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Star wars gaius charles2/6/2024 ![]() Ironically, Marius’s reforms had made the legions fiercely loyal to their individual generals rather than the state, which allowed Sulla to march his army against Rome and force Marius into exile. In 88 BCE, he entered into conflict with his erstwhile protégé, the optimate Sulla, over command of the army to be dispatched against Mithridates VI of Pontus, a long-time enemy of Rome and its Greek allies. In the late 2nd century BCE, Marius had waged a successful campaign against several Germanic tribes, and after earning eternal fame in the Eternal City, Marius was appointed a consul several times. One of the leading populares was Caesar’s uncle, Gaius Marius, a military visionary who had restructured the legions and extended the privileges of land ownership and citizenship to legionaries on condition of successful completion of a fixed term of service. At the time, when Caesar was in his teens, war was being waged both on the Italian peninsula and abroad, with domestic politics pitting the conservative, aristocratic optimates against the populist, reformist populares, and this tension ultimately escalated into an all-out war. However, this dream is only achieved when the rebel Cylons and crew of Galactica jump to a new home.Julius Caesar is still remembered for winning a civil war and helping bring about the end of the Roman Republic, leaving a line of emperors in its place, but it’s quite possible that none of what Caesar did would’ve happened without the template for such actions being set 40 years earlier. They also want to ensure that humanity and Cylons can come to a resolution, where they can all thrive. The resurrection ensured that they would find each other in the next life, as they were later born on the Twelve Colonies. The Final Five are different from other Cylon models: they can age, and have a moral code that Cylons like Cavil do not. They include Chief Tyrol (Aaron Douglas), Tory (Rekha Sharma), Anders (Michael Trucco), Saul Tigh (Michael Hogan), and Ellen (Kate Vernon). In a shocking twist, the five are revealed to have no memory of their origins until they all hear the same song, "All Along the Watchtower." Even more surprisingly, the Final Five are all characters the audience has come to know at different points in the series, whom had previously seemed to be humans. These Cylons are significant because they are scientists and responsible for the creation of the resurrection technology. ![]() However, toward the end of the series, there remains the mystery of The Final Five. This forces the humans - and some Cylons - to jump away and look for a new home. Not trusting the humans, the Cylons open fire. But even with a perfect solution for both parties, the humans and Cylons can't make it work. ![]() The two civilizations come to terms by giving Cavil's Cylons the plans to implement resurrection: This would mean they would once again have the ability to download their consciousness into identical bodies before death. Gaius Baltar (James Callis) and Number Six serve their destiny by helping rescue Hera and deliver her to her parents. In a sense, this does bring humans and Cylons together, because Admiral Bill Adama (Edward James Olmos) rallies Cylons and humans alike to save Hera. ![]() The finale culminates in Boomer (Park) - a different Number Eight from Athena – kidnapping Hera and bringing her to the Cylon leader Cavil ( Dean Stockwell) so they can dissect her and figure out how to reproduce a child on their own. This seems as though it would unite the two warring societies for the better. That said, the final episodes of "Battlestar Galactica" leave a lot to unpack, as four seasons of lore lead to a divisive finish line. Years later, these elements of the series continue to be dissected by publications as important as The Guardian, and nowhere are they more integral to the narrative than the show's final stretch. "Battlestar Galactica," throughout its four seasons, poses compelling conversations about religious fanaticism and what it means to be human. Cylons, meanwhile, were made into a far more complex and sympathetic species, rather than the more straightforward antagonists of the original series. The series kicked off initially in 2003, with a three-hour miniseries that introduced viewers to the gritty, political, and spiritual reboot, which was a far cry from the more "Star Wars"-influenced "Battlestar Galactica" of the 1970s, and successful twisted the tropes of the former series on their head: not only was ace Viper pilot Starbuck (Katee Sackhoff) a woman, but she maintained the cigar-smoking, punch-throwing characteristics of her male counterpart.
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