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Graham Young

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Graham Young is an actor who portrayed Marine #1 in "Bastille Day," an early first season episode of the Re-imagined Series.

In addition to having Battlestar on his short television resume, Young has acted in both Smallville and in Eureka.

Orrin YoungYoungblood

This article has a separate continuity. This article is in the Dynamite Comics separate continuity, which is related to the Re-imagined Series. Be sure that your contributions to this article reflect the characters and events specific to this continuity only.

Orrin Young is a worker in Sagittaron's nitrassium processing plant.

One of his work assignments is to work in the plant's refinement and processing center.

See also

• Roderick Wallis
• Jerome Zarek
• Karen Zarek

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Youngblood is a Global Defense Department (GDD) agent partnered with Jordan Duram during the investigation of the Maglev 23 bombing and the Soldiers of the One's activities.

A year prior to the Maglev 23 bombing, she interrogated Ben Stark when he was found violating curfew laws and carrying explosives, claiming they were for model rockets. She accidentally recorded the tape under Stark(e) and released him lacking probable cause to hold him. One month after the bombing the tape resurfaced, and GDD Director Gara Singh was upset, both that she'd let Stark go, and that she hadn't destroyed the tape.

Duram unleashed the media on the Graystone household to pressure the judiciary into giving the GDD a search warrant for the Graystone home and offices, in addition to the Athena Academy. He told Singh this was Youngblood's idea, and Singh said she was "halfway" back ^{(CAP: "Reins of a Waterfall" and "Gravedancing")}.

She holds a prejudiced view of Gemenese, espousing her belief that any "Gemenese scum luring good Caprican kids into a killer cult deserves to be destroyed" ^{(CAP: "Gravedancing")}. However, she is skeptical of Duram's belief that Sister Clarice Willow has been recruiting Athena Academy students and orchestrating STO activities, and is unwilling to help him pursue her ^{(CAP: "Retribution")}.

After Duram is relieved by Singh following Mar-Beth Willow's death, Youngblood takes over his cases, as Amanda Graystone discovers when she tries to check in with Duram at the GDD offices and is told this by an office assistant ^{(CAP: "Blowback")}.

Notes

• According to Tom Lieber, the writers originally intended for Agent Youngblood to be the STO mole within the GDD. The decision was made to change the mole's identity to Gara Singh because the writers felt that making Youngblood the traitor was "too obvious."

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Robert Young

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Robert Milton Young (November 22, 1924 – February 6, 2024) was an American film and television director, cinematographer, screenwriter, and producer who directed five episodes of the Re-imagined Series across four seasons. His career ran from civil rights documentaries for NBC in the 1960s through independent features and network television into the final decade of his life.

Career

Early life and education

Young's father, Al Young, founded DuArt Film Laboratories in 1922. His uncle, lyricist Joe Young, is a member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Young enrolled at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at age sixteen to study chemical engineering but left after two years to serve in the U.S. Navy during World War II, working as a photographer in the Pacific theatre in New Guinea and the Philippines. He graduated from Harvard University in 1949 with a degree in English literature.

After graduation Young co-founded a cooperative that produced educational films, then joined the NBC White Paper public affairs program in 1960, directing Sit-In (1960), a Peabody Award-winning documentary on the American civil rights sit-in movement narrated by NBC News anchor Chet Huntley, and Angola: Journey to War (1961). NBC pulled his 1961 documentary Cortile Cascino — a film about a family living in a Palermo slum — from the schedule two days before broadcast; Young quit the network and began directing independently.

Documentary work

Through the 1960s and 1970s, Young directed and photographed National Geographic Society documentary specials produced under David Wolper, among them Man of Serengeti (1972), The Last Tribes of Mindanao (1972), Bushmen of the Kalahari (1974), and Search for the Great Apes (1976), for which he traveled deep into Indonesian Borneo with primatologist Biruté Galdikas to document her work with orangutans. In 1993, his documentary Children of Fate: Life and Death in a Sicilian Family — assembled in part from his long-suppressed 1961 Cortile Cascino footage, which a former NBC employee had saved from destruction — won the Grand Jury Prize for documentary at the Sundance Film Festival.

Narrative features

Young made his feature directorial debut with Short Eyes (1977), filmed in the Manhattan House of Detention for Men with a cast that included both professional actors and real-life prisoners. That same year he directed ¡Alambrista! (1977), a drama about undocumented Mexican immigrants that he also wrote and co-photographed; it won the inaugural Caméra d'Or for best first film at the Cannes Film Festival and the best picture award at the San Sebastián International Film Festival. Independent filmmaker Christopher Munch, who first saw ¡Alambrista! at a public library screening in 1978, described it as "a milestone of American neorealism" and credited it with drawing him toward fiction filmmaking.

¡Alambrista! was the first of eight films Young made with actor Edward James Olmos: The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez (1982), Saving Grace (1986), Triumph of the Spirit (1989), Talent for the Game (1991), Roosters (1993), the television film Slave of Dreams (1995), and Caught (1996). Olmos later described the directorial philosophy he learned from Young: "I always brought the aesthetic I brought from Bob. The aesthetic was simple. You don't romanticize. You don't glamorize. You don't exploit. You don't manipulate." Young also produced Olmos's directorial debut, American Me (1992).

His other theatrical features include Rich Kids (1979), One-Trick Pony (1980) with Paul Simon, Extremities (1986) with Farrah Fawcett, Dominick and Eugene (1988) with Tom Hulce and Ray Liotta, and Human Error (2004). Three of his works entered the Library of Congress National Film Registry: Nothing But a Man (1964, co-written and photographed by Young, inducted 1993), The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez (inducted 2022), and ¡Alambrista! (inducted 2023).

Television work

Young's television credits beyond Battlestar Galactica include the Peabody-winning telefilm J.T. (1969), the movies We Are the Children (1987), Solomon & Sheba (1995), and Slave of Dreams (1995), and episodes of American Playhouse and Nothing Sacred.

Young was a member of the Directors Guild of America and served on its Western Independent Directors Committee. In 2005, the DGA's Visual History Program interviewed Young in a session conducted by filmmaker Jeremy Kagan.

Battlestar Galactica

Young directed five episodes of the Re-imagined Series across four seasons between 2004 and 2009. Executive producer Ronald D. Moore attributed Young's casting to his documentary background. On the podcast for "Final Cut", Moore explained: "Robert Young, who directed this episode and also directed last year's 'Six Degrees of Separation', is a noted documentarian. Has done many feature films and many actual documentaries in his day and will tell you fascinating stories about being with the Eskimos and living with them and doing all sorts of wild, crazy things — and it felt like a natural fit to have Robert do this, 'cause he understood what a documentarian was looking for and how the scene would be staged."

For "Final Cut", Moore and Young agreed the episode should be shot in genuine documentary style, with a working cameraman rather than an actor operating the in-universe camera. Young held auditions, filming cameramen and actors handling a camera in live scenes and screening the results with Moore, before casting a working cameraman in the part.

For "Unfinished Business", Moore recalled visiting the hangar deck set during production: "I remember coming down to the set when Bob was shooting this — and walking to the hangar deck and really hoping that I was gonna feel like I'd walked into a boxing match. And when I walked in there it was just like — it felt so perfect. And the way everybody was hanging out around the boxing set — felt authentic." Moore described Young as "a remarkable human being and just an amazing man," adding that he had "really put 'em on the map, in a certain way." Edward James Olmos, who had worked with Young on eight feature films, cited "Unfinished Business" as one of his most memorable episodes: "The reason I liked this one so much was because, one I got to work with Robert Young, who I have admired and love to watch him work, with actors."

For "The Son Also Rises", Young objected to the cat written into the role of defense attorney Romo Lampkin, pressing Moore repeatedly to cut the animal from the script. Moore's wife Terry noted on the podcast that one should never shoot with a cat; Moore kept the cat regardless.

For "Deadlock", Moore noted that the director's cut needed very little adjustment: "Bob Young directed this episode and he has just a natural feel for where the drama in the scene is. He shoots everything from the psychological standpoint — meaning, going to where the emotion is and where the intention is of a scene or a character — and you can just feel, as we go through it, it's pretty much a seamless piece."

Director credits for Battlestar Galactica

• Season 1:
  • Six Degrees of Separation
• Season 2:
  • Final Cut
• Season 3:
  • Unfinished Business
  • The Son Also Rises
• Season 4:
  • Deadlock

See also: Episodes directed by Robert Young

Personal life

Young was born in the Bronx and raised on Long Island. He was married to Lili Partridge from 1975 until his death. His son Andrew Young is also a filmmaker. On his father's death, Andrew stated that Young had given him his first camera and his first job on a film set, describing him as "a rebel in the industry who made the films he dreamed of and lived the life he wanted, whether it was trekking through the Congo, swimming with sharks or plumbing the depths of the human experience." His younger brother, Irwin Young, who produced Nothing But a Man and ¡Alambrista! and ran DuArt Film Laboratories, died in 2022.

Young died on February 6, 2024, in Los Angeles, at the age of 99.

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The Young LordsThe Young Warriors

"The Young Lords" An episode of the Original Series
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After crash-landing on a Cylon-occupied planet, Starbuck joins forces with a group of young human renegades.

Summary

• While on patrol in the Omega sector, Boomer and Starbuck are suddenly attacked by four Cylon Raiders of Canus patrol. When the remaining two Raiders attempt to flee, Starbuck pursues and destroys one; the other enters Starbuck's blind spot and causes severe damage to the undercarriage of Starbuck's Viper before Boomer causes the lone Raider to retreat.
• Boomer visually inspects the damage to Starbuck's undercarriage, claiming that "everything back of your anti-burn baffles is gone"
• On his scanner, Boomer locates Attila, a habitable Delta-class planet for Starbuck to land his crippled fighter on. Running low on fuel, Boomer returns to Galactica to bring back help.
• In a Cylon-controlled garrison on the planet Attila, the two Vipers are tracked on scanner. When one Viper is seen crash landing on the planet's surface, garrison commander Specter, an IL-series Cylon, orders a squad of Centurions to capture the downed pilot.
• Starbuck pulls himself from the wreckage of his viper, but his leg is badly injured. Meanwhile, the Cylon patrol looms closer and closer, approaching the Colonial Warrior through tall marsh reeds. Starbuck tries to evade the Cylons, but he collapses on the riverbank in exhaustion, only to be captured by the pursuing Centurions.
• Specter informs Baltar (aboard his basestar) of the warrior's capture. Baltar, of course, seeks information about the location of the last remaining battlestar.

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• Returning to the garrison with Starbuck, the Cylon patrol is ambushed by a group of young fighters (children, really) who destroy the Cylons and rescue Starbuck, who passes out cold.
• Aboard Galactica, an ill Adama is told the bad news about Starbuck. They decide that Apollo and Boomer will pilot a shuttle, so as not to attract attention to themselves, back to Attila to fetch Starbuck. They have 24 centares before the fleet is out of range.
• On Attila, Starbuck is helped back to the children's campsite, inside a cave. The children turn out to all be siblings of the true owners of the garrison currently occupied by the Cylons. The children have been waging war against the "tin cans" ever since.
• The eldest son, Kyle, is their de facto leader. Eldest daughter Miri is their moral leader and acting mother. The other children include Ariadne and brothers Nilz and Robus.
• With his father away on the mission to rescue Starbuck, Boxey crawls into bed with his grandfather, with Boxey telling Adama a story about Mushieland as they drift off to sleep.
• Kyle, who had previously lied to Starbuck that his father (Megan) was dead, has secretly conspired with Specter and the Cylons to trade Starbuck for his imprisoned father. Specter gives the good news to Megan, who reluctantly agrees to cooperate.
• Lucifer expresses his distrust of Specter, who is an earlier IL-series model, to Baltar. Lucifer notes that Specter's garrison has ordered the most laser pumps and petro in the system, Baltar dismisses it as merely stockpiling. Specter lies while reporting to Baltar, concealing the fact that Starbuck has escaped.
• Starbuck, pleading to Miri's and Kyle's better judgment, finally convinces them to not proceed with the trade. Instead, they put a dummy (wearing Starbuck's flight jacket) on a raft, and push it across the moat to the Cylons.
• Specter and the Cylons, who had the same plan, push a likewise-fake dummy of Megan in a raft across the moat to the children. When Specter realizes that he has been deceived, the Cylons open fire on the children's position.
• Kyle finally agrees to allow Starbuck to lead their forces, although Kyle will remain as the second-in-command. Together with their whole clan they compose a battle plan, and a rhyming poem to match, to attack the Cylons occupying their castle:

Through the tunnel, under the land/Starbuck and Miri creep hand on hand.

We swim the moat to the petro dump/And blow it up with a great big whump!

At the bridge, the youngest daughter/Drops tin cans into the water.

And around the castle, the son firstborn/Rides at a gallop and blows his horn.

We go up the steps to the castle floor/And sneak a peek through the secret door.

Although the dump is double-guarded/We'll sneak across when the guards are parted.

Robus sets one bomb and then the other/Leaving the rest to his older brother.

When all is ready across the moat/Kyle will sound the signal note.

At the bridge, the youngest daughter/Drops tin cans into the water.

Through all the confusion, noise, and bother/Starbuck and Miri rescue father.

• As the plan comes to fruition, Specter files one final (bogus) report with Baltar. Immediately thereafter, the entire Cylon force departs Attila, as it is "too rusty for their circuits".
• With the Cylon presence gone from their castle, Megan is reunited with his children.
• Apollo and Boomer land the shuttle to bring Starbuck home to Galactica, arriving just in time to see Starbuck get a passionate farewell kiss from Miri.

Notes

• This is a "Starbuck episode."
• In the opening sequence just before Starbuck's viper is damaged, three incoming Raiders are seen on Boomer's scanner. However, there are four Raiders in the actual dogfight.
• The report to Baltar from Specter was used in the direct-to-video release, Conquest of the Earth.
• In the separate continuity tie-in comic book, Battlestar Galactica: Starbuck 1, the instructor Starbuck refers to is named Wyler.

Analysis

• Kyle says of his siblings, "They watched the Tin Cans slaughter our people" and later, "Our fortress held out longer than any of the others when the Tin Cans attacked." Therefore, we may infer that Megan and his family were not the sole inhabitants of the planet, originally. However, since it seems all the other humans on Attila were exterminated, the family may well be the last inhabitants of their planet—since six blood relatives do not constitute a genetically viable population. The family uses the typical Star Trek line about "This planet is our home now" and refuses to leave when offered passage on Galactica. And no one from Galactica opts to stay on Attila; thus ensuring that the human presence on Attila will eventually die out.

• At the end of the episode, Megan explains that "Our ancestors originally migrated here from the Colonies." Thus the Colonials do not look to Megan and his family for clues about Earth.

• More generally, in Experiment in Terra, Adama theorizes that the humans they have encountered during their flight are probably offshoots of the Thirteenth Tribe, who split off from the Tribe during that ancient journey. Since the humans they have encountered are no more technologically advanced than the Colonials (often less), that may be a reason why Adama basically ignores them and keeps looking for Earth—since he hopes and believes that Earth would be a strong ally against the Cylons. Realistically, it seems silly and/or callous that Adama doesn't:

1. try to work with these offshoot colonies for mutual aid or even resupply
2. allow the Colonials the choice of settling on one of the human-populated worlds
3. spend any time whatsoever researching the legends or history of these offshoot humans for clues about Earth
4. in the case of Terra, for example, at least warn his fellow human beings that they may encounter a war fleet of fantastically advanced hostile robots bent on the destruction of the life form known as man.

• One possible motive why the Colonials never show much interest in the human worlds they encounter along their journey: the humans aren't advanced enough.

Questions

• Why do the Cylons so ruthlessly pursue Galactica as the "last remnants of humanity" when, in reality, humans clearly exist in abundance everywhere they go? Nearly every episode has them encountering some forgotten "fringe colony" teeming with humanity, yet the Cylons turn a blind eye toward them and myopically follow Galactica.
• When Colonials encounter a planet such as Attila (specifically, a planet populated with humans), why don't they become inquisitive about the human inhabitants? In other words, why don't they assume that they're getting closer to Earth? After all, they left their devastated home worlds (Saga of a Star World), then went through a vast, unknown magnetic void (Lost Planet of the Gods, Part I), and have since emerged into what is effectively "uncharted space". So when they find humans, shouldn't they be a little more inquisitive (or, at least, excited?) rather than dismiss them as an unimportant fringe colony? (Analysis)
• How old are Specter and Lucifer?
• Wouldn't the Centurions under his command file reports as well, thus contradicting everything Specter reported?

Noteworthy Dialogue

• Starbuck recalls the words of an old flight instructor:

Starbuck: A Viper pilot only flies three fighters–the one he trains in, the one he escapes from, and the one he dies in.

• Boomer consoles his friend, Starbuck, whose Viper is damaged:

Boomer: I'll be back with a clean uniform before you know it.

• Starbuck is captured and carried by Centurions:

Centurion: These humanoids are not well constructed. They damage easily.

Starbuck: At least we don't rust.

Centurion: Silence.

• Lucifer mutters a familiar expletive when Specter's blatant flattery appears to work on Baltar:

Lucifer: Oh, felgercarb...

• Specter expresses his disbelief as Megan's children attack the Cylon held castle:

Specter: Oh, no! Not again.

Centurion: The petro dump is exploding.

Specter: I know the petro dump is exploding!

• Baltar responds favorably to Specter's felgercarb, much to Lucifer's chagrin:

Baltar: Excellent idea. Scorched planet policy. You're a wonder, Specter.

• Boomer is reminded of his promise of a clean uniform:

Starbuck: About time you showed up. Got the clean uniform?

Boomer: Wh--? The clean--?

• Starbuck talks to Miri before leaving:

Starbuck: Ah, yes, Miri, you could have broken half the hearts on the Galactica, including mine. (kisses Miri)

Boomer: I, um... I don't know how he does it.

Apollo: Neither do I. Starbuck, we have to go... Starbuck!

Deleted Scenes

See: The deleted scenes from this episode.

Guest Stars

• Charles Bloom as Kyle
• Bruce Glover as Megan
• Audrey Landers as Miri
• Brigitte Muller as Ariadne
• Jonathan B. Woodward as Robus
• Adam Mann as Nilz
• Murray Matheson as Specter (voice, uncredited)

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The Young Warriors A book of the Berkley Books line
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Author(s)	Robert Thurston
Adaptation of	The Young Lords
No. of Pages	185 (1st edition) 192 (reprint)
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The Young Warriors is a novelization of the Original Series episode, "The Young Lords".

The book was reprinted on November 23, 2003 by iBooks, Inc.

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Marooned! Starbuck didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Sure, he was sick of war...but he also didn't want to spend the rest of his life stranded on this hunk of rock where he had crashed. It was too much for an adventure-loving skypilot to stand!

Then he met Miri, riding like the wind on her thinking unicorn, and agreed to lead her band of guerilla kids in their war against the Cylon killer robots...

Summary

• This is Robert Thurston's favorite of all Galactica novelizations he has written.
• Apollo is mistakenly placed in the cover instead of Starbuck.
• Starbuck's foster parents were disabled veterans. Their names were Gawr and Doreen. His whole life was consumed by war. Most kids only saw their parents once in a while because most of them were involved in the war with the Cylons.
• Starbuck knew that his real father had achieved notoriety as a gambler and has heard rumors that he has roamed several worlds getting into numerous scrapes. Starbuck doubts his father is alive, however.
• Before he gets shot down, Starbuck feels discontented, so he ventures to a therapy room in a seldom-traveled area of Galactica. The therapy machine talks to him about his problems. Starbuck says he can't connect with people, that he uses Cassiopea and Athena like mechanical toys, constantly playing them against each other.
• Adama has Sagitarian flu. Apollo is still mourning the loss of Serina.
• Both Cassiopea and Athena give Starbuck the cold shoulder before he goes off on patrol.
• Right before the Cylons attack, Starbuck swears to Boomer he is going to give up gambling and socializing.
• Many of Spectre's Cylons are collapsing due to Attila's hostile climate. His chief aide is named Hilltop, presumably because Spectre was looking at a hilltop when he built him. Other Cylon names are Mudhole and Treebark.
• Lucifer does not like it when Baltar refers to him as a machine. He deeply regrets saving Baltar's life and could care less if they ever find the humans again.
• Miri hears the sound of Starbuck's viper crashing. She watches him climb out of the wreckage from a distance.
• Starbuck manages to find a dead Cylon and is surprised to discover it is a complete machine. (The Cylons in the novelizations have thus far been organic beings under their armor). He collapses and has a dream about Cassiopea and Athena. He wakes up and sees Miri and Kyle before him. They are quickly surrounded by Cylons, but then the rest of the hidden children attack and the Cylons are defeated.
• Some of the names of the children are Laughing Jake, Chubby Marta, Ratzi, Herbert the Singer, Melysa, Jergin, and the Genie. There are 27 children in all.
• Miri has a unicorn named Rogue. She can communicate with it telepathically. Kyle has a unicorn named Demon.
• Many of the children get around by swinging on vines from tree to tree.
• Miri's mother, Megan, is held captive by the Cylons (as opposed to the father in the actual episode). She is an artist who was able to use her telepathic abilities to influence the oils used in painting to create magnificent art.
• The unicorns are not owned by the children. They aid the children by their own choice.
• The people who settled on Attila were from the planet Scorpia. They were exiled for protesting against the militaristic attitudes of the Scorpian government. It was a very warlike society and its elections had become little more than ceremonies because all political opposition was squelched.
• Magician is a unicorn that had never allowed anyone to ride him until Starbuck arrived. The two form a bond.
• Miri sneaks into the Cylon castle through a secret passage and carefully runs across the courtyard when no Cylons are looking in order to see Megan. There are a number of other prisoners besides her.
• Kyle doesn't like the Colonial military. Magician tries to help Starbuck when Kyle pulls a gun on him, but the unicorn is forced to run away.
• Lucifer believes he has created a system that will allow him to defeat Starbuck at the card game called pyramid should they ever have a chance to play again. Lucifer once suggested to Baltar that they play a hand, but Baltar merely scoffed at him.
• Starbuck actually gets captured by the Cylons during the trade-off. Magician is able to rescue him. Starbuck jumps off a moving wagon and onto the unicorn's back.
• Starbuck and Magician are attacked by a lion in the forest. The lion is wounded and scurries away, but Magician slumps down and dies. Starbuck howls in grief.
• Miri argues with Starbuck about his plan to defeat the Cylons. She continually has doubts about it. Starbuck says he'll surrender to the Cylons if the plan doesn't work.
• Starbuck rides a unicorn to the castle wall, and waves to the Cylons. A garrison is sent after him, and he leads them towards a swamp. When the Cylons walk up to the swamp, the children come from behind and push them in.
• Spectre tells Baltar that Starbuck is the pilot who "died". This only endears him to Baltar even more. Lucifer is deeply disappointed; he was hoping to meet Starbuck again one day.
• When Spectre decides to leave, Hilltop refuses. Spectre then deactivates Hilltop so there is no chance that anyone will learn of the devious tactics Spectre used while running the outpost. Once Spectre leaves, Hilltop is able to turn himself back on because he had made an adjustment in his circuits earlier. He then commands the garrison to surrender to the humans.
• After Starbuck leaves, Miri realizes that he was not for her. But she didn't want him to forget her, and so she sneaked a painting of a woman on a unicorn inside his shuttle after he refused to take it.

Characters

• Antila children
  • Ariadne
  • Arno Armwaver
  • Chubby Marta
  • The Genie
  • Goodchild
  • Herbert the Singer
  • Jergin
  • Kyle
  • Laughing Jake
  • Melysa
  • Miri
  • Nilz
  • Ratzi
  • Robus
• Antila adults
  • Kordel
  • Megan
  • Renkin
• Unicorns
  • Demon
  • Magician
  • Rogue
• Colonials
  • Apollo
  • Boomer
  • Cassiopeia
  • Starbuck
• Cylons
  • Hilltop
  • Lucifer
  • Mudhole
  • Spectre
  • Treebark

Mentioned

• Gawr
• Doreen

Notes

• This is Robert Thurston's favorite novelization.

Alternate covers

• 
  Original print cover.
• 
  Back cover.
• 
  Reprint cover.
• 
  Virgin cover art by David Schleinkofer.

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