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Alexandra Thomas as Hera. Name
Age Approximately two years old. Born 9 months after the Cylon Attack (Downloaded) Colony Birth place {{{birthplace}}} Birth Name Hera; briefly named Isis Birth Date {{{birthdate}}} Callsign Nickname {{{nickname}}} Introduced Downloaded Death Parents Sharon Agathon (biological mother) Karl "Helo" Agathon (biological father) Maya (adoptive mother) Siblings Children Marital Status Family Tree View Role "Lead the next generation of God's children" Rank Serial Number {{{serial}}} Portrayed by Lily Duong-Walton, Alexandra Thomas (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 Additional Information Hera Agathon in the separate continuity
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").
To the Cylon majority, Agathon is the only known[1] 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) [2]. Maya, unaware of the her new child's past, names the girl Isis (Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II). if Admiral Adama knows the truth, but he doesn't until Sharon Agathon finds out from Boomer later.