Barnabas Greeley

Barnabas Greeley was a Caprican Monotheist and a cell commander of the Soldiers of the One. He was responsible for a number of unsanctioned bombings on Caprica in 1942, and he was ultimately executed by the Soldiers of the One for waging the campaign without authorisation.

Break with the Soldiers of the One#

Following the Soldiers of the One campaign of the early 1930s, the organisation returned underground and slowed its activity across the Twelve Worlds, confining itself largely to defending the Church on Gemenon. All cells on Caprica were under the overall control of Sister Clarice Willow, who advocated continued underground behaviour to favour the conversion of new recruits. Greeley loathed this position, and by 1942 he had set about plans to cause widespread chaos on Caprica, ostensibly to force conversion through fear.

The bombing campaign#

Among Greeley's initial recruits were Ben Stark and Keon Gatwick, students at Athena Academy whose religious beliefs had been shaped by Willow. Greeley ordered Stark to carry out a suicide bombing of a Maglev train, using one of Gatwick's bombs, which began the series of attacks. A number of non-fatal bombings followed, largely against Holo cafés. Over several weeks his cell expanded to include the recruits Lacy Rand, Pann, and Hippolyta from Athena Academy, among others drawn from existing cells.

These bombings eventually caught the attention of Sister Willow, who realised that Greeley's campaign carried the additional motive of persuading the leadership that a new campaign should be sanctioned and that he should lead the fighting on Caprica.

Downfall and execution#

Greeley attempted to have Sister Willow killed in a car-bombing before she could depart for Gemenon, but the operation failed. She returned after a botched attack on a space port exposed the cell to the Global Defense Department, and she began executing its members. Greeley himself was forced into hiding in an unfinished skyscraper with Rand and Gatwick, the latter of whom he had fashion a bomb to use against Willow. Gatwick then quit the cell and was immediately executed. Sister Willow and her husband Tyrone entered the building, took Rand hostage, and executed Greeley by tying him to Gatwick's bomb, which detonated as they left.