Hera Agathon

For information on the Lord of Kobol of the same name, see Hera, Lord of Kobol.

Hera Agathon
Alexandra Thomas as Hera.
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Age	Approximately two years old. Born 9 months after the Cylon Attack (Downloaded)
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Birth Name	Hera; briefly named Isis
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Introduced	Downloaded
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Parents	Sharon Agathon (biological mother) Karl "Helo" Agathon (biological father) Maya (adoptive mother)
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Role	"Lead the next generation of God's children"
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Portrayed by	Lily Duong-Walton, Alexandra Thomas (older Hera) Iliana Gomez-Martinez (older Hera)
Hera Agathon is a Cylon
Hera Agathon is a Final Five Cylon
Hera Agathon is a Human/Cylon Hybrid
Hera Agathon is an Original Series Cylon
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Lily Duong-Walton as Hera.

Hera Agathon is the first successful Human/Cylon hybrid, the culmination of the Cylons' experiments to achieve viable procreation.

Her parents are the human Captain Karl "Helo" Agathon and the Cylon Lieutenant Sharon "Athena" Agathon of Galactica. Sharon Agathon (posing as "Boomer" Valerii) initially takes part in a Cylon experiment to set up Karl into falling in love with and impregnating her.

This experiment is necessary because the forced cross-breeding experiments in the Cylon Farms met with complete failure. The Cylons theorized that the key element to procreation that was missing was love (an important element to Cylons, because they believe that "God is love").

Agathon is the only known successful progeny of a humanoid Cylon, and therefore literally considered a "miracle from God" by the Cylons.

Agathon is conceived 24 days after the Cylon attack on Caprica, in a night of passion after Karl "rescues" Caprica-Valerii from what was really a Cylon deception to test his love. Caprica-Valerii is ordered to convince Karl to stay in "hiding" on Caprica, but instead Valerii falls in love with Karl herself. Valerii begins helping him to escape the Cylons, eventually switching her allegiance over to the Colonials both for her love of Karl and their unborn child.

Kara Thrace (who arrived earlier on Caprica to retrieve the Arrow of Apollo) leaves with Caprica-Valerii and Agathon in a captured Heavy Raider. Caprica-Valerii is incarcerated in Galactica's brig for the next few months, as her pregnancy continues to advance.

Agathon is born by emergency surgery one month premature. President Laura Roslin arranges with Doctor Cottle—and without Admiral William Adama's involvement—to fake Agathon's death and secretly gives the child to a woman named Maya under the guise that the child is the daughter of a Pegasus officer. The subterfuge, Roslin presumes, is necessary to keep Agathon safe from humanoid Cylons that may be hiding in the Fleet (Downloaded) . Maya, unaware of her new child's past, names the girl Isis (Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II).

Hera Agathon as an infant, in the care of Maya.

Gaius Baltar's virtual Number Six tells him he will someday raise this child, told to him in a vision he had while trapped on the planet Kobol. However, unaware of what President Roslin has done, Baltar, like the rest of the people who knew about her, believes Agathon to be dead.

When the Fleet settles on New Caprica under the rule of newly-elected President Baltar, Roslin begins teaching at a settlement elementary school with Maya. Roslin keeps Agathon and Maya close for observation in a cradle identical to the one Baltar saw in his vision.

Before the Battle of New Caprica, Roslin hides Maya and Agathon in the resistance's underground bunker and tasks resistance leader Samuel Anders to protect them at all costs (Exodus, Part I).

During the civilian evacuation, Maya is killed. Agathon is found by President Baltar, Caprica-Six, and Number Three and is welcomed aboard a baseship (Exodus, Part II). However, the young Agathon falls ill, and none of the Cylon physicians (who have no pediatric experience) understand why.

When Sharon Agathon learns from her former Galactica counterpart that her daughter is alive, she devises a plan to free her. After she compels her husband to shoot her, Sharon downloads to the Cylon ships, where Caprica-Six happens to be available to aid and is sympathetic enough to Sharon that she believes her and takes her to Hera. Mother and child reunite.

Sharon, through her Colonial training and maternal instinct, realizes that only Colonial medical care can save Hera Agathon, who appears to be suffering from an intestinal blockage. She persuades Caprica-Six to help her escape back to Galactica with Hera ("The Eye of Jupiter", "Rapture").

Agathon appears in several visions seen by Caprica-Six, Laura Roslin, and Sharon as the Fleet approaches the Ionian Nebula. In each vision, the three adults are compelled to save the child for motives not explained (Crossroads, Part II).

Two months later, after returning from the Demetrius mission with a rebel Cylon basestar, Sharon discovers that Agathon has a fixation with Number Six, seeing that Hera's various crayon drawings of both the number itself and various depictions of Six, including one that looks like the Virtual Six in the red dress. Agathon then leaves after this discovery, leaving her mother to frantically search around Galactica's corridors for her. After Sharon sees Natalie with Agathon, she has Galen Tyrol take Agathon away before mortally wounding Natalie (Guess What's Coming to Dinner?). As a result of this action, Agathon is briefly taken away from her mother, herself incarcerated in Galactica's brig by Admiral Adama, but he reverses that decision days later (Sine Qua Non).

Notes

• The series' producers have noted, in a TV Guide interview, that this character will not "hyperage", that is, suddenly become much older than series-elapsed time (see the talk page of this article for more information).