Number Two

Number Two
[[Image:File:Leoben conoy 001.jpg|200px|Number Two]]
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Age	Mid-40s in appearance
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Introduced	[[{{{seen}}}]]
Death	1st Copy Terminated at Ragnar Anchorage (Mini-Series), 2nd Copy Terminated on Gemenon Traveller (Flesh and Bone)
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Family Tree	View
Role	Prophet / Mis-informant
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Portrayed by	Callum Keith Rennie
Number Two is a Cylon
Number Two is a Final Five Cylon
Number Two is a Human/Cylon Hybrid
Number Two is an Original Series Cylon
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Leoben Conoy is a Humano-Cylon first encountered at Ragnar Anchorage. He fancies himself as a prophet with predilections for enlightened monotheistic religious dogma, whereas he is more likely to sew the seeds of doubt or mis-information, weaving lies in the fabric of truth and faith.

Biography

Conoy has the appearance of a man in his mid-forties. He is first encountered at the Ragnar Anchorage, where he poses as an arms dealer. Already sick from the radiation around Ragnar, he becomes trapped aboard the station with Commander Adama after a warhead is accidentally detonated (Mini-Series).

As they try to find another way out of the station, Leoben reveals his true nature to Adama through conversation, initially by claiming to be something of a philosopher. Identifying Conoy as a Cylon on the point of death, Adama challenges him and learns of the Cylon's ability to transfer their consciousness to another body when dying. Only Leoben can't -- the radiation of Ragnar is interfering with his ability. A fight ensues, during which Adama manages to bludgeon Conoy to death, bringing the body back to the Galactica for examination. Samples from this body, when burned, revealed synthetic materials -- which permitted Adama, Colonel Tigh and Dr. Gaius Baltar to deduce that Cylons could mimic humans in appearance. (Mini-Series) The body is then stored in the ship's morgue (Flesh and Bone).

Conoy is again encountered when a copy is found apparently stowing away aboard the Gemenon Traveller. Knowing the model's ability to weave fact, fiction and outright lies into a confusing fabric of truth, half-truths and deceit, Adama wants the copy destroyed. However, he is overruled by President Roslin, who demands the model is interrogated.

Lieutenant Kara "Starbuck" Thrace is assigned to interrogate Conoy aboard the Gemenon Traveller. Over the course of eight hours, Conoy demonstrates his ability to confuse and mix truth with lies: he claims to have planted a nuclear device somewhere in the fleet, but will not reveal where. He also mixes what appears to be religious mumbo-jumbo with penetrating insights into Colonial philosophy and Starbuck's own past (Flesh and Bone).

While she resorts to ever-more drastic measures to obtain details on the alleged bomb's location, Starbuck finds herself being drawn into Leoben's vision of life. So much so that when Roslin orders his execution, Starbuck very much empathises with him.

Prior to his death, Conoy reveals there is no bomb, and uses a reason suggested by Starbuck in the initial stages of his interrogation: that his is so far from other Cylon centres of influence, he cannot transmit his "soul" back to home should his body die. However, the real purpose of his mission is revealed when President Roslin arrives aboard the Traveller and he manages to whisper to her that Adama is in fact a Cylon -- thus planting a potentially dangerous seed of doubt between her and Adama.

Convinced now of the danger in keeping Conoy alive, Roslin orders him ejected from the Traveller.

Interestingly, Roslin had a premonition of Conoy's surfacing in the fleet when she had a dream about him at the time he was captured. Later, in her cabin on Colonial One, she had a vision of him talking to her which prompted her decision to visit him in person - thus allowing him to complete his mission.

At the time of the dream and the vision, Roslin assumed both were the result of her using Chamalla to treat her cancer. However, both may have been the result of some form of psychic ability on the part of Conoy.