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==Major Concision==
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I've heavily edited this lengthy article to the clearest points, removing excessive or redundant explanations already available in episode or character synopsis, leaving the most damning or affirms points of argument. I've removed the [[Tory Foster]] suspicion as it gives no justifiable weight-bearing indication of suspicion over other occasionally-seen characters. There were plenty of people who formed the new Quorum of Twelve who are as intimately familiar with the rules of its organization and law as Foster's knowledge suggests, and none of them are any more or less suspicious than Foster in that vein of logic.


As Billy Keikeya is dead, no further points need be made for him unless he returns to life, which would be a dead giveaway, thus his major concision.
== You Will Know the Truth ==


I added the note from actors on critical season 3 info on Cylon agents in a spoiler, however, this needs a citation for it to remain.
I found a [http://jamesjacob77.blogspot.com/2008/11/who-is-final-cylon_29.html blog post] that links to [http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/youwillknowthetruth/ this page on scifi.com]. They've also got a [http://forums.scifi.com/index.php?showtopic=2319583&st=0 forum thread] on it. -- [[User:Gordon Ecker|Gordon Ecker]] 00:09, 30 November 2008 (UTC)


Points of reference were also added to aid in supporting data while leaving the article clearer to read. --[[User:Spencerian|Spencerian]] 13:36, 13 October 2006 (CDT)
== [[Zak Adama]]? ==


==Interesting Info==
It's possible that Zak Adama is the final Cylon. The main reason I say this is because of [[Leoben Conoy|Leoben]]'s line in [[Flesh and Bone]]: "Adama is a Cylon." I don't think that it's William Adama, Apollo, or by extension Dualla. Is this viable enough for inclusion in the article? --[[User:JemHadar359|JemHadar359]] 05:25, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
Read the [http://www.aintitcool.com/?q=node/30381 interview] below the Exodus I spoilers with Aaron Douglas and Tamoh Penikett at DragonCon. Very important spoilers about this article.
:In this article on SyFy Portal[http://www.syfyportal.com/news425609.html], Michael Hinman claims that they have received confirmation of the identity of the final Cylon from multiple sources, and claims that the final Cylon is one of five characters listed in the article. Zak Adama is not on the list. -- [[User:Gordon Ecker|Gordon Ecker]] 07:43, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
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: As I said before—and forgive me for soundin' like a broken record—but this article will be dead in its present (and the ColdBoot form) before the season ends anyway. ;-) -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]] - [[bsp:|Battlestar Pegasus]]</sup> 20:24, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
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| id="spoil-text" class="spoiltext_box" | We have seen all the Cylon Models we are going to. The rest have been boxed. If one is ever reactivated, it will be a new character
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My take on the interview. --[[User:Gougef|FrankieG]] 09:23, 14 October 2006 (CDT)
== Just a feeling. . . ==


:That kinda contradicts statements by Dean Stockwell and Grace Park who said that the other Cylon models are so secretive that the Significant Seven don't even think about them.
that the final cylon will be someone that there's been no speculation about. Someone right out of left field. Personally, I'd like to think it's. . . Romo Lampkin. [[User:Centurion 51773|Centurion 51773]] 16:29, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
:Moreover there is a qualifier. Aaron Douglas says "they've been boxed. '''I think''' that they've been boxed." --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 09:46, 14 October 2006 (CDT)
:: That was my interpretation. I could be wrong. Although, the cylon actors would probably have more "credibility" about the topic. Does seem contradictory. --[[User:Gougef|FrankieG]] 09:58, 14 October 2006 (CDT)
:Dammit! I was at DragonCon and missed their panels. I ''did'' meet them and get their autograph, but my photo with them blew up. The spoiler suggests more problems than the characters let on. --[[User:Spencerian|Spencerian]] 09:48, 14 October 2006 (CDT)
Aaron Douglas was speculating, as he states. He was rationalizing why we haven't seen the other five among large groups of Cylons. The Significant Seven/Final Five arrangement is mentioned in the Cylon Bible document, which Douglas has no reason to read for his role. [[User:Noneofyourbusiness|Noneofyourbusiness]] 19:19, 15 October 2006 (CDT)


== What about Number Seven? ==


== Jammer as Cylon speculation ==
Do we have any information about the existence or nonexistence of Number Seven? In many interviews and articles, it has been stated that the Final Five don't have model numbers, so it couldn't be any of them. Has the issue of Number Seven been addressed in any interviews? -- [[User:Gordon Ecker|Gordon Ecker]] 03:06, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
I think this is the most rediculous assertation on this page.  There is little evidence that he is an Cylon.  In fact, there is evidence to the contrary.  Yet, because he has his own pessimistic point of view and is easily swayed by the Cylon Doral, there are individuals who want to say he's a cylon.  Maybe the speculation was warranted in Season 1, but only in Valley of Darkness was there anything to consider and his negative and pessimistic attitude later or lack of knowledge of a term is hardly evidence at all.  Additionally, The Resistance paints him more as a confused boy than a Cylon infiltrator.  He makes some big mistakes but nothing that would indicate he was a Cylon.  He joins the NCP but so did 200 other Colonials.  In Occupation, only 33 of the 200 humans die as a result of Duck's suicide bomb so how does the fact that Jammer is among the 167 humans that survived (a majority) indicate that he's a Cylon?  What his experience with the occupation has shown is that he is struggling with it psychologically.  He had a legitimate gripe with the weapons being in the temple (I'm religious too and don't feel its alright so does that make me a Cylon too?) and Tigh's response scared the heck out of him.  Doral offered him a rosier (if false) picture of how things would turn out with a NCP. Jammer was a dupe. That doesn't make him a cylon. The evidence so far on the page has boiled down to "If you aren't working with us, then you must be a cylon."  And I think that's an incorrect way of looking at things.  The evidence is trace at best so he should be moved out of this High Probability and to Low Probability at the highest.  --[[User:Straycat0|Straycat0]] 17:02, 15 October 2006 (CDT)
: Not yet you don't. -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]] - [[bsp:|Battlestar Pegasus]]</sup> 19:32, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
:: Since the Final Five are actually older, Seven must have been a failed model. -- [[User:Noneofyourbusiness|Noneofyourbusiness]] 15:08, 20 January 2009 (UTC)


:Remember that this is speculation, so different interpretations will lead to different results. For me, Jammer's (and Dualla's) survival in "Valley" are significant questions that rate them higher. A dupe like Baltar? Probably. Try concising your points down to a few sentences, add them in, and drop his rating. --[[User:Spencerian|Spencerian]] 17:27, 15 October 2006 (CDT)
== Archiving rather than deleting ==
::Here's a concisement of my points:
Points against him


1 - 'Valley of Darkness'; What happened?  It's a valid question.
I can't say I'll miss all the fanwanking we did on this page and its sisters, but I think it'll be a hoot to leave these pages as of Ellen Tigh's reveal, locked with a note about the relative history of how contributors jerked themselves around trying to formulate a logic for the last Cylons. The main articles would be protected as well as the talk pages for people to smile and laugh at (especially the producers and writers who probably made ''sure'' we were wrong! ;) Thoughts? --[[User:Spencerian|Spencerian]] 03:26, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
 
:Sure, archive it.   Though I will point out that if you read the [[Humanoid Cylon speculation/ColdBoot]] replacement that I started for it 6 months ago, it would in fact have led the reader to probably pick EllenNot sure why my efforts to get it live never amounted to anyting, but "nyah, nyah, I told you so..." :-)   So archive that too. --[[User:Bradtem|bradtem]] 09:07, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
 
::I'd say you'd get dibs on that prediction, Brad. :) --[[User:Spencerian|Spencerian]] 03:27, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
Not Points against him
***Ellen was on a LOT of shortlists. Her mysterious survival, and then Saul being a Cylon... [[User:ZeldaTheSwordsman|ZeldaTheSwordsman]] 20:38, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
 
1 - 'Litmus'; Comments about everybody looking out for themselves.  This doesn't indicate any grand cylon scheme to disrupt humans, this is just some dumb young kick scared for himself cuz his buddy could possibly be a Cylon (which it did...Boomer).  He was paranoid for real, and not unjustified.  Paranoia shouldn't be evidence.
 
2 - 'Resistance', Comments about Tyrol being a Cylon and Cally should be mad at Boomer not him.  Again, he's dumb young guy and not too atypical.  Have any of you been to high school?  I did.  I knew dozens of kids like that.  And his 2nd comment was true in a fashion. She shouldn't be mad at him, she should be mad at Boomer in that situation.  This is not evidence.
 
3 - 'Flight of the Phoenix' & 'Valley of Darkness; "Sometimes you have to roll the hard six."  Boomer knew this term.  Jammer didn't.  This is a pilot term and Boomer's a pilot and Jammer is not.  End of story.
 
4 - 'Blackbird';  Jammer is just a pessimistic guy.  Wouldn't you if the world came to an end and you were always on the verge of death? And like a lot of young guys I've worked with, stuff he does isn't productive.  He was negative about the Blackbird but so was Tigh. This is not evidence.
 
5 - 'The Resistance'; Jammers comments to Duck about NCP being a good thing.  We know he was testing Duck.  Again, not evidence.  Jammer defending Duck when Duck decided not to join the resistance, again a young guy standing up for his buddy, not evidence.
 
6 - 'The Resistance'; Jammer upset about people dying and weapons in the temple.  Though I understand the circumstances, I agree with him about weapons in the temple.  He's right, not wrong.  Not a Cylon.  We also know Jammer is an emotional guy, so people dying makes him get distressed.  Did you notice the pacing back for, the frantic in his voice?  Not evidence.
 
7 - 'The Resistance'; Doral brought Jammer in for questioning.  What's the significance of this if Jammer's a Cylon too.  There isn't any. 
 
8 - 'Occupation'; Jammer survived because there were 100 other survivors between him and Duck. End of story.
 
That's all the points made on the article page.  The only 1 to hold water is the "Valley of Darkness" incidentAnd a lot of these evidences above are actually evidence that he's not a Cylon.  If he's a sleeper agent, then he's a poorly placed sleeper agent. 
 
Points for him
 
1 - His motivations are pretty clear.  He's a simply minded kid so the reasons he says some of the things he does aren't that difficult to find out.
 
2 - He doesn't leak information to the Cylons when interviewed by Doral and even after he joins the NCP.  You would think a Cylon agent would spill the beans, especially since his cover wouldn't have been blown once as part of the NCP. 
 
3 - Ron D. Moore was going to kill him off in Exodus but changed his mind at the last minute. How can he get killed off if he's a Cylon?  Don't they just download?
 
4 - He hasn't done something out of character like Boomer did.
 
5 - He hasn't sent back info or done sabotage like D'Anne, Doral or Boomer.
 
6 - There is no big 'ooooo' effect if he were a Cylon as his effect on things is generally minor.  I'd think the Cylons would plan there sleeper agents better (more like Boomer)
 
So that's
    1 point for Jammer as a Cylon
    8 points that have no bearing and more likely to prove he's not a Cylon
    6 points that he's not a Cylon
I say he should be down to Low Probability.--[[User:Straycat0|Straycat0]] 19:14, 15 October 2006 (CDT)
 
:Sounds like you've done your homework. Feel free to adjust the main article, but condense your reasoning to a few paragraphs for brevity and be prepared to cite your reasonings above. --[[User:Spencerian|Spencerian]] 03:42, 16 October 2006 (CDT)
 
== Anders Speculation ==
 
While I don't think Anders is a Cylon, the argument that becauase members of the Signifigant Seven (S7) say he is human, he is human is flawed. IFF the S7 cannot even think about the Final Five, then Anders COULD be one of the Final Five, and thus unknowable as such to the S7.

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You Will Know the Truth

I found a blog post that links to this page on scifi.com. They've also got a forum thread on it. -- Gordon Ecker 00:09, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

It's possible that Zak Adama is the final Cylon. The main reason I say this is because of Leoben's line in Flesh and Bone: "Adama is a Cylon." I don't think that it's William Adama, Apollo, or by extension Dualla. Is this viable enough for inclusion in the article? --JemHadar359 05:25, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

In this article on SyFy Portal[1], Michael Hinman claims that they have received confirmation of the identity of the final Cylon from multiple sources, and claims that the final Cylon is one of five characters listed in the article. Zak Adama is not on the list. -- Gordon Ecker 07:43, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
As I said before—and forgive me for soundin' like a broken record—but this article will be dead in its present (and the ColdBoot form) before the season ends anyway. ;-) -- Joe Beaudoin So say we all - Donate - Battlestar Pegasus 20:24, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

Just a feeling. . .

that the final cylon will be someone that there's been no speculation about. Someone right out of left field. Personally, I'd like to think it's. . . Romo Lampkin. Centurion 51773 16:29, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

What about Number Seven?

Do we have any information about the existence or nonexistence of Number Seven? In many interviews and articles, it has been stated that the Final Five don't have model numbers, so it couldn't be any of them. Has the issue of Number Seven been addressed in any interviews? -- Gordon Ecker 03:06, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

Not yet you don't. -- Joe Beaudoin So say we all - Donate - Battlestar Pegasus 19:32, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
Since the Final Five are actually older, Seven must have been a failed model. -- Noneofyourbusiness 15:08, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

Archiving rather than deleting

I can't say I'll miss all the fanwanking we did on this page and its sisters, but I think it'll be a hoot to leave these pages as of Ellen Tigh's reveal, locked with a note about the relative history of how contributors jerked themselves around trying to formulate a logic for the last Cylons. The main articles would be protected as well as the talk pages for people to smile and laugh at (especially the producers and writers who probably made sure we were wrong! ;) Thoughts? --Spencerian 03:26, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

Sure, archive it. Though I will point out that if you read the Humanoid Cylon speculation/ColdBoot replacement that I started for it 6 months ago, it would in fact have led the reader to probably pick Ellen. Not sure why my efforts to get it live never amounted to anyting, but "nyah, nyah, I told you so..." :-) So archive that too. --bradtem 09:07, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
I'd say you'd get dibs on that prediction, Brad. :) --Spencerian 03:27, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
      • Ellen was on a LOT of shortlists. Her mysterious survival, and then Saul being a Cylon... ZeldaTheSwordsman 20:38, 29 January 2009 (UTC)