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Battlestar Galactica
"Twilight Command" Part 1
Battlestar Galactica: Twilight Command #1
Dynamite
Entertainment
Writer: Michael Moreci
Artist: Breno Tamura
Colorist: Dijjo Lima
Letterer: Taylor Esposito
Cover: Brent Schoonover
2019
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A secret group of non-colonist humans
strikes at the Cylons on New Caprica.
Read the story summary at the Battlestar Wiki
Notes from the BSG
chronology
This mini-series takes place largely over Days 102-106 of the
Cylon occupation of New Caprica. There are also flashbacks to
previously unseen events shortly before and after the discovery
of the planet that becomes New Caprica in
"Lay Down Your Burdens"
Part 1.
Characters appearing or mentioned in this episode
Number One
Deacon
Commander Alexa Flores
Devos
Private Tomlin
Colonel Tigh
Sam Anders
Admiral Adama
(mentioned only)
Number Five
Chief Tyrol
Nicholas Tyrol (mentioned only)
Starbuck
(mentioned only)
Spark
Cally
(mentioned only)
Didja Notice?
Number One (John Cavil) as drawn here, looks nothing at all like
actor Dean Stockwell who played him in the TV series. He is also
drawn as much younger and more muscular than the character seen
in the televised episodes. But in the next issue, he is drawn
much more accurately. It almost seems as if artist
Breno Tamura mistakenly used Sam Anders (actor Michael Trucco)
as the reference in this issue.
The Cylon Centurion that Twilight Command has captured and
reprogrammed to work for them has a green eye rather than the
typical red. It is also capable of speech, unlike the typical
Centurion. It responds to human commands with the typical "By
your command." In
"Twilight Command" Part 2, it is called Deacon.
On page 8, a Number Five approaches Colonel Tigh with two
Centurions to bring him in for questioning. Tigh runs from them
and is pursued by the Centurions, while he shouts for Chief
Tyrol. He quickly finds Tyrol and whispers that Tyrol needs to
find Commander Flores. Tigh should be smart enough not to be
shouting the names of his resistance co-horts while running from
the Cylons! To add insult to injury, as Tigh is being hauled
away by the Centurions, he says over his shoulder to Tyrol,
"Remember what I told you, Chief. Whatever it takes, you
frakking do it!" This would make Tigh's entire interaction
with Tyrol that much more suspicious!
While discussing the dangers of Cylon occupation and resistance,
Tyrol says he has a daughter. This is incorrect; he has a son,
Nicholas. Presumably, the writer is confusing Tyrol's
baby son (with wife Cally) with the imaginary, VR daughter,
Dionne, presented to him by Boomer later in "Someone to Watch
Over Me".
Flores states the Cylons have built a toaster factory on New
Caprica a couple klicks out from where she meets up with Tyrol
and Anders.
Spark seems to have done a better job getting his pet Centurion
Deacon to obey him and other humans than Baltar had with the
Centurion Tallos
in "Gods and Monsters".