Gina Inviere

Gina Inviere was the alias of a Number Six copy who posed as a systems analyst aboard the battlestar Pegasus; "inviere" was Old Gemenese for "resurrection." She infiltrated the ship during its refit, sabotaged it during the Fall of the Twelve Colonies, and after months of captivity and abuse assassinated Rear Admiral Helena Cain before later detonating a nuclear warhead aboard the liner Cloud Nine.

Infiltration of Pegasus#

How long Inviere had been within the Cyrannus Star System is unknown, but she had time to find employment with Integral Systems Engineering, a defense contractor. For several months she planned the overhaul of Pegasus, a Mercury-class battlestar, as it readied for a six-month refit. During this period she became close with Rear Admiral Helena Cain and developed a relationship largely kept discreet from the crew. When the Cylon invasion force arrived in the Fall of the Twelve Colonies, Pegasus was damaged by nuclear blasts over the Scorpia Fleet Shipyards but escaped because its Command Navigation Program had been disabled. Lieutenant Kendra Shaw later discovered that the program had contained a backdoor protocol allowing the Cylons to upload viruses, a common procedure during the Cylon War.

In the first week after the attack, Inviere worked informally as a conscript, continuing to repair the ship's networked computers while Cain planned an attack on a target believed to be a Cylon communications relay. During this time she gained access to Lieutenant Shaw's access codes, allowing her into more of the ship's systems than a contractor would normally reach. When Pegasus assaulted the target, it fell into a trap, with fifteen Raider squadrons massing on it. Using Shaw's codes, Inviere disabled the weapons from CIC, forcing the crew to man them manually, then helped Centurions get through the portside airlocks after Heavy Raiders boarded the ship. She returned to CIC to sabotage the weapons further, but Shaw, who had shot a Number Six at Airlock 4 and deduced Inviere's true nature, ordered her arrest. Though Inviere killed a Marine and armed herself, Shaw knocked her out with a rifle butt.

Captivity and interrogation#

For several months Inviere was kept in the Pegasus brig. As a Cylon her rights as a person were ignored, and she was interrogated by Lieutenant Alastair Thorne. The interrogation quickly became a campaign of degradation, with the crew taking turns gang-raping her as a so-called morale-building initiative. When Pegasus made contact with Galactica and a civilian fleet, Dr. Gaius Baltar took over as interrogator and found her near-catatonic and unresponsive. Over hours and days he slowly got her to eat, move, and eventually speak, drawn to her because he had himself fallen in love with another Number Six on Caprica.

Inviere aided Baltar without coercion and identified a Cylon vessel pursuing the fleet as a Resurrection Ship, where her consciousness would be downloaded if she died. The ship's proximity prevented her from finding release in death, and her information sparked a Colonial strike that destroyed it. After killing a Marine guard, she tried to force Baltar to kill her with his sidearm, but held back, fled, assassinated Admiral Cain in her office, and escaped into the fleet.

Demand Peace and the destruction of Cloud Nine#

Over the following weeks, Inviere settled on the liner Cloud Nine and joined Demand Peace, an activist group that believed peace with the Cylons was possible if the government and fleet accepted it. Although the Number Six model was already known to the fleet as a Cylon line, she evaded detection by changing her hairstyle, wearing glasses, and confining herself to her room. Despite Baltar's compassion, Inviere continued to distrust humans and advised him that, should he become President, he should turn against Admiral Adama to deepen distrust of the military. When Demand Peace began terrorist attacks in the fleet, Baltar smuggled a nuclear warhead to them as a show of good faith in exchange for halting their activities. He also attempted a romantic relationship with her, seeing her as a stand-in for his own Six, but her experiences on Pegasus left it stalled.

Outside Demand Peace, Inviere made contact with D'Anna Biers, a Number Three posing as a journalist, who had learned of a Number Eight aboard Galactica pregnant with a Human-Cylon hybrid. The two planned to smuggle the baby out of Galactica, but the plan was abandoned when the child was inaccurately reported dead. During the presidential election, Inviere secretly advised the Baltar campaign from Cloud Nine. Baltar won on the policy of settling New Caprica, but his new office effectively ended their relationship; she declined his offer to live in secret with him and broke things off with a final, reluctant encounter.

After Baltar returned to Colonial One and the fleet jumped to New Caprica, a heartbroken and disturbed Inviere detonated Demand Peace's nuclear warhead to kill herself far from any Resurrection Ship. The explosion destroyed Cloud Nine and several nearby ships and left a nuclear signature that would draw the Cylons from a light year away a year later.