Elosha

Elosha
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Age	Early 50s
Colony	Unknown
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Birth Name	Elosha ?
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Death	Home, Part I
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Marital Status	Unconfirmed, most likely celibate.
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Role	Priestess, Colonial Fleet / Spiritual Advisor to President Roslin.
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Portrayed by	Lorena Gale
Elosha is a Cylon
Elosha is a Final Five Cylon
Elosha is a Human/Cylon Hybrid
Elosha is an Original Series Cylon
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Elosha was a priestess who attended the decommissioning ceremonies for the Battlestar Galactica, and later presided over services within the fleet. She and President Laura Roslin became friends and confidants by means of a mutual spiritual awakening.

Biography

According to a podcast conversation with actress Lorena Gale, Elosha had been on the Quorum of Twelve for some twenty years. She was present on Galactica to "cut the tape" at the decommissioning ceremony.

According to Gale and her readings of various scripts, Elosha had been a "wild child" and a "juvenile delinquent", and as such was given a choice between reform school and the monastery. She chose the monastery, where they "do a lot of drugs", i.e. chamalla. Elosha certainly knows the scriptures inside and out.

At the time of the Cylon attack, she was travelling aboard Colonial Heavy 798, returning to Caprica with others who had attended the Galactica ceremonies. When word came through that President Adar's entire cabinet has been wiped out with the exception of Laura Roslin, the Education Secretary, Elosha officiated at a swearing-in ceremony at which Roslin was made President of the Twelve Colonies.

Following the Cylon attack, when the suriving fleet had apparently evaded the Cylons, Elosha presided over a service aboard the Galactica in memory of the ship's dead (Mini-Series). At the time, with his crew suffering from shock and low morale, Commander Adama gave his people cause for hope: the legendary planet Earth, enlisting Elosha's help to do so.

Elosha further presided over the Service of the Dead following the lost of seven of the Galactica's pilots in freak accident on the hanger bay (Act of Contrition).

While she did not reveal as much to others, Elosha was having a crisis of faith: while she was versed in the Scriptures and the history of the Twelve Tribes of man, she did not entirely believe in the truth of either (Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I).

Her faith underwent a renewal when she is called to Colonial One to speak with President Roslin. Here she learned that Roslin was having visions, one of which could be linked directly to the writings of Pythia (The Hand of God).

Because of her knowledge of ancient history, and of the scriptures, Elosha becomes Roslin's confidante and spiritual advisor, and is able to help discern the meanings of Roslin's visions (Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I) - thus causing her own faith to undergo a renewal.

She becomes the fourth person to know of Roslin's terminal cancer (Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I).

Roslin, et al. mourn the loss of Elosha on Kobol. (C. SciFi Channel)

Elosha accompanies Roslin on a Raptor piloted by Lee Adama as Roslin escapes from the Galactica's brig and follows her in their search for the whereabouts of Earth using the resources of Kobol (The Farm).

On the Astral Queen, while Roslin's crew discuss their plans to explore Kobol, the priestess warns that, according to the Scriptures, at least one of them will die since Kobol takes a toll for uncovering its secrets. Unfortunately, Elosha was one of those fated to die and was killed in "Home" by a landmine explosion left by Cylon Centurions in a trap. She was left amongst the other ancient gravestone markers on a trail described by the Scriptures that led to the Tomb of Athena (Home, Part I).

External links

• Podcast conversation with Lorena Gale on Sci-Fi Talk (about 24 minutes, BSG talk near the beginning, no spoilers)