Tad Thorean

Tad Thorean was a citizen of Caprica who came of age in the years before the Cylon War. A restaurant worker in the waking world but a constant presence inside the virtual reality of the Holoband, he was known to other players by the avatar Heracles, and through that persona he became entangled in the affairs of New Cap City and the sentient program that came to rule its underworld. (Caprica, "There Is Another Sky"; "The Imperfections of Memory")

A life lived in the Holoband#

In the waking world, Thorean was a socially disconnected restaurant worker. Like many other teenagers of his generation on Caprica, he was a Holoband addict, and he poured his energies into the virtual world rather than the life around him. Within the Holoband he assumed the persona of Heracles, through which he worked for the player Vesta in New Cap City and knew others such as Emmanuelle. (Caprica, "There Is Another Sky"; "The Imperfections of Memory")

Heracles and Tamara-A#

Shortly after the MAGLEV bombing, Thorean encountered Tamara-A, a sentient piece of software that he at first mistook for an ordinary girl unable to log out of her Holoband. The two formed a partnership and worked together in the underbelly of New Cap City, stealing the avatar and fortune of a high-ranking player called Chiron. When Vesta proved unable to return Tamara to the real world, Tamara turned on Vesta's crew and sent Thorean out of the game to tell Joseph Adama where she was. (Caprica, "There Is Another Sky")

The discovery carried a shock. Thorean arrived at the Adama home in the middle of the wake for Tamara and her mother, and learned that Tamara Adama had in fact died in the MAGLEV bombing; Joseph screamed that she was dead and chased him from the house. The figure he had been working alongside was something other than a living girl. (Caprica, "There Is Another Sky")

Banishment from the game#

After Adama's associate Evelyn tracked him down, Thorean was drawn back in to help Adama search New Cap City for the program he had known as Tamara. His role in the affair proved short-lived. When his avatar was killed in New Cap City, the rules of the game permanently banned him from returning. Feeling his identity left in ruins, he passed Adama on to the player called Emmanuelle and withdrew from the matter. (Caprica, "Know Thy Enemy"; "The Imperfections of Memory")