Pythia (alternate)
- For the character from the series canon, see: Pythia.
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| Birth place | Kobol | |
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| Introduced | Battlestar Galactica: The Final Five 1 | |
| Death | *Shot by Magnus Baltar during the Thirteenth Tribe's Exodus, The Final Five 1; *Mysteriously reappears on the Algae planet, "The Final Five 2"; *Dies on Earth (2,000 BCH), "The Final Five 3" | |
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| Pythia (alternate) is a Cylon | ||
| Pythia (alternate) is a Final Five Cylon | ||
| Pythia (alternate) is a Human/Cylon Hybrid | ||
| Pythia (alternate) is an Original Series Cylon | ||
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Pythia was a human who lived on Kobol over 4,000 years before the Fall of the Twelve Colonies.
During her life, Pythia came into contact with a blonde entity in a red dress who gives Pythia the word of God. As Pythia advocates the dissolution of the Quorum of Twelve and its hold over the people on Kobol, she becomes the subject of Michael Tigh's interest during her incarceration in the Maniae Asylum. Pythia confides in Tigh regarding her visions of the woman in red, which they keep to themselves. Additionally, she exhibits signs of clairvoyance (as was the case with the death of Kara Thrace between 2 to 3 ACH) and wrote down many of her prophecies during her time in the sanitarium. As tensions mount on Kobol, she is later publicly tried as a heretic and sentenced to immolation, thus fueling tensions between the atheistic Thirteenth Tribe and the polytheistic Twelve Tribes.
This sentence doesn't come to pass as Kobol soon falls into chaos, forcing the exodus of the Thirteenth. During Tigh's attempt to save Pythia, she is killed by Magnus Baltar (Battlestar Galactica: The Final Five 1) who later brings Pythia's word to the Twelve Tribes where she is posthumously published, after being given the Book of Pythia by Aurora (Battlestar Galactica: The Final Five 2).
When members of the Thirteenth Tribe are stranded on the Algae planet, with no resurrection and are cut off from the rest of the fleet, a virtual being in the form of Pythia arrives to help the survivors by stating that she knows the location of Earth and that she was going to lead them there. (Battlestar Galactica: The Final Five 3).
According to Head Six, the woman they see before them isn't really Pythia, but instead one of her own kind, Aurora. Head Six claims that Aurora is the only one of them that isn't content to just offer guidance, instead actively interfering by taking physical form.
Together, with Pythia's help, the Resurrection Ship is rebuilt and Pythia joins the tribe and leads them to Earth. Pythia also rewrote the survivors' genome to make biological procreation possible.
Upon settling on Earth, Pythia marries Michael Tigh and the two have a son: Saul Tigh, who would later become a member of the legendary Final Five. Shortly upon giving birth to Saul, Pythia fell ill and died, just while Saul was an infant. However, Michael had banned Resurrection, due to the tribe being able to procreate and having offspring, and thus, was unable to save her. (Battlestar Galactica: The Final Five 3).
Nearly 2,000 years later, John Cavil would relate Pythia's fate to Saul, stating how she fell ill and begged Michael to bring Resurrection back to save her, but refused to do so on ideological grounds. Cavil would uses Pythia's fate as his reason to revive resurrection. (Battlestar Galactica: The Final Five 3).