Battlestar Galactica category
Characters
55 entries tagged Characters, 55 of them long reads. The rest of the wiki points here most often at William Adama and Laura Roslin: the dying leader.
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6- Aaron KellyCaptain Aaron Kelly was the Landing Signals Officer aboard the battlestar Galactica and third in its chain of command. He served through the fall of the Twelve Colonies, the occupation of New Caprica, and the trial of Gaius Baltar, during which he turned to terrorism before recoiling from a later mutiny.
- Admiral Nagala: the last commander of the Colonial FleetAdmiral Nagala was the flag officer who took personal command of the Colonial Fleet after Picon Fleet Headquarters was destroyed in the opening barrage of the Fall. The admiral led a counterattack near Virgon that the Cylon corruption of the Command Navigation Program turned into a massacre, and died aboard Atlantia.
- Alastair Thorne: the Pegasus interrogator whose death split two crewsLieutenant Alastair Thorne was the Cylon interrogator aboard Pegasus, a man who tortured and raped his prisoners and was still owed his life by around fifty shipmates. Galen Tyrol killed him accidentally in Galactica's brig, and the grievance over it reached all the way to Gaeta's mutiny.
- Alex BoxmanBoxey was a child who survived the Fall of the Twelve Colonies after being evacuated from Caprica by Raptor. The son of the officer killed at Armistice Station, he was taken in by Galactica's crew, and a tie-in novel gives his full name as Alex Boxman.
- AmarakDr. Amarak was a Colonial government scientist who worked at the Ministry of Defense alongside Gaius Baltar. He asked to warn President Roslin about a betrayal and was presumed killed aboard the Olympic Carrier.
- Anastasia DuallaAnastasia Dualla was an enlisted woman of the Colonial Fleet who served as communications officer aboard the Battlestar Galactica and later as executive officer of the Battlestar Pegasus.
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6- Barnabas GreeleyBarnabas Greeley was a Caprican Monotheist and a cell commander of the Soldiers of the One. He defied the organisation's Caprican leadership with a campaign of unsanctioned violence, and was eventually executed by his own organisation for it.
- Barry GarnerBarry Garner was the chief engineer of the Battlestar Pegasus who was elevated to commander after the deaths of Cain and Fisk. His rigid, engineering-minded command alienated the crew, and he died restoring the ship's drives after leading the Pegasus into a Cylon trap.
- Battlestar Galactica Characters: Every Major Character in the 2004 SeriesThe main humans and Cylons of the reimagined Battlestar Galactica, from William Adama and Laura Roslin to Starbuck, Baltar and the Final Five. Who each one is, what they do in the story and where they end up, with a short section on the Caprica and Blood & Chrome prequels.
- Ben StarkBen Stark was a Caprican student and Monotheist drawn into the Soldiers of the One. He carried out the suicide bombing of a Caprica City Maglev train, an attack that killed his girlfriend Zoe Graystone and many other passengers.
- Billy KeikeyaBilly Keikeya was an aide to Laura Roslin who continued in her service after she became President of the Twelve Colonies, and who was killed protecting Petty Officer Anastasia Dualla.
- Brent BaxtonEnsign Brent "BB" Baxton was a newly graduated Viper pilot assigned to Galactica's air group, who provided cover for the mining ship Majahual and was killed by the Cylon Raider ace nicknamed Scar.
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4- Daniel GraystoneDr. Daniel Graystone was the Caprican computer engineer behind Graystone Industries and the U-87 battle robot. By marrying a stolen processor to his late daughter's consciousness program, he created the first Cylon and set the Twelve Colonies on the road to their own destruction.
- Darius: the dead brother Amanda Graystone kept seeingDarius was Amanda Graystone's brother, killed in a Caprican car crash she survived. The breakdown that followed put her in the Delphi Convalescent Institute for two and a half years, and in the year 42 the visions of him started again.
- Donald PerryDonald "Chuckles" Perry was a Colonial Viper pilot who flew aboard Galactica after the Fall of the Twelve Colonies. Headhunted from a civilian ship for his limited flight experience, he was killed during a raid on a Cylon tyllium refinery.
- Drew: Graystone Industries technicianDrew was a technician of Graystone Industries assigned to the U-87 battle robot project. He helped Daniel Graystone investigate why the prototype could not be replicated, ran afoul of the machine controlled by Zoe-A, and later helped foil a Soldiers of the One bomb plot at Atlas Arena.
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4- Gaius BaltarDr. Gaius Baltar was a celebrated computer scientist whose vanity and manipulation by a Cylon agent handed the enemy the keys to the Colonial defenses, enabling the near-extermination of humanity. He survived to become Vice President, President, prophet, and finally a reluctant penitent.
- Galactica CavilGalactica Cavil was a Number One model humanoid Cylon who evacuated the ruins of Picon during the Fall of the Twelve Colonies and reached the refugee fleet. Welcomed aboard Galactica as a priest, he formed and led a hidden cell of humanoid Cylons working to destroy the fleet from within.
- Galen TyrolChief Petty Officer Galen Tyrol kept Galactica's flight deck running through the long flight from the Colonies, a respected and fiercely protective deck chief who learned that he was in fact one of the Final Five Cylons, descended from the Thirteenth Tribe.
- Giana O'Neill: the deck hand who survived the FallGiana O'Neill was a human refugee who survived the Fall of the Twelve Colonies by winning a lottery seat aboard a Raptor. She enlisted in the Colonial Fleet as a deck hand and was later reunited in the fleet with the husband she had believed lost, unaware that he was a humanoid Cylon.
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5- Head Six: the Number Six only Gaius Baltar can seeHead Six is the version of Number Six that lives in Gaius Baltar's head, talking, teasing and steering him for the whole of Battlestar Galactica. The show spends four seasons asking whether she's madness, a Cylon chip or something else, and the finale finally answers it.
- Helena CainRear Admiral Helena Cain commanded the battlestar Pegasus, one of only two Colonial capital ships to survive the Fall of the Twelve Colonies. Ruthless and uncompromising, she waged a relentless campaign against the Cylons before her assassination.
- Hera AgathonHera Agathon was the first human-Cylon hybrid to exist, born to a Colonial officer and a Number Eight Cylon in the first month after the Fall of the Twelve Colonies. Held to be central to God's plan for both races, she was known before her birth as the Shape of Things to Come.
- Hippolyta: radicalised Athena Academy studentHippolyta was an Athena Academy student and a Monotheist who, with her boyfriend Pann, was radicalised by Barnabas Greeley and joined his breakaway Soldiers of the One cell on Caprica. After the cell's attempt on Clarice Willow's life, she was strangled to death by Clarice's husband, Olaf.
- How Did Starbuck Come Back to Life in Battlestar Galactica?The show never says how. Kara Thrace really died in "Maelstrom", and what came back was something else, sent to lead the fleet to Earth. Here's what the series shows about her return, what happened to her at the end, and what's left to interpretation.
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4- Jack FiskCommander Jack Fisk was a Pegasus officer who survived the Fall, rose to command the battlestar after Admiral Cain's death, and was garroted for his grip on the fleet's black market.
- Jackson SpencerMajor Jackson "Dipper" Spencer was a Colonial Fleet officer who served as Galactica's Commander, Air Group on the eve of her decommissioning, and who was killed leading his Vipers away from the ship when the Cylon attack began.
- Jordan Durham: agent of the Global Defense DepartmentJordan Durham was a special agent in Caprica's Global Defense Department, tasked with investigating terrorist threats. After the Soldiers of the One bombed the Caprica City maglev, he led the inquiry and came to suspect the GDD itself had been compromised by the terrorist movement.
- Jurgen Belzen: the Pegasus XO Helena Cain shot in her own CICColonel Jurgen Belzen was Helena Cain's long-serving executive officer and friend aboard Pegasus. When he refused her order to launch every remaining Viper against fifteen squadrons of Raiders, she asked for his sidearm and shot him in the head in front of the CIC crew.
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4- Kara ThraceKara "Starbuck" Thrace was the finest Viper pilot in the Colonial Fleet, a gifted and self-destructive officer whose attitude often thwarted her own advancement. After her death over a gas giant, a figure bearing her identity returned to guide humanity to its new home.
- Karl AgathonKarl "Helo" Agathon was a Colonial Fleet officer who, stranded on Caprica after the Fall of the Twelve Colonies, fell in love with a Number Eight Cylon he later married. He became the only successful father of a human-Cylon hybrid child, Hera.
- Kendra Shaw: Cain's executive officer aboard PegasusKendra Shaw arrived aboard Pegasus as a freshly commissioned lieutenant days before the Fall of the Twelve Colonies, exposed the Cylon backdoor in the Command Navigation Program, and carried out the killings that made Helena Cain's war possible. She rose to executive officer of the battlestar and died in the assault on the Guardian basestar.
- Keon GatwickKeon Gatwick was a Caprican student and Soldiers of the One terrorist who built bombs for Barnabas Greeley's cell and was killed during an internal feud between STO factions, 58 years before the Fall.
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4- Lacy RandLacy Rand was a Caprican student who converted to Monotheism in her teenage years and joined the Soldiers of the One. After surviving the unsanctioned MagLev bombing that killed her friend Zoe Graystone, she rose within the movement on Gemenon to become its Blessed Mother.
- Laura Roslin: the dying leaderSecretary of Education until the Cylon attack killed everyone above her. Sworn in as President, she became the dying leader of Colonial prophecy.
- Lee Adama: Leland Adama, callsign ApolloCommander Leland "Apollo" Adama was a Colonial Fleet officer, the sole surviving son of William Adama, who served as Galactica's CAG before turning to politics as the Caprican delegate to the Quorum and, in time, interim President of the Twelve Colonies.
- Louanne KatraineCaptain Louanne "Kat" Katraine was the assumed name of a drug runner who survived the Fall, became one of Galactica's finest Viper pilots, and died of radiation poisoning escorting a civilian ship through a stellar cluster.
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2- Mar-Beth WillowMar-Beth Willow was a Monotheist tied to the Soldiers of the One on Caprica. Her growing fear of exposure led to her being falsely branded an informer and killed by Clarice Willow.
- Marcia CaseCaptain Marcia "Showboat" Case was a Viper pilot who survived the Fall of the Twelve Colonies aboard the battlestar Pegasus, flew alongside Starbuck, and later transferred to Galactica, where her ultimate fate was left unknown.
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2- Richard AdarRichard Adar was President of the United Colonies of Kobol and Commander-in-Chief of the Colonial Fleet at the time of the Fall of the Twelve Colonies. His administration funded the work that the Cylons exploited to cripple the fleet, and he was killed along with nearly his entire government in the attack.
- Rya Kibby: the stowaway whose abortion forced Roslin's handRya Kibby was a 17-year-old from Gemenon, four months pregnant, who stowed away on Galactica to reach Doctor Cottle and then claimed asylum rather than be sent home. The row that followed ended with Laura Roslin banning abortion and letting Kibby have hers.
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3- Tad ThoreanTad Thorean was a Caprican youth and Holoband addict who, under the avatar Heracles, helped a sentient program seize control of the virtual underworld of New Cap City before his own avatar was destroyed and permanently banished.
- Tom ZarekTom Zarek was a Sagittaron political activist and convicted terrorist who rose to become Vice President and briefly President of the United Colonies of Kobol, before being executed for his part in a mutiny aboard Galactica.
- Tomas Vergis: the Tauron whose stolen chip made the first CylonTomas Vergis built the meta-cognitive processor that Daniel Graystone stole to animate the first Cylon, at the cost of two murdered Vergis employees. He took Graystone Industries away from its founder, lost it to a Ha'la'tha blackmail campaign, and chose the manner of his own death.