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. (Battlestar Galactica, "Pegasus"; Battlestar Galactica: Razor; Battlestar Galactica, "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II")

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 refit, including its Command Navigation Program upgrade. 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 with a blind jump, possible because its networks were down for the refit. (Battlestar Galactica, "Pegasus"; Battlestar Galactica: Razor)

In the days after the attack, Inviere stayed aboard and kept working on the ship's computers while Cain planned an attack on a target believed to be a Cylon communications relay. Having won the trust of Lieutenant Kendra Shaw, she had the use of 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 Raider squadrons far beyond what the Colonials expected 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. (Battlestar Galactica: Razor)

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. His first visit to her cell comes in the season 2 episode "Pegasus". (Battlestar Galactica, "Pegasus"; Battlestar Galactica: Razor)

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. She begged Baltar to kill her once the ship was gone, but he persuaded her to live and seek justice instead. With his help she escaped her cell, shot Admiral Cain dead, and slipped away into the fleet. (Battlestar Galactica, "Resurrection Ship, Part I"; Battlestar Galactica, "Resurrection Ship, Part II")

Demand Peace and the destruction of Cloud Nine#

Over the following weeks, Inviere settled on the liner Cloud Nine and took a leading role in Demand Peace, an activist group that believed peace with the Cylons was possible. 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. Baltar later handed her a nuclear warhead that had been set aside for his Cylon detector research. He also attempted a romantic relationship with her, seeing her as a stand-in for his own Six, but her experiences on Pegasus left her recoiling from his touch. (Battlestar Galactica, "Epiphanies")

In a subplot cut from the episode "Downloaded", which survives only as deleted scenes, 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 reported dead. (Battlestar Galactica, "Downloaded" deleted scenes)

Baltar won the presidency on the policy of settling New Caprica, and his new office all but ended their relationship. When he visited to explain, she told him she would not be leaving the ship for the new colony, then pushed past her own aversion to make him stay for one last night. (Battlestar Galactica, "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II")

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 drew the Cylons to New Caprica a year later. (Battlestar Galactica, "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II"; Battlestar Galactica: The Plan)