Battlestar Galactica category

Characters

45 entries tagged Characters. Every entry is sourced from the Battlestar Galactica reimagined series, the miniseries, the television films, or the official companion material.

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.
Alex BoxmanAlex "Boxey" Boxman was a child who survived the Fall of the Twelve Colonies after being evacuated from Caprica by Raptor. Living alone among the Galactica's crew, he unknowingly carried explosive residue across the ship before the sabotage of its water tanks.
AmarakDr. Amarak was a Colonial government scientist who worked on defense research alongside Gaius Baltar. He sought to warn President Roslin of a traitor in the fleet before dying 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.
Barnabas GreeleyBarnabas Greeley was a Caprican Monotheist and a cell commander of the Soldiers of the One. In 1942 he launched a campaign of unsanctioned bombings meant to spread Monotheism through fear, 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 as the senior surviving officer. His rigid, engineering-minded command alienated the crew, and he died restoring the ship's drives after leading the Pegasus into a Cylon trap.
Ben StarkBen Stark was a Caprican student and Monotheist who joined a breakaway faction of the Soldiers of the One. In 1942 he carried out the suicide bombing of a Caprica City Maglev train, an attack that killed his girlfriend Zoe Graystone and hundreds of others.
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.
Clarice WillowSister Clarice Willow was a Monotheist and Soldiers of the One planetary commander on Caprica who sought to use a stolen avatar program for a mass killing she called Apotheosis.
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.
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.
EloshaElosha was a Colonial priest who swore in Laura Roslin as President during the Fall and became her spiritual guide as the Fleet sought Earth. She read Roslin's visions against the prophecies of Pythia, and even after her death on Kobol she returned to Roslin in vision.
Felix GaetaFelix Gaeta was a skilled tactical officer aboard the Battlestar Galactica who served as William Adama's Officer of the Watch for years before the Fall. His objection to the fleet's alliance with the Cylons led him to lead a mutiny that ended in his execution.
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.
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.
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 realize the GDD itself had been infiltrated by the terrorist movement.
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.
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 in 1942.
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 RoslinLaura Roslin was Secretary of Education for the Twelve Colonies who became President after the Cylon attack killed everyone above her in the line of succession. Many in the Fleet came to see her as the dying leader of prophecy, destined to guide humanity to a promised land she would not live to enter.
Lee AdamaCommander 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.
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.
Nestor WillowNestor Willow was a Caprican Monotheist and member of Clarice Willow's Soldiers of the One cell. A trained computer scientist, he served the cell's technical needs and died during a raid on the Graystone residence.
Olaf WillowOlaf Willow was a Monotheist terrorist tied to the Soldiers of the One who took orders from his wife, Sister Clarice Willow. He helped hunt rival cells, chase Zoe Graystone's avatar program, and carry out the Atlas Arena bombing, where he died believing the One True God would save his soul.
PhilomonPhilomon was a lab technician at Graystone Industries who worked on the U-87 battle robot program. While trying to discover why the prototype could not be copied, he was unknowingly aided by Zoe-A, the consciousness controlling the robot, and was killed when it rebelled.
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.
Saul TighColonel Saul Tigh was the executive officer of the battlestar Galactica and William Adama's oldest friend, a hard-drinking and embittered soldier who later discovered he was one of the Final Five Cylons yet never stopped thinking of himself as a Colonial officer.
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.
Val ChambersVal Chambers was the Minister of Defense of Caprica in the decades before the Cylon War, the official who oversaw the U-87 robot program and who was assassinated by the Ha'la'tha after antagonizing the Tauron crime syndicate.
William AdamaWilliam "Husker" Adama was a Colonial Fleet officer who commanded the battlestar Galactica through the Fall of the Twelve Colonies. His refusal to network the ship spared it from the Cylon attack, and alongside President Laura Roslin he led the survivors of humanity in search of a new home.
Xaviar: the renegade Colonial commanderXaviar was a commander and council member of the refugee fleet that fled the Twelve Colonies of Man for Earth. Disgusted by Commander Adama's policy of non-interference, he used a time machine to travel to the 1940s and aid Nazi Germany, hoping to force Earth into a technological renaissance.
Zoe GraystoneZoe Graystone was a Caprican computing prodigy and one of the earliest pioneers of Cylon technology. The daughter of Daniel and Amanda Graystone, she created a digital recreation of her own consciousness, Zoe-A, that would shape the future of artificial life.