Name:

William Adama

Age:

61

Call Sign:

Husker

Parents: 

Walter and Rosemarie Adama (Deceased)

Siblings: 

None

Gender: 

Male

Spouse: 

Caroline Adama (Divorced)

Quote:

Height:

5' 11"

Weight:

200

Eye Color:

Brown

Hair Color:

Dark brown with a touch of gray.

Distinguishing Marks:

A few scars from battles over the years.

Hobbies/Interests:

Boxing and flying still if he could get away with it. Mostly just keeping the ship running.

Character History

History:

William Adama is the commander of the Battlestar Galactica. On the eve of retirement, he still wears the weight of commander easily, like a suit of clothing.

He wears a simple day uniform with a minimum of insignia, and his clothes have a well-used, rumpled look. He is a bit of a relic who operates from the gut. Estranged from his son Lee, who blames Adama for the death of his brother Zak, he is a solitary man who knows the burden of command.

He is about to retire after long dull years spent in the peacetime military reminiscing his days as a young Colonial Warrior. But when the Cylons launch a massive sneak attack against the humans, wiping out all the other Battlestars and destroying virtually all life on the Twelve Colonies of Kobol, Adama is the last man standing, in charge of the Colonial defenses, and hungry to avenge the deaths of billions.

But after a verbal battle with the new President of the Twelve Colonies, Adama reluctantly bows to civilian rule and agrees to abandon Kobol and transport a pitifully small remnant of humanity to a distant star system, hoping to cut and run and escape the pursuing Cylons’ murderous fury.

A thoughtful, insightful military leader, Adama bitterly drinks from the cup of surrender and tries to lead the Galactica’s rag-tag fugitive fleet back to their legendary, possibly nonexistent home world, known as Earth.

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