Tucker Clellan

Tucker Clellan
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Birth Name	Tucker Clellan
Birth Date	{{{birthdate}}}
Callsign	Duck
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Introduced	Flight of the Phoenix
Death	As a suicide bomber (Occupation)
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Marital Status	Formerly dating Nora †
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Role	Former Viper Pilot, battlestar Galactica
Rank	Lieutenant (Colonial Fleet), Captain (NCP)
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Portrayed by	Christian Tessier
Tucker Clellan is a Cylon
Tucker Clellan is a Final Five Cylon
Tucker Clellan is a Human/Cylon Hybrid
Tucker Clellan is an Original Series Cylon
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Lt. Tucker "Duck" Clellan is a Viper pilot on the battlestar Galactica, and according to Kat, is one of the best pilots that Galactica has left to offer (Scar). At the time of the settling of New Caprica, Clellan is an ace with forty confirmed kills. His significant other, Nora, is a fellow pilot. Clellan is a smoker, but chooses to quit upon deciding to start a family with her.

Clellan, along with most of Galactica's pilots, participates in the massacre of the disabled Cylon raiders (Flight of the Phoenix).

During a patrol of the Big Spud, Clellan unsuccessfully calls for BB to retreat when their Vipers become on low fuel. BB, a nugget, ignores orders and engages a group of Raiders with fatal results (Scar). Additionally, Clellan helps account for Reilly's belongings after the pilot is killed by Scar (Scar).

When a colony on New Caprica is established, both Clellan and Nora muster out of Colonial fleet service as she wants to settle down and have a family. He is approached by Galen Tyrol and James Lyman to join the resistance efforts when New Caprica is occupied by Cylons, but declines over the desire to be a husband to Nora.

Clellan, shortly before his death.

Following Nora's death in a Cylon attack on a Colonial Temple, Clellan becomes violently upset at the revelation that the resistance was hiding weapons there. After a brief period of mourning, he relents and agrees to join the insurgents. His first assignment as a resistance member involves infiltrating the New Caprica Police, where he keeps an eye on human collaborators in addition to the Cylons (Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance).

He later agrees to become a suicide bomber when the resistance learns about an NCP graduation ceremony, believing that Gaius Baltar will also be present. When Samuel Anders asks whether Clellan is committed, Clellan replies that, without Nora, he has nothing left to live for.

Despite Baltar's last-minute withdrawal from the ceremony, Clellan detonates his bomb, killing 33 people and several Cylons in the process (Occupation). Subsequently, the Cylons begin a crackdown on all individuals thought to be resistance members. They orchestrate mass abductions and executions of suspected insurgents; surviving NCP members carry them out (Precipice).

Later on Galactica, Lee Adama and Kara Thrace make a pact about where to place each other's photos on the wall of memories should either die. Adama requests to have his photo put next to Duck and Nora, with the comment "Good card players. Nice way to spend eternity." (Maelstrom)

Notes

• It can be inferred by Helo's apparent need to introduce himself to Clellan that he is a post-Cylon Attack addition to Galactica's air wing. Give the pilots' close-knit community, the two would probably know each other had they served together before. He is possibly a refugee from another Colonial unit like Crashdown or another one of the nuggets trained by Starbuck.

Re-imagined Series definition: pseudo-civilian law enforcement agency overseen by the Cylon Occupation Authority on New Caprica, see: New Caprica Police (TRS: "Occupation")

Re-imagined Series definition: pseudo-civilian law enforcement agency overseen by the Cylon Occupation Authority on New Caprica, see: New Caprica Police (TRS: "Occupation")