Hera (Cylon-Human)
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- This article is about the Cylon-Human character. For the Colonial goddess, see Lords of Kobol.
| Hera | |
|---|---|
| Race | Human-Cylon hybrid |
| Gender | Female |
| Portrayed by | |
| Affiliation | Colonial civilian |
Hera or Isis is a fictional character from the reimagined Battlestar Galactica series.
Isis or Hera is the first known Cylon-Human hybrid child to be born and she first appeared in the episode "Downloaded". She is the daughter of the Cylon Sharon "Athena" Agathon and human father Karl "Helo" Agathon. They name her "Hera" after the Colonial goddess.
The humanoid Cylons are as biological as they are technological and can potentially mate with humans and produce offspring. This fact seems to be part of the "plan" of the Cylons who want to repopulate the human colonies with a new generation of hybrid beings. Once the Cylons learn of Boomer's pregnancy, they decide the child must be protected at all cost and thus had impact on the Cylon agenda in pursuing the refugee fleet. Hera is the only successful hybrid yet born, which is believed to be due to the love between her parents. Attempts at producing hybrids in "farms" on the occupied Colonies have all presumably failed in the early stages of gestation, if they ever got that far.
Fearing that Cylon spies within the fleet would try to kidnap Hera, President Laura Roslin and Admiral Adama order Dr. Cottle to fake the child's death. Hera had been born with underdeveloped lungs and Cottle used this fact as the cause of her death. Boomer however, refused to believe this and called Cottle, Adama and Roslin "murderers".
Later however, while Helo and Chief Tyrol scatter ashes into space that they believe are Hera's, Roslin and Adama secretly meet on Colonial One and give Hera to a woman named Maya who had lost a child in a previous Cylon attack. Maya is only told that the mother is an anonymous Pegasus officer who cannot care for the child. Maya subsequently names the baby Isis.
After a year on New Caprica, Isis is still alive. She had been under the care of Maya, who worked with Roslin in a New Caprica school. Roslin tried to keep Isis and her adoptive mother hidden. (see Exodus, Part 1)". However, Maya was killed during the evacuation of New Caprica (in the episode Exodus, Part 2). Hera was taken into the custody of Number Three.
As a "hybrid", Hera/Isis possesses incredible regenerative properties. Some of her tissue was donated to Laura Roslin which helped treat her cancer to the point where she has completely recovered (see "Epiphanies"). This fact led to Laura's decision to not have Boomer's fetus aborted as she had previously ordered. It is not yet known if Isis/Hera possesses any of the machine qualities of her mother, such as the fiberoptic neural pathways, and she is too young to determine if she has the superhuman physical prowess demonstrated by other humanoid Cylon models such as Leoben Conoy and Number Six.
