Sharon Valerii that shot him, and that she is not a sleeper agent with hidden protocols waiting to activate; she makes her own choices. She surrenders the weapon to Commander Adama, to everyone's surprise.<br />
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=== Cooperation with the human fleet ===<br />
[[Image:Valerii_virus.jpg|thumb|170px|left|Valerii in trance while disabling the Cylon logic bomb.]]<br />
Subsequently, Valerii is brought aboard battlestar ''[[Galactica]]'' and imprisoned in a new reinforced cell designed to incarcerate "Boomer." The virtual [[Number Six]] tells Dr. Baltar that Valerii's baby will be born in that cell. Number Six considers Valerii's and Helo's biological child to be hers; she says that she will be its "mother" and Baltar will be its "father" ([[Home, Part II]]).<br />
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While in her cell, Valerii nearly has a miscarriage, and is rushed to [[Sickbay]] where Dr. [[Cottle]] succeeds in saving the fetus. [[D'anna Biers]], a reporter for the [[Fleet News Service]], stumbles upon Valerii while filming her documentary in Sickbay. Biers threatens to expose that Commander Adama is harboring a Cylon aboard ''Galactica'', but he confiscates what he believed was Biers' tape of Valerii. In reality, Biers secretly switches tapes and keeps the real one. This critical information was not broadcast in the final cut of her documentary distributed to the Fleet, but it was broadcast back to other Cylons on Caprica (by way of two Raiders that attack ''Galactica'' in order to get within transmission range). The Cylons on Caprica (including another copy of Biers and yet another Valerii copy) are surprised yet overjoyed that Helo's Valerii is still alive (they are apparently unaware that she had survived). They are incredibly concerned that her hybrid child survives, saying that it must be protected at all costs ([[Final Cut]]).<br />
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When ''Galactica'' experiences mysterious computer failures and system malfunctions from a mutated version of a Cylon virus [[Valley of Darkness|thought eradicated]], Commander Adama orders Helo to show the incarcerated Valerii the strange Cylon code. Valerii identifies it as a very virulent [[Logic bomb]] that will take control of the ship and kill off the crew without her help. Reluctantly, on advice from President Roslin, Commander Adama brings Valerii to [[CIC]], where Valerii cuts her arm open and connects her body to a fiber optic line to communicate with ''Galactica's'' mainframe [[Computers|computer]] and communication channels. With Valerii now with access, she takes into her a portion of the logic bomb code, then instructs Lieutenant [[Felix Gaeta|Gaeta]] to wipe the hard drives of the system computers to erase all Cylon virus traces for good. ''Galactica'' is a sitting duck to a massive Cylon fighter force on the outskirts of [[DRADIS]] range while Valerii makes adjustments to the code. She resends the code out on the communication channels to the Cylons, disabling the entire fleet of Cylon fighters. ([[Flight of the Phoenix]]).<br />
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=== Interrogation and abuse ===<br />
[[image:Pegasus-Thorne_Boomer.jpg|235px|Valerii is beaten and sexually assaulted during an interrogation by Lt. [[Alistair Thorne|Thorne]].|thumb]]<br />
After ''Galactica'' reunites with battlestar ''Pegasus'', Admiral [[Helena Cain]] sends Lieutenant [[Alistair Thorne]] to inspect the incarcerated Valerii. He beats and sexually assaults her while his guards watch and hold her. Fortunately for Valerii, both Helo and Tyrol find out about Thorne and what was done to his previous [[Gina|prisoner]] and arrive in time to stop him. Tyrol accidentally kills Thorne in the process. Both he and Helo are arrested by the ''Pegasus'' guards and taken to Cain's battlestar, where Cain hastily convenes courts-martial for the men (without Adama's knowledge) and sentences Agathon and Tyrol to death. <br />
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Commander Adama sends a [[Marines|Marine]] force and his Viper squadrons out to retrieve his men. Valerii and all of the fleet await news on the survival of her "past" and current love as a military standoff between the battlestars begins ([[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]). Valerii's attempted rape by Thorne results in a hairline fracture in one of her ribs and minor bruising. Still in shock for the incident, Commander Adama (who has reached a détenté with Admiral Cain over Helo's execution) personally appologizes to Valerii over the incident ([[Resurrection Ship, Part I]]). This is also the first time that Adama refers to Valerii as a "her", as opposed to as an "it". Valerii is happily reunited with Helo and Tyrol when the two are released after Adama resumes full command of the Fleet, though she is more enthusiastic to see Helo than Tyrol. ([[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]).<br />
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Weeks later, President Roslin, on her deathbed, recommends that Valerii's fetus be aborted, fearing dire consequences for the Fleet. On hearing this news, Helo is terrified, but Valerii, having cooperated fully to aid the Fleet to save herself and her child and to show that not all Cylons are dangerous, is enraged. Marines sent to inspect her and later to take her to [[sickbay]] for the procedure are forced to restrain the angry Cylon. <br />
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At the last minute (spurred by threats from his virtual [[Number Six]]), [[Gaius Baltar]] learns of an astonishing ability of the fetal blood of Valerii's baby: it destroys cancer cells. Taking a small blood sample, he injects it into the dying Laura Roslin. Moments later, her cancer is "gone," according to Dr. [[Cottle]]. The abortion procedure is cancelled. The recovering Roslin visits Valerii in her cell and smiles at the sight of Valerii stroking her belly, just as a human female would ([[Epiphanies]]).<br />
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===Birth of her daughter===<br />
[[Image:Sharondownloaded.jpg|170px|thumb|left|Helo comforts Valerii as the doctors start to perform an emergency birth procedure ]]<br />
Valerii begins to bleed; her placenta is detaching. An emergency [[Wikipedia:Cesarean section|birth procedure]] must to be performed by Dr. [[Cottle]] to save both the baby's and Caprica-Valerii's life. Helo and Valerii name the baby girl [[Hera]] and marvel at her as she lay in an incubator. Some time later, believing their baby is out of danger, the baby apparently dies due to her underdeveloped lungs and Dr. Cottle's failure to intubate her in time. In a state of shock, Valerii nearly strangles Cottle in grief before being subdued, and subsequently falls into a deep depression. <br />
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However, unbeknownst to Caprica-Valerii, Hera is still alive. In a move to not have to kill the baby but at the same time not have it raised by Valerii or risk having it captured by unseen Cylon agents, Valerii's baby was switched with another dead child. President [[Laura Roslin|Roslin]], Dr. Cottle and Presidental aide [[Tory Foster]] place Valerii's baby in the care of [[Maya]], a foster mother. Maya is told a cover story that disguises Hera's true identity ([[Downloaded]]).<br />
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Valerii's depression over losing her child only worsens. Helo convinces her to aid in the rescue of [[Samuel Anders|Anders]] and the other survivors on Caprica, in part to try and draw her out of her depression. Valerii's knowledge of Cylon FTL technology makes the rescue possible by acting as a conduit between the Colonial Raptors and the far more advanced FTL computer salvaged from a Heavy Raider ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I]]).<br />
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On Caprica, Thrace demonstrates a new level of trust for Valerii by throwing her a gun during a firefight with ambushing Centurions. Later, Valerii is as perplexed as everyone else when the Cylons disengage and apparently leave the planet for good. She ''is'' aware, however, that [[Cavil|Brother Cavil]], a man who approaches the group and loudly proclaims the end of the occupation to be a miracle, is a [[Cylon agent]]. She witholds this information from the others. On ''Galactica'', Cavil is exposed by Chief Tyrol (who realizes that a copy of Cavil was already present in the Fleet). Angered by Valerii's obvious withholding of Cavil's nature, Admiral Adama sends Valerii back to the brig along with Cavil. When asked by a distraught Helo why she didn't report this crucial fact, she replies "They killed my baby. Do you think I care about you, or us, or whether or not Adama trusts me anymore?" Valerii withdraws further, shutting Helo out completely. ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]).<br />
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===Officer of the Colonial Fleet===<br />
[[Image:Season 3 - Promo - Epi 1 - 2 - C-Number Eight, Adama, Helo.jpg|235px|Sharon Agathon is sworn-in by Adama as a Colonial Officer.|thumb]]<br />
Four months after ''Galactica's'' and ''Pegasus's'' retreat brings many changes. Sharon Agathon, now married to Karl "Helo" Agathon, is still in her special brig, but Admiral Adama has taken to sitting down to tea and talking in confidence with her. Her cell now has a couch, table, and other amenities ([[Occupation]]). Admiral Adama commissions Agathon into the Colonial Fleet as a Lieutenant (Junior Grade). This could be because he trusts her, because the upcoming rescue mission is much easier with her help, or some combination of both.<br />
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Her first mission as an officer has two objectives: to lead an insertion force that will serve as a liaison between the [[New Caprica Resistance|resistance]] and ''Galactica'' during the extraction of the New Caprica population, and to, herself, infiltrate the Cylon defenses and secure the [[launch key]]s to the grounded Colonial Ships. She leads two Raptors in an intra-atmosphere Jump and links up with [[Samuel Anders]] and his squad at the [[Breeders Canyon]]. Their planning is interrupted when an unknown number of [[Cylon Centurion]]s ambush their position ([[Precipice]]). Agathon and her assigned Marines had anticipated enemy contact, so the Marines, from a supporting position, easily neutralize the Cylon attackers.<br />
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That night, the combined force of Agathon, her Marines, and Anders' squad return to [[New Caprica City]]. On the day following, Agathon enters the [[New Caprica Detention Center|detention center]] to recover the launch keys. Two human [[New Caprica Police]] guards, not being able to distinguish Sharon from any other Eight unit, let her enter and she interfaces with a data terminal to determine the location of the keys. As she is taking them, a [[Number Three]] enters the room and recognizes her as a defector. The Three tells her that [[Hera]] is still alive, and Agathon responds that Adama would not lie to her, shooting the Three in each leg, and departs. When she hands over the keys to [[Galen Tyrol]], she asks if Hera had truly died and, and he affirms ([[Exodus, Part I]]). Sharon Agathon is last seen embracing Helo aboard Galactica's hanger bay after the successful mission.<br />
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==Notes==<br />
*This Sharon is still referred to as the Caprica copy ('Caprica-Sharon'), even though she is now aboard ''Galactica'', because she was first encountered on Caprica. She is also sometimes called 'Helo-Sharon' by fans (as opposed to 'Tyrol-Sharon') or simply 'Sharon' (as opposed to 'Boomer', a nickname more commonly associated with [[Sharon Valerii (Galactica copy)|Galactica-Sharon]]).<br />
*During Season 1, Caprica-Sharon parts her hair on the left side of her head, while "Boomer" Valerii parts her hair to the right.<br />
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| episode= 8<br />
| guests= [[Carl Lumbly]]<br />
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== Overview ==<br />
:''A [[Bulldog|figure ]] from [[William Adama|Adama]]'s past returns to haunt him. His return raises questions about why the Cylons launched their initial attack against the [[Twelve Colonies]]. <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tv.com/battlestar-galactica-2003/hero/episode/748771/summary.html |title=TV.com }}</ref>''<br />
== Summary == <br />
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== Questions ==<br />
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* Does the arrival of someone from Adama's past mean that additional survivors of the [[Twelve_Colonies | Twelve Colonies]] will be rescued or found?<br />
**According to advanced descriptions, it appears that this Colonial was taken prisoner well before the Fall of the Twelve Colonies, and may be an exceptional case.{{citation needed}}<br />
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== Analysis ==<br />
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== Notes ==<br />
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*A revelation about something truly egregious and illegal that Admiral [[William Adama]] was guilty of doing during the days leading up to the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]], and how he has kept the revelation of that incident from rearing its head. An event transpires that brings it all home with a vengeance, and the ramifications are significant. (David Eick revealed this in an [http://www.ifmagazine.com/feature.asp?article=1496 interview] with ''iFMagazine''.)<br />
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*According to an [http://community.tvguide.com/thread.jspa?threadID=700002601 interview] with David Eick, this is probably episode 7 of [[Season 3 (2006-07)|Season 3]]. A contemporary of Adama's and Tigh's from the past arrives on ''Galactica'' with a very dark secret about Adama.<br />
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*In another [http://community.tvguide.com/thread.jspa?threadID=700002601 interview] with Eick, he revealed that this episode "involves a human POW who’s been trapped on the Cylon base ship for the last four years, and when we meet him we realize it’s a great homecoming for him because he was one of Adama’s pilots. But by the middle of the episode you realize the reason why this guy was taken prisoner was because Adama shot his ship down. And it becomes sort of an episode about why such a thing would have happened and how Adama begins to believe that on some level he might have been responsible for provoking the Cylon attack on the Twelve Colonies."<br />
<br />
*According to Ron Moore at the BSG Comic-Con panel, [[Carl Lumbly]] will guest star in this episode as "[[Bulldog]]", an old pilot of Adama's who was taken as a POW in the war.<br />
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*Spoiler images have shown the CIC of the Battlestar [[Valkyrie]].[http://pics.livejournal.com/drewcypher/pic/000pbh0a/g261 Images can be found here].<br />
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== Noteworthy Dialogue ==<br />
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== Official Statements ==<br />
*A video blog gives an insight to this episode during filming. <ref>{{cite_web|url=http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/video/index.php?cat=videoBlog&vid=34824|title=Introducting Bulldog|date=2006-10-11|accessdate=|last=|first=|format=VID|language=}}</ref><br />
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== Guest Stars ==<br />
*Carl Lumby as [[Eugene Novacek]]<br />
*Barry Kennedy as Admiral [[Corman]]<br />
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== References ==<br />
<div style="font-size:85%"><references/></div><br />
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{{episode list (RDM season 3)}}<br />
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[[Category:Episodes written by David Eick]]<br />
[[Category:Episodes directed by Michael Rymer]]<br />
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{{Episode Data<br />
| title= Hero<br />
| image= Season 3 - Promo - Hero -Adama Tigh and Novacek.jpg<br />
| season= 3<br />
| episode= 8<br />
| guests= [[Carl Lumbly]]<br />
| writer= [[David Eick]]<br />
| story= <br />
| director= [[Michael Rymer]]<br />
| production=<br />
| rating=<br />
| US airdate= 2006-11-17<br />
| UK airdate=<br />
| dvd=<br />
| population= ?<br />
| prev= [[A Measure of Salvation]]<br />
| next= [[Unfinished Business]]<br />
}}<br />
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== Overview ==<br />
:''A [[Bulldog|figure ]] from [[William Adama|Adama]]'s past returns to haunt him. His return raises questions about why the Cylons launched their initial attack against the [[Twelve Colonies]]. <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tv.com/battlestar-galactica-2003/hero/episode/748771/summary.html |title=TV.com }}</ref>''<br />
== Summary == <br />
<br />
== Questions ==<br />
<br />
* Does the arrival of someone from Adama's past mean that additional survivors of the [[Twelve_Colonies | Twelve Colonies]] will be rescued or found?<br />
**According to advanced descriptions, it appears that this Colonial was taken prisoner well before the Fall of the Twelve Colonies, and may be an exceptional case.{{citation needed}}<br />
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== Analysis ==<br />
<br />
== Notes ==<br />
<br />
*A revelation about something truly egregious and illegal that Admiral [[William Adama]] was guilty of doing during the days leading up to the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]], and how he has kept the revelation of that incident from rearing its head. An event transpires that brings it all home with a vengeance, and the ramifications are significant. (David Eick revealed this in an [http://www.ifmagazine.com/feature.asp?article=1496 interview] with ''iFMagazine''.)<br />
<br />
*According to an [http://community.tvguide.com/thread.jspa?threadID=700002601 interview] with David Eick, this is probably episode 7 of [[Season 3 (2006-07)|Season 3]]. A contemporary of Adama's and Tigh's from the past arrives on ''Galactica'' with a very dark secret about Adama.<br />
<br />
*In another [http://community.tvguide.com/thread.jspa?threadID=700002601 interview] with Eick, he revealed that this episode "involves a human POW who’s been trapped on the Cylon base ship for the last four years, and when we meet him we realize it’s a great homecoming for him because he was one of Adama’s pilots. But by the middle of the episode you realize the reason why this guy was taken prisoner was because Adama shot his ship down. And it becomes sort of an episode about why such a thing would have happened and how Adama begins to believe that on some level he might have been responsible for provoking the Cylon attack on the Twelve Colonies."<br />
<br />
*According to Ron Moore at the BSG Comic-Con panel, [[Carl Lumbly]] will guest star in this episode as "[[Bulldog]]", an old pilot of Adama's who was taken as a POW in the war.<br />
<br />
== Noteworthy Dialogue ==<br />
<br />
== Official Statements ==<br />
*A video blog gives an insight to this episode during filming. <ref>{{cite_web|url=http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/video/index.php?cat=videoBlog&vid=34824|title=Introducting Bulldog|date=2006-10-11|accessdate=|last=|first=|format=VID|language=}}</ref><br />
<br />
== Guest Stars ==<br />
*Carl Lumby as [[Eugene Novacek]]<br />
*Barry Kennedy as Admiral [[Corman]]<br />
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== References ==<br />
<div style="font-size:85%"><references/></div><br />
<br />
{{episode list (RDM season 3)}}<br />
<br />
[[Category:Episodes written by David Eick]]<br />
[[Category:Episodes directed by Michael Rymer]]<br />
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{{Episode Data<br />
| title= Hero<br />
| image= Season 3 - Promo - Hero -Adama Tigh and Novacek.jpg<br />
| season= 3<br />
| episode= 8<br />
| guests= [[Carl Lumbly]]<br />
| writer= [[David Eick]]<br />
| story= <br />
| director= [[Michael Rymer]]<br />
| production=<br />
| rating=<br />
| US airdate= 2006-11-17<br />
| UK airdate=<br />
| dvd=<br />
| population= ?<br />
| prev= [[A Measure of Salvation]]<br />
| next= [[Unfinished Business]]<br />
}}<br />
<br />
== Overview ==<br />
:''A [[Bulldog|figure ]] from [[William Adama|Adama]]'s past returns to haunt him. His return raises questions about why the Cylons launched their initial attack against the [[Twelve Colonies]]. <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tv.com/battlestar-galactica-2003/hero/episode/748771/summary.html |title=TV.com }}</ref>''<br />
== Summary == <br />
<br />
== Questions ==<br />
<br />
* Does the arrival of someone from Adama's past mean that additional survivors of the [[Twelve_Colonies | Twelve Colonies]] will be rescued or found?<br />
**According to advanced descriptions, it appears that this Colonial was taken prisoner well before the Fall of the Twelve Colonies, and may be an exceptional case.{{citation needed}}<br />
<br />
== Analysis ==<br />
<br />
== Notes ==<br />
<br />
*A revelation about something truly egregious and illegal that Admiral [[William Adama]] was guilty of doing during the days leading up to the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]], and how he has kept the revelation of that incident from rearing its head. An event transpires that brings it all home with a vengeance, and the ramifications are significant. (David Eick revealed this in an [http://www.ifmagazine.com/feature.asp?article=1496 interview] with ''iFMagazine''.)<br />
<br />
*According to an [http://community.tvguide.com/thread.jspa?threadID=700002601 interview] with David Eick, this is probably episode 7 of [[Season 3 (2006-07)|Season 3]]. A contemporary of Adama's and Tigh's from the past arrives on ''Galactica'' with a very dark secret about Adama.<br />
<br />
*In another [http://community.tvguide.com/thread.jspa?threadID=700002601 interview] with Eick, he revealed that this episode "involves a human POW who’s been trapped on the Cylon base ship for the last four years, and when we meet him we realize it’s a great homecoming for him because he was one of Adama’s pilots. But by the middle of the episode you realize the reason why this guy was taken prisoner was because Adama shot his ship down. And it becomes sort of an episode about why such a thing would have happened and how Adama begins to believe that on some level he might have been responsible for provoking the Cylon attack on the Twelve Colonies."<br />
<br />
*According to Ron Moore at the BSG Comic-Con panel, [[Carl Lumbly]] will guest star in this episode as "[[Bulldog]]", an old pilot of Adama's who was taken as a POW in the war.<br />
<br />
== Noteworthy Dialogue ==<br />
<br />
== Official Statements ==<br />
*A video blog gives an insight to this episode during filming. <ref>{{cite_web|url=http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/video/index.php?cat=videoBlog&vid=34824|title=Introducting Bulldog|date=2006-10-11|accessdate=|last=|first=|format=VID|language=}}</ref><br />
<br />
== Guest Stars ==<br />
Carl Lumby as [[Eugene Novacek]]<br />
Barry Kennedy as Admiral [[Corman]]<br />
<br />
== References ==<br />
<div style="font-size:85%"><references/></div><br />
<br />
{{episode list (RDM season 3)}}<br />
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[[Category:Episodes written by David Eick]]<br />
[[Category:Episodes directed by Michael Rymer]]<br />
[[Category:RDM]]</div>Number1https://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Re-imagined_Series_References&diff=88980Re-imagined Series References2006-10-29T07:29:58Z<p>Number1: /* Season Three */</p>
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<div>See also: [[Original Series References]]<br />
<br />
== References on BSG ==<br />
<br />
=== [[Miniseries]] ===<br />
<br />
==== References to [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Battlestar Galactica]] ====<br />
[[Image:Bsgmuseumlight4xn1.JPG|thumb|left|Galactica Museum ([[Miniseries]])]]<br />
*The Cylon design the [[Armistice Officer]] is looking at in the beginning, and the [[Cylon Centurion]] in the ''Galactica'''s museum, are from the original show.<br />
*A model of the original series' [[Cylon Basestar]] is also in the ''Galactica'''s museum.<br />
*A mock-up, or possibly a servicable original series shuttle is another craft seen in ''Galactica'''s museum. Another of these shuttles is used by the Officer when docking at Armistice Station.<br />
*A full-scale mock-up of an original series Cylon Raider is visible in the ''Galactica'' museum. It is hanging from the ceiling for the flight pod.<br />
*The [[Viper (TOS)|Original Series Viper]] appears in the museum as well.<br />
*Finally, a [[Landram]] vehicle is seen in ''Galactica'''s museum.<br />
*The theme played during the current affairs programme used to introduce Dr. [[Gaius Baltar]] is that of the original series fanfare. The fanfare is again heard during the decommissioning Viper flyby.<br />
*[[Gaius Baltar|Baltar]] tells [[Number Six]] that "the last time anyone saw a Cylon ''[i.e., the original series]'', they looked like walking chrome toasters."<br />
*Baltar tells Number Six that "treason gets the death penalty;" in the original series, a point was made of the death penalty being abolished, even for treason.<br />
[[Image:Cylonsword Mini.jpg|thumb|Cylon Centurion sword on Commander Adama's desk]]<br />
* A sword carried by the Centurions in the original series is one of the weapons in Commander Adamas collection.<br />
**The sword could be a war trophy picked up by Adama, possibly when the Galactica is boarded by the Cylons at the end of the war ([[Valley of Darkness]] deleted scene).<br />
*In the first encounter between the Colonial Vipers and the [[Cylon Raiders]], one of the pilots says that during the first war, Raiders looked like flying wings (the original series' Raider design).<br />
*One of the ''Galactica'''s pilots who is killed by the Cylons is called Jolly, the name of a ''Galactica'' pilot from the original series.<br />
*Roslin makes a point of calling [[Lee Adama|Lee]] "[[Captain Apollo]]," saying "it has a nice ring to it."<br />
*At the end of the Miniseries, [[Sharon Valerii]] says "by your command," the standard response of the original series' Cylons to the [[Imperious Leader]].<br />
<br />
==== Other References ====<br />
[[Image:SerenityBSGMini.JPG|thumb|right|A ''[[wikipedia:Firefly (TV series)|Firefly]]''-class transport in the skies above Caprica City before the Cylon attack.]]<br />
*References not specific to the Miniseries<br />
**[[Number Six]]'s name is a reference to the character of the same name from ''[[wikipedia:The Prisoner|The Prisoner]]''.<br />
**Colonel [[Saul Tigh]] is based on [[imdb:nm0000018|Kirk Douglas]]'s alcoholic XO character in ''[[wikipedia:In Harm's Way|In Harm's Way]]'', whose wife cheats on him.<br />
**''[[Colonial One]]'''s design was based on [[wikipedia:Air Force One|Air Force One]], and the [[Raptor]]'s design was based on the [[wikipedia:AH-64 Apache|Apache]] attack helicopter.<br />
**The Gemenon liner's ID number is "1701;" in the [[wikipedia:Star Trek|Star Trek]] franchise, (which had many ''[[wikipedia:Star Trek: The Next Generation|The Next Generation]]'' episodes written by [[Ron D. Moore]], several models of ''USS Enterprise''s have registry numbers beginning with "NCC-1701."<br />
**The gun used by Helo, Boomer, and other pilots is a homage to the guns used in the movie ''[[wikipedia:Blade Runner|Blade Runner]]'' (which also starred [[Edward James Olmos]]).<br />
[[Image:Enterprise in fleet.jpg|thumb|''Star Trek'''s ''USS Enterprise'' makes a cameo appearance in the final Fleet shot of Miniseries.]]<br />
*References limited to the Miniseries <br />
**''Serenity'', the ship from the show ''[[wikipedia:Firefly (TV series)|Firefly]]'', can be seen through the window above [[Laura Roslin|Roslin]]'s head at the opening to the scene she learns of her cancer diagnosis. ''Firefly'' and ''Battlestar Galactica'' shared the same special-effects studio, [[Zoic]].<br />
**[[Saul Tigh|Colonel Tigh]] burning the eye out of a picture of his wife is a reference to a similar scene in ''[[wikipedia:Apocalypse Now|Apocalypse Now]]'' by [[imdb:nm0000640|Martin Sheen]]'s character.<br />
**Roslin's [[Case Orange|swearing-in as President]] was modeled to be identical to the famous [[wikipedia:Image:Lyndon B. Johnson taking the oath of office, November 1963.jpg|photograph of Lyndon B. Johnson being sworn in as U.S. President]] aboard Air Force One after [[wikipedia:John F. Kennedy|John F. Kennedy]]'s assassination.<br />
**The original [[MemoryAlpha:USS Enterprise (NCC-1701)|USS ''Enterprise'']] makes a humorous cameo in the shot of [[The Fleet (RDM)|the Fleet]] immediately before the memorial service.<br />
<br />
=== [[Season One]] ===<br />
<br />
====[[33]]====<br />
*(Also seen elsewhere in the series)The format of the opening titles, a series of clips representing the story of the Cylon attack on the twelve colonies and the exodus of the fleet (all taken from the [[Miniseries]], followed by clips from the upcoming episode, is a homage to the ITC / Century 21 television series [[Wikipedia:Space 1999|Space 1999]], which [[Ronald D. Moore]] admits to having watched while growing up.<br />
* (Also seen elsewhere in the series) The photograph pilots touch on entering / leaving the Ready Room is called [["Lest We Forget"]] and shows a Colonial soldier falling to his knees on witnessing the destruction of the capital of Arilon during the Cylon Attack. This is a direct homage to the pictures of NYFD personnel at Ground Zero on 9/11, while the title is drawn from the John Ford-directed film "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" starring John Wayne.<br />
* The ''[[Rising Star (RDM)|Rising Star]]'' mentioned as the birthplace of the fleet's first baby is a reference to the luxury liner [[Rising Star (TOS)|''Rising Star'' from the original series]]<br />
<br />
====[[Bastille Day]]====<br />
*[[Tom Zarek]] is played by [[Richard Hatch]], famous for his role as [[Captain Apollo (TOS)|Apollo]] in the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|original series]]<br />
*The title is a reference to the event that began the French Revolution, when a crowd of around 1,000 stormed the [[Wikipedia:Bastille prison|Bastille prison]] in Paris. In this case, the prison is a prison ship, and the prisoners themselves take it over.<br />
*The ''[[Astral Queen]]'''s design is identical to the [[TOS Prison Barge|Prison Barge]] from the original series.<br />
*The "I'm a bus driver, not a warden," comment from the [[Wilkens|Astral Queen's captain]] is a reference to Dr. McCoy's quips from "[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060028/combined Star Trek]."<br />
*The scene where [[Lee Adama]] holds his pistol to a kneeling [[Tom Zarek]] is a recreation of ''[[wikipedia:Dirty Harry|Dirty Harry]]'', according to [[David Eick]]'s comments in the DVD commentary. "That is the 'I know what you're thinking, punk' shot, down to the move, the lense, the distance of the camera away from the actor."<br />
<br />
====[[Act of Contrition]]====<br />
*[[Ron D. Moore]] states on the DVD commentary that the munition activation that kills several pilots was inspired by a similar event on the [[wikipedia:USS Forrestal (CVA-59)|USS Forrestal]] in 1967.<br />
*Also according to the DVD commentary, the ejection sequence at the beginning of each chapter is an homage to ''[[wikipedia:The Right Stuff|The Right Stuff]]''.<br />
*In the flashback to Zak's funeral, there are American military HMMWV (Humvees) and 2-1/2 Ton (Deuce-and-a-Half) trucks in the Colonial base.<br />
<br />
====[[You Can't Go Home Again]]====<br />
*This episode shares some similarity with the final ''[[Galactica 1980]]'' episode, "The Return of Starbuck," where Starbuck is stranded on a desert moon, and uses a crashed Cylon Raider to return to the ''[[Galactica]]''.<br />
*The messy, organic feel of inside the [[Cylon Raider]] was inspired by the ''[[wikipedia:Alien (film series)|Alien]]'' series, according to [[David Eick]] during the DVD commentary.<br />
*The "waggling" scene with [[Lee Adama|Apollo]]'s viper and [[Kara Thrace|Starbuck]]'s Cylon Raider is a nod to the original series; [[Apollo (TOS)|Apollo]] and [[Starbuck (TOS)|Starbuck]] had to "waggle" their own Cylon Raider in order to convey they were friendlies, after losing their transmitter in "[[The Hand of God (TOS)|The Hand of God]]".<br />
<br />
====[[Litmus]]====<br />
*The name of the episode refers to a [[Wikipedia:litmus test|litmus test]], used in chemistry to determine the presence of an acid.<br />
*Commander Adama has copies of "Reader's Digest" in his cabin.<br />
*Number Six says, "Don't make me angry, Gaius. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry." This is a possible reference to the famous catchphrase of Dr. Bruce Banner, just before turning into the [[wikipedia:The Hulk|Incredible Hulk]]: "You're making me angry, and you're not going to like me when I'm angry."<br />
<br />
====[[Six Degrees of Separation]]====<br />
*The name of the episode is a reference to the [[imdb:tt0108149|combined movie of the same name]], and share a similar concept - that everyone can be connected to others (in this case, Baltar, the dead scientist, and Shelly).<br />
<br />
==== [[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]] ====<br />
*The episode was initially going to be a riff on the movie [[imdb:tt0112740|Crimson Tide]], where both [[William Adama|Adama]] and [[Saul Tigh|Tigh]] would begin to suspect one another of being a Cylon agent, ending up in a scene where they would be pointing weapons at one another.<br />
*The episode's name comes from the Stereophonics' song "Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down". Its also the name of a [[imdb:tt0101026|Spanish language movie]] staring Antonio Banderas. The film, incidentally, was one of first NC-17-rated movies in America.<br />
<br />
====[[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]====<br />
*A reference to the final episode of the original series, also called ''[[The Hand of God (TOS)|The Hand of God]]''; in both episodes, Adama launches the first offensive strike against Cylon bases.<br />
*During the battle, Starbuck yells out to Lee, "You magnificent bastard!" In the movie [[imdb:tt0066206|''Patton'']], during their first battle against each other, Patton says the same to Rommel.<br />
<br />
====[[Colonial Day]]====<br />
*The name of the news show, "The Colonial Gang," is a spoof of the CNN show "The Capital Gang." <br />
*The bar that Lee gets into the fight at has several bottles of Jack Daniels whiskey on the shelf.<br />
*At the end, Roslin tells Zarek that he doesn't need to worry about her kissing him, to which he replied that it's a shame, as he shaved extra close in anticipation of getting "smacked" by her. This dialogue was taken verbatim from the movie ''Patton'', with Roslin as Montgomery and Zarek as Patton.<br />
<br />
====[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I|Kobol's Last Gleaming]]====<br />
*In both this episode and the original series ''The Hand of God'', the Colonials track Cylon Raiders using IFF transponders.<br />
*Both ''Kobol's Last Gleaming'' and the original series ''The Lost Planet of the Gods'' are two-part episodes where the ''Galactica'' finds Kobol.<br />
<br />
=== [[Season Two]] ===<br />
<br />
====[[Valley of Darkness]]====<br />
*The title is a reference to [http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2023:4;&version=9; Psalms 23:4].<br />
*[[Cally]] says, "I have a really bad feeling about this." This line (or variants) is a cult phrase amongst Star Wars fans; it is said in every Star Wars movie, and many of the Star Wars games and books.<br />
<br />
====[[Fragged]]====<br />
*The term 'fragged' comes from the Vietnam War, when it was used by American soldiers to describe deliberately killing their superior officers in the field, usually by tossing a fragmentation grenade (hence, fragged) into the room or area where the superior is located. Although Baltar doesn't kill Crashdown with a grenade, he does take out his superior officer, hence the reference.<br />
<br />
*When Colonel Tigh asks of Adama's condition as Dr. [[Cottle]] begins surgery to save the Commander's life, he tells the XO, "How should I know? I'm not a psychic. Now get the hell out of here." This is an indirect nod to the character of "Dr. McCoy" from the original "Star Trek" series.<br />
<br />
====[[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]====<br />
*[[Cally]]'s assassination of Boomer resembles Jack Ruby's assassination of Lee Harvey Oswald (the assassin of JFK).<br />
*The shooting of unarmed civilians by the Marines on the ''[[Gideon]]'', resulting in four deaths, was a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings Kent State Shootings] from the Vietnam War era.<br />
<br />
====[[Flight of the Phoenix]]====<br />
*The name of the episode, and the theme of attempting to make a plane from scratch, comes from the book and two movies of the same name.<br />
<br />
====[[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]====<br />
*The character [[Helena Cain]] and battlestar ''[[Pegasus (RDM)]]'' are based on the [[Cain (TOS)]] and ''[[Pegasus (TOS)|Pegasus]]'' from the [[TOS|original series]] episode [[The Living Legend, Part I (TOS)|The Living Legend]]. The episode stops short of a full remake, however.<br />
<br />
====[[Resurrection Ship, Part I]]====<br />
*Adama's code word for the assassination order is "downfall". That's both a reference to the Allied plan for a ground invasion of Japan in WWII as well as to the movie [[wikipedia:Downfall (film)|"Downfall"]] about the last days in Hitler's bunker.<br />
*Cain's words "Terminate Adama's command. Starting with Adama" are an homage to "Apocalypse Now". [[Ronald D. Moore]] briefly toyed with the idea of having her literally say "Terminate with extrem prejudice", but quickly rejected it as too obvious.<br />
<br />
====[[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]====<br />
*Vireem and Gage's beating of Tyrol and Helo with bars of soap stuffed inside socks used as slings is an obvious homage to the Stanley Kubrick film "Full Metal Jacket", in which a similar thing happens to "Pvt. Pyle" in the Marine barracks at night.<br />
<br />
====[[Downloaded]]====<br />
*Sharon wears a brown jacket that seems to be an homage to Warrior uniforms from the original series.<br />
*The [[Caprica Resistance]] members led by [[Samuel Anders]] refer to [[Cylon agent|humanoid-Cylons]] as "Skin Jobs," a reference to the classic science fiction film [[Wikipedia:Blade Runner|Blade Runner]], in which [[Edward James Olmos]] also co-starred.<br />
<br />
====[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]====<br />
* The ''[[Celestra]]'' (an electronics ship from TOS) was listed on vote tally boards.<br />
<br />
=== [[Season 3|Season Three]] ===<br />
<br />
====[[Precipice]]====<br />
* Cavil and Ellen Tigh talking about "the twist and the swirl" is a reference to the ''[[wikipedia:Seinfeld|Seinfeld]]'' episode "[[wikipedia:The Fusilli Jerry|The Fusilli Jerry]]".<br />
* The ride to the execution site is nearly a word-for-word homage to a scene from ''[[Wikipedia:The Great Escape|The Great Escape]]''.<br />
<br />
====[[Exodus, Part I]]====<br />
*Admiral Adama's claim that his crew "will find immortality as only the Gods once knew" draws on [[wikipedia:Iliad#The story of the Iliad|the choice]] given to [[wikipedia:Achilles|Achilles]] by [[wikipedia:Thetis|his mother]] in [[wikipedia:Homer|Homer]]'s [[wikipedia:Iliad|Iliad]]: fight couragously and perish in battle, or be forgotten by history.<br />
<br />
====[[Collaborators]]====<br />
* The Circle is the name used by the Bajoran [[MemoryAlpha:Alliance for Global Unity|Alliance for Global Unity]] in [[MemoryAlpha:Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]] ("[[MemoryAlpha:The Homecoming|''The Homecoming'']]", "[[MemoryAlpha:The Circle|''The Circle'']]", and "[[MemoryAlpha:Siege|''The Siege'']]").<br />
<br />
== References to BSG ==<br />
<br />
=== ''[[wikipedia:Bones (TV series)|Bones]]'' ===<br />
*Hodgins mentions ''Battlestar Galactica'' while naming sci-fi genre shows off to Zack in the episode "The Superhero in the Alley."<br />
<br />
=== ''[[wikipedia:Gilmore Girls|Gilmore Girls]]'' ===<br />
*Rory Gilmore jokingly accuses her grandmother of being a Cylon in one episode.<br />
*On another episode, Rory uses the term "frakking."<br />
<br />
=== ''[[wikipedia:Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' ===<br />
*The trailers for the NBC show ''Heroes'' reuse several tracks from [[Bear McCreary]]'s [[Soundtrack (Season 1)|BSG Season One Sountrack]], primarily the song "Forgiven." <br />
<br />
=== ''[[wikipedia:The Office|The Office]]'' ===<br />
*The main character, Michael Scott (played by [[wikipedia:Steve Carell|Steve Carell]]) mocks one of his employees for watching "Battleship Galaxy" every Friday night. ''The Office'' airs on NBC, which is owned by [[wikipedia:NBC Universal|NBC Universal]], the parent company of the [[wikipedia:Sci Fi Channel|SCI-FI Network]].<br />
<br />
=== ''[[wikipedia:Tripping the Rift|Tripping the Rift]]'' ===<br />
*One of the show's main characters is a robot seductress named Six, who has the appearance of a beautiful human woman.<br />
<br />
=== ''[[wikipedia:Veronica Mars|Veronica Mars]]'' ===<br />
*Veronica is introduced to the word "frak" in the Season 3 premiere and uses is later. It's said to be "the profanity of the future".<br />
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[[Category:A to Z]]<br />
[[Category:Behind the Scenes]]<br />
[[Category:RDM]]<br />
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<div>{{Episode Data<br />
| title= Collaborators<br />
| image=JammerCollaborators.jpg<br />
| season= 3<br />
| episode= 5<br />
| guests= <br />
| writer= [[Mark Verheiden]]<br />
| story= <br />
| director= [[Michael Rymer]]<br />
| production= 305<br />
| rating=<br />
| US airdate= 2006-10-27<br />
| UK airdate=<br />
| dvd=<br />
| population= 41,435<br />
| prev= [[Exodus, Part II]]<br />
| next= [[Torn]]<br />
}}<br />
<br />
== Overview ==<br />
:''[[The Circle]], a secret tribunal on ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'', decides the fate of [[James Lyman|Jammer]] and other Colonials who aided the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]] during the occupation of [[New Caprica]].<br />
<br />
== Summary == <br />
=== On ''[[Galactica]]'' ===<br />
* [[James Lyman]] (Jammer) is brought before [[The Circle]]. He is found guilty of treason, the punishment for which is death. Despite his pleas and an attempt to convince [[Galen Tyrol]] to spare him, for Lyman freed [[Cally Tyrol]] from the Cylon death squad ([[Precipice]]), The Circle carries out Lyman's punishment and ejects him from ''Galactica'' by depressurizing the [[launch tubes|launch tube]] where he is held.<br />
* After Lyman's execution, Tyrol talks to his wife about how she escaped. While she claims to not have thought about the incident since, Cally Tyrol tells him that she thinks one "[[New Caprica Police|of those goons]]" set her free.<br />
* On ''[[Colonial One]]'', [[Laura Roslin]] asks [[Tom Zarek]] of his plans as the new President. Zarek plans to reconvene the Quorum of Twelve, put Roslin's name in for nomination to vice president and then step down, returning the presidency to her. Roslin assumes that this act requires something in return for Zarek, who he asks not be left on the outside of government affairs. For his actions in standing up to Gaius Baltar on New Caprica, she promises him the Vice Presidency.<br />
* [[Felix Gaeta]] enters the still damaged [[CIC]] to help with repairs to communication. [[Saul Tigh|Colonel Tigh]] sees him and vocally demands for him to leave, accusing him as a collaborator. [[Helo]] tells Tigh that Gaeta is there on the Admiral's orders, but Tigh continues to protest loudly until Admiral Adama appears. The admiral takes him out of the room to talk to him about resting so he will be ready, something that Tigh thinks he doesn't need.<br />
* The Circle reconvenes, now under a three-day time limit to dole out justice. As they run through the cases, they eventually they come to the file on Gaeta, with four of the members voting guilty. Anders refuses to vote and leaves the Circle, tired of the continuous killing he has done. Chief Tyrol refuses to vote if they do not have a sixth member as required for the Circle.<br />
* In the mess hall, Gaeta is treated as ''[[Wikipedia:Persona non grata|persona non grata]]'', eating alone until [[Kara Thrace]] sits at his table. She talks, kindly at first, then insults him for his supposed cowardice. Gaeta counters by bringing up his status as the informant, mentioning the dog dish being flipped over as his signal to the resistance.<br />
* Lee and Bill Adama talking about the status of the fleet. Lee Adama brings up the fact that over the past few days, 13 people have mysteriously disappeared, after being confirmed as survivors of the Exodus. As he leaves he reveals that has lost "[[Wikipedia:Stone (weight)|half a stone]]" in weight. Bill tells him to keep jumping rope.<br />
* The Circle brings in Kara Thrace as the replacement vote of the jury. All vote guilty on Gaeta, except for Tyrol once more. Anders comes in and requests time to talk with his wife. The scene splits, with the other members of the Circle trying to convince Tyrol of Gaeta's guilt, and Anders trying to explain that what the Circle does isn't justice. Thrace rebuffs him, her pain from incarceration lashing at anyone, even her husband. Thrace tells Anders that they must separate. The Chief eventually folds and votes guilty.<br />
* Gaeta is captured and brought to a launch tube, told that this is an official trial under authority from the President of the Colonies, and that if he has anything to say to explain himself he should say it now. Gaeta replies that he has already told his story and refuses to beg.<br />
*Kara Thrace's anger lashes out at Gaeta, telling him to beg, while taunting him with the idea that he was an informant for the insurgency, and mentioning the [[Jake (New Caprica)|dog bowl]].<br />
*The Chief hears this, and reveals that Gaeta could not know about the signal unless he was the one leaving the dead drops.<br />
*The other members of the Circle realize Gaeta's innocence, that he was in fact the secret source inside the Baltar Adminstration. Colonel Tigh stands speechless in the revelation, confused between his own certainty and the facts before him.<br />
* Laura Roslin is re-inaugurated as the President of the Twelve Colonies, and issues a decree of amnesty against all alleged collaborators, after it is privately revealed that Zarek authorized the trials and sentences conducted by the Circle in an attempt to protect Roslin from having to deal with months of public trials which could destroy the unity of the Fleet through highly publicized "witch hunts." In place of the trials, Roslin announces a commission on "truth and reconciliation", to record the history of the occupation for posterity.<br />
* Still outcast, Gaeta is reinstated in the Colonial Fleet as an officer. In the mess hall, Chief Tyrol sits with Gaeta. Both eat in silence as the other crew members are taken aback by the act.<br />
<br />
===On a [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]]===<br />
* [[Gaius Baltar]] seems to be on ''Colonial One'', sitting in a chair in front of Tigh, Roslin, and Admiral Adama as they talk about how there was little he could do with the situation he had on New Caprica.<br />
* As the group forgives him, the [[Cylon-Related Hallucinations|virtual Six]] appears and claims the group is too lenient. Admiral Adama actually seems to hear her. Laura Roslin begins to tell Baltar how much she wants him in a provocative manner when Baltar realizes he is dreaming, waking up as Roslin kisses him.<br />
*Baltar finds himself naked on a red [[Wikipedia:Chaise longue|chaise longue]] inside an unrecognizable room. When a [[Cylon Centurion]] guard appears at the doorway, Baltar realizes that he is imprisoned in the room with only a robe to wear. The scene turns to outer space where we see several Cylon basestars surrounding a [[Resurrection Ship]]. <br />
* A [[Number Three]] visits Baltar. She tells him that 3 days have elapsed since his arrival, and offers him a bottle of pills. She tells him that his presence on the basestar has caused a conflict between seven of the models. With three voting for him to be allowed to remain, while three vote for him to be removed. The only model that hasn't come to a consensus are the Sixes. <br />
* [[Caprica Six]] visits Baltar and explains how wrong she was to let her feelings get in the way of her duties as a Cylon. Baltar tries to convince Six that she is more then just a Cylon and that she loves him. As she walks out he belatedly tells her that he needs her as well.<br />
*Later, Baltar awakens to find Caprica-Six setting his clothes in his room.<br />
<br />
== Questions == <br />
* Will there be an illegal organization in the Fleet that will continue where [[The Circle]] left off?<br />
* Since Tigh has been reinstated into the Colonial Fleet, where does this leave Galactica's chain of command? Specifically, what are the roles of Tigh, Helo, and [[Aaron Kelly|Kelly]] now?<br />
* What of [[Lee Adama]], [[Anastasia Dualla]] and other officers of ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]''? How will these redundacies be dealt with?<br />
* Why is [[Charlie Connor]] aboard ''Galactica''? Outside of The Circle, what was his purpose on ''Galactica'', seeing as he is not a past crew member? <br />
* Given that there are civilians aboard ''Galactica'' from the Second Exodus, and previous sabotage events that plagued ''Galactica'' prior to colonization of New Caprica, are they restricted to certain areas?<br />
* Has [[Samuel Anders]] become a member of ''Galactica's'' crew, or is he only allowed onboard because of his relationship with Thrace?<br />
* Will any of The Circle's members or Zarek face charges, or will they be pardoned by Roslin's government for what they had done?<br />
* Now that the Cylons seem to have accepted Gaius Baltar, at least begrudgingly, what will happen to him?<br />
* What happened to those who were left behind on [[New Caprica]]?<br />
* Which Cylon models are in favor of allowing Baltar to stay with them (besides Three, who proposed it in the first place) and which are not in favor?<br />
* Does Caprica-Six setting Baltar's clothes on his bed indicate that the Cylons have chosen to allow him to remain?<br />
<br />
== Analysis ==<br />
*The flight from New Caprica is referred to as "The Second Exodus", implying that the "First Exodus" was from the Colonies to New Caprica.<br />
*Three states that three models are in favor of keeping Baltar around and three are against it, with Six's vote needed to break the stalemate. This indicates that the remaining five models are, for whatever reason, not participating in the vote.<br />
**{{spoilli|According to interviews with Grace Park, Dean Stockwell, and Tricia Helfer, the remaining Cylons are so secret that even the seven models known to the audience don't know who the last five are. See [[Talk:Precipice]] for more information.}} <br />
**{{spoilli|According to an [http://www.aintitcool.com/node/30381 interview] with Aaron Douglas and Tamoh Penikett, the remaining five models may have all been [[Boxing|boxed]].}}<br />
* This is the first time viewers have seen a living interior of a Cylon basestar. The only time an interior shot of a basestar was ever seen was in "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]" when [[Sharon Valerii (Galactica copy)|Boomer]] encounters her [[Number Eight|sisters]]. <br />
* Lee Adama mentions that he lost "half a stone" refering to his weight. A stone is a unit of weight used mostly in the United Kingdom and Ireland that is equivalent to 14 pounds or 6.34 kg.<br />
* ''Galactica's'' living spaces and hallways appear much more crowded than in the first two seasons, reflecting the expanded size of her crew. There also appear to be civilians mixed in with ''Galactica'''s crew complment, which is likely the result of overcrowding and the loss of some of the ships during the colonization and occupation of New Caprica.<br />
* The exterior of ''Galactica'' is visibly damaged from the [[Battle of New Caprica]].<br />
* The only two [[Cylon agent]]s to appear are Number Three and Number Six.<br />
*On the disposition of the ''Pegasus'' crew and separated military personnel:<br />
**Saul Tigh has resumed service as ''Galactica's'' XO. However, his experiences on New Caprica are hindering his ability to perform his duties.<br />
**Lee Adama is performing bookkeeping work. He still wears his ''Pegasus'' uniform and Commander insignia, but his position on ''Galactica'' is unclear.<br />
**Kara Thrace has retreived her uniform from storage, but it is not clear whether she has been recomissioned.<br />
**Louanne Katraine is not seen. Presumably she continues to serve as ''Galactica's'' CAG.<br />
**Karl Agathon is still working in ''Galactica's'' CIC.<br />
**Anastasia Dualla is not seen.<br />
**Felix Gaeta has been asked to help repair communication systems damaged during ''Galactica's'' atmospheric insertion in "[[Exodus, Part II]]". He is later seen in uniform in the mess hall.<br />
**Galen Tyrol is back in uniform, and has presumably re-enlisted.<br />
**Cally Tyrol is briefly seen caring for her son. It is not clear whether she has re-enlisted.<br />
**Jammer has been executed by [[The Circle]] for his actions as a member of the [[New Caprica Police]].<br />
*The glowing red strip on the wall in Baltar's room resembles the eye of a [[Cylon Centurion]] or [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Raider]]. While it could be decoration, there's a good chance that it's a surveillance system.<br />
<br />
== Notes ==<br />
* This episode marks the resumption of the [[Survivor count]]. There has been a net loss of 8,115 people since the beginning of "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]."<br />
**Survivor count for this episode is 41,435.<br />
* Laura Roslin resumes the Presidency in this episode.<br />
* Kara Thrace has kept her surname, unlike most other married women shown or referenced thus far (including Caroline Adama, Ellen Tigh, Sesha Abinell, Cally Tyrol and Sharon Agathon).<br />
* The Circle is the name used by the Bajoran [[MemoryAlpha:Alliance for Global Unity|Alliance for Global Unity]] in [[MemoryAlpha:Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]] ("[[MemoryAlpha:The Homecoming|''The Homecoming'']]", "[[MemoryAlpha:The Circle|''The Circle'']]", and "[[MemoryAlpha:Siege|''The Siege'']]").<br />
<br />
== Noteworthy Dialogue ==<br />
*''After discussing the thirteen missing persons:'' <br />
:'''Commander Lee Adama''': I've got a date with a jump rope. Hey, I've lost half a stone.<br />
:'''Admiral William Adama''': Keep jumpin'.<br />
<br />
*''In Gaius Baltar's dream:''<br />
:'''Number Six''': Don't make me angry, Gaius.<br />
:'''Admiral William Adama''': You wouldn't like her when she's angry.<br />
<br />
== Official Statements ==<br />
<br />
== Guest Stars ==<br />
<br />
== References ==<br />
<div style="font-size:85%"><references/></div><br />
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{{episode list (RDM season 3)}}<br />
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[[Category:Episodes written by Mark Verheiden]]<br />
[[Category:Episodes directed by Michael Rymer]]<br />
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<hr />
<div>{{Episode Data<br />
| title= Collaborators<br />
| image=JammerCollaborators.jpg<br />
| season= 3<br />
| episode= 5<br />
| guests= <br />
| writer= [[Mark Verheiden]]<br />
| story= <br />
| director= [[Michael Rymer]]<br />
| production= 305<br />
| rating=<br />
| US airdate= 2006-10-27<br />
| UK airdate=<br />
| dvd=<br />
| population= 41,435<br />
| prev= [[Exodus, Part II]]<br />
| next= [[Torn]]<br />
}}<br />
<br />
== Overview ==<br />
:''[[The Circle]], a secret tribunal on ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'', decides the fate of [[James Lyman|Jammer]] and other Colonials who aided the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]] during the occupation of [[New Caprica]].<br />
<br />
== Summary == <br />
=== On ''[[Galactica]]'' ===<br />
* [[James Lyman]] (Jammer) is brought before [[The Circle]]. He is found guilty of treason, the punishment for which is death. Despite his pleas and an attempt to convince [[Galen Tyrol]] to spare him, for Lyman freed [[Cally Tyrol]] from the Cylon death squad ([[Precipice]]), The Circle carries out Lyman's punishment and ejects him from ''Galactica'' by depressurizing the [[launch tubes|launch tube]] where he is held.<br />
* After Lyman's execution, Tyrol talks to his wife about how she escaped. While she claims to not have thought about the incident since, Cally Tyrol tells him that she thinks one "[[New Caprica Police|of those goons]]" set her free.<br />
* On ''[[Colonial One]]'', [[Laura Roslin]] asks [[Tom Zarek]] of his plans as the new President. Zarek plans to reconvene the Quorum of Twelve, put Roslin's name in for nomination to vice president and then step down, returning the presidency to her. Roslin assumes that this act requires something in return for Zarek, who he asks not be left on the outside of government affairs. For his actions in standing up to Gaius Baltar on New Caprica, she promises him the Vice Presidency.<br />
* [[Felix Gaeta]] enters the still damaged [[CIC]] to help with repairs to communication. [[Saul Tigh|Colonel Tigh]] sees him and vocally demands for him to leave, accusing him as a collaborator. [[Helo]] tells Tigh that Gaeta is there on the Admiral's orders, but Tigh continues to protest loudly until Admiral Adama appears. The admiral takes him out of the room to talk to him about resting so he will be ready, something that Tigh thinks he doesn't need.<br />
* The Circle reconvenes, now under a three-day time limit to dole out justice. As they run through the cases, they eventually they come to the file on Gaeta, with four of the members voting guilty. Anders refuses to vote and leaves the Circle, tired of the continuous killing he has done. Chief Tyrol refuses to vote if they do not have a sixth member as required for the Circle.<br />
* In the mess hall, Gaeta is treated as ''[[Wikipedia:Persona non grata|persona non grata]]'', eating alone until [[Kara Thrace]] sits at his table. She talks, kindly at first, then insults him for his supposed cowardice. Gaeta counters by bringing up his status as the informant, mentioning the dog dish being flipped over as his signal to the resistance.<br />
* Lee and Bill Adama talking about the status of the fleet. Lee Adama brings up the fact that over the past few days, 13 people have mysteriously disappeared, after being confirmed as survivors of the Exodus. As he leaves he reveals that has lost "[[Wikipedia:Stone (weight)|half a stone]]" in weight. Bill tells him to keep jumping rope.<br />
* The Circle brings in Kara Thrace as the replacement vote of the jury. All vote guilty on Gaeta, except for Tyrol once more. Anders comes in and requests time to talk with his wife. The scene splits, with the other members of the Circle trying to convince Tyrol of Gaeta's guilt, and Anders trying to explain that what the Circle does isn't justice. Thrace rebuffs him, her pain from incarceration lashing at anyone, even her husband. Thrace tells Anders that they must separate. The Chief eventually folds and votes guilty.<br />
* Gaeta is captured and brought to a launch tube, told that this is an official trial under authority from the President of the Colonies, and that if he has anything to say to explain himself he should say it now. Gaeta replies that he has already told his story and refuses to beg.<br />
*Kara Thrace's anger lashes out at Gaeta, telling him to beg, while taunting him with the idea that he was an informant for the insurgency, and mentioning the [[Jake (New Caprica)|dog bowl]].<br />
*The Chief hears this, and reveals that Gaeta could not know about the signal unless he was the one leaving the dead drops.<br />
*The other members of the Circle realize Gaeta's innocence, that he was in fact the secret source inside the Baltar Adminstration. Colonel Tigh stands speechless in the revelation, confused between his own certainty and the facts before him.<br />
* Laura Roslin is re-inaugurated as the President of the Twelve Colonies, and issues a decree of amnesty against all alleged collaborators, after it is privately revealed that Zarek authorized the trials and sentences conducted by the Circle in an attempt to protect Roslin from having to deal with months of public trials which could destroy the unity of the Fleet through highly publicized "witch hunts." In place of the trials, Roslin announces a commission on "truth and reconciliation", to record the history of the occupation for posterity.<br />
* Still outcast, Gaeta is reinstated in the Colonial Fleet as an officer. In the mess hall, Chief Tyrol sits with Gaeta. Both eat in silence as the other crew members are taken aback by the act.<br />
<br />
===On a [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]]===<br />
* [[Gaius Baltar]] seems to be on ''Colonial One'', sitting in a chair in front of Tigh, Roslin, and Admiral Adama as they talk about how there was little he could do with the situation he had on New Caprica.<br />
* As the group forgives him, the [[Cylon-Related Hallucinations|virtual Six]] appears and claims the group is too lenient. Admiral Adama actually seems to hear her. Laura Roslin begins to tell Baltar how much she wants him in a provocative manner when Baltar realizes he is dreaming, waking up as Roslin kisses him.<br />
*Baltar finds himself naked on a red [[Wikipedia:Chaise longue|chaise longue]] inside an unrecognizable room. When a [[Cylon Centurion]] guard appears at the doorway, Baltar realizes that he is imprisoned in the room with only a robe to wear. The scene turns to outer space where we see several Cylon basestars surrounding a [[Resurrection Ship]]. <br />
* A [[Number Three]] visits Baltar. She tells him that 3 days have elapsed since his arrival, and offers him a bottle of pills. She tells him that his presence on the basestar has caused a conflict between seven of the models. With three voting for him to be allowed to remain, while three vote for him to be removed. The only model that hasn't come to a consensus are the Sixes. <br />
* [[Caprica Six]] visits Baltar and explains how wrong she was to let her feelings get in the way of her duties as a Cylon. Baltar tries to convince Six that she is more then just a Cylon and that she loves him. As she walks out he belatedly tells her that he needs her as well.<br />
*Later, Baltar awakens to find Caprica-Six setting his clothes in his room.<br />
<br />
== Questions == <br />
* Will there be an illegal organization in the Fleet that will continue where [[The Circle]] left off?<br />
* Since Tigh has been reinstated into the Colonial Fleet, where does this leave Galactica's chain of command? Specifically, what are the roles of Tigh, Helo, and [[Aaron Kelly|Kelly]] now?<br />
* What of [[Lee Adama]], [[Anastasia Dualla]] and other officers of ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]''? How will these redundacies be dealt with?<br />
* Why is [[Charlie Connor]] aboard ''Galactica''? Outside of The Circle, what was his purpose on ''Galactica'', seeing as he is not a past crew member? <br />
* Given that there are civilians aboard ''Galactica'' from the Second Exodus, and previous sabotage events that plagued ''Galactica'' prior to colonization of New Caprica, are they restricted to certain areas?<br />
* Has [[Samuel Anders]] become a member of ''Galactica's'' crew, or is he only allowed onboard because of his relationship with Thrace?<br />
* Will any of The Circle's members or Zarek face charges, or will they be pardoned by Roslin's government for what they had done?<br />
* Now that the Cylons seem to have accepted Gaius Baltar, at least begrudgingly, what will happen to him?<br />
* What happened to those who were left behind on [[New Caprica]]?<br />
* Which Cylon models are in favor of allowing Baltar to stay with them (besides Three, who proposed it in the first place) and which are not in favor?<br />
* Does Caprica-Six setting Baltar's clothes on his bed indicate that the Cylons have chosen to allow him to remain?<br />
<br />
== Analysis ==<br />
*The flight from New Caprica is referred to as "The Second Exodus", implying that the "First Exodus" was from the Colonies to New Caprica.<br />
*Three states that three models are in favor of keeping Baltar around and three are against it, with Six's vote needed to break the stalemate. This indicates that the remaining five models are, for whatever reason, not participating in the vote.<br />
**{{spoilli|According to interviews with Grace Park, Dean Stockwell, and Tricia Helfer, the remaining Cylons are so secret that even the seven models known to the audience don't know who the last five are. See [[Talk:Precipice]] for more information.}} <br />
**{{spoilli|According to an [http://www.aintitcool.com/node/30381 interview] with Aaron Douglas and Tamoh Penikett, the remaining five models may have all been [[Boxing|boxed]].}}<br />
* This is the first time viewers have seen a living interior of a Cylon basestar. The only time an interior shot of a basestar was ever seen was in "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]" when [[Sharon Valerii (Galactica copy)|Boomer]] encounters her [[Number Eight|sisters]]. <br />
* Lee Adama mentions that he lost "half a stone" refering to his weight. A stone is a unit of weight used mostly in the United Kingdom and Ireland that is equivalent to 14 pounds or 6.34 kg.<br />
* ''Galactica's'' living spaces and hallways appear much more crowded than in the first two seasons, reflecting the expanded size of her crew. There also appear to be civilians mixed in with ''Galactica'''s crew complment, which is likely the result of overcrowding and the loss of some of the ships during the colonization and occupation of New Caprica.<br />
* The exterior of ''Galactica'' is visibly damaged from the [[Battle of New Caprica]].<br />
* The only two [[Cylon agent]]s to appear are Number Three and Number Six.<br />
*On the disposition of the ''Pegasus'' crew and separated military personnel:<br />
**Saul Tigh has resumed service as ''Galactica's'' XO. However, his experiences on New Caprica are hindering his ability to perform his duties.<br />
**Lee Adama is performing bookkeeping work. He still wears his ''Pegasus'' uniform and Commander insignia, but his position on ''Galactica'' is unclear.<br />
**Kara Thrace has retreived her uniform from storage, but it is not clear whether she has been recomissioned.<br />
**Louanne Katraine is not seen. Presumably she continues to serve as ''Galactica's'' CAG.<br />
**Karl Agathon is still working in ''Galactica's'' CIC.<br />
**Anastasia Dualla is not seen.<br />
**Felix Gaeta has been asked to help repair communication systems damaged during ''Galactica's'' atmospheric insertion in "[[Exodus, Part II]]". He is later seen in uniform in the mess hall.<br />
**Galen Tyrol is back in uniform, and has presumably re-enlisted.<br />
**Cally Tyrol is briefly seen caring for her son. It is not clear whether she has re-enlisted.<br />
**Jammer has been executed by [[The Circle]] for his actions as a member of the [[New Caprica Police]].<br />
*The glowing red strip on the wall in Baltar's room resembles the eye of a [[Cylon Centurion]] or [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Raider]]. While it could be decoration, there's a good chance that it's a surveillance system.<br />
<br />
== Notes ==<br />
* This episode marks the resumption of the [[Survivor count]]. There has been a net loss of 8,115 people since the beginning of "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]."<br />
**Survivor count for this episode is 41,435.<br />
* Laura Roslin resumes the Presidency in this episode.<br />
* Kara Thrace has kept her surname, unlike most other married women shown or referenced thus far (including Caroline Adama, Ellen Tigh, Sesha Abinell, Cally Tyrol and Sharon Agathon).<br />
* The Circle is also the name used by the Bajoran [[MemoryAlpha:Alliance for Global Unity|Alliance for Global Unity]] in [[MemoryAlpha:Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]] ([[MemoryAlpha:The Homecoming|''The Homecoming'']],[[MemoryAlpha:The Circle|''The Circle'']], and [[MemoryAlpha:Siege|''The Siege'']]).<br />
<br />
== Noteworthy Dialogue ==<br />
*''After discussing the thirteen missing persons:'' <br />
:'''Commander Lee Adama''': I've got a date with a jump rope. Hey, I've lost half a stone.<br />
:'''Admiral William Adama''': Keep jumpin'.<br />
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*''In Gaius Baltar's dream:''<br />
:'''Number Six''': Don't make me angry, Gaius.<br />
:'''Admiral William Adama''': You wouldn't like her when she's angry.<br />
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== Official Statements ==<br />
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== Guest Stars ==<br />
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== References ==<br />
<div style="font-size:85%"><references/></div><br />
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{{episode list (RDM season 3)}}<br />
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[[Category:Episodes written by Mark Verheiden]]<br />
[[Category:Episodes directed by Michael Rymer]]<br />
[[Category:RDM]]</div>Number1https://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Collaborators&diff=88974Collaborators2006-10-29T07:18:35Z<p>Number1: /* Notes */</p>
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<div>{{Episode Data<br />
| title= Collaborators<br />
| image=JammerCollaborators.jpg<br />
| season= 3<br />
| episode= 5<br />
| guests= <br />
| writer= [[Mark Verheiden]]<br />
| story= <br />
| director= [[Michael Rymer]]<br />
| production= 305<br />
| rating=<br />
| US airdate= 2006-10-27<br />
| UK airdate=<br />
| dvd=<br />
| population= 41,435<br />
| prev= [[Exodus, Part II]]<br />
| next= [[Torn]]<br />
}}<br />
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== Overview ==<br />
:''[[The Circle]], a secret tribunal on ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'', decides the fate of [[James Lyman|Jammer]] and other Colonials who aided the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]] during the occupation of [[New Caprica]].<br />
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== Summary == <br />
=== On ''[[Galactica]]'' ===<br />
* [[James Lyman]] (Jammer) is brought before [[The Circle]]. He is found guilty of treason, the punishment for which is death. Despite his pleas and an attempt to convince [[Galen Tyrol]] to spare him, for Lyman freed [[Cally Tyrol]] from the Cylon death squad ([[Precipice]]), The Circle carries out Lyman's punishment and ejects him from ''Galactica'' by depressurizing the [[launch tubes|launch tube]] where he is held.<br />
* After Lyman's execution, Tyrol talks to his wife about how she escaped. While she claims to not have thought about the incident since, Cally Tyrol tells him that she thinks one "[[New Caprica Police|of those goons]]" set her free.<br />
* On ''[[Colonial One]]'', [[Laura Roslin]] asks [[Tom Zarek]] of his plans as the new President. Zarek plans to reconvene the Quorum of Twelve, put Roslin's name in for nomination to vice president and then step down, returning the presidency to her. Roslin assumes that this act requires something in return for Zarek, who he asks not be left on the outside of government affairs. For his actions in standing up to Gaius Baltar on New Caprica, she promises him the Vice Presidency.<br />
* [[Felix Gaeta]] enters the still damaged [[CIC]] to help with repairs to communication. [[Saul Tigh|Colonel Tigh]] sees him and vocally demands for him to leave, accusing him as a collaborator. [[Helo]] tells Tigh that Gaeta is there on the Admiral's orders, but Tigh continues to protest loudly until Admiral Adama appears. The admiral takes him out of the room to talk to him about resting so he will be ready, something that Tigh thinks he doesn't need.<br />
* The Circle reconvenes, now under a three-day time limit to dole out justice. As they run through the cases, they eventually they come to the file on Gaeta, with four of the members voting guilty. Anders refuses to vote and leaves the Circle, tired of the continuous killing he has done. Chief Tyrol refuses to vote if they do not have a sixth member as required for the Circle.<br />
* In the mess hall, Gaeta is treated as ''[[Wikipedia:Persona non grata|persona non grata]]'', eating alone until [[Kara Thrace]] sits at his table. She talks, kindly at first, then insults him for his supposed cowardice. Gaeta counters by bringing up his status as the informant, mentioning the dog dish being flipped over as his signal to the resistance.<br />
* Lee and Bill Adama talking about the status of the fleet. Lee Adama brings up the fact that over the past few days, 13 people have mysteriously disappeared, after being confirmed as survivors of the Exodus. As he leaves he reveals that has lost "[[Wikipedia:Stone (weight)|half a stone]]" in weight. Bill tells him to keep jumping rope.<br />
* The Circle brings in Kara Thrace as the replacement vote of the jury. All vote guilty on Gaeta, except for Tyrol once more. Anders comes in and requests time to talk with his wife. The scene splits, with the other members of the Circle trying to convince Tyrol of Gaeta's guilt, and Anders trying to explain that what the Circle does isn't justice. Thrace rebuffs him, her pain from incarceration lashing at anyone, even her husband. Thrace tells Anders that they must separate. The Chief eventually folds and votes guilty.<br />
* Gaeta is captured and brought to a launch tube, told that this is an official trial under authority from the President of the Colonies, and that if he has anything to say to explain himself he should say it now. Gaeta replies that he has already told his story and refuses to beg.<br />
*Kara Thrace's anger lashes out at Gaeta, telling him to beg, while taunting him with the idea that he was an informant for the insurgency, and mentioning the [[Jake (New Caprica)|dog bowl]].<br />
*The Chief hears this, and reveals that Gaeta could not know about the signal unless he was the one leaving the dead drops.<br />
*The other members of the Circle realize Gaeta's innocence, that he was in fact the secret source inside the Baltar Adminstration. Colonel Tigh stands speechless in the revelation, confused between his own certainty and the facts before him.<br />
* Laura Roslin is re-inaugurated as the President of the Twelve Colonies, and issues a decree of amnesty against all alleged collaborators, after it is privately revealed that Zarek authorized the trials and sentences conducted by the Circle in an attempt to protect Roslin from having to deal with months of public trials which could destroy the unity of the Fleet through highly publicized "witch hunts." In place of the trials, Roslin announces a commission on "truth and reconciliation", to record the history of the occupation for posterity.<br />
* Still outcast, Gaeta is reinstated in the Colonial Fleet as an officer. In the mess hall, Chief Tyrol sits with Gaeta. Both eat in silence as the other crew members are taken aback by the act.<br />
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===On a [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]]===<br />
* [[Gaius Baltar]] seems to be on ''Colonial One'', sitting in a chair in front of Tigh, Roslin, and Admiral Adama as they talk about how there was little he could do with the situation he had on New Caprica.<br />
* As the group forgives him, the [[Cylon-Related Hallucinations|virtual Six]] appears and claims the group is too lenient. Admiral Adama actually seems to hear her. Laura Roslin begins to tell Baltar how much she wants him in a provocative manner when Baltar realizes he is dreaming, waking up as Roslin kisses him.<br />
*Baltar finds himself naked on a red [[Wikipedia:Chaise longue|chaise longue]] inside an unrecognizable room. When a [[Cylon Centurion]] guard appears at the doorway, Baltar realizes that he is imprisoned in the room with only a robe to wear. The scene turns to outer space where we see several Cylon basestars surrounding a [[Resurrection Ship]]. <br />
* A [[Number Three]] visits Baltar. She tells him that 3 days have elapsed since his arrival, and offers him a bottle of pills. She tells him that his presence on the basestar has caused a conflict between seven of the models. With three voting for him to be allowed to remain, while three vote for him to be removed. The only model that hasn't come to a consensus are the Sixes. <br />
* [[Caprica Six]] visits Baltar and explains how wrong she was to let her feelings get in the way of her duties as a Cylon. Baltar tries to convince Six that she is more then just a Cylon and that she loves him. As she walks out he belatedly tells her that he needs her as well.<br />
*Later, Baltar awakens to find Caprica-Six setting his clothes in his room.<br />
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== Questions == <br />
* Will there be an illegal organization in the Fleet that will continue where [[The Circle]] left off?<br />
* Since Tigh has been reinstated into the Colonial Fleet, where does this leave Galactica's chain of command? Specifically, what are the roles of Tigh, Helo, and [[Aaron Kelly|Kelly]] now?<br />
* What of [[Lee Adama]], [[Anastasia Dualla]] and other officers of ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]''? How will these redundacies be dealt with?<br />
* Why is [[Charlie Connor]] aboard ''Galactica''? Outside of The Circle, what was his purpose on ''Galactica'', seeing as he is not a past crew member? <br />
* Given that there are civilians aboard ''Galactica'' from the Second Exodus, and previous sabotage events that plagued ''Galactica'' prior to colonization of New Caprica, are they restricted to certain areas?<br />
* Has [[Samuel Anders]] become a member of ''Galactica's'' crew, or is he only allowed onboard because of his relationship with Thrace?<br />
* Will any of The Circle's members or Zarek face charges, or will they be pardoned by Roslin's government for what they had done?<br />
* Now that the Cylons seem to have accepted Gaius Baltar, at least begrudgingly, what will happen to him?<br />
* What happened to those who were left behind on [[New Caprica]]?<br />
* Which Cylon models are in favor of allowing Baltar to stay with them (besides Three, who proposed it in the first place) and which are not in favor?<br />
* Does Caprica-Six setting Baltar's clothes on his bed indicate that the Cylons have chosen to allow him to remain?<br />
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== Analysis ==<br />
*The flight from New Caprica is referred to as "The Second Exodus", implying that the "First Exodus" was from the Colonies to New Caprica.<br />
*Three states that three models are in favor of keeping Baltar around and three are against it, with Six's vote needed to break the stalemate. This indicates that the remaining five models are, for whatever reason, not participating in the vote.<br />
**{{spoilli|According to interviews with Grace Park, Dean Stockwell, and Tricia Helfer, the remaining Cylons are so secret that even the seven models known to the audience don't know who the last five are. See [[Talk:Precipice]] for more information.}} <br />
**{{spoilli|According to an [http://www.aintitcool.com/node/30381 interview] with Aaron Douglas and Tamoh Penikett, the remaining five models may have all been [[Boxing|boxed]].}}<br />
* This is the first time viewers have seen a living interior of a Cylon basestar. The only time an interior shot of a basestar was ever seen was in "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]" when [[Sharon Valerii (Galactica copy)|Boomer]] encounters her [[Number Eight|sisters]]. <br />
* Lee Adama mentions that he lost "half a stone" refering to his weight. A stone is a unit of weight used mostly in the United Kingdom and Ireland that is equivalent to 14 pounds or 6.34 kg.<br />
* ''Galactica's'' living spaces and hallways appear much more crowded than in the first two seasons, reflecting the expanded size of her crew. There also appear to be civilians mixed in with ''Galactica'''s crew complment, which is likely the result of overcrowding and the loss of some of the ships during the colonization and occupation of New Caprica.<br />
* The exterior of ''Galactica'' is visibly damaged from the [[Battle of New Caprica]].<br />
* The only two [[Cylon agent]]s to appear are Number Three and Number Six.<br />
*On the disposition of the ''Pegasus'' crew and separated military personnel:<br />
**Saul Tigh has resumed service as ''Galactica's'' XO. However, his experiences on New Caprica are hindering his ability to perform his duties.<br />
**Lee Adama is performing bookkeeping work. He still wears his ''Pegasus'' uniform and Commander insignia, but his position on ''Galactica'' is unclear.<br />
**Kara Thrace has retreived her uniform from storage, but it is not clear whether she has been recomissioned.<br />
**Louanne Katraine is not seen. Presumably she continues to serve as ''Galactica's'' CAG.<br />
**Karl Agathon is still working in ''Galactica's'' CIC.<br />
**Anastasia Dualla is not seen.<br />
**Felix Gaeta has been asked to help repair communication systems damaged during ''Galactica's'' atmospheric insertion in "[[Exodus, Part II]]". He is later seen in uniform in the mess hall.<br />
**Galen Tyrol is back in uniform, and has presumably re-enlisted.<br />
**Cally Tyrol is briefly seen caring for her son. It is not clear whether she has re-enlisted.<br />
**Jammer has been executed by [[The Circle]] for his actions as a member of the [[New Caprica Police]].<br />
*The glowing red strip on the wall in Baltar's room resembles the eye of a [[Cylon Centurion]] or [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Raider]]. While it could be decoration, there's a good chance that it's a surveillance system.<br />
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== Notes ==<br />
* This episode marks the resumption of the [[Survivor count]]. There has been a net loss of 8,115 people since the beginning of "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]."<br />
**Survivor count for this episode is 41,435.<br />
* Laura Roslin resumes the Presidency in this episode.<br />
* Kara Thrace has kept her surname, unlike most other married women shown or referenced thus far (including Caroline Adama, Ellen Tigh, Sesha Abinell, Cally Tyrol and Sharon Agathon).<br />
* The Circle was also the name used by the Bajoran Alliance for Global Unity on Star Trek Deep Space Nine<br />
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== Noteworthy Dialogue ==<br />
*''After discussing the thirteen missing persons:'' <br />
:'''Commander Lee Adama''': I've got a date with a jump rope. Hey, I've lost half a stone.<br />
:'''Admiral William Adama''': Keep jumpin'.<br />
<br />
*''In Gaius Baltar's dream:''<br />
:'''Number Six''': Don't make me angry, Gaius.<br />
:'''Admiral William Adama''': You wouldn't like her when she's angry.<br />
<br />
== Official Statements ==<br />
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== Guest Stars ==<br />
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== References ==<br />
<div style="font-size:85%"><references/></div><br />
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{{episode list (RDM season 3)}}<br />
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[[Category:Episodes written by Mark Verheiden]]<br />
[[Category:Episodes directed by Michael Rymer]]<br />
[[Category:RDM]]</div>Number1https://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Brendan_Costanza&diff=87217Brendan Costanza2006-10-22T21:53:45Z<p>Number1: /* Biography */</p>
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<div>{{Character Data| <br />
|photo= Hotdog.jpg<br />
|age=<br />
|colony=<br />
|birthname= Brendan Constanza<br />
|callsign= Hot Dog<br />
|seen= Act of Contrition<br />
|death= <br />
|parents= <br />
|siblings= <br />
|children= <br />
|marital status= Single<br />
|role= Viper pilot, [[Battlestar (RDM)|Battlestar]] ''[[Galactica]]''<br />
|rank= Lieutenant (presumed)<br />
|actor= [[Bodie Olmos]]<br />
|cylon= <br />
|name= <br />
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'''Lt. Brendan "Hot Dog" Constanza''' is a cocksure cadet, originally washed out of Colonial flight school, but selected as a candidate pilot ("[[nugget]]") for Viper training under the command of [[Kara Thrace|Kara "Starbuck" Thrace]].<br />
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== Biography ==<br />
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Constanza was a Fleet Academy washout, surviving the [[Cylon Holocaust]]. He is recruited as a Viper pilot trainee after an accident kills 7 Viper pilots, including [[Dwight Saunders|Flat Top]] ([[Act of Contrition]]). Initially washed out from Viper training under Lieutenant [[Kara Thrace]], Constanza is reinstated after Commander [[William Adama]] ordered his and other nuggets' return to flight training status.<br />
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After reinstatement, Constanza demonstrates an aptitude for being inventive and an overenthusiastic tendency for taking initiative. He acts more experienced than he really is and tries to be top dog. Constanza demonstrates this tendency when a group of eight [[Cylon Raiders]] encounter Starbuck, Hot Dog and his fellow nuggets on a training flight. Instead of obeying Starbuck's orders by returning to ''[[Galactica]]'' at full throttle, Hot Dog returns to assist Thrace as a wingman. This act almost gets the young, inexperienced pilot killed, but buys Starbuck time to dispatch all eight Raiders in a situation where, if not for Hot Dog's distraction of the collective enemy fighter group, Starbuck's odds of survival would be considerably less ([[Act of Contrition]]).<br />
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Constanza ejects from his severely damaged Viper and is subsequently rescued by [[Alert Fighters|Alert 1]] ([[Act of Contrition]]) and a [[Raptor]] piloted by [[Sharon Valerii (Galactica copy)|Sharon Valerii]] and [[Crashdown]] ([[You Can't Go Home Again]]). However, he loses his lunch on the raptor's deck.<br />
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Constanza develops a bond with [[Louanne Katraine]] and [[Perry|Chuckles]], members of his training group ([[Act of Contrition]]).<br />
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Hot Dog takes part in the attack on a Cylon tylium refinery as part of Strike Force One ([[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]) and fends off a Cylon attack while ''Galactica'' relocates the separated Fleet ([[Scattered]]). After returning to ''Galactica'', Hot Dog survives a brief run in with a [[Cylon Centurion]] that boards the ship ([[Valley of Darkness]]).<br />
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While flying [[CAP]], Colonel [[Saul Tigh]] orders Hot Dog to intercept a Raptor carring the escaping President [[Laura Roslin]]. After pilot [[Lee Adama|Apollo]] continues their escape after Hot Dog fires a warning shot across his bow, Col. [[Saul Tigh|Tigh]] orders Hot Dog to stand down rather than shoot Apollo's Raptor down ([[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]).<br />
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Hot Dog leads [[Blue Squadron]] in the strike attack on the shipyard on New Caprica, when he and his wingman [[Redwing]] provide cover fire for resistance members attempting to enter the facility ([[Exodus, Part II]]).<br />
[[Image:HotDog YCGHA.JPG|thumb|left|Hot Dog after his reckless attempt to save Lieutenant Thrace ([[Act of Contrition]]).]]<br />
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== Notes ==<br />
<br />
*[[Louanne Katraine|Kat]] is promoted to Lieutenant after passing through Viper training as a cadet, so presumably Hot Dog has also been promoted to Lieutenant by the episode, "[[Final Cut]]", but this has not been confirmed in an aired episode as yet. Apparently, as seen in the episode "[[Scar]]" newly graduated cadets actually hold the rank of Ensign, and presumably get promoted over time. However, Kat has been confirmed as a Lieutenant and Hot Dog has been a pilot as just as long as her (they were in the first batch of nuggets), so he is still probably a Lieutenant.<br />
*Actor [[Bodie Olmos]] is the youngest son of [[Edward James Olmos]] ([[William Adama|Admiral William Adama]]) and the grandson of actor/singer Howard Keel.<br />
*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:<br />
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: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.<br />
:RDM: Well those three in the front, [[Chuckles]], 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".<br />
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*During the initial briefing with [[Starbuck]], Hotdog can be seen to be flipping his pen around his fingers in a similar fashion to "Iceman" from the movie "Top Gun". ([[Act of Contrition]])<br />
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[[Category:A to Z|Constanza, Brendan]]<br />
[[Category:Characters|Constanza, Brendan]]<br />
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[[Category:RDM|Constanza, Brendan]]</div>Number1https://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Battle_of_New_Caprica&diff=87029Battle of New Caprica2006-10-22T01:32:13Z<p>Number1: </p>
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<div>{{Battle Data<br />
| name= Battle of New Caprica<br />
| image= <br />
| description= <br />
| conflict=[[Cylon Attack|Second Cylon War]]<br />
| date=<br />
| place=Near [[New Caprica]] space; on New Caprica<br />
| result=Successful retrieval of [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]], [[Hera]] is captured by Cylons<br />
| combatant1=Remnants of the [[Colonial Fleet]]<br />
| combatant2=[[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]]<br />
| co1=Admiral [[William Adama]], Commander [[Lee Adama]]<br />
| co2=(Unknown)<br />
| strength1=Battlestars ''[[Galactica]]'' and ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'', [[Blue Squadron]]<br />
| strength2=Four [[Basestar (RDM)|basestars]], associated [[Raider]]s, [[Heavy Raider]]s<br />
| shiploss1=Battlestar ''Pegasus''<br />
| shiploss2=At least three basestars<br />
| casualties1=Unknown, hundreds of people including [[Maya]]<br />
| casualties2=Unknown, High<br />
| prev=[[Battle of the Binary Star System]]<br />
| next=(Unknown)<br />
}}<br />
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[[Galactica type battlestar|Battlestar]] ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' launches a daring mission to occupy the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon force's]] attention as the majority of the Colonial citizens escape from Cylon occupation on [[New Caprica]].<br />
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Outnumbered, Admiral [[William Adama]] begins an elaborate plan consisting of a squadron of [[Raptor]]s and a [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] guard squadron. After the Vipers break off, the Raptors fire a series of [[swallow]]s that form up to create EM signatures that mimic the presence of the Colonial battlestars. The Raptors retreat, taking several [[Cylon Raider]]s with them in pursuit.<br />
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The Cylons believe the ruse, temporarily.<br />
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On [[New Caprica]], [[Samuel Anders]] and the resistance team explode dozens of bombs as a feigned attack by Colonial forces. The people evacuate per their fire drill training, but in reality they escape to the various grounded ships of the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] and spin up their engines and [[FTL]] drives. Many, however, are pinned down by [[Cylon Centurion]] fire.<br />
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Admiral Adama performs an extremely risky move. He jumps to the planet and allows ''Galactica'' to freefall into the atmosphere, escaping the detection of the basestars. Before the battlestar would impact the surface, it launches the remnants of [[Blue Squadron]], which perform hit-and-run attacks on the Cylons on the ground and in [[Guard towers|observation towers]].<br />
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''Galactica'' performs an intra-atmosphere jump back into space. The resulting damage, however, heavily taxes the structure of the battlestar. Her FTL drives are disabled, weapons systems are offline, and four (instead of the two expected) [[Basestar (RDM)|basestars]] move in to dispose of ''Galactica.''<br />
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But battlestar ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' arrives, its forward batteries blazing, scoring several hits that severely damage or destroy one basestar. Commander [[Lee Adama]] orders his battlestar towards the basestars to give ''Galactica'' time to repair its FTL drive and escape. Meanwhile, the civilian ships perform intra-atmosphere jumps to escape.<br />
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Admiral Adama knows that ''Pegasus'' is on a one-way trip, realizing that Commander Adama has left all his Vipers to guard the last of the Fleet in deep space. Commander Adama sets the ship to automatically fire its batteries and gives the order to abandon ship in evacuation Raptors.<br />
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The damaged, umanned ''Pegasus'' collides into one basestar, destroying it as it explodes. Debris from the exploding battlestar disables or destroys the remaining basestars.<br />
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''[[Colonial One]]'' is the last ship to leave the planet, with [[Laura Roslin]] back in her old chair in place of the deposed president, [[Gaius Baltar]] ([[Exodus, Part II]]).<br />
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== Battle Imagery ==<br />
=== Raptors and Vipers ===<br />
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=== ''Galactica'' FTL ===<br />
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</gallery><br />
=== ''Pegasus''' Final Moments ===<br />
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[[Category:RDM]]</div>Number1https://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Blue_Squadron&diff=87027Blue Squadron2006-10-22T01:29:54Z<p>Number1: </p>
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<div>Please select a specific reference for the term, '''Blue Squadron'''.<br />
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*For information on the squadron of [[Viper (TOS)|Viper]] fighters attached to ''[[Galactica (TOS)|Galactica]]'' in the [[Original Series]], see [[Blue Squadron (TOS)]]<br />
*For information on the squadron of [[Viper Mark VII]] fighters attached to the [[Mercury class battlestar|''Mercury'' class battlestar]] ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'', and later [[Galactica type battlestar|''Battlestar]] ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' see [[Blue Squadron (RDM)]]<br />
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{{disambig}}</div>Number1https://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Battle_of_New_Caprica&diff=87025Battle of New Caprica2006-10-22T01:25:44Z<p>Number1: </p>
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<div>{{Battle Data<br />
| name= Battle of New Caprica<br />
| image= <br />
| description= <br />
| conflict=[[Cylon Attack|Second Cylon War]]<br />
| date=<br />
| place=Near [[New Caprica]] space; on New Caprica<br />
| result=Successful retrieval of [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]], [[Hera]] is captured by Cylons<br />
| combatant1=Remnants of the [[Colonial Fleet]]<br />
| combatant2=[[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]]<br />
| co1=[[William Adama]]<br />
| co2=(Unknown)<br />
| strength1=Battlestars ''[[Galactica]]'' and ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]''<br />
| strength2=Four [[Basestar (RDM)|basestars]], associated [[Raider]]s, [[Heavy Raider]]s<br />
| shiploss1=Battlestar ''Pegasus''<br />
| shiploss2=At least three basestars<br />
| casualties1=Unknown, hundreds of people including [[Maya]]<br />
| casualties2=Unknown, High<br />
| prev=[[Battle of the Binary Star System]]<br />
| next=(Unknown)<br />
}}<br />
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[[Galactica type battlestar|Battlestar]] ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' launches a daring mission to occupy the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon force's]] attention as the majority of the Colonial citizens escape from Cylon occupation on [[New Caprica]].<br />
<br />
Outnumbered, Admiral [[William Adama]] begins an elaborate plan consisting of a squadron of [[Raptor]]s and a [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] guard squadron. After the Vipers break off, the Raptors fire a series of [[swallow]]s that form up to create EM signatures that mimic the presence of the Colonial battlestars. The Raptors retreat, taking several [[Cylon Raider]]s with them in pursuit.<br />
<br />
The Cylons believe the ruse, temporarily.<br />
<br />
On [[New Caprica]], [[Samuel Anders]] and the resistance team explode dozens of bombs as a feigned attack by Colonial forces. The people evacuate per their fire drill training, but in reality they escape to the various grounded ships of the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] and spin up their engines and [[FTL]] drives. Many, however, are pinned down by [[Cylon Centurion]] fire.<br />
<br />
Admiral Adama performs an extremely risky move. He jumps to the planet and allows ''Galactica'' to freefall into the atmosphere, escaping the detection of the basestars. Before the battlestar would impact the surface, it launches the remnants of [[Blue Squadron]], which perform hit-and-run attacks on the Cylons on the ground and in [[Guard towers|observation towers]].<br />
<br />
''Galactica'' performs an intra-atmosphere jump back into space. The resulting damage, however, heavily taxes the structure of the battlestar. Her FTL drives are disabled, weapons systems are offline, and four (instead of the two expected) [[Basestar (RDM)|basestars]] move in to dispose of ''Galactica.''<br />
<br />
But battlestar ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' arrives, its forward batteries blazing, scoring several hits that severely damage or destroy one basestar. Commander [[Lee Adama]] orders his battlestar towards the basestars to give ''Galactica'' time to repair its FTL drive and escape. Meanwhile, the civilian ships perform intra-atmosphere jumps to escape.<br />
<br />
Admiral Adama knows that ''Pegasus'' is on a one-way trip, realizing that Commander Adama has left all his Vipers to guard the last of the Fleet in deep space. Commander Adama sets the ship to automatically fire its batteries and gives the order to abandon ship in evacuation Raptors.<br />
<br />
The damaged, umanned ''Pegasus'' collides into one basestar, destroying it as it explodes. Debris from the exploding battlestar disables or destroys the remaining basestars.<br />
<br />
''[[Colonial One]]'' is the last ship to leave the planet, with [[Laura Roslin]] back in her old chair in place of the deposed president, [[Gaius Baltar]] ([[Exodus, Part II]]).<br />
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== Battle Imagery ==<br />
=== Raptors and Vipers ===<br />
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=== ''Galactica'' FTL ===<br />
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</gallery><br />
=== ''Pegasus''' Final Moments ===<br />
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[[Category:RDM]]</div>Number1https://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Blue_Squadron_(RDM)&diff=87024Blue Squadron (RDM)2006-10-22T01:23:51Z<p>Number1: </p>
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<div>'''Blue Squadron''' is a [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] Squadron on the [[Battlestar (RDM)|Battlestar]] [[Pegasus (RDM)|''Pegasus'']] that has been reassigned to Battlestar ''[[Galactica]]'' following the colonization of [[New Caprica]].<br />
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During the [[Battle of the Binary Star System]], Blue Squadron is shown on the Dradis screen participating in the battle. It was presumably led by Captain [[Kara Thrace|Kara "Starbuck" Thrace]] ([[The Captain's Hand]]).<br />
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During the [[Battle of New Caprica]], Blue Squadron departed ''[[Galactica]]'' during planetfall. They led hit and run attacks on surface installations during the battle ([[Exodus, Part II]]).<br />
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[[Category:RDM]]</div>Number1https://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Blue_Squadron_(RDM)&diff=87022Blue Squadron (RDM)2006-10-22T01:21:02Z<p>Number1: </p>
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<div>'''Blue Squadron''' is a [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] Squadron on the [[Battlestar (RDM)|Battlestar]] [[Pegasus (RDM)|''Pegasus'']].<br />
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During the [[Battle of the Binary Star System]], Blue Squadron is shown on the Dradis screen participating in the battle. It was presumably led by Captain [[Kara Thrace|Kara "Starbuck" Thrace]] ([[The Captain's Hand]]).<br />
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During the [[Battle of New Caprica]], Blue Squadron departed ''[[Galactica]]'' as it fell toward the surface of [[New Caprica]]. They led hit and run attacks on surface installations during the battle ([[Exodus, Part II]]).<br />
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[[Category:RDM]]</div>Number1https://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Blue_Squadron_(RDM)&diff=87021Blue Squadron (RDM)2006-10-22T01:20:24Z<p>Number1: </p>
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<div>'''Blue Squadron''' is a [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] Squadron on the [[Battlestar (RDM)|Battlestar]] [[Pegasus (RDM)|''Pegasus'']].<br />
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During the [[Battle of the Binary Star System]], Blue Squadron is shown on the Dradis screen participating in the battle. It was presumably led by Captain [[Kara Thrace|Kara "Starbuck" Thrace]] ([[The Captain's Hand]]).<br />
<br />
During the [[Battle of New Caprica]], Blue Squadron departed '[[Galactica]]' as it fell toward the surface of [[New Caprica]]. They led hit and run attacks on surface installations during the battle ([[Exodus, Part II]]).<br />
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[[Category:RDM]]</div>Number1https://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Battle_of_New_Caprica&diff=86814Battle of New Caprica2006-10-21T02:45:37Z<p>Number1: </p>
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<div>{{Battle Data<br />
| name= Battle of New Caprica<br />
| image= <br />
| description= <br />
| conflict=[[Cylon Attack|Second Cylon War]]<br />
| date=<br />
| place=Near [[New Caprica]] space<br />
| result=Successful retrieval of [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]]<br />
| combatant1=Remnants of the [[Colonial Fleet]]<br />
| combatant2=[[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]]<br />
| co1=[[William Adama]]<br />
| co2=(Unknown)<br />
| strength1=Battlestars ''[[Galactica]]'' and ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]''<br />
| strength2=Four [[Basestar (RDM)|basestars]], associated [[Raider]]s, [[Heavy Raider]]s<br />
| shiploss1=Battlestar ''Pegasus''<br />
| shiploss2=At least three basestars<br />
| casualties1=[[Ellen Tigh]], [[Maya]]<br />
| casualties2=<br />
| prev=[[Battle of the Binary Star System]]<br />
| next=(Unknown)<br />
}}<br />
<br />
[[Galactica type battlestar|Battlestar]] ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' launches a daring mission to occupy the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon force's]] attention as the majority of the Colonial citizens escape from Cylon occupation on [[New Caprica]].<br />
<br />
Outnumbered, Admiral [[William Adama]] begins an elaborate plan consisting of a squadron of [[Raptor]]s and a [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] guard squadron. After the Vipers break off, the Raptors fire a series of [[swallow]]s that form up to create EM signatures that mimic the presence of the Colonial's battlestars. The Raptors retreat, taking several [[Cylon Raider]]s with them in pursuit.<br />
<br />
The Cylons believe the ruse, temporarily.<br />
<br />
On [[New Caprica]], [[Samuel Anders]] and the resistance team explode dozens of bombs as a feigned attack by Colonial forces. The people evacuate per their fire drill training, but in reality they escape to the various grounded ships of the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] and spin up their engines and [[FTL]] drives. Many, however, are pinned down by [[Cylon Centurion]] fire.<br />
<br />
Admiral Adama performs an extremely risky move. He jumps to the planet and allows ''Galactica'' to freefall into the atmosphere, escaping the detection of the basestars. Moments before the battlestar would impact the surface, it launches all of its Vipers, which perform hit-and-run attacks on the Cylons on the ground and in observation towers.<br />
<br />
''Galactica'' performs an intraatmosphere jump back into space. The resulting reentry, however, heavily taxes the structure of the battlestar. Her FTL drives are disabled, weapons systems are offline, and four (instead of the two expected) [[Basestar (RDM)|basestars]] move in to dispose of ''Galactica.''<br />
<br />
But battlestar ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' arrives, its forward batteries blazing, with several missile hits that severely damages or destroys one basestar. Commander [[Lee Adama]] orders his battlestar towards the basestars to give time for ''Galactica'' to repair its FTL drive and escape. Other civilian ships perform intraatmosphere jumps to escape.<br />
<br />
Admiral Adama knows that ''Pegasus'' is on a one-way trip, realizing that Commander Adama has left all his Vipers to guard the last of the Fleet in deep space. Commander Adama sets the ship to automatically fire its batteries and gives the order to abandon ship to evacuation Raptors.<br />
<br />
The damaged, umanned ''Pegasus'' collides into one basestar, destroying it as it explodes. Debris from the exploding battlestar disables or destroys the remaining basestars.<br />
<br />
''[[Colonial One]]'' is the last ship to leave the planet, with [[Laura Roslin]] back in her old chair in place of the deposed president, [[Gaius Baltar]].<br />
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[[Category:RDM]]</div>Number1https://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Maya&diff=86812Maya2006-10-21T02:41:28Z<p>Number1: </p>
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<div>{{Character Data<br />
|photo=Maya.jpg<br />
|age=<br />
|colony=<br />
|birthname= Maya<br />
|callsign=<br />
|seen=Downloaded<br />
|death= <br />
|parents=<br />
|siblings=<br />
|children= unnamed baby (deceased), [[Isis]] (adopted)<br />
|marital status=Unknown<br />
|role=School teacher<br />
|rank=<br />
|cylon=<br />
|actor=[[Erica Cerra]]<br />
|name= <br />
}}<br />
<br />
'''Maya''' is a civilian within the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] who lost a baby not long ago.<br />
<br />
She is selected from a list made for Dr. [[Cottle]] by [[Tory Foster]] as a possible adoptive parent for the [[Hera|child]] of [[Helo]] and [[Sharon Valerii (Caprica copy)|Sharon Valerii]] after President [[Laura Roslin|Roslin]] decides that the child should not be raised by her mother. Roslin orders Dr. Cottle to stage the baby's death to disguise the adoption from her parents.<br />
<br />
Maya is told that the child was from a female ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' officer who gave up the child for political and religious reasons ([[Downloaded]]).<br />
<br />
A little more than a year later, Maya assists Ms. Roslin in running the New Caprica City Elementary School. ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]])<br />
<br />
Maya's death came while awaiting rescue on [[New Caprica]] ("[[Exodus, Part II]]").<br />
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[[Category: A to Z|Maya]] [[Category: Characters|Maya]] [[Category: RDM|Maya]]</div>Number1https://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Hera_Agathon&diff=86811Hera Agathon2006-10-21T02:39:23Z<p>Number1: </p>
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<div>:''For information on the Lord of Kobol of the same name, see [[Hera, Lord of Kobol]].''<br />
<br />
{{Character Data<br />
|photo= Baby_Hera.jpg<br />
|age= born [[Timeline (RDM) #Downloaded|9 months after]] the Cylon Attack ([[Downloaded]])<br />
|colony=<br />
|birthname= Hera (Renamed Isis)<br />
|servicen=<br />
|callsign=<br />
|seen= Downloaded<br />
|death=<br />
|parents= [[Sharon Agathon]] (biological mother) <br/> [[Karl Agathon|Karl "Helo" Agathon]] (biological father) <br/> [[Maya]] (adoptive mother)<br />
|siblings=<br />
|children= <br />
|marital status= <br />
|role= "Lead the next generation of God's children"<br />
|rank=<br />
|actor= <br />
|cylon= <br />
|name= <br />
}}<br />
<br />
'''Hera''' is the first sucessful Human/Cylon Hybrid, the culmination of the Cylons' experiments to achieve viable procreation.<br />
<br />
Her parents are the human [[Karl Agathon|Lt. Karl "Helo" Agathon]] of ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' and a [[Sharon Valerii (Caprica copy)|copy of the Number Eight]]-model of Cylon ("Caprica" Valerii) who took part in the Cylon experiment to set up Helo into falling in love with and impregnating her.<br />
<br />
This experiment is necessary because the forced cross-breeding experiments in the Cylon [[Farms]] met with complete failure. The Cylons theorized that the key element to procreation that was missing was love (an important element to Cylons, because they believe that "[[God]] is love").<br />
<br />
As a result, Hera is currently the only successful progeny of a humanoid Cylon, and therefore literally considered a "miracle of God" by the Cylons.<br />
<br />
Hera is conceived [[Timeline (RDM)|24 days after the Cylon attack]] on Caprica, in a night of passion after Helo "rescues" Caprica-Valerii from what was really a Cylon deception to test his love. Caprica-Valerii is ordered to convince Helo to stay in "hiding" on Caprica, but instead Valerii falls in love with Helo herself. Valerii begins helping him to escape the Cylons, apparently switching her allegiance over to the Colonials.<br />
<br />
[[Kara Thrace|Starbuck]] (who arrived earlier on Caprica to retrieve the [[Arrow of Apollo]]) leaves with Caprica-Valerii and Helo in a captured [[Heavy Raider]]. Caprica-Valerii is incarcerated in ''Galactica's'' [[brig]] for the next few months, as her pregnancy continued to advance. <br />
<br />
Hera is born by emergency surgery one month premature. [[Laura Roslin|President Roslin]] arranges with Dr. [[Cottle]] to fake Hera's death, then secretly gives the child to a woman named [[Maya]] under the story that the child was the daughter of a ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' officer, who had given her up for political and religious reasons. The subterfuge, Roslin feels, is necessary to keep Hera safe from humanoid Cylons hiding in the Fleet ([[Downloaded]]).<br />
<br />
Hera is presumed to be the child [[Gaius Baltar]] is told to raise by [[Cylon-Related Hallucinations#Baltar's Internal Six|his vision of Number Six]]. Baltar also now believes the child to be dead, and "Six" swears there will be vengeance on all humanity.<br />
<br />
When the Fleet settles on [[New Caprica]], Roslin began teaching the school in the settlement and Maya came with her as an assistant teacher. Maya brought along Hera, whom she had named "Isis" ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]). Maya keeps Hera/Isis in a cradle identical to the one Baltar saw in his vision on Kobol.<br />
<br />
As the fight to escape from New Caprica increases, Roslin brings Maya and Isis below to the [[New Caprica Resistance|resistance's]] underground bunker for protection. The former president tasks resistance leader [[Samuel Anders]] and two bodyguards to protect Maya and Isis at all costs ([[Exodus, Part I]]). During their rescue, Maya is killed and Isis (renamed Hera) is found by President Baltar, [[Caprica Six]], and a Number Three. She is brought aboard the orbiting [[Basestar]] under [[Cylon]] care ("[[Exodus, Part II]]").<br />
<br />
==Notes==<br />
:In a deleted subplot from [[Downloaded]], [[Gina]] and [[D'anna Biers]] scheme to kidnap Hera at [[Gaius Baltar]]'s request. Gina expresses disgust at Hera being named for a human god. When D'anna asks Gina what they should call the baby, Gina suggests "Thirteen."<br />
[[Category:A to Z|Hera]]<br />
[[Category:Characters|Hera]]<br />
[[Category:Characters (RDM)|Hera]]<br />
[[Category:Cylons|Hera]]<br />
[[Category:Cylons (RDM)|Hera]]<br />
[[Category:RDM|Hera]]</div>Number1https://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Hera_Agathon&diff=86809Hera Agathon2006-10-21T02:37:53Z<p>Number1: </p>
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<div>:''For information on the Lord of Kobol of the same name, see [[Hera, Lord of Kobol]].''<br />
<br />
{{Character Data<br />
|photo= Baby_Hera.jpg<br />
|age= born [[Timeline (RDM) #Downloaded|9 months after]] the Cylon Attack ([[Downloaded]])<br />
|colony=<br />
|birthname= Hera (Renamed Isis)<br />
|servicen=<br />
|callsign=<br />
|seen= Downloaded<br />
|death=<br />
|parents= [[Sharon Agathon]] (biological mother) <br/> [[Karl Agathon|Karl "Helo" Agathon]] (biological father) <br/> [[Maya]] (adoptive mother)<br />
|siblings=<br />
|children= <br />
|marital status= <br />
|role= "Lead the next generation of God's children"<br />
|rank=<br />
|actor= <br />
|cylon= <br />
|name= <br />
}}<br />
<br />
'''Hera''' is the first sucessful Human/Cylon Hybrid, the culmination of the Cylons' experiments to achieve viable procreation.<br />
<br />
Her parents are the human [[Karl Agathon|Lt. Karl "Helo" Agathon]] of ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' and a [[Sharon Valerii (Caprica copy)|copy of the Number Eight]]-model of Cylon ("Caprica" Valerii) who took part in the Cylon experiment to set up Helo into falling in love with and impregnating her.<br />
<br />
This experiment is necessary because the forced cross-breeding experiments in the Cylon [[Farms]] met with complete failure. The Cylons theorized that the key element to procreation that was missing was love (an important element to Cylons, because they believe that "[[God]] is love").<br />
<br />
As a result, Hera is currently the only successful progeny of a humanoid Cylon, and therefore literally considered a "miracle of God" by the Cylons.<br />
<br />
Hera is conceived [[Timeline (RDM)|24 days after the Cylon attack]] on Caprica, in a night of passion after Helo "rescues" Caprica-Valerii from what was really a Cylon deception to test his love. Caprica-Valerii is ordered to convince Helo to stay in "hiding" on Caprica, but instead Valerii falls in love with Helo herself. Valerii begins helping him to escape the Cylons, apparently switching her allegiance over to the Colonials.<br />
<br />
[[Kara Thrace|Starbuck]] (who arrived earlier on Caprica to retrieve the [[Arrow of Apollo]]) leaves with Caprica-Valerii and Helo in a captured [[Heavy Raider]]. Caprica-Valerii is incarcerated in ''Galactica's'' [[brig]] for the next few months, as her pregnancy continued to advance. <br />
<br />
Hera is born by emergency surgery one month premature. [[Laura Roslin|President Roslin]] arranges with Dr. [[Cottle]] to fake Hera's death, then secretly gives the child to a woman named [[Maya]] under the story that the child was the daughter of a ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' officer, who had given her up for political and religious reasons. The subterfuge, Roslin feels, is necessary to keep Hera safe from humanoid Cylons hiding in the Fleet ([[Downloaded]]).<br />
<br />
Hera is presumed to be the child [[Gaius Baltar]] is told to raise by [[Cylon-Related Hallucinations#Baltar's Internal Six|his vision of Number Six]]. Baltar also now believes the child to be dead, and "Six" swears there will be vengeance on all humanity.<br />
<br />
When the Fleet settles on [[New Caprica]], Roslin began teaching the school in the settlement and Maya came with her as an assistant teacher. Maya brought along Hera, whom she had named "Isis" ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]). Maya keeps Hera/Isis in a cradle identical to the one Baltar saw in his vision on Kobol.<br />
<br />
As the fight to escape from New Caprica increases, Roslin brings Maya and Isis below to the [[New Caprica Resistance|resistance's]] underground bunker for protection. The former president tasks resistance leader [[Samuel Anders]] and two bodyguards to protect Maya and Isis at all costs ([[Exodus, Part I]]). During their rescue, Maya is killed and Isis (renamed Hera) is found by President Baltar, [[Caprica Six]], and a Number Three. She is brought aboard the [[Basestar]] under [[Cylon]] care.<br />
<br />
==Notes==<br />
:In a deleted subplot from [[Downloaded]], [[Gina]] and [[D'anna Biers]] scheme to kidnap Hera at [[Gaius Baltar]]'s request. Gina expresses disgust at Hera being named for a human god. When D'anna asks Gina what they should call the baby, Gina suggests "Thirteen."<br />
[[Category:A to Z|Hera]]<br />
[[Category:Characters|Hera]]<br />
[[Category:Characters (RDM)|Hera]]<br />
[[Category:Cylons|Hera]]<br />
[[Category:Cylons (RDM)|Hera]]<br />
[[Category:RDM|Hera]]</div>Number1https://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Kacey_Brynn&diff=86808Kacey Brynn2006-10-21T02:14:30Z<p>Number1: </p>
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<div>{{Character Data<br />
|photo=Kacey.png<br />
|age= <br />
|colony=<br />
|birthname= Kacey<br />
|servicen=<br />
|callsign=<br />
|seen= Precipice<br />
|death=<br />
|parents= [[Kara Thrace]], [[Leoben Conoy]] (alleged)<br />
|siblings=<br />
|children= <br />
|marital status= <br />
|role=<br />
|rank=<br />
|actor= [[Madeline Parker]]<br />
|cylon= <br />
|name= <br />
}}<br />
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'''Kacey''' is a young girl whom [[Leoben Conoy]] claims is the genetic offspring of himself and [[Kara Thrace]]. <br />
<br />
According to Conoy, Thrace's ovary was recovered from the remains of the [[farms|farm]] that was destroyed by the [[Resistance (movement)|Caprica Resistance]] ([[The Farm]]). An egg was fertilized with Conoy's genetic material and was implanted in a human woman, who carried it to term; the surrogate mother died in childbirth, but Kacey survived.<br />
<br />
Prior to revealing the child's existance to Thrace, Conoy holds her in a secured "apartment" on [[New Caprica]] ([[Occupation]]). When the child is introduced, Thrace is understandably uneasy around the child, but appears to show genuine concern when Kacey has an accident and requires medical attention ([[Precipice]]).<br />
<br />
After rescue to ''[[Galactica]]'' Kacey was returned to her biological mother ([[Exodus, Part II]]).<br />
<br />
Kacey's true nature is not known, but it is doubtful that she is a human-Cylon hybrid such as [[Hera]], given the Cylon's difficulties in [[Farms|procreation]]. <br />
<br />
[[Category:A to Z]] [[Category:Characters]] [[Category:Characters (RDM)]]</div>Number1https://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Pegasus_(TRS)&diff=86807Pegasus (TRS)2006-10-21T02:06:16Z<p>Number1: /* New Caprica */</p>
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<div>:''For the second-season episode, see [[Pegasus (episode)]]. For the Original Series ''Pegasus'', see [[Pegasus (TOS)]].''<br />
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{{Ship Data|<br />
image= BSPegasus.jpg<br />
| title= Pegasus (BS 62)<br />
| race= Colonial<br />
| type= Military<br />
| ftl= Yes<br />
| crew= Approximately 1,750<br />
| co= [[Lee Adama]]<br />
| xo= [[Anastasia Dualla]]<br />
| role= Carrier / Battleship hybrid<br />
| weapons= Primary and point-defense [[KEW|Kinetic Energy Weapons]], conventional missiles, nuclear warheads, Vipers, Raptors<br />
| status= Destroyed in [[Battle of New Caprica]]<br />
| img= Y<br />
}}<br />
<br />
'''''Pegasus'' (BS 62)''' is a [[Mercury class battlestar|''Mercury'' class battlestar]], commanded by Admiral [[Helena Cain]].<br />
<br />
Much more advanced in size, strength, and technology than the decommissioned battlestar ''[[Galactica]]'', ''Pegasus'' is presumed destroyed in the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]] by the [[The Fleet (RDM)|the survivors of the Colonies]].<br />
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==History==<br />
Although ''Pegasus'' is advanced enough to have the [[Command Navigation Program]] installed, which the Cylons used as a backdoor, ''Pegasus'' had just checked in for a three-month refit at the time of the Cylon attack, and as such, almost all of its networked [[Computers|computer]] systems were offline. As a result, the Cylons were not able to immobilize the ship using computer infiltration. Combined with the sheer luck of the multiple targets that the Cylons enjoyed, the nuclear detonations temporarily blinded the Cylon [[DRADIS]]. Her options limited, Admiral Cain orders her ship to [[Blind jump|randomly jump without a coordinates check]].<br />
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While saving the battlestar, the risky blind jump was not the end of their troubles. An indeterminate amount of time later, the [[Cylon agent]] known as [[Gina]] allowed a party of [[Cylon Centurion|Cylon Centurions]] to board the ship, resulting in approximately 700 deaths. When Gina was found out, she killed 7 men before she was subdued. Once she was imprisoned, ''Pegasus''' commander instituted a new policy of Cylon interrogation - brutal gangrape.<br />
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After their escape, ''Pegasus'' occupied itself with hit-and-run attacks on various Cylon assets. It participated in a bold assault on a staging area filled with fifteen squadrons of [[Raider]]s. When Cain's long-time [[Executive officer]] expressed hesitancy to launch the ships' fighters against such odds, Cain publicly executed him on the bridge and promoted [[Jack Fisk]] to replace him. Fisk tells this story (and later recants it) while drunk to Colonel [[Saul Tigh|Tigh]], which Tigh believed to be true when he recounts it in turn to Commander Adama.<br />
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Some time later, ''Pegasus'' discovered that a Cylon fleet it was tracking appeared to be jumping, not randomly, but to systems with natural resources. The battlestar accidentally encountered [[The Fleet (RDM)|the Fleet]] led by battlestar ''[[Galactica]]'' when ''Pegasus'' jumped ahead to scout the Cylon target's projected next position (as it turned out, the Cylons were jumping to systems ''Galactica'' had passed through or explored). Cain assumes overall command of the Fleet and began transferring supplies and many personnel between the two battlestars, including Captain [[Lee Adama]] and Lieutenant [[Kara Thrace]]. Cain appeared unconcerned with the needs of the civilians and their ships, a problem noted to Commander Adama by President [[Laura Roslin]].<br />
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Chief [[Galen Tyrol|Tyrol]] mentioned during his interrogation by Colonel [[Saul Tigh]] that he served aboard a number of battlestars in his military career, including ''Pegasus'' ([[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]). If Admiral Cain ever knew him during this time, she made no mention of it, and had no reservations sentencing him and [[Karl Agathon]] to death when they inadvertently kill Lieutenant [[Alistair Thorne]], Cain's chief "Cylon interrogator". [[William Adama]], commander of ''Galactica'', refused to permit the execution, precipitating an armed standoff between the two ships ([[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]).<br />
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The battlestars later succeed in destroying the Resurrection Ship. But ''Pegasus''' commander is later killed by Gina ([[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]).<br />
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''Pegasus'' commander Admiral [[Helena Cain]] is succeeded after her murder by [[Jack Fisk]], who in turn is also murdered after running afoul of the fleet's illicit black market ([[Black Market]]). ''Pegasus'' is briefly commanded by engineer-turned-commander [[Barry Garner]], who is killed saving the ship during the [[Battle of the Binary Star System]]. ''Pegasus'' is currently commanded by Commander [[Lee Adama]], son of the Fleet's supreme commander, Admiral [[William Adama]].<br />
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''Pegasus'' becomes unofficially known as "The Beast" amongst the Fleet, although it is not known if the nickname comes from her tenacity in combat or its sordid crew history ([[The Captain's Hand]]).<br />
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==New Caprica==<br />
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Following the founding of [[New Caprica]], ''Pegasus'' is assigned to the Orbital Defense Force that protected the planet. During this time Commander [[Lee Adama]] kept an emergency supply of medications aboard for the pilots, despite the fact that their crew had been severely reduced due to repopulation of the planet. One year post founding the planet, the Cylons return in force. Unable to defend the planet, Pegasus and the remaining ships in the defense fleet jump away from the planet ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]).<br />
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Four months later, ''Pegasus'' and ''Galactica'' plan a rescue mission to recover the people on the planet ([[Occupation]]). While the plans initially call for the involvement of ''Pegasus'' in the recovery, Admiral Adama realizes that the remains of the Fleet, the last free peoples of humanity, must not be involved in the fight should things go awry. Adama orders his son to stay with the last of the Fleet at a rendevous point to await their return ("[[Precipice]]," "[[Exodus, Part I]]").<br />
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Despite it's orders, the ''Pegasus'' proceeds to the hot zone to participate in the rescue efforts. Thanks to it's assistance the ''Galactica'' is rescued from destruction and manages to jump away, but ''Pegasus'' remains under attack from four Cylon Baseships. With her fighters deployed protecting the fleet, ''Pegasus'' is relatively defenseless. As ''Pegasus'' is dying, Commander Adama orders the crew to abandon ship. As the EVAC Raptors jump away, ''Pegasus'' rams directly into a basestar. The remains of the starboard flight pod collide with another basestar, destroying it as well (see [[Battle of New Caprica]] for more information) ("[[Exodus, Part II]]").<br />
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==A Lost Civilian Fleet==<br />
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It was later revealed that ''Pegasus'' originally had its own small fleet of 15 civilian ships, found about a week after the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]]. The tiny caravan was equipped with FTL drives and weapons. Rather than defending them (as ''Galactica'' had at [[Ragnar Anchorage]]), Admiral Cain saw them as potential spare parts for ''Pegasus'', and decided that ''Pegasus' '' military needs were a priority over them. The civilian ships were stripped for parts, including their weapons and FTL drives, marooning them and leaving them completely at the mercy of the Cylons when Cain left.<br />
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However not all of the civilians were left to die: after looking over the passenger lists, Cain selected those civilians who she thought would be of value (such as [[Peter Laird]], an aeronautical engineer), forcibly drafting them into her crew. However, 15 'selectees' aboard the civilian transport ''[[Scylla]]'' were traveling with their families and refused to leave without them. Admiral Cain ordered her marines to kill two families (men, women, and children) to shock the rest into submission. ''Pegasus'' then abandoned the civilian ships to pursue Admiral Cain's campaign of hit-and-run attacks against Cylon forces ([[Resurrection Ship, Part I]]).<br />
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==Equipment==<br />
[[Image:TheEnemysGateIsDown3.jpg|thumb|right|Pegasus taking heavy fire]]<br />
In the [[Pegasus (Extended Version)|Extended Cut]] of the episode "Pegasus" Admiral Cain states that the ship is nearly twice the size of ''Galactica'', but needs only half the crew. This probably refers to either the dual [[landing bay|landing bays]] or the ship's volume, but not its length. The decreased manpower requirement stems from increased computerization and automation. This is also evident in the comparatively small size of the ''Pegasus'' [[CIC]].<br />
[[Image:PegasusForeBatteries.jpg|thumb|right|Pegasus firing her forward batteries]]<br />
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''Pegasus'' operates at least four [[Viper Mark VII]] squadrons, all verbally identified in the episode "[[The Captain's Hand]]":<br />
*[[Red Squadron (RDM)|Red Squadron]]<br />
*[[Yellow Squadron]]<br />
*[[Green Squadron]]<br />
*[[Blue Squadron (RDM)|Blue Squadron]]<br />
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It is possible that these designations are just [[wireless]] code names and not formal, standing squadrons. The colors and group leaders could be assigned on an ad-hoc basis, while a more formal structure exists in the background; such as the [[Vigilantes]] on ''Galactica''.<br />
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''Pegasus'' has [[Viper Mark VII]] production facilities ([[Scar]]). This is a capability that would allow the ship to be self sufficient on extended deployments, so long as the battlestar has sufficient means to gather the raw materials necessary for construction.<br />
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In "[[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]" ''Pegasus'' is shown to have built in electronic countermeasure (ECM) generators as it deviates missiles away from the ship.<br />
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==Crew==<br />
====Senior Staff following the founding of New Caprica====<br />
*Commander [[Lee Adama]] - Commanding Officer<br />
*Lieutenant [[Anastasia Dualla]] - [[Executive Officer]]<br />
*Lieutenant [[Hoshi]] - Communications or [[Tactical Officer]]<br />
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====Former Members of the Senior Staff====<br />
*Admiral [[Helena Cain]] - Commanding Officer (Killed by [[Gina]])<br />
*Commander [[Jack Fisk]] - Commanding Officer (Killed by racketeers in the [[Black market (organization)|black market]])<br />
*Commander [[Barry Garner]] - Commanding Officer (Killed in action)<br />
*Captain [[Cole Taylor]] - [[CAG|Commander, Air Group]] (Demoted by Admiral Cain)<br />
*Captain [[Kara Thrace]] - Commander, Air Group (Replaced Cole Taylor in "[[Resurrection Ship, Part I]]" but transferred to ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' in "[[The Captain's Hand]]")<br />
*Lieutenant [[Alistair Thorne]] - Cylon Interrogator (Killed by [[Galen Tyrol]])<br />
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==Notes==<br />
*According to [[David Eick]]'s video blog, it would have been impossible to afford creating new sets for the entire interior of ''Pegasus'' on the budget of an episodic television show. This expense was circumvented when a year beforehand Ron D. Moore and David Eick bought (for next to nothing) the abandoned sets of the failed pilot for the FOX network's "Lost In Space" remake, directed by John Woo. The production team then held onto the sets hoping to find some later use for them, eventually using them for "[[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]". The sets were then radically redesigned and painted to give them the aesthetic look of ''Galactica'', but sleeker and more advanced.<br />
*This ship is named after [[w:Pegasus|the winged horse from Greek mythology]].<br />
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== Related Imagery ==<br />
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<gallery><br />
Image:Pegasus01.jpg|''Pegasus'' - Front view &nbsp; &nbsp;<br />
Image:Pegasus_Hi-Res_1a.jpg|''Pegasus'' - Vipers landing &nbsp; &nbsp;<br />
Image:Pegasus_Hi-Res_5a.jpg|''Pegasus'' - Gun batteries &nbsp; &nbsp;<br />
Image:Pegasus_Hi-Res_3a.jpg|''Pegasus'' - Next to ''Galactica'' &nbsp; &nbsp;<br />
Image:Pegasus 217 1080i rescale.jpg|''Pegasus'' - Side angle &nbsp; &nbsp;<br />
Image:Pegasus2_217_1080i_rescale.jpg|''Pegasus'' - Reverse side &nbsp; &nbsp;<br />
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