Daniel Graystone

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Daniel Graystone
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Introduced	Caprica
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Children	Zoe Graystone
Marital Status	Married to Amanda
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Role	Computer engineer, Corporate CEO, creator of both the Holo-band and the first Colonial Cylon.
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Portrayed by	Eric Stoltz
Daniel Graystone is a Cylon
Daniel Graystone is a Final Five Cylon
Daniel Graystone is a Human/Cylon Hybrid
Daniel Graystone is an Original Series Cylon
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Daniel Graystone is a brilliant and wealthy Caprican computer engineer who creates the Colonial Cylons. He also is the CEO of a major Robotics firm and the inventor of the Holoband, an internet like network that uses virtual Reality holographic avatars to replicate the real world to an astonishing fidelity and were people, especially teenagers, could live out fantasies with no harm coming to them.

Daniel is married to Amanda and is the father of Zoe, who is killed in a suicide bombing of a subway train. After learning that his daughter uploaded her personality, memories and DNA into an online holographic avatar before her death, he becomes obsessed with recreating his daughter in the real world using the avatar. Daniel enlist the help of another grieving father, Joseph Adams (later Adama) to obtain a technology that would be better able to handle the Zoe Avatar consciousness. He does this in exchange for recreating Adams's dead daughter Tamara using the same method Zoe used to recreate herself online. Tamara, along with her mother, had died in the same terrorist explosion that claimed Graystone's daughter. Initially resistant, Adams succumbs to his own need to see his daughter and seeks to obtain the technology a Meta-Cognitive Processor (MCP). It is in part an advanced type of Central Processing Unit (CPU) chip but it much more than that; it is essentially an artificial brain. Adams, a corrupt a civil rights lawyer, in order to have his underworld connections steal the technology Adama must acquiesce to a favor asked of him by a crime boss to put pressure on the Caprican Minister of Defense. He does so to strike a deal, but the Minister is unmoved. Adams even attempts blackmail but he adamant in his refusal to bend to the will of the Organization and resorts to using racial slurs against Adams and Taurons in general. Apparently despite his failure, the Mob was satisfied with Adams's good faith effort to persuade the defense minister to cooperate and follows through on its end of the bargain and uses it's resources and gains possession of the chip and gives it to Daniel (meanwhile the Caprican Defense Minister is murdered, possibly with Adams's knowledge). Daniel fulfills his promise to Adams to "reunite" him with his own daughter. However, the meeting in Virtual Reality between Adams and "Tamara" doesn't go well with "Tamara" in a state of near shock and is frantic. She becomes even more so when she can't feel her own heart beat.

Appalled by his daughter's and his own horror, Adams renounces Daniel's efforts and leaves. Undaunted, Daniel tries to recreate Zoe as a robot, using one of his pre-existing prototype U-87 Cyber Combat Units he is trying to win a military contract with Caprica's government with as a platform. This is what the technology was for, to install a newer more advance chip design that was superior to what Graystone's own company was making. However, there is a mishap with the download, seemingly failing after the avatar program is corrupted during download into the robot's MCP. The data is apparently unrecoverable. Desperate, Graystone goes into and searches for Zoe-A in Virtual Reality, but to his renewed grief she is gone, the effort to have his daughter back in someway, a total failure.

Daniel then moves on to finish creation of the soldier robots to win the Caprican military contract using the stolen MCP technology that improved his product immensely. After a spectacular winning demonstration of a prototype, He changes the name of the robot model from Cyber Combat Unit to Cybernetic Lifeform Node: Cylon. He seems to have comes to terms with his daughter permanent death and puts aside his attempt of quasi resurrection of her. However, unknown to him (as of the Pilot episode), Daniel actually succeeds when Zoe-R, its data recovered somehow in its memory and MCP "awakens" in a laboratory. Daniel Graystone has thus created the first Cylon with a human consciousness. (Caprica pilot)