Starbuck what was she

Despite her tough, rebellious exterior, Thrace is deeply spiritual and possesses a great deal of faith in the Lords of Kobol. She usually prays in moments of mourning or desperation, such as when she thinks Lee is dead Miniseries , when she is trapped on a desolate moon with a broken knee and low oxygen You Can't Go Home Again , and when she discovers she's in Cylon captivity The Farm.

This spirituality is put to the test as a series of events lead her towards a mysterious destiny. From early in her life, Kara Thrace has been guided through her mother's actions for a special role in life, a plot point that begins with a Leoben Conoy copy in the Season 1 episode, " Flesh and Bone ".

In " Maelstrom ", the character dies, but reappears as a guide for the Fleet at the end of Season 3. A Cylon Hybrid , speaking to Major Kendra Shaw moments before their deaths, warns her that Thrace is the herald of the apocalypse and the harbinger of death, that she would lead the human race to its end, and that she is not to be followed Razor.

Similarly, another Hybrid describes her as the harbinger of death, and she would lead them to salvation and destruction Faith. This becomes the case, as she leads Galactica and the Fleet to a second, new planet the Colonials dub "Earth. However, as they blend in with the native humans on the new Earth, the distinctive natures of Colonial human and Cylon creations blur and merge. On New Caprica, she got drunk and slept with Lee Adama on the very plot of land she was planing on building a house with her boyfriend, Sam Anders.

The next morning, feeling guilty, she ran off and eloped with Anders. It would seem that the switch in gender roles for the Starbuck character is an example of the increased role of women on both television and in society as a whole, from the 's to the 's. This edit will also create new pages on Comic Vine for:. Until you earn points all your submissions need to be vetted by other Comic Vine users. This process takes no more than a few hours and we'll send you an email once approved.

Starbuck appears in 53 issues View all. Tweet Clean. Cancel Update. What size image should we insert? According to the book of Pythia, a temple dedicated to Aurora exists on Earth, built by the Thirteenth Tribe. When the Fleet arrives there, they find a ruined city with the remains of this structure Revelations. The Comic then continues to show how Pythia died, but miraculously appeared in front of the Thirteenth Tribe on their way to Earth, helping to lead the way and living out her life there.

Messenger Six then tells Michael Tigh, "Now do you understand? She's one of us. You call us the Lords of Kobol , but we prefer other terms. We don't involve ourselves in your petty affairs. We simply But there has always been one who couldn't follow the rules. Who couldn't ignore her low basal urges. We call her Aurora and it seems she isn't willing to let you fail. That isn't the women you loved.

She's a rogue imposter. A rogue God. And later Saul tells Ellen while remembering Pythia holding him as a boy in a flashback, "She saved us, there is no denying that.

How that happened, what she was I don't know. What I do know is how she left us. Without Pythia, biological reproduction would have been impossible. She helped us reengineer our genome. Fixed what was lacking. Pythia was an ancient oracle, believed to have been one of the writers of the Sacred Scrolls , some 3, years prior to the events of the Miniseries and the destruction of the Twelve Colonies of Kobol.

Pythia's writings are both obscure and yet well-known: obscure, in that her entire writings are not widely studied among modern Colonials, but well-known in that extracts are widely quoted, often out of context, such as the following:.

All this will happen again. And unto the leader, they gave a vision of serpents, numbering two and ten, as a sign of things to come. At the end of the day Battlestar Galactica is a Space Opera with a cycle cosmology story.

So it is about entities being able to exist in all kinds of ways in order for "fate" to run through itself and eventually "break" a cycle. She's not a "cylon", she's not completely an astral projection like Messengers Six, Balter, and Zoe, and yet she is not limited to "corporeal" limitations.

In addition The Caprica prequel series tries to break things down further. At first it seems like a "messenger" could be created at any time in any society just like a digital avatar could, as we see Zoe A and Tamara Adama able to live in on in V-World. Both series also make an interesting correlation with people surviving the unsurvivable, such as in "blasts". Starbuck ends up having 3 variations of her existence: Lee watches her get torn apart in the Nebula, Starbuck claims she went to Earth and came back in her brand new Viper , and then we she her viper and body burned on Earth 1.