Hera Agathon

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

Hera Agathon
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Age	born 9 months after the Cylon Attack (Downloaded)
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Birth Name	Hera (Renamed Isis)
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Introduced	Downloaded
Death
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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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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Hera is the first sucessful Human/Cylon Hybrid, the culmination of the Cylons' experiments to achieve viable procreation.

Her parents are the human Lt. Karl "Helo" Agathon of Galactica and a copy of the Number Eight-model of Cylon ("Caprica" Valerii) who took part in the Cylon experiment to set up Helo 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").

As a result, Hera is currently the only successful progeny of a humanoid Cylon, and therefore literally considered a "miracle of God" by the Cylons.

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

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

Hera is born by emergency surgery one month premature. President Roslin arranges with Dr. Cottle to fake Hera's death, then secretly gives the child to a woman named Maya under the story that the child was the daughter of a Pegasus officer, who had given her up for political and religious reasons. The subterfuge, Roslin feels, is necessary to keep Hera safe from humanoid Cylons hiding in the Fleet (Downloaded).

Hera is presumed to be the child Gaius Baltar is told to raise by his vision of Number Six. Baltar also now believes the child to be dead, and "Six" swears there will be vengeance on all humanity.

When the Fleet settles on New Caprica, Roslin began teaching the school in the settlement and Maya came with her as an assistant teacher. Maya brought along Hera, whom she had named "Isis" (Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II). Maya keeps Hera/Isis in a cradle identical to the one Baltar saw in his vision on Kobol.

As the fight to escape from New Caprica increases, Roslin brings Maya and Isis below to the resistance's underground bunker for protection. The former president tasks resistance leader Samuel Anders and two bodyguards to protect Maya and Isis at all costs (Exodus, Part I). During their rescue, Maya is killed and Isis, who regains her birth name of Hera, is found by President Baltar, Caprica Six, and D'anna Biers (Exodus, Part II).

Notes

In a deleted subplot from "Downloaded", Gina and D'anna Biers scheme to kidnap Hera at Gaius Baltar's request. Gina expresses disgust at Hera being named for a human god. When D'anna asks Gina what they should call the baby, Gina suggests "Thirteen."