Galen Tyrol

Galen Tyrol
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Age	30s
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Birth Name	Galen Tyrol
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Callsign	"Chief" (nickname)
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Death
Parents	An unnamed Oracle (mother) and a Priest (father).
Siblings	Unknown
Children
Marital Status	Single
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Role	Senior NCO, Deck Crew 5, Battlestar Galactica
Rank	Chief Petty Officer (Non-Commissioned)
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Portrayed by	Aaron Douglas
Galen Tyrol is a Cylon
Galen Tyrol is a Final Five Cylon
Galen Tyrol is a Human/Cylon Hybrid
Galen Tyrol is an Original Series Cylon
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Biography

Background

Galen Tyrol is a much-admired NCO aboard the Galactica. He served aboard battlestars from the age of eighteen, including the battlestars Columbia, Atlantia, and Pegasus. (Resistance) He has served under William Adama for a number of years, and has considerable respect for the Commander - a feeling that is reciprocated. Indeed, he admires Adama to such a degree that he has modelled his own style of leadership on that of Adama: firm, fair, and willing to go to the fullest degree in support of his crew.

However, when people under his responsibility are injured or killed, Tyrol becomes rather irrational, angry, and reckless in his actions, to the point of further endangering his people or his reputation with senior officers. Prime examples of his lack of emotional control includes the scenes before the ship venting after the nuke hit and cursing Tigh in front of Commander Adama for the vent and loss of 85 of his people (Mini-Series), and saving a mortally-wounded crewmate while leaving himself and Cally highly vulnerable in "Scattered". Tyrol's tryst with Sharon Valerii and a subsequent cover-up attempt in "Litmus" resulted in the jailing of Specialist Socinus, who was trying to protect Tyrol.

Originally leading Deck Crew 5, a team of 15 deckhands and specialists, since the Cylon Attack he has become the most senior and experienced NCO on the Galactica.

Cylon Attack

At the time of the Cylon Attack, as well as leading his deck crew, Tyrol has been overseeing the refurbishment and restoration of Viper Mark II N7242C - the Viper originally flown by William Adama at the time of the Cylon War (Mini-Series).

Following the attack, with the Galactica undermanned, Tyrol also performs the function of senior Damage Control officer (Mini-Series / Water), a role that brings him into conflict with Colonel Tigh after the Galactica is struck by a Cylon nuclear warhead.

Relationship with Sharon Valerii

For several months prior to the Cylon attack, and in its aftermath, Tyrol has been engaged in an affair with Lieutenant (JG) Sharon Valerii, a Raptor pilot aboard the Galactica. Despite the fact the relationship breaks military protocol, senior officers on the ship turn a blind eye to it, while Tyrol's own crew treat it with fond amusement.

When the water supplies on the Galactica are sabotaged, Tyrol is placed in an awkward position: by her own admmission, Valerii knows explosives were missing from a small-arms locker - potentially making her a suspect - and he is the principal DC investigator into the cause of the explosions which wreck the water tanks. Torn between love and duty, the situation prompts him to hide evidence and allow a theory that the walls of the tanks simply collapsed from fatigue resulting from damage the Galactica received from a nuclear warhead in the Cylon attack (Water / Mini-Series).

Following the sabotage attempt, Valerii is ordered to end her relationship with Tyrol (Bastille Day) as a part of a general tightening-up of security and discipline on ship, only to have Tyrol's deck crew help the two of them to continue to meet in greater secret (Litmus).

Tyrol's world is thrown further into turmoil when both he and Valerii become the prime suspects in an investigation into how a Cylon agent (a copy of Aaron Doral) managed to get aboard the Galactica, kill a guard, steal explosives and them blow himself up in a ship's corridor, almost killing Adama and Tigh (Litmus). When one of his own Specialists is thrown in the brig for dereliction of duty which may have enabled the Cylon to access a weapons locker and steal the explosives, Tyrol is shocked into re-thinking his relationship with Valerii, and ends it himself.

While they continue to encounter one another professionallly - their work means they can hardly avoid one another - Tyrol and Valerii now have an uneasy distance between each other, and Valerii's actions around a captured Cylon Raider have begun to disturb Tyrol.

Kobol

When the Fleet discovers the planet believed to be Kobol, Tyrol arranges for Socinus' release and summarily berates the specialist for lying to cover for him. Thereafter, Tyrol is part of the team assembled on the ill-fated recon Kobol on the Raptor 1, which summarily crashlands near the ruins of the Tomb of Athena. (Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I, Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II)

While Tyrol was the more experienced as a leader, his non-commissioned status left Lt. Crashdown in charge of the survivors. When Crashdown blamed Tarn for leaving a needed med kit behind -- Socinus was injured during the crash and a drug called serisone was needed to help him breathe -- Tyrol stepped in, recommending that he and Cally accompany Tarn. After successfully retrieving the kit from the Raptor crash site and heading back to the party, the trio was ambushed and Tarn was the only one killed. (Scattered) Eventually, he and Cally make it back to the party, only to find out that it is too late. With not other alternative, Tyrol euthanized Socinus with an overdose of morpha from both medkits. (Valley of Darkness)

Upon discovering that the Cylons are setting up an anti-aircraft missle battery, Crashdown plans a strike to take the unit (and its accompany DRADIS dish) out of operation. While the others of his party, notably Baltar and Cally, attempt to voice their indignation of such a plan, Tyrol firmly reminds them that Crashdown is in charge. Despite Tyrol's own misgivings of how the plan is to be executed, they follow through to the point right before the attack.

When it became clear that there were five Cylons at the battery, Cally refused to act as a distraction. Tyrol attempted to difuse the situation by trying to state that the DRADIS dish was undefended; all that needed to be done was to destroy that, and the turret could not automatically target any incoming SAR operation. The event culumated to Crashdown threatening to kill Cally, resulting in Crashdown's death by Baltar.

As the command officer, per se, Tyrol later destroyed the DRADIS dish as the Cylons pursued them towards it. Summarily allowing a Raptor to dispatch the pursuing force. (Fragged)

After Kobol

Tyrol was summarily arrested and interrogated by Colonel Tigh, due to his relationship with the assassin. Tigh accused him of being part of the plot to kill Adama, summarily throwing him in the same cell as Valerii. In order to extract information from Valerii, Baltar injected a drug that induced a systemic shutdown of Tyrol's organs. (This was during an alleged attempt to draw blood from Tyrol for Baltar's Cylon detector.) After extracting the number of Cylons in the Fleet from Valerii's subconscious, Tyrol was spared a painful death -- and was eventually proven to be a bona-fide human.

Tyrol was present when his own deckhand, Cally, killed Valerii, as Tyrol accompanied the security escort to Valerii's testing cell. (Resistance)

Faced with a shortage of Vipers, Tyrol attempts to tackle a project of cobbling up Vipers from spare and junk-heap parts. (Flight of the Phoenix)

Helo's Return

After the return of Karl C. Agathon and another version of Sharon Valerii, who happens to be pregnant with Agathon's child, the two attempt to reconcile their feelings for the biological creation.

Later on, after the appearance of Admiral Nelena Cain and the advanced Mercury-class Pegasus, he and Agathon are arrested and court martialed after the suspect termination of Lieutenant Thorne. (Pegasus)

Note

Galen is the name of a famed Greek doctor, who was first to argue that the mind was in the brain not the heart. This may be construed as irony, given Tyrol's part in the ongoing story.