Battlestar galactica who is kara thrace

She is one of the best pilot in the Galactica fleet. When she crashed on a desert planet , she found a crashed Cylon Fighter and managed to get it in the air. She piloted the craft back to the Galactica fleet and avoided being destroyed by Lee Adama. After an Aaron Doral clone is discovered on board the Galactica and subsequently blows himself up, a search is carried out on all the colonial craft for any possible Cylon clones, a Leoben Conoy clone is discovered.

William Adama wants the clone to be destroyed but when the clone reveals that there is a nuclear bomb on one of the ships, Leoben is interrogated by Kara Thrace. The two face off against one another to see who'll break. Kara carries out an interogation and overseas Leobens torture, none of which does any good. Laura arrives on the ship to see how the interrogation is going. When Laura gives Leoben some humility, Leoben reveals there was never a bomb. Laura orders him to be thrown out the airlock.

Flesh and Bones. Before the events of the genocide, she had been in a relationship with Zak Adama and that clouded her judgment. During the time she was with Zac, she was also his training instructor. Whilst they were in bed, she told him, he passed flight training. In fact, he had failed training but her affection for him had clouded her judgment. Zak died in an accident which a pilot who had passed the test would have survived. Lee blamed his father for Zaks death as he felt it was his fault.

During the Cylon attack on the home worlds including Caprica, Kara reveals the truth to Lee. Kara told Lee that as the world was ending, she felt it was best that he was told. When a group of Viper pilots were killed in a weapon accident, Kara was tasked with training new recruits. After the first flight test didn't go to plan, Kara failed everyone of them. She did it because she didn't want the same nightmare that had happened previously with Zak.

William Adama made her re-enrol all the pilots and try again. It was during when Adama made her re-enrol them that he found out about Zac. Under any other circumstance, she would have been thrown out of the Colonial Navy but she was needed to train them. When Kara was captured on Caprica, she was held in a hospital and tended to by a Simon O'Neill clone.

He tended to her health and tried to make her feel as comfortable as possible whilst carrying out experiments on her. Kara managed to escape and kill the clone before another one came and so she killed him.

During the escape, she witnessed a number of humans linked up to a machine. One of those was someone who looked like Lieutenant Sharon Valerii. It could well have been the real biological Boomer whom they had modelled the Number Eights on.

As she was fleeing at the time, she didn't attempt to rescue Boomer and wasn't able to rescue her friend who was tied up to a machine. Kara, refusing to leave his side, pressures Lee and those who escaped to leave her in order for them to search for Adama. At first she becomes annoyed by his repetitious playing, stating he reminds her of her father when he did nothing but play the piano and she mentions how her father left her and her mother to pursue it as a career.

Over the course of the episode, Starbuck befriends the pianist and ends up working with him to try to finish his song. Toward the end, the piano player writes down the notes Starbuck hums out on a sheet of paper. The pattern reminds Starbuck of a drawing of colored dots the Cylon-Human child, Hera Agathon had given to her earlier. She lines the child's drawing up with the notes the composer had drawn and they match exactly.

When Starbuck and the pianist play the notes, the song is instantly recognized by Saul Tigh and Tory Foster — who are sitting at a nearby table with Ellen Tigh — as the song "All Along the Watchtower" they heard in their heads when they learned they were the final Cylons. Ellen, of course, remembers it from Earth.

A bewildered Saul asks Starbuck where she heard the song. Starbuck responds she played it as a kid and begins to mention her father, but stops short when she realizes the piano player, her father, was either a figment of her imagination or a vision. In the episode " Daybreak, Part I " Starbuck tries to get answers from Anders about the song, even turning notes into numbers to see if there is a mathematical solution. After saving Hera, and as the Colony is being destroyed, Starbuck is ordered by Admiral Adama to jump the Galactica away to safety.

Although she has no coordinates, Adama tells her to make a blind jump to anywhere. Recalling the musical notes and the numbers she extrapolated from it, she inputs them into the computer; the resulting jump puts Galactica near a habitable planet the fleet decides to settle on. It is revealed this new planet is our world, some , years ago; Admiral Adama names it "Earth", believing it better matched the dream the fleet had been seeking than did the original Earth which had been found destroyed by nuclear war.

Once settled on the world, Kara says a final goodbye to Admiral Adama and tells Lee she's leaving - her "job is done", having indeed led the human race to their end the end of their journey - and will not be coming back. Kara then disappears into thin air and is not seen again. Seeing her gone, Lee tells her ghost she "won't be forgotten", echoing a moment from the Daybreak episodes. What really happened to Kara is left ambiguous. According to Katee Sackhoff, "So when she at the end was saying goodbye to [Anders], I think that she was saying goodbye to their bodily forms," she said.

I think they're both dead, but I think she's with him. That was a decision that we made, because I selfishly wanted her at peace, and the only way to do that was to have her with someone at the end, or to be with the person she wanted to be with. Saul Tigh. In the hours leading up to Galactica 's decommissioning ceremony, the two became drunk and fought over a game of Triad.

While assaulting the XO should have been grounds for a court martial, her sentence was reduced to being held in the brig and losing her spot on the ceremony's flight roster, as Col. Tigh was not only also drunk but threw the first punch. The decommissioning ceremony took place on the same day as a massive Cylon attack on the Cyrannus star system , dubbed the " Fall of the Twelve Colonies ".

With Galactica 's own weapons already destroyed and Major Spencer's squadron massacred, Lt. Thrace was made acting-CAG and taken out of the brig early. Adama took control over all remaining forces and ordered a rendezvous at the gas giant, Ragnar where it was to claim ammunition from the Ragnar Anchorage surplus depot. Leland Adama took over as CAG.

Thrace was ordered onto a recon mission to assess the size of any Cylon forces that may have followed, and confirmed several Basestars to be waiting for them. Galactica launched its Vipers as it led the civilian fleet out of Ragnar's atmosphere, and all remaining pilots engaged with the Raiders. During the fighting, Cpt.

Apollo's Viper was damaged, and she pinned it with her own to bring it back to the flight deck. Several days after their escape from Ragnar, several pilots are killed in a freak accident. Given the duty of training new recruits, the quality of recruits she is sent is subpar but still she begins their training, ordering them to call her "God". Starbuck, blinded by guilt, washes all the pilots out for relatively minor flaws. She then admits her secret to Adama who is furious and heartbroken; he orders her to reinstate the trainees.

On the next training mission, Starbuck and the trainees are ambushed by a small group of Cylon Raiders. Starbuck engages the Raiders on her own to cover the trainees' escape.

With her Viper heavily damaged, she plummets toward the surface of a nearby desert moon, and is forced to eject and take her chances on the surface. Starbuck is declared " missing in action ", and Adama orders a search and rescue operation which strains the Galactica 's crew and combat resources. On the surface, Starbuck struggles with a broken knee and near asphyxiation as her oxygen runs out. Luckily, she discovers the Cylon Raider she downed. Using her exceptional skill in flying, she figures out the Cylon technology and is able to pilot it back to the fleet.

Depressed by her injuries, she initially needs incentive to work on rehabilitation and is soon rubbing people the wrong way again. Even after she is able to move around without a cane, the injury sidelines her from flight for many episodes; when given tactical charge of a mission in one episode, she cannot fly the critical role because her knee still can't handle the G-force.

During her recovery, a Number Two named Leoben is discovered aboard the Gemenon Traveller and is arrested. Adama assigns Starbuck to interrogate Leoben, believing she will be resistant to his mind games.

Starbuck brutally interrogates Leoben, and he claims to have hidden a nuclear bomb on a timer somewhere in the fleet, threatening its detonation. Despite her often crude exterior, Starbuck is revealed to have a deep-seated faith in the gods, and engages in a debate about the existence of the Colonial gods vs.

Leoben demonstrates that he is capable of breaking free and killing Starbuck at any time, but chooses not to, believing it is not God's will. During this period, Starbuck develops a respect for Leoben, and he falls in love with her. She is genuinely saddened when President Laura Roslin orders him executed by airlock, after he admits there is no bomb.

She experiences a brief moment of emotional connection with Leoben when they touch palms through the glass of the airlock before he is executed. Afterwards, she privately prays to the Lords of Kobol, acknowledging that Leoben might not have had a soul, but if he did, asking that they take care of it.

Starbuck's religious beliefs later come into play when President Roslin asks her to carry out a dangerous mission: return to Caprica and retrieve the Arrow of Apollo , a religious artifact supposedly pointing the way to Earth. Starbuck is at first reluctant, believing that Adama already knows the way to Earth, and is leading them there. Roslin is forced to reveal that Adama lied about knowing Earth's whereabouts to give the fleet hope. This deeply shakes Starbuck's trust in Adama, and she eventually is convinced to help Roslin.

She takes the Cylon Raider she had captured, leading Adama to declare Roslin had suborned mutiny; he sends a detachment of Marines to terminate her presidency. During her time on Caprica, Starbuck encounters a Number Six who beats her soundly , but manages to kill the Cylon out of sheer luck.

She then meets up with Karl "Helo" Agathon a close friend she believed dead after he stayed on Caprica and the Sharon Valerii copy pregnant with his child. Immediately realizing that Sharon is a Cylon, she attempts to kill her, while Helo stops her. This causes Sharon to flee in the stolen Raider, abandoning Starbuck and Helo. While attempting to find an alternative route off Caprica, they meet a resistance group that had been waging guerrilla war against the Cylons, led by fellow pyramid player Samuel Anders.

Kara and Anders develop a bond over their shared past as pyramid players, and develop a romantic relationship. A Cylon named Simon, posing as a doctor, experiments on her, claiming to be treating her for internal injuries, and keeps her in a drugged state.