Galen Tyrol

Galen Tyrol
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Age	30s
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Birth Name	Galen Tyrol
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Callsign	"Chief" (nickname)
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Introduced	[[{{{seen}}}]]
Death
Parents	An unnamed Oracle (mother) and a Priest (father).
Siblings	Unknown
Children
Marital Status	Single
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Role	Senior NCO, Deck Crew 5, Battlestar Galactica
Rank	Chief Petty Officer (Non-Commissioned)
Serial Number	{{{serial}}}
Portrayed by	Aaron Douglas
Galen Tyrol is a Cylon
Galen Tyrol is a Final Five Cylon
Galen Tyrol is a Human/Cylon Hybrid
Galen Tyrol is an Original Series Cylon
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[[Image:|200px|Galen Tyrol]]

Biography

Background

Galen Tyrol is a much-admired NCO aboard the Galactica. He served aboard battlestars from the age of nineteen, one of the earlier being the Pegasus. He has served under William Adama for a number of years, and has considerable respect for the Commander - a feeling that is reciprocated. Indeed, he admires Adama to such a degree that he has modelled his own style of leadership on that of Adama: firm, fair, and willing to go to the fullest degree in support of his crew.

However, when people under his responsibility are injured or killed, Tyrol becomes rather irrational, angry, and reckless in his actions, to the point of further endangering his people or his reputation with senior officers. Prime examples of his lack of emotional control includes the scenes before the ship venting after the nuke hit and cursing Tigh in front of Commander Adama for the vent and loss of 85 of his people (Mini-Series), and saving a mortally-wounded crewmate while leaving himself and Cally highly vulnerable in Scattered. Tyrol's tryst with Sharon Valerii and a subsequent cover-up attempt in Litmus resulted in the jailing of a crewmate that was trying to protect Tyrol.

Originally leading Deck Crew 5, a team of 15 deckhands and specialists, since the Cylon Attack he has become the most senior and experienced NCO on the Galactica.

Cylon Attack

At the time of the Cylon Attack, as well as leading his deck crew, Tyrol has been overseeing the refurbishment and restoration of Viper Mark II N7242C - the Viper originally flown by William Adama at the time of the Cylon War (Mini-Series).

Following the attack, with the Galactica undermanned, Tyrol also performs the function of senior Damage Control officer (Mini-Series / Water), a role that brings him into conflict with Colonel Tigh after the Galactica is struck by a Cylon nuclear warhead.

Relationship with Sharon Valerii

For several months prior to the Cylon attack, and in its aftermath, Tyrol has been engaged in an affair with Lieutenant (JG) Sharon Valerii, a Raptor pilot aboard the Galactica. Despite the fact the relationship breaks military protocol, senior officers on the ship turn a blind eye to it, while Tyrol's own crew treat it with fond amusement.

When the water supplies on the Galactica are sabotaged, Tyrol is placed in an awkward position: by her own admmission, Valerii knows explosives were missing from a small-arms locker - potentially making her a suspect - and he is the principal DC investigator into the cause of the explosions which wreck the water tanks. Torn between love and duty, the situation prompts him to hide evidence and allow a theory that the walls of the tanks simply collapsed from fatigue resulting from damage the Galactica received from a nuclear warhead in the Cylon attack (Water / Mini-Series).

Following the sabotage attempt, Valerii is ordered to end her relationship with Tyrol (Bastille Day) as a part of a general tightening-up of security and discipline on ship, only to have Tyrol's deck crew help the two of them to continue to meet in greater secret (Litmus).

Tyrol's world is thrown further into turmoil when both he and Valerii become the prime suspects in an investigation into how a Cylon agent managed to get aboard the Galactica, kill a guard, steal explosives and them blow himself up in a ship's corridor, almost killing Adama and Tigh (Litmus). When one of his own Specialists is thrown in the brig for dereliction of duty which may have enabled the Cylon to access a weapons locker and steal the explosives, Tyrol is shocked into re-thinking his relationship with Valerii, and ends it himself.

While they continue to encounter one another professionallly - their work means they can hardly avoid one another - Tyrol and Valerii now have an uneasy distance between each other, and Valerii's actions around a captured Cylon Raider have begun to disturb Tyrol.

Faced with a shortage of Vipers, Tyrol attempts to tackle a project of cobbling up Vipers from spare and junk-heap parts. (Flight of the Phoenix)

Helo's Return

After the return of Karl C. Agathon and another version of Sharon Valerii, who happens to be pregnant with Agathon's child, the two attempt to reconcile their feelings for the biological creation.

Later on, after the appearance of Admiral Nelena Cain and the advanced Mercury-class Pegasus, he and Agathon are arrested and court martialed after the suspect termination of Lieutenant Thorne. (Pegasus)

Note

Galen is the name of a famed Greek doctor, who was first to argue that the mind was in the brain not the heart. This may be construed as irony, given Tyrol's part in the ongoing story.