Billy Keikeya

Billy Keikeya
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Colony	Presumably Caprica
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Marital Status	Dating Petty Officer Anastasia Dualla
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Role	Presidential Aide to Laura Roslin
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Portrayed by	Paul Campbell
Billy Keikeya is a Cylon
Billy Keikeya is a Final Five Cylon
Billy Keikeya is a Human/Cylon Hybrid
Billy Keikeya is an Original Series Cylon
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[[Image:|200px|Billy Keikeya]]

Billy Keikeya is a young, fairly good-looking member of Laura Roslin's staff. Possibly an intern, given his relative youth, he is nevertheless gifted and capable - and much more insightful than people might otherwise assume.

Biography

As a result of his abilities, he is selected by Roslin to accompany her to the decommissioning ceremonies for battlestar Galactica. During this time, he recognises that not only is Roslin ill, she is in fact suffering from cancer (Mini-Series).

His parents had moved to Picon two months prior to the Cylon Invasion to be with Keikeya's sisters. It is assumed they died there.

Following the loss of President Adar's cabinet, Roslin is sworn-in as President, and Keikeya finds himself promoted to the position of her senior aide. One of his first tasks is to work with her to tally the number of survivors in the fleet (33) and establish records for the dead. Later, he is directly engaged in attempts to get the 1,500 prisoners aboard the Astral Queen to help the fleet obtain water supplies (Bastille Day), after Galactica's water supplies are sabotaged (Water). Despite his dubious mathematical aptitude (as shown in "33"), Keikeya is an exceptionally organized individual who also acts as the senior spokesperson for her administration (Litmus).

Billy Keikeya and Anastasia Dualla on a date in the forward observation lounge (Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down)

Off-duty, Keikeya has struck up a friendship with Petty Officer 2nd Class Anastasia Dualla, a member of Galactica's command crew, which has recently blossomed into romance (Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down). This is despite the fact Dualla and Keikeya share irreconciliable viewpoints about Tom Zarek. Keikeya believed that Zarek was a prisoner of conscience who saw his fellow Sagittarians being mistreated by the other Colonies (33).

As Roslin continued the unconventional treatment of her cancer, Keikeya's concern heightened. When she passed out due to an overdose of Chamalla, he made a call which he, unknowingly, did on an open channel - as such, it was intercepted by the often irksome Colonial Press.

Later on, he questioned Roslin's hallucinations and her actions in her search for the Arrow of Apollo. He believed that her actions would irreparably damage the Colonial Government (Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I) though he did stand by her side as Roslin and her personal security agents were prepared to thwart Commander Adama's attempt to arrest her (Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II).

Roslin was arrested when she subverted the separation of military and civilian government by convincing Kara Thrace to purloin the captured Cylon Raider for a jump back to Caprica. Other government aides and officers such as Keikeya, Gaius Baltar and the members of the Quorum of Twelve were still free to do as they wished within the fleet. Keikeya rarely left Roslin's side during her internment in Galactica's brig and routinely kept her up to date on the deteriorating situation within the Fleet in the wake of the attempt on Commander Adama's life by a Cylon infiltrator, a popular Raptor pilot known as Boomer (Events from "Scattered" through "Resistance").

When Lee Adama formulated a plan to break the President out of the brig and fly her to safety on Cloud 9, Keikeya was supportive of the effort but ultimately could not follow her down the path she was about to take. The two parted company in Galactica's hangar bay with Billy staying behind and Roslin fleeing into the fleet before Col. Tigh and Commander Adama could recapture her (Resistance).

In his Podcast for "Home, Part II", RDM indicated that Keikeya was an atheist, and that his reticence was motivated by a distaste for the cloak of prophecy Roslin had assumed.

Galactica prepared for a return to Kobol to find President Roslin, who had gone there with over a third of the fleet in search of the Tomb of Athena. Commander Adama brought Keikeya along with him and his insertion team because he felt that aside from himself and Lee, Keikeya was the only other person that she would listen to. When he humbly denied the assumption that Roslin put any stock in his opinions, Adama stunned him by saying Roslin felt that he would become President himself some day. He told him that Roslin said he reminded her of former President Adar on his first campaign for public office. Keikeya had no idea how to respond to Adama's lofty comparison, but was quickly brought back to reality when Adama reminded him that Adar was a "moron".

On the surface of Kobol, Keikeya was reunited with Roslin and she was overjoyed to see him once again. He was also one of the few people that entered the Tomb of Athena and saw the map to Earth (Home, Part II).

Re-imagined Series definition: abbreviation of tally-ho; the sighting of an enemy target, such as a craft, landmark, or position (TRS: "The Hand of God", "Scattered", "Maelstrom")

Re-imagined Series definition: medical term for the use of medication to fatal, or near fatal, effect (TRS: "Faith")

Re-imagined Series definition: the process of using the FTL engines to make an near-instantaneous apparent faster-than-light transport of a ship from one point in space to another