Daniel Graystone

Battlestar Galactica Characters: Every Major Character in the 2004 Series

The 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.

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The Reimagined Series chronology in order, from the exodus from Kobol and the death of the first Earth to the Fall of the Twelve Colonies and the fleet's arrival 150,000 years ago. A shorter section at the end covers the separate 1978 series and Galactica 1980.

Cylon

The 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 War: the machines revolt

The Cylons rose against the people who built them on Caprica. Twelve years of fighting ended in a sudden Armistice that held for forty years.

Drew: Graystone Industries technician

Drew 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.

Holoband

The Holoband was a Caprican device that immersed its wearer in V-World, a vast shared virtual reality. Widely used yet condemned as a symbol of cultural decadence, the technology was bound up with the rise of the Cylons.

Olaf Willow

Olaf 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.

Philomon

Philomon 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.

Tamara-A: the avatar of a lost daughter

Tamara-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.

Tomas Vergis: the Tauron whose stolen chip made the first Cylon

Tomas 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.

Zoe Graystone

Zoe 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.

Zoe-A

Zoe-A was a sentient artificial intelligence created by the Caprican prodigy Zoe Graystone as a digital recreation of herself. Through a damaged chip placed in the U-87 battle robot, the program from which she sprang came to underlie every mechanical Cylon built before and during the Cylon War.