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Hera is a character from the reimagined Battlestar Galactica
series.

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 prisoner Sharon "Boomer" Valerii and human father Karl "Helo" Agathon.

It is not yet understood how the machine Cylons could mate with biological humans and produce offspring, but 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.

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 Galactica officer who cannot care for the child.

After a year on New Caprica, Hera is still alive and under Maya's care, who currently works with Roslin who is now a school teacher. The fate of Hera has yet to be seen, (see "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II)".

As a "hybrid", Hera 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 Hera possesses any of the machine qualities of her mother, such as the fiberoptic neural pathways, and is too young to determine if she has the superhuman physical prowess of the other humanoid Cylon models such as Leoben Conoy and Number Six.

See also: List of Battlestar Galactica (2004 television series) episodes

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