Battlestar Galactica 4

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Issue No.	4
Writer(s)	Greg Pak
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Penciller(s)	Nigel Raynor
Inker(s)	Nigel Raynor
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Adaptation of	Gaps in Season 2
Published	September 2006
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Collected in	Battlestar Galactica Volume I
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Publisher's summary

In this issue, all of your questions are answered about the fate of the Returners, and the status of the infected Galactica crew! Plus, see Commander Adama in action as you've never see him! All this plus the set-up for our next big story arc as the unseen adventures of the Galactica continue from Dynamite Entertainment.

Plot

Commander Adama brings back a lost Caprican Cylon Brigade consisting of pre-Cylon War Centurions and Raiders, which concerns the entire Fleet, including President Laura Roslin.

Summary

• Fifteen minutes prior to the end of the third issue, Commander William Adama and Lieutenant Kara Thrace run into a wall of antebellum Cylons Raiders. They prepare for an attack, although they are initially confused as to why they haven't attacked. Adama identifies the ships as pre-Cylon War Raiders. The leader of this phalanx, Fifteen Beta Three, identifies their brigade as the Caprican Cylon Brigade.
• Upon asking for their command, Thrace tells them to go frak themselves. They start self-destructing, a process which Adama halts despite Thrace's objections. After determining that they were ordered to protect the quadrant by their former commander 50 years, 4 months and 3 days ago (during the Third Colonial War), Adama informs the Cylons that their commander is dead and that he's the last surviving high-ranking Caprican military officer. They subsequently obey his commands.
• On Galactica, Karl Agathon visits Sharon Valerii, discussing the possibility that she may be the "real" Sharon while the other Sharon was a copy. She tells him to stop, saying that she knows what she is, but is beset by feeling the presence of the antebellum Cylons.
• Aboard Medivac 12, Virtual Six tells Gaius Baltar to hide. He initially makes a glib crack, asking "how on Earth can I hide from you". However, he hides anyway upon seeing the antebellum Raiders through a view port.
• A shuttle from Colonial One heads to Galactica. Despite Adama's protests regarding the Returner virus, Roslin reveals that she was infected with it on Colonial One. She is concerned about the Cylons' presence in the Fleet and, believing Adama to be unfit for command, goes to Galactica to relieve him of command. Adama assures her that each Cylon is being tracked by their guns and will be destroyed should they do anything suspicious.
• Outside the window of her shuttle, Roslin tells Adama that the Cylons are firing. However, they do not fire on any of the ships; they are firing on terrorists from the Earth Protectorate, who are flinging themselves toward Roslin's shuttle with bombs strapped to their bodies. The Cylons interdict these suicide bombers, some flying directly into their path.
• Roslin is stunned by the display, particularly as a Cylon Centurion salutes her from a Raider that is in view.
• Roslin boards Galactica. Adama informs her that the bombers were Earth Protectorate terrorists wanting to kill her. All nine of them were killed by the Cylons, which protected her because of her status as president of the Colonies. Mistrustful of the Cylons, she brings up the point that the Protectorate may be right, and that the Cylons do want to use the Fleet as a tool to find Earth.
• Adama concedes that this is a possibility, which leads him to talk to his expert: Sharon Valerii. Valerii reveals that she can hear the Centurions through the Talk Wireless, if she concentrates hard enough. She reveals that they appear to be happy and proud, now that the humans have come back to them.
• Adama then asks how long will it take for the Cylons to "wise up" and turn on their creators. Valerii scoffs the question, saying that not all Cylons are the same and that they can learn, feel, and come up with their own conclusions the same way humans can.
• Roslin asks if Valerii's thoughts can be heard by the Cylons. She says she doesn't know, but hopes that this isn't the case.

Notes

• Old-model Centurions communicate via "talk wireless", which Sharon Valerii can hear. The term "talk wireless" was previously established in "Colonial Day" as being a genre of programming on wireless stations, thus Valerii's use of the term is incorrect.

Analysis

• The Caprican Cylon Brigade has been waiting for their commander for 53 years, 4 months, and 3 days, which closely fits in with the length of the Cylon War (12 years, 6 months) and the duration of the Armistice (40 years). Therefore the events of this comic take place 10 months after the Fall of the Twelve Colonies, although this overshoots the timeline established by the episode "Pegasus" by four months. Given that this comic was produced well before "Razor", which established the duration of the Cylon War, this level of near accuracy is rather remarkable.

Questions

• Did Sharon Valerii download directly into the new body on the Raptor, thereby bypassing the resurrection tank?