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'''Joseph Adama, Attorney At Law''' (a.k.a. '''Joseph Adams''') is a notorious civil liberties lawyer on [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] who works as a mob lawyer for the Tauron-based criminal organization [[Ha'la'tha]] nearly 60 years before the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Fall]].
'''Joseph Adama''' (a.k.a. '''Joseph Adams''') was a notorious civil liberties lawyer on [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] who was affiliated with the [[Tauron]] criminal organization [[Ha'la'tha]] in the years prior to the [[First Cylon War]].  Joseph Adama was also the father of [[William Adama]], commander of the [[Galactica type battlestar|battlestar]] ''[[Galactica]]''.


== Biography==
==Early Life==
===Background===
Joseph Adama was born on Tauron to [[Isabelle Adama|Isabelle]] and [[William Adama Sr.]] in the years leading up to the [[Tauron Civil War]]. His father, William, believed Joseph a more introverted child, who required coaxing into adulthood.  To that end, Joseph - pronounced Iusif or "yu-SEEF" (IPA: ju'sif) on Tauron - received his "mark of manhood" before his older brother, [[Sam Adama|Samuel]], having learned the ancient prayers and passages of the [[Sacred Scrolls]] ([[CAP]]: "[[The Dirteaters]]").
Adama was originally from [[Tauron (RDM)|Tauron]] and emigrated to Caprica after he and his brother [[Sam Adama|Sam]] were orphaned during the [[Tauron Civil War]]. He later assumed the more Caprican sounding surname "Adams" and changed the pronunciation of his first name from the proper Tauron pronunciation of Iusif or "yu-SEEF" (IPA: ju'sif) due to Caprican prejudice against Taurons. Growing up in a Caprican orphanage, Joseph became an influential defense attorney with ties to the [[Ha'la'tha]], an organized crime underworld, as a result of having his education paid for by them.  


Adama is the husband of [[Shannon Adama|Shannon]], with whom he fathers two children: [[Tamara Adama|Tamara]] and [[William Adama|William]], Fifty-eight years before the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Fall]], his wife and daughter are killed in [[Ben Stark]]'s suicide bombing of the [[Lev]] in [[Caprica City]]. Soon after, Adama reverts back to using his original family name ([[CAP]]: "[[Caprica pilot|Pilot]]"). During this period, Adama and his family resided in an apartment, 615 Olympic Street #3, in Caprica City ([[CAP]]: "[[There Is Another Sky]]").
===Tauron Civil War===
When civil war broke out on Tauron, Herac soldiers accused William and Isabelle Adama, Ha'la'tha sympathizers, of the murder of one of their men.  From their hiding place inside a closet, Joseph and Samuel were forced to watch as their mother was beaten and killed and their father tortured for information.  Accepting that William would not survive, Joseph shot and killed him, then fled with Samuel.  There on the streets of Tauron, Joseph gave his brother his first [[Tattoo#Tattoos|tattoo]] ([[CAP]]: "[[The Dirteaters]]").


=== Development of the Cylons ===
==Caprica==
Adama bonds with [[Daniel Graystone]], a wealthy computer engineer whose daughter, [[Zoe Graystone]], is also killed in the same suicide bombing aboard the Lev. Adama reluctantly agrees to help Daniel create digitized versions ([[holographic avatar]]s) of their daughters, using code created by Zoe to create a perfect copy. later, by stealing the [[meta-cognitive processor]] technology from Tauron technology developer [[Tomas Vergis]]. After Graystone creates an avatar of Tamara, Adama sees "her" in the virtual world of the [[holoband]], only to be appalled and disgusted by the technology after discovering that the Tamara there is distraught over not feeling alive. Extracting himself from the holoband, he voices his belief that Graystone is insane and that trying to bring back the dead via technology was unnatural ([[CAP]]: "[[Caprica pilot|Pilot]]").
Orphaned, Joseph and Samuel were sent to a refugee camp on Caprica.  Arriving on Caprica, Joseph was struck by the sight of flowers on the side of the road, something he had not seen on Tauron. In the refugee camp, the Adama boys met the [[Guatrau]] who later recounted that, even as a child, Joseph possessed a calculating air. The Guatrau took the Adamas under his wing, bringing Sam into the Ha'la'tha crime syndicate and putting Joseph through law school ([[CAP]]: "[[Caprica pilot|Pilot]]" "[[The Dirteaters]]").


Graystone later lost contact with the Tamara avatar right when Adama wanted to see her again. A disappointed Adama then asked his brother, [[Sam Adama|Sam]], to kill Graystone's wife in revenge, on the grounds that Adama lost his wife ''and'' daughter, while Graystone only lost his daughter: a potential terrorist ([[CAP]]: "[[The Reins of a Waterfall]]").
Adopting a more Caprican sounding name - "Adams" - Joseph took great efforts to assimilate into the new culture.  Adama raised two children, [[Tamara Adama|Tamara]] and [[William Adama|William]] with his wife [[Shannon]] in the [[Little Tauron]] neighborhood of [[Caprica City]] at 615 Olympic Street, apartment number 3 ([[CAP]]: "[[Caprica pilot|Pilot]]", "[[There is Another Sky]]").
[[Image:Joseph Adama in court, 1x01.jpg|thumb|Joseph Adama in court with his Ha'la'tha client.]]
 
===Mob Lawyer===
As a lawyer for the Ha'la'tha on Caprica, Joseph "Adams" used [[Cubits#In the Re-imagined Series|money]] provided by the Guatrau to pay off Judges and make bail for Ha'la'tha members put on trial by the state.  Despite the fact that the Guatrau had paid for his education, Adams made an effort to distance himself from the Tauron crime organization, saying that he was tired of doing the Guatrau's dirty work.  Adams was assisted in that "dirty" work by [[Evelyn]] who manged his business affairs, both legitimate and illegitimate.  Evelyn believed that if she wasn't around, Adams would "still be chasing ambulances" ([[CAP]]: "[[Caprica pilot|Pilot]]","[[The Reins of a Waterfall]]", "[[False Labor]]").
 
===Tragedy===
Fifty-eight years before the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]], Joseph Adams lost his wife, Shannon, and daughter, Tamara, in the suicide bombing of the Caprica City [[Metropolitan Levitation Mass Transit|MLMT]] train by [[Ben Stark]], a member of the [[Soldiers of the One]] monotheist terror cell.  Mourning in the traditional Tauron way - wearing black gloves to symbolize distance from the rest of the world - Joseph was devastated by the loss.  Meeting famed industrialist [[Daniel Graystone]] outside the [[Global Defense Department]] briefing on the bombing, Adams and Graystone commiserated over their losses, Graystone having also lost his daughter, [[Zoe Graystone|Zoe]] ([[CAP]]: "[[Caprica pilot|Pilot]]").
 
[[Image:Joseph and Daniel commiserate, 1x01.jpg|thumb|Adama and Graystone commiserate over their loss.]]
 
Extending Joseph and his son Willie an invitation to watch a [[Caprica Buccaneers]] [[Pyramid (RDM)|pyramid]] game from the owner's box at [[Atlas Arena]], Graystone showed the Adams great generosity.  Having learned of Adams' connection to the Ha'la'tha, Graystone used the opportunity to ask Joseph to do him a favor: help him steal a piece of equipment from the Tauron based company, the [[Vergis Corporation]].  In return, Graystone promised to bring Adams' wife and daughter back to life, using [[resurrection program|technology]] created by his deceased daughter.  The Vergis equipment was, he said, the linchpin to the entire process ([[CAP]]: "[[Caprica pilot|Pilot]]").
 
===="Tamara-A"====
Convinced that the resurrection of his wife and daughter was possible, Adams approached his brother, Sam Adama, now an enforcer for the Ha'la'tha to help hm carry out the theft from Tauron.  Though Adam's had hoped to reduce his involvement with the Ha'la'tha, Joseph agreed to deliver a threatening message to Caprican Minister of Defense [[Val Chambers]] in payment for Sam's assistance ([[CAP]]: "[[Caprica pilot|Pilot]]").
 
Upon delivery of the equipment, called a [[meta-cognitive processor]], Adams was given a demonstration of its potential by Daniel Graystone.  Scanning Adams into his computer and creating an [[avatar]] for the lawyer, Graystone introduced Joseph to his daughter, Tamara, reborn in the [[Virtual world]].  At first overjoyed to be reunited with his daughter, Adams quickly grew incensed as Tamara struggled with the new sensations of life as a digital image, screaming that she couldn't feel her heartbeat.  Calling the entire endeavor an abomination, Adams stormed out of Graystone's [[Graystone Estate|home]] lab, turning his back on the notion of resurrecting his family ([[CAP]]: "[[Caprica pilot|Pilot]]").
 
Realizing that he could not escape the reality of his situation, Adams resolved to begin anew, choosing to share with his son, William, the history of his family.  Telling his son about life on Tauron and the honorable man that was his father, Joseph revealed to William that he had changed their name but from then on referred to his family name not as "Adams", but as Adama ([[CAP]]: "[[Caprica pilot|Pilot]]").
 
===Repercussions===
[[Image:Joseph and Willie in Caprica, 1x01.jpg|thumb|Joseph and Willie Adama in Caprica City.]]
Despite accepting that his wife and daughter were not coming back, Joseph Adama struggled with the loss.  Upon having a vision of Tamara reaching out to him, Adama became obsessed with the notion of the avatar version of his daughter trapped within the virtual world.  With Daniel Graystone ignoring his calls, Adama confronted the scientist at the MagLev memorial service at [[Apollo Park]].  There Graystone informed Adama that the [[Zoe-A|Zoe avatar]] had been lost and that the Tamara avatar likely suffered the same fate.  Adama, however, was unwilling to accept this, and confronted Graystone again, this time having Sam Adama beat him savagely.  Graystone finally agreed to search for the Tamara avatar, but though he now believed she still existed in his private virtual space, Tamara had been discovered by the living Zoe avatar and been released into the expanse of the Virtual world ([[CAP]]: "[[Rebirth]]", "[[The Reins of a Waterfall]]").
 
Believing his daughter to be truly gone, Adama sought retribution, telling Sam Adama to even things out by killing Graystone's wife, [[Amanda Graystone|Amanda]].  As the time came, however, to carry out Amanda Graystone's execution, Joseph Adama began having second thoughts.  Unable to contact his brother to call off the hit, Joseph was overcome with guilt.  Aware of his brother's low tolerance for violence, Sam Adama took the opportunity to scare both Amanda Graystone and Joseph Adama, before revealing that he had no intention of killing her ([[CAP]]: "[[The Reins of a Waterfall]]", "[[Gravedancing]]").


== The Notorious Lawyer ==
== The Notorious Lawyer ==

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Joseph Adama (a.k.a. Joseph Adams) was a notorious civil liberties lawyer on Caprica who was affiliated with the Tauron criminal organization Ha'la'tha in the years prior to the First Cylon War. Joseph Adama was also the father of William Adama, commander of the battlestar Galactica.

Early Life[edit]

Joseph Adama was born on Tauron to Isabelle and William Adama Sr. in the years leading up to the Tauron Civil War. His father, William, believed Joseph a more introverted child, who required coaxing into adulthood. To that end, Joseph - pronounced Iusif or "yu-SEEF" (IPA: ju'sif) on Tauron - received his "mark of manhood" before his older brother, Samuel, having learned the ancient prayers and passages of the Sacred Scrolls (CAP: "The Dirteaters").

Tauron Civil War[edit]

When civil war broke out on Tauron, Herac soldiers accused William and Isabelle Adama, Ha'la'tha sympathizers, of the murder of one of their men. From their hiding place inside a closet, Joseph and Samuel were forced to watch as their mother was beaten and killed and their father tortured for information. Accepting that William would not survive, Joseph shot and killed him, then fled with Samuel. There on the streets of Tauron, Joseph gave his brother his first tattoo (CAP: "The Dirteaters").

Caprica[edit]

Orphaned, Joseph and Samuel were sent to a refugee camp on Caprica. Arriving on Caprica, Joseph was struck by the sight of flowers on the side of the road, something he had not seen on Tauron. In the refugee camp, the Adama boys met the Guatrau who later recounted that, even as a child, Joseph possessed a calculating air. The Guatrau took the Adamas under his wing, bringing Sam into the Ha'la'tha crime syndicate and putting Joseph through law school (CAP: "Pilot" "The Dirteaters").

Adopting a more Caprican sounding name - "Adams" - Joseph took great efforts to assimilate into the new culture. Adama raised two children, Tamara and William with his wife Shannon in the Little Tauron neighborhood of Caprica City at 615 Olympic Street, apartment number 3 (CAP: "Pilot", "There is Another Sky").

Joseph Adama in court with his Ha'la'tha client.

Mob Lawyer[edit]

As a lawyer for the Ha'la'tha on Caprica, Joseph "Adams" used money provided by the Guatrau to pay off Judges and make bail for Ha'la'tha members put on trial by the state. Despite the fact that the Guatrau had paid for his education, Adams made an effort to distance himself from the Tauron crime organization, saying that he was tired of doing the Guatrau's dirty work. Adams was assisted in that "dirty" work by Evelyn who manged his business affairs, both legitimate and illegitimate. Evelyn believed that if she wasn't around, Adams would "still be chasing ambulances" (CAP: "Pilot","The Reins of a Waterfall", "False Labor").

Tragedy[edit]

Fifty-eight years before the Fall of the Twelve Colonies, Joseph Adams lost his wife, Shannon, and daughter, Tamara, in the suicide bombing of the Caprica City MLMT train by Ben Stark, a member of the Soldiers of the One monotheist terror cell. Mourning in the traditional Tauron way - wearing black gloves to symbolize distance from the rest of the world - Joseph was devastated by the loss. Meeting famed industrialist Daniel Graystone outside the Global Defense Department briefing on the bombing, Adams and Graystone commiserated over their losses, Graystone having also lost his daughter, Zoe (CAP: "Pilot").

Adama and Graystone commiserate over their loss.

Extending Joseph and his son Willie an invitation to watch a Caprica Buccaneers pyramid game from the owner's box at Atlas Arena, Graystone showed the Adams great generosity. Having learned of Adams' connection to the Ha'la'tha, Graystone used the opportunity to ask Joseph to do him a favor: help him steal a piece of equipment from the Tauron based company, the Vergis Corporation. In return, Graystone promised to bring Adams' wife and daughter back to life, using technology created by his deceased daughter. The Vergis equipment was, he said, the linchpin to the entire process (CAP: "Pilot").

"Tamara-A"[edit]

Convinced that the resurrection of his wife and daughter was possible, Adams approached his brother, Sam Adama, now an enforcer for the Ha'la'tha to help hm carry out the theft from Tauron. Though Adam's had hoped to reduce his involvement with the Ha'la'tha, Joseph agreed to deliver a threatening message to Caprican Minister of Defense Val Chambers in payment for Sam's assistance (CAP: "Pilot").

Upon delivery of the equipment, called a meta-cognitive processor, Adams was given a demonstration of its potential by Daniel Graystone. Scanning Adams into his computer and creating an avatar for the lawyer, Graystone introduced Joseph to his daughter, Tamara, reborn in the Virtual world. At first overjoyed to be reunited with his daughter, Adams quickly grew incensed as Tamara struggled with the new sensations of life as a digital image, screaming that she couldn't feel her heartbeat. Calling the entire endeavor an abomination, Adams stormed out of Graystone's home lab, turning his back on the notion of resurrecting his family (CAP: "Pilot").

Realizing that he could not escape the reality of his situation, Adams resolved to begin anew, choosing to share with his son, William, the history of his family. Telling his son about life on Tauron and the honorable man that was his father, Joseph revealed to William that he had changed their name but from then on referred to his family name not as "Adams", but as Adama (CAP: "Pilot").

Repercussions[edit]

Joseph and Willie Adama in Caprica City.

Despite accepting that his wife and daughter were not coming back, Joseph Adama struggled with the loss. Upon having a vision of Tamara reaching out to him, Adama became obsessed with the notion of the avatar version of his daughter trapped within the virtual world. With Daniel Graystone ignoring his calls, Adama confronted the scientist at the MagLev memorial service at Apollo Park. There Graystone informed Adama that the Zoe avatar had been lost and that the Tamara avatar likely suffered the same fate. Adama, however, was unwilling to accept this, and confronted Graystone again, this time having Sam Adama beat him savagely. Graystone finally agreed to search for the Tamara avatar, but though he now believed she still existed in his private virtual space, Tamara had been discovered by the living Zoe avatar and been released into the expanse of the Virtual world (CAP: "Rebirth", "The Reins of a Waterfall").

Believing his daughter to be truly gone, Adama sought retribution, telling Sam Adama to even things out by killing Graystone's wife, Amanda. As the time came, however, to carry out Amanda Graystone's execution, Joseph Adama began having second thoughts. Unable to contact his brother to call off the hit, Joseph was overcome with guilt. Aware of his brother's low tolerance for violence, Sam Adama took the opportunity to scare both Amanda Graystone and Joseph Adama, before revealing that he had no intention of killing her (CAP: "The Reins of a Waterfall", "Gravedancing").

The Notorious Lawyer[edit]

Joseph Adama's silver lighter

Adama believed that law was a way of exorcising everyone's demons, a belief that lead him to defend "the worst of the worst." Lee Adama remembered reading about how Joseph let "murderers go free," though never understanding why Joseph put himself through the abuse. In a discussion with Lampkin, it is revealed to Lee that Adama sought to understand the motivations that cause people to cheat, why people reward their enemies, go to war, and why people build machines to correct their flaws and shortcomings (TRS: "The Son Also Rises"). Lee apparently remains ignorant to Joseph Adama's connections to the Ha'la'tha, while it is uncertain whether Lampkin knew of the connection.

Adama always carried a silver lighter during his cases; he considered it good luck, and claimed he only lost a case when he left it at home. He later gave it to his son William, who, after the holocaust, loaned it to his own son as a token of luck for a crucial mission, which was returned to him after the mission's success (TRS: "The Hand of God").

Before going to trial, Adama would always break pencils before entering the courtroom as a reminder to "break preconceptions" and "work with what you had." He would then ask to borrow a pencil from the clerk. Adama's son recounted this ritual to Laura Roslin before her upcoming Presidential debate, leading her to try it herself (TRS: "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I").

Legacies[edit]

After the Fall, his son William Adama (commander of Galactica) remarked that he thought Adama was a better father than he ever was to his own children (TRS: "The Hand of God)"]].. Adama's grandson, Lee Adama, would repeatedly visit the elder Adama during his youth, sneaking a peek at Joseph's various law books (TRS: "A Day in the Life"). Joseph would repeatedly wave Lee over, telling him "Lee, be a good boy. Just don't be too good." (TRS: "The Son Also Rises")

During his tenure, defense attorney Romo Lampkin was one of Adama's students, likely meeting him while working in one of Caprica's civil litigation offices. Though Lampkin claims to have hated the man "because he was right" about the law, Lampkin also admits to learning everything he knows about the law from Adama, and even carries a worn copy of Law and Mind: The Psychology of Legal Practice with him. After first meeting Lee Adama, Lampkin claims that he looked like his grandfather (TRS: "The Son Also Rises"). Another book written by Adama is Trial Tactics and Strategies (TRS: "Crossroads, Part I").

Family tree[edit]

 
 
 
William Adama Sr.
 
 
 
Isabelle Adama
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Larry
 
Sam Adama
 
 
 
Evelyn Adama
 
 
 
Joseph Adama
 
 
 
Shannon Adama
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Carolanne Adama
 
 
 
 
 
 
William "Bill" Adama
 
 
 
 
Tamara Adama
 
 
William "Willie" Adama
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Zak Adama
 
 
 
Lee Adama
 
Anastasia Dualla
 


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