Zoe Graystone

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Zoe Graystone
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Colony	Caprica
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Introduced	Caprica pilot
Death	Caprica pilot
Parents	Daniel Graystone (father) Amanda Graystone (mother)
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Marital Status	Girlfriend of Ben Stark †
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Role	Creator of first Cylon consciousness in the Twelve Colonies.
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Portrayed by	Alessandra Toressani
Zoe Graystone is a Cylon
Zoe Graystone is a Final Five Cylon
Zoe Graystone is a Human/Cylon Hybrid
Zoe Graystone is an Original Series Cylon
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		@ BW Media
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Zoe Graystone is the daughter of Daniel Graystone, a brilliant and wealthy Caprican computer engineer and his wife Amanda Graystone. Her talent with computer programming is greatly admired by her friends. Later, after her death, her father learns the full extent of her talent, such as encryption coding, and he comes to admire her talent as well. Graystone's friends believed that her talents were God given for the purpose of revealing God to the worlds.

She was introduced to the worship of one God by the headmistress of the Athena Academy, Sister Clarice Willow and became a closet monotheist in the polytheistic society of the Twelve Colonies. She created an exact virtual-reality duplicate of herself on the holoband network her father created 10 years before, presumably as a symbol or instrument to change to the worlds' monotheistic beliefs and morality. To that end Zoe tried to leave Caprica, running away from home with her boyfriend Ben Stark, a fanatical monotheist, and her best friend Lacy Rand to live on Gemenon with new families. As they board the Lev for the port and a ship to Gemenon, Rand has second thoughts and stays behind. Stark and Graystone proceed, but Ben has other intentions. After Graystone sends a goodbye e-mail to her parents from her computer sheet, she is horrified when Stark reveals a bomb strapped around his torso. Stark and Graystone perish when he sets off the bomb, killing Shannon and Tamara Adams as well. (Caprica pilot)

Obsessed with resurrecting what is left of his dead daughter, Daniel Graystone downloads her virtual-reality avatar into a prototype military robot, creating the first Cybernetic Life Form Node, or Cylon.

Zoe-A

Before her death, Zoe found a way to upload her memories and DNA into a Virtual Reality hologram, thus creating an online avatar of herself on the Holo-band network which her father invented, Zoe-A. She is intended to somehow "change the worlds" and Zoe had been teaching her about the alleged defects of their society that she will somehow bring society to the truth of the "One true God". Zoe-A resides in Virtual Reality in a room of an adolescent but decadent "V-Club" that only she occupies away from the others participating in the Virtual world. It is bare and dark with with a large four person sette. Votive candles are along around the walls. High up along those side walls and the wall behind the sette are stain glass windows (much like a Christian church in real life). It is essentially a temple to her. It could only be entered by Zoe, Lacy and presumably Ben by touching a virtual sensor shaped in the form of the Infinity symbol. After the suicide bombing, the avatar is left behind, suffering from sympathy burns from the rudimentary bio feedback subroutine that Zoe had set up so that Zoe-A can feel Zoe's experiences in the world, even though she could not do so directly. Lacy came to her to reconnect with her dead friend. At first she is horrified and confused over Zoe-A's apparent wounds and then rejects her momentarily as a friend saying she was merely a "thing" but changed her minds seeing Zoe-A's physical and emotional suffering. Later Daniel Graystone discovers Lacy's visitations of Zoe-A and after at first rejecting the notion of Zoe-A being her daughter, he steals her by downloading her data to a memory stick with the intention of downloading her into one of his prototype robots.

Zoe's online avatar.

Zoe-R

When Daniel Graystone discovers his daughter's online twin, he decides to recreate Zoe as a robot, using Zoe's avatar and technology stolen from his business competitor, Tomas Vergis. With the help of Joseph Adams's (later Adama) organized crime contacts, whose wife and daughter also died in the same explosion, to steal an advanced technology from the Vergis Company, the Meta-Cognitive Processor (MCP) which is an artificial brain. The crime syndicate has Adams do a standing favor for it in return for stealing the processor. Adams is to persuade the Caprican Defense Minister to do a favor for the mob. Adams attempts this but fails to persuade the Defense Minister. However, the Mob is satisfied over Adams's efforts and obtains the technology for Graystone (the Defense Minister is later murdered in his bed possibly with Adams's knowledge). Graystone installs the MCP into a U-87 Cyber Combat Unit. Zoe-A is downloaded into the memory of the U-87 by her "father" Daniel, and thus becomes Zoe-R, the first version of the Cylons in the Twelve Colonies. (Caprica pilot)

Notes

• The name "Zoe" originally comes from the ancient Greek word for "life", and is used in the New Testament of the Bible 134 times to indicate the "eternal life" or the "life after death" in heaven rewarded to the children of God. This could be a reference to Zoe's own resurrection as Zoe-R, or it could be a religious reference to the Cylons' status as the children of God, or both.