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he supporting characters below are

additional survivors available for quick

reference and use, expanding the list of those

provided on pages 204-209 of the Battlestar

Galactica rulebook. hey can be used as-is, or

customized to meet the needs of a particular

scene, adventure, or campaign.

THE PATH OF

them that the Colonies were under

attack. he ship was leeing the system to

unite with other civilian ships.

Now she and her friends are part of a fugitive

leet, pursued by the Cylons. hey’ve been

attacked frequently, and she’s been staring at

the back of the seat in front of her for far too

long. here’s nothing to do, and she’s re-read

that stupid guidebook more times than she

can count. Her group of friends has run out of

arguments; they’re all just bored now, waiting

for anything to happen. She was one semester

away from inishing her advanced computer

science degree, so now she hopes she can

apply for a position on Galactica . She’d never

have imagined herself in a military uniform,

but she’s at the point where she’ll do anything

to get of the civilian transport.

Plot Hooks Following are a few plot hooks

involving the student in a Battlestar Galactica

campaign:

New Recruits —he order has been made to

scout potential recruits for Galactica and provide

redundancy for critical positions. he student

applies and passes the initial examination, and

now she’s on the bridge learning the ropes.

With Lt. Gaeta of-duty from stomach lu, this

newcomer is at his duty station when Cylons

attack.

he Worm —On the bridge, Gaeta notices

an unauthorized intrusion into Galactica ’s

mainframe, coming from within the ship.

Col. Tigh sends a security team, and they ind

the culprit—a young woman with a portable

computer, crouched in a service shaft and

linked in. She managed to get hold of a

console while visiting Galactica on a civilian

walkthrough, and claims her intrusion was to

prove herself to the command structure for a

job onboard. How’d she do it?

he Signal — Galactica gets a high-priority

message from one of the ships in the civilian

leet—a young woman claims that while

examining data transmission logs for her ship,

she’s detected an almost undetectable virus

hiding in the ship’s mainframe, claiming that

it could be in others, if not all of the civilian

KNOWLEDGE

hese supporting characters are focused

on knowledge in some fashion—whether

furthering their education, challenging some

status quo through education, or passing on

knowledge to anyone eager to learn. hey are all

characters useful in supporting roles, and may

be utilized as allies to the player-characters (or

even as the focus of some plot with powerful

consequences).

S TUDENT (R ECRUIT )

Agi d6 Str d6 Vit d6 Ale d8 Int d10 Wil d6

LP 12; Init d6+d8

Traits Allure d2, Good-Natured d4,

Mathematician d8, Straight-Laced d4, Trusting

d4, Youthful d6

Skills Athletics d6/Running d8/Swimming

d10, Inluence d4, Knowledge d6, Perception

d6, Planetary Vehicles d4, Scientiic Expertise

d6/Mathematics d10/Physics d8, Technical

Engineering d6/Computer Programming d10/

Electronics d10/Hacking d10

Description Back on Libris, her boyfriend

used to take her to horror movies about school

break trips gone wrong. You know, the ones

where a group of attractive young co-eds run

into trouble. A trip like that would be a relief.

No, this young Libran computer science student

was on a passenger ship headed to Virgon for

spring break with a handful of her friends. She’d

scheduled a weeklong party at a sun-soaked

getaway where the only decision was what to

drink that night. She sat in her summer-print

dress with her girlfriends, lipping through

a battered copy of Virgon on 100 Cubits a Day,

when a message over the ship’s intercom told

ships. When Galactica sends an escort

over to retrieve her, she’s missing, and

her friends say that a strange man was

asking about her just about the same time she

disappeared. Is she alive or dead? What did she

ind? Who was that man?

R EVOLUTIONARY

But now he’s seen the way the leet really

behaves—a dubiously elected government

walking hand-in-hand with the military, led

by a self-proclaimed messiah. He’s written

pamphlets and created revolutionary cells

full of like-minded citizens, people who

aren’t going to let their government become

a dictatorship. hey’ve collected weapons and

other valuable resources, and made deals with

crews and captains of certain key ships.

He’s decided that now is the time to act,

and he is not alone.

Plot Hooks Here are a few plot hooks

involving the revolutionary in a Battlestar

Galactica campaign:

he Lealet— While vacationing on Cloud

Nine , a lealet is shoved into one of the player

character’s hands. It’s about a demonstration

to be held later that day, addressing the vast

social inequities being perpetuated by a fascist

regime. he emotionally charged text hints that

this rally is recruitment for a larger movement

that will “take back control over our destinies”

and “throw of the chains of our military

overlords.” he time for the rally is swiftly

approaching and an astonishing number of

people are beginning to mill around. When the

leader arrives and begins to speak, what will

the player characters do?

he Uprising— On a routine jump, with no

Cylons in sight, several ships suddenly refuse

to comply with Galactica ’s jump command. he

captains radio that their engines are disabled,

with key components stolen. hey say that a

“peaceful protest” is underway, and that the

ships will not be restored to functionality until

the protesters’ demands are met. here’s no

sign of Cylons, so the danger isn’t immediate,

but every second the leet is not mobile is a

second more for the toasters to catch up to

them. housands of innocent lives are at stake.

he player characters are sent as a delegation

to meet with the protest leader, and hear his

demands.

he 14th Colony—Galactica inds a relatively

habitable world with breathable air, edible

algae, and other plant life. he radiation is low

(V ETERAN )

Agi d8 Str d6 Vit d8 Ale d8 Int d10 Wil d8

LP 16; Init d8+d8

Traits Advanced Education d4, Contrarian

d4, Friends in Strange Places d6, Hideout d6,

Idealist d4, Prejudice (Governments) d4

Skills Artistry d6/Writing d10, Covert

d6/Sabotage d8, Discipline d6/Leadership

d8, Inluence d6/Persuasion d10/Politics d8,

Knowledge d6/History d8/Law d8, Mechanical

Engineering d4, Melee Weapon Combat d4,

Perception d4, Performance d6/Oratory d8

Description He was born on Tauron, the

son of wealthy industrialists. As such, he

went to the inest schools on Caprica. While

in college, he fell in with a politically active

group of students just to meet a girl, but he

began reading their propaganda, and actually

listening at the meetings. A ire lit in his soul.

Upon his activist awakening, he rejected

his family’s wealth and the easy opportunities

it aforded him. He sought out places in the

Twelve Colonies where social injustice was

prevalent. He and his allies worked tirelessly,

up front and behind the scenes, organizing

unions and rallies to stop unfair governmental

oppression and other social exploitation.

Labeled an extremist for his views, he’s a

political dissident wanted by authorities on

several worlds. Because of this, he was forced

to go underground, using a fake identity while

traveling. He’s been a revolutionary for decades

. . . advocating peaceful solutions where

possible, but knowing full well that sometimes

people will get hurt.

He was en route to Tauron, posing as a

crewman on a bulk hauler using forged papers,

when the Cylons struck. Initially he kept a

low proile to avoid arrest and prosecution.

enough that human life could be sustained for a

while. he downside is that it’s perilously close

to a pair of Cylon base stars. A large contingent

on one leet ship demands authorization to

land and set up a colony there. hey don’t want

a ship, or a military escort, and the would-be

colonists haven’t got any strategic military

knowledge.his causecélèbre eruptsthroughout

the leet, causing the President to take them

seriously. An anonymous message claims that

their goal isn’t really colonization, but that it’s

a gambit in a larger game being played by a

single instigator . . . the revolutionary.

T EACHER (V ETERAN )

Agi d4 Str d4 Vit d6 Ale d10 Int d12+d2

Wil d10

LP 16; Init d4+d10

Traits Advanced Education d10, Elderly

d6, Infamy d6, Paciist d6, Renowned d6,

Uncommon Knowledge d6

Skills Artistry d6/Writing d10, Inluence d6,

Knowledge d6/History d12/Religion d12+d4/

Sociology d12+d4, Perception d6/Deduction

d8/Investigation d10, Performance d6/Oratory

on her homeworld. She refused to refute

her book, claiming it was based on careful

research rather than blind faith. Because

of this, she was forced to leave the planet,

hounded by death threats, demonstrations,

and a public call for her incarceration and

summary execution. For years, she was

granted political asylum on Virgon, a situation

that caused immense political diiculty for the

Virgonese government as it denied requests to

arrest and extradite her.

Eventually the furor faded and she gradually

re-entered public life. Without much ado, she

accepted a position as an instructor at one of

Caprica’s most prestigious universities and

taught there for more than a decade. his

was not without incident, as death threats

continued to be issued, and the university kept

a bodyguard with her at all times. She and her

husband were recently on vacation to Virgon

without their bodyguard, when the Cylons

attacked and they once more found themselves

fugitives (though of a diferent sort). She has

grown worried about the civilian government’s

reliance on prophecy, and wishes to make

these concerns known.

Plot Hooks Here are a few plot hooks

involving the teacher in a Battlestar Galactica

campaign:

Religious Asylum— he President has a

diicult political situation on her hands:

an imbroglio between the Virgonese and

Gemenese representatives on the Quorum of

Twelve. he Gemenese delegate calls for the

Virgonese to surrender a political refugee, a

woman who wrote a scathing and heretical

book that rejected the divinity of the Lords

of Kobol. he Virgonese delegate demands

military assistance to keep this woman safe,

but honestly wants to be clear of the whole

situation. hreats arise from zealots calling

for her death. he matter is set for discussion

before the Quorum, but that’s a few days away.

he threats are escalating, and the player-

characters are put in charge of taking care of

this political hot potato.

Death and the Heretic— he teacher’s

husband contacts the Colonial Military, asking

for security. He claims that small groups

Description Born on Gemenon and raised

within the faith, this woman was once a

believer. She devoted her life to careful

examination of the Sacred Scrolls and shared

in the religious beliefs held by most the

Twelve Colonies. In school, she chose to study

anthropology and behavioral science rather

than religious scholasticism—rare choices for a

Gemenese. Despite her religious background,

she examined her religion from a historical

and anthropological perspective rather than in

a spiritual context. he result of her study was

publication of the book Stellar Mythology: An

Examination of the Sacred Scrolls . In this work,

she claimed that the Sacred Scrolls were of

dubious origin, and likely the Lords of Kobol

were simply early interstellar pioneers, leaders

of the leet that founded the Twelve Colonies.

he book was a tremendous success on the

more liberal of the colony planets, including

Caprica, Libris, and Virgon, while it sparked

riots on Gemenon and Sagittaron. She was

declared an apostate, a heretic, and much worse

of Gemenese have asked about her,

and he’s worried there will be reprisals

against her now that she is no longer guarded

and under political asylum. he delegate from

Virgon claims that she can no longer ofer

asylum without a planetary sovereignty or a

Virgonese security force, and that the matter

now belongs to the Colonial military. It was

Commander Adama’s problem. He made it

Colonel Tigh’s problem. Tigh has made it

the player characters’ commanding oicer’s

problem. Now it’s their problem. he threat

to her life is real, and these fundamentalist

Gemenese are ready to do what it takes to kill

the blasphemer—something that should have

been done decades ago.

he Tyranny of Worship— he author of a still-

controversial book calling into question the

divinity of the Lords of Kobol has been speaking

publicly, demanding the resignation of the

President. he charge? Exploiting religious

“mumbo-jumbo” to keep the remains of the

human race on a foolhardy and misbegotten

quest for a mythical holy land that few believed

in before the Cylons attacked. Her arguments

are compelling, and she is gaining followers,

throwing the President and the Quorum of

Twelve into turmoil. Riots have broken out,

for and against the position. he players are

sent into the middle of this tumult to broker a

peaceful solution.

T HE S EEKER

Impersonation

d8,

Planetary

Vehicles

d6,

Unarmed Combat d6/Brawling d10

Description He always felt like an outsider,

though his life was a good one—loving parents,

a decent home in a good neighborhood, and

a friendly community. Something inside

him was broken, however, and he began his

experimentation on small animals—captured

mice, frogs, and birds—before graduating to

neighborhood pets. His parents mistook it for

an interest in veterinary medicine, but they

were wrong. hen a neighborhood child went

missing, and though his role in her death was

never discovered, his parents began to suspect

that they harbored a monster.

When he was old enough, “the incident”

took care of them, and he was able to survive

of their savings and death beneits for the next

decade as he discovered he had a hunger for

causing death—an almost inhuman fascination

in the single moment where life led a living

body. He killed dozens of people as he perfected

his skills, and ironically, his arrest came from

an unrelated matter—possession of a quantity

of morpha he’d used as a lure for those street

dwellers destined to become his victims.

hen he saw on the news that the dumping

ground for the bodies of his victims had been

discovered. Fearing that someone would link

him to the evidence, he escaped while in

transit for his arraignment hearing, and made

his way to a nearby star-port. He boarded a

transit, realizing that a Colonial marshal was

hot on his trail.

When the Cylons struck, he breathed a

sigh of relief. He’d been given a reprieve, and

the law would likely never catch up with him.

he bodies of his victims were likely cinders

now, consumed by the ires of invasion. If he

could only hold out and refrain from killing

again, he’d be ine. But, jammed into this

passenger liner with nothing save the threat of

Cylon death to break the monotony, he feared

he wouldn’t be able to maintain his mask of

humanity.

hen the news broke that the Cylons not

only looked human, but that their agents had

(S EASONED V ETERAN )

Agi d10 Str d8 Vit d8 Ale d10 Int d8

Wil d10

LP 22; Init d10+d10

Traits Addiction (Killing) d10, Anger Issues

d4, Athlete d8, Brawler d2, Cool Under Fire d2,

Hardy Constitution d4, Rival d4, Sadistic d4,

Shadow d6, Tough d8

Skills Athletics d6/Dodge d8, Covert d6/

Open Locks d8/Stealth d8, Inluence d6/

Conversation d8/Intimidation d10, Melee

Weapon Combat d6/Knives d10, Perception

d6/Search d8/Tracking d8, Performance d6/

been hiding among humanity for a while, and

that they seemed to be made of lesh and blood

like everyone else. It suddenly made sense to

him: he was a Cylon. After all these years, he

was actually just fulilling his programming.

Now, he’s made a few makeshift weapons, and

is ready to resume the task he was designed

for: killing humans.

Plot Hooks Following are a few plot hooks

involving the seeker in a Battlestar Galactica

campaign:

Murder, Interrupted— A woman was attacked

after an evening drinking in one of the lounges

on Cloud Nine . he characters are asked to

investigate. Under questioning, she admits

that she got very drunk and fell asleep on one of

the park benches. hen someone picked her up

and carried her. She couldn’t remember much,

other than waking up in a service corridor

with a man standing over her, holding a long,

slender knife. hey struggled, and her screams

alerted a crewman. he assailant ran, fearing

a confrontation. In the confusion, at least two

transit lights were able to leave Cloud Nine

before it was closed down. he weirdest thing

is that the woman claims the attacker hissed

“Quiet, human!” at her during the attack.

A Taste for Blood— he unthinkable has

happened. A ghastly murder, with a citizen

tortured and horribly mutilated. His body is

found in a storage bin on a transport vessel that

shuttles hundreds of citizens each day back and

forth between ships in the leet. his was no

crime of passion, and the wounds look almost

clinical in nature. he killer took his time, and

the scant evidence points to the actual murder

being committed elsewhere. he characters

are called to investigate the grisly matter. Will

they discover who did it, before he kills again?

From Hell— A couple of obviously related

murders have occurred (similar to the one

described in “A Taste for Blood”, above) a

month apart. here are few leads, no

witnesses, and very little evidence. An air

of tension and dread has risen across the leet,

and false alarms are fraying everyone’s nerves.

Dozens of false leads have exhausted the trail.

hen reporter Playa Palacios (described on

page 200 of the core rulebook) contacts the

President. She claims she’s received a letter

from the killer in which he confesses that he’s

a Cylon hiding among them, programmed to

strike fear and distrust into the weak hearts of

humankind. He boasts that he’s going to kill

until he’s fulilled his programming, and that

there’s nothing the Colonial military can do to

stop him. he characters are ordered to ind the

killer and stop him, be he Cylon or madman.

CREDITS

Writer

Jason Durall

eDiting & Development

Cam Banks, Jamie Chambers

graphiC Design

sean macdonald

layout & typesetting

Digger hayes

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