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Cylons
43 entries tagged Cylons, 43 of them long reads. The rest of the wiki points here most often at Cylon and Number One: John Cavil.
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4- Basestar Type-BThe Basestar Type-B was a Cylon capital ship of the First Cylon War, with an early version of the Y-shaped layout of later baseships. One was destroyed over the ice moon Djerba when the battlestar Osiris rammed it and detonated its nuclear warheads.
- Basestar Type-CThe Basestar Type-C was a Cylon warship of the closing days of the Cylon War. Resembling the modern basestar with a more industrial look, it was the first known type to carry a Hybrid, and its one known example became the Guardian basestar.
- Basestar Type-D: the modern Cylon baseshipThe Basestar Type-D, also called the Modern Basestar, was the primary Cylon capital ship at the Fall of the Twelve Colonies and through the war that followed. Partly organic and run by a Hybrid, it served as a fleet carrier and missile platform in the mould of a Colonial battlestar.
- Basestar: the Cylon carrierThe modern Cylon basestar was partly organic and run by a Hybrid, not a crew. It launched swarms of Raiders and healed battle damage like a wound.
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6- Caprica Cavil: the Number One in the resistanceCaprica Cavil was a Number One model humanoid Cylon who took the guise of a Polytheist priest. On Caprica before the Fall he took the defense access codes from Caprica-Six, and he later infiltrated the human resistance led by Samuel T. Anders.
- Centurion Model 0005The Centurion Model 0005 was the line of mechanical Cylon soldiers that fought in the Cylon War. Descended from the Zoe Graystone U-87, they pursued a humanoid form and were later supplanted by their own humanoid creations.
- Centurion: the machine soldiers of the Cylon EmpireThe Centurions were a mass produced race of mechanical beings created by the original, biological Cylons. After overthrowing their creators, they made up the bulk of the military forces of the reconstituted Cylon Empire, commanding Raiders and leading its ground forces under the Imperious Leader.
- CylonThe Cylons were a race of sentient machines created as military robots by Graystone Industries on Caprica. Built from research into artificial consciousness, they rebelled against their human masters, fought a long war, and forty years later returned to annihilate humanity.
- Cylon CenturionThe Cylon Centurion was the standardized mechanical soldier produced after the Cylon War. Faster and better armed than its predecessors, it was held in check with telencephalic inhibitors until rebel Cylons freed a generation of Centurions that fought for their own destiny.
- Cylon Raider: the living fighterThe modern Raider was a living organism fused to a metal exoskeleton, able to plan and to refuse orders. Killed Raiders resurrected into new ships.
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3- Earth Cylons: the machines of the Thirteenth TribeThe Earth Cylons were mechanical sentient beings created by the Thirteenth Tribe on Earth around two thousand years before the Fall of the Twelve Colonies. They rose against their makers in a war that left Earth a nuclear ruin and brought about the extinction of both themselves and their creators.
- Ellen TighEllen Tigh was the wife of Colonel Saul Tigh, a scientist of the original Earth, and the eldest of the Final Five Cylons. She led the work that rediscovered Resurrection and created the humanoid Cylon models, and was the only one of the Five to fully regain her memories.
- Every Cylon Model in Order, by Number: One to Eight and the Final FiveAll twelve humanoid Cylon models from the reimagined Battlestar Galactica, in order by number, from Cavil and Leoben to Saul Tigh and Tory Foster. Who each one was, the copies that mattered, what they wanted and how their story ended.
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2- 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.
- Gina InviereGina Inviere was the alias of a Number Six copy who infiltrated the battlestar Pegasus as a systems analyst, sabotaged it during the Fall, and after months of captivity assassinated Admiral Cain before destroying the liner Cloud Nine.
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3- 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.
- Humanoid CylonHumanoid Cylons were a form of biological Cylon engineered to look and behave exactly like human beings. Created by the Final Five after the Cylon War, these synthetic humans were both wholly organic and wholly artificial, and their infiltration of the colonies made the Fall possible.
- HybridThe Hybrid was a model of Cylon created in the final days of the Cylon War. A biological body fused into a computer, it served aboard Basestars in place of a conventional crew, often speaking in fragments of poetry that its makers could not agree how to interpret.
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9- Natalie Faust: the Six who led the Cylon rebellion and died on GalacticaNatalie Faust was the Number Six copy who led the rebel Cylon faction demanding the search for the Final Five. She freed the Centurions to break Cavil's majority, allied with the Colonials against the Resurrection Hub, and was shot dead in a Galactica corridor by Sharon Agathon.
- Number EightNumber Eight was one of the seven surviving Humanoid Cylon models, replicated into many copies that typically went by the name Sharon. Marked by affection and a propensity for fickleness, the Eights produced both the sleeper agent Boomer and the loyal Athena.
- Number FiveThe Number Fives were a model of humanoid Cylon, all of whom went by the name Aaron Doral. They infiltrated Colonial society before the Fall of the Twelve Colonies and are believed extinct after the Cylon Civil War.
- Number FourNumber Four, also known as Simon O'Neil, was a model of humanoid Cylon created by the Final Five after the Cylon War. Often serving as doctors and medics, the Fours sided with the Ones and Fives during the Cylon Civil War.
- Number One: John CavilNumber One, called John, was the first humanoid Cylon the Final Five built. He wiped out the entire Number Seven line and had the Five's memories erased.
- Number SevenNumber Seven was a humanoid Cylon model series created by the Final Five and named Daniel by Ellen Tigh. The line was destroyed before the Fall of the Twelve Colonies when the Number Ones poisoned the fluid used to mature their bodies and corrupted their genetic code.
- Number SixNumber Six was a humanoid Cylon model created by the Final Five after the Cylon War. Tall and typically blonde, the Sixes were noted infiltrators who blended into Colonial society before the Fall, and later split from the other models to help spark the Cylon Civil War.
- Number ThreeNumber Three, known by the alias D'Anna Biers, was a humanoid Cylon model marked by a forbidden curiosity about the Final Five. That defiance led to the entire line being boxed, and the last surviving Three chose to die on the ruins of Earth.
- Number TwoNumber Two was a model of humanoid Cylon, the second of the eight types created by the Final Five. Deeply spiritual and prone to manipulation, every copy took the name Leoben, and the line was all but exterminated in the Cylon Civil War.
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4- Raider Type IThe Raider Type I was the first in the series of Raider space superiority fighters fielded by the Cylon fleet. It served against the Colonial Fleet during the First Cylon War.
- Raider Type IIThe Raider Type II was a Cylon fighter armed with a pair of laser cannons and deployed in large numbers from Cylon basestars. A swarm of more than a hundred was launched against the battlestar Osiris during the Battle of Djerba.
- Raider Type III: Cylon space superiority fighterThe Raider Type III, with the reporting name Sparrow, was a living Cylon attack fighter that entered service after the First Cylon War. A synthetic organism fused to a metallic exoskeleton, it served as the principal starfighter the Cylons fielded against the Colonial Fleet.
- Rebel BasestarThe Rebel Basestar was a Cylon basestar that allied with the Colonial Fleet during the Cylon Civil War. Sole survivor of an ambush by the rival faction, it fought alongside humanity at the Battle of the Hub and joined the Fleet in its search for Earth.
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6- Samuel T. AndersSamuel T. Anders was a citizen of the original Earth and one of the Final Five Cylons. Living for years as a human Pyramid star, he led the resistance on occupied Caprica before awakening to his true nature and becoming, in his final role, the Hybrid of Galactica.
- 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.
- Sharon "Boomer" ValeriiSharon "Boomer" Valerii was a Number Eight Humanoid Cylon planted within the Colonial Fleet as a sleeper agent. Awakening to her true nature drove her through betrayal and despair to become a tool of John Cavil, before a final act of redemption.
- Sharon AgathonSharon "Athena" Agathon was a Number Eight humanoid Cylon who fell in love with Karl Agathon on occupied Caprica, defected to the Colonial Fleet, and became the first Cylon to openly serve as a Colonial officer.
- Shelly GodfreyShelly Godfrey was a humanoid Cylon of the Number Six model who infiltrated the refugee fleet aboard a transport from Canceron. Posing as a defence worker, she manufactured forged evidence in a plot to discredit Gaius Baltar, and was airlocked by her own kind after she failed to kill him.
- Simon O'NeillSimon O'Neill was a Number Four who infiltrated Colonial society as a fleet medic. After the Fall of the Twelve Colonies he chose his family over his model and died rather than carry out a Number One's terror plot.
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3- Tamara-A: the avatar of a lost daughterTamara-A was a sentient artificial intelligence created in the years before the Cylon War through the Avatar Program. Based on Tamara Adams, a girl killed in the Caprica City Maglev bombing, she was conceived as part of a bargain between Daniel Graystone and the Adama family and was abandoned soon after her creation.
- The Final FiveThe Final Five were five humanoid Cylon models hidden from the rest of their kind, descendants of the Thirteenth Tribe and the creators of the Significant Seven.
- Tory FosterTory Foster was a political aide to President Laura Roslin and one of the Final Five Cylons. After awakening to her nature she embraced her Cylon self more fully than her companions, a path that led her to murder and to her own violent death.