Boomer

Boomer is a name of two distinct characters from the Original Series and Re-imagined Series.

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Boomer
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Human Name	Sharon Valerii
Age
Colony	Cylon Homeworld; she has a fabricated background of being from Troy
Birth place	{{{birthplace}}}
Birth Name
Birth Date	{{{birthdate}}}
Callsign	Boomer
Nickname	{{{nickname}}}
Introduced	Miniseries
Last Known Appearance	[[{{{lastseen}}}]]
Death	1. Shot by Cally 2. Neck broken by Caprica-Six 3. Shot by Sharon "Athena" Agathon (death final) (TRS: "Daybreak, Part II")
Parents	None biologically (allegedly Abraham and Katherine Valerii); she was created by the Final Five
Siblings	None in the usual way (allegedly one, per photo in "Downloaded"); all other Number Eight Cylons are her identical sisters, and the other numbers are considered siblings as well
Children
Marital Status	Formerly in a relationship with Galen Tyrol and later John Cavil
Family Tree	View
Role	Cylon infiltrator, saboteur; Raptor pilot
Rank	Formerly lieutenant, junior grade
Serial Number	T-990429 312743
Portrayed by	Grace Park
Boomer is a Cylon
Boomer is a Final Five Cylon
Boomer is a Human/Cylon Hybrid
Boomer is an Original Series Cylon
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Sharon "Boomer" Valerii is a copy of the humanoid Cylon model Number Eight who is initially planted as a "sleeper" agent in the Colonial Fleet. She is unaware of her Cylon nature and serves for two years as Lieutenant Valerii on Galactica, where she is assigned as a Raptor pilot and also engaged in a secret relationship with Chief Tyrol. After the Cylon attack, her underlying programming repeatedly emerges which leads her to unconscious acts of sabotage. Growing confusion about her true self result in a deep depression and a failed suicide attempt. After Valerii returns from a successful mission to destroy a Cylon basestar, she shoots Commander William Adama in the chest, wounding him critically. She is incarcerated in the brig and soon afterward is killed by Cally Henderson.

Her consciousness is downloaded and she is reborn in another body. Subsequently, she experiences severe problems integrating into Cylon society and long considers herself more human than Cylon. She eventually works together with Caprica-Six in an attempt to change Cylon popular opinion about humans and she emerges as one of the Cylon leaders jointly responsible for the end of the occupation of the Twelve Colonies and later the Cylon occupation on New Caprica. Following the failure on New Caprica, Valerii abandons her hopes for coexistence with humans and she denounces her past on Galactica. She is assigned to watch Hera Agathon, but when Hera's mother comes to rescue her, Valerii tries to kill her and is killed by Caprica-Six allowing Agathon and Caprica-Six to escape while Valerii downloads to a new body again. However, while she feels that she belongs to Cylon society, she is not fully integrated into it and relatively isolated among her peers, particularly from the rest of her model's line as her vote to lobotomize the Cylon Raiders leads to a Cylon Civil War.

She is engaged in a relationship with the Number One leading the pro-lobotomization faction of the Cylons and is a member of that faction although she does express some misgivings about their actions. She is also aware of the identity of at least one member of the Final Five: Ellen Tigh and has known since before even D'Anna found out as Cavil trusts her and let her in on the secret. She eventually helps Ellen escape as part of a plan to infiltrate Galactica and is locked in the Cylon brig on arrival.

Later when she is prisoner on Galactica she escapes, beats Athena badly, has sexual relations with Helo and kidnaps Hera, but redeems herself somewhat by saving Hera from dissection and helping her escape to her parents. Valerii is finally killed by Athena and with resurrection destroyed, her death is final.

Biography

Life on Galactica

Valerii is a "sleeper" agent, unsuspecting of her Cylon status. As far as she is aware, she was born on the mining colony of Troy, as the daughter of a family from Aerilon ^{(TRS: "Flesh and Bone")}. Troy itself was destroyed in an unexplained cataclysm, allowing Valerii's background to be established as that of an orphan. Following her arrival on board Galactica, she enters into a relationship with the ship's Chief Petty Officer Galen Tyrol, which is against military protocols concerning fraternization between officers and non-officers. Whether this is unintentional or a subconscious reaction to her Cylon programming remains unclear.

As a rookie pilot, she keeps missing the trap and putting holes into the deck. Commander Adama calls her to his office alongside Colonel Tigh and talks with her about why she keeps doing that and instead of kicking her out of the service, he gives her advice and another chance. Valerii thanks him and tells him she owes him one and will pay him back someday. Adama says a lot of people owe him one but a lot never pay it back but Valerii promises to pay him back someday when it really means something ^{(TRS: "Daybreak, Part II")}.

At the time of the Cylon attack, Valerii is flying her Raptor to Caprica with Galactica's last remaining operational Viper squadron, when they learn of the attacks and attempt to engage two Cylon Raiders. However, the Viper squadron is destroyed, and the Raptor is damaged while trying to escape, forcing Valerii and her ECO Karl "Helo" Agathon to make an emergency landing on Caprica in Raptor 312.

After repairing the Raptor they are mobbed by desperate civilians and undertake a rescue operation. Lifting a number of children, Valerii states there is room for three adults. Valerii holds a lottery for the three seats. When the last number is called, Agathon chooses to give up his place aboard the Raptor so that Doctor Gaius Baltar can be rescued as well ^{(TRS: "Miniseries")}. Helo later manages to make it back to Galactica with the help of Starbuck and another Sharon months later. ^{(TRS: "Home, Part I")}

After being found by Laura Roslin's group of stranded military and civilian ships, Valerii works within the new civilian Fleet, assisting Roslin's attempts to gather other stranded civilian ships in the space surrounding Caprica. She finds a number of ships critical to the fledgling Fleet's survival, such as a fuel tanker. After the newly assembled Fleet, led by Galactica, leaves the solar system of the Colonies, Valerii aids in other critical acts, including the discovery of a tylium-rich asteroid, replete with an active Cylon mine ^{(TRS: "The Hand of God")}, and locating a source of water to replenish the Fleet's lost supply after the sabotage of Galactica's stores ^{(TRS: "Water")}.

Acts of sabotage

Valerii and Chief Tyrol.

At the same time as she is supporting the human Fleet, Valerii's underlying Cylon subroutines periodically emerge. Her Cylon programming is the cause of the sabotage of Galactica's water tanks, something she planned herself. However, her human side starts to emerge and prevents her from dying in the sabotage as Cavil had wanted with Cavil bringing out her Cylon programing using an elephant statue (Water, The Plan). Later, she possibly assists a copy of Aaron Doral to perform a suicide bombing by leaving a hatch open for him. The Doral copy nearly kills Commander Adama and Colonel Tigh (Litmus, The Plan).

Valerii finds herself soaking wet, after she awakes to her human personality shortly after the bombs used to destroy Galactica's water tanks were planted. She becomes increasingly concerned and starts to question her true self. Her worry increases when she experiences a certain attachment to a captured Cylon Raider, and is able to give insight into how it can be properly assessed and understood ("Water," "Six Degrees of Separation," "Flesh and Bone"). Her concerns are further elevated when, following the bombing by Doral, Galactica's Master-at-Arms, Sergeant Hadrian, suspects her and Chief Galen Tyrol of Cylon complicity ^{(TRS: "Litmus")}.

Tyrol distances himself from Valerii after this incident, and he later ends their relationship following the arrest of Specialist Socinus (Litmus). Facing Tyrol's suspicions concerning her activities immediately before the bombing, Valerii finds herself emotionally isolated and stressed. She takes the Cylon detector test created by Dr. Baltar, but he hides her positive test result in fear that once discovered, she might immediately retaliate and kill him ^{(TRS: "Flesh and Bone")}. Valerii finds short solace in Baltar's test, but deals with an anonymous accusation, when she finds the word "Cylon" written on the mirror of her locker. While its unclear, her Cylon personality believes she unconsciously wrote it to warn herself about her true nature and to stop her from continuing acts of sabotage (Six Degrees of Separation, The Plan).

Valerii shoots Commander William Adama ^{(TRS: "Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II")}.

Frightened and alone, Valerii withdraws into herself and attempts suicide, but is initially unable to do so. During her second attempt, she is interrupted by Dr. Baltar who, rather than discouraging her, essentially gives her his blessing on her suicide. Following his departure from the duty locker, Valerii succeeds in shooting herself, but her Cylon personality interrupts the attempt. Valerii only wounds herself in her right cheek ^{(TRS: "Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I")}.

After Kara Thrace absconds with a captured Cylon Raider intended for an attack on a basestar orbiting Kobol, Commander Adama asks Valerii and ECO Margaret Edmondson to use a Cylon transponder in their Raptor to infiltrate the basestar and place a nuclear warhead within to destroy it. The mission is a success, but when the weapon would not auto-release from the Raptor after landing, Valerii exits the ship and enters the basestar. Inside, she encounters a dozen copies of herself, confirming her worst fears. Valerii escapes in the Raptor just before the warhead detonates and destroys the basestar. Back on Galactica, her encounter with the other Eight models on the basestar apparently triggers Valerii's Cylon programming to emerge once more, and she shoots Commander Adama in the chest while being congratulated on her successful mission in CIC, wounding him critically. While her Cylon programming succeeded in performing the act Cavil had been pushing her to do, she had to mentally turn herself into a Centurion as even Valerii's Cylon personality cares for Adama. It's later suggested by a Number Six that she purposefully wounded him in a way he could survive due to love for him. ^{(TRS: "Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II", "Scattered" and "The Plan")}.

Imprisonment and death

After shooting Adama, Valerii is quickly restrained by guards and jailed in the brig. During her imprisonment, Colonel Tigh attempts to forcibly extract information from her at gunpoint, but Valerii stonewalls him and even asks him to shoot her ^{(TRS: "Scattered")}. Chief Tyrol is later incarcerated in the same brig cell by Tigh, also suspected of being a Cylon. While imprisoned together, Valerii tries to convince Tyrol that her feelings for him were real and important, but he rejects her and threatens to kill her if she touched him.

Valerii dies in Chief Tyrol's arms ^{(TRS: "Resistance")}.

Dr. Baltar later enters the cell, ostensibly to collect a blood sample from Tyrol to prove his innocence using the Cylon detector, but he instead injects Tyrol with a potent toxin that would kill him in a matter of seconds if Baltar does not give him an antidote. Baltar interrogates Valerii, demanding to know how many other Cylons are in the Fleet, using the dying Tyrol to blackmail her. Valerii first protests that she does not know, but as Tyrol is about to die, she reveals that there are eight other Cylons in the Fleet and Baltar then revives Tyrol.

Soon after, while being transferred to a new reinforced cell built to hold Cylons for later experiments and long term incarceration, a large crowd of crewmembers jeers at her and calls her a traitor. Specialist Cally Henderson who considers Valerii responsible for Tyrol's imprisonment breaks through the crowd holding a gun and shoots Valerii at point-blank range. Valerii's last words are "I love you, Chief" and she dies in Tyrol's arms ^{(TRS: "Resistance")}.

Life as a Corpse

William Adama with Sharon "Boomer" Valerii's corpse in the morgue ^{(TRS: "The Farm")}.

Valerii's body is sent to the morgue and autopsied. Later, the recovered Commander Adama visits her corpse, asking "why" aloud, and weeps over her body. Adama pronounces a very mild reprimand for Henderson, sentencing her to 30 days in the brig for discharging a weapon without authorization. Henderson is never tried for murder, since Cylons are not seen as people ^{(TRS: "The Farm")}.

Valerii's corpse is later used as bait when Sesha Abinell takes over Cloud 9, demanding the execution of the future Sharon "Athena" Agathon. The distraction provided a window with which to diffuse the terrorist situation. ^{(TRS: "Sacrifice")}

Rebirth and life among Cylons

Valerii is reborn in a new body, and is considered as a "Hero of the Cylon" ^{(TRS: "Downloaded")}.

After being shot by Cally Henderson, Galactica is close enough to a Cylon Resurrection Ship so that her consciousness is retrieved for download into another body. On rebirth, Valerii rejects her Cylon nature and continues to call herself "Sharon" instead of "Eight," even going so far as to reclaim her former apartment (502) on Caprica. A copy of Number Three, representing the status quo of the Cylons, is deeply disturbed by this and suggests that Valerii be boxed.

Caprica-Six, also seen as a Hero of the Cylon, protests and Three advises her to get Valerii to change. When Valerii laments the loss of Tyrol, Caprica-Six tells her about her own love for a human, Baltar, which prompts Valerii to inform her that he is still alive. Suspecting that Three has an ulterior motive and wants to box both of them, the two play along and Valerii announces her intent to move out of her old apartment. After a Caprica Resistance bombing, Valerii, Caprica-Six, and Three are trapped in a garage with the resistance's leader, Samuel Anders. There, Caprica-Six reveals their true intentions and declares that Valerii and herself are celebrities in a culture of unity, and, through their love for humans, have realized the horror of the Cylons' actions. Using their celebrity, they could convince a large portion of the Cylon society of their new belief that the genocide of humanity was wrong. Valerii stops Anders from killing Three, but is surprised to see Caprica-Six kill Three herself. After telling Anders to escape, Valerii agrees to help Caprica-Six reveal the truth of the genocide to the other Cylons ^{(TRS: "Downloaded")}.

Valerii and Caprica-Six are obviously successful in their attempt to change popular opinion among Cylons about the genocide on the human race. According to a Cavil model that is briefly incarcerated on board Galactica, Valerii and Caprica-Six convinced a majority that "the slaughter of mankind was a mistake" which ultimately leads to an end of the occupation of the Twelve Colonies ^{(TRS: "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I")}.

One year later, Valerii is one of the leaders of the Cylon force occupying New Caprica. But as other Cylons start to consider the occupation a failure, her influence appears to decrease quickly, most evident when she is unable to secure Henderson's release from detention or to remove her from the death list ^{(TRS: "Precipice")}. Their initial plan on New Caprica, "to push past the conflict that separated us from humans for so long," fails and the occupation is ended after four months ^{(TRS: "Exodus, Part II")}.

Following the retreat from New Caprica, Valerii is on the same basestar as Caprica-Six and Baltar, and assigned responsibility for the Cylon-human hybrid child, Hera Agathon. At a stand-off with the human Fleet at the algae planet, Valerii is part of a Cylon delegation to make demands regarding the Eye of Jupiter, but on board Galactica, she is identified by Sharon "Athena" Agathon and denied entry. During this first meeting between them, Valerii informs Agathon that her daughter, Hera, is still alive, and she suggests that Agathon will never be fully accepted among humans, because they continue to treat her as a thing ^{(TRS: "The Eye of Jupiter")}.

After Agathon downloads into the Cylon fleet to recover her child, it becomes clear that Valerii resents her, possibly out of jealousy for her connection with Hera and Agathon essentially replacing her on Galactica. Valerii has been growing increasingly frustrated by her inability to make progress with the child. She also states that she is done with her past on Galactica and that the failure of New Caprica has taught her that humans and Cylons cannot coexist. When Agathon insists that Hera is suffering from a blocked intestine after she determined that her stomach was "as hard as a gourd" and must be brought to a human doctor who knows how to care for an infant, Valerii immediately suspects that it was the other's intention all along to take Hera back to Galactica, although she is forced to admit that the child's belly has become "hard as a gourd". Suggesting that Cylons were never meant to have children in the first place, Valerii threatens to kill Hera but is knocked to the floor by Caprica-Six and killed by her former comrade ^{(TRS: "Rapture")}.

After the Cylon Raiders refuse to take any offensive action for fear of harming the Final Five Cylons in the human fleet, Valerii votes in favor of lobotomizing them into effective fighters once again. This is in contradiction to the opinion of the rest of her model, breaking the stalemate between the Ones, Fours, and Fives in favor of lobotomization and the Twos, Sixes, and Eights against it. Valerii's explanation is that, "we need to be able to defend ourselves." Natalie Faust accuses the Number One that she calls "Cavil" of having influenced Valerii ^{(TRS: "Six of One")}. The two are romantically engaged, as they kiss shortly after Cavil's resurrection, and later questions Cavil's decision to attack Natalie's rebel faction at the onset of the Cylon Civil War ^{(TRS: "The Ties That Bind")}.

Valerii is with Cavil at D'Anna Biers' unboxing on the Resurrection Hub and witnesses her killing him, fleeing afterwards ^{(TRS: "The Hub")}.

"Escape" from John Cavil

After Ellen Tigh's resurrection, John Cavil allows Valerii to witness his numerous conversations with Ellen. Initially agreeing with John's disdainful view of Ellen, she eventually establishes a bond with her and comes to sympathize with Ellen's perspective on Cylon creation. When Cavil has the Simons prepare to surgically dissect Ellen's brain to extract her memories, she escapes with Ellen in a Raptor logged as missing by the Colonials over a year ago. The two somehow find the Fleet, and after Valerii's voice is identified as an Eight by a Six flying CAP, the Raptor is allowed to land on Galactica. No one realizes who she is until Tyrol approaches, senses who she is, and announces her identity, eliciting a smile from her when he tells her it's nice to see her. Upon hearing this, Admiral Adama has her taken to the brig. Unknown to them at the time, Valerii's "escape" was engineered. ^{(TRS: "No Exit" and "Deadlock")}

Escape from Galactica

The Cylon rebels decide to put her on trial for treason and, with death permanent because of the loss of resurrection, capital punishment is possible. When Tyrol goes to see her in the brig, she confesses that she still loves him and has thought of him ever since she died in his arms. She shares with him projections of their dream home on Picon, which she has been harboring for a while. In this dream life, they are married and have a daughter. Sure that she is going to be found guilty and executed, Tyrol helps her escape by switching her with another Eight he assaulted and rendered unconscious and placed in Valerii's cell. Pursuing her true mission, Valerii then severely beats Sharon Agathon and hides her, bound and gagged, in a toilet stall. She is then mistaken by Karl Agathon for his wife and is sexually pursued by him after she tried to quietly and discreetly without tipping him off to her true identity avoid his advances and to ostensibly leave on her (i.e Athena's) mission. Eventually she acquiesces and even gladly has sex with Karl Agathon without his knowledge as to who she truly was. During the encounter, and most likely without Valerii's knowledge, her victim Athena had become semi-conscious and witnesses Valerii's encounter with her husband from the toilet stall. Valerii then kidnapped the Agathon's daughter, Hera, drugging her with a drink when she picks her up at the daycare center to keep her quiet.

Valerii hides the drugged Hera in a provisions supply case, which is loaded onto a Raptor with Tyrol's help without attracting much attention as such cases have become routine for extended search patrols. Before Tyrol leaves, after he turned down her plea for him to come with her, she tells him that no matter what happens, she was not lying about everything she has told him and that she meant it, leading to Tyrol kissing her. While waiting for clearance to depart, she figures out that she has been discovered, and against Admiral Adama's orders powers up the Raptor and spins up its FTL drive. She hurriedly flies the Raptor out of the closing flight pod, clipping her port wing, then jumps away, close enough to damage Galactica from the resulting spatial disruption.

While talking with Saul Tigh Ellen later concludes, correctly, that everything that Valerii did, including helping her escape, was planned in order to kidnap Hera and bring her to John Cavil ^{(TRS: "Someone to Watch Over Me")}.

Valerii keeps jumping her stolen Raptor, heading for The Colony. Hera's repeated cries for her mother irritates Valerii, prompting her to attempt to medically sedate Hera, but can't bring herself to do it. Instead she tells Hera about her projection of her and Tyrol's home on Picon and Hera surprises her by revealing she can project too and joining her in the projection. Valerii shows Hera the bedroom she dreamed of for her daughter and bonds with the girl. She ultimately takes her to Cavil but starts crying bitterly when Hera calls out for her showing she regrets her actions.

Later when Valerii, Simon, Cavil and Doral are sitting and watching Hera draw, Cavil reveals that Hera has apparently refused to eat and wants to intubate her. Valerii, the only one who seems to have any sympathy at all for the child, objects saying Hera wants her mother, but Cavil doesn't care only wanting to find the secret in Hera's genetic code that allowed her to come into being so the Cylon race can survive. He leaves and Valerii watches unhappily as Simon starts up a drill and prepares to intubate Hera to force her to eat ^{(TRS: "Islanded in a Stream of Stars" and "Daybreak, Part I")}.

Final Act and Death

During the Battle of The Colony, Valerii is with Hera and the Simon who still plans on dissecting her despite the invasion force, confident that the humans will lose. Valerii snaps his neck, killing him and takes Hera and carries her away. She carries her to the rescue team which is searching for her and gives Hera back to her parents. Athena points out that it does not make up for what she did and Valerii admits that she knows that, but she made what she knows will probably be her final choice and saved Hera. She asks them to tell Admiral Adama she owed him for having given her another chance once. She also informs them their Raptors have been destroyed, cutting off their primary escape route. Calm and ready to accept Athena's revenge, Valerii lets Athena shoot her dead. Without resurrection, her death is permanent ^{(TRS: "Daybreak, Part II")}.

The Psychological Damage and Choices Made

Explained by David Weddle & Grace Park

Both writer-producer David Weddle and actress Grace Park give their views on the motivations and choices that Valerii made. Weddle concentrates on if Valerii actually loved Galen Tyrol and the psychological trauma she has been subjected to. Park examines what choices she has made from that background:

"Did Boomer really love the Chief? That’s an interesting question and one I don’t have a neat answer to. Boomer is deeply conflicted. I think the process of having false memories planted in her, getting switched “on” as a Cylon, shooting Adama, getting shot by Cally, and her experiences on New Caprica have left her severely disturbed. She was determined to go through with her mission, but in the process of seducing Tyrol she reawakened feelings of love that she thought were dead. I think she experienced real misgivings just before she got on that Raptor, but felt she had gone too far to back down. Wrapped up in that is her perverse envy of Athena, who obtained everything Boomer once wanted, and this festered into a sick desire to strike out at Athena. It’s difficult to say someone who did that loves the Chief, and yet in her damaged way, I think she did and still does love him." ----David Weddle

"Boomer is much more tragic and conflicted, and in a lot of denial. Athena came from a very different starting point, and everything was a lie, but she fought and made it through the trenches. She's a story not of privilege, but about creating whoever you want to be. That's the American story. Boomer could have been a number of things too, but she made a lot of poor decisions." ---Grace Park

"Essentially they are the same model, but their experiences have changed them a lot. So really drawing upon their most recent experiences, the things that have affected them most deeply, and what level of awareness they're at. And I think that essentially separates, for instance, Boomer versus Athena... Boomer's also quite upset, but she's definitely in a darker space than Athena, not having a family, not really connected to her purpose right now." ---Grace Park

Notes

• This Number Eight is often just called "Boomer" colloquially, as that callsign is more closely associated with her, while Sharon "Athena" Agathon is usually called "Sharon" and more recently "Athena". Until Season 3, this copy was referred to as Galactica copy ("Galactica-Sharon" or "Galactica-Boomer"), because she was first encountered on Galactica. She is refered to as Boomer by everyone on the series, including the Cylons, shown when she votes against the other Eights and Natalie Faust calls her Boomer when she walks into the room.
• Virtual Six rhetorically asks Gaius Baltar in "Flesh and Bone" why he thinks that Valerii got the callsign "Boomer," implying a sexual reference. Aside from the fact that Valerii is the analogue of Boomer from the Original Series, the reason for giving her this callsign is likely due to her reputation for loud and botched landings with Raptors (TRS: Miniseries, "Flight of the Phoenix," "Scar," "Daybreak, Part II").
• In reality, "Boomer" is a nickname for a ballistic missile submarine. "Karl "Helo" Agathon" is a similar nickname for a helicopter.
• Despite both being main characters for the first season of the show, with Boomer being a major character whenever she appeared after that, Boomer and Athena only actually meet four times. In their first meeting, Athena identifies Boomer preventing her from joining the negotiations and Boomer reveals that Hera is still alive, something which Athena didn't know. In their second meeting, Athena downloads into the Cylon fleet to rescue Hera and Boomer is suspicious of her intentions. Boomer threatens to kill Hera, but is instead killed by her former friend Caprica-Six. In their third meeting, Athena doesn't realize who she is at first and by the time she does it's too late and Boomer beats her up and ties her up as part of a plan to kidnap Hera. In their final meeting, Boomer gives back Hera to Athena and allows Athena to kill her.
• Her personality after her resurrection seems to fluctuate between her human one and her Cylon one: at first she seemed more like her old "human" self until the failure of New Caprica. Afterwards it seemed like her personality was closer to that of her Cylon one while still retaining a few elements of her human one. Her return to Galactica seemed to stir her human personality more especially when she kidnapped Hera and bonded with her and she seemed to be in a state closer to her human personality than she had been since New Caprica when she died permanently.

References

Boomer is a name of two distinct characters from the Original Series and Re-imagined Series.

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Boomer in 1980 CE
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Boomer ca. 1970 CE

Boomer is a Colonial Warrior serving aboard Galactica. In 1980 CE, he serves aboard Galactica as her executive officer, during and following their discovery of Earth.

Sometime ten years prior to Earth's discovery, then-Lieutenant Boomer and Lieutenant Starbuck are on patrol when they are ambushed by Cylon raiders. Starbuck's Viper is severely damaged, and he is forced to put it down on a small planet, stranding him and separating him from the fleet ^{(1980: "The Return of Starbuck")}.

Years later, Boomer has taken the place of Colonel Tigh, and is executive officer of Galactica reports to Commander Adama about the presence of Jamie Hamilton aboard Troy's Viper ^{(1980: "Galactica Discovers Earth, Part II")}. Boomer briefs Adama after Xaviar's attempt to alter history by aiding the Nazis fails, but Xaviar manages to escape. Adama orders Boomer to suspend all other operations on Earth until Xaviar is located ^{(1980: "Galactica Discovers Earth, Part III")}.

Boomer commands the Viper squadron that destroys the Cylons after their attack on the straggling freighter Delphi ^{(1980: "The Super Scouts, Part I")}. Boomer is also a strong defender of the D Squadron, a squadron that leads risky missions against Cylon basestars ^{(1980: "Space Croppers")}.

Notes

• Boomer is one of only five characters in the Original Series to be featured in every episode, and appears in five of the ten episodes of Galactica 1980. He is typically credited as a supporting actor or guest star.
• Boomer makes a brief appearance in both Galactica 1980 #1 and #2 from Dynamite Entertainment. Unlike other characters in this book, his character remains largely untouched with no noticeable differences between his appearance in the issue and the television series's portrayal.

Preceded by: Colonel Tigh

Executive Officer of the Battlestar Galactica

Succeeded by: Unknown

Boomer (TOS alternate)Boomer (1880)Sharon Valerii (alternate)

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This article covers the various depictions of the Original Series' Boomer from the tie-in novelizations, comic books, and other media.

Books

Berkley Novelizations

Lieutenant Boomer is famous throughout the Fleet for his cautious, intelligent manner, as well as his methodical modus operandi, which Boomer has a love-hate relationship with.

Surrender the Galactica!

Following the return of Captain Apollo and others from the mission to Yevra, Boomer is among the warriors eager to greet the returning pilots. While waiting near the engineering afterdeck's elevator bank with Ensign Giles, he encounters Boxey, who appears to be in an unusual part of the ship. Sensing something wrong with the boy, Boomer tells him the fictional story of "Cylons of the afterdeck" who hide in the lower levels of Galactica and attack anyone they find alone, encouraging Boxey to accompany them to the bridge.

When Boxey refuses to join them and the elevator doors close, Boomer expresses concern about the boy's behavior, noting "something in his eyes." Despite Giles's skepticism, Boomer insists on returning to search for Boxey, demonstrating his intuitive concern for the child's welfare. When they reach the bridge and discover Apollo's distress over his son's disappearance, Boomer immediately offers to take them to where he and Giles last saw the boy.

In the Officers' Lounge, Boomer joins Giles and Jolly in discussing Apollo's despondent state following Commander Adama's decision to disband the search parties for Boxey. He explains to the others that Adama likely wants Apollo to rest, noting that Apollo must be exhausted after his ordeal on Yevra and his frantic search for his son. When Starbuck attempts to cheer Apollo up, Boomer offers to accompany him as backup, sitting beside Starbuck with considerably less drama than his friend's entrance. He provides subtle support during the conversation, including a muttered comment about Starbuck's poor choice of words when suggesting Apollo "relax."

Later, after Starbuck leaves Apollo's table, Boomer quietly questions whether Starbuck's claims about the SuperViper are truthful, noting that Starbuck "has been known to lie about a lot less."

When a distress call is received from an apparently uninhabited planet, Boomer participates in the search party that descends into the Devil's Pit to look for Boxey. While exploring the dark corridors with Starbuck and Athena, the three engage in banter about their different personalities, with Starbuck characterizing Athena as "well-controlled, patient, smart but cautious."

During the major engagement against Spectre's forces, Boomer demonstrates his reputation for caution and insight. When Apollo speculates that the attacking Cylon force might be "some kind of maverick Cylon group," Boomer supplies his characteristic cautious analysis: "You ever know any Cylons independent enough to break away? Cylons don't rebel or follow revolutionary leaders." His methodical approach and intelligent assessment prove characteristic of his established reputation within the fleet.

During the intense combat that follows, Starbuck observes Boomer's effective performance from the SuperViper, noting how well he and other pilots like Giles and Greenbean handle themselves in battle.

Following the battle, Boomer attends the honors ceremony and theatrical performance, where he jokes with Starbuck about the lieutenant's habitual tardiness, predicting he'll "be late to his own funeral" and "show up with a big lie about why."

Comics

Dynamite Entertainment

Following the Battle at Galaxy's Edge, Boomer participates in the recon to an unidentified planet and discovers its damning truths and dangers. Along with Starbuck, he participates as bait to lure Meclon Raiders to make a landing, and successfully ambushes their pilots to acquire their ships ^{(Comics: Classic Battlestar Galactica Vol. 3 #1)}—^{(Comics: Classic Battlestar Galactica Vol. 3 #3)}.

After returning to Galactica with their stolen Meclon Raiders, Boomer pilots a Viper against the Meclon forces. His Viper becomes damaged during the engagement after saving Sheba from a pursuing Meclon, but survives the engagement due to the intervention of the Seraphs ^{(Comics: Classic Battlestar Galactica Vol. 3 #4)} & ^{(Comics: Classic Battlestar Galactica Vol. 3 #5)}.

Marvel Comics

Look-In Magazine

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Lieutenant Boomer is a Lieutenant and a veteran Viper pilot in the Colonial Fleet aboard battlestar Galactica.

He volunteers to stay behind to guard the crippled Freighter Eighteen, where he single-handedly engages a Cylon attack force before being reinforced by Apollo and Starbuck ^{(Comics: Look-In Magazine: Storyline 1)}.

While pursuing Apollo to the planet Thar, Boomer witnesses his friend's Viper vanish. Later, believing Starbuck has been shot down by a mysterious alien ship, he commences an attack on the vessel, which is revealed to be an illusion. This act of aggression causes the pacifist Tharians to deem the Colonials too violent to be welcomed to their world ^{(Comics: Look-In Magazine: Storyline 2)}.

Boomer leads a rescue mission to the planet Zaroak after contact is lost with Apollo's team. With Boxey as a stowaway, he rescues a Zaroakian soldier and leads the party into the mines to join the fight and help his friends escape ^{(Comics: Look-In Magazine: Storyline 4)}.

Maximum Press

Sometime after "The Hand of God," Boomer and Lieutenant Dietra become romantically involved and apparently sealed. As a result of their union, Cleo is born, but Boomer suffers Dietra's loss sometime after Cleo's birth (The Enemy Within 2).

By 7362, Boomer is given a promotion to colonel and is given full command of Galactica's squadrons, and is one of the first Warriors to land on Earth ^{(Comics: War of Eden #1)}. After Commander Cain reactivates Sheba's commission in the Colonial Fleet, Sheba becomes Boomer's wingman to prepare her for command of Silver Spar Squadron ^{(Comics: The Enemy Within #2)}.

Realm Press

Lieutenant Boomer is a skilled and dependable Viper pilot in the Colonial Fleet, and a key member of Blue Squadron often flying alongside his close friends, Starbuck and Apollo.

Boomer is a constant presence in the fleet's most critical missions, valued for his reliability and skill. He is part of the initial landing party on the planet Salis, where he is captured by the Acmarans alongside his fellow warriors before their subsequent escape ^{(Comics: The Law of Volahd, Part 1)} ― ^{(Comics: The Law of Volahd, Part 2)}.

Often serving as a voice of reason to Starbuck's recklessness, Boomer is tasked by Colonel Tigh to accompany Starbuck on a mission to the Prison Barge to prevent a mutiny led by a guard named Krolis, who intends to execute the captured traitor, Baltar ^{(Comics: Prison of Souls, Part 2)}. He is later part of the initial construction crew for the settlement on Domia. During the subsequent attack by rock creatures, he is ordered by Apollo to evacuate the members of the Council of the Twelve. While piloting the shuttle, Sire Obob demands he turn back and attack the creatures. When Boomer refuses, Obob seizes the weapon controls, and fires on the alien structures himself, causing a massive explosion and severely injuring Starbuck in the process ^{(Comics: Fire in the Sky)}.

In a later engagement, Boomer is among the pilots, including Sheba and Janus, who go missing after patrolling through an unknown system ahead of the Fleet. It is revealed that he has been captured by the Cylons and, in the story's cliffhanger ending, he is shown being cybernetically altered. This is presented as the Cylons' "latest improvement," turning Colonial warriors into agents who can think and fight like Colonials ^{(Comics: Masquerade)}.

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Concept Art Incentive Cover from Steampunk Battlestar Galactica 1880 4. Art: Sergio Fernandez Davila

For the canonical character from whom this depiction is based, see: Boomer (TOS).

For other separate continuities from other comics and novelization sources, see: Boomer (TOS alternate).

Boomer is a former Warrior of the Colonial Empire during the Ovion Wars, serving alongside Flight-Lieutenant Starbuck during that time.

After the destruction of Carillion, Boomer becomes the recipient of Baltar's prosthetic technology, saving his life. Due to this, he is summarily exiled by the Quorum following Baltar's failed power grab, and quickly recaptured by Baltar for enslavement.

Alongside fellow exile Jolly, Boomer is kept aboard the aetherprison Proteus and tasked to mine ores for Baltar's weapons of mass destruction.

Following the destruction of Caprica by Baltar's Cylonics, Crown Prince Apollo is abducted and brought to Proteus, where Boomer and Jolly are both recruited to assist Apollo in his escape attempt with the promise of being reintegrated into the nobility of the Colonial Empire (Steampunk Battlestar Galactica 1880 1).

Eventually escaping from the prison planet Helia, Boomer participates in the attack on Gamoray by commandeering a Cylonic Centurion through the use of his prosthetics and uploading a trojan virus that wipes Iblis' transferred personality from the babbage computer Lu-c-fer. Due to the long period of time hooked into the Cylonic consciousness, neither he nor Jolly fully recovers, their minds subsumed by Cylonic code (Steampunk Battlestar Galactica 1880 4).

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This article has a separate continuity. This article is in the Dynamite Comics separate continuity, which is related to the Re-imagined Series. Be sure that your contributions to this article reflect the characters and events specific to this continuity only.

Captain Valerii is a Number Eight Cylon which has partial memories of Caprica-Valerii.

When Caprica-Valerii was choked to death by an Antebellum Centurion, leaving her clinically dead and in the process of downloading, she was revived by human clinical means by Dr. Cottle.

Caprica-Valerii, who felt the interruption, tells Karl "Helo" Agathon that a second Number Eight body received a partial imprint of her personality and memories ^{(Comics: Battlestar Galactica #4)}. The Eight memories shift between realizing her true nature as a Cylon and "her" love of Helo.

The near-doppelganger of Valerii dispatches a handful of space pirates that attack a Raptor she was flying before soon commandeering the pirate barge itself.

She manages to make an FTL jump of the ship and its many Colonial survivors to Galactica's vicinity. By commanding the pirate ship, the Eight calls herself "Captain Valerii." ^{(Comics: Battlestar Galactica #5)}.

Confused by the Antebellum Centurions and the presence of another "Valerii" on Galactica, Captain Valerii escapes the Fleet, but not before sighting and warning the Fleet that a contemporary Cylon force was en route to attack ^{(Comics: Battlestar Galactica #6)}

Notes

The origins of this character contradict the Re-imagined Series canon through some technical errors.

• This character gains her memories while already with some personality in place (the Eight was flying a Raptor).
• Captain Valerii activates without the need of a Resurrection Ship.

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